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A much-anticipated feature was added to version 5.5 of WordPress. The po[CENSORED]r CMS gained the ability to turn on auto-updates for plugins and themes. However, the new feature comes with risks. Plugins are an essential part of WordPress because they help extend the core functionality of the content management system. Plugins can be tricky, though. Too many plugins can adversely affect the performance of WordPress, and poorly written and maintained plugins can take down the site entirely. It’s best practice not to add too many plugins and also to keep them up-to-date. If webmasters don’t frequently check and update their plugins and themes, they could be exposing their site to exploits and bugs that have already been fixed in newer versions. To solve the maintenance problem, WordPress added the ability to auto-update plugins and themes in WordPress 5.5. Sites that have version 5.5 or later can now go to the Plugins page and turn on auto-updates for individual plugins. They can also go to the Themes page and turn on auto-updates for individual themes. WordPress auto-update caveats Experienced WordPress admins know what it’s like to update a plugin or theme and then break the site. That is always a risk when updating plugins and themes, but if you’re manually doing it, you are immediately aware and can fix it if you can quickly restore the site from a backup. The problem with auto-updating plugins and themes is that they might break the site, but you may not know about it until hours or perhaps days later. If that’s not a risk you’re willing to take, you should probably avoid enabling auto-updates. If you’re feeling a little risky, consider only enabling it for plugins and themes that you know are well-maintained and haven’t had problems with before. Even better, only enable it for plugins that don’t directly affect what gets rendered on pages. The only safe way to auto-update WordPress plugins that I’ve found is with WP Engine’s Smart Plugin Manager. The Smart Plugin Manager creates a backup of the site and automatically updates plugins on a test version of the site. It then runs a series of tests, including taking before and after screenshots of pages and comparing them for differences. If one of the tests fails or the screenshots detect a significant difference, it will abort the update. However, if everything checks out, it will update the live site with the latest plugins.

Tom Skerritt wants to help storytellers from the Pacific Northwest share their work with the world. The “Top Gun” star and Emmy Award-winning actor recently launched a new digital media startup called Triple Squirrels, which this month revealed the EVRGRN Channel, a new free streaming channel airing on STIRR. Skerritt told GeekWire he realized how difficult it is for independent filmmakers to find distribution after spending the past three decades teaching and mentoring creators. So he launched his own platform to help them find audiences and share their work. “The EVRGRN Channel is my tribute to the Pacific Northwest region’s creative community, as well as a statement about the cultural impact the region has had and continues to have on the arts,” he said. “The EVRGRN Channel, as a result, reflects the authentic PNW persona: resilient, independent, artistic, and adventurous.” Some of the initial content includes Leslie and Dale Chihuly’s documentary, “Chihuly Outside,” and selections from the Seattle International Film Festival. STIRR is a Sinclair-owned streaming service that launched last year and offers free ad-supported live and on-demand content. “We chose STIRR as the initial streaming platform as it offered us two ways to deliver EVRGRN content to interested and relevant audiences nationwide — as a linear streaming channel and on demand,” said Leslie Grandy, CEO of Triple Squirrels. “STIRR also provides local, live news programming, which pairs well with our regionally curated catalog.” Grandy is a Seattle tech industry veteran, having worked in leadership roles for RealNetworks, Apple, T-Mobile, Discovery, and Best Buy. Triple Squirrels plans to launch EVRGRN on other streaming platforms later this year. It makes money with revenue from ads and sponsorships. The company has two employees and raised cash from a private investor in Los Angeles. Skerritt previously founded and led another Seattle-based digital media company called Heyou Media, but shut the firm down at the end of 2019. Skerritt has appeared in dozens of films and series, including “Alien” and “Steel Magnolias.” He studied English at Wayne State University and UCLA. Skerritt has lived in the Northwest since the 1980s. More people are streaming media due to the pandemic and social distancing mandates. A recent study from Deloitte found demand increasing for cheaper, ad-supported streaming video options such as STIRR, Variety reported.

