![]() With the possibility of a catastrophic global sea level rise of 3ft (1m) by 2050 which could force millions of people to leave their homes, researchers have now started to look at ancient stories about land lost to the sea and downed cities in a new way. The melting land ice caused sea levels to rise on average around 360ft (120m) between now and then – at times it was more like an inundation, with the water rising so quickly that people would have been caught in a desperate struggle to stay ahead of it and somehow cope with the enormous effect it wrought. Sea levels started to rise nearly 15,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age. We may believe the 21st Century is the first time our species has faced this kind of tragedy, but it is not. The affluent are able to build homes on raised foundations and afford expensive sea defences that will hold the water back, at least for a while, but the poor will have to accept the loss of their homes or find some way to move them to higher ground. Residents of Stinson Beach, a popular tourist destination near San Francisco, are coming to terms with studies that show large parts of their neighbourhood will be under a foot of water in less than 20 years. ![]() For those affected, it could seem like the end of the world.
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Moving forward, we promise more transparency and a better experience for all our fans. Due to complications, the release timeline of the DLC packs was far from our original expectation. I purchased the DLC packs for NASCAR ‘15. Details will be released at a later date. It will be released in early 2016 and include the 2016 NASCAR schedule and more. The NASCAR ’16 update will be available to all owners of NASCAR ’15 Victory Edition (including those who updated from NASCAR ’15). What is the NASCAR ’16 update? Who gets the update and when will it be released? Unless you’re a Joey Logano fan and want the new game cover, we recommend passing on Victory Edition if you already own NASCAR ‘15. If I own NASCAR ‘15, should I buy Victory Edition?Ĭurrent owners of NASCAR ‘15 will automatically receive the Victory Edition update for free. I own NASCAR ‘15, how can I download the Victory Edition update?ĭownload instructions will be provided when Victory Edition is released. If you currently own NASCAR ‘15, you will automatically receive the Victory Edition update for free. Will current NASCAR ‘15 owners get the Victory Edition update? NASCAR ’15 Victory Edition includes the original NASCAR ’15 game, all game patches and updates, 36 previously released DLC paint schemes, and a few surprises (we’ll announce these soon!). What is the difference between NASCAR ‘15 and NASCAR ‘15 Victory Edition? The game will be available on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC for the suggested price of $19.99. What systems will NASCAR '15 Victory Edition be available on? The game is currently slated to be released in October 2015. When will NASCAR '15 Victory Edition be released? Hopefully this "Victory Edition" adds a few more features, I don't see anything new on that list except maybe more paint jobs? NASCAR '15 is on sale for $13.99 on PSN this week, I realize it's pretty much a skin update from '14 but I enjoyed that game enough to pick up '15 on the cheap. I'm curious as to what "a few surprises" entails and wonder if I might be thinking too much into the fact that NASCAR '15 Victory Edition was the primary sponsor on the #54 truck driven by Matt Tifft in last weeks CWTS race. MSRP: $19.99 (Available at GameStop, Steam, Target, Walmart, Amazon, Toys "R" Us)įor additional information please contact A few surprises (we'll announce these soon!) Official Teams & Tracks: All of the top drivers, teams & tracks from the high banks of Daytona and Talladega, to the twists & turns of Watkins Glen, and the history of Darlington. Do you have what it takes to make it to the Chase and win it all? Career Mode: Start as a rookie and become your own NASCAR legend across multiple seasons. Single Race: Here is your chance to take the wheel of any of the 43+ licensed drivers in NASCAR '15 VE, head to your favorite track and race through the entire weekend experience – practice, qualifying and race day! Multiplayer compatibility with up to 16 online players All game patches and system updates from NASCAR '15 80+ paint schemes across 45 licensed drivers With all of your favorite personalities and tracks, NASCAR '15 Victory Edition is the only authentic NASCAR racing game experience for fans. Start as a rookie and create your own NASCAR legacy, or take the wheel from your favorite driver and battle it out against your rivals. Schedules and rules changes implemented during the 2015 season are reflected within the game. ![]() ![]() It features more tNASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ paint schemes. Can you taste the Victory? NASCAR '15 Victory Edition is an in-season update to NASCAR '15. ![]() ![]() Bonus CT Money collected from online orders will be applied to the Member’s Triangle Rewards Account within five weeks of the purchase date. CT Money is collected on the pre-tax amount of the purchase. The offered rate is exclusive of any bonus or promotional offers or redemption transactions. 