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10 Real Supervillain Plots From Governments Around The World
by Alex Hanton
Deranged supervillainy is always fun—in fiction, that is. It's a bit more worrying to discover that real governments can fall victim to the kind of deranged megalomania that would have Goldfinger pocket-dialing the mental health services. Yet, not only did the following schemes actually happen, but apparently nobody in power saw anything wrong with them.
10New Zealand Developed An Unstoppable Tsunami Bomb
During the Second World War, the Allied governments knew that it would take a weapon of unstoppable power to avoid a land invasion of the Japanese islands. But while the US worked on the mysterious Manhattan Project, the government of tiny New Zealand decided to throw their resources behind a somehow even more terrifying weapon. They were going to find a way to unleash the fury of nature itself on the enemy—via an apocalyptic tsunami machine. Even more terrifyingly, they came pretty close to succeeding.
The "Tsunami Bomb" they came up with was actually a series of bombs planted several miles offshore. When detonated simultaneously, the bombs would supposedly produce a hugely destructive tidal wave. The scheme received financial backing from the US, who regarded it as their backup plan in case the A-bomb didn't work out.
The New Zealanders successfully tested much smaller versions off New Caledonia and around Auckland. In 1999, scientists at the University of Waikato suggested that, not only was the plan feasible, but a large-scale version of the bomb would have been capable of producing a 30-meter-high (100 ft) wave.
Not that there weren't drawbacks. Planting a line of explosives along a coastline isn't exactly easy when that coastline is full of enemy troops with heavy weaponry. The US lost interest after the A-bomb was successfully tested at Los Alamos and pulled funding. Astonishingly, New Zealand didn't give up on the plan even after the end of the war—they continued producing reports on it well into the 1950s.
9The Soviets Built An Orbiting Laser Battle Station
In 1983, when Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative to protect America from an ICBM attack, the Soviets were alarmed—but not for the reason you'd think. The Soviet military had already thought the new American Space Shuttle was secretly intended to launch "large space-based weapons platforms," or even that it would dive into the atmosphere and drop a bomb on Moscow. The Strategic Defense Initiative appeared to them to be a cover story for more space-to-ground weapons. And if the Americans were taking warfare to space, the USSR had to respond.
And respond they did, with every Bond villain's fever dream—an orbiting, laser-equipped battle station known as Polyus-Skif. The powerful carbon-dioxide laser it carried would be capable of blasting enemy satellites out of orbit and, if necessary, reducing the manned Space Shuttle to a scattering of floating debris. It was even theoretically capable of intercepting enemy ICBMs, although technical limitations would soon render this possibility unlikely.
In fact, technical problems dogged the project from the start. A laser powerful enough to destroy a satellite was too heavy for most rockets—the Soviets had to build a brand-new launch pad to accommodate the weight of the rocket they used. They also had to design a complex control system capable of compensating for the laser's exhaust gases. Yet all the difficulties were overcome and a test version was launched on May 15, 1987.
A "tiny software error" meant it ended up scattered in burning chunks across the Pacific Ocean. Gorbachev, desperate to cut down on military spending, vetoed building another one, killing the dream of a functional Death Star for the time being.
8The US Army Pretended To Be Ghosts
Operation Wandering Soul (Ghost Tape Number 10)
During the Vietnam War, the US military found itself fighting a guerrilla war against an enemy who blended in with, and recruited from, the local peasantry. The US brass knew there was only one possible solution: ghosts.
Specifically, they decided to exploit an old Vietnamese folk tradition that the spirits of those who died far from home would be doomed to wander the Earth. Under the label "Operation Wandering Soul," psyops teams created a recording of the ghost of a Viet Cong soldier mourning his poor choices. Sample dialogue included, "My friends, I come back to let you know that I am dead . . . I am dead. I am in Hell . . . just Hell."
The genuinely unsettling tape was intended to be played at night to terrify the enemy into deserting. You can find a full translation here, but just listen to the recording above from the 2:00 mark. Imagine being a terrified 18-year-old Viet Cong peasant conscript, away from home for the first time, hearing it echoing through the dark jungle at night.
In practice, it's not clear whether the tape had much direct effect on soldiers. Presumably, the North Vietnamese were familiar with the concept of a recording. The program might have been most useful in getting the enemy to give away their position by opening fire on loudspeakers.
Operation Wandering Soul wasn't the first time the US had tried such a plan. While fighting communist guerrillas in the Philippines, CIA agent Edward Lansdale claimed to have recorded an enemy spy's confession. After the man was executed, Lansdale hid broadcasting equipment in the cemetery and played the confession in the middle of the night. It sounded like the dead spy was warning others not to repeat his mistakes. The entire village fled their mountain town in fear, leaving the Huk guerrillas stationed there without food. The hungry Huks had to descend the mountain, where the American army quickly defeated them.
7America Planned To Fake The Apocalypse
Lansdale was a favorite of President Kennedy, who called him "America's James Bond" and appointed him to lead the campaign to covertly overthrow Fidel Castro. Lansdale, true to form, immediately got weird with it. His proposed schemes included flooding the island with cheap marijuana and counterfeit currency, airdropping forged photos of an obese Castro surrounded by food, and announcing a "misfire" of a nuclear missile toward Cuba.
He was also the maniac behind Operation Northwoods, probably the most infamous plan in US military history, which proposed staging false flag attacks on American soil to whip up public sentiment against Cuba. There was even a plan to fake evidence that Cuba was to blame if John Glenn's upcoming spaceflight failed fatally. Northwoods progressed alarmingly far before the civilian leadership rejected it.
However, Lansdale's preferred plan was a possibly even crazier plot dubbed "Elimination by Illumination." Lansdale wanted his agents in Havana to start a propaganda campaign to convince the locals that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ was imminent. They would fake portents and omens, stir up religious mania, and do whatever else necessary to convince the average Cuban that the End Times were at hand. The campaign would emphasize that Christ was furious at the atheist communists seeking to control the world—and would even hint that Castro might be the Antichrist.
Then, when the rumors reached a fever pitch, a secret American submarine would silently surface off the coast of Havana and fire incendiary shells to light up the night sky. Convinced that the world was ending, the panicked residents would riot and overthrow Castro before an angry Jesus turned up.
If you're thinking that sounds like a ridiculous plan, you're right, which is probably why it was never actually put into action. Sorry, Ed.
6The Japanese Tried To Build A Death Ray
Death rays have been a staple of science fiction for decades—but could they exist in the real world? Nikola Tesla certainly thought so, boasting that he could produce one capable of instantly annihilating an army of one million. Tesla never bothered to give any further details, but his reputation was enough to intrigue the Japanese military, who spent much of World War II trying to produce a ku-go ("death ray") of their own.
By 1943, Japanese researchers at Shimada City, including future Nobel Prize laureate Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, had succeeded in developing a high-powered magnetron capable of generating an intense beam of radiation. The Japanese destroyed their research at the end of the war, but pieced-together accounts indicate that they were trying to turn this into a weapon.
They had some limited success. The weapon could kill a rabbit at a distance of 1,000 meters (3,250 ft)—but only if the rabbit stood perfectly still for at least five minutes. Since indecisive rabbits have traditionally been banned from joining most militaries, the project was scrapped.
5The KGB Wrote Crazy Letters To Newspapers
We've already mentioned how the KGB staged a massive disinformation campaign aimed at convincing people that the US was responsible for creating AIDS in a lab. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. All those crazy conspiracy theories that paranoid people are convinced the CIA is covering up? Odds are there was at least some Soviet involvement in publicizing them.
Highlights included the claim that JFK and Martin Luther King were killed by government operatives and the rumor that J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite. Their MLK campaign was particularly disingenuous, since the KGB hated King while he was alive, spending most of his lifetime spreading the rumor that he was himself a government agent.
Since all those are still popular theories today, you would be forgiven for thinking the KGB was a well-oiled rumor machine. But the truth is that, in the US at least, the theories probably largely spread by themselves—the KGB's efforts at understanding the American public were hilariously inept. Lacking any wide network of agents in the US itself, they were largely reduced to writing cranky letters to the news.
For example, in the '70s, the agency assigned some of its best forgers to fake letters from the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan to major American newspapers. The letters alleged that J. Edgar Hoover had turned the FBI into a "den of faggots," and that he was conspiring to infiltrate his homosexual buddies into the CIA as well. The forgeries were impeccable—a huge amount of work went into them—and nobody realized they weren't really from the KKK until the KGB's archives were opened in the '90s. But they were also never published and had no effect at all because what kind of newspaper editor would take that letter from the Klan seriously enough to publish?
4Machiavelli Tried To Steal A River
In 1499, Niccolo Machiavelli had just been appointed to high office in the Italian city-state of Florence. The city was locked in a desperate struggle with its arch-rival Pisa, and Machiavelli was tasked with finding a way to break the deadlock. Pisa sat at the mouth of the Arno River, which also flowed through Florence. All the city had to do, Machiavelli reasoned, was steal the entire river, and Pisa would just wither away naturally.
Stealing a river isn't exactly an easy undertaking, so Machiavelli turned to the one man who could pull it off—Leonardo da Vinci. The famous artist and inventor drew up plans for rerouting the course of the waterway that would move the Arno 32 kilometers (20 mi) from its usual course, devastating Pisa and giving Florence an unimpeded outlet to the sea. Sadly, like most of Leonardo's designs, there were some fairly significant practical problems, and the plan had to be abandoned after the works collapsed.
The war with Pisa dragged on for another five years, and Machiavelli soon found that his niche lay more with political philosophy and less with practical plans.
3America And Britain Collaborated On A Secret Island Lair
Remember how in Skyfall, Javier Bardem's villainous Silva has a creepy base on a deserted island that he forced all the inhabitants to abandon? America has one of those.
In 1965, the US decided that the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, then a British colony, would be the perfect place for a top-secret military base. The only problem was that it had thousands of residents. So the British government casually passed a law making it illegal for civilians to live there. They then rounded up the native islanders at gunpoint, forcing them to move hundreds of miles to Mauritius. As a bonus, they also rounded up and gassed the islanders' beloved pet dogs.
Half a century later, the islanders are still trying to get their home back. In 2012, the island was declared part of a wildlife refuge, which the islanders claimed was just a legal excuse to prevent them from going home. Britain insisted it was nothing of the sort—until Wikileaks cables revealed that it very much was.
2Britain Tested Chemical Weapons (On Its Own People)
During the Cold War, the British government was concerned that Soviet germ warfare could devastate the country. Luckily, they found the perfect location to test the effects of dangerous germs on an island just like Britain: Britain.
Between 1945 and 1970, the UK military carried out a series of biological and chemical weapons tests on its own people. Many of these were largely benign, involving the release of harmless strains of bacteria to study how they spread throughout the country. But some of the tests involved genuinely dangerous substances.
For example, between 1955 and 1963, RAF planes dropped huge amounts of zinc cadmium sulfide across the country. The fluorescent substance was easy to track and provided a perfect example of how more dangerous chemical weapons might spread. The substance was not tested for toxicity before it was released.
On another occasion, E. coli bacteria were released from a ship anchored off the coast, potentially exposing up to one million people. Other tests have been accused of causing miscarriages in Dorset. The British government continues to insist that all the tests were safe, but either way, exposing your citizens to mysterious substances without telling them remains pretty creepy.
