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The Best NFL Fantasy Football Seasons of All Time by a Wide Receiver
Robbie Dunne / Author, Matt Sisneros / Design
What does the best NFL fantasy football season ever look like? Better yet, what are the top 20 fantasy seasons of all time?
We're attempting to answer those questions during a series that takes a trip down memory lane and marvels at the best in NFL history: LaDainian Tomlinson, Marshall Faulk, Lamar Jackson, Priest Holmes, Shaun Alexander, Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey.
We'll walk you through the very best the NFL has seen at each skill position, starting with the crown jewels of any successful fantasy football season — wide receivers. Our single-game receiving records didn't include Randy Moss, but he is in the top 20 WR fantasy seasons of all time (more than once) alongside Calvin Johnson, Cooper Kupp, Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, Julio Jones and some lesser-known names.
We are referring to PPR rankings when we talk about points here, but we've also added the standard scoring format to the table listed below. Some wide receivers have also moonlighted at running back and accumulated rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, which we have included along with receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. For simplicity's sake, fumbles and other negative point deductions have not been taken into account here.
We have also added scrimmage yards to the table, though the only players that contributed a significant amount as a running back are Deebo Samuel (2021) and Tyreek Hill (2016). Deebo's 59 rushes, 365 yards and eight touchdowns in 2021 sends him to 26th on the list.
We have even broken it down into categories because we know that some players accumulate points through receptions, others with high yardage and some with touchdowns. For example, Randy Moss caught 23 touchdowns from Tom Brady and totaled 161 points in 2007 with the New England Patriots. Rice had 22 touchdowns in 1987.
You probably didn't find any of these guys on the waiver wire. And if you grabbed them on draft night, it's likely a fantasy football draft you've never forgotten.
The Top NFL Fantasy Football Seasons by Wide Receivers
20. Calvin Johnson, Detroit Lions in 2012
This might be Johnson's most dominant season. He makes the top 100 three times (his 2013 season ranks 87th) in total.
Megatron was a phenomenon in his nine seasons in Motor City. In 2012, he caught 122 passes for 1,964 yards. He only caught five touchdowns and had he caught more, we might have been talking about THE all-time best fantasy football season.
Although Kupp is credited with the best fantasy season of all time in terms of total points, it's important to note that he had the extra game in 2021. But if we look at it on a per-game basis, Johnson averaged 122.8 receiving yards per game, while Kupp averaged 114.5 per game. The 6-foot-5 receiver went over 200 yards twice during that 2012 season – against the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons.
He finished the season with 122 receptions for 1,964 yards and five touchdowns for 384.4 fantasy points.
19. Jerry Rice, San Francisco 49ers in 1993
Rice has two seasons just outside the top 20 (21st and 29th). He makes the top 100 seven times and has three seasons inside the top 20. Rice's 1993 season falls 19th on the list. It wasn't his most productive season during his multiple decade-spanning career as we'll see further down the rankings.
In 16 games that season, he was targeted 153 times and caught 98 passes for 1,503 yards and 15 touchdowns. He even added a rushing touchdown for good measure.
18. Marvin Harrison, Indianapolis Colts in 2001
Harrison makes the top 20 three times and each year it was with Peyton Manning as his quarterback. They were one of the most feared quarterback-receiver duos during their time together with the Colts. While Manning was racking up passing yards, passing touchdowns and MVP awards, Harrison was largely the benefactor.
In 2001, Harrison was six years into a Hall of Fame career and coming off back-to-back seasons with over 1,000 yards receiving. He finished 2001 with 1,524 yards and 15 touchdowns on 109 receptions. He would eventually go eight consecutive seasons with over 1,000 yards and double-digit receiving touchdowns from 1999-2006.
It was Manning's sophomore season after he was selected first overall in the 1998 NFL Draft and Harrison had just over 700 yards in that first season. But their second year together was simply incredible. Through three weeks of the season, Harrison already had 28 receptions and six touchdowns. He had a season-high 196 yards against the San Diego Chargers in Week 2, racking up 38.6 fantasy points. Harrison finished the season with 1,663 receiving yards on 115 receptions and 12 touchdowns.
It was the start of something special with Manning as the Colts flipped a 3-13 record in 1998 to a 13-3 record in 1999.
16. Torry Holt, St. Louis Rams in 2003
'The Greatest Show on Turf' is what the Rams offense was called during this era — and for good reason. But in 2003, that era was coming to a close. Kurt Warner, who went on to play for the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals, had lost his starting spot to Marc Bulger and the Rams were seemingly slowing down. Holt hadn't received the memo.
There was still plenty of juice in the old machine.
2003 turned out to be the best of his 11-year NFL career in which he totaled 920 receptions for 13,382 yards and 74 touchdowns. He had career highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns that year. The highlight of that season was his 11-catch, 200-yard game against the San Francisco 49ers.
15. Davante Adams, Green Bay Packers in 2020
This was the beginning of the end of an incredible eight-year partnership between Adams and Aaron Rodgers. While speculation mounted over Rodgers' situation in Green Bay, the Packers went and traded Adams to the Las Vegas Raiders just one year later.
The wideout had seven games in which he went over 100 yards in 2020. He also caught 18 touchdowns with three coming against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 8. Adams missed Weeks 3, 4 and 5, but still put together a great enough season to make this all-time list.
He finished with 115 receptions for 1,374 yards and 18 touchdowns on 149 targets. He also helped Rodgers win the fourth NFL MVP Award of his career. He actually had more receptions and receiving yards in 2021, but he only had 11 touchdowns to finish 22nd in the top 100.
14. Cris Carter, Minnesota Vikings in 1995
Carter played 16 seasons in the NFL. His 1995 season with Warren Moon at quarterback was his best even though the Vikings only finished with an 8-8 record. Carter had four 12-catch games and had seven more with two touchdowns. He ended up with 17 scores on his way to 361.1 fantasy points in PPR scoring.
The top three in passing yards in 1995 all came from the NFC North: Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers, Scott Mitchell from the Detroit Lions and Moon from the Vikings. Mitchell and Herman Moore had a special season and Moore appears further down this list.
Carter ended the magical 1995 season with 122 receptions, 1371 yards and the 17 TDs. It was good enough to win fantasy managers more than a few games.
13. Jerry Rice in San Francisco 49ers in 1994
Rice's run from 1993-95 was the best a wide receiver has ever had. In 1994, he broke the NFL record for most career touchdowns. It wasn't his most productive season ever, but he had 112 catches and five games with 100 yards or more. He had seven catches for 169 yards and two touchdowns in the opener, breaking the record for career touchdown receptions on a 69-yard pass from Steve Young against the Los Angeles Raiders.
San Francisco lost four of its starters on the offensive line to injury in 1994 and was thrashed by the Philadelphia Eagles 40-8 at one point in the season. But the 49ers bounced back and won the Super Bowl after dispatching the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers in the playoffs. Rice would finish his career with 14 1,000-yard seasons.
It's incredible to think that Johnson only appeared in two playoff games during his eight-year career. But in 2011, he was one of the most difficult matchups in the NFL. Johnson caught 96 passes for 1,681 yards and 16 touchdowns, finishing with 361.2 fantasy points.
Then, in the 2011 wild-card game, Megatron caught 12 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns against the New Orleans Saints. The Lions still lost 45-28. Ugh.
11. Julio Jones, Atlanta Falcons in 2015
Jones had 203 targets from Matt Ryan in 2015, which ranks behind only Herman Moore (1995), Marvin Harrison (2002) and Calvin Johnson (2012) on this list. He caught 136 of them for 1,871 yards and eight touchdowns.
Jones had three seasons in Atlanta with over 1,500 yards and this was the closest he ever got to the 2,000 mark.
10. Michael Thomas, New Orleans Saints in 2019
If it weren't for the injuries, we might be talking about Thomas as one of the best receivers that ever played the game. He started his career with four 1,000 yards seasons in a row.
But Thomas' best season came In 2019 when Drew Brees found him for an NFL-record 149 receptions with 1,725 yards and nine touchdowns.
9. Herman Moore, Detroit Lions in 1995
Barry Sanders was not the only star in Detroit in 1995. Moore finished with 1,686 yards and 14 touchdowns on 123 receptions with the aforementioned Scott Mitchell at quarterback that season. At the time, Moore broke Cris Carter's single-season record for receptions in an NFL season.
Moore also had seven catches for 133 yards and a touchdown in the wild-card game, but the Lions defense couldn't slow the Eagles in a 58-37 loss.
8. Isaac Bruce, St. Louis Rams in 1995
This was before the team's offense was nicknamed 'The Greatest Show on Turf' behind Bruce, Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk and Torry Holt.
But in 1995, it was all about Bruce. Faulk, Holt and Warner had yet to arrive in St. Louis and Bruce finished with 119 catches for 1,781 yards and 13 touchdowns. And that was with aging quarterbacks Chris Miller and Mark Rypien throwing to him.
7. Randy Moss, Minnesota Vikings in 2003
Moss really was like nothing we had ever seen before. He used his rare combination of size, speed and athleticism to put up five multi-touchdown games against the 49ers (three), Seattle Seahawks, Falcons and Kansas City Chiefs in 2003.
Moss finished his career with 10 1,000-yard seasons, but 2003 was one of his best with 111 catches for 1,632 yards and 17 touchdowns.
6. Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers in 2014
Brown's production during the 2014 and 2015 seasons was massive. In 2014, he went for 1,698 yards on 129 receptions and 13 touchdowns. It was just consistent excellence from the wide receiver while working with Ben Roethlisberger.
Brown had touchdown catches in nine of his 16 games and never had fewer than 72 yards. He also finished with eight 100-yard efforts.
Brown was more boom-or-bust in 2015. He had a couple of quiet performances, but he also had a monster 195-yard game against the 49ers, a 284-yard showing against the Oakland Raiders and 189- and 187-yard performances against the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns.
He finished the season with the fifth-most single-season receiving yards of all time with 1,834. He also had 136 receptions and 10 touchdowns.
4. Marvin Harrison, Indianapolis Colts in 2002
This was the peak of the Manning-Harrison connection. Harrison caught 143 passes for 1,722 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2002.
Though he had seasons with more touchdowns, Harrison set career highs in receptions and receiving yards.
3. Randy Moss, New England Patriots in 2007
It's our old friend again — fantasy football legend Randy Moss. In 2007, Moss caught 23 touchdown passes, which is a single-season record that doesn't look like it's going to be broken any time soon. If you just forget about his catches and yards, he would have averaged 8.6 points per game on touchdowns alone (138 points in 16 games).
But of course, we can't forget about the receptions, of which there were 98 — almost another 100 points for your fantasy team. He also went for 1,493 yards — another 149.3 fantasy points. No wonder Tom Brady and the Patriots went 16-0 during the regular season.
2. Jerry Rice, San Francisco 49ers in 1995
Some call Rice the best wide receiver of all time, and his 1995 season was one for the ages. He finished with 122 receptions for 1,848 yards and 15 touchdowns. That's 115.5 yards per game, which is good enough for third on this list behind Calvin Johnson's 2012 season (122.8) and Julio Jones in 2015 (116.9).
He finished the season with 24.8 points per game, so unless you completely messed up the rest of your draft, Rice would have guided you to a fantasy football title even if the 49ers couldn't repeat as Super Bowl champs. The most memorable performance that year came in Week 16 when Rice and Steve Young connected 14 times for 289 yards versus the Vikings.
1. Cooper Kupp, Los Angeles Rams in 2021
We realize that Kupp had the benefit of an extra game in the first year of the NFL's shift to a 17-game season, but consider this: Rice would have needed 31.2 PPR points to surpass Kupp if he would have been given a 17th game in 1995. Possible? Yes, but it would have taken a huge performance to get it done and Kupp's 25.6 PPR points per game is the highest average on this list.
With the extra game in 2021, Kupp took full advantage with Matthew Stafford at quarterback. He finished with 145 receptions for 1,947 yards and 16 touchdowns. He was a menace after the catch, racking up 846 yards. That was good enough for 5.8 yards after the catch per reception — second on this list behind only Rice in 1994.
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Moscow Subway Head Fired Over Deadly Subway Derailment
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The head of Moscow Metro Ivan Besedin was fired on Tuesday following the tragic derailment of a train inside a tunnel on July 15, which killed 23 people and wounded more than 160.
MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The head of Moscow Metro Ivan Besedin was fired on Tuesday following the tragic derailment of a train inside a tunnel on July 15, which killed 23 people and wounded more than 160.
"The tragedy wiped out the huge amount of work that has been carried out over the last few years. In line with this, the head of the metro, Besedin, is fired from his position. I name Dmitry Pegov in his place," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said during a government meeting Tuesday.
According to the mayor, the new head of the capital's subway will have a tough task of returning the trust of Muscovites to the metro system and "to actively prove that the subway remains the safest means of transport."
The fatal accident took place on July 15 during the morning rush hour as three cars of a subway train derailed inside a tunnel between the Molodezhnaya and Slavyansky Bulvar stations on the dark blue Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
The derailment left 161 injured and 23 dead, according to the Russian Health Ministry. More than 100 people are still in hospitals being treated for their injuries.
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Middle-of-the-night insomnia (MOTN) is characterized by having difficulty returning to sleep after waking up during the night or very early in the morning. This kind of insomnia (sleeplessness) is different from initial or sleep-onset insomnia, which consists of having difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of sleep.

