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08.11.2011 / Jessica Ward / Family
Many readers know that we are very excited about being an adoptive family. We adopted our girls in 2005 and 2008, both under unusual circumstances and with substantial fees that left our family happy and fulfilled, but in debt to our eyelids.
That was before we drank the debt-free Kool-Aid. In fact, right after arriving home from Ethiopia with our second daughter, who was very ill, I received my layoff notice. That's what sparked our debt-free crusade. We asked ourselves, how could we care for these children properly, when we were so financially vulnerable?
Our adoptions were both unusual circumstances, requiring more than the usual fees. Between legal fees, agency fees, home study, fingerprints, notarization and notary verification, dossier, medical checks and vaccines for travel abroad and ever so many plane tickets, the costs were staggering.
There's no doubt about it, our kids our priceless. Truth be told, I would have done anything in my power to make sure my kids had a family that worked for them—even if it wasn't our family.
With all of that said, I wish I knew then, what I know now about ways to be resourceful and adopt without debt.
Sure, we did some clever things—friends donated air miles to help us get to Florida over a holiday weekend for our oldest's adoption (we had only four days' notice and prices to Orlando were absolutely atrocious). With our youngest, a re-adoption proceeding was required here in the states to finalize her adoption. We completed that all pro se (by ourselves) by completing and submitting the forms to the court without the aid of an attorney—saving us $500-$3,000 depending on the attorney's estimate. But we missed a lot of opportunities where we could have saved a bundle.
When we felt the call to adopt, it didn't come with explicit instructions. Ok, so there was, Deuteronomy 28:12 "The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow" but we just hadn't connected the dots yet. We did the best that we knew how. We saved, liquidated savings, reduced spending and leveraged the adoption tax credit with an interest-free adoption loan.
Ideas for adopting debt-free.
Use a no-fee agency. Friends of ours are using Antioch Adoptions. Antioch only accepts Christian families, but they are a ministry organization and do not charge an adoption fee.
Use a low-cost program. Many programs have lower costs. Domestic, particularly foster-adopt programs have fewer legal costs, in part because the birthparents' rights were terminated before the adoptive parent enters the picture.
Sell some stuff. Many adoptive families that I know swear by the church rummage sale, or multifamily garage sale. Others E-bay or craft their way through their adoption expenses.
Hold a raffle. Many families I know have held successful raffles for iPads, plane tickets, jewelry and more.
Use a commercial fundraiser. Some great fundraising/profit sharing programs exist from MLM-type kitchen products (usually through a friend or family member who already sells) or organizations like Just Love Coffee.
Use grants. At least two dozen organizations provide grants for prospective adoptive families.
Use air miles. If your adoption involves travel, you may be able to buy air miles, or get donations of air miles to offset all or part of your travel costs.
Create Work Parties. The Both Hands Foundation has an innovative way of helping families to adopt: the family creates a work party, and earns their fee by working on behalf of a widow or senior.
Get a job. My friend Jennifer is a busy stay-at-home mom of ten (8 at home), and after adopting four children in four years, have been called to adopt one more. Though Jennifer is a military retiree and a professional woman, she wanted to bring home a little more 'bacon' without sacrificing time with her kids. To help close the funding gap, she took a job at a fast-food restaurant a few days a week on the night shift. When the kids get home from school and her husband gets home from work, Jennifer dons the hairnet and heads for the golden arches. See Jennifer's story here.
Get crafty. One of my friends raised adoption funds with hand-made dolls. Other friends make Christmas tree ornaments and beautiful artwork.
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4 Replies to "Affording Adoption, Without Debt"
What a great personal story of your own walk through family difficulties and your increased urge to reduce your debt circumstances, experiences like these are always very powerful
Such an inspiring story, Jessica. I think costs stop a lot of people from even considering adoption. Your resources will no doubt let other people consider this. Thanks for sharing!
Julie Gumm says:
These are great tips Jessica. We had FULLY drunk the debt-free kool-aid before our adoption and thought we were all prepared. Then my husband left his job and didn't work the entire 1 year process. God still provided. I ended up writing a book called "Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption" that tells our story as well as providing creative fundraising ideas from 30 different families. There are so many great ideas and I love seeing people get excited about it.
Julie, I only heard about your book after completing our last adoption. (Pre-kool-aid). If we start the process again though, I'm totally going to get it. I recommend it to many people who say "I would adopt,but I can't afford it." It's truly a case of "where there's a will, there's a way."
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Sermon for Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, January 31, 2021 B
January 30, 2021 All Sermons, Rev. Lauri
4 Epiphany – B January 31, 2021
Deut 18: 15-20, Ps 111, 1 Cor 8: 1-13, Mark 1: 21-28
It was a bright sunny day in Jamaica, and the streets were full of color and music and joy. Mike and I were wandering through a wonderful marketplace, entranced by the whole experience. At the edge of a shop we stopped and watched in fascination for quite a while. A woman was braiding the hair of a young girl into the fanciest, most complicated set of braids I had ever seen. The braids were tight, and they were braided into other braids, as a beautiful pattern of interwoven plaits emerged on top of and on the back of her head. It was pure artistry, and defied replication, at least, in my hands. The braids were completely interwoven and interlocked, distinct, and yet all of one piece. The image in my head today is as clear as it was on that day.
This is just to say, I'm going to violate one of the rules of sermon writing. We have always been taught to choose one of the readings—and only one—to work into a sermon. But today, all four readings weave themselves together just as in a braid, tight and beautiful and unforgettable. They speak of wisdom and authority, love and action, prophecy and truth.
The reading in Deuteronomy falls in the major body of the book where a collection of laws provide a peek into a major cultural renewal. In this particular passage Moses seems to remind his listeners that a prophet only comes from God, and as such, speaks words that God sends to his people. Churches do not produce prophets, nor do idols. God speaks through prophets and imbues them with wisdom and authority. You can tell, Moses reminds us all, if a prophet is really a prophet. You can tell by the works that he/she does, by the words that he/she speaks. The words "wisdom" and "authority" become the standard of truth.
Psalm 111 is a song of praise for the ultimate wisdom of God. The psalmist sings to us, "The fear (respect) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All those who practice it have a good understanding." We are reminded to listen with respect, heeding the words that come from the ultimate wisdom, and that brings us to a point of understanding.
Paul writes to the Corinthians about the difference between knowledge and love. "Knowledge puffs up, love builds up." We may know better than others around us, but acting out of love keeps us from causing others to fall. I kept a little sticky note with these exact words, "knowledge puffs up, love builds up," right at my desk all the years that I taught. Wisdom is knowing how to love in spite of our infinite knowledge, in spite of knowing better than anyone around us. The words come back to haunt me in these times of odd political stances and so much polarization between those who are right and those who are right. Looking beyond knowledge keeps us in the wisdom and love of God. It keeps us Christian, it keeps us disciples. It keeps us on the way of love.
And in the gospel, Jesus amazes those in the temple with his authority, with his wisdom, with his ability to cleanse and drive out evil spirits. Jesus acts with the authority of a prophet sent by God, with the very word of God acting in truth and power and love. The word "authority" acts as a bookend on each end of this passage—"they were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes…What is this? A new teaching—with authority." Why did Jesus speak with so much authority? He was in the presence of scribes, dedicated and intelligent men of the Jewish faith who had spent their lives in study. They were no slouches. The passage is not meant to put down their faith, but rather to indicate new teachings. The scribes taught from a position of deep tradition, handed down through the centuries. They were charged with keeping the Jewish religion pure, free of idolatrous teachings. Jesus brings new thoughts, new positions. What is this new teaching? What is this wisdom? To heal, to cast out evil, to speak truth, to act in love and compassion. To take care of the least of us and to do it all in the name of the one who is Love, who is our authority. It was radical, really, and still is. It was a call to the church then, and just as clearly is a call to the church today.
This understanding and awareness of authority, wisdom, love, and action comes to us in an important time of transition. We are watching the federal transition of power, threatened with violence, play out in a renewed atmosphere of authority and wisdom. But beyond the national and very political scene, we are seeing everywhere, on every level, a new call for wisdom, for reacting in love, for action imbued with authority that comes from true wisdom. The call comes to end racism and bias, to provide for the least of us, to rescue the Earth from her people's carelessness, to heal ourselves of illness and blindness, to reach out to all people with understanding and trust. It is a time of upheaval—and hope, actually. It is a "big work," as Godly Play puts it. We are called to be Jesus people, with all the wisdom and authority that goes with that calling. We are called to make a difference, both in our actions and in our words. The weaving of authority with respect, of wisdom and love, of action and faith, form the fabric of our faith and of our lives. That weaving should be like the most intricate of braids, interwoven, secure, unbreakable. And beautiful, bespeaking of power.
We have come to a new understanding of church, thanks to Covid. Oh how we miss meeting together, singing our beautiful songs, worshiping in our particular church home, hearing and saying the familiar words, and sharing the sacraments. Oh how we miss the hugs and hand shakes, the back of our friends' heads, the special pew that is ours, the way the light plays through the sanctuary. Oh my, what a longing I have for all the various forms of worship, from the smells, bells, and songs of the Saturday evening service, to the quiet reverence of the 8:00, to the exuberant and happy gathering of the 11:00.
But we (I) have learned to do without that, and still know what church is.
We still gather, pray, listen, worship, sing, and know that we are a people together. It doesn't look or feel the same, but it is our church at the moment. Beyond taped and zoomed services, we are still church, still a Jesus-people doing Jesus-work, even though the walls that bind us and comfort us are not accessible. The work of our church, as indicated in all those annual reports from the missions of the church, continues strongly. Hospitality Village, Stephen Ministries, Children's Ed, Vestry—to name only a few. People working internally and externally to carry on with the work we are called to do. We have discovered something important. We survive because we keep doing Jesus-things. We love, we care for, we bind up, we provide, we reach out, we speak the good news of God's love, we keep on keeping on. For Jesus. For the love of our fellow people. For the healing of the world and ourselves. We are a lot like the early church in that respect—meeting as we are able, in small groups, finding our way in new forms of worship. And never failing to reach for those that need our help.
I think Jesus would approve of that. He was never one for fancy buildings and church services. He was always out on the hillsides and village streets, reaching and teaching, healing and loving, speaking with authority and wisdom and love. He never once said, "worship me." But many times, then and now, he says, "follow me." "Follow me" into the places that are hard to go, speaking words that aren't so popular, finding ways to worship on hillsides and in boats. "Follow me" as we speak with authority and love to our enemies, to those trapped in demoniac illness, to the very people who would try to destroy us. "Follow me" and we will make a difference in our world, with our actions, with our love, with authority that comes from God, with wisdom.
God calls us. Let us all and each one listen, respond and go forth in love.
Amen.Sermon for Third Sunday after the Epiphany, January 24, 2021 B

