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Nightwave + alerts removal feedback
By [DE]Bear, March 4 in General
TuxaLim 16
I was excited by the new alert system but now I think it's ruining the game for me.
My wife and I have limited time to play and that used to be fine. We could load up Warframe and choose what we wanted to do. It generally takes us a long time to get anywhere, especially for my wife but we were fine with that.
The old alert system was annoying but we're patient and accepted that we would have to wait for the various items to pop up at a time when we were available.
Now it feels like the gameplay is dictated. IF we want the Nightwave rewards, and we do, then we have no choice but to participate.
The game is no longer about choice for us, we can't just jump in and say, hey let's go get that mod we want or let's just mess around on low level stuff.
If there was part of the game I or my wife did not generally enjoy it was fine, we could take part in that activity every now and again, eventually, we'll get the standing or whatever it is we need to progress.
This week though...
Go mining at some point, yey one of the dullest parts of the game woop woop!
Do 8 Orb Valis bounties, I don't enjoy Orb Valis, yey!
Go fishing... ffs
My wife hates Lua so we rarely go... Wonderful
5 sorties in a week... We usually manage one or two a week! We don't have time to play every day but to do this we would need to.
The vaults are on our, very long, to do list but again we like player choice, not dictation.
I could go on whining, and I know some of this is personal preference and some is perception but the best part of this game for me was that I could, for the most part, play how I wanted. If I wanted to play stealth then go for it, godmode through missions in under 2 mins why not. Stug slime someone's foot and watch them rocketman cartwheel into the ceiling. Fill your boots!
last week all our free time together( I get a little more time solo) was spent doing wolf stuff and it was Sunday before we could actually just "play".
Right now I feel like I have to do wolf stuff, I know this isn't really the case but I still feel like I have to. And I don't really want to take part this week, just wanna have fun in the game. So I logged in and now... I'm just not interested. I don't feel like I can just have fun because my free time is limited and "what if I don't do enough" so any time I play I feel like I should be doing wolf stuff.
I do think there is a relatively easy solution though. Don't dictate what people can do to earn Nightwave standing just cap the amount at a weekly say 45k for missions, unlimited for captures and make every challenge available all the time and add a few more general ones like, completed any 20 missions.
If I understand correctly 30k per week is enough to get Nightwave to 30 by the end of the phase so this would be more than enough and keep player choice without letting people blast through in a week.
IIRC you only need to do 60% of Nightwave stuff to get to 30... But to me, that translates to "Holy crap I have to do at least 60%, what if life happens and I can't take part for a week or 2, I'm going to have to do every bit that I can so I don't miss out!" ATM I'm averaging 4 ranks a week which should be more than enough but my wife is struggling to get 3 which, if this only runs for 10 weeks... won't be.
Last weekend we were going to focus on relics for my wife because... Baro... but we couldn't do as much as we wanted because she had to do wolf stuff. We mostly missed the Razorback last time because, life, and we missed it completely this time because, Nightwave.
At the moment I won't be able to relax playing the game until I get to 30 or I've done everything I can in a given week which this week means do a fair amount of things I'm just not in the mood for. Which make Waframe feel like a chore, which means I just don't want to play.
I was hoping that having a rant on the forums would make me feel better but it hasn't... I'm off to... Well, I was going to play Warframe but now I'm really not in the mood.
(PS4)ArcAvenger89 54
PSN Member
13 hours ago, LSG501 said:
Can we not have 5 sorties in a week for 5k, again this a balance thing, 3 at most. Sorties aren't hard for 'veterans' but they can take a long time if we get a bad rotation of missions.
7 hours ago, Telogor said:
5 sorties in a single week is way too much. 1 was good, 2 would be okay, but 5 in a single week is over 2 hours of time investment and a daily requirement of half an hour. Sorties aren't even fun or rewarding in the first place.
Yeah I agree with people so far that 5 Sorties is a little much, if no other reason than your gonna need to be able to play around 1 hr on 5 different days to finish the challenge. I mean the dailies are around for 3 days to make sure people have time to do them without logging in everyday but this week if you cant log in almost everyday to play you end up missing a challenge, and not because of lack of skill or inability to do them(not far enough in the story, etc.) but because you have a life/family/job/other commitments that keep you from being able to game 24/7. I personally think 3 sorties max for a week as a challenge because to do the all dailies in a week you would have to log in at least 3 times anyways.
While I understand the sentiment the alert system while still a way better alternative to this new nightwave system had multiple issue of its own. There were actually many people asking for changes to the alert system for quite a while, which is what probably lead to nightwave in the first place. People were not happy that you could miss a great alert while sleeping or away from the game only to not see the alert for that item again for weeks sometimes. Veteran players also wanted the alerts to get better reward items because at a certain point the alert rewards became almost useless to them and made alerts feel like they were basically for newbies. The only thing is I just dont think most people expected random mostly new player friendly alerts to be replaced with a battle pass aimed at more advance players and that requires so much work and commitment that it would actually make most people miss random limited time alerts. So while understand the otter frustration with nightwave and agree that I would prefer alerts to come back, its just not true or fair to say that nobody had issues with alerts.
Ennea_ 2
I guess it would be neat to have more focus on daily Nightwave challenges, perhaps mission specific ones, to provide more things to do for people who don't have as much time to do all the high end weekyl stuff.
LSG501 8,581
9 hours ago, LightZodiac said:
With fugitives giving 100 instead of 50 standing I'm perfectly happy with this system and I hope DE will keep it.
That's only on Orb Vallis, and will likely stop when the double rewards stop. I have only been getting 3x50 outside of there.
--END--Rikutatis 1,073
9 hours ago, Shadow-Spawn said:
Wow a new week of Nora's stupid acts - and you guessed it they suck - DE stop forcing players to play these stupid acts - it's more time consuming and grindy and less rewarding, but most importantly it's not fun to play.
Bring back the quick alert system now - don't wait 10 weeks for feedback you should have gotten before releasing it in the first place.
Speak for yourself, many of us are clearly enjoying it and we don't need the old alerts back. A lot of those challenges are stuff you can do while normally playing the game or doing stuff you should be doing anyway to progress.
i just hope that elite alerts will not become tasks such as pick 4 flowers. These are not necessary to reach the goal and if somebody finds some of them too hard to tedious he is able to simply skip them and still reach the rank 30 with Nightwave.
Exactly. It's really disheartening to see all the whining on the forums when DE finally decides to give us a few decent challenges here and there. The 60 min survival without activating life supports was a genuine good challenge. People need to realize they don't NEED to get to rank 30. People need to stop with this "gotta catch 'em all" mentality in WF. You don't need to have 100% completion on all content. Stop stressing yourself over it, do enough Nightwave to have the nitain/potatoes you need and done. Go do other stuff.
2 hours ago, TuxaLim said:
Right now I feel like I have to do wolf stuff, I know this isn't really the case but I still feel like I have to.
Honestly, that's on you then. Not on DE. Get over it. You don't need to do it. As I said in my other post, people need to stop with this mentality in WF, that they absolutely must do and have every single thing in the game. If you need a few nitain or a couple potatoes, do enough to get that with the challenges that do appeal to you, then go do other stuff. I really dislike mining in WF, I haven't even bothered mining for the stuff needed to craft the 2 handed Nikana. There's other stuff for me to do in the game.
BrazilianJoe 4,517
On 2019-03-04 at 6:47 PM, [DE]Bear said:
So at first pass, we are seeing some concerns rise to the top:
Ayatan Challenges - too RNG dependent.
Survival Challenges - too long in one sitting.
Friend / Clan Challenges - "I have no friends/my friends don't play Warframe".
I wouldn't mind those tasks at a "legendary task", provided they are "going the extra mile".
I.e. the player may still hit level 30 if the never does these, or may hunt these to catch up if he had little time to play and lost some tasks.
Or make them cumulative, so the player may collectively play 60 min. survival instead of going in one sitting.
IMO the "clan/friend" requirement is a non-issue, the chat can be used to find someone willing to do the task, and you can friend the person on the spot. Which is what I did, even though I have a clan and old time friends, I couldn't coordinate with my old-timers. You could make it so that the "with a friend/clanmate" requirement is changed to a bonus rep that applies to all challenges.
Ayatan statues whould be changed from that to "Have at least 4 Ayatan statues be found by you or teammates."
What it means: If you do a single Maroo run with a full squad - not necessarily friends/clanmates, just a squad - each one gets a Ayatan statue, snatching the win.
But make it repeatable so you can get the reward multiple times.
The first time is basically guaranteed with Maroo. Reruns should be possible, and are still RNG, but it shouldn't matter as they are bonus rep. If you do sorties, you are already likely to get at least one extra.
Kontrollo 3,645
