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Choplifter
Dan Gorlin
Brøderbund, Ariolasoft, SEGA
Shoot 'em up, Strategy
Apple II, Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, MSX, NES, Master System, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1
Choplifter is a 1982 Apple II game developed by Dan Gorlin and published by Brøderbund. It was ported to other home computers and, in 1985, Sega released a coin-operated arcade game version. While many arcade games have been ported to home computers and consumer consoles, Choplifter was one of the few games (Lode Runner is another) to take the reverse route: first appearing on a home system and being ported to the arcade.
3 Platforms
4 Version differences
5 Reception and legacy
File:Choplifter title.png
The title screen of the Apple II game Choplifter
In Choplifter, the player assumes the role of a combat helicopter pilot. The player attempts to save hostages being held in prisoner of war camps in territory ruled by the evil Bungeling Empire. The player must collect the hostages and transport them safely to the nearby friendly base, all the while fighting off hostile tanks and other enemy combatants. According to the backstory, the helicopter parts were smuggled into the country described as "mail sorting equipment."
Although the Iran hostage crisis ended the year before the game was released, Gorlin has stated "the tie-in with current events was something that never really crossed my mind until we published."[1]
The helicopter (named "Hawk-Z" in the Master System version manual) can face three directions: left, right, or forward (facing the player). It may shoot at enemies in any of these directions and need not fly in the same direction it is facing. The forward-facing mode is used primarily to shoot tanks. Care must also be taken to both protect the hostages from enemy fire and not accidentally shoot them oneself.
The player rescues the prisoners by first shooting one of the hostage buildings to release them, landing to allow the prisoners to board the sortie, and returning them to the player's starting point. Each building holds 16 hostages, and 20 passengers can be carried at a time, so several trips must be made. When the chopper is full, no more hostages will attempt to board; they will wave the helicopter off and wait (hopefully) for its return. Usually, each trip back is more risky than the previous one since the enemy is alerted and has deployed a counter-attack.
If the player lands directly on top of a hostage, or completely blocks the building exit, the hostage(s) will be killed. In the Apple II and Atari 7800 versions, hostages will also die if the vehicle is not landed correctly (it is slightly tilted), being crushed as they attempt to board the chopper. While grounded, the helicopter may be attacked by enemy tanks, which it can shoot at only by returning to the air. Also, the enemy scrambles jet fighters which can attack the vehicle in the air with air-to-air missiles or on the ground with bombs.
Platforms[edit | edit source]
File:Choplifter.png
Tanks and a jet target the helicopter while hostages flee a burning building in the original Apple II game.
Choplifter was ported to many other home systems of the era. These versions were ports of the original Apple II game, not the later arcade version. These systems include the Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit family (and a graphically updated version for the Atari XEGS), ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20 and MSX. German publisher Ariolasoft published the European Commodore 64 version.
In 1986, ports of the arcade version back to home versions were developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System. Not surprisingly, the arcade version and its ports are more colorful and intense than the Apple II version. It boasts more environments (desert, sea, caves and city) as opposed to the Apple's single desert environment. The arcade version is listed in the Killer List of Videogames Top 100 and one of the four best games in 1985.
Year of release
Apple II 1982
Atari 5200 1982
Atari XL ????
Atari XEGS ????
ColecoVision 1984
Commodore VIC-20 1982
NES 1986
SEGA Master 1986
MSX 1982
Arcade 1985
Version differences[edit | edit source]
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In the original Apple II game, play continues until all three helicopters are destroyed or all prisoners are either rescued or killed. There is no scoring system other than the counters at the top of the screen, which indicate how many of the 64 total hostages have been killed (red), how many are on board the helicopter (blue), and how many have been rescued (green). The best possible result is to rescue all the hostages, for which the game will award you a triple crown, Brøderbund's emblem. The Commodore 64 version is the same.
In the arcade version, a point system is used, giving points for enemies killed and hostages rescued. Furthermore, the arcade version has only eight hostages per building rather than 16. In order to move from one level to the next, the player must rescue at least 20 hostages (40 in the Sega Master System version). The arcade version also forces the player to restart a level if too many hostages are killed, but does not restore any helicopters lost. (In the Sega Master System version, this automatically ends the current game in progress.) Another difference in the arcade version is the addition of a Fuel Meter. This was essentially a time limit because there was only one way to replenish the meter—saving hostages.
The original game provides a safe zone around the player's launch area where the player was largely free from attack. A fence indicates the border between friendly and enemy territory. While the fence is still present in the arcade version, enemy jets will pursue the player's helicopter all the way to his landing pad.
In the original game, a new enemy is added with each trip the player makes. First, the player faces only tanks which are limited to attacking only when the helicopter has landed or is extremely close to the ground. The next trip introduces jet fighters that shoot missiles at the helicopter in the air and bomb it when it's on the ground. The last enemies are "air mines" which attempt to collide with the player's helicopter, and which on the fourth trip gain the ability to shoot. The arcade game has a larger variety of enemies which vary more according to each level's landscape rather than the number of trips the player has made. The most significant of these are anti-aircraft guns which make the arcade version much harder than the original. It retains the tanks and jet fighters, but does not include air mines which follow the player's helicopter. The arcade version also gives the ability, once the helicopter is shot down and while it is falling in flames, to make the hostages jump with parachutes by repeatedly pressing the 'turn' button, these hostages can be rescued again in subsequent sorties and will not count as dead hostages.
The original Apple version (and perhaps other platforms) contains what is arguably a bug:[original research?] it is possible to create a situation in which the game cannot end. The hostages will run towards the helicopter when it lands. If the helicopter takes off before hostage can board, and lands closer to the base, the hostage will again run towards the helicopter. With repeated "hops," the hostage can be led back to the base; when led within the fence, the hostage will run straight into the base—however, that rescue is not counted. As a result, that hostage will never count as either a rescue or a death, and the game cannot end (except by the destruction of all the helicopters).
Reception and legacy[edit | edit source]
This game was fairly successful and popular, spawning two sequels: Choplifter II for the Nintendo Game Boy and Choplifter III for the Nintendo Game Boy and Super NES. On the Commodore 64 and the MSX, games related to Choplifter were Lode Runner and Raid on Bungeling Bay, all three games featuring the fictional Bungeling Empire.
In a review by Computer Gaming World, the graphics and animation were highly praised.[2]
In popular culture[edit | edit source]
Choplifter is played by U.S. submarine crew members in Tom Clancy's book The Hunt for Red October, and the Sonar man aboard the USS Dallas, Jones, has the high score. In Mario's Picross, Easy Picross Level 6A is a helicopter similar in appearance to Choplifter. When the puzzle is solved, the caption describes the image as "Choplifter".
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↑ Interview with Dan Gorlin in Halcyon Days, by James Hague.
↑ Greenlaw, Stanley (July–August 1982), "Choplifter! Rescue the Hostages", Computer Gaming World: 30, 38
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MINERVA , a Roman goddess, was the protector of intellectual and manual skills. The oldest form of her name, Menerva, may derive from the Indo-European root *men-, which is expressive of mental processes. Various Etruscan transcriptions of the name, though earlier attested than any Italic form, probably should be regarded as borrowed from the Latin.
Minerva appears neither in the so-called Numan calendar, which registers the oldest public festivals in Rome, nor in connection with a priesthood. Her first occurrence is with Jupiter and Juno as a member of the divine triad that was worshiped on the Capitoline Hill in Etruscan-ruled Rome at the end of the sixth century bce. Archaeological findings in Santa Marinella and Veii-Portonaccio bear witness to a contemporaneous cult of Minerva in southern Etruria.
Images of the goddess show many features of the Greek Athena: helmet, shield, spear, and aegis stamped with the likeness of a Gorgon. Recent discoveries in Pratica di Mare (the ancient Lavinium) show that the influence of Greek art did not exert itself exclusively through the Etruscan medium. The mythological episodes that were selected in Italy represent the goddess as a patroness of warlike heroes and gods (especially Herakles and Mars) and as a palladium (a token of invincibility).
Minerva was worshiped throughout Italy and on several Roman hills: with Jupiter and Juno on the Capitoline and the Quirinal and alone on the Aventine. There were also sanctuaries of the "captive Minerva" (brought from Falerii in 241 bce) on the Caelius and of Minerva as patroness of physicians on the Esquiline. The emperor Domitian (81–96 ce), a prominent votary of the goddess, increased the number of her cult places.
Minerva was the special patroness of craftsmen, and at least from the time of Augustus (27 bce–14 ce) craftsmen attended the festival of the Quinquatrus (March 19–23). The festival was publicly solemnized by gladiatorial exhibitions and included a tubilustrium (a ritual purification of war trumpets), further evidence of a link with Mars and war. Flute players celebrated a festival of their own ("little Quinquatrus") on June 13.
The cult of Minerva, supported by the municipal institution of capitols (imitations of the Roman temple of the Capitoline triad) and the devotion of craftsmen and soldiers, diffused widely throughout the Roman Empire until the beginning of the common era.
Articles in three classical encyclopedias provide detailed and cautiously interpretative views of the subject: Franz Altheim's "Minerva," in Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1932); Filippo Coarelli's "Minerva," in Enciclopedia dell'arte antica (Rome, 1963); and Konrat Ziegler's "Minerva," in Der kleine Pauly: Lexicon der Antike (Stuttgart, 1969). The most recent discoveries are commented on by Ambros J. Pfiffig in Ein Opfergelübde an die etruskische Minerva (Vienna, 1968), for Santa Marinella, and by F. Castagnoli in Il culto di Minerva a Lavinium, "Problemi attuali di scienza e di cultura," no. 246 (Rome, 1979), for Pratica di Mare.
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Girard, Jean-Louis. "Domitien et Minerve: une prédilection impériale." In Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Berlin and New York, 1981. See pages 233–245.
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Köves-Zulauf, Thomas. "Minerva Capta." In Religio Graeco-Romana: Festschrift für Walter Pötscher, edited by Joachim Dalfen, Gerhard Petersmann, and Franz Ferdinand Schwarz., pp. 159–176. Horn, 1993.
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A new city, a new town. As the leaves are tumbling down, you have given in to your wandering ways. Something you need, something you crave - and there it is from the corner of your eye. A gem in wood and brick and lathe. On a street where the signs are gone. Without a name is where you walk. Into the door. Into the light. A bookstore that is as comfy as home. Couches and quilts and tea on the stove. As you walk in and make your acquaintance with old friends and new, Bronte and Kingsolver settle with you. Surrounded by a smell that is exciting and new.
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The legislation, S.B. 86, approved in March, helps focus awareness on the importance of finding homes for cats and dogs from shelters.
Several other states have similar designations, including California, which approved a resolution in 2015. Georgia, Tennessee and Colorado also recognize shelter pets as state symbols.
More than 6 million animals are sent to shelters each year and more than a million are euthanized if they aren't adopted.
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Leonardo Maia (born December 4, 1980) is a Brazilian former racing driver. He began racing professionally in the Barber Dodge Pro Series in 2001 and he won the series championship in 2003. In 2004 he moved to the Infiniti Pro Series (now Indy Lights) for Brian Stewart Racing and finished 5th in the championship with a pair of 3rd-place finishes. The following year he made two Toyota Atlantic starts for Jensen MotorSport and he participated full-time in 2006 for Forsythe Championship Racing, finishing 9th in points with a best finish of 5th (twice). He retired from professional racing afterwards.

