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Feature: Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
Steam Charts: All This Happened Edition
By John Walker • 4 months ago • 34
What's Another Thing You Could Buy Instead Of GTA V Again? A Jurassic Park VHS tape lamp
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Dead By Daylight crosses over with Stranger Things next month
By Alice O'Connor • 5 months ago • 6
Continuing to break down the walls separating horror series and build a crossover world of murder grander than Hollywood ever managed, Dead By Daylight will soon draft the kooky kids of Stranger Things. The next expansion for the 1v4 multiplayer horrorshow will introduce Nancy Wheeler and Steve Harrington as aspiring survivors, and the Demigorgon as a new baddie out to eat their faces. The nitty-gritty…
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Steam dusts off some free weekends for the Spring Cleaning Event
By Dominic Tarason • 8 months ago • 10
Valve are joining all those great internet thought-leaders and telling you to clean your room, or at the very least to play the games that you've bought on Steam. Running this weekend until May 28th, 6pm GMT, the Steam Spring Cleaning Event provides a front-page checklist of games to try or return to, and rewarding the diligent with goodies to decorate their account page with.…
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Dead By Daylight starts stalking dedicated servers next summer
By Alice O'Connor • 1 year ago • 2
1v4 horrorshow Dead By Daylight will finally switch from player-hosted peer-to-peer matches to proper dedicated servers next year, developers Behaviour have announced. That should mean less lag, fewer connection interruptions, and the end of the laggy host psycho killers (qu'est qu'ils sont?) having an advantage. The devs expect to launch dedicated servers in summer 2019, which is a fair way away but a fair sign…
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Asymmetric multiplayer hunter Deathgarden stalks into early access
By Matt Cox • 1 year ago
There's no time to smell the roses in Deathgarden. You'll either be too busy parkouring away from a chunky marine, or embodying that soldier yourself as you hunt down the five other players in each game. Think Evolve, but with a gaggle of archers whose focus is on fleeing a dude with a gun rather than bringing down a big beastie. Also they're all humans…
Tagged with Behaviour Interactive, early access, Dead by Daylight, Deathgarden.
The 100 best-selling games on Steam in 2018 so far
We've just passed the half-way point of 2018, so Ian Gatekeeper and all his fabulously wealthy chums over at Valve have revealed which hundred games have sold best on Steam over the past six months. It's a list dominated by pre-2018 names, to be frank, a great many of which you'll be expected, but there are a few surprises in there. 2018 releases Jurassic World…
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Dead By Daylight sends in… the clowns
By Alice O'Connor • 2 years ago
All sorts of tricks and treats are abound in 4v1 qu'est-ce que c'est 'em up Dead By Daylight today. A new update adds tutorial levels and the option to unlock some of its paid DLC characters through playing, and new DLC adds a horrible murderclown and a new survivor. Come meet this fiendish funnyman.
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Steam's Spring Cleaning Event wants you to clear your backlog… Or just try a bunch of new games instead
By Dominic Tarason • 2 years ago • 22
I'm not sure if Valve's latest promotional wotsit on Steam knows whether it's coming or going. On one hand, it's nice that the Spring Cleaning Event (running until Monday, 28th May) is nudging players into trying out games they may have bought in sales and never touched, but pairing that with nine simultaneous free weekend events does somewhat undermine the message. Ah well, it's an excuse to…
Tagged with Castle Crashers, free games, Steam, Valve, Borderlands 2, Cities: Skylines, Dead by Daylight, Dirt 4, Don't Starve Together, Guns of Icarus Alliance, Left 4 Dead 2, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Tyranny.
Dead by Daylight dev's Deathgarden looks familiar
By Dominic Tarason • 2 years ago • 4
Deathgarden, Behaviour Interactive's next game after multiplayer horror romp Dead by Daylight bears more than a passing family resemblance. In the trailer within: A helpless player hanging from some sort of altar, a hulking great aggressor guarding his prey while several other players lurk in the shadows, preparing a rescue. The only real difference between the games at this point are some stylish sci-fi masks, and significantly…
Tagged with Behaviour Interactive, Starbreeze, Dead by Daylight, Deathgarden.
Dead By Daylight making DLC characters unlockable
By Alice O'Connor • 2 years ago • 1
Many of Dead By Daylight's paid DLC characters will become unlockable without paying a penny, developers Behaviour have announced. With the multiplayer slasher 'em up's second birthday drawing near, they've laid out their plans for the third year, including new cosmetic items and four new killers, survivors, and maps arriving across the year. But it is especially good to hear that, as the game grows…
Tagged with Behaviour, Dead by Daylight.
President Trump showed a weird frag montage in his video game violence meeting
By Alice O'Connor • 2 years ago • 156
US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February's murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it "is really shaping young people's thoughts." This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short…
Tagged with Donald Trump, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dead by Daylight, Fallout 4, Sniper Elite 4, The Evil Within, violence in games. Wolfenstein: The New Order.
Dead By Daylight meets the Saw movies in new DLC
Following crossovers with Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, and A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dead By Daylight has opened another forbidden book, touched another ominous bloodstain, and said another forbidden name thrice into the mirror. This time, the 1v4 horrorshow has summoned DLC from the world of the Saw movies. The new killer is The Pig, Jigsaw's apprentice trapmurderer Amanda Young, and she's armed with…
Tagged with Behaviour Interactive, DLC, Saw, Dead by Daylight.
Feature: The biggest hits of the past 12 months
These are the top 100 Steam games of 2017
Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games. But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol' breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months. Below is the full, hundred-strong…
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Freddy Krueger is coming to Dead By Daylight tomorrow
Halloween is so close you can almost taste the pumpkins and ghosts. Ghosts taste like ash and regret, in case you didn't know, but they're pleasant enough when spread on toast with a good helping of jam. Pumpkins are best devoured as the base of a spiced soup. As the spookiest day approaches, it is perhaps natural that murderer simulator Dead By Daylight has revealed…
Tagged with Behaviour, Starbreeze, Dead by Daylight.
Feature: To the stars
Steam Charts: Stellaris Edition
A funny old week in the charts, which is to say, H1Z1 and The Witcher 3 have been shoved out by the hatrick of appearances from Stellaris. Also it's worth noting that Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider has disappeared after just one week, which seems a bit of a shame. Oh, and as correctly predicted last week, absolutely no sign of XCOM 2 making nearly…
Tagged with feature, NBA 2K18, Steam Charts, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dead by Daylight, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Grand Theft Auto V, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Stellaris, Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn, Stellaris: Utopia, Total War: Warhammer II.
