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Exclusive A 'gold-standard' psychological support service has had to close after almost 25 years of supporting GPs suffering with stress and burnout after NHS England withdrew its funding last year.
A bid by GPs to keep open the service in Devon in Cornwall through an 'insurance' style funding model over the past year has had to be abandoned this month because the service was unviable.
GPs and other practitioners currently receiving support will see their treatment courses completed, but the scheme – which has helped more than 1,500 health professionals - is no longer accepting new cases.
The closure comes despite NHS chief executive Simon Stevens's pledge to expand specialist practitioner pastoral support services, like the London Practitioner Health Programme, in September last year.
Pulse revealed in January last year that NHS England was removing the funding for Devon and Cornwall's Specialist Psychological Support Service (SPSS), which was described by local leaders as a 'wilful destruction'.
The NHS England local area team said that it would be replaced with a generic needle stick and occupation health service from April 2015.
In response, local leaders initiated an insurance style scheme, which would cost GPs £150 to access mental health services. Devon Doctors – who took over operation of SPSS last year – said it hoped to be able to continue the scheme to 2017.
However, in a bulletin to local GPs on behalf of SPSS, Devon LMC medical secretary Dr Mark Sanford-Wood said that applications for the new insurance model had been 'meagre' and, as a result, would have to close this month.
Dr Sanford-Wood said: 'It is with huge sadness that I have to announce that as of 1st April 2016 the Specialist Psychological Support Service (SPSS) will cease to operate.'
'There is now a very significant concern in my mind regarding how we will help increasingly stressed dentists and GPs in the absence of such a service. In the first instance, if anyone is feeling in need of help, then the advice is to contact your local pastoral support network who will be able to signpost you to appropriate services.'
'For now though it falls to me to call time on 25 years of caring for the carers.'
NHS England is currently developing psychological support services to bolster the newly specified national GP occupational health service, but the GPC has warned that it may lead to other gold-standard services - such as the SPSS - being replaced by inferior services.
An NHS England spokesperson said: 'NHS England is committed to developing a programme of follow-up services to improve GPs' access to mental health support including combatting stress and burnout. We are working closely with others across the health service to scope this out, with a view to putting together a nationally available service by the end of the year.'
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The campaign has been credited with 'shifting the prevailing wind' on the issue and has secured support from NHS England chair Professor Malcolm Grant ahead of Simon Stevens's pledge last year.
But services like the SPSS are going under despite pledges of support, and research by Pulse shows that the need these services is higher than ever, with a study of 2,230 GPs revealing half were at high risk of burnout.
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To paraphrase the esteemed Professor Baker- General Practise has never had such a promising future. Therefore a logical conclusion would be that such a service will not be required shortly.
"The good times are coming,
There gonna be here pretty soon...
And I'm not just pitching pennies at the moon" to quote Mamma Cass.
Well this is only part of the governments plan to break doctors so the NHS collapses and it all can be privitised.
Makes perfect sense.
Stress out and cause existing docs to leave and import lower paid Indian doctors to run the new soon to be privitised system....
I don't see why the medical schools are not protesting more as they will be churning out graduates who are not suited to work in the UK's new health model.
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Service like this which only produced a small 'value for money' in the eyes of this government(particularly those of the Chancellor)would , without any surprise , GO. If things like sexual health, contraception , smoking cessation etc could not survive , this helping 1500 colleagues in 25 years service stands absolutely no chance .
But what is the meaning of this ? Sorry I kept quoting Immanuel Kant on treating persons as ends NOT manipulating them as means . If you read this statement in last week the finally arrived Equality Impact Assessment from DoH on the junior doctors' contract , it clearly admitted the contract would have adverse effect on female junior colleagues , particularly single mothers: ''any indirect adverse effect on women is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate end'' . Hence , these doctors are disposable , dispensible means as long as the law can be treated as an 'end'.
Bottom line is all medical colleagues in NHS are just toy soldiers in the eyes of this bunch of politicians : a PM who took 5 days before admitting a hypocrisy in a scandal where a double-standard is virtually unforgiven , a Chancellor who only cares about becoming the future PM but got himself well exposed ugly when the ex-welfare secretary stabbed him right in the back so hard that his presumably well organised budget and hence grand plan had now fragmented into pieces ,and of course, a health secretary who had developed an all time worst relationship with the medical profession in this country , wanting everybody to copy the 'Chinese way of working'.
Nigel, I totally understand where you come from when you described the two tribes : expansionist and reductionist but I am afraid it has gone beyond the argument how we can 'adapt' or ' work differently' : dealing with the devil with no virtue is a matter of war . Perhaps some may still not see the clear and present danger of this flag being burnt down.
Even Stevens admitted that for his 'charismatic' five year plan to work , it needed so many billions . When he was given the answer,'' you must be joking!'' by his big bosses , his response was obviously compromising and hence , 'adapting'.
As I said , try putting the mentality of either tribe into the equation of retaining and recruiting and see what you can get.
Never fancy a grand tour inside 10 Downing Street , give me a call if we are all to Occupy Downing Street and protest outside ......
Yes , call me angry , call me naive.......
'NHS England is committed to developing a programme of follow-up services to improve GPs' access to mental health support including combatting stress and burnout. We are working closely with others across the health service to scope this out, with a view to putting together a nationally available service by the end of the year.'
That just about sums up the nonsense for me.


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Like hot dogs? Well, that's probably because you're a cannibal.
With the exception of apple pie or maybe the KFC Double Down, it's hard to think of a food more "American" than hot dogs. Whether being served by the thousands at baseball stadiums or being grilled up at our 4th of July parties, hot dogs are the quintessential cuisine of this country, which really sheds some light on our current obesity epidemic (see also: the success of the KFC Double Down).
But perhaps more confounding than the hot dog's popularity here in America is its popularity in spite of the fact that we know next to nothing about what they're actually made from -- you know, aside from animal butts, which we seemingly have no problem with. Unfortunately for us, it turns out that a surprising amount of the mystery in America's favorite mystery meat, like soylent green before it, is people.
That's according to a recent study by Clear Food -- a company which "uses genomic technology to analyze the world's foods at a molecular level, ingredient by ingredient" -- at least. After rounding up 345 samples from 75 brands and 10 retailers, Clear Food found human DNA in 2% of the samples. Perhaps even more horrifying was the study's findings that human DNA was also present in 2/3rds of the vegetarian samples.
You heard it here first: We are all cannibals, but especially vegetarians.
Not only that, but Clear Food also found that nearly 15% of the hot dogs they tested faced "substitution" issues in some way, meaning that "chicken, beef, turkey, and lamb were found in products that were not supposed to contain those ingredients. Pork (was found) in 3% of the samples we tested. In most cases, pork found its way into chicken and turkey sausages."
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Perhaps more than any other cosmetic operation, the result of a face-lift operation depends on the judgement and experience of the surgeon. It is commonly believed that most face-lift surgeons don't gain the kind of experience necessary to perform the operation at the highest level until they have been in practice for at least 10 to 15 years. No amount of practice or education takes the place of experience.
