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Bolasie staying at Everton
Lyndon Lloyd | Thursday, 15 October 2020 84comments | Jump to last
Updated A proposed move for Yannick Bolasie by Middlesbrough failed to get past the stage of initial talks today and he will remain at Everton until January at least.
Bolasie, who is in the final year of his Everton contract, had been told by Carlo Ancelotti that he isn't in the Italian's plans this season and was free to find another club in order to play first-team football.
Rumoured interest from Greece and Turkey failed to materialise into anything concrete before the international deadline on 5th October but Boro reportedly offered him a potential loan move until the end of the season, according to Sky Sports.
No deal came to fruition before today's 5pm, though.
Reader Comments (84)
Drew O'Neall
Good luck Yannick.
Let's hope it happens.
Robert Leigh
Good luck to him. Doubt there'll be a fee, but perhaps we get a kicker if they get promotion.
Always comes across well, wish him all the best for the rest of his career.
This could be the departure that sends Bill Gienapp over the edge.
Stay strong, Bill.
Kieran Kinsella
Tomorrow is the deadline? Besic and all the Under-23s are still here. Time for an impromptu yard sale.
Tom Bowers
I still can't believe how many ''failures'' we have had at Goodison over the last 10 years and, whilst some have suffered at the hands of some of the managers, others just didn't put in the shift required.
Mostly water under the bridge now but a few still to be sent packing.
Bolasie looked decent for a short while with Lukaku but it didn't last.
Another one of Koeman's expensive signings. Bolasie had a bad injury, and seems like a nice guy, but the big money Koeman wasted on mediocre players was shocking.
Derek Moore
@ Will Mahon
I laughed a bit at that one.
I'm thinking how great it is we have to win seven games on the bounce before the club will move Bolasie on. They understand Mr Gienapps position and have done everything possible to retain him as a fan.
If we win on Saturday to make it eight straight I'd wager they'll not only have Bills blessing to sell Bolasie, he'd probably agree to rename his dog Shankly.
UTFT!!!
If you speak with him, Derek, remind him we're here for him...
Kieran @5, "Time for an impromptu yard sale"?
Think I will settle for a few feet out of the door, with ripped up contracts in hip pockets, as souvenirs and CVs! :-)
Brian Wilkinson
Derek the last time we won 7 on the bounce at the start of the season in all comps, our 8th opponents were Liverpool who we beat 3 nil in October 1894.
The last time we won a league derby was 17 October 2010, how ironic would it be if history repeated the above two stats, especially with this derby also being on the same day as our last derby win.
Tom @6 - it's not just the last 10 years, mate. Been going on for decades.
I don't think there is another club with such troubling/curious and borderline unlucky transfer dealings as Everton Football Club all the way to back to Tommy Lawton, interspersed with Joe Mercer and including Alan Ball, not to mention Gary Lineker and all before, during and after two World Wars and Heysel.
Absolutely incredible when you look into it... and you just wonder why? And what if?
I hope this happens for Bolasie - I always thought he tried to put a shift in. He got injured in a 50/50 tackle that he went into willingly and he tried to keep going after receiving treatment on the touch line.
Good luck to the lad.
Brian, a solid case can usually be made for pure coincidence, and chance that we work to the Gregorian calendar - but I often think there's something to this numerology thing. Here's hoping...
He would do a good job for Boro if he stays fit, he seemed to be doing well in preseason. Will they will be paying his wages in full? Hopefully Besic can find a club too.
Nick, I agree somewhat but I was really putting the edge against the multiple people who have been in charge since Moyes – who was here in the previous 11 years and did quite well with bargain signings despite very little funds.
The number of ''underachievers'' since Moyes has been amazing.
The "gravy train" still seems to have 2 years of mileage for player and associated parties. I expect, in 2 years time, we will see him begin his TV career when his image has been given some "back to where it began" shine.
Gavin Johnson
Fingers crossed. He's not gonna get a game this season!
