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Culture-based microbiology methods have been used to determine potability of drinking water since the beginning of the 20th century. The detection of coliform bacteria in well water is an indicator of potential human fecal contamination and therefore the possible presence of disease causing organisms. These culture-based methods are widely accepted because of their relative ease of use, low cost, and demonstrated relationship to health risk. However, the time required for sample analysis range from 18 to 48 hours or even longer for confirmation steps. In cases where contamination occurs a more rapid method for analysis would be more protective of public health. Additionally, after wells have been disinfected a rapid method would allow for quicker follow-up testing results to save business owners money by decreasing the time bottled water is served or operations are suspended. A rapid method, such as quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), is intended to shorten the period between sampling and publicly available results, with the goal of having same day water quality information. The US EPA recently developed several qPCR methods for a reliable real-time assessment tool for water analysis (US EPA 2014). These have received approval for use in surface water applications and this project proposes to evaluate one of these qPCR methods for monitoring well water. By using qPCR, the results can be obtained in 3-4 hours, which allows for same-day notification to public and private clients.
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It's that time! WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words.
The Three Ws are:
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I read multiple books at a time, so I'm only going to list one per prompt. Here's what's been happening in my reading world lately…
What are you currently reading?
Kate in Waiting – Becky Albertalli
I know, I am taking forever with this one. I swear it's not because I'm not enjoying it! I love it so far; I've just been ridiculously busy with my own book stuff that I haven't read much outside of audiobooks at night once I'm in bed.
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Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
I'm going to keep listing this until it happens. I want to watch the show but can't until I read the books, and it's killing me!
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The 71st edition of the Reese's Senior Bowl is in the books.
The North team coached by the Detroit Lions staff defeated the South team coached by the Cincinnati Bengals staff 34-17 on Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
Now the national pre-draft focus will turn to the NFL Scouting Combine, which is scheduled to open in Indianapolis on Feb. 27.
1. Hot start for Herbert
Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert opened the game for the South out of the shotgun but lined up under center on the second snap of the game. It was his first significant game action under center, but he led a crisp seven-lay, 65-yard drive.
Herbert completed all four of his passes during the drive and also had a scramble for 19 yards that should have been a sack by Michigan's Joshua Uche. Instead of tackling Herbert, Uche tagged off as if it was still practice and contacting the quarterback was prohibited.
Herbert capped the drive with an underneath pass to Lamical Perine that the Mobile native turned into a 16-yard touchdown thanks to blocks from LSU offensive linemen Lloyd Cushenberry III and Damien Lewis.
The QB finished 9-of-12 passing for 83 yards and the score. He added 22 yards on three rushes and was named MVP of the game, despite only being asked to play one quarter.
2. Caught off guard
The North tied the game at 7 on a 75-yard touchdown pass from Michgan's Shea Patterson to TCU's Daris Anderson. A play-action allowed Anderson to make his way across the field to the left sideline, and no defender followed.
Anderson had an easy run all the way inside the 5, and even though he was forced out just shy of the goal line, the play was ruled a touchdown (there are no replay challenges or official reviews in the Senior Bowl).
Rules for the game prohibit imbalanced formations on offense and pre-snap motions and shifts. They also require defenses to play Cover 1, 2 or 3 and outlaw stunts or blitzes, but the deceptive play-action pass was within the rules.
3. Anae-hilating tackles
Utah edge rusher Bradlee Anae made his presence felt in the second quarter by recording sacks on consecutive snaps.
Anae beat Texas Tech tackle Terence Steele to take down Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts for losses of 3 and 9.
Anae also beat Oregon tackle Calvin Throckmorton on his next rep, recording a hit on Hurts and forcing an interception that was nabbed by Ohio State LB Malik Harrison.
The Hawaii native also split another sack, but he was flagged for jumping offsides when the South had the ball inside its own 1.
4. Strong day for North RBs and backup QB
Anderson's 75-yard reception helped him rack up more than 100 yards from scrimmage, and his teammate in the backfield Josh Kelley from UCLA racked up 102 yards on 15 rushes and helped salt away the game in the fourth quarter.
Kelley extended several runs by keeping his balance through contact.
Washington State's Anthony Gordon entered the game in the third quarter and threw a pair of touchdowns. Gordon also helped lead another touchdown drive in the third quarter, taking a 10-10 game into blowout territory.
5. Teammates turned foes turn in big plays
It may be a smaller school, but Georgia Southern placed two players in the game.
Kindle Vildor played cornerback for the South squad and picked off Patterson in the second quarter. Vildor returned the overthrow 22 yards.
Kicker Tyler Bass was assigned to the North since the South kicker was Georgia's Rodrigo Blankenship. Bass was perfect on the day, going 4-for-4 on extra points and booming field goals of 41 and 50 yards with plenty to spare.
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Greetings on this foggy, rainy Monday!Even when it's a bit gray outside, the vibrant colors of fall shine through. The drive to Trinity and Bethany today was filled with color despite the fog. I hope you have the chance to take a color tour. You won't be disappointed. Tomorrow, Trinity Ladies' Aid will meet at my home at 9065 Minnewasca Q Dr, Gladstone at 2:00 p.m. Let me know if you need directions. Just a heads up, I tried baking some pumpkin bread for dessert and made an awful mess in my oven, so if it smells like I tried to burn the house down, you would be correct. I tried to buy a pumpkin pie but they were all out at Aldi. Oh well,we will have a fine time together. Hope you can come join the fun. Thursday, October 11th from 5:30 -8:00 p.. our Conference Six Walking Together conference will meet at Immanuel Lutheran in Escanaba. We have ten people signed up for Trinity and Bethany! I am so excited for this event. It's going to be great. Goodwill Industries and Comprenew in conjunction with Superior Watershed and the DEG are offering an Electronics Recycling Event at Bay College, Escanaba on Saturday, October 20th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. For further information please visit www.goodwillnorth.org. There is a list of items accepted for free. The Women of the ELCA Delta Cluster met on Saturday, October 6th at Immanuel in Escanaba. There was a wonderful time of worship, fellowship and a program on "Our Place Community Center" in Escanaba.
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Sunday, October 2-8 (B) – Mark 10:2-16
Living in Christ: Love
Focus Question: What does God intend for marriage?
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"Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs." Mark 10:14 (NRSV)
Read Mark 10:2-16
Once more Jesus is tested. This time the test focuses on the age-old question of divorce. The Pharisees were well aware of the differing teachings concerning divorce. At least since the time of Moses, acceptable reasons for divorce had sparked heavy debate. "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" (Mark 10:2 NRSV) At this point, the discussion does not suggest the possibility of a woman divorcing her husband. Keep in mind Mark is written during the first century culture. Some viewed women as property to be easily discarded.
