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Just as AdEx stands as an "advertising exchange" where advertisers and publishers meet to negotiate terms of deal, AdEx (ADX) drags much crowd because online media industry is a crowded sector which is overtaking TV advert.
Before entrusting wealth on an asset, people are always wary of choosing an investment that is worthwhile or has potential of becoming lucrative. No one wants to invest in a fraud or Pump and Dumb deal. While the world, especially millennial, see cryptocurrency as an investment that could thrust their wealth within a twinkle of an eye, they want to entrust their treasure on a crypto that will not drag their hard earned wealth to mire.
As much as the crypto verse contains sundry of altcoins, AdEx (ADX) flags out as a potential crypto coin that can boost one's wealth. Amid the display of AdEx, there has been rousing questions on whether ADX is a potential deal or a Pump and Dump.
ADX Development And Achievement.
Popularly known as ad network blockchain, AdEx has in the past attracted great developments. The altcoin has been up against other competing contemporary blockchain projects like Bitclave, Basic Attention Token, qChain, and adChain with its pacing developments.
February 27, 2018 marked the launching of AdEx (ADX) DApp Beta and it was equally ready for use. The DApp, going by the altcoin's road Map, was out sooner than slated.
"[…] This new architecture allowed us to skip a step in the AdEx development altogether. Instead of rolling out AdEx V.1 in October, then starting work on AdEx V.2 in 2019, we went ahead with the scalability improvements that we had planned for AdEx V.2."
– Adex development team said in a blog post.
On August 15, 2017, the ad based blockchain proclaimed a partnership with NEO, the first open source blockchain in China. The partnership made ADX value quadrupled subsequently.
At present, ADX is being traded on the following exchange platform:
- Binance
- Liqui
- Huobi
- Bittrex
- HitBTC
- EtherDelta
ADX Price Analysis.
After weeks of bearish market condition in the crypto sphere, the industry is changing for better to make its lover smile off daunts. AdEx (ADX), ranked 186 with a market value of $1.10 and a market cap of over 66 million according to coinranking, has been a little bit bullish in the market for some days in line with the recent change in the market. Within the space of seven days, ADX which was earlier traded for $0.76 added a huge sum of 43.3% to its value, while the difference in its present value compared to the last 30 days is an addendum of 41.4%.
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Interested in solving step parenting problems?
Step parenting problems are very common when families morph their structure and it often takes considerable time to build the cohesion necessary for a workable family unit. Remember there are different personalities at play and no matter how hard you try you can only do your best if you're suddenly in the position of trying to make step parenting work. Here's a letter from Jackie who's struggling with a step son that comes to visit on occasion from another province.
Hi Annie,
My six year old step son lives with his mother in a different province and coming over to us is expensive so he doesn't come much unfortunately and as a result, we're having problems step parenting. His mother doesn't make it easy for us either. She bad-mouths us in front of him constantly and as a result, he has a lot of resentment towards us. We always try to make it nice for him and do fun things and treat him fairly, but he always has attitude. We have a two year old together and now I'm expecting a new baby in October. Being tired, I want to make sure I don't take it out on him as his attitude is his mother's fault. Do you know what we could do to make things work better?
Thank you,
Hi Jackie,
Thanks for writing to me. This is a tough one because as I'm sure you realize you're stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place and as such, there are no easy solutions when it comes to having problems step parenting.
First remember that no matter what his mother says, if she denigrates you in front of him, she is in the wrong. That means his reaction to you is based on her perception and so of course, you have an uphill battle managing him when he comes to stay.
Be realistic
The most important thing here is to recognize what you can and can't control. You can't control his attitude to you but you can through your actions, give him a different perspective. That means that you have to first look after yourself, so you're in a position that you're as calm and collected as you can be during his visit. Get some sleep and some decent rest periods during your two year old's nap time. Then try and stay very calm because he will likely try and goad you in to a reaction. The trick is not to go there which frankly, is much easier said than done.
Make parenting expectations clear
If you can avoid rising to the bait, then do fun things with him but demand some respect in return. You are not a theme park and there is no obligation to take him to nice places and do fun things with him if he treats you badly. Tell him your expectations up front. Sit him down close to his arrival and say how pleased you are to have him. Explain how things work in your house but do it in a positive way. Stay away from making any comments about what he does at home and simply brush any comments that he might make along the lines of, "it's so much better at home or this sucks." Make sure his dad is a central part of that meeting process and backs you up in all encounters you have with his son and you should do the same for him.
Encourage him to be part of your activity
Be fair and give him lots of opportunities to be part of what's going on in your family. Give him opportunities to assist you in your day to day activities. If he takes you up on that, talk to him cheerily and give him lots of thanks for being such a help. If he doesn't, ignore him and don't go out of your way to win him over.
Take the attention away from the behaviour
If he says nasty things, simply respond that he's being unpleasant and that if he has a need to be impolite, he can go to his room. Tell him to let you know when he plans to be kind and you'd be delighted to do things with him and have him join in with you in family activities. And then let him get bored, yes, really bored because it's only when he sees you all having fun that he will eventually decide to park his animosity and join in.
Given enough time I'm sure he'll come to see you as the caring and thoughtful person you obviously are. If you'd like more parenting help, please see my parenting services.
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Antonio Conte can smile about it now but nobody was smiling then. Least of all him. The Tottenham manager is preparing for Sunday's Premier League game at home to Burnley, when everything will be on the line for him and his players in terms of a Champions League finish. Spurs know that they have to win in order to maintain the pressure on fourth-placed Arsenal, who go to Newcastle on Monday night.
But it is impossible to consider Burnley without remembering Turf Moor and what took place on that miserable night towards the end of February. Hard on the heels of the stunning 3-2 win at Manchester City, Conte and Spurs had travelled with optimism, the feeling pronounced that a corner had been turned. When it all came crashing down in a lacklustre 1-0 defeat, it was the prompt for Conte's definitive Spurs meltdown.
As he burned with anger, saying that he could not go on this way and questioning whether he would be able to improve the situation, he looked like a man who had passed the point of no return. It was possible to think that he was about to quit, although the Spurs hierarchy were confident he would calm down. They know that the wild mood swings are a part of him, even in victory, when he can go over the top in the other direction.
What of the players, who had been savaged by implication? The January transfer window had closed, the summer was a long way away and Conte surely risked alienating some or all of those he would have to work with for the remainder of the season. Had he gone too far with the helplessness and resignation?
There were several hard-to-answer questions. What was indisputable was that Conte had gathered his chips and shoved them all in. On one level, it was him leveraging his future involvement with the team, the suggestion there that the players would regret it if he left.
On another, it was Conte showing how much it meant, how much it has to mean; the need to go through all manner of internal agonies to find the solutions. He will always do this, living and breathing the job. The players must do the same. Above all, though, it was a challenge to their professional pride.
The results have been eye-catching – eight wins and two draws in the 12 league matches that have followed; the latest the 3-0 home thumping of Arsenal in Thursday's high-stakes derby. To continue the poker analogy, it feels as though Conte has caught his card on the river. But really he has played the shrewdest of hands, taking control with a devastating mix of bluff and aggression.
"I understand very well that I took a risk [after Burnley] because a lot of people didn't understand," Conte said. "I read that it only took two months for Tottenham to make Conte crazy! I remember very well that I was the crazy [one].
"Sometimes coaches have a strategy and it is the stick or the carrot. At the time, all the environment needed the stick. Myself, I was the first person and I hit myself. And then the others. Because before saying something wrong about the players or the situation, the first to take the blame has to be the manager. At the time, I thought it was right to go strong to try to change the situation.
"No one thought then that with two games to go, Totttenham could fight for the Champions League. Instead, we are there now and from that step we improved a lot. There are moments when everyone has to take responsibility. The manager is the first, then the players, the club and all the employees of Tottenham. Because we win and we lose together."
Spurs closed to within one point of Arsenal with the derby win and, if the momentum is with them, they have to hope it has turned against Arsenal; that their rivals will slip up at Newcastle or at home to Everton on the final day. Spurs finish with a trip to Norwich.
It was interesting to see the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, take a different approach after his team's defeat at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. They had been well beaten but he insisted – publicly at least – that the responsibility did not lie with them, rather the referee, Paul Tierney, who awarded Spurs a 22nd-minute penalty for 1-0 and sent off Rob Holding shortly after. Arteta appeared determined to protect his players from self-doubt at any cost, even if it meant him looking petulant. Tierney's decisions had been correct.
For Conte, it has been a process of mutual understanding at Spurs and the signs have come to look positive. He has generated tremendous buy-in from the fans, who chorused his name towards the end of the derby and were delighted when he acknowledged it with applause. The players, meanwhile, have greater clarity.
"It was important for me to know my players much better and them to know me much better and understand sometimes when I'm angry, why I'm angry," Conte said. "The defeat against Burnley made me very angry. But now they are improving in many aspects – not only on the pitch but mentally they are becoming strong.
"I go totally with my heart, mind and head. I'm a passionate person. To see me afterwards sometimes on TV, it's not simple to see me in this way. I go totally into the club where I work and, in this way, I'm able to give everything and, also, to receive everything from my players, my club and the fans. If I'm the first person to give 200%, then for sure I can ask for this [in return]."


