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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Gillette Recalls Disposables Razors For Uneven Blades — Here's How To Know If Yours Are Affected
By Christina Montoya Fiedler
There's nothing worse than shaving with a dull razor. Not only are your hairs literally ripped out of your legs (apologies for the intense imagery, folks) but don't even get me started on what can happen if your razor is a little too sharp. And speaking of sharp razors, Gillette is recalling disposable razors for uneven blades, an announcement that couldn't come at a worse time for those who are looking hit the beach sans body hair. The good news? There's an easy way to find out whether or not your razors are involved in the recall.
The thought of uneven blades might be alarming to some, so let me get down to the nitty gritty of this recall right away. First off, it's important to know what type of razors were recalled and why. As ABC News reported, the recall affects Venus Simply3 Disposable Razors and the Venus Daisy 12 plus 1 Venus Simply3 Bonus Pack, as the razor blades were reportedly misaligned during manufacturing and can cause lacerations during normal use. So far, more than 87,000 packages have been recalled nationally, in addition to 2,700 that were sold in Canada, according to a press release from Gillette.
The affected products come in pink, purple, and yellow, and are featured in two different packages. The razors in question were sold between January 2019 through May 2019 for $6 and $10 a piece, and were manufactured in Mexico, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The full list of products affected include, according to the company's press release:
Venus Simply3 Disposable Razors, 4 count pack, lot numbers 9003A17400 & 9007A17400, UPC code 047400315358
Venus Daisy 12 plus 1 Venus Simply3 Bonus Pack, lot number 9009A17400, UPC code 047400300712
If you have the recalled razors in your possession, discontinue use immediately. Recalled razors can be returned to the store of purchase for a full refund, and Gillette is also offering a free replacement product for those affected by the recall. Directions on how to obtain a free replacement can be found on Gillette's website.
"Our priority is the safety and confidence of the millions of women who trust us with their personal care needs," Gillette said in an official statement about the recall, according to Fortune. "While this is a very small amount out of over 3 million razors produced each month, we have decided to replace any potentially impacted Venus Simply 3 disposable razors produced during this limited timeframe."
Gillette did not not immediately respond to Romper's request for further comment regarding the recall.
Any further questions can be directed to the Venus Consumer Care Team at 800-362-1258 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, according to NBC News Washington.
Of course, shaving can be an important grooming practice for people, so there's a good chance many consumers have checked their razors since news of this recall first broke. In fact, the average woman will shave more than 7,000 times and spend $10,000 related products, according to Glamour. Pretty interesting, right?
Stats aside, there has been a frighteningly high number of recalls this year, but most have been related to food. And considering recalls involving razors are few and far in between, it's understandable that some people might have concerns, so don't hesitate to reach out to Gillette if you have any lingering questions.


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Katten Receives Center for Disability and Elder Law's 2006 Distinguished Service Award
CHICAGO - Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the recipient of the Center for Disability and Elder Law's 2006 Distinguished Service Award. The award is presented to individuals and businesses that have demonstrated outstanding pro bono commitment, service, and leadership in the past year. The Firm will be honored at the organization's Annual Volunteer Recognition Awards reception on May 4.
The Center for Disability and Elder Law was founded in 1984. As one of Chicago's foremost pro bono legal service providers, the Center vigorously advocates for the legal rights of low-income elderly and persons with disabilities. Its more than 1,300 volunteer lawyers and paralegals have committed their time, counsel, and resources to provide legal services to those who have been marginalized by poverty, disability, and age. In 2004, the Center volunteered more than $3.5 million in legal services to low-income seniors and clients with disabilities on a pro bono basis.
"We are privileged to have the opportunity to work with the Center for Disability and Elder Law, an organization that shares our Firm's passion and sense of responsibility for ensuring that all individuals are able to receive appropriate legal counsel, regardless of age, income, gender or race," said Jonathan K. Baum, Katten's Director of Pro Bono Services.
Katten has a long-term commitment to helping the poor, the powerless and the disenfranchised obtain first-rate legal representation without charge. Attorneys and other legal professionals give their time, resources and talent to serve individuals and organizations in need, to engage in important national litigation, and to partner with local legal service providers to ensure access to the justice system.
Katten's pro bono program is particularly noteworthy for the breadth of services that it offers. These include litigation, both on behalf of individuals and groups, in matters of housing and public accommodations discrimination, civil liberties, immigration, criminal defense and prisoners' rights, and consumer matters; as well as transactional pro bono work in such areas as corporate and tax assistance to not-for-profit organizations, intellectual property law, employee benefits, and international trade law. The Firm's pro bono program has been honored by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law with its National Public Service Award, as well as by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Chicago, the Lawyers Alliance for New York, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and numerous other groups.
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'She's still very much here': Bode Miller's wife says she felt late daughter during birth of twins
Sonja Haller
Bode Miller's wife, Morgan, said that although they lost their 19-month-old daughter, Emmy, in a tragic drowning incident, she's not gone.
Miller told People that her daughter, who died in June 2018, was with them throughout her pregnancy with identical twin boys and during a delivery in which Bode and his mother helped bring them into the world after the midwife's late arrival.
"Talk about divine intervention with this entire delivery," said Morgan, 32. "There's no question in my mind that she had her hand in all of this. She's still very much here."
Morgan said she appreciates people who wished her well on the Nov. 8 birth of the twins, who haven't been named yet, according to People. She also appreciates people remembering Emmy.
"It's been really special because everybody celebrates this with us, but they also at the same time remember Emmy," Morgan said. "And that makes it special that she's not forgotten."
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The couple also are parents to Easton, 1, and Nash, 4. Bode is dad to daughter Neesyn, 11, and son Samuel, 6.
