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Waves of fog roll over a neighborhood in Mill Valley, California, as seen from the top of Mount Tamalpais.
A sun kissed blanket of fog flows over a hill on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Getting this shot involved a steep, moonlit hike several hours before daybreak. I used a long shutter speed and a 6-stop neutral density filter to capture the movement of the fog. If you look closely, San Francisco's Sutro Tower is visible on the horizon.
Marine layer fog pushes over the west side of Mount Tamalpais on an August evening.
A bed of fog flows westward over Mount Tamalpais on a January morning.
Although summertime is known to be "fog season" in the San Francisco Bay Area, this image was made in the middle of winter. Tule fog forms inland during the colder, wetter months. Occasionally when conditions align it pushes west, making its way over parts of Mount Tamalpais—mimicking the behavior of the coastal fog commonly associated with the mountain.
It made for this unique composition, as fog that's typically photographed from this point of view is flowing in the opposite direction, interacting with different parts of the landscape.
Tule (valley) fog is illuminated by early morning light near the Marin County and Sonoma County line.
This picturesque wave of fog was both moonlit and street-lit as it poured over a hill in Mill Valley, California. Making this image involved a steep hike up Mount Tamalpais in the dark, and a long shutter speed to capture the movement of the fog.
Fog fingerlings flowing over Marin County, California under a moonlit sky.
A bed of fog in Mill Valley glowing in golden hour light.
Ground fog on Mount Tamalpais glowing in evening light as it rises just after a midwinter rainstorm.
Waves of fog weave an abstract pattern as they roll over the top of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California.
Fog fingerlings form a streamline over a hill in Mill Valley, CA.
A patch of green grass is lit by rays of sunlight beaming through fog as it pours over the hills of Mount Tamalpais.
A foggy February morning on a Northern California farm. This is one of my favorite places to enjoy quiet winter mornings.
Life above the clouds over Marin County.
Light shimmers off a body of fog moving swiftly over Mount Tamalpais.
Morning fog in Sonoma County, California billows in the distance under a colorful sunrise.
The sun descends past a wildfire smoke layer beyond a blanket of illuminated fog on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California.
Storm clouds were briefly underlit on this winter morning in Petaluma, California, as the sun passed over the horizon on its way above the cloud line.
Lush green pastures overlook a bed of fog in the hills of Petaluma, California.
High clouds glowing during a dramatic sunrise over a vast body of fog moving past Mount Tamalpais.
Tule fog in Northern California farm land.
Fog rolls over a hill in Mill Valley, CA.
Mid-afternoon fog cruises between the tree lines of Mount Tamalpais.
Morning fog under a colorful sky in Marin County, California.
A stream of fog crosses over West Ridgecrest Boulevard on Mount Tamalpais.
Coastal fog interacts with the peaks and valleys of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, CA.
Coastal fog pours over Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California, underneath a colorful sunset.
West Marin County appears almost fully submerged by winter valley fog, photographed from the top of Mount Tamalpais.
A northern California farm on an early autumn morning.
Rows of trees poke out of the fog in Marin County, California.
A pillow of West Marin fog in soft morning light.
Side-lit fog pushes over Mount Tamalpais on a warm August day.
Rainbow Falls in Watkins Glen, NY.
A visitor on the footbridge above Rainbow Falls in Watkins Glen State Park, NY. Although indeed posing, she was not doing so for me. I patiently waited for her to move out of the frame but ultimately her presence added a pleasant element to the photographs I took here, this being my favorite one.
Cavern Cascade on an autumn afternoon. This is one of nineteen waterfalls in Watkins Glen State Park, NY.
A roaring Boulder Falls on a partly cloudy afternoon in late spring.
Eagle Cliff Falls is a 41-ft. waterfall in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Soft afternoon light illuminates an autumn tree line above Taughannock Falls, a 215 foot waterfall in Tompkins County, NY.
Fresh snow covers a rocky shoreline at Awosting Falls in Minnewaska State Park, NY. This was the very last image I made in 2016, on New Years Eve.
A rogue waterfall spills over the Cataract Trail in Marin County, California. This was taken shortly after what was called an "atmospheric river" inundated much of Northern California with unprecedented amounts of rain in early 2017. Just days after this photo was taken, the road which allows access to the trail was closed indefinitely due to numerous landslides.
Reservoir water cascades down the spillway on an October afternoon at the New Croton Dam in Westchester County, NY. I made this image shortly after learning that my grandmother passed away. I'll never forget the moments I spent here that day saying goodbye.
Early morning at McWay Falls in Big Sur, California. This is one of only two waterfalls in California which enter directly into the ocean.
A golden glow illuminates the rocky cliffs of McWay Cove in Big Sur, California.
A wave recedes around a rock beneath a fiery sky at Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands of Northern California.
Waves recede off the rocky shoreline of Santa Cruz, California.
A summer storm approaches Mono Lake.
A developing storm cloud approaches the Tufa at Mono Lake, CA.
A stream empties into the Pacific Ocean in Northern California.
A watercolor sky above Tarrytown Lighthouse in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York.
The Little Red Lighthouse, also known as Jeffrey's Hook Light, is a New York City Landmark located under the George Washington Bridge in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. It's also my favorite subject to shoot in New York. I grew up just minutes away from here.
Colorful clouds stretch across the sky during a long exposure at the S.S. Point Reyes, an historic fishing boat left stranded (and to be enjoyed by the public) on a sandbar in Inverness, California. Sadly, this view is partially unavailable today due to an amateur photographer who inadvertently lit fire to and destroyed much of this side of the iconic vessel while spinning steel wool.
Belmar Fishing Pier on the Jersey Shore underneath a vibrant autumn morning sky.
A seagull stands still through a 90 second exposure underneath Newport Pier during a colorful sunset.
A long exposure photograph of low lying, under-lit clouds during low tide at Newport Pier in Newport Beach, California.
The city of San Francisco is seen beyond a group of partially submerged pylons near downtown Sausalito, CA.
Brightly lit sailboats frame the Statue of Liberty on a summer evening, as seen from the shores of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Smoke from devastating nearby wildfires chokes the sun as it begins to set beyond the Santa Monica Mountains as seen from a hill in Malibu, California.
The sun rises over the Merced River in Yosemite Valley, CA.
A September afternoon at Lower Bells Canyon Reservoir in Sandy, UT. During less dry parts of year, the rocks in the foreground are completely submerged.
Light, shadow and sand create an abstract pattern in Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, CA
An early morning scene at Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley National Park, CA.
An interesting wind-formed pattern emerges from a sand dune in Death Valley National Park, CA.
A colorful morning sky above Death Valley, CA.
A red barn in New Paltz, NY, which no longer stands.
Colorful fallen leaves along the rocky edge of a stream in Minnewaska State Park, NY.
A lenticular cloud shrouds the peak of Mt. Hood in northern Oregon.
The milky way rises over an abandoned cabin in Lee Vining, California.
Star trails appear over Crater Lake, Oregon, the result of eight continuous five-minute exposures stacked on top of each other.
A distant thin layer of fog approaches the Golden Gate Bridge underneath an interesting cloud formation, as seen from Marshall's Beach in San Francisco.
The towers of the Golden Gate Bridge emerge through a massive bed of fog flowing into San Francisco Bay on an early Spring morning.
A compressed layer of low fog flows through the Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny June afternoon.
A colorful sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands.
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge emerges from a blanket of fog flowing into the San Francisco Bay.
Deck-level fog crawls past the Golden Gate Bridge at daybreak.
Horizontal light illuminates the shoreline below San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
A winter sunrise over the San Francisco Bay Bridge, photographed from the Embarcadero.