5 Sorties is probably a tad much when compared to the other challenges, especially the "do one Sortie with a friend". Not that they're difficult and I won't have a problem doing this challenge either. It's more about the combination of playtime investment, time gating and comparison to others that makes this one stick out.
Maybe shave off one or two there. Alternatively, make it reward more standing.
(PS4)corpusbonds 392
10 hours ago, LightZodiac said:
Well I urge DE to increase standing for fugitives to 100 for other platforms as well.
50 standing is too low, 100 feels just right.
PC's fugitives gives 100 standing each? Or am I reading this wrong?
AltheusV 186
9 minutes ago, (PS4)jaegerbombtastic said:
They give 100 standing in orb valis and 50 elsewhere.
49 minutes ago, AltheusV said:
PS4 gives 50, Vallis or not. I'm assuming that was with pc's recent update.
Edited March 11 by (PS4)jaegerbombtastic
Kuldor 199
I liked the system at first but now it's feeling opressive.
I feel like I have to complete the challenges, like the game is ordering me to do stuff, I don't feel like I have the choice of doing whatever I want to do, it just feels I'm wasting time if I'm not completing nightwave challenges.
It's like there's an alert you "should" do, but instead of doing it and that's it, the alert is active 24/7 and you need to do it over and over again or you'll be behind the rest. Not only that, so far some challenges make you do stuff that's not exactly fun to do, fishing and minning? really? 8 damn bounties? have you never read feedback about how people feel about repeating bounties DE? an hour long survival after you've said you don't want to give extra rewards to very long endless sesions?
The whole system feels like I HAVE to play WF constantly or else I'm #*!%ed, and I don't like when a game puts pressure on me for no good reason.
LuckyCharm 3,254
Another week, another lack of interesting things to do and more grind than ever. Not really talking about sorties, though they are grindy, but more about just how many vallis bounties you need to do and gems and fish needed to pray to rng for. Add to those four a bunch of things like lua challenge rooms everyone by now probably has completed a bunch but usually require more than one person its just stuffing the nightwave missions with busywork. Even riven challenges would have made better things to do than just mission after needless mission grind
LightningStorm84 10
Hi, i just saw the new daily\weekly challenges, and i was thinking:
can we PLEASE avoid farming related challenges?
I mean we're here to have fun, it's a fight game.
Please, just avoid boring things, Lua spies and orokin vaults included!
Let us enjoy figthing instead, like killing bosses with only one weapon equipped or i dunno the other 3000 things you can do in fighting.
Thanks for you hard work.
TheFBD 279
Looking at this weeks challenges i decided to "opt out" of nightwaves. Not gonna look into those anymore and may only do challenges "on accident" when i unintentionally complete one.
They feel like a 9/5 job by now, like do this stuff you don't like to do, just get over with it. For the next few hours. Then you can go home and do stuff you actually enjoy.
And on top of that there are the thermia fissures now too, which are also tedious grinds. 100 fissures to get the opticor? i'll pass.
Scanning the data things? Uhm, nope. Where is the fun in that??
I'm actually looking forward to one or two hours of warframe every day - today i logged out after 20 mins. Right now looking through my steam library to see what else i could do to actually have some fun because warframe is getting pretty depressing recently.
marelooke 1,011
13 hours ago, Shadow-Spawn said:
Wow a new week of Nora's stupid acts - and you guessed it they suck - DE stop forcing players to play these stupid acts - it's more time consuming and grindy and less rewarding, but most importantly it's not fun to play. I left my maxed out guild in Star Wars: The old republic because EAware changed the guild conquest system overnight without telling anyone about it and made it completely not fun to play. Then they refused to change it back as thousands of players quit the game from a dwindling population already on life support. Don't make the same mistake DE.
Couldn't agree more. Nothing fun, interesting or part of my usual gameplay loop in there.
The only two I'd do "just because" would be the Clem and Exterminate one (well, I need OV fish so that one might get done anyway). The rest is just tedious busywork.
I'll probably put up with the system this season (while complaining loudly), but without major changes I'll be out when the next one comes around.
Edited March 11 by marelooke
1 hour ago, (PS4)jaegerbombtastic said:
Yes, the event adds an Orb Vallis local resource booster.
simplygnome 397
30 minutes ago, marelooke said:
Im 100% with you there. It has not been fun, and all its doing it eating my game time.
I think my normal rotation would do the Dailys (which I have liked most of them), and probably the Sortie one. Otherwise, I wouldnt be getting anything else. So 12K NW rep out of the min 60% (30k) needed.
I have stopped my purchases to DE, giving up a 70% login reward, for the moment. Its just not fun and Im doing the min to keep up with NW/Events then logging, which is MUCH LESS than my normal game time.
4 hours ago, --END--Rikutatis said:
Generally I would agree but currently, the only way to get umbra forma is to get to at least 29. If it was at 15 or maybe even 20 then I probably wouldn't be that bothered. The thing with almost every other grind in the game is that you can take part or not. With this... at least for the foreseeable future you either have to join in and get to 29 or miss out... not get eventually or just slower but not at all unless/until they change the requirements.
I don't enjoy fortuna but that's ok I can do a bounty, or whatever, every once in a while and I'll get the standing needed in the end.
Edited March 11 by TuxaLim
Enialyx 576
I absolutely hate that,
1) I'm being pressured to play content chosen for me.
2) Doing so takes a lot of time.
3) The content is mindless chores.
Either let me play what I choose or take away the time constraint.
(NSW)mrEkli 35
Nintendo Member
We're three weeks in and why are we doing the challenges? What is the story? Why was the wolf imprisoned? Was it for breaking out of the prison? Is he the Wolf of Saturn 5 as well then?
nokturnihs 111
I would have to say that the most recent set of Nightwave challenges is discouraging for new players at the least.
Five sorties is one challenge, but sorties ARE "MR Locked" in the sense that you need to progress so far in the star chart. Furthermore just because you can access the sorties doesn't mean you can do them. I'm MR26 but I know several players who are new and under MR10 who can do the sorties but would never be able to accomplish them without me or someone else carrying them. If they do it with a less-than-friendly pub group they may or may not have enough revives to succeed. And with a group of people who need carrying, gonna be a problem.
Rare gems on PoE are (unless this has changed and I missed it) also reputation locked because of the need for the higher tier mining laser, which requires a specific rep level on cetus to acquire.
rare fish on Fortuna - again bait for those fish is faction locked
The unseen challenge requires Loki or Ivara - mind you loki isn't incredibly difficult to acquire but most people grind at spies for months to get ivara. Also I've known MR14 guys who had neither loki nor ivara because they didn't know where to get them.
Overall, I'd say if the purpose of reworking alerts into something usable for new players in the form of Nightwave it's failing so far. The objectives are incredibly challenging for new players (60 min Kuva survival? For someone MR10 or lower? Come on....)
What I see nightwave as being is a high grind-wall locking content down to encourage platinum expense. It'll work great for that. No more will people need to use their mobile app to watch for the alerts they could hop on and do in 20min to achieve the same results days/weeks of grinding could earn them before. Now it's a mandatory play time of several hours EVERY DAY for the same result and the challenge rate is much higher.
These challenges are grind-heavy and for those of us who have been playing A LONG TIME, and now can only spend the time to log in for hours maybe one night each weekend, it just leaves a bad taste in our mouth. I'm MR26 - I am constantly dealing with content drought. This isn't new content, this is forcing old content on us and the only thing that interests me are the new mods (not great but something to mess with) and the umbral forma (not needed because I've already spend 6+ forma on most warframes/melee weapons I wanted an umbral build on, including a few frames "just because" ). So seeing a grindy, VERY time consuming chores list makes me disappointed. That combined with the mechanics of "operation buried debt" makes me nervous about future content being locked behind ridiculous amounts of tedium. What's new and fresh gets old and unappealing after about 10 times doing it.
Just my two cents but I think nightwave is doing more to inspire new players to shell out platinum than it is to help them out.
Softballbryan 205
I like the nightwave challenges. The one hour kuva survival required 7 tries and I learned a lot in the process. I've already learned more from the Lua ascension challenges. Keep it coming and make some of them even more difficult.
If the standing was a permanent thing and after phase 1 I could just keep plugging away until I eventually get to 30 then prestige and do it again then fine but if I understand correctly (and this is where I'm hoping I missed or misunderstood something)
You have 10 weeks to get to 30+ if you want to get everything then your standing is reset and there will be a new set of rewards? And have to grind again or miss out again. I don't mind things taking a long time but having to chose between content I don't enjoy/not in the mood and get the rewards or play the game the way I enjoy/am in the mood for and miss out.
35 minutes ago, TuxaLim said:
Thats actually a FANTASTIC IDEA.
I would 100% be okay with nightwave if it was in 10 week sets, but I could get rep on my own time, then once NW Season 2 comes out, Id just have to finish set 1 and then Id prestige to set 2, and that could stack every 10 weeks.
I still dont think its a worthy replacement for alerts, but that would completely remove my opposition to it. Then again, DE wouldnt beable to resue the same rewards recycled for multiple events.
Edited March 11 by simplygnome


