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Kingdom Proclaimers Report
‘Happy Are the Spiritually Hungry’
JESUS said: “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.” (Matthew 5:3) Such ones will seek life-giving information from God’s Word, the Bible, and taking in this knowledge will lead them to everlasting life.—Matthew 4:4; John 17:3.
◻ A spiritually hungry person in an African land walked for four hours in the cold and dark in order to obtain a copy of My Book of Bible Stories. Upon reaching the village where Jehovah’s Witnesses were preaching, he was bitterly disappointed to find that the last book had been placed. He stayed in the village for three days until an additional supply of books could be obtained, and then he was happy finally to have in his possession this fine spiritual information.
During the month of their stay in this isolated area, the Witnesses distributed 55 books, 365 brochures, and 145 magazines, and they obtained 5 subscriptions. They were very moved when, as they left, both adults and children called after them in the Kpelle language: “May Jehovah be with you!” Efforts are being made to follow up on the interest.
Another person in this same country was also spiritually hungry. She was the treasurer for her church and an entertainment officer for her county. When the Witnesses called on her, she tearfully admitted that the church fell far short of the Bible’s requirements for Christianity. The Witnesses showed her from her own Bible how to identify the true religion. Then she attended two meetings at the Kingdom Hall and afterward stated: “What I saw and heard really convinced me that this is the truth.” She was impressed by the meetings and by the conduct of those present. She saw that what the Witnesses who called on her had said was not something they had dreamed up but something real. She has since taken steps to break off her relationship with the church, and this has resulted in a good witness in the community.
◻ A young Melanesian catechist in New Caledonia was spiritually hungry. He found a copy of the book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life on the table in his mother’s house, and he read chapters 2 and 3. The Bible texts Exodus 20:4, 5 and John 4:23, 24 discussed there touched his heart. In view of what these scriptures say, he asked his priest why the Catholic Church tolerates the use of images in worship. The priest evaded the question. The man went to a number of other “Christian” religions, but they did not give him satisfactory answers to his questions. Finally he decided to attend a meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses with his mother, who had already manifested an interest in the truth. The love he saw among the Witnesses and their Bible-based teachings impressed him very much.
Despite great distances, he regularly hitchhiked to the meetings, quickly took a stand for the truth, and was baptized. Now he is a ministerial servant. His mother and two of his fleshly sisters also became Witnesses of Jehovah. The young man preached to his own tribe and started many Bible studies. Now a number are attending meetings in this area—all because a young man happened to notice on a table a book explaining the Bible, studied it, and took seriously what he learned.
Jehovah has a great spiritual feeding program in operation today, and multitudes benefit from it. Isaiah aptly prophesied about it when he said: “Look! My own servants will eat, but you yourselves [members of false religion] will go hungry.” (Isaiah 65:13) Happy are we if we benefit from Jehovah’s provision for satisfying our spiritual hunger.


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McNamara writes of his experiences as a former police detective stationed in Sydney's Kings Cross. This is a true crime thriller that highlights police violence, police informants, women who kill their mothers, paedophiles, suicides and gang rapists. This is the era before the Police Reform Commission exposed the corrupt cops who made money from drug dealers and pimps. Pulls no punches.
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Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area has much to celebrate this winter. A banner year of snowfall has the ski area that straddles the Idaho-Montana state line cheering the conditions, and the resort is readying to celebrate its 75th anniversary winter.
The ski area started with a rope tow in 1935 on a slope located on the south side of the highway over Lookout Pass. Skiers usurped a highway storage shed nicknamed "Buzzard's Roost" as a warming hut. The ski area's permanent lodge built six years later as a Civilian Conservation Corp project became the second oldest ski lodge in the Pacific Northwest. It still serves as the resort's main lodge.
The resort is still noted for its free ski school that started in 1940. Volunteers teach the Saturday program designed for kids ages 6-17-a program that has taught more than 40,000 children to ski.
We checked in with Phil Edholm, president and CEO of Lookout Pass, to see what the resort had on the schedule for celebrating the anniversary. "It's a season-long thing," he said. "We're taking those traditional events on our calendar and celebrating the anniversary with them."
One of the biggest events is Winter Carnival held Jan. 16. The carnival features family activities with snow volleyball, snowman building contests, and family races. The Pacific Northwest National Wife Carrying Contest was added to the schedule five years ago. "It's a really fun thing that started in Scandinavian countries," said Edholm. "You might think that carrying your wife in your arms is the way to go, but the best carry puts your gal upside down on your back with her legs wrapped around your neck. It's just a hoot."
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The highly anticipated Virgin Hotels Nashville opens on July 1, 2020 with a variety of food and beverage options for visitors. The hotel’s fourteenth floor rooftop restaurant and bar The Pool Club will offer a small food menu, champagne cocktails, and impressive city views.
Shared plates at The Pool Club include smoked deviled eggs, littleneck clams, smashed avocado toast, and a Nashville hot-spiced fish and chips. A small menu of entrees includes an obligatory burger, steak frites, and salmon with greens and ginger peach chutney. Of course there is beer and wine by the glass and bottle, plus a selection of champagne-crowned cocktails and boozy snow cones.
Executive chef Patrick McEntyre oversees the food throughout the hotel, which also includes downstairs’ Funny Library Coffee Shop. Laughing Man Coffee (a brand co-founded by actor Hugh Jackman) and a menu of grab-and-go breakfast lunch items are on offer here, in a space serving as lounge and communal remote working space. Funny Library will feature a number of whimsical books and games, and sell Nashville treats from local makers. Commons Club, Virgin Hotels’ flagship restaurant, bar, and lounge, is set to debut later this year on the first floor.
McEntyre has been in Nashville since 2011, when he joined the culinary team at Nashville’s historic Hermitage Hotel. The chef began his career in the kitchen at NYC’s Gramercy Tavern. Since living in Nashville, he also worked with Marriott International and served as executive chef at Loews Vanderbilt’s restaurant — Mason’s Southern Provisions. He also worked with the Dream Nashville before signing on with Virgin Hotels Nashville.
On the first weekend open, Virgin Hotels Nashville is Fourth of July event “The Star Spangled Disco” — complete with a two-hour open bar, sliders and hot dogs, plus some of Nashville’s best DJs, including Hustle & Bump, Maggie Wells, and David Bermudez of Sparkle City Disco. The party starts at 6 p.m. July 4.