A rainbow appears beneath storm clouds passing over New York City on a summer afternoon.
A (double) rainbow appears prominently over the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan after an early evening thunderstorm passed over New York City.
Lightning strikes lower Manhattan as a summer storm approaches a moonlit New York City skyline.
Lightning strikes near the Empire State Building in New York City.
Bolts of lightning illuminate a cloudy Bangkok skyline on a summer evening.
An electrical storm illuminates the sky over Ekamai BTS Station in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Empire State Building stands among other iconic buildings in New York City.
The many layers of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
San Francisco's Coit Tower lit in red.
Hot air balloons dot the sky as the sun rises over Bagan, Myanmar.
A mid-day storm breaks over Mount Popa, a volcano in central Myanmar.
Hundreds of ancient structures like these remain standing in Bagan, Myanmar.
A peaceful morning at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The Bund in Shanghai, China.
An autumn morning in New York City's Central Park.
Hong Kong at night, as seen from Victoria Peak.
A view from the top of the Shanghai World Financial Center.
A look down from a helicopter hovering above Times Square.
A fiery sky over the Ed Koch Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge which passes over Roosevelt Island and connects the borough of Queens to Manhattan.
The Chrysler Building in New York City glowing in golden afternoon light.
Colorful clouds and an abandoned storm-damaged pier in Jersey City, NJ help frame lower Manhattan's skyline.
One World Trade Center at dusk.
Manhattan's Financial District photographed during a helicopter flight on a summer evening.
Lower Manhattan at sunrise. Some of the best morning views of New York City are had from New Jersey, like this one.
A patch of low fog dissects One World Trade Center during a morning blue hour.
Blue hour in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is seen from a seaweed-laden rocky shoreline of Yerba Buena Island, which lies in the San Francisco Bay between Oakland and San Francisco and connects the east and west spans of the Bay Bridge.
Forgotten pilings on the shoreline of Point Lookout, NY.
Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse, also known as the Little Red Lighthouse, stands at the base of the New York side of the George Washington Bridge.
Blue hour at the George Washington Bridge, photographed from Fort Lee Historic Park, NJ.
New York City's Tribute in Light on the 15 year memorial of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.
The Harlem River's shoreline in The Bronx underneath the historic Highbridge at night. This is New York City's oldest standing bridge.


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By Rod Wegener.
With the start-up of the Sustainability Future Section and sustainability-related actions by the Board of Governors in 2010, the efforts to be a more sustainable organization trickled down to actions and efforts of staff at the bar center. A Sustainability Team of interested staff from various departments met and continue to meet to identify sustainability matters at the bar center and offer educational opportunities in sustainability for all staff. The Team members gained valuable education from presentations by local leaders in sustainable office practices. Max Miller and Elizabeth Goodman from Tonkon Torp LLP explained what that firm does to raise awareness of sustainability. Jeanne Roy of the Center for Earth Leadership wowed the Team with her personal sustainable and recycling practices. Pride Disposal Company and Far West Fibers, Inc.—two companies that collect or recycle the items placed in the recycle bins—explained their roles in product lifecycles.
The Team also held a number of sessions to identify practices that should be in place at the Bar center to add to or increase recycling and sustainability. Here are some of the ideas that surfaced and the results of those efforts:
- Plastic silverware and paper cups and plates were removed from the staff kitchen and replaced with durable products.
- Recycle bins are located in common areas for dead batteries, plastic bags, and lids and tops. The kitchens have had containers for the most commonly recyclable products since the building opened.
- Containers for recyclable products are in place for all CLE and similar events at the conference center.
- All PCs are set to a standby mode after 20 minutes, and staff are instructed to turn off their PCs at the end of the workday.
- Double-sided printing is the default at all workstations.
- All copy machines move into a "sleep" mode if not in use for 20 minutes.
- Off-site document storage has been reduced by almost half with the continuing conversion of paper documents into electronic format.
- A tip on green ideas is regularly listed on the Bar's intranet.
The Bar has been focusing on reducing its use of copy machines for some time, and this practice has shown dramatic results in the last two years. The number of pages copied on the copiers decreased 40 percent in the two years from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2010. That is a significant savings in paper, energy, and dollars. And as is the case for most homes and businesses, there is a recycle bin right next to the copier for those goofs or copies that never should have been made in the first place.
As with copier usage, the Bar's postage costs have also decreased dramatically, largely because more communication is being made electronically. As with many other businesses, correspondence that once was sent through the post office is now sent by e-mail or is available on the bar's Web site. Furthering that trend, the Bar's Board of Governors made three decisions that significantly reduced paper usage. First, the entire legal publications library is available online for all members. Second, the Bar eliminated members' names and addresses in the Membership Directory. Third, the Bar e-mails the membership fee statements. All those changes have led to paper, energy, time, and dollar savings.
Currently, the Team is evaluating commuting alternatives. Getting to and from Tigard on public transportation is not the easiest way to commute, but the Team is exploring options with Tri-Met, carpools, vanpools, and even benefits for bike riders.
Rod Wegener is Chief Financial Officer of the Oregon State Bar.
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Upping Your Business's Customer Service Quotient With Automated Cash Counting Systems
In a busy bank or business, making change can be very time-consuming. Human error can cost businesses many thousands of dollars per year, and customers are not inclined to report overpayments to tellers or cashiers. In the last 35 years, automated money handling systems, also known as a cash recycling system, are helping businesses watch their bottom line.
A machine that automatically counts and dispenses accurate change to customers during a purchase or bank withdrawal can help prevent theft. A cash recycling system can hold more than $100,000, dependent upon business needs. Removable drawers are easy to maintain, and the closed system acts as a deterrent to would-be hackers or thieves.
A cash recycling system can also save a business or bank significant amounts of time, allowing for h
Millions of Thieves are Waiting for You to Make this Mistake
You probably use your debit or credit card every day. Our credit cards are offer convenience and safety, but at they same time they can lead to costly problems. About 2 million Americans each year are victims of credit card fraud. There are simple steps you can take to prevent losing your hard earned money.
Only Use Sites With Proper Payment Gateway Integration
Americans spend millions of dollars shopping online. After clicking the buy button it can be easy to forget that your credit card information is being transmitted. The smoother a websites payment gateway integration is, the more likely it is legitimate. If you are being redirected to several pages before you are asked to input your credit card information, it could be a scam. It is important to make sure that any website that you
The Top 3 Requirements of Small Business Loans
Getting a small business loan doesn't have to be the most complicated thing in the world, but it's also important to realize that there are certain requirements that go along with unsecured business loans and working capital loans for small businesses; without these requirements, you might have a hard time finding small business loans that fit your financial needs and aren't too difficult to repay.
Here are just a few of the most common requirements for small business lending:
- Good credit. Like any other type of loan, it's going to be a better situation for everyone involved if you're applying for a loan and you already have good credit. A bad credit score suggests that you


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So far I have made two points in my mini-series on human rights: that international human rights institutions at best have modest effects in countries where the opportunity structure permits international influence and that I am not persuaded by the argument that human rights institutions would work better if they focused only on the "ideals that inspired the human rights movement in the first place."
It makes sense to follow up with some evidence that an international human rights institution did successfully influence non-traditional rights, albeit in a limited way. The case that I will discuss is the impact European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rulings have had on LGBT rights in Europe. It is based on a paper (forthcoming in International Organization) that I wrote with Duke law professor Larry Helfer. With Europe we mean all 47 Council of Europe member states, which includes Russia, Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Serbia and many other countries where public acceptance of homosexuality is among the lowest in the world.
