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Review: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition
By Kirstin Swalley on August 26, 2020
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition
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Developer: The Game Designers Studio
Publisher: Square Enix
Although Final Fantasy is no stranger to spin-offs in their series, Crystal Chronicles is one of the earliest titles in the series to move away from turn-based combat in favor of an action-based approach. The title would release on GameCube to positive reception and a unique way to play with friends using the Game Boy Link Cable. This series would go on to see multiple sequels and new entries that all had similar premises with different mechanics and twists along the way. Now the original is back after a seventeen year absence, but is it just as good as players remember?
The basic story of Crystal Chronicles is a simple one. The world has been covered in a thick miasma for as long as anyone can remember and the only way to stay safe from it is to rely on crystals that have been infused with myrrh. Villages all over the world rely on these giant crystals to keep themselves safe, but eventually their myrrh begins to deplete. In order to keep themselves safe, each village sends out caravans of brave fighters to collect myrrh from special crystal trees and bring it back in order to continue living a safe life year after year. While a simple premise, the story is expanded through various interactions that caravans meet along their travels that begin to slowly unravel a bigger picture going on than first meets the eye.
There are four different races players can choose from, with a total of eight caravan spots allowing them to have multiple characters in one save. Each race has pros and cons to their stats such as the Yukes having a higher magic affinity and the Lility being the strongest attackers. There are no levels with traditional stat increases and instead players only get stronger through weapons, armor and artifacts gained from completing stages. Artifacts act as stat increases and ways to gain addition hearts, command bar spaces and eventually some rare items. Combat itself is straightforward with each character having a basic 3-hit combo they can pull off with correct timing. Players manage their items from their command bar, which at first starts small but can be increased over time. By pressing the triggers, players can freely scroll through their command bar which allows them to switch to defending, using an item or even pulling off some magic. It's a system that takes some getting used to at first as players have to quickly switch between their command bar to do any action, but it's one that fits well with the pace of combat.
Crystal Chronicles is most akin to a dungeon crawler in its overall level design. Players explore large stages fighting enemies, collecting items to heal or make themselves stronger and finally ending on a climactic boss fight. Each of these stages is filled with miasma and the chalice players carry gives them a round area of safety. This chalice must be carried through the whole stage and has to be put down in order to attack, leading to the need for strategic thinking. Fortunately when playing alone, there is an NPC ally to help carry the weight. In single player caravans are accompanied by a moogle by the name of Mog. He helps out by being able to life and carry the chalice, with the downside being he occasionally gets tired and asks for a break. He makes small commentary throughout the stage and can sometimes help cast spells, but otherwise is just a tag along to carry the chalice. In certain moogle houses players stumble across Mog can have his fur painted or trimmed which at first may seem merely cosmetic, but actually plays a small role in his abilities. Having his fur long helps him hold the chalice longer in cold dungeons, while trimming it aids in hotter areas. There are three main colors Mog can be painted, and depending on how he's spray painted, actually persuades which spell he's likely to cast based on the color. The color slowly fades over time, or can be washed, along with his fur which will grow back after a short while, but it's a nice way to encourage players to get Mog to help while playing along.
Magic works a bit different in Crystal Chronicles than most other Final Fantasy titles, requiring no mana and being able to be used endlessly once obtained. The key exception being that players must first find the correlating magecite in each level to use magic, and it disappears once that level has been finished. Each magecite takes up a command slot, and combining certain types of magic can even create fusion attacks like Gravity or Holy. Players using magic in multiplayer can also cast spells together to create similar, or stronger, fusions. Some races take better to magic and are able to cast faster or stronger, but even just having Cure can be helpful to any adventurer when in a tight spot.
Multiplayer was only playable on one console back in the original GameCube days, but the Remastered Edition brings new life to it with online capabilities. Players across all platforms can team up and take on dungeons, which given the somewhat grindy nature of the title makes it go by much more enjoyably. Connections will depend on whoever the host is so experiences will vary, but quests are easy to jump in and out of with friends or other random players with open rooms. Up to four caravan players can team up, with multiplayer removing Mog in favor of the team needing to work together in order to carry the chalice. Items players find are almost all instanced, with the exception being magecite which is only available for one person to pick up. This means magic distribution will need to be considered when playing online to assure the best results. Players can send pre-set messages to one another in order to communicate where to go or how to handle situations together which is nice when not talking directly to one another over voice chat. The only drawback to online is after a dungeon is completed the only immediate option is to replay the dungeon again. This can be nice if players need certain items from it, but it would also be nice if the host could freely switch between dungeons without having to back out and restart the room.
One of the newest additions to Crystal Chronicles Remastered is the inclusion of voice acting. The original didn't have any for its characters, but now many lines are fully voiced during cutscenes and villagers will make little grunts will spoken to in towns. This wasn't a necessary addition but the voice acting is nice across the board, and while those familiar with the original might find it jarring at first, it's nice to hear characters say the names of spells as they're cast. Most of the moogles have rather deep voices which is a hilarious contrast to their adorable fluffy selves. Mog is perhaps the only annoyingly-voiced character at times, as he'll speak all his lines when in a dungeon. For the most part it's fine, and it's cute when he comments on being warm or cool, but if the player opts to carry the chalice for a long time they'll hear Mog ask to carry it a lot which can be a tad much. The visuals have seen better quality textures across the board and the colors seem considerably less muddy than they once were on the GameCube. A couple of the voiced songs were redone for the remaster, and they sound wonderful redone, but it's a change that makes it a new way to hear them without completely overshadowing the originals so both versions are still fun to hear. The frame rate is smooth and consistent with no issues even when enemies enjoy flooding the screen with their bodies or many magic spells. As mentioned earlier lag will crop up with multiplayer when online depending on the host, but it depends on a player's connection.
Closing Comments:
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was already a wonderfully unique and challenging title when it originally released, but the Remastered Edition brings that all to the table with even more plus the ability to finally play with friends online. While the character models may still be clearly from many console generations ago, there's so much wonder and charm put into it that it's fantastic to play through and enjoy time and time again. It's a wonder how even years later it still feels as inviting, and somewhat terrifying, to take on new dungeons and challenge whatever comes next. Anyone looking for a seemingly simple but utterly charming action adventure with tons of time to spend taking on dungeons need look no further than Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition.
Version Reviewed: PlayStation 4
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Dit is een lijst van burgemeesters van de voormalige Nederlandse gemeente IJsselham. Deze gemeente ontstond op 1 januari 1973 bij de fusie van de gemeenten Blankenham, Kuinre en Oldemarkt, waarbij ook kleine stukken van andere gemeenten aan IJsselham werden toegekend. Op 1 januari 2001 ging IJsselham op in de gemeente Steenwijkerland, die de eerste twee jaar nog Steenwijk werd genoemd..

Zie ook
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Kuinre
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Blankenham
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Oldemarkt
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Steenwijkerland

IJsselham

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We have 13 rooms fully equipped and spread over three houses.
You can expect incredible hiking routes through the most beautiful corners of the Pyrenees as well as the most modern ski resorts.
Casa Pérez is a cosy rural house in the heart of the Pyrenees. It is located in Yebra de Basa, at a crossroads between Jaca, the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido and the ski resorts of the Aragonese Pyrenees.
At Casa Pérez we continue to work with livestock and agriculture so you can get to know one of the oldest jobs in the world.
Do not hesitate to visit us! We will be waiting for you!
At Casa Pérez, we believe that each person is unique and that is why we adapt our accommodation to every need. Our 13 rooms are distributed in three houses within the same building, so we offer both rooms and the option to rent a complete house with 4 rooms with bathroom, kitchen, dining room and common areas with barbecue.
Room on the first floor and furnished with style for a comfortable stay. It has views of the garden or the square.
Room on the first floor. Furnished with style for a comfortable stay. It has views of the garden or the square.
Located in a privileged natural environment, here you can enjoy both a weekend with your partner, as well as pleasant vacations with your family and friends. From incredible hiking routes through the most beautiful corners of the Pyrenees, to the most modern ski resorts. From our house, you can try a wide range of activities. Discover unimaginable routes with your bike or small mountain towns, without forgetting the great gastronomic offer of the towns that surround us.
If what you are looking for is relaxation and disconnection, at Casa Pérez, we continue to work with livestock and agriculture, so you can get to know one of the oldest jobs in the world.
Do not hesitate to visit us and enjoy the nature, fresh air and quietness provided by the Pyrenees.
Booking directly with us has advantages!
– Early check-in (subject to availability).
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– 10 % discount on your next stay.


