One of the joys of the National Arts Festival is the fact that writers, producers and actors can try out new work on the Fringe and assess its standard and value from public response. As this same public is made up of committed theatre-goers who have come to the Festival specifically to see and talk about as many productions as possible, you have a better yardstick than if you launched it in your home town to a wider – and perhaps not so analytical – public.
Janet van Eeden's new one-man play Expletive Deleted is directed by Ian Roberts and features a strong and compelling performance by Thomie Holtzhausen. The character (Hannes)is a human firewall operating in the basement of a large company and his job is to screen outgoing and incoming emails for obscene material.
While other members of the staff flounce past him with noses in the air, like the hated Lerato, Hannes's boss Ketiwe is beautiful, charming and apparently modest. His mother instilled in him that he should look for modesty in a woman and Ketiwe is all this and more. He lusts after her. After all, she headhunted him from his previous position where he was doing the same kind of work on Big Brother, a clever device by Janet van Eeden to place the audience fairly and squarely in the know.
When Ketiwe asks him to lift the firewall from her email, he does so with alacrity. Believing that he is preserving her interests, however, he checks the contents of her correspondence. What he sees does not go down well with him and his inner fury simmers.
Added to his irritation, his overpowering mother is on the phone every hour or so asking him if he's enjoyed the lunch she packed, did he remember his umbrella and what is he doing at that moment? When he responds with irritation, she bursts into tears. He is reminded of his long-held belief that if his mother had roused herself from her occupation in an adjoining room, his father might not have choked to death. Then there's Jakes in Human Resources who spends far too much time eyeing his boss. So he needs to be dealt with. Thus, the simmering builds to an explosion.
In Expletive Deleted, Thomie Holtzhausen has a vehicle well suited to his dramatic abilities and allows him to show his vocal strength and passion.
At the performance I attended at the Kinetics Hall, the lighting was appalling. There was only a small area in which Thomie Holtzhausen was correctly lit. This Hall needs a lot of work before it can rightfully take its place as one of the acceptable venues of the festival.


Frank Ocean, The Clash's Mick Jones and Paul Simonon came together for one song, titled Hero, for Converse's appropriately titled, "Three Artists. One Song" music series.
"Hero" marks the ninth collaboration in Converse's "Three Artists. One Song" series, which has featured André 3000, Kid Cudi, Pharrell, Soulja Boy, and Gorillaz.


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Paranemonia is a genus of sea anemones that consists of two species; both of which are endemic to the Mediterranean Sea:

Species
 Paranemonia vouliagmeniensis (Doumenc, England & Chintiroglou, 1987)
 Paranemonia cinerea (Contarini, 1845) (Grass Crack Anemone)

References

Actiniidae
Taxa described in 1900
Hexacorallia genera

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The Poetry Deal, Diane Di Prima New Paperback
Framed by two passionate, and critical, prose statements assessing her adopted home city, The Poetry Deal is a collection of poems that provide a personal and political look at forty years of Bay Area culture. Often elegiac in tone, the book captures the poet's sense of loss as she chronicles the deaths of friends from the AIDS epidemic as well as the passing of illustrious countercultural colleagues like Philip Whalen, Pigpen from the Grateful Dead, and Kirby Doyle. She also recalls and mourns out-of-town inspirations like Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Audre Lorde, and Ezra Pound. Yet even as she laments the state of her city today, she finds triumph and solace in her own relationships, the marriages of her friends, the endurance of City Lights, and other symbols of San Francisco's heritage.
Born in Brooklyn in 1934, Diane di Prima emerged as a member of the Beat Generation in New York in the late '50s; in the early '60s, she founded the important mimeo magazine The Floating Bear with her lover LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). In the late '60s, she moved to San Francisco, where she would publish her groundbreaking Revolutionary Letters (1971) with City Lights. Her other important books include Memoirs of a Beatnik, Pieces of a Dream, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, and Loba. She was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2009.
Series: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series (Book 7)
Publisher: City Lights Foundation Books; First Edition edition (October 28, 2014)

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A common cold (also known as nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, head cold, or just a cold) is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract which primarily affects the nose. The throat (pharyngitis), the sinuses (sinusitis), and the eyes (via conjunctivitis) are also frequently affected, with a common cold occasionally leading to viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia.
The common cold is the most frequent infectious disease in humans with on average 2 - 3 infections per year in adults and up to 6 - 12 in children. Common colds are seasonal, occurring more frequently during winter - probably because people are in closer proximity to one another and the viruses are highly contagious.
A healthy adult should seldom if ever get a cold. Children may occasionally get colds and other infections as their immune system matures.
A cold typically lasts from 2 - 10 days, though it may continue for 3 weeks in those with weaker immune systems.
Over 200 different viruses can cause the common cold, with rhinoviruses are the most common. It is not possible to gain complete immunity because of the variety of viruses and their tendency for continuous mutation. Children are more susceptible because they have not had exposure to, and built up immunity to a variety of cold viruses.
The cold virus is usually transmitted via airborne droplets (aerosols), direct contact with infected nasal secretions, or contaminated objects.
Symptoms are mostly due to the body's immune response to the viral infection rather than to tissue destruction by the virus. Symptoms usually begin within 16 hours of exposure.
Coughing, dry cough (50% of cases).
Sore throat (40% of cases).
Mild fever (more common in infants and young children).
Reduced sense of taste and smell.
You best protection against a cold is a healthy immune system. People who live by the diet and lifestyle in my book Grow Youthful have a high degree of resistance to colds.
Plenty of sleep and rest.
Many people take over-the-counter medicines, and even antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals prescribed by a doctor, to mask the symptoms of a cold. Unfortunately most of these medications lower your resistance to further infections (particularly antibiotics), gradually increasing your dependence and ensuring more frequent infections in the future. In 2009, Canada restricted the use of over-the-counter cough and cold medications in children under six years because of high risks and unproven benefits. (1) Antibiotics are useless against viral infections, so are of no use in treating the common cold.
Drink a little more water than normal, at a tepid to warm temperature.
Herbal teas and clear soups. Chicken soup made with bones and feet is a very effective traditional remedy. See the Grow Youthful Recipe Book.
Hand washing, especially by and around infected people.
Vitamin C, especially if obtained from foods such as berries, sour citrus and raw vegetables, rather than pills.
See details of remedies recommended by Grow Youthful visitors, and their experience with them.
1. Shefrin AE, Goldman RD. Use of over-the-counter cough and cold medications in children. November 2009. Can Fam Physician 55 (11): 1081-3. PMC 2776795. PMID 19910592.


