Germany worldwide Sane was missing from City's matchday squad as goals from Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker secured a 2-1 victory that moved the champions to within two points of leaders Liverpool and Chelsea.
Manchester City winger Leroy Sane reportedly faces an uncertain future at the Etihad Stadium after being dropped by Pep Guardiola for Saturday's meeting with Newcastle United.
Did Man City miss Leroy Sane? . The Germany worldwide hasn't started any of City's league games this season and didn't even make the squad with reports circulating that Pep Guardiola has grown frustrated with the forward's attitude, but considering the chances his team mates missed, you have to ask if his side missed him.
Both goalkeepers excelled in the 65th minute as City's Ederson picked out substitute Bernardo Silva with a clever underarm throw.
If Newcastle captain Jamaal Lascelles, restored to the starting lineup after injury, was looking to redeem himself after a reported training ground fracas with Matt Ritchie, the centre back failed miserably.
Aguero, who came into the match having scored 14 goals in 11 appearances against Newcastle, whipped an effort wide from distance while Gabriel Jesus shot straight at Dubravka as City laid siege on Newcastle's goal. The physical battle with John Stones and Aymeric Laporte was one to relish and some wonderfully astute play created Yedlin's goal.


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Q: Wifi internet connection keeps dropping. Need to restart NetworkManager always to work I have a problem with my WiFi internet connection. It keeps dropping even-though I'm still connected to the network. The thing I did always when it occurs is to type this command:
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

Then my internet connection comes back.
I will post my driver version below and other info hoping that someone will be able to help me resolve the issue.
bukojuice@Ubuntu-xps:~$ uname -r
5.0.0-31-generic

bukojuice@Ubuntu-xps:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: wlp12s0
version: 01
serial:
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=5.0.0-31-generic firmware=N/A ip= latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f6880000-f68fffff memory:f6900000-f690fff

Hello I found an error in journalctl -b 0 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
Oct 16 08:47:54 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <warn> [1571186874.0452] sup-iface[0x557cc3bcb230,wlp12s0]: connection disconnected (reason -4)
Oct 16 08:47:54 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571186874.0693] device (wlp12s0):supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected
Oct 16 08:47:54 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571186874.1633] device (wlp12s0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Oct 16 08:48:01 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571186881.3148] device (wlp12s0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Oct 16 08:48:01 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571186881.3355] device (wlp12s0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associated
Oct 16 08:48:01 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571186881.4357] device (wlp12s0): supplicant interface state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Oct 16 08:48:01 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571186881.4421] device (wlp12s0): supplicant interface state: 4-way handshake -> completed
Oct 16 08:50:58 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571187058.7186] caught SIGTERM, shutting down normally.
Oct 16 08:50:58 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571187058.7248] device (wlp12s0): state change: activated -> deactivating (reason'unmanage
Oct 16 08:50:58 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571187058.7252] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTING
Oct 16 08:50:58 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info> [1571187058.7794] device (wlp12s0): state change: deactivating -> unmanaged (reason 'removed'
Oct 16 08:50:59 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571187059.2326] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
Oct 16 08:50:59 Ubuntu-xps NetworkManager[18018]: <info>  [1571187059.2745] exiting (success)

A: You can use part of this answer:

*

*How to prevent wifi sleep after suspend
Create this script:

#!/bin/sh

# NAME: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/network-reset
# DESC: Resets network manager after a suspend.
# DATE: December 14, 2019.

MYNAME=$0

restart_wifi() {
    /usr/bin/logger $MYNAME 'restart_wifi BEGIN'
    systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
    /usr/bin/logger $MYNAME 'restart_wifi END'
}

/usr/bin/logger $MYNAME 'case=[' ${1}' ]'
case "${1}/${2}" in
    hibernate|suspend|pre*)
      ;;
    resume|thaw|post*)
      restart_wifi;;
esac

Make the script executable with:
sudo chmod a+x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/network-reset

Note: This answer solves the effect of the problem but doesn't fix the cause of the problem.

