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Some dogs simply do not want to be in the company of other dogs for long stretches. They may have post traumatic stress disorder stemming from negative experiences with a dog, or dogs, as a puppy. Or they may feel too stressed for other reasons to be in a social setting for hours at a time. They would rather be home alone waiting for you than subjected to forced socializing.
Such feelings should be respected. But is there any way to improve the lot of a dog who has to be home by himself all day?
Yes. Many people hire dog walkers who come for just one dog at a time, develop their own special relationship with the pet, and take him for a nice stroll and some individualized attention. We knew of one couple whose dog liked his dog walker very much but was so nervous about leaving the house without his "parents" (he had been abandoned before they took him in) that sometimes he refused to go out and was content to just be petted and cooed over by the dog walker for a half hour. That was absolutely fine with all the humans involved and serve.
"Day camp" for a dog who would otherwise be alone or bored all day is often a good idea. But how do you choose one where your dog will be happy — and safe?
For many dogs, doggie daycare is a blast!
In the best of all possible worlds, if you have a dog at home, you will be home, too. Or a second dog will be there so the two can keep each other company. Granted, a lot of adult dogs can deal with the boredom, loneliness, and frustration of having no one to interact with all day, but it doesn’t mean they like it. And it certainly isn’t good for their physical or mental health to lie around with no outlet for their considerable energy or mental acuity and curiosity. As The Pets Hotel, an Australian doggie daycare business explains, dogs are not nocturnal animals. While they are naturally crepuscular, meaning that they have a penchant for activity at dawn and dusk, they also like to spend a fair amount of daylight hours engaged in physical activity and exploration and interaction with their environment — and with other living beings.
If you don’t have a second dog or a neighbor or family member who can take your dog into their home for the hours you’re away, doggie daycare makes a viable option. Your pet will be with others of his own kind, and he’ll be supervised by people who presumably will tend to his needs for a happy, healthy life while you’re at the office or tending to chores that keep you from paying enough attention to him. But the operative word here is “presumably.” Dogs have ended up dead at doggie daycare. We don’t mean to scare you but to make sure you don’t make the decision lightly. How do you choose the right daycare situation for your pooch? Since there’s no mandated accreditation for dog sitting enterprises, it’s a question you want to be asking yourself — and answering.
A good way to start is simply to get a feel for a place you are considering. Do the employees seem genuinely happy to be there? Do you get the sense that they really like dogs? Do the dogs seem happy, or nervous or glum around the staff? Also, does the place have a neutral odor, or is it unpleasant, as though it is not cleaned often enough or thoroughly enough?
You also want to find out whether someone is there at all times to supervise the dogs — and separate them should a problem break out. These are the things to determine at a very minimum.
It’s a good idea to make sure dog groups are kept small. Some daycare facilities may be tempted to take in large groups of dogs to help meet their overhead and make a profit while doing so (fair enough), but too many dogs together means yours gets less attention. Also, some dogs become overstimulated and anxious in very large groups. They can’t get away, of course, which could make a dog miserable and, in some cases, aggressive.
What’s a good dog-to-person ratio? It depends to no small degree on the temperaments of the dogs in question. In general, the fewer dogs per person, the better. There are no federally required minimums, but some states have regulations of their own. Colorado, for instance, requires one staff person for every 15 dogs (which still sounds like a lot of dogs). At least one group also recommends a minimum of one staffer to 15 dogs although says that if it is an active group, 10 dogs to a person is better.
Speaking of groups, ascertain whether the dogs are divided by temperament rather than size. A tiny, scrappy terrier might not want to hang out with other little canines whose favorite pastime is sitting in someone’s lap; they may want to run with the big fellas. By the same token, an anxious German shepherd may need tender, quiet time with mellow sorts rather than raucous play. A daycare establishment should play it by a dog’s natural bent, not his brawn.
Then, too, while the purpose of doggie daycare is to keep your pet stimulated, make sure there are rest periods. A facility might advertise a fabulous outdoor agility gym for your dog to run around with others, but there also need to be opportunities — and spaces — for your pet to rest and regroup. Think about when a preschooler plays through nap time, too stimulated to realize he’s tired. His mood later in the day often isn’t pretty.
Of course, zero tolerance for counterproductive punishment techniques is critical. There can be no hitting, use of choke chains, or even yelling. All of those constitute abuse. If you get a sense that any infliction of pain or misery or fear is going on, pass up that establishment. It’s okay to go with your gut in the absence of proof. If something about the way the staff interacts with the dogs in its care just doesn’t feel right, don’t override your instinctual discomfort about what you’re sensing. Better to err on the side of safety.
Here are some more considerations for deciding which doggie day care establishment is the safest, and best, fit for your dog.
1. Is the staff trained to deal with dogs in any way? We don’t expect that people working at a canine daycare center are going to be veterinary behaviorists or even vet techs, but they should, at a minimum, be trained to understand canine body language and recognize signs of stress and also be able to handle basic animal care. If your dog needs medication while at the facility, staff members should be adept at administering it, whether topically, orally, or via injection (say, if the dog has diabetes and needs consistently timed shots of insulin).
2. Is the establishment comfortable letting you have a look around, including in the back, so you can get a sense of the accommodations? (Some places even have web access so that you can check on your dog from a distance at any time.) Is there a nice place for your pet to be able to rest and hang out when he doesn’t feel like interacting with his camp mates? Are there toys and other tools of environmental enrichment — perhaps a shallow splash pool in hot weather, for instance?
3. Is there an evacuation plan? The International Boarding & Pet Service Association points out that a positive answer to that question helps provide peace of mind and gives a sense of how on top of things the business is in general.
4. Are the premises adequately climate controlled — warm enough in winter, cool enough in summer? Are there shady spots and water outside in the hot-weather months?
5. Does the establishment do any temperament testing, even informally? It’s one thing for you to say what kind of personality your dog has — retiring, outgoing, etc. But the daycare staff should also want to see for itself, perhaps by judging at the start how easily your dog startles and how shy or game he feels around other dogs.
After you make a decision where to send your dog for the hours you’re not available to him, check his demeanor when you pick him up and bring him home. If he’s thrilled to see you, that’s all to the good. But if he’s got a “get me out of here” thing going on, frantically wanting to leave rather than just being excited to see you, it’s a red flag.
Once your dog is home, he should be tired but not exhausted as if he has just been to the front — or bullied all day by another dog, or dogs. Tired and ready for a cozy nap means he had a good, active time. Absolutely exhausted could signal that he feels very stressed at the facility or is somehow being put through more hoops than is good for him.
Finally, as comfortable as you might feel about the doggie daycare you have chosen, always keep your eyes and ears open. Staff turnover and other changes, such as the comings and goings of different dogs, can determine whether the place remains the right fit for your pet. It’s okay to move on if an establishment once served your dog’s needs but no longer does. Never let inertia get in the way of your pet’s well-being.
Great information - would like to add a red flag for dog owners. I provide a taxi service for pets to vets, dog daycare etc. A dog owner asked me to take his dog to a local doggie day care facility. The owner has several facilities and they are quite large. The first day I arrived with clients' dog, I noticed a very strong antiseptic odor. It was so strong, my nasal passages were burning. What I witnessed was very disturbing. The employees had herded all the dogs to one side of the common play area and they were spraying / disinfecting the other side of the play area. As soon as the one area was sprayed, they then herded the dogs to the sprayed area and proceeded to spray the other side of the play area. This is extremely toxic to both animals and employees! I can recognize the need to control germs, but to spray an immense amount (any amount) of disinfectants while animals are present was horrifying. I'd recommend pet owners ask how and when the day care is cleaned.
I notice you haven't mentioned how potty breaks are handled for the dogs during daycare. I would not choose a facility that assumes the dogs would go potty in their indoor play area, as knees local daycare firm does. After spending considerable time teaching and making sure my dogs are house trained, I choose daycare facilities that either actually walk the dogs or at least have a secure outside area for that purpose. A dog cannot make the distinction that indoor potty breaks aren't okay at home but are okay at daycare. Therefore, I choose to set them up for success by making the distinction, consistently available for them.
Very useful information. The article is thorough in all the points any dog owner should be aware of. In particular the dog's body language after a day care visit. Day care should be a fun and safe place for the dogs to enjoy. Happy to go but anxious to go home. Thank you for posting this informative and educational article.


