You know what was great about May? Summer rolled around and it was warm and sunny and my arms were out and I started using moisturiser with SPF in it, and then, kapow, we were back in Autumn. So I hope everyone took the opportunity to enjoy the summer while it lasted because I feel like that may be all we get. Has anyone else noticed how difficult life is when the weather is going through some kind of midlife crisis? Do I short sleeve, do I long sleeve, do I ankle boot, do I pump? THE STRESS!
Yes hello, is that MI5? Yes, I need to speak to someone about what I think is the apocalypse. Why? Well because I've taken a distinct liking to a daily cup of Earl Grey Tea. Errr.... Hello... Hello? Whatevs. The apocalypse has well and truly fallen, maybe not in the cataclysmic way we all anticipated, but all I know is this: one day I woke up with a cough/cold/illness thing (as is so often the case) and wham, I got to work, not fancying my usual Nespresso, but a cup of tea! Tea!? Of all the illness cravings in the world, mine is tea. And since then, I've been having a cup each afternoon. The whole 'lemon and bergamot' thing just really does it for me, ya know?
A music favourite to spice things up a bit! So I heard 'Hotel Ceiling' from this album yonks ago when those Spotify Discover playlists first came about and totally digged it, but I never really thought about trying out the whole album. Well, let me tell you a thing. That was a huge mistake. This album is ahhhmazing. I played nothing but this one album on repeat for about a week (and this may seem like no big deal but I spend about two and a bit hours in my car each day so that is a lot of playing). These guys are so awesome and every song hits the spot. My personal fave is Speakerphone because it's perfecto to belt out while zooming through the classy as heck streets of Ascot.
What is it with Jo Malone and her just knowing what works? I have yet to find a product from JML that I don't love with a passion. The bath oils are such amazing quality; you need only the teeny tiniest amount in your bath and you smell of the floral scents FOR DAYS (or until you next wash), they're so soothing and relaxing and don't irritate my skin in any way (which has been known to happen in the past with other brands). I feel like with every product I try, I love Jo Malone even more... which understandably makes my bank card shiver in its boots.
It's no secret that I L.O.V.E Gap in general, but fun fact, the first thing I ever bought from Gap was a pair of denim jeans (and an even more fun fact, that was about 8 years ago and I still have that pair, very much in working order). Gap jeans are an amazing quality and their new resolution range makes them so comfortable to wear because they fit to your body shape. Meaning all of the 'skin tight' and none of the 'stiff as a board'. And as the weather is, theoretically heating up and the sun is beginning to shine, this light wash pair are beyond perfect! I've been living in these the past few weeks and picking them up for £20 instead of £49.95, makes it an even sweeter victory.


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Before Homosexuals Documentary
From Ancient Times to Victorian Crimes
Educational and Grassroots Organizations
Akira Ohno, Curator of Hake no Mori Koganei City Museum
Angela Brinskele, Director of Communications, Mazer Archives
Bernadette Brooten Ph.D., Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University and author of Love Between Women
Boukary Sawadogo Ph.D., author of Les Cinémas Francophones Ouest-Africains
Charles Gueboguo, author of La Question homosexuelle en Afrique. Le cas du Cameroun
Dean Hamer Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior
Edward Maeder, expert on textiles and historical fashions, co-author of Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film
Jeffrey Weeks Ph.D., author of Making Sexual History
Gary Schmidgall Ph.D., author of Walt Whitman: A Gay Life
Gert Hekma Ph.D., author of A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age
Gilbert Herdt Ph.D., Professor of Human Sexuality at San Francisco State University and editor of Rituals of Manhood
Jack van der Wal, co-founder and archivist at Internationaal homo/lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief
James Saslow, Ph.D., author of Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society
Janet Afary, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Jens Dobler, Ph.D., author and archivist at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany
JoAnn Wypijewski, journalist and columnist (Carnal Knowledge) at The Nation magazine
Joseph Hawkins, Ph.D., President of the Board of Directors at ONE Institute
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, hijra (third gender) activisit, India
Michael Lombardi-Nash, Ph.D., translator and editor of Sodomites and Urnings: Homosexual Representations in Classic German Journals
Louis Crompton, Ph.D., author of Homosexuality and Civilization
Maria Margaronis, journalist, London Bureau of The Nation magazine
Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed Histories Archives
Neil McKenna, author of The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper Ancient Egyptian Pharaonic Culture at the British Museum
Dimitris Plantzos, Classical Archaeologist and faculty member at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Rictor Norton, Ph.D., author of Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
Ruth Vanita, Ph.D., co-editor of Same-sex Love in India
Seth Jacobowitz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Humanities at San Fancisco State University
Michael Rocke, Author and Senior Research Associate at Villa I Tatti the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Sheila Rowbotham, biographer of Edward Carpenter
Carl Brandon Strehlke, Adjunct Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sophie Volpp, Ph.D., Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Terence Kissack, Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Theo Van Der Meer, Ph.D., Meertens Institute
Thorsten Opper, Curator of Greek and Roman sculpture at the British Museum
Tze-lan Sang, author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China
John Scagliotti (Director/Producer)
John Scagliotti has produced many now-classic documentaries, such as BEFORE STONEWALL, AFTER STONEWALL, and DANGEROUS LIVING. He also created the first LGBT radio show (THE LAVENDER HOUR, 1973) and television series on PBS (IN THE LIFE, 1991 to 2012). In recognition of his service to the LGBT community, he received an honorary doctorate from Marlboro College, VT.
Betsy Kalin (Producer/Co-Writer)
In 2004, her feature length documentary, Hearts Cracked Open, premiered to great acclaim at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and has gone on to win several awards. Her film, Roof, premiered at New York City's MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films and is a part of the Short Shorts compilation released by Picture This! Entertainment. In 1997, Betsy formed Itchy Bee Productions and her experimental and documentary shorts have screened at festivals worldwide. She also wrote and directed the lesbian biography series, LesBios, for web broadcast. She is currently producing and directing the feature-length, East L.A. Interchange and the short documentary, Chained!.
Christopher Dawes (Co-Producer/Editor)
A multimedia producer at the New York Gay and Lesbian Center where he produced more than 30 mini-documentaries for the online newsmagazine and filmed over 17 live events. He was also an Assistant Editor at In the Life TV. His recent short film Long Nights Journey into Day was selected to be shown at CineSlam, Vermont's Shorts Fest.
David M. Hall (Co-Producer/Editor)
David has produced many short films and animations including ST. SEBASTIAN: PROTECTOR OF BEARDS, BUG, FAMILY PORTRAIT which have shown in Chicago, New York and in festivals such as the VT Bear Film Festival. Since earning a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is excited to be working on his first feature-length project, Before Homosexuals: The Prequel to Before Stonewall.
Don DiNicola (Music Composer)
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Matt Bucy (Digital Colorist/Additional Cinematography)
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JoAnn Wypijewski (Senior Researcher/Narration Writer)
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SoftBank-owned chip designer ARM to buy data management startup
Company to spend $600m to acquire Silicon Valley-based Treasure Data
Nikkei staff writers July 30, 2018 18:07 JST
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son plans to step up competition against U.S. IT giants, including Google and Facebook, through increased investment in data-related companies such as Treasure Data. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Arm Holdings, a British chip-design subsidiary of SoftBank Group, has decided to buy Treasure Data, a data-management technology developer based in California, for about $600 million.
The planned purchase is aimed at speeding up new business development by better utilizing the group's data assets.
SoftBank aims to step up competition against U.S. IT giants, including Google and Facebook, through increased investment in data-related companies.
Arm plans to announce the purchase plan as early as mid-August.
Treasure Data was founded by Japanese engineers who originally worked for a company that gave birth to Preferred Networks, a prominent Japanese artificial intelligence startup.
The seven-year-old Silicon Valley startup gets funding from Yahoo co-founder and investor Jerry Yang and Bill Tai, a noted venture capitalist.
Treasure Data provides a service that supports the efficient management of large amounts of continuously generated data. This includes a wide range of data sources, from consumer web-browsing histories, used for corporate ads and sales promotion, to readings from sensors attached to wind turbines.
The firm has over 300 clients, mainly in Japan and the U.S.
Arm aims to use Treasure Data's technology to process large amounts of data generated by devices with Arm chips installed, in developing new technologies. Specifically, the U.K. company aims to expand the usage of chips to expand the overall market.
Yahoo Japan to vote against online shopping partner Askul's CEO
Blackstone grabs $1bn in Japan warehouses, including Amazon site
Nippon Steel to sell off $1.9bn in assets to buy India's Essar
Japan Display to spin off smartphone panels for more funds
'We are unicorn hunters,' says Masayoshi Son
SoftBank's $100 billion tech fund zeros in on big data
Arm's China venture to build 'something specific' for Huawei and Xiaomi


