1993 Honda Del Sol Si, 76k Miles, Good Shape!
A true time machine! Ready to bring you back to your younger years! These are increasingly rare and especially rare in this good of condition (as well as this loaded). This car only has ~76,800 miles on it!!! This car is on our lot, so that number might increase slightly. This is a one owner car and was traded in for a new Hyundai. It has a clean zero-accident Autocheck. This car has all the options that I am aware were available in the 1993 Del Sol, including: Leather Seats, Air Conditioning, Power Steering, Power Locks, Power Windows, and much more. A Sony CD Player with an aux input is installed on this car as well.
I will do my best to promptly answer any questions and/or field any offers on this car. Rosen Hyundai of Algonquin welcomes you to come take a look and a test drive at our location at 771 S. Randall Road, Algonqiun, IL 60102.
This Del Sol Si is fully loaded and has been exquisitely cared for. The paint still looks great and the car still rides very well. There are no known mechanical defects with this car. There is a small tear on the driver's side leather seat, but other than that the interior is in great shape. Please ask any questions you can think of and I will be happy to answer them.
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Molex showcases hybrid optical-electrical interconnects at ECOC
Claimed to be the first pluggable module for co-packaged optics, the External Laser Source Interconnect System (ELSIS) will be launched by Molex at ECOC 2022. The
system of cage, optical and electrical connectors with a pluggable module uses proven technology to speed the development of hyperscale data centres, said the company.
Molex is currently sampling the ELSIS hybrid optical electrical connector and cage system now, allowing engineers to use it for development and testing before the industry adoption of co-packaged optics (CPO). Supporting design and development materials for the module system, including 3D models, technical drawings and detailed specifications, are available now.
CPO technology moves optical connections from the front panel to within the host system, right next to high speed ICs. "By placing the optics closer to these ASICs, CPO will address the growing complexities associated with high-speed electrical traces, including signal integrity, density and power consumption," said Tom Marrapode, director of advanced technology development, Molex Optical Solutions.
Traditional pluggable modules have optical connections at the user side of the module. This causes concerns about eye safety when used with high power laser sources, such as those planned for CPO. As a blind-mating solution, ELSIS eliminates user access to optical fibre ports and cables, providing a complete external laser source system for safe, easy implementation and maintenance.
The use of external laser sources also means a major heat source is moved away from the optoelectronics and IC package. The design also eliminates high speed electrical I/O drivers on the IC and in pluggable modules, further reducing thermal loads and power consumption within the equipment, said Molex.
Molex is targeting Q3 2023 for release of the fully integrated solution, which will enable companies to commercialize their designs and quickly ramp production as CPO acceptance scales.
European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) takes place in Basel, Switzerland from 19 to 21 September. Molex is exhibiting at stand number 127.
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Water and sewer rates rise annually by 2.5% — not 5%, says Rifle City Attorney
An effort to maintain fair and equitable water and sewer fees in Rifle hit a bit of an ineffectual snag this past week.
On paper, the city said it was accidentally increasing its water rates by an annual 5%, but in reality it's really only charging 2.5% more to residents each year, Rifle City Attorney Jim Neu said.
The blunder was unanimously approved and fixed to reflect the actual 2.5% annual increase at the Jan. 4 City Council meeting.
"As the city was preparing to update its utility fees for the new year, there was some debate among staff on what that increase was going to be," Neu said. "It's been codified at 5% for years and years and years."
That is, until the city underwent a capital improvement study in 2021, which eventually recommended different amounts of escalation: 4.2% for sewer and 2.5% for water.
City documents show, however, the annual rate subsiding to a 1% increase by 2029.


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Public Trust vs. Maximum Earnings
In his 24/7 Wall Street post on Friday November 16, 2007 Douglas McIntyre published the latest of many unsettling predictions about the future of newspapers:
There is little left for the newspaper industry other than to cut people. Paper and delivery costs have already been taken down. The costs of printing and production cannot be brought lower. That leaves headcount.
While he didn't say so, this conclusion speaks directly to The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) because of what its most vocal critic sees as the companies prolific spending on, among other things, headcount. That critic, Mr. Hassan Elmasry of Morgan Stanley (NYST: MS), blames the company's ownership structure on management's freedom to engage in this "overspending." In his October 17, 2007 post "Morgan Stanley Walks Away From New York Times Fight" on BloggingStocks, Tom Barlow wrote:
The Global Franchise fund, which looks for undervalued but world-renowned brands, spent the first part of 2007 in a full-court press, attempting to change NYT's direction. Among Elmasry's concerns were (in his view) overstaffing, the cost of a new headquarters, a flawed internet strategy, and too-generous option grants.
The reason for the New York Times "curious ownership structure" is the belief that newspapers in a democracy are a public trust. In the May 13, 2007 edition of The Becker-Posner Blog Professor Posner wrote:
The idea is that if people unrelated to the founder … controlled the newspaper, they would manage it with the aim of maximizing profits and thus would give the consumer what he wanted rather than what he needed in order to be an informed citizen.
This belief, of course, implicitly assumes it's not possible to operate as a public trust and -- at the same time -- maximize profits. The purpose of this post is to show that in the case of the Times this assumption does not stand up to the data. The company remains a public trust while maximizing profits.
MAXIMUM EARNINGS MARKET SHARE
In a post on June 3, 2007, "Dow Jones: Anomaly or Hidden Value," I placed the Times in a strategic group with Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ), the Gannett Company Inc. (NYSE: GCI), and the Tribune Company (TRB). A strategic group is a set of companies that share a customer base and have comparably deep pockets. In newspapers the "shared customers" are advertisers. This report is based on the same 10 years of financial accounting data I used in that earlier post.
Maximum earnings market share occurs when the marginal cost of the next share point is equal to its marginal earnings -- net of "enterprise marketing expenses." For the details on accounting for these expenses see my book Competing for Customers and Capital. In the newspaper industry enterprise marketing expenses are listed in the income statement as "Selling, General & Administrative expenses." Most of these expenses fall into the category of "headcount."
The following chart compares the NYT's maximum earnings market share with its actual market share from 1997 through 2006. In 1997 the company's maximum earnings share of the group's $12.9 billion revenues was 30.5%. Its actual market share was just 22.2%. Conclusion? In that year NYT management was seriously under-spending on enterprise marketing.
But by the close of business in 2006 management had successfully driven their revenues and expenses to the point where the company's maximum earnings market share (17.2%) and actual share (17.7%) were separated by only 50 basis points. How did they pull this off?
The following chart reveals the truth about the management of earnings and expenses at the NYT. The company's marginal earnings per basis point (that's 1/100th of a share point) were $0.72 million in 1997, when its marginal cost per basis point was just $0.57 million.
By the close of business in 2006 NYT's management had brought their marginal earnings and expenses into near perfect alignment at $1 million per basis point.
THE NEWSPAPER OF RECORD
There's a simple analog to the incremental cost per basis point that's a lot easier to calculate and understand. It's the average cost per dollar (CPD) of revenue.
This table shows a side-by-side comparison of the CPD for each of the four companies in this strategic group. In 1997 it cost the NYT 35¢ to generate $1 in sales revenue. That was twice what it cost GCI. Over the next nine years the NYT cost per dollar increased to 45¢, while GCI remained unchanged at 16¢ per dollar. By 2006 NYT management spent almost three times as much to generate a dollar of revenues as CGI and far more than either DJ or TRB.
