Warner Bros. is finally proving they can run with Marvel and Disney when it comes to superhero movies. "Shazam!" was the studio's third comic-book success in a row achieving great critical and audience response.
Though one of the oldest characters in DC's superhero stable, "Shazam!" doesn't boast the name-recognition of Batman or Superman. But by scaling back to a $100 million budget (about 40 percent less than the average superhero movie) and going for the lighter, comic tone, "Shazam!" steadily built up its word of mouth with stellar reviews. Warner Bros. also showed the film nationwide two weeks before opening, where it made $3 million in advance screenings.
Pitched as "'Big' meets Superman,'" "Shazam!" stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a teenage foster kid (played by Asher Angel) who transforms into an adult superhero (played by Zachary Levi). It was made by New Line, the division of Warner that focuses on lower-budget films. Many of these are used as counterprogramming measures.
The future for "Shazam!" is clouded by Marvel as the impending arrival of "Avengers: Endgame" could take much of the wind from its sails. Marvel has been marketing heavily so expect a box office takeover soon.


Thanks Susan for hosting another challenge this week.
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I only happened to look in this forum now and saw WWF's report from 2015 on Camels Hump. I finally did the hike a few weeks ago and followed the same path WWF did, except in reverse. From Duxbury I hiked up to Camels Hump via Monroe to Dean to the Long Trail and then came back down via Monroe. The Long Trail from the intersection with the Dean trail up to the intersection with the Alpine trail was definitely challenging (my short legs did me no favors on this section and added to the challenge climbing some of the boulders). When you read a lot of reports, people often say the last .2 miles from the Alpine trail to the summit of Camels Hump is the most challenging part of the hike. I actually really enjoyed that last .2 miles of mostly rock scrambling above the treeline and found the previous section of the LT that I mentioned much more of a challenge. Overall it took me substantially longer than WWF (nearly 7 hours for me), although I was stopping a lot to take photos and spent a decent amount of time at the summit before descending. Great hike though and I really enjoyed it.
And now on to some photos.
Great pics! What a nice day you had.
Thanks! The weather really ended up being nearly perfect that day!
I have fond memories of Camel's Hump. I got into hiking with my dad in when I was maybe 15 and this was one of the first overnight hikes we ever did. Me and SkiStef have a few pics up there. I have to see if I can find the pic. that was like 22 years ago.
Nice photos. I did the same route on July 21st and always enjoy the hike and views.
Terrific pics cdskier, now are these the only types of lines you take when you think about a "hike"?


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Honda takes the CBR600RR fully electronic for 2021
By Loz Blain
Honda takes the CBR600RR fully...
Honda's CBR600RR has gone fully electronic for 2021
The venerable 600cc supersport motorcycle. Few who know their way around a racetrack need any convincing about their excellent capabilities, and yet many who don't wouldn't be seen dead on one given the existence of literbikes with more ccs, more horsepowers and more street cred when it's time to bench race at the local biker spot.
It's often said that the vast majority of riders will get around quicker on a 600 due to their light weight, sharper handling, less intimidating throttles and generally friendlier riding experience, but litrebikes are much easier to handle nowadays than they were in the past, with multiple power modes, traction control and impressively low weights themselves. So it's unlikely we'll see a resurgence in 600s on the road.
Still, Honda's CBR600RR has been competitive in this tightest of categories since its debut in 2003, and the brand has announced an all-new model for 2021 to take things up a notch, bring things up to date with current electronics and possibly get back in the Euro emissions testing bureau's good books (the CBR600RR has been unavailable in Europe and the UK since 2017, because it would've been too expensive to make it Euro-compliant.)
The 2021 600RR keeps its classic 599cc inline four engine configuration, but moves peak power up to 14,000 rpm on the tacho. New camshafts, valve springs and cranks make use of lighter metals. The throttle bores have been enlarged and the intakes and exhaust have been tweaked to boost peak power from 113 horsepower to 119.
The new fly-by-wire electronic throttle is just one input that goes to the bike's ECU before it decides how hard to accelerate. The bike gets an inertial measurement unit to sense lean, pitch and how sideways you're getting, and that feeds in with data from a dozen other systems to determine your final throttle opening. So the 2021 bike gets throttle modes, traction control, wheelie control, engine braking modes and lean angle-sensitive ABS.
It gets a full color TFT dash, LED lighting, a light-touch slipper clutch and a new look which Honda says also offers the lowest drag coefficient in the class. It misses out on a quickshifter, but you can get a bidirectional setup as a genuine accessory. In terms of curb weight, you're looking at 194 kg (428 lb). Checking the Honda catalogue, that's just 3.3 kg (7 lb) lighter than the 2017 CBR1000RR superbike, highlighting the narrowing gap between the 1000cc and 600cc classes in terms of rideability and explaining the widening gap in sales figures.
Honda Japan is setting the RRP at 1,460,000 Yen, which equates to US$13,828, without tax. Sales will begin in Japan on September 25, with other regions to follow.
Source: Honda
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Loz Blain
Loz has been one of our most versatile contributors since 2007. Joining the team as a motorcycle specialist, he has since covered everything from medical technology to aeronautics, music gear and historical artefacts. Since 2010 he's branched out into photography, video and audio production.
Daniel Morse August 21, 2020 09:19 AM
This is a really misleading article. The bike has gained some additional electronic controls, whereas your average reader would consider your heading to mean they've ditched the fuel engine in favour of an electric one. This is clearly not the case..
nick101 August 21, 2020 06:35 PM
I interpreted "fully electronic " as electric too. It's still a nice bike, I guess.
yawood August 22, 2020 04:56 AM
@Daniel Morse. A reader might think that if they didn't read thoughtfully. I read it and had no doubt what it meant. Otherwise it would have read 'electric' not 'electronic'.
dandandan August 23, 2020 08:50 PM
Not that fuel economy is a big issue for most motorbike users but I wonder how much of a difference there is between the 600's and the litre bikes. Or is it cheaper to buy? There has to be some advantage if its not that much lighter or more manoeuvrable!
geemy August 26, 2020 01:05 AM
the biggest advantage of smaller displacement is less chance of dying when riding it. faster around a track for most riders too and less expensive. insurance price might be lower too.
biggest advantage of liter bikes is more torque. Some say 600 are even more dangerous because low torque makes you want to go for the top end rush.

