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Reflex Unit 2 brings intense PvP battles in futuristic mechs to iOS and Android
Posted by 148Apps Staff on March 26th, 2020
Reflex Unit 2 will see players engaging in mech-based warfare, fending off waves and waves of autonomous robots that are threatening to destroy the planet. It's available now for iOS and Android.
Played from an isometric perspective, players will be able to take these powerful mechs out for a test drive in a variety of game modes, depending on their penchant for either solo or multiplayer fun. The single player campaign takes place over 9 missions with additional difficulties to unlock upon completion. There's also a co-op Campaign if you want to tackle these missions with another person
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Brave Nine receives a major anniversary update that introduces the World Arena, new Companions and Underground Evil Castle dungeon
Posted by 148Apps Staff on March 5th, 2020
Brave Nine has gone through some big changes recently, having just changed its name from Brown Dust. Now there's a whole host more with the latest update that adds the anticipated World Arena alongside new dungeons, Companions and more.
There will also be several rewards on offer for new and existing players with everyone being able to purchase a special gift box for a mere 2 gold. This can be found in the Hot Deals store. There are additional goodies available for players on the 'Americas' server with an Anniversary Package being obtainable by entering the code 'braveninearticle'. It will contain a mixture of Premium and Normal Scrolls alongside Gold and Emerald Slimes. But be sure to use it before the code expires on March 14th.
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Team up with your guildmates to take on two new Abyss events in MU Origins 2's latest update
Posted by 148Apps Staff on February 27th, 2020
MU Origin 2's latest update is now live and brings with it two new Abyss-related events to challenge Guilds. There are also a few new features that will allow players to enhance their costumes, an increased level cap and more.
The first of those events is called Abyss War, which will be playable every Monday and Friday between 21:30 and 22:00 Server Time. It will see guilds vying for control over different territories. To claim them, they'll have to capture several flags, but they won't be able to simply occupy any territory.
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Tyrant's Arena delivers intense hero battling multiplayer action to Android and iOS
Tyrant's Arena is an intense midcore multiplayer actioner where you'll compete in tricky 3v3 matches to crush your opponents and earn neat rewards. It comes to us from developer Kroy Games, and it's now available for pre-registration on iOS and Android.
The core gameplay is said to be fast-paced, with matches only lasting a few minutes each. You'll hunt down and slay your opponents as part of a crack team of heroes. Controls are intuitive and mobile-friendly while still allowing for layers of hidden depth. While the game is easy to get into, only the most skilled players will come out on top during combat.
As you progress, you'll unlock new heroes with their own distinct combat style to master. Classes include Tanks, Assassins, Mages, Support, Warriors, and Marksmen. Smart combinations of hero classes can dominate the battlefield, so it's best to plan ahead before you and your team enter the arena.
New skins can also be unlocked to make each hero unique to you. This gives Tyrant's Arena and its many characters some extra personality.
The ultimate challenge comes in the form of climbing the seasonal rankings. You'll compete with players from across the globe to cement yourself as a champion and earn rewards based on the different medals you achieve.
Tyrant's Arena is set to launch early next month in South/Central America and Mexico. In the meantime, you can pre-register your interest over on both the App Store and Google Play for some special rewards.
Fight monsters and collect heroes in Cryptract
Posted by 148Apps Staff on February 9th, 2020
From Final Fantasy to Chaos Rings, Japanese roleplaying games have found a large and loyal fanbase on mobile devices. If you're seeking a more under-the-radar JRPG to escape into, Lionsfilm's Cryptract could be the one. The game has been around since 2015, but its reach has mainly stayed within its homeland of Japan, where it's developed one of the largest playerbases in mobile gaming.
In Cryptract, you're tasked with saving the Guilsanian Empire against the threat of the Mystical Beasts — monsters hell-bent on causing chaos. With the heroes you gather through gacha-style summoning, you've got to form a powerful questing party. Head out on missions to slay beasts and save the day, learning more about the in-game universe along the way.
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Hidden Survivor from Joy Brick is a hide-and-seek survival game for Android and iOS
Posted by Cameron Bald on February 5th, 2020
Joy Brick's Hidden Survivor is an interesting title of two halves: part story-focused survival experience, part intense hide-and-seek multiplayer game. Both elements come together to form a compellingly strange and enjoyable whole.
The hide-and-seek arena battles task you with scouring your surroundings for useful items. Knowing when to use these items is key to remaining successful and earning as many points as possible.
The twist is that you can disguise yourself as any object in the level, hopefully allowing you to go unnoticed when one of your rivals becomes the player-hunting 'Seeker'. As the match progresses, certain areas of the level will grow dangerous to linger in, causing you damage over time.
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Quick tips for Brawl Quest, brand new on Android and iOS
Posted by 148Apps Staff on January 29th, 2020
Looking for a fight? Brawl Quest captures all the fun of retro arcade beat-'em-ups, but chucks in a more modern, cartoonish style and some wacky characters to boot. Just released by indie developer ThinkBIT, the game features a roster of playable fighters with which to clean the steets of bad guys and bosses in over 50 stages.
These helpful tips will ensure you get the most out of your brawls, whether you want to maximise your coin count or recruit some pets pronto.
• Remember your fighter types: Brawl Quest features rock-paper-scissors fighter types, with each type having either a 15% damage advantage or disadvantage against another type. Before you enter a stage, check the suggested fighter type to send in based on the sort of thugs awaiting you
• Log in daily: After completing area 2-1, you'll unlock daily quests. These are a quick and easy way to gain additional gold coins and gems, which can be used to level up and unlock new content, including pets (more on them below). Even just logging into Brawl Quest regularly gets you some freebies; the premium shop has a free loot box given away to all players daily, providing you're there to collect it
• Get your paws on pets: Pets act as a sort of living talisman, imparting boosts to your fighters' stats. Aim to get through area 2-6 as fast as you can to begin unlocking your own animal companions. We recommend saving up 200 gems to unlock a third pet slot
• Dispatch your brawlers: Once you've completed area 2-10, you can start sending brawlers out on quests to bring back loot. Not all dispatches will be successful, but you can improve your brawlers' chances by paying attention to their fighter type and level.
• Top up your energy: If you've run out of energy, spend some coins at the vending machine for more, as well as other useful items for levelling up.
Put our advice into action and let those fists fly. Brawl Quest is out now for free on Android and iOS (coming out mid-February).
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Black Desert Mobile's Sorceress class is a magic user with devastating ranged attacks
Black Desert Mobile, Pearl Abyss' megahit fantasy MMO, has had an incredible first month, with a ton of post-launch content already available for players to sink their teeth into. Now, the game's first new playable character class has arrived, offering her own powerful skills, attacks, and combat style.
With her primary weapon being an Amulet and secondary weapon being a Talisman, the Sorceress is a skilled magic user who is deadly in both ranged and up-close encounters. On the rare occasion when she's forced to play defensively, she can employ rapid dodges and teleportation powers to stay in the fight and navigate the battlefield safely.
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Become a strategy master and get to grips with the three special tribes of The Battle of Polytopia
Posted by 148Apps Staff on December 27th, 2019
It might have first launched as far back as 2016, but in the three years since its release The Battle of Polytopia has continued to give iOS and Android players all-new ways to dominate their foes in colourful turn-based combat. The primary way that is done it's done by introducing three fresh special tribes to play as, each of which shake up your abilities to help you "rule the world" quicker.
Whether you're a The Battle of Polytopia pro or a newcomer just diving in for the first time, here's everything worth knowing about the game's three special tribes.
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Alter Ego, a clicker for iOS and Android, delivers an unexpectedly moving narrative
Posted by Cameron Bald on December 23rd, 2019
Alter Ego is a different kind of clicker for iOS and Android, offering a surprising and moving story, excellent writing, and an interesting focus on personality tests.
In order to progress, you'll first need to gather EGO by clicking on random thoughts and feelings found floating around your environment. Once you've collected enough, you'll then be able to take part in a few intriguing personality tests where you'll be asked many challenging questions.
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King's Throne, the hugely ambitious idle RPG receives exciting new features in latest update
Posted by Luke Frater on December 15th, 2019
King's Throne: Game of Lust is a deeply immersive medieval-set idle RPG which sees you playing as an ambitious prince, and sole heir to your father's kingdom. On a seemingly ordinary night whilst wandering the king's castle, you make the shocking discovery that the royal guards have been slain and your father has been fatally wounded by a mysterious assassin.
You waste no time rushing to the aid of your beloved king and swear vengeance upon the plotters who betrayed him. Thus begins your ascension to the throne. What kind of king will you be to your people?
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Solve your way through new low-poly puzzler Krystopia, from Antler Interactive
The best escape-the-room games don't just test your creative problem-solving skills – they look great, too. Released in October this year by Antler (the developer of the succesful VR puzzle SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix), Krystopia offers everything you could want in the genre, including loads of strange, complex puzzles to solve and an intriguing backstory.
When Nova Dune's spaceship picks up a mysterious distress signal, her curiosity gets the better of her. She tracks it to a barren planet, where the only sign of civilisation is a massive stone gateway embedded in the cliffs. Beyond this gate, Nova discovers a series of doorways, one after the other, all locked.
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Get ready for an epic adventure with Pearl Abyss' visually stunning Black Desert Mobile, available now for iOS and Android
Posted by Cameron Bald on December 11th, 2019
Following a hugely successful pre-registration campaign, Pearl Abyss' much-hyped MMORPG, Black Desert Mobile, has finally arrived for iOS and Android. With some of the most impressive visuals on mobile, a vast open world to explore, an in-depth character creator, and some real storytelling chops, it's easy to see why over 4.5 million players have pre-registered to get involved in this fantasy epic asap.
You'll begin your adventure by picking one of five classes: Warrior, Witch, Ranger, Giant, or Valkyrie. As you might expect, they all play very differently, boasting their own skills, stats, and general play style. To really make your avatar unique to you, Black Desert Mobile offers one of the most extensive character creators we've seen in a game to date, allowing you to tweak every element of your hero's appearance down to the tiniest of details. Once you've created your perfect character, you'll begin your adventure in the game's stunning open world.
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Black Desert Mobile is available for pre-download, two days before the big launch
Posted by Cameron Bald on December 9th, 2019
Pearl Abyss' stunning open-world MMORPG, Black Desert Mobile, is set to launch for iOS and Android on December 11th at 12 AM PST (8 AM UTC). However, those looking to get in early and test out the in-depth character customisation will be able to pre-download the game from today.
One advantage of doing so is that it'll allow you to get in early and select your preferred Family Name. If you're unfamiliar with Black Desert, this is the title that displays above your character for your fellow players to see.
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16-bit fun awaits in Super Arcade Racing, new on Android and iOS
Posted by 148Apps Staff on December 5th, 2019
Old is the new 'new', if the popularity of retro games is anything to go by, and nostalgia junkies now have one more reason to get excited. OutOfTheBit studio has just launched a top-down racing game that pays homage to those arcade favourites of the 1980s and '90s. Super Arcade Racing stays true to the beloved games which inspired it, combining simple controls, hand-drawn pixel art and pancake-flat 2D tracks to race around. There's even a cracking synth soundtrack.
The game's single player is essentially its story mode. You control Mick, our reluctant hero dragged into the world of illegal street racing to find out what happened to his brother. As you topple racing rivals across the 60 levels, you'll edge ever closer to revealing the underground organisation up to no good — and saving your sibling.
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Q: Hockey Cocoa pod integration error - Resource not found Yesterday my Xcode projects started failing with the following message:
error: Resource "$RESOURCE_PATH" not found. Run 'pod install' to update the copy resources script.
where "$RESOURCE_PATH" pointed to the hockey app pod.
I've tried:

