Website: It has an unusual design, where the curved black shape around the home page looks like a tablet or some kind of portable game console. The color scheme of light blue, dark blue, and purple is also out of the ordinary, and it gives some color to a webcomic that has grayscale pages. The Pokémon and Pokéballs at the top of page are also a smart decision choice, as they let the reader know right away that this is a Pokémon webcomic.
The webcomic's Facebook page is more active than usual. In addition to updating when new pages are posted, the creator's been engaging with readers, asking Pokémon-related questions such as, "If you could make a Pokémon with any type-combo. What would it be?" and "If you could have a Pokémon movie where one Legendary battles another, in uninterupted epicness, which two would you pick to duke it out?" He also started a contest where he offered $50 to whoever made the best fan art or costume. (You can see what the winner came up with here.) The page currently has 770 Likes, so the creator's approach seems to be working.
Lastly, I don't like the webcomic's title. It's unclear what LAND//SKY's supposed to refer to, and it doesn't give a potential reader any idea of what the webcomic's about. My guess is that it's related to the protagonists' names, as Xander and Lexi sounds similar to LAND//SKY, but that isn't obvious. I also don't get what the deal with the double-slash and capital letters is.
Writing: Pokémon's been a prominent part of webcomics for a long time. For example, Mokepon and Pokémon-X are the most popular webcomics on Smack Jeeves and Comic Genesis, respectively. The reactions to Pokémon's popularity has been mixed, as while a lot of creators are eager to jump on the Pokémon bandwagon, others seem somewhat resentful of the attention Pokémon webcomics get. "Sunbear" of the Smack Jeeves forums is one of the people to bring up this issue recently, remarking, "I'm not bitter at all I just know my comic will never have 4000 smackjeeves fans like pokemon comics will ? It's just a fact." In any case, LAND//SKY seems like it should be well-positioned to take advantage of a rabid Pokémon fanbase.
Unfortunately, the pacing in this webcomic is nothing short of glacial. After 15 months, three chapters, and 93 pages, LAND//SKY still doesn't have character development, world-building, or a plot. Instead, the story focuses on several insignificant Pokémon battles, where the main characters defeat overconfident strangers they meet while wandering around. Readers who've played the Pokémon games will be familiar with this setup; however, while a trainer battle in-game should only last about a minute, these miscellaneous encounters take more than a month's worth of updates to complete. Occasionally, the creator will tease readers by briefly introducing mysterious characters, such as a group of shadowy trainers, a shadowy guy with a beard, a shadowy guy with glowing eyes, some random trainers the comic follows for five pages, and a toddler who randomly shows up. While the presence of these characters suggests that the creator has some sort of plot in mind, with the way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if it takes years before readers find out who they are. Xander and Lexi also desperately need to have their personalities fleshed out more, as readers learn everything there is to know about them on the first page.
Some of the webcomic's scenes aren't thought out well. For example, Siarra and an old guy get in a confrontation over a named attack a Pokémon uses, but it's a flimsy context because having named attacks is a gamist notion that doesn't make much sense in a more realistic situation like this. Then there's the panel where Siarra gives Xander an intimidating look; it's unclear how she communicates with her eyes so effectively when she's wearing sunglasses. The main problem, though, is that the creator gives the twins a tragic backstory by making them orphans raised by their older sister, but the situation isn't presented as having any significant consequences. Instead, Xander and Lexi are conveniently given free hotel rooms wherever they go, and they're never shown being concerned about eating or having any sort of responsibilities. At 17, they're old enough to have jobs, so it's not particularly tragic that they get to goof around while their dad seems to be sending them an endless supply of money.
Art: The creator's terrific at anatomy and inking, drawing some of the better-looking figures I've seen lately while giving the characters a cartoonish appearance by using thick lines. The Pokémon battles are awesome, with impressive special attacks and a good variety of poses. There are a few issues with the figures that could use some work, though. I'm not a fan of cheek-mouths and snout-noses, as I've expressed in some of my previous reviews, and the twins' age is too ambiguous, especially in the earlier pages. When I started reading the story, I thought they were about the same age as Ash Ketchum. There's also somewhat of a problem that the characters look static during fight scenes, but I understand that they're stuck standing around while the Pokémon do the fighting.
Aside from its quality figures, the artwork's bland and amateurish. The webcomic has page after page of blank backgrounds, and when the creator occasionally draws a background, it's generic and minimalistic. I don't remember seeing a single decent background in any of the chapters, although this page is somewhat better than the rest. It seemed like this page was going to be an exception, but the building's lines in the bottom panel are thicker than the lines used for the character in the foreground, which makes the shot look unnatural and out of focus. I think the worst background, though, is this one, which is confusing to look at since the creator drew some of the background but filled in the rest of it with an abstract design. The creator also didn't bother to draw leaves in that page, which makes the tops of the trees look like strange, floating triangles. Although, the worst one might actually be this page. Not only did the creator use a photograph of the sky instead of drawing it, but the establishing shot of Azalea Town just has a generic Pokémon Gym, a generic Pokémon Center, what looks like a generic Pokémon Store, and a generic house, and there are no people around even though it appears to be the middle of the day. Until the webcomic starts having more detailed backgrounds, its characters are going to be living in a vague setting that doesn't seem believable.
Overall: I remember playing Pokémon on my Game Boy as a kid and thinking that the game's writing was awkwardly simplistic; however, it didn't matter much because the gameplay was such a blast. The creator of LAND//SKY made the unfortunate choice to imitate Pokémon's weak storytelling, and the resulting webcomic offers little to no entertainment value. A better approach would've been to use the game as the inspiration for a more robust story, which is what the highly successful Pokémon anime does. As it is, I don't expect the webcomic to appeal to anyone aside from die-hard Pokémon fans.
The double slash suggests that it's inspired by hack//sign for what that's worth, a series/game about a gaming virtual reality that spawns a spontaneous computer intelligence.
After I posted the review, the creator told me that the name is supposed to be like the Pokémon Red/Blue games, which I don't consider to be obvious. No real explanation was given for why it's in caps or with two slashes. It isn't a major flaw, but I think the creator could've come up with a better title.


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Henry Ridgard Bagshawe (1799–1870) was an English barrister and judge. A Roman Catholic convert of 1834, he served as a managing editor of the Dublin Review from 1837 to 1863.

Life
He was the second son in the large family of Sir William Chambers Bagshawe, a physician, and his wife Helen Ridgard, daughter of Nathaniel Ridgard of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. One of 19 children, of whom 14 grew up as adults, he was born at Brigg. His elder brother William John, who owned The Oakes, Sheffield, died in 1851. Bagshawe was educated at Oakham School, and at Richmond School under James Tate. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1817, graduating B.A. in 1821, M.A. in 1824.

In 1824 Bagshawe entered the Middle Temple, and he was called to the bar there the following year. He took silk in 1854. He built up a substantial chancery practice. In 1857 he took on Charles Russell as pupil.

Bagshawe was received into the Roman Catholic Church at St Patrick's Church, Soho Square in 1834, by the Rev. Edward Norris. When Nicholas Wiseman was in London at the Sardinian Chapel in 1835–6, he stayed with Bagshawe.

In 1846, Bagshawe appeared before the Commissioners in Lunacy, on behalf of Helen Gladstone (1814–1880), younger sister of William Ewart Gladstone. He and his wife were close personal friends of Helen, a Catholic convert who had been taking opium, and confined in a Carlton Gardens house owned by her father Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet. Bagshawe's initial request, for an application to visit to be passed to the Lord Chancellor, was accepted by Lord Ashley. Shortly, however, Thomas Gladstone and his brother William contested the claims made that Helen was under some form of restraint. The application via the Commissioners did not proceed; but Helen left the house to stay with Catholic friends in Bath about a week later.