Not that the British were alone in this. In the 1950s, the US sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide across low-income African-American areas in St. Louis. Local officials were told that the government was testing a smokescreen that could protect the city from aerial observation. The real reason was that the military thought St. Louis resembled Russian cities that they might need to attack. Schools housed the motorized sprayers that distributed the chemical. It has been suggested, although not proven, that radioactive particles in the substance might be responsible for high cancer rates in the city.
1The Air Force Wanted To Nuke The Moon
When the US Air Force realized that the Soviet Union was pulling ahead in the nascent Space Race, they decided to respond in the craziest way possible—by nuking the moon itself.
According to Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who headed up the project, the Air Force leadership approached him about the matter in 1958. They wanted to know if it was possible to launch a ballistic missile at the lunar surface with a payload large enough to create a mushroom cloud visible from Earth. Reiffel's research, blandly codenamed Project A119 or "A Study of Lunar Research Flights," concluded that it would be possible, although the detonation would be "microscopic" to the naked eye. In fact, Reiffel calculated, an ICBM launched from an undisclosed location on Earth could hit a target on the moon with a 3.2-kilometer (2 mi) margin of error.
Although the main aim of Project A119 was to intimidate the Soviets (and presumably everyone else), the Air Force actually had a secret second goal. A nuclear detonation on the moon could help test the effects of space travel on atomic weapons. This was vital for a proposed Air Force plan to establish ICBM launch sites on the moon. If the Soviet Union somehow gained the upper hand in a nuclear war with the US, then the remaining US military could launch their secret moon missiles and rain space-based destruction down on the Russians.
Happily for Neil Armstrong's future health, Project A119 was abandoned due to concerns over the effects of a nuke on "the natural radioactivities of the moon."
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Gallant Gilas stand against Japan earned team respect of 'outcoached' Baldwin
by Gerry Ramos
It took a while before Tab Baldwin and his team warmed up to each other. Jerome Ascano
TAB Baldwin may not have gotten some of the players he had in his wish list for Gilas Pilipinas 3.0.
But the resilient and overachieving 12-man national team which finished runner up in the Fiba Asia Championship and earned a berth in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, has certainly earn the love and respect of the 57-year-old American-New Zealander coach
It was none more apparent than in the 81-70 semifinal win over Japan that enabled Gilas to reach the championship round of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Changsha, China.
Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) executive director Sonny Barrios recalled Baldwin opening up to him about being outcoached by Japanese counterpart Kenji Hasegawa especially after the two teams entered the fourth quarter with the game still tied at 54-all.
"During the game I was not comfortable. I felt I was being outcoached," said Barrios quoting Baldwin.
"I felt I was letting the team down. I felt outcoached during the game."
Good thing, Dondon Hontiveros and the rest of Gilas rose to the occasion and hit their strides from the outside to turn back the brave stand by the Japanese, who were very much in the game until the 5:04 mark when the Filipinos went on a 10-5 run to stretch a slim four-point lead to 77-68 in the final two minutes.
"We won through sheer talent and the heart of our players," said Baldwin later.
"Kaya he was very grateful to our players. Pupurihin mo talaga itong 12 na ito," added Barrios.
The SBP executive admitted the Gilas players have had initial reservations with the veteran coach when the team was first formed in early August.
"It took quite some time for them to warm up to him. Parang drill sergeant type of coach kasi si Tab," said Barrios, a former PBA commissioner.
But once coach and players began to feel comfortable with each other, the camaraderie easily developed and the team soon became like a family.
"He's like our dad in this team," said veteran big man Asi Taulava. "We don't care what anybody says. Not unless its coach who's talking. When coach speaks, everybody listens. He's the High Chief and we're the soldiers."
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Driving VoLTE innovation in Middle East and North Africa – Interview with Aslam Hasan, VoLTE/HD Consulting Program Manager, AT&T Mobility
Aslam Hasan, VoLTE/HD Consulting Program Manager, AT&T Mobility
What is the current status of VoLTE deployments globally and how do operators see this long awaited service impacting the market? To find out I spoke to LTE MENA speaker and VoLTE/HD Consulting Program Manager for AT&T Mobility, Aslam Hasan.
"VoLTE deployments are now picking up around the globe" he said "and South East Asia is leading the way. Countries like Korea and Japan have had VoLTE deployed for almost a year; whereas in North America all the major carriers introduced the service in summer last year. Carriers in Latin and South America are still yet to announce the introduction of the service. However, with the launch of iPhone 6 and more VoLTE devices we will be expecting more deployments this year and beyond in almost all regions."
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Interview: Chairman, Small Cells Forum and AVP Small Cell Solutions, AT&T (USA): "Small cells represent a critical tool in any operator's arsenal."
Gordon Mansfield, Chairman, Small Cells Forum and AVP Small Cell Solutions, AT&T (USA)
Gordon Mansfield, Chairman, Small Cells Forum and AVP Small Cell Solutions, AT&T (USA), is delivering a keynote on Day Two of the of the LTE North America conference, taking place on the 21st-22nd November 2013, in Dallas, Texas, USA. Ahead of the show we find out how and why small cells are going to become a critical part of every operator's network.
How would you sell the benefits of using small cells in a network?
It's a well-publicised fact mobile data usage is continuing to grow with no sign of this abating; as such, carriers need to increase network capacity. While there are a number of means of bolstering capacity – moving to 4G, improving spectrum efficiency, Wi-Fi offload – nothing comes close to frequency reuse through increased numbers of cell sites which improve capacity by up to 1600x. In addition, small cells yield noticeable benefits for the macro network; a 2012 Forum study showed that by placing four small cells within one macro, not only is data offload of over 50 per cent achieved, the macro network performance is improved by 315 per cent. Small cells give operators a relatively low-cost means of augmenting their networks where improvements are needed, whether it's a busy urban area or remote village with poor coverage. This isn't to say small cells will supersede macro cells or that they overcome all spectrum limitations, but they do now represent a critical tool in any operator's arsenal.
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Interview: Senior Manager Antenna Solutions Group, AT&T: "Small cells offer operators a system that is potentially more cost effective than other solutions."
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Jim Parker, Senior Manager Antenna Solutions Group, AT&T is speaking on the subject of, "Challenges of deploying high density venues: From DAS to 4G", in the HetNets track on Day One of the The LTE North America conference is taking place on the 21st-22nd November 2013, in Dallas, Texas, USA. Ahead of the show we speak to him about the AT&T Antenna group and its focus for the next year.
What is the core function of the AT&T Antenna solutions group?
In order to provide our customers with the best mobile broadband experience, AT&T established the Antenna Solutions Group (ASG) in order to extend the capabilities of our macro network in large public venues. ASG deploys a wide range of technologies including: neutral-host Distributed Antenna System (DAS), small cells, and Wi-Fi. Neutral host DAS and small cells provide a coverage and capacity solution for cellular voice and data traffic. In venues where Wi-Fi is deployed, it is primarily a data-only solution that can be used to offload traffic from the macro network.
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iOS 5.1 magically boosts AT&T iPhones to 4G
iPhone users on AT&T that have upgraded to the iOS5.1 release will be delighted to note that the network icon at the top of the screen will now display '4G' rather than '3G', when it suitable coverage. Just like that. As upgrades go, that's quite impressive. Yes, with a simple software upgrade, Apple has managed to upgrade the innards of every AT&T iPhone so that it now supports 'true' 4G speeds, which are 45,683 faster than standard 3G. Honest guvnor.
Of course, it's not actually Apple's fault, It's AT&Ts, who clearly have told Apple that it wants everyone to think that its entire network is 4G, even though on an iPhone the fastest network it can connect to is HSDPA 14.4. So more FauxG that 4G.
As most will know, it all stems from the ITU's capitulation last year in allowing anyone that has a network that offers, "a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed," to call it a 4G network. When you consider that initial 3G networks offered data speeds of 384Kbps, that's not saying much. The original requirement for 4G from the ITU was networks that could deliver 1GB/sec when stationary and 100Mb/s on the move. That's not possible from LTE – that's LTE Advanced, which is still a while away from commerical deployment anywhere in the world.
But fret not. We have iOS 5.1, and AT&T. So that's all right then.
What now for US LTE after AT&T pulls out of T-Mobile merger deal?
The AT&T and T-Mobile USA merger is off, but how will this affect LTE in the US?
So it's all over at last. After months of attempted deal making AT&T has thrown in the towel in its $39 billion attempt to take T-Mobile USA off the hands of its parent company Deutsche Telekom. The defeat followed on from both the Justice Department and the FCC blocking the deal, stating that it would be bad move for consumers by reducing competition in the market, raising prices, and doing harm to the economy due to inevitable job losses.
"Consumers won today," said Sharis Pozen, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, according to the Wall Street Journal. "Had AT&T acquired T-Mobile, consumers…would have faced higher prices and reduced innovation."
While it might be good for consumers, it's a blow for all the players in the deal. As recompense to T-Mobile, AT&T has to cough up $3 billion in cash, and ironically, actually divest some spectrum to it as well. AT&T was keen on the deal as it was a relatively affordable way for it to get hold of T-Mobile's spectrum so it could more easily compete with Verizon. The latter company has managed to raise its profile with a successful LTE network roll-out, just as AT&T has lost the shine which came from its iPhone exclusivity deal – a now distant (and for some bad) memory. At the same time, it would have eliminated a competitor for AT&T; albeit a struggling one.
AT&T will also now have to take the more traditional route to improve its network, by investing in its own infrastructure, and bid for any spectrum that might become available on the open market. This will undoubtedly come at a higher price than if it had been able to acquire T-Mobile's AWS spectrum directly.
Deutsche Telekom has failed to offload an ailing and costly part of its business, it will now have to decide whether it tries to flog off T-Mobile to someone else, or go the other way and choose to invest heavily. The latter seems unlikely.
T-Mobile though now faces the prospect of having to try and compete to stay alive after months of not investing in its network. It's doesn't offer the Apple iPhone, whereas the top three now do, making it even harder to win lucrative customers that sign contracts. It lost 850,000 such customers in the first nine months this year, and this news is unlikely to stop the leak.
It's not all bad though for T-Mobile. One upside for is that as part of the deal severance, it now has a seven-year (domestic only) roaming agreement with AT-T, which will increase its footprint across the country into areas where it previously has no coverage.
Meanwhile it's a big, big win for Verizon, which while it's competitors were locked up in a fruitless battle with the courts and the regulator, announced its intention to buy AWS licences from failed joint-venture cable companies SpectrumCo and Cox Communications, giving it 40-80MHz of spectrum to play with many urban areas. As this is a relatively non-threatening move compared to what AT&T was trying to pull off, it's likely to sail through the FCC and Justice Department unopposed. (Update: OK, maybe not. The DOJ is now taking a close look at this one too).
When you throw in the uncertainly around LightSquared's attempts at launching a LTE network, and Sprint and Clearwire's move away from WiMAX to LTE, this year has been a year of sound and fury, while signifying relatively little.
If the US carriers can decide on clear strategies and choose to move forward instead of playing political games, LightSquared could sort out its GPS related technical issues and become a major disruptive influence in the market, making next year a truly seismic one as far as LTE in the US is concerned.
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One of the recipes I created was this Creamy Mushroom & Leek Pie, which is so easy to make and absolutely divine. One of my new favourites.
Look how crispy and delicious it is! I've tried numerous things in the past to get this finish and finally tried aquafaba (the liquid from tinned legumes – more info here) and it works perfectly. Not only does it give this beautiful golden colour, but it also has a natural gluey texture which helps stick the pastry to the dish.
Cook for 25 minutes until golden brown. Serve straight away.


