Intel has migrated its new i9 processor family to the portable market, or semi-portable, anyway. The i9-8950HK is an unlocked, overclockable 6C/12T laptop CPU, capable of turbo boosting to 4.8GHz when power and thermal budget permits.
The new i9-8950HK runs at a base clock of 2.9GHz, with single-core turbo boosting to 4.8GHz. We are unclear on what the all-core turbo boost max frequency is, but it's clearly lower. TDP is rated at 45W, though note that this is more a measure of the cooling requirements and not the actual power consumption; that said, Intel's TDP ratings almost always explicitly coincide with power consumption numbers. The 8950HK will move away from the quad-channel support of its desktop brethren, and instead move down to dual-channel memory at a base frequency of 2666MHz. Unlocked motherboards should theoretically permit higher memory speeds, though we are uncertain of the market options at this time.
At long last, Intel and AMD have announced a partnership to build a new mobile chip. In broad terms, Intel will ship processors with integrated AMD Radeon graphics and HMB2--all on one package.
Intel and AMD have seemingly set their gaze on the current crop of gaming/production laptops and devices, which are far behind the trend of thinner, more power efficient devices with smaller footprints. PC enthusiasts on a mobile platform who want gaming performance and the power for content creation obviously don't want to sacrifice function for form, so therein lies the rub--this is exactly the crux that Intel and AMD aim to address with this collaboration.
Most manufacturers have invited us to some sort of notebook press conference or briefing for this show, and there are a few reasons why: For one, nVidia is now pushing a new initiative to tighten requirements on manufacturers to build quieter laptops, and two, AMD R7 notebooks are now beginning to enter the channel. We'll focus on MSI's new notebooks here, alongside some additional coverage of nVidia's new "Max-Q" initiative, named in true Bond-like fashion.
MSI's new laptops use existing product lines from Intel and nVidia, so there's no new silicon, but the company has revamped its chassis and cooling solution for the new GT75VR Titan, GE63VR Raider, and GE73VR Raider. Unfortunately, the company did not take questions during its press conference, so we'll have to save our recent criticisms for a second booth visit later in the show. Regardless, we've got information on the hardware, and that's something for which we've previously praised MSI. Based on upgrades to cooling, MSI boasted heavily in the press conference that the new notebooks would produce "30% higher performance," though we do not know what they will be 30% higher than, or in what measurement.
Anyway, let's cut through the marketing and talk hardware.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the hardware industry is when a company made a perfectly viable product, but somehow flummoxed execution. The consumer doesn't see the architecture or the engineering – at least, not outside of reviews – they see the full picture. In this capacity, consumers get a view of a product that is similar to a product manager's: The big picture as it comes together, seeing past all the smaller details along the way.
A GPU might, for instance, be a powerhouse when analyzed under an SEM or in a vacuum, but could prove hamstrung in adverse thermal conditions resultant of an inadequate cooler. More appropriately, a laptop could host the best mobile hardware available, but prove devalued when flooded with unneeded software. The fastest SSD in the business, as bogged down with bloatware, will still be slower than a clean Windows install on a fresh HDD.
This big picture is sometimes lost to the chaos of marketing development efforts, particularly when MDF starts exchanging hands, and lost in the need to turn a profit in an industry with small margins. That's what happened with MSI's laptops: These are completely capable, highly competitive laptops that demand attention – but they're plagued with an ineffable concoction of applications, responsible for doubling time required to boot. That's not all, either – we have measured an impact to noise output as the CPU boosts sporadically, an unpredictable and spurious impact to frametimes, an impact to battery life, and an overall reduction in product quality.
MSI's new-ish GS43 Phantom Pro laptop made an appearance at PAX East this weekend, where we're presently RNG-ing some tear-downs and live benchmark demonstrations. Our first content piece discussed keyboard input latency testing, and our second piece – this one – will open up the Phantom Pro for a closer look.
As a quick side note, MSI does have "new" camo finish GTX 1060s, Z270 motherboards, and GE62 laptops. We show those briefly in the video, though it's really not a focal point for today.