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Gregory Siff: When You Were Little You Used to Color
4am Arts & 287 Gallery, Chelsea
June 7-14, 2018
By SHANA NYS DAMBROT, June 2018
Last month Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-based artist Gregory Siff had an exhibition in Chelsea -- his first hometown solo show, not only since he moved, but ever. Even in the midst of his meteoric rise to acclaim and prolific popularity in the art and fashion worlds, this was still kind of a big deal. It meant a lot to Siff -- an artist already known for relying plentifully on nostalgia, memory, and emotionally candid autobiography as the inspiration and visual content of his elaborate yet haiku-like narratives. An avid reader with a love of humanistic poetics, his texts as well are both simple and poignant. It’s like someone set Proust on rapid-fire mode, one summer in Coney.
Along with a compendium of single-image paintings, new sculpture, a site-specific mural, and other materialist experiments, one large, kaleidoscopic rosetta stone painting contains in its variegated color field the entire contents of the neighborhood candy store. Despite the fraught, energetic gestures and amped-up colors that invigorate many of his compositions, his imagery itself is simple and direct -- line-drawn figures and emblems of lost American youth like ice cream, hamburgers, cereal at the kitchen table, popcorn, pop-rocks, plastic toys, convertibles, roller coasters, and candy candy candy. So much candy.
In previous shows Siff has looked at the role of food and shared playtime in the soul of an adult, figuring out how to combine paint and glitter with painful loss and come out the other side with joyfulness intact. In When You Were Little You Used to Color, we see the artist deliberately taking a full inventory of the stuff of childhood, and what it means. The works depict the treats, but their real content is the state of innocence, wonder, free-range imagination, safety, simple joy and freedom to dream that childhood is supposed to be about. Actually, their deeper content is the melancholy and magnificent quest to recapture and protect that state of mind as we grow older and move into a world that is less safe, less joyful, and perilous to creativity. This quest, Siff feels, is the job of the artist, it’s his job. Why, he’d like to know, don’t you color any more? What, he is asking himself and us all, has been lost? How, he encourages us to inquire, can we get some of that back? For Siff and for anyone who wants it, this show is one way to answer. WM
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Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the LA Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Art and Cake, Artillery, and Palm Springs Life.
She studied Art History at Vassar College, writes essays for books and catalogs, curates and juries a few exhibitions each year, is a dedicated Instagram photographer and author of experimental short fiction, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She is a member of ArtTable and the LA Press Club, and sits on the Boards of Art Share-LA and the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, the Advisory Council of Building Bridges Art Exchange, and the Brain Trust of Some Serious Business.
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If you're not a member yet and and not sure if a club is for you then you are welcome try us out. We run three different ride groups and you can join us on up to three rides before you would be asked to join the club. If you're not sure what to expect please take a look at our guide to your first club ride and then choose a ride from the calendar or get in touch.
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Top 5 online games inspired by real life
October 22, 2021
Online video games have long been a place of fantasy and fiction, but the truth is that many production companies have used real-world events as inspiration for their works. And, not only online video games, but some online gambling games inspired by real-life situations can even be found and explored on websites such as Casinovator.
While historical games or games set in the past play an essential role in this context, there are also other unexpected cases. We’ve compiled a shortlist of video games inspired by or based on real-world events for today’s post. However, it is likely that as the story progressed, the games moved away from reality in order to create a more exciting atmosphere for the player.
A lot of the video games we have in our collection are original stories dreamed up by imaginative minds. Yet every once in a while, real events happen that have such an impact on society (for better or worse) that developers can’t help but make video games about them. In many cases where game authors have relied on historical facts to create their games, such as Ryse, Medal of Honor, Assassin’s Creed, Age of Empires, etc., they have drawn inspiration from historical events.
Just as games will always teach us something new, so will stories; many stories in the games were inspired by true stories that happened in the real world. So think about it: if some of us get a little queasy when we watch a movie and we’re told it’s based on real events, imagine playing an online game that tells that story to The first person. Accordingly, we will include five games inspired by historical events to incorporate into the development of this list.
Assassin’s Creed III
Any installment of the Assassin’s Creed franchise contains some truth, even if we’re only left with the numbered third chapter, because Ubisoft’s effort in everything was in contrast to the effort Ubisoft put into everything. . In addition to transporting us to authentically recreated cities, Assassin’s Creed III took us on a journey through the most important battles of the American Revolution.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
World War I was one of the most underrepresented war conflicts in video game history. However, with its fantastic indie game Valiant Hearts, Ubisoft has strived to tell the story of the conflict in an emotionally moving way. Here, we experienced the conflict through the eyes of various fictional characters, although we encountered many real events.
Call of Duty
The Call of Duty war franchise has evolved over the years to become more of a sci-fi story, with advancements in technology and future warfare playing a bigger role. Years ago, World War II was the sole focus of the series and it was the most popular episode. The game Call of Duty: World at War is a great example of this, as it took us on a journey through Nazi Germany, in search of the end of the Holocaust and the tyranny of the Hitler regime.
Even though the complex and gruesome history of Silent Hill is not based on real events, the town of Silent Hill is. Ideally located in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States, Centralia’s economy was based on mining when Konami decided to develop the game. Unfortunately, after an explosion in the mine claimed the lives of dozens of people and destroyed the city’s prosperity, the residents fled and Centralia became a ghost town similar to Silent Hill in appearance and atmosphere.
Civilization is yet another of the sagas that have always had a significant historical background and, therefore, have always been based on real events and people. There are historical figures such as Philip II of Spain, Gandhi of India, Peter I of Russia, Queen Victoria of United Kingdom, and Aztec leader Montezuma in the latest episode, which is no exception. In this game, users will be responsible for the expansion and evolution of a civilization.
Throughout human history, there have been events that have marked a before and after in the way society or an individual perceives life. While not always the most “beautiful”, these events have been so ethereal that they have appeared on everything from television to online video games and a city that allows occupying it as a base to create wonders that have remained in our hearts.
If the main purpose of online games is to entertain people and have a good time while doing so, then there will be other more serious works that deal with more mature themes and so on. Online games keep us entertained. They offer us something, because they sometimes introduce us to a hostile world, and at other times they teach us to a happy world, and so on. Video games allow you to interact with a character, explore an area, and be part of an adventure, and that’s what makes them so enjoyable.


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American Airlines slammed as hypocrites for throwing Alec Baldwin off a flight
Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Lindsay Lohan apologized to Oprah Winfrey for being linked to Barron Hilton assault
- Ellen DeGeneres slammed reports her marriage to Portia de Rossi on the rocks
- Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman are expecting another baby girl
- Courteney Cox is dating Snow Patrol County Derry musician Johnny McDaid
- Bono, Charlize Theron among stars at Nelson Mandela's memorial
His spokesperson Matthew Hiltzik tweeted: "@AMERICAN_AA: How come ok 4 other 1st class passengers 2 tweet while @alecbaldwin asked to leave while using his device? #hypocrisy … 1st clss passngers can tweet, but @alecbaldwin asked to leave? (sic)"
Alec has also been defended by boxer Oscar De La Hoya, who was also on the flight and said the incident has been "blown out of proportion".
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“I don’t know him very well but he seemed like a good guy. He wanted to play his words game! I mean, that’s all he wanted to do!”
Alex – who claimed he was removed from the flight for playing Scrabble-like game 'Words With Friends' on his iPad device while the plane was still at the gate – has now deleted his twitter page, but signed off with a photo captioned "let Alec play".
In their statement following the incident, American Airlines did not name Alec, 53, directly but said they had to deal with an "extremely rude" passenger.
They said: “This passenger declined to turn off his cell phone when asked to do so at the appropriate time.
The passenger ultimately stood up (with the seat belt light still on for departure) and took his phone into the plane’s lavatory. He slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked.
“They immediately contacted the cabin crew to check on the situation. The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language. Given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding.”
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Change is a constant...Most of the poems in Winds of Change were written in the turbulent months following the downfall of Gary's first marriage and his fortuitous meeting with Carol on a crowded train platform in New York City in the late 1980s.
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Sometimes, I read something that think “maybe we are moving in the right direction.”
Case in point, this article, which tells the story of three women now leading three prominent churches, Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner in Chicago, Rev. Amy Butler in New York and Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli in Washington D.C.
As the article recounts, and as you would expect, each of these women have faced significant hurdles in arriving in their current roles:
In June, Butler used the hashtag “nevergetsold” when she tweeted about how a funeral director didn’t believe she was a minister. She once had to get an emergency room security guard to log on to her former church’s website to show him her photo there so she could pay a late-night visit to a sick congregant.
“Look, I know you’re his girlfriend,” the guard told her before she convinced him otherwise.
Kershner said that early in her ministry when she was a hospital chaplain, she often entered rooms where she was rebuffed because she wasn’t a “real minister.”
In every place she’s served as the first woman pastor, Gaines-Cirelli has heard a variation on this theme: “I was so worried that we were getting a woman, but I think that you’re going to be just fine.”
In light of the obstacles, I say good for these three for overcoming Tertullian.
As you might expect, the article also sounds a down note. After all, three pastors is good, but they represent the proverbial drop in the bucket.
Sociologist of religion Cynthia Woolever said the movement of first-career women to these significant sanctuaries is occurring in the isolated realm of mainline Protestantism, where about 20 percent of congregations are led by clergywomen.
“If you look at conservative Protestant churches you find very few; in the Catholic church: zero,” said Woolever, editor of The Parish Paper, a newsletter for regional offices of mainline denominations.
“It’s wonderful that women are being given those kinds of opportunities to serve in those very large churches, but it’s a very small slice of the pie.”
To be sure, there remains plenty of work to be done.
Yet on this Labor Day, let’s acknowledge that at least in pockets of the church, we seem to be moving in the right direction.