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Phantasy Star IV is the fourth and final installment of the futuristic Phantasy Star RPG classic series. It's considerably more story-heavy than its predecessors with an intriguing plot, memorable characters, and an interesting battle system, that included the ability to set up action macros and thus help expedite one of the more tedious aspects of any RPG. Later titles featuring the Phantasy Star name would branch off into completely different continuities.
The game's debug menu can be accessed with one of two codes, depending upon the system the game is playing on. For games that need the Game Genie code, use FFEC9F:06, and for PAR use the code FFEC9E:06. While these codes are active, they set the cursor position for the party and system menus - rendering them effectively unusable until the codes are deactivated. They also interfere with Yes/No options and the space travel menu. To access debugging functions, press the Start button when outside of battle, then Confirm. The screen displayed in the screenshot above should open. It can be closed at any time by pressing Start.
Speed: The three options here can be selected using Up and Down on the D-Pad. They set the player's base movement speed, and take effect immediately. The default is 2. 1 is slower, and is used when characters need to walk slowly as part of events. 4 is the fastest speed, and is used to make certain NPC sprites run faster than the player can follow. In Zosa, which requires the player maintain the default speed as part of a penguin walk, the game reverts to the 2 option, if this is changed.
Enemy, Poison, Block: These are toggled on and off by the A, B, and C buttons respectively. The Enemy option toggles enemy encounters either on or off. In a few select areas, this value is locked and cannot be changed. Toggling encounters on in an area where the game doesn't have formation data causes the game to crash when an encounter is triggered. Poison simply toggles on or off whether poisoned characters take damage while walking around. Block turns tile collision on or off, allowing the player to walk through anything but other sprites. It also disables event checking so events triggered by walking on a tile or interacting with a tile will not be triggered. For example, opening the chest with the Eclipse Torch in it normally triggers a fight with one Specter but with the Block option enabled that fight will not occur until the Block option is toggled back off.
All of the following values are display-only and cannot be manipulated via the debug menu.
Position and Scroll: These six values display the player's current X/Y position and scroll information in hexadecimal.
Map: These two hex values reference two map regions: the first value is the current area and the second is area the player last exited. Under certain conditions the second value will read FFFF.
Status and On: During debugging, this would have been used to ensure collision and tile properties were set correctly. These nine numbers tell the viewer what type of tiles are adjacent to the player, as well as what tile they are standing on at the moment. By default, ordinary passable tiles are 00 and impassable tiles are 08.
Dungeon: This value is a reference number for the dungeon the player currently occupies. If it is not zero, the game cannot be saved.
Escape: When this is toggled on, the Hinas spell and Escapipes transport the player to the current dungeon's entrance. This is used in places like Kuran, where teleporting outside is technically impossible with the way the game is structured.
The sound test itself is a well-known bonus feature. It unlocks if the game detects a clear file during bootup, and is accessed by pressing the B button from the Continue screen. Pressing Start while in the sound test reboots the game.
A transition effect was removed or disabled when the game was ported for North American release. An example of this transition can be found below. Curiously, some graphics were removed as well. The title, 一曲即発 (ikkyoku sokuhatsu) is a difficult to translate pun on 一触即発 (isshouku sokuhatsu), which means "[an] explosive situation", or more literally "explodes with one touch". 一曲即発 would roughly mean "explodes with one melody".
There are 4 unused items in the game which are identical across versions.
Nicknamed the 'Blood Axe' by fans, this nameless, description-less item can only be equipped by Gryz. It is a two-handed axe with 36 attack power, 10 defense power, and has a listed Meseta value of 380. It also has a unique attack animation. This item was likely cut because Gryz has plenty of weapons for the early part of the game, and this one didn't offer anything substantial.
As can be seen from this screenshot, the animation had bright red droplet-like sprites which are obviously unfinished. This might have been considered too gory for an otherwise bloodless RPG, and work was halted in the early stages of animation.
This nameless item has a description of ???? in the Japanese version, and would be equippable by anyone but Seth - except the item type is set to 09, a value used to mark plot-necessary items that cannot be equipped, discarded or sold. It offers 20 defense and 10 magic defense. Because it was not intended to be sold, it has no Meseta value.
The so-called 'Spiral Slasher' is a one-handed slasher that can be equipped by Alys and Kyra. Enemies hit with it may be put to sleep if they fail a strength check. This weapon offers 38 attack power, has a meseta value of 200, and an unfinished unique attack animation.
This weapon has two problems. The first is that the sparkly animation that is supposed to trail the spinning slasher is instead displayed above it. The second problem is that this particular animation uses the background palette, rather than the weapon palette.
This item was likely cut to how it can potentially put all enemies to sleep at once, which may have been a feature the developers thought was too overpowered, and to compensate, the Moon Slasher was added as a replacement, which is slightly stronger than the Spiral Slasher, and can potentially put all enemies to sleep when used as an item.
This short YouTube video shows (with some additional explanation) animations for the Blood Axe and Spiral Slasher along with how the original Japanese sound test looks and sounds in action.
The fourth and final item is a map that, when used, brings up a representation of either Motavia or Dezolis. Both maps can be scrolled horizontally, and Motavia's vertically, using the D-Pad. When either are initially opened, they are tiled in such a way that the world's wrapping point is the center of the map. For example, this places Skure, the huge pit that marks the outer boundaries on Dezolis, in the center. This default orientation can make finding landmarks difficult and may have contributed to the decision to dummy out the feature.
When the game was translated into English, the planet names were left with their original Japanese table values and thus appear as 'cavespeak' - English letters mixed with Japanese. The labels translate as Motavia and Dezolis, respectively.
Dezolis's map is still in a rough state with noise, as the game fills in the defined boundaries with data around the map image itself. Noise areas are valid coordinates in game but clearly not intended for player use as they are impassable mountains with bugged enemy encounters. This map cannot scroll vertically. It lacks one site marker (excluding the hidden Space Port) which is the Esper Mansion. The towns of Meese and Reshel along with the Musk Cat cave are small brown squares that are difficult to see in the map's default dimensions. The Garuberk Tower is also not marked, although the tower's location is presented as a minor mystery in the narrative, and putting it on the map would have spoiled the surprise.
While Gryz can only equip two-handed axes in the final release, graphics and programming from a presumed earlier development state exist of him as being able to equip knives. As they are not used for any corresponding weapons, it seems the developers may have recycled them for his "Sweeping" Skill (a clone of Chaz's "Airslash") which he possesses at the end of the game. Sweeping uses only the right hand configuration (because all two-handed weapons are treated as being held in the right hand) but the coding for Gryz's attack animations for the left hand or a weapon in both hands are complete and fully functional. The game will flip the right hand frames for a left hand attack, something which it will not due for Raja or Rune who also use all two-handed weapons.
