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Freedom. Conscience. Who Cares?
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If you ask a random sampling of young people what they believe conscience is, they will give you a relative response that divulges a myriad of opinions and viewpoints. Add to the question the meaning of freedom, and the same happens. Put the two together, and you will find yourself in a jungle of confusion with no compass or linear exit strategy.
So what is freedom of conscience? The idea that some would hold beliefs so strongly, and such strong beliefs, opens the door to a new battleground of ideas that is simply that, a battle on ideas.
It is consistent that in our society, perhaps the most pluralistic of modern societies, we wage such strong ideological wars. This is a sign that religion and the primacy of the right to hold on to personal dictates of conscience is not dead, but actually fighting for life.
The sign of life is its willingness to survive. In the normal course of human development it is a sign of health to retain the will to live, to flourish, to develop, to believe. When weakness, illness, or aging set in, the body's own defenses, physical and mental, weaken.
It seems the same holds true on the cultural level. No battles are more often fought than those dealing with ethical issues. Most of those battles revolve around lines of strongly held convictions. The sum of this is that the more ethical issues surface in public debate, the more heated and contentious the debates will be.
Belief is a sign of life, a sign of a healthy society, a sign that some things are so precious, so important, that by necessity they require a response: a cohesive and strong advocacy, a persistent, insistent, and definitive defense.
Freedom of conscience is the paramount issue at the heart of current debates on marriage, freedom of religion, insurance coverage of abortion inducing drugs by religious institutions, and a plethora of other contentious issues.
To defend the freedom of individuals to profess and exercise their own religious convictions is a paramount priority if our society is to be truly free.
After all, it is doubtful we will ever reach the point where no one cares. And by contrary analysis, insofar as we care, we are free.
By Maria Grizzetti, Director of Development at World Youth Alliance.
Freedom: The Open Window for the Sunlight of the Human Spirit
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity. They are endowed with reason and conscience and
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Leadership in Times of Indifference
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Q: What constitutes a good edit? My apologies if this has been asked before, and maybe I'm the only one confused by this, but according to the editing privileges page, common reasons for editing are:

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"Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!"

However, it also states that:

"Try to make the post substantively better when you edit, not just change a single character. Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged."

Is there any guide or metric to be applied to determine whether I should edit something or not?  Consider a post with a few misspelled words or grammar mistakes that is otherwise a good question/answer -- Reading posts here on Meta, it seems like editing that post is discouraged for various reasons, but that seems to contradict the first bullet point above.  Another thing I commonly see is people editing to remove "Thanks, poster_name_here".  While a "trivial" edit, removing it does make the post slightly better.  If that is the only thing that I can think of to change on the post, should I edit or refrain?  (Maybe more importantly, if I'm reviewing others' edits, should I accept or reject?)

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Maschili: خالد (Khaled)
Femminili: خالدة (Khalida)

Origine e diffusione
Deriva dall'arabo خلد (khalada, "vivere per sempre"), e vuol dire quindi "eterno", "immortale". Ha quindi significato analogo ai nomi Ambrogio, Atanasio e Javed.

È molto noto per essere stato il nome di Khalid ibn al-Walid, un compagno di Maometto e grande guerriero arabo musulmano.

Onomastico
Il nome è adespota, cioè non è portato da alcun santo. L'onomastico quindi si festeggia il giorno di Ognissanti, che è il 1º novembre.

Persone

Khalid Abdalla, attore britannico
Khalid al-Islambuli, terrorista e militare egiziano
Khalid Al-Muwallid, calciatore saudita
Khalid Al Qassimi, pilota di rally emiratino
Khalid Al-Rashaid, calciatore saudita
Khalid Al-Temawi, calciatore saudita
Khalid Askri, calciatore marocchino
Khalid bin Barghash di Zanzibar, sultano di Zanzibar
Khalid Boulahrouz, calciatore olandese
Khalid Darwish, calciatore kuwaitiano
Khalid dell'Arabia Saudita, re dell'Arabia Saudita
Khalid Eisa, calciatore emiratino
Khalid El-Amin, cestista statunitense
Khalid ibn al-Walid, guerriero arabo
Khalid ibn Sa'id, Sahaba di Maometto
Khalid Ismaïl, calciatore emiratino
Khalid Izri, cantante spagnolo
Khalid Khannouchi, atleta marocchino naturalizzato statunitense
Khalid Sebil Lashkari, calciatore emiratino
Khalid Muftah, calciatore qatariota
Khalid Reeves, cestista statunitense
Khalid Shamis, regista e produttore cinematografico sudafricano
Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, terrorista kuwaitiano
Khalid Sinouh, calciatore marocchino
Khalid Skah, atleta marocchino

Variante Khaled

Khaled, cantante algerino
Khaled Abou El Fadl, scrittore kuwaitiano
Khaled Al-Behair, giocatore di calcio a 5 saudita
Khaled Al-Hazaa, calciatore saudita
Khaled Ali, politico egiziano
Khaled Al Khamissi, scrittore, regista e giornalista egiziano
Khaled Fouad Allam, sociologo e politico algerino naturalizzato italiano
Khaled Al-Zylaeei, calciatore saudita
Khaled Alnafisah, giocatore di calcio a 5 saudita
Khaled Azaiez, calciatore tunisino
Khaled Aziz, calciatore saudita
Khaled Badra, calciatore tunisino
Khaled El-Amin, calciatore egiziano
Khaled Fadhel, calciatore tunisino
Khaled Gahwji, calciatore saudita
Khaled Gasmi, calciatore tunisino
Khaled Hafez, artista egiziano
Khaled Hosseini, scrittore e medico afghano
Khaled Kharroubi, calciatore algerino
Khaled Lemmouchia, calciatore algerino
Khaled Lounici, giocatore di calcio a 5 algerino
Khaled Kasab Mahameed, avvocato israeliano
Khaled Korbi, calciatore tunisino
Khaled Mardam-Bey, informatico palestinese naturalizzato britannico
Khaled Mesh'al, politico palestinese
Khaled Mohamed, calciatore libico
Khaled Mouelhi, calciatore tunisino
Khaled Souissi, calciatore tunisino

