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Women voters won't trust a party that doesn't trust women
Here's my weekend column for The New Daily.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on March 9, 2019 Categories Political parties, WomenTags Liberal Party
(Moderate) Liberal heavyweights desert the sinking ship
Here's my weekend column for The New Daily, looking at the exodus of senior Liberal moderates from the Coalition Government.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on March 2, 2019 Categories Political parties, PoliticiansTags Liberal Party, moderates
I have a book coming out in February 2019!
In February 2019, probably just before Australia lurches into the long-awaited federal election campaign, I'll have a book coming out on the Liberal Party's 'women problem'.
On Merit is part of MUP's Little Book series. It starts with the emergence of the 'red shoe brigade' following the Liberals' recent leadership troubles, and looks at the use and abuse of the merit myth to suppress Liberal women. The book also explains why those same women have resisted calling themselves feminists, but are now using some of the sisterhood's tactics.
I'm thrilled that MUP has taken a chance with a lesser known writer like me. So I'm hoping the book will do well.
It's currently available for pre-order, in either paperback ($14.99) or e-book ($9.99).
If you're a supporter of independent voices in Australian politics, please buy a copy!
Author Drag0nistaPosted on December 13, 2018 Categories Political parties, WomenTags leadership, Liberal Party, merit, slide, woman of merit
The Liberals and Nationals are yet to prove they take women seriously
This week's [free] column for The New Daily.
I also produce a politics newsletter for my Patreon supporters. Click here to see a couple of free editions of the newsletter.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on March 11, 2018 May 27, 2018 Categories Political parties, WomenTags Liberal Party, Nationals, slide, Women
New energy obligations likely to spur more 'brutal politics'
Author Drag0nistaPosted on October 20, 2017 October 22, 2017 Categories Energy, Political parties, PoliticsTags Bill Shorten, Coalition, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, National Energy Guarantee
Coalition women need more than an app for that
Analysis for Crikey.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on August 28, 2017 Categories Political parties, WomenTags Coalition, Liberal Party, Peta Credlin, Women, women in parliament
Party room ambush the best chance for gay marriage
Analysis for Crikey [$].
Author Drag0nistaPosted on July 28, 2017 July 29, 2017 Categories PoliticsTags Dean Smith, Liberal Party, marriage equality, Slade Brockman, SSM, Tony Abbott
Abbott's push to 'democratise' the NSW Libs isn't about democracy at all
Author Drag0nistaPosted on July 5, 2017 Categories Politicians, PoliticsTags democracy, Liberal Party, Senate, senate reform, Tony Abbott
Why we need a quota for women in parliament
Only 30 per cent of members of the Australian Parliament are women and that's just not good enough.
Australian women have had the right to vote and run for parliament for over 100 years. Yet it was not until 1943 that the first woman was actually elected.
Here we are, more than 70 years later, and still only 72 out of 226 members of the Australian Parliament are women – that's three in ten.
It's been a long, slow haul, and there's clearly much more to be done. Women make up half the Australian population and we should also be half the elected politicians.
Why is it important to have more women in parliament? Because without women having a greater say in the making of laws that govern our country, governments will never really tackle the matters that are of greatest concern to women.
Even with the best of intentions, it can be difficult for male politicians to understand many of the issues facing us such as women's health, the challenge of juggling work and family duties, or the difficulties faced when trying to re-enter the workforce after raising a family.
And then there is the struggle by older women to cope financially as they approach pension age, sometimes even being forced into homelessness. Well-paid male politicians may not even be aware of this issue, let alone be motivated to do something about it.
Domestic violence is a good example of an important issue that has been continually overlooked because men are less likely to experience it than women. And so the money provided by male-dominated governments for legal assistance and women's shelters has been woefully inadequate.
It's probably fair to say that if not for the tireless efforts of family violence campaigner Rosie Batty, who faced an unbearable tragedy when her son was killed by his father, we might not have even had the promises made this election of additional funding to support affected women and children.
Another example is the fact that the grand Parliament House building in Canberra, which houses up to 4000 MPs, staff and journalists at any one time, did not have a childcare centre until some female MPs started to have babies and wanted to have their small children nearby. And so the staff bar was converted into a childcare centre in 2008, nearly 20 years after the building was officially opened.
So what are the political parties doing to increase the number of women in parliament?
Malcolm Turnbull declared after he became Prime Minister that no-one was more enthusiastic than him about "seeing more women in positions of power and influence in parliament" and in the ministry. He delivered on that promise by making six women senior ministers, compared to only one appointed by Tony Abbott.
That was an important step by the PM, but it doesn't make up for the fact that his government's Liberal and National parties have a disappointingly low number of female MPs, and that this number is likely to get worse after the election.
At least three of the Coalition women who are retiring this year will be replaced by a man, whichever of the major parties win the seat.
One of those women, Sharman Stone, has called for her party to have a quota that would ensure 50 per cent of all Liberal candidates in winnable seats were women. This would increase the number of Liberal women being elected.
So far, Dr Stone's suggestion has been pooh-poohed by the men in her party, who say that a target of 50 per cent is good enough. The difference between a quota and a target is that a quota can be enforced, while a target is something that would be nice to have.
In contrast, the Labor Party has done much better in getting women elected to parliament, having met its quota of 40 per cent female MPs in the current parliament.
Labor has set a new quota of 50 per cent female MPs by 2025, but it is difficult to accept why the party needs 10 years to raise the number of women in its ranks by from 40 to 50 per cent.
Perhaps this is because many of the unions that have a large say in who is chosen by Labor to run for parliament also have overwhelmingly male union members and are run by men.
That would explain why a number of talented young Labor women were replaced by male union member candidates for this election.
As we have noted before, there may not be enough women in parliament, but that does not mean that women's voices cannot be heard.
Pay your local MP a visit in the lead up to the election, or give them a call. Ask them what they're going to do for Australian women if they get your vote. And if they don't give a satisfactory answer, make contact with their opponent and ask the same question. Your vote counts, so make sure you use it.
Originally at The Australian Women's Weekly.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on June 15, 2016 June 18, 2016 Categories Politics, WomenTags Labor, Liberal Party, quota, women in parliament1 Comment on Why we need a quota for women in parliament
He who wins women, wins the election
The power of women voters cannot, and should not, be underestimated. Hell hath no fury like a female voter scorned.
Back in the nineteenth century, Australia led the way in giving women the right to vote and stand for parliament.
Yet here we are 114 years later and still only around 30 per cent of politicians in Australia's parliaments are women.
Political parties say they're doing everything they can to get to 50-50, but so far only Labor and the Greens have managed to get close. Labor has 45 per cent women MPs in the national parliament, while the Greens have 45.5 per cent. The Coalition parties have 27 per cent, and may have even less following the upcoming election.
This is not just a matter of balancing things up for appearances sake.
Without enough female voices in the nation's decision-making forums, there is an increased chance that governments will make poor or bad decisions that have a negative impact on women.
That's because it's easier for a bunch of men on comfy incomes to cut funding for frontline domestic violence support, women's health services or child care without thinking through the implications for women, families, the economy or the broader community.
In the absence of there being enough female politicians to stand up against their male-centric colleagues, it's up to female voters to remind politicians what our half of the population wants from elected representatives when it comes to identifying priorities and allocating government funds.
Some politicians are alert to this, and while some have tried to pitch themselves as the supporter of women's interests, many have failed.
Who could forget Tony Abbott trying to neutralise his "women's problem" with an expensive, badly-targeted and poorly defended paid parental leave scheme.
And then there was Julia Gillard who, on the same day that she delivered her blistering speech about Abbott's misogyny, also cut payments to single mothers when their youngest child turns eight.
So it's hardly surprising a major opinion poll found more women supported Labor after Kevin Rudd replaced Julia Gillard in 2013 federal election, even if he did eventually lose to Tony Abbott.
Opinion polls are now showing the Government first led by Abbott and now Turnbull has lost its lead on the Opposition, with at least one poll suggesting this is because women have shifted their votes from the Coalition to Labor.
This may be in part because of decisions in the federal budget, which we highlighted last week as pretty unsatisfactory for women. But female voters have also gone off the Prime Minister, who failed to deliver on the high voter expectations he encouraged before challenging Tony Abbott for the top job.