Graphics for a rooster and a different dog -- not that fat dog, Rocky -- that don't appear anywhere in the game proper.
The Principal of Motavia Academy, Dezolisian high priests, and blonde-haired Espers have walk cycles, but they're always stuck in place in the final game.
Zio has animations for walking west, east, and north, but he only ever walks south.
Gyuna has a full-body sprite, complete with waistcoat, but only the top of his body is ever seen. Even disabling the foreground and background layers won't reveal more of the sprite - seems they realized the lower half would never be seen, so they didn't bother filling in the tilemap.
This large background can be seen in-game but not completely, due to scale, scrolling, foreground obstructions, and programmer error. It is used as the background layer for the two times the player must walk between towers in Zio's Fort, and the background for the top levels of the Fort and Ladea Tower to create an illusion of height. The background's width is best suited for Ladea Tower, but when the tile map was programmed for that screen, errors were made that resulted in some tiles being omitted completely.
When the game was being localized for the North American audience, two enemies were disabled from appearing as part of enemy formations. They still exist in the English version, and their names were translated, but all formations containing them were removed from the final retail release. They can still be encountered in early localization prototypes.
On the left is the Akasha (translated as Acacia in the English version). This spirit appears in groups of one to four when Chaz is alone in the sword cavern. The only thing they can do is physically attack, although if Wren were still in the party, their electrical touch attacks would be quite deadly for the android. On the right is The Edge's darker palette swap, who has a unique ability as seen below. They also appear in groups of one to four and are common enemies early in The Edge.
The Star Dust spell assails the player's party with pillars of bright white energy. While the Shadow Mirage is controversial enough by design, Star Dust causes the screen to flash, and may have just added to the localization team's decision to disable this encounter.
There are several bits of dialogue and system text that went unseen. Some of it is simply an error of design, others were left unused because the system didn't need them.
In all final versions of the game, it is impossible to examine the statue of Alis and read the attached description because doing so as part of the events that put Chaz there triggers a cutscene. After the cutscene, the party is returned to the Esper Mansion and the door to the sword cavern is sealed again. It is thus only possible using a method to walk through walls. Below is what this line says in the English version.
It is normally impossible to leave Piata before defeating the Igglanova in the university basement. By using a walk through walls code to leave Piata at the very beginning of the game, the party will return to Piata with the guards saying the following lines.
Guards: For crying out loud, I'm telling you, you can't go outside!"
Upon return in the English version, the townspeople will respond with blank text boxes. In the Japanese version, this does not occur.
Shopkeepers present a particular case. Most of them have text, despite being unreachable behind their counters - yet of these, the majority repeat a line from someone else in the same town. A few have blank text, and the remaining handful don't even have a trigger associated with their sprite. The following two lines are exceptions to all of the above.
Reshel innkeeper: "At last we can breathe easy. We're going to rebuild Reshel back to its original splendor!
No, even better than that!
Jut innkeeper: Oh my, a Parmanian guest, how rare. So is it that interesting to you to go see a Dezolisian temple?
Chaz then says: I wonder if this person wants any business?
It's a kan ja. By the way, sick people are also kanja!
Rika: Raja, how do you know such a thing?
Raja: It's a feeling I have!
In earlier Phantasy Star games, it was possible to end up with a ghost party by carefully manipulating events. However, the developers of Phantasy Star 4 averted this by having the game check each step to find out if the party is dead, or near death, and display a corresponding message. This is necessary, because poison was changed from its earlier incarnation of preventing healing, to dealing damage over time while on the overworld. When the game was translated into English, the "party is all dead" line ended up partially illegible, due to a programming error. The line does not have a terminator programmed into it, and so the game keeps printing what it finds, until it gets to one obscuring part of the message with text meant for the menu.
Chaz and his Companions have perished.
Listed among the place names is the entry GHOULFORST, short for Ghoul Forest, between Meese and Esper Mansion. The only forest in the game is the carnivorous one blocking access to Garuberk Tower. The forest tiles contain no teleport to an unused region, and the whole forest is destroyed when the player approaches with the Eclipse Torch in their inventory. Even when hacking in an item that can kill the plants instantly, the forest remains intact and unchanged until the event flag with the Eclipse Torch is set. An extra story screen was added for the North American release showing Chaz holding the Torch up for this event. This, combined with the presence of undead in Reshel nearby and within the tower itself, suggests the Eclipse Torch was only originally planned to destroy the carnivorous plants protecting the forest's border, and the player would then have to navigate it to reach the tower.
At the end of the game, all of the inhabitants of Mile are slain. Upon entering the town, Chaz and his group find the citizens dead, and the buildings either locked, or blocked, as in the case of the item shop and one house. Normally, it is not possible to enter either building, but with the debug menu, doing so is a simple task. The item shop is exactly how it has always been and is fully functional. The barred buildings no longer have any teleports to the interior maps associated with them, but one building that is still open and obstructed by the body of a fallen old man can be entered, so long as the player can walk through walls.
Within is the old man from outside, and the body of a woman. Everything else about the house is as it was, and the player can examine their fireplace and cupboards.
Trying to talk to either corpse brings up a line fragment, and writes graphical garbage over the screen. It is corrected by leaving, but the game will lag significantly until then.
In the Japanese version of the game, the tool shop works as before, and the old man's house is blocked. Going inside produces the above conversation, and the screen glitches, although not as severely. The dialogue called originates from a considerably earlier point in the game.
Lyla: That does it! There's no time to waste! To Molcom!
Chaz can learn up to 15 different techniques by leveling up, with the last technique being Nazan. However, he can also learn an additional technique, Megid, independent of leveling up. In the original Japanese version, the game tries to put Megid in his 15th technique slot; If Chaz has already learned Nazan, it will be permanently overwritten by Megid. This was fixed in international releases (And in all Virtual Console versions) by placing it in his 16th technique slot instead.
The Virtual Console version of the game includes a plaintext ASM patch - complete with developer comments in Japanese - that is applied to the game in real-time. The patch changes the "flashing colours" effects to lower the chances of epileptic fits, and fixes a bug related to Level 99. There's also commented out code for "experience for debug after the battle".