The disrupted sleep patterns caused by middle-of-the-night insomnia make many sufferers of the condition complain of fatigue the following day. Excessive daytime sleepiness is reported nearly two times higher by individuals with nocturnal awakenings than by people who sleep through the night.

Sleep research conducted in the 1990s showed that such waking up during the night may be a natural sleep pattern, rather than a form of insomnia.  If interrupted sleep (called "biphasic sleeping" or "bimodal sleep") is perceived as normal and not referred to as "insomnia", less distress is caused and a return to sleep usually occurs after about one hour.

Causes
 Pain
 Pregnancy
 Anxiety
 Difficulty breathing / sleep apnea
 Urge to urinate or defecate
 Hunger or thirst
 Illness
 Shift work
 Erratic sleep schedule

Nocturnal awakenings are more common in older patients and have been associated with depressive disorders, chronic pain, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity, alcohol consumption, hypertension, gastroesophageal reflux disease, heart disease, menopause, prostate problems, and bipolar disorders.
Gastro-intestinal discomfort arising from food that has not been fully cooked, is also a contributor to middle of the night insomnia.
Nocturnal awakenings can be mistaken as shift work disorder.

Treatment
Middle-of-the-night insomnia is often treated with medication, although currently Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate sublingual tablets) is the only Food and Drug Administration-approved medication specifically for treating MOTN awakening. Because most medications usually require 6–8 hours of sleep to avoid lingering effects the next day, these are often used every night at bedtime to prevent awakenings. Medication may not be prescribed in some cases, especially if the cause turns out to be the patient ingesting too much fluid during the day or just before they go to sleep.

Sleep restriction therapy and stimulus control therapy as described in insomnia have shown significance in treating middle of night insomnia.
Some studies have shown that zaleplon, which has a short elimination half-life, may be suitable for middle-of-the-night administration because it does not impair next day performance.

Prevalence
Waking up in the middle of the night, or nocturnal awakening, is the most frequently reported insomnia symptom, with approximately 35% of Americans over 18 reporting waking up three or more times per week. Of those who experience nocturnal awakenings, 43% report difficulty in resuming sleep after waking, while over 90% report the condition persisting for more than six months. Greater than 50% contend with MOTN conditions for more than five years.

A 2008 "Sleep in America" poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that 42% of respondents awakened during the night at least a few nights a week, and 29% said they woke up too early and couldn't get back to sleep. Other clinical studies have reported between 25% and 35% of people experience nocturnal awakenings at least three nights a week.

See also
Biphasic and polyphasic sleep

References

Insomnia

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Is a TV Falling Onto Your Child Right Now?
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In other words, if you lived in a town of 18,000 people, and you were the only town in America allowed to have TVs, everyone in town would be struck by a falling TV at some point during the year. Is that what you want for your children? I don't think so. So please, enclose your TV in a locked steel cage that is secured to the wall by sturdy bolts. Or, better yet, just toss your TV right out the window.


