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Digital Twins and Model-Based Battery Design
Ed Fontes February 20, 2019
By combining high-fidelity multiphysics models with lightweight models and measured data, engineers can create digital twins to understand, predict, optimize, and control real-world systems.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson June 12, 2018
Keep your cluster admin happy by using the Cluster Sweep node in COMSOL Multiphysics® to optimize the parallelization of parametric computations on clusters.Read More
Lars Drögemüller March 9, 2018
You can run large simulations remotely on HPC hardware directly from the COMSOL Desktop® graphical environment. Learn how in this tutorial blog post.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson February 20, 2015
We have previously written about HPC with the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, clusters, and hybrid computing. But not all of us have a cluster available in the office (or the hardware to build a Beowulf cluster). So what possibilities do we have if we really need that extra compute power that a cluster can give us? One solution is to utilize cloud computing, a service that provides compute power on a temporary basis, to give our computations and productivity a boost.Read More
Walter Frei October 24, 2014
One of the most common questions we get is: How large of a model can you solve in COMSOL Multiphysics? It turns out that this is quite tricky to answer decisively, so in this blog entry, we will talk about memory requirements, model size, and how you can predict the amount of memory you will need for solving large 3D finite element problems.Read More
Walter Frei October 7, 2014
People are always asking how the performance of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulation software will improve on a parallel system, especially now that large multi-core desktop computers are relatively inexpensive and it's easy to rent time on cloud services like the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™. It turns out, though, that it's not always possible to get faster performance just by throwing more hardware at the problem. To understand why, let's take a conceptual look at computers and the algorithms COMSOL® software uses.Read More
Fabian Scheuren June 23, 2014
One of the main issues with high-power electrical devices is thermal management. Together with BLOCK Transformatoren-Elektronik GmbH, we created a model using COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software that encompasses all of the important details when modeling heating of high-power electrical devices. To do so, we had to utilize high performance computing (HPC) with hybrid modeling. Here, we will discuss how to approach this real-life task with the COMSOL software.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson April 11, 2014
Many of us need up-to-date software and hardware in order to work efficiently. Therefore, we need to follow the pace of technological development. But, what should we do with the outdated hardware? It feels wasteful to send the old hardware to its grave or to just put it in a corner. Another, more productive, solution is to use the old hardware to build a Beowulf cluster and use it to speed up computations.Read More
Thorsten Koch March 27, 2014
To keep up with today's fast-paced development cycles, R&D engineers and scientists need efficient tools to provide answers quickly and free them from routine tasks. COMSOL Multiphysics® has built-in features like parametric sweeps to increase simulation productivity. In addition to graphical modeling, COMSOL offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that you can use to automate any repetitive modeling step. Here's how to get started with the COMSOL API for use with Java®.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson March 20, 2014
One thing we haven't talked much about so far in the Hybrid Modeling blog series is what speedup we can expect when adding more resources to our computations. Today, we consider some theoretical investigations that explain the limitations in parallel computing. We will also show you how to use the COMSOL software's Batch Sweeps option, which is a built-in, embarrassingly parallel functionality for improving performance when you reach these limits.Read More
Jan-Philipp Weiss March 6, 2014
Previously in this blog series, my colleague Pär described parallel numerical simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics on shared and distributed memory platforms. Today, we discuss the combination of these two methods: hybrid computing. I will try to shed some light onto the various aspects of hybrid computing and modeling, and show how COMSOL Multiphysics can use hybrid configurations in order to squeeze out the best performance on parallel platforms.Read More


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Ok Nike, That Was Awesome.
Yea it's an ad.
Yea it's from Nike.
But it's just so damn fun to watch and so well done. (and none of the Slash team are even Londoners.)
We would have loved to be in the meetings that lead to this video. The way the narrative one-ups itself with ridiculousness and the raw fun of the whole thing could only come from a group of creatives having fun themselves.

