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Bernal, The Man To Beat This Summer
By Andrew on August 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
By Max Anders
Like so many other sporting events, this year's staging of the Tour De France has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and although at one point it looked as if cycling's greatest spectacle would not be held in 2020, thankfully the show is set to go on.
A show that gets underway on August 29th – more than two months later than originally planned, as 176 of the world's greatest pedal pushers will aim to reach the final stop in Paris, just three weeks later.
A route that gets underway without the usual opening day prologue time trial and instead the first of two stages to be contained within the city of Nice, will act as the catalyst for a schedule that consists of 3,470 total kilometres.
22 teams will embark on this year's tour and as always, the focus will be mainly on the Ineos outfit and when you consider that under their current and former guise, they have won seven of the last eight editions of the Tour De France, you can understand why.
The bulk of this team's success has come under the branding of UK media giant Sky and with Sir Jim Ratcliffe's company taking on the sponsorship rights last season, it was a debut win for Ineos in 2019.
According to SBR, the favourite to win the competition is once again Egan Bernal after beating 2018 winner, Geraint Thomas.
A win that came courtesy of Colombian Egan Bernal and after beating 2018 winner Geraint Thomas and teammate to the top step of the Paris podium, he is once again favoured.
Much has been made of whether Ineos' (and Sky before them) dominance of this event is healthy for the event and although critics will argue that success elsewhere would be beneficial, there is no doubt that this team have been the gold standard in the sport as of late.
Which means it is up to the other 21 teams to create a winning strategy of their own and if that is to be the case, then it is going to need something special from the likes of Jumbo-Visma and their main man Primoz Roglic.
If anyone can get close to Bernal, it is he and after impressing in the Tour de l'Ain with two stage wins in three days, the bookmakers have him priced as the current second favorite to win the 2020 Tour De France.
Could this be the year in which a state of overall disruption sees Ineos' efforts bested? We won't know the answer to that until September, but if that is to be the case the Slovenian Roglic looks well placed to finally break such a stranglehold.
Since the cycle hibernation has ended and rubber has met tarmac again, Roglic has been imperious and with the 2019 Vuelta crown also in his possession, he already has the experience required to win a Grand Tour.
An experience that should set him in good stead for September and if he can carry that form over from Spain and continue his recent impressive performances, Egan Bernal will have an even sterner challenge than last year.
The argument this year, as it has always been, is one that suggests that each team is better off having a primary candidate and everyone else within the squad knows their role and more importantly, plays it well. In this context, the non-inclusion of Thomas and Froome in Team Ineos is understandable.
Froome, who is Britain's most successful entrant in the event, has announced he will be moving to Israeli backed outfit Start-Up Nation in 2021 and with doubts over his form and lingering injuries, he has not be given the chance of an ideal Tour De France send off.
Something that when you consider he has won this event on four previous occasions, seems rather harsh. Then again, time waits for no man and especially when it comes to something as gruelling a challenge as this.
Which means, Froome's time could be done and dusted for Ineos and a new era that looked like it got underway last year, may now be set to continue, as Egan Bernal is the man to beat in this year's quest for French cycling immortality.
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SINGAPORE: Leaders of the Southeast Asian nations will be in Tokyo on December 14 to celebrate another milestone in relations with Japan.
Political analysts expect a renewal of close ties between the countries during the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit.
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Associate Professor Tay said: "ASEAN has two principles -- one is to remain united, and the second to be relatively neutral, a friend to all parties, including China which has also become a major partner for ASEAN in the last 15 years.
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The largest-ever group of investors has called on governments to phase out thermal coal power worldwide, put a price on carbon, end subsidies for fossil fuels, and strengthen nationally-determined contributions
Given that this is coming from people following the money and where the value is going to be, I imagine this statement will carry some weight!
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Le Pont de Wagram, de l'époque napoléonienne, est situé au-dessus de la petite rivière Vinxtbach avant son embouchure dans le Rhin à l'entrée sud de l'actuelle localité de Bad Breisig dans l'arrondissement d'Ahrweiler en Rhénanie-Palatinat à l'ouest de l'Allemagne.

Construction du pont
Le , l'est du massif de l'Eifel fut touché par de très fortes pluies, causant, entre-autres, une importante augmentation de niveau du Vinxtbach et une destruction totale du pont d'alors, interrompant la route qui longea le Rhin à cet endroit.

Un pont provisoire en bois fut alors construit à côté, mais ce dernier ne s'adapta guerre aux chariots, d'où une situation très dangereuse avec des accidents subis par des passants.

Le maire de la localité d'alors de Niederbreisig (aujourd'hui Bad Breisig), Mr. Kaifenheim, écrivit une demande par lettre, en date du , au préfet du département de Rhin et Moselle à Coblence. A cette époque, l'endroit du pont se trouva dans ce département français qui fut créé sur les territoires à gauche du Rhin, à la suite des guerres de Révolution.

