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General Chat / Re: Official Public Toilets Discussion
« on: August 08, 2019, 02:49:19 AM »
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Toilet explodes in Florida storm
Toilet explodes in Florida storm
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San Francisco started its “Pit Stop” program in July 2014 with public toilets in the city’s homeless-heavy Tenderloin, after children complained of dodging human waste on their way to school. Today, the staffed bathrooms have grown from three to 25 locations, and the program has expanded to Los Angeles. In May, the toilets in San Francisco recorded nearly 50,000 flushes, all logged by attendants.
Attendants who are paid the city’s minimum wage of $16 an hour check after every use and knock on doors to make sure people are not doing drugs or other illicit activity. The bathrooms must shine or they do not open.
Sacramento, which is in a county where a one-night count of the homeless increased 19% in two years, tried a Pit Stop but stopped after a few months because it cost too much.
incidence rates of chlamydia in service men and women more than doubled from 2013 to 2018, gonorrhea infection rates also doubled for men and rose by 33 percent for women, and diagnoses of syphilis were nearly three times the number just 10 years ago.
Nearly 350,000 troops were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted illness between 2010 and 2018. According to the report, that included 212,405 cases of chlamydia, 32,987 cases of gonorrhea, 4,674 cases of syphilis, 28,295 cases of genital herpes and 71,138 cases of HPV
Women were "markedly" more affected than for men for all infections except syphilis, and younger troops, ages 24 and under, were affected at rates higher than any other age group for most of the diseases.
"Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is now my fav GCN game to date."
Welcome to the club. I think it's just the two of us.
Also, did anyone use the Seeker Missile other than for enemies/bosses/puzzles where it was required? I found it way too awkward to use in the heat of battle unless it was required. Hopefully MP3 (on Revolution) will fix this problem by making the Seeker Missile easier to use.
One of the icons for the visors in the trailer looked new. It looked like sound waves. Perhaps it will be used to detect movement in this dark world. Makes sense seeing as the game is called echoes.
QuoteI actually agree with this comment quite a bit. While the level design was excellent, it felt a bit lazy and I couldn't put it into words until just now. The old Metroid games didn't have any keys (or very few at least). And while it's not a huge deal, they seem out of place in the Metroid world.
I'm rating it somewhere around a lower 90's score. There are a few things that I just really disliked with the game. Mainly the unnecessary amount of Keys. (4 translation keys, 9 "temple" keys and 9 more keys to the final area? it was just a stupid pain when the only thing in your way was a door you couldn't get past).
Here is a link to a new IGN article, the content of which I feel could be fuel for my anti-Metroid Prime 2 "campaign":
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cube.ign.com/articles/579/579600p1.html?fromint=1">IGN speculates on Metroid Prime sales numbers and their implications[/url]
Could it really be that a lot of other people, too, found the sequel to Metroid Prime annoyingly difficult, and so decided to buy other games on offer, instead?
Of course, I think so! I even heard that people chose Halo 2 over Metroid Prime 2, because it was more "accessible", or something like that.
...I on the contrary found this game too difficult. Either way, there´s no balance! I definitely not saying that games should be too easy, but they should neither be too hard!
So what I want developers to do, is to have playtesters of al kinds of both hradcore and softcore kind play through games they are making, in order for them to decide when they have hit the exact right balance between not to easy and not too difficult! They did that with Metroid Prime 1, why didn´t they do it with the sequel? There are people, who are dreading that dark world on the other side, and just wanting to escape from it the moment they get in there. Do you think, then, that it´s appropriate to also increase the difficulty of the bosses in such an environment? I don´t! I don´t even think the games is anywhere near as beautifull as the first one. The awesome ice worlds, and the just as awesome fire worlds have been totally omitted, and instead this scary dark one is there. I really feel that beautifull surroundings play an all-important role in any game! In particular, if the game is very very hard. That has a direct bearing on how you feel about it. And in my opinion, the choice of environments in this sequel, has made it a nightmare to play! So I canned it!!
The freedom to explore is fine, that´s what made me play the game in the first place. But I don´t like having to face a Boss that´s so difficult that you die again and again, and get no help nomatter how many walkthroughs you consult.
I am not a hardcoregamer as such, but could be taken for one if they didn´t look carefully. But I do know the hardcoregamers, and I do know the casual gamers.
My point is simply that Retro should avoid making the next Metroid game as difficult as this sequel is.
The first one was perfectly balanced in difficulty and learning curve. But I still recall having big issues with the buttons, when I had to perform various maneuvers in boss battles. I sometimes felt like my fingers were being twisted slowly, for simply having to cross my fingers to do the required actions. Still, I could juuust make it, and finish the game! But I NEVER expected that the much anticipated sequel would be harder.
376 million new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis developed among people between the ages of 15-49 in 2016. Some of the cases may be multiple infections at the same time or re-infections among the same people.
Syphilis, which can be transmitted during pregnancy and childbirth, caused 200,000 stillbirths and newborn deaths in 2016.
The stock dropped as much as 36% in its biggest one-day percentage loss since its listing in 2002, according to Bloomberg data. The stock has lost more than two-thirds of its value since a peak earlier this year.
“The only impactful transformation we see in GME’s future is the industry’s on-going transition to the digital economy, a viable scenario where GME has little value.”
Jefferies, Stephanie Wissink
The combination of the transformation initiatives, ongoing consumer shift to digital gaming, and current console cycle being in the very late stages are likely to make 2019 a very challenging year.”
Loop Capital Markets, Anthony Chukumba
“The elimination of the quarterly cash dividend sends a worrisome signal that management has lost confidence in the company’s cash flow generation ability.”
...Scion Research team turned to a technology that is fairly well known in large-scale applications (it’s used in mining and also sewage treatment), which they think could work well if innovative methods are used to downsize it. The method is called wet oxidation. Essentially, it works by taking waste and adding oxygen and then putting everything under pressure and gently heating it to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
“What would happen in that environment over a period of an hour is that organic material will oxidize. It gets converted to carbon dioxide and water. Just heating under oxygen pressure. It’s quite amazing,” says Gapes. The byproduct is completely sterile—a clear liquid that can be treated and passed through a filtration membrane to produce purified water and an ash that contains a high content of phosphorous, a chemical element used in fertilizer.
There are 2.5 billion people around the world who don’t have access to safe, affordable sanitation systems. That means every time they go to the bathroom they have to put themselves in an unhealthy or dangerous situation.
It’s a problem that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes can be solved by innovative technologies.
One toilet seat developed by the Rochester Institute of Technology contains devices that measure blood oxygenation levels, heart rate, and blood pressure to signal when someone is at risk for congestive heart failure.
What if the toilet in your home could monitor your health by analyzing your daily waste?
Smart toilets could also have an essential role in monitoring public health. With the help of data collected from smart toilets in public spaces in combination with the weather and other data from satellites, it could give global health professionals early warnings of a disease outbreak before it becomes a crisis.
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