If the conditions are right, jet airplanes and turboprop aircraft can leave unusually shaped clouds in their wakes.
Without meaning to, airplanes can cause certain types of clouds to produce snow or rain. When the aircraft climb or descend through mid-level clouds, if the atmospheric conditions are right then the planes "seed" the clouds which cause the clouds to produce precipitation. Air is forced to expand over the wings as the aircraft moves forward, cools, and freezes the cloud droplets.
Another thing that happens as a result of this process is that the aircraft leave behind odd-shaped holes or channels in the clouds. These are called hole-punch or canal clouds. The key ingredient for developing these holes in the clouds is water droplets at subfreezing temperatures (below about 5 degrees Fahrenheit or -15 degrees Celsius). As air is cooled behind aircraft propellers or over jet wings, the water droplets freeze and drop toward Earth in the form of snow or rain.
Andrew Heymsfield, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO is the lead author of a paper that explains the research of this phenomenon. He explains, "Anytime aircraft fly through these specific conditions, they are altering the clouds in a way that can result in enhanced precipitation nearby."
In 2007 Heymsfield and his colleagues happened to fly through some falling snow west of Denver International Airport with an variety of instruments onboard their plane. They didn't notice anything unusual during the flight, but the data they collected showed a band of precipitation formed quickly in the area where they flew. The scientists went back to review their data and photos and noticed a hole in the altocumulus clouds they flew through, as well as a burst of snow that extended to the ground. Snow crystals began falling about five minutes after the aircraft flew through the cloud. The snowfall, in a band about 20 miles long and 2.5 miles wide, continued for about 45 minutes, resulting in about two inches of snow on the ground.
"This apparently happens frequently, embedded in the cloud layers," Heymsfield says. "You wouldn't necessarily see it from satellite or from the ground. I had no idea this was happening. I was sitting in back of the plane. And then this data set just fell in our laps. It was a lucky break."
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Discussion in 'Mobile Marketing' started by Mobidea, Mar 17, 2017.
Go2mobi is a Demand Side Platform (DSP), providing you traffic from 12 different ad exchanges – the biggest being MoPub, Smaato and Nexage.
The majority of traffic coming from those 3 ad exchanges is in-app. Moreover, Smaato and Nexage also have some considerable mobile web traffic.
The ad formats you can find on Go2mobi include mobile display banners, video, rich media and native ad traffic. This already suggests that the 'classical' promotion of sweepstakes and antivirus offers (which tend to work best with pop traffic and aggressive landers) won't be the main focus on this platform. In fact, it's really more about games, apps and other mobile content offers.
Go2mobi is a self-serve mobile programmatic DSP. However, if you're among the big spenders with a daily ad spend of $1,000 and you have your campaigns live for at least two weeks in a row, you might be upgraded to a managed account.
This basically means you'll have a dedicated account manager who'll manage, monitor and optimize your campaigns for you based on their performance. A managed account also provides you some useful exclusive features like demographic targeting, which can help you step up your game to a whole new master level!
In order to get a good feel for the volumes available on the various ad exchanges before launching your campaign, you can check Go2mobi's detailed "Inventory" section.
There, you'll find info about the volumes of each ad exchange, becoming able to drill it down to device-related info such as OS or device brand ('Make'), carrier, placements, location, and size of creatives.
If you plan to launch a campaign for an offer in Nigeria, for example, you simply click on "Exchange Name" and "Location Name", put "Location Country" in the filter and then write "Nigeria" in the blank space. You'll see how much traffic each exchange has in this GEO.
Then, of course you can go deeper – if your offer is only available for Android, you might want to add another filter for "Device OS LIKE Android" and check the volumes per ad exchange.
From there, you can choose to "Drill" into a specific exchange (e.g. Smaato in the screenshot below) and select "Creative Size" in the Drilling Options in order to see the volumes of each ad size in Smaato for Android in Nigeria.
You'll see all your chosen "Drilldowns" in the space between the filters and your results and can easily navigate between the several levels of your 'drilling'.
In total, the most popular and highest volume ad sizes on Go2mobi are 320×50, 300×250 and 320×480. However, this will obviously vary among the several exchanges and also per geo. In their biggest volume exchange, MoPub, you can also add native ads to this list, as it's their second largest volume format (on Go2mobi, native ads show up as "0x0").
In addition to the "Inventory" section, you should also check the Go2Mobi Knowledge Center before launching your first campaign. It contains a lot of useful info about the average CPMs for the top ad formats on three top ad exchanges, their campaign and creatives policy, other useful guidelines (with videos), tips about campaign creation, and your account details.
Moving on to the campaign creation process, we start with the Destination URL. Here, you can insert the offer link (with a special mention for the conversion tracking tokens available) or your tracking platform's campaign URL.
Among many options, you've got your standard parameters available, such as Frequency Capping, Daily Budget per Placement, plus other budget options. Session Depth will define when a user will see your ad: the first ad that's ever displayed to a user is Session 1 and the 10th ad displayed to that user is, for example, Session 10. To finish, "Date selection" and "Save" to activate the campaign.
What about bidding? You've got two options: Standard CPM or Auto bidding. On the Standard bidding model, you'll bid based on the CPM you're willing to pay. However, the CPM you select isn't fixed. Meaning that – when you win an impression – you'll pay based on a "second auction" system. This means you won't pay your bid. You'll pay the bid of the bidder right below you on the rankings, instead.
The "second auction" system also applies when you select "Auto Bid Type". In this case, Go2mobi's bid system dynamically distributes bids and fights for traffic on all the campaign's parameters and combinations, without overpaying for lower value impressions.
It's targeting a Win Rate of approximately 40%, which is considered to be a good level to get a feel for the quality of a certain parameter.
While using this tool, it's normal for you to see a bid of 1.5 in a placement and – on the next one – a bid of 21. This CPM value varies and depends on the bid required to get a Win Rate of at least close to 40% and on the bid floor (minimum bid) to buy traffic from that specific placement.
Auto-bidding can be a good way for you to understand the quality of traffic. Once you get a feel for the quality of the individual parameters and combinations, though, you should definitely make use of the bid-overrides and switch to manual bidding.
After selecting your daily budget, you can also set your budget as "standard" or "paced." The paced budget is an interesting feature that allows you to target a certain number of Wins or Conversions per day.
After finishing this first setup, you'll see a "save" button, that appears multiple times on the "edit campaign" page, meaning you must save each section to save the whole campaign.
The next step would be selecting the Exchange to buy the traffic. There are 12 options available but – before recommending any of those – we advise you to check the "Inventory" menu to understand what's the available traffic for the specific GEO you wanna launch.
After checking the traffic, you can select as many GEOs as you want by adding them to a Whitelist.
While selecting multiple exchanges, it might happen that your campaign is accepted and rejected on some of those traffic sources. This happens because of the different rules when it comes to the type of offer you're promoting.
Plus: by simply leaving the Safety Fallback option switched ON in Mobidea, you can get rejected on some of the exchanges (mostly MoPub and Smaato). They like to know what you'll be promoting and whether or not there's another kind of redirection involved in your campaign.
Make sure you get your campaigns approved by those exchanges. Indeed, we advise you to turn off your Safety Fallback.
BEWARE! In this case, you must always check the availability status of your promoted offer, as you don't have any fallback option in case the offer is paused!
Note that the approval stage can take a while, as you'll be processed according to your submission time. Approvals only take place between 09:00 and 17:00 PST.
Carriers – Go2mobi allows you to target everything specifically: Wi-Fi, 3G and 3G + Wi-Fi. When it comes to Carrier targeting, you won't have a worry in the world!
Placement Type – option to filter traffic by App & Site, Site or in-App only.
Placement – where you can whitelist or blacklist a given website.
Auto Rules – allows you to create conditions and rules that'll make the campaign self-optimized, based on certain parameters.
Device Type – easily allows you to target Phone or Tablet traffic.
Devices – where you can whitelist/blacklist OS, OS version, Device Make and Model.
Creatives – the place to upload banners and finally select the traffic dimensions you'll target.
Hint: be aware that you can also adjust the weight for each uploaded banner, according to your requirements. By default, it's gonna be 100% per banner.
Besides these main options, Go2mobi has other features such as Dayparting, GEO location (allows you to target specific areas such as cities and ZIP codes), IP addresses, note box (where you can take notes) and a Rules tab to manage the optimization rules that you set up on the campaign. To finish, the Bid Overrides option allows you to select a different CPM bid for a specific parameter of a campaign..
Generally speaking, Go2Mobi will definitely require a lot of research and testing but, with the right strategy, you'll be able to make brass with super smooth class!
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UConn women to play Texas in 2016 Jimmy V Classic
Huskies eliminated Longhorns from last two NCAA tournaments
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UConn head coach Geno Auriemma.The Associated Press file photo
After meeting in the 2015 and 2016 NCAA tournaments, the UConn and Texas women's basketball teams are slated to square off in the 2016 Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. at Mohegan Sun Arena.
It will be UConn's sixth straight appearance in the Jimmy V Classic and ninth time playing in the event overall.
UConn is 7-0 against Texas with four of the wins coming in the NCAA tournament. The Longhorns have the distinction of being the only team the Huskies beat more than once in the NCAA tournament during its run of three straight titles from 2002-04 and also played them multiple times in the NCAA tourney during the current streak of four straight national titles. The last time the teams met in the regular season came in 2009 when the Huskies won 83-58 in ESPNU's Road to the Championship at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.
Texas figures to have one of the better backcourts in the country, led by last year's leading scorer Brooke McCarty as well as rising stars Ariel Atkins and Lashann Higgs. High school All-American Joyner Holmes, who drew some recruiting interest from UConn, comes into the program to add some size following the graduation of WNBA first-round pick Imani Boyette.
The Texas game is part of an ambitious non-conference schedule for the Huskies. UConn will host Baylor, Chattanooga, Dayton, DePaul, Ohio State and South Carolina, and play on the road against Florida State, Kansas State (on Dec. 11), LSU, Maryland, Nebraska and Notre Dame. Also, with the American Athletic Conference making the switch to playing 16 regular-season games after having 18 conference games, look for the breakdown of home and away opponents to be announced likely not long after the conclusion of the AAC annual meetings set from May 31-June 3 in Miami.
The schedule with dates and sites typically is announced in late August or early September.

