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Now that we’ve covered some of the features that make the 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross so safe, let’s look at the ratings. The Eclipse Cross was evaluated by the Japan New Car Assessment Program (JNCAP), Aid that evaluates a vehicles safety performance based on a number of collision tests, muchJNCAP evaluates a vehicle’s safety based on collision safety, head protection, rear passenger seat belt usability, seat belt reminder, and braking performance when testing vehicles.
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Reading this story alleging Indian call center workers were contributing to the success of Sanjaya Malakar made me chuckle. If a desi is doing well for himself, ponyhawk and tone deafness notwithstanding can blaming the Indian BPOs be far behind ? Everything that ails America as we all know can be traced back to outsourcing jobs to India. Wonder why it took this long to identify root cause and put the blame where it rightly belonged.
Being Bengali I am only too familiar with how five dudes in Garia with more time on their hands than they know what to do with, will start a fanclub for the Guatemalan football team. Interestingly, there does not seem a bunch of Bongs from Kolkata rooting for Malakar. Historically, they turn hysterical if there is one part per million of Bengali in anyone famous. Maybe Malakar challenges the conventional notions of fame and notoriety. He has the Bongs a tad confused. Too root or not to root for Shonjoy (which how his name would translate to in Bengali-speak) seems to be the question on their minds.
However, if he wins the contest, the fanclub in Garia is inevitable.
Heh. I have few colleagues (not all of them Indian or of Indian descent) who vote for Sanjaya without even watching Idol just to boost him.
Their actions were a response to the woman who started a fast to protest his moving to the next round.
I don't know if my fellow engineers are just rooting for the loser :-D


Man City facing expulsion from the Premier League after being charged with over 100 breaches of FFP
Topics: Manchester City, English Premier League
The Cityzens could be expelled from the Premier League after officially being charged with over 100 breaches of the competition's financial regulations.
If the 1-0 loss to Tottenham on Sunday wasn't bad enough, Manchester City now find themselves in tremendous trouble after officially being charged with financial breaches.
The reigning champions of England have been officially charged by the Premier League over alleged breaches of the competition's financial laws. In fact, the Cityzens are accused of committing these offenses over 100 times in the space of nine seasons.
The charges against the mega-rich club are in relationy,This comes after a four-year investigation into Manchester City's books which began in March 2019. It calls into question the legitimacy of the club's finances and dealings from 2009 up until the 2017/18 season.
If found guilty, Manchester City could suffer a points deduction — however, given the nature of this case, a drawn-out court battle appears inevitable which will delay any punishment. Even worse, the club could also be expelled from the English top flight. The case will now be referred to an independent commission and while the Cityzens are yet to publicly respond to this development, the Abu Dhabi-owned team are prepared for another hefty legal battle regarding alleged financial breaches.
"In accordance with Premier League r[February 6 2023]rule W.3.4," the Premier League's official statement said.
"Commissions are independent chair of the Premier League judicial panel, in accordance with Premier League rules W.19, W.20 and W.26.
"The proceedings before the commission will, in accordance with Premier League rule W.82,rule W.82.2, the commission's final award will be published on the Premier League's website.
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The first set of breaches relate to the club's financial position and revenue, including sponsorship revenue, which has become a controversial topic due to the club's ties with the UAE government and several state-owned organizations. Additionally, the club are accused of providing inaccurate information regarding the remuneration of players and manager — namely Roberto Mancini — during the specified time frame.
On top of that, the six-time Premier League winnersand cooperate with investigators.
nd were slapped with a hefty fine for misleading UEFA and breaching FFP, with one of the most concerning allegations against the team being overstated sponsorship income.
The ban was later lifted and the fine was reduced after the case went to the CAS. The court found that "".
Unfortunately for the Cityzens, there is no statute of limitations in the Premier League and thus the English top flight opened up their own investigation. Guardiola's side won three league titles, an FA Cup, and three Carabao Cup trophies during this time.


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Rotary Capstone Workshop
This one-credit seminar is the second of two parts designed to prepare Rotary Peace Fis seminar will constitute the “wrapping up” by fellows as they prepare to embark on important professional endeavors. The seminar comprises two elements: (i) an exploration by the fellows of their future leadership potential in the field of P&CR through simulation exercises and preparation of an individual leadership paper; and (ii) preparation and delivery ofearly April.
Empirical Analysis for Economic Development
Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution
The objective of this class is to introduce the multi-s a foundation for and complement to Peacebuilding for Sustainable Development. The course (1) Introduces the field of Peace and Conflict Studies and the possible sectors in which to apply your study; (2) Emphasizes thes and analyzes the nature and causes of conflicts within societies and internationally from a variety of perspectives, inquiries, and scales. (3) Provides s to think critically about questions relating to the origins and dynamics of conflict, as well as the possibility of peace. (4) Provides a series of tools and techniques for students working in conflict settings. Through readings, we consider conClass sessions combine lecturettes and guest speakers with interactive exercises designed to consider issues in areas such as education, healthcare,
A development project, or intervention, is often the most visible part of international development. This course focuses on the full cycle from identifying development challenges, prioritizing interventions within national development agendas, securing financing, developing the project, its imp course uses common practices of multilateral institutions as the guide, it does so within the context of sovereignty of countries whothe use of public funds and success of development interventions. Using specific country examples, the course provides a thorough view into the ‘who, how, and what’ of managing development intervention. Questions, such as who determines what gets funded, how development interventions are designed, what it takes to successfully implement them, and eventually how the outcomes of the interventions are evaluated, are core elements of the course.
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that is valid for \ppbar\ collisions at the Tevatron,
cannot be used as template for the analysis of \pp\  collisions
The effect of the valence quarks on the \pTl\ spectra of \Wp\ and \Wm\
is shown in Fig.~\ref{plot3}.