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A ranger at Serra da Capivara national park, in Brazil's north-eastern Piaui region, was killed by hunters on 18 August. Edilson Aparecido dos Santos and two other colleagues were patrolling the park when they were ambushed by a group of four armed men who are believed to have been hunting in the park illegally. Dos Santos was killed in the shootout that followed, while the other two rangers were injured.
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In a separate incident in Mexico, Gabriel Ramos Olivera, a ranger at the Chacahua national park in Oaxaca, was shot and killed by suspected poachers. His body was found on the morning of 18 August. The 37-year-old biologist worked as a guard protecting the conservation area of the Chacahua lagoons, home to endangered leatherback turtles and crocodiles.
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Shane Warne is well-known by lovers of the cricket game all around the world. Yes, he even almost married Elizabeth Hurley. Warnie – as we call him in Australia – has had a colourful career largely due to the many scandals that have occurred off the cricket pitch. However whether it was sexting, taking banned drugs, or corruption Warnie has managed to keep his personal brand and reputation intact. He is an Aussie sporting legend after all.
Early this year, before secretly slipping out of Australia, bound for South Africa to star in a reality show aptly titled "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" (and picking up $2M for his efforts) Warnie shut down his charity, the Shane Warne Foundation, because it was the subject of a probe into its finances by the consumer watchdog here in Australia.
You see the Foundation had not been exactly truthful about the amount of its donations raised that were going to its supported charities. Well, technically they were open about the charities the Foundation supported, however, when the consumer watchdog started peeling back the layers, it found that between 2011 and 2013, only 16 cents out of every dollar raised was handed over to charities, increasing to 24 cents in every dollar between 2014 and 2015. There were many other breaches of trust that were found by the consumer watch dog, from annual reports for many years that were missing or incomplete to questionable administration practices.
So what's with all the fuss you say? So what if Warnie shut down his Foundation amidst such speculation. He is a high profile sports person, and here in Australia, we love our sporting heroes more than we care for our civic leaders, innovators, scientists, researchers, teachers, thinkers, change-makers, and artists. It is the "Aussie way" after all. His reputation will remain intact because his management team hired some smart PR people to do exactly that. Lucky Warnie.
But I want you to consider this for a moment.
What if it was 2025 and this scenario played out exactly as it has happened in 2016? Would Warnie's reputation have recovered? I'd hazard a guess and say probably not.
Okay, hard to think that this would actually happen. After all, he did publicly point the finger at his mum for his consumption of a banned substance (with reputation intact thanks very much and a mum that still talks to him), but stick with me on this.
Imagine it is 2025 and the dark days of centralised organisations owning your data and identity are a thing of the past and your reputation determines your level of engagement within different ecosystems, whether it be professionally (gig economy), socially (attention economy) or personal (share economy). You own your own data which is linked to your digital identity and the way you move through life is based on three elements: verification, trust and reputation.
Yep, Facebook, one of those centralised organisations, is no longer operating as we know it, and you, the Facebook user, (should you still be one), is paid by Facebook in cryptocurrency through micropayments to your digital wallet, linked to your digital identity, to allow advertising into your social feeds, because in this world your attention is an economic proposition for those still in the business of pushing content at you. Oh, and Facebook cannot collect any data about you anymore to be sold off to the highest bidder to monetise your content, behaviour or decision making.
Okay, I digress – I do get a bit excited about the prospect of this future and sometimes wish I could click my fingers and get there now.
Another important bit of the equation in this world is this thing called "blockchain".
Some of you are already aware of this technology as the fin-tech world is going silly over its possibilities to change the way the banking and finance sector operates because of this concept called a "distributed public ledger" and "smart contracts". At this point, it would be appropriate to publicly acknowledge Satoshi Nakamoto for inventing Bitcoin on 31 October 2008. Do a search in your favourite search engine and go down the rabbit hole – it is quite a story!
Anyway, whilst the fin-tech VCs and entrepreneurs are going gangbusters over blockchain, it got me thinking about how this technology could disrupt the human side of society to ensure that Foundations like Warnie's do the right thing, and the public knows for sure that these organisations are doing what they should be without the need of a "middleman" like a consumer watchdog and auditors having to check the books retrospectively, then only to find the damage has already been done.
In other words, what if blockchain technology could actually prevent a future Shane Warne Foundation from publicly imploding and finger pointing because of dodgy decision making and really bad management? How so, because all transactions would be verified on a distributed public ledger and confirmed by social contracts through trust. I reckon we need to think about how this scenario can become a reality sooner rather than later.
Imagine how the world could rethink institutional governance when it comes to the decentralised distribution of international aid, or how Foundations of the future could connect people and causes together in more meaningful and open ways because the idea of core elements of verification, trust and reputation is earned through one's actions and not because of one's status.
Lucky for me the good people at Backfeed are working on a social operating system for such scenarios to become that reality. According to co founder Matan Field the future is whereby one's identity will be defined by actions: "you are what you do".
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Go Spider-Man. Wall Crawling (Climbing) in KSO Vibram Five Fingers
By Justin on Feb 20, 2010 | In User Stories | 3 comments »
Here's Carl on using his Vibram Five Fingers KSOs to go wall climbing:
Took my VFF KSOs out on the rock wall at Everett vertical world! Just found one more use for them and saved some money at rentals.
They worked pretty well, especially since you could put your individual toes into cracks and crevices. The only issue I had was that the rock climbing shoes had a hard rubber sole that was like a platform, while the vibrams did whatever your foot did. The rock climbing shoes also had rubber up on the sides, while the VFFs only had them on the bottom.
I've had my VFFs for about 2 weeks now and I use them in kickboxing and running. People think they're awesome and ask where I got them. I think this may become the new hot thing in the nation!
My adjustment's been good. Normally I wear flip flops and whatnot, so it was easy to get theses babies on and go around in them. I don't have the trouble that most people do of putting them on and off. The only trouble I have is that they get cold easy, soak up water like a sponge, and stink after using them for a week.
Ah yes, the stink of KSO Vibram Five Fingers is the stuff of legends.
Glad you are putting your KSOs to such good use. Though they aren't rock climbing shoes, I'm sure the flexibility of Vibram Five Fingers will force your feet to be stronger on those holds! Keep it up — and keep washing your VFFs!


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Content is building up, below I take you through making corrections to Customer and Supplier transactions.
If you have started using Sage 200, having come from a Sage 50 background you should go into it as if you are learning a new piece of software. Because you are!!!!
If your company has out grown Sage 50 then Sage 200 is absolutely the natural system to move to. But just because it is written by Sage does not mean that it is going to be completely the same.
The look and feel are quite similar, for example the list views, process maps and dashboards were originally used in Sage 50. But though the general concepts are the same, functionality is different.
The most common question Sage 50 users ask me is "How do you do corrections in Sage 200?" The answer is that there is no "corrections" area. I tell people Sage 200 is an accountants dream, because it makes you correct things how an accountant would want. That is by manually correcting. This is either by entering an opposite type of transaction or a journal.