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Alright, if you haven't seen "The Force Awakens" by now, you obviously don't care enough about "Star Wars" to get too upset about spoilers. I feel sorry for folks who lived around this guy after December 17th. Not cool at all! Thanks to Tim Forster for the picture.


The stories of Mahabharata continues. The conflict between the Pandava brothers and the Kaurava brothers began at an early age. In this episode we learn of the first attempt by the Kaurava brothers, primarily Duryodhona and Duhsashana, to eliminate their arch rival Bheema. The story gives us a glimpse of the extent to which the Kauravas could go to achieve their goals. Enjoy and do not forget to give your feedback.


If Your Drink Isn't 100% Efficient, What's Leftover?
I wanted to add a brief technical discussion to cover some questions that have been raised in this site's short life.
Calories are derived from 4 macronutrient sources: carbohydrates, fat, protein, and alcohol. By (this site's own) definition, a drink is 100% efficient if all of it's calories are from alcohol, ie. there's no carbs, fat or protein. So what happens when a drink isn't 100%? Generally, there are residual sugars, which have not been fermented for one reason or another. Someone asked if it matters what the source of the sugars is for different types of booze, eg. whiskey (corn), rum (sugar), sake(rice) grapes (wine). The answer is: not really. Whether your carbohydrate is complex, like corn, it has been partially broken down by the fermenting yeast and there's absolutely no fiber, so it's not like it's going to be any healthier than the residual grape juice in wine.
As far as the other macronutrients, fat is a non-factor unless you're ordering a Mississippi Mudslide from Fridays. If you're reading this site, that's an unlikely scenario. As for protein, the barley in beer contains some, and the resulting beer contains anywhere from .3 to 2 grams per 12 oz, but meatheads shouldn't get too excited. The protein's biological value is probably near zero.
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Japan or the Land of the Rising Sun is a beautiful city to visit, to explore and to live in. The mountainous country located on the northwest of the Pacific Ring of Fire and shares maritime borders with the Philippines, South and North Korea, China, Taiwan, Russia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The county has several thousands of islands, with Hokkaido, Kyushu, Honshu, and Shikoku as the four biggest. Japan's neighbouring countries include Russia, China, and Korea.
Japan's area is similar to California and Germany. Its geography is composed mainly of mountains and forests. In terms of political structure, the country is divided into 8 regions and 47 prefectures.
Living in Japan can be a breeze. Many foreigners choose to live in the country for work and study while other consider Japan their second home. Tourists who visit japan can find an interesting array of accommodations ranging from ryokan and temple lodgings to capsule hotels and pension homes.
Japan is home to many cities that are bustling with job opportunities and entertainment venues. Big cities like Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, and Kyoto are rife with amazing discoveries that make tourists keep coming back.
Not to be forgotten are the enchanting rural areas of Japan that has that immutable tranquillity and serenity. Many tourists who want to immerse in the Japanese way of living will find it enjoyable to visit Biei-cho and Tsurui in Hokkaido, Higashi-Naruse in Akita, Kitashiobara in Fukushima, Kiso-cho and Nagiso-cho in Nagano, Hakayawa-cho in Yamanashi, Totsukawa and Yoshino-cho in Nara, and Nakanojo-cho in Gunma.
The beautiful country of respectful and diligent people are home to hundreds of activities to do and tourist spots to explore. Visitors can try many activities that allow them to have an unforgettable experience. They can eat fresh seafood in the Tsukiji fish market or bathe in natural hot springs while living in a ryokan. In winter, the country offers its locals and tourists the chance to enjoy skiing and snowboarding in one of the many ski resorts in Hokkaido. Those who are even more adventurous may find hiking a fulfilling activity. Japan has tons of mountains to explore suitable for beginners and even seasoned hikers.
Japan is more than just a country to explore for its beautiful scenery, exciting tourist spots, and exquisite cuisine. The country also has a lively and interesting gambling scene.
Gambling in Japan is a complicated industry to delve into. Residents and even foreigners are not allowed to bet in games that directly pays out cash. They are only allowed to make a wager in government-approved and government-controlled betting games.
The country's most popular "gambling" activity is pachinko and pachinko slot machine since it is generally regarded as a recreational game rather than a casino activity. Betting in government controlled public sports is also permitted, provided that they do pari-mutuel betting. The public sports betting allowed in the country include bike racing, motorcycle racing, boat racing, and horse racing. They can also place wagers in Toto soccer.
Online casinos with live dealers are also popular in Japan. Most of these online casinos are internationally registered entities, making them beyond the country's jurisdiction. Players with Japan addresses and Japanese yen currencies are accepted in a number of premium online casinos.
The Japanese government approved the Integrated Resorts Promotion Bill, which states that the government can issue up to three licenses for land-based casinos as long as they are built within the premises of a resort complex similar to the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.


