Atlanta has been a traveling turnstile for me for years. I've joked with friends that I have been over, under, around, and through more times than I can count, while never actually staying to visit. But a recent business trip led me to reconsider.
Arriving a couple of days earlier than necessary, I threw down the challenge for Atlanta, Georgia to give me her best. She stepped up to the plate, and here are some of my choices.
First, besides Margaret Mitchell–refer to reneejohnsonwrites for further information on her–the person I always think of when Atlanta is mentioned is none other than Ted Turner.
CNN, TBS, TCM, Atlanta Braves Baseball, and Ted's Montana Grill–all based in Atlanta! So, naturally, I gravitated to Ted's Montana Grill for a bit of bison, beverage, and Western atmosphere served with southern hospitality.
Never had bison? No worries. The wait staff is well educated on the particulars with this ranch raised (on Ted Turner's personal ranch, of course!) option. They'll also recommend a nice beverage. After looking over the options, and having previously tasted buffalo burgers and steaks while traveling through the American West, I decided to try something I'd never had before: Braised Bison Short Ribs.
The barbecue sauce is rich, reminding me more of a steak sauce. It is served with garlic mashed potatoes and carrots.
I was concerned it might be a little tough, but needn't have worried. It was tender and filling.
Naturally I wanted a beverage to complement the meal. Again, my waiter was wonderful, suggesting the Buffalo 41, though it seemed as if it might be too sweet for me.
I had to hand it to him, he was right! (The pickles are good, too!) Great dining experience, and even received a calendar on the way out.
Buffalo 41: Bourbon, Grand Marnier, and lemonade with wild berries–mostly blackberries.
It's a homerun for Ted Turner and Ted's Montana Grill!
You'll walk a lot in Atlanta, as the city is spread out, rising from ashes to follow the train's path. As you're walking you will run into inviting places to walk, such as Oakland Cemetery.
Margaret Mitchell is buried here. So is Bobby Jones. There's a visitor's center in a lovely Spanish-style house which is close to where General Hood watched Atlanta burn during the Civil War.
More on Historic Oakland Cemetery at reneejohnsonwrites.com.
After walking several miles, working up an appetite, I asked the ladies in the visitor's center where I should have lunch. They named a couple of different places, but I don't think I heard anything after: Six Feet Under. I mean, come on, it's right across from the cemetery.
After all that braised bison the day before, I decided a vegetarian meal was in the cards. Where else but in the south would the chef create Fried Green Tomato Sliders?
Fried green tomatoes on honey wheat with pimento cheese, red tomato, red onion and microgreens.
This is about as southern as it gets. Crispy, creamy, cheesy, tangy, with a slight bite.
I also wanted to try something authentically southern–you know–old school. A modest family restaurant, The BBQ Kitchen at 1437 Virginia Avenue, was nearby. This is for those times when you want food like your mama made, or if you're not from the south, like you wish your mama made.
Be warned though. Serving sizes are huge!
I ordered the smoked brisket, collards, fried okra, potatoes and gravy and cornbread muffins. I'm not ashamed to say I ate most of it. It was delicious. And I passed up the peach cobbler.
Come on, give me kudos for skipping dessert anyway.
Spinning to revolve for a 360 degree view of Atlanta, it rises 72 stories above the street.
Once again, I skipped dessert, hopping the MARTA–Atlanta's Metro–to arrive in Buckhead for a little shopping. Lenox Mall is a rather high end shopping opportunity. If you've seen the brand in a glossy magazine ad, you're likely to find an entire store dedicated to it right here.
Oh, and stop in at Sprinkles for a cupcake while you're charging your phone in one of the conveniently located charging stations with comfortable seating.
Thanks Atlanta. It was a delicious journey!
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Wow! Sounds like quite an experience. We've been "through and around" Atlanta, too, but never actually spent time there.
That's how it is sometimes. But if you get a chance to stay for a few days, it is a great city! Nice to hear from you Dianna!
I'm scheduled to do that "through Atlanta" thing in the fall. The Atlanta airport has survived a couple of flight changes for a rock-bottom price to Paris from Oakland, CA. My sister says I'll hate my travel experience, but what the heck — an adventure.
Atlanta's airport is huge, but I didn't hate my experience there at all. It is rather convenient, actually. Will you have a layover, is it all airport waiting time?
Thanks for the great tour, Renee. It looks like you had a fabulous time and some good food.
Sure did, Jill! Makes me hungry just looking at the pics!
I've been to Atlanta once for a publishing training seminar. I didn't get to see much other than the publishing house. I wish I had this list of go to places when I was there. It does make me want to go back with it in hand.
I tried to hit a variety of places, as you can tell. But in the south, it's hard to get bad food. We know how to cook!!
Wow you certainly brought Atlanta alive with your description and so many good tastes too.
Sounds as if you had a marvelous time. It's fun to share in your research adventures.
I pre-ordered "Behind the Mask", I can hardly wait til it's arrives on my KindleFire Friday.
Oh, thank you so much. I sure hope your enjoy it. If you like the piece on Atlanta's dining, I'm thinking you will enjoy a few scenes in Behind The Mask. I think bringing the tastes of a region into whatever I'm writing is essential.
I'm the same way … between driving around and through plus transferring at the airport, I've never experienced the city. Two things for sure … you eat well and I would follow your suggestions!
Thanks Frank. I'm a southern gal so I know how to eat!
Given your taste, your recommendations resonate with me.
Thanks Frank. I think this post has made us all hungry.
I'll join you for some BBQ.


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This is an Atlantic District initiated Lenten program designed for all congregations to use during Lent, 2019 (concluding Easter Sunday).
This Lenten program is composed of three parts. Pastors may select any or all parts. The three parts are the sermon based upon the lectionary assigned Gospel, a daily devotional reading (composed by 20 pastors and commissioned ministers of our District), and a connected six session Bible study.
Each Sunday's message in Lent will set forth the theme for the coming week, a certain dynamic about the mercy of Jesus. Through the Word and Sacrament, EACH SUNDAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE MERCY OF JESUS.
Our daily devotional plan is to give the participant the opportunity to READ of the mercy of Jesus and to "see" it through His Word, as His living Word shows Jesus in action. Readers are encouraged to daily RECEIVE the mercy of Jesus, and to daily RESPOND TO OTHERS who need His mercy.


I'm wanting to revisit some of my builds from back in the day and some of them may cause lag with some of minecrafts more recent updates. I am mainly wondering if Lava flowing through my base in large quantities, or a single-line of BuildCraft Pipes are still laggy. I don't know the functionalities/optimizations MojangCroSoft might've made regarding these.
I want to ensure my build doesn't negatively impact anyone else.
while we appreciate you being considerate about it, I don't see anything particularly problematic with what you described. Lava should be fine, especially when static. BuildCraft pipes should have had a performance upgrade, so if those are used reasonably they should behave too. If you want to be 100% sure, you can look into whether Thermal Dynamics serves as a worthy replacement - should that not break the retro of your base.
To my knowledge everything comes down to scale. One of the few things that brought the Ultimate server to its knees was a massive quarry hitting a water pool, causing a gradually increasing water flow over the entire area. Things like that just happen sometimes and it's no problem. But this should be in a whole other order of magnitude than a bunch of decorative liquid in your home base.
I'd say, go for it, the number one cause for laggy builds is and will always be badly designed mob farms.