Back then, 68 per cent of men and women approved of Turnbull, now that has dropped to 46 per cent for women and 49 per cent for men. The PM's disapproval rating has increased accordingly.
Even so, despite their disillusionment with PM Turnbull, male voters seem to be sticking with the Government.
Accordingly, the outcome of the federal election rests in the hands of Australian women.
That's why we'll be providing you with analysis of the parties' election policies, in light of their track records to date, and an assessment of what each party has to offer Australian women.
In preparation for election day, which falls on July 2, it's worth checking to see if you are on the electoral roll and your details are correct. If you're not yet registered to vote, you can enrol online at the Australian Electoral Commission.
Originally published at the Australian Women's Weekly.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on May 18, 2016 June 4, 2016 Categories Politics, WomenTags Ausvotes 2016, female vote, Greens, Labor, Liberal Party, women in parliament


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ABK Announces Working Hours During Al Israa & Al Mearaj Holiday
Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) today announced that during the occasion of Al Israa & Al Mearaj, its branches and the Head Office will be closed on Sunday 15th April 2018, in line with the timing set by the Kuwait Banking Association (KBA). The Bank will resume its regular working hours on Monday 16th April 2018.
ABK's online services and Call Center will be available 24 hours a day during the holiday and can be reached by contacting a customer service agent via 'Ahlan Ahli' at 1899899.
On the occasion of Al Israa & Al Mearaj, ABK would like to extend its warmest wishes to the Amir of the State of Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and to Kuwait and its people.

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Background: The present work is part of a greater research project, aimed to examine Safety Representatives' (SRs) role, twenty years after the appointment of this figure. Objectives: The study aims to investigate the role of some personal and organizational dimensions in the promotion of SRs' well-being, in terms of reducing burnout and improving performance. Methods: The study involved 455 SRs operating in North East Italy. They completed a self-report questionnaire, regarding conflicts with co-workers, ethical conflict, training satisfaction, work engagement, performance, and burnout. Results: Structural equation models show that work engagement partially mediates (γ=-0.52, p<0.001; β=0.23, p<0.01) the relationship between conflict with co-workers and performance (γ=-0.26; p<0.01), as well as partially mediating (γ=0.14, p<0.05; β=0.23; p<0.01) the relationship between training satisfaction and performance (γ=0.21, p<0.001). Moreover, it totally mediates the relationship between conflict with co-workers and burnout (γ=-0.52, p<0.001; β=-0.40, p<0.001), as well as totally mediating the relationship between training satisfaction and burnout (γ=0.14, p<0.05; β=-0.40, p<0.001). Finally, ethical conflict is positively associated with burnout (γ=0.047, p<0.001). Conclusions: This study provides useful information about the improvement of SRs' well-being, highlighting the importance of their involvement in this role.


Here are four of the most common ways that your business could lose data, and how disaster recovery thwarts them at every turn.
All you have to do is watch the local weather channel to get a glimpse of just how unpredictable and apocalyptic natural disasters can be. One minute the sun could be shining, and the next your business could be assaulted by roaring torrents and flash flood warnings. Or, the earth would quake under your feet and you'd never know until it's too late to do something about it. An even more common occurrence would be an electrical storm or a power outage, which could threaten to bring down your technology or fry its circuitry. The point is that it's next to impossible to predict what effect a natural disaster could have on your business, but the fact remains that it's most certainly nothing good.
Another common problem for businesses that rely on technology is the hardware failure. If you have resource-intensive servers that are responsible for the brunt of your network operations, you might already be intimately familiar with the devastating effects of a hardware failure. No technology can last forever, so when an untimely hardware failure claims the lives of your server units or workstations, you'll need to be prepared.
In much the same way as hardware failure, user error needs to be expected and planned for. You can't realistically expect your users to never make mistakes. It's part of human nature. People might accidentally misplace files or hand over credentials to threatening entities. Regardless of how they do so, user error is one of the primary reasons for data losses and data breaches, so it's crucial that you prepare for this by educating your team on best practices, and implementing data backup.
You might not expect to become the victim of a hacking attack, but no matter how large your business is, you need to consider yourself a target. As long as you deal with sensitive credentials like credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other financial or personally identifiable information, you have something of value to hackers. When a hacker attacks, they can either steal or delete your data, so it's best to have a backup stored in the event of something like this.
Regardless of how your data is lost, you'll need a way to recover it. The best way for a SMB is to reach out to Think Tank NTG. We can equip your business with the dynamic BDR solution you need to keep your organization afloat, even when you think that your business will sink. Our BDR solution features only the best and brightest features for your data infrastructure, including fast and efficient recovery times, multiple backups taken per day, and off-site, cloud-based storage.
With BDR, you'll know that your data is safely stored, just in case you need it. To learn more, reach out to us at 800-501-DATA.


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Defense contractor interviewed for key U.S. Commerce post: source
By Karen Freifeld
The seal of the Department of Commerce is pictured in Washington
(Reuters) – James Mulvenon, a defense contractor who helped land Chinese semiconductor giant SMIC on a U.S. blacklist last year, has been interviewed for a key position at the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It is unclear whether the interview with newly confirmed U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will lead to vetting for the post, said the person, who asked to remain anonymous to speak candidly.
It is also unclear how many other people will be interviewed for the job: undersecretary for the department's Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency at the heart of a battle between the United States and China over technology. .
The Commerce Department and White House declined to comment.
Kevin Wolf, a former Commerce official, has been seen as a likely candidate for the post. Wolf spearheaded the blacklisting of China's ZTE Corp during the Obama administration and is renowned for his knowledge of export regulations.
But some have painted Wolf as too close to industry, a criticism others view as specious. The criticism stems from his work as a partner at a Washington law firm, counseling U.S. companies on export control issues.
Mulvenon said he was drafted as an alternative candidate.
"A group of people came to me and said, 'We think some of the leading candidates are sort of old-think,' …and 'Would you consider being sort of a dark horse, sort of push things along a bit?" Mulvenon told Reuters last month, declining to identify the people.
At the time, Mulvenon said no one in the administration had contacted him and that he had a "single digit percentage chance."
A Chinese linguist and military expert, Mulvenon is director of intelligence integration at SOS International, a government services company.
In August, he produced a report on SMIC's alleged military ties that circulated among Trump officials, and the chipmaker ended up blacklisted. SMIC has denied the ties and said it makes chips solely for commercial use.
In late January, Mulvenon wrote an online article titled, "A World Divided," that said the bureau should place U.S. interests ahead of near-term financial interests of Silicon Valley, Wall Street and other multinationals.
Wolf, who served as an assistant secretary of Commerce when ZTE was blacklisted, also represented the department in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Former Commerce undersecretary Eric Hirschhorn said Wolf was quite "clear-eyed and hardline on China" when he worked under him for seven years.
"He knows export controls backwards and forwards," Hirschhorn added. "Someone who has to learn the ropes is going to lose a year at least trying to figure out how it works."
Wolf told Reuters he did not know who is going to be nominated for the role, declining to comment further.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Editing by Aurora Ellis and Lincoln Feast.)
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Turkish finance minister sees single-digit inflation by mid-2023
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Red Castle Games
Red Castle Games got a reaction from NebulonB in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 25, 2018
I realize you may be joking about the cake compared to a Super Star Destroyer, and I totally get it 😁 — however, it's a bit of a tradition for me to bring a thematically decorated cake to the big events I run. I did that for several Call of Cthulhu LCG Regionals, Doomtown: Reloaded tournaments, the L5R LCG launch and a Halloween Arkham Horror LCG event. I haven't designed an Armada cake before, but I've got a few ideas. We'll see how it turns out!
Red Castle Games reacted to Green Knight in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 18, 2018
...first I saw raffle for SSD, which oc is exiting... but there is CAKE too!?
