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Bruisers of PlanetSide 2. Tough as nails and have a lot of firepower. Heavy Assault's motto is longevity and versatility. HA can outlast any other infantry class, and has an answer to any threat.
Equipment, same as life, has no price (c) Alpha Group
Heavy Assaults have access to a huge variety of equipment, which allows them to choose from many playstyles and adapt to any situation.
Primary Weapons
Primarily, Heavy Assaults use LMGs – Light Machine Guns (w). Compared to Assault Rifles, LMGs have worse hip fire, and worse moving ADS accuracy and recoil. They also often have low or average DPS. But huge magazine sizes of 50-100 rounds allow to kill multiple players before having to reload.
Wrel has a lot LMG reviews in his Weapon Reviews playlist.
Heavy Assaults also have access to exclusive primary weapon class – faction specific Heavy Weapons: T7 Mini-Chaingun for TR, Jackhammer burst-fire heavy shotgun for NC and X2 Lasher for VS – a weapon that fires explosive balls of plasma that do splash damage.
Other primary weapon choices include SMGs, Battle Rifles and shotguns.
Heavy Assault share a special relationship with their sidearms. LMGs have large magazines, so usually running out of ammo before killing an enemy isn't an issue. But LMGs have long reloads, and Heavy Assaults spend a lot of time firing and reloading their rocket launchers. If an enemy attacks a Heavy Assault during any of that, pulling out a sidearm for self-defense is the quickest option.
Because heavy assaults have the advantage of the overshield, and because they still don't use their sidearms too often, they are more likely to use a Darklight Flashlight on their sidearm instead of a laser sight.
Tool: Rocket Launcher
Heavy Assaults have access to a wide variety of rocket launchers and other anti-vehicle weapons. You can check out an in-depth Rocket Launcher Guide here, and here is a brief overview:
Copy-pasted Launchers
Despite having different visuals, these rocket launchers have absolutely identical stats across all factions.
Starting launchers: ML7, Shrike and S1 are only launchers available by default. They can dumbfire a powerful rocket that flies on ballistic trajectory. Generally has short range, but with enough skill and in right circumstances, can be used against far away vehicles and even hovering aircraft.
- One rocket is likely to oneshot an ESF, if it didn't have full health, and a direct hit will kill an infantryman without full flak armor.
- ~2 rockets to kill a MAX.
G2A Lock On Launchers: ASP-30 Grounder, Hawk GD-68 and Nemesis VSH9. These rocket launchers can lock on to aircraft within 450m, as well as dumbfire at ground targets and infantry at close range. They are very versatile, and do a good job of deterring stray aircraft.
- Full health ESFs require 3 rocket hits to be destroyed.
- Air vehicles can use Decoy Flares to remove the lock, and prevent from being locked for a few seconds, or Fire Suppression to heal up to 50% HP.
- Dumbfired rockets will have reduced speed.
G2G Lock On Launchers: M9 SKEP, AF-22 Crow and Hades VSH4. These rocket launchers can use a scope to lock on to ground within 300m. They can also be dumbfired, which is convenient to do against vehicles at close range, as well as MAXes and infantry.
- Dumbfired rockets will have reduced speed.
- In general, lock-on launchers deal less damage than dumbfire-only launchers.
- Ground vehicles can use IR Smoke to break the lock, and prevent locking for a few seconds.
Nanite Systems' Launchers
All factions can use these launchers.
NS Decimator – a dumbfire-only rocket launcher, has similar performance to default launchers, but has a slower rocket that deals more damage, longer reload and carries one rocket fewer.
NS Kraken is a prestige version of the Decimator, that has shiny auraxium shader and uses special effects on rocket detonation, but has identical stats otherwise.
NS Annihilator – a rocket launcher that can lock on to both ground and air vehicles, but cannot dumbfire.
NS-R3 Swarm – a rocket launcher that can lock on to both ground and air vehicles, but cannot dumbfire. It can fire up to 3 rockets before reloading, and has a lot of spare magazines.
This launcher has two fire modes:
- One mode fires fast flying rockets that can pursue the target indefinitely, but they have slow turning rate, and can be dodged.
- Another mode fires slower rockets with improved tracking. They are nearly impossible to dodge, but can take a while to get to the target and can be forced by vehicle pilot to fly into terrain.
You can swap between firemodes using B key by default.
NSX Masamune – a quad-barreled rocket launcher. When fired from the hip, it fires all 4 barrels at once in a shotgun-like blast. When used in a scope mode, it fires 4 rockets in a quick succession, and the rockets can be guided to the target.
Masamune is a versatile launcher, since it has easy-to-hit burst damage for close range, and damaging guided rockets for medium+ range. However, the hip fire spread takes getting used to, and guiding missiles to a moving target can be challenging.
Empire-specific Launchers
These launchers are unique to each empire, they are very situational, but can be devastating when used en masse by an organized group of players.
T2 Striker – a magazine fed launcher that dumbfires small rockets that automatically lock-on to nearby aircraft. Has low damage, especially against armored ground vehicles, but it's easy to get multiple hits on low-flying aircraft.
NC15 Phoenix – fires a TV-guided hard hitting missile, which can consistently hit vehicles, even if they are behind cover. The downside is that player is vulnerable while guiding the rocket, and the launcher doesn't begin reloading until the rocket hits something. It also has a hard cap on maximum range of 295m.
Lancer VS22 – behaves more like a charged plasma rifle than a rocket launcher. Players can hold the Fire button to charge a powerful shot, or spam the key to fire multiple weaker ones. Can be reliably used to hit very far away vehicles.
"Lancer nests" are notoriously impossible to deal with for ground vehicles.
In addition to standard Frag Grenades, Heavy Assaults have access to two exclusive grenade types:
Concussion Grenades
- Non-lethal "crowd control" grenade.
- One hit will heavily blur the screen and reduce turning speed.
- Two hits will invert player's mouse controls.
- Unlike most non-lethal grenades, still has a grenade indicator.
- Enemies affected by your concussion grenades will yield assist XP when killed by another player. These assists will count towards Conc Grenade ribbons and medals.
Rarely used and considered weak after a nerf that removed its "detonate on contact" feature.
Anti-vehicle Grenade
Lethal grenades. Does less damage to infantry than standard frag grenades, but also does solid damage to vehicles, and high damage to MAXes. Sticks to allied and enemy vehicles and MAXes. One AV grenade is enough to get a full health ESF burning. Ineffective against other aircraft.
Damage to infantry: 750 @ 1m – 10 @ 5m. Damage to vehicles goes through a swirl of unknown modifiers, but you can expect it to be comparable to a dumbfire rocket.
One AV grenade deals up to 69% of a MAX's health, and it's a common tactic to combine an AV grenade with a dumbfire rocket launcher shot to nearly instagib a MAX, unless it has MAX Flak Armor.
AV Grenades are a popular choice, since normal frags are rarely useful, while AV grenades give additional utility and are a requirement for Heavy Assault directives.
Note: AV grenades will not stick to NC MAXes with active Aegis Shield ability.
Suit Slots
Heavy Assaults have Nanoweave Armor fully certed and equipped by default. In addition to that and other Suit Slots, they have exclusive access to:
Munitions Pouch
Increases the amount of Rocket Launcher ammunition a Heavy Assault can carry. One bonus rocket / magazine / battery per rank, up to 4 ranks.