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Items Ph. Schuyler.
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Date Issued: 1870 (Questionable)
Shelf locator: MEZP
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
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Stipple engravings
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7790d780-c607-012f-6632-58d385a7bc34
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ph. Schuyler." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1870. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-927b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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New Palm device coming to UK too, but what is it?
There was a lot of buzz about a new Palm phone a couple of months ago. But when it was officially announced in the middle of October, it turned not to be a phone at all.
The Palm is a connected device that syncs with your existing smartphone and takes over some of its day to day tasks without you needing to take your handset out with you.
It is a wearable you don't wear, basically. A smartwatch that isn't a watch.
Vodafone has announced that it will exclusively be bringing it to the UK, while Verizon will be its home in the US.
The Palm is credit card sized, comes with a 3.3-inch HD display, Qualcomm 435 octa-core processor and front and rear cameras - 12 and 8-megapixels respectively.
It runs Android 8.1, so accesses many of the Google features and apps on a customised user interface, and has a non-removable nano SIM inside that you assign to a supported carrier.
It is IP68 water and dust resistant, with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on front and back. Parent company TCL believes, therefore, that you will take it to the gym, running or cycling and therefore won't need your usual phone.
There is technology on board, Life Mode, that prevents calls and texts from interrupting you as long as the screen is off. But the difference between this and simply turning your phone off is that you can look at notifications again just by waking the display.
And there is voice control on board too.
The Palm is a Verizon exclusive in the States and with Vodafone in the UK (for the first six months). It uses Verizon's NumberShare tech to sync all calls, texts and phone number with your main mobile account over in the US and it should use similar tech for the British version from Vodafone.
But therein lies the big question: if it acts like your main smartphone, you have to carry it around like your main smartphone, but has worse cameras and functionality, why does it exist?
We're frankly baffled by it, to be honest. But hey, there might be someone out there that "gets it" more than us.
At least it answers one other question: when is a wearable not a wearable? When it's a Palm.


