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Augmented Reality (AR) is readily becoming mainstream. It is being used to broadcast 3D emails, create overlays during sports broadcasts, sending out intuitive messages and what not. It is finding its application almost everywhere, so why not classrooms. While primarily focused on the gaming industry, current statistics show that the demands for consumer based AR products are 33 percent higher than non-augmented reality products and that the students are naturally engaged by how AR can change the world around them.

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Augmented Reality in Education is receiving a lot of attention, nowadays. Multiple AR systems for learning are being produced and tested from empirical studies, often made possible under lab settings.

With that being said, let’s dig into what’s the use of Augmented Reality in the classroom and how it is becoming an integral part of the classroom setting.

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1. Premade Resources

One of the easier implementations of Augmented Reality in classrooms could be premade resources. This kind of content comes as a major help to the educators as it takes away the stress of being involved much in the technological aspect of lesson planning, while still providing students a way to engage with the content. Premade content is a great place to start for educators. For students as well it is a highly intuitive process as they just need a smartphone to bring the pages of the textbook to life.  In fact, numerous companies are coming up with textbooks encoded with AR possibilities. For instance, Carlton Books does AR based books that are so intuitive. Just have a look right here.

2. Custom made Markers

Markers images serve the purpose of displaying Augmented Reality content on or over the surface. There are a number of education applications that make extensive use of AR markers and ensure that Augmented Reality is directly linked to the content of the lesson. The students can point their device camera to the AR textbook pages that the AR app locates and send the query back to their servers. The camera remains pointed at the page where the fiducial serves as a registration device for the movement and orientation of the image which in turn allows the object to move or rotate from any angle. This technology is widely being inculcated in a lot of education apps today. Two popular applications that use this are Aurasma and Layar and are quite easy to set up. Using the Aurasma app students or teachers link the AR trigger “Aura” to an online content which may be a static image, video or a website content. When the viewers scan over the auras they are presented with the online content in a floating window which seems highly engaging for the students.

3. AR-Enabled Worksheets

AR-enabled worksheets allow students to engage with Augmented Reality at the comfort of their homes. This can actually make the tedious process of homework pretty easy for students and they can explore AR as well as the content at their home. AR-enabled worksheets come as an important aspect if the students are to build a positive relationship with education and technology.

4. Faculty Photo Walls

An innovative way to integrate Augmented Reality in the classroom spaces is creating a faculty photo wall, wherein the pictures of the faculties are placed on the display board. And with the help of Augmented Reality students or the visitors can scan through the images to see the images come to life. This is an out of the box way to know more about the teachers and get nearly all possible information related to them.

Word Walls: Apart from Faculty photo walls, students can view meanings and illustrations of a particular key vocab with the use of AR-based word walls in an interactive environment.  And the platform that makes it easy for students is AugThat!. It offers the students the capability to work on their vocabulary. Also, usages of the word and sentence building around it are all given at the power of student’s mobile device.

For the parent’s involvement. Augmented Reality is beneficial in bilateral terms. If it claims to bring tremendous incentives at the student’s end, the parental side is also taken care of. Parents can easily keep a track of regular activities that being held in the school. Also, parents can attach augmented trigger images at their wards desk and boost them with a few words of motivation. As futuristic as it sounds, whats even better is that the parents can have a monthly calendar of events updated by just scanning the school logo of their child’s t-shirt.

5. Rich interaction

If we talk of streamlined education that is communicative in its own way, Augmented Reality finds a different level of reach. One fun Augmented Reality app that is quite popular in schools is Quiver Education App (Formerly known as CoIAR Mix) that uses printed-out colored in pages to present interactive experience to the students through the app. The Quiver education app comprises of colored pages specifically designed for educational purposes.

6. Laboratory Safety

Another method Augmented Reality can bring changes in the Education sector is by enabling Augmented triggers around the Science Laboratory so when students scan through them, they can learn different safety procedures and protocols of the laboratory equipment.

To sum it up we can say that Augmented Reality has limitless possibilities and can be an extensive part of profound learning. Augmented Reality not only changes the environment around the children, it even allows them to construct their own exciting learning worlds around them. The end goal is certainly to develop an engaging and amazing experience that will expand child’s thought ability as well as create a learning adventure.

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New Metro City Kharian Sarai Alamgir is a BSM project situated in the northern Punjab region. There are lots of small schemes inside this city of Gujrat, but New Metro City would be one of the biggest housing projects.

The project will build on this oldest city of Pakistan, unique architectural infrastructure and a comfortable life

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The New Metro City development plan contains all the new infrastructure and has residential as well as commercial connections to encourage neighborhood residents.

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In Kharian, Gujrat, Sarai Alamgir Tehsil ‘s leading city, is located the project. There are no proper housing companies in Gujrat so this project along with a large corporate community would be a huge success.

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Electricity is one of the key features, but electricity supply is a problem for most of the world. Nowadays, most electrical machinery operates so that low power devices are not able to fulfill the needs correctly.

Keeping this in mind, the NMC map has resolved its residents’ problems by providing separate power connections for every plot and building.

Sui Gas:

Sui Gas is another important need for everyday usage in homes after electricity. The low supply of Sui Gas causes many problems because we can’t cook properly and can’t live without fuel. New Metro City has also addressed this issue by providing the option of having a joint or individual link to each residential and commercial property. Also in a similar room, a separate Sui Gas connection may be added to every floor to avoid any discomfort.