Opposition leaders jailed or driven out of country amid crackdown on protests over election results Authorities in Belarus say they have arrested more than 6,000 people during three nights of violently suppressed demonstrations against vote-rigging in Sunday’s disputed presidential election, as more footage and accounts emerged of police beating and violently detaining protesters. Opposition leaders have been jailed and driven out of the country in a massive crackdown following the election, which the election commission said was won in a landslide by President Alexander Lukashenko. Among those to have fled is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main opposition candidate, who left for Lithuania after an apparent threat to her children. At a detention centre on the outskirts of the capital, Minsk, desperate families have gathered each morning begging police for information on relatives who have gone missing at the protests. In a rally in central Minsk on Wednesday, hundreds of women wearing white and holding flowers formed a human chain to protest against police brutality and mass arrests. The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre group critical of the government, reported that two of its members had been arrested and said they were being held in desperate conditions. “Our managing directors #SvetlanaSugako and #NadezhdaBrodskaya were jailed for 10 and 13 days respectively. During their court hearings we were told that a single cell (~3x4m) now contains 36 people in female bloc and 50 in male,” the group tweeted. Dozens of journalists from Russia have been arrested, many from Russian news agencies, and news crews have been attacked by police and had their cameras broken. The Belarusian interior ministry tallied 3,000 detentions after rallies on Monday night, 2,000 on Tuesday, and another 1,000 on Wednesday, according to the agency’s Telegram feed. Internet service in Belarus appeared to improve on Wednesday after a nearly three-day blackout that appeared devised to throttle the protests. The blackout was a rare example in Europe of a government voluntarily knocking its entire country offline to stifle dissent. The EU has threatened to reimpose sanctions over suspected vote-rigging and the violent crackdown on demonstrators, and has announced an emergency meeting of foreign ministers on Friday to discuss Belarus. The bloc’s most senior foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, said Sunday’s vote had been “neither free nor fair”. Borrell has promised an “in-depth review” of EU relations with Belarus, threatening sanctions against “those responsible for the observed violence, unjustified arrests, and falsification of election results”. The Dutch foreign minister, Stefan Blok, said on Tuesday that a reintroduction of sanctions had not been ruled out, but it was important to avoid measures that would affect the Belarusian po[CENSORED]tion. Any sanctions must win the support of all 27 member states, and doubts remain about backing from Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, who in June called for remaining restrictions to be dropped. According to Belarus’s election commission, Tikhanovskaya took 10% of the vote while Lukashenko won 80%. Tikhanovskaya has filed a complaint against the results. On Tuesday evening, protesters in Minsk clashed with police, who used stun grenades and rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowds. Protesters’ anger intensified over police attacks on demonstrators laying flowers at the site where a young man was killed a day earlier. In a video published on Tuesday morning, a visibly distressed Tikhanovskaya indicated she had faced an ultimatum involving her family and had been forced to flee for neighbouring Lithuania. “God forbid you face the kind of choice that I faced,” she said. “Children are the most important thing in our lives.” The circumstances of Tikhanovskaya’s departure suggested that Lukashenko was increasing pressure on her as he sought to quash the biggest protests of his 26 years in power. The first fatality was confirmed on Monday when police said a man died after an explosive device went off in his hand. Opposition supporters have blamed police for his death. On Tuesday, people laying flowers and white ribbon at the spot in Minsk where he died were allegedly targeted by riot police. The human rights group Viasna reported mass detentions in the cities of Grodno, Brest and Vitebsk. The White House said it was “deeply concerned” by the violence. Poland offered to act as a mediator between Lukashenko and the opposition and called for an emergency EU summit. Lukashenko, often referred to as Europe’s last dictator, has vowed not to allow Belarus to be “torn apart” and dismissed the protesters as pawns of foreign powers. The Belarusian foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had “irrefutable” evidence of “interference from abroad”. Additional reporting by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Martin Farrer News is under threat … … just when we need it the most. Millions of readers around the world are flocking to the Guardian in search of honest, authoritative, fact-based reporting that can help them understand the biggest challenge we have faced in our lifetime. But at this crucial moment, news organisations are facing a cruel financial double blow: with fewer people able to leave their homes, and fewer news vendors in operation, we’re seeing a reduction in newspaper sales across the UK. 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Game information Rayman Jungle Run (Android, iOS [reviewed]) Developer: Pastagames, Ubisoft Montpellier Publisher: Ubisoft Release: September 19, 2012 (iOS) / September 27, 2012 (Android) MSRP: $2.99 When did Ubisoft start becoming awesome again? Who would have thought the French studio would be the one to properly reinvigorate the 2D platforming genre, thus beating Nintendo at its own game? That's how I felt when I first played Rayman Origins at last year's E3 and then the Wii U sequel at this year's. When I saw the trailer for Rayman Jungle Run the other week, I was impressed by how fun and fluid it looked. I thought to myself, "If the limbless wonder was able to do so much good on home consoles, imagine what he could do on mobile devices!" I'm beyond ecstatic to say that my early impressions were right on the money; Rayman Jungle Run is touchscreen platforming done oh so very, very right. What is often the biggest shortcoming of any touch-based platformer? The controls, of course. The more virtual buttons a game tries to squeeze on the screen, the more likely the game will fail to register your inputs. Without tactile feedback, it's hard to tell when you're just outside the button's input detection boundary until you tap the screen and nothing happens. Jungle Run streamlines controls by taking a page out of auto-runners like Canabalt -- Rayman is in constant motion, so all you have to worry about is dodging obstacles. Unlike Canabalt at its ilk, you aren't running along an endless horizontal corridor, gunning for that elusive "high score." This is a true blue platformer with chasms, spikes, enemies, floating platforms, wall jumps, and other hazards. The game is split into four worlds with 10 stages apiece. Each world introduces a new ability, giving you plenty of time to grow accustomed to a particular mechanic before the next one appears. In the first world, all you have to do is jump. Though there is a jump button in the bottom left corner, you can trigger the action by tapping anywhere on the screen, save for the top corners which are dedicated to the "restart level" and menu commands. In the second world, you gain the hover ability, executed by holding your finger on the screen once you are airborne, which you can also use to catch air currents to lift you higher. In the third world, you are introduced to wall running, which offers some clever gravity-defying challenges. In the final world, you learn how to punch through wooden barricades and enemies along your path. Punching is mapped to a separate button in the bottom right corner which, unlike the jump button, has to be pressed, but at least it's large enough that you'll never accidentally miss a punch. Reaching the end of a stage is not all that difficult, but your true goal is to collect Lums, the golden firefly-like critters found in every Rayman game. There are 100 Lums in each level, and finding them all will require you to take more precarious paths, intentionally miss jumps, or discover a hidden doors. By collecting all the Lums in at least five stages in a world, you'll unlock that world's tenth stage, a balls-hard run through the Land of the Livid Dead. Here, there are no Lums, only an increased risk of sudden death. Thankfully, as with all the other levels in the game, these are a minute in length tops, so there's never that sense of lost progress should you want to restart a stage. The icing on the cake is the art, which has been pulled directly from Rayman Origins. Normally, I would call out a developer for reusing copious amounts of assets, but the graphics from Origins are so colorful, bright, and beautiful that I have no objections about their reappearance here. This is a game you play with a smile plastered across your face, nodding your head along to the cheerful music and detailed animations. Unfortunately, the game ends full-stop upon completion of the final stage. There is no fanfare, no "congratulations" screen, just a boot back to the main menu. Feels rather abrupt, but I don't know why I was expecting anything else. Jungle Run is just a series of narrative-less challenge levels, but it's so fulfilling that at times you'll become confused into thinking it's something "greater," if that makes any sense. Not really a bad "problem" to have. That's not to say Jungle Run doesn't offer rewards for the dedicated player. The more Lums you collect, the more wallpaper you earn, which can be saved as the background image on whatever device you are using. It's not much, but how often does a game award prizes outside of the game itself? The challenges are reward enough on their own, so these are but pleasant extras. Rayman Jungle Run is proof that platformers can work on touch devices if you tailor the them to the strengths of the hardware rather than attempt to recreate a console experience. Had this merely been a watered-down port of Origins, it would have invited direct comparisons and highlighted the flaws of touch-based gameplay. Instead, it's a game with bite-sized levels and sensible controls yet all the action of its console brethren. This is what companion software ought to be. System Requirements Processor (CPU) x86, ARM System memory (RAM) Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB

Using Slack to stay in touch with co-workers and business partners will become more secure than ever thanks to a number of new updates. The po[CENSORED]r collaboration software has announced several upgrades that it says will help boost security for organisations using Slack both internally and externally. The new Slack Connect service, dubbed, "a more secure and productive way for organizations to communicate with each other", will allow businesses to move conversations out of lengthy and confusing email chains and into Slack. Best video conferencing software around today We've built a list of the best encrypted messaging apps out there Check out our list of the best productivity software around This could mean discussions with suppliers, partners, customers and more can now be ported away from email services that could face cyberattacks or other kinds of scams, and instead into Slack, where they are at least centered in one single location. Slack Connect Asides from improved security, the company says Slack Connect can enable faster communication to help build stronger business relationships, as well as increased transparency. Admins will be able to maintain control over their company's data and monitor external access, as unlike email, Slack Connect means users will only receive messages and files from verified Slack members that are part of your organization. Admins will also soon be able to quickly vet external organizations before connecting them to a their business network, with approved partners identified with a badge, making it quicker and easier to note who is a legitimate partner. External users can also be restricted from seeing confidential or valuable information thanks to a new barrier functionality. The blocks, which could also apply to internal business units such as legal or payroll, can be used by admins to prevent specific user groups from messaging or calling other user groups. Users will also now have more options over where their data is stored, with new data residency for Slack allowing companies to store their data outside the US, with options including Sydney, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, London and Montreal. Slack says that the upgrades were part of a reaction to the growth of cyberattacks targeting users working from home. "In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening at warp speed," Slack wrote in a blog post announcing the news. "The kind of widespread technological adaptation we expected to see years from now has been truncated to a matter of months as organizations adopt cloud solutions to keep their teams connected. And as more and more workplaces go fully remote, security has never been more paramount." These are the best online collaboration tools around today

