AutoPagerize for Opera is a userscript that will automatically load the next page of a website inline when you reach the end of a page. This makes browsing paged search results or multi-page articles much more seamless as you don't need to click "Next" all the time. The full version of the script supports hundreds of sites, including basic staples of the contemporary Internet like Google Search, Twitter and Reddit.
Basically, this is a partial port of the popular Firefox-only script AutoPagerize. I had to leave out some of the original's features (like automatic updates) that were impossible to implement due to Opera's limitations, but the main functionality is still there and the modified userscript supports all the sites that AutoPagerize does.
The script is available in two versions – "Full" and "Mini". They only differ in the number of sites they support out of the box.
This is a dynamically generated file that includes all the site configurations listed in the AutoPagerize database at the time when you download it.
This version only supports Google Search by default. Useful if you want a smaller and slightly faster version that you can later extend to support only the sites you need.
Create a new folder (anywhere). Name it something like "Opera User Scripts".
Download the script file and place it in that folder.
Click "OK". The script will be automatically executed the next time you navigate to a new page (you don't need to restart Opera).
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A friend of mine made oAutoPagerize, which works on Opera and Safari.
It doesn´t work for me. I follow steps.. nothing..
Which site did you try? As I mentioned in the post, the autopager works for the sites it has been configured for, but it will do nothing on others.
would this project be updated, or it is abondoned ?
Maybe now, when Opera Add-ons alpha is published, update the script ?
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Issue 34 (April - June 2001)
Sir Thomas More's Utopia
Rabia Savas
Socialist ideals have appeared in literature from Plato to Marx. In its midst is Sir Thomas More's Utopia, which links ancient and modern Utopias. Hythloday's fantasy island draws heavily on the Greek republic, and yet influenced Marx. What values do they hold in common, and which ideals are unique?
Life in Utopia
In More's classless society, everyone does the same work, is equal, has the same rights, and must work at least 6 hours every day at whatever they do best. As Utopia is an agricultural society, all people work the land. This creates the same conditions for everyone and ensures ample supplies to suppress the animal fear of want.
All clothing is plain, simple, and designed for utility and practicality. Finer material would give no better protection from the cold or make people appear better dressed. To prevent ostentation, Utopians exchange homes every 10 years and eat in mess halls. Hereditary distinctions are unknown, for children move from household to household, depending on which skill they want to learn. Since there is little distinction in occupation, dress, lodging, riches, or use of free time, pride is almost non-existent.
Utopia's collective agriculture displays the division of labor. Everyone learns the rudiments of agriculture to better serve the common good. "No one will have to do this hard work against his will for more than two years, but many of them ask to stay longer because they take a natural delight in farm life."(1) This ensures Utopia's food supply and gives everyone access to civilized life. If an excessive surplus is produced, a holiday is declared so that no one works without purpose.
Utopia's separate groups (e.g., magistrates and the prince, priests and intellectuals) are not a social or economic class. The syphogrants and the prince are elected autocrats. Their power derives from-and can be removed by-the people. Specialists are not isolated, but rather leaders in an institution in which all can participate. Learning is valued and respected as a means of fully developing one's specific capacities, not as an indication of social standing.
Why Is Utopia Desirable?
One of More's reasons for suggesting a Utopia was to end exploitation. More was most likely revolted by the luxury of sixteenth-century Europe's ruling class, which he saw as a result of the peasantry's impoverishment. If poverty were to be excluded from Utopia, luxury must suffer the same fate. More saw no benefit to the common good if peasant labor benefited only a very small minority.
As a classless society cannot have pride, Utopians consider it a social vice and pass this view on to their children at an early age. As Hythloday says: "Men and animals alike are greedy and rapacious from fear of want. Only human pride glories in surpassing others in conspicuous consumption. For this kind of vice there is no room whatsoever in the Utopian way of life."(2) Lack of pride rids Utopia of class and potential social discord, for a commonwealth without pride is like a single united family.
An even division of labor and a lack of pride clears the way for life's pleasures. There can be no better good than striving for the maximum happiness of all, at the least cost or disadvantage to oneself and society. More believes that money, a symbolic capital that people desire, is the problem, and so Utopia has no money or capital. Thus freed from worrying about food, bills, and other necessities, they enjoy such physical pleasures as fine dining, eating, drinking, and merrymaking (though without alcohol). There is music, a pleasure to the mind and body. For similar reasons, each house has a large garden into which much love and leisure time goes. Their desire to have the best garden, the most pleasing sanctuary, is perhaps the only competition among families.
Pride is replaced by spiritual fulfillment. They pursue philosophy and religion in their quest for virtue and contemplation of the truth, respectively. Their society's primary virtue is natural reason: the reasons for humanity's creation. For them, living according to nature is to be humanitarian. More mentions this: "As nature bids us mutually to make our lives merry and delightful, so she also bids again and again not to destroy or diminish other people's pleasure in seeking our own."(3)
Religion gives great satisfaction to most Utopians. This is unique to More, for neither Plato nor Marx accept religion. Utopia's king decreed that all citizens should believe in at least two things: the soul's immortality and the existence of rewards and punishments in the next life. In religion, Utopians find peace and contemplation of the truth. As education is the most efficient way to overcome corruption and crime, it is entrusted to priests. As a result, few laws are needed and existing ones require only the most obvious and easiest interpretation.
Utopia's government consists of magistrates and a prince who handle the country's affairs. This does not contradict communism, as government's sole purpose is to maintain the status quo and prevent idleness. The government is designed in the most responsible way. All matters must be considered for a day and cannot be passed without 3 days of contemplation. It is a capital offense to consult together on public affairs outside the senate or the people's assembly. Raphael says: "They take care to deliberate wisely rather than speedily ... considering the public good."(4)
More's Utopia has a major failing: it is static and unchanging, instead of evolving, and allows no place for growth and development. Thus only a miracle or a prince gifted with a measure of divine power could bring it into existence. More understood that his Utopia was not a possible solution, but had no idea of the historical process that might lead to a future socialism.
Utopia is only put forward so that readers will understand that Utopian values are really the fundamental values of human nature, and that the world is imperfect. As Hythloday says at the end: "I must confess that there are many things in the Utopian Commonwealth that I wish rather than expect to see among our citizens."(5)
More does not call for a revolution, nor is he a leader of the proletariat who wants to overthrow the bourgeoisie. Instead, More is like his Utopians, simply contemplating what would be nice, a daydream maybe. While More's Utopia anticipates the characteristics of a modern classless society, he proposes no means by which to obtain this blissful paradise.
Thomas More, Utopia, ed./trans. H.V.S. Ogden (Illinois: ARM, 1949), 29.
Ibid., 38.

