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Over the past few years, there has been a big move to online shopping; this has been driven by better internet connections and improved technology. It means that most customers now prefer to buy many of their goods online as opposed to visiting a physical store. If you are looking to start a business, you need to think about what you can offer your customers, and how you can use technology to improve their experience. Online or Physical Store?
If you are starting a business from the beginning, then the first big question you need to answer is where are you going to sell? The retail market is not as stable as it used to be, so you need to consider whether a physical store is an answer. If your products can be sold online, then this can be a better option for your business. Not only will it reduce your potential overheads, but it will also allow you to sell your products to a wider audience. Of course, if you are planning to open a restaurant, then this is different, but you still need to think about whether technology will help you.
Fairly new to the scene, virtual reality is now fast becoming the newest way of improving a customer's experience. For example, many museums are now using virtual reality as a way for people in other countries to see their exhibits. These experiences are designed to allow people to virtually walk the halls of the museum and zoom in on the exhibits. There is also information on the screen that shows you the details of the piece. For your business, you can use virtual reality to show customers around your products or perhaps as a behind the scenes tour of your warehouse. It will make it more interesting for your customers and could lead to more bookings or sales for your company.
For many companies, using AI, or Artificial Intelligence is something that might not always seem relevant. However, using technology that can learn and adapt to customers experience can be a huge advantage to you and your business. Particularly as customers are now looking for new ways to do their shopping that will make it easier and faster. For example, wouldn't it be great if your customers had a tailored experience by AI that knew what they regularly ordered? To use this type of technology requires some investment, but by using this company, you could secure the funding you needed to make it work.
With billions of people now having a mobile phone, there is little that people don't use them for. From paying bills to tracking their fitness, mobile phones have become an integral part of peoples lives. Along with this comes mobile apps, of which, games, are the biggest use of the app market, but many companies are now also getting in on the app scene. You might ask yourself, why would my business need an app? Well, there are many good reasons you should think about an app for your company. Firstly, most people who use online stores regularly will download the app so they can access the store quickly. It can take an age to go to the internet and search for your company; it might put people off and instead use a competitor that has an app. If you have a restaurant, then having an app that lets your customers book in advance or check for a table can be a big plus.
Social media is one of the biggest things on the internet, and your customers are on there. If you can also set up a presence on these platforms, then you can not only connect with your existing customers but also attract new ones as well. Being on social media gives you a real-time connection that can help you to get customers to interact with your store or your website. For example, if you launch a competition, you can post on social media the results and also announce special offers in store for those that can reply first. These types of events will also encourage your followers to tell others about your company, so they will start following you as well. You can also encourage your customers in the store to post pictures on your feeds with hashtags, and you can comment on the results.
Customers don't like waiting; they will often choose another company if it means they get a better and faster service. That means you need to streamline your ordering and payment services to make the whole process as painless as possible. For example, some restaurants are now trialing a payment option that lets customers pay via their app at the table. It eliminates the need to wait for the waiter to bring your bill, and it means you don't have to leave the tip on the table. It is a great example of a store using online technology to make their customers experience easier and faster. It is also the type of experience that customers will love and be likely to tell others, this will attract new customers.
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Israel Set To Join the Rich Countries' Club
From Israel, there is good news and bad news.
The good news – and it is huge – is that Israel will soon be awash in natural gas. Gas discovered on the country's outer continental shelf will turn the country from being hydrocarbon-deprived to being a net exporter.
Indeed, Israel is set to become so rich that it is laying the groundwork for creating a sovereign wealth fund for overseas investments in order to protect the country from inflation and the shekel from getting too strong.
The bad news is that with Hezbollah poised to control Lebanon's government, Iran has de facto arrived on Israel's northern border. Even without an Iranian nuclear weapon, this is a grave deterioration in Israel's security.
Already Lebanon has asked the United Nations to guarantee that Israel does not violate the integrity of Lebanon's outer continental shelf, where Iran plans to help Lebanon drill for gas.
Geology is about to change the political geography of the world's most combustible neighborhood.
The two huge gas discoveries are in the Tamar and Leviathan fields. Taken together, the gas reserves are estimated at 26 trillion cubic feet or 10 times larger than Britain's North Sea discoveries.
Since its creation in 1948, Israel has drilled on land for oil and gas with very little success. While the Arab Gulf countries have found and produced massive quantities of oil and gas, Israel has scrounged in the international markets for its hydrocarbons, including coal. But its isolation has made this difficult and expensive.
In recent years, Israel has bought gas from Egypt. Now Egypt will lose its good customer.
Turkey, Israel's only Moslem friend until the botched seizure of a humanitarian ship bound for blockaded Gaza, will be affected too. There were plans for a pipeline that would carry gas from Azerbaijan across Turkey and undersea to Israel. That economic boost will not go to Turkey, but instead will probably go to Greece and Greek Cyprus. There have been preliminary discussions between Israel and Greece about shipping gas through Greece–by an undersea pipeline or a liquefied natural gas train–as an entry point into Europe.
Cyprus is a possible export-staging destination, as the Leviathan field, 86 miles off the Israeli coast, is nearby. But Turkish Cyprus, on the north side of the island, is not onboard.
The Tamar field is 50 miles off the Israeli coast and there are two smaller fields, potentially subject to claim by a free Gaza or a Palestinian state.
The gas will change Israel itself. Its defense force will have to defend the gas installations and the miles of pipes, pumps and other infrastructure. Israel has no domestic heating market, so all the new gas bounty will go to electric generation. The government hopes to make Israel the first 100-percent electric car country and the new gas will speed that transformation.
Credit for the Eastern Mediterranean gas discoveries goes to Houston-based Noble Energy. It is the technical leader in a consortium of Israeli companies. Now the world wants in before a whiff of the new gas has come onshore. Gazprom, Russia's gas behemoth is keen to have a piece as an investment and to protect its European markets.
The Israeli government expects an influx of U.S. and European companies to supply piping, pumps, controllers and construction equipment and materials. It is not just private companies that are salivating: The Jerusalem government has just passed a law to tax gas profits at 62 percent.
Israel's hostile neighbors want in too. The Eastern Mediterranean is in play in an area where play is rough.
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Alternative Review Process for Music Therapy Programs
The NASM Alternative Review Process for Music Therapy Programs works in the context of the program approval process of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). In almost all cases, AMTA requires that institutions maintain NASM accreditation as a condition of AMTA approval. AMTA and NASM maintain eligibility criteria for determining when an institution is not eligible for NASM accreditation. When one or more of those criteria are evident, the institution may use the Alternative Review Process to produce and maintain a Statement of Affirmation from NASM indicating that the institution and its music and music therapy programs provide a context for and produce results in music therapy consistent with NASM standards. This policy assures that AMTA is consistent in its approach to approval for all institutions.
The Alternative Review Process does not lead to any accredited status or any other affiliation with NASM, and institutions using the process or obtaining a Statement of Affirmation may not claim or publish a relationship with NASM.
The NASM Alternative Review Process is not a substitute for AMTA procedures or process. Institutions must maintain contact with AMTA and comply with its requirements independent of the NASM Alternative Review Process, including submission of AMTA required documents.
PURPOSES OF THE ALTERNATIVE REVIEW PROCESS
The first purpose of the Alternative Review Process is to provide a mechanism that assists institutions and programs in an analysis of their operations, their work, and their aspirations for the preparation of music therapists. The outcome of this effort is a written Self-Study document prepared by the applicant institution. The effort encourages development of means to improve artistic and educational results. NASM facilitates this process by placing the review in the context of nationally developed standards and consistent procedures that ensure fairness and objectivity. NASM emphasizes service.
Each applicant institution is unique, and so the Alternative Review Process must balance two concerns: (1) compliance with threshold standards for various types of programs, and (2) evaluation based on the purposes–mission, goals, and objectives–of specific institutions. This balance is achieved by focusing on functions rather than methods–what and why rather than how.
ELIGIBILITY, PROCEDURES, FORMS, AND RESOURCES
The documents used in the Alternative Review Process are available for download (PDF files) by clicking the links below.
AMTA Eligibility Criteria for Institutional Use Regarding the NASM Alternative Review Process
Required Forms for the Alternative Review Process for Music Therapy Programs:
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NASM Procedures: Alternative Review Process for Music Therapy Programs
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ALTERNATIVE REVIEW PROCESS DUES & FEES
The cost of the Alternative Review Process is as follows:
Application fee: $1,000
The expenses of the visiting team (travel, food and lodging, cost of typing and duplicating the Visitors' Report, tips, and so forth)
The institution is billed by NASM, which in turn, reimburses the visiting evaluators. Due to the fact that NASM serves as the financial intermediary and reimburses the visitors directly, NASM will file appropriate tax forms with the IRS (i.e., Form 1099). The institution should not duplicate these filings for the visitors.


