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813 titles
1. Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
Director: Jianqi Huo | Stars: Hao Chen, Eddie Eagle, Ye Liu, Rujun Teng
2. Klass - Elu pärast (2010– )
56 min | Drama
The series deals with the aftermath and overcoming the tragedy of a school shooting from the point of view of surviving pupils, their teachers and parents.
Stars: Laine Mägi, Liina Joonas, Imre Paabo, Kadi Metsla
3. The Class (2007)
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Director: Ilmar Raag | Stars: Vallo Kirs, Pärt Uusberg, Lauri Pedaja, Paula Solvak
4. Crank (2006)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Stars: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo
5. The Intouchables (2011)
R | 112 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
6. District B13 (2004)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and an ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri
7. The Wackness (2008)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen
8. The Expendables 2 (2012)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Liam Hemsworth, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme
9. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
10. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams
11. The Green Mile (1999)
R | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 1,063,678 | Gross: $136.80M
12. Oldboy (2003)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
Director: Chan-wook Park | Stars: Min-sik Choi, Ji-Tae Yoo, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji
Votes: 478,172 | Gross: $0.71M
13. Léon: The Professional (1994)
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello
14. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
15. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
16. The Decoy Bride (2011)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
Director: Sheree Folkson | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant, Alice Eve, Michael Urie
17. Jet Lag (2002)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A worn-out businessman and a beautician on the run collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.
Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno, Sergi López, Scali Delpeyrat
18. Aloys (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
Director: Tobias Nölle | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí, Yufei Li
19. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
20. The Langoliers (1995)
PG-13 | 180 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.
Stars: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Tom Holland, Kate Maberly
21. Over the Garden Wall (2014)
TV-PG | 110 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Two brothers find themselves lost in a mysterious land and try to find their way home.
Stars: Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd
22. Gravity Falls (2012–2016)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Stars: Jason Ritter, Alex Hirsch, Kristen Schaal, Linda Cardellini
23. SpongeBob SquarePants (1999– )
TV-Y | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.
Stars: Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown
24. Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999–2002)
TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The offbeat adventures of Courage, a cowardly dog who must overcome his own fears to heroically defend his unknowing farmer owners from all kinds of dangers, paranormal events and menaces that appear around their land.
Stars: Marty Grabstein, Thea White, Peter Fernandez, Simon Prebble
25. The Legend of Korra (2012–2014)
TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Avatar Korra fights to keep Republic City safe from the evil forces of both the physical and spiritual worlds.
Stars: Janet Varney, P.J. Byrne, David Faustino, J.K. Simmons
26. The Amazing World of Gumball (2011–2019)
11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The life of a twelve-year-old boy who happens to be a blue cat as he lives with his family and other strange creatures.
Stars: Dan Russell, Teresa Gallagher, Kyla Rae Kowalewski, Jacob Hopkins
27. The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008–2010)
TV-Y7-FV | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The comical seafaring adventures of a young, enthusiastic boy, his pirate captain mentor, and the talking whale that raised him from birth.
Stars: Brian Doyle-Murray, Thurop Van Orman, Jeff Bennett, Steve Little
28. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001–2007)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The ill-tempered Grim Reaper gets into a wager that forces him to become the life-long companions of two scheming youngsters after he loses.
Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz, Grey Griffin, Greg Eagles, Vanessa Marshall
29. Johnny Bravo (1997–2004)
The misadventures of a dumb blond egomaniac who is deluded about his own manliness.
Stars: Jeff Bennett, Brenda Vaccaro, Mae Whitman, Tom Kenny
30. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Mae Whitman
31. We Bare Bears (2014– )
Three bear brothers do whatever they can to be a part of human society by doing what everyone around them does.
Stars: Eric Edelstein, Demetri Martin, Bobby Moynihan, Keith Ferguson
32. Rugrats (1990–2006)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The cartoon misadventures of four babies and their snotty older cousin as they face the things in life they don't understand.
Stars: Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Nancy Cartwright, Kath Soucie
33. Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.
Stars: Kevin Conroy, Loren Lester, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Bob Hastings
34. Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.
Stars: Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, Christine Cavanaugh, Frank Welker
35. Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Phineas and Ferb invent, scheme, and stay one step ahead of their bratty sister. Meanwhile, their pet platypus plots against evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Stars: Vincent Martella, Ashley Tisdale, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dan Povenmire
36. CatDog (1998–2005)
The comic misadventures of a tidy, refined Cat and a goofy, uncouth Dog joined at the abdomen.
Stars: Jim Cummings, Tom Kenny, Carlos Alazraqui, Billy West
37. The Angry Beavers (1997–2001)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The wacky and sometimes surreal adventures of Norbert and Daggett Beaver.
Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz, Nick Bakay, Charlie Brissette, Terry Wood
38. Hey Arnold! (1994–2004)
TV-Y7 | 15 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
The everyday life of Arnold (Lane Toran, Phillip Van Dyke, Spencer Klein, and Alex D. Linz), a fourth-grader in a nameless city that resembles Brooklyn, New York, who lives in a multi-racial boarding house with his grandparents and a motley assortment of friends and neighbors.
Stars: Francesca Marie Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Justin Shenkarow
39. 2 Stupid Dogs (1993–1995)
"Two Stupid Dogs" follows the lives of two dogs: the overly excited Little Dog (the dachshund) and easy-paced Big Dog (the sheepdog). These crazy canines don't know how to fit in the world,... See full summary »
Stars: Brad Garrett, Mark Schiff, Jess Harnell, Jim Cummings
40. Wacky Races (1968–1970)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The participants of an unusual car race compete around America.
Stars: Daws Butler, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo
41. Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999–2008)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The off-the-wall, day-to-day life of three friends who have exactly the same name.
Stars: Matt Hill, Sam Vincent, Tony Sampson, Erin Fitzgerald


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package com.spotify.styx.docker;

import com.google.common.io.Closer;
import com.spotify.styx.state.RunState;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
import java.util.function.Function;

public abstract class AbstractRoutingRunner<T extends Closeable> implements Closeable {

  protected final Function<String, T> runnerFactory;
  protected final Function<RunState, String> runnerId;
  protected final ConcurrentMap<String, T> runners = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

  public AbstractRoutingRunner(Function<String, T> runnerFactory, Function<RunState, String> runnerId) {
    this.runnerFactory = Objects.requireNonNull(runnerFactory);
    this.runnerId = Objects.requireNonNull(runnerId);
  }

  protected T runner(RunState runState) {
    var id = runnerId.apply(runState);
    return runners.computeIfAbsent(id, runnerFactory);
  }

  @Override
  public final void close() throws IOException {
    final var closer = Closer.create();
    runners.values().forEach(closer::register);
    closer.close();
  }
}

