Persona 5 won several awards and has been cited as one of the greatest role-playing video games of all time, with praise given to its visual presentation, gameplay, story, and music. Its themes revolve around attaining freedom from the limitations of modern society, while the story was strongly inspired by picaresque fiction the party's Personas were based on outlaws and rebels from literature. First announced in 2013, Persona 5 was delayed from its original late 2014 release date due to the game not being fully finished. Preparatory work began during the development of Persona 4, with full development beginning after the release of Catherine in 2011. Along with Hashino, returning staff from earlier Persona games included character designer Shigenori Soejima and music composer Shoji Meguro. Persona 5 was developed by P-Studio, an internal development studio within Atlus led by game director and producer Katsura Hashino. The game incorporates role-playing and dungeon crawling elements alongside social simulation scenarios. As with previous games in the series, the party battles enemies known as Shadows using physical manifestations of their psyche known as their Personas. They explore the Metaverse, a supernatural realm born from humanity's subconscious desires, to steal malevolent intent from the hearts of adults. Over the course of a school year, he and other students awaken to a special power, becoming a group of secret vigilantes known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. It takes place in modern-day Tokyo and follows a high school student known by the pseudonym Joker who transfers to a new school after being falsely accused of assault and put on probation. Royal was later released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2022. An enhanced version featuring new content, Persona 5 Royal, was released for the PlayStation 4 in Japan in October 2019 and worldwide in March 2020, published by Atlus in Japan and worldwide by parent company Sega. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan in September 2016 and worldwide in April 2017, and was published by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Deep Silver in PAL territories. It is the sixth installment in the Persona series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Persona 5 is a 2016 role-playing video game developed by P-Studio and published by Atlus. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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It is both more social and more personal than a mere set of skills. Literacy involves not just reading and writing, but a wide range of related language activities. In order to develop assessment practices that serve students in an increasingly complex society, we must outgrow the limitations of our own schooling histories and understand language, literacy, and assessment in more complex ways. For example, in our own school days, we were directed to read to get the correct meaning of a text so that we could answer questions put to us by someone who already knew that correct meaning or by a test (often multiple choice) for which the correct answers were already determined. Readers of this document most likely share common experiences with respect to literacy and assessment. The standards proposed in this document are intended to reflect these advances in our understanding. In the past 30 years, research has produced revolutionary changes in our understanding of language, learning, and the complex literacy demands of our rapidly changing society. This document provides a set of standards to guide decisions about assessing the teaching and learning of literacy. This document is also available for purchase in book form. The document also includes brief case studies that make the implications of the standards concrete. Each standard, accessible from the links below and from links in the left menu, opens with a brief explanatory paragraph, followed by an expanded discussion of the standard. A brief conceptual framework is presented in the introduction. The standards rest on understandings about assessment, language, and literacy generated by research over the past 40 years. The revised document aims to improve the quality of assessment by providing standards to guide decisions about assessing the teaching and learning of literacy in 21st-century classrooms. In Fall 2007, the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association appointed a Joint Task Force on Assessment to update the Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing, originally published by the two organizations in 1994. Quality assessment is a process of inquiry. It requires gathering information and setting conditions so that the classroom, school, and community become centers of inquiry where students, teachers, and other stakeholders can examine their learning-individually and collaboratively-and find ways to improve their practice. Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing Mr Karlson said he did not know the species but it may have been an Octopus tetricus, otherwise known as a 'gloomy octopus'.Ī species of octopus closely related to the East Australian 'gloomy octopus' is found in Western Australia, and is known to hide in crevices on sand or in mud. 'The pain went away quickly, it was more the physical hit that had hurt.' Mr Karlson was holidaying in Geographe Bay, Western Australia, when the incident occurred Lance said later he went into the ocean alone to swim around for a bit and the octopus came and found him and attacked him again this time actually hitting him with its tentacles lashings and leaving him dazed and confused in murky water. 