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1 Short title
2 Interpretation
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust
3 Establishment and constitution of Trust
4 Functions of Trust
5 Funds of Trust
6 Travelling expenses, etc
7 Borrowing powers
8 Accounts and audit
9 Annual report
10 Appointment of officers and servants
11 Protection of members of Trust
Protection of national monuments and national heritage
12 Duty of Trust to declare and publish list of monuments
13 Designation of protected national heritage
14 Compensation
15 Protection from disrepair
16 Owner of national monument or protected national heritage not to alter without approval
17 Destroying monuments mark, etc
Control and development of national monument and protected national heritage
18 Gifts, devise or bequest of protected national heritage or national monument to Trust
19 Preservation notice
20 Effect of and compensation for preservation notices
Developments of national monuments and places designated to be protected national heritage
21 Preservation schemes
22 Trust may grant permission for development works
23 Power of Trust to enter on lands
24 Service of demands
25 Exemption from stamp duties, taxes, etc
26 Treatment of amount spent by owner of protected national heritage for purposes of income tax
27 Capital allowance in respect of national monument
28 Regulations
29 Savings
[Date of Commencement: 28th June, 1985]
8 of 1985,
33 of 1991.
This Act may be cited as the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-
"development" means-
(a) the alteration, removal, repair, restoration or demolition of or addition to, any national monument; or
(b) the carrying out of building, engineering or other operations in, on, over or under any national monument or the making of any material change in the structure, appearance or use of any such national monument;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"local authority" means-
(a) in relation to the parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew, the Council of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation; and
(b) in relation to any other parish, the Parish Council of such parish;
"maintenance" includes the fencing, repairing and covering of a national monument and the doing of any other act or thing which may be required for the purpose of repairing the national monument or protecting it from decay or injury, and the expression "maintain" shall be construed accordingly;
"national monument" means-
(a) any building, structure, object or other work of man or of nature or any part or remains thereof whether above or below the surface of the land or the floor of the sea within the territorial waters of the Island or within the exclusive economic zone;
[33/1991 s 22.]
(b) any site, cave or excavation, or any part or remains thereof,
declared by the Trust to be a national monument;
"occupier" includes any person engaged in any development or maintenance works in, or, over or under any national monument;
"owner" means the person in whom is vested the freehold interest in the site of the protected national heritage;
"protected national heritage" means-
(a) any place name;
(b) any species of animal or plant life;
(c) any place or object (not declared by the Trust to be a national monument),
designated by the Trust to be a protected national heritage;
"the Trust" means the Jamaica National Heritage Trust established under section 3.
3 Establishment and constitution of Trust
(1) There shall be established a Trust to be known as the Jamaica National Heritage Trust which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and with power to purchase, hold, deal with and dispose of land and other property whether real or personal:
Provided that the Trust shall not transfer, mortgage, charge or dispose of any land without the approval of the Minister.
(2) The Trust shall consist of fifteen members of whom-
(a) three members shall be the Government Town Planner, the Commissioner of Lands and the Chief Executive Officer of the Trust who shall be ex officio members;
(b) one member shall be a representative of the Institute of Jamaica and shall be appointed by the Minister from a panel of three persons nominated by the Board of Governors of that Institute;
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deprivation is key
my mom has lots of "famous quotes" that we repeat as a family. one of them was mentioned in the last post, "what does that mean?" i wish you could really hear my mom say it, because the tone is everything.
to name a few other quotes,
"when in doubt, sack out."
"the whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead." [this is more of a loretta original, my mom's mom]
"fruit 'til noon."
"yes mom, coming mom" [what she would make us say when she called for us]
today, i want to highlight a quote that has had a particular impact on my life. she used to say, "deprivation is key." the key to what? well, happiness, contentment and gratefulness mostly. basically, we didn't have much growing up. we had enough to stretch between eight people in my family, but we never had an excess of anything and understandably so.
but instead of focusing on the lacking, my mom as well as my dad always focused on the character-building that came from the lacking.
for example, every single person in my family has been excited about a simple glass of milk. why? because my mom only let us have milk in our cereal, and that was it for the day. deprivation is key. a simple glass of milk brought us so much gratefulness.
this has applied to many things for me. i often test myself just to see what i can go without. not in a fanatical way or anything, but in a "do i really need to buy some more clothes right now?" way or "do i really need chocolate, or is it more of a severe want?"
this principal has ultimately instilled in me that i don't need stuff to make me happy.
so, moms, the next time you think you just have to have something for your child, the newest innovation, the coolest toy, the most convenient item, remember that your kid might just be happier with the cardboard box or the homemade drum [aka pots and pans]. be encouraged!
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Islamic Foundation offers both Quran Recitation (Nazra) and Quran Memorization (Hifdh) programs. The Hifdhprogram is offered through the Sacred Link program of Islamic Foundation School (IFS). Students can memorize Qur'an on a full-time basis, participate in athletic activities, and have the option to enroll in Math and English classes so that they are well prepared to return back to school. IFS is an accredited school by the ISBE and AdvancED and offers multiple options to students who would like to pursue Hifdhon a full-time or part-time basis. For information regarding IFS' Hifdhprogram and the various options available, please visit http://www.ifsvp.org/information-about-hifz-programs/.
The NazraProgram is administered by the Masjid and is held between 4:00 p.m. – 6 p.m. Monday-Friday on all days the Islamic Foundation School (IFS) is in session. You can check the IFS academic calendar at www.ifsvp.orgunder the Academics tab. This program is open to all children between ages 6 – 16.
⦁Completion of the Al -Qaidah-Noraniah (beginner level book that teaches how to read the holy Quran with tajweed)
⦁Must pass the pre-screening test prior to enrollment.
⦁Must be at least 6 to 16 years of age, born before Oct 31st.
Assessment for continuity:
⦁To remain in this program, there will be an assessment at the end of each academic quarter.
⦁Student goals will be assessed on an individual basis at the time of enrollment
What does the Quran program curriculums entail?
⦁The Program will focus on 3 key components:
⦁Tajweed – knowledge and application of the rules
⦁Memorization – memorization of the Holy Quran
⦁Basic etiquettes – How to behave in mosque, how to do wudu, how to pray etc.
How will my child be graded?
⦁The teacher will grade the students as they do routinely for all students in their class.
⦁Students will be graded on the following components:
⦁Hard work and motivation
⦁Word Pronunciation
⦁Completion of homework: It is the student's responsibility to complete assigned homework. The homework will be assigned on an individual basis by mutual agreement between the parent, student, and teacher.
⦁Monthly progress reports are emailed to the parent/guardian
What are the minimal expectations of these programs for my child during the academic school year?
We realize that each student has a different learning and memorization pace, as well as different ability levels (with regards to previous Quran memorization, Arabic fluency, and knowledge of tajweed rules) present in the class composition. Students will be required to progress at a pace that is reflective of their own ability and comfort level.
Keeping the above mentioned differentiated instruction pedagogy in mind, there are minimal requirements that each child must complete by the end of school -year end.
Who are the teachers?
⦁Program has 4-6 dedicated teachers.
⦁There are some experienced Hafiz Quran teachers, Alima teachers for girls.
⦁Teaching for girls will be in main prayer hall for sisters.
⦁Teaching for boys will be in main prayer hall for brothers.
Where do I register/enroll?
All students are required to register beginning of the school year. Registration forms can be obtained from Islamic Foundation Book Store. There is $25.00 registration fees for each student. (Usually waived 1st week of new school year)
Fees: $100 per month (calendar month). Due 1st of every month.
Who do I contact?
You can send an email to the following alias [email protected] alternatively you can also reach out to one of the following individuals : Br. Abdul Baseer, Br. Naseer, Br. Ahmed Ali or Br. Farooq at the Bookstore.


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Many people think that golf is not a sport and they have this vision in their head that every golfer is overweight, doesn't work out, and just drinks beers all day. But if you knew anything, you'd know that most professional golfers are extremely fit and workout daily. Although it is not necessary to play the game, it has become a priority if you want to compete with all the hot shots like Tiger Woods.
Just like in any other sport, being fit improves your performance. For golfers, strong legs, core, and arms means you can hit the ball farther, be more consistent, and prevent injury. If you don't believe me, watch this video which explains the importance of fitness on the PGA Tour.
Show this to your friends that don' t think golf is a sport and remember, don't listen to stereotypes and make judgments based on what other people think.