Punk's not dead according to band Idles, hailing from Bristol, England, who've proven it with the release of their sophomore album Joy as an Act of Resistance.
Idles smashed onto the scene with their fittingly-named 2017 debut Brutalism, a rage-filled tirade against the state of politics in their home country and various social issues. The album featured the savage guitar riffs of traditional punk rock, with eclectic influences from the more groovy, industrial sounds of post-punk.
On Joy as an Act of Resistance, the band has evolved and now bring more blatantly political yet still meaningful lyrics into the fold. The band shreds any notion of a "sophomore slump," providing high octane punk rock thrills with ever relevant critiques of toxic masculinity, Brexit, and the media, all while still sending a message of hope and unity through singer Joe Talbot's sarcasm-induced delivery.
The track "Samaritans" is another scathing critique of toxic masculinity, using phrases traditionally being associated with "manning up," and criticizing the "mask of masculinity" many boys are often told to wear when growing up, and the effects of that mask on boys' overall character.
Instrumentally, the band consistently provides blistering punk rock thrills and frills, with visceral production values. However, some of the tracks do sound somewhat similar. They are still high-quality, well put together tracks, but towards the back end, the album can get repetitive.
The album truly succeeds lyrically. Whether it be biting sarcasm, unadulterated rage, or even the hauntingly dark standout track "June," about Talbot's stillborn child. Idles are candid in their beliefs, and unabashedly critique what they see fit.
Standout tracks: Danny Nedelko, Television, & Great.
I give this album a 9/10.


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Time of Death: N/A
By Yuki Bailey
A few months ago, while I was helping my mother organize a suitcase full of various documents, I came across a piece of paper that I had never seen before: my father's death certificate.
Fifteen years ago, my father suddenly fell ill. After a trip to the hospital, the initial diagnosis was bronchitis. But following three days of unrelenting malaise, my father returned to the hospital and was immediately admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. Two weeks later, he was dead.
The results of his autopsy: inconclusive. A twelve-year-old overzealously intent on regaining normalcy in her life, I did not shed a single tear at his funeral. I refused to look at photographs of him, and I never brought him up in conversation. I had effectively erased my father from my life.
I would never see him again, so why bother reminiscing?
Fifteen years later, sitting on the floor of my high school bedroom, I held his death certificate in my hands. This otherwise nondescript piece of paper was the official testament to the fact that I would never see my father again.
Now twenty-seven years old, I finally understand what that loss entails: the one man I could depend on to love me unconditionally for as long as he was alive had taken his last breath over a decade ago.
To be more precise, he took his last breath at 9:40 am on May 9, 2003. I had actually never known his time of death until it was staring back at me in bold, hand-printed ink: 0940.
Seeing the official time elucidates the termination of his life, and that notion of finality brings tears to my eyes. The pain is agonizing. But while I cry more now than I ever did right after he died, the memories no longer scare me. I no longer vehemently repudiate grief, but rather, I embrace it.
I don't feel his presence. I don't have some sort of sixth sense. But I have learned to find a quantum of solace by reminiscing. Through my memories of my father, I continue to set back the time.
Time of death is simply a string of numbers. Your relationships with people do not truly die until you let them, and I won't be letting go of my memories of my father anytime soon. In fact, I don't think I ever did.
Yuki Bailey
Stanford, California
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I have never been a big fan or, in truth, much of a fan, of e-mail. I prefer to pick up the telephone and have a real, live actual conversation. Why? To get to know the person, or to get to know her better. Simply put, it is "building rapport"!
The authors note that the best way to build rapport is to have a face to face meeting. There is no substitute. Indeed, without such inter personal contact, the subtle cues that are used by us to build rapport cannot be gleaned. One cannot pick up a furrowed brow or a grimace in an e-mail. It is hard to build up trust with someone you have never met by phone or in person, but only via e-mail.
So, there is no substitute for the real thing: getting to know a person and letting that person learn about you whether in person or by telephone not only builds rapport but paves the way to a good working relationship and to reaching an agreement. To paraphrase one of AT & T's very old commercials, the best business relationships are, indeed, personal ones!