Feature: How to have a killer time
How to live and die in Dead By Daylight
Slasher versus survivors multiplayer kill 'em up Dead By Daylight [official site] is free to play this weekend (and right now, in fact), which is splendid news. It failed to win me over when I played it around launch, but I love it now. I think the change of opinion is as much down to my expectations shifting as much as any updates to the…
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Dead by Daylight summons free trial weekend
4v1 teens versus psycho killer (qu'est-ce que c'est?) chase 'em up Dead by Daylight [official site] has launched another free weekend, inviting all and sundry to play the full game for free for several days. When Rich McCormick recently visited the game to see how much a year of updates had improved it, he was jolly pleased with the game it has become. If you…
Tagged with Behaviour Interactive, demo, Dead by Daylight, Starbreeze Studios.
Feature: Update Night
Has Dead by Daylight been improved by its updates?
By Rich McCormick • 2 years ago • 12
Update Night is a new fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they've been changed for better or worse. I'm starting to sympathise with Freddy Krueger. Here I am — a monstrous serial killer, armed with unheimlich powers and a wickedly sharp axe — and I'm being given the run-around by a gaggle of teens and twerps in dirty T-shirts.…
Tagged with Behaviour Interactive, feature, Update Night, Dead by Daylight, Starbreeze Studios.
Feature: The kindness of strangers
Dead By Daylight is a cooperative masterclass
I'm hanging from a hook, struggling and kicking as the claws of a dark cosmic entity close around my skull. Not by choice, you understand. The bastard thing that placed me here is nearby, pleased with the sacrifice but also hoping to use me as bait. To my horror, the plan works and I see someone approaching, inching forward through a cornfield, trying to stay…
Feature: Drunken Lullabies
Dead by Daylight's newest survivor is a terrible person
By Fraser Brown • 2 years ago • 8
Last month was Dead By Daylight's [official site] first anniversary, and Behaviour Digital are celebrating the occasion by releasing the asymmetrical multiplayer game's fifth DLC chapter, which will be free. "We've sold the game to a few people so far," says Mathieu Cote, modestly, as we start chatting about the new chapter. "And we said at the very beginning of the project that we'd be…
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Q: Searching for 'ground fault' on DC power supply, 0VDC to ground We have 3 chargers for DC power supplies (125VDC battery banks) at our facility and had a contractor come in and test them. They said there is a 'ground fault' on 2 of them in their report.  The only evidence they show in the report is from voltage readings between the (+) terminal to ground, and also the (-) terminal to ground.  Voltages between terminals is fine.
The readings they show are:
battery 1: +/ground= 110Vdc   -/ground= 20Vdc
battery 2: +/ground= 26Vdc    -/ground= 108Vdc
I took readings with a handheld fluke multimeter and for battery 1 I get 0Vdc for both terminals in reference to ground.  So the multimeter has a much lower resistance than exists already on the floating power supply to ground. This makes sense, but I don't see how they are saying there is a ground fault...
Battery 2 I do measure +/ground= 26Vdc    -/ground= 108Vdc just like the report.  Now, that shows me there is a very low resistance between the power supply and ground (because the internal resistance of the multimeter is able to read the potential), somewhere in the system, correct?
Or at least lower than 10Mohm. And I should isolate components until the issue is found?
Furthermore, is this an actual issue that could damage the power supply?
I haven't been able to find anything wrong by visual/operational inspection of the components operating on the DC bus.

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simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Figure 1. Earth fault tester.
Try wiring two 120 V lamps as shown in Figure 1. If the system is floating both lamps will light at half brightness. If one lights more brightly it indicates an earth fault on the other line.
Retake your voltage readings with the lamps connected. Their lower impedance will give a more reliable "pull" than your high impedance meter.

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HKICS Review Report - 'Missing Opportunities? A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards'
The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) has published a review report entitled, 'Missing Opportunities? A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards' on 9 February 2021.
The report illustrates the inadequate representation of women on Hong Kong boards of listed companies. It calls for the regulatory imposition of a 30% target for women on boards (WOBs) over a six-year period. The target will be voluntary, but only in the sense that it will be subjected to a 'comply or explain' regime.
Ms Gillian Meller FCG(CS, CGP) FCS(CS, CGP), President of HKICS comments, 'This matters. It matters because gender board diversity is well recognised as contributing to more effective boards and better corporate performance. It matters because the under-representation of women on our boards fails to meet the standards of an international financial centre. It matters as an issue of fairness and equality. It matters because Hong Kong companies are missing the opportunity to make full use of the talent available to serve on their boards and Hong Kong women are missing the opportunity to develop their careers and serve the Hong Kong corporate community. And it matters to our Institute as a promoter of excellence in governance and as a diverse organisation ourselves - two-thirds of our members are women.
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Q: How to convert "YYYYMMDDHHMM" format to YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM format in SQL Server? I have a Column having datetime values as "YYYYMMDDHHMM" format. I want to change it to YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM format. Please help .

A: If it is a varchar field you can use this:
declare @date varchar(20) = '201703010454';

select left(@date,4) + '/' + substring(@date,5,2) + '/'
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Viral meningitis scare could lead to changes to Sunday's WWE TLC pay-per-view
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There could be some changes to Sunday's WWE TLC pay-per-view. As previously noted, Bo Dallas is ill and that is the reason why he's been off WWE shows for the past couple of weeks. The Pittsburgh Tribune's Justin Labar reported on Wednesday that Dallas, Bray Wyatt, and JoJo were taken off the road because of viral meningitis. Labar noted that all three of them have the illness but JoJo's mother claimed that her daughter is not sick. It could be that Wyatt and JoJo were taken off the road as a precautionary measure in case they end up getting sick and to prevent viral meningitis from spreading to others on the roster.
According to information on the CDC website, the common symptoms of viral meningitis for adults are fever, headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to bright light, sleepiness or trouble waking up from sleep, nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite, and lethargy. There is no specific treatment for it and generally, people recover on their own within 7-10 days.
Pro Wrestling Sheet's Ryan Satin noted on Twitter that the viral meningitis scare is real and it could affect Sunday's WWE TLC pay-per-view.
Cody Rhodes reveals when he was medically cleared for WWE Royal Rumble return
There are rumors floating around suggesting that the main event for TLC (The Shield vs. Braun Strowman, Kane, The Miz, Sheamus, and Cesaro) could be affected. If that is the case, then I am sure that we'll hear more in the next 48 hours. We'll pass along an update as soon as we get it.
