Organic food - is it worth the cost?
Organic foods are increasingly available in greengrocers, specialty stores, supermarkets and cafes. Foods that we know and love – as well as weird and wonderful items – are being labelled organic. But what does organic really mean and is it worth the extra dollars? Cancer Council Victoria's resident dietitian Alison Ginn takes a closer look.
A product that is labelled organic must be certified by one of the seven Department of Agriculture approved certifying organisations in Australia. Organic food must meet a range of criteria at each stage of production in addition to the food safety and labelling regulations which all Australian-sold foods must meet.
Why do people choose to eat organic?
There are several reasons why people may choose organic over regular foods and these include perceived environmental benefits, health benefits, better taste and sustainability.
What are the actual benefits of organic?
Organic foods may be better for the environment as less pesticides and herbicides are used and when locally grown they take less fuel to transport. Organically grown foods may taste better too. Blind taste tests have shown that many people prefer the taste of some organic foods, although these findings are not consistent. Some reasons organic food could taste better is because it may be fresher (if grown locally), there are more interesting organic varieties of fruit and vegetables and organically raised animals may have a more varied diet.
Choosing to eat a diet high in fruits, vegetables and wholegrains and low in processed foods is the best way to eat for health. Although there may be differences in the amount of minerals or antioxidants in some organic foods, these are not consistent. Whether you choose organic or regular food, choosing whole and unprocessed varieties is the most important thing.
If I can't afford the price tag what are some other options?
Eat your colours. Fill your plate with a range of colours every day rather than shades of beige (think bread, cakes, biscuits). The more colours of fruits, vegetables and beans you eat the more antioxidants you'll get.
Shop local. Your local markets are likely to stock seasonal produce and can be cheaper than larger stores. If you don't have time to go every week, share the trips with a friend or neighbour.
Grow your own. You don't need much room, even a pot will do. Herbs, rocket, chillies and tomatoes all grow well in small spaces and add colour, taste and flare to even the most basic recipes – without the organic price tag.
Alison Ginn has been working as an Accredited Practising Dietitian for 6 years across Australia and the UK. She is currently the Campaign Manager of LiveLighter, a public health education campaign delivered by Cancer Council Victoria and Heart Foundation.


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23 page Batman; Creeper story "And Hellgrammite Is His Name!"
Synopsis Batman and Creeper team up to stop Hellgrammite from turning three mob bosses into super-insects like himself.


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Notre Dame Kennedy Scholars present research proposals at Durham University
Author: Rina Buznea
On April 15, four students participating in the College of Arts and Letters and Notre Dame International's Kennedy Scholars Thesis Seminar were invited to present their research proposals at Durham University, before a jury of faculty members and graduate students.
Warren von Eschenbach, Academic Director of the London Global Gateway, described the occasion as the "capstone" of the Thesis Seminar – which over a semester, introduces students to research strategies and techniques in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, as well as academic resources in and around London.
With constructive feedback from the jury and new insight gathered from Durham's world-renowned libraries and archives, the Kennedy Scholars will hone their research proposals. At the end of April, they will submit their projects to the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts to be considered for Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) grants that would fund their senior theses.
Meghan Dalton, political science major, said that the trip had helped her to develop her research topic ('The differing impact of government policy on post-war veterans in the US vs. the UK') and also her confidence in presenting it to others.
Art history major Sophia Bevacqua, who presented her proposal on 'The Fête and the Female', added:
"The Kennedy Scholars program has provided me with my most valuable study abroad experience: the opportunity to engage in in-depth research and scholarly critique in a global center of information. I anticipate that the arguments I make in my senior honors thesis will be much stronger, backed by the primary sources I discovered and the various research methodologies I learned in the program's seminar."
Another highlight of the Kennedy Scholars' trip was a tour of Durham University and Ushaw College, guided by London Undergraduate Program faculty member and St Cuthbert's Society research fellow, James Kelly. The students particularly enjoyed learning about Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism and the history of the nearly 200-year-old university. En route back to London, the group visited the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York Minster.
Warren von Eschenbach said:
"The trip to Durham University and Ushaw College was a wonderful opportunity for the Kennedy Scholars, who all did a splendid job defending their research proposals before the jury. I am grateful to our partners at Durham and Ushaw for their support of this program and for their constructive and friendly criticism of students' research projects. We wish the Scholars the best of luck in securing UROP grants and congratulate them on their achievements so far. Future Kennedy Scholars undoubtedly also will benefit from this unique experience."
About the Kennedy Scholars London Thesis Seminar
The Kennedy Scholars Thesis Seminar is a partnership between the College of Arts and Letters and the London Global Gateway. It gives undergraduate arts and letters students the opportunity to visit research facilities in and around London, learning how to identify, locate, and analyze a range of materials.
During the course, students investigate areas for independent research using a wide range of sources – primary and secondary, physical and electronic – such as manuscripts, diaries, interviews, archival photographs, artwork, and archaeological finds.
Students refine their research topic over the course of the semester, in communication with their faculty advisor. They develop a draft research prospectus by the end of the course, to be considered for a Kennedy Family Premier Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
Read more about the Kennedy Scholars London Thesis Seminar and find out how to apply.
Originally published by Rina Buznea at international.nd.edu on April 21, 2016.

