A United Airlines passenger received a $US10,000 voucher as compensation for being bumped from a flight.
Airlines use vouchers as compensation in place of cash.
Here are things you should look out for when using vouchers to buy a ticket.
On Thursday, a United Airlinespassenger received $US10,000 after being bumped from a flight. Contrary to some reports, this was in the form of a voucher and not cash.
Vouchers are nothing new. We hear about them all the time, especially if a flight is oversold or when something goes wrong.
And they're usually used as compensation in place of cold, hard cash.
In fact, airlines make it clear these vouchers have no cash value.
"Airlines give you these vouchers to achieve two things: Solve their problem, such as an overbooked flight, and have you go away," travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt told Business Insider.
However, the terms and conditions that govern what you can do with these vouchers vary greatly based on the type of certificate you were given and the airline you are flying.
Here are a couple of things to pay attention to.
First, there are restrictions on which airlines you can fly.
These days, major airlines such as American, Delta, and United, are all members of global airline alliances. As a result, these airlines can sell tickets on flights operated by their alliance partners.
For instance, United, as a member of Star Alliance, routinely sells tickets on its website for flights operated by alliance partner Lufthansa. Unfortunately, these tickets are not eligible for voucher holders.
Conversely, American Airlines will allow you to use vouchers for flights operated by its Oneworld alliance and AA codeshare partners.
Airlines can also restrict where you can redeem the vouchers. Some vouchers stipulate that they cannot be redeemed at third-party travel agents and websites.
In addition, the voucher might not be able to take you everywhere you want to go. That's because airlines may place restrictions on destinations or point of origin.
So if you happen to be in Spain and want to use your voucher to pay for a flight back to the US, you're out of luck.
The extent to which a voucher will cover the cost of a ticket varies.
For example, Southwest Airlines' LUV Vouchers can only be used as a form of payment towards the cost of airfare. The passenger is on the hook for any additional government-imposed taxes or fees, which, in some cases, can cost as much as the airfare itself.
On the other hand, Delta Air Lines' transportation credit vouchers and American eVouchers can be used to cover both the cost of the airfare and any associated fees or taxes.
Can I give it to someone else?
Sometimes you can even use the value of the voucher on someone else. According to Southwest, its LUV Vouchers are fully transferable.
Delta Air Lines vouchers are transferable, but with some caveats.
For certificates issued before December 15, 2011, Delta will allow you to transfer the voucher to another passenger by simply giving that person the 13-digit voucher number and the name to whom the voucher was issued.
For certificates issued on or after December 15, 2011, the value on the voucher can be applied to a different passenger as long as the person to whom the voucher was issued is travelling on the same reservation.
Unfortunately, American Airlines eVouchers are non-transferable.
However, even fully transferable vouchers can't be sold. In fact, selling or bartering away your voucher will almost certainly cause them to become void.
Can I combine more than one voucher?
Instead of a $US1,000 voucher, sometimes an airline may choose to give you two $US500 vouchers. Don't worry – many airlines will allow you to combine multiple vouchers.
American, for example, will allow you to combine up to eight vouchers to pay for a single ticket.
Most airline vouchers are valid for one year after its issuance. However, this can vary, so pay attention to its expiration date.


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Brit-Scot Andy Murray's break-out week continued Friday at the ATP stop in Bangkok, with the unseeded teenager defeating US Open semifinalist Robby Ginepri 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to gain his first tour-level semifinal berth.
"Winning against two Top 50 players in a row is a pretty big deal for me, and to get to my first semifinal is also great," said Murray, who will now face Paradorn Srichaphan. "It's going to be a big match for me and I'm looking forward to it. I'm not expected to win, but if I play like I did today I think I've got a very good chance. I would like to get through to the final and play my first ATP final against the best player in the world."
Which would be Roger Federer, who dodged giant-killer Gilles Muller with a 6-4, 6-3 performance.
"It was a dangerous match," said Federer of the player who beat Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon and Andy Roddick at the US Open. "Thank God I got off to a good start and that calmed things down a little bit. I really tried after that, every service game I played, to stay very focused and not give him too much of a chance. I don't remember him having any break points so I was never under pressure too much. Today was just solid and consistent, what was needed. No real flashy play, and that's probably what I've got to do again tomorrow."
Srichaphan advanced into the semifinals when No. 2 seed Lleyton Hewitt withdrew with a groin pull.
"In my practice today I overstretched the inside left of my groin which had been stiff from training and especially after the match over [Justin] Gimelstob last night," Hewitt said.
Also into the semis was No. 6 seed Jarkko Nieminen who ended the run of Taipei's Yeu-Tzuoo Wang with a 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-4 win.
Saturday's semifinal match-ups are (1) Federer vs. (6) Nieminen (Federer leads career meetings 6-0) and Murray vs. (7) Srichaphan (first meeting), and in doubles (3) Aspelin/Perry vs (2) Erlich/Ram, and (1) Hanley/Paes vs. Bhupathi/Gimelstob.
Top-seeded Mariano Puerta survived his second consecutive third-set tiebreak Friday at the ATP stop in Ho Chi Minh to move into the semifinals with a 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(5) win over Germany's Rainer Schuettler.
"I finished this match really tired, I have pain in all my body," Puerta said. "I'll try to sleep well. Maybe tomorrow I won't play three sets."
Puerta was joined in the semis by the No. 2 and 3 seeds in Thomas Johansson (d. (5) Saulnier) and Radek Stepanek (d. (6) Monaco), along with unseeded Swede Jonas Bjorkman (d. Waske).
"Today was very tough," Johansson said. "I've played Cyril twice before and lost both times, and the last time we played three hours and 40 minutes. We have very tough matches. The first set was so much running for both me and Cyril. He hasn't felt himself the past few days, so I think he got tired in the second."
For Bjorkman it is his first singles semifinal since 2003.
"From the start of 2004 when I was No. 30 in the world, I've been struggling to play consistently, it's been very up and down and unfortunately that meant dropping in the rankings," Bjorkman said. "The last few months, I've played more singles and less doubles, and I'm playing much better."
On tap for Saturday are (1) Puerta vs. Bjorkman (Swede won their only meeting on clay in 2003), and (2) T.Johansson vs. (3) Stepanek (Swede won their lone meeting in straights earlier this year at Rotterdam).
Rain stopped the completion of play Friday at the ATP claycourt stop in Palermo, but not before three unseeded players advanced into the semifinals.
No. 3 seed Juan Carlos Ferrero's dark-cloud season continued when the former No. 1-ranked Spaniard blew three match points in a 6-7(2), 7-6(4), 7-5 loss to Germany's Tomas Behrend.
"Tennis is an incredible sport," Behrend said. "I was match point down in the second set, then 4-0 down in the third, and it wasn't against an inexperienced player, it was Ferrero, a Roland Garros winner. I kept believing in myself and going for my shots."
Other winners were 21-year-old Italian Andreas Seppi (d. 31-year-old countryman (8) Sanguinetti), and Russian Igor Andreev (d. A.Martin).
"He (Sanguinetti) had beaten me badly at Wimbledon so I wanted to get the revenge," Seppi said. "I did not want to give him too many angles so I played more in the middle. It was good to win in two sets after my two marathon matches the first two rounds."
Scheduled for Saturday is (2) Robredo vs. (6) Volandri, Andreev vs. Seppi, then Behrend vs. (6) Volandri or (2) Robredo.
Chinese women featured in all four quarterfinal matches Friday at the WTA stop in Guangzhou, and two made it through safely to the semifinals with No. 5 seed Jie Zheng upsetting No. 4 Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-7(10), 6-1, and Zi Yan defeating countrywoman Na Li 7-6 in the third.
The remainder of the losers were Chinese with 16-year-old Belarus qualifier Victoria Azarenka defeating Shuai Peng when the No. 2 seed retired with heat illness at a set down, and Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives edged Ting Li 7-6 in the third.
Lining up for the Saturday semis are Yan vs. Azarenka, and Llagostera Vives vs. Zheng.
Top 3 seeds Jelena Jankovic (d. (6) Douchevina from a set down), Nicole Vaidisova (d. (8) Bartoli), and Tatiana Golovin (d. (5) Sugiyama) advanced into the semifinals Friday at the WTA stop in Seoul.
Joining the seeds was Colombia's Catalina Castano, who came from a set down to win the all-unseeded battle with American Laura Granville 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Scheduled for the Saturday semifinals are Jankovic vs. Golovin, and Castano vs. the 16-year-old Vaidisova.
Top-seeded Kim Clijsters won her 18th consecutive match this year on Friday at the WTA stop in Luxembourg, defeating No. 6 seed Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-5.
"It was a tough match against her but fun at the same time," Clijsters said. "We had some tough rallies and it was pretty hard physically because I needed to be on my toes and change positions fast to be on top of the point. The key was really to move well and set myself for an easy shot."
Clijsters is shooting for her fourth consecutive title after wins at Los Angeles, Toronto and the US Open.
German rising star Anna-Lena Groenefeld provided the lone upset on the day, coming from a set down to defeat No. 2 seed Nadia Petrova 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
"I feel pretty happy because that's my first win against a Top 10 player," Groenefeld said.
Also into the semis were (4) Nathalie Dechy (d. Hantuchova), and (7) Dinara Safina (d. Vinci from set down).
Saturday's semifinals will feature Safina vs. Groenefeld, and Clijsters vs. Dechy.