astronomy : the branch of science that deals with objects in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
astrophysics : the branch of astronomy that applies principles of physics and chemistry to explain the structure, properties, and behavior of celestial bodies.
France Córdova sometimes jokes that her marriage began on the rocks. That's because she met her husband while rock climbing on the cliffs of the Rio Grande. Climbing is a hobby that she began in college during the 1960s, but it also is a metaphor for her success in astrophysics, science administration and policy, and academic leadership. Step after step, putting one hand above the other and not giving up, she has risen to great heights, studying the cosmos while also becoming a national role model for young people, especially women, who dream of doing the same. Along the way, she took opportunities that were often unexpected, like a climber taking advantage of a gap in a rock that could not be foreseen at the beginning of the climb.
A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Women in Science, winner of the Distinguished Service Medal of NASA, named as a Kilby Laureate, for "contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention, and education", nominated to Stanford University's Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame, named by Hispanic Business Magazine among 80 Elite Hispanic Women, granted the Women in Space Science Award of the Adler Planetarium, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Associate of the National Academies –these honors accumulated during the half a century ascent of Córdova's career, and she has yet to reach the pinnacle.
On March 31, 2014, after being nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate, Córdova was sworn in as the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to this milestone, she did research in experimental astrophysics leading to more than 150 scientific publications, served as chief scientist for NASA, helped start a new medical school, and served five years as president of Purdue University. Full of energy, she was ready to explore new areas when she assumed leadership of NSF (Figure 1), and she's still moving upward at full speed.
France Anne-Dominic Córdova was born August 5, 1947, in Paris, France, where her father, a Mexican-American importer and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was working at the time. She grew up in La Puente, California, the eldest of 12 children. Córdova's parents expected their firstborn to set a good example by excelling and doing especially well in school, but they did not expect her to study science. Nevertheless, in 7th grade, she took a liking to physics after learning about the Bohr model of the atom. She found the hydrogen atom beautiful, but even more fascinating for her was the idea that humans could know so much about something they could not see. This inspired her to read about the scientific process that had led early physicists to atomic theory. Her hero was Albert Einstein. She wondered if she might become a physicist herself, but that idea looked close to impossible when she entered Bishop Amat High School, a religious institution that separated the girls from the boys. The girls learned some science, but the teachers discouraged them from even considering a science career. Never was a female science role model invited to visit the school, and never were the students taught about women in science. Even famous female scientists from history like Marie Curie were not part of the curriculum.
When it came to physics, that subject was taught only to boys, though Córdova kept thinking about all that Einstein had given the world. She hoped that she too could make discoveries about the universe, and so she and some of her friends asked to take physics in their junior year. After much debate among the teachers and administrators, the school selected Córdova and four other girls to take physics with the boys. To compensate for what was considered to be a loss for the boys, five boys were allowed to take an art class that previously had been given only to girls.
After graduating at the top of her high school class in 1965, Córdova was named by the California Chamber of Commerce as one of ten outstanding youths in the state. She was admitted to Stanford University, the first girl from her high school to be accepted there. Stanford's secular academic setting allowed more opportunities for women compared with her religious high school. Nevertheless, in the mid-1960s, the culture throughout the US discouraged women from studying science, especially the physical sciences. Córdova's parents discouraged their daughter as well, based on the idea that it would be too much of a struggle for a woman to earn a physics degree.
The high school Cordova attended offered _____ opportunities for girls who wished to pursue science.
Córdova yielded to the pressure, partly because she had what she calls "wanderlust." She wanted to travel abroad as an exchange student, and that would be close to impossible for a physics major. She also had another passion, writing, so she decided to major in English. She participated in an exchange program in Florence, Italy, and then went to Mexico to do anthropological fieldwork studying the Zapotec people and their language. Based on her Zapotec research, Córdova wrote a short fictional work, "The Women of Santo Domingo" as a senior project. The story won awards and landed her a guest editor position with Mademoiselle Magazine, set for the summer after her projected Stanford graduation.
She actually graduated early and was ready to leave Stanford in the winter of 1969. Mademoiselle Magazine was based in New York City and Córdova still had wanderlust, so she took her time getting to New York. She lived in Vail, Colorado, so she could ski, then on to Bourbon Street, New Orleans. When Córdova arrived in New York City in June, Mademoiselle presented her with an airline ticket to Israel. It wasn't something she'd planned, but she jumped at the opportunity to visit another part of the world. Together with the magazine's other guest editors, Córdova was assigned to create a kind of travel guide for the August issue.
Cordova majored in _____ at Stanford University.
Along with the magazine job, Córdova also obtained a news writing job with the Los Angeles Times. By age 22, she was on course for a promising writing career, but NASA was also on course for the moon. On July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 set their feet on the lunar surface. Four months later, Apollo 12 delivered David Scott and James Irwin to another lunar landing site. In the intervening time Córdova saw a PBS documentary about neutron stars (Figure 2), stars so massive that gravity compresses their matter into an ultra-dense clump of pure neutrons. The documentary and the lunar missions reinvigorated her childhood interest in physics and topped it off with a space exploration focus. Now, earning her own money as a writer, Córdova decided to take full control of her life and went back to school with a goal of becoming an astrophysicist. She achieved that goal ten years later in 1979, when she was awarded a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology.
Córdova's dissertation research at Caltech focused on double star systems (systems of two stars orbiting one another) and depended on data from orbiting satellites, and from instrument payloads that she, other students, and professors launched on rockets from the missile range in White Sands, New Mexico. In analyzing the data, Córdova discovered a previously unknown phenomenon occurring in double star systems in which one star is in its prime of life and the other in a degenerate state: pulsating X-ray emissions during the transfer of mass from a normal star onto the degenerate star. This was a major discovery in the field of X-ray astronomy.
Alongside the very specialized astrophysics research, Córdova was also drawn to a broader question of whether many of the stars had planets that could support life, including intelligent beings. She yearned to know if humans were alone in the cosmos. But it was for her ground research on double star systems in graduate school that she was offered a job in Los Alamos, New Mexico as a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Division of Earth and Space Science.
At Los Alamos, Córdova focused on radiation emitted by white dwarf stars and pulsars, leading to a multitude of scientific publications that today number more than 150. From Los Alamos, she also organized astronomers around the world, both professional and amateur, to report observations concerning pulsars and other phenomena related to X-ray astronomy (Figure 3). Alongside this, she became active in science outreach, writing and giving presentations aimed at drawing minorities and children, especially girls, into the sciences.
Córdova had started rock climbing back at Stanford and had continued the hobby all the way through her Caltech Ph.D. program, so during her days as a Los Alamos scientist she was an expert climber. After she and her husband, science outreach expert Christian Foster, met on a cliff somewhere above the Rio Grande, the couple had two children. Then, after a decade of research, the Los Alamos lab promoted Córdova to deputy group leader of the Space Astronomy and Astrophysics Group.
In 1989, not long after becoming deputy group leader at Los Alamos, Córdova accepted an offer from Penn State to become professor and head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. At Penn State, she continued astrophysics research for four years, much of which involved utilizing data from X-ray and gamma ray astronomy NASA satellites. Then, in 1993, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin invited Córdova to take a leave of absence from Penn State to become the agency's next chief scientist. That was a pivotal moment, for the invitation was an opportunity to move from research into overseeing and guiding the research of numerous scientists around the nation. It was a chance to transition from scientist to a maker of science policy.
a.her research on double-star systems.
b.her investigation into possible life on other planets.
The offer from NASA was more than Córdova could have dreamed as a 7th grader fascinated by the Bohr atomic model. It was more than she could have dreamed back in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon had inspired her to return to school. But like hesitating to scale a new precipice on a rock that looked wonderful from the ground, Córdova was reluctant to go to NASA. She liked research and publishing papers and wanted to continue that kind of life.
On the other hand, she also enjoyed being a role model for women and minorities. She was a "first" of so many things, a first woman and a first Latina for virtually every milestone in her academic career. Now, Goldin was offering her the chance to become not only the first woman and first Latina, but the youngest person ever, to lead NASA's science. Her women friends, including her mother, thus convinced her to accept an offer. The career shift would allow her to become an even greater role model for young women and minorities than she was already. Now, she could use a national stage and impact many more future scientists, plus putting astrophysics research aside had another benefit. As leader of all of NASA's science activities, she could play a role in the emerging field of astrobiology and the search for humanity's place in the cosmos. Thus, she moved to Washington DC to work in NASA Headquarters with the intention of returning to Penn State, though she would end up not going back. As in rock climbing, she took step after step, reaching many locations, but never landed in a spot that she had already crossed.
At NASA, Córdova's role was to be an interface between policy makers at NASA headquarters and the scientific community outside of NASA and to advise the NASA administrator on a range of scientific topics that covered astrophysics, but also weightlessness, the search for life, and observation of the Earth. Her own research made her an expert on orbital instruments, so she was made chair of the Hubble Space Telescope and also coordinated and served in working groups for a host of other missions. She stayed at NASA until 1996 when she accepted a professorship and vice chancellorship at the University of California Santa Barbara.
At UCSB, Córdova focused on promoting interaction between scientists and people in a range of other fields, including engineering, music, and art. She also facilitated student participation in faculty research and was enjoying administration because of the power it gave her to influence science research, yet she still stayed active in astrophysics herself and has continued in this mode ever since. While at UCSB, she built an X-ray telescope that was selected for a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite called XXM-Newton (Figure 4). The mission was launched in 1999 with Córdova as co-principle investigator. It is the most powerful X-ray telescope ever sent into space and still orbits the Earth today. It is expected to function at least until the end of 2018. Using it, Córdova and her many colleagues have seen X-rays accreting onto black holes, learned more about exploding stars, observed bursts of gamma rays, and made discoveries related to the exotic material that physicists call "dark matter," which may eventually help to explain the origin of the universe.
While doing all of this research, Córdova has kept climbing the rock of her career, taking opportunity after opportunity to be a leader at different institutions, leaving her mark at each one. At the University of California at Riverside, for instance, she became the first woman and Hispanic to be chancellor (appointed 2002), and also laid the groundwork for the foundation of a new medical school, California's first in more than 40 years. As president of Purdue University (2007-2012), she established the university's Global Policy Research Institute and the College of Health and Human Sciences. In 2012, she began a three-year term as chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2014, Córdova began as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), where her role is to spearhead advances not only in pure scientific discovery, but also in technology and innovation, as well as outreach in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Projects overseen and funded by NSF cover areas ranging from work deep in the ice of Antarctica to studies depending on craft high up in space. Given her stellar science credentials, supreme talent in communication, and her will to explore and draw budding young students into science, the new position is the perfect match for her. She states frequently that starting out she never had any strategic plan, yet step by step, like climbing a rock, she kept moving and everything has fallen into place.