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Triangle™ Mastercard®, Triangle™ World Mastercard® and Triangle™ World Elite Mastercard® are issued by Canadian Tire Bank. †The Triangle Rewards Program is owned and operated by Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited. ‡Was price reflects the last national regular price this product was sold for. ![]() He prepared his choices before our interview, dispatching his publicist to send the list over a day early, like a dutiful student. Shirt by Nicholas Daley T-shirt by John Elliott necklace by Chrome Hearts. In an attempt to meet him where he’s at, we’ve agreed to start off discussing the five songs that he thinks define him, like we’re historians studying the past to provide insight into the clusterfuck of modern times. It’s hard to tell if he’s trapped himself in a creative prison or if he’s created a handy line of defense for himself. As his persona as a performer evolves, there’s a growing disconnect between who he is onstage and in his music and what he lets fans see of his personal life. But the expectation is still a shy, taciturn Tesfaye. The Weeknd has taken on a life of its own it’s a character separate from the man who inhabits it. He goes to fashion-week parties and has had two high-profile, blog-analyzed romances, with a supermodel and a mega pop star. ![]() Five years later, he’s won Grammys and American Music Awards, he’s headlined Coachella, he tours constantly. The debate over whether he really is just this shy or is committed to a bit and is actually some goofy, loudmouthed extrovert has been fodder for magazine profiles since he became famous-like really, really famous-sometime in 2015. (This is always revealed as though it’s something that’s never before been said about a famous person.) He emerged on the music scene as a shadowy figure, so good at obfuscation that people didn’t know if the Weeknd was a solo artist, a group, or a computer projection. Today, I’m solo dolo.”Īll incoming information about Tesfaye, from his publicist, from every profile of him ever written, indicates that he is incredibly shy. “Yes,” he responds sheepishly, “but I usually have somebody just, like, set it up for me and I just come in. Hasn’t he been living on Zoom like everyone else? “I’ve been trying to figure this out for the last ten minutes,” he says by way of greeting. A., and I’m in New York, a fact he apologizes for by making sure to close the blinds so I don’t get jealous of the sunlight still streaming through his windows. (He’s long since cut off the hair writers used to spend paragraphs breathlessly describing.) He’s in early-evening L. He signals his entry with a tentative “hello” that floats up from behind all of the open tabs I have blocking the window (an aspirational shopping cart from the Need Supply sale, several articles about safe sex in the pandemic, Twitter, Billboard charts, Wikipedia pages, etc.).Ī few clicks and there he is, just a black-T-shirted torso at a desk, his Afro still shaped up like he hasn’t missed a barber appointment, a diamond stud glinting in each ear. With nowhere to go tonight, he’s hanging out on Zoom with me. He’s in his own world, just in an inherently disappointing expectations-versus-reality version of it. “I’d be in my own world.”Īt least some part of Tesfaye’s plan came to fruition. “The audience wouldn’t really exist to me,” he says. Not intimacy with the crowd or letting the fans get close to him but letting them witness an experience he’s created. If the concept for Starboy, his last major tour, was all about interaction with the audience-as he puts it, “getting them to play along and sing along and jumping with them, you know, mosh pitting”-then this tour would be about distanced storytelling. It would be a new iteration of the Weeknd, one that would take him into the second decade of his career. ![]() He and his team had imagined a theatrical experience, like a three-act play or a rock opera telling the story of the character from the “Blinding Lights” video, a bloodied, beat-up man in a sharp red jacket, desperately trying to fuck, drink, drug (maybe murder?) his way out of heartbreak and into emotional maturity. The show-the whole tour-was going to be bigger, grander, more ambitious than what he’s done before. “I feel like my body was programmed and clocked to be onstage,” he says with