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In fall 2016, Seyta Selter, MA ('16), will be teaching "Consciousness, Dreams, and Beliefs: The Nature of Personal Reality" with Donald Middendorf at Evergreen State College. In the course, students will focus on advanced topics in consciousness studies and the psychology of dreams, and explore consciousness by examining dreams and personal belief systems using both scientific research and first-person experience. The dynamics of the psyche will also be examined by considering the following questions: What is the psyche, what is consciousness, and what are their properties and dynamics? Are there different types of consciousness? What is the relationship between unconscious and conscious mental processes? What is the relationship among the conscious, unconscious, and personal beliefs in constructing our sense of self and our experience individually and en masse?


NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has seen a double-digit increase in murders during 2010, though overall crime was down 2 percent from last year. That's according to preliminary figures from the New York City Police Department.
As of Dec. 31, there were 532 murders, up from 471 in 2009. The city has seen record lows in crime in the past decade, and last year's murder rate was one of the lowest ever.
Criminologists have said such increases should not cause worry and that the city is not returning to the days when there were more than 2,000 people slain per year.
NYPD figures released Monday show that rapes are up 14 percent and robbery is also up 4 percent from 2009. Among those killed in 2010 included 10 arson victims; the year before there was one.


A recent study by Adobe revealed that creativity is the #1 skill employers are looking for in prospective job candidates. And IBM found, in a global study of more than 1500 CEOs from 60 countries and 33 industries, that the most important skill for successfully navigating an increasingly complex world is creativity. Graduates from traditional and technology backgrounds are being encouraged to cultivate their creative sides, which puts arts and design graduates who completed programs of study steeped in creativity and innovation at an advantage in today's job market.
"Creativity is a skill that can be learned," says Noah Scalin, founder of arts consulting group Another Limited Rebellion. "The set of skills artists learn allows us to be consistently innovative and constantly coming up with new ideas." As the value of creativity increases, and employers seek out candidates familiar with design thinking and artistic perspectives, alumni of graduate arts programs are discovering a wealth of opportunity is available to them after graduation. For these reasons, both arts grads and employers are valuing the MFA degree, and for that matter the shorter MA degree, more than ever before.
MAs and MFAs have the skills necessary to navigate a career journey in the 21st century. They are resourceful and adaptable, comfortable with both reinvention and failure, and have proven they are dedicated to their craft. They also have an edge in an industries like tech and finance where most of their peers have been conditioned to think there's just one correct solution or answer.
In addition to growing demand for workers from liberal arts, fine arts and design backgrounds, there's also a rising need for those with graduation-level education. According to CareerBuilder, 27% of employees say their educational requirements for employment have increased over the last five years. Twenty percent of employers are now targeting master's degree holders for positions previously held by those with bachelor's degrees.
Artist employment is expected to rise 11% by 2018, which is slightly higher than the rate projected for overall labor force growth. So which occupations are growing faster than average?


It is well known that the lead contained in lead-based paint (LBP) can pose a serious human health risk if ingested. In our nation's building infrastructure, millions of meters of high quality salvageable lumber have been coated with LBP. The study presented in this and a companion paper investigated the feasibility of producing several standardized wood product profiles, including flooring, bevel siding, and paneling, from salvaged LBP-coated wood. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of worker and workplace exposure to lead during wood remilling operations. Approximately 2180 m (7,152 ft) of painted Douglas-fir drop siding salvaged from deconstructed U.S. Army barracks was evaluated. Results indicate that when properly sized and specified, commonly available woodworking machinery and dust collection systems can be used to safely profile, filter, and collect waste LBP shavings and dust from remachining operations. Lead exposure to workers in the vicinity of remanufacturing operations was found to be less than one-tenth that of the OSHA permissible exposure limit for indoor lead exposure. In addition, lead present on the produced wood product was found to be a fraction of that found on the original painted wood material.


CLOSED meeting. For members only. See below requirements for membership.
All MBA Pastors and wives, all ministerial staff and spouses, single ministers, bi-vocational ministers and wives, and MBA staff and spouses, are invited to attend this special time of fun, food, and fellowship, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Tickets are $10 p/person and must be pre purchased at the MBA office, or at the weekly Ministers Conference. The deadline for meal ticket purchases is Monday, November 26.


Join us at Glendale Dodger Night and support our Glendale Parks & Open Space Foundation! Glendale Dodger Night is an annual fundraiser which brings together hundreds of community members at Dodger Stadium to watch our Los Angeles Dodgers and support a great cause. The Glendale Parks & Open Space Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which supports park projects, recreation programs, and trails and open space activities that enrich the entire community.


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Q: iOS: put UICollectionView in a separate class I want to implement UICollectionView with custom cells, and previously I have:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate, UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout

and inside I implemented
func numberOfSections(in collectionView: UICollectionView) -> Int
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell

and it's working fine. Now I want to implement more functions related to cell selection, but I also want to conform to MVC pattern so I'm trying to move the UICollectionView implementation to another file. Then I have:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBoutlet var grid: UICollectionView!
    ovverride func viewDidLoad() {
        ...
        grid = GridView(grid.frame, GridLayout()) //GridLayout() is the layout file working fine
    }
 }

and another file:
class GridView: UICollectionView, UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate, UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout {
    func numberOfSections(in collectionView: UICollectionView) -> Int {}
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {}
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {}
}

But then if running it'll give error:
collectionView:numberOfItemsInSection:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance

I checked the link here: error, and tried to do this in the ViewController:
grid.dataSource = grid as! UICollectionViewDataSource?
grid.delegate = grid as! UICollectionViewDelegate?

But it's not working. May I know how to fix this?
EDIT
Class AppDelegate gives the error. And I've also tried to set the initializer of GridView:
override init(frame: CGRect, collectionViewLayout layout: UICollectionViewLayout) {
    super.init(...)
    self.dataSource = self
    self.delegate = self
}

But it's not working.

A: You should try setting the datasource and delegate of GridView inside the initialiser (frame:, layout:) of GridView class.
override init(...) {
    super.init(...)
    self.dataSource = self
    self.delegate = self
}

And can you please mention the exact line that is giving the error? Maybe you are still using some UICollectionView related code in your ViewController?

