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Seven months into not being able to leave the apartment without a face mask and a pocket full of hand sanitzer, it’s not shocking that some urbanites are heading for the hinterlands—or the suburbs, at least. Money recently named Braintree, a town 13 miles south of Boston, and Chelmsford, Lowell’s less populous neighbor, two of the best places to live in the country. While Massachusetts is brimming with small town charm, what about the city lovers who aren’t looking to leave behind the melodic screech of the T, delectable takeout options, and pandemic pod-filled parks? The good news is, cities are having their own moment: U.S. News and World Report just released their 2020 ranking of the 150 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., and Boston breezed in at number 18. That’s a significant promotion from last year’s list, where Boston landed 27th place. But the state capital wasn’t the only Massachusetts town to rank—Worcester represented Central Mass. at number 68, while Western Mass. city Springfield came in at number 98. Those are both slightly below their 2019 ratings, of 62nd and 86th place, respectively. How did U.S. News reach these evaluations? After using census data to find the 150 largest metros, reporters appraised each place based on five main qualities: the strength of the area’s job market, which hinged on average salaries and unemployment rates; housing affordability, measured by median household income and housing costs; the desirability index, which they determined based on the results of a 3,000-person poll; net migration, or how many people are moving to that area; and the quality of life, which looked at commute times, crime rates, and school rankings, among other factors. By that measure, Boston earned a 7.1 out of 10 on the overall scorecard, with an 8.1 in desirability as a high point and, unsurprisingly, a 5.6 in housing affordability as its low point. Journalist Lauren Liebhaber, who wrote Boston’s overview for the report, called out the city’s schools, cultural institutions, culinary scene, and ability to be so many things at once: “It is historic but ever-evolving. It is on the cutting edge of medicine and technology, but traditional in its love of pastimes like cheering on hometown heroes at Fenway Park. It is a region of sports enthusiasts, artists and entrepreneurs.” And though 18th place isn’t, well, first place, Boston did take the trophy for New England. The closest regional neighbor was Portland, Maine, which ranked at number 19. As for a few other major metropolises, San Francisco landed at 10th, Washington D.C clinched 30th, and New York City settled into the 121st slot. Colorado monopolized the top of the list, with Boulder and Denver taking first and second place—and Colorado Springs and Fort Collins securing fourth and fifth. For golden agers looking specifically for good spots to retire, U.S. News wrangled some insights into that, too. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Florida won the top four out five places in this category, with Sarasota coming out on the very top. Locally, Manchester, New Hampshire (14th), Portland, Maine (33rd), and Boston (42nd) were rated the best options for retirees ready to make a move. And, on a particularly hopeful note in the year 2020, Liebhaber bestowed Boston with this ringing endorsement: “For new families, recent college graduates, retirees or seasoned professionals, Boston is a place that can foster your next stage of life, whatever that may be.”

