OK, so, if one were to take a step back and evaluate all that's going on at General Motors' luxury division, Cadillac, it looks something like this.
First, cars like the ATS, CTS and XTS are going the way of the dodo bird.
Second, the latest quotes from company resources state that there will be three distinctly tiered sedans at three different price points.
Third, the organization has brought on an all-new Chief Marketing Officer, Deborah Wahl.
Fourth, Johan de Nysschen is no more at Cadillac and a new leader, Steven Carlisle, has taken the helm as the president of the legendary luxury brand.
Fifth, with the launch of the 2019 XT4, Cadillac has plenty of room between the XT5 and Escalade for at least two distinctly different SUVs with different pricing and attitudes — look what Land Rover Range Rover has done with the Sport model and all-new Velar. As of now, there's been no confirmation of any more SUV nameplates beyond XT4, XT5 and Escalade; however, spy shots of a rumored three-row XT6 have come to light.
So, I've got to ask: Is THIS the beginnings of a much-needed Cadillac renaissance to YOU, or is it more of the same old, same old?
No. What Cadillac WAS undergoing was a renaissance. Maybe not in the direction some people would have liked (where's my Coup DeVille, and why isn't coffee a nickel anymore???), and maybe not as quickly as it needed to be (crossovers were coming by the bucketload, but sedans were still the bulk of their line up), but it was a slow needed (sometimes painful) march towards relevance.
It was distancing itself from the "discount" practices of yore, separating itself from the volume brand parent company, and striving to upgrade its hard and soft product, at least in vision and promises. It's impossible to tell whether it would have panned out, but a commitment to better customer service at dealers (rather than volume) was a step in the right direction, and Johan explain in a recent-ish interview that the interiors were not up to par and improvements were coming. The lineup was also being remolded with the CT5, upgraded CT6 (badly needed), and a halo car, plus some others.
The point is, they were making commitments to being a smart and modern, and most importantly, a true luxury brand, not just "Chevy Luxe" or grandpa-mobiles.
Now that the man in charge of that plan successfully pissed off too many GM board members, they've installed a dutiful foot soldier to take his place.
1 - Cadillac will continue to build Chevy parts-bin interiors and give up on the aspirational models that change perceptions about a brand. They'll keep building 75%-luxury cars; the cars that are almost there, but just bite the dust on the finishing and details most competitors seem to get right. The ride may be nice, but it's sloppy to drive. Maybe the interior looks good, but once you touch it, you realize it's cheap plastic. Or it might have a great new forward-looking feature or powertrain, but it's crammed in the body of a gussied up Buick LaCrosse. Forget trying to match an S-Class or 7-Series, they'd be lucky to hit the Kia K900.
...but they'll never be respected on the same level as M-B or BMW or LR in their respective vehicle categories.
Good luck, God speed, Caddy.
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They'll never be a true luxury brand again (including the prices and profit margins that come with it), and that's sad.
It is important to note that the things that were separate for Cadillac - the Alpha and Omega Platforms - and the V8 projects were ALL started before DeNysschen came to Cadillac. So far - the only two ALL DeNysschen vehicles were not based on those platforms - but on the other GM Crossover Platform that is Ubiquitous to all of them - NO MATTER - every manufacturer is going to move to Largely SCALABLE platforms for ALL of their cars - both VW and Toyota have already started- and eventually - taking VW in mind - They will have all of their product on either the large or small FWD or RWD platforms - regardless of make or cost.
It is in the execution that a Luxury car is made over a Chevy - and it is most certainly possible to make this work.
The problem is not that - the problem is Cadillac decided to become a European Luxury Car competitor - and with the exception of the Largest class - the european cars are SMALLER than Americans are accustomed to. Both the ATS and CTS were competitive - good handling cars - that simply were too small in the rear seat for our market - even in China they need to bring out LONG version to sell cars. BUT THEN - in addition - DeNysschen essentially told the traditional Cadillac customer -THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER WELCOME. ANd they simply moved to other brands in droves. Cadillac offered no tradition AMERICAN Luxury car for a while. Meanwhile - Mercedes polled its customers - and to its surprise - they wanted MORE LUXURY over performance - they did that - and Mercedes rose to the top.
THe people at the top of GM realized that American simply were going to move to accept what DeNysschen wanted as the right things. And I expect we will see Luxury cars with greater scale. The ATS will move down to the CLA class - they will return the CTS to tweener status - larger than a 3 class but smaller than an E class - the CT6 is already a Tweener as well. BUT THEY STILL NEED STYLE - and that is coming too.
2. Cadillac's entry into a segment is larger than the norm and more luxurious.
3. Cadillac realizes it needs to have its cars look iconically Cadillac. They need a stylistic event like the 1976 Seville was.
The entry-level Cadillac should be an FWD sedan priced like a CLA and sized like a Lexus ES.
Ditch the CT5. Put the CT6 down into the 5 Series/E Class segment.
There should be no "entry-level" Cadillac, it's either one, or it's a Chevy. There has to be a clear distinction or folks would always second-guess getting one.
Can't have Buick and Cadillac, ditch the Buick brand in the US, as they did with Oldsmobile.
Cadillac should not be just the car, it should be the full experience, from buying to servicing to trading for a new one. Perhaps subscriptions would work best. Pick up and drop off customer cars at their home/work and give them a proper loaner. Have warranty and service covered, no nickle and diming. Have an ownership advisor as a single point of contact. Details matter and responsiveness matters, don't give customers reasons to be unhappy as minor as they could be.
Embrace electrification. Going to a crummy gas station with the rest of the plebeians, breathing in fumes, listening to an engine, being jerked by a slushbox, or being left in the dust at the stoplight by a Bolt EV is not a luxury experience.
Indeed. The Cadillac dealer experience is desperately inferior to what you would expect at Lexus or Mercedes. Cadillac dealers need to be stand-alone with tremendous attention to how a customer feels.
I've pondered the idea of a premium car dealer having NO cars parked out front. To then have a large indoor space that allows the cars to be examined or--where weather permits--an outside patio experience as well.
If a customer is looking at a silver Elmiraj and wishes to see the blue one, the car is brought from stock to a special viewing area where the customer is coddled and the product is brought to them.
This is one of the reasons I've said that Corvette should be a brand because it could be co-branded with Cadillac in premium dealerships.
I kinda see Cadillac as the "People's Luxury Brand".
Maybe reducing pricing could work. Idk. Will critics/customers say, "I got it cheap, but it's so much more than the price. A real steal on par with say Lexus/BMW/M-B"? Probably not - they'll find the most minute feature & completely decimate the overall vehicle experience.
A better dealer experience is always a good way to increase awareness & positive perceptions. It's just frustrating for dealers to have wasted their time on customers who know they cant afford the high-end vehicles buy insist on getting the high-end service regardless, & then complain when it becomes clear that they haven't intended to make a purchase anyway. It's what happens when you get Chevy Malibu customers looking at new Escalades.
I completely agree they need to up their luxury game. Do it for real, or don't do it at all. Stop cost cutting, stop saying "good enough". Benchmark who you have to, but just get it done correctly for once.
Mercedes has this on lockdown currently. BMW and Audi are catching up, but they aren't there yet. Lexus does well too, but other than that, the rest of the field are also-rans in this aspect.
I don't necessarily agree with returning to names. I could take either nomenclature one way or the other. As far as alphanumerics are concerned, if you get too complicated, you become BMW's alphabet soup. On the other hand, quick, which one is bigger the Hyundai Tuscon or the Hyundai Santa Fe? Alphanumerics avoid that problem. I think most people who don't like it feel that way because it's different from what they're used to, and it's a convenient visible thing to complain about it. But it's not the fulcrum upon which the fate of an entire automotive company turns.
I don't agree on pricing though. If your product isn't good enough, then sure, price it lower. The (I believe) last minute repositioning and repricing of the CT6 from S/7 level to "tweener" was a good example of this. However, if your product is truly as good, you SHOULDN'T charge any less for it. That cheapens the brand image, past a few hundred dollars here or there.
"Discount luxury" or "people's luxury" is an oxymoron. One of the driving aspects of luxury is that not everyone can afford it. If you're the "people's luxury" or "bargain premium" or "upscale at a great deal", then you're Buick, Acura, or (increasingly) Mazda. True luxury is a tricky mental and personality/perception-driven game that's very fickle and hard to master. But as soon as you start offering "deals" for "everyman", you're done, go home and figure out how to become a middle-range brand.
But if you go for that crowd, you have to knock it out of the park and in to the next town over, multiple times.
If you do it right, you become Rolls Royce, Bentley, the S-Class, and maybe the 7-Series and Aston Martin, depending on who you ask.
If you do it wrong, you become the DTS, the Lincoln Towncar, and the Buick LeSabre.
Right now, I don't think Cadillac has the balls to do it right. Better to not try at all, in the state they're in.
Once they wake up and figure out how to execute at that level, I have a check waiting for them.
You all have good points. It is frustrating to be a Cadillac fan. The minute a plan starts taking shape, they change direction. I nearly bought a 2014 ATS, but the interior seemed just okay (the trim piece on top of the steering column was two cheap plastic bits that are always visible to the driver - a small detail, but one all the top competitors get right) and the room inside was very tight compared to the MB300 I wound up buying.
Another big opportunity missed was rolling out the CT6 with a 4 cylinder and the energy spent touting it. It may be fine, but American luxury is big, long hoods, V8s. They should have lead with this as it speaks to their heritage. Even if it would be 10 percent of sales, it is the image it projects.
I remember MB executives describing what they believed American luxury meant to them, long hoods, V8s roomy and then a few years later out came the C300.
The CT6's horrible stumble of an introduction is fixable.
Give it a V8 in BASE form.
Make the base price $45K well equipped.
I think your price level is too low, but I see your point. Have the V-6 at about 50, TT V-6 55 and V-8 at 60 +. They should have introduced the V-8 first and alone and soon thereafter the V-6s. I like your idea for the naming scheme.
Cadillac needs to be well below in price and well above in features to compete. The CT6 has a massive discount so a $45K base is somewhat close to what a base CT6 goes for after the please-take-it-off-our-hands discount.
I actually think Lincoln and Cadillac are over pricing so that the big discount seems like a big discount.
"Cadillac needs to be well below in price and well above in features to compete."
I'm sure GM's board will eat this brilliant plan up!
It's definitely a better strategy than anything you've proposed.
I may be the only one here who actually has a current Cadillac - a CT6.
I have said before - and will say again- it is a wonderful car as a Luxury car - and one would not expect a car of that size to be as nimble as it is - because of its low weight.
However - it does not LOOK LIKE A CADILLAC. The arts and crafts look was designed for the European style - and the smaller cars - and it makes the CT6 look smaller than it is (It is actually quite large). Cadillac needs an in you face styling - like ROLLS (or maybe the Mulsanne even though it is too conservative - that makes the cars actually look LARGER than they are. When Cadillac competed with the noise level of a Rolls (at least in their commercials) - they chose the TOP luxury brand - something BMW NEVER was.
Now - when you look at the most recent Cadillacs - the Original CTS was a Tweener - larger than a 3/c class - and sold well because it seemed to be a bargain with competitive pricing. Cadillac needs to go back to that - as a part of its TOTAL statement. (And they are aparently going to do so).
The ATS should be redone as a CLA competitor - but with the Alpha2 platform which is wonderful - and it will be a tweener above the CLA - and PRICE it in the low $30,000 range like the CLA. AS a RWD it will be superior and should have more interior room.
THe CT6 should be priced as a 5/E competitor (It already sells in that space at the dealers anyway) - where it is the clear winner.
AND then - Cadillac needs a really BIG car - the Escala is not it. (The hatchback alone would doom it). I hope they produce the Escala with a regular trunk.
BUT MOST IMPORTANT - Cadillac MUST HAVE a set of crossovers based on their RWD Luxury Platforms - not on the regular GM ones that offer nothing special. It will take a few years for that though.
AND indeed - as a ROLLS competitor - the American Standard for the world should have NAMES for their cars - and not compete down market with numbers.
How do you view the CT6 as a vehicle and its position in the market, as a true owner, rather than just another internet commentator?
I looked at one and found it wanting, and ultimately went with a 7-Series. I may not have been comparing two true competitors though, it's hard to tell with the CT6. It's almost as big as the 7, and it's the largest of three core sedan models, just like the 7.
But I found hard scratchy plastic on the lower parts of the doors and the center console tunnel. The leather felt cheap and hard, the window switches and ancillary gear were all plastic and from a Chevy (steering wheel stalks excepted, I liked those), the carpet felt cheap, the rest of the buttons were all plastic too, and even that plastic felt lower quality than the rare instances of plastic found in a 7-Series. There were also fit and finish issues on the center console where the lid opens, but I think the refresh addresses that.
Those were my main complaints with it. The ride and handling I can't complain about, because that's to taste and based on a conscious engineering decision regarding the desired character of the car. I found it too harsh and not isolating enough.
Against the S/7, I thought it fell flat on its face and was deeply disappointed, since I had followed its development for years. However, it was priced much lower, so it may not have been an appropriate comparison.
I worry about it entering the E/5 space though. The latest versions of those cars are baby S/7s, and they're really really nice inside, if you pick the right interior packages. Truthfully, I'm not sure the CT6 is the clear winner against them either, in terms of luxury and quality. Yes, in terms of space, but this puts the CT6 in a weird position with lower quality and pricing, but a larger size; I struggle with determining the value proposition and market positioning for it personally.
As long as Cadillac is built as a rebadged dolled up Chevy, it will remain a second tier automobile.