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Bureau of Land Management's D.C. staff headed West
The Trump administration plans to relocate most of the Bureau of Land Management's D.C. workforce to west of the Rockies, part of its broader push to shift power away from Washington and shrink the size of the federal government.
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration plans to relocate most of the Bureau of Land Management's D.C. workforce to west of the Rockies, part of its broader push to shift power away from Washington and shrink the size of the federal government.
The proposal to move roughly 300 employees from a key Interior Department agency - among them the majority of top managers - comes as Trump officials are forcibly reassigning career officials and upending operations across the federal government. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue finalized plans this summer to move about 550 jobs at two of his department's scientific agencies from the nation's capital to the greater Kansas City region. The White House is trying to abolish the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources agency, and has threatened to furlough as many as 150 employees if Congress blocks it.
"The problem with Washington is too many policy makers are far removed from the people they are there to serve," Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said in a statement supporting the lang agency's move. "Ninety-nine percent of the land the BLM manages is West of the Mississippi River, and so should be the BLM headquarters."
But opponents argue that abrupt decisions to relocate or reassign federal workers have not been justified by sufficient analysis, can disrupt families' lives and has already cost the government valuable expertise.
BLM has about 360 employees in Washington, many of them supervisors, with 95% of its 9,260 employees working in the field.
"If I wanted to dismantle an agency, this would be in my playbook," said Steve Ellis, who retired as BLM's deputy director in 2016 after nearly four decades in government service. In a phone interview Monday, he said that transferring so many employees out of Washington could complicate the agency's relationship with Capitol Hill, budget officials and other federal entities.
He noted that Interior dispatched all of its wildfire and aviation staff to Boise, Idaho, in the 1990s only to re-establish a wildland fire office in D.C. when lawmakers expected briefings after fires broke out in the West.
"It's important for these agencies to have a meaningful footprint in D.C.," Ellis said.
Margaret Weichert, Office of Management and Budge deputy director for management, said in a statement that the move will make the government more efficient and "better serve the American people."
In a shift long sought by conservatives, Trump's government has shed thousands of employees overall since he took office, with gains at the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs but an exodus of civil servants at several other agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
Jason Briefel, head of the Senior Executive Association, which represents 6,000 top government leaders, said it is worth having a public conversation about how to reorganize different agencies. But he questioned whether the Trump administration hads made a solid business case for some of these decisions.
"This isn't just an Interior issue," he said in an interview. "This is a government-wide issue."
Interior's plan for BLM, according to two individuals briefed on it who asked for anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, proposes dispersing about 225 D.C. staffers who report to headquarters to states including Colorado, Nevada and Utah over the course of nearly two years and reassigning another 75 to the bureau's state offices during that same period. The rest of employees would remain in Washington to work on issues such as the bureau's budget, regulations and Freedom of Information Act requests. Some of the BLM top employees slated for a job transfer will move to Grand Junction, Colorado, according to three federal officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision has not been formally announced. But many affected workers - who include some top officials, Senior Executive Service staffers and low-level managers - will move to other cities in the West.
Interior officials have been eyeing a possible move for BLM, which manages more than 10 percent of the nation's land, for more than two years. A handful of Western states, such as Colorado and Utah, have sought to recruit the agency.
While administration officials defend the Agriculture Department and BLM moves as an effort to spread the federal workforce around, 85% of the 2.1 million federal employees already live outside the Washington area.
The idea of shifting the bureau west has received the support of some lawmakers, including the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, Rob Bishop of Utah, as well as Gardner and Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. In March 2018, the two senators from Colorado urged then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to look at the city lying roughly 280 miles west of Denver.
"We can think of no better permanent home for the BLM headquarters than Grand Junction," they wrote. "Moving the BLM closer to the land it manages and the people it serves ensures a bright future for the agency."
Bishop helped arrange a tour of Ogden, Utah, last year for one of the top officials overseeing the move: Susan Combs, assistant secretary for policy, management and budget
Bishop said Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is "promoting a thoughtful, methodical approach."
But House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., accused Interior Secretary David Bernhardt of not being more transparent about his plans. In a statement Monday, Grijalva noted that Bernhardt's hometown of Rifle, Colorado, is not far from Grand Junction.
"This administration has been handing over public lands to fossil fuel companies at record speed, and this move is part of that agenda. Putting BLM headquarters down the road from Secretary Bernhardt's home town just makes it easier for special interests to walk in the door demanding favors without congressional oversight or accountability," Grijalva said. "The agency will lose a lot of good people because of this move, and I suspect that's the administration's real goal here."
The move comes as Bernhardt has tapped William Perry Pendley, former president of the conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation, as a top policy adviser at BLM.
Interior declined to comment on the matter.
It remains unclear whether Congress, which has yet to be formally briefed on the proposed changes, would have to explicitly authorize the shift in personnel. The move is expected to cost at least $4 million, according to one federal official.
This is not the first time Interior has reassigned senior executives with little notice. In June 2017, political appointees reshuffled the assignments of more than three dozen career executives, with just 15 days' notice of their job change. Interior's Office of Inspector General investigated the matter but did not determine whether the moves were justified, citing the department's incomplete records.
Denise Sheehan, who worked at Interior for 33 years before retiring last month at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a phone interview Sunday that the round of reassignments had "a chilling effect," limiting what career officials are comfortable saying to political appointees. "I don't know if that was intended or not, but that was definitely the effect. It's the most toxic thing in the senior executive corps I have ever seen," she said.
In many cases, reassigned federal staffers have chosen to leave the government, because they hail from two-career families or for other personal reasons. A majority of scientists and researchers at the USDA agencies slated to move to Kansas City are choosing not to move, and Perdue's plan has been dogged by questions about its cost and the motivation behind it.
"When you move large numbers of employees from one part of the country to another, you're going to lose a lot of institutional knowledge," said Ward Morrow, assistant general counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union - with 530 members at BLM.
In other instances, the administration has shuttered parts of agencies altogether. The small Federal Labor Relations Authority, which adjudicates disputes between federal employees and their agencies, has closed regional offices in Dallas and Boston, citing declining workloads.
While the administration has said that its efforts to reorganize the federal government are designed to make it more efficient and responsive, such moves are costly. Dismantling the Office of Personnel Budget, for example, would cost $50 million, according to the White House's proposed budget request.
