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In-depth look: We got our hands on Star Wars: Battlefront 2 multiplayer and it was awesome!
One of the most anticipated games this year has to be Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Despite its predecessor releasing to a fairly well regarded reception, there was still a lot wrong with the game. For starters, there was no campaign/single-player, the ability to get into vehicles or become a hero was literally based on who can run to the tokens fastest, and the game lacked much depth to anyone other than casual gamers. With those complaints and more, EA and DICE went back to the drawing board to see what they could conjure up for the next iteration of the series.
Fast forward to this year’s E3, and they’ve finally unveiled what they were hard at work on. I must say that from the trailer alone (below), it seems like they have corrected a lot of what fans complained about, as well as added so much more. There’s now a full single-player campaign led by the talented Janina Gavankar that fills in the 30-year gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. On the multiplayer side though, that’s where we see the most changes.
Among the multiplayer changes, DICE have blessed us with battles, characters, vehicles and everything in between from all of the Star Wars films thus far. There are new modes too, but the most notable change is that all DLC will be ABSOLUTELY FREE! That alone will definitely get some salivation in your mouth. Even though EA is throwing all the bells and whistles at us, we still had yet to see how the game actually played in person.
At EA’s very own showcase outside of E3 called EA Play, we got our chance to be the first to get our grubby little hands on Battlefront 2. Even though we played a 20v20 LAN game on PS4, the game supports 32v32. Jumping in, we were playing the new Galactic Assault mode on the Theed map, which is similar to Battlefield‘s Rush and/or Operations. Our team was the Droid Federation Army going up against the Clone Troopers.
We had 3 objectives to complete that were split into 3 separate phases. The first phase was defending friendly tanks against the opposition as they pushed towards the palace. They enemy team had access to Ion Disruptors (basically rocket launchers) across the battlefield. If we were successful, the next phase was to disable the security systems, which like in Rush, is basically “arming” them and stopping the other team from disarming. Getting past that brings us to the final phase, which is securing the throne room. To complete this, your team has to run down the ticker for the other team by getting kills.
Right from the start, you can see that DICE have gone back to Battlefront roots by incorporating classes again, like it was with the originals. When choosing a character, you have 4 classes to choose from: Assault, Heavy, Officer, and Specialist. Assault is your basic Infantry class with a blaster rifle and pistol. Heavy carries a big rapid-fire blaster and has defensive capabilities like a mobile shield. This class is great if you’re trying to push. Officer carries a pistol with a scope, can drop turrets and has the ability to buff nearby teammates. Lastly, Specialist is the sniper class and can lay trip mines as well as scan the nearby area for enemies, revealing them.
Returning from the previous Battlefront are Star Cards, but this time they’re a bit more fleshed out. Just like before, you can add them to your character to change up your abilities. The new part, however, is that they’re class-specific as well as tiered. The higher the tier of the card, the better that ability is. Players will be able to get Star Cards in a similar fashion to Battlefield and Mass Effect, with a sort of battle pack system.
I decided to go in first as Assault, just to get a feel for things. Right away I could tell that DICE addressed a big issue from the first game, which was that the weapons didn’t feel like they had a kick to them. This time around, every weapon actually “feels” different in handling and firing, and definitely made it more immersive for me. I did also play as each of the other classes too, and I must say the uniqueness of each one was a pleasant change from the previous title. I would say that my favorite class to play as was the Heavy, because you’re literally like a moving wall and can obliterate most opposition in your way.
As I was getting kills and assists though, I was racking up Battle Points. Now this is new mechanic being introduced that will replace those awful token pickups from the first game. Instead of players rushing to grab tokens for things like vehicles, heroes and power weapons, you’ll have to earn your way up. As you earn Battle Points from completing objectives, getting kills and assists, it will open up more options for you to use in the game; the more BP you save up, the better the rewards are. For the Droids, you have access to the Vulture Droid fighter, Troop Transport, AAT Tank, Super Battle Droid and of course, Heroes. Choices were either Darth Maul or Boba Fett. I must say that I love the changes DICE made to earn your way up instead of fighting to grab a pickup on the ground.
With my squad of 4, we traversed the area eliminating threats that came our way as we tried to guide our tanks to the palace through the streets of Theed. As we kept our team communication up, we were able to power our way through the first phase of the map. Next up was the assault on the palace and trying to disable the security systems. Things really got interesting here as many players started spending BP on upgrades as well as heroes (including myself).
The battle was more than intense as we tried to take out the two objectives. The enemy team pushed us almost fully outside and it seemed like hope was lost. At least until Darth Maul entered the mix and me as Boba Fett. We led the charge with our teammates behind us, and the tide of battle started to change. We took out the enemy Rey and Han Solo, which allowed us to finally disable the security and move into the final phase of the map. All we had to do now was take the throne room, and we’d win the match. Unfortunately, that was easier said than done, as our foes weren’t giving up that easily.
Everything was on the line and down to the wire, and everyone on both sides tried their damnedest to overpower the other. With lightsabers swinging, blaster fire whizzing by, and explosions going off all around, this was probably my favorite part of the entire match. Eventually, the battle came to an end with the other teaming winning by a hair. Although we lost, I had so much fun just in that one match. I can honestly say that EA and DICE have really been listening to fans and players alike, and have addressed as much as they can to deliver something better than before.
There are a different feel and experience this time around and I really think Battlefront 2 will be able to give fans what they should have gotten the first time around. Now all we have to do is wait until it releases later this year on November 17 for Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. Are you excited for Star Wars: Battlefront 2? Let us know in the comments below.
Also, check out some awesome gameplay from YouTuber JackFrags to give you a taste of things to come.