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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present, are certain to miss the future."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Speech, Frankfurt, 25 June 1963.
The first six months of 2017 are gone, and most global markets have surged during that period. So those like me who thought valuations were starting to look extreme at the beginning of the year, once again cried "wolf" too soon. For those six months, Vanguard's S&P 500 Admiral Fund achieved a total return of 9.3%, with an expense ratio of four basis points. Many actively managed funds, alas, did not perform quite as well for their investors, although their managers continued to do quite well, purchasing apartments in Paris or London, or jetting to their Georgia coastal estates.
Jason Zweig had an interesting column in The Wall Street Journal a week ago, pointing out that over the last twenty years, the number of publicly-traded stocks in the U.S. has been cut in half. This has happened as a result of takeovers, being taken private, etc., etc. My friend Michael Mauboussin, a strategist at Credit Suisse earlier this year highlighted the trend in a report titled "The Incredible Shrinking Universe of Stocks" that also pointed out that it made for a much more competitive environment for active managers. Mauboussin's point was that active managers had a smaller number of issues to select from if they deviated from the index, notwithstanding that that was where the best opportunities, resulting from inefficiencies, might lie. Let us leave aside the issue that many so-called, or perhaps more aptly, so-marketed, active managers are really closet indexers.
This week, Mr. Zweig, in response to a number of letters from individuals at various asset-gatherers, backed off somewhat from the import of the shrinking number of stocks as pertains to small cap stocks. After all, that is a tiny part of the overall market. The action is all in the large caps and mega-cap securities. I think that raises a different issue. The increase in the shift from active managers to passive managers is resulting in a far larger part of the capitalization of issues being effectively "locked away" from the market unless the index funds start having negative flows. It also explains why valuations continue to rise. More money is chasing a smaller set of outstanding shares. Effectively, the universe of active managers has become the hamsters turning the wheel, having to run ever faster to mirror, let alone catch, the relevant benchmark index.
I had lunch this past week with my friend who is a very senior executive at a large, Chicago-based, financial services firm. Both of us see the demise of the mutual fund as preferred vehicle for investment somewhere out on the horizon (in fairness, one of us sees it on the horizon, and the other just over the horizon). Part of the issue is the impact of fees and fund flows on performance. Both factors in tandem destroy performance and serve to place funds at a competitive disadvantage to index products. One solution is the commingled equity trusts, which have come into vogue for 401(K) and other retirement accounts, slicing out a heavy layer of fees. Another solution is the return of separate account management, which will make use of individually-managed stock portfolios or ETF's. The graveyard humor here is that many investment counseling firms were already ideally positioned for the new world. Unfortunately, their senior executives got greedy and focused on where the money and profit margins were, which was in the mutual fund business. They pushed out the portfolio managers and counselors with experience and brains, and replaced them with client-servicing personnel. Both of us see the demise of the "star" manager. Indeed, some firms face the problem of insurance firms with commission-driven sales forces in a world of internet purchasing and activity. They would love to go from point A to point C, but don't know how to get there having sold the mystique of the star. Some cope of course by announcing teams of co-managers to present the image of a collegial decision-making process with sustainability and consistency as there are personnel changes. Sadly that assumes that the brand of yesteryear is the same as the brand today. If you buy a package of a Kraft product today, is it made by Kraft or distributed by Kraft, with the ingredients a function of a manufacturing contract to provide the greatest margins at lowest cost. In the investment world, I am thinking of an energy analyst in New England who retired some years ago, with a lifetime of contacts in the energy industry and a valuation methodology tied to valuing reserves in the ground in relation to the current futures strip. If the replacement does none of those things, merely trying to guestimate earnings based on an estimated production number, the brand is not the same.
Everybody Can't Be David Swensen
As we have mentioned in the past, David Swensen of Yale University is justifiably famous for his multi-asset approach to running Yale's endowment, which has allowed it to outperform most college endowments. Other endowments, egged on by their rather expensive consultants (there primarily to provide cover – the consultant made me do it), have tried to emulate that approach, slicing and dicing their investment portfolios into a multiple of asset classes, adding real estate, private equity, and venture capital to the traditional mix of global stocks and bonds.
Here I must point out that Mr. Swensen, having written a book on personal investing for the individual, basically said his approach could not be replicated easily, as he had access to a range of managers at prices others would not be able to obtain. And, although he was writing for individuals I think his advice was meant as well to apply to smaller endowments. He said that individuals (and the smaller endowments) would be better served by investing in a mix of passive, low-cost funds.
In recent years, from my own experience, I had noticed an uptick in the percentage of assets recommended and committed to private equity investments. The recommendations emanated from the consultants as well as the members of private equity and venture capital firms serving on endowment investment committees. They argued that the higher returns available from private equity (versus equities) justified a greater commitment of funds to that area. Let us ignore the multiple apparent conflicts of interest that exist in the scenario I have just presented. What's the attraction to private equity?
Well, in the last two weeks I have twice had that question answered. Allegedly when private equity funds, which have limited-lives of usually five to seven years, are liquidating, some sixty per cent of the companies invested in are sold to new private equity funds being raised by competitors. Tulip mania? Let's call this what it is – "greater fool investing." But why still the attraction to illiquid investments? Answer – they don't have to be marked to market, so the reported returns appear to be smoother. As we all know, today the enemy is "volatility." Even though volatility is usually an opportunity for value investors, for rating agencies, donors, trustees – volatility is a curse.
Technology Strikes Again
The May/June 2017 issue of MIT Technology Review has a fascinating article on page 22 entitled, "Goldman Sachs Embraces Automation, Leaving Many Behind." The article points out that in 2000, Goldman had six hundred equity traders at headquarters, buying and selling stocks for clients. Today there are just two equity traders left. Automated trading programs have taken over the work, with the support of some two hundred computer engineers.
This is another area where what you don't see, may result in what you don't get. Technology, especially in trading platforms, is an area that has been ripe for underspending by asset gathering firms. I still remember some ten years ago when the CEO of such a firm told me that automated trading and algorithms would never amount to more than ten per cent of trading volume. That mentality allowed the deferral of hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment, software, and technically-literate personnel. Of course, having individual traders as opposed to programs allowed for some degree of control. Now, best execution may now actually turn out to be best execution. And compliance may now be subject to automated audit programs to confirm the elimination of "friction" on trading costs.
On a sadder note, we note the closing and liquidation of the Oakseed Opportunity Fund as of 30 June 2017. It points out the difficulty of a fund getting traction without a major start-up marketing effort to garner assets. It is also reflects the difficulty good managers have in overcoming sub-par performance. For in today's world long-term really isn't, even when you have what is a differentiated product in terms of security selection and portfolio composition. And most value investors have been forced to become value-oriented investors, whatever that term may mean. I wish my former colleague Greg Jackson, and his partner John Park, well in the future.
UK Governance
This week the financial regulator in the UK announced an effort to eliminate conflicts of interest while restoring investors trust in the UK's approximately 7 trillion pounds sterling investment market. Fee structures are to be overhauled and made more transparent. Governance standards are to be toughened. Fund boards are to now have two independent directors (in response to those who say trustees here are independent, I say you are joking, when asset managers hand-pick trustees who are thought to be willing to be "flexible" in return for being allowed to set their own compensation). The Financial Competition Authority also turned its guns on the hedge funds and private equity funds for lack of transparency over fees and expenses. Fees received by the managers when investors buy and sell funds are to be curtailed. The FCA has also taken the position that the government should allow it to regulate the investment consultants who determine the allocation of pension and endowment funds in the UK.
It will be interesting to watch the fallout from the above. The rest of Europe is watching, given that similar issues exist in many EU jurisdictions. In this country of course, notwithstanding the effort to derail the implementation of the fiduciary requirement, it has gone into effect. While there will be a review of that rule, I expect, like the banning of restrictions on pre-existing conditions for health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act, the fiduciary standard is out of the box for good.
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The Remarkable Alaa Balkhy, Founder of Saudi-based Alaa Hashim Studios
Alaa Balkhy is a woman with a passion for illustration. The Saudi artist is the founder of Fyunka, a Saudi fashion and accessory brand featuring many of Balkhy's illustrations, as well as the slow fashion label Alaa Hashim Studios. She is also the co-founder of MinnaZine.
As a child, Balkhy grew up between Montreal and Jeddah where she came to appreciate the value of culture. She currently holds a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design at Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Soon after graduating, Balkhy was faced by a lack of work opportunities, and so decided to launch her career by using her talent in illustration.
Hence, in 2011, she founded Fyunka, a Jeddah-based fashion brand well-known for featuring many of her illustrations and designs. Initially, Balkhy shared many of her illustrations via a blog but, having received a lot of positive feedback, she was inspired to take her illustrations to the next level. Her fashion brand also featured accessories by high-profile brands such as Chanel, Hermes, and others.
In the years that followed, Balkhy was based in both New York and Saudi Arabia. In fact, after attending Pratt Institute, in 2016, she became a co-founder of the New York-based MinaaZine, a community-driven publication that focuses on cultural aesthetics and lifestyle of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the diaspora.
In 2019, Balkhy would go on to launch her new fashion label, Alaa Hashim Studios, in Saudi Arabia. It is best known for bringing back gloves into the fashion scene, in addition to producing dresses and other accessories such as ankle socks, bags, and more. In fact, Balkhy's slow fashion label also operates as a collaboration-based design studio, showcasing #MadeInSaudi products on global platforms such as Maison Orient.
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Join us for our rescheduled History Notes lecture at 1pm on Thursday, April 7th by Dr. Peter Kopp, entitled, "Fabian Garcia and the Remaking of New Mexico Agriculture," at the Branigan Cultural Center.
The influence of Fabian Garcia on the traditions and reputation of New Mexico extend far beyond NMSU. In this talk, Dr. Kopp will explore the long-lasting effects of Garcia's lifetime of research and advocacy in agricultural science. Come learn about how your kitchen and tastes might be part of his on-going legacy.
Dr. Peter Kopp is an environmental historian with a specialty in the North American West. He teaches public history courses, including museums studies, oral history, and the public history seminar. Dr. Kopp joined the NMSU history department in the fall of 2012 as an assistant professor and the director of the public history program. Much of his work stems from seeking a "sense of place," or finding meaning in the regions he has inhabited. This has meant researching and writing environmental and cultural histories of Oregon, Nevada, and, most recently, New Mexico and the Southwest borderlands; he also seeks to learn from and engage with these communities via various public history projects. Dr. Kopp's current book project is called Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley (under contract with the University of California Press), and he is also working on this history of Fabián García, the father of commercial agriculture in New Mexico.
This lecture is part of the Latino Americans: 500 years of history programming series. Latino Americans: 500 Years of History has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
History Notes, monthly lectures on historical topics, take place on the second Thursday of each month at 1 pm. Lectures are free and open to the public. The 2015 History Notes lecture series features topics related to American Indian Histories and Cultures of the Southwest. Please check our webpage or Facebook for a full listing of these and other Branigan Cultural Center public programs.
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May 24, 2012- By James Bruggers in the Louisville Courier Journal. Editors note-Valley Watch has been a party in several challenges of the new power unit at the Trimble location, including the waste disposal plan.
LG&Es Trimble power plant sits adjacent to the Ohio River near Bedford, KY. Shown in this picture is the current coal ash facility in the foreground which has run out of space. Now, LG&E is wanting to open another massive coal ash facility to the upper left in this picture over some karst limestone formation including a rather large cave. Photo © 2010 John Blair
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are opposing a proposed wetlands-destruction permit for the Louisville Gas and Electric coal-burning waste landfill planned for Trimble County.
The opposition to the permit throws another hurdle in front of the power company's plans to store nearly 1 million tons of ash and scrubber waste at its Trimble Generating Station along the Ohio River northeast of Louisville.
LG&E still faces earlier concerns about a cave on its property that the Kentucky Division of Waste Management has said should be protected under a 1988 cave-protection law.
A recent letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville from EPA officials in Atlanta said the landfill would damage as much as 10 miles of streams, 1.1 acres of wetlands and .27 acres of ponds within the watershed.
"Information available to the EPA suggests that the aquatic resources proposed to be impacted as a result of this project may be among the highest quality headwaters stream resources in this region of the Commonwealth," according to the letter.
EPA officials said the power company failed to consider enough alternatives to its proposal and also has overestimated the amount of waste the company needs to store.
Chris Whelan, a spokeswoman for LG&E, said the company intends to respond to federal officials about the EPA concerns.
The Corps of Engineers, meanwhile, will continue working with LG&E and the EPA "to consider the issues," said Carol Laboshosky, a corps spokeswoman. "We're in the preliminary stage of our review on this project and don't have a time frame on a decision."
Tom FitzGerald, director of the Kentucky Resources Council environmental group, said the corps could ignore the EPA's concerns but that "the strength of this letter suggests that if they were to do so, the (EPA) would elevate the matter, or possibly use their … veto authority."
"I think the presence of a very high-quality stream and the questioning of the actual volume of disposal capacity needed may make permitting this site very difficult," he said.
With the plant's ash storage ponds filling up and ash-pond safety now a national concern, LG&E has been planning on stockpiling its ash and scrubber waste in a new, presumably more environmentally friendly landfill to be built on 218 acres of company-owned property near the plant.
If that plan is blocked, company officials have said they might have to haul the waste to its Mill Creek power plant landfill in Louisville.
Reporter James Bruggers can be reached at (502) 582-4645.
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Q: Solving Series of a Sum. Hey Guys I was wondering if I could get some help in solving a series.
$$\sum_{n={0}}^\infty\frac{(n-1)!}{(k-1)!(n-k)!}(\frac{1}{2})^{n+1}$$
How would I go on about and solve this series? If I could get an explanation I would greatly appreciate it and one more thing the use for this function is used for the calculation for a solera method where $n$ is the amount of years the solera has been going and $k$ is the number of tiers where in the example I am doing there is only 5 tiers, so it will always be $k=5$.