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Corporate Strategy 2018 – 2024
More than 25 years building the future in the present
FVI - A Historical Perspective
By Horacio Velutini
CEO, Fondo de Valores Inmobiliarios
know our history
The FVI was founded by Luis Emilio Velutini in 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. The following year he was enrolled in the Caracas Stock Exchange (BVC).
Between 1996 and 1997, the FVI is associated with IRSA - Argentine real estate group - and with the well-known investor George Soros, the shares are registered in the ADR Level I program, NYSE.
ADR PROGRAMM
That same year, the company made a successful IPO for US $ 100MM and began an ambitious process of acquiring AAA offices in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas, to rent to large corporations. It is positioned as the third most liquid share in the BVC and its first public issuance of Commercial Paper with a risk rating of A3 is made.
For the year 2000, Equity International Properties (EIP), led by North American investor Samuel Zell, founder of Equity Office Properties (EOP) and Equity Residential Properties (ERP), two of the largest real estate companies in the world, joins as a partner strategic to the FVI.
High End Shopping centers
In 2003, the FVI entered the business of "High End" Shopping Centers on the basis of the success obtained in the operation of the San Ignacio Center (more than 40,000 m² commercialized), developing the Tolón Fashion Mall in the urbanization Las Mercedes (22,300 m²), and Paseo El Hatillo La Lagunita (22,000 m²), both in Caracas, Venezuela.
For the year 2009, through a strategic alliance with Constructora Sambil, the Galipán Project was developed, a 48,000 m² office complex located on Av. Fco. De Miranda in Caracas, Venezuela. The complex was sold to Banco del Caribe, Banesco Insurance and Other Investors. This same year, the FVI builds the El Hatillo Paseo Office Tower, a 6,000 m² building, also in the Venezuelan capital.
Blue Mall Santo Domingo
For the year 2010, with the inauguration of Blue Mall Santo Domingo, a multipurpose complex that includes commerce, offices and a Hotel operated by JW Marriot, the process of internationalization of the company begins.
20 years of the FVI
In 2012, the FVI began an ambitious growth plan in the main cities of the interior of Venezuela. This is how it acquires the Ciudad Comercial Llano Mall, in the city of Acarigua, Portuguesa State, Venezuela. In this way, it adds 34,000 tradable m² to its portfolio. Beyond the Venezuelan borders, the FVI plans to acquire and develop new shopping centers.
Hotel JW Marriot Santo Domingo y Torre de Oficinas Blue Mall
FVI CONSOLIDATES ITS BUSINESS MODEL IN THE CARIBBEAN | Fondo de Valores Inmobiliarios and JW Marriott Internacional join efforts in favor of the economic development of the region with the inauguration of the first hotel of the brand in the Caribbean.
Horacio Velutini, Executive President of FVI SACA, presents his Strategic Directional Plan 2018-2024, which includes three specific growth areas. The first one is INVACA Inmuebles, Valores y Capitals SACA for the sector of shopping centers and related. This company will start to float its shares as of Friday, April 27. The second, FVI Offices, where the office and parking business is concentrated and the third, FVI Finance C.A. which works in relation to own corporate finances - both ours and third parties-, including fixed and variable revenue


My friend Kelly recently moved from a South Grand neighborhood. When she talks about her old neighborhood, her shoulders slump and you can almost see tears forming in her eyes because she misses it so much. Well, I have good news for Kelly and all the other South Grand lovers out there – The first annual South Grand Fall Fest will take place on Saturday, September 20.
The Fest starts at 10:00 a.m. as local musicians & farmers, vintage & handmade vendors, home brewers and DIY Craft Zones by the Contemporary Art Museum & Craft Alliance come together to celebrate what makes South Grand and its surrounding community unique.
Yoga, dances & performances by local schools, food demonstrations, a performance by Stray Dog Theatre, six local bands, street performers, specials, discounts, demonstrations and entertainment at the businesses along South Grand will go until 10:00 p.m.
Make sure to stop by to enjoy the neighborhood and see if you can spot my favorite finds from these handmade and vintage vendors…click on each photo to see more from individual vendors.


