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June 27, 2018 GMT

HENRY — As technology speeds ahead, it opens up opportunities for new businesses that were unheard of just a few years ago.

From his farm just north of Henry, Matt Scott is using drone applications to provide local farmers and ranchers with the information they need to improve their operations.

Scott’s company, Drone Maxx, was launched in January.

“I’ve been flying a drone for a couple of years, mostly for fun,” Scott said. “Last winter I decided to get serious about it. My wife knew of my interest so she got me a drone for Christmas.”

As his interest grew, Scott learned more about Federal Aviation Administration regulations from his son, who’s a commercial pilot.

Today’s drones have GPS, anti-collision sensors, live video feed and other features that make flying them very user friendly. They’re also programmed to stop moving when approaching federally restricted airspace, such as around wildlife areas, prisons or power generators.

For the past 10 years, Scott has worked as a mechanic for an ag dealership. As drone technology became more affordable to the public, his first interest was in the area of crop mapping.

For that service, Scott uses drone aerial photos that measure crop stress by identifying how green the crop is. A software application measures the photos and identifies areas where the crops are stressed. Those areas show up as red on the completed digital images.

An agronomist then looks at the red areas to determine the problem, whether it’s lack of moisture or weed or insect infestation. That allows for spot spraying of stressed areas, rather than spraying the entire field.

Photography is a familiar skill for Scott. He attended Chadron State College in the late 1980s and was a news photographer for the student newspaper, The Eagle.

As he became interested in drone technology, Scott expanded his services to include aerial photography and video for real estate.

“You can see things from the air that people never think about,” he said. “Above the ranchers’ property you can see how the corrals are laid out and if they’ve abandoned any equipment and forgotten about it.”

Using GPS, each individual picture is tagged with a specific location. The images can be digitally “stitched” together into a 3D image of a large area.

The 3D image can then be used to create contour maps for a landowner to plan for ditches and other dirt work.

Scott said drones can also help out with surveying. Through imaging, a 3D point cloud map can be generated to help measure specific distances. Surveyors use point maps with their computer drafting applications to identify survey markers, outlines of roads, as well as poles.

Scott said that while he’s new to the market, his services can be valuable to landowners and other companies that need detailed property information.

“People still have misconceptions about drones,” Scott said. “The cameras have a wide-angle lens that’s only effective for exterior pictures. A drone can’t spy on you or see into your house.”

Examples of Scott’s work are available for viewing on his website at dronemaxx.net.


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EDGE LONDON, Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today unveiled an extension of its Tenable Lumin™ analytic capabilities to score, trend and benchmark organizations’ assessment maturity. This first-of-its-kind innovation expands Tenable Lumin’s Cyber Exposure Score — an objective measure of cyber risk, derived through data science-based measurement of vulnerability data together with threat intelligence and asset criticality — making it even more comprehensive with actionable metrics and recommended actions based on security program maturity. The Assessment Maturity Score is the latest innovation from Tenable to enable organizations to evolve from a technology- to a risk-based approach to prioritize remediation, communicate to the business and make data-driven decisions to reduce cyber risk.

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Assessment Maturity in Tenable Lumin translates raw, technical data into actionable steps for improving security program effectiveness. It measures two key dimensions, the frequency and depth of vulnerability assessments, to identify organizations’ Assessment Maturity Score. This bolsters the existing Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) and Asset Criticality Rating (ACR) in Tenable Lumin to provide organizations with an objective measure of their overall cyber risk. The innovation also enables organizations to trend and benchmark their Assessment Maturity Scores to compare the effectiveness of internal operations and against peers. Organizations can use these metrics to drive improvements by optimizing security investments and building a business case for foundational controls to reduce risk across the enterprise.

These product innovations come on the heels of Tenable’s recognition as a Leader in “ The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q4 2019 ” report where Tenable is top-ranked among 13 vendors in both the Strategy and Current Offering categories. The capabilities are further proof of Tenable’s mission to help organizations understand and reduce their cyber risk.

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For more information about Tenable Lumin, visit: https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-lumin.

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Success rates of s78 planning appeals in Eastern England

The Planning Inspectorate's official statistics for April 2018 to March 2019 show a wide range of appeal success rates in the East of England, ranging from 0% to 100%.  Top of the chart with 100% was Norfolk County Council, albeit with only 2 planning appeals in the year.  Second highest was Castle Point Borough Council with 64% of appeals allowed out of 11 over the year.
Three local planning authorities had over 40% of appeals allowed, namely East Cambridgeshire District Council with 45% out of 29 appeals, Bedford Borough Council with 42% out of 36 appeals, and Peterborough City Council with 40% out of 15 appeals.

Above average appeal success rates

Basildon and Waveney had a relatively high success rate of 38% of appeals allowed, with Maldon, Welwyn Hatfield and Watford following close behing with 37%.  Babergh and Breckland had 35% appeal success rates in 2018-19.   Breckland had a high number of appeals for such a small authority with 52 in the year, while Maldon had 70 appeals.
Other LPAs with unusually high numbers of appeals include Tendring, with 73 appeals over the year, Central Bedfordshire with 56, St. Albans with 48 and Braintree with 47 appeals.  However the success rate for each LPA was only slightly higher than the national average, with all the above having success rates of between 30% and 34%.
Others in the 30% - 34% category for appeals allowed were Cambridge, Stevenage, Great Yarmouth, Uttlesford, Hertsmere, Huntingdonshire and North Norfolk.

Average planning appeal success rates in East England

Closer to the national average with 28% - 29% of appeals allowed were Colchester, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, South Norfolk, Brentwood, Three Rivers and Broadland Councils.

Stronger local planning authorities

LPAs more able to defend their Decisions on appeal over 2018-19 included Luton, St Edmundsbury, North Hertfordshire, Dacorum and Forest Heath, with only 25% - 26% appeals allowed. Even stronger with between 20% - 23% appeals allowed were East Hertfordshire, Mid Suffolk, South Cambridgeshire and Harlow, although there were a significant number of appellants in two of these LPAs, with 74 appeals in East Hertfordshire and 81 appeals in South Cambridgeshire over 2018-19.
An impressively strong performance was made by Norwich, Southend-on-Sea, Rochford and Suffolk Coastal with only 16% - 19% of their appeals allowed.

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The most successful LPAs in Eastern England were Ipswich Borough Council, which defended all 7 of its appeals with 0% allowed, and the Broads Authority, which only had 1 planning appeal, which was dismissed.
Broxbourne Borough Council had 6% allowed out of 16 appeals, while Chelmsford City Council had 7% allowed out of 29 appeals. Thurrock Borough Council had only 11% of its appeals allowed, while Epping Forest District Council showed an an impressively strong hand with only 14% of planning appeals allowed out of the sizeable number of 76 appeal Decisions issued over 2018-19.
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Google’s Virtual Reality Tilt Brush allows you to paint in three-dimensional space by simply selecting your colors and brushes, giving a unique platform.

Virtual reality is considered as computer technologies that use software in order to generate the realistic images, sounds as well as other sensations that effectively replicate a real environment and simulate the physical presence of the user in this environment. It is believed that virtual reality to architectural design and urban planning helps decision makers in visualizing the outcomes of proposed development. In addition, VR has the potential to bring digital workers together in a hassle-free manner in digital meetings as well as conferences and plays a vital role in saving time and money of firms. There is nothing wrong in saying that VR is known as one of the most exciting technologies of the future and it is going through a steady evolution and many big brands such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook are investing their precious time in it.