A: Hint: for $|x| \lt 1$,
$$\sum_{n=k}^{\infty} \binom{n-1}{k-1} x^{n-k} =\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \binom{n+k-1}{k-1} x^n = (1-x)^{-k}$$

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Shirley Palmer (December 25, 1908 – March 29, 2000) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, with most of her career being in the silent film era.

Born on Christmas Day in Chicago, Illinois, Palmer started her career as a film actress in 1926, starring opposite Oliver Hardy in A Bankrupt Honeymoon. She starred in four films in 1926, and opened 1927 starring in Burning Gold opposite Herbert Rawlinson. She starred in five films in 1927, the best known of which was The Magic Flame, starring Ronald Colman. 1928 was by far be her biggest year, with her appearing in seven films, including Prowlers of the Sea starring Carmel Myers and Ricardo Cortez, and Marriage by Contract starring Patsy Ruth Miller.

In 1929 her career slowed considerably, with her starring in only one film, Campus Knights. She did make a semi-successful transition to "talking films", with all of her roles being in B-movies, and in 1930 she appeared with Dorothy Sebastian and Neil Hamilton in Ladies Must Play, her only film of that year. In 1932 she appeared in This Sporting Age, and in 1933 she starred in probably her most recognizable role, starring opposite John Wayne in Somewhere in Sonora. It would be her last credited role. She had two uncredited roles following that film, one the same year and the other in 1934, after which her career ended.

She married once, to writer John Collier, and settled in Los Angeles, where she was residing at the time of her death on March 29, 2000, resulting from a fall.

Filmography
 Code of the Northwest (1926)
 The Winning Wallop (1926)
 Exclusive Rights (1926)
 Yours to Command (1927)
 Burning Gold (1927)
 The Magic Flame (1927)
 Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927)
 Marriage by Contract (1928)
 Beautiful But Dumb (1928)
 The Cheer Leader (1928)
 Eagle of the Night (1928)
 The Scarlet Dove (1928)
 Stormy Waters (1928)
 Prowlers of the Sea (1928)
 Campus Knights (1929)
 Ladies Must Play (1930)
 This Sporting Age (1932)
 Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
 Pilgrimage (1933)
 The White Parade (1934)

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1908 births
2000 deaths
American silent film actresses
Actresses from Chicago
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in California
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August Wild (* 12. Dezember 1881 in Idar-Oberstein; † 8. Juni 1953 ebenda) war ein deutscher Politiker (SPD/USPD/KPD/SAP). Er war Mitglied des Oldenburgischen Landtages.

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Wild, Sohn eines Goldschmieds, lernte selbst den Beruf des Vaters und arbeitete als Graveur. Von 1900 bis 1903 leistete er seinen Militärdienst in einem Garde-Grenadierregiment in Spandau. Vermutlich trat er bereits 1914 der SPD bei. Von 1914 bis 1918 nahm er am Ersten Weltkrieg teil. Während dieser Zeit wurde er Mitglied der USPD und war später führender Funktionär dieser Partei in seinem Wohnort Idar-Oberstein sowie im Hunsrück. Von Oktober 1919 bis 1923 war er Mitglied des Gemeinderates in Oberstein und gehörte seit 1920 dem Birkenfelder Landesausschuss an. Der Landesteil Birkenfeld gehörte als linksrheinische Exklave zum Freistaat Oldenburg. Im Juni 1920 trat Wild als Kandidat für die USPD bei den Reichstagswahlen an.

Er war im März 1922 Delegierter zum Bezirksparteitag der KPD-Mittelrhein in Köln und wurde dort in den Bezirksausschuss gewählt. Von 1923 bis 1925 war er für die KPD Abgeordneter im Oldenburgischen Landtag. Kurze Zeit später wurde Wild wieder Mitglied der SPD, für die er bei den Neuwahlen im Mai 1925 ebenfalls in den Birkenfelder Landesausschuss einzog (bis Mai 1928). 1931 wurde er Mitglied der SAP, trat jedoch politisch nicht mehr hervor.

Wild starb am 8. Juni 1953 in seinem Geburtsort.