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Q: Why does ExpressionContext.expression() return a list instead of a single ExpressionContext in java-ANTLR4 I a Java.g4 grammar. The expression parsing rule looks like this:
expression
    :   primary
    |   expression '.' Identifier
    |   expression '.' 'this'
    |   expression '.' 'new' nonWildcardTypeArguments? innerCreator
    |   expression '.' 'super' superSuffix
    |   expression '.' explicitGenericInvocation
    |   expression '[' expression ']'
    |   expression '(' expressionList? ')'
    |   'new' creator
    |   '(' type ')' expression
    |   expression ('++' | '--')
    |   ('+'|'-'|'++'|'--') expression
    |   ('~'|'!') expression
    |   expression ('*'|'/'|'%') expression
    |   expression ('+'|'-') expression
    |   expression ('<' '<' | '>' '>' '>' | '>' '>') expression
    |   expression ('<=' | '>=' | '>' | '<') expression
    |   expression 'instanceof' type
    |   expression ('==' | '!=') expression
    |   expression '&' expression
    |   expression '^' expression
    |   expression '|' expression
    |   expression '&&' expression
    |   expression '||' expression
    |   expression '?' expression ':' expression
    |   <assoc=right> expression
        (   '='
        |   '+='
        |   '-='
        |   '*='
        |   '/='
        |   '&='
        |   '|='
        |   '^='
        |   '>>='
        |   '>>>='
        |   '<<='
        |   '%='
        )
        expression
    ;

But when I look at a generated ExpressionContext type, Is see that calling expression() will return a List<JavaParser.ExpressionContext> instead of a single ExpressionContext. It does not make sense according to the grammar above.
For this code to be generated I would expect there to be a rule saying expression : expressionList, but clearly there is none such rule. What am I missing?

A: Short: because there may be zero to two expressions involved in the concrete case.

*

*If it is a primary, ExpressionContext.expression() will return an empty list since there is no expression matched.

*If it's an expression '&' expression, it will return the two expressions.

*If it's an expression '.' Identifier, it will return the single expression.

What you can do is something like this:
expression
   :   primary
   |   idExpr = expression '.' Identifier
   |   thisExpr = expression '.' 'this'
   //..
   |   leftAndExpression = expression '&&' rightAndExpression = expression

Then you can access them by name like ExpressionContext.leftAndExpression (if this option really matches).