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Image June 23, 2013 CainTheConqueror Funny Pictures	Funny, LOL, Music, nerd, Picture, spock, star trek, steve miller band, The Joker, vulcan
Kanye West: Calling out the New Jim Crow with "New Slaves"
May 24, 2013 June 3, 2013 CainTheConqueror Social Commentary	Black Skinhead, cce, clark experiment, dea, doll test, Gangsta rap, Hip-Hop, instrumentals, Kanye, Kanye West, Music, New Slaves, News, prisons, privately owned prisons, Rap, revolution, slaves, SNL, statistics, The Last Poets, Weezy, yeezus
Kanye West is one of the most prolific rappers in modern history modern being 2010 and on. Before that I can only assume people were banging out beats on the back of dinosaurs, mastodons, or other animals and grunting.
Historic Photograph
In all seriousness though the last mainstream rapper to really address philosophical and political issues died in 1996. Since then we've had Mos Def, Common, Lupe Fiasco, and Andre 3000. The only one with real "crossover", "mainstream" appeal is Andre 3000 and that was only with one of his Outkast albums. Ask anybody who wasn't black who they were before the love below and you'd get "aren't they the Scooby Doo guys?" Everybody else who has become millionaires off of merchandising and opportunistic business capitalization have completely sold out any chance they have at making a real statement. Jay-Z actually used to talk about things that mattered, now its all materialistic. Actually today a rapper can garner a huge following talking about the stuff they DON'T have as if they had it. At some point the record labels realized people would pay them to have their rappers put their crap in their lyrics. I was working at a liquor store and I swear Moscato stayed on the shelf until they started saying it in rap songs that they played in the club. Not just black college kids but all races all of a sudden had a taste for this sweet wine meant for desserts. Of course they never drank it in the manner it was supposed to be but alas such is life.
uhhhh glasses are for wimps *hurl
I have long had an issue with the direction rap took. It started off as an amazing way to express an opinion. A way for people to get the word out about what was really going on. Public Enemy, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, and I must included The last poets in there as well though they were more than rappers.These rappers realized the type of platform this gave them and utilized it in a way that made people think. I'm not saying club music doesn't have its place but why is EVERYTHING that comes out meant to objectify women or get you to buy something?
I've been upset with it for awhile now but what could I do? I can't rap, all I can do is write a few thousand words on a blog and join the rest of the league of upset guys on the internet who complain. That's why when Kanye west debuted his two new songs New slave and Black Skinhead my ears perked up. He debuted New slaves on random walls throughout the world. The next day he performed New slaves and debuted Black Skinhead on SNL. These are two hard hitting songs from his new album.
Immediately I could pick up major influences in the style he chose to get his message across. The musical influences being one that has influenced him in the past, Common. Also The last poets were clearly a major influence.
His blasting of even himself when it comes to materialism and exposure of the crooked system that puts a disproportionate amount of blacks and minorities behind bars is just what people need. He took a stand on SNL where they COULD NOT ignore him. Honestly its people who probably didn't get it, there are people who think what he did is wrong, that he's trying to quit, give up.
He's not.
Kanye West is just get started, if you'd been paying attention you'd have been waiting for this moment. When he'd stop making stuff just to seal up his position, one thing about him if you do your research, Kanye has always been Kanye. Even before he was famous he jumped on tables screaming he was the next Michael Jackson. He's a little crazy yes but in order to do what you love doing and be great at it, you've gotta be crazy.
"I know that we the new slaves…
Meanwhile the DEA, teamed up with the CCA
They tryina lock n—s up, they tryna make new slaves
See that's the privately owned prison, get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons, braggin 'bout what they made"
With new slaves he aired out the DEA and the CCA which operate over the privately owned prisons. At the same time he spoke on how the actual conspiracy theories that people like to follow and quote about NWO and Illuminati are bull and nothing more than distractions from the real problems. The laws that effectively act as new Jim Crow laws, putting more African-Americans behind bars now than were in slavery in 1850. The private prison owners and boards are raking in profits at rates never before seen while the leaders in the minority communities fight to keep their children from going behind bars. The truth is though, everything right now is set perfectly for this to happen. They (prison owners) don't want immigrants and minorities out of jail. In recent SEC filings, CCA admitted that drug law reform and reductions in mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes are "risk factors" for them that could hurt their bottom line. Corporations never play about their "bottom line." Unfortunately for all of America, their bottom line means the destruction of our youth, many missed opportunities. Just one glimpse inside a prison and you will see several extremely intelligent people who perhaps because of this intelligence found themselves looking for ways of expression that may have led them to hang around the wrong people. Maybe they didn't even do anything, (people are being released after going back through cases and being proven innocent at a growing rate)who knows, the point is when you are living in a system designed to make you fail its going to be hard. Especially when that same system also makes darn sure that you think its completely your fault that you failed. Any mention of unfairness and its "no you have the same chance as everyone else, quit whining and get your act together." Really? Because when you're saturated with media telling you to hate yourself because you're dumb and evil, self worth and will power kind of wanes. Here's an experiment that's been done probably a few times every decade with African-Americans, with the same results.
"Y'all throwing contracts at me
You know that n**** can't read"
The irony and sarcasm in this one line alone from "New Slaves" makes it one of my favorite. In it he is showing how quickly he would turn down a chance to sell out in order to put forth better music and a better image. Anything that can be put into the media to counteract this mess you saw in that last video is a positive thank you Kanye for at least putting forth a strong black image in your music.
Black Skinhead is more geared towards the perception of blacks when they are proud of their race and doing well as well as when they are acting wild. It is also very good and insightful. He's not afraid to put his own life on the chopping block and this allows for him to put everyone's mess on display.
I've always listened to his music but I've never been excited to see a new album drop like I am for this one. He's got the world listening right now, he's dropped two amazing singles already, what is he going to do now? More importantly what are we as minorities going to do now?
Thanks for reading, Viva la revolution' Entertainment Industry!
Brian Bell-Wiseguy Industries
Most Underrated Xbox Title of All Time!
May 24, 2013 June 3, 2013 CainTheConqueror Gaming	Advent Rising, Advent rising controls, adventure, Animation, Comics, Cool, editorial, entertain, Entertainment, Force, Game Controls, Gamers, gaming, Gideon, Microsoft, Music, Old School, Original, Original Xbox, Review, Shooter, soundtrack, Third Person Shooter, Underrated, vehicles, Video Game, Video Games, Wiseguy Industries, Xbox, xbox live
Advent Rising!
System: Original Xbox
Price: Well when I bought it used it was $2
I remember when I first picked this game up for 2 dollars at a pawn shop in college. My friends and I came back from band practice (all music majors at the time) put it in the Xbox and sat back to see what a crappy game I'd purchased.
Immediately we were blown away by the composition of the music. I mean epic is basically the bare minimum for the term you'd have to use to describe it. It caught us so off guard we actually laughed.
This wasn't what we expected.
Almost immediately we were thrown into a new world where the stars were no longer the limits and humans were being sent out as ambassadors to meet an entire species that thought of them as holy creatures. Soon after they meet them, the aliens that want to destroy them attack their ship. The main character Gideon uses previously unknown psychic powers to help stop the attack and then he is sucked through a wormhole. That's where the game really starts.
I'm big on character driven stories. I think everyone subconsciously is, I mean you can't really care about what's going on in a story if you don't care about the characters. In advent rising they really push the dynamics between the characters. Gideon is the younger brother of a hot shot war hero. His brother basically gets him a job just off of his charisma and Gideon is left wondering if he is completely worthless. There are many other characters that add to the drama and feel of this game. Overall this storyline just gets 5 stars from me, this is what I love to see from my video games. Take it seriously, develop those characters and subplots!
Gideon Wyeth (voiced by Will Friedle) — The main character of the game. He is a member of one of the last human outposts.
Ethan Wyeth — Gideon's hotshot older brother. Because of his celebrity following the Independence Wars, he is assigned the role of pilot for the mission of first contact with the Aurelians. He used his connections to instate Gideon as his co-pilot.
Olivia Morgan (voiced by Vanessa Marshall) — Gideon's fiancé, a scientist assigned to Luriam space station.
Marin Steel — A decorated pilot from the Independence Wars, she encounters Gideon as he attempts to escape Bahr Han on her ship. She is captured by the Seekers and unsuccessfully imprisoned on the island of Teran, having developed her own psychic powers.
Kelehm Farwaters (voiced by Dwight Schultz) — A ninth-tier Garhgon (an Aurelian religious caste), he has trained himself in the telekinetic arts. Kelehm belongs to "the old faith" which states that the discovery of humans is part of a prophecy and the Aurelians will gain greater psychic power through them.
Enorym Tenspur (voiced by Michael Bell) — Ally to Gideon and the most highly trained of the Aurelian elite fighters, Enorym serves as a commander of the elite Felidic warriors. Enorym leads an assault on a Seeker ship shortly after Gideon learns how to use his psychic powers.
Bud – A troublemaking Marine that starts a bar fight with Gideon and later challenges him and Ethan to a training match. After losing, Bud fires a blaster at Ethan. The player then has the choice of either using a stungun to disable Bud or picking up a blaster and killing him, which determines whether his squadmates help you or abandon you in a later gameplay segment.
K'Chell — A Seeker ambassador who interrupts the planetary ruling council and demands that the Aurelians hand over Gideon and Marin. When Kelehm refuses, K'Chell kills him, then escapes to the ansible to inform the Seeker armada.
Sevan — A council member on Aurelia, he leads a rebellion to give the humans to the Seekers and avoid retaliation. After staging a coup, he co-opts the council, gives Marin to the Seekers, and puts Enorym on trial for treason.
Banath — Originally serving as Enorym's best warrior, he is revealed to be a double agent for Sevan. Having planted a Seeker ambush inside the ansible, Banath becomes visibly angry after Enorym orders him to escort Marin back to the Aurelian capital. He returns with a dropship manned by other rebels after giving Marin to the Seekers and announces his betrayal by killing one of Enorym's warriors. Gideon kills Banath shortly after Enorym is put on trial.