Our State Senator, Lakewood resident and former Lakewood Councilman Michael Skindell, a candidate for mayor of Lakewood, has publicly stated Lakewood Hospital (which Lakewood owns) can and should be saved.
He is right, but his opponent, Mayor Mike Summers, publicly, wrongly states it should be closed, as Cleveland Clinic, which leases it till 2026, insists, because it does not want Lakewood Hospital competing with its new hospital in Avon. MetroHealth expressed interest in running Lakewood Hospital, but that proposal was sabotaged by Summers. Electing Skindell will give Lakewood a fresh start with MetroHealth and an honest effort to find a good partner to run Lakewood Hospital, even if it has less beds and adds a wellness center. Lawyers for the Save Lakewood Hospital organization suing in court to save the hospital have discovered documents proving Cleveland Clinic planned years ago to weaken and close Lakewood Hospital.
Legislation introduced Sept. 8 in Lakewood City Council by lame duck councilwoman Mary Louise Madigan and councilman Tom Bullock (both voted to close the hospital as its trustees) and councilman Sam O'Leary would, if passed, authorize Law Director Kevin Butler to negotiate with Cleveland Clinic to close Lakewood Hospital. It does not allow Butler to negotiate with MetroHealth or anybody else that wants to save Lakewood Hospital. So it is a dirty deal from bad intentions, to serve Cleveland Clinic. In Ward 3, Mark Schneider is running for City Council. He wants to save Lakewood Hospital – unlike his opponent John Litten, who voted to close it as a Lakewood Hospital Trustee.
In the November general election a referendum should be on the ballot, by Save Lakewood Hospital, for Lakewood residents to vote to save the hospital, despite certain untrustworthy politicians acting as puppets of Cleveland Clinic, and big business vultures who would profit by replacing the hospital with something less valuable to the Lakewood public.