   \includegraphics[width=0.495\tw]{plot3a.pdf}
   \includegraphics[width=0.495\tw]{plot3b.pdf}
   \caption{(left panel)
           and \Wm\ (right panel) in \pp\ collisions at the LHC.}
It follows that this difference, as well as the amount
of sea quarks with u and d flavour,
must be known with better precision than needed at the Tevatron.
This is the LHC-specific effect from the 1st quark family.
In Fig.~\ref{energydependence},
taken from Ref.~\cite{Stirling},
the contributions of different quark--antiquark annihilations
to the \Wp , \Wm\ and Z cross-sections
are shown as a function of beam energy, and specifically for
the Tevatron and LHC  energies. The much stronger contributions from
c and b quarks at the LHC energy are noteworthy.
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Stirling_energydependence.pdf}
\caption{C to
\Wpm\ (left panel) and
Z (right panel) production, as a function of the beam energy.}
\label{energydependence}
The effects of s and c are shown in Fig.~\ref{plot5}.
    \includegraphics[width=0.495\tw]{plot2b.pdf}
    \includegraphics[width=0.495\tw]{plot2a.pdf}
    \caption{
The partner of a c quark to form a
W boson, the s quark, has different distributions in $x$
and \kT\ than a c quark that is needed as partner
to form a Z boson. Therefore, to know the difference between the
s and c PDFs of the proton is important.
This is the LHC-specific effect of the 2nd quark family.
Although both for W and Z production the contribution from b quarks is
negligible at the Tevatron,
and also for W production at the LHC,
the contribution of b quarks to
Z production is important at the LHC and a sufficiently precise knowledge of
the PDF of the b quark is needed.
This is the LHC-specific effect of the 3rd quark family.
The importance of the LHC-specific
intricacies of the production and decay
their effect on the \pT\
spectra of decay leptons of \Wp , \Wm\ and Z, has
been missed in the LHC physics studies made so
far. Not a single study
made a difference
between charged leptons from \Wp\  and \Wm\ decays. As a consequence
of these shortcuts,
unrealistically small errors
at or below the 10~\MeVcsq\ level
were reported for the W mass measurement at the LHC\footnote{The discussion in this paper applies {\em mutatis mutandis\/} also to the determination of the W mass from
$m_{\rm T}$ spectra. The determination of $m_{\rm T}$ involves the
 as missing
transverse momentum. The systematic error of this measurement which involves
the reconstruction of the hadronic system, is too large to
be useful for the measurement of the W mass at the 10~\MeVcsq\ level, {\it inter alia\/}
for reasons of reconstruction efficiency and acceptance close to the beam pipe.}
\subsection{A biased W mass}
\label{BIASEDWMASS}
In this section, it is argued that the current precision of pertinent proton PDFs is
overestimated. It is shown that with realistic errors of these PDFs, and with
correlations taken into account,
the advocated W mass precision of 10~\MeVcsq\ or
better~\cite{mW-ATLAS, mW-CMS} is much too optimistic.
If the current underestimation of systematic uncertainties is not rectified
the W mass from the LHC may be seriously biased.
The current understanding of the parton density functions is summarized in
Fig.~\ref{protonpdfs} which shows the
MSTW--2008 set~\cite{Stirling}.
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{PDFS.pdf}
\caption{The MSTW--2008 proton PDFs
at $Q^2 = 10$~GeV$^2$/{\it c}$^4$; the widths of the bands characterize the estimated
\label{protonpdfs}
It is advocated and widely believed that the proton PDFs  are precise enough
not to pose a limitation for LHC data analysis.
For example, the $u_{\rm v}$ and
$d_{\rm v}$ PDFs are claimed to be precise to
2\%~\cite{Stirling}.
Why then differ the CTEQ~\cite{CTEQ} and MSTW~\cite{MSTW}
proton PDFs by much more than 2\%,
as shown in Fig.~\ref{CTEQvsMSTW} taken from Ref.~\cite{MSTW},
although they stem largely from the same input data?
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{nloratioupvalence.pdf} &
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{nloratiodownvalence.pdf} \\
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{nloratioup.pdf} &strangegluon.pdf} \\
\caption{Comparison of the CTEQ6.6 and MSTW2008 (NLO) PDFs
of u$_{\rm v}$, d$_{\rm v}$, u, d and s quarks,
and of gluons.}
\label{CTEQvsMSTW}
A 5\% error of the PDFs of the u and d quarks
appears more realistic.
The present experimental uncertainty of the PDF of the c quark is at the 10\%
level\footnote{Theoretical calculations of heavy-quark PDFs from the
gluon PDF are claimed to have a smaller error margin.} , see Fig.~\ref{MSTWcquark} taken from Ref.~\cite{MSTW}.
\includegraphics[width=0.60\textwidth]{f2charm.pdf}
\caption{The measured PDF of the c quark, and the MSTW2008 fit,
at different values of $Q^2


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Q: Storing contact information in Microsoft Exchange 2010 For many years my employers have kept a separate program for storing the companies contact information (name, email, phone, website, postal address etc) but at last I have convinced them that contact information can be accessed using Outlook.
My question is what is the best way to import contact information into Microsoft Exchange?
My setup is as follows the data can be exported into a csv file for importing.
Users will be accessing via Outlook 2003 or via owa or via a mobile device (Blackberry or Iphone)
I am thinking that I need to import all the contacts into a public folder which everyone has access to. Is this the best way to do it?
A: I would check out this link.  Microsoft has been trying to remove Public Folders from Exchange for a while now in favor of pushing SharePoint out to the masses.  You can certainly store contacts in SharePoint or Exchange.  The link above discusses using PowerShell to import a CSV file as External Contact records.
My only other suggestion may be to setup a separate Address Book so you don't mix all of the external contacts in the primary Global Address book.  This also allows you to control who can see them down the road.
EDIT: I just noticed that the link I provided deals with Exchange on the web and Outlook Live (aka O365)  Either way, the commands should be similar if not exact.