A: Are you tried;
grid.dataSource = self
grid.delegate = self

If it works, after this you can customize your collection views by using tags in same delegate and data source functions.

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Panama ENRikke Sørensen2021-05-06T16:19:18+02:00
>> View content in Español
Name for organization: HAE Panama
18 members at 1 Jan 2021
Name of approved HAE treatments:
Ruconest – registered, but we don't have access yet
Fun or interesting things about Panama
Great weather.
Happiness of the People.
Beautiful beaches from the Atlantic & Pacific oceans.
What positive changes have happened for people with HAE, in your country, from 2012 to now?
The positive changes that have occurred for the people with HAE in Panama have been to get to know each other, to come together as a group and form a single force and create an association of patients with Dr. Olga Barrera, our treating physician.
Knowing well the mechanism of action of the disease has also been very helpful for us, because that way we will know how to act during an attack
What is the biggest achievement for people with HAE, in your country, from 2012 to now?
One of the greatest achievements for Panama has been to be the first country in Central America to have an association of patients with a registered legal status.
In Panama we also have a law that guarantees social protection to the population suffering from rare, infrequent and orphan diseases, Law No. 28 of October 28, 2014.
For us, as an association, the greatest achievement will be to have accessibility to medicines, we have not achieved it yet but we have a lot of FAITH that we will achieve it soon.
What is the resource, event or activity that you are most proud of organizing for people with HAE in your country, from 2012 to now?
In 2017, the first panel of Experts on Hereditary Angioedema for Central America and the Caribbean was held in Panama, this event had the participation of experts in HAE.
The most important event has been the first meeting of patients with Hereditary Angioedema in Panama.
We have had other face-to-face patient meetings, and during the pandemic situation we meet via zoom. A psychologist also participates in these meetings and provides support to the association's patients.
We have also had some publications about the disease in various newspapers.
We had the opportunity to participate in the program "Medicina Al Dìa" who made a complete report on Hereditary Angioedema. Dr. Olga Barrera was the expert on the subject. 3 patients participated in the programme, sharing their experiences with HAE.
Recently Dr. Olga Barrera, on behalf of the patients association, had the opportunity to give a talk about Hereditary Angioedema with the senior class at the University of Medicine of Panama.
What support/ resources have you used from HAEi? What has HAEi helped you to achieve?
Thanks to HAEi, the leaders of Central America and the Caribbean have met, we have had some meetings via zoom, which gave us the opportunity to exchange ideas and gave us support.
HAEi awarded 2 members from Panama a grant to attend the HAE Global Conference in Germany, but due to the pandemic it could not be held.
Your Next Step… What do you want to achieve for people with HAE in your country by 2030?
We hope that all patients with Hereditary Angioedema in the country will have access to various treatments for HAE.
We also hope that we have identified more patients, because we know there must be more and they won't know what they are suffering from.
>> Hereditary angioedema: patients against the clock and without drugs (in Spanish)
>> atients with hereditary angioedema continue without drugs (in Spanish)


Please take a few minutes to scroll through the links to your right to meet some of the wonderful staff, volunteers and patients that help make Stevenson Memorial Hospital the warm, caring and compassionate place that it is.
And let us know if you have a story to share! We'd love to hear from you.
Simply email communications@smhosp.on.ca with your story.


