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Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 21
Unmasked Today!
Some games stand in the light, and allow us to examine their mottled skin. Others cower back in the dark, fearing the searing beam of our critical gaze. But which of these is Game Twenty-One? YOU DECIDE!
No, actually, we will decide.
It's... Dishonored.
Jim: Dishonored almost feels like an ode to game design. But not quite. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best-designed game, just that it seems to revel in the stuff where design is required. It seems considered, like a portrait. An artefact intended to capture the essence of a thing. To convey a specific message with a tightly defined purpose.
Design appears on the surface of everything. The glorious and shabby world, the range of powers, the nature of the levels, the behaviour of the AI, it all seems primarily about the designer's work. It's very much taking the design-as-everything lessons from earlier eras of greatness - see Ion Storm, Looking Glass - and trying to put those lessons into practice in 2012. It manages remarkably well, an with a sort of flair for production that makes the entire game seem like a luxury.
Someone - I can't actually Google who it was, because I am out of range of internet, and will have forgotten about writing this passage by the time it's published on the site - commented that The Outsider can be seen as analogous to a game developer. He's setting things up, adding systems and features, and toying with the consequences. Corvo is the player, and the player is Corvo. In this way Dishonored looks even more like an elegy to the art required to create it.
There's so much to be in awe of. It's so crafted and crafted just so. It's hand-built and refined, with the smoothed edges you get from an expert knowing where people will rub up against it.
John said to me - and he'll probably reprise that thought somewhere here - that he wished Dishonored had been about something. He was referring, of course, to the rather contentless plot, which meanders hesitantly onward, hinting at things that don't end up occurring, without surprising anyone along the way. That doesn't seem to have been about very much at all. And it would have been grand if the game had been about power, or greed, or something. But perhaps it's a game that really just about itself, and about game design generally.
That could be enough.
John: Gosh, I really enjoyed playing Dishonored. I enjoyed it so much that as soon as I finished it, I started playing it again. That almost never happens with me. And I got about a third of the way in again, and then I forgot all about Dishonored.
It feels like a game with an expiry date. I loved it, I raved about how much I was enjoying it, and then its time was up and I didn't think about it again. I think that's a big part of why one of the best games this year isn't our bestest game this year. And a large part of that is to do with what Jim mentioned above: it always felt like it was about to be about something. Those ninja enemies - a couple of them appear randomly in an level midway through, and suddenly it's ooh, intrigue! Then they're gone again until the end, when they're just a slightly harder enemy to kill (and a brilliant one too - that level skipping across the rooftops, taking them out, was a real highlight) and then that's that. The super-telegraphed 'twist' delivered exactly what you were expecting, no surprises, and then felt compromised by some people still actually being on your side despite seemingly betraying you. Even that hint - and at the time they felt like lovely, subtle hints - that there might be something between Corvo and the pub's maid, went forgotten. The Outsider - I can't even remember what I thought he was about at the time, so thrown away his character became by the end.
I'm sure they were saving stuff up for a sequel. But that's a terrible way of going about storytelling. You tell your whole, amazing story in your game, and if it's detailed and interesting enough, people will want to know more, be told more tales in that world, and from there your sequels should grow.
BUT! Moany moany moan moan! It's a great game! A contender for our 24th door, one we discussed at length. It was mechanically so wonderful, it was such a satisfying sneak-and-stun game to play, and it managed that magical and all-too-rare feat of letting you feel like you were becoming genuinely more powerful within the world, while still matching the challenge to your powers. The contrast of experiences from traversing that bridge and moving around that masked ball, the myriad tasks in the brothel and the machinations of the various factions in the main town. It was constantly interesting in the moment, and truly bended itself to your will, allowed you to play it as you wished. That was a real treat, a memory of the glorious days of Thief, and a demonstration of where Human Revolution fell short - a guide, even, for Square's inevitable sequel.
It may require a concerted effort to put myself back into the place of recalling why I enjoyed it so much at the time, but at that time it was one of 2012's finest moments of entertainment.
We live in the age of the grandiose promise. Time and again, we're given fancy talk of moons on sticks and games that are all things to all humans, and time and again we end up with spectacular but fairly obvious products as a result. Dishonored met is promises. It did what it said it was going to do, and then some. There was an "it's too short!" lobby, yes, but those snarling beasts exist to undermine others' entertainment, not for true justice.
Personally, I can't think of anything in Dishonored where I suffered that deflating sense of harsh reality colliding with my lofty dreams of what the game was. I think that speaks to the tightness of its design - Arkane seem to have been clear, since the game's earliest public showings, about what it is they were making and offering. They realised their realistic promises rather than had to compromise cometh the hour.
There's almost zero fat on Dishonored. It is tailored and lean, most every aspect (let's not talk about the Krusts, eh?) included because it serves true purpose either in function or scene-setting, and as a result we have a moderate number of wildly varied, themed levels rich with paths and possibilities, rather than a soggy marathon of similarity. Yes, the overarching story was oddly hollow - I think, perhaps, there's too much archly tucked under the surface rather than built colourfully on top of it in that regard, and that does take a heavy toll on Dishonored's overall personality - but the capsule tales of each level and the grey morality of their respective antagonists were strong and sharp.
For me it was a game about missions rather than The Mission (er - I don't mean the band), but I suppose an encompassing rise and fall and rise again structure is something of a commercial necessity. Oh for a world where Dishonored was a true episodic game, a new, branching and cunning mission every month for its master assassin, just doing his job.
One more thing - while Dishonored went further than many games of its type in terms of offering complete paths and solutions for non-lethal play, perhaps my single favourite thing about it is that it nonetheless challenged the urge to box-tick and Achievement-collect in that regard. I was resolute, in my first play, that I would kill no-one, but I was presented with two circumstances where I had to question that decision, where what superifically seemed like the noble thing to do might actually have been a dark one. The first of those two - spoilers here - was Granny Rags, who I did opt to kill because the threat that hidden monster presented to Dunwall's uncared for poor was so great, and so monstrous, that it transcended my inclination towards non-lethality.
The second was Lady Boyle, the target in that wonderful hiding-in-plain-sight masked ball level. When I opted to have her kidnapped and smuggled away by an admirer rather than slain, was I sending that woman off to be someone's sex slave? Was that perhaps not worse than taking her life? I still feel chilled and ill about that decision, about the awful, awful thing I might have done to a selection of bytes and pixels in order that my moral compass not waver. The rescue of the princess and the riddles out the Outsider did not stay with me for long, but what I did to Lady Boyle will, I think, haunt me for some time to come.
(Spoilers end).
While there is an actual heart in Dishonored - and plenty to say about it - Dunwall is the game's most important organ. It's the thundering bank of pipes from which the whalepunk fugue bellows and it's the cerebral labyrinth through which the player squints, blinks and boggles. There are books instead of cutscenes and, within the context of the areas available to explore, I found more flavour in the few words describing foodstuffs and affixed to maps than in the billion dollar world-building of Avatar. Dunwall is a grotesque Dickensian nightmare of whale-flesh, class division and plague, but Arkane don't harp on about it. Dunwall just is.
