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So, GamerGate finally worked up the guts to go after @ChrisWarcraft
How did #GamerGate respond when former NFL player and outspoken LGBT rights activist Chris Kluwe savaged them?
They went after and doxxed Felicia Day, the darling of internet fandom and all things geeky, when she very gently and timidly suggested that maybe these dudebros shouldn't be threatening and harassing women.
That's because GamerGators are cowards and they're misogynists. As far as they're concerned, it's open season on women who stand against them, but it took them a while to take their balls in-hand and go after a guy.
In case you've missed my other posts about GamerGate's antics, here's a few highlights:
They think women, POC, and MOGAI gamers requesting less problematic representation in video games equates to Jim Crow laws.
They think the mythical SJWs are oppressing them, like police are doing to the black protesters against police violence in Ferguson and elsewhere.
They think if a woman whom they've been targeting for harassment happens to have a family emergency, like, say, a pet dying, it's a great time to step up the harassment, including trying to dox her veterinarian so they can threaten their victim at the vets office.
They think it's clever to write and publish rape fantasies about a real-life rape victim (on top of the hundreds of rape threats they already send her, naturally.)
They compare themselves to rape victims.
They're targeting transwomen for harassment in the hopes of driving them to suicide.
They're cowards, though. So they do this shit, and then try to find ways to weasle out of the consequences.
So, honestly, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that they've gone after Chris Kluwe now. Does it mean they're escalating, growing bolder and more dangerous? Or that they're just becoming less misogynist and more diverse in their harassment?
I've said before and I'll say again that if #gamergate had happened a year earlier, Player vs. Player would have been a very different book. Or rather, it would have been the same book, but the collection of real-life events that made up the inspiration for it would have been so much more informed about just how low these guys will sink and the sort of tactics they use.
For instance, in Player vs. Player, we have this incident in PvP:
"That leaves us with the final wave. Now is Niles Grace or Chino, and who is the last person?"
Payne looked from the drawings to Niles and Rosie. "After the player character, Grace is the leader of the company."
Rosie blinked. "Me? You think I might be a target?"
Jordan laughed, though it was bitter. Nothing about this was a damn bit funny. "Rosie, when haven't you been a target?"
"But he's been leaving the notes for Niles."
"Because you have a doorman and security. He can't get to you, and if he sent them via email, they would just get lost in the thousands of other threats we file and ignore. He wanted our attention, and the emails and texts aren't the way to get it."
"You're the boss," Niles said, staring at Rosie. He had a quaver in his voice that Jordan didn't like, as if he were moments from falling apart. "To get to the boss, you have to go through his or her lieutenants, right?"
Witnessing what GamerGate has been up to, how they've steered clear of going after high-profile male targets and instead concentrated their harassment on women, I wonder if I would have written that section differently now.
At any rate, my support is with Chris Kluwe, as it is with all of their targets. May 2015 be the year when sniveling, neckbearded cowards decide that hey, maybe it's time to be decent human beings and not send rape threats and drive people from their homes and threaten college campus massacres, all because women would like to see a few less chainmail bikinis in their favorite hobby.
Tagged as bullying cw, chris kluwe, feminism, gamergate, gamers, misogyny, online harassment cw, pet death mention, player vs. player, racism, rape threat mention, riptide publishing, sexism, transmisogyny
Player vs. Player blog tour, days three and four!
It's Day Four of the Player vs. Player blog tour! Here are some buy links for you:
Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back.
Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color, and LGBTQ characters. To make his job even better, his best friend is his boss, and his twin brother works beside him. And they mostly agree that being on the forefront of social change is worth dealing with trollish vitriol—Niles is more worried about his clingy ex and their closeted intern's crush on his brother than he is about internet harassment.
But now the bodies on the ground are no longer virtual, and someone's started hand-delivering threats to Niles's door. The vendetta against Third Wave has escalated, and to make matters worse, the investigating detective is an old flame who left Niles heartbroken for a life in the closet.
No change happens without pain, but can Niles justify continuing on with Third Wave when the cost is the blood of others? If he does, the last scene he writes may be his own death.
Yesterday, my blog tour took me over to The Blogger Girls, where I discussed my background and motivation for writing Player vs. Player. I also shared an excerpt over at Book Reviews and More by Kathy.
Today I'm sharing another excerpt over at Love Bytes, stopping by TTC Books and More for a brief spotlight stop, and The Jeep Diva is sharing a review and hosting a spotlight stop as well!
Remember, commenters will be entered into a drawing for one of my backlist titles.
Also, if you missed the middle-of-the-night news, Saugatuck Summer is on special this week for $0.99 at several outlets, including Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Now is a great time to grab it if you haven't yet!
Tagged as amelia c. gormley, blog tour, book reviews and more by kathy, convention harassment, diversity, fandom, gamer culture, gamers, gaming, gay romance, geek culture, homophobia, love bytes, misogyny, mm romance, mystery/suspense, New Adult, player vs. player, racism, representation, riptide publishing, saugatuck summer, social justice, the blogger girls, the jeep diva, ttc books and more
Why I wrote Player vs. Player: @FeliciaDay @FemFreq @Spacekatgal @ChrisWarcraft @TheQuinnspiracy @gogreen18
I'm gonna get my bona fides–or lack thereof–out of the way up front.
I'm a gamer. I'm a feminist.
Am I a hardcore gamer? I imagine by most definitions, the answer would be no. I don't have time for it; I have a son to raise and books to write. I drift in and out of gaming when something catches my attention. Whenever I've tried to be a hardcore gamer–for a while my husband and I had an arrangement for me to be able to take Friday evenings off from parenting starting at 7 PM so I could raid with my guild–it never worked out. 7 PM for me was 10PM for many of my guildies, so they wanted to start raiding at 5:30 PM, just when I was eating dinner with my husband and son. I always felt guilty because either I was letting my guildies down or I was ignoring my obligations to my family, so I just stopped trying to be a raider. Trying to do RaidFinder-type raids resulted in me being rejected and sometimes harassed for not being geared to their standards, so now I mostly stick to single-player games or do solo and small group content that I can work on in my own time.
While I am a feminist, I also don't pretend that I'm the most educated and informed person on many of the issues. I'm very reclusive and sometimes that puts me behind the ball on current events and issues.
So, there. I'm by no means either an expert gamer or an expert feminist. I'm just someone who cares enough to try to call attention to issues when and where I can, using the voice and the medium I have available to me. Which, in this case, means as an author of LGBT romance.
When I started writing Player vs. Player , it was about a year after the harassment of Jennifer Hepler (formerly of Bioware) had taken place, and slightly less than a year after Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency had received such toxic backlash for starting her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Kickstarter.
