I was all set to post a stocking stuffer gift list and a Friday playlist celebrating the weekend. Then, I heard about the tragedy in Newtown, CT. It came on the heels of a news story on the mall shooting in Oregon on Tuesday. This time, the victims were mostly elementary school students between 5 to 10 years old.
As I listened to the story unfold over the course of the day, I was overwhelmed with sadness. My heart bleeds for the affected families and friends of those that were lost. I don't know what to do other than pray. Today's playlist is dedicated to the memory of those who needlessly lost their lives.
Hug your loved ones. Share your feelings while they are here. Don't just celebrate the weekend today. Celebrate life. It is a limited and precious gift. Do something good with it. God bless.


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The faces of political integrity
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Despite the deeply concerning details, the questions raised by the Greensill saga and the renovation of the Downing Street Flat are nothing new; concerns about the integrity of politicians and public officials flare up with depressing regularity. These scandals lead political pundits to grumble about the decline of integrity in public life. Those of us who pay attention to such stories respond with disappointment, but not surprise. Few individuals ever seem to get sanctioned, and meaningful reforms rarely materialise, despite a slew of promises to 'clean up' politics. We all know that the next scandal is just around the corner, even if we don't quite know which players will be involved, or quite how depressing it will be.
However, rather than directly commenting on the controversies of the moment I want to step back and reflect on the key concept at the heart of these lamentations by focusing on two questions: What is integrity? And why is it politically important?
Personal integrity
The term 'integrity' is used in two different ways when we talk about private individuals. On the one hand, integrity is often taken to be a matter of acting in accordance with a set of basic moral standards. Take a look at the 'Integrity Test' that the Centre for the Study of Integrity at the University of Essex put together. Those of us who have the fortitude to refrain from such things as cheating on our taxes, lying in our own interests, and making things up on job applications, are said to have integrity, while those of us who give in to such temptations are not. On this 'negative' view, integrity is basically a matter of refraining from acting unethically in order to promote our self-interest. It is fundamentally a matter of complying with a set of basic moral obligations.
Though many people do think about integrity in these kinds of terms, it has serious downsides. It makes it hard to see why being classed as a person of integrity is supposed to be a mark of high praise. It is not obvious why complying with these basic obligations is something that should gain our strong moral admiration, which being judged to have integrity typically carries. Not being bad is the bare minimum requirement, not enough to warrant special praise.
Rather than simply thinking in these negative terms, philosophers typically urge us to think about integrity in a more 'positive' light, foregrounding the idea of self-integration. That can sound rather grand, but the underlying idea is not hard to grasp. As the philosopher Cheshire Calhoun has helpfully put it, the idea is that the person who possesses integrity has a firm understanding of their convictions and has the resolve to 'stand for' these convictions, even when this may be difficult for them.
When one adopts this perspective, our sense of the range of characters who can be said to lack integrity increases. People who lack a sense of moral identity insofar as they modify and change their principles in order to please others, or to opportunistically further their short-term interests, can be said to lack integrity. So too can hypocrites and weak-willed people, insofar as they espouse a set of principles which they fail to live up to. Yet all of this is compatible with complying with a minimal set of moral obligations, calling into question the adequacy of a purely negative view.
Political integrity in a negative key
This distinction between 'negative' and 'positive' ways of reflecting on integrity reappears when one thinks about the nature of political integrity. When pundits discuss 'political integrity', they are usually complaining about the inability of public officials to accord with a minimal set of moral standards. The claim, in effect, is that these politicians lack integrity because they prioritise their own self-interest over the basic moral minimum expected of people who hold their office.
Such an approach influences the way that integrity is described in the Principles of Public Life:
'Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work. They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships.'
It is not hard to see why the idea that politicians must resist using their public office to further their financial self-interest is given such prominence. For as long as there has been politics, there have been politicians who have enriched themselves at the public trough. Politicians who act in this way corrupt politics because they make private gains when we have entrusted them not to do precisely that.
But as I have argued elsewhere, this understanding of political integrity is far too reductive. Politicians can betray the public's trust in many other ways beyond simply acting in a financially inappropriate manner. They can purposefully mislead the public on matters of great importance; undermine the democratic process; engage in electoral misconduct; and so on. So, a more adequate understanding of political integrity in negative terms has to work with a broader understanding of how politicians can fail to display integrity. Yes, not being self-serving money-grubbers who do the bare minimum expected of them is important. But it's not the end of the story.
Yet even if an official body managed to come up with a more inclusive definition of integrity incorporating the kind of things I just mentioned, any negative approach to political integrity faces a similar problem to the negative approach to personal integrity – it describes a mere baseline of behaviour by telling politicians about which behaviours they must refrain from, rather than thinking about integrity as a more attractive character trait: as something to aspire to.
In addition, the attempt to fully codify our sense of political integrity can have damaging consequences by cheapening talk of integrity. No set of official standards – whether legal or more informal – is going to be able to faultlessly capture the relevant instances of misconduct that we may want to sanction. This is a simple truism; however far one goes in this direction, there will be loopholes and grey areas. This matters. There will be many instances of behaviour where a public official undeniably pursues their private interest in a way that violates the public's trust, but where they do not directly violate any of these codified standards or rules. When this happens, a political culture that encourages us to think about political integrity in purely negative terms enables politicians to proudly claim that they have acted with integrity because they haven't directly violated the 'rules'. But these proclamations ring hollow. Even if one avoids directly violating a set of codified standards, this is not the same as exemplifying the values and principles that those standards promote.
Even if a politician has not directly broken the law when lobbying for a firm, for example, it does not follow that they acted with integrity in the sense of standing for the principles and values that the laws that regulate lobbying aim to promote. A politician's behaviour could be unimpeachable as far as the codified standards go, without it being at all praiseworthy.
Political integrity in a positive key
Our politics would benefit from us paying more attention to a 'positive' conception of political integrity. Recall that the core idea of the positive approach is that a person stands for their convictions even if this promises to be costly for them. The question of whether or not a politician has meaningfully stood for something should affect our judgement of their political conduct too.
In his famous lecture on the vocation of politics, Max Weber argued that that there is 'no more pernicious distortion of political energy than … [the] worship of power for its own sake'. He develops this point with reference to his idea of a cause, that 'meaning and purpose' which the politician seeks to serve by striving for and using power. Although Weber claims that the 'nature of the cause the politician seeks to serve' is, ultimately, 'a question of faith', he is adamant that some kind of belief must motivate their political strivings if their political achievements are to avoid being 'cursed with the nullity of all mortal undertakings'. The point is that commitment to some kind of cause is a necessary requirement of admirable political conduct. Politicians who do not act in the service of such a cause will seek power either because it satiates their vanity, or so they can use it for their ends. We need to worry about these politicians; they are not in it for us, but for themselves.
If we think about political commitment in roughly these terms, we can make sense of the idea that politicians may be able to display a distinctively political kind of integrity by showing a kind of fidelity to principles or ends that are, in some sense, constitutive of their identity as political agents. They stand for something more than just themselves and their own ambition.
Such politicians will still have to engage in bargaining, compromise, and negotiation with their opponents. They will have to make sacrifices and think strategically. It is naïve to think that a successful politician could get anything done if they did not. So, this kind of political integrity will differ from the kind of personal integrity private individuals display. But if a politician stands for some deep political commitments in a principled way over a long period of time, even if they periodically have to compromise and act strategically, we might come to see that it makes sense to say that they have achieved some kind of meaningful integration between their actions in politics and their deepest political principles and commitments. They possess integrity, where this means considerably more than simply having refrained from being bad.
It is common for us to admire politicians who display such commitments to a cause even if we do not happen to endorse their particular political views. Unless we have been completely blinded by partisanship, we can all probably think of some people from opposing parties whose conduct can be regarded in such terms, and who we admire for that reason. Those who cannot plausibly be said to act in the service of a set of deep political commitments, either because they shift principled positions so frequently that any supposed commitment to a set of ends is highly dubious, or because their supposed endorsement of various principles or ends is obviously opportunistic and self-serving, simply seem to lack the kind of character that enables them to be classed as politicians of integrity, even if they are politically successful in certain other respects.
Thinking about political integrity in this kind of positive way is demanding. It requires us to make complex political judgements and be fair to those who are not on our side. It is often much easier to identify rank failures of the negative type of integrity than examples of the more positive sort – probably because the latter sort of integrity appears in short supply. But these judgements matter. The point of politics is to do some good in the world, beyond one's own self-interest, however one decides that greater good is to be construed. Avoiding misconduct matters in this regard, but it is far from enough. If we think about political integrity solely in the 'negative' sense, we stop ourselves from reflecting on political conduct in a fuller and ultimately more ethically enriching manner. We also lower our expectations regarding the behaviour that we expect from our politicians, and make it easier for them to rest content with appearing to do the bare minimum.
Original source: https://consoc.org.uk/the-faces-of-political-integrity/
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Dove Valley Days: "Toro" time returns
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Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan looks on during practice at camp on day 11 Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at Dove Valley. John Leyba/The Denver Post
By Lindsay H. Jones | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2008 at 10:53 a.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 10:16 a.m.
Tuesday morning saw coaches trying to replicate live game situations, and several units excelled. Kicker Matt Prater hit 13-of-14 field goals – he missed from 58 yards, but recovered to hit one from the same distance on his next attempt – while the team practiced the last-second "Toro" drill. Prater has now hit 44-of-45 kicks in camp during team drills. The first-team offense was able to quickly move down the field against the first-team defense in a drill that had the offense starting from its own 2-yard line, thanks to a big catch by Brandon Marshall on the first drive and a long run by Selvin Young on the second drive.
Lowlight
Broncos fans haven't been able to see much of right guard Montrae Holland on the practice field at Dove Valley, but they can see him on television. Holland, who on Tuesday missed his 13th consecutive practice while he works to slim down to 325 pounds, is featured on a new commercial for Wendy's, along with fellow offensive lineman Ryan Harris. In the TV spot, Holland and Harris push a sled to Wendy's to get a snack and a large soda in a Broncos collector cup. How's that for irony?
"I wasn't here last year, but I can feel a sense of urgency with the guys just trying to get better than last year," defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson, who was traded to Denver from the New York Jets in April.
Bio: Spencer Larsen
Training camp is difficult enough for the average rookie, what with the twice-daily practices, hotel life and the task of memorizing a playbook thicker than War and Peace.
Try adding a huge dose of real life, and you'll get Spencer Larsen's first training camp experience.
Larsen, the team's sixth-round pick from Arizona, was excused from several practices after the sudden death of his two-year-old niece on July 25.
A week later, Larsen was excused again when his wife, Ann, gave birth to the couple's second son. Gunnar Kamb Larsen — his middle name is a tribute to Larsen's niece Kamberlie — arrived about a month early, but still weighed more than 7 pounds. Larsen flew to Phoenix, just missed the birth, but was able to spend the weekend with his family. He was back in camp Monday morning, playing with the No. 3 defense at middle linebacker.
"You just learn to deal with it," Larsen said of balancing football with family life. "I'm lucky to be in an organization where the coaches are supportive. The coaches are all family guys, and they understand."
The team will practice twice Wednesday, at 8:30 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. Both practices are free and open to the public. Gates open one hour prior to each session.
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Your mind is the camera, the lens is your focus. The shot is your goal. What is your focus? When we want to take a photograph of something we focus in on our subject. We know our intention, see it, making sure it is in focus, with the background we desire and then with a … Continue reading What is your focus?