Literatur
 Günter Bers: Der Bezirk Mittelrhein/Saar der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (KPD) im Jahre 1922 (= Die Arbeiterbewegung in den Rheinlanden, Band 5). Einhorn-Presse Främcke, Wentorf bei Hamburg 1975, S. 137.
 Wild, August. In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (Hrsg.): Deutsche Kommunisten. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 bis 1945. 2. überarbeitete und stark erweiterte Auflage. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6, S. 1024.

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Home Books Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 10e
Chapter 16: The Endocrinology of Pregnancy
Bansari Patel; Joshua F. Nitsche; Robert N. Taylor
Patel B, Nitsche JF, Taylor RN. Patel B, & Nitsche J.F., & Taylor R.N. Patel, Bansari, et al.The Endocrinology of Pregnancy. In: Gardner DG, Shoback D. Gardner D.G., & Shoback D(Eds.),Eds. David G. Gardner, and Dolores Shoback.eds. Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 10e. McGraw Hill; 2017. Accessed January 27, 2023. https://accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2178&sectionid=166251777
Patel B, Nitsche JF, Taylor RN. Patel B, & Nitsche J.F., & Taylor R.N. Patel, Bansari, et al. (2017). The endocrinology of pregnancy. Gardner DG, Shoback D. Gardner D.G., & Shoback D(Eds.),Eds. David G. Gardner, and Dolores Shoback. Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 10e. McGraw Hill. https://accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2178&sectionid=166251777
Patel B, Nitsche JF, Taylor RN. Patel B, & Nitsche J.F., & Taylor R.N. Patel, Bansari, et al. "The Endocrinology of Pregnancy." Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 10e Gardner DG, Shoback D. Gardner D.G., & Shoback D(Eds.),Eds. David G. Gardner, and Dolores Shoback. McGraw Hill, 2017, https://accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2178&sectionid=166251777.
CONCEPTION AND IMPLANTATION
FETAL-PLACENTAL-DECIDUAL UNIT
POLYPEPTIDE HORMONES
STEROID HORMONES
MATERNAL ADAPTATION TO PREGNANCY
FETAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF PARTURITION
PRETERM LABOR/BIRTH
POSTTERM PREGNANCY
ENDOCRINOLOGY OF THE PUERPERIUM
ENDOCRINE DISORDERS AND PREGNANCY
PREECLAMPSIA/ECLAMPSIA
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ACTH Adrenocorticotropin hormone
AFP Alpha-fetoprotein
AMH Anti-Müllerian hormone
Ang 1-7 Angiotensin 1-7
BV Bacterial vaginosis
CAP Contraction-associated protein
CRH Corticotropin-releasing hormone
Cx43 Connexin 43
DHEA Dehydroepiandrosterone
EGF Epidermal growth factor
fFN Fetal fibronectin
FGF Fibroblast growth factor
GDM Gestational diabetes mellitus
GH Growth hormone
GnRH Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
GTN Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
hCG human chorionic gonadotropin
HELLP syndrome Hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets
hPL Human placental lactogen
IGF Insulin-like growth factor
LH Luteinizing hormone
NSAID Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
OTR Oxytocin receptor
PDGF Platelet-derived growth factor
PG Prostaglandin
PGR-A and -B Progesterone receptor A and B
PlGF Placental growth factor
PRL Prolactin
PROM Premature rupture of membranes
PTB Preterm birth
sEng Soluble endoglin
sFlt-1 Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1
SHBG Sex hormone–binding globulin
TRH Thyrotropin-releasing hormone
TSH Thyroid-stimulating hormone
VEGF Vascular endothelial growth factor
Throughout pregnancy, the fetal-placental unit secretes protein and steroid hormones and eicosanoids that alter the function of every endocrine gland in the mother's body. Both clinically and in the laboratory, pregnancy can mimic hyperthyroidism, Cushing disease, pituitary adenoma, diabetes mellitus, polycystic ovary syndrome, and more.
The endocrine changes associated with pregnancy are adaptive, allowing the mother to nurture the developing fetus. Although maternal reserves are usually adequate, in cases of gestational diabetes or hypertensive disease of pregnancy, a woman may develop overt signs of disease as a direct result of pregnancy.
Aside from creating a satisfactory nutritive environment for fetal development, the placenta serves as an endocrine, respiratory, alimentary, and excretory organ. Measurements of fetal-placental products in the maternal serum provide one means of assessing fetal well-being. This chapter will consider the changes in maternal endocrine function in pregnancy and during-parturition as well as fetal endocrine development. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some endocrine disorders complicating pregnancy.
In fertile women, ovulation occurs approximately 12 to 16 days after the onset of the previous menses. The ovum must be fertilized within 24 to 48 hours if conception is to result. For about 48 hours around ovulation, cervical mucus is copious, nonviscous, slightly alkaline, and forms a gel matrix that acts as a filter and conduit for sperm. Sperm begin appearing in the outer third of the fallopian tube (the ampulla) 5 to 10 minutes after coitus and-continue to migrate to this location from the cervix for about 24 to 48 hours. Of the 200 × 106 sperm that are deposited in the vaginal fornices, only approximately 200 reach the distal tube. Fertilization normally occurs in the ampulla.
Implantation and hCG Production
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Washington Roster
Commanders announce moves that bring the training camp roster back to 91 players
Let's learn about Washington's two newest players and take a look at the updated 91-player depth chart
By Bill-in-Bangkok@billhorgan2005 Jul 30, 2022, 11:04am EDT
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On Saturday, the Commanders announced some roster moves.
Kerrigan's retirement becomes officially official
One of them was known to be happening — Ryan Kerrigan was moved to the retired player list after signing a one-day contract with the team on Friday. There was a ceremony for him at the team headquarters early Saturday morning. You can probably plan on seeing Kerrigan again several times in the near future. He is among the nominees to be added to the Command Legacy: 90 Greatest list, which will be announced this season, and Kerrigan seems like one of the leading candidates to be added to that list. It also seems almost a foregone conclusion that Kerrigan's name and number will be added to the Ring of Fame; with London Felcher having been recently added in 2019, Kerrigan seems like the obvious next inductee.
Ryan Kerrigan Retirement Presser: I want the fans to know I gave them everything I had
Offensive line depth
The other moves are indicative of Ron Rivera's never-ending efforts to insure that the team has the maximum depth and flexibility along the offensive line.
One player was released — guard Beau Benzschawl, who had been with the team since being signed as a free agent in April, 2021. Benzschawl was considered to be a pretty fair NFL prospect coming out of Wisconsin in 2019, but never made it beyond the practice squad in Washington. His only NFL regular season snaps came in his rookie season, when he got 6 special teams snaps with the Lions.
Two offensive tackles were signed. One is veteran Tackle Rashod Hill, who is entering his 7th NFL season; the other is an undrafted college free agent OT named Alex Akingbulu, out of Fresno State.
We have made multiple roster moves:
Placed DE Ryan Kerrigan on the Reserve/Retired List
Signed the following free agents:
--T Alex Akingbulu
--T Rashod Hill
Released C/G Beau Benzschawl pic.twitter.com/tZWzXDtbeL
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) July 30, 2022
Washington Commanders worked out offensive tackles Alex Akingbulu, Rashod Hill, and Tyree St. Louis
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsHH) July 30, 2022
Rashod Hill
Hill, who is 6'6", 300 pounds, entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent in 2016 with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but ultimately ended up on the team's practice squad. Apparently, the Vikings liked him, because they signed him in mid-November, and he played 49 offensive snaps for them in Week 17.
Hill went on to play an additional 5 seasons with the Vikings. basically as a swing tackle, playing on both the right and left sides as needed when starters were injured.
Per PFF, his offensive snap counts peaked in 2017 at 737, and hit a trough in 2019-20, when he played 172 and 121 snaps, respectively. While his snap count went up to 342 last season, his PFF grade fell precipitously, which may explain why he was available in late July.
New #Commanders OT Rashod Hill was signed as a UDFA by Jacksonville when current Commanders FO exec Chris Polian was there, and spent some time in Minnesota with current Commanders OC Scott Turner. So there is familiarity #HTTC
— T M (@reshmanuel) July 30, 2022
Hill is likely to be looked at as the #4 OT on the roster at the moment, with two starting positions locked down by LT Charles Leno and RT Sam Cosmi. Hill is likely hoping to be able to unseat Cornelius Lucas, who has played two seasons in Washington, getting 15 starts in the 29 games that he has been active.
If you trust PFF to rank your offensive linemen, then Hill probably has a real uphill battle to beat out Lucas for the swing tackle position.
Cornelius Lucas PFF grades
Alex Akingbulu
On Saturday, Philadelphia Stars offensive lineman Alex Akingbulu signed with the Washington Commanders. He is the second Stars player to sign with Washington after Channing Stribling, and the 3rd former USFL player to be signed this month (DeJuan Neal is the other).
The 24-year-old played five games at left tackle for the Stars, helping them reach the USFL Championship game, where the Stars fell short to the Birmingham Stallions 33-30. Before signing with Philadelphia, Akingbulu attended the Dallas Cowboys rookie minicamp.
Commanders tinker with roster depth by signing two USFL cornerbacks
Former @USFLStars T Alex Akingbulu has signed with the Washington Commanders. pic.twitter.com/RDi9LytWNa
— USFL (@USFL) July 30, 2022
Akingbulu is 6'5", 310 pounds, and is yet another UDFA signed by the Commanders this offseason who had a 6-year collge career. Let's turn to USA Today's draftwire for information about him.
The Fresno State offensive lineman broke out with a tremendous 2021 campaign, finishing as a first-team All-Mountain West nominee for his play at right tackle. A former UCLA transfer who suffered an injury that saw him miss both his 2016 and 2017 high school seasons, Akingbulu has had to do his fair share of waiting for his time to shine. However, once given the chance, he proved to be an anchor for the Bulldogs in one of the program's best seasons in recent memory.
Quotes from Akinbuku:
Coming from a Nigerian household, that's just something I remember my parents just preaching to me every day, to take care of your education. That's something you could take with you for the rest of your life. I just got blessed and took advantage of COVID, and different situations of grad transferring and just furthering my education.
My parents coming from Nigeria here, of course, you come into a different country and continent, first thing you have to do is work hard. They landed here, that's the first thing they did, and that's the main thing that they preached is just being able to work hard. In America, there's definitely a lot of room to grow, and a lot of room to up your status in this economy, so just knowing that your future's in your hands, and if you work hard enough for it, then everything else will pay off.
It's been a long college career. Six years, and I can truly say each year I matured more, developed more, learned my body more. It just kind of peaked off in this last year, setting goals for myself, listening to my coaches, listening to the guys around me; also, accepting the leadership role on the team. I put my all into this season. I can say, this is the most I've been focused and driven in my life, and just seeing that at the end, there's accolades and things went in my favor, it kind of just shows you like, "Okay, if I put my best foot forward, I will get results." That was the main thing I got from them.
I know now with all the maturity that I have, leadership roles do not necessarily have to come with age. I can bet on me being a vocal leader in any aspect of the team, just coming in and being humble, ready and hungry to learn and work. I'm always trying to better my game and just being taken under anybody's wing, just pretty much hungry and ready to do anything and set my role. I can play either side and pretty much any position on the line, as well. [I bring] versatility and being able to be hungry.
Outside of football, I actually like to make music. It's not necessarily rap – I don't know if you know Afrobeats, like Wizkid and Burna Boy and stuff like that. To make that type of music, it's therapeutic. My friend produces, and then I sing or rap, depending on the type of a beat. So I write music, and then I sing, as well. Me and my friends, we just mess around with that and then play video games. Also, I like to watch like podcasts a lot.
Tackle depth
At the moment, the Commanders have 6 tackles under contract.
Charles Leno
Sam Cosmi
Cornelius Lucas
Aaron Montiero
Who is Aaron Monteiro, the free agent tackle signed by the Commanders in May?
Roster numbers
Of course, the Commanders signed two players while releasing only one on Saturday; they had one spot available because 3rd year player Antonio Gandy-Golden got to training camp and decided that it was time for a change in his life. He announced his NFL retirement, dropping the roster from 91 players to 90.
While teams are typically limited to 90 players in the offseason, some teams get a roster exemption for having a player who entered the NFL via the International Player Pathway program. Washington is one of those teams — the Commanders get a roster exemption for DT David Bada, a player from Germany who is entering his 3rd season with the Commanders, and that allows the team to carry 91 players in the off-season.
Updated depth chart
The numbers that appear beside some players' names are 2022 cap hits per Over the Cap.
Please note that assigned positions and color coding are my own personal opinions. They do not necessarily represent the thinking of Washington's coaches or front office, nor are they necessarily consistent with fan consensus. This chart represents my interpretation, and may not reflect the thoughts of other writers on Hogs Haven. Finally, when it comes to backup players, I don't put much effort into making sure that they are on the right or left or behind the specific player that they backup. I mostly just try to fit everyone on the chart efficiently.