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After spending the last 20 years of my career working in the US, two years ago I packed up and moved over 10,000 miles to Korea to work for Samsung. I was curious. As a Korean-American, I wanted to join one of the largest companies in the world and see for myself how both the country and the company operated.
Best-known for its massive consumer electronics hardware business, Samsung makes beautiful products that touch the lives of millions of people, including my family. Exciting, right? But not the obvious fit for my background in banking and startup environments. Navigating life in a new country and learning a totally new industry is tough! I admit it – initially I was clueless.
But soon I realized that I had joined Samsung at a very important and transformational time. The company is putting a huge strategic focus on Software and Services, creating intelligent platforms that connect all the Samsung devices and services to create a seamless user experience. It is also increasing its engagement and support of third party developers and the innovations they can provide on top of Samsung platforms. It is clear to me that we are tasked with collaborating with developers to create future success together.
Of course this kind of evolution raises a lot of questions. What kind of experiences and services will new “Connected Thinking” technologies give rise to? What type of business models and partnerships are needed to generate maximum revenue in the new service economy? How will experiences be developed and delivered to users?
We look forward to exploring the possibilities of ‘Connected Thinking’ with you at SDC 2017 – our 2 day developer conference taking place on October 18 & 19th at Moscone West in San Francisco.
During the keynotes, you’ll hear more about Samsung’s Software and Services plans and new initiatives from DJ Koh, President of Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics and Executive Vice Presidents Injong Rhee, Head of R&D, Software & Services of Mobile Communications Business and Eui Suk Chung, Head of Service Intelligence of Mobile Communications Business.
We are also thrilled to have some very inspiring industry leaders joining us this year including Stan Lee, world renowned former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. Artist and creator Rob Prior whose commercial works include illustrations and covers for Dungeons & Dragons, sculptures and props for Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and original monster creations for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rain Paris, musician and YouTube star who will join Stan Lee to discuss how connected thinking motivates creativity and disruption in a session called “Comics, Movies and Music”.
In addition, Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global founder and CEO, will join Marc Mathieu, CMO of Samsung Electronics America in a keynote conversation with on Samsung and Thrive’s shared philosophy on the use of technology to create social good.
We have a packed schedule of interesting technical, business and panel sessions, addressing a wide variety of technologies and topics such as Intelligence, IoT, VR, Health, Internet. SDC is also an opportunity for you to meet and network with technology experts and thought leaders from Samsung and the industry. Check out all the conference details and browse the Session Catalog.
Join Us! Register Now for SDC2017 so we can innovate and prosper together in the new, intelligent software and services economy. I look forward to meeting you there.

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As I am still on holiday, my son and I decided to explore some of the Western Cape’s beauty. It was an overcast day and a perfect day for a road trip. We decided to explore the area up to Hermanus. We drove through the Strand and Gordonsbay.
After Gordonsbay, it was onto Rooiels, PringleBay, Bettysbay and Kleinmond. At Kleimond we stopped and grabbed some cooldrinks and strolled through the town. Then it was onto Hermanus, past Arrabella Golf Estate and Onrus onto Hermanus.
We again stopped in Hermanus and strolled through the town. It was packed and we battled to get parking. This must be one of the restaurants that is the closest I have ever seen to the water edge.
This was one of about 15 Harleys and all of them exactly the same.
On the way back from Hermanus we took the N2 and turned off at Grabou. Just before Velliersdorp we took the Franschoek turnoff and got this view of Franschoek.
Now tell me that we do not have some of the most beautyful countryside here in the Cape. This view is just amazing.

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Newer log-sided home on Lake Namekagon features an open floorplan with lakeshore views from virtually every room. The home feels spacious with comfortable room sizes high ceilings and log paneling in the great room. A main-floor owner’s bedroom includes a gas fireplace, walk-in closet and private bath. A four-season sun room also includes a gas log fireplace. A large laundry room is conveniently located near the entrance from the heated, attached garage. Upstairs are two private guest bedrooms and guest bath.
The home is heated with warm and comfortable, in-floor radiant heat provided via LP gas boiler. The second level bedrooms feature hot-water baseboard heat from the same boiler. A covered entry and lakeside patio are other convenient features.
A sunny southern exposure with big views is ideal and private with 168 ft of lakeshore. The .91-acre site is level to the lake for easy access and the lake bottom is firm for good swimming. A blacktop driveway helps keep both your car and your home clean.

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I am thankful for your moment with the Imams too! Hope you’re feeling better; we heard word last night at prebytery that you were feeling unwell. Our prayers are with you.
Thanks Christina. A week of antibiotics, and maybe some prayers, and I’m on the mend.

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Nike Tiempo Genio Leather II (FG) Men's Artificial-Grass Football Boot has a full-grain leather upper that offers superior touch and a comfortable fit.
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White Boy Rick is an upcoming Hollywood crime drama film, and is based on the true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Junior. In 1980s Detroit, Rick became the youngest FBI informant ever at the age of 14. He later became a street hustler and a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
• Matthew McConaughey as Richard Wershe Sr., Dawn and Wershe Jr.’s father, a blue-collar factory worker trying to keep his family together as the automotive industry collapses around him in Detroit.
• Bel Powley as Dawn Wershe, Wershe Sr.’s daughter, Wershe’s Jr.’s sister and Ray and Vera’s granddaughter.
• Bruce Dern as Ray Wershe, Dawn and Wershe Jr.’s grandfather, Wershe Sr.’s father and Vera’s husband.
• Piper Laurie as Vera Wershe, Dawn and Wershe Jr.’s grandmother, Wershe Sr.’s mother and Ray’s wife.
• Jennifer Jason Leigh as one of the FBI agents who began working with Wershe as a confidential informant from the beginning.
• Rory Cochrane as Byrd, one of the FBI agents who began working with Wershe as a confidential informant from the beginning.
• YG as Leo Curry, eldest brother of Johnny and Rudell Curry.
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You may read about the movie ‘White Boy Rick’ and its updates here!

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Creation of a trust, particularly relating to an immoveable property is also a specie of transfer of property. Trust is defined in section 3 of the Trust Act, 1882 as " an obligation annexed to the ownership of property and arising out of a confidence reposed in and accepted by the owner, or declared and accepted by him, for the benefit of another or of another and the owner. In simple words it is a transfer of property by the owner to another for the benefit of a third person alongwith or without himself or a declaration by the owner, to hold the property not for himself and another.
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Thirst: Is There More? - If you find your relationship with the Lord in a dry place, this five-day devotion from Thistlebend Ministries will help you refocus on the source of love and true life and unlimited refreshment.
If you find your relationship with the Lord in a dry place, this five-day devotion from Thistlebend Ministries will help you refocus on the source of love and true life and unlimited refreshment.