I hadn't played the game before release so when Jim went hands-on at Gamescom I found myself in the strange position of being excited about an upcoming game while at Gamescom, where games were being beamed into my eyes with such force that it was hard to be excited about anything except the fresh air and cold beer waiting at the end of the day. Dishonored was the one game I didn't want to play - I wanted to experience it from start to finish, not to be dropped into a mission chosen to demonstrate a specific aspect that could form the focal point of a preview. All I wanted to hear when Jim met me afterwards was - "It's the sequel to Thief 2 that you've been waiting for", because, apparently, I didn't have the imagination to believe it could be anything other than that.
That Dishonored wasn't Thief became clear when Jim talked about how the powers were slightly concerning. I stopped listening then. I didn't want powers, I wanted a rope arrow.
When I actually started playing, it didn't take long for me to start enjoying those powers I hadn't wanted. What Dishonored offers is stealth as an expression of agility and movement rather than secrets and shadows. Corvo is the arch-manipulator, folding the environment to his will and leaping across architectural dilemmas that would thwart an ordinary man. He's the first stealth superhero, or at least he's my first stealth superhero and he doesn't hunt monsters he hunts men. Dishonored's best boss battle is against a bridge. You have to cross it.
I've completed the game twice now and that's enough for me. It is strangely fleeting, a short story that doesn't linger in the memory rather than a novel that will always have a place on the shelf. But it also captured that Looking Glass feeling that's been missing for so long and it gave us Dunwall. I worry that more of Dunwall might not be a good thing. I'd rather leave it as a fragment of fiction, a place forever in disarray and transition.
But then what would I have Arkane do next? Well, has there ever been a first-person Golden Age superhero game?
I don't usually read books in games. I mean, I'll pick up the odd Ancient Tome of Infinite Plagues here or there for a stat boost, but I generally play games to, you know, play them. That's not to say I don't appreciate the obsessively crafted fictions underlying it all, but I tend to experience them on a need-to-know basis.
I'm not really sure why I picked up the first book I saw in Dishonored. Maybe it was the alluring industrial-magic mystique of Dunwall's structures. Maybe I saw a glowy thing and reflexively decided to interact with it. Maybe it's because I really, really like whales. Regardless, the second that cover opened, I was slurped up by a black-hole-like force. Dishonored's bizarro whale-punk alterna-dimension was just so fascinating to me. I mean, look at this entry about a holiday called The Fugue Feast. I DEMAND IT.
"The new year has not started and thus the time that follows is 'outside' the calendar. A period of celebration and feasting begins, during which the people abandon the very practices that keep them whole and healthy over the year... Families return to their homes, wives to their husbands. Enemies put down their weapons and fires are extinguished. No complaint is given for those who have wronged others, deviated from ancient codes, or discarded oaths; for this time during the astrological alignment does not exist, and is not recorded."
That's wild! There's an entire holiday devoted to just saying, "Fuck it" and busting down the chains of civilized society. I want to live in a world unhinged enough to do that. But reading about it was a nice enough consolation.
And yet, for all its unabashed strangeness, Dishonored also portrayed the mundanities of day-to-day life in its plague-worn world remarkably well. The lovely Paul Walker already put the Heart under-the-knife for us, but I can't discuss Dishonored without gushing about it myself. Much as I loved mixing and matching powers to slither and slice my way through brilliantly designed levels, that achy, breaky, oh-so-talky organ was probably my favorite thing about the entire game.
Thanks to its manic whispers, I became obsessed with this miniature workplace drama unfolding just beneath the surface of my heroic deeds and superpowered skulking. On the surface, there were just a bunch of faceless NPCs milling about the Hound Pits pub, but the Heart let me see so much more. These people had goals and dreams and lives, and well, they were kind of terrible.
For me, it all came back to Cecelia, a seemingly nondescript employee who was sort of just... around. She swept floors, tended to rooms, worked behind the counter - that kind of thing. I didn't think much of her, but then the Heart told me she was supporting multiple kids all by her lonesome, and one of them was showing symptoms that sounded distinctly rat plague-y. A couple times, I also rounded corners to find her boss shouting at her for not tending to my comparatively pampered existence well enough. And yet, she was always dutiful. Overtly exhausted, yes, but unfaltering in spite of the pressures constantly threatening to crush her. If she resented me for being the indirect cause of so much grief in her life, she certainly didn't show it.
I love that Dishonored gave multiple dimensions to even its itsy-bitsiest of bit characters. Even amidst all its world's madness, people were still people. Flawed - sometimes to the point of being unforgivable - creatures, certainly, but determined to keep on pushing forward nonetheless.
It really is a shame the main plot was so shit, though.


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The Miami Heat come into the Moda Center tonight after winning eight of ten games to face the Blazers and unfortunately, Heat center Greg Oden will not be making an appearance.
Miami is playing on the second night of a back-to-back set that kicked off with an overtime loss in Sacramento last night, but center Chris Andersen and guards Ray Allen and Dwyane Wade all sat out nursing various ailments. All three played a few nights ago against the Lakers, but only Wade is likely to return tonight as the injury statuses of Andersen and Allen remain "day-to-day."
James and Wade have been scoring ridiculously efficiently lately, both hitting over 60 percent of their field-goal attempts in their last several games. Both are elite finishers, with James converting on over 80 percent of his attempts at the hoop this season and Wade not far behind at about 73 percent at the rim. Big man Chris Bosh is in on the paint-scoring action this season, too, connecting on almost 69 percent of his shots inside.
Needless to say, the Heat like to attack the basket. If you've been following the Blazers at all this season, you know that preventing opponents from scoring inside has been tough with coach Terry Stotts placing more emphasis on preventing opponents from beating his team from the outside -- so far the strategy has been successful, as Portland sits at 24-5 and allows fewer outside attempts per game than any other team in the league.
Tonight, the Blazers might have to shift the focus a little more to the middle, because Miami's most willing outside shooter is Allen, who will likely miss the game. He attempts more threes than any other Heat player with four per contest, contrasting with Portland's outside-shooting arsenal that features four players who take more deep shots than Allen, Miami's leader in three-pointers attempted.
The Heat take an average amount of threes and have some good outside shooters in Wade and point guards Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole -- James and veteran forwards Shane Battier and Rashard Lewis have all been slumping from deep the last couple weeks -- but they are definitely the most efficient team in the NBA from within the arc. Miami attempts fewer field-goals than any team in the league but makes more than all but four teams and outscores all but five of them on a nightly basis. Essentially, The Heat don't take a lot of shots, but they convert on them more efficiently than anyone.