Ever since I first used an ultrawide monitor I have been in love with the form factor. Admittedly my favorite ratio is 16:10, but the 32:9 is my close second. Big and wide, filling my peripheral view while becoming emersed in the world I'm exploring is about as close to VR as I've gotten without putting the HMD on, and is a much more enjoyable experience than traditional 3-panel gaming for racing games. But we're here about the new AOC CU34G2X, it's a 34" ultrawide monitor with a 3440x1440 resolution packing in a blazing 144Hz and 1ms response time. Packing in the usual VA panel technology we've come to expect from these larger ultrawide monitors we are treated to a nice 1500R curve design. One of the features they're boasting about here is the frameless design but don't confuse that with bezel-free, there's still some bezel and edge to the screen itself. If I were to pick something like that to market I would have gone more for the features of the stand. Most panels in this range, especially price range, really skimp on the stand but it seems like AOC knocked it out the park here. The stand is wide and supportive but also features height, swivel, tilt, and a 100x100 VESA mounting so you can get this puppy to the right angle for you And again, it's not lacking on specs with a 3440x1440 running at 144Hz and a 1ms response time the VA panel should deliver a solid gaming experience with minimal ghosting, something just inherent on VA panels. Freesync is alive and well on this model so you're not dealing with tons of tearing while gaming, although the Freesync range isn't mentioned in the specs list. Brightness is rated at 300nits so you won't be dealing with pseudo-HDR marketing here, but that should allow for plenty of brightness to have the colors pop. I want to take a moment to touch on an excellent addition that I didn't realize that AOC even offered and that's their warranty coverage. No, I knew they had a warranty but I wasn't aware they would cover things like they do. This panel features their "Re-Spawned Warranty"; it covers three years of general warranty, this includes a full year of one-time accidental warranty. Basically the first year covers anything accidental, like your house caving in, or your cat flying through your panel...or even a heated gamer moment. On top of that, they're covering dead pixels, even a single one, as well as bright spots. They'll even send the replacement right away without needing the old one to get the process started. The AOC CU34G2X 34" Ultrawide Gaming Monitor can be found on Amazon for $449.99. At least once it's officially listed there, hold out for that.

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The Moto G 5G Plus is Motorola’s cheapest 5G-enabled smartphone yet, offering a 6.7-inch 90Hz display, Snapdragon 765 SoC, quad cameras, and a 5,000 mAh battery at a starting price of just €349 (~$410). The device comes running Android 10 along with a touch of Motorola’s useful customizations on top. While most of the customizations and first-party apps are the same as what we have seen on previous Moto phones, it turns out Motorola has debuted two new apps with the Moto G 5G Plus to let users further customize the software experience to their usage patterns. Moto G 5G Plus XDA Forums These two applications are Moto Power Touch and Multi-Volume. Moto Power Touch lets you customize the double tap power button gesture to launch an app or shortcut of your choice. Normally, the double-tap power button can only launch the default camera app on Moto phones. Now, you can also select apps, quick actions, and shortcuts that you use the most and have them pop up in a floating window when you double-tap the power button for easier, quicker access. Our tipster, @GoofyBaars on Telegram, says they use this feature to mute Pokemon Go’s audio while listening to music.Our tipster, @GoofyBaars on Telegram, says they use this feature to mute Pokemon Go’s audio while listening to music. Unfortunately, neither of these apps can be sideloaded on other Motorola devices. We tried installing them on a Moto Edge, but the installation failed. It’s likely Motorola will bring both apps to other Moto phones via a software update in the future.The Moto G 5G Plus is currently only available in the European markets. However, according to our Editor-in-Chief, Mishaal Rahman, the device should be coming to the U.S. soon and is expected to be available through AT&T.

Ethnic wear brand Melange by Lifestyle announced actor and style icon Deepika Padukone as its brand ambassador, and launched a new collection. This collaboration strengthens the brand ethos of ‘Rethink Ethnic’ and epitomises the versatile, eclectic style of modern Indian women. Call for entries open for BuzzInContent Awards 2020 ENTER NOW Comprising key trends, quintessential season favourites, and contemporary styles and silhouettes, the curated collection is an absolute delight for customers. The ever-po[CENSORED]r ‘florals’ has been re-imagined in new silhouettes and prints. The ‘Work from Home’ collection featuring the linen range brings together fashion and utility. Traditional paisley has been recreated into a contemporary version with an interesting mix of styles. Accents of gold prints, embellishments, and jewel tones come together to make every special occasion more elegant. Recrafting one of the oldest forms of art, the collection showcases Lucknowi Chikankari in a modern form with chic minimal embroideries and contemporary silhouettes. Rishi Vasudev, Executive Director, Lifestyle International Pvt. Ltd., said, “Melange by Lifestyle has always celebrated the style sensibilities of modern Indian women who are strong and self-made. Our brand ambassador Deepika Padukone captures this bold and individualistic style that Melange represents. Being one of the most recognised brands in India across marketplaces, Melange continues to push boundaries by ‘rethinking’ ethnic wear and all that it has to offer. I look forward to our customers being delighted by the new collection that brings forth some remarkable pieces, perfect for every occasion.” Deepika Padukone said, “Melange by Lifestyle has managed to beautifully capture the essence of the modern Indian woman. I am delighted to be announced as the brand ambassador for Melange by Lifestyle and look forward to the journey ahead!” From the ‘Work from Home’ range to elegant occasion wear, customers can now step into the spotlight and give their wardrobe a stylish makeover with the new Melange by Lifestyle collection, with kurtas starting from Rs 599. The collection is available in over 400 stores along with leading online portals and market places in India, including exclusive Melange by Lifestyle stores and lifestylestores.com; where customers can shop from the convenience of their home.

Shouts about “gunfire” sparked panic in the French city of Cannes on Monday night, but no evidence of a shooting was found, local officials and witnesses say. Several people were treated for minor injuries. Cannes Mayor David Lisnard said the incident, which happened just before midnight, began when someone shouted “gunfire.” It happened in a busy area close to the beach, near Boulevard de la Croisette. A large number of emergency services, including armed police, responded to the scene and confirmed that no shots were fired. “Don’t worry, the situation is under control,” a spokesperson for the city said. It was not immediately known whether the person who shouted had intended to cause panic. Footage shared on social media showed one person being taken into custody. “All of this says a lot about the state of tension in society,” Mayor Lisnard said. He added that at least 5 people were treated for minor injuries as a result of the panic. A similar incident happened in August 2016 when the sound of firecrackers set off mass panic at Juan-les-Pins resort in southeast France, between the cities of Nice and Cannes. At least 40 people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. RELATED TOPICS:CANNES (FRANCE)FRANCE DON'T MISSMassive explosion rips through gas station in southwest Russia SUPPORT BNO NEWS W3Schools Buy Our Team Coffee ADVERTISMENT

