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Marine Point is a shopping and leisure complex in New Brighton, Merseyside, England. The development was built at an estimated cost of £65 million. In 2022 Marine point was sold to David Samuel Properties for £44 million.

As of February 2018, the development consisted of:

 Unit 1 – Caffe Cream
 Unit 2 – Bella Italia
 Unit 3 – Prezzo
 Unit 4 – Burger King
 Unit 5 – Marino Lounge
 Unit 6 – Leisure unit available – 3,200sq ft
 Hotel –  Travelodge – 66 rooms
 Unit 7 – United Kitchen (closed Autumn 2017)
 Unit 8 – PizzaExpress
 Unit 9 – Hungry Horse - The Sea Horse
 Unit 10 – Cinema – The Light – 8 Screen Digital Cinema
 Unit 12 – Starbucks
 Unit 13 – Harry Ramsden's Fish & Chips (closed Winter 2018)
 Unit 14 – Subway
 Morrisons Superstore
 Unit 18 – Grosvenor Casino (closed Summer 2015)
 Unit 17 – Costa Coffee
 Unit 16 – Iceland
 Unit 15 – Home Bargains
 Lido – Bubbles' World Of Play - Opened January 2013
 Parking - Free 750 space car park

References

Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
New Brighton, Merseyside
Shopping centres in Merseyside