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Special motivation by community leaders or well-known persons of the area.
Use of media and press.
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Video Game Deep Cuts: The Two-Bit GoldenEye Circus
This week's highlights include a look at innovative 'alternative arcade' Two-Bit Circus, a retrospective on the creation of GoldenEye for the N64, and lots more besides.
[Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from video game industry 'watcher' Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend.
The newsletter's going out a little early this week, primarily because I have to take my kid to the zoo this weekend (priorities, y'all!) But seriously, loads of interesting games coming out even though we're not at 'holiday 2018 primetime' for releases, which starts with Insomniac's PS4-exclusive Spider-Man on September 7th & goes rapidly busytimes from there.
This week alone, there's debuts for Tomorrow Corp's latest, 7 Billion Humans, also Drinkbox's Guacamelee 2, a Switch-first release for Bad North, which I've been intrigued by, and lots more besides. Can you keep up? Nope, and you shouldn't even try...
- Simon, curator.]
The game changers: meet the creatives shaking up the gaming world (Simon Parkin / The Observer - ARTICLE)
"Just as the kaleidoscopic dramas of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina, the pseudo-non-fiction murk of Alan Moore's comic From Hell and the domestic pragmatism of Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals meet under the fat banner of prose, so the body of video games becomes an ever broader church. It is impossible to enforce orthodoxy in a medium where shifting technology defines the canvas. [SIMON'S NOTE: An article in association with the V&A's London games exhibition, which I continue to be excited by.]"
The 10 Secrets to Indie Game Success (and Why They Do Not Exist) (Paul Kilduff-Taylor / Medium - ARTICLE)
"Since we started out, indie game development has ascended from being the preserve of back-room tinkerers to the lofty heights of an aspirational career path. This kind of cultural shift can lead to the rise of meta-industry of advice-peddlers who do not have directly relevant experience of developing and releasing successful games."
Meet some of the indie devs quietly pushing the JRPG genre forward (Steven T. Wright / Gamasutra - ARTICLE)
"Over the past few years, it seems as though the breathless paeans enthusiastic fans have sung for the '90s "golden age" of JRPGs has finally reached the ears of their slumbering god, Square Enix, which has deigned to publish some newer games that strike at this once-depleted vein."
How Dead By Daylight proved analysts wrong and became one of the biggest games on Steam (Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer - ARTICLE)
"Since its release in 2016, the horror game of hide-n-seek, one powerful killer pitted against a group of weak survivors, has sold more than four million copies. I talked with game director Mathieu Côté about Dead By Daylight's growth, developing a game alongside a passionate community, the challenges of asymmetrical multiplayer, loot boxes, and more."
Amazon Has YouTube Envy (Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Businessweek - ARTICLE)
"Amazon in recent months has been pursuing exclusive livestreaming deals with dozens of popular media companies and personalities, many with large followings on YouTube. Twitch is offering minimum guarantees of as much as a few million dollars a year, as well as a share of future advertising sales and subscription revenue, according to several people who've been contacted by Twitch. [SIMON'S NOTE: more about Twiitch expanding beyond games - but still very relevant for all of us.]"
Researchers gave AI curiosity and it played video games all day (Tristan Greene / The Next Web - ARTICLE)
"The more times the bricks are struck in a row by the ball, the more complicated the pattern of bricks remaining becomes, making the agent more curious to explore further, hence, collecting points as a byproduct. [SIMON'S NOTE: Creepy but interesting, eh?]"
Helping Players Hate (or Love) Their Nemesis (Chris Hoge / GDC / YouTube - VIDEO)
"In this 2018 GDC talk, Monolith Productions' Chris Hoge describes philosophies and features implemented in the design of both Middle-earth: Shadow of War and its predecessor, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor to give players an antagonistic relationship with their enemies. [SIMON'S NOTE: the Middle-Earth sequel wasn't too well appreciated, but still some interesting design decisions here!]"
ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation (Kyle Orland / Ars Technica - ARTICLE)
"But what if there might be a middle ground that could thread the needle between the legality of original cartridges and the convenience of emulated ROMs? What if an online lending library, temporarily loaning out copies of ROMs tied to individual original cartridges, could satisfy the letter of the law and the interests of game preservation at the same time? What if such a library already exists? In fact, it has for 17 years."
How Two Bit Circus is turning its 21st century carnival into one giant game (Bryan Bishop / The Verge - ARTICLE)
"Throw out the term "amusement park," and it conjures up visions of roller coasters and rides and costumed characters in massive, franchise-themed lands. But inside a warehouse in the downtown arts district of Los Angeles, a company called Two Bit Circus is building its own idiosyncratic riff on the idea, focused on the power of games."
Making Games Better for Gamers with Colourblindness & Low Vision (Mark Brown / Game Maker's Toolkit / YouTube - VIDEO)
"In this series of videos, I'll be sharing guidelines and best practices for making games more accessible to a wide range of disabilities. This time, I'm looking at design choices and menu options that will affect those who are colourblind or have low vision."
People Keep Trying To Scam Their Way Into Free Video Games (Jason Schreier / Kotaku - ARTICLE)
"When Sean Noonan announced the Steam release date for his game, an infinite runner called Jack B. Nimble, he started getting emails from people who wanted review copies. Normally, this would be great news for any developer. Getting enough attention from media outlets and streamers can pull a game from the dregs of Steam and turn it into a skyrocketing success. But something didn't seem right."
Harsh headlines, failed festivals and, finally, friends: Pokémon Go, two years on (Louise Blain / The Guardian - ARTICLE)
"While the monthly community days, where trainers spill on to the streets to hunt down swathes of one particular Pokémon, are exciting for the team, it's the real-world events where Niantic is pushing the boundaries of how the game is played. In Lincoln Park, thousands of people who had flown in from across the world followed a tailored 1.8-mile walking tour, passing giant mobile cell towers specially installed to cope with the extra network traffic."
Winter Storm Draco - Annotated Source (Ryan Veeder / Gamasutra Blogs - ARTICLE)
"Whenever I release a text adventure through my Patreon, I also annotate the source text from one of my earlier games as a gift for my top-tier Patreoneers. But these secret annotations can only be kept a secret for so long. One of my top-tier Patreoneers (the same guy who requested that I publicly release the source for The Statue Got Me High) recently asked me about releasing some more annotations. I picked a game with some code that I remain mostly unashamed of even three years after writing it: WINTER STORM DRACO. [SIMON'S NOTE: dear reader, IT WAS ME.]"
Know Your Market: Making Indie Games That Sell (Erik Johnson / GDC / YouTube - VIDEO)
"In this 2018 GDC talk, Infinite Monkeys Entertainment's Erik Johnson analyzes trends in the Steam marketplace and explores how his game, 'Life Goes On', failed to match the market."
Fortnite Is so Much More Than a Game (Keith Stuart / Great Escape / Medium - ARTICLE)
"Through a variety of clever design decisions, Epic has constructed a true digital Third Place, a hangout where players are given a huge amount of autonomy to seek out the experiences they want. As a child of the late 1970s and early 1980s, it hit me a few weeks ago that Fortnite feels like a skatepark."
The Surprising History Of The French Bread Studio (Thomasaurus / Bas Gros Poing - ARTICLE)
"Thus, even though today's French Bread is a traditional company of around 10 employees, its origins are rooted in a culture that did not exist in the West at the time. The doujinaims to create content referencing but also diverging from an intellectual property, sometimes without licensing."
Stardew Valley: How To Find Comfort in Nihilism by Finding Meaning in Watering Virtual Crops (William Corley / ZEAL / Medium - ARTICLE)
"So maybe you play videogames to numb the pain of existence, and you pick up Stardew Valley because it looks cute and light hearted, and with each virtual day that passes you realize more and more exactly how alien this world free of consequences is. [SIMON'S NOTE: This is a really odd essay which is also very, uh, 'now'.]"
Just Like Real Life, EVE Online Wars Are Won With Propaganda (Lee Yancy / Kotaku - ARTICLE)
"To help keep other players energized and ready to fight, EVE's most dedicated tacticians have a long-standing tradition of producing spectacular propaganda to help drive their in-game efforts. Just like in real-life conflicts, propaganda is , information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."
An Oral History Of 'GoldenEye 007' On The N64 (Quinn Myers / MEL Magazine - ARTICLE)
"'GoldenEye lives on mostly because of nostalgia, at least for those of us still around from 21 years ago. The game is no doubt a classic and it holds up well today gameplay-wise, but new gamers have trouble with the low amount of polygons used for the models.'"
Twitch streamers are divided on Ninja's choice not to stream with women (Julia Alexander / Polygon - ARTICLE)
"Why do some streamers choose to cast with people of the opposite sex, while others refuse? Responsibility. Friendship. Change. Unification. Those were some of the words several of the streamers we spoke to used when responding to the question. The answers seem simple, but co-ed streaming isn't."
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and constantly alarmed by the falling among us of somebody from behind, who endangers the footing of the whole party, and clings pertinaciously to anybody's ankles. It is impossible for the litter to be in advance, too, as the track has to be made; and its appearance behind us, overhead—with some one or other of the bearers always down, and the rather heavy gentleman with his legs always in the air—is very threatening and frightful. We have gone on thus, a very little way, painfully and anxiously, but quite merrily, and regarding it as a great success—and have all fallen several times, and have all been stopped, somehow or other, as we were sliding away—when Mr. Pickle, of Portici, in the act of remarking on these uncommon circumstances as quite beyond his experience, stumbles, falls, disengages himself, with quick presence of mind, from those about him, plunges away head foremost, and rolls, over and over, down the whole surface of the cone!
Sickening as it is to look, and be so powerless to help him, I see him there, in the moonlight—I have had such a dream often—slamming over the white ice, like a cannon-ball. Almost at the same moment, there is a cry from behind; and a man who has carried a light basket of spare cloaks on his head, comes rolling past, at the same frightful speed, closely followed by a boy. At this climax of the chapter of accidents, the remaining eight-and-twenty vociferate to that degree, that a pack of wolves would be music to them!
Giddy, and bloody, and a mere bundle of rags, is Pickle of Portici when we reach the place where we dismounted, and where the horses are waiting; but, thank
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The owners of a popular drugstore near the University of California at Berkeley were arraigned yesterday on federal charges of selling to an undercover agent bulk quantities of a precursor drug used to make methamphetamine.
Jan Tse Chin, 42, of San Leandro and Linda Hooi, 33, of Danville, the owners of Blue Heaven Owl Rexall Drugs at 2312 Telegraph Ave., appeared in federal court in Oakland after their arrest Friday.
They have been charged with distributing and conspiring to distribute pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in a common cold medication, with the knowledge that it would be used to make methamphetamine.
Chin was released to a halfway house pending posting of property for a $300,000 bond. Hooi, who also was charged with making cash deposits designed to avoid law-enforcement scrutiny, was released on $100,000 bond. Both are to return to court May 28.
Relatives of Chin and Hooi said the two had no comment.
The suspects' drugstore, with its 1948-vintage blue-and-orange "Owl Rexall" sign, is well-known and sits half a block from UC Berkeley. The store has been frequented by ailing students -- and drug suspects who were later rounded up in recent raids related to methamphetamine trafficking, according to statements that Chin allegedly made to an undercover state Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement agent.
On several occasions since December, the agent paid Chin in cash -- and at inflated prices -- for cases of pseudoephedrine tablets. The drug is a cousin of ephedrine and can be used to make methamphetamine, also known as "crank" or "speed."
Authorities said two methamphetamine raids in April scared Chin into temporarily halting his sales to the undercover agent, who had gained Chin's trust by posing as a buyer.
In a recorded phone call with the agent on April 12, Chin said he was going to "stay low," court affidavits said. The suspect warned the agent, "There's a whole lot of places that got popped," adding, "Be real careful out there with who you're dealing with," the affidavit said.
David Tresmontan, the special agent in charge of the state drug agency's San Francisco office, said of Chin's reported references to the other raids, "I think it's nice to know that some people do pay attention to it. We know it sometimes doesn't stop them, but what we can do is hope it serves as a warning."
The case began when agents noticed that the drugstore had bought "extremely large" amounts of pseudoephedrine tablets from pharmaceutical companies. Agents later estimated that the drugstore paid $240,000 to two companies for nearly 9 million tablets -- enough to make 818 pounds of methamphetamine -- from June 1997 to March.
On January 12, Chin allegedly sold five cases of tablets to the agent for $720. On February 2, the suspect was paid $600 for two more cases, court documents said. Both purchases occurred in the back of the store. Chin was arrested Friday after agreeing to sell the agent more tablets for $6,700.
Investigators said Hooi and Chin made cash deposits of $10,000 or less on 10 occasions from June 1998 to March. The amounts of the deposits prevented banks from filing currency transaction reports that could have alerted investigators, authorities said.