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Why we banned IMN's activities in Plateau– Lalong
On October 24, 2016 5:47 pmIn Newsby Emmanuel Okogba
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has explained that security considerations were "purely responsible for the ban on the activities of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in the state.''
"Plateau has laws regulating the practice of religions; we have a duty to ensure that the practice of religion does not constitute a security risk to anyone," Lalong said in Jos on Monday.
The governor, who spoke through Mr Dan Manjang, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, was reacting to allegations by IMN that he (Lalong) was merely copying what his Kaduna counterpart, Ahmed El-Rufai, did a week earlier.
Lalong had banned the group last week following series of protests that turned violent and led to the deaths of some of the sect members after a clash with security personnel.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some members of the group were also injured while many were arrested.
IMN leader in Plateau, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, while reacting to the ban, told newsmen on Sunday that Lalong merely replicated what El-Rufai did "without recourse to the dictates of the law.''
"The governor stood logic on its head by outrightly banning our organisation. There was no reason for his action.
"The arbitrary ban has stripped us of our fundamental rights to practise our faith," he claimed.
But Lalong dismissed the allegations that Plateau merely emulated Kaduna, wondering why the state should be accused of seeking to domesticate a decision taken by the Kaduna government.
He said that the ban was to protect residents of Plateau "including members of the IMN.''
"The ban was also to protect the Shi'ite' members; they were already open to risk with many of them physically attacked while their structures were being burnt and destroyed.
"Our prompt action was based on the situation at the time because as a government, we owe it a duty to protect the people, even from themselves," he said.
On the allegations that IMN members had been denied their rights, the governor said that every right offered to the citizens must be used responsibly.
"The law is clear about that. Once your right jeopardises other people's rights, it can be tampered with. That is what we did,'' he said.
He said that government was always ready to ban the activities of any organisation if they were found to constitute a security risk.
The governor appealed to residents of the state to be law abiding and respect each.
"We must endeavour to respect and protect each other. Respect must be mutual. No religion encourages violence; certainly not in Plateau," he said.
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Shadows of War
Battle the Mythos Against the Horror of War Here are four longer scenarios set in and around the Second World War. Each scenario offers a distinct setting and location though, roughly speaking, each gives players at least a glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea. There is no plausible way (we can see) of linking the scenarios into a campaign, but this is the idea: the situation of war is ideal for one-shot... [click here for more] Chaosium $19.95
Sharper than any Blade
Not every hero kills with a blade. Words have power and the right ones can topple princes and drive the most confident into despair. Do you dare enter the courts of Théah and face the deadly courtiers who duel with words rather than blades? This system adapts the dueling rules from the Core Rulebook to allow battles of wits that might do more damage than any duel of steel. It includes several... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.00
A Call of Cthulhu Scenario in the Ozark Mountains Time stands still in the Ozark Mountains in 1927. Located in southern Missouri, the people who live here feel little need to rush. In-tune with nature, and appreciative of her frightening beauty more than many city dwellers, isolation and dark rites are common. Few towns have discovered civilization. MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION... [click here for more] Chaosium $6.95
Shepherd of Moths - a Zgrozy scenario
This is the English version of the first non-English electrum bestseller on Miskatonic Repository: Zgrozy - Pasterz Ciem. Three religious studies scholars, fascinated by legends of other worlds, stumbled upon tales about the "Shepherd of Moths," a mysterious cosmic entity. The Shepherd is said to wander the world, transforming willing occultists, as well as random victims, into... [click here for more] Chaosium $2.49
Shimmering Seas
Tensions are high in the South China Sea as the People's Republic of China presses its claim on the resource-rich region that many believe could become a flashpoint for a wider global conflict. As a show of solidarity with its Pacific allies, the United States has deployed its newest, most advanced warship, a recently commissioned stealth destroyer armed with the navy's prototype railgun.... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.49
Shreds and Tatters: Six Tiny Interludes in Yellow
Ashen Remnants of the King... Somewhere in a cold, dark abandoned theater there lies a set of faded scraps of paper upon which are written stage notes for a truly wicked play. Faded and worn, these shreds and tatters of darkness will unnerve any Investigator unlucky enough to find themselves in such scenes… Shreds and Tatters is a set of six short interludes by Dark... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.00
Solo Engine for 7th Sea Role Playing Game
Solo Engine for 7th Sea This rules supplement allows you to play 7th Sea (1st or 2nd Edition) without a Games Master. Questions about your the world and the actions of all the NPCs that you would normally ask your GM are handled by a few simple tables and one or two dice rolls. Rules are provided for simple and complex questions, scene objectives, NPC actions and combat tactics. Alongside the... [click here for more] Chaosium $1.99
Spark of Life
This scenario is an Isolated Investigator Adventure. It's designed to be a tension-filled mystery between the Keeper and a solitary investigator. In Spark of Life, a solitary Miskatonic University graduate student becomes the target of a fraternity hazing ritual. What is going on with the Kappa Delta Psi fraternity, and why are they so interested in this one... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.00
Spirits of Madness
SPIRITS OF MADNESS Monster of the Month #1 — January 2020 Spirits of Madness are a type of disease spirit which lurks near places associated with the Moon Rune. This new bestiary entry includes: Description of the behavior, powers, & possible locations of madness spirits Gamemaster advice on using disease spirits The Madness disease, and sample afflictions ranging from paranoia... [click here for more] Chaosium $1.00
Stafford Library - Esrolia: Land of 10K Goddesses
Esrolia, the Land of Ten Thousand Goddesses is the compilation of Greg Stafford and Jeff Richard's notes and thoughts concerning the great land of Esrolia. This book contains some parts from previous publications, to be as inclusive on this subject as possible. This book is divided into four parts: ESROLIA, Grainland is the first. This contains some general information about the... [click here for more] Chaosium $15.00 $4.99
Stafford Library - Heortling Mythology
This volume of the Stafford Library is a compilation of every Orlanthi myth, god, and hero published or unpublished known by Greg Stafford at the time of printing. The Book of Heortling Mythology contains myths from the entirety of the Orlanthi God Time: from the Creation of Glorantha to the Lightbringers Quest and and the Death of Heort. It also provides dozens of short tales about various... [click here for more] Chaosium $30.00 $19.99
A strange illness is sweeping the city. The "Dreaming Disease" is claiming more victims with every passing day. Doctors are at a loss, and no vector for transmission has been found. The investigators must use their wits to find the link between the victims and release them from their dreaming prisons! Starfall is an adventure for 3-5 investigators of any experience level, and should take 1-2 sessions... [click here for more] Chaosium $4.99
Steampunk Cthulhu: Mythos Terror in the Age of Steam
MYTHOS TERROR IN THE AGE OF STEAM "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein,... [click here for more] Chaosium $8.95
Storytelling with the Sorte Deck: Using the Cards to Inspire Your Stories
Use 7th Sea's Sorte deck or another set of Tarot cards to boost your creativity and help you improvise story elements! Using this intuitive and fast method, GMs and writers can quickly create scenes, missions, and characters with depth and dynamism. GMs can even do it in the middle of a game session! This supplement describes methods for creating a Scene or Side-quest, a major... [click here for more] Chaosium Pay What You Want
Strange Songs
Strange Songs can be heard across time and space... A new monograph from the acclaimed* non-euclidian fuzion band Cabal 13. Strange Songs includes 5 modern day Call of Cthulhu adventures with a musical theme: Daddy's Little Girl Drum Circle Make Ye A Path Opening Act Two Turntables & A Microphone There's something here for just about... [click here for more] Chaosium $10.95
Strange Tales of Dread & Wonder #1
A Sextet of Diverse Mythos Adventures This monograph is the result of our first Chaosium.com Call of Cthulhu Adventure Contest. We received entries from all over the world, and it was rather difficult to narrow the winners down to a number small enough to fit into one monograph (and this is still the largest we've released). This first contest was fun enough that we'll likely do more of them.... [click here for more] Chaosium $11.95
Three Adventures for Call of Cthulhu This monograph is the result of our second Chaosium.com Call of Cthulhu Adventure Contest. Three submissions were chosen this time around. WAR OF THE SPECTRES is a modern-day scenario reflecting the events of the day. Likewise, THE GLENDALE FAERIES is set in the modern-day, set in a quiet Cumbrian village. Finally, MADNESS OF THE BLACK OPAL is set... [click here for more] Chaosium $7.95
Strega's Loom: A Guide to the Sorte Deck
The Sorte deck is a variation on the Tarot deck designed to be a core element of Vodacce culture, but there's no reason it can't also serve as an actual divinatory aid in the real world. Presenting an analysis of the symbolism in each of the 78 cards, along with four suggested spreads with which to use them, Strega's Loom provides an essential guide to the meanings and uses of the Sorte deck.... [click here for more] Chaosium Pay What You Want
Sweet Jenny
Sweet Jenny is a gambling game played in the world of Theah and inspired by classic card games. As a game itself, Sweet Jenny is a mix of blackjack, poker, and three-card monte. It combines strategy, bluffing, mind-games, and blind luck to create a chaotic and fun diversion for sailors, dock-hands, slumming nobles, and tavern-dwelling philosophers alike ... [click here for more] Chaosium $0.99
Swordsman's Guild
"En garde!" You're quick with your blade and quicker with your tongue. Your enemies are numerous and waiting for a weakness. Do you spend your days watching the shadows? Or call them out on the field of honor and settle things once and for all? You've lost your daughter to brutal kidnappers. The authorities can do nothing to help. Do you accede to the thugs' demands... [click here for more] Chaosium $19.95 $7.96
Tables of Contents - Pavis, Big Rubble & River of Cradles
This short free document is a side-by-side comparison of the Tables of Contents, Maps, Cutaways and Views contained in three key sources: Pavis & Big Rubble (RuneQuest Classic / Glorantha Classic), River of Cradles (RuneQuest 3rd Edition) & Pavis: Gateway to Adventure (HeroQuest Glorantha). It won't be particularly useful unless you already... [click here for more] Chaosium FREE
Taking Risks: Roleplaying with Flair!
Flair is an excellent mechanic to keep the descriptions flowing while Heroes take risks. It encourages players to switch tactics and add unpredictability. Unfortunately, while Flair is useful when forming approaches, it doesn't apply to actions within a sequence. Thus, there is little incentive to switch skills during a sequence, especially when the hero is penalized for it. Taking Risks addresses... [click here for more] Chaosium $2.00
Tales From Ye Dusty Olde Crap Shoppe
TALES FROM YE DUSTY OLDE CRAP SHOPPE, a 21st Century Scenario from the author of "Blood Orgy on Vampire Island." The shabby environs of Ye Dusty Olde Crap Shoppe are as redolent of defeat and despair as any seven bus stations—or perhaps even a rest home's day-room. This is where unloved books go to die. Technically its name is the "Friends of the Essex County Library Store" but no one... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.95
Tales of Death & Darkness
1920's Era Adventures When Mr. Tuttle went into the storage room several days later, he saw a stack of papers piled beside the typewriter. Curious, he went to the stack and began reading. They were stories: stories of places near and far, stories of long ago and of the distant future. They were stories of struggles against unnamable things and the heroes who defended mankind against them. They... [click here for more] Chaosium $8.95
Tales of the Sun County Militia Vol 1: Sandheart
This 39-page volume contains information to run a campaign as solar worshippers set in Sun County in Prax. The characters play the role of Sun County militiamen based at the border hamlet of Sandheart. They are the law. The first half of the volume provides a description of Sandheart and its surrounds, six characters ready to play, spirit cults, important NPCs and further details on how to generate... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.95
Tales Out of Innsmouth
New Stories of the Children of Dagon "Right here in our own state of Massachusetts, in February of 1928, agents of the U.S. Treasury and Justic Departments perpetrated crimes worthy of Nazi Germany against a powerless minority of our citizens . . . When the dust of this jack-booted invasion had settled, no citizens [of Innsmouth, Massachusetts] were found guilty of any crime but the desire... [click here for more] Chaosium $8.95
Taming the Waterwolf
Taming the Waterwolf is a historical Call of Cthulhu scenario set in the Netherlands of 1849, in the early stages of the reclamation of the country's largest lake, the Haarlemmermeer (Haarlem's Lake). In its course, the investigators will be inquiring into the sabotage of the Lynden, one of the three enormous steam-powered pumping mills that were... [click here for more] Chaosium $4.99
Tarnished Iron
In first edition 7th Sea, one of the most delightful things about the Eisen was that their signature was punching evil in the face with a dracheneisen gauntlet. In 2nd edition, this has been replaced with creepy magic, and it feels like an unfair tradeoff. Dracheneisen still exists in the setting, but it's explicitly put out of the reach of starting characters. It's time to change... [click here for more] Chaosium Pay What You Want
Temples & Towers
This slim pamphlet contains descriptions, illustrations, and floorplans for a selection of temples and towers, together with descriptions and keys. It includes one of Saronil's towers, a description of a dread tower in the midst of the Upland Marsh derived from the delirious account of an insane survivor of an expedition, and temples of Ernalda, Pimper, the Seven Mothers and Hon-eel. Whilst... [click here for more] Chaosium $4.00
" To get out of this place, please buy the key from the vending machine." When you wake up, you're in a room with someone. <o:p></o:p> All you can see is the vending machine and a locked door.<o:p></o:p> Instead of a coin slot, the vending machine has two rows of five holes, totally Ten the size of fingers. It is a short and simple closed circle scenario.... [click here for more] Chaosium Pay What You Want
During the Reign of Joseph Stalin Terror is a one-session scenario for Call of Cthulhu set in the Soviet Union during the reign of Joseph Stalin. It begins in February 1932 and is centered in the frozen city of Moscow. Terror is designed to emphasize the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia, and to pit the investigators against each other within an environment of paranoia. The scenario was originally... [click here for more] Chaosium $10.00 $5.50
Terror Itself
It's the find of a lifetime. A dried out riverbed, full of pre-colonial relics, untouched since it bore witness to a brutal battle sometime in the twelfth century. A team of Miskatonic University researchers are dispatched to Clayton River at once, and by July 10th, 1927, work is underway. Then the first people go missing. Terror Itself pits 2 – 6 investigators against an invisible... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.95
The Antarktos Cycle
Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth ". . . They rose grimly into the western sky; allowing us to distinguish various bare, bleak, blackish summits, and to catch the curious sense of fantasy which they inspired as seen . . . against the provocative background of iridescent ice-dust clouds. In the whole spectacle there was a persistent, pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential... [click here for more] Chaosium $14.95
The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass
The timeless appeal of the legends of the Hero Wars has resulted in an enduring interest in the period. Surviving texts, supplemented by archaeological evidence, are used here as the basis of this reconstruction of the combatants of the initial phases of that world-shattering conflict. Focused on Dragon Pass and the surrounding regions (Peloria, Pent, Prax and Maniria), this volume presents details... [click here for more] Chaosium $24.95
The Art of Improvisation
These optional rules replace Dramatic Sequences with freeform Scenes that allow the players to take as many risks as necessary to attain the Scene Goal. This allows for more dynamic play as the players are free to mix and match Approaches and fit Action Sequences comfortably within Scenes without having to switch back and forth between Action and Drama. ... [click here for more] Chaosium $2.00
The Book of Dzyan
The Known Text • The Secret Doctrine • Additional Sources • A Life of Mme. Blavatsky "The Stanzas, therefore, give an abstract formula which can be applied, mutatis mutandis, to all evolution: to that of our tiny earth, to that of the chain of planets of which that earth forms one, to the solar Universe to which that chain belongs, and so on, in an ascending scale, till the... [click here for more] Chaosium $7.95
The Book of Eibon
Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent, and the Eibonic Rituals Tales of lore tell of the Book of Eibon, a tome so ancient that it was originally written in the Hyperborean language of Tsath-Yo, long before Atlantis was born from the sea. It goes by dozens of names and predates even the Necronomicon... [click here for more] Chaosium $11.95
The Boss: A Tale of Dark, Distilled Secrets in a Bottle
Prohibition, The Fine Arts, and Amber Lies… It's 1924 and Prohibition is in full swing, but that's hardly stopped the Shakespeare Gang from making a living out of it right under the noses of a local arts collective, the Lakeside Guild. While the Guild plies its community-driven approach to the arts, the rum-runners below operate with impunity… or... [click here for more] Chaosium $7.00
The Caliberi Letters
The War of the Cross nearly destroyed Théah. In the end, nearly eight million people died. But what many do not know is the secret reason behind the War… The Caliberi Letters is the first part in a series of adventures called The Grand Design, which reveals this secret truth to your Heroes. What begins at a wake for a friend—Magda Müller—turns into... [click here for more] Chaosium $1.99
The Camping Trip
Between 1910 and 1930, the Green Mountain Club built the Vermont Long Trail, a hiking trail stretching 273 miles along the spine of the Green Mountains from Williamstown, Massachusetts to North Troy, Vermont. In 1927, three young women — Catherine Robbins, Hilda M. Kurth, and Kathleen Norris, known as "the Three Musketeers" — hiked the length of the trail. Their trip was widely publicized... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.99
In northern Eisen sits the long forgotten Duster Castle, deep within the Angenehme Wald. The castle was once the proud home of the Baderbaasch scions, but their lands went into steep, terrible decline in the later years of the War of the Cross... The Castle is a supernatural horror adventure set in war-torn Eisen. The Castle is an adventure for adult audiences... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.99
The Children Cry
Children are disappearing on the island nation of La Bucca, victims of a being they call the Bogeyman, the subject of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. They need Heroes to venture out into the night and battle the monster who preys on them, but is that monster really a slavering beast haunting the island's coasts... or does it roam somewhere much closer to home? A 7th Sea: Second Edition adventure... [click here for more] Chaosium $2.99
The Complete Pegana
All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegana, by Lord Dunsany "... Dunsany has influenced me more than anyone else except Poe—his rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-world, & his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in mordern literature. My first encounter with him ... gave an immense impetus... [click here for more] Chaosium $14.95
A great evil has taken root in Eisen with the rise of the Horrors. The Heroes have been summoned to the keep of Eisenfürst Roswitha von Wirsche to purge one of the monstrous threats that plague the land. Along the way, they get an up-close look at the dangers that stalk this once-great Nation, meet some of the folk most threat- ened by these new monsters and perhaps change the course of the politics... [click here for more] Chaosium $3.99
The Crow's Nest #1 - Navigating Delicate Negotiations
Welcome to first issue of The Crow's Nest, the newsletter where we help you put the rules of 7th Sea into practice along with ideas for new NPCs, Monsters, Plot Hooks, and Secret Socieities. to throw at your Heroes. In our first issue, Navigating Delicate Negotiations, you'll learn how to use Raises and Pressure to negotiate agreements between your Heroes and NPCs.... [click here for more] Chaosium $2.00
The Cruel Empire of Tsan Chan
Future History of the Cruel Empire of Tsan Chan Being an account of the year Five Thousand and the creation of Empire That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. For the citizens of the Tsan Chan Empire, the facts of the events concerning the rise of the Great... [click here for more] Chaosium $14.95 $8.22
The Dark Journal
Excerpts from the personal journal of Blenda Linda Guda, a monster hunter from Eisen and folk hero for the small towns that stood near the boundaries of the Walder. These pages are but a few of the many others collectively referred to as "The Dark Journal," an unofficial dossier of creatures and Horrors that exist within the dark corners of Eisen. This journal, the first of many, speaks... [click here for more] Chaosium $1.99
The Dark Journal - Part 2
Excerpts from the personal journal of Blenda Linda Guda, a monster hunter and folk hero from Eisen. She collected pages about different horrors and bound them into what others collectively refer to as "The Dark Journal," an unofficial dossier of creatures and Horrors that exist. This journal is the second of many, with pages originally written by a Kristoff Reichart, and speaks of things... [click here for more] Chaosium $1.99
The Devil's Due
Have your Heroes, or perhaps your Villains, made a deal with the Devil Jonah? Here's some ideas and guidelines for creating your own dark gifts from the cursed scourge of the sea himself! ... [click here for more] Chaosium $0.99