is a new word stamp from Visible Image which is fun to play with.
These flowers are fast becoming a favourite of mine…no doubt you will see them being used more and more! Especially as they have 3 different sizes on the stamp set.
Some of the words were embossed in black, and some in white.
The middle section was embossed with white so it was easy to just colour with alcohol markers to make the word 'pop' that little bit more.
Visible Image will be on Create and Craft on the 4th of March at 10am…which is great for all Aussies as it will be on at 9pm on the Sunday night.


Project Description: The Moccasin Box Culvert project is located on Pipe Springs Road and Moccasin Wash in Moccasin, Arizona (Arizona Strip). The former culvert was a 10-foot x 10-foot cast-in-place reinforced concrete conveyance structure installed in the late 1930's, and subject to frequent heavy flows during winter and spring storms. A flood event undermined the culvert's discharge apron and a portion of the adjacent barrel section resulting in deflection cracks in the culvert. The channel had been subsequently reconditioned with emergency backfill and a soil cement application; however, observations indicated that downstream headward erosion had resumed, putting the culvert in jeopardy. CVL was retained by the County to engineer a cost effective solution for culvert replacement as well as a solution for downstream erosion control.
Relevance: Proposed design met $1 million budget. The existing culvert was undersized. CVL performed a comprehensive value engineering analysis of various culvert materials that considered cost, lifespan, and constructability to determine the optimal solution for the culvert crossing. A precast 24-foot x 10-foot box culvert was recommended to allow for phased construction. Project phasing would provide uninterrupted access to this remote area of the Arizona Strip. CVL was able to develop a solution that would meet the $1 million budget allocated for this remote area.


Auberge On The Park Condos is a new preconstruction condo development by Tridel and Rowntree Enterprises located at Eglinton Avenue East in Toronto (Leslie/Eglinton).
Auberge On The Park Condos will be 45 storeys with a total of 402 condo units. Estimated completion date is set for Summer 2021.
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HARYANA OFFERED INVESTMENTS TO THE TUNE OF RS1,700 CRORE
Several leading companies have offered an investment to the tune of about Rs 1700 crore in Haryana in the field of electronics, solar energy and beverages.
The offer was made by representatives of various leading companies during the one-on-one meeting held with Haryana Industries Minister Vipul Goel during the road show organized at Mumbai in run up to the Pravasi Haryana Divas scheduled to be held at Gurugram.
Haryanvis residing in 16 different countries have also been invited for the Pravasi Diwas Programme to be organized at Gurugram on January 10, 2017.
While the Essel Group has offered an investment of Rs 100 crore, Videocon Group has offered to invest about Rs 150 crore in the tate. Similarly, PLG Clean Energy Group has proposed to invest Rs 1300 crore for the production of 250 MW solar energy whereas, Asahi Group of Japan has offered an investment of Rs 150 crore for the setting up of beverage plant.
Goel while addressing the industrialists said that Haryana has become a favourite destination for the entrepreneurs to make investment and also to set up their units.
He said that new schemes are being prepared to attract investors in the state. During the Swaran Jayanti Year of Haryana, various development works will be undertaken for the welfare of people, said the Minister.
The Industries Minister said that 136 kilometer Kundli-Manesar- Palwal (KMP) Expressway would be completed within 400 days. After completion of this expressway, a special zone would be developed in the area alongside the road to give boost to trade activities.
He said that the Skill Development Mission has been established to boost skill development in the State. Apart from this, training would also be imparted to those who intended to establish new industries in the state, he added.
Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana and chairman Essel Group, Subhash Chandra said that various new schemes have been implemented during the last two years and as a result of these new dimensions of development has been established in the state.
He added that new industrialists would set up their units in Haryana at large scale in the time to come.
Chandra said that he himself has adopted five villages of district Hisar and these villages would be made model villages. He lamented that development had taken a back seat in Haryana during the last 50 years.
Principal Secretary, Industries Devender Singh apprised the industrialists about various schemes of the State Government. He said that efforts have been made to connect the people of Haryana origin from their own land and soil.
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Spread each cracker with 1/2 tsp. cream cheese; top each with 1 tsp. of the salsa. Serve immediately.
Top salsa with sliced black olives or jalapeno pepper slices for a tasty twist.