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Independence Day () in North Macedonia is celebrated on 8 September. It has been a national holiday since 1991, when, following a referendum for Independence, SR Macedonia gained its independence from Yugoslavia, where it was a federal state, and became a sovereign parliamentary democracy.

History
On 8 September 1991, over 95.5% of the 75.8% turnout voters on the Referendum voted for the independence of the Republic Macedonia. "Dear citizens of Macedonia, allow me tonight to you and to all citizens of Macedonia to congratulate the free, sovereign and independent Macedonia!" - said the President of the then Republic of Macedonia Kiro Gligorov on the evening of 8 September, addressing the citizens who spontaneously gathered at Macedonia Square in the capital Skopje, to celebrate the successful referendum.

The people's will for an independent state was confirmed with the Declaration of the referendum results on 18 September 1991, by the first multi-party Macedonian Parliament. Finally, on 25 September 1991, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Macedonian Parliament. Next, the new Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia was adopted on 17 November 1991.

Due to Greek opposition to a new state containing the term 'Macedonia', the sovereign status of the state was not recognized until 8 April 1993, with an acclamation of the UN General Assembly, when  Republic of Macedonia was admitted as 181st full-fledged member in the world organisation under the provisional reference the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Celebration
Independence Day as a national holiday is a non-working day in North Macedonia. The President and the Government of North Macedonia are organizing various festivities. The President traditionally awards the Order 8-September. People traditionally go to picnics in famous picnic places. The Macedonian Olympic Committee organizes sports picnics, while the Motorcycle Federation of North Macedonia organizes the International Motorcycle Rally "Macedonia 2008" in Skopje.

All Macedonian embassies, consulates and representative offices organize cocktails and festivities in the countries where they are located.

References

September observances
Public holidays in North Macedonia
Macedonia
Observances in North Macedonia


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var cvs = document.getElementById("Snake");
var ctx = cvs.getContext("2d");

//box unit
var box = 32;

// Background and styling

var ground = new Image();
ground.src = "images/ground.png";

var foodImg = new Image();
foodImg.src = "images/food.png";

// Snake Array

var snake = [];
snake[0] = {
    x: 9 * box,
    y: 10 * box
}

// create the food

let food = {
    x: Math.floor(Math.random() * 17 + 1) * box,
    y: Math.floor(Math.random() * 15 + 3) * box
}

//Event Listener to control the snake.

var d;

document.addEventListener("keydown", direction);

function direction(event) {

    if ((event.key == 'ArrowLeft' || event.key == 'a' || event.key == 'A') && d != "RIGHT") {
        d = "LEFT";
    } else if ((event.key == 'ArrowUp' || event.key == 'w' || event.key == 'W') && d != "DOWN") {
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    }
}

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function collision(head, array) {
    for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        if (head.x == array[i].x && head.y == array[i].y) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

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function draw() {

    ctx.drawImage(ground, 0, 0);

    for (var i = 0; i < snake.length; i++) {
        ctx.fillStyle = "white";
        ctx.fillRect(snake[i].x, snake[i].y, box, box);
    }

    ctx.drawImage(foodImg, food.x, food.y);

    // Snake head position
    var snakeX = snake[0].x;
    var snakeY = snake[0].y;

    //Snake direction
    if (d == "LEFT") snakeX -= box;
    if (d == "UP") snakeY -= box;
    if (d == "RIGHT") snakeX += box;
    if (d == "DOWN") snakeY += box;

    //Snake eats the food
    if (snakeX == food.x && snakeY == food.y) {
        food = {
            x: Math.floor(Math.random() * 17 + 1) * box,
            y: Math.floor(Math.random() * 15 + 3) * box
        }

    } else {
        //remove snake tail
        snake.pop();
    }

    var updatehead = {
        x: snakeX,
        y: snakeY
    }

    //game over rule

    if (snakeX < box || snakeX > 17 * box || snakeY < 3 * box || snakeY > 17 * box || collision(updatehead, snake)) {
        clearInterval(game);
    }

    snake.unshift(updatehead);
}
// Call draw function

let game = setInterval(draw, 100);
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A: The first thing you'll want to do is have your button call a function. You can do with that with onclick:
<button id="retry" type="button" onclick="restart()">RESTART</button>

Here I've named the function restart but you can call it whatever you want. Next, you'll want to define a function restart in your code:
function restart() {
    // Your code will go in here
}

The final step is to add anything inside the restart() function that you might need to reset the game. For example, you might want to reset the head position:
// Just like you did at the top of your code, except
// we don't need "var" again
snake = [];
snake[0] = {
    x: 9 * box,
    y: 10 * box
}

You'll also need to restart the interval since you clear it when they lose:
// Just in case they hit the button while the game is in-progress!
clearInterval(game)
// Now create the interval again (like you did at the bottom of your code):
game = setInterval(draw, 100)

You may also want to reset things such as food position and direction.
Side note, if you want to clean up your code a bit, it's probably worth using the restart() function both for restarting, but also starting the game! This way you won't need to have a bunch of duplicate code that initializes the snake, food, direction, etc... Instead, you can just initialize the variables at the top and then at the bottom of your code, call restart() to immediately start the game.

A: You could try adding this to your page...
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Could This be Serena's Best Year?
By Editors of Fierce | August 11, 2015
Photo: Norma Joy
Undeniably fierce and fabulous, Serena Williams is having a life-altering year. At 33 (a virtual senior citizen in the world of tennis), Williams is still at the top of her game. She has won three grand slam tournaments in the past six months. If she takes the title in September's U.S. Open, she will become — without question — one of the greatest athletes of her time. She has held four grand slam titles before, but never in a single year.
In the August 10-23, 2015 issue of New York Magazine, Williams also reminds us that when she's not wiping out 20-year-olds on the court, she's busy with her Signature Statement Clothing line, following the example of big sister Venus, owner of the EleVen line; exactly what you would expect from the women who brought black lace to the world of tennis whites.
Is Williams considering retirement? Reminiscing about her fabled athleticism as a child, she teases, "is this over?" referring to her legendary career on the court. Clearly, she has not made a decision yet, but she suggests that when the time comes, it will be O. K. because she has already planned her next act.
Beauty, grace, and achievement aside, Williams also talks about the racism and sexism that continues to dog her no matter how successful she is on the court and her new approach to dealing with it. A blond tennis player, for example, Maria Sharapova, makes more in endorsement money even though Williams has beat her 18 times
Described as "masculine," called a man and several other things that are anything but feminine, Williams says she now takes a softer approach to her critics. "I don't want to think about it," she says, "I don't want to dwell in the past." And why should she? Her future, whether as a designer, entrepreneur, or seemingly ageless tennis pro, continues to look bright.
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Melbourne's Streaker Boats has been appointed the sole Victorian dealer for Aussie-built Lewis Ski Boats. Lewis says its name has been at the forefront of Australian water skiing since the '30s, and today claims to use one of the strongest hull construction techniques in the industry.
Streaker Boats director Leon Savage said he was thrilled with the appointment.
"Lewis Ski Boats is deservedly one of the benchmark brand names in the Australian leisure boat business," Savage said.
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"There are competitive skiboats that are way more expensive and others that are pretty basic and cheap," Savage added. "The Lewis Eclipse delivers great value for money with thousands of hours of safe boating ahead."
To celebrate the appointment, Streaker Boats is offering an introductory package consisting of a highly optioned Lewis Eclipse as a complete turnkey package on a tandem trailer for $65,490.
More models from the Lewis Ski Boats range are expected to join the range early next year.
Streaker Boats is a leading Melbourne marine retailer, and is an authorised dealers for Quintrex, Streaker, Lewis Ski Boats, Yamaha outboards and Wave Runners. The company is one of the few Yamaha dealers in Australia that has been awarded the status of Platinum dealer.
Visit www.streakerboats.com.au or www.lewisboats.com.au for more information.