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Here we go...Just a brief rundown of good ideas to do and take care of. These are just general guidelines that I have my techs follow, but are most definitely superceded by ANY manufacturers suggestions.
Of course, at each oil change check for any fluid leaks, fluid levels and condition, visually inspect for worn suspension bushings and for tire wear. Inspect exhuast system for any leaks/damage/needed repairs.
Every 15,000 miles change the air and fuel filter.
Every 30,000 miles you should clean the fuel injectors, the air induction system, and change the transmission fluid and filter. The exception is that if you tow, the fluid and filter should be changed once per year, regardless of mileage.
Every 3 yrs, flush the brake fluid and engine coolant. If it is a GM with the Dexcool, all the more important to do before it gets old. Most Dexcool doesn't make it to the 5yr/150K mile mark.
"Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams!"
Bad day of fishing > Good day at the office!
I replaced my air filter with a K&N FIPK Air intake kit as well as my exhaust with a magnaflow dual exhaust. I installed both myself and the installation wasn't that bad and the instructions were good. The filter was about $250 and the exhaust about $450 but I've noticed a very slight increase in gas mileage as well as better pickup, especially when I am towing. And hey, the low rumble sound that comes out makes me feel tougher at times.
Right on with the transmission flush and filter every year. I usually at this point have them change the fuel filter as well. The mechanics that I know have really noticed alot of gunked up fuel injectors and cylinders lately. I live in the midwest where you can purchase gas with 10% ethanol added and while it's susposed to burn cleaner, the guys i've talked to at my local shop say to not use it. I've since quit using it and just put 87 octane in and I actually get better gas mileage anyways.
Every 4000 miles - bottle of AMSOIL's Performance Improver (P.i.) is added to 20 gallons of gas at fill-up. What this essentially does is cleans carbon build-up from my truck's engine and keeps it running in peak condition.
Every 30,000 miles - I change out my fuel and air filters - and from the advice of AB - I may need to lower these miles a bit as he suggests 15K.
Every 10 months - I change oil in my truck at estimated 15-20K miles - AMSOIL is good for 25K or 1 Yr whichever comes first.
Every Month - tire pressure checked - leads to better fuel economy.
Every 30,000 miles - coolant flush.
Every 60,000 miles - transmission flush and service. AMSOIL's ATF good for 100K under normal driving.
The above schedule has worked for me - and now I will jinx myself by saying I have had no problems.


