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In probability theory and statistics, the probit function is the quantile function associated with the standard normal distribution. It has applications in data analysis and machine learning, in particular exploratory statistical graphics and specialized regression modeling of binary response variables.

Mathematically, the probit is the inverse of the cumulative distribution function of the standard normal distribution, which is denoted as , so the probit is defined as

.

Largely because of the central limit theorem, the standard normal distribution plays a fundamental role in probability theory and statistics. If we consider the familiar fact that the standard normal distribution places 95% of probability between −1.96 and 1.96, and is symmetric around zero, it follows that

The probit function gives the 'inverse' computation, generating a value of a standard normal random variable, associated with specified cumulative probability. Continuing the example,

.

In general,

and

Conceptual development
The idea of the probit function was published by Chester Ittner Bliss in a 1934 article in Science on how to treat data such as the percentage of a pest killed by a pesticide. Bliss proposed transforming the percentage killed into a "probability unit" (or "probit") which was linearly related to the modern definition (he defined it arbitrarily as equal to 0 for 0.0001 and 1 for 0.9999):

He included a table to aid other researchers to convert their kill percentages to his probit, which they could then plot against the logarithm of the dose and thereby, it was hoped, obtain a more or less straight line. Such a so-called probit model is still important in toxicology, as well as other fields. The approach is justified in particular if response variation can be rationalized as a lognormal distribution of tolerances among subjects on test, where the tolerance of a particular subject is the dose just sufficient for the response of interest.

The method introduced by Bliss was carried forward in Probit Analysis, an important text on toxicological applications by D. J. Finney. Values tabled by Finney can be derived from probits as defined here by adding a value of 5. This distinction is summarized by Collett (p. 55): "The original definition of a probit [with 5 added] was primarily to avoid having to work with negative probits; ... This definition is still used in some quarters, but in the major statistical software packages for what is referred to as probit analysis, probits are defined without the addition of 5." It should be observed that probit methodology, including numerical optimization for fitting of probit functions, was introduced before widespread availability of electronic computing. When using tables, it was convenient to have probits uniformly positive. Common areas of application do not require positive probits.

Diagnosing deviation of a distribution from normality

In addition to providing a basis for important types of regression, the probit function is useful in statistical analysis for diagnosing deviation from normality, according to the method of Q–Q plotting. If a set of data is actually a sample of a normal distribution, a plot of the values against their probit scores will be approximately linear. Specific deviations from normality such as asymmetry, heavy tails, or bimodality can be diagnosed based on detection of specific deviations from linearity. While the Q–Q plot can be used for comparison to any distribution family (not only the normal), the normal Q–Q plot is a relatively standard exploratory data analysis procedure because the assumption of normality is often a starting point for analysis.

Computation
The normal distribution CDF and its inverse are not available in closed form, and computation requires careful use of numerical procedures. However, the functions are widely available in software for statistics and probability modeling, and in spreadsheets. In Microsoft Excel, for example, the probit function is available as norm.s.inv(p). In computing environments where numerical implementations of the inverse error function are available, the probit function may be obtained as

An example is MATLAB, where an 'erfinv' function is available. The language Mathematica implements 'InverseErf'. Other environments directly implement the probit function as is shown in the following session in the R programming language.
> qnorm(0.025)
[1] -1.959964
> pnorm(-1.96)
[1] 0.02499790

Details for computing the inverse error function can be found at . Wichura gives a fast algorithm for computing the probit function to 16 decimal places; this is used in R to generate random variates for the normal distribution.

An ordinary differential equation for the probit function
Another means of computation is based on forming a non-linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) for probit, as per the Steinbrecher and Shaw method. Abbreviating the probit function as , the ODE is

where  is the probability density function of .

In the case of the Gaussian:

Differentiating again:

with the centre (initial) conditions

This equation may be solved by several methods, including the classical power series approach. From this, solutions of arbitrarily high accuracy may be developed based on Steinbrecher's approach to the series for the inverse error function. The power series solution is given by

where the coefficients  satisfy the non-linear recurrence

with . In this form the ratio  as .

Logit

Closely related to the probit function (and probit model) are the logit function and logit model. The inverse of the logistic function is given by

Analogously to the probit model, we may assume that such a quantity is related linearly to a set of predictors, resulting in the logit model, the basis in particular of logistic regression model, the most prevalent form of regression analysis for categorical response data. In current statistical practice, probit and logit regression models are often handled as cases of the generalized linear model.

See also
Detection error tradeoff graphs (DET graphs, an alternative to the ROC)
Logistic regression (a.k.a. logit model)
Logit
Probit model
Multinomial probit
Q–Q plot
Continuous function
Monotonic function
Quantile function
Sigmoid function
Rankit analysis, also developed by Chester Bliss
Ridit scoring

References

Statistical analysis
Single-equation methods (econometrics)
Normal distribution
Articles with example R code