The document that the ECtHR is supposed to interpret, the European Convention on Human Rights, makes no mention of homosexuality or sexual orientation. Thus, states have not explicitly delegated the Court the authority to uphold LGBT rights. Yet, we find that ECtHR rulings that find a certain practice, such as criminalizing homosexuality, a violation of the Convention have a substantial effect on policy change. However, this effect is only manifest in countries where public support for homosexuality is low and where a government is in power that does not draw its primary support from rural, religious, or nationalist bases (see graph below).
In countries with high levels of public acceptance and an urban and non-religious government, policy change happens without international legal action. Rural, religious, and nationalist governments tend to resist liberalization regardless. Yet low public support but a government that is not necessarily ideologically opposed to liberalization creates an opportunity for an international intervention to make a difference. We estimate that a substantial number of countries, especially in Eastern and Southern Europe, have more liberal LGBT rights laws than we would have expected in the absence of international court action.
Let me back up a bit and explain how we got there and what all of this means in the context of the current backlash against LGBT rights in some of these countries, most notably Russia.
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The following guest post is from McGill University political scientist Maria Popova, the author of Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: a Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
On July 18th, Russia's best known oppositionist, anti-corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 5 years in prison. His co-defendant, Pyotr Ofitserov received 4 years. After Judge Blinov from Kirov's Leninskii District Court finished reading the verdicts, the convicted were taken into custody and sent to jail, where they would await the results of their appeals. Few were surprised by the guilty verdicts, but many had expected the sentences to be suspended, rather than effective. Certainly, no one expected what happened next. On July 19th, the prosecutor asked the court to release Navalny and Ofitserov on bail. The prosecutor argued that Navalny had a constitutional right to contest the September 2013 Moscow mayoral election, for which he had been registered as an official candidate only a couple of days earlier. Judge Blinov immediately granted the prosecution's request and by the end of the day Navalny and Ofitserov were back in Moscow, where they addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. The unprecedented nature of what happened in the provincial Russian courtroom cannot be overstated. Releasing a convicted person on bail, although possible under the Russian Criminal Procedural Code, is an exceedingly rare occurrence. Rare, as in there may have been a handful of cases in recent memory. A request for bail from the prosecution, rather than from the defense, experienced Russian jurists claim, is a first!
The convictions and the swift bail release are perceived in Russia and abroad as an indication of the subordination of the judiciary to political incumbents, rather than as a reflection of the vagaries of the legal process. The bail release is not an unequivocal victory for the defendants, but, at best, a short respite. Russian acquittal rates are below 1% and appellate courts usually decrease, rather than increase, this percentage. At worst, as a prominent Russian lawyer, Genri Reznik, put it, by convicting and then releasing Navalny, the regime showed who was boss. With the convictions the regime turned the court from an adjudicative organ into a punitive one and with the bail release it turned the prosecution from an accusatory organ into one employed by the defense (text in Russian available here).
What comes next for Navalny? He has re-stated his intention to contest the Moscow mayoral election and his determination to win the race. However, he may not be able to finish the campaign and stand in the election due to the conviction that is now hanging over him. Russian municipal election law prohibits persons with convictions "that have entered into legal force" from standing in an election. If and when Navalny's conviction "enters into legal force", the Moscow election commission will be legally obligated to take down his registration and remove him from the ballot. The question is when the conviction can or will enter into force. According to the Russian Criminal Procedural Code, first-instance court convictions enter into force 10 days after they have been issued, if there is no appeal filed. We can assume that Navalny will appeal. Then the conviction enters into force on the day the appellate court upholds it. If the appellate court in Kirov upholds his conviction before election day (September 8th), Navalny will be out of the race and will not be allowed to continue campaigning. The prosecution and the Kirov court moved very quickly with the bail hearing, so it appears possible that the appellate court could rule on the appeal soon.
Generalizing from the Navalny trial about the functioning of the entire Russian judiciary is problematic, not only because this is only one case, but also because of the very high salience of the Navalny prosecution. Research that goes beyond the high-profile cases has painted a more mixed picture of the performance of the Russian judiciary. Yes, there is evidence that Russian judicial independence is circumscribed by strong discipline within the judicial hierarchy, court financing by the regional authorities, practices of ex parte communication, and other structural conditions (Solomon Jr and Foglesong, 2000; Baird and Javeline, 2010; Ledeneva, 2008; Popova 2012). But Russian courts at all levels are also routinely used by comparatively high and ever increasing numbers of Russian citizens to settle civil and business disputes and to seek redress for the unlawful behavior of state representatives (Solomon Jr. 2004, Hendley, 2002, 2004, Trochev 2012, etc.). Moreover, a comparison of Russian and Ukrainian judicial output in the late 1990s-early 2000s suggests that in two important legal issue areas (electoral registration disputes and defamation lawsuits against media outlets), the Russian courts were less politicized than the Ukrainian courts (Popova, 2010; Popova 2012). In Russia, politically powerful plaintiffs had less advantage over other plaintiffs when they went to court.
Did the fact that a law was on a 25-year reauthorization schedule just become a reason for invalidating it? Would the Court have had less reason to invalidate the VRA if it were authorized for just 10 years? 5 years? We doubt that the length of the authorization would have made much difference in this case with this Court, but it is interesting to speculate on whether Shelby County v. Holder will be cited by future courts to justify using a law's period of authorization as one criterion in evaluating whether it has a rational basis.
Peter Enns (Cornell) and Patrick Wohlfarth (University of Maryland) have a forthcoming article (ungated) in the Journal of Politics that makes a similar point to the one I made in a blog post earlier today, except that it is based on real data and analysis. Below is the abstract:
In the Supreme Court's most closely divided cases, one pivotal justice can determine the outcome. Given this fact, judicial scholars have paid substantial attention to the swing justice. This paper makes two theoretical contributions to the study of the swing justice and this justice's resulting influence on case outcomes. First, we show that in a substantial number of cases, the justice that casts the pivotal vote is not the median justice on the Court. Second, we argue that the swing justice will typically rely less on attitudinal considerations and more on strategic and legal considerations than the other justices on the Court. The analysis suggests that even among the Court's most closely divided decisions, which are typically thought to reflect the Court's most ideologically driven outcomes, the pivotal swing vote is significantly less likely to reflect attitudinal predispositions and more likely to reflect strategic considerations, such as the public's preferences, and case–specific considerations such as the position advocated by the Solicitor General. The theory and findings suggest that a failure to consider the unique behavior of a pivotal actor—whether on the Supreme Court or any other decision making body—can lead to incorrect conclusions about the determinants of policy outputs.
The Court may be correct in its implicit judgment that Congress chose the path of least resistance in reauthorizing section 4(b) without making substantial revisions. But that is how electorally accountable institutions operate. To suggest that Congress should have done more is naive at best, and the Court fails to offer a remedy that reflects the realities of lawmaking.
That is Scott Adler and John Wilkerson on the Shelby County decision. More here.
It has been rather challenging for legal scholars to portray the Supreme Court opinions of the past few days as somehow following logically from precedent or even from the past judgments of individual justices. As University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner puts it on Slate:
[..] trying to find a jurisprudential explanation for this opinion, like the opinions in Fisher and Shelby Country, is a fool's errand. Same-sex marriage is advancing while affirmative action is receding because that's what the relevant majorities of the justices care about.
There is an intriguing alternative, or perhaps complementary, explanation: that gay rights are advancing while affirmative action is receding in the Court because that's what the American public wants. This argument is implied by Patrick Egan's terrific post here yesterday.[1]
But why would the Court respond to public opinion? Judges are not elected by the public. Isn't the purpose of a counter-majoritarian institution precisely that it does not follow swings in public mood? Still, political scientists have amassed an impressive array of evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the Court follows changes in public opinion. But why?