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Faith on tap
By Jeff Favre October 21, 2016
Aaron Schmalzle spent years helping churches and faith-based organizations become sustainable while also practicing his hobby of brewing beer in his garage-turned-brewery. His combined passions helped form the vision of Castle Church Brewing Community in Orlando, Fla.
Tom Schaeffer (left) started Black Cloister Brewing Co. as a way to share his love of great beer and a place to build community. That community includes Threshold Church in Toledo, Ohio, which uses the brewery as its Sunday worship space. Schaeffer is pastor of Threshold.
Threshold Church worships at Black Cloister Brewing Co., a brewery whose name pays homage to the original Black Cloister in Wittenburg, Germany, where Martin Luther studied.
Every night for two weeks, ELCA discipleship veteran and amateur beer maker Aaron Schmalzle had the same dream. He was in a sanctuary, but instead of pews there were long tables, and the organ pipes had been replaced by massive brewery stacks.
The next time Schmalzle met for a monthly beer-making session in Orlando, Fla., with ELCA pastor Jared Witt and a few friends, one non-churchgoing attendee said to him: "It's not easy to ask this, but can you pray for me?"
In many ways, that moment was the birth of Castle Church Brewing Community, a non-traditional ELCA congregation that focuses less on weekly worship attendance and more on igniting a sense of faith in daily life.
And, of course, there's beer.
After more than a year of planning, the brewery's projected opening is next year, but Castle Church is already an active congregation, led spiritually by Witt. Castle also has a weekly yoga session and monthly brew days, as well as house groups that include Bible studies.
Witt was happy at his previous call, but he believes there is a growing dissatisfaction among millennials with the traditional congregational model.
"Part of this came from a need to explore some place where people would feel fully at ease," Witt said. "There's something about walking into a space like a taproom where people can let their hair down and get looser than if they are at a religious institution."
When Schmalzle and Witt began planning how Castle Church would operate, their vision included a concept of concentric circles. On the inner circle are worshipers looking for weekly word and sacrament. The middle circle includes people who show up for special events, such as beer and hymns or speakers. The outer circle could include beer enthusiasts who aren't even aware of the faith community at the brewery.
Castle's relaxed atmosphere is meant to let people be their authentic selves without fear of judgment or expectation.
"If someone just wants to come in and ask about 'Means of Grace,' which is on the labels of one of the beers, and that's as far as they want to go, that's great," Schmalzle said. "If they want to do beer and hymns, that's great."
Schmalzle believes that involvement will be more fulfilling if Castle meets the spiritual needs of each individual.
Good news and brews
Starting a congregation, let alone a brewery, is costly and complicated. Witt and Schmalzle praised the ELCA and the Florida-Bahamas Synod for their support, in particular the synod bishop, Robert Schaefer.
"It seems to me Castle Church community is one glimpse of what the church of the future is going to look like," Schaefer said. "In our context the majority of traditional mission starts, in spite of our best efforts, never grow into sustainable congregations. I've been encouraging our synod to a time of holy experimentation and risk-taking for the sake of the gospel.
"Castle Church community is just that. It will be a place intended to reach millennials who likely would not seek a traditional church setting but who are searching for authentic community and meaning. It will be an alternate faith community where people can explore questions about Jesus, faith and life, maybe over a beer in a nonthreatening environment. I think Martin Luther is smiling."
Though Castle is unusual, it's not unique. Threshold Church in Toledo, Ohio, is in its second year. Its pastor and avid beer maker, Tom Schaeffer, is also the CEO of Black Cloister Brewing Co., which is where Threshold's Sunday worship takes place.
Like the guys at Castle, Schaeffer's motivation to merge faith and taproom communities is to reach a generation that has left the church because it doesn't address their spiritual needs. Threshold, which is also the Lutheran campus ministry for the University of Toledo, doesn't consider its Sunday worship a primary evangelism tool.
"We still live in a culture where a lot of people believe in God," Schaeffer said. "The first step to evangelism is to get people to say, 'God is good, and these Christians are OK.' "
The way to do that, Schaeffer said, is to provide a space where the un-churched, the de-churched, and even the agnostic and atheist feel welcome.
Like Castle, Threshold has received ELCA support. But there has been some pushback from people who find the brewery-congregation concept discriminatory against people who don't drink or who may suffer from alcohol addiction.
"We're not for everyone," said Witt, who also makes clear that without his traditional Lutheran upbringing he couldn't have taken on a call this challenging. "If you were an alcoholic, why would you come here when there are 1,000 congregations for you? We could say we're for everyone, but that's a lie. We're for people who have felt a little out of place from [a traditional] setting."
The question remains whether Castle and Threshold can be financially viable.
"It's an ongoing experiment," Schaeffer said. "Does it work? It has yet to be seen."
For more information on Castle Church and Threshold, visit castlechurchbrewing.com and crossthethreshold.com.
Jeff Favre
Favre is an assistant professor at Pierce College in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to Living Lutheran.
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Surveys: Business outlook optimistic but tempered by expectations of slow growth
Posted bybiznewspa	 September 29, 2020 Leave a comment on Surveys: Business outlook optimistic but tempered by expectations of slow growth
As elected officials debate another government-led kickstart to the U.S. economy, business leaders are optimistic about their own prospects but resigned to slower growth overall.
That's the gist of two recent surveys gauging the outlook of executives who have spent the last six months grappling with the crippling impact of a pandemic that has taken more than 200,000 lives and cost 22 million jobs in the U.S.
Business leaders acknowledge that the economic rebound will be slow in coming. Even if governments further loosen restrictions related to Covid-19, the recovery will not be quick, according to 53% of CEOs surveyed by Harrisburg-based marketing firm Merit. The survey of 32 CEOs was conducted in May but results were released this month.
A survey by Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group found that only 21% of owners and executives were optimistic about the national economy. That's a drop from the spring — when the figure was just above 40% — but higher than the single-digit readings during the Great Recession more than a decade ago, PNC said. The bank's survey was conducted in August and September and covers 500 small and midsized businesses nationwide, including 150 in Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Congress has been debating another round of economic relief, while Pennsylvania officials are proposing several hundred million dollars in aid to small businesses and restaurants. Additional relief is important to 58% of Pennsylvania businesses surveyed by PNC. But it's unclear when or how more funding will arrive.
Nonetheless, businesses were largely optimistic about their own ability to forge ahead. In the Merit survey in May, 94% of CEOs were confident in the viability of their business sectors, though small-company CEOs were somewhat-less bullish, with 91% reporting confidence.
Denise Kohnke is chief strategy officer at Merit, a marketing agency based in Harrisburg (PHOTO/SUBMITTED)
Big and small companies also diverged on their ability to develop new strategies in response to the pandemic. At companies with more than 1,000 employees, CEOs were 100% confident in their ability, compared to 70% for CEOs of companies with less than 201 employees, according to Merit.
Would they answer the same way today? Business leaders are naturally optimistic and resilient, said Denise Kohnke, chief strategy officer of Merit. They have spent the last year reevaluating and reinventing their business models. In May, half were considering an acquisition or investment, according to the Merit survey.
But leaders also are going through unprecedented times and small changes could have dramatic effects.
The ability to eat outside at a restaurant this summer likely brought back a feeling of normalcy for many people, Kohnke said. But that will change as temperatures drop and outside dining comes to an end.
"It sounds simple and remedial but that will have a ripple effect on business," Kohnke said.
— By Joel Berg, editor of BizNewsPA
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HMS Thais was built for the British Royal Navy in 1806 and was the name-vessel of her class of fire ships. Between 1811 and 1813 she served in the West Africa Squadron, which was attempting to suppress the slave trade. During this service she captured several slave traders and an American privateer. She made one voyage to the East Indies. Thais was sold in 1818. She then became a merchantman. She was last listed in 1826.

Design
John Henslow designed the Thais class as 18-gun fireships, with a design close to that of the Tisiphone class of sloops. The Royal Navy used the class as sloops and re-rated them as such in March 1808. In early 1811 most of the class, including Thais, were re-rated as post ships.