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Enthrallment
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Jan 11, 2008
I was thinking about the concept of enthrallment. It was something that was mentioned to me during an encounter with Diane Ackerman, the author and poet, who described herself, her life, in that manner. Life's spinning, a series of enthrallments.
And I like that idea.
And in a way, that reaches to me, speaks to me. As a person. That idea of being in thrall. I explored the past uses of the word, as I am wont to do, in examining the meaning of things. Gather the etymon, you cull, to the center of the meaning, the memory, what is held there in the heart of the root.
I found this grouping of studies, running back in time.
O.E. þræl "bondsman, serf, slave," from O.N. þræll "slave, servant," probably from P.Gmc. *thrakhilaz, lit. "runner," from root *threh– "to run" (cf. O.H.G. dregil "servant," prop. "runner;" O.E. þrægan, Goth. þragjan "to run").
Then there's enthrall: c.1576, from en- "make, put in" + thrall.
And going back, further, to look at the connection of being "put in thrall", it's slave, intriguingly enough.
slave (n.)
c.1290, "person who is the property of another," from O.Fr. esclave, from M.L. Sclavus "slave" (cf. It. schiavo, Fr. esclave, Sp. esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav), so called because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.
"This sense development arose in the consequence of the wars waged by Otto the Great and his successors against the Slavs, a great number of whom they took captive and sold into slavery." And here's the jump, there.
O.E. Wealh "Briton" also began to be used in the sense of "serf, slave" c.850; and Skt. dasa-, which can mean "slave," is apparently connected to dasyu– "pre-Aryan inhabitant of India." More common O.E. words for slave were þeow (related to þeowian "to serve") and þræl (see thrall). The Slavic words for "slave" (Rus. rab, Serbo-Croatian rob, O.C.S. rabu) are from O.Slav. *orbu, from the PIE base *orbh– (also source of orphan) the ground sense of which seems to be "thing that changes allegiance" (in the case of the slave, from himself to his master). And, by added inference, to the nature of a kind of ecstatic thrall, the hypnotic character:
And that etymology is more recent, a little more than 200 years back — 1829 from mesmerism, borrowed 1802 from Fr. mesmérisme, named for Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian physician who developed a theory of animal magnetism and a mysterious body fluid which allows one person to hypnotize another. Transf. sense of "enthrall" is first attested 1862. Mesmerism is attested from 1802.
I think about the concept of enthrallment, to the character of the work that I do. Not in the context of slavery, or to that reference, servant. But aligned with service and connectedness.
What I mean by that is the nature of a relationship that is sufficiently powerful to be connecting, attaching, compelling, captivating; and in all that, enthralling. The relationship is reflective, one bound to the other.
What I wonder about is the possibility of considering branding as a kind of enthrallment, a connection sufficiently entrancing that the character is emotionally linked. It's an entwining. What entwines, then? The reflective character of branding — that which is given, and that which is given back by that relationship, it's a mirroring. It's about reception and giving, reflectively.
And in the past, there are interesting expressions of what bewitches, what captivates an audience. For one, to example, mesmerism — that was a wave.
And to other references of bewitching enthrallment, this might be another. Transparency in environmental installation. Interactivity. Being immersed in something new, something containing.
I've talked about interactivity, where there's reflectiveness.
Artists, like Nell Breyer, a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Center for Advanced Visual Studies. talk about it like this:
* Interactive art installations allow us to explore different ways of perceiving motion, shifting our attention from object to action.
* Movement can be visualized as change. Stand still, you disappear. Move, and you see the difference between where you are now and where you were just now.
* Breyer's installations help us gain a deeper understanding of how we interact with each other in space and time, collectively and individually.
I've emboldened these, above — to reference, further — the idea of brand and interaction, connection, enthrallment and relationship.
Defining movement
Artist Nell Breyer's work explores how we perceive motion. She investigates the inherent contradiction between how we perceive movements—physically, in an instant—and how we conceive of them—constructing our understanding through the varied forms, modalities and abstract memories of the mind's eye. These constructs can be different when drawn from our different individual backgrounds, instincts and daily actions. For example, an athlete might feel and imagine movement differently from an accountant.
How do we perceive, conceive, and experience movement?
Through interactive art installations, Breyer attempts: " trying to draw viewers into the work, using actions, not just images. What you do helps to create what you see" says Breyer, "so that a passerby actually physically draws out his or her own movements by moving him or herself." And so with brand. Reflectivity. I am what I am. I reach to find more, gather more, connect with more — that process is a mirroring.
Camille Utterback, another interactive artist, offers: My work is an attempt to bridge the conceptual and the corporeal. How we use our bodies to create abstract symbolic systems, and how these systems (language for example) have reverberations on our physical self is a matter of great concern to me. The dialog between these two realms is the subject of both my traditional and interactive work, and it is particularly relevant to our contemporary culture as we aim to grapple with the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
The interactive medium provides a rich environment to explore the connections between physical bodies and the myriad of representational systems possible…
It's a kind of story, that link between the person, the personal, the interactive, the customized, the mirroring of individual story and reaction in, and to, the world.
And without being too repetitive, that connectedness relates to other things — like branding.
I've referenced, as well, the interactive character and explorations of James Turrell. That's different, to visualizations and the complexity of his built worlds, but still, there's a way in which the viewer is drawn in, connects, and makes something their own.
Back to the beginning, I'm looking for how that character of enthrallment works — the drawing in, the link between idea, form, story, visualization, text and inclusive — enclosed — telling brings the story out.
The idea goes back.
A rouleaux transparents for projection in space — 1783
Kathryn Shattuck intones these premises, to a sense of compelling renderings of interactive environments, enclosing experiences — made by lit projections of tracing paper projections.
"In a new book, "Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies: Cinema of the Enlightenment," the historian Laurence Chatel de Brancion steps back into prerevolutionary France to explore the pastimes created by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, in his role as resident entertainer at the court of the duke of Orléans.
At the heart of the volume are Carmontelle's experiments with light and moving images: rouleaux transparents, or "rolled-up transparent drawings," a precursor to modern cinema. The luminous scenes of verdant parks and splendidly attired people — between 12 and 19 inches deep and up to 138 feet long — were backlighted with natural daylight, wound between spindles and viewed in a boxlike precursor to the television, often accompanied by music or narrated by Carmontelle himself. Carmontelle translated his visions — many of them drawn from his garden fantasies — onto fine English paper using watercolor, gouache and a special gum that allowed for brilliant transparent colors. Initially devising a "slide" that fit into windows between panes of glass, he traced exactly the view of leafless trees and bare gardens in the winter months, and then adorned them with luscious hand-drawn flowers and greenery. The effect from outside was an opaque white window. But from the inside it was like witnessing spring in full bloom.
At the same time Benjamin Franklin was astonishing Parisians with his displays of electricity, and light was the talk of the day, especially the white, oil-based kind already known in China and Russia. People were also experimenting with the magic lantern, an ancestor of the slide projector, and the concepts of the panorama and diorama.
Eventually Carmontelle concocted an invention that allowed him to combine the two. He created 11 known transparencies, many of which were later cut into sections and sold as individual paintings. Ms. Chatel de Brancion found seven in her explorations, including a 138-foot-long one that captures the lives of both the working classes and the gentry across four seasons in postrevolutionary France. Another depicts the slightly scandalous shift in fashion as inspired by Josephine Bonaparte."
To summarize, if I can:
• Enthrallment, being in thrall, is a kind of mutual affair — one links to the other; they mirror — the one, to the other.
• Compelling realization of story can live in the place of interactivity and experiential renderings of that telling.
• Stories, in brand, or any other application, are about drawing someone into a space that they can relate — they have a relationship with the spirit of the story, the connections therein.
• Stories are inherently customizable — they are framed by people, and people personally frame them for them selves.
I'm sure you've got some thoughts about it, as well. How are you enthralled? What enthralls others? How does the sense of enthrallment relate to brand?
Just thinking.
Artists, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Dec 31, 2007
The 15 Questions: The Natural History of Tim Girvin
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That's where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of the exploration…
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The Human Brand
While it might seem profoundly obvious, the brand is inherently human -- it's about people, connecting to other people. People create brands -- the notion of a brand DNA is nothing but an explication of the concept of the precisely personal character of the human actions of commerce; it's not just that a brand has…