As Gideon you'll be able to utilize his kinetic abilities. One of my favorite parts of this game is the fact that he is just learning them. Now clearly this something many games use in order to make your character weaker in the beginning so the game will be harder. However in Advent rising they really mean he is LEARNING and he doesn't stop ever. You get new and exciting moves and upgrades all the way through until the last stage. The greatest part of this game is they always throw something new at you and honestly its not even when one thing gets old, they just do it. Oh you've got a gun? Here take this Kinetic energy, oh you've got kinetic energy? How about SHOOTING FIREBALLS out of your hands? Oh I see you've got a Jeep- HOVER CRAFT!
Pictured: The head developer
One of the more interesting parts of this game is the control system. They have made use of a "flick targeting" control system that utilizes the second joystick. It's very cool once you get used to it. Basically you flick the stick in the direction of the offending enemy and all of your attacks then go directly to that foe. This really comes in handy as its a large cartoony looking world. A third person shooter like that would have been a hair pulling experience trying to aim.
The enemies are intelligent and vary in size and abilities. They all have several specialized attacks of their own. While one tries to over power you with its extra limbs, another might try to snipe you from a distance, while yet another will try and Rambo you with automatic weapons. All in all the controls and enemies you fight make for very exciting and fun game-play.
Here are the actual controls for the game.
GIDEON CONTROLS
Left Thumbstick Walk. Run. Click In to Toggle Crouch/Stand
Right Thumbstick Flick Targeting
A Button Jump. Pull Up From Hanging Position.
B Button Melee Attack
X Button Arm Left-Handed Weapon (Hold). Dodge From Hanging Position. Activate.
Y Button Arm Right-Handed Weapon (Hold). Reload Weapon.
White Button Throw Grenade. Toggle Grenade (Hold).
Black Button Select Alt Fire Mode (With Right or Left Trigger)
Left Trigger Fire Left-Handed Weapon
Right Trigger Fire Right-Handed Weapon
Combo #1 X + A = Charge Jump
Combo #2 Any Direction + X = Acrobatic Moves
Also there are vehicles! These are pretty cool
SCYTHE VEHICLE CONTROLS
Directional Pad Enter or Exit Driver Side (From the Left). Enter or Exit Turret Side (From the Right).
Left Thumbstick Up = Forward. Down = Reverse.
Right Thumbstick Turn Left/Right. Aim Turret Chain Gun.
A Button Jump
Right Trigger Turbo. Fire Turret Chain Gun.
SHIPS/SHUTTLES CONTROLS
Left Thumbstick Forward = Thrusters. Down = Slow.
Right Thumbstick Steering
Right Trigger Thrusters
ANTI-AIRCRAFT TURRET CONTROLS
Right Thumbstick Aim
X Button Activate/Release
Right Trigger Fire
Now the graphics are the only reason why any one would ever doubt this game. The director made the choice to have elongated limbs which made them look more like comic book characters. This is an artist's choice, however it gave them a weird gangly look (the game was originally supposed to be a comic book which may explain why he wanted this so badly). The frame rate does lag in certain areas doing certain things, however it is never enough to detract from the game as a whole. Plus I mean look at it! It still looks AMAZING for an original Xbox game. It plays well and by well I mean its extremely exciting.
Ok I have to come back to this music because…well it's part of me! I love music and truthfully a game with poorly composed music will make me put it down just as quickly as bad graphics.
But here are two examples of the total and complete epicness of the music for this game.
Here's another one which is used a few times during boss battles but they have more themes as well.
The music was composed by Emmanuel Fratianni and Michael Richard Plowman and performed by Laurie Robinson and Tommy Tallarico. Here's the list of songs for the entire soundtrack.
Advent Rising Original Soundtrack (57:21)
No. Title Length
1. "Muse" 3:08
2. "Poeta" 3:36
3. "Bounty Hunter" 3:05
4. "Aurelia" 3:03
5. "Greater Lights (feat. Charlotte Martin)" 3:52
6. "Glorious Human" 1:46
7. "Stolen Transport" 2:15
8. "Canyon Encounter" 2:04
9. "The Rise Of Aurelia" 2:01
10. "Edumeas Last Stand" 2:04
11. "Aurelian Conflict" 2:04
12. "The Aurelian Movement" 2:21
13. "Luriam Down" 1:04
14. "The Human Movement" 2:09
15. "Human Demise" 1:35
16. "Seeker Assault" 2:05
17. "Midst Of The N'Kul" 0:34
18. "Seeker Horde" 1:04
19. "Fiery Arrival On Aurelia" 0:55
20. "Power Within" 2:11
21. "Fortified Strength" 1:01
22. "Mastery Of Self" 2:20
23. "Return To Humanity" 2:16
24. "The Seeker Movement" 2:09
25. "Seeker Unrest" 2:05
26. "Conquest" 0:36
27. "Greater Lights (Jay-J's Shifted UP Mix)" 3:58
WHY ISN'T THIS GAME HAILED AS AWESOME?
Well apparently there was a terrible marketing strategy of people being able to win one million dollars if they were able to decipher secret messages in the games various levels. Due to issues with security they had to shut down the contest which cost them quite a lot of money and advertisement. Also the first reviews for this game were way off, giving them five out of ten. Later they went back and fixed that with reviews like 8 out of ten or 7.8 out of 10 (IGN). Without advertising its hard to really get as big as you should be able to. However there is a core community online that knows about this game and they LOVE it. Its getting bigger and bigger by word of mouth, unfortunately it may be a little late for the company that produced it. However there are sites and Facebook pages online dedicated to this game and to creating a sequel.
Will there be one? Who knows, it's one of those things, teased forever but it's anybody's guess. Some things weren't meant for sequels (Hangover I'm looking at you). However this game clearly was written to be given at least two more entries. Especially taking into account the terrific ending that happens AFTER the credits. Oh and that's not just a cutscene there is GAMEPLAY after the credits. Yeah I had walked away (like a BOSS) after thinking I had beaten one of the best games ever made.
My face when I saw what was going on.
Suffice to say that last part was the icing on the cake. I mean that really let me know how much one, they respected this genre, and two knew about cinematic qualities being infused with video games. It was an amazing teaser for the next game which unfortunately never came out. Yet there are still those who are pushing for it.
On the plus side they have produced a line of comic books that I haven't read but apparently they follow up so if you want to check those out here.
If you couldn't already tell this is getting five out of five stars. The story is excellent, the music is amazing, the gameplay is exciting, fun and always advancing. It does a great job in making you feel what Gideon is feeling and all of these things merge together at the end to make one amazing experience. The replay value is VERY high on this as they've included a way to upgrade different abilities. Also if its ever NOT fun to dive through the air and force blast an enemy into a lake of lava please stop the planet because I'll be getting off.
So the bottom line is, if you haven't gone out and purchased this game, do it. Seriously it's like 2 bucks and an original Xbox is like 30 bucks now(because its not backwards compatible sucks I know.)
Thanks for reading everyone! I'll keep you up to date with new Xbox One news as well as PS4 news when they start delivering it. As always I'll be bringing you old school reviews!
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Across the world, successful rewilding projects are flourishing. Forests are being restored, once lost animals are moving back into their native habitats, and nature is being left to care for itself. One environmental charity, Rewilding Britain, is setting out to restore British ecosystems on a grand scale.
The organisation sees itself as a catalyst, bringing together the expertise that will help set up projects.
Why do we need rewilding?
With the study showing that 56% of species are in decline, it suggests that conservation projects could help turn things around.
The practice of rewilding gives power back to nature, setting the wheels in motion for the wilderness to grow without human intervention. Natural areas are restored, native animals and plants are reintroduced and protected.
Rewilding Britain says that the benefits for nature are huge, with biodiversity, water security, and flood mitigation all results of rewilding. The social benefits are also proven, with evidence strongly supporting the theory that health and wellbeing can be improved through connection with nature.
One poster child of the rewilding world is the beaver. The natural engineers will receive legal protection, now that they have successfully been reintroduced to Scotland. Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Forestry Commission Scotland managed the five-year trial.
Research shows that beavers significantly alter ecosystems. In addition to building the dams that help prevent flooding and improve water quality, they create wetlands and restore woodland. In turn, this encourages species such as dragonflies and fish to thrive.
Other parts of the UK are looking to follow Scotland's lead, where beavers are now recognised as a native species. Devon Wildlife Trust is crowdfunding for a trial to support a breeding population of beavers, which has been found on the River Otter. The trial would allow time for the impact of the animals to be monitored, in order to make an informed decision about whether they should be allowed to keep calling Devon their home, or whether they will instead be evicted.
On the other side of England, a once unprofitable arable and dairy farm is reaping the rewards of rewilding, both ecologically and financially. The Knepp Estate in Sussex, supported by the Natural England Higher Level Stewardship Scheme, now focuses primarily on regeneration and restoration projects.
Cattle, ponies, pigs are deer roam free across the land, their grazing encouraging new habitats to evolve. Rather than forcing nature's hand, the estate encompasses the very heart of rewilding, by allowing nature to take its own course with no specific intended outcome.
After a decade of an approach focused on wildlife conservation and land regeneration, a wild landscape flourishes, brimming with mammals, reptiles, birds, and butterflies. The estate is also home to two percent of the UK's population of nightingales.
By offering a campsite, wildlife tours, and by producing high quality meat, the 3,500 acre estate has become economically viable.
Rewilding is not just limited to vast areas of countryside. The River Wandle in South London, once contaminated with dyes and bleach, is one such urban project.
The Wandle Trust is working to restore the river to a chalk stream, which in turn will play host to wildlife. Through litter picking; recreating features that allow eels to migrate upstream; and re-stocking the river with trout, a return to nature could be on the horizon.
Aside from bringing the wild back into this urban landscape, there has been an added benefit from the project. Children have been encouraged to get close to nature, through their involvement in the project and by playing in the river.
Rewilding Britain is now considering projects in between three and five areas in England, Wales and Scotland. For the first time, this could be achieved at scale.
Success hangs in a fine balance, as a relationship where both humans and nature can thrive is a difficult one to manage. According to the group, the availability of land, willingness of landowners to engage, and policy can all prove difficult obstacles to overcome. Concerns about rewilding projects are felt by some landowners, from the impact of beavers felling trees, to wolves and lynx preying on livestock.
Join co-founders of Rewilding Britain, Derek Gow and Rebecca Wrigley, when they talk to Chris Packham at the Lush Summit 2017.