1. What would Jesus need to say to pass the test by the Pharisees?
2. Why has this question been around for centuries?
Jesus simply reminds the Pharisees of the teachings of Moses allowing a man to dismiss his wife with a certificate. The key aspect of the response lies is what comes next. Moses allowed divorce due to the hardness of heart, so that wives and children might be protected. (See Deuteronomy 24:1-4.) It was a way to offset cruel and inhumane treatment of husbands towards their wives when they were finished with them. No longer were husbands to put out a wife like garbage, ostracized from the community and society. Minimally, a certificate would allow a woman options for her future.
3. How have laws about divorce changed since biblical days?
4. How was Moses attempting to bring decency into the divorce?
Nevertheless, God does not intend divorce to be the outcome of marriage. God desires the union of marriage to be a sacred joining together of two persons. "Two shall become one flesh." (Mark 10:8 NRSV) The standard established by God is a high one, based on God's love unifying two into one. When the two are split at death or divorce, there is a painful severing of one flesh. The separation of this union is not to be felt like a splinter under the skin, but a splitting of one's flesh.
5. How does Jesus raise the standard for marriage?
Inside the house and away from the crowd, the disciples ask Jesus more questions. At this point, Jesus equalizes the possibilities. Husbands or wives who divorce are held to the same standard. Women in the first century would have not been able to divorce their husbands. In a strange way, Jesus turns things upside down by this radical teaching.
Jesus emphasizes the standard of love in all circumstances and in all relationships. God intends for marriage to be a life-giving union. Yet, reality reveals some marriages do not realize God's intended union. The two who have been joined remain separated, living disjointed lives. Jesus does not take time to deal with exceptions, but is interrupted by the disciples who are restricting the children from coming to him. This is where Jesus becomes indignant. "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of Godas a little child will never enter it." (Mark 10:14-15 NRSV) Again and again, Jesus turns things upside down.
6. What are options when marriage no longer reflects God's union of two persons?
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The church wedding was a like a fairy tale with friends and family from faraway places. The pastor spoke appropriate words during the sermon, and the blessing was uttered with confidence. Everything concerning the wedding went on schedule with gorgeous pictures to serve as a reminder.
Yet after the wedding gifts were put away and the thank-you cards were written, troubles began to creep into the marriage. The newlyweds realized they had nothing in common, nor did they particularly like each other. Somehow they had become so caught up in planning the perfect wedding; they ignored their own deteriorating relationship. Neither one had the skills nor motivation to try to build a foundation for marriage, nor did they turn to God for guidance. Instead, they chose to lead independent lives, becoming strangers to each other.
They chose not to divorce, but knew they were not living as a unified body blessed by God as one flesh. They developed unhealthy patterns of deeply wounding each other through their daily words and actions.
1. What does God intend for marriage?
2. How can good people marry, but not experience God's blessing of unity? (Use this case study as an illustration.)
3. Under what circumstances might couples consider divorcing?
Unfortunately, that phrase "hardness of heart" in Mark 10:5 does not just apply to those who lived in the first century, nor is it limited to the marriage relationship. Hardness of heart is a human condition that can open the door to the worst treatment of others. When hardness of heart creeps into a marriage, the relationship withers and dies. People may continue in the marriage, but there is neither life nor God. Those marriages are in need of resurrection, a gift from God to restore the unity and love. It might be argued that every marriage is less than God intends because two sinful human beings are involved. Marriage and all relationships are in need of God's presence.
4. What counsel might you give to those who find themselves in a marriage that is less than God's intention?
5. What role does God play in renewal of marriage?
6. What are the possibilities of new life in marriage if both do not desire it?
The disciples who restrict the children from coming to Jesus have missed the point. Their concern is with their own personal status. They cannot see Jesus reaching out to all, particularly to those with no status. Again and again, Jesus points to God's kingdom. This is true in all relationships, including marriage.
As disciples, we are called to align our lives and our relationships with Jesus and his vision of God's kingdom. Ultimately, Jesus is concerned with God's reign and the manifestation of that reign in our lives and our treatment of others.
Gracious God, grant your grace to fill our relationships as we seek your reign in our lives. Amen
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Matthew 19:1-9
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This week, find a way to encourage someone's marriage.
blessings on your week. Hope to see you in church.
Pastor Diane


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Most businesses understand that social media – employed strategically and carefully – can be an invaluable tool for promoting a company and its brand. Most businesses also understand that there are many pitfalls inherent in the use of social media, but they may not be aware of exactly what those risks are. This article covers some of the intellectual property risks associated with promoting your business on social media sites.
- Have Clear Rules on Ownership of Social Media Accounts. When an employee creates or operates a social media account in the company's name (for example, a branded company Twitter account), make certain that written policies or procedures provide clearly that the company owns the account, the content, and the followers.
- Keep an Eye on Freelancing Employees. Your employees may – with or without your knowledge and authorization – identify themselves as working for you on their personal websites. If you choose to allow this (and there may be good reasons to do so), make sure that you have clearly-articulated, written guidelines in place for what your employees are permitted to do and say. In particular, make sure that your employees are not disclosing your trade secrets, confidential marketing strategies or other information you need to keep out of the public eye.
- Back Up Your Intellectual Property! The Internet is forever, right? Everyone says so. Not so fast. Companies often post content to social media sites assuming that the content will be available forever. Make sure that you carefully review each site's Terms and Conditions to make sure exactly what is being promised. Those terms may well provide that the site may shut down at any time, with or without notice to users, and with no obligation on the site's part to back up, retain or return user content. If your content resides only on the site with no backup, your valuable intellectual property may be lost – forever.
- Make Sure Your Trade Secrets Stay Secret. Happy to have your knowledgeable employees out there on social media promoting your products or services? Great, but make sure they are bound by appropriate policies not to share confidential information or trade secrets such as formulas and know how, through social media accounts, whether the company's official site or the employees' private social media account. In addition to written procedures, make sure you educate your employees that the company's secrets are just that – secret.
- Protect Your Brand When You Can. The unfortunate fact is that you cannot control the negative things that people – often taking advantage of the Internet's cloak of anonymity – say about your company or of its products on social media sites. Develop a policy for how to monitor and react to negative social media postings. It won't do your company – or its image – any good to chase after every Internet troll who criticizes your brand, but have a plan in place for when to take action, such as when truly damaging defamatory information or your trade secrets are posted for the online world to see.