Those incidences stayed with me because I knew that internetting while female could be a nasty business, and because the harassment was so very vile, because it spoke of such a deep-seated hatred in gaming culture toward women, part of me thought, "Dear God, what is going to happen when one of these people goes from trolling to actual violence?"
It didn't seem like a far-fetched possibility to me. In fact, it seemed downright inevitable. Because that's the way things work. Bullies egg each other on and make one another feel bolder and try harder to impress each other and the bullying keeps escalating. That's the way it's worked ever since I was the bully-magnet on the playground when I was a kid. One kid would say a cruel thing. The other kids would laugh, so he'd say something crueler. Someone else would try to one-ups him. Next thing I knew, I'd be cornered with them all trying to out-do each other and intimidating me physically. A few days later, someone would be walking down the halls right on my heels, stepping on the backs of my shoes to try to trip me, pushing me into lockers, or, when I got older, grabbing my ass to impress his friends when he came across me browsing the book aisle in the supermarket.
Bullying escalates. So it didn't seem at all unrealistic that the sort of treatment Hepler and Sarkeesian had received could eventually morph into actual physical violence. After all, what is the point of disseminating someone's personal information such as their phone number and home address unless you're trying to encourage someone to go after that person physically, and trying to intimidate that person with the possibility of an actual physical assault?
So that is what I wrote about. But I'm a writer of LGBT (primarily m/m but that may be subject to change in the future) romance, so I used the platform I had, making the story a murder mystery with a romantic subplot between two male characters. At one point I tried to contact Ms. Sarkeesian and see if I could get any more insight that would help me craft that story, but I imagine the amount of email she gets is tremendous so I'm not surprised that mine didn't catch her notice, and that's okay. I wrote as best I could, with the information had.
I thought I'd seen vile. I hadn't seen anything yet.
I hadn't seen an ex-boyfriend with a sexist ax to grind mobilize a bunch of misogynist trolls against Zoe Quinn (see next paragraph for explanation of this event.) I hadn't game developer Brianna Wu driven from her home by threats. I hadn't seen a college campus massacre threatened just because Anita Sarkeesian was going to speak about misogyny in video games (see below.) I hadn't seen Felicia Day, the darling of geek culture, doxxed less than an hour after cautiously standing up and saying, "this isn't right."
(It should be noted that a couple days earlier, former NFL player and notable gamer and LGBT-rights activist Chris Kluwe said the same thing Day did, only much less diplomatically, but he hasn't been doxxed. It's only women being targeted.)
I've been posting recently about GamerGate, both here and on Tumblr. Maybe some of you don't know what that is. I'm not going to try to explain it, because many people have done so much better than I can. I will refer you to this article, which explains it nicely.
ETA: After you've read that, check out this for a series of screencaps from discussions on 4chan in the first few days of the GamerGate operation, where we see it transition from a misogynist harassment campaign that wasn't getting any traction to a concerted, calculated effort to try to cloak the harassment under a veneer of legitimacy and co-opt social justice hotbutton issues and language in an attempt to turn other women against Zoe Quinn.
But let's just make one thing very clear. Despite subsequent recruitment of well-intentioned but misguided stooges and efforts to cloak themselves in legitimacy and claims of being about journalistic ethics, GamerGate is and has been from its very first inception about harassing women in the gaming industry, and women who critique gaming and gamers. It is a misogynist movement whose supporters are willing to make terroristic threats to silence people for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, using images and tropes relying on sexualized violence against women (and people of color, and LGBTQIA+ people) is at best, unimaginative and at worse, harmful to actual people.
GamerGate came along right after I had finished final edits on Player vs. Player. Part of me wishes sometimes I had written it a year later. It would have been a much more informed book. What was primarily on my mind as we were wrapping up PvP was Elliott Rodgers and the UCSB shooting. I even addressed the dedication to his victims and started the book with a quote from vlogger Laci Green, where she said about the shootings: "Misogyny actually kills people."
At the time, Laci's message was topical to PvP because that is, at its heart, what PvP is about. It's about the misogynist/homophobic/racist backlash against gamers requesting (and game developers delivering) more diverse gaming content.
Misogyny actually kills people. That's an important point to make. We know–especially right now in the aftermath of the murder of unarmed young black men in Ferguson and elsewhere across the United States–that racism kills people. We know that homophobia kills people. And misogyny kills people.
What is so very terrifying about GamerGate and the anti-diversity backlash in gaming is that it's a perfect storm of misogyny, homophobia, and racism. These people are making terrorist threats against people who are simply asking for fewer harmful tropes and more diverse representation.
A very sad, jaded part of me wonders if the fact that Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, and now Felicia Day are being terrorized, threatened, even driven out of their homes, would be getting as much play in the press if these women were black, and an even sadder part of me knows the answer to that question would be "no." We're taking notice because this is happening to white women (Correction: Ms. Sarkeesian actually identifies as Armenian, I'm told, and her family is from Iraq.)
If I were writing Player vs. Player today, the murderers in the story would identify themselves as supporters of GamerGate. The only reason they don't is because I wrote the book a year too early. In the author's notes at the end of the book, I reference Jennifer Hepler and Anita Sarkeesian and explain how their incidences informed the writing of the book. If I were writing it today, that list would be a lot longer, and the book would probably actually be a lot grimmer, because the situation is far more toxic than even I envisioned at the time I wrote the book.
Ms. Sarkessian, Ms. Hepler, Ms. Quinn, Ms. Wu, Ms. Day, this book is for you, and for all the women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ gamers who have been and are being harassed into silence. It's for cypheroftyr and dragonreine, two amazing LGBTQIA+ female gamers of color who are running the Why-I-Need-Diverse-Games blog and the #ineeddiversegames hashtag. It's for more people than I can possibly hope to mention, who are refusing to be silenced, despite the best efforts of these misogynist, racist, homophobic trolls to turn gaming and simply being online while female into a culture of terror.
Thank you for fighting the fight. I know my contribution is nothing next to yours, but I'm doing what I can and I will always, always have your backs.
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I also ask that you send the items/PD/Pokemon first before I send FR/FV currency. My username is LethalLulu on FR, LethalLulu on Pokefarm Q, and Zelda #28 on DV.
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The response comes following the experience of William Mackay, from Dundee, in Milton Keynes, where the cashier asked 'where's Scotland?' when handed 'foreign' currency.
He regularly travels to England and claims he constantly struggles with businesses south of the border into accepting Scottish money.
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In her letter to TK Maxx, Ms Robison said: "Not only was this a huge inconvenience it was also an embarrassing experience for my constituent, as the incident took place in front of other customers.
There is an odd technicality over Scottish and Northern Ireland banknotes. Although the Bank of England states they are not legal tender in England, it is up to the parties involved whether it is an acceptable means of payment – as all banks south of the border are legally obliged to accept them.
