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I have read dozens of reviews and watched lots of videos but I have yet to have a clear view on this and probably you can help me:
I have a 5600x with [email protected] and a 2070 super and like to game at [email protected] with Ray-tracing enabled but some games are not doing well, specially Cyberpunk 2077.
My budget allows to upgrade either to a 5900X/5800X3D+RTX 4080 or an RTX 4090.
Which option would you say can give the best cost/benefit now but also the best future-proofing?
Any advise is welcome!

Running Man was classified as an "urban action variety"; a genre of variety shows in an urban environment.The MCs and guests were to complete missions at a landmark to win the race. The show has since shifted to a more familiar reality-variety show concept focused on games.

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Title explains it I’m currently living in England and looking at immigrating to Canada, I’m trying to find the best locations for job opportunities and house prices not being extreme, I’m currently an electrician in England which I feel is a good trade to carry over and do in Canada I was looking in to moving in to Calgary Alberta but seen mixed reviews and not too sure if I’m keen on the extreme winters I was also contemplating Toronto, if any fellow Canadians or expats could give me their opinions on the best options would be appreciated

Well, it's Sunday morning and another early drop of TOC 4 by Discoverplus. You know the drill ... I'll talk the line up, the food the judges and scoring, but won't reveal the winners here, but they will likely be in the comments so read at your own risk. It's a bittersweet review for me, as my beloved Kansas State Wildcats just tumbled out of the real March Madness yesterday. But.... the TOC must go on! And tonight's TOC is going to be brutal as I have way too many favorites in the game on this side of the bracket.
So here we go. All the chefs walk in as usual and Guy shows what happened last week on the bracket board. Here comes the audience!
Round One: "Mayday" Mei Lin vs. "Tiff" Tiffany Derry. Seed three: Mei Lin vs. Seed two Tiffany Derry. Wow. Guy is REALLY solid on this "May Day" nick name. Randomizer is still two proteins with surf and turf and the time is still 35 minutes. Tiger prawns, double cut pork chops, campfire pie iron, holiday supper and double move down. Tiffany and Mei have to agree together to move two categories down one. They now get flat iron steak instead of the pork chops and get weeknight dinner instead of holiday supper. Also these Prawns are HUGE.... they are like giant lobster tails with legs. Tiffany is making a Suya-crusted flat iron steak with prawn and couscous stew. She draws Simon. She explains what Suya spice blend is. Sounds delicious. Mei is making a Vietnamese rice bowl with fried tiger prawn egg rolls and Thai chili sirloin steak. She draws Justin. Mei is using the pie iron for her garlic while Tiffany uses it to char her tomatoes. We get a shot of Sasto, Shota and Hunter in the stew room watching. That would be a fun group to hang out with. Weirdly one of my favorite parts of this show is when they show you little bits of the judges like legs walking or hands buttoning a cardigan and I try to guess the judges. ....
And now, here come the judges: Michelle Bernstein, Jonathan Waxman and Rocco DiSpirito. Justin presents Mei's dish first. Michelle loves it because she eats something like it once a week. She likes the crunch on the prawn. She thinks the meat may or may not have too much sodium. Jonathan thinks it has the right amount. Rocco loves the steak. He says he isn't disappointed at all other than maybe she could have made a better use of the pie iron. Scoring is the same.. 50 points for taste, 30 for use of the randomizer and 20 for presentation. Simon presents Tiffany's dish. Rocco says it is a thoughtful and considered dish. And a great job on the steak. He seems to want more seasoning but likes it a lot. Michelle thinks the couscous is overcooked. She thinks it is fun. She doesn't like the dill. Jonathan says the steak is perfect. He doesn't think the couscous is overcooked but thinks it is a little bland. Scores are 85 vs. 92! The winner of this round will take on either Shota or Sasto next round.
Round Two: First seed Tobias Dorzon vs. fourth seed Karen Aknowicz. He beat Karen last year in TOC by a two point difference. Nicknames here are the Fox for Karen and the Huncho for Tobias. Randomizer: Crab meat, filet mignon, rotisserie oven, candlelit dinner, and high score respin. Tobias gets the respin. He spins equipment and gets rotisserie oven! Tobias draws Simon and he is cooking a seared filet mignon with crab and white wine cream sauce. Maneet and Stephanie are watching in the screening room. Karen is doing a play on a classic old-school steakhouse. She is making a spanakopita style crab bearnaise and butter basted filet mignon. She roasts onions in the rotisserie and then adds scraps of the steak into the basket to flavor the onions. Tobias finishes his steaks in the