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City of Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino announced the return of fireworks at Hyde Park at dusk Sunday, July 4. This return comes after the suspension of fireworks due to COVID-19 regulations and safety precautions in 2020.
With the reopening of New York state, a 70% vaccination rate, and recent updates to COVID-19 regulations, the fireworks at Hyde Park are the first of many activities that will return.
“The City of Niagara Falls is proud to be able to resume the fireworks display at Hyde Park on our nation’s birthday,” Restaino said. “With the celebrations seen throughout the state, it seems fitting to bring back the fireworks at Hyde Park.”


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Mangaluru: In a recent court ruling here, a 46-year-old man was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a four-year-old child.
The convicted person has been identified as Vinod of Maroli.
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The child’s screams caught the attention of neighbors who rushed to Vinod’s house and discovered the heinous act. A case was registered at Kankanady police station and Inspector Ravi Naik conducted the investigation and submitted the charge sheet to the court.
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Auto owners are required by law to have insurance on their vehicles. However, some drivers in Washington still choose to go without insurance, not wanting to pay the premiums. How many people make this choice?
Avalanche danger is an ever-present reality in the state of Washington during the winter. It affects our road safety and can cause car accidents and other road hazards. You need to be informed in order not to make a dangerous situation even worse. Sometimes, though, no matter what you do, another careless driver can cause you to have a car accident in this type of weather.
Traveling the roads of Washington is risky, especially in bad weather. Add a tired truck driver to the mix, and it can be serious or deadly. Truck drivers are often encouraged to drive longer than they are physically able to, and they may even drive distracted because of using cellphones while maneuvering in and out of traffic.
Suffering an injury or illness due to medical malpractice is terrible. The state of Washington takes the well-being of its citizens very seriously. As a matter of fact, Washington Statutes address this extensively. RCW 7.70 governs any action for damages based on an injury resulting from health care.
When you are involved in a car accident in the state of Washington, being in a smaller car can definitely make a difference in your survivability. It raises the question of the impact that smaller cars have had on the accident numbers within Washington state.
Being injured in a car accident is no laughing matter. It can bring pain and suffering, loss of wages due to recovery time and huge medical bills if injuries are severe. When a bicycle is involved in a car accident, the odds of walking away without an injury are not good. Being aware of your surroundings whether you are on a bicycle or in a vehicle is important.
In Spokane County, Washington, a man was allegedly thrown out of moving logging truck in an accident that occurred on State Route 290 and involved another vehicle.
A bus travelling on Interstate 405 in Olympia, Washington, hit an SUV and killed two people. The driver of the bus failed to stop at a red light and caused the fatal car accident. The accident occurred when the driver of an SUV began to accelerate on 128th Street on a green light, reaching a speed of 23 miles per hour, just prior to being hit by the bus.
Birth injuries and complications can result in heartache and expensive treatments for the rest of a person's life. When a birth injury is caused by a doctor's or hospital's negligence, victims can take legal action against those responsible.


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- Incredible India 2.0 to take a spiritual bent
India’s spirituality and its wellness traditions will be the highlights of Incredible India 2.0 campaign. The revamped version of the government’s marketing initiative to promote India as a preferred tourist destination for global audiences will be launched formally on World Tourism Day on September 27.


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this is my design for a new knex gun. tell me if you think i should build and post.
Okay,okay. I WILL post this year, you will probably be disappointed but you pleaded for it.
Wow, seriously, post it. it looks really cool.
If you build it to look like that; No.
Try an L98A1, similar set-up but simpler.
Yes, but you can't ever have enough decent repeaters.
Besides, his might be better than mine. Unlikely, seeing as he probably doesn't actually know how they work...
I think that there are definitely too many 'decent' so called assault or repeating pistols, it is old tech and the time being wasted making them could be better used to build something new and innovative.
Well, this was an attempt at a bullpup assault rifle, so not really old tech, though I agree there are too many assault pistols.
i have something new and innovative. my fully auto. yeah the pics in the forum topic look crap but i will post new pics soon and it looks awesome.
what? wjat do you mean as in i dont know how that work?
I meant you probably don't know exactly how the rifle works, and I doubt even more that you've held and stripped one.
no, im only 12 i build knex guns for fun. anyway me and my freind designd this in a lesson.
and an s.s.r v3 exists now.
i'm just talking abount knex...
Yes, but if a mechanism if best for the real weapon, it will probably be best for the knex version.
ewww about what?
Nice avatar :)
...Those comments are getting irratating...
BTW, its called the S.S.R v1 (the Strange Shaped Rifle v1)


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Okay, day four of NaNoWriMo and I am going strong. I am writing about pop music in the 1960s, and since starting, I've learned that pop music in that decade was, more than anything else, totally schizophrenic. You'd go from the Supremes to "Good Vibrations" to Johnny Rivers (of "Secret Agent Man" fame) in just over a month. The longest time anything spent at the top of the charts in 1966 was a four-week period where Frank and Nancy Sinatra had a duet in the number-one slot. So history gives one of my main characters, a record executive, a crisis. How do you sign the next big act if you have no idea what people are going to want in a week?
1. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
2. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hanging On
3. The Marvelettes - Twistin' Postman
4. The Crystals - He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)