Motorsports career results

American Open-Wheel racing results
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External links
Leonardo Maia at Driver Database

1980 births
Living people
Brazilian racing drivers
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How many people does WIC serve?
Who gets first priority for participation?
What is the WIC infant formula rebate system?
What is the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program?
Pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5 are eligible. They must meet income guidelines, a State residency requirement, and be individually determined to be at "nutritional risk" by a health professional.
To be eligible on the basis of income, applicants' gross income (i.e. before taxes are withheld) must fall at or below 185 percent of the U.S. Poverty Income Guidelines.
Details about the income eligibility guidelines, including geographic area adjustments for July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017.
Are you eligible for WIC benefits?
2. What is "nutritional risk"?
3. How many people does WIC serve?
During Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, the number of women, infants, and children receiving WIC benefits each month reached approximately 7.3 million. For the first 5 months of FY 2018, States reported average monthly participation over 7 million participants per month. In 1974, the first year WIC was permanently authorized, 88,000 people participated. By 1980, participation was at 1.9 million; by 1985, 3.1 million; by 1990, 4.5 million; and by 2000, 7.2 million. Average monthly participation for FY 2016 was approximately 7.7 million.
Children have always been the largest category of WIC participants. Of the 7.3 million people who received WIC benefits each month in FY 2017, approximately 3.76 million were children, 1.79 million were infants, and 1.74 million were women.
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5. What food benefits do WIC participants receive?
In most WIC State agencies, WIC participants receive checks or vouchers to purchase specific foods each month that are designed to supplement their diets with specific nutrients that benefit WIC's target population. In addition, some States issue an electronic benefit card to participants instead of paper checks or vouchers. The use of electronic cards is growing and all WIC State agencies are required to implement WIC electronic benefit transfer (EBT) statewide by October 1, 2020. A few State agencies distribute the WIC foods through warehouses or deliver the foods to participants' homes. Different food packages are provided for different categories of participants.
WIC foods include infant cereal, iron-fortified adult cereal, vitamin C-rich fruit or vegetable juice, eggs, milk, cheese, peanut butter, dried and canned beans/peas, and canned fish. Soy-based beverages, tofu, fruits and vegetables, baby foods, whole-wheat bread, and other whole-grain options were recently added to better meet the nutritional needs of WIC participants.
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TWO BY KAFKA: UNHAPPINESS and THE METAMORPHOSIS presented by Clarion Theater at LaTea Theater.
Kafka considered UNHAPPINESS one of his most brilliant stories. This world premiere performance traces a day in the life of a tenant, and his relationship with an unexpected visitor. Featuring Donald Mann as the Tenant, Maria Hoffman as his Friend, and Madalyn Pedone as the Visitor.
THE METAMORPHOSIS, considered one of the greatest short novels in literature, is coupled with UNHAPPINESS for a thrilling evening of theater. Alexander Pepper is featured as Gregor Samsa, the young man who wakes to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect, his sister Grete is played by Madalyn Pedone; Maria Hoffman plays Mrs. Samsa, Roger Ziegler is Mr. Samsa. Harrison Benjamin appears as the Chief Clerk, and Joshua Pyne enters the play to rent a room as the Boarder. Barbara Bregstein directs. Sound by Nestor Rodriguez, costumes by Derek Lockwood, and lights by Yi-Chung Chen.