From Wisdom's acclaimed experiences in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism sequence, researcher and student Sam van Schaik introduces the Nyingma culture of Tibetan Buddhism, having a look heavily at its perform of Dzogchen—and one among Dzogchen's seminal figures, Jigme Lingpa—to make an in depth research of a middle rigidity inside of Buddhism: does enlightenment strengthen steadily, or does it come without warning?
During this new version of his acclaimed autobiography — lengthy out of print and infrequent previously — Alan Watts tracks his religious and philosophical evolution from a toddler of spiritual conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling non secular instructor who challenged Westerners to defy conference and imagine for themselves.
For over 2000 years, Buddhist psychology has provided worthwhile insights into the character of the guts and brain, and reworked the way in which many folks around the globe deal with life's demanding situations. however the historical texts on which those striking teachings are dependent could be tricky to penetrate for contemporary seekers.
83 The well is said to have been dug by Vi˚¶u with his discus and filled with the perspiration from the god's body. However, it is said to have received its name when Íiva, seeing in the well the radiance of a hundred million suns, began praising Vi˚¶u and offered to give him whatever he might ask. When Vi˚¶u replied that his only desire was that the other god should always live there with him, Íiva shook with delight, with the result that an ornament from Íiva's ear, a ma¶ikar¶ikå, dropped into the well.
To one who sports a lotus in his hand hail. To Nƒlaka¶†ha the tiger hail. 41 The presence of Vi˚¶u is evoked twice by the vocative Hare and, also, by references to a boar and a man-lion, recalling the god's appearances as an avatåra in those forms. There are numerous Íaivite epithets: Nƒlaka¶†ha, "the blue throated one" (three times);42 Ía©kara, "the beneficent one"; the one who wears a black serpent as a sacred thread; the destroyer of poisons; the siddha; Avalokiteßvara as the Buddhist Ïßvara 43 the great siddha and the lord of siddha yogins.
And that I am forcibly made to give up my wealth (and glorious position). 25 Finally, similar sentiments are voiced by Bali's grandfather Prahlåda. He says: I consider that great divine grace has been shown unto him (Bali) in that he has been relieved of his fortune which infatuates the mind and bewilders the soul. 26 In much the same way, the våmana-avatåra is also used to extol the virtue of making religious donations in the Íaivite Skanda Purå¶a. There, an imaginative solution is found to the problem of how a story about an offering made to Vi˚¶u might be used to promote the giving of donations to Íiva.