The ZZ, plant widely sold as an indoor plant, commonly called the Zanzibar Gem Plant, the botanical name is Zamioculcas zamiifolia.
This is a tough indoor plant widely used in commercial buildings as well as favorite in many homes, available for sale from indoor plant specialists.
This is a slow growing plant with foliage similar to Zamia furfuracea, however these are a very different plant.
Why is this plant so tough and why does it grow so well indoors inflow light, with little water ?
This little plant that resembles a cross between a fern and a cycad grows naturally in dry shaded areas, the only way you can kill it is to over water it or let it get to cold.
Originally from eastern Africa, it is grown as a tropical foliage plant. Zanzibar Gem works well as indoor plant cooler areas and grows well in pots or containers. The sap of the plant is toxic, so keep cats away from the plant as they do have a tendency to eat green things at times.
If it actually gets to dry, and that has to be a severe drought it simply goes underground and reappears when it gets a little moisture.
Indirect or filtered light is required, as is a free draining potting mix, try a potting mix that is free draining similar to an orchid mix.
A little slow release fertilizer once or twice a year or a foliar fertilizer. Use a pot that is not to large as larger pots can end up providing to much moisture.
Divide and repot when the plant becomes to big. Propagation by division simply involves cutting the rhizome into 2 or 3 and replanting.
Best grown in a container in all but tropical climates.
Use a free draining succulent potting mix.
Strong filtered light is best, deep shade will slow down growth.
Regarded as drought tolerant once established. Many problems with Zamioculcas zamiifolia are related to over watering.
Fertilize in spring and again in summer with a slow release type fertilizer.
Reduce watering to zero in winter.
Keep temperature at 14C or above at all times of the year.


Long shadows are a new trend during these days, so GraphicBurger has released a long shadows generator. It works with smart objects and is available in 2 directions at 45 degrees.
Posted on July 5, 2013 in Free PSD, Miscellanea and tagged shadows. This post has been viewed 3555 times.
Long Shadows generator is a powerful tool for creating custom CSS shadows. Created by Juani Ruiz Echazú.
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Set of circular and rounded buttons. Free PSD with elegant design, realistic shadows and normal and hover button behaviour.


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INTRALOT USA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES the 44th US LOTTERY
INTRALOT, Inc., based in Duluth, GA, the North American subsidiary of INTRALOT Group, is pleased to announce the successful launch of the newest U.S. lottery. The Wyoming Lottery (WyoLotto™) made history at noon on Sunday August 24th by selling its first tickets to Mary Ogg from Sheridan. The lottery chose her randomly from more than 27,000 entrants in a giveaway promoting the launch of the lottery. In addition to purchasing the first lottery ticket sold in Wyoming, she also won a 2014 Jeep Wrangler and free Mega Millions tickets for a year.
Jon Clontz, CEO of WyoLotto™ stated: "The Launch of the Wyoming Lottery has been a rewarding and exciting experience. To set foot on the ground last October and be opening a lottery 10 months later is a remarkable achievement! An even more remarkable outcome is that we launched the lottery without any major systems, technology or point of sale problems! This was a very smooth launch executed with persistent attention to detail and precision. The combined high quality experience of our gaming vendor INTRALOT and LOTTERY staff proved to be a formula for success. My staff and the INTRALOT team logged countless hours to include weekends ensuring benchmarks, deadlines and milestone objectives were met. INTRALOT and my team maintained a constant team oriented attitude and a positive and motivating drive that led to a successful launch with no major concerns".
Mr. Clontz added: "Outcomes are what matter and I am simply amazed at the outcome we just experienced! To go-live with a complex project like this in 10.5 short months is a significant achievement! To do this with such precision and quality is an even greater achievement. I wish to thank my team, our Board of Directors and our talented and experienced gaming vendor INTRALOT, and all of our partners and stakeholders who helped make the successful launch of the Wyoming Lottery possible!"
The Lottery released a Request for Proposal for Lottery Operations and Services back on December 3, 2013. The largest three vendors in the industry submitted proposals and after a thorough review of each proposal, the Wyoming Lottery awarded the contract to INTRALOT, which scored the highest points. INTRALOT signed a 5-year contract with the Lottery with three, 5-year extension options.
Under the terms of the contract INTRALOT provides on-going services including the supply, installation, maintenance and support of the new lottery Central System and software platforms, terminal network and communications. In addition, INTRALOT provides a field sales staff that recruits and trains retailers and also works with them to enhance their sales.
INTRALOT, Inc. President and CEO, Mr. Tom Little, said: "We have been working closely with the Wyoming Lottery towards a secure and successful launch since our award in April. We are extremely excited because this is our 14th contract award in the U.S. market and our second start-up of new lottery operations; the previous being the successful start-up of the Arkansas Lottery in 2012. The excitement surrounding this start-up was apparent as the lottery reported $1,000 in sales per minute for the first hour and achieved an impressive $401,638 in sales prior to the first draw on Tuesday. In fact, that amount was just shy of the projected sales for the entire first week. It has been a pleasure working with the WyoLotto™ team and we are looking forward to a long successful partnership together."
INTRALOT, a public listed company, is the leading supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems, innovative game content, sports betting management and interactive gaming services to state-licensed gaming organizations worldwide. Its broad portfolio of products & services, its know-how of Lottery, Betting, Racing & Video Lottery operations and its leading-edge technology, give INTRALOT a competitive advantage, which contributes directly to customers' efficiency, profitability and growth. With presence in 57 jurisdictions, more than 5.500 people and revenues of $2.1 (€1,54) billion for 2013, INTRALOT has established its presence on all 5 continents.
Ms. Persa Kartsoli, Group Director of Corporate Communications, Phone: +30-210 6156000, Fax: +30-210 6106800, email: kartsoli@intralot.com - www.intralot.com
John Pittman, Vice President, Marketing, INTRALOT USA. Phone: +1-678-473-7218, Fax: +1-770-295-2590, email: john.pittman@intralot.us


As one way of addressing disaster risk, national and local governments, often supported by international funding agencies, engage in resettlement and relocation. This can be preventative, or occur after a disaster. While this reduces people's exposure to hazards, it can lead to other problems, which can leave people more vulnerable or worse o than they were before. We need to understand better the challenges and associated outcomes of such interventions on people and cities.
- Resettlement and relocation can reduce people's exposure to hazards, but in most cases, it leaves people worse off overall in social and economic terms than they were before.
- Planning needs to prevent the location of new settlements in hazard-prone areas, to avoid future need for resettlement.
- Resettlement should always be considered a last resort after all options for on-site mitigation or upgrading have been exhausted. Decision-making authorities may, and often do, understand risks differently from the communities living in environments that they know and understand, and alternative actions to resettlement may be possible.
- Policies and procedures must ensure people's rights are protected; legal frameworks may need to be strengthened; and international covenants on resettlement must be honoured.


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Q: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'require_signature' SAML 2 authentication in Django I'm using Simple SAML PHP as my IDP (Identity provider) and Django SAML 2 Auth to integrate the SAML 2 authentication to my Django application (i.e, the SP (Service provider)).
The configuration of both tools is the following:
Simple SAML PHP:
docker run --name=saml_idp -p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 -e SIMPLESAMLPHP_SP_ENTITY_ID=http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/metadata.xml -e SIMPLESAMLPHP_SP_ASSERTION_CONSUMER_SERVICE=http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/acs/ --network host -d kristophjunge/test-saml-idp

Simple SAML PHP metadata:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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Django SAML 2 Auth:
XMLSEC_BINARY = '/usr/local/bin/xmlsec1'

# The configurations set here need to be the same as the IDP / SP configuration, that is
# described in the metadata files (https://www.samltool.com/online_tools.php)
SAML2_AUTH = {
    # Metadata is required, choose either remote URL or local file path
    'METADATA_AUTO_CONF_URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php',
    'METADATA_LOCAL_FILE_PATH': '/code/app/metadata_idp.xml',

    # Optional settings below
    'DEFAULT_NEXT_URL': '/',
    'CREATE_USER': 'FALSE',
    'NEW_USER_PROFILE': {
        'USER_GROUPS': [],
        'ACTIVE_STATUS': True,
        'STAFF_STATUS': True,
        'SUPERUSER_STATUS': False
    },
    # Change user name / password to corresponding SAML2 user profile attributes
    'ATTRIBUTES_MAP': {
        'username': 'username',
        'password': 'password'
    },
    # 'TRIGGER': {
    #     'CREATE_USER': 'path.to.your.new.user.hook.method',
    #     'BEFORE_LOGIN': 'path.to.your.login.hook.method',
    # },
    # Custom URL to validate incoming SAML requests against
    'ASSERTION_URL': 'http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/acs/',
    # Populates the Issuer element in authn request
    'ENTITY_ID': 'http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/metadata.xml'
}