Google’s cardboard is the most popular VR platform mainly because of its simplicity as well as affordability. However, with its Tilt Brush app, the company is taking VR beyond simple content creation. With this app, artists can create 3D paintings in a virtual space. In order to make the most of this technology, Google’s new virtual reality Tilt Brush is looking forward to bring a new change for artists by allowing them to effectively create in a 3D space and because it is VR, you can even use unusual materials like snowflakes, stars and fire to name a few.

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Easy-to-use interface

It comes with a simple as well as intuitive user interface. All the features are arranged in a hierarchical menu and some obvious options like colour picker and undo can be easily accessed. With some unique option such as snapshot tool, you can easily take a screenshot and can move in a virtual space.

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Dynamic brushes

The app is available with a wide assortment of dynamic brushes, making it possible for artists to paint everything from stars to snow in a virtual 3D space. In addition, there is also a handy colour picker that allows you to paint with the colours of your choices. There are several designer stroke options like thick paint, rainbow and hypercolor.

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If you are looking forward to create 3D masterpieces, then sharing them with other is important. Tilt Brush is available with some handy options, allowing you to share your 3D creations with others in a hassle-free manner.

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When it comes to painting a 3D environment, there is a need to immerse yourself in it. In this regard, Google’s virtual reality Tilt Brush lets you walk through your creations in the 3D virtual space. This way you can visualize the creations as floating color strokes as well as shapes around you.

There is no exaggeration in saying that the breathtaking Tilt Brush offers a spectacular and immersive creation platform that enable connoisseurs to experience the work of art in a streamlined manner. Hence, it can be said that it is making a revolutionary change in the digital art industry. However, to use Tilt Brush users require the HTC Vive VR headset and the headset needs to be configured with the Steam account because the app is available through the steam software distribution platform. Game design is one of those sectors where Tilt Brush is already making a huge impact, but is on its way to make a mark in several other fields such as fashion, education, visual communication, architecture, music and many more.

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I recently upgraded my hard drive from the stock Hitachi 250GB to a Western Digital 320GB. I restored from Time Machine.

I plugged in my hard drive today and left my hard drive to back up. Surprisingly, when I came back, the backups were being deleted.

It was the same installation. Now my unrecoverable backups are gone.

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After a full restore, a full backup is preformed (always). It's by design. This is also documented on the wonderful Podini - About Time Machine site, section TM is doing a full backup for no good reason. Other circumstances, that may trigger full backup, are listed too.

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On my iPhone, I've setup text shortcuts that allow me to quickly enter email addresses. For example, typing x@g for example might resolve to xyz@gmail.com.

These shortcuts have been synced to my Mac, along with all my other devices, but it seems that having an @ symbol as part of the shortcut, means they don't work in OS X (running Yosemite right now).

I have done the same for domains, so google might resolve to http://www.google.com, and that works.

I could always create an OS X friendly shortcut, but what I'd really like to know is if it's possible to get the @ symbol to work in OS X as a shortcut?

  • Interesting. I have 2 that work on Yosemite. Do you have instances where they don't work? – bjbk Aug 18 '15 at 6:21
  • I've tried in the Notes app, the Twitter widget in notification centre and in Chrome. Shortcuts without the @ symbol work in all those places. – cchana Aug 18 '15 at 6:24
  • Try recreating them on your Mac instead of the phone. See if that works. – bjbk Aug 18 '15 at 6:27
  • I tried that before posting up, just didn't work. At first I thought they hadn't even synced but they had and I can configure them on both my iOS and OS X devices. – cchana Aug 18 '15 at 6:32
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"The painter [of the Chauvet cave] has used the hollow in the rock wall to emphasise the shape of the animal, using the empty space to give an impression of relief. This is a very sophisticated representative technique. It gives the impression of movement. In the paintings of the Chauvet cave, there is a repetition of signs, which gives an idea of progress, as if the figure is moving, like in the futurist works of the early 20th century. It's unbelievable finding this whole repertoire of languages and expressions, so close to our own culture, in a 35,000-year-old representation. I find it extraordinary, really touching.

The other thing that really touches me is the freshness: you feel as if these things have been done a few days or a few hours ago. Time really is suspended, with no landmarks. We are in an abstraction of time, which is a really unique thing. It really is a hugely important monument. It probably gives us the same sense of wonder as we might get looking at the Sistine Chapel or Giotto's Chapel in Padua. These places have a certain magic created by a little touch of colour".


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The real Minnette de Silva

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Minnette de Silva smiles at comment by Corbusier, in 1947. (Frieze)

Sometimes it seems like open season on female architects as long as they are in cahoots with the roving eye of Le Corbusier, one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. There is the recurrent hullaballoo over Eileen Gray, whose Mediterranean beach house Corbu vandalized via obscene graffiti when she was away. Then there was the stinkpot of British reporter Taya Zinken’s recollections of Corbu’s offensive behavior to her at Chandigarh.

There is much more titillation that brevity forces me to exclude.

Now there’s the new book out that transforms Sri Lankan modernist Minnette de Silva’s friendship with the Corbusier, starting in 1947, into a fictional affair. Isn’t this a little over the top? Shiromi Pinto’s Plastic Emotions is reviewed in the Guardian; Shahidha Bari offers the following description:

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Looking at the photograph (at left), it seems unsurprising that this real-life encounter and the exchange of letters that followed should have provided Pinto with the bones of her story. Plastic Emotions is an exercise in romantic speculation. Pinto imagines the nature of the relationship that develops between the 29-year‑old Sri Lankan and the ageing pioneer of urban modernism. She gives them trysts, meaningful exchanges, a separation and then painful longing, ending only with Le Corbusier’s death in 1965.

Actually, I wonder if the word “unsurprising” in that paragraph should have been changed by an editor to “surprising.”

I have not read the book so maybe it is unfair for me to comment, but its title does not speak well on the Great Man’s behalf. Well, did they have an affair or not? Le Corbusier was famously disloyal to his wife, mostly left behind in Paris, and it is hard to imagine him failing to fall for the lovely Sri Lankan. If they had a romantic interlude, however brief, it is hard to imagine Corbu’s legions of chroniclers not reporting it. Bari is coy on this in her article; ditto Pinto, who wrote the book. Nor, it seems, did de Silva ever retreat from her loyalty to Corbu’s architecture, so far as I can tell. She was the first Asian woman to join the Royal Institute of British Architects.

I might never have dedicated my blog to such an inconclusive topic but for the concluding lines of another article, also in the Guardian (“The brilliant female architect forgotten by history“), by Pinto herself. Describing a recent modernist project in Sri Lanka’s capital city, she quotes another architect on what de Silva might have thought of it:

“She would have hated it,” says Selva Sandrapragas, a British architect who worked with De Silva in her later years. “It displays no sensitivity to the history, culture or geography of where it is. It wraps itself around the old city, destroying the former context, suffocating it from the sea. It could literally be anywhere: Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong.”

The question is how does that distinguish this prototypical modernist project from anything designed by Corbu?

(My hat is off to Audun Engh, of INTBAU – the International Network of Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism – for sending me word of the Guardian’s articles on Minnette de Silva.)