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Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101
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Helen LaFrance, a self-taught artist whose vibrant and intimate "memory paintings" of scenes from her childhood in rural Kentucky brought her renown late in life, died on Nov. 22 at a nursing home in Mayfield, Ky. She was 101.
Her death was announced by Wanda Whittemore-Stubblefield, a longtime friend.
In glowing colors and sharp brush strokes, Ms. LaFrance painted church picnics and river baptisms; tobacco barns; backyard gardens with geese and children racing through them; kitchens with bushels of apples and jars of preserves shining like stained-glass windows. Her exuberant scenes of rural life invited comparisons to Grandma Moses, Horace Pippin and other regional painters who drew from their memories to tell stories about a vanished time and place.
"It's just a way of reliving it all again," Ms. LaFrance told a television interviewer in 2010. The next year she told another interviewer, "If I do something somebody likes, well, I'm satisfied because somebody liked what I did, but I don't think it's important."
The author Kathy Moses Shelton, who, with the gallerist Bruce Shelton wrote "Helen LaFrance: Folk Art Memories" (2011), called Ms. LaFrance "an American treasure."
"She's a self-taught Black artist who paints her memories of a particular time and place," Ms. Moses Shelton said in a phone interview. "She grew up under Jim Crow. She was 10 when the Great Depression hit.
"Her art doesn't reflect the pain of that era," Ms. Moses Shelton continued. "Instead what comes through is joy, and the values of family and work. Her family owned and farmed their own land when sharecropping was the norm, and they were self-sufficient and lived in dignity. Her blend of personal experience, Black American culture and heritage and her skill all come into play to make her work unlike anybody else's. She's an authentic American voice."
Helen LaFrance Orr was born on Nov. 2, 1919, in Graves County, Ky., the second of four daughters. Her parents, James Franklin Orr and Lillie May (Ligon) Orr, known as Bud and Hon, grew tobacco and corn.
Helen did not attend much school. Her parents instructed her in reading and math, and her mother taught her to paint, guiding her hand and helping her mix colors from dandelions, berries and Bluette laundry detergent. She and her sisters worked in their family's fields, and Helen drew after her chores were done. She recalled loving the smell of the crayons her mother would bring her.
Ms. LaFrance lived and worked most of her life no more than 10 miles from her birthplace. She worked in a tobacco barn and in a hospital as a cook. She also made custom whiskey decanters for a local ceramics company and worked as a retoucher in a photography studio. She owned property, commercial spaces and land.
She always painted, but she did not do it full time until the 1980s, when she started selling her work to neighbors and at local art shows and country fairs. She also made wood carvings and quilts. She lived in a double-wide mobile home and used an old school bus that was parked on her property as a studio before moving into a house in Mayfield.
Gus Van Sant Sr., a Mayfield native and the father of the filmmaker, discovered her there in the early 1990s; about a decade earlier, his wife, Betty had bought him a Helen LaFrance painting of a tobacco barn, and the couple looked her up when they moved back to Kentucky.
Mr. Van Sant was taken with her work and concerned that she was not getting the value she deserved from sales of her paintings. He and a friend reached out to folk art galleries and institutions around the country on her behalf, and helped her set up a bank account so she would be paid directly. Mr. Shelton also began selling her work and last year made a short documentary film about her life.
In 2011, Ms. LaFrance received Kentucky's Folk Art Heritage Award. Oprah Winfrey, Bryant Gumbel and the collector Beth Rudin DeWoody have all bought her work, which is in the permanent collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in Owensboro, Ky.
Soft-spoken, modest and religious, Ms. LaFrance was not given to long expositions about her life or her motivations. She liked to say, when pressed for details, "Some things should be left alone."
She was married five times: twice to Elvis Lynn (back to back, as Ms. Whittemore-Stubblefield, said) and once each to Lynn Rhybon, Burt McCampbell and A.D. Whittemore, a preacher. All the marriages ended in divorce. She leaves no immediate survivors.
She was extremely self-sufficient, Ms. Whittemore-Stubblefield said, and not "the soothing homemaker type." She said that when Ms. LaFrance left her last husband, the preacher, she waited until he had driven to his church on a Sunday, packed up her belongings, and was gone by the time he returned.
She once told an interviewer: "Think twice, say it once. If you think you're right, know you're right before you do something. If you don't know what you're doing, ask God about it."
In addition to domestic and rural scenes, Ms. LaFrance made religious paintings of visions inspired by her knowledge of the Bible. That work was both terrifying and ecstatic, and markedly different in technique from her normal output, more Georgia O'Keeffe than Grandma Moses. While she was happy to elaborate on a painting of her local church's homecoming picnic, describing how families would come once a year from all over the country, or to tell a tale about getting the spins from chewing tobacco, prompted by a scene she had painted of tobacco drying in a barn, she kept quiet about her religious work.
Mr. Shelton once brought a friend, Eugene Collins, a contractor and businessman from Nashville, to visit her. When he saw her school-bus studio, which she had long complained about — it was as hot as an oven, she said — he promised to return and build her a proper one, in exchange for some of the religious paintings. "Just keep painting," he told her. He made her a spacious, airy building, setting it onto a rise on her land.
Ms. LaFrance worked on more than one canvas at time, a method she developed late in life that allowed her to keep painting instead of waiting for a piece to dry. Mr. Van Sant said she extended her practice further, onto tiny canvases, as a way of using up the paint on her brushes.
"They were really terrific," he said. "I remember one was a kitchen with ornate wallpaper, maybe four by four inches, and Helen said she was selling it to a person she knew. I asked her what she was going to charge.
"When she would ponder something, she would alway let out this huge sigh. 'Ooh,' she said. Big sigh. 'I was thinking about $20.' I said, 'Helen, don't you let her get out of here without at least $100.'
"Later," he continued, "I asked her how much she had sold it for, and there was the sigh. 'Ooh,' she said. '$99. I couldn't say $100.'"
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Chopper is a 2000 Australian crime drama film written and directed by Andrew Dominik, in his feature directorial debut, based on the autobiographical books by criminal turned author Mark "Chopper" Read. The film stars Eric Bana as the title character and co-stars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Kate Beahan and David Field. The film follows Read's life and time in prison. The film grossed $3.9 million worldwide and received positive reviews. It has since garnered a cult following.

Plot
In 1978 Victoria, Australia, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rushes across the line and stabs Keithy multiple times.

The Painters and Dockers put out a $10,000 contract on Mark. Mark conscripts Bluey Barnes and Jimmy Loughnan to help him lead a siege on the Painters and Dockers. Wanting out of the suicide mission, Jimmy shanks Mark. Jimmy slashes his own arm so that he can claim self-defense. Mark recovers and is returned to a separate cell from Bluey and Jimmy. It's revealed that Mark is serving a 16 ½ year sentence for the attempted abduction of a judge in order to give Jimmy Loughnan freedom.

Mark meets with the Prison Board to negotiate a change of prisons for security. The board declines, so Mark has his ears cut off so that he can relocate to a mental health wing where he serves the remainder of his sentence.

When Mark is released from prison, he reunites with his old girlfriend Tanya. While out at a club, Mark flies into a jealous rage and fires several shots with a handgun. Back at Tanya's house, Mark finds her on the phone with  Neville Bartos (Vince Colosimo). He physically abuses both Tanya and her mother.
Mark goes to Neville's house and learns that Neville supplies most of the cocaine to the western suburbs of Melbourne and is very wealthy. When Neville refuses to give Mark money, Mark shoots him in the abdomen.

Mark goes to Jimmy Loughnan's apartment that he shares with his pregnant fiancée, Mandy, and their young daughter. Mark reveals that he's working for the police, stating that he has a green light to shoot criminals and that he shot Neville. Mark tells Jimmy that he heard about the contracts out on his life and that Jimmy was meant to do them, and then holds a gun to Jimmy's head. Eventually Mark apologizes and gives money to Jimmy.

In a parking lot at the Bojangles, Sammy the Turk, another affiliate, states that he wants to show Mark something. Mark produces a Sawed-off 410 Shotgun and after a brief argument, Mark shoots him in the eye. Mandy witnesses the murder from behind a parked car and tells Jimmy.

Mandy turns crown witness against Mark for the murder of Sammy the Turk. It's revealed that Sammy took Mark out to the car park for Jimmy to cash in on the contract against Mark, but unknowingly took him to the wrong car park. Mark beats the murder charge but is convicted of malicious wounding of Neville Bartos, and is sentenced to 5 years.