Django SAML 2 Auth metadata:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<md:EntityDescriptor xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata" validUntil="2019-12-09T14:01:55Z" cacheDuration="PT604800S" entityID="http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/metadata.xml">
  <md:SPSSODescriptor AuthnRequestsSigned="false" WantAssertionsSigned="false" protocolSupportEnumeration="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol">
    <md:KeyDescriptor use="signing">
      <ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
        <ds:X509Data>
          <ds:X509Certificate>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</ds:X509Certificate>
        </ds:X509Data>
      </ds:KeyInfo>
    </md:KeyDescriptor>
    <md:KeyDescriptor use="encryption">
      <ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
        <ds:X509Data>
          <ds:X509Certificate>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</ds:X509Certificate>
        </ds:X509Data>
      </ds:KeyInfo>
    </md:KeyDescriptor>
    <md:NameIDFormat>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified</md:NameIDFormat>
    <md:AssertionConsumerService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="http://0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/acs/" index="1"/>
  </md:SPSSODescriptor>
</md:EntityDescriptor>

When I access 0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/login, I'm redirected to 127.0.0.1:8080/simplesaml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php where I login and get back to 0.0.0.0:8000/saml2_auth/acs/ but when I get back I receive the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 34, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 115, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 113, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django_saml2_auth/views.py", line 159, in acs
    resp, entity.BINDING_HTTP_POST)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/saml2/client_base.py", line 714, in parse_authn_request_response
    binding, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/saml2/entity.py", line 1205, in _parse_response
    response.require_signature = require_signature
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'require_signature'

I have read 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'require_signature' but this wasn't that helpful. How can I fix this issue.
Obs ¹: The certifications are generated using openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -nodes -days 365
Obs ²: I have also create an example in Javascript and everything works well
Obs ³: When I get back to /asc the session was already set in the IDP and returned to the SP as well:

A: When I ported some example code written for Flask to Django/DRF, I wasn't getting the information correctly, this meant the SAMLResponse was just a garbled string, hence had no value for require_signature.
Base64 decoding the SAMLResponse content did the trick.  If that's in their documentation somewhere, I sure couldn't find it. Maybe it's meant to be "obvious" since it's markup language and needs to be encoded?

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Michael Onajirevbe Ibru (25 December 1930 – 6 September 2016) was a Nigerian businessman from Agbara-Otor, Delta State. He was the head of the Ibru Organization, one of the largest conglomerates in Nigeria. As a traditional chieftain of his homeland, Ibru bore the tribal honorific Olorogun and often used it as a pre-nominal style. This title is also borne by many of the members of his large family in the same way.

Early life
Ibru was born to the family of Janet Ibru and Peter Ibru, a missionary worker, who also worked at the Igbobi Orthapaedic Hospital, Lagos. After secondary school, he joined the United African Company, as a management trainee. In 1956, a few years after joining U.A.C, he dropped out of the company and started a partnership, which he called Laibru. The corporate entity was in partnership with an expatriate, Jimmy Large. After engaging in general trading with some success, in 1957, Michael Ibru discovered that the frozen fish market was a fertile market with the potential to deliver returns above the market rate. However, it was a tough market to penetrate, at the time, many expatriate firms and Nigerian traders were lacking and some were not interested in the market. But he felt he could put extra effort communicating with general traders, who played key roles in products acceptance. To trade in seafood, he established an importing company, he also rented and built cold storage facilities across the country. By the mid-1960s trading fish had become the traditional money maker for the Ibru organization. Though he had other profitable interests such as transportation and construction, fish trading helped him secure financing and other forms of capital to engage in large scale trading. He established a partnership with a Taiwanese company, Osadjere Fishing Company, which provided Trawlers and other accessories for trading. By the end of the 1960s he branched out fully into other areas of the economy. Like a lot of his contemporaries, he established a transportation company, called Rutam. He also invested in palm oil production. Over the years, the Ibru Organization has expanded into other areas such as Tourism, Brewery, Timber and Poultry.

He was known as an entrepreneurial figure who created one of the largest modern Nigerian owned groups with other figures such as the low key Bode Akindele.

Education
Michael Ibru attended Igbobi College, and acquired a school certificate in 1951.

Urhobo nation
No group of Nigerians has benefited more from Michael Ibru's legacy than the Urhobo people. Urhobo men and women have profited at many levels since the rise of the Ibru brand in the second half of the 1950s. First, Urhobo market women were among the first batch of Nigerians to embrace the "Ibru" frozen fish. Many of them rose from relative poverty to higher economic brackets because they participated in the new Ibru ventures from market stalls. There were more direct beneficiaries from Michael Ibru's openness to his Urhobo people. These were the many Urhobo professionals who joined the Ibru organization. Many of them left the Ibru organization to pursue their own independent dreams constructed with the aid of ambitions conceived in the Ibru organization. A full list of Urhobo professionals who worked and prospered in the Ibru organization will fill many pages.

The Urhobo have a more particular reason for admiring Michael Ibru. Well up to the 1950s, the image of the Urhobo was not among the best in the Nigerian nation. With the accomplishments and competence of Michael Ibru especially, as well as the achievements of other giants of Nigerian commerce and economics as David Dafinone and Gamaliel Onosode, the Urhobo image has been strengthened in major ways. For that, the Urhobo have embraced Michael Ibru as an historic figure. There is more in the love bonds between the Urhobo people and Michael Ibru. Michael Ibru has embraced Urhobo culture and Urhobo cultural organizations, especially Urhobo Progress Union, in a manner that pleases the Urhobo people. It is Michael Ibru who popularized the use of the title "Olorogun" in place of "Chief."

Private citizen
Chief Ibru has five wives, and seventeen children, the most prominent being Olorogun Oskar Ibru (who heads Ibafon Ports) and Oboden Ibru (who was a key player in Oceanic bank International PLC).
He also tried his hands in politics, in 1983, he was a gubernatorial candidate but lost to Samuel Ogbemudia. He is also a member of the Liberal Convention and the New Movement, which metamorphosed to become NRC.

Death
Ibru, who was the patriarch of one of Nigeria's foremost business dynasties, died at a medical facility in the United States in the early hours of Tuesday, September 6, 2016. Ibru was survived by his brother, Goodie Ibru; his wife, Cecilia Ibru; and several children, including Oskar Ibru and Oboden Ibru; and grandchildren.

References

Tom Forrest, The Advance of African Capital:The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise. University of Virginia Press (August 1994).

1930 births
2016 deaths
Businesspeople from Lagos
Igbobi College alumni
20th-century Nigerian businesspeople
Michael


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It's really amazing how much I can't get done when the internet goes out at work, because I can't test the game (it needs the network!) and I can't look anything up. Oh, and the phones stop working, because they're voip.
In Jeff's game, I thought that he had totally taken a first edition D&D creature (updated to 3E somewhere, I presume) and imported it to Star Wars, but it turns out that it was actually the module designers who did it! I was amused.
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"I'm grabbing a bucket and going down to the Tiber" is my new code-phrase for "I'm going home because my computer doesn't work".
...never mind that back then they measured the time things took to get done in, like months where now we get annoyed if [$favoriteoftenvisiteddistractionfromworkwebpage] loads in >5 seconds.


text:
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use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;

class CreateTaggedTable extends Migration
{

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('tagging_taggables', function (Blueprint $table) {
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            $table->integer('tagging_taggable_id')->unsigned()->index();
            $table->string('tagging_taggable_type')->index();
        });
    }

    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('tagging_taggables');
    }
}

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The clutch bag – which is worth $88 – was used by Pippa at Wimbledon in June 2018. Of course, the ones Pippa used was her own and it is unlikely that the pair share handbags. Perhaps they have just purchased the exact same ones.
Pippa, 34 – who is set to give birth to her first child in October – carried the clutch bag twice while attending the famous tennis tournament.
On July 5th, she used the purse and paired it with an Anna Mason white eyelet dress that had ruffle sleeves.
On the second time around, a week after, she matched the clutch bag with a bohemian-inspired dress.
Markle and Pippa may have been sharing fashion tips with each other or perhaps not. Although, they have surely spent some time together in the past.
During Markle's wedding with Prince Harry, Pippa and her husband, James Matthews, were in attendance at St. George's Chapel.
Kate's younger sister wore a pink and mint green, floral, Hepburn-inspired, silk dress from The Fold.
A day before the wedding, which was held on May 19th, Pippa and Matthews had just celebrated the first anniversary of their own wedding.