You might probably think that focusing your effort on a particular niche, say for example, beauty products niche, or experience for the customers is only a disadvantage. You might think that in order to profit more, you need to have more customers to buy your products. However, those times wherein the businesses will cater to the needs of the customers have long gone. Now, niches have been famous for being one of the most profitable markets. But for a beginner like you, you might not have the particular expertise when it comes to defining the niche market. With this being said, it is therefore, important for you to hire a niche advertising agency that has the ability and quality to give you the best response from their customers among other competitors.
In selecting a niche advertising agency, you need to look at the must have qualities that they should possess. They must have creativity and innovativeness, an eye for opportunity, exemplary services and results that you can count on.
Creativity and Innovativeness– One of the must have qualities that must be possessed by a niche advertising agency is the ability to create entirely new ideas and display innovativeness in executing the plan of action. This is a very important aspect since this will help display the message to the target market or the niche that you want to pursue.
An Eye for Opportunity– Creativity and innovativeness are important when you are creating an entirely new idea or concept. Having an eye for opportunity, on the other hand, is something that must be possessed by the creative team to look for an opportunity amidst the threats and weaknesses of the brand. This means that they must have the ability to turn a problem into an opportunity.
Exemplary Services– The niche advertising agency must also have exemplary services for the customers' satisfaction. This does not only mean completing the assigned project on time or giving out the best advertising campaign for a specific niche, but this also means having professional and approachable creative team to assist you whenever there are concerns available.
Results– Lastly, the agency must also offer the results that you desire. This means that if you hire that specific agency, you won't have a single regret investing your time and money for the niche advertising campaign that you want. No matter how creative the concept is, there should always be measurable results afterwards. For instance, if you want to advertise a niche through a website, the results will be measured by looking at the audience of the website and their willingness and ability to buy the products.
If you want a successful niche advertising campaign, you can look for an agency that will be responsible for this. However, you must also choose the right ad agency for you. The agency must possess creativity and innovativeness in making a concept, an eye for opportunity, exemplary services not only in project management but also in terms of employee professionalism and, lastly, measurable results.
Creating your niche in the business industry will gives you benefits in so many ways. First, having the focus on a certain marketing of a product that will give you a main goal and compact procedures making everything easier for you, then, the special space you will provide in the market having a unique and your very own advertising style will make you distinguishable from any other business. This will be made possible if you are knowledgeable on how to create your own advertising niche and the following steps will teach you how.
In creating an advertising niche, you will first be required to understand fully yourself, think about the reasons why you would like to do such thing? What will be the effect of that and how you will be able to benefit from it? After you have fully set goals and visions within yourself, you may now proceed to understand fully your product, you will also need to set goals with your product itself. As much as possible, summarize every visions that you have so that you will be able to develop focus.
Of course, in regards to your product, you must be able to know its potentials, who will be your target market, and what would be the possible development and innovations you may apply when creating a special niche in the market.
Uniqueness is the key in creating an advertising niche. As much as possible, create an advertising company that will give so many new things when it comes to advertising. People may get bored with the usual effects, style, scripts and may other common factors when it comes to advertising. Thus, create a chance for your own advertising niche with a lot of new surprises.
Another thing for you to consider is to find your market strength, that way, you will be able to conduct your business operations with all confidence. You could focus on all your materials needed and will be able to know who the experts are in that field so that you will never waste time in hiring other unnecessary staff for your company.
Of course, as what was mentioned awhile ago, that identifying your own target market will able to help you a lot when it comes to identifying your service matching it with the right market for you to operate. Your very own advertising niche with a specified technique which will give you the edge on to what you think would be that best way to handle your business without being dependent on any other techniques that people may find it usual and boring.
Creating your own advertising niche will require you to be patient enough even if the advertising industry is now booming, yet there are so many people just like you who have the interest of getting a business engaged with the advertising. These are the tips for you in making your dream advertising niche a sure success.
The five steps involve identifying the market, plan of action, trial simulation, actual implementation and assessment of the results.
Identify your Market– The first step that you should do in doing niche marketing is to first identify who will be your target audience. Niche marketing focuses on a niche which means a subset of the market. This means that you can only target one or a few segments. This step will also be crucial to the next step which will involve the plan of action. Therefore, you need to be keen in observing the market nowadays especially since there are a lot of potential markets among the young generation.
Plan of Action– After identifying the market that you will be concentrating upon, you need to plan for the set of activities that you will do to make your niche marketing successful. Think of how you can reach your target audience. Oftentimes, in order to do this properly, business people would use Gantt chart to plot the detailed activities that they will be doing to make the project successful.
Trial Simulation– Before implementing the plan of action to the target audience, you might want to try a trial simulation wherein you may conduct a survey from a selected audience if the customers would surely accept your advertisement campaign. This is an example of a sampling technique where a group of individuals are going to represent the whole market that you are planning to pursue. This will help you save money and effort should your niche marketing fail to capture the market's attention.
Actual Implementation– After the trial simulation, you can now do the actual implementation of your plan of action. This will be the most critical step in niche marketing. But this will also be the easiest, given that you have carefully planned the course of action that you are going to take. In this step, you will be able to reach the audience.
Assessment– The last step in niche marketing involves the assessment of the results upon the implementation of your niche marketing strategy. The result of your assessment will determine if you have reached your goals and objectives. Aside from this, this step will also help you understand how you can possibly improve your advertising tactics to be able to reach more target audience.
Therefore, if you want to do niche advertising, you have to follow these 5 simple steps. First, you have to identify your market and know what they want and then you have to plan your course of action so that the project will be successful. After that, you have to conduct a trial simulation in which you will try a sampling survey to test if your plan will work and then you can proceed to the actual implementation. Lastly, you need to conduct an assessment from the target audience to know whether or not your goals and objectives have been met.
Niche advertising or niche marketing in general can give a company many advantages. It can be in the form of monetary value or even an advantage over other companies within your specific industries. So what are these benefits?
The five benefits of niche marketing are product specialization, brand familiarity, sales growth, reducing competition and customer retention.
Product Specialization– If you make use of a niche market as part of your marketing strategy, then product specialization can be expected. Since there is a narrow market in which you are serving you can improve and continually modify your existing products for your existing customers. Product specialization can also help you build up product awareness among the customers. Product specialization also helps you save capital goods and supplies. So if you do niche marketing, surely you will also see the benefits that it could bring.
Brand Familiarity– A niche market is much closer to the customers or the target market. By using Famous Frames storyboards you can make it easy for the customers to understand the characteristics of the product. They will be able to understand the elements of a product which includes the core product, the actual product and the augmented product. Indeed, niche marketing can enhance brand familiarity among the customers. It's not only beneficial to the customers but also to the company as well.
Sales Growth– Since niche marketing focuses on a few segment of the market, surely reaching out to them would be an easy job. This means that by using segmented advertising and other promotional mix tools, sales growth can be achieved.
Lessen Competition– If you are planning to target all the market or mass marketing, what do you think will happen? On the bright side, you can definitely gain more sales since more people will buy the product, but have you given a thought to the competition around you? If you go to mass marketing, tendency is that you will experience a tight competition where everyone dares not lose. So, what will happen to your sales and profit? Eventually, they will decline and lead to your demise. On one hand, if you opt to go for finding a storyboard artist to help, you will definitely narrow down or lessen the competition. Since you will only target a portion of the market, then you will not have to compete with big companies.
Customer Retention– With niche marketing, there is a reason to believe that customer retention will be possible. With the techniques done in order to successfully implement niche-marketing strategies, customers will be able to get a grasp of the message of that advertising campaign.
With the help of niche marketing, you will surely be able to enjoy these five benefits. You will have product specialization helpful in keeping costs to a minimum. Also, the customers will be very familiar with your brand and eventually lead to sales growth. Lastly, this type of strategy will lessen the competition compared to a mass marketing strategy and be able to retain more customers in the long run.