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SOLIDARITY: The rallying cry for organized labor and the labor union movement that has attempted to cut across industries and occupations, based on an "us versus them" view of the labor market. The "us" are the workers and the "them" are the employers. This solidarity notion presumes that when one worker wins a battle against an employer then all workers win.
PERSONAL INCOME AND NATIONAL INCOME:
Personal income (PI) is the total income received by the members of the domestic household sector, which may or may not be earned from productive activities during a given period of time. National income (NI) is the total income earned by the citizens of the national economy resulting from their ownership of resources used in the production, which may or may not be received by members of the household sector. Personal income can be derived from national income by subtracting income earned but not received (IEBNR) and adding income received but not earned (IRBNE).
A sizeable majority of national income earned by the factors of production is also received as personal income by the household sector. Moreover, a sizeable majority of the personal income received by the household sector is also earned by the factors of production.
However, some income is earned but not received and some income is received but not earned. While not all of the differences between income earned and received are attributable to the government sector, most are. The major government activity differentiating national and personal income is the Social Security system, which uses taxes collected from the income earned by labor to provide benefits to the elderly and disabled.
Two Adjustments
Deriving Personal Income
Before discussing the specifics of income earned but not received and income received but not earned, consider the exhibit to the right. The large vertical block represents national income, income earned by the factors of production. The trick is to make a couple of adjustments needed to derive personal income.
IEBNR: The first adjustment is to subtract income earned but not received. This can be demonstrated by clicking the [IEBNR] button in the exhibit.
IRBNE: The second adjustment is to add income received but not earned. This can be demonstrated by clicking the [IRBNE] button in the exhibit.
The resulting blue vertical block is personal income.
Income Earned But Not Received
The three types of income earned but not received by the factors of production are Social Security taxes, corporate profits taxes, and undistributed corporate profits. In each case a factor of production has rightfully "earned" the income by contributing to valuable production contained in gross domestic product. However, because this income is not paid to the factor, it is not income received by the household sector.
Social Security Taxes: Social Security taxes are "contributions" to the Social Security system made by labor. The Social Security system is set up to transfer income earned by labor to the elderly and disabled. In principle, employees "contribute" about 7 percent on the first $60,000 (or so) of their wages (the F.I.C.A. deduction). Employers then match this contribution. In reality, the entire 14 percent is income earned by the employee. Social Security taxes are wages earned, but not received.
Corporate Profits Taxes: Corporate profits are earned by corporate shareholders through their ownerships of capital, land, and entrepreneurship. Corporate profits taxes are taxes on these corporate profits that are independent of any income taxes paid by individual shareholders. Corporate profits taxes are thus a portion of corporate profits that are not available for dividend payments to the household sector. Corporate profits taxes are profits earned, but not received.
Undistributed Corporate Profits: Undistributed corporate profits are another portion of the corporate profits that are not paid to the household sector. Commonly termed retained earnings, these are profits that could be paid out as dividends, but are usually retained to finance capital investment projects. Undistributed corporate profits are also profits earned, but not received.
Income Received But Not Earned
The three types of income received but not earned are Social Security payments, unemployment compensation payments, and welfare payments. These are three key transfer payments from the government sector to the household sector. The basic goal of transfer payments is to transfer a portion of the income earned by the factors of production (because they HAVE income) to other members of the household sector (who presumably NEED more income than they have).
Social Security Payments: Social Security payments are the other side of the Social Security system. These are payments made to qualifying elderly and disabled members of the household sector. Because the payments are NOT received as a result of any current productive activity they are income received, but not earned.
Unemployment Compensation Payments: Unemployment compensation payments are transfer payments from the government sector to unemployed members of the household sector. Unemployment compensation payments are NOT received as a result of any current productive activity. They are income received, but not earned.