Bizarrely, Bank of England notes are not considered legal tender in Scotland, despite the fact most shops will accept them and some ATMs in Scotland also dispense them.
The term is purely technical, and the matter of whether it is an acceptable means of payment is essentially left up to an agreement between the parties involved.
As a result, Scottish banknotes can be accepted in many places south of the border but anyone who rejects them is legally within their rights to do so.
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The U.S. Trans Military Ban Goes into Effect Tomorrow — Will you raise your voice in support?
On the 12th of April the U.S. Trans Military Ban will be going into effect. As a Global organisation we recognise that policies passed by the U.S. Government have far reaching implications worldwide. The Trans Military Ban is an issue that is not only a personal one our Interim Executive Director (who is a U.S. military veteran), but one that concerns us on a global scale.
The days of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' are dark ones. The LGBTQIA+ family in the military had to suffer in silence, risking dishonourable discharge from the military if they came out or were outed. The stigma, the suffering, the pain was very real. When President Obama repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in 2011, the LGBTQIA+ community was able to breathe a sigh of relief because there was now an assurance that their service would be honoured.
The Trump Administration's trans ban is so incredibly damaging on multiple levels and the global implications are far reaching.
The US military is the largest employer of Trans people. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is one of the largest healthcare providers for Trans people. The removal of Trans people from the military means a complete removal from their access to healthcare. If trans people cannot get the live saving healthcare they need and if the military that they so bravely volunteered to serve won't support them — who will? And where do they turn?
Be very clear that this is not just the U.S. Administration working to undermine the very existence of trans people, it is entities at the United Nations including the Holy See, the Heritage Foundation and others. Last month we reported about a panel at the 63rd Commission for the Status of Women that on face value presented as a women's empowerment panel, however it was incredibly transphobic and furthered the agenda of trans exclusionary discourse and violence against trans people.
After the Women's March Global twitter thread was posted there were a lot of posts in response decrying our use of Women in our organisation's name. We were asked why we even call ourselves a women's rights organisation. If you haven't read the response written or our post for Trans Day Of Visibility (TDOV) — read them now.
The simple answer as to why we support the fight against the Trans military ban is because Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Why are we supporting Minority Vets of America in their work? Because we know the threat that trans people face worldwide. Just last week a trans woman was brutally attacked in the streets of Paris while dozens of onlookers did nothing.
Trans people have to fight for their right to exist every.single.day. Removing access to life saving healthcare, removing their right to serve in the military, removing them all together from society pushes trans people further into the margins. Make no mistake — the work of the Trump Administration, of the Heritage foundation, of the Holy See, and so many others is to exterminate trans people. We do not say this lightly.
We know globally the violence that trans people face. We know the violence that trans women face. As a women's rights organisation we will continue to unite with our trans family and speak out in support with them.
Join Minority Veterans of America in their rally tomorrow across the United States.


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Mark Twain, the famous American author, humorist, narrator, and social observer, had great personal problems with the religionists of his day and many other aspects of the world he occupied in the 1800s. He was, however, fascinated by the Jewish people. To him, they were both an enigma and an inspiration. His description, in his book Innocents Abroad, of the Holy Land's topography chronicled the land's barrenness and apparent hopelessness and was a moving landmark in the Jewish people's progression across the face of history and the Middle East.
"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
"He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.
The secret of the Jewish people's immortality is no secret. It's written on every page of God's eternal Word. Furthermore, it is confirmed on every successive Jewish march through history from the clouds of adversity. And when one views their situation in these troubled times, beleaguered by enemies and betrayed by friends, there is the vision of undeniable expectation. Israel is a nation in waiting, hanging on until the trumpet sounds to herald the entrance of a deliverer who will lead it into the light and bring an end to the anguish of the ages.
One of the great ironies is that the more there appears to be reason for depression, the more obvious it is that a great change is on the horizon. It is as though an inevitable, climactic consummation were on the way—an Armageddon-proportioned experience.
Biblically, the waiting will end with the promised Second Advent of the Son of Man, Messiah Jesus, in the day when "all Israel will be saved" (Rom. 11:26).
In a way, the expectation of those awaiting His first appearance was comparable to what goes on today. For the Jewish people and their little nation then, things could not have been much worse. Pagan Rome was master of the world, and its grip tightened inexorably with every passing day. But there was the promise; the virgin shall conceive…the Savior shall arrive. And as rugged shepherds on the hills of Bethlehem could attest, He did arrive and changed the world. Our promise, as sure as theirs, will come—and come soon, we are certain.
Too bad so many brilliant and gifted men like Samuel Clemens still discern the shadow and ask the question, "What is the secret of his immortality?" Yet they never grasp the reality.


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Sponsored by: Texas Instruments USB Type-C is revolutionizing the power-charging arena, but building in circuit protection becomes challenging due to the small connector size and high-power combination.
Paul Pickering | Jan 05, 2017
The USB Type-C connector specification and the related USB 3.1 and USB Power Delivery (USB PD) specifications promise to change the architecture of applications ranging from smartphones to laptops, and potentially many other devices. The USB Type-C form factor is reversible, so it's much easier to use than its predecessors. However, for that glittering future to be fully realized, the new connector must be as robust and failsafe as the earlier USB Type-A and Type-B connectors.
One potential issue is that the USB Type-C is much smaller than USB Type-A. A USB Type-C connector has 24 pins with a 0.5-mm pitch, compared to the Type-A's four pins with 2.5-mm pitch. The Type-C pitch increases the likelihood of a pin-to-pin short if the connector is inserted at an angle, or if debris becomes caught in the connector.
1. The USB Type-C reversible connector specification extends USB functionality to include non-USB communication schemes as well as power-distribution capability. (Source: Texas Instruments)
The problem is made worse by the number of substandard products that were rushed to market to take advantage of the USB Type-C phenomenon. Many of the cables don't use the precision machinery and premium materials required to ensure reliable pin contact and long-term performance. Other cables have the incorrect VBUS pull-up resistor; thus, the power source will select the wrong voltage or the device will try to draw too much current.Figure 1 shows the USB Type-C pinout. Pin-to-pin shorts involving VBUS are particularly problematic if the host and device support the USB PD specification, because the VBUS pin can deliver up to 20 V and 5 A for 100-W fast charging power delivery. The configuration channel (CC) and sideband use (SBU) pins are directly adjacent to the VBUS pins. But USB is a 5-V system, so a short to VBUS could damage or destroy the interface components connected to the SBU and CC pins.
In response, last March, Amazon banned the sale of USB Type-C cables that didn't fully comply with the Type-C specification issued by the USB Implementers Forum (USB IF), USB's controlling body. Amazon's action may remove one source of substandard cables, but dangers remain: Adding proper circuit protection to a USB Type-C design reduces the risk of system damage and field failures.