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Times Square's New Year's Eve party will return 'at full strength' for fully vaccinated New Yorkers: de Blasio
By Julia Moro
New York City will again hold a large New Year's Eve celebration open to fully vaccinated individuals, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Nov. 16, 2021.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that Times Square will welcome fully vaccinated people back on New Year's Eve to ring in 2022 with what will be the largest public celebration during the COVID-19 pandemic to date.
According to de Blasio, hundreds of thousands are expected to attend the "big, strong, full-strength celebration." However, he said, every guest will be required to adhere to strict vaccination protocols to curb the transmission of COVID-19.
Any attendee aged 5 and older will be required to show proof of full vaccination to join the festivities on Dec. 31; children under 5 years old must be accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult. Face coverings are also required for unvaccinated minors who are medically able to wear one.
To be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in time for New Year's Eve, any attendee not previously vaccinated will need to have received either the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or the second shot of the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna versions, by no later than Dec. 16; it takes two weeks after the dosage in order for the body to build full immunity.
Attendees who are unable to get vaccinated because of a medical disability will be required to show proof of a negative COVID PCR test taken within 72 hours before the event.
The celebration will be easily accessible online with a six-hour, commercial-free live stream for those unable to attend.
According to Thomas Harris, the president of the Times Square Alliance, over 270,000 people visited Times Square last Saturday. Over the past few months, visitation has increased by 50 percent. Harris attributes this success to safe vaccination efforts.
"These last few months showed us that we need to all do our part," Harris said. "Last year, we were able to celebrate in Times Square with a limited audience. This year we're working with medical experts to create the safest environment we can so that more people can enjoy the magic of being in Times Square on New Year's Eve."
Each year, attendees go through a security checkpoint before entering Times Square, where vaccination cards will be examined for the 2022 celebration.
De Blasio defended the decision to require vaccinations even though the event is outside, because of the anticipated large gathering in tight quarters in Times Square.
"Large numbers of people, in very close proximity for long periods of time," de Blasio said. "I think it's really clear why vaccination is called for."
Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city's health commissioner, agreed with de Blasio.
"Anyone who has spent New Year's Eve in Times Square knows that it's very difficult to maintain distance," Chokshi said. "The rationale for being fully vaccinated in that setting is to reduce the risk of transmission, which we know can occur outdoors even though the risk is lower. But, because the risk is greater with larger numbers of people in close proximity, this is the right decision."
More information will be announced in the coming weeks on the Times Square website.
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History of Austin
Historically, the city of Austin, Texas, began as a sparsely populated area in the western part of the state. In 1838, the Texas Congress appointed a commission to select a suitable location for a city. The area's natural resources, central location, and beauty impressed the commission. In 1839, it purchased 7,735 acres of land along the Colorado River, including the hamlet of Waterloo. It also purchased adjacent lands. However, the commission was not satisfied with the location due to its vulnerability to Indian and Mexican troops' attacks.
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The city is also becoming a hub for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The Milken Institute ranked Austin as the 12th biotech center in the nation in 2004. CBRE Group ranks Austin as the third most important emerging life sciences cluster in the United States. Some notable companies include Hospira, Pharmaceutical Product Development, ArthroCare Corporation, GoodPop, Keller Williams Realty, National Western Life, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Outdoor Voices, and Tito's Vodka.
Austin's population is highly diverse. The city's population is a mixture of white and black residents, with approximately 72 percent non-Hispanic and 48.3% Hispanic or Latino. There are also a few minority groups, including Asians and Native Americans. The city has a diverse cultural history and a rich history of Mexican-American residents.
Founded in 1839, Austin is the capital of Texas and the county seat of Travis County. It is located along the Colorado River and Interstate Highway 35. It is at 30deg16′ north latitude and 97deg45′ west longitude and is situated on the eastern edge of the Hill Country. The city was first founded by the three-year-old Republic of Texas. It was named after Stephen F. Austin, the first president of the Texas Republic.
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Downtown Austin offers a wide range of museums. The Rainey Street Historic District is home to several museums and historic buildings. Many of the original bungalow-style homes in the district have been converted into bars, restaurants, and hotels. The area also features the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Nearby, you can visit the O. Henry House Museum and take in some of the city's rich cultural heritage. You can also see many of Ney's sculptures, including busts that are as lifelike as the ones in the book. Some of these pieces include statues, ornaments, and fountains.
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KVUE reporter reflects on losing his home after Harvey takes a toll on the Texas Gulf Coast
Despite being fully committed in covering the disaster, I never thought I'd see the day I would lose my very own childhood home.
Author: Juan Rodriguez
Published: 10:21 PM CDT September 1, 2018
Updated: 11:47 PM CDT September 1, 2018
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — There are a lot of things I'll remember from covering Hurricane Harvey for the news, but one moment I can never forget is walking into my childhood home that was submerged in flooding waters.
Harvey took so much from Southeast Texas in late August of 2017. The rain wouldn't stop falling.
In Port Arthur, for several days, the rain down-poured across the city, overflowing ditches and flooding major streets like Gulf Way Drive.
By the second day of intense rain, the water was about waist deep in many homes.
Family's like mine remained in prayer, hoping the water go down.
At this time — water was centimeters from going into our home
Plans were made for them to leave
My sisters and mom put most valuable things high off the floor
Dad figured out a way to get them out safe#Harvey1YearLater pic.twitter.com/5Fdf9xBukG
— Juan L. Rodríguez「 KVUE 」 (@_JuanRodriguez_) August 29, 2018
As the night evolved on Aug. 29, the waters also rose, forcing my family to evacuate from flooding waters and make their way to higher ground for shelter.
While out in the field reporting, it was an immense heartbreak to speak to people who had just lost their homes.
In Orange, Tx. — electricity was already starting to go out, and water coming inside the hotel
This is when #Harvey was making landfall for the second time in Southeast Texas pic.twitter.com/wKNdW7YYgN
Cellphone video of Aug. 31 shows the cries of my mother as she returns home for the first time.
My father, wearing the only clothes he had on his back, pulling a boat, hoping to help anyone escape the waist-deep waters.
The only thing left of my home on that day was family memories and pictures, and the biggest heartbreak with seeing childhood albums that could never be replaced.
The once driveable roads of Port Arthur quickly turned into rivers, boats from all over the country took over the streets to help out with rescues.
Nearly 135,000 homes like mine where completely destroyed.
After the storm, my family was scattered around
Couch surfed with family members until December
When our smallest house was rebuilt at 75%, we all moved in
Still a year later, my inflatable mattress bed is in the kitchen
This is my view until now — picking out lunch for work pic.twitter.com/W0etsB7gYz
It took nearly a week until the water receded enough for us to get into what was left of our home. And for weeks, our belongings were left in trash piles on the side of the road.
To save money because we didn't have flood insurance, my family was fully committed to do most of the work on our own. And already having one full-time job, the workload extended more.
It's been a year after the catastrophic storm and still my family is yet to return back home.
My family now lives with my sister in her recently rebuilt home, which also flooded a year ago.
Dinners with the family are spent at a makeshift table, where we've learned to appreciate the small things we were able to save: like photographs, a reminder of the slow recovery as many of us still work to get back home.
To those who rescued my family from the flood waters, gave us food, warmth and shelter... from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
As a flood victim who lost everything from the catastrophic events of Harvey, I can truly attest that times of disaster bring us together -- a nation as a whole.