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Slitherine Ltd. is a publisher best known for its turn-based boardgame-like strategy titles. Occasionally they branch out, however, teaming up with developers who have a different take on strategy. Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock (BSG:D) is one such game, produced by an Australian indie developer called Black Lab Games. If you missed Black Lab Games' 2015 title Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy, it's a "WEGO" style turn-based tactical space game based on an original IP – a sort of thinking man's Homeworld. Without any inside knowledge, it seems clear that their success with Starhammer had Black Lab Games searching for a way to take their WEGO tactical space combat engine to new heights by combining it with an existing IP to draw in more players. Since the Battlestar Galactica IP lacked such a title, it seems like there was a natural fit.
There is a lot of money to be made by converting IPs from books, television, movies, games, and comic books into other mediums. Yet, when these conversions happen there is always controversy. On one side are hardcore fans who demand perfect authenticity and near-slavish adherence to story canon, character traits, and vehicles/powers/technology from the established universe. On the other side are the "filthy casuals" who tend to enjoy the IP no matter how things change between mediums. You may find yourself on one side or the other depending on the IP. Where do you fall on the spectrum of fandom when it comes to Battlestar Galactica?
So we've set the stage: we're looking at a veteran strategy publisher working outside what it is primarily known for, and we've got an indie developer with one prior release to its name. They're teaming up to work on one of the most beloved IPs in modern science fiction. How does it stack up? Was your pre-order a mistake? Best game ever?
Let me start by saying that much of the appeal of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica TV reboot had to do with the story and characters. The show was all about despair, hope, moral and religious conflict, personal hatreds, love, suffering, and pleasure. The show asked fans to think about what it meant to be human versus an artificially intelligent robot designed to look, feel, and act exactly like a human. The majority of the show featured character-driven plots set in claustrophobic spaceship interiors.
None of that is found in this game. We never see the face of the enemy other than a UI button or story dialogue portrait, for example. That isn't necessarily a bad thing – it's just a disclaimer. BSG:D has its own appeal, featuring a tactical space warfare simulator that lets you live out the BSG battles that always seemed too short in the show. (Down with TV show budgets!) All that said, let's dive in.
BSG:D has your standard tactical/real-time strategy game features: a story-based campaign, AI skirmishes, and 1v1 multiplayer. The campaign is sort of a guided sandbox. The story begins during the first Cylon war with the colonies being attacked by rebellious machines. The Galactica has recently been completed and is missing. The main colonial shipyards have been destroyed and the "Daidalos" mobile(!) shipyard becomes the new fleet HQ with the player in command. There are increasingly difficult story missions which you can complete at your leisure, but don't take too long because there is an infinite flow of incoming hostile Cylon fleets. The player gets resources from the colonies in the form of tylium, and if colonies can be "fortified" with a fleet commanded by an officer they will receive an additional bonus like officer promotion cost reduction, ship cost reduction, and the like. The non-combat turn-based portion of the campaign involves constructing and positioning fleets around the 12 colonies. You must maximize resources, minimize losses, and position officers well in order to be successful.
Speaking of officers, these guys and gals are deceptively important despite the fact that the early tutorial missions don't call much attention to them. Officers earn XP when fighting battles and XP can be used to promote them. Promotion allows you to choose skills from an RPG-style tree – not the least of which is the ability to increase the size of the fleet that particular officer is able to command. Since the vast majority of the campaign is played in increasingly difficult tactical battles, having larger fleets is incredibly important to progression.
There are two resources in the game: Tylium and Resource Points (RP). RP are only gained in story missions, and are used to unlock new capital ship, fighter, and munitions plans. RP can also be used in place of battle XP so that you can level up your officers. Tylium is earned from completing missions and defended colonies send you some each turn. It can then be spent to construct ships and also to speed up the recharge of jump drives between campaign turns. Ships fully repair after each combat, so don't expect them to require maintenance between turns. The game doesn't try to go that deep in terms of strategic simulation and instead there is a heavy focus on the tactical combat system.
You also won't find Starbuck here or her equivalent. Ship officers are modeled, but fighters are generic squadrons that fight as a group. There are no named squadron leaders. You can't jump Raptors ahead of the fleet as scout ships as they are not controllable from the strategic map level and they do not have jump capability. Some fans will no doubt be disappointed that some of these classic tactics from the show are missing from the campaign. If you choose to take a Raptor squadron, they are equipped with DRADIS (sensors, for the non-BSG fans) so you can detect and lock missiles onto enemy ships at longer range than your capital ships can without Raptor support. Other than that, you'll just get a squad of 4 Raptors that can either fly around attacking enemy fighters, shoot a single salvo of rockets at a capital ship, or dock with a friendly capital ship to boost its electronic warfare capabilities.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot to mention that the Cylons will hack you to death. Each ship has subsystems: Navigation, Fire Control, Engineering, etc. These subsystems can be damaged by normal enemy fire, but the Cylons can also bypass your armor and hull to damage subsystems directly. Your ships have a "firewall" stat that provides a buffer to protect subsystems from electronic warfare attack, but enemy Nemesis-class frigates and Wardriver squadrons can unleash a red beam that attacks that firewall. Once down, the beam starts to damage subsystems directly. If these attacks go unchecked for a few turns, you'll end up with a partially disabled ship that will take time for crews to repair. If they continue long enough, your ship will be nothing but a useless hunk of metal floating in space.
Which ships you decide to build are important, because resources are scarce. Some ships have been pulled from the Battlestar Galactica universe, but some have been created especially for the game. No two ships are alike, and each new type you unlock requires you to learn a new playstyle. Even if you could make every ship have the same number of armor and hull points, they would still play differently since each has a different set of turrets and firing arcs. For example, Manticore class corvettes have a single turret in front and behind, and Adamant class frigates only fire broadsides. Battlestars have unique "Battlestar Artillery" turrets, and also the "Flak" ability, which is an area-of-effect ability that shoots down enemy missiles and fighters. All of these turret arcs and abilities are directional, so ship positioning for maximum damage is of extreme importance.
Players also need to rotate their ships to take damage on undamaged sides of the ship – a fun dance that is made easy with the positioning UI. All this intricacy means it's a good thing battles are "WEGO" style because battles would be quite difficult if they were not turn based. In addition to inherent ship abilities, there are further choices. Ships that have missile tubes can swap between guided missiles, torpedoes, anti-missile munitions, and even nukes before each battle starts. Ships which carry fighters can swap between Viper and Raptor squadrons, and each has its advantages depending on the situation.
Skirmish battles are fairly quick and they really shine. While I didn't have time to fully dive into multiplayer for this review due to lack of players in the pre-release, I'm sure slugging it out with humans will reveal some serious depth in the tactical side of the game. There are a lot of options for designing skirmish fleets, and I'm excited to try multiplayer when I get some time now that the game is released. The game's graphics are simply beautiful and a lot of attention has been paid to the ship models. Every battle can be replayed, and watching battles via the auto-camera lets players feel like they're watching an episode of the show, especially with the game's fantastic music. The music will be familiar to Battlestar Galactica fans: thumping drum-heavy tunes, haunting strings, a cappella voices, bells, and even bagpipes round out the battle experience.
Despite being light on many traditional 4X elements, the campaign does almost feel like a 4X game. 4X-lite perhaps? You're expanding your fleet rather than expanding to new systems and building planetary infrastructure, and there isn't much exploration, but the other elements are there along with the tactical engine, and boy does that sucker have some potential. If a space 4X with a fabulous ship designer had a robust tactical engine like Black Lab Games' beauty here, we 4X fans would all be extremely satisfied, I reckon.
Among all the good, however, I had a few frustrations with the campaign.
Save Scumming
Save scumming is a bear in this game. Since resources are rare and officers take a long time to level up, losing just about anything feels huge. The devs have balanced this a bit better since the pre-release version I played, but it will still be an issue. Each time you lose a ship you're one step closer to being overrun. At the same time, keeping colonies fortified gives you bonus cost reductions on things like ship construction and officer recruitment. This sort of system lends itself to snowballing one way or the other. I'd rather have that "knife's edge" difficulty feeling within a tactical battle. When you have it in the campaign it just gives that "well I've already lost" or "already won" feeling. That is, if you lose ships and therefore colony bonuses, every Cylon fleet becomes harder to deal with. I fear getting behind the game's difficulty curve and into a death spiral. The opposite situation is that you get ahead of the curve and fight every battle without losing a ship. It just doesn't feel like there's a middle ground.
Additionally, you can save literally at any point in the game and there's no "seed" for rolls like some games. This means you can simply save and re-do auto resolve battles over and over. If you have a 25% chance of victory with an outmatched fleet, you can just reload and reload until you win even though you'd never be able to win if you play the battle out tactically. Some players won't be able to resist, and it smells a bit like poor design.
The rebalancing for release has made the game MUCH less difficult, but it has also made it so that after the first few turns you only see enemy fleets of about 4000 points. When you start the game and also when you recruit new officers they're only able to handle 2000 points of ships. This means your newer officers are unable to find a fair matchup. Since there's no way to rank them up without spending 500 RP to get them to level 2. I feel like this is a bit confusing and I'm not sure why you can't requisition higher ranked officers in the first place. Another solution would be to just make the enemy fleets more varied, but that might also be confusing.
FTL reinforcements
Another gripe I have is that jumping ships in mid-battle is simply not available. A system for bringing in reinforcements would be a fun and interesting tactical decision while also following the narrative of the show. You're only allowed seven ships in a fleet at the same time. This feels a bit limiting and FTL reinforcements would go a long way to relieving that problem while adding a layer of tactical decisionmaking that would be fun and enjoyable if done well.
There are also some key bits to the game that aren't made clear to the player. It's unclear at first how much officers cost to recruit. You can click the menu to recruit officers, but it displays a "2000" next to the officer name. I thought I couldn't afford one, but after a while I realized this was the fleet size a level one officer could support. At that point I had already purchased a battlestar blueprint for nearly 2000 RP, leaving me with only 35. After the pool of officers populated, I had to attempt to recruit one to find out that it costs 50 RP. The only way to get more RP is to complete missions, but you can't complete missions unless the engaging fleet has an officer.
At one point while playing, I had just lost a 1050 point "ranger" ship (the first of its kind for me) along with my best officer to a mission that was extremely difficult. At this particular juncture, I had no idea officers were actually "on" any of the ships in the fleet, so I lost my only officer and my only way to field a fleet with more than 2000 points worth of ships. To make matters worse, it had already taken me 2-3 turns before I even realized the officer was gone. Unless I missed it, the game offered no message telling me I had lost him. For a moment I thought I had encountered some game-breaking bug where I wouldn't be able to progress without going back to an old save. Instead I finally read the loading screen tooltip that says you can engage in missions as long as the Daidalos mobile shipyard is in the fleet. "Awesome!", I thought, since the Daidalos has turrets and 2 extra squadrons of Vipers. So, I took the shipyard into battle with 2000 points of ships only to have the big ol' sweet lookin' shipyard destroyed by a single enemy ship that I couldn't kill fast enough. Instant campaign loss.
Many of these problems are avoidable, but I couldn't help but feel like these "mistakes" were only occurring because I didn't have the information I needed. If I sound like I'm a big whiner, it's because I despise "trial and error" style gameplay unless a game specifically brands itself as a Rogue-like and has the mechanics to support that type of play. Instead of having an enjoyable progression through the game to a satisfying difficulty level, I always feel the need to save every other turn from the very beginning. The missions increase in difficulty as the game proceeds through the storyline, but on top of the previously mentioned issues, the player is not given any sort of guide to how difficult a mission will be before a fleet jumps in – leading to further save scumming strategies.
The good news for salivating fans is that the core tactical gameplay is absolutely fantastic and the game runs buttery smooth on my rig. I have some gripes with the campaign and the UI , but these could easily be patched. Despite the lackluster UI and player information delivery in general, I feel like this game is on the cusp of being one of those "one more turn" experiences for me. I often find myself playing much longer than intended, which is a good sign for any game.
In addition to the campaign issues above, in the tactical battles I'd like to see some more graphically-delivered information for the player rather than numeric lists of hull points. There are some minor UI deficiencies, like the "fire missiles" hotkey being different on different ships and that clicking on a Cylon fleet zooms in but gives no useful information. As I mentioned earlier, however, these all seem like easily fixable issues. On the topic of fixing issues, the developers have already patched the game multiple times, and in my opinion the changes have been exactly what the doctor ordered. So for me, the direction of post-launch support seems good.
Overall, there's a lot to like in BSG:D. The music, campaign setting, characters, and battles tell a brand new BSG story that a lot of fans will enjoy. There is no other BSG game of this type, so fans are probably already playing. Black Lab Games have a really nice tactical combat system that does a lot with simple controls and mechanics. 4X gamers need to start begging them to license their engine so we can start seeing their brand of tactical combat in a robust 4X game. I'd strongly consider sacrificing a literal arm and a literal leg to some sort of gaming god for a 4X with shipbuilding like the original StarDrive and BSG:D-like tactical combat. The cool thing is that I'd only need one arm since this game can be played without using the keyboard. It's nice to have that option. Game devs: take note!
TL;DR: Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock is a game with fantastic potential, but has some issues with the campaign. If you're not the world's biggest BSG fan then I would consider waiting for a sale. If you are a fan you've probably already made your purchase, but if you're on the fence and you think you can deal with some UI and campaign system flaws – or if you're looking for some top notch tactical space battle action, I'd say pull the trigger on this one.
You might like this game if:
- You loved Homeworld or other games like it
- You can't get enough of Battlestar Galactica space combat
- Cylons hacking your ships with red laser beams sounds like a problem you need to have
- You like or need games that let you play with one hand (no keyboard needed here!)
You might NOT like this game if:
- The main thing you like about Battlestar Galactica is the "who's a Cylon?" intrigue
- You're really looking forward to an extremely polished campaign system
- You're looking for a detailed simulator with named Viper pilots and the like
- Feeling the need to save all the time annoys you
Disclosure: Matt has played about 25 hours of BSG:D. He received a free Steam key for the purposes of this review. Matt plays on a custom-built PC which has an Intel i7-6700K, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and an MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.