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Matt Gary, one of country music's hardest working up-and-comer's, has added industry heavy hitters New Revolution Entertainment and The Meade Group, Inc. to his team. In calculated preparation of his sophomore radio release and self-titled CD debut, Gary has enlisted the crème de la crème of radio promotions, marketing and management. New Revolution Entertainment will spearhead the major market radio promotion campaign surrounding Gary's new single "I'm Just Sayin,'"* written by Frank Myers, Gary B. Baker and Billy Montana, and produced by Myers. Mike Meade (The Meade Group, Inc.) will join the team as an independent consultant overseeing day-to-day operations, marketing, sponsorship and touring opportunities.
"We're excited to get the next single out there and I am supremely confident in this team," Matt Gary explained. "Rob Dalton [and his staff] is a music industry powerhouse in his own right and has worked with some of country music's biggest hit-makers. Mike Meade's work ethic has made him a respected staple in the business. I could not have a better group of people behind this song. I'm just sayin'!"
New Revolution Entertainment, LLC was created in 2006 by Rob Dalton and Jeff Solima as a full-service radio promotion and artist development company; combined, the two music executives have more than 700 Top Ten singles to their credit. In keeping with its mission at inception, New Revolution's objective is to garner "major label" success for their clients with or without a major label machine behind them.
In the past four years, New Revolution has worked with award-winning artists to achieve noteworthy chart status including Martina McBride ("I Just Call You Mine"/Top 15), Zac Brown Band ("Chicken Fried"/#1), Gloriana ("Wild At Heart"/Top 10), Lee Brice ("Love Like Crazy"/Top 20 and climbing), Colt Ford (whose CHICKEN AND BISCUITS CD has enjoyed sales of over 30,000 in the last three weeks), Emerson Drive ("Moments"/#1), Darryl Worley ("Sounds Like Life"/Top 10), Jerrod Nieman, Travis Tritt, Randy Owen, Tracy Byrd, Matt Kennon, Bill Gentry, Ward Davis and more.
"We are really excited to partner with Matt Gary and 17 Music Entertainment. If it is truly about the music and the artist, then Matt will have a very bright future," said Dalton. "Frank Myers produced a jeweled collection of songs. Combined with Matt's solid vocal performance, incredible live show and a work ethic second to none–success is right around the corner. The first single, from the project, 'I'm Just Sayin" immediately hooks the listener, both melodically and vocally. It should play very well at country radio."
"Matt has a bright future as a young artist and young business professional," Meade added. "He's talented, hardworking and has a good head on his shoulders–a combination that will make him a contender in this business."
A 15-year music industry executive, Mike Meade has held positions at Buddy Lee Attractions, New Frontier Touring and Rocky Comfort Records/TLE Entertainment (Tracy Lawrence Entertainment). The Meade Group Inc. specializes in marketing and operations in various industries including entertainment, equine and the corporate sector (Purina Mills).
Named "Who New To Watch" by CMA Close–up Magazine in 2009, Matt Gary made his introduction to country fans with his single and corresponding music video "The Days You Live For" in April 2009 from his own independent label, 17 Music Entertainment. Gary has also been recognized with the "DISCovery Award" (Robert K. Oermann/Music Row Magazine). In the past year, Matt has graced the pages of Country Weekly's "Listen Up!" and "Who's New" and was featured in Nashville Lifestyles' "Single in the City." Gary is preparing to release his self-titled album (produced by Frank Myers) in early fall and delivers his follow-up single, "I'm Just Sayin'," to radio in August. A nationwide radio promotion tour is planned to begin in late June.
The heightened executive staff behind Matt Gary and his music comes on the heels of Gary's inking an endorsement deal with PING Apparel (CBS Custom Branded Sports Wear) and continues the momentum generated by Bernard Porter of PCG-Nashville who has been the pillar and directive behind Matt Gary's success since his entering the scene in January 2009. Porter remains hands-on in all aspects of Gary's career.
I need to head out here. Be sure to visit Matt's MySpace page, where you can listen to some of his music, including his great new song, "I'm Just Sayin'." I really like this guys music, I think all of you will agree – he's someone we'll hear a lot more from in the future!
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What happens in pregnancy doesn't just stay in pregnancy, especially when it comes to heart health. Dr. Natalie Dayan, assistant professor of medicine at McGill University and director of obstetrical medicine at the McGill University Health Centre, studies how heart problems in pregnant women can sometimes impact them for life.
"My overall aim is to improve women's heart health after complications during pregnancy," says Dr. Dayan.
She was recently awarded the first McGill University and Heart & Stroke Early-Career Professorship in Women's Heart Health. The award will fund her latest study, looking at how breastfeeding impacts women's health after a pregnancy with heart-related complications.
Her team will follow approximately 350 women who had conditions such as gestational hypertension (high blood pressure) or pre-eclampsia, which involves both high blood pressure and signs of damage to the organs such as the kidneys or liver.
The study builds on previous research that shows breastfeeding has positive health impacts for women, including lowering blood pressure. Now Dr. Dayan wants to know if breastfeeding can help these women both right after pregnancy and years later.
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As a clinical researcher, she sees such women in her practice all the time. She knows they have double the lifetime risk of developing heart disease or stroke. While she notes that their absolute risk of significant heart disease may be as low as 3%, "these are young women who are mothers to young children, so this is something we want to avoid."
These women are often sent home with suggestions for lifestyle changes. Dr. Dayan says that isn't enough: they have newborns, busy work and family lives, and many have another baby soon after. Plus, she adds, there is no evidence to guide prevention of cardiovascular disease using medications in this group. "The guidelines don't quite fit with this population and are really based on what we know about older women and men."
She wants to come up with concrete prevention tools for these mothers.
Dr. Dayan's team will follow the selected mothers at three, six and 12 months after delivery; then she plans to continue following them via electronic health records for another 10 to 15 years. This long-term prospective data is really lacking and can provide essential information on those at highest risk.
Short-term results will evaluate breastfeeding as a drug that may relax blood vessels via circulating hormones such as oxytocin. Longer-term data will help Dr. Dayan and her team pinpoint the lingering impact of breastfeeding, and which of these women are more at risk for developing cardiovascular problems.
Novel breastfeeding support
Some women in the study will get special breastfeeding support from nursing staff, aimed at building their confidence as well as helping them with technical issues like latch.
"We will verify whether this intervention improves breastfeeding practices in these women and whether it also helps to lower blood pressure or need for blood pressure medication at 12 months postpartum," explains Dr. Dayan.
She believes that complications in pregnancy may have wider health implications for women's health, and that healthcare providers could soon look at them as early warning signs for issues to come. "Pregnancy is like a stress test. More and more we're are realizing that."
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Those of us who love MMA know about former champ Loyoto Machida's practice of drinking his first water. This is his dad and Inventor of Machida Karate Yoshizo Machida.
You are 'drinking your first water', because "Loyoto Machida" (I guess, kind of your authority) is doing so?