Welfare Payments: Welfare payments are transfer payments from the government sector to lower income members of the household sector. Welfare payments are NOT received as a result of any current productive activity. They are income received, but not earned.
This equation illustrates how personal income (PI) can be derived by adjusting national income (NI):
PI = NI - Social Security Taxes - Corporate Profits Taxes
- Undistributed Corporate Profits + Social Security Payments
+ Unemployment Compensation Payments + Welfare Payments
<= PERSONAL INCOME PERSONAL TAX AND NONTAX PAYMENTS =>
PERSONAL INCOME AND NATIONAL INCOME, AmosWEB Encyclonomic WEB*pedia, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2023. [Accessed: February 1, 2023].
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Brendan Coyle Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts
by Anne Tyler
Brendan Coyle Wiki, Biography
An English-Irish entertainer known for showing up in various TV series and plays in his vocation, Brendan Coyle is basically perceived for featuring in the English authentic show television series Downtown Monastery as John Entryways.
Notwithstanding his job as John Entryways, he is likewise well known for playing Nicholas Higgins' personality in the miniseries North and South, Brendan in the play The Weir, and Robbert Timmins for the initial three series of Songbird Ascend to Candleford.
With the extraordinary exhibitions all through his calling, Brendan has been selected for a few prizes, including an Emmy Grant for Exceptional Supporting Entertainer in a Show Series and a BAFTA designation for Best Supporting Entertainer. He then won one, which is the Olivier Grant for Best Execution in a Supporting Job for The Weir.
Peruse this article further to find the dating subtleties of Irish entertainer Brendan Coyle. Is it safe to say that he is hitched? Track down about it in this article.Is Brendan Coyle married?The 59-year-old entertainer has consistently favored security in his life however has been available to the general population about his affection life. Brendan has affirmed that he isn't yet tied in the bounds of marriage and is as yet single and as of now not dating anybody regardless of having past connections. However in a portion of the meetings taken with him, he has expressed that the ideal individual, spot, and time simply has not occurred at this point however he has shared traces of him being prepared for a relationship, as of now looking for the ideal accomplice, and needing to get hitched as he is progressing in years step by step.
Regardless of whether Brendan has not openly dated anyone, bits of gossip about him are along with individual entertainer Delight Harrison. He was sincerely connected with Harrison because of looks at them out in the open.
They were spotted at Madison Square Nursery in New York during a round of the NBA group New York Knicks where they were purportedly looked OK with one another.
Also, Harrison even had enjoyed her birthday with Brendan at his home in Norfolk in April 2010. Unfortunately, they asserted they were simply closest companions, which removed the bits of gossip.
A short life story on Brendan CoyleBrendan Coyle, born David Coyle, was born on the second day of December 1962 in the town of Corby in North Northamptonshire, Britain, to Irish and Scottish plunge guardians, separately Patrick and Delia Coyle.
He is at present 59 years of age. Besides, he is likewise an extraordinary nephew of the previous football player and supervisor, Sir Matt Busby, Manchester Joined Football Club. Having been presented to the family exchange of butchery quite early on, Brendan in the end worked in a meat production line.
It is until he found his energy for acting that he prepared at a show club in Dublin in 1981 named the Center Theater, which was helped to establish by his auntie Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy.
Subsequently, he got a grant in 1983 from Mountview Theater School in Britain, coordinating two plays since his graduation from the organization.
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The biggest conundrum for me is connecting with people. There are some you feel an instant affinity and no matter what they do, the relation is wonderful. And there are the others, with whom, no matter what, it is very tough to find a liking.
But, what is the reason for it ? Growing up, my mother told me about matching frequencies. Recently, I read in a book that all the acquaintances, friends, relatives, and family belong to one soul family. And, all of the soul family would have spent several lifetimes together. And each time, a soul could be born in a different role to take care, teach and make us help grow. And, some souls that actually love you, could be born in the role of an enemy to teach us the aspects that we may not learn otherwise.
While it is curious to know the history why or why not we get drawn to few people, what I have learned is to just accept and take it from there. As one blogger mentioned, it is not practical to spend energies on aspects that are beyond us.