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The terrifying, lengthening list of Russia's use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev's latest novel. With uncanny timing, he examines how and why Russia and the Soviet Union have developed horrendous neurotoxins. At its center is a ruthless chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing an absolutely deadly, undetectable and untraceable poison for which there is no antidote. But Kalitin becomes consumed by guilt over countless deaths from his Faustian pact to create the ultimate venom. When the Soviet Union collapses, the chemist defects and is given a new identity in Western Europe. After another Russian is murdered with Kalitin's poison, his cover is blown and he's drawn into an investigation of the death by Western agents. Two special forces killers are sent to silence him—using his own undetectable poison. In this fast-paced, genre-bending tale, Lebedev weaves suspenseful pages of stunningly beautiful prose exploring the historical trajectories of evil. From Nazi labs, Stalinist plots and the Chechen Wars, to present-day Russia, Lebedev probes the ethical responsibilities of scientists supplying modern tyrants and autocrats with ever newer instruments of retribution, destruction and control.
Excerpt from Untraceable
Once the dancing began the children were sent off to play. That was what the boy had been waiting for. They played hide-and-seek, ever since he was little: only Uncle Igor's apartment had enough hiding places for them truly to hide and seek, for a long time and without giveaways.
The children were older now and kept up the old custom reluctantly, seemingly out of boredom. However, in fact, the game had a new meaning now: the boys listened to the girls' breathing, the girls hidden behind drapes, sometimes hopping in order to be found. In the dimly lit rooms, their first feelings arose. Only one room, at the far end of the corridor, was always locked.
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His father, when he worked at home, cleared his desk when he was done. If the boy needed to come into his room, he knocked first, and his father turned the work pages over. Uncle Igor left his desk as if he had walked out for a minute; tea in a glass, a viciously sharpened pencil on top of the pages. Typed pages, heavy honeycombs of formulas speckled with corrections.
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Suddenly the boy noticed a small triangle of fabric that stuck out of the doors of the clothes closet, like the corner of a bookmark. Military green. With embroidered gold leaves. A sleeve, probably.
The boy pulled on the end but the doors were shut tight.
"I'll say that I wanted to hide in the closet," he decided. "They didn't forbid it."
The boy slowly opened the doors.
The bulb in the closet glowed like a treasure hunter's torch in a cave.
The gold embroidery blazed. The buttons were golden flashes. The orders shimmered in gold, scarlet, steel, and silver; the orders and stars made of bloodred enamel, the gray steel hammers and sickles, plows and bayonets, a soldier with a rifle; gold sheaves and leaves, the gold letters of LENIN.
A uniform hung in the closet. Covered in the heavy, round, scalelike discs of orders and medals from chest to navel. A major general's lonely big stars sparkled on the shoulder boards.
The uniform was small, almost a child's, just right for Uncle Igor. Without the awards it might have looked comical. But the golden, ruby, and sapphire reflections imbued it with supernatural might. The boy could not imagine what a man had to do to earn so many awards. Was he even a man? A hero? A higher being?
A cap on the shelf. Belt. A pair of boots.
A different Uncle Igor. The true one. Who had the right to a special life.
The boy had never seen such precious things up close. He ran his fingers over the gold, silver, and ruby scales, cold and heavy. The mirror on the inside of the door reflected a face made strange by confusion.
The uniform, hung with medals that seemed an integral part of it, radiated pure, absolute power. The boy could not control himself. He didn't think about being caught, punished, banished from Uncle Igor's house. He so wanted to commune with that power, feel himself inside it, that he took the uniform off the hanger and with an unexpected, agile move, as if stolen from the owner, slipped his arms into the sleeves.
His shoulders bent under the weight. You had to stand under the uniform as if under barbells at the gym. But the weight was inexpressibly pleasant, it both burdened and protected, it clad you in its thin silk lining.
The boy stood and did not recognize himself, as if he had not put on someone else's clothing but someone else's features and character. The embossed symbols he had internalized in childhood made him part of something immeasurably bigger, as vast as the starry sky.
He took a step toward the mirror. Blinded by the dazzling sparkle, he noticed the military emblems on the lapels almost accidentally.
Not tanks.
Not propellers.
Not crisscrossed artillery barrels.
Bowl and snake.
A golden bowl with a snake wrapped around it, its head raised as if to take a sip or to protect the forbidden vessel.
He had never seen an emblem like that. He didn't know what it meant.
In the midst of stars, sickles, hammers and bayonets, the weapons of war and the weapons of labor welded into one, he thought, by the history of his country and therefore embossed on medals, the bowl and snake came from another, most ancient world when man was just beginning to name constellations. The boy suddenly understood that this inconspicuous and obscure symbol was the key; hidden, secret, it explained the orders, the general's rank, Uncle Igor's scientific path, combined it all into the secret of exclusivity, power, and strength.
The boy carefully took off the uniform and hung it back in the closet, leaving a corner of the sleeve sticking out between the doors. The obsession did not go away. Blessed heaviness. Complete protection.
He had found his idol. His path to becoming like Uncle Igor.
The bowl and snake.
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Q: Using Twitterizer to display the outbound tweets, not replies Ia m using twitterizer to diplay tweets on the website , but the issue its showing all the tweets ,i just want to show the tweets by user not the replies, the code i am using is:
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
        {
            try
            {

            UserTimelineOptions options = new UserTimelineOptions();
            options.ScreenName = "XXXXX";

            TwitterStatusCollection tweets = TwitterTimeline.UserTimeline(options).ResponseObject;
            int counter = 0;
            string TwitterCode = "";

            foreach (TwitterStatus thisStatus in tweets)
            {
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" + Server.HtmlEncode(thisStatus.Text) + "
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";
                    counter += 1;

                }
                else
                {
                    break;
                }

            }

            ltlTweets.Text = TwitterCode;

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {

        }

        }

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Thanks

A: The UserTimeLineOptions object allows you to exclude retweets vie the IncludeRetweets property. Like so:
UserTimelineOptions options = new UserTimelineOptions()
{
    ScreenName = "myname",
    UserId = 123456789,
    IncludeRetweets = false,
    Count = 10,
};

The UserId helps the twitterAPI figure out that you are only requesting tweets made by that specific combination of UserId and ScreenName (i.e your account).
I'm not sure if it is completely necessary, but I also send an OAuthTokens object in with the request.
OAuthTokens token = new OAuthTokens()
{
    AccessToken = "xx",
    AccessTokenSecret = "xx",
    ConsumerKey = "xx",
    ConsumerSecret = "xx"
};

You would get hold of this information by creating an app under your twitter account at http://dev.twitter.com.
Then you would include the token in your call:
TwitterTimeline.UserTimeline(token, options);

Hope this helps =)

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A friendship breakup can have many causes. Some friendships end in a gradual drifting apart. Sometimes people or obligations – like a new baby, or spouses that don't get along – get in the way; other times, miscommunication or a betrayal of secrets can end a friendship. The loss can leave us with sadness, but also, depending on the circumstances, with a lack of faith in our ability trust, or perhaps feelings of betrayal, which can manifest as anger or resentment.
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A Darkness More Than Night
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress.
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.
Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed.
McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes -- his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director -- begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.
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Worst Harry Bosch! :(
I have read ~10 or so in this series, slowly picking my way thru the Harry Bosch series & love them all!
Such a great character.....
But this book BARELY has any Harry Bosch & the story line is so-so....
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A group of enthusiastic Mountain Training Association members spearheaded by John Beamson have replaced the summit stone on Blencathra in the Lake District thanks to a crowdfunding campaign.
The stone went missing in August 2018 and is presumed to have been stolen. After hearing rumours of the stone's disappearance, John lead a client up Sharp Edge (a popular scramble on the Blencathra massif) and describes his 'proper disappointment' that the stories were true. He immediately decided that the stone should be replaced and set about organising his fellow Mountain Leaders and others from the mountaineering community. He used the power of social media to reach out for support from other people who wanted to help and they jumped on board. John also contacted a local stonemason and got a quote for a replacement stone ring before setting up a JustGiving page which raised £1,000 in 72 hours to fund the craftsman.
On Sunday 31st March the new stone was revealed to a mixed crowd of around 200 people including a young girl summiting her first Wainwright and prominent Lakeland figures Alan Hinkes, Terry Abrahams and Steve Birkinshaw. John also received a video message of support from tv presenter Julia Bradbury wishing him well and thanking everyone who was involved. The launch event felt truly inclusive thanks to Debs North who organised an electric wheelchair for John's disabled father Colin Beamson.
John was also overwhelmed by the number of people who supported him throughout this project. Particular thanks go to Chris Waldron and David Ector for their excellent drilling and gluing skills, as well as fellow MTA members Emma Holland, Felicity Kettle and Marc James.