Naval career
Commander Isaac Ferrieres commissioned Thais in June 1807 as a fireship. Thais was among the naval vessels at Plymouth on 27 and 28 August 1807 and so shared in the proceeds arising from the detention of the Danish vessels Elizabeth, Tiesco, and Aurora, in the run-up to the Gunboat War with Denmark. Ferrieres sailed Thais on 9 September for the West Indies. There she participated in the capture of the Danish West Indies during December.

By February 1808 Thais was back at Plymouth and undergoing refitting as a sloop, a process that took into April. On 21 January 1809 Thais was at Cape Town. There Admiral Bertie, admiral in charge of the Cape of Good Hope Station, sent her out to look for Diana, which had been reported damaged, and for the East Indiamen Experiment, Glory, and Lord Nelson, which were overdue. It turned out that the three East Indiamen had foundered without a trace. Later in 1809 Thais served in the North Sea. In August Thais was part of a squadron under the command of Sir Home Riggs Popham in the Scheldt during the Walcheren Campaign. On 23 May 1810 she escorted a convoy to the Mediterranean.

In November 1810 Commander Edward Scobell assumed command.  On 14 December Thais left Gibraltar as an escort to a convoy  for Britain.

West Africa Squadron
Thais was re-rated as a sixth rate in 1811, and on 3 April Scobell received promotion to post captain. Thais and Scobell then sailed for the West Coast of Africa and service with the West Africa Squadron.

On 28 July 1811 Thais captured the brig Havannah. The capture took place off "Trade Town". Havannah was suspected to be a British vessel sailing under a foreign flag. She had 100 slaves aboard, of whom 98 survived to be landed at Freetown, where the Vice admiralty court condemned her. On 30 August, Thais captured the Portuguese brig Venus off Badagry. She too was condemned at Freetown, and 21 slaves were landed there. Three days later, Thais captured another Portuguese brig, Calypso, off Lagos. She landed 13 slaves at Freetown, but the court returned her to her owners.

On 24 June 1812 Thais captured the American schooner Dolphin south of Gorée. She landed 79 slaves at Freetown, where the court condemned her.

Then on 14 August Thais captured the Spanish brig Carlotta at Loango Bay. She had no slaves aboard. On 29 August, Thais captured the Portuguese brig Flor d'America, also at Loango, that was carrying 364 slaves. The court at Freetown condemned both vessels.

On 5 September Thais captured the Portuguese schooner Orizonte at Mayumba Bay. She landed 18 slaves at Freetown, where the court condemned her.

On 31 March 1813 Thais captured the U.S. brig Rambler. Rambler, of 160 tons (bm), was armed with twelve 9 & 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 88 men. She had sailed from Rhode Island on 28 January and had not made any captures. The capture took place off Cape Mount.

Then on 28 May 1813 Thais was involved in apprehending Juan a ship sailing near the Rio Pongo, which was then taken to Sierra Leone. She was an American sloop carrying no slaves; British records indicate that the capture took place off Cape Sierra Leone. The court at Freetown condemned her.

Thais assisted the privateer  after Kitty captured two slave traders, San Jose Triumfo and Phoenix, on 4 June. On 27 June Thais and the colonial armed schooner Princess Charlotte captured three small craft off Cape Mesurado.

In January 1814 Captain Henry Weir replaced Scobell, who had resigned his commission.

Subsequent service
In late March 1814 Thais was at Hellevoetsluis to transport French coins that Nathan Rothschild had collected. Rothschild had a contract to deliver £600,000 to the south of France by 14 March. By the time Thais and  were able to deliver to Bordeaux the £450,000 that Rothschild had gathered Napoleon had abdicated. From Bordeaux Thais carried General Henry Bayly and his staff to Plymouth.

Between October and December 1814 Thais was at Plymouth being cut down, losing her spar deck, and having her armament being reduced to 16 guns.

In 1815 she sailed to the East Indies, escorting East Indiamen. On 6 April Thais took Mercury, Browsse, master, into Madeira. Mercury had been sailing from Bordeaux to Martinique when Thais intercepted her. Thais then sent Mercury to England. Mercure, Brouessett, master, reached Lisbon. There she was released to resume her voyage to Martinique.

On 10 September Thais left Penang for China.

Between 6 and 11 April 1816, Weir was president of a court-martial that took place on  in Madras roads. The board found that Captain Robert O'Brien, captain of Cornwallis, had exceeded his authority in appointing himself a Commodore and dismissed him from the service.{{efn|In 1817 O'Brien was reinstated in the Navy. He contested the court-martial with one of his grounds being that every member of the board was junior to him.</ref> Weir then assumed command of Cornwallis.

Weir returned to Thais. Under his command she arrived at St Helena on 28 September from India, and sailed two days later for England.

Disposal
By 1817 Thais was in ordinary at Plymouth. The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Thais, of 22 guns and 431 tons", lying at Plymouth, for sale on 13 August 1818. She sold on that day for £1,400.

Merchantman
Thais appeared in Lloyd's Register for 1819 at London with Robson, master, and Brown & Co. owners. This entry continuedunchanged until 1826, which was the last time Thais was listed.

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References

 Kaplan, Herbert H. (2005) Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dynasty: the critical years. (Stanford University Press).

 Watson, George Leo de St M (1912) A Polish exile with Napoleon: embodying the letters of Captain Piontkowski to General Sir Robert Wilson and many documents from the Lowe papers, the Colonial office records, the Wilson manuscripts, the Capel Lofft correspondence, and the French and Genevese archives hitherto unpublished. (London & New York: Harper & Brothers).

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The Yamaha RN602 is part of Yamaha's hugely impressive network audio system, MusicCast. With MusicCast you can control all your compatible Yamaha MusicCast products via your smartphone or tablet. Play the same music on all the components or split the sound into different zones for different moods in each room; the choice is yours. The MusicCast CONTROLLER app also lets you operate the speaker and change settings quickly and easily.
Connect via Ethernet or wi-fi to your home network and gain access to a whole new world of entertainment. From here you'll be able to access a massive range of Internet radio stations plus music services such as the hugely popular Spotify and Naspter. Also standard is AirPlay, making it easier than ever to stream from your Apple iOS devices.
With a Bluetooth receiver built in, it's easy to enjoy your music from other devices. Pair with your smartphone, tablet, laptop or PC and wirelessly stream all your favourite music. With the possibility of streaming music services, such as Spotify, Deezer and Tidal, as well as your own music library, you get access to near unlimited music!
The RN602 comes with a built-in MM (Moving Magnet) phono stage for your turntable. At the front of the unit there's a USB interface, making this receiver ideal for connecting up USB mass storage devices and playing back your stored music files. A wide range of analogue RCA phono inputs are also supplied for sources such as tape decks or CD players.
As well as a USB interface, the RN602 also has twin optical and coaxial digital inputs linked to its high spec DAC (Digital to Analogue Convertor). This lets you link up a wide variety of digital sources, including compatible TVs, CD and DVD players.
Bring all your music together, with the Yamaha RN602.


T-shirts of the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro on sale in Brasilia, on Oct. 27, 2018. | Photo: Reuters | Phto from teleSUR.
4 January 2019 (teleSUR)* – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro urged Friday the urgent approval of a bill to protect police officers in the country from being prosecuted over crimes committed while on duty.
Data released by the Institute of Public Security (ISP) Friday shows that citizen deaths directly related to the military intervention in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro increased by 150 percent in the month of August. It's a 150 percent jump, going from 70 deaths in August 2017 to a whopping 175 deaths last month.
Since his inauguration Tuesday, Bolsonaro has used executive orders to open up Brazil's economy, giving away the rights of Indigenous people to agribusiness, excluding the LGBTI community in Brazil from his government's human rights policies, opening up the country for U.S. troops and military bases, and vowing to join right-wing international efforts against progressive and leftists governments in the region such as Venezuela and Cuba.
Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former Army captain and admirer of Brazil's military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985 and U.S. President Donald Trump, has quickly deepened ties with the United States and Israel.
On the domestic front, Onyx Lorenzoni, Bolsonaro's chief of staff, said after a cabinet meeting on Thursday that the new administration was committed to a pension overhaul, and that a privatization program was under evaluation.


Larger woman shaped vase with unglazed exterior. Interior is glazed with matte clay beige tone exterior. Each vase is slightly unique. Also available in Matisse blue.
FIT | Height is approx 5-7″ tall.
STORY | RACHEL SAUNDERS CERAMICS are handmade clay pieces by multidisciplinary artist Rachel Saunders. Based in Vancouver Island, all works are hand-built or wheel thrown in her studio.


