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Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
Written by D. R. on 23 Jun 2015
Distributor Anime Limited • Certificate 12 • Price £34.99
Unlike Tiger & Bunny's previous feature-length outing, The Beginning, which was largely a series recap rounded off with a new but small tale, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising is an entirely new story which even throws a new hero into the mix. We join our titular heroes some time after the events of the series - Kotetsu and Barnaby (Tiger and Bunny respectively) have been relegated to Hero TV's new second league and reduced to catching run-of-the-mill criminals with a team of less than stellar NEXT-powered colleagues. Kotetsu seems to be settling well into a role as mentor to the second leaguers, but Barnaby meanwhile appears bored out of his mind.
Thankfully for Barnaby this state of affairs doesn't last too long, as a new boss starts shaking things up at Apollon Media, although, not all is quite as it first appears. The new man at the top, Mark Schneider, makes Kotetsu and Barnaby an offer they can't refuse - to return to the top division of Hero TV. However, they soon wish they had refused Schneider's offer once his true intentions come to light. Unfortunately, for Kotetsu in particular, the pair learn a little too late that they should have listened more carefully to Schneider's words, and Barnaby is left flabbergasted when a new hero is unveiled as Wild Tiger's replacement.
The new hero on the block is Ryan "Golden Ryan" Goldsmith, a somewhat obnoxious but ultimately well-meaning hero who possesses the ability to increase gravity in an area around him. Along with this new hero comes the news that the second division is to be disbanded and all the heroes therein made redundant. With his powers waning, this leaves Kotetsu little choice but to bow out of the hero game and become an ordinary citizen of Stern Bild. Having been a hero for most of his adult life, the transition isn't an easy one for poor Kotetsu, though his trademark stubbornness doesn't help matters either.
Even before the dust has chance to settle on the Hero TV reshuffle, a series of disasters look set to wreak havoc during the build up to Justice Day. These events seem to point towards an old legend of a goddess: The Goddess of Justice, who supposedly sends a multitude of curses when she becomes unhappy with the greed of man, so that they might see the error of their ways. These events, added to the aforementioned shake up at Hero TV, leaves our band of heroes in disarray, and it's here where the film really shines. Each of our heroes lose themselves in one way or another, and we see them forced to battle their own demons before they can truly face the trials of the supposed "goddess". This is especially true for Fire Emblem, a hero who never really got the focus he deserved in the series but who is finally given his moment to shine. On the opposite end of the scale, major villain from the TV series Lunatic feels criminally mishandled here - his presence seems to be merely as a nod to the fans rather than serving any real purpose in driving the plot - this is a real shame as he has the potential to be one of the most interesting characters in the film.
Visually, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising looks as good as you might expect on Blu-ray, though it's the DTS-HD Master Audio where the film really shows the benefits of the format, although you will need a decent surround sound system to make the most of it. The on-disc extras on the Blu-ray are a mixture of the usual fare, though some of them are quite interesting in their own way. The "Theatre Manners" skits in particular provide an interesting window into the world of Japanese cinemas.
Its treatment of Lunatic aside, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising plays most of its cards with style; the only major issue here is that the film leaves you wanting more Tiger & Bunny in a world where no more currently exists.
English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. This Collector's Edition release contains two discs (1 x Blu-ray, 1 x DVD), rigid Box, digipack containing the two discs, 4 UK Exclusive Art Cards. On-disc extras consist of: Theatre Manners, TV Series Special Digest, Weekly Movie (Weekly Hero Countdown), Art Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Pilot Trailer, Commercial Collection, Clean Opening and Ending title sequence.
The Rising provides a welcome dose of our favourite Japanese superheroes, though be warned that it will leave you wanting more.

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In a further demonstration of the lack of class of the producers and primary host of Coast to Coast AM, George Noory, they aired a classic Art Bell episode with David John Oates on October 4, 2014, that was originally aired on September 19, 1996.
The reason why this is significant is because Art Bell had sued Oates for defamation because of what a guest of Oates had alleged about Bell on his show, and a rift was caused between Bell and Premiere Radio Networks when they decided not to support him in his lawsuit, despite Art Bell creating the whole Coast to Coast AM franchise from nothing.
Since then, as I have documented, it has become a sneaky Zionist propaganda outlet, with hypocrite George Noory at the helm since 2003.
George Noory and the producers of Coast to Coast AM even stooped so low as to have Oates on as a guest on September 5, 2013, in direct response to Art Bell's new show on Sirius XM, just to taunt Art and throw their weight around.
I am not a fan of Art Bell's response to 9/11, nor of keeping Alex Jones off the show for the wrong reasons (Art kept him off because of being a "conspiracy theorist" as opposed to the real reason that Jones should've been kept off, because he's a Zionist shill), but Art deserved better, and I would be happy to go on any of his future shows as a true alternative economics guest, as I tried to in 2013, and also stick it to the Zionist shills there who know very well who I am, thanks to my past articles and emails.


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Contending that the impugned action of RTA was illegal and violative of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution and hence liable to be struck down, the petitioner argued that hoardings were permitted to be installed even in road medians.


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In response to ongoing attacks by Iran-backed militias, President Joe Biden ordered U.S. airstrikes against them in Iraq and Syria.
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Why Hard Places Need Hardy Churches
January 25, 2018 | Mez McConnell
Acts 29: Churches Planting Churches
Pastors, seminary students, and prospective church planters ask me many of the same questions about ministry in Niddrie, Scotland. How can we reach a poor neighborhood near our existing congregation? Should we plant a new church or try to revitalize an existing work? How do I know if I'm cut out for this kind of ministry?
Just before I arrived in Niddrie in 2007, somebody sent me a copy of The Scotsman, a national newspaper that ran the following headline about the church I was going to pastor: "New Church Forced into Fortress Mentality after Vandals Attack." The article began:
A church built entirely on donations from a New Town congregation has been forced to spend £10,000 [approx. $14,000] on "fortifications" after being besieged by vandals who have caused damage running into thousands of pounds. Within weeks of the new church and community hall being completed, it had been repeatedly vandalized, leaving its windows and central heating pipes smashed.
I'd just arrived from working with street gangs in Brazil, so I wasn't completely unaware of the harsh realities of inner-city ministry. But Scotland is different from Brazil. Despite the violence and poverty, South Americans still had a fear of God and a respect for the church.