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Daredevil (shitty film)
Daredevil is a pretty awesome comic book character. It just didn't translate to the big screen. Mark Steven Johnson (Simon Birch, Ghost Rider) directs Ben Affleck in this jumbled and diluted tale of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day and a masked vigilante by night. Daredevil fights crime in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, righting wrongs, beating up bad guys, and kicking ass even though he can't see anything. In this movie he meets Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and Bullseye (Colin Farrell), two of his main rivals in the comics. He also meets Elektra (Jennifer Garner), his sometimes ally, occasional foe, and passionate lover.
The movie begins with the origin of Daredevil. A young Matt Murdock is living with his dad, the aging boxer Jack "The Devil" Murdock. Being an aging boxer doesn't pay the bills, so Jack has to work as a mob enforcer. Matt runs away and gets in a freak accident with some chemicals and loses his sight. His other senses become heightened and he starts honing his abilities. The mobsters kill his dad and Matt Murdock becomes Daredevil.
Matt Murdock meets Electra and the two of them have a romantic friendly fight and decide to hang out. Her dad is a criminal with ties to a shady new crime boss known as Kingpin. Kingpin doesn't like Elektra's daddy anymore and hires a deadly hit man named Bullseye to kill him. Daredevil tries to prevent the hit, but doesn't succeed and Elektra thinks that Daredevil killed her dad.
A reporter named Ben Urich (Joe Pantoliano) has been investigating Daredevil and discovers his true identity. Rather that trying to publish a story, he helps Daredevil out and tells him that Bullseye is going after Elektra. He goes to help Elektra, but she kicks his ass instead and finds out his true identity and realizes that he didn't kill her dad. She then goes after Bullseye herself, but she dies.
Matt fights Bullseye and defeats him and goes after Kingpin. He gets his ass beat for a while, but ultimately prevails and Kingpin goes to jail. There's a few hints that Elektra might be alive, and one of the final scenes show that Bullseye is recovering in the hospital and it sets things up for a sequel that will never come to be.
Daredevil is a great comic book character… comic book, not film. Daredevil is blind, but the comics can depict Matt's emotions show his fears, his thoughts, and his inner turmoil. Movies rely on pictures to tell stories. If your main character is a blind guy, there is no way to visually tell his story and that's one of the areas where this movie fails. Daredevil's world is darkness, and movies require light so that you can see what is happening. The two ideas clash and can't coexist.
Jon Favreau plays Matt's friend and business partner Foggy Nelson. You can tell that he is just taking notes on making a movie about a second-rate Marvel hero. And he did a great job because Iron Man kicks ass and Daredevil sucks.
This movie is slow. It is dull. A bunch of things happen but nothing stands out. The worst part about this movie is that it makes Daredevil seem lame so newcomers wouldn't want to read the comics. And you can't blame them. This movie destroys Daredevil, Elektra, and Kingpin. Colin Farrell's Bullseye is the least intimidating and most absurd comic book villain ever… even Jim Carrey as the Riddler is more frightening. Watch this movie if you want, just be aware that it disrespects the source material.
Critically Rated at 6/17
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No one can be told what the Matrix is; you have to see it for yourself. And you've should have seen it by now. It's been out for 13 years. Andy and Larry Wachowski wrote and directed The Matrix, one of the greatest action/sci-fi films ever. Keanu Reeves plays Neo, a hacker who finds out the world is a lie perpetrated by machines to control and harness energy from humans, and that he is the One prophesized to save mankind.
Thomas Anderson A.K.A. Neo (Keanu Reeves) is a hacker by night and an office drone by day. He senses that there's something wrong with the world, but he can't quite grasp it. He gets enigmatic clues about something called the Matrix, but he can't figure out its meaning. He meets a mysterious hacker named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) who leads him to man named Morpheus who can help him find out what the Matrix is. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) gives Neo a pill to swallow, and since you should always take strange pills that a stranger gives you, Neo swallows it and reality collapses into a dream and he wakes up in the Real World.
Morpheus finds Neo and takes him on his ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus is the captain, Trinity is a crewmember, and there are a few other crewmembers including the shady Cypher (Joe Pantoliano). Neo finds out the truth about the Matrix. Humans developed machines that got too smart and that lead to a war and that lead to us getting our asses kicked. Now the bulk of mankind is harvested for energy. The Matrix is a simulated reality that the controlled humans are connected to. The world that they know is a computer program.
Neo learns that he can manipulate the computer program, that he can bend the rules of gravity and physics and learn Kung Fu. Morpheus believes that Neo is the One, that he will end the war between the machines. Neo doubts himself; he can't quite free his mind. Neo learns all the rules about the Matrix, and he learns that the Agents are bad. Especially Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving).
So there's a bunch of philosophical hoopla about the nature of reality and prophecy and fate vs. freewill. They visit the Oracle and she talks to Neo about his future. She tells him what he needs to hear. Then the shady Cypher is revealed to be working for the Agents. He sells out his crew and tips off their location. Morpheus gets captured, the unnecessary crewmembers die, and now its time for Neo to man up and save Morpheus.
They get a shit ton of guns and have a cool fire fight and kill lots of innocent guards who aren't agents or evil. They decided not to bring spare magazines, so each time the clip runs out they just whip out a new gun. I guess it's easier to just carry 20 guns rather than reloading. Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus. Trinity and Morpheus go back to the real world, and Neo gets attacked by Agent Smith. And Neo stands his ground for a while, but then he runs away like a bitch. Just as he's about to exit the Matrix, he gets shot. And he dies. And then Trinity kisses him and he comes back to life. And now he's the One. And then he kills Agent Smith, but not really, because Agent Smith comes back in the sequels. But we don't know that yet. But for now, Neo has saved the day, and things are looking up for mankind
Quick factoid: Will Smith turned down the part of Neo to star in Wild Wild West. Thank god, because he would have ruined this movie. Keanu Reeves is not a good actor, but he is perfect for Neo. He lets the events unfold around him, he doesn't talk much, and he just reacts and looks bewildered by everything. And it suits the movie perfectly.
The action was and still is amazing. The fight choreography is as good as it gets. The bullet time sequence is one of the coolest shots in history. The action is great, but this film works because the action and philosophical scenes go hand in hand. This is a smart movie. The sequels tried to be smart and got pretentious
If you haven't seen this movie in a while, go back and watch it. There's a great buildup, and the dialog is very layered. There's a lot more to The Matrix than you might remember. It deserved to be the start of a franchise. And even though the Wachowski Brothers went kind of crazy, the Matrix Universe is still worth exploring.
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Q: SQL Query with in Query returning more than one result I'm attempting to get the information from the brews and recipes tables based off of how many followers there are in table follow, but I am getting an sql error because I am returning more than one result in my query. Should I split this up in to two queries? Or is there as work around that would allow me to check for more than one b.uid in my outer WHERE statement
SELECT
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FROM
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A: Just use WHERE b.uid IN (SELECT followed...