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English abstract: 2200 interspecific F1 hybrid plants between L. esculentum ( cultivas Beijing Zaohong) as pistal parent and L. peruvianum ( the accession 8 of PI 128657) were obtained with the means of embryo culture. Among the 1295 F1 hybrid plants observed, 287 plants shew normal in flowering, fruit-setting and seed-developing, the rest set only a few fruits with no seeds inside due to the abnormality in chromo-some numbers ( 2n = 48-96 ) . Many characters of the F1 hybrid were intermidiate to those of its parents such as the shape and size of leaves, growing habit, and size of fruits; but the novel variations also appeared in the F1 hybrid and its progenies, for instance, the color of the F1 fruits and the shape and arrangement of inflorescene in F2 generation. The interspecific self-incompatibility was overcome with the natu-ral "intercrossing" between F1 plants, meanwhile, the forced self-polli-nation did not result in fruit-setting. The backcrossing between the hybrids and both parents in the reciprocal combinations shew the high incompatibility. All lines of the F1 hybrids and its progenies were highly resistant to strain 0 and strain 1 of TMV respectively, The F2 generation had only tolerance (55.6%) to strain 1·2 of TMV while some lines of F3 generation shew resistance, which indicates that the accession 8 of L. peruviatnum ( PI128657 ) possibly possesses TM_(2) ~a gene. The reactions of the F2 to the fern-leaf strain of CMV from Nan-jing region were high resistance (7.5%), resistance (32.5%), tole-rance (42.5%) and susceptibility (17.5%); The inoculating of the strong strain of CMV from Nanjing region made half of the F2 lines show tolerant and another half susceptible;7.5% lines in F3 generation. shew resistant to the same strain.
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Liverpool Convention Bureau manager Carol O’Reilly is to take over as chair of the Meetings Industry Association (MIA) Destinations Group.
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KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Prime Minister Moataz Moussa announced to parliament on Wednesday a 15-month emergency economic-reform plan, including “further strict austerity measures,” to begin this month.
In September, 11 months after the United States lifted 20-year-old trade sanctions, Bashir dissolved his government, citing Sudan’s “state of distress and frustration,” and slashed a third of ministries to cut costs.
CAIRO: Huawei will roll out its 5G phone network for the first time during this summer’s Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt’s minister of communications and information technology said on Sunday.
The Chinese firm will introduce the technology at the 74,000-capacity Cairo International Stadium, which is set to host 10 games including the final during the competition.
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I know that I have fans of my music on all political avenues and boulevards, but if you've listened to my music you know that I am not apologetic in my musical activism. My family and I stayed up rather late last night watching live coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives, and we were deeply moved by the passion and resounding courage of the representatives who decided to take a stand. I want to share some of my thoughts on the matter.
I have spent the last five+ years writing, performing, recording and sharing music that speaks out against the troubles of the world from my point of view. I sing out, inspired by the legacy of so many, but especially by the examples set by the late Pete Seeger who knew that if we could manage to join our voices together, we could change the world. We could shine a light on injustice that would reflect and echo intellectually and emotionally within our communities. These words and music would spread like wildfire. For example, listen to any rendition of We Shall Overcome and witness the power of song -- as Zilphia Horton wrote in her introduction of the song in the People's Songs Bulletin, "Its strong emotional appeal and simple dignity never fails to hit people." Last night, hearing our reps sing a version of that song on the floor of the House -- a song by the people, for the people -- was a serious moment that underlined for me that this was NOT a stunt, as posited by Speaker Ryan, but that this was a moment of Truth.
Hundreds of millions of guns make it unbearably easy to add up the numbers of dead -- 33,000 gun deaths in American in just one year. This is not about protection in the countryside away from law enforcement, or about hunting game in the backwoods of Indiana. Or about "Islamic Radicals" or about the Second Amendment, or about the protection of Due Process. This is truly gun makers protecting their business interests. The NRA is largely funded by gun makers. And in return for this, the NRA actively lobbies our Senators and Representatives, and pursues political support and local legislation across this country to promote the marketplace for the sale and distribution of tools of murder.
The setup has been long in the making, and even with the technology-media-collapse of our "fourth branch", the press, many have shown ample evidence for all of this. But the problem is that changing a system from within can be an impossibly difficult endeavor. That is why we all must actively add our voice in support of the house minority. It's why we need to flood the phone lines. It's why we need to show up and vote on election day. We all need to sing out. As loud as we can.
I have assembled a bunch of my songs about these issues and more in this free to stream playlist on SoundCloud because these are things I believe with great passion, and I will #HoldTheFloor as long as I am able in my own way. Please join in. Even if you disagree with me about guns (and I know some of you do), participate and speak up, develop a relationship with your community leaders, and maybe even become one yourself.

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Other Such Happenings: It's SNOWING! In Houston!
Will wonders never cease?! When we landed in Houston, we looked out the window to see big, giant, beautiful snowflakes! Dash and Tank were SO excited. We could hardly believe our eyes!
Edited to add: I just had to add that the boys did not own heavy jackets or gloves or hats until last week. I hit a few thrift stores and Target to purchase the too-warm-for-Houston items in preparation for our visit to Spokane this week (where it did not snow!). Lest ye think that the weather has gone topsy turvy, the forecast for Houston tomorrow is 71! C-R-A-Z-Y!

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Mike Myatt: The myth of "When To Lead" http://tinyurl.com/ybhknqf >An important point!
We usually aren't suffering because we can't solve our problems; we are suffering because we can't see our problems.
RT @toddsattersten: "If you work really hard and you are kind, amazing things will happen" Conan closing final show as host of Tonight Show.
@BillGates My new website is live check out thegatesnotes. Excited to share more about what I’m learning, hope you like it!
Pliny the Younger on relationships: "We are paid in our own coin."