While the critics call this overspending, the Times management probably would call it brand building. What did the company spend the "extra" money on? Some clues are given in Anthony Bianco's cover story of Business Week on January 17, 2005 titled "The Future of The New York Times:"
[Arthur Sulzberger] reinvented the "Gray Lady" by devising a radical solution to the threat of eroding circulation that had imperiled the Times and other big-city dailies for years. Sulzberger changed the paper itself by spending big money to add new sections and a profusion of color illustration.
At the same time, he made the Times the first -- and still the only -- metro newspaper in America to broaden its distribution beyond its home city to encompass the entire country. Today, nearly 50% of all subscribers to the weekday Times live somewhere other than Gotham.
In the mid-1990s, NYT Co. became one of the first Old Media companies to move into cyberspace ... Today, NYTimes.com consistently ranks among the 10 most popular Internet news sites ...
Did this spending actually build the brand? A study published in August 2007 by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on "Creative Destruction: Exploratory Study of News on the Internet" found that:
Brand-name newspaper sites are gaining audience. Their traffic in April 2007 exceeded their April 2006 traffic by more than 10 percent, which corresponds to an average gain of nearly a million unique monthly visitors (page 7).
Building the brand's reach and supporting the company's worldwide reputation as the newspaper of record is far more important then making sure last quarter earnings per share meet analyst's expectations. It is all the more important since management was able at the same time to maximize earnings. This is an achievement unmatched by the other newspapers in this group. In 2006 the Times relative earnings productivity [REP] was -0.1% -- meaning the company's actual earnings were only 1/10th of 1% less than maximum potential earning. In the same year the relative earnings productivity of GCI, TRB and DJ were -7.4%, -8.2% and -27.0% respectively.
ALL THE MONEY IT'S FIT TO EARN
In 1997 the company's management fell $63 million short of maximum EBITDA. But by the close of business in 2006 actual and maximum earnings were exactly equal at $264 million.
The downward trend in the Times earnings is severe and reflects the hard times also suffered by Dow Jones. Given that fact, if you will forgive me a paraphrase of the Times masthead, the company is making all the money its fit to earn while continuing to build the brand in a harsh environment.
INVESTOR MYOPIA
Anthony Bianco's cover story is perhaps the most comprehensive, unbiased account to date of the Times performance under the leadership of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. That article sums up the two major issues affecting its future today -- economics and politics:
In essence, Sulzberger is doing what his forebears have always done: sink money into the Times in the belief that quality journalism pays in the long run. "The challenge is to remember that our history is to invest during tough times," he says. "And when those times turn -- and they do, inevitably -- we will be well-positioned for recovery."
Investors continue to discount the company's stock in part because of Mr. Hassan Elmasry's "full-court press." His battle with the Times over ownership structure and spending clearly took its toll on the stock. Now that this two year assault is settled, there remains the deeper issue highlighted in the Business Week cover story: the ideological divide within the country.
What a growing, or at least increasingly strident, segment of the population seems to want is not journalism untainted by the personal views of journalists but coverage that affirms their partisan beliefs...
Does all this add up to a case of investor myopia? What do you think?
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Mic Check college football quotes of the week: 'I expect to whup their ass, honestly'
By David Ubben Nov 26, 2021 39
It's Rivalry Week, and the hate is flowing like gravy over mashed potatoes. With it comes plenty of smack talk, complaining and seasons waiting to be defined during the weekend.
Plus, the coaching carousel is already spinning full speed. Let's get to the quotes that got people talking this week.
"Both teams have a lot on the line. It's a true playoff in that sense." — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh
First, Harbaugh is almost certainly right in this regard, although it would be odd to play juggernaut Ohio State first and then advance to play Wisconsin or Iowa before seeing another actual Playoff-caliber team. And in the event Michigan loses, I'm not sure Wolverines fans will give Harbaugh credit for making the College Football Playoff. But if the Wolverines find a way to beat Ohio State for the first time in a decade, it would be the biggest win for the program since, well, the last time it beat OSU and went on to close the 2011 season with a Sugar Bowl victory.
But between The Game and Bedlam this weekend, we're officially at the business end of the season. Speaking of Bedlam …
"I expect to whup their ass, honestly. I don't go into a game thinking otherwise." — Oklahoma State WR Tay Martin
Honesty is good! Martin probably does believe this in almost any game, and who could blame him? Most great players probably enter most games thinking the same. College football is aggressively allergic to bluster like this, and the sport is worse for it. Players with personalities like Martin should be given more opportunities to offer their thoughts, not less.


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Venezuela, Malaysia and Angola win seats on U.N. Security Council
Hamas Calls for the Defense of Jerusalem Shrine from "Israeli Seizure"
by AIM Newswire on October 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — A leader of the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas called for Muslims to defend one of their holy shrines in Jerusalem, known as the al-Aqsa mosque.
Reuters reported that Khaled Meshaal told reporters that Israel is trying to seize the site. Meshaal is living in exile in Doha, Qatar.
He said, "We call on all our people inside the country to hurry up to al-Aqsa to defend it." Palestinians, believing this rhetoric, clashed with Israeli police and security forces who were on patrol in the vicinity of the mosque.
Israeli sources said that the police were there to stop Palestinians from "staging a riot and disrupting visits" to the shrine, which is revered in both Jewish and Muslim cultures. Palestinians accuse Israel of restricting their access and enabling Orthodox Jews to access the compound, while Israel says it is trying to protect the shrine and its visitors.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is not moving to restrict Palestinian access to the mosque and blamed "Palestinian extremists" for the recent violent clashes.
Meshaal's violent rhetoric continued, "We call on the nation to be angry and to send a message of painful anger to the world that the Palestinian people, the Arab and Muslim nation, will not be silent at the Israeli crime".
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Home»Your Council » News » Council to host seminars on protection and maintenance of historic buildings
Council to host seminars on protection and maintenance of historic buildings
Derry City and Strabane District Council will host two seminars later this month, one focusing on the importance of regular maintenance of historic buildings and another on how climate change will impact heritage sensitive environments.
The first day-long seminar with take place from 9.30am to 3.30pm on Monday 24th February in Derry's Guildhall and will be entitled 'Maintenance Matters'.
Among the speakers taking part in the seminar are Chris McCollum, a Building Conservation Surveyor with Building Conservation Surveyors Ltd; Bronagh Lynch, Conservation Architect with Consarc; Vanessa Glindmeier from Adapt Northern Heritage and Caroline Maguire, Architect with the Heritage Advice & Regulation Branch of the DfC Historic Environment Division.
Maura Fitzpatrick, Derry City and Strabane District Council Heritage Officer, said the seminar will be of particular interest to architects, engineers, conservation and planning officials, building owners, building contractors, historical societies, students, or anyone with a keen interest in preserving our historic buildings.
"The seminar allows us to promote regular maintenance of buildings to avoid more serious defects occurring in the future," said Maura. "The deterioration of many properties is often not the result of neglect, but a lack of understanding, and we hope this event will allow us to educate and inform property owners of the importance of early intervention and how it can prevent costly defects at a later stage."
On the following day, Tuesday 25th February, the second day-long seminar will focus on climate change within the context of historic environments. This event will be led by Adapt Northern Heritage, who will deliver a focussed seminar entitled 'Climate Change Adaptation of Derry's Historic Places' in the Guildhall from 9am until 5pm.