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Jack Herer (* 18. Juni 1939 in New York City; † 15. April 2010 in Eugene, Oregon) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Hanfaktivist. Sein bekanntestes Werk ist das Buch Die Wiederentdeckung der Nutzpflanze Hanf, das mittlerweile ein Standardwerk für Hanfbauern und Legalisierungsbefürworter ist.

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Jack Herer wurde nach der High School bei der Armee zum Dolmetscher ausgebildet. Er war Vater von fünf Kindern, die seinen ersten drei Ehen entstammen. Am 9. September 1999 heiratete Herer zum vierten Mal. Er trat zweimal bei den US-Präsidentschaftswahlen als Kandidat der Grassroots Party an, einer Kleinpartei, die sich für eine liberale Drogenpolitik einsetzte. 1988 und 1992 erzielte er jeweils weniger als 0,1 Prozent der Stimmen. Beim ersten Versuch erhielt er 1949 Stimmen, vier Jahre später dann immerhin schon 3875.

Besondere Ehre wurde ihm zuteil, als eine Cannabissorte (Strain Jack Herer) nach ihm benannt wurde. Im Juli 2000 erlitt Herer einen Herzinfarkt und einen Schlaganfall, der zur Folge hatte, dass er seine rechte Körperseite nur noch mit Schwierigkeiten bewegen konnte. Laut eigener Aussage hatte er sich aber seit Mai 2004 weitestgehend erholt, was er seinem Konsum von Fliegenpilzen und Cannabis zuschrieb. Ende 2007 arbeitete er an einem Buch über Religion und Pilze und leitete eine Unterschriftenkampagne, die sich unter anderem für die Legalisierung von Cannabis in den USA ausspricht. Des Weiteren engagierte sich Herer in vielen gemeinnützigen Projekten.

Literatur
 Jack Herer: Die Wiederentdeckung der Nutzpflanze Hanf (org. The Emperor Wears No Clothes) Hrsg. von Mathias Bröckers, Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt a. M., 1993, 526 S., ISBN 3-86150-026-4

