Kansas City Chiefs MONEYLINE payout currently is $271.00 for a $100 bet. Kansas City Chiefs MONEYLINE payout has increased $4.00 versus when the line first opened.
If you like Kansas City Chiefs on the MONEYLINE, there has never been a better time so far to bet it. The question is will this chart improve even more or should you bet it now?
These MONEYLINE odds imply Kansas City Chiefs a 37% chance of winning. If you think Kansas City Chiefs chances of winning are better than 37% then betting Kansas City Chiefs on the MONEYLINE would be a smart bet for you.
Los Angeles Chargers MONEYLINE payout currently is $158.48 for a $100 bet. The best payout so far on a $100 MONEYLINE bet has been $161.73.
These MONEYLINE odds imply Los Angeles Chargers a 63% chance of winning. If you think Los Angeles Chargers chances of winning are better than 63% then betting Los Angeles Chargers on the MONEYLINE would be a smart bet for you.
With Kansas City Chiefs you're getting 0.5 more points now versus when the line first opened.
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The best time to have taken the POINTS SPREAD so far with Los Angeles Chargers was when the line was -3.0.
The TOTAL POINTS has moved up 0.5 points. The best time to take the UNDER was when the total was at 49.0. The best time to take the OVER was when the total was at 47.0.
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Part II: Primeira Liga 2014/2015 Top 10 Under-24…Outside the "Big Three"
August 4, 2015 August 5, 2015 / Sam Biggers	/ 1 Comment
Danilo (left) was superb this season at Maritimo
Two weeks ago, PortugalFutbol announced Part I of the Primeira Liga's Top 10 Under 24 from last season. In Part I, we announced who were the honorable mentions, and promised the full list to follow. These are ten of the best under-24 Portuguese players from last season playing outside of the "Big Three." The data has been gathered and the decisions made. Here's the list. Continue reading →
Hélio Sousa Announces U-20 World Cup Squad
May 8, 2015 May 8, 2015 / Sam Biggers	/ Leave a comment
Rony Lopes in action last summer for the Portugal U-19s. Lopes is possibly the most well-known name to be included in Sousa's team.
Portugal U-20 head coach Hélio Sousa announced today Portugal's 21-man squad for the U-20 World Cup, which begins later this month. The team is largely comprised of players who featured for the Portugal U-19 at last summer's U-19 European Championship. Continue reading →
Primeira Liga Week in Review – Round 20
Jackson Martinez can't stop scoring for Porto.
Much of the news coverage for this past weekend's action in Portugal was predictably centered around the Lisbon derby between Sporting CP and SL Benfica. While that game offered much in terms of excitement, there was plenty of other action in the league this weekend. Here's the round-up: Continue reading →
February 3, 2015 February 3, 2015 / Sam Biggers	/ Leave a comment
Ricardo Quaresma's stunning trivela goal stole the show. Photo: Maisfutebol
After last weekend's upset-filled action, Round 19 returned a sense of normalcy. Sporting, Braga, Benfica, and Porto all recorded wins over potentially tricky opponents, while Nacional and Rio Ave continued to climb the table. Here's all the action, as it happened. Continue reading →
Primeira Preview & Prediction (PPP) – Round 19
January 29, 2015 February 6, 2015 / georgemvieira	/ Leave a comment
Paulo Fonseca's touchline ban can only hurt Pacos Ferreira's chances against Porto this weekend. Photo: Publico
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. You won't find a better analysis of last weekend's Primeira Liga action than Charles Dickens' introductory sentiment in his classic A Tale of Two Cities. It was as if the Portuguese soccer world turned on its head overnight: All the minnows became giants and all the winners became losers. All, that is, except for the Lions of Lisbon, who were the only top-five team to escape the round with a victory.
Depending on where you pledge your allegiance, you were either thrilled or distraught; no doubt most neutrals loved the results as they blew what was once a foregone conclusion of a title race wide open to a three team race that, if last week's scores are anything to go by, could go either way down the stretch.
As Portuguese football fans, we were treated to a number of curious results and shock upsets that thoroughly entertained us in one way or another; as Portuguese football prognosticators, however, we were made complete fools of and left to pick up the pieces of our shattered confidence.
My confidence in particular has left the building along with Elvis: I only correctly guessed the winner of one match (Sporting over Academica) and came away from the weekend with an embarrassing 1-8 record. I now have an overall record of 6-12. Yikes. I guess my new approach didn't pay off huh?
Something tells me I wasn't the only one cryin' like a hound dog when it was all over though. I mean, who in their right mind would've tipped Vitoria de Guimaraes to drop points at home against last place Gil Vicente, or, Benfica, Porto, AND Braga to lose to the likes of Pacos de Ferreira, Maritimo, and Boavista? It's insanity I tell ya – insanity!
But, let's be honest, that's what makes betting – even just friendly betting with no money involved – fun. Nothing is a sure thing no matter how much we'd like to believe it is, and, it's the mystery that keeps us engaged.
Speaking of a mystery, who knows how my picks will play out this week? If I have another terrible showing I might just revert to flipping a coin or pulling teams out of a hat to see if my record becomes more respectable. But, for the time being, I'm taking one more chance without literally resorting to chance. Here are my inclinations for the 19th round of play: Continue reading →
January 27, 2015 January 27, 2015 / Sam Biggers	/ Leave a comment
Sergio Oliveira was instrumental in Pacos de Ferreira's win over league-leaders Benfica.
This weekend's action in the Primeira Liga was exciting and unpredictable. Title-challengers Porto and Benfica lost to Maritimo and Pacos Ferreira, respectively, while Sporting CP closed the gap with a win over Academica. Let's take a look at the rest of the action. Continue reading →
Primeira Liga Week in Review
December 23, 2014 December 23, 2014 / Sam Biggers	/ Leave a comment
Rafa Silva was hugely impressive for Braga against Pacos Ferreira. Photo: Getty Images
It was an exciting weekend in the Primeira Liga, with a lot of movement in the table. Victories from Braga, Porto, Benfica, and Sporting all helped cement their places high up the table, while further losses from Gil Vicente, Nacional, and Vitoria Setubal slipped them further down the table. The match of note this weekend was Braga's convincing 3-0 victory over the impressive Pacos de Ferreira. Let's take a look at all the action. Continue reading →
Primeira Liga Roundup: Round 1
The Portuguese league kicked off this past weekend, much to the delight of the followers of the Portuguese game. Here's the round-up by Mitchell Rua of all the matches played this weekend.
A Dream Debut (FC Porto 2-0 Marítimo)
FC Porto opened their campaign with a solid display against European hopefuls Marítimo in front of a packed Estádio do Dragão, capped off by goals from teenage debutant Ruben Neves Jackson Martinez.
Neves, the youngest player to start a league match for the Dragões opened the scoring after just 12 minutes, as the young Tripeiro rifled a shot from inside the penalty area past keeper Salin after receiving a deflected cross from the left.
Leonel Ponte's men tried to respond, with Diego Sousa and Fran Sergio testing Fabiano, but to no avail, as Porto controlled most of the first-half. Oliver Torres was at the heart of each attack, with impressive ball circulation as both Quaresma and Brahimi wreaked havoc on the wings.
The second half brought an improved display as Marítimo's resolve waned. Jackson began to rise to the occasion, with a couple of half-chances falling his way. Pontes threw on former Guimaraes striker Maazou in the hope of salvaging a point but opportunities were few and far between as the Madeirenses rued missed chances.
It was Lopetegui's substitutes, Evandro and Tello that brought some much needed attacking penetration. The latter's jinking run from the right and pass into the path of Cha Cha Cha was converted at the second attempt at the death as Porto got the deserved three points.