This Beautiful Copper Chunky OOAK Statement Necklace is made with lovely copper and apricot beads, pearls and gorgeous abalone shell beads. It is made using my unique Twisted Sister technique that creates this Ultra Chunky Statement Necklace but is practically weightless.
I got the inspiration from a gorgeous photo of Princess Sophia wearing a Chanel Necklace. Instead of the classic pearls, I chose to make it with copper beads and iridescent shell beads. Measures 20"s. It has a lovely magnetic clasp for easy attachment. Please let me know if you need the length adjusted. I want it to be perfect for you and get ready for TONS compliments!!!
*** 20" length - Will adjust for you.
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Sprint's $50 sale isn't particularly earthshaking, but it is indicative of the state of Sprint and wireless pricing in general. Unlimited Data, Talk & Text from Sprint for only $50 is actually what we need from Sprint. Sprint's network isn't getting any worse, but the competition, particularly T-Mobile, is getting better. Other carriers are getting lots of buzz when they do something worth talking about. Sprint needs to create a buzz of their own, and a snazzy price promotion is a nice way to do it.
Sprint's $50 Unlimited plan will be available until midnight tomorrow (Tuesday 1/31) night, and it's only effective for a couple of months, but if it brings lots of people in the door, we might see it again...and maybe from other carriers. (We did not get paid for this article but there are commissionable links to Sprint on this page).
In our last article about the cheapest data plans, we named Republic Wireless as the low-cost data plan winner. There was much discussion about one more plan that should be reviewed, but most of our editorial contributors weren't comfortable about including Google Fi. Google Fi uses a different wireless model in that not only do you pay for data per Gb, but you also get back some of your payment if you don't use it all.
The limits that make some people uncomfortable are the fact that calls are completed through broadband and that you need to use their own Fi-compatible phones. With the addition of the Pixel phone to the line of Fi handsets, the phone selection becomes less of a drawback. And, since I have been using Google broadband functions (apps) for calls while roaming outside the US, I'm fairly comfortable that the process works well. It may even be the future of wireless.
Another point in Fi's favor is that T-Mobile, one of the 3 cellular networks used for broadband connections, has improved their coverage significantly. However, at $30 (+ tax) for service with 1Gb data, the only way Google Fi becomes a lower-priced option is when you actually use less than your 1Gb allotment and get the refund. Most of us with 1Gb plans may very well not use that much data. If you need to add another 1 Gb of data, the price goes way above the other offers. What I like is the international access of the plan. What other users dislike is the call quality on Wi-Fi...but that can be bypassed. Google Fi is a good choice, but not the best one for us bottom-feeders.
Last week we shared a few rock-bottom-priced Talk & Text plans that cost pocket change. This week we searched for cheap Data plans. To make a comparison we decided that frugal users can survive on 1Gb a month...because us cheapskates use lots of Wi-Fi.
$30/month will get you Unlimited Talk & Text plus 1Gb of high speed Data with Cricket Wireless and MetroPCS. Boost Mobile will get you 2Gb at that price. If you want access to Verizon's network, Page Plus offers 1Gb of Data and Unlimited Text with a limit of 1,500 Talk minutes.
FreedomPop, Tello and US Mobile, our Talk & Text low-price leaders, come in a little under $30, but taxes and fees can push that total back over.
There are some substantial price drops if you can get by with 500Mb (even FREE!). Conversely, a few dollars more, say at $35/month, can get you quite a bit more Data...5Gb at Virgin Mobile.
The low-cost winner in our search is "Wi-Fi first" carrier, Republic Wireless. They claim Unlimited Talk & Text + 1Gb Cellular Data for $20/month. Their TOS states that taxes and "government-mandated fees" are extra. Republic is now using the T-Mobile network for their cellular Data.
We realize the 1Gb limit is a bit arbitrary as the average data user consumes about 2Gb of data per month. As usual, our shopping trip is not exhaustive and is subject to change. Note our disclaimer on these reviews.
We may be sloppy in not quoting all our sources and we might have missed some details when making our opinionated blasts, but we never thought about just making up stories. It could be we're just not that creative...or that credible. We need to make sure you know that what we report in this, and all other Mountain Wireless web sites, has some basis in fact. We truly believe what we're rambling about is true.


Do you ever realize you stopped talking in the middle of a sentence? That happened to me recently when I looked back at ancient blog posts and realized I hadn't finished a series of three posts I'd planned out early on. These were to look at the fantastic spy information of Night's Black Agents and use that information to deepen the espionage aspects of Eclipse Phase. I went through the Adversary Pyramid and Conspiracies and today I'm digging up my old notes to bring you some ideas for creating thriller storylines in Eclipse Phase.
Continuing with the adaptation of Night's Black Agents to Eclipse Phase, the vampire conspiracy game has a list of backgrounds for clandestine spy groups that would work well for a Firewall cell. As an Eclipse Phase GM, one of the first questions people ask me are "what are the classes" or "what positions are there?" People want to make sure their group has all bases covered, but I don't really have a set list for them. In part it depends on what the game's focus will be but it would be handy to have a starting point.
The newest publication from Posthuman Studios, the FATE version of their acclaimed Eclipse Phase setting called Transhumanity's Fate, has been at the top of Drive Thru RPG's best-selling list for weeks. And with good reason! While the book doesn't cover everything in the post-apocalyptic transhuman setting, it does a good job of hitting the highlights. Specifically, they were trying for the "high-octane technothriller" aspects of Eclipse Phase (or "Jason Bourne in an octomorph" according to co-author Ryan Macklin in the developer notes), and in that respect they do an awesome job.


Write a PHP program where you take any positive integer n, if n is even, divide it by 2 to get n / 2. If n is odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3n + 1. Repeat the process until you reach 1.
According to Wikipedia the Collatz conjecture is a conjecture in mathematics named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937. The conjecture is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture.
The conjecture can be summarized as follows. Take any positive integer n. If n is even, divide it by 2 to get n / 2. If n is odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3n + 1. Repeat the process (which has been called "Half Or Triple Plus One") indefinitely. The conjecture is that no matter what number you start with, you will always eventually reach 1.
For instance, starting with n = 12, one gets the sequence 12, 6, 3, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
n = 19, for example, takes longer to reach 1: 19, 58, 29, 88, 44, 22, 11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
Previous: Write a PHP program to compute the sum of the two reversed numbers and display the sum in reversed form.
Next: Write a PHP program to check whether a given number is an ugly number.


(April 2005) 19 tracks (61 mins): Sheriffmuir * Sunday Driver * Haughs O' Cromdale * Macpherson's Rant * Lowlands Away * The Green Fields Of France * Cam Ye By Atholl * Roving Journey Man * Parcel O' Rogues * Liberty * Floodgarry * My Bonnie Laddie's Lang a Growin' * Derwentwater's Farewell * Johnny Cope * Nut Brown Maiden * Rattlin' Bog * The Roses of Prince Charlie * Maggie Lauder * Flower Of Scotland.
Roy Williamson (vocals, guitars) and Ronnie Browne (vocals, guitars).
Taken from the 1983 television series The Corries And Other Folk, this second DVD of the series shows the boys live in action with some of their most loved songs.


The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a corecipient of the 2003 Allen Newell Award. Haussler was recognized along with UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl for separate groundbreaking contributions that have changed the scientific world beyond computer science and engineering.
Haussler, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was cited as possibly the most influential contributor to the field of computational biology. Pearl, director of UCLA's Cognitive Systems Laboratory, made seminal contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.
As the recipients of the 2003 Allen Newell Award, they demonstrate the remarkable influence that computer science and artificial intelligence can have on other sciences, on practical tools, and on human thought. The Allen Newell Award, which is cosponsored by ACM and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), comes with a cash prize of $10,000.
By focusing on scientific interactions between computer scientists and molecular biologists, Haussler has played a leading role in developing the new field of computational biology. His work laid the foundation for the modern probabilistic approach to detecting and analyzing the biological components of the human genome. His collaborations led to algorithms to assemble the first public working draft of the human genome and posting it on the World Wide Web. He also aided in developing interactive web-based browsers that analyzed and annotated genome sequences of human beings and other organisms. These web-based tools are used extensively in biomedical research.
Haussler is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado and an M.S. in applied mathematics at California Polytechnic State University. A graduate of Connecticut College with a B.A. in mathematics, Haussler is a past chairman of the Steering Committee for the Computational Learning Theory Conferences (COLT) and associate editor of the Journal of Computational Biology.
Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA, realized the overwhelming prevalence of uncertain information in real-world systems and developed a theoretical and algorithmic foundation for artificial intelligence based on probability theory. He forged links between computer science and statistics, developing models that are used to describe everything from the effects of diseases to the likely behavior of terrorists. Pearl's ideas have revolutionized the understanding of causality in statistics, psychology, medicine, and the social sciences. His book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems is among the single most influential works in shaping the theory and practice of knowledge-based systems.
Pearl graduated from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He received an M.S. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Pearl is a fellow of AAAI and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is president of the Board of Directors of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, and has asked that his share of the Allen Newell Award be donated to the foundation.
ACM will present the Allen Newell Award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 5 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The award was named for Allen Newell, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. It is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. This endowed award is supported by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and by individual contributions.


Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes Shannon Bornheimer, Missy Bornheimer, Edie Radloff, Alyssa Milano and Erinn Hayes… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!
Download the Perfect Couples pilot from Amazon.com by clicking the picture of Kyle Bornheimer and Christine Woods above!
If the creators of Christine Woods' last show were really as prescient as they thought they were, wouldn't they have foreseen that a year after viewers threw their hands up in frustration at trying to follow the plot of ABC's "FlashForward," that FBI Agent Janis Hawk would be on NBC doing a sitcom called "Perfect Couples"?
You can LISTEN to this interview with actress CHRISTINE WOODS, star of PERFECT COUPLES, by clicking the audio player above!
On "Perfect Couples," which airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. on the Peacock, Christine plays Julia, one half of the "everyday couple." She's married to Dave, Bornheimer's character. They are the relatively normal pair in the three couple sitcom, although in this manner of normal, they get their share of silly and witty.