'We did not have any vinegar/acid to pour over the stings so my wife poured coke over me, which helped enormously,' he said. The former lifeguard told his wife to pour Coke on his neck to stop the stinging. Woman's warning to beachgoers after finding a deadly octopus inside a shell - and it's MUCH harder to spot than its blue-ringed cousins. Terrifying moment an eel violently attacks an OCTOPUS in ultimate deep sea battle.Geologist and author Lance Karlson was about to take a dip near the resort he. Terrifying video shows a deadly blue-ringed octopus lurking in a rock pool at a popular beach - and their fatal bites can paralyse within ten minutes Jamie Bisceglia said the octopus bit her and injected her with its beak.'My goggles were too fogged to see what had happened and I swam back to shore in pain the imprints of the tentacles quickly formed raised marks across my skin.' I was then hit again over my neck,' he recalled. 'As I was looking at the shells underwater I was hit across my arm. Mr Karlson said when he went for a swim about 20 minutes later he saw the 'sea monster' sitting on a large pile of crab shells. 'I walked with my daughter in my arms up to the octopus and took the video the octopus lashed out at us.' Author Lance Karlson called his attacker a 'sea monster' in a scathing social media post ' I saw the tentacles of an octopus come out of the water and lash out at a seagull. 'I thought it was a stingray at first,' he told Daily Mail Australia. Mr Karlson described the animal as 'the angriest octopus in Geographe Bay'. 'Angry' octopus lashed out at unsuspecting father The octopus is alleged to have grab his neck So instead of having a Jaws -esque backlash against our favorite eight-tentacled vertebrate, we should appreciate them from afar - and maybe avoid bothering them for the ‘gram.He videoed the octopus splaying in the crystal clear water, before it pounced on his neck when he turned his back. I think this is often pre-emptive aggression, meant to signal ‘don’t mess with me,’ rather than aggression seriously meant to harm the ‘invader.’" "Octopuses will lunge or shoot an arm out when they feel a fish, another octopus or a human is in their space. "My guess is that the octopus here is sending a warning meaning ‘back off,’" he told the NYT. Peter Ulric Tse, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College who has studied octopus behavior, believes that the creature in the viral video wasn’t trying to harm Karlson. Instagram/Lance Karlson A man was attacked by the 'angriest octopus' off the coast of Western Australia. Now, Karlson fears that people will get the wrong idea about octopuses saying that folks should " give some love to these beautiful creatures and not treat them with disdain." Ever! (small □) /PIYuVXpM9tĪfter posting the video to his Instagram, it quickly went viral. This was probably the most fun I had writing a paper. Our new paper is out on showing that octos express this behavior during collaborative hunting with other fishes. After all, they’ve been known to punch fish out of spite. Judit Pungor, an octopus researcher at the University of Oregon, told the NYT that octopus don’t have venom in their tentacles that would be "alleviated by pouring something acidic over it." She believes that Karlson might have been coincidentally attacked by a jellyfish.īut it wouldn’t be too surprising if he was attacked by an octopus. "The stinging sensation went away almost instantly," Karlson said to the NYT. He also felt a stinging sensation where he was struck, and his wife later poured soda down his back to alleviate the pain. His injuries consisted of visible red marks on his neck, back, and arms. He told the NYT that an octopus then lashed out at him twice, striking him on his neck, back, and arms. However, when the geologist decided to do some snorkeling later, he was attacked by what he described as "the angriest octopus" to the NYT.Īs he swam out into the ocean, he spotted a pile of crab shells stacked on the ocean floor - a common way for octopi to conceal their hiding spots. Karlson and his daughter made it away unscathed from that particular interaction. Some artists (including Aaron and my own nail tech) will also add a coat of clear powder on top as a protective buffer, so when you file and shape your nails afterward, you won’t file away the actual color powder.Ĥ. The nail tech will then coat your nails, one by one, in the colored powder of your choice by dusting or brushing the powder over your nail, then repeat the process one to two more times for opacity. They’ll then prep your nails with a bond liquid (sometimes called a dip base coat) that adheres the powder to your nails.ģ. Your technician will first clean and file your nails, making sure any excess oils and/or polish are completely removed.Ģ. Still, to get a feel for how dip nails work, check out this pared-down, very-basic, five-step process you might see in the salon, says Aaron.ġ. The exact technique for doing dip powder nails will vary from salon to salon, and even from kit to kit (if you’re DIYing with a dip powder kit at home). View full post on Instagram How do you do dip powder nails? We updated this article in March 2023 to add new information about dip powder nails and check in with new experts for the latest in dip powder, just for you. ✔️ P.S., This is new, up-to-date info, bb. So if you’re also interested in trying out the dip powder trend (or your BFF is also pressuring you to make the switch), keep reading, because I got all the details from nail artist Syreeta Aaron and board-certified dermatologist Mona Gohara, MD, on what makes dip different from gel, and if dip powder is even good for your nails. So, unsurprisingly, I decided to try them out.