Adapt Northern Heritage, in partnership with project CLIMATE and supported by the Interreg programme for the Northern Periphery and Arctic, will provide an insight into the potential climate change impacts on Derry's historic places using local case studies. Historic Environment Scotland are a lead partner in the ANH project, also running the seminar in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland as well as a similar seminar format in Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Greenland.
Adapt Northern Heritage will share their risk assessments and adaptation planning tools to help local communities and local governments across Europe plan the adaptation of their historic places to the environmental impacts of climate change and natural hazards. This seminar will also be of interest to architects, conservation specialists, engineers, building owners, building contractors, planners, historical societies or students or anyone with an interest in preserving our historic buildings.
In welcoming both events, Karen Phillips, Director of Environment & Regeneration from Derry City and Strabane District Council said: "These are two very important seminars which will provide a very useful insight for delegates on firstly the importance of maintaining our historic built fabric by providing useful case studies to owners of heritage properties, as well as the impact of climate change upon heritage sensitive environments and an overview of the key points for consideration in terms of adaptation and mitigation measures.
"There is an interesting range of speakers at both events and I would encourage those with an interest in the two subject matters to attend."
The seminars are free of charge and include refreshments and a light lunch. Spaces are limited so booking is essential. Those interested in attending should contact [email protected]. When confirming booking you are advised to inform organisers of any dietary requirements.
This event is part of a public awareness initiative the Council is running as part of District Council Maintenance Week Catalyst thanks to funding from the DfC Historic Environment Division.


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Микільсько-Хутірська ву́лиця — вулиця в Оболонському районі м. Києва, Хутір Микільський. Пролягає від шосе Київ — Іванків — Овруч (продовження Мінського проспекту) паралельно йому до кінця забудови.

Історія
Існувала з ХІХ століття як частина давнього шляху на Димер. Не пізніше 1932 року шлях у цьому місці спрямили і майбутня вулиця стала окремою, назви не мала. У рішенні 2011 року вперше зафіксована як вулиця Мічуріна, коли ця назва виникла вперше, невідомо.

Сучасна назва, від хутора Микільський, яким пролягає вулиця — з 2022 року.

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The electricity storage market offers tremendous promise for our future electricity grids. However, as the market evolves and advanced systems are deployed in the field, the promise of increased flexibility in our systems is overshadowed by complex challenges for grid operators, investors, developers, utilities, and end users. Drawing on global experience, this event will untangle these challenges and discuss the emerging and existing technologies, applications and the bankability of energy storage in MENA.
DNV GL is proud to be running this exciting and informative conference with MESIA (Middle East Solar Industry Association).
Overview: Providing examples from real world applications and cases studies of market developments and energy storage technologies across the globe. Drawing on the global experience this session will consider potential applications for energy storage in MENA.
Matthew Rowe bio: Matthew Rowe is a Consultant for Operational Excellence at DNV GL Energy and currently leading the UK Energy Storage practice. Matthew has a PhD from The University of Reading, UK, in Energy Storage which he carried out with the UK Distribution Network Operator Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD). He has published in internationally recognised energy journals and often presents at academic and industrial conferences both locally and outside of the UK. Matthew is taking an active role in enhancing and supporting energy storage in the UK and is currently the Vice Chair of the Energy Storage British Standards Institute committee. Since joining DNV GL Matthew has worked on a variety of projects with key industry stakeholders such as National Grid, the ETI, Ofgem, DECC and a variety of Investors, developers and DNOs.


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package org.overlord.commons.maven.plugin;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * @author Brett Meyer
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public class GenerateFeaturesXmlMojoTest {

    /**
     * SRAMP-523: GenerateFeaturesXmlMojo should prevent illegal chars in Bundle-Name
     *
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void testFormatArtifactAsBundle() throws Exception {
        GenerateFeaturesXmlMojo mojo = spy(new GenerateFeaturesXmlMojo());

        // isBundle == true
        doReturn(true).when(mojo).isBundle(any(Artifact.class));
        Artifact artifact = new DefaultArtifact("org.overlord.commons", "test-artifact", "0.0.1", "", "jar", "", null); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$ //$NON-NLS-4$ //$NON-NLS-5$ //$NON-NLS-6$
        mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        String bundle = mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        assertEquals("mvn:org.overlord.commons/test-artifact/0.0.1", bundle); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // isBundle == false (normal project name)
        doReturn(false).when(mojo).isBundle(any(Artifact.class));
        MavenProject project = mock(MavenProject.class);
        doReturn(project).when(mojo).resolveProject(any(Artifact.class));
        when(project.getName()).thenReturn("Test Artifact"); //$NON-NLS-1$
        artifact = new DefaultArtifact("org.overlord.commons", "test-artifact", "0.0.1", "", "jar", "", null); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$ //$NON-NLS-4$ //$NON-NLS-5$ //$NON-NLS-6$
        mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        bundle = mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        assertEquals("wrap:mvn:org.overlord.commons/test-artifact/0.0.1$Bundle-SymbolicName=org.overlord.commons.test-artifact&Bundle-Version=0.0.1&Bundle-Name=Test Artifact", bundle); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // isBundle == false (project name with unresolved variables)
        doReturn(false).when(mojo).isBundle(any(Artifact.class));
        doReturn(project).when(mojo).resolveProject(any(Artifact.class));
        when(project.getName()).thenReturn("${extension.name} API v.${spec.version}"); //$NON-NLS-1$
        artifact = new DefaultArtifact("org.overlord.commons", "test-artifact", "0.0.1", "", "jar", "", null); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$ //$NON-NLS-4$ //$NON-NLS-5$ //$NON-NLS-6$
        mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        bundle = mojo.formatArtifactAsBundle(artifact);
        // Bundle-Name should be skipped
        assertEquals("wrap:mvn:org.overlord.commons/test-artifact/0.0.1$Bundle-SymbolicName=org.overlord.commons.test-artifact&Bundle-Version=0.0.1", bundle); //$NON-NLS-1$
    }
}

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A perfect beach vacation right in the heart of South Carolina
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Stefanie Waldek is a Brooklyn-based travel writer with over six years of experience. She covers various destinations, hotels, and travel products for TripSavvy.
Best Beachfront for Groups and Families: Serenity by the Sea – See Rates at Airbnb "While there's plenty of space to hang out in the unit, don't forget to check out the complex's shared features, like indoor and outdoor pools."
Best Beachfront for Couples or Friends: Palace Resort Condo – See Rates at Airbnb "To top it all off, there's direct beach access, so the ocean is just a few steps away."
Best Budget for Groups and Families: Orange Beach Cottage – See Rates at Airbnb "The house features a bright orange exterior, but once you get inside, things get a little calmer, with dark-wood furniture in the shared spaces."
Best Budget for Couples: Condo at the Boardwalk - See Rates at Airbnb "While you can simply walk out of the building and head to the beach, don't miss the outdoor pool complex with a lazy river."
Best for Romance: Ocean Lakes Lakefront Home – See Rates at Airbnb "There's a private hot tub on the lakefront patio, which is the perfect place for a glass of wine in the evenings."
Best for Families with Younger Kids: Lazy River Villa – See Rates at Airbnb "There are multiple water slides and a lazy river for the kids, and there's also a lagoon pool that's a little more relaxing for adults."
Best Long-Term Rental: Two-Bedroom Condo at Yachtsman Resort – See Rates at Airbnb "The inside is furnished with elegant, hotel-like decor, a full kitchen, and a private balcony facing the ocean."