James gets his points almost every game regardless of the opponent, and even on his worst nights he still usually hits about half his shots. When Wade and Bosh's scoring opportunities are tampered, though, the Heat are much more beatable, even if James goes off. Still, Miami has only lost seven games this year, so there's no proven blueprint to consistently beat them even with various rotation players dinged-up all season.
The Heat's main weakness is on the boards. They're a predictably poor offensive-rebounding team because they have fewer opportunities for rebounds on that end than any team in the league, but they also struggle to secure opponents' misses, as well. The Blazers, on the other hand, grab their own misses better than almost anyone and should also be able to grab a lot of the shots that don't fall for the Heat. Miami loses the battle on the glass almost every game, but if they're removed from the defensive boards, the Heat's chances of winning decrease dramatically. The same could be said for most teams, but offensive-rebounding is a huge strength of the Blazers and Miami can be bullied on the defensive-glass, so it should be a point of emphasis for Portland tonight.
Lately, only center Robin Lopez has shot well for the Blazers. Point guard Damian Lillard, wings Wesley Matthews and Nicolas Batum and backup forward Dorell Wright have all shot pretty poorly the last stretch of games. Guard Mo Williams and forward LaMarcus Aldridge have really seen their shooting percentages in the tank as of late, even as Portland's won seven of its last eight games. The Blazers have gotten by on volume shooting by Lillard and Aldridge, with timely contributions from Matthews, Batum, Williams and Lopez. Portland has also gotten a nice chunk of points at the line, as the team's ball-handlers have been aggressive lately drawing fouls, a good plan considering the Blazers are one of the most accurate free-throw shooting teams in the league. Miami doesn't send opponents to the line particularly often, but they'll likely be tired for tonight's game after going to overtime in Sacramento yesterday and fatigue might force them into fouling Portland's shooters more often.
The Blazers' three-point shooting barrage has cooled off considerably the last five games, with Lillard's 43.8 outside-shooting percentage the highest on the team. The next best conversion rate from deep for Portland is the 33.3 percent shared by Matthews and Wright, followed by Williams at 32 percent and Batum at 30.6 percent. Still, by sheer volume of attempts, the Blazers manage to make more threes than any team in the NBA, even with all but Lillard's deep-shooting slumping in recent weeks. Opposing teams have been launching three-pointers against Miami lately, so don't be surprised to see Portland's outside attempts total climb well into the thirties tonight.
Even if the Blazers underperform in three-point conversion, Portland's offense features enough deep threats that Miami coach Erik Spoelstra will still have to emphasize defense of the perimeter, which could open up lanes for Lillard and Williams to drive aggressively, allowing more space for Aldridge and Lopez to operate down low.
The Heat garner the most steals in the NBA and force more turnovers than anyone. The Blazers hold onto the ball well, but they'll face a huge challenge against Miami's aggressive defense. Turnovers could be a legitimate factor for Portland; On Thursday night, Clippers point guard Chris Paul had six steals by himself in the loss to the Blazers. Wade, Chalmer and James can all rack up steals.
The Heat come into this matchup with a weakened rotation and fresh off of a tough overtime loss to the Kings last night. The Blazers have been playing teams to the last few possessions lately, so expect another game that goes all four quarters -- possibly more, considering the very recent history of both them and the Heat.
If the Blazers control the glass, limit their own turnovers, capitalize on second-chance opportunities and see steady production from their starters, they should have a good shot at knocking out the defending NBA champs tonight. Of course, James has been the league's MVP four of the last five seasons and his reliable contributions from all over the court are all but inevitable at this point. Neutralizing James' teammates -- particularly Wade and Bosh -- would go a long way in helping the home team secure a victory against Miami.
Update: Sam Amick of USA Today reports that James strained his right groin last night against the Kings and isn't sure if he'll be in the lineup tonight against Portland.
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The Sheriff's, Bobby Schultz, said Ramirez and Lindsey were inside the Ace China Restaurant in downtown Trenton around 3 p.m. when the shooting suspect, identified as 59-year-old John Hubert Highnote, shot the two through the window.
When deputies arrived, they found Ramirez and Lindsey dead from gunshot wounds. Highnote was also found, by responders, dead from a gunshot wound outside a nearby business.
Trenton is about 30 miles west of Gainesville, Florida.
The Sheriff said Ramirez was a 7-year veteran of the force who leaves behind a wife and two young children. Lindsey has served for over 3 years.
"They gave their lives for everyone to be safe," Schultz said. "...The world is full of cowards and the world is full of heroes. Tonight, we need to highlight the heroes."
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Alachua County Sheriff's Office and the Levy County Sheriff's Office are on their way to the area to assist with the investigation.
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Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Keshav Maharaj (c), Kagiso Rabada, Bjorn Fortuin, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi
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Avishka Fernando, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka (c), Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Akila Dananjaya
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Share prices of e-commerce software company Shopify (SHOP 1.47%) had been gaining momentum of late until fourth-quarter earnings disappointed Wall Street. The stock still sits 75% from its high, and an uncertain economic environment could prove troublesome through the first quarter of 2023.
While some may question whether the stock can ever regain the highs it saw in a euphoric bull market two years ago, I remain confident that Shopify will eventually reach new heights. Here's why I'm so optimistic about Shopify's future.
Shopify plays a pivotal role in e-commerce
E-commerce is the future of retail and is already here in some ways. Today, roughly 15% of retail sales in the United States are online, a slow and steady crawl higher since the internet went mainstream approximately two decades ago. But the competitive landscape of e-commerce is very top-heavy. Amazon (AMZN 1.28%) and Walmart alone have roughly 44% of America's online market.
So what happens if you're a merchant, big or small, that wants to sell online to stay competitive? Shopify helps solve this problem. The company provides the software tools to open, operate, and grow an online store. Shopify's products and services range from facilitating payments, to supply chain and fulfillment, to marketing. Rather than try to build every aspect of an e-commerce business, a merchant can employ Shopify to provide and/or manage everything it needs from the jump. Shopify makes money via subscriptions, fees, and other charges, based on what services or products the merchant uses.
This niche has proven valuable; Shopify's cumulative merchants represent roughly 10% of e-commerce sales in the United States today. Merchants can be as small as a one-person start-up and as large as major brands like Mattel and Nestlé.
Investing in a competitive advantage
Shopify took a financial step backward over the past couple of years. For a while, it was generating hundreds of millions of dollars in free cash flow, but now the company is back to burning cash. It's not that Shopify's unable to make money; you can see in the chart below that gross profit has grown without much interruption for many years.
Fulfillment services have been a focus area as Shopify invests in fleshing out its ecosystem of merchant solutions. It acquired Deliverr last year for $2.1 billion to help offer merchants services for fulfillment, freight, and returns. Logistics can be tremendously expensive to build; ask Amazon.