In The Eye Of A New Storm: SportTracks, Rubitrack, Ascent - All For Mac?
If you're a regular runner you've probably already bought a GPS tracking device - perhaps a Forerunner (maybe a 305, 405 or the new 310XT) or some other device. You've probably also concluded that whatever software came with it is no good and looked for a replacement.
If you're using a PC then the only software that I came across that was worth having was SportTracks by ZoneFiveSoftware. It's technically free - but they ask, and I'd urge you to make, a donation. SportTracks is really very, very good. But it's PC only and whilst it does work inside software like Fusion or Parallels, it can be difficult to get working and when I was using it I ended up keeping a PC on my desk, next to my Mac.
There are rumours about a version of SportTracks for the Mac, but they seem to still be just that, rumours.
For Mac users, I'd always thought that the choice was more limited but there are at least two great options: Rubitrack and Ascent. Both of these are nearly perfect options to use instead of SportTracks not just whilst we're waiting for SportTracks to come out on the Mac, but for good.
I've written before about using Ascent so won't repeat any of that here. Rubitrack is very similar and it has, just, the edge for me. Trying to boil it down to the biggest differences, Ascent is slightly more technical in its capability - it has greater graphing and reviewing options - but Rubitrack, for me at least, has better presentation and sifting and sorting. Both of them auto-label your runs based on prior runs, but Rubitrack makes equivalent runs easier to find - allowing you to sort by location, by timetable and by distance with selections from the left hand menu bar. I also like the way Rubitrack can present the runs as icons - like the picture below.
Neither Ascent nor Rubitrack include one feature that I used a lot with SportTracks - the ability to tag runs with a piece of equipment and then keep a count of how far you'd run with that gear - for instance, you could note when you started using a particular pair of shoes and it would keep track of the mileage you'd got to, allowing you to figure out when to replace them (or at least to get ready to - given it's all about how far and hard you run I suppose).
Rubitrack actually does have a way to track gear. You add the gear in the details section and then add a custom group to the activities bar for that piece of equipment. Just like that every run you do in a pair of shoes appears.
ah, very neat ... thank you for that!
We're working on an online version of these types of software. Keep your eye on www.spedmo.com for something that works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
I totally agree with the review. Both track equipment/gear now.
Rubitrack User interface is 10x better, but I still haven't found how I can easily split/lap activities the way I do on Ascent (in the chart, you just add a lap marker). So I keep using both. Once Rubitrack does this, then there'll be one left.

Alan - most interesting blog. I happened on it while looking for 'sporttracks' for mac and then kept reading much of the other posts!

When Donny commented "You add the gear in the details section" what did he mean?
I have this application on my PC and I love the way it works. GPS is really fantastic.


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WBBL - Women's Big Bash League T20 2018-19
Melbourne Renegades vs Perth Scorchers Women's 28th T20 Live Score, WBBL 2018-19
Melbourne Renegades Women vs Perth Scorchers Women 28th T20 Live Cricket Score, Live Streaming & TV Channel
WBBL- Women's Big Bash League 2018-19 28th T20 match between Melbourne Renegades Women v Perth Scorchers Women on December 23 at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth; the match starts at 06:00 AM GMT.
The 2018-19 Women's Big Bash League season, also known as WBBL 04 is the fourth edition of Women's Big Bash League. Rebel Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) is the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia.
Live Streaming & TV Channel: Sony Six and Sony ESPN to broadcast live coverage of WBBL – Women's Big Bash League 2018-19 in India and its subcontinent (Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Maldives) countries; these matches streamed live in the Indian subcontinent on SonyLIV (Website, App). Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has acquired the exclusive media rights for the Rebel WBBL – Women's Big Bash League.
Fox Sports and Channel 7 are the official broadcaster for the WBBL – Women's Big Bash League 2018-19. Channel Seven and Fox Sports hold the broadcasting rights in Australia for the fourth seasons of the Women's Big Bash League. Cricket viewers will see every ball of every game live and free with 23 matches to be broadcast in Australia on the Seven Network and Fox Sports, while the remaining 36 games will be streamed live and free on Cricket Australia's official Website and the Cricket Australia app, the live radio coverage of every match available on ABC Grandstand.
Kayo Sports will stream in Australia for the fourth seasons of the Women's Big Bash League. The Foxtel App is the better option if you already have a TV subscription, while Foxtel Now is the way to go if you only want to stream Foxtel channels, these games will also be available to stream on Plus7.
Twenty three matches of WBBL – Women's Big Bash League 2018-19 live on Fox Sports and Channel 7. To watch the live coverage of games on Fox Sports, you will need to tune into Fox Cricket on Channel 501 and have a valid Foxtel TV subscription complete with the sports package. The TV coverage on Channel 7 will be on free to air TV through Channel 70 in high definition or 71 in standard definition.
Cricket viewers in the United States can watch Women's Big Bash League (WBBL 04) matches on Willow TV. BT Sport has bagged exclusive telecast rights for the tournament; they also acquired OTT (Audio, Video, and other media services via the internet) right.
India: Sony Six, Sony Six HD, Sony ESPN, Sony ESPN HD, SonyLiv
Australia: Seven Network, Fox Sports, Kayo Sports, Foxtel Sports, Cricket Australia (Website, App)
UK: BT Sport
Canada: ATN Cricket Plus (Asian Television Network), CBN
Perth Scorchers Women v Melbourne Renegades Women 28th T20 Live Score, WBBL 2018-19
Perth Scorchers Women won by 15 runs
Date December 23, 2018
Perth Scorchers Women vs Melbourne Renegades Women, 28th T20
W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth
06:00 AM GMT, 02:00 PM LOCAL, 11:30 AM IST
Women's Big Bash League 2018-19 Points Table
TV & Live Streaming WBBL 2018-19 Live Streaming & TV Channel
Tournament Women's Big Bash League, 2019-19
Head to Head Matches – 6, SCO Won – 4, REN Won – 2
Prediction Perth Scorchers Women to win
Toss Melbourne Renegades Women opt to bowl
PSW Playing XI Elyse Villani, Meg Lanning (c), Amy Ellen Jones (wk), Nicole Bolton, Kate Cross, Lauren Ebsary, Heather Graham, Emma King, Chloe Piparo, Hayleigh Brennan, Taneale Peschel
MRW Playing XI Danielle Wyatt, Lea Tahuhu, Amy Satterthwaite (c), Emma Inglis (wk), Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham, Claire Koski, Maitlan Brown, Molly Strano, Jessica Duffin, Tayla Vlaeminck
Result Perth Scorchers Women won by 15 runs
Perth Scorchers Women Squad: Meg Lanning (c), Elyse Villani, Megan Banting, Nicole Bolton, Hayleigh Brennan, Mathilda Carmichael, Amy Ellen Jones, Piepa Cleary, Kate Cross, Lauren Ebsary, Heather Graham, Emma King, Taneale Peschel, Chloe Piparo, Emily Smith
Melbourne Renegades Women Squad: Amy Satterthwaite, Danielle Wyatt, Maitlan Brown, Jess Cameron, Claire Koski, Erica Kershaw, Emma Inglis, Molly Strano, Anna Lanning, Sophie Molineux, Lea Tahuhu, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham, Courtney Webb


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Did you hear? The folk revival is over. So, dust down your Ramones t-shirt baby, dig out that Nirvana smiley, and listen to the Pixies again, because oh yes the future is here man and it looks a lot like before: awesome.
Ok, not quite, but floating around this pop radar are bands that look like the best parts of garage rock past. Cloud Nothings are no exception, but also exceptional. They are, quite literally, multi-instrumentalist and all round indie-pop-prodigy Dylan Baldi. A mere 18 years old, Dylan recorded his first lo-fi offering in the rock'n'roll location of his parent's basement. With the chance to support Woods and Real Estate he persuaded his Mum and Dad to stop majoring in audio recording and set off with a full band. Having released EP Turning On, Cloud Nothings is the first full album recorded in a 'proper' studio. See him on the road and you'll see Duke (bass), Gerycz (drums), and Boyer (guitar) as well, yet this recording is all his own work.
First single 'Should Have' picks up where Turning On left off, with a (now) studio-refined sound it falls squarely between power pop and surf rock, all catchy hook and sunshine melody. A trick repeated on 'Nothing's Wrong' and 'Heartbeat', these are sugary sweet songs storming along like Silver Sun on fast forward. Delve further and you'll find a more sophisticated and mature centre, drawing upon the best of American indie from the 80s, 90s and noughties.
If you judge an album by its comparisons, then judge this thus: 'Rock' is akin to the Ramones; 'Forget You All The Time' is The Smashing Pumpkins meeting Frank Black; 'You're Not That Good At Anything' mixes the Pixies with Nirvana; and lead track 'Understand At All' sounds like a younger version of the late Jay Reatard. All of these are urgent abrasive and full of attitude, yet hook laden and melody driven, with chant along choruses and instant familiarity. No easy task but this boy has an ear for it.