When I arrived in Niddrie, however, it became clear that while people might pay lip service to God, they had no respect for this church and even less interest in my ministerial credentials.
I inherited a church building under constant siege by local children and youth. Our windows were often smashed, cars were set alight, and members were assaulted in the street.
The small group of believers I inherited were well-meaning and conscientious, and they had a real love for Niddrie. But since most of them lived outside the community, they were trying to arrest decades of decline as cultural outsiders.
Their only contact with the community was Sunday services and the odd leafleting campaign or door-knocking initiative. The way church services were conducted seemed calibrated to the culture of a professional-class church in the city, not a church in a poor community.
When the church was looking for a pastor, they wanted a man to come and continue doing what they'd always done. Needless to say, the early months were difficult for me.
The church members were preoccupied with programs. One day I received an email from a disgruntled member who berated me for removing 47 different kinds of evangelistic tracts from the cafe area. Apparently I was killing evangelism. Another email arrived in which the sender wanted to know why I wouldn't be encouraging the church's choir to walk the streets at Christmas singing carols.
The Niddrie community around us, on the other hand, had a completely different set of concerns. The day before these emails came, I spent a few hours with a young man who had been raped as a boy by his uncles and was now selling himself for sex to pay for his crack habit. Another woman had her electricity cut off for nonpayment. In the night some local children had stolen all the drainpipes from the church and smashed the front steps with golf clubs.
There was a complete disconnect, in other words, between the people who met in the building and the lives outside.
As I sat there on that cold winter morning, I wondered how the church could possibly turn around. In Brazil I'd planted a church from the ground up, so it was easy to infuse gospel DNA into it.
But this was a whole different ballgame. How was I going to bring these two worlds together? Honestly, I felt like quitting. But by God's grace I stayed and embraced the reality that it was going to be hard.
Churches in poor areas are dying for a number of reasons. Planting and revitalizing are hard work. There is nothing remotely romantic about it.
And yet, God has purposed to reach people in the poorest parts of the world, and he will do so through the local church.
God's vehicle
Healthy, gospel-centered churches are the God-ordained way to do ministry in hard places. Some think it doesn't really matter who does the job, so long as Jesus is made known. But the church must remain central. It is primarily through her, after all, that God means to make himself known (Eph. 3:10, 20–21). The local church is God's primary evangelism strategy.
Consider how Paul reflected on his ministry strategy:
From Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation. (Rom. 15:19–20)
The apostle thought of the region from Jerusalem to Illyricum as being reached with the gospel. The ministry of the gospel was "fulfilled" there. Was that because Paul had preached the gospel in every community and home in that vast area? Of course not. Paul could check this part of the world off his list because he knew there were churches in these places. And he believed that is how the gospel would spread into all the individual neighborhoods—local churches doing local evangelism.
The local church is God's primary evangelism strategy . . . a showcase for God's infinite wisdom and glory.
Despite her failings, the local church is a showcase for God's infinite wisdom and glory (Eph. 3:10).
Filling the vacuum
But there's a problem. In Scotland and all over the United States, many poor communities lack a solid, living, localized gospel church. The vast majority of churches that do exist on the ground are either dead liberal churches preaching a Christless message or aging orthodox churches with a "gospel" nobody is listening to.
It seems many churches are doing little when it comes to taking the gospel to the poor and downtrodden parts of their cities and neighborhoods. And many have neither a plan nor the resources to reach out to the poor on their doorstep—even if they do have a heart for them.
The amount of time, effort, manpower, and money required to make a dent in poor areas is enormous. It can seem like a mountain to climb for the average local church that is fighting to keep its head above water. The result is that few churches who attempt to engage these areas rise above hit-and-miss evangelism or crisis ministries such as food banks. Many shrug their shoulders and let the specialized parachurch folks get on with the bulk of the work.
A young man I once met summed it up like this: "Why would I work for a church? It would mean being limited by structure and authority, and being antiradical. When I read the New Testament, I see life and dynamism, not tired, boring traditions."
But despite the glitz and glamor surrounding many excellent parachurch ministries, they have not been ordained by God in the same way as the local church. They can be helpful, but the church remains the one institution on earth established and sanctioned by God for the explicit work of gospel ministry (Matt. 16:18; 28:18–20).
Blood-Bought Bride
Jesus loves the church despite its many shortcomings and seeming irrelevance to the watching world. The church is his bride. He has no plans to take another.
In Acts 20:28 we read that Jesus has built the church with his own blood. The church is built for Jesus, by Jesus, and on Jesus. It is simply unthinkable to separate the Lord Jesus from the local church.
If the gospel is the diamond in the great salvation plan of God, then the church is the prong that guards it, holds it up, and shows it in its greatest light for the world to see.
Planting churches in hard places is difficult, slow, and costly. It is work that will require a lifetime, and then some. But it is worth it.
After all, the price tag on the church was the blood of the Lamb. Let's press on, then, for the glory of the Lamb, by planting churches in hard places.
Church in Hard Places is an Acts 29 initiative aimed at planting churches and training leaders among the socially marginalized. Doug Logan and Mez McConnell are seasoned leaders in these areas, and therefore have been appointed as co-directors of this initiative.
Editors' note: This article is adapted content from chapters 4, 5, and 9 of Church in Hard Places: How the Local Church Brings Life to the Poor and Needy (Crossway, 2016).
Mez McConnell is the senior pastor of Niddrie Community Church. He is the director of 20Schemes, a church planting and revitalization initiative in Scotland. He is also Co-Director of the Acts 29 initiative Church in Hard Places. Mez is the author of Preparing for Baptism: A Personal Diary (Grace Publications Trust) and Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope (Christian Focus). He's married to Miriam and has two daughters. You can follow him on Twitter.
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PHILADELPHIA — New research suggests the United States has at least twice the number of congenital heart surgery (CHS) programs it needs, reigniting calls for regionalization of care.
"When you go to a place like France, where all of the patients with congenital heart disease are funneled to three or four centers, and you see the outcomes they have and the amazing results, it makes you realize that regionalization — which translates into more patients at each center — definitely improves outcomes," Carl Backer, MD, with the Ann and Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
The drive to improve quality outcomes by creating centers of excellence for a spectrum of complex cardiac procedures has intensified in recent years, but yielded no easy answers. The debate often pits smaller-volume hospitals against larger referral centers and raises questions about patient access and the best indicators of quality.