In 1861 Bagshawe was made a county court judge in west Wales (Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke). In the wake of the Prison Ministers Act 1863 he was active in supporting the visiting rights of Catholic priests in Glamorgan jails in particular. There was substantial immigration to Glamorgan and Cardiff in the first half of the 19th century, from south-east Ireland and elsewhere. In 1861 his son had made an issue of religious education access to workhouses. In 1864 Bagshawe argued against a decision of the Board of Guardians in Swansea, where his wife and family had been making workhouse visits, to restrict entry to accredited ministers of religion; he obtained an amendment. Gilley comments on a family reputation for proselytism, as possibly counter-productive.

In 1868 Henry Bagshawe was also made a judge for the Clerkenwell District in London. He died at 21 Fellows Road in north-west London on 16 May 1870.

Editor of the Dublin Review

Bagshawe's position at the Dublin Review has been described as "executive editor" or "managing director". He came in for issue #6 in 1837, issues #4 and #5 having been edited by James Smith (died 1866).

In 1839 Frederick Lucas, who wrote for the Dublin Review, was brought in as co-editor with Bagshawe. The arrangement lasted until 1842, when Lucas began to take an aggressive line towards the Review in The Tablet, his own publication. There was a hiatus in Bagshawe's editorship in the summer of 1858, while Lord Acton considered terms under which he might take over the Review. Bagshawe took executive decisions, but editorial policy was laid down by Wiseman and Charles William Russell. William George Ward took over in 1863.

Family

Bagshawe married in 1824 Catherine Elizabeth Gunning, daughter of the army surgeon John Gunning (1773–1863), and his wife Catherine Gilpin. She is listed as a Catholic convert; and died in 1878 at age 75. Their children included:

William Henry Gunning Bagshawe (1825–1901), barrister and judge, married 1861, Harriet Theresa Stanfield, daughter of Clarkson Stanfield. He was elevated as Q.C. in 1874. The painter Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe was their son. He was generally referred to as Henry Bagshawe, and his wife as Mrs. Henry Bagshawe, meaning confusion with his father is possible.
John Bernard Bagshawe (1827–1901), Catholic priest.
Edward Gilpin Bagshawe (1829–1915), Catholic bishop.
Clement Walsh Bagshawe (1840–1901), fourth son, tea planter at Katlicherra, Assam, married in 1865 Elizabeth Melvill, daughter of Henry Melvill.
Frederic(k) Gladstone Bagshawe, fifth and youngest son, married 1869 Emily Teresa Bolton, daughter of Thomas Bolton of Oaken Hall, Codsall.
Catherine Helen, eldest daughter, died 1910 aged 83.
Jane Edith, second daughter, died 1883.
Mary Isabella, third daughter, married in 1857, at Muzaffarpur, Donald Horne Macfarlane.
Catherine Monica, fourth daughter, married in 1870 Henry Latter of Ashford.
Francesca Maria Sforza married in 1861, in Calcutta, the architect Christopher George Wray.

Notes

1799 births
1870 deaths
English barristers
English judges
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
People from Lincolnshire

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EPA's use of science to come under committee's microscope
Critics say Trump administration proposal will undermine government research
Posted Nov 13, 2019 5:00 AM
Benjamin J. Hulac
Road proposal for Tongass includes another Alaska forest Dropped from NDAA, 'forever chemicals' fight to linger into 2020 Pelosi: Climate panel is not just 'an academic endeavor'
EPA headquarters in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
A House committee may take aim Wednesday at the EPA's plan to censor the science it uses in its policies by forcing the disclosure of private medical and health records, a step science advocacy groups say would undermine government research.
Members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee are expected to broach the proposal at the hearing and will likely question Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, a medical doctor and EPA science adviser, over the proposed rule and how the agency uses science broadly.
A draft of an addition to the unfinished rule, called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, is a more aggressive version of a 2018 EPA proposal and targets scientific research that draws links between health problems and air and water pollution.
Unlike the previously proposed rule, this addition would apply retroactively and is more sweeping in its scope, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times.
The proposal, which has yet to be released, is the latest effort to challenge established science at the agency tasked under law with protecting public health.
After the Times published its story Monday night, the EPA, which declined to comment for the original article, said the proposal would "not apply to any regulations already in place" and said the draft was an "outdated" supplement to the 2018 rule.
Researchers scrutinizing the connections between environmental and health hazards often comb through medical records.
"It's pretty common for them to study records of patients in hospitals," said Barbara Gottlieb, director of environment and health for the Physicians for Social Responsibility. "They need to relate exposure levels to health outcomes in human beings."
But EPA's proposal could lead to the publication of patient files and the personal records of people who participate in studies, creating a chilling effect on robust research and potentially dissuading volunteers for new studies.
A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University researchers, who used health records of 35,000 asthma patients to examine fracking effects in Pennsylvania, is the type of rigorous work that could be excluded from EPA consideration in the future.
[EPA rule lets political officials block FOIA document requests]
"Good science is science that can be replicated and independently validated, science that can hold up to scrutiny," Andrew Wheeler, the EPA administrator, said at a congressional hearing in September.
The problem: Making health data points anonymous is a grueling and expensive process, preventing many scientific studies from being replicated without releasing personal information.
'Political agenda'
"They want health data public or EPA can ignore that scientific research," said Paul Billings, national senior vice president for public policy at the American Lung Association. "This includes some of the seminal studies that show that particulate matter causes premature death.
"This is about trying to have results-driven science to support a political agenda rather than improve transparency," he added.
The two foundational studies that loom largest are the so-called "Six Cities" study by Harvard University, which in 1993 linked particulate matter pollution and mortality rates, and a separate American Cancer Society study on air pollution.
To complete Six Cities, scientists signed confidentiality agreements to examine private medical and work histories of more than 22,000 people in six metropolitan areas.
Researchers point to those as groundbreaking efforts. Michael Halpern, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said this sort of proposal is meant to block the EPA from considering studies like those.
"Their intent was to avoid using specific air pollution studies," said Halpern, the deputy director for the Center for Science and Democracy at UCS. "One way to do that was to use methods that would violate ethical and medical norms."
The testimony at Wednesday's hearing of Orme-Zavaleta, the EPA science adviser, is likely to be of interest to Halpern.
"How does it impact the work that EPA scientists do on risk assessments?" Halpern said. "How does it affect research on established and emerging threats to public health?"
The sweep of the proposal could be incredibly broad, he said, and block EPA from considering "any kind of research that involves humans."
Alan Krupnick, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan organization, said there is a budding trend for more data — codes, models, raw information — to be included in scientific journals, such as Nature or Science.
But he firmly disputed the idea pressed into the public domain by former Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and ex-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that scientists were writing regulations behind closed doors and manipulating figures without third-party corroboration.
Some conservatives and industry groups backed Smith's so-called "Secret Science" bill in 2017.
"The notion that it's secret, that there's some cabal," Krupnick said, "is just really ridiculous and offensive to the scientific process."
Most researchers are checking their peers' work and doing so fairly and rigorously, he said. "People are comparing and sifting, and people are being honest and straightforward."
Gottlieb said the proposal appears to be an effort to gut other EPA rules.
"This regulation exists in order to be able to challenge a swath of regulations that we count on today," she said. "They're trying to weaken the scientific record."
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Orbita okołoziemska (orbita geocentryczna, orbita wokółziemska) – orbita obiektu poruszającego się wokół Ziemi. Jedynym naturalnym satelitą na takiej orbicie jest Księżyc. Pierwszym sztucznym satelitą Ziemi była radziecka sonda Sputnik 1.