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Rookie cop hacked women's social accounts, posted their nude photos, police allege
Ayron Taylor, 22, of DelranBurlington County Prosecutor's Office
Chris Sheldon | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A police officer already accused of hacking into the social media accounts of a woman and posting naked pictures she'd taken of herself was charged this week with victimizing over a dozen other women in a similar way, authorities said.
The investigation started in September after the woman, an Evesham resident, contacted the Evesham Township Police Department and reported that her Snapchat and Facebook accounts had been accessed by an unknown person, according to a joint statement from the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office and the Evesham Township Police. The intruder had sent nude photos she had taken of herself to her Snapchat contacts, messaged them to her Facebook friends, and posted them on her Facebook wall.
A rookie officer with the Mount Laurel Police Department, Ayron Taylor, 22, of Delran, was allegedly responsible and he was arrested on Oct. 21 and charged with three counts of computer crime, invasion of privacy and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, the office said.
Taylor was taken to the Burlington County Jail, but released after an initial appearance in Superior Court of Burlington County.
However, as the investigation continued, 18 more victims, all of whom were women, were found to be allegedly victimized by Taylor, police said. He also was accused of accessing the social media and email accounts of the women and in several instances distributing their nude photos to people on their contact lists.
Detectives determined the commonality among all victims was that each one had a student email account through Rowan College of Burlington County (RCBC) and that he illegally accessed more than 2,800 RCBC email accounts, investigators said. Some of this activity allegedly occurred while he was on duty and sitting in his patrol car, utilizing personal electronic devices, police said.
Taylor was arrested on Wednesday and was slapped with 87 new charges before he was released Friday afternoon following another superior court appearance, the office said.
The complaints allege 28 counts of second-degree crimes that include computer criminal activity and distribution of child pornography, which was brought against him because some of the photos he accessed were taken before the women became legal adults, authorities said. The remaining 59 counts are third degree charges including elements of computer theft and other cyber-related crimes.
Taylor became a full-time officer in Mount Laurel after graduating from the police academy in October 2021. The department suspended him following the initial charges and began measures to terminate his employment. He has since resigned from the force.
RCBC officials have been cooperative with law enforcement throughout the investigation, police said.
University President Dr. Michael A. Cioce called Taylor's alleged actions "repugnant" and said the school has reviewed and strengthened its cyber security measures.
"This is a repugnant cyber intrusion of privacy against the college and, especially, many of our students. Rowan College at Burlington County immediately strengthened network security upon the first report of the incident," Cioce said in a statement. "Although there was no systemic failure of the college's technology infrastructure, there is always opportunity for stronger security measures. The college's Office of Student Support can provide assistance to victims who are impacted."
People who have an RCBC email account and suspect that their private photos were shared without authorization are asked to contact investigators at bcpohtc@co.burlington.nj.us.
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Texas governor forms new anti-terrorism unit after El Paso attack
Nation Aug 14, 2019 6:29 PM EST
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is adding manpower to gang investigations surrounding white nationalist groups in the wake of the El Paso shooting that left 22 people dead.
Abbott said Wednesday that Texas will also create a new domestic terrorism unit to help "root out the extremist ideologies that fuel hatred and violence in our state."
Authorities say 21-year-old Patrick Crusius confessed to the Aug. 3 shooting at a Walmart and told investigators that he targeted Mexicans during the attack. He's also suspected of posting a racist, anti-immigrant screed online before opening fire in the Texas border city.
Federal prosecutors have said they're weighing hate-crime charges against Crusius.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says the agency will assign more than a dozen additional people to anti-gang centers following Abbott's directive.
Left: A man places an American flag in the pile of flowers that has gathered a day after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 4, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare


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Staffing Science Policy-Making
Daryl Chubin,
Jane Maienschein*
Daryl Chubin is senior policy officer for the National Science Board at the National Science Foundation E-mail: dchubin{at}nsf.gov
Jane Maienschein has served as a congressional fellow and is professor of Philosophy and Biology and director of the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University E-mail: maienschein{at}asu.edu
Science 24 Nov 2000:
Vol. 290, Issue 5496, pp. 1501
Daryl Chubin
Daryl Chubin is senior policy officer for the National Science Board at the National Science Foundation E-mail: dchubin@nsf.gov
For correspondence: dchubin@nsf.gov
Jane Maienschein
Jane Maienschein has served as a congressional fellow and is professor of Philosophy and Biology and director of the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University E-mail: maienschein@asu.edu
For correspondence: maienschein@asu.edu
There are repeated calls for scientists worldwide to become involved in guiding government decisions concerning science. In the United States, science policy-making positions span the gamut from political appointees (through a melange of advisory panels, review groups, and professional associations) to consultants, all of whom provide commentary—solicited and unsolicited—on budgets, programs, and current science and technology issues. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Policy, has called for "civic scientists" to enter public service as staff in support of informed science policy-making.
Given the daily decisions affecting the directions and applications of science, the more staff members who understand science the better. Otherwise, valuable time is wasted and risks are taken in making uninformed decisions about funding priorities, new initiatives, and regulatory actions that increasingly depend on considered scientific judgments. One way to add scientific value to decision-making is to bring scientists into staff positions, either within a policy career path or as a temporary assignment. The question is how to attract more scientists to take up this public service and how to prepare them to contribute?
Overcoming the underlying problem of conflicting core values in the scientific and policy cultures presents a challenge. Working individually within a laboratory hierarchy, scientists are rewarded for originality and ownership of ideas. Even in collaborative projects, the leaders typically receive the credit. Despite periodic calls for rewarding departments, multidisciplinary teams, and broader collaborations, an individualistic ethic prevails. Researchers seek credit, and the community practices individual accountability for performance. Priority of discovery, authorship, and invention all circle around the traditional proprietary nature of scientific knowledge.
Scientists who move from the laboratory into public service, and from the foreground into the background, will experience culture shock. An outstanding speech or position paper on which the scientist's name does not appear replaces an article published in a peer-reviewed journal. Ego must fade from view; instead, satisfaction comes from being part of the process and seeing it work. This requires learning to speak for someone else, in someone else's voice, to someone else's credit. Why should any self-respecting scientist want to do this? Because there is more at stake than acclaim by one's professional community. There is a larger public and national interest. Beyond altruism, staff work allows another expression of the competitive values of science. In a high-stakes high-tempo environment, scientists can make a difference by drawing on their research and pedagogical skills while mastering new ones. Many have done so admirably, but we need more scientists who are willing to help staff science policy-making.
In the United States, a number of programs exist to provide orientation and on-the-job training for scientists willing to enter this public role. For example, Research!America connects scientists in all federal legislative districts with representatives there. The Ecological Society of America is cultivating a cohort of Aldo Leopold Fellows. The Congressional Fellows program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science introduces scientists to the policy-making process. Many U.S. universities now offer undergraduate and graduate students a semester in Washington as an intern in an agency, congressional office, or think tank. These programs and others put scientists into staff roles at the federal and local levels and create cohorts of politically informed citizen-scientists. We applaud these efforts and call for more.
In particular, we need more public discussion of what it means to serve as staff and why it is important for science that some scientists take on these roles. We need additional training at all levels to negotiate the clash of cultures. We need rewards for those who undertake staffing roles and do them well. These scientists should not be seen as digressing from "real science" but as facilitating the expanding reach of science as a respectable career path. Staffing science should be embraced as a necessary part of the scientific enterprise, as well as a form of public service that advances interest, appreciation, and understanding of a rapidly changing world.
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World premiere of 'River of Fire' Aug. 10 at St. Rita, New Orleans
In partnership with the Catholic Book Store, Sister of St. Joseph Helen Prejean will speak and sign copies of her new book, "River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey," Aug. 10 at 1 p.m. in the St. Rita School cafeteria, 65 Fountainbleau Drive, New Orleans.
Sister Helen's appearance, which will serve as the world launch of the book, is free and open to the public.
In "River of Fire," Sister Helen, one of the nation's foremost opponents of the death penalty, writes about faith and spirituality, doubt and belief to a wide-ranging audience of believers, agnostics and those with no religious affiliation.
She is the author of "Dead Man Walking," the best-selling 1993 book that chronicled her role as a spiritual advisor to a death row inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Sister Helen's advocacy has taken her to every U.S. state and to the Vatican, where her personal entreaties to two popes helped shape Catholic opposition to the death penalty. Her website is sisterhelen.org.
Individuals may pre-order "River of Fire" online (cbstorenola.com/preorder) and pick up the book at the booksigning or at the Catholic Book Store after its official release on Aug. 13.
Copies of "River of Fire" and Sister Helen's other books also will be available for purchase at the booksigning.
For more than three decades, Sister Helen has ministered to death row inmates and accompanied six persons to execution. She has founded organizations for abolition of the death penalty and for the protection and healing of victims' families.
The nation's foremost leader in this area of human rights shares the story of her growth into a spiritual leader and how she made her way from teaching in a Catholic, suburban school to becoming spiritual advisor to condemned murderers.