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Party Wall Notices and Response Times
Sunday, 29th December 2019 | by: Justin Burns
It's essential that the time periods relating to party wall procedures are followed to the letter as they are taken directly from the Act and many of those time periods relate to the service of and response to notices.
The first point to clarify is when the time periods run from as it's not obvious. Regardless of the date that is entered on the notice, it will be deemed as having been served when it is received or when it should have been received by the adjoining owner (or when it was available to view if attached to the property). With the most common method of service, first class post, that will be 2 days after it was consigned to the post or on the same day if it has been delivered by hand.
The next time period relates to a deemed dissent to the notice(s). Party wall procedures are designed so that they do not stall if notices are not responded to but, on the other hand, it would not be fair on an adjoining owner if their interests were ignored because they did not respond to a notice (often for perfectly legitimate reasons). The solution is a deemed dissent 14 days after a notice has been served.
Deemed dissents only apply to notices served in relation to works covered by section 2 (works directly affecting a party structure) and section 6 (adjacent excavation) of the Act. With notices served in relation to works covered by section 1 of the Act (new walls at the boundary) the opposite applies; there is a deemed consent 1 month after it has been served (this does not override the requirement to obtain and adjoining owner's express consent to construct a new party wall so if there is a deemed consent the wall will have to be moved on to the building owner's own land).
Where a deemed consent occurs a 'dispute' arises and the dispute resolution procedures set out in section 10 of the Act are triggered i.e. each of the parties must appoint a surveyor to resolve the dispute. You may ask how an adjoining owner can be made to appoint a surveyor when they've not responded to the notice but, of course, that scenario is anticipated in the Act.
Following a deemed dissent, the building owner must write to the adjoining owner again (same rules apply regarding the service of this letter) requesting their surveyor's details and explaining that if they are not provided within 10 further days a surveyor will be appointed on their behalf (it's not possible to have an Agreed Surveyor in this scenario as the silent party will not have agreed to such). I'll look at the appointment of surveyors under section 10(4) of the Act in a future post but I wanted to finish by clarifying another point that is sometimes misunderstood; an adjoining owner can still consent to a notice following a deemed dissent and, if I were a building owner, I would be doing everything possible during that period (knocking on doors, sending messages via tenants/agents etc.) to make contact and avoid a potentially unnecessary award.
If you're about to embark on works covered by the Act, you're welcome to call us on 020 8546 7211 for some free advice or drop us an email.


