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Armin Van Buuren to headline Dreamstate SoCal 2017 – Trance Hub (satire) (press release) (blog)
Posted: July 10, 2017 at 8:28 pm
When we thought that the Dreamstate SoCal lineup had everything, they had to have the last laugh didnt they. Yes the final announcement is here and Armin Van Buuren will be headlining this years Dreamstate South California 2017. Apart from his project GAIA, he will be playing a a Solo Set at the event.
This year Armin is taking some conscious efforts to maintain his trance profile he will be playing at FSOE 500 Egypt alongside Aly&Fila and now this, we hope he goes all out with this whole range of trance spectrum. We also hope Dreamstate is able to livestream this show! That would be wonderful.
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Cyberpunk 2077 – reddit
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Estimated Release Date: when it's ready
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As the title is still in pre-development/concept stages and it is likely there will be little to no news for extended periods, for the time being any and all cyberpunk-related content will be regarded as suitable material for submission, in the hope of establishing a community by the time the title is released. It is likely that these submission guidelines will be narrowed to restrict submissions to game related content as the release date approaches, depending on the growth and development of the subreddit as a whole, but in the meantime readers are encouraged to submit anything cyberpunk related.
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CD Projekt RED's Upcoming Futuristic RPG Is "Cyberpunk 2077"
Warsaw, 18 October 2012 CD Projekt RED has officially announced the title of its in-development role-playing game. "Cyberpunk 2077" will be set in the world created by Mike Pondsmith, one of the fathers of the cyberpunk genre and the creator of the cult-classic pen-and-paper RPG, Cyberpunk.
"The Team has to love the material. The Team has to want to be faithful to the material. The Team has to have the skills to execute the material and see that vision through to the end. They have to be on fire with the desire to make an extraordinary game.
And that leads, at last, to why we hooked up with CD Projekt RED" Mike Pondsmith commented, why he has chosen to work with the Polish game developer.
The cyberpunk atmosphere, well known from William Gibson's novels, the "Blade Runner" movie and the famous pen-and-paper game, "Cyberpunk 2020", will surround the player. The creators promise that "Cyberpunk 2077" will be true to the essence of the cyberpunk genre. Players will be thrown into the dark future of the year 2077 and into a world where advanced technologies have become both the salvation and the curse of humanity. A multi-thread, nonlinear story designed for mature players (a CD Projekt RED trademark) will take place in the sprawling metropolis of Night City and its surroundings. Players will have a chance to visit places well known from "Cyberpunk 2020", including a combat zone completely taken over by gangs, the legendary Afterlife joint and the nostalgic Forlorn Hope.
Freedom of action and diversity in gameplay will be delivered thanks to the sandbox nature of the game and mechanics inspired by the "Cyberpunk 2020" pen-and-paper system, fine tuned to meet the requirements of a modern RPG. Gameplay will pump adrenaline through players' veins and be consistent with the celebrated Cyberpunk spirit rebellion, style, edge, uncertainty. And of course, a cyberpunk reality cannot be deprived of murderous steel guns, rifles, implants, dozens of gadgets and other varied pieces of equipment needed to survive on the streets of Night City. The developers are focused on making the technology of 2077 credible and exciting.
For more info please visit the newly launched blog: cyberpunk.net and read some articles written by both the developers from CD Projekt RED and Mike Pondsmith himself.
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CyberPunkReview – The latest news and reviews from the Cyber …
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Game Review
Release Date: MS-DOS, Mac OS, WW: October 31, 1995
Windows, WW: September 5, 2013
OS X, Linux, WW October 17, 2013
iOS, Android, WW: January 14, 2016
Developer: Cyberdreams
Producers: David Mullich, Robert Wiggins
Platform: Android, MS-DOS, Mac OS, Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS
Genre: Horror and adventure
Degree of Cyberpunk Visuals:
Degree of Cyberpunk Themes:
Rating:8/10
If you love dark and horror fantasy, then there is no doubt that you will absolutely love this game.
Overview: This is a story that makes you believe that fate is worse than death. I recommend you read the short collection first before you play the game because there are several horrifying scenes that will either make you want to play the game or haunt you to bed.