rotisserie oven after searing them. Karen is putting the crab into her creamed spinach. Justin seems to like what karen is doing. Okay this round is just making me freakin' hungry. Tobias was plating til the end so had no time to clean his plates. Judging: Justin presents Karen's dish first. They do a shot of Tobias in his trailer watching and he says "is that a candlelit dinner in a cereal bowl?" Michelle said looking at it it did not speak to her until she had a bite. She says it has a seductive romanticism. Jonathan says the spinach is exquisite, he thinks the steak is a little too thick cute. Rocco says it tastes like a candlelit dinner more than it looks and loves the onion. I'm guessing she's gonna get dinged on presentation points. Simon presents Tobias's dish. Michelle says the cook has a good grasp on meat cooking. She doesn't think it is the most creative. Rocco liked a plated dish. He thought the filet was undercooked. Jonathan thought his dish had too much meat. Score: 80 vs. 82 close round. The winner of this round will take on either Stephanie or Maneet.
Round three: And this will be my heartbreak round because I love both of these chefs from watching them on Top Chef. Eighth seed Shota Nakajima vs. fourth seed Mustache Joe Sasto. Mustache Joe's outfit is giving me giggles. Guy's nicknames are the Ninja and of course Mustache Joe. Guy says Shota would get the nicest guy award but Joe Sasto is also the nicest guy. (this sure seems true at least from what I've seen of them both in the past.. I don't want either one to lose.) Randomizer: halibut, hanger steak, cast iron multicooker, go to take out and move one up. Both chefs have to decide a which to move. They agree to move the multicooker to the meat tenderizer. Shota draws Justin (who apparently can speak a little Japanese) and is making a spin on Katsu Sando a Japanese fried pork cutlet sandwich -- he's doing a beef Katsu Sando with halibut twist inside. Joe draws Simon and is making Hanger Steak Dan Dan noodles with a halibut egg roll with duck sauce and Chinese hot mustard. Joe hits the garlic with the meat tenderizer and later uses it on the apricots. Shota uses the tenderizer on the steak. Katsu stands for "winning" in Japanese. We'll see if it holds up here. Shota is using both the steak and the halibut in two ways to try to win the randomizer points. Both chefs are using Kewpie mayo. Joe is doing some creative plating but is worried he doesn't have enough steak on the dish. It appears Shota is plating down to the wire. Judging: Justin presents.... Guy calls him the Wolfman. ? He does Shota's dish. Rocco says it is all working and he nailed the take out style. Jonathan loves it, his only downside is not enough ginger. Michelle says it is cravable. She says if she was super picky you can't find the halibut. Simon presents for Joe. Rocco saysit is a fun play on take out, but doesn't see it as a real take out dish. Jonathan disagrees and says it is take out. He doesn't get the use of the meat tenderizer. Michelle says it is a great take out dish and does get the tenderizer on the halibut. She isn't getting enough hanger steak. Score: 84 vs. 80.
Round four billed as the highlight of the night... altho how it will beat the last two rounds I don't know. Three seed Stephanie Izard, the OG Iron Chef vs. second seed Maneet Chauhan the only TOC champion still in the tournament. Randomizer: Calamari tubes and tentacles, rack of lamb, mortar and pestle, lunch special and surf or turf respin. They respin the surf. and.... get dover sole which both of them said they did not want. The dover sole is whole, so they have to break it down. Maneet is making a lamb meatball and tikka masala bunny chow with dover sole fish soup. Stephanie is makin a roasted lamb and cover sole sandwich with ceviche with a jus on the side. Stephanie says she's never broken down a dover sole before. Justin is presenting for Stephanie and Simon for Maneet. Maneet uses the mortar and pestle to grind spices. stephanie is using a sauce made by Shota which is kind of a fun shout out. Stephanie uses the mortar to make guacamole. Maneet's sandwich is very cute. Stephanie seems to struggle a little at the end. Judging: Simon presents first for Maneet. Rocco thought making soup out of the halibut was ambitious. He loved the soup and sandwich special. Michelle thought the fish chunks were too small but she thought it was creative. Jonathan said it was delicious but not the best use of the sole. He loved the lamb meatball. Justin presents for Stephanie and tells them to pour the jus on the sandwich. Michelle says the dipping gravy is messy but the flavor is ahome run. She says the lamb is very rare, she likes the cruchy hand made tortilla in the middle of the sandwich. Jonathan says he's missing the sole flavor. Rocco says it is cravable and balanced and "bad ass." Scoring: 86 v. 84.
That's it for tonight. I picked 3 of the 4 winners so it wasn't too bad. I'm definitely looking forward to the elite eight round next week. But this was a great match up from beginning to end. I think you will enjoy watching it.