Cast

Production
Read himself suggested that Bana play him, after seeing the actor in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal. Bana spent two days living with Read to help him practice for the role, and many of Read's friends, enemies, and old associates were interviewed. Several of Bana's meetings with Read can be viewed in the DVD Special Features.

The biggest production difficulty was being allowed to use the Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria for the shooting. The prison was being closed down and while the negotiations were underway, the funding for production was delayed. This put off the starting of the shoot. Some extras were hired from former inmates and tattoo parlours.

To show the sterility of the prison and to contrast it with the world that Chopper encounters after leaving prison 16 years later, the production was split into two. The first part, filmed at the H Division of Pentridge Prison, one of the actual prisons that Chopper frequented, was as plain and sterile as could be and all the scenes in the second part, taking place in 1986, were overly coloured to achieve a paranoid and agoraphobic atmosphere called "visual overload" by the director Andrew Dominik. This was attained by lighting, choice of film stock used and colours chosen for set decoration. Part one of the production ran from 3 May until 26 May with part two continuing from 28 June until 21 July 2000. The month long break enabled Bana to put on the extra weight necessary to play the older Read.

Reception
Chopper was received with positive reviews. Review-based rating site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 76% "Fresh" rating from 80 critics, with its critical consensus stating "Eric Bana's performance as the charming but twisted Chopper is the highlight of this disturbing portrait about Australia's notorious author/criminal."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4, praising Bana for his performance, saying, "He has a quality no acting school can teach and few actors can match." Margaret Pomeranz for SBS gave the film four-and-a-half stars out of five, commenting that what Dominik "achieved is extraordinary." David Stratton, in the same review, remarked "there's no doubting the intelligence of Andrew Dominik's direction" and declared Bana's performance as "astonishing."

Read later praised Bana's performance on the 20 to 1 episode Great Aussie Films, where Chopper came 17th.

Awards and nominations

Music
"Don't Fence Me In" – Frankie Laine
"Black  and Blue" – Chain
"Sweet Love" – Renee Geyer
"Bad Boy for Love" and "Stuck on You" – Rose Tattoo
"Forever Now" – Cold Chisel
"Release the Bats" – The Birthday Party
"Senile Dementia" – The Saints
"Ever Lovin' Man" – The Loved Ones

See also
Cinema of Australia

References

External links

BBC interview with Eric Bana on his role in Chopper.

2000 films
2000s biographical films
2000 black comedy films
2000 crime films
2000s crime comedy-drama films
2000s prison drama films
Australian black comedy films
Australian crime comedy-drama films
Biographical films about gangsters
Films based on biographies
Films based on works by Australian writers
Films about organised crime in Australia
Films directed by Andrew Dominik
Films set in Melbourne
Films set in the 1980s
Films set in the 1990s
Films shot in Melbourne
Organised crime in Melbourne
Prison comedy films
Australian vigilante films
2000 directorial debut films
2000 comedy films
2000s English-language films


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Audiobooks, Books, Mystery/Thriller · July 28, 2020 · 8 Comments
Outsider by Linda Castillo / fantastic thriller series set in Amish country
Outsider by Linda Castillo
Thanks to Goodreads I know exactly when I read my first Kate Burkholder novel – August 18, 2012. I've been faithfully following the character's journey and this amazing series for 8 years. And it never gets old.
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa.
Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating together as rookies with the Columbus Division of Police. But the reunion takes an ominous turn when Kate learns Gina is wanted for killing an undercover officer. Gina claims she's innocent, that she was framed by corrupt officers who want her gone because she was about to turn them in for wrongdoing.
Kate calls upon state agent John Tomasetti for help and with a blizzard bearing down, they delve into the incident. But no one wants to talk about what happened the night Gina allegedly gunned down a fellow cop. Even Tomasetti is stonewalled, his superior telling him in no uncertain terms to back off.
With whisperings of corruption and the threat of rogue cops seeking revenge, Kate and Gina hunker down at Adam Lengacher's farm. As Kate gets closer to the truth, a killer lies in wait. When violence strikes, Kate must confront a reality that changes everything she thought she knew not only about friendship, but the institution to which she's devoted her life.
For anyone who hasn't read or heard about this series yet, and if you love mysteries and thrillers, you should really check it out – because it's UNIQUE!!!!
What drew me in from the very beginning was the idea of the main character growing up Amish. But after being shunned/expelled she came back to the Amish/English community to serve as their police chief.
I think I came across this author after I listened to an interview with her, and was immediately drawn into the original plot. A plot which was set in a community and area I've always wanted to visit. Interestingly enough, I actually can understand some of the Pennsylvania Dutch, since its origin is German/Swiss. But hearing the different pronunciation always fascinates me, a reason why I choose to listen to the audiobook.
About the series:
From the very beginning I loved the character of Kate Burkholder. She is strong, has a can-do attitude, knows how to safe herself in sticky situations, and is not afraid to do what needs to be done. She has a small but great team as her police force, people she can rely on. And she even found a love interest in John Tomasetti, an agent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Over the years their relationship has strengthened and grown, but overall it remains a very small part of the books.
Each story focuses on a murder case, with police procedural elements. Some books are more emotional than others, but they are always unique in their settings.
I started the series on audiobook, and I usually stay with the same format as I go along. Although I've read one or two books the regular way, I still prefer the audiobook. Just to hear the familiar voice of the narrator, and the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.
Outsider (the 12th book of this series) delivered as expected. This time the story focused on a female officer, a former colleague of Kate's and the repercussions of getting into bed with corrupt and dirty cops.
The story was as always captivating. Even nail biting at times. And it was over way too quickly.
So, if you haven't picked up this series yet, give it a try. Because I don't think you'll regret it. The series gets actually better with each book, AND just a little bonus, the first book was turned into a Lifetime movie.
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Jules_Writes says
You've caught my attention – I'm off to add the series to my wishlist!
It's definitely a series that's worth checking out, especially if you like your stories to be different. 😀
stephaniesbookreviews says
I just finished this one recently and enjoyed it, too. Great review!
aww – a fellow Kate Burkholder reader 😀
So happy I'm not alone enjoying this series.
Emer @alittlehazebookblog says
OOOH this series does sound like it has a great premise ☺ Glad you've found a series to love so much ??❤
The backstory of her being Amish, and how each case happens in the Amish community makes this series something different – and I love anything that's different 😀
theorangutanlibrarian says
ooh this definitely sounds unique! Really want to check it out!
The setting makes this book one of a kind. I've never had the pleasure of visiting the Amish, but this series gives me at least a little glimpse into their community. Can't recommend it enough.
← Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier / thrilling novel with great twists
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender / absolutely adorable and SO GOOD!!! →


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Myst Online to be closed
Written by Joe Martin
February 6, 2008 | 07:25
Tags: #closure #mmo #myst #online #termination #uru
Just a matter of days before the one-year anniversary of it's launch, Myst Online: Uru Live is being closed down.
The game is being closed down by GameTap, probably because it just isn't financially viable any longer. In a genre where everybody either plays World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings: Online, it must have been hard for Myst Online to find a sustainable niche.
The news was given to fans by an apologetic Ricardo Sanchez, GameTap's Vice President of Content and Creative Director, who announced that fans have 60 days left before the servers are shut down.
Sanchez was clear that Cyan Worlds, the game's developer, will remain a valued partner with GameTap though and that new projects are in the works.
"Cyan is still a very valued partner of GameTap, we are on excellent terms, and we look forward to continuing our relationship in the future," said Ricardo Sanchez.
So - that's it. All your grinding, head-scratching and effort will come to a fruitless end and your characters will disappear like...tears in the rain.
Were you a long-time Myst fan, or were you oblivious even to the existence of such a game? Let us know in the forums.
Cyan's Obduction set for July launch
Includes Oculus Rift support.
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Myst to return as TV series, tie-in game
'A true transmedia project,' says Cyan.
Myst MMO Uru Live goes open source
Cyan Worlds has announced that the Myst-based MMO, Uru Live, will be going totally open source in the future.


