The 9th Annual Cahaba River Society Fry-Down on September 30 at Railroad Park was the most successful in its near decade long history.
"We had a great turnout of people today eating fish and helping us protect the Cahaba River," said Beth Stewart, Executive Director of the Cahaba River Society at the end of the Sunday afternoon event.
The competition between the Fry-Down teams was fierce. Here are the winners of the 2018 Cahaba River Society Fry-Down.
"Even if you don't live near the river or swim in the river the likelihood is you drink the Cahaba River out of your tap. The health of the river keeps our drinking water healthy, abundant and affordable," concluded Stewart.


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Munksjö appoints Pia Aaltonen-Forsell as CFO
Helsinki, Finland, 2015-02-09 08:30 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
MUNKSJÖ OYJ, STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 9 February 2015 at 8:30 a.m. CET
Pia Aaltonen-Forsell has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and
member of Munksjö's Management Team. Aaltonen-Forsell (M.Soc.Sc.) will be
joining Munksjö from Vacon Plc., where she currently is the CFO.
Aaltonen-Forsell's previous positions include Senior Vice President (SVP)
Finance, IT and M&A, Building and Living Business Area at Stora Enso as well as
other managerial positions at Stora Enso, such as SVP Group Controller.
Aaltonen-Forsell will join Munksjö on 1 April 2015, and she will report to Jan
Åström, President and CEO of Munksjö Oyj.
"I'm very happy to welcome Pia to the Munksjö-team. With her solid background
from the industry, she will be an excellent driving force for the company's
further growth and development", says the President and CEO Jan Åström.
Munksjö Oyj
Jan Åström, President and CEO, Tel. +46 10 250 1001
Åsa Fredriksson, SVP HR and Communications, Tel. +46 10 250 1003
Munksjö - Materials for innovative product design
The Munksjö Group is an international specialty paper company with a unique
product offering for a large number of industrial applications and
consumer-driven products. Founded in 1862, Munksjö is among the leading
producers in the world of high-value added papers within attractive market
segments such as Decor paper, Release Liners, Electrotechnical paper, Abrasive
backings and Interleaving paper for steel. Given Munksjö's global presence and
way of integrating with its customers' operations, the company forms a global
service organisation with approximately 2,900 employees. Production facilities
are located in France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Spain and China. Munksjö
Oyj is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and Nasdaq Stockholm. Read more at
www.munksjo.com.
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The Furman Center is pleased to present the 2007 edition of the State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods. Every year the Furman Center compiles statistics on housing, demographics and quality of life in the City, its five boroughs and 59 community districts.
Our analysis this year analyzes mortgage lending trends in the City since 1996, exploring how the population of mortgage borrowers has shifted, and how innovations like subprime and piggyback loans have transformed the home mortgage landscape in New York City.
Indicators Data indicator definitions, source information, and geography and year for which data is available. This section also provides rankings for each indicator, showing the neighborhoods that have the highest and lowest totals.
Brooklyn Data and analysis of trends in Brooklyn and its 18 community districts.
Manhattan Data and analysis of trends in Manhattan and its 12 community districts.
Queens Data and analysis of trends in Queens and its 14 community districts.
Staten Island Data and analysis of trends in Staten Island and its three community districts.
Methods This section includes a description of our data methods.
Back Matter About the Furman Center and Acknowledgements.


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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
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"Books are a hardbound drug with no danger of overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
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The Vicar of Wakefield.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774), [THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator], [DOBSON, Austin, preface].
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History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774).
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear.....	More
The Wind in the Willows.
GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932), [SHEPARD, Ernest H., illustrator].
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST SHEPARD COLOUR EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[4] 262 [2]. Heavily illustrated with Shepard's drawings, produced in colour for the first time. Number 231 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation page. Finely bound.....	More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
GRANDVILLE, Jean-Jacques [Pseudonym of Gérard, Jean Ignace Isidore] (1803-1847), [Forgues, E.D., Delord, Taxile, Frémy, Arnould, and Achard, Amédée, text], [QUITARD, M. editor].
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with.....	More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
GRANDVILLE, Jean-Jacques [Pseudonym of Gerard, Jean Ignace Isidore] (1803-1847).
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration.....	More
The Heiress of Bruges; A Tale. Standard Novels XXXIX.
GRATTAN, Thomas Colley (1792-1864).
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. [Historical Romance] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[6] 530 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. In a later nineteenth-century binding of mid brown half morocco by Antoine CHATELIN, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards.....	More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771), [MITFORD, Rev. John; HOWARD, George, 7th Earl of Carlisle; MOULTRIE, Rev. John, introduction], [RADCLYFFE, Charles W. and E.; WILLIAMS, S.; SLY, illustrators].
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf.....	More
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771), [MITFORD, Rev. John; MOULTRIE, Rev. John, introduction], [RADCLYFFE, Charles W. and E.; WILLIAMS, S.; SLY, illustrators].
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco.....	More
Brewster's Millions
GREAVES, Richard [pseud. George Barr McCutcheon] (1866-1928).
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank.....	More
A Short History of the English People.
GREEN, John Richard (1837-1883), [GREEN, Alice Stopford, editor].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine, blue cloth over boards, and the gilt crest of King.....	More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, revised edition, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary red full calf for the Judd School, Tonbridge, with gilt titles to green.....	More
The Lost Childhood. And other Essays.
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991).
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. [Literary Essays] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 191 [3]. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy. Slightly toned throughout. Very good. Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such.....	More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 247 [3]. Recently bound in burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green labels on spine, and matching cloth over boards. Edges lightly trimmed. A lovely clean copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Very.....	More
History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
GREENWOOD, Grace (BILLINGS).
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Neat owner's name to first free end paper. A lovely copy of the author's collection of stories, written for young people, of.....	More
Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Another collection of stories for children from the author of History of my Pets.	More
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.
GREGORY, Dr. [John] (1724-1773).
London: Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774. [Social history] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.[6]; xii; 132; [4]. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt titles to a recent black title label on spine. Marbled endpapers. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, internally clean, toned to edges. Boards rubbed and worn, splits.....	More
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
GROSJEAN, Georges (1865-1934), [BIGOT, M. Charles, preface].
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and.....	More
Hug. Grotii Poemata Omnia. [Poetical Works]
GROTIUS, Hugo [DE GROOT] (1583-1645).
Amsterdam: Joh. Ravesteynum, 1670. [Latin Verse and Drama] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 8cm), pp.[16] 428 [12]. Including a decorated title page. All text in Latin. Contemporary full speckled and panelled morocco, untitled to binding, with all edges speckled red. An eighteenth-century library inscription to front pastedown. Bookplate of the.....	More
Exmoor; or the Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West, With Illustrations Taken from Nature.
HALL, Herbert Byng (1805-1883).
London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1849. [Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4] iv; 441 [5]. With eight fine lithographic plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a vignette title page. In a late Victorian green half calf binding with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine, further.....	More
The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II.
HALLAM, Henry (1777-1859).
London: John Murray, 1842. [English History] FINELY BOUND, fourth edition. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 708 [2]; pp.viii; 601 [3]. Contemporary tan full calf by James HAYDAY for White of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting labels, and further gilt decoration to spines. All edges speckled.....	More
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1853. [Mediaeval History] FINELY BOUND, the tenth edition. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 504 [2]; pp.viii; 427 [3]; pp.[2] iv; 517 [3]. Contemporary tan full polished calf with gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, and very elaborate gilt tooling, to spines. All.....	More
Fairy Tales and Romances.
HAMILTON, Count Anthony (1646-1720), [LEWIS, M; RYDE, H.T.; and KENNEY, C., translators].
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. [Continental Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 562 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of Count Hamilton. In a fine later binding of brown half crushed morocco by Roger de Coverly, with gilt titles and decoration to spine.....	More
Two Stories. The Mare's nest [and] The Long Shadow.
HAMPSON, John (1901-1955).
London: E. Lahr, 1931. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.27 [5]. Number 147 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear of the volume. In publisher's quarter blue cloth with cream paper-covered boards and black titles to cream paper label on spine. With.....	More
Drama in Gloucestershire (the Cotswold County): Some account of its development from the earliest times till to-day.
HANNAM-CLARK, Theodore (1882-1960).
Gloucester: Minchin and Gibbs, 1928. [History of Theatre] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 240 [2]. With eight black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary full tree calf for Cheltenham College, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt tooling to spine, as well.....	More
The Trumpet Major, John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert his Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale.
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928).
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, no date [circa 1915]. [Historical Fiction] FINELY BOUND, a later American edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 374 [4]. With a photographic frontispiece. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt decoration.....	More


