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Today's myth to bust:
"There's no reason you should need that in your chain, I can't see it yielding usable results."
Since when can we judge the sound of a chain on a specific source without hearing the actual audio?
Since when does a picture of a chain give you enough information to know exactly how it would sound without hearing the actual audio?
Since when can we say with certainty that our audio must sound like garbage in the first place if we need x-y-z without hearing the actual audio?
We're audio engineers, damnit! Why are so many engineers so hard lined about how to engineer their audio? Everyone has to be right, but they make assumptions with incomplete information.
If you don't hear the audio, you cannot judge a picture of a recording chain. If someone wants to post a picture of a chain to talk about how they enjoy using it, but they don't post the audio, you can legitimately ask questions about why they might've chosen a certain chain. But you cannot make statements about the quality of the persons audio without hearing the actual audio.
Imagine if structural engineers acted like audio engineers. "You shouldn't need that. There must be a problem." Well, you maybe didn't see how it was used. You maybe didn't know what problems were being addressed by it. And as a structural engineer, you should know better than to judge with incomplete information because an error in that field can cost lives if a building collapses.
But since the stakes aren't nearly as high in audio, and it's largely a creative field, we get people who like to tout their ability to know instinctively that a piece of audio is full of problems and sounds like crap based on a picture of a signal chain.
There's no way a person can judge the quality of the audio based on a picture of a chain.
Remember. Jumping to conclusions is a horrible idea.
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CP Rewritten: August Sneak Peeks & Breakdown
Three sneak peeks have been released, hinting at what's coming this month to Club Penguin Rewritten, and it looks very exciting, with potentially even Card Jitsu Fire being added!
This is what was released as the sneak peek, and in this post, I'll be sharing some of the most common suggestions for each image:
As always in this post, I'll be sharing some of the most popular theories for each image, starting with the first one, so feel free to skip this bit if you don't wish for any spoilers. The following is all a theory based on these sneak peeks and is not confirmed.
The first image seems to suggest that Card Jitsu Fire is coming this month, due to the large amount of orange, which looks like flames! It was already likely to release this year, and perhaps the game will release within in the upcoming days!
As for the second image, a small picture of a mountain, that seems to line up with my previous prediction post which states that the Great Snow Race is likely coming this month.
This is because there's only one room which really matches up with the picture. This is the Toughest Mountain, and you can see in the background the two pieces of snow featured in the sneak peek.
There are only two parties from classic Club Penguin which used this room: The Great Snow Race and the Mountain Expedition, but the Mountain Expedition already happened last year and is unlikely to return again.
As for the third image, it could be just about anything, perhaps even something custom like last time! There's not really been a solid theory to prove what it is yet, so I can't really share much.
Update: Hunter has discovered that it's likely the Ice Rink from the Penguin Games, which is confirmed to be the party!
Either way, August looks to be a very exciting time for Club Penguin Rewritten!
Thank you very much for reading, be sure to check back for more of the latest news and guides. Waddle on!
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News Frontier Preparing to Blow You Away With More LostWinds
Good news, everyone
LostWinds and its sequel, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, have been two of WiiWare's most notable hits, so it's good to hear that David Braben's Frontier team is preparing to release more titles in the series Braben confirmed to Eurogamer that the series was "far from done and dusted", saying: There are still many...
News Square Enix to Publish LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias in Japan
Impressive British downloadable title keeps the attention of the big guns of Japanese RPGs.
The LostWinds WiiWare games from Frontier have gotten loads of praise around the gaming industry and are two of the strongest selling titles on WiiWare. Noteworthy for containing boatloads of character, great design and compelling play mechanics which take...
News LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias Coming to North America on Monday
It seems the wait for a North American release wasn't as long as expected.
Frontier has just announced that their brand new WiiWare sequel LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will be released on the North American WiiWare service on Monday, October 19th for 1000 Wii Points. You can check out the official press release detailing the game's release...
News LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias Blows in on 9th October
Frontier's latest opus set to become the 100th WiiWare release!
We've just received word from Frontier that their follow-up to the critically-acclaimed LostWinds, subtitled Winter of the Melodias, will become the 100th game to launch on the WiiWare service when it hits on October 9th. Here's the official press release letting you know all about the...
Interviews LostWinds 2 - Frontier's David Braben
The big boss man talks to Nintendo Life about LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
It's hard to believe that LostWinds was a WiiWare launch title. It still effortlessly overshadows much of the content being published on the service and remains a deliciously playable slice of video gaming that puts even full-price retail releases to shame. The game was...
News Frontier Officially Announces LostWinds Sequel
A wealth of new information on the highly-anticipated WiiWare sequel.
We just recently featured news on the upcoming LostWinds sequel LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, but Frontier have decided to unleash a barrage of new information on the upcoming title, including some gameplay and story line information that you can check out in the official...
News LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias Announced
The amazing WiiWare launch title is getting a sequel.
Anticipation for a sequel to Frontier's WiiWare launch title LostWinds has been building for a long time now. We knew the announcement was coming, we just didn't know when or what to expect. In the most recent issue of Edge magazine, Frontier unleashes a rather in-depth preview of their...
News LostWinds Coming To Japanese WiiWare In December
While the US, Europe, and Australia have been enjoying Frontier's amazing WiiWare launch title LostWinds for quite some time now, Japanese gamers have had to sit back and wait in anticipation that eventually the game might see a release in Japan.
Now thanks to famed rpg giant Square-Enix, the game will finally see a release in the land of the rising...
News Could Elite 4 Be Headed To WiiWare?
About Time
While it's certainly no Duke Nukem, Frontier's Elite 4 title has seen its fair share of delays and supposed project cancellations since development on the game began back in 2000. After a successful run on the various personal computers of the 80's, Frontier was all set to take their hit franchise into the modern era of video gaming,...
News Braben: LostWinds Was Almost Cancelled
Frontier Developments maestro David Braben has rained praise on download services like WiiWare, commenting that LostWinds would probably have been cancelled had it been earmarked as a traditional retail release.
Speaking at the Develop Conference in Brighton, UK, Braben had this to say: It's a fantastic way of de-risking publishing. This is a game...
News LostWinds Is Best-Selling Euro WiiWare Title
Frontier Development's excellent LostWinds is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the first batch of WiiWare games, and thankfully the general public seems to have acknowledged this because Nintendo of Europe's Laurent Fischer has revealed that the inventive platformer is sitting pretty at the top of the European WiiWare sales charts.
News LostWinds Nominated For Develop Awards
WiiWare may only be a few weeks old but one of its titles is already gaining recognition from within the industry. The game in question is Frontier Developments' sublime LostWinds, which has been nominated in the 'Best New IP' and 'Visual Arts' categories in the prestigious Develop Industry Excellence Awards. Frontier has also been nominated in the 'Best Independent Developer' category.
Here's the press release: DEVELOP INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2008 NOMINEES ANNOUNCED The finalists for the Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2008 have today been reve...
News David Braben Interview: LostWinds
We talk to the founder of Frontier Developments
David Braben, founder of Frontier Developments and the man famous for bringing the world such legendary videogames as Elite and Virus, recently gave us the honour of taking part in an exclusive interview. In it, he talks about Frontier's recent WiiWare release LostWinds and also gives a little insight...
News Frontier Quietly Confirms LostWinds Sequel
LostWinds was only released in the US yesterday, but if Frontier's website is to be believed, a sequel is already coming! On Frontier's page for the game, scroll to the very bottom to find this: Click here to REGISTER FOR ADVANCE INFORMATION on Frontier's forthcoming LostWinds sequel containing amazing new gameplay as Toku and Enril's...
News LostWinds: One to Watch on WiiWare?
With WiiWare now officially launched in Japan, it's difficult not to feel a slight sense of disappointment when looking at the opening salvo of software. Sure, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles looks lovely and the Dr Mario update is addictive as ever, but a few too many of the titles appear to be either over-priced shovelware or 'too Japanese' to appeal to a Western audience.