La requête du maire fut suivie par des actes, et la construction d'un nouveau pont, documenté comme « pont en pierres taillées d'une envergure de 9 mètres entre les localités de Brohl et Breisig, sur la grande route 2, règlement no 51, reliant Nimègue avec Bâle ». Les travaux portèrent également sur l'élargissement de la route, le redressement de l'embouchure, ainsi qu'une déviation de 50 à 60 mètres du cours de la petite rivière vers le sud. La décision d'élargissement de la route et du transfert du cours d'eau, prise par des ingénieurs français, dut répondre à l'accroissement du trafic, mais eut sans doute aussi des raisons militaires. Le contrat de construction fut confié à l'entrepreneur Henri Fluchard, originaire de Herve en Wallonie/Belgique.

Le cout total atteignit alors 38 797 Francs et 49 Centimes. Une liste détaillée se trouve encore aux archives régionales de Coblence.

Y sont mentionnés, entre-autres, les parcelles de terrain achetées aux propriétaires d'alors pour permettre le nouveau cours d'eau et l'élargissement de la route. On remarque la francisation à cette époque des prénoms des anciens propriétaires : Philippe Morchausen, Chretien Reifferscheid, Jean Heß, Antoine Adams, Mathieu Drümmer, André Ockenfels, Conrad Courp.

Inauguration du pont
L'inauguration officielle du nouveau pont eut lieu le , à savoir 2 ans après l'achèvement des travaux. Ce fut devant les habitants des localités des environs que Mr. Le maire Kaifenheim, et Mr. le curé Peter Josef Thelen baptisèrent la nouvelle construction solennellement au nom de « Pont de Wagram » pour ainsi célébrer le 4ème anniversaire de la victoire de Napoléon à Wagram sur les autrichiens. Il est à noter que 2 citoyens de Niederbreisig participèrent à la bataille de Wagram dans l'armée française : Johannes Zander et Philipp Keiffenheim, ce dernier fut officier-cadet, mais tomba fin novembre 1812 lors du passage de la rivière Bérézina en Russie.

Le pont aux XX et XXIe siècles
Le Pont de Wagram supporta sans problème le trafic routier longeant la rive gauche du Rhin pendant plus de 140 ans.

Ce n'est qu'au début des années 1950 que la nouvelle route fédérale B9 fut construite, avec un nouveau pont de l'autre côté de la ligne de chemin de fer. L'historique pond de Wagram, quant à lui, fut restauré vers 1980. Il a aujourd'hui une fonction plutôt locale, faisant passer l'actuelle rue Brunnenstrasse toujours au-dessus de la petite rivière « Vinxtbach » pour accéder de Bad Breisig au quartier du Rheineck et à la localité de Brohl.

Le pont se trouve également à proximité immédiate de la piste cyclable EuroVelo 15 (EV 15), aussi appelé la Véloroute Rhin, qui longe la quasi-totalité du fleuve.

Notes et références

Pont en Rhénanie-Palatinat
Pont franchissant un cours d'eau en Allemagne
Pont achevé en 1813
Pont en arc en Allemagne

