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South Africa: Wind Power Sector Welcomes Greenlight for 100MW Self-generation
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA), has welcomed the announcement by President Ramaphosa today, to lift the threshold for companies to produce their own electricity without a licence to 100MW and views this as another indication the country is well on its way to a decentralised, and decarbonised, renewable energy generation power system.
It is the industry's understanding that the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) is looking to encourage substantial investment in the energy generation sector, in order to support economic growth and diversify the generation sources away from just a single risk entity.
"When the amended regulation was issued for public comments, we made strong submissions that the allotted 10MW threshold would be too small a shift to open up this highly regulated sector to the substantial investment that is required. We further submitted that the threshold for license exemptions should be increased to between 50MW and 100MW," explained Ntombifuthi Ntuli, CEO of SAWEA, who added that this announcement means that the industry can now easily enter into Power Purchase Agreements with private entities, especially intensive energy users and deliver projects quickly.
It has been reported that large companies, mines and farms are believed to have 5,000MW in pent-up projects, which could be released if licensing requirements were lifted.
"Renewable energy project developers have got a number of projects that have gone through all development phase permitting requirements and are shovel ready, so we can confidently say that there is sufficient capacity in the industry to meet demand from intensive energy users," said Ntuli, referring to South Africa's intensive energy users (IEU), which includes mining and industrial enterprises, which are estimated to collectively consume about 40% of South Africa's electrical energy.
Independent Power Producers (IPPs), have reported that several mining houses and other IEUs have reached out to the industry enquiring about projects that are ready for procurement. The Association sees this as a clear intention to procure clean energy from the sector.
By lifting the threshold, it will allow intensive energy users, which makes up a significant portion of the South African GDP, to establish new generation capacity that will in turn stimulate the economy as well as free up the Electricity Availability Factor (EAF).
South Africa has been plagued with power shortages for a long time due to demand exceeding available supply capacity. This is despite Government's efforts to implement a number of programmes to try and close the capacity gap, which include the announcement of preferred bidders for the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP) and issuing of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) Round 5 Request for Proposals (RFP), as well as announcing future procurement plans.
"Eskom's EAF has been below recommended levels for a very long time, as demonstrated by the protracted load shedding that our country has been experiencing for well over a decade now. This indicates an urgent need to procure new generation capacity and by lifting the threshold for self-generation to 100MW, without licencing, we are not only freeing up capacity, but are taking one step further towards a decentralised energy system," said Ntuli.
She concluded saying, "The energy transition that the country is going through is multi-faceted and informed by a number of drivers including decarbonisation, decentralisation and democratisation. While decarbonisation has to do with shifting from carbon intensive energy to more clean and green energy technologies, decentralization means moving away from a centralised single vertically integrated utility to more decentralised generation, through utility scale IPP projects and small scale embedded generation projects. This means that energy will be produced closer to where it will be used, rather than at a large plant elsewhere and sent through the national grid."
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Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behavior includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods, and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins; as a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list. However, when the adjectival form - extravagant - is used to refer to a person, it is usually considered to be a description of eccentric behavior, rather than a moral criticism.


What makes Lou Malnati's pizza crust taste so good?
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Waterford Airport Statement to the Déise AM Show on WLR local radio , 26th July
We expect to have engagement with the WRC very shortly with a view to resolving the dispute.
The employees who turn up for work have been seriously verbally abused. They are not 'strike-breakers'. They are providing a vital public service for the Waterford community and the wider southeast region. Firemen and others support the Coast Guard helicopter which flew no less than seven mercy missions out of Waterford in the last four days.
We continue to actively seek an alternative airline to restore full service despite the obvious difficulty posed by having a strike on our hands at the same time.
We currently do not have enough work for all employees on a full-time basis.
Members of the airport management have taken pay cuts but are still required to work full-time to manage the negotiations for an alternative airline service, to ensure that the airport provides continuity of service during the strike and to plan for the future of this vital part of the southeast regional infrastructure.
We invite Unite to join us in our efforts to keep the airport open and viable.

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The Adam's Angels 5k is staged at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax Virginia on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 9 a.m. The race will start and finish in the parking lot in front of the school and run through the surrounding neighborhood.
Proceeds of Adam's Angels will go towards the Adam P. Seymour Foundation. On August 19, 2010 Adam Patrick Seymour, an incoming college freshman, collapsed while competing in a pre-season training run with the Lynchburg College soccer team. Adam subsequently died on August 22, 2010 as a result of the cardiac arrest which struck him on August 19th. Proceeds from the Race will enable the foundation to: Raise Awareness of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), Fund and place Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), Fund Heart Research and Award scholarships.


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Q: Java Generics: Who is right, javac or Eclipse compile? Calling this method:
public static @Nonnull <TV, TG extends TV> Maybe<TV> something(final @Nonnull TG value) {
    return new Maybe<TV>(value);
}

like this:
public @Nonnull Maybe<Foo> visit() {
    return Maybe.something(new BarExtendsFoo());
}

compiles just fine in Eclipse, but javac gives an "incompatable types" warning:
found   : BarExtendsFoo

required: Foo

A: There are obviously some differences between javac and Eclipse. However, the main point here is that javac is correct in emitting the error. Ultimately, your code converts a Maybe<BarExtendsFoo> to a Maybe<Foo> which is risky.
Here's a rewrite of the visit() method:
  public static <TV, TG extends TV> Maybe<TV> something(final TG value) {
     return new Maybe<TV>(value);
  }

  public static class Foo { }

  public static class BarExtendsFoo extends Foo { }

  public Maybe<Foo> visit() {
     Maybe<BarExtendsFoo> maybeBar = something(new BarExtendsFoo());
     Maybe<Foo> maybeFoo = maybeBar;  // <-- Compiler error here

     return maybeFoo;
  }

This rewrite is practically identical to your code but it explicitly shows the assignment you're trying to make from Maybe<BarExtendsFoo> to Maybe<Foo>. This is risky. Indeed my Eclipse compiler issues an error on the assignment line. Here's a piece of code that exploits this risk to store an Integer inside a Maybe<String> object:
  public static void bomb() {
     Maybe<String> maybeString = new Maybe<String>("");

     // Use casts to make the compiler OK the assignment
     Maybe<Object> maybeObject = (Maybe<Object>) ((Object) maybeString);
     maybeObject.set(new Integer(5));

     String s = maybeString.get(); // Runtime error (classCastException):
                                   //   java.lang.Integer incompatible with
                                   //   java.lang.String
  }

A: I do not understand why javac did not infer the correct type,
but you can help the compiler by supplying the types as in
public @Nonnull Maybe<Foo> visit() {
    return Maybe.<Foo, BarExtendsFoo>something(new BarExtendsFoo());
}

A: Two comments:
a. As you mentioned in one of your comments, The TG type parameter in something()'s signature is not necessary at all, as there is nothing specific to the subclass TG that you're doing in the method.
b. The easiest soluion to this would be to help the compiler to understand which type you're using by explicitly assigning the newly created object to a variable (which is usually good practice anyway). It's now clearer to both the compiler and human readers how you'd like to call the method:
public @Nonnull Maybe<Foo> visit() {
    final Foo bar = new BarExtendsFoo();
    return Maybe.something(bar);
}