A: In order to return multiple result sets you need to use cfstoredproc, but that is not your issue here. Either change your "=" sign to an IN, in your where clause or change up your select to be a join. Your issue is just a bad query, not multiple result sets.
SELECT
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    a.pic_loc, a.uid AS uid
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WHERE f.follower = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" value="#cookie.id#" />
GROUP BY b.bid
ORDER BY b.time DESC

A: The GROUP BY clause is probably causing you problems as well. You should only have a GROUP BY clause in your query if you are using aggregate functions (SUM(), AVG(), MIN(), MAX(), etc...) and need to group the records you're totaling, etc. into subgroups.


Nothing gets me more steamed than being taken for a sucker. And although the Chinese on the whole are honest, hard-working people, you're bound to have some bad apples in a country with such a huge (and still mostly poor) population. For some, the seemingly endless supply of rich and easy-to-fool laowai (foreigner) is too tempting.
I think the reason many foreign tourists get scammed in China is because they let their guard down. But there's a considerable difference between committing an outright crime (like theft) and scamming tourists.
The smarter con artists and scammers operate in "grey area" of the law, where the only proof against them is your word against theirs (yes, even in China, the police need proof). In other words, many scams have a high reward-to-risk ratio. In most cases, the police won't or can't do anything if you've been duped. In fact, some of these scams are completely legal and so will continue to take in suckers for years to come.
(2) are often happy to engage in conversation with a total stranger. They know that Westerners are more conditioned to "not be rude" by walking away. In contrast, the Chinese are very slow to trust strangers and will often completely ignore anyone who approaches them on the street. They're often savvy to common scams too.
WHERE: A (mostly) legal and very popular and long-running scam. Especially popular in the tourist-friendly parts of Beijing (like Wangfujing shopping district and Houhai Lake nightlife district) and Shanghai (Nanjing Road shopping district and adjacent Peoples' Park). Solo male travelers are the suckers of choice.
A Chinese person — often a seemingly innocent-looking girl — approaches you. After gaining your trust with some innocent chitchat, she suggests going somewhere to practice English (or karaoke, etc). They also like the Buddy System: it might be a harmless-looking young couple or two young ladies who ask you to take their photo in the park and "happen" to be on their way to a tea ceremony. Would you like to join?
THE SCAM: Illegal taxis (literally "black car") that make a good living overcharging foreigners. "Black" doesn't refer to the actual color of a taxi (just that they're unlicensed and shady). Once you get in, you're at their mercy. Sometimes, they'll have a fake meter rigged to produce ridiculous rates. I've heard reports of these shady drivers just dropping people off at random destinations after collecting their payday as well as drivers who drive off with luggage as soon as the passenger gets out.
Watch for the (above) fake bill swap when paying. Ideally, have smaller notes with you before you get in. Reminder: tipping is not expected (but heartily accepted).
Pedicab drivers (three-wheeled rickshaws) — common in touristy areas of Beijing. They love to take foreigners "on a ride". I'm sure most are not crooks but I've heard too many stories of drivers who will agree on one price (e.g. Y30), then later will claim that you misunderstood and will demand higher (e.g. Y300). Or they might try to claim that it's Y30 per person, not a total price. This seemingly nice man will then transform into a raging beast in order to intimidate you into paying. And don't expect anyone in the gathering crowd to come to your rescue (the first rule of the Chinese: Don't get involved). So just be wary and avoid drivers who are aggressively seeking you out, and agree to a price in writing. If you're being ripped off, leave the agreed upon cash on in the seat and calmly walk away.
"Hmmm...I think some monkey testicle tea should clear that gonorrhea up."


Sam and I took the kids out to play in the snow while we cleaned up.
Last year was rather epic, with snowblowers to move the snow, many men shovelling and lots of on the fly engineering to build the greatest backyard sledding hill of all time.
This year we think we have it beat. Luge 2.0 has the following features.
I've attached our plans as currently drawn. They aren't all that much to scale, and they're certainly not measured. Angles on plans mean nothing, use your imagination to envision the true awesomeness that these plans represent.
Then call us, so you can help. With your muscles and time and brains and overall coolness. You need to prove your coolness. Come help with Luge 2.0!
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Major results
2013
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1st Trofeo Edil C
1st Gran Premio di Poggiana

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1992 births
Living people
Italian male cyclists
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Recently, the operational speeds of the integrated circuits are increasing rapidly. There have been many researches about transmission lines because they are very important for designing high performance integrated circuits. As well as transmission lines, the analysis of the power distribution of printed circuit boards becomes more and more important [1-3]. The analysis of the power distribution is important for designing decoupling capcitors. In the power distribution analysis, the finite element method is often applied. However, in the finite element method, in order to obtain the accurate results, we have to discretize the object into the many small elements and to solve large scale equations. It is very time consuming to solve those large scale equations by conventional degital computing.