Gaitán answers his critics as Benfica break the curse (Benfica 2-0 Paços de Ferreira)
Benfica put in a dominant performance against last year's bottom dwellers Paços in a match earmarked by the in-from Nicolas Gaitán, breaking a 10 year drought of opening games without a win.
Fonseca's troops started the better of the two sides, wasting a golden opportunity from the penalty spot as Manuel Joe's spot kick was saved by Artur with a diving save in potentially his last game for the Águias.
Gaitán found a vein of form sorely missed from his early Benfica days with two assists. The Argentine ran riot as Os Castores undoubtedly rueing missed opportunities as Maxi Pereira and Salvio netted a goal in each half.
The only blip on the Benfica radar came with an injury to combative workhorse Enzo Perez in potentially his last game for the club with the rumour mill in full swing over a potential transfer.
False start for Silva and co. (Académica 1-1 Sporting CP)
Sporting disappointed in their opening tie of the season, dropping two points to The Students. Os Verde-e-Brancos came into the tie having not lost in 36 years in Coimbra, and after Carillo's header from a fine Jefferson cross it looked as if this trend would continue.
Marco Silva's side took advantage of an Académica side under renovation, with sixteen departures and a new-look defence accounting for Sporting's dominance, although the tie had not yet been put to bed after a flurry of opportunities to the visitors.
As the game wore on, Sporting's stranglehold gradually weakened. Missing Slimani's presence in the final third due to disciplinary measures, an out-of-touch William, sent off for a second bookable offence, and a Cédric injury opened the door for the home side.
In the end, Académica were able to salvage a point with from a Carrillo error as a last-gasp equaliser from Rafael Lopes sharing the points, much to the delight of the Mancha Negra faithful and coach Paulo Sergio: "There's merit, but it's only a point."
Reality check for the Panthers (Braga 3-0 Boavista)
One of only two clubs outside the 'Big Three' to have won the league, Boavista was given a huge wakeup call against the Arsenalistas.
Six years after being demoted to the second division, and subsequently the third tier, Os Axadrezados, and former player, turned coach Petit, have a lot of hard work to do, conceding a goal to Pedro Tiba inside a minute.
History aside, the gulf in class was evident as Ruben Micael and Éder added further misery. A leaner footballing calendar for Sérgio Conceição could spell European football next season and a tilt at the coveted title that alluded them three years prior.
Guimaraes and Belenenses impress as Moreirense surprise
Belenenses and Vitoria Guimaraes both impressed away from home with 3-1 wins. Rui Vitória was "satisfied with the result" as a brace from B team graduate Hernani sandwiched a Bernard strike against Os Galos in Barcelos.
Newly-promoted Penafiel's frailties were exposed Lito Vidigal's Belenenses as the Lisbon-side left with three points thanks to goals from Sturgeon, Deyverson and Miguel Rosa, with Joao Martin's penalty doing little to stop the organised outfit from Belem.
In Vila do Conde, European debutants Rio Ave continued to ride a wave of from after a solid 2-0 victory in a game with three red cards. Pedro Martins' ten men took the lead through Diego Lopes having gone a man down, with a red card from Setubal's Zequinha followed by Marcelo's strike in the 77th minute, putting the game to bed. A late Manu sending off made little difference as Paciência made a poor start in his return to Portuguese football.
The biggest surprise of the round came with victory from Moreirense at the Choupana against Nacional, with Miguel Leal's side finding the back of the net through substitute Ramon Cardozo. The former Setubal striker is known to have a keen eye for goal and he was the difference in the 80th minute as Machado's men were left with egg on their face.
Jose Couceiro's first game in charge of the league's surprise package over the last couple of seasons, Estoril, ended in a stalemate. Last year's new boys Arouca opened the scoring through Pintassilgo in the 17th minute, making the most of a Ruben Fernandes error. Estoril quickly responded; the Canarinhos scoring through former GD Chaves striker Kuca. Neither side could settle the tie, Couceiro venting his frustrations: "We created various opportunities on goal, but we paid for our mistakes."
The Curious Case of Andre Moreira
August 14, 2014 August 14, 2014 / Sam Biggers	/ Leave a comment
Photo: Moreirense Futebol Clube
Andre Moreira
Atletico Madrid to Moreirense (loan)
News came today that Portugal U-19 European siver-medalist Andre Moreira had joined Liga side Moreirense on loan from Atletico Madrid. A move for the goalkeeper came as little surprise, as he was playing his club football at lowly third division Ribeirao before impressing for the U-19s this summer. But what came as a surprise was not that he had joined a top-flight side, but instead that he was joining on loan from Spanish giants Atletico Madrid.
Moreira enjoyed a very positive Euro U-19 Championship tournament this summer. Despite only playing in the third division leading up to the tournament, Moreira secured the starting position in goal ahead of Tiago Sa, who is a regular for Braga B in the second tier. This alone raised some eyebrows, and it was all the more impressive when one considers that Andre Moreira was one of the younger participants in the team at 18 years old.
In the time around the tournament, clubs such as Manchester United, Benfica, Valencia, and Monaco were all interested in Moreira. This comes as no surprise from his solid performances at such a young age. It's not everyday that an 18 year-old goalkeeper becomes a starter for his club.
Around the time that the interest in Moreira was beginning to ramp up, it was announced by his club, Ribeirao, that he his rights had been purchased by Jorge Mendes' agency, Gestifute. Mendes is the notorious agent who represents players such as Ronaldo, Helder Postiga, David De Gea, and others. He is partially responsible for the transfers of many talented players in the league over the past seasons, and has gained a reputation for earning players big moves. Gestifute bought Andre Moreira for 220,000 euros and apparently negotiated a move to Atletico Madrid.
Though I have been unable to find any confirmation that Andre Moreira did indeed end up at Atletico Madrid, all major Portuguese sports news outlets are reporting that he did indeed sign for them. And it's easy to believe. Mendes has strong ties to the big clubs in both Spain and England.
Now, Andre Moreira will join newly-promoted Liga Zon Sagres side Moreirense on loan from Atletico Madrid for the season, a move which will surely give him some playing time. Moreira will have to compete with first-choice Marafona, as well as Ricardo Ribeiro and new signing Gideao.

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Medical examiner confirms Epstein death a suicide by hanging
Posted 3:50 pm, August 16, 2019, by AP
Florida-based billionaire Jeffrey Epstein (CNN)
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein's prison death has been confirmed a suicide by hanging, the medical examiner's office said Friday.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on Aug. 10, touching off outrage and disbelief over how such a high-profile prisoner, known for socializing with powerful people including presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, could have gone unwatched.
The Bureau of Prisons said Epstein had apparently killed himself, but that didn't squelch conspiracy theories about his death.
Messages seeking comment were left for Epstein's lawyers. An office telephone number for Dr. Michael Baden, the pathologist hired by Epstein's representatives to observe the autopsy, rang unanswered.
Epstein, who was charged with sexually abusing numerous underage girls over several years, had been placed on suicide watch last month after he was found on his cell floor on July 23 with bruising on his neck.
Attorney general 'appalled' over Epstein's death, announces investigation
But multiple people familiar with operations at the jail say he was taken off the watch after about a week and put back in a high-security housing unit where he was less closely monitored, but still supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
Attorney General William Barr says officials have uncovered "serious irregularities" at the jail. The FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general are both investigating Epstein's death.
Jail guards on duty the night of Epstein's death are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates every half-hour as required, according to several people familiar with the matter.