the wistfulness of someone describing mislaid plans with an ex. He can’t really describe it, but he’s feeling it right now, like the tingle of a phantom limb. He’d have warmed up the band, and maybe now he’d be taking a preshow shot, or just swapping jokes with his crew right up until the moment the lights dimmed and he could hear the crowd, feel that little surge of energy he always gets right before he launches into the first song. If that hadn’t happened, he’d be backstage, getting ready to perform before a twenty-thousand-person crowd at Boston’s TD Garden. on the East Coast, where, if it were normal times, he’d be making a stop on the tour for After Hours, his new album-which happened to drop on March 20, the same week the gates of hell fully swung open here on earth. ![]() Please refer to for detailed installation instructions.
![]() In 1949, the third and last BAA tournament matched Eastern teams exclusively and Western teams exclusively, necessarily generating Eastern and Western playoff champions to meet in the final. Both tournaments generated one finalist from the Eastern and one from the Western Division, but only by chance. In 1947, the Philadelphia Warriors won the runners-up bracket and beat the Western champion Chicago Stags four games to one, which the NBA recognizes as its first championship in 1948 Baltimore won the runners-up and beat Eastern champion Philadelphia in the final. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, four runners-up played best-of-three series to determine the other finalist: the two second-place teams were matched in one short series and the two third-place teams in another the winners of those two series played another one. In 19, the Eastern and Western Division champions were matched in a best-of-seven series following the regular season, whose winner advanced to the championship round. In all of its three years the BAA champion was finally determined in a best-of-seven series but its first two tournaments, the 19 BAA Playoffs, were otherwise quite different from the third, which 21st-century NBA playoffs nearly match. The National Basketball Association was established in 1949 by merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League but it recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own history. This format has been used since 2014, after NBA team owners unanimously voted to change the format of the NBA finals from the 2–3–2 format on October 23, 2013. Once the playoffs start, the bracket is fixed teams are never " reseeded", unlike in the National Football League (NFL) where the strongest remaining teams face the weakest teams in subsequent rounds. Series are played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6 and 7 being played if needed. īoth conferences conduct the playoffs in the traditional bracket format. The tie-break criteria for playoff seeding and home-court use first head-to-head results between the tied teams is the first tie-breaker, and whether a team won its division championship is the second tie-breaker. The top six teams in each conference ( East and West), ranked in order by win-loss records, qualify for the playoffs. The 1st through 6th seeds will continue to use the same system that was enacted prior to the 2016 NBA playoffs. The ninth and tenth place teams play each other, with the loser being eliminated, and the winner playing the loser of the seven-eight game to determine who earns the eighth playoff seed. The seventh and eighth place teams play each other, with the winner being granted the number seven seed of the playoff tournament. Within each conference, teams that finished ranked seventh through tenth play each other as follows. Officially considered a separate tournament, called the "play in tournament", it seeds the final two spots (the seventh and eighth seeds) of the main playoff brackets, using a four-team, three-game format. While the main tournament remains a 4-round, best-of-seven tournament, qualification for the playoffs has changed. Starting with the 2021–22 NBA season, changes to the playoffs enacted during prior two Covid-shortened seasons were made permanent. “Yes,” he responds sheepishly, “but I usually have somebody just, like, set it up for me and I just come in. Hasn’t he been living on Zoom like everyone else? “I’ve been trying to figure this out for the last ten minutes,” he says by way of greeting. A., and I’m in New York, a fact he apologizes for by making sure to close the blinds so I don’t get jealous of the sunlight still streaming through his windows. (He’s long since cut off the hair writers used to spend paragraphs breathlessly describing.) He’s in early-evening L. He signals his entry with a tentative “hello” that floats up from behind all of the open tabs I have blocking the window (an aspirational shopping cart from the Need Supply sale, several articles about safe sex in the pandemic, Twitter, Billboard charts, Wikipedia pages, etc.).