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VNH South always pays attention to investment into high quality ground facilities to support its flight operations. The company has constructed and operated a complete ground facility system which meets international aviation standards, such as:
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- Air traffic control tower: A new ATC Tower built in 2002 has been equipped with accurate and sophisticated devices meeting all of ATC requirements.
Runway, aprons, airport facilities: Vung Tau airport's runway and aprons are recently repaired and upgraded to support the rapid development of Oil and gas offshore operations in Vung Tau. Communication and navigation aids: ILS, VOR/DME, NDB, night light system are equipped to ensure safe flights in all weather conditions.

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Pinchcliffe Grand Prix Review (Switch eShop)
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Look, we all know everybody has already collected all of the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix memorabilia there may be to gather. We're positive that as you learn this you're sitting there in your Pinchcliffe Grand Prix pyjamas and shaking with worry on the prospect of shopping for one other piece of Pinchcliffe merchandise, as a result of your associate has threatened to throw you out in case you dare add any extra objects to the seven rooms of Pinchcliffe tat you've already crammed to bursting. Fear not, although, as a result of no less than this one's out there digitally, which means you'll be able to add to your brimming assortment with out taking over any extra beneficial house in your house.
When you'll permit us to take our sarcastic tongue out of our cheek now, the fact is that Pinchcliffe Grand Prix is definitely a giant deal in some elements of the world, particularly its native Norway. Launched in 1975, the movie is essentially the most broadly seen Norwegian film of all time.
To place it into perspective, Norway's inhabitants is round 5 million, and but the movie bought 5.5 million tickets throughout its theatrical run. To be honest, although, that's in all probability as a result of it was in cinemas for a complete of 28 years (and that's not a foul joke, that's the precise fact). So sure, in case you dwell outdoors of Norway you won't have heard of Pinchcliffe (or Flåklypa Grand Prix as it is also identified), however that doesn't imply it's insignificant.
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When you aren't acquainted with it, the movie tells the story of Theodore Rimspoke, a car inventor who lives together with his animal buddies, a hedgehog referred to as Lambert and a magpie referred to as Sonny. When Theodore discovers that his former assistant has stolen his racing automotive blueprint and develop into a world champion with it, he and his pals resolve to construct their very own model of the automotive with funding from a rich Arab sheik – who's a little bit of a dodgy stereotype, on condition that the movie was from the '70s – and enter the subsequent race themselves.
The title could recommend that this can be a simple karting recreation, however in actuality Pinchcliffe Grand Prix has a narrative mode which needs to be accomplished earlier than any precise racing can happen. Fortunately or disappointingly, relying in your view – this story mode may be completed in round an hour or so (so we suppose in that respect it's correct to the movie).
The story mode takes the type of a captivating point-and-click journey, however don't begin picturing Monkey Island or Sam & Max in your head: there's exactly zero problem right here as a result of the sport continually tells you on the prime of the display what you need to do subsequent so there aren't any actual puzzles to unravel or something like that..
Regardless of the entire lack of issue, this mode is beautiful to take a look at regardless due to the sport's largely profitable try and match the supply materials's stop-motion claymation look. Characters and backgrounds look beautiful, and clips from the movie will sometimes be slipped in at sure moments with little or no distinction in artwork fashion.
Dotted across the Story mode's numerous areas are a choice of 'enjoyable details' which may be discovered, containing hilariously boring info on such utterly random subjects because the historical past of beds, the properties of silk and the way a lot of a human's DNA is just like that of a banana (50%, in case you're asking). We hope this 47-year-old film nonetheless has a younger fanbase, as a result of it is clear this recreation is aimed toward kids moderately than adults who could have cherished it as a child.
The story mode additionally incorporates 9 minigames, which may be discovered and unlocked for choice in the primary menu. None of those are going to alter the world, however on the identical time none of them are significantly poor. They embody a satisfactory Shanghai Solitaire clone, a enjoyable isometric bike driving part, a jigsaw recreation which awards the participant with pleasantly hi-res pictures of the film's fashions, and a curious mail-sorting recreation which might sound achingly boring if was defined it to you however truly held our consideration for fairly some time.
As you play via these minigames and discover the Story mode's places intimately, you additionally acquire automotive elements, which can be utilized to construct the automotive in query, the Il Tempo Gigante. When you've earned sufficient elements to construct half the automotive you'll be able to enter the ultimate race and technically beat the sport, however you'll be able to then proceed to discover the world and unlock the remainder of the elements must you want you absolutely full the automotive throughout the neurosurge 100%.
As soon as the transient Story mode is out of the way in which, the one different most important choice – aside from the power to replay the minigames and attempt to higher your excessive scores – is the racing modes that are then unlocked. These are pretty simple however get the job performed: there's your typical Grand Prix modes the place you tackle a collection of cups the place factors are awarded in your place in every race, in addition to the likes of checkpoint and time trial races.
Crucially, these racing sections are satisfying to play. They're definitely not going to get Mario and pals sweaty underneath the overalls, however what's there may be innocent and the dealing with was satisfying sufficient to maintain our consideration till we performed via each race. Gamers may unlock different automobiles, starting from milk floats to fancy Cadillac-style automobiles, and the entire thing is usually simply fairly charming with its distinctive artwork fashion shining via and actually doing the film justice.
There's only one downside. Nicely, 50 of them. The sport is promoting for £49.99 at launch, which is just too a lot given how typically mild it's on content material. When you think about how brief the Story mode is and that the racing, whereas entertaining, takes place on a handful of extraordinarily visually related tracks, that's fairly a worth to ask.
After all, that's simply our take and it's at all times as much as you to resolve whether or not £50 is an excessive amount of cash for one thing that may take a comparatively expert participant a few nights to get via. Whereas what's right here is completely satisfying, we'd suggest that the majority gamers maintain hearth till the sport's worth is inevitably decreased in an eShop sale, after which by all means give it a go. It's nonetheless a captivating expertise, albeit a quick one.
Till then, we predict it's actually solely essential for these of you studying this who truly are sporting Pinchcliffe PJs, your finger hovering over the eShop's 'purchase' button as your associate stands menacingly over you with a novelty car-shaped doorstop, daring you to have the gall to make yet one more buy. Um… it's nonetheless enjoyable, thoughts.
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix is a captivating little part-racing recreation, part-point-and-click journey with a stunning artwork fashion. It is fairly mild on content material, although, and given its worth it is solely actually important to followers of the unique 1975 film. Ought to that worth ever drop sooner or later, although, it is positively value a strive if you wish to play one thing that is extra calm and heart-warming than your typical racer.
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Modern Architecture and Ventilated Double Glass Façades (VDGF) are often related with each other: the use of enormous quantities of glass, steel and concrete are essential ingredients. VDGF could be briefly defined as façades consisting of two skins (completely transparent or not) with a very particular ventilation strategy. The acoustical European standard EN 12354 (2000) offers the possibility to predict façade insulation and insulation between rooms inter connected with a cavity. It has been concluded from this study that VDGF have an acoustical façade insulation that is far better (up to 10 dB) than that of traditional façades (office buildings). The special ways of ventilating the building and the 'doubling' of the skin of the façade play an important role. On the other hand due to transmission of sound through the cavity of a double façade, the acoustical insulation between rooms (on different floors) situated at the façade side, is lower compared to buildings with the same internal construction but with no cavity (values up to 8 dB), when no special measures are taken to prevent the (airborne) indirect transmission. To achieve good calculation matches, some modifications were introduced in the standard, i.e. the calculation per frequency band, taking into account either the "Mass-Spring-Mass" or the "Three Rooms model" depending on the frequency band and adaptations concerning free field conditions.