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Israeli strikes in Syria to continue despite S-300 delivery, Netanyahu says
Zionist regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed Russian officials that the Tel Aviv will continue to hit targets inside Syria, irrespective of Moscow's decision to deliver advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to the Damascus government.
According to Press TV, speaking at a press conference in al-Quds on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he had told Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov that Israel would continue to fight what he charged as Iran's attempts to deepen its military presence in Syria and transfer weapons to the fighters of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.
The Israeli prime minister added that he believed that the current dispute between Moscow and Tel Aviv over the recent downing of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of Syria's Western Province of Latakia would be resolved.
"I think that with common sense and goodwill we can come to a solution that will allow the continuation of the good coordination between the Russian and Israeli militaries," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin soon to discuss coordination.
On October 3, Zionist regime's Minister for War Avigdor Lieberman expressed Tel Aviv's discontent over Russia's delivery of S-300 air defense systems to Syria, stressing the move will not deter the Israeli regime from military operations in the war-ravaged Arab country.
"I cannot say that we are pleased with the deployment of the S-300. However, this is the very topic where we have no way out. There is no way not to make decisions," he said.
Speaking at a Russian Security Council meeting chaired by Putin earlier this month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said his country had completed the delivery of an S-300 missile system to Syria, irrespective of Israeli authorities' strong opposition that it will pose a serious "challenge" to the Tel Aviv regime.
The Russian defense minister added that it will take three months to train Syrian specialists to use the S-300 air defense missile system.
Last month, Moscow vowed to bolster Syria's air defense capabilities by deploying the modern S-300 surface-to-air missile system to the Arab country.


