Is it time for smartphones in the workplace?
The last decade has seen workplaces embrace digitisation across a number of areas including finance and document management. However, when it comes to HR, many still use traditional methods of communication including email, newsletters and noticeboards. Since 83 percent of the global workforce doesn't have a company email address, there needs to be a solution that doesn't alienate those who aren't office based.
But how do you implement digital systems for internal communications across a large workforce where most employees don't have access to that noticeboard or email? What tool do they all regularly access that you can tap into to provide more structured communications? The answer is in your pocket, or perhaps in your bag or maybe you're even reading this on it. The smartphone.
With the majority of the population owning a smartphone in 2018 and relying heavily on them to organise and communicate in their personal lives, it's inevitable that they migrate into our work lives. Rather than discourage use in the workplace, it should be embraced and viewed as a great opportunity to invest in a mobile platform that securely hosts and facilitates a number of business operations.
Enabling employees instant access to a range of HR services has multiple benefits for everyone involved, but what does a digital HR department look like? It can have as many functions as needed, one main one being hosting your payroll system on an app. This saves time and money across the organisation since sending payslips is no longer necessary and workers can view and flag any issues immediately. A task that previously took two to three hours now takes mere minutes and will improve team satisfaction as there is no longer a wait time.
Communicating with your workforce about news, procedure updates or team changes in real time regardless of location and job role helps employees feel involved and HR teams confident that everyone has access to vital information. Adding read receipts also allows HR teams to track the message views and to evaluate if follow up is necessary. After all, it's difficult to track who has read noticeboards.
There are other significant benefits to digitisation as it can host shift schedules, holiday requests, company guidelines, training manuals and even content translation for those who don't speak English as a first language. Holding all of this information in one accessible place provides workers and HR teams with a seamless way of working.
Creating a BYOD (bring your own device) policy in the workplace means you're a creating a culture of trust. For many of us, feeling trusted by management can have a huge effect on our mindset at work and make us feel valued, happier and less likely to jump ship. Employers should have faith and trust in the people they've hired. As Steve Jobs pointed out: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." Of course, the inventor of the iPhone would probably agree that smartphones have a place in the workplace, but his ethos is difficult to argue with.
However, it's crucial to bear in mind that smartphones, while the primary target of most BYOD initiatives, are also the biggest vectors for data leakage or loss, representing almost 70 percent of cases according to a cybersecurity trends report. To prevent an organisation from leaking data through every personal device's sieve, you'll need to control certain aspects of your employee's devices.
Imposing control on employee devices is bound to make your employees unhappy, so you'll have to ensure that you utilise secure software that can act as a soft barrier between your user's device and the company's important data, without getting in the way of the user's job. By introducing this layer of protection, employees can rest assured their device will stay safe and also remain useful in the course of their work. Even more importantly, you won't have to worry about data breaches or malware infections slipping into your corporate network as a result of a well-crafted BYOD policy.
Facilitating two-way communication amongst management and staff is often complicated due to schedules and locations. In the digital world, employees can ask questions or voice concerns directly to management as soon as issues arise. For HR teams, this is very valuable as they are made aware of problems in real time and are able to address them before they become a larger issue. From an employee perspective, being able to have your voice heard by management is vital for you to feel valued and more likely to engage with the company. It also increases transparency between management and employees, which is something the majority of employees think is missing.
Adding up all the advantages of using a smartphone to connect with a workforce, it's hard to deny that embracing them in the workplace will bring huge benefits and create a sense of community that's been almost impossible to create before now. I would urge everyone to consider the potential those little screens can provide in improving internal communications and day-to-day work life.


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Q: How to fix this java.util.Scanner.next, throwing java.util.NoSuchElementException I am filtering new lines but first time it worked on second loop its failing for line 2 filering.
Exception:
run:
a[line 1]l[0]
Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException
a[line 2]l[1]
a[line 3]l[2]
b[line 1]l[0]
b[line 3]l[1]
    at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:855)
    at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1364)
    at ui.Test.main(Test.java:82)

Code:
// a) Lines
String a = "line 1\n\r" +
           "line 2\n\r" +
           "line 3\n\r";
// b) Total length
int len = 0;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(a).useDelimiter("\r?\n\r|\\|");
while (sc.hasNext()) {
  System.out.println("a[" + sc.next() + "]l[" +  len + "]" );
  len++;
}

// c) Prepare array
String[] value;
value = new String[len+1];
len = 0;
sc = new Scanner(a).useDelimiter("\r?\n\r|\\|");
while (sc.hasNext()) {
  System.out.println("b[" + sc.next() + "]l[" +  len + "]" );
  value[len] = sc.next();
  len++;
}

// d) Goal - use the value for JComboBox
System.out.println(value);

A: you are calling next twice in the second loop, call it once and store the value:
String val;
while (sc.hasNext()) {
  val=sc.next();
  System.out.println("b[" + val + "]l[" +  len + "]" );
  value[len] = val;
  len++;
}

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Within healthcare the need for constant innovation is generating ever stronger demands for IT system openness. Through its long-term commitment to open standards, APIs and wide-ranging collaboration, Cambio is well prepared for such a transformation.
– This is something we have been doing for a long time, but it seems to me healthcare is catching up now and is asking for it more and more explicitly, says Cambio's founder, Tomas Mora-Morrison.
Openness has been Cambio's watchword since the start in 1993, and with increasing demands for new healthcare innovations, this watchword is more important than ever.
– When we started, county councils had a well-established norm of buying one system capable of handling "everything". All functions required within primary care, in the hospitals and in all specialist areas, were expected to reside within the same system. Having now entered a new phase of healthcare digitalisation, which also includes the patient, the number of functions needing to be developed is so great that open systems have become a must, according to Cambio's founder, Tomas Mora-Morrison.
Fundamentally this openness is a question of innovative power. When it becomes impossible for individual suppliers to deliver all healthcare solutions, they must instead create ecosystems able to utilise the innovative power of many actors.
In Cambio's case this realisation has, during the last few years, led to a stronger focus on opening access to their platform. A clear example of this is Cambio's involvement with openEHR, a standardised data format for electronic patient records. The idea behind openEHR is to create an open ecosystem, where different suppliers can develop applications sharing each other's data, and in this work Cambio has been a leading force for over 10 years.
Today openEHR forms a central plank of Cambio COSMIC, and, says Tomas, using open standards is a way of future-proofing the platform.
– There are no reasons to try to "lock-in" the customer in your own system. The systems must be opened up to respond to demands, and, going forward, this will be extremely important for all suppliers to demonstrate.
Another key aspect of the creation of a "future-proof" platform has to do with sharing its development in partnership with others. Tomas explains that Cambio's platform is being developed jointly with both Swedish and international customers, Inera (owned by SKL – Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions) and international standards organisations such as openEHR and HL7. The joint efforts even include competitor businesses.– Currently we are carrying out a pilot project at the Regional Cancer Centre Stockholm-Gotland, to supply our decision support system jointly with CGM, who is strictly speaking one of our competitors.
This type of joint project is a clear example of how the digitalisation of healthcare will develop, according to Cambio. Another example is the investment in Cambio Open Services, a cloud service, using APIs to permit a third-party business to develop and test their new applications straight onto Cambio's platform.
Thanks to these strategic efforts, Tomas Mora-Morrison now sees Cambio assuming a clear leadership role when it comes to establishing an ecosystem for digital innovations in healthcare. The fruits of this labour can already be seen is countries where Cambio's platform is in use. But this is only the start of the development. Tomas therefore believes that this ecosystem will, during the next few years, lead to innovations in many important areas.
– Increased mobility is one significant trend, and another is that there must be good support for patient interaction with the healthcare organisations through these systems. Furthermore, it is important that we build smart clinical decision support systems that contribute to greater patient safety by helping care providers follow best practice based on clinical evidence.