The following guest post is by Duke political scientist Bahar Leventoglu.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a unanimous decision on May 28, 2013 that "impossibility for married women to use just their maiden name is discriminatory."[1] I was the complainant in this case. In my application to the court, I claimed that the fact that Turkish law allowed married men but not married women to use just their last name[2] after marriage was discrimination based on sex. In particular, I relied on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention of Human Rights. The court agreed.
This long legal journey lasted almost 9 years. Here, I want to share my experience, which I hope will attest to how far we still need to go when women's rights are concerned.
Not too long ago it appeared as if exercises of extraterritorial (and universal) jurisdiction by domestic courts were going to be the method of choice to hold individual and corporate violators of human rights accountable for their misdeeds. Belgian courts were convicting Rwandans who had partaken in the Rwandan genocide, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón used Spanish courts to prosecutor General Pinochet and other human rights violators in Latin America, and in the United States individuals used the Alien Tort Statute to obtain financial compensation from foreign and U.S. companies for human rights violations committed abroad.
While the idea is certainly not dead, the trend in the past decade has moved in the opposite direction. Belgium repealed its universal jurisdiction law and introduced greater political control after complaints were brought against Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush. Spain too curtailed its universal jurisdiction law and Baltasar Garzon was expulsed from the judiciary. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that diplomatic immunity prevented Belgian court from prosecuting the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sovereign immunity means that Italian courts cannot allow suits for compensation from Germany over war crimes committed during World War II. And yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not provide extraterritorial jurisdiction, thus seriously limiting future U.S. lawsuits for human rights abuses committed by companies abroad.
While human rights lawyers are frantically trying to figure out what opportunities remain, it is hard not to see a common trend here that is driven by Realist reasoning, such as that expressed most famously by Henry Kissinger. Both the Belgian and the Spanish parliaments were clearly motivated by a desire to avoid the kind of diplomatic troubles they found themselves in as a consequence of the actions of their courts. International courts such as the ICJ and the European Court of Human Rights have also afforded great respect for sovereignty as the fundamental principle of international relations even in cases that concern fundamental human rights violations such as torture and war crimes.
Yesterday's Supreme Court opinion is also littered with Realist reasoning. For example, the Court finds that:
The presumption against extraterritoriality guards against our courts triggering such serious foreign policy consequences, and instead defers such decisions, quite appropriately, to the political branches.
[..] applying U. S. law to pirates does not typically impose the sovereign will of the United States onto conduct occurring within the territorial jurisdiction of another sovereign, and therefore carries less direct foreign policy consequences.


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Secretary of State Sees 13 Percent Increase in Business Filings
The state of the State of South Dakota Business climate is good. And is expected to get better in the coming months.
According to Secretary of State Shantel Krebs South Dakota has seen a 13 Percent Increase in business filings as of the end of 2017 which amounts to its highest mark since 2013.
What is the reason for the increase? A new online business filing system implemented at the end of the 2016 calendar year.
"My goal when I took over this office in 2015 was to make it operate at the speed of business, not at the speed of government," stated Secretary Krebs. "We moved from paper filings that were over six weeks behind when I took office to an online service for today's fast-paced business world where you can form a business within 15 minutes and have your certificate in hand."
Of the LLCs that formed in calendar year 2017, 81 percent formed online utilizing the new system implemented by Secretary Krebs.
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I face an all too familiar dichotomy with the coastal scents palettes, I put this down to my personality. I both like and dislike having that much choice, does that make sense? Do you look at large palettes and feel a sense of panic about having to use them but also a sense of relief that you don't have to mix and match colours on the fly?
As per usual with the palettes and hot pots, there is a massive choice of colours, textures and finishes (matte or shimmer) in small 1cm diameter pans. The eye shadows are well pigmented although the lighter colours are powdery but work well with a primer or base over the eyelid.
Here are four of my favourites, they don't have names so I've named them! Plummy, Stormcloud, Nectarine, 24 Carat. I can see myself using these all year round.
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Diana Nyad to walk across America to help end obesity
Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad is determined to halt the obesity epidemic in America.
To do so, she's taking to the land, seemingly disproving the notion that professional swimmers are less than spectacular when out of the water. Nyad and her best friend Bonnie Stoll plan a walk across America in 2016. Nyad hopes to lure a million Americans to join her team at points along the way as they stroll from the Pacific to the Atlantic. First Lady Michelle Obama will walk the last five miles with the group, Nyad said.
Nyad's purpose is to spark a national dialogue about the obesity problem. Hopefully, "America becomes a nation of walkers … and gets keyed into obesity and all the diseases that come with it," she said. "Start working it as a real social movement in this country and bring all those numbers down."
Tall order. But she's used to setting big goals. Don't bet against her.
Still, the numbers she faces are formidable. In 1980, adolescent Type 2 diabetes was unheard of; by 2010, more than 50,000 children 18 and younger were diagnosed. Health experts project that by the 2030s nearly 95 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese and that by 2050, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in three Americans will be diagnosed with diabetes. Most of this weight gain will be as a result of poor dietary choices — such as eating processed foods and sugar consumption, combined with sedentary lifestyles.
Nyad, of course, is not about to become a statistic. She is most famous for her repeated attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. She succeeded on her fifth attempt in a record-setting 110-mile, 53-hour swim from Cuba to Key West on Labor Day 2013. She became the first person to do so without a shark cage. Her first try to make that landmark crossing across the Florida Straits was in 1978.
After reaching her goal, Nyad, 65, then competed on the 18th season of Dancing With the Stars in March 2014. She was the first celebrity to be eliminated in the second week of competition, a disappointment she attributes to a wardrobe malfunction of another sort.
"They put me in a fat lady's matron's dress," she said in a telephone interview. "I don't have a dancer's body but my body is not a bad body for my age. I should have been in something younger, sexier than they wanted to portray me. I was never going to win, but with a little better props from their side I might have made it into the fourth or fifth week."
Still, the DWTS ballroom dancing experience was a dream fulfilled, Nyad said. She loved the hardcore, month-long training sessions of eight- to 10-hour days with pro Russian dancer Henry Byalikov and the kale salads she consumed for breakfast daily. "The immersion was magical; it was so worth the whole thing."
Last weekend, she premiered her one-woman stage show, Onward! The Diana Nyad Story, in Key West, where she recreated her Cuba to Key West swim through theater atmospherics, stage design, the script she wrote and some singing. She hopes to take the show to theaters across the country and eventually land it on Broadway.
A day before the premiere, the super athlete, who says she is doing more walking than swimming these days in preparation for next year's event, quipped, "I think it's an evening where people will leave saying, 'Wow. I knew she was a good swimmer but she can sing and tell a good story.' "
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Every year, new ideas emerge on how to live, how to be successful, and how to stay positive and overcome adversity. In fact, according to Wikipedia, over 1,100 self-help books were written in 2007 alone. Stephen Covey's original 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book was released in 1989, and he has gone on to write several variations targeting very specific populations, but all using his original 7 habits.
Covey's approach is simple and straightforward: He sees principles as external and absolute, and values as internal and subjective. In his "Effective Family" version, Covey mirrors his original by patiently spelling out each habit in detail, providing stories and examples to give tangibility to his ideas and overall direction.