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Spain wants to imbibe India's business management skills
One of the business school of spain is looking for tie ups with top business schools from India, reports M Rajendran.india Updated: Feb 09, 2007 19:41 IST
Spain is impressed with India. The economic reforms, the proliferation of information technology and business process outsourcing, the mushrooming of young tycoons - are all textbook material for the country's business schools. Literally.
Hardly surprising, then, that Spain is seeking to imbibe Indian business management skills. It wants to exploit the experience of India's corporate growth to give its own economy a much-needed boost.
As Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, the dean of Instituto de Empresa, a business school, says, Spain's economy too is dependent on the services sector. And the institute is looking for tie ups with top business schools from India.
"We are in advanced stage of discussions with a few big business schools in India and should announce the tie up soon,¨ de Onzono says, adding, ¨We are also planning to hire the professors from India, ideally to meet the demands of Europe to teach the specialised areas and to tailor certain courses.¨
The Instituto de Empresa is the top Business School in Spain and, according to a recent study, ranked fifth in EU.
It churns out about 1,600 business graduates every year.
De Onzono reckons India would be called to play a leading role in Asia, as the entrepreneurial talent there has a good blend of Western and Eastern cultures and thinking.
He feels that ¨India is also a bridge between Europe and Asia, while Spain plays a similar role between Europe and Latin America. We are exploring opportunities for trade research programmes with Indian entrepreneurs. The idea is to secure the technical experience form Indian entrepreneurs."
Interestingly, his institution has attracted more students this year from India than the last few years --- over 20 students as against 2-3 in 2004-5.
¨This is a good since we have been able to convince many of our Indian students to become professors in our institute or to outsource material for us; ¨ says Felix Valdivieso, director of communications at Instituto de Empresa.
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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Being surrounded by family and eating tons of delicious food makes for an all around wonderful day.
These "mashed potato" cupcakes are just the beginning- I have so much more to bake! I am thankful for so many things this year, but today I am particularly thankful that my sister has offered to help me get the last holiday order done. What are you thankful for?