Analysis of vessel interactions reveals large potential for illegal activities, researchers say.
(Inside Science) -- Out in the middle of the Atlantic, the scene unfolds like this: A fishing boat rendezvouses with a huge refrigerated cargo ship. In a matter of hours, the fishing boat offloads thousands of pounds of pollack to the refrigerated vessel and then heads back out to sea.
Transferring fish or other cargo from one boat to another, an activity called transshipping, is not necessarily illegal. But because it happens beyond the watchful eye of port authorities and lacks consistent regulation, the potential for illegal fishing, drug smuggling and human rights abuses runs high.
Now for the first time, researchers have exposed transshipping activity on a scale never before seen. By analyzing the largest dataset ever of vessel interactions, the scientists have revealed transshipment behaviors and estimated the corresponding global extent of it. Between 2012 and 2017, the researchers counted nearly 60,000 instances of nautical behavior that may indicate transshipping, laying bare the immense potential for illegal fishing and human trafficking, said the study's lead author Nathan Miller, a data scientist at SkyTruth, a nonprofit organization that uses remote sensing technology to monitor threats to Earth's natural resources.
In an article published today in Frontiers in Marine Science, the authors describe the worldwide distribution of these 60,000 instances, which also represent an initial step in connecting disparate nodes of a widespread network of vessels, ports, and owners that operate in an industry largely obscured from public view.
"This type of data is not available broadly and yet it's critical if we're going to understand issues related to how much fish is being removed from the ocean, issues related to illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, issues related to human rights abuses and labor abuses -- all of which have been linked to transshipments," said Miller.
Over the five-year study period, Miller and his team, which included scientists from Google and Global Fishing Watch, a SkyTruth project to map the location of vessels involved in the fishing industry, zeroed in on the transshipment activity using a few different methods. They parsed a dataset of 32 billion automatic identification system messages, which are automatically-generated, anti-collision radio signals sent every two to 180 seconds from vessels more than 120 feet long. Embedded in each signal is a nine-digit number called a Marine Mobile Service Identity, the first 3 digits of which indicates the country of the flag flying on the ship's mast.
They cross-referenced the information with other known details, including a transshipment vessel's International Maritime Organization number and a database of fishing vessels. From this, the researchers were able to map activity that could indicate transshipment. They found 10,233 occasions when two vessels—a fishing boat and a transshipper—lingered within 500 meters of each other for at least two hours, traveling less than two knots, while at least 6.2 miles from a location where ships commonly anchor.
The team also mapped 46,570 events where a large transshipment vessel loitered seemingly by itself. On these occasions, automatic identification system messages were coming from just one vessel, not a pair. This could indicate transshipment to a smaller vessel, since automatic identification system transmitters are not mandatory on all fishing vessels and use varies globally among different fleets. The researchers counted the event as a transshipment if the lone vessel was traveling at speeds of less than two knots for at least eight hours, while 20 nautical miles or more from shore.
Nearly 50 percent of the suspected transshipment events that the team identified occurred on the high seas beyond national jurisdictions. Of the more than 6,000 fishing boats that fished for more than 24 hours on the open ocean, 1,181 had at least one encounter with a transshipment vessel.
The researchers discovered that transshipment activities appear most commonly around the equatorial regions of the Pacific, Atlantic and the southern Indian Oceans, as well as on the fringes of fishing zones designated exclusively to one country, called exclusive economic zones, of Peru, Argentina, Japan and Russia. Africa also sees its fair share, with transshipments clustering on the edge of the East African exclusive economic zones.
"This study shows us the magnitude of global transshipments," said Reniel Cabral, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sustainable Fisheries Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was not involved in the research. "Whether it's illegal or not, we can't say," he said. But the information could aid countries trying to crack down on illegal fishing, he added. If they see that a transshipment is happening in their waters or near their exclusive economic zones, but it has not been reported, they can ping the ship or collaborate with countries to check the vessel.
Miller and his team hope that this work and future studies like it lead to greater transparency. They're currently working on identifying the owners of shipping fleets, which Miller said are often hidden behind shell companies.
Rosemary Rayfuse, a professor of International Law at the University of New South Wales said that stopping illegal fishing is a huge concern. "We have made great strides since the 1990s in dealing with unregulated fishing, but we haven't fixed it."
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Q: How to use the return value of a function in a linq where clause? I'm trying to create a general search query against an EF entity type (person). In general, the search takes a string, splits it by commas, and then searches for people whose various attributes contain all of the key words.
I have a function called getProperties(Person p) that takes an entity (overridden by entity type), and returns a string of the various relevant properties joined together with a delimiter... such as:
John~Doe~Team A~Full Time

If the user searches for "Team A, Full" person corresponding to the above flattened entity should be returned... however, if the enter "John, Smith" it shouldn't.
I think the following looks right, but it just doesn't work...
public IEnumerable<Person> SearchPeople(string searchString)
{
    if (searchString == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchString.Trim()))
        return base._objectSet.ToList();

    string[] SearchWords = searchString.Split(',').Select(s => s.Trim()).ToArray();

    return (from    person
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            where   SearchWords.All(word => t.Contains(word))
            select  person).ToList();
}

and the getProperties function is:
public static string getProperties(Person p)
{
    string[] values = { p.Surname, p.GivenName, p.Team, p.Status };
    return values.Aggregate((x, y) => String.IsNullOrEmpty(y) ? x : string.Concat(x, "~", y));
}

Does anyone see where I'm going wrong?
Edit
No exceptions are raised, but when I step through the code, when I get to the linq, it steps into the dispose method of the unitofwork that is hosting the query. Very odd.
If I change it so that it searches against a hard-coded string, it works as expected:
var test = (from    person
            in      base._objectSet
            where   SearchWords.All(word => "John~Doe~Team A~Full Time".Contains(word))
            select person).ToList();

well, it works in that it matches the queries I expect it to, but as it's static, it returns every person record (pretty much like having where(true) =P)
Edit the Second
Even odder is that if I store the results into a var, then return the var with a breakpoint on the return, execution never hits the breakpoint... this linq is like a black hole... I can step into it, but it never returns me back to my SearchPeople method... it just disposes the context and forgets about it.
Edit the Third
If I don't call ToString() right away and look at the linq expression in debugger, it says "Linq to Entities does not recognize the method getProperties(Person)" Looks like it was silently choking on my method... any way to use my method without linq choking on it?

A: You are returning a List? try the return type to be a List or change the .ToList() to be AsEnumerable()
public List<Person> SearchPeople(string searchString)
{
    if (searchString == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchString.Trim()))
        return base._objectSet.ToList();

    string[] SearchWords = searchString.Split(',').Select(s => s.Trim()).ToArray();

    return (from    person
            in      base._objectSet
            let     t = (getProperties(person))
            where   SearchWords.All(word => t.Contains(word))
            select  person).ToList();
}

A: Well, after finding out that linq 2 entites doesn't like methods (as is doesn't know how to translate it to sql), i rewrote my linq is a very tedious but functioning manner:
var people = from    p
             in      base._objectSet
             where   SearchWords.All(p.GivenName.Contains(word) || p.Surname.Contains(word) || p.(???).Contains(word) || etc.)
                    select p;

Annoying, but there you go.