For example: If you enter an Invoice incorrectly, you would need to enter a Credit Note (that mirrors the invoice) and allocate the two together. If you enter a Journal, you would need to enter it again but with opposite postings.
In the Sales and Purchase Ledger there is some help in the form of the Reverse Transaction option. This allows you to select a unallocated transaction and select Reverse. The system will enter the opposite transaction for you and also allocate it. Using the example above; you could select the Invoice and Sage 200 will create a Credit Note with the same details (date, value, nominal coding etc). Sage 200 will also allocate the Credit Note to the Invoice.
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Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology – What Does the Future of Digital Economies Look Like?
Digital currencies like Bitcoin have been making headlines for years. Before, few people were truly interested in the technology and even fewer understood exactly how it worked. Now, however, more and more people are becoming interested not only in bitcoins but also in the technology behind them.
Bitcoin and blockchain technology are simpler than you might think
Though words and phrases like bitcoin, bitcoin mining, and cryptocurrencies are circulating all around the Internet. There are still many people who have no idea about what any of those mean.
To put it very simply, bitcoin is a digital currency whose exchange processes are protected and secured through cryptography. A method that also protects and controls any new unit added to the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin is one of the very few cryptocurrencies which is completely decentralized, meaning that there is no single entity that controls or manages it. It uses a peer-to-peer system where transactions take place directly between users.
To protect all of those transactions, a public digital ledger is put in place. This is what is called the blockchain. Blockchain technology, however, is not limited to bitcoins.
This publicly accessible ledger is simultaneously distributed among hundreds of thousands or even millions of users. It can record practically any transaction. Any single item that needs to be recorded and verified can be included and checked against the blockchain, opening the door for a myriad of different applications.
"Bitcoin Wiki with it's difficulty"
Getting bitcoins can be great, except when it isn't
In the early days of bitcoins, acquiring multiple units of the digital currency was quite easy. As is the case now, users could either purchase bitcoins or turn to mining instead. Bitcoin mining is basically the process through which transactions are verified and added to the blockchain.
Participating in such processes require nothing else than a computer and an Internet connection, at least in theory. In the early days, any standard PC had enough computational power to complete such processes. Which includes compiling transactions into blocks and solving difficult computational "puzzles" in order to place the blocks in order into the blockchain.
There is a lot more involved, of course, but that is the basic processes which is performed automatically. The point here is that successful mining equals bitcoin rewards. The more people mining, however, the less profitable the reward.
Today, the only way to profitably generate bitcoin is through specialized hardware. Such hardware is not only extremely costly but they also require quite a lot of energy. So only the newest models in places with cheap electricity costs can generate adequate revenue compared to the associated costs.
"Antoine Tardif, CEO of BitcoinMining states that Unless you live in a jurisdiction with a low cost of power such as Iceland or Norway, the most efficient way to mine bitcoins and other crypto-currencies is by using bitcoin cloud mining services."
Bitcoins are fine and all, but what about the blockchain?
Now that bitcoins have become an almost mundane concept, many people have turned their attention the technology behind them. The blockchain may have originally been used for bitcoins only but it is now being adapted for many other uses and heralded as the future of digital transactions.
The blockchain, which can provide a constant and continuous record of virtually anything that can or should be recorded and verified, is attractive for multiple reasons. Including the fact that everyone can have access to it at any time, making it instantly verifiable and transparent.
Another aspect that is incredibly important for digital transactions is that the blockchain cannot be modified in any way except to add more blocks onto it. More than that, attacking or hacking it is practically impossible because hackers would have to simultaneously get access to all copies across the entire network.
As the name suggests, blockchains are made of independent records which are grouped together in "blocks". Only when each copy is properly encrypted and only when all computers in the network can verify each block does the blockchain get updated with a unique digital signature for everything.
Documents and financial transactions could finally be transparent
There are hundreds of different potentials uses for bitcoins and the blockchain but some of them are more feasible than others. For instance, banks are now considering employing blockchain technology to share data using a specialized version of the blockchain.
If they do manage to establish such a system, governments and financial regulation agencies would also have a much easier time battling things like financial fraud while each process would become much faster and efficient.
Another interesting example resides in the auditing of the supply chain. For example, ethical diamonds could be registered and verified in the network so that so-called "blood diamonds" would be forced out of the market if they could not be digitally verified.
So, are these technologies the future?
With any new technology, there is always a real risk of becoming too excited about its potential uses and losing track of its actual usefulness in real-world settings. Even though it is still early days for bitcoins and the blockchain, however, their potential is very real.
Major financial institutions and even governments are strongly considering adopting such technologies for a variety of uses. Established and emerging markets may fare much better with the introduction of a decentralized, transparent ledger system, and end users will also benefit in the end.
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Prophecy/Spellbook - Discussion
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Donnie's topic in Deck Discussion ArchivesAnd this is a problem why? Like Lauren said, crescent seems terrible in theory-oh, actually good in practice. If you're drawing twice per turn with inf cards in hand who cares if it is dead lategame? I remember suggesting the card before for that reason, and even suggesting heliosphere for those reasons and getting negged to high hell, what changed? I still stand by the fact that my original strategy for the deck has been what everyone has morphed their builds into and that is: Run a low amount of monsters and little to no traps, clear through the deck so that all that is left is spellbooks, and recycle them in combos. Back when Empress was a viable option because we didn't have cards like judgment, the strategy stayed similar on my part at least. Crescent seems like it's a good open, but heliosphere is like a themed duality that can turn into a stupid easy +1 late game, or even early to mid game if you manage to pull off a strong judgment play.
Prophecy/Spellbook - Discussion
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Donnie's topic in Deck Discussion ArchivesThis thread is just making me angry. Need to test out the meta to decide how I want to build this. From what I've been exposed to, getting around big dragons that never go away is a big issue, and Kycoo is a big solution. From there, that EEV card wrecks us in g2 and g3, so there needs to be a contingency plan for that. I imagine creating a build that sides into traps. I am failing to see the utility in crescent, perhaps I am missing the easy way of getting it in the GY to copy with Master, or are we really talking about running a card with the sole intention of it being good if and only if we open it?
Marsh-I-OH! aka Marshall Balla's homebrew YGO Redux
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General GroundzI was actually considering this, rituals can be all kinds of crazy under these mechanics. Probably a bad choice of words.
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Marsh-I-OH! aka Marshall Balla's homebrew YGO Redux
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General GroundzI have a 3 day weekend starting Friday, expect results.
Marsh-I-OH! aka Marshall Balla's homebrew YGO Redux
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General GroundzYes is the short answer. And 100 cards may not be enough, as stated. I'm 100% open to suggestions at this point. YVD with a custom set was my plan for a playtest. Spell and Trap subtypes are very much a factor, in the table top games I have been playing there are different kinds of spells and traps that the characters and monster in game react to, and after seeing that parallel it became clear to me that YGO was an interesting reincarnation of that. Considering a card with this kind of design: Quicken Spell Quick-Play Spell Chain to this card a Spell card with Spell Speed 1; its effect is treated as a Spell Speed 2. The way spells interact with the game should be completely different from the way traps do.