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Bootleg Exhibitions' fourth show Carnival is a one-night only multiple-artist exhibition featuring contemporary art and live music from local band, The Accordions. Invited artists were asked to interpret themes of amusement, games, fair rides, clowns, freaks and sideshows. The exhibition will include sculpture, photography, paintings, and drawings addressing these themes. Complimentary beer will be available from Pendleton, Indiana brewer, Sean Tucker of Reluctant Hoosier Brewing. Participating artists include locals Greg Hull, Brose Partington, Brad Dilger, Andrew Perry Davis, Erin Harper Vernon, Michele Signorino, Aaron Leif Nicholson, Stacey M. Holloway, Kipp Normand, Deanne Roth, Tyler Meuninck, and Jason Bord. Out-of-state participants include Michael Wickerson from Kansas City, Missouri, Araan Schmidt of Bowling Green, Ohio, Mary Johnson of St. Paul, Minnesota, James Darr of Nashville Tennesee, and Andy Hunter of San Diego, California. In conjunction with Carnival, Ben Valentine will be showing his Museum of Mobile Art (MoMA), a related exhibition taking place in a U-Haul in the Bootleg Exhibitions parking lot.
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Physical and mental health impacts of household gardens in an urban slum in Lima, Peru
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Background: Rural poverty and lack of access to education has led to urban migration and fed the constant growth of urban slums on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. These informal settlements suffer from public access to water and sanitation, informal land rights, food and water insecurity, all of which contribute to poorer health outcomes. We explored the feasibility of implementing household gardens using participatory design methods and examined the impact of increased green space on wellbeing. Methods: Between September 2013 and September 2014, we conducted a repeated measures longitudinal study with 29 community members in an informal settlement of 82 households in Lima, Peru. We assessed changes in physical and mental health after participatory design and construction of household gardens. Anthropometric data and a composite of five validated mental health surveys were collected at baseline, 6-months, and 12-months after garden construction. Results: Twelve months after garden construction, we found significant increases from baseline in all domains of quality of life—physical (p<0.01), psychological (p=0.05), social (p=0.02), and environmental (p=0.02)—in overall social capital (p<0.01), and perceived stress (p<0.01). Life threatening experiences decreased compared to baseline significantly (p=0.02). There were no significant changes in parent or partner empathy (p=0.21), BMI (p=0.95), waist circumference (p=0.18), or blood pressure (p=0.66) at 6 or 12 months. Fasting blood glucose increased at 6-months (p=0.04), but this change was not maintained at 12-months (p=0.59). Conclusions: Improved access to green space in the form of a household garden can significantly improve mental health in a slum setting.
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For a few years now I have enjoyed photographing butterflies at home and on holiday. Before we go anywhere on holiday I try to find out as much as I can about the butterflies there. Sometimes this proves very difficult, so I thought I should start a blog to keep a record of what I have seen. I hope that this information will be useful to others.
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I've always loved your detailed shots, and this time the eggs are amazing. They are so clear. What macro lens did you use for that? And the butterflies are lovely, but that bridge and ledge is truly scary i might not be able to join you if we were together for the butterflies, haha!ReplyDeleteReplies
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No macro lens, but just my trusty little compact Canon camera. It is much better at close-ups than my Lumix, which has a very wide-angled lens, so has to almost be touching the subject on macro. Then it shades the subject.
The walk way felt surprisingly secure. There were two long sections with a lovely walk through the valley in between. Highly recommended, but the kids did suffer in the heat!!
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A great array of Malaga butterflies, I especially love the Long-tailed Blues!
Must have been quite a rewarding trip, photos wise!
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It was very pleasing seeing all of the different species there, even if they were all butterflies that I have seen there before. It is interesting to see how they occur in different numbers on each visit, but usually I see the same species. There were some notable exceptions this year including Holly Blue and Cleopatra. My day in Sierra Nevada was sensational. I'll try to post about that soon.
Hello Nick!:) Lovely photos! :) You are so clever at finding the butterflies, but what is even more incredible is you find the eggs as well!!. I have never seen an egg on any plant, but perhaps it's because I'm not sure where to look, or if I would be able to recognize one. Your post has been helpful in this respect. The weather here has been lovely and warm. One day this week the temp rose to 30degrees. There are still a lot of small butterflies in the garden, Short and Long tailed Blues, Small Whites, Speckled Woods and the occasional Grayling. What an amazing view in your last shot. I will look forward to seeing more Sierra Nevada photos in your next post.:)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Sonjia, I enjoy just watching the butterfly behaviour as much as photographing them and it is interesting how often I have seen them laying eggs. If they appear to be lingering on a plant which isn't in flower, or behaving a bit strangely I often find that they are actually laying eggs. Great to hear that you still have butterflies flying there. I have actually received a few local records over the last few days, but not seen anything myself.Delete
Beautiful photos as always, Nick! Malaga seems to be thick with butterflies... or you're just great at finding them :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Sunita, there is a good variety of butterflies in the area. I would love to go there in the Spring to see the wild flowers and see how different the butterflies are then.Delete
These are amazing, I love the plants too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Maria. The plants in Southern Spain are great, particularly up in the mountains.Delete


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Combining Innovative Renewable and Native American Technologies in the Design of a Sustainable Outdoor ClassroomEPA Grant Number: SU834298
Title: Combining Innovative Renewable and Native American Technologies in the Design of a Sustainable Outdoor Classroom
Investigators: Fitch, John
Current Investigators: Fitch, John , Bayona, Laura , Brookbank, Ryan , Stacy, Heidi
Institution: Florida Gulf Coast University
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RFA: P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet (2009) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: P3 Challenge Area - Built Environment , P3 Challenge Area - Energy , Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development , Tribal Environmental Health Research , P3 Awards , Sustainability
(1) to integrate Seminole Tribal building technology with emerging innovative renewable technologies to create a productive sustainable "outdoor" learning classroom; and (2) to use the energy of the design process to create an innovative learning opportunity for all project participants.
(1) to identify important sustainable technologies embodied in the Seminole "chickee" design; (2) to identify potential innovative renewable technologies compatible with the "chickee" design; (3) to bring together stakeholders including college and K-6 students and faculty, Seminole building experts, and sustainable energy experts in "charrettes" to evaluate technological opportunities, to design the classroom, to build a scale model, and to develop a monitoring plan to evaluate its effectiveness.
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We were searching a good place to talk, have some intimate moments. It's been six months we were seeing each other. Now, we needed to talk and plan for our future. My parents were giving constant pressure saying I was running out of my age for marriage.
Rahul bought a new motor cycle. We thought of going to the nearby hill top. We planned to catch up the sunset too. Roads were not good…a bit muddy. Narrow lane through big pine trees….. In few places, it was just up and up….and the edges were quite sharp. We took more time than expected. We saw few wood cutters on our way…who were coming down from the forest area. They gave some awkward looks at us as if they were wondering why we were going towards that side.
We reached the top….there was silence, such as might have existed before the birth of sound. We saw one sign-board – "This is the Zenith point.Don't cross this point, you will be at risk."
From that point, there was a slope…. There was a big tree beside that board. And the grass were quite smooth. We sat there, and took out our eatables.
Suddenly, my mobile phone rang. I had kept it in the grass. I picked it up to receive the call. Oops! It slipped from my hand, fell down in the sloping…..I could see it rolling down the lane….and stuck in a tree few feet down to us.
We were helpless…what to do now….Should we go down and bring it ….We were confused. It was still day time, so why to worry….!!!
Rahul walked down…..My heart seemed to stop beating and then the worst came….A double flash of lightening with a crash of loudest thunder, all of a sudden. The thunder pealed and echoed across the hill and among the distant forests. The flood-gates of heaven suddenly opened and let out their rain in streaming torrents.
I could see Rahul going down and down.
The drops started falling down with a rapid rushing sound upon me . A moment later an another flash, even more brighter and of longer duration than the first, lit up the sky from zenith to horizon and bathed the place momentarily in dazzling whiteness.