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The Thessaloniki International Film Festival presents its audience with a new offer for the year 2015: viewers will be able to watch the best of first-run films with two tickets in the price of one.
Namely, for every ticket bought for a night-zone screening, visitors will receive another one for free. The offer stands for all screenings in the Olympion and Pavlos Zannas theaters from 22.30 onwards and for tickets priced at the non-discount rate of €7.50 - except from Fridays and Saturdays.
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"Come on Bob, it's starting" Linda Belcher commanded as her husband continued to snooze.
She rocked his body back and forth, urging him to snap his eyes open and make an appointment with the television
Bob stirred, and stared at the clock, alarmed at how early it was in the morning, the world was still cloaked in darkness, but for today the world was alive.
Linda excitedly wandered into her children's rooms, each stirring them awake.
"Up and at 'em, none of you are missing this" said Linda.
"Who died?" asked Louise as she got up, Linda dragged her into the living room.
"Please don't be a whale, please don't be a whale" pleaded Tina to whatever God oversaw everything above.
Linda switched the television on to receive the breaking coverage of the royal wedding.
"Oh for Pete's sake, not this" said Louise.
"What? It's the most heartwarming thing you'll see all year" said Linda.
"I don't know Mom, I've seen the end to Babylon 5" said Gene.
"Sweetie, that was heartwrenching, learn the difference" Linda insisted.
"Louise calls that a different kind of happy, and I'm inclined to believe her" retorted Gene, looking to Louise for validation.
"Whatever, I'm making a call" said Louise, picking up the phone and dialing in a number
Soon enough, the receiver picked it up.
"Hey Rudy" she said
"You feeling alright Louise?" said Rudy as he picked up the phone.
"Yeah, just doing my part in the vocal minority contributing as little to the royal shenanigans as possible" Louise replied
"Me too" said Rudy
"Oh nuts, sorry Rudy, I didn't stop to think…weddings remind you of your parents don't they? Sorry about that buddy" she said.
"No, it's fine I'm good…more than good, I'm above the norm" said Rudy
"Really? What's stuck your head in the clouds?" she said.
"You would know, I heard when you got on that bike, you just took off" said Rudy
"Totally, wish I'd had your ramps so I could have achieved that literally" replied Louise with a devilish laugh
"I'm proud of you Louise, but more so, I'm proud of myself…it took me a while to come to terms with it, but with how special those cops made me feel, I'm willing to come to school tomorrow in full acceptance of who I am…maybe I can help others accept who they are too" Rudy replied.
"And what are you exactly?" asked Louise.
"I'm still trying to figure that out myself…maybe God has the answer, he's seen me in action, this is how he wants me to see him…by answering that question" Rudy explained.
"Rudy, I hope you know this is just because I had to convince those cops to clear the alleyway and allow us to play with the ramps" Louise revealed
Rudy pondered this for a minute, then resumed talking
"You mean you know what kind of man I am?" he said.
"Sure, you're a cupcake, I've said as much before" said Louise.
"I'm as cool as the icing on top, but I'm not quite a cupcake any longer, I'm fly like an eagle, that's what those cops were getting that, they were in awe of me"
"Hearing this ego trip is awe-ful Rudy, come on, come down to Earth a little, you know, for me?" Louise asked.
"I'll touch down if you promise me another benefit" Rudy requested.
Louise knew at this point he was just playing with her, having figured out her deception was all to keep the lady with the van at bay and allow the kids to play in peace.
"Oh very coy Rudy, that wasn't even all for you you know" Louise replied.
"You can't take it back, you said you threw a benefit for me, your own words, just letting you know I appreciate it so much I demand an encore performance" Rudy continued, teasing her
"Ok, first, it was totally a lie, at least you know that now, secondly, If we kept pulling one off, it'd look less and less special. What do we want to do? Recruit the whole police force to come down next time? The magic all depends on circumstances Rudy" Louise revealed
"Maybe you can arrange my wake next time then?" said Rudy.
"Getting a little ahead of yourself buddy" Louise replied.
"Yeah, maybe you're right…still, it was nice of you to at least make up a charitable event in my name Louise, It's just everyone is buzzing about the wedding and I'd much prefer the kind of attention it's getting from everyone in the neighborhood" Rudy revealed.
"You're the man Rudy, while some people are annoyed they're not the bride or groom, you're annoyed that you're not the corpse" Louise concluded, smiling affectionately, though Rudy could not see it.


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The annual social event for Waunakee-area progressives! This year, we'll enjoy the delicious barbecue menu at Blowin' Smoke BBQ, for a fixed per-person cost of only $15, not including alcohol. Jeff Smith, former Eau Claire Assembly Representative, will speak about grassroots organizing in Wisconsin. His positive, can-do attitude is always energizing. Come and bring your friends!
It's not a fund-raiser this year–just a PARTY!
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text: 2.2 Grown Ups 2 By Tim Grierson | July 11, 2013 | 1:45pm Movies Reviews Share Tweet Submit Pin In the past, even the shoddiest of Adam Sandler's films had their pockets of moronic nuttiness that stayed with you, even if the movies didn't: Al Pacino lusting after Sandler in a dress in Jack and Jill; Sandler playing an Israeli operative who gets to fulfill his dream of becoming a hairdresser in You Don't Mess With the Zohan; Vanilla Ice going insane in That's My Boy—all completely stupid bits of comedic weirdness that, you have to hand it to the guy, nobody else would be nervy (or shameless) enough to try. There's nothing quite so ballsy or fiendishly foolish in Grown Ups 2, which is one of Sandler's least interesting movies ever. It's also his first sequel, a fact that may surprise his loudest detractors. As lazy as his movies may be, he's always moved on to a brand new project afterward, even if he tends to half-ass most everything he does. The first Grown Ups was hardly stellar—or even that great—but it had a certain amount of charm, undoubtedly helped by the fact that he teamed up with real-life friends Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider to play a bunch of high school buddies who reunite to catch up on old times after their beloved basketball coach dies. If Grown Ups was a solid, conventional idea executed with warmth and the prerequisite juvenile sense of humor, Grown Ups 2 is simply a slapped-together cash grab. It's one thing that Grown Ups 2 is unfunny—what's really galling is that Sandler and his cohorts can barely come up with a good reason for its very existence. Once again, Sandler plays Lenny, a hotshot Los Angeles agent who has moved his family back to the East Coast, getting more involved in the lives of his chums Eric (James), Kurt (Rock) and Marcus (Spade). (Schneider's character isn't mentioned in Grown Ups 2. You won't miss him.) But where the first film was built around a vacation getaway for these pals, which allowed them to reconnect and own up to their creeping middle age, Grown Ups 2 doesn't have much forward momentum. Lenny wants to throw a raging house party like the ones of his teen years, but there's not much interest in building to that event. It just sort of happens—much like his adventures trying to get his son (Cameron Boyce) interested in being a field-goal kicker, Eric's efforts to escape from his wife (Maria Bello) by hiding out with his mom (The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Georgia Engel), or Marcus's uncomfortable meeting with a thuggish grown son (Alexander Ludwig) he never knew he had. As with the first film, Sandler co-wrote Grown Ups 2, which was directed by longtime Sandler associate Dennis Dugan, but the communal spirit of the original has evaporated, replaced by a collection of episodic mini-movies that don't offer a lot of laughs but are incredibly desperate in their use of scatological humor. That didn't have much of a presence in Grown Ups, which also made room for the guys' significant others to have some screen time. For the sequel, Bello, Maya Rudolph and Salma Hayek show up but have embarrassingly little to do. (At least they can sleep well knowing no one will blame them for this dud.) Instead, Sandler shifts the focus to his now tiresome collection of cronies and celebrity pals, including the demonstratively untalented Nick Swardson, sportscaster Dan Patrick and former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal, who all seem to factor more into the movie than the women do. (Even the movie's product placement is shown more care than the females, whose main bit of business is awkwardly ogling a fitness trainer who turns out to be gay.) With his other films, Sandler sprinkled in a few inspired scenes or throwaway gags amidst the junk to fool us into thinking that if he just buckled down and really focused, he could make a first-rate comedy. But something as execrable as Grown Ups 2 suggests we've been misreading him all this time. The slapdash efforts are actually Sandler putting forth some effort—the real phone-it-in affairs are like his latest offering. May this be the only film this year where we see Steve Buscemi do a (bad) Flavor Flav impression. Tim Grierson is chief film critic for Paste. You can follow him on Twitter. Director: Dennis Dugan Writers: Fred Wolf, Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Nick Swardson Release Date: July 12, 2013 Tagsadam sandlerchris rockdavid spadegrown ups 2kevin jamesGET PASTE RIGHT IN YOUR INBOXThe best music, movies, TV, books, comedy and more.Sign UpYes, I would like to receive Paste's newsletter


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Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare Arrives On Nintendo Switch On June 7, 2018
Flyhigh Works today announced that Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare will be released on the Nintendo Switch eShop on June 7, 2018 priced at $7.99 USD / 7.99€ (with regional variations). Pre-orders open on May 31, 2018 and will have a 10% discount.
Developed by Link Ki, Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare is a fast-paced tower-defense game. Defend your castle against the waves of enemies laying siege to your gate. Test your tactical abilities and be the master of strategy: to win you must utilise the capabilities of your men to repel the daunting invading forces.
Fight your way in high-octane Boss battles against historically famous Commanders and Generals: "Oda Nobunaga", "Shogun:Tokugawa Ieyasu", "Sanada Yukimura", "Date Masamune", "Takeda Shingen" "Akechi Mitsuhide" and others. Expand and empower your units through earned currency, preparing yourself for even tougher challenges.
The Nintendo Switch version includes new levels, boss encounters and large scale battles that weren't previously possible. Playable on the portable touchscreen or in any configuration with a controller, the staggering amount of content will keep players busy for many hours.
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Writer: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Graphia (2006)
Pages: 337 p
Bought at: Kramerbooks & Afterwords – Washington, DC (USD 7,99)
Miranda Evans was an ordinary teenage girl living in a small town in Pennsylvania. She worried a lot about her grades in school, college plans, boys and dating, and she picked up swimming after she had an injury and couldn't continue figure skating as her hobby. This summer, she's looking forward to seeing her father who lived with her stepmom, Lisa, in Springfield.
But who knows? This summer was not like every other summer. Because everything changed. Big time.
It started when an asteroid hit the moon and made it moved outside the orbit, closer to the Earth. Suddenly, disasters happened all over the world. Flood, tsunamis, thunderstorm, and volcanoes, making the air full with ashes and even breathing became harder and harder everyday. The crops were dying because the sun didn't even shine its light due to the ashes in the air. And the weather changed drastically – snowing in August and freezing before December.
The worst of it all was the food became scarce. And all the communication line was cut off, including electricity. Miranda never thought how lucky she was when she used to have all the things she needed: food, water, warm weather, electricity and internet, and took them for granted. The assurance that everything will be okay eventually.
Now, all of it were gone, replaced by fear, hunger, and not a single hope that the Earth will be back as it used to be. Not to mention the future existence of the mankind.
Written in the form of diary from Miranda's point of view, Life As We Knew It was surprisingly real and believable, made me think a lot about things I took for granted, and how does it feel to lose all of it in a split second, facing an uncertain life and future, living in fear and waiting in vain for something good to happen. Miranda's vivid details of her feelings, and her struggle to survive with her family, her protective mom, her older brother Matt and younger brother Jon, who suddenly looked very grown up because of all the grief they faced – it's all been very convincing.
And the scary fact about hunger: how does it feel to know that one day there will be no food, even though you tried so hard to save all you have, eating as little as you could – when a can of chicken soup means one more day of survival… And the people were gone one by one, until one day Miranda was sure that they were the last living family on Earth.
Life As We Knew It is a terrible story about how the world could come to end without us being prepared for it. It's very realistic, very logical, that I could feel the fear inside my bone. This book reminds me of the depressing feeling I had when reading The Road, only this time it was told from a teenager's point of view. Miranda was a very good narrator, her story was so real and genuine, and I could relate much to her worries, fear and even her hunger. How she tried so much to grow up just like her brothers, but still had all the teenage baggage with her: arguing with her mom, self pitying herself, and even thinking about boy, about the prom she would never have. What made this book more real is the "waiting" factor. Miranda's family was not affected directly with the disaster (there was no volcanoes or tsunamis inside this book), but they felt it in their every day's lives – from the never ending hunger and the anxiety of hearing good news, and the loneliness.
I truly recommend this book for people who crave for good disaster/dystopian Young Adult novel – without too much romance in it. I can't say the same about the next two book in this series (there will be separate reviews of them!), but still, this series is better than most of the current YA – dystopian – romance trend.


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Fat Kids Sauces – Fiery Foods Show Collectible
Fat Kid Sauces is proud to announce thier 2007 Fiery Foods Show Collectible. There are 24 in total, all wax dipped and hand stamped with the FKS log in the wax.
Orders will be taken at any time, and they are $15 each (pay pal or check). The bottles are already 1/2 sold out, so get your number & bottle request in quick! Any that are not sold before the show will be available at the show.
The sauce inside is a Fat kid Sauce Medium – prototype sauce that's in development. It may actually become the 5th in the Fat Kids Sauces series.
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Mosque protests compared to Krystallnacht, DHS warns of 'violence'
On Thursday, Washington, D.C.'s Fox 5 reported that officials with the Department of Homeland Security are warning mosques to be prepared for possible violent protests set to take place over the Columbus Day weekend. According to the Washington Times, the protests are, in part, the brain child of Jon Ritzheimer, the Marine veteran who organized a protest at an Arizona mosque earlier this year.
Meanwhile, R. Skyler Oberst, writing at Spokane Faith and Values, suggested counter-protesters respond with "a hand in friendship…" Oberst, however, started his article by referring to the protests as "a modern-day, global kristalnacht (sic)…"
There's only one problem with that characterization. Krystallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a violent protest sanctioned by the Nazi government against Jews:
The pretext for the pogroms was the shooting in Paris on November 7 of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a Polish-Jewish student, Herschel Grynszpan. News of Rath's death on November 9 reached Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany, where he was celebrating the anniversary of the abortive 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. There, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, after conferring with Hitler, harangued a gathering of old storm troopers, urging violent reprisals staged to appear as "spontaneous demonstrations." Telephone orders from Munich triggered pogroms throughout Germany, which then included Austria.
The Nazi regime then went on to make Jewish life in Germany impossible. The rest is history.
For starters, the protests scheduled for the weekend are not sanctioned by the government. If anything, the government is working with mosques and groups like CAIR to minimize their impact. Second, many of those participating feel their culture, even the very soul of their nation, is under attack by those who want to replace the Constitution with Sharia law.
Simply put, they see what is currently happening in Europe and the Middle East, and they don't want to see it happen here. Recently, for example, Faye Higbee noted that one Kansas college made radical changes to its chapel in order to appease its Muslim student population.
In 2012, Christians in Dearborn, Michigan, were viciously attacked and stoned by Muslims at an Arab festival as police simply watched. A video report of that, courtesy of the United West, can be seen here.
A Facebook page, Global Rally for Humanity, says "humanity is attacked daily by radical Islam" and is calling for protests around the world. Organizers suggest those wanting to hold local protests start similar pages for their area. A search of Facebook reveals several pages have been set up.
Some organizers have urged protesters to leave their firearms at home, while others have said activists should exercise all of their rights under the Constitution, including the right to bear arms.
Ritzheimer, who is organizing the rally in Phoenix, Arizona, made headlines recently when he threatened to arrest lawmakers who support President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
Being somewhat acquainted with Oberst, I can understand and appreciate his desire to reach out to those with whom he disagrees. After all, his response is far better than what we've seen from many on the left in the recent past. But to compare a lawful, peaceful protest to Hitler's Krystallnacht is going just a bit overboard, to say the least.
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You might want to add a little chilli powder into the meat mixture if you prefer spicier version. OR, sprinkle some red cut chilli or dried red pepper flakes for that spicier touch. I added more red curry paste and reduced a little of the soy sauce used to marinate the meat.
I also went without the coconut milk stated here, and thickened the sauce slightly using cornstarch. I suppose you can also add some shredded lime leaves as you cook the sauce for more fragrance :)
Thai Meatballs in Red Curry Sauce (Recipe adapted from Simply Delicious)
500g (17.64 ounces) chicken mince *I changed to pork
1 tsp red thai curry paste *I added more because I love the curry flavour haha
50g (1.76 ounces) panko bread crumbs *I replaced with crushed crackers
3 tbsp fresh coriander, finely chopped *I skipped this
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
2 large carrots, julienned *I replaced with frozen mixed veg
2 tsp red thai curry paste
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tin coconut milk *I skipped this
1 tin chicken stock *I skipped this but added more of the curry paste
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp sugar (optional)
1 red chilli, finely chopped (optional)
250g (8.82 ounces) fine green beans
250g (8.82 ounces) baby corn
- To make the meatballs, combine the chicken mince with all the other ingredients and with wet hands (this helps to keep the chicken from sticking to your hands), form golf-ball sized meatballs.
- Place the meatballs on a tray lined with clingwrap.
- Heat a large frying pan and fry the meatballs in batches in canola oil until they are browned all over. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- When all the meatballs are browned, fry the carrots and curry paste in the same pan until the paste starts sticking to the bottom of the pan. Add the garlic, fry for 10 seconds and add the coconut milk and chicken stock. Add the fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar and chilli and stir.
- Add the meatballs back into the pan.
- Allow to simmer for 10 minutes before adding the green beans and baby corn. If you want your curry to be a little thicker, mix 2 tsp corn flour with 2 tsp of cold water and add to the curry.
- Allow the curry to simmer for 10 minutes until the green beans and baby corn are cooked.
- Serve the curry with steamed jasmine rice topped with extra sliced chillies and fresh coriander.


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Eat foods that are cancer-protective to help prevent a recurrence, and get back into exercise to lose extra pounds.
By Gina Shaw
WebMD Feature
Reviewed By Charlotte Grayson
A bout with breast cancer is likely to leave you eager to do all you can to prevent a recurrence. You may be frustrated that there's only so much about cancer prevention you can control.
But you do have control over one area of life: your diet. Eating well can help you take off any weight you may have gained during breast cancer treatment. It may also help protect you in the future from a breast cancer recurrence.
True, what doctors know about your diet's power to ward off a cancer recurrence, as opposed to preventing cancer in the first place, is limited, says Melanie Polk, RD, Director of Nutrition Education at the American Institute for Cancer Research.
"We know that a diet that's high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains and beans, and low in fat and high in fiber is cancer-protective," she says. "But a lot of these factors have not been studied in detail with regard to cancer survivors. Still, there's every reason to believe that dietary factors that are cancer-protective to begin with would be protective as well for cancer survivors."
While much more research is needed, it's a given that a good diet boosts overall health. It also clearly helps protect against heart disease and diabetes. It can't hurt you, and it may help you stay strong for years to come long after your breast cancer treatments are over.
Go for a Diet Rich in Plant Foods, Fish, and Lean Protein
Foods known to have cancer-prevention benefits:
- Whole wheat breads. Forget the anti-carb mantra: whole grains (such as wheat and brown rice) have many potent antioxidants, which research has linked to cancer prevention. In fact, one recent study found that antioxidants' cancer-fighting abilities may be equal to the punch packed by fruits and vegetables. So, make sure your bread is 100% whole wheat. Also try whole wheat pasta, and ask for the brown rice at your next Chinese meal.
- Carrots, winter squash, pumpkins, apricots. Orange foods (no, not macaroni and cheese) are rich in carotenes, which have been linked to decreased risk of lung and oral cancers and may slow the progression of other cancers.
- Spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, Swiss chard, and other dark green vegetables. They also boast plenty of carotenes, along with fiber and folate. Two large studies suggest a relationship between increased folate intake and decreased breast cancer risk.
- Garlic, onions, scallions, leeks, and other vegetables from the allium family. Studies in animals show that allium vegetable components can slow the progression of several cancers, including breast cancer.
- Beans -- lentils, peas, kidney beans, navy beans, and so on. Beans are rich in fiber, and also in a certain kind of antioxidant that appears to slow tumor growth.
As a breast cancer survivor, you'll also want to make sure that your diet contains plenty of low-fat protein, such as cold-water fish (salmon, sardines, mackerel), beans, nuts, and white meat chicken or turkey. Protein rebuilds muscle and tissue, something that's particularly important when your body has undergone the assault of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation.
What about soy? Some researchers once thought soy could be a cancer cure-all. Then, doctors became concerned that the phytoestrogens in soy might pose a risk for women whose tumors were estrogen receptor-positive.
"At this point, it doesn't look like there's any tremendous protection, or any tremendous harm, from a moderate amount of soy in your diet as a breast cancer survivor," says Polk. "If you like soy, go ahead and enjoy it-in moderation. I stress that because there are some women out there eating soy milk three times a day, having a soy burger for lunch and tofu for dinner and soy nuts for a snack. That's not moderation."
Remember, says Polk, there's no one magic food. "In fact, we're beginning to see evidence that phytochemicals and other cancer-fighting ingredients work together, synergistically," she says. "It may not be the lycopene in tomatoes or the folate in spinach by themselves, but a whole variety of elements that work together as a team to help fight off disease."
That means take it easy on the supplements. "Many cancer survivors are very anxious to get hold of any possible supplements or special pills or potions that may help them to ward off cancer in the future," says Polk. But, she says, studies find that consumers are getting a lot of inaccurate information about supplements, their capabilities, and their ingredients from health food stores. "It's important to get information from your physician, a registered dietitian, or another reliable source before deciding to take supplements or special products."
You can find nutritional guides for cancer survivors at:
- The American Institute for Cancer Research (http://www.aicr.org/information/survivor/guidelines.lasso)
- The American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MBC/content/MBC_6_2X_Nutrition_after_treatment_ends.asp?sitearea=MBC)
After Breast Cancer: Getting Back into a Fitness Routine
Now, what about exercise? You're probably ready to be more active, and you may even have gained some weight, probably somewhere between five and 30 pounds during breast cancer treatment. Just one example: A study presented to the 11th Annual Research Conference on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer in 2001 found that about a third of women gain weight after three months of chemotherapy, and more than half gain weight after six months.
The reasons are complicated, according to Marisa Weiss, MD, a leading oncologist and founder of Breastcancer.org.
First, you're probably getting less exercise during breast cancer treatment than you usually do, she says. Second, if you haven't gone through menopause already, chemotherapy is likely to put you in at least temporary "chemopause," slowing down your metabolism. Many of the drug cocktails that oncologists use to help fend off nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy include steroids, which can also "pump you up" in ways you don't want.
For this reason, and a host of others, exercise plays a key role in your recovery from breast cancer. In addition to helping you take off your "chemo weight," studies show exercise helps reduce fatigue, improve energy, and combat depression in women with breast cancer. Exercise also helps lower a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, and may also improve the odds against your cancer's coming back.
Ideally, you were keeping up with some sort of exercise program during your treatment for breast cancer. But even if the fatigue and other side effects kept you from exercising during treatment, you can still get started now and reap the benefits.
Ease Back into Fitness, and be Realistic
Here are some tips from Weiss and Jami Bernard, a New York film critic, breast cancer survivor and author of Breast Cancer: There and Back.
- Talk to your doctor. You may have ignored those warnings that always appear in the fitness magazines: "Consult your doctor before starting any exercise program." Don't ignore them this time. Check with your treatment team to see how much exercise they feel you can handle.
- Start small and build. Ignore the recommended levels of weekly exercise set for people with no health problems. At the beginning, you may only be able to handle a 15-minute walk four times a week.
- Set realistic expectations. If you were running an eight-minute mile before you started chemotherapy, don't expect that you'll be able to match that pace three or four months after your last dose. Comparing your current level of fitness with where you were before starting treatment will only discourage you. Remember, you've just run a tougher race than the Ironman, and your body is naturally drained.
- Don't stress your bones and joints. If you've been diagnosed with metastases to the bone, or bone loss related to chemotherapy, avoid activities that involve jumping or twisting at the hips. These could add to your risk of fractures. Instead, try exercise that's easier on your bones and joints. The perfect pastime: swimming, a no-impact way to work your muscles and your cardiovascular system.
- Be aware of your ability to balance. If you have neuropathy (tingling or numbness) in your feet or hands after chemotherapy, which can affect your balance, be careful about activities that might increase your risk of falling. Instead of running on a treadmill, for example, you might prefer working out on an exercise bicycle.
- Find a partner. It's always easier to get motivated to exercise when you have someone to share it with. Team Survivor (www.teamsurvivor.org) is a national organization with about 20 chapters nationwide that organizes exercise programs at all fitness levels for women who've had cancer.
Strengthening Your Body, and Slowly Shedding Extra Pounds
If you've had lymph nodes removed, many experts will warn you not to lift more than 15 pounds with the affected arm. Bernard, who had been working out with weights a lot at the time of her diagnosis and worried about losing her new muscle tone, says she was "scared straight" by such warnings, and found herself almost afraid to do anything with that arm.
"That's why you get frozen shoulder, though. You're supposed to try to work that arm and strengthen it again," she says. "You have to start with smaller weights and go slowly, being very careful of the arm, but strengthening it is not only fine but important."
You may not lose weight as fast as you'd like after breast cancer treatment, but keeping up with a regular exercise program will strengthen your body and help you fight many of those other lingering side effects, like fatigue. "You want to regain your body right away. I know the urge," says Bernard. "That's just not possible. You've been through a lot and your body is still coming back from it. It could take months or years to get back to where you were. But if you keep exercising, it will happen."
Gina Shaw is a medical writer who was treated for breast cancer in 2004, and now calls herself a "joyful breast cancer survivor."
Published March 2005.
SOURCES: Marisa Weiss, MD, oncologist and founder, Breastcancer.org. Mary McCabe, RN, director, Cancer Survivorship program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Jami Bernard, author, Breast Cancer: There and Back. Melanie Polk, RD, Director of Nutrition Education, American Institute for Cancer Research. National Lymphedema Network. American Cancer Society. Breastcancer.org.
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Gov. Ricketts Names New Children & Family Services Director
New CFS Director Stephanie Beasley starts February 24, 2020.
LINCOLN – Today, Gov. Ricketts announced the appointment of Stephanie Beasley of Indiana as the next Director of Children and Family Services (CFS) Division for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Beasley currently works as the Chief Operating Officer of Adult & Child Health serving central Indiana.
"Stephanie will be a great asset to the Department," said Governor Ricketts. "She has expansive frontline and executive experience that will serve the division well as she works with staff, as they help children and families live better lives. We are excited to welcome her to our team here in Nebraska."
Under the leadership of Governor Ricketts, Nebraska has led the nation in child welfare policy. Recently, Nebraska was one of the first states to launch the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) initiative. Last week, First Lady Susanne Shore and DHHS CEO Dannette R. Smith were in Seattle to accept the Jim Casey Building Communities of Hope Award for the Bring Up Nebraska program.
Beasley is a graduate of Indiana University where she received her Bachelor of Science in in Criminal Justice and Sociology and her Master of Social Work. She began her career in child welfare providing direct services to children and families in Indiana. During her tenure with Indiana Department of Child Services, she served in many roles over more than 13 years. She oversaw programs for Indiana in Independent Living, Foster Care, Special Needs Adoptions, Policy, Quality Assurance and was lead for the Indiana Child and Family Services Review (CFSR). She later served as the Director of Child Welfare for Marion County (Indianapolis) and then was the Deputy Director for Field Operations leading the provision of child welfare services in 92 counties.
"Stephanie is a real find for us," said DHHS CEO Smith. "She has the compassion, energy and a depth of knowledge needed to do this work. I am confident that she will be able to quickly integrate with the team and provide valuable insight and oversight to CFS."
"I am extremely excited to work with the DHHS team and Dannette. She is a magnetic person and committed leader," said Beasley. "Each time I spoke with her and the team I got more and more excited as their passion for the safety of vulnerable children and strengthening of families underscores my life's mission."
Beasley's first day as CFS Director will be February 24, 2020.


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Don't get your hopes up, this is not a tortellini recipe, heck I wouldn't even know where to start, but if you bought them already (like I did), I have an amazingly simple and delicious sauce that works like a charm.
I have to admit, I am not a pasta aficionado, though I have been known to do a little cooking and also consume decent quantities every now and then, not too often though. Tortellini is one of the few things that I really like but I never tried to make them from scratch and as far as I can figure, there is no point in doing it either. I found at our local grocery store amazing tortellini with chicken and cheese and though chicken was a disappointment, cheese variety was awesome, which is why I am sharing my sauce today. OK to be completely honest, I didn't have any tortellini sauce in my pantry and I was too lazy to go buy one so I made it and I really, really liked it. Actually it was so good, I decided to use it in one of my pizza recipes so, if you want to try another great recipe, check my Pizza Puttanesca.
This sauce doesn't have any meat in it and it was funny because wife kept bugging me to add some ground beef to it but I held my ground and what a good idea it was. Besides the fact that it is very refreshing, I was able to use the leftovers on my pizza and it worked great as a base pizza sauce. But you have to be your own judge so here's the recipe:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 large sweet white onion, chopped small
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- ½ carrot, finely shredded
- 2 cans 28 oz each (800ml) crushed tomatoes
- salt and pepper to taste
- Using a 3 qt (3L) saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until soft and light golden brown.
- Add the thyme and carrot and cook 5 minutes more, until the carrot is quite soft but not fully cooked.
- Add the crushed tomatoes and bring to a boil, stirring often. Lower the heat and simmer for 30 minutes until becomes quite thick.
- Season with salt and serve over tortellini.


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The Division 2 Update 9.1 Fixes Dark Zone Frame Rate Issues
The Division 2 Update 9.1 Fixes Dark Zone Frame Rate Issues, rebalances NPCs and and changes how much damage players take from NPCs as well.
The Division 2 Update 9.1 Fixes Dark Zone Frame Rate Issues
Release Date: Tuesday, May 12th
Patch Notes: Next MondayHighlighted Changes
- Framerate drops in the Dark Zones.
- Friendly Oxidizers damaging ally Skills.
- Recommended Activity tab not closing.
- The Frenzy talent staying active when swapping weapons.
NPC Balancing
Title Update 9.1 will also include balance changes for NPCs, addressing enemy Skills, weapons, and abilities that stand out as causing difficulty spikes. The developers are still looking at further changes and adjustments, and the first pass includes the following:
There will be an overall balance pass with Title Update 10 that expands on that.
- Nerfed damage and out-of-cover accuracy of the SMG used by red-bar Hyena Assault
- Status Effect from NPCs
- Reducing the damage that burn applies
- Reducing the damage that bleed applies
- This will also affect PVP
- Duration will stay the same in TU9.1
- Grenade Accuracy will be nerfed for NPCs
- Accuracy is reduced further based on the distance to target.
- Less accuracy for Hyena Thrower
- Less accuracy for Black Tusk Minitanks
- Less accuracy for Cleaner Napalm Turrets
- Elites have better grenade accuracy
- Hunters and Rogues and Legendary NPCs have better accuracy than elites but you should still feel a differenceThe throwers of the different factions have different throwing ranges. The Outcast thrower has an optimal range of 20m, so you will notice it earlier, while the Hyena Thrower has a 30m optimal range.
- NPC Blindfire accuracy will be reduced. That will be especially noticeable for Legendary NPCs (but while they start inaccurate, after 5 or 6 seconds they are also semi-accurate again).
- NPCs will no longer blind-fire with a shotgun or sniper rifle; instead, they will switch to a pistol to blind-fire. Hunters, Rogue Agents, and some bosses are an exception and can break this rule. Also, Tank archetypes will no longer blind-fire.
- NPC Aggressiveness
- Causes
- There is no easy global fix for that
- There were no intentional changes for that in TU8
- It was a combination of changes and also increased difficulty that highlighted some underlying issues.
- More changes are still being worked on
- Changes
- Reduced the frequency and aggressiveness of NPCs to advance towards hidden targets. (when you were hidden for a longer period of time (8s), factions like the Hyenas would advance towards your position. They now wait longer and it was changed how they advance towards you)
- Hyena / Cleaner / Outcast Assault had a bug that when you were closer than 5 meters they would start circle around the player. That would cause an aggressive loop until you would run away from them. That will no longer happen and they will back away.
- Non-Tank NPCs under status effect like Blind or Burn will no longer run towards the player but hold the position or back away.
- Causes
- Cleaners Tank flamethrower range was reduced
- Hyena RC Car
- explosion damage was reduced
- the lingering fire duration was reduced
- how often they spawn was reduced
- How long burn / confuse status is applied to the player
- NPC Skill Balancing
- Black Tusk Drones do less damage and it was lowered how often they are deployed.
- Black Tusk Support Station will no longer heal mechanical NPCs (Warhounds and Minitanks and items that should be destroyed)
- The Legendary version of the Support Station now has healing cap amounts like normal version.
- Armor kits from NPCs have been changed that they are no longer completely heal them. That change was not applied to bounties and few bosses in the last update. So they only heal to 80% or 70% / 60% when they have multiple armor kits. (Hunters still heal completely)
- New Status Effect Priorities for NPCs: Ensnare is now more important than blind or burn. Ensnared NPCs will no longer run around when they were burning first.
- NPC Fireflies of NPCs will no longer do an extensive amount of damage. (it should not one-shot player anymore)
- Further lowered likelihood of Tank archetypes rushing toward player hives or turrets to stomp them.
Player Balancing
- Reduced how much damage player Skills take from NPCs
- Player Status Effect buffs (only PVE)
- Increased damage of bleed, poison, napalm ensnare against NPCs
- Reduced the size of player hitboxes (against NPCs) when players are blind-firing from behind cover. This should make it feel less risky for players to blind-fire at NPCs.
- Reduced Burn and Bleed damage against players in PVP
The goal is not to make it too easy but address the mentioned outliers that can cause frustration.
Title Update 10 will look into more global changes (might not even be necessary after the TU9.1 changes) and then take it from there. (Loot will be a topic for TU10)Other Possible Changes
Some other WIP changes that are currently being worked on are:
- Negotiators Dilemma
- Rogue Agents no longer spawning during League Events (scheduled for TU10)


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Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM ET by Scotty Gore
(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — Markko's back this week on "One Life to Live."
ONE LIFE TO LIVE: At a Glance
Who will get custody of Dani — Todd or Ross?
- Monday: (Episode 201046/4346/46) — Destiny and Dani sneak into the courtroom to see what's happening with Téa's will. John and Natalie are suspicious of Ross. Ford is hurt by Langston's actions.
- Tuesday: (Episode 201047/4347/47) — Todd, Blair, and Ross take the stand. Langston confesses to Starr her role in Ford's undoing. An upset James kisses Starr.
- Wednesday: (Episode 201048/4348/48) — Marty takes the stand at Hannah's hearing. Matthew finds Rex going through Clint's files. Gigi asks Kelly if she is interested in Rex.
- Thursday: (Episode 201049/4349/49) — Inez accepts a dinner date with Clint. Gigi's college grant falls through. Langston talks to Dorian about Ford.
- Friday: (Episode 201050/4350/50) — Todd might take Dani and run. James gets a grant for college. Langston unexpectedly runs into Markko.
"One Life to Live" airs Weekdays on ABC. Weeknights on SOAPnet. Anytime on ABC.com and SOAPnet.com. Check local listings.


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Posts tagged SB 1070
Controversy over Senate Bill : SB 1070
Jul 28th
Posted by James in Latest News
Arizona's SB 1070 is set to go into effect this Thursday, July 29, and it brings a variety of reactions from Latin America leaders.
An Arizona Republic poll found 62 percent support allowing illegal immigrants who are living here now to remain in the country if they have a job and no criminal record.
Seventy-three percent of those polled favor a program to identify and put to work foreign workers when needed. This is the guest-worker component of comprehensive reform. It reflects the reality that our nation needs migrant workers.
The same poll found 55 percent of Arizonans support SB 1070.
Support for SB 1070 reflects bone-deep frustration with a broken system that brought death to our deserts and drop houses to our neighborhoods. More >


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Web & FTP Statistics in Cloud Hosting
The web statistics which we'll provide you with are incredibly detailed and will offer you all the info that you may need about the traffic to your websites. From the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our cloud hosting accounts, you can access 2 different apps - AWStats and Webalizer, as a way to get a better idea of how the Internet sites are doing. The statistics are per hour, daily and monthly and include quite a lot of information - what amount of traffic is created by real people and how much by bots or search engines like Google, where the website visitors have come from and if they're new, the most downloaded data, the visitors' IP addresses, and so forth. This info is shown in graphs and tables and you may save it if you need to make a report about the performance of any site, for instance. An in-house developed software tool shall also show you the website visitors and their locations live.


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Bull by the Horns
By Sheila Bair
Free Press, 2012, 432 pp.
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Most history is about what happened and why. An attractive feature of this book about the financial crisis of 2008, written by the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) at the time, is that it covers many official responses to the crisis that were considered but not carried out. In explaining why she preferred what happened to what did not happen, or vice versa, Bair has produced a useful, corrective addition to the already extensive literature on the crisis. Unsurprisingly, as the crisis unfolded, Bair wanted to protect the FDIC's funds, which back its guarantees of bank deposits, and she thought that some of the government support to large financial institutions was unwarranted. Her discussion of the practicalities of saving troubled banks is highly pertinent to the debate currently taking place over a possible banking union in Europe.


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I have wanted a Comme Des Garçons Play striped longsleeve shirt since forever, but my reluctance to ever invest in anything of any real quality has prevented me from actually getting one. Until now! I am twenty four years old, as of last week, and in my old age (lol) I think it is about time I start spending a little more money on good wardrobe staples. They come in nice exciting boxes, wrapped in lovely tissue paper, and owning this particular shirt means that I no longer feel such a compulsion to own forty more striped longsleeves. Win-win. I got the shirt in a women's size small, which actually fits quite snuggly and is a nice grown up change from the oversized boyish longsleeves that make up the rest of my collection. I got this one from Farfetch, who include all customs charges when you buy so there are no nasty surprises on your doorstep. Nice.
That little heart logo is so goddamn cute I put it on my feet too, in the form of my second pair of CDG Play x Converse trainers – my first pair were a birthday present 4 or 5 years ago and I still wear them all the time, a good investment! These light and bright colours are maybe my very last attempt at clinging on to summer, while very much on the verge of developing a horrible horrible cold. If I dress warm, I will feel warm, right? It is relatively rare for me to wear an outfit with no black at all, but on this occasion I thought that the white jeans (and white nails) tied everything together well.
Top – Comme Des Garçons Play via Farfetch*
Jeans – La Redoute*
Trainers – Comme Des Garçons Play via Farfetch*
Photos by Zac Mahrouche
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Modding PC's with Craig "Tech Daddy" Tate (Part 1 of 2)
November 6th, 2006 | Michael Johnson
Craig "Tech Daddy" Tate, a well known PC modder, talks with NVIDIA to discuss his experiences with modding computers. In the first in a two-part podcast series, Craig introduces modding basics, reveals techniques for new modders, and provides recommendations for successfully modding computers.
Check out Part Two here.
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The development of digital technology and media marks a radical change in the way political communication works. In particular, they allow participation in dynamic, peer-to-peer interactions in which politicians are participants rather than controllers. Yet the apparently democratizing role of digital media is fraught with challenges, two especially. First, the algorithms used to filter content on many digital media platforms encourage users to seek out like-minded individuals and mutually reinforce one another's views. As well as being a forum for deliberation, digital media has served to amplify entrenched and sometimes extreme views, leading to increased polarisation. Second, digital media can be captured by interests intent on subverting the principles of liberal democracy. As the recent case of Cambridge Analytica shows, the use of psychographics for "smart targeting" political messages reveals how digital media can be used to rally support for populist and demagogic causes. If these interests are fuelled by "big money" from powerful state or non-state actors, then there is a very real risk that our politics will be undermined. It is the aim of this symposium to debate these two negative phenomena–crudely, "digital rage" and "digital corruption"- and ask how we might better control the dark side of our evolving digital democracy.
09:30 – 10:00: Coffee & tea
10:00 – 11:00: Welcome and introductory talk: "Digital Democracy: History, Theory and the Present (Barrie Axford, Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara).
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee & tea
11:30 – 13:00: Panel 1: Digital RageSocial media is often thought to encourage political anger and division. But are we really as divided as we think - and might voters in fact be more amenable to compromise than recent sensationalist headlines suppose? This panel considers the reality behind our fractious and seemingly polarized digital democracy.
Matt Singh (Number Cruncher Politics) Christabel Cooper (Labour councillor and data analyst) Keiran Pedley (Ipsos-MORI) Anneliese Dodds MP (East Oxford, Labour MP) Mike Smithson ( politcalbetting.com)
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Panel 2: Digital CorruptionIs digital technology good or bad for democracy? Whilst some have celebrated the new forms of community and information sharing it has enabled (e.g. crowd-funding and online petitioning), others have suggested it represents a danger - a democracy undermined by "dark ads," dodgy donations and disinformation. This panel considers the perils and possibilities of digital democracy, and the extent to which we really should be worried.
Nick Anstead (LSE) Kate Dommett (University of Sheffield) Jess Garland (Electoral Reform Society) Adam Ramsay (Open Democracy-UK)
15:30 – 16:30: Concluding Roundtable: Digital GovernanceSo what's to be done? This final roundtable discussion will invite discussion on how we might reform and better manage our new world of digital communication and community.
Organised by Barrie Axford, Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara and Jon Wheatley
Friday 14 June 2019, JHB Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University


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By Russ and Tiña De Maris
As Federal Highway Administration funds get tighter, the condition of America's roads reflects this budgetary bulimia: Potholes and rough roads abound, and you and your RV are the recipients. Those washboard workouts are not only hard on your dentures, but your RV gets thoroughly rattled as well.
One area not often thought about: the RV air conditioner. Sitting up there on the roof, all by its little lonesome, the AC unit is subject to vibration and rattle like everything else. And buried under the "inside cover" are four bolts that hold all that machinery tight on the roof. Those bolts, sadly enough, can get shaken (not stirred) by rough roads and vibration from running. In time they can loosen, and may first make you aware of the situation by allowing the passage of precipitation from the roof to fall into your rig. Not a happy situation!
What's to do? Remove the inside housing of your air conditioner and carefully check the tension of the four bolts that hold the unit in place. Torque them down carefully and live without rain another day. After weeks of frustration, and long days with the rig covered with a blue tarp, the light came on: We torqued ours and a couple of days later, Maw Nature put it to the test: Rain, rain, rain, all night long, and not a drop inside. Now the family RV tech feels like an old fool, but at least he's a dry old fool.


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Amgen Scientist, After 13-Year Push, Sees Bone Cancer Work Paying Dividends
Amgen had the worst year in its history in 2007, according to CEO Kevin Sharer. If you're wondering why the world's largest biotech company has mounted a comeback this year, one good place to look is in the lab of Bill Dougall, an Amgen scientist in Seattle. He's been pursuing a bone cancer program for more than 13 years that has become a critical component of Amgen's next big drug.
"This is the biggest thing to come out of this company since Aranesp, since Epogen, since Enbrel," says Carol Pawlak, an Amgen spokeswoman, referring to drugs that generated more than $9 billion in worldwide sales last year. "People here are very excited."
The new excitement is about denosumab, or "dmab" for short. It's a targeted antibody drug that reached its goal of reducing fractures in women with osteoporosis, according to research presented at a medical meeting last month. This drug could generate $2.2 billion in annual sales in 2012, said Christopher James, an analyst with Rodman & Renshaw in New York, in a note to clients last week. The projections are based mostly on dmab's growth potential for osteoporosis, but Thousand Oaks, CA-based Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) is eager to see clinical trial results next year that could prove dmab's effect is much broader, for seriously ill patients whose prostate or breast cancers have spread to the bones.
The treatment for osteoporosis "has the potential to redefine the space, much the same way in which Enbrel re-defined rheumatoid arthritis," James wrote. But for cancer patients, he added, "dmab continues to be under-appreciated."
Much of the excitement stems from clinical trial results presented last month at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research in Montreal, Quebec. Scientists said a study of 7,808 patients, followed for three years, showed a 68 percent lower risk of spinal fractures for those who took dmab versus those on a placebo. The drug didn't appear to cause increased rates of serious side effects.
But that's not where the story ends. Dmab is designed to work unlike any other treatment on the market for osteoporosis, or for bone tumors. It is meant to block the action of a protein called RANK Ligand, which activates osteoclast cells that lead to the breakdown of bones.
This requires a little basic biology to understand. Healthy people maintain a constant balance of what's called bone remodeling, in which bone cells die and re-grow. Cells called osteoclasts work to break down bone, while osteoblasts build up new bone, Dougall says. When that cycle falls out of balance—like when people develop too many osteoclasts or those cells become too overactive—then it can lead to bone loss, Dougall says.
This is the part of biology that Dougall has been working on for so long. He started at what was then Seattle-based Immunex in 1994, after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. The next year he was put to work on a team that looked at inflammatory proteins like TNF, which was plays a key role in rheumatoid arthritis, and which etanercept (Enbrel) was created to block. He found RANK, a protein receptor that binds to RANK Ligand, which plays a key role in stimulating osteoclast cells. This was a big deal, … Next Page »