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Green Knight in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 17, 2018
Red Castle Games is proud to announce our first Armada Regional Championship! Here's everything you need to know:
2018 RED CASTLE ARMADA REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Where? Red Castle Games What Day? Saturday, December 8th What Time? Check-in starts promptly at 10 AM. The tournament begins at 10:30 AM. How Much? The entry fee is $25 How Many Players? Space is limited to 24 participants so don't wait to preregister. PREREGISTRATION
You can preregister at the store or use this link to pay online: Online Preregistration
Please bring an FFG 3x3 Star Wars playmat if you have one. Please also bring 2 copies of your fleet list.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
400-point fleets. We will likely play 3 rounds of Swiss.
LUNCH and DESSERT
Pizza and cake will be provided to all participants. We will break for lunch after the first round.
Every participant is guaranteed a prize. We will also have a special "Anakin" prize for the player who comes in last place.
SUPER STAR DESTROYER RAFFLE
To mark this special occasion, we are raffling off a Super Star Destroyer at this event. Your entry into the tournament is your ticket to win. That means you have a 1/24 chance to walk away with the biggest, baddest ship in Armada. I know, I know... don't tell you the odds.
Note: We will raffle off the SSD at the end of the tournament. You must be present to win. If the SSD hasn't been released by 12/8/18 we will have it for the winner upon release, shipping it to your location if necessary.
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Astrodar in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 16, 2018
Update: You are guaranteed to play 3 rounds at this event — there won't be any byes due to having an odd number of players.
I've arranged for an experienced Armada player to only participate in the Regional Championship if we don't have an even number of players. I expect this event to sell out, but in case it doesn't rest assured you'll get a full day of battles. There will be no sitting around being bored while other people get to play with their spaceships!
Red Castle Games reacted to ChipDingman in [Portland, OR] Pre-Launch Party at Red Castle Games 11/10 November 14, 2018
Thanks for putting on a great event! I look forward to seeing where this game goes both in general and here in Portland.
Red Castle Games got a reaction from ChipDingman in [Portland, OR] Pre-Launch Party at Red Castle Games 11/10 November 11, 2018
KeyForge is coming to Portland, Oregon!
Red Castle Games is hosting a KeyForge Pre-Launch Party on Saturday, November 10th starting at noon. The entry fee is $15 which includes an Archon deck and guaranteed prizes. This is a beginner friendly event. We will run a demo of the game to get you up to speed and then play a short Swiss-style tournament.
KEYFORGE PRE-LAUNCH PARTY DETAILS
Where? Red Castle Games What Day? Saturday, November 10th What Time? Check-In Starts at 12 PM How Much? $15 Entry Fee (includes 1 Archon deck + prizes) Who am I? My name is Matt Lippay and I'm the new Events Coordinator at Red Castle Games. Like a lot of Portlanders, I love board, card and minis games of all types. I'm pumped to throw down some KeyForge in November and help build a community of players here through monthly OP-supported events at Red Castle. If you have any questions about upcoming KeyForge events at Red Castle, or would like to host an event of your own at our store, please email me at events@redcastlegames.com.
Red Castle Games got a reaction from AllWingsStandyingBy in Regionals Dates and Locations November 8, 2018
xanderf, I find your lack of faith... disturbing ??
I kid, I kid. Hmm, I see this thread has taken a rather unexpected turn toward the Dark Side. Emperor Palpatine must be scheming again from the shadows. Curse you, Darth Sidious (that is until I get to use you as my Commander in a game, then I take it all back). Okay, let me shine some Light Side wisdom on things and lay all this speculation to rest:
1. I love Armada. You love Armada. We all love Armada. Why? Because it's a fantastic, challenging game set in an amazing universe. I see my job as helping people play with their toys and have fun doing it. In this case, that happens to be pushing around plastic spaceships and rolling colored dice to simulate pew-pew lasers. Man, I really like my job!
2. Red Castle Games is absolutely hosting an officially sponsored Armada Regional Championship at our store on December, 8th. I put the event up on our calendar and set up a pay link on Square. We've already had 5 people pay and sign up. Frankly, it doesn't get more real than that. Have I announced it on Facebook yet? No, not yet. Does that make it less real? I truly hope not or the Galactic Empire has already won!
3. While I absolutely want to grow Red Castle's Armada community, it would be a mistake to assume there isn't a thriving Armada group in Portland already. Mikael Hasselstein and Admiral Theia have been managing this community for years and have done and admiral job (sorry, I couldn't resist). In fact, I'll share a fun fact with you: according to my contact at FFG, Red Castle placed the largest pre-order for Super Star Destroyers of any brick-and-more FLGS in the galaxy (12 SSDs in total). I'd say that's making a pretty strong commitment to this game.
4. I'm just wrapping up my first week on the job. This is not a full-time position for me so I'm not always in the store or checking this thread. I also have other events to manage, such as a big KeyForge launch this month. I'm doing my best to get the word out to the Armada community at large, but please be patient.
In the meantime, feel free to share our Square preregistration link and my posts here. While I appreciate the sentiment, you don't need to teach me "to fish" — I've been building communities and running events for years. For example, I built the biggest Call of Cthulhu LCG community in the world from the ground up and I've been interviewed by FFG and quoted on their front page on how to develop gaming communities. In other words, there's no need to train me, but if you love Armada like I do and want to see more people attend both the Portland and Vancouver Regionals this year, then by all means spread the word! It takes a Jedi Council, right?
And just to allay any fears, I absolutely plan to target both the Portland and Seattle Facebook groups, as well as post info about the event on Red Castle's FB and Instagram page.
Gentlemen, this now concludes our mission briefing. If you'll excuse me, I've got to get my strike team ready...
P.S. xanderf, I'm sorry I let you down and made you frustrated by not posting on the Armada Admirals of Portland FB page right away. Obviously that was an oversight on my part. I thought I could host an Armada Regionals as well as Yoda, but I'm more FFG Forums and Square now than Facebook, twisted and... pretty silly. You didn't think I was gonna say evil did you?! I'll get something up this weekend when I'm back at Red Castle. Will that work?
Red Castle Games got a reaction from webv in Oregon City Friendly Tournament, Saturday November 10th November 6, 2018
@webv, I forwarded this info to a group of Armada players at Red Castle. I believe at least 1 signed up and I have another player interested in attending. I would go but I've got a KeyForge launch that day. Good luck on the event!
Red Castle Games reacted to webv in Oregon City Friendly Tournament, Saturday November 10th November 5, 2018
Hi I'm running another small mellow tournament at Geeks & Games in Oregon City on Nov 10th. $5 entry and we've got a store champ pack plus lots of promo cards in reserve so you'll have some cool choices if you finish in the top two, and all players will get a promo card of some sort.
I will probably keep it at six players or less for this one, so make sure you RSVP, or PM me if you'd like to make it but aren't sure and I'll let you know if we fill up in advance.
RSVP via
Red Castle Games got a reaction from mcworrell in Regionals Dates and Locations November 5, 2018
So if you're Gandalf, that makes me Bilbo? That's fair — I am short and close to eleventy-one years of age.
Hopefully you'll be relieved to hear that I've posted our Regional event on the Armada Admirals of Portland page. I'm currently awaiting authorization to join the Olympia and Vancouver, BC Armada groups. Once I've been approved, I'll hit those sites too. Go, go Facebook!
Wait, I'm not biased, because, um... nope, I got nothin'. Congratulations Moff Hasselstein, you've learned my secret: I'm Fulcrum.
Red Castle Games got a reaction from xanderf in Regionals Dates and Locations November 5, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Bertie Wooster in Regionals Dates and Locations November 4, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Maturin in Regionals Dates and Locations November 3, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Astrodar in Regionals Dates and Locations November 3, 2018
Red Castle Games reacted to themightyhedgehog in Regionals Dates and Locations November 3, 2018
Also trying to plan out how I can sneak away to Portland for a weekend...
Red Castle Games got a reaction from webv in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 2, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from SpartanFury80 in Regionals Dates and Locations November 2, 2018
Preregistration for the Portland Regional Championship at Red Castle Games on 12/8 is now live.
Here's a link to everything you need to know about the event: Red Castle 2018 Armada Regional Details
Here's a link to the: Online Preregistration
Space is currently limited to 24 participants so don't wait to sign up. And to commemorate our very first Armada Regional, we're raffling off a Super Star Destroyer at the end of the day!