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A retro-geek writer/actor chappy lost in time…
01 – The Good Book
02 – Return to Sender
03 – Double Exposure
04 – Thrust and Counter-thrust
05 – Poor Little Rich Girl
06 – Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice, and Miss Me Once Again…
07 – Counterstrike
08 – The Bradley Way
09 – Love Always, Magda
10 – Nearly the End of the Picture
11 – Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
12 – Deadlock
13 – Skeleton in the Cupboard
14 – Target!
15 – Action!
16 – I'll Get There Sometime
17 – The Solid Gold Hearse
18 – To the Lowest Bidder
19 – Full Fathom Five
20 – Going, Going…
21 – The Not-So Merry Widow
22 – The Case of the Poisoned Pawn
23 – Icons are Forever
24 – Mr Calloway Is A Very Cautious Man
25 – Make It a Million
26 – Somebody Doesn't Like Me
Pop Culture Hero Coalition
The Adventurer episode 26 – Somebody Doesn't Like Me
"From now on, I look twice at a guy with his hands in his pocket, any car that comes too close…anything, and everything…"
Plot – At last we've reached the series finale, and the various plot threads that have been woven expertly throughout the previous 25 episodes come to a head here as the criminal underworld finally decides to do away with the meddlesome Gene Bradley once and for all. The reward for whomsoever can engineer his death is a mere £50,000, but Gene ignores all warnings until he takes off in his little plane for parts unknown and realises it has been sabotaged.
Narrowly escaping death by, um, landing the plane again, Gene continues to face half-hearted threats against his life. Somebody obviously doesn't like him…but who?
Let's face it, it could feasibly be any character he's ever come into contact with over the course of the series, but the answer, you'll be stunned to hear, is a), none of the above, and b), someone we've never seen before.
Starring – 'Gene Barry with Garrick Hagon and Barry Morse as Mr Parminter', who is, for one final time, doffing his hat outside his Ministry of External Affairs.
Guest Cast – Penelope Horner (Krista), Peter Vaughan (Roberts), Reginald Marsh (Sorenson), Robin Hawdon (Buckley), Jim Norton (Morgan), William Abney (Co-Pilot), James Ware (Reynolds), Jeremy Higgins (Barman), Edward Dentith (Commissionaire).
I expect that Dentith was the person Jon Pertwee went to see when he had tooth-ache.
Uncredited – Mike Stevens (Concerned Mechanic).
Writer – Donald James.
Director – Cyril Frankel.
Locations – There's some minimal London location filming involving cars and locations and roads and suchlike.
Mission Briefing – No mission, no briefing.
The Bradley Way – Nothing much to say about Gene this week. In fact, this episode is rather light on character moments. 88-Delta is sabotaged (some sort of panel is removed and fluid is leaked all over the floor of the hangar, something that nobody actually notices until after the plane has taken off) but manages to make it back to the ground in one piece, and we learn that Gene has a favourite hairdressers…
Mr Parminter is a Very Cautious Man – Parminter doesn't really do a lot here either. He knows Gene's a marked man but he doesn't do much to help matters, except pull his 'Oh dear' face. He's also had a set of keys cut for every lock in Gene's house, and seems terribly amused by Gene's newspaper obituaries.
One of which uses the font from the Terrahawks credits, oddly enough.
Overall Parminter does very little, but does get the honor of appearing in the final shot of the series.
"What About Diane?" – I still pray for a spinoff series.
"And Gavin?" – Gavin makes a brief appearance when he 'murders' Gene outside the ATV studios in order to negate the ongoing threat against his chum's life. It's a pretty confusing moment for casual viewers actually, as the only way we know it's him is when he quickly glances back over his shoulder while making his escape. Seeing as how he's been largely absent from the series recently some sort of dialogue between Gene and Parminter about getting someone to carry out this murder might have been helpful. As it is it just looks like he's finally decided to have Gene done away with in an unrelated subplot.
The fact that he and the villains seem to share the same car only strengthens this idea.
The Oldest Swinger in Town – Our final episode brings us some final classic fashion moments. Here, we have a perfectly reasonable top half, and a downright goofy bottom half no doubt made from a picnic blanket..
Also, the final episode brings back a long forgotten facet of Gene's 'character' – that he's a master of disguise.
Mmm. Well, maybe there was a reason they forgot about that…he disguises himself as a hitman, you see, to fool the baddies into thinking that he killed himself, and…yeah. He hides in the shadows once he reaches the baddies' hideout anyway, so the reason for the disguise remains unclear.
"Alright, old friend – let me see you!" – Gene meets up with Krista, an ex-girlfriend – or is she? "You tried to relieve me of $100,000." he reminds her, following a lot of vague "It's been a long time." "Yes, it has." "You remembered." "Yes, I did." guff. Anyway, by the end of the episode he's willing to take a chance on her again. "It could be worth it." Aww. I hope she bleeds you dry, Gene.
She also has a chum, Johnny Morgan, who informs Gene about the plot to kill him. He learned about it by strolling down to the villains' dockside warehouse lair and just randomly overhearing it, but he pays with his life as the baddies kill him by sticking him in one of those beds that fold up into a wall…
"Shall we take them?" – Mr Sorenson, and his chums Roberts, Buckley and Andy Williams-lookalike Reynolds apparently live in warehouse 47 at the London Docks, where they plot the downfall of Gene Bradley along with various other shifty-looking types.
"Sorenson? Of course, that figures. Last month, one of my firms was on the verge of making a deal. When I discovered Sorenson was involved, I pulled out…There were 5 international companies, all privately owned. When I pulled out, they all did."
Right. So you were being a jerk to this guy, and convinced your friends to do the same, thus setting him off on his life of crime? Gene, you have a lot to answer for…you bully.
Anyway the whole gang is arrested at the end of the episode, and they confess immediately, and even for Adventurer baddies they're distinctly feeble and unmemorable.
Quotable Quotes –
The baddies plot, rhubarb rhubarb-style, in a warehouse:
BADDY #1: "Let's have your report. On the shops."
BADDY #2: "Well, I don't think he's any good at all…"
Ah, the perils of ad-libbing on a series you hope no-one's ever going to see you in…
Cracking Cliffhangers – Some guy we've never seen before (Johnny Morgan) narrowly escapes from some other guys we've never seen before (the baddies, one of whom mutters something about a "reckoning with Gene Bradley") by craftily hiding behind their car. All while grinning inanely, for some reason. When they all get in and drive away he sits up in full view of anybody who possesses an eye and a rear-view mirror, and promptly throws himself in a ditch.
Not the most thrilling of openings. Fortunately the mid-episode ad break cliffhanger is much more memorable, as Gene walks up to a shattered mirror and straightens his tie. It's meant to be a cool Bondian moment, and if it were anyone else it would be, but it's not, it's Gene, so it's hilarious.
The Irony of It All – Gene's "Maybe we should make sure that something does…happen…" would be the pick if this were any other story, but the final line of the final episode of the series has to take this honor: Gene's rather poignant "Lock up, will you…and put the lights out."
In a similar vein, the image of the setting sun behind the title caption is rather touching in an 'end of an era' kind of way. And what an era it's been.
"What's it all about, Gene?" – No major problems here, except that I don't understand why, when Gene makes a phonecall to Sorenson and pretends to be an assassin who has killed Gene, he feels it necessary to also be disguised as that assassin. While on the phone. Obviously it clues the audience in to his plan, but that's about all…
Oh, and Gene only finds out who the baddies are when one of them (Roberts, AKA Genial Harry Grout) meets Krista in order to warn her off…something. She then picks him out from some police photos, and the whole gang is identified immediately. What dummies they be.
"It's all rather difficult." – No it isn't, not this week. No technical problems that I could see…
The Defining Moment – After learning about the plot to kill him Gene decides that he'd better get his hair cut, because it simply wouldn't do for him to die with untidy hair. Alas the baddies have taken over his favourite hairdressers and are planning to give him a short back-and-sides…with a bullet.
Gene pulls a constipated face and wheels round in his chair, knocking his assailant to the ground. Before the man can get up again Gene ambles over and sticks his arse in the camera so we can't actually see what's going on. Some thumping and smacking follows, and the thug is out for the count.
That was a close one, Gene. Still, our hero isn't too fussed; he even apparently let the baddy go because he's out causing trouble again just a few scenes later…