Marsh-I-OH! aka Marshall Balla's homebrew YGO Redux
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General GroundzThe goal was to put our heads together to avoid that. Actually devise different strategies for different card types, OP was just spitballing ideas for how it could work.
Marsh-I-OH! aka Marshall Balla's homebrew YGO Redux
hipster_marshmallow101 posted a topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General GroundzSo I was looking at the way the game has been over the past few years, and for nostalgia's sake I rewatched a couple of old episodes of the original cartoon and I thought to myself about the mysticism and depth that the game seemed to have, that really turned into a lot of bad things over the course of the past decade+. And the, I thought to myself: "what if yugioh started over?" I decided to start playing with some ideas about how certain mechanics work and about how card design was basically forced to evolve for the sake of maintaining balance. And it occurred to me that it would be a neat idea to try and come up with my own incarnation of the game with homebrewed cards, that used the base rule set, but followed some guidelines that we didn't realize were important until it was already too late. Things to consider: 1) Resources need to matter. 2) Cards need congruence to function together. 3) Too much congruence leads to cookie cutter decks. 4) Niche mechanics are bad, and once they get hit by the banlist they disappear. 5) Too many things don't get used because of reasons 2-4. Re experiencing the first season of yugioh there were a lot of ideas around that never seemed to actually happen because the game took things out of context and had a lot more fluff for the purpose of story telling. So rather than try and incorporate that, the game evolved and just ignored it. Things like machines being resistant to magic, dinosaurs being weak to fire, and other such things that had actually affected the games, but never got explained. I have also recently been doing a lot of other table topping, mainly with RPGs, and I notices a lot of parallels between the way card games get played and the way other games get played. There are tier systems, there are niches, there are mechanics and rules. Taking those ideas and doing a yugioh Redux became a much more interesting idea than some crazy lopsided light bulb above my head one night when I was drunk. Things in the game that are good and should be kept: 1) Card Types, the front row and the back row. 2) Summoning Mechanics and levels. 3) Resources being important, i.e. card advantage. Things that should change: 1) Availability of power cards. 2) Reliance on luck. 3) Speed granted by power cards. 4) No cards should be considered worthless and ignored. First, the main thing to note is that starting out, assume no cards exist, and that we (I) are making a core set based on some very simple principals. Power has a cost, and advantage matters. We can skip creating filler cards, and create a rule set that our designs fit into. Games still start at 8000, you still draw 5 cards, you still have a draw phase, standby phase, main phase etc. Card varieties will remain the same, but there will be different ways of handling them. The main difference is bringing in the rules about Summoning Sickness and Special Summons. Other things have to do with making certain mechanics viable (such as generic fusions) and designing the cards around basic ideas about the way the mechanics should work. Looking at changes: Monster cards Still, there are two types of monster cards that exist in the players deck: Normal Monsters, and Effect Monsters. As a general rule, normal monsters will have more power than effect monsters, but effect monsters will have more uses as far as strategy goes. Fusion Monsters and mechanics will change slightly. Fusions were played off as being super powerful and amazing ways to create super monsters that beat all kinds of ass. I want to keep that, make them matter. The only real way to do that is make fusions more attractive to competitive minded players i.e. they shouldn't waste advantage, and thus we have my first homebrew card: Fusion Normal Spell Banish from your hand, side of the field, or Graveyard, materials listed on a Fusion Monster Card in your Extra Deck; Special Summon that monster. Essentially, all fusions will work like Miracle Fusion, but making them easier to summon means we need to balance them. As a rule of thumb, since Fusions will be easier to bust out than pretty much all other extra deck monsters (advantage wise) they should lack utility. Thus, most fusion monsters will be treated like the Normal Monsters of the Extra Deck, that is, most won't have effects. They also need to be flexible. They won't have specific materials, most of them will just require monsters of different types. E.G. 1 Spellcaster + 1 Warrior, or 2 Dragons, etc. Synchro Monsters require specific kinds of monsters (tuners) and they require the materials to already be on the field, thus they will be like the Effect Monsters of the Extra Deck. We will see monsters with cool effects, but less power stat-wise. XYZ monsters are super easy to summon, but their effects run out of gas very quickly. These cards will have the bomb effects that would be game breaking if you could use them more than once or twice. Ritual Monsters originally were the baddest of asses, and broke games in the original series. Their mechanics make them damn near unplayable in the competitive game unless the deck is specifically built for it. One of the main reasons is because of the need for pieces. Ritual Monsters will change the most, and will be held in the Extra Deck. They will be bosses, still difficult to summon, but worth it. Where fusions can use their materials from anywhere but the deck, rituals will require monsters on the field, but you will only need to draw the Ritual Spell Card appropriate for the card you want to summon. You can't just rip a Fusion off the top of the deck and drop a boss ritual, you need the correct ritual card to summon the ritual monster from your extra deck. Monsters themselves have types and attributes. The attributes will stay the same but we will see a reduction in the number of types, mainly because there are just so many that it becomes worthless to expand on them. Each type will have certain game play styles associated with them that should ideally create the feel of Machines are super powerful, but immune to magic, and Dinosaurs are extremely powerful. The types will have the mechanics attached to them, rather than creating archetypes for the cards that create silly niche mechanics like spell counters, bushido counters, cards with X in their name, etc. Attributes: Dark, Light, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Divine The same seven as we currently have. Types: Animal, Dragon, Elemental, Fairy, Fiend, Fish, God, Insect, Machine, Plant, Psychic, Reptilian, Spellcaster, Warrior, Undead A lot of types that get affected by the same card types (like cards that affect all Beast, Beast-Warrior, and Winged-Beast cards) get consolidated, because for the most part, all the same cards work on them anyway, and mechanically there's no real reason not to consider them the same thing. Beasts, Beast-Warriors, and Winged Beasts all become Animals. Aquas, Pyros, Tnunders, and Rocks all become Elementals. Divine Beasts and Creator Gods become Gods. Reptiles and Dinosaurs become Reptilians. Fish and Sea Serpents become Fish. And by doing this we take 23 different types of cards and consolidate them into 15, this makes design a lot easier since there no longer has to be 20 different kinds of decks that affect all the types, less they just end up being ignored and worthless, and cards that affect multiple types can now just affect one type. When we design the cards for the different types, rather than creating archetypes, the types should just have common themes that they follow, see: Psychics. That said, types shouldn't require you to play all cards of one type, but at the same time a player who wants to theme their deck shouldn't be punished for it, thus the power level of cards should remain about the same between the different types, even if their strategies are a little different. For example, Insect cards could all be weak, stat-wise, but still be able to be competitive because their effects allow you to gain advantage card wise, where a Dragon or a Reptilian will make a huge stat wall that you have to somehow get around. Spellcasters should have some sort of relationship with Spell Cards, rather than creating a spell counter system, or making you count the number of Spellbook Cards you play in a turn, they should interact with the spell cards directly. Consider my new incarnation of Breaker. Arcane Magus Level 4 1400/1000 Once per turn: banish one Spell card from you hand, side of the field, or Graveyard; Increase this card's ATK by 500. Once per turn: reduce this card's ATK by 500 and target one Back Row card on the field; Destroy that target. It's a powerful card, but it requires you to have resources. You have to already have had spell