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Hundreds gather in Scarborough to remember life of stabbing victim
James Pearson, an 82-year-old Christmas tree farmer, was slain outside his home last month.
By Dennis HoeyStaff Writer
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday afternoon at Scarborough High School to celebrate the life of 82-year-old James Pearson, who was stabbed to death last month outside his home.
Pearson owned Beech Ridge Farm on Beech Ridge Road, where he raised and sold Christmas trees. Pearson was well known in the community. He began teaching at Gorham High School in 1962 and retired in 1987, according to his obituary.
"He had a big heart. Sometimes (he) might not want you to know that," Scarborough Police Chief Robbie Moulton told News Center Maine (WCSH/WLBZ) on Sunday. "He was the kind of guy that could fix anything, could build anything, make anything."
Jim Pearson of Beech Ridge Farm in Scarborough pauses while driving his tractor on Nov. 30, 1999. Press Herald file photo
In a post on the police department's Facebook page on Thursday, Moulton recalled getting the phone call about the fatal attack on Pearson.
"Jim Pearson, an iconic Scarborough man, had been murdered in his own driveway in our very town, a town that Mary and I both grew up in," Moulton wrote, referring to Pearson's daughter. "How could this happen?"
Sgt. Mary Pearson served as a Scarborough police officer for more than 30 years before announcing last week that she will retire.
Maine State Police described the Dec. 15 attack as random.
Quinton Hanna, 22, of Freeport was arrested three days later and charged with murder in Pearson's death. Pearson was just one of three victims in a violent weekend rampage in which Hanna allegedly sexually assaulted a woman and tried to kill her before he robbed another person. Both of those incidents took place in West Bath.
A police affidavit gives no motive for the rampage other than his mother telling investigators that Hanna suffers from schizophrenia and may have been off his medication at the time of the assaults. At his initial court appearance, Hanna was ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation.
Hanna told investigators that he went to Portland to do Christmas shopping but got involved in a car accident and injured himself. It was not clear why he went to Pearson's Christmas tree farm, but police believe he approached or broke into three other homes near Pearson's farm.
Pearson's family recently announced it will establish The Pearson Family Memorial Fund, a nonprofit that will help deserving students seeking to further their education in the trades, horticulture, forestry or education.
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GTA Producer Leslie Benzies Embroiled In $150 Million Lawsuit With Rockstar
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The "sabbatical" that former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies was on has proven to be far more complicated than it first appeared.
When Kotaku reported that Benzies had left Rockstar North back in January, the company told us he'd been on a sabbatical for several months and had "decided not to return to work for the company."
Benzies paints a more complicated story. In a press release announcing a lawsuit against his former employer, Benzies claims he was "enticed by Rockstar" to take a sabbatical after the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. During that time, he reportedly discovered "numerous deceptions" designed to push him out of the company and deny him royalty payments to the tune of $150 million.
In December 2008, Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive announced long-term employment contracts and a "profit sharing arrangement" with Benzies and Rockstar co-founders Dan and Sam Houser.
"This new chapter in our successful relationship further aligns the interests of our creative teams with those of our shareholders," said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick at the time.
Benzies' lawsuit says the agreements were identical for all three, and Sam Houser's actions to remove Benzies from the arrangement was "the product of what turned out to be a lengthy deception" driven by "mounting resentments after many years of high praise."
Benzies specifically called out the statement Rockstar issued to Kotaku about his sabbatical, calling it "out-of-bounds and inaccurate." At the time, Benzies and Rockstar were in the midst of a "lengthy mediation" to find a middle ground, and Benzies disputes that he chose to leave:
"When attempting to resume his duties upon conclusion of his sabbatical on April 1, 2015, Mr. Benzies found himself unable to enter the Rockstar North office because his facilities access device had been deactivated. After being let inside by building security, Mr. Benzies was then ordered to leave by the Rockstar North office manager without reason."
Since Benzies filed his lawsuit, Rockstar has countersued, claiming Benzies isn't owed any additional money, due to breach of contract.
On March 23, 2015, Rockstar says Benzies sent a letter to the company asking for "exact financial parity with his co-Principals, prospectively and retroactively as of the Effective Date of the 2009 Royalty Plan." In other words, he wanted to be on equal financial footing with the Housers.
On April 2, Benzies reportedly sent another letter asserting termination of his employment for "good reason," in which the employee argues the employer has negatively impacted the employee's ability to do their job. Alternatively, Benzies argued he'd been fired "without cause," arguing he was due a compensation package involving royalties, even if he left.
Rockstar confirmed the group had been in mediation with Benzies, but negotiations were "unsuccessful" and disagreed with his "good reason" argument for leaving the company. Furthermore, Rockstar argued the royalty arrangement was such that Benzies was barred from even making the argument, as he had "no right to contest the royalty allocation" and even doing so was a "breach" of the plan he'd signed years ago.
The only way Benzies could be awarded the royalties he's asking for, claims Rockstar, is by a group called the Allocation Committee, which includes Houser. "Sam Houser would have the sole authority to determine what, if any, royalty percentage should be allocated to Benzies," reads the suit.
This lawsuit is a thorny situation, and it's just getting started. We'll be keeping an eye on it as it develops.
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Analysis: To Kill a Mockingbird
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(Nelle) Harper Lee 1926–
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American novelist. Lee's only work to date is her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. A descendent of Robert E. Lee, she was born and raised in a small town in Alabama. Her decision to attend law school is attributed to the strong influence of her lawyer-father, who later served as a model for the main character in her novel, Atticus Finch. Her study of law and its principles helped her develop a lucid prose style; her southern upbringing gave her the raw material which she incorporated into the novel. In a time of the burgeoning civil rights movement, her book was met with popular acclaim and was later adapted for film. Critics agree that it is a literary success, comparing her easy flowing prose style to that of Mark Twain. Her promise of a second novel has yet to be fulfilled. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-16, rev. ed., and Something about the Author, Vol. 11.)
The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing, outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative [in To Kill a Mockingbird]. (p. 360)
Virginia Kirkus' Service, May 1, 1960.
Frank H. Lyell
Harper Lee writes with gentle affection, rich humor and deep understanding of small-town family life in [Maycomb,] Alabama [in "To Kill a Mockingbird"]. (p. 5)
Maycomb has its share of eccentrics and evil-doers, but Miss Lee has not tried to satisfy the current lust for morbid, grotesque tales of Southern depravity…. [She] illustrates the importance of developing an open, unprejudiced, well-furnished mind of one's own…. (pp. 5, 18)
The dialogue of Miss Lee's refreshingly varied characters is a constant delight in its authenticity and swift revelation of personality. The events connecting the Finches with the Ewell-Robinson lawsuit develop quietly and logically, unifying the plot and dramatizing the author's level-headed plea for interracial understanding….
The praise Miss Lee deserved must be qualified somewhat by noting that oftentimes the narrator's expository style has a processed, homogenized, impersonal flatness quite out of keeping with the narrator's gay, impulsive approach to life in youth. Also, some of the scenes suggest that Miss Lee is cocking at least one eye toward Hollywood. Moviegoing readers will be able to cast most of the roles very quickly, but it is no disparagement of Miss Lee's winning book to say that it could be the basis of an excellent film. (p. 18)
Frank H. Lyell, "One-Taxi Town," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1960 by The New York Times Company: reprinted by permission), July 10, 1960, pp. 5, 18.