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A strong password can help prevent credit card fraud. But what is a strong password? Check out the tips below.
Shorter passwords may be easier to remember, but they usually aren't as secure as longer ones. You should try to make passwords at least 12 to 14 characters long and avoid using full words. To make a password stronger, be sure to include a combination of unrelated, upper and lowercase letters, along with numbers and special characters.
While a secure password may seem difficult to memorize, it's possible to make it strong and easy to remember. For example, write a sentence that's personal to you and use the first letter of each word—along with any numbers and special characters—to create your own memorable password. Example: "I have 2 brothers and 1 sister. Their names are Derek, Tim and Leslie." becomes "Ih2b&1s.tnaDT&L." This can be easier to remember than picking random characters, and is usually more secure than simply using the names as a password.
Once you create a strong password, it might be tempting to use it for all your accounts. And while it may be convenient, it's like giving the bad guys the keys to the kingdom. If hackers get your password from another account, you could end up giving them access to your bank account or other personal information. And, studies have shown that hackers who find previous passwords have a much easier time deciphering new passwords. Generally, it's best to keep your passwords for financial accounts separate from anything you use for email or social media.
When people are required to change their password frequently, they often choose weaker passwords or just change an old password slightly. Hackers know this, so if your system requires regular password updates, try to choose something totally new—and strong—when you need to change.
If you're not a password expert—and few of us are—it might be a good idea to explore password management apps. There are a number of tools that can help you create stronger passwords, store them and even tell you how strong or weak your passwords are. Some apps even create random passwords for all your accounts that are protected by a strong master password.
Another way to help keep your information safe is using multifactor authentication like SwiftIDSM by Capital One. Basically, this adds another level of security by requiring a different piece of information in addition to your password. These secondary factors could be a security question, a code sent to your phone or even your fingerprint. And when you're setting up security questions, try not to go for an answer that can easily be found, like your mother's maiden name. It's usually best to format these answers like strong passwords.


It's Their Journey, Not Ours!
How will we let our students arrive at their destination?
Allowing our students to embark on their own learning journeys is essential if we are to truly engage the learners in the programs in which we teach. As each of our students is a very unique individual, so too is their learning journeys. I recently led a 2-day workshop at Greenfield Community School in Dubai and one of the major ideas that I presented was just how critical it is to make student learning outcomes explicit at the start of the units that we teach.
I stressed that both the starting and end points of their learning journey relate directly to the student learning outcomes and used the picture below during my keynote presentation in Dubai to emphasize the fact that each and every student learning journey is a uniquely different experience.
At the end of the unit, some students will arrive at their final destination in a sleek, decked-out car that has not only the basic requirements, but also all of the extras. Students who go above and beyond and are great thinkers doing more than required to show their knowledge and understanding of the key learning outcomes. Some students will arrive at their final destination in a beat-up, dirty car that is perhaps missing a wheel, hubcap or a windshield wiper. My point here is that the students demonstrate most of the student learning outcomes in a unit, but may miss one or two. Despite not being able to do it all, they have still understood most of the big ideas in the units that they teach and are therefore successful in their own right.
I used the photo of a group of people pushing the truck to represent the idea that some of our students will need as much help as possible in reaching the learning outcomes in the unit. This help comes not only from the teacher, but also their peers. Allowing students to peer teach and support one another adds a whole new dimension to the possibilities that exist in allowing every single student to achieve success in the programs we teach. The picture of the group of people pushing the truck represents a students being given support and guided by their peers and the teacher. What are your thoughts about getting students to peer teach in PE? How can we give more opportunities for our students to achieve success in our programs? Thanks for reading.
If you try that before Ashley can you share with us how did it work ?!


how is it possibly the end of the weekend already? another weekend blog post with a shameful amount of pictures, my apologies. we had family start to come into town starting on friday night & ended sunday evening with an early thanksgiving dinner thanks to my uncle bill! we won't be attending either of the familys' thanksgiving dinners this year, so it was nice to have some tradition a few days early. but seriously, where did the weekend go? I feel like it went so, so fast & I didn't nearly get enough done. or have time to kick back & enjoy. maybe next weekend, right? how was your weekend?
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Greetings and Salutations fellow poets!
After spending the month of April writing a poem each day in celebration of National Poetry Month, I discovered how difficult it was to create something original with such demanding time constraints. Across the internet, various poets used different strategies for sparking the poetic muse. One such spark is a form of poem called the Sevenling.
The first three lines should contain an element of three – three connected or contrasting statements, or a list of three details, names or possibilities. This can take up all of the three lines or be contained anywhere within them. Then, lines four to six should similarly contain an element of three, connected directly or indirectly or not at all. The seventh line should act as a narrative summary or punchline or as an unusual juxtaposition. There are no set metrical rules, but being such as short form, some rhythm, metre or rhyme is desirable. To give the form a recognisable shape, it should be set out in two stanzas of three lines, with a solitary seventh, last line. Titles are not required. A sevenling should be titled Sevenling followed by the first few words in parentheses The tone of the sevenling should be mysterious, offbeat or disturbing, giving a feeling that only part of the story is being told. The poem should have a certain ambience which invites guesswork from the reader.
Your poetry spark for the next two weeks is: write a sevenling. Be creative and have fun!


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Q: is there a way to detect if the website is visited by a mobile device to give it another content I know I asked already
I want to do the following, when somebody visits my website on the phone it should say "please visit from desktop" and when it gets visited by desktop its normal. How can I make the website detect the device and so on?
i herd of user agent but I need a html/js example of how to use it

A: Using the JavaScript User Agent would lead to solutions which are unnecessarily complicated or unreliable. Instead, simply detect mobile devices by the viewport width. If you had mentioned CSS in your question, I would strongly reccomend you to use media queries. However, here is a JavaScript solution:
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The code above considers that every device whose screen is narrower than 1024px is a mobile device. That's a common breakpoint value, however you could change it. Also, instead of using the alert function, you could show an HTML element containing your message, for example.

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New Zealand's Domain Name Commission Wins Appeal in Lawsuit Against US DomainTools
July 19, 2019, 7:30 pm PDT
New Zealand's Domain Name Commission (DNC) wins in court against the US company DomainTools for "illegally scrapping personal information" of .nz domain name owners. The US Court's decision means DomainTools is forbidden from breaching .nz domain names owners privacy. This is the second time the US court has agreed with the DNC position. A couple of takeaways from the Friday's DNC press release:
— "The first decision in favour of .nz domain names owners privacy was made in September 2018, but DomainTools immediately appealed it and lost again in the US Court of Appeals on 17 July 2019. In 2018, the Domain Name Commission mandated that a privacy option be offered for all .nz domain name holders that are not in trade. ... More than 63,000 domain names have already taken up the privacy option, and the number is growing."
— "This win is important not only to .nz domain name holders and their privacy but also for managers of other countries domain name systems who might consider starting legal action against DomainTools and other similar companies where terms of use are breached."
Iran Disrupts Internet Access During University Entrance Exams