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Sega és una companyia japonesa de videojocs, anomenada inicialment "Service Games". Ha desenvolupat diverses màquines recreatives, al mateix temps que consoles de videojocs domèstiques. Des del 2001, però, ha deixat de crear maquinari i es dedica únicament al desenvolupament de programari. Sega Corporation ha tingut una llarga història d'èxits en diversos mercats com el de les consoles. Després de la Dreamcast la companyia va sortir fora del mercat de les consoles domèstiques per a establir-se en la programació de videojocs i la fabricació de màquines d'altres companyies. La major part de les oficines centrals de SEGA es troben a Tokyo, Japó.

Història

Els seus orígens
L'origen de SEGA té lloc el 1940, quan en Honolulu, Martin Bromley, Irving Bromberg, i James Humpert funden una empresa dedicada a fabricar jukebox i màquines tragaperras, cridada Standart Games, posteriorment el 1952, aquesta empresa passarà a denominar-se Service Games. El 1960, aquesta empresa es fusiona amb Rosen Enterprises Ltd., fundada en 1953 al Japó, empresa dedicada a importar productes com els que fabricava Service Games al Japó, l'empresa es dirà des d'aquest moment Service Games of Japan, i el seu president, David Rosen canviarà la denominació de l'empresa a SEGA Enterprises, Limited el 1965.

Rosen portava des de 1956 important jocs recreatius i va arribar a col·locar 5.000 d'ells per tot el Japó, però cada vegada estava més desencantat amb les màquines portades des dels Estats Units així que va decidir fabricar els seus propis jocs fusionant-se amb Service Games, d'on va sorgir SEGA Enterprises, Ltd.

SEGA va debutar amb Rifleman, un joc mecànic que simulava tirotejos en el llunyà oest, i para 1967 ja exportava jocs als Estats Units. El primer èxit de la companyia va ser (1968),anomenat duck hunt, i el seu últim joc mecànic va ser Jet Rocket (1970). A partir d'aquí SEGA es va dedicar als jocs electrònics i a les recreatives, produint de 1967 a 1979 un total de 140 jocs diferents. En 1980 SEGA va comprar Gremlin Industries, un fabricant de màquines recreatives, i es va ficar al món dels videojocs domèstics llicenciant alguns dels seus jocs. En aquesta època Gulf+*Western va adquirir la companyia però la va vendre durant la crisi del videojoc, oportunitat que va aprofitar Rosen juntament amb uns inversors japonesos per recuperar el comandament.

L'entrada al mercat de les consoles
Durant els anys que SEGA havia estat sota el control de Gulf & Western's es van llançar la SG-1000 i el SC-3000, dos sistemes nascuts amb la idea de competir pel mercat domèstic però que van passar sense pena ni glòria. No va ser sinó fins a 1983 que SEGA va fer una aposta forta amb la Mark III per arribar a totes les llars, però la popularitat de la Family Computer, de Nintendo va acabar amb qualsevol tipus d'esperança. El 1986 SEGA va remodelar el seu Mark III i la va transformar en el que es coneix com a Sega Master System per entrar als mercats americà i europeu. El resultat va ser dispar i si bé als Estats Units no va poder plantar cara, en Europa va aconseguir un gran èxit arribant a vendre més que la màquina de Nintendo a diversos països, encara que no va ser suficient. En 1988 SEGA va decidir apostar per la innovació i va llançar la primera consola de 16 bits del mercat la Sega Mega Drive, que va tornar a ser un desastre al Japó. Aixafada per la PC Engine de NEC Corporation en orient el seu salt als Estats Units i Europa semblava abocat al fracàs, però en el Nadal de 1989 la Sega Mega Drive va aparèixer a Amèrica amb el nom de Genesis, a Amèrica del Nord les vendes no van ser res malament, però va anar a Sud-amèrica, i a partir de 1990, a Europa (sota la denominació original japonesa) on va aconseguir un èxit major que qualsevol altra consola de 16 bits al món, cosa que es demostra molt bé en el sud d'Europa i a Brasil.

Expansió

Durant els següents anys la Sega Mega Drive va competir directament amb la 16 bits de Nintendo, la SNES, i va rebre curiosos perifèrics que no van aconseguir l'èxit com el Sega MegaCD o el Sega 32X, va aconseguir alçar-se com a líder de vendes a Europa encara que les seves vendes als Estats Units i Japó i per tant globals van ser inferiors a les del sistema de Nintendo. Mentrestant SEGA s'havia llaurat un gran prestigi al món dels arcades amb jocs tan famosos com Out Run, Shinobi, Afterburner, Virtua Racing o Virtua Fighter les conversions dels quals es transformaven sempre en grans èxits. A SEGA ja solament li quedaven dues coses per fer, aconseguir una mascota que rivalizara amb Mario i entrar al mercat de les consoles portàtils. El primer ho va aconseguir amb Sonic, l'eriçó blau que es va convertir en estendard de la companyia, i el segon gràcies a la Game Gear, una potent consola en color tècnicament molt superior a la Game Boy de Nintendo però que va ser al calabós de consoles a causa de l'escassa durada de les seves bateries.

Com ja fes amb els 16 bits SEGA va ser la primera a passar als 32 bits amb el seu Sega Saturn, i per primera vegada es va veure recompensada al Japó amb unes vendes espectaculars durant el seu llançament en 1994. Desgraciadament en la resta del món l'acolliment va ser una mica més freda, fins i tot a Europa, on SEGA sempre havia venut moltíssim, i en menys de l'esperat va ser superada en vendes per la PlayStation de Sony i la Nintendo 64. El resultat va ser que a la fi de 1997 la consola ja gairebé havia desaparegut, mantenint-se únicament al Japó fins a 1999 gràcies a jocs basats en les llicències de diferents mànigues.

Després de la trista història de la Sega Saturn SEGA es trobava en una greu crisi financera, però àdhuc va tenir temps de fabricar una última consola abans d'abandonar aquest mercat. SEGA va donar llum a la Sega Dreamcast el 1998, arribant a Europa i Estats Units en 1999, la consola de 128 bits era una aposta a doble o gens, i al principi, la consola va ser un èxit, però a partir de l'any 2000, la greu situació financera de SEGA, i el brutal èxit de PlayStation 2, a més de l'aparició de la Xbox i la GameCube, van segellar la destinació d'una gran consola en 2001, però va continuar llançant jocs per a ella, com Puyo Pop Fever en 2004. El seu últim joc va ser llançat en 2007, solament al Japó.

Canvi sobtat al mercat de programari
Des de la fi de la Dreamcast SEGA va passar per un període molt convuls, amb rumors d'adquisició, reestructuracions internes i el pas a ser una Third-party. A més durant l'última dècada del , el mercat dels arcades, on és la companyia número 1, ha anat decreixent. Actualment el panorama de l'empresa és prometedor en fusionar-se amb Sammy, un fabricant japonès de pachinko i recreatives, per formar Sega-Sammy Holdings, convertint-se aquesta unió en una de les empreses més importants al món de l'entreteniment japonès.

Mercat de programari des de 2005 i d'arcades
Des de 2005, SEGA, s'ha convertit en un licenciatario molt fort, ja que després d'anys de rivalitat amb Nintendo, ara treballen junts en diversos projectes, un dels quals va anar la versió de Arcade de F-Zero, on Namco, SEGA i Nintendo van col·laborar junts en el seu desenvolupament, fent-se cridar Triforce, en al·lusió a la trifuerza de la saga The Legend of Zelda de Nintendo, així com una placa recreativa basada en Gamecube, i des de llavors podem veure jocs de Sonic i dels altres personatges de SEGA, en les consoles tant de Nintendo, així com Sony i Microsoft com així també jocs per a telèfons mòbils de les companyies Microsoft Mobile, Apple i Android, els quals són èxits i asseguren l'estabilitat econòmica de la companyia.