A guard in Epstein's unit was working a fifth straight day of overtime and another guard was working mandatory overtime, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the lacked authorization to publicly discuss the investigation.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, who is in charge of the criminal case against Epstein, asked the jail's warden this week for answers about the earlier episode, writing in a letter Monday that it had "never been definitively explained."
The warden replied that an internal investigation was completed but that he couldn't provide information because the findings were being incorporated into investigations into Epstein's death.
The Associated Press often does not report details of suicide methods, but has made an exception because Epstein's cause of death is pertinent to the ongoing investigations.
The Washington Post and The New York Times reported Thursday that the autopsy revealed that several bones in Epstein's neck had been broken, leading to speculation his death was a homicide.
Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson issued a statement Thursday in response to those articles, saying: "In all forensic investigations, all information must be synthesized to determine the cause and manner of death. Everything must be consistent; no single finding can be evaluated in a vacuum."
The medical examiner's ruling came a day after two more women sued Jeffrey Epstein's estate, saying he sexually abused them.
The suit, filed Thursday in a federal court in New York, claims the women were working as hostesses at a popular Manhattan restaurant in 2004 when they were recruited to give Epstein massages.
One was 18 at the time. The other was 20.
The lawsuit says an unidentified female recruiter offered the hostesses hundreds of dollars to provide massages to Epstein, saying he "liked young, pretty girls to massage him," and wouldn't engage in any unwanted touching. The women say Epstein groped them anyway.
One plaintiff now lives in Japan, the other in Baltimore. They seek $100 million in damages, citing depression, anxiety, anger and flashbacks.
Other lawsuits, filed over many years by other women, accused him of hiring girls as young as 14 or 15 to give him massages, then subjecting them to sex acts.
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Fujitsu has expanded its PrimeFlex portfolio of integrated systems with new offerings for customers running SAP software, the company announced last week.
The PrimeFlex brand offers pre-configured, pre-tested and ready-to-run systems for data centres. The new offerings include PrimeFlex for SAP Landscapes, which provides organisations the ability to quickly roll out infrastructure for SAP workloads, applications and databases. A second new solution is PrimeFlex for SAP HANA, which Fujitsu said will enable SAP HANA to meet exact customer requirements.
"Fujitsu believes in offering simplified and flexible management of the system enabling a powerful infrastructure," said Farid Al Sabbagh, vice president and managing director at Fujitsu Middle East.
"By bringing these new PrimeFlex systems to market, we are providing customers running mission-critical SAP workloads with the confidence that their underlying technology can dynamically and rapidly adapt to ever more demanding end-user needs."
A number of Middle Eastern companies have already turned to Fujitsu for the deployment of their SAP landscapes. Kuwaiti trading company Al-Sayer Holding used Fujitsu's products when it wanted to introduce SAP HANA to consolidate its business applications landscape.
"With Fujitsu Integrated System offerings, we experienced simplified and accelerated deployment and operations. This also laid the foundation for a quick path to productive use of the new SAP applications and the SAP HANA database," said Sayer Al-Sayer, a board member at Al-Sayer Holding.
"Choosing to partner with Fujitsu has given us the confidence that we can provide business users with an agile and highly reliable platform."
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Greener Journal of Biological Sciences Vol. 3 (4), pp. 136-145, May 2013.
*Shinkafi B.A., Salim A.M. and Yusuf M.A.
Department of Forestry and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.
Study was carried out to determine some aspects of the biology of Distichodus rostratus (GUNTHER, 1864) in River Rima, North-western Nigeria. This is with a view to provide information on the species in River Rima which has not been documented elsewhere. These include morphometric measurements, growth pattern, diet composition, gonad maturation stages, gonadosomatic index (GSI) and fecundity of the species. A total of 66 samples were collected from Kwalkwalawa fish landing site of River Rima between July and December, 2012. Total length of the samples ranged from 18.70±0.99SE to 46.20±0.99SE with a mean value of 31.18±0.99SE while total weight ranged from 104.20±32.65SE to 892.60±32.65SE with a mean value of 473.92±32.65SE. The b values of 2.461, 2.476 and 2.292 for all samples, females and males respectively indicate negative allometry. Mean condition factor was 1.52±0.517SD, indicating that the species are in good condition. Analysis of the stomach contents revealed that the species are herbivorous feeding mainly on leaves and roots of aquatic plants, grasses, algae and deadwood. Observation of the structural feeding adaptations such as the sub-inferior mouth, the fine and numerous gill rakers, the U-shaped stomach and the long intestine further confirms the herbivorous nature of the fish. Four stages of gonad maturation were established in females and three stages in males. Gonadosomatic index values for males ranged from 0.08 to 1.20% with mean value of 0.25±0.0211SE and for females 0.25 to 2.29%, with a mean value of 1.89±0.829SE. Fecundity ranged from 2,980 – 21,010 eggs.
Keywords: D. rostratus, Growth pattern, Stomach content, Fecundity, River Rima.


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The New York Times Website To Charge for Access [REPORT]
The New York Times website is set to charge readers for access. A decision is expected in days and an announcement "within weeks," according to a report.
The Times will likely deploy a metered system, meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before you're prompted to pay up. However, the system won't be implemented for a few months — likely in the spring.
The move is a gamble for the Times, which previously tried charging for content from columnists through TimesSelect — readership fell and the project was abandoned. With ad revenues not meeting costs, however, the Times is taking another shot at the paid model.
NYMag writes of the move:
"The decision to go paid is monumental for the Times, and culminates a yearlong debate that grew contentious, people close to the talks say. In favor of a paid model were Keller and managing editor Jill Abramson. Nisenholtz and former deputy managing editor Jon Landman, who was until recently in charge of nytimes.com, advocated for a free site."
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So... Love Month this year didn't quite work out like I had planned. My initial plans were to read a lot more than I did but of course, life happened and got in the way. Or rather death did. My dad passed away at the beginning of February and not unsurprisingly I didn't feel much like reading or blogging. I still don't, not really. But things have to get back to normal eventually. So I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts on the four books that I did read in February with LGBT characters or story lines.
I really loved this one. Loved the main character's voice and this exploration of his past and his experiences coming out and being gay that is explored through a writing assignment. It's also hilariously funny and really not to be missed. I am so looking forward to the sequel, Honestly Ben, which was recently published.
Next, I read Noteworthy by Riley Redgate and I couldn't have loved it any more than I did. ...I'm not entirely sure what put this book on my radar? Perhaps it was listed on a list of books containing bisexual characters? In any case, I decided that I had to read this book and I did and I loved it. It follows Jordan Sun during her junior year at a private performing arts high school. In order to save her place in this performing arts school Jordan ends up desperately auditioning for a men's acapella group just to keep steady. And she gets in which means pretending to be a guy.
There was so much to love about this book. I loved the explorations of friendship, identity, sexuality and love. I thought the author wrote very well on the elements of coming from a poorer economic background, the fact that Jordan is Chinese-American, other members of the Sharpshooters being from diverse backgrounds, Jordan's father being disabled, Jordan's realisation of her own bisexuality. It was a book about a boarding school and friendship groups, getting over first heartbreak, becoming more confident in oneself, but also a really great look into gender roles and norms for both men and women. I loved it. Plus, a capella!
I'm not entirely sure what to make of Three by Hannah Moskowitz. I'd read other books by the same author before which made me take notice of this book. That, and the premise. I'd never come across another YA book that dealt with polyamory as this book does. So I picked it up incredibly intrigued by the story line ... and while I do find it interesting that this book is available and all, I did feel some disappointment over it. There were quite a few typos and grammatical errors like it could been copy-edited better. But also ... it was pretty subtle. The story is that this girl moves some place new, and becomes attracted to this boy, he kisses her. Then she finds out that he is in a long-term relationship with another girl and that they are poly-amorous. The main character decides to give it a go at being in a relationship with him and also possibly her and that is the bulk of Three. ...if I'm honest, I wanted more.