But fulfillment is now an integral part of competing in e-commerce. Successfully building out the challenging aspects of the e-commerce business model will only contribute to a moat that keeps competitors at bay. It's also necessary to keep pace with Amazon, which has fought back against Shopify with its Buy with Prime launch.
Investors must think long-term
Shopify stock looks like a bargain at first glance. It's trading near the low end of its historical valuation range with a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of just over 9. However, Shopify's increased investments and negative free cash flow justify a lower valuation.
Investors looking for a quick score might not like this situation, but I still believe there's a lot of upside ahead for long-term investors with some patience. The company operates in a virtual greenfield; the global retail landscape is tremendous, and even after two decades, e-commerce has taken over about 15% of retail in America. Shopify's investments are arguably necessary to cement its competitive edge and remain a viable alternative for merchants who don't want to work with Amazon (which indirectly competes with third-party merchants).
Shopify must continually execute at a high level. Still, the company's long-term opportunity to become a must-have for merchants worldwide makes it a stock that long-term investors can get behind.
John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Justin Pope has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon.com, Shopify, and Walmart. The Motley Fool recommends Nestlé. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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The CW at Midseason: What Will Get Renewed?Paul Dailly at . Updated at .
The CW is the least viewed channel among the main broadcast networks.
They have a wide variety of different shows that cater to different audiences. Last season, they took a very risky move and renewed eight shows very early and it led to them only premiering one new show this fall.
That honor goes to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which is their lowest rated show. Will The CW pull a similar trick to last year and renew pretty much everything, or will they bid adieu to some of their long standing series?
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Nordic skiers and forest managers took steps Friday toward lessening the impacts of a logging operation on a popular winter recreation area on the top of the Grand Mesa.
Officials with the Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest sat down with representatives from the Grand Mesa Nordic Council for two hours and came away with several possible options for hauling logs through the Skyway Nordic trail system without severely impacting skiing at a time when the area is heavily used for training and competitions.
Both Bill Edwards, district ranger with the Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest, and Christie Aschwanden, executive director of the Nordic Council, called the two-hour meeting Friday "productive."
"We brainstormed on different ideas for how we can accommodate both uses," Edwards said. "We recognize this does come with impacts for skiers."
"We were not given the opportunity to collaborate before or to help find a solution," Aschwanden said. "I feel like we started to do that today."
The forest service has contracted with Montrose Forest Products to cut 345 acres of Engelmann spruce near the 30 miles of trails operated by the Nordic Council under a 30 year partnership with the forest service.
Logging has continued around the ski trails in that three decades, but until now, it has not pitted logging trucks against Nordic skiers.
Plans for the current logging operation call for hauling 250 loads of cut timber out through the ski area on what was originally a logging road that was turned into a main arterial trail for skinny skiers. That road is the only access to a number of other trails in the Skyway system and since the trails were created has never been designated for winter log hauling.
The Nordic Council had known for some time that a logging operation was planned near the ski trails, but Aschwanden said the board was blindsided by the recent revelation that hauling on the Scales Lake Road connector trail would be allowed into late December.
Two possible solutions that came out of Friday's meeting were to cut a ski trail adjacent to Scales Lake Road so that both skiers and logging trucks could use the area at the same time; and to suspend logging on Nov. 15 and finish the operation later in the winter when prime Nordic skiing season is over.
Edwards said cutting the healthy stand of spruce is necessary as part of the forest service plans to mitigate fire and beetle-kill damage on the mesa. The stand of trees at the heart of the skiing/logging controversy hasn't been cut in around 40 years.
"We are not opposing this sale," Aschwanden said. "We are just asking that the terms be changed."
Edwards said the next step in trying to accommodate both skiing and logging on the top of the mesa will be a meeting between the Forest Service and Montrose Forest Products to see what the company is willing to tweak in the contract.
The company has nearly completed building roads from the logging stand to the Nordic ski area. Cutting and hauling is expected to begin in October. Some of the hauling must be done after the snow flies because the roads need to be frozen or snow-covered to accommodate the 85,000-pound logging trucks.


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AVerMedia is a multinational company which specializes in hardware for image capturing and video transmission. Together with Ignitarium, a top-class AI software provider, it announced the launch of a new class of aircraft-based railway track anomaly detection solutions, for the Railroad maintenance industry across the globe.
The first step for accurate anomaly detection is the ability to capture the artifacts of interest on a precised and accurate note, compensating for the aircraft pitch, roll and yaw. Ignitarium's Dynamic Camera Alignment software runs on the AVerMedia Box PC EX731-AAH2-2AC0 (with an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 module inside). It helps capturing high quality video of every rail track related object-of-interest. The object of interest is perfectly "centered" in each captured frame. This follows analysis of the captured frames by Ignitarium's TYQ-i™ Defect Detection software platform. This generates a detailed report of the defect which includes cracked ties, skewed ties, damaged plates, missing spikes etc. It saves a lot of time without disrupting any train-running schedule.
Sujeeth Joseph, Chief Product Officer at Ignitarium said "
Ignitarium has a rich history of developing advanced Vision-AI algorithms for anomaly detection. Infrastructure analytics, in particular, has been a growth area for us in recent years. We are extremely pleased with our collaboration with US-based Skycam Aviation Inc., whose state of the art fixed-wing aircraft based image acquisition platform served as the vehicle for deployment of our high precision rail-track defect detection software. As our hardware provider, AVerMedia's Box PC portfolio (based on NVIDIA's Jetson TX2 and Xavier AGX modules) has proved to be a reliable computing platform for these demanding use cases".
Ignitarium uses an AI-based TYQ-i™ defect detection platform which can address multiple defects varying from industries to transportation, food, footwear, automotive, solar etc. Currently it is deploying aerial-based analytics solutions for high value assets like power transmission towers, cellular towers, roads, canals, pipelines, bridges, solar farms, construction sites, and buildings.
Skycam CTO, Christopher Dombrowski said that Skycam Aviation is pivotal for transformation of manual-labor intensive workflows to highly automated methodologies. Their unique ability to schedule and operate aircrafts with advanced imaging systems has helped the customers in maintaining a high value of their assets at the most budge-table price. Together with Ignitarium, they have integrated highly advanced AI-driven algorithms for image acquisition pipeline to deliver the best solutions for anomaly detection in rail-tracks and other infrastructural assets.
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Aberdeen Art Gallery - Opening Date Announced
Aberdeen Art Gallery will re-open to the public on Saturday 2 November, it was announced today.
The date will mark the completion of a redevelopment project which has brought the most significant investment since it first opened in 1885.
Aberdeen Art Gallery is home to one of the finest collections in the UK, including works by important Scottish artists, designers and makers such as Henry Raeburn, Joan Eardley, Samuel Peploe, Rachel McLean, Bill Gibb and James Cromar Watt, as well as nationally and internationally-acclaimed artists including Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Claude Monet.