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lz4-xhr.jsx
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Synopsis
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lz4 filter for XHR

Motivation
--------------------

It provides another XHR API with data decompression.

Code Example
---------------

```js

var worker = new Worker('lz4-xhr.js');
worker.onmessage = function (event) {
    var content = event.content; // ArrayBuffer
    var dataView = new DataView(content);
    var decoder = new TextDecoder("utf-8");
    var json = JSON.parse(decoder.decode(dataView));
};
worker.postMessage('/content/data.json');
```

Installation
---------------

```sh
$ npm install lz4-xhr.jsx
```

JavaScript code is in `dest/src` folder.

API Reference
------------------

`lz4-xhr` provides simple API via WebWorker interface.
It receives URL as a postMessage parameter. It returns `content` property of resulting event.
`content` is an ArrayBuffer object.

Development
-------------

## JSX

Don't be afraid [JSX](http://jsx.github.io)! If you have an experience of JavaScript, you can learn JSX
quickly.

* Static type system and unified class syntax.
* All variables and methods belong to class.
* JSX includes optimizer. You don't have to write tricky unreadalbe code for speed.
* You can use almost all JavaScript API as you know. Some functions become static class functions. See [reference](http://jsx.github.io/doc/stdlibref.html).

## Repository

* Repository: git://github.com/shibukawa.yoshiki/lz4-xhr.jsx.git
* Issues: https://github.com/shibukawa.yoshiki/lz4-xhr.jsx/issues

## Setup build environment

To create development environment, call following command:

```sh
$ npm install
```

## Run Test

```sh
$ grunt test
```

## Run Sample

```sh
# Build web worker and sample client
$ grunt build

# Launch webserver
$ grunt connect
```

## Generate API reference

```sh
$ grunt doc
```

Author
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* shibukawa.yoshiki / shibukawa.yoshiki@gmail.com

License
------------

MIT License.

Complete license is written in `LICENSE.md`.

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The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Third Global Patient Safety Challenge, 'Medication without harm,' is ambitious, but it must not detract from the ongoing work of healthcare professionals, writes consultant pharmacist Gillian Cavell.
On 29 March 2017, the WHO launched its Third Global Patient Safety Challenge, 'Medication without harm.' The goal of the challenge is to reduce the level of severe, avoidable harm related to medications by 50% over five years, globally.
It has been stated that, worldwide, medication errors cost an estimated $42bn annually. Medication error as a source of avoidable patient harm and death needs to be formally addressed, and this Global Patient Safety Challenge is setting out a broad framework within which to reduce harm from medicines. Three priority areas for action have been identified: high-risk situations, polypharmacy, and transitions of care.
The high-risk situations referred to in the WHO Patient Safety Challenge include the use of certain classes of medicines which are more likely to be associated with adverse drug events – either because small errors can be associated with serious harm, or because of the vulnerability of the types of patients who are likely to be prescribed these medicines.
These drug classes – which include high-strength electrolytes, anticoagulants, insulin, opiates, sedatives and chemotherapeutic agents – have been the subject of patient safety alerts issued by the National Patient Safety Agency and NHS Improvement (NHSI) in the past. The safe use of these medicines remains high on the medication safety agenda across the NHS, where systems and practices have been put in place to minimise the risk of errors.
More recently, increased emphasis has been placed on the importance of deprescribing medicines known to be associated with harm in particular patient groups – especially where multiple medicines are prescribed (polypharmacy) – and ensuring effective communication of changes to medicines when patients are transferred between healthcare settings.
The goal that has been set certainly is a challenge. In order to demonstrate a reduction in medication-related harms, we need to be able to measure the current rate of 'harm.' This is not going to be easy. We know that medicines and medication errors can cause 'harm,' but not all 'harm' is caused by medicines – and not all medicines use causes 'harm.' If it does occur with medicines use, that harm might not be preventable, as is the case with adverse drug reactions. The challenge specifically refers to severe harm, but the degree of harm is not specifically defined.
Where adverse incidents do occur, there is an expectation for those incidents to be reported either through the National Reporting and Learning System or, in the case of adverse drug reactions, to the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency via the Yellow Card Scheme.
However, as our reporting systems are voluntary, the data cannot be assumed to be complete. Qualitatively, the data is important and relevant, but when it comes to actual numbers of incidents resulting in harm, quantitative analysis is not reliable.
The increasing use of information technology – especially electronic patient records, electronic prescribing and electronic prescribing & medicines administration (EPMA) – enables the capture of data on the quality of prescribing and medicines use. Such systems have been used widely to support the development of safer ways of using medicines. Indicators of safe prescribing in hospitals which could be used to develop clinical decision support within EPMA systems have been described. The use of antidotes to reverse potential drug-related harms can be measured and has been used previously as part of the Medication Safety Thermometer to measure medication-related harm.
We need to ensure that the technology that is increasingly being used to optimise medicines is designed to provide the information we need to measure its impact on the care we give to patients in the NHS.
The challenge is to refine and combine existing intelligence around the safe use of medicines and potential harms associated with medication errors and link these to actual patient outcomes within the electronic databases currently being used or developed for use within the NHS. Where technological interventions have been shown to improve the way medicines are used, learning should be shared with NHS England for wider implementation.
The first metric for medication-related harm, which links safe prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in general practice and harm manifesting as admission to hospital due to gastrointestinal bleeding, has been published by NHSI. As further metrics for use in primary and secondary care are developed, the extent to which medicines are managed safely across our health system can be identified; and where preventable harms are identified, improvements can be made to reduce risks to patients.
However, the requirements of 'Medicines without harm' must not detract from the ongoing work of the healthcare professionals, including the medication safety officers who strive to achieve the safe use of medicines across the NHS on a day-to-day basis.