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Talkin' Bout A Revolution
By Karl Castaneda
At E3 in 2004, it was the year of the handhelds. Sony was unveiling the final version of its PSP, which was to be their golden entrance into the realm of portable gaming. Nintendo had their answer, though; the Nintendo Dual Screen was out and about for everyone to see (and touch, as well). While everyone admired Nintendo for bringing something new to the table, nobody was sure if a touch screen and microphone would change the industry as we know it. It was definitely a rocky start for the fledgling console, but we're now seeing the fruits of labor ripen, and I think we can all agree that there's a bright future for Nintendo in that respect.
But there was something else at the Electronic Entertainment Expo that stuck with gamers – Satoru Iwata, Nintendo Co. Ltd. President, spoke (albeit briefly) about the company's next foray into home consoles, dubbing the project hardware that would spark a revolution, of sorts. Since then, the not-yet-named platform has retained that namesake, and pretty much every Nintendo fan from the students of Super Mario Bros. to the admirers of Pikmin have been waiting for this so-called Nintendo Revolution.
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The Nintendo Revolution controller. A Revolution or a Diaster waiting to happen?
Nintendo has finally Unvieled their controller for the Nintendo Revolution. Check out the article here at IGN.com.
And let me tell you I was caught off guard on this big suprise by Nintendo. I was expectiing some kind of configurable layout controller that will allow you to play all the old classic games from the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube. But I was so dead wrong. After reading the article at IGN this could be a revolution in gameplay. But at the same time you can also be scaring people away with a freaking remote control.
The positives I see from this. One, this definitly will create new and unique types of gameplay. I can see how fun it might be to swing the controller around like a sword with its built in motion sensors. I also like the laser pointing feature that could maybe be used fo a future Duckhunt? Second, I like how the controller/Remote control Hybrid looks. Its sleak and stylish and some unique button positioning. It looks kinda comfortable and in an odd twist reminds me of an NES controller. Third, I won't have to buy a seperate remote for DVD playback. Take that Sony and Microsoft.
Now here are the negatives I see. One, the Controller is a freaking remote. The last system that had a remote as a controller bombed like hell. I'm looking at you Philips CDI. Second, There are only a couple of face buttons on the front of the controller/remote. How are we going to play Snes, N64 and Gamecube games is beyond me. Third, Why is the analog seperate from the rest of the controller? The cord connecting the analog stick and the remote is pretty short too to boot. what if something gets caught and they sperate or get damaged?
I am also very worried that the American public may not fall in love or even accept the Revolution right away now that the controller has unvieled. American gamers are a bit trickier these days to coarse into buying something as daring as the Revolution. Were as Japanese gamers are always into the new flashy and hip style of gaming.
But only time will tell of course. I have to see the games. I must see the games that will help the Revolution become a "Revolution." I am highly interested in what the final prototype of the controller/remote will look like. Maybe it will have more face buttons for the N64 and SNES games. Who knows but until then I will continue to be stuck between in the realm of WTF! and amazement.
Xbox 360 launch confirmed at TGS 2005
Mark your calenders people. The next generation of consoles will be here November 22nd. Following the US release will be the Japan and European release which will be on Dec 6th.
And several of the games shown looked great too. Ninety-Nine Nights from Q entertainment looks dazzling and the montague of games shown at the MS conference left me with a good impression. Games like Sonic the Hedgehog, Chromehounds, Project Gotham Racing, Nintey Nine Nights, Dead or Alive 4 and Dead Rising all looked great.
Hopefully this time around the japanese market will respond well to the new Microsoft system.
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Sega gets a new Exec.
Sega, as you know it, has been in some kind of rut the past couple of years. The games being put out, besides virtua fighter and most of their gba games, have been mediocre at best. Hopefully, with a their new senior vp, Sega might get back on track and start making some great games again.
Sega welcomes new Exec
Sony Playstation 10th Anniversary!
Today the worldwide phenomenon known as the Playstation (or psx, or PSone) celebrates its 10th anniversary. And I think I will take a different approach for looking at the system. I am going to take a look back at what I saw and thought of about the system back when it hit US stores back in 1995. I'm not going to give you some kind of history lesson about what the system has accomplished because I am not a history writer. Or Steven Kent for that matter.
In 1995, the only systems that I owned at the time were a Sega Genesis (plus SegaCD and 32X) and an NES. I also wasn't a hardcore gamer like I am today. A few months before the launch of the Playstation I started to buy GameFan magazines. GameFan right away become one of my favorite gaming magazines of all time. The staff was not only straight to the punch but didn't pull any punches on what they thought about a really bad game. Throughout the issue I mostly saw stuff that was coming out for the Sega Saturn and read stuff about the upcoming Nintendo 64. I saw some stuff on the Sony Playstation but it really didn't interest me at the time.
Greetings and Salutations and the Xbox 360
Ahoy there, guys. How are you this evening? That good, huh? How's Joan looking tonight? That fine, huh? Man, what I wouldn't give to slap that around a little and...
What? Oh, right. The blog. Focus on the blog.
Well, I suppose I should tell you a little about myself before getting to the topic at hand. Well, the name's Karl Castaneda, although I've been going by the handle of Viewt for a while - that's what a certain group of people know me by, almost exclusively. But I'm trying to change that by spreading my real name around a tad more. Anyway, I'm a Staff Writer at Planet GameCube, just like Hubbs said, although I'm hoping to be known for a few more things in the coming months. For example, I'm starting up a weekly column for my local newspaper, The Miami Herald, I'm starting a webcomic with some buds of mine, and hey, I just joined up with Hubbs' blog! Things are going aces - I swarez it.
Okay, now it's time to talk Xbox. Up until recently, I was planning on buying a 360 at launch, for what I was guessing would be in the neighborhood of $350. But since Microsoft announced its price of $400 for the system, hard drive, wireless controller, etc, I've effectively been put off - to the point of my being sure that I won't be buying one come November.
Now, there are two things people bring up when I say this. One is, "But it's only $50 more." Yeah, but $350 was basically as far as I was willing to go - even that had me a bit hesitant, but this pushed me over the edge. It's too damn expensive. End of freaking story.
The second thing people bring up is the half-breed mutant $300 Xbox 360. You know - the one with just the console and a regular old wired controller. And no hard drive. And no DVD remote. Basically, it means absolutely dick to someone like me. So go piss off, discount console.
So does this mean I won't be buying a 360 ever? Hell no. Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 2007, and RE5 are mind-numbingly beautiful. I'm just gonna wait until the PS3 launches, when Microsoft will surely lower their price to compete. They probably won't react when Nintendo launches the Revolution, because everybody's discounting Nintendo (which they totally shouldn't do, but that's another story for another day).
So, in final, Microsoft wants too much of my money this year. Maybe next year, J Allard and Xtreme Xbox Xers.
Oh, and again, HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!
-Karl "Viewt' Castaneda
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The DS vs the PSP.
Okay lets put the handheld war into perspective. As we know the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP are fighting for handheld supremacy. And like 9 times before, as Nintendo put it in their E32004 conference, they have come out victorious. And I believe that Nintendo will again pull out victorious against the PSP. Seriously let's be realistic here and throw aside the sales figures. The Nintendo DS is a well made machine made for unique and refreshing game play. The PSP to me is a mini-sized Playstation 2 minus one analog stick and two shoulder buttons. And if you look at it on a whole, the PSP in a way does have mass appeal there but falls short in many areas.
-What I like and dislike about the Sony PSP.
The PSP is a portable PS2 and with that knowledge you can easily port some games to the system. In fact many games have already been ported. Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Wipeout, Midnight Club, EA's sports line-up and Dynasty Warriors have all made their way to the system. There are some original games for the system as well like Lumines, Metal Gear Acid, and Death Jr. Some of these games are fun, but unfortunately the PSP just doesn't have that hit game like the Gameboy did with Tetris.
The PSP is also a portable entertainment system allowing you to watch movies and listen to mp3's. Those are nice benefits but if you ask me the movie umd playback is utterly useless to a guy like me. I see no point in buying a movie I like twice in two different formats. The UMD movies also cost more than DVD's as well averaging at around $25-35 each. And the movie playback also eats away at battery life leaving you with next to no play time afterwards.
I do enjoy the mp3 music playback of course. The quality of the PSP as an mp3 player is really great. And it doesn't eat the battery life as much one would think.
As an overall package, the PSP is just too expensive for features you will most likely not use. At $249 with a small library of games, most of which are ps2 ports, a decent but battery life consuming movie playback, and mp3 support. It's really just too much for too much. I am a gamer not a multimedia-on-the-go-freak.
-What I like and dislike about the Nintendo DS.
The DS is in my mind a great system but it's not without its fault. The system is unfortunately weaker graphically than the PSP by a huge margin. So was the Gameboy which defeated its graphically superior opponents like the gamegear, the lynx, and neogeo pocket. Proving that you don't need better graphics to make great games.
But of course this is where the DS has slumbered. Over the course of the first several months after the DS' release in the US there have been rather very little in terms of great games. In fact until recently, there haven't been that many games that fully utilized the system's hardware capabilities. Some games like Warioware Touched, Meteos, the remade Mario 64DS, Yoshi's Touch and Go, and Kirby Canvas Curse have shown that the system has great potential for some unique and fun game play. Unfortunately those games were far and few in between. Now the DS is finally picking up its pace and its future lineup looks very promising starting with the fall lineup.
