This group is aimed for locals of Southeast Georgia USA. Examples would include Brunswick, Kingsland, Savannah, Waycross, Jessup, Hinesville, St. Marys, etc.

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If somebody could post this over to Reddit, I would greatly appreciate it, as I don't have an account on that platform.

I found out every stranger can be a danger. And victims can also be perpetrators.

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After I sent Rich Brownstein an email about Shoah software, I did a simple search online for ‘Holocaust video games’ and found out that I had completely overlooked this work.

The Light in the Darkness is the first (published) adventure game about the Shoah. Specifically, you play as a (petit bourgeois) Jewish family, as well as a couple of their friends, before and during the Axis occupation of France, and the story assigns you to a certain character depending on the section. This gives the audience a more personal connexion to the Shoah’s victims that would be harder to achieve in a book. Straightforward analyses of extermination campaigns certainly have their place, but tales like these are also needed to give the most serious students of history some emotional approximation of the events that took place.

Although you play as several different characters throughout this adventure, they handle identically, apart from their movement speed and several minigames. The minigames are all easy: there is the French equivalent to Simon says, there is a portion where you have to assemble a toy fox, a Tetris-like puzzle where you have to fit numerous crates into a lorry, and a portion where you have to sow a Judenstern onto an outfit. If you screw up, you can simply hit the restart button without any penalty. Although the designers encourage you to try their game with a controller, you can easily finish it with only a keyboard. If you enjoyed Grim Fandango or Escape from Monkey Island, this should not feel weird at all. The only thing that annoyed me was the want of dialogue controls: sometimes you can speed through dialog at your leisure, but other times you have to wait patiently, and there was one occasion where it went by too fast for me to finish reading.

As far as adventure games go, The Light in the Darkness is ridiculously straightforward: most of the time you are figuratively walking a one-way street. Unlike in an ordinary adventure game, you’ll hardly ever carry more than a single item at once, which would have made an inventory moot. Invisible walls are abundant, and opportunities to explore the world as sparse. Most of the NPCs with whom you can interact are story-critical; you can walk up to other NPCs, but most of them are speechless. Most of the doors cannot be opened either. Even the handful of dialogue options have no effect on the outcome; the makers intentionally released this game without a ‘good’ ending, since the Shoah’s survivors were, indeed, the exception to the rule.

As an educational tool, this is good: it covers the little-known Évian Conference, Ford’s antisemitism, the distribution of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and we see how the discrimination against France’s Jews evolved. (I have to admit that I was also unaware of Le Juif et la France until playing this.) It becomes especially depressing at the end where we read about how these characters could have lived had the Shoah never occurred. On the other hand, many of these lessons feel basic: we do not learn about how the Shoah manifested in other countries, and the authors never explain why the upper classes committed it, although we do get a clue at one point when the occupiers transfer the family’s microbusiness to a gentile.

Regarding the sound, there is not much to say: voice acting is almost nonexistent aside from one cutscene (wherein we can hear incomprehensible shouting), and the handful of sound effects include mundane noises like footsteps and knocking. Nothing fancy. The soundtrack consists of some French classical music, and there are a couple of moments when it adds to the tension or tragedy of the scenes, but ultimately it is nothing to write home about.

The graphics are The Light in the Darkness’s least appealing feature: the characters are all cel-shaded, Pixaresque cartoons with bulging eyes, which is bafflingly ill-fitting for the serious subject matter. The animations are mostly fine, but errors are sometimes noticeable, too, like Bluma’s eyebrows in one cutscene and objects that do not align properly with the characters’ movements, one particularly embarrassing example being a cup that floats underneath Bernard’s hand in the ending. The environments themselves look good, but misaligned textures are sometimes noticeable, especially in the apartment, and I saw a couple of texture errors, like the background in the transit camp. Finally, the dialog needed a proofreader: while many of the mistakes are limited to spacing, capitalisation and punctuation errors, there was one glaring issue where Jakob vaguely told Moses ‘I wish I would have done the same. Dragging my poor wife across France like some <’

Overall, though, I liked The Light in the Darkness. It is a bold but tasteful experiment that lets players experience Axis antisemitism from the perspective of its French victims. Being easy, gratis, and taking only 1.5 hours to finish, it is very accessible for any history student. That being said, it really does feel more like an experiment than an ordinary adventure game, because after you finish the story, there is not much reason to replay it unless you want to read it in the other language options. This is going to be something remembered more for its historical importance than its actual content, but seeing as how the designers are working on another Shoah adventure game titled Tears of Libya, this was a fine first step for the genre.

In de grote steden van Brazilië zijn tienduizenden mensen de straat op gegaan om te protesteren tegen wetsvoorstellen die oud-president Bolsonaro en federale parlementsleden zouden beschermen tegen vervolging door de rechter. Persbureau Reuters spreekt van de grootste linkse demonstraties in het [...]

The president of B.C.'s Coastal First Nations alliance was unequivocal when asked if there is any possibility the group would consent to the federal government lifting the oil tanker ban in the area to allow a pipeline to be built from Alberta.

"No," Heiltsuk Nation Chief Marilyn Slett answered.

Slett added that no one from the Alberta or federal government has asked local First Nations about their stance. Nevertheless, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has continually pushed the idea.

Slett has let B.C. know where the group stands, and said she was "encouraged" to hear Premier David Eby point this out to reporters in Ottawa on Thursday (Sept. 18).