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Looking back a few years, French music to foreigners was charactarised by Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf and Johnny Hallyday- otherwise known as France's Golden Oldies. But with a new generation comes a new sound and this sound bares no resemblance to the kitsch classics ringing out of Montmartre cafés: this sound is fresh. French artists are no longer clumsily copying American music trends, the likes of Daft Punk, Camille, Nouvelle Vague, David Guetta and Manu Chao are creating their own sounds, and have gathered quite a fanbase abroad in the process.
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Regretably, Noir Désir haven't had any new releases recently. This may have something to do with the fact that their lead singer, Bertrand Canta, was jailed in 2003 for the murder of his girlfriend, the actress Marie Trintignant.
Very well known in France for their surrealism and eccentricity, Dionysos is one of the most famous French rock bands since the '90s. Their songs, performing both in English and French transport the audience into their own weird world influenced by Tim Burton and Roald Dahl.
Made for the stage, they must be seen in concert, but right now you can start by listening to one of their five albums. Sometimes compared to Beck by the French press, their forth album "Western sous la Neige" includes hits such as "Song for a Jedi" and "Anorak" and their last one "Monsters in Love" deals with more serious themes such as death as well as axploring new sounds.
Dionysos can now do pretty much what they want in musical terms: they are now established French Rock royalty.
Miossec have been a trio worth watching from the start. Their first album "Boire", released in 1993 was awarded album of the year by the French magazine "Les Inrockuptibles", which is well known for being harsh. Their best one remains "l'Etreinte", 2006 which includes songs such as "La facture d'electricité" and "Trente ans".
Singer Christophe Miossec has many talents: he has also written texts for Alain Bashung, Axel Bauer, Jane Birkin, Jeff Bodart, Juliette Gréco, Johnny Hallyday, Polar and Mass Hysteria and is now working with Yann Tiersen to create something that will shatter musical genres. A major artist who is going to leave his mark on French music.
-M- alias Matthieu Chedid is a French song-writer, singer and accomplished guitarist. Louis Chedid's son, he has been influenced by both jazz and Jimi Hendrix and by poetry since his grandmother is the writer Andrée Chedid. What a melting pot! And the result is a genius musician who looks like a super hero with M-style hair. -M- is not only about his music, he is a whole enchanting world which goes some way to explaining his enormous fan-base. His first album "Le Baptême" released in 1997 was awarded two "Victoires de la Musique". "Je dis aime" 1999 and "Qui de nous deux" 2003 confirmed his talent: poetry, sensitivity, originality are mixed with a pop rock background and M's particular voice. Hits follow hits: "Machistador", "Je dis Aime", "Onde sensuelle", "Monde Virtuel", "Mamma Sam", "Bonoboo", "Qui de nous deux", "A tes Souhaits"... However Matthieu Chedid is a guitarist before being a singer and currently he seems to be more busy composing for others than singing his own songs.
Revelations and recent artists
The French rock scene has been shaken up recently by revelations of young and promising artists. Amongst them we have Pheonix, remarkably talented and already famous. They are one of the most interesting bands to have come out of France recently. We also have the amazing duo The Do (a must-listen too), Cali, Aaron, the vein Luke-Deportivo and the girls from La Grande Sophie to Superbus.
Phoenix' band members used to work with the great French band Air. However in 2000 they released their own album, "United" which went on to cause quite a stir on the international music scene. Paris, London, L.A., and New York were all captivated, with everyone from Sofia and Roman Coppola to Air heaping praise on them. And with good cause: great songs, great performances and obsessive attention to details. Powered by tracks like "Too Young" (which was featured on the Lost In Translation soundtrack), "Honeymoon" and "If I Ever Feel Better," critics hailed "United" a brilliant debut, an album that one U.K. critic even described as "undoubtedly the best post-French house, '70s country-rock concept album of modern love songs you're ever likely to hear." The band even appeared in the movie "Marie-Antoinette". A brilliant success story which is not about to stop any time soon.
For "Alphabetical" in 2004, Phoenix once again produced a musical mutant. The album opens with a bang: "Everything Is Everything" while "Run, Run, Run" is a highly improbable collision between folk guitar and a pounding hip-hop beat. "I'm An Actor" ushers in a radical change of tone: a monologue from the mouth of an actor drunk on a blues folk inspired musical background. The atmosphere is heavy, the sense of uneasiness immediately palpable.
"It's never been like that" released in 2006 appears like the masterpiece they have always seemed to promise. The atmosphere is harsh, as if it had been recorded on live. "Napoleon says" could raise the dead with its beats whereas "Consolation Prizes"'s pop sound is astonishing and with the influence of both The Strokes and Cyndie Lauper.
Prepare yourselves for the release of their new album in early 2009.
The Do
Latest discovery of the French rock scene, The Do is an explosive duo composed of the Finnish-French singer Olivia and the musician Dan who released their first album called "A Mouthful" in 2008. She brings a love of rock and pop, he is more into jazz and movie music: together they have created a sound that is both surprising and interesting.
Sung in English and sometimes in Finnish, their atmosphere is nimble and metaphorical. A must-hear. I recommend "On my shoulders" and "Stay (just a little bit more)"in particular, though I have to admit that Olivia's high-pitched voice and the Do's saturated sound as in "The Bridge is broken" can occasionally get too much...
Christophe Miossec's close friend Cali evolves in the same vein and is one of the pioneers of the new French rock scene. He has said that he used to dream of becoming a rugby player until a 1984 U2 concert shifted his priorities to music. Influenced by Anglo-Saxon rock and French songs such as Léo Ferré and Jacques Brel, he has created his own unique style which is either loved or hated.
His first album "L'Amour parfait" and its pop rock sounds with acidely funny lyrics caused a sensation in France. Everybody kept singing "Elle m'a dit" or "C'est quand le bonheur". Four albums have already been released and the last one "L'espoir" has been described as his best yet. Buy him and judge for yourself.
Simon Buret and Olivier Coursier formed Aaron in 2004. Singing in English, they have created a dark universe combining husky voices with lively passages. They became famous in 2005 after the director Philippe Lioret picked their song "U-turn (Lili)" as theme for his famous film "Don't worry, I'm fine". This hit gave them the opportunity to record an entire album called " Artificial Animals Riding On Neverland" which was released in January 2007. "U-turn" have been continuously broadcast since. Some people have even compared their works with Radiohead and Coldplay...
Fans of Noir Désir and inspired by their music, the three members of Deportivo decided to create their own rock band. Influenced by Nirvana, Noir Désir, Miossec, Georges Brassens and Les Béruriers Noirs, Deportivo make energetic and uncompromising rock which has seduced none other than Gordon Raphael, the producer of The Strokes.Their last album "Deportivo", released in 2007, confirmed their talent and revived the French rock scene which would lack lose a bit of its recently acquired sense of innovation without them. Their Miossec cover "Les Bières aujourd'hui s'ouvrent manuellement" is especially impressive.