With wildfires burning relentlessly in Canada, smoke has meandered it's way down to Washington State. The haze is thick as wool some days and while I could say that we're used to grey- this is different. Some of us have suffered headaches, allergies, missing voices and I can't imagine how those in Canada are doing. With Canada still blazing and evacuations being expanded, our thoughts are with our Canadian neighbors.
Our shoot down at the river was not for the faint of heart. It had originally been scheduled to be at Rainier and halfway up we decided we needed to come back down the hill as the smoke grew thicker and thicker the closer we reached the mountains. The river was blissfully cool on a day with stifling humidity. We tripped along the river rocks, bushwacked... seriously, we REALLY bushwacked, and laughed as we bushwacked some more.
The bushwacking was worth it because we really came back with some gems! Thank you to my girls for having amazing attitudes and laughing off the ants and brambles.
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The 'It's Always Sunny' Creator Says the Handling of Mac's Sexuality Upset Their LGBTQ Audience
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been on the air for 14 seasons and counting. The series is known for pushing the boundaries of comedy, something that's easy to do when "the gang" consists of five dumb narcissists. Creator and Mac actor Rob McElhenney admits that he, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day have made some mistakes along the way in terms of taking some of their jokes and plot points too far. Something the show's LGBTQ audience was uncomfortable with, for example, was how Mac's coming out story was written.
Why the 'It's Always Sunny' writers decided to make Mac gay
McElhenney says the decision to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character's ultra-conservative beliefs.
"We always take whatever viewpoint any character has to the extreme," he told Rolling Stone in 2019. "We have certainly mined plenty of comedy out of the extreme right and the extreme left. We were looking at Mac at one point, and I was like, 'He is such an arch-arch Catholic conservative when it suits him, and when it doesn't, he drops that.' And most of the people I know in that camp tend to be fairly homophobic. So we began going down that road: Let's satirize that hard Christian conservative who is also intensely homophobic. OK, so what's the next step from there? And that's when I thought, 'Let's just make him gay.'"
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Though it may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the development came to them later. Even so, it kind of really made sense looking back.
"What we realized is, if you look back over the seasons, it almost worked retroactively," he said.
How Mac's coming out story upset the 'It's Always Sunny' LGBTQ audience
McElhenney said he and the other writers try not to take viewer opinions to heart when it comes to suggestions about how the show should go. But something that caught their attention was the reaction they received when Mac came out as gay.
"There was an episode where we had a running gag that Mac was in the closet and refused to come out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him. The joke wasn't that Mac was gay, obviously. That would have been demeaning and offensive. The joke was that he was in the closet, and he refused to come out and doubled down on his homophobia. It was just poking fun at the hypocrisy of that. At one point, my character came out and then went back in the closet at the end of the episode," he said.
McElhenney continued: "I didn't expect it, but there was a massive outpouring from our LGBTQ fans, who were really upset. They felt like, 'Oh, wow, he finally came out. We feel represented. This is a really fun and cool character.' That made them feel like it was a chance for us to do something different, and we put him back in the closet."
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After the season ended, McElhenney reflected on the decision and thought, "Man, that is a bummer. We had an opportunity there, and we screwed it up."
Of course, as fans know, Mac comes out again the following season.
"The response was so overwhelmingly positive, certainly from the people that we cared about, though of course there was a negative response from a segment of the audience we didn't care about. It felt good that we were recognizing a part of our audience in a way that was not pandering, that wasn't offensive or upsetting or a caricature," he said.
"We weren't creating a gay character for comedic effect, that was there just to be gay and to be funny because he was gay, but a very complex, very disturbed, very f*cked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. And we ran with that," McElhenney continued.
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Today we did something different. We went to do the number one thing to do in Port Douglas (as ranked on TripAdvisor), The Wildlife Habitat. The habitat is pretty much a zoo but instead of walking around the cages you walk through the cages.
When we got into the park we got our pictures taken holding a koala who is very soft.
After we got our pictures taken we caught a tour and saw kangaroos and a giant crocodile that weighed as much as a small car.
After we were done with the tour we got to feed the kangaroos. At that point we were all hot and hungry. We left the park and went to go eat lunch and hop in the pool. When we finished lunch we decided to relax for a little bit. When we woke up we hopped in the pool for again for little while. When we got out we made dinner and played another game of Euchre. Another great day in Port Douglas.
The trip to the Wildlife Habitat was a very cool experience. As Peter mentioned above there are no enclosures for the animals, other than a net so the birds don't fly away and an outside fence so the kangaroos and such don't wander off. To be completely honest there is one enclosure, and that is for the crocodiles - we were all thankful for that. Other than that there are four big areas that you wander through and you get to interact with the animals. It is a really cool approach to wildlife management and does not make you feel bad like a zoo sometimes can.
Being able to hold a Koala was pretty incredible. After the koala pictures we hung around for a couple of presentations with one of the staff. She introduced us to an Amethystine python, the largest python in the Queensland region, as well as a baby saltwater crocodile.
She did a great job of filling us in on all of the details of each reptile and then we got to feel both critters. The skin of the python is an iridescent green and blue - it looked like a rainbow - quite beautiful really.
After the presentations we took a stroll around to see what else was going on. We wandered into the "restaurant" and discovered just how much the animals really do rule this place (as you can see from the picture below).
Just as we were saying hello to the owls one of the workers at the habitat came though and announced that the savannah tour was starting. So we decided to jump on the tour to learn some more. The guide was great and gave us lots of facts about the animals. Once we made it on to the savannah there were Kangaroos and Wallabies everywhere. We learned that there are 60 MILLION kangaroos in Australia. They are a prolific species and have to be culled to keep their numbers down. However, here at the Habitat they are friendly and happy to come up and grab a snack from you. The kids really enjoyed being able to feed and pet both the roos and the wallabies.
We were also introduced to their Saltwater Croc's who are impressive to say the least. The guide informed us that we should assume croc's are in every body of water around here and to be very aware. I would certainly not want to meet this guy out in the wild.
We all agreed it was a great way to get to see some animals up close and personal.
As Peter mentions above, the rest of the day was pretty standard, but it was nice to get out and see some of the local critters today.


