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Douglas James Rain (March 13, 1928 – November 11, 2018) was a Canadian actor and narrator. Although primarily a stage actor, he is perhaps best known for his voicing of the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).

Early life
Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Mary, a nurse, and James Rain, a rail yard switchman, both from Glasgow, Scotland.

Career
Rain graduated with a B.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1950, then studied acting at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England. He was a founding member of the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1953 and was associated with it as an actor until 1998.

He performed a wide variety of theatrical roles, such as a production of Henry V staged in Stratford, Ontario, that was adapted for television in 1966. In 1972, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for his performance in Vivat! Vivat Regina!

Voice of the HAL 9000 computer
Stanley Kubrick cast Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) after hearing his narration of a short documentary titled Universe and later chose him as "the creepy voice of HAL". In the film, his voice was also sometimes processed with an electronic device called the Eltro information rate changer.

Rain reprised the role for the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). He also briefly parodied it in Woody Allen's film Sleeper, and in a sketch on Second City Television where Merv Griffin (played by Rick Moranis) takes his eponymous talk show into outer space.

Death
Rain died on November 11, 2018, at the age of 90 at St. Mary's Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, Ontario of natural causes. He was married twice and had three children and a grandchild.

Filmography
Oedipus Rex (1957) — Messenger
Just Mary (1960, TV series) — voice
The Night They Killed Joe Howe (1960, TV drama, co-starring Austin Willis and James Doohan) — Joseph Howe
Universe (1960, short film) — Narrator
One Plus One (1961) — segment "The Divorcee"
William Lyon Mackenzie: A Friend to His Country (1961, short) — William Lyon Mackenzie
Robert Baldwin: A Matter of Principle (1961, short) — William Lyon Mackenzie
The Other Man (1963, TV miniseries) — David Henderson
Twelfth Night (1964, TV movie)
Fields of Sacrifice (1964) — Narrator
Henry V (1966, TV movie) — Henry V
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — voice of HAL 9000
Talking to a Stranger (1971, TV miniseries) — Alan
Sleeper (1973) — voice of Evil Computer / Various Robot Butlers
The Russian-German War (1973, documentary) — Narrator
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1974) — Narrator
One Canadian: The Political Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker (1976, TV miniseries, voice)
SCTV (1982, "The Merv Griffin Show") — voice of HAL 9000
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) — voice of HAL 9000
Love and Larceny (1985, TV movie) — Ashton Fletcher

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1928 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Canadian male actors
Male actors from Winnipeg
Canadian people of Scottish descent
University of Manitoba alumni
Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Dora Mavor Moore Award winners
Canadian male Shakespearean actors


Anna Vazhaeparambil (10) is a reporter for the Winged Post and Harker Aquila. This is her second year on staff, and she hopes to further develop her skills as a writer and reporter. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with her family and friends.


Mention the word "robotics" and a picture emerges of a metal-faced automaton with roving antennae and superhuman abilities. The possible dilemma of futuristic robots who take over mankind has been well-dramatized in popular science fiction movies.
Yet here we are today, in the 21st Century, and robots have been found to be a useful part of everyday life. They may not have the metal faces that we thought would be staring back at us, but they have slowly infiltrated every industry, performing duties admittedly better than humans can do them, with tireless efficiency. Machine parts are manufactured to exact specification by electronic arms, computerized minds are performing extensive mathematical equations in much less time than their human counterparts, and complicated surgeries are being performed virtually with the eyes and arms of machines. Robotics are here to stay.
This does nothing to aid the comfort level of the average human being, who is being foisted into the midst of the electronic age at breakneck speed. Old habits are hard to break; thus a discussion has come to the forefront about the way robotics are replacing traditional human jobs, and what that will mean for modern day society. Adi Gaskell looks at some of the facets of this dilemma in the Forbes article, "Why You Should Get Busy Adapting".
Whether the average American is willing to adapt to these changes, businesses must come into the present reality that the use of automation can often do the job better and faster. The truth of the matter is that many entry level positions or professions based on manual processes can be handled by robotics, artificial intelligence or some form of automation.
One of the best examples is in the accounts payable department of the average business. The routine duties of accounts payable are now being handled with great efficiency by electronic invoicing. Accounts payable automation has transformed a manual job into an efficient process that can impact the average company at its highest levels, with dynamic discounting and electronic invoicing. This change in Accounts Payable is changing the way business leaders think about automation, as they realize that e-invoicing can get them where they want to go, faster and easier.
For business, robotics and automation should really be a simple decision for many parts of the business. And as has always been true, creative Americans will find inventive ways to adapt.