Ī few clicks and there he is, just a black-T-shirted torso at a desk, his Afro still shaped up like he hasn’t missed a barber appointment, a diamond stud glinting in each ear. With nowhere to go tonight, he’s hanging out on Zoom with me. He’s in his own world, just in an inherently disappointing expectations-versus-reality version of it. “I’d be in my own world.”Īt least some part of Tesfaye’s plan came to fruition. “The audience wouldn’t really exist to me,” he says. Not intimacy with the crowd or letting the fans get close to him but letting them witness an experience he’s created. If the concept for Starboy, his last major tour, was all about interaction with the audience-as he puts it, “getting them to play along and sing along and jumping with them, you know, mosh pitting”-then this tour would be about distanced storytelling. It would be a new iteration of the Weeknd, one that would take him into the second decade of his career. He and his team had imagined a theatrical experience, like a three-act play or a rock opera telling the story of the character from the “Blinding Lights” video, a bloodied, beat-up man in a sharp red jacket, desperately trying to fuck, drink, drug (maybe murder?) his way out of heartbreak and into emotional maturity. ![]() ![]() The show-the whole tour-was going to be bigger, grander, more ambitious than what he’s done before. “I feel like my body was programmed and clocked to be onstage,” he says with the wistfulness of someone describing mislaid plans with an ex. He can’t really describe it, but he’s feeling it right now, like the tingle of a phantom limb. He’d have warmed up the band, and maybe now he’d be taking a preshow shot, or just swapping jokes with his crew right up until the moment the lights dimmed and he could hear the crowd, feel that little surge of energy he always gets right before he launches into the first song. If that hadn’t happened, he’d be backstage, getting ready to perform before a twenty-thousand-person crowd at Boston’s TD Garden. on the East Coast, where, if it were normal times, he’d be making a stop on the tour for After Hours, his new album-which happened to drop on March 20, the same week the gates of hell fully swung open here on earth. In addition, he would be immortalized in his own Marvel Comics graphic novel, STARBOY.It’s 7:00 p.m. A worldwide headliner, he has shut down festivals ranging from Coachella to Lollapalooza. The 6 track project marked his third consecutive #1 bow on the Billboard Top 200, went platinum, and attracted widespread critical acclaim. In 2018, his influence continued to expand with My Dear Melancholy. Not to mention, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” received an Academy® Award nomination for “Best Original Song.” That stratospheric rise continued as 2016’s Starboy went double-platinum, captured #1 in 90 countries, and shattered the global streaming record at the time in under a week. sales in excess of 3 million, and 20 RIAA certifications from tracks alone, including “The Hills” (9x-platinum), “Can’t Feel My Face” (6x-platinum), “Often” (3x-platinum), “In The Night” (platinum), and “Acquainted” (platinum). This 2015 opus notably achieved a GRAMMY® Award in the category of "Best Urban Contemporary Album," a triple-platinum certification from the RIAA for U.S. Two years later, Beauty Behind The Madness represented a major milestone. Released via his own visionary XO collective and Republic Records, 2012’s double-platinum Trilogy collated three breakout mixtapes-House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence-into his first chart-topping collection followed by the platinum Kiss Land in 2013. As a result, the multi-platinum two-time GRAMMY® Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful and significant artists of the 21st century. Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, The Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. ![]() It's very clear even at it's higher volumes, probably the clearest sounding speaker of it's size I ever heard. It's powerful enough to be heard over shower water and good detail could be heard too. In this regard, are Altec Lansing speakers good?įirst, the sound quality is very good considering the speaker is so small. 1 ok so i have a altec lansing 2.1 computer speaker, and the plug on the subwoofer where the right speaker output is broke on the. In 2005 Altec Lansing Technologies was acquired by Plantronics, 2009 bought by Prophet Equity, and has been owned since 2012 by the Infinity Group, a company which acquires struggling companies.Altec Lansing. Audio Altec lansing atp3 replacement parts. Also asked, is Altec Lansing still in business? Among their products are speakers designed for use with personal computers. The outputs for satellite speakers use RCA connectors, with 10 feet of cord. The connector panel is on the side of the subwoofer and uses standard RCA connectors for input, but there is also a 1/8-inch stereo socket auxiliary input. Just so, does Altec Lansing make computer speakers?