The Niagara Gazette and Lockport Union-Sun & Journal has hired Rob Kaiser as executive editor, effective August 29. Kaiser had served as an assistant professor and the director of the journalism program for Canisus College from 2010 until 2014, and has previously worked at The Post-Crescent in Appleton, WI as a senior editor and as the Sundays assistant managing editor at the San Antonio Express-News. Follow the Niagara Gazette on Twitter.


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Verhofstadt slams Johnson's 'bluster and political blame games' on the backstop
Published: 11:06 PM August 19, 2019 Updated: 6:09 PM September 17, 2020
Guy Verhofstadt has called Boris Johnson out on his 'bluster' on the backstop: Brian Lawless/PA Images / Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Credit: Brian Lawless/PA Images / Foreig
The European Parliament's Brexit coordinator has tweeted a withering response to Boris Johnson's latest attempts to get the EU to drop the Irish backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement.
The prime minister has written to Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, demanding that they agree an alternative.
But Guy Verhofstadt said he does not see any majority in EU parliament for this and that time is running out for "bluster and political blame games".
He tweeted: "I don't see any majority in the [European Parliament] to remove the backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement. It is a vital insurance policy, negotiated in good faith & supported by the people of the Island of Ireland. The time for bluster & political blame games is fast running out."
Johnson has been depending on the threat of a "do or die" no-deal Brexit to leverage the EU into conceding changes to the agreement.
I don't see any majority in the @Europarl_EN to remove the backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement. It is a vital insurance policy, negotiated in good faith & supported by the people of the Island of Ireland. The time for bluster & political blame games is fast running out.
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) August 20, 2019
He was criticised for accusing pro-EU MPs of emboldening the EU in an anti-Brexit "collaboration", effectively blaming Remain MPs for the possibility a no-deal Brexit.
WATCH: Johnson accuses Remain MPs of 'collaboration' with the EU to stop BrexitTusk has already responded to Johnson's demands, saying the prime minister had not provided a "legal operational solution" to prevent the return of a hard border, adding: "Those against the backstop and not proposing realistic alternatives in fact support reestablishing a border. Even if they do not admit it."
MORE: Donald Tusk surprises no-one by rejecting Boris Johnson's latest demands


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Centurions pair sign full-time deals at club
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Leigh Centurions centre Iain Thornley and forward Tom Spencer have signed full-time contracts with the Club.
Thornley was one of Leigh's stand-out performers in 2019 and featured heavily in the Club's end of season awards. During his career, Thornley has played for Hull KR and Catalans Dragons but it is with Wigan Warriors where he enjoyed most success, winning a Grand Final Winner's Ring and a Challenge Cup Final medal in 2013.
Spencer, 29, is in his second stint with Leigh having started his career with Wigan. He rejoined Leigh for 2019 from London Broncos and has now played more than 100 times for the Centurions. He made his Leigh debut while on dual registration from Wigan in 2012 before joining the Centurions permanently in 2014.
Head Coach John Duffy said: "Iain and Tom are two players who have been fantastic for me and I am really pleased they are going full-time.
"It speaks volumes about them that they are willing to take this opportunity and give their all for the Leigh Centurions in 2021.
"I am very pleased they have both been able to secure full-time deals because they are two players who have been on the same journey as me since I came to the Club."


From combing by job boards to impressing the hiring manager in an interview, here is the way to navigate the job software process. Whether you need help with a computer downside, fraudulent exercise on your bank card or a gift that wasn't the precise measurement, customer support representatives can deal with you. Customer service reps have to be willing and capable of help clients and exercise patience – even when dealing with individuals who may be offended or annoyed. Much of the job is customer support however you're also required to take care of transactions and input logs and checks into their accounts.


We continue to improve the Dashboards by creating new types of data sources & graphs. To learn more about dashboards, join our dedicated webinar.
Perfect to give context and information about the data displayed in the dashboard, this tile enables you to publish text. A wysiwyg editor helps you to format the text with standard text editing features.
Upload any image from your storage or your computer to display as a tile and illustrate your dashboard.
Display a single value or two values compared. Values can be aggregated using views of surces and aggregation options. The comparaison will be displayed in ultimate value and in percentage. You can choose the color of the percentage by defining how Opisense should interpretate the comparaison.
With correlation charts you will be able to compare two timeseries, or a timeseries with a value forms from sources or sites.
In the data source of the axis Y, you can choose the type of trend to display: linear, exponential, polynomial, power, logarythmic, loess. The regression equation will be displayed in the legend of the graphic.
Display a marker on a map for each sites. Fell free to use a views of sources to upload a lot of sites in the maps.
The gradient options is available to show the differences of value for each sites.
Just click on the marker of the site and you'll see the value, and will be able to be redirected to the Site details page.


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WhatsApp Calling: 100 million conversations every day
For more than a year, people have used WhatsApp Calling to talk with friends and family around the world. It's a great way to stay in touch, especially when connecting with people in other countries, or when messages alone won't do. Today, more than 100 million voice calls are made every day on WhatsApp - that's over 1,100 calls a second! We're humbled that so many people have found this feature useful, and we're committed to making it even better in the months to come.
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The text block contains 26 original printed illustrations of the Sign Language alphabet by Nicky Oliver. Hand printed using an 8 x 5 Adana Printing machine in Studio 2, Barnes. Zerkal White 145gsm (John Purcell Papers). Handset in 18 point Times italic and 12 point Times. Limited edition of 3.
The pink one - Unsupported link stitch with fraynot board attachments. Secondary sewing. Double core silk end bands. Hand dyed edges. Hand dyed with Hewit's aniline dyes on their Fair Goatskin with offset relief printing and multiple onlays. Foil hand finishing. Leather joints. Hand printed end papers and edge to edge doublures. Finished with a shellac based bookbinding varnish. Book comes with a pink Silvertex covered drop back solander box lined with suedel.
The big hand one - Hand sewn text block with a leather case binding. Hand dyed with Hewit's aniline dyes on their Fair Goatskin; offset relief printing, black line work and foil hand finishing. Hand dyed edges. Single core silk end bands. Hand printed end papers. Finished with a shellac based bookbinding varnish. The book comes with a leather entry slip case.


Supporters of Heritage Trail Partners come from a wide range of backgrounds and interests: chambers of commerce, city governments, businesses, museums, historical societies, community organizations, and individuals. Dues are for one year, payable in advance. Members receive special invitations to Heritage Trail events and are eligible to vote at the annual meeting.


There are so many predictions by various different experts from various different fields about how mortgage rates will react in 2015. In my opinion, they all sound about the same. Whether the trend is predicted to go up or down, most experts are saying that there won't be extreme changes in mortgage rates this year. We've been experiencing the slowest recovery from economic downturn in the real estate arena since the depression, unless there are volatile changes in the economy or unemployment rates, mortgage rates will remain relatively stable.
As I previously blogged, mortgage insurance premiums doled out by the FHA have gone down, which naturally means that mortgage rates will decrease along with it. This contributing factor along with continued economic weakness are another reason rates are predicted to stay down. Employment rates are slowly rising, however, most of these employed Americans are still considered to be under-employed. Consumers are still being extremely conservative during these times of financial recovery. Other experts say that lenders aren't ready for a surge in home-buying and therefore an increase in mortgage rates can't be justified. While still trying to implement and understand "Dodd-Frank" laws, closing a house in 30 days still proves difficult.
Others are expecting an increase in rates. The economy, albeit slowly, is improving and rising mortgage rates are a natural reaction to improved conditions. The low rates that we're experiencing now are not typical and are meant to stimulate interest in buying homes to improve the market. However, rates can only increase so much before movement in the market comes to a halt and that usually tops off at about a 2% increase historically. Some think that it won't get that high because of rate at which our economy is recovering, and will come to a stand-still at about a 1.5% increase.
So, my friends, markets look stable and makes 2015 an excellent time to take advantage of these temporary low rates. As the economy does continue to improve you can sit back and continue to enjoy your savings. My one piece of advice is this; while it might be appealing to you to move during the warmer months this year, its appealing to everyone else, too. That means that during the Spring and Summer rates always inevitably increase, so take advantage of the lowest rates you can now!
For more information on mortgage rate predictions, click here.


Ten bibliometric indicators were used to assess European publishing intensity in journals listed in Scopus under the subject category "Library and Information Science" between 2003 and 2012. The findings were analyzed for the 20 countries and 25 research institutions with the greatest output in that period. The indicators calculated included normalized impact, number and proportion of highly cited papers and the distribution of papers by the quartiles defined in the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). SJR is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. The analysis covered 11,931 Western and 939 Eastern European papers published in 149 journals. The highest output growth rates were found for Spain, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Austria. The highest impact ratings were attained by European institutions whose members are prolific authors of papers on informetrics. On the whole, the articles were written primarily in English, Spanish, German or French, while the publications most widely cited appeared in English language journals. This study presents bibliometric data that shed light on the status of Library and Information Science research in Europe today, in the framework of the European Higher Education Area. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.