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La-Mulana 2 (PC [reviewed], Xbox One) Developer: Nigoro Publisher: AGM Playism Released: July 30, 2018 (PC), TBA (Xbox One) MSRP: $24.99 While watching one of the Indiana Jones films, have you ever stopped to think how unlikely it is that Indy succeeds all the time? What are the chances he knows exactly which items to use in remote locations around the world at the exact right time? How can he stroll into ancient ruins, step on pressure plates, and narrowly avoid death all the time? Since it looks so easy in film, many of us have thought we could do the same thing. Those daring feats of cunning wit and narrow escapes look so enticing that it shouldn’t be so difficult, right? If you’ve ever believed you could be Indiana Jones, playing the cult-classic La-Mulana would quickly put you in your place. This is a game not afraid to erase hours of progress for failing to pay attention and one with clues so cryptic a blind playthrough could take upwards of 100 hours. While it was never a massive commercial success, La-Mulana gained a big enough following to Kickstart a sequel and show us that, yeah, being Indiana Jones ain’t that easy. I just wish the whole thing was polished better because my struggles with reaching the conclusion aren’t purely down to my lacking spatial awareness. I’ll be upfront about this and tell you all that I haven’t finished La-Mulana 2. I’ve put around 30 hours into the game and have made steady progress, but not without a complete restart to get myself back on track. One of the joys of La-Mulana is how little it cares about your mental well-being, so you can accidentally activate a hard mode that is irreversible. Despite knowing this sly trick, I somehow did it in the sequel and needed to begin anew after putting 17 hours into a playthrough. That being said, it gave me a great understanding of how diverse playthroughs of La-Mulana 2 can be. Using the help of some guides for my second run, I was able to fast track my way to the guardians (the main bosses) with little effort and recover my entire inventory in around two hours. From there, I’ve been looking to the unofficial La-Mulana 2 subreddit and checking out videos about how to acquire items and am surprised at how differently I went about things my first run through. You can take some wildly different routes and acquire items much earlier than you need to, which is likely to make the speedrunning community very happy. On the flip side, this open-ended approach often means you’ll stumble into dead ends and be left with little clue of how to progress. Even with semi-nonlinearity, there are certain items and bosses you need to vanquish to reach late game areas and it can be a real struggle to even decipher what the game wants of you. I feel dumb about some of the puzzle solutions, but others are so stupidly complicated that it feels like the game is built for people with hyper-intelligence. This would all be fine if the combat didn’t also mercilessly stomp you when you’re down. After explaining to my friend how brutal La-Mulana 2 is, I proceeded to find a new area and locate a save point. Since you can fast travel to save points, I was very eager to read the grail and activate my new warp point, but the floor collapsed right in front of me as I was walking and dropped me into a bed of spikes. This uncompromising difficulty also applies to enemy encounters. Your invincibility frames after taking damage are so minuscule that you’ll often get juggled between foes and land on top of spikes that can wipe your health out in seconds. Nothing eases up on you in La-Mulana 2 and that is likely to put a majority of gamers off from the get-go. A lot of this isn’t new for the series, though. People who have dipped their toes in the original game know how ridiculously difficult it can be. I’ve seen the phrase “Dark Souls before Dark Souls” online, but that isn’t entirely accurate. At least Dark Souls cares about your sanity; La-Mulana just kicks the shit out of you and forces you to play by its rules. There are no hacks, tricks or easy shortcuts in its world. Well, that should be true, but the main problem that troubles me with La-Mulana 2 is how buggy it can be. I’m not sure if this was an issue with the remake of the original (I played it in 2015 after it had been out for three years), but I’ve seen a variety of stages in La-Mulana 2 and they all have some problem with them. The pre-release version was missing some content and had incorrect translations (leading to an endgame puzzle that was literally impossible to solve). You could also glitch your way to items way earlier than intended, which ended up breaking the game in ways developer Nigoro probably didn’t want. Even with those bugs squashed, this current version has graphical glitches and some oddly stiff controls at times. To make matters worse, the launch version was actually easier than the build currently available online. I can’t speak from experience, but there is a pretty vocal group of fans that were displeased with the final boss in the launch version because of how simple it was. Now, the boss is a nightmare of precise timing and acute pattern recognition. I’ve noticed general enemy encounters are just tougher and even bosses I previously conquered put up a challenge on my second attempt. I commend developer Nigoro for listening to fans, but I can’t deny I have a feeling that La-Mulana 2 was a bit rushed. The general presentation in La-Mulana 2 is better than the first, but there are odd sprite scaling problems that result in ugly tearing while moving across wider rooms. Sometimes I’ll press the jump button before reaching an edge, but my character won’t respond in time and walk straight off. Other times, still, I’ll get stuck in damage loops that then result in me getting kicked to the previous screen and wasting time. Even some room specific triggers won’t set off, requiring you reload your save to make progress. It can be a ridiculously frustrating experience. At the same time, I’ll be exploring some areas and listening to the music and just enter a zen state. The soundtrack is beyond excellent and somehow manages to surpass the original. It often makes me think La-Mulana 2 is the best game ever created. I love how diverse the environments are and how stage gimmicks start to become a bigger focus in the latter half. The various upgrades available to you feel like tangible improvements and do more than Metroid’s various ammo upgrades ever could. It is a masterclass in how to properly upgrade your character while keeping older items relevant. It’s just the difficulty balancing doesn’t feel correct. Clearly, the first boss will be hard because of how unfamiliar you are with the game, but I shouldn’t be steamrolling the fifth one after the fourth gave me nightmares. I shouldn’t enter an area called “Dark Lord’s Mausoleum” and never feel threatened. Everything is fun to explore, but there isn’t a clear sense of progression in how these areas are laid out or which path you should be going in. For that matter, a lot of the solutions to puzzles require an obscene amount of backtracking to deal with. You’ll find a clue in one area that triggers the puzzle in another while requiring you to obtain an item from a third area and it feels like brain surgery. This game is so obtuse, at times, that I just want to scream. It doesn’t help that you can die immediately if you make a wrong move, which then requires you to repeat the process however many times. Still, I haven’t given up on La-Mulana 2. It may drive me nuts and lead me to an early grave, but I’m compelled to keep playing. I want to see that conclusion and may even just speedrun the title after beating it to empower myself. I could even give hard mode a proper shot, though I don’t know if I’m ready to give up seeing my friends and family for a whole month. The game has its hooks in me and I’m eager to discover its secrets, but it certainly is not easy. I just don’t feel comfortable giving it a score under these circumstances. For the people who do gel with the decidedly old-school flavor that La-Mulana is, 2 is going to be an absolute joy for them. For the ones that want a little more guidance or hate “wasting” time due to unforeseen insta-deaths, La-Mulana 2 is going to be an absolute nightmare. Does that mean I give the game a one and a 10 at the same time? Maybe my own opinion will change after the credits roll, but I honestly don’t think so. Rating La-Mulana 2 anything doesn’t do the game justice. There are issues with it and some odds and ends could be tightened up, but even if it pales in comparison to the first (which I don’t personally believe), fans will likely still be talking about this game for years to come. This is an experience that doesn’t come around often in any medium. So if you believe you’re ready to take the plunge on a journey that just might end you, La-Mulana 2 is highly recommended. Just be sure to look out for false tablets…and don’t stand still too often…oh, definitely listen when the game tells you to stop reading. [This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher. No score was given as the game was not completed.] OS: Windows 10 (64bit) Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 3.00GHz or above. Memory: 8 GB RAM. Graphics: DirectX® 12-compatible graphic board with at least 2GB of VRAM

If you made the transition from tracksuits to jeans, it might be time to start considering jersey basics again. Thanks to Danish influencer brand Ganni, loungewear has been upgraded to “software”, which sounds infinitely more appealing than “sweats” or “trackies”. The responsibly-made leisurewear, created from certified recycled materials, marks Ganni’s first foray into lounge fashion. The 11-piece edit of black, grey and white sweatshirts, tees and trousers is made in Greece from certified recycled yarn by EcoLife. The soft material is created from 50 per cent post-consumer recycled polyester, such as plastic bottles, and 50 per cent pre-consumer recycled cotton from end-of-line manufacturing scraps. Recycled fibres finish off the low-impact line, as well as Ganni’s signature lettering.The software collection is a surefire recipe for success owing to its luxe and green-conscious way of treating the tracksuit. But it’s also down to creative director Ditte Reffstrup’s styling of the cosy separates. Instead of trainers, or let’s face it Birkenstock-style sandals and socks, the fashionable Dane teams her sweatpants with loafers on the ecommerce site. Rather than full-look leisurewear, she pairs the hoodies with straight-leg jeans and stomper boots. Expect to see an influx of Ganni girls, including Pernille Teisbaek, Alex Carl and Camille Charrière, putting their spin on the relaxed staples, which retail from £65, as the winter nights draw in. Loungewear season might be upon us, but there’s now a chicer way to recline. Just call it your very own software reboot.

Amazon Prime Day 2020 launches tomorrow, but some of the best Prime Day gaming PC deals are already here and not just from Amazon. Vendors from Dell to Newegg to Best Buy are all celebrating the occasion by offering deep discounts on powerful prebuilt gaming desktops. While you probably won't see any deals on RTX 3080 or RTX 3090-powered gaming PCs (see where to buy RTX 3080), you can expect to see Prime Day gaming PC deals on a variety of systems, ranging from budget rigs that are on par with the best gaming PCs to those that can outperform the best PC builds. That’s why we’re collecting the best Prime Day gaming PC deals below. If you're more interested in building your own PC or upgrading what you have, see our lists of best Prime Day tech deals overall, best Prime Day monitor deals, best Prime Day SSD deals and best Prime Day laptop deals.