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REAGAN , ROMNEY, AND REPUBLICANISM
Wechsler, James A.
REAGAN, ROMNEY, and REPUBLICANISM by JAMES A. WECHSLER Tn this crisis summer of 1966 the assumption that President Johnson's re-election in 1968 is one of the sure things of politics has...
...there are no certainties...
...The reference may be unfair to McNamara...
...As The Washington Post observed, he "crowded into a pair of sentences all the neuroses, all the nightmare fantasies, all the paranoia Reckless Course "Despite the obvious breakup of authority in South Vietnam, an unrepresentative South Vietnamese regime, the continuing destruction of Vietnamese resources for national rebuilding and despite the increasing danger of a major power confrontation in Southeast Asia, 'the U.S...
...As for the indestructible Mr...
...From all of this it may appear that I am reverting to the "sure thing" view of a Johnson re-election in 1968...
...Nothing more clearly caricatures the futility of the liberals in Republican ranks than the sequel to John Lindsay's remarkable fusion election as mayor of New York...
...Somehow the Vietnam ordeal may have ended—but how, and on what terms...
...He is a shallow mediocrity engaged in a vulgar effort to convince many people that he would rather be President than Right, until elected...
...Vermont Royster, The Wall Street Journal's perceptive editor and columnist, has described Romney as a man who "won two victories in Michigan by not only talking conservatively but, as governor, acting conservatively . . . He has managed to make himself a national figure by preaching a sort of evangelical doctrine of virtues right out of McGuffey's Reader, all of which strikes a responsive chord in many solid, middle-class voters...
...James Reston, associate editor of The New York Times, has called Romney a curious blend of Robert McNamara and Billy Graham...
...Nixon will always have access to private medical service...
...but too many Americans happen to be less fortunate...
...Perhaps more fundamental has been the sterility of Republican leadership in the face of the two great issues of this decade—the civil rights revolution and the war in Vietnam...
...the issue is "Appeasement or Courage," he tells us, adding: "We are being asked to buy our safety from the threat of the Bomb by selling into permanent slavery our fellow human beings enslaved behind the Iron Curtain...
...After this conference, the Associated Press reported, the two men "teed off in almost identical terms on bigness in government...
...His books include "The Age of Suspicion" and "Reflections of an Angry Middle-aged Editor...
...That is not Kennedy's battle plan, and no one renders him a service by promoting it...
...In the' early phase of the Kennedy era the Republicans might have captured the banner of civil rights when the late President was inhibited and harassed by the Dixiecrats in his party...
...What of Romney's liberalism...
...When he abdicated any serious role in the battle for control of his party, he paved the way for the Goldwater breakthrough...
...Romney has said of himself: "I am not a liberal-moderate Republican...
...The New Republic's TRB (in real life the distinguished correspondent of The Christian Science Moniter named Richard Strout) covered Reagan's recital...
...government is reported to be on the verge of sending another 100,000 men to South Vietnam...
...Among other profundities voiced by Reagan on this occasion was the assertion that "one of the great problems of economics is unemployment...
...But the appendix to his autobiography is the giveaway...
...But there is no hint that he possesses any philosophy or conviction beyond the boundaries of the old conservative orthodoxies...
...They are Ronald Reagan, California's Republican candidate for governor...
...There is another possibility that must be mentioned...
...In language more ruthless than he usually employs, he described Reagan as "anti-labor, anti-Negro, anti-intellectual, anti-planning, anti-20th Century...
...Reagan needs no further introduction...
...It is generally agreed that Romney is an amiable man with notable managerial talents...
...But its pages will haunt him if he should win the California governorship and become the new hope of the Gold-water legions...
...In the same hour of the same day he was calling for expansion of the air war...
...I do so with reluctance because too many liberals (dwindling in number) still deem any wise or recent utterance by Robert F. Kennedy as a calculated episode in an underground conspiracy...
...he is even reported to be questioning their validity as the figures record a perceptible if not calamitous decline in his standing...
...Johnson cherished so long have lost their luster for him...
...But Lindsay's first months in office have been shadowed by the obstinate obstructionism of a Republican state legislature, and neither Governor Rockefeller (facing a hard battle for re-election) nor Senator Javits (obsessed with his own national aspirations) has given him any conspicuous help...
...It is entitled Where's the Rest of Me...
...Reagan's autobiography...
...I want to get a doctor who is working for me and not for the government...
...It is described as "an excellent summary of Mr...
...But in the here and now, the striking circumstance is how quickly and capriciously even the "modern" Republicans have seemed disposed to squander the potential represented by Lindsay...
...This Romney strategy of "consensus" makes Mr...
...At this moment three names loom largest in speculation about the so-called Republican future...
...His appearance was viewed by many, The New York Times reported, as "the Washington debut of a potential Presidential candidate...
...It is a measure of the bankruptcy of the liberal Republican bloc that Romney is being viewed in so many places as the last great barrier to another right-wing conquest of the party's national convention...
...Two more years of this incredible investment in Dean Rusk's holy war could drastically alter the face of America...
...He has clearly been studying and absorbing the 1936 Republican platform, which swept two states...
...If that struggle should be interminably prolonged, if it should lead to a military confrontation with Red China, on any major scale, no present prophesy is relevant...
...The opinion polls which Mr...
...the unmistakable impression is that they view Lindsay as something of an upstart adversary seeking to usurp their places as the favorites of the Republican liberal set...
...Nixon, his spiritual leadership was also exhibited during this most recent period of national and world uncertainty by a fiery address to the American Medical Association...
...In late June he held a forty-five-minute meeting with Richard Nixon...
...It might lead to a deepening, McCarthyite hysteria in which Ronald Reagan—or some even more rabid version of the same breed— might become more than a theatrical footnote to political history...
...We oppose this as reckless, foolhardy, and destructive of the hope for peace and self-determination for the Vietnamese people...
...But the truth is, as Emmet John Hughes noted in his diagnosis of Republican disarray, that Kennedy has become dramatically identified with the two issues so ineptly fumbled by the Republicans— the world upsurge of the colored peoples and the quest for sanity in the nuclear age...
...JAMES A. WECHSLER is editor of the editorial page of The New York Post and a regular columnist for that newspaper...
...We urge a cessation of bombing of North Vietnam and a de-escalation of the war in the South...
...In heralding his primary victory, National Review observed that "though he runs inevitably as a conservative, Reagan accepts the realities" and "has steered clear of sectarian narrowness and provocation...
...For what Reagan and his managers have been trying to do is to woo the "moderates" in the GOP while winking at the Goldwater faction...
...Johnson's secret weapon...
...He was everywhere...
...In a sense, of course, the destruction of the dream of the resurgence of Republican progressivism is traceable to the infirmity of the only successful Republican candidate since 1928—Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...That he learned no lesson from this debacle is apparent from his cordial rendezvous with Reagan in June...
...Reagan, the undistinguished film actor whose triumph in the GOP California primary gave William Buckley, the middle-aging prodigy of right-wing Republicanism, a new sense of hope, went to Washington to unveil himself before the National Press Club...
...REAGAN, ROMNEY, and REPUBLICANISM by JAMES A. WECHSLER Tn this crisis summer of 1966 the assumption that President Johnson's re-election in 1968 is one of the sure things of politics has suddenly been challenged...
...now we are told that his defeat was attributable to the fight waged against him by Nelson Rockefeller and others in the predomination period...
...His simplistic demagogy was a reminder of his infinite ability to nurse the prejudices of his audience...
...With the passage of each month, it becomes apparent how much our national future may hinge on the duration, direction, and dimension of the Vietnam war...
...That is not the case...
...On the one hand he was lamenting our involvement in a land war in Vietnam...
...What gives the Romney phenomenon certain interest is that, in his own fashion, he seems to be relying on his capacity to emerge as a triumphant split personality...
...He is increasingly depicted as the man under whose leadership the 1968 convention can be rescued from the cabal of reactionaries and kooks who staged the Goldwater coup four years ago...
...It would be premature, of course, to discount Lindsay as a major force in national Republican politics on the basis of this brief and often brutal tenure...
...But it is the final irony of the Republican condition that Kennedy, not Romney, Reagan, or Nixon, might be the central figure in the drama of 1968 if political upset is in the making...
...The symptoms are dramatically visible on many fronts as these lines are written in mid-July...
...In the face of the elaborate and costly press-agentry now being dedicated to the Reagan build-up, I found myself obliged to read Mr...
...Their common quality is their apparent acceptance, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, by the Goldwater legions...
...I'm trying to be as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt before the Bull Moose movement...
...Essentially this is a soap-opera description of his transition from wide-eyed fellow-traveler on the Left to dim-visioned wanderer on the Right...
...He has, that journal added, "kept out of the suffocating clutches of the John Birch Society without yielding to the right-baiters...
...As the commitment in Vietnam senselessly mounted, the Republicans might have been the voice of dissent and created a major national debate—but they surrendered that role to Senator Fulbright and other Democrats...
...This strategy has been officially sanctioned by Buckley's National Review, the bible of the non-Birchite Right...
...The Goldwater rout in 1964 was widely construed as proof that the GOP was doomed as a national party so long as it remained the prisoner of its so-called conservative faction...
...Romney is probably more conservative than any other likely contender and therefore could hold many of the conservatives who voted for Barry Goldwater...
...To the assembled doctors he proclaimed: "I want to be able to pay for my doctor...
...Prosperity may grace the land—or the Negro revolution may have produced new, angry conflicts in the nation's ghettos...
...This must be recognized as the most incisive analysis offered since the late Calvin Cool-idge observed that "when a great many people are out of work, unemployment results...
...Both issues, Emmet John Hughes, a White House aide under President Eisenhower, has observed, "could have been seized by a spirited and conscientious Republicanism...
...No doubt Mr...
...In world affairs he offers a familiar simplistic solution to our problems...