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Wonderful, simple and clean Nantucket cottage set in the dunes just beyond the Wauwinet Hotel. Outstanding harbor and water views and sunsets.
Gorgeous Home in Desirable Cliff Location. Home is less than 3 Blocks to Steps Beach an only a 1/2 Mile to Nantucket Town! Great Outdoor Space with Nice Yard, Decks, and Outdoor Dining. The Ideal Location and Home to Enjoy Nantucket!

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The Intelligence report submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs revealed that NSCN(K) is worried over the presence of Myanmar Army around its Central Headquarters in TAGA. The insurgent group recently held a meeting with their Ceasefire Monitoring Committee and discussed Myanmar army threat to arrest their cadre and hand them over to Indian Government.
As per the report, Myanmar Army restricted the movement of NSCN/K Chairman Khango Konyak beyond Hangsen and instructed them to return in Taga area. There is fear among NSCN/K that Myanmar Army may arrest their top leaders and handover to Indian Government.
Due to fear of arrest by Myanmar Army, many insurgent group leaders are hiding at an unspecified location in the Jungle. Some Intercept of Insurgent group reveals that they are not finding Myanmar border a conducive place against India.
The spokesperson of banned NSCN-K, Isak Sumi has claimed that all the NSCN-K cadre were safe in the wake of the attacked launched against it by the Myanmar Army.
Isak Sumi in his Facebook post says: “The on-going standoff between the Myanmar Army and the Naga Army has temporarily been resolved without untoward incident but Naga Army had to make a tactical withdrawal. The overall situation is still tense but the Naga Army are re-entrenched again and safe. Requesting prayer to all the loved ones.” Here he has referred to NSCN-K as Naga Army.
Northeast militant groups have formed a banner organisation called United Liberation Front of Western South East Asia, to launch joint attacks on Indian security forces.