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Maryvale Institute is a college of further and higher education, an International Catholic Distance-Learning College for Catechesis, Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education in Old Oscott, Great Barr, Birmingham, England. It specialises in the provision of part-time, distance learning courses to the lay faithful, consecrated religious and ministers of the Roman Catholic Church.

History
The College has existed in its current state since 1980, when it was established by Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer, on the site of St Mary's College, founded in 1794 for both the training of priests and the education of lay pupils. It was also, at one stage, the home of Saint John Henry Newman.

In August 2019 the Institute was merged with the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Courses offered

Centre for Catechesis and Adult Formation

 Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies (CCRS)
Certificate in Catechesis and Ministry (CCM)
Certificate in Catholic Art (CCA)
 Certificate in Chaplaincy Studies (CCS)
Certificate in New Testament Studies (CNTS)
 Certificate in the Teaching of Pope Francis (CTPF)
 Foundation in Parish Ministry (FPM)

Higher Education - Undergraduate
 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition (Validated by The Open University)
 Ecclesiastical Bachelor of Divinity (Validated by Faculté-Notre Dame, Paris)

Higher Education - Postgraduate
 MA in Catholic Applied Theology (Validated by The Open University)
 Licence in Divinity: Pathway in Catechetical Sciences  (Validated by Faculté-Notre Dame, Paris)

Research Degrees
MPhil in Catholic Studies
PhD in Catholic Studies
Validated by Liverpool Hope University.

Institute relationships
The Institute is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, its president being the Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham.  Its Doctoral (PhD) programme is accredited by Liverpool Hope University. Its Bachelor of Arts and Master's programmes are accredited by the Open University. The validator of the Bachelor of Divinity and Licence in Catechetics programmes is the Faculté-Notre Dame, at the École Cathédrale de Paris. Maynooth Pontifical University, which it was affiliated to accredited a number of programmes in Maryvale, up until 2014. As well as Maynooth and the Open University, the institute was also an associated college of Hull University. In 2011 Maryvale under new guidelines from the Vatican became the first Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in English-speaking world, and became associated with Notre Dame ecclesiastic faculty.

Adult Faith Programmes
In 2012 Maryvale allowed dioceses in Ireland to run its programmes as part of their adult faith development courses, with courses being run in Sligo and Roscommon, in the Diocese of Elphin, and in the Diocese of Cloyne. In the Diocese of Kilmore courses were run validated by Maryvale and the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin. The course was also launched in Motherwell, Scotland.

References

External links

Maryvale Institute

Further education colleges in Birmingham, West Midlands
Catholic universities and colleges in England
Great Barr
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Minnesota BHA seeks to ensure our North American heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting on wild, public lands and waters through education, advocacy, and boots on the ground work.
We are a statewide, grassroots, organization that works with individuals, organizations, and government to ensure future generations have the same opportunities to hunt, fish, and recreate that we have enjoyed. We also seek to expand that outdoor experience to those who may not currently access it.
Please contact us to learn how you can get involved with Minnesota BHA!


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Judge won't force Georgia to use paper ballots for midterms
ATLANTA (AP) — Voting integrity advocates had argued Georgia's electronic voting machines are unreliable and vulnerable to hacking, but a federal judge says forcing the state to change its system...
Judge weighs whether Georgia must switch to paper ballots
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge who's considering whether Georgia should have to switch from electronic voting machines to paper ballots for the November election says she hopes to have...
Ex-medical examiner to be sentenced in opioids-for-sex case
August 29, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
ATLANTA (AP) — A well-regarded former Georgia medical examiner known for his work on high-profile cases is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to prescribe opioids in exchange for...
Ex-football player faces charges after high-profile arrest
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor in Georgia has filed charges against a former college football player whose arrest was caught on a widely circulated video.Henry County Solicitor General Pam Bettis...
Judge: Cop who shot naked man not entitled to immunity
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says a white former Atlanta-area police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked, mentally ill black veteran isn''t entitled to immunity based on self-defense.Lawyers for...
Feds: Atlanta corruption probe could yield more indictments
ATLANTA (AP) — After a top aide to former Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed pleaded guilty to a bribery charge Wednesday, the top federal prosecutor in Atlanta said he''s expanding a...
Bills" McCoy finalizes eviction of ex-girlfriend in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for LeSean McCoy says the eviction proceedings against the Buffalo Bills running back''s ex-girlfriend have been finalized and she is no longer living in his...
Gun safety advocates set their sights on elected office
ATLANTA (AP) — Gun safety advocates from around the country are gathering in Atlanta to discuss strategies to end gun violence.More than 1,000 volunteer leaders of Moms Demand Action for...
Former top Atlanta official charged in ongoing bribery probe
August 8, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a top aide to former Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed accepted bribes from a city vendor.In a court filing Tuesday, prosecutors charged 49-year-old Katrina Taylor-Parks...
Lawyers: Inmates shouldn"t be freed directly from solitary
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia practice of releasing prisoners directly from solitary confinement to freedom sets them up for failure and poses a risk to the public, lawyers for prisoners...


Why not doll up your kitchen with these Matryoshkas made to measure M-Cups Measuring Cups.
This set of 6 dry measure cups nest neatly inside each other, just like traditional Russian dolls. They accurately measure 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 and 1 full cup. Built from heavy-duty, food-safe, long-life engineering plastics.


This week's word prompt is "tragic". We're jumping ahead in the second book of The Gods of DC Series, Love and War. Athena and Mack will be hitting the virtual shelves on Christmas Day!
Her head raised as they approached, her eyes narrowing as she took in Mack. She rose to her feet, her glare piercing the werewolf.
Mack let go of Athena then crossed his arms over his chest to return her stare. The tension in the air was thick.
He turned from the goddesses and strode towards the woods. Athena glanced at her sister then jogged after him.
"I want to go with you," she protested.
She slipped her hand into his and followed as he led her into the forest. They wove through the trees until the branches nearly blocked out the sun.
Mack slowed his pace then let her go. He grinned at her as he tugged his shirt off then handed to her. He took his time to unfasten his belt then unzip his jeans. It was sheer torture for Athena to watch him slowly shimmy from the denim then kick the pants off. He hooked his thumbs in the waistband of his briefs then shoved them down also. He gathered his briefs and jeans from the forest floor then offered them to Athena.
She gaped at him as she took in his nakedness in the dim light of the setting sun. She had never seen anything as beautiful as this man in her entire existence. She wanted to wind herself around him and never let go.
How fortunate that he can possibly end up doing Artemis a favor. You had a clever idea with bear. I love Athena's appreciation of him. Great job with the excerpt!


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Your customized one year plan includes a newborn session in the studio, a 30 minute milestone session for 3 month, 6 month, and 9 month, a 1 year photo shoot with the option of adding in a cake, and two 5x7 memory books with 20 photo each. Family is welcome at all sessions.
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The Shöne Foto two year plan includes everything from the one year plan, with the addition of an 18 month and 24 month session. A third 5x7 memory book with up to 20 photos is also included.


High visibility clothing does it's part to keep employees safe. Considering that almost 5,000 workers were killed on the job in 2015 and just a year earlier an average of 4 days of work was missed after an injury, it's easy to see why protective gear is important. Almost one-third of injuries that were not fatal, yet required time away from work were suffered by those who had less than one year of service in the field they were employed in. Protecting employees, especially those around equipment and traffic is important to protect them. High visibility clothing can do a large part in protecting them, but only when purchased and use correctly. Consider the following helpful tips when choosing high visibility clothing for yourself or your employees.
A common misconception is that high visibility clothing such as high visibility button down shirts, high visibility jackets, high visibility long sleeve shirts, high visibility pants are the same as enhanced visibility clothing. Enhanced visibility clothing has reflective stripes that help make them more visible at night, but these stripes don't necessarily affect the way the clothing is seen during the day. High visibility clothing is typically made of brighter colors such as lime green or orange. These colors help ensure that the clothing, and those wearing it, are visible no matter when they work, night or day.
The fit should be comfortable enough to work in, but it should not be so big that there is a possibility that the sleeves or the bottom of the shirt could get caught into something. Ensuring a proper fit ensures that no added hazards happen because of it being too loose. Vests should fit properly over any clothing, and sleeves on high visibility button down shirts should not be too long. This can cause them to get caught in something. All buttons should be buttoned so that no loose flaps on the end of the shirt get caught. Ensuring a proper fit ensures added safety on top of the clothing being high visibility.
You should ensure that the high visibility button down shirts and other high visibility clothing can stay clean. If the clothing gets dirty the dirt could affect how easily the clothing is seen. If you are working in an environment that tends to get dirty, you should invest in multiple articles of high visibility clothing. This ensures that a new one can be worn in the event the old one needs to be washed or cleaned. Certain colors show stains and dirt better than others, so choose your color wisely based on the working environment you intend to spend most of your time in.
Just as there are different colors of high visibility button down shirts, and other high visibility clothing, there are different types as well. You should choose the proper category of clothing. The categories are listed to match working environments. There are three different categories, off-road, roadway and public safety. Consider what your job requires the most and choose the best category based on that job classification.
Choosing the right high visibility clothing ensures the safety of everyone around. It can be easy to skimp on the right clothing, but the mistake could cost you a lot. On top of choosing the right high visibility clothing, they must be worn in order for them to work. It does no good to make a wise choice just to forego it when it comes to actually wearing it. Choose wisely when it comes to hi vis clothing and make sure to wear it all the time every time in order to stay as protected as possible in a dangerous work environment.