Mark Klein started doing comedy so that he could make extra money while he was pursuing an English degree at Colgate University. Soon after he graduated, he began touring the country, playing venues ranging from comedy clubs to large concert halls.
After more than 20 years of live appearances and network TV appearances, Mark Klein decided that it was time to bring his pro business message to those who would appreciate it most - business people. He now specializes in corporate humor speaking, performing for Fortune 500 companies such as Lucent Technologies and Brown-Forman, as well as smaller companies and business associations.
Corporate entities across the board, from mortgage bankers to auto parts manufacturers, are embracing the benefits of humor in the work place by hiring comedians and humorists to entertain and instruct their employees.
In addition to doing corporate entertainment, Mark Klein also serves as a banquet speaker, master of ceremonies and media spokesman.
Forty Funny Minutes on Freedom - Corporate humor speaker Mark Klein uses a comedy headliner's approach to bring a serious message to business and civic audiences. The result is "Forty Funny Minutes on Freedom," a keynote that examines the responsibilities and choices unique to free societies. Klein includes a theme long abandoned by Hollywood: Profitable business is a force for good in the world, not evil. Message-driven, sharp and clean - a very funny man tackles very serious topics.


A giant inflatable Ubah Bird floating on the waters off the shore of IJM Promenade at Nautilus Bay. The Ubah Bird (or "bird of change") was launched by the Penang DAP political party and will be lighted up during the night. The Ubah Bird is a Malaysian hornbill and was used as a mascot by the Pakatan Rakyat political alliance during the 13th General Elections of Malaysia. The floating exhibit was apparently inspired by the giant yellow rubber duck of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.
Nautilus Bay is a stretch of coast along the Jelutong Expressway.
The Penang Chief Minister (and also current Secretary-General of DAP party) LIM Guan Eng during the launching of the Ubah Bird.
The Ubah Bird will remain at the IJM Promenade until 31 August 2013 before it is taken to the other states of Malaysia.


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There's a website for my professional writing. There's one for my collaborations with the children.
This one is for the other stuff.
Help choose a book title on the WORKS IN PROGRESS page - or read the latest BLOG entry.
Updates (& sample stories)
I badly need to do a proper site update – so watch this space – but in the meantime, here's the latest news...
I have had six (I think) pieces selected for publication in this wonderful flash fiction/poetry anthology, FromOneLine (Vol 2), which has grown out of one of my favourite Twitter prompts. Click on the thumbnail to be taken to the website of independent publishers Kobayaashi Studios – and discover how to purchase a paperback copy or eBook, in the UK or worldwide.
I'm also one of a record-breaking 1,000 authors included in this award-winning collection of 81-word stories. (In fact, I'm No.81!)
With profits going to The Arkbound Foundation, a UK charity boosting accessibility and diversity in publishing and journalism, the Saboteur Awards "Best Anthology" of 2022 is available from Victorina Press here or via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk and should also be in selected bookshops.
My story "Johanna" has been published in the first Glittery Literary anthology, which is available through UK Amazon (among other places) in paperback here and as a Kindle edition here. Profits go to charities fighting child poverty in the UK.
I am (still) putting the finishing touches to a collection of short stories that span a variety of lengths and genres but are linked around a common theme. This collection, entitled Animus, may be offered on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing in the near future. I'll keep you posted.
Some of the stories have been published online. A couple of examples:
Targets in STORGY Magazine
Kom-bat on FlashBack Fiction
I also mention the idea behind the collection in this BackStory interview for FlashBack Fiction.
My story "Purple" is included in a cheeky new collection of purple prose, with a purple cover, entitled Sensorially Challenged Volume 1. Available in paperback and eBook editions, it contains 100 bite-sized stories from 100 authors, each bursting with more-or-less-intentional sensory overload (the stories and the authors!)
All profits go the National Literacy Trust, a charity that works to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life.
I also have a story published in Adverbially Challenged Volume 2 - a surprisingly educational, frequently amusing and occasionally thought-provoking collection containing 100 adverb-riddled entries from Mike's Not-Entirely-Serious Wantonly-Rule-Breaking Adverb Writing Challenge on Christopher Fielden's website.
All profits go to First Story, a charity changing lives through writing.


Next stop is the -80 freezer. You dig through the drifting piles of frost and snow, around the boxes of samples with labels that wore off ages ago, and find your quarry. You throw your weight into the door, and manage to get it latched – just barely – and head to the lab.
Once there, you dump yesterday's gel buffer down the drain and start measuring out agarose and ethidium bromide for today's experiments. With the gel poured, it's finally time for coffee. Then maybe you'll get around to splitting your cells.
It may be an easy morning for a cell biologist, but it was pretty rough on the planet. This week we explore some simple tweaks this busy scientist could make to be greener and more sustainable!
Allison Paradise started working in a biomedical research lab when she was in high school. On her very first day, she completed a cloning protocol and went to ask the PI where she could recycle the uncontaminated pipette tips and boxes.
Her question was met with a glare of mixed astonishment and disgust.
Allison was incredulous. Recycling was second nature for her family at home – why should these clean plastics be incinerated rather than repurposed?
Over the next few years, Allison noticed other counterintuitive lab behaviors. Why were the heat blocks and water baths left on 24/7? Why had the -70 degree freezers come to be called, and set to, -80 degrees? And what about all of those laboratory chemicals that were being dumped down the drain and into the water supply.
In 2013, Allison left her industry gig to become CEO and founder of My Green Lab, a non-profit organization committed to making research science more sustainable.
My Green Lab supports programs to conserve water, energy, consumables, and to reduce the lab's dependence on toxic chemicals. They also offer a Green Lab Certification, measuring your lab's performance on everything from fume hoods to field work.
This week on the show, we asked Allison to share some ideas that lab scientists could do TODAY to start making a difference for the environment.
Her solutions, like putting the water bath on an outlet timer, use simple strategies for an outsized impact.
To learn more, visit MyGreenLab.org or follow them on Twitter or Facebook.
And to cool us off (as if that's a problem in January) we sip the Copperline Amber Ale from Carolina Brewery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This beer takes its place as one of the first craft brews we tried way back in the day.
And don't worry, we definitely recycled the cans!