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*pod install

*completely removing cocoa pods integration and
re-integrating it with my projects

*uninstalled cocoa pods from my
system and reinstalled

Nothing works.  Has anyone had this issue or have any suggestions on how to resolve it?

A: Edit: This issue is now fixed in the latest CocoaPods version 1.0.0beta.6.

This is an issue with the latest CocoaPods prerelease version 1.0.0beta.5. It's being tracked here and a Pull Request with a fix has already been opened.
In the meantime, you can switch back to using the current stable version of CocoaPods, 0.39.0 or use the Podspec HockeySDK-Source instead.

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Author Page: Alex Dally MacFarlane
Alex Dally MacFarlane (www.alexdallymacfarlane.com) lives in London, where she is pursuing an academic life. When not researching, she writes stories, found in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and The Other Half of the Sky. She is the editor of Aliens: Recent Encounters (Prime Books).
Alex's Shimmer stories:
"Juniper Grave," Spring 2008
"Out They Come," Issue #17
Interview with Alex Dally MacFarlane:
Where did the idea come from? I wrote "Juniper Grave" in the autumn of 2006, at a time when I'd been reading stories based on fairy tales. So fairy tales were lurking around in the back of my head. Then I read a volume of Godchild (manga by Kaori Yuki) in which she used the Juniper Tree tale as the base for a short arc, and the tale clung limpet-like to my brain until, after a quick re-read of the tale, I started writing.
How did the story change as you developed it? The ending came as a surprise. I started the story as a retelling, but as I started writing scraps of scenes (I often don't write short stories linearly; as scenes and sentences come to me, I put them on the screen/paper, and then go back to write the bits in-between), I realised that I wasn't telling a story about the boy in the tale any more.
You know the advice "Sometimes you have to kill your darlings." Was there a scene or line that it really hurt to cut, but cutting it made the story stronger? With flash fiction, I edit a lot as I write; by the time I've finished, it normally just needs a tidy-up. I don't recall any severe clippings with this one.
How is this story like your other work? How is it different? It's fantastical and it's a bit strange. In those respects, it's very similar to most of my work. But the fun thing about writing strange fiction is that each piece has its own flavour.
When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I made up stories with my dolls for years as a child. At about age 9 I got the idea that I'd like to try writing a story, but nothing came of it. When I got my hands on a Nintendo 64 at age 11, however, one of the games did something to my brain and I started writing. I realised very quickly that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.
Who do you write for? I write for my own enjoyment, primarily, but I also hope that other people will enjoy my stories.
Favourite book read when you were a child? If any book stuck as a favourite through childhood and beyond, it has to be Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl. I still adore it.
Favourite book you've read recently? Allow me to give two (though I feel I'm doing a disservice to many other great reads recently). The Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic — a fiction constructed of fake encyclopedia entries about the Khazar people. I'm a big supporter of fiction told in non-conventional ways and this book is an excellent example of one possible form. The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison — a novel about the slight encroachment/encouragement of the not-quite-real into our world, and the long-term effects this has on a group of friends. (I've also greatly enjoyed The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston, The Mount by Carol Emshwiller and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.)
If you have a day job, what is it? What do you like about it? I proof-read military specifications for Jane's Information Group. Some of the random facts I learn are pretty cool. Like the fact that radars can identify types of helicopter by the radar-signature of their rotor blades. (Not everyone will find this cool, I guess.)

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Films with: Kitsch, Taylor
Lone survivor
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
Normal heart
This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
X-Men origins.
Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out of the program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new.