EDIT 2: Multiple address book options and steps


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I turn it down on the basis that I'm unmarried with no children. But few people are that rootless, and life insurance for many is a financial must-have. Yet only a minority actually have it, despite the fact that it's cheap and can be tax efficient. How to get more people to buy life insurance then?
Trevor Matthews, the chief executive of Friends Provident, has an idea and that is to allow employers to provide access to life cover through the framework of the personal accounts system, due to be launched in a little over two years' time. Mr Matthews has an agenda, of course. Friends Provident is one of the country's biggest providers of ... guess what? Life cover. In addition, it will be in the forefront of those firms managing the new personal accounts. No doubt he can hear the tills ringing – but it's a good idea.
Life cover is usually bought as an add-on to a mortgage or done through a financial adviser who may receive commission (more of this below); neither is always satisfactory. If an employer can offer voluntary access to life cover with premiums deducted from staff pay packets, we will see a surge in the numbers taking out this insurance. Also, big employers should be able to negotiate a cheaper deal.
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Jammu International Conventional Centre is one such prestigious project which was launched almost two decades back when NC government rules in the state. Since the last two decades little development has been made in this project which has been kept in limbo by successive state governments because they did not want quality infrastructure to come up in Jammu. The delay has been due to shortage of funds, manpower, and most important intentions of the authorities who have spared no stone unturned to build similar convention centre in Srinagar called


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FREMANTLE, Western Australia, April 25. FREMANTLE'S Ukranian born goal scoring machine Andrei Kovalenko tonight became the first player in Australian Water Polo history to score 100 goals in a National League season and it was his most important goal of the year.
Kovalenko's "outside seven metre" shot came 1 minute 44 seconds into a sudden death tie-breaker semi-final against the luckless Balmain Tigers.
It earned Tom Hoad's Mariners a place in this weekend's National League grand final series against defending champions and minor premiers Sydney University Lions.
The Lions with Australian captain Nathan Thomas and vice-captain Thomas Whalan in awesome form, wrapped up their place in the premiership decider with a resounding 16-7 semi-final win over the emerging KFC Queensland Breakers.
Sydney University has been the form team all season and will start favourites to win back-to-back premiership crowns at the Sydney Aquatic Centre on Sunday – unless Andrei Kovalenko has a say in the proceedings.
All the attention tonight was on the Mariners and the Tigers in their second semi-final and the number 12 cap of A. Kovalenko.
The 1992 and 1996 Ukranian Olympian, who played for Australia in Sydney in 2000, went into tonight's games with 97 goals – after scoring one goal last night in a match which saw him fouled out in the third quarter.
The Tigers won game one 5-4 last night and the Mariners had to win game two to keep their title hopes alive.
Balmain looked to have the game well in hand, leading 9-7 at three-quarter time until Kovalenko unleashed his fury on the match in the final quarter.
The Mariners dominated the last quarter, winning the quarter 3-0 and the match 10-9 with Kovalenko scoring his 98th and 99th goals, forcing the series into a third tie-breaker match.
At the end of two five-minute halves in the tie-breaker, the scores were locked at 2-2 with Peter Petrov and Christian Hoad scoring for Fremantle and James Falzon and Dean Semmens netting for the Tigers – after Balmain had led 2-0 at half-time.
The tie-breaker went to sudden death after both teams had squandered chances after almost two exhausting hours in the water.
With the crowd on the edge of their seats, every pass and every foul counted as the two teams battled for a place in the prestigious grand final series.
With just 1 minute 44 seconds into sudden-death, the Balmain defense, so strong for so long and with young goalie Daniel Lees in great touch, left the triple Olympian Kovalenko unmarked outside seven meters, in the center of the pool.
The former Ukranian let loose with his powerhouse right arm to score the golden goal, his 100th of the season, to qualify the Mariners for the weekend grand final series – a fairytale ending to an intense and gripping night.
Olympic water polo at its absolute best!
FREMANTLE MARINERS 10 (T Cleland 2, A Kovalenko 2, P Tresize, C Dolley, P Petrov, J Neesham, C Hoad, J Beadsworth) d BALMAIN TIGERS 9 (G Woods 3, N Falzon 2, D Semmens, T Hamill, M Claridge, J Falzon).
FREMANTLE 3 (A Kovalenko, P Petrov, C Hoad) d BALMAIN 2 (J Falzon, D Semmens) Winning goal scored after 1:44 seconds of sudden death.
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY LIONS 16 (N Thomas 4, T Whalan 3, R Maitland 3, T Franklin, J Ramirez, J Moar, S McGregor, R Owen-Jones, A Visch) d KFC QUEENSLAND BREAKERS 7 (C Corbin 2, P Figlioli 2, D Will, C Votan, J Boyd).
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When an act of adultery is determined in the family, normally the determination of the act is done through consultation of a diviner or soothsayer. There are also occasions when the head of the compound (yeri-nyono), after realizing some strange happening in the clan or the family (such as common diseases like chicken pox), assembles all the women and inquires from them if anyone of them has committed adultery. He explains to them the consequence of not confessing such acts to him.
Like in the Jewish community, where the high priest performs the rites on behalf of the Jews, in the Bulsa community two people are qualified to perform the rite: an elder uncle of the guilty wife or a diviner or soothsayer, called Baano in the Buli language.
• Kinship and affinity relationships are reaffirmed in the clan or the lineage.
• Uncleanness has a great potency of wiping away a whole clan or lineage.
• The Bulsa concept of cleansing has much resemblance to the Jewish concept.
Similarity in the two concepts
Symbolism plays a major role in both concepts; the idea of the scape-chicken in the Bulsa concept is similar to the Jewish concept of the scape-goat used in the atonement. In some Bulsa communities a goat is used in the rite of cleansing. In the Jewish community, on the Day of Atonement, the high priest makes atonement on the scapegoat; in this ritual act he lays the sins of Israel on the scapegoat. The goat is sent to a mountain, which has a distance equivalent to the distance of a ten Sabbath days’ journey from Jerusalem. At the steep side of the mountain the goat is pushed down the slope of the mountain side. This is to ensure the sudden death of the goat upon reaching the foot of the mountain as a result of breaking its bones (Elwell 1997, Entry for “scapegoat”).