May 24, 2018 Government, Legislation, Workers' Compensation, Workplace InjuryDemocratic socialist, elections, Lee Carter, OSHA, Virginia legislature, WILGPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
Democrat Lee Carter, a democratic socialist, won an election to represent Virginia's 50th District in the state's House of Delegates.
Lee Carter took a bad experience with a work injury and turned it into motivation to win election to the Virginia legislature last November. But the nature of Carter's bad experience with his work injury shows why electing true worker advocates to state legislatures may not be enough to protect injured workers.
Carter was a Virginia resident who was injured in Illinois working for a Georgia company. Carter attempted to bring his claim in Virginia but he was unable to do so because of lack of jurisdiction. Tennessee lawyer Denty Cheatham pointed out on the WILG listserv that Carter's difficulty in bringing a claim was why national standards are needed for workers compensation.
So-called federalization is controversial in the world of workers' compensation. Workers' compensation is a creature of state law by what amounts to a fluke of legal history. When workers compensation laws were passed in the 1910s, the Supreme Court held that regulation of workplace safety was outside of the federal government's ability to regulate interstate commerce but was within the so-called police power of the states.
Two decades later during the New Deal era, the Supreme Court expanded the definition of interstate commerce in the 1930s which allowed Congress to enact laws impacting the workplace such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).
OSHA was implemented in the 1970s as concerns about the adequacy of state-based workers compensation systems arose from organized labor and the civil rights movement. Part of the OSHA Act was a National Commission that called for minimum standards for workers compensation claims. Part of having standardized state laws would mean that state laws would be more uniform and multi-state claims would be easier to navigate for injured workers.
Our firm is part of WILG which is a national organization of workers' compensation lawyers. Multi-state or multi-jurisdictional claims are probably one of the most discussed topic on the WILG listserv. Mainly lawyers discuss which state's have the best laws for a particular case. In some circumstances workers can also bring claims in and collect benefits in multiple states. The current system works for knowledgeable lawyers, but it can fail injured workers who may not even be able to bring claim because of questions over jurisdiction.
Multi-state claims can also subvert democratic rule. A worker has some input over workers compensation laws in the state where he or she lives and votes through their respective state legislatures. A worker who is forced to bring a claim in another state does not have that influence unless they happen to be among the 6 percent of private sector employees represented by a union. But even then, it may be burdensome to bring a claim in another state.
But workers have a say over national laws through their Congressional representatives. Minimum standards and some uniformity in state workers' compensation laws would give injured workers more say in the types of benefits they would receive if they were hurt out of their home state or hurt for an out of state employer. Minimum standards legislation would also draw more national attention to the short coming of various state workers' compensation laws. Renewed pushes for federal standards for workers' compensation happened in the early Obama administration and towards the end of the Obama administration. National standards for workers' compensation legislation will probably have to wait for a change in the partisan makeup of the two elected branches of the federal government.
February 12, 2018 Workers' Compensation, Workplace InjuryBenefits, camping, Disability, elderly, older worker, temporary worker, WILGPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
The Washington Post ran a feature story about "Work Campers" – senior citizens who live in campers and travel around for temporary jobs. The story noted that many, if not most, work campers were forced into the lifestyle by inadequate retirement savings and Social Security retirement benefits that have lost 30 percent of their purchasing power since 2000. The story also noted that the number of senior citizens working has increased from 4 million to 9 million during that same time period.
The idea of a growing number of senior citizens essentially acting as migrant laborers strikes many as odd and even dystopian. But work campers will present interesting challenges to the workers compensation system. Though some studies show that older workers are less likely to get hurt on the job, this finding is attributed to older workers having more experience on the job. Since work campers tend to hop from temporary job to temporary job, their chances of injury could increase as temporary workers are more likely to get hurt.
This growing development in the workforce raises many issues for work campers who are hurt on the job because workers compensation laws are state specific so benefits and eligibility for benefits vary from state to state.
Here are some questions that will face work campers when they are injured on the job.
Which states and jurisdictions can you collect benefits?
Employees may be eligible to claim benefits in the state where they are injured, their state of permanent residence, the state their employer is based or the state they were hired. Employees may also be able to claim benefits in multiple states. Employees may also be able to bring claims under the Jones Act or Longshore Act if they were hurt on a ship or a navigable body of water. It helps to get advice from a qualified workers' compensation lawyer as the decision as to where an employee should claim benefits should be driven by where they have the best chances of recovery.
Which states limit permanent benefits for older workers?
Iowa recently limited workers over the age of 67 from receiving permanent disability benefits for more than 150 weeks. A work camper who was covered under Iowa law and seriously injured could only receive 2 ½ years of benefits.
What is the law on pre-existing conditions?
Many elderly workers have preexisting conditions. In some states those preexisting conditions may impair the ability of an injured work camper to collect benefits. In Missouri employees need to show an injury is a "prevailing factor" in the disability whereas in Nebraska employees merely show the work injury was a "contributing factor" to the disability. In other words, it would be more difficult for a work camper to collect benefits in Missouri for the aggravation of an old injury than it would be in Nebraska.
How do you determine earnings?
Disability benefits are based on earnings or what is called average weekly wage. The work campers profiled in the Washington Post were fairly low wage employees. However some work camping contracts include provisions for benefits like lodging that have a real monetary value. In some states, like Nebraska, those non-cash benefits can be included in the average weekly wage. Short term work assignments also present difficulties in determining average weekly wage because they might not accurately reflect an employee's actual earning capacity. There could also be questions as to whether employment is seasonal or weather dependent which could also alter the average weekly wage.
Again, calculations of earnings can vary state by state, so work campers injured on the job should contact a member of WILG who specialize in workers compensation and regularly communicate with workers compensation specialists in other states.
December 1, 2016 Government, Legislation, Workers' Compensationadvocate, Benefits, Lobbying, WILGPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
Howard Berkes and Michael Grabell have been investigating the decline of workers compensation for Pro Publica and NPR.
Today's post comes from guest author Edgar Romano, from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.
Howard Berkes and Michael Grabell have been shining a light on the deterioration of state workers' compensation benefits over the last decade. A new U.S. Department of Labor report bolsters their investigative journalism, noting that those hurt on the job are at "great risk of falling into poverty" because state workers' compensation systems are failing to provide them with adequate benefits.
A "race to the bottom" in state workers' compensation laws has the Labor Department calling for "exploration" of federal oversight and federal minimum benefits.
The 44-page report was prompted by a letter last fall from 10 prominent Democratic lawmakers, who urged Labor Department action to protect injured workers in the wake of a ProPublica/NPR series on changes in workers' comp laws in 33 states.
The ProPublica/NPR stories featured injured workers who lost their homes, were denied surgeries or were even denied prosthetic devices recommended by their doctors.
"The current situation warrants a significant change in approach in order to address the inadequacies of the system," the report says.
The agency also suggests a fresh look at reestablishing a 1972 Nixon administration commission that recommended minimum benefits and urged Congress to act if states failed to comply.
"In this critical area of the social safety net, the federal government has basically abdicated any responsibility," says Labor Secretary Thomas Perez.
Prior to the report's release, employers, insurance companies and others involved in workers' comp programs expressed alarm at the possibility of federal intervention.
"There has never been federal 'oversight of state workers' compensation programs'," says a statement posted on the website of a group called Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers' Compensation, which says it represents the workers' comp interests of the business community.
"Federal requirements imposed on a national basis would be inconsistent with the state workers' compensation system, which has been in place for more than 100 years without federal oversight," the group wrote.
Federal minimum benefits could ensure that injured workers across the country would not receive lesser benefits for often shorter periods of time simply because they lived in a state where lawmakers dramatically cut workers' comp costs for employers.
Brown echoes Perez, saying injuries on the job shouldn't force workers into poverty.
"But without a basic standard for workers compensation programs, that's exactly what's happening in too many states across the country," Brown adds.
Another incentive for federal involvement, the report notes, is a shift of billions of dollars in workplace injury costs to taxpayers when state workers' comp benefits fall short and workers are forced to turn to Medicare and Social Security for treatment and lost wages.
The report lays the groundwork for federal intervention by providing an extensive section detailing the government's role in promoting national benefits standards in both Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to 1939.
But many in the workers' comp world consider workplace injury policy and regulation a states' right and any prospect of a controlling federal role will likely face stiff resistance.
June 9, 2016 Government, Legislation, Workers' CompensationNew York, Reform, WILG, workers' rights, Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy GroupPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
This week I attended the 20th anniversary of the Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG) in Chicago. I am a proud past president of this group – the only national Workers' Compensation bar association dedicated to representing injured workers.
As an attorney who has represented injured workers for more than 25 years, I have seen their rights and benefits shrink under the guise of "reform". After the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, which killed almost 150 women and girls, workplace safety and Workers' Compensation laws were enacted. For the next half century or so, many protections and safeguards were implemented. However, many of these reforms were not sufficient, and in 1972, the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws, appointed by then-President Nixon, issued a report noting that state Workers' Compensation laws were neither adequate nor equitable. This led to a decade when most states significantly improved their laws.
Unfortunately, there has once more been a steady decline in benefits to injured workers, again under the guise of reform. One major argument is that many workers are faking their injuries or they just want to take time off from work. There was even a recent ad campaign in which a young girl was crying because her father was going to jail for faking an injury. Workers' Compensation fraud does exist, but the high cost of insurance fraud is not as a result of workers committing fraud.
A colleague of mine compiled a list of the top 10 Workers' Compensation fraud cases in 2014 in which he noted that the top 10 claims of fraud cost taxpayers well more than $75 million dollars with $450,000 of the total amount resulting from a worker committing insurance fraud. That leaves $74.8 million as a result of non-employee fraud, including overbilling and misclassification of workers. We are told that insurance costs are too high; yet, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) in 2014, estimates show that private Workers' Compensation carriers will have pulled in $39.3 billion in written premiums, the highest since they began keeping data in 1990. More premiums result in higher net profits. Despite this, many states have implemented changes in their Workers' Compensation systems aimed at reducing costs to the employer. The end results, however, is that fewer benefits are given to the injured worker and more profits go to the insurance companies.
In New York, one of the reform measures increased the amount of money per week to injured workers but limited the amount of weeks they can receive these benefits with the idea that they will return to work once their benefits run out. Additionally, limitations have been placed on the amount and types of treatment that injured workers may receive. Again, this is with the notion that once treatment ends, injured workers miraculously are healed and will not need additional treatment. In reality, those injured who can't return to work receive benefits from other sources from state and federal governments at the taxpayer's expense. This is what is known as cost shifting, as those really responsible to pay for benefits – the insurance companies who collect the premiums from the employers – have no further liability. The reformers of 100 years ago would be appalled at what is happening to injured workers and their families today. It is time that those who are generating profits at the expense of injured workers do what is fair and just – provide prompt medical care and wage replacement to injured workers for as long as they are unable to work.
To stay on top of important Workers' Compensation happenings, please visit the Facebook page of Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP and "Like Us." That way you will receive the latest news on your daily feed.
March 21, 2016 Workers' CompensationUnited States, WILGPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.
For all those concerned about worker's compensation in our country—which really is all citizens—take a look at this important report on the current status of worker's compensation systems. The report, from the Worker's Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG) highlights the scary place where some legislators and big businesses want to take worker's compensation.
August 27, 2015 Government, Legislation, Workers' CompensationMatt Belcher, Scott Walker, WILG, Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group, workers' rightsPaul J. McAndrew, Jr.
I joined WILG in its 1995 inaugural year. At those early conferences, my colleagues around the nation were battling workers' comp "deform," and engaged in political battles in their respective states, lobbying legislators on behalf of injured workers' rights.
I thought I was relatively insulated in Wisconsin, the national "model" state for workers' comp, with an Advisory Council composed of management and labor which each biennium produced an "agreed-upon" bill that was accepted by the legislature.
The Republican ascendancy in Wisconsin (Scott Walker as Governor, and both Assembly and Senate controlled by Republicans) has decided to ignore 100 years of progressive legislation and ignore the Advisory Council's recommendations. This dangerous precedent will make workers' comp more politicized, and threaten the stability of Wisconsin's workers' comp system. Wisconsin, like other states, will be part of a "race to the bottom" in workers' rights and benefits.
"We have never been better positioned as a national organization to advocate on behalf of the families of injured workers.
Recent success in reviewing courts have highlighted nationally the unconstitutional danger posed to the community when injured workers lose access to effective legal representation, have capricious benefit limits imposed upon them, or are disabled due to unfair medical treatment bureaucracies.
WILG and its members have been at the fore of litigation battles where catastrophically injured workers have lost their savings, been forced onto welfare rolls and into Social Security Disability plans while simultaneously being denied access to the civil courthouse and the free exercise of their 7th amendment right to a jury trial. See Wade v. Scott Recycling (Virginia); Malcomson v. Liberty Northwest (Montana); Pilkington & Lee v. State of Oklahoma (Oklahoma); Padgett v. State of Florida (reversed on procedural grounds), Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg, and Castellanos v. Next Door Company (Florida).
The United States Department of Labor in coordination with OSHA have finally "discovered" that employee misclassification and wage theft are rampant, and that the cost-shifting externalization of care for injured workers is as poisonous as it is pervasive.
Perhaps most fundamentally, ProPublica, bolstered by the imprimatur and audience of NPR, has created a national conversation and awareness of the oppressed plight of injured workers with its feature The Demolition of Workers' Compensation which exposed to the public domain the travesty and arbitrary injustice we slog through on a daily basis.
Continual, constructive self-assessment of our organizational efforts is indispensable to the accomplishment of our mission. Are we really doing the best job possible and are we succeeding to our complete potential?
Governors in the traditionally blue states of California and New York have signed away the long term financial security of millions of families of injured workers while Texas and Oklahoma have essentially jettisoned workers' compensation benefits, allowing indifferent employers to Bail-Out of their responsibility to provide for the safety and security of working families. Further corporate front group Bail-Out initiatives are fermenting in the legislatures of Arkansas, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wyoming.
In my view, the state workers' compensation system is in its most dire situation in at least the last half-century. -Prof John F. Burton, Jr.
Professor Burton is clearly referencing only the perspective of the injured worker and not the immense wealth of the $85 billion insurance industry where insurance carriers now earn $6.20 in profits for every $100 of net premiums; and, private employers on average pay only 44 cents per hour for each employee to be provided with coverage.
Empirical evidence reliably demonstrates that each reduction in benefits to an injured workers' family subsequent to "reform" has not translated into lower premiums for small business but primarily in greater profit for the self-insureds and the insurance industry. From 2007 to 2012, workers' compensation benefits and costs per $100 of payroll were lower than at any time over the last three decades, while insurance company investment profits in 2011, 2012, and preliminarily for 2013, have topped 14% annually.
According to OSHA, workers' compensation benefits now cover only 21% of workers' compensation liabilities–shifting 79% of the true cost to others, including the injured workers' family and taxpayers–while our firsthand knowledge demonstrates the inadequacy of current benefit levels and the injustice of the AMA Guides, ODG Treatment Guidelines, Primary Cause, Medical Formularies and the literal evaporation of effective vocational rehabilitation for those injured workers who have lost access to their prior occupation.
I believe it will be the exponential participation of you, the existing member, which fosters our mission as much as the sheer addition of new members. The existential purpose of the organization must always be vigorous and exigent advocacy, not just growth and the collection plate. We must collect accomplishments, not only numbers.