cards in the Graveyard to use its effect, or you have to be willing to give up one of your own card advantage to use. Most Spellcaster types should follow this trend of using Spells to use their effects. No longer do we see dumb effects like spell counters, or cards that require you to use Mermail this or a Gladiator Beast. The effects will all work together. Basically I'm saying no Archetypes. Changing the monsters is the biggest challenge of this endeavor, as it will take the most time to create mechanics that most types will adhere to. A simple look would be like: Animals: swarming the field with mediocre-powered monsters to not loose advantage Dragon: Big Bad Powerful Guys Elementals: varied by attribute, aquas will be water, pyros will be fire, rocks will be earth, and thunders will be wind. Expect the monarchs to all be this type. Fairy: Gaining LPs and outlasting your opponents attacks Fiend: Burning LPs but easy to get rid of Fish: reliant on field cards to use powerful effects, like washing away opponents cards. God: ummm, god cards, probably won't introduce them in my core set. Insects: low offensive power, but uses effects to gain advantage Machines: moderate power and partial immunity to spells/traps Plants: creates a lot of tokens, and uses tributing monsters as costs for effects Psychics: uses the banish pile for varied effects, tends to do a lot of searching and toolboxing Reptilians: raw power for dinosaur type cards, raw annoyance for frog like cards Spellcasters: uses spell cards to determine their effects Warriors: varied effects, often about increasing ATK or DEF Undead: bringing things back from the graveyard, a lot Typically power should have a cost, that is, boss monsters will no longer exist in their current form. No JD like cards will exist here, and if they do, they will be Ritual Monsters and by default, the most difficult to summon. Spell Cards: Spells are utility cards, they will work very much the same way they do now, but with some common restrictions: Power sweeps and removal will prevent attacking and won't be worth playing multiple copies of. Regular removal will never lead to positive advantage. Buffs will matter. Draw and Search power will have measures to slow things down. Special Summoning will always have a drawback. Trap Cards: Trap Cards will also work very similarly to how they are now. Counter traps will be useful, but not overpowered. Removal and mass removal will be limited. Powerful continuous effects will have maintenance costs. I'm looking to create a core set of 100 cards, preferably with the idea that it is 100% draftable. Expect a lot of powered down recreations of staple cards, and not a lot of useless filler cards, every card will be worth looking at for various reasons. Anyone like this idea or am I crazy? #PharoahSignal #SummonPennington #Ireallyneedtogetlaid
State of the game?
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! Theory and PhilosophyWhat are staples? I do still own cards, and some shinies too.
State of the game?
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to hipster_marshmallow101's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! Theory and PhilosophyI love that this post answered every question I have.
State of the game?
hipster_marshmallow101 posted a topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! Theory and PhilosophyI haven't seen one of these threads in a while, and it definitely isn't updated. Been out for a while, looking to come back, what does the tier list look like? Important side options for countering the meta? The really bad niche card that people for some reason think is good and you have to account for even though it sucks? I want to get back into competitive shape before nats if possible.
favourite pokemon type?
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Grimey's topic in General + Video GamesI'm stuck between dragon and electric.
kycoo the ghost destroyer
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Cee's topic in Single Card DiscussionY'all are behind, this card has been good since Ronintoadin was a thing.
Tenchi Muyo (Which ones are the best/what order should I watch/ which
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Indignation's topic in AnimeThe original 13, and its sequel that got released years later are the best ones, for a total of 20 episodes. That said, the dub on the second part features Mona Marshall as Ryoko, and she butchers it imo. Universe is on par, and is its own complete story and is really good. I have yet to watch through GXP.
Prophecy/Spellbook - Discussion
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Donnie's topic in Deck Discussion ArchivesOkay, so... am I coming back? In time for nats? Gonna make this deck? Don't need to learn the meta to win? yup
World of Prophecy - A Tout Le Monde
hipster_marshmallow101 replied to Digbick's topic in Single Card Discussionthis cards existence is 100% my fault. It is all because I left the game, had I stuck around and still insisted on making spellcasters good, Prophecy would never have happened. DGZ I have failed you, my leaving the game was the catalyst that destroyed the game also someone pick up that phone, because i f*cking called it


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Factors to Consider When Looking For a Personal Injury Lawyer
When you are driving in another country, you will realize that the laws are different as well as the behaviors of other road users. Therefore, you will realize that other road users tend to harass the drivers that are foreign. Therefore, there are many benefits that are associated with hiring a qualified personal injury lawyer. Also, you should try to familiarize yourself with the road regulations of the country that you plan to visit. Therefore, you should ask for referrals when searching for a qualified personal injury lawyer for your case. You can ask for referrals from other people that have been involved in car accidents in the country that you want to travel to. You should not feel like you are supposed to hire the personal injury lawyer that is recommended to you by your friend but instead ensure that you do further research on the services of the professionals so that you can be sure that they will meet all your needs.
What is more, make sure that you ask to look at the insurance certificate of the personal injury lawyers that you are investigating so that you can ensure that it is valid. Thus, ensure that you avoid the personal injury lawyers that are based in a different town. In addition, there are some personal injury lawyers that offer their consultation services at a fee while others offer the same services for free and hence you should contact your prospective personal injury lawyers in advance so that you can confirm. You should also interview the lawyers that you are sure will offer high quality services so that you can avoid wasting your time. You should pay attention to the way that your potential personal injury lawyers answer your questions since that will show you their level of communication. What is more, you should choose a personal injury lawyer that you can easily connect with and the one that you can comfortably trust.
It is important that you request for names of former customers so that you can determine the kind of service that you should expect. Another element that you ought to consider when searching for a personal injury lawyer is the specialization of the professional. That demonstrates that it is important that you pick the lawyer that you will be able to work with for many years and the one that will not disappoint you in any way. Thus, you should not be tempted to hire the personal injury lawyer that has the lowest prices since he might be trying to lure you into his company and then introduce other expenses.


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Mentoring is so important in a child's life that Hillcrest has been devoted to mentoring programs for more than 25 years. Research is conclusive that children who are mentored perform better in school, they are less likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, and they have healthier relationships with their families. That's where Mentor Dubuque steps in. Pairing adult volunteers with boys and girls ages 5-15, and sharing activities they mutually enjoy, builds character, understanding and stronger communities. As part of the Hillcrest Culture of Results, Mentor Dubuque is making the area better, one mentor and one child at a time.
Mentor Dubuque Services Include
There are many children in need of a mentor and becoming a volunteer mentor is easy. All you need to do is contact us at (563) 845-0768 for an application or click here to leave your information. After that, there will be an interview, reference and background checks, and training. Our matches are made based on similar interests, personalities and preferences.
If you have a child that can benefit from mentoring, contact us at (563) 845-0768 or click here to leave your information and we will help you through the enrollment process. Mentees must live in Dubuque or Jackson Counties.