Fear not, because the US launch is looking a hell of a lot more enticing, largely thanks to titles like LostWinds, which is shaping up to be the kind of game that p...
News David Braben Lets Fly With a Gust of LostWinds Info
Frontier's David Braben – the industry veteran behind the classic space trading game Elite, as well as many others – has given an insightful and interesting interview regarding his new game and the state of WiiWare development as he sees it.
LostWinds will debut when the WiiWare service goes live in the US in May, and Braben is optimistic that...


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Everton LACK team chemistry at the moment, claims Leighton Baines
Leighton Baines has claimed Everton's players lack chemistry following a third successive Premier League defeat at the weekend.
The Toffees fell to a 1-0 loss at Manchester United on Sunday and were booed off by the travelling fans, whose side are 12th in the table and level on points with Bournemouth.
Although Roberto Martinez's side have an FA Cup semi-final to contest later this month, their league form has frustrated supporters that believe a squad featuring John Stones, Ross Barkley and 25-goal striker Romelu Lukaku should be higher up the division.
And Baines insists Everton's current team are not gelling together as they should.
He told the Liverpool Echo: "I just don't feel as though the chemistry is quite there with the team on the pitch at the moment, and it hasn't been for a while.
"We are maybe leaning too heavily on individuals to come up with something.
"We're in games; we were in the game on Sunday and had a couple of chances, but we're not performing as a team to the level we know we can or we should be.
"Results have an impact on that because chemistry and confidence go hand in hand. Look at the teams who are having success this year and you'd say they have chemistry.
"If I had to say one thing, I just don't know if it's there with us at the moment, for whatever reason."
With 13 points separating the Toffees and sixth-placed West Ham, European qualification through the league is now seemingly out of reach.
Baines has therefore urged his team-mates to put things right ahead of their semi-final date at Wembley to try and salvage what is turning out to be a disappointing campaign.
"We're not where we should be," the 31-year-old added.
"We haven't won enough games to make excuses. You get judged at the end of the season and we're getting towards the end of the season, and we're not near a position we should be in given what we've got.
"We're all accountable. We try and put it right but we've not been able to. That's the third loss on the bounce in the league which is disappointing to us all.
"We want to win every time we go out to play and we'd like to go into that cup game with a few wins behind us. That's our season in some respects now, it certainly is from the fans' point of view and we've let them down a lot, it's our only way of making it up to them."


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Long known throughout the world for quality, Zeiss are the first name many think of when it comes to luxury lenses. Today, Zeiss have announced three new lenses; 15mm f/2.8, 18mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/2 for both Nikon and Canon. These lenses are part of Zeiss's Milvus line, designed to "fulfill the requirements of today's powerful digital cameras and those of the future thanks to their high imaging performance".
As with the other members of the Milvus family, the three new lenses contain what Zeiss calls "harmonious bokeh". This is essentially a floating element design which compensates for errors at different distance settings. They also claim excellent flare and ghosting control thanks to the T* anti-reflective coatings.
Zeiss Milvus 15mm f/2.8
Zeiss Milvus 18mm f/2.8
Zeiss Milvus 135mm f/2
All of the lenses in the Milvus line, are full frame lenses available with either Nikon F or Canon EF mount. Zeiss give these the ZF.2 and ZE monikers, respectively. They're certainly not inexpensive lenses, but they've got Zeiss written on them. So, would you expect any different? I'm sure they'll have the quality to match.
The 15mm f/2.8 is priced at $2,699, the 18mm f/2.8 costs $2,299 and the 135mm f/2 will set you back $2,199. All three lenses are expected to be available at the end of October, and are available for pre-order now.


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Apple dominates the smartwatch market as sales rise despite COVID-19 pandemic, report says
Smartwatch sales continued to climb during the start of the coronavirus crisis with Apple selling more than three times as many devices as its competitors, according to a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics.
The analytics company issued a report on Thursday claiming that Apple holds a 55% market share in the smartwatch category followed by Samsung with about 14%. Garmin rose to the third position with 8% of smartwatch sales.
Overall shipments grew 20% over last year, reaching 13.7 million units sold in the first quarter of 2020, the report said. The increasing shipments were driven by online orders.
"Smartwatches are selling well through online retail channels, while many consumers have been using smartwatches to monitor their health and fitness during virus lockdown," said senior analyst Steven Waltzer in a statement.
Fitbit data suggests that people are lounging more, with overall steps down 12% during the pandemic.
Apple sold 7.6 million smartwatches at the top of the year, the Strategy Analytics report said, and the iPhone giant also held the top position in 2019 with 54% of market share.
The analysts project smartwatch shipments slowing in the second quarter with retailers largely shut down across Europe and the U.S. However the shipments will pick up steam again once stay-at-home orders are lifted and consumers regain confidence, the report said.
The smartwatch news comes in stark contrast to smartphone sales, which took an unprecedented hit during the first few months of the year.
The worldwide smartphone market dropped 11.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2020 during the peak of the lockdowns in China, according to International Data Corp. data.
As supply chains in China got back to business, economies in other parts of the world including the U.S. took a major hit by the pandemic, which caused an onslaught of layoffs and shelter-in-place orders.
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Announcing: Study Island Fall Contest
Announcing: Study Island Fall Contest
Are you looking for a great way to boost standards mastery for your students? Inspire a little friendly competition, register your school for the Edmentum Master Challenge, featuring Study Island, and compete to win great prizes this October!
Study Island student users will be challenged to earn as many Study Island Blue Ribbons as they can from October 1st through October 31st. Top Blue Ribbon earners will be awarded the title of 2014 Edmentum Master!
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- Register – A teacher, principal, or school administrator can register their school here.
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- Win – Begin earning Blue Ribbons October 1st by demonstrating a mastery score of 70% or more on assignments.
There are three contest categories, elementary (K-5), middle (6-8), and high (9-12), with a school and student winner awarded for each. The schools that earn the highest average number of Blue Ribbons per student will win $1,000 in Edmentum credit! The students who earn the most Blue Ribbons will win a $100 Amazon.com gift card!
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Toolkit Newspaper Ad
THE IDEA: We had already created an ad for Toolkit previously which talked about the key features. After this we build a testimonial ad that showed users direct messaged from customers who were already using Toolkit in their daily lives. The new ad was to reinforce all this and more in a full page newspaper ad. This ran in Auckland and helped the client get a lot of new inquiries. After this ad's success we have not had to spend anymore on large scale advertising.
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Toolkit Full page Ad
Toolkit is an accounting software that manages Payrolls. Dedicated to its niche audience it was already popular in New Zealand schools and institutions. To reinforce their image as a reliable and productive software we designed this ad to tell new users of all the advantages of having Toolkit as the one resource to get all their Payroll work done.
A clean cut ad that showed the features and functions that would help school admins do their Payroll work effectively, was conceived completely by us. Again we did not want to deter visual space for anything fancy since we were talking to an older audience who liked to read the facts. Toolkit did see a rise in 35% of new orders after the release of this ad.
Potomac Village Farmer's Market
The client came to us wanting an ad created out of nothing. They had an online store and were only doing EDMs and regular word-of-mouth advertising. Since they needed more customers to know of their farmers market that was taking place in Potomac Village, they were looking for ideas for a single magazine advert.
The concept of using a illustrative approach that would grab the attention of every user on the page of a magazine really worked. The client enjoyed working with us and vice versa. So within just a couple of days they had an advert that bought them good results.
Coastal Living Ad
This American Builders were already well-know for their build quality and projects. They wanted to reinforce the fact that with all the experience they had so far they were always there with the end-user in mind. To match their expectations and build exceptional quality homes that would last the test of time.