Richard Sullivan
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish the more fully its simple distinction….
The style is bright and straightforward; the unaffected young narrator uses adult language to render the matter she deals with, but the point of view is cunningly restricted to that of a perceptive, independent child, who doesn't always understand fully what's happening, but who conveys completely, by implication, the weight and burden of the story.
There is wit, grace, and skill in the telling. From the narrator on, every person in the book is every moment alive in time and place. Maycomb, Ala., itself comes alive, as a town abundantly inhabited by individual human beings, each one possessed of his or her own thoroughly convincing nature and personality. And each one contributes to the quiet, sustained humor, the occasionally intense drama, the often taut suspense which all rise out of this rich and variegated complex of human relationships.
Gradually, the novel unfolds and reveals not only a sharp look at a number of people but a view of the American south, and its attitudes, feelings,...
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The first of February is one of the cross quarter days on the Wheel of the Year. The Celtic calendar celebrates this day as Imbolc (e-MOLK) or ewe's milk acknowledging the traditional lambing season and the first day of spring. It is a time to notice the mysterious signs of spring as the days gradually lengthen and the earth begins to slowly warm. Seeds in the ground and buds on the trees are responding to the increased minutes of daylight by beginning to stir!
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A resolution has been put forth to vote on the purchase option for the McFarland Farm at the next Delaware County Board of Supervisors Meeting to be held on March 28, 2018. Town Supervisor Tuthill has gone on record that proceeding on this track will result in lawsuits.
The Delaware County DPW Committee is now also proposing Eminent Domain on the property across the river to build their proposed bridge. It should be noted that DPW has stated from the start they would only deal with willing sellers and any other properties not willing to sell would be dropped off the list!
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FCA shares final Crypto Assets regulation guidelines for the UK
July 31, 2019, | AtoZ Markets – UK's Financial Conduct Authority said on Wednesday that bitcoin and altcoins have no intrinsic value and offer users few protections. However, added that such coins fall outside the scope of its powers.
In addition to that, the FCA also explained that the crypto markets were highly dysfunctional, with the burden on users to understand the risks associated with investing in unregulated assets.
In a statement, FCA said that: "A combination of market immaturity, volatility, and a lack of credible information or oversight raises concerns about market integrity, manipulation, and insider dealing within the crypto asset. markets."
Despite having all these faults, the FCA said the existing rules did not apply to bitcoin and other altcoins, and to trading platforms and exchange firms.
Crypto asset regulation guidelines for the UK
Nick Cook, FCA's director of innovation quoted that the investment by British users in crypto is still fairly low as compared to other parts of the world. The FCA said its guidance will inform Britain's finance ministry as it looks at whether new laws are needed for cryptocurrencies.
The finance ministry said in an emailed comment that the guidance was welcome and that it was planning to consult on unregulated cryptocurrencies later this year. Retail investors across the world have been drawn to cryptocurrencies, highly volatile assets that unlike fiat money or other assets usually lack guarantees, because of their potential for quick gains.
Other proponents say digital coins could transform payments and how companies raise capital, though such examples are rare. The treatment of cryptocurrencies by regulators is in focus after Facebook unveiled plans for its Libra coin, sparking a backlash by politicians and regulators across the globe.
G7 finance ministers and central bankers said last month that Libra and other digital currencies raise serious concerns and must be regulated as tightly as possible to ensure they do not upset the world's financial system.
While the FCA did not mention Libra in its guidance, it said that some stablecoins like Libra, backed by assets such as fiat currencies could fall under its rules in certain circumstances.
The FCA could not say how Libra would be treated because its structure, design and operating model were still to be determined.
According to The FCA, other types of cryptocurrencies, such as security tokens that provide rights and obligations such as shares or units in funds were subject to rules. As such, firms issuing them would need authorization.
Regulators still in doubt regarding crypto regulations
Currently, cryptocurrencies are subject to a patchwork of rules that vary from country to country. Regulators in Britain, the European Union, and the United States have looked at how they can apply existing securities, anti-money laundering, and consumer protection rules before considering new regulation.
Others, such as China, have banned cryptocurrencies outright. An Indian government board last week recommended a similar measure.
A handful of smaller countries, from Belarus to Bahrain, have come up with specific laws for digital currencies. Their efforts might help shape the development of the global market and the growth of industry players, from exchange platforms to brokers.
The FCA said it would work closely with other national and international regulators to coordinate approaches. For now, said Bradley Rice, a lawyer at law firm Ashurst, there was little it could do within its existing powers.
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Glenn R. Parker is Distinguished Professor of political science and professor of economics at Purdue University.
Richard Fenno first coined the term home style to describe the ways in which members of Congress cultivate the voters of their home constituencies. He suggested that incumbents were paying more attention to their constituents than they had in the past. In this book, Glenn Parker examines the relationship between activities at home and in Washington, asking specifically: Why and when did congressmen and senators begin to pay more attention to their constituents? And what are the institutional consequences of this change?Using data drawn from the travel vouchers filed by incumbent senators and congressmen between 1959 and 1980, Parker shows that since the mid-1960s incumbents have been placing greater emphasis on service to their state or district. Congress has facilitated this change in various ways, such as by increasing travel allowances and by scheduling that minimizes the conflict between legislative business in Washington and time spent with constituents. Parker's study includes both the Senate and House, and he draws distinctions between the home-style behaviors of senators and representatives. He also provides a historical context for understanding the dynamics of changes in home style. The time-series data generate explanations that specify relationships among historical conditions, individual behavior, and institutional structures.


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Reunion Island - The Ultimate Island
Reunion Island is unique in the world: you can choose to spend your days stretching out under the sun's gentle caress, facing its mountains like a seasoned trekker, letting yourself be hypnotised by its seabed or discovering the subtleties of the Creole language in the company of its friendly inhabitants. You can do all that, and more!
With its volcanic peaks, cirques and ramparts, listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, and its more than 200 microclimates, Reunion is a tropical island that defies the stereotypes. Postcard-perfect scenery, yes, but, above all, a combination of landscapes that can't be found anywhere else! In just a few hours, you can go from the crystal-clear blue of the lagoon to the dazzling green of the breathtaking cirques. A real and imaginary world tour that you can take in just a few days is at your feet! Take advantage of this trip to quench your thirst for discovery and let yourself be carried away by new sensations: the feeling of walking on the Moon at La Plaine des Sables, entering the lush kingdom of Mafate and diving into The World of Nemo at the Hermitage.
Reunion Island is 2,500 km2 of magnificent landscapes and just as many adventures to experience. It is also an incredible mosaic of cultures living in perfect harmony. After having discovered this little gem in the middle of the Indian Ocean, you will return home with a "sourir en trans papay*" and the desire to return as soon as possible!
Do you want to have a close look at a volcano that won't bite? Do you dream of enjoying a party with a myriad of colourful fish? Do you want to awaken your taste buds? Are you burning to meditate far from the pressures of everyday life in the shelter of a magical cirque? Do you want a thrill? Then Reunion is for you!