Trevor Powell
Volunteers to drive him to Middlesborough or somewhere else?
Rob Halligan
It seems Boro only want Bolasie on loan, but seeing as his contract with Everton expires in June 2021, this is probably the end of his Everton career, should he move.
Don Alexander
I assume Boro' have a genius transfer-mastermind like Kenwright who seemingly identifies "our" Yannick as their 21st century Juninho. Ha-ha!
Yep; his name is Steve Gibson. The genius who bought Branco, built the papier mache Riverside stadium, hired Steve MacLaren. Fucking genius.
As I understand it, Boro will only take him if we subsidise the majority of his wages.
On principle, I think we should tell him to reduce his wage demands or sit on his arse and see his contract out.
Principles cost money.
Alan J Thompson
Just an aside; If a club and a player agree to cancel a contract outside of a transfer window, does this then make the player is available to sign for somebody else as an out-of-contract free agent?
Yes, I know, why not get paid for doing nothing? But is it a way around having to keep players you don't intend to play – that is, stretching the transfer window by way of a technicality?
Will (4) / Derek (8) - sorry for the late response, but I saw the headline and had to go lie down for most of the afternoon.
It's true - Sandro, Shani and Bolasie were three-quarters of the "Fab Four" I dreamed would finally shift the balance of power on the Merseyside. The fourth?
Eliaquim Mangala, of course. Who we inexplicably declined to bring back on a permanent move after his triumphant loan stint.
I also pictured great things for Leandro Rodriguez.
Mike Gaynes
Bill #27, thanks for posting. We've all been worried about you.
And I understand your grief. Personally, I've never gotten over the unaccountable dismissals of Magaye Gueye, Francisco Junior and my particular man-crush, Segundo Castillo.
Mike Allison
Wow, I had actually wiped Leandro Rodriguez from my memory. I've just had to look him up and it rings a bell very vaguely.
We've made some pretty desperate signings over the years. The thing is, they're mostly very cheap.
Alan 25, I believe you can only sign free agents if they were out of contract before the window ended. Could be wrong though.
Bill 26, The Fab Four era,
Everton supremo Farhad Moshiri claims Cenk Tosun's arrival means they have Merseyside's New Fab Four.
The Turkey striker joins Wayne Rooney, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Yannick Bolasie in Everton's attack and the Blues' majority shareholder is excited by their potential.
"Now we are comfortable with Cenk Tosun as a focal point, we have Bolasie back, Sigurdsson, Rooney - we have our own Fab Four!" he said.
Liverpool's quartet of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho had that moniker until the latter joined Barcelona.
Tony, that's embarrassing. Please never post it again!
The best thing about Bolasie was the chant that we nicked from Palace, sung to the tune of the Heartbeat TV theme.
Jack Convery
My best wishes to him. Never played for us the way he played against us with Palace. Terrible injury and he's done well to get over it. Hope Boro works out for him. Not his fault Walsh paid him that salary.
Steve Ferns
I think Yannick has given it his best shot to reclaim a place in the first-team squad. Carlo has assessed him and deemed him not good enough.
I hope he does go to Boro and does well there. He seems a decent lad (forgetting his taste in music!) and I hope he can have an Indian summer to his fading career.
Looking less likely that we'll get rid of any more of those we want rid of.
Looks very likely there'll be no incomings either.
Don't believe Josh King was ever a possibility.
Though Bolasie may have JUST made it out.
Shame these players cannot find a club to play some competitive football. They are earning decent wedge but there careers are rotting away and they won't get the time back.
Hope he proves the doubters wrong. A different option to Iwobi if Richarlison not available.
Barry McNally
Drew 38, he'll be lucky to make the bench.
Surprised that neither King nor Brooks left Bournemouth.
Soren Moyer
Career? What career? Just keep doing what you've been doing for the past few months Yannick. Sit on your arse and collect your checks for nine more months!!!
Soren, based on news, rumour and word only, it's said he's made great efforts to work his way into the manager's attention but he's been told he's surplus to requirements.