Previous work has linked higher program volume with lower adjusted mortality after pediatric cardiac surgery, with one study suggesting an inflection point between 200 and 300 cases per year.
Although almost all institutions fall on the right side of the mortality curve, there are "problem institutions, and the fact that we have too many centers is one of the reasons contributing to this," Backer said to a standing-room-only crowd at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2019.
Concerns over higher-than-expected mortality rates and low patient volumes were at the center of this year's firestorm surrounding the pediatric heart surgery program at North Carolina Children's Hospital and the permanent closure in 2015 of a fledgling program at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The Bristol heart scandal, in which at least 30 children died after heart surgery in the late 1980s and early 1990s, rocked the United Kingdom and sparked a series of changes. The National Health Service recommended reducing the number of CHS centers in the island nation from 11 to seven and set standards that every center perform at least 500 cases annually and have 24/7 coverage by four certified pediatric cardiac surgeons.
If the 500-case minimum were applied to the United States, with its 325 million people and an estimated 32,500 CHS operations per year, the country would need only 65 centers, according to Backer, also a professor of surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a past president of the Congenital Heart Surgeon's Society (CHSS).
The United States, however, has at least 150 CHS centers, of which 116 report to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) national database and another 30 to 40 do not, he noted.
In a separate analysis of STS data by Backer and colleagues, mortality rates were 1.8% for centers averaging 300 cases per year and 3.6% for those averaging 100 cases per year. The mortality difference was accentuated when adjusted for case complexity (1.7% vs 5.4%; P < .01).
"That's just taking data that are out there, publicly available to anyone, and saying if you were the parent of a child, would you rather they be operated on at an institution that has less than 2% mortality or one that has greater than 4% mortality. And it just happens that the less than 2% are the high-volume centers that have more than 300 cases," he said when interviewed.
Backer suggested that the goals of "rational" regionalization should be to keep case volumes at a minimum of at least 300 per year, to have at least one program per state that has more than 2 million residents (keeping Hawaii), and to minimize travel distance.
In his home state of Illinois, for example, there are eight CHS centers with annual case volumes in 2016 ranging from 10 cases at Loyola University Medical Center and 15 at the University of Illinois-Chicago to 320 at Lurie's Children Hospital and 210 at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Under Backer's plan, the number of programs would drop to two.
Similarly, the number of pediatric heart centers now at 10 in Texas and Florida and 11 in California would be reduced to six, four, and nine, respectively.
"Theoretically, states could mandate that congenital heart surgery centers must do 'x' number of cases," Backer told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology. "Even if you set a low bar, if the state of Illinois said you have to do more than 150 cases, that would eliminate eight programs immediately."
One of the arguments against regionalization of congenital heart surgery is the impact on patient travel times, Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc, a pediatric and congenital heart surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, observed during the same session. "Interestingly, patients are already regionalizing themselves to perceived high-volume centers of excellence," she said.
In an analysis of 153 CHS hospitals in 36 states, Karamlou and colleagues reported that two-thirds of hospitals were located within 25 miles of each other and 55 hospitals performed less than 50 cases per year. About one-quarter of patients traveled more than 100 miles for surgery but 53% bypassed their nearest hospital.
In a subsequent analysis that simulated regionalization, only 37 of the 153 CHS hospitals remained with an idealized annual case volume of more than 310 cases. "Why I say this was idealized is that it minimized mortality; we had a 17% reduction in mortality that translated into about 116 potential lives saved" and "median travel distance was increased by only 40 miles," Karamlou said.
However, if the framework is built on case complexity and only high-risk patients are regionalized, only 26 potential lives would be saved because high-complexity cases comprised just 2,000 of 16,000 patients, she noted.
Unpublished data from the investigators suggest that reducing the number of CHS programs to just 57 would allow for a median of 451 cases per year with median patient travel distances of 35 miles.
Backer told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology he received a standing ovation when he discussed regionalizing CHS during his CHSS presidential address, and that an "incredible number" of people requested slides from his AHA presentation.
That said, "I heard via some back channels that some of the smaller centers were not happy with the presentation, which I can understand, but that doesn't change the facts," he added.
As for why centers would cling to a CHS program that treats a dozen or so patients a year, Backer commented, "the unfortunate clear answer is the contribution margin of these patients to the hospital is quite clear. I don't think it is out of line to say that hospital administrators who are looking at the bottom line are very interested in holding on to these patients, despite the fact that it may not be the best thing for the patients."
Even in the United Kingdom's nationalized health system, he noted that the shift in policy after the Bristol experience caused a "revolution," with just two CHS centers closing thus far after the NHS said only those centers failing to meet standards would be shuttered.
"We probably should be establishing standards; the very difficult thing is how we enforce these standards and, in concert with that, should we be lobbying congress, the states, the insurance companies to rationally regionalize congenital heart surgery," Backer concluded.
Backer reports consulting for W.L. Gore & Associates. Karamlou reports no relevant financial conflicts of interest.
American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2019. Presented November 17, 2019.
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Comment: United to save Udta Punjab but mostly quiet over Udta Bollywood
The show of support to alleged drug abuser, peddler Rhea Chakraborty by a handful of celebs in the Sushant Singh Rajput case questions Bollywood's desire to eradicate the drug menace in the film industry
Anurag Kashyap (L), Taapsee Pannu, Shibani Dandekar (3rd), Rhea Chakraborty (R)
The drug trail in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case has seen his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, and four others being arrested. As widely expected, more names are set to tumble. As claimed by Times Now, the first set of names to tumble out included Rhea's so-called friends – rising star Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh, and designer Simone Khambatta. More big names are expected to be revealed in the coming days.
[Note, the Narcotics Control Bureau has so far denied any of the above names being in any Bollywood list]
While Indians await more alleged sensational disclosures, over the last few weeks, one has seen Chakraborty find some support from people within the industry. Post Sushant Singh Rajput's death, save for the condolences Tweets, most Bollywood celebrities have remained mum on the case. Initially, the case veered towards the alleged nepotism angle, but once the Central Bureau of Investigation honed in on the alleged drug angle, the Narcotics Control Bureau stepped in and the rest is there in front of us.