I had expected there to be a sexual relationship between the characters and there isn't. I expected there to be more of a connection between the two girls in this relationship ...but there really wasn't. So I finished this book and it was so decidedly ...average that I almost don't have much more to say about it? What I'd like to read is a book that isn't too afraid to go to places most YA books wouldn't go. And I felt like this book mostly played things safe. Which was therefore boring to me. Shame.
Finally, I picked up The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli. I loved the author's debut book, Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda about two boys falling in love and I had incredibly high hopes for this one... and while I did enjoy it, it didn't quite live up to Simon Vs expectations. This premise of this book centres around Molly, a girl who has a million unrequited crushes. She just never seems to take that step towards telling her crushes how she feels. That is, until her twin, Cassie meets a girl and introduces Molly to a cute new boy. Will Molly be woman enough to tell her crush how she feels?!
So ... yeah. This book was cute, sure. And there;s plenty of diversity here, from sexuality and race and mental health. But I didn't really gel with the characters or the relationships. And in fact, I kind of hated how the author sort of stood on her soap box and ranted through the characters about a myriad of things... even when I agreed with the character's point of view I just didn't love the lecturing, self-important tone. And when the conversation about the social construction of virginity came about I just rolled my eyes. It was too much and there was no subtlety to it. It felt like being hit over the head with all these social messages and being scolded for outdated beliefs about sexuality and the rest of it. Have a message, sure. But don't be so patronising, please.
Still. That isn't to say I didn't also enjoy the story. I just wished I'd have enjoyed it more than I did.
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Lucia Mar superintendent pursuing a new job
Days after the district narrowly avoided a teacher strike, Lucia Mar Superintendent Jim Hogeboom has announced he plans to take a job in Marin County. [Tribune]
Hogeboom is in the process of finalizing a contract with the Novato Unified School District. He could begin work as superintendent of the Bay Area district as soon as July 1.
Novato Unified has fewer students than Lucia Mar, but it is located in a wealthier area. Hogeboom currently makes a base salary of $167,851.
He has been head of the Southern San Luis Obispo County district for seven years.
Seven years is a long time, and it is time for a change, Hogeboom said.
Earlier this month, Lucia Mar administrators and representatives of the district's teachers' union reached an agreement that put an end to a multi-month contract dispute. Prior to the settlement, Lucia Mar teachers had planned to launch a strike in mid-April, and district administrators had made preparations for a work stoppage.
For months, the teachers demanded 10 percent raises, and district officials were only offering a 2 percent bump in pay. The pay dispute ended with the two sides agreeing on a six percent raise for teachers.
Teachers Association President Donna Mandel says she hopes the district will consult with rank-and-file employees before hiring a new superintendent.
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Maybe 167k a year plus benefits wasn't enough. I wish him well in Marin County.
Teachers still had a right to ask for more pay.
surferdude
She should have left it at wishing him well.
Instead she has to interject her vitriol one more time.
No wonder Superintendent Hogeboom is leaving…
aft50s
"Teachers Association President Donna Mandel says she hopes the district will consult with rank-and-file employees before hiring a new superintendent"
Now the Union wants to participate in the hiring process of their supervisor too?
What business owner consults his labor force on a replacement supervisor… its very clear what their motive is moving forward.
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Another Pyrrhic victory for the union. Their leadership promises 10%, then fails, then starts putting dogpoop at people's houses. They probably will like the replacement even less.


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Under Mandelman's proposed legislation, a new zoning category for adult sex venues would be created, paving the way for such businesses to be allowed in historically LGBTQ-affiliated neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, South of Market, Upper Market and Castro.
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The proposed legislation builds on legislation Mandelman drafted in 2020 that updated the city's strict health and safety standards governing commercial adult sex venues that were first imposed in 1984 – in height of the AIDS epidemic. At the time, the city sued the operators of gay bathhouses and other consensual adult venues, citing them as a public nuisance and urging most to close.
Although the 2020 update took into account advances in sexual health awareness and preventive measures and was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors, the city's planning department determined that the Bathhouses did not fall under the city's adult activity planning code.
Mandelman's latest order would establish an entirely new category of zoning for adult sex venues, paving the way for bathhouses and similar establishments to be permitted in specific neighborhoods.
"During the 1970s and early 80s, bathhouses were a focal point of gay social life in San Francisco and were important community hangouts where friends gathered to share stories or watch a show. live," Mandelman said in a statement.
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Time Machine: A Survey Tour of Bernal Heights In 1984
March 16, 2016 / Todd_Lappin
Last night your Bernalwood editor spent some time perusing an archive of old back-issues of the Bernal Journal, the Bernal Heights newspaper from the days when news still came on paper.
This isn't the first time that I have fallen into this archival rabbit-hole, but per usual, my exploration yielded a trove of history, context, and memory. One article in particular caught my attention: An overview of the social and economic conditions in Bernal Heights as things stood in July of 1984.
Here's how the article looked. (Don't worry about trying to read the layout here, because the full text of the article is provided below, for your reading enjoyment.)
A few obvious and fabulous visual details:
That hand-drawn Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center ad! Wow.
That El Rio ad! With the same logo and "Your dive!" slogan they're still using today! Hooray!
In the article itself, here are some highlights:
Demographically, the article describes Bernal as "predominantly white. Latin Americans, mainly from Mexico, form the second largest group, followed by Asians, particularly Filipinos, and Blacks. In 1979 there were also 59 Samoans, 42 Vietnamese, 27 American Indians, 2 Guanamanians and 2 Aleut Eskimos."
In 1979 Bernal residents earned a median income of $22,300, as compared to $25,672 for San Francisco as a whole. Bernal Heights residents were, on average, four years younger than the rest of the city's residents.
In 1984, a wave of Laotians were moving to the Bernal, along with "the so-
called 'new breed of 'young urban professionals,' most of whom are white."
Cortland Avenue was struggling at the time, as "the neighborhood's reputation as a high crime, poorly frequented area [was] very damaging for new businesses."
Speaking of crime, "in 1983 the western slope of the hill, in the area where Cortland Avenue and Mission Street meet, had the highest crime rate in the Ingleside district, while crime figures on the eastern slope of Bernal Heights were some of the lowest in the city."
"The average price of a house in 1979 was $84,300. According to Abbe Stevenson, a Cortland Avenue real estate agent, homes rarely sell for below $100,000, and there is a big discrepancy between the cost of houses at the very top of the hill, many of which are now in the $180,000 range."
There was still room to build new homes in Bernal, which contained "one quarter of San Francisco's available building lots, with land values
averaging $20,000." Building permits, increased 74 percent in San
Francisco during 1983, and housing starts rose 11.2 percent in February, 1984 to their highest level since 1978.
However, Bernalese didn't much care for new home construction back then either. The article says, "Keeping speculators away from the hill is an issue that residents here have always rallied around, earning for themselves a reputation for hard-headedness at City Hall."
Ultimately, the article concludes "All city neighborhoods change, as the City's inhabitants migrate through them. Bernal Heights just seems to have done so a little slower than the rest. For that, most of its residents are grateful."
Here's the full text of the article, straight from 1984 to you:
BERNAL HEIGHTS REVISITED . . .
By Abigail Stexling-Vasquez
"Bernal Heights isn't exactly the go-go market of
real estate," says Supervisor Bill Maher, who has lived
here for the past eight years. Yet on this San Francisco
hill, where some of the wealthiest residents still live
off of dirt roads, the way things are is just the way
people want them to stay.