...No matter what agonies may torment the country, and no matter what limited gains the GOP may record in this fall's Congressional elections, its capacity for self-destruction on a national scale seems incurable...
...Reagan's political philosophy" and is the text of a banal television address that won him wide notice in the right-wing salons...
...It apparently did not occur to him that this course, lamentably embraced by President Johnson soon afterward, contained the clear risk of infinitely larger confrontation on land with Chinese as well as North Vietnamese troops...
...And where was Michigan's Governor George Romney during this critical summer when so much of mankind was preoccupied with the Vietnam tragedy...
...The surveys may prove nothing more than the one certitude I have learned in political journalism...
...who dares predict what the world will look like when the political battle of 1968 is joined...
...Goldwater's agents have successfully promoted the "stab-in-the-back" theory...
...No other figure of his generation seemed to offer the prospect of any serious long-range rivalry to Senator Robert F. Kennedy...
...Washington columnist Roscoe Drummond has said of Romney that "in the area of fiscal and economic policy, Mr...
...But anyone who undertakes a midterm assessment of the outlook must be impressed at this juncture by a basic fact of American political life...
...Another Republican debacle in 1968 might conceivably provoke the long-suppressed rebellion of Republican intelligence...
...Senator Jacob Javits, who allegedly personifies the spirit of Republican liberalism, has made no secret of his readiness to serve as Rom-ney's running-mate...
...ADA National Board June 12, 1966 of the AMA's view of Medicare...
...But history has been swiftly rewritten...
...Johnson seem a narrow sectarian by contrast...
...Here, then, are the names dominating the Republican scene—Reagan, Romney, and Nixon...
...It includes an assault on "the progressive surtax," on "socialized medicine," and on TVA...
...Javits' designation on a national ticket would end another taboo in our political life, but I do not feel impelled to rush to the synagogue to pray for this consummation...
...I think Mr...
...If President Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam leads us into large and shattering disaster, the ancient axiom that any incumbent can win renomination (once stated with colorful profanity by Harry Truman) may be challenged...
...Michigan's Governor George Romney, and, seemingly from now until eternity, Richard Nixon...
...What have they been up to in their most recent public exhibitions...
...its death-urge seems to grow more intense with the passage of time...
...The Republican Party remains Mr...
...and the reader remains in suspense after finishing the volume...
...Romney's contribution was the cry that "we must modernize state and local governments and bring a halt to the concentration of power in Washington...
...Two long years remain before the next nominating conventions...
...By any standard of rationality, Lindsay's triumph should have been the signal for joy and hope throughout the Republican progressive bloc...
Vol. 30 • August 1966 • No. 8
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Asian Multilateralism in Uncertain Times – ASEAN's Regional Architecture: Navigating the Complexities
CO21052 | Asian Multilateralism in Uncertain Times – ASEAN's Regional Architecture: Navigating the Complexities
Le Dinh Tinh
RSIS Commentary is a platform to provide timely and, where appropriate, policy-relevant commentary and analysis of topical and contemporary issues. The authors' views are their own and do not represent the official position of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU. These commentaries may be reproduced with prior permission from RSIS and due recognition to the author(s) and RSIS. Please email to Mr Yang Razali Kassim, Editor RSIS Commentary at [email protected]
ASEAN roles and rules of engagement in the construction of regional security architecture have been a subject of debate for years. Some argue that ASEAN has been overestimated while others point to the existence and growth of the grouping as underscoring its continued relevancy.
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PEACE IN the Asia-Pacific is as fragile and hard-fought as elsewhere in the world. What makes it different is the emergence of the "contest of the century" between the United States and China in this regional theatre. The economic gravity of the region today gives its more than 50% of the world's GDP and more leverage in institution-building in security and defence. There is, however, the lack of an overarching security arrangement that can work for all.
Against this backdrop, ASEAN as one of the most important stakeholders in the region, offers its own version of a regional security architecture based on the ASEAN way. The working principles proposed by ASEAN have received both support and criticism from policymakers and scholars. Yet if both sides were put on a scale, the weight should tilt toward the supportive side. Similarly, notwithstanding its challenges and shortcomings, ASEAN still is the most viable platform for building the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific region.
Facing the Uneasy Fact
Regional talks on security and defence cooperation have been extensive but actions on the ground are another issue. ASEAN-led mechanisms such as AHA Centre (for coordinating humanitarian relief) and ARDEX (exercises for response to disasters) are encouraging efforts but more coordinated action for the wider Asia-Pacific region is needed; for example, in the area of HADR, not to mention in hard security topics such as joint defence policy planning.
The reason is quite simple: lack of substantive cooperation between major players in the region, notably between China and the United States. That is why the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) has tried on confidence building measures (CBMs) for the whole Asia-Pacific region but the result has not lived up to expectations.
Before tackling the question of trust, let's see the realities of current proposals. There are plenty of them but in a nutshell they are either US-led, China-led, or ASEAN-led. In an ideal scenario, these arrangements should be able to have interoperability with one another. But the fact is the inter-mechanism communication is not as robust as it should be.
For example, though both the US and China say publicly that they support ASEAN centrality in the region, they might not necessarily consider ASEAN as a part of their own initiatives. This also holds true where the US and China offer ASEAN to join their initiatives while the latter does not see a clear role for itself.
Consider the Quad Plus and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). These grand initiatives might contribute to the betterment of public goods in the region but they are not without risks. Furthermore, there has not been a strong and vital connection between these schemes and ASEAN.
The ASEAN Option
On the positive side, ASEAN-led security arrangements are the most feasible options among all others as the role of ASEAN as an honest broker, mediator, and convener has been widely recognised. There is no other viable alternative. For instance, any offer by the US might generate some reservation on the part of China and vice versa.
More than just being a convenor, ASEAN has shown that it has strategic assets to step up regional cooperation, including in the fields of security and defence. The first type of asset is the strategic anchors that it has and used successfully to allow partners to link up with, notably the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. The second type of asset is the institutional arrangements such as ARF, ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) and ADMM-Plus that ropes in ASEAN's security dialogue partners.
During the chairmanship of Vietnam in 2020, the language used by ASEAN on the South China Sea issue within these mechanisms, for example, was less ambiguous in terms of legality, i.e. clearer references were made to the 1982 UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). On top of these arrangements is the East Asia Summit which is a platform for leaders' strategic engagement and exchange.
The availability of these assets coupled with the recognised roles of ASEAN as an honest broker, convenor and facilitator make the group the most promising candidate for taking the lead in the construction of a desirable regional security architecture.
ASEAN Under Further Scrutiny
The critique of ASEAN and its ability to initiate closer and more effective security and defence cooperation as building blocks for a regional security architecture mostly focuses on the way ASEAN works.
The consensus-based and incremental approach, however, does not work well all the time, especially during crises. ASEAN also has the problem of solidarity, not only because of the divide-and-rule tactic employed by outsiders but also because ASEAN member-states do not see the world the same way from inside out. For example, ASEAN came short of issuing a foreign ministerial (AMM) joint statement in 2012 and ADMM-Plus joint declaration in 2015 due to disagreement on the text concerning the South China Sea.
While ASEAN remains a relevant regional body, its centrality cannot be taken for granted. It must be earned by ASEAN working harder as often argued by the then Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa. If ASEAN could not take a few bolder steps forward to enhance its visibility and relevancy, its central role in building a regional security architecture would be in question. In the words of Natalegawa, ASEAN should exercise more transformative power.
Overall, however, while ASEAN might be criticised for being slow, it does get things done. The existence of the association in the past five decades is, in fact, a remarkable demonstration of its capacity to mobilise partners in peace. This is one aspect no one can deny.
If there is one lesson that can be learned, it is that the multilateral institutions engaged with ASEAN should discuss the issues at hand in a more candid and constructive manner. The 2012 and 2015 incidents should be avoided. Furthermore, in addition to non-traditional security issues, these platforms should also study the possibility of cooperation in addressing traditional security challenges and state-on-state security concerns such as territorial disputes and military conflicts.
The vision of ASEAN for the post-2025 period should demonstrate that ASEAN is not only the convenor of critical meetings but also a formidable player ready to face challenges head on.
Also, to realise the full effect of these platforms, ASEAN partners should show stronger support for ASEAN centrality in a more consistent and substantive manner. ASEAN can exercise impartiality better with more resources. In terms of size, ASEAN is the fifth largest economy in the world but it mostly comprises developing countries. Capacity is key for performance.
It should start with projects for practical cooperation which can then be expanded to include longer term proposals. 'Partners' does not mean major powers only. In fact, middle powers like Japan, Korea, and Australia can be partners of great significance. In the last few years, middle powers, when they come together, have been successful in creating non-major power initiatives that work effectively.
One example is ASEAN itself. More recent ones include the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the Alliance for Multilateralism, to name just a few. The nexus between ASEAN and global governance institutions such as the United Nations can and should also be strengthened.
Le Dinh Tinh, PhD, is Director General at the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies and Director of ASEAN Studies Centre, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. He contributed this as part of an RSIS Series.
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ASEAN roles and rules of engagement in the construction of regional security architecture have been a subject of debate for years. Some argue that ...