Morgan was pregnant with Easton when Emmy died.
"Losing a child while pregnant was the most confusing experience of my life," Morgan wrote in an Instagram post. "The conflict of emotions from what was pure joy turned to guilt and terror overnight. How could I love this baby the way I loved Emmy? Was it okay to love this baby the way I loved Emmy?"
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thick darkness, the state of the road, and the extent to which it was obstructed, and that I waited for their most unfavorable report before I decided, in concurrence with the other generals, so far to depart from the strict letter of the order as to fix the hour of marching at 3 o'clock, with express order that all preparations for the movement should be before that hour completed. I this fully in evidence that this course was not adopted by me until I had myself gone forth from my tent to see whether anything better to accomplish the object of the order could possible be done.
Such having bee indisputably my conduct under the order, the only question before the court is, whether that conduct was criminal. That I was laboring to the best of my ability and judgment, in the whole transaction, to carry out the order fully, cannot be questioned. Did the event bear out the correctness of the judgment I then formed as to the best mode of executing the order? I submit to the court that every witness who has testified upon this point from actual knowledge and observation fully proves that to have started, as the order directed, at 1 o'clock, instead of starting, as I did start, at 3 o'clock, would have been, first, really to lose time in arriving at Bristoe Station, and also greatly to impair the strength and efficiency of my troops at the time of their arrival. Besides the three general officers to whom I have referred, and each of whom necessarily knew the whole state of things, General Griffin also testifies expressly to this fact. He inform the court that even at 3 o'clock, when he did move, it was so dark, and such was the state of the road, that the troops fell into confusion; and although every effort was made to get along, the column was forced to come to a half and wait for the daylight before the artillery could be extricated from the marshy ground in which it had struck fast.
The order, I believe, was for General Porter to move his force at 1 o'clock in the morning to Bristoe Station. He handed the order to General Morell and to General Sykes, who were present, and said that was a chance for a short nap, or something of that sort - I do not remember the exact words - indicating that there was but little time for preparation. General Sykes or General Morell, I do not remember which - one or both of them - spoke with regard to the fatigue our troops had endured, the darkness of the night, and the fact that, in their judgment, the troops could be of more service to start at a later hour than they could be to short at the hour named. In reply to their remark, General Porter spoke rather decidedly; that there was the order; it must be obeyed; that those who gave the order know whether the necessity of the case would warrant the exertions that had to be made to comply with it. I do not state that as his exact words, but as the substance of what he said. Captain DeKay, who brought the order, was then present, and asked some questions about the road. He stated that the road was full of teams. General Sykes, I think, suggested that it would be impossible for us to move at the hour named, if the road was full of rations; that they could not find the way. General Porter called two aides, and sent them off to investigate the condition of the road, and to ask General Pope to have the road cleared so that he could move up. When we got outside, the darkness was to apparent - to use such an expression - and it seemed to be such a matter of impossibility to move, that General Porter say, "In consideration of all the circumstances, I will fix the hour at 3 o'clock instead of 1. You will be ready to move promptly." And I subsequently wrote an order in General Porter's tent for my command to be in line to march at 3 o'clock.
Question. Do you recollect whether, at the same time, Captain DeKay said anything about having difficulty as a guide in showing the road?
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Оливний піддон () — корпусна деталь ДВЗ, призначена для зберігання та збирання оливи (окрім двигунів з сухим картером, де функцію зберігання оливи виконує окремо розміщений оливний бак). Інші поширені назви — піддон двигуна, піддон картера. Піддон також ізолює порожнину картера (блок-картера, блоку циліндрів — залежно від конструкції) від забруднення деталей зовні та перешкоджає втраті оливи при роботі. У піддоні осідають великі забруднення (стружка, продукти спрацювання, забруднення, що потрапили у двигун).

Конструкція оливного піддону
Піддон має коритоподібну форму, що обумовлено як розміщеними всередині агрегатами, так і можливістю витяжки зі сталі, загальною технологічністю виготовлення. Піддон кріпиться до картера (блок-картера) на болтах (чавунний блок) або шпильках (блок з алюмінієвого сплаву); для ущільнення стику встановлюється суцільна або збірна прокладка з гуми, пробки чи картону. У багатьох нових конструкціях двигунів прокладка піддону відсутня, ущільнення здійснюється герметиком.

Матеріал піддону
Основні матеріали, які застосовуються — низьковуглецева сталь, алюмінієві сплави, пластмаси.
Більшість двигунів мають піддон, що отримують глибокою витяжкою із стального листа марок 08кп (раніше), 08ХГР, 06ХГСЮ, або іншої маловуглецевої, такої, що відповідає потрібним вимогам до глибини витяжки (глибока, доволі глибока, особливо глибока). Глибина витяжки, визначається конструкцією (формою та об'ємом) піддону. Перевагами сталі є мала вартість та опір ударам, недоліки — схильність до корозії, низька жорсткість стику з блоком, неможливість надання довільно заданої форми.
Піддони з алюмінієвих сплавів. Отримують зазвичай литтям з алюмінієво-магнієвих чи алюмінієво-кремнієвих сплавів. Їм можна надати будь-яку потрібну форму, зокрема виконати з ребрами для підвищення жорсткості та ефективнішого охолодження. При однаковій масі піддон з алюмінієвого сплаву має більшу жорсткість та міцність, однак при ударах може руйнуватись (силуміни). Піддони з алюмінієвого сплаву не вимагають фарбування, й надають двигуну хороший вигляд; також збільшують теплообмін з повітрям завдяки високій теплопровідності та наявності ребер. У двигунах невеликої потужності цього достатньо для усунення оливного радіатора чи/або водооливного теплообмінника, при підтримці потрібної температури оливи.