About David Brussat

This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred. History Press asked me to write and in August 2017 published my first book, "Lost Providence." I am now writing my second book. My freelance writing on architecture and other topics addresses issues of design and culture locally and globally. I am a member of the board of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, which bestowed an Arthur Ross Award on me in 2002. I work from Providence, R.I., where I live with my wife Victoria, my son Billy and our cat Gato. If you would like to employ my writing and editing to improve your work, please email me at my consultancy,, or call 401.351.0457. Testimonial: "Your work is so wonderful - you now enter my mind and write what I would have written." - Nikos Salingaros, mathematician at the University of Texas, architectural theorist and author of many books.
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Bolton Parish Housing Need Survey 2010

Bolton Parish Housing Need Survey 2010

In March 2010 Cumbria Rural Housing Trust, commissioned by Eden District Council and supported by Bolton Parish Council and the Heart of Eden Community Plan, conducted a Housing Needs Survey in Bolton Parish. The survey followed the launch of the Heart of Eden Community Plan and was distributed with a copy of the Executive Summary. The purpose of the survey was to identify the need for affordable housing and to fulfil one of the action plans laid out in the Community Plan. This report details the information derived from the survey responses.

The survey work undertaken at local level provides information for Parish Councils/Meetings regarding the housing needs of their community and is essential evidence for Eden District Council, Planners, Registered Social Landlords and developers to establish if there is a need for affordable housing.

Copies of the findings of the survey are distributed to Bolton Parish Council, Eden District Council, and are placed on the Cumbria Rural Housing Trust web site.The Survey

194 survey forms were delivered by hand to the households and 5 forms were posted to businesses within the parish of Bolton (100%), with a return date of 29th March 2010. 114 households returned their completed forms, which is a return rate of 58.24% and 1 business form was returned giving a return rate of 20%. The overall return rate was 57.29% which is and well above the current average of 30% for this type of survey in Cumbria. Cumbria Rural Housing Trust expresses its thanks to the Heart of Eden Community Plan Group, the Parish Council and others in the community for their work to promote the survey.

Of the returned forms, there were 13 (11.4%) responses, saying that either the whole household or someone living within the household wished to move within the parish in the next 5 years.

 See Appendix 1 for the criteria used to determine whether a household is in need.Housing Need1 of the households stated that they were registered on the Local Authority and/or a Housing Association or other waiting list.

Of these 13 survey responses, indicating a housing need, some had a multiple need; giving 21 in total, of these 5 households are in need of affordable housing within the next 5 years in the parish.

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Speech of Didi Talwalkar

Didi Talwalkar

Leader of the Swadhyaya Movement, India

To consider Living together as a challenge only for Religions is like considering a severe famine a challenge only for one household in a village whereas it has affected every household in the village. Each and every person; young, old, rich, poor, etc. is affected, no one is spared. Throughout one’s life-span, the problem of living together affects all aspects or facets as one may say of one’s life, personal, familial, social, educational, religious, political, economic and at every level across the confines of family, society, village, town, city, nation or international.

The problem is not of ‘being’, but of ‘living’. In reality, even ‘being’ has become a poser and that is why one has to struggle even for existence. Whereas‘being’ is a gift of God to man, ‘struggle for being’ is gift of man to man.
To write, to speak, to meet and discuss the subject of ‘Living Together’ has become an important topic of this century. In my opinion when we say ‘living together’most of us mean and understand it as ‘being together’. To live together we need to be at the same level with the other; we should have the same basic / deeper spiritual understanding, but unfortunately, we are incapable of attaining that level.
Today everybody, all thinkers, all intellectuals, all countries are in a dialogue in an effort to try and encourage all to be together.
We find one constantly living in dilemma; one can’t be alone and can’t be with the other or accept the other. No one seems to have any clue to this problem.
Philosophy teaches me that “to be is to be related”. My being is dependent on the being of the other. The other has to be there when I am there and we have to be together. ‘Being’ means merely existing and this apply to everyone and everything on this planet. ‘Living’ means life and life means energy, desire, activism and growth.
Today we know that every atom has energy within and in this atomic age distinction between matter and spirit is blurred, yet we don’t acceptthe life within all atoms. But what do we perceive when we mean life? We perceivereceptivity, response, and development. Life can be molded or shaped in a better way for betterment.
The research of Sir J. C. Bose of life in plants, vegetation and trees is of immense importance. Life in birds, animals and other creatures make them of special importance. Everything else in the world merely exists.
Today, when even mere existence is a challenge, development and growth obviously become a challenge. Naturally, being, living and growing together have to be even more of a challenge.
The question arises, why is ‘living together’ a challenge?? Together is, with ‘the other’. The other will have opinion, desire, like, dislike, systems, etc., so one has not just to live together, but to live with the entire package. So, to live together is a constant challenge.
Delving more on this, I have come to an understanding that the problem is not so much with ‘living together’, but with ‘the other’.
The problem starts when a child is borne. For a child, in life, the first ‘other’ is the father. For the child, except mother, everyone else is ‘the other’. Then comes siblings and the the feeling turns into sibling rivalry.
When the child grows old enough, he starts feeling detached with everyone else in the family - problem of living together.
Contractual relationships and divorces are on rise, why? problem of living together.
Demand for more ‘Old age Homes’ reflects the same problem..
By now, we know what we mean by life: it means energy, desire, activism and growth.When two lives are united with the same for the same goal with the same system and same receptivity, then this could be called ‘living together’. It requires common purpose, focus in the same direction and developing, growing together. This would require subjective changes, inner changes, without which ‘living together’ is not possible.
Humanity pins its hope on the religion to bring about such a transformation.
Today religion is understood to be nothing more than observance of a set of prescribed rituals. Let us put aside the ritualistic, dogmatic and superstitious aspects of a religion, and try to understand the religion in its purest form.
Religion is that which:
  • Awakens and nurtures self-respect and selfless feelings in human beings.
  • Lays down moral orders and makes human beings aware of their duties.
  • Rationally introduces all pervasive Godand acknowledges and accepts the devotion to God to be above the religion.
  • That spiritually sustains an individual and the society.
Therefore man expects the religion to bring about the required change due to its inherent strength and blames it for his own failure and forgetting the failure of other factors.
Just for the sake of understanding, 75% part of religion is its philosophy and 25% is the rituals. People focus only on the rituals. Rituals would differ from religion to religion and region to region. Rituals alone can’t transform individualsand bring about the desired internal changes. Philosophy is ignored. It is the philosophythat needs to be understood and followed. At this stage and level, all human religions are same.
Religion would:
  • Awaken and nurture self-respect and selfless feelings in human beings.
  • Lay down moral orders and make human beings aware of their duties.
  • Rationally introduce all pervasive God and acknowledge and accepts the devotion to God to be above the religion.
  • Spiritually sustains an individual and the society.
Understanding of this philosophy of a Religion and devotion to God Almighty can give solution to various Challenges and the religion can help in:
  • Removing ‘the otherness’ of ‘the other’ and bringing about selfless intimacy with ‘the other’.
  • Acknowledging and accepting the other with the common Divinity within.
  • Creating selfless relationship needed for togetherness.
By accepting the pervasiveness of the common Divinity in all human beings, we can resolve almost all the problems facing the human society and we can live together as one Divine family.
Swadhyaya family started treading this difficult path of ‘living together’ almost 75 years ago. Today it has millions walking together. The fountainhead of Swadhyaya, Revered Pandurangshastri Athavale, my father, has successfully unified the likes, dislikes, opinions, etc. of different people and lovingly led them in one direction towards a common goal of living and working together selflessly in a divine family under fatherhood of God. This family of millions is spread across the five continents and contains cross section of the society, including people from villages, towns and cities, educated and uneducated, people well established and people still in settling stage, children, youth, seniors and the elders, men and women, all of them live as children of one God and work selflessly in a spirit of devotion to God.
These Swadhyayees, get spiritual satisfaction, get a purpose of life and experience transformative internal changes,
If anyone asks me whether I represent Hindu Religion? I do not have any answer. If anyone asks me whether I believe in a religion or not?  I don’t have any answer either. Because, Swadhyaya and I believe in that Human Philosophy that includes the Philosophy of all the religions.