Però amb el llançament de Sega Ral·li Revo, va tancar Sega Racing Studios. En 2010, va tancar Sega of America de Sant Francisco i el 2012, també va ser tancada Sega Austràlia.

Error sobre l'abandó de consoles
Al febrer de 2015, SEGA va anunciar que se centrarien principalment en la creació i explotació de jocs per smartphones i PC. Aquesta notícia va desembocar en nombroses confusions, arribant-se fins i tot a afirmar que SEGA es retirava de les videoconsoles, sent això fals.

Durant el 2016, els jocs de SEGA en smartphones han estat descarregats centenars de milions de vegades, per la qual cosa és normal que la companyia centri més esforços en aquest mercat en auge. A més per aclarir els rumors, a l'agost del mateix any es van anunciar nous jocs per a videoconsoles, destacant-se entre ells Sonic Mania, ja que en aquest any es va celebrar el 25 aniversari des del llançament del primer videojoc de la franquícia.

Consoles

 SG-1000: Primera videoconsola de sobretaula de Sega, llançada en 1980. Més tard es llançaria una actualització amb el nom de SG-1000 II.
 SC-3000: Ordinador personal basat en la SG-1000 i compatible amb aquesta. Més tard es llançaria una actualització amb el nom de SC-3000H.
 Sega Mark III: Resposta de SEGA a la Family Computer llançada en 1983.
 Master System: Redissenyo de la Mark III llançat en 1986 i 1987 para Estats Units i Europa respectivament. Més tard va aparèixer la Sega Master System II, una versió del Master System més barata i que a Espanya va ser més popular que la primera. En Brasil va arribar a aparèixer una Master System III que incorporava el joc Sonic en la memòria interna de la consola, va ser descontinuada en 1993, però a Brasil se segueix fabricant i existeix fins a una Master System IV .
 Mega Drive / Genesis: Coneguda com a Mega Drive al Japó i Europa i com Genesis a Amèrica, és la més venuda de totes les consoles de l'empresa, coneguda per ser la primera consola de 16 bits reals. Va ser llançada en 1988 al Japó sota el nom de Mega Drive, en 1989 a Amèrica sota el nom de Genesis i en 1990 a Europa sota el nom de Mega Drive. Va ser descontinuada en 1998.
 Mega-CD: Ampliació de la Mega Drive per jugar a títols en CD, que incloïen pel·lícules interactives i altres.
 Mega CD II:Ampliació de la Mega Drive II igual que la Mega CD però més econòmica.
 Multi Mega:Consola que incorporava lector de CD i ranura de cartutx de Mega Drive en un sol aparell.
 Mega Drive 32x: Una altra ampliació per a la Mega Drive que convertia a la Mega Drive en una consola de 32 bits.
 Sega Nomad: Versió portàtil de la Mega Drive llançada només als Estats Units.
 Sega Game Gear: La consola portàtil de Sega que va llançar per competir amb la Game Boy, malgrat ser molt millor que aquesta (Tècnicament) amb pantalla a tot color i bons jocs, la Game Gear es va vendre menys a causa de la seva poca portabilitat (per ser una consola portàtil, la seva grandària era massa gran) i el seu gran consum de piles (6 piles AA).
 Sega Saturn: Consola de 32 bits i lector de CD-ROM. Considerada com la millor en gràfics 2D va ser escombrada per PlayStation de Sony i per la Nintendo 64 de Nintendo gràcies al gran màrqueting d'aquestes dues, i a la increïble dificultat de programar per a la consola de Sega a causa dels seus múltiples processadors en paral·lel. Va ser descontinuada en 1999, i va acabar sent la consola menys venuda de Sega.
 Sega Dreamcast: Consola de 128 bits i lector de GD-ROM. Equipada amb un xip gràfic Power VR2 i connectivitat a internet. És el segon i últim èxit de Sega però, malgrat la seva reeixida iniciativa comercial, va ser treta del mercat per múltiples raons sent una de les principals, la crísis econòmica que arrossegava l'empresa a més de la forta entrada al mercat de la Play Station 2. Va ser descontinuada en 2001, encara que, de manera esporàdica se segueixen llançant jocs.
A més s'han fabricat diferents versions de les seves consoles així com diversos minijuegos electrònics a l'estil dels Nintendo Game & Watch i el Sega Bec, una mescla entre consola i joguina educativa.

Programari

Videojocs destacats
Això és únicament un petit llistat d'alguns dels videojocs més famosos desenvolupats per SEGA al llarg de la seva història. No intenta ser extensiu, sinó assenyalar els majors èxits o fracassos de la companyia.

 Adventures of Mighty Max
 After Burner II
 Alex Kidd In Miracle World
 Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars
 Aliens: Colonial Marines
 Alien: Isolation
 Alien Syndrome
 Alien vs. Predator (2010)
 Altered Beast
 Columns
 Crazy Taxi
 Batman Returns
 Bonança Bros.
 Daytona USA
 Golden Axe
 Head On
 Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio)
 Jurasic Park
 Light Crusader
 Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games (en col·laboració amb Nintendo)
 Medieval II: Total War
 Mega-el Mania
 Nights Into Dreams
 Out Run
 Panzer Dragoon
 Pengo
 Periscope
 Phantasy Star
 Rambo III
 Rez
 Revenge of Shinobi
 Sakura Taisen
 Samba d'Amic
 Sega Ral·li Championship
 Shining Force
 Shinobi
 Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
 Sonic Adventure
 Sonic Adventure 2
 Sonic Unleashed
 Sonic the Hedgehog
 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 Sonic 3 & Knuckles
 Sonic Generations
 Sonic Colors
 Shenmue
 Shenmue II
 Skies of Arcàdia
 Space Attack
 Space Harrier
 Spiral Knights
 Streets of Rage
 Streets of Rage II
 Streets of Rage III
 Super Monkey Ball
 The House of the Dead
 The House of the Dead 2
 The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
 The House of the Dead 3
 The House of the Dead 4
 The House of the Dead Overkill
 The Story of Thor
 The Sword of the Berserk (Gutts's Rage)
 Tranquilizer Gun
 Vectorman
 Vectorman 2
 Virtua Fighter
 Virtua Racing
 Virtua Tennis
 Yakuza
 Yakuza 2
 Yakuza 3
 Zool
 Dinosaur King

Vegeu també
 Richard Jacques
 Sega Game Gear
 Sega Master System
 Sega Mega Drive
 Sega Saturn
 Sega Dreamcast

Enllaços externs
 Web oficial SEGA Amèrica [Consulta: 3 juny 2014]
 Web oficial Web oficial SEGA Japó [Consulta: 3 juny 2014]
 Web oficial SEGA Anglaterra [Consulta: 7 juny 2014]
 Pàgina oficial de SEGA
 Pàgina oficial de Sega (en japonès)
 SEGArcadia
 SEGASaturno
 SEGAFan
 System16, informació sobre diverses plaques arcade de SEGA (en anglès)
 Sega-16 - Articles de jocs de Sega (en anglès)