In women’s brains, there are more active sensorial and emotive centers, and better linkage of these centers to language centers; men’s senses don’t generally work as well as women’s. Men don’t process as much emotion, and men don’t tend to link as much complex emotion or sensorial detail to words. Men downplay emotion, even at the risk of hurt feelings, in order to play up performance. Men are chemically and neurally directed toward immediate rewards from performance, and they often prod—and sometimes humiliate or shame-coworkers in this direction. Women work constantly toward helping others express emotions in words rather than just in actions and search for a method for direct empathy when someone’s feelings are hurt, even at the expense of current goals.
In men’s brains, the cerebellum tends to be larger than in the female brain. The cerebellum is the center for action and physical movement. Thus, men tend to communicate more nonverbally, with more emphasis on movement and physicality than women’s emphasis on words. Men also often misread women’s facial expressions of frustration or annoyance—leading women to think that men don’t care. Additionally, men often listen without as much facial expression as women exhibit. Women can tend to feel not heard by men who recline away from them or listen with a blank face.
Men’s brains enter a “rest state,” a zone out state, more easily than women’s. This happens many times per day naturally for men – comparatively, women’s brains do not shut off in this way except in sleep. Men’s brains also enter a rest state when quantities of words become overwhelming during communication. Men are more likely to “zone out” if discussions become lengthy or wordy. In a meeting, men may keep themselves awake by what might appear to be fidgeting—clicking a pen, tapping, looking away, and the like.
Men’s brains circulate more testosterone than women’s, as compared to women’s greater neural emphasis on oxytocin. Testosterone is a competition/aggression chemical. Oxytocin is a bonding chemical. Quite often during communication, men will try to compete while women try to bond. The more support women build around them, the lower their stress level.
Women tend to be more interactive, wanting to keep interactions extended and vital until the interaction has worked through its emotional context. So much more sensory and emotive information is processed through female brain flow that female leaders tend more than men do, to seek more interactions in a day. Men tend to be more transactional in their interactions. Once the transaction of the interaction is complete, they tend to move away from the interaction and back to their more solitary task.
What Kind of Leadership Will Work in 2010?
They think and act systemically: they see things as a whole rather than compartmentalising. They connect the parts by a guiding sense of purpose.
They see people as the route to performance: they are deeply people and relationship centered rather than just people-oriented. They not only like and care about people, but have come to understand at a deep level that the capability and engagement of people is how they achieve exceptional performance.
They are self-confident without being arrogant: self-awareness is one of their fundamental attributes. They are highly motivated to achieve excellence and are focused on organisational outcomes, vision and purpose. But they understand they cannot create performance themselves. Rather, they are conduits to performance through their influence on others. The key tool they have to do this is not systems and processes, but themselves and the ways they interact with and impact on those around them. This sense of self is not ego-driven. It is to serve a goal, creating a combination of humility and self-confidence. This is why they watch themselves carefully and act consistently to achieve excellence through their interactions and through their embodiment of the leadership role.
While these studies are helpful in defining what leaders need to aspire to, what is not so easy is converting these values into daily practice. In another fine article in the Financial Times by Stefan Stern, he offers the conclusions of a study by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. In Leaders Must Live Up to Their Promises, he writes, “Mr Goffee and Mr Jones concluded – after speaking to followers, i.e. lower-ranking employees rather than leaders – that the best leaders brought four things to their organisations: a sense of community, a sense that the work is significant, a sense of excitement (or fun), and authenticity (meaning that the personality and behaviour of the leader is consistent and credible).
Timidity and smallness in our leaders is nothing new. It has to be exposed and challenged, generation after generation. Even while we secretly hope for powerful new leaders to emerge.
Becoming an outstanding leader is likely to depend a great deal on maturity, self-awareness and self-development within the job. Some of the outstanding leaders featured in the research did not originally have a people-focused approach, but realised the impact they were having on people and therefore adjusted their style accordingly. They arrived at this point through experience, maturity and reflection. They had a very sophisticated understanding of cause and effect and how their actions can dramatically affect outcomes.
I would suggest that “maturity, self-awareness and self-development” will help us to adjust our leadership to the context we now find ourselves working within.
Loyalty is a critical subject for leaders. As builders of community, we can’t function without it. Successful organizations are built on relationships. Leadership is all about relationships. But how important is modeling loyalty in everything you do?
It is hard to talk about sustainability, community, personal responsibility and relationships without talking about loyalty. Yet we do.
The possibility of leaving applies to some degree to our relationships with everyone. Weak friendships, dysfunctional families, bad marriages, intolerant religious institutions, and inept governments all face the prospect of abandonment. And there are indeed times when leaving is the best option.
But society cannot function and relationships cannot last if leaving is the readily selected, probable outcome to every perceived grievance. And while few would admit to cutting and running when times get tough, many, if not most of us, have a general sense that leaving has become too easy for many.
Loyalty is about making commitments to causes, people and ideas through thick and thin, for better or for worse. It is about service to something greater than ourselves.
Long-term thinking helps to develop loyalty. Professor Richard Sennett observed, “’No long term’ is a principle which corrodes trust, loyalty, and mutual commitment … social bonds take time to develop, slowly rooting into the cracks and crevices of institutions.” Leaders are hard pressed to function without it.
Pinpoint Where You Are: Where do you stand? We believe we are far more loyal than the recipients of our loyalty believe us to be. They offer the online LoyaltyAdvisior assessment to aid you in determining where you are.
Prioritize Those Things That Matter: If we want to make loyalty a meaningful part of our everyday existence, then we need to understand where we are actually spending our time and then prioritize.
Can You Pass the Fitzgerald Test?
I have to focus on running operations with laserlike precision without stifling creativity.
I exist because of my big business, but “small saplings” are critical for long-term success.
Data drives my decisions, but I have to trust intuition and judgment when data doesn’t exist or is vague.
Attention to detail and focus on numbers has allowed me to progress in my career, but too much focus on details or numbers can crowd out innovation.