We created a very direct ad concept that build along the 4 pillars of DESIGN, BUILD, RENOVATE, EMOTION. The whole idea of showing a measuring tape was obvious but to know that Coastal Living was doing things with measured success came across very clearly with this visual concept.
The client loved this and used the same concept for their social media covers and also for their animated video ad.
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Varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north
Nationality: Japanese (singular and plural)
Population: 127,253,075 (July 2013 est.)
Language: Japanese
Shintoism 83.9%, Buddhism 71.4%, Christianity 2%, other 7.8% (Note: total adherents exceeds 100% because many people belong to both Shintoism and Buddhism) (2005)
In the years following World War II, government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan develop a technologically advanced economy. Two notable characteristics of the post-war economy were the close interlocking structures of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors, known as keiretsu, and the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labor force.
Japanese generally enjoy good health and have the greatest life expectancy (predicted life span) in the world. Medical care is generally good and includes both modern scientific and traditional Chinese-style herbal medicines. Housing is a major problem in Japan's crowded cities. While Japanese prefer single-family houses, the enormous cost of land prevents them from having a real yard; as many as forty houses may be built on one acre. Small apartments are very common.
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As governments, organizations and individuals around the world grapple with unprecedented and rapidly evolving circumstances, opportunistic cyber attackers are making moves.
According to Reuters, a group of attackers launched a phishing campaign earlier this month targeting the World Health Organization (WHO). Experts believe the attack was orchestrated by a sophisticated nation-state group with the goal of harvesting credentials used by WHO employees to access critical systems and applications.
Alexander Urbelis, the cybersecurity researcher who first sounded the alarm, explained to InfoRiskToday that the attackers utilized sub-domains in an attempt to compromise WHO's Active Directory Federated Service, a single sign-on service. He was able to identify from the structure of the URL that the attack targeted the WHO log-in portal and to identify that this was a brand new targeting of the WHO.
While unsuccessful, the attack is one in a string of recent cyber attacks on the agency. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio told Reuters that the number of attempts to compromise the WHO or impersonate it in order to target others have "more than doubled."
A New Category of Institutions Under Attack
This surge in attacker activity is impacting public and private organizations alike, particularly those focused on healthcare, medical research and current relief work. For example, cybercriminals posing as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out phishing emails offering information on the COVID-19, reports Bloomberg.
Additionally, the U.K.'s National Crime Agency is investigating an alleged ransomware attack against a drug testing company that develops vaccines, according to The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, as attacks against organizations mount, millions of U.S. citizens seeking financial assistance from the new $2 trillion government relief package are ripe targets for stimulus scams, warns the FBI.
This wave of new attacks is particularly concerning as it focuses on a new set of institutions that have not previously been targeted at this scale and with such force. Compounding the issue, most of these organizations are simultaneously facing the gargantuan challenge of supporting and securing a newly remote workforce.
The Hidden, Persistent Problem and Breaking the Cyber Attack Chain
Though some reports of attacks have emerged, many organizations may not yet know that they've been targeted and compromised.
Crisis situations can create a vacuum of information that attackers exploit to launch new attacks. They abuse the crisis in hopes that the broader issues will provide a distraction that minimizes the typical appropriate response. And, while organizations have collectively gotten better and faster at discovering breaches over the years, the global median dwell time before any detection – external or internal – is still 78 days. Unfortunately, 78 days is ample time for attackers to find, access and steal sensitive data and information.
As with the attempted WHO attack, most attackers seek to gain a foothold by stealing credentials as a first step in the cyber attack chain. They often use these credentials to compromise an endpoint such as a desktop, laptop, mobile device or server. From there, they conduct reconnaissance, then begin moving laterally in search of the privileged credentials needed to get into specific systems. Since they've acquired legitimate credentials, it's easy for attackers to move through the network undetected, escalating privileges in search of their target.
To identify the threat, the organization must have a strong handle on what legitimate communications and authentication look like – or the attacker can easily slip under the radar. Then they patiently wait, sometimes completely dormant, while the organization focuses its attention elsewhere. Some attackers exfiltrate sensitive information little by little, while others wait for the perfect moment to deliver a devastating blow. Attackers can wait for as long as they need, so the actual blow may not come until after the current crisis eases.
As this current situation unfolds, we can expect more attacks of this nature on critical infrastructure and assets. Organizations – particularly government agencies, private companies and healthcare providers – need to be hyper-vigilant and redefine how they're assessing risk in this new normal. Employee education on phishing and other popular endpoint attack methods is critical to prevent attacks from taking hold. But it cannot end there.
Contrary to popular belief, the greatest risk organizations currently face is containing attackers before they can affect or access critical data and assets – not stopping initial attacker infiltration, which is impossible to prevent 100 percent of the time. Managing access to privileged accounts and credentials is an effective way to break the cyber kill chain, minimize the moves a threat actor can make after infiltrating an organization, and ultimately, prevent a data breach or disruption.
To learn more, read "5 Reasons to Prioritize Privileged Access Management (PAM)" or explore our free collection of cybersecurity resources.


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Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.
When a person is married in Ontario, the marriage automatically revokes a prior Last Will made by that person.The sole exception to this rule is a Last Will that is specifically made in anticipation of an upcoming marriage to a specific person.
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|Hypovolemia +/- electrolyte abnormalities
|Electrolyte abnormalities +/- hypovolemia
|Choice of fluids
|Typically composition is directed by published guidelines (as in DKA) or fluids can be formulated by the considerations for maintenance fluids given in the column furthest to the right. Remember that 40 mEq of potassium in a peripheral line has a maximal infusion rate of 125 mL/hr
|Hypovolemic hyponatremia
|Based on electrolytes, specifically: sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, and glucose (and occasionally phosphate) as well as blood pressure. If they are hypertensive consider hypotonic (1/2 NS) rather than isotonic (NS, LR) solutions even if they are mildly hyponatremic.
|20 mL/kg of crystalloid (NS or LR) over 15-20 minutes (thus a pressure bag is needed)
|100-1000 mL/hr titrated to whatever volume deficit you are correcting
|Hypovolemic hyponatremia
|40-20-10 "rule" (for patients with normal electrolyte hemostatic mechanisms)
|How do you know it's working
|Hypovolemic hyponatremia
|The patient remains hemodynamically stable without electrolyte abnormalities or worsening renal function
- Assuming NaHCO3 comes in a stock solution of 1 mEq/mL, then [C] = solute osmolarity / solution volume
= solute osmolarity / (solute volume + solvent volume)
= 150 mEq / (0.150 L + 1 L) = 130 mEq NaHCO3/L
In 850 mL of solvent, then [C] = 150 / 1000 = 150 mEq Na HCO3/L
- Assuming total body water [L] = 0.5 x wgt [kg] (acutally TBW fraction varies between 0.45 and 0.6 depending on gender and age). We want to change the current plasma sodium by 10 mEq/L/24 hours (i.e. the maximum safe change in serum sodium that will not precipitate central pontine myelinolysis) and recall that the concentration of sodium in 0.9% saline or NS is 154 mEq/L, then:
infusion rate = 0.5 x wgt [kg] x 10 / 154 (L x mEq/L/24 hr) / (mEq/L)
= 5 x 1000 x wgt [kg] / (154 x 24) mL/hr
= 1.35 x wgt [kg] mL/hr for NS
If we are using 3% saline, multiply by 0.9/3 (0.9% / 3%) or 0.3
In the case of hypernatremia, we know that 1/2 NS is half the concentration of NS, such that if we did a similar infusion rate calculation the denominator would be half what is above, or simply multiplying by 2.


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Starring Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge. Directed by Danishka Esterhazy. (2018/102 min).
On Blu-ray from DARK SKY FILMS
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While Level 16 has the look and feel of a dystopian film, it doesn't quite qualify as science-fiction. And despite being occasionally creepy, it isn't really a horror film, either. But it does walk a narrative path frequently taken by both genres.