Under federal law, BLM will have to pay all relocation and real estate costs for employees who choose to move west, including what it takes to sell their homes in the Washington region and purchase a new one. Employees and their families will be entitled to four months of hotel stays on the government's dime, federal personnel experts said, which could cost as much as $100,000 per employee.
The agency will probably offer retirement and buyout packages to employees who decide not to move, which could equal as much as a year's salary depending on their age and years of service.
Interior's total workforce shrank by a little more than 1 percent between January 2016 and September 2018, according to federal records. BLM's staffing grew 3 percent during that period, however.
Not all the administration's reorganization plans have gained traction, largely because they would have required congressional approval. A merger of the Education and Labor departments has yet to materialize, and neither has a plan to create a new agency housing safety-net programs such as food stamps and welfare.


Buddy Mitchell is the resident sports coach at Warfield Academy, first in command on foreign excursions and valued mentor to James and his friends. But there's more to Mitchell than meets the eye. Knowing and worldly-wise, he retains 'unofficial connections' with the American security services, of whom he was once an employee - and, although rarely involved in the action directly, is often complicit in helping James to escape from school grounds in order to combat S.C.U.M.. While the gang's away, Coach Mitchell often provides ancillary support by keeping an eye on telltale Trevor Noseworthy - preventing him from informing Mr Milbanks of James's adventures.


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Bell: Is UCLA's Myles Jack getting whacked by NFL draft's lying season?
Jarrett Bell
It's that time of year. Lying season. The innuendo zone. Smear campaigns galore.
With the NFL draft looming, the truth meter weighing all of the information flowing through the grapevine can be rather shaky right about now. It's draft tradition. Agendas are at play, and the information — some of which comes from people attached to teams with their own interests in the mix — is only so legit, so be careful what you believe.
Maybe this is what Myles Jack, the UCLA linebacker, is living through right now in real time.
His surgically repaired right knee is the source of so much pre-draft buzz that it could star in its own reality show. A versatile player who appeared in just three games last season before he tore his lateral meniscus, Jack has the potential to ultimately prove that he is the most dynamic talent in this draft, which begins Thursday night in Chicago.
But a report circulated last week suggesting that Jack, an explosive player who can cover and pursue from sideline to sideline with aplomb, could fall out of the top 10 because of concerns by at least one team that his knee won't hold up over the long haul.
That followed a report from a few days earlier, following the medical re-check in Indianapolis, when an unnamed source told the Philadelphia Daily News that Jack's knee is "a time bomb," because of cartilage damage.
Maybe there is indeed real concern about Jack's knee. But maybe it's being exaggerated. It's tough to know for sure.
"I know he didn't fail anybody's physical," Jack's agent, John Thornton, told USA TODAY Sports over the weekend, offering a bottom-line assessment. "Some of that stuff was overblown."
Seven months removed from surgery, Jack hasn't run the standard 40-yard dash during the draft process while continuing his rehabilitation. Despite that, one NFL personnel executive maintained to USA TODAY Sports that Jack's health isn't an issue to his team. The executive requested anonymity due to competitive reasons.
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Dave Caldwell, meanwhile, has gone on record to publicly express satisfaction with Jack's condition. The Jaguars, with the fifth pick in the draft, put Jack through a workout at UCLA on April 16.
"He looked good," Caldwell said during a pre-draft news conference Friday. "We put him through linebacker drills, change of direction, drops, bag drills."
Caldwell's tune hasn't changed. He left the combine in late February believing Jack's physical condition wouldn't be an issue. Still, the speculation has intensified as the draft approaches, putting the linebacker and his camp on the defensive.
"It is what it is," Thornton said. "If you pass on Myles because of what you heard and not what you see, you've got to question your own process."
Thornton, who played defensive tackle for 10 years in the NFL, knows how this draft game works. It's conceivable that parties casting doubt on Jack's physical viability are from a team or teams that could select the linebacker if he falls down the draft board.
Or maybe they are just revealing the truth?
In any event, one could go crazy — without singing the Prince anthem — in trying to surmise the net effect of all the rumblings.
"Happens every year," Thornton concluded. "To me, it's not about the reports. I could care less. I was more upset that people were leaking stuff before he even got to the airport (after the re-check). That's lightweight disrespect for the process."
Last week, Thornton released a video of Jack performing drills during a training session in Arizona. Although it was seemingly a counter-punch to the negative stories, Thornton insists that he was going to post the video regardless, as he did earlier this year. Guess it cuts both ways.
Jack sure looked good, fast and strong during the workout ... if you can believe your lying eyes.
Follow NFL columnist Jarrett Bell on Twitter @JarrettBell
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Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott taking legal action against event staffer he had altercation with
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Ezekiel Elliott is still dealing with the effects of an incident from two months ago.
The Cowboys running back's agents released a statement Saturday saying he believes he's being extorted by Kyle Johnson, an event staffer Elliott shoved at a music festival in an altercation in May. Elliott and his legal team are contacting the proper authorities in hopes of resolving the issue.
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Johnson, 19, received an apology from Elliott following the incident, but said "it didn't seem sincere at all."
"I wasn't hurt or anything, but just to have someone that you looked up to shove you on the ground over a metal fence?" Johnson said. "It's not the biggest thing in the world."
NFLPA executive director says 18-game season isn't 'in the best interest of our players'
Dolphins assistant head coach Jim Caldwell to take leave of absence
Elliott, 23, has had his fair share of off-field controversy. He was suspended by the NFL for six games after being accused of abusing his ex-girlfriend, but wasn't arrested.
The two-time NFL rushing leader is entering his fourth season with Dallas and won't become an unrestricted free agent until 2021.


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Getting married is one of the most beautiful moments of your life. There are several things that are worth focusing on the beautiful event of wedding. You need to make all the preparations in order to make your wedding day perfect. The most important thing that you need to consider when preparing for the wedding ceremony is the venue where you're going to organize your wedding ceremony.
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Berlin (Paperback) in stores now!
Kaiya Smith Blackburn
The paperback edition of Jason Lutes's epic graphic novel chronicling the rise of Nazism in Germany is in stores now. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Heralded by The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Independent, Vulture, and The Nation, Berlin is a masterpiece work that displays the continuity of history with harrowing clarity.
"As nationalism and antisemitism rise again, [Berlin offers] salutary lessons in how quickly politics can turn to poison." —Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
Lutes traces the emergence of fascism and hard right politics through the lens of various individuals, living and moving through a rapidly changing society. His thoroughly researched, startling historical accuracy paired with entirely human protrayals of fear, resistance, and love create an unforgetable literary experience.