Sept. 28, 2017 — Determination to support and set a good example for her sons is what motivates CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) nursing student Amanda Garcia.
The 30-year-old Santa Maria native is one of 23 students, one from each of the CSU campuses, to receive the prestigious CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. The CSU Board of Trustees honored the scholars during their regular meeting held Sept. 19 at the CSU office in Long Beach, California.
Many, like Garcia are first in their families to attend college.
Garcia was raised in Minnesota where she enrolled in college after high school but moved to California after her second year and did not complete her degree. After settling in Santa Maria at the age of 20, she gave birth to two sons, which she and her boyfriend raise together.
"Even with an incredible partner and a good family of support, we struggled financially," she said.
Garcia made a decision to go back to college.
Garcia had always been strong in the sciences and had an interest in nursing, so she met with a counselor at Cuesta College and they worked out a plan for her to earn an associate degree and apply for the Nursing program at CSUCI.
Garcia was determined. She worked full time at Costco during the day, took an overnight job as a Certified Nursing Assistant three nights a week and carried a full-time student load, earning her associate degree with high honors.
When Garcia was accepted into the Nursing program at CSUCI, she found her calling.
The Nursing faculty inspired Garcia and she thrived at CSUCI. She was inducted into the Gamma Beta Phi and Mortar Board honor societies.
Garcia aspires to earn a doctorate of nursing practice in anesthesia and work in the field of critical care. She is also planning to do research in disaster preparedness for underserved communities.
Statistically speaking, because she is getting a college education, Garcia's sons, Ashton, 7 and Cruz, 5, are much more likely to earn a degree themselves.
Garcia wants to see her sons attend college, and she wants to provide an opportunity for someone else, too.
"Ultimately I want to have my own scholarship so I can give back," she said.