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"What we Can Learn From Untranslatable Illnesses"
Published June 7th, 2020
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200604-what-we-can-learn-from-untranslatable-illnesses
What we can learn from 'untranslatable' illnesses
By Zaria Gorvett
From an enigmatic rage disorder to a sickness of overthinking, there are some mental illnesses you only get in certain cultures. Why? And what can they teach us?
"DO NOT FEAR KORO," screamed the headline in the Straits Times newspaper on November 7, 1967. In the preceding days, a peculiar phenomenon had swept across Singapore. Thousands of men had spontaneously become convinced that their penises were shrinking away – and that the loss would eventually kill them.
Mass hysteria had quickly taken hold. Men desperately tried to hold onto their genitals, using whatever they had to hand – rubber bands, clothes pegs, string. Unscrupulous local doctors cashed in, recommending various injections and traditional remedies.
The word on the street was that the sudden penis withering was caused by something the men had eaten. Specifically, the locals were suspicious of meat from pigs that had been vaccinated in a programme the government had imposed on Singaporean farms. Pork sales quickly plummeted.
Though public health officials scrambled to contain the hysteria outbreak, explaining that it was caused by "psychological fear" alone, it didn't work. In the end, over 500 people sought treatment at public hospitals.
As it happens, the fear of losing one's penis is more mainstream than you might think. It pops up fairly regularly in certain cultures across the globe. In South-east Asia and China, it's common enough that it even has a name: "koro", possibly – and rather graphically – after the Javanese word for tortoise, referring to how it looks when they retract their heads into their shells.
Koro has a history stretching back thousands of years, but the most recent outbreak occurred in 2015, in eastern India. It affected 57 people, including eight women, for whom it tends to manifest as a fear that their nipples are retreating into the body.
Koro is considered a culture-bound syndrome – a mental illness that only exists in certain societies. For decades, "untranslatable" disorders like these were studied as mere scientific curiosities, which existed in parts of the world where people apparently didn't know any better.
Western mental illnesses, on the other hand, were viewed as universal – and you could guarantee that every "bona fide" problem would be found in the hallowed pages of the American psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (more commonly known as the DSM). But today scientists are increasingly realising that this is not the case.
In the Islamic world, mental illnesses are often attributed to evil spirits, or "jinns"
In the central plateau region of Haiti, people regularly fall sick with "reflechi twòp", or "thinking too much", which involves ruminating on your troubles until you can barely leave the house. In South Korea, meanwhile, there's "Hwa-byung" – loosely translated as "rage virus" – which is caused by bottling up your feelings about things you see as unfair, until you succumb to some alarming physical symptoms, like a burning sensation in the body. Dealing with exasperating family members is a major risk factor – it's common during divorces and conflicts with in-laws.
Though to the uninitiated, these mental illnesses might sound eccentric or even made-up, in fact they are serious and legitimate mental health concerns, affecting vast numbers of people.
It's estimated that Hwa-byung affects around 10,000 people in South Korea every year – mostly older married women – and research has shown that it has a measurable footprint in the brain. In 2009, brain scans revealed that sufferers had lower activity in an area known to be involved in tasks such as emotion and impulse control. This makes sense, given that Hwa-byung is an anger disorder.
The consequences of culture-bound syndromes can be devastating. Koro attacks can be so convincing that men cause serious damage to their genitals, as they try to stop them receding. Those who suffer from reflechi twòp are eight times more likely to have suicidal thoughts, while Hwa-byung has been linked to emotional distress, social isolation, demoralisation and depression, physical pain, low self-esteem, and unhappiness.
Intriguingly, some untranslatable illnesses have recently been disappearing, while others are spreading to new parts of the globe. Where do these sicknesses come from, and what determines where they're found? The quest for answers has been gripping anthropologists and psychiatrists for decades – and now their findings are shaping our understanding of the very origins of mental illness itself.
Western exports
The award for the culture-bound illness with the most surprising history surely has to go to "neurasthenia" (also known as "shenjing shuairuo"). Though it mostly occurs in China and South-east Asia today, it's actually a colonial malady from the 19th Century.
Neurasthenia was popularised by the American neurologist George Miller Beard, who described it as an "exhaustion of the nervous system". At the time, the Industrial Revolution was leading a massive upheaval of everyday life, and he believed that neurasthenia – a syndrome of headaches, fatigue and anxiety, among other things – was the result.
Sometimes culture-bound illnesses only occur in a certain social class or era of time (Credit: Science Museum/ Wellcome Collection)
"Once famous novelists like Marcel Proust were diagnosed, it became this super popular condition," says Kevin Aho, a philosopher from Florida Gulf Coast University, who has studied the history of the illness. "It was almost fashionable and indicated sensitivity, intellectual creativity – it was kind of an indicator of one's own cultivated refinement."
Eventually neurasthenia spread to European colonies around the world, where it was enthusiastically picked up by moustachioed officers and their wives, as a way to add a label to their general feelings of homesickness. According to a survey taken in 1913, neurasthenia was the most prevalent diagnosis among white colonisers in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), China and Japan.
As the years passed, neurasthenia gradually lost its appeal in the West, as it became associated with more serious psychiatric problems. Now it's been forgotten about altogether. But elsewhere, the opposite happened: it was adopted as a diagnosis that didn't come with stigma of mental illness and remains in use to this day.
In some parts of Asia, people are more likely to say they have neurasthenia than depression. A 2018 study of a random sample of adults from Guangzhou, China, found that 15.4% identified as having the former versus 5.3% who said they had the latter.
The final twist is that now neurasthenia is vanishing from Asia too. "When I first interviewed patients at a psychiatric hospital in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, in 2008, almost all of them said that they had neurasthenia," says Allen Tran, a psychological anthropologist from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. "Then when I did some follow-up research 10 years later, I think only one person in my sample said they had it."
So what's going on?
Cultural norms
There are two possible scenarios playing out here. First, there's the idea that the entirety of humankind is susceptible to the same limited range of mental sicknesses – we all feel anxious and depressed, for example, but the way we talk about these things varies depending on when and were you live.
The fact that culture-bound illnesses can be gained and lost within a single community, and with such rapidity, is an important clue. This suggests that they're not driven by, say, genetic factors, as this kind of change usually takes hundreds or thousands, rather than tens of years. Instead, the swift extinction of neurasthenia in Vietnam could be down to the growing popularity of the concept of anxiety, which has been imported from overseas. It's possible that the actual incidence of mental illness has been the same all this time – but conceptually, one has been replaced with the other, says Tran.
In some cultures, distress and grief can manifest with physical symptoms (Credit: Alamy)
Along these lines, the author and medical historian Edward Shorter has suggested that each society has its own "symptom repertoire", which is the array of symptoms from which we unconsciously draw when we start to feel mentally unwell.
For example, a grieving Victorian woman might say she felt faint, where her modern counterpart in the UK might suggest she felt anxious or depressed, and someone in the same position in China might explain they had a stomach-ache. In this scenario, they would all have had identical experiences – perhaps they all felt faint, on edge, or suffered physical pains – but the symptoms they paid the most attention to were different, depending on what was considered normal in their society.
In Britain, the out-dated illness "hysteria" – which was thought to mostly affect women, and caused fainting, emotional outbursts and nervousness – disappeared from the public consciousness in the early 20th Century. But Shorter suggests that it didn't actually die out. Instead, the array of symptoms we look out for evolved. Today the same mental phenomenon hides behind other diagnoses, such as depression.
I would say that there are definitely instances where the meaning that is attributed to experiences actually changes biologically what that experience is – Bonnie KaiserThis fits with another concept that has been gaining in popularity, "idioms of distress", which suggests that each culture has certain acceptable, established ways of expressing emotional anguish at any given time. In one society, you might drink excessively, while in others you might say you're a victim of witchcraft, or diagnose yourself with illnesses like koro or depression.