A number of years ago following the winding road from Orvietto through the countryside of southern Tuscany known as Maremma, it seemed as though we would never reach Pitigliano. The rolling green hills, olive groves and vineyards were a scenic backdrop, but with no direct route to our destination, piccola La Levitt was becoming a tad restless. After clearing yet one more turn on a windy country road, the medieval town of Pitigliano majestically emerged, perched atop of the massive volcanic rock from which it is built….


The Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) has announced the teacher eligibility exam (TET) 2019 result on its official website, mbse.edu.in. Candidates who had appeared for MBSE TET Paper-I has been released.
The TET is the basic qualification for the candidates who wish to teach in the government-run schools. We have mentioned the steps to check MBSE TET Results 2019.
Click 'Mizoram Teacher Eligibility Test 2019' link under 'notifications' given on the homepage.
A new pdf file opens displaying MBSE TET Result 2019.
Some candidates need to submit documentation to be eligible for the result as MBSE has withheld the TET result of some candidates.


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Credit Line: Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Given by Mrs. Saidee Grunwald in memory of her sister, Mrs. Dorothy Weiss.
"Die Nibelunge." Loss and Restitution: The Story of the Grunwald Family Collection. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2017. https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/grunwald-center-collection/loss-and-restitution-the-story-of-the-grunwald-family-collection/art/art/die-nibelunge/.


Kaweah Delta Medical Center is beginning construction this week on two new parking lots that will add nearly 80 patient and visitor parking spots to the campus by April.
Two buildings, both once used as fast food restaurants, will be demolished in order to increase patient and visitor parking near the hospital in downtown Visalia. Kaweah Delta purchased the restaurants in 2012 and 2013.
Construction on the parking lots will take place along Acequia Avenue from West to Floral streets. One parking lot on the corner of Acequia and West will be for physicians, while the lot closest to the medical center on the corner of Acequia and Floral will be a 27-space lot for visitors and patients. An additional 26 additional patient and visitor spots will open just west of the Acequia Wing with the completion of the physicians' lot.
Additionally in April, construction on the fifth and sixth floors of the Acequia Wing are expected to be completed, opening up the remaining 30 patient and visitor parking spots in the lot west of the Medical Center's Acequia Wing. Currently, those spots are in use by construction equipment as Kaweah Delta increases the medical center's inpatient bed capacity with the addition of a 24-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) that will offer patients private rooms. The fifth and sixth floors were left unfinished when the Acequia Wing was completed 2009 to provide for the flexibility of future expansion.


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Q: Eclipse 4.2 Validation errors with JSP scriplets and CDATA I'm trying to upgrade my projects from RAD 8.5 (Eclipse 3.7 I believe) to RAD 9.1 (Eclipse 4.2) and so far everything seems to be going smoothly.  Except for JSP files.
Whereas they seem to be validating properly in Eclipse 3.7, they are generating a lot of errors in Eclipse 4.2.  Specifically, when vars are defined in CDATA sections, they are marked as undefined elsewhere in the scriptlet.
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Eclipse will mark any reference to x as "- x cannot be resolved to a variable" outside the CDATA block.  Any references to x within the CDATA block are okay.
I've tried to trick the validator by using the JS // comments but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
Is this a problem with Eclipse 4.2 JSP validator, or is there some config of the validator that can be done for this?