You know, sometimes our community members really amaze me! Their willingness to take time out of their busy lives to help others makes me very proud of our community.
Art Montemayor and Dale Gulley (of Gulley & Associates) have collaborated on a heat transfer workbook that every process engineer should have at their disposal. And, that's not the best part!
This workbook doesn't just contain calculations from textbooks...it's packed full of experience based information that these gentleman are sharing.
Art has also taken his large collection of data from the world of industrial gases and packed another MS Excel workbook for all as well. It would take one hours of searching to find all of this information individually!
Thanks so much to both Dale and Art for sharing these fantastic works with the community.
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Mercator Center Belgrade (), located in Belgrade's municipality of New Belgrade, is the biggest Mercator Serbia Center in the retail chain.

Old Mercator

The first Mercator center was opened in 1972, also in New Belgrade, but at a different location. It is located along the Mihaila Pupina Boulevard. At the time of opening, it was city's "pride", and one of the first shopping malls in Belgrade. With Fontana, Hotel Jugoslavija, SIV building and CK building , it was considered one of the symbols of New Belgrade. It was built as the "grandiose" structure, made from reinforced concrete, and resembling a "fallout shelter".

Apart from the numerous stores, shops, cafes and restaurants, in the southern extension it had a farmers market. It was the first indoor farmers market in Belgrade. Restaurant "Pri Majolka", later renamed "Vojvodina", was one of the most popular in New Belgrade. The northern extension hosted cinema "Jugoslavija". The building was expanded and renovated in the early 1990s, when the name Mercator was officially dropped, but unofficially remained until today. During the economic collapse in the 1990s, a flea market developed in front of the mall, along the boulevard.

After the opening of the new Mercator Center, the former one became known as the Old Mercator. Though still in use, it was left without proper maintenance since the early 1990s. By the 2020s, the structure deteriorated, with many empty shops, broken concrete parts and staircases. The flea market was formed again. In January 2021, part of the ceiling above the farmers market collapsed, injuring several people.

Mercator Center Belgrade

Mercator Center Belgrade was opened in December 2002. Mercator Center Belgrade has 52,400 square meters with 74 stores and Mercator hypermarket (8,600 square meters). The construction cost 38 million euros. In 2012, the facility was upgraded; the cost was 12 million euros.

In December 2017, Mercator Serbia sold it to the Serbian holding company MPC Holding owned by Serbian businessman Petar Matić, for a sum of 46 million euros.

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This week, Syazwina Saw curates Why Malaysia week for LoyarBurok to explore our love/hate relationship with the Land of the Boleh-Everything-Also-Can-Kasi-Taruk-Aje.


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If you love books, fun programming, and just Brampton Library in general, you're in for a treat! Canada's most efficient library system is about to grow a little larger with a new, temporary location.
And a lot larger after that.
An interim library branch is set to be developed in 2018, in anticipation of the city's permanent combined facility and community centre that will be built in the coming years.
Brampton's interim library will be located in the southwest area of Mississauga Road and Financial Drive.
This is exciting news — Brampton Library offers an abundance of services at its seven current locations, but there are some areas of Brampton that could use the library's services at easier to access locations.
According to Brampton Library, residents in the Mississauga/Financial area currently have to travel more than six kilometres to access another library, the closest ones being Mount Pleasant branch and South Fletcher's branch.
With Brampton's rapid growth — we're the ninth largest city in Canada and the second fastest growing of Canada's largest cities — it's true that Brampton Library's expansion will benefit the entire city.
The things you can do with a Brampton Library card are pretty magical, after all. You can download books and newspapers online, use 3D printers, rent DVDs, kick it old school and take out books, and much more.
Let's not forget about Brampton Library's programs. Our library system hosts free e-learning services, programming for newcomers, workshops on career success, book clubs, and beyond.
So, it's no surprise that there's demand for another library. Program attendance is growing, materials are requested in 20 different languages, and services are needed.
Brampton Library's much anticipated Springdale Branch is also set to open in January 2018, a mobile library is coming, more STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) programming is in the works, and Brampton Library is essentially preparing for a new flagship location as part of the Centre for Innovation coming to downtown Brampton.
For now, we'll keep you posted on details for the interim location as they emerge, as this interim branch is part of Brampton's proposed 2018 budget, which is set for approval on December 6. Stay tuned!
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El ratpenat d'orelles llargues d'Arizona (Myotis auriculus) és una espècie de ratpenat de la família dels vespertiliònids. Viu a Guatemala, Mèxic i els Estats Units. El seu hàbitat natural són els boscos humits de pins i roures, els matollars àrids, els boscos secs i els boscos de pins ponderosa. Es creu que no hi ha cap amenaça significativa per a la supervivència d'aquesta espècie.