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Watch the full video interview embedded above, or click here for a direct HD link.
AusGamers: Hey guys, welcome back to AusGamers. You’re here once again with Stephen Farrelly. Again, I’m actually in Australia, not anywhere else in the world, which is a bit rare these days.
I’ve got Ian Frazier, who’s here to talk to me about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. We’ve been talking about the game a little bit lately and you guys know that we’re pretty excited for it. I got some hands-on with it in Vegas; I spoke to Collin [Campbell, Lead World Designer] out at Vegas; I’ve spoken to Ken Rolston; now I’ve got you.
Let’s get to some of the nitty gritty. What was the decision behind no jumping?
Ian Frazier: So we actually tried jumping earlier in development. We had climbing -- like mantling -- and jumping. We ended up finding that to create the world and craft it the way we wanted to -- to have standardised enough metrics to make combat good made jumping not work, essentially.
If we let you jump everywhere, if we had crazy sculpted terrain where everything was constantly bumpy, we couldn’t also have the fidelity of animations we want for combat and have the level of control we needed design-wise to deliver that good quality combat. So seeing as combat was one of our top level concerns for the game and we wanted to make it as good as it could possibly be, we pulled back on that front and made jumping something that’s sort of channeled. There’s places you can jump, but you can’t do it everywhere.
AusGamers: If you were testing it early on, did that change the level design entirely for you guys? Because obviously you’re not going to give people different pathways to go.
Ian: It was early enough that it didn’t pose us problems or anything, but it certainly does change the way we do things -- even down to putting in the jump points where you can jump. So yeah, it makes a big difference.
AusGamers: Now another big staple in this type of RPG is -- especially with the concept of open-world, even if it’s not an RPG -- is emergent gameplay. And I think games like Red Dead Redemption did it really well; Skyrim does it really well.
What have you guys done to approach that? Because at the moment, the stuff that I’ve played, I do come across people... but I obviously haven’t spent enough time with the game. And we were talking about this before, but can you just run us through any of those kind of systems that you have?
Ian: Well NPC scheduling is one thing. So NPCs -- not all of them, but a lot of NPCs -- have their daily rounds, where they go around and do things. So because of that, as you’re doing a quest, or just going through a city, you’re meeting people in different kinds of scenarios than... you may encounter a different thing that I did because of the timing.
The next thing is we do have a full day/night cycle which plays into that. So you’re going to have creatures that show up in certain areas that would otherwise not be there, based on time. Reagents that you can only harvest because you happened to go to the scene at night or what have you; so there’s some of that.
You also have the crime system. So if you are in the middle of town and you start pickpocketing or trespassing or what have you and you get seen, then you’re going to get people freaked out; you’re going to have people try to kill you or call the guards or whatever depending on where you are. And that’s going to create a different situation depending on who’s there and if you’re powerful enough to deal with them and if you flee or pay up your fine; how you choose to respond to it.
In fact, if you say “hey, ok, you can take me in coppers”, they’ll bring you to jail, and the jails are totally different depending on where you’re at. So if you’re at a mortal area, it’s more of a traditional dungeon. If you’re in the Fae city of Isa, they throw you in a magical labyrinth, because that’s what Fae do -- so that’ll be kind of different.
As far as wandering in the wilderness, we have a faction system -- some creatures hate other creatures. So you may be wandering in the woods and see a giant spider chasing down a deer to eat. And you won’t necessarily see the same thing that I saw -- there’s a chance that it won’t happen -- but the combination of wandering things, scheduled things and the faction system that makes them like or hate each other, gives you those sort of emergent moments that will vary between players.
AusGamers: So there’s a full functioning ecology that’s built around hierarchy and a food chain and stuff like that?
Ian: We don’t simulate like “they eat the meat, therefore they live...”; we don’t do it to that level. But we do try to simulate who would and would not like each other and who would try to eat what else, in order to give you that kind of feel as you explore the world.
AusGamers: Another popular area of discussion with games like this -- and many get it right and many get it wrong -- is scaling, level scaling -- especially with enemies and the like. Can you talk to us about how you guys have approached that?
Ian: Yeah absolutely. As you said, it is a challenge and something we’ve seen done very well and very poorly in different contexts. What we do is sort of a... we try not to mention other games but I’m going to do it anyway -- it’s sort of a hybrid between World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 in terms of how it’s structured.
So you start the game off and the very first area that you step into, Allestar Glade, it’s level one; it’s only ever going to be level one. So if you start off there, it’s about right for you. If you come back later, you can just destroy enemies there.
As you get further into the game, individual areas will have a level range to them, this is somewhere between three and seven, or twelve and fifteen or whatever. When you get there, it checks your level and sets the level of that zone to your level or whatever that is within the range, for the rest of time.
So as a result, as you play through the game, you will generally find things at about your difficulty level, unless you just truck through and go way outside the bounds -- in which case, you’ll find really hard stuff. But if you then return to earlier areas, you don’t suddenly need Grand High Wizard in the starter zone, because you return and you’re level 30 -- no, you still meet starter enemies and you just crush them like bugs.
Because we wanted to have that re-travesal be fun, where you feel like you’re hercules when you’re going back through earlier areas.
AusGamers: That’s a good segway to the next question I had anyway, which was: will there be much re-traversing, or backtracking? Will there be reasons to do it or will there be times when you have left that level one area or that level five area and there’s nothing to go back for at all?
Ian: So it depends on how you play. If you’re a completionist who tries to clear out every nook and cranny of the map on every single quest, there’s some re-traversal expected, but not a ton. If you’re the sort of person that kind of does things organically and plays through -- finds some quests; does some quests; moves on -- then there’s a ton of traversal, because some of the factions especially have these ongoing storylines that will send you back to other areas and bounce you over there, then you might pick up another faction that sends you back over here and there; then you do side quests; it varies tremendously depending on your style.
AusGamers: Alright, now you said that you guys try to avoid talking about other games, but another interesting thing is that when you’ve got -- let’s call them instances... or dungeons -- a lot of the time, games have respawning enemies later on. So you might come back in game-time in a few days and they’re all still dead, but in a week in game-time it’s totally repopulated.
Skyrim’s done a really good thing, where when you look at the map it says “Cleared”, which I thought was quite cool, and I know a few other games have done that as well. Have you guys done that or do you have respawning enemies?
Ian: Yes and no. So things that make sense to respawn, like a named guy or some boss you’ve killed -- something that’s got some real substance and relevance in the world -- they do not respawn. However, in general the above ground areas and dungeons and so forth will respawn with a degree of randomness and a degree of time.
So if you clear out a dungeon, the big bad boss you killed at the end will stay dead and the cult followers he had or whatever... you cleared out the cult and you defeated them, well they’re going to be gone -- they’re not going to come back. But, the next time that you go in there, you may find bears and wolves have now infested the cave. When X amount of time has passed, a new suite of enemies can now populate that zone.
AusGamers: Now with the factions -- it’s another popular thing to talk about -- I thought Fallout: New Vegas did a really good thing where allegiance actually meant something and that you couldn’t actually get to different story branches and different items and what have you.
It seems like in other games, you can just join any faction you want and it doesn’t matter which one you’re in there. Do you guys have waring factions? Do you have buffs for being in one faction and it’s a detriment to you with another faction?
Ian: Yes and no. What we ended up doing is... the factions themselves are not exclusive; they don’t hate... like, fictionally they didn’t really have any issue with one another so it didn’t make a lot of sense to us to make them like “you joined the Warsown and now The Travellers won’t have you”, so we don’t do that.
That said, within the factions you have branching decisions that are exclusive -- that’s kind of where we worked the exclusivity in. If you’re playing the Warsworn -- and I don’t want to give away the details but -- you’re the fateless, your fate can change the fates of those around you. So you can change the future of the Warsworn as a group, in multiple different ways. And depending on how you choose to make that decision, you block off the other possibility and you earn what’s called a Twist of Fate -- it’s kind of a permanent systemic bonus; it’s a tarot card, like a destiny card that reflects the decision that you made.
And again, it’s exclusive and the rewards to it are also exclusive. So the factions themselves are not exclusive to each other, but your decisions within them are.
AusGamers: Is there a dynamic weather system as well? Because you talked about day and night.
Ian: Sadly no. No dynamic weather system. It’s something that I would have loved to do. I think if we had have had a little bit longer we might have done it, but we actually had to ship the game at some point, so we stopped. There are areas that have weather that is appropriate to that zone, but it’s not dynamic.
AusGamers: Now I didn’t get a chance to check out the PC version which you have running out there, so I will just ask a few questions about it. There’s a lot of contention amongst PC gamers that games are being built for console and then ported to PC -- specifically at the mere mention of a radial, every PC gamer goes absolutely crazy.
Can you talk about key binding and stuff like that and also... it feels like the combat has been built for a controller: how have you guys approached that with the PC?
Ian: If you get a chance, I would recommend that you actually play the PC, because you’ll be able to feel the answer for yourself. But Big Huge Games is historically a PC company, the console thing we did before this was Settlers of Catan on the Xbox Live Arcade, but everything else has been PC games and a lot of the folks in the studio come from a PC background.
So we didn’t want to skimp on the PC, we decided not to outsource a port, but to actually build the PC version concurrently with the console versions in-house. The same UI team, the same combat team building both. So we made sure to give it the love that it deserves.
As far as how it works: if you’re on the PC, you play with mouse and keyboard and “you don’t want any of that console crap” so you set aside the controller, then it’s setup not totally dissimilar to an MMO. You’ve got an ability bar across the bottom of the screen that will work with the number keys -- you can map abilities onto that. You can have spells on your right mouse button and your weapon on your left mouse button. You can use the scrollwheel to quickly switch between different weapons, like how a lot of first-person shooters tend to work on the PC.
And obviously you can bind all your keys. There’s a couple of specific things you can’t bind, like the Escape key is always backing out of menus -- we don’t let you rebind that -- but as a general rule, you can rebind whatever you want. Whether you want WASD or arrow keys or whatever else.
The other interesting thing about it is that if you prefer the console controls: if you plug in an Xbox 360 controller and you start fiddling with it, the game will instantly and automatically switch to that and the UI will change -- you’ll have a console-style UI. Then if you’re like “no, screw that”, sit that down and start moving the mouse, it’ll instantly switch back to the PC UI and you can do that whenever you want, you don’t have to change any options or anything, it just works.
Really, depending on the kind of build that you have, I might recommend one or the other. If you’re playing a pure melee warrior, personally I prefer the controller, because you get that rumble and tactile feel. If I’m playing a pure mage with a whole lot of active abilities, then I prefer the mouse and keyboard, because you’ve got a larger number of abilities you have instant access to.
So depending on your build and what you’re used to: if you like the controller; if you don’t like mouse and keyboard, you might want to go one way or the other. And obviously the PC can just look better than the consoles because it’s a PC!
AusGamers: That was going to be my next question: What have you guys done to approach the visual side of stuff on the PC?
Ian: The big things are: better shadow quality, the shaders are a little bit better and also just the resolution. You can run it in 1080p on a PC.
Ian: No. We looked at it, but it’s something we didn’t do for this title.
AusGamers: Now I’m going to end on something that you can’t probably talk about, but -- and this is a really interesting thing -- I spoke to Todd Howard [Bethesda Games Studios Director] out at E3, and one of the big things he said was in the Fallout games and even Oblivion, DLC was really good with those guys, but it was kind of short. They did four hours here, five hours there and he said for Skyrim, one of the things they’re going to do is more expansion-based DLC, which the industry seems to not be following anymore.
I’m curious to know -- as originally a PC company -- what your plans for DLC are. And if there was... I mean, it’s a big game and there’s a lot of lore. It seems like the more expansive DLC seems like the right thing to do.
Ian: Oh, that’s tricky. So, I can tell you that I personally like both kinds of DLC. I like the little bite-sized things that are kind of like you’re at the supermarket and you grab the impulse buy. But I also kind of like the giant ones, and I’m glad that Bethesda still does it, because I think that it’s awesome to have that big meaty chunk of content.
As far as what we’re doing with DLC, however, I don’t know... [grins] I think DLC would be handy; I’d like to have some; maybe some day that would happen; possibly [shrugs]. PR’s watching you know?
AusGamers: Yeah I know, but she knows I’ll ask these questions [laughs].
Alright, well we’ll leave it there. Thanks very much Ian. The game looks great and we can’t wait to play it next year. Cheers.
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Great interview, the more I see of this game on here the more interested I become.
AG: yeah so skyrim and other games have these awesome features.. what have you done to make the game awesome like those games..