- But Protect it Honestly. Companies are often tempted to buff their image by directing employees to pose as regular consumers and to post glowing reviews of the company's goods or services on social media sites such as Yelp or Facebook, or on more traditional websites such as Amazon. This practice is illegal. In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission has been very active in enforcing its Endorsement Guidelines. Make yourself and your employees aware of the Guidelines. The most important thing to know is that anyone endorsing a product or service must disclose any "material connection" that they have with the producer of the goods or services.
- Have a Policy Regarding Ownership of User-Generated Content. If you decide to make your social media sites interactive by permitting users to submit their own content, such as photos or video, assess whether and to what extent you want to claim ownership of user-generated content. While claiming such rights may seem appealing, know that asserting ownership of content you did not create can expose your business to liability, for example, for defamation and copyright infringement, if users' content violates – or is alleged to violate – the rights of others.
- Develop a Focused Social Media IP Protection Strategy. The vast number of social media sites and users make it nearly impossible to try to detect every infringement or abuse of your intellectual property rights. Determine what aspects of your intellectual property are most important to you and on which sites the most damaging forms of abuse are likely to occur.
- Beware of Cybersquatters. Cybersquatting has traditionally referred to the registration of a domain name identical or similar to the trade name of a company with the intent to profit by either benefiting from the company's goodwill in that name, diverting potential customers to the registrant's website for the squatter's own purposes, or selling the domain name to the rightful holder for an inflated price. Beware that cybersquatting can also occur on social media sites, with miscreants registering Twitter, Facebook or other social media accounts in your company's name in order to benefit from using a name that does not belong to them.
For more information on the potential intellectual property risks when promoting your business on social media, contact Paul G. Gagne at email@example.com or at 215-523-5302.


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Former Mountaineer Miles McBride put on another stellar display for the New York Knicks in the NBA Summer League, this time in front of his former head coach.
Bob Huggins was in Las Vegas Monday to watch McBride and the Knicks clip the Hawks 104-85. McBride played 27 minutes and tallied 19 points on 7-10 shooting, netting all of his points in the first half.
McBride was one of five Knicks to reach double figures in the game. Quentin Grimes led New York with 26 points.
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Shawn Mendes keeps getting better in concert with uplifting Fiserv Forum show in Milwaukee
This week, Summerfest is bringing around 800 acts and some of the biggest music stars in the world to Milwaukee's lakefront.
But there's always room for one more.
And so, with a rare arena show the night before the start of the world's largest music festival, Shawn Mendes performed at Fiserv Forum. And despite the flood of live music options coming to town, Mendes managed to pack the place.
The 20-year-old pop star played Milwaukee a year ago — headlining Summerfest, no less — in his first full show following the release of his self-titled album. He hasn't released a new album since then, but fans who showed up at Fiserv Forum Tuesday were rewarded with a longer, and stronger, show this time.
Mendes played 15 songs at Summerfest, but across an hour and 45 minutes Tuesday, touched on 28 tunes. There was the buoyant new single "If I Can't Have You," with thousands of young female fans jumping in unison to the perky beat. And there was a medley of some of his favorite songs across his three albums — "Because I Had You," "A Little Too Much," "Patience" and "When You're Ready" — largely performed solely on a piano, illustrating his strong command of the crowd.
That medley took place on a secondary stage — another difference from his show at Summerfest — in the back of the arena floor, underneath a towering, LED rose that changed colors. He played a sweet, too-short snippet of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" on piano, then took up an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar, for "Like to Be You" and "Ruin," respectively.
As part of an actual tour, as opposed to last year's one-off, Mendes Tuesday benefited from bigger production, with fog flooding the stage and flashing lights creating a lightning-storm effect for "Bad Reputation," with a thunderous, arena-rock rendition to match.
But some of Tuesday night's most stirring moments were the simpler ones, like when Mendes, alone on acoustic guitar, stomped his foot faster and faster, employing his fans to clap to the beat at all costs, ahead of his inspiring ballad "Youth"; or the flashes of pretty falsetto, and the sweet, John Mayer-indebted guitar licks, that came across on "Why."
It all led up to the heart-pumping finale "In My Blood," with the video screen behind Mendes and the four-piece band pulling up to reveal a staggering semicircle of blinding lights, and confetti blasting from the end of the stage, as Mendes jumped into the photo pit to hug fans in the front.
But the best part of "In My Blood" Tuesday was the same thing that made the performance so strong at Summerfest last year — the sound of thousands of young voices coming to terms with anxiety, and vowing to overcome it.
"Keep telling me that it gets better," they sang along with Mendes Tuesday. "Does it ever?"
In terms of Mendes' live show, there's no dispute that it has.
With three top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 before she turned 20, and a soulful voice that belies her age, Alessia Cara burst onto the pop scene a few years back with thoughtful singles like the love who you are anthem "Scars to Your Beautiful" and retro wallflowers lament "Here."
Cara, now 22, is going through a bit of a sophomore slump, with no singles from last year's "The Pain of Growing" gaining much traction on the charts.
But a spirited 40-minute set suggested that'll be a temporary setback, with Cara, through an easygoing, everywoman demeanor, eliciting headliner-level enthusiasm Tuesday, even for new singles like "Growing Pains."
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The takeaways
- Both Mendes' and Cara's music encapsulate the wonder and anxiety from that transitional period between youth and adulthood, and so did their appearances Tuesday. Cara wore a playful T-Rex shirt, and also a suit. And with his boyish grin, cropped hair and stage gestures like proudly placing his fist at his hip, Mendes at times looked a bit like Peter Pan Tuesday — except he was really jacked.
- As they entered Fiserv Forum Tuesday, fans were given LED bracelets that twinkled, lit up and changed colors in sync with the music , transforming the audience into its own light show.
- Along with that snippet of "Dance," Mendes did a fabulous cover of of Coldplay's "Fix You." And as pretty as Chris Martin's voice sounds on the song, Mendes' vocal matched his emotional depth, with more considerable range.
- Mendes also did about 30 seconds of "Señorita" from behind the piano Tuesday, a Camilla Cabello collaboration that just dropped four days ago — but thousands of people already knew, and sang back, every word.
The set list
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Without giving it would be absolutely foolish to expect. Without giving it is hard to make friends. When you give you increase your value, at least to the taker's eyes, and they respect you. You are esteemed, and you feel good about it and try to be more generous.