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Tim shivered at the sudden change in temperature as he walked into the Blue Bird Inn. He shut the door on the blustering wind outside and tucked his cold nose into the thick scarf around his neck. Tim’s small green pet dragon, Duck, trilled softly as he too snuggled deeper into the scarf.

Tim stomped the late autumn mud from his boots and reveled in the soft light and thick scent of cooking stew that swirled around the inn. The lamps that lined the walls were all lit against the early onset of dusk and the tables in the dining area were filled with hungry post-patrol Rangers.

Tim waved a polite hello to several groups of Rangers from his own platoon as he walked across the dining area to his usual table, tucked into the back corner next to the kitchen.

Steph was already sitting there, enjoying some mulled wine and reading through a couple of letters as she relaxed after her patrol. She looked up when Tim sat down at the table next to her.

"Harper working?" Tim asked as he leaned in to give her a quick side hug and a peck on the cheek.

"She's supervising a delivery right now," Steph said, giving Tim a warm smile. "She'll be out in a bit."

"Cass is...?"

"Her shift ends in about twenty minutes, so she'll be here soon."

"Mmmm," Tim said. "Think she'll want to share some dinner when she gets in?"

"So long as she gets some almond cake for dessert," Steph said with a smile.

Tim reached sneakily for Steph's mug of mulled wine and she pretended to bat at his hand defensively as he pulled it over to his side of the table. He took a long sip, the heat coming up out of the mug feeling good on his cold face.

"Take your coat off and stay awhile?" Steph asked, taking her wine back from him and taking a sip of her own.

Tim shrugged out of his heavy coat and laid it on the bench beside him. He kept his scarf on though, Duck still tangled up in it.

Duck chirped a hello to Steph and she held out a hand to him. Nuzzling her fingers with his nose, Duck greeted her happily.

“You brought this troublemaker, huh?” Steph asked, rubbing at Duck’s chin, his whisker tendrils wrapping around her fingers.

“He cried when I tried to leave,” Tim said, smiling fondly down at Duck.

Duck was a green dragon with a low, darker green fin down his back. He was about about three feet in length but most of that came from a long, thin prehensile tail that he liked to wrap around people’s fingers and Tim’s ear. Jason had given Duck to Tim as a birthday gift a few years back, dropping the tiny baby dragonette in Tim’s hand with a grin.

No one had ever been able to figure out Duck’s species. Not even Damian. And Damian had tried.

After he said hello to Steph, Duck tucked his head back under Tim’s scarf, obviously still cold. Tim couldn’t blame him, the heat in the inn hadn’t yet penetrated the chill that had overcome them outside. Tim pulled the sleeves of his overlong sweater down over his hands in an effort to warm his fingers.

"That's new..." Steph said, eyeing the too large sweater that Tim was wearing.

"I-- it's..." Tim started but was cut off when Harper slipped into the booth next to Steph. She had a decanter of mulled wine and slid a couple of mugs across the table to Tim as she settled in. Tim grabbed a mug and poured himself some of the wine.

"Ohhhh, what's got him all flustered?" Harper cooed interestedly to Steph.

"I'm guessing whatever dude he had to flash to get that very nice sweater," Steph said, running her fingers over the sleeve of the soft Alpaca wool.

The sweater was a deep, dark shade of blue, thick and heavy knit. It was also about two sizes too large for Tim. The sleeves hung over this hands. The neck would have been a bit too large for him, but it fit just right with Duck tucked half into it.

Kon had lent it to him while they were traveling as Tim's own clothes had been damaged during their journey. Tim hadn't seen him since they both reported back to Lord Wayne post mission, so he hadn’t been able to return it yet. Wayne had given them both a few days of leave to rest up and recover before resuming their usual duties.

When Tim got dressed that morning, he caught sight of the sweater sitting in his clean laundry pile. He had meant to just wash it and put it aside to return it to Kon when he saw him, but…

Seeing it and remembering how warm and soft it had been against his skin… Tim just couldn’t resist wearing it again as it was very cold out that day.

Why let all that nice warm wool go to waste?

"I didn't have to flash anyone," Tim said, taking a sip of his wine.

"You mean you didn't have to flash anyone 'yet'," Harper clarified.

Steph snorted out a laugh and Tim gave Harper an indignant look.

"I’ll have you know I’m very charismatic. I don’t need to flash anyone to get a sweater, Harp," Tim pointed out.

Both Harper and Steph broke out into raucous laughter that disturbed Duck. He peeked out above Tim’s scarf for a moment and let out a little annoyed puff of smoke in their direction.

Harper blew Duck a kiss and tapped her mug to Tim's in a toast.

"You come for the hot springs? I can kick everyone else out so you can have a nice peaceful soak," Harper offered.

"Mostly right now, I'd just like some food. I'm starving and freezing," Tim said, eyeing the bowls of food steaming on the tables next to them.

"Ohhhh, you're in luck. We're making curry tonight."

Tim felt his face go warm at that.

"Oh that sounds exactly like what we need," Steph said with a happy groan. "Can you grab us some when Cass gets here?"

“And maybe something nice for Duck too?”

Harper agreed, and they chatted until Cass arrived. She walked over to give Harper and Steph a kiss on the cheek and then slid into the booth next to Tim.

"Hey, Cass," Tim said as she leaned over to give him a kiss as well. "Long day."

Cass gestured that it had been a long day, but not too bad. Harper grabbed her a mug of wine and promised that their curry would be right out.

"You haven’t been around the past few days," Steph said to Tim while they waited for their food.

“Yeah, I’ve just been beat. That last mission took a lot out of me and I needed some rest…”

"You never told us about what happened. Why were you gone for so much longer than we expected? I guessed it didn’t go great, but... Was it that bad?"

"No, I just--" Tim started and then cut himself off and shook his head. "I guess I just needed time to process. Some things..."

"So it was bad?” Steph pressed, watching Tim with a concerned expression on her face.

Cass leaned over, rested her head on Tim's shoulder and rubbed her cheek against his sweater in a gesture that was, ultimately, comforting for both of them. Duck cooed at her and nuzzled her hair from his spot in Tim’s sweater.

"It could have been worse," Tim said grimly and took a sip of his wine.

Harper brought out bowls of curry for each of them, and a small plate of sweet potatoes for Duck. They ate as Tim told them all what happened them. How the mage had surprised them, how he had hit Tim with a spell. How Kon had come to his rescue and they had bolted off into the woods. He told them about the days they spent trying to avoid capture, on horseback and in pain, feeling a little disgusted with himself for having needed to be saved.

Steph wrapped a comforting arm around Tim's shoulder as he got to that part. Cass pressed another kiss to his cheek and even Harper gave him a sympathetic look.

Then Tim told them about how the field dressing hadn’t stopped the bleeding and how Kon had healed him using his magic.

"You let him heal you?" Steph cut in, surprise clear in her voice. "With magic?"

"It was either that or cauterize the wound and I just couldn't... I was in so much pain already and I couldn't imagine being in any more..."