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7 Arrested in New York Charged With Threatening Police
Seven people have been arrested in New York and charged with making threats against police officers.
The arrests come after the killing of two patrolmen who were shot in their squad car on Dec. 20, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
Police spokesperson Officer Sophia Mason said six were charged with making threats of a terrorist nature through social media or in phone calls to police.
The seventh, 38-year-old Elvin Payamps from Queens, was overheard talking on his phone about killing police. He was arrested on Wednesday on charges of marijuana and illegal gun possession.
Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio has asked people in the city to report any threats against police that they see posted online.
[Bloomberg]
Wisconsin Man has Same 'Supernatural' Christmas Tree for 40 Years
This is a good one!!
A Wisconsin man has had the same Christmas tree for four decades.
Neil Olson put up a Christmas tree for the last time in 1974, when his six sons went to fight in the Vietnam War and he promised not to take the tree down until all the men were back home safe for the holidays, the Marshfield News Herald reports. Olsen hasn't taken that tree down since.
Olson's oldest son was injured at war and hasn't been able to get home to Wausau, WI, from Washington state for Christmas. The tinsel-dripping, ornamented tree, meanwhile, looks just as it did 40 years ago, though its needles are a bit yellowed.
"It's supernatural, I say," Olson, 89, told the Wausau Daily Herald. He added that if his sixth son gets home for Christmas one year, he predicts "the needles will drop right off" the waiting tree.
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NYPD In Mourning Over Deaths Of Officers Rafael Ramos, Wenjian Liu
This is so sad this is not the way what the hell is world coming to? This is not going to bring them back!! Please prey for the families who just lost love ones for the holidays. When will this end? 😦
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Flags are flying at half-staff at the New York Police Department's 84th precinct in Downtown Brooklyn after two officers were gunned down Saturday afternoon while on duty.
The two officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were shot dead as they sat in their marked patrol car at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Officer Ramos had just celebrated his 40th birthday on December 12. As CBS2's Dave Carlin reported, Ramos had previously been a school safety officer with the NYPD. He would have been with the force three years this January.
Those who knew him said he loved being stationed with the 84th precinct, Carlin reported.
Ramos leaves behind a wife and 13-year-old son.
"We met the wife of Officer Ramos, we met his 13-year-old son who couldn't comprehend what happened to his father," Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday.
OMG!!! Netflix has done it again I just finish watching Marco Polo a new one by Netflix and let me tell you right now that it is not to miss!! Its so good I love shows that are base on history and has a great story and this show gives me all that and more. With shows like "House of Cards" and "Orange is the new Black" the other networks better watch there backs. 🙂
Awesome Friday Night With Bill Plympton.
I hope on Friday everyone had fun watching Bill's new animated short Cheatin on Friday at The Museum of the Moving Image cause I know I did!! It was awesome!! I was working but I still enjoyed myself, these are the times when I like working here when you get to meet someone you have been a fan of for year and I'm so happy that I did!! 🙂 what an awesome night!! Thanks Bill!! 🙂
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Here are Twitter's Top 10 Political Moments of 2014
Your Top 10.
From inside jokes to political movements, it's been a busy year on Twitter.
With 2014 drawing to a close, the popular micro-blogging service released its top 10 political moments early Wednesday to coincide with a broader look-back on the last 12 months.
#WelcomeToTwitter
In February, Secretary of State John Kerry re-joined Twitter, a year after his confirmation to the role.
It only took a year but @StateDept finally let me have my own @Twitter account. #JKTweetsAgain
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) February 4, 2014
In June, the Central Intelligence Agency joined the service with a message that would be the most retweeted government/political tweet of the year, according to Twitter.
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
#BringBackOurGirls
According to Twitter, the @FLOTUS tweet is her most RT'd tweet ever and generated 9 million impressions and 4 million embedded Tweet…


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Hungarian regulator recommended approval of Sputnik V vaccine
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The Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacology and Food Safety has recommended approving the use of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
It is reported by the Hungarian news portal Index, citing sources.
It is noted that all that remains is to obtain data from laboratory and other studies of the National Center for Public Health, after which mass deliveries of the drug from Russia can be established.
Earlier it was reported that Hungary became the first European country to receive samples of the Russian coronavirus vaccine for clinical trials. On November 19, 2020, a sample of the Sputnik V vaccine was delivered to Hungary.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto said that the authorities expect to localize part of the production of the Russian vaccine on their territory.
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Biden's headquarters intends to extend the arms reduction treaty with Russia
The US assessed the likelihood of a war between Russia and Ukraine