On the map Bernal Heights is laid out in standard
grid fashion, like the rest of the city. In reality this
neighborhood's streets are one of its most unique
features. Walking up Peralta Street, for instance, the
road gives way to a narrow path bordered by thickets of
fennel. Past Montcalm Street it becomes a flight of
stone stairs, interrupted by Rutledge Street, climbing
on up toward Massasoit Street and a sunny April sky
speckled with cumulus clouds like a primitive painting.
The sounds of the city fade into echoes. The air is
thick with bird songs and dog barks. On Mullen Street an
old -blue Datsun won't start. The dull click of its
ignition breaks the stillness. From up here the fog,
squeezing its way through the Golden Gate Bridge into
the Bay, looks like a thin tongue reaching for a
downtown skyline etched by the afternoon sun.
Rising 400 feet above San Francisco's Mission
district, bounded by Alemany Boulevard on the South, the
Bayshore Freeway on the East, Army Street on the North
and Mission Street on the West, Bernal Heights is easily
recognized from across the city by Pacific Bell's
microwave relay tower which sits on its bald summit like
a crooked crown.
Originally developed in 1839 as part of a land
grant belonging to Don Jose Cornelio Bernal, the area
remained a grazing pasture for many decades, surrounded
by the salt marshes of the San Francisco Bay. Since
Bernal Heights wasn't connected to San Francisco's gas
or electric lines, it was spared much of the damages
caused by the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire,
and continued to provide fresh milk and produce to city
markets well into the '60s.
Jeanne Hamer, writing from her home on Elsie. Street
in 1967, described the hill like this: "… There were
trees, wild sweet peas, blackberry bushes. The farm was
on the other side of the hill right up from Stillman and
Manchester. They had cows, goats, ducks and a bull …
whenever anyone got sick enough to go to the hospital ,
the ambulance drivers had to carry the person over the
dirt paths. It was country living just four blocks from
Mission Street."
The Irish came to live on Bernal Heights first,
followed by second-generation Italians and some Germans.
During World War II many of the shipyard workers from
near-by Hunters Point Naval Shipyard also migrated to
Bernal Heights with their families, along with Latin
American and Asian immigrants from the densely populated
Mission District.
According to 1979 census figures, the tract of land
on which the bulk of the hill stands has remained
predominantly white. Latin Americans, mainly from
Mexico, form the second largest group, followed by
Asians, particularly Filipinos, and Blacks. In 1979 there
were also 59 Samoans, 42 Vietnamese, 27 American
Indians, 2 Guanamanians and 2 Aleut Eskimos, to name but
a few.
According to Maher, Laotians are now moving to the
Hill in the latest wave of migration, along with the so-
called 'new breed of "young urban professionals," most of
whom are white. 1979 figures show residents were earning
a median income of $22,300, as compared to $25,672 for
San Francisco as a whole. Bernal Heights residents are
also on average four years younger than the rest of the
city's residents.
A walk through the neighborhood indicates that
except for the predominantly Latin American northern
foot of the hill, near Precita Park, there are no
cultural ghettos on Bernal Heights. Cortland Avenue,
Bernal Heights' little downtown, is a melting pot of
culture. Across the street from St. Kevin's church is
the Samoan O.K. Food Market, its storefront window
stacked with 50-pound bags of rice. Further down the
street is Cicero's Meat Market and the Cherokee Bar.
Along this eight-block long commercial strip
everyone knows everyone and strangers stand out.
However, business here is far from booming. A study of
Cortland Avenue compiled in 1980 by San Francisco's
Planning Commission indicates that "with increased
mobility and competition from nearby shopping districts,
Cortland Avenue has suffered a decline in business
activity with accompanying physical deterioration and an
increase in crime."
Although many of the storefronts are still boarded
up, and many of the new shops that open seem to close
again overnight, merchants here agree that the past four
years have brought a few improvements. Following the
Planning Commission study, the Department of City
Planning allotted $30,000 in Community Development Block
Grant funds to paint Cortland Avenue's storefronts.
Street lights, garbage cans and trees have also been put
in this year.
According to Bob Andre, manager of the local branch
of Bank of America, the neighborhood's reputation as a
high crime, poorly frequented area is very damaging for
new businesses. Loans, moreover, are out of the reach of
most Cortland Avenue merchants, 86% of whom rent their
storefronts. The area is considered high risk by many
private lenders, and month-to-month leases prevent the
merchants from being able to apply for federally funded
Small Business Administration loans.
Local improvement is therefore mainly homespun.
Barbara Clements, owner of the newly opened "Bernal
Blossoms" flower shop, decorated her place completely on
her own, arid next door, at the Wild Side West Bar, Pat
Ramseyer is clearing the back yard to start a outdoor
patio extension. She rescued the jasmine bushes she is
planting from a nearby dumpster.
Merchants here agree that the neighborhood's
reputation as a high crime are is not entirely deserved.
According to .police statistics in 1983 the western slope
of the hill, in the area where Cortland Avenue and
Mission Street meet, had- the highest crime rate in the
Ingleside district, while crime figures on the eastern
slope of Bernal Heights were some of the lowest in the
city. For instance, there were only two assaults on the
eastern side of the hill throughout 1983. On the Mission
side there were 38.
Captain Frank Jordan of the Ingleside police
station attributes the western slope's high crime
figures to a "spillover" of crime from the Mission
district. The eastern side of the hill is, as he
describes it, "off the beaten path." Jordan believes
that project SAFE' (Safety Awareness for Everyone) might
be responsible for at least partially stemming the
spillover of crime from Mission Street.
Although the overall crime rate has declined both
in. Bernal Heights and citywide during the past five
years, there has recently been an increase in burglaries
in the neighborhood which Jordan ascribes to a
concurrent rise in real estate values on the hill . The
average price of a house in 1979 was $84,300. According
to Abbe Stevenson, a Cortland Avenue real estate agent,
homes rarely sell for below $100,000, and there is a big
discrepancy between the cost of houses at the very top
of the hill, many of which are now in the $180,000
range, and those farther down the slopes. Real estate
values on the northern and western sides of the hill are
also comparatively high because of the panora'mic
downtown views many homes there offer , while eastern
and southern slope homes, whose windows face the
Bayshore Freeway, are least expensive.
According to the most recent IRS figures, however,
the median San Francisco income has risen approximately
$10,000 since 1979. Although wealthier residents are to
a certain extent replacing older ones on Bernal Heights,
this doesn't seem to be happening any more here than
elsewhere in the city.
Probably the best explanation for this is that the
steep topography, the narrow, sometimes unpaved streets
zoned for single family dwellings only, the smaller than
average lots (25 feet by 70 feet, as compared to 25 feet
by 100 feet in other parts of the city) and lack of city
services have over time deterred development here.
This neighborhood contains one quarter of San
Francisco's available building lots, with land values
averaging $20,000, which is well below city average.
Building permits, moreover, increased 74 percent in San
Francisco during 1983 alone, and housing starts leaped
11.2 percent last February to their highest level since
1978. With its panoramic views, good weather and
convenient location close to downtown San Francisco, the
hill is becoming once again, as it was during the late
'60s and '70s, an attractive alternative for small scale
developers.
Keeping speculators away from the hill is an issue
that residents here have always rallied around, earning
for themselves a reputation for hard-headedness at City
Hall. The story of the North West Bernal Block Club, or
Elsie Street Group, as it later came to be called, is a
case in point. Formed in 1964 by residents on the
northwest slope, in the area of Bernal Heights bounded
by Coso, Elsie, Virginia and Mission Streets, one of the
group's first achievements was to make the city keep the
top of the hill as an open area- by tranferring it from
the Department of Public Works to the Recreation and
Parks Department .