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text: Contact lens success is primarily driven by comfort of the lens in eye. Over the years, many modifications have been made to the lens surface and bulk material to improve comfort of the lens, however 50% of contact lens wearers still report dry eye symptoms while wearing their lenses. Wettability of the lens material plays a large role in lens comfort, primarily due to its influence in tear film stability. In vitro wettability of contact lenses has typically been assessed by measuring the water contact angle on the lens surface. Currently there are three techniques to measure the in vitro wettability of contact lenses, the sessile drop technique, captive bubble technique, and the Wilhelmy balance method. To date, there is much published on assessing wettability using the sessile drop and captive bubble technique, however there is no data published looking at the in vitro wettability of hydrogel contact lenses measured by the Wilhelmy balance method. Accumulation and deposition of tear components on the lens surface can also affect lens performance, by altering the wettability of the lens surface and causing lens spoilage. The majority of in vitro studies looking at deposition of tear components on the lens surface dope the lenses in tear solutions for a set period of time. None of these studies have investigated the impact of exposing the lenses to tear solutions, then exposing them to the air and then back into the tear solution, which mimics the process during blinking. In Chapter 2, an evaluation of the influence of lens preparation on the wettability of contact lenses measured by the sessile drop technique was conducted. The wettability of 6 silicone hydrogel and one conventional lens material was assessed. Lenses were blot dried on either a microfiber cloth or lens paper for different drying periods and contact angles were measured using the sessile drop technique. There were large variations in results using the microfiber cloth after all drying periods, but there was little variation in results after lenses were blot dried on lens paper for approximately 20 seconds. Thus, it was determined that for future contact angle analysis using the sessile drop technique that lenses should be blot dried for roughly 20 seconds on lens paper. This method was used consistently for the rest of the experiments in which the sessile drop technique was used to measure contact angles. The remainder of Chapter 2 compared the contact angles of different lens materials measured by the sessile drop technique and Wilhelmy balance method. The wettability of five different silicone hydrogel lens materials was assessed directly out-of-blister and after a 48 hour soak in saline. There were significant differences in contact angles for the lens materials between the two techniques. There were also significant differences in contact angles directly out-of-blister and after the 48 hour soak. Results from this study suggested that different methods of measuring wettability can produce different results and that blister pack solutions can alter the wettability of lens materials. Chapter 3 measured the physical properties of blister pack solutions of silicone hydrogel lenses. The pH, osmolality, surface tension, and viscosity of the blister solutions for 9 silicone hydrogel lenses, 2 conventional lenses, and 2 saline solutions were measured. The osmolality of the blister solutions followed a trend, in that blister solutions manufactured by the same company had the same osmolality. Products produced by Johnson & Johnson had the highest osmolality. Blister solutions that contained additional wetting agents had higher viscosities compared to blister solutions without added wetting agents. The main conclusion from this study was that adding wetting agents to blister solutions could alter the physical properties of the blister solutions. The purpose of Chapter 4 was to measure the physical properties of the blister pack solutions of daily disposable lenses and to evaluate the wettability of the lens materials and substantivity of the blister solutions, using a method in which lenses were cycled through 5 minute soaks in saline to mimic blinking. Five daily disposable lens materials were evaluated, one of which was shipped in a blister solution with added surfactants and wetting agents. The wettability of the lenses was assessed using the sessile drop technique and Wilhelmy balance method. The lens with the modified blister solution had a lower surface tension and higher viscosity compared to all the other blister solutions. The same trend in osmolalties as those reported in Chapter 3, were found with blister solutions made by the same manufacturer having the same osmolality. The wettability varied across lens materials. Overall, the lens material with the added components to the blister solution had the lowest contact angle. Chapter 5 investigated the deposition of tear components onto the surface of conventional and silicone hydrogel lens materials and looked at the impact of this on changes in wettability. Three lens materials used in Chapter 4 were exposed to a saline solution, lysozyme solution, and a complex tear solution for 5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, and 8 hours. The wettability was assessed after each time point using the sessile drop and Wilhelmy balance methods. There was little to no deposition on the lens materials that had the highest in vitro CAs in Chapter 4, exemplified by no change in wettability after being soaked in the lysozyme and complex tear solutions. There was deposition on the lens materials with the lowest CAs in Chapter 4, exemplified by a significant increase in wettability after being soaked in the lysozyme and complex tear solutions. Results indicate that there is some deposition onto one lens material, as shown by the change in wettability of the lens surface. These results were further used to validate a method used in Chapter 6. The experiment conducted in Chapter 6 was similar to the experiment in Chapter 5, except that the lenses were not soaked in the three solutions but rather exposed to the solutions in a “model blink cell”. The model blink cell moves lenses in and out of solution at a set time interval, in an attempt to mimic blinking. The interval was set so the lenses would be placed for 1 second in solution and 5 seconds exposed to the air. The same lens materials used in Chapter 5 were used in for this experiment. 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Salmon catfish and tarpon occur in habitats that periodically become deficient in oxygen resulting in high mortalities of other fish species. The water-breathing catfish, Arius leptaspis, and the facultative air-breathing tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides, both have high haemoglobin and haematocrit, and the oxygen carrying capacity in the air-breather is exceptionally high (15.6 +/- 1.2 vol%). Iso-pH oxygen equilibria of the red blood cells at 25 degrees C revealed high affinity (P-50 = 9 mmHg, pH 7.4) and co-operativity (n(50) > 2.2, pH 7.4) in the catfish, and contrasted with low affinity (P-50 = 32 mmHg, pH 7.4) and co-operativity (n(50) approximate to 1) in the air-breathing tarpon. Oxygen binding was further distinguished by relative pH insensitivity (Bohr factor, circle divide = Delta log P-50/Delta log pH = -0.22) in the catfish, compared with a significant Bohr effect in the tarpon (circle divide = -0.96). The potential for modulation of haemoglobin-oxygen affinity was indicated by a high ratio of GTP to ATP in the erythrocytes of the catfish, whereas regulation in the tarpon appeared due to ATP alone. Differences in blood respiratory functions between the two species are likely to reflect reduced opportunity for activity under extreme hypoxia in the catfish.