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Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms
Sung Ho Park, Seoung Bum Kim
School of Industrial Management Engineering
Multivariate control charts, including Hotelling's T2 chart, have been widely adopted for the multivariate processes found in many modern systems. However, traditional multivariate control charts assume that the in-control group is the only population that can be used to determine a decision boundary. However, this assumption has restricted the development of more efficient control chart techniques that can capitalise on available out-of-control information. In the present study, we propose a control chart that improves the sensitivity (i.e., detection accuracy) of a Hotelling's T2 control chart by combining it with classification algorithms, while maintaining low false alarm rates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to combine classification algorithms and control charts. Simulations and real case studies demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed control chart.
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Published - 2019 Jun 3
classification algorithm
multivariate control chart
statistical process control
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Park, S. H., & Kim, S. B. (2019). Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70(6), 889-897. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2018.1468859
Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms. / Park, Sung Ho; Kim, Seoung Bum.
In: Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 70, No. 6, 03.06.2019, p. 889-897.
Park, SH & Kim, SB 2019, 'Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 889-897. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2018.1468859
Park SH, Kim SB. Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 2019 Jun 3;70(6):889-897. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2018.1468859
Park, Sung Ho ; Kim, Seoung Bum. / Multivariate control charts that combine the Hotelling T2 and classification algorithms. In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 2019 ; Vol. 70, No. 6. pp. 889-897.
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MURDER MYSTERY MACHINE – Review
Posted bymatthasanopinion 15th Sep 2021 15th Sep 2021 Posted inUncategorizedTags:Adventure, Cases, Deductions, Detective, Game, Murder Mystery Machine, Mystery, PC, Point and Click, Review, Solve, Videogame
It's been a good while since I reviewed my last game, but I think it's time I jumped back on the bandwagon. I have a bit of a niche when it comes to gaming, as more often then not I seem to fall back on the detective genre – so when "Murder Mystery Machine" dropped, I knew I had to give it a go and review it.
You can check out my other review for "Paradise Killer" below, as well as some of my other gaming lists:
PARADISE KILLER – Review
All 8 Ace Attorney Games Ranked – Main Series and Investigations
Phoenix Wright Trilogy – Cases Ranked
Danganronpa – Every Chapter Ranked
Danganronpa – Every Single Character Ranked
Sherlock Holmes – Cases Ranked (Frogwares Games)
I'll try to split up my review of the story into two sections, one as a spoiler-free zone and the other delving into more of the specific plot points.
NON-SPOILER:
There are multiple chapters, or "cases", in this game, and each one told its own interesting tale with multiple possible murder weapons, culprits and motives. The deductions really boil down to the classic "Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?", which may seem surface-level but actually works really well in the context of the investigation.
These aren't completely separate cases, however – there's an overarching plot in "Murder Mystery Machine", and quite a gripping one at that. Even if the case itself wasn't floating my boat, it still had little clues and moments that hinted towards the grand finale, and that feeling of a dramatic conclusion building to a show-stopping finale was enough to keep me playing.
SPOILERS:
I really liked how truly interconnected each case was; the murder in case one, the chapter about a dead P.I. and a missing child, grand ideas of Government plots and corrupt leaders – every cog felt like it contributed to this well-oiled machine, and I was hooked.
That being said, the climax wasn't really what I wanted. None of the decisions you make along the way affect the ending at all, and I'm pretty sure even the final climactic decision does nothing in the end – maybe that was the point? That nothing we do will ever change the world? Even so, the resolution didn't feel as satisfying as I thought it could be, and the final case itself where you confront the politician had hardly anything exciting going on.
Unfortunately, you'll have to scroll down to my "Not-So-Good" section of the review to see the majority of my thoughts on the gameplay. While I did enjoy some aspects of it, for the most part I was a little frustrated by my overall gaming experience.
As for the positives – the isometric aesthetic for the investigations was super fun, and the deduction system was an interesting approach for the genre.
Let's talk about the crime scene investigations first: I really liked how you could approach the scene from all four angles, it made me feel like I was actually there uncovering all the hard to spot clues (well, if only the clues themselves weren't so easy to find …). The scenes themselves were also beautifully realised, with lots of little details to keep you searching the screen. Walking around the scenes wasn't as bad as I originally thought it was going to be either, as the point-and-click gameplay complemented the slow and methodical deduction work.
Also, while I did find some fundamental flaws with the deduction system, the ideas themselves behind it were a fun concept to mess around with. Organising the evidence to form some sort of cohesive logical deductions was extremely satisfying, and slowly watching nodes be added and coupled up made for a fun detective experience.
I'll get to it in a bit, but the gameplay was a real mixed bag for me. You'll find out a bit more as to why in the next section …
The Not-So-Good
Well, where do I begin?
For starters, in a game about investigations and deductive reasoning, the investigations fall a bit flat and the deductions are forced. Sure, the environments and crime scenes are pretty cool, but each clue is literally flashing on screen, so any sense of accomplishment is immediately diminished.
And as for the deductions system, while it was fun when it worked it hardly ever did exactly what you'd expect it to. All clues and deductions have to be found in the order that the developers programmed, which makes it very frustrating when the deduction you need to progress is a far-fetched and borderline ridiculous assumption. On top of that, you could just cheese it completely by connecting every possible deduction node to one another – I never did it (as I tried to maintain a proper playthrough), but it didn't really matter in the end as you'll never reach all the deductions to get an A rank regardless.
You know what else didn't matter? The dialogue options and character development in general. Any "decisions" that the player had to make were inconsequential in the end as A) they didn't affect the story whatsoever, and B) I didn't particularly care for the characters anyway. Their dialogue and interactions were always so flat and cliché, and I found myself just rushing through it all to get back to the investigating part. Whilst I did enjoy the narrative and the directions it went, I never felt like the characters themselves were being affected by my discoveries and choices.
How Much Fun Did I Have?
So, after spewing out all the various highlights and drawbacks, we come to arguably the most important section of all – how much fun did I have with "Murder Mystery Machine"? Would I recommend it to a friend, or replay it again myself?
In short, no. I had a fairly reasonable time with it on the whole, as the narrative (and the fact it was a detective game) was enough to keep me hooked, but from an objective and cynical stand-point, there isn't much to shout about. I've pretty much forgotten all about this game in the days since I've played it, and I can almost guarantee that I'll never visit it again. Still, it certainly did the job as far as mind-numbing entertainment goes.
With an intriguing premise and a trailer that promised a detective experience like no other, I have to say I was a little underwhelmed in the end. "Murder Mystery Machine" certainly had its moments, and if you've nothing else to do it might be worth checking out, but otherwise you'd be better off just finding something else to play.
FINAL SCORE: 5.5/10
+ An intriguing narrative that kept me somewhat engaged – Characters are all one-dimensional, making dialogue a bore
+ Deduction system is fun when it works – Deduction system isn't always self-explanatory, and can be exploited
– Investigations are linear / gated, so you have to find each clue and deduction in order to progress
– Exploring crime scenes felt underwhelming
So there you have it – I wasn't exactly a huge fan of this game in the end by the time the credits rolled. You can check out some of my latest blog posts below:
Every Sidemen Sunday of 2021 Ranked
As far as I'm concerned, The Sidemen have been the champions of the YouTube scene for at least the past couple of years. They've really made my lockdown experience more bearable with their frequent upload schedule, and every Sunday I can look forward to an entertaining video to end the week. They released a SidemenContinue reading "Every Sidemen Sunday of 2021 Ranked"
by matthasanopinion	 16th Jan 2022 16th Jan 2022
50 Underrated David Bowie Songs
I thought I'd just have a bit of fun with this one – I've made far too many lists about David Bowie, and I promise I'll run out soon! In my various lists I've mentioned a few songs that I thought were underrated, so my original plan was to pick out 10 or 20 tracksContinue reading "50 Underrated David Bowie Songs"
by matthasanopinion	 9th Jan 2022 8th Jan 2022
Beatles "Love" – Songs Ranked
"Love" is a bit of an oddity within the Beatles' catalogue, as they didn't really have anything to do with it. The album came around after the Cirque Du Soliel show of the same name needed a soundtrack, so Giles Martin (son of George Martin) came in to remix some of the band's most recognisableContinue reading "Beatles "Love" – Songs Ranked"
by matthasanopinion	 2nd Jan 2022 2nd Jan 2022
What I learned from re-listening to David Bowie's entire discography
Every Beatles Album – Which Beatle was MVP?
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Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.
This course is designed to fulfill that personal need to refine and improve your freediving skills, allowing you to progress slowly while learning how your body performs during apnea.
The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. You will make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.
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Let me add text notes to photo, stacks of photos, and directories of photos so that I can record shot and processing details. I'd like to be able to print the notes along with an image thumbnail.
You can add something to one of a photograph's metadata fields but I've always felt that's not really suitable for annotating images, which is kind of what you're talking about. An annotation, for me at least, should be a more visible thing. You should see it marked as a corner icon on an image thumbnail and I'd like to see it optionally pop up on mouse hover. I'd also like to see something on folder and collection icons that show the existence of an annotation.
And annotations, as has already been discussed, should be extended to collections, publish services, folders, groups and any other image sets.
There's been a few plugin type workarounds for this but they've never really been as useful as they could be because the SDK doesn't have the bits you need to make it work properly.
It's a good request because you need set-level information for things like shoot notes, notes on how you've put together, say, an hdr or panorama. Shots can often be made up from several stages, they can get complex. Annotations on stages and groups of stages with construction notes ... big plus.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: free-text and status flags on Folders and Collections.
- the text and status can be set at Import / Create.
With theses enhancements, we can manage our dev/print/export to-do project from within LR.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Annotate Collections folders for general processing / handling notes.
It would often be helpful to make few notes to remind me of things (like lighting conditions & white balance thoughts, editing requirements etc) as I work through to refine a set of images. It would be especially useful when it will be some time before I can return to the images for further refinement and am likely to have forgotten a few things in between!
Can Adobe consider adding some form of "Collections folder Annotation" so users can make some basic notes please?
It could be a "speech bubble type" notepad as in Excel for comments perhaps, or some linked type of document perhaps?
it's a great idea and should be addressed....I think it would be super to have this almost as a simple txt file (don't get me wrong I'd love to upload diagrams and such but those could go in a subfolder) referenced that could be searched or viewed inside and outside of LR. I could see a need for all those editing or stack notes or collection notes in the same folder that the photos are in....that way if catalog corrupts you still have a hard copy of those notes.
it's a great idea indeed. This is what I am looking for.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Notes field.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Notes field.Add a notes field that can be accessed in the Library Panel, much like John Beardy's BigNote plugin. I find this tremendously useful for storing information that I may not want exported with images within the caption field.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Notes - try to remember not to forget.
I would like to see an "add a note feature" added to Lightroom in the Photo menu. Sometimes I will look at some of my shots and have an idea I may want to implement in the future and without the ability to add a note on to that photo both the idea and the photo it is attached to, slip out of memory. It would be very nice to be able to add a notation to individual shots for whatever reason.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Post-it notes.
As a professional user, using Lightroom since v1 through 4, in conjunction with PS, I have often wanted to make this suggestion: we are frequently needing the ability to use something akin to a simple 'Post-it-Note' to record 'to do' type tasks or other relevant information on an INDIVIDUAL photo in a collection. We often exhaust all our colour coding and rating options, and it would be just SO useful to have a portion of the screen where a little popup can be shown, looking exactly like a post it note, where we can jot down info about the photo. It would greatly improve our workflow, as currently, we have to use notebooks etc to write things down. It is not something you can put in the metadata etc, but an 'on the fly' popup for each photo as requqired. Would be mighty handy.
We would store customers info, print sizes, actions we wish to use, etc etc, the list is endless really. It would be a killer feature in my opinion. We use a Win 7 post it notes currently, but that is not exactly streamlined, and is not tied to each photo, so next to useless.
Would appreciate you consideration This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Post-it note.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Ability to add "Post-It" like note on images.
On the Photo drop down menu, could we get a "Notes" tab, that acts like a post it note? attach to an image. It would be real handy with development and printing. Coming back at a later date you could pop the note and see just what you were thinking. i.e. printing an image 3/4 different ways, which one seemed the best. History is no help because it records all or none, but the note could tell you. Maybe the note could be attached to, "noted in history" as well. Maybe a flag could be attached to a history item to mark a preference?
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Memo Field for Notes on Photos In Lightroom..
As a professional photographer and author I need to keep notes on photographs that I take. I think every photo has a story and it is hard to remember details over time. Also putting a book together in Lightroom a memo field would be exceptionally important. I small note icon could be added to the edge of the photo. When you click on it Lightroom opens a Memo Field. Since Lightroom is database driven it would seem to be a not so complex task to add a Memo Field to the data storage table and a memo window to add notes. Then in the book module you could create a text area and then past the notes from the photo in the text field.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Function suggestion : collection description / Meta.
Using quite a lot of collections in my LR catalogue (about 35 000 photos kept in the catalogue and more than a hundred collections) I would find quite useful and efficient to have a field for collection description.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Comments or Notes.
I am curious why , in the Library module, comments are not supported. I really need a place to put notes; some type of free form text. Lightroom does a great job of tracking what you did to an image but provides no place to document your thought processes. I often find myself trying to remember why I made a post processing decision or things that I tried that didn't produce a desired outcome.