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BBC Adaption Review – Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling
Overall the tone is awkward. It's not dark enough to take seriously and so you start seeing all the narrative conveniences. The original book was apparently filled with dark humour and swearing but it seems both have been toned down for a general audience for fear children might see this due to Harry Potter. People, as a contrivance to push the narrative forward with little challenge, just seem to give Strike information with little if any justification – many breaching the confidentiality of information act time and time again. The characters in this challenge of deductive reasoning be they red herrings, antagonistic persons or actual criminals are all but given pantomime level depictions in terms of their overt antagonism.
Our leading man is an Oxford drop out ex-military police investigation branch member which is as Marty Stu a characterisation as you can do short of saying he's a blood relative of Sherlock Holmes for a detective story. But he has a prosthesis. That's his one permanent flaw. Everything else can be changed. He is the wish fulfilment figure for women who wish to 'fix' the men they're involved with. Robin finds him down and out but through her presence he gradually becomes a better man if not detective.
Robin is… bland? I want to say bland but it's more true to say she is a character who has no real issues (although I know how her major traumatic 'character development' revealled later in the series which… suffice to say it was hinted at but it's still the most blatant 'if you don't sympathise with this character and fogive all her sins instantly after knowing this you're a monster' tactic possible). She is there as an audience surrogate but doesn't seem to have much development beyond some quite generic 'recognises the value in this gruff but talented man' aspects and an innate ability to gossip and lie using a bad Liverpool accents on the phone. Her fiancé is portrayed as a bit of an arse in order to make Strike seem better by comparison and attept to force us to sympathise with her if nothing else. She has a job offered by Strike yet applies for another job and is offered it (arguably Strike's job was temporary and she needed something more secure but the series never gives this point it's due), gets given a dressas a 'bonus' for her help (which is a bit sexist ironically considering how far Rowling goes out of her way to declare herself a feminist) but overall she just seems to be another narrative device with little charm.
Their names are a little on the nose too.
Comoran, while being the name of an Irish folklore giant, is also one letter off cormorant (hilariously closely connected to a bird known as a shag in what has to be some of the most juvenile 'pretending to be mature' naming possible by an author I've ever seen) are described by the RSPB as
"A large and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian. It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry. Regarded by some as black, sinister and greedy, cormorants are supreme fishers which can bring them into conflict with anglers and they have been persecuted in the past."
… so basically the film noir detective of the bird world.
While cute little robins are described as:
"sing[ing] nearly all year round and despite their cute appearance, they are aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders. They will sing at night next to street lights.
… Robin. Batman. Sidekick. Also small but ready for a fight. Even Rowling had Strike acknowledge it in the book.
So our leading man is old school, a little pompous seeming and previously persecuted (and also he strikes!) while his sidekick is small but plucky… our grizzled male lead and his plucky, red head, young side kick and probable future love interest.
Show Premise
Cormoran Strike, a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street, is wounded both physically and psychologically. His unique insight and his background as a Special Investigation Branch Investigator prove crucial in solving three complex cases, which have eluded the police.
… Or, as with a lot of pulp fiction writing, 'the police solved the case with the evidence at hand BUT THEY WERE WRONG watch as our intrepid, Ayn Randian wet dream of a protagonist,hero through brute force, social connections, illegal methods and sheer 'right place at the right time' luck achieves the impossible and reveals the truth! Women want him, men want to be him.
As mentioned everyone seems to have, even if only for a moment before dropping out, attended Oxford or Cambridge. The dual purpose being that Rowling is writing to reflect her audience because, it seems to her, only the most educated people apparently read books (apart from, of course, everyone who bought her books who didn't attend one or the other of those institutions thus making her a worldwide best selling author rather than a literary curio) or these sort of things only occur to 'the beautiful people' and social elite whose lives are just so much more interesting than we common folk.
Often you would see that happen with Agatha Christie too but in fairness she was churning so many books out she needed to have as many instantly recognised short hands, e.g. people who go to Oxford or Cambridge are highly intelligent, wordly, knowledgeable and therefore would deduce with some evidence the facts of a crime, as many different locations as possible for variety to appeal (don't like country estates? How about a village? The seaside? How about aboard moving trains?) and thus it was a bit of a 'cheat' since such culturally elite people were financially capable and prone to exotic foreign travel which still wasn't anywhere near as commonplace as it is nowadays so addeed to the writing's appeal. It aso reflected the end of the Imperial era's mindset of venturing into the world and conquering the local troubles – which in this genre's case is usually a murder or theft. However Rowling is writing that era's detective story in the modern age and it is an awkward fit resulting in, ironically, a far narrower world in direct contrast to the same figures about a century ago.
In case you're wondering the second book involves the murder of an author so she fell into that classic 'write what you know' author specific trap that early in the series! Stephen King would be proud.
Not one risky step whatsoever is taken in telling the story. If asked 'please give me the most stereotypical detective story possible' no longer will we turn to Agatha Christie, who more or less defined the genre single-handedly so originated what others would copy until it became a cliche, but we will turn to Rowling… oh I mean 'Galbraith' though we all know it's her. If you are from Britain and remember when the news covered that it had been revealed she had been writing under a pseudonym then it was this particular book that was being referred to. I guess, as far as the publishers were concerned, it wasn't selling well enough for such a high value author so they needed to 'leak' her name to boost sales.
You can have cliché characters, I mean 90% of literary detectives from the past few decades could fit into the depiction of Strike, apart from his leg, and you wouldn't notice. Grizzled, likes a drink, 'seen things' in combat/police work and generally dislikes humanity except when women throw themselves at them for a quickie. One day someone will write a cross over where one detective replaces the other and no one notices until they actually see their face.
I think my main issue with this adaption, on the assumption the book covers these things, is we get small, but sequence destroying, skips in events. For example does Strike ever lock his office's entrance? It must be on a latch as every walks in and out of it freely and occasionally people are sat in there waiting though both Strike and Robin hadn't been in since yesterday. It's a narrative device we often unconsciously witness. As an example: if you see a character pick up a key the audience acknowledge this and therfore you can skip to them opening the door and without literally depicting them put the key in the lock – but here we don't even have the 'key' mentioned in passing let alone seen sometimes before seeing the results. In the context of this series it seems everyone immediately gives Strike their life story and not barrier stops him except for tension (e.g. the safe opening). Nor, if I'm honest, do there seem to be any repercussions to certain actions. Does no one wonder where Lula's will came from when Strike hands it over? Do we really think it would be as easy as Strike pretending to be taking a phone call to walk right into the studio of Guy Some? The police detective seems to just give Strike case information freely without quit pro quo. Strike pays off a criminal to steal the Satnav from the car and it's never mentioned otherwise.
Everything slots too easily into to place to the point there is no risk nor resistance to Strike uncovering the truth – he even gives chase through a crowded market with little issue though he has an apparently ill fitting prosthesis! It all just comes too easily. If solving the mystery, as with Agatha Christie, isn't the focus then give us more nuanced character development not just characters who are deemed highly intelligent because you name drop Oxford and Cambridge, are not morally good or physically capable just because they served in the army (was the criminal suggested to be ex-military? If so the depiction of ex-service men as either hero or villain is damning and isn't a positive considering how many in real life find themselves incapable of re-adapting to civilian life thus falling between the cracks if they've no support) and not strangely flawless just because they're female.
Apart from Rochelle, who seems more a figure of pity, all the women seem successful intelligent and only have faults because of the men they're involved with. It's a strangely anti-feminist (e.g. 'here's a dress as a bonus', engagement issues being the main issue for Robin and Strike's ex seems to instantly not just get re-engaged but marrying someone else in what seems to be a very brief time period), yet simultaneously misandranistic, tone posing as feminist as Rowling has with women where they're both depicted as perfect, highly intelligent, beings surpassing their male counterparts with ease in every way but at the same time completely reliant upon them though every man has so critical flaw making them anything but sympathetic save for Strike as the leading man whose only permanent 'flaw' is a physical one. Most of the male characters are depicted as unrepentant in their antisocial behaviour and yet our leading man Strike, to a limited degree since this is the first book in an assured series (which other authors cannot reply on happening so their characters will evolve over a book), has some small progression from a misanthrope drunkard to a man slowly overcoming his limitations and finding worth in his life. Which is implied to be thanks to our heroine and her plucky attitude entering his life and not his own personal development having closure on what seemed a mutually destructive relationship with his ex. He just hadn't met the right woman yet to make him a better man. The closest we got to a negative depiction of a woman was Strike's ex who, after apparently having a very troubled relationship with him which they repeatedly tried to repair, quickly moved on though it's presented as hypergamy. Oh and the 'blow job for a fiver' woman who just seemed, in the context of the series, to be a repugnant caricature of working class people or those on benefits – which Rowling famously once was before the first Harry Potter book got published and found it's audience. It's the sort of depiction of the less well off you only see in works of the pre-Victorian literature unless it's by someone like Charles Dickens, Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths or Dorota Masłowska and others where it's used for social commentary to discuss why these people ended up like this and with their often jaded worldviews.
You don't get that with Rowling. Bad guys are bad guys. Men are flawed and most can't be redeemed. Women are perfect except when they rely on men. Men need a woman's intervention to change. Working class people are very likely criminal scum unless they're too stupid to be. Basically J K Rowling would like to be the 21st century Agatha Christie but hasn't accounted, realistically, for shifts in both literature and society.
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Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling
An irreverent look at the first three episodes of the series which cover the first book in the series.
A quick introduction to our protagonists
His name alludes to the bird cormorant however it's actually the name of a giant in Cornish folklore, especially Jack the Giant-Killer. Strike is a very blunt indication to the audience of his manner. Considering the sort of names detectives have there's no pont mocking how on the nose it is…
Has social connections currency (rock star father, supportive sister)
but is still down on his luck (has debts due to loans)
but even then can afford to bribe working class people.
Has fighting and investigation experience (Afghanistan veteran. Former military police.)
Limitations: A fake leg hence he isn't fit for the army nor the police but has the skills hence he became a private detectives and moral convictions so he's not a drug smuggler capable of knowing how to avoid detection.
Robin Venetia Ellacott
Young.
Office temp.
The first time she met Strike he nearly bumped into her sending her falling down the stairs but then he saved her by grabbing her by the breast. This is never made an issue of and you half wonder if they'll mention it at some point down the road.
Offered a job by Strike but the teaser for episode two suggests she already has a job interview elsewhere. Commitment issues then…
Inquisitive/breaches confidentiality (looks up data on Strike in depth though somehow has never heard of him despite his father being well known).
Engaged to be married so not a romance option… yet.
Given an expensive dress as a gift at the end. Because that's what employers do of course.
Limitations: Commitment issues. Ginger. Her middle name is Venetia. She is a sidekick named Robin helping a detective who wears a lot of dark clothing. Even Strike remarks on it in the novel. Wink, wink audience I'm not a lazy writer it's all meta-narrative intertextuality. I didn't even bother to change the spelling to something like Robyn.
Verdict: Robin is a self insert fantasy version of Rowling and the sort of man she would like to do the dirty with. Taming him like Kathy tried to tame Heathcliff except Robin is going to be successful.
The Case of the Clandestine Cuckoo's Call