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La Comelle is een gemeente in het Franse departement Saône-et-Loire (regio Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) en telt 179 inwoners (2005). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Autun.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van La Comelle bedraagt 23,2 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 7,7 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Saône-et-Loire

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Infinix Mobility has started the year with a banger smartphone for their customers; here comes a super stunning and classic smartphone from the Chinese OEM and it is called the Infinix Hot S3.
This smartphone packs a whopping 3GB/4GB of RAM and is powered by a super strong 4000mAh Li-Ion Battery, it went on to feature the latest Google Android OS version – Oreo (8.0), the beauty of this smartphone is just very obvious; the sleek ultra-slim body design exposes it all.
Furthermore, the Infinix S3 is a digital monster; 20MP sharp selfie shooter and a Crystal clear 13MP rear camera, with these cameras quality you can capture the whole world in one click. The 5.7″ screen featured by smartphone lets you view and see clearly while operating the device, features of Infinix Hot S3 screen includes; Corning Gorilla Glass, super HD Display, 1440 x 720 pixels, 78:9 aspect ration.
This smartphone comes with a 5.65-inch screen display size (18:9 aspect ratio), every display on this device screen is crystal clear. Infinix Hot S3 screen is protected with Corning Gorilla screen technology, so it will very difficult for it to scratch or damage. The screen resolution is HD with infinity display feature.
Infinix Hot S3 is powered with the latest Android version – Oreo 8.0 and inside the hood lies 3GB/4GB of RAM together with 32GB/64GB ROM. Multitasking with this device will be seamless and fun.
Still inside the hood of this smartphone is the World's most-rated chipset for Android devices – Qualcomm SnapDragon. Infinix S3 packs a Quad-core Qualcomm SD430 processor (1.4GHz) plus Adreno 505 GPU for effortless gaming.
A 20MP super clean camera is packed with this device for taking of selfies and recording stunning personal videos, it also flaunts a 13MP sharpshooter at the back for taking crystal clear pictures. Both cameras come with LED flash for use in low light areas or during night hours.
This smartphone supports and plays all media formats; MP3, MP4, AVI, WAV, etc.
A 4000mAh inbuilt Li-ion battery powers this device, it can last for up to 48 hours on normal usage.
This smartphone comes with the latest mobile tech trends, it features FACE ID technology and Fingerprint for effective security. S3 went on to feature G-sensor, Light Sensor, E-Compass and Proximity Sensor.
Features Sensors G-sensor, Light Sensor, E-Compass and Proximity Sensor.
Well, looking at the features and specifications of this new smartphone I'll say it is a good choice for mid-range income earners. Let's hear your view about this smartphone – Hit or Miss?