"It's a cool way of wearing the internet": Our exclusive interview with Joksie Adewale, owner of Infinitee Apparel – Read now. – MP!
"It's a cool way of wearing the internet": Our exclusive interview with Joksie Adewale, owner of Infinitee Apparel – Read now.
Stop what you're doing and pay attention, the next few minutes could turn you into a teen entrepreneur. Schoolgirl Joksie Adewale has gone from struggling with schoolwork due to illness, to earning bundles of cash designing stylish pop-based items of clothing for you to buy. Joksie has worked with the likes of beauty vlogger Anna Russett and Disney Channel star Teala Dunn and even achieved a worldwide Twitter trend during One Direction's mammoth 1D Day Twitcam.
First of all, what is Infinitee Apparel?
Infinitee is pop culture, it's a life style, it's art and it's also keeping up with the trends. I like to think of it as a cool way of wearing the internet.
How did you come up with the idea of Infinitee Apparel?
It never really started as an idea. My mum got into retail – I'd always been fascinated by the stuff she sells and in a way it was simply like a case of like mother, like daughter. She really inspires me. Both my parents have seen supportive of me as it's very difficult to run a business full time whilst also being at school five days a week!
I like to think I have been! It's always been a low key love of mine. Most of my life so far has been focused around and centred on art, and my drawings always meant a lot to me. I had been struggling at school because of illness and it felt like the things I did to keep me happy wouldn't get me anywhere. I constantly had people telling me that I was failing and I wasn't good enough. I felt like I didn't have enough training to get a job in the areas that I loved, which was mostly graphics, art and acting. I also had no clue what I was going to do with my sheer love of blogging, fashion, music (although I really can't sing), and social media. All of these things seemed really disconnected yet somehow what I'm doing now involves all of them, apart from acting.
Was it difficult to get the initial idea of the ground?
It was difficult. I didn't really have direction when I first started. I just threw together a couple of designs and let them float around the internet for people to see. I got feedback and then just started selling and hoping for the best!
How does the site run on a day-to-day basis?
The site is managed around the clock. We take pride in customer services. We even have a separate twitter account dedicated to customer support so if someone needs help they can always contact us. Some customers ask me why I'm awake at absurd hours tweeting or designing things. The truth is you don't really notice the time passing when you're doing what really makes you happy!
Are there any ways in which you would like to expand the business in the future?
Most definitely. I can't reveal much but what I can say is that Infinitee has grown so much quicker than I had expected it to, and I can't say thank you enough to everyone who's supported me and the brand so far. We love new customers and have a couple of things hidden up our sleeves… so watch out 2014!
What advice would you give to budding entrepreneurs like yourself?
Go for it. Don't let anybody stop you. If I had listened to anyone who's ever told me I won't amount to anything or be doing what I love right now, everything would be different. You don't know what you can or can't achieve unless you try.
You can visit Infinitee Apparel here.
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In the Doctor of Psychology program, you can build a strong foundation in critical fundamentals of psychology while picking an additional emphasis in child, health, rehabilitation, and neuropsychology, or forensic psychology. You will study techniques in relationships, assessments, intervention, science and research, evaluation, consultation and education, management, and diversity. You can go on to open your own practice or work in settings as varied as hospitals, clinics, human services organizations, juvenile centers, and more.
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Actively engaged
Wright State graduate student Janelle Dixon serving national leadership position in The Association of Black Psychologists' Student Circle
Janelle Dixon plans to turn her passion for social justice advocacy to pursue a career as a forensic psychologist after earning a doctoral degree from the Wright State School of Professional Psychology.
Psychological moment
Wright State graduate student Gillian LaRue serving national leadership position in The Association of Black Psychologists' Student Circle
Gillian LaRue is pursuing a PsyD. at the Wright State School of Professional Psychology and hopes to work with patients at a state mental hospital after graduating.
Poster popularity
Wright State SOPP student Peyton Jones honored for posters at Ohio Psychological Association Convention
Peyton Jones, who is pursuing his Psy.D. at Wright State, was honored for his poster exploring psychological assessments of people whose assigned sex at birth does not match their gender identity.


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Man behind the shark(s): Karim Giordimaina tries to integrate at least one of the predators into each Opel model's interior.
Here it began: The first Opel shark can be found when the Corsa glove box is opened.
On the prey: The designers have hidden multiple shark and small fish in the Opel Corsa's centre console.
Same hiding place: The shark in the Opel Astra is also located inside the glove box.
Flagship with sea hunter: A shark has also smuggled its way into the Opel Insignia's cup holder.
Comfortable place: As in Corsa and Astra, the Opel Crossland X shark can be found when the glove box is opened.
Hide and seek: Under the lighting control in the Opel Grandland X, another shark resides at the outer side of a storage compartment.
Careful: A shark is lurking in the centre console of the Opel ADAM.
Natural habitat: Some more sharks are lurking where Opel ADAM occupants normally store their water bottles.
on the Opel's interior design and takes a look into the future.
Surrounded by sharks: Opel's fun secret culture that Karim Giordimaina takes very seriously.
Karim Giordimaina knows the Opel design as well as hardly anyone else. Ever since graduating from college in the early 90s, he has been working for the Rüsselsheim-based carmaker. His early days saw him working on every aspect of the cars, including show cars, exteriors, interiors, and components. He later switched to the interior, after Opel eventually set up dedicated functions. Today, as Director Interior Design, Giordimaina leads more than 80 colleagues and is – amongst others – responsible for some of the unusual creatures hidden in Opel models.
Mr. Giordimaina, for several years we can find sharks in the Opel models. What's the reason for this?
The history of our hidden sharks goes all the way back to 2004. Dietmar Finger, who at the time was the Interior Assistant Chief Designer of the Corsa Studio, was tasked with designing reinforcing ribs on the side of the glove box door to ensure the part's stability. After a busy work week, one Sunday afternoon, he casually drew various shapes that might fit the purpose. As he sat there, his son walked up to him, looked at his sketch, and asked. "Papa, why don't you just draw a shark?" Dietmar smiled, and thought to himself "Why not!" As soon as he was back in the Studio, he shared his idea with Niels Loeb, the Chief Designer of the Corsa, who immediately loved it. The shark in the glove box went into series production and that's how the story of the 'Opel sharks' was born!
How did this success story continue?
Today it's almost like an inside culture. Each Interior Chief Designer, towards the end of the development of the car, lives the culture by hiding one or two sharks somewhere within the design of the interior. Where the shark is placed is entirely the Chief's choice, and is never shared with Design's Leadership. In fact, the location of the sharks is generally kept a secret all the way to the launch of the car. As a way of demonstrating the approachable side of our brand, we also started sharing the stories of our sharks with journalists during launch events, encouraging them to find the sharks hidden in the interior of the cars. Overtime, we actually started being approached by the press, who were eager to write stories about the sharks!
What's so special about this culture?
It clearly shows not only how approachable our brand is, but more importantly that we also we have a sense of humour. There is definitely a strong sense of family in our team which is, in my view, well recognized across the industry. Opel is definitely a fantastic place to work! I've personally been here many years, and am always very proud of our culture, sense of team, and connection.
There's the shark: Director Interior Design Karim Giordimaina reveals, where the small predator hides in the Opel Crossland X.
Careful: A shark is lurking in the center console of the Opel ADAM.
As we look at an Opel, we firstly see the exterior design and all its typical features. What are the recognizable things about the Opel's interior design?
With the exterior design you see a lot of consistency in the way that we apply our signature graphics, sculptural surfacing, and an execution level founded in german precision. On the interior of the car you see again that same combination. Subtle sculptural shapes, combined with an almost obsessive pursuit for precision, passion for every detail, uncompromized functionality, and quality.
At Opel there are three Design teams. How close is the cooperation with the Exterior Design and the Advanced Design?
Extremely close! Although we clearly cover different areas of our cars and business, we always connect as one team. In fact the close collaboration of the Advanced, Interior, and Exterior Teams is absolutely key to a great outcome. There is a very strong link between the strategies and architectural decisions being made within Advanced Design, and the final production of our cars executed by the Interior and Exterior production Studios.
How are decisions usually made between the teams?
In order to strengthen this tight collaboration, our weekly Design reviews with Mark Adams are always conducted with the entire Design Leadership Team present, irrespective of topic. This includes all the Directors of their respective areas: Advanced, Interior, Exterior, and even Operations. This ensures that each decision is made holistically, taking all aspects of our cars and business into careful consideration. Our cross functional interaction is very close, considered, and collaborative.
Mastermind: Karim Giordimaina, Director Interior Design, knows every secret of the Opel design.
Do you also compare your designs with those of other carmakers?
Of course. We put considerable effort benchmarking ourselves against our competitors to ensure that our vehicles stand tall across an extremely competitive field. In addition to the huge focus we put into the actual design of our cars, we also put equal focus with our partners on balancing high-quality materials, features, technologies, and the engineering solutions that go in our cars. The goal is of course to ensure that our vehicles consistently deliver on our brand values. By doing so, we will help ensure that we push the brand to where it deserves to be – standing tall at the head of the pack. There is so much passion and drive in the Opel team, across all functions, that I am more than confident we will do just that!
How do you ensure this high-quality standard?
By applying care, and a lot of effort, in everything we do. We put an enormous amount of thought in every aspect of quality that defines our vehicles. Each material, grain and texture is carefully considered, each gap and radius is scrutinized, and every interface is worked in its outmost detail. Our interiors have to communicate not only artistry, but precision, and the highest level of visual quality. That is definitely our passion.
"Sculptural surfaces, german precision, and passion for every detail" are clearly reflected in the Crossland X interior.
Perfect fit and finish: The gear knob and its surrounding center console express quality and precision.
Are you also conducting surveys to find out the customer's opinions?
Sure. Market research is extremely important, giving us early access to our customers and helping us understand if we are moving in the right direction. That's precisely why we do the clinics throughout the various milestones in a vehicle's development. We invite a cross section of respondents to market research events and ask a variety of targeted questions relative to the product. The response we get helps shed light on the various aspects of a product's personality. How appealing the design is, willingness to pay, positioning, manufacturer, things they love and things they don't. In most cases our designs are validated, and in the cases where we need to react to criticism, we do exactly that – we react and correct!
It's typically long (laughs) … My day is usually full of meetings. It's particularly exciting in this time of transition, as we're focusing hard on strategy and strengthening our brand. There's a sense of urgency and change which is energizing. I definitely carve out time to go into the studios and interface with the team. The talent of the creative teams, sculptors, studio engineers, Program Managers, and Quality team is a constant inspiration for me. My job is to provide guidance, but perhaps more importantly, to help enable the Studios led by the Chief Designers, to create cars that are true to their expressions and visions. That is a wonderful thing to experience.
Do you sometimes also take a pencil and draw a sketch by yourself?
No, although I definitely love drawing. I want the creative designers to draw, they are the ones who bring fresh and new ideas. They have to create these cars and we have to enable their ideas. My job is to help set the framework based on a very clear view of our brand values and strategies, an area that has seen huge focus since joining the PSA family, and then help the team move in that direction.
Looking into the future – how will Opel's interior design change?
We're going to build on our strengths. The artistry will remain, of course, but we're going to express it in a slightly different way. The interior will be a lot easier to use and even more approachable. We're going to enhance every aspect of our users' experience, from the way they feel sitting in the car to the way they interact with it. We have some very exciting ideas that will take our cars to a different level. I'm personally very energized, as are our development partners. It's like a journey. When we're done, we will have fundamentally enhanced almost every aspect of our cars. At the core of all of that, will be a razor sharp focus on quality. That will be key to expressing a very powerful German brand. And finally, we will ensure that Opel stands distinct and proud as a brand within the Groupe PSA, and particularly amongst our competitors. As you can see, we are definitely going to make a lot happen!
Finally, will you bring sharks in the upcoming Opel models?
Clear layout: Infotainment screen and instruments are arranged to enable easy functionality in the center of the Crossland X dashboard.
Spacious and airy: The Crossland X's backseats are for long journeys – but also have great visual appeal.