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Wait, what the hell is “apizza”?
You might’ve noticed that New Haven pizza’s got its own name -- apizza. It’s pronounced “ah-beets”, and it’s derived from the Italian dialect of the Neapolitan immigrants who first settled there. Since the people making the pizzas were from the area around Naples, the pizza tends to skew toward the stylings of the original Italian pizzaiolos.
It all started back in 1925, when Frank Pepe, originally of Maiori, Italy, founded his signature pizzeria, Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, on Wooster Street in New Haven. This establishment came after years of hardship for the young man, who previously had taken jobs in factories and macaroni manufacturing (no joke), before deciding to start a delivery business selling “tomato pies”, which are a type of pizza made with spongy dough, tomato sauce, and a light sprinkling of Romano cheese.
Pepe soon abandoned the delivery business and decided to start his own joint in 1925, eventually taking over his former bakery employer’s building in 1937 and opening what is known today as the precursor of all New Haven-style pizzerias. From there, he sold tomato pies and other types of pizza that eventually incorporated other cheeses, like mozzarella, presumably attracting droves of young mutant ninja turtles.
Pepe’s family flourished in the new business, and his nephew, Salvatore Consiglio -- having learned the craft of pizza-making from his relatives -- soon decided to branch off from Pepe’s to open his own pizzeria: Sally’s Apizza, which makes Neapolitan-style pizzas just like Pepe’s. It was the shot heard 'round the world and launched what is assuredly one of the biggest rivalries in the food world today. US presidents have even been divided on which joint makes the better pie.
The original. The big dog. All other New Haven pizzerias are in the shadow of Pepe’s, and they know it. In addition to the original coal-fired location on Wooster Street, it’s expanded into several other Connecticut towns, Yonkers, NY, and area casino Mohegan Sun. Lines at the first location are often discouragingly long and cutthroat. Their white clam pie is legendary (shucked fresh in-house daily), and pairs well with their thick-cut bacon.
Founded by Sal Consiglio back in 1938, Sally’s took many of Pepe’s original fans when it splintered off from the original family and moved down the street. To this day, families in and around New Haven are firmly divided between the two camps (for the most part), and allegiances are taken as seriously as in Game of Thrones (minus, you know, the murder). Sally’s maintains only its single, original location, and has a coal-fired oven just like the original one at Pepe’s.
Slightly less well-known than the other two giants (meaning shorter lines), Modern is more of a local joint that specializes in wood-fired pizzas -- as opposed to the coal-fired ones of Sally’s and Pepe’s -- with a smattering of fresh, artisanal toppings. Their Italian bomb pie (bacon, sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, onion, garlic, peppers) is a tour de force.
Do pizza-flavored snacks actually taste like pizza?
We ate a Domino's pizza topped with donuts, ice cream, and more. It was incredible.
Founded in 1996, Bar is the baby of the New Haven pizzaiolos, and, as such, attracts a hipper crowd clamoring for its more innovative pies. It turns into a nightclub after normal dinner hours and brews its own beer, too, thus adding to its youthful mystique. While its oven is gas-fired, it still churns out the kind of thin-crust, high-quality charred pies that its older neighbors originated.
In terms of what makes New Haven pizza so goddamned delicious, and what makes it a distinct variety of pie, we can look to three factors: 1) the quality of New Haven’s water supply, 2) the dough’s long fermentation time, and 3) the coal-fired ovens of its progenitors.
According to pizza expert Tony Gemignani (11-time World Pizza Champion), New Haven’s water quality is “moderately hard”, the most ideal type of water for making dough: “Water is the second-largest ingredient that goes into our dough recipes. Moderately hard water is the best. We tend to hate chlorinated or hard water, or water that has heavy limescale in it. The reason why New York, Chicago, New Haven, and San Francisco have great pizza is because of the water.” This type of water (slightly mineral-laden) makes the dough adhere more completely to itself, creating a denser, crispier crust.
Most New Haven pizzerias let their dough settle much longer in refrigeration before bringing it to room temperature, rolling it out, and throwing toppings on. This cold resting period slows the yeast and makes it less sour; it also makes for a more elastic dough.
While not every pizza joint in New Haven is coal-fired (the EPA would be all up in their grills ovens), a couple establishments, such as Pepe’s and Sally’s, got grandfathered in. Their ovens are huge, coal-powered powerhouses that give the crusts of their pizzas a distinctive blackened char that inevitably ends up all over your face and hands. An ideal New Haven pizza requires a lot of napkins.
There are a few things you’ve gotta know before going out to try some New Haven pizza, and they’ll make your experience that much easier when you finally decide to open your eyes to what pizza should be.
First, if you order a “plain pie” at Pepe’s or Sally’s, you will inevitably be greeted by a cheeseless pizza. That’s because, owing to the long-standing tradition of making tomato pies started by Frank himself back in the 1920s, the “plain” signifies a pie without mozzarella. It’s still delicious, mind you, but probably not what you’re used to.
Second, cheese is referred to in-house as “mootz” or “sca-mootz”. The origin of “mootz” should be obvious if you’ve ever watched a film by Martin Scorsese -- it’s an Italian pronunciation of “mozzarella”. As for “sca-mootz”, that’s derived from “scamorza”, a type of smoked mozzarella cheese that was originally used on the pies before its paler cousin took center stage.
Third, the slices are going to be irregularly shaped, so it’s going to be a lot more difficult to keep track of who in your party has had the most pizza. Be wary of John. Also, you can’t order by the slice, so come hungry. Shouldn’t be a problem for John.
Finally, lines are most likely going to be long. They say “hunger is the best spice” -- not that these pies need any help being the most delicious things you’ve eaten in a long time. Get a bottle of Foxon Park Birch Beer and wait it out.
The competition between Sally’s and Pepe’s is so fierce that it’s infiltrated the highest levels of the American government. Legend has it that Ronald Reagan was a Pepe’s man, while Bill Clinton prefers Sally’s. Families live and die by their pizza allegiances. For reference, see this conversation between a Pepe’s acolyte and her mother: Pepe’s acolyte: Have we ever gone to Sally's for pizza?
Mother: Never. Pepe’s all the way. But don't let that die-hard attitude sway you -- the competition is friendly and, for an outsider (read: pizza pilgrim), completely guilt-free.
So where will you stand on this great debate? Pepe’s? Sally’s? Modern? Bar? Or maybe any of the slew of other upstarts looking to get in on the apizza action (Est Est Est, Brick Oven, Wall Street Pizza, A-1)?
You should probably go to New Haven to find out.
Adam Lapetina is a food/drink staff writer at Thrillist, and hopes his New Haven friends forgive him for letting their secret out. Read his musings on Twitter at @adamlapetina.


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Through the program, each NFL player will get a voucher from Sleep Number that they can take into their local Sleep Number retail location and order a 360 Smart Bed. So, it's an opt-in program. The players will learn how to read the SleepIQ data on the Sleep Number app on their iPhone or Android phone, and then they'll have the option of sharing the data with their trainer and the team to help optimize their training regimen. The goal of the program is to get nearly every NFL player in a Sleep Number bed before the 2018 season begins this fall.
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All you have to do is say, "Alexa, send a message." Alexa will then either send your message as a regular text, or over Alexa messaging (if it's to another Alexa-enabled device). The new feature works using any Alexa device, like the Echo Dot or Echo Show, but it only users with Android phones will be able to enable text messaging — at least for now.
The Stations app will let you just start listening without needing to make any tough choices. So far, the app has been downloaded by fewer than 100 people, so it's definitely rolling out quietly. It's possibly restricted to certain Android phones too, as I can't download it to my Google Pixel . We'll update this story if we hear what specific regions and devices the app will work with.
As much as the show lampoons corporations and the people who help them thrive and the people who fight against them, the creators accept their place within it all. In one episode, Weisman’s character memorably laments, “You spend years fighting corporations and then you realize, ‘I love southwestern egg rolls.'” The meta-textual kicker to that joke is that it’s actual product placement for Chili’s, which offers the above fried appetizer with avocado-ranch dipping sauce. Viacom is an enormous company and its shows are paid for in part with corporate tie-ins. Just because one of its shows happens to be about how corporations are terrible does not exempt it from that reality.
That said, LibreOffice's parent organization, The Document Foundation , would like to remind you that "LibreOffice 6.0 represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open-source office suites, and as such is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters, and power users. For enterprise class deployments, The Document Foundation maintains the more mature 5.4 family -- now at 5.4.4 "
Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bought tobacco stock after she took over the agency’s top job, according to documents obtained by Politico . Yes, the Trump administration’s top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company , despite the fact that her job is to reduce tobacco use.
If starting a business to generate secondary income and get financial freedom has been one of your goals, but you haven’t got started yet because you don’t know how to go about it, then I’ve some great news for you to take action and change your life forever.
The Chinese government is mad at everyone’s favorite Japanese design store, Muji, and not because its body fit cushions are out of stock.
This would suggest that the message didn't originate from a legit exercise group, and that the spam bots so familiar to Twitter users have made their way over to our exercise apps. It was only a matter of time, I guess.
Twitter user Audrey Dow ( @ADCollegeOpp ) shared a picture of her 9-year-old daughter dressed as her hero former First Lady Michelle Obama for a school project. Dow says her daughter was inspired by the former First Lady's commitment to helping students go to college, and that she sees herself in her hero.
How could they have made them in India when they hadn't even left Africa yet? Are you implying that there was another spies of humans that had evolved and went extinct, outside of Africa?
Samsung is the world's biggest chipmaker, but it doesn't control its smartphone destiny. For a decade, it's been dependent on Google for its OS. Its phone performance has often dragged as a result, because differentiating Samsung features (its "skin") have sat too heavily on Google's base layer. And it hasn't been able to create the sort of cross-Samsung convergence that it's wanted to do, in part because everything has to be laid on top of not only Android, but Google's services layer.
Nearly two-thirds of iPhone X owners would highly recommend the model to others, with another 26% somewhat recommending it. High consumer satisfaction ratings may mean that Apple's risks paid off, and may lead the Cupertino giant to return to its formerly high pace of innovation with its future models.
Microsoft is targeting free programs that claim to scan computers and then try to frighten users with messages that they need a paid upgrade to fix a problem with their PC.
I have found LibreOffice to be an invaluable tool for my daily grind, so when a new release is available, I immediately download and install. Most often this is fairly straightforward—at least for those with enough Linux experience to make it happen. For new users, getting the latest release of LibreOffice can be a real hair puller, unless you're using a distribution that offers bleeding edge software. Because it takes considerable time before the latest release of LibreOffice to reach the standard repositories, I wanted to walk you through the process of installing the latest version on Linux. It's only slightly challenging, but knowing the necessary commands to make it happen will ease away that challenge.
Bushnell earned his place in gaming history for founding Atari (and later, the company that would become Chuck E. Cheese's). But books and profiles written in years and decades past have shown a pattern of sexual objectifying and harassment in Atari's workplace. In the wake of last year's reckoning of sexual harassment claims for celebrities and businessmen, this reframes Bushnell's contribution as helping propagate a boy's club norm that the gaming industry still hasn't shaken off.
Sure you can purchase software that will allow you to do just that, but if you're a Google Drive user, you already have that ability at your fingertips. That's right, Google Docs does a pretty impressive job of converting PDF documents to regular Google Docs. It's not perfect—it's more an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for PDFs and images—but if you're looking for a means to get to that precious text, this is a handy way to do just that.