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Scott - yes, it's probably hard to make the 88Wk sound bad - but clipping the 5wpc ACA at full tilt boogie would do that.
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Kept certain old men with itchy volume fingers from really cranking those suckers.
Anybody keep a tune listing of what was played at the front of Dave's? The guys where ripping flac's as the CD's came out of the player. I'd like to get a listing of what Bands/groups where played.
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sometime earlier in the afternoon was a Patricia Barber track with which I'm not familiar - anyone remember?
One of the tracks I liked was "Ear Food". I haven't looked it up yet, but plan to track it down.
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2019 Ford Transit revealed, Custom PHEV variant added
Chris Gething
Updated models revealed at the IAA commercial vehicle show in Germany
Ford has unveiled facelifted versions of its Transit van line-up, with updated styling inside and out, improved technology and a plug-in-hybrid option.
The updates apply to the mid-sized Transit Custom, as well as the larger Transit Two-Tonne. From mid-2019, the Transit Custom will be available with a first-in-class plug-in hybrid electric option.
Ford claims the Transit Custom PHEV will have a zero-emissions driving range of 50km, with 500km of total driving range possible through the use of Ford's 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engine as a range extender.
Power will come from 14 kWh liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack located under the load floor. Three selectable EV modes will enable the driver to choose how and when to use the available battery charge: EV Auto, EV Now and EV Later.
Importantly, the Transit Custom PHEV will maintain the same one-tonne payload as the regular models.
Other changes apply to both the Transit Custom and the Transit Two-Tonne.
Both models have an all-new interior with improved storage and connectivity, as well as an updated front-end design.
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The Transit will come standard with a six-speed manual transmission, with a 10-speed automatic to be made available from autumn 2020.
Finally, Ford's range of driver assistance technologies, such as autonomous emergency braking, intelligent adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, lane keep assist and active park assist will be available optionally.
In addition to the changes to the Transit Custom and Transit Two-Tonne changes, Ford have also unveiled a new flagship variant of its small Transit Connect van.
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Inside, the Sport Van gains partial leather seats, a push-button start, dual-zone climate control, cruise control and fog lights.
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5 reasons James Norton should be the next James Bond
After covering our summer issue, the English actor is our new favourite to take over Daniel Craig. Here's why...
Photography: Charlie Gray
"People love to speculate," came James Norton's response, when we asked him about the Bond rumours during our summer issue cover shoot in Cannes. "Bond's such an icon, and he means so much to so many people, so there's an inevitable amount of speculation and guessing and betting. But that's as much as it is — speculation. Very flattering, very humbling speculation."
"Bond's such an icon, and he means so much to so many people..."
It came as a blow to the Gentleman's Journal team. Not only had our interest been piqued by the actor's odds to take the role (11/4 at the time of going to print), but we also had our hearts collectively set on the Englishman taking up the 007 mantle for other reasons.
From his effortless sense of style to his form in bringing humanity to complex characters, these reasons became evident throughout the interview. So, even though Norton called the rumours "nuts. Absurd. Nonsense. Lovely, lovely nonsense," and he even admitted that he "didn't know if [he'd] want to do it," here are our 5 reasons we think Norton, James Norton should be the next to holster the famous Walther PPK.
He's got form playing complex, human characters with a violent streak
For anyone who watched McMafia earlier this year, you'll know that James Norton knows his way around an ethical dilemma — not to mention a trigger. "Unlike some of my other roles, that time I slid along the moral spectrum," the actor told us. "And that's the most interesting for me. That's real. Because we're all human. We're all flawed."
It's an exciting prospect, to think of Norton sinking a couple of Martinis and then punching his conflicted inner angers out on a henchman or two. His chance to both explore his emotions and brawl was criminally underused in McMafia — and now's the time to put that right.
He's used to — and loves — the hectic, globe-trotting lifestyle
You need only take a look at Norton's Instagram (@jginorton, if you were wondering) to see the actor is no stranger to international travel — just like a certain superspy. Not only that, he also has the uncanny ability to look as at home in a snowscape as on a sandy beach.
"I love travel," Norton told us. "And I think the day when that ceases to be the case for me will be a sad day," he says. "I tell myself that the feeling you get when you walk into a hotel room, or take off on a plane — I never want to lose that."
He's got the innate style and suave personality down
It might come from Norton's studies of faith, or perhaps his family ("they ground me") but the 32-year-old also lacks the devil-may-care attitude of some of the Hollywood A-listers or histrionic stage thesps in the running to be the next 007.
Instead, he seems at once cool and considered, stylish, and extremely comfortable in his own incredibly handsome skin. But that's not to say he doesn't enjoy a little of the supercar-driving, designer-wearing, fine dining glitz that goes hand-in-hand with Bond.
"I don't want to sound overly worthy," Norton said, "because obviously everybody loves the glitz and the glamour, and I'm not one of those actors who says, 'I'm not going to go to the party or wear the beautiful clothes because I'm an actor. Where's the fun in being so principled that you can't allow yourself to enjoy it?"
He's got both a classic Bond's suaveness and Craig's rough charisma
Despite the fact that some critics took time to warm to Daniel Craig's more rough-and-ready approach to the role, everyone seems to be in agreement now that a punchier Bond was a good way to go. But that's not to say we don't miss the flamboyance and quips of the 007s of old. Which is where Norton comes in.
"I love Daniel Craig and I'd love him to do a couple more films," Norton revealed. "He's brought a whole other angle and a humanity to the character – and long may that continue."
But, with Norton's more refined look, and higher class accent, we envisage a Bond equal parts Craig and Roger Moore — and what an exciting prospect that is.
He's the right age to take on the role