Likewise in the Bulsa concept, the Baano (diviner) rubs or beats the bodies of the guilty couple ief s well.
Besides the above similarity, there are common constituents of uncleanness in both cultures. Even though they may vary to a certain degree, their effects are exactly the same. Clean and unclean things have inherent. For instance one person’s uncleanness can bring a disaster on the whole community.
Furthermore, the idea of a renewal of life is central to both cultures; the belief is that the person who goes through the rites of cleansing attains a new life and fresh beginning. In both concepts a person who has contracted uncleanness is restricted from going to certain places or going closer to certain objects considered to be holy. After the rite of cleansing, the restrictions are removed and the person is free now to go to those places and to have access to those holy objects.
Coupled with these, the rites of cleansing in both cultures ensure the sense of security and protection. As long as the person who has contracted uncleanness continues to live in the clan or the community, the whole clan is in danger of attacks and defeat from their enemies, sicknesses and untimely deaths.
Lastly the officiant of the rituals in both cultures is the Priest; the high Priest for the Jews and the Baano (diviner) in the case of the Bulsa.
… The similarity between the Jewish and Bulsa concept of cleansing is evident enough to show, especially to the missionaries who work among Africans, that no culture is superior to the other. Therefore they are to respect other cultures, for they themselves are products of one culture going to people who are the products of another (LOP, No.2: The Willowbank Report, p. 5).
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Claus “Jäsz” Joplin has been spirited away to the dreamworld of Phantasmagoria, with the help of you and other readers he and his colleagues can explore this strange world by interacting with the bizarre Dream Logic that governs it, and uncover the mysteries within.
This game begins a quarter of the way through the first chapter of End of Infinity, so if you wish to have context it’s recommended to read the comic up to page 68 before playing.
Play it free on EOI’s website.
I originally created the fictional world of End of Infinity as an ecosystem for readers to creatively express themselves and to eventually contribute more directly to the project. It was my hope that eventually I could inspire enough people to contribute that this would make the project sustain itself, but over the few years it was active it never garnered enough traction to get the snowball rolling. I hoped to create something that would serve a small yet eager group, then become public domain and live on through future updates made by said group. To date the comic has received 205 pages (202 of which have been published) with nearly 1,000 animated panels, in addition to the game.
The EOI world functions based on multiple levels of consciousness, each with their own rules which govern them.
EOI was heavily inspired by the MS Paint Adventures series of multi-media interactive comics authored by Andrew Hussie, and I discussed the idea of branching the medium out with Andrew and crew when coining the term multi-media interactive comic, or MMIC. The format works much like early Text-Based RPG’s, MUDs, and so forth, where the reader enters “commands” via a messaging inbox of some kind, which then serves as inspiration for the author, which acts as the game’s interpreter and content generator (author I/O).
All feedback of this kind is woven into the various updates as they’re received. Turnaround is intended to be expedient, so each post (usually occurring daily) may consist of narrative text, character dialogue, images, animations, minigames, and voting forms for determining the characteristics of incoming new characters.
The website itself uses a bespoke CMS called MUSE which was developed by Jose Romero and I. It works a lot like Dropbox (in that you would simply drop files in a designated folder of your PC and they’d be copied to a server via RSYNC). To ease the creation of new “pages”, the system has a custom markup language (similar to Markdown). The language would automatically place the panel images and animations when referenced by number in a “script” (plain text file). Dialogue, narration, etc were all handled in a similar way.
When readers submit commands, known as Telegrams in EOI nomenclature, it sends an email of the content directly to my inbox for review and process. This form was also set up to replace user-entered punctuation with the corresponding telegram standards in an effort to further enhance immersion. You can try it live here, but please refrain from submitting telegrams, as I do still get them on occasion and am cataloging any which aren’t spam.
As for the game, the plan was to scatter games throughout the story at various pivotal points where exploration in the first-person sense would help convey the impact of what had transpired in the series lore, however only one game segment has been produced to date with any other components being simple easter eggs and one-offs. The one game which has been published was constructed from scratch in JavaScript by Jose, then populated with content I would make and insert with a tool called Tiled. The engine was written in a way that allowed for not only tile layers but instances of characters and even dialog trees and cut scene triggers to be edited directly on Tiled.
Here’s a collection of the character and NPC assets I’ve made for the game specifically, these are actual-size:
and the overworld assets:
The cut scenes are comprised of .PNG files layered over one another and panned/zoomed, roughly in the same way as traditional animation.
The areas played in-game are the very same ones seen in the comic pages leading up to it, and to ensure consistency I drafted up numerous quick references for layouts of important rooms for each features space as they came into the story, such as this one:
And with the multi-floor level, there is a lookout on an upper floor which lets you view the floor below with a parallax effect for a vertical perspective.
End of Infinity has been on hiatus for a number of years now. The project started development in March 2010, with content being posted from September 2011 through May 2014. The game portion took one month to produce. The 2011 launch occurred during my first semester of college and throughout the entire development timeline I had been also working a full-time job In addition I ended up moving a total of 10 times (some of which spanning great distances, namely: Illinois, Utah, Texas, Illinois again, then Argentina), so keeping up with the project was a constant, yet somehow therapeutic, challenge.
It’s been said that this project was ahead of its time. It began years before secure WordPress alternatives like Hugo were available, open source game engines were few-to-none, and crowdfunding like Patreon was nonexistent, so funding the project and making it user-friendly while remaining secure was an uphill battle.
There also had been technical issues regarding the loss of source code during a home invasion while I was living in Argentina with Jose. His laptop was stolen, and in an unrelated random chance the hard drive of mine had been destroyed. This, coupled with the onset of issues regarding adult content being produced by some members of the public, lead me to put the MMIC iteration of EOI on hold for an indeterminate amount of time.