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CRIMES & PUNISHMENTS: THIS IS SHERLOCK HOLMES
Sherlock reveals some of his numerous talents on video!
The character of Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle has been portrayed in many different ways in the past. Crimes & Punishments brings this iconic and peculiar figure to life, in a stunning and faithful representation: his eccentric personality, his manners and, above all, the many remarkable gifts for which he is famous.
This video follows Sherlock in a murder case involving a sailor, a whale harpoon and various suspects. Please note that while this video may hint at one of the possible conclusions, it is but one of many potential outcomes. Depending on how YOUR investigation progresses, you will be able to accuse different guilty parties from among your list of suspects... and determine their fate: will you absolve them of their crime, or will you impartially enforce justice?
In this new Crimes & Punishments video, we can admire the great work Frogwares studios has carried out on Sherlock Holmes and the cast of characters who feature in the six thrilling investigations in the game. Motion captured animations, meticulously detailed faces, lip-sync, the interplay between actor and cinematic cameras bring all the dialog, interrogation and interaction to life.
Besides his eccentricity, Sherlock showcases in this video his extraordinary detective talents which you will employ and exploit to solve each case: his ability to connect seemingly unrelated clues to deduce facts, his talent for guessing a person's life simply by looking at them, his skill to imagine and reconstruct a past event by observing the key details of a crime scene.... Last but not least, we discover the new in-game "deduction board", which is none other than the very brain of Sherlock Holmes! Here, you will connect all the clues and information you have gathered and piece them together to establish facts, determine suspects and eventually find out who the guilty parties might be.
Crimes & Punishments will be released on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®3, Xbox 360® and PC in Q2 2014.
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Monetization in Web3
Monetization has always been a top priority for Creators.
After they discovered from 00' to 10's they could monetize their audience through Web2 platforms and that it was possible to earn a living from their passion, Creators then realized from 10' to 20 they could actually BE the brand, BE the product, and could do for them what they were doing for others.
Indeed, the emergence of new technologies cumulated to a paradigm shift in how GenZs see the Work has led us to a new era for creators.
Crypto, and tokens specifically, seem to be the path to help these creators achieve financial freedom and live from their passion, creating content online. Even major Creator-focused Web2 companies already understood. Tokens can revolutionize how creators make money online. Patreon is already looking into crypto tokens as another way for creators to monetize communities.
So how and why tokens, through Ownership and direct value creation, will replace the old ads/brand sponsorship monetization framework? And how will creators leverage this technology and monetize their audience compared to the traditional way? That's what we're going to find out in this essay. Let's get into it. 🔥
1- The current Monetization model in Web2
The Creator Economy results from a complete paradigm shift in the way more people, and GenZs specifically, are seeing the Work. It's indeed more and more common to post on the internet, share photos, join forums, curate articles and make money out of it. The internet levels the playing field, and anyone can use their hustle and savvy to amass a following and monetize that following.
However, there are still two major problems for creators today: Ownership and Monetization.
Creators don't have Ownership because of the ads-driven business model most Web2 social platforms, where creators build their audience, are using. Indeed, in Web2, the process of monetization for platform usually goes something like this:
Company launches an app
It onboards as many users as possible
Then it monetizes its user base
But this outdated business model forces current social networks to keep a walled garden around their content. Indeed, opening their data would mean killing their business model. Their main way to monetize is to sell those data to for-profit companies to target specific audiences. This business model gives users and creators no choice but to continue using these apps as they have already created an audience on these platforms. On top of that, this business model creates a situation where creators who actually produce the content are underpaid, under-monetized, and don't fully capture the value they are making.
With this broken ads-driven Business Model, creators don't have much choice but to rent the audience they don't really own to brands keen to pay a lot of money to access it. As you can imagine, this model is unsustainable for creators, and we need to give them back Ownership over their content and ways to monetize it more efficiently.
2 - The first era of monetization in Web3.
There's a famous essay written by Kevin Kelly called "1,000 True Fans," predicting that the internet would allow more people to make a living off their creations. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only needed to engage a modest base of "true fans"—those who will "buy anything you produce"—to the tune of $100 per fan per year (for a total annual income of $100,000). Li Jin later argued creators would eventually need only 100 true fans to make a living off their passion.
I believe Li Jin is right. New crypto technologies allow creators to monetize their content more efficiently. In recent months, and with creators becoming increasingly aware of Web3's capabilities, we saw more of them experimenting with new monetization models and earning life-changing money.
While there are many ways for creators to leverage the crypto technology , it seems there are two main ways for them to monetize more efficiently their content:
Creating a Token that gives access to premium content - Fans (or community members) can buy a token and get access to content in advance, access token-gated content such as private channels in a Discord or the "Close Friends" on Instagram. The Token allows to limit access at scale and provide recognition and status for the biggest fans within the community.
Allowing fans to invest in the Creator through a Token - With the Creator becoming more famous, more people want to buy the Token to get access to exclusive content, and the token increases in value. Fans can redeem coins, treating them as an investment, and creators can eventually use the liquidity to buy new materials, create better quality content and augment its distribution. In this case, the Token serves as a way to crowdfund the creator.
Mainstream creators are today mostly using Non-fungible Tokens (aka NFTs) to monetize their content as they are allowing many new use-cases (explained just above). NFTs also come with status, scarcity, and belonging within the community.
With these new tokens (NFTs) that creators can now create easily, comes the concept of Ownership for fans and creators. As Jesse Walden says in his essay The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software: "Rather than a platform's inner circle of founders and investors taking home the value, users can earn the majority of value generated from their collective contributions." It allows creators to monetize their content while involving their community and aligning incentives. Fans can purchase tokens which allow creators to don't rely exclusively on the revenue generated by Web2 platforms (Youtube ads for example), and creators, through the token, give ownership to fans by sharing with them the upsides of their content. That's the magic of Ownership. When creators give real Ownership to their community, community members start to take care of it, and engagement often follows. Aligning incentives is everything.
By creating a token and leveraging Web3 tools, creators can more easily foster a sustainable community (less spam), ensures members have skin in the game (not only passive members or commenters), and incentivizes community members to make the overall community desirable to join over the long-term (the more desirable the community, the more value the Token will gain).
Putting these new technologies in the hands of creators is a great step forward over Ownership. Indeed, while in Web2, creators needed engagement to attract ad revenue, in Web3, monetization and engagement happen at the same time. Users engage in Web3 with their capital by buying an NFT for example. Since day one, it allows creators to get revenue, allowing them to monetize their content more easily even without a large audience and to bring their audience out of Web2 platforms.
By purchasing the Creator's Token, fans further commit to their favorite creators and build a positive feedback loop that nurtures healthy fan communities built around a shared passion. In the end, tokens provide a way for super fans to show their loyalty and provide initial liquidity for creators.
While mainstream creators minting NFTs for their community is insanely exciting, I feel like creators can go even further and completely reinvent how they see monetization. Instead of adapting old models to fit the Web3 space, creators could try completely new monetization models that Web3 allows.
By leveraging fungible tokens (aka Social tokens or Community tokens) and reinventing what it means to be a Creator, I think there is a possible future where anyone could live from their passion, owning 100% of their content and making what they love.
3 - The second era of monetization in Web3.
While, until now, the term "Creator" (or before that "influencers") was mostly tied to people creating content online, it seems like Web3 allows a whole new class of Creators to emerge. These new creators are people who share their vision through content online rather than creating content as an end goal. A Web3 creator's definition could be:
"Anyone pushing ideas, and a vision, through content on the internet and leveraging the new Web3 tools at their disposal."
This broader definition includes more people under the term "creator" and reflects more on these individuals' actions. These "Creators 2.0" might be the one that benefits the most from the Web3 revolution. A great example of a Creator 2.0 is Jeff Kauffman Jr. Jeff, which might not be considered as a creator in a traditional sense, has created a thriving community around advertising and marketing in Web3. He's pushing his ideas and vision through essays and podcasts, gathering a strong community keen to help him achieve his high ambition goals. Creating content is not its end goal. Its end goal is to share its vision and gather a community around it.
These Creators 2.0 are not trying to move their already existing audience into Web3 to monetize it better. They are creating new communities using Web3 tools and leveraging their previous following. And there's a huge difference between an audience and a community.
In 2021, we've already seen many thriving communities led by Creators 2.0. For example, I can think of Carlos Gomes that has created Forefront, a community that recently raised $2.1M to Build the "Port of Entry" to Web3 Social Clubs & Digital Cities. Another great example is Friends With Benefits, led by the Creator Trevor McFedries, which recently finalized its $10M fundraise at a $100M valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz.
These creators are not monetizing their audience in a Web2 way. They are building tokenized communities to create projects that bring real value and then monetize this project. To do so, they are leveraging Web3 tools such as Coinvise, a platform that allow them to create and manage their Tokens by providing features such as Airdrops, Quests or Vesting Schedule.
Today, to build a startup, someone needs money in order to hire people and support themselves. They usually raise this money from VC firms and give away a percentage of the company. This investment introduces misaligned incentives, and even if the company succeeds, it will take a long time for anyone involved to realize any real return on investment.
A contrario, with Social tokens, these Creators 2.0 can build solid projects and incentivize their audience to participate in investing money or time in it from day one, avoiding raising money from investors. With Social Tokens as equities, fans will put in some work and get rewarded with Tokens, letting them redeem perks in the project's virtual economy or by selling them for USD later if the project succeeds.
Even if the project needs to raise proper money, it can do it through the community. Stakeholders can then use their tokens to vote on future strategic decisions, and the people who helped build the project can sell some of their holdings to make money after the tokens have been released. People who believe in the project can buy and hold Ownership, and people who think the project is headed in the wrong direction can signal this by selling their stakes. Anyway, purchasers have complete transparency over what is happening as everything is on-chain.
In Web3, community members own a part of the Creator's content and success through tokens. As they benefit directly from the growth of the Creator, they are incentivized to provide help.
Social Tokens, in the end, allow to align interests, get workforce from day one, facilitate collaboration with community members, and monetize more efficiently.
4 - The problems we still have to overcome.
But no solution is perfect, and there are still a lot of improvements that can be made to improve monetization in Web3 through Tokens.
When monetizing through tokens, creators have to make their content appealing to fans, not brands. They have to produce much better quality content to delight the fans, as they are the ones spending the money. Monetizing via attention, which is what creators in Web2 are doing, means producing a lot of lower-quality content, prioritizing quantity over quality (more videos > more ads> more revenues). On the other end, monetizing from super fans is a much higher barrier to entry to starting earning as creators always have to be innovative and create better quality content. Marketing for money, not attention, completely changes how creators are producing content.
The second problem is the Discoverability Dilemma. Do creators want to be discovered by a larger audience and let their content for free, or do they prefer to token-gate their content, driving revenue but losing visibility? Web2 platforms, which have a large user-base and control discoverability, will always be the place for casual creators (the mass majority) who are simply looking to monetize the attention they generate. To make the tokens a long-term viable way to monetize content, we have to introduce a new way to drive attention for creators without relying on centralized platforms. Building decentralized Social Networks might be a solution to explore. Incentivizing the biggest fans to share the content by rewarding them with Token could be another way to tackle the discoverability dilemma, while it doesn't have the scale of millions of users' platforms for now.
Lastly, how do Creators get liquidity from their Tokens? Currently, there is nothing in place for them to "take salary" without selling their coin, which seems not aligned with long-term community interests. Likewise for contributors, which have to trash the coin to get their salary when contributing to the community, lose voting power in the process. To improve monetization through tokens, we need to implement new tools or mechanisms to help the creators and community members' get paid' without selling their coins. One potential solution could be to create two tokens, one for paying salaries and rewarding community members, the other for governance power and perks within the community.
Through this essay, we saw that Web3 could help Creators 1.0 and Creators 2.0 monetize their content more efficiently. While there is no perfect solution yet, more and more creators are leveraging crypto mechanisms and are building thriving communities. To allow the next million creators to live from their passion, we'll have to think together about creating efficient monetization models. Building Web3 tools seem to be the more promising path for now.
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At the most basic level, you need to get all documents in a standard electronic format. Many organizations are still using binders to keep paper copies of policies and procedures and don't always have an electronic version to work with when they need to make changes.
Start out by identifying electronic copies of all policies and having them typed up from the paper copies when needed. Next determine what word processor your organization wants to use and ensure all policies are in that format. I would recommend Microsoft Word since most people are familiar with the product and it allows editing when needed.
Other things to consider are templates for your policies and procedures and naming conventions. Once you have put together the standards be sure to document and share this information with those responsible for writing and approving. This will ensure that everyone is on the same page and understands the expectations for publishing policies and procedures.
Policies and procedures need to be made readily accessible to the staff. There are many considerations here but the first should be where will the documents reside? Traditionally this has been in binders or on shared network drives. My experience is that the best location for your policies and procedures is your intranet or other web based document management system. A good intranet will also provide searchability and keyword tagging making it even easier for staff locate the policies and procedures they need.
You will want to put thought into how the documents are organized and published. Creating folders for organization will make it easier for staff to browse and locate the documents they need. Always look at things from the staff perspective when deciding which folder the document should reside in.
If you decide a document needs to be in more than one folder, place a single copy in one location and link to the existing page or document directly. Uploading multiple versions of the same document in different places will lead to big problems when that document gets updated as it is impossible to keep track of all the different locations. Having only instance of each document will make sure your staff is accessing and using the correct version at all times.
Identifying document ownership is critical to ensuring policies and procedures and kept up to date. Each document should have an author and approver as well as a moderator with oversight to the policies and procedures review and update process.
Be sure your authors are following the standards put in place for review by assigning review dates to policies. Make sure your moderators have a process for ensuring the authors are keeping documents up to date. This could be as basic as a spreadsheet of documents and dates or a fully automated policies and procedures management system.
Lastly, have a plan in place for turnover as document ownership can change frequently as staff come and go or move around within the organization.
Following these best practices can help you to achieve success in managing your policies and procedures. If you would like to learn more, click here to see our library of recorded webinars covering this and other important topics.