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The 50 Best PC Games of All Time: Part Four
Written by Rick Lane
Tags: #amnesia-the-dark-descent #crusader-kings-ii #day-of-the-tentacle #dishonored #doom #grow-home #left4dead-2 #skyrim #unreal-tournament
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We're into the top 20 of my 50 favourite games ever. The competition is getting fierce. Onward toward the top 10!
20. Unreal Tournament
It's bizarre to think that Unreal Tournament is a spin-off game, so well has it established its legacy in the gaming canon. Indeed, Unreal Tournament has enjoyed more sequels than the series from which it stemmed. Some will point to 2004 as the finest example of the series, while others will jump up and down insisting that Quake III is superior to all the UT games. But this is MY list, dagnabbit, and the original Unreal Tournament is and probably always will be my favourite multiplayer shooter.
It's the variety that does it for me. In maps, modes, and weapons, Unreal Tournament is a rich cornucopia of multiplayer gun-play. I know the layout of maps like Facing Worlds, LavaGiant, Deck 16 and November inside-out. Put a Flak Cannon in my hands and I will make mincemeat out of anyone who dares step into my crosshairs. And Assault Mode, oh boy, Assault Mode! Epic had the audacity to take the madness of multiplayer gaming and add structure to it, missions and objectives that took place in beautifully conceived maps. Leaping out of a helicopter to hijack a moving train, assaulting an underwater facility, a miniaturised recreation of the D-Day landings in Overlord.
Unreal Tournament is just bursting with ideas, so much so that id deemed to release a team-based expansion to Quake III about a year after the initial release. That's all you need to know about this particular rivalry. UT is the daddy, and I'll stick a Redeemer in the maw of anyone who says otherwise.
19. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
When I started writing this particular entry the introductory music for Amnesia played in my head, and I genuinely shivered. Those opening chords played on a double-bass from hell set the tone for Frictional's bone-chilling masterpiece. Casting you as Daniel, a young, well-spoken Victorian archaeologist, Amnesia sees you exploring the tumbledown stonework of Castle Brennenberg, searching for answers as to why an earlier incarnation of you decided to wipe their own memory.
In this traditionally Gothic setting, Frictional revolutionised horror games. On a systemic level, Amnesia is designed to keep you constantly on edge. The lack of weapons means you're only able to run and hide from the creatures that prowl the corridors of Brennenburg. The insanity system means that looking directly at one of those creatures will start to drive you crazy, so you only ever catch glimpses of them in your peripheral vision. You also can't hide in the dark for too long, forcing you to proceed onward, often into danger.
But Amnesia also understands that the best horror is internal rather than external. The only thing scarier than being chased by a monster is the sudden and clear realisation that you are one, such is Daniel's fate as what he has done is revealed to him in his attempt to rid himself of an ancient Egyptian curse.
Amnesia is such a cleverly designed horror game that it can make a splash in some water one of the most terrifying things you will ever see. It's also a great little narrative puzzler, assuming you stand the tension.
18. Grow Home
I will continue to sing the praises of Grow Home until the entire world listens. Ubisoft's joyous climbing simulator is a downright magical game. It casts players as a relentlessly cheerful robot named BUD, who is tasked with retrieving a seed from the Star Plant, a ginormous flower that grows so high its petals poke out into space. But at the start of the game, the Star Plant is just a building-sized bud, and it's up to you to grow the plant by ascending its stem and feeding little offshoots into the central plant.
From this simple premise, Ubisoft created one of the most fulfilling games around. The act of climbing the steam is a wonderfully manual process, as you control each of BUD's hands, while his legs figure things out procedurally on their own. As you ascend the plant higher and higher, the scenery changes around you. Verdant meadows give way to snowy mountains. The curvature of the planet becomes visible below you. The atmosphere thins to reveal the stars and the spaceship where you started the game in the first place.
Grow Home is a magnificent thing; positive, peaceful, and with a palpable sense of progression. It costs a fiver and can be completed in a single evening, and I guarantee it will be one of the best single evenings of gaming you'll ever have.
17. Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island may be the most fondly remembered of LucasArts' adventure games. But Day of the Tentacle is perhaps its crowning achievement. Whereas most adventure games use puzzles as ways to break up the story, Day of the Tentacle's puzzles are all based around the same theme – time travel. The three main characters are each sent to a different time-period, but can interact with each other through their time machines (converted portaloos known as Chron-o-Johns). An object from the past can be sent into the future, and an object from the future can be sent into the past.
This enables LucasArts to create some stupendously loopy puzzles, while ensuring that most of the puzzles all possess the same underlying logic. Day of the Tentacle is still a typically tough LucasArts adventure, but if you get stuck you at least have the knowledge that what you need to do probably involves manipulating time in some way.
Add to this LucasArts' typically warm and witty humour and some strikingly colourful art design, and you've got what is to my mind the best adventure going.
16. Crusader Kings II
Crusader Kings II may be a grand strategy on a scale to make many grand strategies quake in their boots, but what makes it such a bold and unique strategy game are the petty familial squabbles that writhe within its complex political plots. There's the usual army building, region conquering and diplomacy you would expect from a game of this ilk. But in addition to that is a wonderful system that enables politically astute marriages, devious assassination conspiracies, and outright power coups.
Crusader Kings simulates the cut-throat bastardry of the middle ages with stunning effectiveness. This is a game in which it can be prudent to poison your youngest son in order to preserve the legacy of the eldest. Where a marriage that gains you huge…tracks of land ends in disaster because your resentful wife murders you in your sleep. Where priests conspire to murder children and a ransom can win you a war as effectively as an army. It's clunky, complex and difficult to get into, but once you are in it is powerfully seductive.
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LR - leading providers of professional services
A brief history.
It started with a cup of coffee
To turn back to 1760 is to realise just how much the world has changed since Lloyd's Register was founded. At that time the sailing ship was the only reliable and speedy form of transport and the steam engine's full potential was only just being developed. Industrialisation of the western world had not yet accelerated to encourage the wide-spread exploitation of natural resources such as oil and gas, and the nuclear and jet ages were not even envisaged.
World's first classification society
The Society for the Registry of Shipping was set up in 1760 by customers of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House in Lombard Street, London. The aim was to give merchants and underwriters recorded information on the quality of their vessels. The Register Book listed vessels rated, or classed, after the condition of their hulls and equipment had been surveyed. The subscriptions generated by the Register Book paid for the surveyors to carry out the work. This was the true beginning of classification and the Society was the world's first classification society.
Classification was and continues to be all about quality. Put simply, it is an assessment against defined standards of the condition of a ship either under construction or already in existence. From 1768 the Society used a1 to indicate a ship of the highest class. From 1775 A1 was used and is now famous as a symbol of quality.
Rival registers
Disputes over the Society's classification system from 1799 to 1833 led to the establishment of a second register and brought both parties to the verge of bankruptcy. Happily agreement was reached in 1834 when they united to form Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, establishing a General Committee and charitable values.
The 19th century brought huge changes, as steam superseded sail and timber gave way to iron and steel, creating ships of unprecedented size. Lloyd's Register met these challenges, formulating guidelines based on practical experience.
The organisation rapidly earned widespread respect, giving evidence to government committees and receiving requests to appoint surveyors abroad. The first surveyor employed outside the UK appears to have been appointed in 1812 when the Shipowners' Register engaged a surveyor in Newfoundland. The same Register went on to employ surveyors in Le Havre (1826), Antwerp and Ostend (1829), and Port Louis in Mauritius (1832), of whom we know only the name of the latter, Alex Gordon. These were probably all non-exclusive arrangements.
When the reconstituted Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping came into being in 1834, the General Committee rejected persistent overseas requests for the appointment of surveyors abroad, preferring to wait until the Society's network of outports in the UK had been properly established. The Quebec Board of Trade in particular made repeated requests for a surveyor due to the number of ships being built on behalf of British owners or for sale once they reached British ports. As a result, in 1852 the Society sent out Thomas Menzies as the resident exclusive surveyor for Quebec and the St Lawrence River. Menzies and his assistant, Charles Coker, did much to help local shipbuilders raise standards of construction. It was Menzies' idea in 1853 to use the Maltese Cross in the Register Book and on the classification certificates to denote a ship built under special survey.
Further appointments were made in continental Europe in the 1860s including at Antwerp (1866) and Rotterdam (1868). Louis Meyer, the Antwerp surveyor, seems to have been the first person appointed with responsibility for an entire country when he was promoted to cover Belgium in 1869. Once a special sub-committee had been set up to consider establishing more overseas surveyors, there was a flurry of appointments. The first was the transfer of Joseph Tucker as exclusive surveyor to Shangai in 1869. Other appointments included non-exclusive surveyors for Calcutta, Hong Kong, Melbourne Sydney and Hobart.
By the early 1880s almost half of the world's shipping was classed by Lloyd's Register. In 1914, with an increasingly international outlook, it was entirely appropriate that the organisation's name was changed simply to Lloyd's Register of Shipping. From 1916 the organisation started to establish many national and area committees to promote better understanding of local conditions.
Inspection of materials and fabrication was an intrinsic part of the classification process and by the early 1800s surveyors were applying their skills onshore. For many years these land-based inspections were related to ships and the soundness and safety of their construction, from the testing of anchors and cables to the quality of iron and steel. As vessels became more sophisticated, so opportunities arose for the Society to extend its inspection role to other non-marine areas, beginning with refrigerated cold stores for the Port of London Authority in 1911.
With its base in one of the world's leading manufacturing nations, the expertise and reputation of Lloyd's Register became attractive to many organisations overseas eager to have assurance on the quality of goods being produced in and shipped from the UK. The Society's international network also led to invitations from foreign governments, businesses and organisations to carry out inspections. The First World War brought further opportunities to demonstrate the effectiveness of inspection as means to provide an assurance of quality, from shell steel made for the French, to copper pipes and other products made for shipping in the USA. By 1934 surveyors were inspecting ten million cubic feet of cold storage, not just in the UK but in places such as Antwerp and Basle, Leopoldville and Matadi in the Congo, and Singapore.
Lloyd's Register retained its place as the leading classification society throughout the inter-war years, thanks in part to its significant overseas operations. It also sowed the seeds of an important future part of the organisation's work in the transportation and energy sectors. Long-standing clients with interests beyond shipping began to employ Lloyd's Register in new fields, most notably the oil industry.All this activity expanded considerably after 1945, eventually leading to the formation of a separate division for non-marine work, providing a new focus for yet more growth.
During the Second World War the demands of war accelerated the pace of change in shipping and industry and Lloyd's Register helped validate many of the innovations. Reconstruction work following the war allowed Lloyd's Register to gradually revive its activities overseas. The mid-1950s saw a long boom in shipping with many new challenges as shipping and shipbuilding influence shifted towards the east. Lloyd's Register saw remarkable growth of its non-marine operations. The organisation provided consultancy and inspection services to atomic energy plants including the UK's Calder Hall, which in 1956 became the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
In the decades following 1960, Lloyd's Register facilitated change as the shipping boom continued. Ships became ever larger and containerisation changed the world by revolutionising the flow of goods. The oil crisis of the early 1970s led to a deep depression in shipping, but Lloyd's Register rode the storm through its involvement with the expanding energy industry and offshore business, led by the pioneering development for extraction of oil and gas under the North Sea.
There followed another difficult period as shipping scarcely grew in terms of tonnage until 1990. At the same time the offshore industry suffered from a collapse in oil prices. Nevertheless, Lloyd's Register strengthened its position in Asia, diversified its offshore operations around the world and consolidated its position as the leading classification society for passenger ships and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. One of the most striking developments was the success of Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA), a management systems business established in 1985.
A consultancy-based rail business was first considered in the early 1990s and Lloyd's Register Rail was formed in 1996. Real growth began only a decade later as governments around the world invested massive sums in major rail projects from the Netherlands to Dubai and Taiwan. In 2015, LR sold its rail business to Ricardo plc, recognising that it was better placed to provide the strategic focus on the rail sector needed to build a world class global rail business.
On 2 July 2012, Lloyd's Register converted its status from an industrial and provident society to a company limited by shares, called Lloyd's Register Group Limited. The shares in Lloyd's Register Group Limited are owned by a parent, Lloyd's Register Foundation, a registered charity. Find out more about the Foundation at www.lrfoundation.org.uk
In 2013 we changed our logo, taking inspiration from the LR stamp – the true 'brand' that our surveyors have stamped into steel as proof of approval since 1884. Our identity reflects our heritage and our continued commitment to independence, technical excellence and public benefit. The organisation continues to grow and serve client needs, remaining competitive in a rapidly changing world.