This new found support for Rhea Chakraborty has crept in from the time the drug angle emerged in this case. The likes of Anurag Kashyap, Taapsee Pannu, Swara Bhasker, Kubbra Sait, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Shibani Dandekar and surprisingly even Vidya Balan sense media trial, patriarchy in the criticism of Rhea Chakraborty. All the above names had rightly condemned the mobbing of Chakraborty by video journalists and photographers. While Pannu has been subtle in expressing her empathy towards Chakraborty, Dandekar and Anurag Kashyap have been more vocal in slamming the perceived media trial. They have whipped up the patriarchy debate. Dandekar, who is producer-actor Farhan Akhtar's girlfriend, was involved in a war of words with Rajput's former girlfriend Ankita Lokhande on social media.
Rhea and her lawyer Satish Maneshinde have called the entire probe, Rhea's arrest a result of the media trial being carried out simultaneously.
Honestly, all this talk of patriarchy is simply bizarre. Chakraborty is the prime accused in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. What does the accusation have to do with her gender? Surely, there is no mention of words like patriarchy, media trial, vilification, witch-hunt in the charges against her. A noted actor has died under mysterious circumstances, and his death is bound to raise several questions. Thankfully, our judiciary, law enforcing agencies don't bother to look at any misogyny, patriarchy comments on news or social media. And they are never influenced by it.
Jiah Khan's mother Rabia is still battling to seek justice for her daughter. When Sooraj Pancholi was accused of abetting Jiah Khan's suicide in 2013, did anyone indulge into any frivolous talks of matriarchy, misandry? No, they didn't. So why should any frivolous talk of patriarchy be entertained in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. At the end of the day, Sushant is a victim while Rhea Chakraborty is a prime accused. As civilians, we must allow the law to take its own course, rather than pass any comment in favour of the victim or the accused.
Anurag Kashyap is an interesting case. Today, he raises a voice against patriarchy. Ironically, a few years ago here was the same man who posted a tweet against a female journalist for calling him constantly for a story. Kashyap had copped criticism for he not only tweeted the female journalist's name but also posted her mobile number on a public platform. The journalist is said to have been heckled by mischievous callers. Strangely, when a female employee was allegedly sexually, mentally harassed by his Phantom Films colleague Vikas Bahl, Kashyap did nothing about it. He would later tell in an interview that he wanted to do something but he was helpless. Kashyap's silence in the particular case seriously dents his anti-patriarchy image.
This bizarre limited support for Chakraborty, an accused in a suspected suicide, drug case seriously questions Bollywood's desire in eradicating the drug menace in the film industry. Go back to 2016 and it was a totally different picture then. Director Abhishek Chaubey's Udta Punjab [2016] was censored by the then CBFC [Central Board of Film Certification] chief Pahlaj Nihalani. Chaubey and his producers Balaji Motion Pictures, Phantom Films found tremendous support from the industry. A bevy of current and past filmmakers, producers all had firmly rallied behind Udta Punjab makers and condemned the high-handedness of Nihalani and the then CBFC board.
Press conference held in support of Udta Punjab [2016] in Mumbai
A press conference was held that was attended by dozens of filmmakers/producers. The likes of super star Aamir Khan had come out and openly lent their support to Anurag Kashyap and co. Khan had told reporters that this film talks about drug menace and so it gives a great social message. The film was cleared by the court and it achieved fair success.
Now when the industry grapples with the alleged drug menace in its own backyard, there have been few voices who have condemned the drug culture. The super stars have largely stayed mum, perhaps not wanting to be associated with any controversy. Kangana Ranaut doesn't have too many friends in Bollywood, but save for the odd voices – Raveena Tandon, Sonu Nigam, Adhyayan Suman, the others have simply kept quiet. Yes, there is a global pandemic, but where are the present and past filmmakers, producers now?
Ranaut has copped few criticism for claiming that 99% of the people in the film industry take drugs. That figure might be a bit exaggerated, but didn't the Udta Punjab [2016] trailer claim that 70% of youth in Punjab is into drugs? During the initial press conference held at JW Marriot, Mumbai, yours truly had asked Chaubey whether this 70% was borne out of creative liberty or was it based on any research?
Udta Punjab [2016]
"It's a point of view that was expressed by a character in the film. I stand by the data that the government, AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences] has provided regarding this matter. In the film, the context was that it was a particular character's point of view. Since then we have taken note of the fact that people might take umbrage to it, and we have rectified it," replied Chaubey .
It's been four years, and it's hard to recall the film in its entirety. If our memory serves us right, the 70% claim wasn't rectified in the film.
If filmmakers are ready to make such a claim in a film, then they shouldn't be offended by Kangana's 99% claim either. After all, it is just an individual's view. Be it real or reel, often most Indians take such figures with a pinch of salt.
A Covid-19 pandemic has forced most citizens home. You do wonder, if there was no pandemic, would the few celebrities had taken to the road to voice against the perceived misogyny, patriarchy faced by Rhea Chakraborty?
If we look at the history of Bollywood, often when their own are on the wrong side of the law, the film industry has backed the tainted personnel. Turn back to the 90s, and Mahesh Bhatt had led a swamp of industry people on the road asking for the release of Sanjay Dutt, who was booked under stringent terror acts in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts. The late actor, politician Sunil Dutt had knocked on the doors of rival politician Balasaheb Thackeray to save his son.
The same 90s also saw the suicide of Rekha's husband Mukesh Aggarwal and the actress was labelled a witch by certain section of the media. Remarkably, some people who stood for Dutt, had joined the press in the witch hunt against Rekha. 30 years on, feminism now has a strong voice in society, but it is naive to apply that in a case that involves alleged drug procurement, peddling. We've mentioned about the silly patriarchal debate earlier in this feature.
As a seasoned journalist, yours truly has observed that the film industry is usually evasive when it comes to commenting on socially relevant issues. In the past, any mention of casting couch /nepotism was often met with, "Oh this happens everywhere. Doctors son's also becomes a doctor. So, don't single us out." Bollywood has long toed this line, but for a doctor's child to emulate the father/mother, s/he needs to study, and clear, medical science for four years.
Once the #MeToo movement gained momentum in India, it became difficult to toe the cliched defensive line.
Zoya Akhtar
Far too long has Bollywood buried its head in the sand, and bypassed the social ills plaguing it. It is astonishing that amidst this whole alleged drug culture talk in Bollywood, the industry has stuck to its "please don't generalise us" defence. Zoya Akhtar chucked Kangana's anti-nepotism crusade by saying how there are many cases of 'outsiders' shining in the industry. She hit out at the media at large for not showing human decency. Ironically, as disclosed by veteran respected journalist Shekhar Gupta in his piece on The Print, Zoya's team forgot their decency, humanity when they threatened to boycott an awards show if their film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara [2011] wasn't given the award.