We don't find many givers, but look and you will find multitudes of takers everywhere. You just have to be ready to give and you will have a taker, and one more, and more. Some takers would possibly take away whatever they can even from a blind beggar if they get the chance; such is the urge of takers.
Disappointment comes when you give and give and lose count of the number of times you give, but never ever get anything back. I like to give. If I'm capable of giving – be it book, be it money, and whatever – I just give. Now, it may sound as if I'm bragging for being generous, (it does, ha!) but I'm merely saying what I really do.
Once, after my shift in the office, I went out with a Senior Team Leader of our organization. He said he would drop me home in his car. His car was parked in a public area and he had to pay for it. He asked me to pay it. Without thinking twice I did it. Then he wanted to booze; he asked me if I wanted to drink. At first, I declined to drink, but I raised no objection if he drank. Nevertheless, he insisted on and on, that I should drink. Giving up, "Mild beer," I said finally.
So we drank. I had only one beer, and he gulped down glasses after glasses of all the drinks he could name. And he could name a lot of them, mind you. When the waiter arrived with the bill, the Team Leader directed the waiter's attention to my side and excused himself saying, "My bladder is going to burst, I wonder where the washroom is!"
Ha! That was funny, wasn't that? I didn't mind that a bit. But what disappointed me was when we met in the office the next day and he exclaimed he would return the amount I paid the other day. The amount I paid wasn't small; small it maybe for him, but for me it was not. It has been 4 months and he is still returning the amount!
It has happened with me: people ask me for something; and I think I'm obligated to them. I move heaven and earth just to give them what they ask for. But, unlike some of my friends, I return what I take. Yes, I, the fool, return. This is not something to be proud of, but a conduct from which I cannot turn my head away.
The takers might be right in not giving what belongs to you from their perspective. Perhaps they think they become the rightful owner of the property, your property that is, once they get hold of it and the thought of returning it never strikes them; or, the thought may strike, but they just want to ignore all such thoughts.
Generosity, surely, is a very good quality, but always giving and never receiving anything in return is sheer stupidity. I say getting anything in return in the sense getting your own stuff back, as well as something that other ought to give you instead of just taking from you. But, without being asked one would hardly give you anything. How long can you let others take advantage of you? When the takers cross all their limits it is better to distance yourself from such a person/friend, takers that is.
We should never hesitate to give away whatever we can to those who cannot afford a single meal a day, and when we do give to such a person we should not expect something in return. So, mind whom you give and whom you should give. I would write more on this in the next post.
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Lisa R. Freudenheim Named Dean of New England Law | Boston
BOSTON – January 11, 2022 – The Board of Trustees of New England Law | Boston has selected Lisa R. Freudenheim to lead the law school as its next dean.
Visit https://www.nesl.edu/about/deans-message to read her welcome letter.
"Dean Freudenheim brings to the role a unique, impressive skill set and a passion for legal education," said Board Chairman Albert Balboni. "She is one of a select few law school deans across the country who come from a professional background of legal writing and academic and student support. I am confident that she will continue the school's legacy of preparing students to be successful lawyers while fostering a community of respect and camaraderie among students, staff, faculty, and alumni."
Dean Freudenheim served as co-acting dean of New England Law for the fall 2021 semester and before that was an associate dean beginning in March 2020. She has been a member of the New England Law faculty for more than ten years, teaching legal analysis and academic excellence. She has also taught at Suffolk University Law School, Boston College Law School, and Brandeis University. Dean Freudenheim earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from Tufts University.
"One's view of a law school changes significantly when shifting to the role of administrator," said Freudenheim. "It is a significant responsibility with nuanced choices to make in the interests of the greater community. As I pass two decades as a legal educator, I notice how our student body has changed in their expectations, and I welcome these changes. The culture at New England Law is unique to any I have experienced, as a student or faculty member. I care about our students and I deeply respect the work of our staff and faculty who make this law school the special place that it is in the minds and hearts of our students and alumni. I am honored and eager to lead this outstanding community as your next dean."
New England Law maintains a long-standing tradition of expanding access to the legal profession with a particular focus on historically-underrepresented groups. Founded in 1908 as Portia Law School, it was the first and only law school established exclusively for the education of women. For decades, most of the women who passed the Massachusetts bar examination were Portia graduates.
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Urban Success for Water Quality in Macedonia
A landlocked nation of mountains, lakes and historic buildings, the Republic of Macedonia is located on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Macedonia has the distinction of being among the few countries in the world of meeting the water access and sanitation needs for 100 percent of the urban population. In other words, everyone in its urban areas is provided with safe drinking water.
Water is used for electric power, agriculture, industrial and municipal purposes. There is no inexpensive substitute for this precious resource, so measures increasing water efficiency and reducing waste are desperately needed with the looming effects of climate change. According to the Green Growth study, by 2050, all water basins in Macedonia will see a decline in mean annual runoff despite having an increased water supply through 2020.
Increased temperatures mean greater evaporation of water from lakes and reservoirs, thus less water is available for general or industrial use. A World Bank study found that Macedonian crops are adapting to increased temperatures by demanding water a month earlier than they normally do. Additionally, water used for cooling purposes in the thermoelectric sector is greatly stressed, reducing its availability. By 2050, hydroelectric production is slated to sharply decline from about its current production levels of 1,500 gigawatt-hours to 1,100 gigawatt-hours.
Consistent with the international standards, Macedonia conducts tests on its waters for the presence of physical, chemical, biological and even radiological elements. Eighty percent of Macedonians have access to wastewater, yet only 10% of the sewage is treated with the rest being discharged into the three lakes and four river basins in the country. In these situations, water quality in Macedonia could use further improvements.
In 2014, the Woman Engage for a Common Future (WECF) Project devised Water and Sanitation Safety Plans to "encourage the population to promote local action for the improvement of water supply and sanitation systems." This plan is to be done by engaging local residents, government officials, teachers, students, and the young of the rural populations of both Macedonia and Romania.
Problems remain, however. While 99% of Macedonian households have a central water supply system, an inadequate water infrastructure with aging water pipes has deteriorated the condition of the water supply system. This has had a disproportionate impact on both rural and urban areas: according to the U.N. Human Settlements Programme, 23% of residents do not have access to good water quality in Macedonia.
Of the water emerging from karst aquifers, 80% is inundated by rainfall runoff and surface water. In rural areas, additionally, usage of pit latrines is common and access to safe water sanitation is difficult if not unavailable.