An introduction to the by the book cliches so we need never cover character development ever again. Ever. Even after the next ten or so books that Rowling has announced she has planned for Cormoran and Robyn to trundle through with their gradually building, unresolved, sexual tension.
A model leaves a party and returns home and changes into more comfortable clothes. Next thing we know she falls to her death from her balcony and lies dead in the street as the snow continues to slowly fall.
Three months later and it's been ruled a tragic suicide… but is it? BUT IS IT?!
No, obviously, otherwise the rest of this show would have a very original ending for a detective series where Strike admits actually the police got it right. And Robin would be jobless but that's besides the point. You tuned in to see a murder be solved not see the trials and tribulations of an office temp.
We begin when Robin, a plucky young point of view character, enters the scene.
She arrives at the office where someone angrily walks out.
We meet the dishevelled detective. Cormoran Strike. He has problems. He has a past.
The office is in disarray.
He is bleeding after a fight with his disgruntled ex-fiancée, Charlotte Campbell, who is exiting the scene. Also she plays no other role in the show except to cause Strike to go out and get drunk at one point so he and Robin can bond. So forget her name. In fact forget the name of everyone but Strike and Robin as they're all cardboard cut outs you've seen time and time again in other crime dramas. Even in adaptions of Sherlocke Holmes no one notices if you omit Lestrade and Mycroft. Same thing for these books so I won't bother with names for the most part.
As he chases Charlotte he accidentally bumps Robin who nearly falls down the stairs to her death. Except he grabs her breast. Heroic. How many women's lives have been lost because a man feared to grab a woman by her chest when no other part of the body was in reach? We will never know…
He offers her the temp job. Maybe because he needs the help. Maybe to avoid an accusation of sexual harrassment. We will never know…
He heads out to go drink alcohol. Also to do research in places of group meeting. i.e. the pub.
Robin looks through his papers and looks him up online. Because you look up your employer after accepting a job obviously – and at work so you don't waste personal time.
A squirely man, generically named John, comes to meet Strike and says his older brother, Charlie (who didn't bite his brother's finger), played football with Strike when little. Strike doesn't remember him though he remembers Charlie. Ooh isn't he blunt? Isn't he honest? Already someones knees are trembling!
An investigative police detective offers him the police's findings when meeting in a cafe. No pretext why… which is no doubt illegal. But that's how it goes down in the dark underbelly of… wherever the hell this is set in London. Near a posh bit though meaning his office isn't just run down but actively depreciating the value of properties around him due to how it looks. Really into that shabby chic look. Even has a completely random pipework piece of art on the wall to give it a more grungy look.
He goes to the apartment of the victim and the doorman lets him in to look around and there's even a well timed coincidental meeting with the neighbours and their driver. Don't worry the driver is irrelevant after a single conversation.
Strike goes to meet someone but UH OH it's the uncle, Tony, warning him off the case! The uncle refers to his nephew John. Stop the investigation he warns Strike. John's so jittery they've had to get a shake plate to counteract it as he's doing structural damage to the law firms offices. He's doing it at such a frequency he's phasing through the walls now.
Then Strike walks down a street where out of the blue a working class woman offers him a blow job for money. Because that's exactly what all working class women do with their day when you are a multi-millionaire author living in a mansion even though you yourself were on benefits once and should know better than describe them like that. He refuses but when he can't instantly be given the information he wants from a drop in drugs rehabilitation medical clinic he pays the woman to create a distraction so he can trespass into the office, photo documents and contact the suspect.
He meets the suspect, Rochelle Lulla's homeless friend she met at the drug rehabilitation centre, in a cafe but she runs away. However she only runs around one or two corners so even with the fake leg he keeps up with some effort.
During all this his leg gives him trouble going up stairs, and generally, seems to be an ill fit for him which he should get replaced. But after this episode it never bothers him again… in fact for a guy with a prosthetic he is rather sprightly… almost as if they never told the actor to be conscious that the rle required it whenever they did a full body shot…
The episode ends with him finding the homeless friend in a council flat lying dead in an overflowing, and steaming, bathtub. He tries to do CPR having first wasted time shouting her name in an over dramatic manner. Will she survive? This is the end of an episode and she isn't Robin so obviously it's no.
Also this show has really outdone itself. 'Black guy dies first' was in effect but also that women get it worse so the first two people to die are both black women… At this rate the door man needs to watch his back.
The homeless friend is dead. Life goes on. Apparently Strike is an Oxford dropout because we can't trust anyone but a Oxbridge candidate to be capable of solving mysteries. Of course he is because 'just' being a former member of the military police wasn't enough. He has a normal, if somewhat neurotically normal, sister who offers him a bed, which he refuses, and becomes instantly chummy with Robin as if they just instantly click. Meanwhile Strike goes to interview the dead girl's mother and Lula's boyfriend who wears a wolf mask because… that's how Rowling sees the fashion industry? The model there strikes up a conversation with Strike. She was a Cambridge candidate… because we can't have anyone who isn't in the top 5% of society with money be a character it seems even for minor figures. She knew his friend and his father – but she assures him she hasn't slept with them. Oh, okay, thanks… I mean did he need to know about that. Can you guess what happens? A detective meets a beautiful woman… come on… you don't even need three guesses… that's right they have sex because he is just that irresistible. She even likes the artificial leg. Then leaves him sleep in at her apartment as she goes off for a morning shoot. Because every detective is a lion sleeping on the rock in the midday sun.
After returning to the officer Robin tells him she didn't gossip with his sister as if she did him a favour. She also tells him, after his given her a job that she's got an interview for a HR job elsewhere and has written it in the work diary. I mean she is a temp so okay of course she has to apply elsewhere but to write it in the work's diary is psychotic as if she thinks that's normal and not throwing her current employment in his face. Strike visits the downstairs neighbours of Lula. Of course the wife is using the in door swimming pool because hey what well off past middle age woman doesn't get introduced doing this activity? Oh also she wants grime like Strike. Because he's a walking sex machine no woman can resist. He's John Shaft – can you dig it? The doorman also uses that pool apparently we learn later. Robin goes to her interview, gives an incredibly vague answer and on the same day is offered the job… because that's how life happens for some people apparently? I mean yes if you're an internal applicant since you're in the building but she is a temp from an agency presumably unknown to the company she just applied to.
Lula's boyfriend is already in Strike's office though the door was, presumably, locked. It's never mentioned why he came in here and waited save we are meant to always detest him and suspect he did it. His characterisation is done so heavy handedly he risks going into a pantomime routine at any moment. Every scene he is in he is needlessly antagonistic to the point the only way he could realistically be like that is if he was permanently in withdrawal and mentally ill. But it's never explained so 'he's just a nasty piece of work' is all we can surmise. Also that he's such a red herring that him actually being involved in Lula's murder would have been a double fake out reveal.
So Strike figures out the neighbour wife was stuck out on the balcony because her husband is an abuser. We never have any interaction with the husband so we just have to accept this version of events. Women are always victims and men always broken in some way. So then we cut to Strike and the police detective discussing Rochelle's (the dead friend) death. In a cafe. In the middle of the day. Apparently that doesn't break any sort of courtesy rule let alone law leading to his immediate firing and likely sentencing for what might amount to an effort to pervert the course of justice if he's unlucky. Nope – the metropolitan police are the reference library service of crime and you don't even have to file a freedom of information act request to get extensive details from them.
Sometimes it seems like Strike assumes things and it happens to be true. A better writer might go with that and prove sometimes, even with his extensive training, he can be wrong by doing things by instinct.
So Strike talks again to the overly helpful doorman. Apparently the doorman uses the indoor pool. They seem to make a bit of a big deal about the fact he was away from his station for 15 to 20 minutes while going to swim. Personally I think he would be there longer if he did more than 2 or 3 lengths. Also, and more realistically, there are times when he would be away from the desk when he goes to the toilet. There seems to be some confusion between what a doorman does and what a guard dog does. He isn't chained to the entrance. So the doorman gives Strike the CCTV recording of the night when Lula was killed. I guess as a pay off for not revealing he abandoned his post but still this is all a bit too easy…
Vashti comes up as a place where Lula tried on clothes on the day of her death.
Leather gloves come into the equation as they were a gift from Guy Some to Lula but the boyfriend also had a pair (why he has a pair of these unreleased fashion items is only, at most, brushed over next episode as Guy gives people stuff).
Strike finds clues like it's going out of style. Oh wait no. They're just being handed to him on a silver platter.
At the office Robin answers the phone and Strike's ex is on the other end. He speaks to his ex and she has already, in what must be the space of a week at most, found a new man and is going to marry him. Hypergamy? Fear of becoming an old maid? We never know. She was a plot device to make us sympathise with Strike.
He says he's going out for a while so Robin can shut up shop by herself.
She, for no real reason, goes looking for him and finds him in the pub from before. He is of course steaming drunk. However, unrealistically, he's also terribly PC telling Robin she's a good person and other such platitudes. The closest he gets to trouble is calling another man 'beardy' though of course he has something more than a 5 o'clock shadow himself.
So she takes him back 'home' to the office with a carton of chips.
He watches the CCTV on his laptop and announces 'Got you'… because 'oi beardy' and wondering if he was about to get his clock cleaned would have been too funny a cliffhanger.
Oh and at some point he had taken his leg off and instead of putting it back on urinated in an empty cup and, when Robin offers the next morning to clear it away unaware what it contains, he quickly refuses and throws it out the window. If someone doesn't find a clip of someone getting water thrown on their head out of the blue and made an edited together YouTube video of it then this is wasted potential. Also the uncle is having a fling with the abused downstairs neighbour wife (so maybe they get a happy end after the series though nothing is mentioned in the third episode).
We start immediately in a flashback of Sergeant Strike's army days as part of a convoy of vehicles. A truck is blocking the path and he notices a guy use a mobile to phone someone. As the convoy is about to pass Strike calls out 'wait!' There's an explosion. Next thing a boy, who was stood with the phone man at the side of the road, points an automatic handgun at Strike, looks at his missing leg and smiles before winking and walking away. The camera pans out and we see Strike lying on the ground with his leg missing surrounded by the corpses of his comrades.
He vomits upon waking. We cut to Robin, pristine walking down the road and arriving at Vashti's to try on clothes and lure the shop assistant into gossiping about Lula's last day alive when she visited there. Robin says Strike is her brother and when he turns up and gives his usual gruff offhanded assessment, after giving a a look up and down before revealing himself, that her dress is 'nice' and nothing more the shop assistant comments that her brother is like that too. With a little better execution this would have been an amusing scene but it loss a bit of potential in adaption.
Strike is still a bit hung over. Robin tells him what she learned about an abscent shop assistant having tapes a conversation with Lula where she divulges about being excited about meeting someone.
So it's time to tick off another lead and they visit Guy Some at his studios which are filled with models and such. At reception Strike, unbelievably, pretends to be on the phone and walks by trying to blag his way in. Maybe it was meant as comedy or seriously – it's hard to tell with this series. To be honest it should have been written a bit more as a comedy as it is so cliché. If it had been this series would be much better.
Guy stops them and calls them out on what they're doing but allows them in. They go sit in his office and apparently his real name is Kevin. Again I'm not sure if this is meant to be funny or not. In fact he's a little racist towards white people but nothing much seems to get made of it nor is it really commented on. Apparently that's preferable to his story about how his father beat him when he wore a dress when little. They see the unreleased gloves and other bits which were given to Lula as a present. I think at this point Guy says he gave them to the boyfriend to so he's off the hook finally.
So onto the next scene. They return to Lula's apartment as if it's got a revolving door. Strike bought flowers for no real reason besides a pointless face hiding moment. Why even return there really except to notice changes with are inevitable since it's being cleared for the next tenant. They find a library card so Robin will go to the library tomorrow and do some research. Sure… I mean that was in your job description wasn't it? He gives the flowers to Robin and this leads to her in the next scene having a minor conflict with her fiancé. He is talking of the future but she doesn't know what she wants.