Annie L. Pedrick passed away Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at the Masonic Home in Burlington, N.J. She was 85.
Born in Freehold, N.J., Annie was a resident of Bristol and Edgely, Pa. for most of her life before moving to the Masonic Home in 2007.
She was a graduate of Bristol High School and prior to her retirement, worked for the Bucks Co. Intermediate Unit for many years.
She was also a former member of the Presbyterian Church at Bristol for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Burdan F. Pedrick, and her son, Merle B. Pedrick.
She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Delores and William Wallace of Burlington; her niece and nephew, Betty Walsh and David Wallace; her caregivers, Leslie and John Furey; and her two special friends, Ruth Coyne and Doris Pletcher.
Family and friends are invited to attend her viewing on from 12 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Molden Funeral Chapel, Inc., 133 Otter St., Bristol. A service will immediately follow at 1 p.m. with interment in Beechwood Cemetery.


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SAINTS AND SINNERS is a new collograph print series which uses a complex and layered, but nevertheless, monochromatic palette throughout relying on the interstices to carry the image. SAINTS AND SINNERS #1, the first print in the series (and like all the others) leaves the viewer to decide whether it is the image of a saint or a sinner. While each piece in the series can stand alone, they are intended to be viewed in groups of at least three. Hand inked and hand pulled and matted and framed to 24" x 10".
In most of my work, regardless of medium, I'm a story teller making a comment or statement from my own particular (or peculiar) point of view and the title is an integral part of the piece. UNTITLED is different: I'm leaving it up to each individual viewer to see what they will in the piece and to set their own narrative as to what has happened, is happening, or is going to happen. UNTITLED is a hand inked and hand pulled double plate collographic monoprint which uses one of the plates from the AN AMERICAN FACE Series and an offset mat. Matted and framed to 16" x 12".


The intrepid Det. John Drake, beloved Dad, and ever loyal partner Wilson are in action again in this third Det. John Drake saga. The tenacious trinity of crime fighters now face the heinous acts of the drug cartel and money laundering. They find themselves embroiled in a case of murder, double-dealing, betrayal, and passion to win at all cost. The crime bosses and their ranks weave a deadly web that Drake et al. must navigate. This is an intriguing, captivating story waiting to draw any unwary reader into the web.


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Killshot sound engineer launches cheat code to streamline recording process
By Scott S. Morphis	 Last updated Dec 6, 2021
A sound engineer by the name of Ryan Prieur joins the ranks of legendary contributors to the Dallas music industry. Better known as Killshot, Prior has built an impressive resume over his 25 years. He has worked with Bobby Billions, No Cap, Key Glock, and Erykah Badu and graduated from the MediaTech Institute last year as a valedictorian. Now his mission is to help fellow engineers and producers to streamline the recording process.
Last November, Prieur released "Killshot's Recording Cheat Code", a stock model for ProTools.
"There are two main things to understand in the world of recording," says Prieur. "The first would be the flow of signals. The second would be the staging gain. Signal flow is how far the audio travels. And then the gain staging is the volume at a given stage of the signal. I have [Cheat Code] set up, so even if you've never recorded in Pro Tools, or know nothing about it, it tells you what to target for your volume. It tells you how other engineers are using the signal flow or how you can take it and develop the signal flow.
"You can spend three hours on YouTube watching videos, or you can spend 30 minutes in my model and watch the tutorial I included."
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Prieur says that Cheat Code is designed "more like a blueprint" than a plug-in. It comes with step-by-step notes and instructions on each feature and audio kit, as well as color coding to help novice users navigate the software more easily and add finishing touches like reverbs and delays to their tracks.
Cheat Code has already become a favorite of producers and artists like J. White Did It, who produced "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion & Beyoncé and MB Kace.
"I really like recording with [Cheat Code]"Says Kace." It's a quick recording process, and it's always the sound I want. It really puts me in my zone when I'm in the booth.
Prieur's passion for music began at a young age. As a child, he watched his drummer father play and imitated his playing on a "shimmering blue drum set" he had in his room.
In middle and high school, Prieur participated in the drumline and jazz band. While he liked to play percussion, he was more drawn to hip-hop music. He and a group of friends would later record hip-hop tracks in his house.
"It started with me just recording a few homeboys with us," Prieur said. "We had a crappy $ 15 USB mic, and I had FL Studio on my computer. After enough times we get the end result of a song [recorded], I was like, "Yo, I think I could really learn how to do that."
Prieur studied music production and audio engineering at the Mediatech Institute, a school founded by Russell Whitaker, who also founded the Dallas Sound Lab. In the late 90s and early 2000s, several artists recorded albums at the Dallas Sound Lab, including Badu, Destiny's Child, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
"Most of the time, if you're going to work with an artist, he's going to show you how many plaques he has, or how many Grammys he has (…) if he can do it and get that level of under the projectors, why not the engineer or the producer? – Ryan "Killshot" Prior
Back then, Pro Tools and other types of recording software had just been introduced to the world, and only a handful of recording studios had the optimal equipment to seamlessly transition from tape recorders to computers. – Dallas Sound Lab being one of them.
"It was a turning point in music," Prieur explains of this period, "when we had just moved from tape to Pro Tools. The number of facilities across the United States that had a million dollar setup was maybe 10 or 15. Texas just happened to be the middle ground between the East Coast and the West Coast. We were able to attract a lot of people to the city to record here because it was a middle ground for everyone to meet.
Prior also hosts a weekly livestream called Knowledge that kills on Twitch, where he talks to other producers and engineers and helps give them a platform. Like many people behind the scenes in the music industry, Prieur believes producers and engineers don't get enough credit for their work.
Prieur hopes that Cheat Code will help artists understand the amount of work involved in recording and optimizing the sound of a single track.
"Most of the time, if you're going to work with an artist, he'll tell you in your face how many plaques he has or how many Grammys he has," Prieur says. "It's not a bad thing, but it's just to say, if they can do it and get that level of projector, why can't the engineer or the producer?" "
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U.S. District Judge David Doty overturned Peterson's suspension in February, saying the league cannot retroactively apply the standards of its new, tougher personal-conduct policy to an action that occurred before the implementation of the policy.
Hardy's suspension stems from an incident last May that brought domestic violence charges.
A North Carolina judge convicted Hardy last summer, but Hardy appealed and sought a jury trial. Prosecutors, citing a financial settlement Hardy reached with Holder, dropped charges when the key witness stopped cooperating.
Hardy made $13.1 million last year with the Carolina Panthers, playing only one game before being placed on the commissioner's exempt list. He signed with the Cowboys as a free agent.