A key element of Aberdeen City Council's City Centre Masterplan, the project is transforming the Art Gallery, Cowdray Hall and Remembrance Hall into a major cultural attraction which is expected to attract around 250,000 visits annually - making it one of Scotland's most-visited galleries.
Since work began in 2015, the Schoolhill complex of buildings has been completely reimagined and transformed by Hoskins Architects and exhibition designers Studioarc to meet both the needs of visitors and requirements for the care of the nationally recognised art collection.
The £34.6million project includes investment in the fabric of the buildings, new exhibition and display galleries, improved visitor facilities and an enhanced activity programme.
Improvements include:
- Restoring and modernising the Grade A-listed building and significantly improving access and way-finding for all visitors, including creating level access from Schoolhill and opening up vistas throughout the building as well as views across the city from the new second floor.
- Increasing the number of spaces for the display of the permanent collections from 11 to 18, and the number of items on display from approximately 300 in 2015 to over 1,000 in 2019.
- Re-interpreting the collections to provide a more enjoyable and enriching visitor experience, including the use of digital interactives and personal in-gallery playlists.
- A striking new top floor housing The BP Galleries which will host three national and international touring exhibitions a year. BP recently announced £1m support for the project.
- Repairing and modernising the Cowdray Hall, preserving its celebrated acoustic and enhancing its status as an excellent small-scale concert venue.
- Improving the overall visitor experience by providing a more visually welcoming entrance area, clearer signage, enhanced retail and catering facilities and new learning and activity spaces.
- Refurbishing the Remembrance Hall and re-establishing it as a quiet place for reflection, honouring lives lost in conflict.
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Class Exercise #1: Selecting a Location for the New European Distribution Center
Case Problem: Selecting a European Distribution Center Location for American International Automotive Industries
American International Automotive Industries (AIAI) manufactures auto and truck engine, transmission, and chassis parts for manufacturers and repair companies in the United States, South America, Canada, Mexico, Asia and Europe. The company transports to its foreign markets by container ships. To serve its customers in South America and Asia, AIAI has large warehouse/distribution centers. In Europe it ships into Hamburg and Gdansk, where it has contracted with independent distribution companies to deliver its products to customers throughout Europe. However, AIAI has been displeased with a recent history of late deliveries and rough handling of its products which causes products to be delivered in poor condition. For a time AIAI was not overly concerned since its European market wasn't too big and its European customers didn't complain. Plus, it had more pressing supply chain problems elsewhere. But since trade barriers have fallen in Europe and Eastern European markets have opened up, its European business has expanded, as has new competition, and its customers have become more demanding and quality conscious. As a result, AIAI has initiated the process to select a location for a new European warehouse/distribution center. Although it provides parts to a number of smaller truck and auto maintenance and service centers in Europe, it has seven major customers in Vienna, Leipzig, Budapest, Prague, Krakow, Munich, and Frankfurt. Its customers in Vienna and Budapest have adopted manufacturing processes requiring continuous replenishment of parts and materials.
AIAI's European headquarters is in Hamburg. The vice-president for construction and development in Dayton, Ohio has asked the Hamburg office to do a preliminary search for a distribution center location based on geography, transportation, proximity to customers, and costs. The Hamburg office has identified five possible cities for further consideration: Dresden, Lodz, Hamburg, Gdansk, and Frankfurt. The Hamburg office has forwarded information about each of these locations to corporate headquarters, including forecasts of the number of containers shipped annually to each customer as follows: Vienna, 160; Leipzig, 100; Budapest, 180; Prague, 210; Krakow, 90; Munich, 120; Frankfurt, 50. When the vice-president of construction received this information, he pulled out his map of Europe and began to study the locations.
1. What are the five cities that have been identified as a possible location for AIAI's new European warehouse/distribution center?
- Where are AIAI's seven major customers located?
- Reading assignment 2 has a question about the sequence of location decisions. Which stage is AIAI at in the sequence?
- Given that AIAI is trying to determine a location for its new European warehouse/distribution center, what should the strategic focus be in order to maximize the benefit of the location to AIAI?
- What mode of transportation does AIAI use to ship its product to Europe? How does this shipping strategy impact your location decision?
- Continuous replenishment is a predetermined schedule for small, frequent deliveries, so that the customer's inventory can be reduced. What impact do you think the requirement of continuous replenishment for two of the customers should have on AIAI's location decision? Why?


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Customers are the foundation of business. Attracting and keeping existing customers is a top priority for any business. Ironically, these are also the top challenges most business owners quote once asked what's holding back their business.
Customer churn rate plays a crucial role in today's business practices. According to McKinsey, even loyal customers (about 13% of your buyers) are frequently lured by competitors' attractive offers.
So why do consumers leave? What motivates them to switch, and ultimately abandon a brand they already know and do business with another brand? It's high time you looked at why your company might lose customers and how to fix that. Here are three common factors that hinder customer retention, and three effective ways to help them stay.
3 Reasons Customers Leave
1. You Don't See Them as Individuals
Customers may feel you see them as dollar signs, not as individuals with unique needs. The era of customization demands better service.
Research shows that over 40% of consumers will work with a brand again after a customized shopping experience, nearly 50% of consumers will buy a product or service they weren't initially interested in because of customized recommendations, and 40% of customers spent more than they intended to because of customized marketing and communication.
However, to understand how to prevent customers from leaving, you must take customization to the next level. Thus, it's essential to note that customized marketing and communication shouldn't just happen in email marketing campaigns.
Your contracts, invoices, and any communication with customers must include personalized data and information. Generic mass communication is no longer effective.
It's not just about using a client's first and last name, it's about segmenting your target audience, communicating on the mediums your customers prefer, and making the best possible recommendations based on purchase histories.
2. You Focus on Price, Not Quality
Price is what a consumer pays, and value is what the consumer gets from your products or services. When considering whether to buy a specific product, consumers don't always choose the cheapest version.
Consumer preferences have nothing to do with price and everything to do with the value your products or services are conveying. Thus, when potential customers say that their buying decision is all about the money, that's actually the consumer code for "show me the value."
This is primarily one reason Apple continues to dominate the market with smartphone profits. In the third quarter of 2019, Apple garnered 32% of the global revenue in the mobile industry and 66% of all profit in the handset industry. Consumers buy Apple products because they believe iPhones provide more value, despite their higher price. Thus, one of the primary reasons customers leave your brand could be that you're focusing too much on price, instead of showing the value your product offers.
3. You Ignore Their Needs
Why bother keeping an eye on your existing customers if there's a pool of prospective new customers ripe for picking, right? Although there could be a short-term gain in attracting new customers, a strategy that primarily focuses on acquiring new customers instead of keeping current customers will lose in the long run.