Best Luxury for Groups: Low Tide Too – See Rates at Airbnb "The home features massive floor-to-ceiling windows that maximize the ocean views while emphasizing the contemporary decor in neutral hues."
Best Luxury for Couples: Ocean 22 Condo – See Rates at Airbnb "The hotel's location couldn't be better: it's right in the heart of all the action, set between the SkyWheel and Broadway at the Beach."
Best Beachfront for Groups and Families: Serenity by the Sea
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1 bunk bed
1 Twin
Indoor/outdoor pools
Private oceanfront balconies
In-unit laundry
Set on the 14th floor of a resort-like condo complex, this three-bedroom rental is perfect for groups or multi-generational family trips, offering a variety of sleeping options for up to nine guests. It's right on the beach and about a mile north of the SkyWheel, one of Myrtle Beach's top attractions located right in the heart of it all.
The condo features beachy, modern decor and comes equipped with a full kitchen, laundry, and even board games, puzzles, and an Xbox One with a few games for the kids. While there's plenty of space to hang out in the unit, don't forget to check out the complex's shared features, like indoor and outdoor pools, three hot tubs, a fitness center, and perhaps best of all: direct beach access.
Best Beachfront for Couples or Friends: Palace Resort Condo
1 Air mattress
Private balconies
On-site restaurant and bar
This two-bedroom, two-bathroom vacation rental in the Palace Resort, set halfway between the SkyWheel and Myrtle Beach State Park, can fit up to six guests. However, we recommend it for couples who want to spread out with the extra space, or friends who are looking for a little extra privacy.
Unlike many units in Myrtle Beach, this condo features refreshingly modern decor. It's located on the seventh floor of the tower, which means it offers great ocean views from its private balconies.
The resort also has quite a number of amenities for guests, including two pools, hot tubs, a fitness center with a sauna and steam room, an arcade, and an on-site restaurant and bar. And to top it all off, there's direct beach access, so the ocean is just a few steps away.
Best Budget for Groups and Families: Orange Beach Cottage
1 Trundle
Private backyard with grill
Beach umbrella and chairs
Two parking spots
While Myrtle Beach as a whole is a pretty budget-friendly destination, we're particularly impressed with this colorful three-bedroom cottage, located one block from the beach and only about five miles south of Broadway at the Beach entertainment complex. The rental starts can fit up to 11 guests, so if you're sharing the rate between friends, a night's sleep isn't going to be too costly.
The house features a bright orange exterior, but once you get inside, things get a little calmer, with dark-wood furniture in the shared spaces. Guests are treated to a private backyard with a grill, complimentary use of beach chairs and umbrellas, two parking spaces, and a shared pool for the community, which is just 290 feet from the front door.
Best Budget for Couples: Condo at the Boardwalk
1 Murphy bed
This one-bedroom vacation rental at a beachfront resort near Captain Hooks Adventure Golf is an affordable, yet well-appointed stay with quintessential beachy decor in blues and tans with wicker furniture and sea-inspired motifs.
Enjoy breathtaking views of the ocean from the balcony since this is a 14th-floor unit. While you can simply walk out of the building and head to the beach, don't miss the outdoor pool complex with a lazy river. There's also a heated indoor pool if you're visiting during the winter.
Best for Romance: Ocean Lakes Lakefront Home
1 Day-bed with a trundle
Private golf cart
Get away from the Myrtle Beach crowds with a stay at this private home that sits directly on a lake just north of Surfside Beach. It's part of the massive Ocean Lakes complex, so while there are many accommodations here, it doesn't feel crowded, since there's so much space to spread out.
Shared amenities include a water park, pools, a convenience store, a restaurant, a café, and beach access, but for a romantic getaway, you'll likely just want to stay in the bright and airy house itself. There's a private hot tub on the lakefront patio, which is the perfect place for a glass of wine in the evenings. When you do want to head to the beach, take the house's complimentary golf cart. Just keep in mind: this is a place to disconnect, as there's no Wi-Fi in the house.
Best for Families with Younger Kids: Lazy River Villa
Waterpark with slides and lazy river
Indoor and outdoor pools
Book a stay at this two-bedroom vacation rental, and you'll be able to entertain the kids at the on-site Splash Cove waterpark all day long—there are multiple water slides and a lazy river. There's also a lagoon pool that's a little more relaxing for adults. Though the resort isn't on the beach, there's a free shuttle to whisk you there — or you can walk the two blocks with ease.
This cozy villa features colorful yet tasteful decor with a private balcony and a soaking tub. In the evenings, you can dine at the on-site restaurant and bar, or head to any of the nearby eateries that are within walking distance of the resort.
Best Luxury for Groups: Low Tide Too
1 day-bed with trundle
2 sets of Twin-double bunk beds
Looking to splurge on your Myrtle Beach trip? This sprawling six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath beach house is the perfect place for a big family vacation or a fun getaway with a group of friends, located in the Long Bay Estates neighborhood near Myrtle Beach State Park and Market Common.
The home features massive floor-to-ceiling windows that maximize the ocean views while emphasizing the contemporary decor in neutral hues. Head out onto the sundeck, where you'll find a private pool and hot tub, as well as a path that takes you over the dunes to the beach. What do we like most about this location? The beach is rarely crowded here, as there are no resorts in sight.
Best Long-Term Rental: Two-Bedroom Condo at Yachtsman Resort
1 child-size bunk bed
Picnic area with grills
Extend your vacation with a long-term stay at this one-bedroom beachfront vacation condo, located on the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk near the SkyWheel, right in the heart of town. The inside is furnished with elegant, hotel-like decor, a full kitchen, and a private balcony facing the ocean.
The complex offers guests both indoor and outdoor pools, a hot tub, shuffleboard, a picnic area with grills, and an activities desk that can book discounted tickets for nearby attractions. And if you want to lounge by the ocean, simply head across the boardwalk to get to the beautiful beach.
Best Luxury for Couples: Ocean 22 Condo
Hotel-like amenities (pool, gym, convenience store)
Did you know you can actually book hotel stays via Airbnb? In Myrtle Beach, you'll want to do so at Ocean 22 by Hilton Grand Vacations, a luxury beachfront property that opened in July 2019, which has listings for units like this one on the rental site.
It's an all-suite property, with one-, two-, or three-bedroom units featuring private balconies, full kitchens, and washers and dryers. Resort facilities include a convenience store with Starbucks coffee and grab-and-go bites, an outdoor pool and adjacent bar, a gym, and a business center.
On top of that, guests get complimentary admission to Wild Water & Wheels and discounts on golf outings. The hotel's location couldn't be better: it's right in the heart of all the action, set between the SkyWheel and Broadway at the Beach.
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The Don't Sweat Guide to Taxes : Avoiding Stress Over April 15th (Don't Sweat Guides) Foreword by Richard Carlson Ph.D. Avoiding Stress Over April 15th. Filing your taxes is an event almost everyone "sweats." With tips on how to stay calm about the deadline, how not to obsess over lost receipts, and how to keep focused, this is the perfect gift for anyone who dreads tax time.