Her moral justifications of capitalism shaped the thinking of the young Alan Greenspan (now Federal Reserve Chairman) and other conservative acolytes. She declared it permissible to proclaim "I want" and to act to fulfill that demand. But the question remains, what did she really want?
Liberals shrink from her defiant pro-capitalist stance, conservatives from her militant atheism, and conservatives and liberals alike from her individualism. Libertarianism, the movement most closely connected to Rand's ideas, is less an offspring than a rebel stepchild. In her insistence that political philosophy must be based on a proper epistemology, she rejected the libertarian movement, which embraced a wide variety of reasons for advocating free markets and free minds, as among her enemies.
Fifteen million copies of her books have been sold. "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" still sell 130,000 to 150,000 copies a year.
Or a more frightening thought, those who haven't come out of adolescence and are buying copies of Ayn Rand well into their twenties and thirties!


She was 19 years old. Still in college. Had a job, though not yet a career. Still living at home with her parents.
She was young and beautiful and intelligent and fun – and in love. She and her fiance planned to be married in about nine months, and they were deep into plans for the wedding. And it was going to be a grand wedding!
He had a job – a good job, the kind of career he always had wanted. The hours were long, but he was happy. They were happy. Together, they looked ahead and thought everything was just right.
Then, she started feeling, well, different. Not right. Her energy level was noticeably off. There were little things that made the couple really concerned. So she went to the doctor, a kindly man who had been seeing her since she was very young. More than a little afraid of what they might hear, he went with her.
Hold on. She was … pregnant?!
So much for thinking everything was "just right." They were dedicated Catholics, at Mass every Sunday, and participated in leading retreats that helped deepen the faith of fellow young people. How would the news look in the eyes of those young people? And their priest? And their friends and siblings? And … oh my goodness … how would they tell their parents?
Telling all those people proved difficult, heart-wrenching. They had to summon some courage. There were plenty of tears. Life was about to get very different – for the mom-to-be, the dad-to-be and their respective families. All of those plans of her finishing school, moving into the working world and then starting a family? Gone.
Of course, it didn't really have to be gone. Abortion had been legal in the United States for more than 10 years. They could have decided a pregnancy simply didn't fit into their life plans, their dream life. She still was in her teens. They weren't sure they were ready for this development. Financially, emotionally … so much to consider.
But it didn't take long to realize something very important: They were going to have a baby! A new life would be entering the world, their world. The grandparents-to-be, aunts and uncles to be, friends – all might have had some reservations about their readiness for parenthood. Heck, they hadn't even had a chance to get used to marriage.
A baby, though. A person. A real person.
Never once – not for even a nanosecond – did they consider any choice but life.
My wife, Donna, spent a few days in Washington, D.C., last week. She led a group of more than 40 people from Holy Spirit Catholic Church (in Maryland Heights, Mo.) and Sts. Joachim and Ann Catholic Church (in St. Peters, Mo.). They attended Mass on Wednesday (January 21) at Holy Spirit, then boarded a bus and made the trip overnight. The group arrived just in time to join the annual pro-life March For Life with several hundred thousand people. Most of Donna's group was under the age of 18. She has organized and participated in about a dozen such pilgrimages during the last 15 or so years.
This year's march – held the afternoon of January 22 – marked the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Millions of innocent lives have been taken before they even had a chance to cry outside the womb.
I'm not going to get into the political fray of what has been one of the most divisive topics in America for more than four decades. There are passionate people on each side. I believe, in my heart, that most of that passion comes because all of those people truly feel they have the best interests of someone in a crisis as their motivating factor.
I don't want to see countless women go "underground" for possibly unsafe and illegal abortions if Roe v. Wade was overturned some day or if the momentum of pro-life legislation continues in individual states. As a country, we would have to educate women on the "fact of life" for a baby still in the womb. We would have to work to lift people out of poverty and eliminate that excuse for abortions.
We would have to prove that we don't care about babies only before they are born but afterward as well. We would have to facilitate adoptions. We would have to come to grips with human rights violations – not just in other countries, but here as well. We would have to take more seriously the immigration of children from countries where they could face abuse or being forced into drug gangs. We would have to address inner-city murder and poor education systems in a more focused, determined way. We would have to become a country that values the dignity of all life.
Abortion never should be considered the only pro-life issue.
But it arguably is the one that needs to be some of our most urgent attention. There are dire consequences. Young lives that never begin. Women and men who deal with the psychological trauma, in some cases for the rest of their lives.
The young woman and man had a hurriedly planned but beautiful wedding. Five months later, their first child was born. A girl. That baby couldn't have been more loved. She grew up in a home where that love blossomed. Yes, there were occasional financial and health difficulties for the family. There were unexpected stresses.
There also was a constant reminder that God was in charge, that love ruled.
That girl met some unexpected struggles herself. Though she was past her teen years when it happened, she became pregnant before she was married – before she and her boyfriend had even set serious plans for marriage. An unplanned, unwed pregnancy. We all know how those situations end up for thousands of women – for millions of women since Jan. 22, 1973.
But she was going to have a baby!
Never was abortion a consideration for her. Not for even one moment.


Islamic groups demand halt to threatened congregation's worship.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 13 (CDN) — Two churches in the greater Jakarta area have received bomb threats.
In East Jakarta, the pastor of a Batak Protestant Christian Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, or HKBP) on Bogor Street received a threatening phone call before Sunday services on Oct. 4. The church building is located near the headquarters of an elite police corps.
The unknown caller to the Rev. Abidan Simanungkalit's cell phone said the bomb would explode during the morning worship service, the pastor told Compass.
Scores of police and bomb squad officers came to the site and combed the area for a bomb, discovering a black package in a garbage container near the front of the church building. It contained four large batteries, a small wall clock and a tin can, and after a two hours police determined that it was not a bomb.
Officers speculated that the caller was unable to construct a real bomb but wanted to publicize a threat.
Pastor Simanungkalit said congregation members were alarmed over the threat and that the morning worship was uneasy.
The church has never had problems with anyone that would lead to such a threat, the pastor added.
In north Bekasi in the Jakarta metropolitan area, a church leader of a Bethel Indonesia congregation received a similar threat the previous day, Oct. 3.
Upon receiving the threat, Lalamentik said, he contacted the Rev. Daniel Susanto, who quickly called police. A bomb squad arrived shortly after and made a thorough search, but they did not discover any explosive device.
Lalamentik said there was reason to take the threat seriously. In July a number of radical Islamic groups, including the Islamic Defenders' Front (Front Pembela Islam), Iqra Echo and the Forum for Communication and Hospitality of the Musala Mosque (FKSMM) in Bekasi demanded that the church close.
The church meets in a private home in the midst of a housing complex.
Pastor Susanto said the church had secured permission for the church building from Bekasi officials in April. The Muslim organizations, he said, have opposed the church meetings at his house, where worship has taken place since 2000.
"We normally worship at my home but occasionally move to other houses," the pastor told Compass.
A crowd of 600 protestors from Islamic organizations have demonstrated in front of Bekasi government offices demanding a halt to the Bethel Indonesia church's worship services, he added, and they are also fighting the establishment of the congregation's building.
Budi Santosa of the FKSMM said that the required papers for the building permit were incomplete because the recommendation from the local Interfaith Communications Forum was missing.
The Muslim groups have met with the deputy mayor of Bekasi, Mochtar Mohammad, and the assistant leader of the Bekasi City Council, Ahmad Syiakhu, as well as several other officials. Santosa said the officials are studying the Islamic organizations' objections to both the house church worship and its building but have taken no action.