Besides Maude White's artwork there is much of interest, including linocut monsters by Bill Fick and a letterpress cover by Richard Kegler. She prefers a sharp X-acto knife, "It may sound weird, but I love to cut, " she said, "I just enjoy the process." She also shared one trade secret of her technique. She uses a silver colored pencil to sketch on the black paper before she begins cutting.
"I have great respect for paper. When I cut, the thin membranous material reveals its strength to me. No matter how small my cuts the paper holds. There is a certain comfort in that, a comfort I enjoy. I feel that there are very few things in the world as reliable and constant as paper. Paper is everywhere and it has been telling stories for centuries. By respecting and honoring paper for what it is, and not considering it a stepping-stone to something greater, I feel like I am communicating some of the pleasure it brings to me. I am not creating for Art's sake. I am creating for Paper's sake, to make visible the stories that every piece of paper attempts to communicate to us".


One of top female wrestlers in her weight class, senior Logan Mize will be a top contender at the state meet Friday and Saturday.
For many girls, the early elementary school years are a time for princesses, dance or maybe soccer or softball. But for senior Logan Mize it was something else; something she still has a passion for more than a decade later.
Finishing 4th in state her sophomore year, Logan is the defending state champion in the 119-pound weight division and is seeking to defend her title Friday and Saturday at the state meet in Cypress.
Repeating as a state champion is first and foremost on her mind this week, but she is also thinking ahead.
With only twenty colleges in the United States sponsoring a women's varsity wrestling program, Logan and her family are ready to see what she can do at the next level.
Unlike sports such as soccer or basketball, there aren't many career options for wrestling, which means many wrestlers stop competing after high school. But according to assistant wrestling coach Tim Brennan, that's not the case for Logan.
Senior Logan Mize finished with a gold medal at the regional tournament in her junior year. Mize's pin in the finals clinched the team title for the girls.
A sport many participants don't pick up until middle school or high school, wrestling with others was in Logan's DNA long before she began doing it competitively.
Beyond the competition component, Logan's dad says wrestling has taught her many life skills.
Logan's desire to be one of the best in the state is noticed by her teammates.
In her final days as a high school wrestler, her coaches see a difference since she began wrestling four years ago.
Repeating as a state champion is a tough challenge in any sport, but as Logan seeks to do just that, she feels she is prepared for whatever comes her way this weekend.
This is Logan's mom, great article thank you!!! Just want to clarify she DID place at State her Freshman Year. She placed 6th. She is the First Girl in Frisco ISD to place all 4 years!!
This is a very nicely written article Kasey. Congratulations to Logan Mize! She is a great example for competitive young girls.