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Disney is remaking The Rocketeer
Vince Mancini 08.22.12 7 years ago 33 Comments
According to Vulture, Disney is planning a reboot remake† of The Rocketeer, their 1991 film directed by Captain America's Joe Johnston in his second feature. I was sitting here trying to come up with something, anything interesting about The Rocketeer, and the best I could come up with was that Jennifer Connelly played the love interest in it, which means that she's been hot for 20-plus years. Impressive.
Now that Disney's troubled movie studio is under new management, our spies tells us that, curiously, one of the first properties to be developed for a feature film is a reboot of 1991's thirties-set adventure film, The Rocketeer.
In it, a racing pilot named Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) discovers a rocket-pack prototype in his stunt plane, hidden there by the gangsters who stole it from Howard Hughes.
The Rocketeer was first published in 1982 by tiny (and now, sadly, defunct) Pacific Comics, and was conceived by artist Dave Stevens as an homage to the serial action heroes of the thirties. By the time Disney released The Rocketeer in 1991, Pacific had already been liquidated for half a decade. Stevens lost a battle with leukemia in March 2008
We're told the studio will soon be meeting with various writers to come up with a take. But its reappearance at Disney now, of course, begs the question: Why? [Vulture]
Why? Because it's quasi-superhero-esque, duh. The Avengers made a billion dollars, and The Dark Knight Rises will surely get there, so if you have something in your back catalog that looks kind of like Iron Man, what do you think you're going to do? I'm sure it will be a bland Disney film, but the original did involve jetpacks and Nazi Zeppelins, so who knows? More importantly, all of this led me to this gif:
Boy howdy.
†Everyone else called it a "reboot," and the next thing I knew, I too had typed reboot without even thinking about it. You see what reading trade news every day does to a person? But The Rocketeer doesn't have sequels, so what would make it a reboot? It's a remake. "Reboot" is a stupid word. Let's not use it unless we have to.
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A little while ago, a group of parents who live in a city approximately sixteen miles away, met to discuss the possibility of running a school bus from that city to our school. A possible route was charted, costs were calculated, and a survey was sent to the families who might wish to ride the bus. Only a few families indicated that they were "definitely interested" and fewer still, said they were "probably interested" in having bus service. What was most interesting, however, were the number of comments and the type of comments received from parents who favored carpooling.
Carpooling allows more contact with the teachers. Being at the school several times a week allows more opportunity to chat with teachers and ask questions about a child's progress.
Carpooling fosters friendships as it allows more contact between parents as they fellowship in the parking lot.
Carpooling allows more contact with one's children during a prime time part of the day.
On the way to school, they can work on homework or Scripture memory verses.
On the way home, they are much more willing to talk about their day, but after taking a long bus ride, they are all talked-out.
Carpooling provides an atmosphere that is more positive than that of a bus. It is quieter, and the kids get to know each other. There is time to sing or pray.
Carpooling provides door-to-door service, and it is generally quicker to take the car.
Carpooling is safer, in many ways. Although the actual driving part may be safer in a bus, the walking to and from the bus stop, and the unsupervised crossing of busy streets is less safe. There are dangers from the weather and other people that are a real concern.
With carpooling, the costs are spread around so that it is actually less expensive than paying for a bus, especially since on a bus, each child costs an additional amount.
After listening to these points, I realized that in many ways, we may have a better school for not having a bus. That is not to say that we would never have one, or that it is a mistake for a school to have a bus service, but by having parents physically at the school several times every week, we have generated a tremendous sense of unity and common purpose. If children arrive at school in a better frame of mind, and arrive back home more rested and relaxed, then that is a good thing. In short, carpooling fosters "koinonia" and that is one of our core values.
What we do not know is how many people currently not enrolled at our school would do so if there was a bus. Perhaps more research in the future will make that clear. But in the meantime, I think we would do well to celebrate the advantages of carpooling rather than wishing we had a bus service. There are clearly advantages and it may just be God's best for us after all.


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Courtney teases Boost liveried Ford Mustang
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By Simon Chapman
Thursday 21st May, 2020 - 12:01pm
James Courtney's Boost Mobile Racing Ford Mustang
James Courtney has given fans their first look at what his Boost Mobile-backed Ford Mustang will look like when he returns to the Supercars grid.
Courtney posted the Peter Hughes-designed livery render on his Facebook page, which draws inspiration from the design he ran with Team Sydney at the season-opening Adelaide 500.
The 2010 champion is set to make his return to the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship at Sydney Motorsport Park on June 27-28.
The 39-year-old will run under the Boost Mobile Racing banner out of the Tickford Racing operation, which fills the void left by the recently departed 23Red Racing.