History of Reunion Island
Uninhabited when first visited by Portuguese navigators in the early 1500s, Réunion was settled in the mid-1600s, when the French East India Company established a layover station for ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope en route to India. African slaves were imported to work in first coffee and then sugar plantations; with the abolition of slavery in 1848, indentured labourers from mainland Southeast Asia, India, and Eastern Africa were brought in. Réunion was ruled by France as a colony until 1946, when it became an overseas département of France; in 1974 it gained the status of région as well. The headquarters of the French military forces in the Indian Ocean were established on Réunion in 1973, with the arrival of personnel withdrawn from Madagascar. In the late 1970s the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) urged that Réunion be granted full independence, but that proposition was not embraced by the majority of Réunion's inhabitants and thus was not pursued with any zeal.
Persistent social and economic unrest, fueled by the widening gap between the rich and the poor and by high rates of unemployment, periodically erupted into demonstrations and violence during the 1990s and 2000s. Rioting in February 1991 left 11 people dead, and in 1997 demonstrations were held against proposed civil service reforms. In 2000 a proposal made by the French government to split the island into two departements spawned demonstrations both for and against the division; the proposal was later rejected by the French Senate.
People of Reunion Island
Réunion was first settled in the 17th century by colonists from France. Slave labourers were brought in from East Africa to work on plantations, and later Malays, Annamites, Chinese, and Malabar Indians were imported as indentured labourers. Today the greatest proportion of the population is of mixed descent (African, European, and South Asian). The limited amount of land has induced substantial emigration, largely to France but also to Madagascar.
The island's population density is high, even in areas that typically would be considered too mountainous to support a dense population. Saint-Denis, the capital and largest urban area on the island, contains about one-fifth of the total population. The language in common use on the island is Réunion French Creole, and Tamil is also spoken by some people; French, however, is the official language. About four-fifths of the population is Roman Catholic.
Religious Beliefs. The dominant religion is Roman Catholicism, totaling eighty-six percent of the population. Christianity was established by the first settlers. Although indentured contracts specified that a laborer's religion be respected, the Catholic Church and the authoritarian administration attempted to convert newcomers. Tamils were obliged to go to church, wear French clothes, and give Christian names to their children. Contract workers had to express Christian attitudes and practice Christian rites to be accepted by their employers and the larger society. In the eighteenth century, Catholic priests attempted to prevent the construction of Hindu temples and the public practice of Hinduism. When it was finally authorized, the priests continued to spread a negative perception of the Hindu religion as "pagan."
Religious Practitioners. Although they have been largely christianized, people of Indian origin refer to Hindu Gods in important matters. While it has been adapted to a new social context, folk Hinduism has been maintained almost as it was in India at the time of emigration more than one century ago. Among the expressions of this religion are fire walking, animal sacrifices, and rituals of possession by a deity or ancestor. This Hinduism is strongly connected with the idea of protection against bad luck, the evil eye, and the negative forces of the visible and invisible world.
Orientation of Reunion Island
Identification: Reunion Island (in French, La Reunion ) is a multicultural society composed of people originally from France, Mozambique, India, China, Madagascar, and the Comores. Islanders use their ethnic origins to define themselves as Cafres (African ancestry) Z'oreilles (born in mainland France), malabars or Tamouls (from Tamil Nadu southern India), Z'arabes (from Gujarat in northern India), Chinois (from China), Malgaches (from Madagascar), Comores (from Comores), Petits blancs (poor rural whites living in the highlands), or Creoles blancs (white landowners). The term Creole today also applies to people with a mixed ethnic background. All the residents of the island are administratively French citizens.
Location and Geography: Reunion Island lies in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Madagascar. At 970 square miles, (2,512 square kilometers), it is the largest of the Mascarene islands. High plains separate two volcanic systems. Climatic variations range from humid to dry tropical to Mediterranean. More than half the land is not suitable for cultivation. Periodic cyclones can be devastating. The capital is Saint Denis.
Demography: In 1999, the population was over 717,000. It is difficult to categorize the population by ethnic background, but estimates indicate that approximately twenty percent of the population is of Indian ancestry, and around five percent is born in mainland France.
Linguistic Affiliation: Although French is the official language, Creole is the language of everyday life. Based on French, with a mixture of Malagasy and Tamil words, it is used with relatives and for informal interactions. French is generally used in formal situations. Although everybody understands it, many people cannot speak it; therefore, its use is a marker of educational achievement and social status.
Symbolism: Economic and cultural ties are almost exclusively with mainland France; Reunion is officially called "the France of the Indian Ocean." Since the development of tourism in the 1970s, the image the island tries to project to the outside world is that of a multicolored society where people with different ethnic backgrounds live together peacefully.
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The figures are dizzying: nearly 2,000 species of plants, including 848 native species, diverse and carnivalesque fauna, 3,500 aquatic species, 2,512 km2 of spectacular panoramic views, 100,000 hectares of National Parks, two volcanoes, 900 kilometres of marked trails, three Great Hiking trails, three spectacular cirques, including one that's only accessible on foot, one hyperactive volcano, numerous forests, more than 300 waterfalls including the three highest in France, about 20 climbing sites over a cumulative distance of more than 6,000 metres…
Reunion Island is undoubtedly a place of extraordinary natural beauty! In addition, this jewel of the Indian Ocean, with its rare and fragile biodiversity, offers a myriad of preserved natural splendours. So many enchanting sights that you will never get tired of. Because everything must be done to protect them, ecotourism lends itself wonderfully to Reunion Island's biodiversity. And the icing on the potato cake: there are thousands of ways to enjoy this ultimate island's charms!
Do you dream of spending your holidays in Reunion lounging on the warm sand, a good thriller in one hand and a glass of Ti Punch in the other? That's possible, but you can also enjoy a whole host of activities, each more enjoyable than the last. On land, at sea, or in the air, a whirlwind of pleasures and distractions awaits you! There is everything you need to enjoy the island and admire it from every angle!
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Smart city technology can address urban mobility challenges head-on
by Lauren Horwitz
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Smart city technology is helping to solve urban mobility challenges such as traffic congestion and traffic safety. But when will smart city technology become integral to city projects rather than a novel experiment?
SANTA CLARA – Over the next several decades, cities are on track to expand substantially.
Generating jobs, diverse economies and hubs of social and professional activity, ballooning urban populations also create a host of problems for city dwellers and visitors, from traffic congestion and energy efficiency, to public safety concerns, infrastructure breakdowns and unequal access to services.
Today, 55% of the world's population lives in cities; that number is expected to increase to 68% by 2050, according to data from the United Nations. This continued growth is likely to exacerbate many of the challenges of today's city living.
A particularly vexing concern: urban mobility challenges, which encompass transportation, traffic congestion, public safety and roadway efficiency. These complications contribute to fatalities and environmental problems.
Approximately 1.35 million people die each year as a result of traffic crashes, according to the World Health Organization. About 50% of car accident fatalities involve drivers; 17%, passengers; 16% pedestrians, and 14% are cyclists. And consider, too, the environmental toll of commuting According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, transportation was responsible for nearly 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2017.
Experts on urban planning, transportation and smart city technology recently gathered at IoT World to discuss how technology can address these worrisome urban issues. Exploiting Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices, and using the data insights provided by IoT, artificial intelligence and other technologies, can address some of the thorniest of smart city challenges, experts agreed, while noting that the transition to the next era of smart cities is a work in progress.
Solving mobility challenges with artificial intelligence, IoT
Pedestrian safety is a natural fit for smart city technology. As populations increase and augment urban mobility challenges, data insights can play a key role in preventing accidents. Consider the city of San Jose, which has piloted a program to understand and better prevent traffic accidents.