įounded in 1936, Altec Lansing is an American company specializing in audio electronics and related technology. Altec Lansing ATP3 Computer Speaker System Powered w Sub Woofer. Everything I've heard says Bose is overrated and overpriced. I've had their speakers before, good stuff. Altec Lansing has been around forever and are a well respected brand. They're probably cheaper, but Bose has the best sound quality ever. ![]() ![]() Thirteen urolithiasis patients who had hydronephrosis but with no ureteral stone identified in imaging studies and 69 patients who did not have urolithiasis but had hydronephrosis were excluded from further analysis (Fig. The reduction in eGFR in UTI patients without urolithiasis or hydronephrosis, in those with urolithiasis but without hydronephrosis, and in those with ureteral stone and concomitant hydronephrosis was 13.45 (95% confidence interval 12.44–14.45), 20.54 (95% CI 16.34–24.73), and 27.65 (95% CI 21.77–33.53) mL/min/1.73 m 2, respectively. Figure 2 shows a reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in different groups of hospitalized patients with UTI. Among 76 UTI patients with ureteral stone and hydronephrosis, five (6.6%) had bilateral ureteral stones complicated with bilateral hydronephrosis. Among UTI patients, 191 (17.2%) had urolithiasis and 76 (6.8%) had ureteral stone with hydronephrosis. The overall mortality rate was 0.6% (7/1113). Of the patients, 220 (19.8%) had uroseptic shock and 165 (14.8%) had AKI during hospitalization. Most of the patients (816 ) were women, and 375 (33.7%) had a history of prior UTI. 1). The mean age on admission was 66 ± 17 years. The included patients were divided into three groups: UTI patients with no hydronephrosis or urolithiasis, UTI patients with ureteral stone and concomitant hydronephrosis, or UTI patients with urolithiasis but no hydronephrosis (Fig. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the 1113 hospitalized UTI patients included in this study are shown in Table 1. Hence, we conducted this study to investigate these important issues. However, no study has focused on whether urolithiasis without hydronephrosis is a risk factor for the development of AKI in patients with UTI, or whether hydronephrosis caused by ureteral stone is a risk factor for the development of AKI in UTI patients with urolithiasis. Since AKI leads to poor outcomes, recognizing the risk factors for its development in patients with urolithiasis and UTI is crucial. ![]() Our previous study showed that urolithiasis is a risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI) among patients with UTI 7, and AKI has been associated with short- and long-term mortality 8. Acute UTI may cause sudden deterioration of renal function, especially in the presence of urinary tract obstruction 6. Urolithiasis can cause secondary complications, such as obstruction or urinary tract infection (UTI) 5. The worldwide prevalence of urolithiasis is also steadily increasing 1, 2, 3, partially owing to its strong association with metabolic syndrome conditions such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes 4. Urolithiasis is a widespread problem with a male preponderance, showing a lifetime prevalence of 10% in men and 5% in women 1, 2. The presence of ureteral stone with hydronephrosis increases the risk for AKI of UTI patients with urolithiasis, and urolithiasis remains a risk factor of AKI in UTI patients without hydronephrosis. In addition, urolithiasis was associated with an increased risk for AKI (OR 2.451, 95% CI 1.369–4.389, P = 0.003) in UTI patients without hydronephrosis. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that in UTI patients with urolithiasis, the presence of ureteral stone with concomitant hydronephrosis was an independent risk factor for AKI (odds ratio 2.299, 95% confidence interval 1.112–4.755, P = 0.025). Of the 1113 participants enrolled, 191 (17.2%) had urolithiasis and 76 (6.8%) had ureteral stone complicated with hydronephrosis. This retrospective study enrolled hospitalized UTI patients who underwent imaging in an acute care setting from January 2006 to April 2019. This study aimed to identify whether urolithiasis with or without hydronephrosis has an impact on AKI in patients with UTI. To identify whether urolithiasis with or without hydronephrosis has an impact on acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with urinary tract infection (UTI). |
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