Idris Elba and Tom Hardy, although great actors in their own rights, are both already in their forties, which would likely limit the number of films they could produce to a disappointingly Dalton-esque two. Norton, however, at 33, has at least five films in the tank before he gets Daniel Craig's 'wrist-slitting' fatigue.
"As an actor, all you want to do is to transform," said Norton of his career. "You don't want to only play versions of yourself, because then it gets boring, you stop learning. So what type of role do I want to play next? It's hard to say, because human beings are so hard to categorise. They're so ineffable, aren't they? I'd find it hard to say…"
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SKIZA AGAIN BESIEGED BY THEODORE LASCARIS - THE EMPEROR DELIVERS THE CITY
Geoffrey de Villehardouin
The emperor, with as many men as he possessed, had prepared to go to Adrianople, when tidings came, very grievous, that Escurion, who was admiral of the galleys of Theodore Lascaris, had entered with seventeen galleys into the straits of Abydos, in the channel of St. George, and come before Skiza, where Peter of Bracieux then was, and Payen of Orléans; and that the said Escurion was besieging the city by sea, while Theodore Lascaris was besieging it by land. Moreover, the people of the land of Skiza had rebelled against Peter of Bracieux, as also those of Marmora, and had wrought him great harm, and killed many of his people.
When these tidi . ngs came to Constantinople, they were greatly dismayed. Then did the Emperor Henry take council with his men, and his barons, and the Venetians also; and they said that if they did not succour Peter of Bracieux, and Payen of Orléans, they were but dead men, and the land would be lost. So they armed fourteen galleys in all diligence, and set in them the Venetians of most note, and all the barons of the emperor.
In one galley entered Conon of Béthune and his people; in another Geoffry of Villehardouin and his people; in the third Macaire of Sainte-Menehould and his people; in the fourth Miles the Brabant in the fifth Anscau of Cayeux; in the sixth Thierri of Loos, who was seneschal of Roumania; m the seventh William of Perchoi; and in the eighth Eustace the Emperor's brother. Thus did the Emperor Henry put into all these galleys the best people that he had; and when they left the port of Constantinople, well did all say that never had galleys been better armed, nor manned with better men. And thus, for this time, the march on Adrianople was again put off.
Those who were in the galleys sailed down the straits, right towards Skiza. How Escurion, the admiral of Theodore Lascaris' galleys, heard of it, I know not; but he abandoned Skiza, and went away, and fled down the straits. And the others chased him two days and two nights, beyond the straits of Abydos, forty miles. And when they saw they could not come up with him, they turned back, and came to Skiza, and found there Peter of Bracieux and Payen of Orléans; and Theodore Lascaris had dislodged from before the city and repaired to his own land. Thus was Skiza relieved, as you have just heard; and those in the galleys turned back to Constantinople, and prepared once more to march on Adrianople.
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collects a trace <dfn>snapshot</dfn> every time it is hit and another
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Minnesota Hockey: Jack LaFontaine signs with Carolina Hurricanes
Minnesota loses their starting goalie
By gopherguy05@yorka1982 Jan 9, 2022, 5:48pm CST
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On Friday Jack LaFontaine stopped 23 shots in a 4-1 win. On Saturday he stopped 21 pucks in a 6-3 win. On Sunday, LaFontaine left the Minnesota Gophers and signed an entry level contract with the Carolina Hurricanes turning pro. Minnesota will play the final 2 months of the 2021-22 season without a goaltender that has actually started an actual game.
The 2020-21 Mike Richter Award winner flirted with signing with the Hurricanes in the off-season but returned to Minnesota for his fifth season of eligibility. However the Hurricanes were in significant trouble regarding their goaltender situation as according to Luke DeCock of the Charlotte News Observer.
"Faced with a wave of goalie injuries throughout the system, with Antti Raanta a late scratch Saturday with an upper-body injury and AHL goalies Eetu Makeniemi and Beck Warm both injured"
LaFontaine will have a chance to earn immediate playing time with the Hurricane's AHL team the Chicago Wolves and depending on injury status could actually see time in net for Carolina. As for why Lafontaine left the Gophers in the middle of a season...well money talks.
The signing bonus is actually $88,500, apparently a typo in the press release
— Sara Civ (@SaraCivian) January 9, 2022
As a senior entering the professional ranks after the season he wouldn't be guaranteed any money, but Carolina is desperate, and so Laffer took the money and ran. Bob Motzko may be more excited in private, but his public statement in the U press release announcing the signing sure doesn't make him sound like a happy man at the moment.
"We would like to thank Jack for his contributions to the Gophers program, and we wish him well as he begins his professional career"
So where does that leave the Gophers?
Well this gif pretty much says it all.
Minnesota has 14 regular season games left this season. A pair of rescheduled games against Alaska at home this upcoming weekend and then 12 straight Big Ten games to finish the year. Your new starting goalie for Minnesota is junior Justen Close. Close is from Kindersley, Saskatchewan and apart from starting and winning both exhibition games against St. Thomas and the US Under-18 team a week ago he has played in six career games and has amassed just over once actual games worth of playing time in those six games of mop-up time.
Close was signed three years ago to be the #3 goaltender. He was never expected to see extensive action. Minnesota's now backup Brennan Boynton is a freshman who has yet to appear in a single game, exhibition or actual. His missed a good chunk of the early portion of the season with injury and illness, but it's probably not a good sign that he didn't play a single second in either of the two exhibition games a week ago.
Couple that with what appears to be Ben Meyers—the Gopher leading points getter, Brock Faber—their best defenseman, and Mathew Knies—their best freshmen off to play for Team USA in the Olympics for at least the first three weeks of February, and Minnesota is in deep, deep trouble.
Minnesota sits in first place in the Big Ten at the halfway point, but it's going to take a miracle level of performance from Close to keep the Gophers anywhere close over the next seven weeks. Let's hope he can do it, but it is in no way shameful if he can't.
Congrats to Jack Lafontaine, and hopefully he succeeds in the AH:L and or NHL. From all accounts he has been a great teammate, but he has definitely left his team in a deep deep hole at the moment.