Rodzaje orbit okołoziemskich
Wśród licznych możliwych orbit wokółziemskich wyróżnia się wiele rodzajów, w tym:
 niska orbita okołoziemska – obiekty okrążające Ziemię do wysokości 2000 km
 średnia orbita okołoziemska – obiekty krążące na wysokości od 2000 km do orbity geosynchronicznej (35 786 km)
 orbita geosynchroniczna – obiekty o okresie obiegu równym dobie gwiazdowej Ziemi (35 786 km), w tym każda orbita geostacjonarna
 wysoka orbita okołoziemska – obiekty krążące powyżej orbity geosynchronicznej (35 786 km)
 orbity silnie eliptyczne – o bardzo dużej różnicy między perygeum i apogeum

Misje orbitalne

Początek – program Sputnik

Pierwszym ludzkim tworem, który osiągnął orbitę okołoziemską, był radziecki satelita Sputnik 1 początkujący program Sputnik. Satelita o masie 83,6 kg został wystrzelony rakietą nośną o tej samej nazwie 4 października 1957 roku o godzinie 19:28:34 czasu uniwersalnego. Umieszczony na orbicie o perygeum 214 km i apogeum 938 km oraz nachyleniu 65,1º obiegał Ziemię w 96,19 minut. Pierwszy Sputnik krążył wokół Ziemi 92 doby, a 4 stycznia 1958 roku wszedł w gęste warstwy atmosfery i uległ zniszczeniu.

Pierwszym pojazdem z pasażerem był kolejny pojazd z serii – Sputnik 2 – wystrzelony 3 listopada 1957 roku z psem Łajka na pokładzie.

Pierwsi ludzie na orbicie

Pierwszym lotem człowieka ponad linię Kármána i od razu lotem orbitalnym była misja Wostok 1. 12 kwietnia 1961 roku rakieta Wostok 8K72K wyniosła na orbitę 327 × 168 km kapsułę Wostok z Jurijem Gagarinem. Kapsuła wykonała niepełne okrążenie Ziemi. Drugim człowiekiem na orbicie został Herman Titow, który wyniesiony 6 sierpnia 1961 roku na pokładzie Wostoka 2 spędził na orbicie już ponad dobę.

Zobacz też
 orbita heliocentryczna
 orbita okołoksiężycowa

Przypisy

Orbity okołoziemskie


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Crazy Taxi ist ein actionlastiges Rennspiel, das 1999 von der Firma Hitmaker (ehemals AM3) für Sega entwickelt wurde. Nach der Veröffentlichung als Arcade-Spiel folgten Portierungen auf Dreamcast (2000), PlayStation 2 (2001), Nintendo GameCube (2001), Microsoft Windows (2002) und PlayStation 3 (2010). Es ist das erste Spiel der Crazy-Taxi-Reihe.

Spielablauf
Das Spielgeschehen findet in einer virtuellen Stadt (West Coast, die optisch an San Francisco orientiert ist) statt. Als Taxifahrer versucht der Spieler möglichst viele Passagiere nacheinander aufzunehmen und zu verschiedenen Zielpunkten zu bringen. Das Spiel erlaubt ein freies Befahren der großen Areale und Entscheidungsfreiheit, welche Personen befördert werden sollen. Schon vorher ist an einem farbigen Ring (und dessen Radius), der die Kunden umgibt, erkennbar, wie weit diese befördert werden wollen. Zu Spielbeginn erhält man eine gewisse Anzahl Sekunden als "Startkapital", welche sofort beginnen, herunterzuzählen. Sobald man einen Fahrgast aufnimmt, werden einem weitere Sekunden dazugerechnet, um den Kunden zum Ziel zu bringen. Zusätzlich beginnt über dem Kopf des Fahrgastes eine weitere Uhr, die anzeigt, wie viele Sekunden für diesen Fahrgast übrigbleiben, herunterzuzählen. Durch ein erfolgreiches Abliefern erhält man die zu Beginn der Fahrt festgelegte Summe und beim Absetzen des Kunden weitere wertvolle Sekunden je nach Geschwindigkeit: Bei "Speedy" 5 Sekunden, bei "Normal" noch 2 und bei "Slow" überhaupt keine mehr. Zudem hat man die Möglichkeit, durch diverse Stunts, wie waghalsiges Fahren, Sprünge oder Drifts, ein sich steigerndes Trinkgeld zu erhalten. Schafft man es nicht, die Passagiere innerhalb der verlangten Zeit zum Zielort zu fahren, springen diese, ohne zu bezahlen, aus dem Auto. Während der Fahrt weist ein großer grüner Pfeil in der Mitte des oberen Bildschirmrandes, auf den Zielort.

Die Konsolen- und PC-Portierungen enthalten eine weitere Stadt und den neuartigen "Crazy-Box"-Modus als Spieloption. "Crazy Box" ist eine Sammlung von Minispielen, die noch weniger als das Hauptspiel mit dem Genre der Rennspiele gemein hat. Allesamt sind sie eher den Geschicklichkeitsspielen zuzuordnen. So fungiert das Taxi in diesen beispielsweise als Bowlingkugel oder der Spieler muss versuchen, auf einer Schanze einen Weitsprungrekord hinzulegen.

Die gesamte Grafik des Spieles weist eine Mischung aus Realismus und Cartoon-Optik auf, die viele bunte Farben aufweist. Die Zeitschrift Video Games (Ausgabe 3/00) bewertete die Dreamcast-Version mit 91 %.

Soundtrack

Die populären US-amerikanischen Musikgruppen Bad Religion ("Inner Logic", "Ten in 2010", "Hear It" und "Them and Us") und The Offspring ("All I Want", "Change the World" und "Way Down the Line") haben Musikstücke zum Spiel beigesteuert, die während des Hauptspieles, dem Titel und dem Abspann zu hören sind. Eine Ausnahme bietet allerdings die PC-Umsetzung des Spieles, die mit einem komplett anderen Soundtrack, von Pivit ("Fingercuffs" und "Middle Children"), Too Rude ("The Distance") und Total Chaos ("What You Gonna Do" und "Let It Roll"), aufwartet. Auch in der Neuauflage von 2010 für PS3/Xbox 360 ist ein anderer Soundtrack enthalten als der von The Offspring und Bad Religion. Die iOS- und Android-Fassung hingegen wurde wieder mit dem originalen Soundtrack ausgestattet.

Produktplatzierung

Die Ziele, an die die Passagiere wünschen gebracht zu werden, enthalten neben allgemeinen Orten, wie einer Polizeiwache, einem Stadion, einem Leuchtturm oder eines Bahnhofes, auch firmenbezogene. Diese waren Pizza Hut, FILA Store, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Levi's Store und Tower Records. Auch dieses Feature fehlt in der PS3-/Xbox-360-Version, hier wurden andere Logos und Marken erfunden, die sich aber größtenteils an die originalen Marken anlehnen sollten.

Nachfolger

Crazy Taxi 2

2001 erschien die Fortsetzung Crazy Taxi 2 exklusiv für Dreamcast. Das Spielprinzip des Originals wird unverändert beibehalten, jedoch besteht nun die Möglichkeit, auch Gruppen (zwei bis vier Personen) zu chauffieren. Der Lohn wird allerdings immer erst ausgezahlt, wenn der letzte Fahrgast abgeliefert wurde, weshalb lange Fahrten mit Gruppen nun riskanter, aber auch ertragreicher sind. Zudem besitzt das Taxi nun auf Knopfdruck eine Sprungfunktion, die es ermöglicht, noch mehr als im ersten Teil, wo man vor allem Schanzen nutzen musste, über Dächer und Mauern abzukürzen. Dieses Mal wird der Big Apple, sowie, als Zweitstadt, Small Apple befahren, Gebiete, die sich optisch an das reale New York City anlehnen. Allerdings bieten diese Städte keine urbane Tristesse, sondern wieder eine abwechslungsreiche und bunte Cartoon-Optik. Eine weitere Veränderung ist das neue vierköpfige Fahrerfeld (Slash, Iceman, Cinnamon und Hot-D). Erstmals lassen sich auch Fahrten aufzeichnen und auf der VMU speichern. Dies können entweder Crazy-Pyramid-Fahrten sein oder "normale" Fahrten, für die allerdings zusätzliche Startpunkte zur Verfügung stehen, und bei denen man ein festes Zeitkonto hat. Bewertet wird entsprechend danach, wie Crazy die Fahrt ist, und nicht, wie viel Geld man verdient hat.
Wie im Original befinden sich auch in diesem Spiel neue Geschicklichkeitsprüfungen (Crazy Pyramid). Crazy Taxi 2 bietet erneut einen lizenzierten Soundtrack mit neuen Liedern der Band The Offspring und erstmals auch Methods of Mayhem.