Bowl Dubuque for Mentor Dubuque is our largest annual fundraiser. This event raises over half of the annual budget for Mentor Dubuque. Students who regularly meet with a mentor are 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of school and less likely to use drugs or alcohol. YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT ON DUBUQUE AREA YOUTH AND FAMILIES.
This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to cancel the Bowl Dubuque event. Please consider making a donation on our donate section of this website.
Looking for low-cost or no-cost happenings around town? As we find match-friendly activities, we will add them to this calendar, so check back often.
Amanda and Tracy were matched almost two years ago when Amanda was only 7 years old. Amanda fondly remembers the very first outing in which they went bowling. Tracy and Amanda meet every few weeks and Amanda loves everything they do no matter what it is. She states that, "It could have been my least favorite thing to do at home but I still like to do it." When Tracy was a child she had a mentor herself and really enjoyed the experience. She became a mentor to pay it forward and to positively impact a child's life and to help them explore the world. Tracy has indeed made a positive impact in Amanda's life. Tracy has noticed Amanda is beginning to get over her fears and others in Amanda's life have noticed Amanda is more outgoing. After a mere two years this match relationship has grown so much, one can only imagine the other impacts Tracy will have in the years to come as Amanda's mentor. Stories like this from Mentor Dubuque where mentors are supporting youth and youth are supporting their mentors is truly part of Hillcrest's Culture of Results.
Achieving Maximum Potential, AMP, is a youth-driven, statewide group that seeks to unleash the full potential for personal growth among foster and adoptive children in Iowa. The facilitator assists the meeting in Dubuque of teens who are or ever have been in out of home placements meet at least monthly. AMP offers leadership opportunities, service learning projects, speaking opportunities, and educational/vocational assistance. AMP also provides the life skills youth need to become self-sufficient, independent adults.
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Babyshambles made a surprise appearance at Club NME last night (February 10).
Pete Doherty's band played an unbilled slot at London venue Koko, entertaining fans with a set that lasted for over an hour.
There were rumours ahead of the night that surprise guests would make an appearance during the night, following Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's ShockWaves NME Awards 2006 show.
And following a set by Battle, Pete Doherty's band took the stage at 1.30am to rapturous applause.
Playing at songs including 'Pipe Down', 'Fuck Forever', 'Stix And Stones' and 'Back For The Dead', Doherty, wearing a train driver's cap, led his band through a brisk set.
Joined by Adam Fieck on drums and Drew McConnell – sporting a set of rosary beads similar to those worn by Doherty during his sentencing hearing at Ealing Magistrates Court on February 8 – on bass, the three-piece were joined by two guests.
The General joined the band for 'Down In Albion' track 'Pentonville', before McConnell asked "Is Wolfman in the house?" during the encore.
Doherty's old collaborator promptly appeared on stage for a version of 'For Lovers' and 'Wolfman'.
As previously reported, the band have rescheduled the three dates that were postponed when Doherty was held on remand, as well as adding several new shows to the tour.


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Temporary tattoos aren't just for style anymore. Scientists have developed a new wearable sensor that looks and feels like a henna tattoo but can monitor electrical muscle activity and body temperature, too.
In a paper published Monday in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers described a new ultrathin, lightweight, breathable sensor constructed from nanoscale mesh, a spaghetti-like entanglement of fibers a thousand times thinner than a human hair. It can monitor vital signals over a long period of time without inflaming or irritating skin, a side effect of many current devices.
"We succeeded in completely removing the discomfort of wear," said Takao Someya, a co-author of the paper and professor in the University of Tokyo's Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems. "People cannot even feel the existence of our devices on their skin."
Existing wearable electronics are often made from a form of polyester or rubber sheets, which get good readings, but don't allow enough air to pass through. They prevent sweating and often cause itchiness, redness or other irritation, making them unsuitable for long-term use.
Researchers say the new nanomesh device can theoretically be worn for a week or longer without such problems. The drawback is that it can be rubbed off with water, so in reality, it will need to be replaced after every shower or bath.
There is a trade-off between how comfortable the device is and its durability, Dr. Someya said, adding that this is an area of future research.
The device is made from nanoscale meshes containing a water-soluble polymer called polyvinyl alcohol and a layer of gold. It can be applied similarly to children's temporary tattoos. Just spritz water on it, dissolving nanofibers in the patch, and stick it to the skin. The device conforms to the varied textures of human skin, including sweat pores and fingerprint ridges, while still letting air in through tiny gaps.
The researchers used gold in the device for its durability and softness, Dr. Someya said, but it could be replaced with aluminum to be more cost effective.
In a test to see how much water vapor could pass through the material, the nanomesh proved more permeable than thin plastic foil or rubber sheet, the study shows. Twenty participants wore a patch of the nanomesh on their forearms for seven days and reported no inflammation.
The sensor can detect touch, temperature and pressure, and read the electrical activity of muscles just as reliably as conventional gel electrodes, the study says. The researchers hope the sensor will make it possible to monitor a patient's vital signs without discomfort, and athlete's physiological signals without impeding performance.
"We can see numerous potential applications in the medical field, also in sports and in people's welfare everywhere," Dr. Someya said.
But the sensor cannot accomplish these tasks alone. "It's not a full integrated electronic system," said John A. Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the study. It needs to be combined with a power source and devices to read and transfer the data. "It's a component of a broader system that could have utility."
The real benefit of this new sensor is its nanoscale and flexibility, which provides a more intimate skin interface, Dr. Rogers added. "What exists today is basically rigid blocks of electronics strapped to the wrist," he said. "You can't measure blood flow or blood pressure with that."
In the future, this new sensor could be used to monitor vital signals of pregnant women or patients undergoing physical rehabilitation at home, he said, or even capture muscle signals that can be used to control prosthetics.


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screen still dim after new inverter cable AND inverter board
Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.1GHz 13" White A1181
A few weeks ago the screen went dim on my MacBook. Could see the desktop, and shining a bright light onto it makes it evident it's still fully functional other than the screen. The screen still lit itself up sometimes, usually just for a few seconds.
So I bought an inverter cable. Disassembled the macbook by the instructions here at iFixit (such a very useful resource!). But it was worse. I could still light up the screen by shining a bright light ONTO IT. But it didn't have those few moments now and again where it lit itself up, except when I lowered the brightness to 0 and then STARTED to raise it again, there'd be a brief flash of illumination.
So I bought an inverter board. This brought it back to the former state, where the screen is dim but lights up only sometimes.
I took it to Microcenter, bought a VGA adaptor cable and asked the repair person there if he wouldn't let me hook it up to a screen just momentarily so I could see if my motherboard was the problem.
We hooked it up, and the macbook plus his monitor made a 2-screen setup. I saw my Dock and some icons on his screen, and I saw a second desktop on my macbook's screen. No dimness at all! He said "I'm not seeing a problem here." I said "I know! How disappointing!" Heh. So we figured "Must be cured."
But it was just like when you go to a doctor for some chronic pain, and while you're there the pain's gone and he doesn't see what your complaint is.