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As someone who resides in California you would hope that this state would follows the others. But somehow California will likely find a need to test the emissions of the lithium battery in a Nissan Leaf.
Emissions testing of passenger vehicles will end on December 31, 2019 in Washington state. It ends on April 1st in Ontario. Emissions testing was no longer required in 26 North Carolina counties starting December 1, 2018. British Colombia's "AirCare" passenger vehicle testing ended in 2014. Alaska ended emissions testing in 2012.
There are multiple uplifting stories here. Air quality has improved! Fewer vehicles fail emissions testing! Government programs that have outlived their usefulness are eliminated! Car manufacturers design and build great vehicles! Use the money you no longer have to spend on testing fees to buy your own OBD II scan tool and check for emissions and other trouble codes whenever you want, from the comfort of your own garage!
Since 1996, cars have been required to have OBD II computers with standardized access ports. That probably marked the beginning of the end for government mandated emissions testing. The number of jurisdictions that still require emissions tests will probably continue to drop over the coming years.
Many emissions testing stations gradually stopped using dynamometers and exhaust probes and simply began plugging scan tools into OBD II ports. Why buy and maintain a bunch of expensive tools to test declining numbers of pre-1996 cars? The potential impact of a relatively small number of old cars on air pollution was statistically insignificant. Many states gradually stopped testing pre-OBD II cars.
If there were OBD II trouble codes, the check engine light on the dash should have already informed the driver long before he/she rolled into an emissions testing station. Most drivers learned ignoring a check engine light for too long can increase repair costs or the risk of being stranded. Florida, Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesota actually ended their emissions testing programs in the late '90s, a few years after OBD II was required on new cars.
Emission systems on vehicles built this century frequently are blended with other critical systems that have to work properly or the engine will not run at all. There is less need for emissions testing if a broken "emissions system" means the engine cannot even propel the car to a testing station. It is great news that better engine performance, fuel economy and emissions have frequently become complementary rather than competing vehicle design goals.
There is an existing thread on this. Perhaps they can be combined.
I did a search under the word "emissions" and only found a few. None were (by title) specific to the ending of emission testing. If I can be directed to the applicable post I'll transfer this and delete it. Thanks.
No disagreement with the basic argument, but unless the federal law has been changed, the federal subsidy to the states for highway construction still depends on the state's implementation of air quality initiatives, of which emissions testing is the primary. States/localities can obtain waivers if they can prove to the EPA that they are taking other pollution-reduction actions (rapid transit, bike lanes, etc) and/or that the proposed action will not have a significant impact on air quality. For example, a lot of states have gotten EPA permission to stop testing vehicles older than a certain year on the grounds that the older cars represent only a small percentage of the total vehicle fleet. And I expect nearly all to soon stop using the notorious dynamometers for testing pre-1996 (non-OBD2) vehicles -- if they haven't already.
I can understand that. It was probably one of many threads that have a topic heading that gives no clear idea as to the subject.
EDIT: I thought about this and possibly I was incorrect. It may be that I read this item somewhere else on the Internet and thought that it was here.
I think this article was in a Hagerty newsletter.
That is possible. I do not receive the Hagerty newsletter, so that is not where I saw it.
Wittsend's posting indicates that it is from Rock Auto.
The pollution gets blown out over water, either east or west :).
Now that Florida has more residents than New York, perhaps the pollution situation will change.
Like Gary said, both climate and geography play a big role. Los Angeles gets frequent temperature inversions that capture the air pollution at ground level. And the Northeast and mid-Atlantic areas get a lot of pollution blown in from the midwest to add to the stuff produced locally.
Maybe worth mentioning: emissions testing is generally required only in local (cities, counties) areas that don't meet emissions standards. The rest of state can generally ride free.
Maybe worth mentioning: emissions testing is generally required only in local (cities, counties) areas that don't meet emissions standards. The rest of state can generally rides free.
The greater Los Angeles area is basically a "C" shape open on the ocean end. Having grown up in the San Gabriel Valley (specifically the city of San Gabriel) I had my fair share of smog from '67 to '77. And given I was a cross country/track athlete only increased the problem. However, the past 42 years I have lived about 50 miles west - northwest of L.A. I can't recall a day that smog has bothered me. Hence my objection to the testing (where I live). Yet we get tested with the same test Los Angeles gets.