"We're doing a pilot with computer vision and artificial intelligence," said Dolan Beckel, director of civic innovation and digital strategy for the city of San Jose. "We took our three most busy intersections and we're . . . look[ing] not only at accidents but near misses." The goal is to extend the project to more extensive deployments.
Optimization of traffic signals also enables emergency vehicles to operate far more efficiently, Beckel explained.
"We are a very spread-out city," Beckel said. "We have a long way to go between police departments and the person who got hit by a car. Over 1,000 intersections now have vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. When a fire truck now gets dispatched, and gets close to an intersection, all the lights turn red for the cars, and the traffic lights now turn green for the fire truck. Prior to that, trucks were using flashlights and strobing the signal to try and get it to change for them."
Using data insight to address smart city challenges
With IoT, traffic signals can also dynamically respond to their environments rather than simply default to a set time for a passenger walk signal. In the past, traffic signals couldn't account for varying pedestrian speeds: The elderly or parents walking with a stroller may cross an intersection at a different speed than a younger pedestrian. Fiber optic lines, combined with IoT-enabled sensors in Santa Clara County, optimize traffic signal times so that pedestrians have time to cross at their registered speed, explained Ananth Prasad, a principal engineer for Santa Clara County. Signals turn green efficiently so cars spend less time idling at a red light. This is an example of how Santa Clara uses edge data to optimize car traffic and ensure pedestrian and bike safety.
Santa Clara also uses cloud-based data to optimize traffic during peak times. Video from highway cameras is analyzed in the county's traffic cloud-based operations center, Prasad explained. While the county used to provide a templated traffic plan for morning, afternoon and evening commutes, Santa Clara can today use its video data to provide more dynamic traffic estimates.
"We can use video analytics to get traffic counts and patterns," he said. "It opened our eyes to how the traffic patterns [operate]."
Prasad noted that the data lags about five minutes behind real time, so the county is working at the edge to predictively estimate commute times.
"Video analytics . . . opened our eyes to the traffic patterns."
Ananth Prasad, principal engineer, Santa Clara County
When commuters have the ability to use that data to make smarter decisions about the best commute time, such as leaving 20 minutes earlier or later, they can shorten commutes and reduce emissions from idling cars.
Yet another technology, 5G, the next generation wireless standard that provides great networking speed and performance, enables connected traffic lights and big data insights enable real-time signal response and predictive traffic patterns.
Public-private partnerships fuel smart city projects—if incrementally
According to Deloitte, more than 1,000 smart city pilot projects are in progress or under construction worldwide. Spending on smart cities initiatives will reach $95.8 billion in 2019, according to analysts at International Data Corp. That's a 17.7% increase over 2018.
But even as overall smart city funding increases, communities struggle to justify smart city projects. Many projects are launched as pilots, and funded through public-private partnerships, but then may fizzle before they become integrated into city operations.
"Public-private partnerships work in those infrastructure situations where a private actor can come in and do a pilot for free or at low cost," said Tony Battalla, chief technology officer and head of IT for San Leandro, Calif., in a panel on the role of public-private partnerships in smart city development. "But the use cases haven't materialized at a grand scale. We just aren't there yet. We're still at those base hits."
"The use cases haven't materialized at a grand scale. We're still at those base hits."
Tony Batalla, CTO and head of IT, city of San Leandro
The goal, say experts, is to generate incremental momentum and then capitalize on small wins.
"You don't need to knock it out of the park right away," said Eric Hembree, director of IoT at an IT and supply chain services company, and another IoT World panelist. "You start to get some headwinds from the community, from incremental investors on rolling out a full environment. But it all starts with, 'Where can we get some incremental funding, and how can we leverage the partnerships that are out there?'"
According to a recent McKinsey report on smart cities, even incremental smart city development can have significant impact.
"Smart technologies can reduce fatalities by 8–10 percent, accelerate emergency response times by 20–35 percent, shave the average commute time by 15–20 percent, reduce the disease burden by 8–15 percent, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 10–15 percent, and reduce water consumption by 20–30 percent," according to a June 2018 McKinsey Global Institute Report.
Smart city technology needs to be institutionalized into city projects
While smart city technology has wended its way into projects, people, processes and technology are still hurdles to wider adoption. Indeed, the McKinsey Global Institute Report noted, "Even the most cutting-edge and ambitious smart cities on the planet still have a long way to go."
Consider technology integration issues. Planners in San Jose believe the city needs a unified technology environment from which to manage smart city initiatives. At the same time, no single provider will be able to supply that environment, posing potential interoperability challenges.
"Even the most cutting-edge and ambitious smart cities on the planet still have a long way to go."
McKinsey Global Institute Report, June 2018
"Ultimately, the city will need a city operating system, a city API [application programming interface]. Everyone is realizing that there is a lot of collaboration needed, and there isn't an ability for one private-sector player to be the technology platform for the city to interoperate with all the things we want to achieve."
Batalla said that most cities fail to see smart city projects as infrastructure upgrades. The focus on the shiny technology can marginalize smart city projects.
"Every time I bring a smart city project, [city officials] are going to see it as a tech thing," Batalla said. "Until smart cities become a core thing that the public works team is doing as part of the project, until you get there, you don't scale."
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Lauren Horwitz is the managing editor of Cisco.com, where she covers the IT infrastructure market and develops content strategy. Previously, Horwitz was a senior executive editor in the Business Applications and Architecture group at TechTarget;, a senior editor at Cutter Consortium, an IT research firm; and an editor at the American Prospect, a political journal. She has received awards from American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), a min Best of the Web award and the Kimmerling Prize for best graduate paper for her editing work on the journal article "The Fluid Jurisprudence of Israel's Emergency Powers."


Rorschach, as in the test. thats where the mask come from.
Yeah. I didn't realise that was the name for those tests. When they spoke in the film it sounded like they were saying 'Morshank' or something, to me, for some reason. D'oh!


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The Presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held three hours of talks in Sochi, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.
It was the first in-person meeting for Putin in over two weeks. On Sept. 14, the Russian president went into self-isolation after a staff member he worked in close contact with contracted coronavirus. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to reporters that the two-week self-isolation ended for Putin on Wednesday.
The two leaders discussed the agenda of economic and international relations.
In particular, Putin pointed to the successful cooperation of the two countries on the situation in Syria and Libya. He also focused on the work of the center to control the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh. Energy issues were also on the agenda.
Neither leader made any detailed statements to the media after the talks, though Putin thanked Erdogan for the visit which he called useful and substantive.
Erdogan said after the talks that the meeting was "productive."


After our proof of concept vintage from 2016, we sought to ratchet up the weirdness of Do Nothing for 2017. We had the opportunity to work with a lovely organically farmed vineyard just outside of Newberg that has a small planting of Mondeuse Noir, and we had a hunch that it would be a great fit for this wine. This was our first time working with Mondeuse -- a grape of extreme rarity in the US.
Do Nothing is our most serious attempt at being as hands-off as possible in the red winemaking process. The grapes were fermented wholecluster carbonically for three weeks. We simply put everything in a bin, sealed it and walked away (hence, do nothing). After the fruit was pressed, it finished fermentation in a combination of French and Oregon oak barrels over the next 5 months. No yeast, nutrients or acid was added.