The Vestalis Academy is a boarding school where girls are raised and taught the virtues of cleanliness and purity, with the hopes of someday being placed with families once they graduate. However, anyone who questions authority, deviates from the school's rigid daily routine (which includes taking their daily 'vitamins') or displays unclean behavior (such as anger) are severely disciplined. We never actually see any punishment, but it's apparently brutal enough to keep everyone fearful and submissive.
The story opens with Vivian and Sophia, two friends residing at Level 10 (Vestalis' "levels" correspond with the girls' ages). When Vivian tries to cover for a mistake made by Sophia, she's dragged away. Fast-forward a few years and both are at Level 16, though no longer friends. Vivian (Katie Douglas) still hasn't forgiven Sophia (Celina Martin) for betraying her, and asserts herself as the 'top girl' in the new dorm. Level 16 is the final stage before supposedly being placed with an adoptive family.
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Right from the get-go, the viewer is certain Vestalis Academy isn't a school at all, but that doesn't necessarily make it predictable. Ruthless headmistress Miss Brixil (Sara Canning) and outwardly-empathetic Dr. Miro (Peter Outerbridge) have a more ominous agenda which I won't reveal here. Despite a deliberate pace, writer-director Danishka Esterhazy does a fine job keeping our attention with interesting character conflicts, effectively stark production design and some dread-inducing moments. Whether Esterhazy's big revelation is shocking or underwhelming depends on how many movies you've seen, but as they say, sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. Part of the fun of this one is discovering the school's real purpose right along with Vivian.
Anchored by decent performances by a mostly young-adult cast, Level 16 is atmospheric and enjoyable enough that it can be forgiven for essentially being an extended Twilight Zone episode (though ultimately more gruesome). Considering its limited budget, this is a creative spin on a familiar concept. Not quite sci-fi or horror, fans of those genres still might want to check it out.
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Swap For Sweep/ Mille Miglia, Italy / 28 April 1940
After temporary suspension due to a rash of accidents in 1938, the Mille Miglia was brought back to life in 1940. With a new triangular course between Brescia, Cremona and Mantua and a new name – the 1st Gran Premio Brescia delle Mille Miglia – all eyes were on Italy that spring and BMW made it their mission to win the race.
Three 328 roadsters and two coupes entered the race and by the end of the first lap, one of the two coupes was way ahead of his closest competitor. The driver was no other than Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, an official driver entered by the SS and ordered to take home the trophy. Adolf Hühnlein – head of the NS Motor Corps – asked co-driver, Walter Bäumer, to remain on the passenger seat in order to avoid taking any risk by a driver change.
Throughout the course of the race von Hanstein steadily increased the lead and decided to ignore his orders. 30 km before the end he stopped the car and switched seats with Bäumer who then drove the Touring Coupe across the finish line to claim overall victory with an impressive 15 minutes gap to the second place finisher. The remaining BMWs finished in third, fifth and sixth place.
BMW, to this day, considers their triumph at Mille Miglia its greatest auto racing success.
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CNA Staff, Sep 14, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A Canadian bishop has announced a month-long prayer of reparation after the cathedral's tabernacle was stolen and later found dumped in a nearby canal.
Bishop Gerard Bergie of the Diocese of St. Catharines, Ontario, requested on September 11 that Catholics offer a prayer of reparation from Monday, Sept. 14–the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross–until Monday, October 12, which is the date of Canada's Thanksgiving holiday.
"The Blessed Sacrament has been desecrated and our Eucharistic Lord has been harmed at the hands of thieves," said Bergie in the letter. "When this happens, the Church in her wisdom asks that we make reparation for the harm that has been done."
In addition to the prayer, Bergie requested that the priests of his diocese celebrate a Mass in honor of the Blessed Sacrament once a week.
The text of the prayer, published by the bishop Sept. 12, addresses the Trinity, acknowledges the "outrages" committed against the presence of Christ in the sacrament, and offers prayers for the conversion of sinners.
"O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly," reads the prayer.
"I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversion of poor sinners. Amen."
Video footage captured two people, believed to be a man and a woman, breaking into the St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral in St. Catharines at approximately 4:30 a.m. on September 8. Fr. Donald Lizzotti, the rector of the cathedral, told CNA that he believed the thieves had previously cased the cathedral to determine how to steal the tabernacle.
Bishop Bergie issued a public plea for the return of the tabernacle on the afternoon of Sept. 8, and noted that the steel tabernacle would not have much monetary value. The tabernacle later was discovered partially submerged in a canal in a nearby park by a group of parishioners who formed a search party.
In the September 11 letter, Bergie wrote that he did not believe the thieves were targeting the Eucharist when stealing the tabernacle, and wrote that "I believe the motivation was for money."
"The video footage seems to support this theory. The first thing the thieves did when they entered the Cathedral was to empty the boxes that contained money for candles and the poor," said Bergie.
According to Bergie, two pieces of the ciborium were found in the water along with the tabernacle, and that "it is my hope and prayer that the Hosts dissolved in the water."
A dissolved Eucharist ceases to be a Consecrated Host.
This is not the first time the cathedral in St. Catharines has been targeted by thieves. In 2019, the cathedral was subjected to several thefts and acts of vandalism during its renovation project, and local scrap yards were made aware to look out for objects that may have been stolen from the cathedral.
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Before he became known as the world's first ice-skating dog, Benny spent six months in a kill shelter in Utah, where he was on the euthanasia list. A local Las Vegas rescue pulled him from the shelter on his last day, but no one wanted to adopt him — until Cheryl DelSangro saw his picture.
Benny is now a pro at tricks, with a repertoire of more than 60 under his belt. He showed his love for the ice when Cheryl was asked to make a cheer video for the Vegas Golden Knights ice hockey team in May of 2018. She brought Benny along, who had a blast running around on the ice, carrying a hockey stick and puck to cheer on the team in the playoffs. As a retired professional figure skater, Cheryl thought she could teach Benny how to skate. "It took about two months to fashion a pair of skates to fit him," she says. "He was able to skate on his first practice."
Benny has performed at UNLV hockey games, skated at the Red Rock Casino and Green Valley Ranch Casino, and hosted a Skate With Benny fundraiser with the Animal Foundation.
"People love watching him," Cheryl says. "He's so happy and excited to be on the ice. People comment on how much he loves it and how his tail never stops wagging."
Benny skates with Spectrum on Ice (a program for children on the autism spectrum). "For many kids, it's the first time they have touched or interacted with a dog," Cheryl says.
So, what does the future hold for Benny? Cheryl wants to share his talents with as many people as possible. "He is truly an extraordinary example of the possibilities of a rescue dog," she says.
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TET Suardiaz, is a company owned by Suardiaz group, founded in 1944. The group is composed of different companies, with headquarters in Madrid. It covers all areas of the transport business and thanks to its legal structure can give support at all levels, being at the forefront in the latest developments in the industry, offering a comprehensive transport service and maintaining a high customer satisfaction.
A means of reliable, economical, and flexible transport with capacity to transport any type of merchandise and great economic, social and environmental advantages.
TRANS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT SUARDIAZ, Ltd. provides services of freight transport in complete wagon, with a range of trains source/destination tailored to each client, incorporating logistics to railway activity through the unit loads Renfe, who have a fleet of wagons of 12,300 units adapted to the different types of goods transport, and complemented with a 7,500 cars Park, property of collaborating companies, among which are TRANS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT SUARDIAZ, S.L., which allow us to develop a more specialized offer, connecting all the peninsular geography.
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Discount retailer Kmart Corp. began publishing its weekly advertising circular in Spanish late last month.
The full-color circular was available Aug. 29 in 160 Kmart stores in areas with large Hispanic populations and in 10 Spanish-language newspapers nationwide. It was developed by Meridian Inc., Troy, MI, an advertising and marketing services firm.
The circular will reach 700,000 Hispanic-Americans, Kmart estimated. The Troy-based retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in January, said the circular's debut coincides with September's Hispanic Heritage Month.