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The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE INTELLIGENT ASSET ALLOCATOR Praise for The Birth of Plenty: "Bill Bernstein has given us a compact and immensely readable economic, political, military, and institutional history of our civilization that is a tour de force. Put everything else down. Take a deep breath. Open The Birth of Plenty. And prepare to be amazed. --John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group "The Birth of Plenty is a brilliantly written, whirlwind account of how the modern world was formed. It is a hugely enjoyable read, full of vigor and liveliness, and a book every American should possess--at least those who treasure our abundant life and care about our future." --William Schultheis, Author, The Coffeehouse Investor "Put simply, this is my favorite economic history book. It gathers what is interesting about economic history to draw important lessons." --Ed Tower, Professor of Economics,...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area. Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis. Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors.
The New Economy: What It Is, How It Happened, and Why It Is Likely to Last How doing business is undergoing a major historic transformation--and why we've only begun our productivity upswing America's economic troubles have had a dramatic impact on how investors view markets and the businesses that drive them. And for now they have overshadowed a profound and ongoing revolution--still taking place after twenty-five years--in the way the economy operates. Just as in past economic revolutions, today's "new economy" emerged from the combinationof powerful new technologies--in this case, information and communications technologies--and the methods companies adopted in order to use those technologies effectively. The bubble in technology stocks, its collapse, and the recession that followed are part of a larger pattern of dramatic transformation of markets and businesses. And unlike the bureaucratic companies of the past, today's leading firms are lean, flexible, entrepreneurial, and more productive—and the new ways in...
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This week, both the House and Senate are scheduled to consider legislation under the Congressional Review Act to undo an SEC rule that requires extractive industries listed on American stock exchanges to disclose all payments made to foreign governments. This rule, enacted in July 2016, forces all companies engaged in mining, drilling, and other extractive industries to fight corruption by showing how much money they pay to foreign governments. This rule, mandated under Section 1504 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill, though delayed for years by lawsuits and SEC inaction, is important for transparency, and should be maintained. The American Security Project wrote a report about this rule, "Alleviating the Resource Curse" in 2015. ASP opposes repeal of this rule and urges Members of Congress to vote against passage of this legislation.
Finding natural resources like oil, gas, or minerals should be a boon to the people of the country where the resources have been found. Unfortunately, too many times, countries experience a "Resource Curse" where – instead of a boom that boosts incomes, GDP, and well-being – the value of natural resources are lost and people are left worse off. All too often, many of the benefits of a natural resource boom have only accrued to a well-connected elite, or have simply been stolen. Those countries where resource corruption thrives are inherantly unstable: a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) study found that over the last 60 years, at least 40 percent of all civil conflicts around the world have been over natural resources (including high-value resources like timber, diamonds, gold and oil and scarce resources like arable land or water) – and these conflicts over natural resources are twice as likely to relapse. The best way to deal with this problem is with transparency.
That was why Senators Lugar and Cardin inserted an amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation mandating disclosure. While oil, gas, and mining companies originally fought the rulemaking process, the final rule was at least seen as a good compromise that brought U.S. regulations up to the standards made by the EU, Norway, and other developed nations.
The legislation, H.J. Res. 41 — "Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers" would undermine crucial transparency initiatives and allow corruption to hide behind corporate secrecy. Members of Congress should vote against this legislation and maintain transparency in extractive industries around the world.
Andrew Holland, ASP's Director of Studies, and author of the 2015 ASP report "Alleviating the Resource Curse" is available for comment and questions about this legislation.


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Q: Unable to install wine on Ubuntu 22.04 I followed the instruction I got from winehq here "https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu". But when I run "sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable", I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 8.0.0.0~jammy-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and I get this error if I try to install from the staging or development branches:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 winehq-[devel/staging] : Depends: wine-[devel/staging] (= 8.2~jammy-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I also noticed that if I try to run "sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-[any branch]", I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libgphoto2-6:i386 : Depends: libgd3:i386 (>= 2.1.0~alpha~) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and if I try to install "libgd3:i386", apt ends up removing "libgd3", "colord" which then causes gnome-control-center to be removed too. Seems "libgd3" and "libgd3:i386" can't be installed simultaneously.
Any chance I can still install any version of wine on Ubuntu 22.04?

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EVO Wasn't The Only Impressive Tournament This Weekend
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It was a massive weekend for eSports. Gfinity—a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Tournament that granted the winner $55,000—dominated the UK and EVO broke new ground for the fighting game community in Las Vegas. Not only were the events themselves a big deal but there were shake-ups with some of the top Call of Duty teams in North America.
Smash Bros. Survives Ban, Becomes Biggest Fighting Stream In History
It's a good thing Nintendo didn't follow through with its reported attempts to ban streams of Smash
Needless to say, it was a busy weekend for eSports.
Find out everything in This is eSports, my new show on Kotaku where I'll recap what's happening at some of the biggest (and smaller ones, too!) competitive events.
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Luca Fusi
Sound Design | Implementation
You Can't Kill the Hallway
May 15, 2017 In Personal, Sound Design
I don't know where to start writing this or who it's for, but I need to do it.
Last week (it was 'yesterday' when I started this), PopCap Seattle fired some 40% of its staff as it leans up and refocuses.
There's an official statement you can read on it:
It's a financially sensible move whose (inevitability / the fact that it has now happened) is nonetheless totally heartbreaking. Even handled with care, layoffs are a capricious and violent force. They disrupt, bringing what was in motion to a violent stop; or they accelerate a course of action that was just barely getting off the ground.
What they bring universally is change. Change, that steadfast guarantee that nothing ever stays that way. Change is at once life's most awe-inspiring principle and its most terrifying. Change is growth, discovery, curiosity, the intense and unexpected–but it's uncertainty, the passing of what is into what won't be anymore. Change marks time and reminds us that even life's greatest moments don't last forever. That are there are only so many moments we ever get. Dramatic change is worth a dramatic marking.
I want to talk about PopCap's audio team, for as much as I've gotten to know it, and one of the most remarkable chapters of my life so far. It's a chapter I never went looking for.
This is how it started.
This first part is going to be really heavily about me, so if you're as annoyed by that thought as I am, you can skip it. But it's good context.
How did I get here?
Change is at once life's most awe-inspiring principle and its most terrifying.
If you know the PopCap audio team, you know that smallest unit of measure our science observes is the leap of faith that is the decision to work with the PopCap audio team. They are a diverse band of visionaries spanning decades and specialties, trailing stardust ribbons of renown behind everything they do alone; together, they are almost intergalactic. Their work touches millions and the hearts of those millions.
But in 2014, when I got this message from my friend, RJ, I thought I was doing pretty fucking good. I had learned lots on Project Spark and met my best friend, but had left it burnt out and feeling very post-in-house after just one gig. I am known for my resilience. Just angry, Matthew McConaghuey-style rants on the great helplessness of it all and how bullshit the machinations of game development become at the point where someone's answerable to shareholders. Stability is an illusion.
I had the chance of a lifetime to roll out of that and into collaboration / wide-eyed servitude with some incredible talent, remotely working on the sorts of titles I knew I wanted to. It was a lottery moment, and after a few months in the relationship, I was where I thought I wanted to be: able to work full-time on 2016's favorite puzzle game in my freaking pajamas.
(I didn't actually own pajamas then, but I do now. They say "PopCap" on them.)
And so I leapt from Microsoft not really knowing if all of this would totally come through on the other side, because it's scary to think about going independent, even as you're really always independent as a contractor, just temporarily sheltered. It seems very obvious now that this scenario was going to work. It was who I thought I should be and I would try it on for a while. Before I got too deep into it, though, I got that message from RJ.