For example, in the Islamic world, it's widely believed that it's possible to become possessed by "jinns", or evil spirits. They can be good, bad, or neutral, but they're generally blamed for erratic behaviour. The concept is so mainstream, it's even in the Muslim holy book, the Koran. "A lot of my patients do hold these beliefs quite strongly," says Shahzada Nawaz, a consultant psychiatrist at North Manchester General Hospital in the UK.
Nawaz explains that the ability to invoke jinns is particularly useful in Islamic cultures, because of the stigma that tends to accompany Western mental illnesses. One study of 30 Bangladeshi patients attending a mental health service in an east London borough found that, though they had been diagnosed with a variety of problems between them, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, their family members often felt that jinn possession was responsible.
"Neurasthenia" is a colonial malady from the 19th century, which mostly occurs in China and Southeast Asia today (Credit: Getty Images)
But are culture-bound illnesses really just the result of differences in labelling? Another tantalising possibility is that the society we live in can actually shape the way we get sick.
Physical vs psychological pain
It turns out there is an invisible global divide in the way people experience distress. In the US, the UK, and Europe – at least in the 21st Century – it tends to occur in the mind, with symptoms like sadness, anger or anxiety prevailing. But this is actually pretty weird. In many parts of the world, in countries as diverse as China, Ethiopia and Chile it manifests physically instead.
For example, the most up-to-date edition of the DSM describes a panic attack as "an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort". However, in Cambodian refugees, the symptoms tend to centre around their necks instead. Many non-Western mental illnesses, such as koro and Hwa-byung, fit this pattern of perceiving physical symptoms. The divide even extends to the way people in certain societies respond to exercise or surgery; where it's more usual to experience physical pain, it's more likely.
In contrast, mental illnesses that involve the perception of pain are rare in the Western world, and hotly debated. Some scientists think chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia fit into this category, though this is controversial.
In fact, it's been known for years that our beliefs can have a powerful effect on the way we feel – even on our biology. One example is "Voodoo death", in which a sudden demise is brought on by fear. In a famous case documented by an early explorer in New Zealand, a Maori woman accidentally ate some fruit from a place that was considered taboo. After announcing that the chief's spirit would kill her for the sacrilegious act, she died the very next day.
Whether someone could bring about their own death though fear alone is not clear. (Read more about the contagious thought that could kill you.) But there is strong evidence that our thoughts and feelings can have a tangible physical impact, such as when a patient expects a medication to have side-effects, and therefore it does – known as the nocebo effect.
"I would say that there are definitely instances where the meaning that is attributed to experiences actually changes biologically what that experience is," says Bonnie Kaiser, an expert in psychological anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She gives the example of the illness kyol goeu, literally "wind overload", an enigmatic fainting sickness which is prevalent among Khmer refugees in the US.
In their native Cambodia, it's commonly believed that the body is riddled with channels that contain a wind-like substance – and if these become blocked, the resulting wind overdose will cause the sufferer to permanently lose the use of a limb or die. Out of 100 Khmer patients at one psychiatric clinic in the US, one study found that 36% had experienced an episode of the illness at some point.
Bouts usually proceed slowly, starting with a general feeling of malaise. Then, one day, the victim will stand up and notice that they feel dizzy – and this is how they know that the attack is starting. Eventually they'll fall to the ground, unable to move or speak until their relatives have administered the appropriate first aid, which usually consists of massaging their limbs or biting their ankles.
While medications are helpful for a lot of people, those with certain cultural beliefs might be more comfortable with treatments like psychotherapy (Credit: Science Photo Library)
Kaiser points out that when most people experience light-headedness, they just shake it off. But if someone interprets that feeling as signalling the start of a kyol goeu attack, they think: "Oh my gosh, something terrible is happening."
"They really attend to it and they panic," she says.
The meaning that's attributed to the feeling of dizziness changes everything. "Fundamentally the actual experience in the body becomes very different," says Kaiser. "So, to me, this isn't something that has a different name in different places – this illness just doesn't exist in some places. The very biology of that experience is affected by the culture."
According to Kaiser, in reality, it's likely that for many mental illnesses, there is both a difference in the way people interpret the same physical experiences, and a positive feedback loop which allows their cultural ideas to shape how they manifest.
Revising Western illnesses
As our understanding of culture-bound illnesses has improved, some psychologists have begun to question whether certain Western mental health conditions fit into this category too. Though certain disorders appear to be universal – schizophrenia occurs in every country on the planet, at a relatively constant rate – this is not true for others. Bulimia is half as common in Eastern cultures, while pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) is virtually non-existent in China, Hong Kong and India. It's even been argued, somewhat controversially, that depression is an invention of the English-speaking world, stemming from the misguided notion that it's normal to be happy all the time.
In the modern era, it would be naive to think that the mental illnesses we suffer from are independent of our way of life. "I think there's a tremendous arrogance in the way that we universalise these mental illnesses and don't see them as socially and historically specific," says Aho, pointing out that attention deficit disorder (ADD) was only added to the DSM in 1980. "It's clear that children have a more difficult time paying attention now, because they're bombarded with sensory stimulations and their existence is largely mediated by screens. And so it's not as if we've only just discovered some discrete medical entity – you can see the way in which technology is shaping the mental and emotional and behavioural lives and children."
Regardless of their cause, in an increasingly mobile world, some experts are concerned that culturally specific illnesses aren't being recognised by mental health professionals. "In East Asian cultures, the vocabulary and language that people use to express their distress and symptoms is quite different," says Sumin Na, a psychologist at McGill University. This means that when East Asian people migrate to places like North America, it's often not clear when they need help.
Khmer refugees in the US often suffer from the fainting sickness kyol goeu, or "wind overload" (Credit: Getty Images)
"For instance in a lot of Western society, I think we see depression and anxiety as a chemical imbalance. And that leads us to seek help through our doctor and getting medication," she says. "But in East Asia it's seen as more of a social or spiritual or a family concern – so people might seek spiritual help or, you know, find ways to resolve family conflict."
In order to get people the help they need, Na says it's important to understand a patient's backstory – the cultural norms where they come from and the loss of power and privilege they might have experienced when they moved, which can often lead to mental health problems down the line. "I think we also have to try to let go of what we think is 'correct' knowledge of mental health and mental illness and not to get really stuck on [them] or the DSM-5 as the only way of understanding and labelling mental illness," she says.
Equally, it's unreasonable to expect the same treatments to work for everyone. Na suggests that, while medications are helpful for a lot of people, those with certain cultural beliefs might be more comfortable with things like psychotherapy.
In an era that's seeing drastic losses in diversity of virtually every other kind – from species to languages, it's been suggested that we're standing on a precipice, potentially about to lose our range of mental illnesses too. In the book "Crazy Like Us", the author Ethan Watters describes how we've spent the last few decades slowly, insidiously Americanising mental illness – shoehorning the colourful array of emotional and psychological experiences that exist into a few approved boxes, such as anxiety and depression – and "homogenising the way the world goes mad".
In the process, not only do we risk missing out on diagnoses and foregoing the most appropriate treatments, but the opportunity to understand how mental illnesses develop in the first place.
My ongoing exploration into therapy related topics.
Website photos by Chris Rusch