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Students in entomology may pursue one of two plans for the M.S. degree, one is a research degree (Plan I) and the other primarily course work (Plan II). Students planning to continue for the Ph.D. are encouraged to take the Plan I M.S. degree.
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A missing Ontario boy was found safely Tuesday morning near his father's business in Fontana, police said.
Ontario police spent Monday night searching for Anthony Leon, 8, who was reported missing that afternoon from his mother's house in the 100 block of N. Virginia Ave., according to a news release.
On Tuesday morning, Anthony called his mother and police were able to determine his location.
He was found about 7:40 a.m. in good condition and unharmed, PIO said.
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The radio saying used to be just "traffic and weather every ten minutes" (especially on 1010 WINS News). It became "traffic and weather together" and "on the 8s" (for all-news radio WCBS 880 AM) becasue of Harvey Nagler, director of news and programming for WCBS-AM Newsradio 88 (1987-97).
Television's NY1 News has "weather on the 1s." Channel 7 (ABC-TV) has advertised "seven minutes" every morning -- not "on the 7s," but "traffic and weather together" every seven minutes.
Radio stations in other cities have copied the formula.
Harvey Nagler was named Vice President, CBS News Radio in January 1998.
Prior to joining CBS Radio News, Nagler was Director, News and Programming for WCBS-AM Newsradio 88 (1987-97). During that time, the station achieved record ratings and was honored with many national and local awards for excellence in reporting. Nagler developed and implemented several practices which have since been adopted or imitated by hundreds of stations across the country, including the slogan, "traffic and weather, together on the 'eights'" and "guaranteed weather," and the broadcast of the Standard & Poor's future numbers in each morning's business report.
The format of drive-time weather solidified in the 1990s with the influential "traffic and weather together" approach, pioneered by news director Harvey Nagler during his tenure at New York's all- news WCBS radio.
This past Friday night CBS Radio's longtime VP Harvey Nagler received the Radio Television Digital News Association's 2014 John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual's contributions to the journalism profession and freedom of the press. The ceremony took place at Opryland in Nashville. Nagler's been VP of CBS Radio News since January 1998 and oversees CBS News' worldwide radio operations. During his previous tenure as director of news programming for WCBS-AM in New York, he coined the phrase "traffic and weather, together on the eights." Here is a portion of the speech Nagler gave at the ceremony.