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PIRG calls for improvements in food recall system after CDC reports yet another E. coli outbreak
Here we go again: In April, another illness outbreak was tied to contaminated food, this time sickening over 170 people in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.
On April 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traced the E. coli outbreak back to ground beef. Two recalls were issued nearly two weeks later, but investigators still haven't identified all contaminated sources.
"This outbreak is an all-too-often reminder that more needs to be done to protect our food," said Adam Garber, consumer watchdog with U.S. PIRG Education Fund. "This E. coli is life-threatening and we should be deeply troubled that we cannot fully pinpoint the source of this infected meat after more than a month of sicknesses."
With food recalls on the rise, WashPIRG is calling for improvements to make it easier for the CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to trace contaminated food to the source and better protect public health.
Read the press release.
Photo: WJHL News Channel reports on the lastest outbreak of E. coli, this time in ground beef. Photo Credit: WJHL News Channel


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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently decided a false marking case brought against the Solo Cup Company ("Solo"). False marking, as defined by statute, occurs when one labels an "unpatented article" as being under patent "for the purpose of deceiving the public." In such cases, any person may sue for the maximum of $500 for "every such offense," of which the U.S. government would receive half. Matthew A. Pequignot ("Pequignot"), a licensed patent attorney, brought such a claim against Solo for marking their plastic cup lids with patents that had expired.
Solo owned two patents for their drink cup lids, which they added to their mold cavities after the patents were issued. This resulted in each lid being molded with an imprint of the patent numbers that covered that particular item. However, when those patents expired, the same molds were used, thereby imprinting the lids with an expired patent number. Solo became aware of this situation and inquired to outside counsel on the appropriate course of action to take. Solo was advised that the best course of action was to remove the imprinting from the molds, but if that was not possible, Solo should "not further any unintentional falsity in the product literature or the like." Based on this advice, Solo instituted a policy of removing the expired patent numbers from their molds as they were replaced due to wear or damage. Solo reasoned that replacing all of the molds immediately "would be costly and burdensome." Even with this procedure, Solo was later advised by outside counsel to include the following warning on its packaging: "This product may be covered by one or more U.S. or foreign pending or issued patents. For details, contact www.solocup.com." This warning was placed on packages of both patented and unpatented lids. In September of 2007, Pequignot brought suit against Solo for false marking for both lid patents as well as the "may be covered" language of the warning. Upon Solo's motion to dismiss, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted summary judgment in favor of Solo, holding that there was a lack of intent to deceive on the part of Solo. Pequignot appealed that decision.
The Federal Circuit was presented on appeal with three issues based on the statute for false marking. First, does an article with an expired patent satisfy the "unpatented article" language of the statute? Second, were Solo's actions "for the purpose of deceiving the public?" Third, what constitutes an "offense?" Resolving them in order, the Federal Circuit first held that an article bearing an expired patent was indeed an "unpatented article" satisfying the statute. Then the Federal Circuit held that a purpose to deceive, and not knowledge of a false statement, was required. However, knowledge of a false statement created a rebuttable presumption of a purpose to deceive. The Federal Circuit found that, while Solo did have knowledge of its false statements, it had rebutted the presumption by showing evidence that its purpose was not to deceive, but rather was economically oriented and based on good faith reliance on counsel. Finally, having found no purpose to deceive, the last question regarding what qualified as an "offense" was found to be moot. The Federal Circuit affirmed in all regards, except the determination on the word "offense," which it vacated.


Public health action and medical decisions depend on laboratory results. Fast and accurate laboratory tests and reporting enable communities to track disease trends and identify outbreaks, as well as help diagnose and treat health conditions.
Electronic laboratory reporting provides vital information on reportable conditions— like sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis, foodborne diseases, and lead poisoning— to local and state public health departments. For decades, reporting was a slow, paperbased process from different laboratories of all sizes. Now, it's an electronic data transmission with a standard process and reporting format that allows faster sharing of critical information.
State laws and regulations require healthcare providers and laboratories to report events of public health importance for specified diseases to more than 50 state and local health departments that often have different lists of reportable diseases and laboratory reporting requirements.
Laboratories generate approximately 20 million reports to send to health departments annually. In the past, these were paper reports that were mailed, faxed, or not sent at all—and took days to arrive and many hours to process.
Today, through automation, standardization, and partnership, most reports from 11,000 hospital and private and public health laboratories are sent electronically and meet health department requirements.
Electronic transmission improves timeliness, reduces manual data entry errors, and delivers more complete and consistent reports across various data sources to state health departments. It also supports national public health surveillance by improving the timeliness and accuracy of notifiable disease data that states voluntarily share with CDC.
A standardized electronic reporting format is being widely adopted by national, regional, reference, and public health laboratories, and by hospital systems. CDC offers technical assistance for implementation.
Electronic laboratory reporting prompts faster public health action in outbreaks. Data can be used to identify sources of contamination, notify providers about the disease, and reach those most at risk.
Automated electronic laboratory reporting requires no manual data entry, saving valuable staff time to conduct frontline disease investigation and response using the data.
Electronic laboratory reporting is pointing the way for the exchange of critical health information between electronic health records (EHRs) and public health agencies.


3.1 million young people in South Africa were not in education, employment or training in 2017. But the problem begins in childhood.
Poverty in South Africa is highest for children.
We enable young people to become economically empowered.
economy and supporting their development from an early age.
We deliver this vision through a Cradle to Career 360° Model and Programmes.
Afrika Tikkun was founded in 1994 with the goal of making a difference in South Africa by developing and uplifting young people in under-privileged communities.
We believe that every young person deserves the opportunity to be the best that they can be.
We are passionate about developing young people together with like-minded partners, through innovative and enterprising ways, to impact the economy of South Africa.
We want to end child poverty and youth unemployment. We do this through a holistic approach that begins in early childhood and ends with productive adults accessing the economy. Our model provides 360° care of the nutrition, health, and social needs of the young person. It also includes personal, leadership and academic development throughout youth; skills development for out-of-school youth; and ultimately work placement. This approach is called our Cradle-to-Career 360° model, and it has earned us recognition for being one of the most impactful organisations in South Africa.
They say gifts of time and love are the ingredients of a truly merry Christmas, and thanks to Total, Afrika Tikkun can attest to this. Total SA give of their time, their love and their financial investment to share Christmas with Afrika Tikkun children. Total South Africa also partner with Afrika Tikkun to hold Afrika Tikkun's Talent Day in recognition of Nelson Mandela's values and his call to remember the children and young people of South Africa.
Absa's partnership with Afrika Tikkun increases employment opportunities and sustainable livelihoods for young people through Afrika Tikkun's Career Development Education. Part of career development also aims to develop entrepreneurship skills in young people.
Belron has been swimming, cycling and running for Afrika Tikkun since 2002. Employees, friends, families, partners and suppliers compete as an individual, as a team or as a business unit and raise funds to support Afrika Tikkun's programmes. The Spirit of Belron Challenge takes place in the UK in September. There is also the Safelite Triathlon and the Carglass Triathlon in the US and Germany.
Like KFC, Afrika Tikkun believes a hungry nation can never be a growing one. Through the R2 donated at KFC drive-thru windows and till points, KFC has since 2013 enabled Afrika Tikkun to ensure thousands of young people and their families are food secure. Afrika Tikkun provides feeds 753 195 meals with the support of KFC Add Hope.


I would like to do a differential gene expression analysis on a microarray data using the simpleaffy package in R. I was following this particular tutorial for doing the analysis, as I am a newbie in this field. Unfortunately, for a particular dataset used for my study, .cel file is not available and only .txt file/ SOFT file is available for download. Can these files be analysed using the simpleaffy package? Or is there a way out how to proceed with the analysis? Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.
So after loading the SOFT file to R using GEOquery, would I be able to proceed with the pre-processing & analysis using the simpleaffy package? Thanks for the suggestion!
How to use python to process .CEL file?