Telephone Lines:

New Metro City also offers telephone connections that can be built in the appropriate configuration for those who need this facility in their home or business premises. The continuous telephone service here in the New Metro City provides people the ability to conveniently connect to anywhere in the world.

Here, on the Kharian phase 1 of the New Metro City map, it is simple to reach public transit which solves multiple resident problems. This also provides the BRT Bus Service to its people.

Large Roads:

Walking on the narrow and crowded streets is a major issue, but New Metro City has often considered the dilemma of the residents, in many localities, creating barriers for walking around and parking. This means that you have easy access to broad roads, which can solve both the car park and walking difficulties at a time.

New Metro City also provides its residents with the services of such hospitals to have an ambulance 24/7. Not just the professional staff but all the simple, functional equipment at these hospitals.

Clean Water:

The drinking, bathing, cleaning, or cooking of water is required for every operation of every daily life. It is therefore important that this blessing is ensured that the earth is secure and clean.

This basic need is lacking in many areas, but New Metro City is not only supplying the water but is also cleaning up and purifying it.

The priesthood is a mandatory aspect of all lives to meet the creator and to seek HIS grace and HIS blessing. Each faith has one or the other unique place to pray for the Muslims Masjid (Mosque). This religious need has been also seen in The New Metro City and beautifully clean and tidy mosques in its dreamland have been built. New Metro City sector 1 map shows Jamia Masjid –e- Bilal

New Metro City is not only responsible with its inhabitants’ safety and culture. We have been able to train, rest and indulge with their friends in a number of locations such as clubhouses, malls and multiplex theater, trampoline pool, playgrounds for the youth, and the Theme Aqua park. Current Metro City map displays every group of planned locations.

Schools and Colleges:

Despite the industrial absence, many societies satisfy the basic need for schooling. The people have to go to colleges or hospitals, but in the Modern Metro Region you don’t have to worry about it either. This has made primary, secondary, and college open.

Pleasant Environment:

Gujrat is one of the beautiful cities in Pakistan and the New Metro City has further enhanced its attractiveness. It provides a friendly environment in which people can have a full time of fun and peace of mind. This also features iconic attractions such as Trafalgar Square, Bilal Villas, Glow Gardens, NMC Miracle Garden and several others.

Given the crime situation in the world, security is one of the most important factors. The safety and security of people have also been discussed in New Metro City. The CCTV Cameras are accessible 24/7 and are fitted for surveillance in the Gated Community with the Boundary Wall.

New Metro City Master Plan:

The society has an amazing master plan for sector 1 comprising of several residential and commercial plots for sale, contact expert realtors at thelandassociates to book your plot in New Metro City.

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I Worked for One Day in the Southern California Wilderness on THE ENDLESS and All I Got Was This Lousy Awesome Science Fiction Flick

Picture it: Southern California, 2016. It’s late at night and I’m sitting in the editing bay (also known as a random building at camp) of The Endless, watching Resolution, the first film from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. I’m here to shoot a scene as “Dale,” some character that has been referenced in their previous films. I don’t know much other than that. I’m taking the time to watch Resolution because I’ve never seen it before and the producer of both films, Dave Lawson, has sent me a copy. It’s my research. My research for my lineless cameo. Because, when Billy Ray Brewton commits to a role, he goes all-in. This was to be my Kane. But, instead of my dying words being ‘rosebud,’ they would have been something more like “craft beer.”

All of this to set the stage: I might be a tad biased with this review. True, “Dale” only gets about five seconds of screen time, but I also know the filmmakers…and their producer, their editor, production designer, and 75% of the folks who worked on the picture. But, I like to think I know how to take those facts out of the equation and render an unbiased judgment. I mean, after all, I didn’t care for their second feature, Spring. Didn’t care for it all. If I’m being brutally honest, I fell asleep a couple times and I wasn’t even drunk. So, I certainly don’t mind calling it like I see it, even when it means spitting in the faces of friends.

But The Endless is rad as hell. It’s quirky and awkward and oddly endearing and filled with the sort of scope and ambition that you rarely see in blockbusters, let alone indie films. This film contains the grandiosity that only the creativity forced from a low budget can allow. It shouldn’t look as good as it does, flow as well as it does, or pay off as well as it does. Sitting here right now, I can’t really put my finger on why it works, exactly, other than to just ramble off a few distinct possibilities. But, before I do that, let’s talk about what The Endless is about.

Benson and Moorhead (yeah, the filmmakers) play…you guessed it…Justin and Aaron, two formerly brainwashed members of a Southern California “alien death cult” who are living a less than ideal existence cleaning houses and doing whatever they can to survive. One day, a mysterious video arrives on their doorstep from the cult, igniting in Aaron a desire to return and see how their former friends are doing. A little awkward considering when they left the cult, they bad mouthed them and made them seem like psychotic loons. Nevertheless, the brothers venture back to Camp Arcadia to check in on the group, led by the seemingly wholesome and well-meaning Hal (Tate Ellington). While Aaron is excited to be back among friends, Justin is still weary of the whole thing and wants to leave as soon as possible.

Without spoiling too much, there are some discoveries made of some time loops, and that’s when The Endless starts wearing its sci-fi influences. Justin and Aaron get separated and have to find one another through the endless maze of loops, as Hal and the rest of the group prepare for a very special day known as the “ascension.” There are some tie-ins to previous Benson/Moorhead flicks, and the film goes from a muted character drama about two brothers at odds on how to survive in the world to a special effects-laden science fiction mystery film about a strange and omnipresent creature that governs anything and everything that resides within its world. Doesn’t make a lot of sense? It will. More than you expect. The Endless is sort of like the science fiction version of My Dinner with Andre…but with beer.