All three of his sisters were quiet then, clearly waiting for Tim to keep talking.

"It didn't hurt,” Tim said flatly. “Like I thought it would."

"Yeah," Harper said quietly. "It doesn’t usually, little brother.”

"It can even feel nice sometimes," Steph put in.

Cass nodded around her sip of wine and Duck let out a soft, comforting trill in his ear.

"It didn’t..." Tim said softly. "It didn’t hurt… I… It felt... nice. Almost. It was warm and gentle and... And it felt nice."

"Tim..." Harper started in with a soothing tone of voice. "That’s how it usually is. Whenever Cass has used her magic on one of us, it’s never hurt. Her or us.”

“I--” Tim started and then broke off. “I’ve never really understood… I don’t know.”

"I get you being cautious around magic users," Steph put in. "You haven't had many good experiences--"

Cass puffed out a little scoff and then took a deep swallow of wine.

"Or any really… With Cass being an exception," Steph continued. "But I think it'll be good for you to spend more time with Kon. He might help you see things from another perspective."

Tim hummed thoughtfully in response and Cass leaned in to give him a gentle kiss on the cheek.

They finished their wine and Duck hopped down onto the table to nibble at his sweet potatoes. Harper got them another round of wine and some almond cakes to share. They were talking animatedly about Damian's pet bat demon and how he had recently knocked over a china cabinet in the Wayne Castle chasing Duck when the bell at the door rang and Harper sat up straighter in the booth.

"Ohhhh, look who it is!" she said, gesturing to the doorway with her mug.

Kon walked in, shaking water out of his hair, his eyes darting around the room to find a table. When he looked over at the corner where Tim and his sisters were talking, Harper gave him a wave. He smiled and made his way around a few tables to come over to them.

"Hey Tim, nice sweater," Kon said, grinning at him.

Tim felt his face go red, and he took a deep breath, trying to come up with a reason why he was wearing Kon's sweater again.

"Oh yeah... I--" Tim stammered, and Steph grinned at him over the rim of her mug as Harper got up from the table and made her way back to the kitchen.

"It looks good on you," Kon said, still smiling. "You should keep it."

"Oh, I couldn't. You said it was from your aunt--"

“Don’t worry about it, she's given me dozens," Kon said with a wave of his hand. "She'd be happy to know it's going to good use for someone else."

"I-- thanks..." Tim said, his eyes moving down to look at the table.

Harper came back then, silently handing Kon a mug of mulled wine.

"Oh," Kon said, taking it from her gratefully. "Thanks so much. This is--"

"Oh the house," Harper said, looking Kon up and down. Her face was serious, almost grim, but Tim could see humor dancing in her eyes. "Anyone who heals my brother eats for free."

"Thank you," Kon said. "Tim's a great guy. He's saved my skin a time or two."

"Has he," Harper said, and it came out more as a statement than a question.

"Ummm-- yeah, I--" Kon started again about Harper turned away from him and look at Steph and Cass.

"Let's let these boys talk. Want a soak?"

"I'd have a soak," Steph said as Cass nodded and finished her wine.

They all stood and walked back toward the door out down to the fenced in area around the hot springs.

Tim and Kon eyed them as they left.

"Your sisters are terrifying," Kon said conversationally.

"You have no idea," Tim agreed, grimly. "Want to sit?"

"Am I allowed? I thought this was a Wayne Family only booth."

"We know how to share," Tim said, patting the bench next to him.

Kon slid into the booth and took a sip of his wine.

"This is... very good," he said before pulling off his coat and setting it on the bench next to them.

"Harper is a whiz at logistics. She knows a good chef when she sees one," Tim agreed.

Duck lifted his head from his small bowl of sweet potatoes and trilled happily, as if to agree with Tim. Kon smiled at him and reached out a finger to run down the scales of Duck’s back. Duck hummed happily and curled his tail lightly around Kon’s wrist.

“He’s adorable. I’ve seen him here before. Is he your pet? I didn’t realize you could tame dragons...”

“This is Duck. He’s extremely tame, no matter what you may have heard about other dragons. He likes swimming, sweet potatoes and being warm.”

“A dragon that likes to swim? Is that unusual?”

“I think so, but I’m not sure. We’ve never been able to figure out his species, so it’s hard to say.”

“You don’t know his species? Where did you get him?”

“He was a gift from my brother Jason.”

“This is the brother that is rumored to be a smuggler?”

“He’s also rumored to hate both being gossiped about and being called a smuggler so…”

“Yeah ok, point taken,” Kon said with a laugh, taking another sip of wine. “Had you been wanting a pet dragon?”

“Honestly no. What I think happened is that Duck stowed away on Jason’s ship somehow and he thought it would be funny to inflict him on me.”

“How’d he get the name?”

“Duck? Jason named him. I assumed it had something to do with how much he likes to swim.”

“He really likes to swim that much?”

“I think it’s half that he likes to chase minnows and half that he likes the water.”

Kon huffed out a laugh as Duck let out another happy chirp. He finished up his sweet potatoes and went back to his spot around Tim’s neck, curled up in Tim’s scarf and sweater, his tail still wrapped around Kon’s wrist, kind of tying the two of them together.

"How are you feeling, by the way?" Kon asked softly.

"Better than the last time I saw you," Tim said. "I think I slept like twelve hours when we got back."

"Yeah, I think I did too," Kon said with a laugh. "I also ate enough for like four people."

"Yeah, Cass brought me stew and I think I ate the whole pot in like ten minutes," Tim said. "Plus a whole loaf of bread."

"Yeah, fleeing from demented evil mages really takes it out of you, man."

"I'm starting to see that."

Tim pushed a plate of little almond cakes over to Kon and he took one gratefully, popping it into his mouth.

"Mmmm," Kon said around a mouthful of cake. "These are so good."

"I'm pretty sure Harper would be willing trade almond cakes for a couple of these sweaters. She seemed jealous when she saw it.”

"That could be arranged," Kon said. "My aunt loves to knit."

"Your aunt seems nice," Tim said, nibbling at a bit of almond cake.

"She's great," Kon said, leaning back on the bench and smiling to himself. "My uncle too. They're good people."

"Did you grow up with them? I've never really heard you talk about your family..." Tim ventured, eyeing Kon cautiously to monitor his facial expressions. He didn't want to upset Kon by stepping on any boundaries.

Kon just took a deep breath and looked a little sad for a long moment.

"I was... kind of a foundling. My cousin Kal found me and took me home to his parents. They raised me and he's been like a big brother to me."

"Kal? I don't think I've ever met him..." Tim mused. "Does he live in the Territory?"

"No..." Kon hesitated as he answered. "He lives in Luthor's Territory. He and his wife and son."

"Do you see them often?" Tim asked, taking a sip of his wine.

"Yeah, I visit them pretty regularly. His son Jon and I are pretty close. He's a sweet kid."

"Yeah? How old is he?"

"He's about 17."

"My brother Damian is about that age."

Kon tilted his head to one side and eyed Tim with amusement.

"Do you think they'd get along? Maybe we should introduce them."

Tim huffed out a laugh.

"I don't know that Damian actually gets along with anyone."

"I mean, he gets along with my oldest brother Dick, that's about it," Tim said with a shrug.

"Man, Jon's totally different. He's friends with everyone."

"Is he... are they all... Is the rest of your family..."

"Are they magic users?" Kon asked casually. "Kal and Jon are. The rest aren't."