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February 1, 2021 10:27AM ET
RS Country Music Picks for the Week of February 1st
Sam Williams' warning about lying to kin, Dillon Warnek's how-to tidy up a death scene, and Jake Hoot's majestic duet with Kelly Clarkson
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Alexa King*
Whether it's coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there's no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.
Jake Hoot featuring Kelly Clarkson, "I Would've Loved You"
Jake Hoot's debut EP Love Out of Time announces The Voice champ as a smooth country balladeer with a hint of Conway Twitty's adults-only vibe. In this majestic duet with Kelly Clarkson written by Hoot with Jamie Floyd and Dean Sams, he delivers lines about cheating that no kid should hear. But it's the chorus that tears your already jaded heart out: "I'm gonna hate you as long and as much," Hoot sings, "as I would've loved you." Brutal.
Dillon Warnek, "Good Man"
It's not when you die, but where you die that matters. In this Faces-like jam off his upcoming LP Now That It's All Over, Nashville songwriter Dillon Warnek spells out lengthy instructions to his pallbearer pals to make it seem like he croaked on the straight and narrow. Before they tell his wife the bad news, they must a) usher out his mistress(es), b) hide all the drinks, and c) move his corpse to the kitchen to "make it look like I was fixing the sink." And that's only the first verse. Fleshed out by barroom piano, harmonica, and slide guitar, "Good Man" is a Weekend at Bernie's rave-up with lyrics so sharp and clever, they make living hard and dropping dead sound like a blast.
Sam Williams, "Can't Fool Your Own Blood"
Sam Williams knows from family drama — the rising troubadour is the son of Bocephus and the grandson of Hank Williams. In his new video for "Can't Fool Your Own Blood" (premiering here), he returns to familial ground zero — the Williams' farm in Tennessee — to offer a cautionary tale about lying to the ones you love. "I'll act like I believe," he croons, "but you can't fool your own blood." It's a haunting performance worthy of his surname.
Emily Rose, "The Heart"
Singer-songwriter Emily Rose starts her new song "The Heart" by talking about the titular organ's resilience, both actual and metaphorical. "It's a healer not a divider and it'll walk through fire for love," she sings, employing a partly dissonant melody that adds to the feeling of melancholy. By the time she's reached the chorus, Rose is addressing someone who's pushed her to her absolute limit and forced her to take protective measures. "A heart can only handle so much," she concludes.
Heath Sanders, "Common Ground"
"We're all on a different journey," Arkansas oil worker Heath Sanders admits in his debut single for the Valory Music Co., before pointing out the one thing that inevitably unites us: "We all end up in common ground." The slow-burning ballad, tied together by Sanders' lived-in voice and some simple picked acoustic, is full of small-town personas — the struggling waitress, the high-school QB shipping off to boot camp — but Sanders never allows them to come across as stereotypes. He knows them far too well for that.
Mark Erelli with Maya de Vitry, "Handmade"
Mark Erelli is joined by Stray Birds singer Maya de Vitry for the rousing "Handmade," from Erelli's upcoming Jackpot EP (out February 12th). Set to an easy-breezy rhythm and punctuated with electric guitar, the song never quite reaches for "rocking out," but instead eases back and goes in unhurried fashion like the love story at its core. "I know it's worth the wait, if it takes a little longer, that just makes it a little stronger," Erelli and de Vitry sing in enthusiastic harmony, because hey, love can also be fun sometimes.
Bellamy Brothers featuring John Anderson, "No Country Music for Old Men"
The Bellamy Brothers let their angst flow in this nostalgic but biting collab with fellow Florida-country icon John Anderson. Essentially a list of legends — from Merle Haggard and Buck Owens to Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty — that made the good ol' days and its music so great, the tropical-tinged track doesn't hesitate to take a swipe at the young bucks of today. "Posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend," the trio describes them, making it clear these grizzled vets are giving no quarter, friendo.
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FORUM INDEX ‹ CANADIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FORUMS ‹ Trademarks (Canada)
Post about CANADIAN trademark issues
1. Grounds for Application
A Canadian application may be based upon one or more of the following bases:
- Use in Canada;
- Registration and use in applicant's country of origin;
- Proposed use in Canada by the applicant or a licensee (the licensee need not be named). Proposed use is not available with respect to any wares or services with which the mark has been used in Canada. However, both actual use and intended use may be presented in the same application for different wares and services.
2. Items Required to Obtain a Filing Date
Identification of the trademark: Word – Design – Sound.
If the trademark is a word mark (i.e., a word or words neither presented in a special form nor in foreign characters nor containing accents other than French accents), the applicant submits the word or words in the same form (punctuated, spaced etc.) for which protection is sought.
If the trademark is a design mark, the applicant submits a good-quality black and white drawing of the mark, preferably in a conventional electronic format (e.g. pdf, tif, jpg). Where the applicant claims colour as a feature of the trademark, the application must contain a descriptions of the colour(s), that is readily visualized and clear.
If the trademark is a sound mark, the applicant submits a drawing that graphically represents the sound, a description of the sound, and an electronic recording of the sound (in MP3 or WAVE format, limited to 5 megabytes in size, and not containing any looping or repetition of the sound).
List of wares and/or services. A single application may include both wares and services of different classes – Canada does not use a formal classification system. A very specific list must be presented, using ordinary business/commercial terminology. If the applicant is uncertain as of the filing date whether the list is complete, the list can include wording such as "and other related goods", which will permit the applicant to amend later to expand the list.
If actual use is claimed, the date of first use of the trademark in Canada, for each general category of wares and services. The Trademarks Office will accept a date identified as "since at least as early as" a stated year, or month and year. However, unless a precise date is provided, the date of first use will be deemed to be the last day of the indicated period. That is, if a month and year are provided, the date of first use will be taken to be the last day of that month and if only a year is provided, the date of first use will be taken to be the last day of that year.
Name and address of applicant and name(s) of any predecessor(s)-in-title who previously used the mark. Preferably state the jurisdiction of incorporation of a corporate applicant and any special status (e.g., trade union) of an unincorporated entity.
Particulars sufficient to identify any foreign counterpart registration or application relied upon (optional).
To obtain a filing date, there is no need for the applicant to execute any formal application papers.
3. Completion of the Application
Specimens of use are not required.
Registration and use in the applicant's country of origin, may be asserted as a basis for Canadian registration at any time prior to the publication of the Canadian application. However, if an application contains such a foreign registration and use basis, a copy of the foreign registration (certified by the issuing office) must be filed (together with an English translation, unless the document is already in French or English) before the Canadian application will be approved for publication.
4. Paris Convention Priority
Convention priority may be claimed if the Canadian application is filed within six months of the first-filed Convention application.
IMPORTANT: Convention priority must be claimed at the time of application. The applicant has to specify the country, trademark application serial number, and filing date of the first-filed application. If some of the foregoing information is missing at the time of filing, normally it can be entered later by amendment, as long as the claim for priority has been presented in the application as filed. There is no need to file a certified copy of the foreign application.
5. Licensees/Registered Users
Licensees or other users of the trademark need no longer be recorded as registered users of the mark. Canada has abolished its registered user system. However, various provisions of the Trademarks Act apply to licensees.
6. Other Protection
The Canadian Trademarks Act provides for the registration of certification marks (marks associated with a standard with which licensed users of the mark must comply) and distinguishing guises (a shaping of wares or their containers or a mode of wrapping or packaging the wares or their containers that serves to distinguish the wares or services of the applicant from the wares or services of others).
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The 2017 French presidential elections
April 16, 2017 Alister
Emmanuel Macron wins and is elected president. He is the youngest ever President of France (39 years old).
French citizens will vote to elect the 25th President of the French Republic. The elections take place in two rounds, the 23rd April and the 7th May.
Emmanuel Macron wins the election with 65% of "OUI" (YES) votes. He will be the French president for 5 years.
Results from round 1
The outgoing president is His Excellency François Hollande, in office since 2012. He decided not to be a candidate to his own succession although he is eligible. 11 candidates met the criteria required to run for the presidential office. With an average of 55 years, the candidates are relatively young and of diverse backgrounds.
For the first vote on 23 April, French voters will either abstain from voting, return a blank ballot vote (which is considered an invalid vote), or give their vote to one of the following candidates (in alphabetical order):
Nathalie Arthaud from the Worker's Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière). Mrs. Arthaud claims to represent the workers and all those abandoned and/or oppressed by capitalism. A professor of economy by trade, she says she is the only true communist candidate. (radical-left)
François Asselineau of the Popular Republic Union (UPR). Mr. Asselineau's candidacy came as a surprise, but he managed to meet all the criteria (the most difficult for "unusual" candidates is to secure the support of 500 mayors). His policy is based on anti-NATO, anti-American feelings. He also wants a FREXIT from the European Union. On the pollitical spectrum, Mr. Asselineau is difficult to place, although he is described as a far-right Eurosceptic.
Jacques Cheminade, of the party Solidarity and Progress (Solidarité et Progrès). Mr. Cheminade is famous to have predicted the 2008 financial crisis in the 1990s. He is a NATO and Eurosceptic, in favour of a controlled immigration which is considers necessary because of France demographic difficulties. Solidarity and Progress is generally conservative and wants to find a medium ground between liberalism, capitalism and Marxism.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, of the party Arise France (Debout la France). Mr. Dupont-Aignan claims to be the sole representative of the Gaullist legacy. His policy is based on French sovereignty which is according to Dupont-Aignan impossible with the current European Union (which he would like to be reformed), the current border policies and common Euro currency. He also wants to control immigration, establish a form of protectionism and improve France's relation with Eurasian countries. Dupont-Aignan is categorized as a candidate of the right and he himself claims to be between the National Front and François Fillon.
François Fillon, of The Republicans party. Mr. Fillon is a former Environment and Prime Minister under Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency. The policies he advocates are categorized as liberal economically speaking and conservative on moral issues. Mr. Fillon wants to work with the European nations to make the Union stronger against both American and Russian influences, he also wants to severely control immigration and help France find its "roots" back (Catholicism, opposes gay marriage) although he declared being able to disconnect his opinion from the principles of the Republican regime (secularism). (Right)
Benoît Hamon is the candidate of the Socialist Party, former minister of Education and then of Social Economy under François Hollande's presidency. Mr. Hamon also became the representative of Les Verts, the Green-Ecology party. He is very critical of François Hollande's government. His program offers to create a 6th Republic, to institute a universal income set between 600€ and 750€, decriminalize consumption of soft drugs. Hamon and the Socialist Party are strong supporters of the European Union. (Left candidate)
Jean Lassalle is one of the surprise candidates for the 2017 election. Mr. Lassalle does not have an important political career except being a delegate at the National Assembly and the mayor of his village for 40 years (a village with a population of 162). He claims to be the defender of rural France, to protect the presence of public services (such as police stations in remote areas). He is skeptical about the future of the European Union which he describes as lacking in democracy and reducing the national identities of its members. But he has not declared being opposed to it. He is against the TTIP agreement. Mr. Lassalle is famous for his 5,000 kilometers visit of France and of the French, on foot in 2013. (center/center-right)
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front. Mrs. Le Pen is also a is a member of the European Parliament. Her program is based on economic protectionism, on a strict control of immigration and a certain skepticism about the European Union. She made the promise to hold referendums on the issues of a FREXIT, the re-institution of the death penalty, to abolish gay marriages and to change several aspects of the constitution. Mrs. Le Pen wants to increase the budget of national security, the secularism of France and reduce but not abandon nuclear energy.
Emmanuel Macron, leader of Forward! Party (En Marche!). Mr. Macron, the youngest candidate -39 years old-, is a former minister of the Economy under François Hollande's presidency and a banker by trade. Originally a member of the Socialist Party, Mr. Macron recently created his own movement. He claims to be neither from the left or the right and wants to end the division between left and right which should be replaced by a "progressive/conservative" split. His program is based on a strong European feeling, the need to keep strong ties with the United States (although he opposed some aspects of the TTIP), to increase ties with Canada. He also stated that an open-door policy regarding immigration will benefit the French economy and help its relatively weak demographics. Although Mr. Macron refused the traditional left/right political spectrum, he is considered a central/central-right candidate.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the Unsubmissive France (La France Insoumise!) movement. Mr. Mélenchon, a former member of the Communist Party, is a member of the European Parliament and wants to gather the French left around him. His political program is based on an anti-capitalistic feeling and he wants to create a 6th Republic, reform the European Union, distribute wealth to all French citizens and to loosen the influence of the United States on France which he claims is not independent. (left/radical-left)
Philippe Poutou, representative of the New Anti-capitalistic Party (NPA). Mr. Poutou, a worker in a Ford factory and trade unionist, claims to represent the Trotskyist ideology and is one of the surprise candidates of the 2017 elections. A long time radical-left militant in the Revolutionary Communist Party, he desires to prevent politics from creating a social class of individuals who are raised and educated in the perspective of being politicians. He also denounces capitalism, a world split by borders and the European Union. He declared knowing very well that he is not going to be elected but the campaign is his way to spread his opinion and message. (radical-left)
The two candidates obtaining the most votes will run for a second round on 7 May 2017.
Note that the description given of the candidates' political opinion and program are not exhaustive and are meant to be a broad summary of their programs which are available on their respective websites.
Round 1, voted on the 23rd April 2017
Mr. Emmanuel MACRON and Mme Marine LE PEN go through to the second round, all the other candidates are therefore eliminated.
Percentage of votes
Mr. Emmanuel MACRON 8 528 585 23,86
Mme Marine LE PEN 7 658 990 21,43
Mr. François FILLON 7 126 632 19,94
Mr. Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON 7 011 856 19,62
Mr. Benoît HAMON 2 268 838 6,35
Mr. Nicolas DUPONT-AIGNAN 1 689 686 4,73
Mr. Jean LASSALLE 433 996 1,21
Mr. Philippe POUTOU 392 454 1,10
Mr François ASSELINEAU 329 951 0,92
Mme Nathalie ARTHAUD 231 660 0,65
Mr. Jacques CHEMINADE 65 076 0,18
Voting figures supplied by the French Minister of the Interior.
The second round of votes is on the 7th May 2017
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Story 2 Gamer Girl
The following is the best and most efficient way to have a successful date with Rachel:
Key choice: "Your alarm goes off for 7 AM, you forgot to turn it off last night"
Pick: "Go to the local gym, where all the hot women tend to be on Saturday morning"
Key choice: "Looks like all the hottest women are headed to yoga class."
Pick: "Jump on a treadmill and do some jogging."
Key choice: "This always happens, Dave goes for the hottest duo you meet."
Pick: "Let Dave have his way and go talk to the nerdy girl."
Key choice: "you should probably say something."
Pick: "Hello."
Key choice: "Nice start say something else"
Pick: "So I'm supposed to distract you while my friend hits on your friend."
Key choice: "True, but libraries don't serve drinks."
Pick: "So, What is your major?"
Key choice: "Personal reasons. My atmospheric science professor is brilliant."
Pick: "Do you enjoy the topic though?"
Key choice: "Astrophysics is fascinating, as is biochemistry."
Pick: "As am I, and I find you mysterious. What do you say to dinner?"
Key choice: "So what can I get you this evening?"
Pick: "I'll have the vegetarian platter"
Key choice: "So, what do you think of our town so far?"
Pick: "I like it here, I just don't know many people here yet."
You have now piqued Rachel's interest and made a great impression, the next part of the conversation leads to the various endings:
Key choice: "OK, Let's talk about…"
Pick: "Video Games"
Key choice: "Great, what shall we do?"
Pick: "I'm new to town, you should pick a spot I don't know about."
You go to an Amusement Park with Rachel. Here is the best way to get "Gamer girl":
Key choice: "Here we are, what shall we do first?"
Pick: "See an attraction"
Key choice: "What should we see?"
Pick: "The Dunk Booth"
Key choice: "That was fun what shall we do next?"
Pick: "Go on a ride"
Key choice: "Let's do something else, now."
Key choice: "Who get's the message to deliver the message?"
Pick: "She does!"
You go to Rachel's place for a second date of "gaming".