In the past, the most frequent water-borne diseases found in the water supply facilities were diarrhea, intestinal typhus and paratiphuses, and infective hepatitis A. Water-related diseases with infective elements, such as leptospirosis and malaria, have also been found in epidemic, endemic and hyperendemic forms.
To efficiently preserve its water resources and promote its sustainable and safe use, Macedonia needs to invest in its current irrigation infrastructure, incorporate farmer training to minimize water losses, and find ways to prevent, detect and repair water system leaks.
Increasing water demands require greater public awareness of the limited resources and the state of water quality in Macedonia. Together with growing environmental protection, the level of public concern is also increasing. Macedonia is already one of the few countries in the world with very high access to safe drinking water. The country needs to maintain its commitment to improving safe drinking water access for all of its population by 2020.
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Piuma d'Oro is a company handed down from father to sons. The family also inspired the business model. Every employee not only contributes personally to ensuring the quality of our product, but lives a strong integration in company life, through simple but important moments of sharing.
The collective breakfast in the morning, the traditional Christmas greetings become opportunities in which different backgrounds and origins people can integrate each others pefectly, respecting individual needs and cultures.
In my life I've always had a strong passion for quality. It's not enough to know the technique, it's necessary to apply it with passion, always trying to improve ourselves. That's what i've always done, that's what Piuma d'Oro keeps doing
Fausto Pizzoccheri – Founder
Success ingredients
There are stories that arise by chance, that rise with the ingredients of passion, commitment and the pursuit of quality. Like the story of Fausto Pizzoccheri, a young descendant of bakers family. In 1961, at the age of 21, with a bit of recklessness and a lot of will, he started his first business in his family shop, producing and selling "tortellini and gnocchi".
From white art to the most advanced technologies
White art is his first love and he soon learned about the mysterious alchemy that governs the relationship between flour, fire and processing times. Details that still make the difference.
From a small laboratory to the world
In 1964 Fausto took over a small food company called Piuma d'Oro. The name seems perfect to define the idea of quality that Fausto has always had in his mind. After exploring all the secrets of pasta, the company progressively specializes in making carnival sweets. Success is immediate; the secret is simple: to preserve the traditional recipes, keeping the taste and flavor unaltered, using technology to constantly develop the fragrance and food quality.
A single winning philosophy for three generations
When Fausto leaves the leadership of Piuma d'Oro to his sons Federico and Fulvio, the solid and constantly evolving company strengthens its leadership in the sweets sector with carnival chatter, which it distributes in Italy and in the rest of the world.
Quality is a matter of taste
Respect for traditional recipes has always been a guideline for Piuma d'Oro production. Keeping the scent, aroma and crunchiness that match people tastes is a real topical mission for Piuma D'Oro, renewed every day through meticolous quality controls over all production lines. The control metodologies are passed on by a circle of collaborators who form the fixed core of the company to over 300 employees, with a communication flow that contributes to the diffusion and maintainance of company know – how over time. Particular attention is paid to the control of the dough and to the control of the cooking. Results are under anybody's eyes, or better, on everyone's taste buds.
Sweet specialists
Starting from the strict respect of traditional recipes and the deep knowledge about food production sector, the Company has progressively specialized in Carnival sweets productions, refining techniques and ensuring a cstant and recognizable quality.
Through a seasonal activity that is accompanied by a production capacity of more than 50,000 kg per day, the Compan is leader into italian market and it's also well known abroad. Nowadays, if you buy "chiacchiere" or "bugie" during Carnival period in Italy it's very likely they were made by Piuma d'Oro. Piuma d'Oro "chiacchiere" are appreciated by most of final consumers and they have conquered gourmands all over the world


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Transport CommitteeWritten evidence from Dr. Mayer Hillman (AS 117)
Catering for more Air Travel
Agreement on a need to find the best solution to match the rising demand for air travel, especially in the South East of England, has certainly been made very much easier by the near-unanimous support from all three of the main political parties for this aspect of policy for the future. It fits in well with the commonly-held view that governments have a responsibility to do their best to meet the demand for what people want to do, such as being able to travel further and faster, and as frequently as they wish, and that restrictions on their preferences should only have to be imposed in extremis.
This degree of support is mirrored, too, in the call from leaders within the business community, the trades union and well-informed media commentators on public policy, to invest more in "infrastructural projects". In a recent Observer article, Will Hutton criticised the current Coalition for its failure to give the go-ahead to the new airports 'we so desperately need' to speed up the country's return to economic growth and to create more jobs.
Very few academics, economists or consultants in this field hold dissimilar views. However, as a significant number not only rely on Government commissions but are working on them, the absence of any critical comments on the justification for more capacity for air travel should not necessarily be taken as demonstrating their support. Whatever their private doubts, they probably feel that their involvement debars them from voicing in public any concerns they have about the case for proceeding with building more transport infrastructure.
The implications of Climate Change
Supporters appear to be unaware of the critical contradiction between aiming to meet the growing demand for long-distance travel by air while at the same time limiting the devastating consequences of climate change. It may be that they are in denial of the scientific evidence on this; or think it insufficiently relevant to the current policy of promoting economic growth, almost at any cost.
However, no domain of policy can sensibly be determined without reference to factors that could substantially affect it. In this instance, the overriding consideration relates to the impact of climate change on the future habitability of the planet and on the quality of life of its inhabitants. Appropriate decisions on future investment generally and airport capacity in particular are a case in point.
Now that the significance and implications of climate change are becoming more widely understood, a distinction must surely be drawn between developments which are detrimental to our long-term future (such as those resulting from policies which facilitate, if not subsidise, carbon-intensive activities) and those which are not? Current patterns of fossil fuel-based transport activity alone are already way in excess of the safe level beyond which the equilibrium of the climate system can be assured.
In considering the consequences of catering for more air travel as part of a strategy aimed at establishing how best to do so, all the costs incurred, in so far as they can be calculated, should be included in the cost-benefit analysis. These should obviously include those stemming from adding further greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use to the current disturbingly high atmospheric concentrations. These gases are already the cause of the deteriorating condition of many regions around the world, and are responsible for a process leading to the enforced migration of millions of people. This is a major moral as well as an economic issue that remains to be addressed.
Were these additional costs paid for in the transport sector in fares, the projected demand would clearly fall substantially, and the justification for expansion of the infrastructure to accommodate further air travel would be exposed and then seen to be highly questionable. If realised, any proposal aimed at facilitating the predicted growth in air travel, let alone maintaining it at its current level, would make an environmentally damaging contribution to a higher carbon future just at a time when the need to urgently reverse this process is becoming ever more imperative.