The Story: The plot of the video game revolves in America, Russia, and China creating a subterranean complex of high technology. It is too difficult for humans to understand. The supercomputer soon started killing people but left one woman and four men. They are the only ones left on Earth to be tortured. However, through the research of the AM, these five survivors will find ways in order to defeat the opponent.
Just imagine yourself as an immortal and being tortured by AM because you are one of the chosen playthings. Ellen is the only woman in the story, a 2-dimensional character had been turned into a sexual slave and was used by the four men in the group. One of the guys, Benny, who was a gay in the earlier part of the story had turned straight again but he was transformed into a mutant with a suspiciously large penis. Gorrister and Nimdok are the other guys of the chosen playthings of the story.
As you play this game, you will eventually answer the question, Why did he choose these five individuals? AM will soon challenge these five characters into playing a game, playing with their biggest fears and meddling with their own flaws. However, you know too well that even if he promised that he will set them free once they win the game, he will never do anything he promised.
If youre thinking of the Saw body-horror games, then you are wrong. For instance, one of the guys, Gorrister is suicidal. His wife was killed a hundred years ago. He found himself in a seppelin and was now provided with all the ways to commit suicide. However, he received help from a talking jackal which made him surpassed the game.
However, this game wasnt made to be completed by anyone. By the time every character had been able to complete each of their games, they are lifted into a new level where they discover that AM cannot be defeated. If they win the game, they will only be turned into a blob monsterwhich sucks after hours spent in order to win the game. The end of the story is simplehumanity is completely wiped out. Thats it.
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‘Deus Ex’ Mods: GMDX 9.0 release brings the cyberpunk classic into … – Mic
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The original Deus Ex is a classic, one that I spent several hours with as a younger gamer, but it hasnt aged that well. Enter GMDX (Give Me Deus Ex, of course) a mod for the original Deus Ex that aims to give the game a glorious HD update with a bushel of additional tweaks, such as changes to the UI, graphics, AI and other augments that would give even protagonist JC Denton a run for his money.
Though the mod itself has been around for about four years, its recently welcomed its latest iteration in the form of GMDX 9.0, which is available now for you to download.
The latest version of the GMDX mod, GMDX 9.0, includes advanced artificial intelligence, new effects, animations, graphics and more. The team behind the mod has also worked to improve the games physics engine, RPG systems, weapons and more. There are even changes to difficulty settings, if thats something youre interested in seeing altered.
GMDX states that the entire point of the mod is to enhance the player experience wherever possible and not to change the fundamental core of Deus Ex, but rather to dig deeper and more fully achieve and build upon the creative vision from the Deus Ex team. From the look of things, the people behind GMDX 9.0 are doing just that.
As you can see in the three-minute long release trailer, its almost as if Deus Ex were a game released in the past couple of years or so. And if youve only ever played games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution or the other, newer iterations, youre missing out. Whether youre a Deus Ex newbie or are looking to rediscover the classic game, youll want in on this free mod, which you can download here.
Check out the latest from Mic, like this essay about the sinister, subtle evils lurking in rural America that Far Cry 5 shouldnt ignore. Also, be sure to read our review of Tekken 7, an article about D.Vas influence on one Overwatch players ideas about femininity and an analysis of gamings racist habit of darkening villains skin tones.
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Edap Tms SA Adr (NASDAQ:EDAP) Reports Increase in Sellers; Strong Momentum for Short Players – Weekly Register
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July 10, 2017 - By Richard Conner
The stock of Edap Tms SA Adr (NASDAQ:EDAP) registered an increase of 83.75% in short interest. EDAPs total short interest was 774,700 shares in July as published by FINRA. Its up 83.75% from 421,600 shares, reported previously. With 230,900 shares average volume, it will take short sellers 3 days to cover their EDAPs short positions. The short interest to Edap Tms SA Adrs float is 2.8%.
About 17,462 shares traded. Edap Tms SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:EDAP) has declined 15.92% since July 10, 2016 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 32.62% the S&P500.
EDAP TMS S.A. is a holding company engaged in developing and marketing the Ablatherm and Focal One devices. The company has market cap of $91.46 million. The Firm operates two divisions: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and Urology Devices and Services (UDS) (including lithotripsy activities). It has a 20.51 P/E ratio. The Firm is developing HIFU technology for the treatment of certain other types of tumors.