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Yemen, Quagmire of Saudi Mistakes
05 May 2015 | 10:21 Code : 1947282 Interview General category
An interview with Alireza Ayati, a senior expert on West Asian affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry
Have Saudi Arabia's attacks against Yemen been carried out due to Riyadh's understanding of the trend of regional equations caused by Middle Eastern developments, from the Arab uprisings to Iran's nuclear dossier?
The attacks carried out by Saudi Arabia can be analyzed from three aspects; domestic, regional and international. Domestically, Saudi Arabia is faced with four crises, the roots of which date back to decades ago and which have only increased with the Islamic Awakening and the popular uprisings in the Arab world. The crisis of legitimacy, the crisis of insecurity, particularly instability along the borders and the recruitment of ISIS and al-Qaeda, the crisis of the ash-Sharqiyah region and people's legal demands and the crisis of the rivalries between the princes are the issues that this country is confronted with. In fact, Saudi Arabia is sitting on a barrel of explosives or a silent volcano. Saudi Arabia took different measures to resolve its internal problems; small controlled reforms, the distribution of money among the people, facilitating women's presence in some activities, contacting the Shiites of ash-Sharqiyah, deporting radical forces to Syria, Iraq and Yemen and even Lebanon, dismissing princes and political elites … These measures which were pursued by King Abdullah acted as a pain reliever . Of course, the main intention behind these measures was to maintain the al-Saud regime and eliminate the Sudairis from important positions of the country. Certainly, the crisis in the ash-Sharqiyah region and the developments in Bahrain, which is linked to the revolution in Yemen, will shake the al-Saud regime. The problem is not the people in ash-Sharqiyah or Bahrain or Yemen. They demand their rights but their movements automatically shake the regime in Riyadh.
At the regional level, Saudi Arabia has witnessed that Iran, its biggest rival, has stood against all types of plots designed by the US, the Zionists and Arabs during the past three decades and is now negotiating with the US on an equal footing. This is not good for Saudi Arabia and the Arab front. Worst of all, Iran has not allowed their plans in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen to be completely implemented. All their plans have failed. They were not able to topple Bashar Assad's regime. The plan approved by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in Yemen did not succeed and they did not reach their objectives in Iraq. Lebanon is completely in the axis of resistance. Therefore, while Iran has the upper hand in all these cases, it is negotiating with the US. Another aspect which has angered the Arabs is the coalition of Russia and China which support Iran's plans. Bandar bin-Sultan threatens Putin by expressing support for Chechnya in Moscow and Putin becomes angry. They intended to gain concessions from Putin but they failed. Thus, they decided to attack Yemen in order to create a balance. They say that Iran has won in certain dimensions and has the winning card, thus, we have to win some cards so that if in the future negotiations are to be held they will have winning cards. Terrorist measures which Saudi Arabia has taken have tarnished this country's reputation. The US immediately distanced itself and Biden said that their aids were reaching the terrorists. Their last card is in Yemen; meaning the killing and bombardment of the people. These measures will also damage their reputation. Everybody says that Saudi Arabia is killing people, similarly to Israel. Is it right for the Servants of the Sacred Shrines to have such a position in the world of Islam?
At the international level, the role played by the US must be considered. The US' allies in the region are entangled in a situation which the US does not know how to deal with. The US administration is confused, whether with regard to Mubarak in Egypt, or the downfall of Morsi and the coming to power of al-Sisi, or in the crisis in Bahrain and even the downfall of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen. Most important of all is Saudi Arabia. This country is like a US state. None of the allies of the US is capable of resolving its own problems.
Since 2011, Obama has transferred US forces out of Iraq and pursued the policy of no direct intervention; this means that it has attempted to use the capacities of its allies in the region unless they make mistakes and then the US enters the scene. In Iraq and Syria, they helped ISIS and the al-Nusra Front to the point that the US felt that they were reaching the western borders. Thus, the US entered the scene and directed the crisis; meaning the weakening of both sides (the governments of Syria and Iraq) and the terrorists.
With regard to Yemen, the US has determined a ceiling; this means that the Houthis will be contained by the US allies like Hezbollah, Maleki and Bashar Assad but the US has given the green light for the attack against Yemen to certain limits. The US intends to use Saudi money and the Arabs' prestige to the benefit of Israel and also to impose costs for the axis of resistance and Iran. If Saudi Arabia succeeds, the US will also benefit from it and if it does not succeed, Saudi Arabia's reputation will be lost.
How would Saudi Arabia's show of power to its regional and extra-regional rivals resolve these country's problems?
Certainly, Saudi Arabia cannot remain immune from the structural changes in the Arab world. Our regions have turned into a quagmire in which no country could be immune. If you do not enter it, you will lose and this quagmire will be directed against the security and interests of your country. If you enter it to form allies, it will have its own consequences. Any country which has high capacities will leave undamaged from this quagmire. Iran is controlling the situation very well because it has a powerful leader, a democratic system and high national capacities which have immunized the system. Turkey, with its democracy and Islamic basis and with the help of other countries, attempts to maintain its immunity but its capacities do not reach those of Iran. But Saudi Arabia, due to its four-fold crises, resorts to any measure to save itself. It uses al-Qaeda and ISIS. Sometimes it turns to Russia and the French to threaten the US. Its alliance with the Zionist regime in Iran's nuclear case has damaged its reputation. And now it has decided to attack Yemen. But none of these measures has benefited Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia does not have strong cards. All of its cards have, hitherto, damaged its reputation. Today, the world knows Saudi Arabia alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda. The government may use the Wahhabis inside the country but beyond its borders this is a liability. Today, the western countries have the same problems with Saudi Arabia as they did with Israel. The public opinion of the world exerted so much pressure so that the West had to distance itself from Israel's killings. Now it is exerting this pressure that how is Saudi Arabia supported while it has not even held one election? Today, many countries are recognizing the government of Palestine. Regarding Saudi Arabia, if the West and the US fail to resolve the problems of this kingdom, they will be faced with many questions in the post-modern world.
What will Saudi Arabia achieve from its attacks against Yemen?
Saudi Arabia is trapped between bad and worse. The war that is started must end and they should be able to state that they have achieved their objectives. Saudi Arabia has not yet achieved anything except that it killed the people and distanced the Yemenis and shocked the world and positioned itself alongside Israel which has shed blood in Gaza and Lebanon. The victor in any war is the one who finishes it. The US did not succeed in Iraq. Therefore, I believe that war is not a good option. The pressures exerted by Iran, Russia and some other countries caused Saudi Arabia to state that it will end the air strikes. In the end, Saudi Arabia will have to implement Iran's plan which is the establishment of peace in Yemen.
If the revolutions in Yemen and Bahrain succeed, the Saudi Kingdom will be threatened. Perhaps, it will be able to delay these revolutions and immune itself through the use of al-Qaeda but it will not last long. The train of regional developments is advancing so fast that if Saudi Arabia fails to comply with it, it will be left alone.
How would you predict the future of Saudi Arabia's foreign policy considering the recent changes that have been made in the ruling structure of this country?
Recent developments of the region are so heavy that Saudi Arabia cannot deal with them alone. It needs a high capacity which Saudi Arabia lacks. The US must decide what the regional countries and its allies should do. It is said that the young generation that has come to power has decided to enter the war but the depth of the issue is US permission. They needed the US' permission for this big measure. Certain conditions were imposed on Saudi Arabia to which it had to react. Muhammad bin-Salman and Muhammad bin-Nayef chose the option of war. Saudi Arabia needs to take some preventive measures. Their ruling structure was shaken. The US has understood this situation and has agreed with these strikes but with certain limits. The Islamic Republic of Iran will have great impacts on this trend. Russia and China and their allies are also effective. This ceiling must soon be defined for Saudi Arabia so that the security of the region would not be threatened. I predict that Iran's military and security power, success in the nuclear case, managing the crises in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and establishment of peace in these countries will cause others to surrender; meaning the imposition of peace in the region. These conditions are agreed by all including the United Nations. Now that ISIS is threatening the security of the world, Iran's proposal has found its supporters; fighting against terrorism and radicalism, no foreign military intervention, internal dialogue among disputing groups in countries, holding transparent elections and the establishment of an inclusive government. This model can be implemented in all countries which are faced with crisis. Everyone believes that the region cannot tolerate war because only terrorism and Israel will benefit from it. The US does not intend to pay a heavy price in this region. Thus, the ending of the disputes is a strategic issue which is now pursued by both Iran and the US. Yemen is a quagmire which all countries including the US are distancing themselves from; although they may secretly take some measures but they are really concerned.
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Hey everybody! The Strang Institute is going to be closed the rest of the week for the 4th of July holiday here in the U.S. So, alas, no new comic on Thursday. I know, I know. To make up for that, here's a poster I did a few years back for Kids Read Comics, the event I'm attending this Saturday and Sunday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jeff was green. Muffin's nose was pink. How weird is that?
Check back though. I may still be able to sneak into Mission Control and post a few things between now and next Monday. See you then!
The non-standard colors on Jeff and Muffin isn't what stands out as most unusual – it's that Muffin is SMILING! How often do we get to see that? That must be some awesome comic he's reading!
Looks like Muffin's happy place must definitely have comics to read there.
I love the orange & teal limited palette, but man, this is perty!