Windows 10 May 2020 Update has a new bug which messes with passwords stored by the operating system, which as you can imagine, is pretty annoying for those affected. As spotted by Windows Latest, there are a number of reports online complaining that the May 2020 Update causes Windows 10 to forget stored passwords with web browsers, VPN services and various apps. How to speed up Windows 10 We solve 100 common Windows 10 problems Windows 10 May 2020 Update problems: how to fix them Specifically, this is an issue with Windows Credential Manager, which is the operating system’s central hub where all your usernames and passwords (as well as network credentials) are stored. Think of it as Windows 10’s built-in password manager, but sadly it’s a piece of functionality which has gone seriously wonky – at least for some folks – after the latest upgrade Microsoft deployed, with passwords not being remembered, and users being logged out of apps or services in web browsers. As Windows Latest highlights, there’s plenty of evidence of this in threads on Microsoft’s own Answers.com support forum, as well as complaints delivered via Microsoft’s feedback hub. These include problems logging into all manner of services as mentioned – including Outlook and OneDrive, Chrome and Edge – but with particularly niggly issues in some cases, like Adobe Acrobat demanding the user logs in every time a PDF is loaded if a couple of hours have passed since the last PDF was opened. Some VPN users are also affected, being prompted for a login when they hadn’t previous to installing the May 2020 Update, although apparently in some cases, you don’t even need to use the correct password when that login is requested (anything can be typed in). The VPN issue was reported a few weeks back now, and Microsoft is currently investigating this – and presumably the other ramifications of this bug – but there’s no resolution as yet. Possible workarounds A number of potential workarounds have been floated, though, in the above discussion threads, including changing the login to your Microsoft account to a PIN, or reconnecting the account to Windows 10. To do the latter, follow these steps: In the Windows search box (next to the Start button), type ‘your info’ and click on ‘your account info’ which pops up in the panel above Click on ‘Sign-in with a local account instead’ Sign in locally, then restart your PC Return to the ‘your account info’ section of Settings, and sign in again with your Microsoft account Hopefully that should cure the issue, but there’s no guarantee. For the moment, the only cast-iron workaround you can use to be sure of ridding yourself of this issue is to roll back the installation of the May 2020 Update (which obviously isn’t ideal if you want the new features brought in by the upgrade). Fingers crossed that we hear from Microsoft with a solution sooner rather than later, although the whispers in the above threads (which are nothing official) suggest there may be a solution coming in Windows 10’s August or September patches (the former is set to arrive later today, incidentally). These are the best laptops money can buy

Marbians (PSP Mini [reviewed], Android, iOS, Mac) Developer: Osao Games Publisher: Nordisk Film Released: October 5, 2011 MSRP: €3.99/ €2.99 (PlayStation Plus) Physics-based puzzle games have become more po[CENSORED]r recently, thanks in no small part to the growing po[CENSORED]rity of mobile gaming. While many of those games are clever, entertaining, and a grand way to kill time, they don't always translate well to consoles. Marbians attempts to make that jump, moving from the Android, iOS, and Mac platforms to the PlayStation Network as a Mini. As of my writing this, Marbians is only available for European PSN users. While a US release has been promised for later this fall, there is no specific date. The premise of Marbians is that cute little bug-eyed martians have crash-landed in 1940's Roswell, New Mexico and the only way for them to get back home is by you solving puzzles. There are three boxes (levels), each with individual puzzles that, once beaten, are open for you to replay. The first box, which is open automatically, contains 22 puzzles, and within each puzzle are three moonrocks to collect. The second and third boxes can only be opened once a certain number of moonrocks have been obtained. The controls are simple, but not terribly cooperative. All you really need to know is how to aim, stop, and switch between marbians, but nobody bothered to add a way to reverse directional control. This might not sound like a big deal, but it can lead to some serious frustration while trying to line up a shot and, occasionally, a puzzle that you need to redo. Besides directional confusion, the controls are just downright unresponsive at times and are more of a hindrance than a boon. Of everything in this game, the controls suffer the worst and are the weakest link for the title. The puzzles themselves are, for the most part, clever and each box maintains a different theme to add variety. As I went further into the game, new elements were added to keep things fresh. My only complaint with the puzzles was that the difficulty seemed fairly arbitrary. I could go through eight or nine without batting an eyelash and then run into one that was incredibly hard and required blind luck more than skill to solve. For instance, the first box introduces basic gameplay and the initial few puzzles are used as a way to become familiar with the style of play. I was doing well, and was expecting the difficulty to gradually increase, until I got to the ninth puzzle, which I spent an unreasonable amount of time on. I eventually got to the point where I was not trying to line up shots or determine the best route, I was just flicking my controller in a direction and hoping to move on. I can not even tell you how I ultimately beat that puzzle; I just got lucky. Overall, however, the puzzles are not terribly difficult to beat if you take a moment to examine what you have to work with. The real challenge becomes collecting moonrocks, since you will need a certain number (as previously mentioned) to continue. If you don't collect enough the first time through, expect to repeat a few puzzles until you've collected enough to move on. Or, if you are a completionist, until you have collected all three from each puzzle. The music, graphics, and style of Marbians are all fun and have a very strong '40s vibe which adds a unique flair and sets it apart from similar titles in the genre. Each puzzle is laid out using items decorated for the period with tunes to match. While I may not have loved every puzzle, I enjoyed the settings and backgrounds they were presented with. All in all, Marbians is a nice little game, with good aesthetic quality and entertaining puzzles. Although there isn't much meat to it, there is enough to keep you busy for a few days (unless you blow right through it). That said, for the price, it would have been nice to see a bit more content. I also would have liked more attention to the platform they released the game on. It feels as though they took something that worked on mobile platforms and threw it onto another platform. They added controller functionality because they had to, but it doesn't feel as though any real thought was put into the implementation. While the original versions of the game might be great, it would have been nice if a little more attention was given to this new version. Instead it feels as though the bare minimum was done to meet requirements, and while that doesn't detract anything serious from the puzzling aspect, it does leave me feeling as if they just don't care all that much, regardless of actual reasons. I can't help but wonder if it would just be better to buy it on a mobile device and save a few dollars. This was a fun diversion, but it may have done a better job as a mobile, touch-based game. The game not have System Requirements