USB Type-C Protection Circuit Requirements
The protection circuitry for a USB Type-C application must handle two fault conditions: Protect adjacent pins against a short to VBUS, which could potentially put 20 V or more on the CC or SBU pins; and protect pins against electrostatic-discharge (ESD) events.
Let us examine these two conditions in more detail.
Short-to-VBUS Event
There are two possibilities for the short-to-VBUS event—short-to-VBUS through a cable and short-to-VBUS without a cable. If a short occurs in a Type-C connector that's plugged into a device sinking VBUS power, the length of the cable separates the shorted CC or SBU line and the VBUS voltage source. If a Type-C cable is present, but the short occurs at the connector where VBUS is sourcing power, then the voltage source is applied directly to the CC and SBU pins, bypassing the cable.
Both short-to-VBUS use cases present challenges and need to be accounted for to ensure robust protection for the system.
During a short-to-VBUS sink event, cable inductance can generate ringing with a peak voltage up to double that of the steady-state final voltage. For a 22-V short, up to 44 V can appear on the SBU or CC lines during a short-to-VBUS event, and the protection circuitry must handle this voltage level.
A short-to-VBUS source event is challenging for a different reason. The inductance is very low without a cable, so the rise time of the short event can be less than 10 ns. Not only does this cause problems with parasitic capacitances in the OVP FET, the total resistance of the path is so low that the amount of current introduced on the CC and SBU lines can be substantially higher than with a cable.
ESD Event
Since the USB port can be accessed directly by the user, it must be protected against ESD. The relevant specification is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61000-4-2 standard for ESD protection. This standard describes the required levels of protection from likely ESD events.
The situation is more challenging for the CC and SBU lines because, in addition to ESD, the protection circuitry must also take into account the possibility of a VBUS short that could place a sustained voltage of 22 V on the line. The ESD diode must have a trigger voltage above this level.
Most ESD diodes with a high trigger voltage also have a deep snapback characteristic and clamp to a very low voltage. The 44-V ringing induced by a VBUS short at the end of a cable can cause such a diode to conduct indefinitely, resulting in overheating and permanent damage.
A non-snapback diode must therefore be used. Unfortunately, there's a shortage of such devices available on the market.
Discrete Design for USB Type-C Protection
If the designer decides to implement a protection solution with discrete components, what are some of the design considerations?
A FET placed in series with the CC or SBU line can perform overvoltage protection (OVP). The OVP FET must tolerate the 44-V ringing voltage that occurs with a VBUS short through a Type-C cable, but that's not all. As we've seen, a direct short to VBUS has a 20-ns rise time, so the parasitic capacitances across the inline FET (CDG and CGS) will effectively create a short between the gate and the source, thus exposing the downstream USB PD controller to damage. This requires a clamping diode after the OVP FET and before the controller.
To keep an n-channel FET fully ON, the gate voltage must be kept 1.5 V or 2 V above the source voltage. With 5-V signals on the CC and SBU pins, the VGS of their inline OVP FETs have to be maintained at 7 V, requiring the addition of charge-pump circuitry. A p-channel FET doesn't require a charge pump, but a control circuit will still be needed to ensure proper operation.
The USB Type-C specification also specifies that the CC pins must also be able to deliver up 1 W to power the circuitry in the active cable. To supply 4.75 V at 200 mA from a 5-V supply, the total allowable resistance in the CC line must be a maximum of 1.25 Ω, including the OVP FET and all other components. Minimizing the FET on-resistance increases its die size and hence cost.
Protection against ESD requires an additional clamping diode located at the connector, bringing with it the design issues we discussed in the last section.
Handling a Dead-Battery Condition
An additional complication arises when the battery in a USB Type-C device is completely discharged, i.e., during a dead-battery condition. The USB PD specification states that if a device has a dead battery, it will present a pull-down resistor RD to ground on the CC lines when it's plugged in. After the charging port detects the dead-battery condition, it applies higher voltage to the USB port to charge the battery. The USB PD controller normally includes the circuitry to perform this function, but without power, the inline OVP FET is automatically OFF.
Because the USB PD controller dead-battery resistors are now disconnected from the Type-C connector, the designer must provide additional circuitry located between the OVP FET and the connector to perform this function. This circuitry must also disconnect the RD resistors when the dead-battery condition is no longer applicable.
Summing up, any protection solution must support the following conditions:
• Handle ringing up to 44 V for a VBUS short through a cable.
• Support <10-ns rise times on the direct short-to-VBUS event.
• Support IEC 61000-4-2 system-level ESD protection.
• Support a power capability of at least 5 V/W for Type-C ports that support active cable.
• Support the dead-battery condition for mobile devices that rely on Type-C as their power source.
2. Implementing the protection circuits in a discrete design is technically feasible, but it has many components and involves multiple design tradeoffs. (Source: Texas Instruments)
A discrete solution requires many components to satisfy this long list of requirements. Figure 2 shows an example of a discrete design for one of the four lines that must be protected. It contains three FETs, two diodes, a comparator, a charge pump, and assorted resistors and capacitors—a total of 17 components.
The comparator compares the voltage on the CC line to a reference. Under normal conditions, the charge pump is active, and the OVP FET is ON. If an overvoltage condition appears on the line, the comparator changes state and disables the charge pump, shutting off the OVP FET.
The two control FETs handle the dead-battery condition. If the battery is dead, the V_3V3 signal is low. When the charging port raises the CC_CON1 line high, the RD FET turns on and connects RD to ground. Once the V_3V3 signal goes high, signifying that system power is available for normal USB PD negotiation, the control FET turns on and turns off the RD FET, which disconnects RD from the CC_CON1 line.
Integrated USB Type-C Protection Solution
A better option is to incorporate the protection components needed for multiple lines into a single device. An integrated solution simplifies the design and saves board space.
Figure 3 illustrates how the TPD8S300 USB Type-C Port Protector can perform the needed protection functions. The USB PD PHY and PD controller can be a device such as TI's TPS65982.
3. An integrated USB Type-C protection solution such as the TPD8S300 is a preferred solution because the ESD and OVP elements can be designed to work more synergistically than a discrete design.(Source: Texas Instruments)
The TPD8S300 inserts high-voltage FETs in series with the SBU and CC lines. When a voltage above the OVP threshold (typically 6 V) is detected on these lines, the high-voltage FETs open and isolate the rest of the system from the high-voltage condition.
The device also integrates eight channels of IEC 61000-4-2 ESD protection for the low-speed USB Type-C pins: CC1, CC2, SBU1, SBU2, and two D+/D- pairs. This removes the need for high-voltage transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diodes at the connector.