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Astrodar in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 2, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from themightyhedgehog in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 2, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from Karneck in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 November 1, 2018
Red Castle Games got a reaction from The Jabbawookie in [Portland, OR] 2018 Regional at Red Castle Games 12/8 October 31, 2018


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My dental hygienist and I have a longstanding, unspoken agreement: I won't get any cavities, and she'll pretend to believe me when I tell her I floss every day. Truth be told, it's more like once a week.
Despite reports that flossing may be "overrated," the American Dental Association (A.D.A.) and the US Department of Health and Human Services still recommend flossing every day. The research is limited, and flossing is not a cure-all, but it is still one of the few things people can do — along with brushing, drinking fluoridated water, rinsing with mouthwash, eating well, and going to the dentist regularly — to stand a chance against severe, long-term oral-health problems.
Thankfully, in addition to string floss, you can find other interdental cleaners — things designed to clean between teeth — that are safe and effective. The best way to know whether an interdental cleaner is right for you is by asking your dentist, said Dr. Michele Neuburger, a dental officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Oral Health.
"It's really important that you choose something that works for you, so you can feel comfortable using it on a daily basis," Dr. Neuburger said. "Your dentist will be able to give you a personalized recommendation based on the spacing between your teeth, the health of your gums, or any dental work you might have like braces or a bridge."
If you have any kind of manual dexterity difficulties, or developmental disabilities that make it hard to floss, it's especially important to talk things through with your dentist.
Whatever you can do to consistently disrupt the plaque between your teeth and stimulate your gums is better than nothing. If you fear floss, some alternatives have been shown to "demonstrate safety and efficacy" in clinical or lab data submitted to the A.D.A. Dr. Ruchi Sahota, a spokesperson for the organization, said she always tells her patients to look for the A.D.A. Seal of Acceptance when shopping for interdental cleaners, and Dr. Neuburger recommends making sure dental items are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) in addition to having the A.D.A. Seal of Acceptance.
Here are some types to try:
These electronic devices shoot either a thin stream of water (water flossers) or a thin stream of air punctuated by bursts of tiny water droplets (air flossers) between teeth to remove plaque. Of these, Wirecutter recommends the Waterpik Aquarius.
A 2019 Cochrane Review examining 35 randomized controlled trials found that oral irrigation has been shown to reduce gingivitis symptoms (bleeding gums) in the short term but found no evidence for overall plaque reduction.
These small, textured brushes made for cleaning between teeth can be easier to hold and maneuver than floss. The Cochrane Review found that such tools can reduce gingivitis symptoms and plaque in the short term, and a 2015 review of nearly 400 studies, published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, found "moderate" evidence that interdental brushes reduce plaque and gingivitis symptoms. People with tightly spaced teeth may have trouble using them, and according to the A.D.A., people with electronic implants in their mouths should avoid interdental brushes with an exposed metal wire.
Like interdental brushes, some toothpicks (usually made of wood, rubber, or plastic) may be easier to hold than a strand of floss. The toothpicks you might pick up at your local diner are probably not A.D.A. approved, but you can find wooden "plaque removers" with the A.D.A. Seal of Acceptance. The Cochrane Review found that wooden "cleaning sticks" can help reduce gingivitis but not plaque, whereas those made of synthetic materials can help reduce plaque but not gingivitis symptoms.
A floss pick is a disposable tool with a toothpick on one end and a bit of floss held taut on the other. A 2007 study published in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry found that floss picks are "at least as good as" regular dental floss when it comes to removing plaque. Reusable floss holders are also available — some are just a plastic handle that you can string floss onto, and others have disposable floss cartridges that you have to buy separately — but none of these tools have the ADA Seal of Acceptance, and a 2011 study published in Clinical Oral Investigations found that many reusable floss holders are difficult to maneuver.
According to the A.D.A., your flossing technique and frequency are more important than what your floss is made out of — nylon, plastic, waxed, or unwaxed. Some people find that a wide, flat, tape-style floss (rather than a strand of fibers woven together) is more comfortable and easier to slide between tightly spaced teeth.
Some things just can't take the place of flossing, according to the A.D.A. Charcoal, for example, wears away at tooth enamel. Tongue scrapers don't work. Oil pulling doesn't improve oral health — and, according to the British Dental Journal, harmful side effects such as upset stomach have been reported.
Regardless of what kind of toothbrush you use — and how good your brushing technique is — it can't replace flossing. A 2014 Cochrane Review found that electric toothbrushes are generally more effective than manual brushes at reducing plaque and gingivitis symptoms. But even the best toothbrushes clean only the top, front, and back surfaces of the teeth. Unless you use an interdental cleaner, you're leaving the side surfaces exposed.
"Cleaning in between our teeth is one of the best things we can do to prevent cavities, bleeding, gum disease, and infection," Dr. Sahota said.
For patients who struggle with cleaning between their teeth, Dr. Sahota's main piece of advice is to power through for 10 days in a row.
"On that 11th day," she said, "I guarantee it will be comfortable, or at least it won't be quite as uncomfortable." And by that time, "it won't make you bleed."
After the initial discomfort subsides, said Dr. Sahota, people start to feel a difference — their teeth feel cleaner and less sensitive. Flossing becomes a habit, not a chore. It gets to a point where they can't imagine not flossing every day.
"It would be like washing your hands and not cleaning in between your fingers," she said.
If it hurts to floss, or if it remains uncomfortable after two weeks, you could have an underlying problem, for which you should see a dentist. Or maybe you're just flossing too hard.
"You shouldn't be flossing so aggressively that it traumatizes or damages that gum tissue," said Dr. Sahota. "You have to be gentle. Don't be so gentle that you fail to disrupt the plaque, of course, but there's a happy medium."
Source: www.nytimes.com
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Stationary vehicles (1)
PARKED VEHICLES in urban areas are a major problem and there is little doubt that the situation will get worse as more vehicles come on to the road. Although car parks are increasingly provided the demand for parking places always exceeds the supply and more and more legislation is passed to control the stationary vehicle and to keep the roads reasonably clear for their primary purpose—the free passage of traffic. Parked vehicles can be a danger; the legislation in the pipeline at the moment which will ban parking near road junctions is obviously aimed at reducing the danger caused by parked vehicles interfering with the visibility of other road users.
Unnecessary obstruction In reviewing the laws concerning the stationary vehicle one must start with Regulation 95 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1969 which makes it an offence to cause or permit a motor vehicle or trailer to stand on a road so as to cause unnecessary obstruction. Unlike the more modern no-waiting and limited waiting offences, the C and U obstruction can take place on any road, be it a trunk road, a country lane or a residential cul-de-sac, and at any time of the day or night. All the prosecution has to prove in this type of case is that the vehicle concerned was standing on a road and unnecessary obstruction was caused. In practice it is not necessary to prove any person or vehicle was actually obstructed.
In Solomon v Durbridge 1956 120 J.P. 237, it was held that a vehicle left on a road for any unreasonable time may constitute an unnecessary obstruction. In this case a motorist parked his car on the Victoria Embankment, London, and left it there for five hours. He argued that he was not causing an unnecessary obstruction because his car was parked in a line of cars. The court thought otherwise for he was found guilty of the offence.
An important case from the road transport industry point of view is that of Vanderpant v Mayfair Hotel Co 1930, where it was held that the right of the occupier of premises abutting a highway to make use of it for obtaining access to his premises and for loading and unloading goods is subject to the right of the public to Use the highway. In other words occupation of premises does not give an unrestricted right to use the road outside. A vehicle left on the footpath and one on a grass verge are both standing on a "road" for the purpose of this regulation.
In Ellis v Smith (1962) W.L.R. 1486 a bus stood at a bus stop long enough to cause an unnecessary obstruction because a relief driver was late in arriving. It was held that the driver who was going off duty was in charge of the bus until he handed it over to the relief driver and therefore he, though not necessarily he alone, caused the bus to stand on the road so as to cause the obstruction.