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Padre Gallery presents "Dream Makers"
July 23, Sept. 5, 2020
Between July 23rd and September 5th, Padre Gallery in New York is proud to present a group exhibition Dream Makers, featuring works by Zurab Tsereteli. Adriana Oliver, Edgar Plans, Ana Barriga, Baldur Helgason, and Jeff McCreight akaRu8icon. In times when not only dreams get brutally shattered by the harsh reality around us, but the most common, everyday norms are completely out of the picture, the world seems to be needing dreamers more than ever before. With this in mind, Pablo G. Villazán from Padre Gallery curated Dream Makers, a group exhibition featuring 6 international artists coming from different backgrounds, age groups, and working with different aesthetics, to lift our spirits and bring back hope. The selection made for this presentation includes creatives whose work is marked with originality and the ability to see the world around us way beyond what the eye and mind can recognize. Whether creating their own, unique universes, reinventing the existing imagery, or using the reality as an endless source of inspiration from which new perspectives are built, the Dream Makers certainly have the ability to lift us above the everyday gloom and point towards brighter and pleasing sights.
Zurab Tsereteli is an important Soviet/Russian painter, sculptor and architect known for commemorative, large-scale monuments created worldwide. Along with sculpture and architecture, he works with paintings, informed by his visit to Paris in the 1960s, when he was strongly influenced by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists.
Adriana Oliver is Barcelona-based artist whose works are informed by the photography and Pop Art she's been exposed to since early age. Once she started developing her painterly practice, her visual language developed towards bold figurative forms influenced by cinematographic pictures from the 50's and 60's, which offer a more nuanced narrative than photography through their spotlighted obscurity.
Edgar Plans is a Spanish artist that lives in Gijón and works with raw, intuitive, and exceptionally playful imagery through which he channels the innocence and optimism of children. Utilizing their limitless ideas and ideals through doodle-like visuals, he takes on grown up problems through pure, naive, yet refreshing whimsical perspective.
Ana Barriga is a Madrid-based artist that uses the existing objects, mostly ceramic flea market discoveries, to assemble and construct new narratives. Through an expressive and confident painterly technique, she is applying new characteristics to otherwise tacky souvenirs, challenging the limitations of her own as well as viewers' imagination.
Baldur Helgason is Iceland-born and Chicago-based artist whose surreal pictures reflect his own experiences and visions of the world around him. Using a signature, vintage cartoon-like character to channel his emotions, he is wrapping the most intimate stories with humor, absurdity, and wit, often subtly referencing classical art or popular culture phenomenons.
Jeff McCreight aka Ru8icon is an American artist based out of Barcelona whose work experiments with the real life moments by altering existing photographs and accenting or adding
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certain attributes, accent the atmosphere, add movement or dynamics, and simply enhance
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The single album will consist of double title track 'Happy Yet Sad Day'(litereal translation) and 'The Things You Do', and both will be produced by composer team Duble Sidekick.
December 9th will be deemed as 'godDAY' since they will release 'Happy Yet Sad Day' at mignht while 'The Things You Do' will come out later at noon.
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By Deron Hamel When she was diagnosed with epilepsy at 16, Christine Jamieson says she never could have imagined that one day she would be crowned Miss Canada. But that's exactly what happened. Christine recently won the Miss Canada pageant, competing against 36 contestants in Montreal for the title. She's hoping her story will inspire…
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By Deron Hamel Businesses and municipalities across Ontario are getting involved with Epilepsy Awareness Month, and Trevor Gordon is promoting their activities, encouraging dialogue about epilepsy and prompting people to help spread the word about a condition that affects one in every 100 Canadians. Trevor, Epilepsy Ontario's manager of social media platforms, says he's seeing…
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By Deron Hamel Epilepsy Ontario has submitted a four-year proposal to the province's health and finance ministers to include funding in the 2019-20 budget for education programs largely focused on helping people understand when a seizure is a medical emergency and when it's not in an effort to stem hospital visits, reduce costs to the…
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By Deron Hamel Jennifer Young says parents should be aware of the symptoms of Electrical Status Epilepticus during Sleep (ESES) epilepsy, a condition that appears in childhood and does not present itself through seizures but rather as learning difficulties and behavioural changes. Jennifer's son was diagnosed with ESES when he was seven years old and…
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Cron's 10th-inning single helps Twins get past RoyalsKANSAS CITY, Mo. C. J. Cron homered and singled in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Saturday.Miguel Sano and Jake Cave also homered for the Twins, who blew a 3-0 lead in the eighth before pushing ahead for good in the 10th. Eddie Rosario's double to deep right off Wily Peralta (2-3) scored Cave for a two-run cushion.Trevor May (2-1) worked a scoreless ninth and Blake Parker retired the side in the 10th for his 10th save in 11 chances. AL Central-leading Minnesota has won two straight after losing four of its previous five.Both starters had strong outings. The Twins' Jose Berrios allowed two runs on five hits in seven efficient innings. He took a shutout into the eighth, when he allowed the first two runners to reach and was removed with a blister on his right ring finger.Danny Duffy worked eight innings for the Royals, allowing three solo homers and three other hits, walking two and striking out four.In the 10th, Luis Arraez led off with a single and moved to second when Cave was hit by a pitch. Cron's grounder eluded Hunter Dozier at third to put the Twins ahead.Humberto Arteaga started the Royals' rally in the eighth with his first major league hit, a single to right. He scored on Alex Gordon's two-out double off Taylor Rogers, and Dozier tied it with a two-run single.A baserunning gaffe by Whit Merrifield cost the Royals in the first. Gordon grounded to first with runners on first and third and none out, and Merrifield broke from third but then froze. Cron tagged out Gordon and got Merrifield in a rundown for a double play.Sano led off the second with a 454-foot blast to center, his ninth homer of the season.Cave and Cron homered in the eighth.TRAINER'S ROOMTwins: OF Byron Buxton (right wrist contusion) took practice swings and threw on Friday and likely will be activated next week from the 10-day injured list, manager Rocco Baldelli said.ROSTER MOVESTwins RHP Blake Parker was reinstated from family medical leave on Saturday. His wife was experiencing complications with her pregnancy. To make room on the roster, RHP Kohl Stewart was optioned to Triple-A Rochester.UP NEXTRight-hander Michael Pineda (4-3, 4.76 ERA) will start for Minnesota in the final game of the four-game series against right-hander Homer Bailey (6-6, 4.82).---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports
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The Mahjong Huntress
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Embark on a mysterious quest in search of the missing groom, Charles Gilbertworth. Solve riddles, encounter supernatural creatures and ghosts, all while solving relaxing and fun Mahjong puzzles with innovative gameplay mechanics in The Mahjong Huntress!
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Search for clues to find your missing fiancé
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Rated 5 out of 5 by battleboar from Mirror, mirror on the wall, the best Mahjong of them all? Woow, this game simply adds a magic factor to the basic Mahjong game we love! It's gothic, mysterious, romantic and full of surprises (could you expect Match 3 levels woven into the story??). My only concern: the Mahjong tile emblems look tiny at the first glance, but since I was able to adjust the scale with a mouse wheel, this is no longer an issue. Long story short, this is the one of the most refreshing titles I've been playing recently (not very soon though, as my wife just nailed it down...).
Rated 5 out of 5 by cleggum from Enjoyable Game I first thought this would be a rather simple game, I was wrong. I love playing Mahjong and I'm always looking for new games to play. The first part was rather simple and I didn't think I would buy it - then I hit a couple chapters in and it became more difficult to complete each game in one try or several tries. It can be a bit challenging and I think most mahjong players would enjoy it. I just wish the text from the huntress would appear all in one talk box instead of one sentence in several boxes. That's annoying. But overall a good game.
Rated 5 out of 5 by msuchy from Great Mahjong Adventure! This is a great Mahjong game with an intriguing "murder mystery" type of story set in a Victorian era, with an untypical and interesting set of powerups (especially for a Mahjong game) and "combo" system that adds lots of challenge to the levels! The has tons challenging puzzles to solve, and a additional Match 3 "boss encounter" game mode that help to shake up the gameplay. Overall I enjoyed and recommend the game! (btw the "skip dialog" button is located in the upper top corner of the screen - you can skip all dialogs if you don't like them.)
Rated 5 out of 5 by DoubleTrouble78 from Hounting moments of Mahjong fun! A fun and enjoyable game with great setting and overall story arc! I loved the fact that the story takes a quick turn into the paranormal realms and didn't expect to visit a little elf village in a Victorian England! The Art design and characters are great! The music did get a little bit repetitive after so many hours of gameplay, but it's a minor complaint. Go Mery! :) Just have in mind that some puzzles have a time restriction on them (like the mentioned artefact search puzzles) and you have to use the combo meter to get the best scores that can require some high levels of agility ;) (what was a plus for me as I like some intense action!) Overall it's a great game and I loved it! I didn't encounter any problems with the game that other users reported - the tiles ware readable to me (not mentioning the zoom functionality) so I can't complain - you can skip the dialogs entirely (except the tutorial for some weird reason) - I rater like a challenging puzzle so the game was perfect for me and I didn't encounter any difficulty problems
Rated 5 out of 5 by evli4 from Superb! Bought it and I love it. When down loaded the whole game you can collect 3 stars on all the levels if you want. If you like mahjong by this one.
Rated 5 out of 5 by vanenkrieg from Astonishing, yes. Although you don't exactly "hunt" for the tiles, this game is interesting enough to leave my review. While I don't usually waste my time to decomplete the Mahjong stacks, I gave this one a try, once I read it is story driven. After first three minutes of playing, I was absolutely crestfallen by the quality and the atmosphere of this unusual combination. The graphics is great, the polishing is perfect and the idea you unroll the story by uncovering the puzzles (yes, behind Mahjong stacks) is remarkable after a while. Mastering the levels for 2 or 3 stars makes no difference for me, but as long as the story keeps me engaged till the end of trial, I'll buy this one.
Rated 5 out of 5 by blitz7 from Fascinating! The beautiful art and music combined with mysterious storyline all in old English style makes this game really unique and for me even some thrilling during evenings play-sessions with the lights off. The game is a whole story with mahjong and match three immersed into as elements of storyline but fortunately if the story is already finished and there are no need to read it again there is possibility to skip it. The mahjong game is classic but extended by magic powers which make the game a little bit easier and the same goes to match three. If I play to relax myself I don't use them but if I master the stack to three stars the magic powers are very useful.
Rated 5 out of 5 by flyawayfaye22 from For the Mahjong Completionist I'm honestly shocked this game has such a mediocre rating - I loved it and have played my fair share of Mahjong games! There's a fun tale with our huntress, Mary Riley, and I hope a mahjong sequel comes out continuing her story...... And if the developer wants to turn her story into an HOA that would be super too (HINT HINT). The graphics are lovely, the music is eerie enough to reflect the tone, and there are periodic journal entries from Mary's kidnapped suitor to offer insight into their relationship. As far as the mahjong puzzles: there are 6 chapters within the story containing several levels each of mahjong puzzles. Each level has a 3-star rating: 1 for completion, 1 for high score, and 1 for the bonus goal. There are also Achievements; once you "CLAIM" a completed achievement, it earns you energy crystals for power-ups that are helpful when completing hard bonus objectives for more difficult levels. Each chapter also has a 3-star Match-3 boss battle. There are another 232 mahjong puzzle "Mystery Challenges" with high scores & bonus objectives to play in addition to the story. The one thing I could see as a criticism is the lack of variety. Other than the boss battles, this game is straight mahjong and for gamers used to mini-games breaking up the main play style, this will be a disappointment. Overall, as a gaming "completionist" and lover of mahjong, this game has provided hours of entertainment and relaxation I'm STILL enjoying on the daily and is a MUST OWN. I usually take advantage of sales to make game purchases so getting this game on the cheap has made it even sweeter, but Mahjong Huntress is well worth the full price considering the amount of puzzles and time you will put into it!
Rated 4 out of 5 by twinsoniclab from A very nice mahjong, a bit different from most I like mahjong games now and again, but often tire of the sameness of them. Usually the sameness of the tiles, and the lack of any storyline. In this game there is a story, a mystery (my favorite!), and the tiles are not the traditional "Asian" characters I find hard to tell apart. The game plays extremely quickly. You can make match after match and it keeps up with no lags. There are lots of "powers" to help, but I didn't find they made the game too easy. In fact, near the end of the demo time I was having to replay boards. There are the familiar powers, such as shuffle, or hints, as well as new ones, like matching even the blocked tiles, or "polymorph," which turns all in a group into one type of tile. There is a pendant to store a tile for later use. I didn't get to any board but mahjong, but the screenshots show match-3 as well. The graphics are nice, the tiles a little smaller than usual, but I could see them fine with my usual computer/reading glasses! I enjoyed the story, reading the "clues" and following my character from room to room. I want to find out where her fiance has gone, and if they do indeed get married or wait, as our character would prefer.
Rated 4 out of 5 by meme2222 from They must of fixed problems??? I read some reviews and started not to try this game but I like mahjong so I tried it for myself. First of all they have a magnifying glass in corner that automatically enlarges tiles when you move your curser over tiles so no problem there. Also they have a good size playing board so i had no problem seeing the tiles without it, if you are looking at pictures of tile and not the number they put in the corner. Also I did see when they asked you to complete a level in 0 seconds so I left trial and then decided to go back again because I loved the graphics so much and the tiles, with new moons, full moons and quater moons ect. When I played again i re-did levels and seen timer was set at 150 seconds to get an additional star. I really don't like timed either but if you can be satisfied with 2 out of 3 stars it doesn't force you to play fast as long as you complete one of the objectives like collect all the tiles you can move on. It has a story to it which I like, and it reveals clues throughout game getting certain items when complete level. They do have a skip button if you are not intrested in reading dialogue. Also, I like the power ups in the game which are needed if you do want that timed star. So it has a lot of challange to this game. They also have a bonus thingy that counts how many tiles you can clear in a row which you have to be fast clearing them or it resets. Some objectives require you to achieve this to get a star. You can replay all levels to go for perfect. I am a sucker for trying to acheive 3 stars so I do wish they had an untimed mode so I don't have to be bothered with acheiving stars for time. There is also objective to achieve a certain score to get a star. But like I said it doesn't stop you from moving on. So don't go by some of these reviews that were written previously. Try the game for yourself. I think most people will like it if they want a challenge or heck forget about the stars and just play for the story and nice graphics and fun power ups.
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Clarifire CEO Jane Mason Wins Women with Vision Award
Founder of workflow automation provider recognized for inspiring other women entrepreneurs
September 9, 2019 – CLEARWATER, Florida – Clarifire, a leader in workflow automation for the mortgage industry, announced its founder and CEO, Jane Mason, has been selected to receive a Women With Vision award by 20/20 Vision for Success Coaching and Mortgage Women Magazine. The award is given to women leaders in the mortgage industry who have inspired other female entrepreneurs through their success and by sharing their vision for leadership.
Mason will be featured among other women leaders in the November issue of Mortgage Women Magazine and recognized at the upcoming Vision Summit, hosted by 20/20 Vision for Success Coaching, on Sept. 25 in Tampa, Florida.
Mason has been a technology and digital automation leader in the mortgage industry for more than a decade. As the founder of Clarifire, she led the development of award-winning software that automates workflows for financial services organizations, enabling them to work more efficiently, cost effectively and gain competitive advantage.
"I am grateful to receive this recognition, considering how many talented women leaders are emerging in our industry," Mason said. "I am also proud of my team at Clarifire for all they have done to make our company successful, which has enabled us to give back to the local Tampa community through a growing number of charitable causes. This is an exciting time for women entrepreneurs, especially since technology affords so many opportunities to improve our industry. I encourage other women to follow their dreams and take their shot."
Under Mason's direction and leadership, Clarifire has been recognized as one of Cloud's Top 500 Applications Vendors for three consecutive years, the Tampa Bay Business Journal as a Top Women-Owned Business and a HousingWire Tech100 company for the past three years. Clarifire has also been recognized as a FinTech Forward 2014 Top 100 Solution Provider by American Banker and the Bank Administration Institute and received a 2013 FinTech 100 ranking of top technology providers by American Banker, Bank Technology News and the research firm IDC Financial Insights. Mason, herself, was previously awarded CEO of the Year from the Tampa Bay Business Journal and Tampa Bay Technology Forums.
About Clarifire
Clarifire is a privately held, women-owned corporation that offers the CLARIFIRE business process automation software through their SaaS model, to the financial and healthcare services industry. Started by a process-focused entrepreneur, Clarifire, the company, is a group of workflow experts that created the CLARIFIRE® workflow solution to make a difference for businesses. The company has over a decade of experience in both process proficiency and software delivery. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and WBENC certified corporation, Clarifire guides organizations through the chaos and into organizational efficiency. Learn more about Clarifire solutions at www.eclarifire.com.