There are so many “no-nos” in The Endless for me – so many. Yet, somehow, they work. For starters, I’m generally down on filmmakers casting themselves in their films, and neither Benson nor Moorhead are really actors. But they don’t have to be. They are, essentially, just playing slightly modified versions of themselves and the chemistry they have off-screen translates so well on-screen that you don’t really stop to think about it. Both actors are asked to play two different sides of the same awkward self and each bring their own sense of what “awkward” means, with Moorhead’s venturing more towards “the ignorant” and Benson’s venturing more towards “the isolated.” It’s too bad The Endless won’t be nominated for an MTV Movie Award because we’ve got “Best On Screen Duo” contenders right here.

As the motley assortment of “cult” members, Tate Ellington is low-key and eerily commanding as Hal, the guy everyone calls their leader though he doesn’t seem to think so. Ellington really has to sell the idea of this group and he manages to do it amidst some pretty bizarre ideas that surface throughout. He never once betrays the idea that he is fully committed to what is happening even when it involves speaking in riddles that probably seem head-scratching on the page. He makes them work. I didn’t want to join the group, but I’d certainly hire Hal to do some audio book recordings. Lew Temple has a small role as a beer brewer who stands guard over a secret shack, Shane Brady turns in a whimsically mysterious performance as the group magician who likes to make baseballs disappear, and James Jordan basically steals the whole film for minutes at a time as a fast-talking, foul-mouthed nut job named Shitty Carl.

But what really makes this film stand apart are the technical accomplishments. I’m not used to seeing visual effects this polished in a film this meager in budget. The fire effects, particularly, were impressive as they eclipse most comparable effects in films with 50 times the budget. And, when we finally see a “version” of what the creature is, it’s really terrifying. It works that it’s not explained any more than it is so we can take the image we’re given and project a lot of different ideas onto it. That is what makes something scary. That is what makes something work. Working in conjunction with the generated visuals, the production design is spectacular, creating an odd little world that we’ve never quite seen before. They manage to take some statues and some totems and make us feel like we’ve stepped into some sort of alternate reality. That takes a lot of talented craftsmen working on the same page, which is rarer than you’d expect.

So, why does The Endless work? Apart from the 100 reasons I’ve just given you? I don’t know. I found myself shockingly moved at the end of this film, even though I can’t say I didn’t see where it was going. I respond to stories about brothers – always have. Most of what I write myself is about those relationships. So, it was nice to see a story about brothers told in such an honest and, sometimes, brutally blunt way. There’s a scene at the end outside the car, between Benson and Moorhead, that is so in-your-face with how seemingly cruel it is that you allow yourself to move past it because it’s absolutely 100% something one brother would say to another brother in a moment like that. I call those moments “honesty revelations.” These are the moments that certain characters can get away with because they’ve established a strong and honest enough relationship on-screen to know that we know the emotion underneath. That requires trust in your fellow actor and a hell of a lot of trust in an audience.

Picture it: Southern California, 2016. I’ve just finished shooting my brief little tidbit as a beer distribution guy where I, essentially, just lift kegs in and out of a vehicle and wear my sunglasses like a goddamn champion. Being on set gave me a keen look into how a film like The Endless comes about. Sure, it starts with an idea and the passion to make that idea a reality, but it also takes a village. And the strength and quality of your villagers determines what the finished product looks like. Luckily for The Endless, its village was enjoying a bumper crop. I wouldn’t even consider myself a villager; I was just some local, super sexy nomad who passed through town on his way to some sort of convention for super sexy nomads. And it’s this same super sexy nomad who thinks The Endless is a terrific science fiction flick, one of the most unique flicks out there right now, and the film you’re gonna kick yourself if you don’t see. Yeah, yeah, I know: I’m biased. But I also know what the hell I’m talking about. And, if I ever get stuck in a time loop of my own, I sure hope I have a copy of The Endless in my movie stack.

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10 big issues to watch during the Florida Legislature's 2019 session

Jim Saunders
News Service of Florida

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers will gather March 5 in the House chamber to hear Gov. Ron DeSantis give his first State of the State address, the traditional start of the 60-day legislative session.

Led by Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, and House Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, lawmakers this year will deal with myriad issues, ranging from passing a state budget to deciding whether to allow patients to smoke medical marijuana.

Here are 10 big issues to watch during the session:

BUDGET: DeSantis has proposed a $91.3 billion budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, as he seeks to increase money for education and water-quality projects and trim taxes. But the DeSantis proposal is only a starting point for lawmakers, who will have their own priorities for state funding. Lawmakers also will grapple with recovery costs from Hurricane Michael, which devastated parts of Northwest Florida in October.

ENVIRONMENT: After algae and red tide fouled waterways and coastal areas in Southeast Florida and Southwest Florida last year, DeSantis is making a priority of addressing water-quality issues. DeSantis has proposed a $625 million package that addresses Everglades restoration and other water-related issues. Lawmakers also are pushing bills that would deal with problems such as cleaning up the Indian River Lagoon.

HEALTH CARE: Oliva and other House Republican leaders want to reduce regulations in the health-care industry, arguing that taking more of a free-market approach would help hold down costs. The House is targeting a variety of issues, such as “certificate of need” regulations that help determine whether hospitals and other types of facilities can be built. DeSantis has touted a proposal aimed at allowing lower-cost prescription drugs to be imported from Canada.