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Rihanna is Reportedly Expanding Her Fenty Empire to Include Hair
It looks like Rihanna is set to make a major move into the hair business as she has reportedly trademarked the name, Fenty Hair.
The singer and business mogul who in a few years has taken over the beauty and fashion world is said to have filed court documents on March 3, for the hair venture of her business.
This means that her Fenty Hair can focus on anything and everything within the hair business from hair products to styling instruments, wigs, etc.
Rihanna already gave the world Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin and her all-inclusive lingerie brand Savage x Fenty, all of which are highly successful products.
Taking her talents and Midas touch to the hair business is just another step in building her world class fashion and beauty empire.
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Alive, the only nonprofit provider of hospice care and end-of-life services for Middle Tennessee, opened a new office in Franklin to better serve Williamson County where it has been caring for families in their homes for more than 40 years. The grand opening will take place on February 20 at 11:00 a.m. It is open to the public and will include a ribbon cutting ceremony.


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So, realtime with pause...
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I was basically raised on the IE games, so I consider RTwP the ideal system. Also, in BG there was always the option to autopause at the end of rounds. The true strength of RTwP is the simultaneous action, without with we don't get realistic tactics.
"Well, overkill is my middle name. And my last name. And all of my other names as well!"
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I'd prefer they'd stick with their RTwP system as they have planned. Queueing up several attacks was mentioned above and I think that would be a good thing to have if they weren't already planning on implementing it. Not only does it help manage a lot going on on-screen, but perhaps it will help it be closer to a turn based style for those who want it. I can't imagine Obsidian having both systems though, you'd likely need to have abilities function and play out differently depending on which system you were using and that would just add more work for a feature that may be unnecessary for most players.
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That's one of those fundamental, binary development choices. Doing both in the same game and doing each well seems like a monumental task, if not impossible. It's not something that can just be tacked on as an option later ... at least not with a game with a budget as small as this one will probably have.
I was sure it was something like that. What I would like to ask Tim is if this was discussed at the beginning and would he consider makling another TB game down the road.
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This is pretty much the most concerning piece of information we got. I would've much more preferred a turn-based system, since it allows for much better pace and control over multiple companions. I think realtime systems are fine as long as they concentrate on either one complex character, or on multiple simple character, so that the player needs to focus only on making high-level tactical decisions, or concentrate on one complex entity, not nitpick on which ability or spell to use next on all of the characters. For example, Dragon Age: Origins probably has one of the worst realtime /w pause systems in existence. And I'd really truly like for Obsidian to avoid the downfalls of such a system. I also remember Baldurs Gate and pals giving me quite a bit of frustration exactly due to its RTwP system (and AD&D, but let's not go there...).
The problem lies in too much stuff happening around at a time, lack of a proper queued order system (the new Jagged Alliance remake has pretty awesome order queueing) and dumber-than-a-boot suicidal AI. The latter can fix a lot, but is not a easy thing to do right. But when done wrong, it can ruin everything, forcing the player to pause every second just to make sure the dumb companions do what they're told and micromanage every single little detail. Sure, I don't mind that option, since who am I to deny the pleasure of this from those who desire it, but the game should be designed in a smarter way, not to force player on this kind of style of play - which really isn't everyone's cup of tea.
This is essentially exactly what I was saying when I pledged on the kickstarter page. I just did it in a more polite and less detailed kind of way. You're right about Dragon Age Origins. It ruined that game for me. The story was cool but I had to stop playing it because of having to do what you describe. My request on the kickstarter page was for them to make the AI at least reasonably intelligent so that they don't have to be micromanaged. That said, I agree that if you don't need to play your characters to be successful that it does remove an element of gameplay, so I don't know if that's a good solution.
As I see it, here are some limitations of RTwP:
-pausing lessens immersion in the game. It looks strange to see full motion with many things happening at once to everyone being frozen.
-As Delterius was saying, its very difficult to know everything that's going on. Margaretha's suggestion is a good one though that this could help be overcome by intentionally trying to give good textual and graphical cues. Nobody wants to stare at the rolls box instead of looking at the characters. It'd be good to know what they're doing by having animations for each action; ie unique animations for each spell. Also it'd be good to see what they intend to do next, perhaps in text or with a little icon so that way if they're going to do something stupid you can change their next action BEFORE they do it rather than having them miss the entire round because you cancelled it.
-Having to pause for easy fights is tedious. It would be better if the player only feels the need to pause for difficult ones.
-Having to micromanage AI to do things that require a minimum amount of intelligence. I want to respect NPC's for having the wherewithall to throw down an oil slick when the party is being rushed by a huge group of enemies that can only melee. I loved running with Boone in New Vegas. Boone did smart things and had cool dialogue while he did them. It really increased my attachment to the character and made me care more. As a matter of fact I think it would be great if the smarter npc's did smarter things when they weren't being specifically directed by the player and vice versa.
I get that they want to do RTwP. I'm not going to try to change that, I think getting them to change their plan could end up screwing up the game they envision royally. Instead I'd like to help them get it right because I've found it to be a very frustrating combat system. In Mass Effect I kind of enjoyed how the npc's would fight just fine on their own but you had the option of telling them to do something specific if you wanted to co-ordinate with them. I hope it will end up being more like that, where hitting pause feels like optimizing your gameplay in specific situations instead of a necessity in basic ones.
Edited September 16, 2012 by KenThomas
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This is essentially exactly what I was saying when I pledged on the kickstarter page. I just did it in a more polite and less detailed kind of way.
Hehe, trust me, this was me being my most polite self
That's exactly it. The companions should act intelligently AND the system should support a multitude of intelligent options. For example, let's take an archer example. You'd want an archer to keep their distance, but maybe switch to melee if someone closes up. Okay, let's say you have this archer who is also very accurate with a light melee weapon, then they could try something like called shots to the legs in order to slow down and injure the opponent enough for the archer to run further away again and pin some more arrows on the enemy.
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I don't understand the complaint about the need to pause every second and manage everything, because that's exactly what happens in a turn-based game.
I know, it's funny because that's what everyone easily thinks, and it sounds like that's how it is, but the reality is that a good turn-based game has a completely different feel to it.
I play turn-based games, and I know how they play. Don't be condescending. If you want the strategical and tactical fights in turn-based combat, everything has to be 'paused' and managed constantly, just like in RTwP.