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An Interview With a Nielsen Family
The company monitors TV viewing and provides program ratings
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Rachel Thomas
Freelance entertainment writer Rachel Thomas specializes in the television industry. Her main focus is TV dramas.
The longevity of every television show depends on the Nielsen ratings, which are based on the viewing habits of American families. This includes watching DVR recordings and Internet streaming.
How does Nielsen gather the ratings? The company hires families from all demographic groups across the country to become official Nielsen families. Each family represents a specific number of households in a market (New York, Los Angeles, etc.) and helps determine the "share" of viewing each program generates.
Have you ever wondered who these Nielsen families are? Here's a question-and-answer interview with Barb Crews, a member of a former Nielsen family:
How were you approached to become a Nielsen family?
I think it was a knock on the door. I don't remember if we received a phone call beforehand, but I don't think so. They asked several qualifying questions. We were asked to participate three or four years before and were all set up to do it. When they came to do a pre-install walk-through, they discovered they couldn't do it because we had a DVR recorder and Nielsen wasn't set up for that. When we were asked the second time, I told them that and Nielsen now had a way to monitor that equipment.
What did the set-up process consist of and how did the tracking process work?
The set-up was absolutely crazy. First of all, I have to tell you that even though we are only two people, we have a large house and many TVs. Each TV had to be monitored, even one that was only used for VCRs and DVDs in a guest room.
We had six or seven people here for an entire day, from around 8 a.m. to 7 at night, setting up our system, and they never even stopped for lunch. The set-up guys are also the technicians that monitor your equipment while you are a Nielsen family. So, for example, there is one guy that had our state and his counterpart in other nearby states came and helped him set up. We were told it was one of the larger installations they had done.
Each TV had a computer system connected to it and tons of wires. Each cable box, VCR or DVD recorder had to be connected and monitored. So there were wires everywhere. It took several hours per TV set to get this all working.
After the set-up, each TV had a small monitoring box with a remote control. Each person in the household had a number, with an extra number for guests. Each time we would watch TV, we would use the remote control to sign in to who was watching TV. The monitoring box light would turn on for that particular person or persons. If you didn't use the remote to register when the TV was turned on, the lights would start blinking and flashing until someone registered. The way Nielsen set it up, we would also have to "refresh" who was watching it every 45 minutes. So 45 minutes into a show, the lights would start flashing until we hit the button again.
Changing channels, etc., did not affect it. It registered all that automatically. Basically, we just had to make sure we were signed in with our buttons in the monitoring box. From what I understand, if I walked away from the TV and left it on for a few hours if the lights were flashing, the computer took it to mean that no one was watching and did not count that particular show. We got used to doing it pretty quick, and it wasn't a problem at all.
Once you were up and running, did you resume your normal viewing schedule or did you rethink your habits?
In the beginning, we were certainly a bit more conscious about it but didn't rethink or change our viewing habits.
Was every single show you watched tracked?
Everything was tracked unless we didn't push our buttons, and then Nielsen assumed no one was watching or (we were) out of the room. They took so much time and had so much equipment invested in our home that we felt we had to be sure to hold up our end of the bargain and make sure that our tracking was on at all times. We could have ignored the flashing lights, but that is the only way something would not have been monitored.
If more than one show was on that you wanted to watch, how did you make the choice?
We used the cable DVR recorder, which Nielsen also monitored, so they could tell when we watched those shows, or even when we watched DVDs.
Did you track the Nielsen ratings?
If you mean look at them when they were announced, sometimes, but not often. Occasionally I would get a kick out of it when we were viewers of most of the top 10 shows, but that rarely happened.
Did you ever watch a show because it was on the verge of cancellation?
Definitely not.
Did you ever watch a show based on a friend's recommendation?
I think water-cooler talk helped influence us to finally watch some of the reality shows. (We) didn't watch them the first few seasons.
Were you paid to be a Nielsen family?
Yes, but minimally. We received $50 every six months for a total of $200. We were told that we would receive a $100 thank-you gift at the end of the 24 months but have not received that yet. I think I will have to give them a call.
How long were you a Nielsen family?
How did it feel to have this kind of power?
Anyone who knows me knows I love to give my opinion, so there was no question that I would do this when asked. I am not sure how much it helped my particular favorites, but I did feel like we had a vote. From what I understand there are not that many families nationwide that do the monitoring/tracking we did, so that was exciting that we got chosen.
I was extremely impressed with how seriously it was all taken. We were called several times throughout the 24 months to make sure that all current personal data was the same—for example, a personal survey on cars we owned, computers, stuff like that. If we added any new equipment (e.g., a new TV) they would install it for us and gave us a small stipend for allowing them to monitor it.
The equipment was connected to a phone line and downloaded every night in the middle of the night, so if something wasn't right or wasn't recording right, they would know it immediately and I would get a phone call. The representative/technician would come out and figure out what was wrong. As I said, they took it very seriously and were also very conscious about not intruding on us more than necessary. We had a wonderful representative who was with us the entire 24 months.
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An emergency excavation is sometimes necessary to respond to a situation that endangers life, health, or property, or when service to the customer will be interrupted. When an emergency locate is needed on the TAMU campus, both Texas 811 and the TAMU Communication Center (at 979-845-4311) must be contacted promptly with details of the emergency. The same information required on the Texas 811 Utility Locate Information Form (PDF) under normal conditions will also be required with an emergency.
The safety of students, faculty, staff, contractors, and visitors to the TAMU campus is our highest priority. To help ensure their safety, any person(s) responsible for digging or penetration of the ground anywhere on campus are responsible to comply with this procedure and to ensure that required locates have been performed as outlined below prior to commencing work.
The locate requester is responsible to clearly mark the site perimeter to be excavated or penetrated, by using water-based white paint and/or white flags, prior to calling Texas 811.
Call 811 to request a utility locate. After clearly marking the site perimeter where locate will be performed, requester must have the Texas 811 Utility Locate Information Form (PDF) completed and available.
The utility locator(s) will mark buried lines with paint and/or flags within the marked excavation perimeter. Utility flag colors are red for electric, orange for telecom, yellow for fuel gas, green for sanitary sewer, and blue for all other water systems.
The requester shall not commence any digging, excavation or ground penetration for at least two full working days (48 hours excluding weekends and holidays) after the request is made.
To increase the level of safety, TAMU has a policy that is more strict than State law* and requires an advance locate be performed for 1) any ground penetration on campus, to any depth, when mechanized equipment such as augers, trenches, excavators, etc. will be used, and 2) for all ground penetrations to a depth greater than 12 inches. Hand-digging or soft excavation is required whenever any excavation is performed to a depth less than 12 inches without a utility locate. An advance utility locate is always required if the excavation will be deeper than 12 inches. In the case of ground penetration resulting from agricultural tilling or other recurring instructional or research-based agricultural work on the TAMU campus, an exception to the requirement to perform an advance utility locate will be made after an initial utility locate is performed to determine that the area to be tilled or worked is clear of underground utilities.
*State law requires that all persons performing work requiring digging or ground penetration to a depth of 16 inches or more are required to call 811 in advance and provide detailed information regarding planned work. by Texas Utilities Code, Title 5, Chapter 251 – Underground Facility Damage Prevention and Safety, a person who intends to excavate shall notify Texas 811 not earlier than the 14th day before the date the excavation is to begin or later than the 48th hour before the time the excavation is to begin, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. Failure to comply with the Texas Utilities Code could result in a fine up to $1000 for the first offense, in addition to other potential liabilities.
TAMU is a member of the Texas 811 utility locate program. TAMU owns and is directly responsible for performing locates for the following utility systems: electrical, domestic water, chilled and heating hot water, sanitary and storm sewer, TAMU-owned natural gas, irrigation, and TAMU-owned telecommunications. SSC Grounds Management has responsibility for maintenance of the TAMU-owned irrigation system which includes responsibility for utility locates. There are other utility systems not owned by TAMU, such as Atmos Energy's natural gas distribution and other third-party systems such as telecom, water, electrical, etc. that must also be located by those third-party entities before digging or ground penetration on campus.