That said, I do intend to make use of EOI for a traditional standalone game and will begin work with some of my colleagues starting October 2019.
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Jones is accused of having robbed at least 18 people in a 25 day period in August. The man, who has been arrested at least 17 prior times in Philadelphia has been charged with several counts of robbery and other related offenses.
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Hello Southern California Malifaux and tabletop players. WE"RE BACK!Malifaux will be present at OrcCon, (Strategicon) Febuary 17-20th with several events and lots of local players ready to have a great time. Everything from Gaining Grounds Tournament, Demo's, and open play will be happening this weekend, If you and/or a friend have been interested in Malifaux then please stop on by. We will be there from 10:00 - 8:00 PM Saturday and Sunday and will have several tables set up and ready for open play. Demo's will be scheduled at 12:00 daily; now's a great chance to jump in and see what Malifaux has to offer. For all those Tournament Players out there. We will be hosting a Gaining Grounds 2017 Master lead 50SS tournament on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM registration will begin at 10:30. more details below. There will be some 'Open Play' tables with available Mats and Terrain available to play. This is a great way to brush the dust off of those old crews and get back into the fun. https://www.facebook.com/events/1221807297897401/1221809637897167/?
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The best images often strike a balance between explaining and teasing the product.
Every split second that end-user ruminates on image/ad adds a huge drop-off in click-thru probability.
Trying to over-explain could give the end-user one “no” reason too early. End-user might make a quick no decision before getting to the Kickstarter page.
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Images containing game components such as miniatures, the box, and the product art have shown the best
Feel free to provide variants with AND without text, highlighting the project stage (“Just launched," “Final Hours," etc.) or any other details (“Kickstarter exclusive,"etc.).
Other trends of high-performing images include the ones that have testimonial/review quotes of the game.
Short 15-second clips of the software being used / screen shares overall tend to outperform images. Images that performed well were mostly screenshots of the software which showcased a high level of details within the map.
For example, in the images below you can see the textures of the tile and wood, small details players tend to appreciate in their RPG maps.
For DnD supplement books, we have seen excellent performance on images that depict artwork of gear, monsters, items, races, classes, etc. with text showing stats, how much damage it does, perks to abilities, etc.
DnD 5E product ads are unique in that displaying more specifics and details actually work well. For instance, renders of an open book with text and images of what the supplement will look like have led to higher conversions than other images.
For RPGs, the clean and simple render of the book cover tends to be the top performer amongst our most successful campaigns.
Other trends of high-performing DnD 5E images include the ones with large text featuring the name of the project.
Product Design: technology, EDC, apparel, fitness etc.
We recommend you include a range of videos in various sizes: landscape (for Youtube), square (for Instagram and Facebook), and vertical (for Instagram stories and reels).
Recommended video dimensions are 1280 x 720 pixels for landscape, 1080 x 1080 pixels for square, and 1080 pixels x 1920 pixels for vertical.
Images that showcase the productHowever, recent top-performing images have included close-up images of the product taken in a studio as they showcase the quality of the product for the consumer.
Other trends of high-performing product design images include the ones that use text to call out specific benefits, early bird/discount pricing, or the product's name.
The highest converting tarot images are the ones that fan out the cards, spread the cards out into a row, and showcase the cards in a unique environment.
In the examples below, you can see that some of the cards are displayed on a stack of moss, some are showcased on a brown paper bag with interesting items around it, and some are angled in a unique way.
For video game assets, the ones that performed the best were screenshots of the game itself. We have also found that short video clips of the game being played (screen recordings) have performed well. Below is a campaign video for Coral Island that outperformed all the images when we ran ads.
Recently, we've found collages of multiple kinds of dice have performed the best. Additionally, close-ups of the dice have performed well too.
Recently we have found that images that feature the unlocked stretch goal components have helped boost performance during the mid-phase of a campaign. We also encourage you to share images with Stretch Goals if we are running your ads, or add them to your own ads to keep momentum strong throughout your campaign.
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Edelweiss Lodge and Resort vs Army Lodging
For military members stationed in Germany, Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, located in the stunning Alpine village of Garmisch, is a much-sought after retreat area.
I was not about to pay $100 a night for a bed and some nice alpine lodge ambience! So, it was time to travel hack!
After doing some digging and getting tipped off by a co-worker whose wife worked at the Army Post Lodging, we decided to save some big bucks and stay at the lodging instead of the resort. Here’s the breakdown of both options
Bottom Line: Unless you have booked with a marriage retreat or with a special, you can pay almost HALF the price to stay right next door and receive all the same amenities as the “resort” (ask for the location next to Edelweiss, as there is another location on the Artillery Kaserne, which is on the other “side” of post).
Some people want the rustic and romantic appeal of Edelweiss, but I much prefer the appeal of saving money! (My gal pal, Jennifer over at Royal Little Lambs goes into detail about how great the resort is though here. Check out her review to compare) Besides, when surrounded by gorgeous scenery, I don’t care what the inside of my hotel looks like! With the knowledge that I can use all the same amenities as those staying at the resort, I’ll save that $40-50/night and spend it on something awesome…like paragliding over Neuschwanstein!
You can contact the Army Lodging in Garmisch at:
If you are still looking for other places to stay, don’t forget to look through my 5 Alternatives to Edelweiss Lodge
Garmisch can be expensive. What have you done to save a few bucks while enjoying your Alpine retreat?
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Concerns raised over A56 Haslingden Bypass after two collisions in two days
Residents and councillors said the road is 'dangerous' near the Tesco turn-off
A crash between a Vauxhall car and a lorry on the southbound A56 near Haslingden. Pictures taken by Dale Humphreys.
Concerns have been raised over a stretch of the Haslingden Bypass after two collisions on successive day56 after a collision involving a car and an articulated lorry.
It happened at around 4.10pm on Tuesday, October 6 and firefighters from Rawtenstall and Hyndburn used cutting equipment to free a man in his 20s from the silver Vauxhall car.