Not at all like some of the slackers before, here and at many other clubs. He just isn't quite good enough for where we are now, and who knows how much a part the injury finally played.
According to Bolasie he signed everything required to make the move before the deadline, giving up "plenty" to do so. I can never understand why these deals are left SO late. Surely things could have been sorted yesterday for instance???
Now if he did sign everything, what the fuck happened? Someone's telling porkies somewhere.
Can't understand why the deal fell through, apparently it was all sorted out and Bill was going to subsidize his wages with the Arteta money.
Mike Price
Pretend to want to play and look like a footballer. In reality you know it's your last big bite of the cake so sabotage the deal, keep picking up insane money and just go to keep fit class for the next 9 months.
#45 - Bollocks. Not one iota of evidence that there's a word of truth there. And plenty of evidence that Bolasie has been a hard worker and positive influence throughout his career.
John @44...
Brian #43,
I can only assume there's some kind of brinkmanship over terms and each side expects the other to blink first before the clock runs out. In this instance, I imagine neither Everton nor Boro blinked on wages or loan fees.
What Mike (46) said.
Worse than a four flush floater to get shut of this guy! No wonder he is bulling us up, in the media with his tweets and what have you, when he is sitting pretty on how much per week.
Still not entirely his fault, get Walsh and Koeman back and string them up by the gonads!
If he really wants to move can he negotiate an early end to his contract, say 70% of its value, so that he is a free agent?
Then Boro can sign him as a free agent and he can get most of the residual shortfall in his wages say £15k pw paid by Boro.
Can anyone tell me why this cannot happen if Bolaise really wants to play football and Boro really want to sign him?
I can't remember, wasn't he was of Moshiri's Fab Four?
Tony, I was thinking the same. Didn't West Ham recently terminate the contract of Jack Wilshire in a similar fashion, thus making him a free agent. Don't know where Wilshire ended up though.
Yes Rob, He was on £100k a week apparently, and the reached agreement with him getting 'most' of the cash paid to him and the contract then terminated.
As well as Bolaise, Pennington and Besic could do this if they wanted to play competitive football. Maybe it's because they have family, a house and / or roots where they are and they are just not motivated to move if they don't have to, just coast and leave it until the big contract runs out next summer. Also likely more inclined to put a move off with the current Covid situation.
He'll never again get the kind of money Everton pay him so why would he give it up when he doesn't have to earn it?
Pay him off and release him. Then plan to get shut of some others on the bench in January, and buy quality players like we did in the summer.
Well Neil Warnock's pissed on Bolasie's chips a bit after his explanation.
I thought there was something fishy about Bolasie's social media message.
Seemed to me he was over the top in denying anything was his fault and praising Boro almost in the hope that would be it.
Then Warnock comes out and highlights the problem, which turned out to be between Bolasie and his agent.
Bolasie's lost his credibility IMO.
Russ Quinlan
Always winds me up when players who are not playing but are on lucrative contracts (and not just Everton players) who get offers but they are basically too greedy to take a drop, and when I say a drop, that drop per week would pay for a normal person going for over a year!
My god if they were 'only' getting £75k a week instead of £100k aren't they just being bloody greedy and have no interest is actually playing football?
Conor Skelly
I've been saying this for a while and some may find my thinking to be cynical. However, these past few months I've grown suspicious of Bolasie's behaviour online, specifically pertaining to our fans on Twitter.
I believe Bolasie (under the advice of his agent) has been grooming some of the more agreeable Everton fans on Social Media these last few months, as a way of garnering sympathetic support to detract from any criticisms regarding his contract.
As far as I am concerned, Bolasie, injury or not, has done almost nothing of value to justify any payment at all.
Footballers' contracts are the type of contracts only afforded to the 1%. In the real world, if you pay money for a service, you expect something in return. If a company employs me, they can sack me for no reason at all during the first 6 months and for next to no reason for a further 18 months.