Цель обзора. Представить современные данные о механизмах развития заболеваний поджелудочной железы и роли микробиомажелудочно-кишечноготракта(ЖКТ) и ротовой полости в патогенезе панкреатита. Основные положения. Для острого панкреатита характерны дисфункция кишечного барьера, избыточный бактериальный рост и эндотоксинемия. Важную роль в этих процессах играют образраспознающие (толл и нодподобные) рецепторы и микроорганизмассоциированные молекулярные паттерны. Получены данные об изменении микробиома ЖКТ и ротовой полости у пациентов с патологией поджелудочной железы. Так, инфекцияHelicobacterpyloriможет играть роль в развитии аутоиммунного панкреатита и рака поджелудочной железы,PorphyromonasgingivalisиAggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans- в развитии рака поджелудочной железы. Заключение. Результаты проведенных исследований свидетельствуют об изменении микробиома ЖКТ и ротовой полости у пациентов с патологией поджелудочной железы. Учитывая способность пробиотиков стимулировать продукцию антимикробных пептидов, нормализовать барьерную функцию эпителия, ограничивать бактериальную транслокацию, их применение может быть перспективным в лечении пациентов с заболеваниями поджелудочной железы.
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Now The Brits Are Eating Human Placentas
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Daily Domestic Gross Tue, Apr. 2 2013
Tue, Apr. 2 2013
1 G.I. Joe: Retaliation $4,012,941 -12% 3,719 -- $1,079 $59,568,649 1 Paramount
2 The Croods $3,866,600 -23% 4,065 19 $951 $97,759,994 2 Fox / DreamWorks Animation
3 Tyler Perry's Temptation $1,831,088 -17% 2,047 -- $895 $25,686,562 1 Lionsgate
4 Olympus Has Fallen $1,652,899 -2% 3,106 8 $532 $58,224,197 2 FilmDistrict
5 Oz: The Great and Powerful $1,563,182 -16% 3,324 -481 $470 $201,792,571 4 Disney
6 The Host (2013) $1,032,869 -14% 3,202 -- $323 $12,833,992 1 Open Road
7 The Call $653,930 0% 2,439 -68 $268 $40,913,789 3 Sony / TriStar
8 Admission $436,334 13% 2,161 1 $202 $12,565,990 2 Focus
9 Spring Breakers $403,006 2% 1,379 275 $292 $10,872,257 3 A24
10 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone $178,420 -12% 1,575 -1585 $113 $21,011,115 3 Warner Bros. / New Line
11 Jack the Giant Slayer $135,463 -22% 1,080 -1480 $125 $61,709,095 5 Warner Bros. / New Line
12 Identity Thief $129,840 -8% 1,082 -1084 $120 $130,186,605 8 Universal
1 Silver Linings Playbook $100,184 -4% 752 -292 $133 $128,917,100 20 Weinstein Company
2 Quartet $62,998 25% 302 -123 $209 $16,713,177 12 Weinstein Company
4 Life of Pi $61,118 -10% 340 -149 $180 $123,450,518 19 Fox
5 Safe Haven $59,188 -9% 550 -729 $108 $69,935,586 7 Relativity Media
6 Snitch (2013) $52,049 -4% 746 -1061 $70 $41,460,002 6 Lionsgate / Summit
7 21 And Over $44,106 -10% 344 -790 $128 $25,045,437 5 Relativity Media
9 Argo $23,274 19% 260 75 $90 $135,772,964 25 Warner Bros.
10 Django Unchained $23,203 -13% 233 -63 $100 $162,364,536 14 Weinstein Company
11 A Good Day to Die Hard $21,938 2% 209 -239 $105 $66,594,491 7 Fox
12 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters $21,888 5% 202 -7 $108 $55,263,125 10 Paramount
13 Emperor $19,720 2% 138 -99 $143 $2,929,446 4 Roadside Attractions
14 Parental Guidance $16,424 3% 140 -45 $117 $76,930,808 14 Fox
15 Warm Bodies $16,244 -14% 162 -137 $100 $65,281,791 9 Lionsgate / Summit
16 Rise of The Guardians $16,148 1% 134 -28 $121 $103,328,034 19 Paramount / DreamWorks
17 Side Effects (2013) $13,740 5% 102 -123 $135 $31,261,401 8 Open Road
18 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $10,252 -10% 145 -90 $71 $302,871,198 16 Warner Bros. / New Line
19 Mama $9,840 -11% 123 -7 $80 $71,609,130 11 Universal
20 Les Miserables (2012) $8,720 -6% 109 -20 $80 $148,793,445 14 Universal
21 Dark Skies $7,221 -1% 101 -104 $71 $17,145,290 6 Weinstein / Dimension
22 Beautiful Creatures (2013) $6,552 -2% 115 -73 $57 $19,411,557 7 Warner Bros.
23 The Last Exorcism Part II $5,477 -31% 102 -353 $54 $15,166,273 5 CBS Films
1 The Place Beyond the Pines $26,266 -15% 4 -- $6,567 $336,588 1 Focus
3 Himmatwala $14,056 6% 99 -- $142 $225,064 1 UTV Motion Pictures
4 From Up on Poppy Hill $13,766 -14% 25 19 $551 $313,207 3 GKIDS
5 Born to Be Wild 3D $8,411 12% 30 0 $280 $22,377,479 104 Warner Bros. / IMAX
6 The Sapphires $7,225 8% 12 8 $602 $140,116 2 Weinstein Company
7 Starbuck $7,120 80% 17 14 $419 $3,538,404 2 eOne Films US
8 The Impossible $7,115 -4% 86 -37 $83 $18,833,452 15 Lionsgate / Summit
9 Girl Rising $6,350 -38% 39 30 $163 $535,079 4 Gathr Films
10 Dead Man Down $4,019 13% 75 -537 $54 $10,772,191 4 FilmDistrict
11 Parker $1,657 14% 36 -19 $46 $17,613,092 10 FilmDistrict
12 Bless Me, Ultima $1,371 -21% 11 -10 $125 $1,539,616 6 Arenas Entertainment
13 Gangster Squad $976 -25% 50 0 $20 $45,998,998 12 Warner Bros.
14 The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone $970 -3% 7 -21 $139 $365,805 5 Methinx Entertainment
15 Kai Po Che $614 47% 5 -13 $123 $1,117,327 6 UTV Motion Pictures
16 Camp (2013) $449 8% 6 -11 $75 $105,174 6 Freestyle Releasing