HURRICANE MICHAEL: Lawmakers face costly decisions as they look to help Northwest Florida recover from Hurricane Michael. Galvano said the state has already spent $1.13 billion responding to the October hurricane, and the total could go as high as $2.7 billion. The federal government is expected to reimburse many costs, but that will take time. The state also faces issues such as helping the region’s severely damaged timber industry.

INSURANCE: The insurance industry and business groups are lobbying heavily to make changes in the controversial insurance practice known as assignment of benefits, which involves policyholders signing over benefits to contractors. Insurers argue abuse and litigation are driving up property-insurance rates, while AOB supporters say the practice helps make sure insurers properly pay claims. A key part of the debate focuses on limiting attorney fees.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Facing heavy pressure from DeSantis, lawmakers appear likely to end a ban on smoking medical marijuana. The ban, included in a 2017 medical-marijuana law, was found unconstitutional by a circuit judge, and DeSantis has threatened to drop an appeal if the Legislature does not eliminate the ban. It is less clear, however, whether lawmakers will address other medical-marijuana regulatory issues that have led to lawsuits.

SCHOOL CHOICE: DeSantis and Senate leaders have outlined proposals that could lead to a major expansion of school choice, including the creation of a voucher-type program that would be directly funded with tax dollars. The House has long supported such programs, as has new Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. Democrats and teachers unions will fight the expansion, but Republicans control both legislative chambers and the governor’s office.

SCHOOL SAFETY: Just past the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, lawmakers will look again at revamping laws to boost school safety. The most-controversial issue will be a proposal to expand the school “guardian” program to allow trained classroom teachers to be armed. A state commission created last year recommended allowing armed teachers.

SUPREME COURT: After taking office last month, DeSantis made three appointments that created a solid conservative majority on the Florida Supreme Court. The change could embolden the GOP-controlled Legislature, which in the past clashed with a more-liberal Supreme Court. As examples, lawmakers could expand taxpayer-funded school vouchers and cap attorney fees in workers’ compensation insurance cases --- issues that previously ran into Supreme Court roadblocks.

TRANSPORTATION: Galvano has made clear that one of his top priorities will be highway projects that he says would help rural areas. The Senate president wants to extend the Suncoast Parkway toll road to go from the Tampa Bay region to the Georgia border; create a multi-use corridor, including a highway, from Polk County to Collier County; and extend the Florida Turnpike west from where it currently ends at Interstate 75.


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Life was unlikely on frozen Mars

Space 27 July 2005

MARS, it seems, has been bitterly cold for most of its 4.6-billion-year history. This means that liquid water could never have existed for long on the surface, lowering the chances of life taking hold on the Red Planet.

Mars has channels and rocks that appear to have been eroded by liquid water, so most planetary scientists think that there must have been times when the planet’s surface temperature climbed above freezing. To find out just how long these periods lasted, David Shuster of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Ben Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined …

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A Makeshift Navy Struggles to Respond to Hurricane Harvey

Rescuers with Houston residents evacuated from their flooded homes during Tropical Storm Harvey.
Rescuers with Houston residents evacuated from their flooded homes during Tropical Storm Harvey.Photograph by David J. Phillip / AP

Last August, when a freak storm unexpectedly dumped three times more water on Louisiana than did Hurricane Katrina, John Bridgers got his twenty-and-a-half-foot bass boat out. He lives in Watson, a town of nine hundred people northeast of Baton Rouge, which was battered by thirty-one inches of rain during a storm that barely registered outside the state. Bridgers knew help was coming from the Coast Guard, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and other agencies, but it wouldn’t be enough. “We’re all sportsmen around here,” he said. “Pretty much every other person has a boat. So we got going.”

Bridgers started a Facebook group called Cajun Navy 2016, after the famed all-volunteer flotilla of Louisiana boatmen and women who were credited with rescuing more than ten thousand people during Katrina. Over the next several days, Bridgers’s volunteers used jon boats, motorboats, bass boats, and even canoes to rescue people from flooded homes and pluck them off rooftops. Thirteen people lost their lives, but local media said that the death toll would have been higher if it weren’t for volunteers like the Cajun Navy 2016. “When you pull up to an individual’s house and they’re wading out of five feet of water with a duffel bag over their head, and you pull them into your boat, you realize that’s all they’ve got in that moment,” Bridgers told me, on Sunday. “That stays with you, for good and bad.”

This weekend, as Hurricane Harvey barrelled toward Houston, Bridgers and about three dozen Cajun Navy 2016 members loaded up their boats and hit the road on the four-and-a-half-hour drive to Houston. About twenty made it to the western edge of the city, but traffic and flooding prevented them from getting closer. They called Bridgers and other members and urged them to wait. Bridgers pulled over at a truck stop, settled into his seat, and logged onto Facebook. He put out the word out that the Cajun Navy 2016 Facebook page, which has fifty thousand followers, could help coördinate volunteer efforts. “Please Like and Share the page so that we can again make a difference during yet another disaster,” he wrote. Pleas for help started rolling in as people told Bridgers where their grandparents, neighbors, and kids were stranded. “Two Adults lady is 7 months pregnant,” one post read. “3 lil ones under the age of 4,” another said. “Two elderly in 80s, One in wheelchair. 1 Adult...2’ of water in house right now,” another read. One message said that several senior citizens were “sitting in water chest deep” in a nursing home. Bridgers hoped that a volunteer or first responder might get wind of the message and head for a home they might otherwise have missed. None of this was possible during Katrina, in 2005, he noted, when Facebook was primarily used by college students, and volunteers had to be onsite to help save lives. “Say, during this whole ordeal, you help a thousand people this way—you would have helped a lot,” he told me.