The DS also come equipped with a slot for Gameboy advance games. SO if you were to ever get tired of playing a DS game you can just pop in, let's say Pokemon leafgreen, and poof there you go. So now you have just added a library of 200 plus GBA games to your system. Unfortunately because of plans for a future Gameboy handheld backwards compatibility only allows for GBA games which are a bummer. And because there are no extra ports on the DS you can't play any multiplayer games with friends.
The system dopes what it was meant to do. It plays games and it plays them well for the most part. The system doesn't come with mp3 or movie playback, plus the system just recently released Nintendogs and I believe that this will be the game that will make the DS a household name. The average joe, the average joe's girlfriend, and the hardcore gamer will find nintendogs to be the "it" game for a long time. Much like pokemon and tetris was for the Gameboy.
-Overall outlook for both systems.
I feel that the PSP might live on for awhile. It will live much longer than the gamegear did which was also in its own rights a great handheld but it also suffers the same problems that plagued the gamegear. One, the gamegear was too expensive and most people sought for the cheaper Gameboy instead. Two, the gamegear and PSP both have short lived battery life. This is a big issue as most gamers love to play those marathon game sessions once in a while or for long road trips. And finally, while the added bonus of being able to watch movies is nice, in the end people just want to play games and not be overwhelmed by the extras.
The DS has finally got the ball rolling after a slow start and it looks like it will be speeding up. A strong fall and winter line-up compliment the underpowered system. The PSP does have some stellar looking games coming out as well but I hardly have any interest in them because moist of them I can play on my PS2.
Now I do understand that my opinion does seem one sided but I am just speaking the truth and the truth is a harsh thing. And to make it harsher, 6 million people who own a DS agree with me. The PSP might catch a small sales jump now that its out in Europe but soon people will rather play something that isn't already hooked up to their 42inch HDTV's.
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Gaming Vision is reborn!
Yes after nearly 3 years. I have decided to resurrect GamingVision. Only this time around its a two man army and we mostly write whatever we feel like at the moment. What we write are mostly editorials on the game industry. We will write a review or preview here and there to give you our thoughts on whats enjoyable.
Onto introductions.
I am Robert Hubbs, a small time amatuer gaming journalist and joining the site soon will be my partner in crime, Karl Castaneda. He is a journalist from Planet Gamecube. He and I have worked together before at Nintendo-Insanity before he left for the gig over at PCG. I also left NI but mostly because I lost the interest and love of writing.
But now as you can see I have decided to start writing again. You will seen be reading my reviews, editorials, maybe a preview here and there, and some rants on things that I enjoy a lot. Like Guild Wars for instance.
Anyway, thats all you need to know about for the time being. Enjoy the resurrected, revised and retooled GamingVision.
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The Fragility of Life and What to Do About It
By Mark Monchek
I've been thinking a lot about the fragility of life, how abruptly it can be threatened, how quickly it can end. My thoughts are fueled by the avalanche of deaths from the pandemic and the collateral damage from our related social ills. The six people who died from the January 6th terrorist attacks and the countless others whose psyches will be forever scarred. The dozens who have died from the February deep freeze that we were unprepared for. The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many other casualties of our inability to respect life. Death is ever with us, and my current preoccupation has forced me to examine my own relationship with death.
I grew up with the reality of death hidden behind a tightly closed door. The first death I remember was when I was about three years old. My father's mother, Anna, was in a nursing home in Brooklyn. When we drove there, I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what it was. My grandmother's room was musty and barren. A large, round canister with cobalt blue liquid inside sat by the side of her bed. I kept staring at it, as if it held the mystery to this strange thing I couldn't make sense of. My parents spoke in hushed tones; everything felt sad and dark. Was it something so awful no one could talk about it? Suddenly we stopped going to visit, though no one ever told me why. I don't remember my parents ever speaking about her again. I am terribly sad that I never knew her; who she was, how she lived, the influence she had on our family.
I would find out later that my parents weren't shielding me from death because I was young. It was simply that death was unspeakable. A wrenching awkwardness marked the passing of my mother's parents and my father's brothers as well. It wasn't until my father's death in 1992 that I began to understand and express my feelings about death, to understand that death was the one thing we all had in common and that by speaking of it we could learn how to fear it less and enjoy life more.
The Door is Open and the Light is On
A year ago a deadly virus brought the specter of premature death to everyone's door. At the same time, it impaired one of the most potent antidotes to the fragility of life – the solace of friends, family, and community. When we needed them the most, our loved ones were often beyond reach – behind a mask, a screen, or across the divide of physical distance. So how do we cope with our own mortality while we remain stripped of the buffer that our loved ones and our communities provide?
Covid-19 has flung the door wide open. The haunting reality of being horribly sick, of suffering, of loss, and of no longer being alive is with us every day. It is difficult for me to reflect on this past year, with all its shocking turns and, for a long while, with no end in sight. I continue to think about the fact that we still aren't talking about the death that is all around us. Sure, many people have told me of their fear of getting sick, of suffering, of spreading the virus. Very few, though, have talked directly about how they would feel to no longer be here. Or their fear of not having lived a life they wished for. On some level, we always know that we are moving a little closer to our death every day. We just don't want to think about it.
When I think about the end of my life I can become submerged in sorrow. Never seeing my daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, my former wife – the mother of our child. Never seeing my brother, sister-in-law, my niece and nephew, my stepfather. Never being with my Opportunity Lab family and clients. Missing my friends, many of whom I have known for 20, 30, 40 even 50 years. Did I do my best for them? Did we spend enough time together? What will be left unsaid, undone?
Thinking about not being here can make my stomach churn; my chest tightens, my breathing becomes shallow. My mind can become woozy and untethered. It can spin into regret for all of the mistakes I've made and the time I've wasted. It worries about all the things I want to do before I die and how badly I will feel if I won't get to do them. What grounds me is the legacy of my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and colleagues who are no longer living. They aren't here in physical form, yet I feel them every day. Their images grace my walls. I write about them, tell their stories, honor both what they taught me and what I have had to unlearn from them. They comprise the sinew of my being.
One of the ways I am learning to respond to the fragility of life is to acknowledge that a part of me will live on. Just like the people in my life who have passed on live on in my memory. My belief in this eternal presence helps me live in a more peaceful and present way.
I remember going to visit my mother's grave about six months after she died. The summer blue sky, specks of clouds, and soft, warm breeze made time stop. I lay on my back, next to my mother, breathing in the grass. In this spot, a half a year before, I tossed a shovelful of dirt into the pit where her body is now. I rolled onto my knees, hunching over her flat headstone. It reads Barbara Shilo, 1923 to 2015 – Mother, Wife, Daughter, Friend, Artist, Activist. At that moment I realized that my mother lives on in my memory and in my imagination. As do all of the people who shaped me. It is their impact on me that inspires the words that I write, that informs the spaces I move in, that directs the places my heart goes.
It is in this way that my life will live on. What I do each day will add up to what I will leave behind. I want to live my life from this place of acceptance. The finiteness of life compels me to be present to my infant granddaughter's discovery of her newfound capacity to shape her world. To my daughter's discovery of the joys of motherhood. To my awe at how life emerges and evolves. It keeps me present to the good fortune I have to be alive, to the work that I do, and the caring and committed people I do it with. Being able to think about death, write about it, and share my feelings about it helps me be present to life. Knowing that life is finite, and knowing that it lives on.
I wrote this piece because the work we are doing at Opportunity Lab has caused us to think deeply about the reverence for life and how we can best support it. In the work that we do helping businesses grow consciously and sustainably, we have found it to be essential for the owners, leaders, and associates of companies to be thoughtful about the overall responsibilities we have for the resources we have been given, people being the most immediate. We hope that this piece is useful to you and your organizations in this way.
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Thailand's sought-after Thailand Elite Residence Program has seen a substantial increase in applications from US people given that the start of the year and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current sales figures reveal that the variety of US applicants in just the very first three months of 2020 is already more than 50% of the total US applicants for the whole of 2019, according to Henley & & Partners. This is due in part to coronavirus-induced travel constraints, with US residents currently in Thailand deciding to stay and delight in the benefits of residing in Thailand on a more long-term basis. Nevertheless, US application numbers from outside the nation have likewise spiked, with Q1 2020 tape-recording a 100% boost in United States candidates compared to both Q1 2019 and Q4 2019.
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has set off a significant spike in general interest in financial investment migration among wealthy people and their households who consider it a unique and effective hedge versus volatility and broader value destruction. As Volek describes, "The unpredictability and instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are driving more wealthy individuals to reassess their concerns and look for alternative choices for home, and the Thailand Elite House Program is a perfect choice. Purchasing the program allows them to transition to a brand-new life in among the world's finest locations, which offers an outstanding and economical quality of life, and where they feel more comfy and protected."
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Viva was founded by Olivier Felicio, is published six times per year and circulates within Canada throughout Loblaws, health food stores, pharmacies and salons. It is a free publication under the Rive Gauche Media Publishing umbrella.