Library innovation is not only the realm of large research libraries. Frequently, innovation and early adopters come from small liberal arts colleges who have the interests of their undergraduates front and center. Eric A. Kidwell, the Library Director of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, is such an example. He participated in the ACI Scholarly Blog Index proof of concept interviews and subsequently was an early adopter and among the first subscribers to this innovative collection of scholarly blogs. Kidwell is also an active member of the Association of College & Research Libraries and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries so he has a perspective on library innovation at the state and national level.
The college has an enrollment of approximately 1,100 and from their website "Huntingdon is consistently listed among U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Colleges' and the Princeton Review's 'The Best Colleges, Region by Region;' the campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The College has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the past three years." The campus is fully wired and each student is given a laptop upon starting their freshman year. A new emphasis to place research at the heart of the college's curriculum is underway and the number of students who go on to graduate school is high.
It is in this environment that ACI's Scholarly Blog Index became part of the library's collection of new research tools. ACI is promoted in the library because of its uniqueness. Along with other members of the library faculty, Kidwell teaches a course in information literacy to all freshman to help them develop as savvy internet users who understand the difference between scholarly research sources, like journals, monographs, and now blogs, and what sources are not scholarly.
Some of Huntingdon's faculty will accept scholarly blogs as a legitimate source and, according to Kidwell, "ACI is consistently used as a teaching and learning tool. It's an interdisciplinary resource that can be used as a starting point and lead to scholarly authors and journal articles." For example, the scholarly blog database was recently used in a film studies class and students researched commentary about selected films and their directors.
According to Kidwell, in the sciences, social media is becoming a prevalent means of communication and blogs, tweets, and other forms of social media commentary are good ways for scientists to share their research. There is an immediacy to social media, and contemporary commentary can help build a scientist's reputation while he/she works on the longer cycle of research and journal articles. At Huntingdon, the pre-professional fields of law, business, and health have a large number of students going on to graduate schools and the scholarly blogs help support their undergraduate research efforts as well as lead them to prominent scientists and social scientists found both in blogs and in the journal literature.
Building on the graduate school theme, social media and scholarly blogs are relevant, these are "more modern" forms of communications that resonate with today's college students. Kidwell suggests that the ACI Scholarly Blog index be used by upper class students as a tool to identify the thought leaders and movers in their fields of study then follow them in on social media and comment intelligently on their blog posts. Students can use this activity to begin to build their professional network and social media profile and may become known to the scholarly bloggers they were introduced to in ACI. Professional networks can also be an advantage to students as they apply to graduate school or enter the job market, particularly in competitive fields.
The library faculty work to create strong partnerships with their classroom faculty colleagues. The faculty recently approved core competencies for the general education program with one being information literacy. ACI Scholarly Blog Index may be a help in the information literacy program. Students can use ACI to find scholarly blogs on a topic and learn how to navigate social media, using authoritative and credible ACI sources, to discriminate among authors and identify bias.
Innovation at Huntingdon is not solely happening in the library. This year the library is leading a 20th anniversary celebration of the publication of Harry Potter that includes a series of courses building on the Harry Potter theme, for example, a Potions Course in chemistry and Mythical Creatures courses in English literature, religion, and biology. This forward looking college sounds like a fun place to learn!