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller

Im Sommer 2002 wurde, diesmal zunächst exklusiv für die Xbox, der dritte Teil der Reihe, Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, veröffentlicht. Als neues Gebiet befindet sich in diesem Spiel die Glitter Oasis. Ein Gebiet, das sich am nächtlichen Las Vegas (und dem Grand Canyon) orientiert. Weiterhin gibt es vier neue Fahrer (Angel, Bixbite, Mrs. Venus, Zax). Spielerisch wurden konsequent die Erneuerungen des Vorgängers beibehalten. Neben dem neuen Gebiet findet man auch die Städte West Coast und Around Apple (jeweils einen Bereich aus den beiden Vorgängern), die deutlich überarbeitet wurden und auch die späteren Erneuerungen beinhalten (Sprünge auf Knopfdruck, Fahrgästegruppen etc.). In diesen Bereichen findet man wieder die acht altbekannten Fahrer, deren Design leicht überarbeitet wurde. Eine Portierung des Spieles für Windows folgte 2004. Auch in diesem Spiel findet man neue Mini- und Geschicklichkeitsspiele (Crazy X). Neben bereits verwendeten Liedern liefern die bekannten Bands auch hierfür die Musik, zusätzlich auch Brian Setzer und Citizen Bird. Später erschien auch ein Spielhallen-Automat zu Crazy Taxi 3.

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Zusätzlich erschien eine Umsetzung des ersten Teiles für den Game Boy Advance (Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride, 2003 durch THQ). 2007 wurde das Spiel Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (in Japan Crazy Taxi: Double Punch) für die PSP veröffentlicht. Dieses vereint die ersten beiden Crazy-Taxi-Teile in sich. Der Soundtrack wurde ausgetauscht. Die Lieder im Spiel stammen daher von unbekannteren Rockbands. Jedoch können eigene, auf der PSP gespeicherte Lieder im MP3-Format während des Spieles abgespielt werden. Ebenfalls entfernt wurden hierbei alle Produktplatzierungen.

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4 Reasons an Editor Won't Look at Your First Draft
April 27, 2020 • Atlin Merrick • Editing • Help for Writers
Writers often ask if I want to look at the first draft of the novel they're writing for Improbable Press. It's a sensible question with what may be an unexpected answer for most new writers: No, please, I do not ever want to see the draft of your novel. Ever. What is a First Draft? First draft—what does that even mean? The answer depends on you, actually. If you're the kind of person who plots everything—who knows your book is going to be fifteen chapters, in chapter eight the orphan will find his parents, in twelve the soldier with her rare birthmark will appear,...
After Your Book Is Rejected—3 Dos & 3 Even Better Don'ts
March 30, 2020 • After rejection • Atlin Merrick • Help for Writers • Reference
Do pitch again. Sometimes an editor or publisher rejects your story or book but says "we really like your style, but we're looking something with more B, less A." For the love of all that's holy they just gave you a leg up in getting your book further along the process, please take it. All right, sure, maybe you don't want to put a lot more B into your book and that's fine. In that case pitch them another book, this one more B-centric. Do follow the yellow brick road. As an editor, when I turn down a manuscript but...
Cope and Hope (Also Known as Do Shit)
March 16, 2020 • Atlin Merrick • Cope and Hope • Help for Writers • Shouty Encouragement
This worldwide illness, losing a job, having depression…a million and one things can leave us feeling powerless. I want to share one single thing that helps me in tough times again and again. Though this thing doesn't "solve" my problems usually, it does help me cope in the meantime and if I cope I can hope, you know? When I'm feeling powerless I…do stuff. The thing I do most is write, because writing is my power. I love it, I'm good at it, I can do it anywhere or any time. After my college closed down last Wednesday—three weeks before...
Radical Transparency: How We Edit Your Book
February 18, 2020 • Atlin Merrick • Book Editing • Help for Writers • Radical Transparency • Reference
Like you I walk, I wait, and sometimes I want to learn cool stuff while I do that, which is why I love podcasts.99% Invisible is a brilliant podcast which recently discussed radical transparency.For example, if the city government takes a year to process building permits tell people. It's been proven that giving people a hook to hang their wait on, helps the wait pass more peacefully. Which leads me to this: How Long It Takes to Edit a Book (and What the Heck That Means) With radical transparency in mind, and inspired by a writer who recently asked me...
Interesting things about pee…and non-fiction writing
February 10, 2020 • Atlin Merrick • Help for Writers • Non-Fiction Writing
...well, the subject line either caught your eye or brought up your bile. So either you're welcome or I'm sorry. However there's a point and that's this… Urine, Fiction & Non-Fiction Writing As writers we sometimes think we know stuff. Like we all "know" urine is sterile (nope, it's not), and maybe we've had our sea captain hollering "I'll stop the pain o' the fierce Lion's Mane jelly, me laddy," as she pees on the laddy, but no no nope, urine very much won't. The point is that reality's ever so much more interesting than these things we think we...


MERCURY SYSTEMS, INC. INVESTOR ALERT: Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Mercury Systems, Inc.
NEW YORK, July 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a federal securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Mercury Systems, Inc. ("Mercury Systems" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:MRCY) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Mercury Systems securities between October 24, 2017 and April 24, 2018, both dates inclusive ("Class Period).
Investors who have incurred losses in the shares of Mercury Systems, Inc. are urged to contact the firm immediately at classmember@whafh.com or (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774. You may obtain additional information concerning the action on our website, www.whafh.com.
If you have incurred losses in the shares of Mercury Systems, Inc., you may, no later than September 10, 2018, request that the Court appoint you lead plaintiff of the proposed class. Please contact Wolf Haldenstein to learn more about your rights as an investor in Mercury Systems, Inc.
as a result of the foregoing, Mercury's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On April 24, 2018, Mercury announced its financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. With respect to its free cash flow for the quarter, Mercury reported a net outflow of $2.6 million, compared to a net inflow of $11.9 million for the same period in the prior year.
In a conference call discussing Mercury's quarterly results, the Company's Chief Financial Officer stated that Mercury had been aware for the "last couple quarters" of certain customer trends in managing cash in their accounts payable and of Mercury's need to reduce account payables related to its inventory build, both of which directly impacted Mercury's cash flow for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
Following this news, Mercury's share price fell $8.02, or 18.68%, to close at $34.91 on April 25, 2018.