Піддони з пластмас. Приклад: піддон картера дизельного двигуна MAN D38.

Форма та об'єм
Зазвичай, піддон утворює разом з картером кривошипну порожнину двигуна, тому потрібна глибина піддону та його об'єм визначаються за відстанню від осі колінчастого вала до площини роз'єму, радіусом кривошипу та розміром кривошипної головки шатуна, а також кількістю оливи у системі. Об'єм двигуна має бути таким, щоб олива у піддоні не підхоплювалась обертовими деталями (кривошипи та шатуни) у всьому інтервалі допустимих кутів нахилу двигуна. У протилежному випадку це призведе до значного спінення та витрати оливи, а також можливого зниження тиску оливи у системі, з відповідними наслідками (виплавлення вкладишів). Збільшення висоти піддона та зменшення відстані від осі колінчастого вала до площини роз'єму зменшує масу двигуна, але знижує жорсткість блоку; таким чином, форма та об'єм піддона залежать від заданої розробником міцності та жорсткості картера (блок-картера, блоку циліндрів — залежно від конструкції). Для запобігання надмірного спінення та переливання оливи, піддон зазвичай має внутрішні ребра (виконані з алюмінієвого сплаву чи пластмаси), чи внутрішні перегородки (приварені до стального піддону).

Вузли, пов'язані з піддоном
У площині піддону зазвичай змонтований шестерінчастий оливний насос з його приводом, оливний щуп; піддон має також зливний отвір з закрученою (часто магнітною) пробкою. Усе це відноситься до «мокрого» піддону, оскільки системи з сухим картером мають зазвичай оливний насос зовні, а оливний щуп та зливна пробка встановлені у оливному баку. Сучасні двигуни можуть мати також вбудований індикатор рівня оливи (що блокує пуск при її недостачі), є варіанти з підігрівними змійовиками (військові автомобілі); у випадку використання зовнішнього оливного радіатора піддон має приєднювальну різьбу для зливного шлангу.
Зливний отвір, що закривається пробкою, дозволяє швидко злити оливу з найнижчої точки двигуна, тим самим, усунувши й частину накопичених відкладень. Наявність металевих включень у оливі. що зливається з піддону вказує на аварійний знос чи руйнування деталей у двигуні.

Несправності
Піддон може бути пошкодженим (зімнутим) при наїзді автомобіля на перешкоду, при неакуратному переміщенні/монтажі двигуна. При цьому може руйнуватися чи згинатися, наприклад, оливозабірник двигуна, що призводить до оливного голодування. При пробитті піддона втрачається олива, а двигун також виходить з ладу.

Див. також
Система мащення двигуна внутрішнього згоряння
Система мащення із сухим картером

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Двигуни внутрішнього згоряння


It was May in North Carolina, and the blossoms were falling from the trees. As we left the medical center, Mom asked, "Is it snowing?" as she pulled her sweater closer around her shivering shoulders. She was 83 and dying. Our journey had begun.
She chose to die at home, with me as her hospice worker, and with Dad, a few visiting family members, and minimum home care. From the moment we arrived at home, our roles reversed as she reached her thin arms for me to help her change into her nightgown.
A blur of time passed as she grew increasingly frail. It was only a few weeks – it seemed like days – until we knew the time was near. After a beautiful day together, full of singing and laughter, my mother slipped into a coma. Dad called me in from the couch where I was napping. "Come. Spend your share of time with her." As he began to leave, I called him back in the room, and we sat on either side of her tiny body. I cleaned the foam from around her mouth and gave her the appropriate medicine while he brushed her hair. Her eyes were shut and her breathing was slow, but I knew she was with us. I began to talk to her. I told her she was an eagle, flying ever higher into the clear light of the sky. I assured her that we loved her, directing her away from fear. I reminded her of my brother who had died three years before. I told her that he was waiting to fly with her and lead her "home." "Look, Mom, he's watching you, and he isn't sick anymore. Fly with him." I never wondered why I was not pulling her back to me. She had suffered enough. She was tired. I was reminded of a tongue-in-cheek pin my brother had given me years before that read, "Maybe in another life." She had come to the end of this one. Like Paul Simon's famous song, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," her time had come to shine. Her body was glowing, and I saw the pure clear light surrounding her like an aura.
She was not breathing, but it took several hours for me to feel her move through me. I felt the intensity of her love move inside my body like a gentle clean breeze of pure bodhichitta.
When they came for my mother, I asked them to wait, don't cover her face until she was at the threshold of the door. Which threshold of which door? I ask myself this, and I remember our journey together, wing-tip to wing-tip until she was ready to fly on alone.
How was I able to face my deepest fear and let my mother go? I know it took humility, on both our parts, as I washed and cared for her, massaged lotion into her tiny limbs, even hand-fed her favorite foods.
After years of fighting my ego as if it were a charging elephant, I felt my ego dissolve for the sake of another person. I could not be the one "in charge." There were other people who loved her as much as I do; and, of course, my mother's own feelings, fears, and needs were above anything else. I see humility as a part of pure love. The ego only keeps us from giving our all, not only to our known loved ones, but to sentient beings everywhere. I am still, six years later, adjusting to the lessons I learned through my mother's death, and my father's, six months after hers. I think they'll both be guiding me and teaching me as I travel on, until we can be together once again.
To His Holiness, I bow in thanks. I see that we are all bound together by "a string of a cloth that is inseparable from life to life." It is made of love. Is anything stronger?


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Visit renowned wineries and taste some great wines that tingle your senses. You can also grab a bottle of your favourite wine to quench your thirst for rest of your trip.