Meanwhile Strike is down the pub drinking and smoking.
The next day he goes to visit Lula's adoptive mother. She insists on watching old movies which have a password on them for no good reason. The password is Leopard_1942. She says that's the year she was born. Because you need to know she is old… no not just 'of a more advanced age than myself' no I mean the message is she is OLD O L D – the sort of old that children refer to when they speak about anyone who isn't a child. Lula's adoptive white mother is super old. So old. Practically dust already. Except… you know… there are still people that age alive and well so making such a grandstand of it is a bit convoluted but they treat her like she is over a hundred years old the way she behaves. The excuse of course being she is being heavily drugged medicinally so she is a bit out of it though it's never specified in the adaption what the issue is save being terminally 'old'. Strike bought some macaroons along to sweeten her up. She's on a sort of drip feed medicine or dialysis machine so I don't that's wise.
So the nervous brother, John, appears. He tells Strike that Lula had been trying to find her birth father. I think it's mentioned her birth mother was already dead.
Meanwhile Robin goes to the library and uses Lula's card to see what books she checked out. Maybe things have changed since I last used mine but I'm pretty sure what she does using a computer there to see what 'she' last looked at doesn't exist in real life. At the very least having access to digital copies of research papers… and if they were digital why would they need to be checked out when multiple electronic copies can be looked at simultaneously?
Strike returns to Vashti the next day and finds the other shop assitant there. He tells her recording conversations is illegal and demands a copy of it. So that's some blackmailing going on there then…
Next Strike and Robin are sat where else but the pub.
Lula's birth father was a Ghanaian academic but has died since. She shows Strike a photo of Lula's birth father and birth brother. Strike recognises the belt of the brother's military uniform instantly. He deduces she must have been going to meet her birth brother not their father. Well yes with the father being dead that would be the obvious answer unless this takes a turn for the occult.
Coincidentally the birth brother, Jonah, is still in the country and meets Strike at the embassy or military base. Her birth brother blames himself for her death as he couldn't bring himself to meet her. Their father didn't even know he had a daughter. He resented she was so well off while their birth mother suffered as Lula refused to aid her find her two missing sons before she died as she always sold her story to the press as she was so poor. Apparently Lula had informed him she was leaving everything she had to him and had wanted to piss off her adoptive uncle.
Later Strike encounters the uncle who immediately says he will have to add stalking to his charges against Strike for harassment. Strike says he paid the concierge to have an alibi though the uncle insists, from the very start, he had Lula's best interests at heart.
Strike goes to a pool hall and enlists the aid of a down on his luck ex-soldier turned full time crook. He asks him to get someone to steal a particular sat-nav but not the car it's in.
Robin turns the HR job offer down as she wants to be part of Strike's line of work instead. She then goes home and has an argument with her fiancé. Out of the blue he makes a comment to the effect she will go sleep with Strike. He claims it's a joke but there seems to be some previous event we, as the audience, are never told about which might tarnish our opinion of Robin. It's a heavy handed scene to make us dislike him though we know so little about him. See ths guy? 'I think he's a wanker and you need to agree' style writing.
Strike talks to the detective on the case and surmises that the killer will kill again if he needs to. Playa gonna play, killa gonna kill. At this point I do wonder if any women were ever under consideration apart from Rochelle. It's a bit awkward the one working class character in the series to have relevance to the case was a former drug addict portrayed negatively (alongside miss 'wanna blowjob') while figures like Evan Duffield, Lula's on and off boyfriend and depicted as nasty despite the drug use. The lower orders are animals who cannot control themselves apparently.
Back at the Creswel house the mother is drugged up and can"t remember anything about whether her son was there or not on the night. She then out of the blue comments on how her husbands friends were 'queer' and had good taste choosing John…
… um wait. Are we being told John a.k.a. Nervous brother was sexually abused by friends of the family? Or is she just severely homophobic (so we are back to the 'so old…. she's like a dinosaur' image the show is portraying)? It's a very out of place sudden moment.
Strike says he needs to use the toilet but really he's going to go snooping around the house. There is usually a nurse present in the house so you would assume she was around but… I guess she was 'using the indoor pool' so she is out of the way without explanation.
The uncle arrives knowing Strike is there. How? Who knows but the pressure is on. Strike is in Lula's old room, which he recognised by the red mittens her adoptive mother mentioned a few times, except actually it's John's room. He cracks the safe just in time to pretend to come out of the toilet and announce to the stunned uncle that he should give it a few minutes. Apparently the house had a few toilets which while possible would have been checked in minutes by someone determined to do so like the uncle just now.
Nonetheless Strike escapes with the documents. Next stop is the pool hall to pay off his criminal contact who laments that his 'boy' was very sad to have to leave the car where it was. Also he's given a broken bike bell the robber also took for no real reason except I guess it was shiny and adds to a plot that never really gets developed during this adaption.
Back at the office Robin tells Strike she didn't accept the HR job. He informs her that he probably won't be able to keep her on once this job is done. She finishes for the day and… goes down the pub to cry and drown her sorrows. That must be one hell of a pub seat as it's always the exact same pub and table they sit at.
Strike reviews the evidence. He has what is best described as a 'recently on _____' like episode recap of all the moments of the show so far in hopes the audience will instantly piece it all together. It's trying to do the BBC Sherlock thing but on the cheap. It's a bit embarrassing. Apparently when he said he 'had you' at the end of last episode he meant 'I've a clue to follow' rather than he identified the culprit.
John, with a bottle of wine, arrives to congratulate him on finding Jonah, the blood brother, to be punished for Lula's death. Remember John, the adoptive brother, hired Strike to prove her death wasn't a suicide, as the police concluded, but a murder.
But here is the denouement! He reveals the killer! He worked it out using the evidence suddenly… and because it's coming to the end and someone has to be the culprit!
John! The guy who hired him!
Dun dun durr…
Strike had lured him out of the house via Robin setting up a false meeting and went and got the will. (Which I'm sure is illegal).
Strike tells him the following:
Tony, the uncle not the tiger, knew he killed her but couldn't admit it to himself. How does Strike know this? It's never really explained…
He lays out how Jon had the opportunity what with his mother being too drugged to know if he was home or not (oh also he lives at home with his mother – what a loser! I mean even if she is terminally ill let's judge all people in a similar situation as weirdos right? Right? Because that's what comfortably well off writer's seem to be doing right now and ignoring the current housing economy and outdated things like family love), got the gloves at the flat to cover his finger prints (which is sheer coincidence) and framed Jonah for the murder (again how did he know Jonah was going to turn up? Another coincidence!) allowing him to remain appearing innocent. EXCEPT IT WAS PRESSUMED A SUICIDE SO HE WAS IN THE CLEAR IF HE HADN'T RANDOMLY DECIDED TO GET STRIKE INVOLVED. I have to assume he couldn't find the will… but he had it already! There must be some other convoluted reason which the adaption glosses over.
He also knows he killed Charlie, john's brother and Strike's best friend when they were little, because he has the broken bell John kept in his car and the day Charlie died was the code to the safe in his room. The latter would be a memorable date and as for the bell it could have been recovered from the quarry Charlie fell into and John kept it in memory of his brother but… no it's easier to suggest her took it from the crime scene when little as if to say he's been a killer all his life. Some people are just born evil apparently and not because of circumstances moulding them COUGH-Voldemort and Snape-COUGH
The stolen will proves John is guilty. Maybe it wasn't Lula's old room but John's so why did he have the mittens? A trophy? Maybe he wanted to be Lula. Maybe he's gay. Maybe he's a repressed transexual. Maybe he's bisexual. Maybe it's Maybelline. The show throws out the hints but never confirms it just like Rowling's other works. Dumbledore was gay – the evidence was there in the series you just never put two and two together but Rowling can't connect the dots for you otherwise she misses out on that lucrative super-conservative market of readers. And if you don't notice it you're a homophobe!
It's obvious that John loved his adopted brother but when Strike took his attention away John couldn't deal with it and committed an act of passion! And then Lula was with her drugged up boyfriend he knew he could be better for her but she rejected him and it was another crime of passion!
… and that's what happens when you over read into things boys and girls.
Anyway so the will proves he killed everyone. Lula, Charlie – even Rochelle who 'knew too much' and phoned him to tell him about Strike and ended up paying with her life for it as she was deemed unreliable too (if John had a major issue with drug use, whether due to daily seeing what it did to his mother or otherwise, in the books it clumsily included here).
Strike declares that money was a secondary motive to John. The primary one was envy. Why? Because John kept Charlie's bicycle bell. John's mother liked to categorise her children: the smart one, the pretty one, the funny one – but John was always second in his mother's eyes. (So add implied Oedipus complex too while we are giving him every issue under the sun to demonise him as bluntly as possible).
The leather gloves were the fatal mistake. They are porous. Criminals sweat and so John sweated over everything despite thinking he avoided leaving evidence. How Strike knows this and that John didn't wipe every surface as well as wear the gloves is beyond me though it makes logical sense. It comes across more as a bluff than astute knowledge unfortunately. I mean skin flakes and hairs would also be left behind inevitably to be picked up by a thorough investigation. At least this has up to date, if glossed over, modern forensics being mentioned.
Strike says criminals sweat – and John is sweating.
So do people who exercise… Getting thin to manipulate people. Building muscle to strong arm people. It's all there. People who sweat are all criminals. And if you don't exercise but are sat in a very warm room the police are already onto you too. In Summer everyones a crook.
So that is the 'playground taunt' necessary to start the inevitable attempted murder fight. John breaks the bottle over Strike's head. Then they tussle. Then the bottle is broken and being lowered onto Strike's neck as he resists. They throw each other about a bit and break the frosted glass of the the door.
Then Robin appears and hits John with a fire extinguisher through the broken window. However, now having the advantage, Strike begins to repeatedly punch the unconscious John repeatedly in the face until Robin tells him to stop. There are no consequences to Strike's assault. Act of passion and all that.
Time passes.
So John's mother is also dead now. Thus all the Cresswell family members are dead save the uncle. He maybe be an adulterer but it's with a woman in an abusive marriage which makes it okay (apparently). He says he will honour Lula's will. He says he didn't know what happened with Charlie and wanted to protect the family. (I have no idea why Lula didn't like him actually though that seemed to play a part throughout it all with everyone assuming there was animosity between them). Also he will pay Strike what John owed him. Which wouldn't happen in a noir story – the detective would just be thankful he got out alive.
At Strike's office Robin answers the phone which won't stop ringing constantly. Hey guess what Strike bought her 'a bonus'. It's the green dress she tried on at Vashti's. She reminds him she knows how much it costs. He assures her it's fine as they've plenty of work so he can afford to give her a permanent job as he was able to pay off all his debts.
For the final shot he walks out side, lights a cigarette and walks down the road in slow motion.
Fun fact: I looked up things and the downstairs neighbour's wife is the sister of the partner in the uncle's law firm. So everyone is connected however if it was mentioned in the show it is a very blink and you miss it moment. Hence why they were having an affair. Also Guy Some called Lula cuckoo so that's where the title comes from. She didn't call anyone though at the time of her death so… yeah. 'It's just a cool sounding title'… There are a lot of small elements you would have to be intensely focused on listening and absorbing in a short period of time but the overall tone and pacing of the show suggests it's more easy going that it is. In fact there is a lot the adaption glossed over to the point a few minor characters got cut.
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I quite enjoyed the story, cliche filled as it was, but it did have a lot of conveniences and I'm guessing a lot has been lost in the adaption from book to screen including seemingly minor, but essential, pieces which connected the various dots of the narrative.
Well I hope that was enjoyable. I will try to do it for the rest of the series too. Next is The Silkworm so that will be up in a fortnight unless they mess around with the scheduling again as they did by having episodes one and two on consecutive nights then left about a week until showing episode three which concluded this case.
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Q: Keycloak 18.0 with Postgres 10.21 I am trying to run  Keycloak 18 with postgres 10.21
Here is my docker compose
version: "3.5"