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iDirect's Evolution® Multi–Carrier Mesh Solution
by Patrick Gannon
Most satellite networks are based on a star, or hub and spoke architecture, in which all the remote sites connect back to a central hub that is responsible for allocating bandwidth and managing, aggregating and routing traffic. What happens when a remote site in City A wants to have a VoIP (Voice over IP) call with another remote site in City B? If they are both connected to a central hub that means their voice traffic has to flow from Remote/City A up to the satellite, down to the Hub, then back up to the satellite, and down again, to Remote/City B. The same traffic has to go over the satellite twice, doubling the amount of bandwidth used for that traffic.
The distance from the earth's surface to a satellite above is 35,786 km (22,236 mi), and the total distance the voice traffic has to travel between remote sites, going up and down twice, is 143,144 km (88,944 miles). The actual distance is going to be greater than this as the Hub and the remote sites are highly unlikely to be directly under the satellite on the equator. Drawing a triangle from hub to satellite to remote, we can get the total distance the signal has to travel. When we divide the total distance, by the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second or 186,000 miles per second) – the speed at which satellite signals travel, we find that a round trip "ping" is going to take about 1.2 seconds. This makes the VoIP call, more like a walkie-talkie radio call. The same is true for video calls. To avoid interrupting or stepping on each other, people on a double-hop call must learn to ask a question, then stop and wait a while for the response to come back.
Mesh networks eliminate this problem. In a mesh network a remote site in City A can send traffic to another remote in City B, without going through the central Hub. That means the VoIP call or other traffic goes over the satellite just once. Advantages extend to data transmissions as well. If remote sites are connected to a hub in a star, and they send a lot of files to each other, those files have to go through the hub, which means going over the satellite twice. As with VoIP traffic, a mesh solution reduces by half, the amount of bandwidth needed to send files from one remote site to another remote site. However, voice and video traffic between remote sites, is a frequent request from enterprise clients supporting private networks with multiple remote branch offices. Most clients do not understand the double-hop limitation and are disappointed to learn the limitations and costs of legacy mesh solutions.
iDirect began offering mesh capabilities over 10 years ago, using the legacy iNFINITI platform. That platform has been discontinued, with tech support continuing till the end of 2018. The iNFINITI platform did support mesh connections, but it was not a very scalable solution. If there were a lot of remotes and a lot of remote to remote calls or data transfers active, the carrier sizes, and thus the VSAT hardware to support them, quickly got out of hand. The solution didn't scale well and was suitable mostly for small mesh networks with a handful of sites. iDirect's new Evolution® Multi-Carrier Mesh solution resolves the scalability issue, supporting up to a 5000 site mesh or star topology.
The Multi-Carrier Mesh solution leverages iDirect's "Pay as you Grow" hub architecture, which allows the hub to be upgraded incrementally. It features the industry-leading Group QoS capability, as well as the user-friendly, full featured iVantage Network Management System. From a technical perspective, the solution supports the latest waveform advancements including 32APSK and 5% ROF for star topology downstream carrier. The normal ROF or "roll off factor" is around 20%. What this means is increased efficiency, as less satellite capacity is used to separate or isolate the download carrier from other carriers. On the upload, 8PSK, QPSK and BPSK are supported for mesh topology TDMA carriers.
Other technical parameters include support for .468 to 7.5 Msps per carrier, with an aggregate of 29 Msps for each inroute group. Each inroute group can have up to 3000 time slots per 125 ms TDMA frame. All are non-spread TDMA modcods (modulation & coding) with 170B payload.
An advantage of iDirect's common hub infrastructure for star and mesh is the ability to share the same hub, line cards and servers. Star and mesh can share the same DVB-S2 outbound (download to remotes), and they can share the same inroute groups (upload carriers). iDirect's "adaptive TDMA technology supports the idea of bundling multiple carriers together and treating them as a single pool of bandwidth. In the past, all carriers that were members of an inroute group had to be identical, but in Operating System iDX 3.2, this restriction was removed so that carriers in an inroute group can now have different symbol rates, modulations, Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding rates, and spread factors. These features are available to Mesh VSAT as well as Star VSAT remote sites. This all means it costs very little to add mesh capability to an existing iDirect hub.
To implement the iDirect Evolution Multi-Carrier Mesh Solution, the powerful iDirect X7 remote modem/router is coupled with the "Mesh Receiver." This is a 2U solution when rack-mounted. The combined X7/Mesh Receiver platform can support up to 16 simultaneous receive channels. (iNFINITI supported one). With this solution, remotes that need mesh connectivity can be spread out over multiple small carriers, instead of all sharing one very large carrier, which can greatly reduce the VSAT antenna and transmitter requirements.
The carriers support a wide range of bandwidth options. Multiple carriers can be assigned to inroute groups which can support a large number of sites, in a wide variety of configurations. When the hub is communicating with mesh remotes, it uses multicast and AES-256 encryption. When a mesh site is communicating with another site or the hub, it supports Unicast UDP and accelerated TCP*.
A very important and critical advantage of the iDirect solution is the support for multiple carriers. Competitive mesh offerings generally support only one demodulator (demod), so all sites that want to be part of the mesh, must be on the same carrier. Some offerings provide expensive options such as stacking up to four demods per site.
Consider a possible scenario. We have a bank with 20 branch offices. The corporate office or data center is on terrestrial high speed internet. The branch offices need to a) have access to the internet, b) have access to the data center or cloud resources, c) communicate between themselves with VoIP and file transfers.
Let's assume we've determined that the internet and corporate traffic will require 15 Mbps x 3.5 Mbps to be shared by all 20 sites. Next we determine that among the 20 sites, there will be 16 active inter-office VoIP calls during peak busy hours. Each call will require 16 Kbps to send and 16 Kbps to receive, thus we have a total of 16 x 32 Kbps = .512 Mbps. Finally, our analysis tells us we need 1 Mbps to be used for site to site file transfers. This gives us a mesh carrier of 3.5 Mbps for internet and corporate data, .5 Mbps for internal VoIP traffic, and 1 Mbps for internal file transfer, or a total of 5 Mbps. If all 20 remote sites have to share the same carrier, as they would with most competing solutions, then every site will need the antenna and BUC (transmitter equipment) to support a 5 Mbps inroute or mesh carrier. If this network doubles in size (number of sites and/or amount of bandwidth), there is no easy migration or expansion path beyond upgrading all the ODU (outdoor unit) at the remote sites.
iDirect's Multi-Carrier Mesh solution does away with the need for all communicating sites to share the same carrier. Now the traffic can be divided across multiple smaller carriers, and the ODU can be reduced to more reasonably sized antennas and BUCs. Instead of one 5 Mbps mesh carrier, it might make more sense to have five 1 Mbps mesh carriers, and keep the VSAT equipment on the ground small. Due to the need to put so much traffic on one very large shared carrier, most mesh projects end up being abandoned. Now they can be affordable – and very flexible.
iDirect's solution supports frequency hopping for both star and mesh networks, an important advantage. We've divided our 20 sites across five 1 Mbps inroute carriers, for example. Now we have small antennas and BUCs at all our sites. We have four sites on each 1 Mbps carrier. If these sites were permanently assigned to a particular carrier, then situations would arise where the assigned carrier is congested, but one of the other carriers has idle capacity. Frequency hopping allows the hub to assign remotes to transmit on carriers that have available capacity – on the fly. They can take advantage of idle capacity in any carrier within the inroute group that their ODU will support. Thus instead of remote sites sharing individual carriers, an entire group of carriers (adaptive inroute group) is shared by the remote sites, and treated as a single pool of capacity. Frequency hopping can produce a huge gain in efficiency, and this advantage extends to mesh networks as well as star.
The iDirect Multi-Carrier Mesh solution supports three models:
1. Full mesh to full mesh. Any remote site can communicate with any other remote site over a single satellite hop
2. Full mesh to hub. Any remote site may communicate with the Hub in a star, generally for internet access or cloud computing.
3. Hop-and-a-half to full mesh. This interesting option reduces costs, but adds latency. A remote operating in star mode can transmit with a single hop to a Mesh VSAT. The Mesh VSAT can then forward the transmission to the hub, which will forward it back to the Star VSAT.
An example might help with the hop-and-a-half scenario. Remote sites that are designated Mesh VSAT will deploy the X7 and Mesh Receiver. Every remote site that wants to listen for single-hop mesh traffic, will need the Mesh Receiver. To reduce costs, some Star VSATs may be deployed with just the X7, and no Mesh Receiver. Let's say Bob at Star VSAT Site 1 wants to talk with Alice in the regional office at Mesh VSAT Site 2. Bob's "Hello" goes from his site to Alice's site with a single satellite hop (300 ms). Since Bob's site does not have a Mesh Receiver, Alice's Mesh VSAT site forwards her "Hi Bob. How are you?" response to the central Physical Hub (300 ms) which in turn forwards it to Bob's Star VSAT (300 ms), for a total trip of 900 ms. This is better than 1.2 ms latency in a double hop, it saves having to buy Mesh Receivers for all sites, and it still saves bandwidth as compared with a full double-hop star connection.
iDirect's Mesh Receiver also operates as a logical hub or regional gateway, providing a Star in a Star topology. Picture a distributed network with regional data centers, each supporting a number of branch offices. The remote branch offices can communicate directly with the central Hub that provides access to the internet, and they can communicate with either a single hop or a hop-and-a half with regional data centers where corporate servers and resources may be located. Each Regional office can act as the center of a star for branch offices, while themselves operating as spokes to a central Physical Hub, providing a structured, distribution of corporate computing resources from headquarters to regional office to branch office. Branch offices connect in a star to a regional office, which in turn connect via star to the Hub.
Based on the proven Evolution platform, the iDirect Multi-carrier Mesh Solution currently appears to be the most advanced and flexible mesh system on the market today. It reduces hardware costs by leveraging multi-channel demodulators, so that smaller carriers and ODU can be supported. It has very high receiver throughput (29 Msps). It supports all the latest Evolution waveforms and spectral efficiency advances in both star and mesh bandwidth sharing. The flexibility provides for a perfect balance between capital and operational expenditures by supporting a mix of star, mesh and mesh Transmit-Only (Hop-and-a-half) terminals.
BusinessCom was one of the first iDirect-enabled service providers to deliver broadband satellite services in Africa and the eastern hemisphere, beginning nearly 15 years ago. We now deliver these services around the globe. We are prepared to assist with questions and the design of networks that leverage iDirect's new mesh capability, and to contrast that solution with those of other vendors, in order to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients.
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Thanks for all your work and info .. I am so glad that I found this site just last week .. I was starting to act like Alex Jones last night() till I read your posting..All best .
I made the mistake of signing on to AJ's broadcast last night; it didn't take more than 6 seconds to realise he'd OD'd on a cocktail of his signature product line — just like when he did the Megyn Kelly interview. On the other hand, it was surely entertaining.
Thank you for the hours of research and great informative information anon keep up the great work.
An open mind is a healthy mind. Right now there are far too many people jumping to conclusions, making assumptions and re-acting to unverified info. Cool heads must and will prevail. Reserve judgement for when the chess game is over.
He's not actually "anonymous," the hacking group.
But he's also not saying he's Military intel.
Just looks like an edgy memer trying to understand Q like the rest of us. Which is fine.
So I just read (on twitter) today that Backchannel17 was JA. Thoughts?


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Tomb Raider er et computerspil udviklet af Core Design og udgivet af Eidos Interactive. Det blev oprindeligt udgivet i 1996 til PC, PlayStation og Sega Saturn. Tomb Raider handler om Lara Croft, en kvindelig britisk arkæolog, og hendes søgen efter ældgamle skatte à la Indiana Jones. Spillet blev meget kendt og indflydelsesrigt. Det affødte et antal efterfølgere og en serie af relateret materiale.

Tomb Raider blev genskabt af Crystal Dynamics i 2007-udgivelsen Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary, hvor hele første spils handling kan opleves på spilmotoren brugt i Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend. Der er minimale banemæssige designændringer, men gameplaymæssigt implementeret blandt andet bevægelser fra Legend.

Historie

Efter Lara Croft vender tilbage fra en jagttur i Himalaya, bliver hun kontaktet af Jacqueline Natla, en medvidende forretningskvinde som lokker Lara til at opspore en mystisk artefakt fra Qualopecs grav i Peru. Lara tager strakt af sted for at finde det første af tre stykker af den ældgamle Atlantean Scion, en talisman med ufattelige kræfter. Men efter at have fundet den første stump forværres situationen, da Lara pludselig står ansigt til ansigt med en af Natlas hyrede gorillaer. Ved at bruge sin kløgt og atletiske styrke lykkes det for Lara at flygte. Mens hun prøver at finde ud af hvorfor Natla ville forråde hende, afslører hun et mysterie som strækker sig tilbage til før vor tidsregning til et forræderi som ødelagde den atlanteanske civilisation og de katastrofer som ramte verden da det faldt.