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The exhibit will feature new and previously displayed large-scale work, and will be staged in such a way as to take full advantage of the Neon Museum’s combination of indoor and outdoor spaces.
Tickets cost $19 and give visitors the ability to browse the outdoor bonyeyard without an online reservation.
Once the Neon Museum’s showing is done, she’ll be restored and re-situated atop a pole on a traffic island at Charleston and Fremont.
Allison Wiese will immerse herself in the Neon Museum’s collection, while also discovering the city.
Another piece of Vegas history now sleeps with the fishes.
Plus, catch Cockroach's new The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and a "family friendly" Las Vegas lecture at the Neon Museum.
The museum's offices are giving way to a 1,300 square-foot museum store, run in partnership with Vegas-based Marshall Retail Group.


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EYC Christmas Dinner - book now!
A reminder that the Club's successful Christmas Dinner is being held on Sunday 11 December from 12 noon.
Members are invited to bring family, but just remember that places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets available from Ann or behind the bar.
Those who don't want to have dinner are welcome to come along afterwards to meet up with friends before Christmas and also watch the world famous, most notorious EYC Annual Pantomime, produced by that excellent wit, polymath and word scribbler Mr Mick Kemp, aided and abetted by his willing troupe of players. Well worth a watch....!!!
See you there for a very good day at the Club.


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http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE DISAGREEABLE INCENSE of sanctimony is permeating presidential politics. The principal sanctity-mongers are John McCain, Bill Bradley and Al Gore.
McCain, the Savonarola from Arizona, is the favorite Republican of those (e.g. the media) who regret that there are Republicans. Two supposed proofs that he has cornered the market on virtue are his insistence that his campaign-reform legislation is necessary because everyone in politics, himself emphatically included, is corrupt, and the fact that his tantrums demonstrate his "authenticity" and noble intolerance of sin.
"I plead guilty," he says in a guilty-plea-as-self-congratulation gambit, "to getting angry when I see gross injustices take place such as I see happen quite often in the Congress of the United States. But do I insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that? No, I don't."
Atlantic Monthly, December 1985: "Just after the July 4 recess, as freshman Joe Barton was walking down the center aisle of the House to cast a vote, he found himself in the middle of an angry cross fire of epithets between Democrat Marty Russo, of Illinois, and Republican John McCain, of Arizona. Seven-letter profanities escalated to twelve-letter ones and then to pushes and shoves before the two were separated."
Various current Republican senators, who say many of McCain's outbursts are not about matters of policy ("gross injustices") but about personal pique, speak off the record with astonishing asperity about McCain, expressing doubts--if not conviction--that his temper is evidence of a temperament unsuited to the presidency. The disqualifying flaw, they say, is characterized by a righteousness that makes McCain disdain the motives of those who differ with him.
And actually it is kindness, not, as some McCain supporters imply, cowardice, that causes these senators to speak only off the record. They expect George Bush's strength in the primaries to obviate the need for more open criticism of their colleague.
Bill Bradley's low-voltage campaigning--call it the charisma of Morpheus--is a reprise of Eugene McCarthy's style during his 1968 meander against President Lyndon Johnson. (Remember McCarthy's drollery: Running for president is like coaching football--you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it is important.) And before McCarthy there was Adlai Stevenson, supposedly so exquisitely thoughtful that asking him to mix with less worthy politicians would be akin to sending Henry James to a NASCAR race.
"Mr. Bradley practices a special form of guilt-inducement, which also (sadly) became a technique of Jack Kemp's: the athlete's sneer. Because Mr. Bradley played games with prosperous black men in the 1960s and 1970s, he thinks that only he, out of all the white race, has enlightened sentiments on questions of race and poverty, and he won't let the palefaces forget it."
As Bradley is learning, Gore is a ferocious partisan who constantly detects the defect of partisanship, meaning a lack of honorable motives, in those who disagree with him. He denounces opponents of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as "reckless" (Sen. Richard Lugar? Six former secretaries of defense?) and partisan (two former CIA directors appointed by Clinton?). And he says that Senate opposition to his pride and joy, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for allocating among nations duties for dealing with global warming, is "partisan."
Partisan? Five months before the protocol was signed, the Senate said that in the shape it was taking (and in the end took), the protocol would be radically unacceptable. By a vote of 95-0 the Senate passed a resolution conditioning ratification on substantial changes in it. Having ignored that vote, the administration now does not dare to submit the protocol for ratification.
Gore's multiplying accusations of partisanship reflect a mentality unable to accept that honorable, intelligent people can differ about most things. The name for this mentality is: fanaticism.
For Gore, as for Bradley and McCain, the politics of sanctimony involves denigrating the motives, and hence the character, of opponents. Which is why the incense dispensed by the sanctimonious smells sulfurous.