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Q: How to compare comma separated values in mysql? I have 3 tables.
users(id,name)
items(id,name,price) and
orders(id,user_id,item_id)
Here my item_id column has comma separated values like [1,2,3]. I have below query which works perfectly if item_id has single value.
select users.name,items.price
from orders
join users
on user.id = orders.user_id
join items
on items.id =  orders.item_id
where orders.id = 1

Can any one suggest me how can i get the same result as in above query when there are comma separated values?

A: Try find_in_set function:
select users.name,items.price
from orders
join users
on user.id = orders.user_id
join items
on find_in_set(items.id, orders.item_id)
where orders.id = 1

However, store id with comma separated is a kind of bad db design, you'd better add a table to store the relationship between orders and items.
Just take an example:
create table order_item (
    order_id varchar(20),
    item_id varchar(20)
);

then the query:
select users.name,items.price
from orders
join users
on user.id = orders.user_id
join order_item oi on oi.order_id = orders.id
join items on oi.item_id = items.id
where orders.id = 1
group by orders.id

EDIT:
With [] included, you can try this:
select users.name,items.price
from orders
join users
on user.id = orders.user_id
join items
on find_in_set(items.id, replace(replace(orders.item_id, '[', ''), ']', ''))
where orders.id = 1

A: You can use FIND_IN_SET(str,strlist)

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New York University's Glucksman Ireland House invites 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers on social, cultural, and political revolution in modern Ireland and its intersections with the life and times of Ernie O'Malley. The inaugural Ernie O'Malley Symposium on 25-26 April 2014 will address topics as wide ranging as Irish republican intellectual history, feminism & guerilla war, postcolonial approaches to Irish literature, history, and culture, the visual arts, music history, the history of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, Irish autobiography, queer historiography, folklore, oral history and others.
• What is the relation of Irish republican political action to republican intellectual traditions?
• What voices in the revolutionary tradition have been dropped from the official histories? How do we recover them? And what do they have to tell us today?
• What is the relation of fiction to Irish autobiography / memoir? Where do the two overlap and where part ways?
• What contributions to visual art, music, and literature did revolutionaries make to Ireland's culture after the founding of the Irish Free State?
• What continuities exist between pre- and post- revolutionary Irish cultural expression? What characterizes the discontinuities?
• How do literary and artistic renderings of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War differ from those of the 1916 Easter Rising and other revolutionary moments?
• How does Ernie O'Malley's work compare with that of the canonical modern Irish authors like Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey, etc.? How does it compare with the non-canonical?
• How has oral history been thought, re-thought, and practiced in the post-revolutionary state and beyond?
• How do we define the relationship between revolution and exile? Cultural production and emigration? National belonging and migrancy?
• In what ways have advances in Irish archival access and research fundamentally changed the way we relate to modern Irish history.
• What does Irish revolutionary thinking and cultural production of the past have to offer us today? What lessons, and what examples?
Complete 3-4 member panel proposals of 500 words will be considered as well as individual paper proposals. Partial funding of up to $300 will be provided for graduate students whose papers are accepted. It is recommended that proposed papers address Ernie O'Malley's work directly, but it is not required.
New York, NY 10003 U.S.A.
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House invites 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers on social, cultural, and political revolution in modern Ireland and its intersections with the life and times of Ernie O'Malley.


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WeWork looks at curbs on co-founder's voting power in attempt to save IPO
Home Financial news WeWork looks at curbs on co-founder's voting power in attempt to save IPO
WeWork's executives, investors and advisers are discussing curbing the voting power of co-founder Adam Neumann and removing his wife Rebekah from a role in succession planning, in an attempt to save the company's initial public offering.
People familiar with the talks said changing the terms of Mr Neumann's supervoting rights, which give him 20 times the voting power of ordinary shareholders, was among the measures under consideration in an effort to win over sceptical investors.
Another possible change is taking Mrs Neumann out of an unusual role in helping select a future chief executive should Mr Neumann die.
Mr Neumann, 40, is now desperately at work to keep the IPO on track, even as the company's advisers question whether investors will bite at an already cut-price deal that would value the lossmaking property giant as low as $15bn. He would have to agree to any of the proposed changes.
The new valuation is less than half the $47bn that WeWork was calculated at this year when SoftBank invested $2bn in the group, and less than a quarter of the $65bn that bankers at Goldman Sachs had at one point pitched as a possibility for the company.
Inside the office space company, concern about the fate of the IPO has been heightened by the management cancelling an all-hands town hall that had been planned for Thursday and the departure of chief communications officer Jennifer Skyler who announced this week she was leaving for a role at American Express.
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To allay corporate governance concerns, WeWork has already promised to add a new director to its board, while Mr Neumann returned a nearly $6m payment from the company that had drawn criticism.
However, his advisers worry that the changes will not have a great effect on the listing, with investor concerns about corporate governance even more outweighed by fears about the valuation and business model.
Mr Neumann has been in regular touch with Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of SoftBank, to find out a solution. Ultimately, the Japanese group could agree to inject further capital to delay WeWork's IPO to a later date, said people briefed about the matter.
Executives at WeWork's parent, the We Company, have held one-on-one meetings with institutional investors, and the group is still planning on launching a roadshow for the offering on Monday.
These people added that no final decision had yet been taken and that it would ultimately rest with Mr Neumann.
WeWork and SoftBank declined to comment.
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Катастрофа SA 227 в Корке — авиационная катастрофа, произошедшая 10 февраля 2011 года в аэропорту Корка. Авиалайнер Fairchild SA 227-BC Metro III авиакомпании Manx2 выполнял регулярный коммерческий рейс NM7100 по маршруту Белфаст—Корк, но при заходе на посадку в Корке, в условиях сильного тумана, рухнул на взлётную полосу в ходе четвёртого захода на посадку. Из находившихся на его борту 12 человек (10 пассажиров и 2 члена экипажа) погибло 6 (включая обоих пилотов), остальные 6 выжили (4 из них получили серьёзные ранения).