CRYSTAL - pitcher, just made for iced tea, lemonade, fruit juices and refreshing cider.
Richly facetted surfaces turn these glasses with their matching pitcher into a sparkling set of jewels, catching the eye and intriguing the hand. What is more, they will insulate both cold and hot drinks. The surface was inspired by the look of hand-polished glass and translated in a contemporary material. Just made for iced tea, lemonade, fruit juices and refreshing cider.


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#include <vector>
using namespace std;

#include <htl_core_error.hpp>

#include <htl_core_aggregate_ret.hpp>

AggregateRet::AggregateRet(){
}

AggregateRet::~AggregateRet(){
}

void AggregateRet::Add(int ret){
    rets.push_back(ret);
}

int AggregateRet::GetReturnValue(){
    int ret = ERROR_SUCCESS;

    for(vector<int>::iterator ite = rets.begin(); ite != rets.end(); ++ite){
        int item_ret = *ite;

        if((ret = item_ret) != ERROR_SUCCESS){
            return ret;
        }
    }

    return ret;
}

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Simulation vectors are placed in their own group.
They are usually attached to a reference vector.
Some are aliases. See aliases.
Each of these is described in the following sections.
All variables are organised into groups. When SIMetrix first starts, there is only one called the Global group and all global variables are placed in it. (See Scope of Variables, Global Variables ). When a script executes a new group is created for it and its own - local - variables are placed there. The group is destroyed when the script exits as are its variables.
Each time a simulation run is started a new group is created and the data generated by the analysis is placed in the group. Groups from earlier runs are not immediately destroyed so that results from earlier runs can be retrieved. By default, three simulation groups are kept at any time with the oldest being purged as new ones are created. A particular group can be prevented from being purged by selecting the menu Simulator > Manage Data Groups. Further the number of groups kept can be changed with the GroupPersistence option. See User's Manual/Sundry Topics/Options/UsingtheSetandUnsetcommands/List of Options for details about Options.
Groups provide a means of organising data especially simulation data and makes it possible to keep the results of old simulation runs.
All groups have a name. Simulation group names are related to the analysis being performed. E.g. transient analyses are always trann where n is a number chosen to make the name unique.
At any time a single group is designated the current group. This is usually the group containing the most recent simulation data but may be changed by the user with the Simulator > Manage Data Groups menu or with the SetGroup. If a variable name is used in an expression that is not local (created in a script) or global, the current group is searched for it. So when the command Plot vout is executed if vout is not a local or global variable SIMetrix will look for it in the current group.
You can view the variables in the current group with the Display command. Run a simulation and after it is completed type Display at the command line. A list of available variables from the simulation run will be displayed. Some of them will be aliases. These are explained in the aliases section.
If a variable name is prefixed with a colon it tells SIMetrix to only search the current group for that name. Local or global variables of the same name will be ignored.
The colon prefix also has a side effect which makes it possible to access vectors created from numbered nodes. SPICE2 compatible netlists can only use numbers for their node (=net) names. SIMetrix always creates simulation vectors with the same name as the nets. If the net name is a number, so is the variable name. It was stated earlier that variable names must begin with a non-numeric character but in fact this is only partly true. Variable names that start with a digit or indeed consist of only digits can be used but the means of accessing them is restricted. Prefixing with a ':' is one method. The function Vec can also be used for this purpose.
Multi-step runs such as Monte Carlo produce multiple vectors representing the same physical quantity. In SIMetrix version 3.1 and earlier these vectors remained independent but the groups to which they were attached were bundled together into a collection. From version 4 the multiple vectors are in effect joined together into a multi-division vector. This is similar to a two dimensional vector (or array or matrix) except that the rows of the matrix are not necessarily all the same length.
When plotting a multi-division vector, each individual vector - or division - will be displayed as a single curve. If listing or printing a multi-division vector with the Show command, all the divisions will be listed separately.
You can access a single vector (or division) within a multi-division vector using the index operators - '[' and ']'. Suppose VOUT was a multi-division vector with 5 divisions. Each individual vector can be accessed using VOUT, VOUT, VOUT, VOUT and VOUT. Each of these will behave exactly like a normal single division vector. So, you can use the index operator to access single elements e.g. VOUT retrieves the single value at index 23 in division 2.
To find the number of divisions in a multi-division vector, use the function NumDivisions.
You can collate values at a given index across all divisions using the syntax: vectorname[index]. E.g. in the above example VOUT will return a vector of length 5 containing the values of index 23 for all 5 divisions.
Multi-division vectors may be combined using arithmetic operators provided either both sides of the operator are compatible multi-division vectors - i.e. have identical x-values - or one of the values is a scalar.
Not all functions accept multi-division vectors for their arguments. The following table lists the functions that do accept multi-division vectors. The entry for each argument specifies whether that argument accepts multi-division vectors and how the data is dealt with.
"X" Multi-division vectors are not accepted for this argument.
"Scalar" The function acts on the multi-division vector to obtain a scalar value.
"Vector" The function obtains a scalar value for each division within the multi-division vector.
Simulation vectors are usually attached to a reference. The reference is a vector's x-values. E.g. any vector created from a transient analysis simulation will have a reference of time. AC analysis results have a reference of frequency.
Vectors created by other means may be assigned a reference using the SetRef command. Also the XY function may be used to compose a vector containing a reference.
Simulation vectors also usually have a physical type. This identifies the values units e.g. Volts or Amps. When evaluating expressions SIMetrix attempts to resolve the physical type of the result. For example, if a voltage is multiplied by a current SIMetrix will assign the Physical Type Watts to the result.
Any vector can be assigned a physical type using the SetUnits command.