Catch up on some of the latest WWE news stories below:
Reason why Tom Phillips was not on WWE Smackdown Live
JoJo's mother responds to rumors about her daughter
Neville was infuriated with WWE before he decided to leave
Reason why Bo Dallas, Bray Wyatt, and JoJo have been off WWE TV
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Flourishing wildlife in Kazakh national parks
20 June 2022 ~ Nick Fielding
Recent camera-trap videos from remote parts of Kazakhstan show that in some parts of the country – despite the depradations of illegal hunters in the past – wildlife is flourishing. Check out this video of Siberian Ibex, captured recently in the Altyn Emel National Park:
Siberian Ibex in Altyn Emel National Park in Eastern Kazakhstan
Or this remarkable piece of film showing a large herd of saiga antelopes crossing a river in Western Kazakhstan:
Saiga antelope crossing a river in Western Kazakhstan
The saiga is included on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where it has been listed as a critically endangered species since 2002. It has been hunted illegally in the country and a couple of years ago thousands of the animals died from a respiratory disease, but the population is now growing.
According to the Kazakh Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, there are three populations of species in the country: at Betpakdaly in Central Kazakhstan, at Ustyurt in Mangystau, and at Aktobe and Uralsk population in Western Kazakhstan.
"The population of saiga is 1,318,000 individuals by now, which is 56 percent higher than in 2021, when there were 842,000 saigas. This year, there are 801,000 Uralsk saigas, 28,000 Ustyurt saigas and 489,000 Betpakdaly saigas," eco-activist Saken Dildakhmet wrote in late May.
It is believe that almost 90 percent of the world's saiga population lives in Kazakhstan, with the remainder in Mongolia and Kalmykia.
The rare Himalayan Brown Bear, listed in Kazakhstan's Red Book of endangered species has also been sighted recently at Altyn Emel:
Himalayan Brown Bear seen recently in Altyn Emel National Park
I was lucky enough to see both Siberian Ibex and a bear during a visit to the Djungar Alatau Mountains in July 2019. Two other large mammals, lynx and snow leopard, also inhabit these mountains. Lynx are seen regularly, as this recent footage from Altyn Emel shows:
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A lynx family group of mother and three one-year-old cubs filmed recently at Altyn Emel
Snow leopards are very hard to see in the wild, but have been caught regularly on camera traps. These were filmed in July last year in the Altai Mountains in north-east Kazakhstan:
Snow leopards filmed in north-east Kazakhstan
"Photographic evidence of the presence of the snow leopard in East Kazakhstan is great news. The last traces of the snow leopard's presence in the Kazakh part of the Altai Mountains were obtained in the winter of 2017 near the Russian-Kazakh border. These were the footprints of a female with a cub. Then there were no tracks of a snow leopard until 2021," said Alexander Karnaukhov, senior project coordinator for the WWF in the Altay-Sayan ecoregion.
Kolsay Lakes National Park in the Almaty Region also reported photographic evidence of three snow leopards on its territory in July last year. This national park is reported to be home to at least 16 snow leopards. The snow leopard is protected in Kazakhstan, where there are thought to be approximately 120-130 animals, out of a global population of around 7,000.
The WWF project, backed by Kazakh environmental organisations, for the conservation of the snow leopard in East Kazakhstan began in 2015. East Kazakhstan is a place of migration for snow leopards and other rare animal species from Central Asia to the Altai mountains and vice versa. The snow leopard has become a symbol of the Altai and Sayan mountains at the junction of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China.
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Story-of-Texas-being-retold-reconsidered-1036724.php
Story of Texas being retold, reconsidered
On this date 175 years ago, Texas declared itself a free republic.
By Scott Huddleston
shuddleston@express-news.net
Updated 12:38 am CST, Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The signature of San Antonian Samuel A. Maverick is among those on the Texas Declaration of Independence, which was approved 175 years ago.
Photo: Mike Graczyk/Associated Press
On a cold Wednesday morning 175 years ago, about 50 delegates in a simple, windowless wooden structure in East Texas declared "that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign and independent republic."
To many Texans today, it was a courageous act for them to sign their names, knowing Santa Anna had marched his army north, seeking revenge.
To others, the Texas Declaration of Independence and Texian victories at Gonzales, Goliad, San Antonio and San Jacinto constituted a land grab by slave owners and traitors. They say the real story of Texas has been forgotten.
"Our children are growing up ignorant of who they are. The Alamo is at the root of all of that," said Ronald Rocha, a descendant of the Yaqui tribe of northern Mexico.
To Rocha and others, March 2 has become a symbol of Anglo dominance. When an 1861 statewide convention was held just before the Civil War, delegates chose Texas Independence Day as the day Texas would secede and join the Confederacy.
While many today view the 1835-36 Texas Revolution as a good-vs.-evil struggle, Alamo historian Bruce Winders said it really was part of a long period of political turmoil centering on how Mexico was to be governed — "a series of civil wars that lasted several decades."
What began as a federalist movement favoring states' rights and local control became a war for independence. Alamo commander William Barret Travis, in a letter written during the siege, encouraged delegate Jesse Grimes to "let the convention go on" and declare independence, rather than rallying troops, so "the world will understand what we are fighting for."
Noah Byars, a Baptist preacher and gunsmith appointed by Gen. Sam Houston to provide arms to the Texas army, let delegates use his crude building at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
Among its grievances, the declaration cited deprivations concerning the right to trial by jury; public education; "piratical attacks upon our commerce;" the right of "worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience;" and the right to bear arms.
Though three of the eventual 59 delegates who signed it were of Mexican descent, the declaration said an appeal to "our Mexican brethren for assistance" was "made in vain."
"We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty ... that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self-government," stated the document, now on display through April 21 at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building in Austin.
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Ceremony today
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Alamo Mission Chapter, will hold a 1 p.m. ceremony at the Alamo honoring educators and students of Texas in observance of Texas Independence Day. UTSA President Ricardo Romo is slated to give a keynote address.
As ceremonies and re-enactments are held this weekend in Alamo Plaza to celebrate the state's independence, Rocha said he'll be part of a "pro-educational rally" there, talking about Native American contributions to Texas.
He argues that Santa Anna, who ordered the emancipation of slaves in Texas after the Alamo battle, was made a scapegoat by the Mexican government. He said Sam Houston used the fallen Alamo defenders as "sacrificial lambs" to get sympathy from the American public.
Rocha, who has argued for portrayal of people of color in history textbooks, said movies and television have given a distorted view of Texas history.
Gary Foreman, a filmmaker who long has advocated better historical interpretation of the Alamo, agrees that the media have oversimplified the state's history. But he doesn't support rewriting it with generalities and stereotypes.
"People who come to see the Alamo are drawn to the common value of sacrifice that transcends any label," he said. "By getting into these little battles over interpretation, we're hurting ourselves, and hurting our history."
Foreman's media company, Native Sun Productions, will offer exhibits and demonstrations Thursday through Sunday at the Menger Hotel and in Alamo Plaza, with Texian, Tejano and Mexican perspectives. He and Rocha agree that after 175 years, Texans should understand their complex history in deeper context.