Ĭut to three months later, and after testing out a few dip manicures of my own, I’m officially a convert. Not only are they more durable than gel nails, but dip nails actually last longer than gel manicures too. Dip nails (sometimes referred to as SNS powder nails) require painting your nails with a base coat and then dipping-shocker!-your nails into a pigmented powder that acts as the paint. While Aaron says that a simple soak-off should do the trick, Stern says that if 10 to 15 minutes of soaking isn’t doing it, then damage is more likely to occur to the nail, as filing will be necessary.After endlessly complaining to my best friend about my stubby, nail glue-encrusted fingers (tysm, press-on nails), she begged me to try dip powder nails-i.e., the nail technique virtually everyone I know has been trying. Removal can damage nails: Lastly, removal can be a pain.Some people are allergic to dip powder: The bonder used for dip powder nails is often a monomer, and according to Stern, monomers are common allergens and can cause irritation along the nail beds.Instead, your nail tech should brush the powder directly onto your nail or pour powder from the pot into a Dixie cup for single use (this is wasteful, so most salons use the brush-on method). Hygiene issues in some salons: If you're getting your dip powder done at a salon, your nail technician shouldn't actually "dip" your nail into the powder pot, as dipping everyone’s nails into the same jar of powder could be a means for infection and other sanitary issues.This can be avoided by tapping the excess powder off of your nail before applying sealant. Can look bulkier than regular polish: If too much powder goes onto the nail, you can quickly find yourself with a very thick, bulky look.After you shape and file your nails to your desired look, apply a topcoat." "You should wait two to five minutes before beginning to shape and file nails after applying the activator. Wait a few minutes, then apply a topcoat: "This step is to dry and harden the product," Aaron says.Once you've applied the base coat to a single nail, dip the nail in the dipping tray of powder and repeat on each nail, brushing off any excess. You may want to re-dip your nails two to three times based on your desired opacity and color intensity. Base and powder are applied: "Brush on the base just as if you were polishing your nails," Aaron instructs, noting to go one nail at a time.Bonder is applied: Once you've cleaned and prepped your nails, Aaron says you may apply a bonder so that the product can adhere to the nail plate and lessen the chance of lifting.This is also where you should push your cuticles back, clip any hangnails, and buff the surface of the nail plate. The nails are prepped: "Before starting any manicure, you must ensure the nails are prepped by cleaning and freeing the nail plate of any dirt and oils," Aaron says. The startup history is listed from the latest to the oldest one. SQL> select startup_time open_time from dba_hist_database_instance order by 1 desc To view all startup history of the database, we may extend the above query. If you found the difference of your case is only a few seconds, this is very normal for starting a database from idle to completely open. select instancename, tochar (startuptime,'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss') as startuptime from vinstance OUTPUT: 2. This query also give you the startup time for each instance. Check Last Startup Time Here is the query which is helping us to check the oracle database last startup time. SQL> select max(startup_time) open_time from dba_hist_database_instance Īs you can see, the database open time was lagged about 10 minutes behind the instance startup time in this case. Using this query, you will be able to easily to fetch the details from the database. Here we wait for about 10 minutes, then open the database. Database Startup Timeįor database, the startup time is actually the open time. It's the same except the state is MOUNT now. SQL> select status, startup_time from v$instance If there is something wrong with database I see this in logs, but I have to wait 2-5 minutes. The application takes 2-5 minutes to start. SQL> select status, startup_time from v$instance For our application we have a configuration file for connecting to the Oracle database (URL, username, password). SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss' To check instance startup time, here we can query the instance under NOMOUNT state.įirst of all, we format the date time of current session. Additionally, we also check the startup history of the database in the last section of this post. When Oracle opens a mounted database, the database is available for normal operations.To check Oracle database startup or restart time, we have to know the difference between instance startup time and database open time.