"The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space… [Berlin has] an ending so electrifying that I gasped."
—Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review
Berlin has won the Vermont Book Award, as well as the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award for Best in Educational Comics and Book of the Year. It won the Diamond Gem Award for Best Indie Graphic Novel of the Year and received multiple nominations including the Harvey Award Book of the Year, and the Ringo Award for Best Presentation in Design.
Pick up your copy of the new Berlin Paperback edition today, and encounter the book in an entirely new way. As history unfolds before our eyes, books like Lutes's ground our world in a line of Western history that is rich with humanity and resilience, in the face of unimaginable strife.
"As our own era darkens, an epic sticks the landing and finds a relevance it could never have imagined at its inception. …Lutes, with his nano-thin lines and perfectly rendered faces, was always trying to send us an urgent message: All that is good is only supported by all that is kind." —Abraham Riesman, Vulture
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Re: why colored opengl quads behaves differently in virtual machines?
A while ago I wrote an example for my little nephew.
He wanted to experiment with OpenGL and Masm.
Wrote some basic routine in one program.
Background picture, transparent Bitmap font and a simple line draw function.
About the gouraud shade colors in quads on virtual machines, I have no idea.
The OpenGL implementation is free to split quads into triangles any way it prefers, or not split them at all if it supports directly rasterizing quads. In this case your VM's OpenGL implementation happens to choose to split your quads in a different way than your native graphics card driver. If you want consistent results across different implementations, stick to triangles.


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Policy Brief - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials Worldwide: Expanded Funding Needed for a More Ambitious Approach
Nickolas Roth
| Apr. 19, 2019
Read more about Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials Worldwide: Expanded Funding Needed for a More Ambitious Approach
The Trump administration budget request for programs to reduce the dangers of nuclear theft and terrorism is too small to implement the ambitious approach that is needed. Congress should increase funding in this critical area; direct the administration to develop and implement a comprehensive plan for improving security for nuclear weapons and materials worldwide; and exert expanded oversight of this effort. This brief highlights the importance of ongoing nuclear security work; describes the evolving budget picture; and outlines recommendations for congressional action.
Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security
Correspondence: New Era or New Error? Technology and the Future of Deterrence
Ryan Snyder
Benoît Pelopidas
Keir A. Lieber
Daryl Press
| Winter 2018/19
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Ryan Snyder and Benoît Pelopidas respond to Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press's spring 2017 article, "The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence."
Analysis & Opinions - Axios
How Saudi Arabia and China Could Partner on Solar Energy
Juergen Braunstein
Oliver McPherson-Smith
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Last May, Chinese solar panel manufacturer LONGi signed an agreement with Saudi trading company El Seif Group to establish large-scale solar manufacturing infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. The deal came several months after the Trump administration's imposition of global tariffs on imports of Chinese solar panels and cells.
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China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making
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THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America's leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In analyzing threats to American security, "the most dangerous scenario," he warned, would be "a grand coalition of China and Russia…united not by ideology but by complementary grievances." This coalition "would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower."
(China Military / 81.cn)
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Inadvertent Escalation and the Entanglement of Nuclear Command-and-Control Capabilities
James Acton
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The risks of nuclear escalation between the U.S. and China or Russia are greater than ever given the possibility of misinterpreted cyber espionage and military strikes against early warning systems. What can be done to reduce this risk?
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
| Nov. 11, 2016
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Dr. Ian Bremmer, expert in political risk and founder of the Eurasia Group, gave a seminar sponsored by the the Future of Diplomacy Project on Thursday, November 9 at the Harvard Kennedy School, titled "Managing Risk in an Unstable World."
Bennett Craig, Belfer Center
SOUTH ASIA WEEK: Pakistan's Role in Regional Stability
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As part of the India and South Asia Program's annual speaker series, Ambassador MaleehaLodhi, the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United Nations discussed her country's regional agenda.
The world is getting better. Why don't we believe it?
Ali Wyne
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It would seem entirely reasonable to conclude that the world has taken several turns for the worse since President George H.W. Bush delivered his famous "new world order" address. The United Nations estimates that more than 250,000 people have perished in Syria's civil war, and another million or so have been injured. With vast swathes of the Middle East collapsing, the Islamic State continues to wreak havoc, increasingly inspiring and coordinating attacks outside the region.
Analysis & Opinions - Project Syndicate
The Global Economy Confronts Four Geopolitical Risks
Martin Feldstein
| December 28, 2015
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The end of the year is a good time to consider the risks that lie ahead of us. There are of course important economic risks, including the mispricing of assets caused by a decade of ultra-low interest rates, the shifts in demand caused by the Chinese economy's changing structure, and European economies' persistent weakness. But the main longer-term risks are geopolitical, stemming from four sources: Russia, China, the Middle East, and cyberspace.
Although the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia remains a formidable nuclear power, with the ability to project force anywhere in the world. Russia is also economically weak because of its dependence on oil revenue at a time when prices are down dramatically. President Vladimir Putin has already warned Russians that they face austerity, because the government will no longer be able to afford the transfer benefits that it provided in recent years.
Magazine Article - The Atlantic
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
| September 24, 2015
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The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides's Trap. The Greek historian's metaphor reminds us of the attendant dangers when a rising power rivals a ruling power—as Athens challenged Sparta in ancient Greece, or as Germany did Britain a century ago. Most such contests have ended badly, often for both nations, a team of mine at the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has concluded after analyzing the historical record. In 12 of 16 cases over the past 500 years, the result was war. When the parties avoided war, it required huge, painful adjustments in attitudes and actions on the part not just of the challenger but also the challenged.


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AT&T Mobility put some asterisks on its iPhone 3G pricing Tuesday but also revealed an interesting option coming in the future: an iPhone without a contract.
In the news release disclosing terms and monthly rates for iPhone 3G service plans, the carrier hinted at the upcoming offer without saying anything about when it will become available. Freedom will come with a price -- US$599 for an 8G-byte device and $699 for a 16G -- but this will mark the first time consumers in the U.S. are able to buy an iPhone without being tied down to a two-year contract.
The phone probably would still be locked for use only on AT&T's network, said Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. But buyers could choose a pay-as-you-go plan for voice service -- there is no prepaid data plan from AT&T -- or just use the device as a media player and calendar and access the Web via its Wi-Fi radio. Unlike the slimmer iPod Touch, the iPhone has a camera and a small speaker. The numerous third-party applications coming to the iPhone later this month presumably also could be used without a service plan.