In a get-to-school rush, I was preparing to drop off kids at school when I got surprised. I asked our toddler to find his shoes as he is often able to find them. He ran off with exuberance. And I was impressed with his focus.
As I came around the corner, I could see a bunch of papers and books thrown on the floor. My first thought was "Why'd you do that?" (It sounds much softer in writing than in my head.) As I approached him more and began to pick up the books hurriedly, I looked at the shelf where I was putting books.
There, in the back, were his shoes.
Why "Books on the Floor"
In the Thanksgiving/Christmas season, we often run into hard feelings. Memories of being wronged by family or friends casts clouds of darkness in a usually sunny season. How do we begin to come to peace in this season?
It might be a spouse, co-worker, friend, ministry team member, or any one.
Most often, whatever their "books on the floor", it is coming from part of their story. It might be an indirect result of something else. A person's not showing up comes from a tragedy that has just occurred. The anger that bursts into flame is an echo of the anger that caused them to shrivel before a parent in their childhood. Their difficulty in being generous comes from years of "being without" that they have not been able to break and trust God as a provider.
Sometimes we personalize these interactions too much, forgetting that all have sinned and fall short...and those who are committing these offenses now are partly due to the ongoing brokenness from the sin and fallenness of others.
One of the realizations in forgiveness is to realize how much we have been forgiven by God. A second is to realize this person has a condition...that you share with them. It can be helpful to pause to realize what's in the background, such as the motivation or purpose that drives the choice. Sometimes it comes from a broken place in a person. Sometimes it is acting from the flesh. Other times it is the devil's team rearing their head in someone else's life.
As followers of Christ, our example to the world is to humbly realize that these are often behind the difficulties of many people. It does not excuse sins or wrongs but, as Christ's followers, we will persevere, even forgive, when we realize such things come from difficult places.* We can offer the extra grace, the extra mercy God has offered us, rather than a knee-jerk reaction that Christ would never have shown.
And, you know what, he wasn't just saying it for them...he said it for you. With Christ's life in us, let's see if we can do that for each other and those around us.
May the difficult areas of your life in this Advent season be well lit by the Light of the World, Jesus Christ.
*Please note that we are not discussing life-threatening situations here. If you find yourself in a difficult situation, do not hesitate to seek the counsel of others.
this is a good reminder that Christmas and the New Year can be a 'new' start with someone who has wronged you. We should use this time, the time when God showed that he truly loved us by sending his son down to earth and fulfilling prophecies, to also love others and show them who God really is by our own actions. I pray that anyone who is holding a grudge, bitterness, anger, or judgement can lay that at the cross this season and just love.