Focusing on customer needs is the first step in building customer brand loyalty. Establish a buyer base who frequently chooses your company over competitors, no matter the price. Thus, ignoring your customer needs can hurt your efforts to build a loyal customer base, ultimately hurting your bottom line. After all, it costs seven times to gain new customers than it does to keep existing customers.
Ignoring customer needs hurts your customer retention efforts. Customer retention is a more profitable pursuit than customer acquisition because it enables you to make the most of what you have by ensuring what you have works for you.
3 Reasons Customers Stay
Regardless of the size of a business, consumer loyalty is crucial. Repeat clients spend nearly 67% more than new clients. Also, it's 7X more expensive to gain new customers than it is to retain customers already doing business with you. Keri Keeling notes that "rather being sucked down the customer happiness rabbit hole, track loyalty. It's a metric that you can act on and run your business by." Thus, if you're looking for ways to make your customers stay, consider implementing these three strategies:
1. You Have Special Offers
Businesses can get caught in offering enticing discounts to new customers, but to make existing customers stay, you must offer them special offers and enticing perks. Thus, special offers and discounts are crucial in making sure that current customers feel valued. It may seem daunting to keep existing customers happy, but offering them special offers and discounts is a simple way to show them you value their worth. Most studies report that special offers and discounts are the top reasons for customer loyalty. That's because rewarding customer loyalty provides a good customer experience and is beneficial for both brands and their customers, meaning that consumers don't feel the need to leave your brand and shop around.
If you want your customers to stay and continue doing business with you, your customers must be your top priority. Thus, it's crucial to conduct customer feedback regularly to make sure that you fully understand what your customer base needs. Doing that will give you the best chance to keep customers in the future.
2. You Know Their Needs
Knowing your customers' needs and expectations is crucial in ensuring customer happiness and loyalty. If you don't know your customers' needs or if you're indifferent to their expectations, they will switch to your competitors. However, it's crucial to note that consumers have unique needs and expectations. And thus, assuming what a consumer wants based on previous customers can drive customers away. Thus, it's essential to have the right tools to help you know who your customer is and their needs and expectations. The more you know who your customers are, the more you'll understand their needs and expectations and you'll find the right ways to offer them exceptional customer service.
Knowing your customers' needs and expectations entails conducting deep research across your niche and asking your clients tons of specific questions. Often, customers aren't clear regarding what they need or they don't really know what they need. Understanding customers; needs and expectations results in happy customers, and happy customers are less likely to have reason to leave your business and do business with your competitors.
3. You Meet Their Expectations
One primary reason customers stay is because they know what to expect from their favorite brands. Typically, as a business owner, you want to stand out from your competitors and offer the best customer service or price. However, you must be realistic if there's a chance that may not deliver on your promises. Because once customer trust is broken, it's challenging to get it back.
For instance, think about next-day shipping or delivery. High-traffic periods and National holidays can delay next-day delivery, the same way disasters, such as floods, can limit a courier's ability to meet the delivery date. The best way to avoid these incidents is to avoid building expectations unless you're sure you'll deliver.
If a client wants a solution presented in two days but you don't think it's possible, don't lie to them. Tell them it's impossible to get everything done in two days, but you'll solve their problem in four days at the latest.
Making sure your customers know what to expect from you means your clients won't be disappointed by a promise you were unsure you could fulfill. Being honest with your customers tells them what to expect from your brand, which ultimately improves customer trust and improves customer retention.
Final Thoughts
Customers switch to competitors when they feel you don't see them as individuals with unique interests and needs. Also, customers may switch to competitors because your brand focuses too much on price, not the value they're deriving from your products or services. Customers stay when a business offers them special offers and discounts. This makes them feel valued and appreciated. Further, knowing your customers' needs and expectations can help you improve customer satisfaction, ultimately improving customer retention.
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An organization is a distinct sending identity within your Spoke instance. Each instance of Spoke Rewired can have multiple organizations.
Organizations can be useful if your texting goals are different enough to keep separate. For example, there may be overlap between a volunteer contact list and a voter contact list. If you send out both volunteer information and voter information, your volunteers would receive both conversations from the same sending number, creating a single thread in their inbox. If you create one organization for volunteers and another organization for voters, your volunteer could receive information from you through two distinct sending numbers, thus separating those conversations distinct threads.
Each organization is defined by a number, which is visible in the URL of both dashboards.
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Perkins brings home the gold
Bishop's grad wins two medals at Paralympic GamesRoy Perkins probably didn't know what to expect when he boarded a plane for China last month. Coming home with two medals from the Beijing Paralympic Games likely topped even his wildest dreams.
Perkins, a 2008 graduate of The Bishop's School, won a gold medal in the 50-meter butterfly and won bronze in the 100-meter freestyle at the games.
"I've been waiting for this moment for so long, and it feels amazing," Perkins said in a U.S. Paralympic Team release. "It's very fulfilling. I've trained hard for so many years."
Perkins' time of 35.95 seconds in the 50-meter butterfly also set a Paralympic world record.
"It was great to see Roy improve his time and get the world record," U.S. Paralympic swimming coach Julie O'Neill said.
Perkins was born without hands or feet, but that didn't stop him from becoming an elite athlete.
Perkins began swimming at the age of 12, and within months, he completed the 1.2-mile swim portion of the San Diego International Triathlon. He moved on to competing in local meets, and set multiple U.S. records at the 2004 Paralympics Swimming Trials.
He quickly took to competing at the highest levels, and has become a fixture on the international circuit since then.
In 2006, Perkins competed at the U.S. Paralympic Swimming National Championships, where he set three American records and a Pan American record.
Later that year, he won a gold medal with a world record time in the 50 meter butterfly and took bronze in the 200 individual medley at the International Paralympic Committee Championships in Durban, South Africa.
Last year, he was named to the 2006-07 USA Swimming Scholastic All-America Team, and earlier this year he took gold in the 50-meter butterfly at the Paralympic World Cup event in Manchester, England.
Perkins was expected to arrive back in the U.S. on today (Sept. 18), his mother, Jana Perkins, said.


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Coming to a new country is a feat in and of itself. Learning a new language and culture would rattle anyone but coupled with having to figure out public transportation to English class—a very tall order, indeed. To alleviate some of these feelings, Catholic Charities tries to pair students who live in the same area and speak the same language to help new arrivals navigate the bus routes.
In September of 2019, Alaa Al Zaraa arrived from Iraq speaking Arabic with only her adult niece and no other family. She settled into an apartment complex that is in an especially difficult location to access the city bus. Without someone to show the newcomer the way, they are almost certain to get very, very lost.
At the time, the only available pairing for her was Julita Walengamina who arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo three years ago and who speaks Swahili. Throughout her time in the ESOL program, Julita has become somewhat of a matriarch for her class. As such, she accepted the challenge of guiding Alaa to and from classes despite the language barrier.