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Moderna to start final phase of its COVID 19 vaccine trials by next month
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Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine trials, one of the most accelerated and anticipated among all such trials globally, are moving further now. The company has told Bloomberg that it will be starting the final stage of its COVID-19 vaccine testing by July.
The company's vaccine is an mRNA one, which differs from the conventional vaccines we have developed for other ailments so far. The vaccines that we have come to rely on usually introducing a virus that mimics the virus we are vaccinating against, but in a controlled environment. However, mRNA viruses rely on educating and for the lack of a better word, instructing the healthy cells of the body to produce "antibodies" that fight off the virus.
Viruses have no cellular functions of their own, and hence rely upon a host cell for survival. This means that if you are infected by a virus, some cells in your body have been taken over by a virus that is now using the facilities of your cell to replicate. However, in the meantime, it is also affecting the normal functioning of the cell. Antibodies however, which are produced by healthy cells, can fight off the virus, so the affected cells can revert back to their previous state.
mRNA vaccines are relatively new, and thus haven't been used for mass vaccinations. At most, they are used in veterinary medicines, but that's about it. If this vaccine makes it to the market, it will be the first mRNA vaccine for humans, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
The final phase of the study will check if the vaccine actually does what is advertises, that is either stop the virus completely or curb severe cases at least.
Moderna's vaccine has shown significant promise in early trials. As recent as May, Moderna's vaccine candidate, which was the first to be tested on humans in the U.S has appeared to be safe and has been able to stimulate an immune response to the virus. The data comes from eight healthy volunteers who participated in a 45-subject safety trial which began in early March. Overall, the study concluded that the vaccine was safe and all parties produced antibodies.
Many other institutes and companies are working on their own vaccines, and are making crucial headway. Johnson & Johnson said early this week that it would start trials of its vaccine later in July, while AstraZeneca and its research and development partner the University of Oxford will be entering its own final-stage clinical trials as of this month. Vaccines are considered to be the only way that could halt the spread of COVID-19 globally. The global infection count has gone way past 7 million now.

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Feb. 25 will mark the 10th anniversary of the release of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." How does it hold up today?
Spiritual Reflections: Few biblical concepts are more important and less known than the Hebrew meaning of hesed. We have no English equivalent.
Spiritual Reflections: To fully appreciate the Sermon on the Mount, we must first appreciate Matthew's place in history.


4 In this table, the 2002 and 2007 "Other multiple modes" categories are not directly comparable due to a definition change. For 2002, "Other multiple modes" includes shipments using "Truck and water", "Rail and water", and other mode combinations not specifically listed. For 2007, "Truck and water" and "Rail and water" are not part of "Other multiple modes".


How would you name your local underwater reef?
The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) launched the Undersea Feature Names Gazetteer, an online index/dictionary for the bathymetric world.
Everyone is invited to propose names for new features. After being submitted to GEBCO, the names are analyzed, compared, and selected in an annual meeting.
A new name should have two terms: a specific expression/word and a generic expression/word. The specific term should relate to nearby onshore or offshore features, a maritime researcher or explore, or a historic ship.
The generic term should express the form of the feature. Is it a trench, a seamount, an escarpment, a ridge? For example, the Nazaré Canyon, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nazaré, in Portugal, is a name proposed by Jean-René Vanney, from the University of Paris, in 1999.
The specific term "Nazaré" is from the nearby coastal town of Nazaré, and the and the generic term "Canyon" describes the local morphological feature.
Recently, the GEBCO Gazetteer has been making an effort to harmonize the names, so that they can all be read and understood by the scientific community, and the general public. Because a basin is not a bank, and a seamount is not a ridge.
GEBCO aims to provide the most authoritative publicly-available bathymetry of the world's oceans. Today, seafloor mapping is growing fast thanks to the proliferation of multi-beam sonar technology, remotely operated vehicles (ROV), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV).
The goal is to map most of the world's ocean floor by 2030. GEBCO wants mariners involved in the ambitious plan. All they need to use is a simple software that collects data and shares it with the organization.
GEBCO has already released a printed version of the bathymetric map of the world on a scale of 1:35 million, and a general bathymetric chart of the oceans in .pdf format.


If you've stumbled upon this site, you are no doubt planning (or at least contemplating) starting a career as a technical writer. First, let us start off by saying that it's tough to make a living doing technical writing. It's a competitive industry, and real success will require hard work, perseverance, and maybe a little luck. What we've tried to do on this site is compile useful and objective information that will help you launch your technical writing career. Many of the articles are geared towards work-at-home technical writers, but much of the information will be relevant to full-timers as well. Some of the articles contain information that is quite general, so you might have to do some further research if you want to find out more about a highly specific subject like how to format a table of contents for a user manual or how graphics included with assembly instructions should be labeled.
We've done our best to organize our database of technical writing articles into categories, and we hope our efforts will make it easier for you to navigate the site. In the first section, you'll find vital introductory information that will tell you exactly what technical writing is and whether a technical writing career would be a good fit for your interests, skills, and personality. Section 2 will tell you about technical writing certification options and what you can expect to earn as a technical writer, while section 3 deals with perhaps the most important aspect of the biz - finding work.
Next, there's a section that will tell you more about the most common types of documents you will be asked to develop as a technical writer. Then, we discuss exactly what it takes to produce an outstanding piece of technical writing. The last section deals with how to improve your craft, which should be an ongoing goal for every technical writer.
We hope you'll find something in these articles that will help you launch a successful career as a technical writer. At the very least, we hope you'll learn something about the industry that you didn't know before. Have fun, work hard, enjoy the journey, and keep writing!