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Which PSVR do I have?
There are two versions of the Sony PlayStation Virtual Reality (PSVR) headset, but the second-generation version slipped out with next to no fanfare in 2017. The trouble is that they look almost identical, so which version of PSVR do you have? Here's how to find out.
What's the difference between Sony PSVR versions?
There's not a great deal of difference between the two versions of PlayStation Virtual Reality, and while the newer version is unquestionably better in terms of comfort and convenience, there's no improvement to performance.
The main improvement is that the newer version – CUH-ZVR2 to its friends – supports high dynamic range (HDR) passthrough. To be clear, the headset itself still doesn't support HDR, but it means you can enjoy HDR supported games on your PS4 without needing to swap out HDMI cables – something which can also lead to tedious flickering problems, as I discovered earlier.
The second generation headset also includes a set of headphones in the box, rather than needing you to plug in your own pair via an in-line remote, generally reducing clutter. You can see the slight reduction in wires in the picture below, via Sony Japan.
Finally, as you might also be able to spot from the picture above, the breakout box looks a bit different. Version two is curved, and more like the PS4 Slim and Pro designs, while the original has a line splitting it down the middle.
(If you haven't bought a Sony VR headset yet, they cost £299 from Amazon for the "Mega Pack" – or you can buy a Starter Pack with only one game for £259.99. We'd go for the Mega Pack.)
Which virtual reality headset do I have?
The easiest way of checking which PSVR you have is to look at the packaging. The model number is on there somewhere: CUH-ZVR1 for the original hardware, or CUH-ZVR2 for the second generation.
But most people don't keep hardware boxes for obvious reasons, so how can you tell what version you've got without? The answer is to look for a triangular hole in a circle at the back, where the built-in headphones are stored when not in use. It looks like this:
Sony's first-generation headset, meanwhile, doesn't have this, and you'll just find a little curved indent instead.
Another way of telling: the first generation of PSVR headset had the volume controls on an in-line remote, which has been removed. You'll now find them on the bottom of the headset instead.
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We seek to create awareness of mental disorders, demystify these common disorders and equip communities with the knowledge and skills to support individuals suffering from mental disorders.
Commemorating the world Suicide Prevention Day at Mbabane Mall.
IMERSE organised an event to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day at the Mbabane Mall, during which we managed to reach 112 people.
IMERSE is participating in local publicity events. In February, we participated in an event to commemorate Teen Suicide Prevention Week put on by the Mbabane Mental Health Support Group.


Patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) who have had prior cardiac surgery and are undergoing a "redo" have a greater risk of adverse events (AEs) compared with patients undergoing cardiac surgery for the first time, according to a recent study. Elizabeth Krebs, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, presented the findings of the study at the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association 65th Annual Meeting & Exhibition.
Researchers analyzed on all patients undergoing operation for ATAAD in a Society of Thoracic Surgeons database between 2002 and 2017. Patients were classified by primary and redo sternotomy status. Researchers compared demographics, operative characteristics, outcomes, and cost data using univariate analysis, and they used multivariable regression models to evaluate risk-adjusted impact of redo status on outcomes. Researchers hypothesized that patients undergoing cardiac surgery again would have increased AEs compared with those undergoing first surgery. Primary outcomes were mortality, major morbidity, length of stay, and total cost.
Of 1,332 patients with ATAAD, 121 (9.1%) were undergoing reoperations. Redo patients tended to be older (63 vs 58 years; P<0.01) and had more comorbidities, including heart failure (16.5% vs 8.1%; P<0.01) and peripheral arterial disease (34.7% vs 15.7%; P<0.01). Intraoperative aortic valve replacement rates did not differ between the redo and first-time patients (26.5% vs 25.3%; P=0.78). The redo and primary groups also had similar rates of aortic arch procedures (25.6% vs 30.6%; P=0.25) and aortic root procedures (29.8% vs 36.9%; P=0.12). Those who had previously undergone cardiac surgery had higher rates of operative mortality (26.5% vs 15.7%; P<0.01), major morbidity (62.8% vs 55.8%; P=0.14), and need for reoperation (12.4% vs 9.0%; P=0.22). They also received more intraoperative red blood cell units (4 vs 1 g/dL; P<0.01), had longer lengths of stay (13 vs 10 days; P<0.01), and had more expensive total hospital costs ($73,430 vs $61,050; P=0.17). Strokes rates were slightly lower in the redo group (7.5% vs 9.4%; P=0.50).
"In looking at risk-adjusted association, for operative mortality, reoperative status was associated with an odds ratio of 2.14, or almost double the mortality ratio," Krebs said.
The retrospective nature of the study is a limitation. Additionally, researchers only evaluated operative patients. "We do not have data on patients who were either managed medically or [died] prior to [reaching] the operating room," Kreb said. The evaluated data were also limited to those included in the database.
The researchers concluded that redo status increases the risk for mortality and major morbidity. "These data should be considered when counseling patients and families prior to acute surgical intervention," the study authors wrote.