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What are organoids? Welcome to a revolution in basic medical science
Basic science research is experiencing a revolution with the creation of organoids, 3D miniature cellular, and functional replicas of our bodily organs.
Hadassah collaborates to develop a face mask that kills the coronavirus
The mask, which has antiviral and antibacterial properties, contains a disinfectant that has proven 99.99% effective in killing the virus.
First in Israel: Hadassah corrects irregular heartbeat with new method
An innovative procedure to treat irregular heartbeats is enabling surgeons to access areas of the heart that, up until now, have been impossible to reach.
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Academic Writing Samples
Published March 29, 2013 at 3:32 am
Katharine Hansen's Academic
Here, available for download, are some of the papers I've researched, written, and had published in academic journals or proceedings. Also available are lists of academic/non-academic writing. Research interests include organizational storytelling, virtual teams, organizational entry/career development, communication of organizational change, scholarship of teaching and learning, women's styles of communication, women in leadership and entrepreneurship, and more.
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Hansen, Katharine. (2007, Jan./Feb.) Intertextuality of Organization and Career in Constructing the "Reality" of Change, Tamara, Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 5(4),
146-157. View as PDF
Hansen, Katharine. (2007, Sept.). Propelling careers through telling
stories about change. Business
Communication Quarterly, 70(2), 23-26.
Hansen, Randall S. and Katharine Hansen. (March 2006). Employment Interview Preparation: Assessing the Writing-to-Learn Approach. Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning. Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL).
Hansen, Katharine and Hansen, Randall S. (Jan. 2006). Using an
Asynchronous Discussion Board for Online Focus Groups: A Protocol
and Lessons Learned. Proceedings
of the 2006 Applied Business Research Conference, Orlando, FL
Hansen, Katharine (March 2005). Application of Traditional and Online Journaling as Pedagogy and Means for Assessing Learning in an Entrepreneurial Seminar. Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning. Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL).
Hansen, Katharine and Hansen, Randall S. (Jan. 2005). Employment Interview Preparation: A Writing-to-Learn Approach. Proceedings of the 2005 Applied Business Research Conference and The 2005 College Teaching and Learning Conference, Orlando, FL.
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Non-Academic Publications and Non-Refereed Presentations


Now I've seen hundreds of MXR Phase 90s over the years and by far the most common request is for info on the "Script mod." I'm certainly not an MXR historian but what I can offer is a first hand account of repairing and modifying these pedals. Specifically we'll be looking at the three oldest versions of the circuit boards and what the key differences are.
The most noticeable difference between this model and the future iterations is this one has six ICs all of which are single op-amps. This likely has little to do with tone and more to do with the availability and cost of ICs at the time. This model was released in 1974 and lasted until 1977.
In 1977 the Phase 90 transition into its Block Logo form which more or less was the same exact pedal except for one resistor. This resistor– which later became known as "R28″– gives a bit of a midrange boost and adds more resonance in the circuit. Below is a circuit board from 1979/1980 with an arrow highlighting the added feedback resistor.
A short time later MXR introduced an updated version of the Phase 90. This version has R28 mounted on the circuit board and also switch from six op-amps to three TL062 dual op-amps. Some other changes include minor value changes throughout the circuit, modified bias circuit for easier calibration, and pre-emphasis and de-emphasis capacitors. Below is a circuit board from the early 1980's.
MXR went bankrupt in 1984 and was later purchased by Jim Dunlop. The Phase 90 reissue (M-101) was a modern adaptation of the late block logo circuit with only minor changes to the circuit including better power filtering and using a single TL064 quad op-amp in place of two TL062 ICs. The reissues also have all board mounted components including the potentiometer, jacks, and switch. This makes for easy assembly by the factory but is more expensive to repair and not very good for reliability.
Currently Dunlop has more variations and signature models of the Phase 90 than I could keep track of but they all stem from these original designs (and can all be modified!).


Selling Your Home? How To Hire A Rock Star Real Estate Agent!
After careful consideration, you've decided it's time to sell your home or rental property! Every property owner will eventually be faced with this life-changing decision.
It can be a difficult decision to make!
And… Deciding on how to hire the right realtor to help sell your home or rental property can be even more difficult! Especially, if you don't want the headaches of doing a For Sale By Owner.
Quick Tip: Doing a For Sale By Owner (an FSBO) to save on commission fees sounds like a great idea. But the truth is, it's just not practical for 90% of the people who want to sell their home. Hiring the right realtor will be the next best option!
In this article, we'll discuss how to hire a real estate agent that has all of the qualities required for earning your business and their sales commission. After all, you should have nothing but the best help for selling the biggest asset you've ever owned, your home!
We'll also discuss a bit about what a listing agreement is and why you'll have to sign it to make working with your realtor official.
A rockstar realtor will have to serve you well to earn that 4 – 6% commission, let's find out more about how to hire one.
Hiring a Realtor will cost you a commission of around 4 – 6%, but the peace of mind that all the legalities are taken care of is worth it! Plus, you don't have to worry about getting your home listed on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service). By being listed on the MLS, other realtors will see the listing and show it off to a large pool of active buyers.
Besides just having a listing on the MLS, you need to make sure your real estate agent gives your home the best marketing and sales presentation possible.
They should be a true ROCKSTAR real estate sales professional!
How do you know your realtor is a true ROCKSTAR professional?
They'll dress like one and most likely be referred to you by someone else you know who used their services. There motivated to sell your home and are engaging with prospective buyers and other real estate agents. Your agent should be using a high-quality business card with their contact information clearly written out. Having a photo of themselves on the card is also a good idea but not necessarily required.
Are Flat Fee Brokers and Realtors Just As Professional As The Full-Service Ones?
Yes, they are! And Flat Fee Brokers will work for a discounted flat fee instead of the standard 4 – 6% sales commission. For example, they might charge a flat $8,000 fee whether the sale price is $500k or $700k. However, the tradeoff for paying a discounted flat fee is that you won't receive full service, you'll be hosting your own open houses, etc. For more information about flat fee brokers, I would recommend you check out Help U Sell.
Regardless of which type of realtor you choose (full service or flat-fee), they should be providing your property the best marketing presentation possible.
A high-quality For Sale sign in front of the house.
An online listing with a detailed description and high-resolution pictures. Some good real estate websites are Realtor.com, Redfin, Zillow, Craigslist, and Movoto.
High-Quality Fliers that can easily be picked up by prospective buyers.
All printed marketing materials should have high-resolution pictures.
Open Houses should be announced at least a week in advance.
Use the above list as a starting point to judge whether or not the real estate agent you hire knows what they are doing. If you hire the right realtor for the job, they'll be able to imagine a lot of other ways to market your property and show it to prospective buyers.
Before you can officially hire a real estate agent, you'll need to sign a Listing Agreement with them.
We'll cover that in the next section.
A "Listing Agreement" will disclose how much commission your realtor is going to make from the sale. Depending on full service or partial service, all the expectations of what your agent is required to do will be in this agreement.
It also documents exactly how they will handle the sale of your home and how it will be advertised!
Make sure you understand everything in the agreement because you'll be obligated to work with your real estate agent for a specified (minimum) amount of time. So, if they are doing a lousy job, it will be hard to get out of the deal.
In other words, don't just sign the listing agreement unless you 100% understand all of its terms and conditions. At the same time, it will list what the realtor is actually going to do for you to earn that commission, so it protects you too.
REMEMBER! Always seek out professional legal help. I'm not a lawyer.
Here are some of the common Listing Agreement "gotchas" that I want you to know about!
Exclusive right to sell – Your agent has first priority for any rights relating to the sale of your home during the duration of time that is agreed upon. The duration of time is explained more below.
Duration of time – This is how long the listing agreement will be in effect. Typically, this can be three months, but I would do the shortest amount of time you can. That way if everything is going well with your realtor, you can just renew the agreement. If things are not going so well, you can always fire them.
Commission Amount – Your realtor will disclose the commission or any fees they'll get paid once the home or property is sold.
Safety / Protection Clause – This prevents you from directly doing a sell to a buyer that the Realtor helped you find after the expiration of the listing agreement. This can be a very complicated matter so make sure you seek out the proper professional legal help if you are unsure of what it means in your particular case.
Representations – This will require you to show proof that you are a legal authority to sell the property. Again, pretty complex legal matters, so just make sure you have no conflicts with proving full ownership.
Duties – This part of the agreement will make sure specific duties are done. Such as listing your home on the MLS or doing an open house. Putting up a "For Sale" sign will also be listed in this section.
Dispute Resolution – This area describes how you handle disagreements that cannot be settled by just talking it out. It will contain the exact arbitration details you'll need to go through to reach a resolution of the disagreement.
Changes to the agreement – This describes how changes to the agreement will be handled. Most of the time you can just add amendments.
Basically, the listing agreement is your business agreement with the listing agent!
Who thought selling a real estate property could be so complicated?
Dealing with inspectors, buyers, the title company, appraisers, and all the other legal liabilities can be a real nightmare. Especially, if something does not work out right due to the mistake of an amateur.
That is why 90% of people hire a realtor to help them through the home selling process and you should too if you're not ready to put the work in.