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The Beirut Groove Collective kicked off their Superstar Sessions Series on Saturday with an evening of throbbing beats at the Interneon Studio on Yazbakieh Street.
The venue itself offers a peculiar open plan setting, with bass lines from tracks spun by Natalie Shooter and Christelle Franca rippling across the brightly colored brick walls and the entire room acting as one big dance floor. But as the crowd filled the space, any excess sound was sucked up by twisting bodies and fancy footwork.
To a backdrop of some fine visuals by Tarek Chemaly, DJs Brother Jackson, Heavy G and Ernesto played a combination of edgy funk and skin tight break beats, topped off with live vocals by Ed from FareeQ El Atrash.
DJ Lethal Skillz, who was very much the main course of the evening's matinee, took to the stage with the intention of blowing the crowd off their feet with an arsenal of punctuated beats. His set was accompanied by live trombone work by Tom Bone, who added layers of depth and innovative melodies to an already stand out performance.
The night ended as it had begun, with DJs STICKFIGGR and BGC keeping the groovers moving until they could groove or move no more. There was only question being asked by the time the crowd staggered back out onto to Yazbakieh street. When will we get to party like this again?


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My blog of yesterday was about Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles in the 1930's and 1940's. The market still exists, still thrives, just as I wrote about it THE PROVIDER. It was a tourist eye-full then, and an ear-full, and taste-fill, while simultaneously highly charging the olfactory sense. It has prevailed, located in the ground floor of the stately Homer Laughlin Building, which once housed an office for American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, forming the centerpiece of L.A.'s Historic Core District. But primarily it was/is spectacular for small businesses that entrepreneur-charged immigrants start, entry level businesses, as they set to work on their American Dream.
Since those days, Los Angeles built Farmers Market in the Fairfax area—an outdoor bizarre, another tourist landmark. And immigrants moved there.
Since then, the immigrant moved to having his own larger independent market. But when the American supermarket arrived in the 1950's, it left the immigrant independent market far behind. It largely replaced these neighborhood markets. But now in the new century, as the wheel turns, the neighborhood farmers market has sprouted up, be it only once a week. The charm it sets off, being outdoors, makes me conjure up the European Market Day in the public plaza where even the traveling barber came to town and set up his chair. We haven't made that much of a return, but maybe it will happen for children. And who exactly is running these neighborhood farmer markets? Immigrants.


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The revelation in the Guardian by the American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, that the US Government is in some way monitoring the internet usage of its citizens has caused a storm of protest.
Headlines suggested that the surveillance society envisaged by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four had finally come to pass and that nobody's privacy was safe in the internet age.
The truth, as the Foreign Secretary explained to the House of Commons, is rather less sensational. William Hague insisted that intercepting the content of any individual's communications in the UK requires a warrant signed personally by him or the Home Secretary.
He went on to say that a "partial and potentially misleading picture" is created by leaks of this kind, which can give rise to public concern and make the job of the security service even more challenging.
In the Commons I reminded MPs that our country's national security has relied for centuries on intercepting communications. The Spanish Armada was said to have been averted as much by the pen of Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, as by the Royal Navy.
What has changed is the nature of the communications being intercepted. I made these arguments in the Times in the week after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder on the streets of Woolwich.
Communications data is used in 95 per cent of all serious and organised crime investigations. It has also played a significant role in every major Security Service counter-terrorist operation over the last decade.
However, there is now a growing capability gap for our police and intelligence agencies in tracking criminal activity, because unlike landlines, communications records are not kept on social media like Facebook.
Of course, civil liberties must be protected, but that means putting in place the right safeguards, not dismissing contemporary realities. Our laws have always sought to achieve a proper balance between liberty and security; neither can trump the other.
Sir Robert Peel, faced strident opposition to his plans for creating the Metropolitan Police Force. Peel finally prevailed against those who thought his "blue devils" were an attack on freedom. "Liberty", he said, "does not consist in having your home robbed by organised gangs of thieves."
Law enforcement agencies haven't the slightest interest in the e-mails or web-browsing habits of law-abiding citizens. But they do need the ability, with proper authorisation, to monitor the communications of the most dangerous criminals.