Watch different variety of species along with animals like kangaroo and koalas which are seen only in Australia.
Accompanying selected wine with local produce gourmet food is one of the many attractions of this exciting tour.
You can tailor your post-lunch itinerary according to your convenience; micro-brewery, chocolate stop, winery are a few among the options to select from.
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Get picked up from central Adelaide and drop-off at the highest point of your tour for a fun downhill ride. Begin your tour from the beautiful forests in and around Onkaparinga national park. Explore the diverse biking trails with magnificent views and see kangaroos, koalas and other native animals on the ride. Descent down Wickhams Hill towards McLaren Vale, enjoying the stunning views of the Vale below.
Upon reaching the Vale, it's time for a little wine tasting! Ride through the vineyards and stop at a number of local wineries. You can also purchase a bottle of your favourite wine to share with your friends and family.
Get on your deadly treadly as its time for lunch! You will head to Hastwell and Lightfoot Cellar Door, known for the production of premium wines since 1988. Pair your favourite flavour with delicious local produce food.
You can tailor the itinerary post lunch. Whether your choice is a micro-brewery, a cafe/chocolate stop or even another winery, the expert guide will have it all covered. If it's really warm, you may also go for a swim stop at one of the beautiful beaches that fringe Vale.
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The EPA Finally Confirmed That Fracking Is Terrible for Drinking Water
Pacific Standard Staff
But is the agency's new report too little, too late?
By Jared Keller
(Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)
After months of anticipation, the Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed what environmental activists have long believed: Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), long seen by oil and gas companies as the future of domestic energy production in the United States, carries a significant human cost.
A comprehensive new report released by the agency this week found that the controversial extraction technique can have a major effect on the quality and quantity of drinking water resources available to nearby populations. This is a complete reversal from a preliminary version of the report released in 2015, which plainly stated "no evidence that fracking systemically contaminates [drinking] water." The New York Timesnotes that the final report released this week was "unprecedented in scope and depth," the result of a meticulous analysis of more than 1,200 sources of information and data (including more than 1,000 existing studies) and 13 peer-reviewed reports published in scientific journals since the EPA first initiated the review in 2010.
The most alarming conclusion of the EPA report is not just that the act of fracking itself — the high-pressure injection of a chemical mixture of proppants known as "fracking fluid" designed to create fissures through which natural resources can be extracted — can contaminate drinking water supplies "under some circumstances," but that these supplies are affected at every single stage of the process. Here's a full list of the "activities and factors" the EPA identifies in its report:
Water withdrawals for hydraulic fracturing in times or areas of low water availability, particularly in areas with limited or declining groundwater resources.
Spills during the management of hydraulic fracturing fluids and chemicals or produced water that result in large volumes or high concentrations of chemicals reaching groundwater resources.
Injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids into wells with inadequate mechanical integrity, allowing gases or liquids to move to groundwater resources.
Injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids directly into groundwater resources.
Discharge of inadequately treated hydraulic fracturing wastewater to surface water resources.
Disposal or storage of hydraulic fracturing wastewater in unlined pits, resulting in contamination of groundwater resources.
Even worse, the EPA report notes that "data gaps and uncertainties in available data" prevented the agency from fully gauging the scope and severity of fracking-based contaminations of drinking water. This has been a problem since the EPA released its preliminary report in 2015: While the EPA estimated that somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 new wells were drilled annually in the U.S. from 2011 to 2014, the "lack of a definitive well count … limits the ability to assess whether subsurface drinking water resources are isolated from hydraulically fractured oil and gas production wells."
Regardless, EPA researchers did gather enough data to scientifically conclude that the "no evidence" assertion from the 2015 draft report had to go. "E.P.A. scientists chose not to include that sentence," EPA science advisor Thomas A. Burke told the Times of the agency's about-face. "The scientists concluded it could not be quantitatively supported."
This is a big deal when you consider the potential health effects caused by fracking-contaminated water supplies. A 2011 study in Human and Ecological Risk Assessmentfound that water contamination could lead to a high risk of damage to the human sensory organs, respiratory, immune, and cardiovascular systems. Additionally, the EPA's report notes that chronic exposure to water tainted with some 98 of the 1,084 chemicals commonly used in fracking fluids between 2005 and 2013 could result in "cancer, immune system effects, changes in body weight, changes in blood chemistry, cardiotoxicity, neurotoxicity, liver and kidney toxicity, and reproductive and developmental toxicity." While this is all obviously bad, the EPA notes that the existing data is "insufficient to determine which chemicals have the greatest potential to impact drinking water resources and human health." Evaluating these health effects is likely the next major research challenge for the EPA's ongoing evaluation of hydraulic fracking.
Unfortunately, the EPA's reversal on the effects of fracking on U.S. drinking water supplies doesn't amount to much. On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to unleash an economic boom for coal and gas companies by ending regulations on fracking, telling energy CEOs during a September campaign stop in Pittsburgh that "probably no other business has been affected by regulation [more] than your business" (although the New York Timespointed out at the time that safety regulations only cover about 10 percent of fracking wells within U.S. borders). While Trump's positions on policy initiatives can fluctuate depending on the specifics (he's said that he's for local fracking bans, for example), his cabinet appointments in recent weeks suggest that he plans on making good on this promise.