Did you know that long ago washing machine tubs were made of copper? It was a good find at the scrap yard! Finding weathered copper with good patina on both sides always makes me happy! It makes good looking pieces too!
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It looks like emerging market (EM) economies are starting to slow down after a strong start to the year, according to new research released Institute of International Finance (IIF).
And that could have ramifications for EM stocks and bonds in the period ahead.
The group's EM Growth Tracker — a gauge that uses financial, business surveys and hard economic data to determine the outlook for economic activity — fell to an eight-month low of 5.1% in July, driven by weakness in Asia and Latin America.
"The trackers for Asia and Latin America contracted, while the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) tracker inched higher when compared to last month," the IIF said.
The IIF says that while the gauge still points to robust levels of economic growth, activity levels are now decelerating from the levels seen earlier this year.
"All groupings of variables for our tracker performed worse than in June," the group said.
"The largest decline in contribution to the Growth Tracker came from hard data, followed by business surveys with declines of 0.4 and 0.2 percentage points respectively.
The moderation in the Growth Tracker also raises the risk that strong inflows into emerging market stocks and bonds earlier this year may also start to reverse.
According to research released by ANZ Bank earlier this month, net inflows into emerging markets in Asia fell to $US3.9 billion in July, the smallest monthly total since December last year.
Bond inflows stood at $US4.7 billion, masking a net outflow from stocks of $US800 million over the same period.
Khoon Goh, head of research at ANZ, put the reversal in stock flows down to a combination of profit-taking, geopolitical concerns an uncertainty over the outlook for monetary policy from several major central banks.
"We noted last month that the conditions for further strong foreign portfolio inflows into Asia were looking less conducive, as the major developed market central banks get closer towards reducing global liquidity," he said.
Along with US dollar weakness and improved investor risk appetite, strong economic conditions in emerging markets had, up until recently, encouraged strong inflows to the region in the first six months of the year.
With the IIF's Growth Tracker now pointing to a moderation in activity levels, the tailwinds seen earlier this year may now start to act as headwinds.


McHugh and colleagues now have a solution for sending light to new depths in the brain. As they report in Science on February 9, upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) can act as a conduit for laser light delivered from outside the skull. These nanoparticles absorb near-infrared laser light and in turn emit visible photons to areas that are inaccessible to standard optogenetics. This method was used to turn on neurons in various brain areas as well as silence seizure activity and evoke memory cells. "Nanoparticles effectively extend the reach of our lasers, enabling the 'remote' delivery of light and potentially leading to non-invasive therapies," says McHugh.
In optogenetics, blue-green light is used to turn neurons on or off via light-responsive ion channels. Light at these wavelengths, however, scatters strongly and is at the other end of the spectrum from the near-infrared light that can penetrate deeper into brain tissue. UCNPs composed of elements from the lanthanide family can act as a bridge. Their 'optogenetic actuation' turns low-energy near-infrared laser light into blue or green wavelengths for control of specifically labeled cells. Though such bursts of light deliver considerable energy to a small area, temperature increases or cellular damage were not observed.
In addition to activating neurons, UCNPs can also be used for inhibition, for example to quell experimental seizures in mice. The researchers injected nanoparticles tuned to emit green light into the hippocampus and then energized them with laser pulses at the surface of the skull. Hyperexcitable neurons were effectively silenced in these mice. In another brain area called the medial septum, nanoparticle-emitted light contributed to synchronizing neurons in an important brain wave called the theta cycle. And in mice with learned fear memories, the freezing behavior associated with these experiences was evoked by blue light-emitting UCNPs, also in the hippocampus. Neural activation, inhibition, and memory recall effects were only observed in mice that received nanoparticle-mediated optogenetic stimulation, not in control animals that received laser light without a UCNP injection.
Memory recall in mice also persisted in tests two weeks later. This indicates that the UCNPs remained at the injection site, which was confirmed through microscopy of the brains. "The nanoparticles appear to be quite stable and biocompatible, making them viable for long-term use. Plus, the low dispersion means we can target neurons very specifically," says McHugh. The nanoparticles described in this study are compatible with the various light-activated channels currently in use in the optogenetics field and can be employed for neural activation or inhibition in many deep brain structures. Nanoparticles could become a minimally invasive alternative to optical fibers for brain stimulation, and their chronic interaction with brain tissue is part of ongoing research.
This study was a collaboration between scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, the National University of Singapore, the University of Tokyo, Johns Hopkins University and Keio University.


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A designer watch is a great gift to give to the special man in your life. Watches are luxurious and practical, and one of the few pieces of jewelry that men typically wear. Your recipient will think of you every time they wear your gift. Luxury watches also show that you hold the recipient in high regard – it takes a great man to pull off a great watch!
When you choose a watch for someone else, make sure to consider that person's sense of style. A watch should match a person's outfit whenever possible. Someone who dresses casually, for instance, should wear a simpler watch. Someone who dresses in suits often should wear a watch of substantial size, with a high-end feel.
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The 2008–09 Portland Trail Blazers season is the 39th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the playoffs, the Trail Blazers lost to the Houston Rockets in six games in the First Round.
An MRI revealed that Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy needed arthroscopic surgery to repair a tear in the meniscus of his left knee. The surgery was scheduled for Thursday, August 14.
12/18/08 – Brandon Roy scores 52 points (2nd most in team history) in 124-119 win over Phoenix.
2/22/09 – Steve Blake ties the NBA record and sets the team record of assists in a quarter with 14 against the Los Angeles Clippers.
4/15/09 – Rudy Fernández sets the rookie record for 3-point baskets made in a season with 159.
^ a b "Blazers trade Ike Diogu to Sacramento for Michael Ruffin in three-team deal". The Oregonian. February 18, 2009. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2009.


One of Southern California's most renowned Historical Marinas, Alamitos Bay is a quiet Marina village beautifully maintained and managed by the City of Long Beach. Now with new and modern upgrades, it was originally constructed for the 1932 Summer Olympic Games and still has that rare pre-WWII magic of a peaceful easy feeling. It's worth the trip.