"There's no support from First Nations along the coast," Eby said in Ottawa. "In fact, nobody's talked to them, and this project is non-existent."

Eby also took a shot at Smith, who formerly worked on behalf of oil and gas interests as a registered lobbyist.

"Premier Smith from Alberta, she's an incredible advocate, because you would never guess that there is no private proponent, there is no money, there's no project," Eby said.

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972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025

Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.

And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.

Trade deals many had hoped would quickly emerge after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on some of the United States’ biggest agricultural customers haven’t come. A farm bailout is no sure thing on Capitol Hill. And farmers — many of whom voted for Trump — say time is running out.

“It just seems like things have stalled all summer long,” said Brian Warpup, who grows corn and soybeans on his 3,900-acre farm in northeastern Indiana. “We’re always hopeful that those negotiations are moving forward, but yet with harvest here, patience may be running thin.”

Across the US, farmers describe increasingly dire circumstances stemming from a confluence of factors — trade wars, Trump’s immigration crackdown, inflation and high interest rates.

Though the challenges vary in different parts of the country, farmers in some cases, particularly on the West Coast, are struggling to find labor to pick their harvest. Others, especially in the Midwest, said they can’t sell what they’ve produced. And many are scrambling to find storage.

“This is not your ordinary farm crisis. We call it ‘farmageddon,’ and it’s really a tough time,”

A gap in production in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle allowed Chinese canned peaches to get a perch in the market - now they're undercutting the local offering and are here to stay.

The cost of living crisis has landed a hit on another industry, and this time Hawke's Bay peach growers are bearing the brunt of it.

Wattie's have told about 20 growers their contracts are being canned.

New Zealand peaches will still be produced at the company's Hastings cannery, but the premium offering is far more expensive than foreign fruit, and consumers are voting with their stretched wallets.

In a statement to The Detail Wattie's said it was working with affected growers, "many of whom we've partnered with for years".

"We recognise this is a difficult time for them and their businesses and are committed to helping them through this transition phase.

"The reduction has been a necessary response to an ongoing decline in demand for New Zealand grown product, as more Kiwis opt for cheaper imported alternatives.

"Since Cyclone Gabrielle hit in early 2023, the disruption to local orchards not only affected our ability to supply fruit but also opened the door for more imported products. Since then, we haven't recovered to the volume we saw before the cyclone."

Wattie's says there are no plans at this stage to discontinue Wattie's canned peaches, or for the company to import peaches. It says it remains "committed to offering a range of canned fruit that is New Zealand grown, including peaches".

Hawke's Bay Today journalist Gary Hamilton-Irvine says it is a sad situation, as Wattie's has a long legacy in the region, where it was founded more than 100 years ago. (Wattie's is now foreign-owned, and trades under Heinz Wattie's.)

Growers he has spoken to used their summer peach crops as a cashflow bridge until the money from autumn apples came in, and the apple crop was a good one this year. Some orchardists will be pulling up their peach trees and expanding their apple production capacity.

Hamilton-Irvine says they are generally realists about the hit they are taking, but the move is causing concern.

So are there fears for pears?

"I tried to ring around as many fruit growers as I could to see if it was wider than peaches ... at the moment certainly Wattie's, what they've told me, is it's just peaches - not to diminish the role of peaches here, it's big - but in terms of calling it a massive blow for Hawke's Bay that might be a little harsh.

"A lot of people are watching this space... just to see if there's flow-on effects from it, if other fruits are going to be impacted, if jobs that rely on the horticulture industry are impacted. There's a lot of people employed at Wattie's."

He says it is a reality check for people browsing the supermarket shelves to look for 'NZ made' on the labels.

"It might be $2 more or whatever it is, but it might be helping employ someone here in Hawke's Bay. It certainly would taste better."

Newsroom business reporter Andrew Bevin says Wattie's is very protectionist of New Zealand's peach industry - and we are seeing more and more foreign imports.

In July, Heinz Wattie's got the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to begin a dumping investigation against China over their canned peaches.

The accusation with dumping is that an exporter is trying to take a slice of another market by selling goods for less than the price of producing them. International trade rules let you level the playing field by imposing tariffs if an investigation proves it's happening.

"It's a rare thing in New Zealand," Bevin says. "New Zealand only has live anti-dumping duties against a few products. Basically wire from Malaysia and China, some steel coming out of Korea, and preserved or canned peaches from Spain, Greece and South Africa. And there's also a live investigation into dumping coming from China.

"Each one of those peach actions was brought by Heinz Wattie's."

China has had dumping duties placed on its peaches before, for a period between 2006 and 2019.

A previous investigation that ended in 2023 found that China had dumped preserved peaches on the country but that was not harming the domestic industry, so no duties were imposed.

But Bevin says Wattie's ending agreements with Hawke's Bay peach farmers gives them more ammunition on that count for the investigation this time around.

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We're only just receiving the images now (8 PM GMT), so this post will be updated a few times in the next day or two, but...

Wow. The outer rind of this rock is pretty tough! The abrasion bit has never made a pattern like this in any rock target before, even when the abrasion failed (closest example I can think of is abrasion patch #18, which we made on a boulder washed into the crater by flood - previously the hardest rock we've tackled to date). I'm surprised that the "purple coating" material - those stringy brownish splotches on the middle-right of the patch - survived the abrasion process, but it appears the hard ridged surface of the rock protected them from the abrasion bit.

For reference, this is the very same boulder and patch of rock from which we brushed away the dust yesterday (sol 1630).

Percy hits the jackpot again!