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Carolann Gallon has been attacked by inmates who discovered why she was in prison. Photo / Northumbria Police
A woman jailed for luring vulnerable youngsters into the clutches of an Asian sex gang has been attacked after fellow inmates "found out what she's in for".
Carolann Gallon - called Chucky by friends - was a key member of a paedophile group who abused hundreds of girls in Newcastle, reports the Daily Mail.
The 23-year-old was the only female to be jailed as part of a major probe into the gang and was originally locked up alongside notorious serial killer Rose West at HMP Low Newton in County Durham.
As revealed by MailOnline, her fellow prisoners had discussed attacking Gallon due to the sickening nature of her crimes.
She was moved almost 150 miles away to Cheshire's HMP Styal, according to Chronicle Live, where she was assaulted last week.
Her father Jimmy Gallon said: "People have found out what she's in for and she's getting grief.
"I really miss her but my hands are tied. It's just heartbreaking for me."
Mr Gallon, who has lost both of his legs to diabetes, claims his daughter was a victim of the gang and did not deserve a prison sentence.
The former steel worker has 17 children with four different women and said she went off the rails as a teenager.
The decision to charge Gallon was taken by the UK's senior law officer the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Gallon, jailed for six years, was the only female to be sentenced as part of Operation Shelter, Northumbria Police's wide-ranging investigation into sexual exploitation in Newcastle.
Newcastle Crown Court was told the Asian gang would prey on vulnerable young women, luring them to depraved 'parties' where they would be drugged and raped.
Gallon pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation after a court heard she left one victim - who had learning disabilities - in the hands of rapist Abdulhamid Minoyee.
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Why is PC Gamer digging into this? New consoles affect priorities at large sport builders, which impacts the design and technical features of the multi-platform video games they produce. The console marketplace has at all times been a think about what we play on PC. Plus, we are most often fascinated by what corporations are as much as, and the way their console merchandise relate to the Intel, AMD, and Nvidia portions we will be the usage of when those next-gen programs pop out.
That settled, here is what we all know in regards to the PS5's , and the way it'll stack as much as long run PCs.
The large price tag pieces in any gaming gadget are the CPU and GPU. Whilst it hasn't been said but, it is a secure wager that AMD can be offering an SoC (Gadget on Chip) resolution that accommodates each. The CPU this spherical will go away in the back of the gradual and quite archaic Jaguar cores of the PS4 (and Xbox One), shifting to AMD's fashionable Ryzen structure. And now not handiest will it get Ryzen, however it'll be a Ryzen CPU in keeping with the approaching 0.33 technology Zen 2 structure, carrying a complete Eight-cores and 16-threads. Extra importantly, at the GPU aspect, the PS5 gets a variant of AMD's long run Navi structure, and I will get started my research there.
I have were given a separate article protecting the whole thing we find out about Navi, however the brief abstract is that I be expecting two iterations of the Navi structure. The primary can be a midrange-focused Navi 10 structure that are supposed to be aggressive with the GTX 1660 Ti/GTX 1070 Ti, and it'll almost certainly release on July 7 (7/7 for 7nm is the wager). Someday later, a better efficiency Navi 20 structure will arrive that may most likely double the die measurement and function, and in addition upload ray tracing give a boost to. The PS5 will use a trimmed down "customized" model of Navi 20, in keeping with the guidelines within the Stressed out article.
So Navi 20 can be AMD's access into the ray tracing enviornment, with complete DXR (DirectX Raytracing) and Vulkan-RT give a boost to. If all is going neatly, via the usage of TSMC's 7nm procedure generation, Navi 20 will probably fit the efficiency of an RTX 2080 Ti. It would also be sooner, however with out exact specifications it is all simply guesswork. And the PS5 will in all probability use a design with kind of part the efficiency of the overall Navi 20 graphics playing cards.
That is the PS4 Professional. Looking to stuff 300W right into a chassis like this might make numerous noise.
That still way part the facility use. Once more, consoles don't seem to be supposed to attract 300W—the PS4 Professional and Xbox One X use about 140-160W throughout gaming periods, and that's the reason for the overall gadget. Generally, a gaming console sits in an leisure middle, which steadily way not up to perfect air flow, and you do not want a number of enthusiasts squealing away at excessive RPMs to stay it cool. That is one reason you can by no means see a real top-end PC identical in a gaming console (worth being the opposite).
The PS5's ray tracing features are the unknown issue. Take the RTX 2080 Ti because the high-end goal for ray tracing efficiency at this time. That is a $1,200 graphics card, and it will possibly do "10 Gigarays consistent with moment" if we cross with Nvidia's metric. The essential factor is that Nvidia's Turing structure supplies for a unmarried RT core consistent with SM (streaming multiprocessor, the elemental construction block of present Nvidia GPUs), plus 8 Tensor cores.
The PS5 has no genuine want for Tensor cores that center of attention totally on system studying algorithms, despite the fact that I assume perhaps it might put into effect a substitute for DLSS that might make 8K by the use of upscaling affordable. Regardless, since it is constructed on 7nm moderately than 12nm, AMD may simply double down on RT core equivalents in each and every CU (Compute Unit, AMD's construction block for GPUs), and possibly ditch Tensor cores or even cross with as much as 4 RT core possible choices consistent with CU.
Atomic Center with ray tracing, operating on an Nvidia RTX GPU.
One of the crucial greatest proceedings we now have had with ray tracing in video games to this point is that the efficiency hit is steadily very huge, steadily with no commensurate growth in symbol high quality. It is not odd to look efficiency reduce in part with ray tracing enabled, however numerous that comes right down to the quantity of ray tracing . If AMD is in a position to double and even quadruple the ray tracing efficiency in comparison to Nvidia's RTX line, it isn't unthinkable to look ray tracing enabled video games that also run at 60fps or extra, even at the "modest" we will get within the next-gen consoles.
There is additionally the standardized console receive advantages, after all. Presently, a PC sport that implements ray tracing must take into consideration all doable ray tracing answers: 1080p, 1440p, and 4k operating on the whole thing from RTX 2060 in the course of the RTX 2080 Ti. It should also run on programs that lack ray tracing give a boost to. The PS5 can be a unmarried configuration, and builders can know precisely how a lot ray tracing that can take care of.
The aspect receive advantages for PC avid gamers is that with ray tracing coming to consoles, we must see much more video games get started the usage of the generation on PC as neatly. There is nonetheless the AMD vs. Nvidia facet, however since ray tracing on Home windows makes use of the DXR API (or Vulkan-RT), that should not subject as a lot. Each AMD and Nvidia must have ray tracing GPUs to be had via subsequent yr, and that may imply extra video games the usage of ray tracing, possibly with stepped forward algorithms through the years.
The base line on PS5 graphics is that next-gen console bulletins are at all times stuffed with hype and exaggeration. The PS4 was once intended to check the efficiency of a high-end gaming PC when it introduced, at a much more reasonably priced worth. The truth is that its graphics was once kind of equivalent to a $179 R9 270 … or when you choose, a tweaked variant of the HD 7870 that got here out in 2012 with a value of $350. I do not be expecting anything else other from the PS5, which means that efficiency it will be very similar to nowadays's $350 graphics playing cards—an AMD identical of the RTX 2060, give or take. That isn't unhealthy in anyway. It might be about 5 instances sooner than the unique PS4, plus including ray tracing give a boost to, however it isn't going to offer a quantum soar in efficiency relative to a tight PC.
The PlayStation Five (or no matter it is referred to as) will function an Eight-core third Gen Ryzen CPU.
Let's transfer directly to the CPU aspect of the tale. I mentioned the GPU was once some of the essential component, however relating to generational efficiency enhancements I be expecting even larger issues from the CPU replace.
How large of a leap will that be relating to CPU efficiency? Merely put, huge. A unmarried Jaguar core, running at 2.13GHz (that is the PS4 Professional, the place the unique PS4 handiest clocked the CPU at 1.6GHz), is a quite pathetic piece of silicon in nowadays's international. The unique PS4 can do two usual directions consistent with core consistent with clock, if all is going neatly, together with two 128-bit AVX directions. The issue with Jaguar is that its buffers and out-of-order execution features are restricted, so even if it will possibly theoretically do two operations consistent with clock, it steadily falls in need of that—branches and different code scale back its exact real-world efficiency.
Ryzen against this helps as much as six common operations consistent with clock, nonetheless with the similar twin 128-bit AVX pipelines. Extra importantly, Ryzen has higher out-of-order execution give a boost to, better caches, considerably higher department prediction, and different options that imply it is much more likely to use its complete doable.
Let's put the CPU comparability into sensible phrases. In Cinebench 15, a benchmark that has a tendency to constitute integer execution features for CPUs rather neatly, an Athlon 5150 (1.6GHz Four-core Jaguar CPU) ratings 123 issues—so we will double that for the Eight-core CPU within the PS4, or 246 issues. For the PS4 Professional, which is clocked at 2.13GHz, it might rating about 325 issues.
AMD's present moment technology Ryzen 7 2700X via comparability ratings 1,768 issues. Even a quite tame Ryzen 7 1700 ratings 1,436 issues. 3rd technology Ryzen must additional make stronger efficiency, despite the fact that we do not have the entire main points simply but—clockspeed and gadget reminiscence bandwidth can be essential components.