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Retro Re-release Roundup, week of November 14, 2019
SaGas retold, empires reborn.
I fully expect everyone's excited, if not more than a little trepidatious, to play the hot new monster-catching RPG everyone's arguing about, but rest assured: even if that game doesn't manage to provide the next-generation experience you've been waiting for, you can always fall back to the new Pokemon game!
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Yie Ar Kung Fu
Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 (worldwide)
Price: $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29
Publisher: Hamster / Konami
What's this? Konami's first foray into the one-on-one martial arts genre, originally released in 1985; players control the martial artist Lee against a motley assortment of kung fu movie flunkies, using the then-innovative control method of combining directional inputs with punch or kick buttons to perform unique attacks.
Why should I care? Figuring out the AI patterns for each opponent remains simple fun, and if you grew up with the NES or microcomputer conversions you'll get to see a ton of opponents who were left out of the ports.
Helpful tip: This is an alternating two-player game only -- in other words, each player takes turns fighting the CPU, there's no two-player versus mode.
Platform: PC via Steam, Microsoft Store & Humble Store (worldwide)
Price: $19.99 / €19.99 / £14.99; included with Xbox Game Pass
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
What's this? A new and more extensive remaster of Microsoft and Ensemble Studios' 1999 real-time strategy classic; whereas 2013's Age of Empires II HD essentially adapted the original game for modern hardware with minimal changes, Definitive Edition includes brand-new high-definition visuals optimised all the way to 4K, remastered music, the option to play against a dramatically revised and improved AI, a heavily customisable UI and native streaming support, as well as all previous expansion content (including the new content from AoEIIHD) and a brand new expansion pack titled The Age of Kahns
Why should I care? You want to (re)play the best base-building RTS of all time and you can spare the five hundred hours it'll take you to burn through the massive amount of content contained in this pack.
Helpful tip: The combination of the increased max unit count, the new AI and pathfinding routines and the new visuals means this version may have unexpected performance issues on even relatively recent hardware, so be prepared to turn down a lot of the fancy graphical settings off the bat.
Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS, Android, PC via Steam and Windows 10 (worldwide)
Price: $28.99 / €31,99 / £27.99 (20% until December 1 on Switch, December 4 elsewhere)
Publisher: Square-Enix
What's this? The third and final Super Famicom SaGa game, originally released in Japan in 1995 and officially localized for the first time with this remaster; this entry retained and refined the "open scenario" game structure and idiosyncratic character levelling from its predecessor (itself remastered & localized in 2017) and adds some surprisingly in-depth sub-systems including stock trading and large-scale battles, with the remaster adding a few niceties like a new game+ option and a new dungeon alongside enhanced art, audio and UI.
Why should I care? For one, SaGa seems to be the one 2D-era Square series that's able to be competently remastered, so there's always that reason. Beyond that, RomSaGa 3 has a more concrete narrative and fewer punitive mechanical countermeasures than its predecessor, so it's a perfect entrypoint to a series that's inexplicably getting a concerted western push after well over a decade's absence.
Useless fact: RomSaGa 3 happens to be a prequel to the mobile gacha game SaGa Re;universe, which has been running in Japan for some time and will be launching worldwide next year.
SOUNDTRACKS & VINYL
Asobi no Oto vol.0 remix record from Bandai-Namco
Format: vinyl (2LP)
Price: £$29.99
Availability: ships March 2020
Bandai-Namco has launched a new initiative called "ASOBINOTES" that aims to bridge their classic music with broader pop culture, and their first project is a record features tunes and remixes from Namco games both classic and obscure — if you ever wanted to own Muscle March tunes on vinyl, this might be your one and only opportunity to make that dream a reality.
Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil 0 vinyl by Laced Records
Format: vinyl (12")
Availability: ships January 2020
Another Halloween near-miss, these Resident Evil series vinyls come in standard black and limited-edition coloured variants and begin shipping in January 2020, and I'd love to be able to recommend them but upon reflection, I don't remember a single note from either game.
OH YEAH, AMIIBO
Simon Belmont Smash amiibo
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JANUARY: The BATMAN TV series – starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin – debuted on January 12th on the ABC Television Network.
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Chinese scientist wanted for visa fraud arrested after seeking medical care in San Francisco
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A Chinese scientist charged with visa fraud after U.S. authorities said she concealed her military ties was arrested after she left the Chinese consulate in San Francisco to seek medical care for her asthma, court documents showed.
Juan Tang, who has a doctorate in cellular biology, entered the United States on Dec. 27, 2019, to work at the University of California, Davis as a visiting researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Alexandra Negin, an assistant federal public defender, said in the filing Wednesday asking the court for her release on bail.
A hearing on whether Tang, 37, should be released on bail is scheduled Friday. She is being held at a Sacramento County jail on behalf of federal authorities after her arrest last week.
Tang and three other scientists living in the U.S., face charges of lying about their status as members of China's People's Liberation Army. All were charged with visa fraud, the Justice Department said.
Tang was the last of the four to be arrested after the Justice Department accused the Chinese consulate in San Francisco of harboring a known fugitive.
Negin said Tang went to the consulate to seek help and remained there after FBI agents questioned her at her Davis apartment on June 20 and executed a search warrant, seizing her passport and visa.
A criminal complaint was filed under seal on June 26 but Tang did not learn she had been charged with a crime until her July 23 arrest, Negin wrote.
When U.S. agents went to the Chinese consulate to inform her there was a warrant for her arrest Tang, who has asthma, wanted to surrender but was "in hysterics" and consulate employees believed she needed to see a doctor. the filing states.