The TPD8S300 is able to supply 600 mA over the CC pins when they're configured to supply power. This power level is more than sufficient to power the Type-C cable; it can also supply the higher levels needed when operating in one of the alternate modes defined in the USB PD specification. On top of that, it integrates the high-voltage, dead-battery RD pull-down resistors to implement dead-battery charging simultaneously with high-voltage OVP protection.
An evaluation module (EVM) is available to assess the operation and performance of the TPD8S300. The EVM consists of the TPD8S300 mounted on a USB Type-C pass-through board, which enables users to test the operation of the device's OVP and ESD protection features in their own systems.
The USB Type-C specification, in conjunction with USB 3.1 and USB PD, dramatically expands the scope of USB to include a range of power-charging functions. The combination of a small connector size and high power, though, poses significant challenges for the design of the protection circuitry.
Although a discrete design is possible, an integrated solution is a superior choice: It reduces component count, shortens the development cycle, and allows the designer to satisfy both OVP and ESD protection requirements in a compact package.
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Airline Travel Since 9/11
Airline capacity (expressed in available seats) has increased more slowly than the increase in airline passenger travel.
Low-cost carriers represent a growing portion of the domestic aviation market. This change has been accompanied by decreasing fares.
Network carriers have responded by shifting capacity to international markets and by reducing employment to cut costs
Today's airline industry presents a different picture than it did prior to the events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), with more passengers flying low-cost carriers, fewer empty seats, and a smaller workforce.
Airline passenger travel and capacity (measured in terms of available seats) fell drastically after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, when our national air space was temporarily closed. The numbers of airline passenger and seats remained low in subsequent months, but have recovered in the following years. Available seats have increased more slowly than air passenger travel, and have only recently reached the pre-9/11 peaks; in contrast, air passenger travel reached its pre-9/11 peak in July 2004 and has continued to grow. Thus the aviation industry has accommodated passenger growth with few additional seats, which means fuller planes.
At the same time that the industry was facing this large-scale drop and subsequent recovery in the number of passengers, there were shifts in the size of different segments of the industry. In particular, the low-cost carriers grew significantly and air fares decreased through this period.
Network carriers responded to the pressures on the domestic market by reducing available seats and shifting some capacity to the international market. They also dramatically cut employment in order to reduce costs.
Passengers Return
In the August preceding 9/11, the airline industry experienced what was then a record high in the number of airline passengers for a given month when 65.4 million travelers took to the air. After 9/11, that number trailed off dramatically, and it took nearly 3 years, until July 2004, for the industry to match and finally surpass the pre 9/11 levels. But the number of available seats—an industry measure of capacity— in July 2004 was just 98.3 % of its August 2001 peak. By July 2005, the number of airline passengers had reached 71 million.
Fewer Empty Seats
In the comeback from post 9/11 lows, capacity has risen more slowly than growth in passenger numbers. Available seats hit a peak of 90.6 million in August 2001. But after 9/11, capacity dropped dramatically as airlines grounded planes and reduced flights to match falling demand. Only 67.5 million seats were available in September 2001. In July 2005, the number of available seats exceeded the pre 9/11 level for the first time at 91.1 million— an increase of about 0.6 percent compared with an increase of about 9.7 percent in passengers over the pre 9/11 high.
Because the airlines have accommodated the surge in passengers with only a minimal increase in the number of seats, aircraft are flying with fewer empty seats.
Fewer Employees
Current employment levels for network and low-cost carriers1 are 28% below July 2001 levels as many airlines strive to reduce costs. Employment for network and lowcost carriers stood at 534,767 in July 2001.2 But 4 years later, in July 2005, employment had fallen 28 percent to 383,859. This drop was driven by a decline in employment by the network carriers compared to increased hiring by low-cost carriers. Network carrier employment fell by 34 percent, from 465,198 in July 2001 to 308,714 in July 2005. During this same time period, low-cost carrier employment increased by 8 percent—from 69,569 to 75,145.
Market Changes
One response U.S. network carriers made to the post 9/11 market conditions was to shift capacity from domestic to international markets. International service represented 12.0% of seats on network carriers in May 2001, increasing to 15.2 % in May 2005.3 The shift of available seats toward the international market occurred as the network airlines were reacting to the rising dominance of low-cost carriers in the domestic marketplace. The low-cost carriers vigorously added capacity while the network airlines reduced domestic flight operations to reduce costs. Annual available seats on low-cost carriers increased by 24%4, from 182 million in 2000 to 226 million, in 2004, and passengers increased by 27%, from 124 million to 158 million, during the same period.
At the same time there have been changes in the domestic aviation pricing structure reflecting the growing impact of low-cost carriers and other factors. Widely available, relatively inexpensive air fares have contributed to the increase in passenger travel. For example, the Air Travel Price Index (ATPI), which tracks changes in prices paid for airline tickets, showed in the first quarter of 2005 the lowest fare index of any January-to-March period since 1999.
Ken Notis
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Ken.Notis@dot.gov
1 Network and low-cost carriers do not include regional carriers. Network carriers are the traditional hub-and-spoke carriers.
2 Employment at network carriers and low-cost carriers, based on data from RITA-BTS, OAI, monthly P-1(a) Form 41. Data are incomplete for regional and other carriers in 2001 and 2002. Regional and other carrier data for years when regional and other carrier data are complete is shown in the accompanying table for July 2003 through July 2005.
3 U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T100.SEGMENT data, Nov. 21, 2005.
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Eton Wick Newsletter Publication
The Village Hall Committee produces a village newsletter, "Our Village" three times a year. (Normally in April, August and December).
The newsletter is distributed to all residences in Eton Wick. Reference copies are held in Eton Wick library.
To submit an article, place an advertisement or suggest ideas for future issues please contact Joyce Jackman at etonwicknews@hotmail.com.
Eton Wick Newsletter History
In the 1950's, for a short time, the Village Hall Committee circulated a newsletter.
During the January 2008 meeting committee members discussed reviving this idea, to inform new residents and remind those who have lived in Eton Wick for some time, of the facilities available to the community.
A small sub-committee was formed. We bounced a few ideas around and decided that the newsletter would be non-political and religiously impartial. We also decided that it should be delivered free to every household in our village (approximately 1,150 homes) three times a year.
Flyers were delivered to the village pubs, churches, school, shops, library and any clubs we could think of and we called back a week or so later for their thoughts. The response was overwhelming. The shops and pubs wanted to place advertisements and all the other organisations wanted to submit articles. Quotes were obtained from local printers and in April 2008 the first newsletter was distributed throughout our village. It was 20 pages in quite large print to fill the pages. The newsletters are now either 36 or 40 pages in small print and as we write this, in March 2011, we are ready to distribute Issue 10.