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Archive for 'turmoil'
How China's ban on plastic waste imports became an 'earthquake' that threw recycling efforts into turmoil
When recycling businesses gravitated to Malaysia, a black economy went with them
Some countries treat China's ban as an opportunity and have been quick to adapt
For years, China was the world's leading destination for recyclable rubbish, but a ban on some imports has left nations scrambling to find dumping grounds for growing piles of waste. Photo: AFP
From grubby packaging that engulfs small Southeast Asian communities to waste that piles up in plants from the US to Australia, China's ban on accepting the world's used plastic has thrown recycling efforts into turmoil.
For many years, China took the bulk of scrap plastic from around the world, processing much of it into a higher quality material that could be used by manufacturers.
But, at the start of 2018, it closed its doors to almost all foreign plastic waste, as well as many other recyclables, in an effort to protect its environment and air quality, leaving developed nations struggling to find places to send their waste.
"It was like an earthquake," Arnaud Brunet, director general of Brussels-based industry group The Bureau of International Recycling, said.
"China was the biggest market for recyclables. It created a major shock in the global market."
Instead, plastic was redirected in huge quantities to Southeast Asia, where Chinese recyclers have shifted.
With a large Chinese-speaking minority, Malaysia was a top choice for Chinese recyclers looking to relocate, and official data showed plastic imports tripled from 2016 levels to 870,000 tonnes last year.
China to collect applications for scrap metal import licences from next month, trade group says
In the small town of Jenjarom, close to Kuala Lumpur, plastic processing plants appeared in large numbers, pumping out noxious fumes around the clock.
Huge mounds of plastic waste, dumped in the open, piled up as recyclers struggled to cope with the influx of packaging from everyday goods, such as foods and laundry detergents, from as far afield as Germany, the US, and Brazil.
Residents soon noticed the acrid stench over the town – the kind of odour that is usual in processing plastic, but environmental campaigners believed some of the fumes also came from the incineration of plastic waste that was too low quality to recycle.
"People were attacked by toxic fumes, waking them up at night. Many were coughing a lot," resident Pua Lay Peng said.
"I could not sleep, I could not rest, I always felt fatigued," the 47-year-old added.
Representatives of an environmentalist NGO inspect an abandoned plastic waste factory in Jenjarom, outside Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Photo: AFP
Pua and other community members began investigating and, by mid-2018, had located about 40 processing plants, many of which appeared to be operating without proper permits.
Initial complaints to authorities went nowhere but they kept up pressure, and eventually the government took action. Authorities started closing down illegal factories in Jenjarom, and announced a nationwide temporary freeze on plastic import permits.
Thirty-three factories were closed down, although activists believed many had quietly moved elsewhere in the country. Residents said air quality had improved but some plastic dumps remained.
Chinese recycling expert breeds thousands of flies to turn kitchen waste into cash
In Australia, Europe and the US, many of those collecting plastic and other recyclables were left scrambling to find new places to send it.
They faced higher costs to have it processed by recyclers at home and in some cases resorted to sending it to landfill sites as the scrap piled up so quickly.
"Twelve months on, we are still feeling the effects but we have not moved to the solutions yet," said Garth Lamb, president of industry body Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia.
Some have been quicker to adapt to the new environment, such as some local authority-run centres that collect recyclables in Adelaide, South Australia.
The centres used to send nearly everything – ranging from plastic to paper and glass – to China but now 80 per cent is processed by local companies, with most of the rest shipped to India.
Rubbish is sifted and sorted at Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority's recycling site at Edinburgh, a northern suburb of the city of Adelaide. Photo: AFP
"We moved quickly and looked to domestic markets," Adam Faulkner, chief executive of the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority, said.
"We've found that by supporting local manufacturers, we've been able to get back to pre-China ban prices."
In mainland China, imports of plastic waste dropped from 600,000 tonnes per month in 2016 to about 30,000 a month in 2018, according to data cited in a recent report from Greenpeace and environmental NGO Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
Once bustling centres of recycling were abandoned as firms shifted to Southeast Asia.
How China's plastic waste ban has left Japan to deal with mountains of trash
On a visit to the southern town of Xingtan last year, Chen Liwen, founder of environmental NGO China Zero Waste Alliance, found the recycling industry had disappeared.
"The plastic recyclers were gone – there were 'for rent' signs plastered on factory doors and even recruitment signs calling for experienced recyclers to move to Vietnam," she said.
Southeast Asian nations affected early by the China ban – as well as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were hit hard – have taken steps to limit plastic imports, but the waste has simply been redirected to other countries without restrictions, such as Indonesia and Turkey, the Greenpeace report said.
With only an estimated nine per cent of plastics ever produced recycled, campaigners said the only long-term solution to the plastic waste crisis was for companies to make less and consumers to use less.
Greenpeace campaigner Kate Lin said: "The only solution to plastic pollution is producing less plastic."
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Here at Harvest we are seeing lives change through the truth of the Gospel and the transforming power of the Spirit. We firmly believe in the power of God's word and true community and have seen how navigating life's trials in isolation leads to despair.
The Biblical Soul Care ministry exists primarily to point you towards Christ and His Word. Our approach isn't to try and "fix" your problems or interject our own opinions on your situation, but rather to point you to the powerful reality of God's word and the grace offered by the cross of Jesus Christ.
We'll gladly meet you right where you're at in life but our objective is to help lead you towards transformation in Christ. It is our utmost desire to help you meet the challenges of life in a way that will honor Christ and allow you to fully enjoy His love for you and the blessing of His plan for your life.
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Home News Gaming News Red Dead Redemption 2 Sales Pass $725M, PC Port To Come?
Red Dead Redemption 2 Sales Pass $725M, PC Port To Come?
From 100 hour weeks, to close to $1b
Callum John Rushworth
The highly anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2 has dominated since its release, making over $725m within its first three days of release. This makes it the highest grossing weekend for any media. Now, I know what you're thinking "BuT GtAv MaDe $1b In ThE sAmE aMoUnT oF tImE". True, but it was released on a Tuesday and last time I checked, Tuesday wasn't the weekend, ergo Red Dead Redemption 2 takes the coveted title.
Sales are likely to keep expanding as the beta for online play is speculated to release fairly soon, much like what happened with GTAV. If Red Dead Redemption 2 follows the same formula as the aforementioned, then we could be seeing the online gameplay as early as November 9. The online features of the game are not yet known to the public, but with the track record that Rockstar have, it is unlikely to disappoint.
Unfortunately, Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't take away gold in every category. It was, unfortunately, out-sold in physical copies by a franchise that milks the brain dead for money every year; FIFA 19. This is the one title that Rockstar were unable to claim, though Sony says that it was the most pre-ordered game on the PlayStation Network and boasts the highest day one sales on the platform as well as three-day sales.
With these figures currently as they stand, it makes sense for Rockstar to port John Wayne-Simulator, Red Dead Redemption 2, over to the PC. Saying this, analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities believes that a PC port could be very possible, and he even estimates it could be as early as April next year. This was said in an interview with GamingBolt on October 30, 2018.
So it seems pretty safe to say that a game about six-shooters, assless-chaps and shriveled horse balls is a pretty big hit. With almost another $1b dollars in their back pocket already, Rockstars current recipe for cash works. I suppose the ferocity of bears is similar to Rockstar, even after waiting so long, when it rears its head from its dark cave, it is a formidable beast that will blow the competition away.
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GeoPrism is a powerful enterprise level open source visualization layer that runs on the powerful data engine RunwaySDK. It offers a huge variety of features for users that need the ability to work with data, data visualization, and reporting through simple web-widgets. This project is being developed by my day-job team at TerraFrame.
RunwaySDK is a powerful enterprise level open source data engine with a particular niche in structuring data as Ontologies. It is a very robust framework for building applications where data integrity is the top priority. This project is being developed by my day-job team at TerraFrame.
Digital Solutions For Malaria Elimination Partner is a collaborative effort to build a suite of technology to help mitigate Malaria in key countries. I (and the TerraFrame team) are helping define global standards for data transmission as well as building the Common Geospatial Registry.
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Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence.Ngoni Chipere - 2003 - Palgrave-Macmillan.details
Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account. In the study reported here, variation was found to be due to differences in syntactic competence and the (...) author argues that sentence comprehension is a learned skill, displaying many of the general characteristics of cognitive skills. The book will be stimulating reading for psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, applied linguists and educators. (shrink)
Linguistic Universals in Philosophy of Language
Antrenamentul bănuielii.Tita Chiper - 2002 - Dilema 473:20.details
Ce ni se mai fură?Tita Chiper - 2002 - Dilema 476:20.details
Nelinişti, nostalgii, necazuri.Tita Chiper - 2002 - Dilema 478:20.details
Paharul pe jumatate gol.Tita Chiper - 2001 - Dilema 460:20.details
Of Masters, Men, Machines and (M)others: Revisiting the Virgin and the Dynamo in a Post/trans-human Context.Sorina Chiper - 2015 - Human and Social Studies 4 (2):78-100.details
The Education of Henry Adams owes its cultural cachet, in part, to Adams' elaboration of a dichotomy that has pitted religion against science and technology. Though Western ideologies of modernity have viewed religion in rather negative terms, the current revival of religiosity in the postist context invites a reconsideration of the role of religious belief, practice and objects/symbols in the current society. This article discusses Henry Adams's dichotomy of the Virgin and the Dynamo, and recontextualizes it from a post-human perspective. (...) It argues that the return of religiosity or spirituality, in its multiple forms, is an ethical stance that signals a cultural need for the feminine values of care, solidarity, affection and affiliation. (shrink)


Hey guys! I need some assistance and it would be a huge help if you could solve my problem! So I am basing a little of the player's character with the Oculus Rift's game "Echo Arena" and I am wanting to get a skeletal mesh to combine with the VR camera actor. I know that I would have to do a few extra bits to get it to work correctly but I am needing some assistance on how to get it started. Once I can get the player's character plugged in with the camera actor then I can start creating my dream game!
Can you describe a bit better what do you want to achieve? Maybe post also some pics/sketches. Which issues are you facing while trying to create your game?
In my case, the camera is just to high in the wrong position. Altough I made all of your steps. Can you give a hint?