This assumes you've read the Data Shares Introduction.
Your plan must enable data shares. You must also have an account with the right role/permissionto set up data shares.
You can then quickly enable the Data Share, by clicking the button.
Select the data format for which you want to view the URLs. Then use the copy-to-clipboard button to be able to easily share the link in email or IM. You can also use the link to download the App's current dataset to your machine in that format to use locally.
Apps with a data share enabled have a green shared label by the app name on the homepage to help them stand out.
And you can see which Apps share their data right from the data view.
If you have Apps that make use of repeatable sections for parent-child data relationships, Fulcrum will generate separate URLs for the child record datasets. When you have a data share enabled on one of these Apps, you'll see URLs that call out the child data at the end of the URL, as you can see in the screenshot above.


Our children and teens are pulled in many different directions. They have school responsibilities, extracurricular activities, social events—the list could go on and on. With so many different influences and so many things vying for their attention, it is easy for our students to lose focus of their spiritual growth and development.
According to Barna Research, "nearly 3 out of every 5 young Christians disconnect either permanently or for an extended period of time from church life after age 15." This statistic is startling, and it is alarming to think about our youth inching away from their faith. In an attempt to address this issue, I came across some practices that give me hope.
I've discovered that in order to meet our children and teens where they are, the idea of discipleship has to be redefined. Now more than ever, it is crucial to be intentional and help our students move from a faith that is only experienced at church to a faith that is all-encompassing. We live in a compartmentalized world where home, work, school, and its activities do not intertwine with church and faith.
Kara Powell, Executive Director of Fuller Youth Institute, best describes this by comparing a TV dinner to a pot pie. TV dinners are neatly compartmentalized, with their contents conveniently separated from each other. It would be easy to remove the food we don't like. In the same sense, it is easy to remove faith from certain areas of our life. A pot pie, on the other hand, is a mixture of foods, making it difficult to remove any one component. Our students need to see how God's hand is at work in all areas of their lives, not just at church.
One of the most powerful ways to address this compartmentalized way of living is by discipling parents alongside our students. Generally speaking, children's spiritual formation has been outsourced to the church, with the church being the sole provider of spiritual nourishment. We need to encourage parents to create a culture at home that emphasizes the importance of loving Jesus and living out their faith. My goal is to equip parents to light their homes with the light of Christ, to share their faith story with their children, and to support parents as they help guide their children through their spiritual journey.
Intentional discipleship begins at home but doesn't end there. We are called to live in community for the sake of the world. Our students need examples of faith being lived out, and they need the comfort of knowing that they are cared for and loved by their community of faith.
Several years ago, the Stock Ministry was created as a means to connect the older generation of believers with our teens and children. Stockholders are adults who agree to invest in the life of a specific student. They commit to pray daily for their student, write letters of encouragement, and support their activities. In turn, the students send letters and cards to their Stockholder. It is amazing to experience the connection that is formed and to hear stories of how God uses people in our own church community to build each other up.
In my life, I have seen the benefit of fellow believers recognizing the importance of children and teens in the life of the church. One of the most powerful examples of this came from my time serving at First Baptist Richmond. There, Pastor John Lockhart implemented a time to recognize important milestones during a child's life.
When a student turns 13, they are given the Book of Proverbs and they are asked to seek God's wisdom and allow that wisdom to guide them through their teen years. On their 16th birthday, students are given a key chain to remind them to be safe while driving and make good decisions behind the wheel of a vehicle. When they celebrate their 18th birthday, students are given a voter's registration card and are reminded that they have a role to play in God's world.
These milestone recognitions allow the church body as a whole to affirm their love and support for the youth in a very tangible way. Students are reassured that their church is celebrating these important times in their lives and making an intentional effort to live these milestones alongside them.
As a parent of a pre-teen and a teenager, the idea of intentional discipleship is near and dear to my heart. It is of great importance to me to create opportunities for my own children to deepen their faith. Our congregation was able to send a mission team to Guatemala this past summer, and my family and I were fortunate enough to experience this trip together. When families server alongside each other, children are able to see their parents' faith in action, thereby strengthening their own faith.
In order to help our children deepen their connections with leaders of the faith, my wife and I have created a rite of passage so to speak when our children turn 13. When our children turn 13, we send our children to spend a few days with trusted adults who are not only close friends but also people who live out their faith daily. The spiritual leaders pour into our children and share their faith story with them. What an incredible gift it is to my wife and me to know that these people of faith are joining us in discipling our children, helping their "roots grow down deep so that their faith will grow strong in the truth they were taught" —rom Colossians 2:7.
The goal of intentional discipleship can be summed up with this: "So, here's what I want you to do with God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life—and place it before God as an offering" (Rom 12:1, the Message).
Together with our church community and the parents of our students, we can equip our students to make faith an integral part of their life, a part that overflows into all other aspects of their lives.