The Elsie Street Group is probably best knwon for
its "Elsie -Street Plan," a 1978 survey of the 100 block
of Elsie Street. The project involved the active
participation of over 200 neighborhood residents working
in conjunction with architects and planners, and was the
culmination of a year's struggle to stop developers from
the Homestead Development Group from being granted
permits to build on ten open lots on the downhill side
of the street.
The "Elsie Street Plan" was mandated by the San
Francisco Planning Commission, which also agreed to
consider the plan's guidelines before granting any
further permit applications for the block. Although the
Elsie Street Group was unable to prevent three of the
lots from being built upon, the plan itself was a major
victory for residents in that it set the standard for
all future development on the block and on the rest of
the hill as well.
Buildings were required to conform architecturally
with existing structures, and development was also made
conditional to city upgrading of adjacent streets and
sewers. Since this would involve spending city dollars,
and city dollars haven't been forthcoming, the Homestead
Development Group is still at an impasse on Elsie
Street. As Margaret Randolph, a veteran activist who
lives on Elsie Street, says, "They are just laying low
until we are all dead and gone, and then they '11. build."
Most recently, a eucalyptus grove which can be
prominently seen on the northern side of the hill has
become the latest battlefront in Bernal Heights
residents' war against developers. Tensions this time
are high because the architect, Barry Hansen, is himself
a resident. The fact that he is not, as he describes it,
"a bigshot coming in from Hong Kong to build highrises,"
riles the neighbors even more. Perhaps this is because
his renovated home at the foot of the grove is a
constant reminder.
It all began when Hansen found that he was living
on one of the hill's "paper" streets, which exist only
on maps, and that half the land under his home belonged
to the city. Hansen sued the family who had sold him the
house and received additional land near the house, on
which he planned, with three partners, to build 18
condominiums.
Jan Botza, a Bonview resident who lives directly
across the street from the proposed site, says there was
a consensus among neighbors that the condominium should
not be built. Enlisting the help of the Bernal Heights
Council, they formed the Bonview Block Club, held
numerous meetings, distributed flyers and attended
Planning Commission hearings in the true Bernal Heights
spirit, arguing that the proposed project would be an
eyesore, cause congestion on the street and be
unaffordable to the average neighborhood resident.
According to Hansen, units would range from $140,000 to
$200,000.
In October of 1983 the Planning Commission finally
approved a reduced version of the project. Before any
building can start, however, Hansen will need to acquire
from the city an additional section of land. This will
require approval by San Francisco's Board of
Supervisors, which could mean another long wait.
According to Supervisor Maher, the Board is presently
thinking of transferring a section of Bernal Boulevard
immediately above the grove from DPW to the Recreation
and Parks Department. This land transfer would probably
also include the eucalyptus grove. If this is the case
Hansen's condominium seems likely never to materialize.
"It's been quite a struggle," says Hansen. "I think
San Francisco is a difficult place to live in, but
Bernal Heights is definitely a more aggravated
situation." Frank Mcintosh, principal agent for San
Francisco's Department of Real Estate, says that
developers on Bernal Heights always get "completely
frustrated by the stubbornness of the Hill people," as he
calls Bernal Heights residents. "My understanding," says
Mcintosh, "is that much of this vacant land (on Bernal
Heights) is going to the Recreation and Parks
Department, and that's where it belongs."
All city neighborhoods change, as the City's
inhabitants migrate through them. Bernal Heights just
seems to have done so a little slower than the rest. For
that, most of its residents are grateful.
You can browse or download the entire July/August 1984 edition of the Bernal Journal right here.
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So much fun to read! Thank you for sharing.
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Prof. Meyer joined the mathematics faculty of Syracuse University in 1997. He earned his BS from the University of Minnesota in mathematics education. His Ph.D. in number theory is from the University of Illinois.
Meyer's research interests include number theory and special functions. He has published both research and expository papers in analytic number theory, especially Dedekind Sums.
Before beginning his graduate studies, Meyer taught junior and senior high school mathematics for five years.


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Told by an Idiot: The past interrupts the present, reality turns into fantasy, fantasy turns into reality
Rehearsal blog week 2
This week is going faster than the first one! We dedicated a great deal of time to running and polishing the 'clog dance' this week; a traditional dance that has its origins in Wales. Both Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel were excellent clog dancers; you can trace clog dance DNA in the agility with which they create whacky walks, routines and balletic moves in different rhythmic dramatic situations and routines. Paul (our director) asked me to find videos of Charlie and Stan clog dancing for choreographer Nuna Sandy ahead of starting rehearsals so she could create an 'Idiot' routine for the show.
Amalia and Jerone (our Charlie and Stan) rehearse the dance throughout the week accompanied by Sara on piano and Nick on drums. Nuna choreographs new material and the actors dance on the set for the first time. There are two parts to this dance; one is part of a scene called 'Rubbing Along' and the second is perhaps Stan's fantasy, which happens at Chaplin's mansion in 'The Reunion'. I say perhaps, because this has not been fully decided yet, though it seems to be working well within the logic of the piece. Most of the material is found in rehearsals and decisions are not set in stone until the last minute, allowing for spontaneity and creative improvising to continue right through rehearsals.
The 'clog dance' is accompanied by a score composed by Zoe Rahman. Sara and Nick (the other two actors / musicians in the play) show their acrobatics by using improvisational techniques on piano and drums as well as playing multiple characters in the story. All of the action has musical accompaniment and the styles range from jazz to reels, music hall song and hip hop. Sara has been learning the music this week and she will continue to do so next week. In order to craft a more complex meaning – and feeling – the music often plays against the action. Paul mentions that Chaplin talked about this juxtaposition as well. The music is not illustrating; the action can be funny, but the music can make you feel uncertain or worried. The humour is scathing; it is humour with a smile which is cracked at times.
This week I set out to understand the mechanics of the complex and multi-layered storytelling techniques that we are using in this devising process. One of the most fascinating – and daunting – things about the narrative is that it is non-linear and thus, the scenes are completely disjointed. Having said that, everything has an internal logic and there is an overall structure for the piece as well; which does not mean there is no room for play or changes. Paul did write a script ahead of starting rehearsals and asked me to write the titles of each scene on big paper and stick them to the wall. As the weeks roll by, the play starts to cohere and have a life of its own; which makes us change the order of the scenes.
Paul often says that we "jump all over the place" and the joy of it is that we have lots of fun and everything is up for grabs at this point. The daunting part is that we sometimes get a bit disoriented and need guidance from Paul, who has spent over a year thinking and doing research for the play. The past interrupts the present, reality turns into fantasy, fantasy turns into reality. The use of time and space is quite cinematic and scene transitions become 'a thing' in themselves. We cut from one scene to a completely different one and there is use of subplot as well. Transitions become really important and they help to anchor both the piece and the audience.
Because parts of the score are quite jazzy (Zoe is a remarkable jazz musician), and some of the scenes are set in the U.S. I think a lot about different films, such as Woody Allen's earlier ones. Interestingly, Zoe comments that Nick's drumming during 'Victorian Childhood' reminds her of González Iñárritu's film Birdman.
We had a production meeting this week and one of the things that was discussed was the non-use of mics, Paul insists that we should not mic a play where there is almost no speech, and this totally makes sense. Instead, the tech will involve using some projection of captions.
By the end of week two we stagger through scenes 1 to 7 which feels absolutely great. We have 12 scenes in total so the plan for next week is to stagger the whole show. Paul is planning to run the whole play at least 5 times before heading to Plymouth where we open before Christmas. I am learning a lot about directing from a place of confidence, playfulness and flexibility whilst at the same time keeping up the pace and staying disciplined with time.