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KYRGYZSTAN - MORE WOMEN WEARING HIJAB - RELIGIOUS & SECULAR
By Asyl Osmonalieva - Central Asia - 24 May 12
For the last six months, 17 year-old Zarina Barinova has worn a Muslim-style headscarf whenever she goes out in northern Kyrgyzstan's Chui province.
A confident and outspoken student from the town of Karabalta, Barinova defies the common stereotype in Kyrgyzstan that women wearing "hijab" or Islamic dress should be shy and retiring, typically from rural backgrounds, and raised only to be obedient housewives.
"As a rule, they're seen as quiet, dull, obedient and submissive people who can't speak Russian," she said. "In reality, that's far from being the case. I went to a Russian-language school, I've done well at my studies and I'm involved in various activities at college."
Women in urban areas are more likely to know Russian, the lingua franca, in addition to Kyrgyz or a minority language.
Barinova knows that when people see her head-covering, they may jump to conclusions. But that does not matter to her.
"I am answerable only to Allah," she said.
"When I'm wearing hijab, I feel protected. Young men don't harass me, and I feel I get treated with more respect within my group."
Since adopting hijab, Barinova has not altered her plans – she still intends to complete her studies, find a job and get married.
Barinova was raised in a religious household; her parents are devout Muslims who pray and have made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
But increasing numbers of women from non-religious backgrounds are taking up Islam and adopting hijab, often as a matter of personal choice rather because of family background.
The growth in hijab-wearing is happening in the more secular north of Kyrgyzstan as well as in the south, where Islamic observance was traditionally stronger and more women covered their heads as a matter of course.
The situation is changing in the south, too. Whereas women often just wore a local-style headscarf, now many opt for a more enveloping form that covers the neck as well as the head.
The changing patterns nationwide reflect an evolution in developing attitudes towards Islam, which used to be viewed as backward-looking – a legacy of Soviet atheism – but now is seen by many as a source of spiritual guidance through turbulent times.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has undergone bouts of instability. Its first president, Askar Akayev, was ousted in a popular uprising in 2005. He was replaced by Kurmanbek Bakiev, but he too was forced out in April 2010. In June that year, more than 400 people were killed in ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Analysts believe that in the north especially, people are embracing Islam as part of an attempt to fill the post-Soviet ideological vacuum.
"They are consciously subscribing to religious values," Esen Usubaliev, head of the Sensible Solutions think tank, told IWPR.
He believes the differences between religious attitudes in the north and south are disappearing.
"Even in the north, you now see many women wearing hijab, with the rising number of observant people, including women," he said.
Kadyr Malikov, an Islamic expert and head of the Religion, Law and Politics Centre, said many people turned to Islam through "a personal quest, struggle and reflection" rather than because they were brought up that way.
Thirty nine-year-old Saltanat (not her real name) was born and raised in the capital Bishkek and has worn hijab for more than a decade.
She has a higher education degree, and became more interested in religion while lecturing at a foreign-funded university, where she taught alongside Arab colleagues. She initially wore modern fashions before making the change.
"No one ever asked me to start wearing Islamic dress. I came to [Islam] on my own terms, out of respect to the people I worked with. I wanted to study Arabic, learn more about Islam and read the Koran," Saltanat said. "For me, hijab is not just clothing. It's about responsibility before Allah, faith and choice."
Like many of her peers who grew up under Soviet rule, Saltanat grew up in a secular household. She remembers when hijab-wearing women began appearing in the Kyrgyz capital after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 and Muslim missionaries started arriving from abroad.
"I remember clearly what I thought of the first young women who appeared in hijab on the streets of Bishkek," Saltanat said. "I regarded them as backward, narrow-minded village women who weren't very well educated."
As part of the general revival of Islam in Kyrgyzstan, many mosques have been built and more people attend them than before.
Nonetheless, negative attitudes towards Islam still persist. Some see outward signs of devotion like hijab as the products of unwelcome outside influence, and as a departure from Kyrgyzstan's own tradition, in which faith was largely a private matter and public life was secular.
Saltanat described how a woman she knows was pressured not to wear a Muslim headscarf at work.
"An acquaintance of mine who's a nurse at a state hospital had to fight for her right to wear the hijab," Saltanat said, adding that she had experienced similar pressure herself, though to a lesser extent.
Nazira Jusupova, a journalist based in the northwestern town of Talas, said hijab was becoming a normal fixture of life there. And in another northern town, Naryn, city resident Erkingul Bokoeva said Muslim headscarves were less common there, but this was starting to change.
The trend has fostered a growth in the number of shops selling headscarves and halal-certified cosmetics that contain neither alcohol nor animal extracts.
Ayjan, a 27-year-old shop assistant in Karabalta, said her store was doing a brisk trade.
"Our shop opened six months ago and the number of clients is on the up," she said. "We get women of various ethnicities coming in – Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Dungans [ethnic Chinese Muslims], and even Russians who've converted to Islam. We help them to choose hijab for both casual wear and festive occasions."
Ayjan has worn hijab for almost a year, and says she was influenced to do so by friends at university in Bishkek.
"We used to live in the same student house and we had conversations – that's how I came to Islam," she said. "My parents welcomed it, and because of the example I set, they too started fulfilling the Muslim obligations."
The shops are a significant development – according to Saltanat, ten years ago no one sold Muslim headscarves, and no one knew how to make them if you tried to order one.
Mayramgul Kadyrova owns a clothing business that makes the headscarves.
"Most of the workshops make inexpensive, standard headscarves, as if they're just testing the market. I think some of them will specialise in hijab in future, and quality will improve accordingly," she said. "For now, women who want to buy a beautiful hijab prefer to buy imports from Turkey or Syria."
As well as adopting the hijab, some women are also spurning cosmetics.
Saltanat usd to wear light make-up in public, but now only puts it on at home.
"When I see girls in hijab and wearing make-up in public, I understand that they're just at the beginning of the road," she said.