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Doom (British band)
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Doom are an English hardcore punk band from Birmingham whose first lineup were together from 1987 to 1990. Despite its short existence, the band is considered pivotal in the rise of crust punk, a punk rock style that fuses extreme metal with anarcho-punk. They recorded for Peaceville Records and are cited as an early precursor to grindcore. Doom were also a favourite of BBC Radio DJ John Peel.
Doom performing in 2018 at the Temple of Boom in Leeds.
The Subverters (1987)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Crust punk,[1] hardcore punk[1]
1987–1990, 1992–2005, 2010–present
Black Cloud,[2] Peaceville, Profane Existence, Moshpit Tragedy
Lazarus Blackstar, Haxan, Police Bastard, Corvus, Sore Throat, Nailbomb
Bri Doom
Tony "Stick" Dickens
Jon Pickering
Jason Hodges
Mick Harris
Pete Nash
Dave Talbot
Tom Croft
Paul "Mall" Mallen
Wayne Southworth
1.1 Early history
1.3 1990s
2.1 Timeline
4 References and external links
Early historyEdit
Doom began as The Subverters with Jon Pickering (bass/vocals), Bri Doom (guitar) and Jason Hodges (drums). After Jason was replaced by new drummer Mick Harris the band changed its name to Doom.
This lineup played several concerts in a crossover metal style. Bri and Jon decided this wasn't the direction they wanted the band to move in. Consequently, they left the metal style of music and decided to move toward a Discharge-influenced crust punk-style that Doom became known for. At this time, Pickering dropped bass to concentrate on vocals, and Pete Nash replaced him on bass. Harris also left the band and was replaced by Tony "Stick" Dickens. The band began rehearsing with this line-up in mid 1987.
1987-1990Edit
About this time a small label called Peaceville Records was starting up. They heard about Doom through word of mouth and asked if they were interested in contributing songs to the first Peaceville compilation A Vile Peace. Doom went into the studio to record their first demo on 28 August 1987. Nash unfortunately broke his wrist just before Doom's recording debut, so bass player Jim Whitley (of Napalm Death and Ripcord fame) filled in on the recording. Three songs were recorded (two of which appeared on A Vile Peace).
On the strength of this first recording Peaceville asked Doom if they would record a full LP for them, which they agreed to do. The War is Big Business demo was recorded on 27 November 1987, which the band sold as a cassette at gigs. In February 1988, Doom went into "Rich Bitch" studios and recorded 21 songs for their debut album War Crimes (Inhuman Beings). All this time the band gigged constantly in the UK building up a following on the way. Another demo Domesday was also produced.
At the end of 1988, due to personal commitments Bri announced that he would be leaving the band. He stayed long enough to record the split LP Bury the Debt - Not the Dead (with Swedish band No Security) on the Peaceville label. The Police Bastard EP (on discarded records) was also recorded at the same session. Doom were also invited to record two sessions for Radio One's John Peel show around this point. Bri left the band in April 1989 after completing a lengthy European tour.
Doom continued with different guitarists, most notably with Dave Talbot who co-founded UK doom metal band Solstice with Sore Throat's vocalist Rich Walker, but did not settle with four members for long playing numerous gigs as a three piece, as Pickering turned to vocal and guitar duties. This line up continued until a final split in August 1990. Following the group's demise Pickering formed Cain, then Police Bastard, whilst drummer Stick and bassist Nash joined Extreme Noise Terror. Stick then joined DIRT and Nash joined Filthkick and Cain.
1990sEdit
The band reformed in 1992 with the earlier line up of Bri, Jon, Pete and Stick. They toured Japan and recorded a 12" of new songs released on the label Vinyl Japan. This proved to be the last recording with this line up. About this point the band almost split up but Bri and Stick decided to continue with two new members. These being Tom Croft from Genital Deformities on vocals and Paul "Mall" Mallen on bass guitar. This line up recorded the split album with Selfish and a split 7" EP with Hiatus. Mall left shortly afterwards (an amicable parting). He was replaced by bassist Scoot from Largactyl.
This line up recorded the split 7" EP Doomed to Extinction with Extinction of Mankind, the Fuck Peaceville double LP, and the Hail to Sweden 7" EP. This is also the line up who appear on the Videodoom video on MCR recorded on a European tour in 1994
A tour of Scandinavia was organised for September 1995, however Scoot decided not to go due to problems at home, so he was replaced by of Blood Sucking Freaks, moving to second guitar after the tour. Tom Croft also left just before the tour and was replaced by Wayne Southworth (also of Blood Sucking Freaks). While on the Scandinavian tour Doom recorded the Monarchy Zoo 7" EP at Sunlight Studios.
The band, now composed of, Stick, Bri, Wayne and Chris, went into the studio in June 1996 and recorded a full LP for Flat Earth, Called Rush Hour of the Gods.
Bri would go on to join Khang, this band then evolving into Lazarus Blackstar. moved to Sweden and formed Murdered Cop and then Gloomy Sunday. Stick is also part of the band RUIN. Pickering went on to form Police Bastard and Haxan and Nash later formed Corvus.
On 18 March 2005 Wayne Southworth (lead singer) was found dead in his home by a friend. The cause of death was an epileptic seizure.[citation needed]
The band then played at the 1 in 12 club, Bradford, England one last time without Wayne Southworth in tribute of their friend.
In 2013 Doom toured Canada for the first time and released a new track ("Stripped, Whipped & Crucified, Part I") from their upcoming LP ("Corrupt Fucking System") on a compilation entitled "25 Years of Crust" via Moshpit Tragedy.
In 2015 while Doom was on their South American tour, a stampede formed outside their show in Chile. This was the cause of death of five fans. [3]
Brian "Bri Doom" Talbot - guitar, vocals (1987-1989, 1992-2005, 2010-present)
Tony "Stick" Dickens – drums (1987-1990, 1992-2005, 2010-present)
Scoot – bass (1992-1995, 2010–present), guitar (1995)
Denis Boardman – vocals (1995-present), bass (1995-96), guitar (1995-2000)
Jon Pickering – vocals (1987-1990, 1992), bass (1987), guitar (1989-1990, 1992)
Tom Croft – vocals (1992-1995)
Wayne Southworth – vocals (1995-2005; died 2005)
David Talbot – guitars (1989)
Pete Nash – bass, vocals (1987-1990, 1992)
Paul "Mall" Mallen – bass (1992)
Chris Gascoigne – bass (1995)
Andy Irving – bass (2004-2005)
Jason Hodges – drums (1987)
Mick Harris – drums (1987)
Touring members
Jim Whitley – bass (August 1988, only studio from the A Vile Peace record)
TimelineEdit
DiscographyEdit
War Crimes (Inhuman Beings) LP (1988, Peaceville Records)
Bury the Debt - Not the Dead split LP w/ No Security (1989, Peaceville Records)
The Greatest Invention LP/CD (1993, Vinyl Japan)
Pro-Life Control split LP/CD w/ Selfish (1994, Ecocentric Records)
Rush Hour of the Gods LP/CD (1996, Flat Earth)
World of Shit LP/CD (2001, Vinyl Japan)
Corrupt Fucking System LP (2013, Black Cloud)
EPs/demos
War is Big Business Demo Tape (1987, discarded tapes)
Police Bastard 7" (1989, Profane Existence) (More than 20,000 copies sold. Second best selling crust 7", after Aus-Rotten's "Fuck Nazi Sympathy")[citation needed]
Live in Japan 7" (1992, Ecocentric Records)
Lost the Fight 7" (1993, Flat Earth/Nabate)
Doomed to Extinction split 7" w/ Extinction of Mankind (1994, Ecocentric Records)
Hail to Sweden 7" (1995, Pandora's Box)
Pissed Robbed & Twatted - Live in Slovenia 7" (1996, Nuclear Sun Punk)
Monarchy Zoo 7"/CD EP (1996, Vinyl Japan)
split 10" w/ Cress (1998, Flat Earth)
Consumed to Death (2015, Black Cloud)
Compilations/reissues/live
Total Doom CD (1989, Peaceville Records) Jon Pickering (vocals); Bri (guitar); Peter Nash (bass guitar); Stick (drums).
Doomed from the Start LP/CD (1992, Vinyl Japan)
Fuck Peaceville 2xLP/CD (1995, Profane Existence)
Peel Sessions CD (1996, Vinyl Japan)
Back & Gone Double Live CD & DVD Live video (2006, MCR)
Doomed Again (2012, Agipunk)
25 Years of Crust Digital Sampler (2013, Moshpit Tragedy)
Compilation appearances
A Vile Peace LP (1987, Peaceville Records)
Hardcore Holocaust (The 87-88 Peel Sessions) LP (1988, Strange Fruit Records)
Spleurk! LP (1988, Meantime Records)
Volnitza: The Worst of the 1 in 12 Club Vol. 6/7 2xLP (1989, 1 in 12 Records)
Hardcore Holocaust II LP/tape (1990, Strange Fruit Records)
Vile Vibes CD - (1990, Peaceville Records)
Hardcore Resistance Tape - (1991, Heed the Ball!)
Endless Struggle: The Worst of the 1 in 12 Club vol. 12/13 2xLP (1995, 1 in 12 Records)
Gay Pride 7" (1995, Rugger Bugger Records)
Aftermath LP/CD (1999, Aftermath Records)
References and external linksEdit
"Biography and Family Tree". Doom's Official Band Website. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
"Doom Official Facebook". Doom's Official Facebook Page. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
"Doom". Rock Detector: The World's Biggest Rock Music Database. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
"Sozzfest - Wayne Southworth". 1 in 12 Club. Retrieved 22 December 2006.
^ a b Savage, Emily. "EVERLASTING DOOM | Darkness descends on Ventura when Doom and Phobia come to The Garage". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ "DOOM :: Black Cloud Records". www.doomcrustpunk.com.
^ Doom: Teníamos garantías de que el promotor tomó suficientes medidas de seguridad, ADN Radio Chile, 17 Apr 2015 (in Spanish).
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MO: There hasn't been too much change, except that the demand for my music has increased. Sometimes, it becomes difficult to match up to the expectations of the audience, but I'm taking my time to put out new music.
ELLE: Has music always been a part of your life?
MO: My brother taught me how to play the guitar when I was 15. From there, there was no turning back. And music is in my blood, too: my grandfather is a renowned folk singer-songwriter, my aunt is an Indian classical musician, and my uncle, Nicholas Dann, is a well-known folk singer-songwriter in Shillong. I draw a lot from them.
ELLE: What's on your playlist right now?
MO: I like music that is honest about love, hate, or struggle. I'm currently bumping to artists like Internet and J Cole. But it also depends on my mood, so sometimes I go way back to Salt-N Pepa, SWV, and Da Brat. H.E.R's I Used To Know Her would be my favourite currently. There's also this pop duo called Oh Wonder that I cannot stop listening to.
ELLE: And who would you say has influenced your work the most?
MO: Alicia Keys, with her raw vocals. Beyoncé, whose effortless stage performance and personality is out of this world. Lauryn Hill's versatility and honesty with respect to her craft is close to perfect. Her The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill spoke truth to me as few others could.
ELLE: What are you working on next?
MO: Everything is happening so fast—interviews, shows, shoots…and after a long day, I come back home and it's only when I finally decide to sleep that ideas come to mind. There are a lot of things to write about. But like I said, I'm taking my time to refine my rhymes.
ELLE: In the next five years you want to…
MO: See myself as the woman that I aspire to be right now. I want to be so many things that sometimes I tend to get lost. But being with the right people brings me back to square one, and I'm grateful that they are such positive influences in my life.
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Q: Trigger in SQL Server 2012 My first post here, and a newbie in SQL Server
I have written a few triggers before, This one does not seems to work. Is it my nested select? I'm not getting any errors. Just nothing is e-mailed.
Use ABCTRAINING