The carbonic process provides an explosively juicy and fruity quality that makes this a killer chillable red! There is still a robust tannic structure to the wine so we recommend a service temperature of about 50 degrees Fahrenheit (or 30 minutes in the fridge before opening).


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Instagram is testing out some cool new features.
For those who are new to Instagram or who don't use it often, "regramming" is where you post on your Instagram something that was posted by someone else. Unfortunately this feature is not built into Instagram itself, but rather users had to rely on third-party apps, but that could soon change in future updates.
According to a report from TNW, they have learnt that Instagram is testing out a bunch of new features which are pretty cool, one of them being a native regramming feature. As you can see in the screenshot above, there is a new icon below photos where if you click it, you will be able to regram a post that someone else made.
We're not sure what took so long, but better late than never! In addition to a native regram button, Instagram also appears to be testing out the ability to post GIFs in Stories where there users can search for GIFs and add them to their Stories to make the more fun and entertaining. It also seems that Instagram is finally coming around to launch a beta testing program for iOS users, and also the ability to archive Stories.
While Stories can be downloaded and saved, being able to archive them at least puts them all in the same location so you can view them later. That being said, TNW notes that there's no guarantee that all these features will make it to the public release, but hopefully some of them will.
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Voxnova Italia is an ensemble of soloists dedicated to 20th and 21st century music and its sources. An Italian ensemble with global activities, it performs the works of the great composers of vocal music of our time as well as helping young composers and unjustly neglected composers to be better known.
The singers in Voxnova Italia all have important careers. They have "real voices" capable of singing Mozart as well as Xenakis. They come together out of a love for the music of our time and a desire to perform chamber music. Separately, they continue to perform in operas, with orchestra, in recitals, etc.
Voxnova has performed in prestigious venues such as IRCAM, the Centre Pompidou (France), Ars Musica (Belgium), De Unie in Rotterdam, the Muziekcentrum in Utrecht and De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam (Holland), the WDR, MDR, Hessischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk radio halls, The Inventionen Festival and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (Germany), the Alicante and Huesca festivals (Spain), and Romaeuropa and Settembre Musica (Italy), as well as a tour of Asia (including Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan). Most recently, we performed Stockhausen's "Stimmung" at the Jacaranda festival in Los Angeles.
Voxnova has sung numerous world premieres, including works by Giacinto Scelsi, Steve Lacy, Luis De Pablo, Pascal Dusapin, Luca Francesconi, Betsy Jolas, Suzanne Giraud and Gerard Pape. We have worked with the Arditti Quartet, 2e2m and l'Itinéraire.
Voxnova is eclectic and open. We "compose" our programs which enable the audience to discover all tendencies in new music and put them in their context. All compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries which fully develop melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, space and timbre interest us. We also perform ethnic music, jazz, non-classical music and pre 20th art music that has influenced the composers of our time. Improvisation is also an important aspect of our work.
Technology plays an increasingly important role in vocal music. The dialogue between voice and tape, the amplification of the voice, the transformation of the voice with live and/or "real time" electronics open up a world of possibilities for composers. Voxnova constitutes a living vocal laboratory for composers of electroacoustic music. This work has already been carried out in workshops, research and concerts at IRCAM and UPIC.
Voxnova takes special care to make each concert a pleasure for the eyes as well as the ears. Costumes, lights and movement are worked on with great care. We provide an ensemble of 8 experienced singing actors for the needs of opera composers and music theater composers.
Even though the general public seems more and more interested in good performances of the masterpieces of our time, young people still have few opportunities to get to know this repertoire. Voxnova is active in helping young people learn about new vocal music and has taught numerous workshops.


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October 21, 2019 (Updated: July 17, 2020)
You can never have too many backups for your WhatsApp messages and while you may be able to back up the chats on Google Drive, you can also back up some messages on Gmail. If nothing else, this Gmail backup will be easily transferrable. You can send this backup to anyone at any time or send them to your own Gmail account to keep them safe.
In this article, we are going to take a look at how to back up WhatsApp messages to Gmail.
Steps to Backup WhatsApp Messages to Gmail
Backing up WhatsApp messages via Gmail has many advantages. For starters, you will be able to very easily transfer the backed up messages to another person by simply emailing them. You can also very easily transfer the backed up messages to your computer. There are however, several things to keep in mind about this backup solution, including the following;
You can choose to include media files in the Gmail backup or not.
You have to save one chat at a time, a factor that can be very time consuming.
This method is however absolutely free to use.
To back up WhatsApp messages to Gmail, follow these simple steps;
Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your computer and you should see all chats loaded on the screen. Tap on the conversation you would like to save and then tap on the more options (three dots) button. Select "More".
Step 2: Tap "Export Chat" and select whether you would like to include media or not.
Step 3: In the next interface, tap on "Gmail" as the method to export the chat. The backed up chats will be attached to an email that you can then send to yourself or any other Gmail account.
A Better Way to Backup WhatsApp Messages for Free
The solution above may be effective when you simply need to back up a few messages, but it is not an ideal way to back up all the conversations on your WhatsApp account. This is because you have to backup one chat after another, a process that can take a very long time. There is a tool that will overcome all these shortcomings by allowing you to backup all WhatsApp messages in a single click. This tool is iMyfone iTransor for WhatsApp. With this tool, you can easily create a full backup of all your WhatsApp messages and then restore the backup at a later date.
Some of the features that make iTransor for WhatsApp the best option include the following;
You can use it to backup all WhatsApp chats including attachments in a single click.
It can also just as easily be used to restore the WhatsApp backup back to the device when you need to.
You can use this tool to directly transfer WhatsApp messages from one device to another even across platforms (from Android to iPhone or vice versa).
Because iTransor for WhatsApp allows you to preview the messages, you can selectively backup or transfer WhatsApp data.
To use iTransor for WhatsApp to Backup WhatsApp messages to your computer, download and install the program to your computer and then follow these simple steps;
Step 1: When the installation is complete, launch the program and then click on "Backup WhatsApp on Devices".
Step 2: Connect the device to the computer using USB cables and enable USB debugging to allow the program to recognize the device.
Step 3: As soon as the program detects the device, click on "Back up" and the process will begin immediately. Keep the device connected to the computer until the process is complete.
When you consider that iTransor for WhatsApp will allow you to not only restore the backup back to the device but also transfer WhatsApp messages to another device, it becomes apparent that this is a must-have tool for all WhatsApp users. It also doesn't hurt that the tool is very simple to use, even for the beginner user.
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The seventh Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit became the first-ever Zero Waste conference in the state. The event, which ended Dec. 3 in Key West and attracted 400 attendees, recycled 90 percent of its trash — 1,713 pounds — and converted the rest to energy.
The summit's host site, Casa Marina, a Waldorf Astoria Resor, partnered with Houston-based Waste Management to recycle 431 pounds of cardboard, paper, plastic, aluminum and steel at a waste facility in Pembroke Pines, Fla., while 1,282 pounds of food scraps were recycled elsewhere and turned into compost.