I quickly went closer to the tree, tried to save myself as much as possible, from the rain and wind.
Now, I could not see Rahul anymore….
Now, I could not see Rahul anymore….
The rain stopped. I could see the rain glistering on the leaves and branches. I shouted Rahul loud so many times…..my voice echoed from every side……But, no response from Rahul….I screamed…..cried my heart out and loud…I decided to go down to find him…..
I slowly started walking down with my bare foot....
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The Witcher 3 Head 2 Head
Well we are at one of the biggest releases of the year and a highly anticipated head 2 head of cd project red's latest and final entry into the Geralt trilogy.This is not only the first time that the studio have been thrust into the AAA stadium from an early VGX trailer and then an E3 first onstage with Microsoft last year showing of the then debut glimpse of the game running on consoles.
Roll on nearly a year later and we have it finally in our hands and ready to get lost in the huge open world they have a created, the first time for the game and the team and it must be said a superb job that they have achieved at their first attempt.
But this is not the only new challenge for the team, along with the huge effort that would be needed for this they have also now released across 3 formats at once helped in part by some 3rd party middleware solutions that create such a dense world from the trees and foliage (this allows the software to randomise the allocation, physics and interaction dynamically within the software rather than an artist hand placing each bushel or shrub) along with this the same umbra culling engine used in another vast draw distance game AC unity is also used that handles the removal (culling) of geometry when no longer within the players view, in fact this was a talk that the team gave a while back going into detail on how this helps with performance. Some may not like how aggressive it can be at times within the frustum as nearby trees disappear inches from the player but in combat this is a help, something that can be random at times and not across all objects as interior battles can still get obscured by foreground objects not culled in time. But overall the solutions work well and integrates into cd project red's own engine pretty seamlessly. Being an engine that has been updated over the teams last witcher 2 release but maybe not as far as the early demo had shown but more on that later.
What was a DX9 render has now been added to with a host of DX11 extras that help push the game into such a visually splendid affair. Lighting is improved with an implementation of a physically based shader that allows materials to interact with light more accurately than before, ground is tessellated to allow a more dense and organic look to ruts, ridges and rocks. This tessellation is also carried over to the impressive water in the game but the consoles seem to have a mixed version going on that I will detail later. But on ultra or high then it reacts to you, objects to it and ripples, distorts and moves based on storms or other forces of nature. It helps immerse you more in the world with another area of this vivid land no mans or not Geralt can still go above or below. When under water a light screen distortion is used along with again on high at least a screen space reflection of the player that also appears on consoles.
On drier plains the world seems to stretch as far as the eye can see, with pop in and LOD being of particular praise when the foliage range is high enough (this being high which both consoles run the foliage at) allowing you to ride or run with no jarring draw in as you do so. Ultra setting here on PC needs a good machine but pushes this even further along while adding more into the far distance which although only minor is welcome and sums up the benfits to the top end PC version well. The team is first and foremost a PC developer (with this being the first launch on a Sony machine, witcher 2 had a bespoke X360 release that was commendable) and this rightly shows with a good selection of options in the menu along with simple ini changes allowed within the games root folders to tweak further still. And in here I am sure the team have played with a GPU analyser to best set the defaults for the presets and on consoles but before we edge into performance across machines we need to look at where each machine lies.
First up the lighting and post processing effects are all equal on both consoles to the highest on PC. This includes strong bloom effects from sun or light as it bounces of objects like the bark of a tree, shafts of light emit through tree lines and are broken by any manor of occluders. This is enhanced by long shadows from all objects creating some of the stunning looks in the game as the winds billows through trees, long shadows can be seen dancing on the ground and through long grass, it all combines at times to create some stunning shots and vistas. And this would not be complete without one of the most impressive and natural weather systems I have seen in a game.
As has become the norm, wetter is better in visuals but CDP have refrained from simply having an on-off weather system, instead following something similar to hideo kojima's Fox Engine where the sky dynamically changes as the weather draws in.
The sky will slowly darken, spots of rain will be seen. The wind will pick up and clouds cover the sun before a downpour or lighter shower ensue. This along with the linear lighting system work flow allowed by its High dynamic range means that saturation levels of light and colour can be used to enhance this more along with emulating GI within the engine, enabling the image to be contrasted more accurately. The game uses image based lighting which are sensor probes dotted around the world that effectively take a cubemap snapshot allowing more dynamic and accurate light effects within play.
These are bolstered by camp fires and the like being shadow emitting sources that even in daylight allow dual shadows for characters nearby, this is present across all versions with PC needing at least high shadows for this to work. As the sky's become dark the locals even fire up torches to see, these again reflect off of scenery, Gerald's armour. The game uses a good amount of dynamic point lights in addition to the sun or moon.
The rain effects also include characters becoming wet and enhancing reflectance which carries over into the real-time cutscenes. These are dotted with some of the bigger moments in the game using pre-rendered (but in-engine) sequences that can be delivered a little jarringly on all formats but the consoles seem to be worse.
While we mentions shadows as you may have seen from my 1st contact of the XboxOne version patch 1.01 (which both console versions are installed with for this analysis) altered both AF and AO in the game, but this only affected cutscenes with both consoles running the PC SSAO option with Nvidia based HBAO+ being an option to add a further improvement to this effect but outside of Nvidia cards I would advise leaving it off as the benefit is incredibly minor and can be not worth the performance hit on certain cards. Except here where it adds much more shadow depth to foliage which is very nice and is the only time I have seen its use make a visible difference in play, in cutscenes it still remains a hard to spot addition for the cost.
But this start also highlights some of the odd issues on console, here you can see that both ps4 and X1 have lower shadow quality and AO than even the lowest PC setting which, as in earlier scenes and later tested ones, this is not the case with consoles looking to be equal to medium shadows and SSAO. And the game has other signs of maybe just a little more time was needed before launch. Texture loading can be much slower at points on both consoles as here, with even my A10 APU PC complete with R7 on chip GPU not effected by this even at ultra textures which use less than 2gb of VRAM at any point. And loading needs a special mention as when you die on PC this can take around 5-15 seconds max that I have tested, with both consoles regularly falling into around 5 times longer, yes some loading times can take over a minute and this includes on my PS4 which I am able to swap to a hybrid drive still not improved by this. Now these are minor and do not effect the game or enjoyment any (unless of course you are crap and die a lot) but these areas and some others later give me the feeling that the consoles versions are just alittle behind the development cycle than the PC version, just as we saw with Dying Light.
This is not a dig at all but more an acknowledgment of such an epic scaled task the team had taken on and predominately they have delivered a superb job across all platforms. But I expect later patches to come that will tweak and improve some areas of the game along with performance improvements (as we have already seen on PC with a hair works patch) as I they work through the changes these consoles have along with development environment. Some thing the team have acknowledged themselves with them stating a game made not across platform and fixed to one or other would enable greater fidelity, as obviously a cross platform engine has to make comprises for all not unsurprisingly as I have said many times before, and this has been a PC developed game ported to consoles.
This brings me to another oddity with texture work again on consoles being a mix of high and medium which is odd as I say due to the amount of ram being used and available, but the game does edge out of its allotment as you play with VRAM never exceeding 1.8gb of use in my tests but system ram can fill into the 6gb + Mark, note not all of this will be game usage mind on longer plays so may explain some of this with the central pool of ram on consoles may be with the engine issues a conservative choice was made here. High textures are the same as ultra it is just that ultra is loaded most of the time to reduce streaming. And this is my thought that it is a loading issue, as sometimes the console textures are the same as the best on PC (cutscenes are always identical for example) and others the mip map seems to fail on load so you are left with medium mainly on ground areas the inconsistency of this leads me to believe it is more of an API related issue that may get patched later.(see below)
Elsewhere we see that grass density is equal to medium on consoles with high and ultra being close, you have to look to see this as here demonstrates. Terrain seems to match around high with detail level being really one I struggled to find any change within but in terms of AF the PS4 seems to run 8x with the XboxOne varying at times between 4 and 8 dependent on the scene in play.