Celebrities who have appeared on the cover of Viva Magazine include Serena Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Patricia Arquette, Maria Bello, Courteney Cox, Patricia Heaton, Marg Helgenberger, Rachel Hunter, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alyssa Milano, Kathryn Morris, Julia Ormond, Ana Ortiz, Jaime Pressly, Vanessa Williams, Cheryl Ladd, Heidi Klum and Christina Applegate.

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In 2011 the circulation of Viva was 45,000 copies. The magazine stopped printing copies in early 2019 with the Winter 2018/2019 being its last issue.

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In the News: Augustana shines nationwide for job placement as it plans for future workforce needs
Article courtesy of Sioux Falls Development Foundation. Published July 1, 2019, on SiouxFalls.Business.
It's one thing to find a job right out of college. It's another to still be thriving in the workforce a decade after graduation.
And a recently released study shows students who graduate from Augustana University are leading the nation when it comes to post-graduation employment.
The university ranked second nationwide, with a 96.05 percent employment rate for its graduates over a 10-year period.
Read "Augustana University Named One of the Best Colleges Nationally for Post-Graduation Employment"
"We're very excited to receive this recognition, because it validates the story we've been proud to tell for years regarding our robust job placement success," Augustana president Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said.
"It reflects the commitment of the faculty and administrators inside Augustana and the many partnerships that have been cultivated over the years that lead to opportunities post-graduation."
The survey was completed by the career site Zippia and used federal data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard to ensure accuracy of its education and employment statistics.
"The methodology is robust, using federal data points and a large sample size," said Billie Streufert, executive director of Augustana's Student Success Center.
"The national recognition reinforces the effectiveness of our foundational approach to higher education that helps students transition into leaders who think critically, communicate clearly and solve unstructured problems."
Building from a core liberal arts base, Augustana emphasizes high-impact practices throughout a student's education that prepare the student for success in the workplace.
Those include experiential learning opportunities such as internships, student teaching, study abroad and undergraduate research.
"We have a very high number of undergraduates who actually get to participate in research alongside their faculty, in the natural sciences — like biology, chemistry and physics — as well as the social sciences," Herseth Sandlin said.
"We want our graduates to add value right away, even as student interns, and then because of what employers experience in a short amount of time as strong contributors, they become emerging leaders in those organizations and employers invest in them further."
Augustana's approach to teaching is designed to help develop future leaders, added Colin Irvine, senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the university.
"Leadership in the classroom is cultivated in situations where there are projects and open-ended experiences as opposed to sitting in lectures and being passive," he said.
"And there's an element of service associated with leadership, which we're cultivating as a sensibility in students. We want them to look around and think, 'What could I do that could do something for others, and what should I do given the opportunities I've been given and the skills people are helping me discover?'"
Health care partnership
Augustana and Sanford Health are close. They're close geographically, within an easy walk or bike ride in central Sioux Falls. They're close foundationally, as both have roots in the Lutheran faith. And they're close professionally, working together to prepare young people for careers in health care.
"We're fortunate that Augustana has such a longstanding history of producing very high-quality graduates," said Diana Vanderwoude, Sanford's senior executive director with human resources.
"We have regular engagement with Augustana about what our workforce needs are, looking at what the hot jobs are and the types of programs they might consider starting based on our workforce needs."
Augustana and Sanford have worked together to create a nursing program that's more than a decade old.
"It's all around creating a more meaningful and welcoming student experience when nurses are in practical environments," Vanderwoude said. "We've co-published two articles around that and have a third underway."
Augustana also provides a significant undergraduate experience for eventual medical students, she added.
"They have very strong biology and chemistry programs, and we've worked together through our Sanford Promise research initiative to offer a variety of undergraduate and graduate internships during the summer and the academic year."
The collaboration produces a true win-win for both organizations.
"It's a decades-long relationship and we're both always looking for opportunities to work together, particularly in emerging fields of medicine, such as genetic counseling," Herseth Sandlin said.
Augustana alumnus and current trustee Dr. Gene Hoyme, former president of Sanford Research, medical director of Sanford Children's Genomic Medicine Consortium and senior advisor for Sanford Imagenetics, helped bridge collaboration between the two that created a genetic counseling program to prepare students for futuristic jobs in personalized medicine.
"Dr. Hoyme always felt our natural sciences programs were of a quality and rigor that, when also blended with our liberal arts core, prepared students so well for medical school and other careers in the natural sciences, and he has become one of many internal advocates for Augustana," Herseth Sandlin said.
"And even those who aren't alumni are familiar with the rigor of our academic programming, which serves Sanford and our community partners well in a variety of contexts, including hiring for positions such as human resources, finance and marketing professionals."
The two organizations also have a long history of collaboration preparing students for careers in athletic training, exercise sciences and sports management.
"And we have a number of top executive leaders who are Augustana graduates," Vanderwoude said. "That speaks to how Augustana prepares students with the ability to think critically and think through challenging and complex situations."
There also are future opportunities to work together, she added.
"There's opportunity for a graduate nursing degree. We've talked about advanced certificates in genetic counseling and if you look at social work and psychology, there's a great need for behavioral health professionals throughout the region and opportunities to expand in that area," she said.
"I just welcome those conversations and appreciate that Augustana is a partner at the table."
Preparing the future workforce
Augustana leaders know their graduates likely will go on to change careers or enter fields that aren't even developed today.
But as they embark on a visioning and strategic planning process out to 2030, they're cultivating a framework that will support educating for future occupational needs.
"We can't know what 2030 will require, but we can build programs and develop a culture that is all about innovation," Irvine said. "We're developing a model that can evolve and can add schools with the kind of facility that's different from larger public institutions. We can move quickly and be very responsive as we know our mission and maintain our commitment to the liberal arts."
For instance, a future master of business administration program could be developed as a core set of courses with spokes such as finance and health care administration that can change in response to community demands. Certificates and academic centers could be implemented to complement more traditional majors and minors.
"We're OK talking about pretty much everything – internally and with our external partners," Irvine said. "If we're not talking about it we can't know what people need and determine what we can do, so we're really excited to open up the conversation."
Augustana is hosting a series of corporate coffees related to its 2030 planning, and all business leaders are invited to attend or reach out to connect one-on-one. To learn more, email billie.streufert@augie.edu.
"The business community has been exceptionally engaged with us," Herseth Sandlin said.
"And I think it's important they also know that all of us at Augustana recognize that higher education is experiencing the same disruption that many of our graduates and employers are experiencing in different sectors of the economy. And we believe we will all be served by innovating together and building partnerships for the future."
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Neuer Tag in Pankow ist das im 30. Jahr des Bestehens von Pankow produzierte und auf Buschfunk erschienene Album.