Consider Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump's pick to helm the EPA, a long-time fossil fuel industry ally, critic of federal regulation, and long-time enemy of the EPA. It was Pruitt who recruited Republican governors and attorneys general to oppose Bureau of Land Management rules regulating fracking on federal land (including measures requiring the disclosure of potentially harmful chemicals used in the process) literally on behalf of oil and gas companies. In May of 2016, he appeared before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Environment Subcommittee to argue that the natural gas produced by fracking had become a viable alternative to coal in his home state: "We are a leading innovator in natural gas production through hydraulic fracking, a technological innovation that has done more to reduce carbon emissions in this country than any other technological advancement of our time." What Pruitt failed to note: The uptick in fracking has also unleashed a tidal wave of earthquakes in the Sooner State, some 1,000 with a magnitude greater than 3.0 in 2016 compared to just two in 2008 — a link the state acknowledged a full year before Pruitt's full-throated defense of the practice in the House of Representatives.
Then there's the appointment of former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who once forgot the Department of Energy even existed, to oversee the U.S.'s energy policy. As the Timesobserved in 2011, Perry was behind massive growth in Texas' natural gas production (a 28 percent increase between 2000 and 2010) by embracing the loose regulations George W. Bush spearheaded during his time in the governor's mansion; he spoke out in support of the practice in Iowa at the beginning of his 2012 presidential campaign, accusing the Obama administration of "trying to scare people, and saying that hydraulic fracking somehow or another is going to damage the groundwater." According to Vox, energy experts and former department staffers expect that Perry will continue to focus on "laying the foundations for the U.S. fracking revolution."
The EPA's new report may have closed the book on fracking's potential for harm, but the agency's conclusion may be little more than the last, desperate gasp of a federal government facing a total invasion by political surrogates for America's gas and oil conglomerates. And without allies in the federal government, let alone the EPA, under the Trump administration, it seems like no amount of science will prove an empirical silver bullet to put an end to the debate once and for all.
Pacific Standard publishes stories that matter, stories that, by virtue of their ideas and craft, are capable of creating a better and more just society. With a methodology that mixes reporting and narrative journalism with peer-reviewed research, we are fiercely committed to covering social and environmental justice.


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Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Unconscious (2004)
A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Cure (1997)
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...
Arranged (2007)
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
Uncertainty (2009)
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.
Pups (1999)
When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.
Whirlpool (1949)
The wife of a psycho-analyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Black Magic (1949)
Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
China Girl (1987)
Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Ghost pirates attack the cruise ship that Scooby and the gang are vacationing on.
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014)
The mystery begins when Shaggy and Scooby win tickets to "WrestleMania" and convince the crew to go with them to WWE City. But this city harbors a spooky secret - a ghastly Ghost Bear holds the town in his terrifying grip! To protect the coveted WWE Championship Title, the gang gets help from WWE Superstars like John Cena, Triple H, Sin Cara, Brodus Clay, AJ Lee, The Miz and Kane. Watch Scooby and the gang grapple with solving this case before it's too late.
It's in the Water (1998)
When hordes of gays and lesbians come out "of the closet" in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas, intolerant residents go into a panic about the water supply.
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.
Jimmy and Judy (2006)
Two misunderstood suburban kids challenge society and run from the police while documenting all of their deeds with a digital camera.
The Element of Crime (1984)
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor. The film is the first in the director's Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991).
Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922. The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind.
The Narrows (2008)
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country".
Street Thief (2006)
Kaspar Carr is a professional burglar who lives and works in Chicago. Carr loves his job and is good at it, and two documentary filmmakers are granted access to his private world when he agrees to let them make a film about him.
Haven't We Met Before (2002)
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
A Serbian Film (2010)
Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.
The Hypnotist (2012)
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Visitor Q (2001)
A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family who's son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict
Search and Destroy (1995)
A satire about desperate hustling, pop philosophy and big money.
Let's Do It Again (1975)
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Oldboy (2003)
Oldboy is the revenge drama from Director Park Chan-wook. Based on a manga by Nobuaki Minegishi, it depicts the suffering path of a man who must deal with the never ending torment of having unknowingly made someone his enemy.
A brave scientist has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extra-terrestrial races have been installing their active memories in abducted people's brains. These alien races exploit a powerful source of energy that only humans have: the Soul.
H (2002)
A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He is imprisoned, awaiting the death sentence for his crimes. Yet the killings do not stop. They continue with all the same characteristics trademarks of the Shin-Hyun serial killings. Detective Mi Yun, and her newly appointed partner, Detective Kang, are assigned to the case. Mi Yun and Kang have difficulty working with each other. Detective Kang follows a new suspect, Huh, and eventually catches him in the act of brutally murdering a woman in a crowded techno bar. Huh is taken into custody after Kang shoots and wounds him at the scene of the crime. Yet the murders continue in copy-cat style. The police desperately hunt for new leads. They start an in-depth investigation of a Doctor Chu, who is Shin-Hyun's psychiatrist. But progress is frustrated when Dr Chu becomes a victim of the copy-cat killings herself. The murdered psychiatrist's former boyfriend quickly becomes the prime suspect, a fanatical character named Choi.
S?f?r Dedi?imde (2007)
The Great Hypnotist (2014)
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Willow Creek (2014)
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot in the latest film from Bobcat Goldthwait.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Carefree (1938)
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Dr. Flagg. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
Fling (2008)
An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people.
All The Rage (1997)
ALL THE RAGE takes a satirical and poignant look at one gay man's obsessive pursuit of physical, sexual, and romantic perfection. Christopher Bedford is everyone's fantasy. He's gorgeous, young, clever, rich, and above all, totally buffed and every boy in Boston seems to want him. At thirty-one, he's gliding through life, celebrating himself as the 90's gay playboy ideal, without ever realizing what a mess he's become.
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson (Scoot McNairy) just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman (Sara Simmonds) bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
Lovelife (1997)
Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a Feature Film Award at the 1997 Austin Film Festival, and won an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. The film was winner of the screenplay award at the L.A. Indie fest.