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Project: Letterpress Workshop
Class: Typography
Students sort metal type, typeset and letterpress a broadsheet.
Project: Cropping the LetterformClass: Typography
Students explore the formal qualities of individual glyphs by cropping alphanumeric characters from a provided set of typefaces and arranging the crops into a grid.
Project: Additive FormsClass: Typography
Students create hybrid letterforms using parts of existing typefaces.
Project: MonogramsClass: Typography
Students create monograms using the letters in common acronyms.
Project: Moving wordsClass: Typography
Students express the meaning of provided words by manipulating position, spacing or scale in print and subsequently motion.
Project: Type Contrast
Students explore typographic contrast in the environment of the browser using only web fonts and absolute positioning properties.
Project: Lyrics Poster
To study typographic hierarchy students were asked to pick a popular song and design an 18X24" poster that combined the lyrics with text explaining the meaning behind them sourced from the website genius.com.
Project: PractitionersClass: Typography
Students were asked to design a 6×4 in card (front and back) and present about the work of an assiged type designer/typographer.
Project: Type Specimen ZinesClass: Typography
Toward the end of the semester students were asked to design a zine that showcases a typeface of their choice.
Project: MeshStudent: Andrew Joseph
Class: Thesis II
Drew writes: "The Mesh project sought to investigate how SUNY New Paltz students socialize across racial lines and ethnic barriers. It also explored the many emotions surrounding these interactions. The purpose of this thesis project was to attempt to understand why social life between majorities and minorities is so segregated on the New Paltz campus. This problem is significant because the only way to understand and accept someone is through interaction and conversation."
Project: We Want to Talk
Student: Rachel Benoit
Rachel writes: "We Want to Talk is a workshop/discussion that brings together students and practicing professionals to create a dialogue about non-profit organizations, projects, and design firms that are rooted in design for good.Through this discussion participants will learn what they can do to contribute to social justice organizations using the skills that they have as a designer. This workshop also aims to create long-lasting relationships between designers and socially conscious design thinking/practices.'
Project: Chromaesthesia
Student: Sam Eberle
Sam writes: "Chromaesthesia is an interactive audiovisual installation inspired by the sensory condition known as synesthesia. Focused on the blending of color and sound, the installation aims to create a unique sensory experience for every individual. I wanted to explore how color and sound connect with one another, and the interplay of exchange individuals have with the combination of these two senses. Utilizing innovative tools such as mechatronics and 3D printing, Chromaesthesia was created. Aside from the installation itself, the project also includes a web presence showcasing an interactive map for people to view the colors individuals are hearing in their respective city. This allows the installation to grow through purchasing a pyramid to add to the piece and in return receiving a personal pyramid to keep as their own. This allows Chromaesthesia to have a larger interactive audience than just a colorful yet one-note installation. I wanted to produce a new way of experiencing sound and color, pushing the sensory boundaries for people to explore in an innovative way. Integrating graphic design and digital fabrication, Chromaesthesia exemplifies the exploration and blending of the senses."
Project: Unbound by Time
Student: Yuan Chen
Yuan writes: "How often do you reflect on your life? For many of us, it's a hassle to slow down and step back from our perpetually overloaded days. Yet, we are habitually tracking the state of our well-being in one form or another as a means to look back to a certain moment. This could be in the form of diary entries, photographs, videos, sound recordings, social media posts, etc. In my thesis, Unbound by Time, I seek to familiarize my audience with both the contemporary and historical methods of recording life. My project aims to show an understanding on the purpose of recorded memory, how the practice has changed or stayed the same over time. It is my desire to encourage people of all ages to document and implement mindful self-reflection into their daily lives. Unbound by Time is comprised of a series of videos, a website, and a written letter project featuring acquaintances, family, friends, and strangers."
Project: F-Word
Student: Lindsay Brett
To describe her thesis project Lindsay writes: "F-Word strives to start a discussion about the lack of inclusivity in subcultures. Basically, I am sick of seeing white cisgender heterosexual men as the only representation in certain areas, when in reality there is a rich participation of people from marginalized groups that are not being shown. Why is this a problem? It's a problem when a young girl of color doesn't see herself represented and thinks she is limited to what she can do with her life. I chose to explain this problem by narrowing in on one specific subculture: the skateboard community. Space needs to be made for the individuals left out and there needs to be constant action and effort made by everyone. F-Word is a feminist skateboard brand that uses its magazine, merchandise, and skateboard decks to both criticize the skateboard community and empower those in marginalized groups."
Project: Platonic SolidsClass: Graphic Design
Students begin by creating geometric and organiz paterns, they continue by constructing a 3 dimensional version for each of your patterns using the following platonic solids: tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron. They are encouraged to consider if a the level of detail in one pattern is more appropriate for an object with fewer, larger faces (tetrahedron) or larger in number, smaller faces.
Project: Regarding the Pain of Others
Class: Interaction Design
Students were aked to prepare a visual and written response to one of the assigned readings ("Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr., "Against Joie de Vivre" by Phillip Lopate, "Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace, "Regarding the Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag, "Death of a Moth" by Virginia Wolfe in the form of an experimental digital narrative for the screen.
Project: Shape and Sound
Student: Johanna Turano
Class: Motion Design
Animation created early in the semester to explore timing animations to sound.
Student: Luke Barnell
Project: Type Specimen
Student: Emma Seager
An mid-semester animation that showcases a typeface of the student's choice, an animated type speciment.
Project: Branding & Motion
Student: Amy Zheng
Students were asked to design and animate a fictional identity.
© Dimitry Tetin 2019.


Mazu Networks Inc. on Monday will ship TrafficMasterEnforcer, which acts as the active filtering mechanism used to guard against distributed denial of service attacks against Web sites.
Mazu Networks Inc. on Monday will begin shipping the second piece of its anti-DDoS product line, TrafficMasterEnforcer.
The new component of the TrafficMaster line acts as the active filtering mechanism used to guard against distributed denial of service attacks against Web sites.
TrafficMasterEnforcer is able to differentiate between attack traffic and normal traffic to a Web site and can stop the former within seconds, according to Mazu officials. It uses a set of statistics gleaned from the network during normal operation in order to identify the attack packets.
Enforcer is an in-line device that sits at the edge of the users network and is able to send filtering instructions to routers or perform the filtering itself, company officials said. It is the companion to Mazus previously released Inspector, which performs passive monitoring and analysis of DDoS attacks.
The new Enforcer product is available in three configurations: single link Fast-E, single link Gig-E and multiple link Fast-E.
Officials at Mazu, of Cambridge, Mass., said they have noticed a strong interest in anti-DDoS technology specifically and security products in general of late, especially since the terrorist attacks of last month.
"Weve seen an increase in urgency since Sept. 11," said Phil London, CEO of Mazu. "People are realizing its a really complicated, very diverse problem. A head in the sand solution isnt going to work with this."
DDoS attacks have been on the increase for some time and London believes that trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
"There are a number of indications that the trend is toward a substantial increase in attacks," he said. "Service providers say that the average number of attacks per week is increasing."


The Russian authorities will have to release Batkivschyna faction MP, Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, as on January 26 she will be granted international diplomatic immunity as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
"When on January 26, the authority of Ukrainian delegation to PACE is confirmed and Savchenko becomes a full PACE member on January 26, she will be granted an international diplomatic immunity," Tymoshenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The Batkivschyna leader noted that there was a basic agreement on privileges and immunities of the Council of Europe, Article 15 of which says that PACE representatives and their deputies are immune from being arrested and legally prosecuted in the territories of all member states. "This agreement has been ratified by the Russian Federation on February 23, 1996 and Russia has to observe this agreement," she noted.
Tymoshenko noted that on January 26 Batkivschyna's delegation would be near the Moscow prison in which Savchenko is kept. In addition, the faction's representatives together, with Savchenko's sister Vira, will attend the PACE session.
The Batkivschyna leader believes that if Russia once again ignores international law, only much stricter sanctions against Russia can influence the situation. "I sincerely hope that Ukraine will finally start implementing just as strong sanctions against Russia as well. For now, it's not happening unfortunately," she added.
In turn, Vira Savchenko noted that hunger strike is the only way for her sister to protest. Nadia Savchenko protests against not only her imprisonment but Russia's aggression against Ukraine as well. Vira Savchenko said that she had seen her sister recently and that Nadia had lost a lot of weight. "Her consistent weight has always been 75-78 kilos, right now her weight is 60 kilos," she said.
Vira Savchenko urged all politicians who represent Ukraine in the world to fight for the fate of Nadia Savchenko and other Ukrainian citizens who are currently held in Russian prisons.
On July 9, Russia indicted her for complicity in murder. Savchenko has rejected all charges. Ukraine is demanding her release.
Savchenko went on a hunger strike on December 15, in response to the prison's failure to provide her with medical care. She has lost some hearing since being imprisoned.
Savchenko was number one on Batkivschyna party election list during the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014. On November 19, the Central Election Commission registered her as an MP.
On December 25, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a parliamentary address to international organizations and inter-parliamentary assemblies regarding the release of Savchenko, which also noted that she was included in the Verkhovna Rada's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Granting diplomatic status to Savchenko will mean that Russia can no longer detain her legally.