The people I trust the most are people who deliver short-term results and never surprise me, but innovation almost always involves some kind of surprise.
I have to leverage my capabilities to win today’s battles while walking away from many of these capabilities to win tomorrow’s battles.
To this we might add the ability to look at solutions to problems that have more than one solution or seemingly opposing goals—serving shareholders and our communities, to grow and be good stewards. If you have a low tolerance for opposing thoughts you are less likely to look for other alternatives. This greatly limits your ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
But the capacity to deal with paradox, to work with opposable ideas, is learnable. Again, self-awareness is key. Understand how you view the world. Then, creating a specific developmental program to help you take a broader view, to integrate multiple perspectives, to view solutions as both/and instead of either/or, will help you pass the Fitzgerald Test.
When two or more of these needs are experienced you are likely to describe the group experience as memorable. While it might seem to happen by chance, it's a choice. Any member of a group, aware of these needs as expressed in a group setting, can take the steps necessary to move that group to a more transformative, extraordinary experience. Meeting these core human needs is accomplished best in small groups (2 to 20 people).
To accomplish this, you want to be a facilitative leader as opposed to a directive leader. With the group needs model in mind, the authors suggest that you “stand back from your group to consider the individual members, their collective purpose, and the world in which they operate” and ask “How might this group experience meet those needs?” Then consider the eight indicators of extraordinary groups (listed above) to see if they are present. Do members of the group seem energized, hopeful, connected and positively changed?
Extraordinary Groups offers practical advice on implementing the Groups Model into your own group situation. All of the suggestions offered are accompanied by examples, reflection questions and sample actions for both you and the group. By paying attention to group needs you can more consistently transform ordinary groups into something more energizing, connecting and affirming.
At Work, people often look at their jobs in terms of tasks rather than responsibilities. But if you don’t view responsibility in the broader sense, you may be committing the most subtle of unforced errors: Over time you may fall off the corporate radar screen. Your boss may feel that you are capable of completing a routine task or matter, but if the assignment is more than routine, or if the boss is looking for someone to take the initiative, she will not think of you. And when it comes time to promote someone or to draw up a list of the valuable people she needs to keep when corporate belt tightening requires a layoff, she will not think of you.
If there is nobody addressing a problem that you observe, or taking advantage of an opportunity that you see, think about whether you should be doing it yourself.
Taking responsibility is about developing a mind-set that says: “I am responsible for what happens in my unit. It’s my job to help get us to success.
Surviving and thriving in this crucible of conflicting demands is no easy task. It requires that leaders strengthen and develop their internal resources. They must learn to enter the fundamental state of leadership when faced with challenges—a state that demands that they dig deep into their values and purpose. That fundamental state of leadership requires leaders to move from comfort with activities to focus on results, from self-absorption to commitment to mission and higher purpose, from focus on self to focus on others, from being internally closed to being externally open, and from hiding the truth to embracing the truth.
Incidentally, it will not come as a surprise to readers of the Leading Blog, that generally, underperforming companies have not developed leaders throughout their organizations. Beer suggests that this is because “most managers had come up through their home function, business unit, or region, and never acquired the broader general management perspective needed to understand and manage cross-boundary activities….In many of the companies, ineffective senior teams did not spend time developing common values and perspective about what constituted good leadership.” Again, the primary responsibility to learn to lead from where you are lies with you.
We have been going through the worst economy in three generations. It has been a defining moment for many leaders. While many of us have been focused on surviving, there have been those leaders that have thrived in this economy; leaders who have taken advantage of this changing economy and have found opportunities amid the uncertainty.
Lori Ann LaRocco, Senior Talent Producer at CNBC and a producer of the show Squawk Box, was in a position to ask some of the best minds in business today how they are responding this economic environment, how they are defying failure and what opportunities do they see?
As a result, LaRocco has assembled 23 insightful essays in Thriving In the New Economy. In their own words, they shed light on how they view the crisis, what they did as a result, and what they plan to do. It makes for a compelling read to gain a window on these leaders' different but similar viewpoints and approaches.
The essays are divided into five sections: the economy, banking, real estate, autos, and retail. You will read personal accounts from people like economists Larry Lindsey and David Malpass; Wall Street legends Jack Bogle, Bob Doll, Abby Joseph Cohen, Ron Baron and Peter Cohen; bankers Kelly King, and Donald Powell; real estate executives Don Peebles Richard LeFrak, and Ron Peltier; and from the auto and retail industries Jim Lentz and Steve Sadove.
Larry Lindsey, CEO of The Lindsey Group shares this on the function of leadership: “Most institutions prefer managers who will serve the needs of an existing institution—that is, who will follow the wishes of the various constituencies within the institution—rather than managers who will lead the institution to a new place."
I’ll take information wherever I get it and run it down. Winning is all about showing up. I know a lot of people who say they don’t want to go to work and claim to have nothing to do there. That’s not true. There is always something to do at work—always. That is a philosophy that I follow, and that we follow. And while I think we’re in for a really difficult time ahead, I’m really excited that there’ll be some great opportunities that will come out of it.
You can read (PDF) the contribution by Wilbur Ross on how he analyzes a crisis and how he chooses to invest.
We have a long tradition of approaching leadership via the “power of positive thinking.” I want to counterbalance that approach by paying special attention to the tendency we have as leaders to project more shadow than light. Leadership is hard work for which one is regularly criticized and rarely rewarded, so it is understandable that we need to bolster ourselves with positive thoughts. But by failing to look at our shadows, we feed a dangerous delusion that leaders too often indulge: that our efforts are always well intended, our power is always benign, and the problem is always in those difficult people whom we are trying to lead.
WHY gets to the cause of things. The answer is your purpose or belief. It explains why you get up in the morning, why should I follow you, why should I buy from you.
Your why is what inspires people. It gives clarity. Everything you do—your HOWs and WHATs—flows from your WHY.