Luke is an incredible French band. Their first album "La Vie presque", 2001 was more Pop but their second opus "La Tête en arrière" is most definitely rock! Their fan-base has remained loyal since "La Sentinelle" and "Soledad", and with good cause: with great lyrics and a music oscillating between brut rock and ballads, Luke are also unbelievable on stage especially when they play with their friends Deportivo like they did in 2005.
La Grande Sophie
Awarded Victoire de la Musique in 2005, La Grande Sophie had already released five albums and another one is on its way. Inspired both by Jacques Dutronc and Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), La Grande Sophie does gentle rock ballads including the very famous hit "Du Courage". I am personally not a fan but leave you to make your own mind up.
Mademoiselle K
With two albums released Mademoiselle K has undoubtedly seduced her audience. Hits such as "Jalouse" and "Ca me vexe" gave her a "Disque d'or". Perfect for going through teenage crisis but apart from that...
Pop rock band (pop above all) which has a large teenage fanbase, Superbus try to emulate No Doubt ... They do not entirely succeed, though some hits such as "Butterfly"and "Lola" have been broadcast a lot.
The young Parisian scene: "French rock revival"?
The Parisian scene has shown incredible dynamism over the last few years. Venues such as Le Gibus, La Flèche d'Or, le Tryptique and Le Batofar have revealed new young and very promising rock artists. The famous Phillipe Manoeuvre, a journalist at "Rock and Folk" (a French magazine) has even spoken of a " French rock revival".
Fashion phenomenon or French rock revival? Audience is strongly divided. Four bands are to be noted in particular: the BB Brunes, the Plastiscines, Naast and the Shades. These Parisian teenage bands performed together in 2007 at the Olympia and some of their songs were part of the "Paris Calling" copilation CD in 2006, which was released in the presence of the Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and none other than our very own home-grown talent Pete Doherty.
The BB Brunes
They are the most famous of these young artists. Idols for Parisian teenagers, the three young musicians are also trend setters. In other words: a major phenomenon. After their performance on a famous French music show, and the release of their single "Gang", the band was signed by Warner and released their first album "Blonde comme moi" in 2006, whilst the three teenagers were still in high school. A huge success and for good reaons: lyrics about teenagers' neasiness, blazing melodies, fashion style, the BB Brunes are made to succeed. An older and wiser listener might criticise them for the slightly shallow nature of their music, but this does not seem to hinder their success...
The Plastiscines
Plastiscines
Signed by EMI music the Plastiscines are the second leaders of this teenage scene. As fashionable as the BB Brunes they released their first album "LP1" in 2007 and already have a hit, "Loser". Influenced by The Strokes and The Libertines, as well as by Blondie and The Kinks, the beautiful teenage girls are in the same vein as the BB Brunes and could be criticized for the same reasons. And yet the phenomenon is not about to stop.
Naast
Naast aims to follow in the footsteps of bands such as The Ramones and The White Stripes. The master track "Mauvais Garçon", off their debut album "L'Antichambre", appears in the famous video game Guitar Hero III as a bonus track. Rather a good begining! Like the BB Brunes and the Plasticines they are as loved and criticized but no one can deny that they are a huge phenomenon.
The Shades
The Shades must be the most talented of these artists, perhaps because they are yet to sign with a big label. Therefore they have remained slighty less commercial (just a little in fact...) and keep on producing indie rock as they want to. Their first album "Le Meurtre de Venus" 2008 is pleasant to listen but it's not quite a musical revolution... or maybe not just yet. In fact musical backgroung is really pleasant but it seems that the five boys have to work harder on their lyrics which are still a little immature.
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05/09/2012	- vince463650 said :
i'd add IZIA as a great rock band . Best to be seen live
27/11/2009	- pommierm said :
thanks, i am French and i must admit that you gave an interesting overview of the rocking new French musical scene culture. It is however far from being comprehensive and in my opinion, you forgot a few ones that deserve to be listened to
- Mickey 3D, an important one not to be forgotten
- Dominique A (one of Miossec's best friend)
- Vegastar (they were good friends of Kyo and Pleymo).
- Aston Villa (like your football team). they toured last year in Vietnam and Indonesia.
- Tagada Jones, a great punk rock band with clever lyrics, that toured last september in Taiwan and Japan
- Louise Attaque, Matmatah,kaolin, 10 rue de la madeleine and fallaster are worth being mentioned too.
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These two songs were not used as the music for a Psalm. However, these songs are based on Song 087 – The First Prayer, and its music was used for Psalm 46. I wrote the geologists version of this song (086a) at an SEG convention in New Orleans in 1998. I was working with Dr. Bowen Loftin at the University of Houston in my free time on his CAVE (Computer-Aided Visualization Environment). On 14 December 1990, as Walden 3-D, Inc.'s first significant event, I hosted a Lynk Teleconference, which Dr. Loftin participated in. We had Lynk boxes in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cedar City, St. George, Austin, Nacogdoches, Houston, Maine, Chicago, and Pittsburg. The Lynk boxes were between the phone and where the phone plugs into the wall, and they controlled the advancing of slides in a slide projector. Needless to say, this was well before webinars, on-line meetings, and real-time collaboration, as described in Song 085 – Merging Mind & Matter. One of the most interesting aspects of this slide-based teleconference was the fact Bowen placed an order for the first head-mounted display for NASA's Johnson Space Center during the teleconference, when he realized Jean-Jacques Grimaud, who invented and was the first to sell head-mounted displays, was participating in the teleconference from San Franciso. I had met Bowen at a NASA technology transfer conference, where he described training astronauts in Germany remotely from Clear Lake, Texas. Bowen used the head-mounted displays to create a training program for fixing the Hubble Telescope, and won the best of NASA Award for the work. By the time this song was written, in September of 1998, Bowen had set up a CAVE (Computer-Aided Visualization Environment) at the new University of Houston Research Center (former Schlumberger Research Center on I-45 in Houston, Texas). I volunteered and helped him form the VR-Geo consortium (Virtual Reality in Geosciences, which is an on-going research consortium, now administered in England and Germany). We would bring oil company folks through the CAVE, demonstrating walking through the solar system, around the International Space Station, and through an aquarium full of fish in true three-dimensions. Always remember a scientist from UNOCAL, who said to me "I can't believe you get paid to do this." I didn't get paid. It was all because I liked Bowen and because I was using his facility to do a proof-of-concept for Walden Visualization Systems, which later merged with Energy Innovations and became Continuum Resources International Corporation. This demonstration was what got Kjell Finstadt to invest in Continuum. And Song 086b – Be Still Geoscientists was written when all of this work was being done. It was fun, and it was a very exciting time, a time of recovery from my personal and family failures.