Jan. 16, 2018—Ford plans to increase its investment in electrification to $11 billion by 2022, executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said Sunday at the Detroit Auto Show, and the Associated Press reported.
The company previously announced it would spend $4.5 billion by 2020.
During the first big media event at the North American International Auto Show, Ford officials discussed a Ford F-150 hybrid and a Mach 1 fully electric "performance" vehicle for 2020. While the Mach 1 has been a featured muscle car in action films, the Ford team indicated a new Mach 1 could be released as an SUV.
Raj Nair, president of Ford North America, explained that the manufacturing team is working to develop 16 fully battery electric vehicles by 2022 and 24 hybrid and plug-in vehicles—for a total of 40 electrified vehicles.


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FBI Joins Investigation Into Power Substation Attacks In North Carolina
December 5, 2022 - LUD: December 5, 2022
MOORE COUNTY, North Carolina – Over 35,000 people across North Carolina remained without power on Monday morning after vandals damaged two power substations over the weekend.
The FBI has joined the investigation as investigators try to determine a motive for the "targeted" attacks. Officials said that those responsible knocked down the gates at the substations and then opened fire on the equipment.
Currently, it is believed to have been caused by an "intentional" and "targeted" attack on substations that left around 40,000 customers in the dark Saturday night, prompting a curfew and emergency declaration.
"No motivation. No group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept that they are the ones who've done it," Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said.
Utility crews found signs of potential vandalism of equipment at different sites, including two substations that had been damaged by gunfire, according to the Moore County Sheriff's Office.
"The person, or persons, who did this knew exactly what they were doing," Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said during a Sunday news conference. "We don't have a clue why Moore County."
Duke Energy has stated that due to the extent of the damage, it could take several days to restore power. Officials estimate the damage could cost millions of dollars to repair.
"We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment, and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multiday restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday," Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said.
County officials have declared a state of emergency and put a nightly curfew in place from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m. Schools across the county were closed on Monday.
Shelters have also been opened and are equipped with portable bathroom and shower facilities to assist those without power.
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A letter from the Standing Council on Europe, chaired by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli
A letter from the Standing…
EU and BrexitNewsProfessor Anton MuscatelliScotland
We are writing this open letter as members of the Standing Council on Europe, a group of independent advisers established by the First Minister of Scotland immediately after the EU referendum in 2016 to consider the impact of the UK's exit from the EU on Scottish interests. At our meeting on Tuesday we were able to look at the UK Government's proposals to the EU that had just been released. Unfortunately our assessment was very far from positive.
Whilst pointing out the difficulties in the proposals the EU has, as it should, signalled its willingness to give them a fair hearing and subject them to serious analysis. However in our view it is already clear that the proposals cannot be considered to represent a credible approach which would have any realistic prospect of helping secure a compromise. Whatever the difficulties of gaining the approval of the UK parliament, it is simply not credible to assert that a deal is possible based on a set of proposals that go back on commitments made by the then UK Government in the Joint Report of December 2017, and move so far away from what is known to be the EU's position – not because of principle or political preference, but because of real issues such as the undermining of the EU Single Market. In particular it is deeply concerning that, despite the UK Government's claims, these proposals appear not to honour the Good Friday Agreement and therefore risk jeopardising the fragile peace on the island of Ireland, the importance of which is obvious to all.
The proposals also seem to show a worrying move away from the commitment to maintain high and equivalent levels of environmental and labour standards, and competition policy that benefits consumers. Such a move is concerning not just for the prospects of a deal at this stage, but also in relation to the likelihood of an ambitious long term UK-EU relationship.
This being the case, it follows inevitably that these proposals increase the likelihood that if or when the UK exits the EU, it will do so without a deal. There is of course no shortage of independent analysis showing how disastrous the consequences of No Deal would be for the UK as a whole and for Scotland in particular. Moreover, contrary to the claims that it is possible to get Brexit over and done with in the coming weeks, if the UK Government's approach does indeed lead to No Deal then the result will be the opposite of that. In a No Deal outcome the UK would still need from outside to negotiate a long term post-exit partnership with the EU, but against an even less propitious backdrop because of the damage the government would have done to the relationship. Such negotiations would have to begin by addressing the very issues on which the UK Government would have failed to reach a successful compromise previously, including the Ireland/Northern Ireland border. Therefore, far from putting an end to the pain of Brexit, the UK Government's approach risks condemning the country to five years or more of further negotiations with the EU, in a poisoned atmosphere, whilst our economy and our people suffer the consequences of having crashed out. Nor would it be the case that the UK could easily mitigate these consequences by quickly signing new trade deals with non-European countries, because of the impossibility of finalising its overall global trade policy until its trading relations with its closest and most important export market have been resolved.
Our motivation behind writing this letter is not to make an assessment of the desirability or otherwise of Brexit – while noting that in the 2016 referendum Scotland voted in favour of Remain by a clear margin – but to avoid the no deal outcome that has been rejected by parliament, and that the people of Scotland and the UK as a whole most definitely do not want.
We therefore urge the UK Government to go back to the drawing board and come up with proposals that address the concerns of European partners, including the Republic of Ireland, to form a realistic basis for reaching a deal that is in the interest of all sides.
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I use the Nova Launcher. I have verified settings are correct in the facebook app and phone settings under sound/notification. When a "close friend" posts to facebook, the badge counter on the facebook app counts up but no sound or notication bar (or peeking) prompt appears. It works initially when I turn the phone on but after the first load of notifications come through, it doesn't work there after.
I have searched the web and noticed similar issues with MTK chipset and Marshmallow regarding inconsistent notifications.
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Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.
This infection causes these membranes (the meninges) to become inflamed, which in some cases can damage the nerves and brain.
Signs and symptoms of meningitis
Anyone can get meningitis, but babies and young children under five years of age are most at risk. A baby or young child with meningitis may:
have a high fever, with cold hands and feet
vomit and refuse to feed
feel agitated and not want to be picked up
become drowsy, floppy and unresponsive
grunt or breathe rapidly
have an unusual high-pitched or moaning cry
have pale, blotchy skin, and a red rash that doesn't fade when a glass is rolled over it
have a tense, bulging soft spot on their head (fontanelle)
have a stiff neck and dislike bright lights
have convulsions or seizures
The above symptoms can appear in any order, and some may not appear at all.
The rash can be harder to see on dark skin, in which case check for spots on paler areas like the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, on the tummy, inside the eyelids and on the roof of the mouth.
However, don't wait for a rash to develop. If your child is unwell and getting worse, seek medical help immediately.
In older children, teenagers and adults, the symptoms of meningitis can include:
a fever, with cold hands and feet
drowsiness and difficulty waking up
severe muscle pain
pale, blotchy skin, and a distinctive rash (although not everyone will have this)
a severe headache
sensitivity to light (photophobia)
convulsion or seizures
Again, these symptoms can appear in any order, and not everyone will get all of them.
Don't wait for a rash to develop. Seek immediate medical help if someone is unwell and displays the symptoms of meningitis.
The glass test
If you press the side of a clear glass firmly against the skin and the rash doesn't fade, it's a sign of meningococcal septicaemia.
A person with septicaemia may have a rash of tiny "pin pricks" that later develops into purple bruising.
A fever with a rash that doesn't fade under pressure is a medical emergency, and you should seek immediate medical help.
Types of meningitis
There are two types of meningitis. They are:
bacterial meningitis - caused by bacteria such as Neisseria meningitidis or Streptococcus pneumoniae and through close contact
viral meningitis - caused by viruses that can be spread through coughing, sneezing and poor hygiene
Bacterial meningitis is very serious and should be treated as a medical emergency. If the bacterial infection is left untreated, it can cause severe brain damage and infect the blood (septicaemia).
In 2011-12, there were around 2,350 cases of bacterial meningitis and septicaemia in the UK. The number of cases has dropped since the introduction of vaccines that protect against many of the bacteria that can cause meningitis, including the meningitis C vaccine, MMR vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine.
It's essential to know the signs and symptoms, and to get medical help if you're worried.
Bacterial meningitis most commonly affects children under five years of age, particularly babies under the age of one. It's also common among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
Viral meningitis
Viral meningitis is the most common, and less serious, type of meningitis. It's difficult to estimate the number of viral meningitis cases, because symptoms are often so mild that they're mistaken for flu.
Viral meningitis is most common in children and more widespread during the summer.
Read more about the causes of meningitis.
Diagnosing meningitis
Diagnosing meningitis can be difficult because it often comes on quickly and can be easily mistaken for flu, as many of the symptoms are the same.
However, it's very important to seek immediate medical help if you notice any of the symptoms of meningitis, particularly in a young child.
This may mean going to the accident and emergency (A&E) department of your local hospital in the middle of the night.
Don't wait for a purple rash to appear, because not everyone with meningitis gets one.
If meningitis is suspected, treatment will usually be started before the diagnosis is confirmed. This is because some of the tests can take several hours to complete, and it could be dangerous to delay treatment.
The doctors will carry out a physical examination to look for signs of meningitis (see above) or signs of septicaemia, such as a rash. They will also carry out a number of other tests to confirm the diagnosis.
Read more about how meningitis is diagnosed.
Treating meningitis
Viral meningitis usually gets better within a couple of weeks, with plenty of rest, painkillers for the headache and anti-sickness medication for the vomiting.
Bacterial meningitis is treated with intravenous antibiotics (delivered through a vein in the arm). Admission to hospital will be needed, with severe cases treated in intensive care, so the body's vital functions can be monitored and supported.
If antibiotics don't work, you will need to be in hospital for a week or less. If the infection is more severe, you may need to stay in for longer.
Read more about how meningitis is treated.
Several decades ago, the outlook for bacterial meningitis wasn't good, and almost everyone who had the condition would die.
Nowadays, most deaths are caused by septicaemia (blood poisoning) rather than meningitis. Meningococcal disease, meningitis or septicaemia caused by Neisseria meningitidis bacteria results in about 1 death in every 10 cases.
Up to a quarter of people may experience complications of meningitis, such as hearing loss, after having bacterial meningitis.
The best way to prevent meningitis is by ensuring vaccinations are up-to-date. Children in the UK should receive the available vaccines as part of the childhood vaccination programme.
Read more about meningitis vaccination.
Teenagers and adults
Teenagers and university students are to be offered a vaccination to prevent meningitis W disease. This is because cases of meningitis and septicaemia (blood poisoning) caused by Men W bacteria are rising, because of a particularly deadly strain.
From August 2015, all 17 and 18-year-olds in school year 13 and first-time university students up to the age of 25 will be offered the Men ACWY vaccine as part of the NHS vaccination programme. The Men ACWY vaccine protects against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia - meningococcal (Men) A, C, W and Y diseases.
Read more about the Men W vaccination.
It's also important to check your travel vaccinations are up-to-date before travelling in certain parts of the world.