Late Sunday afternoon in Houston, the mayor, Sylvester Turner, said that local police and fire officials had received six thousand calls for rescue, and more than a thousand people had successfully been saved, many plucked from roofs and attics. Turner said that 911 operators had received more than fifty-six thousand calls since the storm began. “We have not been able to keep up with all of the 911 calls that are coming in,” he said at a briefing. “But it is our intent to respond and to take in anyone that calls.” The official death toll stood at five, but it was unclear what was happening in large parts of the city, or whether the situation would worsen as flooding intensified.

Television-news anchors warned viewers to stay out of attics where they could be trapped by rising water—or to bring an ax so they could hack a hole in the roof and climb out to safety. Officials said that Houston, the country’s fourth-largest city, had already suffered billions of dollars in damage, and that it would take years for the metropolitan area, home to six million people, to fully recover.

The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said that three thousand National Guard members were helping hundreds of local police and firefighters carry out rescues. Sixteen helicopters and six hundred water vessels criss-crossed the city. Unlike during Katrina, when New Orleans residents were told not to attempt boat rescues on their own, some government officials in Texas were encouraging it. The police department in League City, just south of Houston, put out a call for private citizens with flat-bottom or shallow-water boats to lend a hand. The department was quickly overwhelmed with offers of help.

“We literally have hundreds of names and numbers and not enough manpower to go around,” the department posted, on Facebook. “If we do not contact you please do not think that we do not appreciate your offer. We are simply overwhelmed with the number of offers for help.”

The local ABC affiliate posted video of volunteer motorboats maneuvering around submerged vehicles on a badly flooded street in Dickinson, Texas. A Fox affiliate broadcast video of a volunteer rescue boat that had taken on stranded people in Friendswood, including several small children weighed down by large backpacks, and a woman carrying a baby on her chest.

Offers of assistance poured in from as far away as Philadelphia, but Louisianans, in particular, vowed to help. Bridgers, the Cajun Navy 2016 organizer, and other Baton Rouge-area residents said they remembered how the Texas National Guard mobilized during Katrina, and recalled the donations sent by Texans after last year’s flood. “It’s more of a reciprocal gift of love back to them for what they did for us last year, plus we know they need it,” a Baton Rouge woman who was organizing a supply drive to a Houston church told the city newspaper, the Advocate. “How many times has Louisiana been in the crossfire, and how many times have people from other places helped us?”

As the sun set on Sunday, it was impossible to know how many Texans trapped by flooding had been rescued and how many remained in danger. An estimated four hundred billion gallons of water had engulfed the Houston area, and rain was expected to continue for days. Bridgers planned to keep posting on Facebook all night in hopes of spurring more rescues. When the water recedes and the camera crews move on, he told me, his crew’s real work would begin. A year after the devastating flood in his Louisiana town, Cajun Navy 2016 is still helping coördinate volunteer efforts to rebuild homes. Bridgers plans to use the group’s Facebook page to pitch in with Houston’s rebuilding effort, too. “Once that water’s gone, they’re not gonna have homes to go to,” he said. “I can relate, ’cause I’ve been there.”


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Oppo A91 review: life with a mid-range smartphone

Oppo A91 review: life with a mid-range smartphone

I am quite sure that many of you are familiar with this: a particular delivery service that sells mediocre food at reasonable prices. This is just the right thing if you just want to fill up your stomach after a long day at work without getting into debt or risking food poisoning. It is a safe bet. However, it is because of such a run-of-the-mill delivery service (note: it might be a poor analogy) in the form of the Oppo A91 that makes us think it is great! This smartphone comes with just about enough of everything in terms of hardware, and will be able to deal with all that you throw at it. In this review, we'll tell you what we liked about the Oppo A91 and the 'leftovers' which remain.

  • Solid overall package
  • Convincing camera with important basic functions
  • Solid hardware with 8 GB of RAM
  • Good fast charging capability
  • Beautiful AMOLED display

  • Runs on Android 9
  • Poor low-light camera performance
  • Low brightness display
  • No protection against water and dust
  • Sluggish fingerprint sensor performance

For whom is the Oppo A91 worthwhile?

This brief introduction covers the Oppo A91 target market adequately. I will recommend the handset to anyone who is currently in the market to pick up a smartphone without having to think too much into the matter. Without any protruding selfie cameras, no implementation of water cooling for improved performance, and ostentatious zoom levels to capture details of a full moon on a clear night, is this your quintessential mid-range smartphone? For a "street price" of €250 ($295), you will end up with a functional smartphone for the average Joe.

For our review, Oppo sent us the A91 with 8 GB of RAM. Since this version is available on the Internet at a lower price compared to the 4 GB of RAM variant, we definitely recommend the reviewed unit.

Oppo A91: What I liked about it

Camera with useful functions

Without great expectations, I went for a little photo walk with the Oppo A91 and was positively surprised. This is because the quad-camera setup at the rear delivers good results almost through the entire photo walk. Armed with its 48-megapixel main camera and the ultra-wide-angle camera that delivers 8-megapixels of resolution, it covers a focal length range from ultra-wide-angle (119 degrees field-of-vision) to wide-angle (26 millimeters). In order to achieve this, Oppo included another camera for depth detection and a fourth lens with a monochrome sensor at the back. The monochrome camera cannot be controlled separately in Oppo's camera app, which makes it pretty much useless when taking pictures.