Water is another mixture with consoles running the effects from high like interaction and tessellated movement but lose shown additional shader work on surface that even the lowest setting on PC has, they also lose the interaction with spells like the force blast that ripples when PC is set to at least high with no effect on consoles, this may come in a further patch. The XboxOne seems to have a slightly better version of water than ps4 being closer to the PC but still not quite a fixed set. Playing with the ini settings more may explain this further that I will cover in an eventual catch up final verdict video on the game as I foresee some performance patches incoming as the game still feels like it has come in a little warm in places.
But these minor areas are exactly that with the bulk of the games delivery and visual punch delivered on console. And with all the settings taken care of we can move into the more important performance side. The unlocked frame rate on XBOxOne (the PS4 is capped at 30) is another sign of quick wins for launch. This will allow the X1 slightly more headroom when a drop happens and with the engine supporting both deferred and forward + rendering it seems to favour deferred here, and with the limited buffer space on X1 a frame drop or 2 could lower the Fps more so than when at 30+ which it spends most of its time achieving, but capping this means the drops would all be from 30. The PS4 has this cap and predominately is the smoother presentation for it, with game play being more consistent on the Sony platform, something I know many will struggle to get. But as I went through in my game patch video and as seen heavily in Bloodborne a constant even delivery of frames is preferred over a see-saw delivery, this reaches a plateau around the 40's as an average, if this happens then unlocked is better (although again subjective some may still prefer a cap at 30 even here) but the X1 never gets this average, mostly around the mid 35 but it stays above 30 most of the time and is better at achieving this than the PS4 due ,in part, to its unlocked rate.
This is not to say the PS4 struggles in play, as it stays at the 30 target most of the time, but while riding through fields it can drop a frame here and there from streaming which is more of an engine issue as this effects all platforms equally but the PS4 is the only one capped without choice at 30 so is easier to spot. The only other area is the cut scenes which are very varied even on my GTX970/i5 rig, whip on hair works and this can bring frame rates tumbling into the 20's but it is great that the team are pushing visual tricks like this if you have the machine, I feel that hair works is in a very unrefined state at present with as was seen with AMD version Tressfx it will be improved and used to better effect with less performance zapping use whilst optimising it to achieve very similar visuals results. Right now the use of it is a subjective one, I personally prefer the look of Gerald's hair without but his beard does look better, but in game play the ability to notice either is very rare but the performance impact is not so discreet as demonstrated here with the griffin battle, in near as damn it conditions it can have up to 20fps difference in like for like examples, best kept for Sli Titan rigs or further optimised versions in my opinion. Particle effects now all look equal on console and PC best with both density and lifetime being equal allowing you to ramp up the spells with some nice pyrotechnics that also include light source as they do.
With hairworks off and all settings to ultra aside shadows which never seems to change to any notable degree from medium to ultra, but can affect the fps by a few frames, if you want the speed leave these at medium or high (as I have done on the GTXwith all my other machines aside the entry level A10 being low on everything and all post effects off with a 1360x768 sweet spot of resolution set) as you will struggle to see any major difference. But at ultra everywhere else and hair works off my 970 is the best way to experience the game with a near 60 in play aside certain areas like the swamp lands or cut scenes that can bring it down to the low 40's and high 30's but predominantly it performs well.
All other machines vary and aside my 8350/7870 machine all really need a cap to 30. The AMD machine can hover around the 40's in play and feels good enough to leave unlocked with all settings here on high and SSAO it Performs well, turning hair works needs you to tweak the tessellation setting to 8x or override in the driver panel and it can still run it but as seen on the GTX machine it will eat performance and ask for seconds, best left to beefier rigs and when AMD can look at the code from the Nvidia black box solution as the game does have this use of physics x in the game which I believe handles the console versions also so. All this will run on the GPU or on AMD machines passed to the CPU most likely, and the game is not a CPU killer like it is for the GPU. All machines run the card at near 100% command buffer use most of the time but CPU even on my A10 APU is left with room to spare, 1 core is only tapped on occasion even with my 750ti card in use no core is ever maxed out which shows how hard the game pushes GPU. With a dual core being enough for this game and a quad core or more not entirely needed or even excessively used over 4 cores.
The 750ti machine at the same settings as consoles puts in a close enough performance to be equal, helped by its unlocked rate it does dip more often under 30 than the Ps4 and due to its unlocked state performs slightly better than the XboxOne version as my frame graph shows the line spikes more up than down with the X1 being slighty more volatile here, something as I say I feel will be patched soon as they work on the game. But as the game and console already shows, here I have rendered a 30fps capped version for each odd frame showing at a solid 30 is possible even in the heavy Bog area so hopefully the team will get this cap and lock in soon which will help the only real weakness for the XboxOne version aside the resolution dip.
Which brings me to the AA used in the game, CDP have used a custom FXAA solution in the game that works well added to with a temporal pass for each frame, as it uses a standard deferred render using msaa is not an option with even a driver override failure. But it covers shimmer and sub pixel noise well with only occasional misses like on texture work as seen on the bridge here. The ps4 seems clearer that the PC version here, even with the additional blur post effect off and sharpening on distant objects can appear alittle softer. The XboxOne in comparison comes off slightly worse here due to its lower resolution buffer giving the solution slightly more work to do with less but only really effects in distant trees and thinner objects and mostly goes by unnoticed.
As you can see in my detailed analysis cutscenes are the biggest impact on performance and I would imagine the areas most ripe for performance increases throughout the engine with the Ps4 having the biggest stutters here which again point to its unique graphics API helped by its 30 cap. This means that it can have some prolonged dips where all other versions have an advantage of the unlocked framerate and direct X pipeline meaning that although it is a issue on all formats and hardware it effects the PC and XboxOne less so. But in the far more effected gameplay it balances out that the XboxOne can feel worse on occasions ,this is as much the dips as the camera movement and Animation blending through key frames again that effects all platforms just less so when you reach the 60 heights of my high end machine. Movement can feel more binary than analogue with Geralt moving from walk to run in a sudden leap, and the camera movement again suffers from this digital response that I am sure this being worked on. If this is resolved and a more linear path for this transition is used it will improve the perceived smoothness of the game throughout.
The A10/750Ti machine runs close to the ps4 with the swamp area showing the biggest dip being constantly under 30 on the Nvidia machine, but aside this in general play at the same settings it delivers a similar level of performance and fidelity and equals the Sony machine for 3rd place.
My AMD machine comes in a solid second and delivers at times a similar level to the gtx machines and is certainly more consistent than the other versions.
But no surprise and commendable to the team that it has allowed its game to push some minor but welcome benefits if you have the hardware and the i5 gtx machine comes top (as it should being a high end machine) in delivering the peak level of the witcher wild hunt. This is not to say any other version loses out drastically with the double frame rate being its single biggest advantage with the other small improvements being minor but very welcome.
But it would not be right unless I mentioned the original 2013 version and the changes from that version to now. It is clear that the game has undergone some changes, with the rendered looking to have been competent changed. The old engine used a far more dense lighting system incorporating Global Illumination with full bounce and diffuse calculations. Much richer particle system and far denser topology models, you can see the entire redesign of the armour. The group thought for this is "console" caused this which is to some extent true as the team have already stated the game as it stands would not exists without the console market.