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Today, The Birthplace at Riddle Hospital serves nearly 1,000 mothers and babies each year. The unit was dedicated in 1990 and is almost as old as the median age of mothers delivering there. While equipment has been upgraded over the years, there have been minimal changes to the environment. Patient rooms, bathrooms and common areas are worn and outdated, and clinical areas are not configured to operate efficiently. Although Birthplace patients report being pleased with their care, they rate the environment and facilities negatively.
With the child-bearing population in Riddle's service area growing significantly over the next decade, it is ever more important that The Birthplace remains a strong resource for families. Riddle is responding to the need by recruiting top-rated obstetricians, adding midwifery services, and committing to a comprehensive $5.2 million renovation of The Birthplace unit.
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Collections can obviously be quite a sensitive job, so I think it's also important to be firm but fair.
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Q: Correlation analysis on a very small dataset I am doing a research on (something like) the relationship between hospital's personnel job satisfaction(as individuals) and the overall performance score of the given hospital(as a whole).
the number of hospitals on which I am conducting the research is 3 with each having a different number of personnel.
So, what I had in mind as to the statistical test for the task was to investigate the correlation between the average job satisfaction of each hospital and its performance score(3 rows of data (n-hospitals=3)) using the Pearson correlation test. But I'm inclined to think that this isn't a good approach due to the small set of data, and I should use anova test instead. which approach should I adapt?
Thanks in advance.