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Meet the first -- and only -- cat in space
(FOX 13) - Many people know that the first living creature to orbit the Earth was a dog, launched into space by the Soviets all the way back in 1957. But less well known is that French researchers also sent their own animals into space -- including the first 'cat-stronaut.'
The early days of spaceflight were filled with uncertainty. Rockets frequently blew up and no one knew how, or even if, people would be able to survive in a weightless environment. So scientists began sending animals into space to see how they'd survive, though it was a one-way trip for many of them.
For Americans, the animals of choice were monkeys. 'Albert,' a rhesus monkey, was the first animal in space when he was launched from the White Sands Missile Range on a suborbital flight. It would be three more years before a monkey would survive one of these flights, though.
Meanwhile, the Soviets used a variety of mice, rats, and rabbits for their initial tests before settling on dogs. They launched a pair of canines on a suborbital mission in 1951, and safely recovered both. Eventually, the Moscow stray dog Laika rode into orbit aboard Sputnik 2, but she died as expected when she ran out of air.
Once humans made it into space in 1961, animals were relegated to lower profile biomedical missions. The U.S. and Soviet Union proceeded to race to the moon, but other countries made strides into space, too.
France was among the nations also building their own rockets. They chose cats as the animals for their spaceflight trials -- a team of around 14 felines was trained to fly aboard a Veronique AGI rocket for biological research.
The giant leap for cat-kind came on October 18, 1963. Just after 8 a.m., the rocket blasted off from Algeria carrying Felicette, a black and white female cat who had been found on the streets of Paris.
Felicette's suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes and reached an altitude of 97 miles. She was recovered safely after the capsule parachuted back to Earth making her the first and only known cat in space.
PICTURED HERE: A photo card handed out to scientists and engineers as a memento of the flight, complete with paw-print. The text translates to: "Thank you for your role in my success, October 18, 1963." (Photo © CERMA, 1963)
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Today I sent the 200th edition, and thought it would be fun to look back through the archives and compile a list of the articles which received the most engagement (in form of clicks) from the 600–800 or so resources I've curated and sent out over the past 100 editions.
Learn how and why Skift abandoned their follow-on round of investment after deciding bootstrapping was a better way forward. Make sure you read how they did it towards the end of the post.
Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb, on not limiting your imagination to create ideas which can then be edited to provide the logic to make your ideas real. Great post.
A great interview with Airbnb's email specialist Lucas Chevillard covering what they are currently testing, email KPI's and more.
First Round have published a list of the 30 most "impactful, change-making pieces of advice" drawn from everything they published last year. A must read.
From content marketing to Analytics to Facebook/Twitter marketing, this is a really well put together check-list for those working on sales and marketing right now.
Co-founder Pascal Briod shares a great list of products he relies on to head up product at TawiPay.
A must read guide from Unbounce for those involved with running Facebook ad campaigns.
A couple of interesting extensions in this list I've not come across before. Worth a look.
Great insights from Buffer on international salaries, effective tax rates and how they pay remote employees around the world. I wonder how many know about the advantages of remote working with a Hong Kong company.
An interesting look at the new generation of workers in developing markets and the compounding growth at manufacturing costs from 2010.
Forget the fancy offices and the free lunches — more than ever before skilled folks are understanding the true value of more freedom and less bureaucracy.
Interesting SEO insights from BackLinkio after analyzing 1 million Google search results to answer the question: Which factors correlate with first page search engine rankings?
A good list of 21 sales blogs and posts you should have on your radar.
A great post on managing teams, getting rid of assholes, making tough decisions and not "putting up with someone because your afraid to lose their ability".
Noah Kagan of AppSumo fame lists every product he uses to run his business (and life). It's a great list.
Becoming a Real Startup — On Growing & Turning an Idea into Something Tangible, Fast.
John Saddington shares the steps he has taken to research, launch and market his startup Tomo over the first 20 days. It's a recommend read for new startup founders.
A look at 14 interesting design projects as Github becomes an increasingly popular repository for designers to open-source their projects.
Detailed look at how Benji Hyam used the google suggested search hack to massively grow search traffic over the past 6 months at ThinkApps.
A good read from Mixpanel's Content Marketing Manager, Justin Megahan, on how to improve your AB testing.
Why you should do things well, whether you're being creative or going travelling, a great read from ChopDawg founder, Joshua Davidson.
From scaling slower to burning less, five useful startup tips with insightful commentary from Appcellerator co-founder, Jeff Haynie.
NextView Ventures asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams. Some great questions here that are worth saving for later reference.
A very useful look at product management tools from Songkick's Dan Quine, including why Pirate Metrics is the best framework for startup metrics, the power of the 80:20 rule and looking for the aha moments in your product.
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A killer list of resources and advice for anyone interested in being a location independent entrepreneur, from books to read for building a business to sorting out work and travel visas.
Enlightening article from the New York Times about a Finnish study comparing the effects different forms of exercise, such as weight training and long distance running, had on rats brain tissue. Hint: it might be time to start pounding the pavements.
Involved with sales? Here's a selection of 14 tools that can help you manage and close more sales leads.
Great post from Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue on how to lead from first principles when everything is at stake and why they're a bigger, more powerful force than anyone in the company, including the founders and CEO.
Interview with Segment co-founder and CEO, Peter Reinhardt, on the build-versus-buy debate, recommendations on which tools to consider across eight distinct categories, the pitfalls to avoid when choosing tools and when to declare tools successful.
A fascinating article and documentary about what happened when Kevin Roose asked two elite hackers to do their worse, from tracking down his social security number to getting access to his mobile phone account and finding his passwords.
A look at key revenue milestones that K9 share with their portfolio, from $1K a month at the start of product-market fit, to $250–500K when scaling, along with advice to founders on how to reach them.
Interesting look at the incredible success of Amazon Marketplace company Pharmapacks, thanks in no part to their development of proprietary algorithms, and a look at the general rise of companies selling through third-party marketplaces.
Analysis published by consultancy LearnAirbnb claim that at least 75 U.S. hosts on the Internet home-sharing service are grossing more than $1 million in rental income a year. That's $2,739 a day or $19, 230 a week.
A great look at microinteractions (contained product moments that do one small task), why they work and are one of the best techniques for giving delightful feedback in app design.
A great read about how language learning app Duolingo got 110 million users by using a task-based, gamified platform that helps users get up to speed on learning new languages.
Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment.io, shares some of the wisest words on finding product/market fit I've ever read. A must read.
A salient reminder from Allen Gannett, CEO of TrackMaven, of the negative aspects of networking: drinking watery beer and eating supermarket cheese with other people who aren't getting anything done, either.
A fascinating read about Lydia Laurenson's indoctrination into a very San Francisco secret society, complete with swipe card invitations and miniature libraries and populated by artists, that was actually run by a startup.
Great post on how to approach Facebook advertising, with a look at tactics that work at scale, how they work or don't work for earlier stage startups, and useful advice on how to leverage Facebook auto-optimization to what your bidding strategy should be.
A very useful list of 39 sites with killer stock photos ready for to you use for nada.
Getting six hours of sleep a night simply isn't enough for you to be your most productive. In fact, it's just as bad as not sleeping at all.
A fascinating look at behavioral economics and the bad habits, human foibles, misjudgments and knee-jerk reactions that pretty much determine everything we think and do, from confirmation bias to hyperbolic discounting.
A fascinating read on how Jen Dewalt quit her job to learn how to code by building 180 websites in 180 days, who is now going on to build a much larger company with both code and growth hacking skills she has learned.
Fascinating look at Marketing Technology companies in 2016. With an infographic of nearly 4000 companies that's a huge leap from the 150 featured in 2011, along with a very useful breakdown of the market.
An interesting look at YC's 60 startups this year, notable for including hardware, engineering, alternative energy and enterprise offerings, from smart oven, Tovala, to PetCube, a dropcam for Fido.
A fascinating profile of Instagram's first investor, Steve Anderson, who runs one of Silicon Valley's most successful and smallest investment firms and likes to do things differently.
A very useful post from Freckle founder Amy Hoy, on the five things she wish she'd known when starting in SaaS, from the fact that there is always another inflection point coming to focussing on your best customers 100% of the time.