MEMPHIS,Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department is looking for the two suspects responsible for breaking and entering a lens rental store. On October 10, around 1:00 a.m., MPD received calls of a burglary in the 7700 block of Trinity Rd in Cordova. Authorities said a large number of camera lenses and other items were stolen from the store. Content Continues Below The suspects drove a dark blue Ford F250 with the license plate tag FW6363, per reports. The tag is a “Don’t tread on me” yellow tag. Police said the truck also has a sticker in the bottom corners of the rear window and a red trailer hitch. That vehicle was also stolen from Fleetwood Rentals, according to police. No arrests have been made at this time as this investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this incident should call Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH. Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from breaking news in your neighborhood.

With tourist destinations gradually opening up post the coronavirus lockdown, Taapsee Pannu did not waste time and headed for her much-awaited vacation to Maldives. The Thappad actor has been giving us a sneak peek into her holiday tour at the picturesque island destination, through Instagram. From relaxing at the beach to snorkelling, the 33-year-old actor seems to be making the most of her vacation. But amid all the fun, she is also making sure to not go overboard but stick to a healthy lifestyle. In one of her vacation photos, Taapsee is seen enjoying a food platter in the middle of a pool but comprising healthy delicacies. She revealed holiday breakfast platter included “eggs, avocados, and mushrooms rich in proteins and good fats”.The Badla actor has been eating these foods as part of what she called a “shredding diet” post lockdown, under the guidance of her nutritionist Munmun Ganeriwal, for her upcoming film Rashmi Rocket. “As the geographies change, we get smart with our special diet for #RashmiRocket keeping it wholesome and fuss-free,” the nutritionist also wrote on Instagram while sharing the picture.

New York (CNN Business)The start of the holiday shopping season has been creeping up for years as America's biggest retailers fight to win customers with early deals in stores and online. This year marks the earliest start to the season yet: Amazon Prime Day, one of the biggest shopping events of the year, usually takes place in the summer. The pandemic prompted Amazon to delay the event until this week, starting on Tuesday. Prime Day, which has taken place since 2015, only makes up around 1-2% of Amazon's annual sales, analysts say. Amazon (AMZN) holds the event each year to build loyalty with Prime subscribers and hook new shoppers to the program. Retail analysts expect this year's Prime Day to give Amazon an extra lift in the fourth quarter. That's because people are more likely to spend more at the end of the year for the holidays than they would in summer months. And while there's risk that consumers may cut back on spending as job losses grow and more time passes without a stimulus deal in Congress, retail analysts say Amazon is well-positioned. Prime members skew higher income, which may make these shoppers less susceptible to job losses and a stimulus bill not being passed, analysts say. Prime shoppers may be spending less on travel and other leisure activities than they did before the pandemic. This means they'll have more to spend on electronics, kitchenware and other items from Amazon. "If anything, many people are flush with cash and it could drive higher sales this year," said Brian Yarbrough, analyst at Edward Jones. Plus, the pandemic has given a boost to ecommerce spending as more people shop online from home. Amazon is benefiting from the trend. Telsey Advisory Group forecasts Prime Day sales of up to $11 billion for Amazon, a 40% increase from last year's event, which was held in July. The spike in online shopping as consumers order from home and increased participation from small businesses is expected to help drive higher sales, the firm said. "Prime Day does have additional importance to Amazon this year," said Andrew Lipsman, analyst at market research firm eMarketer. "It also likely signs up new Prime members at the exact right time and puts Amazon in an even better position to gain market share in November and December." Spreading the holiday shopping season out over a longer period may also help Amazon avoid a crush of orders later on in the season that overwhelms its logistics network and leads to shipping delays. "I think Prime Day this year may allow Amazon to better manage what will likely be very robust online retail demand this holiday season," said Mark Mahaney, analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Online retail sales are expected to grow 18.5% this holiday, the highest growth since 2008, research firm Forrester predicted in a report last month. But retailers "will feel significant pressure on their margins" this holiday season because "e-commerce logistics costs increase retailers' costs," Forrester said. Amazon also faces rising costs, but Amazon is in better position than most retailers to manage them because the company has its own delivery network and is less reliant on outside shipping carriers, said Yarbrough.

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And this means that while users are offered the update to the new Android Auto version, they don’t know exactly why they should install it. However, as it turns out, there’s actually a good reason why you’d want to move to Android Auto 5.7 as soon as possible. The new release fixes a months-old bug in Android Auto breaking down notifications on Google Pixel phones (although the problem also existed on non-Pixel devices, Google’s models have been more widely impacted by the notifications no longer showing up on the head unit). Now I’m seeing reports from more and more users claim that text notifications are back after installing Android Auto 5.7, though some say that opting out of the Messages beta also helps in order to restore the expected behavior in their cars. However, it’s pretty clear that this latest Android Auto update does bring more improvements for the way notifications are shown in the car, and everything is back to normal now. Needless to say, a glitch that broke down notifications and prevented them from showing up on the screen wasn’t really the best news for an application that was supposed to be used while driving. Some of those who were struggling with the issue were often tempted to check out their phones for notifications, and it’s pretty clear this clearly isn’t the best thing to do when the car is in motion. Android Auto 5.7 is now available on the Google Play Store, but as usual, it takes a few days until the update is offered to all Android devices, though the rollout should be at 100% now. If you don’t want to wait, you can always download and install Android Auto manually on your smartphone, and the stand-alone APK installer that allows you to do this is available on this link.