This CRM Review examines Votigo.
Votigo is #242 on the 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in America! We are a leading social media marketing & promotions company with a SaaS platform and full-service solutions. Founded in 2006, Votigo's technology platform allows brands, agencies, and enterprises to acquire, engage, and manage their customers through our full social marketing suite that includes promotions, publisher, community management, applications, social CRM, and analytics.
With offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boulder, CO, and Hyderabad, India, Votigo has global capabilities. Known for its flexibility, the Votigo platform has been utilized in countries around the globe and in over 40 languages.
A Facebook preferred developer since 2010 and a Google Engagement Solutions Developer, Votigo has worked with leading brands and agencies including Ford, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Sony, NBC Universal, Intel, Aol, Sharpie, Sears, DraftFCB, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Ogilvy, Wunderman, and Arnold Worldwide.
Known for its full-service approach, in 2011 Votigo responded to the growing demand for a DIY solution and opened its platform to self-serve users. Learn more about designing your own promotions.
Thought Leaders. Technological Innovators. Our management team has a wealth of experience in interactive online marketing & promotions, design & development, and Internet technology. Our leaders come from some of the most successful Internet companies in the world. They are on the cutting edge of social marketing, always thinking of innovative solutions.
Launch social promotions ranging from simple solutions to sophisticated marketing campaigns.
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Mindfulness meditation, strolling meditation, forest bathing — lately there are limitless methods to get your zen repair. The most recent? Mirror meditation.
That's proper, the brand new technique to scale back stress and anxiousness is to stare at your reflection in a mirror. However don't fear: This isn't a contest to find out who's the fairest of all of them. It's a follow designed to develop self-compassion.
We talked to the founding father of the follow, Tara Effectively, PhD, professor of psychology at Barnard School, Columbia College, to get a behind-the-scenes have a look at why it is best to make time to self-reflect — actually! Right here's what you could know in your first mirror meditation session.
Let's be sincere. Most of us have a love-hate relationship with the mirror. You'll be able to't assist however stare while you catch a glimpse of your reflection. However look too lengthy and it may be uncomfortable to carry your personal gaze. And it's usually simple to fall down the rabbit gap of self-criticism and comparability. A wrinkle (or six) right here. Too many freckles there.
That's how Effectively used to really feel. "As a young person, I realized to grow to be extra important of my look and never desirous to look within the mirror," she says.
"We use mirrors for social grooming rituals like fixing our hair or make-up," says Effectively. And while you try this day-in, day-out, it turns into ordinary, which may promote self-criticism. "Then, we are likely to look previous ourselves, not at how we're feeling. Or we don't see ourselves as folks however extra as objects that have to look a sure technique to get approval," she says.
It wasn't till Effectively was conducting a Skype session with a training consumer that she realized the potential transformative energy of reflecting by yourself picture.
When she requested her consumer to take a look at herself within the digital camera and specific a tough realization, she says one thing clicked for her and her consumer. Then, Effectively experimented with mirror meditation on a visit. "Once I got here dwelling, folks seen how totally different I used to be," she says.
In contrast to conventional meditation practices, you don't use a mantra or particular respiratory approach. Your gaze turns into the main target of your follow. "The mirror creates a focus and a software for folks to trace their consideration. It makes it a lot simpler to come back again to your middle through the use of this software," says Effectively.
Mirror meditation allows you to really look into the attention of the particular person receiving your important ideas — on this case, you. However the bottom line is to acknowledge your destructive ideas, then pause, breathe and return to your gaze.
Some folks discover the expertise intense. Others uncover issues that they didn't know earlier than. Effectively recommends the follow to anybody fascinated by private development or seeking to change up their typical mindfulness rituals. Have in mind, Effectively notes, that should you get tremendous down on your self, then it's time to step away from the mirror for some time.
In her research, Effectively discovered that those that practiced mirror meditation for 10 minutes a day reported vital lower in stress, anxiousness and melancholy accompanied by a rise in self-compassion. She discovered that ladies within the examine began to focus much less on look and extra on how they had been feeling. In flip, this result in self-reliance and a greater reference to themselves. "Then, you select relationships with folks based mostly much less on how they will affirm you or not affirm you, however who authentically will get you," says Effectively.
RELATED: Is a Lack of Self-Consciousness Maintaining You From Happiness?
So subsequent time you're feeling overwhelmed with emotion or simply want a psychological break, head to the toilet, pull out a mirror and simply take a couple of minutes to self-reflect. You could be shocked at what you see.