The spreading addiction to fossil-fuel-based lifestyles around the world, not least in the transport sector, is pointing to the very real prospect of ecological catastrophe on such a scale as to gravely prejudice the quality of life—if not life—prospects for the generations succeeding us. The time is long over for burying our collective heads in the sand on this most critical of issues for we are at a defining moment in history: it is essential that we recognise both the gravity of the situation and the necessary steps that have to be taken in light of it.
There is now near-consensus in the scientific community that human-induced global warming poses the greatest threat ever to have faced mankind. A recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report included the calculation that a curtailment of fossil fuel use down to zero carbon emissions must be speedily achieved—that is way beyond the widely accepted figure in the UK of an 80% reduction by 2050 which is, in any case, now widely recognised as a seriously insufficient target to prevent irreversible climate change.
What is overlooked is the fact that the planet's atmosphere has only a finite non-negotiable capacity to safely absorb the gases from further fossil fuel use, especially those released into the upper atmosphere. The absence of suggestions as to how the ice cap in the Arctic can now be returned to its former area rather than continuing to rapidly decline provides near-indisputable evidence for believing that that capacity has already been exceeded.
Politicians and the public alike need urgently to realise that there is only one way of achieving the essential and early goal of close-to-zero carbon emissions. It is the adoption of the GCI (Global Commons Institute) "Contraction and Convergence" framework (see the GCI website at http://www.gci.org.uk) which may well lead to the introduction of per capita carbon rationing. If we are to limit the extent of further loss of the planet's habitability, that ration will have to be so small that little air travel will be possible. We cannot continue to deceive ourselves that long-distance journeys by air are not too profligate in fuel use and that the resultant greenhouse gas emissions can be added to their already excessive concentrations in the atmosphere.
So, one may ask, what is the logic of seeking to find the best way to cater for the growing demand for air travel?
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UK Theatre has announced the 3 finalists of this year's UK's Most Welcoming Theatre award. The Award, sponsored by Theatre Tokens, is part of the annual UK Theatre Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatre across the UK.
"The UK Theatre Awards are fantastic at recognising the amazing work that's going on around the country so we couldn't be more delighted to be named as a finalist for UK Theatre's Most Welcoming Theatre Award this year. To be shortlisted as one of only three finalists for this national award is a real testament of our team's dedication to providing an inclusive, friendly environment at our theatre." (Fiona Wallace, Managing Director)
Storyhouse, Chester "We are thrilled to be in the top three most welcoming theatres in the UK. Our wonderful, creative communities and visitors are integral to Storyhouse's welcoming atmosphere. This award is symbolic of the vital role a cultural centre plays in a community and we are delighted to be recognised." (Andrew Bentley, CEO)
Young Vic, London "We see the Young Vic as a civic member of its community; a safe and accessible space fuelled by the spirit of empathy, generosity and inclusiveness. At the Young Vic our programme, our people and our spaces are reflective of contemporary society and everybody is welcome. We want anyone who engages with us to feel like the Young Vic is a home away from home. Come on in!" (Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director, and Despina Tsatsas, Executive Director)
The overall winner will be announced at the UK Theatre Awards ceremony on Sunday 27 October 2019 at London's Guildhall.
UK's Most Welcoming Theatre Judging Panel:
Julian Flitter, Partner, Goodman Jones, said:
"Hearty congratulations to the three finalists in a very competitive category. It was terrific to see so much evidence of the work that so many theatres are doing to be welcoming and accessible. It made our job very difficult to pick just three finalists. I am very much looking forward to visiting the finalists and experiencing their welcome in person".
Andrew Miller, Disability Champion for the Arts & Cultural Sector said:
"It is great to see so many theatres across the country value their welcome and accessibility, leading to difficult decisions for us as award panellists. I'm now really looking forward to visiting our finalists in Chester, Newcastle-under-Lyme and London."
Amanda Huxtable, Theatre Director/Producer said:
"It was heartening to see a consistent recognition of some of the good practices campaigned for in Theatre and I look forward to visiting the finalist and finding out more about their work and welcome".
Dani Ward, Marketing Consultant, Integro Entertainment and Sport said:
"Huge Congrats to the UK's Most Welcoming Theatre finalists. It was so great to see so many of our theatres doing so much to be welcoming, inclusive, accessible and offering such diverse programming – we managed to pick a shortlist of 3 but boy it wasn't easy! Looking forward to our October visits!"
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Binary thinking
There are two kinds of people: those who divide people into two groups; and those who don't. Both humans and computers seem more comfortable with binary divisions: on or off, right or wrong, black or white, happy or sad, Republican or Democrat. It makes life simple.
Unfortunately, though, life is in fact complicated. So it is not surprising that the division between synchronous and asynchronous learning fails to take into account the complexities or the nuances of online learning (or face-to-face teaching).
In an earlier post, "Why, 'logically', online learning is superior to face-to-face teaching", I argued that online learning can combine both synchronous and asynchronous learning, while by definition face-to-face teaching is synchronous (although as one reader has pointed out, face-to-face teaching is often combined with non-digital asynchronous learning, such as reading books for homework – or swotting.)
As I always say about making comparisons in education, no one teaching method, medium or mode of delivery is intrinsically 'better' than another; it is the conditions in which they are used that matter, so we need to understand the conditions that are necessary for success in teaching and learning. This applies just as much to the choice of synchronous or asynchronous teaching methods, whether online or not.
Confounding factors
We need to look at the range of factors that can influence learning as well as the synchronicity or otherwise of teaching and learning, and how these other factors fit with either synchronous or asynchronous learning. This is where things start to get complicated. What are these factors?
Time and place
Synchronous learning requires everyone to be together at the same time, but not necessarily in the same place. Asynchronous learning takes place at both different times and at different places.
Face-to-face or online
We have seen that face-to-face is primarily synchronous, although asynchronous elements can be added but not integrated in terms of time, while online learning is primarily asynchronous, although synchronous elements (such as a Zoom session) can be added.
Tools or technology
Certain tools are more often used with synchronous learning, while other tools are more often used for asynchronous learning. For instance, the classroom can be considered the primary technology of synchronous, face-to-face teaching, and the learning management system an important (but not the only) technology for asynchronous online learning. Some technologies (such as Zoom) can be used either synchronously or (through recording and streaming) asynchronously.
Although certain pedagogies may be more often found in either synchronous or asynchronous learning, these types of delivery are really agnostic when it comes to pedagogy.