Ramblings – The guard dog at the airfield is quite clearly not a guard dog. It's wagging its tail and it wants to get at whatever tasty treat its handler is holding. Bless.
Gavin's newspaper gives us a date for this episode; November 29th, 1972. We also learn that Gene and Sorenson's newspaper of choice is the 'Evening News'.
The DVD episode guide booklet mentions something about a 'bomb in the shape of a parcel' being one of the ways in which the baddies attempt to do away with Gene, which apparently didn't make it to the screen.
And now, for lack of anything better to do, a brief tribute to legendary extra chappy Mike Stevens. If you're not interested, then scroll down to the bottom for more silly piccies. Anyway, I promised way back in the guide for episode 2 that he'd pop up again, and here he is as the mechanic who discovers the sabotage carried out on Gene's plane by persons unknown.
Spotting this guy in other things has become something of a hobby for me, and I don't really know why. I've just always found the exploits of background characters and extras to be quite interesting, though, so…yeah. My life is better than it sounds, really.
Anyway (ready or not, here we go), one of the earliest appearances of his in an ITC production comes in The Baron episode Portrait of Louisa, where we briefly see him shaking his stuff at a disco. Note the look of vague concern that was soon to become his trademark.
From here, superstardom beckoned. The Saint episode The Angel's Eye sees him as a concerned tour party member, and here we see the exact moment he's told by the lovely Jane Merrow that the Angel's Eye diamond is 125-carat sterling.
Let's put that in context for you by examining the reactions of the people around him. There's a young lady on the left who seems to be thinking "Hmm, that's interesting" and an older lady in the middle who isn't terribly impressed, and over on the right Mike's reaction is nothing less than "JESUS CHRIST WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"
You can't keep a talent like this down, folks. Note that the ladies are quite drawn to his pointy hair, too.
Mrrrow.
It was daring of Mike to change his performance style from 'concerned' to 'angry', but here he is as an angry villager in an episode of Man in a Suitcase.
After branching out into 'concerned disinterest' for The Champions,
it was back to concerned again for the first episode of Department S. Here we see him as a member of an airline crew, behind Cap'n Bernard Horsfall, devastated after having just learnt that he's lost six days of his life.
Later on he got koshed on the head (resulting in the most dramatic entrance of his entire career) and also had to report the theft of his watch too. Clearly, he wasn't having a good day.
Sir Anthony Hopkins later admitted that he was greatly inspired (and somewhat awed) by Mike during this scene they shared in the episode A Small War of Nerves.
In this piccy from UFO we see Mike pressing a button. Note the concerned precision with which he does so.
This won him the coveted role of 'Charles the Chauffeur' in a later episode of that series, where a deleted scene apparently had Charles peeling an orange while looking concerned, so Mike was obviously still interested in increasing his range at this point. This time, we got a smile and concern.
Of course, it wasn't just the ITC series that allowed Mike Stevens to show off his trademark 'look of concern'. Here he is in The Avengers as a thug guarding that dastardly cad John Steed. He's playing a nice thug, though, sharing his lunch with Steed and everything (thus allowing Steed to kosh him and escape, of course).
In a later episode Mike took Steed's place during a fight scene, so clearly there was no bad blood between these two.
When Ernst Stavro Blofeld is holding the world to nuclear ransom with his diamond-powered laser satellite of death you've got every right to look concerned, as indeed Mr Stevens does in Diamonds are Forever.
Here we see the only meeting between Mr Bond and Mr Concerned, on the big screen. So close, you can feel his concern…
Other big screen roles included a waiter in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and here's Mike manning the guns on the Millennium Falcon during a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi. (I can only assume it was deleted cos Mike got carried away and defeated the Empire all by himself). You can still briefly see him in the final film, and just like everybody in the Star Wars universe his character has a backstory longer than the Old Testament.
He also seems to have been in a few Carry Ons. I don't know how I know that, but I do. He even received a medal for services to concernedness, which he proudly wore while playing an American soldier in Dad's Army.
Of course, such a giant of the small and silver screen must surely have played some part in the travels of that eccentric time-travelling personage known as Doctor Who, no? Yes indeedy, mostly during Jon Pertwee's run and mostly as random UNIT soldiers.
Hell yeah. In The Mind of Evil he even manages to play a inmate at Stangmoor Prison and a UNIT soldier attacking said prison during the same episode.
He may have cleverly switched sides, of course. With Mike Stevens you can never be too sure.
Concerned Peladonian. Concerned Stangmoor Prisoner. Concerned UNIT Soldier. Concerned Auton. Wherever a scene needed to convey a bit more moodiness than it could with just Pertwee rubbing his neck, Mike Stevens would be there. Probably.
Eeek! It's the Master!
Only fooling. It's Mike Stevens really, getting the last word in in The Sea Devils. And is it just me, or whenever Delgado's Master made someone else wear a mask of his face…it looked more like Anthony Ainley? Odd that.
For me, however, the highlight of his career was his work in the first series of Space:1999. In almost every episode he can be seen lurking the background, and what with all the terrible shenanigans that the runaway moon faced as it travelled across the universe a look of sincere concern was a must-have. After one one-word line in the third episode he never looked back, and could often be seen lurking just behind Martin Landau during times of extreme crisis. Here we see him learning that a monstrous heat-sucking vampire is on the loose.
And here we see him watching somebody exploding.
Here he is on his only trip to an alien planet, where he felt it necessary to take his shirt off. Ooh. Note Catherine Schell, and Barry Morse lurking in the background, so all this does still vaguely tie in with The Gene Barry Happy Funtime Variety Show as outlined above.
And here he is hugging that silly Tarrant lass from Death to the Daleks. Yeah, she was a 1999 extra too. As was Bill 'Axos' Filer. I suppose there's some comment to be made about Doctor Who only having the budget to hire 1999's extras to fill main guest roles, but that would be a little unfair. And completely wrong, too.
His BAFTA moment came in episode three, where Barbara Bain gets taken over by a giant glowing space eyeball thingy that whispers a lot and gives her the power to walk through walls. The usual, y'know. Anyway she walks through a wall straight in front of Mike Stevens' character (and after the evidence presented here I trust you are as impressed with his thespic talents as I) and he's understandably slightly concerned by this unexpected turned of events.
Look at that. He's being concerned with both barrels there. You don't get such a niche performer these days. You just…don't. I like to think there are elderly casting directors out there flicking through Spotlight searching in vain for an actor who can 'do concerned' and muttering to themselves "Back in my day we didn't need to look very far for an actor who could do this. We had Mike Stevens." And it's a fair point, really – just where are the Mike Stevens's of the 21st Century?
I think what I'm trying to say here is 'Mike Stevens for teh win'. Except I don't know what that actually means. Anyway, Mike Stevens. Woo.
A classic scene from Hopkirk and Stevens (Concerned).
Rating – 3/5. Well…it's a nice idea, really, that Gene's finally annoyed everyone enough that they want to have him killed – but like most Adventurer tales it doesn't really hold together, particularly towards the end. Maybe if it were a little longer things might be different, because as it is Gene barely learns that people are trying to kill him before it's time to wrap the whole thing up. In fact this is probably the only episode I think needed to be longer…
Other than the Genie-less episodes, natch.
"So, I'm playing your co-pilot in this scene, right?"
"Okay….and who are you playing again?"
"Oh, I'm Gene Bradley, film star, businessman and secret agent of no-small repute. My glamorous lifestyle and thirst for adventure thrust me into new and exciting situations on a weekly basis, and my devastatingly good looks bring many a pretty young girl my way."
"No come on, who are you really playing?"
Butt-cam!
Andy Williams makes a special guest appearance. He's making music to watch girls by, I'll wager.
Insert Ursula joke here.
"We're not gonna make it! We're running out of runway!"
"The series has been cancelled, you say? Ah. Well, maybe it's for the best, 'n' all that…hide your joy, Barry, hide your joy…"