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LA GOP State Rep. Who Proposed $1K Reward To Sterilize Poor Women Now Proposes Criminalizing All Abortions (1)
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Laws Affecting Reproductive Health and Rights: Trends in the First Quarter of 2011
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From the Guttmacher Institute:
To date, legislators have introduced 916 measures related to reproductive health and rights in the 49 legislatures that have convened their regular sessions. (Louisiana's legislature will not convene until late April.) By the end of March, seven states had enacted 15 new laws on these issues, including provisions that:
* expand the pre-abortion waiting period requirement in South Dakota to make it more onerous than that in any other state, by extending the time from 24 hours to 72 hours and requiring women to obtain counseling from a crisis pregnancy center in the interim;
* expand the abortion counseling requirement in South Dakota to mandate that counseling be provided in-person by the physician who will perform the abortion and that counseling include information published after 1972 on all the risk factors related to abortion complications, even if the data are scientifically flawed;
* require the health departments in Utah and Virginia to develop new regulations governing abortion clinics;
* revise the Utah abortion refusal clause to allow any hospital employee to refuse to "participate in any way" in an abortion;
* limit abortion coverage in all private health plans in Utah, including plans that will be offered in the state's health exchange; and
* revise the Mississippi sex education law to require all school districts to provide abstinence-only sex education while permitting discussion of contraception only with prior approval from the state.
In addition to these laws, more than 120 other bills have been approved by at least one chamber of the legislature, and some interesting trends are emerging. As a whole, the proposals introduced this year are more hostile to abortion rights than in the past: 56% of the bills introduced so far this year seek to restrict abortion access, compared with 38% last year. Three topics—insurance coverage of abortion, restriction of abortion after a specific point in gestation and ultrasound requirements—are topping the agenda in several states. At the same time, legislators are proposing little in the way of proactive initiatives aimed at expanding access to reproductive health –related services; this stands in sharp contrast to recent years when a range of initiatives to promote comprehensive sex education, permit expedited STI treatment for patients' partners and ensure insurance coverage of contraception were adopted. For the moment, at least, supporters of reproductive health and rights are almost uniformly playing defense at the state level.
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See also: The Far Right Refocuses on States
Those who want to control morality go State-to-State to defund Planned Parenthood and legislate Science
Anti-Choice Abortion Contraception War On Women Reproductive Rights War On The Poor
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Wash & Rehabilitation COORDINATOR – Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) Retour vers les opportunités
Première Urgence Internationale
Lance Appel à consultants
14 Mars 2021 Il y a 10 mois
Preliminary Job Information
Job Title WASH & Rehabilitation COORDINATOR
Country and Base TUNIS, TUNISIA
Reports to Deputy Head Of Mission program
Creation/Replacement Replacement
Duration of Mission 4 months
Expected date of Arrival 01/04/2021
Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians' victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads on average 200 projects per year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 7 million people in 22 countries –in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Europe. PUI Libya mission started implementing operations in East of Libya in 2017. The organization develop a lifesaving response that provides primary health care services to the most vulnerable population (internal displaced populations and their host communities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers) combined with an integrated basic needs response to address the overall health situation of the PoC in detention centers and in urban settings.
General Context :
Libya, a mostly desert and oil-rich country with an ancient history, has more recently been known for the 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi -and the chaos that has followed his departure (BBC, 2019). The country has splintered, and since 2014 has been divided into competing political and military factions based in Tripoli and the east. Among the key leaders are Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj, head of the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli, Khalifa Haftar; leader of the Libyan National Army, which controls much of eastern Libya; Aghila Saleh, speaker of the House of Representatives based in the eastern city of Tobruk; and Khaled Mishri, the elected head of the High State Council in Tripoli.
Humanitarian consequences:
Libya continues to struggle to cope with the effects of ongoing conflict and insecurity, an economic and governance crisis and the impacts of COVID-19. In 2020, around 2.5 million people have been the most affected, with 1.3 million people having the most severe needs and requiring humanitarian assistance. This is the result of a deterioration or partial collapse of living standards and basic services, an increased reliance on the use of negative coping strategies and widespread grave violations of human rights and significant impact on physical and mental wellbeing.
Despite the crisis, Libya remains an attractive destination for migrant workers due to an economy that relies on foreign labour, higher salaries and historical ties, as well as being a transitory route for people seeking opportunities or asylum in Europe. An estimated 655,000 refugees and migrants are in Libya, including 48,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers. However, refugees and migrants continue to be exposed to protection risks, human rights violations, exploitation and abuse (HNO, 2021).
PUI's strategy/position in the country and current programs
PUI's strategy/position in the country
The main programmatic objectives of PUI can be synthetized as follows:
∙ Enhance protection environment and access to essential services for conflict-affected communities in Libya. ∙ Provide life-saving assistance by ensuring a safe and dignified access to health services as well as an access to clean water, basic sanitation facilities and hygiene items for the affected families in Detention Centers.
∙ Improve the quality of the health services provided to the people through the national health facilities.
History of the mission and current programs
PUI Libya mission started implementing operations in East of Libya in 2017. The organization has developed a lifesaving response that provides primary health care services to the most vulnerable population (internal displaced populations and their host communities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers) combined with an integrated basic needs response to address the overall health situation of the PoC in detention centres
and in urban settings. As a result, after three years of experience, PUI is now positioning as a significant actor targeting all groups of population in various settings in all eastern Libya. Its constant and solid field presence enables the organization to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders (authorities, local community leaders and local and international NGOs), as well as acceptance in reference to the activities implementation. In 2020, 2 Mobile Health Teams were deployed in Al Kufra and 1 in Detention centers in Eastern Libya. PUI is implementing an integrated approach, with Protection and MHPSS specialist embedded in each MHT. Additionally, PUI is working on the reinforcement of the health system through training and capacity building project for health professionals, and the rehabilitation of health facilities. In 2021, the mission will implement 2 projects funding by AICS and ECHO/SDC.
∙ Title:Libya Equal Access and Development for Recovery: enhancing access to health services (AICS) in Al Kufra, Benghazi and Al Bayda
∙ Title: Enhance protection environment and access to essential services for conflict-affected communities in southern Libya. (ECHO / SDC) in Al Kufra
To note, due to the administrative context, the majority of the humanitarian intervention in Libya are being managed remotely from Tunis
Configuration of the mission
BUDGET FORECAST 2020 4 000 000 Euros
BASES Coordination in Tunis (TUNISIA), Operational base in Benghazi and Al Kufra (LIBYA)
NUMBER OF EXPATRIATES 11
NUMBER OF NATIONAL STAFF 60
MAIN PARTNERS Italian Cooperation, ECHO, Swiss Cooperation
ACTIVITY SECTORS Health, Protection, MHPSS, WASH and rehabilitation
Overall objective
The WASH & Rehabilitation coordinator ensures the monitoring of qualitative and operational aspects of the mission's WASH & Rehabilitation programmes on a day-to-day basis. He/She technically supervises the WASH & Rehabilitation team jointly with the relevant field coordinators in the bases. The WASH & Rehabilitation department is a multi-sectorial department, focusing on WASH, infrastructure and NFI activities such as rehabilitation of WASH facilities, rehabilitation of Health facilities and NFI/Hygiene Kits distribution to vulnerable populations.
 Programmes : He/She coordinates the WASH & Rehabilitationteams jointly with the Field Coordinators, ensures the operational, qualitative and integrated aspects of programmes are put into practice properly (monitoring of objectives, respecting due dates and budgetary provisions, quality control, integrated approach).
 Evaluation / Strategy / Development: He/She participates, for his technical sector, in creating an operational strategy and suggests new operations according to needs identified at base and mission level. He strongly participates (in coordination with other national coordinators and the relevant Field cordinators) in the design and implementation of assessments and in the design and overall project cycle management of all WASH & Rehabilitation projects at mission level. He/She is responsible for the design and the implementation of mitigation risk measures due to the remote management set up for his/her department.
 Human resources: He/She supervises the technical component of the teams operating on WASH & Rehabilitation WASH & Rehabilitation (participates in technical evaluations, helps defining technical objectives, written tests, interviews). He/She supports the line managers of the WASH & Rehabilitation departement in designing and implementing a training plan for all the WASH & Rehabilitation team.
 Representation: Upon delegation of the Deputy Head Of Mission program, He/She ensures and coordinates representation at mission level with partners, donors and different authorities, participation to the working group (WASH, NFI/Shelter sectors).  Coordination: He/She ensures that information is efficiently communicated between the WASH & Rehabilitation teams and other teams (support, programs…) and he ensures a proper coordination and information sharing with other national level coordinators (Log, Admin…)
 Logistical, administrative and financial monitoring: He/she coordinates with the Logistic and Administration coordinator for the procurement and Financial Follow up.
Specific Goals and Related Activities
1. PARTICIPATING IN DEFINING OF PROGRAMMES AND MONITORING OF THE PROGRAMMES UNTIL THEY ARE COMPLETED