For instance, either can be used for didactic/objectivist teaching, or for more conversational/constructive approaches. Pedagogy will depend on the specific learning outcomes and the demands of the subject matter (as well as instructors' comfort level). In other words, most pedagogical approaches can work either synchronously or asynchronously, but it is really necessary to examine this case by case.
By this, I mean what educational purposes does either synchronous or asynchronous learning best lend themselves to? Let me give an example. One of the best ways to get children to learn to read is through parents reading to them in bed. This is clearly a synchronous, face-to-face learning activity, but what makes it so powerful?
In this case, it is love/togetherness, and the intensity of the experience. But not all synchronous learning activities have this feeling of togetherness and intensity. This might be a main criticism of Zoom lectures delivered synchronously individually to students in their homes; there is little sense of 'togetherness' or intensity – although, as always, a skilled instructor may be able to design his or her teaching deliberately to achieve these affordances.
Other 'affordances' might include the ability to give timely and relevant feedback, flexibility for students, convenience for instructors or administrators, and so on.
Individual or group learning is another factor. In fact it is more than this; it is a question of the relationship between instructor/teacher and students, and between students themselves. So we can have one-on-one teacher:student; one teacher to many students; one teacher to several groups of students; individual students to other individual students; or students working in a group. Again most of these relationships can be either synchronous or asynchronous, but in some cases one will be more convenient than the other.
There are probably other factors that need to be considered as well, but my purpose here is to show the foolishness of assuming that synchronous is better (or worse) than asynchronous learning or that face-to-face teaching is better (or worse) than online learning. It all depends on the conditions.
To help clarify this, see Figure 1 below:
- What makes sex more fun than swotting? Togetherness/love and the intensity of the experience: sex is much better synchronously and in the same place, but other factors have to be right too. (Well, that's my experience – yours may be different).
- You can see that teaching is more of an art than a science. It's a question of getting the best combination of a wide variety of factors, all of which can have bearing on the learning process.
- It seems to me that in terms of teaching effectiveness, it's difficult to argue that synchronous learning is clearly better than asynchronous learning (or vice versa). It will depend on context and conditions. In other words there is a high level of substitution possible.
- However, it is important to ensure that if you are making a claim that synchronous or face-to-face learning provides affordances that are difficult to provide asynchronously or online (or vice versa), you deliver on that promise.
- In a pandemic, when face-to-face learning is highly dangerous, a switch to online learning should not result in inferior learning, if the right conditions can be put in place. However, there will be some instances where it will be very difficult to replicate or replace online some of the conditions for successful learning, especially for younger children, such as love and empathy.
This is just a first attempt on my part to understand the differences between synchronous and asynchronous learning, and between face-to-face and online learning. My worry is that much of what I have written is based on personal experience and not on hard research data (because this is indeed a relatively new area of inquiry).
My goal therefore is to open up a discussion of these issues, because I am concerned that positions are already being taken based on false premises. So please let me have your comments in the comment box below.


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"Russian air forces have repeatedly deployed incendiary weapons and cluster munitions to kill, main and terrorize Syrian civilians"
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to launch an investigation into its accusations that Russia has repeatedly used air-delivered incendiary weapons in Syria.
Russia deployed warplanes to Syria last year to support President Bashar al-Assad against rebels seeking to end his rule. A crackdown by Assad on pro-democracy protesters five years ago sparked a civil war and Islamic State militants have used the chaos to seize territory in Syria and Iraq.
"Russian air forces have repeatedly deployed incendiary weapons and cluster munitions to kill, main and terrorize Syrian civilians, including in at least 10 documented incidents," Riad Hijab, coordinator of the opposition HNC, wrote to Ban.
"They have violated the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and breached international humanitarian law," he wrote.
Hijab alleged that "thermite, which ignites while falling, has been likened to 'mini nuclear bombs' and was deployed repeatedly by Russian forces in residential areas." He also accused Russian forces of using cluster munitions.
Incendiary weapons use substances that are designed to set fire to objects or burn people, and cluster munitions are containers that explode in the air to distribute smaller bombs over a large area. Both are banned under the convention.
The Russian mission to the United Nations was not immediately available to comment on the accusations. Ban's office was also not immediately available to comment on the request for an investigation.
State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the United States was not in a position to confirm the allegations by the Syrian opposition, but that the claims were taken very seriously.
"Regardless of what weapons they're using, (the Russians) shouldn't be striking groups that are committed to the counter-ISIL fight or civilians," he added. "Russia and the Assad regime need to be more careful about distinguishing between terrorists, civilians and parties to the cessation of hostilities."
The United States has sharply criticized Moscow over strikes last week against U.S.-backed forces in Syria, saying Russia failed to heed U.S. warnings to stop its attack, which killed and injured Syrian fighters battling Islamic State.
U.S.-backed forces in Syria have reported that Russia fired at their garrison with cluster munitions in that attack, a senior British general in the U.S.-led coalition said on Thursday.
"Definitely, the people we advise on the ground reported cluster munitions," British Army Major General Doug Chalmers told a Pentagon news conference.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed and Phil Stewart; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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|Nearly 130 leading firms from Thailand are advertising their products and services to local customers at the Top Thai Brands 2019, which began in the capital on Thursday.— Photo vnexpress.net
HÀ NỘI — Nearly 130 leading firms from Thailand are advertising their products and services to local customers at the Top Thai Brands 2019, which began in the capital on Thursday.
On display at 160 booths are food and beverages, household appliances, electronics, automotive products, baby products, fashion products, and healthcare and beauty products.
In his speech at the event's opening ceremony, Thai Ambassador to Việt Nam Tanee Sangrat spoke highly of bilateral relations in many fields between the two countries.
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Co-organised by the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Ministry of Commerce of Thailand - Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Hà Nội, in co-operation with the Việt Nam National Trade Fair & Advertising Company (Vinexad), the Top Thai Brands 2019 will run until May 26 at the Hà Nội International Exhibition Centre.
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I can't quite believe that PHOGS! is actually out. I first played this game at EGX Rezzed waaaaaay back in April 2018, and it's been subject to a few delays since. But I was rather taken with it on my first play in those dim and distant pre-coronavirus days, and I am happy to say that it still oozes charm and warmth all these decades later (Is this right? – Ed).
The game's hook lies almost entirely in its unique protagonist. Or protagonists. Or protagonist? OK, look, there's this dog with no legs, but it has two heads – named Red and Blue – and you control each head independently using the analogue sticks on your controller. So in essence you have a sausage with two bitey ends.