Following the Fatal Accident of John Reyna, Should 18-Wheeler U-Turns Be Illegal?
Should Semi-Truck U-Turns Be Illegal?
It's difficult for a truck accident law firm to ask questions about commercial truck safety without those who drive trucks for a living taking offense and thinking we're "anti-trucker." I'd like to dispense that notion right off the bat. We have the utmost respect for 99% of professional truck drivers who drive their whole careers safely and without incident. I'll be the first to admit that most professional truck drivers can do things in vehicles that I certainly can't.
That being said, a recent accident on highway 239, just west of Tivoli, Texas has some of us at the office asking whether or not 18-wheeler U-turns should be illegal, or at the very least, greatly restricted.
There really isn't a good place to make a safe U-turn for a car on this stretch of the road, let alone an 18-wheeler. For reasons unknown, the driver of the truck attempted a U-turn and a car, driven by John Reyna, 70, was unable to avoid the trailer of the truck, which stretched across the entirety of the road. Mr. Reyna was killed in the accident. A second car driven by Sheldon Greenwood was also unable to avoid the accident and he suffered serious injuries.
Complicating matters is that the stretch of highway where the truck driver attempted his U-turn has a speed limit of 75 miles per hour. For those whose instinct is to defend truck drivers, regardless of the facts of a specific case, one of their go to rebuttals is that the driver of the passenger car must have been speeding. While I have no doubt that in some situations, that is absolutely the case, in this instance, even if the drivers were obeying the speed limit, they were going to come up on any trailer in the roadway in a hurry.
If the driver had attempted this ill-advised maneuver in broad daylight, perhaps the truck would have been visible from a mile or two away, but that he chose to do so at night, with only the reflective tape on the trailer to alert other motorists of his presence, greatly reduced the visibility of his trailer. Most of the truck-driving literature that I have found recommends leaving at least 500 feet between a truck attempting a U-turn and any potential oncoming traffic. For a truck relying on reflective tape for the trailer to be seen, this is at the outer range of its effectiveness.
At the speeds on this highway, it takes a motorist doing the speed limit over 400 feet to come to a complete stop, when reaction time is added to the time is takes for a vehicle to brake. Cars traveling at 75 mph travel over 110 feet every second. This means that even if the driver allowed for the recommended distance of 500 feet while performing the maneuver, any drivers would have literally a split second over the absolute minimum amount of time necessary to bring their vehicles to a stop.
When looking at the known facts in the Tavoli crash, it's hard to see how the truck driver's decision was not reckless. While acknowledging just how dangerous it was to attempt a U-turn on this particular stretch of road, one can look at map to see what might motivate a driver to attempt such a maneuver; In this particular part of rural Texas, the nearest place to turn around in a safe manner might have been 10 or 15 miles away.
It is the conflict between the impracticality of U-turns in many areas of the country and the dangers of the maneuver, which make the topic of banning U-turns for 18-wheelers so potentially contentious.
The reason to make 18-wheeler U-turns illegal would be that ridding the roads of this dangerous maneuver would likely save lives. While there are no accurate statistics for how many accidents occur because a truck is making a U-turn in a dangerous place, our anecdotal experience handling truck accident cases has brought to our attention dozens of cases with fact patterns like the one in this case.
It also appears that the private sector hasn't let the dangers of 18-wheeler U-turns go unnoticed. In researching this article, I was able to confirm that both Schneider and Werner, two of the bigger players in the trucking industry, ban their drivers from making U-turns. In fact, if a driver for either of these companies is caught making a U-turn, they can be fired on the spot. I would normally be skeptical of such a rule and wonder if it's actually enforced, but I have seen some accounts that drivers have actually been fired for violating the rule.
If you happened to check out the videos of truck drivers skillfully making U-turns, there is one thing you might have missed. In both videos it takes the driver almost 2 minutes to execute the U-turn. Granted the roads they are on are less improved than almost any highway in the country, but the fact remains there is no quick way for trucks to make these turns. Even if a truck could make a U-turn in half the time on the stretch of road where Mr. Reyna's and Mr. Greenwood's accident occurred, that still means the truck would have been blocking the roadway for a whole minute.
If a driver can't execute a maneuver without blocking road for at least a minute, it doesn't seem like it should be legal to do such a turn without flaggers, markers, and flares to alert other drivers.
To recap, the case for banning 18-wheeler U-turns is that they're dangerous and if there were illegal fewer drivers would perform the maneuver, which in turn would save lives. It wouldn't even be a difficult law to implement, since a fair number of larger companies in the industry already have such a policy in place.
Perhaps the biggest reason not to pursue a law against 18-wheelers making U-turns is that there is already one on the books that prevents the consequences of this behavior, which is the obstruction of a highway.
In Texas, Class B misdemeanors are punishable by up to 6 months in jail and/or a $2,000 fine. When applied to trucker U-turns and the deadly consequences that often arise, this may seem like a slap on the wrist. However, it is difficult to envision any U-turn ban that would have penalties that are much stiffer. Any ban will certainly not be a felony and even Class A misdemeanors only carry the possibility of 1 year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
So if we have a law on the books that already applies to these types of accidents and it doesn't appear to prevent them, how much sense does it make to enact another law just so we can feel like we're doing something?
A semi-truck U-turn ban would also ignore that there are vast swaths of our very large country where there really is nowhere for a truck to change directions. This often presents truckers with a dilemma, they can drive an hour out of their way to avoid a U-turn, or they have to attempt the dangerous maneuver. This choice appears to be behind most deadly trucker U-turns.
This is most likely why current laws against obstructing roadways are sometimes ignored. I'm not saying that this is right or wrong. I've read of a lot of truckers who will drive an hour out of their way to avoid any potentially dangerous situations, but human nature being what it is, it would be silly to expect that in practice every single driver will be so selfless. Instead effective laws and regulations account for the fact that when it comes to doing the right thing, but being greatly inconvenienced, or taking an illegal short-cut that doesn't "really hurt anyone," a lot of us are taking the short-cut.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't ban 18-wheeler U-turns because there's a good chance that some people will ignore that ban and it won't really solve the problem. By that logic we wouldn't have any laws.
It just strikes me that had this same scenario occurred in broad daylight, it is unlikely that an accident would have resulted. That stretch of road is straight and flat with potential visibility for miles. This means that the heart of the matter is a question of trailer visibility. Having viewed some accident photos, it appears that the truck in question had reflective tape running down the side, as required by law.
This suggests that simple reflective tape doesn't do an adequate job alerting oncoming motorists of the presence of a trailer. While it may provide some added visibility, reflective tape regulations are ill-suited for highways when vehicles are traveling at high speeds. If the underlying cause behind these accidents is that there simply isn't enough time to for drivers to react to a trailer that is illegally blocking the road, then a solution might not involve banning maneuvers that are already illegal, but requiring better illumination on trailers.
Just as many large trucks are equipped with warning systems that beep when they are backing up, it doesn't strike me as beyond the realm of our current technology to equip trailers with flashing lights for side illumination during these maneuvers. This could potentially increased visibility beyond the range of simple reflective tape, allowing drivers approaching blocked roads and intersections to spot the trailer from a much greater distance, preventing situations like the one outside of Tivoli, where John Reyna may not have had sufficient to see the trailer and then apply the brakes.
If it sounds too expensive to equip trailers with side lighting then you haven't looked around for a flashlight on Amazon lately. High powered LED flashlights can be had for as little at $10. While it is still possible that these won't work in truly awful weather conditions, a better illuminated trailer would, if nothing else, given people like John Reyna and Sheldon Greenwood more time to avoid trailers blocking the roadway.
Another reason to increase trailer visibility during dangerous maneuvers is that it would likely prove more effective than a U-turn ban. As noted before, many times the only solution for a driver in a rural part of the country to avoid a dangerous U-turn is to drive up to an hour or hour and a half out of their way. Some, who aren't familiar with the trucking industry and the regulations imposed on truckers, might think that a ban would work, because it just means drivers have to go out of their way. What these folks forget is that truck drivers are bound by Hours of Service regulations.
Hours of Service dictate how much time a truck driver can spend behind the wheel. Undoubtedly, many of these dangerous U-turn accidents coincide with drivers who don't have enough hours of service left to go an hour out of their way and not go over their hours of service. Going over a truck driver's allotted hours of service and carry fines for the driver ranging between $1,000 and $11,000 as well penalties that can ultimately lead to other sanctions, including the loss of their livelihood. In some situations, this presents a real dilemma for truck drivers. Do they go over their hours of service in the interest of safety, or do they save time to get off the clock, by making a risky maneuver?
A U-turn ban doesn't solve this dilemma. To be fair, neither would regulations requiring better illumination of trailers when the truck is in reverse. In the latter instance, at least other drivers would be more likely to spot a hazard on the road and have a better chance of avoiding it.
Some may argue that requiring better illumination on trailers would be a costly regulation. I don't deny that there would be a cost to this course of action, but compared to the loss of life, as well as the large sums of money that trucking companies have to pay out in cases like this, over the long-term, better illumination would not only save lives, but money as well.
In Texas, commercial trucks are required to have at least $1 million in insurance. Even if we suppose that a regulation requiring better trailer illumination would cost $100 per trailer, each trailer collision prevented could potentially save trucking companies and their insurers enough money to add better lighting to 10,000 trailers. While there are millions of such trailers in the United States, the dozens of accidents that are avoided could pay for these life-saving upgrades in a matter of years.
Other than living with the status quo and accepting that some people, like John Reyna, are just going to die in accidents where trucks attempt dangerous U-turns, which I won't, the only other solution would be to re-engineer roads with places for trucks to make safer turns at reasonable intervals. While this goal should certainly be a consideration in any new road construction, the sheer size of our country with its vast, empty spaces makes it far more expensive to have truck turnarounds every few miles than to require that trailers be better illuminated.
Owning a truck accident injury law firm means that I have seen this fact pattern in numerous other instances. While the ensuing crashes, deaths, and gruesome injuries that result from trucks making U-turns and blocking roadways are not always the truck driver's fault, the maneuver is always risky. While it is a perfectly natural impulse see a dangerous behavior and attempt to pass a law against it, the fact remains that laws aren't magic. Bad laws often result from trying to stop a behavior instead of ameliorating its worst consequences. However, unless we're comfortable with more people being killed like Mr. Reyna, or seriously injured like Mr. Greenwood, a solution must be found.
Can a city create an ordinance banning a semi truck from backing up on a state highway into a private parking space within 100 feet of a fire station?
The Fire department has had to wait several times while firefighters are dispatched to a scene. Sometimes it's up to 8 minutes for him to move out of the way.
That's a great questions Steven. To be perfectly frank, it's also a question that I don't have a good answer to, since I don't know the powers of local government in your area.
However, I would suggest that such a law isn't necessary. Like most people, I know that when an emergency vehicle approaches, the law requires me to pull over. I'm going to go out on a limb (since I was in the same boat) and say that most people don't know where in the law that rule is found or what the consequences are for not pulling over.
In Texas, Title 7, Subtitle C, Section 545.156 is where you want to look. It states that motorists have to do three things. First, one has to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle. Secondly, drivers have to move as close as possible to the right-hand side of the road, without blocking an intersection. Lastly, they have to remain stopped or standing until the emergency vehicle passes. Having lived in a few other states, their laws seem to follow this same general formula.
What state law doesn't do is spell out any consequences for failing to yield the right of way to emergency vehicles. It appears that in Texas local jurisdictions are the ones who set the penalties for violating this part of the law. I looked up the fine in Dallas County, and when all is said and done, not yielding to an emergency vehicle is going to set you back $266.00. That's where the solution to your problem may lie.
What follows is certainly civic advice, not legal advice, but I think the best course of action is to notify local law enforcement officials of what's going on. This will allow them to monitor the situation and impose fines when your 18-wheeler driver is blocking the road and preventing emergency vehicles from getting where they're going. If the fines are anywhere near as severe as they are in Dallas, Harris, or Tarrant County, then it won't take long for the driver to get the message that he needs to find somewhere else to park his truck.
Now some people might suggest that this is anti-trucker and the driver has every right to park his vehicle where he pleases. Well, there's likely one of two scenarios at play here. Either the parking space is attached to a business, and they have an obligation to improve their property so that the driver doesn't have to block a highway in order to park there, or the driver is parking at his residence, so that his truck is there when he has to go to work the next day. In that case, we have to ask, does the truck driver's convenience trump everyone else's safety? I think most people would agree that it doesn't, especially when it appears he has to block emergency vehicles in order to enjoy that convenience.
I don't see a great injustice done if the fines for breaking the law force the truck driver to garage his vehicle somewhere else. It may be inconvenient for him to have to get up and drive to the truck every day, but I'd say that 90% of us are going to have little sympathy for that situation, because we refer to our daily inconvenience as a commute.
I hope that helps Steven and thanks again for reading.