As soon as I got the MacBook home, it was back to a dim screen. I can make it illuminate sometimes by just slamming the top shut and opening it. Or by dickering with the brightness control.
I don't know what else it is. Maybe the inverter board had the same problem as the old?
Why did it light up with no issues for several minutes while connected to an external monitor? Maybe because I'd been driving about in the cold and something that was loose "jiggled" for those few minutes into place, and then jiggled loose again when I drove the computer home?
I'm thinking of buying the whole top unit, LCD and frame and all, with the inverter board and inverter cables AND THE OTHER CABLES in it. I'm thinking there's still some cable issue.
Any and all advice is welcome! Thank you!
Cette question est-elle utile ?
Thanks for the input.
I've reset the PRAM and SCU. (To reset the SCU is to remove the power cord and battery then hold the power button for five seconds, right?). No effect.
Is there a picture of what I'm trying to bridge to power the thing on while the topcase is off? I want to be very sure I'm touching the right parts together...
Microcenter had a refurbished white MacBook like mine for $500. I'm thinking if I'm looking at replacing one thing after another to get this machine working, I might save myself some grief just replacing it altogether... I've had this apart and back together 3 times already. Once for the inverter cable, once for the inverter board, then the night I saw it working well at Microcenter, I thought I'd tear it down again to make sure all the connections were secure.
I added a picture to my answer. Your board won't be red, but it will looks something like this between the optical connector and fan...you'll see a power symbol with two pads in the general area shown. Give it a few tries if necessary, because it can be tricky to successfully trigger the pads. $500 is a little high for an A1181...I'd pay a few hundred more and get a 13" MBP from the Apple refurb page.
Also, try booting into option mode (hold the option key down while powering on) and target mode (hold down "t" while powering on). If this screen does not light up when you go into these modes, then that rules out the operating system.
Jumpstarted it on the motherboard with no topcase attached -> no backlight.
Then also disconnected the battery connector/sleep sensor -> no backlight.
While it was still powered, I used the eraser of a pencil to drum about the relevant connections, and still no backlight.
So I don't know if I should be considering a new motherboard or a new screen unit (or a new computer ;-) ). It's still in pieces now, so if there are other connections I can test while it's open then now's the time.
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Chris, see my comment below. Thanks


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"Generally speaking those who have bad things to say about others should not be on this website"
Ok, let's see here. It's alright to give credit, where credit is due, but on the other hand, it's not cool to give rebuke where rebuke is due?
Its fine to give someone good feedback when they do the right thing, but your supposed to keep your mouth shut when someone sticks it to ya? That's a liberal's view and I ain't no stinkin' liberal.
I bought 2 small wires off Travis on eBay. He knowingly charged me $6 to ship the 2 little wires (USPS Parcel Post)The envelope cost $2 to ship. I got screwed outta $4.
Is that honest? NOPE!!!!
I bought 2 crank pins from Jim's. The charged me $17 to ship them. They weighed 5 oz., including the padded envelope. First Class Mail cost $2.50.I got screwed outta $14.50. Is that straight out THEIVERY? You bet it is.
I bought a crank pin from Alan, He charged me $10 to ship it after charging me $50 for it to begin with.I got screwed outta $4.05 of my shipping dough.
Some folks get tired of getting screwed and blow the trumpet to warn others, then they get looked down on. That's a crock 'o crap.
If someone doesn't like a part I sell them, send it back.
I'll give ya a full refund. No questions asked. I am more than happy to email ya as many close up pictures as ya like, UPFRONT, to avoid that exact situation.
I get screwed on shipping things to folks sometimes. But when I quote someone a price, I stick to it. If I lose money, tough, I shouldn't have been lazy as to not package it up and run it to the PO or UPS and actually have it weighed and get an honest quote. If I am selling parts to make some dough, then that's part of the job, NOT A ADDED EXPENSE.
I don't whine about losing the few bucks,I just consider it to be a lesson learned at MY OWN EXPENSE.
What's this freakin' world coming to, when bad is good and good is bad. It makes me wanna puke.
It's much easier to just take your medicine when ya deserve it, and just like y'all's mammy told yall, "
don't whine about, just apologize and get over it"
Folks can blacklist me from buying from them off eBay (you know who ya are. hee hee) or something from their business, it don't matter to me, but I will continue to spill the beans.
I'd rather do without the part than to get ripped off over and over by folks that won't do the right thing no matter how many folks they cheat. That just makes it where I have to bite the bullet and manufacture the parts myself, but atleast I will have them in stock then.
I have dealt will Travis for several years and always found him friendly, honest and fair. Many of us would not have NOS parts on our bikes if he had not bought out Harley dealership years ago. Elroy, if you put it in print you need to know the facts or just keep it to yourself.
I have had the pleasure of dealing with Travis Scott for years and always found him to be honest and very fair! As said in the posting I am answering he has supplied many parts and bikes to all kinds of satisfied people. Generally speaking those who have bad things to say about others should not be on this website, I have had a couple take a cheap shot at me and best to consider who they are and that tells alot about the person! There are so many good people in the hummer family and there are always those who feel they have been slighted! My Hat is off to those like Travis Scott, Duane Taylor, Alan Lyons, Richard Duda, Stan Waite, and Jim's Harley in Mendon Ohio just to name a few of the creditable contributors to this hobby!


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Pakistan Vs West Indies World Cup 2015 prediction
A very interesting match between West Indies and Pakistan is going to be held on 21st Feb 2015.
Pakistan had already lost to India. This time they are playing against another warrior in the world cup.
Key players in the match for Pakistan are
Misbah-ul-Haq*, Ahmed Shehzad, Ehsan Adil, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Rahat Ali, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Khan, Umar Akmal†, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Younis Khan
Key Players in West Indies
JO Holder*, MN Samuels, SJ Benn, DM Bravo, JL Carter, SS Cottrell, CH Gayle, NO Miller, D Ramdin†, KAJ Roach, AD Russell, DJG Sammy, LMP Simmons, DR Smith, JE Taylor
Pakistan may win the match. By Dipti Prasad Padhi
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By Brett Line, National Geographic News
The tweets poured in after news broke Wednesday that a group called Inspiration Mars is planning to send a couple to fly by the red planet. The couple would spend 501 days in space before returning home. The mission, slated for 2018, is being funded by multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist.
Many tweets on Thursday expressed humor at the idea of a married couple going to space for 501 straight days (we examined the psychological challenges here):
A man and a woman. Going to Mars. A year and a half in a capsule. Coronal Mass Ejections are the least of their worries. #inspirationmars
— Ian Sample (@iansample) February 27, 2013
#InspirationMars seeking committed couples for a 501 day round trip to #Mars and back. No stopping for directions!
— Miles O'Brien (@milesobrien) February 27, 2013
Any volunteers? Married couple to go to Mars. My husband and I struggled with 10 days in a Eurocamp caravan! soc.li/wkWMKwf
— Mad Science(@MadScienceNW) February 27, 2013
Multimillionaire to fund weirdest date EVERhuff.to/13oahcB
— HuffPostBiz (@HuffPostBiz) February 27, 2013
Some on Twitter felt like the mission would be a tremendous bore.