The Brexit votes had barely been tallied and made official when opponents of the outcome established an online petition calling for a second vote. That much was expected in the days and weeks leading up to the vote, given that polling showed things to be extremely close. What was not expected is an almost ridiculous lack of security that has allowed the petition to be tainted by auto bots.
According to the BBC, the House of Commons petitions committee has said it has already removed 77,000 invalid signatures coming from people allegedly living in Antarctica, North Korea, the Sandwich Islands and even the Vatican. Although officials say that most of the remaining signatures now appear to be from people living in the UK, there is no way to know how many of those signatures were added legitimately as opposed to being placed on the petition through auto bots.
The re-vote petition is already the most active petition ever placed on the Parliamentary website. The BBC says it currently has 3.6 million signatures. However, one computer security expert told the BBC that any site like the House of Commons petition site needs to have security measures in place to defeat intrusions. We clearly agree.
What's most appalling about the lack of security in this case is the fact that stopping auto bots is relatively simple. It's not as if we are talking about encrypted malware or tough-to-detect rootkits that go to the heart of computer networking systems. Auto bots are nothing more than computer scripts that log onto a website and submit or retrieve data without any human intervention. They can be stopped with something as simple as a captcha script.
Because whoever designed the petition site was so careless, there is no way of knowing how many of the signatures on the petition calling for a second EU vote are legitimate. But it goes beyond just this petition. How many other petitions have been affected by the site's lack of security?
The BBC references a group that runs the 4chan message board as being one of the primary attackers of the re-vote petition. According to their report, one of the message boards members claims to have signed the petition some 33,000 times simply by running an auto bot.
For the record, the House of Commons petitions committee says it will continue to monitor the situation for any additional evidence of auto bot activity. Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron has said there would be no second vote, regardless of the petition and its signatures.
That's all well and good, but something must be done to improve the security of the petition site now. If we cannot trust something as simple as online petitions as being secure, we are left to wonder how many other government websites are equally vulnerable. Shame on the House of Commons and their web developer for such a stunning lack of security.