You should know the one by now, but here’s where I am right now. (Spoilers ahead?)
I’m writing a Dai Li romance/redemption fic between two OCs, Hong Yan, the said Dai Li agent, and his South Indian based girlfriend, Rajata Vaishnavi, a Lower Ring resident.
Right now, I’m currently working on the last chapter of my second, middle act, in which Hong helps seven of his fellow Dai Li breach the wall for the Fire Nation’s forces, Rajata’s entire world and sense of safety is torn apart as the troops come pouring into the city, and later she works up the courage to go confront Hong in his garden and give him a piece of her mind/know why he was complicit in such an act of treachery.
To make a long story short, it leads to my OCs-well, I’m not sure if breaking up is the right term here, but it’s definitely a sort of mutual turning their backs on each other, an awareness that they’ve got nothing to say to the other anymore.
As for Hong, he also has the attitude that if Rajata wants to reject the protection, the lifestyle, the wealth and prestige he has to offer her, then she can go back to living a hardscrabble life with the rest of her family, until she comes back to her senses.
But after that…I’m really struggling for ideas about what to subject my OC couple to until the climatic day of Sozin’s Comet. Obviously, some of the things Aang and friends get up to in the series are going to affect Hong and Rajata’s lives back in Ba Sing Se, in one way or another during this third act.
And I definitely think there’s going to be a place for lingering feelings between them, with Rajata’s being especially complicated-Hong is her benefactor, villain, hero, sexual partner, friend, conniver, and guardian all at once. Hell, I’d like to straight up have a believable bout of hate sex happen between them at some point if possible.
It’s also reasonable to assume that she’ll be experiencing a significant level of chronic stress under the city’s occupation by the Fire Nation (some of which may or may not actually be signs that she has a bun in her oven).
Other than that though, my mind is mostly drawing a blank here. So let’s hear some thoughts and suggestions, about how to make the rest of my couple’s summer not only more interesting, but also going to hurt like a motherfucker!