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8 Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Posted in anecdote, news, random, tagged christmas, richard dawkins, robin ince, science, twitter, writing on December 31, 2008| 1 Comment »
(Slightly pre-emptive) Happy New Year, yous guys.
I'm not really one for resolving things, especially when we've just had Christmas and it's nearly my birthday, but if I were going to have a resolution for 2009, it'd probably just be "More words". I actually did pretty well in 2008 in most regards, not least finishing a draft of a whole actual book, but getting more words written is the most obvious way that 2009 could aim to improve on its predecessor. Trying to keep up the daily blogging thing a bit more consistently would be one way to make that happen, so, I'll see about giving it a shot. This will probably mean more brief entries linking to stories and articles that interested me, with a few comments of my own, and Skeptictionary articles whenever I get them finished, rather than just the long, nearly-weekly rants with nothing in between. Maybe it'll work well and really get me creatively motivated. (I give it a month.)
Let's make a start now. Before Christmas, I went to this show in London, called Eight Lessons and Carols for Godless People. It was inspired by the frustration felt by comedian Robin Ince at a televised debate he attended, titled "Are they Taking The Christ Out of Christmas?", during which a great deal of untrue but entirely typical "War on Christmas" bullshit was spouted, and he didn't really have a chance to adequately respond. Possibly most grating was the inability of Stephen Green (whose organisation's website makes him seem every bit as loathsome as he's been described to me) to accept that there was anything about Christmas that an atheist like Ince could possibly approve of or enjoy. There's a lot that I like about Christmas too, but it's probably less hard to sound convincing when a constant slew of untruths all around you is rendering you incapable of making a cogent argument beyond "Look dickhead, when I see carol singers it makes me FUCKING HAPPY, and the delight on a child's face as they watch a Christmas tree lighting up FILLS MY HEART WITH SHITTING JOY, okay?"
So, he decided to hold a Christmas party, bringing together comedians, musicians, and scientists, to perform comedy routines, songs, and speeches, with a generally secular (if not always profoundly atheistic) leaning. And there was much rejoicing.
It was a great night out. He'd got together an impressive line-up – Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins being probably the biggest names on the bill – most of whom also agreed to do more than one night at several different venues when the demand for tickets went through the roof. Stewart Lee still gets my vote for Funniest Man Alive, Tim Minchin is one of very few people I've ever been tempted to describe using the word "man-crush", and Ben Goldacre is the kind of person that phrases like "made of win" were coined for. (Or he would be, in a just world, if they hadn't actually been coined for pictures of cats with bacon stuck to them. (To the cats, not the pictures.))
It is, admittedly, a format that needs some refining. For a start, although it never felt to me like it was dragging, it did last three and a half hours. Even including twenty minutes of interval, I think that's just too long. You could probably make it last for several straight days if you invited everyone with something funny to say (or sing) about Christmas or science or atheism and who's up for putting on a show. Even if everyone on the bill had been an unmissable delight, it would've been worth trimming it down a little. (Not everybody was, in my opinion, but I'm not going to go too deep into subjective assessments here.)
And one thing that might help with this would be if they got a clearer idea of what themes were going to carry them through the evening, and had some sort of consistent thread that everything would connect to. Celebrating science and scientists is definitely a good start (the show was interspersed with quotes from and discussion about Carl Sagan, one of Ince's heroes), and an irreverently irreligious approach is important to remind us that we're not doing the usual Jesus-y thing here – but this seemed a bit sporadic, particularly in the case of the musicians, some of whom seemed to be there more because they were available (and because someone decided there ought to be some kind of musical interlude between any long periods of people just standing there and talking) than because of any relevance they had to the theme. (Not saying they weren't good, just that they sometimes distracted from any scientific or atheistic thread that sometimes got going.)
Personally, I'd be tempted not to let things get too devoutly atheistic, keep it comfortably blasphemous, make it an hour shorter, and maybe throw in a proper sing-along or two, of some actual decent Christmas songs – I don't imagine it'd be worth paying for the rights to use Fairytale of New York, though it's a nice idea, but something to make it a more overtly Christmassy event might help.
But the only reason I seem to have so many paragraphs of critique is that I loved it despite it not being perfect yet, and would love to see it turn into an unmissable holiday tradition in years to come. They certainly seem to be on the right track.
Briefly summarising the rest of the year: Not long after the show, I went back to visit the family for Christmas, which was great, and nobody else turned up for me to have to socialise with, which was even better. And now I'm back, and it's New Year's Eve, which means my one resolution kicks in, in about four and a half hours' time. Since writing the first paragraph of this particular overlong piece of blather, I've decided on my only resolution for 2009 being "More words than last year", and to that end, I've added a layer of accountability by getting myself one of them there Twitter accounts. I'm yet to completely figure out how it works, but my username is writerJames, which I think means that if you go here you can start following me. The plan is to tweet daily updates about how much I've written, and anyone is encouraged to become a follower and poke me if it doesn't look like I'm working hard enough. I like the idea of having followers. They're practically minions, really.
Anyway, that's quite enough for this year. 2009's not far off. Good luck, everyone.
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Lights in the sky
Posted in skepticism, skeptictionary, tagged aliens, astronomy, paranormal, phil plait, skepticism, ufos on December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A lot of people think that aliens have come visiting us and have all sorts of dastardly and/or sexy plans for us. Often, people think this because they reckon they've seen these aliens, in the sky, whooshing around in ways that definitely looked like a spaceship and not like anything else. Some skeptics say that these sightings might actually be of birds, aircraft, planets, even the Moon, and that there's no reason to leap to conclusions about alien spaceships.
But how hard can it be to tell a UFO from a bunch of other stuff? Do a quick Google image search for a duck, then a flying saucer. They look nothing alike. How stupid would you have to be to confuse the two?
Well, you might just be stupid enough to get a PhD in astronomy. Phil Plait, author of the book Bad Astronomy and creator of the website of the same name, talks in his book about a time when he was actually waiting to watch the Space Shuttle take off at Cape Canaveral, and saw a pattern of lights in the sky that briefly unsettled him. There were maybe a dozen of them, in a steady pattern, apparently a few miles away and moving slowly. Planes wouldn't have been allowed so near the Shuttle, birds wouldn't have been glowing so visibly, and nothing else man-made could plausibly have been moving in the weaving pattern they were making.
This isn't just some random being freaked out by the Moon, this is Dr. Philip Plait, Ph.D., a qualified astronomer, watching the Space Shuttle carrying up a camera for the Hubble Space Telescope that he's just spent two years designing. He knows his shit when it comes to lights in the sky, and although he didn't leap to any unfounded conclusions, he was actually pretty spooked by what he saw that day, as if a part of him really believed that he might genuinely be witnessing an alien phenomenon.
Until it flew over his head, quacking.
Yeah, it was a bunch of ducks. They were too far away to make out at first, they were glowing because of light from the spotlights on the Shuttle pad being reflected every which way, and they were flying straight towards him in the kind of way that ducks fly, in a fairly constant pattern but wobbling around from time to time. If anybody ought to know a duck from a possible flying saucer, it's Phil, but at that moment the perceptive ability of his squishy human brain showed its limitations.
My point is only that seeing something weird in the sky and being baffled as to its origins is really, really easy, particularly for uninformed ignoramuses like myself who don't spend much time looking up there anyway, and really don't have much of an idea what we should expect to see. The planet Venus is way brighter than any stars (other than the Sun) in the sky, and is sometimes even visible during daylight – but I have no idea where to look for it right now, or what it would look like, so it has the capacity to take me entirely by surprise, wherever it is. And I still wouldn't recognise it, even if I saw it; if I peered at Venus with my myopic and uninformed eyes, perhaps through some trees or out of a moving car window, it would be a vague light in the sky that I couldn't distinguish much about. It might look like something a thousand times closer and a thousand times smaller than the Sun's second planet actually is – how am I supposed to make an accurate judgment on perspective about something that's basically a distant static dot?
The sky also contains aircraft, balloons, man-made satellites, birds, and a whole lot of other artificial or natural stuff, which is flying, relatively close to the ground, emitting light, making noises, and generally doing the kinds of things people expect from passing UFOs (if they're the type of people to expect passing UFOs at all). If all they're seeing is some strange lights in the sky, can anyone really be expected to distinguish between all the possibilities, when they're just staring up from a great distance and squinting a bit? If even the sight of planets or ducks or the Moon can give an unexpected and seemingly other-worldly experience, wouldn't any sight in the sky have to be really spectacular before it should convince anyone that it's definitely not coming from any of the sources already listed? Or even probably not?
Posted in science, skepticism, skeptictionary, tagged astrology, astronomy, magic, science, skepticism on December 7, 2008| 4 Comments »
It will probably surprise very few of you that I don't believe in astrology. I don't think there's any significance to what sign I'm born under, but then, I'm a "Give way to oncoming traffic", and that's typical of us.
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Astrology is the idea that the positions and movements of the stars and planets have a direct effect on our manifest destiny. I'm far too apathetic to distinguish between the different kinds of astrology that exist, but my sarcasm can be applied to any of them with much the same effect. Depending on where Neptune happens to be at any given moment, and what direction your birth sign seems to be going relative to us, astrology might tell you that you're going to clash with a friend over financial affairs, or you should take a risk in matters of the heart. Or something.
I'm getting ahead of myself here, and being dismissively facetious well ahead of schedule. What I was jocularly referencing a couple of sentences ago was the concept of a horoscope. This generally refers to a set of predictions or divinations made for someone, based on astrological measurements of stuff in the sky. How the current actions of Neptune (or Titan or Antares) affect you depends upon the celestial conditions at the moment you were born, sometimes measured to the nearest minute.
It's not always that precise, though, and people are often conveniently grouped into one of twelve zodiac categories, based on which constellation is in the Sun's apparent path through the sky at that point in Earth's orbit, or something. Constellations, remember, are bunches of stars that have absolutely no connection to each other whatsoever, except that from this particular vantage point in the universe, some people who lived way back in the days before light pollution was invented, and who had all the qualifications that you need to look at the sky, thought that these stars looked like a guy carrying some water.