We should have been able to terminate his contract for incompetence after the first few months. Instead, we've been stuck with a lemon for the last four years.
Bolasie knew well he had no intention of taking a pay-cut to play and was always intention was to shamefully sit out his contact with us knowing full well he would give nothing of value back in return. He is legally entitled to do so. He can bleed the club of £70k a week with no intention of ever taking less.
In recent months, he has gone on the charm offensive with the fan-base. Retweeting leading fan twitter accounts, engaging with others and even going on Ped and Barry's Toffee TV show for an interview.
Graham Mockford
Man signs contract of employment, fulfils the terms of that contract, and doesn't take a pay cut.
Peter Warren
Graham, man who is a multi multi millionaire, bit much time left in his career, has realised how quick football can be taken off him, is in middle of pandemic which reinforced how short life can be chooses not to play football, to stay at club who have told him they have no desire to keep him and where he is not even close to being on the bench.
Conor, I don't exactly have the contractual power of a Premier League footballer and it appears neither do you. Given the chance, I'm sure many would've liked to in the past, to avoid working under the threat of dismissal for no reason!.
Such contracts are weighted, based on power, opportunity, supply and demand etc. I'm guessing you'd rather not operate under such terms if possible.
We never know the real inside story. All we have is to compare Bolasie with Winston Bogarde, who was flagrantly overt in his actions while at Chelsea (and again, we don't know the full story there).
Just unconfirmed hearsay but it's said he's tried hard in training and his work around the club. Imagine the other side of the coin – players with zero protection under some less considerate or rounded managers (Koeman for example).
Bolasie might actually be a real twat, I don't know. Either way I doubt guilt will guide him into doing what some consider the "Right thing" on behalf of those with whom he is in contract... or the fans.
It's an unpalatable impasse but this is the game in the Big League.
Conor #59, Peter #61, there is no evidence of any of that. Just pure supposition and unfounded "suspicion" on your parts.
You have absolutely zero supporting evidence that Everton has received offers for Bolasie, that they have accepted offers for Bolasie, and that Bolasie has refused to move. Zero.
Nor has there been a single such report in the press, not even a rumour in the papers that specialize in rumours.
Mike (63), read Brian(57), the article was on BBC text this morning.
Warnock doesn't give much away and just mentions "problems" between Everton and Bolasie that his agent didn't explain. Not really a smoking gun.
Plus remember Warnock is a guy who signs players, makes a public show of grieving over them when they die as a loss to his club, then supports his club in disavowing them altogether when it's time to pay the transfer fee for having signed them.
Kieran (65), Kieran my post was in reply to Mike's (63) last paragraph.
Warnock said that Bolasie didn't mention any problem until 4-00pm on the last day of the transfer window, said he'd told his agent the problem, then Warnock asked him why he's agent hadn't told him of the problem.
Warnock said: "I'm disappointed that we didn't get him, but that's life. There were numerous things that happened in the afternoon, and it just wasn't meant to be. I'm disappointed, but you have to move on and we'll see what happens now.
"He was disappointed, but he was partly to blame as well. There were things I should have known before four o'clock yesterday afternoon about his problems at Everton. They were problems that we couldn't overcome. Well, we tried to, and eventually we did, but it was too late.
"I've asked him why I didn't know about those problems beforehand. He said, 'Well, I told my agent', but I said, 'Well why didn't the bloody agent tell us that?' The agent was talking to Neil (Bausor) quite a lot – he should have come up with these problems, not at four o'clock."
Bolasie like other players signed in that era without proper due diligence. We seem to have moved on from paying top money for grossly over rated players. Far to much credit was given to Walsh's role in the success of Leicester and consequently Everton paid the price.