Entstehungsgeschichte

Das Album wurde an verschiedenen Orten von April bis September 2011 aufgenommenen und zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum der Band auf einer Tour durch Ostdeutschland Ende 2011 live auf die Bühne gebracht.

Musikstil und Rezeption
Aus der Beschreibung des Labels Buschfunk:

In ersten Rezensionen und Konzertberichten wird das neue Album als Anknüpfung an beste Pankow-Zeiten beschrieben.

Mit Texten zwischen Wohlstand, Globalisierung und Aufstand ist Pankow endgültig in der Welt des 21. Jahrhunderts angekommen:

ohne dabei die eigene Identität zu verlieren.

Mit dem letzten Titel des Albums Take W schickt der französische Komponist und Musiker Jean Pacalet, der am 7. Juli 2011 gestorben ist, in Erinnerung an gemeinsame Projekte mit Pankow einen letzten Gruß.

Titelliste
 Neuer Tag in Pankow (Ehle) – 5:16
 Ich wachte auf (Herzberg, Ehle/Herzberg) – 4:57
 Es gibt keine besseren Zeiten (Ehle) – 3:18
 Du musst schneller gehen (Herzberg) – 4:12
 Ich mach 'ne Liste (Ehle) – 3:48
 Was willst du mehr (orig.: the day they took the wall away) (Kunert/Pannach) – 3:01
 Korrekt, korrekt (Herzberg) – 3:32
 Plattes Land (Herzberg) – 3:32
 Wie weit kannst du gehen (York) – 3:43
 Ich bin da (Herzberg) – 3:45
 Krach (Ehle) – 3:12
 Auswendig (Ehle) – 3:23
 Babel (Herzberg) – 3:42
 The Day They Took The Wall Away (Instrumental) (Kunert) – 3:02
 Take W (Pacalet) – 0:32