"Regardless of how it was done, we're a beautiful state today," Rocha said.
mySA looks back
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Touhou is a franchise known chiefly for its genre-defining bullet-hell insanity. Team Shanghai Alice's wholehearted embracement of fan-made games ("doujin" more accurately), though, has led to a bustling, open-ended franchise where creativity is bread and butter. Its characters have gone on to star in everything from unofficial anime to light novels, morphing stars of a niche genre into broader symbols for aspiring developers in Japan.
Related reading: Clark reviews another Touhou game, Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet.
The experiments conducted by fans are most lucrative when they aren't just leveraging the cutesy characters themselves but embracing the bullet-hell gameplay synonymous with the Touhou name. We saw recently with Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet that fighting game and 2D shooting mechanics can work in harmonious unison. Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity, a doujin title from another studio, instead seeks to fuse the action RPG with the tried and true Touhou shooting formula. Though the fruits of its labour aren't quite as ripe, the game does prove once again that grandiose bullet-hell gameplay can shine outside predictable contexts.
Scarlet Curiosity contains a plot that is in line with most comedy-oriented Touhou releases. This is to say it's amusing nonsense geared more toward existing fans than anyone else. Protagonist Remilia Scarlet has her curiosity piqued (yes, you can already guess where the title comes from) by a newspaper, which reveals that a monster is leaving destruction in its wake. Motivated not by heroic motives but sheer desperation to overcome boredom in her old age, Remilia sets out to vanquish the fiend. Players can also elect to play as Sakuya Izayoi, Remilia's maid, whose outside perspective puts an equally appealing spin on the proceedings.
You're not going to witness oodles of enthralling dialogue during the game's pleasantly brief running length. Each of the game's loosely defined chapters does little to build real tension and, frankly, it suits the franchise's tone all the better for it. It's a title that accepts its own light-hearted nature off the bat. This winds up as a double-edged sword, however, in that the tale does little to tie in with the escalating JRPG mechanics beneath it and the gags aren't plentiful or tightly written enough to stand toe to toe against the more comedic JRPGs out there. I can see newcomers being intrigued by the cultural elements such as shrine maidens, tengu, and shinigami, but then again, the same can be said of most canon or fan-made titles in the series. The neatest attribute here is the inclusion of mysterious newspapers clippings via the main menu, which add a touch of personality whilst helping direct the action.
Thus, Scarlet Curiosity hands over most of the heavy lifting to the action RPG-influenced gameplay. The expected genre trimmings are all there, complete with levelling up, equipment management, and traditional combat. If you're familiar with the bulk of Ys titles available on PSP and PC, you should feel right at home with the setup here. Racking up ludicrous combos increases your attack output and accelerates the rate of experience gain upon mowing down legions of foes. This encourages a faster paced, beat-down format similar to bullet hell games, albeit with the introduction of jumping not possible in those games. The real treat is learning new skills via levelling up and watching as these completely alter the game's play style. Slicing up squadrons becomes infinitely more fulfilling when you're constantly beta-testing skills to prepare for boss showdowns.
What's far more crucial to the formula is the injection of Touhou flavouring. This is where Scarlet Curiosity excels; introducing players to a genre mashup that precious few developers have ever toyed with. Unlike the aforementioned Ys series, you will not spend most of your time hacking and slashing but launching and dodging kaleidoscopic arrays of flashy projectiles. Combined with the rhythmic combo system that encourages precision, you can tell there was a concerted effort to preserve the building blocks of Touhou. You've even got the Spell attacks in those games, which trigger explosive damage at the appropriate expense of a meter that needs to be recharged. Melee attacks are also included in order to upkeep the tempo of a more traditional action game, but you'll obviously want to experiment with the shooting mechanics here above all else.
The resulting dynamic between the two genres is an intriguing one indeed, though there are some speed bumps in the proceedings. Just the ability to jump, a feature reasonably common in action RPGs, means you're going to get plenty of air-time. This permits players to tower above the ground-bound bullets and elemental attacks, providing a relatively simple counter versus having to dance like in a shooter. Enemy mannerisms also tend to be conservative, presumably to enable the use of physical attacks. Overall, there's the sentiment that the frantic psychosis of the bullet-hell mechanics were downplayed. Scarlet Curiosity is by no means bland, but it feels as if the genres didn't truly fuse and cause the game to become its own entity. In other words, this one is more in the vein of Ys than Touhou as far mechanics go, but there's no denying that the shooter flavouring does add contribute something worthwhile.
Thankfully, the level design does have an identity of its own compared to fellow action RPGs. The world itself is broken into several smaller regions accessible through a world map. Stages tend to be these open-ended, sprawling mazes littered with alternate routes and sprinkled with foes for good measure. Because levels are broad but still have a loose sense of direction, players can decide whether to live fast and furiously or stop and sniff the roses. The latter option has plenty of merits, what with the myriads of sedentary treasure chests just begging to be scoured.
Naturally, designs become even more enticing as the game progresses and by the end you'll find some borderline 2D stages to mix up the pacing as well as some 3D platforming-lite levels. The wonderful diversity keeps players on their toes and it's fascinating to witness old circumstances familiar to action RPGs but with the power for players and foe alike to fire projectiles. Boss fights are closer in nature to Touhou's majestic bullet-hell bosses, but are also rather tame by comparison due to the jumping mechanic and downplayed enemy patterns. Nonetheless, some skirmishes toward the end do push ingenuity despite the limitations. The sheer novelty is forever on display.
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity doesn't merge its two genres as seamlessly as its recently localised sibling, but it's still an exceptionally fresh curiosity buy. Though ultimately not quite as polished as either Ys or a main-series Touhou outing, the underlying gameplay is so clever it elevates the whole experience. The adoption of bullet-hell mechanics by classic genres continues to pay dividends.


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A look at "mega" workers' comp claims
» A look at "mega" workers' comp claims
On behalf of Domer Law, S.C. | Sep 23, 2020 | Workers' Compensation, Workplace Injuries
Regular readers of our Wisconsin Workers' Compensation Law Blog know that in order to get a full understanding of issues involving on-the-job injuries, we sometimes dive into the ways employers and workers' comp insurers view the world.
A recent article in an insurance industry publication offered a glimpse into an issue concerning workers' compensation insurers: "mega" claims.
The Business Insurance report said workers' comp claims that qualify as "mega" are those that cost insurers at least $3 million.
Medical tech advancements
An analysis of insurer data shows that mega claims are rising – though they still "comprise a statistically small percentage of all workers comp claims" – and are expected to continue to grow in coming years. The mega claim rise is due to advancements in medical technology that enable people to survive significant injuries, and the cost of those advancements.
The article says mega claims current cost insurers more than $2 billion a year.