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Without HDR mode the dynamic range is good (left). The HDR mode (right) makes the images look quite fake. / © NextPit

However, it could very well be that the Oppo A91 is able to perform post-processing of its images so well through the implementation of computational photography and artificial intelligence. This is especially true when taking the results of the main camera into consideration: they really are good looking and include a lot of details alongside a good dynamic range. For my taste, the HDR mode works a bit too aggressively, but it can be switched off permanently easily. Shooting in ultra-wide-angle mode with its resolution of 8-megapixels, there is still has enough sharpness and can be used without any worry. You should keep your hands off all other zoom levels on the Oppo A91 though. While I can almost still tolerate the 2x digital magnification, I wanted to delete pictures taken with 5x zoom as quickly as possible. It is only because of our readers that I have kept and included them in this test.

You can view all our test images in full resolution here: Oppo A91 test photos

Portrait shots look natural and have a precise and good bokeh, i.e. a blurred background, thanks to the depth sensor. For photography in the dark, Oppo gives the smartphone its own night mode, which actually saves many colors from dark situations. For really good results, there are still too many megapixels on the small main sensor and the pictures are too noisy. The final results are bright, but they are hardly convincing with their low level of detail.

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The front camera delivers good results and offers a software-based blur effect. The digital bokeh is quite decent. Portrait pictures with the main camera are detailed and look good. / © NextPit

AMOLED display

The display of the Oppo A91 measures a whopping 6.4-inches and thanks to the discreet waterdrop notch, there is a whole lot of screen to work with. The bezels are virtually non-existent, providing you with the great feeling of holding only one large screen in your hand. This effect is especially true when watching videos. Due to the slim 20:9 format, the phone fits well in the hand and with a resolution of 1,080 x 2,400 pixels, it is also sufficiently sharp.

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The Oppo A91 comes with a teardrop notch. / © AndroidPIT

Typical for a display with AMOLED technology, the contrast of the Oppo A91 is virtually infinite. Black areas on the display are therefore particularly dark and I also like the other color renditions very much. The colors are not too bright, as is often the case with Samsung smartphones. Rather, the Oppo A91's display looks natural and can be set to either colder or warmer hues if you don't like it.

No wonder the A91's display is so good at refresh rate and brightness. Spoiled by the more expensive Oppo Find X2 Neo, which offers a refresh rate of 90 Hertz, lists and animations on the Oppo A91 at 60 Hertz are a little jerky. This is completely normal in smartphones that reside within the sub-€300 ($354) price range. The low brightness is disappointing in reality. Under bright sunlight, it wasn't always easy for me to recognize menus and apps on the display.

Quick charge function

The battery of the Oppo A91 offers a good average capacity of 4,025 mAh. When it whittles down to nothing, it can be quickly charged thanks to VOOC 3.0. The manufacturer's quick charge technology works with 20 watts of power, and according to the manufacturer, it is capable of hitting 50% charge within half an hour.

We can confirm the reliability of this claim through our review. In just over half an hour, the battery life increased from 45 percent to 100 percent using the included charger. This is perfect as you can easily recharge it during a quick meal at a restaurant or while you are on a train ride. The Oppo A91 does not support wireless charging though, but the contactless transmission standard NFC has been integrated.

Oppo A91: What I didn't like too much

Slow system performance

If you choose a handset from the mid-range smartphone pool, you usually don't expect top performance. Compared to many entry-level smartphones, however, these handsets happen to be rather convincing in terms of system performance. After all, you will be able to enjoy mobile games at smooth frame rates at low or medium quality levels. With these experiences in mind, I was a bit disappointed with the performance of the Oppo A91 at first.

Laggy menus and long loading times made me cry as I tested out Call of Duty: Mobile which took a surprisingly short amount of time to install. Another pleasant surprise: the mobile game ran smoothly and even looked quite nice when it was set to the medium graphics level. So why does the system performance of the A91 leave a lot to be desired?

At a glance, the specifications sheet did not answer this question. The Mediatek MT6771V Helio P70 processor is even one of the faster pieces of silicon in the mid-range market and armed with 8 GM of RAM, Oppo also provides the SoC with enough system memory. Reaching deep into the Android box of tricks and disabling animations in the developer settings, lo and behold: the operating system seems to be the culprit for the slow performance.

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The Oppo A91 does not provide protection against dust and water. / © AndroidPIT

Currently runs on Android 9

This is probably the biggest flaw of the Oppo A91 right from the get-go. Despite the latest updates, the smartphone runs on Android 9 and thus with the second latest version of Google's mobile operating system. Since the Oppo smartphone has already been released in India in 2019, it is safe to say that an update is somewhat overdue. Apparently, Oppo sees it the same way.

As if the smartphone had been listening during the review, Oppo announced in the Color OS Forum during the review that it would continue with the distribution of Android 10 for the Oppo A91. Specifically, this is Oppo's operating system "Color OS 7", which works with a stable version of Android 10. Users from countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Russia can already register for the upgrade. German users will have to wait, but it looks good for an update soon.

Lame fingerprint sensor

For the biometric verification of its owner, the Oppo A91 has an in-display fingerprint sensor and offers face recognition as an alternative. In practice, the latter works much faster than the in-display sensor. This is the case because the handset makes sure that your finger is lying on the screen before it gets to work. The sensor will deny you access to the smartphone if your finger is lying at an angle or at a slight tilt.