I wasn't playing mobile titles. I wasn't looking to do something like this, or really, anything different at all, because pajamas. Putting myself in the headspace of that time, you can see why Popcap could seem like a good but still lateral move. Certainly not THE move. But, I had done my thing where I give a soft yes, and–because of something my therapist could probably point to–I hate disappointing people more than anything and I was now in it to at least talk to Becky. I talked to her, and she was wonderful.
I agreed to take a short design test for them the following weekend.
If I have to..
I really did not want to take a design test. I hate them the way you hate running and love them the way you love being done with running. I was suddenly sitting here looking at my already way-more-than-OK scenario and thinking, fuck. I have a design test this weekend. Why? Can I bail out of it?
*(I almost bailed out of it but, as happens every time, my guardian angel talked me off the ledge. I have bailed out of design tests and I don't recommend doing that. We are all works-in-progress.)
But I ran hot on it until 6AM Monday morning and had an incredible time trying to find the aesthetic involved. I was so stuck in Witness mode that I used Paulstretch on several design elements that definitely didn't need Paulstretch. The sounds I made were trying to be powerful and really textured, really literal, for the most part. Some of them were smudgy and terrible in ways I don't want to admit to now. Most of my design was very grey in sharp contrast to the colorful vibe of the test's cartoon aesthetic.
Nothing was working until I basically gave up and started pulling from the library. These things were lighthearted, funny. Forget making the best sounding leaves. What were funny sounds? I broke a previously unverbalized rule and started pulling from the really old stuff, the classic cartoon sounds you say you'll never use.
Dropping the first of those onto the track was the moment. Classing up old clunkers from the likes of Hanna Barbera with some higher frequency layers and sculpting them all together in WHOOSH was my first foray into a realm I'd go on to speak about almost a year later. I didn't know if they'd go for it, but I was having fun, just like Becky'd asked.
They did go for it. They called me back a few weeks later, and just about two and a half years ago, I grabbed coffee with Becky and Guy at the Uptown Espresso across the street from Popcap. It was the day I was headed home for Christmas.
This was my first facetime with Becky, and I'd only ever seen Guy from the middle audience row at his GDC talk on the music of Peggle 2. But the two of them felt like old friends as we spoke, mostly about sound design and what I'd done, but also about what we'd all like to see next in game audio. No hints of what I'd be working on, just a pure character assessment.
They took me upstairs to see the rest of the space. We rounded the 7th floor, the area where Bejeweled Stars was being built, and I was offered a drink from the friendly, arduino-driven drinkbot occupying the middle of the room. That day was the Christmas party and there were dozens of folks having a great time with each other in their terrible sweaters. Easily a few dozen more than I'd seen around the corridors of my last gig, and several dozen more than I was likely to run into in my pajamas. I was catching a glimpse of a culture that I'd never really thought about but was quickly becoming an unignorable factor.
We rounded the corner to the hallway. Damian was there. Damian, maybe the first voice of game audio I'd ever heard; in the days before my time at VFS, I'd pace lonely around rainy Vancouver while drowning my anxiety in the Game Audio Podcast. If I've posted this to my site, you can probably read all about it. RJ was there, too, excitedly showing off the way they were using RTPCs in Wwise to push MIDI around. I asked a lot of questions through the drink and hung out until it was time for everyone to get back to work.
I'm not sure if I left convinced, because I had a plane to catch that night and lots on my mind. But I left on the line. I was giving this place a chance, and it was hanging in. There was something to it. But I mostly put it out of my mind until a few weeks later.
I worked a bit through the holidays and returned to Seattle ready to settle in to the next several months' time freelancing, barring anything crazy coming up. A month later, I got the call from Becky–and the offer. I thought about it for a few days. Looking back at how everything's played out, the internal dialogue is still incredibly relevant; things would've worked out either way. But the idea of working in-person alongside that team, on that floor, moving into that tiny bit of culture I'd glimpsed.. I wanted to try it.
So, I jumped from my independent, post-in-house dream to a subsidiary of EA that developed casual titles for a platform I didn't play games on.
The easy choices aren't choices at all. It's the hard ones that really shape us.
This is not my beautiful team
And it's funny how that worked out. If RJ hadn't messaged me that day with the soft sell, I don't know if I'd ever have strayed into the orbit of this all-star team.
I knew I'd made the right choice so goddamn fast. We were throwing sounds into a prototype build within my first two weeks and off to GDC just days after that.
GDC 2015 was just a few weeks after my start date; we all went down. Guy / Jaclyn / RJ were speaking, Becky was paneling, Damian was suffusing. It was my first GDC as part of a big ol' audio team, and the company name on my badge still fit me like a hand-me-down. Even as I'd spend time with the team, I had one foot planted firmly outside, in the past. As my solo act. So I feel like I was still able to watch this team in action as anyone else in the audience would. I could not believe what I had stepped into. Everyone was so.. brilliant. They won a fucking GANG award! That talk was one of the best talks I've ever seen, and those three people work two doors down from me. They're my fucking coworkers. How the hell am I going to do this?
I kind of went hard in after we got back. I had this major chip on my shoulder for how amazing everyone else on the team was and I really wanted to be a part of it; I also totally acknowledged that I wasn't yet. I saw this as, let me do something cool for me, and hope they accept me in.
This attitude didn't do me any favors. I had all my armor up from previous projects and attacked meetings, tasks and all sorts of management outside my scope because I was used to it not getting done. I think I tried to do Becky's job, a little bit. I was kinda mean and we had disagreements. In my mind, it was probably pretty unclear to everyone whether I really fit in or not just yet.
Slowly, the positivity of the hallway started to wear me down. Things got done without calamity; interfacing with production wasn't so bad. I was coming in to benefit from all the developer goodwill that'd been built up by Team Audio in the years before me. That positivity wasn't to placate, or to make empty promises–it was the real deal. It's what made PopCap run like it did.
Also, weirdly, everyone in the audio hallway seemed to know the name of everyone else at the company. How does that happen?
I started to find the place where my voice crossed the PopCap vision, and that confidence let me move myself closer to that warm emotional center of the hallway. Over weeks and months, these people became my friends. They'd be in my office making silly voices, they were eyeing up my salads with concern, they got me to buy a car off fucking eBay in the middle of a voiceover session.
And the days go by
Later that year, we hit our first real crunch period on Heroes. Becky and I, in for weekends and weekends in a row. My grandfather got sick. My Mom got terrifyingly depressed, and it caught. I started going to therapy for anxiety; when it didn't work well enough, I saw my first psych. I kind of had to talk about it, even at work. It turns out that it was totally okay to talk about it.
I want to say that it's around here that I started really to fall in love with this group of people. When I realized that I could be my messiest self, whether I was trying to work on it or not, and have my entire department there for me as family.
I want to say that it's around here that I started really to fall in love with this group of people. When I realized that I could be my messiest self, whether I was trying to work on it or not, and have my entire department there for me as family. I say, 'the entire department,' but I feel like it was Becky who came first, and everyone else in time. Fair's fair. It is really something special to have a work environment where you can feel safe like that. You set it out there, you get the support back, you feel so unbelievably lucky and you find a foothold to push off and start making silly, joyful sounds again. You really can't make those when you're coming from a bad place.