Also, you cut out the part where I talked about how Ultima 6 catered to both those who want a non-management heavy combat and vice versa.
Turn-based in itself is a way of pacing the gameplay and removing any reaction time factors. A good turn-based game is designed in way to take advantage of the turn-based mechanics. It usually means there isn't that much stuff happening at a time.
Of course. You can reduce the amount of stuff happening in a RTwP game too though, and RTwP does reduce reaction time to an absolute minimum. And with a combat log, you can keep up with it just as well as a turn-based game that goes through every animation slowly so that you can see it happen.
For example, combat mechanics can be deadlier, because of the extended time each turn takes.
There's no reason why a combat mechanic can't be deadly in real-time. It's simply a matter of expectation.
In realtime games it's often better to rely on HP sack mechanics, because it gives players more time to see whats going on. Pausable or not, the flexibility is required precisely because of itself: no matter how optimal gameplay, not all people pause every second, because they don't have to. It's tedious.
It can also be tedious to play turn-based combat, which can play just as slowly.
-As Delterius was saying, its very difficult to know everything that's going on.
Well, if it is difficult to know what is going going on, then there are issues. What should be challenging is to manage everything that is going on.
If things are happening slowly in a turn-based game and you're not thanking God that's the case, its because the game isn't challenging you. In my experience it means that encounter design has its issues.
Edited September 16, 2012 by Delterius
Avantenor 13
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For a tactical RTwP I think it is important to have the possibilty to chain multiple commands for each character (Jagged Alliance: Back in Action is really impressive in that aspect) and to have group formations just like in Baldur's Gate. A basic AI, that can handle simple actions alone and relieves the gamer from basic handlings (e.g. auto base attack for fighters, if there is no other command available), is also important. The optimum imo at the moment is Dragon Age with its feature to create several routines for your characters. If you have that features, imho RTwP is a alternative to the tactical feeling of turnbased games.
One thing, I've forgotten: Auto-pause, as in bg2: enemy / trap sighted, killed enemy, lost weapon, character died, and so on. Of course with config options.
Edited September 16, 2012 by Avantenor
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@catmorbid: I opened a similar topic this morning (Rome time) and I totally agree with you. TBC is still the best solution for party-based RPGs. Few characters with tons of abilities/skills/spells need a lot of micromanagment and so a lot of pauses. Consequently a RTP system doesn't give you either the fluidity of RT system and the complete control over the action of a TB system.
And, no: Tb system aren't necesserily slow. They are slow only if they are designed for being slow (read low killing ratio) . Look X-Com or JA for confirmation...
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Turn-based has it's place no doubt, but so does real-time with pause.
The realtime with pause-system in BG and PS:T is probably my favourite combat system in a CRPG. It wasn't that hard to micro manage my 6 man party and dish out spells and positioning etc, you just needed some timing. I hope it'll be a system similar to that one.
I don't necessarily agree. All that matters is that it's a well designed encounter. A well designed encounter does not mean that it is challenging, because not all that you encounter in the world will be a challenge to your character(s).
That said, I am not against slow, managed combat. Don't quote me out of context.
Edited September 16, 2012 by Jozape
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I'm personally much more adept at Turn-based Systems, but at the same time I don't have an issue with Real Time w/pause. I've found I appreciate the slight 'flexibility' to them that most TB systems don't really have.
(Plus it means on easy fights you can let your characters clean up while you grab a drink or something. Though I admit, this has had mixed results...)
Challenge may not be the best word, best to say Interesting. However, challenge most likely is necessary to keep things interesting. And yes, I should have said 'if combat is tedious, its because encounter design sucks'.
ToEE had amazing rules and implementation, but terrible encounter design and, as such, shouldn't be cited as a good example of all things turn based ever.
I heard this story many times and every time I disagreed. Are you really sure that encounters are better in IE games than I ToEE? I mean, how many times did you use the same exact tactic in BG2 (destroy enemy spellcasters with all your firepower and than dwell on melee scum?); how many "trash mobs" did you fight during your journey?
For me ToEE has the best combats in a D&D game so far, not only the best combat system. Maybe it's because I knew all the balancing issues of AD&D way before I started to play BG of IWD, and used them to my advantage, but I really don't remember tons of memorable encounters in those games. Instead I remember very short encounters with trash mobs and lots of interesting things to fight in TToEE, like the wall of meat....
The Infinity-Engine games always were about strategy and melee. Who should be in my group and which spells should be memorized. It always came down to the right strategy in terms of casters and spells. There is no need for turn based combat because there are no tactics. Just a large explosion during which you need to make sure you are the one standing in the end. At least I played this way. Maybe there are other ways
This is a fine point. But a finer point is: would they be better games with deep tactical combats? Yes, they would...
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I also prefer turn based, but as is a homage to Infinity Engine, it's going to be RTwP. I think RTwP is fine too, provided the party AI is good enough so you don't have to pause every second just to babysit your companions. I also liked those scripts you could make in BG.
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I actually really enjoy the turn based with pause combat system seen in games such as dragon age origins, although perhaps a queueing system such as the one seen in KOTOR would have made things a little easier.
Albeit I feel the real time w.pause system in DAO allowed for great pacing as you could simply waste smaller weaker enemies without the burden of purely turn base combat and its time consuming nature, AND you could, if you so choose, utili
ise the pause system when fighting bosses and powerful enemies (giving you a real sense of control and the ability to delve into very tactical combat strategies).
Dianjabla 23
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Nope. The realtime with pause just like the infinity engine is what made me back this project.
Xmasbeer 0
Xmasbeer
People mention Arcanum as an example of how having both systems fails, so I will mention a game that successfully implemented realtime and turned based with variance like moving one character at the time, or moving one squad at the time. The game was called Fallout: Tactics and I have played it through in both modes since the gameplay actually changed.
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Personally, I don't really enjoy turn based gameplay in RPGs. I enjoy it in strategy games, but in an RPG I find it flow breaking and less immersive.
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I am pretty confident Obs can implement better combat than BG2 or PS:T did
Gibbscape_Torment 48
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Thank god. Turn based combat would have turned me off the game immediately. RTwP is much more engaging and exciting.
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Location:Rivia
same here. turned based makes sense for handhelds because of reduced cpu power, but since this will be a pc exclusive there is no reason to not go real time
What I want first are good, difficult encounters and no trash mobs. That would make RTwP passable.
And, ehhh... it's Obsidian. I admit: mediocre combat but cool story and memorable characters is what I expect. I want to be wrong very much, of course...
Queues like in NWN and KotOR would be a big plus. That and the synchronized animations, those looked great. Queues first though.
I appreciate the default flexibility of RTwP as well. Turn-based can get pretty close to that standard with additional options for the player though.