 He/She supervises the technical quality of WASH & Rehabilitation WASH & Rehabilitation related activities, including project and site visits, monitoring the quality of interventions, meeting PUI's WASH & Rehabilitation staff and all the external stakeholders.
 He/She guarantees gateways between the other program departments in the design and the implementation of the activities (sharing information, integrated assessments…)
 He/She alerts the Deputy Head Of Mission program in cases of delays identified in implementation of WASH & Rehabilitation programmes and suggests adjustments (in terms of activities, operation area, budget, schedule etc).
 He/She, leads the WASH & Rehabilitation components assessments and proposal (narative, techncial design, financial design, support needs, data analysis and reporting…)
 He/She ensures that donor reporting for WASH & Rehabilitation WASH & Rehabilitation projects are prepared (Monthly and ad-hoc reports).
 He/she participates and support plannings at base and coordination levels.
 He/she updates on monthly bases the context regarding needs at National and base level
 He/She ensures that WASH & Rehabilitation teams respect PUI's procedures and formats and are in compliance with the PUI's operation policy. In case of non-compliance with PUI policies, he/she directly share an alert to his line manager.
 He/She collects all the means of verification on a regular basis as listed in the WASH & Rehabilitation remote strategy and he/she develops solid synergies with the support department and other programmatic departments to systematically cross-check these means of verification.
 He/She leads and ensures an institutional knowledge building strategy for WASH & Rehabilitation interventions and defines, with the Deputy Head Of Mission program the relevant documents and tools to be produced.
 He/she reviews Project Monitoring Tools (PMTs), design planning tools for the WASH & Rehabilitation activities  Design follow up tools to monitor the progress of WASH & Rehabilitation activities.
 He/She updates the different package of tools (such as DC and Urban settings package) within the WASH & Rehabilitation department and ensures that all the tools are used properly
 He/She feed the coordination team with regular progress reports, particularly in analysis of indicators and results of the mission's WASH & Rehabilitation programs.
 PARTICIPATING IN THE DEFINITION AND THE REVISION OF OPERATIONAL STRATEGY
 He/She participates in preparing a mission Strategy for the WASH & Rehabilitation department.
 He/She designs clear SOPs for the WASH, infrastructure and NFI activities within the mission.
 He/She will support the MEAL team in the preparation and during assessments. He/She guarantees the quality ofthe data collection and analysis.
 He/She participates in the follow up of the humanitarian situation in the country and reports needs to the Deputy Head Of Mission program and HQ referent. He/She sends regular situation update and analysis to the Deputy Head Of Mission program and HQ Referent.He/She leads the design and the implementation of a risk mitigation measures strategy for the WASH & Rehabilitation departement for all the bases.
2. SUPERVISING LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL TEAMS WITHIN HIS/HER DEPARTMENT
 He/She is the technical supervisor of the WASH & Rehabilitation project team at mission level.
 Thus, he/she designs job descriptions of project manager and officers before sending to the relevant field Coordinators.  He/She leads department meetings and define with the Field Coordinators priorities and activity schedules.  He/She leads with the line managers in the recruiting of the members of his/her team and participate in the end of contract process for
positions under his/her technical area. He/She designs with the line managers the job description and the written tests for the positions under his/her technical area.
 He/She ensures and/or supervises the continued training of the local and an international member of his/her team (organizational, methodological and technical support), participates in the identification of training needs and recommends training action internally or externally.
3. PARTICIPATING IN THE MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY OF GOODS AND PEOPLE IN HIS/HER OPERATION AREA  He/she also alerts the relevant Field Coordinators and Deputy Head Of Mission program if gaps are observed during his/her field visit in order that corrective action should be taken.
4. ENSURING THE CIRCULATION OF INFORMATION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PUI
 He/She ensures information is efficiently communicated between the national coordination and the field.
 He/She participates actively in coordination meetings.
 He/She coordinates, under the supervision of the Deputy Head Of Mission program, the sector representation of PUI among partners, donors and different authorities at mission level such as WASH and NFI/Shelter sectors, QIPs coordination meetings, ad-hoc meetings with partners in the East…
 He/She ensures the external reporting linked to the sectors and the differents coordination meetings.
5. ENSURE THE RESPECT OF PROCEDURES AND FACILITATE THE LOGISTICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL MONITORING OF HIS/HER OPERATION AREA
 He/She analyses the supply chain process in place for all equipment and materialsunder the WASH & Rehabilitation activities and proposes specific improvements if needed.
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 He/She participates in the FFU meetings to support the WASH & Rehabilitation team at field level.
 He/She makes sure in collaboration with the Deputy Head Of Mission program that logistical, administrative and financial procedures are established for WASH & Rehabilitation projects and alerts the relevant Field Coordinators and the coordination team if gaps are observed in order that corrective action may be taken.
Focus on 3 priority activities relating to the context of the mission
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 University degree in civil engineering or construction works
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 water supply, sanitation, hygiene,
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NFI/Hygiene Kit distribution
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 French
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Strong commitment to humanitarian principles
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Others Mobility: movements in Libya could be required.
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University of Sheffield awarded funding to train next generation of environmental scientists
University of Sheffield awarded share of £100 million funding to support PhD students in environmental sciences
Funding to support 22 PhD students a year as part of the Adapting to the Challenges of Changing Environment Doctoral Training Programme
Opportunities available in ecology, evolution and conservation over the next five years
The University of Sheffield has been awarded a share of £100 million funding to train the next generation of environmental scientists.
The funding, awarded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is set to support 22 new PhD students a year in ecology, evolution and conservation over the next five years as part of the Adapting to the Challenges of Changing Environment (ACCE) Doctoral Training Programme (DTP),
Bringing together the academic strengths of the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and York, the programme also benefits from the unique scientific expertise and resources of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Natural History Museum.
The multidisciplinary programme aims to develop confident and multi-skilled PhD students capable of undertaking cutting-edge research and tackling environmental biology questions of global significance.
Dr Dylan Childs, Postgraduate Research Director from the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, said: "An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this week made clear that we have to deal with the imminent threat of climate change, and to limit global temperature increases to a maximum of 1.5 C before 2030. This funding will allow us to continue to train young scientists who will enable us to tackle the challenges of living in this changing world."
Professor Andy Fenton, ACCE DTP Programme Director at the University of Liverpool said: "ACCE is the only Doctoral Training Partnership in the UK dedicated to ecology, evolution, and conservation and we are delighted with this funding success. ACCE students will tackle questions of global significance, and develop the skills and experience needed to equip them for careers in science-based industry, academia and beyond."
The 2018 DTP call was an open and competitive process that identified 17 DTPs to host PhD studentships funded by NERC. Each DTP was assessed on the basis of excellence through a transparent, peer-reviewed application process.
Sam Gyimah, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, added: "The UK is alive with ambitious young minds that have the potential to shape the science and research landscape, stretching existing boundaries of knowledge and conquering the challenges of tomorrow.
"Making the most of the UK's world-leading reputation in science and innovation is at the core of our modern Industrial Strategy, and it is today's young people that will fulfil this ambition to create a Britain fit for the future."
The new DTP succeeds the original ACCE DTP, which funded PhD studentships starting in 2014-2018.
For information about the programme and the PhD opportunities available, visit: https://acce.shef.ac.uk
With almost 29,000 of the brightest students from over 140 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world's leading universities.
Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2018 and for the last eight years has been ranked in the top five UK universities for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education.
Sheffield has six Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
Global research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline, Siemens and Airbus, as well as many UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.
Sean Barton
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So let's focus in a little bit on the read alignment problem.
which is like the picture of the completed puzzle.
two different unrelated humans, have genome sequences that are very similar.
which might be, say, the entire human reference genome.
the place in the reference genome where the read sequence matches most closely.
We're doing this repeatedly, once for every single read in our data set.
billions of sequencing reads per sequencing run.
a data set that comes from a DNA sequence.
And furthermore, this reference sequence could be very, very long.
the human reference genome is about three billion bases long, three billion.
longer than what I'm showing you here.
Here's another illustration of how long the human genome sequence is.
bound version of the human genome sequence was actually printed out and created.
It's on exhibit at a place called the Welcome Collection in London.
it's pretty small type, and it's all a's, c's, g's, and t's on every single page.
So this is another way of thinking about how long the human genome sequence is.
they correspond to the different chromosomes of the human genome.
things seem hopeless, you might say, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
we can think of the sequencing read and we can think of the reference genome.
We can think of them both as strings.
a very long time about how to work efficiently with strings.
to compress strings, to do all kinds of different things with strings.
And in fact, it's still an active area of research.
which are taxing to even the most modern string analysis methods.
and we're going to study it from several angles in the coming lectures.