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Scientists using the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have discovered a crater that appears to have formed on Mars in the past 20 or so Earth years, and have used it and several other similar craters to estimate the present cratering rate on Mars.
One of the basic tenets of planetary geology is that impact craters have accumulated on planetary surfaces at roughly a constant rate since the early history of the solar system. This appears to have been the case for small craters on the surface of the Moon, as shown by measurements of the length of time that lunar rocks created by small impacts have been exposed to cosmic rays, as determined by laboratory measurements of samples returned to Earth by the Apollo astronauts. This principle should permit the number of craters found on a planetary surface to be used to determine the age of that surface, if the rate at which new craters form is known.
Scientists have previously estimated the cratering rate of Mars by scaling the lunar cratering rate based on the proximity of Mars to the asteroid belt, and by performing calculations based on orbital mechanics. Another way to establish the cratering rate of Mars would be to use long-term observations, say, from orbiting spacecraft, to actually locate new craters.
The new crater is located on the southern rim of the summit crater, or caldera, of the intermediate-sized martian volcano, Ulysses Patera. The site was imaged by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1976 (left, an enlarged portion of the image) and in narrow-angle views by the Mars Orbiter Camera in 1999 (center) and 2005 (right). The new crater, about 25 meters (82 feet) across, is marked by a distinct dark, rayed pattern of ejected material, or ejecta, which is seen to have faded somewhat between 1999 and 2005.
Ulysses Patera, a volcanic shield about 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter volcanic shield, located near 2.5 degrees north latitude, 121.3 degrees west longitude, is one of the Tharsis volcanoes and is partly buried by younger lava flows. The summit caldera is about 55 kilometers (34 miles) in diameter.
The amount that the crater's rays faded between 1999 and 2005 can be used to help estimate how many years ago the crater formed. The actual contrast between the ejecta and the undisturbed volcano summit materials is actually much less than it appears to be in these processed images, and the amount of fading is also much less. Images of disturbed surfaces from various parts of Mars, such as dust devil tracks, dark slope streaks and rover tracks, indicate that disturbed surfaces on Mars are dark and that they lighten with time. Using these other examples to estimate how dark the ejecta from the Ulysses crater was originally, and how much it has faded in six years, suggests the crater formed in the early to mid 1980s.
The rate at which dark surfaces lighten on Mars is not uniform over the whole planet, but scientists using the Mars Orbiter Camera have found a number of other craters with dark ejecta that have faded during the Mars Global Surveyor mission. The scientists estimate that these craters probably formed within the past 100 years. Although the sample is very small (the Mars Orbiter Camera narrow angle camera has imaged barely 4 percent of Mars), it appears that the recent cratering rate for craters on Mars 25 to 100 meters (82 to 328 feet) in diameter is about 0.000000003 to 0.000000006 craters per square kilometer (0.39 square mile) per Earth year, which is about five times lower than previous estimates.
The site of the new crater is shown in wider context in a comparison of the 1976 Viking image with wide-angle views taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera in 1999 and 2005 (insert MOC2-1214b), and in even wider context in a regional mosaic of Viking images (insert MOC2-1214c).
The Mars Orbiter Camera was built and is operated by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif. Mars Global Surveyor left Earth on Nov. 7, 1996, and began orbiting Mars on Sept. 12, 1997. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages Mars Global Surveyor for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
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A rare opportunity to make schools work better
Chris Bonnor
Gonski 2.0 is a chance to influence school policy for the better, but the window closes soon
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull with Craig Laundy MP and students of Santa Sabina College in Strathfield, Sydney, after the announcement of the Gonski 2.0 review in June. Joel Carrett/AAP Image
A little news item can tell a big story. This week the Guardian reported on a survey revealing that Australian parents want schools to teach more social skills. It raises many questions: whose job is it anyway; what will fall off the curriculum to make space; how will we know if it works? But in one sense it is certainly timely: right now, the Gonski 2.0 review is giving us a once-in-a-decade opportunity to have a say about what schools should and shouldn't do.
Submissions to the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools close in just three weeks. Expressing your opinions about schools might seem like a daunting task but it can all be done online and the review panel is seeking responses to a series of questions. Yes, you should read the terms of reference and the issues paper… but responding to the questions is most important.
And what interesting questions! The first basically asks what students should learn at school and how their achievement would be measured. We can and do come up with a shopping list of things for schools to teach, including social skills — but when we measure success we ignore most things on the list and focus on the things easiest to quantify.
Sorry parents, NAPLAN trumps social skills every time. We measure what we can, and we value what we measure; until this changes, our broad views about what schools should do will amount to very little. My own take on this is that student engagement is the key to success and we urgently need to measure and value this. Narrow measures of student worth and achievement constantly undermine the purpose of schooling.
Gonski 2.0 wants your opinion on what we can do to improve — and how we might support ongoing improvement over time. The background to this, and the Turnbull government's rationale for the review, is the need to use funding more effectively and efficiently. Frankly, our funding of schools lacks both, but the problems only partly relate to how Ms Waterhouse teaches simultaneous equations to Year 8. As Bernie Shepherd and I have revealed, we waste mega-dollars on some schools where students don't achieve any better than similar students elsewhere.
Like the first Gonski review, this one has a focus on improving learning for all students. Clearly our schools fall well short of this goal at the moment: they serve mainstream students in mainstream places quite well — in fact they compete with each other to get these students. But an increasing number of students don't respond well to production-line schooling. Our inability to serve these students has created an equity crisis equal to that surrounding the issue of funding.
To meet the needs of all students we really have to think differently about how we "do" schooling. Despite all the conversations about school choice, the marketisation of school education has meant that schools are actually very similar — only the brave stray beyond the expected look and feel. Education minister Simon Birmingham has implored the review panel to think outside the square. Unless this is done in ways that reach those who are disengaged from school, little else will happen.
So this means getting serious about new modes of delivery, as explained by Tom Greenwell in his closer look at online schooling. It means providing greater recognition and support for schools that do think outside the square, commonly with outstanding results. It means rethinking the role of what the review panel calls "system enablers," the bodies that oversee targets and standards, qualifications and accreditation, regulation and registration, quality assurance measures and transparency and accountably provisions.
The review wants to know about new or emerging areas for action that need further development or testing — as well as barriers to improvement. But such questions need to be continually asked, not just by a one-off review — especially one arguably established by a government looking for some Gonski legitimacy. Any recommendations arising out of this review will require ongoing oversight, reporting and updating.
Let's face it, Gonski 1.0 fell well short because its implementation became a plaything of politicians. We can't allow this to happen a second time around. This review should recommend that a task force — at arm's length from governments — be established to revisit the issues raised and monitor progress being made against the recommendations of both Gonski reviews, and report publicly at regular intervals.
Given the investment in such reviews and the high stakes involved, we can't afford to fail twice. ●
Chris Bonnor is a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. This article first appeared in Pearls and Irritations.
Topics: education | inequality | schools
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Kazuo Ishiguro: a sense of freedom
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Image of the Month, November 2018: "Alpine Garden"
The Image of the Month for November is Alpine Garden. Buy it before November 30th to get a reduced price, it will never be this cheap again!
Watch the video where I made this image: "Mt Rainier National Park, shooting film: HP5, Pancro 400 and Arista".
Mt Rainier National Park is without a doubt one of the most beautiful places in the PNW. It feels like paradise, straight out of a fairy tale in every corner.
On this trip, though, the park looked and felt a bit different. The numerous wildfires in the region covered the beautiful landscapes in a thick layer of smoke.
While terrible in many ways, fires (the naturally occurring ones) are good for the forest, and they can be good for photography as well.
This is how I made this image. I saw those beautiful peaks in the distance, with a background that was free of any noise thanks to the smoke. I just needed to find a good composition, and those two trees gave me the framing I was looking for.
One of my favorite images, at one of my favorite places.
"Alpine Garden" is available for purchase here.