Awesome to finally get a large-scale update of the legendary Transformers Decepticon leader, Megatron! Check out this review to get some tips and advice on how to make this incredible figure even more incredible with a few quick, easy paint apps and how to arrange the tank treads on his back for a better-looking figure to pose on your shelf.
Thanks for the tips on the treads, I'll look into it on my own figure.
While I think that this figure is a great G1 update, I think that they went a little too G1 in the articulation. By which I mean that the poseability of Megatron is pretty limited. The arms are OK, but the legs... The poor guy barely has any knee movement.
Great review! Really enjoyed your insight on this impressive iteration of G1 Megatron.
First off, the all ubiquitous Tuna Standard states Megatron at a bit over six cans of tuna high and coming in at a 316 grams (Leader class Jetfire is 295 grams). Which is pretty decent.
I really like the tank mode and I mean really like. So much so, that I will pick-up a Armada Megatron and keep him in tank mode if I ever catch him on sale.
Now we have to make a comparison to X-Transbots Apollyon. While Apollyon has super awesome packaging compared to Hasbro G1 Megatron (and I suspect the majority of the cost of Apollyon was the packaging), I like G1 Megatron for what he is, a well-designed (not perfect) and fun to play with toy.
While I like Apollyon and I have not encountered some of the problems others have with him, I seem to like playing with Hasbro Megatron a lot more.
And between the both of them, I like the head sculpt more on G1 Megatron and the additional third party enhancements will make a good Megatron into a great one.
As an aside for those that have G1 Megatron, did you apply his tribal tattoos to his chest?
Where's Prime? These orange safety tips are for pussybots. Prime can put one of these on his ion blaster.
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Weekly Update #173
Merry Christmas everybody. This is the last Weekly Update of the year. I got a couple of more articles I will be posting, but in general I am going to be taking a long break to spend time with family over the holiday season. I will see you guys all again in 2015!
And now the news...
What do the critics think of Ascension?
Last week, SyFy premiered the SF mini-series called Ascension. It is a murder mystery set on a nuclear powered spaceship secretly launched in the 1960s to colonize a nearby star system to ensure humanity's survival in case we ever decided to nuke the Earth. The ship itself is inspired by the real life Project Orion, a program Mark Appleton covered in his articles on atompunk on The Update. So what did the critics think of this show? Well there have been mixed reviews and I will do my best to avoid potential spoilers (trust me there is a big one that was already ruined for me).
Pilot Viruet at Flavorwire praised the first episode, but did say that the show failed as mini-series due to its poor ending. David Wharton at Giant Freaking Robot had similar gripes about the ending, but still left him wanting more. Natalie Zutter of Tor said the show relied on "archetypes and trope shorthand", but "still succeeds in worldbuilding." Cheryl Eddy of io9 was less forgiving of Ascension. She slammed the first episode, but did say the final episodes improved over time before ending with a WTF moment. Meanwhile, Jeff Jensen at Entertainment Weekly gave the overall series a "B-".
So the general consensus seems to be that Ascension made a great pilot, but mediocre mini-series. Personally I would rather watch a show featuring a Solar System that was explored and colonized during the Cold War using nuclear powered spaceships. What would 2014 look like in such a universe? Perhaps we would see a Soviet remnant state in the Asteroid Belt causing problems or some utopian communes out in the Oort Cloud. Nevertheless, I probably will check out Ascension in the near future so stay tuned for my review.
Author Updates: Charles Stross and Paul Levinson
Just a couple of updates on some alternate history writers. First up, we have Charles Stross, the author of the Merchant Princes series. Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing wrote a short review about the series, calling them "surprising and delightful, simultaneously zippy and fun and hefty and deep." Stross also mentioned he is working on a new trilogy of Merchant Princes books in a mini-interview done at The Boskone Blog.
Next up we have friend of The Update, Paul Levinson, who has been sharing reviews of his two works, The Plot to Save Socrates and "Loose Ends" on his blog. I actually got a copy of "Loose Ends" when Paul offered it for free on Amazon and I hope to post a review in the near future. Speaking of Paul, you can check out his review of Ascension as well on his blog.
Due to a lack of new releases this week and wanting to keep Tuesday morning open for something else, I am bringing your New Releases to you a little early.
DMZ The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian Wood, Riccardo Burchielli and Ryan Kelly
In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand--Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ.
In this new DMZ hardcover, a new leader rises in the DMZ - but what will that mean for Matty Roth, a journalist who calls the zone home? After a near-tragic misadventure in Staten Island, Matty returns to find Parco Delgado in office as provisional governor of New York. Matty's first task under the Delgado regime? Tracking down the source of one of the DMZ's greatest urban legends.
Collects DMZ #29-44.
Videos for Alternate Historians
Last week in videos begins as it usually does with another episode of Epic Rap Battles of History. Featuring a showdown between Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock (plus special guests):
Next up, lets take an in-depth look at The Order: 1886, PlayStation's exclusive steampunk game, on The Nerdist:
And finally, for those who like WWII tank battles, lets watch Joel, Adam, Matt and Jeremy play World of Tanks in this episode of How To:
Links to the Multiverse
Books and Short Fiction
Best Alternate History of 2014 at The Book Plank.
The Emirate of Kabat by Chris Nuttall at The Chrishanger.
The Grand War News & Patreon by Lynn Davis at Maps, Writing, and Ramblings.
The Infinite Points of Interest in Alternate History by Jacopo Della Quercia at Tor.
Leicester author Rod Duncan to complete trilogy after signing book deal at Leicester Mercury.
Never Wars is Finally Available by Blaine L. Pardoe at Notes From The Bunker.
Philip K. Dick would have been 86 today: Some thoughts on his legacy at Los Angeles Times.
Philip Pullman Releases New His Dark Materials Story for Christmas at Tor.
Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived And Can Never Die at SFcrowsnest.