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HIGHLIFE FOR LOWLIFES GUIDE TO COOKING: The Spirit of Massachusetts
When I was young, I spent a number of summers in Massachusetts with my family taking trips to Boston, Hyannis Port, Nantucket and Provincetown. I still have some extended family that live outside of Boston, but have not been out there in years.
Those trips are a nostalgic touchstone to my childhood in that bitter sweet good and bad way that time and age create and have often become a thing I daydream about. One of the clearest memories is always the food, which is a totally unique mix of flavors and ingredients that is so unique to that area.
We always frequented the same stops, over and over again on each trip, like a scheduled tour of sorts, so the places, towns, shops and restaurants my family visited are firmly etched into memory. I still have an old and battered copy of The Lobster Pot Cookbook from 1991, the classic cookbook you could (and probably still can) buy from the famous restaurant in Provincetown, a place we visited on every trip to the Cape, and the first place I ever tried Portuguese Kale Soup.
I recently spent quite a bit of time talking to and working with a colleague in the seafood industry who is originally from Massachusetts. We talked about a number of memorable things, but one of the things we talked about most was of course food. My friend is of Portuguese ancestry, and when I asked him "what is your favorite Portuguese food?" his immediate response was "Kale Soup". He told me how much he missed having it and how it was impossible to find here in New York. Coincidentally I had, in the past year, been making Caldo Verde on a semi-regular basis in the fall and winter and told him I would type up my recipe for him to try, and this column is a result of that promise.
This Bourdain-esq favorite takes all day to cook, 5-8 hours cooking time minimum, but is utter simplicity to prepare. I like to make it on those slow snow or rain days in the fall where you are trapped indoors. I usually get things started when I make my morning coffee, adding the different staged ingredients throughout the day, and generally just keeping an eye on it from time to time. The actual time it takes to physically prepare the ingredients adds up to about fifteen minutes of labor, spread out over the whole cooking process. Alternatively you can use a crock pot set up in the morning with all the ingredients combined at once and cook it low and slow, but for the ideal results it is best to take your time and go through the process with more traditional cooking methods. My version of this soup is simplified and basic. It relies on letting the cooking time coax out the flavors from the high quality but low cost ingredients.
Caldo Verde – Portuguese Kale Soup
You will need:
1lb Dry Great Northern Beans (Soaked overnight, drained and rinsed)
1lb+ Smoked Pork (Neck bones, Jowls, Hocks etc)
1lb+ Smoked Linguica or Chorizo Sausage or both (cut into chunks)
2 Large Bunches Kale (Stems removed, cut into strips and washed)
4-6 Potatoes such as Yukon Gold (Cleaned, Peeled and cut into a large dice)
1 Medium sized onion (Peeled, cut into small dice)
Red Pepper Flakes (to taste)
1 TBSP Sherry or Brandy
Salt and White Pepper (to taste)
1 pad of butter
In a large pot or Dutch oven place the beans, smoked pork, and a pinch of salt with 6+ cups water and bring to a boil (uncovered). Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.
Using a slotted spoon skim off and remove any foam that forms at the top of the water, repeating as necessary throughout the cooking process.
Add the Chorizo or Linguica along with the Kale and simmer another hour.
Add the potatoes, onion, red pepper flakes and Sherry/Brandy and simmer for at least another hour, adding more water as needed to keep all ingredients submerged. The longer the soup simmers, the better the results. Remove any bones/cartilage from the smoked pork (discard). Add the butter, salt and pepper to taste just before serving.
Serve hot with fresh Portuguese bread.
J.Nevadomski is an accomplished musician, artist, art director and gallery curator from Rochester NY. He has recorded with musicians from all over the world for his project "The Fragile Path" and is a veteran artist whose paintings have been featured in galleries, newspapers and exhibitions throughout Western NY. In 2012 he was the "artist guest of honor" at RocCon: Rochester's Anime, Sci-Fi and comic book convention. He is on the board of directors for Flower City Comic Con (FC3) serving as art director, is the resident curator for the art gallery at Bread & Water Theatre. He lives in the Park Ave area of Rochester, keeps a yearly urban vegetable garden and regularly cooks and hosts dinner parties for friends and colleagues.


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James Sterling, Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1977-1982.
Here again we are given a piece of architecture with an excerpt from its architect. In this case it is James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie, designed as a competition entry in 1977 and built in Stuttgart between 1979-1984. The excerpt from Stirling is strait forward and, whereas Charles Jencks's essay explains the hidden nuances of Post-Modern architectural theory, this paragraph summarizes it in the practical language of a practitioner.
To frame this excerpt and this work for you a little bit, in his 2002 book, A New Paradigm in Architecture: the Language of Post-Modernism, Jencks claims this work "epitomized the first stage of Post-Modernism in much the way the Ville Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion summarized early Modernism." For a review of the ideas below, obviously read the previous Jencks post.
"I hope this building will evoke an association of Museum and I'd like the visitor to feel it 'looks like a museum.' In its built details it may combine traditional and new elements though old elements are used in a modern way; for instance, the histrionic coving is not a cornice used throughout, but only defining the sculpture terraces. Similarly, there are assemblages of constructivist canopies which define a hierarchy of entrances… The axiality of the plan is frequently compromised, set piece rooms conjoin with the free plan and the public foot-path meanders either side of a central axis—thus the casually monumental is diminished by the deliberately informal... In addition to Representational and Abstract, this large complex I hope supports the Monumental and informal, also the Traditional and High Tech."
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The building is its idea; it communicates the collectively familiar image of its program. We first encountered the idea of a visual-mimetic collective awareness in Aldo Rossi (in his excerpt about the S. Cataldo Cemetery and in Vidler's discussion of Rossi's Trieste Admin Building). The monumentality of such a program is not only general, as we can see nearly specific quotations of Schinkel's Altes Museum in the plan.
This translation of visual associations to architecture is not only carried out on the large scale but on the scale of single detail elements, all of which work to communicate the purpose of each room and area of the museum. And this extremely literal legibility is carried out regardless of its conflict with other details and parts present. The conflicts make the whole rich, and in the language of Jencks we could say they are "resolved."
We also see, in this excerpt, how ideas like Vidler's typologies are acknowledged, broken down, and metabolized to further the composition. Specifically we see that in the play between circulation and axes, which are intentionally set at odds to create a wittier, if messier, architectural statement.


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FSTC Europe proudly participates in Aero Expo India 2017.
FSTC Europe now opens its first branch in India. Due to its Highly Sort out Demand in the Indian Market today and due to our enormous clientele in the Asian Region, we decided to bring our services closer to your homes.
Aviation World features FSTC Europe Dream team in the Cover Page of January February 2017 edition. More information regarding FSTC Europe in the issue's detailed article.
FSTC EUROPE and Pier Seven Aviation management have signed a Commercial Agreement for Aviation Training, on December 15, 2016 in Sharjah, UAE.
Statement of FSTC Europe's Chairman Capt. Kostas Katsikias in the latest FLYER TALK Newsletter, regarding the amendment of the new CAR implementation, issued by India DGCA.
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In what Department of Transportation officials called a very dangerous thing to do, some drivers were turning around and using the shoulder to drive the wrong way on 520 in an attempt to get off of the highway.<\blockquote>
Brilliant, people. Between that and people abandoning their cars, no wonder the bridge is closed.
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Good grief, where is my interobang symbol when I need it.
I think Merlin gets the point across nicely.