But it is not the console that have caused this change as much as time, effort and budget. The engine itself was experimental and was running in a very high end machine (far more than my gtx or even more rigs) and would simply not run on 99% of machines in the public domain, it becomes a very bad business practise to make a game no one can run. But it is early in this generation and with CDP working on its next game cyberpunk 2077 expect far more improve to to the engine here and some of these missed features to make a more optimised appearance.
I will do a video that covers this in more detail shortly but rest assured that what we have here is a grand farewell to the Geralt story that delivers an incredibly rich and dense world that feels lived in and nearly as rugged as out anti-hero. And the experience is as epic, action packed and exciting no matter which platform you choice and hopefully I have explained all the pro's and cons of each so you can make you own informed decision.
I will have my review up soon and I would also like to thank Cd project Red for sending me a review copy this week which greatly helps me in my aim.


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Saracens name team to face Wasps
Saracens have named their side for Saturday's round 18 Aviva Premiership game away to London Wasps, kick-off 15h00.
Saracens captain Steve Borthwick is set to equal George Chuter's all-time Premiership appearances record this weekend, with the 34-year-old lock forward due to play his 262nd English Premiership game at Adams Park. He captains the side from lock and is partnered in the second row by Mouritz Botha.
Elsewhere in the Saracens eight, Jamie George and Matt Stevens replace Schalk Brits and James Johnston at hooker and tighthead prop respectively, whilst Scotland captain Kelly Brown comes in for Jacques Burger at openside flanker.
At half-back, Neil de Kock and Charlie Hodgson come into the side with Richard Wigglesworth and Owen Farrell reverting to the bench.
Scotland international Duncan Taylor partners Brad Barritt in the midfield, whilst the Saracens back three remains unchanged from last weekend's team, with Chris Ashton, Alex Goode and David Strettle all starting at Adams Park.
Saracens side to face London Wasps;
15. Alex Goode; 14. Chris Ashton, 13. Duncan Taylor, 12. Brad Barritt, 11. David Strettle; 10. Charlie Hodgson, 9. Neil de Kock; 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Jamie George, 3. Matt Stevens, 4. Steve Borthwick ©, 5. Mouritz Botha, 6. Jackson Wray, 7. Kelly Brown, 8. Ernst Joubert.
Replacements; 16. Schalk Brits, 17. Richard Barrington, 18. James Johnston, 19. George Kruis, 20. Jacques Burger, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Owen Farrell, 23. Marcelo Bosch.


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Two of Cups/Page of Swords reversed. Today I may be focusing on harmonious unions, and I need to remember that those unions are not necessarily external. I may need to stop analyzing and stop worrying about what could be, and instead try learning for learning's sake.
My Thoth card is the Seven of Cups. "Debauch" is my card today, and it tells of the delusions of delirium and the mire of false pleasures.
My Legacy card is the Knight of Cups reversed. This Knight plunges to the depths of the ocean as far as emotions are concerned, but in his enthusiasm he sometimes forgets to bring an extra air tank. Three Cups cards today; too much emotion, too many feelings! I need to dry up some of this water! Thankfully, the Fire of this Knight, while mostly diluted, might help a little.
My horoscope: "You will have a day of profound reflection. While you may be tempted to look back and think about how far you have come in the last months, your time would be better spent thinking about what the future has in store for you. You have entered a period of rethinking both your identity and your objectives. These are not small changes. You will need every ounce of energy at your disposal to make it through this time of transition."
The leaves are changing on the dogwood tree across the street, I actually put on socks and shoes today instead of sandals, and I wore a light jacket. Fall is in the air, and I am very much ready to begin the inner focus of Winter. I really feel as if my focus has always bordered on the inner, even during the height of the Summer months.
It has been a strange couple of days. I have not ever experienced such a difficult Mercury Retro that I can remember. But it's over!! *heavy sigh* I can relax now, I hope.
I spent the evening doing Tarot readings within the Sacred Mists Psychic and Divinatory Alliance, using my Legacy of the Divine Tarot. I just love the way my readings flow when I use this deck. I think this is at least in part because the images on the cards have been created through the medium of digital fantasy. All of my focuses of late on the "online self" created when we interact through the internet, and indeed my thoughts regarding the internet being a part or layer of the astral plane seem to be connected to these digital fantasy images and the ease with which I interpret them.
The internet is incredible. We can't see it or hear it or touch it, and we don't even need to have wires that act as tethers and umbilicals; now our connection to the internet is as wireless as our connection to the astral planes. Whole communities, complete with infrastructure and inhabitants, live and exist within the internet, supported and fed by the human minds who created them; these communities are affected by belief and by visualizations and by individual interpretations. They are fluid and changeable and they are powerful, and their effects are able to penetrate the veil between the realms and manifest within our physical world.
How incredibly fascinating. And these cards, whose images are created through a digital process and show images that are fantasy (I would say "images that are not real," but then again, reality is in the eye of the beholder) are actually residents or tools of the astral realm we call the internet that are able to bridge the gap between the astral and the physical. Just like any one of my altar tools or the music that I play as a background to my workings or rituals or the carefully chosen words that describe them, these cards have become a vehicle that easily carries me to a place that is not a place and a time that is not a time.
**Grin** Have I said how much I like this deck?


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Sunday, May 19, 2013
BEDiM 2013 : DAY 19
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I love thunderstorms, too. And it's not just because they are cool. My dog, who is NOT a cuddler, is afraid of thunderstorms, so he will come over and cuddle until they are over. I know, that makes me the worst pet owner ever, wishing for storms to force my dog to cuddle :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Is this Kodi? Hahaha you get fear/sympathy cuddles? Oh no worries... remember I am already on to your pet/animal shenanigans! It may be good you don't have a baby penguin... you may try to keep it in the freezer ;-) Muahahaha!Delete
I love thunderstorms too! The air just feels different...in a really cool and tingly way. Read what you said and want to thank you for the kind words. You were so kind that it's difficult to come up with the right words...so I guess I'll just thank you again. You're very sweet and I'm glad to have met you through A to Z. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Agreed! They are awesome and I've been looking forward to them. This weekend (and maybe another day or two) there has been quite a bit coming through. Then it's back to the hot/muggy nastiness I'm sure :(Delete
Thank you and I am as well!
no no no no thunderstorm no no no...i'll be under the bed if someone is looking for me!ReplyDeleteReplies
Awww you will be fine! Face the thunder! Wait... you need a Thunder Buddy! Yesssssss!Delete


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Sime Vrsaljko joins Inter Milan from Atletico Madrid, who sign Santiago Arias from PSV
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Last Updated: 31/07/18 10:46pm
Sime Vrsaljko has left Atletico Madrid to join Inter Milan on loan, with PSV right-back Santiago Arias replacing him at the Wanda Metropolitano.
Inter will have the option to turn Vrsaljko's loan into a permanent deal, according to Sky in Italy. They had been seeking a replacement for Joao Cancelo, who has joined Serie A rivals Juventus.
Vrsaljko's arrival at Inter could affect Matteo Darmian's future. The San Siro was touted as a possible destination for the want-away Manchester United full-back, but Inter's interest may now have cooled.
Vrsaljko's replacement Arias was the Eredivisie Player of the Year last season, and represented Colombia at this summer's World Cup - where they reached the last-16, losing to England.
PSV signed the 26-year-old form Sporting Lisbon in 2013 and he went on to make 173 appearances for the Dutch club, scoring 10 goals and registering 21 assists.
Arias won the Eredivisie in his final three seasons in the Netherlands, as well as lifting the John Cruyff Shield twice.


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