Professor Lijuan Yuan, of the College of Veterinary Medicine, received a Graduate School outstanding faculty mentor award.
Lijuan Yuan, associate professor of virology and immunology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has received the Graduate School's 2017 Faculty Outstanding Mentor Award.
Sponsored by the Graduate School, the annual award recognizes excellence in mentoring graduate students. Students nominate recipients, and one professor from each college receives an award.
Yuan, a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, is an expert on rotaviruses, which are a common cause of acute dehydrating diarrhea in infants and young children and other young animals worldwide, and noroviruses, which cause most of the epidemic nonbacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis around the world.
Her laboratory is developing a gnotobiotic pig model of human enteric virus infection and diseases and is studying mechanisms of probiotics' immune modulating effects on innate and adaptive immunity induced by virus infection and vaccines in human rotavirus infection and disease using an animal model. She also studies norovirus pathogenesis and immunity and evaluates norovirus vaccines and potential anti-norovirus drugs.
Yuan's students called her a remarkable academic mentor and a compassionate individual who not only shares her joy in her work with students, but encourages their own passion for science. Students said she has the ability to take a student with little experience in the field and help them become well-trained researchers. She also encourages students to develop a good work-life balance. Through her mentoring, her students said, they have learned to become mentors themselves.
Yuan earned her bachelor's degrees from Beijing University, her master's degree from the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing, and her Ph.D. from Ohio State University.


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How Much Data Does PUBG Mobile Use Per Month?
By Busayo Last updated Jun 28, 2019
Let's face it: PUBG Mobile is one of the biggest battle royale games to ever release on mobile, accounting up to more than 10 million players worldwide every month. If you never played PUBG before and want to take a piece of that battle royale pie that everyone's biting out of, PUBG Mobile delivers almost the same experience as its PC counterpart. The only differences in the mobile are the lesser resource usage including graphics and rendering, RAM consumption and a frame lock at a maximum of 60 fps
Yes, it sounds like a dream come true: PC-quality gaming that you can experience on the go anywhere at any time. However, it's always natural to worry about one thing besides the overall game performance on your phone: how much mobile data does the game eat?
We'll start off with the general data usage and then break down on how it all happens. We will conclude the article with a short comparison between PUBG and PUBG Lite and PUBG Mobile.
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To be quite frank with you, PUBG Mobile never accumulates that much data at all. No, you don't need a high-profile phone carrier so you can play the game smoothly via mobile internet. Even if you have a cheap phone carrier, you can play this game for hours on end without getting paranoid about paying more than usual on your monthly phone bill.
Also, the game servers on PUBG Mobile uses very little resources in order to be mobile-friendly and easily accessible to the masses of both casual players and hardcore gamers. If you check out forums about the game, you can easily see that players are happy with the low data consumption.
On average, you spend around 20 to 30 MB per hour; that's 2 full matches within the hour. So, as for calculations, let's say you consume 4 to 8 hours with the game – so that's already 80 to 120 MB. Total it for 30 days, given that you play on a daily basis, and that's around 2.4 GB to 3.6 GB. And that's only if you're fully invested in the game. If you play it casually like just around an hour or playing an average of around 5 matches in a week, mobile data consumption is obviously significantly lower.
And yes, even if you use a high-powered PC with an ultrawide screen, the results are still the same, given that you're using a mobile hotspot as a connection.
Surprising, isn't it? For a triple-A game, you'd think the numbers would be higher but this is good enough for the casual player.
Is it the graphics? Your internet speed? Your phone in general? Nope. In gaming, data consumption means everything in order to play an online game properly. We call this the netcode or net optimization.
This means that no matter your internet speed, no matter your phone's processing power and gaming prowess and no matter where you are living in, it's all on the game's local servers and your ping.
According to an article from PCGamer, "When a PC or console 'pings' the server, then it sends an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request to the game server, which then answers this request by returning an ICMP echo reply. The time between sending the request and receiving the answer is your ping to the game server.
This means that with a ping of 20ms, it takes data 10ms to travel from the client to the server, as the ping is the round-trip time of your data.
Higher ping values mean that there is more delay or lag, which is why you want to play on servers with very low pings, as that is the basic prerequisite for games to feel snappy and responsive."
PUBG's Network Model
PUBG Corp implements a Client-hosted network on PUBG, PUBG Lite and PUBG Mobile. Just like any popular shooter including Fortnite and CSGO, matches in PUBG Mobile rely on the client's ping to the game's server. Fortunately, the battle royale bases the ping through 4G LTE instead of Fiber or DSL. Thus, people who play the game using just mobile data won't have a hard time connecting to other players that circle within the same server.
This also means packet loss data is minimal. Packet loss simply means failure to connect to the host – which barely happens in PUBG Mobile. Ironically, the mobile game performs significantly better than the Steam version. Why? Well, nobody exactly knows – only the devs at PUBG Corp can answer that.
However, this still means that lag can still happen depending on your phone's signal. If you do experience delays in hit detection or seeing players running in a stationary position like on a virtual treadmill, here's what u/HellDuke said in r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS regarding lag and delayed hit detection:
"PUBG does not have any kind of lag compensation. For small games like CS you can actually run the hit detection serverside, however, for something as big as PUBG or even Battlefield, you are forced to run client side hit detection. Battlefield 1 also does client-side hit detection, however if the client's ping to the server is too high, the server can deny the hit registration, thus nullifying the shot.
Note that this does not remove what people call desync, that is frankly speaking not possible, however it does deny hits for players with bad ping so that players with good ping do not feel a negative impact. This is also something that is based on a threshold so you have to be very careful with it. Set it too low and most players will find that most of their shots are not registered and be frustrated. Set it too high, however, and you will still get hit far behind cover.
This is why games like PUBG and Blackout all suffer from the same kind of 'desync'. Not sure if Fornite does anything, but my guess would be not and it probably also suffers from the same problem."
Maybe you're confused with the different versions of the game as if it was just like Street Fighter II. Hopefully, we'll be able help you spot the comparisons in brief paragraphs.
This is the Steam/PS4/Xbox One version. It's still the best-looking PUBG game compared to the other versions but it does have lots of issues – specifically when it comes to the game's optimization (particularly PC and Xbox One) and the ongoing problem with hackers from mainland China.
Gameplay-wise, it has a more realistic approach where there are no sound indicators on the map and with more manual-based controls. And yes, it is arguably the best when it comes to controls.
Ironically, PUBG Mobile is the best-performing game in all of the versions. At some point, a large chunk of the playerbase migrated from the Steam and console version and into the mobile version via emulator or just on their phones.
Both net and performance optimizations are well and, sometimes, even above and beyond.
While the controls do feel wonky a lot of times, you'll get used to it. Or, if you're willing to become a really good PUBG player that desire better controls, you can always use a MOGA controller or an emulator.
Note for emulator-based players: you can only connect with other players using the PC emulator too. There are no cross platforms between phones and PC emulators.
Alright, so within PUBG Lite lies 2 versions (yes, it's a version-ception at this point). There are 2 kinds of LITE: Lite PC and Lite Mobile.
Briefly speaking, Lite PC is good for budget/low-end PCs so players can still experience the same battle royale gameplay while sacrificing all the good visuals.
On the otherhand, Lite Mobile is for the phones and handheld devices that cannot run modern mobile games properly – mainly due to RAM consumption and almost-obsolete processor. Lite Mobile also includes just 40 players in one match, under a smaller map and lesser stunning visuals. And no, you cannot connect to PUBG Mobile players using Lite Mobile.
To make it short, PUBG Mobile doesn't use lots of mobile data, making it a breeze to play whenever you feel like earning the chicken dinner while taking a bus home. If anything, it's the better version compared to its Steam counterpart.
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Obinna says 3 weeks ago
I always played PUBG and indeed it consumed less data on mobile. I don't know why APEX legends on PC eat up to 100 MB per game though.