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2008 WSOP Final Table
Who are the nine poker players who will be seated at the 2008 WSOP final table come November? Let's meet them.
The chip leader heading into the World Series of Poker final was Dennis Phillips with 26,295,000 chips.
53-year old truck salesman from Cottage Hills, Illinois, is the oldest to be seated at this year's World Series of Poker final table.
He won his way into the Main Event through a satellite at Harrah's Casino in St. Louis and has only won a few thousand dollars in major tournaments prior to this experience.
Ivan Demidov was sitting as the second biggest chip leader heading into the final with 24,400,000 chips.
Demidov hails from Russia and only started playing poker in 2006.
Scott Montgomery had the third largest number of chips coming into November's WSOP final. He is one of two Canadians who will have seats there. Montgomery's total tournament wins have totaled $406,585, and those have all come the first six months of this year. He has been accumulating a nice sum of money from this year's WSOP events as well.
The remaining players going to the 2008 WSOP Final table were:
4. Peter Eastgate 18,375,000 - This 22-year old comes to us from Odense, Denmark where he participated in the 2008 EPT Scandinavian Open (Copenhagen) - Season 4, coming in 32nd.
5. Ylon Schwartz 12,525,000
6. Darus Suharto 12,520,000
7. David 'Chino' Rheem 10,230,000
8. Craig Marquis 10,210,000
9. Kelly Kim 2,620,000
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Everyone on planet Earth is learning how vulnerable societies are to planet-wide threats. Extreme events, such as destructive wildfires, magnified by climate disruption are causing loss of life and damage that exceed our capacity to cope. Climate change is a threat to humanity that, much like COVID-19, disproportionately hurts the poor and marginalized. Inner-city communities exposed to high levels of particulate matter from pollution are known to be at higher risk of mortality from COVID-19. Similarly, for climate change, those living within inner-city heat islands or in areas with poorly constructed infrastructure are more impacted. The same is true for poorer nations.
Eliminating systemic racism and its hold on science and society and ensuring fair treatment, access, and opportunity for all is going to require a lot more listening and committed work. This work is critical to address climate change. People of color are more concerned about climate change and, because of socioeconomic inequalities, will be more impacted by extreme weather and events.
Many people have noticed that the pandemic has brought clearer skies (until the fires and accompanying smoke came early). Bending the curve for COVID-19 for many regions has required sheltering in place, and due to a decline in driving, flying, and industrial processes, it is estimated the 2020 annual greenhouse gas emissions will be about 7 percent less than those for 2019. While this would be the largest annual percentage drop observed since WWII, it would still only reduce emissions to the level of 2006—far too high to limit global warming to 2°C, especially if annual increases return after the pandemic. It is a grim irony that it took a lockdown to clear the air, but maybe it's also a hopeful sign. As millions of people have been wrenched from normal life, we're all learning how contingent our "normal" was on our choices and how we can make different ones. It is possible to imagine the world anew. Surely this is a skill we will need to stave off climate disruption and adapt to coming changes.
Environmental and social contexts vary widely across California, and so too the actions shared in this book. Local communities are best suited to identify, design, and implement what is needed to improve community and ecosystem resilience. The actors in the book draw on different life experiences and perspectives and express different ways of knowing their environment and society. They bring their whole person to the effort and come up with personal touches based on what sticks and helps people stay engaged, such as naming trees as they're planted, or making it fun, like fishing in the Los Angeles River.
The actions they take together span ecological restoration, civic engagement, environmental justice, conservation, communication, and participation in research. Hands-on stewardship, such as restoring tule marsh, removing invasive species, and planting oaks, makes ecosystems and those that tend them healthier. Advocating for walk/bike paths, infill housing, and carbon neutrality at city and county planning meetings produces results that change lives and mitigate climate change. Redistributing food and gardening provide fresh local produce where it's needed and save precious carbon and water. Conserving core wildlands and connecting critical remnants will help species be able to move and adapt to climate change. Informal education, whether inside a museum or on the streets with Climate Corps, demonstrates how to talk about climate change and engage the public in a common vision about what can be done. Climate science requires long-term data from a multitude of locations that scientists alone cannot cover, but a willing public can help crowdsource the necessary data.
Most of the climate actions described throughout this book rely on group efforts. What we do together matters, like wearing a mask to stop the spread of a novel disease. We can help our neighbors, and they can help us. Communities are adopting novel approaches embedded within nature, from ecosystem restoration to promoting regenerative economies, that stay within planetary boundaries and are focused on thriving rather than infinite growth. While physically distancing, we are mobilizing for racial justice, standing up for science, and calling for an end to climate disruption. Climate education and engagement is a key social intervention to help stabilize the climate, and momentum is building through the COVID-19 crises. Together, we can reinvent "normal" life to be regenerative and strengthen our interconnection with nature and interdependence with each other.
Joy comes from connecting with others in a purposeful way that transcends self. Working together, we can make California resilient and experience lasting joy. That joy can help give hope to the larger challenge climate change presents. Maybe the most important lesson the present catastrophes can teach us is this: we are not powerless, and we must work together to save the Earth, our only home.
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Among the U.S. claims are those of nearly 900 huge U.S. companies, including a who's who of corporate America: Office Depot (which after a series of corporate takeovers ended up with the claims of the Cuban Electric Company), ITT, Exxon, Texaco, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Procter & Gamble, and General Motors. The remaining claimants are U.S. individuals who owned properties in Cuba.
The issue of Cuba's compensation for its 1960s expropriations of U.S. firms' property will become a big stumbling block in the ongoing honeymoon between President Barack Obama and the Castro regime. In his U.N. speech, Castro said U.S.-Cuba ties will not be fully normalized until the U.S. Congress lifts what's left of the U.S. trade embargo. However, that's unlikely to happen without settling the pending U.S. property claims.
Raul Valdes-Fauli, an attorney with the Fox Rothschild law firm in Miami who represents companies with claims in Cuba, says Cuban-American legislators in Congress "are using the compensation issue as their main excuse to impede the lifting of the U.S. embargo."
He added, "We do business with totalitarian countries, such as China and Vietnam, despite their human-rights issues. What's unique about Cuba are the unresolved property claims."
Richard Feinberg, a former senior Clinton administration official who has authored a soon-to-be-released Brookings Institution study on U.S. property claims in Cuba, told me that Castro's demand for U.S reparations for the trade embargo "is in part about domestic Cuban politics: They want to show to their people that they are not just rolling over to U.S. pressures, but they are also vigorously defending Cuban interests."
Feinberg added, "But also, no doubt it's a bargaining posture: The Cubans are seeking to reduce the overall compensation payments for expropriated U.S. properties, especially by slashing interest payments."
My opinion: Castro's U.N. speech would be laughable, if it weren't for the fact that Cuba is a tragedy, in which a decrepit dictatorship (by the way, it's hard to understand why most of the media don't call it that, since there is no dictionary in the world that wouldn't describe its political system that way) keeps condemning the Cuban people to be among the poorest and most oppressed in the hemisphere.
Sooner or later, if it wants the U.S. embargo to be lifted and get access to international loans and investments, Cuba will have to seriously face the issue of reparations to U.S. companies, much like East Germany and Vietnam did when they reinserted themselves into the global economy. In the meantime, Castro deserves a Nobel Prize in political hypocrisy.
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