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Yeah, this seems like a good time to get back on track with the sarcasm. There's really nothing definitive or non-arbitrary about the twelve traditional zodiac signs; the names we have for them are based on what some ancient Greeks (probably) thought some of the bright dots in the sky looked like. They were looking for patterns, and were pretty creative. Case in point: that water-carrier. I don't know how they got that. Even if you get rid of all the background stars, and put in some helpful lines showing you where the image is supposed to be, it's still a bit of a stretch. Quite where this guy came from, I've no idea. And if you use a telescope to look toward Aquarius, and get a better, clearer view, which doesn't depend on how much we're squinting or how cloudy the sky is as we're peering up there, it looks like this. That's just a whole lot of stars. That's what you'll see pretty much anywhere in the sky, if you're really looking. There are, like, thousands of stars out there, probably. (Let me know if any of those links are broken by the time you're reading this, but they're not hard to hunt down.)
I'm guessing that carrying water was a more respected and important profession, with a few more perks, back in the days of the earliest stargazers. Because it was important to people at the time, that's what those people saw when they looked for patterns. One of the other, non-zodiac constellations they identified is of Orion, a hunter who was quite a big deal at the time, but would be unlikely to leap out at anyone from the surrounding bunch of stars these days.
My point is that the divisions of the sky into zodiac groups is entirely arbitrary; there's nothing about the stars themselves which fits them into such convenient groups. But according to astrology, the boundaries of these groups define what personality type everybody on the planet possesses.
There's a constellation called Ophiuchus which, although not recognised by astrology, is one of our zodiacal constellations – the Sun passes through it over the course of the year (though I'm still not clear on exactly what that means, astronomically speaking). It was identified by Ptolemy in the second century CE, and if anyone can explain why only the other twelve affect people's lives in a way that the "serpent-holder" just isn't able to, please go ahead. The sun is actually in the constellation Ophiuchus as I post this, and nowhere near Sagittarius, as the traditional astrological arrangement would suggest – but supposedly this doesn't matter to the mysterious forces that use arbitrary groupings of celestial bodies to magically control our destiny.
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I don't call it magic only to be pejorative. If you look at how astrology is supposed to work, the only mechanisms to explain how it could possibly function as described are utterly magical. Occasionally, people try and bring in known physical effects to explain it, like the gravitational or electromagnetic fields exerted by these distant stars or planets. This sort of hopeless scrambling for any plausible rationale makes people who've ever passed a science test laugh in your face, and actual cosmologists want to bang your head into a table with a force proportional to your mass. Any known physical effects of any stars or planets in the sky are utterly dwarfed by those of the Sun, or simply of the Earth itself. And why would feeling a miniscule physical pull in a particular direction specifically affect something so general as how "diplomatic" or "individualistic" I turn out to be?
Most astrologers are fractionally wiser than to seriously suggest this (or have got fed up with all the headaches from the desk-smacking), but there's really no way any physical laws could explain it all, even as-yet undiscovered ones. The whole premise seems to run on far more narrativium than has ever been observed in our universe. The reasoning appeals to our sense of narrative, and can make for a pleasing story with an aesthetically acceptable line of causality, but the causality of the universe depends upon the interaction of matter, not of concepts.
For instance. Your personal horoscope depends on when you were born, often down to the minute, or more informally to the day. What effect do the stars suddenly begin to have on you at this exact point, and what is it about being born that causes this change? It can't be to do with the developmental process – some children are born weeks or months premature, at different stages of growth, and nobody reaches some perfect and precise stage of completion as a human being at the exact point the umbilical cord is cut. It'd be a strange physical force that can be obstructed by a human female uterus, but affects us all for the rest of our lives.
In many ways, birth is an idea, a moment defined by how people view it more than by any actual, definable physical changes. (The point at which a developing embryo becomes a living human being is even more nebulous, hence much of the debate over abortion.) Astrology relies on that conceptual, story-telling principle for the moment of someone's birth to be a meaningful anchor for everything that follows.
Similarly, the planet Mars is a sort of reddish colour, because of the iron oxide (rust) on its surface, and its blood-coloured appearance has provided us with many of the planet's associated ideas. The Roman god Mars was the god of war and bloodshed – and, correspondingly, the planet's astrological connections today are to concepts like aggression, impulsiveness, and energy. This seems to be another entirely arbitrary link, derived from the stories an ancient civilisation told about their gods, inspired by the blood-red colour of an object in the sky. Mercury was the messenger god to the Romans, and the planet is associated with communication, information, writing, and apparently email (thanks, Wikipedia) by astrologers. Ceres was a goddess of agriculture and fertility, and astrology.com tells us that "periods of fertility and menstruation are under Ceres' domain". Asteroids are traditionally given female names; if the tradition were different, and this asteroid had instead been named, say, Dionysus, it would probably be said to have an entirely different effect on us (left as an exercise to the reader, because I can't think of a snappy joke to make about it right now). It's a magical, story-telling connection, and that's not how the universe works.
The origins of the underlying concepts are easily explained, but what's not explained is why we should actually believe any of this. Why should it be taken any more seriously than most people take the Roman gods themselves these days? Most people don't anthropomorphise those particular gods in the same way any more, and assume instead that some people basically made them up. It seems that astrology should be taken the same way. It's a necessarily story-based belief system, descended from ancient superstitions and religions, and there is no possible way it could work as its proponents claim, except by magic. Proper magic, not just a perinormal phenomenon that's yet to be scientifically understood. Actual, real magic.
Can-cercumstantial Evidence and Capri-cornclusive Proof
But, all of this is only a devastating criticism of astrology if it's assumed that this explanation – the magical factor that could theoretically provide a causal link between patterns of stars and whether I'm going to win the lottery – is really as ridiculous and ineffective as I'm glibly making it sound. I don't know for sure that magic doesn't exist, and neither do you. And it's vital to remember that all the above rambling about how implausible it seems is irrelevant if it actually works.
To reiterate: if astrology works, it doesn't matter how ludicrous the notion seems to me, or how arbitrary the moment of birth that calibrates it all, or how mundane the narrative origins of the legends that surround it. If it works, then it works, regardless of whether it ought to.
So, is this the point at which I introduce the switch to the above two thousand words' bait, and conclusively demonstrate that astrology definitely totally works, just like the people with newspaper columns on the cartoons pages say it does?
Go on, have a guess.
Astrology doesn't work. It's been tested. It's failed. Repeatedly. It's not science. It's nonsense.
Why doesn't everyone think so? Well, whether or not astrology works depends on what exactly you mean by "works".
I'm Sure There's A Perfectly Aries-onable Explanation
Now, don't read too much into that – I'm not going to start vacillating and saying, well, maybe it has some merit, even if we don't really know how. Astrology doesn't work, in the sense that it is completely unable to demonstrate any of the grandiose, measurable, paradigm-shattering real-world effects that are attributed to it. Like being able to predict the future or determine someone's personality by looking at the stars.
But if you're asking whether predictions made by astrologers can sometimes line up with what happens to somebody, and whether some people really identify with their supposed astrological personality type, and whether sometimes the descriptions or advice your horoscope gives might seem spooky because they're so much in tune with your life… then sure, astrology works.
The thing is, if your criteria are as loose as this, then a magic 8-ball can work great too.
It's not enough that people sometimes just feel that the things in their horoscope apply to them with uncanny accuracy. That could conceivably happen, even without magic. If you don't want to risk being horribly wrong, you have to ask things like: How hard is it to make a prediction, or an assessment of your character, which most people will relate to, while seeming very personal? And how often is your horoscope really that accurate? If you read it every day, are you just remembering the occasions, once in a while, when the scattergun approach happens to hit the target for you, and forgetting all those other times when you just went "Meh, not really"?
If you tell someone things like "You tend to be self-critical", "You sometimes feel unconnected to everyone around you and withdraw into your own world", "You find it hard to apologise when you know you were wrong", "You sometimes wish you were smarter", then there's a chance they'll be convinced that you have a deep and personal insight into them specifically, if it doesn't occur to them at the time to think that these are almost universal feelings. I mean, who the hell finds apologies easy? It's called the Forer effect, and it sets the bar for how impressive an actual personal prediction or evaluation would have to be.
It's just as easy to make predictions that can't really be wrong. If your horoscope says it's a good day for taking risks with your romantic life, then maybe you'll be inspired to do something daring and ask out someone you've had your eye on. If it turns out well, then yay, score one for astrology! If not, you're probably going to be too preoccupied with some reassuring ice cream to keep a memorable tally of all the times the stars haven't hit the mark. Or, maybe you just weren't daring enough. It's usually kept vague enough that there are plenty of get-out clauses.
Just because it's in a newspaper column, or you know someone who's into it who seems totally sincere, doesn't mean it can't all be bunk. I can say with confidence that there are some things you don't believe in, which thousands of people are passionately committed to and take as a proven certainty. It's still worth investigating whether something like astrology actually seems to be real; if it is, we should be able to tell for sure. "I know it's been right for me in the past" doesn't tell us anything, unless we've established that it's been so right, in such an improbable way, that it's not just a trick of anyone's memory, or some generous interpretations of vague and general terms.
When Newton figured out gravity, people didn't just accept it because they remembered seeing things falling down and decided it sounded right. He had to do pages and pages of really hard maths to prove it. I'll let you off the calculus this time, but it's up to astrologers to prove that it works, to demonstrate that they're doing more than essentially making shit up in a way that makes some people go "Ooh, that's so me".
They've kinda sucked at this so far.
If there's anything to this particular brand of astrology, scientific tests of its efficacy ought to work. Wikipedia reports some people claiming that "the scientific method does not apply to astrology", but that's bollocks. I won't assume that this is a majority view, but you can't both claim that this is a real phenomenon with measurable real-world effects, and then deny that any of these effects can actually be measured. Science works, bitches. However hard you try and stop force from equalling mass times acceleration, it'll keep on doing it, and the universe will continue to hammer this fact into your skull, everywhere you look. If astrology also works (bitches), then we shouldn't be able to make it stop working, however hard we try.