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By Martin Blessing
As Mark Twain once said, “Golf is a good walk spoiled”.
It’s quite profound and fans of golf can certainly resonate with this saying. However, with EA’s latest addition to their golfing franchise, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, it may be more than the walk that is being spoiled here.
EA’s latest golf game comes at us with a new makeover. For reasons I’m sure we’re all aware, Tiger Woods is no longer affiliated with the long-standing golfing series, so instead they’ve teamed up with the new face of PGA golf: Rory McIlroy. What does this mean for the game? Well, not a lot really. Just a new endorsement and face to publicise their game. It has been two years since EA last brought us a PGA title, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 being their last instalment on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and Rory McIlroy PGA Tour marks their first foray in to the current gen market with a golfing game. Unfortunately, it is rather apparent that the game is not utilising all the power that the current generation of consoles has to offer.
EA has certainly put out a clear message with their recent releases. We’ll release you a game first, limit what is available on it, and then stranglehold you with a list of promised DLC over a span of around two years. This was very clear with Star Wars Battlefront: only four maps, but promises of more over a two year period – at a cost of an extra £40. I digress, but I draw similarities to Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. As standard, there are only 12 maps available to play. Just 12. Previous titles had around 20 at release and they were all real courses. In this instalment, only eight of these course are real-world golfing locations. Bizarrely, we even have a Battlefield course on the game; Paracel Storm. It may be me and my desire for a golf game to be an actual golf game, but I see no sensible reason as to why I would want to play golf on a first person shooter map. Ever.
Since release, EA have released a further six free maps to the game, bringing its grand total to 18. With regards to the “genuine” maps, they are visually very pleasing indeed; playing 18 holes of St. Andrews is fantastic, with the course aesthetics mapped out fantastically. Not just St. Andrews, but all the courses as a whole are very well-designed with realistic graphics and a great attention to detail.
With regard to the actual gameplay, it’s clear to see that EA have put some work into ensuring the game controls as well as it could. Not dissimilar to previous PGA Tour titles, you swing your club by pushing the left analog stick back and then forth in as best as a straight line as you can get it, minimising the risk of over and under swinging. It sounds very easy, but even the slightest bit of deviation can send the ball off in to areas of no return. Digging deeper, there are more advanced controls that more seasoned players may wish to make use of, such as managing where you can strike the ball to gain more or less loft, should you need it. The controls work seamlessly, and the overall mechanics are very well simulated toward real life play.
There is a selection of pre-set gameplay styles to choose from within Rory McIlroy PGA Tour; namely arcade, classic and tour. Arcade is the easiest of the three. It allows the camera to fixate on the exact point where you wish your ball to land, and gives you the ability to add varying levels of spin to your ball whilst in mid-air, allowing you to change direction of your ball if you’ve hit one wayward. It also gives you the ability to add additional boost to your drive when taking your back swing. Classic mode makes things a little harder, in that the ability to spin and boost your ball is turned off and the swing method is changed to stopping the swing meter at three points to engage in that perfect swing. Tour is the hardest of them all: the ability to change the camera to the point of where your ball will land is turned off. The putt assist is also turned off, leaving you to play the game as you would on the golf course, with zero assists. The modes suit all types of players; whether you’re a high or low handicapper, there is sure to be a mode akin to your way of playing.
I’m afraid however, this is where the game peaks. Despite its great mechanics and great visuals, there just isn’t enough game. Take the Tour Pro career mode. I for one would assume this would be the most played mode of the series, but unfortunately it’s very thin on top. There’s no depth, no progression, and it offers no challenge whatsoever. I’m not talking as if I’m a seasoned pro, but it’s almost difficult not to progress in career mode, and when you do, there doesn’t appear to be any particular reason to progress. The only incentive, from what I can gather at least, is to unlock new clubs and outfits for your player, which doesn’t exactly give me much motivation if I’m being brutally honest.
There is another mode, Night Club Challenges, which involves playing on a golf course at night time, with floating neon signs and targets littered everywhere. The idea is to beat high scores by landing the ball in the centre of a target or pass the ball through a number of rings. As you progress, you are gifted different boosts which can aid you in various ways. The overall theme of it feels tacky and childish, but I’ll give it some slack in that the mode is somewhat competitive and can be fairly entertaining. Once again though, it doesn’t seem to conform with a true to life golfing game; it instead feels like I’m playing a Rocket League spinoff.
Overall, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour certainly does have its good points. The tight mechanics and gameplay cannot be overlooked and EA certainly has made good on that ground. Is it as enjoyable as the previous titles? No. It lacks the depth which its predecessors possessed and as a result, you’re left with little will to return. Regardless, this is the first half-decent golfing game on the current gen consoles, and aside from the gimmicky Night Club Challenges and inclusion of Star Wars Battlefront-themed courses, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour offers a level of realism that you’re unlikely to find anywhere else right now. Hardcore fans of EA’s previous PGA titles may be a little disappointed at the comparative lack of content and the disappointing career mode, but despite its flaws, there’s still plenty of enjoyment to be had.


Configuring Azure VNet Integration
This course will focus on how to configure Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Service so that they are accessible within an Azure Virtual Network. In addition to the how of configuring these services, it is also important to understand the requirements for making the configuration possible as well as what features and functions are possible once active. This course will help to put all of this information into perspective.
- Configure App Services for regional VNet integration
- Learn how Azure Kubernetes service can be configured for VNet integration as well as the different networking models that it supports
- Configure App Service environments so that your clients can access them
- Solution architects
- Cloud administrators
- Security engineers
- Application developers
- Anyone involved in the planning, implementation, and maintenance of Azure network solutions
To get the most out of this course, you should have a strong understanding of the Azure portal, networking experience, and experience with Azure network solutions, including routing and private access.
In this video, we're going to start by taking a look at the Azure Kubernetes service and how it is going to integrate into a Virtual Network inside of your Azure subscription.
Azure Kubernetes service is a very different beast than Azure App Services and the reasoning behind that is: although it is absolutely considered Platform as a Service, Microsoft manages only a portion of it. It gets deployed as Infrastructure as a Service, therefore giving you more control over the environment than an Azure App Service does. It also means that it gives you more networking integration capabilities.
Let's start by understanding exactly what are the resources that you're going to be leveraging for an Azure Kubernetes cluster, when that cluster gets deployed.
The first is of course a Virtual Network, which is in fact required. The Virtual Network can either be manually attached to or automatically created depending upon the networking model that you're going to choose, and we'll talk about that in a little bit.
Of course, there is going to need to be a load balancer to allow for scalability. The minimum recommended cluster size for Azure Kubernetes is typically three VMs, so that load balancer will need to be there at a minimum in order for Kubernetes just to work, let alone support your application.
Network Security Groups should absolutely be applied to the subnets that your cluster is placed into in order to prevent traffic that should not be flowing.
The basis of Azure Kubernetes is going to be the virtual machines which provide the nodes for your Azure Kubernetes cluster.
If you are going to provide any kind of scaling for your Kubernetes cluster, maybe you know that your user base is going to shrink and grow over time, then you're going to want to take advantage of VM scale sets to allow that cluster to grow and shrink.
I talked about the fact that Kubernetes, when deployed inside of Azure, supports two different networking models. The first is called Kubenet and this is the default Kubernetes model that most customers are used to. If they're deploying Kubernetes either On-Premises or in another cloud service provider, it does the following:
- it conserves IP address space
- It uses a Kubernetes internal and external load balancer for reaching of pods
- It allows the manual managing and maintaining of user-defined routes
- It provides for a maximum of 400 nodes per cluster.
This is what is built into the Kubernetes engine.
Microsoft has provided a second networking model called the Azure CNI which adds IP addresses to the pods as well as the nodes. Of course, this means that all of your network IP addresses are going to need to be extremely well defined before implementing your cluster, depending upon how many nodes you believe are going to be deployed within that cluster and how many pods within those nodes.
In this model, the pods get full Virtual Network connectivity and can be directly reached via their private IP address from connected networks. This requires a much larger IP address space, and much better planning.
In Kubernetes case, this is a sample diagram of what a Kubernetes implementation would look like.
You have individual nodes that have actual IP addresses. These are 192.168.* ranges and they are the IP addresses of the Virtual Network. Then you'll notice that there is a set of 10.* IP address associated with the pods. These are the internal IP address ranges that Kubernetes is leveraging in order for the services to talk to one another within Kubernetes, but those IP addresses are not published to the rest of the virtual network for anyone to access them individually.
The difference with Azure CNI is going to be that the pod IP addresses would have a 192.168 IP address range, just like the nodes do.
What are the differences between the two networking models?
Both networking models support automatic configuration of VNet resources if you choose to. They also both support manual creation and attachment of VNet resources which is partially true.
What I mean by that is when you go through the Azure wizard, if you choose Kubenet as your networking model, you will automatically have a VNet created for you. You cannot attach Kubernetes to an existing VNet through the wizard. If you do it through the CLI or PowerShell, you do have more control. Manual creation and attachment is going to be available for the Azure CNI by default. However, you do have the ability to automatically create one as well.
With respect to network policies for Azure Kubernetes service, they can be defined and changes can be made through both models.
Manual VNet resource creation allows for user-defined routes and service endpoint configurations whereas automatic VNet resource creation prevents those configurations. So in the Kubenet case, if you're going through the wizard, when the VNet gets created, there will be User Defined Routes automatically set up to allow for Kubernetes to leverage the cube Kubenet model.
In an Azure CNI case where the IP addresses are now attached to the pods, you are the only one that is going to know what the requirements are for a User Defined Route based on how the pods are going to communicate.
When should you use the different networking models?
If the following scenarios are true, the Kubenet should be the right networking model for you:
- If you have a limited IP address space
- Most of the pod communication is internal to the cluster
- You don't need advanced features of AKS like virtual nodes or Azure network policy
- If you have a very solid understanding of your application
- The pods or the services associated with your application are not going to be either spoken to individually or doing a lot of outbound address talking
In addition, if your networking is being managed by a separate team and they are controlling IP address availability, that's another reason for choosing Kubenet over Azure CNI.
The reverse scenarios are going to be true, for Azure CNI to be the right mode for you. The following should be what you are looking for:
- You have available IP addresses for both the nodes in the pods
- Most of the pod communication is to resources outside of the cluster rather than strictly internal
- You don't want to manage user-defined routes when you specify Azure CNI, the user-defined routes are not only created for you automatically, but they're actually managed by Azure automatically as well.
- You also don't need advanced features.
However, you can leverage advanced features with Azure CNI if you choose to.
There are definitely a number of differences between the networking models. I'm not going to go through each line of the table with the slide deck, but here are a few standouts:
- Pod to pod connectivity is absolutely supported in both models
- Access to resources secured by service endpoints, meaning PaaS services that have been privatized to your virtual network is supported in both models
- One thing that is not supported in both models is support for Windows node pools rather than Linux node pools. Kubenet does not support Windows node pools whereas Azure CNI does today
- You can deploy a cluster into existing or new virtual networks in both models
Just make sure to understand the similarities and differences before you make a decision on which networking model you want to implement.
In the next video, we'll take a look at how to specify these network integrations for AKS by leveraging the Azure portal.
Brian has been working in the Cloud space for more than a decade as both a Cloud Architect and Cloud Engineer. He has experience building Application Development, Infrastructure, and AI-based architectures using many different OSS and Non-OSS based technologies. In addition to his work at Cloud Academy, he is always trying to educate customers about how to get started in the cloud with his many blogs and videos. He is currently working as a Lead Azure Engineer in the Public Sector space.


U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visits the Merrimack Valley today to promote COVID-19 vaccinations and the work the Biden administration has been doing to reach vulnerable communities.
The visit by Becerra to Massachusetts, a state with the second-highest vaccination rate in the country, was announced by the Biden administration and Congresswoman Lori Trahan, who will accompany the secretary on his tour, beginning with a visit to the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center that received money through the American Rescue Plan Act and was an early participant in the Biden administration’s health center vaccination program.
After the tour, he will take part in a roundtable with Trahan, Lawrence Mayor Kendrys Vasquez and others. Massachusetts has given a first dose, including the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, to at least 55% of Black residents and 53% of Hispanic residents, according to the Baker administration. Those totals far outpace the national average of 29.8% for Black residents and 37.1% of Hispanic residents. Becerra will take part in a similar tour and roundtable on vaccines at Lowell General Hospital, followed by a third event at UTEC in Lowell.
In choosing to visit Massachusetts as the Delta variant spreads rapidly across all parts of the country, Becerra picked a state that is near the top for vaccinations. The state has seen new COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations climb steadily this summer, but is still experiencing far fewer infections and negative outcomes than other states. With 65% of its population fully immunized, Massachusetts has the second highest vaccination rate in the country, behind only Vermont. The CDC reports that 85.6% of adults in Massachusetts have had at least one dose.


Some machines are constructed as cells, which implies they are intended to create a specific set of parts. This enables the CNC machine to be combined with other similarly equipped machines to form a Flexible Machining Cell capable of producing many parts at the same time. Cells usually consist of a main spindle that is driven by an electric motor or hydraulic pump. It should be capable of turning very small diameters (usually less than 1 inch) and possess sufficient torque to cut thick metal without breaking down. A cell also includes a collet that grips the end of a rod attached to the part being machined. As the spindle turns, the collet moves up and down varying the depth of its grip on the rod, thereby creating multiple cuts per revolution of the spindle.
Other CNC machines are built as modular units that can be assembled together in different ways to produce different types of parts. Each module has a motor that drives a ball screw shaft that in turn drives a cross-slide that carries the collet that grasps the rod. The modules can be changed out when they break down or be replaced by other modules that contain different tools for cutting different materials.
The majority of CNC machines use computer control to perform their functions, including the positioning of the spindle and the activation of tools.
Machine structure, guide ways, feed drives, spindle and spindle bearings, measurement systems, controls, software and operator interface, gauging, and tool monitoring are all key components of CNC machines. Other necessary parts include a power source, a worktable to hold materials while they are cut, and a container to hold the waste material.
There are two types of CNC machines: vertical machining centers (VMCs) and horizontal machining centers (HMCs). VMCs have a large cutting head that moves up and down while HMCs have a smaller head that moves back and forth. Both types of machines can perform either rough or fine cuts. Rough cuts are made without removing much material, while fine cuts remove small amounts of material. The type of cut is determined by the program used with CNC machines.
CNC machines can be used for manufacturing parts from solid blocks of wood, metals, and plastic materials. They can also be used for mold making and prototype casting. However, specialized tools are required to use CNC machines as drilling rigs, welding robots, and extruders.
Drilling using a CNC machine requires special tools called drill guides. These guides are designed in such a way that they fit into the hole being drilled and keep the bit centered so that it goes straight through instead of twisting.
Fabric, metal, wood, and plastic are all examples of materials that may be created using a CNC machine. A CNC machine is used for even the smallest details, such as engraving. Some manufacturers also use CNC machines for cutting shapes from sheets of glass. The CNC machine uses a laser to cut precise paths through the glass without breaking it.
There are many different products that can be manufactured with a CNC machine. Some popular items include jewelry, tools, and art. Other possibilities include custom furniture and interior decorating items. The uses for this type of technology are only limited by your imagination.
A CNC machine can create designs which would be very time-consuming to do by hand. This type of machinery is useful for people who make their living creating unique products. It can also be useful for artists who don't want to spend all day doing repetitive tasks. There are several companies that sell CNC machines because they know how beneficial these machines can be.
CNC machines are used in many different industries including clothing, electronics, and architecture. Because there are so many applications for this technology, it isn't hard to see why so many businesses are adopting CNC machines into their workflow.
It is a computerized manufacturing technique that controls the movement of production equipment using pre-programmed software and code. CNC machining is used to manage a variety of complicated machinery, such as grinders, lathes, and turning mills, which are all used to cut, shape, and manufacture various components and prototypes. The word "CNC" is an acronym for "computer numerical control."
CNC machines have several advantages over hand-operated tools: they can produce a large number of identical parts quickly and accurately from one piece of stock; they can create complex shapes without much human intervention; and they use less energy than hand tools. CNC machines have many different applications in both commercial and private industries.
Some examples of products manufactured with CNC machines include: jewelry, tools, instruments, toys, and art. CNC machines are also used by schools and universities to make plastic models of structures for educational purposes.
CNC machines require special training to operate safely and effectively. They can be dangerous if not used properly, so always follow instructions and wear protective clothing, including goggles or safety glasses.
The term "CNC" is commonly used as a short form for "computer numerically controlled". However, a CNC machine is not necessarily computer-controlled; instead, it is the program itself that controls the machine's operation via software commands.
CNC machining is a type of manufacturing in which computers run programs that control how machines make parts. These CNC programs may handle anything from the machine's actions to spindle speed, turning coolant on or off, and much more. Computer-aided design (CAD) software is used to draw geometric primitives (e.'the words that describe objects without reference to their physical form; lines, circles, triangles, etc.) which are translated into specific commands for the CNC machine.
Most CNC machines have several different tools that they can use to cut shapes out of material. For example, there might be a rotary tool such as a drill bit that they can use to make holes in wood, a saw blade that they can use to cut pieces of wood into desired shapes, or a masonry blade that they can use to cut stone. Some CNC machines also have shaping tools such as a router table or a milling head. These allow them to create complex shapes by cutting away material from a solid block of wood or metal.
The computer controls these tools using its internal program. This program tells the computer what position to hold its tools in, at what speed to turn them, and it may also tell them when to stop cutting if a shape is being made instead of removed.
CNC machining involves the use of computer-controlled manufacturing equipment and tools to execute a variety of complicated production tasks. Three-dimensional cutting tools, lathes, routers, mills, and grinders are examples of common CNC machine types. CNC is an abbreviation for computer numerical control. The technology was invented by John Bushnell Howard in 1951.
Computer numerical control (CNC) is a system that reads digital instructions into a computer, which then uses this information to automatically operate machinery such as industrial robots or other kinds of automation equipment. This type of control is commonly used in manufacturing facilities with a lot of repeatable processes that need to be calibrated out before starting each new product. It can also be useful for non-manufacturing applications such as woodworking or plastic working where a robot can perform operations on small parts without risk of damage from human contact. CNC machines were originally called computer controlled machines but they do not require computer control during all operations. Some less sophisticated CNC machines can be operated manually with no help from a computer while others may have some automatic functions available but most require some level of human intervention to accomplish specific tasks.
There are two main types of CNC machines: horizontal axis (hand) milling machines and vertical axis (power) milling machines. Hand milling machines use one or more rotating cutters called bits or wheels to remove material from a piece of stock.


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I can’t help believe my very weird dreams last night were as a result of the Suspiria movie. I woke at about 1:30 am as my jaw clamped shut on my tongue -not fun. The dreams had been vivid and rich and gory, and weirdly hot. It took ages to get back to sleep and yet the movie itself was not particularly nightmare fuel as far as I was concerned.
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Determine to study dance in Berlin at a world-renowned dance company, Susie meets the art director and the pair become engulfed in a darkness that swirls at the centre of the company. The dance surges forward, no matter who gets injured or pushed aside along the way.
Starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Let Me In, Carrie), Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange, Constantine), Doris Hick (Pandora Machine, Die Lottosieger), Malgorzata Bela (Karol: A Man Who Became Pope, Without Secrets), Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Social Network), Angela Winkler (The Tin Drum, Dark), and Alek Wek (The Four Feathers, Target -Lilly Pulitzer).
Suspiria Review Conclusion
I probably won’t watch Suspiria again:- It was an okay film, nicely shot and a number of wonderfully arty scenes but I always felt a little behind on the story and was never entirely sure what was going on. There are significant gory moments and plenty of weird ones. I’m glad I’ve watched it but I won’t be going in for a second viewing I don’t think. Let me know what you thought of it in the comments?
I don’t know if I would bother eating through this, I had Sweet and Salty popcorn which was nice but you could go with eggs and bacon or a nice bowl of something hot.
On the plus side, I came up with one of those studio visuals at the end of movies -like Dream Works or the Mutant Enemy one- so if I ever have my own production company or whatever I have that part sorted.
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Charter Review Commission
City Charter Changes: Who Cares?
Tax Dollars for Council Campaigns?
Council District Backers Want Quick Decision Big
Big Press Conference, Big Pressure Promised
to Get Council Decision Before Council Elections
Event photographs by Mario Cantu
© The Austin Bulldog 2012
Posted Thursday, March 8, 2012 11:06pm
More than two-dozen backers of the proposal to change how council members are elected packed a room at City Hall today for an early morning press conference headed by former State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos (D-Austin).
Barrientos chaired the 2012 Charter Revision Committee appointed by the Austin City Council to recommend changes to the Austin City Charter. The Committee met in locations all over Austin starting last September and finished February 16. The Committee made a total of 19 recommendations for charter changes that the Austin City Council could put on the November ballot.
Most prominent among the 19 recommendations is a call for a proposition that would ask voters to approve a plan calling for 10 geographic council districts to be drawn by an Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Under this plan, only the mayor would be elected at-large by all Austin voters.
The Austin City Council could delay until August to decide what propositions to put before voters in the November general election. But the Charter Revision Committee’s majority faction, as well as the grass-roots coalition Austinites for Geographic Representation, are going to apply heavy political pressure for the Council to commit to putting the 10-1 plan and Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission on the ballot in November—and publicly do so before the May 12 mayoral and council elections.
Committee Debates How to Elect Council
Over Pure Districts vs. Hybrid System
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Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell was the first of many people to address the 15-member Charter Revision Committee last Thursday, calling for unity in getting behind whatever recommendation is made concerning some form of geographic representation in the election of City Council members.
“What is important is that all of us who support geographic representation be on the same page,” Leffingwell said. “Otherwise whatever we propose will not pass.”
Leffingwell urged the committee to strike a compromise for a unified proposal that everyone who supports geographic representation could get behind and support with great enthusiasm.
“We may not get a chance to do this again for a very long time if what we put on the table fails,” he said.
It’s been a decade since the May 2002 election in which voters last rejected a proposal. Proposition 3 on that ballot was the sixth attempt to gain voter approval for some form of electing council members from districts. Like many previous attempts, the plan offered would have created eight geographic districts. But this time the measure added two council member slots to be elected at-large, along with the mayor at-large. The proposition failed 42 percent to 58 percent.
Although nearly every member of the current Charter Revision Committee favors some form of geographic representation in council elections, the mayor’s lofty goal of achieving unity in the committee’s recommendation appears difficult if not impossible to achieve.
At a three-plus-hour meeting January 5, individual committee members became more vocal than ever in taking a strong public stance about whether they favored the 10-1 proposal being petitioned for by Austinites for Geographic Representation or some hybrid plan that would allow citizens to cast ballots for some of the council members to be elected citywide in addition to establishing geographic districts.
The 10-1 plan petition includes a requirement to establish a nonpartisan Independent Citizen Redistricting Commission that would draw 10 council districts that the Austin City Council would have no choice but to adopt. Under this plan only the mayor would continue to be elected at-large.
Any other plan put on the ballot by the City Council may not have an independent districting commission. Committee Chair Gonzalo Barrientos, a former state senator, said the normal procedure is to appoint a commission that draws the lines with expert assistance from attorneys. Critics of that method say it allows the incumbents to draw boundaries that favor their reelection.
Ultimately the U.S. Department of Justice must approve any change in the election system for compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Advocates for the 10-1 plan


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There's more than just horses at the Barbury International Eventing and Show in Wiltshire.
The four day event concludes today on the Marlborough Downs with a special appearance from racing legend Kauto Star.
More top news
As Hollywood hit the red carpet for the "Fury" premiere on Sunday, Brad Pitt paid tribute to his unusual co-star; a WWII tank from Dorset.
After smashing the competition in the final of the U.S Open this weekend, squash player Mohamed Elshorbagy has been made the world #1.
Paul Reddan was 'jousting' with another driver at high speed when the fatal crash happened. Tonight he's starting a six year jail sentence.


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iPhone 12 expected to launch on October 13
Apple Is All Set For Releasing It’s New Series Of iPhone 12: Apple’s new device iPhone 12 model finally all set to release after a long delay. Along with such, there is also the spreading rumour of the iPhone 12 mini. October 13 is choose the date for the Apple event. iPhone 12 models include four variants in total — the Phone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and iPhone 12 Mini.
Series 12 is expected to be more expensive than in the previous year. The expected price of the phone is somewhere between $699 and $749 while the iPhone 12 Max price around $799-849.
Specification of iPhone 12
iPhone 12 comes with the OLED displays with expected to support high-speed 5G connectivity. It comes in six colour variants black, white, blue, red, yellow as well as coral. iPhone 12 Mini comes with a display of 5.4 inches, iPhone 12 with 6.1 inches, iPhone 12 pro with 6.1 inches, and iPhone 12 Pro Max with a 6.7 inches display. For the very first time, it may come with 64GB storage in a total.
According to the rumour, iPhone 12 Pro Max will come with the faster mmWave 5G technology. As per the available information, the charging cable is not included with the iPhone 12. Apple has already started removing the charging cable the Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE models, as well as the new iPad. The phone will not come with 120Hz displays.
iPhone 12 is cheaper than iPhone 11
As compared to iPhone 11, 12 is less expensive as an entry model. Seeing the COVID situation, Apple is launching its 12th model offering a more affordable entry model. To reduce the cost of phone Apple is not giving the charging cable and earplugs with iPhone 12 as it already increased cost while providing 5G connectivity.
Timing for the Apple event is 10 a.m on October 13. On October 23 the phone is going to be a sale on the selected market. For the latest update, stay tuned with us.


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Deer Horn Announces Closing of 2nd Tranche of Private Placement
Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 14, 2017 - Deer Horn Capital Inc. (CSE: DHC) (the "Company" or "Deer Horn"), announces that it has now closed the 2nd and final tranche of its previously announced private placement and has issued a total of 750,000 common shares for total gross proceeds of $15,000. The issuance of these shares was completed under the Partial Revocation Order obtained from the BCSC earlier this year.
All of the Company’s securities, including the shares issued in connection with this financing, remain subject to the cease trade order issued against the Company on January 30, 2017 (the “CTO”) for failing to file certain outstanding continuous disclosure documents in a timely manner. In addition, in accordance with applicable securities legislation, the common shares issued pursuant to this private placement are subject to a hold period of four months and a day from the closing date of the financing.
The Company is in the process of finalizing its outstanding 2016 year end audited financial statements, the subsequent interim statements and all corresponding continuous disclosure documentation and anticipates that it will be in a position to file these documents on SEDAR shortly. Once all outstanding continuous disclosure documents have been filed, the Company expects to then make application for a full revocation of the CTO.
About Deer Horn
Deer Horn Capital is exploring and developing the Deer Horn Property, a rich gold and silver project with high tellurium grades. The Deer Horn Property, located in north-central British Columbia, has produced positive economics in a Preliminary Economic Analysis and, to our knowledge, hosts Canada’s only NI 43-101 tellurium resource.
On behalf of the board of directors of
Deer Horn Capital Inc.
President and CEO
For further information please contact:
Deer Horn Capital Inc.
604 789 5653
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its regulations services accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
All statements included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. In particular, this news release contains forward-looking information regarding the timing of filing of the application to the CSE for reinstatement of trading of the Company’s common shares. These forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions made by the Company based on its experience, perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. In addition, these statements involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will prove inaccurate, certain of which are beyond the Company’s control. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company does not intend to revise or update these forward-looking statements after the date hereof or revise them to reflect the occurrence of future unanticipated events.

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For every espresso bar that percolates on the Upper West Side and every fancy boutique that blossoms in SoHo, there is a greasy storefront operation in one of New York City's poorer neighborhoods that solicits business with a simple sign announcing: "Flat Fix."
Just as cafes and boutiques have sprouted in Manhattan's disposable-income districts, these shops where drivers with a flat tire can stop for a quick, cheap patch or an inexpensive used tire have multiplied in areas where money is short, tires are old, roads are rough and immigrant entrepreneurs abound. They prosper in neighborhoods where service stations have been replaced by gas stations whose attendants only take cash through bulletproof glass.
On major avenues in the South Bronx, the shops are on almost every block. There, flats are mended curbside by people like Robert Rivera, 22, who sees his new shop as a step to owning a grocery, or Cheo Gonzales, 53, a mechanic from the Dominican Republic with a crescent of grease on his sweatshirt who knows just enough English to say: "Three dollars for plug. Five dollars for patch."
Tire shops are fixtures in the poorer neighborhoods of Brooklyn, in Jamaica, Queens, and in Harlem. "I've never seen one without two or three cars parked in front of it," said Eugene Rodriguez, an official with the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission who lives in East Harlem. "This is America. If there's a need, someone will create a business to fill it."
The business is a peephole into the economy of the poor. Entrepreneurs see an opportunity, and seize it by focusing on people with money to buy luxuries, in this case cars. But it is a stunted landscape.Continue reading the main story
The entrepreneurs are people like Ramon Santana, who started the B & B Tire Shop on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx 18 months ago by spending less than $5,000 to buy a used machine that removes tires from rims, an air compressor to inflate tires, some used tires and hand-operated jacks. He rents a narrow storefront for a few hundred dollars a month.
Customers at tire shops are often neighborhood residents and car service drivers. They typically have enough money to buy cars, but not enough to afford new tires that would stand up to the mean streets of the city.
Many of the lives in these neighborhoods are like the tires these men work on, endlessly patched together and plugged against the sharp edges. "They've got old cars and they're just trying to get through the day," Pedrito Garcia said about his customers at a shop on Third Avenue in the Bronx.
In this business, one pothole, strategically situated, can be a boon. "There used to be a big pothole out there," said Jimmy Rivera, 25, who was changing flats at a shop on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx recently. "Cars would hit it and you would hear a pop. Business was good then. But that was only one pothole. There are a million more out there."
The streets of the South Bronx can be a giant obstacle course, with drivers forced to weave between potholes and glass and debris and cars parked two and three deep, not to mention the men pushing grocery carts heaped with twisted scrap metal to be sold at recycling yards.
Meil Myers, a clerk in an auto parts store, said his Buick Century gets a flat at least once every three months. He was getting his latest one patched up on East Tremont Avenue in front of Rey Flat Fixed the other day. "The Bronx is terrible, man," he said. "I lost this one to a bottle on the street."
These daily assaults have spawned a growing trade in $5 tire patches and $12 used tires, bought from salesmen who cannibalize tires from junked cars and roam these neighborhoods selling them from the backs of trucks.
Tire shops in the South Bronx are dominated by immigrants, many from the Dominican Republic, who are eager to own their own businesses but limited by scant capital and little knowledge of English. It has become a family business for Juan Santos, who works 60 hours a week and earns about $200 at a Bronx tire shop near one his brother owns. "This is a good business for us because a lot of Dominicans don't speak English," he said.
Lloyd Ultan, a Bronx historian who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said many gas stations are no longer repairing cars, so the tire shops fill a void.
"People see an opportunity and they take advantage of it," he said.
In an economy of bodegas and car services and fruit stands, flat-fix shops are the bottom rung.
Robert and Pura Rivera are hoping to build a family enterprise at the corner of 167th Street and the Rev. James A. Polite Avenue in the Bronx. They rented a storefront for $1,000 a month and built a wall down the middle. Mr. Rivera opened Los Compadres Tire Shop on one side and his wife plans to open a candy store in the other space.
It is a rough neighborhood, but the couple hope that a new development of middle-class homes nearby will help them reach their ultimate goal: owning a grocery store. Tire-shop owners say business can fluctuate wildly, some days bringing in as much as $200 and other days almost nothing. But Mr. Rivera said he expects that within five months, he will recoup his $10,000 investment, which he saved from earlier earnings as a security guard and warehouse worker.
"There are always flats," he said.
But there's always competition, too. Another flat-fix shop is half a block away from Mr. Rivera's.
In the Bronx, with its web of highways, there are five flat-fix shops along nine blocks of Webster Avenue. Near the intersection of Third Avenue and East Tremont Avenue, there are three within a block and a half. Two, A.A.A. Flats Fixed and L.L.L. Flat Fixed, are barely 50 feet apart. A bumper crop of "Flat Fix" signs has sprung up on Jerome Avenue, Hunts Point Avenue and dozens of other avenues and side streets.
"It's like the Blockbuster Video of the tire business," said Jay Hansel, whose family-run tire business has been in the Bronx for 35 years. He says the flat-fix shops pose no competition to his business, which sells freshly minted Firestones and Goodyears for $45 to more than twice that. He'll fix a flat for $15.
There are no statistics on tire shops since no city or state agency specifically regulates their activities, but both tire-shop owners and community groups say the number of flat-fix operations have increased significantly. Community board leaders in the Bronx and Brooklyn said they have organized protests against tire shops in residential areas because they clutter the sidewalks with tires and fix cars in the street.
Tire-shop owners who have been in the business for a long time say there are too many competitors, and shops often reduce their already cut-rate prices to attract customers. In these areas, a 50-cent or $1 reduction in the cost of a patch can make a difference.
The quality of the work is uneven, customers say, but as Officer Rolando Martinez, who stopped his squad car at a tire shop on Third Avenue for air the other day, said, "They're cheap and they're fast."
And they fill a need in the local economy.
"If you're a professional and you get a flat tire, you say, 'Give me a new tire.' Over here you can't afford to do that," said Juan DelGado, sitting outside his Ponce Tire Shop. "It's a matter of money."
Then he looked at his dirty sneakers. "Let's say I'm going to throw these away," he said, wagging his feet. "Someone will pick these up because he needs them, but I don't need them."
Over the door of his shop hangs a tire painted with the words: "Flat Fix -- New Life."Continue reading the main story


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By the numbers: Overall, 27% of respondents in Wave 33 of our weekly national poll say they plan to get the vaccine as soon as it’s available to them, up from 13% in September. Another 11% say they’ll get it a few weeks after; 25% say a few months after; and 15% say they’ll wait a year or longer.
40% of Americans ages 65+ now say they’ll take it as soon as it’s available — a big jump from just 15% three months earlier.
No other group saw that big an increase. But Democrats’ willingness doubled, from 15% to 31%, and Republicans’ nearly tripled, from 9% to 25%.
Black Americans, wary because of historical examples of systemic racism, remain reluctant to get the vaccine early. Still, those who said they would jumped from 5% to 16%.


COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX)- The 19-year-old who was attacked during a drug deal in College Station last week says he was was attempting to purchase marijuana when it happened.
The victim, who asked not to be identified, told News 3's Rusty Surette that he did not personally know the dealer he was meeting with on July 5th at the Northpoint Crossing apartments.
"I was just trying to buy some weed from him. I met him, walked in the apartment and met his girlfriend. I was sitting there when she maced me," the victim said. "And then a guy walked in with an AR from the patio and another kid walked around the corner with an axe handle."
The victim says the four suspects demanded his keys, wallet and phone.
"The guy hit me with an axe handle in the face, and the girl hit me with the hammer in the shoulder and back," he said. "I gave them my keys and then fought with the dude with the axe handle and got around him to the door and got out and called 911."
The victim's version of the story matches the report prepared by investigators at the College Station Police Department. The report says officers met up with the victim in the parking garage of the building near University Drive and Texas Avenue.
The four suspects, all Texas A&M students from the Houston area, have been arrested and are facing robbery charges.
They have been identified as:
*Gautham Chidambaram, 20, from Katy
*Ethan Herrera, 19 from Houston
*Ethan Khwaja, 19 from Houston
*Megumi Yoshida Sui, 20 from Kingwood
Rusty Surette also spoke with another Texas A&M student who says he once purchased marijuana from Megumi Sui.
"She was crazy. This does not surprise me at all," said the student who asked not to be identified.
According to a probable cause statement obtained by KBTX, the apartment where the attack happened was in building 5. Police were able to track down the specific apartment with the help of the victim, and by following a trail of blood to the suspect's apartment. Sui was listed on the lease as one of the residents.
Managers for the complex cooperated with police officers and were able to provide surveillance footage from outside the apartment that corroborated the victim's statements.
The video showed all four suspects leaving the complex with a black duffle bag, and a box with unknown items.