The face recognition of the Oppo A91 is much faster. During my review, I activated both systems in parallel and usually the front camera recognized me before my finger unlocked the phone. When unlocking by face, however, the feedback is too subtle to notice. Only a small lock symbol informs you visually that the phone can now be unlocked with an upward swipe. Here, I would have liked a short notification via haptic feedback. If you buy the Oppo A91, we recommend that you turn on direct unlocking by face in the settings. Choosing this option lets you skip the swiping up process after unlocking and leads directly to the home screen.

Lack of dust and water protection

Last but not least, I have to criticize the missing IP certification of the Oppo A91 as a sore point. Because of this, you lack any guarantee that the phone is protected against water and dust. This may be due to the rather pleasing presence of the 3.5-millimeter jack, but it is still a disappointment for a mid-range smartphone. As a consolation, Oppo has included a protective rubber cover with the A91 at the very least.

Final verdict

My conclusion about Oppo A91 is this: You will end up getting full and not for the poorer. And that is exactly what the mid-range smartphone market is all about. Probably the Oppo A91 will be upgraded to Android 10 soon and perhaps the manufacturer will get the sluggish system performance under control. However, if the upgrade is still a long time in coming, the phone might already be a bit too old.

Whether the purchase is still worthwhile for you is a question that has many facets. After all, the mid-range smartphone market currently shows just how much potential it has. With the One Plus Nord, Oppo's parent company released a far better performing mobile phone on 21 July at a recommended retail price of only €399 ($470). If the price drops a little more in the near future, it will be very dangerous ground for the Oppo A91.

If you are looking for certain features in a smartphone, you should also take a look at the Moto G8 series from Motorola. In this series, the manufacturer lets you decide for yourself whether you prefer a stronger battery or better camera performance. The basic model is a similarly good mix as the A91.

Another good alternative is the Samsung A51, which still gets a lot of praise as it delivers good value for money. I would rather advise against buying the technically solid Huawei P40 Lite. This technically rock-solid phone has to do without Google services, and in theory, this makes for many hours of tinkering that you can save by buying a different device.

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A new study found that long-term exposure to air pollution is strongly linked to emphysema, a deadly lung disease often associated with smoking.

“These findings may offer one explanation for why emphysema is found in some people who never smoked,” said James Kiley, Ph.D., NHLBI’s director of the Division of Lung Diseases. “The study’s results, duration, and timing offer insight into the long-term effects of air pollution on the U.S. population.”

The study examined the relationship between several major air pollutants and emphysema as measure through computed tomography (CT) lung imaging and lung function testing. The pollutants studied included ozone, fine particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon. The 18-year study involved more than 7,000 people in six metropolitan regions across the United States: New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Baltimore; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and St. Paul, Minnesota. The participants were drawn from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Air and Lung studies.

The researchers found that air pollution was associated with a higher level of emphysema progression in the study population based on CT scans. They also found that ozone exposure, but not the other pollutants, was associated with a decline in lung function. The researchers said that long-term exposure to air pollution could cause as much lung damage over time as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.

“It’s important that we continue to explore factors that contribute to emphysema, particularly in a large, multi-ethnic group of adults such as those represented by MESA,” said Kiley, who was not a part of the study.

“We need to assess the effectiveness of strategies to control air pollutants in our efforts to improve heart and lung health,” said David Goff, M.D., Ph.D., director of NHLBI’s Division of Cardiovascular Sciences. “At the same time, people need to remember the importance of a healthy diet, physical activity, and tobacco smoking cessation for overall health.”

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This post shows you how you can quickly enable Dark Mode for the official Whatsapp application on your Android and iOS devices.

The Dark Mode comes with the dark theme functionality which let’s you to use one of the world best messaging apps in a dark theme way.

This helps to reduce the effect of light on the eye as well as create an engaging aura for chats to be more crisp clearer and fun.

The Dark Mode in the Official Whatsapp was earlier announced on April 13th of 2020 as part of the improvement on the Social Media Application.

Though, before the announcement of the latest Dark Mode in Whatsapp; some users have already been able to get the experience by using other unofficial versions of Whatsapp on the Web, like the GBWhatsapp and others.

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User data are prone to hacks, theft, spy and malicious programs. But, the official Whatsapp messaging app, by Facebook comes clean with official features.

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Starting from April 13, users can now official hover between the Dark Mode and the Light theme of Whatsapp messaging application.

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If you don’t have Whatsapp installed,     Dark Mode Official Whatsappyou would also want to go to the corresponding App Stores to download and install the application to your device.

Secondly, open your Whatsapp Application. And go to the top side with the open icon.

Thirdly, in the options that comes up, select the SETTINGS options.

Dark Mode Official WhatsappFourthly, go to settings by clicking on it and go under CHATS. Which comes with the Theme, Wallpaper and Chat History options.

Fifthly, select the THEME option. And choose the Dark.

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It Pays To Be Green: Corporate Social Responsibility Meets the Bottom Line

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Turn the light off when you leave a room. Recycle rather than throw away. Volunteer or donate to worthy causes. Think about the daily contributions you can make to reduce your carbon footprint and contribute to a better planet. Today, it’s widely regarded as everyone’s responsibility to protect the environment and give back socially. And consumers increasingly think that corporations are no exception.

Corporate social responsibility, also referred to as corporate citizenship or conscious capitalism, is practiced by companies dedicated to making a positive social or environmental impact on society. More and more, consumers expect companies to do one or the other, if not both.

But do consumers really care about conscious capitalism when it comes to buying decisions? Are they willing to pay more for products and services that come from companies that engage in actions that further some social good? Assuming a positive ratio between a stated willingness to pay and an actual willingness to open one’s wallet, Nielsen’s global survey on corporate social responsibility found that the answer is yes for a growing number of consumers around the world.