As far as I'm aware thsse loan deals usually involve the parent club and the loan club negotiating the split of the wages if we loaned a player of the calibre of say Coutinho we would of course expect to pay 100% of the wages and potentially a sizeable loan fee. that's for a player who would add quality to the team. A player like Bolasie dropping down a division we'd be lucky if they paid 15k a week of it without a loan fee. Arguments about him taking a drop in wages seem off the mark for me, very likely that wherever he went he would have a 100% of his wages paid, mostly by Everton presumably. So therefore the fact he didn't go somewhere shows he's not that bothered about playing and is happy to sit around getting paid, effectively wasting the last years of his career. which in my book makes him a complete shithouse and like Besic before him, I have lost all respect for that type of attitude.
Bolasie is in his 30s, had a major injury not long ago and has a contract expiring in 10 months. After that there is no guarantee he will ever be paid a dime to play football again. So why would he risk his family's long term financial future by taking a massive pay cut for 9 months? Doesn't make him a shithouse. Most people would be similarly pragmatic in his position.
Agreed Kieran.
The other thing is Everton is the pinnacle of his career. Sure, he played his best football at Palace, but this was his biggest stage. How many of us, if in his position, would not fight tooth and nail to hang onto it?
I watch Sporting. I saw him play a good few times for them. I never saw him at Villa or Anderlecht. The Bolasie at Sporting showed, like he did in pre-season, that he is over the injury. The pace was back, the tricks were back. The old Bolasie fire was not quite, but he always played in moments anyway. Those moments were just fewer.
I would not be shocked to see him out on the pitch in royal blue at some point this season. He's not being shunned like Niasse. So, if there are injuries and suspensions, he may well get a chance.
For now, he's doing everything he can to get himself into the Everton team. It is unreasonable to expect him to admit he's not good enough and just take a pay cut and leave. We do not know the full reason why he did not move to Boro, and reports can easily be wrong.
Dave, Brian, thanks for the additional info. If Warnock's account is accurate and Bolasie's agent didn't communicate properly about problems with Everton, that still lends no credibility to the accusation that Bolasie refused to move, that he prefers not to play and his "intention was to shamefully sit out his contact". Warnock himself said Bolasie was disappointed.
Even if Bolasie and/or his agent screwed up, it doesn't make him Bogarde.
As I said Keiran, I don't understand where all this came from about Bolasie taking a pay cut to go anywhere, as far as I am aware the parent club has to fulfil the rest of the contracted wages regardless. If you'd read my post I state that view clearly. I agree with you to an extent though, I also wouldn't go somewhere for considerably less either, it's a job at the end of the day, I don't believe that to be the case with most loans though, so if I am correct (and I may well not be) then he has effectively chosen to sit around stinking the place out rather than playing, that for me makes him a shithouse. if I am wrong however and a loan would have meant a considerable paycut for him then yes I would be more sympathetic of his plight. As others have suggested, I'm sceptical about his recent charm offensive and the agents withholding of key information, smacks of deal sabotage to me.
Steve, yes, and his odds have certainly improved in recent weeks with Kean's departure, Bernard's apparent loss of favor (zero Prem minutes this season) and Richarlison's suspension. If at some point in the next month we're down a goal late and need an attacking option on the wing, Bolasie might just find himself out there.
Jeff Armstrong
Personally I think Bolasie would be a better impact sub than Iwobi, (see Saturday's 20 minute cameo).
Carlo's comments suggested he thought Bolasie would be leaving so he probably didn't give him any consideration up until now. Since he is here still, the scenario has changed. I would imagine he has a fighting chance of getting a game ahead of Iwobi, Gordon and Bernard.
If Bolasie gets a game ahead of those three you mention Kieran I will eat my considerably large hat!
Can't see him getting a game as Carlo has told him he is not part of his plans and was training with the U23's. I assume he still is.
Bolasie
Iwobi
In that order for me, as to who should replace Richy wide right,
bu Ancelotti will play safe and keep Gomes in the middle with Gylfi out wide.
Mike (72) I seems to me, if Bolasie really wanted the move he would have had his side of the move all ready to go before the last hour of the transfer window. It looks to me as though the agent was leaving it up to the player, if you want to go then just sign the papers,which he did when it was too late. The agent got the same per centage of Bolasie's wages whether he moved or not.