Not recommended unless you specifically use Heavy Assault for solo hunting enemy vehicles. Can be helpful if you have a special loadout that you use only for deterring enemy vehicles with a lock-on launcher.
Heavy Assaults have access to Med / Resto Kits and C4.
Heavy Assaults' special ability covers him with a bright layer of faction-colored protective shields. While the overshield is active, Heavy Assault is much harder to kill, but moves 25% slower (this penalty is multiplicative).
A Heavy Assault with active overshield becomes extremely durable, and able to survive normally instantly lethal things, such as: direct rocket launcher hits, sniper rifle headshots, power knife attacks, pump action shotgun point blank shots, etc.
Known issue: as long as overshield is active, HA can't regenerate his personal shields, much like a cloaked Infiltrator. Currently it's unclear if this is a bug or intended feature.
There are different varieties of overshield ability:
Nanite Mesh Generator
This ability
creates an overshield which effectively functions like bonus Health Points.
- As long as it's active, it will use energy to absorb incoming damage at 1:1 ratio.
- Nanite Mesh Generator has 450 energy (source).
- Activating it costs 12.5 energy, and then energy continues to drain at a rate of 12.5 per second.
- Energy is slowly restored while NMG is inactive. It takes 30 to 20 seconds to recharge fully depleted energy depending on rank of the ability.
- Absorbs fall damage.
- Works with Flak Armor and Nanoweave Armor (they reduce incoming damage before it is absorbed by NMG. Confirmed by in-game testing).
- Taking damage while NMG is active doesn't affect the regeneration timer of personal shields. But they won't regenerate while NMG is active.
NMG is often used to provide an instant advantage in a 1v1 encounter. Even when HA is caught by surprise and get shot in the back, often there is enough time for him to activate the NMG for instant 400+ HP boost and gun the enemy down.
Energy regeneration rates:
|Upgrade cost, certs
|Energy restored per sec
|Time to full
- Can be used in reactive way; it can be activated mid fight, after the user has already taken some damage, and it will still provide the full benefit.
- The penalty to movement speed is inflicted only as long as ability is providing a benefit; once the energy is drained, the ability deactivates, and HA can move at full speed.
- Stacks with Nanoweave and Flak Armor.
For example:
- Heavy Assault, no nanoweave: 1000 Health and Shields + 400 Overshield = 1400 effective HP.
- Heavy Assault, full nanoweave: ( 1000 effective Health and Shields + 400 shield ) / (1 – 0.2) = 1400 / 0.8 = 1750 effective HP.
- Comparatively slow recharge rate.
- Effectiveness directly depends on the available energy.
- Overshield gets weaker with each passing second, so prolonging the engagement is unfavorable. Having to activate and deactivate the ability several times during an engagement is especially punishing.
Verdict: Nanite Mesh Generator is best suited for close quarters fights, where you don't know where an attack will come from. It's cheap to upgrade, but works almost as well without any upgrades. Great synergy with Nanoweave Armor.
Adrenaline Shield
Adrenaline Shield functions similarly to NMG, the main difference is that you can restore energy by killing enemies, and adrenaline shield drains more energy per second. There's still some passive energy regeneration, identical to unupgraded NMG.
Passive energy regeneration: 12.5 (unconfirmed)
Upkeep cost: 18 energy per second
|Upgrade cost, certs
|Energy restored per kill
This ability is very expensive to upgrade, and only a good player can take advantage of it.
Verdict: experienced players and Heavy Assault mains will eventually want to upgrade from NMG to Adrenaline Shield, but there is no hurry.
Resist Shield
- Resist Shield grants a flat 40% damage reduction while active.
- Upgrading the ability increases maximum duration.
- Taking damage does not drain energy.
- Resist Shield recovers energy faster than NMG, and generally provides higher uptime, available whenever needed.
- Doesn't reduce fall damage.
- Damage reduction does not stack with Nanoweave or Flak Armor – the highest available resistance is used.
- Heavy Assault with Resist Shield can have up to 1000 / (1 – 0.40) = 1666 effective health.
- Has different visual effect.
|Upgrade cost, certs
|Maximum duration, seconds
Recharge time: 17 seconds to full energy.
- Doesn't lose effectiveness over time.
- Faster recovery to full potential.
- High uptime.
- High and consistent maximum effective HP.
- Potentially better effective HP versus headshots than NMG / Adrenaline + Nanoweave combo.
- For maximum effect, needs to be activated before taking damage, and stay active and slow you down while you are taking damage.
- The less health and shields you have, the less effective is this ability.
Verdict: Resist Shield is best suited for ranged fights, where the Heavy Assault operates from cover, controls his exposure, and at any time can hide to safely recharge shields and restore health. Having support, like medic's Shield Regeneration Field will increase the uptime even further. Great synergy with Advanced Shield Capacitor and Med Kits.
Due to fast recharge rate and high uptime, Resist Shield can be activated whenever the player expects danger, without negative impact on further engagements.
Can increase potency of the Med Kit abuse – jumping around while popping med kits, each one will bump your effective hp to 500 / (1 – 0.40) = 833, while the enemy wastes ammo, trying to kill the Heavy Assault. In this situation, HA is unlikely to die before running out of Med Kits or Resist Shield energy.
Gameplay Tips
Still weak against vehicles
Despite having access to a lot of unique anti-vehicle equipment, Heavy Assault is primarily an anti-infantry class. Infantry in general is weak against vehicles, unless used in numbers and with coordination. If your primary goal is to destroy vehicles, consider using a vehicle yourself, they are much more effective in that role.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't use the tools at your disposal against vehicles, just be aware that you will probably not be able to destroy enemy tanks head on, especially on your own.
Best class for infantry combat
Heavy Assault has both low skill floor and high skill ceiling. It's easy to pick up and start having success, but an amazing player will perform equally amazing things.
Large magazines on LMGs. Even a newbie is likely to score a kill before running out of ammo, and it gives a skilled player the ability to get a lot of kills before needing to reload.
LMGs have high, but controllable recoil. This doesn't mess with a newbie's ability to get kills at close range, while a skilled player will learn to suppress recoil and fire accurately even at longer ranges.
The overshield ability gives room for error to a newbie if he gets caught out of position, and it gives a skilled player the ability to go against multiple enemies and still survive, or to successfully engage from an unfavorable position.
Access to a Rocket Launcher means that a newbie can just run around the corner and discharge his launcher into a MAX'es face, die 0.001 seconds later, and still be useful to his team. A skilled player can calculate the trajectory and one-shot hovering ESFs with a dumbfire rocket.
The overall versatility and access to variety of equipment ensure that the player is never left without a fighting chance. Newbie never feels completely helpless, and a skilled player gets a chance to shine in every aspect of the game.
Heavy Assault has a lot of potential, but it takes a skilled player to live up to that potential.
Heavily relies on personal aiming skill
Tactical errors can be fixed by fast and precise shots. Nothing can fix errors in shooting.
– Alpha Group
This quote embodies Heavy Assault gameplay.
Due to lack of stealth and mobility, Heavy Assault can't be picky about his engagements. For that reason, shotguns and SMGs don't fit HA very well, because often he can't get in effective range of these weapons.
Overshield can give a tactical advantage, or offset a disadvantage, but all it does is ensures that HA will live a little while longer. HA still has to kill the enemy before he kills the HA.