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Artist Spotlight: Mario Sahe-Lacheante
Mehek Seyid
Members of the Flixel community are always excited to enrich each others lives with news on this evolving medium and tips on how to enhance their creative processes.
Take Mario Sahe-Lacheante, a London-based Flixel wizard and the second place winner in our recent Facebook Profile Video contest. Mario regularly provides feedback on different cinemagraph creations, shares his knowledge base and goes above and beyond by creating tutorials to assist all types of cinemagraphphiles.
We interviewed Mario to understand the creator behind such incredible efforts. Read on to learn about Mario's photography background, how cinemagraphs have become a part of his portfolio and the importance of community in the creative field.
Mario Sahe-Lacheante: Photographer and Flixel Wizard
How did you get into photography?
Photography for me is a byproduct of my career, which started off as a video production runaround-do-everything guy for a small company, which later turned into working as a TV cameraman and eventually getting enough experience and practice with lighting to get hired as a director of photography. So unlike most people who use Flixel, my background comes from the video end, rather than the stills side. But I learned about all the basic elements of composing shots, exposing properly, etc. and picked up photography for a bit with a lame old point-and-shoot that I had before I bought my first DSLR (5D mark II) a few years later.
How did you first come across cinemagraphs and Flixel?
I think I saw some of the first cinemagraphs that Beck and Burg created about two or three years ago. I thought they were awesome, but at the time no workflow knowledge really existed and, while I was trying to do some research on it, life just got in the way. Last year, however, they crossed my radar again, and I thought I'd love to find out how to do it. By then, there was more knowledge available on the Photoshop and After Effects workflows, which seemed really long and cumbersome and not worth the effort, but with more digging I came across Cinemagraph Pro, and gave it a try.
I was working as a partner in an agency at the time, but I had some downtime and started playing with it, and ended up sneakily using all my spare (and not so spare) time over about 3 days to create as many cinemagraphs as I could from old footage. I think I made about 50 unique cinemagraphs in the first 3 days. Hooked was an understatement.
Challenge Yourself with Cinemagraphs
You frequently use different subjects, landscapes and viewpoints to create your cinemagraphs. What elements are the most important to you when you are shooting a cinemagraph?
I love variety. I know there's a whole world that says that you've got to specialize in a niche, but I think that puts a severe limit on your work and if niche was gonna be it, then I want cinemagraphs to be my niche. And I also get bored pretty quickly if I do the same stuff. I started off with whiskies, and really loved it, and loved learning about some really intricate techniques to light bottles and drinks, but soon I wanted to push it further and ended up covering more subject matters, and it keeps it all really interesting for me.
So I guess what I look for, are challenges. Something that's a creative or even a practical challenge. That doesn't mean the cinemagraph itself should be difficult – but that it presents a unique challenge to me, which could be a matter of working out how to light something, or how to get some unique movement. I also tend to do a set series and then move on. So I'll shoot a few on a whisky, and then a few in a gym, or in the city of London, or whatever the case, and then on to the next subject.
What is your favourite type of cinemagraph to shoot? How do cinemagraphs shape your ability to tell your stories and capture an idea, story and/or memory?
I'm not sure I have a favourite type of cinemagraph. I think it's whatever I find my hands doing at the time that I love. I tend to try to avoid the easy way out, but I also forget that a lot of people still haven't seen cinemagraphs, so to them an 'easy way out' cinemagraph will still be just as magical. So while I've avoided shooting fountains and stuff in the rain, I've gotten more attuned to grabbing those when I can, because at the end of the day I'm still creating. The challenge is just to catch up with the editing side of it.
Telling stories with cinemagraphs I think is still in its infancy. For me anyway. I have a couple of clients now that are more keen to work out how to tell their stories, and it's an interesting challenge for me, because you can treat cinemagraphs in a really fragmented way, where it's all about the one shot. But then, if you're getting commissioned to tell a story, you've got to think about how your shots can actually connect to tell a collective story, as well as each telling their own. It's easy just shooting random shots, like at an event. But to let them really speak together, is for me a whole different challenge.
Flixel Community: Helping Cinemagraph Creators Grow
You're one of the most enthusiastic members in our Flixel community. What do you like best about our growing community? As a professional, how important is it to have a space to connect with others who share your passion for cinemagraphs?
Oh I think a healthy community is really of immeasurable importance. My career has grown with about 10% teaching, and about 10% mentoring, and 80% figuring it out. And figuring it out helps you develop some good skills for solving problems, but being mentored by someone that can teach you something in a few minutes, that would otherwise maybe take you months to learn, is absolutely invaluable. And I feel like I've figured out a lot around cinemagraphs, and around using methods of finding loops that can be really basic, but also really complicated, and I know the frustration of wanting to achieve something but you get stuck and need some help. So for that reason I love to help people where I can, and I love to see that many people in the community are the same. We wouldn't want anyone to give up on cinemagraphs, only because they got stuck with a problem or, worse, someone in the community gave them a cold or condescending shoulder, which I've seen can happen in internet communities.
So I love seeing new talent come into the group, and seeing them get encouraged and I love seeing people get better and better and find their confidence in their work – it's all a growing experience for each and every one of us. And I love seeing the quality of free timers' work and how it gets really impressive, so I think it's all moving in the right direction.
Do you have any tips for those who are just starting to create cinemagraphs?
Don't give up. Seriously. Don't give up on your cinemagraph shot that you planned for so long and struggled to make work. I've had many of those and I just refused to give in to some video that's telling me it wants to be my boss, so I tend to figure out a way to beat it. But if it turns out that it doesn't work, learn from it, and go again.
There's also plenty of resources available, a few people have blogs up with information or tutorials, and we have a healthy community that will be happy to help and provide feedback.
On a bigger note, don't give up thinking that all your hard work that you're putting into cinemagraphs is just a hobby, or is not really going anywhere (unless this is your intention). You might get one paying client and not hear from anyone again for months – but don't give up. Just keep on keeping on – people will see your work, word will get out and you'll end up getting more work. We're really in early, early days of cinemagraphs, and if you think about how absolutely saturated the photography market is, yet so many people still do it professional, just think about the potential for cinemagraphs, since only maybe a few thousand people around the world are doing them, if it is that many.
Keep on trying. Ask questions. Stay hungry!
Check out Mario's Flixel profile here and follow him on Instagram here.
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Independence Day: Resurgence worse than expected
There's little to like about Independence Day: Resurgence. The sequel to the 20-year-old science fiction blockbuster Independence Day has more plot holes than a sieve. The dialogue is worthy of a c-grade movie. The acting is passable at best. There are no comic moments that actually contain comedy. I didn't expect the script to be good, but I also didn't expect it to be pathetic either. Even the special effects, which you would imagine would be vastly superior after 20 years, seem at times on par with an episode of Doctor Who from the 1980s.
The same aliens are back to avenge their first round loss, joining most of the human cast from the first 1998 Independence Day movie. Jeff Goldblum plays David Levinson, now a scientist and the Director of Earth Space Defense (ESD). His father Julius (Judd Hirsch) returns, and the mad, hippy scientist Dr. Okun, played by Brent Spiner, is still a mad, hippy scientist. He wakes from a 20-year coma, right on time to witness the second invasion. No one bothered to cut his hair while he lay in a coma, so he now has more hair than he knows what to do with. Bill Pulman is now an ex-president with a limp, and Sela Ward is a new female president without one.
Director Roland Emmerich throws in some new faces too: Liam Hemsworth (Jake Morrison) and Jessie Usher (Dylan Hiller) are pilots with history and attitude. Dylan is the stepson of Captain Steven Hiller, Will Smith's character from the first movie. As you would expect, they really hate each other but may work through their differences later and become friends.
There are a lot of other characters, but most them barely receive as much air time as the dog from the first movie. You don't care about anyone. In fact, a lot of them are extremely annoying. Jeff Goldbulm's meetings with his father should have been witty and moving, but ends up silly and contrived. The effects sequences are complex, messy and unconvincing (even for a science fiction disaster movie).
There are so many coincidences it makes your head spin. The introduction of a second alien species should have added more depth and interest, but merely provides an opportunity for the screenwriters to add additional unconvincing dialogue. When the second invasion happens, Earth's new space defense system lasts less than a second. Soon after, the combined resources of Earth's military simply send wave upon wave of fighter jets as if this is the best approach. They don't bother trying unmanned missiles, or drones, or anything else for that matter. It has to be human pilots.
Independence Day: Resurgence is disappointing, dumb and disrespectful to the science fiction genre. Don't bother.
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Movie title: Independence Day: Resurgence
Movie description: Independence Day: Resurgence is full of plot holes, bad dialogue, awful acting, and unconvincing special effects.
Director(s): Roland Emmerich
Actor(s): Jeff Goldblum, Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch
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What is DAMAGES?
A pecuniary compensation or indemnity, which may be recovered in the courts by any person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury, whether to his person, property, or rights, through the unlawful act or omission or negligence of another. Scott v. Donald, 105 U. S. 58, 17 Sup. Ct. 205, 41 L. Ed. 032; Crane v. Peer, 43 N. J. Eq. 553, 4 Atl. 72; Cincinnati v. Hafer, 49 Ohio St. 00, 30 N. E. 197; Wainscott v. Loan Ass'n, 98 Cal. 253, 33 Pac. 8S; Carvill v. Jacks, 43 Ark. 449; Collins v. Railroad Co., 9 Heisk. (Tenn.) 850; New York v. Lord, 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 293; O'Connor v. Dils, 43 W. Va. 54, 20 S. E. 354. A sum of money assessed by a jury, on finding for the plaintiff or successful party in an action, as a compensation for the injury done him by the opposite party. 2 Bl.Comm. 438; Co. Litt. 257a; 2 Tidd, Pr. 869, S70. Every person who suffers detriment from the unlawful act or omission of another may recover from the person in fault a compensation therefor in money, which is called "damages." Civ. Code Cal.
Compensatory vs. Punitive Damages: What's the difference?
The Two Different Types of Compensatory Damages
Pursuing Damages in Statutory Rape Cases
Three Potential Consequences of Breach of Fiduciary Duty
What Is a Negligence Lawsuit?
Res Ipsa: When Things Speak For Themselves
Structured Settlements Under the U.S. Tax Code
What Does Auto Liability Insurance Cover?
3 Types of Misrepresentation and Why They Matter
Three Essential Things To Know About Pain and Suffering
PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LIQUIDATED DAMAGES, NOMINAL AND SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES, COMPENSATORY AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, PECUNIARY DAMAGES, LAND DAMAGES, DAMAGES ACTUAL, UNLIQUIDATED DAMAGES, ACTUAL DAMAGES, TREBLE DAMAGES
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Shot on location, and starring actual FLN rebels, Battle of Algiers is one of the most viciously realistic films of all time. Initially banned by the French government, it quickly won wide acclaim: and Academy Award� nomination for Best Foreign Film and garnishing 11 international awards.
Struggling to rid their country of French colonialism, Ali L Pointed and his terrorist group painting the streets of Casbah red with the blood of their enemies. Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. French Colonel Phillipe Mathieu, a highly decorated officer, is called upon to quash the uprising. But Algiers is on fire and the battle has just begun.
Click Here to see many Award Winners Films from Iran with English subtitles.