More news for Edap Tms SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:EDAP) were recently published by: Benzinga.com, which released: 20 Stocks Moving In Wednesdays Pre-Market Session on June 21, 2017. Quotes.Wsj.coms article titled: EDAP TMS SA ADR and published on February 11, 2011 is yet another important article.
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HIRREM Neurotechnology Better Than Placebo for Insomnia – Sleep Review
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A clinical trial has found that HIRREM [high-resolution, relational, resonance based, electroencephalic mirroring] closed-loop neurotechnology is more effective than placebo at reducing symptoms of insomnia and has additional benefits for heart rate and blood pressure regulation. Findings were presented in Boston at SLEEP 2017.
Developed by Brain State Technologies (BST), HIRREM is a noninvasive acoustic stimulation neurotechnology that applies software algorithms for real-time analysis of critical brain frequencies. The algorithms guide production of changing sequences of audible tones, which support brain oscillations to re-organize toward more optimal patterns of symmetry and frequency ratios.
The 3-year study enrolled 107 adults with insomnia and randomly assigned them to receive 10sessions of either HIRREM or a placebo intervention, which consisted of tones produced by a random generator. Subjects were blinded to their group assignment, and they received equal levels of social interaction during the 2-week treatment period. The trial was conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Neurology (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), by Charles Tegeler, MD.
At the predetermined endpoint 2months after their sessions, those who received HIRREM reported significantly greater reduction in insomnia symptoms than those who received placebo. Moreover, the HIRREM group showed marked improvements in heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity, whereas the placebo group showed no physiological changes. Ninety-four percent of the enrolled subjects completed all sessions and follow-up visits as scheduled, and there were no adverse events in either group.
Lee Gerdes, founder and CEO of BST, says in a release, We are thrilled that our noninvasive strategy showed highly practical benefits, in an easily tolerable way without side effects, for a problem that affects up to half the US population. He further notes that Brain State Technologies is continuing innovations on HIRREM and other products for well-being, above and beyond the methodology evaluated in this study.
According to Sung Lee, MD, MSc, director of research at BST, The brain is the organ of central command. This study shows that HIRREM benefits sleep, and also helps the brain to fine tune its regulation of heart rate and blood pressure in response to changing stress levels. He says closed-loop neural interventions such as HIRREM have the advantage of precision-guidance based on real-time physiological dynamics, in contrast to reliance on symptom changes or clinical assessments.
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How Certain Bacteria Resist Antibiotics to Become Virulent in CF and Other Diseases Focus of Thesis – Cystic Fibrosis News Today
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A deeper understanding of how bacteria likePseudomonas aeruginosaacts and survives in people despite antibiotic treatment was the focus of adoctoral thesis, along with a recommendation for antibiotic combinations that mightwork better those whats currently in use.
Thethesis, Host-pathogen interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa invasive and respiratory tract infection, is by Magnus Paulsson, who recently earned a doctor medical science fromLund University, Sweden. The work, at present, is not published.
Chronic lung infections caused by P. aeruginosa are major concerns for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and for people using urinary catheters. In some cases, these infections are caused by forms of the bacteria that are highly resistant to antibiotic therapy, making them a challenge to treat.
We live longer, which also means that there are more people who live with various diseases, Paulsson saidin a press release. Therefore, infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacteria that affect people with impaired immune systems have become more common.
According to the researcher, P. aeruginosaresists antibiotics due to the existence of bacterial vesicles small particles produced by these organisms that carry and spread several bacterial molecules. One such molecule is called beta-lactamase, which breaks down antibiotics.
Moreover, these spreading vesicles immune response to their presence. In fact, the vesicles protect their cargo and block the immune systems ability to destroy beta-lactamase. This way, P. aeruginosa protects itself and survives in the human body.
Paulsson also showedthat atreatment using two different types of antibiotics can reduce mortality up to five times, but the combination was not evident in the thesis available online. However, the choice of treatment was critical, [and] particularly choosing a combination-treatment including ciprofloxacin was beneficial, the researcherwrote.