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Little Baby Bum: how UK couple built world's fifth-biggest YouTube channel
The rise and rise of an animated nursery rhymes channel whose most popular video has been watched more times than Frozen's Let It Go
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Little Baby Bum was launched on YouTube in 2011.
"The other day, I got an alert saying our Wheels on the Bus compilation was 63rd on YouTube's all-time chart. I had a look, and number 64 was the theme tune from Frozen."
Derek Holder, who runs the Little Baby Bum YouTube channel with his wife, sounds both amused and baffled as he tells the Guardian about its startling growth. But he's absolutely right.
Disney's official video for Let It Go has been watched more than 430m times on YouTube since its release in December 2013, but Wheels On The Bus trumps it with nearly 440m views since its release in August 2014.
YouTube's top 100 channels have more than doubled their views in a year
Impressive work for the channel that the Holders founded in 2011 on a hunch that lots of parents were looking for nursery-rhyme videos on YouTube, and run from the UK. Their hunch, it's fair to say, proved correct.
In 2014, Little Baby Bum was the 36th biggest channel on YouTube with more than 1bn views, but that masks its rocketing growth towards the end of the year: 140m views in September, 189m in October, 221m in November, and 319m in December.
By January 2015, Little Baby Bum was the fifth most popular channel on YouTube, and part of a wider surge of viewing for children's videos on the service. It's about to pass 2bn lifetime views.
"This wasn't by design, it was by luck – we were in the right place at the right time," says Holder. "It's been mindblowing. Staggering. We pinch ourselves every day."
If you don't have a toddler, Little Baby Bum will have flown well below your radar. The channel houses a collection of animated songs, including nursery rhymes and original songs about numbers, letters and, er, potties.
The channel was born in 2011 when Holder was sitting in front of a computer with the couple's youngest child – nicknamed Little Baby Bum since her earliest days – looking for nursery rhyme videos.
"I was a bit stunned by the lack of decent-quality stuff. There were hilarious videos: one was Baa Baa Black Sheep and it was actually a goat. In others the sheep was grey or the lyrics were generally wrong," he says.
"The animation often looked like the animation I grew up on in the 1970s and 80s. I looked at TV channels like CBeebies and the good quality there, then looked at YouTube, and I thought 'these don't really tally'. Yet those videos were getting 10 or 20m views."
Derek's background was in IT and telecoms – including search engine optimisation (SEO) – and he had "pottered around" with music in his spare time, while his wife ran a design agency.
"We thought why not combine our efforts and have a go? It can't be worse than what's on there already," says Holder.
"There were a lot of what I'd call cynical videos in the under-fives arena made purely for money with no heart or love in it."
Little Baby Bum has plenty of nursery rhymes, but also original songs.
They made one video, a 30-second version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which was watched about 15,000 times in the first month after its release in August 2011. A second, Baa Baa Black Sheep, followed in December that year.
The channel grew steadily, to the point where, 18 months in, the couple were able to start working with a professional musician in the US on the songs.
Derek's SEO experience was undoubtedly one factor in Little Baby Bum's ability to attract viewers, but he points to his wife as the channel's secret weapon.
"She's what sets us apart. She is from a design background, and was born and bred in Hong Kong. She isn't as ingrained in a lot of these nursery rhymes as I am: she's coming in fresh, and with a design point of view," he says.
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"She comes out with all these lovely ideas: Baa Baa flying a spaceship for example. We made a point of keeping the lyrics and music side as traditional as we could, but on the visuals we could go as crazy as we wanted to."
Why did Little Baby Bum grow so fast in the latter half of 2014? Holder says that the genesis was a gathering at YouTube's headquarters in the spring of that year, and a discussion about the popularity of compilation videos on the service.
Little Baby Bum tried a 51-minute compilation of ABC songs, which did fairly well, but it was the 54-minute Wheels On The Bus compilation that took off.
"It's gone absolutely potty: for whatever reason, it's caught the imagination. I can't quite say why. Long-form compilations are a sweet spot in our genre though," says Holder.
"From a parental point of view, we know what a pain it is to keep pressing the 'play' button. If you've got one video that's 50 or 60 minutes long, you can just press play and leave your child to watch it while you get something done."
However, he says that feedback from parents suggests Little Baby Bum is far more than just a digital distraction for their children. He cites one recent letter from a parent whose 23 month-old son has autism, thanking the channel for the role it has played in his development of communication skills.
"She said that he was ABCing and 123ing after watching the videos. It was a beautiful thing to receive. I don't know if our videos had really done that or if it was a coincidence, but she thought it had," says Holder.
"We try to reply to all emails from parents. It's a personal thing. If somebody's taken the bother to email – they've gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back."
Children's videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys; Minecraft gamer Stampy; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies.
YouTube is responding to the trend, having recently launched its YouTube Kids app in the US and revealed that family content is its fastest-growing category.
"It took them by surprise, but I've noticed by the number of personnel they have coming into the European offices and working there, they're taking it much more seriously," says Holder.
"They've got the Kids app, and a lot more development work going on around that. Google as a company are taking the under-13 mass as a really important next part of their journey."
So what next for Little Baby Bum? The Holders are talking to YouTube about possibly launching a second channel, but that will be "way, way down the line" if it happens.
Little Baby Bum's animation aims to be higher quality than existing nursery-rhyme YouTube channels.
The emphasis is more on localisation in the short term, launching new versions of Little Baby Bum for Latin America (in Portuguese for Brazil) and Russia. Holder also says the channel is stepping up its production.
"We currently make one video a week, but from around May we're going to be releasing two a week. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's like when you go from one child to two children – it's not just doubling your effort, it's much more than that," he says.
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Established TV companies and other children's brands are also in the picture, although Holder can't yet talk about any specific deals due to non-disclosure agreements beyond saying that "some very interesting brands are talking about us at board level".
Little Baby Bum is also exploring the potential of getting its content onto connected televisions. It has already signed a deal with a company called VOD365 to be part of its Ketchup TV subscription service alongside brands like Bob the Builder, Thomas and Friends and Pingu.
Holder says that the traditional children's television industry is finally waking up to the brands being built on YouTube.
"Some of them are still half asleep, but it's changing fast," he says. "I think they should embrace it: YouTube is a lot of eyes and ears on your product, and it's brilliant exposure."
In the meantime, Little Baby Bum is proceeding cautiously, feeling out potential partners from the traditional media world, while investing in the quality and quantity of its videos to make sure the wheels don't come off this particular bus.
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Isobel is lying in a hospital room. Nurses in white uniforms are soaking large gauze bandages and placing them over parts of her red and blistered body . . . She moans in pain. The entire right side of her body is badly burned. Her right eye and eyebrow disappear in swelling, oozing redness. The nurses keep applying sopping wet gauze, leaving it on for a few minutes, then carefully lifting it off. They are remarking that she must receive all the morphine she needs. They feel that their patient, whose embryonic child has been aborted in the accident, will die within twenty-four hours . . .
Heather surfaced from the trance feeling physically sick, and Dr Whitton waited for several minutes before telling her that he believed she had penetrated to the heart of her allergy problem by re-experiencing the inhalation of fumes from the car wreck. Naturally Heather was overjoyed to be free of her allergies, but, even as she rejoiced at this development, the familiar 'rolling waves' of depression seemed to redouble in intensity. Moreover, the gruesome trance memories and the waves of despair seemed inextricably entwined.
As Heather laboured under the strain of aroused memory, she became more and more curious about Isobel, a curiosity she felt compelled to satisfy. Dr Whitton actively encouraged further past-life exploration, believing there was every chance that Isobel could also account for the depressions. For the next few weeks, each self-hypnotic trance that Heather embarked upon added to her knowledge of Isobel's life leading up to the car accident. The experiences were not always pleasurable. In fact, the more Heather learned about Isobel, the less enamoured she became with her immediate past-life personality. .
Beneath the delicate assurance of her piano playing, her affluent background, her charm, popularity and ravishing good looks, Isobel is afflicted by deep psychological problems. An exceptionally talented concert pianist, she has everything a young woman could wish for, and yet she is selfish and self-destructive and seemingly incapable of feeling, or understanding, real love. Perhaps this is because her childhood was devoid of affection.
Orphaned at an early age, she is raised by a housekeeper envious of her wealth and beauty. At nineteen years of age, Isabel crosses the Atlantic Ocean to study piano at a music school in New York City. The year is 1924. Her manager, a Russian Jew named Nickolaus, has booked several recitals for her in the United States. Soon after her arrival in America, however, Isobel's professional dedication begins to wane. She is distracted by the appeal of a socialite's butterfly lifestyle, and heavy drinking, parties and promiscuity take up more and more of her time.
When Isobel returns to England, she decides to marry Nickolaus who, being like a father to her, represents her only security. But her rakish way of life is by now well-established, and she continues to indulge in a succession of affairs, both in London and the south of France. Her sexual aimlessness expires only when she meets Robert at a Mediterranean yacht party. They return to London together and, discovering that she is carrying his child, Isobel wants to run away with him. This leads to a showdown with Nickolaus. While the couple are arguing, Isobel storms out of their London townhouse.
Only later, some days after she has fled with Robert in the Bugatti, does Isobel leam that Nickolaus is dead and that their row provoked the massive heart attack that killed him . . .
Heather became increasingly aware that she had inherited much from Isobel in terms of predispositions as well as karmic debt. Growing up in Mexico City, Heather, too, played piano, had been told she possessed a 'genius' for the instrument, and had enrolled as a student at the finest music school in Mexico.
Intriguing as it was to make such connections from one life to the next, there was much she would have preferred to forget, particularly the recurring image of Isobel's fire-ravaged body wrapped in gauze bandages. This oppressive vision begged the question: Did Isobel survive the car crash? The answer - produced in a succession of trances - prompted nightmares and sporadic weeping as she witnessed the grotesque descent of a gifted and beautiful soloist to a horribly maimed and suicidal woman isolated from the flamboyant society that had once succoured and adored her.


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Q: Как правильнее дождатся условно бесконечно Task цикла, если он создается в конструкторе класса? Задача предполагает что в конструкторе класса будет вызван Task, который с точки зрения бизнес логики должен жить в течение всего жизненного цикла приложения. Но также логика требует убедится, что Task не завершился с исключением. Хотелось также получать исключение наиболее естественным образом. Как решаются подобного рода задачи?
public class Example
    {
        internal async Task taskExample()
        {
            int count = 0; // тут она очевидно конечная
            while(true)
            {
                if (count == 3) throw new InvalidOperationException(nameof(count));
                await Task.Delay(1000);
                ++count;
            }
        }
        public Example()
        {
            Task task = taskExample(); // Задача старутет. Как её ожидать если она бесконечна ?
        }
    }

Ну например можно примерно как то так.
List<Task> tasks = new List<Task>();

Thread thread = new Thread(() =>
            {
                while (true)
                {
                    foreach (var item in tasks)
                    {
                        if (item.IsFaulted is true)
                        {
                            if (item.Exception is null) continue;
                            else
                            {
                                throw item.Exception;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            });
            thread.IsBackground = true;
            thread.Start();

Если рассматривать обработку исключений в Task, то вроде некоторые исключения не удастся так обработать.
UPD
В моем пэт проекте метод на самом деле является обёрткой на событием. И обычно когда подписываешься это выглядит примерно так. И как то упускаешь момент.
TrayIcon._notifyIcon.MouseClick += NotifyIcon_MouseClick

Я вообще то запамятовал что async void не блокирует поток. И он допустим для событий. А где он плох можно почитать по ссылке ниже.
https://docs.microsoft.com/ru-ru/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/march/async-await-best-practices-in-asynchronous-programming
Скрин из пэт проекта. Просто хотел попробовать в реактивном стиле.