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Worship at 10:30–Welcoming new members!
The building addition and renovations are complete!
On August 12, 2018, we had a worship service of dedication at 10:30 and an open house from 2-4 p.m. Over 100 people celebrated with us!
Many thanks to all who helped make this renovation possible.


her teeth began looking less stained.
Plus she was no longer spending $350 a month on smokes, or making impulse buys prompted by frequent trips to the store.
cigarette as a reward for a job done.
After quitting, she pooled her first months' unspent dollars for a dream trip to New York City. "Giving yourself rewards is hugely important in those early months," she says.
Three years later, Knecht fends off the occasional "it sure would be nice to smoke" moment with the mantra that has become her safety net: I'm a puff away from a pack a day.
are more effective when combined with counselling and/or support groups.
urges and double smokers' chances of success.
Prescription withdrawal medications. Options include bupropion (sold as Zyban® and Wellbutrin®), an antidepressant that can make it easier to quit; and varenicline tartrate (Champix®), which binds to the nicotine receptors in the brain to reduce cravings and make smoking less enjoyable. Clinically proven to triple and even quadruple quit smoking rates, they do not work for everyone.
experts warn against e-cigarettes, which are unproven and may be harmful.
Pulling free from tobacco's grip is no small feat. Here are five strategies that have worked for many others.
1. List the reasons why you want to quit. The longer your list and the stronger your desire, the higher your odds of success.
2. Enlist support. Talk to your family, friends, colleagues, coffee mates, sport buddies, doctor, pharmacist, Alberta Quits (1-866-710-QUIT) and anyone else who can help.
3. Set, plan, act. Set a quit day and back it up with a plan. Use at least two proven quit-smoking methods, such as a support group, counselling, online help, medications and/or nicotine replacement. Sign up, set the date, clear away smoking clutter, and stock up on water, gum and whatever else you'll need.
4. Minimize triggers. Track your smoking patterns, identify when you crave cigarettes and have strategies for dealing with those situations in other ways.
Delay. Cravings usually go away within 10 minutes.
Distract. Learn guitar, take up knitting, put up a greenhouse, or experiment in the kitchen. Find new interests to keep your hands, mind and mouth busy.
Deep breathe. Relax and focus your mind on something else.
Drink water. Flush the bad stuff out of your system while keeping your hands and mouth busy. And while you're at it, eat healthy.
Do something. Walk, run, bike or swim. As little as five minutes of physical activity can reduce your desire to smoke.
5. Quit—and believe it. Think of yourself as a non-smoker and celebrate every success. If you slip up, don't think you've failed. Learn the lesson and try, try again.
Nearly half of Canada's smokers try to quit each year, many more than once. Younger smokers are most likely to make the attempt. Cutting back is the most common strategy for quitting, used in more than two-thirds of attempts, and rising.


Cafe 70 joined our Mission to help provide access to "Clean Water for All by 2030". This Mission was initiated by the United Nations.
A big thank you to Cafe 70's team and customers for joining this extremely important mission on 31 January 2018.
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The Performance of a Thermally Cross-Linked Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIM-1) for Gas Separation
Fahd Alghunaimi
Gas transport properties of PIM-1 (the first ladder polymer with intrinsic microporosity) and TC-PIM-1 (thermally cross-linked PIM-1) at 35°C and different pressures were thoroughly studied. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the performance of the TC-PIM-1 membranes with PIM-1 for natural gas separation. The TC-PIM-1 polymer was prepared by post-modification of PIM-1 at 300°C for a period of two days. Sorption isotherms of seven gases, including N2, O2, CH4, CO2, C2H6, C3H8 and n-C4H10, were determined for PIM-1 and TC-PIM-1 using the dual-volume barometric sorption technique at 35°C at different pressures. The sorption isotherms followed the dual-mode sorption model, which is typical for glassy polymers. Moreover, permeability (P) of eight gases, including He, H2, N2, O2, CH4, CO2, C3H8 and n-C4H10, were determined for PIM-1 and TC-PIM-1 at 35°C and 2.0 atm. Furthermore, average diffusion coefficients (D ̅) were calculated from the permeability and solubility data for all tested gases for both polymers. The sorption (S), permeability (P) and average diffusion coefficients (D ̅) for the TC-PIM-1 membrane exhibited lower values than the PIM-1 membrane. However, the TC-PIM-1 membrane showed exceptional gas separation performance. The TC-PIM-1 membrane had a helium (He) permeability of 1218 barrer with He/CH4 and He/N2 ideal selectivities of 27.1 and 23.9 respectively, and carbon dioxide (CO2) permeability of 1088 barrer with CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 ideal selectivities of 24.2 and 21.3 respectively. Additionally, the TC-PIM-1 membrane showed a hydrogen (H2) permeability of 2452 barrer with an ideal H2/CH4 selectivity of 54.5.
Ingo Pinnau (Supervisor)
PIM-1
Gas Sorption
Cross-Linked
Microporosity


Victorian living room furniture is usually made of wood and is characterized by being large and striking which are usually hand-carved, with wavy lines and legs in the shape of animal claws. For example, the dining room tables are round and heavy, and the chairs are upholstered in leather; the beds are big and solid. And as for the floors, these are characterized by being made of wood, or covered with carpets. If you are a person who likes dark colors wood is your first choice for floors, but instead if you lean more on the side of colors, then you can put carpets on the floors to give that touch of personality to the room.
An element that is very characteristic of this style is upholstery with padding. Since they give more shape to the pieces, as for example in the armchairs and in the chairs. And another element that can never be missing in the Victorian style decoration is the giant and heavy mirrors, with detailed frames as this gives a lot of elegance to the room.
In this style of decoration, when we talk about accessories or decorative elements, these should be excessive and extravagant, such as some exotic piece, a giant bottle with many flowers, marble-faced fireplaces, glass windows, carpets Orientals and even animal trophies.
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But one love brings heaven to your home.
Your darkness glows as ebony wood.
to find the foreskin of your humanity.
a broth of creamy, white pap.
and my sole is blonde.
when you poke the humus deeper.
leaping from lips of a wild cat.
how shall I write my story?
their tales are twisted tubers.
on a path to home.
Agbaakin Oluwatoyosi Jeremiah, a Nigerian poet, studies law at the University of Ibadan. A four-time finalist of the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest, he was also a finalist in the 2014 Christopher Okigbo Poetry contest and the PIN Poetry Challenge. He works have been published or are forthcoming in the Sentinel Quarterly, NIGMA Magazine, BPPC Anthology, The Kalahari Review, Sub-Saharan Magazine, NCL, Elsieisy, W. R. R, Kreative Diadem, etc.


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import { SessionStorageService } from 'ng2-webstorage';
import { StateDeclaration } from 'ui-router-ng2';

@Injectable()
export class StateStorageService {
    constructor(
        private $sessionStorage: SessionStorageService
    ){}

    getPreviousState() {
        return this.$sessionStorage.retrieve('previousState');
    }

    resetPreviousState() {
        this.$sessionStorage.clear('previousState');
    }

    storePreviousState(previousStateName, previousStateParams) {
        let previousState = { 'name': previousStateName, 'params': previousStateParams };
        this.$sessionStorage.store('previousState', previousState);
    }

    getDestinationState(){
        return this.$sessionStorage.retrieve('destinationState');
    }

    storeDestinationState(destinationState: StateDeclaration, destinationStateParams,fromState: StateDeclaration){
        let destinationInfo =
        {
            'destination': {
                'name': destinationState.name,
                'data': destinationState.data,
                'parent': destinationState.parent
            },
            'params': destinationStateParams,
            'from': {
                'name': fromState.name,
                'data': fromState.data,
                'parent': fromState.parent
             }
        };
        this.$sessionStorage.store('destinationState', destinationInfo);
    }
}

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package unquietcode.tools.closures;

import unquietcode.tools.closures.view.ClosureView;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;