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Q: Excel: calculate averages based on other column's value I have a datasheet containing two huge columns, both with integer values. The values in one column range from 1-11, the other from 0-22. The values aren't sorted in any way. In a separate sheet (same file) I want to show averages per step.
Example:
A   B
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2   3
4   0
6   2
2   9
4   12
1   9
1   18

In the other tab, I would like to see:
Values A   Average B   Values B   Average A
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 1          14          0          4
 2          6           2          6
 4          6           3          2
 6          2           9          2
                        12         4
                        18         1

I'd like to solve this with a function that looks loops through the values of each column, and during that loop takes an average of the rows in the column that correspond to that value. Manually, this would be too much of a hassle.
I tried working with AVERAGEIF but nothing fruitful came out of it.

A: Try:
=AVERAGEIF('analyse-logs'!A:A;A1;'analyse-logs'!B:B)
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A: If you are comfortable building a pivot table, you can build a pivot table on your data. And use average of B in values when A is the rows field. Should yield you the result. Vice-versa should yield the right half of the result.
If you want to see both of them at the same time, one tab can have pivot with A in rows field and average of B in values field. You can build another pivot in another sheet with B in rows field and average of A in values field.
If you want the results side-by-side (2 columns of first part and the next two columns of the 2nd part), you can get pivot tables to be positioned next to each other (Move a Pivot Table) Since the source data is going to be identical, if there are any changes in the base data, a simple Refresh Pivot (Alt+F5) should update the values.
(If you haven't done this before) How to get average in Values field: Change the summary function for a field in a PivotTable report

A: You could try using AVERAGEIFS instead. This worked for me.
=IFERROR(AVERAGEIFS('analyse-logs'!B:B, 'analyse-logs'!A:A, A1), 0)

The code above is for A values. A1 refers to the cell where your value is referenced (or you could use A=1 like you did in your original function). I used IFERROR in this case so that references with no matches will return 0 as the average.

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The final draft of the National Register of Citizens sent shock waves across Assam and it's neighboring states like West Bengal as about 40 lakh applicants did not find a place in the document, considered as a proof of Indian identity.
The maiden document of the NRC or the first list, incorporating 1.9 crore names, was divulged on January 1, 2018.
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Before - I was running CW9.0 and GigaSampler on a Pent II 400 MHz, 126 k Ram, both loaded on an 8 Gb Maxtor 5400. With 2 gigs of free space on the Maxtor, and one particularly large song, I was playing back 24 tracks of wav within CWPA with 5% CPU and no indication of disk usage.
After - I followed the recommendations of both the Cakewalk and Nemesys users groups to optimize my system for DAW. I bought a 20 Gb Quantum 7200 HD, installed it in series with my CD onto the second IDE channel of my motherboard, and created 5 partitions on the 2 independent HDs, i.e., on the Maxtor I have C: - 512 kb for Win98_ed2; D: -6.5 Gb intended for GS giga files; and E: 1 gig for temp and swap file. Quantum F: 10 Gb for wave files, and G; 10 Gb for programs including CW and GS. After much travail and several reinstalls, the computer is happy with everything installed except for GS. The problem shows up already with CW. I have DMAs checked, the correct listings for where the wave files are both in Audio advanced and Global Options. Play back of the 24 track song with 6 Gb available disk space on the first partition of the Quantum 7200, the indicators show 25% CPU usage, 100% disk and CW drops out after 5 sec. If I move the wave files to the 2nd partition of the Maxtor 5400 (D with 4 Gb of available disk, the 24 tracks play back without drop out with the indicators showing 13% CPU and 60% disk usage. Instead of making it better, my attempt at optimization has made it worse. I have Catera\'s diskbench but don\'t know how to use it, i.e., when CW is running or not. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?????	Please help!
For starters... You should probably not install a CD drive as master and then a HD as slave on the same IDE channel - try doing it the other way around - I don\'t know how you got the idea that what you was doing was \'optimization\' of anything! I can\'t say for sure that is the problem, but at least you should try it.
You can\'t put both CW WAV files and Gigasamples on the same physical drive and expect to get high performance out of it. Use your Quantum for either CW WAV file *OR* Gigasamples, but not both. Otherwise, both programs will be battling it out for access time on the drive.


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One of the most essential things when planning home plan are the traffic patterns.You need to thinking more detail concerning the way to developing a strategy for each days activity from start to finish. This is about discovering which way is your quickest route, what areas to hit to prevent delays and traffic, so we are able to achived efficiency. While that could be a stretch from home design and preparation, the concept of traffic pattern preparation is the underlining focus that coincides with producing the flow or traffic movement in your home. One of the best method to efficiently determine home plan traffic patterns is, you must imagine yourself actually moving through the house, multiple posibbility can be created via the visualitation. Do not forget to devote a minimum amount of space to traffic areas. Planning will be take the significant role, so valuable square footage could be dropped if you do not plan accordingly. The most effective design involves producing the illusion of hallway traffic passages or patterns using furniture placement. This can be seen in spacious floor plans. They utilize a minimum number of interior walls to separate chambers. It involves a little forethought by the contractor and designer, but pro active planning eliminates traffic pattern difficulties and furniture arrangement for the homeowner. You ought to keep the dimensions of halls and corridors should to a minimal. The only purpose it serves is to get you out of 1 space to another. Make sure you also keep halls brief in space.