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FILE – In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis during a rally in Tampa, Fla. Florida voters are going to the polls, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, to select nominees to replace Republican Gov. Rick Scott in an election that's caught the attention of Trump. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
Andrew Gillum addresses his supporters after winning the Democrat primary for governor on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
FILE - In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis during a rally in Tampa, Fla. Florida voters are going to the polls, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, to select nominees to replace Republican Gov. Rick Scott in an election that's caught the attention of Trump. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A liberal Florida Democrat pulled off an upset victory Tuesday in the state's primary for governor while President Donald Trump's favored candidate cruised to victory for the GOP, setting up a fierce fall showdown in the nation's largest political battleground. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who would be the state's first black governor, and Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, both defeated more moderate opponents aligned with their parties' establishment.
Gillum is his party's third black gubernatorial nominee this campaign season, along with Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Ben Jealous in Maryland. His victory comes as Democrats have elevated an increasingly diverse field of candidates, including women, African-Americans and Muslims. The slate of candidates heading into the fall campaign is seen as a manifestation of the party's resistance in the racially charged atmosphere of the Trump era.
In Arizona, Rep. Martha McSally fended off a pair of conservative challengers to carry the Republican Senate primary to fill the seat vacated by retiring Sen. Jeff Flake. That race was shadowed by the death of John McCain, a towering figure who represented Arizona in the Senate for six terms. Gov. Doug Ducey will name McCain's replacement after the senator's funeral.
Florida and Arizona are both closely watched states, featuring growing minority populations that have bolstered Democratic candidates and Republican electorates that have grown older and more conservative. The fall face-offs could well signal how they'll swing in the 2020 presidential election.
In Florida, DeSantis gave Trump credit for his victory, saying that with one supportive tweet, the president "kind of put me on the map."
Gillum thanked supporters who embraced "our plan for a state that makes room for all of us, not just the well-heeled and the well-connected, but all of us."
The results immediately transformed the Florida race into one of the key gubernatorial campaigns in the country. Gillum's primary victory could help Democrats boost enthusiasm among minorities, while DeSantis will test Trump's grip on a crucial state he won in 2016 and wants to keep in his column in 2020.
In Arizona, McCain's death after a yearlong battle with brain cancer loomed over the primary contests.
Though he has received praise from far and wide this week, the three Republican candidates running to replace his retiring seat-mate, Flake — including establishment favorite McSally — aligned themselves more with the president than the longtime senator.
Elsewhere Tuesday, GOP voters in reliably Republican Oklahoma backed mortgage company owner Kevin Stitt in a runoff for the gubernatorial nomination. Stitt won in part by criticizing his opponent as insufficiently supportive of Trump.
Trump surprised Florida Republicans with his endorsement of DeSantis, and frequently tweeted about the lawmaker, one of his staunchest supporters in Washington. His backing helped push DeSantis past Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who has held elected office in Florida since 1996, quickly built up establishment support and raised millions of dollars.
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During the two world wars, it is well known that women all over the country entered factories, armed services and farms, filling gaps left by the exodus of men. What is less well known is that one of the vital services women filled during these tumultuous times was in forestry, forming the Women's Timber Corps. Timber was a vital resource, imported into the UK in vast quantities, but wartime meant the country had to be self-sufficient - and without the men that usually took on the work. Without it, mining, shipbuilding and a whole host of other industries would grind to a halt. In stepped the Lumberjills: the government reluctantly recruited thousands of women to carry out this 'man's job'; they were responsible for felling and crosscutting trees by hand, operating sawmills, driving tractors and hauling timber trucks. But despite their irreplaceable role in the wars, their role has been downsized to a footnote in books on the much celebrated Women's Land Army.Here researcher Joanna Foat weaves the fascinating hidden history of the Women's Timber Corps with voices of the Lumberjills themselves to air their stories for the first time and finally give them the recognition they so sorely deserve.
JOANNA FOAT discovered the story of the Lumberjills while she was a PR consultant for the Forestry Commission. After four years' research, travelling the country to meet over sixty Lumberjills, she discovered many of these women were upset they had received no recognition for their war work. She has worked with the Daily Mail, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and BBC TV, and also does talks on the subject. She lives in Surrey.


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Alsop pleaded guilty to three charges this week, including stealing a friends car battery. Photo: Scott Richardson.
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A WOMAN faced Nanango Magistrates Court on Monday after taking a car battery out of a friends car, who was letting her stay at her home, and replacing it with a faulty one.
Raelene Kay Alsop, 44, pleaded guilty to three charges, which took place between April 1 and April 24.
On April 24, 2020, Alsop was charged with disqualified driving and unlawfully possessing property after switching her faulty car battery for a friends good one.
Police prosecutor Pepe Gangemi said she had been staying with the victim at the time of the offence, which occurred some time between 8.30pm on April 23 and 4.30pm on April 24.
"The defendant has gone to (the friend's) car and swapped his good battery for her bad battery," sergeant Gangemi said.
Her car was then seized and taken into legal custody with the victims car battery inside.
She was on probation at the time, having previously been charged with eight offences of dishonesty, including stealing.
Sergeant Gangemi told the court at 2pm that day, police intercepted Alsop while driving on D'Aguilar Highway at Blackbutt.
She told police at the time she was on her way to pick up her dogs.
According to defence lawyer Thomas Carr, Alsop claimed another friend took the battery and put it into Alsop's car, so that she could borrow it.
"She went to her friends house to collect the car, and that is when she was charged with disqualified driving and the car was impounded with the battery," Mr Carr said. "She then went and bought the victim a new battery."
The other disqualified driving charge occurred on April 1, 2020, after officers intercepted Alsop while driving on Drayton Street, Nanango.
Mr Carr said Alsop had recently bought her son a car and was accompanying him to pick it up. He drove both of them to fetch the car at 9.45pm that night, and while driving the car back home, Alsop was pulled over by police and charged with driving while disqualified.
Magistrate Andrew Sinclair placed Alsop on a 12 month probation period, and she has also been disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for two years.
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Submitted by Waell Murray (United States), Feb 18, 2007 at 21:54
Some of us live long or short life and may never find the truth of many many things about life, the world around us and about those who we interact with on daily basis.
When I read the first thing about Walid, let's forget about his family name for a little while, I was struck by a strange or a weird feeling, first I thought to myself: what a shame, someone had to be brought up in such a messy circumstances to have such a confusion in life, in own religion, and in own culture. A lot of Palestinians like myself do not agree with acts of some fellow Palestinians because some acts may appear to be unjustified to the world and the truth of the matter is: only those who commit those acts can begin to justify them.
For example; a person who decides to cause a group of people death and injury by exploding a number of grenades strapped to his or her waist , such person must have reached a point where nothing in life had a balance of value due to the lack of choices left out there, it's life with nothing to hope for, free from freedom, free from a valid identity, free from the ability to plan for a bright future and above all, it's life without dignity . I'm not justifying the act, I'm trying to enter the mind of the bomber to figure out what drives such acts.
I made several calls to the West Bank and checked the availability of Shoebat as a family name, but my search hit a gridlock, no such name or even a close name regardless of how you want to play with the spelling. It bothers me a great deal that some or many Americans can get taken away by such false hype due to the fact that they are willing to believe any story without finding out the truth about the story teller. Our religion was never about spreading terror or fear in others, non Muslims have been urged to study our shareeah ( Low) and come to our faith but forcing people to become Muslims was never a conduct of Muslims.
In the glorious QURA'AN Allah said: La ikraha fiddeen, meaning: no force shall be needed to get people to get into this religion, and those who say anything contrary to that rule are trying to change Allah's intention, they are simply wrong.