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ELENA Kohútiková, the former vice governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, is the newest member of the board of directors at VÚB, one of Slovakia's largest retail banks, as of October.
Kohútiková will lead the bank's financial and capital markets department. Bank spokeswoman Alena Walterová said that Kohútiková will also be responsible for tasks linked to the adoption of the euro in Slovakia. "The euro is a great challenge not only for the government and the business sector, but in particular for banks," said Kohútiková for the SITA news agency.
VÚB has been a member of the international bank group Gruppo Banca Intesa since 2001. In Slovakia it operates 207 retail branch offices, 32 offices for corporate clients, and 11 mortgage centres.
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Messier 42 - NGC 1976
The Observation Database
Obs List
Darker View
No dss image available for Messier 42
Aladin viewer for the region around Messier 42
Great Nebula of Orion, Orion Nebula, Ori Nebula, Fish's Head
Bode 10, h 360, GC 1179, 3C 145, LBN 209.13-19.35, LBN 974
Bright Nebula
Right Ascension
5h 35' 17" (2000)
5° 23' 28" S
!!!, Theta Orionis and the great nebula M42
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Andrew Cooper
Feb 6, 2018 Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 127x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%
Bright and beautiful!! first light for the newly restored 8" Astrola! The nebula complex fills the field, as the center is the Trapezium, four stars in a tight box, this is at the southern end of a dark void in the nebula, from the center two large sweeps of gas extend east and west over 25', the northern margin is quite abrupt while the southern margin fades gradually into the background, just to the north is a round body of gas (M43) about 10' in diameter surrounding the single 6.8 magnitude star NU Ori, the rift between M42 and M43 is quite dark, NGC1977 The Running Man Nebula is visible further north, the cluster NGC1980 visible to the south
Feb 14, 2016 Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/10 SCT, Celestron C8 @ 57x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 5 Moon: 25%
Large, bright, beautiful even with a first quarter Moon at zenith just 30° away. trapezium sharp, quite a bit of structure visible along the northern edge
Sep 14, 2015 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
15cm f/5 Newtonian, Makaʻiki @ 19x
Beautiful! A 40mm eyepiece in the RFT allows the whole complex to be seen from NGC1980 to NGC1981. The main nebula is bright with sweeps of gas spreading to either side of ΘOri, with averted vision the loop is almost closed to the south
Commisioning a new 'scope, Makaʻiki, first light on M42, Bob Goff often declared his desire to visit this nebula in sprit after his death, here and now under a dark sky and beside a hand-made telescope I remember
Nov 17, 2009 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 95x
Absolutely sublime under a dark sky and with the big 'scope, a great deal of detail to be seen, the northern edges are well defined great sweeps of gas, the central core around the trapezium is notably mottled, six stars easily made out in the central cavity, the entire structure is vividly green in color, just a hint of salmon on the northern edge
Oct 22, 2006 TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
12x36 Canon Image Stabilized Binoculars
Beautiful! large! bright! extensive nebula over a degree across, several involved stars, trapezium not split, the entire region from NGC1981 to Iota Ori fills the field with beauty
Jan 12, 2002 Las Cienegas, Sonoita, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet
Very large, bright, clearly green with a hint of red around the margins. a squarish bright region around the trapezium with the 'wings' spreading east-west from there, the eastern loop is visible for 180 degrees around to the south of the main core
Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885 Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
The Great Nebula, one of the most wonderful objects in the heavens; readily visible to the naked eye, yet strangely missed, as Humbolt says, by Galileo, who paid great attention to Orion.
Telescope shows an irregular branching mass or greenish haze, in some directions moderately well defined where the dark sky penetrates it in deep openings: in others melting imperceptibly away over such an extent that Se., by moving his telescope rapidly to gain full contrast, has traced it in singular convolutions, and with a considerable break near σ through 5½° of Decl., and 4° of R.A. —from ζ to 49, and probably H. V 38 -a prodigious diffusion.
Bond II also found it encompassed by a distant nebulous loop; and in various parts detected about 20 curved wreaths, indicating somewhat of a spiral structure, Its real nature was long a profound mystery. It resisted H.'s 40-ft. refl., in which it was one of the first objects viewed, and, together with the Andromeda, suggested to him the widely discussed Nebula Hypothesis, which would see here an unformed fiery mist, the chaotic material of future suns. h. found but the aspect of 'a curdling liquid, or a surface strewed over with flocks of wool, or the breaking up of a mackerel sky.'
The E. of Rosse, with his 3-ft. refl., La., with his 2-ft. spec. in the Maltese sky, could advance no further; it was long believed that the 6-ft. mirror of the E. of Rosse had lifted the veil, and distinguished in some places its starry composition; Bond, too, arrived at the same conclusion; and Se. with smaller, but very perfect means, though he could detect the glittering 'star dust.'
Yet, though this would imply a permanent form, there were some strange discrepancies in the drawings of the best hands. h., in England, the same observer at the Cape of Good Hope, Bond, La., Liapounov with a 9-½in. achr. at Kazan. OΣ, at Poulkova, all differ in various ways; the latter even believed that the brightness of the central part was in a state of continual variation; and the subsequently published labors or Rosse, La., and Se., are far from correspondent in detail. All this is strange; and the spectrum analysis of Huggins has only added to the wonder by exhibiting it as a mass of incandescent gasses.
In the densest part, four stars, 6, 7, 7.5, 8 mg., form a trapezium known as Theta Orionis. Sm. gives their colors pale w., faint lilac, garnet, reddish. OΣ thinks that several involved stars are subject to change, and remarks that 'the existence of so many variable stars on such a small space in the central part of the most curious nebula in the heavens must of course induce us to suppose these phenomena intimately connect with the mysterious nature of that body.' (abridged)
― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917
Captain William Henry Smyth
Jan 26, 1834 No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827
[From entry CCXVI for θ1 Ori...] Ptolemy, Tycho Brahé, and Hevelius, ranked θ of the 3rd magnitude, as did Bayer in his Uranometria, all evidently supposing the two contiguous stars and the bright spot constituted a single star. The effulgent nebula in which it is placed, familiarly called the Fish's head, with its streaming appendages, certainly has an irregular resemblance to the head of some monster of the polyneme genus.
Its brilliancy is not equal throughout, but the glare of the brighter parts gives intensity to the darkness which they bound, and excites a sensation of looking through it into the luminous regions of illimitable space, a sensation not entirely owing to any optical illusion of contrast. This supposition must have forced itself upon Huygens, independently of any recollection of the empyrean heaven of the ancients; and had Voltaire seen the object under powerful means, he would hardly have lashed Dr. Derham for asking, whether nebube be not this shining region, seen through a chasm of the primum mobile. Another wonderful singularity is, that the nebulous and apparently attenuated matter seems to recede from the stars of the trapezium, so as to leave a black space around each, between them and the glow, as though they were either repelling or absorbing it.
This is a most splendid object under any telescope, but the greater the optical power applied, the more inexplicable does it become. My own telescope showed it to very great advantage, but it is here where the light-grasping quality of reflectors is brought advantageously to bear. Thus in the twenty-foot telescope at Slough, Sir John Herschel gained perceptions of its modification which were not decided to my view: "I know not," he says, "how to describe it better than by comparing it to a curdling liquid, or a surface strewed over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky, when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance. It is not very unlike the mottling of the sun's disc, only, if I may so express myself, the grain is much coarser, and the intervals darker; and the flocculi, instead of being generally round, are drawn into little wisps. They present, however, no appearance of being composed of stars, and their aspect is altogether different from that of resolvable nebulas." Such, at present, are the only ascertained peculiarities of the wondrous mass.