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* The emperor's new clothes: False prophecy in the news
January 7, 2015 Audition files, Bible, National media, National news, The William Tell ShowCancer, David, False prophecy, Jesus, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Nathan, Prophecy, Salon.com, Tucker CarlsonWilliam Tell
Here is my first audition file. The sound quality and performance aren't the best, but I've chosen to post it anyway given the weight of the subject matter.
I need to show that I can speak off the cuff about current events, and an opportunity to do so came in the controversy over recent tweets by Maria Chappelle-Nadal.
A transcript appears below.
https://williamatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-emperors-new-clothes-mp3.mp3
Tucker Carlson: Talking about white privilege is "openly bigoted, openly racist"
Wikipedia: "Philip Berrigan"
Wikipedia: "Thomas Paine"
An opportunity has come up for me to show my ability to speak off the cuff about current events, so I may as well include this among my audition tapes. The sound quality may not the best, in that I'm having to record this in the day room at the shelter, and I won't be in a studio environment again for two days.
A newly elected state senator, Missouri state senator, from the district that includes Ferguson, has been getting a lot of press lately pursuant to her activity on Twitter. In particular, there was an article at Salon.com today celebrating how much this woman had upset Tucker Carlson.
I have two basic observations here, the first being to question why this woman should be getting any attention; the second observation being that this is a perfect example of false prophecy, on which I will elaborate.
As to the first observation, I'm not expecting too much necessarily from a state senator. One of the preachers who presents at chapel here at the shelter ran last fall for state senator on the platform that the nation to return to its Christian roots.
It's not clear for whom this woman speaks, it's not clear that she has a following, and it's definitely not clear that she has any plan of action. She has no legislation proposed that seems to be pertinent. In fact, all she seems to have in mind to do is intimidate certain people; and that doesn't seem to me to have any likely practical consequence.
(I'm in a really challenging environment, here, to record.)
Some years ago, two of my pastors on two separate occasions told me that something I said had been "prophetic." This gave me occasion to reflect on how my words and actions compared with those of other putative contemporary prophets and deriving [sic] certain criteria by which one could evaluate prophecy in contemporary life.
I came up with a half dozen criteria.
First, I concluded that prophetic speech is normally spontaneous and involuntary.
An example of this would be in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale of the emperor's new clothes. At the end of the fairy tale, the emperor is leading a parade, dressed all up in his invisible new clothes, which were supposedly made of, from threads of silver and gold. The crowd is watching in stunned silence, until a little child calls out, "Mommy, the emperor's naked!", at which point the entire crowd bursts out in laughter. I count the child as a prophet, and the child's speech was obviously involuntary and spontaneous. It's also notable that it cut through all pretensions in the audience.
The difference between the fairy tale and real life is that in the fairy tale the crowd bursts into laughter in agreement with the message, whereas in real life the crowd is more likely to fly into a rage and kill the prophet, as happened in the cases of Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi.
The second criterion is that the speech is normally addressed to the prophet's own people. Martin Luther King, Jr., was very skilled at this, speaking to different audiences from his different personal roles. He addressed his fellow blacks as a black man; he addressed American citizens as an American citizen; he addressed Christian clergy as a Christian clergyman.
Third, the speech concerns — the prophet speaks to his own people about their own conduct.
Fourth, the prophet is accountable to the people addressed. This is extremely important. We note that when David, when Nathan confronted David [See 2 Samuel 12.], he spoke to him specifically about his own conduct, and Nathan was completely accountable to the person addressed. David was an absolute monarch, and could have had Nathan put to death as he had had Uriah the Hittite put to death.
The fifth criterion is that the speech uses language the audience can reasonably be expected to understand. We see this again in Nathan's confronting David, and we find a stark contrast with the conduct of the putative prophets, the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville Nine, and the so-called prophets at Maryland's Jonah House. The Jonah House prophets normally have had no accountability whatsoever to the people addressed except by virtue of their criminal actions. Moreover, their language justifying their actions is typically absolutely incomprehensible to the people they're speaking about or speaking to.
The last criterion of prophetic speech is that the speech heals.
We find this for example in Jesus' speech to the centurion about the centurion's sick slave, where Jesus' words in themselves bring about the healing of the servant [Matthew 8:13].
In the case of this Missouri state senator, we find that practically none of the criteria are met. Her tweets may be spontaneous and seemingly involuntary, but they don't address her own people, they don't address her own people about their own conduct, they are not posed in language that deserve [sic] the attention of the people she is addressing, and they definitely haven't healed.
A comparison can be made to another woman whom I regard as the foremost false prophet of the 1960's, Madalyn Murray O'Hair. A false prophet is very often someone who loves to hate and be hated, and Mrs. O'Hair definitely fit both those roles.
Another, and the last, very strange observation to be made about false prophets today is that they are somehow unusually prone to die of cancer. This is as if cancer is an occupational hazard of false prophecy. This is true of Mrs. O'Hair; it's also true of at least one of the Berrigan brothers; and if you look down a list of putative prophets, you'll find a high incidence of cancer deaths. This has led me to a theory that there may be a genetically based irritable personality. Thomas Paine also died of cancer.
Postscript, 2015-02-24: I recently learned that Christopher Hitchens also died of cancer.
Reblogged 2020-10-22.
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Within the last five years there has been a noticeable trend toward more extensive governmental regulation of advertising, reflecting an effort both to raise the plane of business competition and to protect the public against deception. Since 1933, existing laws giving federal and state governments general power to prohibit false and misleading advertising have been supplemented by legislation imposing special controls over the advertising of security issues and alcoholic beverages. Foods, drugs, and cosmetics likewise are to be singled out for special regulation—by the Federal Trade Commission—under the terms of a bill sponsored by Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) and Representative Lea (D., Calif.), the conference report on which now awaits approval by the Senate. The Wheeler-Lea bill provides also for the strengthening of the F. T. C.'s powers over false and misleading advertising in general.
As originally offered in the Senate in 1936, the Wheeler-Lea bill was designed principally to broaden the Federal Trade Commission's power over false and misleading advertising and to expedite the Commission's procedure. Under the law by which it was established in 1914, the F. T. C. has general authority to prohibit false or misleading advertisements as "unfair methods of competition in commerce." The Wheeler-Lea bill would extend this grant of power by authorizing the Commission to prevent "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce." This provision is intended to overcome the effect of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court, in the case of F. T. C. v. Raladam Company, in 1931.