Civility is not applicable to media alone. But surprisingly, no one from the film industry condemned Sohail Khan for abusing female journalists for simply asking Salim Khan if rumours of Salman Khan getting married are true? A day or two later, Salman Khan pinned the blame on media for infringing the family privacy. For the record, the two journalists were on a public street waiting for Salim Khan and Sohail to step out from the social gathering they were attending.
Not a soul from Bollywood, or the so-called anti-patriarchy warriors condemned Sohail or Salman.
Recently, we had the Producers' Guild and later Cine & TV Artistes' Association [CINTAA] each issuing a statement wherein they expressed grief over Sushant Singh Rajput's death, but called out the media for subscribing to victimisation, unethical journalism. The statement by CINTAA was baffling as it was highly critical of the media coverage and urged the news media industry to introspect. CINTAA is a highly respected body, but when did news media come under its ambit? Can CINTAA lay down ethical ways of reporting to the news media?
If people don't like a particular media coverage, the individual or authority can complain to National Broadcasting Association or The Indian Newspaper Society [INS]. Damn, if you are brave enough, file an official complaint with the police if you think a particular coverage was inappropriate. Just like news media can't lecture the film industry on ways of film making, how can the film industry lecture media on journalism?
There is no denying that the media needs introspection. There are over 400 news and current affairs channels in India. Are all of them resorting to sensational journalism? Aren't film bodies generalising the media when they say MEDIA is resorting to sensational journalism?
Source: Sushant Singh Rajput Instagram
Film industry has been critical of the blind items that often border on an artiste's personal life. A popular actor, who was once a close friend of Sushant Singh Rajput, didn't hesitate in calling blind items illegal and wanted them banned. We, too, are not fond of blind items, but are they illegal? While many of these stories could be cooked up, but remember these blind items don't fall from the skies. There is someone close to the artiste who leaks, spreads such stories.
In her interview to TV Today Network, Rhea Chakraborty called out PR professional Rohini Iyer and actor Sanjana Sanghi as the probable villains in Rajput's life. Chakraborty suspected Iyer of orchestrating these blind items. Iyer had Rajput as a client for a few years. The Mumbai police, CBI have called Iyer for questioning. One doesn't know the truth here, but we iterate, blind items don't fall from the sky.
Some noisy news media houses need an introspection, but it would be premature to label all media as unprofessional. The key to solving a problem is firstly accepting it. When you can take a stand against drugs in films, why can't the industry clean its house first? The general public views can't be regulated. Media though needs to be careful in not victimising any artiste before s/he is pronounced guilty. Media can stop questioning the film industry on the alleged drug culture if the latter introspects and takes out the few bad eggs. Also, anyone taking drugs shouldn't be labelled as a national villain. The Bollywood youth who maybe into such activities should be sensitised on the grave consequences, legally or physically, of consuming drugs. Any suggestion of distinguishing between good drug (marijuana) / bad drug has to be abolished. Last checked, save bhang (edible cannabis), consumption of all narcotics and psychotropic drugs are banned in India. CINTAA has been lauded for its 'Outreach' program. Any person bogged by any financial, emotional distress shouldn't hesitate in reaching out to bodies like CINTAA.
2020 is a dark year globally. We've lost a promising talent like Sushant Singh Rajput to drug menace. This is film industry's Udta Bollywood moment, a time to usher in a positive change and weed out the drug menace. Is the industry serious about it or do they want to lecture the media? The media can't clean their house. The ball rather the broom lies in your corridor, Bollywood.
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Very nice write up sir
Mayur Lookhar says:
Ghazala parveen says:
Hi Mayur,
You are completely right and we the people also think the same way…
Udta bollywood…
These people in bollywood blame on media just…
How can they forget because of media only they are known to us…
Feminism ki bahut baatein hoti hai bollywood mein , but koi sach ke saath nai rehta…
Roses are red hamei sikhaane chale jisko ye nai pata ki… palak dhaniya pudina lol ananya panday so called filmfare winner lolllllll….. illiterates… really they are.
Thank u for ur article it will help us to see the real picture of this industry..
Write more blogs would love to read….
More power to u… thanks.
Thanks for ur kind words


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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Gun maker offers $33M to settle suit by Sandy Hook families
By DAVE COLLINSJuly 28, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting, for a demonstration during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee reviewing gun laws, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. Remington, the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims' families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims' families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public.
Lawyers for now-bankrupt Remington filed the offers late Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court in Connecticut. The nine families suing the company, who are being offered nearly $3.7 million apiece, are considering the proposals, their lawyers said.
A Hartford lawyer representing Remington, James Rotondo, declined to comment Wednesday. The settlement offers were filed a day after a judge denied Remington's request to dismiss the lawsuit.
A Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle made by Remington was used to kill 20 first graders and six educators at the Newtown, Connecticut, school on Dec. 14, 2012. The 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, killed his mother at their Newtown home before the massacre, then killed himself with a handgun as police arrived at the school.
Relatives of nine victims killed in the shooting say in their lawsuit that Remington should have never sold such a dangerous weapon to the public and allege it targeted younger, at-risk males in marketing and product placement in violent video games. They say their focus is on preventing future mass shootings.
One of the plaintiffs, Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan died in the shooting, said Wednesday that the families need to talk with their lawyers about the settlement offers and declined further comment.
Joshua Koskoff, an attorney for the families, said the settlements were offered by two of Remington's insurers.
"Ironshore and James River ... deserve credit for now realizing that promoting the use of AR-15s as weapons of war to civilians is indefensible. Insuring this kind of conduct is an unprofitable and untenable business model," Koskoff said in a statement.
Remington's lawyers have denied the lawsuit's allegations. In their request to dismiss the lawsuit, they argued there were no facts presented to establish that Remington's marketing had anything to do with the shooting.
Remington, based in Madison, North Carolina, filed for bankruptcy last year for the second time in two years. Its assets were later sold off to several companies.


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Named after the pink coloured granite which is found here and used for many a building on the west coast, Cobo is a favourite with families offering a safe and sandy beach. Excellent for windsurfing.