To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. PETER SINGER ON THE LOCKDOWN Preservation of life, not lifestyle, is my concern While I have enormous respect for Peter Singer, I take issue with a number of his comments (‘‘The saving and damaging of lives’’, Comment, 9/10). He acknowledges lockdowns reduce infection rates and save lives. However, he then goes on to suggest that, perhaps, lockdowns cause more harm than good, quoting various sources referring to delayed cancer screening and treatment, age-related life value, and the impact on employment and quality of life. Advertisement While these phenomena may result from lockdowns, the degree and severity is based on speculative modelling not necessarily on hard facts. The known, incontrovertible facts are that COVID-19 is highly infectious and deadly and can also cause severe long-term disability. Furthermore, although lockdowns may cause undesirable difficulties, I believe they will be temporary pending the availability of a safe, effective vaccine. The world will eventually recover, as it has done from previous disasters. As a medical practitioner, my main concern is health and the preservation of life, not lifestyle. Lockdowns, however unpleasant and unwanted, preserve lives. Leslie Chester, Brighton There are many positives to take into account Peter Singer proposes expanding the matters considered in assessing the value of pandemic-related lockdowns. This should include the indirect health benefits of the lockdown. Singer notes the reduction in flu-related premature deaths. Minor coughs and colds have also become far less prevalent. These can be a death sentence for those with pre-existing non-infectious respiratory illness. Reduced air pollution from decreased traffic must also have benefited these vulnerable people, including asthmatics and those with COPD. The lockdown should also have reduced non-respiratory infectious disease and road trauma. But the largest health impact might result from the demonstration that working from home and remote learning, and decreasing non-essential travel including commuting, can sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If we remember this lesson after the pandemic, we could slow global warming and its potential deleterious health consequences across the globe. Neville Nicholls, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University An interesting, but incomplete, analysis Peter Singer’s clear, dispassionate analysis of the choices between lockdown and greater spread of COVID-19 left me with the impression that, of two very harsh choices, lockdowns are less bad. However, it was almost as if a final few paragraphs went missing, his analysis petered out at the end, so I may be mistaken, but I wish that rigour and balance had carried through to the end of the piece. Given there are costs – and some collateral benefits – to lockdowns and we must compare those costs with what is likely to happen if infections surge, as they have both here and all over the world, surely Singer can give us an opinion as to the scale of the trade off? Andrew Cornell, Parkville This is not a hypothetical parlour game You have displayed a concerning fascination lately with treating the lockdowns as a simplistic trolley problem, most recently with a piece by Peter Singer, who says no analysis of whether lockdowns were the ‘‘right path’’ is complete without taking into account flow-on effects of unemployment, reduced standards of living, impacts on education, etc. This is by now a familiar take, but treating COVID responses as a hypothetical parlour game in which some lives are traded off against others reveals not moral wisdom but rather a poverty of imagination. These musings ignore the question of why structural and systemic forces mean that the trade-off must be considered at all. In a year when millions of jobs were saved by subsidising small businesses with JobKeeper, the JobSeeker rate was raised above the poverty line, funding to mental health and domestic violence services was enormously boosted, and Melbourne’s homeless po[CENSORED]tion was housed, the more relevant moral question you should be posing to ethicists is why any of these things were considered impossible in the past. Mitchell Edgeworth, St Kilda THE FORUM Will you cover them? A number of small business owners, businesses unidentified, bought a full-page ad in The Sunday Age (11/10) under the headline ‘‘Victoria Let’s Be Open!’’ seeking support to break Victoria’s COVID-19 lockdown. I have some questions for this group. Are your employees full-time or casual? If as a result of their work for you they need to have a COVID-19 test and self-isolate until a test result is received, will you pay them sick leave? Will they have their job after isolating? If they actually get COVID-19 will they be paid sick leave until they recover? Will they have their job when they recover? Perhaps, supporting other small businesses, they went to the pub, the gym, the hairdresser, etc, and were exposed. What support will you give them then? You are calling for change, so what is your alternative plan of action for supporting your workers and the community to maintain a COVID-safe environment going forward? Lockdowns of business, internal and international borders are not a viable medium or long-term solution. Missing from governments and businesses at all levels is how, in the absence of a vaccine, we manage COVID risks and outbreaks going forward – to the benefit of everyone, including workers. Wendy Tanner, Footscray My tolerance is waning I am, as I suspect the majority of the po[CENSORED]tion is, frustrated with and losing tolerance for the minority of Victorians flouting and protesting the current pandemic restrictions. The full-page advertisement (11/10) placed by less than 100 businesses, out of more than 600,000 Victorian small businesses, disputing the current restrictions, is divisive and unhelpful. While questioning the rationale behind the health-based and recommended restrictions, they offer no alternative plan as to how Victoria could be opened up without prolonging this COVID wave or avoiding a third one. I sympathise with these businesses for their continued losses. However, the advertisement would have better served all of us if it had urged all Victorians to adhere to the restrictions in order to allow for a permanent, as opposed to a transient, opening up. Edward Combes, Wheelers Hill The buck stops here Folks, if you really want to know who is responsible for the ‘‘quarantine debacle’’ and our lockdown restrictions, look no further than the individuals who cannot be trusted to do as they are asked. Those who break or refuse to quarantine. Those who won’t wear masks and/or safe distance. If certain sections of the media and the opposition spent more time focusing on these people and stopped carping and scapegoating then maybe we could all enjoy more freedoms sooner. Marion Pritchard, Ringwood North We must see the rationale Daniel Andrews and Brett Sutton need to provide the rationale for the restrictions being applied. Why recreation in the form of tennis and golf, both of which are naturally self-distancing activities, is banned would be a good place to start. How has the five-kilometre rule altered the rate of infection, when a cleaner from Frankston can be the source for a serious outbreak in Chadstone and Kilmore that is now numbering close to 30 people? People’s fear of losing their job or income is likely to be the driver of infections, how is this being addressed? Fear or stupidity will always be with us, so how can locking down the majority, who do the right thing, solve that problem? Peter Adam, Canterbury