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Initially, auto industry analysts speculated COVID-19-related closures of manufacturing facilities in China would squeeze supply, leaving many car shoppers in a lurch. In reality, as COVID spread to the U.S., shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders stateside ended up impacting car sales more.a The global pandemic certainly hit home with lower U.S. new-car sales, but the severity of the impact varied by region and vehicle type. People continued to purchase new cars and trucks. However, spring sales dropped significantly in certain regions, such as the Northeast and West Coast, which faced earlier and more restrictive government public-health mandates. It was an unprecedented spring, to say the least. Looking forward, we anticipate near-term sales growth will depend on continued government stimulus, the absence of COVID resurgences and OEM appetites for customer incentives. A true recovery could take up to three years. Long-term, broad economic trends may suppress U.S. car sales for at least a decade. The Stimulus Question The federal stimulus programs that provided money for individual consumers as well as paycheck protection for businesses propped up the economy when it needed it. However, whether people receive another stimulus check this year, and how large that check would be, remain big questions. Without additional stimulus, we predict U.S. new-car sales will land at about 13.2 million for 2020, down from 17.1 million last year and a peak of 17.6 million in 2016. This year is expected to break a five-year streak of selling more than 17 million new cars annually. High unemployment rates and consumer spending dips related to ongoing COVID-related closures present additional challenges. In the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the industry leaned on cash-for-clunker programs and other incentives to bring buyers to the dealer lots. We’ve seen a rise of low-interest and no-interest auto loan programs from OEMs, but no signs indicate the government will step up with an automotive incentive program. A Longer Road Back Beyond this year, we anticipate it may take at least two to three years for car sales to recover to pre-COVID volumes. That’s certainly longer than many people are hoping for. But the crisis created complicated problems that won’t be quickly solved. These include: Increased corporate, government and consumer debt. Rising debt levels in all three areas threaten to slow spending and drag on economic growth. Hard-hit sectors will take longer to recover. Many small businesses and entire sectors, such as travel and hospitality, still are feeling the full weight of the pandemic. Their recovery will push well into next year. Continued work-from-home policies. The percentage of employees working from home five days a week grew from 5% in 2019 to 77% in 2020, according to a survey from Iometrics and Global Workplace Analytics. We anticipate that to level out to about 30%. Even so, that’s a lot of non-commuting car owners reducing their mileage and extending the life of their vehicles, delaying the need to buy new ones. Reduced travel impacts rental fleets. Hertz, for example, said in a recent SEC filing that it would not purchase new cars for the remainder of 2020. The impacts of the crisis on travel will likely last much longer. Regardless of possible government assistance driving a faster recovery in the near-term, industry growth will slow over the next decade. (Wards Industry Voices contributors, from left, Doug Mehl, Harris Ng and Ryan Jackson) Public transportation improvements, the rise of ride sharing, reduced car-culture interest among younger generations and the increasing longer life of cars promises to put downward pressure on the long-term number of cars per capita. In response, the industry must get creative to capture the attention of future buyers. The COVID crisis eventually will end. However, the macro headwinds the auto industry faces will last longer and could remake the business as we know it. This column is co-written by Kearney management consulting firm’s Doug Mehl, a partner and Americas Lead-Automotive and Industrials Practice; Harris Ng, a partner; and Ryan Jackson, a manager.

The lifestyle-driven spending habits of millennials, as well as the general public’s slow adoption of technological developments in finance, are among the challenges to increasing financial literacy in Indonesia, fintech players have stated. A financially literate person, according to the Financial Services Authority (OJK), has knowledge of financial institutions and financial products, including the features, benefits and risks, as well as the skills to utilize financial products and services. However, when it comes to investment, millennials allocate a mere 10 percent of their income for savings, according to William, director of marketing, communication and community development of the Indonesian Fintech Association (Aftech). The lifestyle-driven spending habits of millennials, as well as the general public’s slow adoption of technological developments in finance, are among the challenges to increasing financial literacy in Indonesia, fintech players have stated. A financially literate person, according to the Financial Services Authority (OJK), has knowledge of financial institutions and financial products, including the features, benefits and risks, as well as the skills to utilize financial products and services. However, when it comes to investment, millennials allocate a mere 10 percent of their income for savings, according to William, director of marketing, communication and community development of the Indonesian Fintech Association (Aftech). “This is a problem of paradigm. They [millennials] have income, but 90 percent of it is not allocated for savings or investment, [it is spent], for example, on lifestyle,” William said during a livestreamed media briefing on Aug. 6. “Financial literacy does not happen in a vacuum,” he added, indicating that addressing the country’s low level of financial literacy had to take into account how people’s allocation of resources was affected by social pressures. According to a Bank UOB Indonesia 2019 survey, Indonesian millennials, those aged between 21 and 39 years old, spend 50 percent of their income on a so-called “4S lifestyle”, which stands for sugar (food and beverages), skin (beauty and personal care), sun (travel and leisure) and screen (digital screen consumption). The Indonesian po[CENSORED]tion still suffers from low financial literacy. A 2019 survey by the OJK on financial literacy found that the country scored 38.03 percent on the financial literacy index and 76.19 percent on the financial inclusion index, up from 29.7 percent and 67.8 percent in 2016, respectively. A recent case involving financial advisory firm PT Jouska Financial Indonesia highlights the issue. Jouska, which used to have a large following among young people on social media, was recently shut down by the government over allegations of illegal stock brokerage and investment mismanagement. Meanwhile, the public’s lack of adoption of technological developments in the financial industry has also affected efforts to boost financial literacy, said online lending company KoinWorks vice president of marketing Frecy Ferry Daswaty. “The biggest challenge [in financial education] is the acceptance of developments in financial products and the willingness of the public to learn about them and how to use them,” Frecy said during the media briefing. Frecy said there was a noticeable gap in financial literacy between urban and suburban areas, with KoinWorks needing to start from the basics for the latter, while it could build on existing knowledge with the former. Horas V M Tarihoran, OJK’s financial literacy and education director, said that from 12,000 people that the OJK surveyed for its financial literacy report, only 31 percent answered that they had used internet-based financial services. Some respondents stated that they did not need fintech, others revealed that they did not understand it, while the rest said they did not trust such platforms. “We want to increase financial literacy and inclusion, but both have to go in the right direction. We want people to buy products because they know they need them,” Horas said during the media briefing. He explained that lately, people were attracted to some investment products because they were lured with the promise of a definitive return, even though investing is never be free of risks. “We want people to understand their needs and the risks involved,” he said. The government aims achieve a score of 90 percent on the financial inclusion index by 2023 to 2024, according to Horas.