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Located in Hellenthal in the Eifel region of Germany, Schoeller Werk GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading manufacturers of stainless steel welded pipes. To enable it to cater even more efficiently for the rising demand for testing, the company has, with the assistance of ZwickRoell, brought its testing laboratory up to a uniformly modern level New acquisitions plus a complete modernization have been complemented by a software update on three existing testing machines.
The company' employs over 1,000 people and produces more than 80 million meters of stainless steel pipes annually for use in such diverse areas as household technology, medical engineering and automotive applications. Increased production volume and rising customer requirements are constantly placing new demands on the company's production-line quality assurance. The mechanical properties of a defined number of specimens from each production batch are tested in the laboratory. As part of this process the tensile properties of the sections of pipe are checked in a testing machine. The machines are equipped with hydraulic grips to ensure secure clamping of the pipe specimens.
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Gone are the days when governments could act in isolation. The relationships between governments are complex but necessary. There must be even closer and more effective ties between local and other governments. The only way to achieve these closer ties is to renounce the "master-servant" relationship that has coloured the relationships. It is no longer acceptable for local government to be considered as a necessary, although minor relative in the family of government. Local government must be recognized as being an equal partner in the family of Canadian government; a partner in providing services and a partner in the discussions which lead to the provision of those services.
AS THE BASIS FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN LOCAL AND SENIOR LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS A FULL AND EQUAL PARTNER IN THE SYSTEM OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT.
a partnership in meeting shared government responsibilities.
Local governments have been given certain responsibilities to fulfill by the Provincial government. Quite simply, these responsibilities are delegated because local government is the best way to provide these services and the public is expected to conform to the decisions of local government. So too should the senior levels of government.
GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES AND AGENCIES MUST COMPLY WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY IN AREAS OF LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEY SHOULD NOT UNDERMINE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY-LAWS OR PROGRAMS.
In a Province as large and diverse as B.C., it must be recognized that local needs vary and that the scope of each individual local government to respond to those needs must not be hindered. Flexibility and respect for the diversity of local government goes hand in hand with the basic respect for its decisions.
OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND REGULATIONS THAT AFFECT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPECT THE VARYING NEEDS AND CONDITIONS OF DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE PROVINCE.
It is not enough just to respect local government actions. The reason for existence of all orders of government is to serve the same people, albeit in different ways and frequently for different purposes. The full benefits of government action can only be realized if these actions complement and support one another. The only way that this can be achieved is through full inter-governmental coordination and cooperation.
GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE COMMITTED TO CONSULTATION AND COORDINATION OF THEIR ACTIONS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC.
OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD ESTABLISH POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Basic to our system of government is that local needs are best met at the local level. However, when a senior government has a responsibility to meet certain local needs, local government should be included in the process - local government has considerable experience and local knowledge to offer to the other orders of government.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF THE PROGRAMS OF OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO MEET LOCAL NEEDS.
OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD GIVE ADEQUATE NOTICE AND SHOULD CONSULT ON LEGISLATION OR OTHER CHANGES THAT WOULD AFFECT LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
financial compensation where the changes impose a new cost burden on local government, particularly where operating costs must be assumed by local government.
The heart of any true partnership is the frank and frequent discussion on all aspects of what the partnership is trying to deliver. When governments share the responsibility for delivering a service they have an obligation to the public to work together. Shared responsibilities demand more than just cooperation and coordination - they demand a firm and lasting commitment. A commitment to confer with local government on any matter that affects it would be a major step forward in inter-governmental relations. On the basis of that commitment could be built an ongoing process on consultation, shared financing and joint decision-making which will benefit all of our citizens.
GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE COMMITTED TO CONSULTATION AND JOINT DECISION-MAKING WHENEVER THEY HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN THE SAME AREA OF JURISDICTION.
PROGRAMS THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY DETERMINED BY ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE FINANCED BY THAT GOVERNMENT FROM THEIR REVENUE SOURCES.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE PROVIDED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BY OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENTS WHEN THEIR POLICIES OVER-RIDE LOCAL PRIORITIES OR IMPOSE AN ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL BURDEN ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THAT ASSISTANCE SHOULD EQUATE TO THE ADDED COST BURDEN.
THE ABILITY OF OTHER ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT TO OVER-RIDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DECISIONS MUST BE ESTABLISHED BY LEGISLATION AND MUST BE CLEARLY LIMITED TO THOSE MATTERS THAT WOULD SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECT A PROVINCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL.
The need for an appeal process recognizes that governments will not always agree on what is the public interest. However, all to often local government is being challenged by other governments through the Courts to defend its actions. Differences of opinion about the public interest should rarely be referred to the Courts - they should be resolved by those elected to determine the public interest.
CONFLICTS ON MATTERS OF PUBLIC POLICY BETWEEN ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE SETTLED BY NEGOTIATION.
Negotiation and the spirit of cooperation must underlie this and all approaches to inter-governmental relations.


VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 22, 2018) - Filo Mining Corp. ("Filo Mining or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FIL)(OMX:FIL) ("Filo Mining", "Filo", or the "Company"), reports that it has issued 6,000 common shares to Zebra Holdings and Investments S.a.r.l., in consideration of a previously announced US$2,000,000 credit facility, following acceptance of the transaction by the TSX Venture Exchange. The 6,000 issued common shares are subject to a four (4) month hold period ending on May 23, 2018.
For further details concerning the terms of the credit facility, please refer to the Company's news release dated January 12, 2018.
This information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, on January 22, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. Vancouver Time.


I agree with your responses Magno.
@Elvin do not forget that Barbarians level up faster as they get experience from the spell shrines and the chance for SP gain is very low. They use warcry spell school for free as it does not require a skill to cast.
On taking a closer look, currently 5 magi do exactly the same amount of dmg as 4 druids, so it seems ok. Their shooting attack has nothing to do with it, that is only for late game.
Edited by anl93 at 17:58, 22 Mar 2019.
How can i fix the death knight's movement speed?
And is there going to be future releases of HOMMV5.5, should we expect it?
Edited by dredknight at 22:20, 22 Mar 2019.
@anl93 there is a fix and will be available with the next release. No date to announce though.
@Magno, question from moddb - is there a limit for the dragonblood creature summoning and what is it?
Also when you drop the release article make sure to advertise the discord channel. Things are going very well there.
but ingame description says %5 to %20?
is it a bug or somethinf else?
I think you are reading a defaultstats from a2-data or data.pak, those are not used by the mod.
Edited by dredknight at 21:09, 23 Mar 2019.
Just trumped the new release all over the place.
Question from community - Can you make the new textures grass, treants, treasures etc.) optional during installation?
My question on that question is - Is this going to lead to errors when one with textures try to join a game lobby by another player without them?
Edited by anl93 at 13:52, 24 Mar 2019.
Don't know if it's bug or intented but i have both of "Legion Tier 1" and "Legion Tier 5" artifact but only tier 5 effect takes place it boosts Tier 5 creature growth but not Tier 1 creature growth.
Note1: unequipping T5 Artifact activates T1 artifact again.
Note2: giving one of the artifacts to another hero also works.
Note3: I have T1 and T5 creatures in an army.
Note4: Tried adding higher/lower tier Legion artifacts to a hero via console commands and it seems only highest Legion Tier artifact takes place.
Another thing: Creature boost seems to higher than the description says.
Edit: i'm just trying to make this great mod greater. i feel i should report.
^ It is intentional that only the highest tier legion artifact works per hero. So, one legion artifact per hero.
So, yes, you are supposed to distribute the legion artifacts to different heroes. What generally makes sense is to give the highest artifact to the highest knowledge hero. Army allocation strategies among your heroes can create exceptions to this. Governors get +5 effective knowledge but they spawn the creatures in their town, to be purchased.
Thank you @thGryphn for your wise reply may i ask two another questions then; does this rule apply only the Legion artifact set or also other sets like Cornucopia set.
Edited by Lilt at 22:13, 24 Mar 2019.
Thanks for this! I was curious about an upper limit! So one level 40 hero with 10 Dragonblood crystals would get halfway to reaching the maximum capacity.
Upgraded Magi's Magic Fist proficiency should go down to None. At current Advanced, it's way OP and pretty much negates using their ranged ability.
I found that this depends on stack size. With smaller stacks of Magi as you creep, it is often better and is useful for keeping Magi hidden behind blockers without killing your blockers like their ranged ability would.
However, once the Magi stacks grow larger near the end-game, their spells are many times weaker than their normal ranged attack, even when not counting for its piercing capability. This does, however, motivate you to put the Magi out without blockers and potentially vulnerable.
does this rule apply only the Legion artifact set or also other sets like Cornucopia set.
Also applies to resource artifacts. A hero can collect from only one artifact of a particular type of resource. There are multiple gold artifacts and he can collect from only the highest gold artifact. However, he can collect from both a gold and a non-gold artifact at the same time.
The artifact called Cornucopia is an exception, in that it doesn't count towards any particular resource and it works with any other artifact. So, for example, a hero can have the Cornucopia, the gem artifact and a gold artifact, and collect from all three.
None of this interferes with hero perks/specialties and such a hero gets the benefit of his/her perk/specialty on top of the artifacts. This is true for creature spawning as well.
I'm new to the game and series and decided to start off with the 5.5 mod instead of vanilla but I have some questions I did not see addressed in any tutorial and I was hoping for some help.
What buildings are necessary for a booming economy or what else I can do to make money in the game besides going to the hold caches?
How do stacks work in this game? The larger the stack the harder the stack hits, more hours it has and harder it is to kill or is it like AoW 3 in that stack size doesn't make a difference with how hard they hit etc?
Anyone able to throw me some pointers?
I'm sorry if this isn't this right spot for this post. If it is please let me know and I'll post correctly and pay future questions in the right spot too.
a) SL's Storm does 20 per SL damage (which goes through all kinds of resistance and protection) for 3 turns in a 4x4 (if I'm not mistaken) area, while crippling the shooters by up to 80% in that area. This is HUGE! It should be 15 per SL, with only 50 to 60% maximum ranged penalty.
b) Titan's Lightning does 40 per Titan "air" damage no mana. To give a bit more flare to the Titan, I experimented with adding Chain Lightning at Expert Level, with 18 mana points. It works great. This means they can cast Chain Lightning once a combat, unless the hero has certain skill or artifact. This also makes them Casters, which better balances them with SL being shooters. I can share with you the xdb files.
Titan storm dmg is fairly crappy and the aoe is 3, I would even give it a second cast to make it worthwhile. I do agree with the maximum penalty but anyone who allows academy to get lots of titans is probably at fault. Or has a might faction that benefits from earlygame so no problem.
Chain lightning is a bit cheesy for titans, academy has plenty of units that shoot/cast first. I believe these guys were meant for melee with lightning as backup. But if they become casters then they don't need the melee stats.
Edited by dredknight at 21:47, 25 Mar 2019.
@Magnomagus I got a few reports on the flickering issue.
Some people still experience it and it happens on DAY 1 after the game is launched.
Some more info. The issue happens only with the hardware cursor activated (the smaller one) and it does not affect the game play like the RC10 beta 4 flickering bug, which is good news.
I had that one too, hardware cursor doesn't work properly for me. I think this is completely unrelated.
Edited by dredknight at 23:15, 25 Mar 2019.
I believe you are correct as one user reported that cursor bug happen even after removing the mod and starting default ToTe.
@Magno where can one find the code for ARMG?
I saw that templates are in MMH55-Templates.pak is there any other piece of code that is important?