It’s not a political issue The thing that politicians like Michael O’Brien and Tim Smith seem not to realise about the coronavirus pandemic is that for many Victorians it is not a political issue, but a very personal public health one. The fact that our recovery is being led by a politician is just a matter of fact and timing, not our choice. O’Brien’s and Smith’s attempts to advance their careers by undermining the Premier’s recovery plan threaten not only public health, but quite probably their political aspirations too. Chris Wilson, Poowong They did it properly There are many instances where people follow rules and their own common sense with very good results, an example being the nursing home where my husband lives, which is run by a not-for-profit organisation. When things started to look grim in March, the home put into place its own plan to deal with the virus and for the care of the residents and the staff. This included immediate lockdown, no staff to work in other locations and good infection control. At the same time they kept in touch with relatives, encouraging Skype and phone calls for residents. Regular bulletins and newsletters were also provided to relatives. I have just been allowed to visit again under strict conditions and the home is humming along as usual. I cannot speak highly enough, and with gratitude, of the excellent staff and management of the home. Kerry Seipolt, Richmond Snail mail I kept reading stories in the letters pages of The Age’s about how long postal delivery times were, and decided to do an experiment, to see how long (what you might expect would be) the fastest type of delivery would take. On 19/9 I posted a letter to myself in a letterbox on a main road, a five-minute walk from my house. It arrived on 9/10, 20 days later. Richard Fisher, Armadale Meaningless regulations Stephen Duckett’s ‘‘A new approach to aged care is needed’’ was spot on (Comment, 10/10). We have had enough of weasel words and directions, by federal Liberal and Labor governments, that do little to make aged care organisations, which already receive large amounts of tax-funded subsidies, accountable. Regulations such as sti[CENSORED]ting they should have ‘‘adequate’’ numbers of skilled staff, without these being specifically stated and mandated are meaningless. Now instead of being forced to provide extra care, using their profits, many appear to be crying poor and holding out their hands for even more money. The system of aged care run for profit must be challenged and changed. Rita Thorpe, Coburg Change the format I watch the first part of Daniel Andrews’ daily press conferences and am increasingly aware of the tired nature of our Premier. No one can function effectively without a proper rest, he needs to refresh himself and restore his vitality. The tedious nature of repetitive questions and constant attempts to get morsels of information on easing the restrictions get the same response every day. It’s time for a new format and a better and more mature way of keeping us informed and giving us a sense of hope. We have no alternative but to live with the virus and we cannot continue in a severe lockdown ad nauseam; there are too many adverse side effects. Graham Reynolds, Soldiers Hill What about the fathers? The article ‘‘Mothers weigh up Labor’s childcare promise’’ (The Age, 10/10) casually perpetuates the stereotype that it’s only mothers who have to sacrifice their career for their children. I got my magnifying glass out and scoured the report for any mention of fathers. No dads to see here, sorry. If your newspaper delivered to other planets, aliens would get the idea that adult male humans do not participate in the raising of their offspring. Grant Morgan, Hurstbridge The real ‘stubborn tail’ Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says people delaying testing after the onset of symptoms is behind failure to reach the COVID-19 target level of under five a day on a 14-day average, senior doctors responding to Victoria’s deadly nursing home clusters warn there is no clear plan to counter another wave of coronavirus in aged care and Premier Daniel Andrews announces authorities are still battling the ‘‘stubborn tail’’ of Victoria’s second coronavirus wave, with current COVID-19 case numbers risking a third wave if the city and its economy open up. (‘‘‘No plan’ to counter next wave in aged care,’’ 11/10). There’s a ‘‘stubborn tail’’ all right. It’s those who inexplicably, blatantly, and often antagonistically, seem to think that they have a special exemption from wearing a face mask at all, let alone as mandated – fitted, and covering nose, mouth and chin. Unsurprisingly physical distancing is also eschewed by this lot. This is the ‘‘stubborn [recalcitrant] tail’’ that we can thank for cluster outbreaks and consequent delays in lifting lockdown and – heaven forbid – should there be a third wave. Susan Caughey, Glen Iris Lockup Land says thanks Sitting here in Lockup Land growing ever more miserable as those pesky infection numbers refuse to plunge, I have reason to thank The Age for keeping me sane. Specific thanks go to Tony Wright, whose humanity shines through his always beautifully crafted articles, and to Danny Katz, who never fails to make me laugh out loud. Wendy Williamson, Badger Creek A rare opportunity Casino inquiries in both Victoria and NSW present both state governments with a rare and valuable opportunity to close these parasitic operations. Casinos impoverish both gamblers and other useful businesses. They provide no net increase in employment or any useful outcome for the money that is spent there. The post COVID-19 recovery requires more than ever for people to spend money where it will do the most good. Close the casinos, limit opening hours of pokies venues and enforce the self-exclusion system. Mark Freeman, Macleod Test everyone at risk People who have been to a high-risk site are told to get tested if they develop symptoms. But many people who have been infected are asymptomatic, so everyone who has been to a high-risk site should get tested. Simple logic. Daren Fawkes, Forest Hill AND ANOTHER THING Treat them as positive Those people who present with COVID-like symptoms but refuse to be tested should be treated as positive, directed to isolate and slapped with a fine if they don’t comply. David Marshall, Brunswick West Politics When the going gets tough, Mathias Cormann, the tough get going. Rod Eldridge, Derrinallum From the visionary Dick Hamer to the sniping Tim Smith – the demise of the Liberal Party is heartbreaking. Belinda Burke, Hawthorn When the Coalition is asked about the most vulnerable in society it immediately thinks of its members in marginal seats. Gary Sayer, Warrnambool The US situation has been described as political theatre, but to which genre does it belong: farce, tragedy or Pythonesque comedy? Jon Smith, Leongatha Australia is not aligned with the United States to protect itself from China. Australia is aligned with the US to protect itself from the US. Norman Broomhall, Port Macquarie The footy A gentle warning to the Richmond coach: those who “live on the edge” eventually crash down the cliff. Brian Morley, Donvale Last time I was at an Essendon game, I yelled out “go, Daniher”, “go, Saad”, “go, Fantasia”. I think they took it the wrong way: I didn’t mean “leave”. Peter Heffernan, Balaclava For the record The first Australian Grammy winner was not Helen Reddy in 1973, it was Joan Sutherland in 1961 (Superquiz, 8/10). David Brash, Caulfield North Finally This 84-year-old objects strenuously to the ill-informed ageist critics who refer to young Joe Biden as being ‘‘old’’ at 77. Ronald Burnstein, Heidelberg