Проверил исключения вроде не теряются. И то что их не получится обработать привычным способом не принципиально. Главное что они не потеряны.

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Bleeding gums probably won't magically heal themselves and stop bleeding, but at the same time, there is a good chance that any underlying issues can be easily resolved.
In this blog post, we'll look at why gums bleed, how common they are, what the stages of gum disease are and what your next steps should be.
Gums bleed because, over time, most people struggle to maintain perfect oral hygiene.
Bacteria accumulates around plaque that isn't removed and this, in turn, leads to redness of the gums, swelling and bleeding when brushed or flossed.
The most common form of bleeding gums is gingivitis, a condition you might well have heard of while being slightly unsure exactly what it is.
Unlike some other causes of bleeding gums, mostly no long-term damage is being done here. A thorough deep clean of the teeth and gums by one of our dental hygienists will remove the plaque and calcified deposits causing gingivitis and, if good oral hygiene is maintained from that point onwards, it is less likely to return.
Bleeding gums should be a thing of the past.
Will Bleeding Gums Stop Simply by Brushing?
You may wonder whether gingivitis can be tackled at home. If it is simply a case of plaque being removed can this be achieved by brushing, flossing and mouthwash use? Certainly, you can remove some plaque, however, any plaque that has hardened (tartar) or is particularly difficult to reach around the gum line is likely to require a professional clean from a hygienist.
There are other reasons too for getting bleeding gums properly checked out.
Having some level of periodontal (gum) disease is incredibly common, the latest dental health survey found that 54% of UK adults had at least mild levels of the condition.
In most cases, bleeding gums and minor gum disease will be a simple case of gingivitis.
Removing the plaque that is causing the problem is standard work for any dental hygienist. After the treatment, the gums should stop bleeding and any associated problems such as bad breath (halitosis) will also have been minimised.
If left untreated, gingivitis can become the more serious periodontitis.
Periodontitis is more serious because real damage is being done: bone and gum are being eroded which can lead to teeth becoming loose and the potential for tooth loss.
Periodontitis has also been linked with a range of seemingly unrelated health issues such as strokes, heart attacks and lung disease. It has also been found that around 90% of people with periodontitis are at risk of diabetes.
Advanced Periodontitis is treated by skilled periodontists – a dentist specialising in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease.
To remove all plaque from tooth and root surfaces typically requires a few appointments with a follow-up appointment a few weeks later to check that the gum inflammation has receded and that all plaque has been removed; in a small number of cases (around 10%) further work is required at this stage to attack any remaining deposits.
After your bleeding gums have been treated, how do you avoid a recurrence?
Improved dental hygiene is obviously the major step, you will be shown how to brush effectively and also be given advice on anything more specific to your teeth.
Other factors play a part too. The nature of your diet has an influence on your susceptibility to these conditions, a topic we explored in our post on foods to avoid to maintain healthy gums. Smoking and stress also negatively impact dental health – to use general terms, a healthy balanced diet and healthy lifestyle are as good for dental hygiene as it is for your overall health.
We all lapse though, we're all human – that is where check-ups come in. Your dental hygienist, dentist or specialist periodontist can advise on how often you should book a check-up, whether it is as regular as every three to six months or whether less regular appointments might suffice.
To loop back to the start, yes your gums will stop bleeding if you pick the phone up and book an appointment, you will also then have the reassurance of knowing that any issues have been dealt with. You will have a good platform for ensuring the sight of blood in the sink is a thing of the past.
Check out our related post: Are bleeding gums normal?
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The "best player in the world" was awarded the Golden Ball accolade for the outstanding performances he displayed in the recently concluded 2014 FIFA World Cup—this and all behind Argentina's defeat to Germany in the final 1-0. But despite the recognition, the Barca star was clearly not feeling blithe while accepting the trophy.
Messi must be one of the saddest people in the world right now, having failed to lift the World Cup trophy for his country and after enduring all the struggles he had to deal with en route to the finals. He is often considered to be the greatest footballer of his generation and a World Cup win would have been a very nice crown to top his huge arsenal of awards.
Many spectators questioned the honor and thought many others deserved it more, with mentions of Argen Robben, Thomas Muller, Golden Boot winner James Rodriguez, and the all-time top World Cup scorer Miroslav Klose. However, it cannot also be denied that Messi was [almost] the sole machine to bring Argentina to the finals, scoring the majority of the goals they netted. He was arguably the best player to captain his team in this World Cup.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho told The DailyMail that the Argentina captain deserves respect "more than ever" after Argentina came so close to being crowned world champions.
Argentina advanced to the finals for the very first time since 1990. Germany won over Albiceleste on extra time with an impressive volley from Mario Gotze. This is the Germans' fourth World Cup title, tying with Italy as the country with the second most number of wins after Brazil.