However, the no-contract phone is likely to have a narrow appeal, he said.
"That's a pretty hefty premium you're going to pay over an iPod Touch," Gartenberg said.
The iPhone 3G is set to go on sale July 11. On Tuesday, AT&T revealed details of the four plans it will offer for the iPhone 3G. They range from $69.99 per month, for 450 anytime minutes and 5,000 night and weekend minutes, to $129.99 per month for unlimited anytime minutes. All the plans include unlimited data but not an SMS (Short Message Service) package. Taxes are extra. There are more details at AT&T's iPhone page.
This means current AT&T customers with handsets other than the iPhone will have to pay $399 for an 8G-byte iPhone 3G or $499 for the 16G-byte model unless they are due for a phone upgrade discount.
Any AT&T customer upgrading to the iPhone 3G will be charged an upgrade fee of $18 instead of the standard $36 activation fee that newcomers to AT&T will pay. Those who bought a 2G iPhone on or after May 27 will be able to swap it for a 3G model and pay only a restocking fee. However, anyone upgrading from a 2G iPhone to the new model will have to enter into a new two-year contract under a 3G iPhone plan.
Used 2G iPhones can be handed down to family or friends, but their new owners will have to take the handsets to an AT&T store for activation before using them as phones, according to AT&T.
Despite the debuts of alternatives such as the Samsung Instinct from Sprint Nextel, there's still no real competition, Gartenberg said. The iPhone's iPod features and direct connection to iTunes, plus its software overall, make it stand out.
"None of them are quite delivering on the same experience that Apple is, just yet," Gartenberg said.


New appointments have been announced at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) taking effect April 1.
Dr Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, Mr Lim Kee Chong and Mr Ang Eng Seng have all worked at GIC for many years.
Dr Jaensubhakij, 46, will be appointed President of GIC Asset Management, which manages public market investments in GIC.
He takes over from Mr Lim Chow Kiat who will concentrate on his role as the Group Chief Investment Officer. Mr Lim took on this role on Feb 1.
Dr Jaensubhakij will give up his President (Europe) post and return from London to Singapore.
Mr Lim Kee Chong, 52, will be appointed Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer. He is currently Deputy President of GIC Asset Management and Director of Global Equities. He will concurrently be the Director of Integrated Strategies in GIC.
The Integrated Strategies Group was formed a year ago to facilitate group-wide investments by sourcing, evaluating and coordinating investments which are cross-asset class in nature.
Mr Ang Eng Seng, 50, will succeed Dr Jaensubhakij as President (Europe), and be based in London. He will also assist Mr Lim Kee Chong in pursuing investment opportunities for ISG.


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The challenge of food security, especially in the face of rising food prices, places a serious responsibility before the country. Despite immense advances in the agriculture sector, many people still sleep hungry or live under the threat of food shortage. The degradation of natural resources is also a major concern as it severely impacts the livelihoods of poor and backward communities in rural areas. In this backdrop, sustainable agriculture is one of the most effective ways to respond to the challenges of the rural community. In essence, Sustainable Agriculture refers to a set of practices adopted for cultivation that are least harmful to the environment while also ensuring a good crop. It involves crop production methods that support sustainable natural resource management to increase crop productivity, maintain biodiversity, and also are economically viable and socially acceptable.
Organic farming is generally sustainable; however, organic produce can also be cultivated on large scale industrial farms that are not sustainable. Soil and water management, organic farming, integrated pest management, and integrated nutrient management are common practices promoted under sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agricultural development, as well as employing organic farming methods, seeks food and nutritional security, improved livelihoods for our people, safe ecosystems, and sustainable economies of agriculture.
Facilitate training and capacity building on crop productivity, how to maintain biodiversity, water management, organic farming, integrated pest management, and integrated nutrient management, surveys, documentations etc.
Kundapur : Kundapur, also known by the local name Kundapura, is a town situated near the beach, on the west coast of Karnataka state, and in close proximity to the Western Ghats – India's prime zone for bio-diversity and known for its varied animal and plant species. Kundapura is a coastal town and taluk headquarters located at a distance of 38 Km from Udupi, in Karnataka. The name Kundapura originates from an ancient temple dedicated to Lord Kundeshwara located in the town which was built by Kundavarama, the Alupa ruler. Kundapura is also described as the town of the sun. The uniqueness of Kundapura town is that the town is surrounded by water on 3 sides. Towards the north lies the Panchagangavali River.Towards the east lies the Kalaghar River. Towards the west lie the Kodi back waters and the Arabian Sea, the south side is the only side as the main connecting land mass. Since Kundapura is a coastal town, the main attractions of this town are spectacular beaches. Apart from beaches Kundapura (the city as well as the taluk) houses the world famous temples. Kollur Mookambika Temple, Hattiangadi Siddhi Vinayaka Temple, Anegudde Vinayaka Temple are few popular temples located in Kundapura Taluk.
1.Orientation: The program will commence with a week-long orientation, on the 1st Monday of each month, which will prepare you for the rest of your stay in India. Depending on your project location, the orientation will be held either at Bangalore, or at Kundapur. The program schedule will be sent to you at least a month in advance.
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5. Final evaluation: You are expected to complete and submit a Final Feedback report and Final Evaluation report at the end of your volunteering program. These reports should detail your work, progress, problems, solutions and suggestions. They will serve as valuable reference documents for new volunteers, and also enable FSL- India to develop and improve the project.
Gist er hjá fósturfjölskyldum með öðrum sjálfboðaliðum og fá þátttakendur 3 máltíðir á dag Host Family: You will live in a host family. Family norms, customs and traditions will be an integral part of inter-cultural dialogue. People might be interested to know more about your country and the people. As a participant, you will be expected to participate in such conversations and share information with your host family. Your accommodation will be in a shared room with other volunteers in a host family. Meals: Simple, yet delicious Indian food and drinking water will be provided 3 times a day.


What sets us apart in terms of career readiness? We place an emphasis on learning experiences beyond the classroom; 92% of our undergraduate students gain hands-on experience through co-ops, internships, research, Engineering Programs In Community Service (EPICS), and study abroad. This combined with the strong career placement support we offer to students when they are ready to start job-hunting contribute to their high rate of success: 98% of our students take positions in industry or enter graduate or medical school within six months of graduation (self-reported, 2014). To the right is the average placement of graduates from 2012-2015.