Paulsson also studies the mechanisms by which P. aeruginosa settles in the lungs. He found that the bacterial vesicles promote the production of a protein called vitronectin, whose activity controls the immune system response. By exhibiting vitronectin at their surface, bacteria protect themselves against suchresponses.
The process was previously known, but our study is the first to show that this can happen in our lungs, Paulsson said.
Heis now focused on studying possible ways to stop bacterial infection using vaccines or other mechanisms to promote the activity of the immune system.
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20 DMA for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) moves below 52-week high – NY Stock News
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The technicals for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) have taken shape, and with them a comprehensive picture has emerged. This is the current state of play as presented by the current technical setup. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of books have been written on trading, strategies, tactics and everything in between. The result has been the mass-proliferation of confusion and less and less attention to the fundamentals of trading success. The fact remains that sound analysis of technical and chart data is still the biggest reason failing traders are transformed into winning traders.
(CF) has shown a marked change in trend levels over the course of recent market activity. Based on recent activity surrounding both the 50 and 200 SMAs, theres been a marked trend created which can be described as bearish. The composite picture painted by the trends built around both SMAs has also created a measured analysis of current investor sentiment as the stock navigates upside and downside risk. The established market sentiment toward the stock has created a trading environment which can suitably be described as negative. There has also been a knock-on effect as it relates to trading volume now reflected in weak real-time sentiment on the buying and selling curve; this has created in turn, indifference toward the stock as measured across a broad statistical mix of the general trading community.
As a composite and comprehensive tableau, the stocks position in the minds of the trading market reflects a broad analysis of technicals and inherent trends which underpin overall market-trading viability.
Relative strength indicator (RSI) and Stochastic measures are two very important leading indicators that help traders gauge overall movement of a particular stock; they act as boosters to technical analysis. Together they show in a measured way, whether or not a stock currently overbought or oversold. This indicator is crucial in determining whether traders are tipped toward the side of buying more of the stock, or doing the opposite and selling more of the stock. This is very important directional information necessary for making trading decisions. (CF)s current measure for its 14-day RSI is 51.83%; this is suggestive that on balance of the indicator, the stock is neutral neither overbought nor oversold and therefore not susceptible to any undue price movements in either direction. The stochastic picture presents a complimentary view of overall sentiment in the present state for (CF). Stochastic data gathered over the last 30 days has created a score of 59.13%. This indicates that the stock is neither overbought or oversold at current levels.
When assessing a trade, it is often necessary to enlist other technical indicators outside of the standard leading set. These, when employed, can often mean the difference between a losing and a winning trade. The omens depict a telling picture in terms of the near-term trading setup for (CF); this makes things very interesting to the curious and interested eye. The +1.12 has created a positive in the trailing 30 days since initiating movement. Over the extended term, the stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.93%. This consistent movement and its attendant overall performance have produced higher daily volatility when compared with other stocks ranking in the same peer group and on the same exchange. The picture looks the same when the stock is assessed against volatility levels measured historically. This historical volatility gives a current reading of 40.14%. These measures of historic volatility are very handy in judging the underlying price momentum and the rate of change in the price of (CF). Bound up this picture of volatility, is another measure that gives the underlying thesis for (CF). This can best be seen by analyzing the readings for the stocks average true range, currently 3.48. ATR is a fine augment to the other indicators outlined above and should be used in conjunction and not as a standalone.
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2 Stocks to keep an eye on Today: Sprint Corporation (S), CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) – StockNewsJournal
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2 Stocks to keep an eye on Today: Sprint Corporation (S), CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) StockNewsJournal Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) market capitalization at present is $33.24B at the rate of $8.13 a share. The firm's price-to-sales ratio was noted 0.97 in contrast with an overall industry average of 1.67. Most of the active traders and investors are keen ... |
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If You Like Art, Don’t Take the Bechdel Test – National Review
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Suppose your favorite film critic started sprinkling his reviews with references to the Cowboy Test and made it clear that he was factoring into his appraisal of a work of art whether it contained cowboys. La La Land? Manchester by the Sea? Moonlight? All problematic, as these benighted films contain no cowboys. On the other hand, Cowboys and Aliens, Armageddon, and the Village People movie Cant Stop the Music, each of which contains cowboy characters, would easily pass the Cowboy Test and receive a hearty blessing.