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Making vital connections for offshore wind: key to the world's carbon-neutral future
The European Union, UK, Japan and the U.S., together with more than 110 other countries have pledged carbon neutrality by 2050; China says it will do so before 2060. These targets are incredibly ambitious, demanding rapid change and significant investment.
Electrification, efficiency gains and behavior changes are central to achieving a carbon neutral future. Core to this will be the Power sector investment needing to triple from $760 billion in 2019 to $2,200 billion in 2030, with more than one-third spent to expand, modernize and digitalize electricity networks.
As well, transportation, factories and buildings need to be powered by sustainable electricity. Providing this incredible amount of electricity from solar, wind and hydro will be the defining challenge of the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
Offshore Wind helping to make sustainable electrification possible
One of the key pillars of this effort is offshore wind power, a resource that has gone largely untapped until recently. Further away from land, wind speeds are higher and more predictable, and higher wind speeds produce far more electricity; for instance, a turbine in 24km/h wind generates double the energy of a turbine in 19km/h wind.
Offshore wind has the potential to generate a significant proportion of much of the world's energy. Currently, Germany and the UK lead the way in offshore wind power. Over half of the world's total offshore wind power is generated by these two countries and Nexans has been a leader across Europe with a successful track record of end to end supply, install and protection of power export cables for projects like Hornsea 1 and the new Seagreen wind farm, which will be the largest in Scotland. However, to meet the ambitious net-zero carbon goals, Europe, Asia and the U.S. must greatly increase their number of offshore wind turbines.
Fortunately, technological improvements have made offshore wind farms increasingly viable with the reduction of Levelized Cost of Energy by more than five times over the last ten years. Offshore wind is now increasingly profitable compared to other renewable technologies, driving significant growth. The EU recently announced plans to increase the amount of power it generates through offshore wind by 25 times by 2050. It currently produces 12 gigawatts (GW) and aims to increase this to 60GW by 2030. The UK currently generates 10GW from offshore wind and the government has increased its 2030 generation goals from 30 to 40GW.
Outside Europe, other nations are also investing heavily in offshore wind. Over the next decade, China intends to build 50GW of offshore wind capacity and India plans to build 30GW. The International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2030, the industry in the United States will grow by 13 per cent and continue to add 20GW of capacity every year. Globally, experts estimate offshore wind will provide 200GW of clean power in the next decade alone. These worldwide goals are driven by technological improvements. Larger turbines are currently coming online which can each generate 15 megawatts, enough power to support 20,000 homes, and 20,000 homes, and offshore wind farms are becoming more efficient.
" Offshore wind has the potential to generate a significant proportion of much of the world's energy. "
Ragnhild Katteland
Executive Vice President of the Subsea and Land Systems Business Group
Floating Offshore Wind
Another important development comes in the form of floating offshore wind farms. Currently, most wind turbines are fixed to the seabed. But this becomes impractical at water depths greater than 60 metres. Yet some 80 per cent of the world's wind potential is found in waters deeper than 60 metres. To reach this potential, we must use turbines mounted on floating platforms moored to the seabed.
Nexans has been a pioneer in floating offshore wind farms in supplying dynamic and static cable solutions for Equinor's Hywind Demo and Hywind Scotland floating wind turbine projects. Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating wind farm, has been producing electricity since 2017. It has achieved just over 57% capacity factor for the 12 months ending March 2021 which is a new record for offshore wind farms. The project features five turbines with 154 meter diameter rotors, with a total installed capacity of 30 MW. It is connected to shore by a 30 kilometer long export cable at a transmission voltage of 33 kV.
The coming decade's ambitious offshore projects will be the most complex, risky and demanding efforts to date. We have a very sound risk management track record as we have experienced no internal failures of our offshore export cables. To help the industry with certainty around offshore projects, we have initiated a long-term partnership with Bureau Veritas. Together, we will certify the Nexans way of managing EPCI (Enginee - ring Procurement Construction Installation) projects and risks and develop new standards for the Offshore Wind and Interconnection industry. This will reduce the risk profile of such projects.
" 80 per cent of the world's wind potential is found in waters deeper than 60 metres. "
Cables and Interconnectors
We produce every type of land cable that connect turbines to grids, and we are the number- one supplier of subsea high-voltage export cables that brings power to shore. And we expertly install them to ensure project success.
We also provide cables inside the wind turbines themselves as plug and play harnesses that are driving the cost of new turbines down. This year we will launch the CLV Nexans Aurora, the world's most advanced cable-laying ship, and approximately half the new installations in Europe will use Nexans products.
Interconnectors are a critical element in improving the security of supply while Europe's energy markets undergo a period of dynamic change. The exchange of Norway's hydropower with Germany's wind generation will enable Statnett and Tennet to achieve the best possible match between electricity supply and demand.
NordLink is a visionary energy project between Norway and Germany that started test operation at the end of 2020. It is one of the growing numbers of high voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnectors designed to enable two countries to exchange and store energy generated from renewable sources. Playing a key role at the heart of this success was Nexans's advanced submarine cable technology and installation expertise.
The future is bright for offshore wind power. Our industry will be the major enabler of the sustainable energy transition needed to achieve Paris Agreement goals. As electrification specialists, Nexans enables the offshore wind industry to electrify the future by harnessing the power of wind.
" Interconnectors are a critical element in improving the security of supply while Europe's energy markets undergo a period of dynamic change. "
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Tag Archives: first team to win two games in NBA Finals
By Jerry Tapp on June 13, 2019 | Leave a comment
The first to four wins gets the crown
Let's start with a quick quiz…
How many teams in NBA history have won the first game in an NBA Finals series, was the first team to win two games in that series, was the first team to win three games in that series, but failed to win the fourth game and thus lost in that NBA Finals? One, two, four or six? (Answer towards the end of this article.)
After the Golden State Warriors lost Game One to the Toronto Raptors in this year's NBA Finals, Warriors guard Klay Thompson made the following statement answering those critics who thought the team was already in trouble after that first loss:
"It's first team to four (wins), not the first to one (win)."
He's absolutely right, but does being the team to win Game One in an NBA Finals series matter? Does being the first team to get that second win in an NBA Finals a good thing? Does being the first team to three victories in an NBA Finals the "golden ticket" to a championship?
Let's try to answer these questions based on the 72-year history of the NBA Finals…
Teams that won Game One in an NBA Finals series went on to win that series 51 of 72 times (70.8%).
Teams that were the first to win two games in an NBA Finals series went on to win that series 61 of 72 times (84.7%). For the record, in four of the last eight NBA Finals, the team that was the first to win two games in an NBA Finals did not win the title (Miami in 2011, San Antonio in 2013, Cleveland in 2015 and Golden State in 2016).
Teams that were the first to win three games in an NBA Finals series went on to win that series 63 of the 72 times (87.5%). Here are the nine times in the NBA Finals when a team was the first to win three games in that series but could not win that fourth game and the championship:
1955: Fort Wayne (first to win three games), Syracuse won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
1962: L.A. Lakers (first to win three games), Boston won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
1978: Seattle (first team to win three games), Washington won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
1988: Detroit (first team to win three games), L.A. Lakers won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
1994: New York Knicks (first team to win three games), Houston won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
2010: Boston (first team to win three games), L.A. Lakers won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
2013: San Antonio (first team to win three games), Miami won Games 6 and 7 and the title.
2016: Golden State (first team to win three games), Cleveland won Games 5, 6 and 7 and the title.
All of the above stats are good news for the Toronto Raptors; they won Game One of this series, they were the first team to win two games and the first team to win three games in their NBA Finals series against Golden State.
There is, however, a precedence that bodes well for the Warriors if they win Game 6. There have been four times in NBA Finals history where a team lost Game One of the NBA Finals series, and their opponent in that series was the first to get two wins and the first to get three wins in the series, but those four teams won the title. The four times this has happened: L.A. Lakers in 1969, Washington in 1978, Miami in 2013 and Cleveland in 2016.
So, the answer to the above trivia question is four teams… the 1969 Lakers, 1978 Sonics, 2013 Spurs and 2016 Warriors each lost the NBA Finals that year after winning Game One, and being the first team in the series to win two games and three games; they, however, could not get that fourth win in that NBA Finals series to capture the championship.
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/**
 * @file test_imsearch_load.cpp
 * @brief Test for image search façade (load from file).
 * @author Paolo D'Apice
 */

#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE imsearch
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

#include "fixtures.hpp"
#include "test_commons.hpp"
#include "utils/query.hpp"

#include <random>

/// Load image search from file.
BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(test_load, test::Lena) {
    const std::string categories[] = { "bag", "shoe", "woman_shoe" };
    const vis::DescriptorsType types[] = { vis::HOG, vis::HSV, vis::HOG_HSV };

    for (const std::string& category : categories) {
        for (const vis::DescriptorsType type : types) {
            vis::ImageSearch imsearch(category, type, DATA_DIR);
            imsearch.load();

            // query with one of the indexed images id
            test::queryById(imsearch, rand() % 100);

            // query with descriptors array
            test::queryByDescriptors(imsearch, input);

            // query with external image
            test::queryByImage(imsearch, input);
        }
    }
}

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The Antiquarian Life: Frau K
Posted on August 23, 2018 by kcosumano
It is time to write about Frau König. (Kindly note that all names and places have been changed)
Several years ago my husband, a bookseller, got a telephone call from an elderly woman who lived in a nearby town. She was looking for someone to buy her small private library of books, and he had been recommended to her. This, in itself, is fairly normal in his line of work. In fact, the people who call him with such requests are 90% elderly women from the area. They are moving — often their husbands recently passed away, and they are downsizing to an apartment in the city or a senior residence, and it's finally time to get rid of all those old books, but of course no one can bear the thought of throwing them out. This is where my husband comes in — in a profession that calls for him to be part antiques dealer, part funeral home director, he has an assuring and knowledgeable manner from which they infer that their old books will be respected and will "go to a good home". Most everybody understands that it's Don't Ask Don't Tell, because no one wants to hear explicitly that their beloved, worn-out 1980s bestseller paperback with the parts underlined in red pen is going straight into the Altpapier container.
But back to our story. Frau König was planning to sell her apartment and move into a posh senior home on the other side of the lake. On the phone, she emphasized to my husband that she had some rather valuable books, and invited him to come to her house so that he could make an appraisal. When he got there, she sat him down in a chair and presented him with… three somewhat underwhelming and altogether worthless old books from the 1950s. He didn't lie to her, but neither did he jump up and leave, and maybe she was just testing his reaction. She hinted at more treasures in her office downstairs. Frau König didn't have a date set for the move, nor a buyer for the apartment, but she must have felt that she had someone lined up to take her books. And so began a somewhat weird business relationship, where she would make lists of the books she was ready to part with, and my husband would drive over and pick them up, sometimes in little paper gift bags she'd had lying around. Virtually none of them had any worth to speak of, but somehow we felt that it wouldn't be right to wave her off now. At some point, after a couple of years of this, I began to tag along, and she would make us mediocre coffee and chat about politics.
Unlike the other widows who were unloading their deceased husbands' collections, Frau König had never married. She'd had what sounded like a pretty interesting career working for German embassies, though, which had her traveling to places like Russia and Ethiopia. She'd had connections with Africa and some mildly interesting art on the walls, and a lovely old grandfather clock (probably inherited). Her taste in books ran to travel literature and romance novels. She seemed lonely, although we couldn't say for sure, as we weren't that close. Our visits to Frau König were often preceded by a good measure of reluctance and eye-rolling, but often we'd both agree, in the car afterward, that we felt happy to have done a good deed, and that maybe we'd done ourselves a good deed in turn as well. It's hard to explain.
When she finally had a moving date and the sale of her apartment taken care of, Frau König summoned us over to settle accounts regarding the price of the books. My husband had struggled for several months with a bad feeling about this, because he didn't think she was going to be happy with his price, especially after that first "presentation" of her treasures. It turned out surprisingly well. She was taking a heavy old bookcase with her to the senior home, and the books that she wanted to keep with her were placed "just so" inside it. But she didn't have anyone who could note their current order and put them back that way after the move. "That's no problem" said my husband, while I whipped out my smartphone to photograph each shelf. In the end, she offered to settle our accounts that way – instead of payment of the books we had taken off her hands, we'd come to her new place and put her bookcases back in order. Thinking back on this, I am fairly sure she could have done this by herself. But we were happy to oblige (and relieved not to have to break the news to her about the low market value of her library).
I left for a visit to America just after that, and thought it would be nice to send a postcard congratulating Frau König on her new home. I include this just to show that we had started to become a bit fond of her, like an elderly neighbor who doesn't get out that much any more. Plus she had moved to our side of the lake, so visiting was an actual option now and then.
My husband had arranged to see Frau König a few days after the big move (which happened while I was away). He found her in the lobby, asleep in an upholstered chair, so he quietly took a seat and waited for her to wake up. When she did, she didn't recognize him. "And who are you?" she asked. But then her senses returned and she suggested a coffee in the residence's cafe. She was distraught at the chaos in her apartment, she said; "everything is a mess!" He offered to help, but when they went to her apartment he was surprised to see everything in perfect order. She had even had her pictures hung on the walls. After chatting a little while longer, they agreed that we could come back when I returned from America, so that we would get her bookcase in order and maybe invite her out for a coffee. A week later my husband was at her old apartment, picking up a small sofa bed she had offered us. For some reason we had agreed, thinking it could serve as a day bed in the office. Honestly, I don't know what we were thinking. Anyway, when he got there the new owners were already fully underway with renovation, and just wanted that pile of her stuff gone.
Three weeks later, after my return, there was no answer when he called her new telephone number. But we were busy, and just thought we'd try again later. You already know where this is heading.
The news arrived through an email from her nephew, Herr König, from up north in Bremen. Frau König had passed away in her sleep at the senior residence, just three days after my husband's visit. She'd been in her new home for a mere nine days.
Our initial shock and genuine sadness were cut short by our encounter with the nephew, who had contacted us because he thought we might like to take those remaining books and the bookcase as well, as the apartment had to be cleared out in two weeks. Herr König, the executor to her estate, turned out to be a decent model for a Sackville-Baggins. We met him in his aunt's nearly empty apartment, where he immediately starting complaining about the trouble and the timing of both her move and her demise, and then he complained pointedly about his aunt, despite our having just having shared warm and friendly stories of having gotten to know her. He suggested we could pick out what books we like, because "the recycling container is right at the end of the hall" and the rest could be carted there. My husband set aside a small pile of books, which seemed to irritate the nephew. In short, he expected money, and the fewer books we were taking, the less money he could expect. He also requested an offer for the bookcase, and when I gave him one (quite low, as we had not understood his intentions earlier, and had thought we were doing him a favor by helping to empty the apartment), he suppressed a laugh and replied that he'd just as soon have it taken to the dump. "Then you should do that", my husband tersely interjected, and then he took the high road (and I love him for doing this) and explained to Herr König the value the various items he had set aside ("this may be something, in any event, don't throw it out") after which we wished him luck and departed – empty handed but utterly relieved. Back outside, we looked at each other and exhaled. "No wonder she seldom mentioned her relatives."
Rest in peace, Frau K. I am sorry you couldn't enjoy more of your new life, but I'm glad we had a small part in it.
2 thoughts on "The Antiquarian Life: Frau K"
ellroon on August 23, 2018 at 8:51 pm said:
Thanks for that touching story, part Antiques Roadshow, part honoring a life.(I have to admit I have a thing for all things books).
paschberg on August 23, 2018 at 9:58 pm said:
A bit sad this story, the fate of her books seems to be familiar to me. A workmate once said: Our lucky children/relatives don´t have to sort out books, the only need to throw away some usb-sticks 😉