Review: Steampunk Soldiers by Philip Smith and Joseph McCullough at Falcata Times.
What if the World Had Taken a Different Turn? at The New Indian Express.
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Laura's suspicions about Bradford are aroused when she learns he has been going through her father's desk. Why did he do that?
"I was going through your husband's desk and felt it in the very back of the drawer. I wanted to return it to its rightful owner." Bradford smiled as he held out the lovely ring.
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Fighting the mosquito disease problems with… mosquitos?
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Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 system (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), gene editing has become a highly debated topic. One of the reasons backing the use of CRISPR-cas9 is to prevent diseases. These diseases include mosquito-borne diseases such as zika, dengue fever, and malaria. Malaria in particular kills around 3,000 children every year. Various groups of scientists have worked on genetically modifying mosquitos to stop the spread of malaria by making female offspring sterile and unable to bite, making male offspring sterile, or making mosquitos resistant to carrying diseases. A point of concern was if the modified gene would stay relative and would carry from generations. In order to make offspring, genes from both parents must be used, resulting in the offspring carrying the modified gene only half the time. In particular cases, mutations would occur in the altered DNA, which nullified the genetic changes. This has been solved by developing a gene drive, which makes the desired gene dominant and occur in the offspring almost 100% of time. This entails almost the entire mosquito population could have this modified gene in as little as 11 generations.
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Recently, the government of Burkina Faso, a small land-locked nation in west Africa, has approved for scientists to release mosquitos that are genetically modified anytime this year or next year. The particular group of mosquitos to be released first is a group of sterile males, which would die rather quickly. Scientists want to test the impact of releasing a genetically modified eukaryotic organism in the Africa. It is the first step in "Target Malaria" project to rid the region of malaria once and for all.
One of the major challenges in gaining allowance to release the genetically modified species was the approval of the residences, who lack words in the local language to describe genetics or gene editing. Lea Pare, who leads a team of scientists modifying mosquitos, is working with linguists to answer questions the locals may have and tp help develop vocabulary to describe this complex scientific process.
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Published on 26 Aug 2020 26 Aug 2020 by Tanner Demling
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Cornell is one of few programs that went through a coaching change this offseason, as Peter Milliman left for Johns Hopkins. The Big Red have named Connor Buczek as the interim head coach for the 2021 season.
Last time the Big Red came into a season with an interim at the helm was in 2018 with Milliman. And things turned our pretty good, as the Big Red won the Ivy League and made a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals. This time around things could turn out even better for the Big Red. And that's all thanks to Cornell allowing star atatckman Jeff Teat to comeback for a fifth-year, which is something that not every Ivy is allowing despite the NCAA's ruling to grant spring sport athletes an extra year of eligibility.
The two-time Tewarraton Nominee and three-time USILA All-American returning immediately makes Cornell a top-flight contender within the Ivy League and nationally next season. And they will almost certainly live up to the hype.
Before the 2020 season was cut short, Teat recorded 27 points (12G/15A) and helped lead Cornell to a 5-0 record, which included wins over Albany, Towson, High Point, Ohio State, and Penn State. Teat has amassed a career record of 268 points (116G/15A) during his four years with the Big Red, being one of their biggest impact players since he first stepped foot in Ithaca, N.Y. as a freshman.
Having their leader on offense back will be huge for the Big Red in 2021. But they will also return three of their other top five scorers in attackman John Piatelli, midfielder Jonathan Donville, and attackman Michael Long. Additionally, multiple other younger guys will be returning and could step up big time, which could lead Cornell to have one of the deepest offenses in the Ivy.
They will also return goalie Chayse Ierlan, faceoff man Angelo Petrakis, and some other good pieces on defense. And that Cornell defense has taken some big steps over the past few seasons, and if they can take another one in 2021 that would be huge for the Big Red.
But does just having Teat, a majority of the supporting cast on offense, starters at both specialist positions, and some key pieces on defense back in 2021 mean they will likely be the team to beat next season? No. But it is a good start, and certainly puts them at the top of the conversation, for sure.
However, one could look at the rest of the Ivy League heading into next season and suggest that the Big Red might just be the team that comes out on top of the conference when Selection Sunday rolls around.
Yale will be right back at the top of the national conversation with faceoff man TD Ierlan returning for a fifth season. But beyond that, the Bulldogs return an experienced amount of youth on the offensive end and defenseman Chris Fake, who will be a senior, will be leading the charge at close defense again.
Penn loses some quality seniors, but with younger guys like Sean Lulley and Dylan Gergar returning on attack, BJ Farrare returning at LSM, and Patrick Burkinshaw likely to be their starter in goal again, the Quakers could be seen as the darkhorse of the Ivy. Brown also has darkhorse potential with a few key fifth-year returnees.
Princeton loses an all-time great in Michael Sowers, who is taking his talents to Duke to be able to play a fifth season, but they still return some very good underclassmen on both ends. But how things will look without Sowers is still unseen and his vacancy could mean a step back for the Tigers, at least early on. Dartmouth and Harvard will, undoubtedly, return some great talent on both ends, but the likely hood of either churning out special seasons in 2021 seems pretty low, at least according to general expectations.