"According to our research, the buying power of Hispanics in America has increased more than 110 percent over the past 10 years," said Barbara J. Firment, Kmart senior vice president advertising, sales and in-store presentation. "With our exceptional reach into urban markets, we feel we have a distinct advantage over other discount retailers when it comes to connecting with Hispanic customers."
More than 55 percent of Hispanics living in the United States are within 15 minutes of a Kmart store, the company said, compared with 17 percent of the Hispanic population within 15 minutes of a Wal-Mart and 13 percent within 15 minutes of a Target.
"Kmart has been reaching out to this important market for many years," said Dan Surdell, chief executive officer of Meridian. "Publishing its weekly advertising circular in Spanish is a natural progression for Kmart's Hispanic marketing efforts. Our market readership studies document that Hispanic customers are particularly attentive to Kmart circulars and rely on them during their weekly shopping. The reaction from Hispanic publishers and community leaders has been outstanding."
The first Kmart Spanish-language ad circular highlights the five-year anniversary of Kmart's exclusive Sesame Street clothing label.
As the $500 billion Hispanic marketplace continues to grow in the United States, Kmart is expanding efforts to reach this influential consumer group. The company's current "Stuff of Life" television ad campaign has been reconceived into Spanish as "Las Cosas para La Vida."
The spots feature family imagery meant to resonate with Hispanic audiences and include background vocals by Grammy Award-winning artist Jose Feliciano. Kmart also markets to Hispanic consumers through "community merchandising," stocking products that are best suited for the area residents it serves.


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The John H. Hampshire Memorial Library is the largest independent library in the industry and has a collection of more than 10,000 valuable and historical reference materials. The library is open to our members for business and historical research. It is vital that this library is maintained as a growing and evolving resource for generations to come.


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Friday, February 14, 2014
Maker House and Generation Cool are teaming up to bring an exciting Arcade Showdown from 5 p.m. to midnight on Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Maker House mansion, 283 N. Stone Ave. 20 contestants will battle it out on 10 separate gaming cabinets. The winner will take home an arcade machine, and runner-ups will get gift certificates and schwag. This event feels like the the sequel to a campy post-'80s indie film starring Fred Savage.
Maker House will teach you how to be the poor man's Neo and show you how to hack your Wii console at 5 p.m. There will also be a Gamer Swap Meet:
Swap video games, card games, board games, miniatures, comic books, or anything else game related! Swappers can get a 6×6 foot table space for $5, table not included. Space is limited and is first come, first served.
Click here to sign up for vendor space.
You can get your picture taken at the Neo Geo photo booth so you can remember this moment forever. There will be power up drink specials (who can forget Bawls?) and food trucks will onsite.
This event encourages creative folks to come cosplay as their favorite video game characters.
Click here to RSVP on the Facebook event page and here to sign up for the tournament.
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In each host country, the Alliance Française is self-run and recognized by the local authorities as a non-profit making organization. A board comprising distinguished local personalities from the fields of culture, education, science and business directs every chapter. The board's acts are approved by the Foundation Alliance Française in Paris, which makes sure that all our founding values and principles are adhered to throughout the world.
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The most elite warriors of the secret war during the Vietnam War, Green BeretsGreen BeretsGreen Berets and the North Vietnamese Army's highly-trained killer teams met in Southeast Asia last week, in a meeting – naturally, cloaked in secrecy, SOFREP has learned.
For combatants on both sides of the deadly secret war, this meeting not only was one of unique historic significance for the soldiers, but it will also aid efforts by both governments' pursuit of locating and identifying thousands of missing soldiers in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. As of Jan. 28, there are 1,601 Americans missing in SEA from the Vietnam War.
For SOFREP readers, imagine being a Green Beret fighting for several years in an eight-year secret war during the Vietnam War – so secret you can tell no one about it outside of the chain of command in the Military Assistance Group Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, or simply SOG.
Imagine being a Green Beret fighting in the triple-canopy jungles of Laos knowing that the enemy, the North Vietnamese Army had specially trained sapper teams with the primary mission to hunt, find and kill SOG recon teams – including your team.
Imagine being an NVA soldier trained to serve on the NVA SOG-killer teams coming up against America's elite troops, the highly trained Green Berets.
Fast forward to January 2018:
Imagine being Green Beret Mike Taylor who served with Special Forces during the Vietnam War from 1968 until 1972, meeting for the first time NVA soldiers who served with the SOG-killer teams. This NVA unit had the simple title of C-75. Stated plainly, SOG met C-75.
This historic meeting occurred between the most elite warriors who served in the eight-year secret war during the Vietnam War, a war that was hidden from Congress, the media, the public and family members in the U.S.
Communist leadership hid its involvement in the secret war from the world also. From its inception in 1964 through 1972, very little information about the secret war that raged in Laos, Cambodia and N. Vietnam, ever reached the public eye.
From a personal level, I entered the secret war in May 1968 at FOB 1 in Phu Bai, where small Green Beret-led six-to-eight man reconnaissance teams ran missions across the fence into Laos, Cambodia and N. Vietnam. By that time, five months into May, the NVA had wiped out or inflicted severe casualties on nearly a dozen SOG recon teams. When I arrived there, Recon Team Idaho was wiped out in Laos in May 1968 on a secret mission. The two Green Berets from that fateful mission, Glen Lane and Robert Owen, remain among the 50 Green Berets who fought in the secret war in Laos and remain listed as missing in action today, along with approximately 200 Army, Marine and Air Force aviators.
By 1968, the NVA and its communist allies had escalated its covert efforts against U.S. forces to unprecedented levels: Russian advisors, including thousands of aviation, anti-aircraft missile and artillery trained specialists were in Hanoi, Laos and Cambodia, along with Cuban and Chinese advisors. In August 1968, after more than 18 months of planning, NVA and Viet Cong sappers launched an early-morning attack at the SOG base in Da Nang, dubbed FOB 4, killing 17 Green Berets and dozens of loyal, fearless, indigenous forces – that single-day loss of Green Berets, remains a tragic record in that elite unit's history.
After the August attack, during our pre-mission briefings in 1968, for targets in Laos, Cambodia and the DMZ, S-2 officers told us about intelligence reports warning of NVA sapper teams being trained to hunt and destroy SOG recon teams in those Areas of Operations. On New Year's Day 1969, an NVA sapper team hit RT Diamondback, killing all three Americans. While the attack was quick and deadly, it also had a twisted psychological impact on SOG men because the sappers didn't kill the indigenous members of the team.
When the survivors were interviewed, among the first questions asked was how they survived the attack while the Americans were killed. The surviving team members passed lie-detector interrogations. NVA sapper teams struck elsewhere in SOG that year which ultimately led to SOG having the highest casualty rate during the Vietnam War, exceeding 100 percent for Green Berets killed in action, wounded in action or missing in action. For example, SFC Robert Howard who received the MOH for a SOG mission in 1968, received eight Purple Hearts for wounds inflicted on SOG missions. He declined three additions nominations for Purple Hearts.
Thus, last week, when Taylor met with those prior enemy combatants, the meeting was cloaked in secrecy. Exact details about how it came about will be disclosed later. As this story went to press, Taylor was returning to CONUS after a 16-hour layover in Korea. Taylor is chairman of the joint Special Operations Association/Special Forces Association POW/MIA Committee.
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Since being appointed to the committee chairmanship in 2014, Taylor and both Green Beret associations have pioneered membership letter writing campaigns to support the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's budget requests, supported the nominations of retired Air Force MG Kelly McKeague – who was appointed DPAA director Sept. 5, and worked closely with the National League of POW/MIA Families and its CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Ann Mills-Griffiths, an MIA sister, and League Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Asian Affairs, Richard T. Childress. He served eight years during the Reagan administration on the National Security Council where his primary focus was POW/MIA issues – an issue Childress has dedicated his life to.