Where a taxi, attempting a U-turn in Oxford Street, London, brought traffic to a halt for nearly a minute, there was evidence upon which an obstruction could be found as a fact and the conviction stood despite the driver's plea that his conduct had been reasonable, Wall v Williams, 1966 Grim L.R. 50. (This case was probably aggravated by the fact that the driver made the turn in spite of a policeman's request for him not to do so.) In Gelberg v Miller 1961 1 W.L.R. 153 a motorist refused a police officer's request to move his vehicle. He then removed the rotor arm to prevent the policeman himself from shifting it. It was held that this conduct amounted to obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty under the Police Act, 1964.
A more serious offence than the ordinary obstruction under the C and U Regulations is the one dealt with by Section 16 of the Road Traffic Act 1960. This Section reads: "If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn thereby to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger to other persons using the road, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50 or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding £50 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months". In addition to the fine an offender against this Section may have his driving licence endorsed.
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One usually associates the circumstances of this kind of offence as being where a vehicle is parked on a dangerous bend or on a hump-backed bridge, but this is not necessarily the case. In Maguire v Crouch 1941 1 KB 108 a vehicle left unattended at the kerb, with the handbrake off on a slight gradient, moved forward of its own weight and collided with a post, at which point the driver regained his vehicle, but before he could stop it, it injured a pedestrian. It was held that the vehicle had been left at rest "in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger to other persons using the road".
Next week I hope to deal with further offences committed with stationary vehicles and particularly with limited and no-waiting orders and those which restrict loading and unloading.
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10 key battles that will define the future of gaming, as PS5, Google and Xbox Project Scarlett draw near
By Dan Dawkins 2019-03-19T16:31:21Z Feature
As cloud gaming rewrites the rules, the war for next-gen supremacy will be fought across data, services, exclusives and faux friendships
The video-games industry likes to think of itself as progressive but on the evidence of 2019 you'd suspect it was in the throes of a mid-life crisis. After the 24th, 15th and 13th instalments of Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Far Cry; we await Mortal Kombat 11, Tropico 6 and Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled; a HD update of a 20 year-old kart racer from the publisher that parted ways with Destiny, the shooter that defined the generation. After the summer, the console release schedule turns to mist, where the certainty of a Call of Duty update is all that stands between the games industry sticking two PS Move controllers up its nose and crossing the Atlantic in a Nintendo Labo coracle. This lack of visibility around release schedules isn't the existential funk that it first appears, however. As Google prepares to unveil its vision for gaming's future, a new technology war is emerging from the shadows; ahead of a year of key announcements including PS5, two new Xbox consoles codenamed Xbox Project Scarlett and… some likely curveballs.
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Away from the public gaze, this is a shadow war that has played out in boardrooms, engineering labs and marketing plans for years. A war with the potential to change the way we play and consume games forever. A war that goes beyond traditional console rivalries with the power to reshape the industry as we know it when Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo brush against tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google. A war that begins at GDC in San Francisco today. On March 19, 2019, at 10am PDT, we are all invited to gather round as the search engine giant reveals "Google's vision for the future of gaming".
Whatever the Mountain View tech giant reveals the war for the next wave of gaming supremacy will play out in a sequence of claims - and counter-claims - over the next 12 months. Google's vision for cloud gaming has long been anticipated but next gen's key battlegrounds take place across a variety of emergent - and surprising - areas, including services, data and your TV remote, which we explore below. Gaming is set to innovate again, even if the next wave of technology might make it even easier to play all 24 versions of Resident Evil…
1) The battle for… cloud gaming
Google's 'console' - which will most likely manifest as a gaming controller tied to a subscription service - will set the bar for next-gen cloud gaming i.e. games you play remotely via the internet like the fabled 'Netflix for games'. Ambitions scale from a low-key service that runs indie titles to, more likely, a full-scale rival to AAA gaming consoles. Google's GDC teaser video uses familiar, high fidelity, visuals from RPGs, racing games and shooter, so it's safe to suggest the latter; with developers including Bethesda (Doom) and Ubisoft invited to its reveal event. Google recently trialled a cloud gaming service called 'Project Stream', where a select audience was invited to play Assassin's Creed Origins on a Chrome Browser. Early feedback was highly positive, and this seems likely to form part of Google's announcement later today.
Google is far from alone in championing cloud gaming. Last week, Microsoft announced that Project xCloud would invite public trials this year, and showed off Forza Horizon 4 playing on an Android phone via an internet connection, with a standard Xbox controller attached via Bluetooth. Don't forget: it's possible to play any high end PC game on the internet right now using the - oddly under-reported - Shadow streaming service, which replicates the power of a $1500 PC using the cloud. We recently trialled the Shadow service as a permanent replacement for our desktop PC and came away highly impressed - including one eureka moment when we used the service for high-end video editing.
"What's obvious, is that *no-one* is signing up for 22 cloud gaming services, and we're about to witness an almighty jostle for position"
Sony has PlayStation Now, which runs a huge back catalogue of classic PS3 games and select PS4 titles for $19.99 a month (or $99.99 a year). Tencent has Instant Play. Nvidia has GeForce Now. EA has announced a cloud gaming service called Project Atlas. In fact, Wikipedia lists 22 active cloud gaming services right now and that's discounting services yet to be announced, or that have been halted.
What's obvious, is that *no-one* is signing up for 22 cloud gaming services, and we're about to witness an almighty jostle for position. Flawless tech feels like the minimum bar (we can't imagine much appetite for anything running slower than 1080p at a rock-solid 30fps), but those levels of performance are available now on relatively modest 15Mbps+ internet speeds (Shadow will run at 5Mbps, but that's the minimum bar). The real battle will emerge around games (with a premium on exclusive games, extensive back catalogues, and cross platform play), services and user-experience (in the movies and TV parallel, Netflix has the best content, but also the most accessible and intelligent menus and recommendation tech) and - of course - price. A few years from now, we imagine there will be two or three dominant cloud gaming services, but even Google's clout doesn't guarantee it success if, say, Sony locks its best games to its systems. Of the competing cloud services, you can expect the usual closures, alliances and acquisitions, much how Sony bought the Gaikai cloud service in 2012 to create PS Now.
2) The (phony) battle… for hardware supremacy
Sure, Xbox One X is currently the world's most powerful console, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft supporting Xbox One S. Nor has PS4 Pro stopped Sony supporting PS4. With rumours abound that PS5 - or whatever it's called - being backward compatible with PS4 Pro (or perhaps all PS4 games), traditional arguments about hardware power might start to feel moot. Who cares if you're able to run a few games a few FPS faster with improved lighting effects, if *everyone* can get access to the same experience using cloud gaming?
That's not to say physical consoles are going away, at least not this generation, but we're going to see the boxes act a lot more like iPhones, with multiple iterations in play; all running slightly improved versions of the same thing. Y'know: like a PC. There will, of course, be many people who fear performance issues around cloud gaming, or are unwilling accept to latency dips due to their net connection speeds. Until cloud gaming is the de facto delivery model, there will always be a gaming box; and it's possible the hardware market will splinter even more dramatically between 'entry level' and 'premium' editions - like Xbox One S and Xbox One X. Think of it like the music streaming market: most casual listeners are happy with the quality of Spotify streams, but you'll always find a dedicated enthusiast like musician Neil Young, who wants nothing less than lossless audio quality, even if he had to build the expensive (offline) Pono system to support it. For the record: Pono lasted two years until it was crushed by lack of support from major labels, and the cost. Young is now pursuing a higher quality streaming service option.
That said, having a console that is easy to program for, which delivers great looking games, is easy to use, and *actually looks nice under the TV* won't go out of fashion. The days of console manufacturers chasing bespoke processing chips, like Sony ill-feted (and expensive) Cell chip feel long gone. You'll basically be choosing with configuration of trusted PC components you want under your preferred box logo.
3) The battle for… first-party studios and exclusive games
If hardware becomes less important, then a console's choice of exclusive games become more critical than ever… although there is a 'but', which we'll get to. Sony's first-party exclusive AAA games - mostly solo-player experiences with lavish presentation and deeper narratives including God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider-Man PS4 - have outshone Microsoft's exclusives during the current gen, with former stalwarts like Halo, Crackdown and Gears of War having lost their lustre. Microsoft has moved decisively to redress the balance, acquiring seven development studios in the last 12 months, including InXile Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, The Initiative, Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games, with Microsoft now owning a total of 13 internal studios.