Anees Bazmee's directorial latest comedy movie Welcome Back was released on 4th September on around 3200 screens in India. The movie has received mixed reviews from critics but still succeed in collecting excellent amount in its first week. Audience find its very entertaining and their support made it to collect good at box office. It has registered 2015's third highest opening weekend total after Bajrangi Bhaijaan & Brothers and second highest opening week total after Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
In its first week, Welcome Back was done the business of total 74.02 crores at domestic box office that included 51 crores of weekend & 23.02 crores of weekdays. Now the movie is running in its second week and has already covered the second weekend. On its 8th day, it was recorded a drop of 40% in its business than previous day and minted around 2.61 crores. On the next day i.e. Saturday, being weekend it showed good jump and made the amount of 4.38 crores as its 9th day collection.
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Photo: Foto: Latvijas Kara muzejs
Soldier tales: Aleksandrs Butāns, who served in the Army of independent Latvia
July 10 is the centenary of the official founding of the Latvian Army. To mark the occasion, here is another biography of one of the people who has served under the Latvian flag during the past century.
The story of Aleksandrs Butāns, who served in the Independent Latvian Army and worked in the opera after the occupation, is part of a story series on Latvian Radio dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Latvian Army.
Aleksandrs Butāns was born in 1903 in the Gārsene parish. He began his army service in Daugavpils during the period of Latvia's independence. Aleksandrs was one of the cavalrymen. In 1936 Aleksandrs was laureled with a second grade Order of the Three Stars for his 15 year service to the Latvian Army.
During the Second World War, Aleksandrs was sent to a labor camp in Germany. The Nazi Germany formed special work units, which consisted primarily of students, former soldiers, and women. In 1944, however, these work units were brought back to Latvia and it is likely that Butāns was among them.
Aleksandrs went on to train in Liezere for a post-war qualification and gained a 5thgrade carpenter's certificate. After that, he came to Rīga, most likely to dwell in the cultural hub of the country. Not much is known of his doings after the First World War. It is known, however, that he became a carpenter and worked in the Latvian Opera.
Photo: Latvijas Kara muzejs
He has also remained devoted to horses for all of his life. After World War II, he participated in equestrian sports and later worked as an umpire. Some evidence of this can be found in the press releases of the time, which state that Aleksandrs had participated in a racing competition with the horses named Elva and Djelovoj in the 50's and finished first.
In a photo provided by his relatives, Aleksandrs can be seen as a 25-year-old youth in Daugavpils. In another photo, he is middle-aged.
There's little evidence as to what happened to him in later years, and it is possible that the reason why he wasn't persecuted after the Second World War was because he didn't occupy any high posts. Aleksandrs died in 1977 in Rīga.
The information was provided by Aleksandrs' grandson Ēvalds Butāns.
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Q: dyld: Library not loaded: reason image not found for UI Test target I'm working in project which uses the framework produced by another project in the same workspace. Project works fine and uses framework without any issue, but it crashes when I try to run XCode-generated UITest with error:
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/MyProj.framework/MyProj
  Referenced from: /Users/developer/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/B2194BA8-9577-4916-A396-BF2B3A04DEA7/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/445A97AF-470B-4698-8785-AEFA836E126C/MySpecProj.app/MySpecProj
  Reason: image not found
So, my suspicion is that UITest target somehow can't load framework which MyProjFramework generates, but in the same time I can start the app and it works fine with framework

A: I had this exact same issue.
The App target that my UITest target was launching, had a duplicate dependency. Interestingly, out of the pair, one of them was highlighted red.
I removed all of my dependencies, cleared derived data, then re-added all and that solved the issue.


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Winter's celebration and festivities all packed into December, the first month of the season, leave January and February feeling lonely and cold. Our Christmas tree has provided much needed light all season. She's made my morning journaling sessions so much more enjoyable and taking her down will be difficult. She has continued to drink 4 to 6 cups of water every day and has hardly dropped any needles at all, even though we've had her for almost a month.
I love the festivals of light - almost every culture has one - but it seems some might be better celebrated after the new year when there are fewer holiday events. We've been experiencing well below normal temperatures and are bracing for "Bomb Cyclone" on the eastern coast. It is expected to escalate as it moves north and has already done damage in Florida, Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas.
In an effort to warm up the winter months and soften the chilling winter storms, I'll be adding some posts in January and February with ideas for adding light and love.


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Web Page: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC_Ideas
Mailing List: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=scummvm-devel
ScummVM is a collection of Virtual Machines for playing classic graphical point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware. Supported games include favorites such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, the Virtual Machines (called Engines) are complete reimplementations in C++ of the engines used in the original games. The development team works either by reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), ScummVM also runs on popular game consoles (Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Dingoo and more), smart phones and PDAs (Android, WinCE, iPhone or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 42 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 110), working together on a codebase almost 1,700,000 lines of code. In addition ScummVM has many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month.
Avalanche Engine ScummVM is a virtual machine that supports many game engines by now. Avalanche Engine will be one of the next ones, which will allow playing the game called Lord Avalot d'Argent. My project is to implement this engine.
GUI Extensions and Improvements, mainly focusing on Touchscreen Devices While ScummVM has support for direct input mode for touchscreen devices, many of the controls using this mode feel awkward due to them being optimized for mouse/keyboard usage. This project aims to create a beautiful looking user interface that can be navigated on a smaller screen with fingers, focusing on landscape mode, on modern touchscreen devices. The goal is to make ScummVM feel like a native application without sacrificing too much functionality.
Improve Wintermute Engine for Scummvm The Wintermute Engine in ScummVM has a number of issues and areas for optimization and it has not yet reached "supported" status. Improve it.
Integrating Marisa Chan's Z-Engine Implementation into the ScummVM set of Engines The ZVision is used in the games Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor. Marisa Chan created a C implementation of the engine, but it is only for desktop and requires configuration files. This project aims to create a ScummVM engine using Marisa Chan's implementation code as a guide into the Zork file structure and engine design. That is, it will not simply adapt the current implementation to the ScummVM engine structure. Rather, it will create a new engine, using the file structures and event implementations in Marisa Chan's code as a reference. ScummVM will allow these games to be played on a variety of platforms and a redesign will remove the need for configuration files. Lastly, it will mean that ScummVM will support all of the Zork point'n'click adventure games.


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Q: Session timeout after 1 day I have a homepage the user logins in too with this php code:
 <?php
    session_start();
    $username= $_SESSION['username'];

    if($_SESSION['username'] == "")
    {
        header("Location: http://new_system/");
    }

    require "connection.php";

    $result= mysqli_query($conn,"SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$username'");
    $row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
    $firstname = $row[0];
    $lastname= $row[1];
    $email = $row[2];
    $birthday = $row[4];
    $gender = $row[5];
    $path = $row[8];

    ?>

I tried adding this
$_SESSION["timeout"] = time()+ (0*1*0*0);

So it logs out after a day but it didn't work, can anyone tell me why. I put it under the if statement for session

A: Try this Code.

 $inactive = 60*60*24;
if( !isset($_SESSION['timeout']) )
$_SESSION['timeout'] = time() + $inactive;

$session_life = time() - $_SESSION['timeout'];

if($session_life > $inactive)
{  session_destroy(); header("Location:index.php");     }

$_SESSION['timeout']=time();

A: $_SESSION["timeout"] = time()+ (0*1*0*0);

Is incorrect
Multiplying any number by zero (0) is zero (0)
Change to something like this
For 10 minutes
10 * 60
For 24 hrs ( a day)
24 * 60 * 60
$_SESSION["timeout"] = time()+ (24 * 60 * 60);

You can echo it out to see the difference

A: You have also too set the cookie timeout. For the cookie default is the window session, when you close the browser, the cookie times out.  the session_id is saved in the cookie, when the cookie expires, the session also expires.