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Heroes, Villains, Oddities and Minutia–The Forgotten History of the National Pastime
Baseball History Daily
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"The Idol of the Haight Street Grounds"
Reuben "Rube" Levy was one of the first Jewish professional players, and one of the biggest stars in the early days of West Coast baseball.
Born in 1862 to Prussian-Polish immigrants, Levy worked as a shoe cutter and began his professional career as a teenager, playing left field for the San Francisco Californias in the New California League in 1881.
A good fielder, but not particularly fast, The San Francisco Morning Call once described him chasing a ball: "Reuben Levy, following the ball as it sped gleefully along, looked like a cow chasing a coyote across a pasture."
Reuben "Rube" Levy, 1888
Levy quickly became a fan favorite.
The Morning Call, and The San Francisco Chronicle called him "the hero of the kindergarten" during the years he played at Haight Street Grounds; the title referred to the section of the grandstand adjacent to left field occupied mostly by young fans. The Sporting Life said "there never was a more popular player in San Francisco," and called him "The idol of the Haight Street Grounds."
Years later, The South of Market Journal recalled that the "kindergarten" fans "applauded the genial Rube for any kind of play." The paper said one reason why Levy was the most popular West Coast player with children was because in the days when baseballs were a valuable commodity he would:
"Get hold of a ball that he would bide and save till the game was over, when the kids would swarm down the field and gather around their idol. He would take a ball from his pocket; toss it high in the air with hundreds of healthy youngsters, among them future greats, in a big drive to capture it. Believe us, many a spunky kid emerged from this huddle with something other than a smile, yes, more like a blue forget- me-not under the eye in the struggle for the possession of the prize. Then away Rube, the idol of the Kindergarten would gallop lo the clubhouse joyful in the thought that his juvenile admirers were
made happy for the day."
In 1890 The Sporting Life said Levy had won a contest for the most popular player in the California League, beating out popular Oakland Colonels infielder, and fellow San Francisco native, Jim McDonald:
"(A)t the eleventh hour the friends of Rube Levy executed a grand coup by unloading three thousand votes into the ballot box, thereby flooring McDonald and other favorites 'out of sight.' Sixth Street and the Kindergarten by a straight stroke had outwitted Mac's friends and landed their boy first under the wire, and distanced all others. Well, Levy deserves it, as he is a quiet, unobtrusive gentleman and first-class ball player, and Jim would rather have been beaten in the race by his old neighbor than by any other player."
San Francisco's Haight Street Grounds
Levy was said to have a good arm, and while with the San Francisco Metropolitans in 1892 manager Henry Harris decided to use the left-hander on the mound in an early season game. The Chronicle said:
"The Los Angeles (Seraphs) team has a majority of left-handed batters in its make-up, and they generally hit the ball on the seam for bases. Harris is a firm believer in the theory that a southpaw is particularly effective against this class of hitters."
The experiment failed. The Chronicle said Levy "with the speed of a (Amos) Rusie, but without control…entered the box against (Bob) Glenalvin's men (and) gave them the game in the first few Innings."
Harris used Levy three more times on the mound, but the results were no better. He ended up 0-2, giving up 12 hits, three walks and 14 runs (although only 2 earned) in six innings.
Levy pitched at least one more game each during the 1893 and '94 season. The Chronicle said of his 1894 effort pitching for the San Francisco Hot Peanuts against the Californias of San Francisco:
"Rube Levy was elected to do the twirling yesterday and in consequence of the arrangement the San Francisco team was defeated. Throughout the afternoon Reuben's opponents at the bat straightened out his curves for long-distance jolts, and stole bases on him unawares. Levy's work in the box was so ineffective that the crowd was continually provoked to offering him words of cheer and comfort."
Levy pitched a complete game, losing 18-10, the Californias had 17 hits, stole seven bases, and the Peanuts committed 11 errors behind him.
Levy was generally described as a clutch hitter, but almost no statistics survive. Baseball Reference lists his 1892 and '93 averages at .237 and .283.
Levy, unlike other pioneering Jewish players seems to have been spared of anti-Semitism and Insensitivity, perhaps owing to San Francisco's large Jewish population (second only to New York during his career).
While the San Francisco based Breeder and Sportsman referee to his "little Hebraic curve," in an article about one of his pitching appearances, nothing seems to have risen to the level of what Zeke Ferrias faced when pitching in the Three-I and other Midwest leagues during the first decade of the 20th Century. It was not unusual for newspapers, like The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald to attribute a victory to Ferrias' "Jew luck," and conversely, when he began to fade as a pitcher to mention that "his Jew luck had quit him."
The first part of Rube Levy's career came to a close when he retired after the 1896 season; the second part tomorrow.
Tags: Amos Rusie, Bob Glenalvin, California League, Californias of San Francisco, Jim McDonald, Los Angeles Seraphs, New California League, Oakland Colonels, Rube Levy, San Francisco Californias, San Francisco Hot Peanuts, San Francisco Metropolitans, Three-I League, Zeke Ferriass
Filling in the Blanks—All-Time Great Name Edition
Baseball Reference lists H.A. Magendie as a member of the San Francisco Athletics and San Francisco Californias of the Pacific League in 1878 and the San Francisco Eagles of the Pacific League and San Francisco Californias of the California League in 1879.
Hippolyte Aloise (some public records have his middle name a Aloysius) Magendie was born in Stockton, California in 1856 and graduated from St. Mary's College of California in 1875.
No records exist for the teams Magendie plated for, but a box score from the San Francisco Chronicle from August of 1878 lists him as a second baseman, and the accompanying article provides a nice example of 19th century baseball writing:
"Magendie hit the leather sphere to between first and second base which was handsomely caught by Daniels with his left hand."
After his brief baseball career Magendie became a journalist and playwright. His only surviving work I was able to find is a play entitled "Parents by Proxy, A Comedy-Drama in Four Acts," a copy of which is in the Library of Congress.
Magendie died in San Francisco on August 8, 1907.
Tags: California League, Hippolyte Magendie, Pacific League, San Francisco Athletics, San Francisco Californias, San Francisco Eagles
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When couples divorce, deciding what to do with the family pet can often feel more like determining parental rights than simply dividing a marital asset. In our hearts and minds, pets are not possessions, but beloved companions and important members of our family. However, per Colorado law, the family pet is considered to be martial property, and as an asset, it is subject to division in much the same way as the couple's dining room furniture.