I don't know how many people realize that it was Israel who helped the establishment of Hamas in Palestine years ago, so the goal Hamas is playing today is nothing but an Israeli plan that has been put on the back burner for a few years. It's a shameful fact that those who are leading the Palestinian people today are far away from the people of Palestine, the elections that took place were nothing but a game that lacked the true people acceptance, but outside powers played a major role in enforcing a fake leadership on the helpless people who had no way of contesting the outcomes.
Mark my comment as a response to The Truth, by Waell Murray


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DECIMALS grants have been awarded to eleven research teams across the world since 2018. More than 75 researchers have been involved in the projects to date, exploring how SRM could affect dust storms in the Middle East, droughts in Southern Africa, the spread of cholera in South Asia, and more. Following the 2018 call for proposals, eight teams had initially been awarded in Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, and South Africa. In June 2021, six of these teams were awarded continuation grants to further their research until the end of 2023. In October 2021, another three teams were chosen to receive DECIMALS funding in Kenya, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Learn more about these groundbreaking projects below.
Impacts of SRM on the La Plata Basin's hydroclimate in South America
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Part VI (MGS2: A Complete Breakdown)
By Mr Wolfe | July 17, 2013 - 12:18 PM | November 10, 2013 Commentary, Feature, Metal Gear Solid 2, Theory
Ridiculous or Not
Think of External Gazer as the the ultimate trolling attempt by Hideo Kojima, even though he only had a supervisory role and the actual contents were written by Tomokazu Fukushima. The truth is, this may make it an even sharper reiteration of what Kojima was trying to accomplish with Sons of Liberty.
Tomokazu Fukushima is a mysterious figure who is nevertheless prominently credited as the writer of the following games: Metal Gear Solid, Integral, Sons of Liberty, Twin Snakes, Snake Eater, and Subsistence — along with Kojima himself. That's like, every game. He's probably the only person who could replace Kojima in the writer's seat if Kojima dropped dead. Although I haven't been able to find much out about him officially, there's little doubt he's played a big role in helping Kojima shape the series, and is intimately familiar with the themes, hidden motives, and world itself; there must have been many interesting conversations between them about what they were trying to accomplish. Snake Tales was another golden opportunity, too good to pass up.
I edited together the first three screens of text given. Pay attention to the bluntness of it, and try to think of how it would be perceived by somebody hoping to play a meaningful story mission featuring Solid Snake (and not shitty Raiden!):
"Ridiculous or not, a mission is a mission"
This is speaking to players. To me, it might as well be the unofficial tagline for Sons of Liberty: "RIDICULOUS OR NOT – A MISSION IS A MISSION!"
Think about it: Raiden's mission briefing at the start of the Plant Chapter includes blatantly false information claiming the Tanker was carrying crude oil (we know it was transporting RAY), along with the claim that Solid Snake is the leader of the terrorists who kidnapped the President for — get this — cash. Gimme a break. It's almost as ridiculous as rumor of Gurlugon, when you think about it. Sons of Liberty was specially designed to mock the "a mission is a mission" mentality, and Snake Tales are reinforcing it, much to the dismay of fans begging for the Snake Tales in the first place. Talk about having balls.
It touches on a deep point: if Snake thinks the mission is ridiculous, why is he still doing it? What does it say about this legendary mercenary, that he walks into obvious traps and follows along with this routine over and over? Or for that matter, what does it say about us, that we enjoy roleplaying as a willing pawn? (Answer: boredom, thrill-seeking addiction, drama.) But the plot soon thickens when we get to the spot and see the water move suspiciously…
"It all began three days ago. I was testing Otacon's latest invention, the VR system…"
This was dangerous territory to take Snake Tales, if they wanted to please fans. VR had become a dirty word in the Metal Gear lexicon by the time Substance had been released, at least as far as the story went. We loved to play them in our free time as stupid action filler, but mixing it with the story was asking for trouble. The "VR Theory" was in its infancy, and nobody liked it. Certainly, we'd prefer a "real" story, with important world events — like Shadow Moses.
But the story doesn't let us have that. Instead we play as Snake through a series of VR missions within Otacon's machine, including ones set on the Tanker, and in the Shell Core.
Playing as Snake in the Big Shell, but within the context of VR silliness
The first thing I'll point out is that these environments are lifelike, not stripped down virtual playgrounds with floating vectors and honeycomb shapes on the floor. This is much like the ones shown in the "Alternate Missions" portion of Substance, which I don't know how you'd explain in a story context. Perhaps if Raiden says VR was "indistinguishable from the real thing", he experienced something like this; and if this is possible, it lends credibility to the idea of the VR Theory. Not that it really matters at this point.
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Maxwell Hotel in Hampshire! Buttercup fields and exploding glitter bombs. That was the wedding for Tracie and Dan last weekend. This is a sneak peak of their wedding. Normally, we would have been inside Marwell Hall and having shots outside the great Hampshire based hotel, however, it was closed to a private function. We found a beautiful buttercup field instead. Stunning results … Congratulations you guys.


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Artist's remains exhumed to probe his 1959 death
Ellis Ruley found dead near Norwich home
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Henry L. Fuqua Funeral Director June Williams left stands with Gladys Mae Traynum and her daughter Diane Laiscell and son-in-law John Laiscell as they watch as Gladys step-father Douglas Harris's grave box cover was taken off Friday morning at Maplewood Cemetery in Norwich. Douglas Harris and his father-in-law Ellis Ruley were excavated from their graves Friday morning to help find any clues into their mysterious deaths as part of Glenn Palmedo-Smith's documentary on Ellis W. Ruley.
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The bodies of an African-American artist and his son-in-law who died decades ago have been exhumed in Connecticut in the hope of answering lingering questions about their deaths.Photos: Unsolved Massachusetts mysteriesArtist Ellis Ruley was found dead in the road near his Norwich home in January 1959. His son-in-law Douglas Harris was found dead in a well on the property in 1948. Their deaths were ruled accidental, but family members and Ruley's biographer want to learn if there's any evidence of foul play.The men's remains were exhumed Friday with family members from Rhode Island present. The effort to explore their deaths has been led by California filmmaker Glenn Palmedo Smith, author of a Ruley biography. The results could take weeks.Norwich police have opened a cold case review, and attended the exhumation.
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The bodies of an African-American artist and his son-in-law who died decades ago have been exhumed in Connecticut in the hope of answering lingering questions about their deaths.
Photos: Unsolved Massachusetts mysteries
Artist Ellis Ruley was found dead in the road near his Norwich home in January 1959. His son-in-law Douglas Harris was found dead in a well on the property in 1948. Their deaths were ruled accidental, but family members and Ruley's biographer want to learn if there's any evidence of foul play.
The men's remains were exhumed Friday with family members from Rhode Island present. The effort to explore their deaths has been led by California filmmaker Glenn Palmedo Smith, author of a Ruley biography. The results could take weeks.
Norwich police have opened a cold case review, and attended the exhumation.


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Someone who is likened to "a dog in the manger" is acting spitefully, claiming something they don't even need or want in order to prevent others from having it. The story that inspired this phrase goes all the way back to ancient Greece.
A Denton, Texas, caller wonders: Are politicians increasingly starting sentences with the phrase "Now, look…"?
A listener in Ellsworth, Michigan, shares a favorite simile from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski puts on his toque and serves up a quiz about kitchen spices.