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The rival to the Bible
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By Roger Bolton
What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time since its discovery 160 years ago. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?
The world's oldest surviving Bible is in bits.
For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery, until it was found - or stolen, as the monks say - in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany and Britain.
Now these different parts are to be united online and, from next July, anyone, anywhere in the world with internet access will be able to view the complete text and read a translation.
For those who believe the Bible is the inerrant, unaltered word of God, there will be some very uncomfortable questions to answer. It shows there have been thousands of alterations to today's bible.
The Codex, probably the oldest Bible we have, also has books which are missing from the Authorised Version that most Christians are familiar with today - and it does not have crucial verses relating to the Resurrection.
Anti-Semitic writings
The fact this book has survived at all is a miracle. Before its discovery in the early 19th Century by the Indiana Jones of his day, it remained hidden in St Catherine's Monastery since at least the 4th Century.
The monastery at the base of Mt Sinai
It survived because the desert air is ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered.
Today, 30 mainly Greek Orthodox monks, dedicated to prayer, worship there, helped as in ages past by the Muslim Bedouin. For this place is holy to three great religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam; a land where you can still see the Burning Bush where God spoke to Moses.
The monastery itself has the greatest library of early manuscripts outside the Vatican - some 33,000, and a collection of icons second to none.
Not surprisingly, it is now a World Heritage Site and has been called a veritable Ark, bringing spiritual treasures safely through the turbulent centuries. In many people's eyes the greatest treasure is the Codex, written around the time of the first Christian Emperor Constantine.
When the different parts are digitally united next year in a £1m project, anyone will be able to compare and contrast the Codex and the modern Bible.
Firstly, the Codex contains two extra books in the New Testament.
One is the little-known Shepherd of Hermas, written in Rome in the 2nd Century - the other, the Epistle of Barnabas. This goes out of its way to claim that it was the Jews, not the Romans, who killed Jesus, and is full of anti-Semitic kindling ready to be lit. "His blood be upon us," Barnabas has the Jews cry.
Discrepancies
Had this remained in subsequent versions, "the suffering of Jews in the subsequent centuries would, if possible, have been even worse", says the distinguished New Testament scholar Professor Bart Ehrman.
The suffering of Jews in the subsequent centuries would, if possible, have been even worse had the Epistle of Barnabas remained
Professor Bart Ehrman
And although many of the other alterations and differences are minor, these may take some explaining for those who believe every word comes from God.
Faced with differing texts, which is the truly authentic one?
Mr Ehrman was a born again Bible-believing Evangelical until he read the original Greek texts and noticed some discrepancies.
The Bible we now use can't be the inerrant word of God, he says, since what we have are the sometimes mistaken words copied by fallible scribes.
"When people ask me if the Bible is the word of God I answer 'which Bible?'"
The Codex - and other early manuscripts - omit some mentions of ascension of Jesus into heaven, and key references to the Resurrection, which the Archbishop of Canterbury has said is essential for Christian belief.
Other differences concern how Jesus behaved. In one passage of the Codex, Jesus is said to be "angry" as he healed a leper, whereas the modern text records him as healing with "compassion".
Also missing is the story of the woman taken in adultery and about to be stoned - until Jesus rebuked the Pharisees (a Jewish sect), inviting anyone without sin to cast the first stone.
Nor are there words of forgiveness from the cross. Jesus does not say "Father forgive them for they know not what they do".
Fundamentalists, who believe every word in the Bible is true, may find these differences unsettling.
But the picture is complicated. Some argue that another early Bible, the Codex Vaticanus, is in fact older. And there are other earlier texts of almost all the books in the bible, though none pulled together into a single volume.
Many Christians have long accepted that, while the Bible is the authoritative word of God, it is not inerrant. Human hands always make mistakes.
"It should be regarded as a living text, something constantly changing as generation and generation tries to understand the mind of God," says David Parker, a Christian working on digitising the Codex.
Others may take it as more evidence that the Bible is the word of man, not God.
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Re: The rival to the Bible
Post by Patush » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:27 am
"the suffering of Jews in the subsequent centuries would, if possible, have been even worse"
Utter bs, Madoff stole 65 billion from Christian Americans and not a single Jew was harmed, so where is this suffering that they talk about?
If it were true why did they always live and still do among Muslim and Christian nations? Jews were expelled from 109 countries and no one asks why?
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More Team Notes Ahead of Cubs Series at Wrigley
Dennis Schlossman
So far this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers have used superior pitching, decent offense and sound defense to produce one of the best records in baseball. Despite their success, there have been some areas of concern for fans, primarily when it comes to offensive consistency.
Heading into the series against Chicago, the Dodgers have dropped to 11th in the majors with a not-so-impressive .239 team batting average. That mark is good enough for sixth in the National League, trailing their weekend host Cubs for fifth place by a few percentage points.
The Dodgers are tied for tenth in the bigs with 114 runs scored, a position they are not accustomed to being in after regularly hanging around the Top 5 the last handful of years. However, their +57-run differential is still the best in baseball, suggesting that they typically destroy their opponents one night while falling silent the next.
This offensive inconsistency is something we've seen often over the last few seasons, and one of the primary reasons behind it is that several of the team's key offensive contributors are extremely streaky.
A handful of daily starters are sitting below a .250 season batting average. Some of these players have shown improvement in recent games, as batters like Mookie Betts have increased their averages as high as 20 points over the past week. Despite some minor signs of promise, Max Muncy has a team-low .151 average after logging 91 plate appearances so far.
The same goes for Justin Turner with a .183 average. Cody Bellinger, who earned NL Player of the Week honors for April 18-24, has fallen back down to a .205/.275/.434 slash line. Over his last 31 plate appearances, Bellinger is hitting .071 (2-for-28) with nine punchouts.
Things are a lot different on the pitching front. The Dodgers are far and away the team ERA leaders in the majors with a 2.21 combined ERA, light years ahead of the second-place Yankees with a 2.60 mark. All six Los Angeles starters — including Tyler Anderson — have ERAs below 2.55. Tony Gonsolin leads the way with a 1.64 ERA, and Julio Urias is not far behind at 1.88.
Clayton Kershaw leads the entire team with a ridiculous 0.696 WHIP over an even 23 innings pitched heading into Saturday's early game.
What's even more impressive is that Los Angeles starting pitching has a combined 1.90 ERA to dominate the big leagues. The bullpen's combined 2.65 ERA is good enough for third in the majors.
We've been talking a lot about how the division is certainly not decided in the spring months, but when the club is facing some of the league's worst teams so early in the year, it's critical to capitalize and work out some of the kinks — especially on offense in the case of the Dodgers.
Sweeping the Cubs at Wrigley is a great place to start.
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HomeIraq veterans and Iraqi's build a traditional house of reeds in Philadelphia
Iraq veterans and Iraqi's build a traditional house of reeds in Philadelphia
Veterans of the war in Iraq and Iraqi immigrants to Philadelphia will work together as a construction crew at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. The nature preserve in Roxborough is building a traditional mudhif, or a house made of marsh reeds using ancient building techniques of southern Iraq.
The structure will be a series of arches made from thick bundles of phragmites, a reed native to Iraq and considered invasive to the Delaware River watershed. The walls and roof of the structure will be made of thatch-woven reeds.
The project was conceived and executed by an environmental artist from Seattle, Sarah Kavage, and Iraqi designer Yaroub Al-Obaidi, who had been a senior lecturer at the University of Baghdad before seeking asylum in the United States. He came to Philadelphia as a refugee in 2016.
To the best of their knowledge, this will be the only traditional mudhif built outside Iraq. "A mudhif is a school, a court, a forum — all this social activity is there," Al-Obaidi said of the vernacular architecture dating back 5,000 years. "The tribe leader usually will be there to solve the problems between people."
Al-Obaidi and Kavage are able to build a mudhif in Philadelphia because phragmites are plentiful here. Some say too plentiful. The aggressive plant chokes out native species. Attempts to eradicate the plant are often aggressive themselves, involving chemicals, burning, and sometimes physically fighting: A junior high science class in Jersey City hosts "Phrag attack" events where students stomp phragmites fields.