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Reading: Latvian PM: The EU has its geostrategic Interest in the Western Balkans
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Latvian PM: The EU has its geostrategic Interest in the Western Balkans
Latvian Prime Minister Krišjanis Karinš emphasized yesterday that the European Union has a geostrategic interest in the Western Balkans, which is why all the steps the EU takes mean an increase in influence in that region.
"I believe it is mutually important for the Western Balkans and the European Union as a whole," Karinš said before the European Council summit in response to FENA's inquiry about whether granting BiH candidate status would stop Russia's influence in the region.
Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob confirmed yesterday, before the start of the European Council summit in Brussels, that he expects a decision on the granting of candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He reminded that Slovenia has been advocating for such a decision within the institutions of the European Union for a long time, and believes that there will be no surprises today.
"Four months ago, we came out with that attitude, and what seemed like an illusion then, is now a reality. This is proof that if you find the right moment and the right arguments, nothing is impossible," said Golob.
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How JB Hi-Fi became an electronics powerhouse
by Laeta Crawford
10th Nov 2020 7:04 AM
When John Barbuto first started selling homemade audio speakers from the porch of his East Keilor home in 1974, it's a fair bet he never envisaged the behemoth his business idea would become.
Yet from its humble Melbourne beginnings, JB Hi-Fi Australia is now a $5.3 billion business and the JB Hi-Fi group, which includes The Good Guys, is a $7.92 billion company with more than 200 stores across Australia and New Zealand.
JB Hi-Fi chief executive Richard Murray applauded Mr Barbuto's vision and drive more than 46 years ago to create a small business that "grew wings".
"It really is one of those small business success stories," Mr Murray said.
The early days inside JB Hi-Fi's first store at East Keilor in Melbourne.
"Every year, JB Hi-Fi continues to grow and it is now Australia's largest consumer electronics retailer, yet it still has links back to its East Keilor origins."
Mr Barbuto opened the first store in East Keilor after constant complaints from his neighbours about traffic build-up around his home on weekends.
When he did, he used a fruit shop mentality (his parents were greengrocers) to fill the shop with stock and label the products with handwritten tickets, which has become synonymous with JB Hi-Fi stores.
"John started with one simple philosophy - to deliver a specialist range of hi-fi and recorded music at Australia's lowest prices," Mr Murray said.
"That is still at the heart of everything JB Hi-Fi does - delivering the best range of products at the cheapest prices."
JB Hi-Fi's first proper shop in East Keilor was opened after founder John Barbuto's neighbours complained about traffic around the store run from his home.
Mr Barbuto eventually sold the business in 1983, and by 1999 another nine stores had been opened.
In July 2000, JB Hi-Fi was purchased by private equity bankers and senior management with the aim of taking the successful model nationally.
Three years later the business was publicly listed on the stock exchange to help speed up the rollout of stores across Australia.
The evolution of its product range has seen the business move into new areas with its product range now covering computers, mobile phones and plans, tablets, televisions, cameras, drones, headphones, speakers, smart home products, games, recorded music, movies and TV shows, whitegoods and small appliances.
In 2016, JB Hi-Fi added to its portfolio when it acquired The Good Guys chain of home appliances stores, but the two brands continue to trade in their own names.
JB Hi-Fi at Fountain Gate prepares to welcome back customers following the COVID-19 lockdown.
In 2020, not even COVID-19 has halted the business - despite recent temporary store closures in Melbourne due to the extended lockdown period, the business recently reported a 27 per cent jump in same store sales growth.
"Considering the challenges we have faced, we are really pleased with the results," Mr Murray said.
"It has been so rewarding being able to keep 2771 of our Victorian teams at both our stores and support office employed and busy looking after our customers, even with a majority of our servicing customers through online sales only.
"We are excited that our customers are finally getting back into our stores in Melbourne - and across Victoria it's just great to see happy faces on our customers again.
"I think John would be quite amazed at just where his business has landed after all these years."
Originally published as How JB Hi-Fi became an electronics powerhouse
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Gerson Torres Barrantes (* 28. August 1997 in San José) ist ein costa-ricanischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere

Verein
Er startete seine Karriere in der Jugend des Belén FC und ging hier ab der Saison 2015/16 in den Kader der ersten Mannschaft über. Zur Folgesaison verliehen diese ihn dann für ein halbes Jahr zum CS Herediano. Als nächstes ging es dann für den Verlauf des Jahres 2017 erneut per Leihe weiter. Diesmal zum CF América nach Mexiko. Zum Start des Jahres 2018 wechselte er dann auch fest nach Mexiko, jedoch nicht zu seinem ehemaligen Leihklub, sondern zu Necaxa. Diese wiederum verliehen ihn nach einem halben wieder zurück zu Herediano, zu welchen er nach einer Saison per Leihe, zur Spielzeit 2019/20 auch fest zurückkehrte.

Nationalmannschaft
Sein Debüt in der costa-ricanischen Nationalmannschaft hatte er am 15. Januar 2017 bei einem 3:0-Sieg über Belize während der Qualifikation für den Gold Cup 2017. Hier wurde er in der 62. Minute für Elías Aguilar eingewechselt. Nach einem weiteren Qualifikationsspiel für das Turnier, bekam er aber erst mehrere Jahre lang keinen weiteren Einsatz. Erst im Juni 2021 wurde er bei der Partie um den dritten Platz bei der CONCACAF Nations League 2019–21 wieder eingesetzt. Anschließend wurde er dann auch in Spielen der Qualifikation für die Weltmeisterschaft 2022 eingesetzt.

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Costa-ricanischer Meister (Fußball)
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Costa Rica)
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Assignment 3: Leadership and Ethics
In this assignment, you will build upon the two (2) challenges that you had identified in Assignment 2, Question 4.
Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on public agencies or non-profit organizations for which your proposed challenges may not be considered actual challenges.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
Propose two (2) ethical concerns that management may need to address. Create the context in which such concerns may or may not be ethical in nature. Provide a rationale for your response.
Analyze the overall manner in which organizational structure impacts organizational ethics. Select one (1) public agency or one (1) non-profit organization in which your challenges may not be considered actual challenges. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use the Inventory of Public Management Skills Management, located on pages 11 to 12 of the textbook, to construct a self-evaluation. Assess your level of development in each of the skills. Propose two (2) to three (3) activities that would help you to improve the skills in question.
Use the results of your self-evaluation and recommendations from Question 3 to formulate a response to the challenges that you have presented that creates a win-win situation for the organization, the employees, and the public. Predict two (2) potential obstacles to success and two (2) plans to overcome such obstacles.
Include at least four (4) academic references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook and no more than one (1) governmental Website. Note: Appropriate academic resources include academic and governmental Websites, scholarly texts, and peer-reviewed articles. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Rearrange public administration, both the traditional and the new approaches, from structural, functional, and process perspectives, as well as the key goals of the public and private sector.
Predict the changing nature and responsibilities for managing public and nonprofit organizations.
Critique ethics in public service and its influence on the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
Compose the concepts of public leadership and management essential to the study of public administration.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in public administration.
Write clearly and concisely about public administration using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment.
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