Global Affairs said Canadaian Ambassador to China Dominic Barton was granted virtual consular access to Michael Spavor, left, on Friday and virtual consular access to Michael Kovrig on Saturday. (The Associated Press/International Crisis Group/The Canadian Press) The Canadian government said Saturday that China granted consular access to two detained Canadians in China for the first time since January. Global Affairs said Dominic Barton, Canada's Ambassador to China, was granted virtual consular access to Michael Spavor on Friday and virtual consular access to Michael Kovrig on Saturday. "The Canadian government remains deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities of these two Canadians since December 2018 and continues to call for their immediate release," the government said in a statement. Canada continues to press Beijing to release Kovrig and Spavor, both detained since December 2018 following Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese Huawei official and the daughter of the company's founder. Canadian police detained Meng in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request nine days before Kovrig and Spavor were arrested. The U.S. is seeking Meng's extradition on fraud charges and her extradition case is before the Canadian courts. Her arrest severely damaged relations between China and Canada. Meng Wanzhou loses bid for access to confidential documents in extradition case Neither Kovrig, a former diplomat, nor Spavor, an entrepreneur, were permitted visits from consular officials amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about the two Canadians in a phone call on Saturday and thanked the president for the ongoing support of the U.S. in seeking their release.

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According to newspaper El Universal, officials from the municipality of San Jose Chiapa, where the Audi plant lies, shut the facility after several hours of failed talks. MEXICO CITY - Mexican municipal officials on Friday evening closed German carmaker Audi's plant in the central state of Puebla due to a dispute over unpaid bills, local media reported. A state official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the report on the assembly plant, which opened in 2016. According to newspaper El Universal, officials from the municipality of San Jose Chiapa, where the Audi plant lies, shut the facility after several hours of failed talks. The newspaper said municipal authorities are seeking some 90 million pesos ($4.26 million) from Audi for outstanding debts on items including local property tax and water bills. Audi is the luxury car unit of Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen. Representatives of Volkswagen Mexico did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The mayor's office of San Jose Chiapa could not immediately be reached for comment. ($1 = 21.1370 Mexican pesos)

It is no rocket science that we Indians are big on celebrating our holy festivals, the sentiments during these cheerful times are at its peak for literally anyone and everyone. Despite which income group one belongs to, we all like to go all out to make it a celebration to remember. Although the festive season is when all fashion and lifestyle brands across the country make most of their annual sales, it is not going to be same this year. Taking in consideration the scare caused by covid’19, social distancing & limited mobility plus the losses all business entities have incurred in 3 months of nation wide lockdown the spending capacity has decreased drastically ultimately leading the customers to resisting their urge to shop. Nevertheless all businesses & brands both big and small are on the road to recovery from the pandemic impact and a growth in the sales is definitely on the cards as the consumer sentiment is slowly but surely rising, with that being said the anxiety while stepping out of the house remains intact as the corona positive cases in India are rising each day which gives an upper hand to the brands with an e-commerce presence in this uncertain scenario. The accessibility of the digital shopping mediums along with the increased screen time on social media most brands are leveraging their e-commerce presence with a robust emphasis on relevant content on their social media handles while also focusing on influencer collaborations and enabling to customers to finally indulge in some ‘feel good shopping spree’ by prompting them with heavy trans-seasonal and festive discounts via whatsapp, email and sms. Although e-commerce may still have to face some challenges in terms on supply chain disruptions & partial lockdown. But as for the demand, that’s on soar considering the last quarter of the year is usually the most joyful time of the year. Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article above are those of the authors' and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of this publishing house. Unless otherwise noted, the author is writing in his/her personal capacity. They are not intended and should not be thought to represent official ideas, attitudes, or policies of any agency or institution.

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the debate over journalists’ use of anonymous sources, and this has included criticism directly from President Donald Trump. Survey data from earlier this year shows that most Americans see a place for journalists to use anonymous sources, but few think journalists should have carte blanche to use them when reporting the news. A majority of U.S. adults (82%) say that there are times when it is acceptable for journalists to use anonymous sources, with 67% saying it is acceptable only in special cases – a view which echoes the standards of professional journalism organizations that say journalists should take every step to attribute information to a named source when possible before relying on an anonymous source. A much smaller share – 15% – thinks use of anonymous sources is always acceptable. About two-in-ten Americans (18%) think it is never acceptable. These findings come from a Pew Research Center survey conducted Feb. 18 to March 2, 2020, around the time that there was continued interest and debate about the anonymous author who penned a 2018 New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book in 2019 that criticized Trump and who claimed to be an administration official. The public’s approval of anonymous sourcing, then, depends heavily on why these sources are being used. But news organizations may not be making this entirely clear. Fewer than half of Americans (42%) say that news outlets do very or somewhat well in telling their audiences how they choose or find sources, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. Democrats are somewhat more likely than Republicans to express support for journalists’ use of anonymous sources, though majorities of both parties think they are acceptable, at least in moderation. Roughly nine-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (92%) say that it is acceptable for journalists to use anonymous sources, as do about seven-in-ten Republicans and Republican leaners (71%). But like Americans overall, most in each party say anonymous sources should be used only in special cases. While fewer in each party say it is always acceptable to rely on anonymous sources, Democrats are about three times as likely as Republicans to say this (22% vs. 8%). The relationship is nearly the inverse for the feeling that anonymous sources should be forbidden. Nearly three-in-ten Republicans (29%) think that it is never acceptable to use anonymous sources – 21 percentage points higher than Democrats who say the same (8%). This divide between the two parties comes as gaps have also emerged in their views of the ethical standards of journalists. A Pew Research Center study from May found that only about one-in-five Republicans (19%) say journalists have either high or very high ethical standards, far lower than the 64% of Democrats who say the same. While most Americans express some support for the use of anonymous sources, a sizable portion of the public also says that journalists’ use of anonymous sources influences whether they trust a news story. This sense is particularly strong among those who think anonymous sources should be forbidden in all cases. Nearly seven-in-ten Americans (68%) say that an anonymous source in a story has at least some influence on whether they find that story credible (21% say a great deal of influence and 47% say some influence). About three-in-ten (31%) say it has not too much influence or no influence at all. And while majorities of both Democrats and Republicans say anonymous sources have at least some influence in deciding whether to trust a story, Republicans are much more likely to say it has a great deal of influence: 31% vs. 13%. Those who say it is never acceptable to use an anonymous source are roughly three times as likely to say it has a great deal of influence on whether they think a story is credible (49% vs. 15% of those who say it is acceptable in special cases and 14% of those who say always acceptable). Still, majorities of all three groups say that an anonymous source has at least some influence on their trust in a story. For a look at this data among a range of demographic groups, see our interactive tool. Note: Here are the questions and responses used for this analysis, along with respo