Julita truly rose to the occasion taking her new responsibility very seriously so much so she accompanied Alaa for several weeks until she gained her confidence in traveling via bus independently. Through this odd pairing, the two have become great friends despite their language and cultural differences exemplifying that friendship can transcend all barriers.
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Analysis of behavioural patterns of children and their companions in a paediatric healthcare environment: searching the association between behaviour maps and space syntax Çanakçıoğlu, Nevşet Gül; Unlu, A. (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Georrecursos, 2017)The relationship between human psychology and space is studied through an ecological approach by Barker (1968) concerning that the harmony between human behaviours and physical and social attributes of space is dependent ...
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text: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ruling party and its rivals, an opposition coalition led by Georgia's wealthiest man, are both claiming victory in today's parliamentary elections. The private Imedi channel reported that Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream party would win more seats in parliament, while an exit poll reported by the Georgian Public Broadcaster said both parties had 33% of the parliament seats up for grabs. The ruling party made a more definitive claim saying its party had won a majority in parliament, while opposition leaders said they believed they would dominate. Perhaps the truth (though unlikely) can be found on Russian television, where footage is being shown of opposition members celebrating their victory by zipping around the capital city in cars and waving flags. Firm numbers will not come out until later, but the prospect of a post-election standoff is increasing.


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Upcoming 31 days series: Tools to memorize a Bible chapter
Do you want the right words to tell yourself, or share with others, right when you need them, day or night?
Take 31 days and memorize a section of scripture to keep in your head and your heart at all times.
Memorizing Bible verses isn't just for kids. We adults need it, too. Not just for the words themselves. But for the God underneath the words.
Beginning Thursday, October 1 – October 31, I'll share memorization tools and one small step a day of how to memorize a chapter of the Bible.
If you're interested, invest a few moments each day for 31 days, and come away with a message of truth embedded in your heart for years ahead.
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Linda Stoll
I like that you're going to be taking us step by step through this, Lisa. For while I memorized lots when I was a girl, and those passages still stay close within me, this all seems a bit daunting in this season!
I'm doing a 31 Days series on morning invitations – for our souls, bodies, homes, and {no surprise!} our screens. It's been fun to plan … and will be even more fun to live it out!
Let the party begin!
Looking forward to your series, Lisa! We'll be praying the names and attributes of God for #write31days over at my place. Hope to see you there!
Jennifer Dougan
Hi Lisa,
Fun! What section of the Bible will you be working on in that 31 days?
How are you? How is life?
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This amazing city gave me great experiences for over 7 years.
I worked in the fashion industry, travelled around Asia and to Paris and Milan for luxury brands' selling campaigns. I loved my career-only focused life, until I started feeling like something very important was missing.
I had been so focused on reaching professional targets, selling up to six new collections a year to international buyers. I was always pushing production and logistic to keep up with the demand for more and more clothes that was no longer serving me, nor the final consumer.
Somewhere along my coveted career path, I forgot what was actually most important to me: connections.
Real connections with others, I realized, had been put in the background of what I thought was important. A real shift happened, especially when I started questioning myself.
It took me years of self-discovery, research and practice, alongside real life lessons, to realize the collection of many items in my physical space, was not serving me. In fact, it was holding me back.
After practicing my method of decluttering and organizing in my very own space, I started helping friends and family, until it naturally became my business. Given my background in Fashion, I also offer personalized styling sessions on top of my Closet Detox and Organization packages.


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Clarke Ohman
On Thursday October 22nd 2020, we lost an amazing father, brother, son, friend, legend, warrior, and to some, even a hero.
Clarke Ohman, was an elite baseball player and a VMBA alumni. Clarke was a vital player in helping bring Vancouver Minor 2 Mosquito provincial banners, and helping the Pewee AA team to the Canadian Westerns. He was a member of VMBA from T-Ball up through Bantam. He then went on to the Premier Baseball League playing for both the Vancouver Cannons and Parksville Royals. Clarke was the ultimate competitor on and off the field. It didn't matter if you were playing sports or games, Clarke had to come out on top no matter what. Clarke was the kind of guy you loved on your team, and absolutely hated playing against.
Among the many accolades, Clarke received scholarships for baseball to schools in the state of Maine and Texas among some Canadian offers as well.
Clarke was only 25 and will be remembered and missed by many especially in the sports community.
Below is a GoFundMe link organized by Clarke's family and friends. The money raised will assist Clarke in completing his journey out of this world and into his next chapter.
Family and friends can send flowers and/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. You can also leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on his memorial page of Clarke Victor Leonard Ohman to show support, please click HERE to do so.
Potter , Melvin ( Mel ) Dale
July 25,1943- July 19th,2018
Survived by his wife Margaret, his children, grandchildren, great grand children and friends.
In lieu of: donate to North Shore Search & Rescue.
Come celebrate July 28th , 1 - 4 pm at Victoria Drive Community Hall.
Melvin Dale Potter (Mel)
July 25, 1943 - July 19, 2018
Mel sadly past away Thursday July 19th.
He is survived by his wife Margaret, children & grandchildren.
Mel was a long time volunteer for Vancouver Minor Baseball , even before we were Vancouver Minor Baseball. Back in the 70's he even umpired at the park. During park event days he could be seen at the park first thing to help to set up.
When concession was very busy he would always step
in and give a hand.
In later years Mel was mostly known as VMB's 50/50 guy. He loved to talk & joke with the people while raising money for the association. For the longest time when you came to a game at the park you could hear 50/50!!!!
Mel also made the big time when he sold 50/50 tickets at the Canadians Games at Nat Bailey Stadium over the last few years.
In the winter Mel's volunteerism did not stop. During Victoria Drive Community Hall children's Christmas party, he played Santa every year.
He will be truly be missed by all that knew him. "Rest in Peace Mel".
It is with a heavy heart Vancouver Minor Baseball announces the passing of long time volunteer
Fritz Banek
Fritz held several positions at Vancouver Minor Baseball over the years,
none more significant than overseeing the management of umpiring development.
Fritz held a strong presense in the community and was loved by many.
He will be missed.
A celebration of life date and location will be updated as information is forwarded.
Janice Lynn Miller (Jessica Engelbrecht)
MILLER, JANICE LYNN. July 25, 1962 - August 16, 2014
Janice passed away in Vancouver, BC after a seven year battle with breast cancer. She is survived by her loving children Benjamin and Jessica, her parents Bill and Glady and her sisters Sharon (Tom), Deb and Laurie (Doug). Our family would like to thank Janice's close circle of friends for their unwavering support during her struggle.
A Memorial Service for Janice will be held on Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 2:00 pm at Hamilton Harron Funeral Home, 5390 Fraser Street, Vancouver.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Janice's memory to the BC Cancer Foundation are appreciated. For more information please contact Hamilton Harron Funeral Home - 604-325-7441
Above please find the information for Janice's celebration of life. Please help pass on this message. We thank you for your support during this time as we adjust with our family.