Tim nodded thoughtfully.

Kon took another sip of wine and watched Tim intently.

"I'm sorry I-- I shouldn't have made assumptions. About you."

"I'm guessing it's not personal. Towards me, anyway."

Tim took a deep breath and shook his head.

"It still wasn't... It still wasn't fair. And I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about. Water under the bridge, right? We're friends now."

"Yeah?" Tim asked, feeling his stomach drop out at that word. For some reason the idea of being friends with Kon was thrilling in ways that made him feel warm and jumpy inside. All Tim could think about when Kon said it was the warm, tingly feeling of Kon’s magic flowing into him.

"Yeah," Kon said, grinning at Tim.

Tim had to look away but he smiled to himself.

"My friend Bart... He says people who are afraid of magic are like people who are scared of dogs, you know? Like you see one, and it hurts you or it scares you. And that sticks in your head until you meet a nice dog. Then it gets easier."

"Your friend Bart sounds like a smart guy."

Kon spluttered out a laugh and shook his head.

"He somehow manages to be both the most insightful and the most dense person I have ever met," Kon said.

"Yeah," Tim said with a smile. "I know some guys like that."

"I think you'd like Bart," Kon said. "Cassie too. She's a friend of ours. She's a Ranger in another platoon."

"What does Bart do?" Tim asked.

"He's in shipping," Kon said. "Cassie was an academic but she got tired of sitting in a library all day."

"I can understand that. I studied art for a while until I realized I could do more down here."

Kon sat up straighter at that and turned to look at Tim.

"You do art?"

"Just charcoal drawings, mostly. Sometimes some pastels," Tim said with a shrug.

"Do you still draw?"

"Yeah, pretty often. When I'm not working…”

"That's awesome. Can I see some of your drawings?"

Tim felt his face flush, feeling a little self conscious. He gestured to a drawing framed and nailed to the wall above the table where they were sitting.

"I mean... that's one..." Tim said and Kon turned to examine it, wide eyed.

It was a picture of the garden in Wayne Manor. The autumn wildflowers were in full bloom and the leaves on the trees were just changing colors. A group of people were all sitting around a pool of crystal clear blue water.

"I gave that one to Harper for her birthday a few years ago," Tim said. "That's Harper..."

Tim gestured to a blue haired girl sitting around the pool, she had her arm around another girl with long blonde hair. They were wearing matching white dresses, both with flowers tucked into their hair.

"That's Steph," Tim said, gesturing up at the picture again. "And then me and Cass."

Tim was shirtless and sitting shoulder to shoulder with a girl with chin-length hair in the picture. Tim and Cass were wearing matching linen pants and Cass had on a short sleeveless crop top.

"Wow," Kon said, squinting up at the picture. "They look exactly like your sisters..."

Tim huffed out a laugh.

"Thanks, I worked hard on it. I did that one too," Tim said gesturing to another picture of his brothers all sitting around a table drinking tea. "I think that was a gift for another birthday along the way."

"That's amazing," Kon said. "They all look so vivid and alive. Like you caught them in real time."

"Yeah... that's what I like most. Capturing a single moment, freezing it so we can all remember it together..."

Kon turned and looked at Tim with a smile that seemed almost sad.

"I can get that. I wish I could do that too, sometimes."

Tim nodded thoughtfully, looking up at his pictures. But Tim found himself fighting down a yawn, he covered his mouth with one hand.

Kon took another sip of wine as he watched Tim.

"You look exhausted," Kon said softly. "I'm surprised you managed to drag yourself out here..."

"Harper has some good food and I--"

"I wanted to see my sisters. There's a band playing later, I thought I would listen for a while and then I might stay here tonight."

"I hate to break it to you bud, but the sign says no vacancy..."

"I'll crash with Cass. She has a room in the Inn Keeper’s Suite. A small one. I can stay in her room tonight."

"Your sisters seem sweet," Kon said. "I mean, they're all totally terrifying, but they also seem sweet."

"That is very accurate."

Kon choked on a sip of wine as he laughed at that.

The band had just arrived. A few tables were moved to arrange an open space at the front of the dining area. They set up their instruments and started playing some low folk music. It was all instrumental and a man with a lovely voice was singing in a low tone in a language Kon didn't understand.

"He's good," Kon said, gesturing to the man singing. "The music is good."

Tim nodded in agreement.

"Harper has excellent taste in music too. She's painfully competent."

The music wove around the room and Tim found the songs soothing and relaxing. Kon went on talking about his cousin and his aunt and uncle. He told a story about his friends Cassie and Bart and how they were planning a beach trip in a few weeks. Tim listened and felt himself slipping into a deeply relaxed state.

Tim felt himself dozing, he leaned into the heat of Kon sitting next to him. He couldn't keep his eyes open.

The next thing Tim knew, Cass was nudging him gently. Tim came awake, realizing he had fallen asleep, resting his head on Kon's shoulder, their thighs pressed together. Tim blinked awake and looked up at Kon.

Kon smiled down at him and nodded to Cass.

"I think your sister thinks it's past your bedtime."

Tim turned to look at Cass and she nodded her head firmly. She gestured to the staircase with her chin.

"Better listen to your sister. She might beat me up if you don't."

"Yeah... for sure. It was good to see you," Tim said, sleepily. He stood and looked down at Kon. "It was good to talk to you."

Kon smiled up at him and nodded.

"It was nice. We should do it again sometime. When you're less likely to fall asleep at the table."

"Good thought," Tim said. "Remind me about it when I'm more awake."

"Count on it," Kon said. "Get some rest. We'll be back in the field soon enough."

Tim let Cass lead him upstairs to her room. She tucked him into the bed and dimmed the lights.

"Sleep," she said simply.

And Tim did, dozing off as he remembered the warm press of Kon's thigh against his own and light easy smile that danced in his eyes.


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Roy Horney started at Ryerson in 1952 to teach math and Physics. During his time at Ryerson he was the departmental head for Instrument Technology, 1960-1962; departmental head for Gas and Instrument Technology, 1962-1965; instructor supervisor for Gas and Instrument Technology, 1965-1967; Assistant chairman for Chemical and Metallurgical Technology, 1967-1971; co-ordinator of the Technology Division, 1971-1972; and Registrar, 1974-1978. During his time as Registrar he helped implement RISIS II - the second version of the Ryerson created student information system. Roy was also the coach of the Ryerson Zebras, the early men's soccer team. Roy Horney retired from Ryerson in 1983 and was subsequently voted Ryersonian of the Year for 1984.

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I just bought an Arduino Uno (SMD version) from W11Stop and want to know whether there is any other difference between Arduino UNO DIP and Arduino UNO SMD besides knowing that the SMD version doesn't have a DIP chip which can be replaced?

I am just a beginner so please help me if I am wrong!

  • Afaik, the SMD version actually has two extra analog pins. But they may not be accessible on your Arduino board (ADC6 & ADC7). The PDIP has 28pins TQFP has 32 pins (check the datasheet). But the internals should be the same by design. – Paul Sep 9 '17 at 10:41

As far as I know there is no real difference, at least not directly related to the SMD.

There are many clones which sometimes have slightly different behavior or protection.

But for the SMD the only disadvantage is it cannot (easily) be replaced.

I have one original one (with DIP) and several clones and so far I did not found any difference, except for having mini USB instead of normal USB.