It is pronounced to be of the singular nature termed milky nebulosity by Sir William Herschel: "to attempt," he remarks, "even at a guess at what this light may be, would be presumptuous. If it should be surmised, for instance, that this nebulosity is of the nature of the zodiacal light, we should then be obliged to admit the existence of an effect without its cause. An idea of a phosphorical condition is not more philosophical, unless we could show from what source of phosphorical matter such immeasurable tracts of luminous phenomena could draw their existence, and permanency: for though minute changes have been observed, yet a general resemblance, allowing for the difference of telescopes, is still to be perceived in the great nebulosity of Orion, ever since the time of its first discovery." This illustrious astronomer was, at first, inclined to consider all the nebulae as resolvable, but this milky instance, with that in Andromeda, contradicted the notion, and led him to inferences respecting nebulous matter, and its possible gradation to stars by condensation, so as to form a distinct and plausible theory of cosmogony; with the originality of which neither the A'kásah., fifth element of the Brahmans, of which the heavens are formed, nor the vague notions of Tycho Brahé and Kepler, can properly be said to interfere. From these bold and almost overwhelming ideas we may yet become conscious, as well of the operations of the powerful agents by which whole systems are formed, as of those tremendous forces by which others are destroyed.
We are told that this nebula was one of the first fruits of Galileo's telescope; but it is certain that Huygens discovered it by accident in 1656, as stated in his Systema Saturnium. where he notes, "Portentum, cui certe simile aliud nusquàm apud reliquas fixas potuit animadverti." From a comparison of the descriptions and drawings of this object, since his time, great alterations might be inferred; but astronomical delineation was not then sufficiently advanced to render the diagrams at all satisfactory, nor were the instruments sufficiently powerful. Thus, while one man thinks his 3½ foot telescope indicated "myriads upon myriads " of stars in its composition, Lord Rosse, with the most powerful and perfect instrument extant, gained no appearance of re-solution. It may therefore be concluded, that the first rigidly accurate representation of it, is that by Sir John Herschel; and he who wishes to acquire all the actual knowledge we at present possess on the subject, cannot refer to a better description than that contained in his paper, published in the second volume of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society. "Several astronomers," says Sir John, "on comparing this nebula with the figures of it handed down to us by its discoverer, Huygens, have concluded that its form has undergone a perceptible change; but when it is considered how difficult it is to represent such an object duly, and how entirely its appearance will differ even in the same telescope, according to the clearness of the air, or other temporary causes, we shall readily admit that we have no evidence of change that can be relied on." To the drawing which illustrates that account, posterity will refer with confidence, in order to "catch Nature in the fact:" meantime, it seems clear, that if the parallax of this nebula be no greater than that of the stars, as one hypothesis assumes, its breadth cannot be less than a hundred times that of the diameter of the Earth's orbit: but if, as is still more probable, at a vast distance beyond, its magnitude must be utterly inconceivable.
This luminous spot is so well known to all star-gazers, that it is hardly necessary to add, that a line projected from α Orionis, through ζ, the third of the belt, will pass upon θ and the nebula, in the sword-scabbard. The portion called the Fish's mouth, with the well-known trapezium, may be rudely sketched as in the preceding figure*.
― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844
Johann Elert Bode
Sep 22, 1775 Berlin Observatory, Germany (map)
The location of the remarkable nebulous region at the sword of Orion is given very indefinite in most of the sky charts and astronomical scripts known to us. But the 15th figure depicts its actual location correctly. The star Theta, which is the one in the middleat the sword, and was described as double by Flamsteed, is situated in the middle of this nebula. 1. Theta appears fourfold in good telescopes, as it has 3 small stars close to it to the east; 2. Theta is close to the east near the previous one and has two small stars east and near it. These indicated seven stars are all involved ina vivid nebula or luminous glow, which appears inclined from evening to morning, in an elongated and curved tongue-shaped figure. Close to the north of this nebula, a small star appears which has something nebulous around it [M43]. About 32' north of 1 and 2 Theta are the stars 1 and 2 c Ori; and about equally south of them is the star Iota after Flamsteed.
Charles Messier
Position of the beautiful nebula in the sword of Orion, around the star Theta which contains with three other smaller stars which one cannot see but with good instruments. Messier has entered into treat details in this great nebula; he has created a drawing, made with the greatest care, which one can see in the Memoirs of the Academy for 1771, plate VIII. It was Huygens who discovered it in 1656: it has been observed since by many astronomers. Reported in the English Atlas.
― Connaissance des Temps, 1781
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Theta1 Orionis A Theta1 Orionis B Theta1 Orionis C
Theta1 Orionis D Theta1 Orionis E Theta1 Orionis F
Theta2 Orionis Theta2 Orionis A Theta2 Orionis B
Theta2 Orionis C Trapezium
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HD 36959 HD 36960 HD 37209
HD 37303 IC 420 IC 427
Iota Orionis Cluster LDN1641 Messier 43
NGC 1973 NGC 1975 NGC 1977
NGC 1981 Theta1 Orionis A Theta1 Orionis B
Theta1 Orionis C Theta1 Orionis D Theta1 Orionis E
Theta1 Orionis F Theta2 Orionis Theta2 Orionis A
Theta2 Orionis B Theta2 Orionis C Trapezium
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Jakob Mejlhede Andersen, former Viaplay Group and Shahid Chief Content officer, has launched a new production and development company, The Yard Films, based out of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
The executive team also includes Camilla Hammer, an industry expert with global acquisitions, sales and packaging experience and Phil Rostom, an industry veteran across the MENA region. Together they possess extensive experience across creation, production, and financing of content across MENA, Europe and the US.
The Yard Films aims to develop and produce original scripted and non-scripted content for both local and international players.
During his career at Viaplay Group and Shahid, Jakob Mejlhede Andersen has had the responsibility for developing and executing the content strategy that led both Viaplay (Nordics) and Shahid (MENA) to market leading positions in steep competition with both global and local competitors. An integral part of the strategies has been local original scripted content. Jakob Mejlhede Andersen has been involved in more than 200 Nordic and Arabic scripted and non-scripted projects.
"It's our ambition to produce and deliver groundbreaking content for the buoyant Arabic streaming market. We aim to work in partnerships with the excellent local creative scene across the entire MENA region," said Jakob Mejlhede Andersen.
Camilla Hammer, who possesses experience in sales, co-production and financing, commented: "We strongly believe in partnerships within the region and internationally. There is a wealth of stories across the Middle East that has strong interest not only from local but also international platforms."
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Springfield, Ill. – Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has been named one of the '150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare' in the U.S. in 2022 by Becker's Healthcare.
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This Top 150 distinction recognizes HSHS's high employee engagement, commitment to diversity in the workforce and professional development opportunities for colleagues and leaders.
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Boatwright is approaching his one-year anniversary at the helm of HSHS. He began serving as President and CEO in June 2021.
"I know I am biased, but this recognition from Becker's just simply highlights what I already knew in my first year here – we have amazing people, unique benefits that promote wellness, opportunities for growth and a great workplace culture," he says. "I'm so proud to be part of the HSHS family and that we've been recognized as one of the best in the country."
HSHS is headquartered in Springfield, Illinois and comprises nine hospitals and 183 clinics in Illinois, six hospitals in Wisconsin, plus 183 clinics in Illinois through Prairie Cardiovascular and HSHS Medical Group. HSHS employs approximately 13,000 individuals across both states – 8,600 in Illinois and 4,400 in Wisconsin. For more information about HSHS career opportunities and benefits, visit: www.careers.hshs.org/
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Guanaceví is a town located in the northwest of the Mexican state of Durango. As of 2015, the town of Guanaceví had a population of 2,908. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Guanaceví, which in the 2015 Census had a population of 9,851. It is filled with mines that contain many minerals such as gold, silver, and brass. It has many food traditions that includes sopes, enchiladas, chapaneco, tezhuino, queso, chiles rellenos, etc.