Sony has also shuffled its pack, ending deals with Quantic Dream (Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain) and SuperMassive Games (Until Dawn). Sony still owns 15 studios, including jewels in the crown SIE Santa Monica, Guerrilla Games and Naughty Dog, with close ties to Hideo Kojima's Kojima Productions, creators of Death Stranding. More gregarious recent rumours linked Sony with a move to buy Take-Two Interactive (raising the prospect of GTA 6 as a PS5 exclusive), but this was swiftly denied. Sony and Microsoft have both invested heavily with popular third-party games such as Destiny, FIFA, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty in order to claim their console offered the superior version of the game - a tactic which may only intensify.
Nintendo's role can't be forgotten, with its enviable list of Switch exclusives including The Legend of Zelda, Mario, Smash Bros., Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and Pokemon. Disruptive recent rumours suggest Microsoft is looking to work with Nintendo, offering its Game Pass system on Switch consoles. With heavyweights such as Google, Amazon and Apple entering the field, it feels presumptive to assume the status quo of traditional console rivalries. Might we see Nintendo / Microsoft / Sony forming alliances to combat a new threat? Perhaps not yet - but in the mid 1990s, it felt unthinkable that we'd ever see Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, such was the depth of Nintendo and Sega's rivalry.
4) The battle for… services and ecosystems.
It sounds desperately unsexy, but Microsoft has already made great strides in advancing Xbox as gaming's premier ecosystem. The Adaptive Controller, Project xCloud, Microsoft Play Anywhere, inclusive gamer avatars, Xbox One Design Lab custom controllers, Game Pass; community features like Groups, Clubs and Arenas… the list goes on. Respected Microsoft commentator Paul Thurrot has been impressed by the company's recent ambitions: "Microsoft has been following Netflix's model all the way through and it is an understood model that everyone in the world understands, they are just bringing that model to gaming".
Quite how Sony or Nintendo respond - or don't respond - will be instructive. Sony might double-down on its successful PS4 strategy: letting Microsoft do the hard work pioneering complex services and concepts, then position its console as a 'no frills' gaming machine (despite offering most of the same services as Microsoft). The climax of this was Sony's famous E3 2013 'pre-owned games' instruction video, which positioned the company as the gamer's friend. In reality, rumours suggest Sony was tempted to adopt Microsoft's position about controlling the exchange of pre-owned games (where the publishers see none of the profits), but was more adept at 'reading the room' when public sentiment turned nasty. You could argue that Jack Tretton's E3 2013 'PS4 supports used games' speech 'won' the PS4 vs Xbox One console war in a concise three-minute smackdown.
Nintendo, equally, might be best-served 'standing still' - offering a family-friendly, box-ready, gaming console that promises to liberate you from complexity (although anyone who's signed up for Nintendo's Online service might disagree). Google brings an unrivalled suite of existing services, including Maps, YouTube, gmail and - of course - the Google search engine. What if Google refers every request to 'play Far Cry 6' to its own gaming service? Amazon has similar heft with its dominant online store, and ownership of streaming platform Twitch.
With six major publishers, 22 live cloud gaming services and myriad ecosystem and customisation options, the 'war' won't be won by complexity, but whoever can bundle this all up in a way that makes it sound like your life will get easier which, currently, Microsoft hasn't achieved, despite putting the components in place.
5) The battle for… your data
Hands up who's actually read their PSN terms of service agreement? Each major publisher understands every element of our online gaming lives, and you can only speculate how this will be applied to cloud gaming networks hosting 1000s of games all competing for your attention - imagine the Netflix recommendation engine rigged up to Skynet. Even today, games like Far Cry New Dawn email you to ask where you've been or for your opinion on the game's latest features. Where this gets interesting / scary is when a company like Google has the power to join this all up; using Gmail and your search history to offer up personalised gaming results. If you've ever received an email from Instagram passive aggressively asking if you've forgotten your login details, you can imagine where this will lead. In reverse, it's an opportunity for a publisher to offer privacy as a selling point - or offline experiences as a retreat from our always-on lives.
6) The battle for your… cash (or lifetime revenue streams)
The end goal of cloud-streaming is, of course, to turn us all into subscribers. So an extremely affordable $5 a month for 1000s of classic games is, in fact, a lifetime value projection of $1800 per average 30-year-old customer. This is the model that subscription entertainment giants like Sky have operated for years, which raises the prospect of us signing up to multiple specialist gaming channels e.g. retro, shooter, RPGs, sports etc; or buying 'high value' bundle packs. Complexity and competition also opens the door to aggressive discounting; Sky, or BT, customers who don't mind some polite haggling, can easily argue up to 50% off their annual bill - now imagine the same applied to gaming.
For creators, streaming and unlimited access to (potentially) all of gaming history, raising a different question about the value of a game. Capcom has re-released Street Fighter on just about every gaming system in history - what does it mean for its profits when they all live on Google's gaming cloud? This is a complex area, but we'd be wise to consider movements in the music industry, where smaller artists regularly complain about their microscopic royalties, with millions of listens required to earn a decent living. There are so many imponderables at play, but the days of paying $60 for a boxed game that you can trade to buy more used games, suddenly feels like an old world luxury / problem - depending on your perspective.
7) The battle for… virtual reality and augmented reality
This could spin into multiple articles, but TLDR; the battle for new experiences isn't over. Sony continues to support PSVR, Facebook has yet to truly harness the power of Oculus Rift, and Nintendo is dabbling with accessible VR via Nintendo Labo. Pokemon Go's phenomenal success is a reminder that the spoils are there for anyone who can uncomplicate the thrills of binding reality to the virtual. It isn't a game (yet), but Google has just added AR prompts to its Maps. In a far more holistic sense, all arguments about next-gen hardware might be rendered moot by the advance of foldable phone screens, 5G and cloud gaming… but we're likely 5-10 years away from that providing a true substitute for the home console. More sensibly, it will grow to become a complement, where you can take a seamless, cross-platform, experience anywhere you go.
8) The battle to announce… first. Or last
Sony 'won' last generation (read: sold more consoles) by keeping schtum, showing just enough of its hand to maintain buzz, then seizing on Microsoft's botched attempt to blaze new ground. It might be tempted to follow the same PR / announcement strategy for PS5, but the real story will be around *when* it launches its console. Sony made a tactical error with PS3 (released Nov, 2006), which debuted almost a year after Microsoft's Xbox 360 (Nov, 2005), then spent another six years playing catch up. PS4 and Xbox One launched within a week or two of each other in November, 2013.
As things stand, rumours suggest Microsoft might have *two* new consoles ready for release by late 2019, with major announcements expected at E3 in June. Sony, meanwhile, has yet to officially confirm that PS5 exists, and it has dropped out of E3 entirely. It might be planning a surprise announcement event, much as they did with PS4 in New York at the PlayStation Meeting event on Feb 20, 2013. That date has already passed this year, and while you can't rule out Sony trying to spoil Xbox's E3 party by dropping an announcement in May / June, it feels exceedingly unlikely we'll see PS5 this side of early 2020. That, or Sony watches Xbox's E3 conference, then prepares a surgical counter-reveal in late summer. It used to be easier to pin announcements to physical calendar events, but the live-stream model now means most bets are off.
9) The battle for…cross-platform play and being a super friend
It's now possible to play some of the world's biggest games, including Fortnite, Minecraft and Rocket League, with players on different formats - which almost felt unthinkable when this console generation began in 2013. Fortnite players can tackle their cross-format rivals on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and mobile (with some exceptions), and the arrival of cloud-gaming is only likely to accelerate this trend. Platforms might come to feel increasingly irrelevant, with players united by their love of the game, bound by a wider sets of services and community features. To extrapolate, it will be interesting to see if any of the traditional console manufacturers abandons their gated walls as a selling point, offering, say, access to Forza Horizon 7 via the Google, or PS5, cloud. It's not really about being a liberal, ultra hippy, of course, but following the money. Why artificially limit your potential user base if your monetization strategy isn't based on selling consoles or physical discs? Fortnite has been the most disruptive release in this aspect, a free-to-play game with almost unilateral cross-format play, which just happens to make a fortune via cosmetic microtransactions.