In practice, though, the effects seem to go away very quickly. There are a number of ways you can try some experiments, or just gather a large amount of data to look for significant evidence. SkepticWiki suggests a good one: have someone provide you with a list of horoscope predictions for different signs for the day that's just passed, without telling you which one is supposed to apply to you. See if you can tell which was yours, based on which prediction best matched up with the day you actually had.
You'd have to do it more than once, obviously – otherwise you've got a 1 in 12 chance of guessing right anyway, and there are coincidences. But if you gathered enough data, and if these newspaper horoscopes are capable of making good predictions, then you should end up with some strong, supportive evidence. Why wouldn't this work?
The only reason you shouldn't be able to discover that people can pick their own horoscope from a mess of others, and deduce that these predictions must really have some genuine bearing on the lives of a particular one-twelfth of the population, is if this particular claim is crap. Of course, a lot of astrologers claim very different things, and it's important to remember that we can't just sweep aside the whole horde of practitioners, many of whom see the newspaper-column style of horoscope as being just as meaningless as I do, because of this one result which doesn't apply to them.
But we can still sweep them aside and get back to ignoring them, because none of it works. However you define it, there's not a shred of data supporting any kind of astrological claims, or providing results that rule out all non-astrological explanations (or at least make them seem less likely than the alternative). It's been tested time and again, and sometimes comprehensively and with lots of maths that goes over my head, and it never succeeds in producing any actual results beyond the Forer effect, which can be replicated by any skilled trickster.
If I'm wrong, point me to the data. In fact, even better: point your data toward a scientific journal. Sure, they'll probably have some annoying demands, like your methodology being peer-reviewed and your experiments reproduced and verified by independent parties, but the same demands are made of everything else in the entire domain of "science we actually take seriously". If it works, it should continue to work even if people neither expect nor want it to.
Whatever astrology means to you, it starts off with a highly implausible-sounding view of the way the universe works, and with simple, rational, mundane explanations already existing for its only obvious "results". Until someone's shown that it can actually do something we don't already have an answer for, the sensible thing is not to believe a word of it.
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This page is designed for passenger transport providers. You will find information about the Public Transport Management Act 2008. You will also find information about your obligations as a transport provider in the Hawke's Bay Region.
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Register of commercial public transport services
In accordance with the Public Transport Management Act 2008, a regional council must keep a current register of all commercial public transport services registered by it.
Public Transport Management Act 2008.
A register of transport services helps the regional council to plan public transport within the region and determine where it may wish to fill gaps with contracted services.
Who needs to register?
Part 2 section 31 of the Public Transport Management Act 2008 requires any person who proposes to operate a commercial public transport service to give written notice to every regional council in whose region the proposed service is to operate, no less than 35 working days before the commercial service is to start.
This does not apply if the commercial public transport service does not pick up or drop off passengers in the region.
Intending operators of commercial passenger transport services in the Hawke's Bay region are required to complete the appropriate registration forms (forms can be downloaded below). Completed forms should be returned to Hawke's Bay Regional Council with a copy of your Passenger Service Licence, no less than 35 working days before the commercial service is to start.
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The regional council will register a passenger service within 30 working days of receiving a notice of the application if the service is accepted.
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In cases where the registration is declined, the regional council will notify the operator of the proposed service within 15 working days of receiving a notice of the proposed services, explaining the reasons for the intention to decline and the operator's rights under section 52 to appeal a final decision.
Grounds for declining to register commercial public transport services are:
That it is likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial viability of any contracted service; or
That it is likely to increase the cost to the regional council of any contracted public transport service; or
That it is contrary to sound traffic management or any environmental factor identified by the regional council as important to its region; or
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Grounds for declining to vary registered commercial public transport services can be seen in part 2 section 37 of the Public Transport Management Act 2008.
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The Committee on Heritage and the Arts, Parks, Guam Products, Hagåtña Revitalization, Self-Determination, and Regional Affairs "Committee" will convene a public hearing at 8 a.m. in the Public Hearing Room of the Guam Congress Building, Hagåtña. For special accommodations or services call 989-5681/3, or email office.senatorkelly@guamlegislature.org.
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And Now, Our All-Time Favorite Sports Video Games
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Listen, it's the dead of summer, only boring sports are happening, and nobody much feels like blogging any blogs, so let's all play some video games instead. Here, now, the Deadspin staff reminisces on their all-time favorite sports games. Here's how we wasted our youth; please stick around afterward and let us know how you wasted yours.
Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey, Jr. (N64, 1998)
This is the perfect baseball game, because of its simplicity. How to pitch: Move the crosshairs around in the rectangle. How to bat: Aim the circle (which varies in size depending on the talent) over the square. How to field: The ball's going to land in that circle, so go get it. Trying to advance on a hit, steal a base, or catch someone stealing? The C buttons look like a baseball diamond. What else do you need?
Factor in that the rosters have some of the greatest hitters ever—along with Griffey, Barry Bonds, Edgar Martinez, Frank Thomas, and a few other stars have absurdly large batting circles—and a few of the greatest pitchers. Plus there's the barebones but acceptable season mode with a crude waiver wire and trading system, the "Can I get a hot dog ovah here?" guy in the crowd, and a perfect theme song. Video-game companies can keep making baseball games, but they'll never make one this accessible and fun. [Samer Kalaf]
International Track & Field (Playstation 2, 2000)
This is a little out of left field, but if there was ever a game built for four people to play after returning from a late night out, it's one that demands indiscriminate button-mashing. Once this series introduced saved records, it created the possibility of being—and the desire to remain—THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE by being the current 100m record-holder in the game.
But the best part of International Track & Field is that some of the events literally made you tired. The swimming event required several minutes of hammering on the shoulder buttons, and you'd end up sore and exhausted. Just like you had actually been swimming, except not. [Tim Burke]
NBA 2K8 (Xbox 360, 2007)
During my sophomore year of college, I spent roughly 75,000 hours playing NBA 2K8. Sports video games usually don't hold my attention for long, and basketball games especially: Who the hell has the patience to play through an entire 82-game campaign? Me and my dipshit college roommates, that's who! (Okay, to be fair, we only played 56-game seasons.) It went like this: The three of us would start a Franchise Mode, each pick a team, spend a few hours making ridiculous trades (I always traded for Josh Smith right away, because fuck you, that's why), and then get to work. When one roommate's team had a game, the other two would join forces and take control of the opponent.
Because our carefully constructed teams were far superior to the rest of the league, those 2-on-1 games became exercises in trolling. Even with two people, it was hard to beat a suped-up version of the Spurs while controlling, say, the Timberwolves, so your best chance at winning was to play like an asshole. We'd find loopholes in the game's mechanics—it was almost impossible to prevent Nate Robinson from dunking or to hold onto the ball when Ron Artest was raking for a steal—-and then exploit the hell out of them. Charlie Villanueva once scored 104 points in a single game (stretch fours were deadly in this format).
This sounds dumb, but I honestly believe that this game helped keep the peace in our house. College houses are goddamn petri dishes for Drama, because college kids are young and mostly selfish and not yet versed in the ways of living like an adult. We all did plenty of things to annoy each other, and NBA 2K8 became a fun place to blow off some steam. While roommates in other houses were throwing passive-aggressive fits every time the dishes didn't get done, we were settling grievances via 50-point outbursts from, like, Marco Jaric. Afterwards, we'd laugh about how stupid this game was, and then maybe wash some dishes. [Tom Ley]
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES, 1987)
A lot of bold, innovative new breakthroughs in racial stereotypes here. Von Kaiser taught us that Germans have luxurious mustaches and a vague, menacing, paramilitary air. Piston Honda taught us that Japanese people telegraph their punches via exaggerated eyebrow-wiggles. Don Flamenco taught us that Spanish dudes are effete lotharios with roses in their teeth. King Hippo taught us that residents of the South Pacific are morbidly obese. The Great Tiger taught us that the jewel in an Indian person's turban lights up when it's about to get Serious. Soda Popinski (née Vodka Drunkenski) taught us that Russians really like soda pop. Bald Bull taught us that Turkish people run you over and then laugh at you in a vaguely amusing way. Beat up all those people and you, too, can get your ass kicked by a rapist. I miss the '80s. [Rob Harvilla]
WCW vs nWo: World Tour [N64, 1997]
No one had yet made an actually good wrestling game before this. (Game Boy's late, unlamented WWF Superstars came the closest.) The fluid sequences of pro wrestling don't intuitively lend themselves to plodding sprites pulling off moves one at a time, and the planned choreography of a match doesn't easily translate to a genuinely competitive game. WCW vs nWo: World Tour figured it out, and the solution was absurdly simple: Start everything from the grapple.
You gained the upper hand from a single button press—get the angle, make the first move, and hope for a little luck—and you had your opponent locked up, and from there an entire moveset was yours. No complicated combos required, either, because wrestling is supposed to be fun: You want to do things to your opponent that would cripple a man in real life, you want to do it 30 times a match, and you don't want to have to wear him down for five minutes before you can pull off a simple suplex. World Tour succeeded by making unreality even more exaggerated.
But wrestling is about more than fighting. The game's music and entrances and deep roster captured the flair of WCW at its creative and commercial peak, but the real masterstroke was the spirit bar. On TV, the crowd and the flow are the real barometers for a good match, and here, it's the same. Fill your gauge by pulling off a series of moves—or by taunting your opponent or playing to the fans—and then and only then are you allowed to pull off one of your finishers. Artificial and cinematic in all the best ways for a fighting game, World Tour got the feel right by giving the drama as much attention as the action. [Barry Petchesky]