The listing of local clubs has generated new memberships plus local tradesmen, especially those who work from home, such as plumbers etc., tell of new customers through their newsletter advertisements. It has become so popular that many requests are received from the surrounding areas such as Windsor, Datchet and Maidenhead but the newsletter is strictly for Eton Wick residents, otherwise there will be too many adverts and we need to keep a balance.
Spare copies are left in the library, pubs, churches and Gowers Newsagents as many villagers ask for extra copies to send to friends or relatives who have moved away but like to keep in touch. We have received emails and letters from Canada, Germany, New Zealand as well as UK locations, advising how much they enjoy reading 'Our Village' even though it often makes them a little bit homesick.
Obviously the advertising revenue helps towards the printing cost but during the last three years we have been extremely fortunate to receive financial help from Eton Town Council; The Baldwin's Bridge Trust; The Royal Albert Institute; The Berkshire Community Foundation (Grassroots) and many, many (often anonymous) donations from our community. It never ceases to amaze us how kind people are. One gentleman sent someone to the editor's house with £250 in cash!
Our grateful thanks to these generous people and also to the small army of villagers who help deliver the newsletters.
We really didn't think, at that committee meeting in January 2008, that the newsletter would be so well received and still going from strength to strength.
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional medical body responsible for education and training, and in setting and raising standards of psychiatry in the United Kingdom. The Royal College of Psychiatrists work to secure the best outcomes for people with mental illness, learning difficulties and developmental disorders by promoting excellent mental health services, training outstanding psychiatrists, promoting quality and research, setting standards and being the voice of psychiatry.
At i-act, we were therefore delighted when The Royal College of Psychiatrists contacted us and expressed an interest in accrediting our evidence-based i-act courses and subsequently, over the last 18 months, we have worked with a team of psychiatrists, quality and accreditation staff, and support staff at The Royal College of Psychiatrists to achieve our accredited status. We appreciate all the work that The Royal College of Psychiatrists have dedicated to this and appreciate the hard work of our own quality and accreditation team at i-act.
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The best of Cambridge with kids, according to family travel bloggers
You won't be short of things to do when you visit the historic city of Cambridge no matter what time of year. From punting on the River Cam to visiting the colleges – children – especially older ones – will be just as awed by the uni atmosphere as the majestic architecture. And if history isn't your family's thing, immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the Botanic Garden or get a fresh squeezed lemonade from the open air market. It's all cool and it's all in Cambridge!
We recently asked BritMums bloggers to share their favourite thing to do with kids in Cambridge. Check out what they said below.
Shoba from Just Go Places suggests trying the Cambridge Centre for Computing History. "I showed my kids my family's first computer (a Tandy) and they couldn't believe how big it was. A fun trip down memory lane which will make parents feel unbelievably old."
Frog Mom (aka Laure Latham) says: "I love walking from Cambridge along to Grantchester Meadows, watching punters and swimmers, all the way to The Orchard Tea Garden where we stop for lunch or tea. It's a great spot for families and everybody sits under apple trees on deck chairs, enjoying a genteel countryside break without walking back to Cambridge."
Penny from parentshaped.co.uk suggests leaving punting to the experts and pay an expert to do it for you! "It's much harder than it looks and I really thought all four of us were going to end up in the water. Such a relief to return to dry land!"
Another vote for punting from Cathy at Mummy Travels. "You can snuggle under blankets and be punted if it's winter too. Also try the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences has dinosaurs/fossils and meteoroids and the botanic gardens are lovely to visit too."
Leave the punting to the experts and get a chauffeur!
The London Mum says: "Punting for sure. Heading to Grantchester in a punt is great fun."
Richard from Life in Our Van has a few ideas on his blog. "Visit Kings Chapel and try the fudge making shop opposite too. Kings College has always held an interest ever since seeing the world-famous Christmas Eve ' Carol Service'. Privately owned, it's one of the Top 3 largest chapels in the world behind the Sistine Chapel, it could easily be a cathedral. Then venture towards Trinity College and the chance to visit Heffer's bookshop. This wonderful bookshop has a specialist children's section that could easily occupy your children for hours".
Kirsty from The Mummy Sphere suggests some climbing. "With older children you can climb the clock tower at Great St Mary's church for stunning views of the city".
The Fitzwilliam Museum has family friendly trails and events. Plus it's free!
Emma from The Bavarian Sojourn suggest venturing slightly out of the city." Wandlebury Country Park is a great place to explore for both young and old, with more than 8 miles of walks through forest and beautiful countryside. It's also home to an iron age hill fort for history enthusiasts, and don't miss a visit to The Gog Farmshop next door afterwards for a restoring hot chocolate, and the best sausage rolls!"
Susanna from A Modern Mother says: "The Polar Museum (free) has is a collection of items (including clothing, maps, journals) from polar exploration in the Arctic and Antarctic. It's part of the The Scott Polar Research Institute which has continuing research into our changing environment. Any young environmentalists will find it fascinating (and you can try on polar clothing too)."
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Where to stay: Hotel Felix
Just a mile from the centre of Cambridge is Hotel Felix, a luxury 4-star hotel just a mile outside Cambridge City Centre. The hotel combines traditional 1850's Victorian architecture with contemporary design. If you are looking for something a bit out of the ordinary, Hotel Felix is for you. It's full of surprising features, including a huge art collection that features works from Edward Muybridge's famous motion photography studies in the 1900s!
Just a mile from the centre of Cambridge is Hotel Felix, a luxury 4-star hotel just a mile outside Cambridge City Centre.
It's a very comfortable (think Hypnos beds!) place to base yourself to explore Cambridge. The Junior Suites are very large and can easily accommodate a family of 5. Plus there's free parking – a huge plus for Cambridge. Make sure to eat at Graffiti, their AA 2 rosettes restaurant.
One night's stay at Hotel Felix starts from £190 (B&B basis with free parking and Wi-Fi). For more information or seasonal discounts / packages please visit the website www.hotelfelix.co.uk / 01223 277 977.
Disclosure: A one-night stay at Hotel Felix was provided for the purpose of this review. All opinions are that of the author.
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I'm learning to love vegetable gardening but I've got a long way to go.
I live in northeast AL with my husband and child and we have about 9 acres here. We planted a rather large garden last year and had pretty good results but I want to learn more about organic gardening, composting, seed starting, ect. Pretty much all of it. I love being able to grow our own food and freeze or can for the winter. Its also fun to have a "community garden" to give to our family and friends and anyone in need of fresh veggies.
I hope to get some great insight on gardening and growing tips and make some online buddies as well!