Great leaders, in contrast, are able to inspire people to act. Those who are able to inspire give people a sense of purpose or belonging that has little to do with any external incentive or benefit to be gained…. Those who are able to inspire will create a following of people—supporters, voters, customers, workers—who act for the good of the whole not because they have to, but because they want to.
“People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.” The problem says Simon Sinek, “is most businesses today are making decisions based on a set of incomplete or, worse, completely flawed assumptions about what’s driving their business.” They don’t know or have forgotten the why. Whys are hard to communicate. It’s easier to talk about what you do or how you do it. So we focus on the whats and the hows and over time, the why can get lost.
In Start With Why he introduces the Golden Circle to explain loyalty and how to create enough momentum to turn an idea into a social movement. It begins from the inside out. It starts with why.
"All great leaders have charisma because all great leaders have clarity of WHY; an undying belief in a purpose or cause bigger than themselves."
If you're considering some personal development goals you couldn't go wrong reviewing the 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior once copied down by George Washington.
By age sixteen, Washington had copied out by hand the 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. They are based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. Presumably they were copied out as part of an exercise in penmanship assigned by young Washington's schoolmaster. The first English translation of the French rules appeared in 1640, and are ascribed to Francis Hawkins the twelve-year-old son of a doctor.
Today many, if not all of these rules, sound a little fussy if not downright silly. It would be easy to dismiss them as outdated and appropriate to a time of powdered wigs and quills, but they reflect a focus that is increasingly difficult to find. The rules have in common a focus on other people rather than the narrow focus of our own self-interests that we find so prevalent today. Fussy or not, they represent more than just manners. They are the small sacrifices that we should all be willing to make for the good of all and the sake of living together.
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Let me tell you a story about a young boy and his cat. The boy is very kind, caring and always does what he is told. He loves helping out his mom and taking care of others. He especially loves taking care of his cat.
Every night the young boy gets his pajamas on, reads a book, and brushes his teeth before bed. He loves reading to his cat and she loves the attention she gets from the boy. They read stories like, "That's Not My Bear," "Bubble Trouble," and "Miss Spider's Tea Party." The boy loves his cat very much.
One night the boy said to his dad, "Dad, I need to brush my teeth, so I think I should also brush the cat's teeth."
Dad said, "No. Cats don't need their teeth brushed. Besides she will not like it either. Please do not brush the cat's teeth."
This only made the boy more curious and he wanted with his whole heart to take care of his beloved kitty. "If I don't brush her teeth," he thought, "Then she will get sugar bugs in her mouth, just like I do if I don't brush my teeth. When I don't brush my teeth it makes Mommy mad. I must brush the cat's teeth."
Disregarding what his father had said, the boy quickly put toothpaste on his sister's toothbrush. Then he chased the cat down the hallway until he caught up with her. Swiftly he forced the toothbrush into the cat's mouth getting toothpaste on her chin and backside.
The cat meowed, and raced down the stairs foaming at the mouth. "What happened?" Mom exclaimed.
"He tried to brush her teeth," replied the older sister pointing at the accused.
"Oh, no!" Mom cried racing to get a towel out of the linen closet. She wrapped the cat in the towel, wiped her face and called the vet.
"There's something wrong with my cat," the kids heard their mother say over the phone.
"My son tried to brush her teeth and now she's foaming at the mouth."
"He used Aim Toothpaste. No, I don't know if there is xylitol in it. There's no ingredients list on the tube."
"Thank you. Yes we will bring her in if there are any more problems."
Mom put the cat and the phone down and began to scold her son. "You are very lucky young man. The toothpaste does not contain xylitol which is very harmful to cats. If it did we would be at the vet's right now."
The boy learned his lesson and promised he will not ever brush the cat's teeth again.
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Pujas in Thirunarayur and Thirunellar temple in Kumbakonam last two years.
Puttaparthi Agastya Astrologer Sai Bharathi gives frequent notice of conducting homams, puja, prayers and archanam for loka-sevanam, the welfare of the world.
Rahotsavam is taking the deity in procession, surrounded by prayer, chanting and sacred mantras. It is a special form of devotional activity which both celebrates the presence of the deity and allows many to participate. Here, Sai Bharati leads the rahotsavam chariot.
Commencement of sacred ceremonies can require a cow and calf to be present to be fed and/or to receive sacred offerings.


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GALESBURG — The Knox College men’s basketball team suffered an 84-55 Midwest Conference loss to Illinois College on Wednesday.
The Prairie Fire (1-23, 0-17) led by four with 7:10 left in the first half. the Blue Boys took the lead back for good with an 8-0 run with 5:12 to go. IC finished out the half with a 9-5 run for a 36-29 lead at the end of the first half. The Blue Boys (8-16, 6-11) finished the win with a 48-26 second half.
Jordan Raynor had 17 points and Justin Windt added 12 to lead Knox.


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Today over half the global population lives in urban areas; by 2050, the UN projects that number to grow to 70 percent. The World Economic Forum forecasts we’ll need to develop the same amount of infrastructure that’s been built over the past 4,000 years to accommodate the coming wave of urbanites. This will only compound the fact that cities are already responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions, sewage overflows and air pollution.
Many believe technology will solve the urbanite plight with mountains of collected data. Everything will have a wireless sensor and be connected to the cloud — from transit card swipes to smart energy meters to air quality monitors to taxi rides to 311 calls. New York City, which produces 1 terabyte of this type of data per day, has a dedicated analytics team to manage and parse through the deluge.
And yet, for most, today’s vision of a smart city remains an elusive luxury. Even if every city had a Chief Information, Data, or Technology Officer, it’s quite likely that in the breathless optimism of chasing a smart city, decision-makers would end up spending billions metering and sensoring every inch, only to discover that the results fall short.