When couples with pets cannot agree on who gets to keep the pet, or how to divide their time with the pet, it is important to consult with a Colorado family law attorney to discuss possible options. Rather than litigating the issue, which can be time consuming and expensive, it is also possible to employ an alternative method of dispute such as mediation.
A skilled mediator may be able to assist the couple by creating an agreement that takes into account the needs of both parties, their children, and the needs of the family pet. Colorado agreements for the parties to share their pets are not uncommon. But it is always best to make these very emotional decisions together, and consider everyone's best interests, rather than having the courts make the decision for you.
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New Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers For June 23, 2021 Episode Revealed
Happy Tuesday, "Bold And The Beautiful" fans. We are back in action to tell you how the middle of this new Bold And The Beautiful week will play out in tomorrow's new Wednesday, June 23, 2021 installment. That's right, guys. We're already going to hit the middle of another week tomorrow.
We were able to gather up some new, official spoiler scoops for the June 23, 2021 episode from the terrific CBS folks. So, we're going to dive into those right now. Let's do it.
To start, it sounds like tomorrow's new Wednesday, June 23, 2021 episode will feature some possible interesting, emotional, scandalous, intense and interesting scenes as Bill and Katie's conversation continues. Justin continues to run his latest scandal and more!
We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Bill and Katie situation. Those of you who saw today's episode know that Katie finally visited crooked Dollar Bill Spencer in jail, and she gave him a good lecture about how he messed up his entire family by covering up that Liam and Vinny accident.
Bill said he would do it again to protect Liam. Apparently, we're going to see this scene continue in tomorrow's new episode, and more emotions are supposed to get unleashed.
CBS' official description for this latest Bill and Katie conversation tells us, "Emotions run high when Katie visits Dollar Bill in jail." An alternate description reads like this, "Katie visits Bill in jail."
As we previously reported, we're going to see Bill in action again in the June 24, 2021 episode. During it, he will be talking with Liam about Justin's plan to get them out of jail. Something tells me that conversation won't be a very productive one considering the BS that Justin pulled today. Justin ,apparently, has an alternate set of plans of his own that do not include getting Bill and Liam out of Jail.
Speaking of Justin, that leads us into the second and last teaser description for tomorrow's new June 23, 2021 installment. It lets us know that Justin will be back at Spencer Publications running the show while Bill and Liam continue to rot away in jail.
CBS' description for this latest Justin storyline tells us, "Justin comes into his own at Spencer while Bill and Liam are indisposed." An alternate description reads like this, "With Bill in jail, Justin makes some power moves."
Those of you who saw today's episode know that Justin knocked out Thomas when he revealed that he has proof on his phone that Vinny actually committed suicide by jumping in front of Liam and Bill's car that night.
As we previously reported, you guys can expect to see Justin take Thomas hostage! Thomas will try to appeal to Justin to no avail in the June 24, 2021 episode. Justin has also cooked up a very scandalous plan that he will share with Thomas in the June 25, 2021 episode. When he does, it will totally terrify Thomas! So, that sounds pretty friggin serious.
Justin certainly put on a good act until today's episode when he flipped on Thomas at the very last minute. It's like it came out of nowhere. Totally nuts. What do you guys think of Justin totally turning evil all of a sudden? Let us know in the comments section.
Alright guys. That's all the spoiler scoops we could track down for tomorrow's new June 23, 2021 episode of The Bold And The Beautiful, but certainly expect to see at least a few other scenes get shown that were not mentioned in this spoiler session.
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RE: The tariff classification of an ink reservoir and ink wick for use in computer printers, from Japan.
Dear Mr. Sundfelt:
In your letter dated May 24, 1995, on behalf of Shirasaki (USA) Corporation, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
While you submitted a sample of a complete ink cartridge, we note that you only seek the tariff classification of the ink reservoir (A) and ink wick (B). The ink reservoir consists of a shaped piece of felt measuring about 1.25"x1/4"x1/8". You state that it is 30% by value of polypropylene, 30% rayon and 40% polyester man-made fibers. The ink wick is composed of 100% wool felt and measures about 3/4"x1/4"x1/16". Both of these components are designed to be fitted into an ink tank (Exhibit C) which will ultimately be assembled into a compete ink cartridge as illustrated by sample (D). These two items (A and B) both possess the characteristics which identify them as being technical use items with applications in various types of apparatus, etc., such as the ink cartridges (D) which ultimately go into computer printers.
The applicable subheading for the two products, will be 5911.90.0080, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for textile products and articles, for technical use. The rate of duty will be 7.1 percent ad valorem. This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section 177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).
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Tariff No.: 5911.90.00 - Textile products and articles, of a kind used in machinery or plants for technical uses, specified in note 7 to chapter 59, nesoi


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Capetown, South Africa - November 4, 2008 - Topower Computer, a worldwide leader in innovative, high performance, and high reliability power supply, today unveiled the Award-Winning Special Edition PowerBird 1100W power supply with aluminum carry case for high-powered gaming systems and workstations.
Designed to offer the consumer market an industrial-grade computer power supply with state-of-the-art designs, the PowerBird is the ultimate power solution for those users that require an ultra-efficient, highly reliable, high-wattage, multiple graphics cards solution for their leading-edge gaming machine.
The Special Edition PowerBird 1100W is well packaged and protected in an aluminum carrying case. With convenience in mind, the aluminum carrying case is designed providing storage for unused cables, tools, screws, and anything for tweaking your system. MSRP at $239, it is to reward users with extra value in the coming holiday season! The price on the PowerBird is designed to be the least expensive 1000W modular power supplies in the industry.
PowerBird PSU features fully modularized cable management that gives the greatest freedom of cable routing and customization. All cables are sleeved. Maximum efficiency 87% is one of the greenest high-wattage power supplies available in market. Six +12V rails ensures great safety and stable current that evenly distributed to graphics cards, processors, and the rest components.
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Royal expert makes shocking claim Meghan Markle is a "difficult person"
Friday, 15 March 2019, 2:12PM
A royal expert has come out swinging, making a shocking claim that Meghan Markle is a "difficult person" who is making Prince Harry "miserable and glum".
Royal commentator James Marrow told Sky News Australia that Markle is "not all that easy to work for" in the wake of her losing her third key aide in just three months.