Data dive
Researchers looked at more than 4,500 mega claims that cost more than $3 million from 2001 through 2017 and found the following statistical facts:
57 percent of the claims were for between $3 million and $5 million
33 percent were for between $5 million and $10 million
10 percent cost workers' comp insurers in excess of $10 million each
Construction worker injuries
Researchers also found that claims are reaching the $3 million threshold more quickly than in the past. One of the report's authors said the acceleration of claims to mega status is due in part to an increase in injuries to construction workers — "potentially due to the higher relative hazardousness of the construction industry compared with other industry sectors."
Unfortunately, one of the ways many insurers and employers try to contain costs is to try to deny workers' compensation benefits to employees who have sustained workplace injuries or who have work-related illnesses. Workers denied Wisconsin workers' comp benefits have the right to appeal, however.


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Your question: Which of the following environmental protection organization is active in the Philippines?
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1. Greenpeace Philippines. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, protect and conserve the environment, and promote peace. … Some of Greenpeace Philippines volunteers include activists, interns, cyberactivists, and local group members.
As this paper demonstrates, the Philippines is undergoing much environmental degradation—mainly in the form of deforestation, soil erosion, disruption of hydrological systems, over-exploitation of fisheries, destruction of coral reefs, and extinction of species.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies, guidelines, and rules related to environmental management, as well as the management and conservation of the country's natural resources.
Top 5 Environmental Problems in the Philippines (via PSST.PH)
Pollution. Pollution, in context, is the introduction of contaminants into the environment causing adverse change. …
Global warming due to emission of greenhouse gases. …
Overpopulation. …
Natural resources depletion. …
Waste disposal.
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The Philippines also suffers major human-caused environmental degradation aggravated by a high annual population growth rate, including loss of agricultural lands, deforestation, soil erosion, air and water pollution, improper disposal of solid and toxic wastes, loss of coral reefs, mismanagement and abuse of coastal …
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Pollution. …
Global warming. …
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Deforestation. …
Ozone layer depletion.
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. … Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local.
Economy of the Philippines
GDP $402.6 billion (nominal, 2021 est.) $1.006 trillion (PPP, 2021 est.)
GDP rank 34th (nominal, 2021) 27th (PPP, 2021)
GDP growth 6.3% (2018) 6.0% (2019) -9.5% (2020) 11.2% (2021)
GDP per capita $3,646 (nominal, 2021 est.) $9,247 (PPP, 2021 est.)
Jollibee Foods Corporation (abbreviated as JFC; also known as Jollibee after its primary fast food brand) is a Filipino multinational company based in Pasig, Philippines.
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Examples include neighbourhood associations, water-users groups, women's credit associations. Over the past decade they have become widespread partners of UN programmes at the local level.
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Genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk for Ashkenazi Jewish women with strong family histories but no identifiable BRCA1/2 mutation.
Read this article on the Human Genetics website.
Rinella ES, Shao Y, Yackowski L, Pramanik S, Oratz R, Schnabel F, Guha S, LeDuc C, Campbell CL, Klugman SD, Terry MB, Senie RT, Andrulis IL, Daly M, John EM, Roses D, Chung WK, Ostrer H. Human Genetics, May 2013
Jewish Women's Breast and Ovarian Cancer Genetic Study
This study at New York University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, is studying DNA from Ashkenazi Jewish women for two reasons: to try to identify new genes that might reduce breast and ovarian cancer risk in women who have a BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation; and to try to identify genes, other than BRCA 1 and BRCA2, that increase breast and ovarian cancer risk in Ashkenazi Jewish women. The researchers initially wanted to enroll at least 1,000 women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent; they later increased their enrollment goal to a minimum of 2,000 women after the tremendous response from Love Research Army members. The Call to Action for this study was sent to Love Research Army members on November 10, 2010. When the researchers closed enrollment on June 9, 2011, the Love Research Army had provided them with 4,620 women who were interested in enrolling in the study.


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Part #2 › Return to LP Index
Part 1: The Grand Voting Post
Two groups whose work has brought me many hours of enjoyment.
Greetings, everyone! I'd also like to welcome you to something that is rather different from my usual fare, but which truly deserves to be shown off. There is an attract mode here, but let's refrain from spoiling everything straight out of the gate…
Instead, let us examine our choices. You see, Live-A-Live offers the player seven scenarios straight after beginning a new game, with no direction as to which order to play them in. It really does not matter, and we will need to play all of them before the LP can reach its conclusion… But which to pick first?
Naturally, this calls for thread participation! Let us waste no time, and make with the introductions. In order of their music's appearance on the soundtrack, they are…
The shinobi remain in the shadows even amidst the upheaval of societal change. To one such man, secret orders are given. Sneak past countless guards and traps to rescue the hostage! Can he kill 100 men?
The main character of each scenario is renamable, but this purple-haired gentleman is called Oboro by default. Oboro's scenario is one of the longer and more involved ones, and offers the opportunity for mass murder or a clean hands run depending on the player's playstyle. However, the best path lies somewhere in the middle… But more on that when we get there. Expect screwing up passwords, contemplating the slaughter of innocents and a touch of the supernatural.
A fierce youth has entered a global fighting tournament to experience and learn the combat styles of the world. He will see many unique techniques, and will use them to achieve the ultimate goal: The title of "Strongest in the World!"
Masaru's chapter is one of the shortest, and may appeal to people who enjoy Mega Man and/or sweet wrasslin' moves. As you might expect, it's almost entirely about combat against a bunch of weirdos of varying nationalities. Expect stereotypes and silly attack names.
The Stone Age. The day a free-spirited boy and his friend Gori come of age has arrived… In a time before spoken communication, man possessed a keen nose indeed. Through his sense of smell, man could find any beast or avoid lurking danger.
This short and scruffy fellow is Pogo, and the lack of dialogue in his chapter will make cutscenes interesting to present in screenshots. Expect .gifs, hunting, wild behaviour and general indecency. It's also another long chapter.
Behold the transport ship Cogito Ergosum, en route to planet Earth. Inside, a new kind of life-form is being created. The robot created by Kato the mechanic will become intimately involved as events spiral out of control on board…
The ironically named Cube might have had the shortest chapter if it wasn't so dialogue heavy. Indeed, it is possible to have only one fight in Cube's chapter at all… Though there are a few others that can be sought out. This one is all about the storytelling and atmosphere, despite being set in space.
In ancient China, an aged martial artist lives high atop a windy peak. He has begun to feel the need of a suitable successor for his technique. His disciples train hard, but only one will come to harness their master's power.
Master Xin Shan Quan actually has an 'average' length chapter (surprisingly), and shares his name with the martial art he created. So be aware we're renaming both those things at once… and that we will have to choose a successor for him. Expect an old man being badass. And tigers.