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Chrissy Teigen Responds To Backlash About Intended Parenting Choices
Jessica Dafoe
Chrissy Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend, has been facing criticism after sharing her and the 37-year-old musician's intention to hire a night nurse for the little one they are expecting very soon.
The 30-year-old recently divulged advice the soon-to-be parents have been given and shared with Us Weekly that she and Legend intend to hire a night nurse on the recommendation of a friend. When asked about the advice the two would follow, the model didn't hesitate to respond.
"The recommendation of a night nurse! It's pretty unanimous. Everyone was like, 'If you can do it, do it.' So we're going for it!"
The model and TV host took heat shortly after the publication shared Teigen's intentions. Several people took to Twitter to question the choice by the future parents.
The tweets directed at Teigen's quotes in the piece by Us Weekly motivated the beauty to take to Twitter herself to share that a night nurse in no way means she will be able to take a break through the night and indicated that the judgement is more than she wants to handle.
"A night nurse doesn't replace you waking and feeding at night. You're up with them. They're helpers and teachers.. I am so used to sharing our life that I forget how protective I will be soon. I cannot handle this kind of constant judgement!"
The main judgement comes at the fact that mothers give up valuable bonding time with their child by passing the little one off to someone else, but there are many who swear by night nurses and note the support and education they can provide to a first-time mother who prefers to have the guidance. E! Online further explains the benefits to the night nurses and sleep training.
"Rates for night nurses, also called baby nurses, are typically a minimum of $25 per hour. Some agencies offer registered nurses for hire, as well as sleep training sessions for parents. Many parents swear by night nurses, saying they offer valuable expertise and tremendous help, especially for first-time mothers."
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are taking the lead-up to parenting in stride and have stated that they are normally quite anxious but are remaining mellow about the role they will shortly be taking on and the new little member of their family they are soon to be welcoming. Us Weekly shares Teigen's words in regard to this based on the interview in which she was open about the advice the two would follow.
"We're pretty mellow with it. I'm pretty anxious normally with most things in life, work, but with this we're very calm, and we feel very ready despite not really having done anything. We toured the hospital … but I think for for the most part, we're very lucky to have my mom and John's mom with us during the summer, so we'll learn as we go just like anything else."
They announced the news they are expecting a daughter back in October after having a difficult time conceiving. As Daily Mail relays, the couple resorted to fertility treatments to get them to this point and clearly could not be happier to be able to welcome their new little one shortly.
John and Chrissy's pregnancy news came via social media late last year. The couple noted the difficult road they had getting there.
"It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We're so excited that it's finally happening."
The couple is clearly smitten with one another and will no doubt be wonderful and loving parents to their daughter.
(Photo by Sergi Alexander/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated)


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Szegilong ist eine ungarische Gemeinde im Kreis Tokaj im Komitat Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén.

Geografische Lage
Szegilong liegt in Nordungarn, 47 Kilometer nordöstlich des Komitatssitzes Miskolc, ein Kilometer westlich des Flusses Bodrog. Nachbargemeinden sind Szegi, Olaszliszka und Erdőbénye.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Reformierte Kirche, erbaut 1942–1949
 Römisch-katholische Kirche Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, erbaut im 20. Jahrhundert

Verkehr
In Szegilong treffen die Landstraßen Nr. 3705 und Nr. 3801 aufeinander, westlich des Ortes verläuft die Hauptstraße Nr. 37. Die Gemeinde ist angebunden an die Eisenbahnstrecke von Szerencs nach Sátoraljaújhely.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Webseite von Szegilong (ungarisch)
 A szegilongi református templom (ungarisch)

Szegilong

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Home » Lifestyle » The law is changing to allow domestic abuse victims longer to report crimes
The law is changing to allow domestic abuse victims longer to report crimes
Changes to common assault legislation added to the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill this week will see the time victims of domestic abuse have to report crimes extended.
Updated 5 January: New measures extending the length of time domestic abuse victims have to report a crime have been added to the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill this week (4 January) after a months-long campaign by domestic abuse charities and survivors.
The changes – which were agreed in October last year – will extend the timeframe for a charge to be brought against someone for common assault or battery from six months to two years.
Other changes to the bill announced today include the introduction of a breastfeeding voyeurism offence, which will make taking non-consensual photographs or video recordings of someone breastfeeding a specific offence punishable by up to two years in prison.
The legislation will cover both situations where the motive is to "obtain sexual gratification" and where it is meant to cause "humiliation, distress or alarm".
In a statement, Ruth Davidson, the CEO of the domestic abuse charity Refuge, called the changes to the time limit a "huge win" for domestic abuse victims.
"Too many women have been 'timed out' of accessing justice, with the arbitrary six-month time limit. It can take many months, even years, for survivors of abuse to feel ready and able to report their experiences. This change means thousands of women will have access to justice that they had previously been denied."
Taking to Twitter to celebrate the news, Victims Too organiser Erica Osakwe – who campaigned alongside Refuge, the Centre For Women's Justice and Women's Aid Federation of England to make the changes – added: "We have won! The law in England and Wales will change to support victims of domestic abuse."
The PCSC bill – which has been met with backlash online and on the streets for containing legislation that represents "a serious threat to the right to protest" and will put Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups at risk – is currently in the report stage in the House Of Lords.
As reported 23 October: After a months-long campaign, the government has agreed to change the law to allow victims of domestic abuse more time to report a crime.
There is currently a six-month time limit for a charge to be brought against someone for common assault, but Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced that the timeframe will be extended to up to two years.
Victims of domestic common assault, which includes being pushed, threatened or spat at, are sometimes reluctant to report incidents and the cases can be complex – which is why campaigners say the police should be given more time before having to bring charges.
As the BBC reports, the clock starts from the date of the incident, and within the next six months, a victim needs to have come forward and the police have to have carried out their work to secure a charge against the alleged perpetrator, or the case will be dropped.
The BBC had previously revealed that over 13,000 cases in England and Wales had been dropped in five years because the six month limit had been breached.
Leading domestic violence campaigners have also spoken out in support of the decision.
Refuge CEO Ruth Davison said in a statement: "As Refuge we work with women every day who know just how hard it can be to report domestic abuse – they might not yet have fled their perpetrator, they may fear repercussions, or they might not yet have processed the assault they experienced. Couple that with trust in police being at an all-time low, means the conditions for survivors to come forward is incredibly challenging.
Refuge has campaigned along with Centre For Women's Justice, Women's Aid Federation of England, and survivor Erica Osakwe for this change. This amendment, when it comes into practice, will make an enormous difference to survivors of domestic abuse and will help offer much greater protection to women and girls."
Campaigner and organiser Erica Osakwe also tweeted a statement about the victory: "After one year of campaigning, I've officially changed the law in England and Wales. You had six months to report common assault and now it has been extended to 24 months. To the survivors and to anyone who ever doubted themselves, this is for you," she wrote.
The positive change is expected to come as part of the otherwise controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament and proposes new police powers when it comes to protests, in spite of mounting warnings over human rights and questions over whether police want or need the powers.
The wide-ranging authoritarian legislation also cracks down on trespassing, which puts Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups at risk and threatens to push rough sleepers deeper into homelessness, which has prompted widespread social media protest to "Kill The Bill".
In the UK, the domestic violence helpline is 0808 2000 247. Alternatively, contact Women's Aid or Refuge for advice and support.
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Nicolaas Paul L.G. Verhoeff, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DABPN, is a clinician scientist at the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. His research focuses on the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by developing novel positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers for beta-amyloid in the brain. In collaboration with the PET Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, several candidate amyloid PET radiotracers have been developed that bind selectively to beta-amyloid aggregates in vitro. The two most promising candidate beta-amyloid PET radiotracers have been tested in vivo in humans and both showed a good ability to discriminate AD patients from matched healthy comparison subjects. Besides for early detection of AD, this technique can also be used to monitor the efficacy of beta-amyloid-reducing medications.