Dodging enemy fire while hip firing is almost never a viable combat option, because overshield slows down the Heavy Assault, and LMGs have terrible hip fire.
Most LMGs have low to average DPS, so to get fast kills, HA has to go for headshots.
All this boils down to the fact that in majority of situations, the correct way to engage for a Heavy Assault is to aim down sights and go for headshots, while suppressing recoil and managing Cone of Fire.
A Light Assault can get kills and survive by picking smart engagements and correct positions.
A Heavy Assault must shoot better than the enemy. Incidentally, that's why players with best accuracy are Heavy Assault mains – it's just how they have evolved.
If you're not confident in your personal aim, and you don't want to develop it, consider looking into other combat classes.


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All that changed in 1882 when, in a one-off Test at The Oval, Australia inspired by figures of 14 for 90 from Fred Spofforth, 'The Demon', fought back to win a thrilling match by seven runs.
Britain's now defunct Sporting Times reacted to Australia's first win on English soil with a mock obituary written by Reginald Shirley Brooks.
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Ivo Bligh, later Lord Darnley, captained England to a 2-1 victory in the subsequent series in Australia and according to most cricket histories he was presented with an urn containing the Ashes of a bail used in the third test by a group of Melbourne women.
However, it was subsequently suggested that the Ashes were those of a ball and in 1998 Lord Darnley's daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil.
The urn itself was bequeathed to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the owners of Lord's, on Darnley's death in 1927 and became an exhibit in the London cricket ground's museum.
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But in order to remedy this perceived unfairness MCC commissioned an Ashes-shaped crystal trophy which was first presented to Australia captain Mark Taylor after the 1998-99 series.
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This article is about LeeHatake93's version of the characters. For the original version, see Joel and Ellie.
Joel & Ellie are the main protagonists of The Last of Us and are playable characters in PlayStation All-Stars and The Crossover Game. Their Minion would be Joel's brother, Tommy.
Twenty years after the spread of a deadly fungus, ruthless survivor Joel is tasked with smuggling a young girl named Ellie to a group known as the Fireflies, in hopes of finding a cure to the fungus and prevent further infection. Together, Joel and Ellie have traveled across the country where they faced both infected people and other ruthless survivors.
- The Last of Us
- The Last of Us: Remastered
In LeeHatake's The Crossover Game, characters have two rivals. However, only Ellie has two rivals as the person she travels with varies depending on her rival.
All-Stars: Joel is seen talking to Tommy in Jackson County. During their conversation, one of the other residents of Jackson runs into the room and tells them that they believe the Cordeceps may have evolved as there are reports of many people fighting against strange creatures that are neither Clickers nor Bloaters. Joel and Tommy get up to investigate, but Joel tells Tommy to watch Ellie while he checks it out. After Joel leaves, Tommy goes to check on Ellie, but finds that she left with Joel.
Names: John Marston, Clementine & Marty McFly
vs Marston: Joel and Ellie are making their way through the Rival Arena when Joel sees Marston. Marston believes that Joel may have abducted Ellie and tries to shoot Joel, but Ellie throws a brick at him. Without trying to reason with Marston, Joel tells Ellie to stand back as they prepare to fight.
vs Clementine: Set before her adventures with Joel, Ellie is seen traveling with her old friend, Riley. However, the two have a run-in with the infected, resulting in both girls being bitten. Thinking it would be poetic, the two decide to stick together until they turn. However, suddenly a loud noise is heard and two people walk up to them. They introduce themselves as Marty and Clementine and ask if they can help them. The girl, Clementine, notices Riley and Ellie's bites, and immediately suggest either cutting them off or killing them. Taken aback, Ellie tells them that she doesn't intend to do either, and challenges Clementine and Marty to a fight.
Marston: Joel has many things in common with John Marston. Both characters have lost a daughter and come from southern states, both live in harsh times where sometimes they must act outside the law for survival (Joel needing to survive in post-apocalyptic 2033, and Marston living in the Old West, among many law-breaking gunslingers who'd kill him in cold blood), both have done immoral things in the past (Joel having "been on both sides", indicating he has been a Hunter, and Marston having been an Outlaw prior to his quest for redemption), and finally, both attempt to rid the world of a virus which turns people into cannibalistic monsters (behaving like zombies), this being the main plots of both The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
Clementine: Clementine, Riley, and Ellie all live in post-apocalyptic worlds where survivors struggle to fight off infected and the living. Lee Everett, a man that Clementine respected and treated as a father figure, suffers the same fate as Riley. Ellie and Clementine both survive after the loss of their loved ones (Riley and Lee). Marty is simply traveling with Clementine.
All-Stars: After defeating Polygon Man, Joel and Ellie make their way back to Jackson County. Once they return, however, they find that a horde of Clickers lead by a Bloater have started to attack. Joel loads a rifle and tells Ellie to stay close as the two prepare to fight their way home, releasing the power absorbed from Polygon Man.
Unlike most characters, Joel & Ellie are a two-in-one character and fight together, with Joel doing most of the heavy hitting as Ellie occasionally jumps in for support. They mainly make use of melee weapons, bombs, and a few firearms from The Last of Us. Both characters would be seen on-screen together at all times.
(Square Moves)
- Brutal Combat - Joel performs a series of quick punches as Ellie stands back.
- Pipe Combo - + Joel assaults the opponent with a large metal pipe and at the end of the combo, Ellie tosses a brick at them.
- Molotov - + Joel tosses a molotov into the air, which would leave a fire onstage for a few seconds
- Switchblade Combo - + Joel crouches as Ellie begins assaulting the opponent with her switchblade.
- Air Melee - (Air) Joel punches while in the air.
- Air Pipe Combo - + (Air) Joel swings his pipe weapon while in the air
- Air Molotov - + (Air) Air version of Molotov
- Switchblade Jab - + (Air) Ellie performs a series of quick jabs with her switchblade as she falls.
(Triangle Moves)
- Burst Rifle - Joel fires the Burst Rifle, which has high knockback
- Desperate Assault - + Ellie performs a series of fast slashes with a machete.
- Nail Bomb - + Joel throws a nail bomb, which won't detonate until an opponent moves near it.
- Flamethrower - + Joel fires his flamethrower in a straight shot
- Shorty - (Air) Joel fires a shot from the Shorty, a one-handed pistol-sized shotgun
- Machete Combo - + (Air) Joel attacks with the machete while in the air.
- Air Nail Bomb - + (Air) This version of the nail bomb will explode on contact
- Air Flamethrower - + (Air) (Aimable) Joel can freely aim the flamethrower in the air
(Circle Moves)
- Watch My Back- Joel rummages through his backpack and drops some AP.
- Runner Assault - + An infected Runner charges at the opponents and attacks for a few seconds.
- Smoke Bomb - + Joel tosses a smoke bomb, which will remain on the stage for 6-8 seconds before disappearing
- The Clicker - + A Clicker appears on the stage and will attack any nearby opponents. Pressing again will make Ellie toss a bottle and the Clicker will charge toward it, attacking anyone in that direction. The clicker will disappear if it is hit three times or if the player presses
- Bow - (Air) (Aimable) Ellie will fire arrows at the opponents
- Infected Tackle - + (Air) An infected tackles the opponents
- Air Smoke Bomb - + (Air) Same as Smoke Bomb, while in the air.