In a time when the West was wild and criminals were many… A haggard traveler with a price on his head wanders into Success Town, the recent target of a notorious outlaw gang. Work quickly to set traps and take down the Crazy Bunch!!
This mysterious man is none other than the Sundown Kid, and his scenario runs on a timer. Work fast, or suffer the consequences… Not a lot of combat in this one, and it's also rather tiny. If you like Westerns, you're going to love the music in this one.
In the not-too-distant future lives a boy with the power to read other peoples' thoughts. His teenage years are troubled, and he gets into many fights. And yet over his shoulder silently watches a sleeping giant, the robotic Buruki Daioh…
The kid with a scar on his forehead and special powers is Akira, and his chapter is another of reasonable length. There will be drugs, fighting in the streets, motorcycles, a cult and at least one giant mecha.
Voting Time!
So, we need to decide upon our first scenario and possibly new names for our seven protagonists. New names are a maximum of six letters. Voting goes for… however long I feel like, really. A few days at least. I'll be keeping a tally, so being specific with your votes will be helpful.


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"Create resonance" – Interview with Ray Edwards | Sword and Savvy 104
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This is Sword and Savvy, a video-chat style interview show, like grabbing a virtual coffee with a Christian business mentor. Guests are established Christian entrepreneurs who talk about how their faith impacts their business and how their business impacts their faith. Click to learn more, including how to become a guest.
How to recognize what God is blessing (4:21)
Taking immediate action on ideas (13:52)
Marketing and selling as a Christian business owner (21:33)
Working for free and giving ideas away (32:41)
One practice to increase your ability to hear from God (51:52)
Guest Bio:
Ray Edwards is a world-renowned copywriter and community communication strategist writing for some of the most powerful voices in leadership and business, including New York Times best selling authors, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, the authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Tony Robbins. Ray's a sought-after speaker and author, host of a popular weekly podcast, and blogs at RayEdwards.com.
Check out Ray's site (RayEdwards.com), where you can get his current free offers, podcast episodes, and social links.
💬 LEAVE A COMMENT – who do you want to see next? What did you learn? What would *you* have asked Ray?
Bible Verses, Links, and Quoted Sayings:
• John 5:19 "Jesus gave them this answer: 'Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.'"
• Matthew 10:16 "'I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.'"
• The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Quoted: "Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." (quote by Dwight D Eisenhower)
• Quoted: "No plan survives contact with the enemy." (quote by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder)
• 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
• Isaiah 48:17 "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: 'I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.'"
• Deuteronomy 8:18 "But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today."
• Proverbs 25:28 "Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control."
• Luke 10:7 "Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house."
• Proverbs 11:26 "People curse the one who hoards grain, but they pray God's blessing on the one who is willing to sell."
• Story of the rich young ruler (Ray referenced Luke's version): Luke 18:18-30, Mark 10:17-27, Matthew 19:16-22
• Ray's site: RayEdwards.com, where you can get his current free offers, podcast episodes, and social links
Quotes from this Episode:
"I just have a no regrets policy. I have a core belief that life happens for us and not to us. […] I believe everything in our life happens for a purpose. Sometimes it's a bad purpose. I think there's two forces at work in our lives. There's the good force and the bad force, and the good force will always win in the end, but sometimes we're under the influence of the other side, but even that is I think the universe is built and constructed and directed in such a way that it all bends toward our favor no matter what happens to us."
"I tell people that I think our ideas have a half life. We have an idea and we're excited about it. And then if we wait a day or a lot less excited about it, wait two days or three days, it's done. We're not going to do it."
"The more action you take, the more results you get."
"Now I tend to be pretty focused when I need to be but sometimes something comes along and I feel God speak to me about something and I'll take the entire day and just trash it. Say, okay, cancel all the appointments. I've got something else I have to do. And usually I'm right about it. Not always. Sometimes I'm wrong about it, but I'd rather be wrong with the intention of serving God than be right with the intention of serving myself."
"Marketing is something that we do for people, not something we do to people. If you're doing it to them, then something's wrong with the way you're doing it. […] So I think the the idea of marketing, instead of persuading people or selling people on something, think of it like you're creating resonance. […] When we're marketing properly, we're telling a story about our product or service that resonates with our customer and it gets their attention and they get excited. They get enthusiastic, not because we manipulated them or because we've said some magic turn of phrase that caused them to be hypnotized. It's because we struck a chord with them literally in their spirit that said, 'Oh, that could be the answer' and that you're doing it in service to them. You're awakening them to a solution that will make their life better. And in what way is that wrong?"
"I think whenever we pray something always happens. People ask me sometimes 'I prayed about this and it didn't happen. Nothing happened.' They'll say no, and I'll say, well, that's never true. Something happened. You just don't know what it was."
[on charging for our services] "It's a matter of the amount of respect and power we feel as an individual. And I don't mean power over other people. I mean power over ourselves. I think a powerful person is a person who has power over their own behavior and their own attitudes. The scripture says that 'a person who cannot guard his heart is like a city with broken down walls' [Prov 25:28]. So you've got to have that power within yourself to say, 'I'll answer this question, but that thing that you're talking about, that's what I do. So we should make an appointment' and don't feel bad about it."
"You may not think you're super spiritual, you like, you may not think you hear from God, but I believe we all do. It's a matter of learning to listen."
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7digital What we said: Back in the summer, a 20-year-old hardware clerk from Illinois stole our hearts with her glitchy, R&B-referencing pop. The Felix Snow-produced 'Gold' remains Kiiara's only official single to date, but the string of songs she's unveiled on SoundCloud provide a watertight case that she's one of the most exciting young artists in the world right now. We'll be keeping a close eye on her in 2016, and probably on the cashiers when we're browsing our local B&Q too.
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Liberty Magona halts production due to material shortage
Wednesday, 23 December 2020 17:24:26 (GMT+3) | Brescia
Liberty Magona, based in Piombino, Italy, was forced to halt its plants on December 20 due to difficulties in getting feedstock materials, i.e., raw coils, to produce galvanized and pre-painted steels, sources have told SteelOrbis.
As per existing agreements, the Piombino plant will continue to be supplied with hot rolled coils by ArcelorMittal's plant in Fos-sur-Mer, in France, for five years, while in a second phase Liberty will be able to use products coming from ArcelorMittal's Romanian plants. However, the Fos-sur-Mer plant is having problems in supplying feedstock material due to the strong increase of demand across Europe. Liberty Magona has the option to procure supplies from other suppliers, but there is a strong shortage of material at the moment all around Europe. However, local sources added that the company has succeeded in signing contracts for supplies that should arrive in the coming period, allowing it to produce during the first half of 2021.
Liberty Magona has a production capacity of 700,000 mt of galvanized and pre-painted steel per year and almost 500 employees. They will be laid off temporarily in the first ten days of January.