FIFA 08 (Playstation 3, 2008)
When I was in college, I played a few games—Final Fantasy X was (and is) verily my shit, as was (and is) Football Manager—but FIFA was something else. I played soccer in college, and so I lived with my teammates, and trained with them, and traveled with them, and fought with them, and drank with them, and played with them, and cried with them. We were brothers, always on the same side, fighting for the same thing. It was a great experience, and they're my brothers to this day, but sometimes you just want to beat a motherfucker through the ground, because you're 19 and invincible and have great abdominals and want to watch the world burn. When I felt like that, I challenged one of my brothers to FIFA.
On weeknights, and weekdays when we didn't want to go to class, and weekends, a bunch of us would cram into a dorm room, pile onto a couch, and go to war. There were rules. Teams were random. Winner stays on, and gets the good controller. If you were down by three at the half, the game's over. If you lost by five, you can't play for a week. If you got caught playing when you were suspended, the Playstation would be turned off, and the proper authorities would be notified. If you were to rage quit, you'd then be referred to as a bitch, forever. When we get together even now, these are still the rules.
I pick FIFA 08 specifically because I played this version my sophomore year in college. In my freshman year, I was trash, and I got my ass smacked all the time, and went a few weeks without playing, and rage quit a whole bunch. But I stayed on campus the summer between freshman and sophomore year. I grinded. And that summer, I got good. The following fall, when FIFA 08 dropped with more fleshed out trick moves and a free kick feature that allowed you to place the ball, allowing you to score from virtually any set piece, I got sexy.
We often pregamed or pissed lazy days away by playing FIFA with vodka, or rum. If you conceded, you took a shot. I puked a whole, whole lot. I almost killed a few of my good friends. I made the nicest and most pious kid I've ever met in my whole life curse, cry, and throw his controller across the room. I wear these as badges of honor to this day. This is the only game I play now, and I think it's because when I have the controller in my hands, tweaking my lineup before kickoff, talking incessant shit all the while, I feel 19 again. I feel like I have a second dick. [Greg Howard]
NBA Hangtime (N64, 1997)
I've probably spent more time playing NBA Hangtime than any other game in my life. My brother and I spent countless hours in our basement callusing our thumbs on the N64 joystick, fiddling with the attributes to build the best player in Create-a-Character mode (always minimum height, always maximum dunking, and always nicknamed "Homie"), knocking each other over on the digital court (the absence of fouls was a crucial feature), and trying to run the table against the other teams in the career(ish) mode. The outlandish somersault dunks, the unending quest to attain and then protect the blue flames of Team Fire status, the hilariously campy commentary, the dope-ass soundtrack whose lyrics I can still spout off to this day—everything about it was great. Homie especially. [Billy Haisley]
Bill Walsh College Football '95 (Sega Genesis, 1994)
Basically, this game allowed you to score 100 points a game using (exclusively) the triple option, left or right. Also, onside kicks were easy as fuck. I've said it before: Sports games are better when they are NOTHING like real sports, when I can score in triple digits in a football game and recover every onside kick and not have my confidence destroyed by a more "realistic" situation whose only purpose is to keep me from having fun and obliterating the fuck out of other teams. I crave dominance. [Drew Magary]
Whatever the hell baseball game I used to play on the bus (Game Gear, ~1992)
I was almost always last to everything, and that included video games. I eventually got a Sega as a bat mitzvah gift, and somewhere along the line an uncle bought us a PC in all its MS-DOS glory. But I never had the true key to teen happiness: a Game Boy or Sega Game Gear.
Thankfully, a few boys in my middle school took pity on me (or maybe their mothers had given them speeches about sharing), and on field trips they let me borrow their Game Gears and play their game of choice: baseball. I'm sure there's a fancy name for this game that I'm forgetting now, but in my defense, I didn't own it. There was only one rule (that I recall): The Mets couldn't lose.
Yes, the Mets once were a perfect 162-0, thanks to the industrious boys of David Posnack Hebrew Day School, circa 1992. Whenever the Mets were going to lose, the boys just turned off their Game Gears. And here's the thing: This rule always worked out when I played, because I had no idea what I was doing. I always picked the Pirates and once had Barry Bonds bat third, because why not. Sometimes I even had him hit first because, obviously, the best batter should go first. I moved around Andy Van Slyke a lot because his name was cool. I smashed buttons with glee because I had no idea what any of them did. Errors were made, so many errors were made, and every game ended in an L. It was gloriously, stupidly fun. [Diana Moskovitz]
Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (SNES, 1991)
Really, it might just as well have been called Bill Laimbeer's Shoving Game. That was where all the fun was, anyway. The shoving made a fun little PWAH! sound that was far more satisfying than anything the ball ever did. You passed the ball to your opponent so that his arms would be occupied, and then you flattened him. You threw the ball out of bounds so that your opponent would have to catch the inbound pass, and then you flattened him. You let your opponent flatten you so that you could flatten him back.
This overstated the violence of the real Bill Laimbeer's game quite a bit—much like his reputation did—but, to tell you the truth, I didn't much know or care about that in 1991, when I was 10 and jamming on this terrible, terrible video game on my SNES. My brother and I just thought it was the funniest thing. I beat the computer like 200-0 one time because I had the good fortune to score first; then I just stood there and nailed the guy catching the inbound pass and scored again, over and over and over again. We just laughed and laughed. We were weird and angry kids.
No game like Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball will ever exist again. I have a 2K basketball game now: It's great and I love it and it's a much better representation of basketball than this was. It has never made me laugh so hard my chest hurt, though. It is not capable of that, because I can't make my guy plant Luke Ridnour in the floor with that hilarious PWAH! sound. [Albert Burneko]
Wii Sports (Nintendo Wii, 2006)
Wii Sports is the best video game ever made. It wasn't just a launch title: It came with every Wii sold outside of Japan and South Korea, making it the highest-selling console game ever (and second overall to cheating-ass Tetris, which is available and completely un-fucking-playable on "mobile," iOS, BlackBerry OS, and PSP). It was the kitchen-table pitch for the new Wii controllers, the thing you showed your parents when you were trying to con them into turning Thanksgiving Family Video Night into an annual video-game party.
Bowling was the most accessible game, since there's no timing or reaction—you just swing your hand in a straight line and try not to break anything. Baseball was fine if you just played the games, but what you really wanted to do was play the Home Run Derby or Consecutive Hits mini-games, and what you really didn't want to do was swing as hard as you possibly could for no reason, because the Wii recognizes a finite amount of force, and you're a grown man, and it's made for children, but you'd do it anyway and produce a minor tear in your biceps and not be able to use your right arm for a week afterward. Boxing, I don't know, whatever. It was too slow, I think. As for golf, that's only the second time I've ever convinced myself that I could actually, definitely, no-shit certainly learn to do something in real life that I'd done in a video game. (The other time was playing drums in The Beatles: Rock Band.)
Whereas tennis was good in any configuration—singles, doubles, co-op—and was wonderful in the single-player training mode where you had to hit a target over and over, and your high score unlocked little gold medals. I got to 75, which was fucking HARD, and then my little sister got 77, and that was the record for the rest of the time we had the Wii because FUCK THAT, THAT TOOK ME FIVE HOURS.
If you want to tweak the toilet-paper absorbency in your luxe suites in Madden or whatever the fuck those games are about now instead of playing football, go right ahead. But the best sports games are the ones that you can just pick up and play with any of your no-account sucker friends, have them be competent enough to take a good and proper beating, and then troll them about said beating. That's Wii Sports, the best game ever made. [Kyle Wagner]
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NBA 2K21 – 2KTV Episode 48 Answers
Guides, NBA 2K21 / August 26, 2021 August 26, 2021 / By Shoaib
2K21 Episode 48 Answers – NBA 2KTV is an original series which was made available for the first time in NBA 2K15 by Visual Concepts. It is available to watch both in-game, and on the official NBA 2K YouTube channel.
The show covers almost everything about NBA 2K gaming and the NBA, featuring interviews with developers and NBA players alike. It also spotlights NBA 2K gamers, and covers events such as the Road To The Finals tournament in 2K Pro-Am. Various episodes have also revealed tidbits about upcoming games, including the addition of more retro teams, gameplay enhancements, and other teasers. It is a really great addition that keeps people glued to the game even when they are not playing the game.
Now that NBA 2K21 is here, we all know what that means. A brand-new season of 2KTV. We have now reached Season 7 of 2KTV. It is amazing how far this series has come.
Every episode of 2KTV throws a couple of questions towards the players. And if they manage to answer them, they get 100-200 VC in return. If you ask me, this is one of the best ways to earn some free VC. So if you play NBA 2K21, then you definitely need to do this every week. Let us take a quick look at the 2KTV Episode 48 answers:
Diana Turasi
Any Answer
Ronny Turiaf
Charly Palmer
Make sure that you are hitting the correct button prompts. That is the only way to confirm your answer. You will be rewarded with 100-200 VC immediately followed by a green tick, if your answer is correct. Some questions give you a very short time window, so try to answer them as quickly as possible. My recommendation would be, open this article on your phone, and keep on answering the questions.
Check out 2KTV Season 7, Episode 48:
If you think this guide has helped you, then let us know in the comment section below. Also, if you want the answers from the older episodes, than you can check out our other NBA 2K21 guides. Good luck!
Shoaib
Shoaib, 30, is a simple guy who loves to play video games, and enjoys new cuisines sporadically. He has been gaming since he was 7 years old, and with an experience of 22 years, under his belt, there is not a single AAA game in this world, that he hasn't played. Despite being a MBA Graduate he decided to follow his passion. And because of his love for gaming, Frondtech came into existence.
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"I feel great. I feel very happy that I am on top two years in a row," Halep told a news conference at Moscow's Kremlin Cup, a joint ATP and WTA event.
"It has been an amazing year, the best year of my life in tennis. Winning a Grand Slam makes it very special and it is going to be forever in my heart."
Halep played two Grand Slam finals winning the French Open crown and won titles in Shenzhen and Montreal, leading the rankings for 40 weeks this year.
She said her phenomenal success was the result of her daily hard work.
"I was very focused on what I have to do on court, I was working hard every day, I was very motivated all the year, I did not let the time fly just without putting my work into the game," she said.
"I never gave up, I tried every day to become better and better. These things all together help me to keep me for four-five years in the top five."
The world's number one, who has already qualified for the WTA year-ending finals, added that she decided to play in Moscow to solve the problems that she still experienced after the back injury before playing at Singapore.
"I came here to make sure that I am able to play, because my back is not great yet," she said. "I am waiting to see how I wake up tomorrow, because today I had a tough practice. I will see how it works here and I will go to Singapore."