Taylor's trip to Southeast Asia with his wife began earlier this month as a parallel delegation to SEA with the National League of POW/MIA Families delegation, which included Mills-Griffiths, Childress and League BOD Director Cindy Stonebraker. Taylor and his wife traveled to many of the same locations League officials visited but didn't attend closed-door meetings between government and League officials. In addition they traveled to Hanoi where League officials met with DPAA staff, Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, U.S. Embassy staff, Stony Beach staff from DIA and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David J. Kritenbrink. Taylor met with many of the same officials, but there has been no press release on whom he met.
On a Facebook posting Sunday, Taylor confirmed meeting with Vietnamese veterans from C-75 that worked in the tri-border area of SEA. He described the first meeting as "VERY interesting…" He will be filing follow-up reports to his respective BODs in the weeks ahead.
DPAA Director Kelly McKeague, after attending a DPAA family briefing in San Diego, told SOFREP that seeing the increased public attention to the POW/MIA mission in SEA by President Trump, Mattis and the League, will mesh with Vietnam's publicly announced intents to increase cooperation with DPAA officials for recovery efforts. He also added that having the SOA/SFA committee meeting Vietnamese soldiers and officials enhances the overall POW/MIA issue.
Editor's note: if you would like to read more from John Stryker Meyer, check out his book "SOG Chronicles: Volume One" here on Amazon — there he sheds light on the untold stories of Green Berets behind enemy lines in Vietnam, conducting harrowing missions with little to no support.
Featured image: Mike Taylor, chairman of the joint SOA/SFA POW/MIA Committee presents a shadowbox of SOG challenge coins to the company commander of the NVA's C-75 SOG Hunter unit. Photos courtesy of Mike Taylor.


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Planning the Perfect Private Party With a Whiskey Bar
Ask any event planner out there, and they can surely attest that planning a private party is not that easy. There are a lot of things that you have to take note of when organizing a party that you want those who are attending to make the most of and have the most enjoyable time of their lives. One of the most crucial details of planning a party will be the venue. The venue that you choose is often telling of how successful your party is going to be or not. As far as private parties go, your venue will often set the mode of the event. One of the most interesting venues that you can choose in this day and age will be whiskey bars and distilleries. As a matter of fact, the whole ambiance of these venues calls for some conversation with their being relaxing and less stressful looking. The setting of most whiskey bars are very intimate that you are creating a whole new level of atmosphere for conversation. And there is no doubt that you have several alcohol and food options to choose from. You can never find this in the most generic of venues but only these whiskey bars and distilleries.
There are a lot of benefits to choosing whiskey bars as your private party venue. Choosing a typical bar is never the same as choosing a whiskey bar as venue. Having a laid back approach in the most general of senses is what sets these whiskey bars apart from the usual bars. You will get this feeling of being at an opulent countryside when you go inside these whiskey bars with their unique interiors and their intimate lighting. You just make interesting memories when you make sure to visit this kind of venue whether it be that you are having a private party or just up for meeting a few friends inside.
Besides being a private party event venue, these whiskey bars can also be great for people who just love to explore and taste high quality drinks that they can choose from. Since whiskey bars are distilleries, you are also provide a wide range of whiskey options that you can take home. For your private party, you may include some tasting of the drinks in the bar as part of your party activity. Having whiskey bars for private party event venues can also be very much of a good idea as mentioned above even if you do not want to do some tasting of drinks. You must do advance bookings if you want the entire bar to be all yours during your party event. You get to choose what music you want and food you want as well as what hosting services you are getting when you book these whiskey bars. Some informal corporate events can be held here as well as engagement parties and bachelor parties.
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Here Are All The Characters In 'Aquaman' That You've Never Seen Before
Followers of DC Comics and the DC Extended Universe know about Aquaman, the pivotal member of the Justice League who often fails to get the respect he deserves. However, with the Aquaman movie coming out in December 2018, you may need to brush up your knowledge of other Aquaman characters who, like him, remained on the fringes while Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash received all the attention.
A plethora of comic book characters in Aquaman made their on-screen debut in 2018. If you want to give proper respect to Aquaman, read up on all the characters who populate his colorful underwater world.
Mera appears in the Aquaman continuity primarily as a love interest and ally of the hero. Originally from a different universe known as Dimension Aqua where she reigned, the exiled undersea queen escaped from her home and arrived at Atlantis. At her new home, she leads an Atlantean tribe and assists Aquaman in his various adventures.
Mera boasts a variety of powers, including an ability to breath underwater and hydrokinesis, the ability to bend water to her will. Outside of water, she can also travel through dimensions and communicate with fellow Atlanteans using telepathy. However, exposure to lead causes Mera to lose her powers, and she can be unstable due to the emotional trauma suffered throughout her life.
A treasure hunter and mercenary, Black Manta possesses no supernatural powers. He instead relies on highly trained combat skills, exceptional underwater maneuverability, and a wide range of diving equipment to do battle.
Black Manta comes into constant conflict with Aquaman due to his pillaging of the sea for mythical artifacts and treasures, though a more personal tragedy led to the two becoming foes. Early in both of their lives, a struggle between their fathers left both men dead. With Black Manta and Aquaman blaming each other, they descended into a spiral of vengeance that rages on to this day.
Ocean Master is arguably the biggest enemy of Aquaman within the comic series. The half-brother of the hero, Orm Marius first appeared in 1966 and has remained a major player ever since. Thanks in part to his huge ego and the fact that his mother rules as queen of Atlantis in current continuity, Ocean Master considers himself the rightful heir to the throne of the underwater kingdom. This puts him in constant conflict with Aquaman, who has a claim to the title himself.
Ocean Master's powers depend on the timeline. In some instances, he has no powers and instead relies upon technology to breathe underwater and attack his enemies. He later acquires superhuman abilities similar to Aquaman after making a deal with a sea demon, who gives him a magical trident. In a subsequent reboot, creators made Ocean Master completely Atlantean, again with similar powers to his half-brother.
Queen Atlanna
At various times, Queen Atlanna serves as either the leader of Atlantis or a prisoner and exile. The mother of both Aquaman and his half-brother Ocean Master, Queen Atlanna conceives Aquaman with a human and her other son with King Orvax, the ruler of Atlantis. Unfortunately, circumstances force her to abandon Aquaman when it becomes clear he'll be threatened due to his half-human nature.
Atlanna is an expert fighter and possesses superhuman strength.
Nereus is a newer character in the Aquaman continuity; he first appeared in 2013. He leads, or perhaps more appropriately rules over, a group of separatist Atlanteans exiled from the kingdom. Known as the Xebels, they work with Ocean Master in his attempts to overthrow Aquaman.
It appears Nereus will be the father of Mera in the film adaptation, as opposed to her potential suitor as he's been in the past.
Nuidis Vulko
One of the earliest characters to appear alongside Aquaman, Nuidis Vulko holds many important distinctions within Atlantis. He acts as both a scientific adviser and political leader in he underwater kingdom. The Atlantean often serves as a dedicated ally to Aquaman, working against the likes of Nereus and Ocean Master in their attempts to usurp Aquaman's rule. In later comics, he is forced to leave Atlantis and live on the surface.
Vulko possesses extreme strength, but he also sports a keen intellect that proves invaluable both in and out of battle.


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ShipperConnect is a Wabtec system which interfaces with the terminal operating system used by Patriot Rail. The web-based interface allows direct access to the terminal operating system information pertinent to customers.