  • mini USB instead of USB-B is just a chinese version of it. Many clones of Arduino bought from china have either MINI, MICRO or B-type usb port, you can actually choose. But none original(UNO) has ever had a mini USB on it. – Jakey Apr 8 '18 at 14:17

Actually, there are no different on the functionality. But you may can't go through some features, because the ATmega can be remove it manually without any special tools. One of the useful case as ArduinoISP for burning bootloader to another ATmega328p AVR.

For personal suggestion, you just needed one piece of PDIP/DIP version UNO, others boards you can consider the lower cost, such as Nano, Pro Mini(Without USB-to-TTL), UNO(SMD).

For the USB-to-TTL, there are many options in the market, watch this video to explain what are they different.

There's no actual difference, but just the "look". Neither version of it should bother you at anything, but there are 2 things, worth mentioning.

  1. The IC can fall out of DIP socket: I've been told a few times this already, but never had experienced such behaviour or been at occasion, where that happened. So here's a disadvantage for DIP cases.

  2. DIP has also possibility of changing waaaaaaaaaay easier the microprocessor in case of failure. You simply grab it off (even might with a help of a screwdriver) and you're ready to put in a new one. So this is an advantage nr. 1. I also like to use an Arduino in projects, but not the whole board. I just take the IC (atmega328) and use 2 ceramic caps with 16MHz quartz and I've got my own arduino on other PCB - in this case, you can use Arduino UNO board as a programmer. This is how to avoid installing FTDI or CH340 chip on other boards. Advantage nr. 2.

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Community Crunch 213

Posted on January 14th, 2020 07:55 PM EST
Patch Notes Round-Up

As we near the launch of Genesis and a new year of ARK content, the current state of the game and the topics that are trending in the community remain essential to us. While we are excited to introduce new content and experiences to ARK survivors, it's important to take a brief moment and recap some significant updates that have made an impact on the current state of the game.

Developers that are working on Live Ops updates have a different priority and focus than that of those working on new content. The main focus of these updates is to ensure that you have an enjoyable and fair playing experience with current game content. As you might imagine, it is a constant process of observing, investigating, adjusting, interacting, updating, reporting, resolving, and repeating the cycle.

Performance, Bugs, Balance, Quality of Life and fixing Exploits are important to us and we know they hold a high priority for you folks too. These updates may not be new news for the well-informed survivor but they may provide insight into the thought process behind the changes. Without further ado, let’s get stuck into what we’ve been up to with recent live game patches:

Performance is an intrinsic cornerstone of a player's experience. Improving performance is an ongoing process for us that we’ll continue to seek to optimize. Here’s what we’ve worked on in regards to performance recently:

- Changed droppeditem physics to improve server performance. - Added animation staggering system by default to reduce CPU overhead - Applied a one time disabling of replication on all sleeping players on all Official PvE servers. - Fixed a client-side crash related to rendering 3D text - Vastly improved server stability, with various Network Channel threading crashes fixed

Unintended Mechanics / Exploits

Addressing exploits and unintended game mechanics in a meaningful way is crucial to the health of the game on our Official servers. Recently, the team has focused quite heavily on eliminating various methods of exploiting and we’ll continue to hit them as hard and as often as we can!

Many of our recent exploit fixes targeted meshing methods and dupes but there was also some focus on unintended mechanics like MEKs becoming invulnerable and the pretty damn rude Ice Titan breath going through the mesh much to the dismay of its targets, amongst others.

Addressing exploits is an ongoing commitment and we look forward to rolling out more fixes in the near future.

- Unattach all grapple hooks when sitting on a chair. - Disabled climbing pick from attaching to gateframes, charge lanterns, ladders, fence foundations, and railings - Fixed 2 mesh exploits related to creatures. - Fixed 2 mesh exploits related to structures. - Fixed ice titan breath going through the mesh. - Fixed some cases where building structures did not use a bidrectional trace check (allowing certain structures to be placed deep into the mesh). - Fixed a case where a collision check on players wasn't correctly applying thereby allowing them to go enter some meshes. - Fixed an incorrect collision profile which allowed MEKs to collide into and stack on top of one another. - Enforcer can no longer blink onto/or very very near creatures - Pipes can no longer be placed on enemy structures - Fixed an exploit with the snow owl that allowed it to infinitely freeze players - Added additional server-side protection to Explorer Notes to prevent cheaters from acquiring them with hacks - Passengers on creatures will now be ejected if the creature is picked up - Fixed an exploit related to turret damage - Fixed various duping methods

What is there to say about bugs? We don’t like them, players don’t like them and they need to be squashed. Along with what we’d consider more run of the mill bug fixes, we’ve addressed some bugs with far reaching implications in regards to MEKS, Managarmrs and Velonasaurs, among other issues. Our players are adept at rooting out bugs and we’ll continue to iterate on your bug reports moving forward.

- Reloading bows from prone TPV no longer gets them stuck - Firing bows while in orbit camera no longer gets them stuck - Firing bows while running no longer gets them stuck - Pipes can no longer be placed on enemy structures - Fixed the enemy build radius check for the fence support - Fixed the whip to properly pickup items that are flat on the ground (previously would miss such items) - Fixed a bug which prevented players entering 'K' cam a second time if they had a weapon/tool in their hand. - Fixed a client crash related to Velonasaurs - Fixed a client FPS bug related to Velonasaurs - Fixed a bug which allowed Velonasaurs to shoot endlessly in turret mode without draining stam - Fixed a collision issue with Velonasaurs - Fixed a network desync related to Velonasaurs - Fixed a client crash related to Velonasaurs - Fixed a client FPS bug related to Velonasaurs - Fixed a bug which allowed MEKs to be invulnerable to various types of damage - Fixed a bug which allowed Managarmrs to use their ice breath underwater/whilst swimming - Fixed a bug which allowed Velonasaurs to shoot endlessly in turret mode without draining stam - Fixed two damage miscalculation bugs with the Managarmr pounce and Velonasaur AOE Needle Spin - Fixed a bug which prevented players entering 'K' cam a second time if they had a weapon/tool in their hand. - Fixed a bug with the Velonasaur's attacks causing it to incorrectly attack the wrong collision group on Paracers, Diplodocus, Brontos, and more creatures. - Items placed on top of water pipes will now respect enemy foundations. - Fixed a bug which would sometimes cause the atmospheric fog to break - Fixed a bug which would cause the Snow owl heat vision to cause other clients FPS to drop when around large bases or a lot of creatures

Quality of Life

As many players will have noticed, we’ve rolled out a significant number of QoL updates recently. The time you spend in-game is valuable to you and is most rewarding when it's not filled with tedium. We prefer your time be spent on the things you enjoy. This is where Quality of Life comes in! These updates have incorporated changes to stack sizes, inventory slots and other miscellaneous tweaks to help make your time on the ARK feel engaging and rewarding. Please continue to let us know the types of QoL changes you’d like to see as we work together to identify what’s important to players. We understand that the ARK Community is diverse with each group holding a different perspective and all of your feedback is valuable to us.