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using Fpm.MainUI.Helpers;
using Fpm.MainUI.Models;
using Fpm.ProfileData;
using Fpm.ProfileData.Entities.Profile;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace Fpm.MainUI.Controllers
{
    [RoutePrefix("content")]
    public class ContentController : Controller
    {
        private readonly IProfilesReader _reader;
        private readonly IProfilesWriter _writer;

        public ContentController(IProfilesReader reader, IProfilesWriter writer)
        {
            _reader = reader;
            _writer = writer;
        }

        [Route("content-index")]
        public ActionResult ContentIndex(int profileId = ProfileIds.Undefined)
        {
            var model = new ContentGridModel
            {
                SortBy = "Sequence",
                SortAscending = true,
                CurrentPageIndex = 1,
                PageSize = 100
            };

            model.ProfileList = ProfileMenuHelper.GetProfileListForCurrentUser();
            model.ProfileId = profileId;
            ViewBag.ProfileId = profileId;
            model.ContentItems = _reader.GetProfileContentItems(profileId)
                .OrderBy(x => x.Description).ToList();
            return View(model);
        }

        [Route("edit-content-item")]
        public ActionResult EditContentItem(string contentId, int profileId)
        {
            var contentItem = _reader.GetContentItem(Convert.ToInt32(contentId));
            ViewBag.ProfileId = profileId;
            ViewBag.ProfileName = _reader.GetProfileDetailsByProfileId(profileId).Name;
            return View("EditContentItem", contentItem);
        }

        [Route("create-content-item")]
        public ActionResult CreateContentItem(int selectedProfile)
        {
            var content = new ContentItem();
            content.ProfileId = selectedProfile;
            ViewBag.ProfileId = selectedProfile;
            return View(content);
        }

        [Route("insert-content-item")]
        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateInput(false)]
        public ActionResult InsertContentItem(ContentItem contentItem)
        {
            if (!TryUpdateModel(contentItem))
            {
                ViewBag.UpdateError = "Update Failure";
                return View("CreateContentItem", contentItem);
            }

            CleanContent(contentItem);

            // Check not duplicate content key
            var keyExist = _reader.GetContentItem(contentItem.ContentKey, contentItem.ProfileId);
            if (keyExist != null)
            {
                ViewBag.UpdateError = GetDuplicateContentKeyMessage(contentItem);
                ViewBag.ProfileId = contentItem.ProfileId;
                return View("CreateContentItem", contentItem);
            }

            // Save new content item
            var newContentItem = _writer.NewContentItem(contentItem.ProfileId,
                contentItem.ContentKey, contentItem.Description, contentItem.IsPlainText, contentItem.Content);
            AuditContentChange(newContentItem, "CREATED");

            return RedirectToAction("ContentIndex", new { profileId = contentItem.ProfileId });
        }

        [Route("update-content-item")]
        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateInput(false)]
        public ActionResult UpdateContentItem(ContentItem contentItem)
        {
            var newContentItem = new ContentItem();
            AutoMapper.Mapper.Map(contentItem, newContentItem);

            CleanContent(newContentItem);