Gosh, I hope that the astronauts on the 501-day long #InspirationMars mission can get Netflix.
— Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) February 27, 2013
Plenty of tweets expressed doubts about the worth and feasibility of the mission:
Problem with #InspirationMars mission is that it's pointless. Put a field geologist on ground? Yes! Fly-by? @brianvastag
— Joel Achenbach (@JoelAchenbach) February 27, 2013
Experts say human #Mars fly-by in 2018 is feasible. "But do these guys have $1 billion?" They apparently do not. wapo.st/YzvpXU
— Brian Vastag (@brianvastag) February 27, 2013
But the mission captivated dreamers of all ages:
A 6-year-old boy sent a $10 donation, calling this mission "my Apollo." #InspirationMars
— CNN Light Years (@CNNLightYears) February 27, 2013
And many others are hopeful:
Unlike space commerce co's that have flashed on recently #inspirationmars has substantial $$ behind it at the onset bit.ly/YZGy4b
— SpaceRef (@SpaceRef) February 27, 2013
Some even thought of other "firsts" for the mission:
If the crew going to orbit Mars decided to crash land on the planet would they still count as the first people on Mars? #InspirationMars
— Oli Revel (@RevelAlliance) February 27, 2013


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Intel has detailed its next generation Bay Trail mobile CPU at IDF. It is based on its new Silvermount architecture and according to Intel, the new Atom Z3000 delivers twice the CPU performance of the current CloverTrail chipset and has three times the graphical chops. Intel says that the implements come via the new 22nm manufacturing process thanks to its 3D transistor trigate technology that was first seen on the Ivy Bridge CPU.
Bay Trail has been designed from the ground up keeping tablets in mind. It will be offered in dual-core and quad-core versions and will support directX 11, OpenGL ES 3.0, HDMI 1.4, DP 1.2, eDP 1.3 and displays with up to 2560x1600p resolution. According to Intel one can expect Bay Trail powered tablets in the fourth quarter of the year from OEMs like Acer, Lenovo, Asus and Toshiba.
One can also expect Bay Trail powered Android tablets that will cost as low as $199. Bay Trail will also power Windows 8 tablets and hybrids and Intel's supports 64-bit x86 architecture.
Intel is also talking up its Burst Technology 2.0 which enables asynchronous CPU core operations. This technology helps Intel to scale up the CPU performance dynamically and this is also responsible for the claimed 10 hour battery life. Intel says that Bay Trail will support screen sizes of 7-11.6-inches and the devices will be as thin as 8mm and will weigh about a pound.


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One of the things about living in a city which is constantly changing is that the furniture which makes up the civil infrastructure, also changes. Not even a city like Rome which has literally thousand years under the pavement, can claim to remain static for terribly long. Great cities of change like London, Paris and New York do retain airs and graces of the past but they too, change almost imperceptibly. London had a major sweep clean after the Great Fire in 1666 tore through the old city but 450 years later, little if anything remains from that time. New York as a thing has been almost entirely replaced since about 1880 and even Paris' most famous icon, the tower which Eiffel designed for the exposition of 1889, was only supposed to be up for a few years until it was decided that disposing of it was too difficult.
Sydney is a relatively young city and really the only thing which remains from the founding of the city are a few lines on a map which describe where the streets run. Nothing remains of Bennelong's House, nor of the first governor's house and the grandest and oldest of buildings didn't even come about until after there was a gold rush and money started flowing into the colony after it had achieved self government in 1855. So it is with the railway stations as well. The old Sydney Railway Station stands on Regent Street as a kind of forgotten museum piece, the old Rookwood Mortuary Station has been repurposed as a church in Canberra and a lot of the initial railway stations have been torn down and rebuilt. I return to Wynyard Station because of three things which remain from an older time.
Perhaps the most obvious and striking thing left from the original fitout of Wynyard Station are the wooden slat Otis escalators. Apart from two escalators which have not been yet replaced at Town Hall Station (and are slated for destruction in the near future), these are the last deep cut wooden slat escalators left in the world.
Before the refit in the Myer Building on George and Market Streets, there were some cousins in the central escalator chamber in the middle of the building. It used to be fun to clank your way up to the eighth floor and step out into a virtually empty space. The toy department used to sit on the seventh floor but nothing much was up on the eighth except when there was a major store display of something. When those escalators were removed and replaced, it certainly opened up the building and gave it far airier sort of feel but it destroyed the impression that you were in an older style department store which was as permanent a fixture in the social landscape as a bank.
Myer got rid of its wooden slat escalators, Town Hall Station wants to be rid of its and thus Wynyard Station will be the very last in a world which is moving too quickly to care about where it has been.
There are two more things of note here. The first is the cream and two shades of brown tile work that Wynyard received in the 1960s. As far as I can make out, Wynyard got this colour scheme after the Cahill Government decided to poke out the eyes of Sydneysiders in an act of willful shortsightedness when the tram lines were pulled out and Wynyard lost platforms numbers 1 and 2 to a car park.
I imagine that Central"s white, green and yellow scheme which it was given, was part of the set with Town Hall and Wynyard.
Eagle eyed observers and people prepared to walk that little bit further (about ten steps) will notice that behind a set of fire doors, are the older set of tiles that Wynyard would have worn when it was opened in 1932.
I'd seen Wynyard's older roundels in black and white photographs only; never in person and never in colour. Since I was a kid, Wynyard has worn black and white roundels, the 1980s multicoloured line signs, and set of corporate boringness in both blue and now orange. The roundels in the style which all stations in the City Circle used to wear proudly and which only Museum and St James wear now (Town Hall had them for a brief period of time before they were ripped away again), were different colours for each of the various stations around the line. Now I know that Wynyard's roundels were blue and not black.
The surprising thing was that as I was busily snapping away and taking photographs on my phone, I had a member of station staff approach me. I fully expected him to be unhappy but he waxed lyrically about the station and wanted to know if I was from a preservation society or something. It seems that my nerdiness for the built environment is shared by at least some of the general public and he wanted to know if I could get the roundels put back in the station.
He also expressed a lament that the old wooden escalators would be taken away 'soon' but he didn't know when that was going to happen but as he'd already worked out that I was a passenger and not anyone with any power, his lament was more of a good old fashioned whinge.
I'm not some sort of Luddite and automatically think that just because something is old that it must be better (I'm tapping away on an Android device on the train in writing this) but I do think that it is good to keep some old things around because they are aesthetically pleasing. Absolutely I accept the argument that a newer set of escalators would be safer because the combs at either end are smaller and ladies won't get their heels caught in the slats. It is impossible to argue that modern escalators with automatic cut out in case something gets caught in between the slats and the combs is a bad thing. It still doesn't change the fact that these older style escalators, due to their being the last of their kind, are worth preserving and if they continue to do their job, then why not keep them in use? I don't think that the benefits outweigh the expense of replacement when what's currently working, is currently working.