Reason: why India is not the rape capital of the world.
1.: Media reporting standards are not the same**
India's media reports things differently from media in other parts of the world. Media reports in various parts of the world have themes. American media focus a lot on race issues. Middle East media focuses a lot on sectarian issues. Indian media focuses a lot on gender issues. It would be faulty to not recognize the themes and blindly use media as a barometer.
Crimes get a disproportionate share of India's media reporting. Top news sources in the US, don't report rapes in the way India does. For instance, 25 women in the US were raped/assaulted in the time I took to write this comment (about 30 mins). You wouldn't likely read about any of these 25 cases in the media.
When a woman was sexually assaulted in an Uber taxi in Delhi, it became a major news and the government quickly reacted. But, such crimes involving Uber is fairly routine in the US.
Sources :
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/16/least-two-women-who-reported-sexual-assaults-boston-sunday-were-using-uber-police-say/cFHpgzcfIoBYiTfWgOqYOK/story.html
http://abc7news.com/325011/
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents.html#SexualAssaults
In the US and Europe, such rape stories would come in local media and just move out of national attention. You probably didn't even come across it. US local governments didn't pursue Uber with the same vigor. Indian media selectively picks up a case and rallies around that. This creates a distorted reality.
The sad truth is that it is not India vs. US. It is that women get raped and it doesn't become a big news. See this as a global problem.
2.Second fact: India's rape rate is not the highest in the world. Not even close
According to the 2010 UN data on rape, the rapes per 100,000 people in India is 0.4 and 27.3 in USA. Going by these statistics, rape rate in USA is a whopping 6825% of India, so much for the "rape culture" in India.
Sources :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/top-5-countries-highest-rates-rape-1434355
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rapes/Per-capita
If you don't like the statistics, construct better ones. Figure out what factor you want to measure that is not covered in the reports from world bodies. Construct scientifically accepted surveys. Get to the root of the problem with logic. Use your stuff between the ears, instead of passing judgements with hot gas.
Under reporting of Rapes
Now I know the next thing you'll say is that rapes are under reported in India and it's true, but the matter of fact is that rapes are under reported everywhere in the world, including USA. More than 70% of rapes go under reported in USA.
Sources :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/rape-study-report-america-us_n_4310765.html
https://cavatus.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/sweden-a-raped-country/
Now for the sake of argument, let's give you the benefit of doubt and assume that only 5% of the rapes in India are reported and 95% cases go unreported. Also assume that 100% of rapes in USA are reported.
By that logic, the real rape rate in India will be 0.4 x 20 = 8. Now let us go further and double that too, we get 8 x 2 = 16, which is still way less than 27.3 (the rape rate in USA).
Therefore, even if you multiply the rape rate of India by 40, it still doesn't matches USA. This proves that India is a much safer country for women compared to USA.
In cultures across the world, rape carries a stigma. Because, most of the rapes happen with people who are close to the woman. Thus, there is a strong social pressure against reporting. This basic fact is lost on the many who are giving their uneducated comments on the issue.
The number of recorded rapes in India is certainly a substantial underestimate, but even if we take five times—or ten times—that figure, the corrected and enlarged estimates of rapes would still be substantially lower in India than in the US, the UK, Sweden, or South Africa (even with the assumption that there is no underreporting in these other countries).
-Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
Do you want to discuss rapes or engage in stereotypes?
Here is a simple question for those want to discuss this issue:
Are you interested in creating solutions for making women safe across race, creed, class and country?
Do you want to pick up some news item to justify your own stereotypes about a country?
If you belong to the former group, let us constructively engage in a debate on the solutions. If you belong to the latter group, you are not the solution, but the problem.
In summary, this is plainly a media distortion where one country reports rapes with more vigor than an another country. This leads to blind stereotyping that destroys people's lives & careers for no fault of their own.
Instead of getting into such faulty stereotyping without any statistical evidence, let us as humans figure out ways we can make world safer for women. Because, they are getting raped all over the world at an alarming rate.
You still believe India has a "rape culture" and that USA is a very safe country for women?

Even more data :

Rape Data on India
Reported Rapes
A. Based on United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data from 2012:
24,923 reported rapes in India, or 4.26 reported rapes for every 1,00,000 women
This places India at 85 out of 121 countries.
This video discusses the above statistics:
Rapes are over-hyped in India - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdGUPTub-L0&index=90&list=WL
Also see this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdoeoU48DIg
Unreported Rapes
B. Based on a survey conducted by UN Women:
India reported 8.5 rapes for every 100 women over their lifetimes, based on the answers they gave household-level surveyors.
The question "if the women had experienced sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner or any other person" placed India at 39 out of 99 countries.
Ten per cent of women in India reported having experienced sexual violence by their husbands during their lifetime. In the UN Women database, this places India at 43 out of 86 countries with comparable data.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-article-rape-rhetoric-and-reality/article6705077.ece
Rape Conviction Rate
According to the Guardian, just 7% of reported rapes in the U.K. resulted in convictions during 2011-12. In Sweden, the conviction rate is as low as 10%. France had a conviction rate of 25% in 2006.
Poor India, a developing nation with countless challenges, managed an impressive 24.2% conviction rate in 2012. That’s thanks to the efforts of a lot of good people — police, lawyers, victims and their families — working heroically with limited resources.
Source : Why Rape Seems Worse in India Than Everywhere Else (but Actually Isn’t) - http://world.time.com/2013/11/08/why-rape-seems-worse-in-india-than-everywhere-else-but-actually-isnt/
Archive link : http://web.archive.org/web/20150317034239/http://world.time.com/2013/11/08/why-rape-seems-worse-in-india-than-everywhere-else-but-actually-isnt/