Our goal is to make sure students have learning opportunities in their area of interest. We work with current biomedical engineering sophomores, juniors and seniors to provide resources to assist them in obtaining co-ops (3 session only), summer internships, study abroad experiences and full-time employment upon graduation. Check out more statistics on our current and graduated students.
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The Good Stylish new design. Wire-free. 7.2Mbps download speed future-proofs against future network upgrades.
The Bad No discernible performance boost over previous model.
The Bottom Line When tested side-by-side with the previous model, the new 3 USB modem delivered an almost identical performance. Anyone faced with the option of buying the newer or older models would be wise to get this upgrade in preparation for 3 Mobile's network upgrade.
3 Mobile Broadband USB modem (v.2)
3 Mobile's previous broadband USB modem shared its design with the competition's dongles; a largish elliptical pod dangling from your USB port by a short connecting cord. 3 has ditched the dongle — indicating that while it's still available it may soon be phased out of production — and replaced it with a smaller USB attachment with a sharper, sleeker design.
The new USB modem is shaped like a USB flash memory stick but twice as long. An extender cable is also bundled with the modem, which acts as an antenna for when the modem is used in areas of limited reception. If we have one tiny, niggling complaint to make about the design, it's that the cap which covers the USB connection on the front can't fit on the back of the modem when it's in use, making it somewhat easier to lose.
While compacting the hardware of the original design into its sexier new body, this revised model has also received a speed boost and is now capable of receiving data at 7.2Mbps, rather than 3.6Mbps like the older model. That said, the 3 Mobile network is, at the time of writing this, only capable of transmitting data at 3.6Mbps, however, an upgrade is scheduled for the end of 2008, which this new modem will be compatible with when the time comes.
Similar to the previous model, the new 3 USB modem features auto-installation directly from the USB drive. There's also a CD in the box to install the necessary drivers and software to use the modem with a Mac.
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Features, Voices on the Quad
Student Consensus on Returning to Campus Amid Pandemic
Despite numerous world-changing events in the past few months, Manhattan College students are entering college during the most tumultuous time of the modern century. Equipped with masks and hand sanitizer, students are looking to start the next chapter of their life, all at six feet apart. The Quadrangle spoke with several students about their true feelings on coming back to college during a pandemic.
Interviews compiled by Julia Melchiorre.
Amanda Scalisi, Class of 2022
Childhood Education Major
What was your first week of classes like?
The first week was stressful because in some classes the technology was not working how they wanted it to. It was a little annoying and not a great fit for me.
How do you feel about being on campus with the pandemic and restrictions?
I feel excited, obviously it's a little different from past years but it's not too bad. As long as everyone stays safe by social distancing and wearing masks, I'm fine with it.
How do you feel about your online classes in comparison to your in-person classes?
For my online classes, I feel like it is a little of a struggle for me. I like being physically in the classroom and I feel like it's beneficial for me, so online learning is a little difficult for me.
Does this semester still live up to expectations of college?
As long as I'm with my friends and able to hang out with them, that's all that matters. So yes, it does live up to my expectations.
Jenn Guilbeault, Class of 2023
Communications Major with a Concentration in Public Relations
What are your feelings about remote learning? What are the challenges and advantages?
In terms of advantages, I feel like I definitely have less distractions as opposed to being with my friends on campus. I feel like I can do things on my own and get my work done when I want to without being with my friends, it definitely helps but is sad at the same time. The most difficult part is that some of the professors don't really know how to use technology and at the same time the professors expect more work from us even though we are showing our faces and being present. That is definitely one of the consequences of being remote.
In what ways have you had to adjust due to the pandemic? How did you do it?
For me, I had to adjust because last semester when we became remote I would wake up five minutes before my class and do it in my bed, but I knew that was not going to work this year. Now I set my alarms 30 minutes prior, make some coffee, and get myself ready so I feel like I'm in class rather than remote. I also had to adjust to the workload and balance the schoolwork with my free time at home.
How are you planning on making the most out of this year and staying positive?
I am staying positive by still Facetiming my friends that are on campus and I tell myself I will be there in the spring. I don't want to have the negative thoughts that I will be home for a year, so I tell myself spring will come fast and everyone will come home at Thanksgiving so I won't be missing too much.
How does this semester compare to your last semester?
Though I'm remote I still get to participate in the clubs. The campus is doing a good job setting up virtual activities, which is definitely a plus side.
Do you have any advice for freshmen this semester?
My advice for freshmen would be to try to meet everyone you can, even if it's just chatting. Get to know everyone and try to say hi to a friendly face.
Alexander Ellison, Class of 2024
Adolescent Education Major with a Concentration in History
How do you feel about your remote classes? What are the challenges and advantages?
It is easy to become overwhelmed with the amount of work that comes in remotely and learning to deal with things on Moodle. I feel like the professors are still adjusting as well, so that makes it a little tougher to receive assignments. It also has its advantages because I just get to wake up in my pajamas and plug in. In a way it's kind of like a blessing and a curse, but I feel as we slowly adapt to it, it will become more efficient.
How do your online classes compare to your in-person classes?
I prefer the in-person classes because it has the human connection that just can't be beat. But I do also enjoy the remote classes because I can relax and not be pressured by an outside environment, but at the same time, the in-person classes just feel more authentic.
The way I make the most out of a time like this is that I concentrate most on what makes me happy. I feel like everyone should stick to a hobby or something and do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do in a busy time.
Does this semester still live up to the expectations you had of college?
Freshman year is a great introduction into college life. I'm not disappointed, I'm just accepting the fact that it is slightly frayed due to the pandemic but it's nothing that we can't accomplish.
In what ways have you adjusted to college?
I feel like less of a stranger now that school has started. In terms of adjusting, it feels more natural, just walking around and feeling like part of the community.
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A couple of late trailers from E3 have been posted, one for the Yakuza 2 remake, Yakuza Kiwami 2, and the other for Ace Combat 7 which seems to have been in production for ever as far as I can tell but should be out sometime this year.
With all the news etc from E3 I had forgot about Ace Combat, it's looking good.
Has there been a release date announced yet?
Cheers, that'll be fine with me if it's delayed as I'll be busy playing RDR 2.


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The Bundle comes with the added options of adding a pack of replacement mesh coils and a replacement 5ml glass tube.