Epic announced the new cosmetic items at the start at the week and revealed you can customise the skins with numbers once they go live.
The brand new Fortnite X NFL collaboration skins are due to be released on later today – Friday 9 November.
Thanks to time zone discrepancies, though, we're expecting to see the skins release at 00:00 on Saturday, November 10 in the UK. So if you want these skins as soon as physically possible, make sure you're online and logged in at midnight tonight.
The female versions of the skins are labelled "Blitz", "Rush", "Interceptor" and "Juke" whilst the male equivalents are known as "End Zone", "Spike", "Strong Guard" and "Gridiron".
But how much will each individual item cost? The referee outfits are uncommon, which means they'll cost 800 V-bucks. The main NFL skins are slightly more expensive and fall under the Epic category, which means they'll cost 1,500 V-bucks.
"It's really cool — three male skins you can buy, three female, and then you can customize them any time you want (with your own number)," Chester has tweeted.
You can check out a trailer showing off the skins in the video below – they look a bit different to what we're used to and we're happy to see some changes in the game.
Epic has noted that the NFL skins can be swapped to any of the 32 National Football League teams in the NFL, so no matter where your loyalty lies you can rep your team.
"We're excited to announce that Fortnite and the NFL are teaming up for the ultimate football face-off.
"Starting November 9 at 7PM ET you'll be able to purchase NFL themed Outfits from the Fortnite Item Shop.
"Each Outfit can be swapped to any of the thirty-two NFL teams, plus an additional unique Fortnite team."
Epic concludes: "We couldn't be more excited to cross the NFL and Fortnite worlds!"