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Ian Brown's musical life covers a wide field of solo playing, chamber music and conducting.
Ian Brown made his London debut as a conductor in a performance of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony in the Barbican. He has conducted the London Mozart Players, The English Chamber Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Northern in Sinfonia and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has worked in Poland with the Leopoldinum Orchestra of Ostrava. He has appeared at the Edinburgh, Israel and Cheltenham Festivals and conducted a Peter Maxwell Davies premier at the Orkney Festival.
Last season he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra in Bruckner's 7th Symphony and directed Beethoven's First Piano Concerto from the keyboard. This year, he conducts four concerts with them, with Min-Jin Kym as soloist. They will include the summer festivals in Chichester and Fishguard. Next year, he is touring with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis as soloists.
He is also building a relationship with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra as both conductor and soloist in Mozart and Mendelssohn piano concertos. They played in two consecutive years at the Marburg Festival as well as giving concerts in Stuttgart and around Germany.
He is Music Director of the Henley Symphony Orchestra and has worked with distinguished soloists, among them James Galway, John Lill, Steven Isserlis and Jean Rigby.


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» Could New Commercial Trucking Regulations Save Lives?
Could New Commercial Trucking Regulations Save Lives?
On Behalf of Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire LLP | Oct 20, 2020 | Motor Vehicle Accidents |
Every year, commercial trucks transport goods across the United States. Fleet owners and independent operators invest heavily in their trucks to ensure the highest safety and training standards. Despite these efforts, large truck crashes have increased by half since 2009.
The National Security Council (NSC) estimates that nearly 5,000 people lost their lives in 2018 to large truck crashes. Fully 71% of people killed were occupants of other vehicles. So, when the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recommends new federal safety regulations for commercial trucks, lawmakers listen.
The cost of commercial truck crashes
Many lawsuits involving commercial truck crashes pay out huge cash rewards with the verdict. In 2013, a jury awarded the family of Texas man killed by a drive shaft broken off a semi-truck $281 million. The family of an Idaho woman who died in a head-on collision with a semi received a $27 million verdict in 2019. Many of these verdicts exceed the standard $1 million insurance that most trucking companies carry, requiring them to liquidate assets to cover the damages. Reducing the number, severity and cost of these crashes could benefit everyone in the United States — the new recommendations from the IIHS aim to do just that.
Results on the study of new truck safety tech
The IIHS' most recent recommendations come from a study on forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking systems in large trucks. The non-profit organization examined crash data from over 2,000 crashes involving 62 trucking companies. The IIHS researchers discovered that these systems could prevent nearly 40% of crashes where the semi rear-ends the other vehicle. The systems also work to reduce the truck's speed, reducing injuries and damage in those crashes.
The IIHS recommends that federal lawmakers adopt new regulations that require all new trucks to equip these technologies. The organization has helped shaped automotive safety laws since 1959 to reduce crashes, injuries and property damage. The IIHS believes these systems will help shape the next generation of road safety.
A lawyer can help assess your case
If you suffered an injury in a truck accident, a lawyer can assess your case and recommend next steps. Should the federal government mandate the safety tech on new commercial vehicles, you will build a more successful defense alongside an attorney familiar with the latest in developing truck safety laws.