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Q: Argument errors with office 365 cmdlet I'm having issues feeding variables into the New-MsolUser cmdlet. I'm getting the following error.
New-MsolUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'â?UserPrincipalName ausertest@test.ie â?UsageLocation'.
At C:\users\test\Documents\test.ps1:148 char:1
+ New-MsolUser -DisplayName $TargetFullname â?"UserPrincipalName $TargetEmail  â?" ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-MsolUser], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.NewUser

The code I am using is:
$Source = "AnotherADUser"

$TargetFname = "New"
$TargetLname = "User"

$Target = "ausertest"
$TargetFullname = [string]::Concat($TargetFname ," ", $TargetLname)

 $SourceEmail = (Get-ADUser $source -Property EmailAddress).EmailAddress
 $SourceDomain = $SourceEmail.split("@")[1]
 $TargetEmail = ([string]::Concat($Target , "@" , $SourceDomain))

New-MsolUser -DisplayName $TargetFullname –UserPrincipalName $TargetEmail  –UsageLocation "IE" | Set-MsolUserLicense -AddLicenses "TESTINSTALL:EXCHANGESTANDARD"

This command works when I hardcode the details..

A: –UserPrincipalName and –UsageLocation use not the minus character but the
character with code 8211. Maybe it's fine but try to use the standard minus
instead, just to be sure.


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Q: Can I play a video game on an ESXI server with a graphics card? I have a Dell tower server near my TV at home which functions as a media server, web server, etc. It runs VMware ESXI 6.0.
I'd like to be able to install a graphics card in the server, connect it to my TV, set up a Windows VM and play video games on it.
Note that I'm not trying to play games over a remote connection, like through vSphere Client, VNC or otherwise. I'd like to directly connect the graphics card to the TV and play that way.
Is this possible? If so, how can it be done?

A: Sort of.
If you have VT-D support, and have your video card passed through, you can
Puget systems has an example build here  and while there's much too much to include in my answer, here's the salient points.
Your motherboard and processor matter. I've heard reports that regular mainstream boards may have vt-d disabled, and K series processors may not. Check your processor and motherboard. I'd boot into a linux livecd to check if your processor supports vt-d  (proc/cpuinfo should have that?) and google if people have done that with the same model of server.
Puget had issues with nvidia cards so went with AMD. This may be an ESXI issue rather than an nvidia issue (nvidia cards seemed to work fine with KVM), and they did it with 5.5  This is finicky and your milage may vary.Check up the specific video card and ESXI version before buying a card, or test it with an existing one.
So, yeah, its possible, but it requires a fair bit of homework to pick the right parts, and testing to get it all working. At this point, if everything is compatible, and meets requirements then you can pass through a video card or 4 to a VM.

A: Yes, but importantly you need two graphics units of some sort or another. One for the Host and one for the Guest.
Normally I wouldn't include videos in answers but Linus Tech Tips recently did a very concise video on how to run virtualized gaming. 1 System 2 players. The concept is the same for what you want.
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Josef Richard Zentgraf (* 3. Mai 1881 in Eichenzell; † 7. Mai 1936 ebenda) war ein deutscher römisch-katholischer Geistlicher und Rektor der Lateinschule in Bad Orb. Er verfasste drei Bücher über Bad Orb und seine Geschichte. Seine wichtigsten Wirkungsorte waren Amöneburg und Bad Orb.

Leben
Richard Zentgraf wurde am 3. Mai 1881 in Eichenzell, im Schulhaus geboren. Seine Eltern waren Ferdinand Zentgraf (* 18. Juni 1856 in Thaiden) und Theresia Buch (* 20. Juli 1857 in Eichenzell; † 19. Juni 1897 in Eichenzell). Er wuchs mit 8 jüngeren Geschwistern auf; die Schwester Paula Justina (* 31. Dezember 1890) war später seine Haushälterin. Nach dem Studium der Theologie in Fulda empfing Richard Zentgraf am 29. Juni 1906 die Priesterweihe in der Michaelskirche in Fulda. Diverse Tätigkeiten führten ihn anschließend nach Geisa, Amöneburg sowie Bad Orb und Umkreis.

Die angegriffene Gesundheit zwang ihn, am 1. April 1929 in den Ruhestand zu treten. Er kehrte nach Eichenzell in sein Elternhaus zurück. Dort war er noch einige Jahre für die Kirchengemeinde tätig. Er starb am 7. Mai 1936.

Wirken
Nach der Priesterweihe war Richard Zentgraf als Kaplan und Lateinschullehrer in Geisa tätig. Es schlossen sich vier Jahre als Kaplan und Leiter der Lateinschule in Amöneburg an. Seine erfolgreiche Tätigkeit im Schuldienst veranlasste die Bischöfliche Behörde, ihn für den Höheren Schuldienst einzuordnen. Seine Berufung nach Bad Orb, vom 27. März 1914, war verbunden mit der Auflage "sich innerhalb kurzer Frist der Rektorenprüfung zu unterziehen". Am 15. April 1914 trat Zentgraf die Rektorenstelle an der Lateinschule in Bad Orb an.

Die folgenden 15 Jahre seiner Wirkungszeit in Bad Orb waren von enormer Intensität geprägt. Bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges betreute er als Militärgeistlicher den Truppenübungsplatz auf der Wegscheide. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wirkte er seelsorgerische bei den Wiederbesiedlern in Villbach und Lettgenbrunn ebenso wie auch bei vielen Menschen in der Stadt Bad Orb.