Andrea Cabrera Luna
Assistant Director for 'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel'
'The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel' at Unity Theatre, Tue 18 – Sat 22 Feb 2020


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Nintendo's financials were released today, which has shed a little bit more light on how well Super Mario Run has been performing on iOS since it released. The Android release is still a few months away in March, which means these numbers are for one platform only.
Super Mario Run has been downloaded more than 78 million times since it released in December. However, only about 4 million players have forked over the hefty $9.99 sum to buy the full game. That's a conversion rate of about 5%, which is rather low for mobile games. That's especially surprising considering iOS is often considered the "money-making" platform for mobile game developers, while Android enjoys a reputation as a haven for pirates.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran on June 12. Abe visited Iran in hopes of brokering dialogue between Tehran and Washington. | KYODO
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U.S. signals approval for Tokyo visit by Iran's Rouhani amid nuclear impasse
The United States has shown approval toward Japan's plan to have Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visit the country, according to diplomatic sources, as Tehran is seeking to break a deadlock over a nuclear deal with world powers.
Washington has also urged Tokyo to share the outcome of a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Rouhani, the sources said. A senior U.S. official has relayed the message to Japan.
Japanese and Iranian officials are arranging for Rouhani to visit around Dec. 20, according to the sources. If realized, it will be the first visit to the country by an Iranian president since Mohammad Khatami in October 2000.
Building on years of friendship, Japan has been stepping up efforts to reach out to Iran, reeling from economic sanctions that the United States reinstated after President Donald Trump withdrew his country from the 2015 nuclear deal, which he called "horrible" and "one-sided."
Abe, an ally of Trump, visited Iran in June — becoming the first Japanese prime minister to do so since 1978 — in the hope of brokering dialogue between Tehran and Washington.
If Rouhani visits, Abe is expected to demand that Iran comply with the nuclear deal, the sources said. Tehran has gradually stepped away from commitments under the landmark agreement under which it promised to limit its uranium stockpiles and enrichment levels in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
Abe may also seek Iran's understanding toward Japanese plans to send Self-Defense Forces personnel to the Middle East, the sources said. The Japanese government is considering dispatching a destroyer and a patrol plane to the region to enhance information-gathering capabilities and ensure the safe navigation of ships.
Last Tuesday Abe met with Abbas Araghchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for political affairs, in Tokyo. The special envoy of Rouhani informed Abe of the president's intention to visit Japan, the sources said.
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When the project started, 3D acceleration hardware was only just starting to become popular. Nevertheless, we tried to keep hardware acceleration in mind when designing our rendering pipeline. When the opportunity arose to add hardware acceleration, the implementation worked beautifully. We worked closely with people from 3Dfx and Rendition and added support for their chipsets in about a week. It's amazing how much these accelerators add to the smoothness of the terrain, the fluidity of camera movement, and the realism of the units and effects. These chips rock, and great on-site developer assistance made them easy to support.
4. Getting back to the people.
Once we had released Myth , we definitely did the right thing by waiting for player feedback and then releasing a patch to address their issues. Since our public beta test caught most of the bugs in the shipping product, nearly all our post-shipping efforts were directed towards adding user-requested features. We scoured the newsgroups, read e-mail, and talked to customers about their complaints. From these disparate sources, we compiled a list of improvements for our 1.1 patch.
All major user complaints were addressed in the patch. We added support for Rendition and Voodoo Rush cards. We extended the camera's maximum zoom for a better view of the battlefield. We made our easy difficulty levels even easier. And we improved the unit AI. By the time the early reviews came out, we'd already released a beta patch that addressed almost everything on the reviewers' lists of Myth's failings.
5. Doing more with less.
It doesn't take fifty people to create a major cross-platform software title. Period. Bungie Software has barely half that number of employees in the entire company, and we not only develop all our games, but publish and distribute them as well! Macintosh and PC versions of Myth , all our internal tools, and our online service were essentially developed by only six people, and everything shipped on time with no major glitches. There's no big quality assurance department here at Bungie; the public did our testing for us, and we listened to them as seriously as if they were coworkers on the project.
We didn't hire any game designers, writers, or level designers to come up with our game concept and story line. Myth truly is the combined vision of our team, and each of us feels that it was our game. We came to work each day excited about the project, and we're damn proud of what we managed to create.
On the flip side, it became clear very early in the project that we were understaffed for such an ambitious undertaking. Success or failure rested with a handful of people, and that was extremely stressful. Losing a programmer halfway through development added still more pressure during the final push to get the game out the door. Additional programming tasks had to be shouldered by the remaining developers, who were already also responsible for level design. To alleviate the problem somewhat, we even found it necessary to ask our busy network administrator to aid in AI scripting and level design.
We did hire a third artist near the end of the project, but it was almost too late. While his contributions to the final product were by no means insignificant, it took a long time to get him up to speed. Similarly, when we dropped the services of our original sound guy late in the development cycle, a new sound team had to rush to redo all the work.
If you're looking for good anecdotes about how we blew off steam with wild weekend trips to Cancún, you won't get any. We all worked incredibly hard, and did so willingly because Myth represented a two-year labor of love. All the great previews and supportive feedback from beta testers kept us excited and made us realize that we really did have something special on our hands. Nobody wanted to slack off and allow competing products to beat us to the shelves. The moral of the story: staff up as early as possible and plan to weather the unexpected.
The biggest announced feature that didn't make it into the final version of Myth was a scripting language that would allow the player to modify elements of the game. We had hoped that user scripts could be written for extensible artificial intelligence, as well as custom formations, net game rules, and map behaviors.
We selected Java as a good basis for the Myth scripting language because of its gaining popularity, good information-hiding capabilities, and relatively simple byte code interpretation. After several months of work, early versions of the game loaded, compiled, and ran code from tag files. A few simple scripts worked for presentation purposes, including one that instructed a unit to search the battlefield for the heads of the enemy and collect them in a pile.
Unfortunately, when the programmer responsible for the scripting language parted ways with Bungie, we were left with a number of features to implement and no library of user-friendly interfaces with the game code. Given its incomplete state at such a late stage of development, there was little choice but to drop this functionality.
3. More frames of animation.
One of the complaints most often voiced by players is that the sprite-based units' animations are not fluid enough. At the start of the project, when we planned for the number of frames of animation per unit, there was a good deal of uncertainty regarding how much RAM would be consumed by large texture maps, sounds, and other resources. As things were, it was not uncommon for our landscape textures to reach 5MB in size, and certain animations already consumed close to 1MB -- our uncertainties were not unfounded. We erred on the conservative side. Though we implemented caching schemes that greatly reduced our memory requirements, there wasn't enough time to rerender the units.
Perfect pathfinding seems to have become the Holy Grail for games in the RTSG genre, and Myth is no exception. The game's terrain is a 3D polygonal mesh constructed from square cells, each of which is tessellated into two triangles. Cells have an associated terrain type that indicates their impassability, and they may contain any number of solid objects, including trees, fence posts, and units.
Ah! Square cells, you say? Having read previous Game Developer articles (Bryan Stout, "Smart Moves: Intelligent Pathfinding," Game Developer , October/November 1996; Swen Vincke, "Real-Time Pathfinding for Multiple Objects," Game Developer , June 1997), your first thought may be that the A* pathfinding should do the trick. The first problem with a pure A* approach for Myth is that impassable obstacles, such as troops and trees, may lie anywhere on the terrain. Penalizing the cells beneath impassable obstacles is a bad idea because the cells are fairly large and obstacles are not guaranteed to be aligned at the center of a cell. Furthermore, even if a tree did consume exactly one cell, the A* path to avoid it would make a unit walk up to the tree, turn, and continue around it. Units that bump into trees and walk between the centers of large cells appear extremely stupid; you really want your group of troops to avoid obstacles (including each other) ahead of time, and smoothly weave their way through a forest.