At least 97,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July. At least 97,000 children in the United States tested positive for the coronavirus the last two weeks of July alone, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. The report says that at least 338,000 children have tested positive since the pandemic began, meaning more than a quarter have tested positive in just those two weeks. The report comes as parents and education leaders grapple with the challenges of resuming schooling as the virus continues to surge in parts of the country. More than seven out of 10 infections were from states in the South and West, according to the report, which relied on data from 49 states along with Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. The count could be higher because the report did not include complete data from Texas and information from parts of New York State outside of New York City. Missouri, Oklahoma, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho and Montana were among the states with the highest percent increase of child infections during that period, according to the report. New York City, New Jersey and other states in the Northeast, where the virus peaked in March and April, had the lowest percent increase of child infections, according to the report. In total, 338,982 children have been infected, according to the report. Not every locality where data was collected categorized children in the same age range. Most places cited in the report considered children to be people no older than 17 or 19. In Alabama, though, the age limit was 24; in Florida and Utah the age limit was 14. The report noted that children rarely get severely sick from Covid-19, but another report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, highlighted how the threat from a new Covid-19-related condition, called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or MIS-C, has disproportionately affected people of color. The C.D.C. said that from early March through late July, it received reports of 570 young people — ranging from infants to age 20 — who met the definition of MIS-C. Most of those patients were previously healthy, the report said. About 40 percent were Hispanic or Latino; 33 percent were Black and 13 percent were white, the report said. Ten died and nearly two-thirds were admitted to intensive care units, it said. Symptoms include a fever, rash, pinkeye, stomach distress, confusion, bluish lips, muscle weakness, racing heart rate and cardiac shock. The Georgia high school whose crowded hallways flooded social media has nine new coronavirus cases A reopened high school in Georgia that drew national attention over images of its crowded hallways has had at least nine coronavirus cases reported in the last week, and is switching to online-only instruction for at least the next two days while the school is disinfected and officials assess the situation. “At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in school for at least some time last week who have since reported to us that they have tested positive,” Gabe Carmona, the principal of North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., said in a letter to parents and guardians of the school’s students on Saturday. The superintendent of the Paulding County School District, Brian Otott, sent them another letter Sunday advising them about the switch to online instruction for Monday and Tuesday, at the least. Both letters encouraged parents to check their children’s temperature twice daily and to monitor them for symptoms. Neither letter made any mention of social distancing or wearing masks, which the school has said are encouraged but not mandatory. Photos circulated widely online last week showed North Paulding students crowded in a school hallway with few in masks. Hannah Watters, a 15-year-old student who posted one of the images, was initially suspended for doing so but the suspension was rescinded. After the photo spread over social media, Mr. Otott said masks were not required at the school, which has about 2,000 students, because “there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them.” But Dr. Gary Voccio, the health director for Paulding County and nine other counties in Northwest Georgia, said that masks were crucial to containing the spread of the virus. “Of course you have to change classrooms, and it’s going to be very difficult to physically distance when that occurs,” Dr. Voccio said in a video posted on Facebook. “But the masks, again, are the important part of this problem. And we will have significant cases within the schools, I’m sure.” At least 66 new coronavirus deaths and 4,032 new cases were reported in Georgia on Saturday, according to a New York Times database. Use rapid tests, but use them carefully, Ohio’s governor says after a false-positive scare. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, who tested positive for the coronavirus, then negative and negative again last week, said his roller-coaster ride should not be reason for people to think “that testing is not reliable or doesn’t work.” Governor DeWine got the positive result when he was screened before President Trump arrived in Ohio for campaign appearances. That test was an antigen test manufactured by the diagnostic health care company Quidel, one of two such tests given emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. These tests, while fast and convenient, are known to be less accurate than PCR tests, which were used to retest Governor DeWine twice on Thursday and once more on Saturday. All three PCR tests came back negative, confirming that the governor is not infected. His experience could raise concerns about how much states will rely on antigen tests to augment other forms of testing that are in short supply. Ohio is one of seven states that said this week that they were banding together to purchase a total of 3.5 million rapid coronavirus tests, including antigen tests, along with other vital supplies. Governor DeWine said on CNN Sunday that he had already been in touch with Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland to talk about the tests and the seven-state agreement. “If anyone needed a wake-up call with antigens, how careful you have to be, we certainly saw that with my test,” Governor DeWine said. “And we’re going to be very careful in how we use it.” He added that he would direct any funding from a new federal relief package to expanded testing and helping schools adapt. “We have doubled our testing in the last four weeks,” he said. “We need to double it again and then double it again. And so that is not going to be cheap to do.” PCR tests are in short supply nationwide, and turnaround times for results have stretched past two weeks in some parts of the country, rendering the information useless. ADVERT Compared with PCR tests, Quidel’s antigen test is more likely to return a false negative result, missing up to 20 percent of cases that PCR detects, though the figure may drop below 5 percent for patients with high virus levels. But Governor DeWine’s antigen test produced the opposite error: a false positive. He noted on Sunday that antigen tests function especially well as screening tests, delivering a quick preliminary indication that can be confirmed by the more accurate but slower PCR tests. Virus cases have surged in the United States in recent weeks, particularly in the Sun Belt states and in communities where officials moved quickly to reopen. According to a New York Times database, the United States leads the world in confirmed cases with more than five million — a milestone reached on Saturday — followed by Brazil and India. Experts have warned that the actual number of people infected is far greater than the confirmed case count. Brazil also reached a milestone of 100,000 deaths on Saturday.

The Finnish software development and design company, Vincit opened offices in Irvine back in 2016. Since then, they have created customized mobile apps for companies like Yamaha, GE Healthcare, Kellogg’s, and the Irvine Company. The company has also racked up a lot of awards for being a great place to work! In 2018, Vincit was included in Orange County Business Journal’s “Top 20 Best Places to Work in Orange County,” and named “Top Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Irvine Chamber of Commerce. In 2019, Inc. Magazine named Vincit one of the best places to work in the country. And last month, the company was ranked one of America’s best workplaces for innovators by Fast Company Magazine. Before bringing their collaborative work style to the U.S., Vincit consistently won awards in Europe for offering an employee-friendly workplace. The company prides itself on fostering a “flat workplace hierarchy,” in which employees manage themselves. Vincit has also proven to be a good neighbor during the COVID-19 crisis. The company has offered to share their talented team of developers, designers and managers to help businesses transition to digitalization and/or eCommerce — for free!