Customers can benefit greatly from using ShipperConnect. The instructions submitted through ShipperConnect are used to automatically populate work instructions for the local railroad crews serving your facility. Using ShipperConnect reduces the risk of miscommunication and data errors. When requests are submitted in ShipperConnect, an email notification is sent to those who are signed up to receive them which provides a history of requests. With the appropriate user access, the following functions can be performed:
- View railcars enroute to your facility
- Review cars placed within your facility
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- Provide specific instructions to the railroad for handling your rail shipments. Some of these instructions include ordering cars to spot, releasing cars and requesting special services such as weighs, turns or holds
- Enter billing for cars released from your system
- Perform automatic search functions
- Track outbound billed and outbound not billed cars
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To gain access to ShipperConnect, please contact the appropriate email address below or call 1-855-955-7245 and provide the name, email address and phone number of the person who needs access to ShipperConnect. A request will then be sent to Wabtec who will generate and email a user ID and temporary password to the user.
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Downing the last few bites of french toast and sausage at Maine's #1 rated breakfast joint, The Egg & I, we drove down Route 1 a bit further to Perkins Cove. As the Jeep slid into park, a lobsterman was paddling his dinghy towards the dock. I grabbed my Canon T3 and met him at the water's edge. After introductions, conversation revolved to the fishing industry. With fuel and bait nearing market highs and the abundance of lobsters in the market - he explained how fishermen are being forced to accept prices for Maine's famous edible that are well below cost. What he predicted last week has come true. Many "Downeast" fishermen have tied up their vessels and are refusing to leave port until the gluten of inventory is sold and retailers decide to pay higher prices.
Reflections of a small lobster boat moored near a manicured lawn.
Nathan rowing his dinghy to shore.
I probably shouldn't be parked here.
The pots appear full, except for the lone pot in the front. It has been a successful trip.
The banded claws and dark red bodies fill the pots.
The overhead gizmo allows the pots to be raised and lowered into the back of his Ford.
As the pots are covered with a tarp, Nate hops down and hands me a business card. The offer is for a free trip off the coast of Maine any time I'd like to see first-hand action. I think I'll be giving him a call....
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It's hot.. and getting hotter… the Nevada County's Public Health Department issued an advisory earlier today to insure people are prepared for the upcoming days of temperatures reaching 100 degrees or higher. County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Patti Carter says everyone, but especially the old and the young, are at risk.
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During closing arguments in the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) trial, the government's PowerPoint was the best. Even Daniel Hersl's attorney, William Purpura, admitted that much.
"That PowerPoint was a thing of beauty," the acrid attorney quipped, commenting on the photo-filled, graphic design-y presentation from federal prosecutor Derek Hines.
In contrast, there was Purpura's own slideshow: simple white text on a blue background, mostly in all caps and often times mixing up witnesses' names. It reflected the shoot-from-the-hip approach of Purpura (who looks like a grizzled Michel Foucault and sounds like Donald Trump) versus the somber, cerebral approach of Hines and fellow prosecutor Leo Wise (who look like a minimal techno duo about to get a New York Times profile).
This is how the GTTF trial of Hersl and Marcus Taylor wound down, with seedy details and potentially police department-destroying revelations giving way to dueling PowerPoint presentations, starkly different emotional appeals, and an arcane unpacking of conspiracy, robbery, and fraud charges.
"No man is above the law and no man is beneath it," Hines declared, countering the defense's persistence in presenting the trial's witnesses as criminal and therefore not to be trusted and not protected by the fourth amendment.
During the trial, the defense's approach veered into the kind of profiling and disregard for Baltimoreans the GTTF regularly displayed. At times, it seemed to backfire, especially when one victim, Ronald Hamilton, exploded in the courtroom: "THIS RIGHT HERE DESTROYED MY WHOLE FUCKING FAMILY MAN. . . . THEY CAME IN MY HOUSE AND DESTROYED MY FAMILY."
Hines briefly ran through the experiences of some of the alleged GTTF victims, characterizing them as targets even though the GTTF assumed they would not be believed.
Shawn Whiting, who said he had 4.5 kilograms of cocaine and $23,970 on him even though police reported only 3 kilograms and $7,650.
Jimmie Griffin, who said he had in total $12,000 on him even though police reported only $4,903 (Griffin is the only one of these victims who consented to being searched).
Herbert Tate, who said he had $530 on him even though police reported only $216, and who claimed that blue and white caps of heroin found down the street were not his, though Hersl said they were (Tate's case was dismissed).
Antonio Santiful, who said he had $700 on him even though police reported $218.
Oreese Stevenson, who said he had 10 kilograms of cocaine and $300,000 on him even though police reported only 8 kilograms and $100,000 (Sgt. Wayne Jenkins wanted to rob Stevenson a second time and discussed it over Twisted Tea with Hersl).
Ronald Hamilton, who said he had $70,000 in his home and $3,000 on his person even though police reported $23,000 (Hamilton wasn't charged with any crimes).
Dennis Armstrong, who said he had 2 kilograms of cocaine and $8,000 on him, while police reported only about 2 grams and $2,833.
Sergio Summerville, who said he had $4,800 on him even though police reported only $2800. He wasn't charged with any crimes.
As for the absurd amounts of false overtime from which Hersl made an additional $86,000 in 2015 and $37,000 in 2016, and Taylor an additional $43,000 in 2015 and $44,000 in 2016?
"They were not working hard to rid the city of guns, they were hardly working," Hines said.
"This is all about the evidence," Hersl's lawyer Purpura told the jury, "DANNY HERSL" in all caps real big behind him on his PowerPoint. Purpura offered a fairly artful unspooling of the specifics of the government's case against Hersl, claiming his client's involvement was not that deep, while admitting fully to theft (but not robbery understood as theft by force) and overtime fraud.
"Fraud is rampant among aggressive police squads" in Baltimore, Purpura said, adding that higher-ups "acknowledged [it] with a wink and a nod."
Purpura dismissed the testimony of the GTTF's victims—all given immunity, some subpoenaed—as "classic cooperators' testimony you just can't believe," and returned to his main argument: What Hersl did was theft rather than robbery—he wrongly kept money he was rightfully allowed to seize as a police officer from drug dealers.
"After 17 years as a street cop, his conduct was wrong," Purpura admitted.
While Purpura leveled with the jury about Hersl, Taylor's attorney, Jennifer Wicks, declared Taylor entirely innocent.
It was a lengthy closing argument with a PowerPoint presentation full of clip art and a messy defense of Taylor that reminded jurors of some of the former detective's lowest moments. Namely, Taylor had a BB gun in his car—GTTF Sgt. Wayne Jenkins told task force members to keep a BB gun on them in case they shot someone and needed an excuse—though Wicks said that Taylor had taken it off a small child who he didn't want to get hurt, and that he wasn't even present at an oft-discussed Aug. 8, 2016 raid of a storage facility.
Wicks took the scenic route toward insulting the GTTF victims who testified: a stock image of bags at the airport with the slide titled "Witnesses and their Baggage."
"They have suitcases of reasons why they are biased," Wicks said of the witnesses.
Then she indulged an extended scenario in which she asked the jury to imagine they were boarding a plane where many of the government's witnesses were in charge of getting the jury on board (Rayam is your travel agent, Whiting handles your luggage, the pilot is Stevenson, GTTF's Evodio Hendrix is the copilot, and so on).
The point seemed to be that if you wouldn't trust these people to get you into the air safely, you couldn't trust their testimony. But it mostly offered up another way to consider conspiracy—of which Hersl and Taylor are charged—and made the claim that Taylor was around all of these people and entirely unaware seem outrageous.
Briefly, a slide with the poster from the classic spoof "Airplane!" flashed by, as if Wicks realized it was too much and briskly double-clicked right past it.
For most of the closing argument, Taylor's other attorney, Christopher Nieto—who was the cruelest in grilling witnesses, resulting in Hamilton's blow-up—had his head down and looked as though he was going to melt into his seat.
In rebuttal, the government's Leo Wise picked apart Wicks' closing argument—this time without a spiffy PowerPoint, just a few documents and a Hollywood courtroom drama sort of sincerity.
Wise characterized the defense as full of "flip flops" who said the witnesses "were all liars—except when they say something [the defense] liked," and suggested the defense's argument as, once more, borderline dog-whistle racism.