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

alter TRIGGER TAXPERCENT
   ON  [dbo].[AP101_VOUCHER_DISTR] AFTER update AS

declare @VAT numeric(15,2),
@Total numeric(15,2),
@VATPERCENT numeric(15,2),
@Voucher nvarchar(max),
@AMT numeric(15,2),
@GL numeric(15,2)

Select @Voucher = i.ap101_voucher,
@AMT = i.ap101_amt,
@GL = i.AP101_GL_ACCT,
@VAT = (select sum(iif(@GL = '70102501110' or @GL = '70102501120',@AMT,0))),
@Total = (select sum(@AMT)),
@VATPERCENT = @VAT/(@Total-@VAT)
from inserted i

if @VATPERCENT <> 0.140

BEGIN
DECLARE @msg nvarchar(MAX)
Declare @Subj varchar(MAX)
Declare @EM nvarchar(MAX)
SET @msg = 'The VAT on this Voucher ' + @Voucher + ' ' + 'does not equal 14% ' + ' ' + @VATPERCENT
SET @Subj = 'Voucher Error'
set @EM = 'xxxxxx@company.co.za'

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@importance ='High',
@recipients=@EM,
@body= @msg,
@subject = @Subj,
@body_format = 'HTML',
@profile_name = 'ABC Profile'
END

Any help will be appreciated
Thanks

A: In the specific case, yes you're correct that the nested select will not work.
Select @Voucher = i.ap101_voucher,
@AMT = i.ap101_amt,
@GL = i.AP101_GL_ACCT,
@VAT = (select sum(iif(@GL = '70102501110' or @GL = '70102501120',@AMT,0))),
@Total = (select sum(@AMT)),
@VATPERCENT = @VAT/(@Total-@VAT)
from inserted i

At the point at which the nested select is executed, @GL and @AMT haven't been assigned values. All of the columns in a SELECT clause are (effectively/logically) computed in parallel.
As I said in a comment, you also need to treat inserted as a table. It can contain zero, one or many rows.
I can't as yet re-write this into a cleaner form since I'm unsure why you wrote the subselect in the first place and what it was intended to produce.


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Tropico 4 es un videojuego de construcción y gestión desarrollado por Haemimont Games y publicado el 26 de agosto de 2011. El jugador asume el papel del líder de una isla tropical en el contexto de la Guerra Fría. Es la secuela de Tropico 3, del mismo desarrollador, que es a su vez una actualización del popular Tropico.

Jugabilidad

Islas

El juego cuenta con 10 mapas preconfigurados, pero el jugador puede hacer su propia isla eligiendo "Isla Aleatoria". Tras la elección de la isla al azar, el jugador puede personalizar el tamaño de la isla, la vegetación, los depósitos minerales, y la elevación del terreno, así como otros parámetros del juego; sin embargo el editor de mapas no se encuentra disponible en la versión de Xbox 360. Hay varios paquetes de expansión que también darán acceso a más islas.

Creador del personaje

Después de la elección de la isla, el jugador puede elegir un avatar, o puede hacer su propio avatar. En personalizar personaje, los jugadores pueden elegir: el género, el vestuario, el tono de piel, sombrero, peinado, accesorios, bigote, barba, aretes, características, calidad y la forma de ascenso al poder. Después de completar una misión, los rasgos actuales de los personajes irán subiendo de nivel.

Vista principal

Los siguientes elementos son visibles en la vista principal: minimapa, la población, la felicidad, la fecha en curso, controles de velocidad, botón de menú, botones de HUD, superposiciones, edictos , Seleccionar Avatar, almanaque, tarea. Tropico 4 utiliza una interfaz point-and-click de serie.

Campaña

La campaña del juego consta de 20 misiones repartidas en 10 mapas diferentes. Empiezan con el personaje del jugador, "El Presidente", que tiene control ocupándose de la isla de Tropico. Las importaciones pueden ser monitoreados, así como las exportaciones (mientras que los anteriores juegos de la serie sólo se permite para la cobertura de las exportaciones). Tropico 4 incluye más superpotencias. Existe un consejo de Ministros con el que el jugador puede consultar sobre una serie de cuestiones diferentes. El jugador tendrá que hacer frente a los desastres naturales y las demandas de los diferentes sectores políticos, cada uno con su propio punto de vista ideológico. Una versión de Xbox 360 y de Steam (una plataforma de distribución de juegos de PC) se hará que incluye otra isla para el modo de recinto de seguridad y otro par de ropa para el encargo de El Presidente. Está situado a salir a la venta 1 día después de la fecha de lanzamiento. En el nuevo juego, habrá 20 nuevos edificios, incluyendo un centro comercial.

El juego tiene una variedad de elementos de humor, como comentarios satíricos de la emisora de radio ficticia Tropico Noticias Hoy en día, y los toques sutiles, como enlace entre los sacerdotes y chicas de cabaret. La "carga" y pantallas de "ahorro" tienen citas de varios dictadores, líderes, políticos y revolucionarios, como Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladímir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leonid Brézhnev, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Jruschov, Lev Trotski, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladímir Putin, Josip Broz Tito, Muammar Gaddafi y Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Al igual que sus predecesores, cuenta con una banda sonora de América, esta vez elaborada principalmente a partir de los álbumes Elementos y' Oñejo" por Alex Torres y su orquesta.

 Trama

El juego sigue al protagonista, El Presidente, como trabaja para restaurar el poder que perdió en el Caribe después de evitar una guerra nuclear perpetrada por el vicepresidente de los EE. UU. con el fin de llegar al poder. Se divide en tres actos:

 Alcanzar el poder

El Presidente llega a su nueva isla donde comienza su meta de construir una nación ideal para su pueblo. Para ello, se centra su gestión en varias islas, el desarrollo del potencial económico de cada uno, hasta que es expulsado del poder después de ser acusado del asesinato del actual presidente de EE.UU. . Él entonces se ve obligado a huir de su país y se dirige a otras partes del Tropico.

 La venganza

Obligado a tomar una nueva identidad y huir de su república, El Presidente comienza su venganza mediante el establecimiento de una base de poder en la Isla Oscura. El Presidente se entera de que fue víctima de una conspiración que implica Keith Preston, el director general de Fruitas Inc. (una parodia de la United Fruit Company), el líder de los rebeldes Marco Moreno (una parodia de Che Guevara), UN Inspector Brunhilde Van Hoof (una parodia de Margaret Thatcher) y su antiguo mentor Generalísimo Santana. Después de la promulgación de su venganza contra los conspiradores y limpiar su nombre, El Presidente recupera su posición como gobernante legítimo de Tropico.

 El Regreso

Se restituyó en el poder, El Presidente se centra en la reconstrucción de su país, hasta que sus antiguos enemigos vuelven a aparecer y le venden información sobre el verdadero cerebro detrás de su caída: el vicepresidente de los EE. UU. , Nick Richards (una parodia de Richard Nixon), que planeaba asumir la presidencia de EE.UU. Y parte del plan de Nick es: mandar a matar al presidente de Estados Unidos e incriminarlos. Alrededor de este tiempo ,la perestroika ¨golpea¨ a la URSS y Tropico ofrece su ayuda a la nación, a cambio de pruebas que incriminaran a Nick Richards lo que conduce a su ¨desaparición¨. El Presidente, luego, pone los toques finales para hacer de Tropico una nación poderosa y próspera.

 Facciones

Como El Presidente, el jugador puede ver todas las necesidades de los ciudadanos, la felicidad, habilidades, pensamientos e ideología política. Las demandas de los tropicanos incluyen la alimentación, la salud, el ocio y la fe. Estos deben ser cumplidas por la construcción de edificios específicos: Si los ciudadanos exigen el ocio , el jugador debe tratar de construir un bar, un restaurante, una sala de cine o alguna otra forma de entretenimiento.