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DISCOVERY+ ANNOUNCES APRIL PROGRAMMING SLATE
Highlights Include New Series Serving the Hamptons and High Design with Kim Myles, and New True Crime Title, Unraveled: Once a Killer
New York, NY – March 23, 2022 – discovery+, the definitive non-fiction, real life subscription streaming service from Discovery, Inc., today announced new and original programming that will be available in April. On Serving the Hamptons, viewers go inside exclusive Southampton restaurant 75 Main to follow the lives of its employees, both in the restaurant and at home in their shared house. High Design with Kim Myles highlights struggling business owners in the cannabis industry as the famed interior designer and cannabis connoisseur helps transform their retail spaces. New True Crime title, Unraveled: Once a Killer, also premieres in April. Additional premieres will be available across categories including Automobile, Lifestyle, Documentaries and Auto.
Titles premiering in April include:
Serving the Hamptons – Thursday, April 7
Serving the Hamptons takes viewers into one of the most exclusive enclaves in the world, while showcasing all the juicy drama in the lives of the young, sexy restaurant staff at Southampton's "it" destination for dining, 75 Main, as they hook up, argue, and work together to make sure the clients come back for more.
All On The Table – Wednesday, April 20
Hopeful restaurateurs deal with the stress and pressure of preparing a preview dinner for potential investors, presenting both the food and the total restaurant experience in hopes of securing funding for their dream venture
The Repair Shop (season 5) – Saturday, April 9
Nestled deep in the British countryside lies a workshop where broken, battered and beloved artifacts, antiques and curios are brought back to life. An ensemble of skilled and passionate craftspeople put the beauty back into these precious objects.
High Design with Kim Myles – Wednesday, April 13
Design will get a whole new spin in High Design, starring HGTV alum, interior designer and self-proclaimed cannabis connoisseur Kim Myles. The series will follow Kim, who spent two years working in the cannabis industry, as she transforms marijuana dispensaries from California to Maine that are in need of major makeovers. During the series, she will upgrade lackluster interiors into top-of-the-line retail spaces that feel welcoming to clients. Kim also will explore cannabis in all its shapes and sizes as she takes field trips to learn how to make cannabis soaps, lotions, sodas, food items and much more.
Curb Your Carbon – Thursday, April 21
Humor, crazy stunts and stunning animations: Curb Your Carbon reveals the simple and effective ways we can all help fight climate change in an easy-to-understand way. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds.
Dear Mr. Brody – Thursday, April 28
The stranger-than-fiction true story of Michael Brody Jr, a 21-year-old hippie-millionaire who decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need and ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. Countless struggling Americans overwhelmed Brody with personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer, making him an instant celebrity in the process.
Man Without a Heart – Friday, April 29
A gripping and disturbing documentary thriller, Man Without a Heart immerses viewers in one of the most enigmatic unsolved cases of the last decade, taking them on a journey through Sweden, Spain and England to explore the death of a Spanish man disguised as an impossible suicide. It's the story of a family willing to fight for the truth no matter its consequences and a puzzle of characters who unravel a mysterious story full of surprises.
Unraveled: Once a Killer – Friday, April 22
In the next installment of the Unraveled anthology, Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen investigate the most elusive criminal to ever strike – the "one and done killer." These mysterious offenders commit a brutal murder without sufficient evidence, never kill again, and disappear back into society for decades, leaving detectives and criminal profilers with an unsolvable case. With a companion podcast releasing in advance of the two-hour special, Unraveled exposes the limitations of criminal profiling and reveals a new investigative technique that could change the way investigators interpret cold cases.
Radford Builds – Monday, April 25
Following the premiere of Radford Returns on discovery+, Radford Builds takes viewers on an exclusive deep dive further into this world, delving into the technical and emotional demands of building a supercar. Experience intimate conversations with classic Lotus team members Jenson Button and Clive Chapman, and ride along Jenson's test drives of Lotus cars both old and new. Chip Foose, an original designer of the Lotus Type 62, gives viewers a master class of the car building craft showcasing the detailed work of creating a car from foam and clay with master mechanic Ant Anstead.
Handcrafted Hotels – Friday, April 15
This series follows hoteliers in cities and towns across the country that uniquely capture the nostalgia, charm and character of their new hometowns. In this season, hotelier Ben Weprin and his team of artists, craftspeople and designers with Graduate Hotels create custom stays that celebrate the university spirit and provide guests with a one-of-a-kind, nostalgic experience.
Little Big World – Friday, April 22
Little Big World places viewers within the scenario of a Little Big World in your own backyard. The immersion will move through plants and flowers in the garden, over counter tops and in-between household products and through pipes and various small openings to create this "larger than life" world.
For more information on discovery+, visit discoveryplus.com. You can follow discovery+ on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
discovery+ is the definitive non-fiction, real life subscription streaming service. discovery+ features a landmark partnership with Verizon that gives their customers with select plans up to 6 months of discovery+ on Verizon. discovery+ has the largest-ever content offering of any new streaming service at launch, featuring a wide range of exclusive, original series across popular, passion verticals in which Discovery brands have a strong leadership position, including lifestyle and relationships; home and food; true crime; paranormal; adventure and natural history; as well as science, tech and the environment, and a slate of high-quality documentaries. For more, visit discoveryplus.com or find it on a variety of platforms and devices, including ones from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Roku and Samsung.
Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and nearly 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as discovery+, Food Network Kitchen and MotorTrend OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media; a landmark natural history and factual content partnership with the BBC; and a strategic alliance with PGA TOUR to create the international home of golf. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and the forthcoming multi-platform JV with Chip and Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Network, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.
Allison Miszner
allison_miszner@discovery.com