A year after a historic season that wasn't for the Ivy League, Cornell has the potential to assert themselves as the top dog in the conference early on, especially with Teat back. 2021 could be the year of Cornell.
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ALSO, for all of you who are not aware, I just released version 1.3 of my taunt modification. It now includes custom animations. You can take a look at it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxoVtBSSQBs
That spy taunt looks awesome. Heavy is just LOL!
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Gamemaster1379/ Here's my ID for the private group invite.
I see two things I consider deal breakers (one in game, one in the notes):
1. Some of the new taunts make the heads move around wildly, making headshots much harder to pull off on the person doing the taunt. The only taunts in the game that do this now are the Schadenfreude's taunt, and those stay in roughly one place after the taunt starts. The Pyro's Shoryuken taunt is by far the biggest offender here, followed by the Spy's new "dancing" fencing taunt.
2. The new taunts don't do taunt kills even when they should. This means that the Flare Gun, Detonator, Your Eternal Reward, and Big Earner all lose their taunt kills. Ironically, those are the same taunts I just complained about in #1.
Unstable Hamster
http://steamcommunity.com/id/unstablehamster
By the way, did Sir Prize come up with the details on the 3 V 3 Heavy Herding game? I still would love to see those rules come up.
ParanoidDrone
Apparently the tauntkill code is strictly Valve-sided, so any new taunts are forced to be damageless. To do otherwise would trigger VAC.
From what I understand, this isn't a simple animation switch, but rather a full fledged mod, hence the issue.
Correct. If I were to even figure out HOW to modify these new taunt animations to kill--I would be looking as a nice VAC ban. As far as the animations go for moving the head--I know mine aren't the only ones that are victim to this. Not much that I can do about it. I didn't animate them.
Super-Duper Sombrero
I was under the impression that the hitbox for the head remained in the idle position when a character was taunting, and didn't move. I may be wrong though, as it's rare for a head to stray too far from the idle standing position during a taunt, and then for me to actually have time to aim at them.
Also I don't think that's the correct use of the word 'irony.'
Sombrero is correct, the hitboxes do not change--and the character will return to idle position by the end of the taunt--meaning that you have a standstill target to prep headshotting like most other taunts.
Sir Prize
I actually have a plan for much bigger than just 3v3. I just haven't had the time to put it down on paper and try to balance out all the rules and such to make sure everyone has fun with it.
In the meantime, enjoy my utter lack of creativity:
Lyrai
Hey, Powerlord, could I get a private group invite?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/FlandreTouhou/
Someone must have beat me to it, because you're already in the private group.
...well all right then.
What're the odds that this halloween Valve will put new items in and have another event a la Headless Horseman?
Kiyobi
My money is on yes.
I think they're pretty much obligated to.
I had a really weird TF2-related dream last night.
For whatever reason, my house or apartment had a little U-shaped dead-end. I was carrying the Sniper's Kukri for whatever reason.
As I was leaving with someone else (Melissa, I think), I told her "excuse me a second" and went to Spy-check the corner. I ran into a cloaked Spy, and clubbed him to death with my Kukri.
Next thing I remember from the dream is that we put a recliner in front of the U-shaped dead-end and I was sitting in it. For whatever reason, I got up to get a drink, came back with it, decided to club the air behind the chair to Spy-check, then stabbed the Spy that was there through the heart.
Not really that exciting I suppose, but it's not every day one has a TF2-related dream, right?
Nabeel Ansari
I think you're playing too much TF2.
Native Jovian
Or you're not playing enough TF2. I forget how it works with Powerlord.
But the point is, you're not playing exactly the right amount of TF2.
Well, sadly, days like today I'm too busy doing homework and stuff to play TF2.
Zerothemaster
disregard education:
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Doing homework and checking for spies.
You, too?
10youtoos...that sounds like a punchline.
I was watching a video recently and one of the things that kept popping up was the huge difficulty curve on Red Orchestra 2 (haven't played it personally) compared to a lot of other games.
That got me thinking, do you consider TF2 a game with an easy or hard difficulty curve?
My first instinct was that it has an easy curve. I remember when I first started playing, everything was easily recognizable and identifiable and I don't recall any particular aspect of the game being hard to figure out.
There could be finer details that are much harder to learn (Rocket jumping for newbies, playing Spy)
BUT, I noticed after TF2 went Free to play that some people I know to be FPS players didn't really catch on with TF2 very well. They played it a lot then just stopped completely, which leads me to wonder if its more difficult than I realize or if them being console gamers (gamepad vs. keyboard) hurt.
They weren't able to cope without an instant respawn.
I didn't even think about that one. I've never really played console FPS' so I don't know a lot about them.
TF2 is different than most other FPSes. Not so much easier or harder, but just with a different focus. While in the big FPS franchises -- Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield -- you can do pretty well as long as you're a good individual player, Team Fortress 2 requires... well, teamwork. The best player in the world will still get his ass kicked if he doesn't work well with his team. Even if it's just something as simple as sticking together in a group when you're moving across the map (as opposed to letting the scouts blaze ahead and the heavies lag behind) makes a huge difference in TF2, way more than in other games.
I think the significant differences in gameplay styles for each class also requires a pretty significant learning curve. I've managed to get a couple of people into the game, and I started out each time by walking them through how each class operates, since understanding what you're supposed to be doing as a given class is almost as important as actually doing it. I know the Battlefield series has different classes to some extent, but from the impression I've received, I don't think there's quite as much difference between them than there is between, say, the Heavy and Spy.
The sheer number of weapons options in the game now doesn't exactly help matters, either.