Thanks for the warm welcomes. Marling, we also have beehives and several other critters running around here including about a dozen ducks, a couple of dogs and cats and one rabbit. But we are really proud of our bees. They're a great benefit to our garden and of course the honey is a nice perk too.


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"Finding Sally": Exploring Ethiopian Archives on a Personal Quest.
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An Interview with Director Tamara Dawit
This month, we were lucky enough to exchange with the Canadian-Ethiopian director Tamara Dawit about her new documentary "Finding Sally" that premiered on the Hot Docs 2020 selection for CBC Canada in the middle of the COVID crisis.
In "Finding Sally", Tamara Dawit explores the sudden disappearance of her aunt Sally in the summer 1973, after Sally became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and subsequently topped the Ethiopian government's most wanted list. How did this young girl from an upperclass family get caught up in her country's revolutionary fervor? How does a family process surviving the loss of someone without knowing what really happened to her?
Tamara Dawit
Going beyond the family's quest for answers, Dawit's film raises important questions about identity, idealism, engagement and belonging, and contributes to broadening the dialogue about this tragic time in Ethiopian History.
Thanks to a creative patchwork of family pictures and footage especially from Ethiopian Archives, Dawit paints a sensitive portrait of Ethiopia during the Red Terror in which personal trajectory meets collective history. Archive Valley was delighted to interview her about her work and her use of Ethiopian archives to tell her story.
First of all, congratulations about your film "Finding Sally". Could you tell us about the story of your aunt Sally? Why did it remain a family secret for so long?
TD : "Finding Sally" is my investigation into the life of an aunt I didn't know existed and 1970s Revolutionary Ethiopia the period she vanished in. Sally was a young woman who came from a privileged upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country's revolutionary fervour and landed on the military government's most wanted list. She went underground and her family never saw her again.
I don't think Sally's existence was kept secret from me on purpose I think it was due to the pain and trauma attached with remembering her. When things are painful you can often subconsciously suppress them and in Ethiopia there is very much collective silence about what happened to many people during the revolution.
A film produced by Catbird Productions / Gobez Media
Why do you think it was the right time to tell her story and open the dialogue about this tragic time of Ethiopian collective memory?
TD : It is important for Ethiopian audiences to release this film now especially as Ethiopia prepares for a federal election. I want to use the film as a conversation started (between generations) to reflect on the past and to learn from the past in order to move forward.
Many Ethiopian families, not only my own lost relatives who were killed, jailed or tortured under the Derg leadership and thus carry painful baggage attached to that period. In Ethiopia we need more content and discussion and remembrance to contribute to the national healing.
By doing this documentary film, what did you learn about your country and its people?
TD : I spent a lot of time researching the Ethiopian revolution and the Red Terror (period of sustained state killings) that included reading any books, reports I could find. As well as talking to many people especially those who knew my aunt or where connected to the communist group she had joined.
As a result of this I learned about the ideology of the student movement, the role of women, the gruesome details of the Red Terror, the political maneuvering of the Derg junta and also about the lasting impacts of that period today on Ethiopians and Eritreans.
Could you share some insights into how you got the film funded?
TD : The film was funded entirely in Canada via mostly broadcaster and federal film funds. In any case financing a film is a long and slow process. But I spent the time before pitching producers and applying to funds to do the full research on the films period, storyline and also available archives in order to have a clear package on how the story would be told visually.
The film shows a beautiful and realistic picture of life in Ethiopia back in the 70's. How did you manage to visually recreate that ?
TD : In this respect I think I was lucky to have a large family archive of photos to draw upon and well a good amount of footage in the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation archives and some international sources to draw on.
For much of the film archive in the film we did have to work closely to in some cases totally rebuild the sound design to improve the quality of the experience. As well a lot of the Ethiopian archive is not the raw file but clips which are set against music or with voiceover which is also why we had to rebuild the sound.
Did you work with an archive researcher? Could you tell us about the collaboration between the two of you?
TD : Yes, I worked with an archive researcher in Canada to search internationally for archives and to license some of the international archives that I was already aware of. I handled the sourcing of archives from within Ethiopia. I gave the archivist a list of key date, events and images that I knew or thought may exists to search for.
Strangely the hardest archive to source diverse images of was actually Ottawa, Canada I in the late 1960s early 1970s.
How did you use archives and more specifically Ethiopian archives to bring Sally to life?
TD : We used film archives to illustrate both Ethiopia and Canada in the 1970s. This enables viewer to see the time and places that Sally lived in. I think also for many viewers this is their first time seeing such extensive images of Ethiopia in this period.
I really aimed to show how modern Addis Ababa was in the 1960s/1970s before the revolution in many cases I think looking similar to many European cities in that era. Additionally, I careful used archives to bring the viewer into the room to see the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rule of the military junta which followed.
I also used photo archives to show Sally's family life and childhood prior to becoming a revolutionary (after which as she lived in hiding there are no images of her) and photo to show the brutality of the state sponsored killings in Ethiopia.
You pointed the fact that it was important for you to preserve an Ethiopian point of view. Did you managed to gather all the archival material you needed in Ethiopian archives? Where did you dig?
TD : Yes, the entire film is told through the POV of Ethiopian characters and more specifically women. This is because we don't often hear from women when telling the history of Africa and we do often hear about African history from white academics.
The situation and upkeep of Ethiopian archives is something that needs support, similar to many other African nations. We have a lot of photo, film and radio archives but the material is not well sorted, preserved or digitized. So this made for a slow process to access materials for this film but I was able to work directly with the state TV and press agency archives to gather the content which originated from Ethiopian sources.
Again like a lot of African archives it is often housed in Europe as the footage was collected by foreign governments and stringers.
Now that the documentary has been premiered, how do you plan to reach the Ethiopian audience?
TD : I am setting up a large impact campaign to support the release of the film to Ethiopian audiences in Ethiopia and in the diaspora. The film will have a short theatrical run in Ethiopia, tied to discussions and a national tv broadcast.
Part of this work is also to dub the film into more Ethiopian languages to make the film more accessible for school screenings (with a discussion guide), community group screenings and tv broadcasts in Ethiopia on regional broadcasters.
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What channel is Chiefs vs. Raiders on today? Schedule, time for 'Sunday Night Football' in Week 11
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Week 11's "Sunday Night Football" will feature one of the NFL's best quarterbacks against a team that beat him earlier this season.
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs (8-1) only have one blemish this season, and that came at the hands of Derek Carr and the Raiders (6-3) in Week 5. That was a 40-32 home loss for Kansas City, so now traveling to Las Vegas will present the added challenge of a road game against a team that already knows how to win this matchup.