More than 100 students from 74 campuses across 35 states gathered in San Antonio, Texas, in the first week of January to learn how to become better advocates for Israel. They came for a conference sponsored by Christians United for Israel, but they represented College Republicans, College Democrats and other groups in addition to their local CUFI on Campus chapters.
The participants came expecting to learn how to impact their campuses, but the organizers had even higher hopes: They wanted these 100 student activists to send a message to the globe: Anti-Israel sentiment is no longer just a Jewish problem, and Jews and non-Jews alike will work together to change the campus environment.
Tyler Howell, a first-year master's student at Trinity International University, described the S.A.L.T. Conference as, "strategic on how you reach out to leaders, especially to the opinion leaders on your campus in fostering good solid relationships." Howell found the session entitled "Small Groups," led by CUFI's East Coast campus field organizer, David Walker, to be particularly helpful as it addressed ways to engage student government leaders, College Republicans and Democrats as well as other campus leaders.
Sam Bain, who co-chairs the Ohio College Republican Federation and is a senior at Saint Clair University, said he attended the conference in order to learn. "The best way to stand up for something is to know everything you can about it because when you go on campus you're going to be faced with opposition [and] questions," he said.
Conference sessions provided tips on debunking myths regarding Israel, and also helped participants learn how to answer questions regarding terms like "occupation" and "settlements" that many students encounter on campus.
CUFI holds more than 40 pro-Israel events across the country every month. Click here to find one in your community.
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* "Jesus opens up a place for us to stand in relationship to both God and the world… we occupy Jesus identity in the world before God" I'd never thought about our relationship with God and Jesus in these terms before: humbling and exciting at the same time.
* Looking at the historical core of the Resurrection story he talked about how the stories of the Passion in the Gospel of Mark (the first Gospel to be written down) are all detailed, like a route-map of Jerusalem with lots of illusions to prophesy and patterns recognised from the Old Testament. In contrast Matthew's account of the Resurrection are "abrupt, confused, vivid and unpolished" – a new kind of story telling that does not fit with the expected pattern but rather "pressed into existence by the facts". In other words what you might expect if it inaugurated a new age. Fascinating – well at least I thought so.
If possible the afternoon session was even better. Titled: "Risen Today" it tried to deal with how the Resurrection impacts on people today, and was followed by an extensive question and answer session.
* The Resurrection shows that the world really can change – something happened in history that changed the world, proving it's possible for things to be different; giving Christians justification for being a nuisance and wanting a tidier world, a world that doesn't have to be as it is.
* If Jesus is risen then there is a human destiny – our dignity liberty and glory are so that we are proper companions for Christ. Isn't that just the most amazing idea?
* Prayer is allowing God to happen in us – the action God desires to do in us to bring us to life – letting God be God (rather than us giving a shopping list) – the suggestion was that we might need to do a bit of spring cleaning in our lives to give God a clear route!
* All liturgy probably needs decluttering – not necessarily less words, just more spaces between them.
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Pierre Calais: Taking the Initiative to Motivate and Involve Others
Every decision made by a leader is important, even those that might seem irrelevant at first glance. That's because it's often extremely hard to imagine what the outcome is going to be and work out what effects the choices are going to have on the employees. Pierre Calais, CEO & President of Stormshield, says that one of the main things you need to do as a leader is to make decisions. He points out; the butterfly effect is something you always need to keep in mind. Though, Pierre believes it is not an easy task, as there is always the question of existence of a categorically right or wrong decision. To Pierre, the worst thing is not deciding, and always putting things off until tomorrow.
In an organization to keep the employees motivated, the team leader should share as much information as they can, about the paths the company is taking and the overall strategies that drive their decisions. Pierre does just that, and more. He tries to get them involved with everything he does, and show them they are a part of an ambitious and extraordinary project. He also tries to get them to feel proud, even when being far from their goal.
A Team Player
Pierre thinks the most important thing is to believe in what you're doing. Pierre doesn't have a personal ambition. He has a group ambition, because he believes "even though we all have personal ambition, we can't achieve it at the expense of others." He sees himself as a manager who is a team player, who tries to build team spirit, to ensure that the team feels invested in their work, and that they have an impact on how the company is developing. He believes that nobody can do it alone; success is always a team effort.
Empathy towards listening to people
The pivotal moment in Pierre's career was when he first took on the responsibility of managing a team. That's when he found out how much he loved motivating people and getting them involved in projects. Pierre realized that what he enjoy most was managing people. Though, Pierre very humbly says, "I'm not the perfect manager, but just that I love my job and I'm always looking for ways of doing it better." What 25 years of experience taught him is that, to be a positive leader you really need to listen and empathize, or you might just end up being a negative leader or worse a dictator.
Following this mantra to grow, Pierre tries to listen as much as possible and continue to learn thanks to a few very experienced and talented people who are surrounding him, and providing him with the necessary coaching.
Well Structured Management
Pierre says, "In our business, we need to be flexible, responsive, and firmly focused on our customers." And at Stormshield, the management is structured around these goals. They have very few layers of management, and a very interactive, horizontal way of working. Each employee is given various objectives, so they make suggestions and take part in the decision-making process. They even include their clients in this ecosystem, through workshops and think-tanks. This approach allows the company to develop and move forward.
Pierre's thoughts on being a Good Leader
A leader is a visionary more than anything else. And that visionary must be able to build the most effective, motivated team that can perform to the best of its ability to achieve what it set out to do. A company's success doesn't depend on one manager, it depends on the whole team. Leaders all over the world are now facing bigger and bigger challenges. Young generations are no longer satisfied with simply following a leader, they need to trust the leader, find meaning, and understand where they are going. Talent is rare in the IT industry, so people can choose which company they'd like to join. The upshot of that is people no longer work for a company because they have to, but because the company has a vision, a project, and a management style they admire. Interest in a company is based on its objectives, but also how it sees the role of each employee. That's why the human aspect and having a vision are key to being a good leader in the world today.
A Friend as a Mentor
Pierre recollects a certain good friend, who himself is an entrepreneur, as the person he considers to be his role model. "He taught me that it is important to stand up for what you believe in, and to base your decisions on what you think is right, not only on what will benefit you," says Pierre. He taught him how to change focus when you realize you are wrong, but not to compromise on your own convictions, even if the outcome comes out negative. Standing up for what is right is very important to Pierre, especially today, when propriety and convictions are words that sometimes mean very little.
Being ready to face the Real Challenge
For people taking up leadership roles, Pierre advices not to be too optimistic, because that's how real problems begins. When people are first given a leading role, they think they deserve it simply because they were appointed to the position. That's a huge mistake! The biggest challenges are yet to come. The most difficult thing is to prove that you are capable of leading a team. That means showing humility and listening to people. As a leader you should always strive to do your very best! It also means that you never stop questioning what you do.
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Ryan Eudy: Industrious and Focused on Empowering Others Within the Organization
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ALONE supported the older community with a Charity Abseil in Croke Park today.
ALONE, the organisation which supports older people to age at home, held a charity abseil in Croke Park in aid of ALONE today, Wednesday 30th of October, with all proceeds raised going to support older people in need.
Companies, teams and individuals participated in this event, which was supported by corporate partners Standard Life, Zurich, Bayer, Ald Re Automotive, Beechfield Healthcare, Red Cow Moran and The Moriarty Group.
The hit Irish comedy The Young Offenders from producers Vico Films will return on RTÉ2 and BBC Three for a third series in the new year. Created by Peter Foott, The Young Offenders tells the coming of age adventures of Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley) and their mother/guardian Mairead (Hilary Rose) as she tries to keep them on the straight and narrow. The best friends navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble.
"Older people have the most amazing stories to tell": Marian Keyes joins ALONE in asking the public to reach out and spend some time with older people spending Christmas alone.
Fingal County Council work to meet the needs of a growing diverse population
The Mayor of Fingal Cllr Eoghan O'Brien recently launched Fingal County Council's Migrant Integration & Social Cohesion strategy 2019-2024 in County Hall, Swords, north county Dublin. The main goals of the strategy are to ensure Fingal County Council services meet the needs of the diverse population and contribute to making Fingal a place where all who live, work and visit are valued.