10) The battle… to be a button
Movies / TV and the music industry are living our future, where a handful of services have consolidated their market stranglehold. Spotify competes with Apple Music and Amazon Prime… but few are talking about Deezer, Pandora or Tidal. The ultimate destination is to own the market categorization, so your service (a noun) becomes a verb (a doing word). Will any gaming platform transcend to 'Netflix and chill'? If the cloud becomes the default gaming medium, all competitors will want to default their way to victory - in effect, to become one of the two buttons on your TV remote, much how many modern sets offer one-tap access to Netflix or Amazon Prime. Beyond a certain point, it isn't about having the best tech solution, but the easiest to use - and in our busy lives, anything that reduces the friction between impulse and deed is often the winner. Alexa: launch PS Now.
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Dr. Anupama Anchala discusses the progression of a patient who was taken to the operating room for surgical iridectomy and anterior chamber triamcinolone acetonide (Kenalog). After this, the patient underwent posterior subtenon Kenalog OD and anterior subtenon Kenalog OS for improved uveitis control. His IOPs eventually rose to 38 and 32, and plans are to implant Ahmed valves in both eyes to manage his steroid-response glaucoma. She concludes that the management of uveitis and the complications of the ensuing glaucoma is difficult. This patient exhibited many of the inherent complications of persistent intraocular inflammation: iris bombe, then requiring surgical iridectomy, followed by steroid-response glaucoma necessitating Ahmed valve implantation.


The Belly Melt Diet was created by the editors of Prevention Magazine.
They claim that this diet will quickly reset your hormones to help you melt away fat on your….
It also claims to dissolve the hidden, toxic visceral fat that has been associated with heart disease and diabetes.
The authors claim that you can lose a lot of weight fast on this plan. They assert you can lose up to 19 pounds in just 35 days while you enjoy nutrient-packed foods.
The Belly Melt Diet begins by explaining how the obesity epidemic is related to recent changes in our diet and lifestyle. In particular it highlights how too much nighttime artificial lighting disrupts our sleep patterns and promotes weight gain. By controlling your exposure to light you can restore the natural balance of your hormones and gain control of your cravings.
You will be taught how to reset your food clock so you can easily lose weight without experiencing hunger and cravings. As you change your diet and eat more nutritious foods your hunger hormones will naturally come into balance.
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It involves a four-day diet that will reduce bloating that can be related to eating heavy foods, gas or acidity.
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The Belly Melt Diet introduces Perfect Timing Workouts, which are based on the latest research into chronobiology; the study of body rhythms.
To burn fat more efficiently you should do cardio exercise within half an hour after waking up and before breakfast. Ideally aim to get outside and enjoy the early morning sunlight.
It is also recommended to incorporate strength training into your routine. The best time to do this is between 4 and 8 pm because it is easier to build muscle at that time of day. This can provide you with greater fat-burning benefits throughout the day.
The Belly Melt Diet (TM): The 6-Week Plan to Harness Your Body's Natural Rhythms to Lose Weight for Good! retails at $25.99.
Includes a meal plan with over 100 recipes, including familiar "comfort foods".
Encourages consumption of healthy fats, which improve lipid profile and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Offers solutions that may provide relief from premenstrual symptoms.
The jumpstart phase promotes rapid weight loss results.
Acknowledges the importance of adequate sleep for weight loss.
Encourages unrealistic weight loss expectations.
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LISTEN: You Need to Experience Samsaya's 'Stereotype'
by Rohin Guha
Norwegian-Indian pop singer Samsaya's reputation for excellence precedes her. She already gave the world a couple of stunning gems in the form of "Apple" and "Breaking Bad." Then she went ahead and nearly improved Lana Del Rey's "Video Games", too.
So it's only a good thing that this weekend sees the (only-in-Norway) release of her newest single, "Stereotype." This jam is lifted off her forthcoming album Bombay Calling. You're forgiven for having this on blast throughout the rest of the weekend and dancing around wildly in your bedroom. I know I will be.
About the song's message, Samsaya says:
In the studio I have freed myself from stereotypes. I do not limit myself to a genre or a certain way of being. I'm less concerned with defining and more concerned with capturing the different moments of life. Our unique names color our community and strengthen our ability to cope with generalization. "Stereotype" is about being open-minded.
Fun Footnotes about "Stereotype":
• "Stereotype" and Bombay Calling are released on Samsaya's own label, 3 mm.
• 3 mm is the size of the gap between her front teeth.
• This song was co-written with Iain James, who has also written for One Direction among many others.
• This song was produced by Fred Ball — who works under Jay Z's Roc Nation.
• The video was filmed in Goa — where a crowd quickly assembled around the shoot. The director wanted to move the shoot to a "safer location," but Samsaya insisted on filming the India she knows and loves.
Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Twitter @theaerogram.
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What's to be said? I just a non-regular 21 year-old Argentinian :P I have a sharp interest in anything related to science and I love to put my mind into any subject, so beware to start a discussion with me! (chadaFACE would know).
well, what else... I've had over 10k visitors to date, so that must mean that I'm quite popular (or so does my ego like to beleive).
what else, what else... Oh I almost forgot. I'm a modest mission maker for the game Nexus: The jupiter incident, but I'll expand my horizons sooner than later.
I'm currently working in the mod Stargate: War Begins (yeah, you've probably guessed I'm a stargate fan by now) as a mission maker and mild coder, and also trying to finish a damn book I've been writing since I was 12.
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So.... A couple of months worth of vacations have come and pass, and the days till the back to college are getting thinner at an alarming rate, not to mention an exam I have on early Febraury... F**** Algebra...
Anyhow, I've spent this past months trying out for the first time the 360, a good friend of mine got it on his trip to the States. So these days have been all about Co-op games (with the exception of Assassins Creed 2, which turned out into a pretty good game, absolutely loved the game mechanics). First of all it was Gears of War 2, then Borderlands and now Army of Two: 40fth day.
But after all that gaming there's only one thing left to say: The more and more I played on that console I realized that there's no better device for FPS games than the all-mighty mouse. I mean, after a while you get used to aiming with the pad, but... it's just not the same. Not by a long shot.
Anyway, as fun as it is, other than with AC2 I didn't played with it by myself, even though I had it at home for weeks with some pretty nice-looking games. It's just... not so appealing. I even preferred to play Imperium Galactica 2 (a great but very old game) than the xbox. Heck, I even re-started playing Freespace2 (for a short time, yeah, but I re-started it non the less). But that's probably 'cause I'm getting old...
On the modding aspect of things, work on the Prequel Campaign for Stargate: War Begins is coming along nicely, even after the countless setbacks, which have been all cleared now... after many long and frustating hours... sometimes I just HATE Nexus.
But the community of that agonizing game has grown a lot in the past months, with plenty of old mods being brought back to life and other being started from scratch, and the future of our beloved game is looking brighter now. Or at least a bit less dark :P
Oh, I almost forgot, the call for both Beta Testers and Voice Actors is still up, so if you wish to become either (or both) just let me know :)
And also, a good friend of mine the other day made me feel rather guilty of leaving behind any work on my book... haven't done pretty much anything these vacations... or the whole 2009 for that matter... and now that they're almost over the guilt's come... so time to unpolish the 200 pages manuscrit and continue digitizing the blasted thing....
Okey, moving on... Finished reading the newest book from Dan Brown these last few days, The Lost Symbol. Quite mind-blowing, in fact. A good read, by all means. Specially because it backed up my beliefs (if you could call it that) quite well, it was a bit... I don't know, far-fetched, about certain stuff (well, a lot of stuff, actually), but it was rather good too (and I won't be doing here a full review of it... not in the mood right now...), but I do beleive that some of the stuff there has to be true, specially what's related to our mind, but that's just my belief.
I'm now trying to find a copy of Alice's adventures in wonderland to get warmed up for Tim Burtom's upcoming film, which I'm definately going to see (I mean... one of the most "lisergic" books made into film by one of the most, again, "lisergic" director? that's got to be something)
well... that would be it for now... Just some rambling that I decided to put into paper (you know what I mean...)
G'Night people
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SCΛRECROW May 18 2012
Hear about Sanctuary's "hiatus"? It's not returning this year and the fact that SyFy is staying quiet means it's not looking good at this point. :(
Too late, it's been cancelled...