That is the end of speculation as he has not been named in the Premier League squad. Neither has Besic or Anthony Gordon which I find strange.
Michael Kenrick
Clive, there's no requirement for the club to name U23 players like Anthony Gordon in the senior squad. I believe they can play as many as they like as the season unfolds.
Thanks Michael. I did pick that up when I read the article on the squad. Should have read that first.
Bolasie's case is a weird one. We don't see the day to day, so I assume Carlo doesn't like his application or attitude. He is this year's Niasse! Couldn't do any worse than Iwobi at the moment though.
With all these injuries/suspensions, he should get a place in the squad at least but I don't think he's even registered for us to play in the Premier League!
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Q: Run tests in Jenkins automatically after each commit (change) I an using jenkins and I would like my tests to run automatically after each commit.
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Github Hook Log: Polling has not run yet.
Is there anything that I forgot?
P.S. I can run my tests manually (Click on Build now) and I can see my commits (changes) when I build my test.

A: I would first check if the post-receive URL has really been set by Jenkins. Go to github.com/YOURNAME/REPO/admin/hooks and open Post-Receive URLs
If there is nothing, you could follow the instructions above on how to install the hook yourself.
If the hook is there in github.com, try to click on the Test Hook button. Did it trigger a build?
If the build still does not work, check if there is a firewall in between github and your Jenkins that could prevent github.com from connecting to your jenkins.
More information on debugging github hooks is at http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/

A: I have same issue to solve that i add a Poll SCM Builds Triggers and Schedule it for every 2 min H/2 * * * *


And for the record, I was so right about giving Phylly the Do Wah Diddy Diddy Award. More on that later.
I also made several promises last year that I intend to make good on this year. No, that's not a burden. It will be a joy. One of those is the Little Guy contest. More on that later today.
I wouldn't have a problem with waking up to that look every morning! In fact, I believe sleep would elude me if that package was anywhere NEAR the vicinity!
Frenzy, love to hear your take on the other bloggers in Armitage world. If you like to quote them, even better. "I should quote myself more often" is a favourite quote of mine :). I do refer to other RA bloggers too sometimes, and feel kinda naughty about that, if I take a bit of distance. Changing perceptive gives fresh viewing angles, like that picture taken from the mountain with a view over Wellington (haven´t seen that picture yet, but I know it´s around, that´s enough for me).


تزويد الطلاب بالمفاهيم العامة والأساسية في بيئة الأفراد والجماعات والمجتمعات الأرضية والمائية. وأنواع التلوث والملوثات المخلتفة.
Objective To provide graduate students with basic concepts of ecology. Individuals and populations, terrestrial and aquatic communities ecology, types of pollution and pollutants.
Contents Introduction, ecology of individuals: organisms limiting factors, important abiotic factors, disperad Population Ecology; structure and diversity; Biomass system Population regulation, interspecific competition. Community and Ecosystem ecology: zoogeography. aquatic ecological zones and ecosystems in Saudi Arabia, ecological relationship between plankton and Nekton in marine, fresh water, and estuarine habitats. ffects of ecological factors on aquatic animals and their midia. Aquatic community straification. Proudctivity, methods and measurements and primary productivity. Pollution and pollutiant. Ozone layer pollution, Heavy metals, oxides, seage and hydrocarbons pollution. Pesticides and physical polltion.


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From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own. Recovered war criminal, Ona Sudak, faces a firing squad for her actions in the Archipelago War. But, at the last moment, she is smuggled out of her high security prison. The Marble Armada has called for her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison, as it spreads itself across the human Generality, enforcing the peace at all costs. The alien ships will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with overwhelming and implacable force. Then her vessel intercepts messages from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog has a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure. As the Trouble Dog and her crew fight to save the crew of the Lucy's Ghost, the ship finds herself caught between chaotic alien monsters on one side, and on the other, destruction at the hands of the Marble Armada.