He was taken to hospital with a head injury along with a passenger in the lorry.
The incident came after another collision on the same stretch of road at around 8.50am on Monday, October 5 when a woman was cut free from a car and taken to hospital with ‘minor injuries’.
Councillors and residents said the road can be ‘dangerous’ and have called for the speed limit to be lowered.
James Stroud, a businessman in Haslingden, said: “There have been quite a few crashes there and it all adds up.
“Maybe it needs to have traffic or restrictions or the speed limit reduced.
“incidents from Rising Bridge up to Edenfield.
“People are pulling off for Tesco and are doing significantly lower speeds.
“It is basically a motorway with the amount of traffic but it’s got the treatment of a bypass.”
Haslingden councillor Annabel Shipley said the weather was ‘pretty horrendous at the time’ of the second crash. She said: “It’s tricky when you are coming on from Grane Road and people are trying to come off there at the Tesco junction.
“It can be a bit dangerous at times.
“It is just the sign of the times with the volume of traffic.
“There are a lot of cars going on there and maybe it’s an indication that there needs to be some traffic calming measures put in place.
“If it keeps happening something will need to be done about it.”
Coun Gladys Sandiford said: “It is a dangerous road as there are quite a few intersections with people coming on for a short distance.
“They might come on at Rising Bridge or Grane Road and then come off at Tesco.
“It’s the pulling off again and again that does it.”


Post 7x05. After Carolyn leaves, Rossi needs someone to talk to. Rossi, Prentiss - genD. Rossi, E. Prentiss - Words: 2,554 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 88670
Title:The Plunge
Characters/Pairing:Rossi, Prentiss - gen
Genre:Friendship/Angst
Summary:
David Rossi was numb.
Carolyn's news – and her subsequent request – had shaken him to the core. He was not a man that was scared easily, but now, he had no qualms in admitting that fear.
For what felt likeThe hug they shared as she left was bittersweet. He might not have been a certified genius, but he knew exactly how bad ALS was, and exactly why Carolyn had made the request she did.
But that wasn't the only reason he was numb.
For a moment, he really had thought that she wanted to rekindle their relationship. What was it that Emily had said? We don't always get second chances in life, Rossi. I say take the plunge. See where it goes.
There was almost certainly some regret of her own she was referring to, but if nothing else, Emily Prentiss kept things close to the chest.
Nothing as big as this, though.
He cared for Carolyn so damned much, but her request was a big one. Almost anything else, he would have done without a second thought, but helping her die?
Moral, legal and religious issues aside, he wasn't sure he had the strength to flip that switch. It wasn't as though she was on life support, stuck in some coma that she'd never wake up from. Somehow, it was different.
Somehow, it was harder.
Shoving his wallet and phone in his pockets, he locked the front door shut behind himneeded to get out of the house, clear his head.
He drove around for a while, mind focused on each push of the clutch, gearshift sliding smoothly into sockets. Eventually, his hand stopped shaking.
Half an hour later, he found himself in Emily's neighborhood. Maybe that was thanks to his brain subconsciously directing him there. Maybe it was just coincidence.
It wasn't the same apartment she'd lived in before Doyle. That one had been rented out to someone else during her time in Paris. A testament to the fact that you couldn't always just pick things up where they left off.
Maybe that was something he should have been telling himself.
He found the buzzer at the entrance, and pressed 4A. It took a few minutes, but eventually, he heard a groggy, 'Hello?' through the speakers.
'Emily? It's Rossi.'
'Rossi, it's almost 1am.' Crap. He hadn't even looked at the time before parking the car.
'Sorry. I uh…would I be able to come up?'
'Sure,' she answered, with a lot less hesitation than he would have expected. The door unlocked with a click, and he pushed it open.
The hallways were empty – not surprising, considering the time. A deathly silence hung in the air. He made his way up to the fourth floor quickly, trying not to let the malignant thoughts fester in his mind.
Just across from the elevator: 4A.
He knocked, and the door swung open almost immediately. Emily was wearing a tank top and sweatpants, her hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. She didn't look particularly impressed.
'I'm sorry, I just…I didn't know where else to go.' He felt pathetic for even saying that, but Emily's eyes widened, and she stepped back to let him inside. A black cat meowed, and rubbed up against his leg.
'Serge, leave him alone,' Emily scolded the cat, shooing him away. With a slight hiss, the cat ran off in the opposite direction. 'He's probably going to go play in my shoeboxes now,' she sighed. There was a slight frown. 'You had that dinner thing with Carolyn tonight, didn't you?'
Lastnight, he almost corrected, but didn't. 'Yeah,' he sighed.
Emily nodded. 'I'll get the scotch,' she said.
Another night, Dave might have laughed at how well she knew him. Tonight, he just wanted – needed – someone to talk to.
He hovered by the entrance to her kitchen, unwilling to invade her privacy any more than he already had by showing up unannounced at one in the morning. The apartment seemed a lot emptier than her last place, which was saying something. He knew that she'd had to get a lot of new stuff after her return, but the place still looked a little unlived in.
But, she had scotch.
He followed her into the living room, tumbler in hand. After they sat, Emily poured him a healthy dosage. That, he raised an eyebrow at.
'Rossi, anything that has you coming to my door at one am looking like a lost puppy is going to need at least a double.'
'Touché,' he said with a half smirk, and tossed back the glass. It was good scotch. Expensive scotch. Rossi approved.
'I take it she wasn't uh…putting out the feelers?' Emily asked, a little hesitant as she took a sip of her own drink.
Rossi paused.
He wasn't sure how much he wanted to reveal. Whatever Carolyn had asked of him, it had been in confidence. But that didn't mean he couldn't tell her everything else.
'She's…she has ALS.'
Emily's expression sunk in realization. 'Oh, God Rossi, I'm sorry.' She didn't wrap him in a hug, like some people would have done. Instead, she let her hand rest atop his. It was tactile, without being too overwhelming. Very much an Emily move.