Anyways, it was always good, but this is when it was the most good. As time went on, PopCap'd try something, not get it quite right and come back a little less confident in itself. Around the time I left my first contract, the world outside the hallway was changing. Bejeweled Stars, one of the most emotional and beautiful sounding games I've ever heard–a fucking Match-3, no less–launched to incredible acclaim, but couldn't stay there. I came back from three months' furlough to frantically join the GDC pitch session, where between us all we must've seven or eight proposals at the committee. It'd been two years since the last talk and we needed to share! I was so goddamn thrilled to be inside the walls and able to participate this time around. I belonged. The Hail Mary'd be a six person panel on Team Culture, and how cool would it be if we could just all sit up there and try to share the warmth of working together and get some of that out into the world of game audio.
We finished off off PvZ: Heroes, flying down to LA to post-mortem it at Game Sound Con before it'd even launched. It, too, hit hard out the gate, but we needed it to hit harder. I would say it was around the launch of Heroes when we knew that things were sliding down. It was sad for a while. I guess, in games, you kind of get inured to after a few years, but it still never feels good. People outside the hallway started leaving and, in January, we lost Jaclyn.
By now, the hallway was a warm huddle. Hugs happened constantly and without warning. We all came together in one final sprint to finish a huge wave of content together, moving one last wave of Post-Its across the whiteboard. I can't believe that was just last month.
Same as it ever was
I'm sorry that this is so light on useful information. History first. Maybe it's a bunch of in-club kinda personal grandstanding that no one will read, but maybe it'll click with you. Maybe it'll make you press for it in your next team.
And anyways it's kind of redundant: I realized after starting this love letter that we sort of already had our moment just a few months back, at this year's game development conference. A last reckoning, some lessons for the time capsule. It wasn't quite over then.
I didn't get to writing up a GDC post this year, but if you were at it, you probably saw us. I'm not sure what happened–probably the sweatshirts–but there is something about how we knew the end was coming down that drew us so tightly together as to start a fusion reaction. I felt like, and I say this with all due humility, PopCap was kind of a big deal this year. We all felt so responsible to spread whatever enthusiasm, whatever knowledge, whatever love we'd learned from one another over the years that we might've well glowed. I'm just a guy who makes sounds for a mobile game that didn't hit all that well, but this year, I felt like I had to be someone better than myself. Or maybe, to be my best self. Like we all owed the community that. I'm not sure? Am I crazy? You can't respond inline?
It's funny, re-watching the GDC 2017 panel now. A lot of talk about change, impermanence, evolution–Guy Whitmore's words coming out of my mouth. Boy, you'd think we all spent a lot of time together. What my indoctrination really says to me is that we've all knew this moment was coming for a while, and, I think, suspected that our best days within the hallway were behind us. And though the Actual Moment of it hurts, in the time between last week's send-off and right now, I really haven't seen so many tears from Team Audio. I think we were weirdly prepared. It was worse at Jaclyn's departure, the first crack in the ice shelf. The rest of it was just a matter of time.
If you are looking for takeaways, you want to watch that panel talk–they're in there, along with a lot more stuff like this. Right now, it's still locked behind Vault access, but I can't imagine that will last long.
I'll just add some personal ones here:
Seek out values like this in your next team. Gender balance, work-life balance, folks you think you could be friends with, that you'll be happy to see when things get really stressful. Teams over projects.
Be somewhere you can be yourself. Trust your coworkers to catch you on the other side of that.
Don't be afraid of working with friends. Friendship and commitment to a vision + an audience can coexist, and they completely support one another.
PopCap's taught me a lot, but its final lesson is a really universal one: that when you get moments like these you need that you need to squeeze them as tight as you can, because this shit doesn't last. For anyone.
Just as there was life before these years, there'll be life after it. The beautiful thing about change is that we'll just have to wait and see.
Okay, last lap. If you're reading this, you probably care a bit about game audio; you had probably heard of PopCap beforehand. I truly hope we helped you along your journey in some small, measurable way. If what we were doing hit you with even a fraction of what PopCap gave me, you are running inspired, rainbow batteries full of ideas and joy and enthusiasm enough to last you the next few projects. Grab the torch Guy, Becky, Damian, Jaclyn, RJ and I carried for those couple of years and run it all the way across the finish line. There may never be a six-person two in-house composer large mobile audio team again so this is on all of us now!
Uhhhh final takeaways: Think big about thinking small! MIDI belongs in Middleware. Make joy your North Star. Runtime sound design is funtime sound design. Use your mouth, filter everything, take the real out. Always be composing. Respect your audience.
Hug a lot.
And, as Becky told me all those years ago when she passed along the design test.. HAVE FUN!
Thanks, Team Audio. I love you.
Guy and Jaclyn accept a GANG award at GDC 2015.
Becky prepares for a superhero makeover at GDC 2015.
RIP Shilla, one of our team's favorite restaurants..
We used to come to Bedlam for coffee until they were mean to RJ.
PopCap was good about morale events! Here's us at the baseball stadium in 2015. RJ looks weird.
The back room of the PvZ: Heroes Bastyr recording session!
My Dad came to visit in Seattle on the weekend we had this session lined up. Check out how legit my job is. CHECK IT.
Friday AM coffee with special guests Fryda and Joe!
Becky and Fryda being themselves.
Sometimes you need to zen the fuck out in the yoga room and things look really nice.
From PopCap's yoga room on the 6th floor, before it was all built up back there.
The first round of team shirts. Check out how cool we are!
Becky.
Jaclyn.
RJ.
Guy feat. Storm the Mouse.
The maestro and his instrument.
Surprise, slightly grumpy coffee at Street Bean with Chris P.
Getting one of these for Christmas warmed my heart so much. It's so weird how it takes a piece of company clothing to tie up that sense of belonging.
This is one of my favorite pictures of things that have ever happened.
Damian's always got his own thing going on at GDC. Like inspiring t-shirt lines.
That time I made Miitomos out of my coworkers and Guy's was great.
That time I made Miitomos out of my coworkers and RJ's was even better.
This happened and they sounded great.
The sentimental parting shot of my office door as I left the first time around. That it was untouched when I came back three months later was just beautiful.
The best goodbye ritual.
I just really loved feeding this thing.
RJ at the 2016 company picnic, versing me in a round of foot Jenga.
We all do what we can.
Every Monday AM we'd meet in this corner room. Have you ever looked forward to every single Monday on the job? I have!
Jaclyn and Guy out on a last-day lunch.
Local 360 was the favorite lunch spot. And the layoffs-just-happened spot.
Our team dinner at GDC 2017, first time together again after several weeks. Guy's sweatshirt dedication was a heartbreaker.
Moments before our culture panel at GDC 2017..
Every GDC morning, we sent this to Damian and received what was probably a shot of his beard in return.
RJ spamming hearts on my Periscope feed from across the room.
Guy, Gwen and I ran into this on a walk on the Saturday after GDC. I still think of it a lot.
The GDC comedown is real, but having your family there always makes it easier.
This dog biscuit always looked a little too much like a cookie. Still does. Damian and I would dare each other to eat it. It will go down with the building.
Breaking my Keep Cup was a real bad omen.
The spirit dog of PopCap. Sorry, Tomo. You gotta put in the hours.
GDC 2017, in uniform.
And finally, Damian's Storified experience of the community response to his layoff news. The outpouring is real.
[<a href="//storify.com/lostlab/gameaudio-community-layoff" target="_blank">View the story "Community Layoff" on Storify</a>]
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Henry Molaison, HM for short, wanted to be a brain surgeon as a kid. Instead he spent his life as a research subject after an experimental surgery on his own brain left him incapable of forming new memories.