Катастрофа привела к закрытию аэропорта Корка на 24 часа и перенаправлению всех рейсов на другие аэропорты.

Самолёт

Fairchild SA 227-BC Metro III (регистрационный номер EC-ITP, заводской BC-789B, серийный 789) был выпущен в 1992 году. Он принадлежал испанскому банку и был в лизинге у авиакомпании «Líneas Aéreas de Andalucía», также известной как Air Lada, расположенной в Севилье. Кроме неё, лайнер эксплуатировался авиакомпаниями Aerolitoral (борт XA-SES), D.S. Avnit (борт ZS-PDM), Top Fly и Euro Continental Air. Также самолёт находился в сублизинге у Flightline S.L., расположенной в Барселоне, и эта авиакомпания имела сертификат эксплуатанта на самолёт. Билеты продавала авиакомпания Manx2, расположенная на острове Мэн (в ней самолёт находился с сентября 2008 года по 11 июля 2009 года и с января 2011 года). Оснащён двумя турбовинтовыми двигателями Garrett TPE331-12UHR-701G. За неделю до катастрофы прошёл проверку технического обслуживания, никаких неполадок обнаружено не было. На день катастрофы совершил 34 156 циклов «взлёт-посадка» и налетал 32 653 часа.

Экипаж
Экипаж рейса NM7100 состоял из двух пилотов:

 Командир воздушного судна (КВС) — 31-летний Хорди Сола Лопез (), испанец (житель Барселоны). В должности командира SA-227 — с 30 января 2011 года (до этого управлял им в качестве второго пилота). Налетал свыше 1800 часов, свыше 1600 из них на SA-227 (25 из них в качестве КВС).
 Второй пилот — 27-летний Эндрю Кантл (), англичанин (житель Сандерленда). Налетал 539 часов, 289 из них на SA-227.

Оба пилота были наняты в авиакомпании Air Lada. То, что они оказались в паре, было довольно необычно и было признано неприемлемым. Оба пилота были сертифицированы на CAT I, но ни один из них не был сертифицирован на CAT II.

Хронология событий
Согласно расписанию, SA-227 борт EC-ITP должен был вылететь из Белфаста в 07:50 GMT и в 09:00 IST прибыть в Корк.
 06:15 — экипаж приступает к службе в международном аэропорту Белфаста.
 06:25 — экипаж получает полётную документацию на аэропорты Белфаста, Корка и Дублина.
 06:40 — самолёт взлетает как рейс NM4113 из аэропорта Белфаста по направлению к аэропорту Белфаст-Сити, командир управляет самолётом; это короткий перелёт, на борту самолёта только два пилота.
 07:15 — самолёт прибывает в аэропорт Белфаст-Сити, экипаж получает отдых в 35 минут.
Самолёт был дозаправлен, было залито 500 литров авиатоплива. Согласно журналу, запас авиатоплива составил 3000 литров, что было достаточно, чтобы долететь до Корка и вернуться обратно в Белфаст плюс необходимый резерв. В качестве запасного аэропорта для этого полёта был указан аэропорт Уотерфорд; другой альтернативы не было. Посадка на рейс была задержана, из-за того что пилоты работали над пассажирскими сиденьями в салоне; после завершения этой работы посадка началась. Пассажиры выбирали свои места случайно. Инструктаж по технике безопасности провёл второй пилот.
 08:10 — рейс NM7100 взлетает с предполагаемым временем приземления в Корке 09:10. На его борту было 2 члена экипажа и 10 пассажиров. В аэропорту приземления спускается туман.
 08:34 — экипаж устанавливает связь с КДП Шаннона.
 08:48 — самолёт передан на контроль диспетчерам Корка.
 08:58 — КГС рейса 7100 установлена на ВПП №17, полёт контролируется башней аэропорта.
 09:00 — башня Корка передала данные о видимости Instrumented Runway Visual Range (IRVR), видимость по-прежнему недостаточная.
 09:03 — экипаж снижается ниже высоты принятия решения (60 метров), самолёт пролетает мимо ВПП и уходит на второй круг; минимальная высота 30 метров. Башня Корка передаёт радарные векторы для полосы №35, экипаж полагал то, что в этом случае солнце будет за самолётом, и это позволит им легче разглядеть взлётную полосу.
 09:10 — самолёт в 12 км от ВПП и снова передан на контроль башне, данные IRVR снова переданы и по-прежнему видимость очень плохая. Самолёт проходит дальний маркер.
 09:14 — самолёт снова снижается ниже высоты принятия решения и вновь пролетает мимо ВПП, снизившись до 27 метров.
 09:15 — экипаж переходит к схеме ожидания ROVAL, поддерживая высоту 914 метров. В ходе ожидания экипаж запрашивает погодные условия для аэропорта Уотерфорд, но там видимость также очень низкая. Экипаж предлагает аэропорт Шаннона в качестве альтернативы и запрашивает погоду дня него, но и там видимость очень плохая. Экипажу передаётся метеосводка для Дублина, там также видимость ниже минимума. Башня Корка информирует экипаж о погоде в Керри, которые значительно лучше, с видимостью 10 километров; экипаж соглашается на Керри в качестве альтернативы.
 09:33 — самолёт по-прежнему на ожидании по ROVAL, данные IRVR для полосы №17 начинают улучшаться.
 09:39 — данные IRVR ещё немного улучшились и, несмотря на плохую видимость, экипаж решает выполнить третий заход на ВПП №17.
 09:45 — экипаж настраивает КГС на ВПП №17, за это время данные по видимости IRVR для этой полосы улучшились до 550 метров (требуемый минимум). Рейс 7100 передан на контроль башни в третий раз.
 09:46 — башня Корка передала данные IRVR 500/400/400, которые снова снизились ниже минимальных.

Самолёт проходит дальний маркер, КВС берёт на себя управление мощностью двигателей. Снижение продолжается ниже высоты принятия решения. После значительного снижения мощности у самолёта появляется сильный крен влево, на высоте ниже 90 метров. Командир запрашивает уход на четвёртый круг и второй пилот подтверждает это. Одновременно с повышением мощности двигателей командиром, теряется управление самолётом. Лайнер быстро вращается вправо и его правое крыло врезалось в поверхность ВПП. Самолёт продолжает опрокидываться и, перевернувшись шасси кверху, падает на ВПП. В последние 7 секунд записи бортовых самописцев непрерывно звучит сигнал предупреждения о потере скорости.

В 09:50:34, после двух первых ударов, самолёт в перевёрнутом состоянии прокатывается 189 метров по ВПП, разбрасывая обломки, и останавливается на мягком грунте справа от взлётной полосы. Пламя пожара, появившееся на обоих двигателях после удара, было быстро погашено вовремя подоспевшей пожарной командой аэропорта. Из 12 человек на борту погибли 6, в том числе оба пилота. Из 6 выживших четверо получили серьёзные ранения, двое других получили незначительные травмы. Свидетель утверждал, что туман был такой густой, что упавший самолёт не был виден из терминала аэропорта. Раненые были доставлены в госпиталь Корка. В результате катастрофы аэропорт Корк был закрыт до вечера 11 февраля.