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Target Practice: Starship "We Built This City"
November 18, 2016 June 15, 2018 B-HOP
Welcome to Target Practice where bad popular songs of the past and present get shot. Recently, I came across a Wikipedia article called "List of music considered the worst" and looked at the songs section. Some of the songs, like Ice Ice Baby, Achy Breaky Heart, Thong Song, and My Humps have made appearances on some of my Worst Songs lists and there are a couple of more that'll make my future lists. I am a bit taken back by the placements of songs like True by Spandau Ballet and Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. I mean, come on. Really? Those songs aren't great, but they're practically harmless. Another song that's on that list is today's Target Practice from a band that originally spun off from Jefferson Starship and became its own entity. From Starship, this is We Built This City.
Wow *laughs* Talk about bad Photoshop.
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
An entire city made out of rock 'n roll records? That sounds awesome for a moment. When all you hear is rock 'n roll music 24/7, the citizens will go insane, anarchy ensues, and it'll be the death of rock n' roll. There's a metaphor hidden in there somewhere.
Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
To be fair, Mickey Thomas does look a lot like a lot of other musicians in the 80s.
Must be the hair.
Marconi plays the mambo, listen to the radio
Don't you remember?
While I'm sure this song got plenty of airplay in 1985, to say that they've "built this city on rock 'n roll" is a bit off since, despite what they say, this isn't a rock 'n roll song. Far from it.
Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares, they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page
Yeah, that's right. We just want to dance while listening to cheesy 80s new wave music.
It's just another Sunday
In a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh
Then we just lost the beat
Why does this line feel relevant today? I don't want to be reminded of our current political climate.
Who counts the money underneath the bar?
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?
Anyone who makes a Wrecking Ball reference will be put into a chokehold.
Don't tell us you need us 'cause we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
Seriously, did this song predict the 2016 election? Looks like the Simpsons wasn't the only one who saw the beginning of the apocalypse.
This song is bad, but would I call it one of the worst songs of all time? Not exactly. Sure, the song is stupid with its poorly-aged hollow production of cheap preset synths and drum machines that would've only existed in the 80s, vocals that are discordant and awkward, lyrics that make little to no sense, and enough cheese to feed every single mouse and rat in the United States. Also, for a song about rock n' roll, it's the furthest thing from rock 'n roll ever. It sounds like every cheesy new wave/synthpop song released in the 80s. So why don't I consider it one of the worst songs of all time? Well, maybe it's because its biggest crime outside of being a blatant sellout track for Starship is its overwhelming cheesiness. There's much worse songs out there that offends me on a musical level, a lyrical level, and a moral level. If I ever get to making a Worst Songs list for 1985, We Built This City will most likely be a dishonorable mention at most. The next Target Practice will be up on January of next year and it'll be on something random. Next week, it's the Worst Songs of 2006 list.
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2 thoughts on "Target Practice: Starship "We Built This City""
Wooper McAndrews (@WeegeeMaelstrom) says:
We Built This City, is IMO, actually not that bad of a song. Then again, it's maybe because I like classic 80s music.
Halston Blain Wirt (@BStreetMarcy) says:
Yeah, I just checked that article out, and a lot of the songs that were there I understood why they were there, even the ones I like such as We Built This City. Heck, even with as taken aback I was by seeing Don't Worry, Be Happy and True, I could maybe understand why they're there? Maybe? If I squint at them? But there was one song, that I was just all kinds of shocked and confused to see there: who in their right mind considers Sussudio by Phil Collins to be awful, let alone one of the worst songs of all time?


Synergies to integrate the above mentioned elements and types of knowledge must be sought both in the medical problems (e.g., prevention, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, etc.) and also in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence technologies (e.g., natural language processing, digital libraries, knowledge representation, knowledge integration and merging, decision support systems, machine learning, e-learning, etc.). The sixth international KR4HC workshop will aim at attracting the interest of novel research and advances contributing in the definition, representation and exploitation of health care knowledge in medical informatics. Both well-founded theoretical works and applications are welcome.
Historical Remark of the Workshop: The first KR4HC workshop , held in conjunction with the 12th Artificial Intelligence in Medicine conference (AIME'09), brought together members of two existing communities: the clinical guidelines and protocols community, who held a line of four workshops (European Workshop on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols CPG'2000 and CPG'2004; AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols 2006; Computer-based Clinical Guidelines and Protocols 2008), and a related community who held a series of three workshops devoted to the formalization, organization, and deployment of procedural knowledge in health care (CBMS'07 Special Track on Machine Learning and Management of Health Care Procedural Knowledge 2007; From Medical Knowledge to Global Health Care 2007; Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures 2008). Since then, two more KR4HC workshops have been held KR4HC'10 and KR4HC'11 , in conjunction with the ECAI'10 and the AIME'11 conferences. In 2012, the Forth KR4HC workshop was organized in conjunction with ProHealth as part of the BPM'12 conference. We continuing the efforts that with a second Joint Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care and Process-Oriented Information Systems in Health Care (KR4HC/ProHealth) in the 14th Artificial Intelligence in Medicine conference (AIME'13). This year, the Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Heath Care is organized together with the KR'14 conference within the Vienna Summer of Logic.
The KR4HC workshop will deal with different facets of knowledge representation in health care and will give insights into the technological challenges, applications, and perspectives emerging in this context. With varied contents, we hope to present a lively and inspiring program for participants from academia, industry, and health care organizations.


Coal powder waste application on low nutrient media is expected to be able to increase plant growth and to improve Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) development. The objective of this research was to determine the effect of coal waste powder on the growth of Anthocephallus cadamba Jack and AMF development grown on ultisol soil. Two factors in a completely randomised experimental design was conducted under greenhouse conditions and Duncan Multiple Range Test was used to analyse of the effect the treatment. The first factor was ultisol soil ammended with coal waste powder (control, soil amanded with coal waste 5%, soil amanded with coal waste 10% and soil amanded with coal waste 15%) and the second factor was AMF inoculation (uninoculated control, inoculated with Gigaspora margarita). Plant height, diameter, shoot dry weight, percentage of AMF colonization and nutrient uptake were measured in this experiment. Results of this study showed that coal amendment and AMF when applied separately significantly increased height, diameter, shoot dry weight, root dry weight and nutrient uptake of 12 weeks A. cadamba seedling, but when the coal waste powder and AMF were combined the plant growth parameters were lower than those applied separately but significantly higher than control. The application of coal waste powder or AMF in ultisol soil could increase A. cadamba growth and development.


By now, it has become cliche to invoke Georgetown's Jesuit identity across virtually every category of university policy.
"Georgetown University, as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, is committed to providing fair and competitive compensation packages for university employees" — so opens the Just Employment Policy for Georgetown University.
"Inspired by the Catholic and Jesuit principles of respect for the dignity of all, cura personalis, equality, and education of the whole person, the Center seeks…" — so reads the LGBTQ Resource Center's Mission Statement.
It might surprise, then, that neither Georgetown's LGBTQ Resource Center nor its Just Employment Policy — which essentially secures a living wage — came easily. Despite proclaiming its accord with its 225-year-old mission, the university created the resource center only as recently as 2008 and agreed to implement a living wage only as recently as 2005. The latter concession came only after the university succumbed to intense pressure from students, 30 of whom conducted a nine-day hunger strike.
Administrative resistance to a living wage policy seems even stranger in the context of recent events. In the past few years, the university has entered an extended partnership with apparel manufacturers observing ethical production practices. This fall, the university made a point to purchase T-shirts for New Student Orientation from Alta Gracia, a factory where workers earn a living wage and are employed in humane conditions.
And yet, Georgetown's commitment to ethically supplied apparel did not simply emanate from the penumbra of its Jesuit values. Students drove that commitment, largely through the work of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, the same group behind much of the successful campaign to secure a living wage for Georgetown employees, and anti-sweatshop organizers in the 1990s.
Georgetown's Jesuit values behave like an adaptive machine for the administration. They permit the university to wholly swallow the accomplishments of careful student organizing and incorporate them into a larger narrative. They are the university's most-used tool for absorbing student achievements.
In some cases, this carries serious consequences; where narrative ownership might protect and rally communities, as in the case of Georgetown's LGBTQ community, the process of co-opting history threatens to convince a community of its own toothlessness. In these cases, the project of untangling the assimilative account of the past becomes a necessary project.
This idealizes the bargain these groups make, which borders on the Faustian. The power students gain by invoking Jesuit values is also their price: They invite the university to seize their narratives. The bargain offers the university the chance to save face.
Rather than suffer a rout, the university can instead experience a come-to-Jesus moment, push outward the boundary of its commitment to Jesuit values and move along. While administrators lick their wounds, the communications office begins to prepare something nice for the website, and students begin to forget.
Matthew Quallen is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Hoya Historian appears every other Friday.


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