Over the weekend I got to see the last performance of Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM at the Central Square Theater. The play was an interdisciplinary collaboration between MIT's playwright Wesley Savick and composer Tod Machover and Northeastern's scenic designer Justin Townsend. It was an extraordinary example of how art can be used to communicate science.
HM developed severe epilepsy as a teenager. In an attempt to cure this disease, doctors decided to remove his hippocampus, his parahippocampal gyrus and his amygdala, having absolutely no clue how such a procedure would affect his mind.
As may seem obvious to us today, the surgery affected HM's mind quite a bit. Every day he woke up not knowing where or how old he was, whether his parents were alive or dead, or the names of the nurses who had spent years taking care of him. He did seem to retain a sense that his condition was helping other people somehow. And he never lost the ability to do crossword puzzles.
The play was, as I said, extraordinary, something of an experiment itself. Since our man Townsend took care of the set design…and since it was so almost another character in the play, I'm going to describe it to you now: Audience members sat around three sides of the stage, which was just an open floor in the middle of a big room. On the fourth side an image of HM as a young man was projected onto a white wall. Above Henry's portrait, various other images were projected throughout the show. In the middle of the floor rested an enormous white box lit up from the inside. On either side, a row of horizontal fluorescent lights sat a few feet above the ground while dozens of industrial light bulbs hung from the 40-ft-or-so ceiling. At the back of the stage, on either side of the projection wall, were two tall rolling ladders.
The story took a circuitous path to tell Henry's story, starting out with HM undergoing a medical inquisition, the simultaneous onslaught of questions repeated day after day for decades. It wandered through his experiences of dressing, sleeping, and doing the crossword puzzle. People in his life came on and off stage to tell the audience what they knew about him, the kind, smart man "with a very bad memory." These were doctors and schoolmates and nurses and even "actors" auditioning for the part of Henry in Remembering Yesterday.
The smart man with a very bad memory, Henry used logic and reasoning to understand the world around him that could have been an eternal void. It was at times; he said there were holes, gaps in his mind. But his rational skills seemed to have saved him, in a way. This was particularly clear when the character vocalized his experience of doing the crossword puzzle — a process of trial and error, elimination and negation. While he may forget what question he was working he could eventually reason his way to its answer.
One of the most curious things about Henry's condition was that, while he couldn't form new episodic memories (nor recall any from before the surgery), he could form functional ones. While he couldn't learn new names he remembered his own and those of people in his life before the accident. He remembered how to tie his shoes, how to speak and how to do a crossword puzzle but he couldn't remember what he'd eaten for breakfast any given morning or what season it was.
Clearly the brain is a pretty complex machine. There isn't just one kind of memory. Each behaves slightly differently and lives in its own part of the brain. To us, today, that's not so exciting or surprising. But before 1957 scientists didn't know any of that. They had their suspicions, said one of the characters, but until HM there was no conclusive evidence about how the brain worked. The fact that language is stored in one area and sight in another, for instance. The fact that long term memories and short term memories live in separate areas. The fact that episodic memory is different from functional memory. All of those are new in the last sixty years.
When HM died in 2008 another surgeon removed his brain which now resides at UC San Diego, thousands of slices preserved in a solid polymer. His brain continues to inform science, perhaps a bigger feat than if he'd gone to medical school and become a surgeon.
Oh one more thing. When I said he couldn't remember any episodes from his pre-surgery life, that wasn't entirely true. He did remember one single event: the day he got to go up in an airplane and see the world from above. He called it the high point of his life and he remembered it always, indicating that a memory's significance may send it to a different part of the brain.
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Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist. Cf. Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, "The Arab Counterrevolution" (New York Review of Books, 29 September 2011); Hatem Maher, "Egypt's Revolution Youth on the Backfoot as Parties Steal Limelight" (Ahram Online, 2 October 2011); "Political parties and movements across the spectrum are deeply divided over the meeting on Saturday that gathered Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sami Anan, the second highest ranking member of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), with representatives of 15 out of 50 of Egypt's political parties. The participants, including al-Sayed al-Badawy, chairman of the Wafd Party, and Mohamed Morsy, head of the Freedom and Justice Party, signed a statement following the meeting in which they expressed their support for the ruling military council, a move that infuriated other political actors. 'This is a game, ' said Ola Shaba, an activist from Egypt's leftist Popular Socialist Coalition Party. 'The SCAF wants to tell people that political forces support its visions and agree on its timetable. The reality is that the SCAF is in a major dilemma since it runs the country with the old tactics of [former President Hosni] Mubarak.' Some activists expressed their frustration online, creating Facebook pages attacking the political parties that participated in the meeting. One of those pages entitled 'Those Parties Don't Represent Me' said that the document is simply a 'document of submission' to the SCAF" (Ahmed Zaki Osman, "Political Parties Divided After Some Sign Document in Support of Military Council," Al-Masry Al-Youm, 2 September 2011).
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Let My Children Hear Music: The Genius of Charles Mingus
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Charles Mingus is often seen as simply a jazz bass player. While it's true that the bass was his instrument of choice, referring to him as just a bass player is not enough.
You see, Charles Mingus (Or, as afficionados often refer to him, Mingus) was an innovative composer and bandleader, and played the piano, and brass in addition to the bass. He always aspired to be a Duke Ellington for a new generation, and in many ways he has. Based on the title of one of his later albums "Let My Children Hear Music", you can cleary see Mingus's aspiration to leave his music behind for future generations to enjoy.
My first encounter with Charles Mingus was around 2001, when I started collecting Ken Burns Jazz CDs to become more familiar with the most important recordings from artists that I was interested in. I picked up the Mingus CD, and immediately enjoyed the walking bass line for the opening "Haitian Fight Song". I also enjoyed the big-band sound, and emotional soundscape of "Solo Dancer, Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!", from Mingus's legendary composition "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady". I enjoyed the album, but never really dug deeper into the work of Mingus until I started doing research for this website.
I went out and got a copy of "Tijuana Moods", "Let My Children Hear Music", and most recently, "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady". All three albums are total knockouts in terms of the musical complexity, emotional subtext, and straight up musical enjoyment. Let My Children Hear Music is widely reported as one of Mingus's favorite albums, and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady tops many of the greatest jazz albums in history lists.
So, without further ado, let me talk about what I love about Mingus.
First of all, I love the big band. Many of Charles Mingus's bands have 10-11 different musicians playing various parts of the composition. The resulting sound is big and complex, with all sorts of colors, textures, and emotions coming at you. People who love orchestral music are sure to appreciate the sound of Mingus's compositions.
I also love the unique instruments that Mingus uses in his bands. While many musicians prior to Mingus stuck with percussion, piano, brass and sax, Mingus's compositions have excellent guitar parts, as well as strings, flutes, oboes, tubas, and other instruments not commonly found in jazz.
Lastly, I wanted to talk about the emotions. Mingus's compositions are heavy emotionally. Being highly outspoken and political personally, it follows that the same sort of emotional expression would be found in the music. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is up there with A Love Supreme in terms of emotional intensity. Popping one of these albums on commands your attention, and is a feast for the mind.
Charles Mingus is one of the great contemporary composers of jazz music, and his music definitely deserves some attention. Pick up an album or two, put your feet up, grab a drink, and enjoy the music.
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