A San Antonio, Texas, listener is puzzled about a story in The Guardian about Mavis Staples speculating about her romance with Bob Dylan: "If we'd had some little plum-crushers, how our lives would be. The kids would be singing now, and Bobby and I would be holding each other up." Plum-crushers? Chances are, though, that the reporter misheard a different slang term common in the African-American community.
Nerd used to be a term of derision, connoting someone who was socially awkward and obsessed with a narrow field of interest. Now it's used more admiringly for anyone who has a passion for a particular topic. Linguists call that type of softening amelioration.
A Toronto, Canada, caller wonders how a notice that an employee is being fired ever came to be known as a pink slip.
Martha reads Jessica Goodfellow's poem about the sound of water, "Chance of Precipitation," which first appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal.
"We're off like a dirty shirt" indicates the speaker is "leaving right away" or "commencing immediately." Similar phrases include "off like a prom dress" and "off like a bride's nightie." All of them suggest haste, urgency, and speed.
A woman in Bozeman, Montana, wonders if any other families use the term "horning hour" as synonym for "happy hour." The term's a bit of a mystery, although it may have something to do with horning as in a shivaree, charivari, or other noisy celebration in the Old West.
One way of saying someone's a tightwad or cheapskate is to say he "has fishhooks in his pocket," meaning he's so reluctant to reach into his pocket for his wallet, it's as if he'd suffer bodily injury if he did. In Australia, a similar idea is expressed with the phrases "he has scorpions in his pocket" or "he has mousetraps in his pocket." In Argentina, what's lurking in a penny-pincher's pocket is a crocodile.
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My Lesbian Love Letter from Prison (Or So I Thought)
By Jill Morley
Fan letters come in spurts. When you act in a play or a film, or write a widely publicized story, they come in bunches -- usually. But, sometimes there are strays. Not like I get a whole lot of them, mind you, but when you put your stuff out into the world, people are bound to respond... from all walks of life.
A few years ago an article I wrote for a national magazine, based on a documentary film I made about working as a stripper, created interest from VH-1, an interview on a popular New York radio station, phone calls, letters from long lost friends, and a few "fan" letters. One of them, I received a year after my article was published. My "fan," Catalin, wrote in girly red cursive, excused the delay in responding to the article, but told me to look at the address, which would explain why she was out of the loop. She was incarcerated -- a federal prison in Pennsylvania. It was an eight page hand-written letter mostly ranting about the prison system and how our country was becoming a police state full of "rats, snitches, and stoolpigeons" -- you know, normal stuff. Normal for an inmate who had the time to write such a letter. Literally a lifetime.
I have been a magnet for these people. Having dabbled in several underground worlds, besides stripping, including undercover work, nightclub life, participating in a fetish video, and training as a boxer/martial artist, they could smell it on me. Very extreme people have crossed my path and for a long time, I would get involved with them to an unhealthy degree. Some people call it an addiction to danger. I just thought it kept life interesting. I never knew why I couldn't get involved with a guy who wasn't an alcoholic, a player, or just a plain old loser. But I guess I didn't care. At least I had fascinating stories to tell.
After about three pages of ranting, Catalin asked me to consider writing about the prison system inequities. Then she said that if I didn't like that idea, she had another one. She pitched me a feature film involving an average Joe who couldn't keep a job and had a miserable love life. Things just didn't seem to happen for him. While sitting in a topless bar, Joe has an epiphany. He decides to work as a female stripper. He gets breast implants, waxes his body, and gets himself a luxurious wig. Joe becomes wildly successful, makes tons of money and gives blow jobs for $300 to $500 a pop.
The blow job prices made me think that this was coming from personal experience. Perhaps, Catalin was a high-class hooker who got busted one night because she didn't suss out the undercover cop who came in for a BJ. She probably gave him one before he busted her. I think that because I watch Law and Order obsessively, I can make assumptions like this.
So one night Joe gets drunk and high, and decides to take off his G-string while performing. His tape comes undone, his "thingie" comes out and he urinates on the stage and the audience. Due to the closed circuit lighting on the stage, he is fatally electrocuted. This scene, according to Catalin, should be scored by Madonna's "Like A Virgin."
Most definitely.
Catalin goes on to compliment me on my article, the pictures of me, and apologizes for not being able to see or read any of my other work in the last few years, or to take me out and promise me "undying love." She tells me I "have a nice (ass) smile." She draws a Smiley Face, as if it were an email...but it's not. It is a handwritten letter from a federal prison.
"But please, don't let my sense of humor or lack thereof, scare you. I am completely harmless (am I?) Yes ma'am, especially now (Frown Face). Although I could have typed this letter, I chose to handwrite it so you could take it to a writing analyst and find out whether or not I am some type of psychopath (Smiley Face). I assure you I am not, but just in case, don't trust the analyst either ...my sense of humor again ...partly responsible for why I'm here."
Poor thing. Jailed for having a dark sense of humor. That could easily be me. I wonder why she overuses the Smiley Face thing, but figure she is in prison and it probably makes her happy to see a smile, even if it is just a flat one drawn on paper.
"Take care and enjoy life. Be kind to others. Trust no one. (One or two exceptions allowed). Love animals, children and the elderly because they are cute, innocent and harmless.
PS. Please write back."
She wrote her inmate number neatly beneath her name.


This action-packed day trip to Arrábida from Lisbon is great for travelers with limited time. After a hotel pickup, you'll travel quickly and comfortably in a private vehicle between dispersed attractions. This will save you time navigating and planning transport. Tour highlights include visiting the cellars of José Maria da Fonseca and trying wines, going to Arrábida Ridge, Setúbal, and Palmela.


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Yesteryear's 7.62mm M1A returns as a 21st century match- and fight-winning machine with next-gen enhancements!
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Prep patties In a medium bowl, combine all patty ingredients with a pinch of salt and mix well. Divide mixture into 3 balls, then flatten to make 1cm thick patties.
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NASA implemented solar system internet technology in the space station.
NASA established the Delay/Distribution Tolerant Networking (DTN) service on the International Space Station. DTN service will optimize the data for space station experiments and faster data transfer between earth and space. The system has the capability to store data in their system that can be later retransmitted to specific destinations in a network in space.
This service allows the storage of data packages in nodes along a communication path, which can be forwarded or retransmitted to destinations on earth or Spacecraft in space.
This enhances present Internet protocols which require the nodes be connected during transmission of data. DTN could also be utilized by humans, once they´re sent to Mars or other planets in the cosmos.
DTN was included in the Telescience Resource kit (TReK) -- a software Kit aboard the station that allows researchers to transmit and receive data between operations. This will simplify the software already in the space station, benefiting both; astronauts and users on earth.
The communication between earth and spacecraft in space involve great distances. In the present, NASA uses three communication networks for data transmission; the Deep Space Network (DSN), the Space Network (SN) and the Near Earth Network (NEN). In previous space missions, NASA has made use of direct or single relay links to be able to send and receive data from spacecraft; however future exploration will require more complex communication paths.
Solar system communication between several nodes will function much like the present internet on earth, operating with terrestrial IP or independently from it. DTN provides the automatic storage and delivery of data. Each packet of data that´s received can be immediately forwarded or stored for later retransmission. Although DTN was designed for space applications, it can also provide solutions for terrestrial applications, such as mobiles and disaster response networks.