Расследование
Расследованием причин катастрофы рейса NM7100 занялось ирландский Комитет по расследованию авиапроисшествий (AAIU). Из обломков были извлечены оба самописца — речевой и параметрический. Четверо человек из AAIU прибыли на место катастрофы уже через 90 минут. В тот же день они завершили обследование обломков. В расследовании AAIU помогали:
 Отдел по расследованию авиационных происшествий (Великобритания),
 Комиссия по расследованию авиационных происшествий (CAAIIC) (Испания),
 авиакомпания Flightline S.L.,
 Федеральное управление гражданской авиации (США),
 Национальный совет по безопасности на транспорте (NTSB) (США),
 Отдел по расследованию авиационных инцидентов (AIAI) (Израиль),
 Европейское агентство авиационной безопасности (EASA).

Обломки самолёта были перевезены на территорию AAIU в Горманстоне, чтобы реконструировать самолёт, насколько это возможно. 14 февраля AAIU опросила 5 из 6 выживших.

Предварительный и промежуточный отчёты
Предварительный отчёт расследования был выпущен 16 марта 2011 года.

Согласно этому отчёту, на последнем заходе на посадку самолёт под управлением второго пилота отклонился от центральной линии взлётной полосы и экипаж решил за четыре секунды до столкновения уйти на новый круг. Самолёт сильно накренился влево, затем сильно вправо и правое крыло ударилось о поверхность полосы. Не было выявлено недостатков ни в самолете, ни в аэродромной инфраструктуре. Отчёт не содержал каких-либо выводов.

Промежуточный отчет расследования был опубликован в феврале 2012 года в соответствии с нормативными требованиями Европейского Союза.

Осмотр двигателей показал, что правый двигатель развивал больший крутящий момент, чем левый, разница могла достигать 5 %, это происходило в результате дефектов датчика температуры воздуха воздухозаборника и датчика давления правого двигателя. Кроме разницы в крутящем моменте, дефект датчика также приводил к тому, что правый двигатель более оперативно реагировал на команды увеличения мощности от рычага управления.

Следствие также установило, что в момент удара о землю оба двигателя развивали мощность для ухода на четвёртый круг, но за 6-8 секунд до удара мощность обоих двигателей была ниже минимальной полётной мощности. За 8 секунд до удара правый двигатель достиг нулевого крутящего момента, в то время как левый двигатель выдавал крутящий момент в −9 % (что означает, что левый винт вращал двигатель, а не двигатель вращал винт). Последние 7 секунд в кабине звучал сигнал предупреждения о предельно низкой скорости.

Окончательный отчёт расследования
28 января 2014 года AAIU опубликовала окончательный отчёт расследования.

В отчёте подтверждалась информация, уже опубликованная в двух предварительных отчётах. Окончательный отчёт в 244 страницы содержал 54 вывода (детализированных в отчёте), вероятную причину, 9 повлиявших факторов и 11 рекомендаций по безопасности.

Эксплуатация самолёта
Рассмотрев все доказательства, следствие пришло к выводу, что эксплуатация самолёта была под контролем «владельца» с острова Мен, причём тот является коронным владением Британской короны за пределами Великобритании и ЕС, и «в соответствии с Правилами (EC) № 785/2004, эксплуатантом воздушного судна был на самом деле владелец, который распоряжался использованием или эксплуатацией самолёта». Следствием такой ситуации было то, что «обязанности и ответственность владельца лицензии не осуществлялись в соответствии с EU-OPS». Далее был сделан вывод что «такая ситуация, когда коммерческий авиаперевозчик действует в ЕС и не является авиакомпанией, нарушает Правила (EC) № 1008/2008».

Вероятная причина
Потеря управления во время попытки ухода на четвёртый круг ниже высоты принятия решения в приборных метеорологических условиях (ПМУ).

Потеря управления
Согласно техническому журналу полёта, самолётом управлял второй пилот; записи бортового и речевого самописцев это подтверждают. Кроме того, повреждения правой руки второго пилота согласуются с тем, что он пилотировал во время удара. Поскольку ни автопилот, ни полётный указатель не были установлены, пилотирующий пилот испытывал сильную рабочую нагрузку в течение всего полёта. Нагрузка усилилась после трёх неудачных заходов на посадку, в условиях плохой погоды и видимости ниже минимума.

Обычно пилотирующий пилот как ведёт самолёт, так и управляет мощностью двигателей, выполняя это скоординированно, с тем чтобы получить требуемую полётную траекторию; непилотирующий пилот при этом выполняет другие задачи, включая наблюдение за траекторией полёта, радиообмен и ведение полётного журнала. Речевой самописец зафиксировал, что командир взял на себя контроль над мощностью двигателей на завершающем подходе к ВПП, это действие было подтверждено вторым пилотом. Это важно, поскольку затем уровни мощности ушли ниже мощности для свободного полёта — этого действия пилотирующий пилот не ожидал.

Записанные данные показывают, что двигатель №1 достиг минимального уровня крутящего момента −9 % в диапазоне бета, а двигатель №2 достиг минимума 0 %. Эта асимметрия тяги совпадает с началом крена самолета влево (максимум наклона составил 40°). Возможно, в ответ на крен влево пилотирующий пилот повернул штурвал вправо, но, не имея записанных параметров контроля штурвала, расследование не может сказать, было ли это сделано. Последующее за этим увеличение мощности для выхода на новый круг, на высоте примерно 30 метров, совпало с началом быстрого крена вправо и с потерей управления. Вращение самолёта продолжилось, конец крыла ударился о поверхность ВПП и самолёт перевернулся.

Три основных фактора способствовали потере управления:
 Нескоординированные действия по управлению мощностью и управлению полетом, которые были в ведении обоих пилотов.
 Снижение мощности ниже уровня свободного полёта, что запрещено в полёте, и последующий резкий набор мощности — эти действия, вероятно, привели к неконтролируемому крену из-за асимметричной тяги и сопротивления.
 Разница в мощности между двигателями из-за дефектных датчиков Pt2/Tt2 стала существенной после того, как мощность была снижена ниже уровня свободного полёта, и двигатель №1 перешёл в режим отрицательного крутящего момента. После этого, когда уровень мощности был резко увеличен, в попытке уйти на четвёртый круг разность мощности также сыграла свою роль во вращении самолёта.

Способствующие факторы
 Продолжение захода на посадку после прохождения дальнего маркера при видимости ниже минимума.
 Продолжение снижения ниже высоты принятия решения без надлежащего визуального контакта.
 Нескоординированные действия по управлению мощностью и управлению полетом.
 Снижение уровня мощности двигателей в ходе полёта ниже уровня свободного полёта.
 Разница в крутящем моменте, выдаваемом двигателями, которая стала значимой после снижения уровня мощности ниже уровня свободного полёта.
 Усталость и утомление обоих пилотов.
 Недостаточная подготовка и проверка во время повышения командира.
 Неподходящий подбор пилотов в пару.
 Недостаточный надзор над эксплуатацией самолёта и над эксплуатантом.

Культурные аспекты
Катастрофа в Корке показана в 14 сезоне канадского документального телесериала Расследования авиакатастроф в эпизоде Бог троицу не любит. Премьера эпизода состоялась 9 февраля 2015 года — за день до 4-летней годовщины катастрофы.

Примечания

Источники

Ссылки
 Описание катастрофы на Aviation Safety Network
 Предварительный отчёт расследования (в архиве)
 Второй предварительный отчёт расследования (в архиве)
 Окончательный отчёт расследования (в архиве)

Корк
События 10 февраля
Февраль 2011 года
2011 год в Ирландии
Авиационные происшествия в Ирландии
Авиационные происшествия с Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
Авиационные происшествия вследствие потери управления в полёте
Авиационные происшествия вследствие неблагоприятных погодных условий
Авиационные происшествия вследствие столкновения с землёй в управляемом полёте


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