Among all of Europe, its Western and Central parts are the most thronged owing to their scenic vistas, cool climes, vibrant culture and many man-made marvels to admire. Climate is a major aspect that it is best to take into account whereas planning your journey to Europe.
The 51 countries that belong to this various continent are house to a number of the world's most vibrant cities, finest music festivals, craziest avenue parties, iconic architecture, superb galleries and an abundance of darn delicious food.


Power and energy efficiency are important challenges for the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. Excessive power consumption is a main limitation for further scaling of HPC systems, and researchers believe that current technology trends will not provide Exascale performance within a reasonable power budget in near future. Hardware innovations such as the proposed Exascale architectures and Near Threshold Computing are expected to improve power efficiency significantly, but more innovations are required in this domain to make Exascale possible. To help shrink the power efficiency gap, we argue that adaptive runtime systems can be exploited. The runtime system (RTS) can save significant power, since it is aware of both the hardware properties and the application behavior. We use application-centric analysis of different architectures to design automatic adaptive RTS techniques that save significant power in different system components, only with minor hardware support. In a nutshell, we analyze different modern architectures and common applications and illustrate that some system components such as caches and network links consume extensive power disproportionately for common HPC applications. We demonstrate how a large fraction of power consumed in caches and networks can be saved using our approach automatically. In these cases, the hardware support the RTS needs is the ability to turn off ways of set-associative caches and network links. We also present some required RTS techniques, such as recognizing the running application's pattern using pattern recognition to predict its future and adapt the hardware appropriately. Furthermore, we address two types of prevalent heterogeneity: utilization of accelerator devices and process variation. To study accelerators, we analyze and optimize an example application on a heterogeneous architecture and demonstrate techniques for efficient mapping on different devices (CPU and GPU). To address process variation challenges, we develop accurate models that let the RTS schedule efficiently in the presence speed and power consumption variation. Using the models, we develop a novel scheduling framework that uses integer linear programming to enforce different performance and power consumption constraints.


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Q: Pivot Rows to Columns Dynamically - SQL /****** Script for SelectTopNRows command from SSMS  ******/

declare @ActivityYear int = 2014
declare @ActivityYear1 int = 2015
declare @ActivityMonth int = 1
declare @ActivityMonth1 int = 3

Select FinancialCategory, ID, (CONVERT(varchar(5), ActivityMonth) + '-'
   + CONVERT(varchar(5), ActivityYear)) As [Month-Year], Sum(HoursCharged) As [Hours]
FROM Forecast
where (ActivityMonth between @ActivityMonth and @ActivityMonth1)
            AND (ActivityYear between @ActivityYear and @ActivityYear1)
            AND FinancialCategory = 'Forecast'

Group By FinancialCategory, ID,ActivityMonth, ActivityYear

This Outputs a table that looks like this:

And I would like to transpose it to have the hours for each ID broken out by the dates in the range. Note: this range of dates will be dynamic, I set initial dates for testing purposes.

A: I learnt a bit about dynamic pivot recently, this post helped a lot. As a practice I converted yours, which I think would look like this, but isn't tested as I haven't time tcreate tables etc at the moment. HTH.
declare @ActivityYear int = 2014
declare @ActivityYear1 int = 2015
declare @ActivityMonth int = 1
declare @ActivityMonth1 int = 3

DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
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select @cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME((CONVERT(varchar(5), ActivityMonth) + '-'
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            FROM Forecast
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El Bloque Democrático (en alemán: Demokratischer Block der Parteien und Massenorganisationen) fue un frente popular de partidos y organizaciones de masas de la República Democrática Alemana.

Historia
El personal de trabajo de la Comisión Consultiva Europea del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética (PCUS) se encargó a principios de 1944 de desarrollar el propio concepto político de la Alemania comunista en el exilio. Un primer borrador fue hecho el 6 de marzo de 1944 en una sesión de trabajo del Partido Comunista de Alemania (KPD) en el exilio presentado por Wilhelm Florin. Los lineamientos desarrollados por la concepción soviética del futuro Partido Comunista se veían como gobierno. Tras la rendición incondicional de la Wehrmacht el 8 de mayo de 1945 y la Declaración de Berlín del Comandante en Jefe de las cuatro potencias victoriosas, del 5 de junio de 1945, se prohibió toda actividad política en todas las zonas de ocupación. Después de consultar a Anton Ackermann, Walter Ulbricht y Gustav Sobottka se autorizó el 4 de junio de 1945 en Moscú la Orden N.º2 de la Administración Militar Soviética en Alemania, sobre la formación y actividad de partidos antifascistas en la Zona de Ocupación Soviética. Con este comunicado del 11 de junio de 1945, el Partido Comunista llegó a Berlín y anunció lo siguiente:

El Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Alemania opina que el programa anterior podría utilizarse como base para la creación de un bloque de partidos democráticos antifascistas (el Partido Comunista, el Partido Socialdemócrata de Alemania, el Partido del Centro y otros). Creemos que tal bloque puede formar una base sólida en la lucha por la liquidación completa de los restos del régimen de Hitler y por el establecimiento de un régimen democrático.