Ghost of a Tale (PC [reviewed], Xbox One, PS4) Developer: SeithCG Publisher: SeithCG Released: March 13, 2018 (PC), TBA (Xbox One, PS4) MSRP: $24.99 Ghost of a Tale has a fantastic aesthetic. It was the gothic imagery akin to games like Thief that first drew me in. The medieval adventure follows Tilo, a mousey minstrel on a quest to escape the clutches of a rat empire and rescue his wife Merra. Tilo uses stealth and disguises to dodge the guards in this prison as he searches for clues as to Merra's whereabouts. It's all good fun, but some of the mechanics are poorly explained and honestly a bit frustrating. Ghost of a Tale is set in a medieval fantasy world inhabited by several different species of anthropomorphic animals. Mice, rats, frogs, badgers, and magpies among them. After being the heroes of an event known as The War of the Green Flame, the rats are the big cheese around here, and thus, mice like the player character, Tilo, are second-class citizens. The game opens with Tilo awaking in a jail cell. He's been mysteriously set free by someone called S and must find out where his wife has been taken and how he can escape this island outpost. The halls of this Redpaw garrison are swarming with unfriendly rat guards and Tilo, while brave, is far from powerful, so you'll have to rely on sneaking around. You can tiptoe past sleeping or non-observant enemies, but an awareness meter above their head will let you know when things are getting risky. If spotted, you'll have to make use of your limited sprint to scamper off and hide in a barrel or a cupboard; if the rats have line of sight on you, you'll be unable to hide. Once you've hidden yourself the guards will give up shortly because as in most stealth games, searching a barrel is above their pay grade. Most of the quests in Ghost of a Tale involve fetching items for NPCs at different points of the map, or putting together new costumes that will make these characters tell you what you need to know. For example, dressing like a rat guard will have the other guards simply letting you move about as you please. Some of them may be even willing to divulge information like the whereabouts of other items or prisoners. The problem with these quests is the game doesn't do a great job of setting a baseline for you. Early quests are about as simple as "get the footlocker key," but telling me to grab a specific key that could be on the belt of any guard in any of the game's areas doesn't exactly give much to go off of. A lot of this leads to you just hoarding what you can and turning in quests as you happen to complete them. On more than one occasion I picked up a new quest only to find that I'd gathered all of the necessary items hours ago. Likewise, I found myself backtracking to far corners of the world to recover one specific item late in the game which, with Tilo's limited sprint, can feel like a chore. On a brighter note, the island setting of Ghost of a Tale is beautifully rendered. The day-night cycles allowed me to watch more than one beautiful sunset from the lake shore and tower keep, and when the sun goes down it gets damn hard to see your hand in front of your face. Despite the flaws, I really did enjoy my time with Ghost of a Tale. Whenever the gameplay started to feel a bit too tedious the amazing writing would pull me back in. Every character you can interact with from the garrison commander to the pirate frog prisoner has something interesting to say and will react differently depending on your garb. While the guards in the commissary will be alarmed when a pirate walks in, most of them will be happy to see a fellow guard. Hell, by the end of the game, they would all greet me by name when I wore my Redpaw armor. Ghost of a Tale is a gorgeous, fun adventure that can occasionally be bogged down by frustrating and repetitive mechanics and it's come a long way since entering Early Access in 2016. It doesn't quite fill the stealth game hole that Thief left me with, but I hope we haven't seen the last of Tilo. CPU: Intel i5 - 2.5Ghz. RAM: 3 GB. OS: Windows 7 32bit. VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270. FREE DISK SPACE: 5 GB. DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2 GB.

Systems down and data allegedly taken. Enterprise IT vendor Software AG suffered a malware attack this month that has forced the company to shut down some of its internal systems. Service provision to customers, including with Software AG's cloud offerings, are not affected, but the company's helpdesk and internal communications are down. The company is currently asking customers needing support to email Software AG with problem descriptions and a call-back number. It also posted a disclosure notice saying that due to the malware attack, Software AG is in the process of restoring systems and data "in order to resume orderly operation". While Software AG said it is not aware of any customer information being accessed in the malware attack, security researchers MalwareHunterTeam posted on social media that the Clop ransomware criminals took approximately a terabyte of data from the German tech company. MalwareHunterTeam also posted an alleged ransom note to Software AG from Clop that claimed "a lot of sensitive data has been downloaded from your network". The Clop criminals are allegedly demanding over US$20 million from Software AG. Clop has been active since 2019, targeting enterprises in Europe, the United States, Turkey, Mexico and Russia. Darmstadt, Germany based Software AG began operations over 40 years ago, and now claims to have over 10,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries.