They'll be obvious (“yep, crossing the 520 bridge in Seattle any time after 4 p.m. is a nightmare, though any local could tell you that”) or come too late (we spend all that time on data collection, and quietly passed the tipping point of dangerous climate change). They could turn cities into the equivalent of airport security checkpoints, where nothing is private and public distrust is at an all-time high. They may unintentionally create “automaton” cities where decision-making is so automated or restricted to a small group of data scientists that it becomes devoid of citizen input. They could become smart but unimaginative (reflecting what’s happening, but be incapable of simulating the complexities of what could be).
So how can we make more out of collected data while also simulating alternatives to today’s messy reality?
At the risk of oversimplifying a complex topic, we can boil it down to three fundamentals.
1. Create a master repository of data that acts as a “single source of truth” — as with national security intelligence failures in the past, data that lives in silos is the bane of true understanding and decision-making.
2. Use that data to imagine future scenarios and simulate possible outcomes — analyze projects from every angle in the virtual world before ever breaking ground in the real one.
3. Prove the economic, environmental and social benefits of projects in order to secure increasingly scarce financing.
Let’s not get too swept up in a technological future that is, at worst, a costly diversion — and at best, unevenly distributed. Let’s instead refocus our discourse on the real promise of data in today’s cities: simulating the thriving and sustainable city that could be, and securing the funds to get us there.
Top image of city by Dahabian via Shutterstock. This article originally appeared in Quartz in a longer form.


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The Nationals have just seven home games left. Their final home game is Wednesday, Sept. 26 against the Marlins. It could be Nats fans' last chance to see Bryce Harper in a Washington uniform.
Mike Rizzo, during his weekly appearance with The Sports Junkies, was asked a tough question: Will the team acknowledge Harper possibly playing his last home game?
"I'm not sure what the plans are for that," said Rizzo, sponsored by Burke & Herbert Bank. "I would think that the fans will certainly recognize the season he's had and the way he's played for us and that type of thing. He's had a great season for us and a guy who's really carried us in the second half of the year.
"I think the fans will certainly acknowledge him. He's put together six good years for us in the big leagues and he's a guy that is really beloved by the fanbase."
While acknowledging he's not sure if the Nats have anything special planned, the GM's response suggests this one's on the fans. The true test of a strong fanbase, to be sure. Show up in droves, to thank a beloved player you've watched grow up in front of your eyes, for seven years of exhilarating baseball. You may never get this chance again.
Thank him for the 184 homers and the 518 RBI. Thank him for four division titles, the 631-plus wins. For his glorious MVP campaign, and his first 900 games.
Thank him for giving you his youth.
"At the very minimum, there's gotta be a standing ovation for him," Jason Bishop said.
"I would imagine the fans are going to really embrace it and really acknowledge Harp," Rizzo said. "Like they did at the Home Run Derby. That was remarkable.
"And show him really what the D.C. fanbase thinks about Bryce Harper."
This one's on you, Nationals fans.
You only get one shot at this, so make it count.


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Jenson’s breakthrough into Formula 1 came in 2000 when he made his debut for Williams and achieved the accolade of being the youngest ever Brit to score a world championship point in only his second race for the team. He ended his debut season with 8th place in the drivers championship with 12 points.
2001 saw him move to Benetton where the highs of his debut season were replaced with the crashing reality of an unreliable and uncompetitive car, leaving Jenson 17th in the championship after scoring only 2 points all year. He stayed with the team in 2002 as it evolved into Renault and scored in 7 races and finishing seventh in the championship.
2003 once again saw Jenson move teams, this time to BAR, where he regularly out performed his team mate, the former world champion Jacques Villeneuve. 2004 was by far Jenson’s best season to date, with 10 podium finishes he managed to finish third in the Driver’s Championship with 85 points and only the Ferrari’s ahead of him.
2005 was again back to the hard times for Jenson, the promise shown in 2004 had gone and it wasn’t until the 10th race of the season that Jenson managed to get his first points of the season. Although Jenson did have a strong finish to the end of the season, the early disqualification and subsequent two race ban for having a car under the weight limit made 2005 a year to forget.
One of the things Jenson is probably best known for his contractual controversies during 04 & 05 as to whether he would be a Williams or Honda driver. In the end a speculated £10 million was paid by Jenson to remain at Honda for 2006. It was finally at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix and after 114 starts that Jenson Button managed to win his first grand prix. Although for the last 6 races of the 2006 season Jenson was the highest point scorer of anyone. He ended up 6th in the drivers championship with 56 points.
2007 would force Jenson to once again endure a torrid season with a car that he had hoped would help him battle for the title, it instead had difficultly keeping up with the Spykers! Described as ‘undriveable’ and ‘devoid of any straight line speed’, Jenson was relegated to the back of the grid, where parking it and becoming a spectator must have been more appealing than carrying on racing. His hopes quickly became pinned on the 2008 car and let’s face it, it couldn’t have been any worse than the 07 car.
Although 2008 was a dramatic improvement on 2007, the car and team were still firmly locked in and amongst the back markers. A 6th place finish at the Spanish GP proved to be Jenson's only point scoring result all year. What was even worse was his team mate Barrichello enjoyed much better results, including a podium finish at the British GP.
As if things couldn't get any worse for Jenson in early December of 2008 Honda announced that they would be withdrawing from Formula 1 due to the growing economic crisis.
2009 would prove to be the break through year Jenson had been waiting for. After spending most of the winter wondering whether he would have a car to drive next season, he arrived in Melbourne for the first round with the fastest and comfortably took pole and the race win. Only the second of his career. He repeated this at the rain socked Malaysian GP and took an early lead in the championship.
Jenson’s sensational start continued winning four races on the trot from Bahrain to Turkey, making his start one of the all time greatest starts to a season in F1. Winning 6 out of the first 7 races is a feat only equalled by Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark and Michael Schumacher.