'It's true, what you said,' he admitted. 'There's always something about the first…I haven't been in love with Carolyn for a long time, but I think I've always loved her.'
Emily nodded, biting her lip. 'That's understandable. You split because of the job, right?'
'Right,' he nodded. 'I'm sure it's pretty much been proved over the years that working for the BAU and having a family just don't mix.'
'JJ manages okay,' Emily said, shrugging. 'Granted, she isn't as obsessed about the job as you are.' The tone of her voice made it abundantly clear that she was teasing him. Again.
Rossi stared at his glass.
In a way, he felt like he was obliged to tell her. After all, she'd confided in him about her darkest secret. Well…one of her darkest secrets. Assisted suicide fit into the same morally gray area.
'She asked me…' He paused, swallowing. It hurt. 'She asked me to help her, when the disease had gotten to a point where…' He stopped, but judging by the look on Emily's face, she could put two and two together.
'What did you tell her?' she asked, her tone curious, rather than judgmental.
He shook his head. 'Nothing. I didn't say anything…I mean, I don't want her to suffer, but…I'm sorry to put this on you, but…I don't know what to do.'
There was a long, almost awkward silence, punctuated by a purr as the cat – Sergio? – rubbed up against his leg.
'I don't think I can tell you what to do about that, Rossi. It's not exactly the same as saying you should go after her.'
'No,' he agreed. 'No it's not.' Now that the numbness was wearing off, the realization was starting to set in.
Carolyn was dying.
The woman that he'd once loved more than anything in the world, was dying. The shakes returned in full force, and he knew there was no way he'd be driving home tonight, scotch notwithstanding.
Emily poured him another glass. 'You can stay in my spare room tonight, if you want,' she told him. 'You might wake up with a cat sleeping on your chest in the morning, though.'
'I'll take that risk,' Rossi said, giving a shaky smile. He wasn't a big fan of cats – dogs were far more his style. He rubbed behind the cat's ears absent-mindedly. Tonight, he was just happy for the warmth. 'You're a Clint Eastwood fan?'
'Sometimes you just can't tear a girl away from her Spaghetti Westerns.'
'Well,' he said, giving her a smile. 'All the best things come from Italy.'
'Don't push it,' Emily warned him, but he could see that twinkle in her eyes that made it clear she was teasing him. Still, there was a stark sobriety that lingered in the wake of his revelation, and the smile he returned felt weak in comparison.
After setting their empty glasses on the sink, Emily led him upstairs to the spare bedroom. Judging by the faint smell of must in the air, he was the first person to actually use it since she'd moved in.
'If you want to have a shower, there are plenty of spare towels,' she told him. 'And I probably have some ex-boyfriend shirts hanging around as well, if you needed something to wear.'
Rossi chuckled lightly. 'Don't worry, I'll stick with my boxers and undershirt.'
The bathroom was just across the hall, and looked just as unused as the spare bedroom.
The spray of hot water did little to calm the nervous tension that wrought his body. It was a nervous tension that would be there for weeks to come, no matter the choice he made. David Rossi was no stranger to death, but this…this was too much.
When he'd toweled and dressed, he returned to the spare bedroom, where Emily had just finished fitting the sheets.
'M,' she told him, turning to leave.
'Emily, wait.' She stopped. 'I can't thank you enough…for everything. Really, thank-you.'
Emily smiled. 'That's what family's for.' Her words struck a strange sort of chord with him, that reverberated long after all the lights had flickered off. He'd been expecting to lie awake, staring at the ceiling for hours, but sleep came surprisingly quickly.
The sun-streaked dawn shining through the window woke him. It was early enough that he considered going back to sleep, but that proved a futile choice.
The memories of the previous day were eating away at his mind, like maggots on a corpse. Not the most pleasant metaphor, but really, considering the circumstances, none were.
The only clothes he had were the ones from the previous night. If he'd really thought the situation through, he would have at least packed his go bag, but then, they weren't exactly filthy. For breakfast, it would do.
Judging by the smell wafting up the stairs, Emily was already awake. Interesting. For some reason, he'd always figured that she slept in on their days off. He filed it into his mental profile, and descended the stairs into the kitchen.
'I didn't wake you, did I?' Emily asked. Half her attention seemed to be fixed on the stovetop, the other half on the muted television. Sergio was, for some reason, sitting on top of the microwave.
'No,' he told her. 'I didn't even realize you were up, until I heard the smoke detectors going off.'
Emily gave him a look. 'Very funny. In case you forgot, my Carbonara was waybetter than everyone else's.'
'Don't get so cocky. I'm sure if the rest of the team ever lived in Italy, theirs would have been just as good.'
She laughed, and turned her attention back towards the bacon. Sergio jumped down onto the counter, meowing. 'Hey,' she scolded. 'Not until it's done.'
'Isn't that a little unhygienic?'
'Well you try telling a cat that,' she said dismissively. 'Especially one who's being super-clingy after I spent seven months pretending to be dead.' Emily scratched Sergio under the chin, and gently lowered him to the ground.
In spite of her flippant response, she wiped the counter down, and washed her hands before turning the lowering the heat a notch. 'Over easy, right?'
'Right,' he affirmed.
'Bread's in the freezer,' she told him, grabbing two eggs from the open carton by the stove. 'You can earn your keep by putting on some toast.'
'If I knew you were going to be such a slave-driver, I would have gone to Garcia's place.'
'And run the risk of seeing Kevin naked again? I doubt it.'
Hand halfway out of the freezer, Rossi stopped.
'What?' Emily shrugged. 'You think anything stays a secret in the BAU?' There was a pause. 'Well…aside from the really important things.' He wasn't entirely sure which specific event she was referring to, but he didn't ask for clarification.
Five minutes later, they were both sitting at the breakfast counter, trying to work through the silence. The last time that Rossi had had breakfast with a woman was with Carolyn, a week earlier.