Hay una variedad de facciones en Tropico, capaz influir en la estrategia del jugador. Los tropicanos pueden unirse a las facciones de diferentes maneras: algunos se apoyará radicalmente una de las facciones, algunas menos radical, pero siguen siendo leales, algunos cambian de lado de acuerdo a la situación, y algunos no prefieren unirse a ciertas facciones o ninguna facción en absoluto. Apelando a las facciones necesita es un elemento clave para mantener a la población bajo control y evitar ser derrocado, ya sea por un golpe de Estado o por tener lo derrotó en las elecciones que se celebran de vez en cuando. Sin embargo, las políticas y las demandas de algunas facciones están en conflicto con las de los demás.

Los capitalistas son los ricos y emprendedores de la isla. Naturalmente, su agenda los ha enfrentado a los comunistas. Respetan la seguridad de la alta delincuencia, la carga de la vivienda, y que tiene una economía diversa y competitiva. Ellos son dirigidos por Antonio López, un oportunista rico que promueve la venta de productos peligrosos e incluso vende armas a los rebeldes por el dinero fácil. Si no se cumplen las exigencias capitalistas, comenzarán recurrir al robo para hacer dinero y se roban una parte de todos los ingresos.

Los comunistas son la mayor facción, más preocupada por la calidad de la vivienda y la asistencia sanitaria en la isla. Camarada Vásquez, su líder, es un comunista excéntrico que con frecuencia brota consignas comunistas. En el caso de que los comunistas estén tristes, los rebeldes de Cuba comienzan a infiltrarse en su isla y luchar en contra de su régimen.

Los intelectuales son más progresistas, en contra de la facción religiosa más conservadora y los militaristas espartanos. Ellos son dirigidos por Miss Piña, quien también es amante del Presidente y una bailarina de cabaret. Los intelectuales prefieren edictos que benefician al sector educativo, y son fácilmente agitados por algunos otros, especialmente la quema de libros, lo que les hace volver atrás. Molestar a los Intelectuales provocaría la protesta estudiantil, por lo que es por lo que no graduado tropicanos de los institutos o universidades.

Los religiosos son una facción católica conservadora liderada por el reverendo Esteban, un borracho que utiliza ron durante sus sermones para adorar a Dios. Ellos están muy preocupados por la fe entre los tropicanos, y la construcción de iglesias y catedrales aumenta su influencia. Si se siente mal la facción religiosa,los sacerdotes y obispos hablarán en contra de usted, extendiendo la disidencia entre cualquiera que asisten a los sermones de la isla.

Los militaristas están interesados en la defensa de Tropico. Son bastante grandes, y la falta de partidarios podría dar lugar a rebeliones, ataques terroristas o invasiones. El general Rodríguez lleva los militaristas. Los militaristas son en su mayoría los detractores de los intelectuales, por lo que son en su mayoría analfabetos. Los bajos salarios de los soldados pueden hacer que los militaristas den un golpe de Estado.

Los ambientalistas se esfuerzan por preservar la belleza natural de Tropico. Liderados por los hippie Sunny Flores, presentadora y teórico de la conspiración. Se oponen a cualquier intento de cicatrizar el medio ambiente, incluso con fines económicos, como la tala y la minería, y por lo tanto son los detractores de los capitalistas. La aprobación de leyes contra la contaminación los apaciguan. Si no son apaciguados, los ecologistas intentarán bloquear sus edificios industriales.

Los nacionalistas están a cargo del cuidado y la preservación de las personas Tropicanas y sus costumbres. Por lo general, se oponen a los inmigrantes, que, según el líder del Diablo, una violenta [ [ skinhead ] ], tomar trabajos lucrativos fuera de tropicanos. Se opondrá a cualquier política en el extranjero amistoso, y están en desacuerdo con los comunistas y los capitalistas. Cuando se ignora, los nacionalistas comenzarán disturbios en la isla. Estos disturbios aumentan rápidamente en batallas entre tropicanos e inmigrantes.

Los leales son una facción que siempre es leal a El Presidente. Son guiados por el asesor personal de El Presidente, Penúltimo. La mayoría de sus miembros tienen una inteligencia inferior a la media y se les ha lavado el cerebro con toda la propaganda embellecedora del Presidente. Nunca se rebelarán, a cambio exigen que el Presidente actúa como un "verdadero líder", y rehúye la democracia y cultiva su imagen a través de instalaciones como un museo dedicado a la infancia del Presidente.

 Desarrollo

El juego fue anunciado a mediados del mes de agosto de 2010 en un comunicado de prensa de la editorial, Kalypso Media. . Tropico 4 fue lanzado en Xbox 360 y PC, ya que es el sucesor de  Tropico 3   Sin embargo a diferencia de sus predecesores, Tropico 4 se puede jugar a través de la plataforma de OnLive.

 Demostración

Una versión demo fue lanzado el LIVE Marketplace y Xbox Steam. Tropico 4 Demo está disponible conteniendo 4 misiones de tutorial y 1 misión de la campaña . Muchos edificios no están disponibles para la construcción.

 Expansión y DLC

Una expansión, titulada "Modern Times, fue lanzada el 27 de marzo de 2012. Cuenta con una nueva campaña para un jugador que tiene lugar un año después de los acontecimientos de Trópico 4. Tras el éxito de El Presidente en la reconstrucción de Trópico, que deja en unas merecidas vacaciones, sólo para encontrar que su lacayo Penúltimo previsiblemente corrió a toda la nación a la tierra cuando regrese, en medio de la crisis económica de 2008. Mientras se trabaja para poner al país de nuevo en marcha, El Presidente se cruza con la organización en la sombra escurridiza "El Cónclave" y le toca a él ayudar a salvar al mundo de nuevo mientras se llena los bolsillos.

El 15 de diciembre, el primero de los muchos paquetes de contenido descargable fue lanzado, titulado  Junta . Desde entonces, varios paquetes de contenido descargable más han sido publicados, entre ellos  Plantador , cemento de secado rápido , Pirata Cielo , Megalópolis , Vigilante , Voodoo   Propaganda ! , la Academia  y el más reciente DLC ,  Apocalypse . Cada paquete de contenido descargable incluye nuevos edificios, una nueva isla, una nueva misión, una nueva característica, y, dependiendo de la DLC, nuevas opciones de ropa para El Presidente y nueva decoración. El DLC  Modern Times  también moderniza la jugabilidad añadiendo en eventos y tales que habría ocurrido un poco antes o durante el día de hoy.

Recepción

El juego ha recibido críticas generalmente positivas y tiene una puntuación de 77/100 en la Metacritic  Basado en 28 comentarios ( 78/100 en el PC )  La mayoría de los críticos han elogiado el título por su modo de juego adictivo, gran sentido del humor y el exceso de variedad. Sin embargo, un número de comentarios ha citado Tropico 4 para soportar demasiadas similitudes con su predecesor , así como la falta de innovación . GameSpot comentó que " Tropico 4 es una secuela simpática y atractiva que amplia a su predecesor, pero no ofrece mucha mayor profundidad . " IGN  declaró que "si usted es el tipo que se pasaba horas con juegos de gestión Civilization o SimCity , o tiene una necesidad enfermiza de estar en el control, entonces es tiempo para convertirse en El Presidente ".

Requisitos PC
Requisitos Minimos:

 SO: Windows XP SP3 (32 bits), Vista / 7 (32 o 64 bits)
 Procesador: Dual Core a 2 GHz
 Memoria: 1 GB de RAM
 Gráficos: Shader Model 3.0 (Geforce 6600 o superior, familia Radeon X1600), 256 MB de VRAM, DirectX 9.0c
 Versión de DirectX®: 9.0c
 Disco Duro: 5 GB de espacio libre
 Sonido: Dispositivo compatible con DirectX

Requisitos Recomendados:

 SO: Windows Vista / 7 (32 o 64 bits)
 Procesador: Quad Core a 2 GHz
 Memoria: 2 GB de RAM
 Gráficos: Shader Model 3.0 (Geforce 8800 o superior, familia Radeon HD4000 o superior), 512 MB de VRAM, DirectX 9.0c
 Versión de DirectX®: 9.0c
 Disco Duro: 5 GB de espacio libre
 Sonido: Dispositivo compatible con DirectX

Enlaces externos

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Terence Crawford's Next Fight To Be In Madison Square Garden
Shakur Stevenson
Terence Crawford's next fight not only will take place outside of his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, but will now take place at Madison Square Garden thanks to a recent venue change.
Related Article Alexander Volkanovski Wants Conor McGregor: "Only One Other Champion I Haven't Fought"
Crawford was set to defend his unified light welterweight title against Felix Diaz on May 29 in Newark, New Jersey before fight officials decided to move it to Madison Square Garden.
Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN they wanted to try and change the Garden, hoping there would be an open spot for the fight card to take place.
"When we were in town for the Conlan fight they asked us why we were going to the Prudential Center," duBoef said. "We know how hard it is to get a Saturday night at the Garden at that time of year. We assumed the Garden was off limits because they always have so many dates they have to hold for the NBA and NHL playoffs. But they said, 'Listen, there may be an opportunity. Would you be open to shifting the fight to the Garden? I said, 'We love going to the Garden.' They said, 'Are you interested? We think we can pull it off.'"
Top Rank looked to Newark in part because featherweight Shakur Stevenson, the 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, is from Newark and will have his second professional fight on the card and figured to bring a crowd.
Even though Stevenson would have brought in a more local feel to the card, but duBoef said Crawford would serve better as a headliner at the Garden and said Top Rank could explore Newark in the future once Stevenson develops more as a pro fighter. Another reason for the fight taking place in New York City is Diaz's Dominican roots and the potential for drawing in a larger crowd due to the large number of Dominicans in the city.
"Felix Diaz has Dominican roots and there is a strong Dominican presence in New York," duBoef said. "The Garden said they will be very aggressive in marketing the fight and we were able to work something out."
Crawford had fought in Omaha in four of his last seven fights, including his most recent fight. The two fighters kicked off their press tour this week. Madison Square Garden will most likely have about 10,000 seats open, which is about half of the maximum capacity that the Garden can hold.