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Why China & Japan Need American Shale
October 9, 2013• Asia• by The Energy Report
Thanks to the advent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the U.S. is expected to be the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas next year, eclipsing production in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, U.S. energy exports to Asia have grown by a third this year, with greater demand coming not just from Japan – a traditional buyer of U.S. fuel – but from China as well.
If there's a gun on the table in the first act, it will be fired by the end of the play. The way legendary portfolio strategist Don Coxe sees it, the potential to bring on vast U.S. energy reserves is the gun. . .or is it a safety valve?
Don Coxe tells The Energy Report that the fracked oil and gas boom has saved the U.S. from endless recession and explains why he remains bullish on China and Japan as sources of energy demand. Coxe also shares his preferred portfolio allocation ratios between industrial and financial stocks, bonds, metals and energy, with a weight on fossil fuels.
Don Coxe has 40 years of institutional investment experience in Canada and the U.S. From his office in Chicago, Coxe heads up the Global Commodity Strategy investment management team, a collaboration of Coxe Advisors and BMO Global Asset Management. He is advisor to the Coxe Commodity Strategy Fund and the Coxe Global Agribusiness Income Fund in Canada, and to the Virtus Global Commodities Stock Fund in the U.S. Coxe has consistently been named as a top portfolio strategist by Brendan Wood International; in 2011, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award and was ranked number one in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 surveys.
The Energy Report: The consensus of The Street for the last 18 months has been that the slowdown of China's economic growth is not temporary. Do you agree?
Don Coxe: Since the current commodity boom started up in 2002, critics of my strong belief in the future of China's growth have said, "It's not real. The numbers are phony. China is about to collapse. There is too much corruption in Beijing." And China just kept on growing at double-digit rates! The reason China stopped growing at double-digit rates is the economic collapse in the Europe and the United States – the principal customers for Chinese exports.
But even during the rolling recessions in the U.S. and Europe, China has grown its GDP at 7 percent, which means that it is experiencing substantial internal growth. Admittedly, China has added dramatically to its government debt, but because the country had a 30 percent savings rate before the 2008 crash, its financial system has been able to draw on a huge pool of savings for sustenance, instead of borrowing money to sustain consumer growth.
China has a built-in method of achieving GDP growth: When peasants on 1½ hectare farms are barely able to feed themselves, they migrate to industrial cities. The small farms are amalgamated into larger, more efficient farms, which produce more food and increase China's GDP. When the farmers flock into the cities, housing is built for them. There are no ghost towns in China. A real ghost town is downtown Detroit, where skyscrapers reflect the demand of the past, but not the present.
This basic model of economic growth has carried China through the worst industrial recession since the Great Depression. Rising iron ore prices alongside increased consumption of oil are growth indicators. And China's 10-year plan is to move from being the world's main producer of goods to being the world's main consumer of goods. China's leaders are planning to increase imports and to provide all sorts of consumer goods for the populace.
As for energy: People who live on farms where the air is fresh are reluctant to move into cities choked with coal smoke. The Chinese are cutting back on the use of coal and using less-polluting hydrocarbons for power generation. On the other hand, people are buying more cars. And even 10-lane highways are getting congested, which means that more highways will be built to accommodate more cars. All of this growth requires oil.
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TER: Where will the oil come from?
DC: Back in the sixties, oil sold for $4 per barrel ($4/bbl). Now, a new oil field cannot be opened up if oil is priced under $60/bbl. The low-hanging fruit, the oil that's really cheap to produce, is no more. But there is still plenty of oil available through fracking in California and in the Alberta oil sands and offshore drilling. That means spending a lot of money on refining, because processing heavy crude to light crude to gasoline is a very expensive process.
TER: Where's the capital going to come from for expanding the fracking and refining sectors?
DC: The oil industry can borrow capital to expand because it can easily grow its output. U.S. refiners are aggressively taking leadership from the European refiners. The Swiss did not retool for heavy oil after the collapse of Libya removed the country's light crude source. The Saudis expand refining capacity for heavy crude, not light crude. The only good supply of light oil on land is from fracking. But the oil industry can only grow fracking so fast, and each oil field has different characteristics. Big oil cannot meet total demand with fracking alone. The next 25 years of growth in the oil industry will be a combination of light oil from under the ocean floor and light oil from fracking.
TER: Will China be able to develop its internal oil fields, or will it be forced to import large amounts?
DC: Down the line, China has a lot of potential for growing a fracked oil and natural gas industry. In the meantime, we are seeing growth in exported liquid natural gas (LNG). The oil industry aims to get higher prices for its frozen natural gas by shipping it to China.
If worldwide GDP growth averages 3 percent for the next five years, it is hard to see how oil prices could fall. But the current situation is a really good story for oil—in many ways the best story since the seventies. Despite the fact that there is zero inflation, oil prices have gone from $70/bbl to $100/bbl. In the past, that kind of increase in oil prices would have automatically meant higher inflation, but this time around it did not.
TER: If Europe and Japan continue to grow, how will that affect energy prices?
DC: When the Japanese ambassador spoke in Chicago a few months ago, he began his speech by saying that Japan has no commodities. This is the third biggest economy in the world and it has to import virtually everything. Japan has no oil, no gas and it cannot use nuclear power because of Fukushima. It is not going to coal, because Tokyo does not want to have the kind of air pollution problems that afflict Beijing. It is going to be hydrocarbons, one way or another. The Japanese economy is strong and will continue to grow fast. It is ironic that in less than a year, Japan went from a negative growth rate to a rate 50 percent higher than the U.S. growth rate.
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TER: What is driving Japan's growth?
DC: The fact that Japan devalued the yen is driving its growth. Japanese manufacturing and exporting companies were in a poor position with the yen stuck at 75 to the dollar. Remember that it had fallen from 250 yen to the dollar when Japan was booming in the eighties. The 75 yen to the dollar meant that Japan's manufacturing companies had to be incredibly efficient to attract exporters. Now the yen is floating, and manufacturing cash flow is available to expand outputs. Japanese manufacturing is now competitive with China and the rest of the world.
The devaluation of the yen is causing Japanese consumers to unzip their wallets for two reasons. First, they see strong economic growth. Second, Prime Minister Abe has announced that a new sales tax will debut in April. Consumers are afraid that prices are going to rise because of the increase in Japanese exports, and also because of higher sales taxes. The double whammy encourages more economic activity, and that activity feeds on itself positively for growth.
TER: You have previously mentioned the positive economic effects of public/private partnerships on economic growth. Would you call that Keynesianism?
DC: Public-private partnerships are a form of Keynesianism because they can use the state to expropriate land to build roads and bridges. Private companies cannot deal efficiently with a farmer who says, "You bought land to my south and to my north, so I am raising my price per acre from $5,000 to $25,000." Eminent domain takes care of the gouging issue. Capital needs the public sector.
Another example is that public pension funds promote increased cash flow over the decades for retirees. After the crash, the pension funds were in desperately bad financial shape with zero interest rates. Public-private partnerships in energy ventures are now providing long-term investments with a built-in inflation hedge. These types of investments create wealth in both the private and public sectors through the magic of compound interest.
TER: You talk about "Chekhov's gun" as the implied threat of the Federal Reserve to allow interest rates to rise. How is that threat affecting energy markets?
DC: The Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, said that if there is a gun on a table in the first act of a play it will be fired later in the play. That creates a certain amount of suspense. Chekhov's gun was spotted last spring when Ben Bernanke said, in effect, that the Federal Reserve cannot continue adding $85 billion each month to the balance sheet forever. At some point, the Fed will start tapering down the stimulus project. That tapering down is Chekhov's gun. Initially, the bond market sold off. Ben must have thought, "We are only in act one of a play that is going to last for several acts." So the gun is still hanging there, unfired.
For the energy markets, however, Chekhov's gun operates in reverse: The gun is the threat of bringing on vast new energy resources. But everybody knows now that there are enough hydrocarbons in the ground to spur economic growth for a long time. In regard to energy, the gun is a safety device, as opposed to the bond market, where it functions as a threat.
TER: You appeared at the Casey Research Summit last week. Can you give us a preview of your talk on the energy front?
DC: The U.S. would be back on the edge of recession if it were not for fracking. Fracking produces cheap natural gas and high-quality light crude oil. Thanks to fracking, we have been able to reduce the use of coal without shutting down the utilities. In the past, it was risky to rely on conventionally produced natural gas because natural gas prices could rise monumentally in times of shortage. Recall what happened after Katrina when natural gas went to $15 per thousand cubic feet!
Fracking will provide cheap natural gas for the next century without importing a cubic foot. It is a tremendous guarantee of stability to the U.S. economy. It also means that economic growth can be energized by light crude without having to rely on heavy crude. Without fracking, we would be spending trillions of dollars refining Venezuelan and oil sands heavy crude. We would still be in recession without fracking. The energy industry has done more for the U.S. economy than anybody except … Ben Bernanke.
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TER: It is always informative talking to you, Don.
DC: It's been great fun.
By Peter Byrne, The Energy Report
Don Coxe: China, Japan and Chekhov's Gun—Where Does Fracking Fit In? is republished with permission from The Energy Report.
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Dating can be quite an expensive experience if care is not taken. To start with, it often costs you money just to put yourself in a situation where you can meet people. Joining a club or interest group, going to a bar, signing up to an online dating site, it all costs money. Then, once you have met someone, no matter what you do or where you take them, someone ends up paying. This can be an inhibitor to dating for many people, so we have written this article to give you ideas on how you can organising a "cheap date" that isn't necessarily a bad date.
Where to meet people for freeOne of the best pieces of advice you can take on board if you want to meet people, is to make it a part of your life. Yes we know, its often hard to say "Hi" to someone you don't know, when there is no natural impetus to communication. That's why its called an ice breaker, it is difficult. But this is also why making meeting people a part of your life is such a great piece of advice. Its difficult at the start, but once you get going it gets easier and easier to do.
So when you get out of bed tomorrow, make a point of chatting to people you usually wouldn't have. Become a conversationalist. Just make it up as you go along. Talk to everyone though, don't be picky. If you talk to everyone, you'll have so much practise ice breaking and being a conversationalist, that when you see someone you are interested in dating, it will be very easy to start up a conversation with them, that is natural and free flowing, which hopefully will lead into a follow up conversation at a future place in time.
Meeting people in this way is totally free. The following bullet points are a few examples of the types of opportunities we are talking about.
Once you have met someone and have agreed to see them again, your options on where to take someone are virually limitless. Most of the dates which cost money are "old hat" anyway, so often a cheaper alternative stands out and is much more successful. A great example of this was in the movie Josh Hartnett stared in called 40 days and 40 nights. In this movie, he simply took a girl (the girl whose heart he ended up winning (played by Shannyn Sossamon)) on a bus ride. That was his idea of the perfect first date. If you haven't seen the movie, get a copy if for no other reason than to see how successful this date was.
So the simple idea with organising a cheap, successful date is to use your imagination. Here are some starters to whet your appetite.
- A DVD movie marathon - you both bring a DVD or two over and cuddle up on a couch all night watching them.
- Go window shopping; pet shops, antique shops, luxury cars and boats can be great opportunities for interesting days out. Just leave your credit card at home.
- Go back to your childhood and do something you loved to, like play on the swings in a park.
All a free date requires is some imagination, and some planning. We hope we have given you a few ideas to play with or develop. Good luck, and remember to have fun, and be yourself, no matter where you take your date.