That is probably a 7X build up relative to the PS4, however Cinebench could also be one thing of a best-case workload—video games most often have instruction streams that may punish the Jaguar structure much more, with extra common branches that don't seem to be as predictable as in Cinebench. In fact, video games additionally generally tend to have code that does not scale as neatly to Eight-core/16-thread CPUs, despite the fact that with a standardized platform it is much more likely to look video games begin to push past Four-core and 6-core designs.
Base line for the CPU: It is not overstating issues to mention that the Ryzen CPU improve can be massive. In the event you've performed video games on a PS4 or Xbox One and spotted what number of combat to care for 60fps, infrequently even 30fps, I believe the CPU is steadily the restricting issue. With the entire AI, physics, and different world-state calculations that wish to happen, irrespective of graphics high quality, Jaguar cores are merely a ways in the back of the days. A Ryzen 3000 CPU may probably be Five-10 instances sooner in real-world gaming efficiency.
AMD's third-gen Ryzen CPUs will combine the chipset onto the CPU bundle—and there may be nonetheless room for any other chip.
One of the crucial primary advantages of going with AMD because the supplier for each the CPU and GPU is that AMD has excessive efficiency answers for each spaces, and it has the potential of doing customized chips that put the whole thing right into a unmarried bundle. We now have observed this up to now with the PS4 and Xbox One, in addition to on AMD's personal APUs for Home windows PCs. However I believe with Ryzen we are prone to see AMD skip the SoC way and decide as a substitute for an "SoP"—Gadget on Bundle.
We are already seeing this with the preview pictures of the 0.33 technology Ryzen CPUs, the place the bigger 14nm chipset is in the similar bundle because the 7nm CPU. Adjust the chipset to incorporate graphics capability, strip out any extras that don't seem to be wanted for the console, and turn it to a 7nm procedure, and it isn't exhausting to consider a dual-chip (and even three-chiplet) bundle that accommodates the CPU and GPU.
Not anything has been printed referring to reminiscence (extra on that under), however with a single-chip (bundle) resolution the PS5 must be an evolution of the PS4 and PS4 Professional. The use of 8 GDDR6 chips operating at 14-16Gbps, the PS5 may probably double the reminiscence bandwidth with out a lot problem.
I agree with Sony's 8K claims about so far as I will throw this 8K TV. Symbol courtesy TechRadar.
There is additionally communicate of 8K answer give a boost to from the PS5. I believe it is secure to mention that is simply hyperbole at this level. Certain, the console it will be ready to output an 8K answer, identical to the PS3 can output 1080p and the PS4 Professional can do 4K, however we are years clear of high-end graphics playing cards having the ability to do 8K at affordable framerates, by no means thoughts a midrange GPU—even a 2080 Ti chokes at 8K. But even so, the collection of 8K TVs and 8K TV homeowners is amazingly small at this time.
I may additionally make the argument (and others have performed this up to now) that going past 4K, even on a 65-inch TV, truly doesn't suggest a lot if you end up sitting on a sofa 10-15 toes clear of the display. The human eye merely can not get to the bottom of such ins and outs. Perhaps 8K on a VR show would subject, however we nonetheless have the issue of rendering one of these answer on "mainstream" . However the PS5 may have HDMI 2.1 give a boost to, which is able to take care of as much as 8K HDR presentations.
Briefly, 8K by the use of upscaling of 4K it will be an choice. However local 7680×4320 rendering, at anything else coming near affordable (30fps or extra) framerates, in a contemporary sport with complicated graphics? I strongly doubt it.
This can be a fashionable 2TV M.2 NVMe SSD. We haven't any concept what's going to be within the PS5, as opposed to it'll it seems that be speedy.
The PS5 does not forestall with enhancements to the CPU and GPU spaces. In the end, console avid gamers gets to experience the advantages of the solid-state garage we adore, with no need to shop for further or try a garage improve. And as the gadget can be constructed round SSD garage, sport builders will take complete good thing about the quicker learn and write speeds.
Main points are skinny at the garage at this time. Sony confirmed Stressed out a demo of Spider-Guy operating on a PS4 in addition to an early PS5 building field, and as one instance it confirmed a 15 moment load pace at the PS4 in comparison to zero.Eight seconds at the dev equipment. Sony (or a minimum of, Mark Cerny) does make the declare that the SSD throughout the PS5 may have a "uncooked bandwidth upper than any SSD to be had for PCs." I guess that implies one thing very similar to an M.2 power, possibly with a PCIe Four.zero connection doubling the throughput.
That opens the doorways to a bunch of alternative questions, alternatively. We now have observed PS4 video games as huge as 100GB (Pink Useless Redemption 2), and whilst SSD costs have come down a lot within the final yr, I doubt we are going to see a 2TB SSD within the PS5—or even 1TB is calling so much. Nonetheless 1TB may occur, however one thing else that might occur is an SSD caching gadget. Stuff a 64GB and even 128GB hyper-speed M.2 power subsequent to a 2TB HDD, and caching algorithms may stay the essential information at the SSD whilst streaming much less essential stuff like video and audio off a troublesome power.
Or perhaps Sony simply kills the HDD and is going with a big SSD. It is not out of the query, taking into consideration you'll mechanically to find 1TB-class SSDs for round $100 at the moment. By the point the PS5 arrives, probably fall of 2020, costs must be even decrease. Plus economies of scale come into play—Sony will promote tens of hundreds of thousands of PS5 devices over the approaching years, giving it huge purchasing energy relating to choosing up NAND for inexpensive.
I am nonetheless now not certain how a lot of a spice up to efficiency a quick SSD can be. It is going to undoubtedly lend a hand load instances, however the 20X build up in pace proven in Spider-Guy turns out slightly a lot. On PCs, even a modest SSD is typically inside of spitting distance of the quickest NVMe SSDs relating to sport load instances, and most often not more than two times as speedy as a troublesome power. Regardless, it is nice that there may not be an excessively outdated and gradual 2.Five-inch exhausting power slowing issues down.
This can be a PS4 Narrow, Sony hasn't printed the PS5 but.
So far as the remainder of the PS5 gadget, Sony did not supply any further main points. How a lot reminiscence will the PS5 have? I believe 16GB is a secure wager, almost certainly GDDR6 shared between the CPU and GPU. However it might use HBM2 if Sony desires to be competitive on offering much more reminiscence bandwidth whilst slicing down on genuine property. 4 4GB stacks of HBM2 would use much less house than 8 2GB GDDR6 chips, whilst doubling the reminiscence bandwidth.
Sony did discuss stepped forward audio as neatly, in particular 3-D audio. Going again to the ray tracing, that is one thing that may lend a hand with immersive audio calculations as neatly, and the is already there. Toss in slightly of additional circuitry to flesh issues out and our ears might be in for a deal with. AMD has been pushing its TrueAudio capability for a number of years now, despite the fact that to this point we have not observed a lot use of it.
Making an allowance for PS5 will most likely have give a boost to for each ray tracing in addition to TrueAudio Subsequent, the possible to do much more with audio is undoubtedly there. Then again, it continues to be observed what number of sport builders will in truth employ that doable, and whether or not that may imply anything else for video games which are ported to PC.
One different essential piece of stories for the PS5 is that it'll care for backward compatibility with the PS4 / PS4 Professional. That isn't too sudden, taking into consideration it'll nonetheless use an AMD CPU and GPU, however it is welcome information regardless. And local 4K gaming at 60fps on PS4 video games would possibly in truth be viable with the PS5.
With ray tracing coming to consoles and extra GPUs, video games are much more likely to begin making higher use of the generation, so they are going to appear to be 3DMark's Port Royal moderately than simply moderately higher reflections or shadows.
There are numerous different unknowns at this degree as neatly. But even so now not having any concrete main points on clockspeeds, GPU core counts, garage capability, reminiscence, bandwidth, and quite a lot of different sides, Sony additionally is not able to speak about the cost of the console.
The PS4 introduced at $399 in past due 2013, whilst the PS3 introduced in past due 2006 at $499 with a 20GB power, or $599 with a 60GB power. The PS4 Professional saved the $399 worth when it arrived in 2016, despite the fact that with the PS4 Narrow coming in at $299.
My wager is the PS5 will most likely finally end up nearer to PS3 pricing at release. It is packing numerous new , and there may be at all times the potential of Sony to attempt slightly upper than up to now. Perhaps the PS5 may have a relatively sooner GPU than the PS4 did at release. Perhaps it'll draw 250W as a substitute of 150W. However once more, the overall for the console most likely does not even exist at this time, and if Sony helps to keep with custom and launches in 2020 throughout the autumn, it is nonetheless 18 months away.
How will that evaluate with a gaming PC in past due 2020? Via past due subsequent yr, Nvidia will have 7nm second-generation Turing graphics playing cards to be had. In truth, I would say that it'll nearly undoubtedly have such . AMD must have each Navi 10 and Navi 20 graphics playing cards out as neatly. AMD and Intel Eight-core/16-thread CPUs will turn into increasingly more commonplace, and we will see 12-core and 16-core portions pushing down into mainstream pricing.
All of the ones will price an attractive penny, and even supposing the PS5 launches at $599, I do not believe you'll have the ability to beat its efficiency with a PC with out spending $1,000 or extra. In fact, a PC can do much more than taking part in video games, and a $750 finances gaming construct would possibly now not fall that a ways in the back of the next-gen consoles.
The most important information for PC avid gamers is just that a better technology consoles are coming, and Sony a minimum of can be dressed in ray traced garments. You do not wish to leap at the Nvidia RTX bandwagon simply but, however as soon as ray tracing arrives on consoles, we think it to turn into way more commonplace on PC as neatly.
A quick PC will nonetheless outperform the next-gen consoles, in order standard, our hope is that the brand new consoles carry the bar throughout multi-platform video games, permitting those that have high-end PC to take higher good thing about it.