A fascinating interview with Chamath Palihapitiya, a Sri Lankan immigrant who escaped a civil war in his homeland before eventually landing a job at Facebook then starting one of the most formidable VC firms in the Valley.
Great post from Mark Suster on the key questions you should be asking yourself before launching a startup, from knowing your potential market size and its structure to the strengths and weaknesses of the incumbents.
Want to Create Things That Matter?
Great article about how ignoring "shallow work" makes one appear lazy or distanced, but is actually the trait that enables great creatives to do work that matters.
Fascinating Wired piece about how an anonymous whistleblower was able to spirit out and surreptitiously send journalists a gargantuan collection of files, which were then analyzed by more than 400 reporters in secret over more than a year before a coordinated effort to go public.
Putting everything in one place helps you coordinate your life and accomplish the things that need to get done so you have more time for the passion projects that really matter to you. Here's how you can start using project management apps for life management.
Excellent piece on branding from Daehee Park, founder of Tuft & Needle — The mattress company that's on track to do $225m/yr.
Excited about the launch of Tofin, a series of experiments and explorations on what a browser could look like when its fundamental paradigms are invented in 2016 instead of 1996.
One year in, Caroline Weaver's tiny empire of Blackwings and Ticonderogas seems to be going strong. Who's buying?
An excellent guide with practical guidelines on designing better forms from UX designer Nick Babich.
An excellent overview of launching a successful game on iOS from Amir Rajan, builder of 'A Dark Room', along with full financials and some great advice for aspiring indie app developers.
What does Unsplash cost to run?
A great breakdown of the services and costs associated with running one of the largest photography sites in the world.
One of the best in-depth reports covering advertising on Facebook I've yet to come across. A must read for all those advertising on the Facebook platform.
Great insights from Geoff Teehan — design director at Facebook, Alexander Mayes — product designer at Instagram, and more on what they find most challenging in their day to day roles.
Kim Scott, an acclaimed coach for companies like Twitter and who has previous experience with Google and Apple, shares her experiences of leading teams into ideas you can use to help the people who work for you love their jobs and do great work.
An interesting look at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company launched by Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of tech incubator Y Combinator.
A brilliant, insightful and extensive piece from Sam Knight at the Guardian on how Uber conquered London.
Wright has provided technical proof to back up his claim using coins known to be owned by Bitcoin's creator. His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system. Also worth reading is Jon Matonis's 'How I Met Satoshi'.
Ali Mese at Crew lays down some excellent advice for founders wanting to create side projects now that 62% of Crew's revenue is generated from their own side projects.
An interesting look at Uber's data visualization team, who keep tabs on billions of GPS locations every day and millions of mobile events every minute.
In China, savvy entrepreneurs are making millions a year by mining bitcoin. BBC's Danny Vincent visited one of the world's biggest facilities of its kind to film the activity and people within.
UXPin's visual guide to web design trends in 2016 is beautifully put together (no surprise there!), and is a must read for all founders and designers alike.
The Knight Cities Challenge just gave out $5 million to winning ideas from civic innovators to help 26 particular American cities, from Detroit to Macon, Georgia. Here are six of the 37 winning projects that other cities might want to steal.
Great stats and comparisons of Micro SaaS, Bootstrapped SaaS and Funded SaaS startups from Clement Vouillon at Point Nine Capital.
DAO (a company that needs no office, no employees, and no president) is ruled by a computer program. And they just raised $131 million…and counting.
The Verge offers a great breakdown of the major highlights from Google's I/O 2016 keynote including Android N, Google Daydream, Android Wear 2.0, Google Home (a competitor to Amazon's Echo) and the new Allo and Duo (messaging) apps.
Get your Credit Card ready as the team behind the excellent review site WireCutter have published a great guide to setting up the perfect home office.
Jeff Bezos on experiments and failure: "If you think [the Fire Phone] was a big failure, we're working on much bigger failures right now. And I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip". Also worth reading is VC Fred Wilson's take.
According to Spotify's annual report, the average employee, from receptionist to CEO, earns an average salary of €151,180, or $168,747 in current exchange rates.
Interesting perspective from Steve Blank, creator of the "lean startup" movement, explaining how the role of venture capital has shifted over time, and why it doesn't bode well for startup founders.
A great insightful interview with Jon Lax, director of product design at Facebook, on where mobile and apps are headed.
Musk believes that as AI continues to advance, humans will be left behind, and that even in the most banal situation, we'll be treated like pets by artificial intelligence.
From leveraging the Bullseye Framework to a list of 19 customer acquisition channels worth exploring, startup accelerator Dreamit shares this great guide to growth hacking and digital marketing aimed at seed stage startups.
A great read on how shipping containers made the world smaller and how SaaS startup Flexport continues to streamline the complexity of international freight shipping.
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2019 All-Conference Team
2019 Goalkeeper of the Year
2018 Player of the Year
2019 Rookie of the Year/All-Rookie Team
2018 Rookie of the Year
2018 Scholar Athlete of the Year
2018 CCM/ACHA All-Americans
Inside the NEWHL
About the NEWHL
D3Hockey.com Poll
NCAA Pairwise Ranking
USCHO Poll
2019-20 NEWHL Preseason Poll
2019-20 Standings
2019-20 Stats
USCHO National Stats
Cardinals remain #1 for 9th straight USCHO.com Division III poll
USCHO.com Division III Women's Top-10 Poll
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Plattsburgh State women's ice hockey remained at No. 1 for the ninth consecutive USCHO.com Division III Women's Top-10 Poll, as announced on Monday.
Plattsburgh State (12-1-0, 8-0-0 Northeast Women's Hockey League [NEWHL]) garnered 149 voting points and 14 first-place points to stay atop the poll. The Cardinals have held the No. 1 ranking in the poll since March 18, 2019.
The poll, which was released Monday afternoon prior to the Cardinals' 4-1 win over No. 5 Adrian College in the Norwich East-West Hockey Classic championship game, included Plattsburgh State's 6-3 victory over No. 3 Norwich University on Sunday. It marked the Cardinals' first game in nearly a month.
Plattsburgh State resumes NEWHL play on Wednesday, Jan. 8, when it hosts Morrisville State College in the first-ever conference meeting between the two teams. The opening puck drop is slated for 7 p.m.
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Court Snips Anti-Circumcision Measure from Frisco Ballot
By Ed Driscoll 9:17 PM on July 27, 2011
A rare slice of good news from San Francisco: "Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi issued a tentative ruling today, which, unless she backtracks tomorrow will order the Director of the Department of Elections for the City and County of San Francisco to 'remove the measure from the ballot in its entirety,'" writes Nina Yablok, aka, my wife, at the Lifestyle blog tonight.
Last month, Zombie explored some of the Goebbels-esque propaganda that had been used to push this measure, and hopefully, whose insane rhetoric and imagery ultimately backfired. In case you missed it, behold: Monster Mohel.
Blogging since 2002, affiliated with PJM since 2005, where he is currently a columnist, Dallas Editor, and founder of PJM's Lifestyle blog. Over the past 15 years, Ed has contributed articles to National Review Online, the Weekly Standard.com, Right Wing News, the New Individualist, Blogcritics, Modernism, Videomaker, Servo, Audio/Video Interiors, Electronic House, PC World, Computer Music, Vintage Guitar, and Guitar World. As an Amazon Associate, he earns from qualifying purchases. For media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
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Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common pathogens isolated from respiratory tracts of Cystic Fibrosis patients (CF). The infection by this pathogen starts in early infancy, often preceding chronic infections by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The infection and colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are, by then, events very frequent among CF patients and this bacterial isolation leads to complications in therapeutic management because of the limited treatment options. Strains of Staphylococcus aureus are able to produce biofilms on natural or synthetic surfaces. Biofilms are sophisticated communities of matrix-encased bacteria and infections by biofilm-producing bacteria are particularly problematic because sessile bacteria can often withstand host immune responses and are generally much more tolerant to antibiotics. The first aim of this work is to evaluate the ability of MRSA strains isolated from respiratory secretions of CF patients to develop biofilms in comparison with methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) strains obtained from respiratory secretions of CF patients.Therefore, our second aim is to evaluate the environmental influence on this ability. To evaluate the development of biofilm on solid matrix and the possible environmental influence,we applied the method described by Christensen et al. We found that a significantly higher number of MRSA strains were biofilm positive compared with MSSA strains (p<0.05).The presence of glucose did not influence the ability to form biofilm in our MRSA strains (p=0.165). MSSA strains are not strong biofilm-producers, but, when grown in TSB added with 0.25% glucose, the number of biofilm-forming strains increases, as expected. These data suggest a possible association between methicillin-resistance and biofilm formation.