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Tampa man dead after Sumter head-on collision
The driver collided with a semi-truck while he attempted to pass another northbound vehicle.
Frank Stanfield / For the Daily Commercial
TARRYTOWN — A head-on collision Saturday night claimed the life of a 27-year-old Tampa man in Sumter County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver of the sport utility vehicle was traveling south on State Road 471 south of State Road 50 at 11:01 p.m., when he attempted to pass another northbound vehicle. He failed to move out of the way of a semi-tractor trailer rig driven by a 64-year-old truck driver from Jackson, Georgia.
The impact hurled the SUV onto the east shoulder where it overturned and landed on its left side. The driver died at the scene. The truck driver suffered minor injuries.
FHP did not release the names of the drivers.


Nonalcoholic beverages don't get enough attention in our city, which is a shame because there are many restaurants that serve up great mocktails.
If you're looking for a delicious libation without booze, visit Chinatown's Kissa Tanto (263 East Pender Street). This establishment is known for its signature cocktails, but its easy refreshments are just as impressive.
Go for the Pink Moon, which is made with grapefruit, ginger rose, and soda. It's sweet and refreshing and pairs well with chef Joël Watanabe's family-style plates.


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The Dr. William H. Beyer and Delores S. Beyer Scholarship for Veterans in Mathematics was established in 2012 by Dr. William (Bill) H. Beyer '52, retired associate vice president of business and finance for The University of Akron, and honors both his career at the University and his wife, Delores S. Beyer.
Bill and Delores were married on September 6, 1959, in Akron, Ohio, and moved to Blacksburg, Va. Bill completed his Ph.D. in statistics at Virginia Tech while serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. In 1961, Bill accepted a position in UA's Department of Mathematics, commencing a relationship with the University that has spanned more than 50 years. The couple has three children – Randall, Kimberly, and Kevin – all of whom earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Akron.
Originally a UA mathematics and statistics professor, Bill earned emeritus status and easily parlayed his skills into a number of administrative roles, including head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, associate dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, and ultimately associate vice president of Business and Finance. He retired from the University in 1998 with 37½ years of service.
Bill remains grateful to the University for his education and his career and continues to be part of University life, especially through his active involvement with the Association of University of Akron Retirees.
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The Dr. William H. Beyer and Delores S. Beyer Scholarship for Veterans in Mathematics was established to support full-time undergraduate veterans and currently serving military members majoring in mathematics at The University of Akron. The Mathematics Department, in collaboration with the Office of Student Financial Aid, will select recipients.


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Le Bürgerschaft est constitué de  (, MdB), élus pour une législature de quatre ans au suffrage universel direct et suivant le scrutin proportionnel de Hare.

Chaque électeur dispose d'une voix, qui lui permett de voter en faveur d'une liste de candidats présentée par un parti au niveau de la ville.

Lors du dépouillement, l'intégralité des  est répartie en fonction des voix récoltées au niveau de la ville, à condition qu'un parti ait remporté 5 % des voix au niveau du Land.

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This photo of mine, showing Karin Flack on Dalstuva here in Lofoten, just made the cover of Outside Magazine's Swedish edition.
Pretty nice, and extra fun since this came as a surprise on Karin's birthday today. Happy B-day Karin and I'm looking forward to more adventures together!


This thesis provides novel insights in the molecular mechanism of action of antagonists for the chemokine receptor CCR2. CCR2 belongs to the protein family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). It is involved in several inflammatory diseases and therefore many small molecule antagonists targeting this receptor have been developed over the years. Unfortunately all clinical candidates tested so far appeared to lack efficacy in man, which stresses the need for a better understanding of their mechanism of action. This thesis revealed three separate binding pockets throughout the transmembrane receptor domain via which CCR2 can be pharmacologically modulated. Different routes towards insurmountable antagonism of CCR2 were described, either via noncompetitive or via long residence time antagonists. These results may allow a more rational design of future antagonists, and are equally important to understand the outcomes of studies with existing CCR2 antagonists. In concert with the currently expanding insight in the structure and signalling capacities of GPCRs, the data presented in this thesis allow to better fine-tune the pharmacological modulation of the chemokine receptor CCR2, and GPCRs in general.


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Q: Operator-SDK and NewController function I am building an operator using operator-sdk version 1.2 and I do understand we have a reconciliation loop but I was referring to some GitHub repos and unable to make out the use of the NewController function. It seems that these GitHub repos are developed using operator-sdk but in operator-sdk 1.2, I do not need to find any Newcontroller function.
For example, I was referring to https://github.com/oracle/mysql-operator and looking at the https://github.com/oracle/mysql-operator/blob/master/pkg/controllers/cluster/controller.go and I do not find NewControllerfunction in the current operator-sdk.
Also, I do not understand how this MySQL operator is using kubeconfig? Do we need to pass the kubeconfig location to execute the command in the container? Is there a way to read the kube config without passing kubeconfig location in operator-sdk?

A: If you're building a new operator and you plan to use Operator SDK, then I recommend reading the official Operator SDK: Go tutorial. You can find another example of Go-based operator here.
Concerning the kube config, it will use your default location if you don't specify anything. So the default kubeconfig your kubectl is configured with.

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Home / News / Nvidia Shield to get Nintendo Wii and GameCube games in China
Nvidia Shield to get Nintendo Wii and GameCube games in China
Jason December 5, 2017	News, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, PC Leave a comment 1,393 Views
Yeah, this one's a bit of an oddball story. Seems as though the Nvidia Shield will be getting Nintendo Wii and GameCube titles, but only in China.
Nintendo goes to Nvidia
Okay so, there's a GameCube and Wii virtual console. Sort of. For the Nvidia Shield. In China. This is such a weird story, but a pretty cool one too, if you happen to be an Nvidia Shield-owning Nintendo fan in China. That's because very soon, there will be officially released Nintendo GameCube and Wii games available for the platform.
Seems like something that'd be more than a little fishy, no? But it's all on the up and up and quite official. Industry site MCV is reporting that the deal came about due to Nintendo's relations with not only Nvidia, but also iQiyi, a Chinese company. This is also only in China, and appears as though it'll stay that way. So don't get too excited about seeing PC support for these games anywhere else.
As to what games we're taking about here, they are:
Punch-Out
It's unclear what kind of a timetable we're looking at for the rollout of these, or if there'll be more in the future. Though, I imagine that if these sell well, there'll be additional titles announced… in China. Interesting to note though is that MCV also points out that Nintendo has seemingly had an emulation issue to work through. Might these titles getting ports mean that the long-awaited Switch Virtual Console might be arriving at last? Cross your fingers, as there's still no official word.
Source: MCV
Tags GameCube Nintendo NVIDIA Shield wii
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I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.
It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Blood and death. That moves me.
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
I am no more a witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink.