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From Kris Jenner To Kim Kardashian: 8 Unforgivable Mistakes Celebrities Made On Social-Media
With a following that usually creeps up into the multiple millions, A-Listers have a lot at stake when they take to social-media with a quirky update.
While most of their posts pass off without incident, celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Bow Wow have all made some pretty embarrassing mistakes in their time.
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When Bow Wow didn't catch a private jet after all
The rapper was caught in a major white lie after claiming he was boarding a private jet from Georgia to New York. However, a photo soon emerged of Bow Wow sitting on a commercial flight, which means that fancy jet was absolutely nothing to do with him.
When Kim Kardashian reached out to some guy called Georgio Armani
Maybe the social-media team were a bit cranky that Kim vented to her 59 million followers about her dissatisfaction with the brand? Whatever the case, Armani HQ roasted her in a very public fashion for misspelling Giorgio's first name.
When Susan Boyle didn't think her album hashtag through
It started off as a nice gesture so some of her fans could share their thoughts about her debut album, but the hashtag soon went viral for all the wrong reasons. You guessed it, #SusanAlbumParty was widely misconstrued to read #SusAnalBumParty and the memes were merciless. Face palm.
When Kris Jenner photoshopped an image with Gordan Ramsay
The matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner household came in for a lot of stick after slapping a filter on an image of herself and the celebrity chef and erasing a fair few of their combined blemishes in the process. Now that's true friendship.
When Charlie Sheen posted his number to the entire world
It was supposed to be a DM to Justin Bieber, but the 52-year-old actor accidentally posted his digits in a public tweet and was forced to disconnect his phone after thousands of people dialled 310-954-7277 at the same time. Yikes.
When Scott Disick pasted a PR's instructions on Instagram
Everyone knows that reality stars are all about that #spon life, but the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star found himself in an awkward situation when he pasted the instructions "Here you go, at 4pm est, write the below" into his actual Instagram post. Whoops.
When Kim Kardashian used a stock image of Thailand
Oh, we've all done it. Kim clearly couldn't get a landscape shot that was gram-worthy, so logged onto Google, saved the first picture of Thailand she found, and passed it off as her own. Unfortunately social-media users spotted the lie and dragged her to infinity.
When Dom Lever absolutely didn't have the entire train to himself
It was a pretty random thing to post in the first place, but the Love Island star came in for a flood of confused comments when he claimed to have an entire carriage to himself despite the fact a man was very clearly sitting in the seat behind him. Shrugs.
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by Leon McKenzie & Edward Gross
We were as surprised as anyone to find ourselves co-writing Bluewater Productions’ The Misadventures of Adam West. For both of us there was just something very cool about chronicling the adventures of our first versions of Batman (though Leon caught the reruns and Ed was the ripe old age of six when Batmania swept America in the 1960s). While the title is from Bluewater, collectively we’re Yakman Press, so we thought it would be fun to offer up our brief behind the scenes comments on each of the issues that we wrote (the first few of which have been collected as a graphic novel).
The concept of the comic – established before we were a part of it – is that actor Adam West is the recipient of a mystical amulet that has not only made him younger, but is plunging him through time and space to embark on a series of Quantum Leap-like adventures. Our goal from the very start was to try and make each of these adventures as different from one another as possible. Naturally you’ll have to be the judge of that one.
LEON: This was meant to be our first issue. Go in and shake shit up!!! But the artist had other ideas . . . I have NOTHING nice to say about this entire experience. He came in and nearly f***ed up the entire run we had mapped out. He replaced a pivotal character with a monkey. A MONKEY??? What made it even more tragic was the boasts he wrote on his blog (yeah, I read it because I’m a passionate bastard!!) about what he had to do to make the script readable!”
ED: I’m with Leon on this one. This was definitely one of those situations where you work on something creatively and you’re filled with a certain excitement about getting your hands on the finished project – which is a feeling that, whether it’s a magazine article, a book or, now, a comic book, never goes away for me no matter how many years I do this. But when I looked at this issue for the first time, I simply couldn’t believe it. I had no idea what the hell had happened. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE talking monkeys – I can’t convey how important Planet of the Apes has been in my life – but NOT in this comic book. Needless to say, a less than auspicious start for our run.
LEON: Adam meets up with Dirk Benedict and he’s got to save the world from clone replacements of modern day c-list celebrities. Ed took the lead on this one because I knew he had this idea bubbling in his head for a while to question “would we even notice if these reality stars were replaced by even blanker slated versions of themselves??” Dirk comes across as a space age gun slinger quite organically and we had fun building him up as a tough guy who does his best not to be reduced to West’s sidekick.
ED: The storyline actually served as the “pilot” for a Dirk Benedict comic book spin-off. Dirk was a lot of fun in the original Battlestar Galactica and we wanted to lay down the groundwork for his sci-fi adventures. The future world of Dirk’s comics would have him battling a race of robots, so we thought this would be a good place to introduce the concept. One of the highlights of the issue for me was the rapport we created between Adam and Dirk. That was a lot of fun.
LEON: This issue was going to be slapstick issue mixing the Scream with the Step Up film franchises. But during the breakdown and plotting stages it was difficult to get the correct tone, so I went with a slightly more serious edge and highlighted West’s compassionate side. As a nod to fictional events folding into themselves, I had characters mention issue five and how it didn’t logically fit into the continuity of The Gentleman. We also started to show that the magic amulet was sentient and had the ability to forcibly rip Adam from whatever story he’s involved in. Oh, there’s also Adam as a samurai fighting a dinosaur AND zombie clowns!!!”
ED: Leon really ran with this one and when he described the plot, I have to admit I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. Yet when he sent me his draft, I couldn’t believe that he had pulled it off so successfully. I added little bits here and there and tightened up some of the dialogue, but this was a real glimpse into the mind of Leon McKenzie – a very strange place to visit.
LEON: The Warden. Before Ed and I got the Adam West gig we put together a pitch for a Burt Ward comic. One of the ideas was he gets kidnapped by aliens and remade into a biological super soldier. Burt couldn’t work out what he wanted, so the project sort of stopped. We took the idea and placed it onto a new guy. Aliens had mistook the 60s Batman show as documentaries and kidnapped the guy who first auditioned for the role of Robin and changed him into a one man army. Ed wrote a nice bit showing that casting a more than capable black actor into the role (of Robin) during the 60s would have been the death of the Batman franchise. The Warden and his abilities are heavily influenced by Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch’s The Authority.
ED: To be honest, I think this is the issue of our run on Adam West that I’m most proud of. While we had been kind of trading off being the lead writer from issue-to-issue, #8 represented a full-blown collaboration all the way down the line. We attempted to add heart to this super soldier, and we just felt that his background – an aspiring actor at a time when the odds were so against him – worked really nicely. There was also a certain poignancy – at least we hope it comes across that way – in a young man who not only is unable to pursue his dreams, but loses control over his own life due to the interference of others.
LEON: Fleischer meets Adam. I swear to God, I can barely remember writing any part of this because it was around the time I had a kidney infection. I do know that we discussed it had to end with Fleischer punching the amulet and the entire issue fades to white.
ED: We were doing the Fleischer comic with Bluewater and realized that since Adam West was bouncing around to different dimensions, why couldn’t he end up in Generic City and Fleischer’s world? Remember how poignant we thought issue #8 was? Not a poignant moment in this one, although we think it’s a lot of fun as Adam reluctantly teams up with Fleischer as they take on that odorous fiend, Flatulence! One of the highlights for me is watching Adam try to understand this world he finds himself in and, more importantly, who or what Fleischer is. Believe us, he’s unlike anyone Adam has met before.
LEON: The Hyper Meta Crisis Crossover. (I nicked that title from an event in Dr Who!) All of time and fiction are smashed together in a new universe where Julie Newmar (set ten years in the future of her own title . . . And kinda the direction I would have taken that book if I had a chance to write it!) has a team of special operatives within the Hourglass time travelling agency (The Gentleman, Warden, Dirk Benedict and Bill Mumy) move through time and space trying to locate Adam West who is trapped behind the storytelling fiction of a rumor.
ED: This was one where I had to stand back and let Mr. McKenzie do his thing. The man blew me away as he took a wide variety of disparate characters and brought them together logically and with an unbelievable amount of action. The other beauty of it is that it takes many of the themes we’d been dealing with in our various issues and brings them all together between this issue and the next two chapters that wrap it all up…. which is then supposed to lead into a spin-off mini-series.
To check out the graphic novel version that features issues 5-8, just click on the Amazon link below. All of the issues of The Misadventures of Adam West can also be ordered through Comixology.

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Modi,Xi may meet on margins of SCO summit next month
21 August, 2022 | Pranay Lad
The focus is on whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would travel to Uzbekistan for a meeting amid geopolitical uncertainty after Xi Jinping’s office indicated that the Chinese president will...
The focus is on whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would travel to Uzbekistan for a meeting amid geopolitical uncertainty after Xi Jinping’s office indicated that the Chinese president will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conference in Samarkand next month.
In preparation for a potential Modi visit to the CSO summit on September 15–16, preparation teams have been to the Central Asian nation. However, it has been heard that a political decision regarding the visit would be made when it is right.
If he attends, Modi will have the chance to meet with both Shahbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, and the president of China. If Modi is in Samarkand, a meeting with Vladimir Putin cannot be ruled out either. They have four phone calls together so far this year and have a great rapport.
In spite of numerous rounds of negotiations, Sino-Indian relations are tepid due to Beijing’s refusal to complete the LAC in the Ladakh zone. Interestingly, before of the meeting, an Indian Army force will participate in the Russian-hosted “Vostok” military exercise alongside China and other nations.
If it happens, the visit will take place as India assumes the SCO Presidency in 2023 and hosts the summit in this location.
Along with ensuring the security of food and energy, India’s priorities for the summit include combating terrorism and extremism, ensuring Afghan peace, and constructing inclusive connectivity corridors (such as the INSTC and Chabahar port).
The host country’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, as well as other Central Asian officials may meet Modi when he is there.
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, is anticipated to attend the meeting in order to officially welcome Iran as a new SCO member.
S. Jaishankar, the foreign minister, and Vikram Misri, the deputy national security adviser, attended NSA- and foreign minister-level meetings of the SCO before the summit. In the upcoming weeks, the SCO defence ministers meeting is also anticipated to include the defence minister Rajnath Singh.
With the Modi administration having a conference with the presidents of all five Central Asian republics in January, Central Asia in India’s wider neighbourhood has emerged as one of the priorities for outreach. The summit took place in conjunction with Republic Day festivities, however because of the Covid crisis, it was conducted online.
At the first India-Central Asia Summit, the six leaders agreed that terrorism must be thoroughly combated in order to create a “world free of terror,” and they also vowed to strengthen their current defence collaboration and consider hosting joint counterterrorism exercises. The agreement to form a joint working group on Afghanistan at the level of senior officials was one of the summit’s significant outcomes.
The volume of trade between India and Central Asia has expanded, and New Delhi is urging the Central Asian republics to use INSTC and Chabahar port to connect to the Indian Ocean region and the Indian market.
All five Central Asian foreign ministers and national security advisers met separately in India last year (India-Central Asia foreign ministers meet and India-Russia-Central Asia-Iran NSA meet in Afghanistan respectively). India will hold the inaugural India-Central Asia NSA-level dialogue in December. Due to the familiarity with military systems, India aims to cooperate with Russia in Central Asia, notably in the defence sector.
Xi has not left China since January 2020, in contrast to Modi, who has travelled overseas for multiple multilateral and bilateral meetings this year. But amid rising tensions with the US over Taiwan, rumours suggest that Xi may travel to Samarkand for the gathering of the regional security bloc and a one-on-one meeting with Putin.
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Tuesday, 5 March, 2002, 09:48 GMT
Zimbabwe: Should the Commonwealth act now?
Deep divisions have emerged between Commonwealth leaders over how to deal with the escalating violence in the run up to Zimbabwe's presidential elections.
Zimbabwe was to have dominated the first full session of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) but the first session of the four-day meeting, deep differences became apparent and it was decided that the matter would be discussed in private on Sunday.
Commonwealth powers Britain, Australia and New Zealand want Zimbabwe suspended from the 54-nation organization, but many African nations are lining up behind President Robert Mugabe and defying calls for suspension.
In 1999, Pakistan was temporarily banned from the organisation after the military coup which brought to power General Musharraf. It now remains the only country suspended from the Commonwealth.
What do you think Commonwealth leaders should do about Zimbabwe? Is the Commonwealth a viable political institution?
We have been discussing these issues during our phone-in programme from the Commonwealth summit in Brisbane. Our guest was Richard Bourne from the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
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I think the world would commend the Commonwealth if sanctions were imposed. I know that I would. Africa's troubles stem from demagogues such as Mugabe, who as evidenced by his use of terror and torture, will surely become the Idi Amin or Mobutu of Zimbabwe. The sanctions would be a useful, proactive solution that might teach Mugabe and any other would be tyrants that the age of the quintessential African dictator is dead. Great Britain is a bastion of civilization and has every right to safeguard the rights of the people of Zimbabwe.
I am a Zimbabwean living in the USA. My position is that the elections have been rigged already, and it is very disappointing to see the Commonwealth protecting Mugabe by not sanction him right now for unleashing violence on his own citizenry. It seems to me that our African presidents don't have the Zimbabwean people's interests at heart.
I am frankly appalled by some of the comments made by several of the contributors to this forum. I have witnessed the Commonwealth working hard with EU agencies to improve the economic situation for farmers in former colonies in the Pacific region. The commonwealth perform many good works that will always go unrecognised by the public of many countries. The commonwealth is a good forum for discussions between diverse cultures about issues/worries that unite individual nations. Obviously these individual nations see a benefit to remaining within the commonwealth as they can pull out at any time. Some contributors have indicated that we should leave international issues to the UN etc, but they haven't been so great either and that is with military capabilities. Look at Somalia in the 90's or before that take China's invasion of Tibet and subsequent human rights abuses. The UN stood by and did nothing after Tibet pleaded for help. Therefore I believe that the commonwealth is a good forum (low cost as well) for bringing to the attention issues that might have been ignored otherwise.
Was rather annoyed to hear Mugabe telling Blair to keep his "pink nose" out of Zimbabwe's affairs.
I believe if Blair had told Mugabe to keep his "black nose" out of Britain's affairs then Blair would be called a racist bigot.
Why is this label not being used against the obviously violently anti-white racist Mugabe???
The Commonwealth has had the Zimbabwe issue hanging over it for the last two years and has failed miserably on every count. Mugabe has made as many false promises as needed, whilst the Commonwealth goes and pats itself on the back for what they wrongly perceive as a job well done with the old despot. The fact that General Abubakar, who was appointed the head of the Commonwealth observer team, is guilty of human rights abuses is abominable. Quite what the Commonwealth hopes to achieve with the likes of Obasanjo and Mbeki backing Mugabe to the hilt is anyone¿s guess. I believe that the Commonwealth can and will still serve a meaningful function, but not in its present form. The fact that the Zimbabwe issue is splitting it along racial lines is tragic and shows tremendous flaws. Instead the Commonwealth lends credibility to the Mugabe regime, despite the erosion of the values it preaches, by continually refusing to stand up to him.
Tom, Perth, Australia
Why not wait until after the elections to see what happens?
Either they will not be fair, and the West will have been right to protest, and then further measures can be taken.
Or they will be fair and the West will be once again proven to be biased.
Whites make up less than one percent of the population of Zimbabwe, but they own most of the best farmland, expropriated without compensation a century ago. About 4,500 white landowners farm about twenty-eight million acres of prime land, while one million black peasant farmers share the remaining forty million acres of poorer land. Mugabe may be cynically manipulating the issue, but while this injustice which has dominated the history of Zimbabwe since white occupation is maintained, there is little hope for peace and justice under any administration.
Unfortunately despite the existence of commonwealth for all this period since ifs formation, there has been an increase of colonial-related sufferings.
Take Zimbabwe. The British have an unfinished business of the land issue and are unwilling to finish it, which creates the sense of desperation and violence because there is no way out. Zimbabwe is only one and more are to come. It is also unfortunate that the rich commonwealth member countries are using the aid/money to split the citizens and trigger conflicts.
Democracy has become a word of mouth but not action, how do you expect agreement?
Debbie Schaap, Netherlands
A few points to those of you who are not from the Commonwealth and therefore may not fully understand the idea behind its existence:
Thanks God, Africans have resisted neo-colonialism. Do as we say, mentality is soon history. Bravo especially to Presidents Mkapa of Tanzania and Sam Nujoma of Namibia.
Mugabe has successfully given the entire world the run-around. A tin-pot African leader on his last legs. The First World countries that pride themselves as being democratic should be ashamed.
However sinister in design it may seem, the erstwhile British colonies can exchange recriminations against each other, and still maintain semblance of friendship and nostalgic feelings.
I think that Talking Point often illustrates how few people study history. I don't see how we can develop our institutions today without a clear understanding of the past.
To those who think the British Empire damaged it's dependencies: I suggest you study what was going on in those countries before it existed, and what has happened in those countries since it ceased. The "damage" has resulted from the lack of power - from the removal of British influence and its succession by the economic imperialism of the US. The pax-Britannica of the 19th century may have been a peace-of-the-gun, but at least it was peaceful and there was scope for political, social and economic development across the world. Now we have a superpower which takes all but gives nothing - benefits economically, but has none of the social or political responsibilities.
If the Commonwealth could go some way to redressing this imbalance then of course it has a role - and to do so it needs a strong and respectable leader - I can think of no better person than The Queen.
The Commonwealth isn't being used to maximum benefit. The Commonwealth needs good, dedicated, and supermotivated leadership to help the poorer countries. Africa for example... why doesn't the Commonwealth appoint somebody who cares and has clouts to help the poorest continent on this planet? In all seriousness, someone like Bono would be a great leader and asset if given the power to make change. He has a long and proven track record showing his dedication to the issue of third world poverty. Unlike most famous types, he actually does something. Someone wake up the Queen or whoever you Brits have controlling the Commonwealth and put in some real leadership!
Even if we suspect the elections are not going to be fair, any decision taken by the Commonwealth will certainly not stop Mr. Mugabe's actions there. If Zimbabwe is suspended, the local government will expel all the Commonwealth monitors and it will be much easier for Mr. Mugabe to conduct the elections the way he likes and be the winner.
And one has to take into account that Mr. Mugabe can well win the elections in a legitimate way, he can get the majority of the votes, and be fairly elected, and then the will of the people should be respected. The Zimbabweans have the right to choose the leader they like best, and Britain, as a country committed to democracy, has to accept it.
Luciano Monteiro, Sao Leopoldo - Brazil
The question should be: Can the commonwealth do anything positive? And can it do it on time?
We shall continue debating these issues while Mugabe continues with undermining democracy and suppressing his people. It's about time we world become more proactive rather than firefight all the time, especially when we deal with crafty tyrants like Mugabe.
Although the Commonwealth is an organisation with little real power, exclusion from it would be a further indication to the government of Zimbabwe that the world is not prepared to sit back whilst their torture and murder continues. Targeted sanctions have created tensions within Zanu PF and expulsion from the Commonwealth will add to these tensions. Only once rifts in the party become stronger will those with less blood on their hands have the courage to break away from their desperate leader.
Wel well well, not suprising the Americans pipe up to remind us of the rather distasteful period of our history, the British Empire. How about we look at your more modern corporate empire? Nike-sponsored sweat shops and the like? Our history is horrible, your future history is even more terrifying. Don't count on my vote to ever stand shoulder to shoulder with you ever again.
The Commonwealth is very slow to act, all those African Leaders who do not support sanctions on Robert Mugabe, are also people who have not treated their own people fairly. I believe sanctions should be imposed right away.
Ali La Pointe, Algeria
I can see no possible reason(s) for remaining in this outdated so-called organisation except as a place for our Royals to dodge the British winters, or our P.M. to strut his stuff at any time.
The very word Commonwealth smacks of a long gone colonial world.
It is totally ineffective and costs the hard-pressed taxpayers a lot of money on expensive club outings.
Any instutition is only as relevant as its behaviour dictates. The trouble is that some just don't know when they should call it a day. We should invest more time and energy in working with organisations that still have some potential to unite and assist nations moving forward into the 21st century ... instead of clinging to some ancient relic of a long gone colonial era. The EU and the United Nations are two that spring to mind ... in spite of their (many) faults, their principles are at least well founded, something that can be built on without any twinges of shame for the past!
James, London, UK
It 'delivers' to Heathrow every day. Mostly drugs and new welfare claimants.
I really do not know what the function of the Commonwealth is. It is jsut an excuse to attend meetings in exotic countries. The Zimbabwe issue has made Britain and the West a laughing stock of the world. The fact that Obasanjo is supporting Mugabe is an open disregard for Britain. The Commonwealth majority is formed of third-world countries. Does anyone think they will oppose another third world country? Even the leaders themselves are unscrupulous - president of Sri-lanka refused to attend... In my view, the Commonwealth should cease to eist and Britain should not provid aid or support to these ungrateful nations
1) To give the Queen yet another title and purpose;
2) To give ageing Empire Loyalists a nostalgic reminder of a "Golden Era" when Britain once called the shots in the world; and
3) To enable Australian and Canadian athletes to sweep the board at the Commonwealth Games.
This contrasts rather unfavourably with organisations such as the UN or European Union, which are founded on more noble principles, such as human rights and international justice. Finally, to Samantha of London: there are plenty of people in Ireland, India, Kenya, and Malaysia - scenes of brutal wars of independence - who would disagree with your claim that the British "gave their empire back" without a violent struggle.
The failure of this organisation to act speedily against the abuse of power by Mugabe makes it a laughing stock. If it cannot address a situation such as this in a robust manner what is the point of its existence other than to run a second-rate competitor to the Olympics every four years?
R. Watson, Manchester, UK
The UK's aid budget and trading links are biased towards the Commonwealth. Its effect may not be huge, but it is positive and pragmatic. As one of the few political institutions bridging the North/South divide, we should build on it.
It's a pity that there are so many negative comments about the
Commonwealth here, most of which cite "neo-imperialism" or
a "lack of power" as a reason for their disdain.
Luckily I see that most comments from Commonwealthers are positive,
suggesting the organisation is neither as pointless or offensive
as others make out. The Commonwealth is open to any Country: republic or monarchy, dependency or superpower. Its beauty comes from its principle of mutual respect - it will not force its decisions on people, it will not fine them or send in troops, it does not try to mould their cultures or weld their economies. Instead it encourages them to celebrate both their similarities and their differences.
It opens the eyes and allows nations to speak to one another without fear or distrust. It shows that we can find solutions through dialogue rather than dictation. The Commonwealth nations are equals in a world rife with inequality. They are friends growing old together, their disputes of the past forgiven, though the lessons learnt and not forgotten. They have overcome apartheid, slavery, imperialism and rebellion. In the future, they shall play a key role in tackling
poverty, pollution and despotism.
The great advantage of the commonwealth is the shared culture and language that history gives us.
Although there are those that wish to dwell on the negative aspects of an imperial past and see a problem in the fact that the shared culture and language is English, this common heritage can give all the nation states of the commonwealth a strong trading partnership to benefit the people of our nations.
If we learn the lessons of the past and embrace the future, the Commonwealth can be to the benefit of us all. The future is in our hands
Stephanie, London, UK
Isn't it funny that many countries fought to end Britain's colonial rule over them? We listened to what they wanted and let them rule themselves and look at the mess they've made. Now we have to deal with asylum seekers and refugees from these countries. First they wanted us out of their countries - now they want into ours. Isn't that ironic?
Commonwealth is an ego-boosting shop for the Brits, and the royal followers in white Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Contrast the highly positive comments of the Brits on Commonwealth with the invariably negative ones on EU. I commend Amitabh Ghosh on his refusal to accept the Commonwealth award, and suggest that Indian government takes that clue to withdraw because it reflects the Indian opinion. Commonwealth has little to do with democracy, and a lot to do with the bygone era. In its dealing with EU, UK has demonstrated that it is incapable of becoming a equal member in a democratic organisation.
I wish to remind Stephanie, London, UK that the British Empire wasn't entirely given back without a fight. When it was so it was because it was no longer profitable to keep.
How wrong can Stephanie, UK be? The commonwealth is not a democratic organisation - the Queen is the unelected head of the organisation. The UK is classed as the lead country of the organisation and it has not returned Northern Ireland, Gibraltar or the Falklands.
The only thing that all of these countries have in common with each other is that they were at one time victims of British imperialism. It is impossible for me to see how countries with such a diversity of situations, points of view, populations and every other factor of their existence could be well served by an organisation short of the United Nations. The sun never sets on the mess left by the British Empire.
In my opinion, the Commonwealth as it is today is useless. It cannot enforce its decisions and is made up of nations with different interests and goals. It should be transformed into several organizations: more regional organizations made up of the third-world nations that have common goals and needs (these groups could expand to include non-commonwealth nations), and a group made up of the UK and nations such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and even the US. These countries share the English language, similar if not identical cultures, and common interests in areas of international policy.
To me, it's just another organisation wasting the time of our politicians.
No. It's an outdated construct which lost all its merit whatsoever.
Certainly, the EU has surpassed the Commonwealth in importance as regards UK politics. But now that Britain no longer has the Commonwealth trading arrangements, these are largely different organisations. Britain is bound by history to the Commonwealth and, I believe, has an interest and a moral obligation in the economic and democratic development of these nations. This is what our foreign aid should be concentrated on.
The UK belatedly realises that the best common market it should have joined/started/encouraged in the late sixties and early seventies is the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is where the UK belongs, and not as a part of greater Europe.
Completely irrelevant. The only two nations in the Commonwealth with any power whatsoever, Britain and Canada, have their focus, quite rightly, on the neighbours. The EU is the only forum which does not include the United States to have any relevance in world affairs. For Canada, relations with the U.S. are obviously the most important - and even Britain has more interest in the U.S. than in the Commonwealth. The rest of us live in nations that are utterly and completely impotent in world - even in regional - affairs. Personally I'm surprised Blair is wasting his time coming here, I assume he must be visiting Japan or China, and CHOGM is a taxpayer funded beach holiday.
Austin Amadasun, Nigeria
Contrary to popular belief in many preceding comments, membership is not restricted to former British Dominions or Protectorates, and countries that agree with the guiding principles of the Commonwealths Mission Statement may apply for membership. Furthermore, countries are not bound to the Commonwealth for all eternity and may leave at any time. That so many countries (involving over 30% of the worlds population) remain a part of it shows that it must be relevant at some level. Some of its most important roles involve the sharing of ideas, the distribution of aid to promote education, scientific and agricultural development, and the promotion of goodwill and understanding between different races - and lets face it, the world cannot get enough of that sort of help in these troubled times.
The Commonwealth (the name is a joke in itself!) does nothing useful for the African countries and I wish all of them would withdraw and concentrate their efforts on the OAU. Having the Queen as the head is just typical British nostalgia and as mentioned by other, the Commonwealth has done nothing to combat the problems facing many of its countries. It is a giant that needs to be toppled.
Andrew C, Manchester, England
Although it is not much use for Asian counties, I think this organisation provides some support to African countries. Although I agree with Andrew from Canada, I would say if it is not worth being a member of Commonwealth then they better quit from it.
African leaders who want to cling to power use the old the Black-White rivalry and colonial master versus the colonized to whip up sympathy for them. I feel sorry for unwary and myopic leaders who succumb to this trick! For might shall never make right.
The Commonwealth does have one important function - it challenges the narrow-minded Euro-centricity of some Britons. It reminds them uncomfortably that independent, prosperous countries exist outside the eurozone.
The criterion of membership is appalling and extremely insensitive. The UN is and should be the only institute for groups of nations to discuss universal political and other issues. Only regional alliances should be economically motivated.
Far from being outdated, the Commonwealth is more relevant and necessary than ever. It is a voluntary assembly of nations (comprising nearly one third of the population of the world) which have a common purpose - the promotion of equality and freedom. The role of the British Monarch as Head of the Commonwealth is symbolic of this and in no way defines the UK as more or less important a member. Naturally, the whole thing has come about as a result of former British Imperialism, but that is history which cannot be changed. What can be changed is the future and the Commonwealth can act as a positive medium for change to the benefit of the whole world.
I like the Commonwealth. So what if it is basically little more than an international cricket league? What harm does it do? It is simply an alliance that fosters goodwill and understanding among its members. You can't have too many friends in this world.
As the Commonwealth has proved worse than a sticking plaster on a broken leg in the matter of Zimbabwe, and just provides a few flag-wavers with a few minutes enjoyment when her Majesty visits, I think it's time to scrap it!
What is this 'still deliver' question ? The Commonwealth had no effect whatsoever on Apartheid, and the only members who took it seriously even then were Canada and Australia, who by 'pure chance' happened to compete in the same markets for raw materials The Commonwealth does good, often unsung work in monitoring elections etc. but has about as much effect upon the tyrants within it as the Brownies.
The Commonwealth seems to serve only one good reason, that is to give the Queen somewhere to visit. Judging by the comments on this page there seems to be an impression that the British have some desire to be reminded of the empire. But most Britons give very little thought to our past empire and are more concerned with the present. As for a trading block, economically it has a lot less to offer than Europe!
The world is awash with these multi-nation groupings - the EU, with its crazy directives; the seemingly toothless old beast of the United Nations; the narrow-band membership NATO.
And then we have the Commonwealth; the phoenix from the shameful ashes of the British Empire, when one country took its arrogance to never-before-seen extremes.
I used to see the Commonwealth as a kind of 'old subjects' club, where you got to be a member if the British had subjugated you.
Now though, it would be excellent to make it what the EU could have been - a common-cause and help forum, where the UK can repay some of the damage it caused by helping poorer/developing members along, removing boundaries but celebrating differences and promoting that which is unique that can benefit.
Things like sanctions are pointless, though, unless they hit where they actually hurt. Is a power-mad dictator really that bothered about suspension from the Commonwealth?
The problem with the Commonwealth is that it has no real ability to punish its members when they violate the organisations principles.
The Commonwealth is a complete waste of money. The UK should concentrate on its own people.
The Commonwealth is still relevant. But it would be much better if it could build a trade zone within itself so that its much poorer members can benefit. The Commonwealth is one of the few organisations in the world that spans a host of cultures yet is united by a common past of being affiliated with the British Empire. For the Commonwealth to move forward it needs to defend its members and assist them.
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The Aazaan actor confessed in a recent interview that “I did know about Bollywood before doing this film because while growing up in South Africa, we did have a few Indian movies showcased on the TV. I was aware a little bit about the industry that it’s very colourful and has a lot of music and dance,” Candice Boucher told IANS in an interview. “I don’t remember the names of the film right now, but as far as the actors are concerned, I am a big fan of Aishwarya Rai. She is gorgeous and a great actress too. The fact that she has made a mark not only in Bollywood but also Hollywood, speaks a lot about her. She is beautiful,” added the model who visited India six times earlier and loves the family bond people share here.
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PeruSat-1 is a high-resolution multi-spectral Earth Imaging satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for operation by the Peruvian armed forces and other government entities.
The PeruSat-1 satellite was ordered by the government of Peru in April 2014 for an exceptionally fast development and production for liftoff just over two years after the contract was signed. It is the first Peruvian Earth Observation Satellite and its operation will be handled by the Peruvian Space Agency CONIDA.
According to the Peruvian government, data products from the satellite will find a wide range of applications including agriculture, urban planning, border control, humanitarian aid, disaster monitoring and the fight against drug trafficking.
PeruSat-1 is based on Airbus Defence and Space’s AstroBus-300 satellite platform, also known as AstroBus-S representing a smaller and simplified version of the larger AstroBus-500 bus that has been used by different space agencies for Earth observation projects. The payload, a variation of the modular NAOMI imaging system, has also flown on previous satellites, allowing Airbus to use existing processes and hardware.
Airbus Defence and Space was able to realize the PeruSat-1 spacecraft in less than 24 months. The platform construction phase and technical and operational verification took only five months each and the Assembly Integration and Testing (AIT) of the instrument payload was completed in only eight months. This was largely possible through a new integrated work organization at Airbus that brings down the development and construction lead times for satellites up to 500 Kilograms.
PeruSat-1 has a launch mass of 430 Kilograms and measures 1.0 by 1.0 by 1.7 meters in size. Its operational mission is projected to last at least ten years from a Sun Synchronous Orbit 695 Kilometers in altitude optimized for proper operation of the imaging instrument.
The AstroBus-S satellite platform part of a whole family of satellite buses covering a Low Earth Orbit mission range from 125 to 4,000 Kilograms. The AstroBus satellites are built to share a number of common avionics components to streamline the production line and reduce overall cost. The compact AstroBus-S is the extension of the AstroBus line to the lower size range with evolutions through Airbus developments as well as the Myriade platform originally developed by the French Space Agency CNES for very lightweight satellite missions.
AstroBus-S can reuse a number of components from the AS250 avionics package developed by Airbus and is complemented by Myriade evolutions. AS250 components incorporated by AstroBus-S are the onboard computer, Remote Interface Unit, Star Tracker, antennas, Magnetotorquers and Magnetometers. Myriade systems feeding into the development of AstroBus-S include the structural concept, propulsion module, power system, reaction wheels and downlink chain.
The box-shaped PeruSat-1 spacecraft hosts a pair of deployable solar arrays that generate power fed to the satellite via a Direct Energy Transfer scheme. A Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit handles the switching and protection of the power buses using a combination of Latch-up current limiters and Fault Current Limiters that allow critical satellite systems to remain powered in case of an anomaly.
The power bus is not regulated and its voltage fluctuates between 22 to 34V depending on the state of charge of the batteries. Stability of secondary power supplies is ensured by the power supply units of each subsystem.
The AS250 avionics provide a complete attitude determination and control architecture. Attitude control is provided by reaction wheels and three magnetic torquers are used for coarse control and for momentum dumps of the reaction wheels. Three-axis attitude and orbit measurement is accomplished through a Star Tracker Assembly with two optical heads and a GPS unit.
The Hydra Star Trackers can provide attitude tracking in two heads simultaneously, acquiring the satellite’s three-axis orientation within 2.5 seconds from a lost in space scenario at body rates up to 8deg/s.
An inertial measurement unit is used to improve three-axis rate measurements and serves as backup to the star trackers. The dual-frequency GPS receiver can be used for orbit determination with an accuracy of 3 meters. In spacecraft safe mode, attitude determination is provided by a Magnetometer and Coarse Sun Sensor that are used to keep the satellite in a safe Earth- or Sun-pointed attitude.
The baseline AstroBus-S features a Propulsion Module employing a spherical tank holding up to 28 Kilograms of Hydrazine Propellant fed to four thrusters used for orbital maneuvers. The 1N thrusters can tolerate supply pressures of 5.5 to 23 bars to generate a thrust of 0.36 to 1.45 Newtons. The corresponding specific impulses are 205 seconds at the lowest supply pressure and 221 seconds at the highest pressure. Each thruster assembly weighs about 0.23 Kilograms and can be operated in steady-state mode and pulse mode for attitude control.
Payload data is downlinked via a two-channel cold redundant X-Band system that achieves data rates between 180 and 310 Mbit/s using QPSK modulation. Telemetry downlink and command uplink is accomplished using an S-Band system with omni-directional coverage at 625kbit/s for downlink and up to 64kbit/s for command uplink.
Command & data handling, spacecraft control and communication is provided by a control system built around the SCOC3 Spacecraft Controller On-a-Chip that uses a LEON-3 microprocessor. The redundant onboard computer provides processing, reconfiguration and timing functions, data input/output and customization capabilities. A Remote Interface Unit allows the spacecraft computer to be reconfigured in flight.
1553 data buses are used to handle spacecraft platform data and data acquired by the payload. The flight software used by the spacecraft is based on the RTEMS operating system with customizable software elements tailored for specific mission purposes. The flight computer uses an autonomous Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery system.
The main payload of the PeruSat-1 satellite is NAOMI, the New AstroBus Optical Modular Instrument, flying in its larger version with a 65-centimeter aperture and employing an all-Silicon-Carbide (SiC) Design to achieve the highest possible optical performance. NAOMI has a mass of 150 Kilograms including the telescope and focal plane plus video electronics units.
The instrument is a high-resolution pushbroom-type imager that was developed by EADS Astrium and SAS. NAOMI is comprised of an optical bench consisting of Sintered SiC to provide extremely high thermal stability, a focal plane assembly with Time Delay Integration Detector, back-end electronics for data processing and interfaces for data and command exchange with the spacecraft computer.
The telescope uses a Korsch combination with three aspheric mirrors and two folding mirrors using an aperture diameter of 65 centimeters. This design was chosen because of its simplicity and compact size – fitting within the small spacecraft platform. An entrance baffle is used for stray light rejection. Light entering the detector is passed from the primary mirror M1 onto the M2 mirror before passing Folding Mirror 1 to the M3 mirror that reflects the light through the Exit Pupil to Folding Mirror 2 that passes the light onto the detector.
The Time Delay Integration detector uses a silicon CCD detector assembly with four lines for blue, green, red and near infrared imaging at a ground resolution of two meters. A larger detector element employed for panchromatic imaging (450-750nm) generates imagery at a resolution of 0.7 meters. NAOMI covers a ground swath of over 20 Kilometers.
All detectors are equipped with strip filters and front end electronics. The front end electronics provide the detectors with biasing and clocking signals as well as pre-amplification of the signals before transmitting them to the video electronics.
The back-end electronics provide power supplies for the operation of the front-end and provide data processing via modular video chains that operate at frequencies of up to 15Msamples/sec. The signals from the front end is digitally converted in the back end using a 12-bit conversion scheme and the data is then transferred for real-time processing and storage in the mass memory.

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Hi all! Had to take a break from the sewing and the prototyping to do a custom order for the lovely Charlotte. I'm not sure how she found me (a show? Etsy? crystal ball?) but she did and I'm the happier for it. It's great to be able to do custom work for someone who really lets you be you in your work. I've been lucky that way, all my custom orders have allowed me to keep it quirky, makes sense, since that's probably what brought the customers to me in the first place, but one does hear horror stories of crazy compromises! So far all of the things that people have asked me to do outside of my regular template have been awesome and have added to my repertoire. I am now currently knocking on wood that it stays that way!
Anyway. . . Charlotte is what we like to call an early bird here in my imaginary boyfriend HQ. She doesn't mess around with placing orders for Christmas decorations when the artist might have too much to do, heck no! She places those orders in March! I must admit, it was a bit hard to get back into Christmas mode but I was soon fa-la-la-la-la-ing along. Charlotte not only wanted stockings for her immediate family but for her cat family as well! Very fun, the cats on the stockings are my take on the picture she sent me.
Well, now it's back to the work on the non-Christmas line. I started stitching some pillow covers last night using this amazing purple vintage fabric I found on eBay and I can't wait to see if they turn out like the pillows in my mind (not to be confused with the "Windmills of My Mind").
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Tim and Braxton had the week off so Brady called an audible and asked a fellow Aggie Jaden Johnson to take some time from Vegas to talk about all things Utah State. We recap Jordan Love's NFL Combine, preview Utah State football at spring practice, and dive in to the rematch with New Mexico tomorrow.
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After a week off for the Sagebrush Show, we are back this week to preview the NFL Combine for the three Aggies in attendance, and we reflect on the Aggie seniors and what they have meant to the program. Afterwards, we preview the MWC tournament starting next wednesday.
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The actual eighteenth episode of The Sagebrush Show where we actually talk about Sam Merrill's passing of Wayne Estes for third all-time in scoring. We discuss Sam Merrill's legacy at Utah Sate, and what to make from the last four games of the season prior to MWC tournament in Las Vegas.
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Academy 1/72 F-18C 'VMFA-212 Lancers'
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In 1992, the original Hughes AN/APG-65 radar was replaced with the Hughes (now Raytheon) AN/APG-73, a faster and more capable radar. A-model Hornets that have been upgraded to the AN/APG-73 are designated F/A-18A+. Thanks to reliability issues with the AN/APG-73, Marine legacy Hornets are being upgraded with the AN/APG-79, which is currently installed in later F-18E/F/G Super Hornets. In addition, thanks to the slower than expected integration of the F-35B/C, low time F-18A/C airframes are being pulled from the boneyard and brought up to current standards. This is done as the current legacy Hornets operated by the USMC are reaching the end of their airframe life.
This is the standard F-18C boxing upon which the other legacy Hornet kits are based. Note that this aircraft is a later C model as it has the IFF antennas on the nose and the swept back radio antenna on the spine. Of course, it is no problem to make the earlier C by sanding off the IFF antennas and not installing the radio antenna as that pretty well does it for external cues. Unlike the earlier previewed A+ kit, this one does not include the sprue with the A model fins.
Overall, the molding looks excellent and based on building other Academy kits, I am hoping this one fits well. One thing about Hornets is that there are several tricky areas, one of them being the intakes. After having built several Hasegawa Hornets, I'm really hoping this one does a better job. Like most Hornet kits, this one is designed as a two seater, with the back seat being covered over by an upper fuselage insert for the single seat plane. It has a basic four piece bang seat with some belt detail a control stick and an instrument panel onto which you can put decals. Rudder pedals are molded into the floor. Pretty standard 1/72 jet stuff.
The fuselage seems to require a lot of parts and if there are any build issues, it will be here. The wings are separate and already have the holes open in them for the pylons. Intake trunking is about a half inch deep. All the landing gear can be attached once the airframe is complete if you wish and appears to be well detailed. I don't recall if any nose weight is required, but I'll say it isn't and if you feel a need for it, there is room for a bit.
The only optional position items are the canopy and the speed brake. The Hornet normally sits on the deck with the flaps and ailerons drooped full down as shown on the box art so duplicating this will require some cutting. Academy does provide a lot of things under wings including fuel tanks, AIM-9 and AIM-7 missiles. you aslo get GBU-12 laser guided bombs and the two targeting pods.
Instructions are well drawn with generic and FS 595 paint references. There are three markings options in this boxing. The box art aircraft is the squadron commander's plane from VMFA-212 in 2007. Next we have a VFA-94 'Shrikes' aircraft, also from 2007. The third option is from VFA-192 'World Famous Golden Dragons' from 2003. Now this later option may not have the later upgrades. Searching through photos of F-18Cs I noticed that even as late as 2005, there were un-upgraded aircraft. You really need to see if you can find photos for planes of this unit from the dates given on the sheet to be sure. Of course, you can use aftermarket markings. The fairly large decal sheet is very nicely done and provides stencils and LEREX walk area markings.
While there are things I'd like to have seen on the kit (the ability to lower the flaps and ailerons), it looks to be a very nice kit. What's more, it is quite reasonably priced if you don't mind ordering it from Korea and having the box arrive a bit smushed from its trip.
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Shares of VA Tech Wabag rallied over 15% today after global brokerage Nomura raised its target price for the water treatment firm. Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala owned 50 lakh shares or 8.04% stake in VA Tech Wabag on behalf of his wife Rekha Rakesh Jhunjhunwala at the end of December quarter of the current fiscal.
He bought stake in the company for the first time in August 2020. The stake purchase was a part of fund raising exercise of the water treatment firm. VA Tech Wabag issued 50 lakh shares to Rekha Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
Meanwhile, the stock opened with a gain of 4.89% at Rs 310 against the previous close of Rs 295.5 on BSE.
Later, the small cap stock touched an intraday high of Rs 340, rising 15.04% on BSE.
The share trades higher than 5 day, 20 day and 50 day moving averages but lower than 100 day and 200 day moving averages.
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Total 1.82 lakh shares of the firm changed hands amounting to a turnover of Rs 5.92 crore on BSE. Market cap of the firm rose to Rs 2,008 crore on BSE.
The stock hit a 52 week high of Rs 404 on August 3, 2021 and a 52 week low of Rs 228 on March 25, 2021.
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The company's focus on tech-focused orders with low civil component, could improve both margins & cash flows, the international brokerage house said.
The firm reported a consolidated profit of Rs 44.16 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 compared with a profit after tax of Rs 41.78 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. Revenue slipped 6.35% to Rs 745.84 crore in Q3 against Rs 796.02 crore revenue in the third quarter of previous fiscal.
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I read Lady Susan five years ago, and I finally read Sanditon this time. Because I plan on checking out the Masterpiece television drama based on Austen's last novel, I wanted to read the batch of chapters she finished before she died.
I also wanted to get a glimpse of Miss Lambe, the only Black/mixed race character Austen ever created.
Read 22 pages. Couldn't get into it. Taking a break.
Lady Susan is a treat, with a deliciously wicked title character; it's slightly trashy and catty as hell and I really can't recommend it enough.
The Watsons is an abandoned novel of an impoverished woman of respectable family trying to find a suitable match; it's little more than a sketch and most of what's there looks like it would become parts of Austen's major novels. The unfinished Sanditon is a satirical look at a seaside resort and is much more polished than the other two works; it has the seeds of what could have been a masterpiece.
Lady Susan, The Watson’s, Sanditon is an omnibus volume of Jane Austen’s earlier works. She is much more cutting here than in her later, better-known volumes. Lady Susan is a complete beast of a woman: conniving, manipulative, and thoroughly selfish. She attempts to marry her daughter to a much older man, completely against the girl’s will, and tries to match herself up with a true catch. This being Austen, all does end well; the rather mean delight is in seeing Lady Susan fail.
The Watsons is the weakest of the three stories here. Emma Watson has to return to her father’s home after living with a wealthy aunt. The story is unfinished, so we can appreciate Emma’s chagrin at the behavior of her siblings, but that’s all.
Sanditon is full of delicious characters. Lady Denham, in particular, stands out as an unbelievably vain woman who has to be the most important person at all times. The thin plot involves the development of a seaside resort. Although Austen didn’t live to finish the book, it’s clear that this would have been a lighthearted look at the foibles of those attempting to be just a bit more significant than they really are.
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These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel LADY SUSAN depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, THE WATSONS is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine - Emma - finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Meanwhile SANDITON, set in a seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and spectators, treated by Austen with both amusement and scepticism.
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Drawing inspiration from Matisse, Lauren created an artistic set of free-standing birds representative of the free spirit in us all. These birds are printed on 3/4 inch thick acrylic and cut to the shape of the bird.
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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
PC (Reviewed) [Previously released on PS3 and Xbox 360]
January 15, 2016 [Previously released on PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 22, 2012/April 23, 2013]
₹1499 (PC) [₹1799 on PS3 and Xbox 360]
After becoming a cult hit on the older generation of consoles, Dragon’s Dogma makes its way to PC as Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen that includes all the content from the console release. From the first time you load it up, you can be sure of one thing; this game has its quirks and over time you will grow to like them. Or hate them, as the case may be. After all, it’s not every game where the starting screen has an option titled Main Menu that then takes you to a menu where you can start a new game or continue where you last left off.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is quite an expansive Role-Playing Game (RPG) with one distinctive gameplay mechanic in the form of the Pawn system. As you build your character, you also build one Pawn, called your Main Pawn to aid you in your adventures. Your party of four is completed by hiring two other Pawns, which may be created by other players or generated by the game itself. The Pawn system is really brilliant in that your Pawn learns from your actions in the game. It learns how to behave in combat, how to counter various enemies, what to do in a quest and how often to shout advice. Your Pawn can also be hired by other players and it will bring back knowledge from adventures in their worlds. This can be useful if you get stuck in a quest or encounter a new enemy that you don’t know how to counter. Pawns can also find hidden loot in the game world.
Pawn Training is a metagame in itself and you can instruct your Pawn to behave in certain ways or purchase potions that will enforce these behaviours. However, as the Pawn learns from your actions, its behaviour will change over time. Since hired Pawns gain no experience, nor do they level up, you will be better served by hiring Pawns that are a few levels above your current level in the game. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is built to be ideally played in online mode and you need it to be able to hire the Pawns of other players. While the Pawns generated by the game in offline mode serve well enough, Pawns built by another player are superior in terms of their skill distribution, provided the other player built them right. Pawns can be hired from these marked stones in the game called Rift Stones, which also serve as a checkpointing mechanism when you enter one. While Rift Stones offer more functionality, such as searching for suitable Pawns or browsing the top choices of players around the world, one can also hire any Pawn one meets on the road in Gransys. When dismissing a player-created Pawn, one can also send a gift for their creator as well as rate the Pawn and offer feedback. Equipping a hired Pawn with gear also gifts that gear to their creator. The game safeguards against gear theft by sending any items you unequip back to the inventory of the Pawn’s creator. Hiring Pawns requires a currency called Rift Crystals which are earned during the game or brought back by your Pawn from their adventures in another player’s world.
The character creator in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen offers quite a lot of options to customise your character and your Main Pawn. Curiously, while you can assign a voice to your character while creating them, they will remain mute for the majority of the game, staring blankly even in cutscenes. An interesting twist that the character creator brings to the game is that the carrying capacity of a character or Pawn is directly proportional to their height and weight. This means that tall and fat Pawns will carry more loot than short and slim ones. You can change the cosmetic appearance of your character or Pawn at a barber shop, but these body attributes can’t be changed later on.
The world of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is the duchy of Gransys, which is a peninsular region with mountains on its northern and western frontiers and an extensive coastline comprised majorly of cliffs along the rest. The Dark Arisen expansion on the consoles also added the mysterious Bitterblack island, which is a challenging dungeon more suited to endgame exploration. While the game world is quite sizeable, you must traverse it on foot. The original game featured a limited fast travel system consisting of single use ferrystones and portcrystals. There were permanent portcrystals in a few limited locations and your character, called the Arisen, can plant more around the world as they find them. The expansion grants you an eternal ferrystone that can be used unlimited times, so fast travel becomes easier in the PC version. The world has a day/night cycle with some plants and enemies only available during either daytime or night-time. Combat difficulty also rises during the night and one must equip an oil-fed lantern requiring timely refills to see in the dark. The enemies in the game world reset after a while so you will always have a busy journey whenever you return to an area after some time. Since the enemies do not scale with the player level they can quickly turn from a barrier to passage to a minor speedbump in your journey.
The world of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is also filled with a few boss enemies that also respawn after a while. Every boss has its strengths and weaknesses and the game will make sure you learn them through either the instructions shouted by knowledgeable Pawns or though self-discovery. One can also climb these giant foes to strike at their weak parts though one must be wary of being swatted away like a fly. This system can make every boss encounter seem unique and not feel repetitive, though boss attacks get predictable after a while.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen offers three core classes of Fighter, Strider and Mage initially, though you can change your vocation after hitting level 10 to an advanced class for each of these or a hybrid class which includes attributes from two of the three core classes. Pawns cannot choose a hybrid class and are limited to six classes, but Arisen can choose from each of the nine classes at any time during their journey. The gameplay is all about experimenting with different classes as you progress, since one has 200 levels and can easily max out a class, learning all its skills and abilities, within some 30 levels. In terms of moves, one is only limited to six active abilities, though one can also unlock certain passive abilities. The Mage class is the only one that can heal, so other classes must rely on consumables to maintain health during a battle. A Mage’s heal ability cannot restore the full health of characters and Pawns however. The game has a selective healing system where some damage is temporary and can be magically fixed, while some damage will not be recovered without using a consumable, levelling up, visiting one of the rare healing springs or resting.
The crafting system in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is quite extensive and though you might be tempted to sell off junk early in the game, it is wise to hold on to it and deposit it in the nearly infinite inventory offered by the game’s innkeepers. This is because weapon upgrades and some subsequent sidequests might need that junk in order to complete. The Weapon upgrade system is a curious three tier thing where you can directly upgrade to the top tier or upgrade incrementally, though you will end up paying more for the latter route. The crafting system will usually combine two objects in your inventory to craft something new. One should be careful while crafting since some chains are cyclic and you might just end up wasting a bunch of items by interconverting them. One should also watch the weight of their characters and Pawns’ inventories and distribute items to keep the weight balanced. The more weight you carry, the slower you will move. Mind that you don’t hand some sidequest critical consumables to Pawns, as they may use these in combat.
As mentioned earlier, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen has many quirks. One of these would be the glowing rocks that one might see littered around the world. These are not for collection or mining, but rather for throwing at enemies. Some consumables are time sensitive and may turn sour or rotten unless combined with an airtight flask to preserve for a longer period of time. One can also use bottled water from a healing spring to restore these items to their pristine condition. One must have a pickaxe to be able to mine the ore deposits that can be spotted on cliff sides or inside caves. However, the game lacks the ability to swim in deep water and explains this using a monster called the Brine. Falling in deep water usually means the Arisen wakes up later on some distant shore. If a Pawn is lost to deep water, it can only be restored by visiting a rift stone.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen offers a harder difficulty mode, a New Game Plus mode as well as a Speedrun mode for interested players. It can be quite easy to miss sidequests from NPCs as they do not show up on the map. Some sidequests will disappear after progressing the main storyline beyond a certain point or by failing to talk to certain NPCs at a certain time in the game. NPCs offering a sidequest have a green marker above them. NPCs that can help in the currently tracked quest will have a Red marker while those from untracked quests will have a Yellow Marker. NPCs that you must talk to in order to complete a quest and receive the reward will have a blue marker. However, this will only appear if the quest is being actively tracked, especially when the NPC in question is also needed in other quests. Note that your Main Pawn only gets complete knowledge of a quest if you talk to all the related NPCs rather than taking shortcuts.
There is an affinity system in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen that involves talking to and gifting the NPCs to get them to like you. Alternatively, you can turn them more hostile by attacking them unwarrantedly. Shopkeepers with an affinity for you are likely to offer more discounts and even some rare items. Hitting NPCs in the capital city of Gran Soren will get your Arisen arrested and thrown into the Dungeon, as will getting caught trespassing the palace grounds at night. The affinity system is important to the game’s story as well.
In Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, there is a two-fold save system in that the game will save your progress on demand and load to the last save point should you die. The game also autosaves after key moments in a quest. The game also implements checkpoints which supersede your save if you choose to return to them. So if you mess up, you can potentially roll back to the last checkpoint. The online oriented nature of the Pawn system means that the game will restrict you to only one save slot. Some of the main quests in the story will also serve as hard checkpoints and may cause some quests to fail if these haven’t been completed before triggering the main quest. While the game does warn you about this for some quests, it may not do the same for others. Checkpoints are also created every time you touch a Rift Stone to enter the rift.
If you’re wondering why the main character is called the Arisen, it is because the lore of the game tells us that the Arisen are chosen humans whose heart is stolen by the Dragon and thus, they will always be forced to seek out and challenge the dragon. While they can die of bodily harm, Arisen do not age and are immune to disease and death by natural causes. Also, the Pawns of the Pawn Legion are naturally drawn to Arisen and will obey their every command. Each Arisen will also gain a main Pawn. The game doesn’t have much lore to read per se, but item descriptions are helpful enough to denote which items make suitable gifts for whom, as well as indicating if an item can be used for crafting or upgrading weapons.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen’s story has some dark tones to it and isn’t purely a good against evil tale. It’s more of a hero’s journey as they delve into the dark secrets and mysteries of the game’s world. It’s about leaving behind an idyllic life to embark on adventures and see the world. It’s about a nobody affecting the politics of a duchy. And you must slay a Dragon making morally ambiguous choices along the way.
Speaking of the PC port, the graphics have received a major uplift. However, compared to the visual beauty of more recent releases, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen’s graphics look a bit dated. The shadows look a little too dark in places, especially on the faces of the characters. There were no game breaking glitches or bugs encountered in my playthrough, which indicates the robust quality of the port. The Main Menu theme music is new, though the song from the console release can be easily modded back into the game. The Soundtrack is nice, but nothing memorable besides the menu theme. Sound effects are well done, but there are some lip sync issues for the dialogues. The UI is organised and uncluttered as are the various ingame menus.
Character Movement in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is based on a stamina system, which also limits the casting of magic spells. While the game may not indicate it easily, one can traverse the rooftops in many of the game’s locations. In fact, some areas are only accessible by going over the rooftops. One of the Frost spells can also create a stepping block to access some tricky areas, though this system is only active in specific areas. There is no parkour though and no helpful handhold if you accidentally slip down an edge. You can pick up and carry both dead and live enemies of your size. Live enemies will start to struggle after a bit causing you to drop them, while dead enemies will start vaporising after a while. You can also carry NPCs but they will usually be upset at that.
All in all, since iLL had missed out on putting up a review of the original console release, this piece seeks to rectify that oversight. In keeping with our remasters and delayed ports policy, however, this release gets no score. iLLGaming rates the PC release of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen as
as the gameplay is still solid enough to make for a fun experience, despite all its quirks. The graphical overhaul might appeal to returning players who played the Console version, though newcomers might not be as impressed. The stability of the port was quite impressive and the amount of content offered by the game is quite significant.
Summary: Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is an excellent port of a quirky, engrossing and fun RPG, that features a unique gameplay system and remains an unmissable game for fans of the genre.
+Multiple choice of vocations that can be interchanged
+Pawn system is really impressive
+Diverse game world
-Quirky game systems take time to get used to
-Playing offline feels handicapped
-Sidequests are easily missable
-Restrictive Fast Travel

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You think giving birth is the hardest thing for a cat’s owner? Many breeders face strange behaviour after kittens are born without any explanation.
Most cats take care of their kittens as expected: they lick kittens, keep them warm, feed them regularly and protect them from the slightest threat. But what if the cat gives up some or all of her maternity responsibilities?
If the animal does not perform the following actions before and after childbirth
It’s not uncommon for a pet to refuse to chew the umbilical cord, lick kittens and eat their last meal. As a rule, this atypical behavior is observed in domestic cats.
The reasons may vary, but the most common is the active participation of the person during and after the birth of the cat. Breeders who are interested in having a healthy offspring and keeping their mothers healthy often do all the work for the cat. By performing abdominal massage, prenatal toilet, removal and disposal of the afterbirth, the owner calms the cat. The bad thing is that the animal relaxes and gives the owner the opportunity to do all the work for her.
There is a hormonal failure in the cat’s body, which can cause milk production to stop.
What should I do? Find the right middle ground. Soothe your cat from a distance with your voice and intervene only as a last resort.
If the cat refuses to feed her offspring
The first comes from the second. But in addition to the lack of milk, the cat feels the vitality of the kitten(s) and refuses to feed the weakest.
After all, cats are the first to catch serious diseases of kittens with the help of receptors and smell, and they don’t see the need to spend time on unviable offspring.
Another important factor may be healthy competition between kittens. After all, on 6-12 days, they open their eyes, and they find a source of milk more quickly. Strong kittens suck more aggressively, depriving the rest of their food. Naturally, this makes the cat uncomfortable, which can make the cat run away from them and hide in a secluded place.
The third reason is the pain of biting the nipples. Kittens are ready to eat solid food one month after birth. Like children, they will start biting the cat and make it uncomfortable.
What should I do? It is important to limit the space available to the cat and try to prevent the cat from leaving the kittens. Place your cat next to her offspring, soothe her voice and massage her nipples.
Dragging and dropping kittens
This behavior is considered absolutely normal. In the wild, the cat drags her offspring at least five times, with the end point being an approximate place to the feeding trough.
What to do? Don’t deprive your pet of this privilege. Create a second “nest” in a private place and let the pet satisfy his instinct.

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John Lloyd: Carry on doing it, Andy. It proves to the world you are at the top of your game
I loved the audacity of the shot that Andy Murray has made the talk of Wimbledon.
No one guessed he would try his 'hot dog' shot, batting the ball through his legs, on Centre Court.
John McEnroe questioned the wisdom of a stunt like that against Ivan Ljubicic on Friday, as he considered it would serve only to wind up his opponent.
Showmanship: Murray plays the audacious winner that thrilled his fans on Centre Court
Well, winding up the other bloke is perfectly legitimate. Perhaps that's not something I should need to spell out to Mac!
And for someone like Murray, who has been seen as dour and unsmiling on court, it was a moment of razzle-dazzle that will help transform his image.
He played the shot against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at Queen's, but this was Wimbledon.
On the way: Andy Murray celebrates beating Ivan Ljubicic
This is where news travels around the world: on the internet; on television.
Murray's crowd-pleasing act of showmanship will be replayed until the cows come home.
Tsonga was originally displeased when Murray played the shot against him, but he later conceded it was a great piece of improvised theatre.
And Tsonga plays tennis as though the sport is part of the entertainment industry.
Yes, it is easy to say that what Murray was doing was 'mickey-taking'. In my day, someone might have threatened to give you a clip if you had tried something like that.
Murray timed it well. He led Ljubicic by two sets to one, and by four games to two when he brought the house down with his cheeky winner.
I wouldn't advise him to try it at 3-3 in the first set or against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic.
There is a touch of genius to the shot. Yet, as he admitted, if he got it wrong he would look 'a right plonker'.
Form man: Roger Federer looks to be plating the best of the main challengers)
But after that one inspired moment on Centre Court, people everywhere are asking: 'Did you see that shot?'
I picked Murray to win Wimbledon before these championships and I'm not changing my mind.
Is he the best of the Fab Four with Nadal, Federer and Djokovic right now? Probably not, but they don't award the title at the end of the first week.
Andy's done his job, and will improve now we are at the business end of the tournament.
I'd place Federer as the man showing the best form, but from now, the matches get tougher.
Murray faces a big test from Richard Gasquet in the fourth round tomorrow.
This is the Frenchman's best surface and he can play with more freedom at SW19 than he finds possible when he plays at the French Open.
He has weapons that can hurt you all over the court.
At times, Murray may not find his fate is in his own hands because Gasquet has the speed, power and ability to dominate a tennis match.
Tough challenge: Richard Gasquet (pictured) will give Andy Murray a stern test
My one criticism of him is that he never appears to have a Plan B.
He has twice held a two-set lead over Murray, yet Andy has found a way to win.
I am taking Murray to emerge unscathed from what could be a torrid test. I think Nadal will play Murray in one semi-final, while Federer and Djokovic will meet in the other.
Let the Games begin … and if Murray feels the moment is right to play his 'hot dog' shot again, let's applaud his desire to entertain.
Who invented the magical shot?
So where does the name Hot Dog come from? In sport, it is used to describe a flash, showy manoeuvre. There's no technical definition in tennis.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played versions of the shot - often as a matter of last resort - with their backs to the net.
Andy Murray had time to play orthodox forehands when he hit his 'Hot Dogs', and was facing forward as he showboated.
The phrase was also popularised by Jimmy Stewart in the 1946 film It's A Wonderful Life.
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I have the same issue. It’s not mouse or smth like that, I turn off the mouse.
I noticed that it wakes up when it charges (I have laptop), f.e. if I suspend it and plug power cable off, it wont wake up and eventually will shutdown after couple of hours.
But if I keep my power cable in, it can wake up after 15 min or 20 min of being suspended, every time it’s different.
Any ideas how to fix it? Do you need some hardware info with inxi?