In the last several weeks, news of plans for future restaurants has been percolating rapidly. So many, in fact, that we likely will have to inform you of them in several posts. From Fourth Street Live to the renovated Speed Art Museum to Germantown and the Highlands, more eating choices are set to appear.
Turnovers of businesses seem a regular feature of Fourth Street Live, with several restaurant closings recently, but that lively space always finds new concepts to join the fray. Maker's Mark Bourbon House & Lounge closed in June, but that space will soon become Bourbon Raw, offering oysters as they should be eaten, cold and still alive.
Another restaurant soon to fill an empty space at Fourth Street Live, the corner location that was Rí Rá Irish Pub, is slated to become Cleaver and Cask, touted as a farm-to-table concept with a focus on gourmet meats.
Sully's Restaurant will close by the end of September; the replacement for those space is to be a wood-fired pizza and burger restaurants. The Pub, which closed earlier, is to become a restaurant featuring Southern cuisine. No other details are available at this writing.
While not a restaurant per se, a final important addition to Fourth Street Live will be Jim Beam Distillery's Urban Stillhouse, working toward an Oct. 1 opening. It will be another Bourbon-focused visitors center that will include a distillery, a bottling line, a tasting room and Jim Beam tchotchkes for sale.


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ANNAPOLIS – A bill that would delay a planned wind farm in Somerset County drew opposition from environmental groups Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee despite support from Democratic lawmakers.
The bill, which cleared the House of Delegates, would prohibit the public service commission from allowing wind turbines for more than a year within 56 miles of the Patuxent River Naval Base.
The measure is designed to allow for a study that would determine whether it's possible to mitigate spinning turbines' potential impact on the radar technology used by the base.
U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Mitchellville, testified that he supports the bill and said this kind of study could help lay the groundwork for future wind projects near radar facilities.
"It's not an either-or situation," he said.
The bill would set back plans for the Great Bay wind project, which costs $200 million and aims to put at least 25 turbines that are up to 600 feet tall in Somerset County.
"This kills the project," said Adam Cohen, vice president of Pioneer Green, the company running the project.
Opponents of the bill said the radar could only be disrupted by moving turbines and the developer has an arrangement with the Navy to stop wind operations based on the Navy's needs.
But Hoyer said that while he supports wind energy, a curtailment agreement shows that turbines and the radar system do not work well together.
"This is not a mom and pop type turbine," said Delegate John Bohanan, D-St. Mary's County, who supports the bill.
Hoyer and other supporters of the bill said they are concerned that if turbines interrupted the radar system's ability to function properly, the base could be moved as a part of military consolidation.
"We cannot take lightly this (Base Realignment and Closure) threat," said Sen. Roy Dyson, D-St. Mary's.
But the bill's opponents said they think the project would not interfere with the base and would bring many green jobs to one of Maryland's poorest counties.
Abby Hopper, director of the Maryland Energy Administration, said if the bill goes forward as written, it would send a negative message to the country about Maryland's business climate.
Before the hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, protesters met in front of the State House to voice opposition to the bill.
Maryland farmers drove two tractors with turbines on them through Annapolis as a part of their protest.
Mary Anne Peterman lives on a farm in Somerset County and keeps up a house that was built in the 1840s. She hopes the wind project could alleviate some of her financial problems.
"An upkeep on a place like that on a farm is a lot, so the revenue from this would really help our future generations," she said.


B) a high risk driver.
An aggressive driver is defined as driver, an impatient driver, a hesitant driver, and a highly cautious driver. National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) defined aggressive driving as that which ''endangers or is likely to endanger people or property''. Some common characteristics of the aggressive driver include high-risk drivers, more likely to drink and drive, speed, or drive without seat belt, run stop signs, disobey red lights, speed, tailgate, weave in and out of traffic, pass on the right, make unsafe lane changes, flash their lights, blow their horns, or make hand and facial gestures.