New information regarding Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake Desktop CPUs have leaked out from various sources that confirm the new features of the platform and the many configurations we can expect from the new processor lineup. Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake Desktop CPUs Platform & SKU Details Leak Out - Huge List of CPUs, Platform Positioning, & Features Reported Officially launching in the second half of 2021, the Alder Lake CPUs will be the first desktop family to be based on the 10nm process node. The jump to 10nm will mark the end of the 14nm era that has been around since Broadwell all the way back in 2015. A list of device IDs have been listed by Coelacanth-dream (via Videocardz) have leaked within Core boot which point out to several Alder Lake CPU configurations and also positioning of these CPUs, the platform and integrated graphics variants. In addition to the Coreboot leak, Videocardz has also received information that Alder Lake which points out DDR5 memory support on the Intel desktop platform by 2021. Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake CPU Configurations The Alder Lake CPUs are not only going to be the first desktop processor family to feature a 10nm process node but would also feature a new design methodology. From what we know so far, Intel plans to include a mix of CPU cores that are based on different IPs. The Alder Lake CPUs will come with standard high-performance 'Cove' cores and smaller yet efficient 'Atom' cores. This big.SMALL design methodology has been incorporated on smartphones for a while now but Alder Lake will be the first time we see it in action in the high-performance segment. We don't have any specifics of which generation of 'Cove' or 'Atom' architecture Intel plans to utilize for its Alder Lake CPUs but their roadmap does point to Golden Cove and Gracement architectures availability by 2021. It is possible that we would see these cores in actions first on the desktop CPU platform. However, if Intel was to use an existing architecture for Alder Lake, they would definitely be going with Willow Cove and Tracemont cores. With that said, let's talk about the SKUs. The Coreboot leak lists down at least 18 CPU SKUs. There are five 8 core processors, seven 6 core processors, two 4 core processors & two 4 core processors. The primary core number is made up of the bigger 'Cove' cores but each variant has a variable core count for the smaller Atom cores. There's at least one variant for all core configurations that do not include any smaller Atom core. The atom cores for all SKUs match up to the same number as the Big cores but the 6, 4, and 2 core offerings are the exception where the smaller core count exceeds the bigger core count. This is mostly due to the fact that they are branded under the Alder Lake-P segment which targets workstations. Alder Lake CPU SKUs: { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_1, “Alderlake-S (8+8+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_2, “Alderlake-S (8+6+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_3, “Alderlake-S (8+4+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_4, “Alderlake-S (8+2+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_5, “Alderlake-S (8+0+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_6, “Alderlake-S (6+8+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_7, “Alderlake-S (6+6+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_8, “Alderlake-S (6+4+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_9, “Alderlake-S (6+2+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_10, “Alderlake-S (6+0+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_11, “Alderlake-S (4+0+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_12, “Alderlake-S (2+0+1)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_1, “Alderlake-P (2+8+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_2, “Alderlake-P (2+4+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_3, “Alderlake-P (6+8+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_4, “Alderlake-P (6+4+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_5, “Alderlake-P (4+8+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_6, “Alderlake-P (2+4+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_7, “Alderlake-P (2+8+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_8, “Alderlake-P (2+0+2)” }, { PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_9, “Alderlake-P (2+0+2)” }, This is either likely a case of earlier test configurations that are being tested and qualified to see if they are feasible or a much premium SKU. We also have to wait and see how the multi-threaded architecture for Alder Lake CPUs will be handled for consumer applications. The bigger cores and Atom architecture do share a similar software stack so applications won't have much of a hard time adjusting to the big.SMALL design of Alder Lake CPUs. Each family also offers a mix of either GT1 or GT2 graphics which would utilize an enhanced version of the Xe graphics architecture than the one featured on Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake CPUs that are launching this year. Finally, the latest post by Videocardz points out DDR5 memory for the platform which is something that we have also heard before. The Intel Alder Lake CPUs will be introduced on a completely brand new socket known as LGA 1700 which would replace the existing LGA 1200. The LGA 1200 socket is going to last just two generations of CPU (Comet Lake & Rocket Lake). The LGA 1700 socket is going to support at least two generations of CPUs which include Alder Lake and Meteor Lake. Based on the information that AMD has forwarded us regarding Zen 4, it looks like Intel would be the first to introduce DDR5 memory on its desktop platform compared to AMD. Intel was also the first to introduce DDR4 memory on the desktop platform with its Skylake family back in 2016. Intel will also be the first to the big.SMALL design for desktop processors, however, as per the latest patent filings, AMD might also be considering jumping onboard the bandwagon Here's Everything We Know About The Next-Gen Alder Lake CPU Family Previous details for Alder Lake-S CPUs have revealed that the next-generation desktop family is to launch sometime in late 2021 or early 2022. The Alder Lake CPUs could be the first 10nm desktop parts from Intel, featuring a hybrid architecture design. Intel's Alder Lake-S would be a totally different beast than anything we've seen from Intel yet, utilizing the 10nm++ process node which is an evolution of the 10nm+ process node (the same node used to fabricate Tiger Lake CPUs). The Alder Lake-S 12th Generation Core lineup would feature a new design methodology, supporting a mix of big and little cores as we had reported earlier. Three configurations of the Alder Lake-S CPUs were leaked which included: Alder Lake-S (8+8+1) 125W Config Alder Lake-S (8+8+1) 80W Config Alder Lake-S (6+0+1) 80W Config As you can see, the CPUs will feature various configurations with a max of 8 high-performance and 8 efficiency-optimized cores. There's the unlocked variants with 125W and locked variants with 80W TDPs. While the chip design methodology isn't anything new as we have seen several mobility SOCs feature similar core hierarchy, it would definitely be interesting to see a similar outing on a high-performance desktop CPU lineup.

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Game information Initial release date: June 29, 2000 Composer: Tomonori Sawada; Richard Jack; Hideki Nagunama Artist (s): Ueda Ryuta Director: Masayoshi Kikuchi Platforms: Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Arcade Games Software Developers: Sega, Smilebit, Sega Sports R&D, Vkirius Vision, Sonic Team, Blit Software Oh, the late 90s/early 2000s. In-line skating, graffiti, techno-infused Japanese pop, and the Sega Dreamcast ruled my life, in and out of gaming. It was a better time, a simpler time. However, nostalgia can be a funny thing. What was a fond, fun memory once before may not hold up as well almost 12 years later. For example, I was never good at in-line skating, and I'm still pretty terrible at it now. The same can be said for a lot of things. Is the new HD re-release of Jet Set Radio one of those? The concept of Jet Set Radio is fairly simple: street gangs tag neighborhoods and speed about the city on hi-tech in-line skates while avoiding the police and rival gang members. Tagging is done with directional motions on the analog stick, and tricks are performed almost automatically as you grind on rails, wallride, and flip about after jumping. The whole experience is offset by the game's striking cel-shaded visuals and diverse soundtrack of J-pop, techno, and hip hop tracks. On the plus side, the HD visual upgrade is fantastic. The cel-shaded graphics popped back in the day, but the widescreen presentation and updated resolution really help this title shine. When compared to the original, this new version just seems so much brighter. The dark outlines give everything a graffiti quality, not just the art you're so intent on tagging onto walls and the occasional person. The HD coat of paint works well, and series fans will be thrilled to know that, except for two tracks, all the songs from every regional version of the game are included -- to be honest, I don't even remember which ones didn't make the cut). However, when it comes to the gameplay, you'll find not much has changed. This is not necessarily a good thing. While the techniques are simplistic in their execution -- your skates magnetically attach to any grindable object -- you'll find yourself fighting with the camera and clunky movement controls, just as you did with the original. The skaters all perform like bricks on wheels -- not much tight handling -- while the tagging motions are hit or miss in their responsiveness. Tagging is often an analog stick quick time event, and time management in choosing your tagging areas is key, as after a certain number of targets are tagged, stronger police forces are unleashed. The analog controls are actually not as responsive as one would want, which is made all the more difficult when trying to tag while being bombarded by tear gas and gunfire. These were the same issues I had with the original when it was released on Dreamcast, and I was hoping there would be some improved controls in this HD release, as there were in the pseudo-sequel Jet Set Radio Future. While minor camera control is now mapped to the right analog stick, there are still prevalent clipping issues, and the presentation tends to block visuals at the most inopportune times. As the game cuts away to watch the cops frustratingly stomp their feet as you make a daring leap away, you remain in motion, so by the time the view cuts back to you, you have to quickly orientate your character so you don't fall or get caught just as you escape. This is only exacerbated by the lengthy fall or trip animations as you helplessly tumble from heights. It pains me to say it, but I may have been a little blinded by nostalgia on this. I played the original a bit again before playing the new version for review, and while the updated visuals were a stunning improvement, the fact that not much else was expanded upon is a bit upsetting.Jet Set Radio is still a fun title, but also a frustrating one. If you've never played the game before, you may be left wondering what all the hype was about. It may be a good game, but if it had been released for the first time today, many would see it as unfinished. System Requirements : OS:Windows XP SP2 or newer. Processor:Pentium 4 or Athlon CPU > 1Ghz or newer. Memory:1 GB RAM. Graphics:256Mb video RAM or more (256Mb video RAM or more) DirectX®:9.0c.