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"Behold I create new heavens and a new earth!" (Is 65:17). What a wonderful passage describing the resurrection of all creation! However, this passage although written several centuries before today's John's reading, prophesies a time much after Jesus'—and our—earthly lives. In other words, to get to the "new heavens and the new earth," we must first go through the life of Jesus. And especially this Lent, the death of Jesus. Which brings us to today's John reading. John's gospel is full of intentional theological details. Notice that Jesus departs to Galilee after two days, thereby arriving on the third day (Jn 4:43-46). And where does he arrive? At Cana! The same place where he turned water into wine (Jn 2:1-12). And while Jesus' wedding miracle at Cana was his first sign that proved his divine identity, today's reading is his second sign that proves his divine identity (Jn 4:54)—the raising from death of a son, on the third day. It's a prophetic prequel to Jesus' own authority over life and death, and his resurrection from the dead on the third day. And just like the boy's father believed in Jesus (Jn 4:53), we too are invited to believe Jesus and have life in his name (Jn 20:31). As we march towards Holy Week, every weekday will take us through John's Gospel, through Jesus' life before his crucifixion. And the question we will have to wrestle with is this: do we desire to trust Christ wholly and have life in his name?
O Lord our God, who in thy holy Sacraments hast given us a foretaste of the good things of thy kingdom: Direct us, we beseech thee, in the way that leadeth unto eternal life, that we may come to appear before thee in that place of light where thou dost dwell for ever with thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Music on the Couch Show #418 – Making A Scene!
Mud has a new album, They Call Me Mud, and he and I talked about all he has been up to since we last spoke. Mud also talked about spreading the music far and wide and his love for doing so.
Teresa returned to The Couch to talk about the new album Here In Babylon. We spoke about her last year, the recording of this album and the opportunity for her and the band to stat touring far and wide once again.
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Since the Sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Italian Champions Juventus Real Madrid have struggled to get goals and win important matches.
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