services:

  keycloaksvc:
    image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:18.0
    user: '1000:1000'
    container_name: "testkc"
    environment:
      - DB_VENDOR=postgres
      - DB_ADDR=postgressvc
      - DB_DATABASE=keycloak
      - DB_PORT=5432
      - DB_SCHEMA=public
      - DB_USER=KcUser
      - DB_PASSWORD=KcPass
      - KC_HOSTNAME=localhost
      - ROOT_LOGLEVEL=DEBUG
      - PROXY_ADDRESS_FORWARDING=true
      - REDIRECT_SOCKET=proxy-https
      - KEYCLOAK_LOGLEVEL=DEBUG
      - KEYCLOAK_ADMIN=admin
      - KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=testing

    volumes:
       - ./ssldir:/etc/x509/https
       - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
       - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
       - "/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro"
       - ./kcthemes:/opt/keycloak/themes

    entrypoint: /opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start --auto-build  --hostname-strict-https=false  --http-relative-path=/auth --features=token-exchange  --https-certificate-file=/etc/x509/https/tls.crt --https-certificate-key-file=/etc/x509/https/tls.key
    network_mode: "host"
    depends_on:
      - postgressvc

  postgressvc:
    image: postgres:10.21-alpine
    user: '1000:1000'
    container_name: "kc_postgres"
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=keycloak
      - POSTGRES_USER=KcUser
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=KcPass
    volumes:
      - ./pgdta:/var/lib/postgresql/data
      - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
      - "/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro"
    network_mode: "host"

It runs  fine and  I can get to admin console  https://localhost:8443/auth/admin
I can also add  new realm and users.  However I do not see any data in  postgres.  If I make change in docker-compose file and restart,  all the realms and users are lost
Exact same  postgres setup works fine with  image: jboss/keycloak:16.1.1
What setup  am I missing for keycloak 18 ?

A: I am also facing the same issue with keycloak v19.0.0 . It was storing data in memory.
But with below configuration able to store data in postgres.
keycloak:
    container_name: keycloak
    environment:
      KC_DB: postgres
      KC_DB_URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/keycloak
      KC_DB_USERNAME: postgres
      KC_DB_PASSWORD: user
      KEYCLOAK_ADMIN: admin
      KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
      KC_HOSTNAME_STRICT: false
      KC_EDGE: proxy
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:19.0.0
    network_mode: host
    depends_on:
      - postgres
    command:
      - start-dev --auto-build

A: Keycloak from version 17 has major changes (it is based on the Quarkus) and also config has been changed. So don't use config, which is working with Keycoak 16, but check the current Keycloak doc, e.g. https://www.keycloak.org/server/containers
You will find that DB env variables are now:
KC_DB_URL,KC_DB_USERNAME,KC_DB_PASSWORD,...

Also other env variables have been changed, so it is not only about DB env variables.

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A basic worker, rarely seen outside of a hive (unless en route to the selected site for a new hive). Defensively, they can spit chitinous needles, similar to a hydralisk or brood queen – as powerful as a light Terran rifle, but not terribly dangerous to battlesuited soldiers or military vehicles. Poorly-suited to combat, they'll generally flee if attacked, unless specifically commanded to defend the hive-cluster.
Bite (16): 2d(2) imp, Reach C.
Traits: Zerg; Flight (Psionic; Low Ceiling, 5 ft); Lifting ST 30; Cowardice (9 – unless defending hive); No Legs (Aerial).


this morning there is a bit of fog. colored fog. fog is sort of dark and light at the same time. and i intend to go walk in it.
yesterday i hung some dyed silk on the studio window. it made it seem foggy even though it wasn't. and that had me thinking.
oh too late. while i was posting, the sun came out.