The first Cleveland location of Express Wash Concepts Inc. opened Friday. By Mary Vanac | Cleveland Business Journal CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The line of cars waiting for a wash at the Clean Express Auto Wash near downtown Cleveland Friday morning backed up on E. 36th Street. A mascot shaped like a blue drop of water encouraged more drivers to stop at the opening of the first Cleveland location of Express Wash Concepts Inc., which is based in Etna, Ohio, in the Columbus area. Why open a car wash in Cleveland?

rice: EOI Location: Peerabeelup Area: 40.95ha Agent: Ray White Nannup Contact: Mike Tucker 0402 884 744 DONNELLY Lakes Chalets is a stunning 40.95 hectare property in the picturesque State forest between Nannup and Pemberton. Sprawling lawns and mature trees provide an oasis for native wildlife and also plenty of space for the resident ducks and geese. Among the gardens is a large three-bedroom, two-bathroom country home with character and style. With large windows to take in the surroundings, this home is a true oasis within the forest. Exposed blackbutt, featured throughout the home, was felled on the property and is one of the many features that reflects the property's history and heritage. The large kitchen has a butler's pantry, modern appliances and plenty of bench space. The renovated, spacious master bedroom includes a new ensuite and walk-in wardrobes. A charming staircase leads to a second storey with an open-plan guest retreat. The owners run a successful chalet business with five well-appointed cottages that have stunning features and rural views. The business enjoys plenty of repeat guests who love the space and also the extras this property offers, including fishing, canoeing, archery, beach volleyball, kids play equipment and also the natural walkways and paths to explore along the riverbed or into the surrounding forest. Lower lakes are fed from this source which overflows during the winter months and is kept refreshed by springs at the head of the lake, which keeps the levels high all-year. With an abundance of water, including 1.2km of Donnelly River frontage which serves as a boundary, this property would make the ideal location for oaks for truffles, avocados or other agricultural pursuits. It has everything you could need on the property, including a large machinery shed, workshops, guest laundry and linen room and more.

African American Wellness Walk partnered with census YOUNGSTOWN — The Rev. Lewis W. Macklin II said he was pleased to see more Mahoning Valley residents stepping up to exercise their bodies and rights. “I want to make sure we’re counted, healthy and involved,” said Macklin, pastor of Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Youngstown and a longtime community activist. The pastor was referring to having led the annual African American Wellness Walk virtually, because of the pandemic, which preceded a Census 2020 mobile questionnaire assistance event Saturday in Wick Park on the North Side. Hosting the gathering, which also included a voter registration drive, were the Youngstown Parks & Recreation Department and Divine Nine, a group of nine traditionally black Greek letter fraternities and sororities. Five of them were established at Howard University, a private, federally chartered and historically black university in Washington, D.C. Census employees were not given clearance to speak to the media. It’s vital that people vote in the Nov. 3 general election and beyond, practice healthful lifestyle habits, get tested for their general well-being and participate in the census. It’s also incumbent upon them to encourage others to follow suit, Macklin said. Doing so takes on added urgency, because many people have a general mistrust of government, coupled with a cynicism that their census responses and votes don’t matter anyway, he added. Enlightening and educating such people can help them “understand they can make a difference,” Macklin continued. Jerome Parm, president of Kappa Alpha Psi’s Youngstown alumni chapter, noted his organization is connected with voter registration and census efforts. “It’s very important to our community, with its needs for social services,” he explained. “When it comes to voting, it’s a right for every citizen to vote.” Parm added that the local Kappa Alpha Psi chapter also has partnered with the Ohio Unity Coalition, the national Unity Voter Empowerment Campaign’s state affiliate. The OUC works with numerous other entities to ensure black voters are prepared for elections, its website states. Specifically, the fraternity has been calling and working with those who had been dropped from the voting rolls and launching an effort to contact people statewide to get them to the polls, said Parm, who noted that the Mahoning Valley is behind in the 2020 census count. “As a fraternity, we’re definitely engaged in both of these: voting and census,” he continued. “This is our mission at this time.” Parm also noted that citizens can respond to the 2020 census via their iPhones by texting 313131. That will take them to a link to answer the questions. In addition, area churches must continue to get the word out to their parishioners about the importance of casting their votes — a move that can improve the communities’ quality of life, Nate Thompson, the local Kappa Alpha Psi’s records keeper, said. The registration deadline in Ohio for the Nov. 3 general election is Oct. 5; in-person absentee voting begins Oct. 6, according to www.vote.org. Dawn Turnage, the Parks and Recreation Department’s director, noted that Saturday’s gathering was a community-outreach collaboration among Divine Nine, census officials and health advocates. Answering census questions usually takes no more than 10 minutes, she said. Macklin explained that the wellness walk was conducted virtually largely by encouraging participants to walk through their neighborhoods, regardless of any distance limitations, as a means to promote greater health. “It’s all the right reasons and all the right stuff to build a healthy community,” he added.

NVIDIA is planning to launch the next generation of its GPUs in September and one of our sources just gave us an overview of the Ampere graphics card lineup. Interestingly, they mentioned that NVIDIA has *not* confirmed the naming schemes (we are currently referring to these cards as the RTX 3000 series) of the cards yet but has started to reveal details about the boards, SKUs, and the tentative launch schedule. Oh and remember the rumors we were hearing about a 20 GB card in the Ampere lineup? Turns out they were right.' NVIDIA Ampere GPUs: 24GB, 10GB and 8GB cards launching in September with more to follow, six boards planned as of right now According to our sources, NVIDIA is planning to launch 3 boards in September with 1 board following in October and 2 boards planned whose launch date has not yet been decided. Since we do not know the confirmed naming schemes yet, I will refer to these boards according to their board numbers and the RTX 2000 series card they are intended to replace. The crown jewel of NVIDIA's lineup is the PG132-10 board with 24GB of vRAM. It is going to be replacing the RTX 2080 Ti and is currently scheduled to launch in the second half of September. We then have the PG132-20 and PG132-30 boards, both of which are replacing the RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card and will have 20GB and 10GB worth of vRAM respectively. The PG132-20 board is going to be launching in the first half of October while the PG132-30 board is going to be launching in mid-September. It is worth adding here that these three parts are likely the SKU10, 20 and 30 we have been hearing about and the SKU20 is going to be targetted dead center at AMD's Big Navi offering (and hence the staggered launch schedule). Since AMD's Big Navi will *probably* have 16GB worth of vRAM, it also explains why NVIDIA wants to go with 20GB. The PG142-0 and PG142-10 are both going to be replacing the RTX 2070 SUPER and will feature 16GB and 8GB worth of vRAM respectively. While the PG142-10 has a known launch schedule in the second half of September, the PG142-0 board has no confirmed launch date yet. Finally, we have the PG190-10 board which is going to be replacing the RTX 2060 SUPER graphics card and will have 8GB of vRAM as well. The launch schedule for ]this board has not been decided yet either. September is shaping up to be an amazing month of tech enthusiasts with NVIDIA rolling out a brand new architecture (and series of graphics cards) and AMD finally pushing out Big Navi in the following few weeks as well. The Ampere series has had more leaks and rumors than any other series and as we enter into crunch time towards launch, many of these will be debunked or confirmed. We are also waiting to hear about more specifications from our sources and also a confirmation of the process node the Ampere series of GPUs will be manufactured at. Right now, the expected nomenclature of these cards is going to be the RTX 3000 series with a potential RTX 3090 in the mix for the first time as well. But please keep in mind that NVIDIA has previously skipped nomenclature tiers just to discredit the leak scene and may do so again. The shrouds we saw were only in the validation phase and it would be trivial for NVIDIA to change the naming scheme. The board numbers, however, would stay the same. Regardless of what NVIDIA decides to call it, this is shaping up to be one hell of a generation.