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Estée Lauder Companies Corporate Office Headquarters
Where is Estée Lauder Companies Corporate office Headquarters
Estée Lauder Companies Headquarters Address and Contact
Fax Number: 212 893-7782
Email: mediarequests@estee.com
Founder: Estée Lauder & Joseph Lauder
Key People: William P. Lauder, Fabrizio Freda
Estée Lauder Companies Headquarters Location & Directions
Estée Lauder Companies Headquarters Executive Team
Fabrizio Freda
President, CEO & Director
William P. Lauder
Tracey Thomas Travis
Executive VP & CFO
Daniel M. Annese
Global Brand President of Aramis and Designer Fragrances
Olivier Bottrie
Global President of Travel Retail & Retail Development
Karen Buglisi-Weiler
Global Brand President of MAC Cosmetics
Chris Good
President of North America
Sara E. Moss
Executive VP & General Counsel
Philippe Pinatel
Senior VP & Global GM of MAC Cosmetics
Gregory F. Polcer
Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain
About Estée Lauder Companies, History and Headquarters Information
Estee Lauder was established in the year 1946. The company has been active for over 70 years now. The founders of the company were Joseph Lauder and Estee Lauder. The company started its operation by producing various types of cosmetics for consumers. In the year 1948, the first departmental store of the company was established. Then in the year 1960, the company expanded abroad to London, United Kingdom and opened their store. The successive year, another store was also opened at Hong Kong. In the year 1976, the company started manufactured skin care supplies for men. During the 1990s, the company had seen a massive growth due to a various number of acquisitions and also the growth of the company as a whole. In the year 1998, MAC Cosmetics were acquired by the company. As of the year 2016, the company has acquired Becca Cosmetics and Too Faced cosmetics.
Headquarters Info
The headquarters of the company is based at 767 Fifth Avenue. The name of the city is New York, with the state name being New York as well. The pin code of the area is 10153.
Estee Lauder is an American company with the focus of providing various types of skincare products, cosmetics for makeup and also hair care and perfumes as well. The current chairman of the company is William P Lauder, while the president and CEO of the company are Fabrizio Freda. As of the year 2017, the total sales generated by the company is more than $11 billion. Also, the number of employees currently working at the company is more than 46,000, as of the year 2017.
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Comune in Sicily, Italy
Comune di Sciacca
Location of Sciacca
Location of Sciacca in Italy
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Coordinates: 37°30′33″N 13°5′20″E / 37.50917°N 13.08889°E / 37.50917; 13.08889
Lazzarino
Francesca Valenti
191.67 km2 (74.00 sq mi)
60 m (200 ft)
(31 March 2017)[2]
Saccensi, Sciacchitani
Dialing code
Holy Mary of Soccorso
Saint day
Sciacca (Italian: [ˈʃakka]; Greek: Θέρμαι; Latin: Thermae Selinuntinae, Thermae Selinuntiae, Thermae, Aquae Labrodes and Aquae Labodes), is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily, southern Italy. It has views of the Mediterranean Sea.
3 Main sights
7 Sister cities
Thermae was founded in the 5th century BC by the Greeks, as its name imports, as a thermal spa for Selinunte, whose citizens came there to bathe in the sulphurous springs of Mount San Calogero, which rises up behind the town. We have no account of the existence of a town on the site during the period of the independence of Selinunte, though there is little doubt that the thermal waters would always have attracted some population to the spot. Nor even under the Romans did the place attain to anything like the same importance with the northern Thermae; and there is little doubt that Pliny is mistaken in assigning the rank of a colonia to the southern instead of the northern town of the name. Strabo mentions the waters (τὰ ὕδατα τὰ Σελινούντια[3]); and they are again noticed in the Itineraries under the name of Aquae Labodes or Labrodes.[4]
The origins of the town's name have been much debated, with Latin "ex acqua", as a reference to the springs of thermal water of the area, or Arabic "Syac", meaning bath, and al Saqquah, dating back to the cult of the Syrian god "Shai al Quaaum", as possibilities.
The city walls, the bastions and the Old Castle owe their existence to Roger the Great Count.
A royal city which had remained faithful to Manfred of Sicily during the Angevine invasion, by 1268 A.D. it was besieged by Charles I of Anjou and surrendered the following year. After the Sicilian Vespers, it established itself as a free commune. During the Aragonese-Angevine wars it was besieged numerous times, after which the Peralta family took possession of it and obtained by the king of Sicily the right to mint coins. In the following centuries the town was at the center of bloody feuds between rival baronial families (the Luna, of Aragonese origin, and the Perollo, of Norman stock), which nearly halved its population. In 1647 the impoverished town was the seat of an anti-Spanish rebellion.
During World War II the Italian Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force) had a base near Sciacca.
Overview[edit]
The municipality borders Caltabellotta, Menfi, Ribera and Sambuca di Sicilia.[5]
Climate[edit]
Sciacca has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa),[6] with short, mild and moderately rainy winters and long, hot and dry summers. The city receives around 450 millimeters (17.7 inches) of rain per year, experiencing a peak of 72.3 millimeters (2.8 inches) in November and a minimum of 2.5 millimeters (0.1 inch) in July.
Climate data for Sciacca, Italy
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Source: Meteo Italia (ilmeteo.it)[7]
Main sights[edit]
Sciacca still retains much of its medieval layout, which divided the town into quarters, each laid out on a strip of rock descending toward the sea. Sciacca has several points of interest, including:
the Cathedral of Maria SS. del Soccorso (12th century, rebuilt in 1685)
the Castle of the Counts Luna. Of the Old Castle scarce remains can be still seen.
Church of Santa Margherita
Chiesa del Carmine
Church of San Michele (1371, rebuilt in the 17th century)
Church of Santa Maria delle Giummare
Palazzo Tagliavia (11th century), in Neo-Gothic style
Palazzo Perollo (15th century)
Culture[edit]
Sciacca's festivals include the Carnival, celebrated during the week before the beginning of Lent (February). The highlight of the festival is the parade of bizarre figures mounted on floats, famous throughout Sicily for their gaudy expressions. Sciacca is also the hometown of the Mediterranean Scene.
Starting near the turn of the 20th century, a number of residents of the Sciacca area emigrated to the North End of Boston, Mass., where, starting in 1910, around August 15, their descendants, especially those from fishing families, have celebrated the Festival of the Madonna del Soccorso .
The local television stations are TRS Tele Radio Sciacca and 'RMK Tele Radio Monte Kronio'.
Economy[edit]
The economy of Sciacca is mainly based on agriculture, fishing and related food processing industry and tourism.
View from Piazza Scandaliato
Beach of Timpi
Sister cities[edit]
Salvador, Brazil, since 2001
Kırşehir, Turkey, since 2011
Mustafakemalpaşa, Turkey, since 2011
Cataldo Amodei, Baroque liturgical composer
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, airplane designer who created the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin
Johnny Dundee, world featherweight and super featherweight champion
Tommaso Fazello, authored the first printed history of Sicily
Giovanni Antonio Medrano, one of the architects who designed the San Carlo opera house in Naples
Andrea Tummiolo, footballer
Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, ancestry traced to Sciacca
^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Strabo, vi. p. 275
^ Itin. Ant. p. 89; Tabula Peutingeriana
^ 39255 (x a j h) Sciacca on OpenStreetMap
^ "World Map of Köppen−Geiger Climate Classification". Archived from the original on 2010-09-06.
^ "Climate, temperatures and weather in Sciacca". www.thetraveller.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
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Q: Updating div on button click, when the button is generated by clicking on another button On clicking the button magic1 or magic2, the div mybox will be updated with a text, button id and button (different for magic1 and magic2).
After clicking on the newly generated button it should display the button id of the newly generated button in the box div. When I click on the newly generated button, box div is not getting updated. Here is the code.
jquerycode.php is the initial file. On clicking the button magic1 or magic2, Ajax will call the page session.php.
jquerycode.php file
<!doctype html>
<?php
$first=$_POST['q'];
echo $first;
?>