More than half (55%) of global respondents in the survey said they are willing to pay extra for products and services from companies that are committed to positive social and environmental impact—an increase from 50 percent in 2012 and 45 percent in 2011. Regionally, respondents in Asia-Pacific (64%), Latin America (63%) and Middle East/Africa (63%) exceed the global average and have increased 9, 13 and 10 percentage points, respectively, since 2011. While a willingness to pay extra for sustainable products is comparatively lower in North America (42%) and Europe (40%), both regions show an increase in purchasing sentiment from 2011, rising 7 and 8 percentage points, respectively.

The survey reported similar responses for stated past purchases of sustainable products. More than half of global respondents (52%) say they have purchased at least one product or service in the past six months from a socially responsible company, and respondents in Latin America (65%), Asia-Pacific (59%) and Middle East/Africa (59%) exceeded the global average. Four in 10 respondents in North America and Europe say they have made a sustainable purchase in the past six months.

To determine if actual retail performance supported these sentiments, we reviewed retail sales data for a cross-section of both consumable and non-consumable categories in nine countries. These brands included either sustainability claims on packaging or actively-promoted sustainability actions through marketing efforts. The results from a March 2014 year-over-year analysis show an average annual sales increase of 2 percent for products with sustainability claims on the packaging and a rise of 5 percent for products that promoted sustainability actions through marketing programs. A review of different brands without sustainability claims or marketing shows a sales rise of only 1 percent.

“At the moment of truth—in store, online and elsewhere—consumers are making a choice and a choice that is heavily influenced by brands with a social purpose,” said Amy Fenton, global leader of public development and sustainability, Nielsen. “This behavior is on the rise and we are seeing this manifest into positive impact in our communities as well as share growth for brands.”

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This is a shortish story that uses characters from a previous book. However, the good news is that it does stand alone so just start reading about the town of Wildstone. It’s an awesome town and the characters are terrific. Everything is well thought out and comes alive. Though there are some clichés; bad boy leaves because he’s not good enough and the like; over all it’s fun and believable. The warmth and humor that is found throughout the story wraps around you like a cozy blanket. The family and friends are such an added bonus and really enhance the story. I really liked my introduction to Wildstone and will look forward to finding the previous book to read and all of the future ones.

Tilly never expected to look up in her first college class and find her ex as one of her students. He’s been gone for 10 years so why is he here now. This will not do and he has to go. Dylan knows he made the correct choice to leave town but he’s still drawn to Tilly and will do just about anything to get her back into his life, even take an art class. Next he offers her the chance to design the logo for his new company. Tilly is sure she can keep everything business like while Dylan is hoping to crack that wall. Can they have a second chance or is it too late?

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After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn’t anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won’t cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and first love sitting in the front row.

Dylan knows he should’ve left well enough alone, but when he sees Tilly living her dream, he can’t help but make contact. Ten years ago, he left Wildstone and everything in it behind, including Tilly. He had his reasons, but now he wants her back in his life, anyway he can get her.

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The number of positive coronavirus cases has fallen to five or less at Norfolk’s three main hospitals.

It comes as nearly 800 people have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the virus, an increase of 66 from figures reported two weeks ago on May 30, to stand at 791.

As of Tuesday, the number of patients positive for the virus stood at three at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), four at the James Paget University Hospital (JPUH), in Gorleston, and five at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), in King’s Lynn.

Frankie Swords, medical director for the QEH, said the real work was just beginning and urged people to carry on social distancing measures to ensure no more loved ones are lost.

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Since the start of the pandemic, staff at the QEH have treated 445 people for coronavirus. Of those, 273 patients have been discharged and 152 people have died. In addition to the five coronavirus cases, a further 15 people who have had the virus remain in hospital.

Mrs Swords said; “In the last few weeks we have seen a real drop in the number of patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 and that is all down to the hard-work of our local communities making big sacrifices and adhering to the social distancing rules. However, the real work begins now, as we ease out of lockdown and start to return to a new normal. We all must continue to abide by the social distancing rules if we are to continue to see COVID-19 numbers drop, this is particularly important as we start to go out more. If we don’t carry on with social distancing we risk a second peak and more loved ones lost. We are asking all Norfolk residents to keep up the hard work so we can continue to keep everyone safe and reduce infection rates.”

Erika Denton, medical director for the NNUH, also said a fall in coronavirus deaths meant that the hospital will not get complacent.

She said: “Whilst this is very welcome news, we are not complacent whilst the virus is still circulating in the community. It is essential that people continue to follow social distancing guidance and maintain strict hand hygiene practices to help limit the spread of Covid-19. It is also essential that people self-isolate if they have symptoms and to get a test.”

At the NNUH, 288 people have been discharged following treatment for the virus. Three patients who are currently Covid-19 positive and another 16 who have had the virus are recovering in hospital.

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Realme 5 Pro gets a price drop in the Philippines

One of Realme’s most value-oriented smartphone, the Realme 5 Pro, gets a more affordable price tag.

The Realme 5 Pro features a unique and flashy design, a large 6.3-inch FHD+ display, and a 4,035mAh battery with VOOC 3.0 20W fast charging support.

Its main feature is the quad-camera setup on the back. We have the 48-megapixel Sony IMX 586 sensor and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide snapper.

Under the hood, there’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 processor, with the one being discounted coming with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage. You can check out our full review of this device to learn more about it.

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