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Calle Clang (born 20 May 2002) is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Rögle BK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) while under contract as a prospect to the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Clang was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.

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Clang's NHL rights were held by the Penguins until March 21, 2022, when Clang, along with forwards Zach Aston-Reese and Dominik Simon, and a second-round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, was traded by Pittsburgh to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Rickard Rakell at the trade deadline.

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On May 5, 2022, Clang was signed to a three-year entry-level contract by the Ducks.

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If you want to quit drinking on your own, you've already started yourself on the right path. People suffering from alcohol use disorder (AUD) rarely admit outright they have problem. If you've concluded you need to stop drinking, then you're already in the right mindset to give up alcohol for life. Celebrate that victory – it's bigger than you think.
Now, if you're going to quit drinking on your own, the next thing you need is a dependable, support system to help you. Whether this is friends, family, a spouse, co-workers or neighbors. You need to have people nearby who are willing to help you because going through withdrawal and cravings is not easy, especially not when you're programmed to believe alcohol is as necessary as food or water. It may be ironic, but if you're going to quit drinking on your own, you're going to need a confidant and ideally more than one.
This person doesn't need to "babysit" you, but especially when you first quit, you'll need someone to know what you're going through. Depending on how long you've been drinking and how heavily you've been drinking, you may suffer some severe (and potentially life-threatening) withdrawal symptoms. If someone close to you knows you're going through this, they may be able to help you through it. What's more, they're someone who will understand and help you work through it.
Where you really need support is getting sober. Ultimately, staying sober becomes your independent journey.
Once you've found your confidant, trust is incredibly important. Research alcohol use disorder together so you both understand what you're dealing with and what to expect. Again, when you've become so dependent on alcohol that your body needs it like food, you're going to feel starved; you're going to feel like you're dying. If you both know to expect that, it'll be far easier to manage and no one will be caught off guard.
Get in tune with your emotions and impulses. Identify when you feel a craving, think about what it feels like physically, and determine what sparked that craving. Think about what you were doing, where you were going or who you were with.
If you're going to quit drinking on your own, you're going to need to monitor your triggers; things that cause you to ¬want to drink or think about drinking. If you've never thought about this before, imagine how when you hear a song, it can remind you of a movie you saw that song in, which in turn makes you think of other contextual memories surrounding the movie (such as who you were with). When you've spent a great majority of your past addicted to alcohol, anything could be a trigger, so recognize them when they occur and try to bring yourself to the present. Avoid triggers as much as possible.
So much of alcohol addiction is relying on our impulsive mind rather than the deliberate; short term over long term. Because we need to reprogram our brains to have a better balance, but also to learn new routines, it's important to feed it (and yourself) some short-term rewards. This means celebrating your achievements. Give yourself credit for a day sober. Give yourself credit for two. When you push yourself to a week, get your favorite food. When you make it a month, have your support system throw a party. In a lot of ways, you need to "dangle a carrot" in front of you to encourage yourself to keep going. It's one of the reasons, our app helps you celebrate sober achievements.
Typically, when someone wants to know how to quit drinking by themselves, they're really asking, "how can I quit drinking without attending AA" or "how can I quit without going to rehab". People addicted to alcohol may not like the messaging involved with Alcoholics Anonymous or the expense of rehab. While there are plenty of other support groups that are not religious, rehab is a little different.
Rehab can be expensive, but when you're weighing the cost of a treatment center against your livelihood, it shouldn't be a contest. Quitting alcohol is not a matter of clearing out your fridge of liquor, it's a lifelong rebalancing act. With that in mind, treatment centers and rehabilitation can't be overstated.
For many people, their bodies are dependent on alcohol. One of the main reasons withdrawal occurs for people who give up drinking is because the alcohol suppressed key chemicals in the brain, forcing the brain work twice as hard to produce the same amount. So when you stop drinking, instead of immediately balancing out, the brain thinks it's being deprived of this necessary substance, so instead of relaxing, the brain thinks it needs to work harder. This is what causes withdrawal, and severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms at that: Delirium Tremens (DT), hallucinations and even seizures.
Consider all of your options. It often takes more than one person to help someone quit drinking, but it can be done. Try downloading our app as a 24 hour sober companion that also features nearby rehabilitation centers if you need additional help.
We'd like to believe the fastest way to get from point A (where you are now) to point B (sobriety) is a straight line, but that road is less certain. You're not just reprogramming your impulsive and deliberate brain, but also your habits and routine while trying to avoid triggers, memories, and nostalgia. It's not a straight line, it requires inconvenient backroads and lengthy detours, but that doesn't mean you can't try to enjoy the scenery.
Getting sober permanently means navigating your life as dexterously as though you're trying to recreate the Sistine Chapel on an Etch A Sketch. It's not easy, it's daunting (af) but that's what makes it worth it.


The new FL3BPMH is a special filter and a diagnostic tool that has been designed specifically to suit Australian conditions.
It consists of three 'all-in-one' tight bandpass filters to pass our standard television bands which have low insertion loss.
This eliminates all unwanted signals that can interfere with both analogue and digital signals.
It provides a very simple cost effective solution to any domestic or commercial installation.