text:
import logging

from faker.providers.bank import Provider as BankProvider

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Provider(BankProvider):
    """Implement bank provider for ``en_PH`` locale."""

    country_code = "PH"
    bban_format = "################"
    swift_bank_codes = (
        "ANZB",
        "AUBK",
        "BKCH",
        "BKKB",
        "BNOR",
        "BNPA",
        "BOFA",
        "BOPI",
        "BOTK",
        "BPDI",
        "BPFS",
        "BPGO",
        "CHAS",
        "CHBK",
        "CHSV",
        "CITI",
        "CPHI",
        "CTCB",
        "DBPH",
        "DEUT",
        "EQSN",
        "EWBC",
        "FCBK",
        "HBPH",
        "HNBK",
        "HSBC",
        "IBKO",
        "ICBC",
        "INGB",
        "KOEX",
        "MBBE",
        "MBTC",
        "MHCB",
        "PABI",
        "PHSB",
        "PHTB",
        "PHVB",
        "PNBM",
        "PPBU",
        "RCBC",
        "ROBP",
        "SCBL",
        "SETC",
        "SHBK",
        "SMBC",
        "STLA",
        "TACB",
        "TLBP",
        "TYBK",
        "UBPH",
        "UCPB",
        "UOVB",
        "UWCB",
    )
    swift_location_codes = (
        "22",
        "2X",
        "M1",
        "MM",
        "MQ",
        "MX",
    )
    swift_branch_codes = (
        "CBU",
        "EQI",
        "TSU",
        "XXX",
    )

    def bban(self) -> str:
        """Generate a Basic Bank Account Number (BBAN).

        .. warning::
           Philippine bank accounts do not have BBANs or IBANs, so any number
           generated by this method is a purely hypothetical number. Local bank
           account numbers are typically 10 or 12 digits long, so the BBAN
           format used in this implementation has been arbitrarily set to 16
           digits to simulate a hypothetical standardization of account numbers.
           Using this method will log a warning regarding the hypotheticality of
           the result.
        """
        logger.warning("Numbers generated by this method are purely hypothetical.")
        return super().bban()

    def iban(self) -> str:
        """Generate an International Bank Account Number (IBAN).

        .. warning::
           Philippine bank accounts do not have BBANs or IBANs, so any number
           generated by this method is a purely hypothetical number. This method
           uses hypothetical PH BBANs and the PH country code as inputs to the
           IBAN generation algorithm. Using this method will log a warning
           regarding the hypotheticality of the result.
        """
        logger.warning("Numbers generated by this method are purely hypothetical.")
        return super().iban()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Samsung knows exactly how to sell mobile VR to the public
Mobile VR has a reputation as being a sort of cheap and underwhelming experience. Samsung is rolling into CES trying its hardest to discourage that preconception. In the Grand Lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center (right next to Engadget's gorgeous stage) the company has the Samsung Galaxy Experience Zone. Here you can ski or snowboard down a virtual mountain, hurtle down a skeleton track or even fly through the air with dinosaurs. Each station was paired with additional paraphernalia to bring the experience to life like a lateral ski trainer or rows of flight-sim seats.
The Huawei VR2 is a stunningly comfortable standalone headset
Huawei started off CES by getting a bit of bad news from AT&T. But the company isn't letting the fact that it's phones won't be featured in American stores rain on its parade. It's still showing off its latest wares in a giant shiny booth located dead in the middle of the Las Vegas Convention Center. One surprise we found there was the Huawei VR2 headset. It was announced this past October in China, but CES 2018 appears to be its American debut.
Hands-on with NVIDIA's giant gaming displays and GeForce Now on PC
Nobody expected NVIDIA to get into the big screen TV world, but that's precisely what it's doing with its new Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGD). They're 65-inch 4K screens oriented more at games than movie viewing, with heaps of technology that players will appreciate, like low latency, G-Sync and NVIDIA's Shield built-in. We got a look at Destiny 2 being played on HP's set (more are coming from ASUS and Acer), and I can confirm that it delivers one of the smoothest gaming experiences I've seen yet from a big-screen TV.
'Blade Runner: Revelations' is built for Lenovo's new VR headst
The newly-launched Lenovo Mirage Solo is the first-ever standalone Daydream headset, so Google wants to make sure you've got stuff to do with it. Partnering with Alcon Media Group, it has unveiled Blade Runner: Revelations, a VR experience set in the Blade Runner universe. You'll play the role of seasoned blade runner Harper solving the mystery behind some kind of replicant plot, using resources like a flying spinner, blaster and Esper image reconstruction.
Overwatch League's first two seasons will air on Twitch
Blizzard has been putting a lot of work into its upcoming Overwatch professional league it introduced in late 2016. The company spent all of 2017 building it up, announcing teams based in large cities in the US, England, South Korea and China. Days before the league's first-ever match on January 10th, the publisher announced it's formed a partnership with Twitch, which will broadcast every match of the first two seasons.
Project Linda is a laptop dock for the Razer Phone
The Morning After: Tuesday, January 9th 2018
Corsair's wireless gaming keyboard has a 75-hour battery life
If Logitech's no-lag wireless gaming keyboard converted you into a fan of no-wires gaming, you'll love Corsair's new offerings. The peripheral-maker has launched a handful of devices at CES 2018, including a wireless gaming keyboard of its own, as well as a (huge) mousepad that doubles as a Qi charger. Corsair used CHERRY MX Red mechanical keys for the K63 keyboard and equipped it with a battery that it says can keep it running for 75 hours despite its adjustable blue backlighting. If it truly can last 75 hours, then you don't have to worry about running out of juice in the middle of a game.
Merge is the closest thing we have to an AR Nerf gun
The folks at Merge picked a fitting name for their augmented-reality company, considering that their latest product combines the fun of Nerf guns with the fantasy of first-person shooters. The 6DoF Blaster is a lightweight plastic gun with four clickable buttons, including the trigger, and a space for a smartphone to rest horizontally across its top. The game plays out on the screen, with players ducking, walking and shooting as if the action were taking place in the real world.
Netgear's new Nighthawk router is built for pro gamers