Shallow Hal (2001)
A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
Walking and Talking (1996)
Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the help of Andrew, Frank, Laura, and a brief romance with Bill "The Ugly Guy" Written by Rose Hilburn
Trick (1999)
The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan. Gabriel, an aspiring writer of Broadway musicals, meets Mark, a muscled stripper, who picks him up on the subway. They spend the night trying to find somewhere to be alone... forced to contend with Gabriel's selfish roommate, his irritating best friend, and a vicious, jealous drag queen in a gay dance club. The sun rises on a promising new relationship. Trick is a 1999 American independent gay-themed romantic comedy directed by Jim Fall. Trick appeared at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals in 1999. Filming was completed in less than three weeks in August 1998.
Free Enterprise (1998)
Young filmmakers trying to hawk a movie titled "Bradykillers" about a serial killer who goes after victims Marcia, Jan, and Cindy meet their screen idol, William Shatner. The two young men, who idolize him and in their fantasies have seen him as a shadowy fairy godfather figure, are alarmed at the reality of the middle-aged non-Captain Kirk man that they meet.
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals
Butch Camp (1996)
Butch Camp is a 1996 comedy film. Filmed and set in Chicago, Illinois, it tells the story of a mild-mannered gay man who, tired of being pushed around by straights, enrolls in "Butch Camp," a program designed to turn wimpy gay men into assertive, confident gay men.
Stir of Echoes (1999)
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.
Road to Nowhere (2011)
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Into Temptation (2009)
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the way. A story about forgiveness.
The Secret Village (2013)
Greg,an unsuccessful screenwriter and Rachel,a beautiful journalist research an outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village. They start to uncover a secret about ergot poisoning that has affected this village for years. But the cult activity has been kept a secret by the locals and when Greg disappears, Rachel is left alone to unravel the mystery and save their lives.
Dr. M (1990)
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Dirty Wars (2013)
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
After being hypnotized into committing murder, a young musician has to reconstruct his actions to clear his name.
South Central (1992)
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Slave of Crime (1987)
Tsai Chin, the daughter of the infamous Fu Manchu, controls a large empire of vice in her part of the Far East. She decides to kidnap and, through erotic chemical hypnosis, coerce all the members of a fabulously wealthy international rock band to sign over all their possessions to her empire. But an old enemy of Fu Manchu's begins stalking around her operation and threatens to destroy everything she has built.
Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events before and after the events in the original.
Indestructible Man (1956)
Scientific experiments accidentally revive an executed criminal and make him impervious to harm, prompting him to seek revenge on his former partners.
Auto Focus (2002)
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
A relaxing spa getaway evolves into a prehistoric panic when Scooby-Doo and the gang uncover the horrible Phantosaur, an ancient legend come to life to protect hidden treasures buried in secret desert caves. But this scare-a-saurus doesn't stand a chance with Shaggy around, after he finds his inner hero with the help of new-age hypnosis. Like, it makes him more brave and less hungry!


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Siri in iOS 13: SiriKit for Media, New Suggestions, and a Better Voice
By Ryan Christoffel
Another year, another batch of Siri improvements aimed at enhancing what's already there, but not radically transforming it. Siri in iOS 13 comes with a handful of changes, all of which are in line with the types of iteration we're used to seeing for Apple's intelligent assistant. Siri now offers suggested actions in more places and ways than before, its voice continues becoming more human, and perhaps this year's biggest change is a new SiriKit domain for media, which should enable – after the necessary work by third-party developers – audio apps like Spotify, Overcast, and Audible to be controlled by voice the way Apple's native Music, Podcasts, and Books apps can be.
Apple Hits Restart on Game Controller Support
By John Voorhees
It's hard to believe it's been nearly six years since Apple added game controller support to iOS. The big news at WWDC in 2013 was the iOS 7 redesign, but for game developers, it was rivaled by the announcement that third-party Made For iPhone (MFi) controllers were coming.
The game press and developers understood the potential of controller support immediately. Even though it wasn't announced there, Chris Plante of Polygon declared controller support the biggest story of E3, the game industry trade show that was happening at the same time as WWDC. Plante imagined that:
If Apple finds a way to standardize traditional controls, every iOS device will become a transportable console. In a year, both iPhones and iPads will approach the processing power of the current-generation devices. Companies will have the ability to port controller-based games for the mobile devices in millions of pockets — an install-base far greater than they've ever had before.
Game industry veteran Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve, saw Apple's entry as a big risk to companies making PC and console games:
The threat right now is that Apple has gained a huge amount of market share, and has a relatively obvious pathway towards entering the living room with their platform…I think Apple rolls the console guys really easily.
I was right there with them. iOS devices couldn't match the power of a traditional console in 2013, but you could see that they were on a trajectory to get there. With the addition of controller support, Apple felt poised to make a meaningful run at incumbents like Sony and Microsoft.
It didn't work out that way though. iOS' controller support was rushed to market. Early controllers were priced at around $100, in part because of the requirements of the MFi certification, and they couldn't match the quality of controllers from Sony and Microsoft.
As anticipated, controller support was extended to the Apple TV when its App Store launched in 2015. Initially, it looked as though Apple would allow game developers to require a controller. In the end, though, the company went an entirely different direction by requiring that games support the Apple TV Remote, a decision that complicated development and dumbed down controller integration to match the remote's limited input methods. Apple changed course eventually, and now lets developers require controllers, but by the time of that change the damage had been done. Many developers had already lost interest in controller support. It didn't help either that for a very long time, the App Store didn't indicate which games were compatible with MFi controllers, leaving the void to be filled by third-party sites.
Last year, when I looked back at the history of games on the App Store for its tenth anniversary, I came away pessimistic about the future of games on Apple's platforms. After a decade, I felt like we were still asking the same question that Federico posed in 2013:
Will Apple ever develop a culture and appreciation for gaming as a medium, not just an App Store category?