MORE: Watch tonight's NFL game live with fuboTV (7-day free trial)
Mahomes hasn't lost a prime-time game yet in 2020, though, going 3-0 when the lights are shining brightest. He's thrown nine touchdowns in prime time compared to no interceptions. The Raiders will likely count on a Josh Jacobs-led running game and a defense coming off a four-interception week to find a way past Kansas City yet again.
Below is everything to know about this week's "Sunday Night Football" game between the Chiefs and Raiders in Week 11.
What channel is Chiefs vs. Raiders on today?
Game: Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas RaidersDate: Sunday, Nov. 22TV channel: NBCLive stream: fuboTV | DAZN (in Canada)
All "Sunday Night Football" games in 2020 will broadcast live on NBC. The network's TV rights deal with the NFL gives it all "Sunday Night Football" games as well as the annual Thursday night season-opener, and NBC is given a spot in the Super Bowl broadcast rotation.
The usual gang of Al Michaels as play-by-play and Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator are back in the booth with Michele Tafoya working the sidelines.
Below are the top TV markets in the United States and the NBC affiliate/TV channel for each.
MarketNBC TV channel (digital)New York4 (36)Los Angeles4 (36)Chicago5 (29)Philadelphia10 (34)Dallas-Fort Worth5 (24)San Francisco/Bay Area11 (12)Washington, D.C.4 (48)Houston2 (35)Boston15 (43)Atlanta11 (10)Phoenix12 (12)Tampa/St. Petersburg8 (7)Seattle5 (48)Detroit4 (45)Minneapolis-St. Paul11 (11)Miami6 (31)Denver9 (9)Orlando2 (11)Cleveland3 (17)Sacramento3 (35)Charlotte36 (22)Portland8 (8)St. Louis5 (35)Pittsburgh11 (23)Baltimore11 (11)Raleigh-Durham5 (48)Nashville4 (10)San Diego39 (40)Salt Lake City5 (38)San Antonio3 (16)Kansas City41 (36)Columbus4 (14)Milwaukee4 (28)Cincinnati5 (35)Las Vegas3 (22)Jacksonville12 (13)Oklahoma City4 (27)New Orleans6 (43)Memphis5 (5)Buffalo2 (33)
In Canada the game is live streamed on DAZN and is also on TSN and CTV2.
What time is the Chiefs vs. Raiders game on?
Date: Sunday, Nov. 22Kickoff time: 8:20 p.m. ET
All "Sunday Night Football" games in 2020 have the same set start time of 8:20 p.m. ET. There are Sunday night games scheduled for every week of the season except Week 17, though the NFL has the ability to flex a game into a Week 17 SNF window.
While the start times for all "Sunday Night Football" games in 2020 will go unchanged, the teams featured in the time slot can be altered beginning in Week 5.
The NFL has a flex scheduling procedure that allows for "quality matchups on Sunday night in those weeks and gave surprise teams a chance to play their way onto primetime." Here are the key rules for flex scheduling:
— Began Sunday of Week 5 and is in effect during Weeks 5-17
— Up to two games may be flexed into Sunday night between Weeks 5-10
— Only Sunday afternoon games are subject to being moved into the Sunday night window
— The game that has been tentatively scheduled for Sunday night during flex weeks will be listed at 8:15 p.m. ET
— The announcement will come no later than 12 days prior to the game
NFL live stream for Chiefs vs. Raiders
Because NBC broadcasts all "Sunday Night Football" games, they are available to stream on all of the network's online platforms. This should be the preferred method for those who have a cable/satellite subscription but can't get in front of a TV.
For cord-cutters, there are plenty of live streaming options for "Sunday Night Football." Below are all of them.
Streaming optionCable subscription needed?Free?Cost
Free trial?NBC SportsYesYes--NFL AppNoYes--Yahoo! Sports AppNoYes--fuboTVNoNo$60/monthYesAT&T TV NowNoNo$55/monthYesHulu Plus Live TVNoNo$55/monthYesSling TVNoNo$30/monthYesYouTube TVNoNo$65/monthYes
In Canada, the game is available on DAZN, which live streams every NFL game.


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Home Biology Film research study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
Film research study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
Brain activity for the two tasks of a) deciding to rescue the own sister, a friend, or strangers from a dangerous country in red and b) watching a movie believing to see genetically related sisters in blue.
Credit: Image courtesy of Aalto University
The family relationship between film characters clearly affects the reactions in the viewers' brain. The study has also detected a significant conflict between the reactions of the brain and the person's own account.
Are we more prone to help the person that resembles us the most? Social neuroscientists have studied the effects of similarity by showing a re-edited version of the film My Sister's Keeper to a group of subjects and by giving them a moral dilemma to consider while measuring their brain function by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
The subjects comprised 30 women who were shown a version of the film shortened to 25 minutes and asked to observe the film in the light of different questions. The study focused particularly on how the subjects felt about one sister refusing to donate an organ to another sister diagnosed with cancer. Before starting the film, the researchers told the subjects that the sisters were either biological siblings or that the younger sister had been adopted to the family as a baby.
The study discloses a major conflict between what the subjects told they felt about the moral issue presented to them and what actually happened inside their brains. 90 per cent of the subjects responded that genetic relationship between the sisters was of no significance to them compared to a situation in which one of the sisters had been adopted to the family as an infant. Still, functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals major differences in brain function between the two viewing conditions.
'The impact on brain functions was amazingly high when we told about the difference in kinship between the sisters. The brain sees these two situations very differently,' says Mareike Bacha-Trams, Postdoctoral Researcher from Aalto University.
The various impacts of genetic ties
When the viewers thought that the sisters were genetically related there was significant correlation between their brain activity in the insula, cingulate cortex, medial and lateral prefrontal cortex, superior temporal cortex and superior parietal cortex. These areas of the brain control for instance such matters as morals, feelings, and decision-making.
Based on the study, we can thus assume that the moral expectations of the subjects are more similar when the sisters are thought to be genetically related.
The same subjects were also asked to select which one person or several persons they would rather save from a crisis region. A sister, a best friend and unknown people were presented in various combinations, and more than 90 per cent of the subjects said that they would rather save their sister. The best friend came right after the sister. The response times got longer as the subjects had to choose whether they would, in addition to their sister or friend, save four unknown people.
'The study is of significance in the field of social neuroscience when we want to know how people observe interactions between two people with a close relationship. This may also give rise for debate even in situations where scandals related to nepotism emerge in societal decision-making,' Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen describes.
Story Source: Materials provided by University of Chicago Original written by Whitney Clavin.Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
Mareike Bacha-Trams, Enrico Glerean, Robin Dunbar, Juha M. Lahnakoski, Elisa Ryyppö, Mikko Sams, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen. Differential inter-subject correlation of brain activity when kinship is a variable in moral dilemma. Scientific Reports, 2017; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14323-x
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