A tech publication on Facebook (ITCooker via Videocardz) has leaked the first testing of an Intel PCIe 4.0 bus. The platform being tested is the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake which is scheduled for release in 2021. PCIe 4.0 SSDs are going to provide a significant uplift in storage performance and will likely be necessary for games that feature asset streaming. The benchmark itself was done using Seagate's FireCuda PCIE 4.0 drive and an 11th gen CPU coupled with a Z490 motherboard. Intel Rocket Lake S gets tested with a PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD drive and an RX 5700 XT The leak appears to stem from Taiwan and they claimed they had access to a "next-generation" CPU which they tested on a Z490 motherboard. Considering the only next-generation CPU that will work with a Z490 is Rocket Lake, its not really hard to guess what they used. The screenshots provided show that CPUZ is not able to properly read the samples which means they were likely using early Engineering Samples. Since Rocket Lake S fits just fine on the LGA 1200 socket, customers with Z490 motherboards will have a clear upgrade path when the SKUs land in 2021. The CrystalDiskMark shown had a ready speed of 5GB/s and a write speed of 4.2 GB/s (sequential) which is only possible on a PCIe 4.0 bus. This also means that you are going to see storage devices that greatly exceed this (for cheap) very soon and just in time for the next-gen console launch. Coupled with tech like RTX IO, blazing fast SSDs are going to be a major upgrade point for consumers. The RX 5700 XT GPU was stress tested with Furmark and GPUz shoed PCIe 4.0 active in x16 mode as well. architecture (Willow Cove), PCIe 4.0 support and Xe graphics. Think of it as a backport of the advanced architecture reserved for 10nm to 14nm so the company can maximally utilize its foundry capacity. Since it is based on the 14nm process, a leaked benchmark (Geekbench via _rogame) indicates that it will be able to boost up to 5.0 GHz (which is typical for the highly mature process right now) allowing for a best of both worlds situation where a new architecture is able to hit the ground running (speaking from a clock speed perspective) because of the highly mature node. Backporting is a usually a double-edged sword because if 10nm isn't able to sufficiently compete in terms of power efficiency gains, the loss in clock speed from shifting to the infant 10nm process (when it happens) could result in reduced performance from the bar that Rocket Lake is going to set when it launches. In the meantime, however, this is great news for enthusiasts because RKL is going to be the first major new architecture in a very long time. Early benchmarks of the platform were spotted over at Geekbench and they are expected to come to market sometime in late 2020 or possibly by early 2021. A 5.0 GHz boost clock combined with a major new architecture should offer the best possible combination for a performance upgrade for Intel customers (although at the cost of similar TDP) in a very long time and I am personally really excited to see how this performs. Backporting could also turn out to be Intel's saving grace as it misstepped on 10nm and now again on 7nm. Rocket Lake-S will be housed on 500-series motherboards and will have features that are characteristic of a major architectural change. Willow Cove itself is going to result in massive IPC uplifts and considering this is based on the 14nm process - it will be able to sustain the high clock speeds that were the saving grace of Intel's current generation of processors. The result is a platform that is significantly faster (think Nehalem to Sandy Bridge) than the generation it succeeds and could even put the hurt to its upcoming 10nm family if the clock rates don't improve enough. It features 12bit AV1, HEVC and E2E compression along with the new Xe graphics architecture - which should make pretty much all of these processors ship with entry-level gaming capability. New overclocking capabilities will also be included (Intel will want to boast its clocks if this is going to be the last generation on 14nm). PCIe 4.0 is also finally included along with increased DDR4 support natively. 20 total CPU PCIe 4.0 lanes are included with Intel Rocket Lake S although the chipset on the motherboard should add quite a few more. It is not confirmed at this point where the PCH PCIe lanes will be PCIe 4.0 as well. Discrete Intel Thunderbolt 4 (USB4 compliant) is also included - which should also significant IO speedup (think faster-attached storage as well as external dGPU enclosures). All in all, this is shaping up to be a solid upgrade over Intel's existing lineup. The only thing that might raise some eyebrows is the fact that Intel SGX security appears to have been removed. I am sure Intel must have had a very good reason to do this but in the wake of the tons of security vulnerabilities, the company has fallen prey to, all eyes of security enthusiasts and corporate clients will be on features like these.

Longtime automotive writer and photographer John Lamm passed away this week at the age of 76. His considerable legacy and talent live on in the words he penned, the pictures he took, and the people he influenced over the course of his lengthy and deeply impactful career, during which he worked for all four major American car magazines. One of the truly nice guys in his—or any—industry, John was incredibly generous with his time and knowledge, and his passing has left a huge void in the hearts of his friends and colleagues. Here, we've collected tributes and remembrances from just a few such personalities from all over the automotive world. Rest in peace, John. Jim Farley, President And Chief Executive Officer Of Ford Motor Company I met John at my first media drive for the 1992 Toyota Camry. I was the know-nothing product planner for this product. We hit it off as we were both Phil Hill fans—I was a custodian for Phil Hill at his restoration shop to help pay for my school. He told me he had a Lancia Aurelia, not just any, but a Series 4. We talked about the car over the next 20 years. In 2010, I bought the car from him, restored it over several years with his help and the original owner, another journalist, Larry Crane. John had driven the car on the California Mille, Larry had raced it at the first Monterey Historics in the 1970s. It took me eight very long and expensive years. I had just restored it as a driver, but on a lark, applied to Pebble and was accepted. As a surprise, I asked John to take the car (along with Ken Gross and their respective wives) to drive the car on the Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance and drive the car with me onto the lawn. I was an honorary judge as well, so my family stood by the car for the judging. We won a class award. Larry, John, and I (the only three owners) were there together. There were some tears and lots of toasts for this car that brought us all together. I loved John Lamm. He was such a rock star and fueled my love of cars. I would not be the CEO of Ford without John Lamm and will work every day to honor him. Ken Gross, Award-Winning Automotive Journalist And Historian Stated simply, John Lamm was the hardest working guy I ever knew in this business. He never made excuses for the weather, the lack of light, or the paucity of backgrounds. He always found a way to make things work. John was quick and efficient, and he was always upbeat and generous with his time and advice. He'd see the image in his mind, before gathering up his cameras—usually, one slung over each shoulder—and settling down to work. Whether it was a salon portrait of a storied classic, an action shot of a fast-moving race car, the perfect image of a famed driver, or a minute detail on an engine, John could capture it perfectly. He might spend half an hour setting up a shot, but if after one quick look through the lens, he knew he wasn't going to achieve the image he wanted, he'd move on. John wrote clearly and simply about what he saw and experienced, as though he were standing alongside you, explaining patiently (and never pedantically) exactly what was going on. When digital cameras arrived, John quickly and seamlessly made the transition from film to computers. He taught himself videography and he was (naturally!) great at it. He had a keen eye for detail, and he didn't miss a nuance. John never quit until he was satisfied with his work, and that meant for some late hours. But I never heard him complain. We could be traveling almost anywhere in Europe, and long before electronic navigation, John would remember the location of a special restaurant he hadn't seen in years—or a historic building that was perfect as a background—and he could drive right to it. He had an unerring sense of direction and a keen eye for a location. Year after year, the Monterey weekend was John's favorite assignment. He'd trudge all over Laguna Seca, uphill and down (he knew all the right spots), and even in his 70s, he'd be seemingly everywhere on the lawn at Pebble Beach, tirelessly capturing images, until the pyrotechnics went off for Best of Show. John never stopped, until Sunday night—when he'd finally have one of his classic gin and tonics and reminisce about all he'd seen.