First off I apologize if this post isn't relevant to the sub. Hello everyone! I’m a 24 year old with a bachelors degree in Interior Design from a fairly decent institute in South India. I had finished my final semester exams in May-June 2020, around the time when Covid kicked off. I had a somewhat clear plan of pursuing masters in Interior Architecture somewhere in the UK or Italy.
Thing is, my father got really sick during the first wave of Covid and I had to take care of the family business for 7-8 months. Going abroad to study was a no go because of how dire the situation was in Europe around that time. So I reluctantly told myself that maybe I should take this time to better my skills and postpone my plans for masters by a year. It’s been 3 years and I’m still stuck at my family business, because my parents have somewhat pressured me into accepting that my father needs a helping hand and once he retires, it’s up to me to run the business. Over these past 3 years, I’ve tried multiple times to explain to my parents how Design and Architecture is the field I wanna pursue but they haven’t budged. I even went rogue for a couple of weeks and didn’t show at work, went to a cafe to sit and work on my projects from university, trying to improve my portfolio but that didn’t work for long. Even now, I don’t think I can take time out in the day to work on my designs cause my business is a proper 11 hour shift from 10 am to 9 pm. I tried staying up for a few nights and that took a toll on my health.
Right now I’ve accepted that the only way I can pursue what I want is by putting in the effort and stay up in the nights irrespective of how that affects me. “Short term discomfort for long term peace” is what I tell myself everyday.
What I need help with is that over these 3 years, I feel like I’ve lost touch with design and what I learnt at my university and that scares me so much, cause I don’t want to be stuck with the family business all my life. I can’t figure out how to kick start my learning again. How am I supposed to go about it? Start sketching, read up on design articles and websites, start practicing my software’s again? I’ve got zero clue. I just need to know how to begin, cause I know that if I focus and put in the effort, I’ll figure it out as I go along.
I also wish to work under a designer for a year or two and then try and pursue masters, but that I think is for me to figure out at a later stage.
Hoping to get some guidance from the this community.

As exam season approaches, I thought I'd make you aware of a OCR computer science revision guide that I wrote last year following my A level exams, as I found the official textbooks to be poorly organised and hard to read. It's essentially a refined version of my revision notes, and as I achieved an A* in the examination I figured it may be of interest to those of you with exams this year!
You can access it at the link here.
I've made the Kindle edition available for free for the next 5 days, so get it whilst you can! If you could leave a review on Amazon with your honest opinion that would be really helpful for me to improve it!

On this review, they measured the latency at 4.5ms: https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/ducky/one-3. I've read many posts saying it has increased over later firmware versions. Does anyone know what the latency is on the latest firmware?