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Continuing on from our last post with a list of some blogs to inspire you, we have created another list of really great blogs and podcasts for you to read today.
This article looks at the benefits of remote, unmoderated user interviews, where participants complete pre-determined activities when and where they would like, with the researcher reviewing the recorded session later instead of communicating with the participant in real time.
Getting started in your creative career can be tough so Mitch Goldstein, a professor of design at Rochester Institute of Technology answers readers questions related to beginning a career.
Today’s chatbots guide users through simple flows and the user research in this article shows that they have a hard time whenever users deviate from those flows.
The companies with the best financial returns have a bold, design-centric vision that’s clearly embedded in the top teams. Cross-functional talent, analytical leadership, continuous iteration and user experience are included in the guidelines for how to run a company that reaps the benefits of good design.
The podcast explores the process and power of architecture and design and how great design can be all around us, have a huge impact on our lives, and yet it can be unnoticed and almost invisible, hence the name.
Have you found any interesting UX blogs that you think may interest us? Tweet us at @arekibo!


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Winnipeg Studio Theatre is a non-profit company founded in 2006 devoted to creating, developing and producing Canadian and international contemporary plays and musicals in an intimate setting. Our goals are educational and developmental, combining a mix of original, traditional and experimental theatre where creativity can emerge and artists of different disciplines can discover and work together.
WST has developed a niche in the Winnipeg theatre scene by producing small intimate contemporary musical theatre productions that appeal to all ages, in particular young adults. We believe that the types of musicals we choose have an incredible amount of depth in their stories and characters and use music as a vehicle to heighten the drama and propel the story forward. Glitz, glamour, and big dance numbers are not the criteria; instead the focus shifts to the story and development of the characters.
Recent productions include School of Rock, American Idiot, Heathers, the Musical, Ordinary Days, Rooms – A Rock Romance, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Altar Boyz (which was mounted originally at the Winnipeg Fringe and remounted as part of the Prairie Theatre Exchange season), and Hersteria, a new musical by Sharon Bajer and Joseph Aragon developed by WST and produced at the 2011 Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
WST strives to employ Winnipeg actors, directors, stage managers, designers, and production staff. We endeavor to be a stepping stone for young professionals breaking into the business, and to provide a training ground for emerging artists who need to gain professional experience before advancing to larger theatres such as the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and Prairie Theatre Exchange. We are also entering the 15th season of StudioWorks, our preprofessional young artist program. We realize this is our strength and we hope to continue to fill this need in Winnipeg’s theatre community.
We are also pleased to be part of Winnipeg Independent Theatre (WIT), a collective group of independent small theatre companies.
For more information about WIT click here!


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The Fight Centre – Brisbane is a Muay Thai / Kickboxing school located in Springwood. Classes run at The Fight Centre include: Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Boxing and the Gym has a fully equipped weights and cardio area for our students to improve their strength and conditioning.
We aim to keep the classes fun and the atmosphere positive! All of our member’s goals are treated equally, whether that includes fighting in the ring or cage, gaining self confidence, providing discipline and positive role models for kids, or simply shedding a few pounds. Come in and try us out, The first week is free!


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玛尔斯 the 天界的长子 is an aggressive 近战 力量型 英雄 who controls the battlefield with numerous knockbacks and impassable terrain. Equipped with a large shield, his 护身甲盾 passively blocks attacks from the front and sides, making him a very durable fighter in most situations. The same shield allows him to smash enemies and knock them back, dealing 致命一击 that ignores all 闪避. The 战神迅矛 can be thrown at long range, piercing enemies to push them back, and stunning them upon contact with 树木 or terrain. Mars' most potent ability creates an 热血竞技场, a circular zone where no enemy can exit or enter, as well as blocking enemy attacks from the outside. Used correctly, the Arena of Blood can decisively split and cut off enemies from support during teamfights, making Mars a valuable asset to his team, as well as a highly dangerous opponent.
播放 "To those behind, rally! To those ahead, kneel."
Seeking purpose and satisfaction through war, the god Mars now sets his sights on new conquests against his heavenly kin. In one arm he hoists a heavy shield, an impenetrable 护身甲盾 that guards against all assault. Using divine strength, he pierces foes with his legendary Spear, and smashes attackers back with his shield, sending them flying across the battlefield. The undead warriors of the 余烬军团 rise at Mars' beckoning to form a circle, ensuring that none may interfere with the glorious combat inside the 热血竞技场.
玛尔斯的死亡台词(播放 "What is this madness?!")和刀塔Plus聊天轮盘台词(播放 "THIS IS DOOOOTAAAAA!")引用自电影斯巴达300勇士中的著名场景"THIS IS SPARTA!"


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Dr. Sebastian Rogge is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s Munich office and a member of the Information Technology Practice Group. Before joining the Firm in 2018, he was a research associate at the Department of Public and Comparative Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. During his judicial clerkship, he worked for an international law firm and an American multinational technology company.
Sebastian focuses his practice on all aspects of information technology. He particularly advises German and international clients on IT contract law, e-commerce law, internet law, compliance issues, data protection and privacy.
Advised a global company on a SAP outsourcing project.
Advised a global technology company on the implementation of a global data protection structure.
Drafting of software license agreements and IT service agreements for a global company.
Advised on the introduction of various global IT systems and related issues regarding employee data protection.
Advised a German car manufacturer in the context of IT service rollouts.
Co-author (with Johannes Franke), Netzneutralitätsbeschränkende Absprachen und das Kartellverbot, Verwaltungsarchiv 2015, S. 352 ff.


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When we went to Italy, we ate some lovely Italian food such as Pasta, Pizza and my favourite- GELATO!
You’re probably thinking: Yeah SheriBerri EVERYONE loves Ice Cream! But Gelato isn’t just Ice Cream, it is the Italian version and Gelato is very similar and different to Ice Cream in many ways.
Well…Gelato is made with milk, cream, sugar and maybe flavouring, but it has a higher proportion of milk than Ice Cream does and it has a lower proportion of cream and eggs (sometimes it has no eggs at all). It is more dense and “fluffy” than Ice Cream because it is churned slowly.
Stracciatella (Stra-chee-a-tell-a) – Vanilla with Choc Chip.
The Colours- If the colours are REALLY bright, for instance if it was bright yellow, then the Gelato has lots of artificial colours and flavours put in and not natural ingredients.
The Amount- If the Gelato is piled up in the shop, it means that it has added chemicals to keep it cool, so if it is flat that is best (or sometimes even covered).
The Container- If the container is plastic, it will not keep the Gelato cold which means the Gelato has added chemicals. Gelato in stainless steel is best to keep Gelato cool.
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Wow that a sounds amazing!
Thanks Robyn 🙂 It was very exciting and the Gelato was delicious!


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I just learned about Bitcoin loaning as seen below and tried it a few times. I'm not too clear on the earnings.
Does it mean you can loan your Bitcoin for .0988% return every 2 days? But when I check my loan history, it seems like the loan gets returned to you multiple times a day and it gets loaned out again. Does this mean every time someone that borrows from you gets charged .0988% ? So what is the 2 days for then?
The rate is a daily interest rate.
The duration is a maximum duration - the person who borrows the bitcoin can repay it at any time, but must be prepared to repay the loan by the end of the duration, or the exchange will liquidate their altcoins to recover the bitcoin and automatically repay the loan. The profit you will get from each loan will be (daily interest) * (actual duration of the loan).
The effect you are observing is that of people rapidly borrowing and repaying the loans. If a borrower gets a loan at a high percent interest rate, and a short time later a lower interest offer becomes available, they have an incentive to repay the high interest loan and pick up the new loan at a lower interest. There are bots which manage this process automatically for traders, contributing to the rapid borrowing and payback cycle you have observed.
I guess the rate base on daily, and 2 days mean to lock down for 2 day. so you have chance to cancel, or change the higher rate some how.
Rate: The daily interest rate you are offering your funds at.
How did short positions work on Bitcoinica?