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Match-fixing 'general director' detained again
Monday, December 7, 2015 Totally Gaming
Dan Tan has been linked with corruption in Italy's Serie A
The man accused of leading the world's biggest football match-fixing syndicate is to be detained without trial in Singapore following his rearrest last week.
Dan Tan will be held under a detention law that is usually reserved for suspected drug traffickers, illegal money-lenders and criminal gang members.
Tan had previously been held without trial for two years before being released in November after the Court of Appeal ruled his confinement had been "unlawful". Fifa, football's global governing body, said it was "very disappointed" about that decision.
However, Tan was rearrested a week later and the Ministry of Home Affairs said that it had now "issued a detention order in respect of Dan Tan Seet Eng on 5 December 2015 for his involvement in global soccer match-fixing".
Tan was originally arrested along with 13 others in September 2013 in a move that was hailed by Interpol as a major breakthrough in the battle against corruption in football. At the time, the Italian prosecutor Roberto Di Martino, who was leading an inquiry into match-fixing, referred to Tan as the "general director of the ring". There has yet to be any trial into the allegations.
Tan was suspected of being the mastermind behind fixed matches in Italy's top-tier Serie A and second-tier Serie B in 2011. He is also being tried in absentia by a Hungarian court for allegedly manipulating 32 games in Hungary, Italy and Finland.


Is THIS the FUTURE of the NON-PROFIT WORLD ?
There are many debates taking place as to the future of non-profit organizations. These debates center around a few specific issues that have come up in the universities who teach about the future of Social Enterprise and its relationship to the non-profit sector. You can hear these conversations as a frequent topic of the Ted Talks as well as in several books written by important contributors to 'thought leadership' on this subject. Former president Bill Clinton in his book GIVING and Matthew Bishop, business editor of the Economist Magazine, in his PHILANTHROCAPITALISM are just a couple that come to mind.
1) The primary reason that Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Gates Foundation, and others are being so effective in addressing their charitable mission is simply because they are running their non-profit initiatives like a business. This was a major tenet of the previously mentioned book, PHILANTHROCAPITALISM. They are applying principles commonly employed in the 'business world' to a sector that has been operating without the disciplines of efficiency, accountability, and pragmatism. This "new' approach suggests to some non-profits that those with overlapping missions consider merging for the exact same reasons that mergers take place in the business world; economies of scale, eliminating duplicate expenses, and other efficiencies of operation. NPOs may naturally resist such change because of the egos and prestige invested in them by their founders and Directors, and also in order to sustain the often bloated bureaucracies supported by these organizations. There are major differences in the area of accountability between these two worlds. NPOs are accountable to their Board of Directors and to public opinion whereas a corporation, a business, is accountable to its shareholders, otherwise known as 'the bottom line'. An enterprise is either operating at its full potential (efficiency and 'profit') or it is not. The 'New Face of Philanthropy' is focused on RESULTS ! The debate is whether or not NPOs need to become more businesslike, more focused on results, in order to survive and accomplish their missions.
2) A very heated debate is taking place on the subject of compensation for CEOs and other top positions within NPOs. On the surface it would appear 'offensive' or 'inappropriate' that top management positions at NPOs would receive hefty compensation, after all, it is a charity we are dealing with. The debate is taking place in the university MBA programs and has been the subject of several Ted Talks as well. The counterpoint presented is that 'if' NPOs are going to be run more like actual businesses with more emphasis on accountability and results, then it stands to reason that greater talent will be necessary to accomplish better results and that these positions can only be filled by offering results-oriented compensation such as exists in the business world. If a major corporation pays its CEO a million dollars a year and gets results such as a huge increase in stock value, well, it is considered a very worthwhile investment. So if it is a matter of talent, or expertise, and a NPO were to also pay its top executive the same million dollars a year, and the net donations were to increase by a large multiple of that number, why would that also not be a wise investment on the part of the NPO such as it was for the corporation? This is the essence of the debate on this issue. If one were only concerned with the amount of money raised by a NPO that employed the necessary talent and expertise to accomplish this result, well there would not be much of a debate. The issue is that our concept of what is right and wrong, what is appropriate, may be getting in the way of the true objective of raising more money so as to deliver more services where they are needed. We can see here how this issue and the one raised above by Gates and Clinton and others are really the same issue, although viewed from different perspectives.
A few years ago Andrew Kassoy and two of his longtime friends had a great idea. They had all been enormously successful in business, had made fortunes, and now wanted to do something with PURPOSE. Andrew, along with Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan, realized that the growing interest in social enterprise did not have an infrastructure to support its true mission. They wanted to, in their own words, "create a new sector of the economy that harnesses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems". The challenge facing them was that a corporation is legally responsible to its shareholders and any altruistic activity by that company that reduced the profits was by definition not in the interest of the shareholders, at least financially speaking. So these competent and very well connected entrepreneurs enlisted the aid of several top law firms to draft legislation to be presented in several states that would create a new class of corporation; the Benefit Corporation. This new class of corporation is required to create a material positive impact on society and the environment and to meet higher standards of accountability and transparency. The Benefit Corporation is responsible not only to its shareholders but also to its stakeholders; its employees, its community, the environment, and any and all effected by its operation. Now ratified in 19 states including Delaware, which has 40% of all corporations, it is pending in many more and there are plans to present it in all 50 states for ratification. There are now a few thousand Benefit Corporations operating and many more being formed. Some are well known and many more are new companies with a social mission as well as financial goals. When a shareholder invests in a Benefit Corporation it is clearly defined in the by-laws that in addition to financial gains there are social benefits that are part of their overall return. The rules and laws guiding these practices vary by state and are very complex and certain to be refined over time. Now let's take a look at what lessons and advantages this new entity may have for non-profits.
Both Benefit Corporations and non-profits have a mission of providing a social benefit in the form of either goods or services. As a for-profit enterprise a Benefit Corp. has access to capital like any other business. It has a business plan with projected profits and a plan for how part of the profit will be used to accomplish its social mission.


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California law1 and federal statutes provide workers with a number of rights and protections – including the right to report an employer's potentially illegal actions without being subjected to employer retaliation.
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Three short films using existing time-lapse and slo-mo footage overlaid with rough animated stick figures. These tests are demonstrations to prove the concept of tiny figures that secretly inhabit the world of plants and vegetation, seemingly controlling the cycle of life. Ultimately, these characters will be coloured and composited with the live-action footage.


Cape Cod Trout Unlimited – Our mission is coldwater conservation.
CAPE COD TROUT UNLIMITED is the local Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Trout Unlimited (TU) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of conserving, protecting and restoring North America's cold water fisheries (salmon and trout) and their watersheds.