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Welcome to Kenya
Vast savannahs peppered with immense herds of wildlife. Snow-capped equatorial mountains. Traditional peoples who bring soul and colour to the earth. Welcome to Kenya.
Stirring Landscapes
When you think of Africa, you're probably thinking of Kenya. It's the lone acacia silhouetted on the savannah against a horizon stretching into eternity. It's the snow-capped mountain almost on the equator and within sight of harsh deserts. It's the lush, palm-fringed coastline of the Indian Ocean, it's the Great Rift Valley that once threatened to tear the continent asunder, and it's the dense forests reminiscent of the continent's heart. In short, Kenya is a country of epic landforms that stir our deepest longings for this very special continent.
Proud Peoples
Filling the country's landscape, adding depth and resonance to Kenya's age-old story, are some of Africa's best-known peoples. The Maasai, the Samburu, the Turkana, the Swahili, the Kikuyu: these are the peoples whose histories and daily struggles tell the story of a country and of a continent – the struggle to maintain traditions as the modern world crowds in, the daily fight for survival in some of the harshest environments on earth, the ancient tension between those who farm and those who roam. Drawing near to these cultures could just be a highlight of your visit.
Abundant Wildlife
Kenya is the land of the Masai Mara, of wildebeest and zebras migrating in their millions with the great predators of Africa following in their wake, of endangered species like black rhinos managing to maintain their precarious foothold. But Kenya is also home to the red elephants of Tsavo, to Amboseli elephant families in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro and to the massed millions of pink flamingos stepping daintily through lake shallows. Africa is the last great wilderness where these creatures survive. And Kenya is the perfect place to answer Africa's call of the wild.
Conservation's Home
The abundance of Kenya's wildlife owes everything to one of Africa's most innovative and successful conservation communities. Through some pretty tough love – Kenya pioneered using armed rangers to protect rhinos and elephants – Kenya stopped the emptying of its wilderness and brought its wildlife back from the brink after the poaching holocaust of the 1970s and 1980s. More than that, in places like Laikipia and the Masai Mara, private and community conservancies fuse tourism with community development and wildlife conservation to impressive effect. In other words, if you want your visit to make a difference, you've come to the right place.
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Hell's Gate National Park Private Bike Tour from Nairobi
ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: Lake Naivasha, Rift Valley Province1pm - Finish the tours and bring the bikes back at the gate.1pm - Drive to Naivasha Fishermans camp for lunch.2pm - Take a 1 hour boat ride in the lake for bird watching and hippo viewing.4pm - End of all activities start of drive back to Nairobi.Arrive by 6pmDuration: 3 hoursStop At: Hell's Gate National Park, Naivasha, Rift Valley Province7am - Depart Nairobi and start of drive to Naivasha, brief stop over at the Great rift valley view point.Arrive at the gate of hells gate at around 9am. Start of the biking tour at hells gate for 2 hours11am - Visit the gorges inside the park. Gorges are small thin depressions of land mass where you can walk underneath. Some areas have formed caves where you can walk through. This will take 1 hour.Duration: 3 hours
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David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and Giraffe Center from Nairobi
ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, NairobiSee baby Elephants and you will get close to them and also get a chance to adopt them.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Kazuri Beads Factory, NairobiHave a chance to see the beautiful beads and pottery culinary which are molded by African womenDuration: 1 hourStop At: Giraffe Centre, NairobiHere we will be visiting the Roths child girrafe an endangered species where you will be able to feed it and have a close up with them as the same time learning more about the conservation activities of the centerDuration: 1 hour
Nairobi National Park Tour plus Elephant Orphanage and More
ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: Giraffe Centre, NairobiAfter a pick up from your hotel or residency within Nairobi CBD, the tour begins with a visit to the giraffe center. Here you see the magnificent creatures and learn why they are endangered. You will also learn their behaviors, traits and more conservation education. To cap the visit, you get the chance to feed them under the supervision of a trained staff memberDuration: 2 hoursStop At: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, NairobiThen head to the elephant orphanage which is only open for a short period each day. Here you will learn more about the baby elephants and what led them to be orphans.You will get more information on raising them and the efforts being made to re-introduce them back to the wilderness.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Nairobi National Park, NairobiAfter this, you will have about an hour for lunch (own expense), then you will go to the Nairobi National park through the main gate for a 3-hour game drive. Your guide will be aiming to show you as much variety of animals as possible. If you're lucky, you may spot the rhinos and lions getting ready for the evening. We use a safari van with a pop up roof for easier game viewing and not a small saloon car.At around 5pm, you will depart the park and be brought back to your hotel or residency within Nairobi CBD.Duration: 3 hours
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Private One-Way Nairobi Airport Transfer
Sit back and relax as you are transported between the main Nairobi airport and your accommodation in the comfort of your own private vehicle which ranges from 3-passenger sedans to 7-passenger vans and 20-passenger buses, depending on the size of your group. For airport arrival transfers, you will find your name clearly displayed on a sign, after the baggage and customs clearance desks. If you are arriving for a conference and event, there is typically a welcome desk located inside the lounge to allow for easy identification of delegates without having to check for their names. Just come to the desk and you will be ushered to your vehicle. For departure transfers, your driver will meet you at your accommodation 4 hours prior to your flight for CITY hotels and 5 hours for hotels OUTSIDE the city including WESTLANDS. Transfer times vary according to traffic, but generally range from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours. When making a booking for this private one-way transfer from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to your accommodation in central Nairobi or vice versa, you will need to advise your flight details and your Nairobi hotel or final destination details.
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Nairobi National Park, Elephant Orphanage, Giraffe Center Tour
ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this productStop At: Karen Blixen Museum, NairobiKaren Blixen Museum was once the centre piece of a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror von Blixen Fincke. Located 10km from the city centre, the Museum belongs to a different time period in the history of Kenya. The farm house gained international fame with the release of the movie 'Out of Africa' an Oscar winning film based on Karen's an autobiography by the same title.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Giraffe Centre, NairobiThe Giraffe Centre is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, seven days a week. Feeding and tours operate throughout this time. . Proceeds from entry fees go towards our conservation education workDuration: 1 hourStop At: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, NairobiThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) Elephant Nursery in Nairobi National Park provides a safe haven to orphaned baby elephants rescued by the DSWT. The Nursery provides the first stage in the hand-rearing and development of milk dependent baby elephants. Once they graduate from the Nursery, aged 2-3 years, the elephants move to one of the DSWT's Reintegration Centres in Tsavo East National Park, from where they will ultimately return to the wild.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Nairobi National Park, Nairobi"The World's only Wildlife Capital"A short drive out of Nairobi's central business district is the Nairobi National Park. Wide open grass plains and backdrop of the city scrapers, scattered acacia bush play host to a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. Visitors can enjoy the park's picnic sites, three campsites and the walking trails for hikers.Duration: 3 hoursStop At: Nairobi Mamba Village, NairobiLUNCHMamba Village Nairobi has several restaurants and bandas for a tasty meals and refreshments. They also have excellent conference facilities. The well maintained gardens are exquisite for weddings, graduation parties, photo shoots and team buildings.Duration: 1 hour
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12-Day Kenya and Tanzania Safari from Nairobi
Day 1 Arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and transfer to the Sentrim 680 Hotel. Check in, relax, and get oriented with the help of your guide. Day 2 You will start your trip to Lake Naivasha with a stop over at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for photos. Next, head straight to Hell's Gate National Park for a mini-safari. In the afternoon, visit a natural sauna before traveling to your hotel. Enjoy and evening boat on Lake Naivasha. Day 3 Morning departure to Lake Nakuru National park for a special sighting of the rare black rhino (an endangered species), one of the big five game animals. After, enjoy a full day game drive with a picnic lunch Day 4 You will start the safari to Maasai Mara National Reserve. Lunch will be served on the way in to Narok town. Arrival will be in the early afternoon for check-in. There will be a big tent with a bed, mosquito net, and a bathroom at the Lenchada Tourist Camp for you. After getting settled, there will be a 2-hour game drive in Maasai Mara around 4 p.m. Day 5 Full-day game drive all the way to the Mara river, the site of the great migration. Picnic lunch in the park. Evening visit to a Maasai village to see their culture. Dinner and optional camp fire. Day 6 Start with an early-morning game drive to see the early hunters. Eat breakfast and then depart for Serengeti through the Isebania border. Arrive at the border at lunchtime, and spend 30 minutes processing visas. Meet our Tanzanian driver and cook. In Tanzania, we use a 4-wheel drive Landcruiser. Take an evening game drive en route to the camp. Check in to Seronera camp in Serengeti. We will provide you with a tent and a sleeping bag. Meals are prepared privately for you by our private chef. Day 7 Set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of the Serengeti. A scenic 4-hour drive, full-day game drive together with late evening game drive. Seronera campsite. Day 8 After a relaxing morning and an early lunch, proceed to Ngorongoro, where the night will be spent on the Crater Rim. Dinner and overnight at campsite. Day 9 After an early breakfast, proceed directly to the crater floor for a full-day crater tour with picnic lunches. Later proceed Lake Manyara. Day 10 After breakfast, proceed for a full-day game drive in beautiful Manyara National Park. See buffalo, giraffe, zebra, and many more species, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Great Rift Wall. Day 11 After early breakfast, proceed for a full day game drive at Tarangire National Park with picnic lunches. Later, proceed back to Arusha in the evening. Day 12 Breakfast and shuttle back to Nairobi.