Además del bloque a nivel nacional, se establecieron bloques correspondientes a nivel de zona. En Brandeburgo, tres de los cuatro partidos antifascistas existentes se unieron para formar el bloque unitario democrático de Brandeburgo el 28 de noviembre de 1945. En Turingia, el bloque antifascista-democrático de Turingia se formó el 17 de agosto de 1945. En Sajonia y Sajonia-Anhalt fue fundada el 29 de agosto de 1945.

En 1946, el KPD y las autoridades de ocupación soviéticas forzaron a los socialdemócratas de la zona oriental para que se fusionaran con el KPD y formaran el Partido Socialista Unificado de Alemania (SED). Aparentemente una unión de iguales, el SED pronto se convirtió en un partido comunista de pleno derecho similar a otros partidos que lo harían en el bloque soviético. El SED y las autoridades de ocupación pronto presionaron a los otros partidos para que formaran una coalición permanente bajo el liderazgo del SED. Esta coalición presentó una "lista única" dominada por el SED en las elecciones a la Asamblea Constituyente celebradas en mayo de 1949. Aunque a los votantes solo se les dio la opción de aprobar o rechazar la lista en circunstancias menos que secretas, las cifras oficiales mostraron que el 66% de los votantes aprobaron la lista. Este sería el más bajo porcentaje de votos para una lista liderada por el SED durante las cuatro décadas de régimen comunista en Alemania Oriental.

En 1950 fue sucedido por el Frente Nacional.

Historia electoral

Referencias

Frentes populares
Partidos políticos fundados en 1945
Partidos políticos disueltos en 1950
Partido Socialista Unificado de Alemania

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Game Review: Tomb Raider – The Definitive Rounded Boobs Edition
Developer(s): Crystal Dynamics
Publisher(s): Square Enix
Platforms: Windows, OS X, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One (the temptation to write Xbone is strong but I will not surrender!)
Though a 2013 release, I only bought and played this game earlier this year. I had a slight backlog, don't judge me! Added to this is the fact that I have not played a Tomb Raider game since the early 2000s. This was a whole new Lara for me. Rounded boobs? What!!!
You meet a young Lara on her first expedition. She and the crew of the Endurance are searching for the fabled land of Yamatai. After a brief disagreement, it is decided that the group will venture towards the Dragon's Triangle, as suggested by Lara. Shock horror! There is a storm which shipwrecks our motley crew with Lara being separated from everyone else. The game revolves around you/Lara trying to find the rest of the crew, staying alive and keeping them alive, and finding a way off the island.
While trying to do all of this you/Lara discover a number of odd things on the island, from WWII military hardware to Oni type beasts. Lara stumbles across a hidden tomb now and again and collectibles (diary entries, sound clips and letters) aid the player and Lara to uncover just what has been happening on the island for all these years. And, of course, there is a band of human men trying to find you and kill you.
Style & Weapons
Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure with a little survival on the side. The character has fluid motion and reminds me a lot of Uncharted 2. The graphics are killer and Lara is a masterpiece. I especially love the way dirt and blood cling to her and can only really be removed by dunking her in water. Great attention to detail went into, not only, the character design but also the environments. More than once, I found myself pulling the blanket tighter around myself when walking Lara through a blizzard. I felt a form of physical relief when I was able to locate a base camp.
There isn't a huge variety of weapons in the game but what there is, is all you need. Lara has her trusty pickaxe, an indomitable shotgun, rifle, pistol and bow. All weapons can be upgraded through scavenging the parts required. By the end on it, I was a one woman wrecking ball that even Miley Cyrus would envy. I honestly did realise just how much I needed to smash someone's face in with a pickaxe until I played this game. The fighting style is fluid and weapon change outs are fast. The shotgun's stopping power made it a clear household favourite at Casa de Maria. Show me a (wo)man who doesn't love an under-slung grenade launcher, and I will show you a liar! All in all, a great selection of easy to use, fun weapons that make you feel like a total Lady BAMF.
Not only is this a fantastically fun game to play, it's a great origin story too. Lara faces demons she didn't know she had and has to dig deep at times to retain her humanity. As a reboot of a franchise that is near and dear to many a gamer's heart, I think that Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix did supremely well. The narrative is gritty, which is one thing I liked very much. It help me understand the hardened tomb raider from the earlier games while making this Lara highly accessible to a new generation of Tomb Raiders.
The lighting and environments were stunning. I enjoyed the interaction the character has with the environment, at any part of the game. The map is large and the number of activities (side quests) numerous, which assisted in fully exploring an area and thus familiarising the player with the environment. This, for me, ultimately added to the game's replay value. The variety of enemies tested the player's skill with the various weapons, especially when they were not yet fully upgraded. I found some of the supporting characters annoying but that might just be me.
I have recently heard a number of complaints that there weren't many tombs to raid and this is true, however, I do want to point out that Lara was not yet a fully fledged tomb raider in this story. This is meant to be her first taste of tomb raiding. Perhaps the name was a misnomer and created unrealistic expectations. I, personally, did not have a problem with the number of tombs available for raiding. I would, however, have liked more puzzling in the game. This is a Tomb Raider staple and I felt that this was skimped on. Rise of the Tomb Raider (set to release on 10 December) promises to fix both of these problems.
My rating is largely dictated by the number of hours I as willing to lose to this game, the replay value and fantastic story telling. Graphic can be overlooked for certain games but it was a bonus that this Tomb Raider was visually stunning as well. Considering that one of the software updates for my Playstation essentially bricked my machine earlier this year and I lost all saved data for Tomb Raider, I'm not upset. I'm looking forward to replaying Lara's story.
Tomb Raider is available for download via Steam, PSN Store or the Xbox Games Store
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Szuwozaur (Shuvosaurus) – rodzaj archozaura należącego do rzędu rauizuchów i rodziny Poposauridae. Żył w późnym triasie na terenie dzisiejszej Ameryki Północnej. Jego szczątki odnaleziono na terenie stanu Teksas w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Szuwozaur został opisany w 1993 przez Sankara Chatterjee, który nadał mu nazwę Shuvosaurus na cześć swojego syna Shuvo.

Początkowo szuwozaura uznano za teropoda z rodziny ornitomimów (Ornithomimidae), której przedstawiciele żyli w kredzie. Dopiero późniejsze odkrycie archozaura Effigia dowiodło, że podobieństwo niektórych rauizuchów do ornitomimozaurów jest jedynie wynikiem konwergencji, a zwierzęta te są w rzeczywistości bliżej spokrewnione z krokodylami i należą do kladu Crurotarsi. Badania te wykazały również, że Chatterjeea jest młodszym synonimem Shuvosaurus.

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Q: What are the time gaps in my Debug Log? Trying to work out why a data load is taking so long...when I look in the logs, I see a couple of places where there seems to be a long gap between one thing ending, and the next starting e.g.
16:49:26.0 (28050140)|CODE_UNIT_FINISHED|ContactTrigger on Contact trigger event BeforeUpdate for [200 Contact Ids]
16:49:34.651 (8651985516)|CONSTRUCTOR_ENTRY|[13]|01pU0000000sLvJ|<init>()
16:49:34.651 (8652007058)|CONSTRUCTOR_EXIT|[13]|01pU0000000sLvJ|<init>()
16:49:34.651 (8653493286)|CODE_UNIT_FINISHED|ContactTrigger on Contact trigger event AfterUpdate for [200 Ids]

Is the log misleading, so that the first line doesn't really finish until 16:49:34.651, or is there something else going on? The 01pU0000000sLvJ is the id of the trigger handler class that is invoked...

A: You can put the log level to finest and trace the log. Maybe some other updates (triggers, workflow flow field updates etc. may be occurring)

A: I think what I have worked out is this...the Contact trigger was setup to fire on before update and after update, but the code in the trigger only did anything for before update (the after update piece was commented out)
Once I removed the redundant event, the gap seemed to go away...


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Hand launch vessels can be launched from cars at Seafarers Memorial Park.
Potluck lunch at the Seafarer park building and plaza at 12:30 Saturday.
Barbecues will be provided for those who want to grill or heat up items.
Trailer and car parking is available in the gravel lot at the end of Rotary Drive in the north basin of Cap Sante Marina adjacent the small boat lift.
Volunteers will be available to help hoist and launch boats as early as 8am Saturday morning.
There is a Safeway across the street from the park where participants can make last minute purchases for the potluck lunch.
If you don't have a boat to bring, come down and enjoy a ride in someone else's.


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Press Release — OAS: HRF Welcomes Long-Overdue Session Assessing Venezuela's Democratic Erosion
Jun 24, 2016 -edited
NEW YORK - Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes today's special session by the Organization of American States' (OAS) Permanent Council invoking the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter's (IADC) democracy clause and undertaking a collective assessment about the erosion of democracy in Venezuela.
During his opening remarks, Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS, lamented: "The people of Venezuela are faced with a government that is no longer accountable to them. A government that no longer protects the rights of its citizens. A government that is no longer democratic." He later urged member states to be "on the right side of history" and take a stand against "political prisoners [,] the persistent reports of torture, [and] support the will of the Venezuela public in their call for a recall referendum." Before today's session, Almagro met and gave his support to members of the democratic opposition in Venezuela.
"Thanks to Almagro's moral courage and diplomatic efforts, today's session marks a modest victory for millions of Venezuelans who — after decades of immoral silence by almost every single member state at the OAS — now see many democratic governments in Latin America, both from the left and right, call out Chavismo for its antidemocratic measures," said Thor Halvorssen, president of HRF. "Incidentally, the session exposed which states in the Americas support democracy and which others, unfortunately, are completely oblivious to human suffering. HRF will follow every effort made by the Secretary General in order to prompt the normalization of democratic governance in Venezuela," concluded Halvorssen.


My family and I moved to Vancouver, BC from the United Kingdom in 2005.
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Heady with the early success of my oatmeal bread in the machine I was all ready to try something new. At Famous Foods last week my attention was caught by an 8-grain mixture of rolled wheat, barley, triticale, spelt, soy and a bunch of other things. It looked like it would be an interesting substitute for the rolled oats in my recipe.
I bought a 1lb bag and tried it out earlier this week, substituting the oats weight-for-weight with this new 8-grain mixture in my original oaten bread recipe (not the 'rustic' one). As you can see from the picture, the results were less than inspiring. I guess the fact that the oat bread was a litle bit deflated should have been a warning, but I just wasn't prepared for this.
The problem is that the dough is too light and the bread machine program leaves it proving for too long. I'll have to try a different program (this was done on the standard, basic loaf program) and maybe a little less water.
As old Freddie Nietszche said, Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. Mind you, he never tried making bread in a bread machine.
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Nouriel Roubini (b. 1958) is today a major figure in the global debate about the state of the economy. He constantly figures on Foreign Policy magazine's list of the "top 100 global thinkers." He received his doctorate in international economics at Harvard University and has worked at Yale University, IMF, the US Federal Reserve, World Bank. Roubini is currently a professor at New York University.
Nouriel Roubini is, without doubt, one of today's most acknowledged economists.
Ever since 2008 when he anticipated with pinpoint accuracy the collapse of the US housing market and the ensuing worldwide recession, professor Roubini has been shuttling between meetings with central bank governors and finance ministers.
Taking up the practice as an academic and a successful economic consultant, Roubini is of course not the first in line. Read about other bright businesspeople who practice Transcendental Meditation, or check out this scientific research on the effect of TM on cognitive abilities.
Seems like Nourini's powers of prediction — being based on logic and rational calculations — will only be enhanced by the addition of TM to his daily routine!


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Scientific Proof That Texting Makes You Walk Funny
Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia have just published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE confirming that, in fact, texting changes how we walk, right down to our "gait kinematics."
Emily Badger, The Atlantic Cities
It's clear that texting impairs our ability to walk. If it didn't, we wouldn't have so many war stories of walking into trees/each other/street lights/stationary objects. Here's a particularly embarrassing anecdote, from an anonymous Atlantic video executive producer, who was texting while walking through Washington, D.C., during Polar Vortex, Part I:
"I walked into a low-hanging tree branch and spilled coffee all over my jacket. It was a water-proof jacket, and the little beads of coffee froze to the jacket. Someone was in front of me and saw everything and gave me a look like 'what are you doing?'"
In this anonymous person's defense, the Pew Research Center (which has actually studied this) found in 2012 that 53 percent of all adult cell phone users have bumped into someone or something – or been on the receiving end of such a bump – thanks to this kind of distracted walking:
Now, scientists are starting to identify exactly what we're doing wrong. Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia have just published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE confirming that, in fact, texting changes how we walk, right down to our "gait kinematics."
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They studied how 26 healthy people walked a short distance (8.5 meters) in three scenarios: while walking normally, while reading texts on a cell phone, and while writing a text themselves. Eight cameras were positioned along the walking path to measure the speed and gait of how people walked, as well as the positioning of their heads, torsos and arms.
The paper itself has some amazingly intricate data on the rotation motion of the pelvis and thorax under each scenario. But suffice it to say: We walk much slower when handling a cell phone (even moreso while texting than reading), and we're not very good at sticking to a straight line. Not surprisingly, we tend to keep our heads down, our necks immobile, and our arms locked at our sides. We don't swing our arms, which can be a crucial part of staying balanced while moving.
Overall, we behave in a way that tries to optimize typing rather than walking, that's more geared toward keeping that little screen stable in our field of vision than keeping ourselves stable.
To illustrate this, here you can watch our own Amanda Erickson walk down a hallway in the Atlantic Cities office. On the left, she's walking normally. On the right, she's trying to type the same phrase used in the study: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
We did not have our own three-dimensional movement analysis system, so you'll have to parse the subtle differences with your eyeballs. But, clearly, it takes Amanda much longer to navigate the hallway while texting, she wanders off-course a bit, her arms barely move at all, and she's not taking in much of what's going on around her. She kind of looks like you could easily tip her over.
Now, picture a hundred pedestrians doing this same thing in a crowded, obstacle-filled public park.
Extra thanks in the name of science to Amanda and Paul Rosenfeld.
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