Durch sein großes Engagement als Pädagoge und Schulleiter erreichte Richard Zentgraf 1920, dass in seiner, zunächst bischöflichen, zu diesem Zeitpunkt aber bereits städtischen Lateinschule in Bad Orb ein Realzweig eingerichtet wurde. Er "... setzte auch durch, dass neben dem humanistischen Zweig eine sogenannte Realabteilung eingerichtet wurde...". Es war ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu der heute in Bad Orb vorhandenen Kreisrealschule.

Zentgraf betrieb neben seiner Berufsarbeit Studien der Philosophie und der Musik. Gemeinsam mit Georg Wilhelm Henkel und Albert Jung war er in den 1920er Jahren maßgeblich am Kulturleben der noch jungen Kurstadt Bad Orb beteiligt. Der Zeichner und Buchkünstler Melchior Lechter ergänzte das kulturschaffende Trio. Lechter war von 1912 bis 1923 fast jedes Jahr und jeweils für längere Zeit in Bad Orb. Dabei  logierte er in den Jahren 1912 bis 1920 bei Richard Zentgraf, in der Villa Saline.

Für Bad Orb bedeutsam waren Richard Zentgrafs letzte drei Jahre in Bad Orb, von 1927 bis 1929. In jedem dieser Jahre verfasste er je ein Buch über die Geschichte der Stadt Bad Orb, über seine Umgebung, den Spessart und über Alt-Orb und seine Kirche. Seine Bücher haben in ihrer Zeit respektable Auflagen erlebt und später eine Wiederauflage. Einzelne Kapitel seiner Werke fanden auch Eingang "... in das Heimatlesebuch für die Volksschulender Provinz Hessen-Nassau". Als er Erklärung

Ähnlich ausgefüllt wie seine Orber Jahre müssen auch seine Ruhestandsjahre in Eichenzell gewesen sein. In dieser Zeit erfolgten im nahen Dom zu Fulda ein Umbau und eine Vergrößerung der Orgel. Richard Zentgraf begleitete und kommentierte mit viel Sachkenntnis diesen Vorgang für das fachlich interessierte Publikum in "Musica Sacra" .

Auszeichnungen und Preise
Am 30. Januar 1929 wurde Zentgraf wegen seiner Verdienste um die Stadt Bad Orb zum Ehrenbürger der Stadt ernannt.

Rezeption
Zentgrafs Bücher über Bad Orb fanden, gut 25 Jahre nach der ersten Geschichte der Stadt und Saline Orb, von Johann Büttel, bei Einheimischen wie Besuchern Orbs, den Kurgästen eine sehr interessierte Leserschaft. Durch den lebendigen "..erzählerischen Stil, wie auch durch viele eigene und zitierte Gedichte und Lieder" boten "…Zentgrafs Bücher eine kurzweilige Lektüre".

Werkeverzeichnis (Ausschnitt)
 Bilder aus der Geschichte der Stadt Bad Orb, Verlag Bad-Orb-Gesellschaft, 1927; Reprint Fraktur-Schrift, Reihe "orbensien rareprints", 1. Aufl. 2004, ISBN 3-927176-16-8
 Bad Orb im Spessartwald. Schilderung der Stadt und ihrer schönen Umgebung, Verlag Bad-Orb-Gesellschaft, 1928; Reprint Fraktur-Schrift, Reihe "orbensien rareprints", 1. Aufl. 2004, ISBN 3-927176-16-8
 Alt Orb und seine Kirche, Richard Zentgraf, 1929.
 Vergrößerung der Fuldaer Domorgel. In: Musica sacra 1934 / 04-05, Orgelfragen
 Vom Umbau der Fuldaer Domorgel. In: Musica sacra 1933 / 07-08, Orgelfragen

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  Richard Zentgraf

Literatur
 Elsbeth Ziegler, Die eigene Vervollkommnung als Ziel, Bad Orb: Das bewegte Leben des Ehrenbürgers, Priesters, Autors und Rektors Richard Zentgraf, Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, 1. Februar 2020, S. 28

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Lehrer
Römisch-katholischer Geistlicher (20. Jahrhundert)
Schulleiter (Deutschland)
Heimatforscher (Hessen)
Ehrenbürger im Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Person (Bad Orb)
Person des Christentums (Bad Orb)
Person (Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf)
Amöneburg
Deutscher
Geboren 1881
Gestorben 1936
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A sub-report of Census 2011 says Delhiites are marching ahead in terms of rising standards of living.
Shastri Nagar, North Delhi - in a dilapidated living sack, a mother was barely surviving with three daughters staring at days of prolonged hunger and slow march to the ultimate surrender to the fate.
Their misery was noticed but nothing moved for the deaf and dumb gigantic administrative machinery of the Delhi government. It is the same Delhi government that bambooed the slum clusters and lower-middle class areas of India's Capital city to keep them away from the eyes of foreign visitors during the Commonwealth Games 2010.
Shortcut to Delhi's own Jumeirah – that looks a near impossible possibility even in the distant future – isn't it?
What is the difference then - be it Delhi or Odisha's Kalahandi or the suicidal beds of Vidarbha - in turning a blind eye to the chronic hunger due to poverty. The ruling class – most of them are same under the skin.
Sometimes, lame ducks see the best way to look clean on the slate is not to write anything on it – isn't it? Ironically, lame ducks call the shots in some of the most repugnant humanitarian crisis places.
Suicide deaths due to poverty or hunger deaths – aren't they outright murders? This is happening in world's largest democracy – claiming tens of thousands of victims, year after year. But most of the ruling class will prefer to sing the India Shining story as if these murders by the system never happened.
Political visionaries here try to follow the same model as the first exercise to keep their slates clean - ignore the hunger problem. If it persists resulting in hunger deaths or suicides, call them natural or some disease driven deaths.
Only if it becomes calamitous in proportions, followed by largely sensational and some sincere reporting, that, the hunger problem in an area is accepted as something chronic.
So while it is highlighted with much ado that 91 per cent of Delhi people own mobile phones, 88 per cent a TV set, 29 per cent a computer and now 89.9 per cent households have LPG-CNG connections, one needs to do some tough number crunching to find out that the estimated slum population of Delhi risen to 3.16 million in 2011 (almost 20 per cent of the population) from 2.3 million in 2001 (almost 40 per cent increase). Now that is one sucking face of the growth story of the Capital City of India.
And the condition of this family tells us about validity of this biting truth.
Hunger problem subjects are from the lower layers of the society, always shadowed by the oblique aperture of the overlooking ruling class. For such subjects, the first line of relief mostly comes from the fellow human beings. And it, too, is not available in places like Kalahandi, Beed or Vidarbha region where every other person is grounded by the burden of how to feed his family the next day.
Luckily, this family of four in the Delhi could get good Samaritans who came forward.
Anurakti is a group of FICCI employees. It works independently and has nothing to do with the Corporate Social Responsibility wing of FICCI. Michelle Kumar, a FICCI employee and Anurakti member had told me about this family and their willingness to help it out.
They have plans to arrange a job for the mother and putting the daughters with some NGO like 'Prayas' to help them train vocationally and continue with studies.
Initially, the family has been provided with food ration of three months to regain their physiological well being. They were so malnourished that nothing could be done unless they were rehabilitated physiologically.
I am planning to meet the family in the coming week. The last discussion that I had with Michelle about it was some two months ago, so its time to get going and undertake the next step.
Being human is just being the follower of the conscience and it is always a personal call. The groups of human beings organized under the name Anurakti or some other are doing what we all need to do – extending the support in whatever capacity we are to make some lives better.
It's never about being larger than life. It's always about contributing to the cause bringing that genuine smile back to a distressed life.