However after Turkey Button began to struggle after a revived Red Bull challenge. Although he had a comfortable lead in the championship his competition started to rack up stronger results. His first DNF and only DNF came at the Belgium GP after a poor qualifying he was hit from behind by Renault newbie Romain Grosjran in a multi car first lap crash.
Although he didn’t win another race that season, consistent points finishes allowed the Brit to claim his first ever World Championship in Brazil. With 6 races wins, 9 podiums and 95 points.
Yet after securing the Drivers title and help Brawn to win the Constructors Championship, the team failed to resign Button. It was announced late on in 2009 that in a shock move Button would move to McLaren for 2010 to form an all British line-up with Lewis Hamilton.


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There are three exhibitions in Dublinia where you will see Dublin city from a new perspective. Come away knowing more about the citizens of Dublin throughout the ages and share in their experiences.
These exhibitions based on Dublin allow the visitor to interact with the exhibition itself allowing all ages to engage, learn and share.
Viking Dublin ExhibitionGo back to Viking times in Dublin! See for yourself what life was like onboard a Vikingwarship. Learn of their long and challenging voyages, their weaponry and the skills of being a Viking warrior.
Medieval Dublin ExhibitionTravel back to medieval Dublin! From Strongbow to the Reformation we recreate the sights, sounds and smells of this busy city. Learn of warfare, crime and punishment, death and disease and even toothache remedies of 700 years ago.
See how the History Hunters dig deep to uncover Dublin’s past! Learn how archaeology works with history and science to piece together the jigsaws of our ancestor’s lives and lifestyles.


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Cagayan de Oro City (15 March) -- The province of Lanao del Norte is declared by the Regional Development Council (RDC) under NEDA region 10 as this year?s winner in the Search for Outstanding Local Project Monitoring Committees (LPMCs).
Also declared as winners are Gingoog City (city category) and tied for the top spot are Aloran (Misamis Occidental) and Malitbog (Bukidnon) in the municipality category.
All local LPMCs were evaluated on six (6) areas: organization, capability building, reporting on the status of programs and projects, information dissemination, NGO/PO participation in monitoring, and institutional arrangement for the operation of the Regional Project Monitoring and Evaluation System.
"We really don?t expect to receive this award because we were so focused on ensuring that all the projects earmarked for Lanao del Norte be implemented successfully," PPMC chairman Bal Zamora said.
Recognizing the important role of the local project monitoring committees, the RDC in region 10, through the Regional Project Monitoring Committee, instituted the Search for Outstanding LPMC at the province, city and municipal levels where the mayors are presidents of the league of municipalities. The search is conducted every three (3) years to coincide with the term of the local chief executive.
"We really could not have done it without the unwavering support of Gov. Khalid Dimaporo. With the support he has given us, we are all the more inspired to do our best," Zamora said.
The primary objective of the search is to motivate the LCEs and local development councils to facilitate project implementation, and heighten the advocacy on the systematic use of monitoring and evaluation information for decision-making.
The search was undertaken from November 24, 2009 to January 29, 2010, by members of the RPMC-10 and included field visits to the local government units. The RPMC-10 met en-banc last February 17, 2010 and after deliberation, decided to award those that scored more than 75% weighted average.


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High performance Peltier elements, combined with solid silver blocks, provide both speed and proven world-leading thermal uniformity.
Users can now address biological phenomena with subtle effects on gene expression, or pathogen levels, for example discriminating 10% differences in transcript concentrations. The system can discriminate all classes of SNP, including Class 4 SNPs via HRM.
Full spectrum optics (120 channels) combined with advanced matrix deconvolution technology enable simultaneous analysis of at least 7 different targets in a single reaction, each monitored with a different colour of fluorescent label.
The MyGo Pro system comes with easy-to-use SW, and robust high performance algorithms provide accurate results from complex data.<reliability< h3=””>A very few moving part made this instrument high reliable which comes with the option of a 5 year extended warranty.
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A collection of ancient bronze sculptures from the Southeast Asian country will go on display at the Getty Center in 2011. "Gods of Angkor: Bronzes From the National Museum of Cambodia" is set to run from Feb. 22 to Aug. 14, 2011.
Much of the exhibition will feature sculptures depicting Buddhist and Hindu deities created by artists who lived during the Khmer Empire. The sculptures are on loan from the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, which has founded a bronze conservation studio.
The exhibition will open at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., in May.
"Gods of Angkor," which features 36 works, is the result of a partnership between the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries and the National Museum of Cambodia. The two institutions have worked together on conservation and other efforts.


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I developed, managed and wrote copy for multiple instagram giveaway sweepstakes including coordinating with retail partners, legal teams, and a design team. The campaigns grew our instagram audience to 30 thousand followers. Designs by Siena Haz.
I wrote posts for a business audience to direct traffic to the business blog on both LinkedIn and Twitter. Designs by Aditi Gangurde and Carla San Roman.

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FILE - President Thomas S. Monson sits with his counselors President Henry B. Eyring First Counselor First Presidency and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency at the beginning of the Sunday morning session of the 186th Semiannual General Conference at the Conference Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The First Presidency has sent letters to Mormons in four states asking them to speak out against bills that would legalize physician-assisted suicide and recreational marijuana use in their states.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The LDS Church's First Presidency is asking the faith's members in four western states to oppose bills that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide and recreational marijuana use.
Church President Thomas S. Monson and his counselors sent a letter Wednesday to Mormons in Colorado, where Proposition 106 would legalize physician-assisted suicide.
"We urge church members to let their voices be heard in opposition to measures that would legalize physician-assisted suicide," said the letter signed by President Monson, President Henry B. Eyring and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who make up the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They sent a similar letter Wednesday to Mormons in Arizona, California and Nevada about marijuana legislation.