- El Diablo - + (Air) Joel will fire a shot from the El Diablo pistol, which has high knockback
- Either Him or Me - or As Joel grabs the opponent, Ellie shoots them with a pistol, knocking them back
- Get Back! - Joel knocks the opponent upward with a 2x4
- Special Execution - Joel hits the opponent with the butt of an assault rifle and then shoots downward
(Trigger Moves)
(Super Moves)
- Suburbs Defense (Level 1): Joel fires a shot from a mounted rifle.
- Ellie's Rifle (Level 2): Players switch control to Ellie as Joel hands her a sniper rifle, able to instantly KO any opponent.
- The Last of Us (Level 3): A cutscene plays in which Joel and Ellie take cover as a group of Runners run in and a Bloater bursts through a door. Players are then given control of the Bloater. Pressing will make the Bloater charge through the opponents, will make it throw its fungus bombs, and pressing will send in a group of Clickers that immediately charge at the opponents.
- Checking Supplies: Joel and Ellie both check their backpacks.
- Reload: Joel loads a gun while Ellie says "You're going down!"
- Ellie's Jokes: Ellie reads a joke from her joke book, and Joel sighs and facepalms.
Quotes from PlayStation All-Stars
- When Selected:
- Joel: "Let's go, Ellie."
- Ellie: "Endure and survive."
- Joel: "You ready for this?"
- Prematch:
- Joel: "Stay close."
- Item Pick-up:
- Joel: "That'll do."
- Joel: "Alright, this should work."
- Ellie: "Got you something."
- Ellie: "What is that, Joel?"
- Joel: "Better let me handle that, Ellie."
- Ellie: "Nice!"
- Ellie: "Awesome!"
- Joel: "I reckon they don't need this anymore."
- Using Suburbs Defense:
- Joel: "Here we go."
- Using Ellie's Rifle:
- Joel: "You make every shot count."
- Using The Last of Us:
- Ellie: "Watch out!"
- Taunt: Ellie's Jokes:
- Ellie: "Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis."
- Ellie: "I used to be addicted to soap. I'm all clean now."
- Ellie: "People are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow."
- Joel: "Too soon."
- Successful KO:
- Ellie: "I shot the hell outta that guy, huh?"
- Ellie: "Teamwork. Right, Joel?"
- Joel: "Sacrifice the few to save the many."
- Ellie: "Stay away from us!"
- Joel: "You always find something to fight for."
- Ellie: "Yeah, take that!"
- Ellie: "You either hang on to your morals and die, or do whatever it takes to survive."
- Respawn:
- Joel: "You are treading on some mighty thin ice here."
- Joel: "I really miss coffee."
- Ellie: "Endure and survive"
- Joel: "Do I need to remind you what is out there?"
- Ellie: "Here we go again."
- Ellie: "I'm infected! And now so are you!"
Introduction and Ending Animations
Joel and Ellie look around and then face the screen.
Joel hands Ellie a pistol and says "Stay close" as Ellie nods.
Both run in and look back, catching their breath.
Joel and Ellie exit a truck that died on them.
Winning Screen
Ellie holds up her hand and Joel high-fives her.
Joel turns to Ellie and says "Good job."
Joel and Ellie look around as they walk off-screen.
Joel crosses his arms as Ellie does an "Oh yeah!" gesture.
Losing Screen
Ellie is seen alone and runs off screen as Clickers can be heard
Joel is seen fighting off a Clicker.
Joel is tackled by an Infected.
Joel is seen on the ground trying to get up as Ellie is carried away by a soldier.
Results Screen
Victory: Joel stands with his arms crossed as Ellie plays with her switchblade.
Loss: Only Ellie is seen with her head down.
Idle Animation
Joel and Ellie stand in a similar manner to Nathan Drake. Joel will occasionally scratch his head and Ellie occasionally looks at her switchblade or reads from her joke book.
Victory Theme
Joel and Ellie's default appearance from The Last of Us.
Jackson County
Joel and Ellie wearing their Fall clothing from The Last of Us.
Naughty Dogs
Joel is dressed in an shirt similar to one worn by Victor Sullivan, and Ellie wears Jak's goggles and a Jak and Daxter hoodie
Character Variations
In LeeHatake's PlayStation All-Stars, some characters have character variations, alternate characters that have identical or similar movesets to the original characters.
Joel & Tommy
A younger Joel and Tommy from the prologue of The Last of Us. Tommy replaces Ellie and fights with moves similar to Joel, altering their moveset in a way.
Riley & Ellie
Riley and Ellie in her outfit from Left Behind. Riley replaces Joel, but mostly fights in a similar manner to him, leaving their moveset virtually unchanged except for minor animation edits.
- Joel & Ellie are the first true characters that fight as a team. Unlike Daxter and Clank, who ride on their partners' shoulder or back, respectively, Ellie will follow Joel in the same manner as Dusty follows Kat.
- Also, unlike Dusty, Ellie fights alongside Joel.
- Joel & Ellie's Clicker makes them the second characters that can summon a support character that lingers, the first being Ratchet & Clank with Mr. Zurkon.
- However, they are the first characters who can summon a support character that will not disappear unless attacked or manually removed.
- The Clicker that Joel & Ellie summon will also attack them, making Joel & Ellie the first characters who can be harmed by their own moveset.
- Joel & Ellie have a unique swimming animation, similar to Sly Cooper and both versions of Cole MacGrath. Ellie will ride a wooden plank that Joel pushes around in the water. This is in reference to many levels in The Last of Us in which Joel must push Ellie around water-filled areas atop a wooden plank since she is unable to swim.
- In addition, Ellie would be able to shoot her pistol while atop the wooden plank, making Joel & Ellie the only characters who can attack while swimming.
- However, both Joel and Tommy are able to swim, removing the wooden plank entirely.


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Guess what? There is no way to escape aging. You are of the nature to grow old and die.
Both old age and death are inevitable.
While that's hardly a heartwarming thought, it certainly is true. And it certainly is something you should think about even if thinking about it depresses you.
Because thinking about it just might get you up off your butt and exercising, get you eating good things instead of junk. Yes, I know some will read this intro and do the opposite because there's no winning a war against inevitability, but I hope that way of thinking is not for you.
It feels like the Masters all over again.
Only 10 weeks ago this very column looked at all the great storylines golf fans could follow heading into the weekend of the Masters.
With one round in the books at the US Open, it seems many of the storylines haven't changed, while new ones have come about.
Once again, Tiger tops the list. He won two weeks ago against a strong field at the Memorial. His game looked better there than it looked in his win at Bay Hill two weeks before the Masters. Woods finished tied for 40th at Augusta.
The history of Coal Region football is well-documented, but, in reality, not everyone who leaves area high schools with expectations of playing in college actually makes it to the field. Be that as it may, there's an alternative to it for those who want to continue to compete.
"Rugby is an amazing game," says Pat Boyle, a 2003 graduate of Marian High School who found his niche at Villanova University and continues to play the sport in "men's club" while coaching it at Temple University.
After years of researching the subject, Lee Jones, a scientist at Duke University, believes he knows how those who would rather not exercise can avoiding doing so yet still receive the same health benefits. If you have aversion to exercise, all you need to do is take 200 different drugs.
Painfully obvious, yet potentially effective. That's how you might characterize the following statement.