Early history of this town can be found in Perez de Ribas Paginas, book3.

References

Andres Perez de Ribas Historia de los triunfos de Nueva Santa Fe [1646] 1944 Mexico City 3vols.

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President Bounnhang Vorachit on Thursday delivered a New Year speech extending wishes to the Lao people on the occasion of celebrating Pi Mai Lao or Lao New Year B.E. 2562.
In his message, President extended best wishes to countrymen, civil servants, military and police officers and the Lao multi-ethnic people healthiness, happiness and greater success and conveyed care from the Party and government leaders to people of Sanamxay district and those affected by natural disaster last year and wished them healthiness, happiness and triumph over obstacles.
On the occasion of saying goodbye to the old year- the Year of the Dog and welcome new year � the Year of the Pig B.E. 2562 to carry on the fine tradition of our Lao nation which has been nurtured since time immemorial, I, on behalf of the Party and government leaders would like to take this auspicious occasion to extend warm solidarity, pure care, friendly greetings and best wishes to the Lao multi-ethnic people in the country and abroad, and foreign nationals living and performing their duties in the Lao PDR and members of the world community. May you have happiness and joyfulness, peace, friendship and prosperity, said President Bounnhang.
Recalling the passing year B.E. 2561, President Bounnhang highlighted the pride of the Lao people of their solidarity in implementing the resolution of the 10th National Congress of the Lao Revolutionary Party and the 8th Five-year Socio-economic Development Plan in an enthusiastic, comprehensive and constant manner and their triumph over countless obstacles.
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2017.10.08 Warszawa Pilka nozna Kwalifikacje do Mistrzostw Swiata Rosja 2018 Polska - Czarnogora N/z Foto Pawel Jaskolka / PressFocus 2017.10.08 Warsaw Football European Qualifiers FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Poland - Montenegro Credit: Pawel Jaskolka / PressFocus
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Belgium and Poland are set to snub the former Premier League stars for their new boss positions on the eve of EURO 2024 qualifiers.
Two teams who had quite different results in their World Cup 2022 campaign, Belgium and Poland, are not so keen on appointing a pair of former Premier League stars to be their head coach. Thierry Henry and Steven Gerrard were reportedly linked to vacant posts in Belgium and Poland respectively. However, things might not turn out as they expected.
The former Arsenal front man has worked for Belgium in two stints as an assistant to Roberto Martinez. He has even gained support from two senior players in Romelu Lukaku and Toby Alderweireld to be promoted. Yet, the Belgium Football Federation do not appear to see eye-to-eye with them.
The same situation seems to be happening to Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard. He reportedly received an offer from Poland Football Federation to take charge for the upcoming EURO 2024 qualifiers. Unfortunately, they seem to be on the verge of naming another candidate instead. Find out who Belgium and Poland are targeting to be their next boss.
Belgium and Poland Pick Experienced Figures over Ex-EPL Stars
The Red Devils might have worked together with Henry but apparently it does not help the former French forward's chance to get his promotion he wants. Despite being endorsed by Lukaku and Alderweireld, he is likely to be snubbed by the Belgian FA. They are setting their eyes on two experienced candidates.
The first one is Saudi Arabian boss Herve Renard. Although he is bound to the long term contract with The Green Falcon until 2025, Renard could still leave the post. He guided his team to a historic 2-1 victory over Argentina in their opener of Qatar 2022. Sadly, Saudi Arabia failed to replicate their stunning form in the next two games.
Renard has been highly recommended due to his experience with national teams. He has led six nations, including Ivory Coast, Morocco and Zambia, in two spells before being named as Saudi boss. He even won the African Cup of Nations twice with Zambia (2012) and Ivory Coast (2015) before bringing Morocco back to the World Cup finals in Russia 2018, their first one since 1998.
The second one on Belgium's list is their former goalkeeper, Michael Preud'Homme. He has yet to add national teams in his CV. However, his managerial career deserves attention with several notable silverware.
The Best Goalkeeper in World Cup 1994 has won two domestic league titles for Standard Liege and Club Brugge each in 2008 and 2016. He also guided dark horse sides Gent and Twente to second spot in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Preud'Homme also clinched a domestic cup title with all of the clubs mentioned except for Standard.
Poland's exit at the second round in Qatar was not exactly disappointing. It is their first progression to the knockout rounds of a World Cup since Mexico 1986. Nevertheless, it did not stop Czeslaw Michniewicz from stepping down.
At first, Steven Gerrard was considered as one of the candidates. The former Aston Villa and Glasgow Rangers boss was tipped to lead Poland in EURO 2024 qualifying round next March. However, his lack of experience with national teams seemed to get in his way. Poland Football Federation is reportedly ready to name their favorite with more international experience, Paulo Bento.
Bento has just left the post after leading South Korea to the round of 16 in Qatar. He managed to help Son Heung-Min and Co to beat Portugal in the final game of the group stage to seal one spot at the knockout stage.
Previously, he was at the helm of Portugal in EURO 2012, where they reached the semifinals, and World Cup 2014. The former defensive midfielder also had several brief spells in Brazil with Cruzeiro, in Greece with Olympiacos and Chinese Super League side, Chongqing Lifan. Bento's most successful stint was in Sporting Lisbon. He won four domestic titles, including two Portuguese Cups, from 2005 to 2009.
Belgium and Poland are hoping to appoint their new manager soon. They are bound to play their first official games in two months' time. Both start their EURO 2024 qualifying campaign on the road. The Belgians will take on Sweden while Orly faces off Czech Repbulic on March 24.
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formulasofsexuation
exodus the pc port version was ported to ps2 and xbox though, which though not 100% ideal is vastly preferable as a version to have on current gen consoles imo! either way i hope an emulator solution of some sort is a priority if they end up doing saga (and i hope they do!), which would be really poorly served by something like this…
formulasofsexuation even if they just had the ability to cut back and forth between the original graphics and still had the new gameplay engine (see also NiGHTS HD), it would be nice. There's something about Saturn graphics that nothing outside of emulation seems to mimic.
And wow, would I love to see Sega embrace a Sega CD and/or Saturn emulator and get some of those titles back out there for folks to enjoy. There's so much good stuff that there's no way proper channel to play.
Ah yes, that full on Ps2 remake was good! Well, I do hope they do something with it, though I hear the panzer dragoon saga source is lost.
exodus during a gdc talk last year yukio futatsugi coyly implied that the saga source had been recovered. we'll see…
Facewizard
Really excited to play this one. I have always felt inadequate for not playing Panzer Dragoon, particularly since I've had friends and acquaintances in the past who worked on projects they said were influenced or inspired by it, leaving me unable to give them the feedback they wanted, haha.
now I feel an even greater need to tell folks whether this one lives up to the originals!!
P_Hominid
Agreed on the visuals. There's a certain soapy iridescent palette that I strongly associate with the Saturn, which Astal and the Panzers were the poster children for. This one feels too warm. That and the Panzers really made the hardware's quirks integral to the art direction. They could always get away with an infinity plane of water because Panzer water is hypnotic. This one doesn't feel desolate enough, not Moebius enough.
But then if it were faithful to the original then I wouldn't have any reason to play it ANYWAY, Doesn't need to be better, just different. I'm down, might be cool
chazumaru
It's cool that someone is trying something with old Saturn games and it's nice to see games like Grandia, Panzer Dragoon, YU-NO and Langrisser I&II be officially licensed (and in some cases translated for the first time) for a new and wider audience. So kudos to the people behind this remake for the attempt. I believe it's a French production team with the support of Polish programmers.
Now, I am also rather skeptical about this remake from the perspective of someone who played the original. Furthermore, I suspect a Panzer Dragoon or Panzer Dragon Zwei remake in 2020 only really makes sense as a VR project, to take advantage of the on-rail experience and head tracking / 360° enemy pattern. But the nice thing is we now live in an era of patches (and easily accessible mods) so I hope the team gathers the feedback from early adopters to improve stuff such as the responsiveness of target locking. It seems they already have a new patch ready for early April.
For those not into the remake's aesthetic, do you think Orta maintained the aesthetic of the Saturn games? Not asking for the sake of argument, just genuinely curious. In fact I've almost completely ignored the remake and don't even have a sense of what it looks like. But Orta is somewhere in the middle of my to-play list.
Lacquerware I think Orta is definitely in the same vein as the originals - they all blend together in my mind.
A few musings on the Remake having watched a friend play through it yesterday:
The bright colors and look of everything makes it really difficult to keep track of where the enemies are.
The shadows in the forest flicker nonstop. It's a thing.
The lockon is really rough. I'm glad they're already on it.
None of the quality of life improvements from PD2 are in it. Specifically, I think the lack of incorporating the burst shot from 2 goes beyond being faithful and actively chooses to keep in something that's kind of an accessibility issue. There's some spots where you have to mash for an entire boss fight, and it's brutal.
Overally, I like it. It sticks faithfully enough to the source that it still nails the same experience (which is pretty nice - Saturn isn't exactly accessible to modern audiences).
I'm hoping this thing gets some real traction, the team learns and grows, and we can see a Zwei remake that really nails it.
I think Orta looks fine, basically, but I do not like how it plays, and I don't like the fiddly nature of switching dragons to do different attacks, which was an entirely superfluous addition. I'll have to get back in there to see how I feel about the visuals, but the overwhelming memory I have is of darkness… No blue sky in games here.
And Chaz it's a German production team supported by polish devs, I believe. It's forever entertainment, the company whose games are discounted to 99 cents in perpetuity on the eshop.
[edit] I meant to say, evoking the grandia remaster as a way to play an otherwise inaccessible Saturn game is mostly true, but the purist in me dislikes that the remaster is based on the ps1 version which is visually inferior to the Saturn version, missing a lot of sprite layers and etc. It's more the true experience of an okay port than the experience of the saturn game.
[edit 2] crossed posts with James- so replying here - a lot of what you complain about there is the stuff I saw in the trailer, so… Yeah, my concerns seem to have been realized! As long as they were changing things, why not change a few for the better, with quality of life improvements and better cursor movement (that's what looks the worst to me, but it could possibly be framerate related). It feels like they just slathered butter over the whole thing.
exodus out of curiosity, how did you feel about the boosting/braking to maneuver? I thought that was a good evolution and tied in the PDS positioning element.
The shot type switching was definitely a bit much. Especially since you had to cycle - you couldn't go straight to a specific form.
exodus I meant to say, evoking the grandia remaster as a way to play an otherwise inaccessible Saturn game is mostly true, but the purist in me dislikes that the remaster is based on the ps1 version which is visually inferior to the Saturn version, missing a lot of sprite layers and etc. It's more the true experience of an okay port than the experience of the saturn game.
Sure. Actually pretty much all these remakes have issues. YU-NO has that terrible new character design from the Ar Tonelico dude, otherwise it would be perfect. Grandia is not only based on the PS version with the faulty textures (which at least is understandable) but also comes with a weird vaseline filter and had tons of issues which were only fixed last week with the patch that coincided with the JP release… And the localization in other languages seems iffy… But still! They are all decent entry points to discover the Saturn versions, at the very least. Anyway, my self-inflicted positive spin is that it's nice at least someone gives a shit.
exodus And Chaz it's a German production team supported by polish devs, I believe. It's forever entertainment, the company whose games are discounted to 99 cents in perpetuity on the eshop.
At the top of the food chain, Forever Entertainment is definitely from Poland. My understanding is the production is handled by a French subsidiary of Forever called TA Publishing (the tweet above is from the French producer of the game), a company in Brittany which is at least partly staffed with some of the people behind the Fear Effect remake projects, already produced by Forever under license from Square-Enix. And most of the programming would be handled in Poland. That's how I have understood the set up.
Combined with the shot switching it felt like they were trying to turn the dragon into a car, and a manual at that. I drive stick but I don't need that from my fantasy dragon. For me it didn't work, but I don't like anything I perceive as unnecessary complexity, which is down to personal taste!
Ah, oops, it was TA publishing that I misunderstood as being from Germany. My mistake! I'm sure you understand the situation better than I do!
I do agree that it's good to have remakes out there for folks to experience these games, I am just extra sensitive to a "good enough" remake because of my own work with - not remakes, but re-releases. Unfortunately most remakes and re-releases don't have enough money behind them to do the perfect job we'd like, and then don't sell enough to justify further patches, so we kinda get what we can get. But I'll still complain about it :P
In all fairness, even Germany has frequently mistaken that France and Poland are part of Germany.
ha ha, well, you win this round.
Peelz
How are the control customization options? I've got one of the Retrobit Saturn pads and a converter to use it on the Switch. Never played a PD game, and it seems increasingly unlikely that a good Saturn re-release will be possible for all the reasons everyone has mentioned here.
I guess uhhhh I'm just sort of looking for more excuses to use this Saturn pad? Circle pads are so cool, y'all.
I was very excited to get this game, and have not been thrilled with the execution in it so far. It feels slaggy and slippery in an analog way that the original didn't have?
yeah, that's been my fear looking at trailers. our programmer suggested maybe it was a framerate thing but I think it's probably more than that… I've been pretty reluctant to buy it, and it's even tougher with folks confirming that in advance!