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Mularac Nov 21 2011
Actually, yeah!
After last season's finale I didn't have much hope for this season, but they prove me wrong, it's definately kicking *** with the whole us vs the world thing. Too bad they let kate go... I was starting to like her.
Fortunately Henry is getting a more centric role, which he totally deserves, and they're making Magnus 10x more badass, something I can't complain.
SCΛRECROW Oct 15 2011
I thought the season opener was quite good, dealing with time travel and Adam Worth. It will be interesting to see how events in the episode affect the current timeline (if anything).
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I've seen the First 4 episodes and i wont spoil it but they're pretty good and WELL worth watching
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Hey hermano, how are you going?
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Sanctuary season 4 airs on October 7!
Hmm. Yeah, that is quite a large plothole...maybe the vampire blood just slowed his aging and didn't suspend it.
Yeah. It was quite good, although I'm not sure if it was a standalone episode, or if it will lead into something this week. I liked the mashup with historical events.
What did you think of it?
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Q: VBA - Update Headers Fields to Word From Excel I try to update headers fields in my word document after export datas from excel.
Here is what I am trying:
Dim wd As Word.Application
Dim wdDoc As Word.Document
Set wd = New Word.Application
Set wdDoc = wd.Documents.Open(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\Template_rapportfusion.docx ")

[... my code for export data ...]

'Update fields
wdDoc.Fields.Update

'Save the document
wdDoc.SaveAs2 (ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & QuestionSheet.Range("Nom_Organisme") & "-" & QuestionSheet.Range("Date").Value & ".docx")

'Close the document
 wdDoc.Close
 wd.Quit

But nothing happens on the update, my fields are linked on a bookmark who is updated whith my script.
Can somebody help me ?
Thank you very much, Lyrha.

A: For example:
With wdDoc
  'Update fields
  .Fields.Update
  .PrintPreview
  .ClosePrintPreview
  'Save the document
  .SaveAs2 (ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & QuestionSheet.Range("Nom_Organisme") & "-" & QuestionSheet.Range("Date").Value & ".docx")
  'Close the document
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End With


The book emphasizes biblical reconciliation, which it describes as "the removal of tensions between parties and the restoration of loving relationship." Perkins, who has dedicated his life to reconciliation work, sees his latest book as a manifesto of sorts.
While there is still much work to be done, Perkins has seen signs of unity in the American church, especially in the past 15 years or so. He has been encouraged by the inclusive attitudes and determination of young people and by congregations successfully starting new multi-ethnic and multicultural churches.
"I praise God for that," Perkins said.
He pointed to a successful Memphis church as an example, saying that its congregation also has gotten involved in trying to heal some of the city's wounds, too.


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Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
A book published by Penguin Viking, November 16th 2009
Overview and color figures
This page includes all of the full-color figures in the book. Click on any of the figures to enlarge it and read its legend. Please refer to the printed version for details.
Introduction: The New Science of Reading
Getting oriented in the human brain
Chapter 1. How do we read?
Written word processing starts in our eyes. Only the center of the retina, called the fovea, has a fine enough resolution to allow for the recognition of small print. Our gaze must therefore move around the page constantly. Whenever our eyes stop, we only recognize one or two words. Each of them is then split up into myriad fragments by retinal neurons and must be put back together before it can be recognized. Our visual system progressively extracts graphemes, syllables, prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. Two major parallel processing routes eventually come into play: the phonological route, which converts letters into speech sounds, and the lexical route, which gives access to a mental dictionary of word meanings.
Figure 1.1
Chapter 2. The Brain's Letterbox
In 1892, the French neurologist Joseph-Jules Déjerine discovered that a stroke affecting a small sector of the brain's left visual system led to a complete and selective disruption of reading. Modern brain imaging confirms that this region plays such an essential part in reading that it can aptly be called "the brain's letterbox." Located in the same brain area in readers the world over, it responds automatically to written words. In less than one-fifth of a second, a time span too brief for conscious perception, it extracts the identity of a letter string regardless of superficial changes in letter size, shape, or position. It then transmits this information to two major sets of brain areas, distributed in the temporal and frontal lobes, that respectively encode sound pattern and meaning.
Figure 2.10
Chapter 3. The Reading Ape
Reading rests upon primitive neuronal mechanisms of primate vision that have been preserved over the course of evolution. Animal studies show that the monkey's brain houses a hierarchy of neurons that respond to fragments of visual scenes. Collectively, these neurons contain a stock of elementary shapes whose combinations can encode any visual object. Some macaque monkey neurons even respond to line junctions resembling our letter shapes (e.g., T, Y, and L). Those shapes constitute useful invariants for recognizing objects. According to the "neuronal recycling" hypothesis, when we learn to read, part of this neuronal hierarchy converts to the new task of recognizing letters and words.
Chapter 4. Inventing Reading
The neuronal recycling hypothesis implies that our brain architecture constrains the way we read. Indeed vestiges of these biological constraints can be found in the history of writing systems. In spite of their apparent diversity, all share a great many common features that reflect how visual information is encoded in our cortex. The neuroscience of reading sheds new light on the twisted historical path that finally led to the alphabet as we know it. We can consider it as a massive selection process: over time, scribes developed increasingly efficient notations that fitted the organization of our brains. In brief, our cortex did not specifically evolve for writing. Rather, writing evolved to fit the cortex.
Chapter 5. Learning to Read
Learning to read consists of connecting two sets of brain regions that are already present in infancy: the object recognition system and the language circuit. Reading acquisition involves three major phases: the pictorial stage, a brief period where children "photograph" a few words; the phonological stage, where they learn to decode graphemes into phonemes; and the orthographic stage, where word recognition becomes fast and automatic. Brain imaging shows that several brain circuits are altered during this process, notably those of the left occipito-temporal letterbox area. Over several years, the neural activity evoked by written words increases, becomes selective, and converges onto the adult reading network.
These results, although still preliminary, are rich in implications for education. Above all, we now understand why the whole-language method deluded so many psychologists and teachers, even though it does not fit with the architecture of our visual brain.
Chapter 6. The Dyslexic Brain
Some intelligent and well-rounded children experience disproportionate trouble in learning to read—dyslexia. In most cases, this problem is linked to an impaired ability to process phonemes, and an entire causal chain from gene to dyslexic behavior is now being uncovered. The brains of dyslexic children present a number of characteristic anomalies: the anatomy of the temporal lobe is disorganized, its connectivity is altered, and several regions are insufficiently activated during reading. The disorder is suspected to have a strong genetic component, and four susceptibility genes have been identified, most of which control neuronal migration, a major event in the construction of the brain during pregnancy. Any disturbance that affects this episode can lead to a disorganization of the layers of the cortex.
Do these biological anomalies imply that dyslexia cannot be cured? Not at all—new remedial intervention strategies are bringing fresh hope. Based on intensive computerized training, these techniques improve reading scores and lead to partial normalization of brain activity in dyslexic children.
Chapter 7. Reading and Symmetry
In everyday language, a dyslexic is someone who confuses left and right and makes mirror errors in reading. Symmetry perception probably plays a significant role in reading, but left-right confusions are not unique to dyslexics. Early in life, virtually all children make mirror errors in reading and writing. Indeed, the ability to generalize across symmetrical views, which facilitates view-invariant object recognition, is one of the essential competences of the visual system. When children learn to read, they must "unlearn" mirror generalization in order to process "b" and "d" as distinct letters. In some children, this unlearning process, which goes against the spontaneous abilities inherited from evolution, seems to present a specific source of impairment.
Chapter 8. Toward a Culture of Neurons
Reading opens up whole new vistas on the nature of the interactions between cultural learning and the brain. The neuronal recycling model should extend to cultural inventions other than reading. Mathematics, art, and religion may also be construed as constrained devices, adjusted to our primate brains by millennia of cultural evolution. There is, however, a key unresolved question: why are humans the only species to have created a culture and thus conceive of new uses for their brain circuits? I propose that the expansion of a "conscious neuronal workspace," a vast system of cortical connections, allows for the flexible rearrangement of mental objects for novel purposes.