Negin said she believes federal officers were surveilling the consulate and after seeing her leave in a vehicle with consular staff, followed them to a medical office where "Ms. Tang was seen, medically cleared and then arrested."
Negin wrote Tang is not a danger to the community and could have remained in the consulate to avoid arrest.
"Instead she agreed to leave consulate property knowing this would allow law enforcement to arrest her," she said.
Tang is married and has an 8-year-old daughter who is in China with Tang's husband.
Tang left the family home at 18 to attend college and is a cancer researcher who had never traveled outside China before coming to the United States to do cancer research as part of a one-year program, Negin said.
Negin said Tang left her job in June as a visiting researcher at UC, Davis' Department of Radiation Oncology because her lab was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. She planned to return to China.
Agents found photographs of Tang in a uniform of the civilian cadre of China's PLA and also reviewed articles from China that identified her military affiliation.
But Negin argued the evidence against Tang is based on old photographs from when she was a student at a medical school run by the military and documents that were translated on apps.
"That does not mean that she was 'in the military," Negin wrote.
"She has every incentive to see this case through to its conclusion and return to China after the case is resolved," Negin added.
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Attitude… strengthens the woman whose been told she will die within eighteen months from a very aggressive and rare form of cancer. It enables her to laugh when she really feels like crying, to work when she really feels like hiding under the covers, to keep living each day even though her body is tired from the fight.
Attitude…energizes the man who's had a chronic, debilitating disease since he was fifteen. It gives him the strength to work for his family, even though he feels pain every minute of every day, year in and year out. Attitude is what forces him out of bed each day to meet the challenges that come, and what keeps him from crying when he thinks of dying young.
Attitude…fortifies a tired spirit, replaces despair with hope, brings light into the darkness.
Attitude…is totally up to you.
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5 Elephants SACRIFICED themselves trying to save an Elephant & Drowned
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October 11, 2019 3:13 pm EDT
The group of six elephants lost their life after falling from the waterfall in Thailand on Saturday. Those six fell down into the Haew Narok waterfall in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park.
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Around 3 A.M. in the morning, the group of park officials heard a loud noise of elephants screaming. The officials were at that time pushing few elephants towards the forest through Highway 3077 in Prachin Buri. They felt the noise of the loud trumpets were coming from Samor Poon creek, the area around the waterfall.
Until 6, the officials didn't visit the place, but when they reached the place, they found an elephant calf drowning in the first tier of the waterfall. When the officials looked around, they encountered two more elephants, frazzled, who were trying to save the calf. On further exploring, the officers found five elephants drowning at the lower level of the waterfall. Officials believed that the five elephants were trying to rescue the 3-year-old elephant calf, but instead, they fell down and drowned.
The other two struggling elephants were rescued around 2.30 pm on Saturday. The chief of the national park, Khanchit Srinoppawan, reported that the national park has now been closed for the public exploration following this tragic incident. Witthaya Hongwiangchan, the director of the Protected Area Region of the National park, reported that efforts were made to save the other two animals. They were injected with nutrition supplements, bananas, and sugar canes.
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The Khao Yai National Park is the common home to nearly 300 elephants and is the most attracted destination in all of Thailand to enjoy the greatness of nature.
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Robbery Suspect Nearly Wins Darwin Award By Refusing to Drop BB Gun
Posted at 12:05 pm on February 8, 2017 by Bob Owens
An armed robbery suspect in southeast Washington D.C. was shot by Metro Police after a foot chase after he unwisely refused to drop the BB gun he'd used in an armed robbery just moments before.
Police say officers in southeast Washington, D.C., shot a man who refused to drop a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun.
Police said in a statement Tuesday that officers were flagged down by pedestrians after a robbery and when they approached the suspect, he brandished the weapon. Police say he ignored multiple commands to put it down and officers fired.
The man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries and police say charges are pending against him. Police say a BB gun was recovered at the scene. No officers were injured.
The lack of simple reasoning skills common to many violent criminals never ceases to amaze me, and this case is no different. The suspect had to know that his BB gun was not going to be an effective tool to scare away law enforcement officers, and yet he decided to brandish it and refused to drop it even after multiple commands to drop it were issued by the officers who had closed in on him.
Did he have a death wish? A desire to commit "suicide by cop" rather than go to jail and possibly prison? We may never know.
What we do know is that police officers have the increasingly difficult job of protecting the wider citizenry and themselves after eight years of a presidential administration that has been openly hostile to law enforcement, and the stresses that anti-police activist groups have placed on the job have created the so-called "Ferguson effect," where many officers as discouraged to forego proactive policing, and are instead in a reactive or defensive mode where they are slow to act if there is a significant risk that they could be involved in a potentially violent confrontation.
Hopefully that will change over time as a new President and Attorney General regain the trust of law enforcement agencies nationwide, and the much derided culture of the "Department of (Social) Justice will be forced out and replaced by professionals who see their careers as supporting local and state law enforcement efforts, not as a crusading civil rights clique pushing radical societal change through selective enforcement of the laws.
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Apple Original Films and Billie Eilish announce documentary feature film, "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry," coming February 2021