My county library system offers Overdrive for residents of the county. You just need your library card number to sign up and there is no charge. Also, most libraries in the U.S. have interlibrary loan and they will perform a search all over the country if they don't have a book in their system, again just for being a resident in the county. I have received books on loan from libraries in many other states this way.
It would be beneficial to visit one's local library and website and just see what options are available. You may be surprised just how much is there.
And also remember to support the local libraries who offer all of these things, if not with money but also with voting power. Many are public and taxpayer-funded and are in a constant battle against those who slash their funding and attempt (sometimes successfully) to shut them down.
Firesloth, I am totally with you. I love books; the baking vanilla smell of the paper, the dry-leaf rustle of high-clay pages turning, the solid feel of the book in my hand. But... I love reading more. I'm still absolutely thrilled every time I pick up my Kindle that I have hundreds of books right there, weighing less than half a pound. And I can download more, even buy new ones, wherever I go!
I still buy books. Mostly high-quality graphic novels or collections. But nothing beats the Kindle for convenience and even for the reading experience. For every time you are sipping a drink in a soft chair with a hardback in your living room, there are dozens of subway trips, waiting in the car, or riding squished in a plane where that same hardback would be a totally different experience. Kindle for me.
As for Kindle v. paper books: I can't go back. When you're reading in bed, you have to have a separate light to wrangle and keep lined up, the pages fall closed / open...I would always choose to read a book on Kindle over reading a real book these days! And don't get me started on trying to travel with a book in your carry-on. That's why I started with a Kindle: I was trying to read one of the Game of Thrones books, but I was near the end, so I was packing two of them in my bag. Or trying. The Kindle has made me read a lot more on planes, rather than spending that time watching movies.
It just makes me so happy thinking about it even a year later.
"Black Leopard, Red Wolf" is an amazing ride.
Huge sale at Audible right now on 'first books' in series - if anyone's interested in Terry Pratchett, they're counting most of the sub-series book ones as their own things.
You can also pay for access to some of the bigger libraries if yours doesn't have good options. I think Brooklyn lets you pay $50/year, and they've got a great Overdrive catalogue.
Whoa, I had no idea! I was begging for something like this when we were in Chile. Our little library is great and served us well, but there were a few books here and there that they didn't have. For one year I would have gone for that.
Goodreads has a good thread on Overdrive libraries with good collections that you can pay for access to.
Different libraries have different availability by what they pay for. I have access to two libraries with significantly different catalogs (same for Hoopla).
Also don't forget, most libraries allow you to search for books they don't have the license to and give the option to "Recommend" a title for pickup. Some are responsive to requests, some aren't at all. So YMMV.
Kindle Unlimited, 3 months for $.99. Generally work as long as you don't have an active subscription.
Firesloth, I am totally with you. I love books; the baking vanilla smell of the paper, the dry-leaf rustle of high-clay pages turning, the solid feel of the book in my hand. But... I love reading more.
I'm still absolutely thrilled every time I pick up my Kindle that I have hundreds of books right there, weighing less than half a pound. And I can download more, even buy new ones, wherever I go!
We downloaded dozens of books from our Indiana library while we lived in Chile for a year.
Not only that, but when my son got upset because he had finished a book in a series and wanted to read the next, I downloaded it for him immediately...while we were on a train traveling between Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden!
To go along with your Overdrive library subscription(s), if you use Chrome as your browser, you may find the Library Extension useful. You configure it with your libraries, and then whenever you go to a book website (like Goodreads, or Amazon), it inserts a direct link to borrow the book from your library. It's not always 100% accurate, but it's very useful if you like to borrow a lot of your books.
Leon, an itinerant tradesman with a checkered past, is perplexed when he is saddled with responsibility for a perky 12 year old, Mathilde. As he becomes entangled in business opportunities and engages with figures from his past, Mathilde's willfulness alternately vexes and endears her to him. Will his unwilling loyalty to her end up damaging his career? And can he give her the education he knows she needs to get ahead in life?"
I mean, seriously? Poke your nose into the book for two pages and you'll laugh hysterically at the idea that Tracker could be described that way. Here's the start of the novel, with Tracker speaking.
The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.
I hear there is a queen in the south who kills the man who brings her bad news. So when I give word of the boy's death, do I write my own death with it? Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon, and yet my witness is the same today as it will be tomorrow. No, I did not kill him. Though I may have wanted him dead. Craved for it the way a glutton craves goat flesh. Oh, to draw a bow and fire it through his black heart and watch it explode black blood, and to watch his eyes for when they stop blinking, when they look but stop seeing, and to listen for his voice croaking and his hear his chest heave in a death rattle saying, Look, my wretched spirit leaves this most wretched of bodies, and to smile at such tidings and dance at such loss. Yes, I glut at the conceit of it. But no, I did not kill him.
Bi oju ir enu a pamo.
Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
This cell is larger than the one before. I smell the dried blood of executed men; I hear their ghosts still screaming. Your bread carries weevils, and your water carries the piss of ten and two guards and the goat they f*ck for sport. Shall I give you a story?
That's the real deal, right there, that's mainlining the new standard for fantasy. Marlon James has done it again.
The book I'm actually reading right now has taken a turn. It might actually be horror.
That sounds familiar... What is it?
Sorry, I should have told you what the book is! It's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. I haven't gotten very far in, but so far I'd categorize it as post-boom San Francisco hipster mashed up with a bit of magic realism. But I'm only about 30 pages in, so the "real story" hasn't quite started to unfold yet.
Ah, no wonder. You're in for a great read.
Just wondering, another San Francisco book... Have you read "Sourdough" yet? I read that right after Mr. Penumbra, and it's another fantastic outing for our Mr. Sloan.
Escape Pod did an nice audio version of that a number of years ago. I converted it from a podcast to an audio book so I can listen to it whenever.
I loved Mr. Penumbra. Sourdough I liked a lot, but boy it felt so similar. For me reading those books, I felt a constant sense of "cheeriness," even when things weren't going as well for the protagonists.
Sourdough avoids some of the weaknesses of Mr Penumbra, particularly some of the clumsy unintentional sexism. I thought it was a much better book.
I very soon completed my first group of ten backlog books after my last update because the last "book," Tomfoolery, turned out to be a short story instead of a book. So very annoying in one sense because I like my books to be *books* but it's still one less in the backlog so that's a good thing!
I'm also now 73% through Dostoevsky's, The Idiot, in the midst of all the backlogging!
There's a bit of plagiarism going on with a Kindle Unlimited author.
Courtney Milan found it first and its involving other authors.
The thief claimed it was the fault of her ghostwriters.
Milan's blog has info as does Nora Roberts.
If there are books by authors you enjoy with KU, great! But do be aware that the way Amazon pays the authors who do KU is by the page view and there are some issues with it.
Odd, I would have never expected that a KU author would have ghostwriters, but shows how much I know about writing I suppose.
If you like time travel stories, you should read "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. It's basically the blueprint for Groundhog Day and - to an even larger extent - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Compared to the latter, it's a more accomplished novel with a more satisfying message and conclusion.
It has just been re-released as an ebook in English, before that it had only been available as a German version in my region, as far as I know, so I guess it might not have been accessible as an ebook in English speaking countries either?
I would say this is easily my new favourite book. I really enjoyed it and have flung myself eyes first into Book 2. The detail, characters, story, everything just feels delightful to read. The progression of characters and the pacing feels on point. I find that Pacing is one of the hardest things to get right in a story and Brandon Sanderson does it really well in this one.
The world feels alive and interesting. There are little pieces that just draw you in and you want to know more. Highly recommend it. Easily 5 stars and like I said before, my new favourite book.
How would that work? You would think this is an area that Amazon can easily police since it is just text matching, or is it more like they copied sections but changed names and synonyms?
My 13yo daughter (who is a voracious reader) has just finished a bunch of Sarah J Maas and Grishaverse books and is about to start Warbreaker. I'm interested to see whether she'll get on with them or not.
I've just finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which was really excellent.
Just finished this myself. Loved it. Will be diving into book 2 shortly.
I have a new favorite author, I guess. Sorry Mr Banks, but it was probably time the torch gets passed.
Which is to say that I finished The Broken Earth trilogy last week. And holy f*ck, that's so good.
Had to sit quietly for a little while after turning the last page and think about what I'd just read. I was processing with my girlfriend afterwards (she's a massive fan), and remarking on how surprising it was walking out of a fantasy thinking about generational trauma, bigotry, bureaucracy, love, hopelessness and grief, and the intersectionality of all of them. Like, when did it happen that that was feasible? Instead of just having some hobbits stab some orcs and calling it good?
Where should I go next in Jemesin's work?
Side note - I've been hanging onto Iain Banks' last novel since he died. It's the only one of his books that I haven't yet read, and I was saving it for some time when I needed it. As I walked away from the Broken Earth, wondering how the hell I'd follow that, and oddly lamenting the passing of the favorite author torch, I suddenly realized that this is the perfect time. The Quarry is up next.
If you go over to the blog post with examples, you'll see it's more like the latter.
Also Amazon isn't incentivized to police plagiarism. They make money either way and no major publisher that could actually impact their bottom line is having the issue.
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Into book 2 already and not disappointed.


Kobojo Forums > Games > Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey > General Discussions > Cloud Saves?
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I'm really loving the game, but I had two questions... How do you save your game, and are there cloud saves? I frequently bounce between my iPhone and iPad. I started the game on my iPhone, but am more interested in having it on my iPad now and thought that the reason I set up an account was for save purposes, but when I logged into the game from my iPad for the first time, it had me doing the tutorial again. Can anyone help with this problem?
You have to log on your iPhone or create your log in the option.
Okay, thank you! So I just have to play the tutorial on m iPad until I can log in and then it should transfer my save?
At the end of the tutorial, you will have the opportunity to create an account.
Then on your other device, you will have to start the game normally from the begining, then go in the options, then finally press "Connect". After entering your credentials created on your first device, you will retrieve your progression.
Unfortunately, that is not working for me. I've gotten to the point on my iPad where I can connect online but it doesn't do anything like loading my iPhone save. I tried disconnecting and then restarting the game. At the screen where it says new or login, I hit login and it just took me back to the same place I was last on my iPad, not the much further save I have on my iPhone.
Can you confirm me that on your iPhone you are connected to a Nexus account, and progressed a bit so that your save is uploaded to the cloud?
As far as I know...how can I check?
Hello Jay, unfortunately you cannot at the moment because the "Option" menu had to be disabled by the team.
Until we solve server issues on our side, you will not be able to progress on several devices at the same time.