Eat 550 more calories per day than what you need to maintain your present weight, and you are going to add some. In fact, you should probably gain slightly more than a pound a week for at least the first few months.
Jason Zimmerman always seemed to light a fire under every part of the Northwestern Lehigh athletic program since he took over as athletic director years back.
He has worked his way up to being a league officer in the Colonial League and then on to the District 11 committee of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.
On July 1, Zimmerman takes over as the main man in the district after being elected as the district chairman to succeed Jack Wabby, who is retiring after 33 years on the committee and as PIAA treasurer.
Over the last couple of years, concussions have been pushed to the front of the sports world. Concussion awareness has risen dramatically mainly due to the rapid growth of head injuries in football and hockey. Whereas years ago players would be able to talk themselves back into the game just minutes after taking a serious blow, now a plethora of tests must be done by a team's training staff before the player can even think about going back out and competing.
Time tosses aside the trivial. That's why you should pay particular attention to sayings that take on a life of their own, especially ones that outlive three different speakers in three different countries and pertain to your health.
"You are what you eat" is one such statement. First expressed by the French food critic Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826, the sentiment was then written in a philosophical essay by the German philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach 37 years later.
Golf's popularity peaked a few years back, when Tiger Woods was rewriting record books.
If the sport is ever going to regain that level of attention, this weekend could be when it starts.
The greatest tournament of the year started yesterday and the stage seems to be set for one of the best Masters we've seen in years. Storylines abound and more will surely be created over the next three days.
At the top of the list, of course, is Tiger's reemergence. His well-documented struggles on and off the course look to be behind him.
A number of well-known nutritionists have said something similar to this: that the obesity epidemic in the U.S. has occurred not from belt-loosening pig-outs but from minor miscalculations. A few go so far as to say that the epidemic would end abruptly and the collective health of America would improve radically if Americans simply consumed 100 fewer calories a day.
That's not much food at all.


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Stealth the Hedgehog was an alternate version of Sonic the Hedgehog from the Zone of Mobius-Seventeen. As a mask-wearing superhero, he does battle with his universe's Dr. Robotnik, aka Professor Egg, and undoubtedly other villains as well. His zone was destroyed during Master Mogul's rampage through the Cosmic Interstate, but was restored by Titan Tails. (StH: #149, #150)
Background Information
- Stealth the Hedgehog is a parody of Marvel Comics' Spiderman.
- A version of Sonic that parodied Spiderman previously appeared in Sonic Super Special #10 on one of the many screens at Zone Cop HQ. It's possible that this was Stealth. However, this depiction shows him wearing the traditional red and blue Spiderman costume as opposed to the black one seen in #149.


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Erik Abele wrote: > On 22.03.2006, at 18:01, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just poking around the incubator site and I see a responsibilities >> page for Mentors which is good but I don't see any criteria for being >> a mentor. But I think starting with three simple ones would be a start: >> >> 1) Active interest in the project being mentored > > This makes obviously sense but... > >> 2) Commitment to future involvement >> 3) Discussion with the project to see if there is a good fit and get >> the buy in of the folks on the project > > ...these two don't - furthermore I don't see any value in more and more > policies and criteria in this case. I respectfully disagree. I absolutely believe 2) is desirable if only as a matter of respect and courtesy but more importantly I think it can only make the incubation process easier. Whatever role the mentor might play I only see an upside to some dialog with the project. As per 3) if you look at the projects page I think you see mentors who are involved in the incubating project and plan to be involved past its incubation. The last project to graduate was JackRabbit which I believe will be successful because Roy was involved from the beginning, is active in the project and will continue to be I'm sure. ADF Faces and Cayenne look like good examples of this as well. > Hmmm, although I think we should basically welcome any new mentors with > open arms, the above description sounds more like a committer than a > mentor. > > Are you really sure that you understand the tasks and responsibilities > of a mentor? I think so, I've been here for 5-6 years and helped projects like OJB, Lucene and XmlRpc come to Apache though this was prior to the formation of the Incubator. > Usually the sponsor or the podling by himself ask for any additional > mentors (either in the proposal or later on); this then has to be > ratified by the Incubator PMC (partly because the mentor will also > become an Incubator PMC member). Cool, so this is the standard +1 from 3 people to approve a mentor for a project? > An ASF member can also volunteer to be a mentor but IMHO we have to be > very careful here that this doesn't get used as a short-track to > committership - Definitely agree here. It should probably be separated really. You can be a mentor but I don't see why that gives anyone commit privs. Mentor or not, if you haven't contributed any code then you're not a committer. This happened prior to the Incubator and I know I was listed as a committer on the projects I helped come to Apache but I wasn't a committer. I think that's easy to fix by applying rules for committership across board regardless of additional roles a person involved in the project might play. > IMO a mentor shouldn't ever touch any podling code while > wearing his mentor hat; this is totally different from being a > committer. In the end it's solely the podlings decision so the Incubator > PMC shouldn't impose any new committers... I don't see why you can't be a committer and mentor. You say it's bad for a mentor to code but you don't say why. I definitely think the poddling should have the last say about who comes aboard whether it be committers or mentors. Jason. > Cheers, > Erik > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Nabors Industries, Ltd. (NBR) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company's businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company's key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.The profile contains critical company information including:- Business description – A detailed description of the company's operations and business divisions.- Corporate strategy – Analyst's summarization of the company's business strategy.- SWOT Analysis – A detailed analysis of the company's strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.- Company history – Progression of key events associated with the company.- Major products and services – A list of major products, services and brands of the company.- Key competitors – A list of key competitors to the company.- Key employees – A list of the key executives of the company.- Executive biographies – A brief summary of the executives' employment history.- Key operational heads – A list of personnel heading key departments/functions.- Important locations and subsidiaries – A list and contact details of key locations and subsidiaries of the company.- Detailed financial ratios for the past five years – The latest financial ratios derived from the annual financial statements published by the company with 5 years history.- Interim ratios for the last five interim periods – The latest financial ratios derived from the quarterly/semi-annual financial statements published by the company for 5 interims history.HighlightsNabors Industries, Ltd. (Nabors) is an oil and gas contract services provider. The company is a leading land drilling, land well-servicing and work over contractor. It offers offshore platform work over and drilling rigs; and completion and production services such as, hydraulic fracturing, cementing, nitrogen and acid pressure pumping services. It offers a wide range of ancillary well-site services including engineering, transportation, disposal, construction, directional drilling, well logging, maintenance and other support services. The company manufactures, leases and sells top drives for a broad range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment. The company provides contract services to its clients located in the 48 states of the US, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and Africa. Nabors Industries is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.Nabors Industries, Ltd. Key Recent DevelopmentsApr 21, 2015: Huntkey Showcased at China Sourcing FairApr 21, 2015: Nabors Announces First Quarter ResultsMar 02, 2015: Nabors Announces Fourth-Quarter Aand Full-Year Financial ResultsJul 25, 2013: Nabors Expands Its Board, Appointing John P. Kotts as a DirectorJul 23, 2013: Nabors Announces Second Quarter ResultsKey benefits of buying this profile include:You get detailed information about the company and its operations to identify potential customers and suppliers.