/**
 * @author  Benjamin Fagin
 * @version 12-31-2010
 *
 *
 * Chains are a series of linked ClosureView objects. Execution starts at the first and proceeds to the end.
 * Each closure is left in charge of how to handle the inputs and outputs. Because each closure outputs a single
 * object, arrays of objects can be returned, which will be fed to the next closure as varargs. Only the last closure
 * need return the 'correct' return type, as specified in the type parameter (optional, of course).
 *
 * All of the normal concerns apply: No concurrency out of the box, mutable objects passed as arguments could produce
 * unexpected results, etc.
 *
 * It should be pointed out that by default no validation occurs here whatsoever. Null closures will throw a Java NPE
 * when they are executed. The "expectedArguments" value is ignored.
 *
 * However, enabling validation will wrap these errors in an unchecked @see{ClosureException}.
 *
 */
public class Chain<Z> implements Iterable<ClosureView<Z>> {
	private LinkedList<ClosureView<Z>> chain = new LinkedList<ClosureView<Z>>();
	private boolean validate = false;
	//final Class expectedReturn;

	public Chain() {
		// nothing for now
	}

	/**
	 * Takes a series of ClosureView elements and combines them into a "chain".
	 *
	 * @param closures
	 */
	public Chain(ClosureView<Z>...closures) {
		for (ClosureView<Z> c : closures) {
			chain.add(c);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Takes a series of Chain elements and combines them into a new Chain.
	 *
	 * @param chains
	 */
	public Chain(Chain<Z>...chains) {
		for (Chain<Z> c : chains)
			for (ClosureView<Z> cv : c.chain)
				chain.addLast(cv);
	}

	public void setValidation(boolean validate) {
		this.validate = validate;
	}

	public boolean isValidated() {
		return validate;
	}

	/**
	 * Prepends a series of closures to the chain.
	 *
	 * @param   closures    ClosureView objects to prepend.
	 * @return  this Chain, with the newly added closures
	 */
	public Chain<Z> prepend(ClosureView<Z>...closures) {
		for (int i=closures.length-1; i >= 0; --i) {
			chain.addFirst(closures[i]);
		}

		return this;
	}

	/**
	 * Appends a series of closures to the chain.
	 *
	 * @param   closures    ClosureView objects to append.
	 * @return  this Chain, with the newly added closures
	 */
	public Chain<Z> append(ClosureView<Z>...closures) {
		for (ClosureView<Z> closure : closures) {
			chain.addLast(closure);
		}

		return this;
	}

	/*
	 * Inserts a ClosureView into the desired location.
	 *
	 */
	public Chain<Z> insert(int i, ClosureView<Z> closure) {
		chain.add(i, closure);
		return this;
	}

	/*
	 * Inserts an existing chain into the desired location.
	 *
	 */
	public Chain<Z> insert(int i, Chain<Z> chain) {
		for (int j=chain.chain.size()-1; j >= 0; --j) {
			this.chain.add(i, chain.chain.get(j));
		}

		return this;
	}

	/*
	 * Removes a closure from the desired location, shifting everything after it to the left.
	 *
	 */
	public Chain<Z> remove(int i) {
		chain.remove(i);
		return this;
	}

	/*
	 * Gets a closure at the index.
	 *
	 */
	public ClosureView<Z> get(int i) {
		return chain.get(i);
	}

	/**
	 * Prepends a series of closures to the chain.
	 *
	 * @param   chains    ClosureView objects to prepend.
	 * @return  this Chain, with the newly added closures
	 */
	public Chain<Z> prepend(Chain<Z>...chains) {
		for (int i = chains.length-1; i >= 0; --i) {
			Chain<Z> c = chains[i];

			for (int j = c.chain.size()-1; j >= 0; --j) {
				chain.addFirst(c.chain.get(j));
			}
		}

		return this;
	}

	/**
	 * Appends a series of closures to the chain.
	 *
	 * @param   chains    ClosureView objects to append.
	 * @return  this Chain, with the newly added closures
	 */
	public Chain<Z> append(Chain<Z>...chains) {
		for (Chain<Z> c : chains)
			for (ClosureView<Z> cv : c.chain)
				chain.addLast(cv);

		return this;
	}

	/**
	 * Execute the chain, starting from the first to the last (index 0 to size-1).
	 *
	 * @param args
	 * @return
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public Z run(Object...args) {
		Object result = null;

		if (validate) {
			int lcv = -1;

			for (ClosureView<Z> closure : chain) {
				++lcv;

				if (closure == null)
					throw new ClosureChainException("Closure is null and will not execute! Index: " + lcv);

				try {

					int expected = closure.getExpectedArgs();
					if (args == null && expected != 1) {
						throw new ClosureChainException("Wrong number of arguments. Expected: 0, Found: 1");
					} else if (expected != args.length) {
						throw new ClosureChainException("Wrong number of arguments. Expected: " + expected + ", Found: " + args.length);
					}

					result = closure.run(args);

					if (result == null) {
						args = new Object[]{null};
					} else if (result.getClass().isArray()) {
						args = (Object[]) result;
					} else {
						args = new Object[]{result};
					}
				} catch (ClosureChainException ex) {
					throw ex;
				} catch (Exception ex) {
					throw new ClosureChainException("Error while executing closure.", ex);
				}
			}
		} else {
			for (ClosureView<Z> closure : chain) {
				result = closure.run(args);

				if (result == null) {
					args = new Object[]{null};
				} else if (result.getClass().isArray()) {
					args = (Object[]) result;
				} else {
					args = new Object[]{result};
				}
			}
		}

		if (validate) {
			try {
				return (Z) result;
			} catch (Exception ex) {
				throw new ClosureChainException("Could not return result.", ex);
			}
		} else {
			return (Z) result;
		}
	}

	public int size() {
		return chain.size();
	}

	public Iterator<ClosureView<Z>> iterator() {
		return chain.iterator();
	}
}


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Antennas and Propagation
Electromagnetic Analysis
GNSS Technology
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Microwave and RF Engineering
Software Engineering and IT
Solid State Technology
Space Technologies
Identity Management-Concepts, Technologies, and Systems
By (author)s: Elisa Bertino, Kenji Takahashi
Print Book £104.00 Qty:
Digital identity can be defined as the digital representation of the information known about a specific individual or organization. Digital identity management technology is an essential function in customizing and enhancing the network user experience, protecting privacy, underpinning accountability in transactions and interactions, and complying with regulatory controls. This practical resource offers you a in-depth understanding of how to design, deploy and assess identity management solutions. It provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in identity management, including best practices, the standardization landscape, and the latest research finding. Additionally, you get a clear explanation of fundamental notions and techniques that cover the entire identity lifecycle.
Introduction - Basic Concepts. Identity Lifecycle. Identity Assurance. Fundamental Technologies - Identity Provisioning. Single Sign On. Attribute Sharing. Privacy Enhancements. Standards and Systems Overview. OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Liberty Alliance Identity Frameworks. OpenID. Information Card (CardSpace). Towards Harmonization. Research Prototypes. Emerging Areas. Challenges - Usability. Privacy Protection. Trust Management. Biometrics. Harmonization and Interoperability. Conclusions.; To view complete TOC:; Click Google Preview button under book title above, then click on Contents tab.;
Elisa Bertino Elisa Bertino is a professor and research director at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Kenji Takahashi Kenji Takahashi is the president and CEO of NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, Inc. in San Mateo, California. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Tokyo Institute of Technology.


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After got complicated with the [previous post](https://blog.kukuh.syafaat.id/2018/backup-flatpak/), this is the continuation.

 * Backup `.local/share/flatpak/` or rename with `.local/share/flatpak.orig/`
 * Backup `/var/lib/flatpak/` or rename with `/var/lib/flatpak.orig/`
 * Remove `.local/share/flatpak/*.*` and `/var/lib/flatpak/*.*`
 * Run `flatpak remotes` and `flatpak list`, the result should be empty
 * Copy `config` and `*.gpg` on `repo` directory from the old one (.orig) to the new one
 * Copy `app` and `runtime` directories from the old one (.orig) to the new one
 * Run `flatpak list`, the result should be your flatpak apps and runtime
 * Run `flatpak update` for `--user` and `--system`
 * If your flatpak version is 1.0.0, run `flatpak repair`.

Note the result may be vary. Happy Flatpaking! 💓📦💓📦


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Family Photo: The Maines-Pasdars - Ahoy, Matey!
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and her boys - husband Adrian Pasdar and sons Beckett Finn, 6½, and Jackson Slade, 10 - pose at the Disneyland premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, held Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.
Updated May 10, 2011 11:00 AM
Shiver me timbers!
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and her boys — husband Adrian Pasdar and sons Beckett Finn, 6½, and Jackson Slade, 10 — pose at the Disneyland premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, held Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.
"It's a little different than your average couple, but you have to deal with the same things, like raising two children — getting them to school on time, homework and dinner," says former Heroes star Pasdar, 46.
"From the outside it looks like it must be fantastic and really wonderful and it is, but it's certainly not as laden with all that excitement."