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X-COM: Best Strategy Game Ever
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At the time of this writing, I've played through nearly all of X-COM: Enemy Unknown so I feel that, aside for maybe a few things that happen at the end that are yet unknown to me, I am hopefully pretty accurate with this info. I'm not here to review the game; you can read about that anywhere considering this is a pretty high profile game. I am here to discuss the differences between the new Firaxis developed reboot and the original strategy masterpiece by Microprose. First and foremost, I know most people are saying they're dumbed the game game. I don't know if I really agree with that sentiment per se. Streamlined, definitely, but not necessarily dumbed down. Many of the micromanagement facets of the game that might have bogged down gameplay have been cut or changed and what remains is a sound strategy game where they leave you to focus more on the tactics of combat.
However, most of the things they removed are things that I liked. My list of grievances is as follows:
Having multiple bases is gone. It's not something that would be required the way the new mechanics are set up, but I enjoyed this level of management.
Your soldiers level progression is predetermined. No longer are their stats determined by how you outfit them and method of play.
Rockets have been nerfed. Heavies can only carry 1 rocket per mission (2 with an upgrade). There are no inventory slots to take extra rockets and incendiary rockets are gone completely.
Aircraft options are limited. Hybrid craft are non-existent (to my knowledge) which means that shooting down a craft and mopping up afterwards can no longer be a simultaneous affair.
Interceptors cannot be sent out in multiples. You can only send out one at a time and hope for the best.
Selling items is limited to only what is salvaged from aliens on a mission. You can no longer sell weapons, gear, items, etc, from your own stores.
Then there are some things that I'm mostly indifferent about. I acknowledge their change, and I can see why they did it, but either way would have been fine with me. Gone now are the different types of shots. Aimed shot, snap shot, auto shots are all gone leaving everyone with just a generic fire mode. But Time Units are gone as well, so the amount of time each soldier used to line up a shot is irrelevant now anyway. TUs have been replaced with each soldier simply being granted 2 action points a turn, which allows them to move and then have 1 action or spend the entire turn running. Though this leaves less flexibility with what each character can do per turn, that also makes you think harder about what they must do. Setting up your soldiers personal inventory has been simplified, making it easier to just jump into a mission, but it also limits what they are able to carry, but that again makes you think harder about what to do with what you're given.
Some changes they made are definitely logical choices that made the game better:
Movement is far more fluid. Climbing, getting into cover, ducking, etc, happens automatically and doesn't require a specific button press from the command icons.
Soldier classes. I know I said i don't like that you can't customize your soldiers as much, but having classes is great. Each class gets specific abilities that help further personalize them and add a new element to leveling up rather than just increased stats and researching new weapons.
New armor. All over the place. A handful of new armor types that have nifty functions like cloaking and grappling hooks.
By far the best – and by today's standards, necessary change – is the addition of multiplayer, complete with leaderboards and customizable teams. The only thing I could hope for there would be some kind of co-op mode, but I won't cry about it.
You can say this game has been dumbed down, but it's really just a different type of game. They wanted to take the focus off micromanagement and base development and put it more into the action and combat experience. Much of the tedium from the original game has been broken down, though I enjoyed parts of that tedium. Yes, they did simplify a lot, but the quality Firaxis put into X-Com: Enemy Unknown stands up on its own against the original. Plus, this is the most intelligent and tactically sound game that has been released on a console in years
For those of you who do actually come to this blog and follow it to any degree, I apologize for it's rather lacklusterness lately. I've been super busy trying to buy a house, trying to get a new car, looking for a better and more fulfilling career (partly because I never saw the job I have now as a career). If anyone knows of any job opportunities around the southern NH area, seriously, let me know. I'd be willing to do nearly anything as long as it gets me out of my current situation. That being said, the car and house part of my time consumption are almost taken care of and once that's squared away, I can get back into some serious gaming.
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Xbox Ruined Wrestling Forever
Yeah, it's been about a month since my last post. I've been extremely busy working on some projects which I'll be talking about at a later date.
Anyway, Xbox didn't really ruin wrestling forever, but they did ruin my favorite wrestling video game franchise, Fire Pro-Wrestling, by bastardizing it with their stupid avatars. We all know how much I hate these avatar games and generally I don't even have a passing interest in them, so it's ok. I go my way, they go theirs and we're both content to leave each other alone. But now they have some real nerve invading my personal space.
I was first introduced to the series with Fire Pro-Wrestling S: 6 Man Scramble, for Sega Saturn. I knew then that no other wrestling game would ever compare. The editing features at the time put everything else to shame. Not just wrestling games, but everything. There had never been a game before (to my knowledge) with the depth of creation that Fire Pro-Wrestling offered. Graphics were never a part of it. The graphics weren't necessarily bad, but they weren't anything spectacular either, but it totally didn't matter. When you can craft every little detail about your character – their entire move set, taunts, individual body part sizes so you can have absurdly large Popeye forearms and tiny legs, the sound effects he yells out when doing a move, it becomes a tough act to follow. You can make your own federations, your own rings, they even have a variety of options for refs.
Fire Pro-Wrestling Returns was the latest console iteration of the franchise, released on the PS2 and albeit a rather convoluted editing system, it was the most well flushed out that the series has to offer. Though it still had one major hurdle; it's PS2 limitations, that meant that there was no real online multiplayer support. That's what this game always needed. With the ability to create all sorts of bizarre and bombastic wrestlers, you would of course want to show them off in online matches. XBLA finally gives us that opportunity, BUT THEY RUINED THE GAME!
Excitement was my initial emotion when I saw Fire Pro-Wrestling available for download, followed immediately by despair. Why avatars? Fine, they didn't want to use sprites. I get it, it's an outdated medium for on-screen characters; 3D models are the way to go. But did they have to use those goofy avatars? The game acts like an even sillier version of WWE All-Stars. It's way too over the top. Not that Fire Pro-Wrestling was ever a serious affair, but at least it had dignity god dammit! In the new one, the characters awkward gait belies the grace and dexterity that a true athlete has at their disposal. They walk around like dandy fops and have ridiculous moves that launch people 30 feet above the ring, acting as an over-embellished insult to real wrestling. Look, I'm no fool. I'm sure many of you are thinking that wrestling is already fake and ridiculous and over the top, so what's the big deal? I'm a wrestling fan, and this is a very serious matter. Yes, we all know wrestling is fake, but there are still certain parameters you should follow to maintain at least some credibility. This new XBLA Fire Pro-Wrestling says bullocks to that.
Gah! I hate this all because the game is actually really good. I'm stuck in a terrible internal conflict rivaling that of Jessie Spano's decision to date the short guy in that one episode. Some new elements have been added which almost made me want to overlook that the game is a joke. Creating your wrestler can be even more fun than before. Maybe not more fun, but more rewarding. After creating your wrestler in previous games, that was pretty much it as far as that wrestler's tale goes. You're free to do whatever you want while you're creating them, but that immediate gratification leaves little rewards in the long haul. Your wrestler has more of a career-oriented, rpg style, approach to his creation. Participating in matches will gain you EXP and unlock more moves, which makes your wrestler feel more personal as you're along with them the whole way as they rise to power.
I wanted so much to like this game. And I tried, I really did. Even now, I kind of want to play it, but it hurts so much when I turn it on. It's like the 4th Indiana Jones movie…
Posted in Not Indie Games
Tags: 360, 6 man scramble, arcade, avatars, fire, fire pro-wrestling, microsoft, pro, wrestling, XBLA, xbox
Playing Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 3 is out. No time for any nonsense this week. Consider this a status update for the indeterminable future.
Posted in Not Reviews
Tags: 360, bioware, ea, gamertag, goresaw, mass effect 3, xbox
Voltron on XBOX LIVE & PSN!!!!!!!
Why didn't someone tell me about this sooner?!
I was checking the weekly updates and I saw this available as an arcade game. I thought to myself, "Oh, it's probably just some garbage game based on that lame ass new version of Voltron on Cartoon Network. NO! It's not! It's the 80's lion Voltron. The game started up with the actual full intro from the cartoon and I had a fanboygasm all over the place. The menus play the Voltron theme and there's video from the show between stages and official voice overs during the game.
Even after all my initial gushing over the intro, I was still certain the game would be like any other game based on a TV show – AWFUL! But it's actually not so bad. It's got a story mode with local and online modes as well, where you pick from one of the 5 lions, each with their own stats. The game is broken down into 3 different play modes – Lion mode, which is kind of like a SMASH TV game (seems to be a popular trend these days), space mode where you're playing whats basically a shoot em up style where crap is flying at you from all over the god damn place and then Voltron mode, which I have not gotten up to yet because I was far too excited and had to share this post first.
Voltron is 800 MSP and is it worth the 10 bucks? Probably not, but I bought it anyway. Definitely worth $5 though, so if you aren't a super nerd like me and you see a price drop, pick it up because it is a pretty good multiplayer game.
Tags: 360, behaviour interactive, microsoft, ps3, psn, sony, thq, voltron, XBLA, xbox live
Xbox Avatar Games are Stupid
Stop making avatar games for Xbox Live. And I don't mean games like Kinect Sports or whatever other Kinect games use avatars. Don't get me wrong, those games aren't worth my time, but I will at least acknowledge their right to exist. My problem is with the games you download from the indie arcade like Avatar Sudoku, Avatar Lawn Mowing, Avatar Fighter Online, or Avatar Granny Assassin (actually that one might be kinda cool if they made it). Does anyone actually download this garbage? I'm insulted that they even make these. I wish I could say that most people don't care about the Xbox Live avatars, but I'd be dead wrong. This is apparent through all the real world money that is spent to acquire fake digital clothing items to play dress up and make your avatars pretty. What an absolute waste. If you're going to throw your money away like that, instead of spending a dollar on that new shirt that came out for your Xbox Live avatar, that in no way is going to affect your life either positively or negatively, and if you avoid the transaction altogether you can continue on your way and nothing will have made a difference, donate that dollar to charity. Pretty much every super market ever has a donation thing. I really don't want to infuse my political or social agenda on this blog, but instead of spending 3 bucks for that lighsaber – which I will admit looks cool, but is utterly useless in every aspect of your life – buy a pack of socks for the homeless.