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This Is Microsoft's New Plan to Invade Your Smartphone
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a keynote address during the 2014 Microsoft Build developer conference on April 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California.
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By Dan Kedmey
Hardly a month passes these days where Microsoft hasn't announced a new acquisition. In December it snapped up Acompli, a popular email app, for $200 million. Two weeks later it nabbed HockeyApp, a developer platform that shows how often a smartphone app crashes or bugs out. That was followed by the acquisition of Sunrise, a calendar app, for a rumored $100 million.
In total, Microsoft has gobbled up one to two young companies a month since November. It has all the appearances of a shopping spree.
In a way, this is just business as usual for the tech giant. Microsoft is an $86 billion-a-year enterprise. It doesn't have to dig all that deep into its pockets to find a spare $100 million for an acquisition or two. Microsoft on average acquired 15 companies a year before 2009, according to data collected by market research firm CB Insights. That rate dropped to five a year around 2010 before picking up speed under CEO Satya Nadella, who took the reins in early 2014. If anything, Microsoft is just regaining its old appetite, which amounted to a whopping 149 acquisitions during Steve Ballmer's 13-year tenure as the company's previous CEO.
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But what's different about Microsoft's latest acquisitions is the speed at which it's turning them into new products for devices beyond those just running Microsoft's Windows software. Microsoft has long struggled to make a dent in the mobile world, with more than nine out of 10 phones running either Android or Apple's iOS. Nadella is now eager to make up for lost ground in mobile, and that's meant a big change in Microsoft's acquisition strategy.
"For a long time Microsoft's strategy was embrace and expand, and everything was filtered through the lens of how this would advance Windows," says Kevin Werbach, a legal studies and business ethics professor at University of Pennsylvania Wharton. But Nadella is more willing to make great apps regardless of which device is running them — he just wants Microsoft's products in front of as many people as possible, and fast.
"Nadella is trying to reposition Microsoft into a faster moving and more nimble company," says Werbach. "Showing that they can take an acquisition and turn it around quickly is indicative of that."
Acompli is the best example of Microsoft's new playbook: In a matter of weeks, Microsoft took Acompli's popular email app and rebranded it as Outlook for iOS and Android, to rave reviews from the tech press. Before the Acompli move, Microsoft's iOS and Android Outlook offering was nothing more than a clunky web portal disguised as an app. It's a safe bet that Sunrise and similar acquisitions will reappear as Microsoft-branded offerings just as quickly.
Microsoft's initial success with Outlook is a good omen for a company which many wrote off as having missed the boat on mobile. Its challenge moving forward will be ensuring that its apps are the absolute best offering for any particular task. Right now, Microsoft is benefitting from the app economy's volatility: It's easy for users to ditch one email app in favor of a new, better one. But that same characteristic could spell doom for Microsoft's efforts down the road if the company gets too complacent — witness the unprecedented growth of Slack, a barely one-year-old office messaging app that hasn't spent a cent on advertising, and yet has grown its user base 35% since the start of the year alone, much to the chagrin of its older rivals.
"A company like Slack, I don't think anybody's ever seen anything like this," says Matthew Wong a research analyst at CB Insights. "The fact that companies especially in mobile can sort of achieve growth at the rate they are doing now is just too hard for companies like Microsoft to ignore."
Microsoft will have to keep a vigilant watch over its apps. Its acquisition team will have to make quick and gutsy calls on which apps to bring in house, and which it can build better. The wrong call could also amplify criticism of its acquisition strategy — the company took a drubbing for its 2007 purchase of aQuantive, largely regarded as a $6.2 billion flop. A few killer apps that stay on top could help silence those critics once and for all.
The 15 Most Bizarre Moments From the Consumer Electronics Show
A brand ambassador tests Samsung's Gear VR headset at the Samsung Galaxy booth on Jan. 6, 2015.
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Frank Lee, Brand Marketing for LG Electronics MobileComm USA, demonstrates the enhanced selfie feature on the new LG G Flex 2 mobile phone on Jan. 5, 2015.
Michael Nelson—EPA
Attendees lay on Serta mattresses at the Serta stand on Jan. 6, 2015.
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Joe Clayton, CEO of Dish, arrives on stage banging a bass drum followed by company mascots during the Dish news conference on Jan. 5, 2015.
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A transparent TRW model car is seen on Jan. 6, 2015.
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At the 'Unveiled-event' a young woman has a look at salad on Jan. 4, 2015.
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The drone 'Nano' from 'Zano' on Jan. 8, 2015.
Attendees interact with wity screens that run on Intel's Realsense technology on Jan. 6, 2015.
An attendee wears Altspace Virtual Reality head ware on Jan. 6, 2014.
Sony Electronics President and COO Mike Fasulo displays the Sony 4K Action Cam at a press event on Jan. 5, 2015.
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Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro exits a Mercedes-Benz F 015 autonomous driving automobile after it was unveiled at a Mercedes-Benz press event on Jan. 5, 2015.
A display shows Panasonic's virtual make-up mirror at a Panasonic news conference on Jan. 5 , 2015.
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Selfie sticks of the company 'Noosy' displayed on Jan. 8, 2015.
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World freediving champion Stig Severinsen holds his breathe underwater for a total of 5 minutes, 35 secs to demonstrate the functionality and accuracy of the Masimo SET pulse oximetry device on Jan. 8, 2015.
Workers install an advertisement for a new S'UHD TV from Samsung Electronics on the side of the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 4, 2015.


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I received this e-mail today after signing a petition. I'm passing it along to those of you who reside in the area, as I'm too far away to personally get in on the action.
Volunteer and participate in activities designed to keep the land open to OHV use, and learn about the benefits of legal off-roading in the meantime.
Thank you for your interest in this cause. It is time to organize. The USFS is developing a scoping notice which begins the process of deciding upon an action to take regarding the Sandlick/Bigbend Watershed project. Their goal is to "Improve water quality and reduce soil loss in riparian and rare areas by managing and maintaining the many open roads in the Sand Lick and Big Bend Watersheds." This could have many outcomes. We surely need to be organized and calculated in our efforts, hence the need to organize promptly.
I am sending this email for two reasons. First, I am building a volunteer database in order to show the public land managers how strongly we support sustainable access and to mobilize our support in the future. It shows the land managers we are willing to work for this cause in various ways including donations of time, skills, material, equipment, organizational skills, administration skills, and money. Also, building a volunteer database is a convenient way for me to communicate information to interested parties through an email list. This will assist in keeping everyone abreast of developments and future actions to fully support our cause. This will serve to keep the current issues accurate and timely.
Please type Slade in the subject line.
Please include your name and preferred email address (if different from the one you replied from) along with any skills you possess.
Off-road Clubs or groups can send one email listing names and email addresses to streamline the building of this volunteer database.
Thank you for your time in helping to maintain sustainable access. Please feel free to pass this information to anyone who may wish to join. We will communicate in the near future, so please stay tuned. Here are some informational links on the topic as well as USFS links to help spread the knowledge.
Feel free to Email savesandlick@gmail.com with your name, email address if different, and any skills you may have along with any feedback for me. This is a big year for Sandlick.
is this basically a "lend a hand and clean up some trails" calling? i cannot follow what he is saying.
UPDATE ON SANDLICK: The project slated to improve the road management at Sandlick/Bigbend Watershed has not been "selected for analysis" at this time. This means that they are not presently working on the project but sometime in the future it will be selected and their process will take place (I get the feeling it will be soon!). This also means that the area is open to licensed, insured, and registered vehicles to the routes on the 2011 motor vehicle use maps (http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone/maps/mvum.shtml). Please tread lightly!
CLEAN-UP TIME! Please join the Trailkeepers and Zoe Volunteer Fire Department in a day of stewardship. The trail clean up is on May 8th in Slade, Kentucky from 9am-6pm. Volunteers need to meet at the Zoe firehouse. Please pack a lunch and supper will be provided by the Trailkeepers Foundation.
EMAIL YOUR POLITICIAN! Now is the time to contact your state politicians and encourage them to join us in support of OHV access in the Slade area as well as other areas of the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF). Feel free to write in your own words or copy and paste the letter below as well as use the provided links to find your politician's email address. It is absolutely critical that the politicians see how important OHV access is to local economies and the OHV enthusiasts.
"Dear Politician, please support off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation on our public lands in eastern Kentucky. Specifically, please join our local and nationwide enthusiasts in encouraging the land manager, USFS District Ranger Dave Manner, to recognize our present OHV access and include our OHV access in any action he puts forth regarding the Sandlick/Bigbend Road Management Improvement Project. The local economies depend on funds generated from OHV recreation. The public depends on OHV access to provide equal opportunity recreation on our public lands. It is imperative that the USFS respect OHV access and manage for recreation.
606-784-6428 in support of OHV access in the Sandlick/Bigbend tract of public land as well as other areas of the Daniel Boone National Forest."
Feel free to forward this email to anyone and everyone who will help. Feel free to email other politicians in support of our cause. Please send email addresses or lists of email addresses to savesandlick@gmail.com to be added to the volunteer database and receive these email updates. Take action before it is too late! We are right on time with this request to contact politicians so please do not waste this opportunity.