The Lucky Reptile thermo heat strip mat will allow your pet to warm up nicely when he wishes.
The thermo strip can be attached to either the bottom or the side of your terrarium.
The design of the Lucky Reptile thermo mat will reduce the risk of overheating and optimise the heat transfer from the mat.
Lucky Reptile thermo heat strip mats work by warming up the objects and animals within their effective range. They are great for creating a localised warm area and allowing you to create a heat gradient within a small terrarium or vivarium without overheating the whole enclosure.
In large enclosures they can be used along with heat bulbs to create warm spots without pushing the temperature too high.
Lucky Reptile thermo heat strip mats come in a range of sizes to suit all enclosures. The thinner and longer design of the strip makes them great for heating smaller enclosures or multiple mini enclosures.
Heat mats should cover around one third to no more than a half of your vivarium or terrarium ground space (or side wall in the case of arboreal species). This will allow your pet to thermo regulate and move out of the heat when it desires.
Heat mats should never be insulated on both sides by their surroundings. They need some air flow to one side to prevent them overheating.


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The Tyranny of Challenge
January 11, 2013 August 26, 2022 Matt Thrower 5 Comments
Like most middle-aged gamers, I cut my teeth in the noisy, garish world of coin-op arcades. When each play costs anew, game designers and manufacturers had a vested interest in making them tough. Not too tough to put off potential gamers, but enough to require repeated coins pumped through the slot.
It was a delicate balancing act but we lapped it up, living for those sweaty moments of exquisite agony where new and unexpected situations taxed your muscle memory and you twitched instinctively over the joystick. Trying desperately to keep that personalised bunch of mindless pixels on the screen burning brightly for one second longer, fired with the knowledge that pocket change isn't that easy to come by when you're a teenager.
The same ethic of toughness pervaded the early home computer games. Partly it was inherited from the coin-op world, and partly it was down to technical constraints. But neither lasted. As early as the end of the 8-bit era there were games where progress could be saved, where the focus was more on brave exploration or engrossing story or cunning conundrums than it was on mastering movement patterns.
At a stroke this should have altered forever the culture of difficulty. Where is the value in setting up artificial barriers to progress when they can be overcome eventually with the repetition of saving and reloading? Anyone could master anything with no more skill than a reserve or patience, or obsession. And yet difficulty not only remained a shibboleth of game design, it remains celebrated now.
For evidence, look at the number of titles that hobby gamers repeatedly celebrate and marvel over from the most recent console iteration which are feted for their extreme levels of difficulty, such as Dark Souls and others. Observe the worry about input lag on modern TVs, and how microsecond differences can make difficult games unplayable. Look at the exhortations you see in columns and articles everywhere to play games on their most punishing settings.
I first started thinking about this when I saw a fairly heated discussion about the merits of doing just that on Max Payne 3. There was a minority of dissenting opinion that the best way to experience the game was to actually do the exact opposite, make it as easy to play as possible, and just sit back and enjoy the story and those cool bullet-time visuals. And I thought, why not? What's wrong with just loving a game because its immersive and clever, treating it more like an interactive film than a traditional game experience?
I was reminded of that train of thought recently, playing Dear Esther for the first time. It's an odd thing which defies easy classification, and I admired to hugely for its inventiveness and artistry, probably more than I enjoyed actually playing it. But it has no difficulty whatsoever, beyond the demands that piecing together the intentionally fragmentary, incomplete story places on the player. It may not even be a game.
But whatever it is, it wouldn't work anywhere other than on a computer. I was dumbfounded to read that some of its critics felt it would have worked better than a film. How would a film incorporate the elements of exploration that reward the player with more clues on Dear Esther's tantalisingly incomplete characters and plot? How would it randomise the monologue to ensure repeat value and different interpretations on each analysis? How would it draw the viewer into the central driving seat of the experience? It is fundamentally a digital experience, and must remain so to preserve its value.
But on consideration, its astonishing that it took so long for something like Dear Esther to exist. The ways in which it leverages the medium to create an absorbing yet highly creative and aesthetic experience seems obvious after the fact. And it's not like artists haven't tried using games to make important, interesting statements before although the results have been far more art than game, worthy of analysis rather than play. Why did no-one create a playable art-game hybrid like Dear Esther earlier?
Some of the blame rests with the deservedly dreadful reputation that the term "interactive movie" garnered early in its life. Games like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace might have looked very pretty by the standards of their time but they were clunky, linear things with little replay value and the bad smell they left after their initial vast hype is only now beginning to dissipate. Recent titles like Dear Esther and Heavy Rain leave me wondering what that amorphous combination of film and computing could have managed in the intervening years were it not for the long shadow of the laser disc.
But mostly I suspect that the lack of progress in this space is due to the worship of difficulty on the part of game designers everywhere. The people in the driving seat of game releases have, up until very recently, been my generation, that same generation who had an association between challenge and gaming seared onto their developing adolescent brains from hours of coin-op play. To people raised on that cultured that celebrated challenge as the be-all and end-all of games, the idea of something sedate, easy, to be consumed and appreciated for reasons other than its difficulty is anathema.
The same people are doing a lot of work on mobile and tablets. They're responsible for games like Super Hexagon, a game of such intense difficulty that progress for most players is measured in terms of seconds, not even minutes. But the interesting thing about this is that in many ways mobile gaming is a return to the early days on coin-ops because both formats have an inherent interest in keeping games short, albeit for very different reasons.
As a result high challenge games work exceptionally well on mobile. And as the format eats further and further into console and PC gaming it's worth remembering that while difficult games have value, they don't entirely play to the strengths of those platforms, which is rendering long, compelling, media-rich experiences.
This isn't about bashing difficult games on consoles. When they're built around the concept of their challenge, cunningly designed as Dark Souls is to make it a central feature of their game on top of which other involving aspects of play can be assembled, they can be superb. But the continued existence of fake barrier erected in many other games can simply lead to repetition. Don't be phased. Enjoy games on whatever difficulty settings appeal to you most. And hope that now a new generation of developers is leaving the old god of challenge for mobile, where it properly belongs, we'll see a whole lot more experimentation and innovation in the next hardware generation.