You would think this approach to movies a bit odd. It is. But no odder than the Bechdel Test, a feminist litmus test that is currently being thrown around by movie critics as an important way to assess the quality or at least the political correctness of a film.
Assuming youre a normal person, and not a film critic, you may never even have heard of the Bechdel Test. Named for the lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel, it first appeared in an underground comic called Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985, in which it was called the rule. The rule is that a movie must have at least two (named) female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. One Bechdel character sniffed that she would go only to movies that pass this test.
Today Bechdel is an over-ground artist, a very big deal. In 2014, she won a MacArthur genius award. A show based on her graphic novel Fun Home had a successful run on Broadway and won a Tony for Best Musical. She is regarded as a feminist savant by the left-leaning cultural cognoscenti.
In the past few years, the Bechdel Test has begun popping up casually in reviews like a feminist Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Take this appreciation last month of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, published by Katie Baker on the site The Ringer: It is, in my possibly blinded by love but also correct opinion, one of the best sports movies there is. And it is an honest ode to women and sisters and friendships, with a story that breezes through the Bechdel test by the end of the opening scene.
Hey, and you know what? Tom Sellecks Matthew Quigley appears almost immediately in Quigley Down Under. Hurrah, this film breezes through the Cowboy Test by the end of the opening scene!
Neither of these two tests gives you any hint as to the worth of a film, and furthermore neither of them tells you anything about a films general feminist wokeness. It doesnt even tell you whether the film is entirely about a woman. Lots of films that have female protagonists fail the Bechdel Test notably Alien 3; Run, Lola, Run; Breakfast at Tiffanys (there is actual heated debate on this one, but if it passes it barely does so); and Gravity. The Princess Bride fails the Bechdel Test, as does Finding Nemo, and some argue that The Little Mermaid does, too. (Again, it might barely earn a passing grade.) Lots of blockbusters with beloved female characters fail the Bechdel Test, including the original Star Wars trilogy, Avatar, and all of the Lord of the Rings films. So do many classic Hollywood films, from Citizen Kane to The Godfather, and lots of films directed by women, including Kathryn Bigelows The Hurt Locker, not to mention most of the Harry Potter movies adapted from J. K. Rowlings novels. Showgirls, on the other hand, passes the test. Do feminists look at Showgirls and chalk that one up as a big win?
To give you some inkling of how little the Bechdel Test matters when it comes to filmmaking, consider that Sofia Coppola had never heard of it when asked about it in a recent interview. Coppola is one of todays most accomplished and acclaimed female directors, and all of her seven films prominently feature women, usually in the main roles. Yet her latest movie, The Beguiled, passes only incidentally. Although seven out of the eight main characters in the film are female girls and women living at a girls school in Virginia in 1864 they spend almost the entire film discussing a man, a wounded Union soldier they nurse back to health.
Some promoters of the Bechdel Test, stung by the many writers who have pointed out its utter vapidity and uselessness, say it isnt meant to be a litmus test but rather a strategy for drawing attention to the general way women are sidelined in Hollywood. But movies arent intended to be a proper demographic cross-section of America. Movies (at least Hollywood movies) are about people on the extremes of society cops, criminals, superheroes. These extreme characters tend to be men, and men tend to be the ones who create them. Women enjoy much more prominence in the milieu of low-budget independent movies, where the stories are more focused on ordinary people with real-world problems, but those movies usually attract small audiences.
It might be true that there would be more women prominently featured in movies if more women were writing and directing more movies. But it might also be true that the reason there arent as many women making films is that womens movie ideas arent commercial enough for Hollywood studios. To be slightly less reductionist than the Bechdel Test, women tend to write movies about relationships, and men tend to write movies about aliens and shootouts. Have a wander through the sci-fi and fantasy section of your local bookstore: How many of these books authors are female? Yet these are where the big movie ideas come from. If a woman wants the next Lord of the Ringsstyle franchise to pass the Bechdel Test, then a woman should come up with a story with as much earning potential as J. R. R. Tolkiens.
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