"Those people don't deserve to be believed," Wise said, paraphrasing Purpura, Nieto, and Wicks.
He argued that providing immunity is what made them reliable witnesses and that without it they would have no motivation to tell the truth. Oh, and by the way, if Taylor had a BB gun in his police vehicle because he confiscated it from a child, then why didn't he turn it in? And Taylor wasn't present at that Aug. 8 raid only because "he was in the Dominican Republic committing time and attendance fraud."
Wise dismissed Purpura's differentiation between Gondo and Rayam's home invasions and the GTTF raid on Hamilton's house, reminding jurors that the GTTF entered ahead of the Maryland State Police to search and take money, that they had no warrant, and that Hamilton was not charged with a crime. Then he mentioned Mrs. Hamilton, who was shopping for blinds at Home Depot when the GTTF grabbed her and her husband, took them to "The Barn" (an off-site police facility), and then finally to their homes—never charging her, never telling her what was going on.
"What crime did she commit?" Wise asked.
The rebuttal ended with the audio of the car accident the GTTF caused and then observed from afar, never rendering aid. The jury again heard Taylor saying of the man in the crash "That dude is unconscious, he ain't saying shit," while Hersl, in his broad Bawl-da-moore accent, chuckled about changing their overtime sheets so it didn't look like they were there at all.
The jury spent the rest of Thursday deliberating and will likely return a verdict at some point on Monday.
"The jurors have a difficult job to do to weed through substantial evidence here," said University of Maryland law professor Doug Colbert outside the courthouse.
Meanwhile, the trial itself offered further proof that the Baltimore Police Department is profoundly broken: A dozen other current or former officers were also implicated during testimony (Sherrod Biggers, Ian Dombrowski, Tariq Edwards, Jason Giordano, Ryan Guinn, Kenneth Ivery, Dean Palmere, Sean Suiter—who was killed in November—Thomas Wilson, and Michael Woodlon), overtime fraud is rampant, and the FBI's investigation of BPD is ongoing.
"The charges here are so serious. This is one of the most important and serious trials that we've had in Baltimore," Colbert said. "My hope is this is the linchpin to undertaking an investigation, some type of commission that will be able to restore trust in the Baltimore Police Department and identify the extent of the corruption and criminality."
At a press conference on Friday—his first since he got the job—Darryl DeSousa, who along with the mayor has seemed to be snoozing through the whole thing, floated the possibility of some kind of outside commission looking into the GTTF and said that officers in special units such as the GTTF will now get random polygraph tests and that overtime fraud is going to be investigated. He also said that Thomas Casella, announced on Thursday as the new deputy commissioner, would be for the moment, reconsidered.
This came after Fox45 released a leaked memo dated Jan. 26 that was sent to DeSousa that ran through Casella's internal affairs files and includes three incidents related to misconduct, neglect of duty, and racial discrimination, which have been "sustained" (found to be legitimate). Then on Saturday, Feb. 10, BPD's media spokesperson T.J. Smith released a statement via email that said elements of the leaked memo were "incorrect," and that "there are no sustained complaints against [Casella] involving race, religion, sex, or any other type of discrimination."
For those following the GTTF trial closely however, the appointment of Casella, who ran security at the Horseshoe Casino, raised eyebrows long before the specious memo.
On Tuesday, Feb. 6 at the trial, Special Agent Erika Jensen testified that the FBI did not pull records for Hersl from Horseshoe because they were worried that doing so would lead to someone at the casino tipping BPD off about the investigation.
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New DDR Highs: Shikatronics, OCZ, and the Fastest Memory Yetby Wesley Fink on June 29, 2004 12:05 AM EST
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Several months ago, we reviewed Corsair and OCZ DDR550. Those memories were based on the 2nd generation Hynix memory chips, called Hynix B, and offered the highest memory speeds that we had tested up to that point. Hynix has continued development of the B chip, and we're taking a look at two new memories based on the latest Hynix B chips. Both are rated at DDR550, and both extend memory speed to even higher levels than what we saw in the last generation.
OCZ requires no introduction, as they have been in the forefront in recent months with some of the fastest enthusiast memory on the market. Shikatronics, however, is probably not a familiar brand name to many in the United Sates. Based in Montreal, Shikatronics has produced memory since 1989, and is well-known in North and South America as an OEM for memory products. Shikatronics recently decided to market their own brand of Enthusiast RAM, which they call ShikaXRAM. When Shika asked if we would like to take a look at their DDR550 product, we talked with them about their goals, manufacturing philosophies, and Customer Service. We liked what we heard and agreed to take a look at their new products. However, we really were not prepared for the outstanding performance that we found with the Shikatronics DDR550.
Since both the ShikaXRAM PC4400 and OCZ PC4400 EL Gold are based on the same Hynix B chips, we decided to look at both the memories in the same review. We think that you will be as surprised as we were at how very well both new products performed in our memory benchmarks.
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Leaked video shot in December showing Israeli soldiers setting dogs on a 16-year-old Palestinian boy has gone viral on social media in Israel and across the globe.
The video, which has sparked condemnations from the Palestinian government and activists and an investigation by Israel's chief military prosecutor, depicts a young boy grabbed by Israeli soldiers before being attacked by military dogs as the soldiers jeer.
During the footage, which took place in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, a soldier can be heard "who is the chicken?", while another commands the dog to bite the boy.
According to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, 16-year-old Hamzeh Abu Hashem had been detained by the soldiers after being accused of throwing stones.
"We, his mother and I, watched the video, and we couldn't believe what we were seeing. My wife almost fainted. I don't know if there's a mother or father in the world who can be indifferent to such pictures," said the boy's father to Haaretz.
"It pained us very much, especially the fact that the boy was helpless and the soldiers rejoiced over him."
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem condemned the attack, but added that the footage, which dates to 23 December 2014, is only one example of multiple similar instances in the past.
"[T]his footage is yet another example of the army's standard practice when dogs are used in arrest operations," said B'Tselem in a statement, citing at least 10 other cases in which they've received complaints.
The human rights group added that Abu Hashem was taken to prison after being treated for dog bite wounds at an Israeli hospital. The 16-year-old, the group added, was recently sentenced to six months in prison.
"B'Tselem once again calls on the military to stop the horrifying use of dogs for arresting unarmed Palestinian civilians. Setting dogs on civilians is an appalling act, both unlawful and immoral."


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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2009 — Finding funding for dog rescue shelters is difficult to do, especially in the current economic recession. That's why TrainPetDog.com is offering a total of $25,000 donations to be distributed to 500 needy dog rescues. The donations can be in the form of either cash or dog supplies, depending on what the rescue needs.
"Our world has a serious dog overpopulation problem," said Nipa Roy, spokesperson for TrainPetDog.com. "There are tons of rescues out there, making a noble effort to save and re-home dogs, but every day they struggle to get enough funding to stay open another day. Donations are an absolute necessity for these rescues."
"With the current economy, many dog rescues are struggling to survive even if they were doing okay before," Roy said. "Fewer families can afford to care for their dogs, so more dogs are being surrendered and fewer are being adopted out. That is when we decided to donate a total sum of $25,000 for as many as 500 Dog Rescues. We hope that our donations will provide much needed food and supplies to the dogs in these rescues". Roy continued, "Someone has to try and help in whatever way they can and we'd like to do our part."
With more than 875,000 subscribers to their free dog training mini courses, TrainPetDog.com has always held a passion to help the canine community at large.
TrainPetDog.com will select 500 of the neediest dog rescues to receive donations. To be considered for the donation, a rescue must fill out the online form on TrainPetDog.com's web site. The form requests contact information for the rescue, allows the rescue to choose whether they want the donation in cash or goods, and asks questions such as what dog breeds they rescue and why they should be chosen as one of the 500 to receive a donation.
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