Reason: why India is not the rape capital of the world.
1.: Media reporting standards are not the same**
India's media reports things differently from media in other parts of the world. Media reports in various parts of the world have themes. American media focus a lot on race issues. Middle East media focuses a lot on sectarian issues. Indian media focuses a lot on gender issues. It would be faulty to not recognize the themes and blindly use media as a barometer.
Crimes get a disproportionate share of India's media reporting. Top news sources in the US, don't report rapes in the way India does. For instance, 25 women in the US were raped/assaulted in the time I took to write this comment (about 30 mins). You wouldn't likely read about any of these 25 cases in the media.
When a woman was sexually assaulted in an Uber taxi in Delhi, it became a major news and the government quickly reacted. But, such crimes involving Uber is fairly routine in the US.
Sources :
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/16/least-two-women-who-reported-sexual-assaults-boston-sunday-were-using-uber-police-say/cFHpgzcfIoBYiTfWgOqYOK/story.html
http://abc7news.com/325011/
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents.html#SexualAssaults
In the US and Europe, such rape stories would come in local media and just move out of national attention. You probably didn't even come across it. US local governments didn't pursue Uber with the same vigor. Indian media selectively picks up a case and rallies around that. This creates a distorted reality.
The sad truth is that it is not India vs. US. It is that women get raped and it doesn't become a big news. See this as a global problem.
2.Second fact: India's rape rate is not the highest in the world. Not even close
According to the 2010 UN data on rape, the rapes per 100,000 people in India is 0.4 and 27.3 in USA. Going by these statistics, rape rate in USA is a whopping 6825% of India, so much for the "rape culture" in India.
Sources :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/top-5-countries-highest-rates-rape-1434355
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rapes/Per-capita
If you don't like the statistics, construct better ones. Figure out what factor you want to measure that is not covered in the reports from world bodies. Construct scientifically accepted surveys. Get to the root of the problem with logic. Use your stuff between the ears, instead of passing judgements with hot gas.
Under reporting of Rapes
Now I know the next thing you'll say is that rapes are under reported in India and it's true, but the matter of fact is that rapes are under reported everywhere in the world, including USA. More than 70% of rapes go under reported in USA.
Sources :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/rape-study-report-america-us_n_4310765.html
https://cavatus.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/sweden-a-raped-country/
Now for the sake of argument, let's give you the benefit of doubt and assume that only 5% of the rapes in India are reported and 95% cases go unreported. Also assume that 100% of rapes in USA are reported.
By that logic, the real rape rate in India will be 0.4 x 20 = 8. Now let us go further and double that too, we get 8 x 2 = 16, which is still way less than 27.3 (the rape rate in USA).
Therefore, even if you multiply the rape rate of India by 40, it still doesn't matches USA. This proves that India is a much safer country for women compared to USA.
In cultures across the world, rape carries a stigma. Because, most of the rapes happen with people who are close to the woman. Thus, there is a strong social pressure against reporting. This basic fact is lost on the many who are giving their uneducated comments on the issue.
The number of recorded rapes in India is certainly a substantial underestimate, but even if we take five times—or ten times—that figure, the corrected and enlarged estimates of rapes would still be substantially lower in India than in the US, the UK, Sweden, or South Africa (even with the assumption that there is no underreporting in these other countries).
-Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
Do you want to discuss rapes or engage in stereotypes?
Here is a simple question for those want to discuss this issue:
Are you interested in creating solutions for making women safe across race, creed, class and country?
Do you want to pick up some news item to justify your own stereotypes about a country?
If you belong to the former group, let us constructively engage in a debate on the solutions. If you belong to the latter group, you are not the solution, but the problem.
In summary, this is plainly a media distortion where one country reports rapes with more vigor than an another country. This leads to blind stereotyping that destroys people's lives & careers for no fault of their own.
Instead of getting into such faulty stereotyping without any statistical evidence, let us as humans figure out ways we can make world safer for women. Because, they are getting raped all over the world at an alarming rate.
You still believe India has a "rape culture" and that USA is a very safe country for women?

Even more data :

Rape Data on India
Reported Rapes
A. Based on United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data from 2012:
24,923 reported rapes in India, or 4.26 reported rapes for every 1,00,000 women
This places India at 85 out of 121 countries.
This video discusses the above statistics:
Rapes are over-hyped in India - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdGUPTub-L0&index=90&list=WL
Also see this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdoeoU48DIg
Unreported Rapes
B. Based on a survey conducted by UN Women:
India reported 8.5 rapes for every 100 women over their lifetimes, based on the answers they gave household-level surveyors.
The question "if the women had experienced sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner or any other person" placed India at 39 out of 99 countries.
Ten per cent of women in India reported having experienced sexual violence by their husbands during their lifetime. In the UN Women database, this places India at 43 out of 86 countries with comparable data.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-article-rape-rhetoric-and-reality/article6705077.ece
Rape Conviction Rate
According to the Guardian, just 7% of reported rapes in the U.K. resulted in convictions during 2011-12. In Sweden, the conviction rate is as low as 10%. France had a conviction rate of 25% in 2006.
Poor India, a developing nation with countless challenges, managed an impressive 24.2% conviction rate in 2012. That’s thanks to the efforts of a lot of good people — police, lawyers, victims and their families — working heroically with limited resources.
Source : Why Rape Seems Worse in India Than Everywhere Else (but Actually Isn’t) - http://world.time.com/2013/11/08/why-rape-seems-worse-in-india-than-everywhere-else-but-actually-isnt/
Archive link : http://web.archive.org/web/20150317034239/http://world.time.com/2013/11/08/why-rape-seems-worse-in-india-than-everywhere-else-but-actually-isnt/