However, some environmentalists believe phragmites can offer benefits in an era of climate change, as the reeds slowly build up land, thus protecting low-lying wetlands from rising ocean levels. The mudhif construction is an art project commissioned by Lenapehoking-Watershed, a program of the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River. As an art project, it is more than a building: It is meant to reflect larger issues about environmental stewardship, immigration, and cultural differences.
Kavage said the building materials tell their own story. "The story of how we deal with phragmites is also the story of sort of how a lot of folks in America deal with anything, which is with a lot of force and violent language," said Kavage. "You see that in how our dialogue about immigration has progressed over the years."
The mudhif is the largest of a series of 16 artworks by Kavage, together called Water Spirit, in which she uses found organic materials to create sculptural works along the Delaware River from Wilmington to the Poconos. Mostly these are benches of a wide variety of designs, many built from bundled phragmites. In the context of a bench, the invasive reeds encourage people to sit together and, hopefully, converse.
Early in the two-year project, in February 2020, Al-Obaidi heard a talk by Kavage about her intentions with Water Spirit. He approached her afterward and explained how his own Iraqi background fits into the project. Mudhifs, for thousands of years, have always been built as community spaces for dialogue.
Traditionally, a tribal leader inside the mudhif welcomes anyone who comes in with coffee. Al-Obaidi said if the guest immediately sips the coffee, the visit is a friendly social call. But if he delays drinking coffee, that's a signal for something more serious.
"If he puts the coffee aside, it means, 'OK, I'm not happy. I have something in my mind. I have a problem,'" he said. "Then the tribe leader will understand, and everyone there will understand, that this person needs something."
Since arriving in Philadelphia, Al-Obaidi has been doing many things, including working as a culturally specific tour guide of the Middle Eastern galleries of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and as a founding editor of Philadelphia's only Arabic newspaper, and working toward his Ph.D. in communications at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
He has also been working with Iraqi war veterans and with recent Iraqi immigrants. With those connections, he is able to pull together a mudhif construction crew, with soldiers and Iraqi natives working collaboratively to raise a roof. That was what Kavage was hoping to accomplish when she started.
"Yaroub was doing all this fantastic work bringing the Iraq war veterans and the Iraqi refugees together to sort of create these healing environments," she said. "That spoke exactly to what this project was trying to do in its vision. Yaroub got it immediately. It was an opportunity that we couldn't pass up. It's really exciting."
Construction is expected to take about two weeks. Anybody can volunteer for a work shift — the project is not restricted to just veterans or Iraqis. After it's finished, the mudhif will host a ceremonial grand opening, then it will be programmed with events that are not yet determined. "I'm more excited about the social life inside, to be honest," said Al-Obaidi.
Because this is the first mudhif outside Iraq that she knows of, Kavage is not entirely sure how long it will stand up. The climate of southern Iraq is dryer than Philadelphia's, making reeds less likely to rot, and in winter snow is extremely rare. The design of this Philly mudhif will account for snowpack on the roof, and Kavage is prepared to repair woven thatches as necessary.
"Our plan is just to sort of watch and see how it weathers and see how structurally sound it is," she said. "We'll take it down when it's time, of course, if we think it's going to be unstable. I'm optimistic that it'll last for a while."
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Carol Wainio – Fables and fairy tales provide cautionary metaphors
Galleries West
By Lissa Robinson
We live in perilous and uncertain times. As we face potential losses of plant, animal and human life, we may also wonder how climate change will alter our culture and the stories we tell. What happens to Hansel and Gretel if the forest is stripped away? Will fables lose meaning when animals disappear?
Such thoughts are deftly presented in Vers l'incertitude, an exhibition by Ottawa painter Carol Wainio at TrépanierBaer in Calgary until May 28. The show – its title translates as "toward uncertainty" – features 19 paintings that allude to familiar fables and fairy tales as cautionary metaphors for climate change. These works, which span 2018 to 2022, also borrow from children's literature, historical paintings and vintage photographs or illustrations.
Wainio, who teaches at the University of Ottawa, received a 2014 Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts. She is known for lush and intelligent narrative paintings skilfully (and surprisingly) created with acrylic paints. Her delicately crafted yet complex canvases offer explosions of muted colours, vibrating gestural marks and an enthralling luminosity and depth. Her surfaces and pictorial spaces shift seamlessly between abstraction and realism, often interrupted by signs or symbols like question marks and smiley faces.
In Tabula Rosa, a fluffy sheep lays passively on the ground gazing sleepily at viewers. Floating above are pages illustrating a wolf and a hand with wishfully crossed fingers. The landscape is idyllic, but the sky feels turbulent, as though a storm is brewing. The painting, while beautiful in its creamy pinkish play with light and shadow, makes one uneasy. There's a story here, and one that might not end well. The sheep, which blends easily with the scenery, embodies the land, while the wolf looks hungry. The crossed fingers seem merely to hope for the best, rather than taking action to forestall the coming drama.
Fairy tales, and more recently fables, have occupied Wainio for a decade or more. Her fascination with children's stories meshes wonderfully with her aesthetic sensibilities, including her use of pastiche. For example, in paintings based on Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare, Wainio evokes dead hares from 17th-century still-life artists, such as Dutch painter Jan Weenix. These images may make one think of trophy hunting, pointing to human arrogance and greed as factors in the current environmental crisis. In contrast, Wainio renders her tortoises using childlike doodles or gestural marks. Perhaps purposeful plodding, she seems to suggest, will better help humans mitigate climate change.
Across all her paintings, Wainio uses an earthy and romantic palette, building pictorial scenes with delicately layered brushstrokes that dance playfully between passages of shimmering light, swirling lines, textural patterns or foreboding shadows. In The Deer and the Pool, for example, a majestic stag sees its reflection in a cerulean blue pond that shimmers in the foreground. There's a darkly painted mass where the stag's antlers are ensnared in the branches of a tree. A hunting dog, rendered in ghostly form, bounds eagerly forward. If the dog represents humanity, this surely is another warning.
A common fairy tale theme is children alone in the woods. The dangers are particularly evident in Lost Forest, where a child hides behind a tree surrounded by tumultuous foliage, violent scribbles and childlike doodles. This painting points to the ways we are abandoning future generations to environmental devastation.
Yet, despite their dark mood, Wainio's works are lushly atmospheric, exuding magical capacities for transforming anthropomorphized animals of yore into poetic harbingers for the new challenges we face.
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Strengthening African Governance: The Ibrahim Index of African Governance: Results and Rankings
All citizens of all countries desire to be governed well. That is what citizens want from the nation-states in which they live. Thus, nation-states in the modern world are responsible for the delivery of essential political goods to their inhabitants. That is their purpose, and has been their central legitimate justification since at least the seventeent century. The essential political goods can be summarized and gathered under five categories: Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development. Together, these five categories of political goods epitomize the performance of any government, at any level. No one, whether looking to her village, municipality, province, state, or nation, willingly wants to be victimized by crime or to live in a society without laws, freedom, the chance to prosper, or access to decent schools, well-run hospitals, and well-maintained roads. This 2008 Index measures the degree to which each of these political goods is provided within the forty-eight African countries south of the Sahara. By comprehensively measuring the performance of government in this manner, that is, by measuring governance, the Index is able to offer a report card on the accomplishments of each government for the years being investigated -- 2000 and 2002 (for baseline indications) and 2005 and 2006 (the last years with reasonably complete available data for nearly all sub-Saharan African nation-states). The Index is updated annually. Additionally, the sources of information for the indicators used in our Index are also updated constantly, both through our own efforts and through the efforts of other projects. Thus, in each year, we employ the best available data. Unlike many other projects, we also update the Index backward in each year, using all of this new information so that comparisons over time can be made. This allows the Index to be used to demonstrate how each of the forty-eight countries has shown progress or has slipped backward.
Rotberg, Robert I., and Rachel Gisselquist. Strengthening African Governance: The Ibrahim Index of African Governance: Results and Rankings. World Peace Foundation, 2008.