I've been a fan of Billie Eilish since I first caught her performance at weekend #1 of Coachella in April 2019 via the livestream of the festival. You can read my review of that event HERE. For the latest news on the artist, read the official media release below...Robert Kinsler
Apple Original Films and Billie Eilish announce documentary feature film, 'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry,' coming in February 2021
Watch Billie's Announcement HERE
Photo credit: Kenneth Cappello
Apple and Billie Eilish have announced that the highly anticipated documentary feature film, "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry," directed by award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler ("Belushi," "The September Issue," "The War Room"), will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021. The documentary is from Apple Original Films, in association with Interscope Films, Darkroom, This Machine and Lighthouse Management & Media.
Darkroom/Interscope Records artist Billie Eilish released her groundbreaking debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" in 2019 and won Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album at this year's 62nd Grammy® Awards in January, followed by her rousing performance of The Beatles' 'Yesterday' at the 92nd Oscars®. This year also saw 18-year-old Eilish release her internationally hailed official James Bond theme song 'No Time To Die,' for the forthcoming MGM/Eon Productions James Bond Motion Picture.
Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung and LG smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices, as well as at tv.apple.com, for $4.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. The Apple TV app will be available on Sony and VIZIO smart TVs later this year. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. This special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device. For more information, please visit apple.com/tvpr.
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Discussion » Current Events » Comrade Francis denounces 'cult of money'
随便叫兽 wrote:
This is why I've always preferred the term "recovering Catholic" instead of simply "atheist" to describe my apostasy. Like sobriety, it is a state of being equally as temporary as its antithesis. They elect one Jesuit Pope and already I'm considering missionary work.
Link (The Guardian)
Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the "cult of money", calling for ethical reform of the financial system to create a more humane society.
In an impassioned appeal, the Argentinian pontiff said politicians needed to be bold in tackling the root causes of the economic crisis, which he said lay in an acceptance of money's "power over ourselves and our society".
"We have created new idols," he said in a speech in the Vatican. "The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."
Attacking unchecked capitalism, the pope said the growing inequality in society was caused by "ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good".
Francis, who as a priest in Buenos Aires experienced his country's financial crisis, has made the rejection of riches and luxury the hallmark of his two-month pontificate. Days after his election as the Roman Catholic church's first non-European pope, he spoke of his desire for a "poor church".
On Thursday, he said: "A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules."
Ethics, he said, were too often dismissed as a nuisance. "There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone," he said. "Money has to serve, not to rule."
The Vatican's own source of economic strife, the once scandal-ridden Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is itself reportedly preparing to implement certain reforms to put its troubles behind it.
Vatican Radio said the bank's new president Ernst von Freyberg told employees the institution was to launch its own website and publish an annual report in a bid to enhance transparency.
ITT liberation theology and Christianity in developing countries. inb4 Sun Yat-sen; that English teaching English teacher was a dirty Methodist.
This is a motherfucking kickass Pope who performs casual exorcisms and unequivocally states that people who don't share his religion have the potential to do good.
It's happening.
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Jesus healed a blind man by spitting in his eyes (Mark 8:22-26). China has much TCM to augment faith healing of your wounded anus.
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'Not yet definite': Roger Federer's coach casts major doubts over his participation in Laver Cup
Roger Federer is set to say farewell to Tennis at next week's Laver Cup in London. The Swiss maestro announced that the tournament will be his swansong from the game. However, Federer's coach has dropped a bombshell and revealed that it is not certain that the 20-time grand slam champion will be fit for the event.
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Roger Federer announced his retirement from Tennis last week
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Roger Federer will quit Tennis after the 2022 Laver Cup
The 2022 Laver Cup will take place in London from September 23-25
Federer's fitness is a major concern ahead of his swansong event
The 2022 Laver Cup set to take place next week (September 23-25) at London's famous O2 arena is set to be an emotional occasion as it will be the swansong of Roger Federer . The Swiss maestro announced on Thursday (September 15) that he will be retiring from competitive tennis at the end of the event.
Federer is set to be part of a star-studded European team on the event which also includes Rafael Nadal , Novak Djokovic , Casper Ruud, and Andy Murray. They will look to defend their title against a World XI team. Federer had played a key role in the inception of the tournament that has been played every year since 2017 apart from 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation.
While fans are excited to catch a glimpse of Federer for one last time in London, the 20-time Grand Slam champions' coach Severin Luthi dropped a major bombshell on fans and revealed that his participating in the event is not certain but claimed that he has been training hard to play at least one singles or doubles match at the event.
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"It's not definitive yet but he trained hard last week and is training again this week. His aim is to play something - whether it's singles or doubles we'll have to see, but his aim is still to play at the Laver Cup - definitely.We have 3 hours in the morning. Trained and in the afternoon another 2 hours of training, I want to do my job well there," said Luthi to Blick.
Federer has been struggling with major injury issues that have seen him undergo multiple surgeries on his knee in the last three years. His last competitive appearance came at the 2021 Wimbledon where he lost in the Quarter-Final to Hubert Hurkacz at the iconic Centre Court.
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