"We urge church members to let their voices be heard in opposition to the legalization of recreational marijuana use," the letter said.
The LDS Church leaders referred both to church policies as well as research-based reasons for opposing the measures.
Polls have shown majority support for Proposition 106, but the editorial boards of the Denver Post and Colorado Springs Gazette have called for its defeat, citing a lack of safeguards in the bill and a statewide suicide crisis.
The bill, "Access to Medical Aid-in-Dying Medication" would allow terminally ill patients to take a life-ending, doctor-prescribed sleeping medication. Supporters say patients diagnosed with fewer than six months to live should have the choice to relieve their suffering by dying by suicide.
LDS Church policy considers assisted suicide to be euthanasia and a violation of God's commandments, according to a church policy guide known as Handbook 2, which is referred to in the letter.
Church leaders noted that physician-assisted suicide is permitted by law in some states and countries but said research has uncovered problems with the practice.
"Experience suggests that such legalization can endanger the vulnerable, erode trust in the medical profession and cheapen human life and dignity," the First Presidency wrote. "Moreover, the decision to end one's life carries a lasting impact far beyond the person whose life is ending."
"The church is right to be concerned," said Margaret Dore, president of Choice is an Illusion, a group based in Washington, which has a physician-assisted suicide law, as does neighboring Oregon.
"Basically, the Colorado bill makes people sitting ducks for their relatives, or their heirs and other predators," Dore said. "It's a recipe for elder abuse, really. It's a suicide contagion issue, too. It sends the wrong message to young people. In Oregon, there is a correlation between assisted suicide and youth suicide."
Oregon's suicide rate, excluding physician-assisted suicides, has increased steadily since its law passed in 1997 to 42 percent above the national average in 2012. Suicide is the leading cause of death among 18- to 34-year-old Oregonians and is rising among older demographics in the state as well.
Colorado's leading Catholic bishops cited a similar concern in their opposition to Proposition 106, calling it flawed logic to support a suicide bill in a state with seventh-highest suicide rate in the nation. Two years ago, Colorado introduced a new zero-suicide initiative.
"It is illogical for the state to promote and/or facilitate suicide for one group of persons, calling the suicides of those with a terminal illness and a specific prognosis 'dignified and humane,' while recognizing suicide as a serious statewide public health concern in all other circumstances, and spending enormous resources to combat it," the bishops said on the website of the Colorado Catholic Conference, the church's statewide, public policy agency.
The Colorado Springs Gazette published an editorial titled "Vote 'no' in Colorado on more suicide," and called suicide a crisis in the state — 1,000 Colorado kids died by suicide in 2015.
The Denver Post's editorial, published Wednesday, questioned whether medical professionals could be trusted to prescribe the lethal drug properly.
"We don’t have unfettered faith in all doctors’ ability to handle that responsibility," wrote the editorial board.
Dore is disturbed by the bill's lack of safeguards, too.
"There's no required oversight of the death," she said. "No doctor or witness is required. If you think of it as physician-assisted suicide, it's a misnomer. Another family member can pick it up at the pharmacy."
End-of-life issues are real and complex, which was noted in the First Presidency letter.
LDS Church policy does state that "when dying becomes inevitable, it should be seen as a blessing and a purposeful part of eternal existence," according to another handbook policy referenced in the First Presidency letter.
The letter quoted that policy: "While the church opposes physician-assisted suicide, members should not feel obligated to extend mortal life through means that are unreasonable. Decisions in such cases are best made by family members after receiving wise and competent medical advice and seeking divine guidance through fasting and prayer."
The First Presidency's letter to members in Arizona, California and Nevada noted that bills in those states and others are considering the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes.
"Drug abuse in the United States is at epidemic proportions," the First Presidency noted, "and the dangers of marijuana to public health and safety are well documented. Recent studies have shed light particularly on the risks that marijuana use poses to brain development in youth. The accessibility of recreational marijuana in the home is also a danger to children."
Four states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana use for those over 21. On Nov. 8, Nevada residents will vote on Question 2, Arizona residents will consider Proposition 205 and Californians will decide on Proposition 64. Maine and Massachusetts also have recreational marijuana on voters' ballots next month.
As noted in the church's letter, a growing number of scientific studies show that marijuana use disrupts brain development, according a review of the literature published by the American Psychological Association. Findings suggest structural and functional brain changes, and one decades-long longitudinal study showed an average loss of six IQ points among persistent users, similar to damage from exposure to lead.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse launched the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study this year. The longitudinal study of 10,000 American children, including 1,000 Utah children working with University of Utah researchers, will study brain development from ages 9 to 19. Research includes interviews with clinical psychologists and an MRI. The goal is to learn about the effects of drugs, alcohol, concussions and other variables.
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Author, professor, and historian Garry Wills speaks with Matthew LaClair on American politics, religion, and this history of the Catholic Church. Northwestern Prof. Emeritus Garry Wills is the author of around 40 books, the latest being The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis. Wills has received numerous prizes for his work including the Merle Curti Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a reviewer for the New York Review of Books. His most recent review discussed the new book Why The Right Went Wrong by E.J. Dionne Jr., who will be our guest for April 23rd.
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I have had many people ask me over the last several years how I keep my skin looking so healthy. I think it helped that I was blessed with my dad’s oily skin (thanks daddy), but it is definitely more than that. I will share all kinds of things over the coming months about skincare as well as health. After all, this website is about well-being, isn’t it? Today’s focus is on retinoids.
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As the trilogue negotiations on the proposed Directive on Copyright in the European Union's Digital Single Market are drawing to a conclusion, European authors are making the most of their last opportunity to effectively ensure benefit from the economic success of their works. As announced by the Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA), 95 European filmmakers have signed a petition asking for a principle of proportionate remuneration to be enshrined in the Copyright Directive.
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