Gameplay

Oversigt
I Tomb Raider styrer spilleren den kvindelige arkæolog Lara Croft i som søgen efter de tre gådefulde Scion artefakter rundt om i verden. Spillet vises i tredje persons perspektiv. Lara er altid synlig og kameraet følger spillets gang bagfra eller over hendes skuldre. Omverdenen er fuldt tegnet i tre dimensioner og bærer præg af dens kubiske udseende. Klippeafsatser, mure og lofter sidder 90 grader fra hinanden (selvom spildesignerne har brugt nogle tricks for at gøre dette mindre åbenlyst).

I Tomb Raider skal man styre Lara gennem en række grave og andre steder i hendes søgen efter skatte og artefakter. Undervejs må hun dræbe farlige dyr og andre væsner, mens hun samler genstande og løser gåder for at få adgang til en ultimativ skat, oftest en kraftfuld artefakt. Skyderi er begrænset til at dræbe mange forskellige dyr, som hun møder rundt omkring på hver bane, selvom Lara dog lejlighedsvis kan møde menneskelige modstandere. I stedet er der lagt vægt på at løse gåder og udføre avancerede hop for at klare hver bane. Som sådan vender Tomb Raider tilbage til den klassiske gameplaystil i platformspil.

Features
Bevægelsen i spillet er varieret, hvilket gør det muligt at foretage indviklede interaktioner med miljøet. Udover at gå, løbe og hoppe, kan Lara tage skridt til siden, hænge på klippeafsatser, lave rullefald, dykke og svømme gennem vand. Mens hun svømmer vises en ekstra måler under helbredsmåleren som angiver hvor meget luft Lara har tilbage i lungerne. I et frit område har Lara to 'stillinger': en med våbnene trukket og en hvor hun har hænderne frie. Som standard bærer hun to pistoler med uendelige skud til. Derudover kan hun bruge haglgevær, to magnums og to uzis. På et bestemt sted i handlingen mister Lara alle sine våben, hvilket gør hende ude af stand til at forsvare sig selv og tvinger hende til at finde sine pistoler igen. Denne udvikling blev senere en fast bestanddel af serien.

Flere fjender, såvel som adskillige former for dødelige fælder, kan dræbe Lara i Tomb Raider, den mest umiddelbare er at falde i døden. Siden spillet er platform-orienteret, kan velplacerede hop ofte bringe Lara sikkert over på den anden side af en kløft eller hun kan falde lodret ned. Selvom Lara kan overleve et fald fra høje steder, kan hun også let brække nakken hvis hun falder fra selv relativt lave højder. At lande på pigge er altid dødeligt uanset højden. Selvom de mange dyr som angriber Lara kan være farlige i stort antal, kan de relativt let undgås og skydes ned. Derudover kan de ikke klatre på høje platforme og er derfor indespærret i det rum de bor i. Ild er en dræbende substans i spillet. Hvis Lara rører det vil hun øjeblikkeligt antænde og dø indenfor få sekunder medmindre spilleren får hende til at dykke i en nærliggende sø. Andre måder som kan føre til en tidlig afslutning på spillet er bl.a. drukning, elektrochok, at blive skudt, at blive knust og at blive forvandlet til guld.

En enkelt knap bruges til at udføre en lang række handlinger og bevægelser i Tomb Raider, såsom at samle ting op, trække i håndtag, affyre pistoler, at skubbe eller trække blokke og at gribe fat i afsatser. Blandt de ting som regelmæssigt samles op kan nævnes ammunition, og små og store førstehjælpspakker. Andre specifikke ting og nøgler kræves også for at gennemføre en bane. Alle ting som samles op opbevares i Laras inventory indtil de bliver brugt.

Gåderne som spilleren skal løse i banerne varierer: at trække i håndtag i en bestemt rækkefølge, en række velplacerede hop, at undgå en bestemt fælde eller at indsamle flere nøglesten.

Der findes en eller flere hemmelige genstande eller steder i hver bane. Det er valgfrit om man vil finde disse hemmelige ting eller ej, og hvis spilleren finder en lyder der en bestemt melodi. Placeringen af disse hemmelige ting varierer, og de kan ofte være svære at få fat på. Nogle kan ligge skjult i buske i vejkanten mens andre kræver at man skal gennemføre en hemmelig bane eller løse nye gåder først. Spilleren belønnes ofte med ekstra førstehjælpspakker, ammunition og somme tider nye våben.

I PlayStation og Sega Saturn versionerne af Tomb Raider kunne man kun gemme sit spil på bestemte 'save points', vist ved en svævende blå krystal, i hver bane. Når Lara berører en af disse får man mulighed for at gemme sit spil. Disse steder var dog så få, at hvis Lara døde, måtte spilleren ofte spille store dene af banen igennem igen, hvilket var frustrerende for mange spillere.Efter kritikken af denne metode implementerede Core i Tomb Raider II en funktion som gjorde at man kunne gemme sit spil hvor som helst, hvilket dog førte til at flere mente at spillet blev for nemt. Gemmefunktionen i Tomb Raider III blev et kompromis i form af gemmekrystaller som kunne samles op. I PC og Mac versionerne af spillet kan man gemme overalt.

En bane gennemføres ved at man når til en bestemt døråbning eller finder en bestemt artefakt.

Personer
 Lara Croft: Spillets heltinde. Lara Croft er en britiske arkæolog som kan lejes til at finde bortkomne artefakter, hvad enten det er fra grave eller fra en selvisk samler.
 Jacqueline Natla: En rig forretningskvinde og ejer af Natla Technologies. I starten af spillet kontakter hun Lara for at få Lara til at finde den gådefulde Scion artefakt for hende i Peru.
 Larson: En af Natlas håndlangere. Larson er en skydegal amerikaner som bringer Lara i kontakt med Natla. Han forråder Lara tidligt i spillet og følger hende til Egypten senere.
 Pierre DuPont: Denne farlige lejesvend prøver at få fat i den del af Scion som ligger i St. Francis Folly. Pierre DuPont er en rivaliserende fransk arkæolog, som Natla har hyret til at få fat på det andet stykke af Scion.
 Qualopec: En af oldtidens herskere af det fortabte kontinent Atlantis, hvis grav befinder sig et sted i Andesbjergene.
 Tihocan: En anden hersker af Atlantis. Tihocan blev begravet i nærheden af de græske øer.

Baner
Spilleren kan vælge at gennemføre en træningsbane i Laras hjem før man starter på selve spillet. Det er meningen at denne tutorial skal vænne spilleren til de mest simple funktioner i spillet, såsom at hoppe og klatre på bokse. Hovedspillet begynder med en introduktionssekvens.

Peru
Natla sender Lara Croft til Peru, hvor hun finder indgangen til Qualopecs gravkammer højt oppe i bjergene. Her må finde vej gennem resterne af en civilisation som blomstrede for hundreder af år siden. Spilleren skal føre Lara gennem en gammel Inkaby mens hun kæmper med ulve, flagermus, bjørne, dinosaurer og andre fjender. Banerne i Peru er af middel sværhedsgrad.

 Level 1: Caves
 Level 2: City of Vilcabamba
 Level 3: The Lost Valley
 Level 4: Tomb of Qualopec

Europa
Middelalderklosteret St. Francis blev bygget på en bjergside som skjuler flere lag af tidlige civilisationer, hvoraf nogle er fra Grækenlands og Roms guldaldre. Her må Lara kæmpe mod løver, alligatorer og aber mens hun disse gamle civilisationers ruiner, og kæmper for at få fat på det andet stykke af Scion før en mand ved navn Pierre DuPont, som fandt stedet før Lara. Sværhedsgraden af banerne i dette kloster er fra middel til svær.

 Level 5: St. Francis Folly
 Level 6: Colosseum
 Level 7: Palace Midas
 Level 8: Cistern
 Level 9: Tomb of Tihocan

Egypten
I en skjult dal i nærheden af Kongernes Dal udforsker Lara begravede pyramider og en sfinks mens hun slås mod pumaer, krokodiller og nogle ukendte, gådefulde monstre. Den tredje hersker af Atlantis lå begravet her sammen med det tredje stykke af Scion. Samtlige baner i Egypten er svære.