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The Archery Challenge
The modern-day era of archery equipment has come to the forefront to meet hunter demands for the future. Photo courtesy of Chuck Nease
By Chuck Nease
Archery equipment and bowhunting have come a long way over the past 50 years. Today's equipment and hunter education have taken bowhunting to a new level that's finding hunters of all ages engaged!
In the early years, the only choices of equipment for bowhunters were longbows and recurves. It's hard to believe we put a man on the moon before we put a wheel on a bow. Holless Allen's patent on the first compound bow was the beginning of an equipment and participation advancement that continues today.
I must admit my age, because I was shooting and hunting with recurves in the '50s and '60s while growing up in southern West Virginia. In those days we were just as likely to see a UFO as a whitetail deer. Although the goal was difficult, we just wanted to find a deer and get close enough for a shot. We were more excited about hunting squirrels, rabbits and grouse than spending days looking for deer.
For my 14th birthday I was given a beautiful Bear Grizzly recurve with three fiberglass arrows with razor heads. That fall a friend shared a place he had found several deer tracks while squirrel hunting on Pinnacle Creek in West Virginia. I knew the area because my Dad had taken me trout fishing on that stream many times.
The next Saturday, I found several sets of tracks in the mud where three logging roads came together. I quickly set up in a cluster of rhododendrons 15 yards uphill and downwind from the crossing. After sitting in a soaking rain for hours, I heard the far-off sound of dogs barking.
I picked out a brown shape coming through the woods and onto the logging road. It was a nice buck and he was going to pass right in front of me. I remember taking a deep breath, drawing the bow, and watching the buck stop and look back at his pursuers. I released the string and was blinded by all the rain and spray that came from the camo bow socks, string, and arrow. After searching the area, I came to the realization I had missed. Still feeling the adrenaline from the encounter, I realized the challenge and thrill of archery and bowhunting would last a lifetime.
In the late '60s and early '70s there were many more target archers than bowhunters. Some of the best archers in the nation would gather and compete in Wytheville to decide the winner of the Virginia Open. Choices of equipment and competition were very limited in those days, but the compound bow was about to change everything.
In a span of 10 years target archers and bowhunters went from 100% traditional equipment to 90% compounds. The next 30 years saw growth of faster bows, better arrows, new companies, and increasing numbers of bowhunters and target archers.
The evolution was not easy, and change is sometimes difficult for individuals and groups to accept. Many states and clubs were reluctant to change laws and rules for the new bows and equipment. There are so many options for archers today that it's hard to believe that compounds, release aids, and crossbows were against the law in many states and organizations. Our choice of equipment and long hunting seasons are credited to the hard work of individuals and our state and local archery clubs. We should always join and support them when possible.
Working in the archery industry has allowed me to meet, hunt and compete with some very special people in our sport. These individuals have set many goals and challenges throughout their careers. I would like to share some of their experiences and feelings about the challenges they love and pursue.
I met Joe Lakefield back in the late '90s while competing in ASA 3-D competitions. Lakefield is a biologist for the Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and was involved with the first elk stocking in that state. I had the pleasure to shoot 3-D and elk hunt with him in Colorado. At that time, he made the podium at the Nationals and had taken several P&Y animals with his compound. Taking trophy bucks and gobblers every year was becoming the norm.
Joe Lakefield has taken many does and trophy bucks with recurve and long bows. He takes great pride and satisfaction in making his own bows to meet the challenge. Photo courtesy of Joe Lakefield
Elk hunting with some friends out west, Lakefield got to shoot his buddies recurve and got hooked. The next season he began hunting with traditional equipment and harvested his first doe. Since then he has taken many does and trophy bucks with his recurve and self-made bow. Lakefield sent pictures of the osage tree he used and how he made his first bow. For Lakefield, hunting with traditional equipment is the ultimate challenge. The practice and preparation before season make the wait and anticipation of the hunt more enjoyable. Lakefield says, "The excitement and intensity you feel when hunting with traditional equipment is amazing and everyone should give it a try."
3-D Archery began in the '80s and has continued to grow with more clubs and shooters every year. The national and world tournaments have acquired corporate sponsors and the best archers in the nation. 3-D competition is a great way to become a better archer and bowhunter. Over the last 40 years I've had the pleasure to meet and shoot with some very talented bowhunters and archers.
One of the best to ever pull a bow string is Jeff Hopkins. At age 9, Hopkins began bowhunting while growing up in the family farming and hunting business. He began shooting local 3-D tournaments in Delaware and Maryland in 1989. After winning all the local tournaments, he set his sights on becoming the very best pro 3-D shooter. Starting his pro career in 1989, he has won over 100 national and World Pro titles in ASA and the IBO tournaments.
Hopkins also won the coveted Vegas Top Pro title, out-shooting the best target archers from around the world.
Jeff Hopkins has won over 100 national and world pro titles in ASA and IBO competitions. Hopkins sets his goals high and was determined to take a 200-inch whitetail with a compound. In 2016 he arrowed this 223-inch Iowa giant that made the grade. Photo courtesy of Jeff Hopkins
Hopkins' work ethic and talent enabled him to represent and shoot for major archery companies throughout his career. His latest challenge was to take a 200-inch free ranging white-tail with his compound. His goal was accomplished in 2016 when he arrowed a 223-inch Iowa monster. Hopkins' key to success: "Set your goals in steps you can accomplish and continue to challenge yourself and work to the next level. You will make it to the top if you don't quit."
Bowhunting has always been my passion—archery competitions and designing bows and accessories was just something to do between seasons. My shooting came to a sudden stop in 2018 when I experienced a total shoulder replacement in March. The thought of missing a year of competition and hunting with my compound was unacceptable, and to make matters worse I had just received my Colorado mule deer tag that took five years to obtain. My obstacles for the year were great, but it was possible to complete my therapy and recovery in five months.
By July I had regained 90% of my movement, but only 50% of my strength. I decided a crossbow may be my only option, and since West Virginia and all surrounding states had a season, it could work. I contacted Colorado Department of Natural Resources and explained my condition and they sent a special permit that would allow me to use a crossbow for my mule deer tag. After trying several models, I got it set up and shot at an ASA tournament two weeks before the hunt.
I quickly realized it took a whole new set of skills to hit a 2" 12 ring offhand at 40 yards. I knew I could shoot better with my compound, but I really enjoyed the competition and the great people I shot with. The mule deer hunt was a success, taking a nice buck with a 45-yard shot on the third day. My compound hunting buddies had a great week, taking two elk and a mule deer.
Returning home, my goal was to put some venison in the freezer and just enjoy deer hunting with my family and friends. Looking back over the years I realized the good ol' days for archery and bowhunting are now. We have so many choices in where, what and how we shoot and hunt. The success of a hunt doesn't depend on the size of the horns or the choice of gear we use.
A young hunter's first deer should be enjoyed and celebrated the same as any trophy taken later in life. The challenges and success are in the eyes of the hunter. There's no place in our sport for conflict and ridicule of hunters or hunting preferences. If it's legal and ethical, it's fine. We need all the hunters we can recruit and retain for our sport to continue for future generations. This year I'm going to hunt with a recurve, compound, and crossbow because I now enjoy the unique challenge of each one. In the future try something new, respect your fellow hunters, and have your best year ever.
Chuck Nease, who lives in Salt Rock, West Virginia, has been actively involved in archery competitions, bowhunting and designing archery equipment for over 45 years. Nease is a retired firefighter and US Army veteran. He has worked with several bow and archery companies throughout his career. Chuck's love for bowhunting, competition and helping archers is still his passion. Readers are welcome to contact the author at Chucknease@yahoo.com with questions and comments.