- The profile analyzes the company's business structure, operations, major products and services, prospects, locations and subsidiaries, key executives and their biographies and key competitors.Understand and respond to your competitors' business structure and strategies, and capitalize on their weaknesses. Stay up to date on the major developments affecting the company.- The company's core strengths and weaknesses and areas of development or decline are analyzed and presented in the profile objectively. Recent developments in the company covered in the profile help you track important events.Equip yourself with information that enables you to sharpen your strategies and transform your operations profitably.- Opportunities that the company can explore and exploit are sized up and its growth potential assessed in the profile. Competitive and/or technological threats are highlighted.Scout for potential investments and acquisition targets, with detailed insight into the companies' strategic, financial and operational performance.- Financial ratio presented for major public companies in the profile include the revenue trends, profitability, growth, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.Gain key insights into the company for academic or business research.- Key elements such as SWOT analysis, corporate strategy and financial ratios and charts are incorporated in the profile to assist your academic or business research needs.Note: Some sections may be missing if data is unavailable for the company
Table of ContentsTable of Contents 2List of Tables 4List of Figures 5Section 1 - About the Company 6Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Key Facts 6Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Key Employees 7Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Key Employee Biographies 8Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Major Products and Services 9Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Key Operational Summary 10Nabors Industries, Ltd. - History 11Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Company Statement 14Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Locations And Subsidiaries 16Head Office 16Other Locations & Subsidiaries 16Section 2 – Company Analysis 18Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Business Description 18Business Description - Completion & Production Services 18Completion & Production Services - Overview 18Completion & Production Services - Financials 18Completion & Production Services - Capital Expenditure 18Business Description - Drilling & Rig Services 18Drilling & Rig Services - Overview 18Drilling & Rig Services - Financials 19Drilling & Rig Services - Capital Expenditure 19Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Corporate Strategy 20Nabors Industries, Ltd. - SWOT Analysis 21SWOT Analysis - Overview 21Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Strengths 21Strength - Broad Service Offerings 21Strength - Substantial Rig Fleet 21Strength - Business Performance: Drilling and Rig Services 21Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Weaknesses 22Weakness - Decline in Working Capital 22Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Opportunities 23Opportunity - Increasing Global E&P Investments 23Opportunity - Forecasted Increase in Oil & Natural Gas Production 23Opportunity - Growth Initiatives 23Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Threats 24Threat - Intense Competition 24Threat - Volatility in Oil Prices 24Threat - Stringent Emission Standards 24Nabors Industries, Ltd. - Key Competitors 25Section 3 – Company Financial Ratios 26Financial Ratios - Capital Market Ratios 26Financial Ratios - Annual Ratios 27Performance Chart 29Financial Performance 29Financial Ratios - Interim Ratios 30Financial Ratios - Ratio Charts 31Section 4 – Company's Oil & Gas, Power Financial Deals and Alliances 32Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals By Year, 2009 to YTD 2015 32Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals By Type, 2009 to YTD 2015 33Nabors Industries, Ltd., Recent Deals Summary 34Section 5 – Company's Recent Developments 35Apr 21, 2015: Huntkey Showcased at China Sourcing Fair 35Apr 21, 2015: Nabors Announces First Quarter Results 36Mar 02, 2015: Nabors Announces Fourth-Quarter Aand Full-Year Financial Results 39Nov 10, 2014: Nabors Announces Revised Third Quarter 2014 Results; GAAP Earnings Per Share Of $0.34 42Oct 21, 2014: Nabors Announces Third Quarter 2014 Results 43Jul 22, 2014: Nabors Announces Second-Quarter EPS of $0.21 after net charges of $0.03 per share 46Jun 04, 2014: Nabors Expands Its Board, Appointing Dag Skattum as a Director 47Apr 22, 2014: Nabors announces 1Q 2014 EPS of $0.16 per Share 48Apr 14, 2014: Nabors Announces Further Changes to Corporate Governance and Compensation Practices 50Mar 24, 2014: Nabors Expects Lower 1Q 2014 Earnings per Share Relative to Mean Estimates 51Section 6 – Appendix 52Methodology 52Ratio Definitions 52About GlobalData 56Contact Us 56Disclaimer 56List of TablesNabors Industries, Ltd., Key Facts 6Nabors Industries, Ltd., Key Employees 7Nabors Industries, Ltd., Key Employee Biographies 8Nabors Industries, Ltd., Major Products and Services 9Nabors Industries, Ltd., Key Operational Summary, 2011 10Nabors Industries, Ltd., History 11Nabors Industries, Ltd., Other Locations 16Nabors Industries, Ltd., Subsidiaries 16Nabors Industries, Ltd., Key Competitors 25Nabors Industries, Ltd., Ratios based on current share price 26Nabors Industries, Ltd., Annual Ratios 27Nabors Industries, Ltd., Interim Ratios 30Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals By Year, 2009 to YTD 2015 32Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals By Type, 2009 to YTD 2015 33Nabors Industries, Ltd., Recent Deals Summary 34Currency Codes 52Units 52Capital Market Ratios 52Equity Ratios 53Profitability Ratios 53Cost Ratios 54Liquidity Ratios 54Leverage Ratios 55Efficiency Ratios 55List of FiguresNabors Industries, Ltd., Performance Chart (2010 - 2014) 29Nabors Industries, Ltd., Ratio Charts 31Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals By Year, 2009 to YTD 2015 32Nabors Industries, Ltd., Oil & Gas, Deals by Type, 2009 to YTD 2015 33


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Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) was named today as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade. He released the following statement:
"I thank incoming Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) for entrusting me with this important post. I look forward to working with her and all the members of the Committee to fashion policies that strengthen our country," said Royce.
"The Subcommittee faces three daunting challenges: the far-reaching spread of Islamist terrorism and ideology; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and material; and a stalled trade agenda hampering U.S. economic growth. The Subcommittee will delve into all of these issues, seeking to make Americans more prosperous and safe," said Royce.
Upon making the announcement, incoming Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said:
"Congressman Royce is one of the most respected Members on our Committee and is someone the American people can count on in this capacity to help prevent extremists and other outlaws from threatening the U.S. He has been a critical partner in holding North Korea accountable for its nuclear and missile activities, its aggressive posture against U.S. allies, and its money laundering activities that directly undermine U.S. security interests. Ed was relentless in his support for the strongest possible prosecution of Viktor Bout, an arms trader known as the "Merchant of Death,' and I am very pleased to have him again take the reins on the Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade subcommittee."
Source: http://royce.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=218504


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Ever since Braid first made us do funny things with time, puzzling platformers have been a key staple of the Xbox Live Arcade market place. The Adventures of Shuggy is the latest in that long-ish line of 2D, vaguely old-school platform games that incorporate puzzle mechanics into their gameplay, and whilst it might not reach the vaunted heights of its predecessors, it's still well worth checking out.
Developed by Smudged Cat, the game tells the story of our titular hero, Shuggy. He's inherited a house from his uncle, but unfortunately it's overrun with ghosts, ghouls, goblins and poor plumbing. Shuggy decides to clear out his new abode, a process which involves him collecting buckets and buckets of glistening green gems. These gems then magically turn into keys, which the little vampire can use to unlock more rooms in the house.
There are over a hundred levels for you to work your way through, each of them featuring different devices for messing with the way the game plays. For example, some rooms need you to rotate the room itself, dropping Shuggy onto previously inaccessible ledges. Others feature multiple Shuggys, who you need to swap between in order to collect all of the gems. Some of the most interesting levels are the ones where, after a set time, a ghost Shuggy appears and repeats your actions.
The levels range from the frustratingly obscure to the spectacularly simple. Some of them you'll breeze through in no time, laughing in the face of the spiky monsters and weird bouncing blobs that try and scupper your path. Then there are the levels that require patience, quick thinking and numerous tries to get right. While Shuggy never reaches the head scratching levels of Braid, nor the sheer frustration levels of something like Super Meat Boy, it still throws in some grotesque difficulty peaks here and there to make sure you're paying attention.
The Adventures of Shuggy is a nice little package, with a cute, quirky art style and a fine line in upbeat 'oom-pah' tunes. It's not as retro looking as some puzzling platformers, nor does it have quite so defining a style as something like Limbo, but it does have its own charm, and that makes it almost impossible to dislike. There's plenty on offer for even the most hardcore of gamer to get their teeth into as well, with leaderboards and timed levels promising plenty of replay value.
Shuggy himself is a bit of an anachronism, a hark back to the golden age of the 16bit console when men were plumbers and hedgehogs were infeasibly fast. His game, on the other hand, has a much more modern flavour, albeit one tinged with the nostalgia that's swept through download-only titles in recent years. The levels may not be quite so innovative as others of the same ilk, but there's still plenty of fun to be had working your way through them.
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Detroit Lakes Public Schools received recalled peanut products in 2007
Detroit Lakes Public Schools is one of nearly 200 school districts around the state to receive peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America that were recently recalled by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
The peanut products in question are 10-pound cans of roasted peanuts. Two cans were delivered to Detroit Lakes on Jan. 15, 2007.
Duane Dunrud, Food Service Director for Detroit Lakes Public Schools, said that the district doesn't have any of the peanuts in question left.
"We only got two cases," Dunrud said. "Nobody got sick."
He said that he personally checked the each school in the district to see if they still had any of the cans left over. Dunrud said they were used up.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the Minnesota Department of Education that peanuts from the Peanut Corporation of America were used in the school lunch commodity food distribution program in Jan. 2007. The federal commodity program provides food to schools and other entities at no cost.
The Peanut Corporation of America is the subject of a criminal investigation by the FDA as a result of the salmonella outbreak that has caused several deaths nationwide, including one linked to the death of a Wadena woman.
The FDA accused the firm of failing to take steps to mitigate salmonella contamination in the facility.
Approximately 12 instances of contamination occurred in 2007 and 2008 where the firm, as part of its own internal testing program, identified some type of salmonella in its product and still released the product into the marketplace.
The FDA also announced the expansion of the Peanut Corporation of America recall.
The recall was expanded to include peanut products from Jan 1, 2007 to the present. The Blakely, Ga. plant that produced the recalled products in question is currently closed.
The increased scope now includes a small quantity of peanut butter, and both dry and oil-roasted peanuts, which were purchased through the USDA commodity program.
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Properties, Prediction, and Prevalence of Useful User-generated Comments for Descriptive Annotation of Social Media Objects
Elaheh Momeni, Claire Cardie, Myle Ott
I received my Ph.D. in C.S. from Cornell in August 2013. I worked in Cornell's Natural Language Processing group under the advisement of Claire Cardie. Now I'm a Research Scientist at Facebook.
I'm also a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholar and a graduate of the Early Entrance Program.
My work in the area of opinion analysis explores how honesty and sentiment are expressed in online social media text, with an emphasis on detecting deceptive opinion spam—fictitious opinions that have been deliberately written to sound authentic, in order to deceive the reader. My work in this area has produced the first publicly available gold standard corpus of deceptive opinion spam, shown the efficacy of training supervised text classifiers to detect deception, and introduced a Bayesian framework for obtaining community-level estimates of the rates of deception in online review portals, e.g., TripAdvisor and Yelp. A demo of our deception research is available at ReviewSkeptic.com.
My work in the area of information retrieval focuses on improving search within collections of short documents, e.g., tweets, by exploiting term co-occurrence ("topic modeling") in conjunction with explicit topic indicators, e.g., hashtags, to improve topic identification and relevance assessment. This work has been applied at IBM Research for entry into NIST's Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2012).
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Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero?
By Gregor Gall
In Scotland, Tommy Sheridan scaled the political heights, achieving something quite remarkable. He became the best known and most widely respected socialist leader in the post-war period. As a radical socialist, Sheridan became the second most famous living Scot. He was an icon and a voice for the voiceless. He led the Scottish Socialist Party to its historic breakthrough in the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, gate crashing its way into the political mainstream. But in a very short space of time, the achievements of a lifetime were thrown away and all the progress put into reverse. From being jailed for fighting Thatcher's hated poll tax, he ended up back in jail for committing perjury. The supreme irony is that Sheridan landed himself back in jail as a disgraced socialist at the very time when he was most needed to help lead resistance to the Westminster government's public service spending cuts following the crisis of neo-liberalism. He was not there to help turn it into another poll tax revolt. Why did he throw this all away? Was it, as the media alleged, because he was an egotist, delusional and arrogant? Was it because, as he alleged, he was stitched up by an unholy alliance of the state, News International, and his former comrades? This biography tells the story of the socialist who had it all, but who was attracted to risk like a moth to a light. Tommy Sheridan always played for political high stakes, but only on the basis of strategic calculation.
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State Farm® and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia worked with Congress in 2007 to designate the third week of October as National Teen Driver Safety Week. Given the prevalence of teen car crashes in October, this encourages parents, young drivers, lawmakers and educators to work together to change risky driving behaviors and help save lives.
Having a dedicated week provides a unique opportunity to focus attention on this national problem. The week serves as a time to shine a spotlight on teen driver safety and ramp up conversations about teen driver safety. Across the country this week, thousands of State Farm agents and employees will be participating in teen driver safety activities in their local communities, as part of Celebrate My Drive®.
Celebrate My Drive celebrates new drivers everywhere. State Farm created the program in 2012 as a means of sharing positive safe driving practices to inspire teens to be better, safer drivers. And it is with good reason. Auto crashes are the number one cause of death among teens in North America. But Celebrate My Drive is not about scare tactics or negativity. It is about emphasizing the safe choices new drivers can make every time they sit behind the wheel. If we can reinforce habits, such as remembering to think 2N2™: 2 eyes on the road, 2 hands on the wheel, we'll save lives together.
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A Euro-based perspective
Published: 01 April, 2007
Henderson Global Investors is one of the most significant owners of retail property with a Europe-wide portfolio of shopping centres, retail parks and outlet malls worth over £3bn. The properties are held in a number of different specialist funds, which are open to investors from around the world.
As head of property, Neil Varnham's role is to develop concepts for new funds that will prove attractive to investors by achieving benchmark-beating returns. He then oversees the fundraising process, where the concept is sold to potential investors. Once the capital is in place, the challenge is to acquire the right properties and then to asset manage the portfolios to ensure that they live up to expectations.
To date, he has launched a UK shopping centre fund that includes landmark properties like the St James Centre in Edinburgh, Princes Quay in Hull, half of Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow and a one-third stake in the Bullring in Birmingham; a retail warehouse fund and a smaller shop unit fund. And across Europe there is already an outlet fund and a general retail fund, with more in the pipeline.
As if that wasn't enough, Varnham is also responsible for all property market sectors in Italy and Spain.
The UK shopping centre fund is arguably the flagship. Launched two and a half years ago, it has 45 investors from as far afield as Australia, the US, the Middle East and Europe, and according to Varnham it is poised for a new growth spurt. "We're actively in fundraising mode," he says. "We want to become the dominant shopping centre fund at the top end of the market, and we expect to take it to £1.5bn or £2bn over the next two years. At that size economies of scale will help us achieve even better returns."
And even though capital growth has slowed from the giddy highs seen two or three years ago, Varnham is still a bull of UK shopping centres. "There's still institutional appetite for UK retail," he says. "Double-digit returns are still going to be achievable over the next five years."
To achieve this, the fund concentrates on dominant malls in major cities. "Our research shows these are low-volatility assets, and they're set to outperform," Varnham says. And development activity is going to be the key to that performance. "There are only two ways of delivering performance going forward: there's asset management or tenant engineering and then there's development. It enables you to get that extra slice of return."
With this in mind, three out of the four existing assets have big development angles: Buchanan Galleries is set to grow to a million sq ft, and Princes Quay has recently been granted consent for a 500,000-sq ft retail-led extension.
But it's in Edinburgh that the fund is involved in its biggest project. Last year it bought the St James centre and an adjoining office block in two separate deals. "We wouldn't have bought the centre if we hadn't been able to get hold of the office block as well," Varnham says. Ever since they were built in the 1970s the two have been in separate ownerships which has prevented their modernisation. "Nobody has been able to put together a cohesive strategy for the site," Varnham points out.
"We're looking to completely remodel the retail, and provide residential, a hotel, car parking and an upgraded leisure offer," he says. Injecting new retail into Edinburgh city centre - a world heritage site - has proved the graveyard of many developers' ambitions, but Varnham is optimistic. "This is real. This is deliverable and the city aren't constraining us at all. In fact they're encouraging us," he insists.
The UK retail warehouse fund stands at £1.5bn, and according to Varnham it "significantly outperformed" last year. "There are 45 to 50 investors," he says. "And a lot of people want to get in but we're not currently raising equity."
Last year it increased its ownership of the Brewery in Romford - one of the UK's top 50 retail destinations - to 100 per cent. And Varnham is especially proud of the redevelopment of the Craigleith retail park in Edinburgh, now rebranded as The Quarry. "Retailers are trading well from double height units," he says. "We'll do more of that."
In strategic terms he says the retail warehouse fund has "been degearing over the past 18 months to reduce risk. We're conscious of the need to maintain an appropriate risk profile in all our funds."
But the UK is just a small part of Varnham's remit, and he's spending an increasing proportion of his time hopping between the Henderson offices in Milan, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. He believes this network of offices is a key advantage to Henderson. "Having people on the ground allows us to access stock," he explains, "and the majority of our transactions are off-market.
"The proliferation of funds over the past few years has drawn some justified criticism," he says. "A lot of them are just ideas and they don't have the infrastructure to invest. That just gives a bad name to the fund management industry.
"But we pride ourselves on our ability to place that money in the market, and I'm confident we will place c3bn this year," he says.
Henderson's first property venture outside the UK was the outlet mall fund, set up in 2004 to buy the McArthurGlen properties in France, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands. McArthurGlen continues to operate the centres, and last year the fund bought its first property from another source, Hammerson's B5 centre in Berlin. "We're now looking at other third-party assets," says Varnham. "The fund's fully invested and we're now looking for another c300m of equity.
"With outlet malls we're not just investing in bricks and mortar," he explains. "It's a business with retail at its core. For example, I've just come back from Roermond in Holland. Assets like that are all about how we spend our marketing budget. We're getting cuter at that and we're getting value from our marketing euro." And he asserts: "I'd happily quadruple our budget because it washes straight through to the retailers."
And he believes there are lessons that other shopping centres could learn from the outlet business. "McArthurGlen operates a retailer academy for all of its tenants. We should learn more from that skill base and inject it into other sectors and markets."
The other existing European fund is Herald, a general retail property fund that raised c450m last year, and geared that up to c1bn. Over 90 per cent of that has already been spent so Varnham is currently looking to raise another c500m. "We'll gear that up again and I expect that will be spent in the next nine to 12 months," he says.
"Herald is the first proper pan-European retail fund covering all the retail sectors," he explains. "We've bought shopping centres and retail parks in Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Holland. That's a good spread but we'll continue to widen it out to Central and Eastern Europe and to Turkey."
Looking ahead, country-specific funds are on the agenda, and Henderson has already welcomed the decision by the German government to approve a REIT structure.
"We're looking at a number of opportunities in Germany," Varnham says. "It's become a bit of a flavour of the month but we've been there for eight years. Firstly we were exporting capital for German investors but now we're working in the domestic market."
Equally he says: "Italy's an important market to us. We've just applied to the Bank of Italy for consent to launch a c500m fund. We've already sourced the stock."
But he's very aware of the need for strong local partners. "McArthurGlen proved that Italy is a viable place to invest, but they couldn't have done it without their partner Fingen. We're working with them, too. And Turkey's another example of a place where we wouldn't develop without a local partner."
But entering new markets has not been without its challenges. "The UK market is very skilled at property management and asset management," he says. "The infrastructure is there. But in Europe there's a completely different skill base in property and generally it's a lot lower. Our challenge is to upskill those people, but that involves cultural change, which can be difficult.
"We want to achieve a level of quality across our European stock; the centre managers, the marketing people and so on. It's essential if we are to deliver the returns."


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Novel application of a discrete choice experiment to identify preferences for a national healthcare-associated infection surveillance programme: A cross-sectional study
Russo, Philip L., Chen, Gang, Cheng, Allen C., Richards, Michael, Graves, Nicholas, Ratcliffe, Julie, & Hall, Lisa (2016) Novel application of a discrete choice experiment to identify preferences for a national healthcare-associated infection surveillance programme: A cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 6(5), e011397.
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Objective: To identify key stakeholder preferences and priorities when considering a national healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance programme through the use of a discrete choice experiment (DCE).
Setting: Australia does not have a national HAI surveillance programme. An online web-based DCE was developed and made available to participants in Australia.
Participants: A sample of 184 purposively selected healthcare workers based on their senior leadership role in infection prevention in Australia.
Primary and secondary outcomes: A DCE requiring respondents to select 1 HAI surveillance programme over another based on 5 different characteristics (or attributes) in repeated hypothetical scenarios. Data were analysed using a mixed logit model to evaluate preferences and identify the relative importance of each attribute.
Results: A total of 122 participants completed the survey (response rate 66%) over a 5-week period. Excluding 22 who mismatched a duplicate choice scenario, analysis was conducted on 100 responses. The key findings included: 72% of stakeholders exhibited a preference for a surveillance programme with continuous mandatory core components (mean coefficient 0.640 (p<0.01)), 65% for a standard surveillance protocol where patient-level data are collected on infected and non-infected patients (mean coefficient 0.641 (p<0.01)), and 92% for hospital-level data that are publicly reported on a website and not associated with financial penalties (mean coefficient 1.663 (p<0.01)).
Conclusions: The use of the DCE has provided a unique insight to key stakeholder priorities when considering a national HAI surveillance programme. The application of a DCE offers a meaningful method to explore and quantify preferences in this setting.
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