Hi I’m a new retail pharmacist and I’m a floater. I worked 2-10 at a store then 8-8 the following day. By the end I’m tired. We don’t have the proper staffing, had a no show during the 2-10 shift and are running behind. At this store the staff notoriously do not answer the phone. I answer as best as I can, review, and make sure everyone’s script that I can get ready, I get ready. I have other pharmacies calling for transfer complaining they waited for 20 min when I’m the only one answering the phone and literally have 8-10 calls an hour plus consults, transfers, and verbals. I know everyone does it but a little mom and pop pharmacy should give me more grace. Anyway lady calls about 2 scripts about 40-45 min before we close. I tell here itll be ready in 20 min. She says will she get a notification or just come in 20 min, I say come it will be ready. She doesn’t make it before close. I like to be out of the pharmacy in 2-3 min but the techs are cleaning and slowing me down. 10 min later she’s knocking on closed windows begging for medication. Our registers are closed, system is down. I told her we are closed she has to go elsewhere. I try to explain to her it’s closed, I got the scripts ready in time and quite frankly I’m not getting paid to talk to you. We have a 24hr pharmacy 10 min away. I told her go there and she said I’m heartless.
I feel like I did everything I could do and there’s a pharmacy a 10 min or less drive away from each other meaning the closest location should be a max 5/6 min drive from home. Am I heartless? Would y’all do something else. Now I’m feeling guilty.

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So after seeing the Focal Clear OG's go for approx. $530USD in my country, I couldn't wait to hear what an endgame headphone sounds like ($1000 cheaper than other endgame headphones btw), after only rocking some chifi IEMs and a wf-1000xm4.
They are 55 ohms, 104dB sensitivity. A lot of people including dankpods say that you can just run a dt770 - 80 ohm, 96 dB sensitivity off a laptop/phone.
I wasn't able to find enough information about Focal Clears needing a dedicated DAC/amp so I just went with this logic of it definitely not needing one due to a much lower ohm and sensitivity than the runnable dt770 80ohms.
So I just plugged it straight off my gaming laptop and it was still able to provide a whole new audio experience. From what the reviewers say and measurements show, open backs like the clears tend to have less bass compared to IEMs and closed-backs, but these have the same level of bass as my tangzu waners!? Much cleaner too! I can feel the drivers shaking when watching movies with explosions and such. Though, I can definitely see why people say it has a small soundstage, I expected something like a live performance on a small room but it's just a bubble around my head.
Anyways, I was able to listen at desired volumes, even going above without perceived distortion (I don't have audiophile ears so I might be missing some). But I was definitely able to hear distortion at really loud volumes but I wouldn't listen that loud anyways.
So yeah, I'm wondering, for what reason should I still purchase a dedicated dac or amp, when both of their purpose is already fulfilled by what I already have? Perhaps to boost the soundstage? But from my research, dac/amps that does that cost 2x the cost of my clears... I'd just save up for the HD800s and maybe get an adequate dac/amp, but I would love to hear your guys' opinions.

Hey All!
So I was just looking for a controller for my android for a bit of emulation. I was going to go for Gamesir but while scrolling I noticed one which seems to be a relatively new on Amazon.
It's called Ninjadog Astra One. I found three listings on Amazon, one named Ninjadog Astra One and the others just Astra One, I'm yet to see what's the difference between the two. But I believe it's just the same thing in different colours.
These are priced at ₹2200 ish, which goes down to 2k with discounts. Which needless to say is much lower than a Razer Kishi or Gamesir. There are only a few reviews and videos on YouTube about these but so far the Outlook looks good.
Has anyone here heard about these ? I'm thinking of going for this. What do you think?
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Im a new dad and live in the edge of south London/Surrey and wondered if anyone has tips for nice spring or summer events you have gone to with kids. Eg fetes, fairs, festivals and events at locations. Can be for grown ups too eg car shows. The lifestyle change from pubs and bars on Saturdays means we need to make better use of our weekend days. Thanks