Marrow added: "I think it is a particularly tough gig for a princess like Meghan Markle who is in fact actually fairly notorious — something of a princess in the non-royal sense of the word.
"Her politics are very left wing. She is always on about this cause or the other."
He went on to describe Markle as a "pretty difficult character to deal with", and stated: "Yes sure, it is hard working for the royals but it would be hard working for a government ministry or working in any sort of roles."
Marrow also added that he felt Markle's behaviour was taking its toll on Prince Harry and his happiness.
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"Every time Harry is with her, he always just looks very glum and miserable."
"However, every time you see a picture of him with the lads and doing something else, it is all smiles and laughter."
Marrow went on to accuse Markle of being a "hypocrite" after she enjoyed a fancy baby shower at what he called a "great expense", despite reports the entire party was paid for by her famous pals.
He added: "The things we have seen about Meghan Markle where she took that private jet to fly to a baby shower in New York at great expense while she is preaching about climate change and so on.
"I think a lot of people are going to say 'you know, I think this woman is a bit of a hypocrite here' and she is probably — on the balance of probabilities — and not all that easy to work for."
The shock claims come after Markle's assistant private secretary Amy Pickerill was reported to be stepping down from her role when the royal couple move to Frogmore Cottage in the coming weeks.
The latest staff departure comes after Markle's personal assistant Melissa Toubati resigned just months after the 2018 Royal wedding.
This article was first published on nzherald.co.nz and is republished here with permission.
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(11-14-2013, 07:25 AM)Blyss Sarania Wrote: Have you tried unchecking 8 bit textures? Depending on the game, it can be faster on, or faster off.
both GS and EE are constantly between 10 and 15% no matter what is going on.
I am using memory card saves for the most part but i mix it with save states depending on the need.
and it is not the slowdown when it is raining as before I saved rise, I ran at full speed the entire time no matter what it looked like or what I was fighting. It is only after I saved her that the slowdown started happening in certain areas, against certain enemies, and when raining.
I found that skipdraw fixes some speed issues in games like star ocean but I find no difference in this game when I put it at 0 so I just leave it at 1
I have tried disabling the 8 bit textures but again, no difference in the game.
(11-14-2013, 07:35 AM)echoesofmercy Wrote: both GS and EE are constantly between 10 and 15% no matter what is going on.
I understand that you had no slowdown before you saved Rise, and now you do. What I'm saying is that the date in game has changed since before and after. I know from playing through the game twice that the way the game looks changes depending on the season. For instance snow in winter, heat glare in summer, etc. I was suggesting maybe one of these effects wasn't present before you saved her, but is now.
That's all I can think of to explain it.
Edit: and 10-15% seems WAY low for EE and GS, as they are higher on my PC which is much faster.
I don't have any more ideas, maybe someone will come along soon that does.
(11-14-2013, 07:39 AM)Blyss Sarania Wrote: I understand that you had no slowdown before you saved Rise, and now you do. What I'm saying is that the date in game has changed since before and after. I know from playing through the game twice that the way the game looks changes depending on the season. For instance snow in winter, heat glare in summer, etc. I was suggesting maybe one of these effects wasn't present before you saved her, but is now.
It is cool thanks for trying although you did give me the idea to download the NTSC version and see if I have the same problem with that one.
Even if you legally own the PAL version of the game, downloading the NTSC version is illegal in the U.K. where the PCSX2 project is hosted, and as such, it's against the rules here.
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(11-14-2013, 07:48 AM)Blyss Sarania Wrote: Even if you legally own the PAL version of the game, downloading the NTSC version is illegal in the U.K. where the PCSX2 project is hosted, and as such, it's against the rules here.
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Although the vast majority of the text that you add to Photoshop artwork is point type — that is, type that exists on just one or a couple of lines — you'll certainly find situations in which you need to use paragraph type in a type container. The primary advantage of using paragraph type is word wrap. While you type, the text automatically starts a new line every time it reaches the margin.
"Why is that a big deal?" you might ask. "I don't mind pressing the Return or Enter key at the end of each line." Ah, but consider the ever-present typographical error! Or what if the very first sentence of your manual-Return paragraph is missing a word?
To insert that word and maintain a visually pleasing right margin, you'd need to go back and redo every line of type. With paragraph type, the content of each line automatically adjusts as you insert that forgotten word.
The type automatically starts the next line as soon as you press enough keys to reach the far margin. You can keep typing until you fill the type container. Press Return or Enter whenever you want to start a new paragraph within your type container.
You can also copy/paste text from a word processing or text-editing program. You can, for example, open a Microsoft Word document in Word, select the text that you want by clicking and dragging, and then choose Edit→Copy to place the text into the computer's memory (on the Clipboard).
Switch to your Photoshop document; select a font, font size, and other attributes (or select a character style or paragraph style after pasting); drag a type container; and then choose Edit→Paste (or the assigned keyboard shortcut) to place your text inside the container. When the text you need already exists, you not only save time by using copy/paste, but you also eliminate the possibility of introducing typos.
But what if you have more text than fits in the type container? Unlike Illustrator and InDesign, you can't link two type containers, enabling the excess text to automatically move to the next container. Photoshop does, however, remind you that your text doesn't fit by showing you a symbol in the lower-right corner of the type container's bounding box — the dashed line surrounding the type container.
As you can see in this figure, the lower-right anchor point of the bounding box has a plus sign in it.
Enlarge the type container. Click one of the bounding box's anchor points and drag to increase the size of the type container. Making a type container a little bit wider often gives you an extra line or two of text at the bottom.
Shrink the font. Select the text with a keyboard shortcut (Cmd+A/Ctrl+A) and select a smaller font size on the Options bar.
Decrease the space between lines. Select the text and decrease the leading — the amount of space between lines of type — in the Leading field found in the upper right of the Character panel. By default (the Auto setting in the Leading field), Photoshop uses an amount equal to 120 percent of the font size.
You can often reduce the leading to 1 or 2 points larger than the font size before you start overlapping lowercase letters with descenders (g, j, p, q, and y) and uppercase letters on the line below.
Edit the text. Rephrase the text, using fewer words to convey the same message. If you're not the author, however, this option might not be available.
You can also use a path created with any of the Shape tools or the Pen tool as a type container. Select the tool, use the Options bar to set it to create a path (rather than a shape or pixels), then drag the tool in the image window. With that done, switch to the Type tool, click within the path, and add your text.