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Barry Lewis Cornwall. August 13th, 1944 - October 16th, 2010
Barry was a loving Husband, a loving Father, and a great friend. He will always be missed and will forever be in our hearts.
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Rarely black hair in anime is not very common. Usually, we find anime characters with more exotic hair colors, such as red, orange, pink, white, etc. However, this doesn't mean that characters with black hair can't be impressive. Anime girls with Black Hair usually have mysterious personalities and are fearful and shy.
Although black hair is little used in anime, we can find fantastic anime girls with Black Hair. Some are more reserved than others or with more prominence, but without a doubt, they are great characters of vital importance in their stories. So below, we will mention some of the most prominent female characters in anime with black hair.
Female Anime Characters With Black Hair
1. Hinata Hyuga – Naruto
Hinata is one of naruto's characters with black hair you fall in love with from the first moment you see them. She is a ninja from the Hyuga clan in Konoha village, a very shy girl who hardly talks to anyone. Ever since she saw Naruto for the first time, she sympathized with him when she found out that he was a child without parents.
When she entered the academy, she started to know Naruto better and fell in love with him. Little by little, with a lot of effort and training, she became an incredibly strong ninja.
Also, when the third world ninja war started, she was a key player in helping Naruto stop Madara, and when the conflict finally ended, she married Naruto. In the anime sequel, Boruto, we see that Naruto and Hinata have children together. She is also popular among female naruto characters with black hair
2. Mikasa Ackerman – Shingeki no kyojin (Attack on titan)
Mikasa is possibly the most robust female character in Attack On Titan Anime. A girl with short black hair, really strong and determined to do whatever it takes to protect Eren. When she was just a girl, her parents were killed, and three men kidnap her; at that moment, Eren was also just a boy who decided to fight with the kidnappers to save Mikasa; after killing 2 of the men, Eren is caught, and the remaining kidnapper grabs Eren and starts strangling him.
Mikasa, scared to death, doesn't know what to do, and Eren starts talking to her, telling her that she must fight. That's when Mikasa stops being a scared little girl, becomes a warrior, and kills her kidnapper to save Eren. From that moment on, Eren's family takes her to live with them to protect her and give her a home.
When Eren decides to join the army, she decides to be close to him to protect him, even if it will cost her her life.
In the army, Mikasa shows her great skills and strength to kill the titans. Together with Eren and Armin, they join the exploration group, facing great challenges and dangers that put their lives on the edge of survival when the titans return to attack the walls.
3. Akame – Akame ga Kill
Akame is a girl with long black hair. She is an assassin trained from a very young age to be a cold-blooded, unscrupulous killer. Although she is an assassin who does not allow herself to be influenced by her emotions, she has strong ties to her peers, whom she considers her friends, and she cares for them so much that she is even willing to give her life to them.
Her greatest weapon is her Murasame sword which she activates by saying the word Homuru. This sword is so mighty that she can kill her targets with just a scratch as the sword is soaked with lethal poison. She is one of the main characters in the series, and it is not until the end that we see her full power and what Akame is capable of.
4. Kagome Higurashi – InuYasha
Kagome has black hair, and it's so long it reaches down to his waist. She is the main character in the story since she is the one who frees Inuyasha from the arrow that had him asleep. It all happens when she accidentally falls into a well one day and is transported to the Sengoku era many years ago.
At that moment, she realizes she was reincarnated into someone else, the priestess Kikyo who also has the Shikon Pearl inside. Undoubtedly Kagome is a strong and fearless girl, able to overcome all the adversities that stand in her way.
5. Rukia Kuchiki – Bleach
Bleach is undoubtedly one of the best anime, and Rukia is a key piece in the story. She has straight black hair. Rukia is a shinigami of the Kuchiki clan; she decided to go to earth to kill hollows, and just when she was trying to kill one, she met Ichigo.
Unfortunately, Rukia was injured, so she let Ichigo have the shinigami powers. From that moment on, Ichigo becomes a soul reaper and starts living many adventures with Rukia. She's also a lot of fun and uses pictures of rabbits whenever she tries to explain something.
6.Kurumi Tokisaki – Date a Live
Kuromi is a beautiful girl with long black hair. She is a spirit, the third to appear, and is undoubtedly very dangerous as she can resurrect. When she is in her natural form, she is an ordinary girl, a little shy, and goes unnoticed at school.
However, she becomes a violent ruthless killer when transforming into a spirit. Kuromi decided to go to Shido Itsuka's school so that she could be close to him and kill him since he has the power to seal up spirits like her.
7. Nana Osaki – Nana
Nana Osaki is one of the series' protagonists because there are two Nanas, Nana Komatsu, and Nana Osaki, here, we will talk about Nana Osaki because she has black hair and also a very particular style with her tattoos.
She was the vocalist of a band but what she wanted was to be a professional singer, so she decided to leave the band and go to Tokyo to make her dream come true, and that's where she ended up meeting Nana Komatsu, who in a short time, became her best friend.
8. Shinobu Kocho
Shinobu Kocho is a significant character in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. She is also a Demon Slayer and the Insect Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps.
These are some of the most impressive anime girls with Black Hair. We hope your favorite is among them. Undoubtedly, the black hair gives us clues about the personality of these characters, some stronger and more impulsive than others, others a little more violent and aggressive, but not all their characteristics are linked to their hair color.


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Available on demand: edie's Earth Overshoot Day webinar
edie's webinar exploring the circular economy to mark Earth Overshoot Day 2020 is now available to watch on-demand, featuring expert speakers from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, DS Smith and Toast Ale.
Sponsored by Centrica Business Solutions, the one-hour webinar is entitled 'Earth Overshoot Day: How business can #MoveTheDate Post-Covid-19'. It saw senior sustainability professionals and resource efficiency experts exploring how the relationship between business and nature can be transformed to deliver a low-carbon, resource-efficient "new normal", providing best-practice advice for listeners.
Earth Overshoot Day has been marked since the 1970s and is held to mark the calendar date at which humanity will have used up nature's resource budget for the entire year.
2020 sees the date move back for the first time since 1971, after the earliest ever Earth Overshoot Day was observed on 29 July 2019. But this is due to the economic impact of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic rather than any radically transformational and holistic approaches from policymakers and businesses.
Given that any reduction in emissions or resource consumption which comes at the expense of human life and wellbeing, affecting those from the most marginalised demographics most profoundly, cannot be considered sustainable in the long-term, this webinar asked: How is the pandemic likely to affect the decoupling of economic growth from negative environmental impact? And what work must be done to make all sectors – even those which are the most ecologically impactful – one-planet compatible for good?
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Sarah George, Senior Reporter, edie
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Marilyn Martinez, senior analyst, Ellen Macarthur Foundation
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text: Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket (a set of three wooden stumps) at each end. One team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field. Each phase of play is called an innings. After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles. The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their innings.