Home » Nutrition » Energy Drinks – Do They Make You Fat?
I receive a ton of questions about all of these new "energy" drinks that have hit the market over the past few years. They promise you the world with outrageous claims of all of the super energy that you are going to have, and how you'll become the best athlete in the world, start lifting cars over your head, and get a perfect body.
Are these "energy" drinks really good for you?
First of all, let's look at what most of these energy drinks are usually made of. Most of them are simply carbonated water loaded with gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup (or other added sugars), caffeine, the amino acid taurine, and some crappy artificially-derived vitamins added for show to trick you into thinking there's something healthy about these concoctions.
Let's start with the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Well, here we've got empty calories that will go straight to your belly fat, and that are possibly even worse for you than plain old refined sugar (although that's up for debate).
Some energy drinks use other added sugars instead of HFCS, but it doesn't really matter, because they are all gut-fattening empty calories with no nutritional benefit.
I won't go into all of the details on that topic because that would fill up an entire discussion by itself.
Just trust me that artificial sweeteners and artificial chemicals in food in general, are ALL bad news for your body! It's never a good idea to try to "trick" your body with artificial tastes.
Well, first of all, caffeine doesn't in itself provide "energy". Technically, the only substance that actually provides energy is calories (from carbs, protein, and fat).
Instead of caffeine artificially added to some carbonated "energy" drink, I'd rather get my caffeine from a natural source like green, white, or oolong teas (or my new favorite – yerba mate teas), which actually provide very powerful healthy antioxidants too!
Keep in mind though, if you're a regular daily coffee drinker, you probably have some level of addiction to caffeine and probably wouldn't receive too much benefit from the caffeine in an energy drink anyway.
Well, big deal…you get taurine in almost any protein source. And the vast majority of those artificially added B-vitamins are simply coming right out into the toilet in your pee. Vitamins are best obtained naturally from a REAL food source, not artificially added to some carbonated drink. Your body just doesn't use fake sources of vitamins as readily as natural sources from real food.
So as you can see, in my opinion, I give all of these energy drinks a big time THUMBS DOWN! Don't fall for the ridiculous marketing of all of these so-called "energy drinks".
So enjoy this natural healthy energy drink, knowing that you're doing your body good instead of filling it with chemicals with normal store-bought energy drinks.
Spice Your Way to Being Skinny!


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Nothing harmful found on US-bound jet that received threat
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An unspecified threat to an arriving British Airways flight forced the evacuation of the plane at Newark Liberty Airport Thursday afternoon, but no suspicious items were found in the plane or in passengers' luggage, officials said.
The plane carrying 206 passengers and 13 crew members arrived from London at approximately 1 p.m. and was taken to a remote area of the airport, where a canine team conducted a search of the cabin and cargo area.
Passengers said they weren't aware of the threat until they landed.
"The entire flight down, nobody knew anything until we were already on the ground and there," said Sean Fitzgerald, a passenger from New Jersey. "That's when the pilot came over the intercom and told us what was going on, and he basically said there was a threat that was called in and they had to do some security measures."
Passengers disembarked and stood on the tarmac as their bags were checked, 15 people at a time, said Caroline Stafford, a passenger from London.
"It was really terrifying but at least there were police cars waiting for us," Stafford said. "They knew about it so the security measures were in place when we got there."
British Airways PLC is based in Hounslow, England, and is owned by Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. It didn't comment directly on the incident but said the safety of its passengers and crew is its top priority.