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Article By: Mike Peck
ECHL All-Star to join the IceHogsRockford, Ill.- Rockford IceHogs General Manager of Hockey Operations Al MacIsaac announced on Wednesday that the American Hockey League will sign defenseman Kenny MacAulay to a PTO. MacAulay was loaned to the IceHogs from the Fresno Falcons (ECHL). The 5-10 defenseman was named to this year's ECHL All-Star game played in Stockton, Cal. in January. MacAulay is currently skating in his rookie season with the Falcons and has appeared in all 43 of Fresno's games. The first year blue-liner has 4g-17a-21pts during his stint in Fresno with a plus/minus rating of +13. MacAulay skated the past three seasons collegiately at the University of Vermont. In his three seasons with the Catamounts, MacAulay totaled 11g-42a-52pts in 109 career college games. Prior to joining Fresno last fall, the Baddeck, Nova Scotia native attended Worcester Sharks (AHL) training camp. Weather permitting, MacAulay is expected to join the IceHogs in time for Thursday's game at the Rockford MetroCentre against the Manitoba Moose. Next Home Game: Thursday, Feb. 7 vs. Manitoba Moose. Game time is 7:05 p.m. The Hogs and Moose match-up for a fourth and final time this season when they face-off at the MetroCentre. The game was moved up two days from its originally scheduled date to accommodate a concert at the MetroCentre on Saturday.


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Thanks to everyone who came out to the Mill on Friday night and helped make the album release show a great success! We all had an amazing time. It meant a lot to have so many friends, family members, and fans supporting us.
A fall tour to promote the album is in the works. Stay tuned for the details…
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Hi friends this is Amjith i have an innova car hear i am going to give u a brief explanation about my INNOVA. STYLING,FIT&FINISH. In INNOVA from the front gril to the tail lamp it looks good and fited very nice and the finishing is too good. MUSIC SYSTEM. When u go on to the music system it comes whith a touch screen audio& video system u can insert dvd and watch movie on the system screen.It has a fm,am,aux,and usb port also bluetooth conectivity all this comes out whith a 4 speakers 2 in front and 2 in rear whiel u are in driving u dont have to wory about changing the songs cous u have a steering mounted audio control system u have a control buttons on the steering. AC EFFECTIVENESS. INNOVA has a automatic climate contorling ac with 4 vents on front and in back u have control button so if 2nd and 3rd row need ac hey can switch on the ac 2nd row has 2vent and 3rd row has two vents. BRAKES & STEERING FEEL. Braking is very perfct in this car when ur applaying break on the top speed for eg:140 the car responsos very well. when u go to the steering its very smooth and very essy to control u can take this car in a very small streets also. PICK-UP & POWER. This car comes whith a 2.5l disel engine whith102bhp u can rech 45to 50 on1st gear and 50 to 70 on 2nd and 70 to 100 on 3rd and 100 to 125 on 4th and 125 to 150+ on 5th gear as i have driven and driving till now. SEAT,SPACE & RIDER COMFORT. This car comes whith 3 row seats on the 1st row u have a driver and passenger seat it comes whith captain seat. 2nd and 3rd row comes like a sofa. on 1st row 2 person can sit and in 2nd row 3 person can sit and in 3rd row 3 person can sit so totaly 8 person can travel with very comfortably. FUEL EFFICIENCY. As i have a disel version i get 9 to 12 on city and 12 to 14 on highways. SAFETY. In safety INNOVA has a driver and pasenger air bags. and u have ABS, Global Outstanding Assessment, Load Sensing Proportion Valve. VALUE FOR MONEY. Yes truley its value for money insted of bying otehr breand u can get a innova. SALES & SERVICE. when i went to a toyota deler they explaind me all about innova and the sales was very good. after sale we need service in service they are dong a great job on toyota they call me for remambaring my service and they seat a time for service and they send a driver to my house and pickup the car and deliver it to me on my home.
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i have 4 system with a distance area of 115m how connect all the system in a LAN.
We need more info. Is the 115 m in one building or spread over two, or more, buildings?
Since the maximum segment length of Cat 5/5e/6 cable is 100 m, you're going to need to use wireless or perhaps a repeater. But, without more info, it's hard to say which way to go.
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Korean-American lawyer who joined Greenspoon as part of 2016 merger alleges bias followed a decades-long pattern at his prior firm.
A Korean-American attorney says in a new lawsuit that national law firm Greenspoon Marder LLP suddenly terminated him on 10 days' notice because of his race and national origin.
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The firing of Jun Chul Whang came just over two years after he joined Greenspoon as a shareholder and has left him 'with no job and diminished prospects,' Mr Whang alleges in his January 25 complaint. The lawyer told the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the bias was a continuation of mistreatment he was subjected to throughout his 24 years with New York litigation boutique Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP, which merged with Greenspoon in April 2016. He added JMF's all-white equity partnership took years longer to promote him than it did less-productive white lawyers.
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Mr Whang cited a specific occasion when local counsel on a legal matter in Poland asked that he not be named lead attorney on the case, which JMF acceded. The complaint states the Polish lawyer made clear the move was based on Mr Whang's ethnicity and JMF admitted to him it was discriminatory. The problem continuation on reorganisation following the merger, the complaint states, leading to Greenspoon's abrupt firing of Mr Whang as 'a conscious, measured decision' to favour the white lawyers in his practice group over him, in violation of federal and New York City anti-bias laws.


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POW! ZAP! BOOM! Super Hero Shoes!!
I made these custom kicks for my super hero loving 5-year-old niece, Tabitha, who is in a two man band with her Dad that she aptly named 'Tabitha and the X-Men.' Wolverine is second only to Daddy in her life, she even calls people (including her Mom) "Bub", just like Wolverine, he's her absolute favorite. Her other great love in life is Wonder Woman, she is a little girl after all.
She always looks for shoes with her favorite characters but "those shoes are for BOYS, Aunt Mandee"- that's where I come in.
Sister bought these white canvas mary janes at Target. They're perfect, just-girly-enough, simple and easy to draw on. I decorated them using a combination of paint markers and acrylic paint. The drawings are comletely water proof- they won't run, drip or fade.
And now Tabitha has her own custom, Wolverine & Wonder Woman girly super hero shoes. What more could a girl ask for?
Do you have your own hard to shop for tot that needs some custom kicks? Email me and let's see what we can come up with.
Do you have your own hard to shop for tot that needs some custom kicks? Email me and let's see what we can come up with.