A: I don't think I would use the averages. I would use the individual data.  Having different number of individuals per hospitals might not be problematic. ... But --- if I understand the question correctly --- with only three hospitals, you might as well use anova or something of a similar spirit.
EDIT:  I just added a plot and some R code for a visual. Here, the hospitals have 10, 20, and 30 observations.  Their means are 4, 5, and 9.  And the Individual scores are centered on 5, 6, and 7, with equal standard deviations.  So I did doctor the data both to be correlated (r ~ 0.5), and to be homoscedastic.
In this case, either the correlation analysis or the anova analysis should work fine, but they do ask different questions.
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A = c(rnorm(10 ,5, 1))
B = c(rnorm(20 ,6, 1))
C = c(rnorm(30 ,7, 1))
Y = c(A, B, C)
X = c(rep(4, length(A)), rep(5, length(B)), rep(9, length(C)))

cor.test(~ X + Y)

   ### data:  X and Y
   ### t = 4.3634, df = 58, p-value = 5.332e-05
   ### sample estimates:
   ###       cor
   ### 0.4971262

Data = data.frame(Hospital=X, Individual=Y)

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(Data, aes(x=Hospital, y=Individual)) +
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A: Any test will suffer from such a small sample size, as it will give you hardly any power to detect deviations from your null hypothesis. I suggest to not run a statistical test at all, but rather just to plot your data and say what you see.

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