For over 40 years, this Chapter's primary conservation project has been restoring the Quashnet River. View this and many other Chapter activities by clicking on the Chapter Activities menu.
Our monthly Chapter meetings are open to the public and are held on the second Wednesday of the month, September through May. The meetings are held at Liberty Hall on Main Street in Marstons Mills, MA. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for refreshments and socializing. The meeting begins at 7:00 p.m.
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A SAR record of early 21st cent...
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A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland
IAN JOUGHIN (a1), BEN E. SMITH (a1), IAN M. HOWAT (a2), TWILA MOON (a3) and TED A. SCAMBOS (a4)...
1 Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105-6698, USA
2 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1272, USA
4 National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, 1540 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80309-0449, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.10
Glaciers in Greenland are changing rapidly. To better understand these changes, we have produced a series of seven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter mosaics for seven winters during the period from 2000 to 2013. Six of the mosaics were created using RADARSAT Fine-Beam data and the seventh used ALOS-PALSAR Fine-Beam Single-Polarization data. The RADARSAT mosaics are radiometrically calibrated and capture changes in the backscatter coefficient related to melt and other events, particularly the strong melting in the summer of 2012. Comparison of features in the ascending-orbit ALOS mosaic and the descending-orbit RADARSAT mosaics indicate that in areas of smooth to moderate topography their locations are consistent to within a few tens of meters. The locations of features identifiable in the RADARSAT mosaics, which were collected with the same imaging parameters, generally agree to within better than the 20 m posting of the data. With such geometric accuracy, these data establish a record of change in Greenland for the early part of the 21st century, thus providing a baseline that can be compared with new radar and optical datasets.
IAN JOUGHIN (a1), BEN E. SMITH (a1), IAN M. HOWAT (a2), TWILA MOON (a3) and TED A. SCAMBOS (a4)
COPYRIGHT: © The Author(s) 2016
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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In his multiple roles as a diplomat, scholar and first editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) traveled around the globe, but what the rest of the world had to offer never impressed him as much as his hometown. "I like Cambridge better than any other spot on the earth's surface," he once said. During "Cambridge Discovery Days" on the first two Saturdays of August, Cantibrigians and others can discover for themselves some of what so enchanted Lowell.
An annual event sponsored by the Historic Cambridge Collaborative, Discovery Days this year focuses on women's voices, ranging from those of Martha Washington, who visited her husband in the winter of 1775-1776 at what is now known as the Longfellow House on Brattle Street to feminist author Margaret Fuller and the "French chef" Julia Child, whose papers are housed at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. Both days also will feature tours of the Longfellow National Historic Site led by National Park Service rangers, visits to and discussions of Cambridge churches as "agents of change" in the city's history, 18th Century activities for children ages four to 12 and walks through the "Old Cambridge Burying Ground" adjacent to Christ Church on Garden Street.
The event also offers the chance to explore Mount Auburn Cemetery, where numerous luminaries (including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church) are buried and the opportunity on both days to "become part of history" by bringing your old photos of family, friends or the house you grew up in to the Cambridge Historical Society at 159 Brattle Street to be scanned. Those who do so will receive the thanks of the staff and free ice cream from Toscanini's. (for more information, call the historical society at 617-547-4252).
The program on August 14 includes a tour of the public art installations in the city ranging from Paine Park near Inman Square to the new main branch of the Cambridge Public Library on Broadway led by Cambridge artists Phyllis Bretholz and Mela Lyman, with Lillian Hsu of the Cambridge Arts Council (for more information call the arts council at 617-349-4380).
Also on August 14, there will be two programs on Margaret Fuller, one in the garden behind the Longfellow House at 105 Brattle Street at 1 p.m. and one at the historical society at 3 p.m. Presented by Jessa Piaia, creator of "Women in History Programs," it will let participants see Fuller as she was in August 1845, when, according to the program guide, she was back from her stay in Manhattan and "reminiscing about her growing up days in Cambridgeport and Boston; her literary achievements and encounters with the Transcendalist circle in Concord and Brook Farm residents in West Roxbury; and her present employment as first female editor and literary critic for the New York Daily Tribune.".
Mary Leno, formerly of the Cambridge Women's Commission, will lead a tour and discussion on "The Women of Central Square," with stories of women including Maria Baldwin and Charlotte Hawkins Brown and a visit to the country's oldest women's center. The event is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., beginning in front of the Cambridge City Hall (for more information, call 617-349-4697).
From 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Chief Ranger Jean Rogers will lead a program titled "Women: Their Presence, Influence and Use of Fresh Pond," outside the Cambridge Water Department at 250 Fresh Pond Parkway (or indoors in the case of rain). Call 617-349-4793 to register for the program and for more information.
From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Natalie Moravek of the Cambridge Historical Society will conduct a program on William James, who has been called the "founder of the American psychology" studies, beginning at his former home at 95 Irving Street. The program guide says Moravek will explore "James' life in Cambridge, his remarkable family (his brother was famed author Henry James) and his relations with academic followers and rivals."
From 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Revolutionary War historian J.L. Bell will lead a program on "The Ladies of Tory Row," with a tour starting at the corner of Brattle and Mason streets. Known before the Revolution broke out as the "King's Highway" and "Tory Row," Brattle Street was the main thoroughfare for Cambridge's richest and most elegant neighborhood. The tour will examine the lives of the women who managed households there from just before the war of independence to the early days of the American republic. For more information, go to: www.boston1775.net.
Tours of the Longfellow National Historic Site at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., with a $3 admission charge (children 15 and under free). From 1837 to 1882, this grand house was the home of Longfellow, a poet and scholar, and a gathering place for literary figures including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Prior to Longfellow, when Washington lived there, he had visitors including Benjamin Franklin and Benedict Arnold. The tours will include readings from poems, letters and diaries. For more information, call 617-876-4491. Visitors also will be able to see the restored formal heritage garden behind the house.
For a full schedule of events for Cambridge Discovery Days, go to: www.cambridgema.gov/historic/walks.html. Pamphlets with the schedule also are available at the entrance to the Longfellow House at 105 Brattle St.
Cambridge Discovery Days is presented by the Historic Cambridge Collaborative, an informal group of nonprofit historical and educational instiutions working together to develop public programs that celebrate the city's history. Members include: the Cambridge Historical Commission (www.cambridgema.gov/historic, 617-349-4683); the Cambridge Historical Society (www.cambridgehistory.org, 617-547-4252); the Longfellow National Historic Site (www.nps.gov/long, 617-876-4491); the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery (www.mountauburn.org, 617-547-7105); and the Cambridge Office for Tourism (www.cambridge-usa.org, 617-441-2884).
Cambridge Discovery Days is funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Great story, Karen! I look forward to participating in these interesting events and learning more about the history of our fair city.


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