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The Search for Mackie Basil
BY ANNIE HYLTON
Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won't stop looking for her
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BY SHARON J. RILEY
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The full 2020 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism longlist:
The Digital Afterlife
What Would It Look Like to Take the First Nations Water Crisis Seriously?
How a Good Scam Can Bypass Our Defences
Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists
Did Prisons Ever Work?
How to Vaccinate a Planet
About the Jury
The Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism Jury
Oscar Baker III is the Indigenous affairs reporter at the Cape Breton Post. He is from Elsipogtog First Nation and St. Augustine, Florida, and has held various journalism roles in his seven-year career, including as the JHR Indigenous Editorial Fellow at The Walrus in 2019. @oggycane4lyfe.
Peter Klein is the executive director and founder of the Global Reporting Centre. He was a long-time producer for the CBS News program 60 Minutes and has produced projects for many of the major news programs, including Frontline, Nightline, and 20/20. He has written for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers. Among many other accolades, Peter's work has been honoured with three Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. @peterwklein
Vicky Mochama is a journalist and writer. @vmochama
Elizabeth Renzetti is a columnist at the Globe and Mail, reporter, editor, and The Walrus Talks speaker. She recently won the Landsberg Award from The Canadian Journalism Foundation in association with the Canadian Women's Foundation, which recognizes excellence in research, analysis, and reporting through a gender lens. @lizrenzetti
The Slaight Family Foundation
The Walrus gratefully acknowledges The Slaight Family Foundation for their leadership in establishing this prize and their support of our work through The Allan Slaight Writers' Fund since 2009.
About Allan Slaight
Allan Slaight is one of Canada's pre-eminent entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Among other things, Allan created Canada's largest privately owned multimedia company, Standard Broadcasting, and was instrumental in bringing the Raptors Toronto. His community works include serving as the chair of the United Way of Greater Toronto and the Shaw Festival. As a former radio news director early in his career, Allan is pleased to support serious journalism through The Allan Slaight Writers' Fund at The Walrus and The Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism.
About The Slaight Family Foundation
Established in 2008, The Slaight Family Foundation is committed to making a difference. The foundation supports projects at the local and international levels related to health care, social services, and arts and culture, as well as at-risk children and youth. The Slaight Family Foundation undertakes bold new approaches to philanthropy to increase impact and improve the lives of those in need at home and abroad.
For more information about The Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism, please contact our manager of donor stewardship, Hilary Johnston at hilary@www.alteclansing-iberica.com or (416) 971-5004, ext. 258.
2019 Longlist
2019 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism Longlist
"The Olympics Are Over, but Tessa Virtue is Just Getting Started" by Genna Buck
"The Last Good Sex-Ed Book" by Sue Carter
"Are Breast Implants Making Women Sick?" by Julie Chadwick
"Canada's Hollow Concern for First Nations Democracy" by Robert Jago
"The History of Food in Canada Is the History of Colonialism" by Corey Mintz
"If You Give a Shark a Twitter Account, Will It Make People Care About Conservation?" by Chelsea Murray
"Thomas Sankara Tried to Liberate His Country from the West. Then He Was Murdered" by Josiah Neufeld
"Are University Campuses Where Free Speech Goes to Die?" by John Semley
"We're Doomed. Now what?" by Chris Turner
"How to Plan Your Death with the Love of Your Life" by Amy van den Berg
"What Consent Means in the Age of #MeToo" by Sarah Barmak
"Chrystia Freeland Wants to Fix the Twenty-First Century" by Simon Lewsen
"Unwelcome to Canada" by Kamal Al-Solaylee
"How We Made AI as Racist and Sexist as Humans" by Danielle Groen (Winner)
"My Life and Death on Opioids" by Chris Willie
"The New Old Age" by Sandra Martin
"Bill Morneau May Be Rich—That Doesn't Make Him Corrupt" by Justin Ling
"The End of an Empire" by Stephen Marche
"Why I Developed a Roll of Film I Found on the Curb" by Christine Estima
"Inside the Toronto Star's Bold Plan to Save Itself" by Brett Popplewell
"Peace Be Upon You" by Nadim Roberts
"Dating While Black" by Hadiya Roderique
"Forced Confessions" by Ben Travers
"Pleasure Principal" by Sarah Barmak
"The Grifter" by Michael Lista
"Head Games" by Brett Popplewell (Winner)
"Second Coming" by Joel Barde
"Overhauled" by Sharon J. Riley
"Old Masters" by Emily Urquhart
"Finding the Right Words" by Derek Webster
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CCSA Statement: Illinois Commerce Commission Issues Order to Implement Community Solar Program in Illinois
Chicago, IL – Yesterday, the Illinois Commerce Commission issued a decision to implement a program intended to spur over 200 MW of community solar in the next two years. The yearlong stakeholder process leading up to this decision resulted from Illinois' Future Energy Jobs Act, a 2016 omnibus energy law that paved the way for community solar and an Adjustable Block Program to provide the financing structure for solar development in the state.
Community solar refers to local solar facilities shared by individual community members, who receive credits on their electricity bills for their portion of the power produced. The Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA), a coalition of over forty businesses and non-profits working to expand access to clean, local affordable energy through community solar, issued the following statement in response to yesterday's decision:
"Today's decision by the Illinois Commerce Commission paves the way for Illinois to be a leading state for community solar. It also lays the foundation for the community solar industry to invest, create new jobs, and serve millions of Illinois residents across the state who have been waiting for their chance to realize the benefits of solar energy," said Jeff Cramer, executive director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access. "We appreciate the hard work of the Illinois Commerce Commission and its Staff, the Illinois Power Agency and the diverse set of stakeholders who provided feedback on this monumental effort. We look forward to continuing our work together as we move into the implementation phase and hope to see the program launch near the end of 2018."
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About CCSA: Founded in February 2016, CCSA is a business-led trade organization that works to expand access to clean, local, affordable energy nationwide through community solar. Community solar refers to local solar facilities shared by individual community members, who receive credits on their electricity bills for their portion of the power produced. Community solar projects provide American homeowners, renters and businesses access to the benefits of solar energy generation unconstrained by the physical attributes of their home or business, like roof space, shading, or whether or not they own their residence or building. These programs can also expand access to solar energy to low-income households. For more information, visit the website at www.communitysolaraccess.org, follow the Coalition on Twitter at @solaraccess and like the Coalition on Facebook at www.facebook.com/communitysolaraccess.


1.When heat transfer or conduction occurs, the heat in a material spreads from one part of the material to another.
2.Convection is the loss of heat when a heated liquid or gas (e.g. air) is displaced, carrying the heat with it. The insulating material in ordinary clothing and joint supports, for example cotton, wool and neoprene, is designed to prevent convection and thus retains body heat in the air outside the skin.
3.Radiation occurs when a heat source emits heat radiation, where upon it collides with another surface and heats it. Back on Track's products work with radiant heat, the purpose of which is to avoid trapping the heat through insulation. This is so that the protection has a respiratory function, while heat energy in the body tissues increases.
1.The rays can pass straight through the material, which is called transmittance. An example of this is when the sun's heat rays hit a glass plate. The majority of the heat radiation passes through the glass. You would feel this effect if you were to stand in a room with the sun shining through the window.
2.The second thing that can happen is that the rays bounce on the material's surface and are reflected away, called reflectance. If all the heat is reflected the material will not be heated as none of the rays radiate through the material.
3.The third that can happen is the material absorbs the heat rays, which is called absorbance. Radiated heat can have different wavelengths depending on the temperature of the heat source and the material. Radiant heat is usually within the range of what is called infrared radiation, which means wavelengths between 0.7 microns and 1 mm. A material absorbs different amounts of heat radiation depending on the wavelength of the radiation. This is called the material's absorption spectrum. The radiant heat absorbed increases the heat content of the material.
When manufacturing the polyester and polypropylene fibres that Back on Track products are made of, ceramic particles are fused into the textile fibres. The selection of these ceramic particles is based on which absorption and emission spectrum they contain. The result is that when the ceramic particles absorb the body's heat radiation, they expel heat of a specific wavelength, which is based in the long-wave infrared zone of the thermal radiation spectrum. It is well established and documented that long wave infrared heat radiation has a pain reducing effect and increases blood circulation.