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Three Wisconsin Firms Have Their Day in the Sun
RENEW Honors Businesses Investing in Solar Energy
In the span of one week, RENEW presented "Solar Champion" awards to three companies—JONCO Industries, Central Storage & Warehouse and O&H Danish Bakery--that now host some of the largest rooftop solar electric systems in the state of Wisconsin. The award presentations took place during individual ribbon-cutting ceremonies at each company, two of which were organized and emceed by RENEW's incoming president Amy Heart. The three PV systems honored by RENEW have a combined rated capacity of about 1.26 MW(DC) .
Speaking at JONCO's ribbon cutting is Rep. David Bowen,
joined by Tom Ryan & his son, Leah Maggio of Focus on Energy,
Mayor Tom Barrett, and John Daugherty of SunVest.
Located in Milwaukee's North Side, JONCO Industries hosts a new 370-kilowatt array on a 200,000-square-foot building it acquired in 2014 to expand its contract manufacturing capabilities. A number of local dignitaries, including Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, gathered on July 13 to praise JONCO's achievement in integrating clean energy into his company's operations. Said JONCO president Tom Ryan: "If we want to invest the money and time to build the rooftop solar. I'm not looking for today, but I've calculated it out — it's going to take me four years to pay for that roof."
On behalf of RENEW and Pewaukee-based SunVest, which designed and installed the array, RENEW Executive Director Tyler Huebner presented a certificate recognizing JONCO Industries as "the largest solar electricity producer among Wisconsin manufacturing companies."
The SunPeak team standing with CS&W owners
Jack & Ken Williams (extreme right).
Read more on JONCO's solar installation in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.
Later that day, Central Storage & Warehouse (CS&W), a Madison-based, family-owned company that owns several refrigerated warehouses in Wisconsin, hosted an event celebrating its 2,904-panel solar system. The 741-kilowatt system designed and installed by Madison-based SunPeak is sized to produce 20% of the electricity consumed at the adjoining warehouse, which was rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1991 that melted food in storage worth millions of dollars.
At the celebration Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and RENEW Program and Policy Director Michael Vickerman congratulated CS&W for embracing environmental performance and clean energy as it rebuilt its physical plant in the ensuing 25 years. This rebuilding culminated with the installation of the largest rooftop solar electric system in the state. SunPeak and RENEW presented a certificate to CS&W Vice President Jack Williams honoring the company's leadership in advancing solar energy for Wisconsin businesses. Both Williams and Vickerman also praised the Focus on Energy program for providing critical funding support for this precedent-setting installation.
For more information about CS&W's solar installation, visit SunPeak's website.
O&H co-owner Eric Olesen cutting the ribbon while Rep.
Cory Mason, Michael Vickerman, and Amy Heart look on.
RENEW and SunVest teamed up again the following week to organize a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a 152-kilowatt solar system atop O&H Danish Bakery's new headquarters building in Mount Pleasant, near Racine. O&H built the 44,000-square-foot facility in 2015 to house all of its baking operations under one roof. The solar panels atop O&H's roof should produce 180,000 kilowatt-hours a year, supplying about 25% of the electricity used in that building. O&H's Mount Pleasant facility will enable the renowned Kringle maker to add about 25 new positions over the next three years.
RENEW's new president, Amy Heart, presided over the ceremony, which attracted such local dignitaries as Rep. Cory Mason and M.T. Boyle, who represented Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave. Several years ago, Rep. Mason authored legislation designating the Kringle as Wisconsin's official pastry. Wrapping up, RENEW's Michael Vickerman presented a Solar Champion certificate to O&H co-owner Eric Olesen, recognizing the company's status as the largest solar electricity producer in Racine County and the largest solar electricity producer among Wisconsin bakeries.
Read more about O&H's solar installation in a piece from TMJ4.
All three solar electric systems will enable these signature Wisconsin businesses to manage their energy costs more effectively and strengthen their economic position in the highly competitive business environments they operate in. Focus on Energy funding support was instrumental in persuading these economic mainstays to plow their own savings into solar. The Public Service Commission will soon decide whether to continue rebates for renewable energy in 2017 and 2018. We hope to enlist these and other renewable energy hosts to educate the PSC on the positive connection between their renewable energy investments and the health of their businesses.
PSC Decision Restarts Highland Wind Project
At an open meeting on July 7th, the PSC met to resolve the specific issues that led St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Edward Vlack to invalidate the Certification of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) granted to the 102.5 MW Highland Wind Farm in 2014 and remand the matter back to the agency. Specifically, the judge wanted a firmer foundation for the additional restrictions on sound levels that were established for six residences presumed to be occupied by sensitive individuals.
On a 2-0 vote, the PSC ruled that the body of literature examining potential health impacts from wind generators did not support the imposition of a special sound threshold for those six residences. In explaining her decision, Commission Chair Ellen Nowak said that the agency's review of peer-reviewed studies did not find a causal connection between wind turbines and claims of adverse health impacts. In reaffirming its approval of Highland Wind, the agency removed a stipulation in the permit that specified reduced noise limits from nearby wind turbines for the six residences in question. Instead, the agency agreed to set a uniform sound limit for the entire project, and will rely upon a complaint process to address sound concerns.
Opponents of the project have said they are considering their legal options and plan to "continue to fight against Highland Wind in any way we can."


The one with the Alhambra beer.
We are sitting in a small coffee bar somewhere in Malaga updating our blog, when I ask the owner if he has any beers to sell. Si, si he says (Spanish people love to repeat short words, like vale,vale or vamos, vamos) and he starts talking about all the different kinds he has. I am a bit disappointed as it turns out he has only four different kinds, but one of the four is the Alhambra Reserva, a beer I discovered in Tarifa thanks to Kris. It is a very nice beer, one that reminds me of the Belgian ones, it's a bit stronger (6,4) and a lot tastier than the normal Spanish lager. The taste makes me think about my home country and I start talking to Val about the fact that we have some very good actors and movies in Belgium, most of which she never heard of.
Hence my top 10 Belgian movies list, must watch good stuff in random order.
Matty, a 41-year old mother of three with a husband in his midlife-crisis, meets 29-year old Johnny, a truck driver, who takes an interest in her.
Three guys in their twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience.
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her.
In this dark satire, a film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routines. But complications set in when the film crew loses their abjectness and begin lending a hand.
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune.