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"A lot of the clerks aren't even sure what these products are, they look so much like candy," Ms. Clark, chief of community health at the Worcester Division of Public Health, said that the 19 municipalities in the Worcester Regional Tobacco Control Collaborative were working to address another addiction: Tobacco.Ī prime target is preventing youth from getting addicted to nicotine through the e-cigarettes and related products sold in convenience stores that are colorfully packaged and priced low enough to entice young people. Chandler, D-Worcester, said that the opioid bill that passed this summer increased health insurance payment to 14 days.Īlthough not ideal, she said, "It's a good step along the way." He called for addiction to be treated more as the brain disease it is, and not a behavioral problem. But health insurance has until recently cut off payment for post-detoxification rehabilitation after just a few days, when weeks or months are needed. Schreiber said that brain research offered hope that with appropriate care, people faced better odds for recovery. "There are so many kids falling through the cracks," Ms. Of the 15 towns served by the Carson Center, only two have public transportation, which creates a particular barrier for young people to get treatment. Schreiber said the team created a mobile addiction resource team to get to far reaches of the region. "So essentially a bag of heroin is cheaper than a cup of Starbucks," he said.Īlong with Kate Christiansen, a clinician in the Carson Center's intensive outpatient treatment program for addictions, and a therapy dog named Tucker, Mr. Heroin is even cheaper west of Worcester, available for as little as $2 a bag. Schreiber said that because of the stigma of addiction, drug overdoses are under-reported, failing to capture the bulk of nonfatal cases. "The amount of people that have died in the Quabbin region has been dramatic." 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WORCESTER - Municipal officials, clinicians and planners told Central Massachusetts legislators Friday that support from Beacon Hill was needed to shore up local efforts to combat addiction and tobacco use - especially among children - and to promote efficiencies of regional health systems. Region to legislators: Help us fight addiction, tobacco Maybe sometimes they die–see DC: The New Frontier–but they leave the world a better place. Good people with flaws who fight the good fight and win. Okay, supposedly he is but we all let go of the fact there’s no way a normal human can take the kind of punishment Batman does. Let’s marvel over the amazing action sequences that David Finch has done in his recent run on Batman or admire the re-styling of Batgirl via Babs Tarr as she fits into a brand new neighborhood. Let’s see Jack Kirby’s Captain America fight the MadBomb. Let’s see Darwyn Cooke’s Justice League take on the Island That Time Forgot in DC: The New Frontier. Let the artists who are the true stars of this genre show up. So what are the non-negotiable elements of the superhero genre? Romance readers will desert a writer in droves if that writer promises a Happily Ever After (HEA) at the end and then says “oops, nope, nevermind.” It’s not a trope, it’s a non-negotiable part of the genre. Not that an audience should always determine what a writer should write, but a writer and company who don’t stay attuned to what their genre readers expect are quickly going to find themselves in deep trouble. Smart marketing, right? Wrong: there is at least one comic shop owner who feels Secret Empire is failing Marvel, sales-wise.īut, hey, the story has lots to say about the current state of the world and how people view heroes. It’s weird when your own television show throws shade on your storyline.īut the point is to draw all that ire and sell comics because people must see how Steve Rogers gets out of this and how our heroes save the world again. on television, for one, isn’t buying the whole “Hydra isn’t Nazis in the least” thing. What’s more shocking than Captain America being a Nazi, er, oops, Hydra, as Marvel Comics has been careful to point out?īut Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I’m sure the decision to do this was based on the need to draw attention– hey, look that worked–and to have a big event in order to force those reading Marvel Comics to buy other issues to get the complete story. Naturally, it will all come out right in the end because no one, even Marvel, wants Nazi Cap forever. To the objectors, Marvel people are saying that this is a story that needs to play out. Clearly, they decided shock value would be the way to go this time. Marvel and DC always do these big events to boost sales, complete with tie-ins and various covers. So Cap was always Hydra in this rewritten universe. In this alternate reality, Hydra won World War II but the Allies used the Cosmic Cube to win instead, thus forcing Captain America, a secret Hydra agent, to go undercover. Let’s use Marvel’s Secret Empire as an example. (Though, usually, one will come from the other.) Yes, it’s been said before and we can say it again: Marvel and DC Entertainment still have a diversity problem.Īnd I mean that not only by the diversity of talent but diversity of stories. This is a chance to get in on a new universe on the ground floor, and it’s written by talent as diverse as the world around us–talent that isn’t tone deaf to the world around us. The first book, Catalyst Prime: Noble #1, is written by Brandon Thomas with art by Roger Robinson, and it’s in stores May 3rd, 2017. For example, I’m thrilled to see the new Catalyst universe from LionForge Comics. This misreading is shifting me away from Marvel and some DC properties and to other publishers. ( Wonder Woman is a wait-and-see proposition.) DC did with the New 52 line of comics and Warner Bros. And Marvel’s not the only one to make this mistake. Marvel’s current Secret Empire event, aka Hydra/Nazi Cap, is one of them.īecause the idea of Hydra/Nazi Cap is a misreading of what superhero readers want from the genre. Thoughts that roll around my brain until I put them down on virtual paper. But every now and then, a story concerning the comics industry comes along and I have thoughts. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve written this column. A page from Catalyst Prime: Noble #1, coming Free Comic Book Day from LionForge |