But the really fun part is that one player can control one end while another can control t'other, and thus much merriment and calamity ensues. Cleverly, two players can even share one controller, so no one has to make do with the slightly broken MadCatz joypad you bought as a cheap spare, with that chunk broken off the rubber stick and the dodgy button from when someone spilt juice on it. You know the one.
As well as gracelessly shuffling along the ground, each lovable dog head can s-t-r-e-t-c-h to reach stuff and grab things with its dirty dog mouth (or simply bark if there's an absence of grabbable things in the vicinity). And thus the stage is set for myriad puzzles that involve stretching and grabbing things, as well as endless enjoyably low-key arguments as you berate the other player for not going in the direction you think they should have been going in, no I know I didn't say we should go that way but it's obvious isn't it, that's the platform with the switch on it of course we should be going up there, just grab the thing grab the thing grab the thing, argh you've missed it and now we need to go round again.
As you've probably guessed, PHOGS! is at its absolute brilliant best when playing with two. Even the most mundane actions, like navigating a narrow walkway, become iridescently exciting and enjoyably frustrating when there are two people clumsily guiding the conjoined ends of a wobbly worm dog. It's a hoot, I tell you. Although it's possible to play PHOGS! in single player, by using the two sticks to independently move each doghead, I'd heartily recommend you save this game for times when another human being is around, since it is approximately ten times better with two people involved. And that's a maths fact.
Handily, there's an online mode for when you can't tempt another human into your pathogen-ridden flat, or for particular times when the law forbids you from partaking in such fraternising. I haven't actually tried doing this, but I know this mode exists because it's right there on the title screen. Perhaps a more professional reviewer may have actually dived into this mode and scrutinised it for matchmaking, lag, and so on, but you're stuck with me, so I guess we'll never know any of these things.
I will also hold up my hand at this point and say I haven't finished PHOGS!, because I am a busy man with lots of things to do, and playing video games is a disappointingly small percentage of those busy things. But I can tell you I've finished one of the three worlds and played a fair chunk of the other two, and generally it's all pretty damn good. The game is at its absolute best when each new level throws up a genuine surprise, like the stage when you're suddenly transported into a series of arcade machines. It's that wonderful Mario feeling of being thrown a great idea, being given just enough time to be thoroughly dazzled by it, then being thrown into something else. The Party World in particular is a non-stop roller-coaster (sometimes literally) of neat ideas, and has some of the best stages in the game. There are also some very clever and funny ways to utilise your two-ended hollow dog, like turning it into an impromptu hose pipe.
Unfortunately, PHOGS! can't quite keep up this relentless rate of fire from its ideas cannon throughout – the Sleep World in particular becomes a bit of a slog, with regular reuse of puzzles involving switching lights on and off. And it doesn't help that the levels of that particular world look almost drab in comparison to the searingly bright colours of the other environs. Which prompts me to point out that for the most part this game looks utterly gorgeous – its sunny disposition certainly takes the edge off the winter gloom outside.
Mechanically, it works pretty well, although I did find myself getting stuck behind the odd object, and the stretching can sometimes cause our doggy pals to go flailing in a bizarre arc. Although the latter is more of a hilarious feature than a bug, to be honest. No, the one thing that holds PHOGS! back from unblemished greatness is its pacing – a series of fantastic, idea-laden levels can be followed by a few slightly tedious ones with tiresome variations on the same mechanic. And I also found that the levels themselves are a bit too long. It can be hard to get through some stages with two players artlessly attempting to coordinate their respective dog ends, and often what you think is the finish actually turns out to be just the end of the first part of three separate sections to one giant level. The two-player tugging is fun, but it requires so much concentration that the game would benefit from having shorter, sharper stages with more breathing space in between.
But forget all that, because the hats are amazing. Each level has several well-hidden golden bones to find, and these can be exchanged for some ADORABLE head gear. I love the hats sooooo much. There's even a cat hat. And a little space helmet, and a pinwheel, and OH MY GOSH THEY'RE GREAT. More hats please, I want all the hats.
Anyway. PHOGS! is an absolute blast with two players, and I'd highly recommend playing it if you have another human in the vicinity and you're tired about arguing over whose turn it is to do the washing up, and instead want to argue about something else. Because low-level spats over who's controlling which end of a physically impossible two-headed sausage dog are the key to human happiness.
PHOGS! was developed by Bit Loom Studios, and it's available on Switch, PC, Xbox One and PS4. We played the Switch version.
Disclosure statement: review code for PHOGS! was provided by Coatsink. A Most Agreeable Pastime operates as an independent site, and all opinions expressed are those of the author.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum followed by the other coins had a sudden rally over the past 7 days.
Bitcoin is up by 10% and Ethereum is up by 22%.
That is surely good news for the crypto investors who still hold cryptocurrency after a long and painful bear market.
What's more, there are two or three signs that the rally might be feasible. One of them is that there is a rally in all the other cryptocurrencies. Just 7 in 100 top cryptocurrencies declined in the last 7 days.
This is seen by technicals as confirmation that the rally has strength. It is also a signal that new fiat is streaming into the whole market and it is not just old money rotating from coin to another coin.
"Interestingly, it appears that the momentum behind the recent Bitcoin rise comes more from fiat and stable coins than from other cryptocurrencies," adding more Michael Noel, CEO Blockchain Consultants says. "This move from Fiat currencies shows at least some consensus that BTC value, is better long term than in traditional currencies."
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency becoming more acceptable by big players
Adding to the technical aspects of this rally there is also increased interest in blockchain projects, as per Noel. Like a partnership among Mastercard and Stellar, a Western Union and Ripple venture, and the launch of a NASDAQ Bitcoin index. Not forgetting to mention Bakkt and Fidelity that aim to bring big players in the cryptocurrency game.
According to Jeff Ramson, Founder, and CEO of PCG Advisory, Inc, there is also a growing acceptance of bitcoin from institutional investors saying:
"Each day we are hearing of more well-known fiduciaries, banks, funds, etc. investing into crypto/blockchain infrastructure, and I believe Bitcoin is the proxy for most who want to have exposure to the crypto asset class, while these markets develop,"
An example that confirms this theory is that JP Morgan announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency.
"While not significant to the price of Bitcoin, in reality, this also has given additional credibility to the space, which is helping with the price of Bitcoin; and I believe, this acceptance will help sustain the crypto asset class for the long run," says Ramson.
Another indicator is the increased volume at Local Bitcoins which is 4 times higher.
Given that Bitcoin breaks two key levels, $4200, and $4800, we might see a FOMO forming pushing the prices higher.