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from __future__ import absolute_import
from .base_model_ import Model
from datetime import date, datetime
from typing import List, Dict
from ..util import deserialize_model

class DashboardUrl(Model):
    """
    NOTE: This class is auto generated by the swagger code generator program.
    Do not edit the class manually.
    """
    def __init__(self, dashboard_url: str=None, operation: str=None):
        """
        DashboardUrl - a model defined in Swagger

        :param dashboard_url: The dashboard_url of this DashboardUrl.
        :type dashboard_url: str
        :param operation: The operation of this DashboardUrl.
        :type operation: str
        """
        self.swagger_types = {
            'dashboard_url': str,
            'operation': str
        }

        self.attribute_map = {
            'dashboard_url': 'dashboard_url',
            'operation': 'operation'
        }

        self._dashboard_url = dashboard_url
        self._operation = operation

    @classmethod
    def from_dict(cls, dikt) -> 'DashboardUrl':
        """
        Returns the dict as a model

        :param dikt: A dict.
        :type: dict
        :return: The DashboardUrl of this DashboardUrl.
        :rtype: DashboardUrl
        """
        return deserialize_model(dikt, cls)

    @property
    def dashboard_url(self) -> str:
        """
        Gets the dashboard_url of this DashboardUrl.
        \"The URL of a web-based management user interface for the service instance; we refer to this as a service dashboard. The URL should contain enough information for the dashboard to identify the resource being accessed (in the example below). For information on how users can authenticate with service dashboards via SSO.\"

        :return: The dashboard_url of this DashboardUrl.
        :rtype: str
        """
        return self._dashboard_url

    @dashboard_url.setter
    def dashboard_url(self, dashboard_url: str):
        """
        Sets the dashboard_url of this DashboardUrl.
        \"The URL of a web-based management user interface for the service instance; we refer to this as a service dashboard. The URL should contain enough information for the dashboard to identify the resource being accessed (in the example below). For information on how users can authenticate with service dashboards via SSO.\"

        :param dashboard_url: The dashboard_url of this DashboardUrl.
        :type dashboard_url: str
        """

        self._dashboard_url = dashboard_url

    @property
    def operation(self) -> str:
        """
        Gets the operation of this DashboardUrl.
        \"For async responses, service brokers can return operation state as a string. This field will be provided back to the service broker on last_operation requests as a URL encoded query param.\"

        :return: The operation of this DashboardUrl.
        :rtype: str
        """
        return self._operation

    @operation.setter
    def operation(self, operation: str):
        """
        Sets the operation of this DashboardUrl.
        \"For async responses, service brokers can return operation state as a string. This field will be provided back to the service broker on last_operation requests as a URL encoded query param.\"

        :param operation: The operation of this DashboardUrl.
        :type operation: str
        """

        self._operation = operation


I never did this in 14 years of a corporate career, and it didn't harm me one whit. I had many promotions and ended up running a large department.
In the last year there (my 15th) I only did it once - two months before I got laid off - and it had no effect on my evil boss's decision to force me out, so the correlation between sacrifice for the company and gain is zero IMO.
And think about it this way - would the company sacrifice for you? Not really. It lays off people when it needs to - which may be a sensible business decision. But it also makes the sensible business decision to offer its employees paid vacation time, which one is entitled to use. Not taking it because of dedication to one's job is silly.


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Cardi B Says Fans Will Have to Listen to Her Album to Find Out If She's Pregnant
By Jennifer Drysdale 4:10 PM PDT, April 5, 2018
Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Images for Rolling Stone
Cardi B isn't ready to reveal everything just yet.
During an interview with Ebro Darden for an interview on Beats 1 on Apple Music on Thursday, the 25-year-old rapper was asked about the rumors that she's expecting her first child with fiance Offset -- but she didn't give much of an answer.
Cardi, who didn't show signs of a baby bump in a pajama-inspired dress, instead implied that a possible pregnancy reveal (or denial) would take place on her upcoming album, Invasion of Privacy, which drops on Friday.
"Well, you know, I just feel like people have to tune in a little bit on my album, and they will know a little bit more," she teased. "Because it's like, I can't address all the rumors and everything."
"I have been so open to people about myself. People cannot expect me to open [up] about everything. Certain things to me, it has to be private," she continued. "You cannot invade my privacy. I'm not a damn animal at the zoo that you just can see everything. No."
Cardi and Offset both denied pregnancy rumors after they first circulated in early February, but according to reports, she's currently expecting -- and planning to perform at Coachella this month and tour with Bruno Mars later this year.
Cardi B Gets Candid About Her Decision to Stay With Fiancé Offset Amid Cheating Rumors
The couple was also plagued by rumors of infidelity earlier this year, but Cardi made it clear that the two were going to stick it out.
"It's like everybody is coming down my neck like, 'Why are you not leaving him? You have low self-esteem,'" Cardi told Cosmopolitanin February. "I don't have low self-esteem… I know I look good. I know I'm rich, I know I'm talented. I know I could get any man I want -- any basketball player, football player. But I want to work out my s**t with my man, and I don't got to explain why."
"I'm not your property. This is my life," she continues. "I'm going to take my time, and I'm going to decide on my decision… It's not right, what he f**king did, but people don't know what I did, 'cause I ain't no angel."
See more on Cardi in the video below.
Cardi B to Co-Host 'The Tonight Show' With Jimmy Fallon
Cardi B and Fiancé Offset Pack on the PDA in NSFW 'Bartier Cardi' Video -- Watch!
Cardi B Calls Out Haters Who Discredit Her Success
Cardi B Says She Was a 'Little Bit Happier' Before Fame


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Rifleman Q & A: 7.65 mm Or .32 ACP?
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Q: I have a German 7.65 mm Browning-chambered Ortgies semi-automatic pistol, and when using .32 ACP cartridges (as local dealers recommend) it tends to jam after shooting three to five rounds. The jamming appears to be at the time of ejection of a spent case. My question is: Are .32 ACP cartridges really the same as 7.65 mm Browning or is there a slight difference? If so, where can I purchase 7.65 mm ammunition, as no one locally supplies true 7.65 mm, and places like Sportsman's Guide or Cabela's, etc., don't handle that exact cartridge either?
A: While the .32 ACP and 7.65 mm Browning cartridges are dimensionally identical, some early European ammunition was loaded to slightly higher pressures, which can cause a problem similar to yours. The best way to address that is at the gun. First, I would make sure it is clean and well-lubricated. Then, if the problem persists, contact Wolff Gunsprings at (800) 545-0077 or at gunsprings.com. The company is very knowledgeable and should be able to suggest a reduced-power mainspring.
—Charles E. Petty
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JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri State Museum is giving residents a chance to enjoy "Museum After Hours" during the night-time hours. Those attending can also see a special exhibit called "Trunkful of Treasures."
Artist Florence Klusman created a whole collection of miniature items from paper including home furnishing with a rag run and flower pot, as well as many other treasures.
Some say the prize of her collection is a 1907 Case tractor replica complete with working parts made from old issues from the Kansas City Star. The "treasures" will be in the museum classroom. A museum staff member will be on hand to talk about the Klusman collection.
The exhibit will be in the museum classroom, which is located in the history hall. The event will usually be held the first Wednesday of each month.
"Museum after Hours" is an opportunity for those who have wondered what it would be like to visit a museum at night or for those whose schedule does not permit visiting a museum during normal business hours.
Missouri State Museum Hosting "Museum After Hours"