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Improv 101 — My Movie
August 10, 2017 July 24, 2017 Kollin
Like many improv games, I've seen My Movie played a couple of different ways. The core of the game is the same, but there is a bit of variety to the nuances that can be tailored to suit the needs of a particular troupe.
Most often, it is played as a high energy group game. It can work with lots of people, but generally as long as you have more than four you'll be fine. The idea is that the improvisers are a group of scriptwriters pitching movie ideas to the ref. You get some initials from the audience and you have the improvisers come up with movie titles using those initials. One by one, the ref points to them and they yell the title of a movie using those letters. If it sounds interesting, the Ref calls "Tagline!" and the improviser must then give a short description that could appear on a poster or in a movie trailer. If the tagline appeals to the ref, they can say "Let's see it!", in which case the improvisers must then act out a snippet of a scene from that movie. After that, the ref and improvisers return to calling out movie titles until the next one sticks.
The biggest difference in the two ways I've seen this game played is the intro. Namely, what happens before the ref starts pointing at people and the game actually starts. The first time I had seen this game, all the improvisers chant "My movie, my movie my movie, aww yeah!" in the same tone of Big Booty, a game I'll probably never actually talk about in detail. Because I obviously can't describe what the tone of that chant is, I think the second way is easier. Instead of the chant, all the improvisers just yell "My movie!" as fast as they possibly can while trying to get the ref's attention as if they are a bunch of people at a crowded press conference trying to be called on. I prefer it this way, and it's a lot easier because it doesn't require synchronization.
Another reason I like the second intro is the faster pacing. The key thing to remember for this game is that it's meant to be high energy. The ref needs to point to his or her targets quick to get them to pitch movie titles rapid-fire. There should never be a full second of downtime in this game, and all transitions must be seamless. This is the sort of game that is a good warm-up for an audience, because it gets their heart rate up. My Movie isn't a very funny game, but it only needs to be fast and entertaining to get your viewers into the mood.
This is also the sort of game that combines preparation with on-the-spot moments. You kind of have to think about movie titles as you wait for the referee to point at you, but it's hard to have both a tagline and a scene ready if it's a good movie title, so you often have to say the first thing that comes to mind.
With this game, improvisers can do no wrong. With as fast as the pace is set, the most difficult thing about it is that you'll often be expected to pitch movie titles faster than you can come up with them, and as such it's a great way to force beginning actors to think more quickly. There will, inevitably, be instances where you have to speak when you don't know what to say. It happens a lot in improv, but don't let that stop you from saying anything. Sometimes the most memorable quotes come from instances in which you hadn't put any thought to your words. And even if you do say something dumb, the game is supposed to be pretty quick. People will only remember the gems in a game like this. And if you have upwards of six people, this game is super easy, because it allows the other improvisers time to think about better titles.
This is one of those games that is great for beginning improvisers, and I try to introduce it very early on to the kids I teach. Also, here is a link to a great example of this game.
Categories: Daily Dose, Improv 101	Tags: beginners, group games, high energy, improv
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Fantasy Sports Market Analysis – Fantasy Sports is becoming more popular amongst numerous people. Fantasy Sports has been around for lots of years, but they gained in popularity after the popularity of baseball and basketball.
Fantasy Sports is a kind of virtual game, typically played via the Internet, in which gamers develop or develop fictional groups comprised of non-real or virtual gamers. These groups compete in video games based on the result of these players ' efficiencies in real life. If Joe Hockey has been playing baseball all his life, he can join a league in which his team contends against other groups that are composed totally of other gamers who have not played baseball prior to.
Gaming is prohibited in the United States, however this does not avoid people from engaging in fantasy sports. The current death of the Uigea Act restricts players from wagering over NFL picks and the same goes for NCAA competitions and soccer competitions.
There are and likewise head-to-head"clan " competitions amongst gamers within each league. Comprehending the various types of bets, their results, and the way they affect the results can help you choose when to put a bet on a particular gamer or group.
Basic daily dream sports leagues permit you to bet on one or many routine season games. These day-to-day fantasy sports leagues vary due to the fact that they offer players more opportunities to win and they also keep track of stats and awards in a different way than those of the "seasonal " variety.
Head-to-head competitions among players within a league are similar to other kinds of daily fantasy sports. For instance, if you bet on your favorite basketball team to win every video game throughout the playoffs, you would put that bet throughout the "playoffs ". If you wanted to bet against your next-door neighbor 's group in a head to head video game, you would position that bet within the "regular season " games. Within a league, there is no way to determine which kind of competitors is "correctly " arranged and which is not.
The majority of standard leagues within the world of fantasy sports do have playoff races. Betting is totally based upon the randomness of whether or not a player ends up a race.
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Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS)
A Tool for Review of Early Literacy Program Materials
Kathleen Roskos - John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
Lisa Lenhart - University of Akron, Ohio, USA
Brandi Noll - University of Akron, Visiting Professor, Ashland University, USA
Foreword by Carol Vukelich
English/Language Arts (Middle/High School) | Literacy, K-12
Your all-in-one guide to selecting the very best early literacy materials!Learning to read and write is too important to be left to chance, so it's absolutely critical that the early literacy curriculum and literature you use in PreK and kindergarten environments reflect the very best research and instructional practices. But, with the proliferation of new products, what's the best way to start? What criteria should the curriculum meet? Which research-based best practices should be represented? Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS)ùthe first dedicated evaluation tool for early childhood literacy materialsùprovides all the answers.Step by step, this one-of-a-kind toolkit will help you:Recognize the characteristics of high-quality literacy materialsWork in teams or individually to evaluate your resourcesUnderstand the importance of the research baseEstablish a baseline against which new literacy materials can be comparedAll in all, there's no better resource to ensure we put our youngest students on the right path to school readiness and success.'Teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors will appreciate the clear guidance for conducting a systematic review of core program materials. A highly effective tool for examining the quality of early literacy materials, ELMS is the first of its kind, and will be a welcome resource.'ùSusan B. Neuman, ProfessorUniversity of Michigan'A much needed resource for considering features of curriculum materials in a systematic way. I know of no other tool like it for early childhood materials.'ùJudith A. SchickedanzBoston University
1. An Introduction to ELMS
2. Planning a Review
3. More Than a Simple Review of Materials
4. Taking Inventory of Teaching Materials
5. Examining the Quality of Curriculum Material
6. Analyzing the Guidance Provided in Curriculum Materials
7. Arriving at the Final Rating
8. Technical Information
Resource A. ELMS Tool: A Tool for Early Literacy Program Materials Review
Resource B. Glossary of Terms
Resource C. Example of Completed Part II: Quality of Curriculum Materials
Resource D. Example of Completed Part III: Analysis of Guidance
Resource E. Organizers for Planning and Facilitating Reviews
Resource F. Case Study Example of a Team Review
"This tool provides a much needed resource for considering features of curriculum materials in a systematic way. I know of no other tool like it for early childhood materials. Even if a user wishes to tweak in a place or two, by broadening the research considerations, the overall framework and processes would still be extremely useful."
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"Early Literacy Materials Selector (ELMS) provides a tool for choosing the right literacy program that will glean high level results for your students. It provides a roadmap for choosing a program that supports the instructional components and needs of beginning teachers to seasoned veteran educators."
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"The purpose of this book is useful for any professional that needs to examine and evaluate educational materials for early literacy programs. I feel this book serves its purpose. It is highly organized, efficiently designed coupled with an effective layout to make good use of time and energy. Meanwhile, it contains a valuable rationale and direction. This book would not only be useful but purposeful enough to give direction and clarity to the educational materials that it seeks to evaluate."
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Seattle Public Schools , Seattle, WA
"Learning to read and write is too important to be left to chance. Roskos and Lenhart have created a highly effective tool for examining the quality of early literacy materials. Teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors will appreciate the clearly-written guidance for conducting a systematic review of core program materials. It's the first of its kind, and will be a welcome resource for those who evaluate materials."
Susan B. Neuman, Professor, University of Michigan
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Elementary & Secondary Education
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G2 Esports' Michaela Lintrup Makes The Case For Women's Leagues
Melissah Yang
Photo: Courtesy of Adela Sznajder.
"Having that raw, crisp aim, and you just tap and someone dies, is so satisfying," Michaela Lintrup says, her fingers punctuating each word. Sitting on a black, red, and white #G2Army Secret Lab chair and crowned with a Logitech G Pro X Wireless headset, the Danish gamer has the magnetic energy that's just the caffeine jolt I need for our Zoom call. It's 2:30 a.m. my time in Los Angeles, but for the 24-year-old esports pro, it's a half hour before noon at G2 Esports' office in Berlin, where she passionately explains to me why first-person shooters (FPS) are her games of choice. "The competition in an FPS game is just unmatchable for me. I just love it."
Lintrup has eight years of esports experience under her belt, playing in her first international event at the age of 16, competing at events like the Copenhagen Games and Dreamhack, and building her rep in Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO), a highly competitive mechanics-driven FPS game that never had a woman reach the main stage of a major tournament. Avid CSGO fans will likely know her as "mimi" of Team Secret, but since October, she has repped G2's samurai emblem. That's when the Spanish organization signed Lintrup and the majority of her former TS teammates to create its first all-women's team and compete as G2 Gozen in Riot Games' Valorant, a team-based tactical shooter that combines CSGO mechanics with Overwatch character abilities.
Though women make up half of all US gamers, only 35% of people who play a game that's considered an esport are women, according to a 2019 study by data firm Interpret, and the number of women professional esports players is even lower. But while men overwhelmingly make up the majority of organizations' esports rosters, women are leading the rise in esports viewership. In 2020 alone, the number of women esports viewers in the US jumped from 23% to 36%, according to Interpret, a move largely driven by the increased visibility of women competing at the professional level and industry efforts to make the esports scene more inclusive.
In February, Riot announced Game Changers, an initiative to give women and nonbinary esports players a stronger platform and a direct pipeline into its Valorant tournament, the Champions Tour, and launched a three-tournament all-women's series for multiple regions across the world. The program was widely praised throughout the gaming community, and Riot would go on to expand the format to its popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends in September.
I spoke with Lintrup late November in the middle of her team's second bid to claim the Game Changers crown for Series 3 of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region (EMEA). In its first outing, G2 Gozen came in third after losing to TENSTAR Nova in the lower bracket, a sore point for Lintrup. "We should have gotten first," Lintrup says. "God I hate losing so much." Four days after our chat, Lintrup and her dominating Cypher plays would help G2 win the Grand Finals against Guild X.
Lintrup is among the few top players putting women on the esports map. But the question looming over the competitive landscape is how tournaments can become more reflective of the esports fanbase and offer more diverse representation among its players.
For Lintrup, the answer is complicated.
When you're a rookie coming into the game, it's important to have a safe space where you can find other women gamers who are just like you.
Michaela Lintrup
Refinery29: While women in gaming isn't rare, what is rare is to see women who are at the top of the competitive scene. There must have been challenges in your own journey.
Lintrup: "One of the biggest challenges is, of course, the internet itself and all the people who just refuse to believe any woman can ever make anything of themselves and esports. It can be super hard because there are the people who will be like, 'There is no difference if you're a man or woman. You should be able to do the same things.' But they'll still think it's embarrassing when a man loses to a woman. That's probably like some of the biggest challenges you can face, the resistance from the boys just refusing to agree with a woman having any success. But there are way more supporters and people who just want to have the best for you. Because who doesn't want to have a woman to play with and a woman to understand your passion? I've also faced a lot of people who say I don't deserve what I get because they think they're better than me in games, so they should get the opportunities that I get. But I also deserve it. Why not me?"
Let's be real, anybody who's hating on women in esports is probably in bronze or iron. Show up in a 1v1 and you would own them.
"Yeah, exactly. (laughs) I mean, the players on our team have been owning people in a 1v1. I would be sent out for a shootout in a 1v1 at a Danish tournament, and there would be people who are like, 'Yeah, I can beat her,' and then they don't want to go because if they lose, like, wow, that would be embarrassing."
It's amazing to see orgs like G2 investing in women's teams, but when you look at the tournaments with the highest viewership, which are often also the most marketed, they're dominated by men. What will it take to get women players the same level of exposure?
"Women have been competing for many years, but just from five years ago, there has never been this many women in gaming. We had like 60 women teams sign up for Game Changers, and we've never ever seen that in CS, so having Valorant come into esports has been very, very healthy for the women's scene. I'm sure that all we need is just time. With time, there will be more women playing with a bigger pool. There will be more talent to show and pick from, and in five years time, there's for sure gonna be a woman on top playing on either a women's team or a woman playing on a mixed team. Just now, I can queue a ranked game [in Valorant] and get another woman on my team. We just need time and patience and it will happen for sure."
When Riot announced it would expand Game Changers to the EMEA region in September, the studio planned to introduce mixed-gender teams for Series 2. But Riot stepped back that decision after the community said the move went against the program's spirit and mission to elevate underrepresented players. Do you agree?
"The idea [of mixed teams] is amazing, and of course that's the way everyone wants it to go: men and women being able to play with each other on a team and compete. But it was just too early to have the second Game Changers be mixed. The European (EU) scene is already still lagging behind compared to North America (NA), especially the women's scene."
Well intentioned, but just not the right time.
"Exactly. There were also a lot of pros [who were men] who asked us, 'Can you just move out two players so we can play with you?' Like, that's not what Game Changers is about. [Those players] just wanted to get some easy money."
You're saying that time is what's needed to get to the place where we have mixed teams and tournaments. So is that the ultimate goal — an even playing field for everyone?
"That's a hard question. It's really hard to imagine [mixed teams and tournaments] because we're so far away from it. Having women's tournaments is, for now, really good because it encourages gamers to compete, be better, and take the next step. Mixed teams would be amazing, for sure, but women's tournaments should still be a thing because there will always be the bully factor when you're a woman in gaming. I don't think that will ever change just because there are more women. When you're a rookie coming into the game, it's important to have a safe space where you can find other women gamers who are just like you."
On one hand, you want it to be like, 'We're equally good at games, and we can compete on the same level,' but on the other hand, there's something really powerful and special about having 16 teams of all women competing for the same goal: to be the best.
"I think it's very individual. I personally would love to play at the top level, and if that means it's a women's team, then it's a women's team. But if it means that I'm playing with four men, that's fine with me. It really just depends on what your goals are, what you want to do, how competitive you are, and how willing you are to commit to something so serious."
For you, what does success look like? What is that moment when you tell yourself, 'I've done everything that I wanted to do in my career'?
"I really want to qualify for a major tournament. And I don't even need to win it. I mean, obviously winning would be epic, but what I want is what has not been achieved. You have not seen a woman play in any major tournament. You have not had a woman really competing at the absolute highest level especially in FPS games. I really want that, and I would love for it to be with my current team, but I also know that if I ever got the opportunity [to compete in a major], there is just no way I could refuse that. For me, success is 100% achieving something that has not been achieved by a woman gamer. When I'm the one who has done something as The First, I feel like that's being successful."
I have to ask once and for all: EU or NA?
"Duh, EU!"
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Q: Notebook dual monitor I'm thinking of adding an extra monitor to my notebook. The notebook I currently work on is a Vaio BZ series 15" with 1440x900 screen resolution. I want to buy a 19" (no larger) with 1440x900 screen resolution and set it up vertically.
The reason is of course more screen space. Will such setup work easily? Anyone tried it has/had/seen such setup? I'm interested if it's worth it since I am also on a tight budget.
There is an alternative option of buying a bigger monitor and using my notebook as a docking station. Would that be a better solution ? Taking also in account that I will spend a lot more money.
What do you guys suggest ?

A: I have used a very similar setup for years, and I think you'll be happy overall with the dual-monitor setup using both your laptop and an external monitor. In my experience, there is very little difference between the connector types, so long as your monitor and laptop have a matching pair.
I would also not worry about matching the resolution of your monitor to the laptop screen's resolution. Depending on your version of Windows, you can generally set the display resolution of each screen independently. This means that you have a few scaling issues when moving from one screen to another, but you can then fully take advantage of the (probably) larger screen and higher resolution from your external monitor.
During the day, my setup utilizes a 22" LCD monitor as my primary display, and my 15" laptop (with similar resolution to yours) as the secondary display off to the side. Its great for keeping extra windows open or for reference material, but I find that 85% of my work is done on the primary (larger) monitor.

A: For everything I use a computer for, dual-monitor is far superior.  Just make sure to take a look at what ports you have on the laptop (VGA only?  HDMI?) and ensure that your new monitor will fit.

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