Life insurance at 52 is an important financial decision for your family. You have worked hard to support your loved ones and you want to protect the financial future of those who rely on you and your income. Life insurance coverage is the best way to get the peace of mind you desire.
Worried about the cost? If you are in good health, life insurance at 52 is very affordable. If you have health issues, don't fret. Ogletree Financial Services can guide you to the carrier that will best meet your life insurance needs at the lowest possible premium.
This article is a primer. Four basic questions about life insurance will be answered as briefly as possible. Next are some sample quotes to give you an idea of how you can easily fit life insurance coverage into your tight family budget.
Okay, here we go. Just a few minutes of reading and you will be ready to get in touch with an independent agent and let Ogletree Financial Services lead you and your family to financial security. Only basic questions about life insurance are addressed here, and very briefly. If you have any questions, give us call at 1-800-712-8519, or send us a note via our contact page. We are always ready to help.
As long as you pay your premiums, permanent life insurance never expires. Term life insurance on the other hand, has a defined length of contract, the term.
This could be 5, 10, 15, or 20 years or more. Term insurance is often purchased for a financial obligation that will pass at some time in the future. If you would like to insure yourself until your children graduate from college, and your youngest is 11, then you might be looking at a 15-year policy.
The other big difference between term and permanent life insurance are the interest-earning cash accounts associated with permanent policies. Beyond the death benefit, permanent life insurance policies generate tax-sheltered interest, creating a cash account and variety of "living benefits" not available with term insurance.
The quotes we'll be showing you here are for term insurance, but look for a few links to articles about indexed universal life (IUL) that relate to the coverage needs we are talking about here.
The very basics would be your funeral costs and final expenses. But, if anyone relies on you financially, then you probably need to consider much more when deciding on your life insurance coverage. Replacing the income you provide your family is usually the first priority.
If you plan on sending your children to college, that is another financial obligation you will want to consider. If you have a large debt or you will be entering into a mortgage, life insurance is a good way to protect your loved ones from being burdened with this financial commitment.
If you are a partner in a small business, you may want to consider life insurance. If a partner dies unexpectedly, financial woes often ensue for the business and the deceased's family. Life insurance can provide a solution to this unfortunate dilemma.
These are just the basics. If you have any questions, give us call at 1-800-712-8519, or send us a message via our contact page. At Ogletree Financial Services, we are always ready to help.
At this point, you pretty much need to be talking to an independent agent who can ask you the right questions and accurately assess the life insurance needs of you and your family.
When it comes to college education expenses, there is a laundry list of variables to contemplate. Public or private? 4-year or 2-year? In-state or out-of-state. Tuition and books or a full ride? You get the idea.
A mortgage is often covered with a separate policy, decreasing term insurance, where the face value (benefit paid to your beneficiaries) of your policy tracks the outstanding balance of your debt.
Again, income replacement is a primary consideration. This issue is properly handled in consultation with your independent agent, but we'll do some ballpark calculations here to give you a basic idea of how much coverage you may interested in.
You may consider life insurance as a way to bequeath a "nest egg" to your family. This inheritance will then generate interest that can serve as a reliable income flow for your loved ones. Determining the income your family would need is another article altogether. Or a discussion with an independent agent.
One basic way to get started is to multiply your yearly income by a factor that can range from 15 to 25 or more. Alternatively, but similarly, you can divide the yearly income your family would require in your absence by an interest rate you are sure your life insurance benefit could earn every year.
For example, let's say you determine that your family would require their nest egg to generate $20,000 in interest each year. If we pick a conservative interest rate of 4% the math is: $20,000 ÷ 0.04 = $500,000.
Note that the nest egg is left intact and can be applied other family expenses such as your children's education or your spouse's retirement.
Alright then, a little about the cost of life insurance at 51 and your next step will be to get in touch with a qualified independent agent. Ogletree Financial Services can help.
If you are 52 and in good health you should have no trouble fitting life insurance coverage into your family budget. Reach out to the experts at Ogletree Financial Services and make sure. We consider over thirty top insurers when we appraise your unique life insurance risk and choose the ideal life insurance company for you and yours.
We have four tables set up here with some sample monthly premiums for a non-smoking, 46-year-old male and female. The sample quotes shown here are for term life insurance. There is a table for a preferred plus risk rating and one for a standard risk rating, notice we do not include no exam life insurance rates in these charts.
Term lengths of 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years, with face values of $100,000, $250,000, $500,00 and $1,000,000 are shown. These are only sample premiums, your premium will be based on how your unique risk is assessed. These sample non smoker life insurance quotes were gathered in July of 2016.
Hopefully you are now a little more comfortable with the ins and outs of life insurance coverage and riders like critical illness insurance benefits. Get in touch with Ogletree Financial Services today and take the first step towards the peace of mind that your loved ones are financially secure.


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Celebrate TCT's 101st season as it comes to a close as we applaud and appreciate those who contributed to the organization's magic throughout our century-long journey. During 10 weeks of recognition, we honor individuals who have been instrumental in the success of TCT, and who have not only helped TCT grow in mission, but also thrive, thanks to their passion. It is these people and their moments in our history that shaped TCT to become what it is today. We encourage you to consider giving a gift in their honor to ensure the sustainability of TCT's mission for the next 100+ years.
The Junior League of Cincinnati is where The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati began! "In that first year, JLC members played to an audience of 700 children, which grew to 11,000 by 1939. In 1947, the Junior League provided a $12,600 grant to launch a new, nonprofit community organization, and Cincinnati's Children's Theatre was officially incorporated. Marjorie (Motch) served as the first board president. After The Children's Theatre's initial session at Hughes High School, the Emery Auditorium became its home for the next two decades." (From Junior League of Cincinnati's 80th Year Celebration program.)
A 1961 article in the University of Cincinnati's News Record shares details of an upcoming performance of Sinbad for over 15,000 children as part of the 11th annual Cincinnati Children's Theatre production by UC's Mummers Guild, second only to The Junior League of Cincinnati in the number of Children's Theatre productions. "The Cincinnati Children's Theatre was established in order to acquaint the city's youth with the theatre. Students in most public schools subscribe to the four-play series. The Mummers Guild produces one of these plays each year." (UC's New Record, Feb. 23, 1961).
"Joan Burrell, who in 1969 was the last chair of the League Players, writes in her final report, "The Aztec Prince marked the end of an era for Junior League Players. It was the twenty-first and last production to be given solely by the League for the Cincinnati Children's Theatre. To accomplish this, it took the love and dedication of forty League volunteers. A truly representative group of volunteers – provisionals, actives, and sustainers – all dedicated to giving unstintingly of their time and talent to the success of our project, a play providing joy and delight for the school children of our community." (from Junior League of Cincinnati's 80th Year Celebration program)
The Emery Theatre
Over the years, many dedicated board members and volunteers found their way to The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati, all as a result of The Junior League of Cincinnati and their encouragement of leadership, community, and cultural development.
Their mission states: The Junior League of Cincinnati is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
Thank you to Junior League leaders of long ago with a vision to introduce children and the young at heart to the gift theatre for the young!
Would you honor The Junior League with a gift to recognize the impact made on TCT?
From The Junior League Players' 1925 production of The Wizard of Oz


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NTRO Recruitment 2023 for Aviator & Technical Assistant | 182 Posts | Last Date: 21 January 2023
NTRO Recruitment 2023 The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) is seeking candidates for the positions of Aviator and Technical Assistant. Candidates with B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Sc in respective disciplines are eligible to apply for this position. The selection process consists of a written …


"I Took a Pill in Ibiza" (also known by its censored title "In Ibiza" or its clean title "I Took a Plane to Ibiza") is a song by American singer Mike Posner. The song, originally acoustic guitar-based, appeared on his album, At Night, Alone. It was remixed by the Norwegian duo SeeB and released in the United States on July 24, 2015, digitally as a single from Posner's second EP, The Truth as well as the lead single from his second studio album, At Night, Alone..The SeeB remix reached the top ten of the charts in twenty seven countries, including number one in Belgium, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, where it remained for four weeks. It has achieved high chart positions in Posner's native United States, where it reached number one on the Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart and number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The song became Posner's biggest single, outperforming his debut, "Cooler than Me" (2010).


Well, it's about time, wouldn't you say? We're already lucky enough to have Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri in our lives, so why not add one more digital voice assistant to the mix? How about the one that may have popularized the idea of having an assistant-enabled smart speaker in the first place? At long last, Amazon Echo devices have officially arrived in Canada, bringing their buddy Alexa along with them.
I have friends who have purchased Echo devices from the United States and brought them up to Canada before. They say that Alexa works, sort of, but many of her features are terribly hindered. Those restrictions are largely being lifted with the arrival of Alexa in Canada in a more official fashion.
Naturally coinciding with this expansion is the introduction of the Echo family to Canada too. These are the same smart speakers that were announced and revealed for the US market a couple of months ago. They're all up for pre-order now with delivery expected on December 5.
Canada will start out with three Amazon Echo devices, each of which are being offered at a "limited time introductory price" that's $30 cheaper than what will be the regular retail price.
As an added bonus, you can bundle the Echo Plus with a Philips Hue Smart Bulb for no extra cost. Notably absent from the Echo lineup for Canada are the camera-equipped Echo Look and the touchscreen-touting Echo Show. Amazon.ca has opened up a new section on the site for "smart home devices that work with Alexa" though, including such products as the Philips Hue lightbulbs, Nest Learning Thermostat, and TP-Link Smart Plug.
The Sonos One that we recently reviewed was said to be "ready for Alexa" when Amazon's smart assistant rolled out in Canada. That's partly true, because Alexa won't be enabled in the newest Sonos smart speaker until some time next year. It may or may not come before they add Google Assistant to the Sonos One as well.