The way she averted her gaze, the waver in her voice. He had been profiling criminals for thirty years, and he couldn't even profile a woman he'd been married to for four years. If not for the reason behind her behavior, he might have been ashamed.
Rossi speared a corner of bacon on his fork.
'I can't let her go through that without doing anything,' he said eventually. 'ALS is…'
'It's not a very nice disease,' Emily said quietly, nodding. 'I…I can understand why you'd feel that way.'
'Are you saying you think I should do it?'
She gave him a look. 'What I think isn't what's important here. You care for her – that much is pretty damn clear. It's also clear that whatever decision you make, you think you're going to feel guilty for it. You didn't just come here to talk, you came here looking for permission.' Emily's tone was matter-of-fact, rather than accusatory. She shook her head slightly. 'You know what you have to do, even if it feels like it might hurt to do it.'
He nodded. 'I need to talk to Carolyn.'
Emily gave him a wavering smile. 'There you go.'
He'd only eaten a third of his breakfast, but somehow, he wasn't hungry anymore. 'I'm sorry, I…I need to...'
'It's okay,' Emily said. 'I won't be offended if you go.'
'Thanks.' He gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. 'For everything.'
'Dave.' Her voice took on a somber tone as he pulled away. 'Whatever decision you make, I have your back, okay?'
'Okay,' he said, giving her one last nod before walking out her door.
A/N: Because I know that at least a few of you wanted to see it, just pretend he comes back and rails her later on, okay?


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Think You're Ready to Launch a New Product?
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Title: With Smoke and Shadow
Summary: Arthur has been able to see the aura of the supernatural all his life even if he wishes he couldn't.
Which is why when he hears footsteps descending the stairs into his medical lab, he’s already on his last frayed nerve.
Gwaine is sauntering down the last few steps in all his cocky shit-eating grin glory, his deep dark red aura a strong pulse framing his body. He tosses his hair over his shoulder in a perfected move born from centuries of flirting and seducing innocent men and women into his bed. And sucking their blood from their veins.
But it’s the young man behind him that draws Arthur’s attention. He’s not much to look at, in his mid-twenties maybe, tall and lean and pale, dressed in fitted black jeans and a black tee beneath a simple leather jacket. Unruly dark hair frames his face, curling at his overly large ears and his eyes—well okay the blue is quite piercing, Arthur will give him that.
But it’s the ethereal black misting smoke aura curling around his torso and down his arms that gives Arthur pause.
A necromancer.
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“Hello, I’m—”
But Arthur doesn’t let him finish.
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“Damn,” Gwaine whistles, drawing out the word low and long, “you really are no fun anymore.”
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Cost of recruitment: Part 2 - "7.8 hires per year"
Looking at 2021 through a recruitment strategy perspective? In this article I will give you some thoughts. Actually, you will receive a (slightly simplified - yet useful) framework for what to choose.
In "Part 1" I drew the conclusion: if you hire an in-house recruitment specialist, a Talent Acquisition Manager, a Recruiter - it would need to complete at least 7.8 hires a year in order to make use of the annual pay check.
But before moving too fast - let us back up. What alternatives do you actually have as a company, when it comes to recruitment strategy? And more importantly - what to choose?
You would of course be able to use a mix of the alternatives listed below, as well as neither of them and still be able to experience a successful recruitment strategy - but in order to generalize and simplify:
1. Hire recruiter(s) - successful unicorns like Spotify and Netflix most likely helped increase the pace of this development. They may have been, and most probably still are - in need of this strategy due to their pace of growth. The assumption that internal competence is better at assessing cultural & competence fit is clear as well as the cost, given the assumptions made in part 1.
So: if you can make that business case, this alternative is probably your best choice. But in order to compare it - and even answer if it’s reasonable: is it possible to recruit 7.8 people per year?
SweSale argues that it will take at least 100 hours to complete one in-house hire. Poolia agrees, but expands the span to 50-150. And in this particular case - I will choose to believe them.
Since the number of working hours per year is 1474, you as a Recruiter would be able to hire almost 15 people per year. If you do nothing but hiring. In other words: if you never spend time on other projects, like employer branding, stepping in when the HR Generalist is off due to vacation and planning the yearly Christmas party.
2. Use external recruitment agencies - there is a lot of help to get, recruitment agencies increasing in numbers with 30% between 2014 and 2018, and these are clearly providing its clients with value adding services - since the majority of these companies actually have positive margins.
The pricing is obvious. To be clear: given our assumptions, if you are planning on hiring less than 7.8 employees during a year, you will be better off with an external agency - than with an in-house recruiter.
However, there are a couple of question marks to address:
How to choose which one to go with?
Go with one exclusively, or several in parallel?
Answers to the questions above is more complicated than I intend to cover in this short article - but *hint* I may give you a shortcut under alternative 4.
3. Rely on your employer branding - from a cost perspective in the best of worlds you wouldn’t need to go for either of alternative 1 or 2. In the best of worlds you would probably receive enough qualified candidates just by publishing an ad on Linkedin? You may even already see results from the long term employer branding projects you have been working on for such a while? If this is the case - great. Focus on your internal processes and candidate experience.
If not - this is not unusual. MRI reports that 80% of employers claim that their biggest problem is receiving enough qualified candidates in their recruitment processes. How to change this - and improve your employer branding is for someone else to help you out with - but if you need qualified candidates today - go by alternative 1 or 2.
"So what about the 4th alternative then?"
During the last couple of years several HR/Recruitment-startups occurred in order to disrupt the industry and increase the number of alternatives when it comes to recruitment strategy. Demando, WeTal, Intro & 10xRecruit are all Stockholm-based startups on this mission - even if the paths may vary.
Sekando aims at mainly helping customers in the segment of hiring less than 7.8 people per year, and is interested in setting their own price, and increase the supply by reaching more than one agency through one digital platform. We believe that we improve the odds by increasing the supply. Now: go through the alternatives, compare it to your plan for 2021 - and choose your path.