Sadly, Federico's question remains as relevant today as it was six years ago. Still, I'm cautiously optimistic based on what's happened in the past year. Part of that is the App Store editorial team's excellent track record of championing high-quality games in the stories published on the App Store. Another factor is Apple Arcade, the game subscription service we still don't know a lot about, but which appears designed to showcase high-quality, artistically important games.
The latest cause for optimism is Apple's announcement at WWDC this past June that iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and macOS would all support the Sony DualShock 4 and Bluetooth-based Xbox controllers when Apple's OSes are updated this fall. The reaction from developers and other observers was a combination of surprise and excitement that was uncannily similar to the MFi announcement in 2013. Yet, the news begs the question: 'How is this time any different?' The answer to that question lies in how the new controllers work and the role they will play in Arcade.
Hello, Computer: Inside Apple's Voice Control
By Steven Aquino
This year's Worldwide Developers Conference was big. From dark mode in iOS 13 to the newly-rechristened iPadOS to the unveiling of the born-again Mac Pro and more, Apple's annual week-long bonanza of all things software was arguably one of the most anticipated and exciting events in recent Apple history.
Accessibility certainly contributed to the bigness as well. Every year Apple moves mountains to ensure accessibility's presence is felt not only in the software it previews, but also in the sessions, labs, and other social gatherings in and around the San Jose Convention Center.
"One of the things that's been really cool this year is the [accessibility] team has been firing on [all] cylinders across the board," Sarah Herrlinger, Apple's Director of Global Accessibility Policy & Initiatives, said to me following the keynote. "There's something in each operating system and things for a lot of different types of use cases."
One announcement that unquestionably garnered some of the biggest buzz during the conference was Voice Control. Available on macOS Catalina and iOS 13, Voice Control is a method of interacting with one's Mac or iOS device using only your voice. A collaborative effort between Apple's Accessibility Engineering and Siri groups, Voice Control aims to revolutionize the way users with certain physical motor conditions access their devices. At a high level, it's very much a realization of the kind of ambient, voice-first computing dreamed up by sci-fi television stalwarts like The Jetsons and Star Trek decades ago. You talk, it responds.
And Apple could not be more excited about it.
Health in iOS 13: A Foundation for Apple's Grand Wellness Ambitions
Apple's Health app first debuted in 2014 as part of iOS 8. In the five years since its launch, Health has been one of the only iOS apps to receive redesigns every couple of years. The basic purpose of the app has remained the same through those changes, still serving as an aggregation tool for wellness data from sources like the Apple Watch to third-party apps and devices. However, Health's regular reimagining serves as strong evidence that Apple has never quite felt content with how that original goal was being fulfilled.
It may be too early to cast judgment, but I have a strong suspicion that this year's rebrand will stick. iOS 13's Health app finally brings a design that feels intuitive and user-friendly, doing away with complication and creating a streamlined, inviting interface. Simultaneously, this year's update adds compelling new features related to cycle tracking and hearing health that may hint at an evolving vision for the Health app's future.
Sign In with Apple: Goodbye Account Management
I love trying new apps and services. It may be part of my job at MacStories, but even if it weren't, I would still constantly be on the lookout for interesting, creative products that can benefit either my work or leisure. In recent years it seems like there's always a fresh stream of apps and services to check out. Often when I try something new, however, I'm immediately confronted with the obstacle of a login screen. At which point there's a choice to make: do I go through the hassle of creating an account for this service, or – if the option is available – do I simply authenticate via a third party like Google or Facebook? Sadly, neither option is ideal.
Creating a new account for every service you try is a major pain. It's made easier with the aid of iCloud Keychain and 1Password, but while those tools eliminate lots of friction, they can be a little clunky, and in the end you're still trusting your data to the (usually unknown) privacy policies of the service you sign up for.
Third-party login buttons solve the convenience problem, mostly. They may require entering your credentials for that third-party service, but at least you don't have to create and remember new credentials for multiple services. The data privacy issue can be a question mark with these buttons though; when you authenticate through, let's say Facebook, do you really know exactly what data you're sharing with the new service? Or how the service will use that data? As consumers continue losing trust in Facebook itself to secure their data, why would they trust a service that taps into their Facebook data?
Sign In with Apple is a modern alternative to the current mess of login methods, offering Apple users a solution that addresses the current options' shortfalls. It makes account creation and sign-in trivially simple – even more so than buttons from Google or Facebook – while also keeping your data in the hands of a company with a decent privacy track record.
When apps update to adopt Sign In with Apple, I suspect many users' initial thoughts will be some variation of what immediately popped into my mind after trying it for the first time: "Where has this been all my life?"
Activity Trends in iOS 13
By Alex Guyot
We touched on most of this year's changes to iOS in our iOS 13 overview earlier this summer, but one feature that has mostly flown under the radar is the debut of Activity Trends.
True to its name, Activity Trends is a new way to monitor the progression of your daily activity over time. The feature is exposed via a new tab in Apple's Activity app in iOS 13, and it breaks down your activity over the last 90 days compared to the previous 365.
In the main view, Trends are broken down by a variety of metrics, with each metric displaying your 90 day average as well as a simple up or down arrow to indicate whether it has improved or diminished over that time period in comparison to the average of your last year. The goal is to give you actionable information and goals to bring these metrics up. Goals are applied on a weekly basis, and hitting them consistently will result in an increase of your 90 day averages over time.