Sorry that got a little off topic. So the indie arcade avatar games are never any good. If there's a good one out there, I challenge you to find it and prove me wrong. I'm not too proud. I'm willing to admit when I've been bested. Or better yet, someone make a good avatar game. Since their inception, the avatars have painstakingly gone out of their way at every turn to make it abundantly clear how useless they are, but since they're there, let's give them something good to do.
Avatar paintball – garbage. Avatar Laser Wars – horrible. Avatar Fighter Online – why not just play Street Fighter? I've had these thoughts before but I usually keep them to myself. I don't like to be a hate monger, especially on the internet because we all know that's the last thing we need to see here. But Avatar Adventure Online has me so personally offended that I just couldn't hold it back anymore. It's just dumb. The concept around it is dumb, the graphics are dumb, the playability is dumb, the enemies are dumb, the idea to make the game is dumb. Seriously, how many MMOs are out there now? How many of them are good? MOST of them are completely free! So right there, before we've even delved into why the game itself is bad, is a reason for why the avatar games should stop being made. Why would you ever pay money to play a horrible game when you could easily play another horrible, yet slightly better game, for free?! Yet still I was curious. I've played nearly every MMO I've come across and I wasn't about to stop, so I had to at least check out the demo. I would say that I was disappointed when the game loaded up, but to be disappointed would make the assumption that positive anticipation was present. When compared to pretty much any other game from as far back as 10 years ago, Avatar Adventures Online still looks like it's a few years behind. The landscapes, if you want to call them that, looked awful. Clearly the mentally challenged designer was rebelling, possibly infuriated by his lack of enemas.
Avatar Adventures Online
If we do a side by side comparison to Everquest, considered to be the genre defining game, which launched in 1999, it still looks slightly better. The only reason a game shouldn't be up to graphical standards is if it's integral to the game design. Obviously a game designed to be 16-bit shouldn't be expected to look like Crysis. But I don't see any reasoning to intentionally take a 3D landscape, which uses polygonal features, and not use current gen lighting, texture mapping, etc, when the system it's being played on is clearly capable of it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe people do miss the early days of polygon graphics and have a nostalgic soft spot for that "devoid of all detail" look. Oh, and the first enemy I came across was a big, round, dumb, bumble-bee. That's when I turned the game off.
Tags: 360, avatar, avatar adventures online, everquest, microsoft, mmo, xbox, xbox live
24 Hour Gaming Marathon for Extra-Life
October 15th has finally arrived and the 24 hour gaming marathon begins!. Anyone looking for some gaming action, feel free to join me at any point during the day on XBOX Live. Incase you didn't know it already, my gamertag is Goresaw.
The days agenda will include, but will not be limited to:
Street Fighter IV – I do have the arcade edition so I'm open to any challenge
Warhammer: Space Marine – Seize ground ALL DAY unless someone sends me an invite to another game. Space Marine will be taking up the largest chunk of my day however.
Guardian Heroes – it's 800 points from the marketplace. One of the best brawlers from Sega Saturn. If you haven't already downloaded this game, stop what you're doing right now and get it and then send me an invite!
Super Puzzle Fighter – like columns but with Street Fighter.
Borderlands – starting at around 9 or 10pm, new game from level 1
I'm open to any challenge though, so as long as I own the game, let's play.
Tags: 360, childrens miracle network, extra-life, g3, LIJ, microsoft, xbox
Batman Arkham City 360 Misprint
For those of you who haven't spotted it already, look just below Catwoman's ass.
This is the back of the box for the Batman: Arkham City XBOX 360 Collector's Edition. Why is this an error? Because it says it comes with an animated movie on blu-ray. I thought to myself, "How odd that the 360 would come with a blu-ray movie." But it doesn't. There's really a DVD inside. This may be a minor error, but an error nonetheless. Didn't they learn anything from the IGN logo copy and paste fiasco from the Okami Wii release?
Does this affect anyone? Is this a major life changing event? Is someone getting fired for this? Probably not and it's all completely irrelevant. But it's fun to point out someones irreversible publicized blunders.
If you still don't see it, click on the image for a larger picture.
Tags: 360, arkham city, batman, blu-ray, dc, gotham knight, microsoft, misprint, rocksteady, xbox
Donate for Extra-Life – FINAL WEEK
This is the final week to donate towards this fundraiser. On Oct. 15th I'll be taking part in this marathon of gaming to help raise money for the Children's Miracle Network. Any donations are welcome. Remember, 100% of your donation goes towards charity. If you don't think you have enough to donate, just think, even ONE DOLLAR can make a difference. And if you feel you can't even do that, just pass this along to someone else and ask them to do it. Just click on the picture above to donate. And you don't even have to leave the comfort of your chair to donate. Credit cards are welcome.
Tags: 360, childrens miracle network, extra-life, g3, LIJ, sony, steam, xbox
Wizorb
Arkanoid, Alleyway, Breakout, or by whatever else you know that game, has gotten a major overhaul. Wizorb is part Breakout, Part Devil's Crush, part RPG, all awesome. It's a game that embodies the exact reason of why I support indie games; it's a game of passion and not necessarily of financial gain, though I'm sure the developers wouldn't mind making profit off it. And who are the developers exactly? Jean-François Major, Justin Cyr, and Jonathan Lavigne are the masterminds behind Wizorb, the first game developed by their recently formed Tribute Games. Jonathan's own portfolio consists of working on a handful of games at Ubisoft, including one of my personal favorites, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game. Anyone who's a fan of River City Ransom is totally legit in my eyes.
I only had to play this game for about 10 seconds before I knew I loved it. You all know I'm a sucker for new games made in that retro 8-bit style. I will invariably try out any game just because it looks 8-bit, but all too often they're nothing special. Just trying to bank off my nostalgic sentimentalism of my youthful gaming. Although I would have played it for just the soundtrack alone – nothing beats a catchy chiptune soundtrack and sometimes I'll forget I'm even playing a bad game if the music is good. But Wizorb is the total package, and what's more, it's not just a cleverly re-imagined game, it's an excellent blend of arcade style gaming, story telling, and genre mashing. You play as Cyrus the wizard, master of a secret magic, the Wizorb! Using your mastery of white and black magic you must help save Gorudo from a mysterious evil threat. Acquire gold and power ups by defeating enemies and beating stages to help the villagers rebuild their homes and bring prosperity back to Gorudo.
The gameplay is broken down into basically two parts – the narrative where you talk to townspeople and set of on your quest, and then the action stages which is essentially like playing breakout. Rather than just a lifeless bar and ball however, you control the Wizorb and Cyrus's magical wand to deflect the orb, destroying bricks and enemies. Proving that his wizardly prowess is more than just a glorified inanimate deflecting bar, your control of magic allows you to shoot fireballs from your wand, or alter the orbs course with a gust of wind. The inclusion of wandering enemies on the field was a nice touch and makes the game more dynamic. Otherwise I could have easily gotten that metronome style of deflect ball, break bricks, then repeat from many other various sources. And the far reaching goal of saving an entire town gives you more of a reason to play rather than just looking for something to do to kill some time. I would consider this a casual game like most of the ones you can find on an android or iphone, and I usually disdain casual games, but it's that RPG element that completely elevates it above the entire genre. You may have played games like Wizorb before, but never one this well developed.
Developer: Tribute Games
Released: 09/28/2011
Official Site: Wizorb.com
Platform: XBLA – 240 MSP
Tags: 360, 8-bit, alleyway, arkanoid, breakout, devil's crush, indie, microsoft, tribute games, wizorb, XBLA, xbox live
Ninja Madness
A Ninja themed set of 3 quickies available from the Indie Xbox Live Arcade.
Ninja Stole My Bike
Ugh. This game is such trash. I won't go into much detail about the gameplay, because there really isn't much. Take an impossible game and make it more boring and then you have Ninja Stole My Bike. They took a genre of game where all you really do is press one button and found a way to make it less interesting. There are two redeeming qualities to this game however. For starters, it only costs 80 MSP, which is most likely more than what it cost to make the game. The other, which is probably already obvious to fans of YTMND.com, is the games namesake. Basically, your playing the cut scene from Punch-Out!! But instead of an up and coming boxer chasing a fat black man on a bike, you're a pizza delivery boy chasing a ninja. So aside from the little chuckle I got from the connection to an overtly racist internet meme, this game is only worth it for those who have a major crush on these types of games and have played every other one in existence.
Developer: NinthDimensional
Ninja Sneaking
Has that annoying chibi style of art, but that's really the only negative thing I have to say about this game. It's honestly pretty good for what it is. It's a weird hybrid of a side-scrolling action platformer and stealth game, with a little bit of impossible game thrown in. Think if Solid Snake was storming Dr. Wily's castle. The game has a much quicker pace than any Metal Gear though; you won't be sitting there for more then a few seconds waiting for an enemy to turn away. You're given two basic instructions at the onset of the game: Don't be seen, and don't murder anyone. The don't be seen part was a given, I was expecting that considering the title and all. But the second part – no killing?! You're a ninja and ninjas use swords and a swords sole purpose is to kill. Instead your sword is relegated to a glorified door slasher. The music's not so bad either. I set my standards low for indie games, so I won't say it's good, but it's catchy and goes with the pace of the game pretty well. This one's also only 80 MSP and you could do much worse with a dollar.
Developer: Winglay
Akane the Kunoichi
Kunoichi = female ninja
Definitely the most visually appealing of the three games reviewed. The 16-bit art style took me right back to the days of the SNES, with bright and vibrant sprite animations and backgrounds. This is a straight up action platformer. Akane performs as you would expect a ninja to – doing wall jumps, throwing projectiles at enemy ninjas, and harnessing her potent ninja magic. Although, the whole stealth aspect of being a ninja is thrown at the window. It kind of reminded me of Shinobi, but far more colorful, like if Nintendo had made Shinobi instead of Sega. The only real complaint I have is the noise she makes EVERY TIME you jump. I could really do without that, or at least some variety in effects. That aside, it was a pretty solid game. Controlled well, aesthetically pleasing to the eyes, and a halfway decent soundtrack. I'm not a particularly big fan of platformers, so for that to be my only gripe shows that there was a good degree of effort put into developing this title. At only 80 MSP, it's definitely worth the dollar.
Developer: Haruneko
Since this is my top pick of the three, it deserves a video.
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By the way, if you're still wondering about where Ninja Stole My Bike go its inspiration, GO HERE. But I warn you, it IS racist.
Tags: 360, akane the kunoichi, arcade, haruneko, indie, live, microsoft, msp, ninja sneaking, ninja stole my bike, ninthdimensional, winglay, XBLA, xbox, ytmnd