Probably all of them had; a third of them remembered it well enough to raise their hands.
Tony Caraveli thought he could remember. Neil distrusted the devilish look in his eye, but told him to go ahead.
"Make me look good!" Tony said.
This time the children's laughter was more relaxed, and Bill acknowledged it with a wave of his hand.
Neil read to his class for twenty minutes from The House Without a Christmas Tree. He led a discussion about the story, and from that drew the children into talking about how their families celebrated the season. Neil made notes from their discussion on the chalkboard, then told them to write a paper on Christmas in their homes.
Neil thought, You just think you do!
Neil's lesson plan had been worthwhile but unexceptional. He had not intended for it to be earth shaking, but when he sat at home that night reading the papers, he found that he had cut close to the bone.
We don't hav Christmas at our house. My parents say that it is a peagan rittul. Jesus was born in a stabul and din't have any presents, so we don't have any present either. I wish we did.
I would really like to have a real Christmas this year.
Every year we go to my granmas house for christmas. she has a great big living room where we all put our presents. I get presents from my mom and dad but nobody else gives them to me. I mean I get presents, but my brother always gets twice as many and they are always neater than mine and i don't think its fair ! ! ! !
My Dad gets me chemistry sets and sport shirts and ties and last year he got me a calculator. What I really want is a baseball mitt and a football.
Stephanie Hagstrom's paper was well written, in beautiful handwriting, and decorated with candy canes in all four corners. She detailed what presents she got last year, told how happy she was to have Christmas with her parents, and told what she expected to get this year.
This year I don't think we will have much of a Chirstmas because my Daddy has lost his job and Mommy's job at the bank doesn't give us much money. My Oldest brother has gone back to Mexico, but Daddy said that what money we have will go to buy toys for the little kids. That's OK, I don't mind.
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Richmond Fire Department spokesperson Amy Vu said their men know this problem all too well as they responded to eight fatal fires that resulted in 12 fatalites in 2021.
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Q: How to retrieve a value from a recordset that is not a return value or output parameter using vb6 I have a stored proc on an existing 3rd party application (SQL 2005) that I wish to interact with.
It is an insert statement followed by a select statement as follows;

    Set @CustomerId = Cast(SCOPE_IDENTITY() As [int])

    Select @CustomerId

Using VB6 how do I access the value of @CustomerID?
set rs = cmd.Execute

is not returning a resultset as expected...
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rs.Fields.Count is 0.
Any attempt to access the resulting recordset, like rs(0).Value simply causes an "Item not found..." error.

A: I would guess that your stored procedure is returning more than one recordset.
If this is the case, you can use the NextRecordset() method to iterate through them.
MSDN:

*

*If a row-returning command executes successfully but returns no records,
  the returned Recordset object will be
  open but empty. Test for this case by
  verifying that the BOF and EOF
  properties are both True.

*If a non–row-returning command executes successfully, the returned
  Recordset object will be closed, which
  you can verify by testing the State
  property on the Recordset.

*When there are no more results, recordset will be set to Nothing.