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2007 January/March
On the Eve of Change
Are the Energy Majors in Decline?
Vladimir Feygin
Energy Partnership – A Dialog in Different Languages
Tatiana A. Romanova
Security Services, Police, and Human Rights
Valery Zorkin
Self-Determination: Between Law and Politics
Alexander Aksenyonok
East Asia and Russia's Development Strategy
The 21st Century Mafia: Made in China
Vladimir Ovchinsky
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Russian Economy
Vladimir Mau
Russia Against the Background of Major Economies
Valentin Kudrov
A Development Strategy for Russia's Largest Cities
Olga Vendina
An Audit of Russia's Foreign Policy
Historical Struggle for the Black Sea Fleet
Yuri Dubinin
Russia Must Regain the Initiative in Moldova
Zurab Todua
The Evolution of the Global Energy Market
Europe as the «Center», and Its «Outskirts»
Vladislav Inozemtsev
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The Shtokman project may be a forerunner of critical changes in the global energy sector. The older-generation majors are heading for very tough competition. The governments of the resource-rich countries, and national companies enjoying governmental support are interested in reducing the role of transnational corporations to that of ordinary contractors.
The difference in approaches and the need to search for a compromise between diametric views de facto predetermines the structure of any future agreement between Russia and the EU. This can only be a general strategic partnership agreement and a number of sector-specific agreements, which will be used as a platform for a complex compromise between two visions.
States should take inventory of the laws that regulate the limitations on human rights in the course of implementation of security measures. Most importantly, they should ensure various controls over security services and police by parliamentary and governmental bodies.
Can Kosovo's imminent independence be seen as a precedent in resolving other internal state conflicts, including in the former Soviet republics? This problem has gone from being a subject of academic dispute to an explosive element of Realpolitik.
Although Russia has stepped up its military and political presence in East Asia, it has not yet gained the required levers of influence in the region. It fails to take into account the geopolitical changes there, while it views the changing situation in a simplified, outdated way: through the prism of its rivalry with the United States.
As China continues to consolidate its leading positions in the global economy, Chinese organized crime is expected to broaden its presence in global criminal links. This is of tremendous concern for Russia and the world.
Russia entered its postindustrial transformation much later than the West. In fact, we must choose an effective model of a postindustrial market and produce a set of state policy instruments that will ensure its proper functioning.
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Some forces in Kiev, under various pretexts, are again calling into question the agreement that settled the fleet conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It would be helpful to recollect exactly how the unprecedented diplomatic marathon, which was full of dramatic twists and turns, helped to untie one of the most complicated knots between the two states.
Russia's position in the Transdnestr settlement, which can be described as "defense on the Dniestr", has no chances for success, as political resources for preserving the status quo are limited. Preservation of the status quo, sought only by Tiraspol and to some extent by Moscow, is against the plans of all the other interested parties.
The main task facing Russia in the next decade will be to provide conditions to minimize expected losses, first, from its declining presence on world oil and gas markets, and second, from falling world energy prices.
Europe is gradually turning into a kind of a community of personalities, whereas the United States and Russia are consolidating a society of citizens (or even subjects).
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Massive raid in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay after money laundering ring suspected of moving US$ 1.6bn
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Federal prosecutors in Rio said that arrest warrants were issued for 53 people, mostly black-market money changers, including six in Uruguay and Paraguay.
"This sting opens the door on an unknown universe," said prosecutor Rodrigo Timoteo. "We have pulled back the first layer, but there are many more."
Brazilian investigators conducted one of their largest operations against graft ever on Thursday, targeting a money laundering ring linked to powerful politicians and businessmen that moved some US$1.6 billion through offshore accounts in 52 countries.
Federal prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro said that arrest warrants were issued for 53 people, nearly all of them black-market money changers, including six in neighboring Uruguay and Paraguay. The information on illicit transactions for major companies and politicians those suspects have is certain to be "explosive," one prosecutor said.
Authorities noted at a news conference that the "Car Wash" corruption investigation that began in 2014 and has morphed into one of the world's largest anti-graft efforts began with the arrest of a single money changer.
Investigators were able to conduct Thursday's raids and arrests because of plea-bargain testimony of two money changers, Vinicius Claret and Claudio Barbosa, who moved illegal money for former Rio de Janeiro governor Sergio Cabral, who is serving over 100 years on several corruption convictions. He was accused of stealing over US$ 100 million from the cash strapped coffers of Rio state.
Claret and Barbosa were arrested in Uruguay on March 2017 and later extradited to Brazil. They are considered as the "cream" of the money exchangers and revealed the existence of a system called "Bank Drop" which includes some 3.000 offshore companies in 52 countries with a turnover of US$ 1.6 billion.
Two of the Brazilian money changers arrested on Thursday in Uruguay, identified by prosecutors as Francisco Munoz and Raul Pegazzano, had allegedly carried out illegal operations in the past for the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA.
The company said in a statement that its executives who reached plea deals with prosecutors had already given detailed information about the company's connection with the two men.
Prosecutors said they have asked a court to order the confiscation of 7.5 billion reais (US$ 2.13 billion) in cash and goods from those linked to the laundering ring, half of that to pay to the government the amount of money illegally moved over the past two decades and half to pay fines.
Categories: Politics, Brazil, Uruguay.
Tags: Brazil, corruption, Darío Messer, Interpol, Lava Jato, Massive raid, operation Car Wash, Rodrigo Timoteo, Uruguay.
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Three "MASTERS" [of Money-Laudering] are involved and still, the laundered figure is $1.6 billion - so SMALL?
Please calculate [or investigate] AGAIN!
May 04th, 2018 - 10:24 am 0
Jack Bauer
It's just the tip of the iceberg.
May 06th, 2018 - 05:28 pm 0
@JB:
Quite true!
A roughly calculated figure [estimated] can be in Trillions of US$s; during the 30 or so years and still, all of them claim to be the Third-World Countries.
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