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Q: DataContractJsonSerializer with NetworkStream i want to use the DataContractJsonSerializer class in combination with the TcpClient to receive and send JSON serialized objects. I am able to send JSON serialized objects but the receiving part does not work.
Source code of sending objects:
IPEndPoint endPoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Loopback, tcpPort);
TcpClient tcpClient = new TcpClient();
tcpClient.Connect(endPoint);
var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(....));
 ser.WriteObject(tcpClient.GetStream(), req);

Source code of receiving objects:
var deser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(...));
var resp = (....)deser.ReadObject(tcpClient.GetStream());

The method ReadObject is hanging.
Can anyone tell me the issue and how I can solve it?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards

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Age at entry is 70 years (Max).
Policy tenure of 1|2|3 years.
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For availing the treatment, you would have to first seek an authorization as per the procedures laid down and in the prescribed form. In case of claims on reimbursement basis, the insurance company has to be informed as per their prescribed procedures. The policyholder has to ensure that documents such as claim form, discharge summary, prescriptions and bills to be submitted for the claim on reimbursement are obtained after hospitalization.
Complete the pre-authorization form available at the hospital's insurance/TPA Desk. Send the completed form via email or fax. Approved letter will be sent by the claim management team. Remember that the claim management team could send an inquiry to the hospital or you before authorization. In case the authorization is rejected, initiate the treatment and file for reimbursement claim.
Complete the necessary form and submit along with required documents, as per the policy terms and conditions. Necessary documents include discharge summary, prescriptions, bills etc. Approved letter will be sent by the claim management team. Remember that you will be answerable to any queries raised by the claim management team before the letter is issued.
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Bajaj Allianz offers an array of reasonably priced health insurance policies. Their health plans are made-to-measure to shield you against the mounting healthcare outlays. They boast of a highest claim settlement ratio amongst private insurers.
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The Bajaj Allianz Health Guard plan for individual as well as family provides cover for maternity and newborn baby expenses.
What is covered under hospitalization benefit in a Health Insurance Plan from Bajaj Allianz?
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What expenses does a Health Insurance Policy cover?
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Know about Bajaj Allianz Maternity Benefit and Maternity Claim?
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This is a guide in how you could introduce your character to the group at the start of a campaign. Not only does this help the other party members know your character better, but being able to answer these questions should allow you to build a better, more interesting character.
Explain how your character can achieve the function.
What do you, as a player, want to accomplish with this character?
What does your character want to accomplish within the universe?
What are some issues - shortfalls, gaps in skills, etc - that might arise?


'Expecting a Boy? Meghan's Baby Blue Gown Raises Eyebrows'. 'Does Meghan Markle's pink baby shower decor mean she's having a girl'? For royal watchers, the last few months have been a feverish guessing game, with enthusiasts watching closely to see whether the Sussexes will be gracing the world with a darling prince or princess.
It's baffling – not just that so many strangers care so much about someone who will be seventh in line for the throne and thus spend much of their life relegated to Princess Beatrice levels of irrelevance – but because it genuinely doesn't matter. When you're expecting, the only question is whether the baby will be healthy or not. And I should know; I'm due a few months after the royal pair.
"What are you having?" people invariably ask, moments after finding out I'm with sprog (either because I've told them or because my protruding belly has done so for me). It's as if I'm ordering off a menu: I'll have the fish and chips and a baby boy, thank you.
As we all know, it doesn't work like that. When you conceive, you don't do so with a checklist; other than screening for health issues, you have no control over height, IQ, eyesight or hair colour – and certainly not gender. At best, you spend the first 12 weeks nervously hoping you will beat the horrifyingly high odds of miscarriage – around one in four pregnancies ends that way, after all – and the subsequent ones hoping more generally that everything will be 'okay'.
Which is why we're not finding out, bucking what seems to be an increasingly common trend. I've got friends, also expectant parents, who know but aren't sharing – but keeping the pregnancy itself a secret in those early months was tough enough. Other friends are happily telling the world, some even going so far as to introduce you to their chosen name.
The truth is, I don't want to know my baby yet. I want to know as little as possible about my future offspring at this stage. I'm not even calling it a baby, just bun (as in 'in the oven', in reference to my love of baking).
We've agreed options for names, but I have no intention of using them until we're the other side. Until it pops out, I don't intend to think of it as a person at all. I'm six months in and there's still so much that can go wrong; thinking of it as a person, with an identity, feels too risky. Knowing the gender makes it too real.
And the fact is that I don't need to know – not really. I generally dislike the saccharine pink or blue divide; the bun will wear white, or yellow, or whatever hand-me-downs it receives from its future cousins. I have no need of a gender-decorated nursery.
In another decision that sets me apart from the crowd, I'm not having a baby shower either, partly because I abhor the twee games that are played at these shindigs – thank you, but I'd rather not guess what chocolate is in the nappy, if it's all the same to you – and partly because I don't need to partake in yet another American import. But mostly, it's because I don't want anyone buying a present for an unborn human or celebrating its existence before it actually exists; I'm too superstitious for that. Tragedies at a late stage may be rare, but they are far from unthinkable.
I may not be a parent yet, but I'm more than aware that having a child is full of uncertainty. From the moment he or she is born, I know life will be one big question mark: what does that cry mean?; should I take them to the doctor or will this rash clear up on its own?; have they eaten enough? Later, I'm sure the uncertainty will grow; will they be okay in school, will they make friends, will they have happy adult lives?
Those questions won't have easy answers – so I don't need an easy answer to the one facing me now. When the bun arrives, I'll get to know it in all its glory. Until then, I'm content for us to remain strangers.


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Q: How to automatically execute command in iTerm2 I want to source ~/.zshrc when I open iTerm2 automatically
How any settings I can set in iTerm2?

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My Samsung Galaxy Ace's battery has become very week lately. It has swollen and been discharging really fast. Whenever I used to connect charger , the battery charge level used go up to 100% within minutes and again discharge within an hour when I start using it. It got discharged within minutes from 100% to 0% while using WI-FI or 3G.
Initially I thought , it may be due to age of the phone (2 years), rooting the phone, installing custom ROM (manufacturer knows the phone best ) or due to partitioning SD card to increase internal storage (phone may be unknowingly accessing my slow class 4 SD card frequently). I also consulted some "Gadget Guru" friends of mine but as expected their knowledge was limited to the user's and market point of view. They asked me to get a new phone as a 3 year old would have suggested me :). I completely forgot that fact that in our childhood gadgets we used to change the rechargeable batteries. These days the smart phones are being upgraded so frequently nobody bothers to get a new battery.
Disable Background data use when not required.
Create profiles and manage various power settings depending on the usage (Home, work or Car). This feature is available in most of the custom ROMs.
Reduce screen brightness at night time.
Close the apps with Back button of Android because they keep running in the background if you press home button. Apple products does magic in this case by putting the background apps to sleep.