This means I would suggest something like this to solve your problem:
Set rs = cmd.Execute

''# fetch the first value of the last recordset
Do Until rs Is Nothing
  If rs.State = adStateOpen Then
    If Not (rs.BOF And rs.EOF) Then
      ''# You can do a different sanity check here, or none at all
      If rs.Fields(0).Type = adInteger Then
        CustomerId = rs.Fields(0).Value
      End If
    End If
  End If
  Set rs = rs.NextRecordSet
Loop

MsgBox CustomerId


Never before, in the long chain of their years, had the twelve elders sitting in front of their houses seen a drowned man floating in the calm waters of the lake, gliding to the shore, coming to rest on the wet sand, and as is the case with the dead, prone, motionless, barefoot.
Probably because of the heat with which even June is generous, the arrival of the corpse caused no great stir in the fishing village. Most men and women were behind the walls of their houses. There were no children. However, in a little while, a few young men, fearing some misfortune—an investigation, a hearing, suspicion—gathered around the drowned man and realized immediately that he was not a local, not from their side of the lake. His clothes of thin white linen seemed too big for him. The drowned man had fragile bones and was not swollen or blue. He seemed to be asleep in the rain—about to wake up.
With some concern that what he was doing was illegal, one of the fishermen knelt beside the corpse and removed some weed or grass from his face. From the incomplete frame of the gently curved eyebrows two eyes gazed at the fishermen. But what eyes! As if alive! Saved from the layers of murky slime the pupils shrank. The man kneeling by the corpse straightened up. He took a step back but said nothing. The others were also silent. As if they had always known what to do in such situations, as if rituals were a part of their lives, they raised the drowned man from the wet sand. They laid him gently in a wooden boat. Two of them, paler than before, rowed out to the middle of the lake. The watchers on the shore remained silent. They waited in a huddle, indistinguishable one from another, with set white faces.
A hundred paces from the shore, the twelve elders with dignified apostolic faces sat in what shade there was in front of their houses. They brushed away the flies and inhaled the rosy scent of the oleanders. Suddenly they began to sing with the nightingale voices of angels.
Before the sun spilt blood over the reedbeds, the boat returned with the two rowers from the burial. The drowned white-clad man had been entrusted to the water where, the fishermen believed, his soul would rest on the soft bottom.
Just as a water bird was announcing the dawn from its altar in the reedbeds, the sound which ripens the figs, the twelve elders with apostolic faces left their houses and again saw yesterday's unwelcome visitor. On the shore, where the shells glistened in the night foam, lay the drowned man clothed in white linen. The sight was too much for their morning strength. Now they were shorter of breath than they had been the previous evening when they had sung with faith. They turned to the sun, to their god with a white fish in his mouth, and crossed themselves. "Our dead we respect. It is harder to be close to the dead of others," they thought.
Immediately after that, before kneading the dough with holy water, the women also noticed the drowned man, whose appearance had been kept a secret from them. But even without asking, they knew what had happened the previous day. Before the otters began to hunt the perch and bronze-scaled bream, the women had taken over the ritual begun by the men the day before.
The shadows of the two poplars, between which lay the wooden fishing boats, began to dwindle and the cicadas announced the heat of the day. In one of the dry tops of the poplars a raven croaked clumsily and drowsily, like a deacon. And then the second part of the burial ritual began. The oldest of the women, a wrinkled saint, placed an earthenware pot and a lighted candle beside the head of the drowned man and tried without success to close his eyes with the palm of her hand. It did not discourage her. She slowly took from under her apron two metal coins, raised them to her lips, and then placed them on the eyes of the dead man. The other women stood around her, and she, harder than flint, told them that the young man had come to find a bride. If they returned him to the water motionless and barefoot, he would be found again on the shore the next day.
A little further from the drowned man stood the old woman's daughter. Lame, although not ugly, asked how he had floated to their shore. They did not answer her. They removed their girdles of old coins and placed them around the neck of the drowned man. They hoped that their generosity would appease the lake. Under the weight of the girdles the dead man would stay under water.
Loaded with old coins, the drowned man resembled an enormous white fish, but with flashing scales only on his chest, where fish do not have them. Without mourning, although that would have made a better end to the burial, the women raised the body and placed it in the nearest boat.
This has never happened before. Spiders moved in opposite directions. Some headed for the warm water of the lake, others crossed the sand towards the houses of the fishermen. The eight-legged monsters, with protuberant eyes, entered the hearts of the elders. They sucked every drop from their hearts and the hearts of everybody else.
This dream, or a similar one, sprouted in the breast of the night.
Some hidden current in the water carried the drowned man to the opposite shore, where the people from the fishing village never set foot. The drowned man lay at a spot crossed by a hundred paths, and it seemed he did not know which one to take. He was the center of a clock which counted neither days nor nights. His time was not measured in hours: it was compressed into a single petrified moment the stillness of which took no heed of time: it did not even contain the word after: his eyes were open: two unripe cherries rested in them: on his chest lay girdles of silver coins and on his tongue an unspoken word.
Between two hoots of an owl, a bird which pecks the seed of lightning from the clouds, water, his homeland, came for the drowned man, and embraced him with warm arms. It drew him and took him away. He gave himself up to the tamed waves and the weeds covered his youthful face which had never felt the imprint of a woman's lips… The current carried him from the southern shore where figs crack open, to the northern shore, to the fishing village. The moon hung above the smokeless roofs like a silver medal on a ribbon. A transparent cloud came near; had it arms it would have peeled the moon like an orange.
The night prepared to disperse its eternal herd of shadows. Soon the day would release from its bosom twelve swarms of bees. They would scatter the sun's pollen to the four points of the compass. It was the 22nd of June, the midpoint between one equinox and another, as the elders calculated.
The prints of bare feet descended the ridge where under the snow lay the remnants of a nomad's sheepfold. With his thumb in his mouth (he thought better that way) the forester was faced with a puzzle: if the unknown person's behaviour or intentions (it could not have been the devil) were illegal, then who was it and why was he barefoot? Sucking his thumb brought him no answer. Weighing up the distance with his eyes, the forester decided to follow the footprints. The unknown person had gone to the left, then to the right, and then, in a curve, returned to his original direction.
The crystalline bells of the snow chimed softly in celebration. The forester did not hear them. Nor did he taste the warmth of the breeze which greeted him from the south, from the cradle of spring.
The footprints, deeper now and already filling with water, ended at the sharp edge between snow and earth, between day and night. On one side there was winter and a clear sunny sky, on the other a warm summer night.
With a cold light at his back and his eyes probing the dark blueness, overwhelmed with the sense that he was dreaming for the first time in his life, the forester kept on and arrived at two poplars beside the lake-shore where wooden boats were beached. The prints of bare feet, curiously visible even at night, disappeared, or maybe reached their destination in the water. It was a time when nothing stirs and nothing is heard, and the man who had come out of the snow and the day sat exhausted on the sand. From there he could watch the lake and, at the same time, keep one eye on the village, a hundred paces from the shore.
Crouched in the shadow of the two poplars, two widows of night with sighing roots, he saw what happened an hour later, half a year later, a century later.
From a small, one-dimensional house a shadow emerged and limped towards the lake. It had to be either a woman or a girl. Noiselessly, she reached the shore and stood motionless, her face turned towards the smooth surface of the water, which reflected neither life nor the death which the forester had never considered. Then the surface of the water was broken by something from an immeasurable depth, something which could be both a large dead fish and a man dressed in white. The shadow which had gone down to the shore stepped into the water. Without hesitation, in the trance of a sleepwalker, it moved further. The dark torso neared the large fish or the man in white. Soon there was nothing in the water. The actors of this unnatural scene sank into the colourless depths like two insects disappearing into the heart of a giant flower.
On his feet now, the forester stood helplessly, unable to find a logical explanation for what had happened before his very eyes. He did not know where to go, how to return to the mountain, to the ridge, to the snowy plateau. He began to look for an exit from an unfamiliar world. He breathed heavily, painfully. Around him there was more darkness than air. By instinct he followed footprints. Not of bare feet. His own. His strength ebbing, he emerged into the day and the snow. He sighed out the night. His breath formed a depressing indigo cloud, which, floating away, took with it all his memories of the night.