 Level 10: City of Khamoon
 Level 11: Obelisk of Khamoon
 Level 12: Sanctuary of the Scion

Atlantis
Lara Croft har fulgt Natla og hendes kumpaner til en fjerntliggende ø, hvor Natla Technologies minegravninger delvist har afdækket den store pyramide i Atlantis. Dette er hvor mysteriet bliver løst. Banerne i Atlantis er nogle af de sværeste i spillet.

 Level 13: Natla's Mines
 Level 14: Atlantis
 Level 15: The Great Pyramid

Tomb Raider Gold
I 1998 blev Tomb Raider genudgivet som Tomb Raider Gold til PC og Macintosh (sidstnævnte var kun tilgængelig som Tomb Raider Gold). Udvidelsen indeholdt det oprindelige spil såvel som fire nye bonusbaner i to nye hændelsesforløb kaldet The Shadow of the Cat og Unfinished Business. Genudgivelsen var kun til PC and Macintosh.

I Shadow of the Cat vender Lara tilbage til City of Khamoon i sin søgen efter en uopdaget grav viet til den egyptiske kattegudinde, Bastet. I Unfinished Business vender Lara tilbage til Atlantis efter hun har fundet ud af at der eksisterer en gruppe aliens som har overlevet og nu bevogter en udklægningsanstalt. Lara vender tilbage for at eliminere de resterende aliens inden de invaderer igen.

Banerne i Tomb Raider Gold blev skabt i Eidos' kontorer i San Francisco af Phil Campbell, Rebecca Shearin og Gary LaRochelle.

Udviklingshistorie
Det forberedende arbejde på Tomb Raider påbegyndtes i 1993, men selve spillet blev først udgivet i november 1996. Spillet blev skabt af Core Design i Europa, som brugte 18 måneder på at udvikle det. Holdet bestod af seks mennesker, deriblandt Toby Gard, som anses for at være skaberen af Lara Croft. Figuren gennemgik flere forandringer før Core blev enige om den version, som efterfølgende er blevet meget kendt. I sit tidligste stadie var Lara Croft en mandlig skabelon for en ukendt figur, men da Core besluttede sig for at gåder og list skulle spille en større rolle end action, mente de at dette ville passe bedre på en kvindelig figur end en klassisk mandlig actionhelt.

Lara kom egentlig til verden som Laura Cruz. "Laura" blev senere droppet til fordel for Lara, for at appellere mere til amerikanske spillere. På samme tid begyndte man at finde på hendes baggrundshistorie og det blev besluttet at hun skulle være mere britisk, derfor ændrede man Cruz til Croft. Personlighedsmæssigt var Lara til at begynde med en koldblodig militaristisk type. Ifølge Toby Gard kom ideen med at gøre hende en kvindelig Indiana Jones naturligt i udviklingsforløbet.

Laras berømte bryststørrelse blev egentlig til ved et uheld. Toby Gard arbejdede med modellen da han ved et uheld forstørrede Laras barm til 150% af hvad den skulle have været. Da han skulle til at indstille tilbage til standarden, så de andre designere hvad han arbejdede med og sagde at de synes det var godt og at de skulle beholde den forstørrede barm.

Interessant nok har Core sagt at de dengang havde store problemer med udvikling i 32-bit. Det rygtes også at udgiverne af Tomb Raider''', Eidos, var tæt på bankerot da Tomb Raider blev skabt. Det første glimt af spillet kunne ses på udviklingsudstyr til Sega Saturn. I sidste ende blev det dog PlayStation versionen som blev bedst kendt.

 Modtagelse og reaktion
Ved sin udgivelse blev Tomb Raider rost meget af spilmagasiner for dets banebrydende grafik, opfindsomme gameplay og omfattende historie. Raffinementet i Tomb Raider, som blev opnået ved at kombinere den mest avancerede grafik, klassisk musik og et filmisk gameplay, var på det tidspunkt enestående. Spillet blev en enorm succes og bidrog til PlayStations popularitet. Som et af de bedst sælgende spil til konsollen, blev det også det første spil som blev udgivet i PlayStations Platinum serie, og dets succes gjorde Tomb Raider II til et af de mest ventede spil i 1997. Selvom spillet gav anledning til flere efterfølgere, senest Tomb Raider: Legend, som har været overlegne på mange punkter, er originalen stadig den mest elskede blandt fans og anmeldere.Tomb Raider blev dog kritiseret for mindre fejl i kamerastyring og genstande, såvel som dets svære måde at gemme spil på. Nogle fans klagede over manglen på action til fordel for gådeløsning, selvom Tomb Raider II ironisk nok efterfølgende blev kritiseret for at være for voldeligt, specielt mod menneskelige modstandere.

Spillets brug af en velformet, kvindelig heltinde er både blevet hyldet for at være revolutionerende (at fjerne sig fra det mandlige perspektiv i spil) og blevet kaldt sexistisk for dets stereotypiske afbildning af en kvinde designet til at appellere til teenagedrenge. Lara blev dog alligevel en sensation i spilverdenen og fik status af en cyberberømthed. Bortset fra at medvirke i spil, har Lara været på forsiden af magasiner, i tegneserier og film. Lara fik også uhørt meget presseomtale, hvor mange magasiner, også ikke-spilmagasiner, ville skrive artikler om hende. Flere store selskaber, deriblandt Timberland, ønskede at bruge hende som deres talskvinde og ansigt udadtil.

 Forskelle mellem versionerne Tomb Raider blev udgivet til PC, Macintosh, PlayStation og Sega Saturn. Måderne at gemme på er forskellige; på PC og Mac kan man gemme hvor som helst, mens man på PlayStation og Sega Saturn skal opsøge "Save Crystals" for at kunne gemme. Grafikken i PC og Mac versionerne er den bedste. Saturn versionen er en smule hurtigere end PlayStation versionen men har til gengæld ringere grafik. PC og Mac versionerne blev også senere genudgivet med nye bonusbaner.

 Nude Raider

En anden udvikling i Laras 'liv' var den såkaldte Nude Raider patch – en patch som blev skabt af en tredjepart som ikke havde nogen forbindelse til Core eller Eidos. Denne patch får, når den tilføjes et allerede eksisterende Tomb Raider spil, Lara til at fremstå nøgen. I modsætning til hvad nogle rygter påstår, er det ikke muligt at skabe en nøgen Lara i nogen af konsolversionerne af spillet. I april 2004 blev det hævdet at en ansat i Eidos skrev på en Tomb Raider postliste at Eidos var begyndt at sagsøge spillere som brugte Nude Raider patchen – dette viste sig at være løgn. Eidos sendte advarselsbreve til ejerne af nuderaider.com som havde Nude Raider patchen på deres hjemmeside, og underbyggede med at de havde immaterialret over Tomb Raider. Sider med nøgenbilleder af Lara Croft har også fået tilsendt advarsler og er blevet lukket ned , og Eidos Interactive fik rettighederne til domænenavnet nuderaider.com

 Trivia
 I 1998 vandt Tomb Raider Origins Award for Best Action Computer Game of 1997.
 Tomb Raider hylder Indiana Jones på flere måder, deriblandt flere fælder fra Jagten på den forsvundne skat, såsom huller med pigge, giftpile, kampesten og kollapsende templer.
 Laras palæ blev formet efter facaden på den Derby Studios bygning hvori Core Design arbejdede på spillet.
 Ved at indsætte Tomb Raider disken i en almindelig CD afspiller kan man høre lyde og musik fra spillet, deriblandt et ubrugt spor til et tidligt Eidos spil kaldet Firestorm.
 Shelley Blond lagde stemme til Lara. Hun medvirkede ikke i flere spil i serien.
 Lara har ikke hestehale i dette spil. Man valgte den fra fordi den ville bruge for meget hukommelse og dermed gøre spillet langsommere.
 I banen "Natla's Mines" møder Lara en modstander som udbryder "You firin' at me? You firin' at me? Huh? Ain't nobody else here, so you must be firin' at me!", hvilket er en hentydning til Robert De Niros improviserede replik i filmen Taxi Driver fra 1976.

 Fodnoter

 Henvisninger
 Sawyer, Miranda (June 1997). "Lara hit in The Face" . The Face''.

Eksterne henvisninger

 Officiel webside

 Tomb Raider på Tombraiderchronicles.net – Indeholder billeder, løsninger og medier relateret til spillet.
 WikiRaider.com – Tomb Raider 1 Wiki.

Computerspil fra 1996
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