            // Check not duplicate content key
            var existingContent = _reader.GetContentItem(contentItem.ContentKey, contentItem.ProfileId);
            if (existingContent != null && existingContent.Id != newContentItem.Id)
            {
                ViewBag.UpdateError = GetDuplicateContentKeyMessage(contentItem);
                ViewBag.ProfileName = contentItem.ProfileId;
                ViewBag.ProfileName = _reader.GetProfileDetailsByProfileId(contentItem.ProfileId).Name;

                return View("EditContentItem", contentItem);
            }

            _writer.UpdateContentItem(newContentItem);

            AuditContentChange(newContentItem, contentItem.Content);

            return RedirectToAction("ContentIndex", new { profileId = contentItem.ProfileId });
        }

        [Route("content-audit-list")]
        public ActionResult GetContentAuditList(IEnumerable<int> contentIds)
        {
            var contentAuditList = _reader.GetContentAuditList(contentIds.ToList());
            return PartialView("_ContentAudit", contentAuditList);
        }

        private static string GetDuplicateContentKeyMessage(ContentItem contentItem)
        {
            return string.Format("That content key '{0}' has already been used for this profile", contentItem.ContentKey);
        }

        [Route("delete-content-item")]
        public ActionResult DeleteContentItem(int contentItemId)
        {
            var contentItem = _writer.GetContentItem(contentItemId);

            if (contentItem == null)
            {
                throw new FpmException("Content item could not be deleted with id " + contentItemId);
            }

            _writer.DeleteContentItem(contentItem.ContentKey, contentItem.ProfileId);

            // Audit content item deletion
            var oldContent = contentItem.Content;
            contentItem.Content = "DELETED";
            AuditContentChange(contentItem, oldContent);

            return Json(new
            {
                Id = contentItemId,
                Message = "The content item was successfully deleted."
            });
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [Route("publish-content-item")]
        public async Task<ActionResult> PublishContentItem(IList<int> contentIds)
        {
            // Read the live update key from the configuration
            string liveUpdateKey = AppConfig.GetLiveUpdateKey();

            // Read the api url from the configuration
            string apiUrl = AppConfig.GetLiveSiteWsUrl();
            apiUrl = apiUrl + "api/contents";

            // Get the content item(s) to be published
            IList<ContentItem> contentItems = _reader.GetContentItems(contentIds);

            // Setup the http client object and post asynchronously to the web api method
            // to publish the document on live server
            using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
            {
                client.BaseAddress = new Uri(apiUrl);
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

                // Serialise and add the live update key and content item(s) to the multi part form data content
                using (var formData = new MultipartFormDataContent())
                {
                    formData.Add(new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(liveUpdateKey)), "LiveUpdateKey");

                    formData.Add(new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(contentItems)), "content-items");

                    // Post asynchronously the request to the web api method
                    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(apiUrl, formData);

                    // If the publishing of the document succeeded then return a json result
                    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                    {
                        return new JsonResult
                        {
                            Data = "Success",
                            JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet
                        };
                    }
                }
            }

            throw new FpmException("Publishing live failed for the content(s)");
        }

        [Route("view-in-own-page")]
        public ActionResult ViewContentItemInOwnPage(int contentItemId)
        {
            var contentItem = _reader.GetContentItem(contentItemId);

            if (contentItem == null)
            {
                throw new FpmException("Content item could not be deleted with id " + contentItemId);
            }

            return View(contentItem);
        }

        private string formatPlainText(string content)
        {
            if (content == null)
            {
                return string.Empty;
            }

            //Persist any line breaks if plain text
            var replacedLineBreaksContent = Regex.Replace(content, "(
)", "\r\n");
            var removedHTMLContent = Regex.Replace(replacedLineBreaksContent, "<.*?>", string.Empty);
            return Regex.Replace(removedHTMLContent, "(\r\n|\n)", "
");
        }

        private void CleanContent(ContentItem contentItem)
        {
            var content = contentItem.IsPlainText ? formatPlainText(contentItem.Content) : contentItem.Content;
            if (content == null)
            {
                content = String.Empty;
            }

            contentItem.Content = content;

            // Ensure content key is always lower case
            contentItem.ContentKey = contentItem.ContentKey.ToLower();
        }

        private void AuditContentChange(ContentItem contentItem, string oldContent)
        {
            _writer.NewContentAudit(new ContentAudit
            {
                ContentKey = contentItem.ContentKey,
                ToContent = contentItem.Content,
                FromContent = oldContent,
                ContentId = contentItem.Id,
                UserName = UserDetails.CurrentUser().Name,
                Timestamp = DateTime.Now
            });
        }
    }
}

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Q: checking for input only 0 or 1 the program accepts a string consisting of 0 and 1, how can I limit the input of other numbers?
I tried using the while loop:
while(str<0 ||str>1){
   cout << "Enter your string: ";
   cin.getline(str, MAXLINE);
}//  in this case I can only enter 0 and 1

but my string can look like: "11 10 111" and therefore this method is not suitable.  How can I make an input check so that different combinations of 0 and 1 are entered, but no other digits are entered?
#define MAXLINE 1000
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {

int len = 0;
char str[MAXLINE];

cout << "Enter your string: ";
cin.getline(str, MAXLINE);

    while (str[0] == '\0') {
        cout << "String is empty. Try enter string again: ";
    cout << "Enter your string: ";
        cin.getline(str, MAXLINE);
}

for (int i = 0; str[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
    if (str[i] != ' ' && str[i + 1] != '\0')
        len++;
    else {
        if (str[i + 1] == '\0') {
            len++;
            ++i;
        }
        if (len % 2 == 0) {
            for (int j = i - len; j < i; ++j) {
                cout << str[j];
            }
            cout << "\t";
        }
        len = 0;
    }
}

return 0;
 }

A: You can check that the std::string contains only 0 and 1 with:
if(str.find_first_not_of("01") != std::string::npos)
  // found invalid character

You could include a space in that if you allow spaces in the input.
See std::string::find_first_not_of


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Army Abducts Three Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, Saturday, three Palestinians, including two children, in two separate incidents in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and installed roadblocks in the city and two nearby towns.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city, and abducted Ma'moun Hussein Natsha, 19.
The army claimed the young man "carried a knife." Natsha, who did not attempt to attack the soldiers, was cuffed and blindfolded before he was moved to an unknown destination.
On Saturday morning, the soldiers invaded Bab az-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron city, and abducted two children, identified as Salim Mohammad Sammooh, 14, and Hamdi Khalil Qawasma, 14, before taking them to an unknown destination.
In related news, the soldiers installed many roadblocks in several neighborhoods in Hebron city, and the main entrances of Sa'ir and Halhoul towns, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Israeli Soldiers Invade Bethlehem, Summon Two Palestinians For Interrogation
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MLA: "New England Conservatory; Festival Of Americana." 05/10/1972. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. April 25, 2019. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_E9D20BCD9B2F42779D47492BB1A0756D>.


Follow the Tracks of the Beaver, Canadian Pacific between Exshaw, Alberta and Revelstoke, British Columbia through the totally stunning scenery of the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains. You'll see the scenery, the wildlife, take side trips to the Takakkaw Falls, Johnston Canyon and Mount Revelstoke. You'll see elk, bear, mountain sheep, mountain goats, bald eagle and osprey.
You'll ride in the cab in the Mount Mcdonald tunnel, the longest in the western hemisphere, and see the incredible engineering feat of the spiral tunnels. Full musical accompaniment, and narration to tell you the history of the construction of the routes through Kicking Horse Pass and Rogers Pass, plus a descrition of the trains and locomotives you are likely to see on the route.


FOR HEART AND HOME: WHAT WILL TOMORROW BRING?
It has been one of the most beautiful November days in memory today. Blue sky and very warm. I am sure we will pay for this wonderful weather in a week or two with below zero temperatures and swirling snow. Life in the Great White North - you gotta love it.
I am anxiously awaiting the US elections tomorrow as I have been following all of the debates and of course, have my opinion as to who I would choose. Darn - I don't get a vote. What a milestone this election will produce - either way it will change American history and my hope for my American friends is that it helps your economy and gives people hope for a better tomorrow.
Our Canadian elections came and went with hardly a whimper - no big hoop la and no big changes. Some times the more things change the more they stay the same, so maybe there was change and I missed it.
Well - I have got to get to bed as I will be up late tomorrow watching the election results. Should be interesting.
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Thank you Debbi - I will get right over there.