Sidecar in iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina: Working Seamlessly Between an iPad and Mac
The core experience of using Sidecar is fantastic. Part of the reason is that running an iPad as a second display for a Mac with Sidecar is immediately familiar to anyone who has ever used multiple displays. The added screen real estate, portability, and functionality are part of the appeal too. Of course, there are differences that I'll get into, but Sidecar is so close to a traditional dual-display setup that I expect it will become a natural extension of the way many people work on the Mac.
There's more going on with Sidecar though, which didn't dawn on me until I'd been using it for a while. One of the themes that emerged from this year's WWDC is deeper integration across all of Apple's platforms. As I've written in the past, SwiftUI is designed to accomplish that in the long-term across all the devices Apple makes. In contrast, Catalyst is a shorter-term way to tie the Mac and iPad closer together by bringing iPad apps to the Mac and encouraging developers to build more robust iPad apps.
Sidecar strikes me as part of the same story. Apple made it clear when they introduced Catalyst in 2018 at WWDC that it's not replacing macOS with iOS. Some tasks are better suited for a Mac than an iPad and vice versa. Sidecar acknowledges those differences by letting an iPad become an extension of your Mac for tasks best suited to it. At the same time, however, Sidecar takes advantage of functionality that's unavailable on the Mac, like the Apple Pencil. Combined with the ability to switch seamlessly between using Mac apps running in Sidecar and native iPadOS apps, what you've effectively got is a touchscreen Mac.
However, to understand the potential Sidecar unlocks, it's necessary to first dive into the details of what the new feature enables as well as its limitations.
CarPlay in iOS 13: A Big Leap Forward
CarPlay fascinates me because it's a relatively rare example of a successful Apple software product that isn't tightly integrated with the company's hardware. Of course, CarPlay runs from an iPhone, but it also relies on automaker media systems to deliver its experience to users in their cars. This lack of integration shows in cars with slower media systems; however, even when automakers' hardware provides a subpar experience, CarPlay's simplified but familiar interface and access to content already on users' iPhones is superior. So much so in fact that Apple says CarPlay has managed to capture 90% of the new car market in the US and 75% worldwide.
I first tried CarPlay three years ago, when I leased a Honda Accord. As I wrote then, Honda's entertainment system was slow, but the experience was nonetheless transformative. Easy access to the music and podcasts I love, multiple mapping options, and access to hands-free messaging all played a big part in winning me over.
When my lease was up earlier this year, CarPlay support was at the top of the list of must-have features when we began looking for a new car. We wound up leasing a Nissan Altima, which has a faster entertainment system, larger touchscreen, and better hardware button support for navigating CarPlay's UI. The hardware differences took a system I already loved to a new level by reducing past friction and frustrations even though the underlying software hadn't changed.
Just a few weeks after we brought the Altima home though, Apple announced that it would update CarPlay with the release of iOS 13 this fall. In a jam-packed keynote, CarPlay got very little stage time, but I was immediately intrigued by the scope of the announcement. CarPlay hasn't changed much since it was introduced in 2014, but with iOS 13, iPhone users can look forward to not only significant improvements in its design, but a new app and other features that make this the biggest leap forward for CarPlay to date.
Apple Maps in iOS 13: Sights Set on Google
Apple's path to a home-brewed mapping solution has been long and perilous, but it's almost arrived.
12 years ago the iPhone launched with Google powering its pre-installed navigation software; five years later, the botched debut of Apple's own Maps app led to the firing of a key Apple executive; Apple Maps has steadily improved over the years, but seemingly its biggest weakness is that it has never truly contained Apple's own maps. The app is Apple's, but the maps have always come from other sources.
Last year, Apple announced a coming change that had been years in the works: Maps would soon contain the company's own maps, and they would be transformative. The new maps started rolling out in the US last fall with iOS 12, and Apple claims they'll cover the entire US by the end of 2019.
Timed with the spread of its first-party mapping data, Apple is giving the Maps app a big upgrade in iOS 13 that represents the company's biggest push yet to overtake Google Maps as the world's most trusted, go-to mapping service. Apple Maps in iOS 13 represents – if you're in the US at least – Apple's purest vision to date for a modern mapping service. Here's everything that it brings.


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St Luke's Lutheran Church
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Lutheran worship services began in this area on Tuesday 9 May 1916 in a private home at North Arm. Services in the North Coast Line Home Mission Field were held at various locations around the district – Beaudesert, Kin Kin, Belli Park, Kilcoy, Dayboro, Mundubbera, Monto, Proston, Hivesville, Wamuran, Gympie, Cooroy, Imbil, Witta – and other places in between. The first Lutheran service in Nambour itself was held on Sunday 27 September 1925 at the Presbyterian church. During 1926, 1927 and until July 1928 more or less monthly services were held. Up until July 1928 North Arm was still treated as an independent preaching place and services were conducted there also. The other centers formed by Pastor Doehler all merged into Nambour.
The first Lutheran church in Nambour was dedicated on 24 November 1929. The present church building was dedicated on 18 May 1969. At this time the Nambour Parish consisted of the congregations of Nambour, Witta, Maroochydore, and Caloundra. On 1 January 1979, this became two parishes: Nambour Lutheran Parish (Nambour and Witta) and Sunshine Coast Lutheran Parish (Maroochydore and Caloundra).
Pastor E Becker of South Brisbane visited Teutoberg in 1892 to organize a congregation and establish regular worship services to be conducted by the United German and Scandinavian Lutheran Synod of Queensland. A church was duly erected on donated land. The community had purchased a block of land and a decision was taken to commence construction of a new church building in 1910. The new church was opened and dedicated on 22 January 1911. The settlement of Teutoberg had its name changed to Witta in 1916. Witta was linked with the North Coast Home Mission Field in 1928. From this time onwards, the congregation has been served by Pastors stationed at Nambour.
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