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Best Black Friday Game Deals Under $15 For PS4, Xbox One
Published on November 30, 2019 by Jennifer Stephens
With these deals, you can buy several games for the average retail price of one.
There are tons of Black Friday 2019 deals flying around right now, and it can be hard to get the most out of the shopping holiday without spending big. Not everyone can afford all the best Black Friday deals unless they've been patiently waited a long time to get a deal on the best games from yesteryear.
To help you in your quest to get a solid deal, we've highlighted below the best Black Friday gaming deals for all games that have been discounted to $15 or less. Currently, that mostly encompasses Microsoft's Xbox Live Holiday Sale, but quite a few titles on PSN, Eshop, the Epic Games Store, and Green Man Gaming are discounted too. As more places begin rolling out additional deals, we'll be sure to add them to this gallery.
If you're looking for advice, we suggest first looking at the deals that give you a collection of games–they offer you the most bang for your buck. You can nab Rocksteady's entire Batman Arkham trilogy–Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight–for $15, for instance. Both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: Inquisition are bundled together for the same price as well. There are quite a few indie darlings on this list too–Celeste and What the Golf being two notable examples–and several titles that were underappreciated at launch, such as Titanfall 2.
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Alan Wake Collector's Edition – $3 (Epic Games Store)
Alan Wake is well worth revisiting following the release of developer Remedy's latest game, Control, but it's also a horror game worth checking on its own merits. With its Twin Peaks-inspired vibes, unsettling use of live-action video, and intriguing story, it's a creepy, memorable experience.
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Assassin's Creed Origins – $15 (Xbox Live)
Assassin's Creed Origins is the biggest transformation Ubisoft's franchise has undergone since 2012's Assassin's Creed III. The 2017 game moved the franchise away from social stealth and towards a loot-focused action RPG. It's a refreshing new coat of paint for a series that had begun to grow stale–and its story is no slouch either.
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Batman Arkham Collection – $15 (Xbox Live)
For a fraction of their total retail price, you can get all three of Rocksteady's Batman games as well as all of the post-launch DLC that comes with them. The collection includes the standard version of Arkham Knight and full remastered versions of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.
The BioWare Bundle – $15 (Xbox Live)
BioWare has been on a bit of a cold streak recently, but that wasn't always the case. Though both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect: Andromeda don't live up to the quality of the previous titles in their respective series, both can offer hundreds of hours of the choice-driven, narrative RPG gameplay that BioWare is known for.
Celeste – $10 (Epic Games Store)
One of the best indie games of 2018, Celeste is a challenging platformer that uses the difficulty of its levels to convey both the sense of climbing a mountain and living with self-doubt or depression. The game tells an emotional tale full of beloved characters–and the music is some of the best heard in any video game.
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Cities: Skylines – $6.75 (Green Man Gaming)
In the void left by the absence of the SimCity series, Cities: Skylines has picked up the ball and run with it, providing a deep but approachable take on city building. With numerous updates released over the years (and the option for even more content through its myriad expansion packs, which are also on sale), there's the potential for countless hours of entertainment here.
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Civilization VI – $13.50 (Green Man Gaming)
The most recent game in Sid Meier's long-running strategy game series is another stellar entry–and the sort of thing that you can lose entire days to in the blink of an eye. Civ VI revamps numerous systems and is as good an entry point as any if you're new to the series but intrigued by the idea of navigating a civilization from its origins all the way up through the Space Age.
Dark Souls III – $15 (Xbox Live)
Though From Software created the Souls-like formula with Demon Souls, it was Dark Souls that put the evolving subgenre on the map. Dark Souls III concludes From Software's beloved franchise, offering answers to some of the series longest-standing questions and delivering many of the franchise's most challenging bosses. Don't worry, you don't need any context from the first two games to enjoy Dark Souls III.
God of War – $10 (PSN)
God of War was one of our ten nominees for game of the year in 2018, and though it ultimately fell short to Red Dead Redemption 2, that doesn't mean this PS4 exclusive is bad by any means. In fact, God of War is one of the most surprising games of 2018–transforming one of the most murderous and monstrous gaming protagonists ever into a sympathetic dad.
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Grand Theft Auto V 5 – $10 (Xbox Live)
The massively successful Grand Theft Auto V comprises two distinct halves. The single-player portion of the game involves a lengthy story where you switch between three protagonists and involves taking part in multi-stage heists. GTA Online is also included with the package and grants access to the ever-evolving online multiplayer component of the game, where you can take part in numerous activities–including heists that let you and your friends team up for some memorable missions.
Hitman 2 – $15 (Xbox Live)
Hitman 2 builds on the foundation established by its immediate predecessor, functioning more a as a live-service platform for all of your assassination needs. Hitman 2 includes not just a variety of levels, but also access to a ton of developer- and fan-made content, ensuring you always have a new target to take down. And make no mistake: Hitman 2 is both a terrific action-puzzle game and downright hilarious.
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition – $10 (PSN)
Horizon may have been overshadowed for some due to it releasing so close to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but it's nonetheless an excellent game that's still worth your time now. Featuring an expansive open world and an intriguing story about an apocalypse that results in the world being overrun by animal-like robots, Horizon boasts a fun combat system and terrific visuals. Better yet, this Complete Edition package bundles in the great Frozen Wilds DLC expansion.
Monster Hunter World – $15 (PSN/Xbox Live)
The most recent game in the Monster Hunter series is also its most approachable, but not without losing what makes it special. Monster Hunter World is all about lengthy encounters against huge monsters, whose attack patterns and behaviors you'll need to learn so you can effectively take them down over and over as you craft an arsenal of weapons and armor using materials you scavenge from them.
Persona 5 – $10 (PSN)
Persona 5 is arguably the most stylish game ever, with an incredible soundtrack and even menus that just look phenomenal. Like previous games in the series, it mashes together the dungeon-crawling aspects of the Shin Megami Tensei series with anime-inspired daily life sequences where you go to school, hang out with friends, and forge bonds. It's a must-play for RPG fans.
Rainbow Six: Siege Deluxe Edition – $10.80 (Green Man Gaming) / $12 (PSN/Xbox Live) / $8 (Epic Games Store)
Rainbow Six Siege has seen robust support ever since launch, consistently improving in numerous ways. The competitive shooter features a diverse array of characters with their own unique toolsets that they bring to a match, and combined with a bullet-penetration and destruction system that never lets you feel safe, Siege is a great option for anyone interested in a PvP shooter. Numerous versions of the game are on sale (including the cheaper base game), but the Deluxe edition will package the game with some of its earlier DLC Operators to give you a more robust slate of choices.
Rocket League – $10 (Xbox Live)
Rocket League is an extraordinarily simple game to learn: you boost around a stadium as a rocket-powered racecar and try to bump a ball into the opponent's goal. Despite this simplicity, the game has an incredibly high competitive ceiling–pushing you to learn new ways to control your car, whether on the ground or in the air. Matches are short and delightfully fun, making Rocket League ideal for those looking for a co-op game with friends.
Sunset Overdrive Deluxe Edition – $12 (Xbox Live)
Prior to Marvel's Spider-Man, Insomniac was redefining how traversal and combat can meld together in Sunset Overdrive–an Xbox One console exclusive that could really deserve a sequel. Sunset Overdrive is ludicrously absurd, but its jokes are genuinely humorous and the action is satisfying. Pulling off well-timed shots while wall-running between buildings is a blast and the story, though slow to start, delivers a pretty spectacular finishing act.
Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition – $4.49 (Xbox Live)
Titanfall 2 is one of the best first-person shooters of this console generation, delivering a well-written single-player campaign that contains some truly unique levels and an engaging multiplayer that still supports and active playerbase (at least on Xbox One).
What The Golf? – $13 (Epic Games Store)
What The Golf should not be confused for a golf game. You're often trying to hit an object toward a hole, sure, but the game features a diverse–and ridiculous–array of objectives. One moment you're launching your character's body toward the hole, and in another you're racing cars around a track or knocking over cats. It's a funny game that consistently manages to find new wrinkles to keep you entertained.
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Movistar Open 2006 — 13-й розыгрыш ежегодного профессионального теннисного турнира среди мужчин, проводящегося в чилийском городе Винья-дель-Мар, и являющегося частью ATP Тура в рамках международной серии.

В 2006 году турнир прошёл с 30 января по 5 февраля. Соревнование открывало южноамериканскую грунтовую серию.

Первой ракеткой турнира был чилиец Гастон Гаудио (№ 8 в мире на тот момент).

Одиночный разряд

Первые раунды

Секция 1

Секция 2

Финал

Факты
 Хосе Акасусо выигрывает 1-й титул в сезоне и 3-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.
 Николас Массу уступает 1-й финал в сезоне и 6-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.

Парный разряд

Факты
 Хосе Акасусо выигрывает 1-й титул в сезоне и 4-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.
 Себастьян Прието выигрывает 1-й титул в сезоне и 7-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.

См. также
 Movistar Open

 ATP Тур 2006
 Международная серия ATP

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 Профиль турнира на сайте ATP

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Теннис
Январь 2006 года
Февраль 2006 года
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