- Dedicated Storage weight reduced from 50 to 20 - Decreased cook time on the industrial grill by 50% - Shortened aberration earthquake duration by ~10% - Shortened Scorched Earth sandstorm duration by ~15% - Lowered gasoline consumption rate by 50% on the following structures: Chemistry Bench Electrical Generator Fabricator Industrial Cooker Industrial Forge Industrial Grill Industrial Grinder. - Modified the stack size on various items: Veggie Cake 5 -> 10 Raw Meat 20 -> 40 Cooked Meat 30 -> 50 Sap 20 -> 30 Fiber 200 -> 300 Thatch 100 -> 200 Organic Polymer 10 -> 20 Vacuum Compartment 100 -> 5 Vacuum Compartment Moonpool 100 -> 5 - Modified the inventory slot size of various items: Industrial forge 60 -> 100 Chemistry Bench 60 -> 100 Fridge 48 -> 80 Industrial Cooker 48 -> 80 Preserving Bin 24 -> 48 Mortar and Pestle 12 -> 24 Refining Forge 8 -> 24 - Made it easier to look at items to pick them up - Improved dropped item placement when dropping items from structures to reduce the chance of them getting stuck - Added “F” alternate activate option on items to pickup all items in a nearby range - Improved third person view offset so that it now positions at the average head height rather than the center of the character’s capsule to improve how it feels when the camera is brushed up against a collision in the world

Game Balance

Balance is an ongoing process and we’ll continue to monitor our servers to see how players are using creatures and items as we consider making balance changes. Healthy balance is achieved by a constant process of small nudges, changes, and tweaks in order to improve the entire ecosystem as it is maintained and honed in response to the needs of the player-base.

It’s no secret the Managarmr and Velonasaur have held the top position in the food chain to dominate the meta since the launch of Extinction.

The Managarmr intrinsically holds loads of utility and that has made it challenging to balance whilst retaining that utility that helps make it the popular dino it is. Our intention was never to make Manas capable of remaining constantly airborne. Granted, its place as the top player killer was partially due to some bugs/unintended mechanics which we also addressed.

Velonasaurs were outputting extremely high DPS. Similar to the Managarmr, bugs are responsible in part for this (we see you, no stamina drain in turret mode and an unexpected scaling to the right click +c attack!). Velos are primarily intended to help in base defenses but they were far stronger in the meta than intended.

That said, our statistics show they’re still two of the most popular creatures which is interesting!

Other balance changes include some steps towards addressing the cliff platform meta, giving Brontos some love, smacking Plant Z a little and tweaking enforcers up after some functional changes we made in order to mitigate a meshing exploit left them looking a little sad.

- Enforcer blink recharge cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 7 seconds - Enforcer blink range extended from 4000 units to 5000 units - Enforcer can no longer blink onto/or very near creatures - Velonasaurs will now consume stamina whilst in AI-turret mode - Reduced Velonasaur recovery time from 4 seconds to 1 second - Managarmr limited to 3 jumps, 6 strafes, and 1 dash before it has to land - Reduced Managarmr ice-breath exponential damage scaling by approximately 20% - Reduced stun duration on Jellyfish and Eels by 20% Wild eels 7 -> 5.6 Tamed eels 1.5 -> 1.2 Cnidaria 4 -> 3.2 - Reduced Plant Z flash range by 50% - Plant Z Grenades weight reduced from 10 to 5 - Metal Cliff Platforms no longer take 50% less damage from explosive damage - Bronto should no longer be affected by knockback - MEK pistol Damage reduced by 10% - Fixed the enemy build radius check for the fence support

The whole team has a lot of fun conceptualizing and implementing events and event-related content for our community to enjoy. The end of 2019 saw a return of our Turkey Trial Event and 365,085 player deaths from a well-known culprit. Shortly after, we released Winter Wonderland and introduced the adorably dorky chibi pets. Last year you indicated that events were important and listed several things you’d like to see. Because of this, we took some time to invest in events and make them more memorable for you. We get a kick out of the pics and art you folks share of your events skins and chibi collections, thank you for including us in your holiday adventures!

As always, keep your feedback coming, whether we are interacting directly or reading and observing, we pay attention to, and value, your communication with us.

EVO Event

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 17th of Jan at 1 PM EST until Monday the 20th of Jan at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

  • 2x Harvesting Rates
  • 2x Taming Rates
  • 2x EXP Rates

That wraps up this Community Crunch, our roundup of what we’ve been up to lately and a little insight into our process. For a more in-depth look at all of our recent patches, you can view full notes in our forums[]
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From the news release announcing DAH Director Stacy Hurst’s personnel changes:

Earlier today, Hurst accepted the resignation of Frances “Missy” McSwain, who was director of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. Her last day with the agency will be March 15. Until then, she will advise and assist in the transition.

“Missy has led the agency with distinction since 2009 and served as a knowledgeable resource for me as I learned the role and responsibilities of the State Historic Preservation Officer. I appreciate her many years of service and wish her well in her new endeavors,” said Hurst.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed leading the state agency devoted to protecting Arkansas’s historic properties,” said McSwain. “Having a role in helping protect some of our state’s most important treasures has been very gratifying for me personally and professionally, and I look forward to a smooth transition.”

Besides hiring Patrick Ralston as director of the Arts Council and making Arts Council assistant director Marian Boyd the interim head of Historic Preservation, Hurst also accepted the resignation of Patricia Blick, McSwain’s deputy, who has taken a job as head of the Quapaw Quarter Association. The changes follow other resignations from the department, including that of the chief archeologist and the director of the Delta Cultural Center and former deputy directors.


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All eyes on German renewable energy efforts   Leave a comment

This tiny village in a wind-swept corner of eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution.

Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from El Salvador to Japan to South Africa have flocked here in the past year to learn how Feldheim, with just 145 people, is already putting into practice Germany’s vision of a future powered entirely by renewable energy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government passed legislation in June setting the country on course to generate a third of its power through renewable sources — such as wind, solar, geothermal and bioenergy — within a decade, reaching 80 percent by 2050, while creating jobs, increasing energy security and reducing harmful emissions.

The goals are among the world’s most ambitious, and expensive, and other industrialized nations from the U.S. to Japan are watching to see whether transforming into a nation powered by renewable energy sources can really work.

“Germany can’t afford to fail, because the whole world is looking at the German model and asking, can Germany move us to new business models, new infrastructure?” said Jeremy Rifkin, a U.S. economist who has advised the European Union and Merkel.

In June, the nation passed the 20 percent mark for drawing electric power from a mix of wind, solar and other renewables. That compares with about 9 percent in the United States or Japan — both of which rely heavily on hydroelectric power, a source that has long been used.”……

In the grand scheme of environmental initiatives, a successful outcome of  Germany in the renewable energy sector is vital to silence the critics , naysayers and frankly , the less bold and decisive leaders to prove that change in the energy sector is sustainably possible.

No one should wait, however, to see the full outcome….the self imposed decision by Germany to phase out energy sourced from the nuclear sector has put it onto the juggernaut for more green. Their research , technology development and maufacturing will put it into the lead to export more of their expertise in this sector.

Do read the full article.

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Implications of the decision by Germany to shut down its nuclear energy reactors in the light of the nuclear disaster in Fukashima Japan .

“With a total of 133 gigawatts of installed generating capacity in place at the start of this year, “there was really a huge amount of space to shut off nuclear plants,” Harry Lehmann, a director general of the German Federal Environment Agency and one of Germany’s leading policy makers on energy and environment, said of the road map he helped develop. The country needs about 90.5 gigawatts of generating capacity on hand to fill a typical national demand of about 80 gigawatts a day. So the 25 gigawatts that nuclear power contributed would not be missed — at least within its borders.

To be prudent, the plan calls for the creation of 23 gigawatts of gas- and coal-powered plants by 2020. Why? Because renewable plants don’t produce nearly to capacity if the air is calm or the sky is cloudy, and there is currently limited capacity to store or transport electricity, energy experts say.”

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