        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>My jQuery Ajax test</title>

        The following div will be updated after the call:

        <form name="magic">

    <input type="button" class="magic_button" name="magic_button" id="magic_button_1" value="magic1" />
    <input type="button" class="magic_button" name="magic_button" id="magic_button_2" value="magic2" />
</form>

session.php file
 <?php
   $id = $_POST['id'];
$id = ucwords(implode(' ',explode('_',$id)));
if($id==="Magic Button 2")
{
    echo "hey its button 2!!";
    ?>

    <input type="button" name="butb" id="second" class="fir" value="second"/>
    <?php
}
else
{
    echo "hey its button 1!!";

    ?>
    <input type="button" name="buta" id="first" class="fir" value="First"/>

    <?php
}
echo $id;
    ?>

A: Best if you can use JQuery Live() for dynamic  Generated Elements :
$("a.offsite").live("click", function(){ alert("Goodbye!"); });                // jQuery 1.3+

Beca JQuery Live() is deprecated you need to use JQuery on()
$("#elementid").on("click", function(event){
alert($(this).text());
});

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Home Year 2011 Age of the Dragons (2011)
Rating - 2.5
Age of the Dragons (2011)
Simon Prior
How do you disguise the fact Danny Glover was only available for 2 weeks? This!
Twitter Plot Summary: The story of Moby Dick adapted so that it's a dragon Ahab is hunting. Danny Glover goes full panto villain.
Imagine, if you will, Herman Melville's Moby Dick adapted to star Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones and transferred to a world in which the whale of the original has been replaced by a dragon. Just let that settle in for a moment. Got all that? If you're not aware of the original tale, Captain Ahab seeks to destroy a white whale that caused the destruction of his ship and the loss of one of his legs. Here, the story has been amended slightly so that the white dragon killed Ahab's sister and horribly burned him in the process.
Sometimes – in fact, quite often – films come along that defy logic and a reason for existence, but on paper at least the idea of adapting Moby Dick into a fantasy film does have a certain logic to it. Okay, so the big tank the crew drive around in is an odd contraption, but it is a story that lends itself to a grandiose fantasy adaptation.
With that being said, there's something disconcerting about watching Vinnie Jones deliver a serious monologue about the life of a dragon hunter. You expect him to either smirk/grimace his way through it (as he has done many times in the past) or deliver a performance akin to his performance as the Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand. That is, knowingly awful.
It probably goes without saying that it's not very good, yet surprisingly isn't a complete waste of your time. The production values are sufficiently high to disguise the fact it's a necessarily cheap production, and some tinkering with the colour correction (most likely in something like Adobe After Effects) is often enough to hide any concerns about the locations, sets or costumes. The dragons are the real letdown, well animated but hardly blending with the live action footage, but given that they are used infrequently it's not as jarring as you might expect.
He really is too old for this sh*t.
Danny Glover has never seemed more grizzled than he does here as Ahab, and that's including his time spent making the Lethal Weapon films. If he was too old for that sh*t in 1987, by the time this was released in 2011 he should've been in a retirement hoke for grumpy old men. In this case his performance is so over the top he's only one step away from being a full-on pantomime villain, but in the context of this story it doesn't feel out of place. It certainly gives you something to talk/laugh about at least, which can't really be said for the rest of the film.
Meanwhile the chap playing Ishmael (Corey Sevier) is so vanilla as the cut price Colin Farrell he appears to be that he barely makes an impression. It's possible that, when looking back at this film, you now picture Colin Farrell in the Ishmael role rather than Sevier. in fact he's so forgettable that he's not even referenced on the DVD cover, instead usurped by Glover (obviously), Vinnie Jones, Vinnie Jones' chin beard, and the obligatory attractive lady played by Sofia Pernas. Now he knows precisely how Bill Pullman feels.
Score: 2.5/5
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BRTCA membership is open to anyone 18 years or older,having interest in the breed. Individual Membership is $30 per year. Family membership is $35 per year for any 2 adults, plus and additional $5 per person for anyone under 18 years. Individual and Family membership require ownership of a Black Russian Terrier.
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São Paulo – the Apple Watch, the smart watch of Apple, will be released on April 24 — not in Brazil, here there is no date yet. On Friday, however, begin the timetables so that consumers see the watch in person and choose which model they wish to buy.
With the proximity of this date, foreign sites and newspapers began publishing their opinions about the new gadget from Apple. The first reactions were mixed.Some texts claim that the watch is a hit and others remain unconvinced. See below the impressions divided by topics.
Your phone will stay in your Pocket?
One of the central issues with the Smart Watches is if they can replace vintage watches reviewed on vintagenowtrending.com. Not in the sense of no longer exists a smartphone, but not to be I need to get it out of your Pocket throughout the day.
According to the first reviews on the Apple Watch, the clock still does not replace the iPhone throughout the day. The text published in the New York Times States that the watch helped keep the phone in your pocket. "My wife told me that I seemed to be spending less time on my phone lately. She thought it was a blessing, "Farhad Manjoo.
Of course the Apple Watch doesn't work as a substitute at all times. Reading long texts (such as emails) is damaged there, as well as replying to emails. A fact noted by The Verge website is that the apps from developers who don't Apple do not work well.
Exchange messages by the clock is possible by the iMessage. If the user want to use others like WhatsApp or Hangouts (from Google), it's still impossible and you must resort to the smartphone. This is repeated with several apps that often even open on the clock.
Use the Apple Watch is not easy. It takes a few days to understand how to perform all tasks. Different movements generate various responses. He still has a force-sensing technology for touch – which also imply different responses of the Watch depending on how the user touching the screen. In addition, he has side buttons, one of which is also a small wheel.
No text talk about taking the Watch and out going through with ease. Some talk about two days and up to three until the user get used and be able to use the clock functions with ease. The fact seems to counter Apple's maximum simplicity and ease for the user.
"Apple Watch search be highly fashion, but still looks like a technological watch," writes the Recode. Even so, the site States that it is the most beautiful intelligent market watch.
Personally, I think the Apple Watch a little guy with a strange format. The round models, as the Bike 360, Motorola, and G Watch R, round model from LG, attract me more.


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#include "hal_platform.h"
#include "hal_aci_tl.h"
#include "system.h"
#include "lib_mem.h"

static uint8_t reqn = HAL_IO_RADIO_REQN;
static uint8_t rdy = HAL_IO_RADIO_RDY;

static hal_aci_data_t received_data;
static volatile hal_aci_data_t data_to_send;
static volatile bool spi_transmit_requested;
static uint8_t spi_readwrite(uint8_t aci_byte);

void hal_aci_tl_set_rdy_pin(uint8_t pin)
{
    rdy = pin;
}

void hal_aci_tl_set_req_pin(uint8_t pin)
{
    reqn = pin;
}

void hal_aci_tl_io_config()
{
  pinMode(reqn, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(reqn, HIGH);

  pinMode(rdy, INPUT);
}

void hal_aci_tl_init()
{
  received_data.buffer[0] = 0;

  digitalWrite(reqn, HIGH);

  spi_transmit_requested = false;
  data_to_send.buffer[0] = 0;
}

bool hal_aci_tl_send(hal_aci_data_t *p_aci_cmd)
{
  uint8_t length = p_aci_cmd->buffer[0];
  if (!spi_transmit_requested)
  {
//    ASSERT(ERROR_CODE_HAL_ACI_TL_OVERFLOW,(p_aci_cmd->buffer[0] <= HAL_ACI_MAX_LENGTH));
    if (length > HAL_ACI_MAX_LENGTH)
    {
      return(false);
    }
    {
      bool  is_interrupt_enabled_before_send = ARE_INTERRUPTS_ENABLED();
      DISABLE_INTERRUPTS();                           /*disable interrupts to protects the modification of the buffer pointer*/
      lib_mem_copy((uint8_t *) data_to_send.buffer, p_aci_cmd->buffer, length+1);
      spi_transmit_requested = true; // Request transmission
      if (is_interrupt_enabled_before_send)
      {
        ENABLE_INTERRUPTS();                         /*eventually re-enable the interrupts if they were enabled*/
      }
    }

    digitalWrite(reqn, LOW);

    return(true);
  }
  else
  {
    return(false);
  }
}

void hal_aci_tl_poll_rdy_line(void)
{
  uint8_t byte_cnt;
  uint8_t byte_sent_cnt;
  uint8_t max_bytes;
  bool is_transmit_finished = false;

  if ( 1 == digitalRead(rdy) )
  {
    return;
  }

  digitalWrite(reqn, LOW);