To produce this effect, we created our own pathfinding algorithm. First, we ignore all obstacles and calculate the A* path based solely on the terrain impassability. For all intents and purposes, the terrain in Myth never changes, so this path can be calculated once and remembered. Now, we consider the arbitrarily placed obstacles and periodically refine our path using a vector-based scheme. If the planned path would cause us to hit an obstacle, we need to deviate our path. We recursively consider both left and right deviations, and choose the direction that causes us to deviate least from our A* path. Thus, we've considered terrain impassability information and we can avoid arbitrarily placed (or even moving) obstacles well before we bump into them.
For every game, pathfinding is a pretty complex and sensitive beast. This method worked well for 90 percent of our cases, but rigorous testing revealed certain cases that were not adequately handled. As the ship date drew near, we were forced to say "good enough" rather than handle these problem cases and risk introducing new bugs. Our current algorithm works pretty well and provides the effect we sought, but there's definitely room for improvement.
5. Features that missed the cut.
With a few exceptions, everything from our list of "Stuff that Rocks" made it into the final product. Those features that didn't make it came so close and were so exciting that they definitely deserve mention.
Near the end of the project, we started adding support for 3D fire, which would be ignited by explosions and flaming arrows. Our flames were sprite-based 3D particle effects, complete with translucent smoke. Fire could spread across the landscape and move at different rates over the various types of terrain. To our dismay, when a spark in the woods spread into a raging forest fire (as it should), all the translucent smoke sprites slowed even fast, 3Dfx-accelerated machines to a crawl. With little time to rectify the problem, we had to put out the fire, so to speak.
We had also planned for wildlife to scamper across the terrain and for birds to fly through the air, breathing life into our empty landscapes. Our attempt at ambient life started with a giant squirrel created by one of our artists. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we didn't have a chance to create very interesting behaviors for it. Just about the only AI that we had a chance to code simply made the squirrels gravitate towards the player's units. We thought it best to drop ambient life rather than subject players to hordes of nuzzling squirrels.
With all the prerelease hype Myth had received, we were very anxious to see how the public would receive the final version. The reactions from beta testers were phenomenally positive, as were the comments from customers and reviewers. Our swiftness in correcting problems and adding several user-requested features with a 1.1 patch only earned us more kudos from the press and public.
But possibly the most satisfying result of the game is the degree to which it lessens the appeal of playing with a traditional isometric perspective. Working on Myth so consumed our time that we didn't get a chance to play anything else; we looked forward to playing some old favorites and the latest demos of our high-profile competition after we shipped. It was a real surprise to discover that once we were accustomed to Myth 's 3D camera and its associated freedom, playing isometric games was frustrating -- the action seemed distant and unrealistic, while the view of the world was annoyingly rigid. This sentiment was echoed in both player comments and reviews of the game. Since our Marathon products were derided by some as Doom rip-offs, it was especially satisfying to hear players say that Myth pushes the genre in a new direction, from which there's no looking back.
As of late 1997, Myth: The Fallen Lords had shipped 350,000 copies worldwide in four languages on two platforms. bungie.net currently boasts tens of thousands of registered users and is being expanded to keep up with the constantly increasing demand. As I write, it has just been declared Game of the Year by Computer Games Strategy Plus and Strategy Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World . It remains to be seen whether Myth will inspire other entries into the 3D real-time strategy game genre. But if nothing else, Myth is proof that a very small team with a strong product vision can still make a very big game.


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Windows 10 Build 16241 gives the best sneak peek yet at the Fall Creators Update
As Windows 10's next release date nears, features gel and bug-bashing begins.
By Mark Hachman
Senior Editor, PCWorld |
As Windows 10's next big release date nears, the latest Insider Preview Build 16241 gives us a solid sneak peek at what the Fall Creators Update will look like. You'll see a some significant new features, including Ubuntu support, update delivery options, and improved Task Manager visibility. But tellingly, Microsoft also opened its final "bug bash" challenge. That means the Windows 10 team is just about ready to button up the OS for its promised September debut.
Build 16241 also shows it's serious because of the nature of its new features, emphasizing nuts-and-bolts improvements over new capabilities. For example, Windows 10 now offers a great deal more granularity into how Windows updates will be delivered, and how you can manage their bandwidth. Task Manager adds deeper insights into what's going on with your GPU. Microsoft is also preparing for the launch of mixed-reality headsets with several updates to its MR capabilities.
Why this is important: Build 16241 marks the final lap in the race to the Fall Creators Update. Sure, it shows off some significant new features, but the simultaneous bug bash announcement signals that those will be the last additions. Remember, Microsoft has committed to a schedule of Windows upgrades in both March and September.That means the "shipping" version of the Fall Creators Update is just weeks away.
A greater degree of visibility within Windows
Massive Windows updates are part and parcel of owning a Windows machine. That doesn't mean you have to like them, however. Part of the new Windows 10 Build 16241 includes what Microsoft calls Delivery Optimization Advanced Options, where you'll be able to manage how much bandwidth Windows uses for updates. Typically, Windows tries to throttle itself so as not to not monopolize your connection. If you're on a low-bandwidth pipe and watching Netflix, for example, the amount of Windows update data will slow to a crawl.
What Windows doesn't know, however, is how much bandwidth is being used across your network, not only by other phones and PCs downloading information from the Internet, but also how much data is being sent from device to device. Now, you can manage that data.
Now you'll have a greater degree of visibility into what Windows is consuming.
That's important for two reasons: The first is just the impact on your own network performance. But for those who live in rural areas or have signed up for a broadband plan with a strict data cap, managing that flow of information can be vital. Remember that your PC can also be used as a local "node" to send updates around the neighborhood, though you can turn that off.
To show how much data Windows actually requires, Build 16241 includes the new Activity Monitor, which tracks data to and from your network, specific to Windows and its updates.
If you have a monthy data budget, this may end up being a handy screen.
If this level of visibility appeals to you, you'll probably be happy to learn that Microsoft tweaked the GPU portion of Task Manager once again. Now, you can view the active GPU's name and see which of its functions (including 3D, video decoding and video processing) are currently active. Microsoft also applied more descriptive labels to the tab processes used by Microsoft Edge, allowing you to see whether a particular Web page is slowing your system down, or a more generic service.
Prepping for mixed reality
Microsoft includes support for some fun in the latest build, too. Linux fans should be happy to know that the Bash shell now supports Ubuntu—an app that can be downloaded from the Windows Store.
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Microsoft's latest Insider build includes several fixes to make mixed reality a true reality.
Microsoft has also begun hammering out bugs within its mixed-reality devices—which have yet to begin shipping. It's unclear whether headsets like Acer's mixed-reality devices, which were shown off at the Build conference in May, will be ready in time for the Fall Creators Update launch, but Microsoft is apparently working hard to support them. The latest build includes support for USB motion controllers (with wireless support pledged soon) as well as a host of other improvements, including speech commands and a better teleportation experience. (In MR, users "jump" from spot to spot using what Microsoft calls "teleportation."
We expected Microsoft to take a somewhat conservative approach to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and so far it seems to be paying off. Assuming that the bug bash goes smoothly, that gives Microsoft about five weeks before September begins, and some wiggle room within that to ship the "final" version of the Fall Creators Update. Look for more of the pieces to fall into place over the coming weeks.
As PCWorld's senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats.
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