  // Send length, receive header
  byte_sent_cnt = 0;
  received_data.status_byte = spi_readwrite(data_to_send.buffer[byte_sent_cnt++]);
  // Send first byte, receive length from slave
  received_data.buffer[0] = spi_readwrite(data_to_send.buffer[byte_sent_cnt++]);
  if (0 == data_to_send.buffer[0])
  {
    max_bytes = received_data.buffer[0];
  }
  else
  {
    // Set the maximum to the biggest size. One command byte is already sent
    max_bytes = (received_data.buffer[0] > (data_to_send.buffer[0] - 1))
      ? received_data.buffer[0] : (data_to_send.buffer[0] - 1);
  }

  if (max_bytes > HAL_ACI_MAX_LENGTH)
  {
    max_bytes = HAL_ACI_MAX_LENGTH;
  }

  // Transmit/receive the rest of the packet
  for (byte_cnt = 0; byte_cnt < max_bytes; byte_cnt++)
  {
    received_data.buffer[byte_cnt+1] =  spi_readwrite(data_to_send.buffer[byte_sent_cnt++]);
  }
  /* Release REQN */
  digitalWrite(reqn, HIGH);

//  ASSERT(ERROR_CODE_HAL_ACI_TL_STATUS_BYTE,(0 != received_data.status_byte));
  if (spi_transmit_requested)
  {
    data_to_send.buffer[0] = 0;
    spi_transmit_requested = false;
  }

  /* valid Rx available or transmit finished*/
  hal_aci_tl_msg_rcv_hook(&received_data);
}

static uint8_t spi_readwrite(const uint8_t aci_byte)
{
  SPDR = aci_byte;                    // Start the transmission
  while (!(SPSR & (1<<SPIF)))     // Wait for the end of the transmission
  {
  };
  return SPDR;                    // return the received byte
}

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The House Intelligence Committee voted Friday to release almost all of the transcripts of the interviews it conducted as part of an investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
Panel Democrats have been clamoring for the release of the documents for months, but it was only in recent weeks that chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) also began to opine that the transcripts should be made public, saying it should be done before the November elections.
Friday's vote has not resolved the committee's ongoing political tension, however, as Republicans and Democrats argued over plans to omit five interview transcripts from the release.
"They're trying to bury them as long as they can," the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), said of the Republicans.
The five transcripts include closed-door interviews with former FBI director James B. Comey, former NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers and former CIA director John Brennan. A transcript of the panel's interview with former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. will be included with the transcripts that are released pending the intelligence community's redactions.
The panel also elected not to release the transcripts from interviews with two sitting members of Congress, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who served as the head of the Democratic National Committee when its emails were hacked ahead of the 2016 election, and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who had contacts with Russian officials.
Schiff said Friday that Wasserman Schultz had no objections to her interview being made public.
The vote sets the stage for the release of 53 transcripts as soon as next week, provided the intelligence community does not take issue with releasing the information. Both Democratic and Republican members of the committee have said there is not much classified information contained in the interviews, and redacting the transcripts should be straightforward.
Schiff said that committee Democrats would likely release additional transcripts of interviews they conducted independent of the panel's Republicans. He complained, however, that committee Republicans voted down an effort to turn over a complete, unredacted set of its interview transcripts to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is leading an investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.


Aircon Direct | How Do Dehumidifiers Work?
A dehumidifier is typically a household appliance that reduces the level of humidity in the air, usually for health reasons. Humid air can cause mold and mildew to grow inside homes, which pose various health risks. Very humid climates or air make some people extremely uncomfortable, causing excessive sweating that can't evaporate in the already-moisture-saturated air. It can also cause condensation that can disrupt sleeping, or prevent laundry from drying thoroughly enough to prevent mustiness.
The first step to dehumidifying air is through the fan. The fan on a dehumidifier draws warm air from the room in. The constant pulling of warm air into the dehumidifier allows for the moisture in the room to be collected efficiently. The warm air then passes over the cold coil.
The cold coil is essentially the same concept as an air conditioner to cool the air. The ability for air to hold moisture is lost when the air is cooled. When the warm air touches the cold coils, the water in the air condenses and forms on the coils. The water then falls into a collection bucket. This is the same concept when you leave a glass of ice water outside on a hot humid day. The cold glass collects the moisture from the warm air onto the glass surface.
Finally, the cooled air runs across the hot coils, bringing the air back to room temperature. This is the differentiating aspect between an air conditioner and dehumidifier. A dehumidifier is not meant to change the temperature of the air in the room, only to remove the moisture.
Absoption/desiccant - This basic dehumidification process uses a special humidity-absorbing material called a desiccant, which is exposed to the air to be conditioned. The humidity-saturated material is then moved to a different location, where it is "recharged" to drive off the humidity, typically by heating it. The desiccant is usually mounted on a belt or other means of transporting it during a cycle of operation.
Electronic - dehumidifiers use a Peltier heat pump to generate a cool surface for condensing the water vapor from the air. The design is simpler as there are no moving parts, and has the benefit of being very quiet compared to a dehumidifier with a mechanical compressor. However, because of its relatively poor Coefficient of Performance (energy efficiency), this design is mainly used for small dehumidifiers.
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