Grigor McClelland served as a Quaker relief worker in British-occupied Germany between May 1945 and June 1946, working first for "Displaced Persons" who had been brought to work in Germany during the war and stranded there. These were mainly Russians and Poles, but also people from most of the other countries of Europe, often perplexed as to whether they could or should return home. From December 1945 McClelland and his team transferred to work on the problems of the German population in part of the Ruhr. They distributed food and other supplies, helped German welfare and youth organizations to start again, and liaised closely with the British Military Government and with the new civilian administration, working cheek by jowl with the Swedish and Swiss agencies. The team had entered Germany whilst General Montgomery's "non-fraternization" order was in force, but soon their lives mingled with those of Germans, they sat up late at night with them, discussing religion, politics, literature and art, and developed some lasting friendships. McClelland met many survivors of Nazi concentration camps and visited two camps run by the British for Nazis and suspected Nazis. He heard Pastor Martin Niemoeller talk about the Guilt Question to a hostile audience of Westphalian pastors, and visited the War Crimes Trial at Nuremberg. He and his fellow workers were addressed by General Montgomery, and met the saintly pacifist, Pastor Wilhelm Mensching, and his congregation. The letters in this book, which were written by McClelland during those 13 months in Germany, provide a day-by-day account of the relief team's life and work, the conditions they tackled and the people they met.
Embers of War is an epic tale of the rivalry between two sisters and the devastating effects of the Great War on an isolated French town. July 1914. In an isolated French village the young people dance at the wedding of Agathe and Philippe. Helene, the bride's romantic younger sister, flirts with Roland; the priest lusts after the provocative Lucinde who disappears to make love to Marius; the older women look on and gossip maliciously. One month later war is declared and 400 men leave for the Front - almost half never return. Embers of War is an epic tale of the devastating effect of war. It is a story of frustrated passion, love and loss. For many years Lesley Lever lived in a remote farm high in the mountains of the Massif Central. In Embers of War she captures the complex relationships of village life and the harsh beauty of the landscape.
ONE WAR ENDS...AND ANOTHER BEGINS... For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive victory for their employer. They settle afterward in for a needed period of rebuilding, and a few months' peace before moving on to the next contract. But their respite does not last. More mercenaries, hired by the Allied Mercenary Command itself, land on Hall. They believe the Tigers' employer to be league with the Word of Blake, a shadowy interstellar organization that worships technology, and which has been building its own empire among the worlds around Terra. The Tigers want nothing of this battle, but war rages across the Inner Sphere. The hard-fought cease-fire cannot last, even on Hall, and when every faction is embittered and fueled by fervor, peace has no chance at all. As a new conflict erupts, will the Stealthy Tigers' BattleMechs be enough to save them? Or will the looming threat of renewed war engulf them in its fiery embrace?


During the ten weeks you will explore techniques to aid tackling form, shape, line, proportions and the use of tone within the drawing process; perceiving, creating and presenting a drawn dialogue. The course will includes the chance to experiment with black and white materials, as well as trialling the use of colour in two hour long sessions. Media will include drawing (pencils, graphite, charcoal, and ink) and a plethora of traditional and new mark-making techniques; moderately referring to further painting, printing and collage. All courses will involve both group and individual tuition from an experienced tutor, and use male and female life models (unclothed).
Excellent tuition. Learnt lots of new techniques. I felt that I made real progress through Alex's advice and tuition.


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For your comfort and to preserve the life of your mattress, it is important not to over-inflate. When sitting on your inflated mattress, you should feel the floor close to your buttocks. Once you are lying down, the air pressure will be distributed under your entire body and will provide you with optimal comfort. You can use an integrated manometer pump, like our Quechua 5.2 L: the recommended pressure level is about 0.3 to 0.5 PSI.
Warning: the length indicated can vary up to plus or minus 10% depending on the pressure at which you inflate your mattress.
Care instructions: Do not tumble dry. Hand wash. Do not dry clean.
Stock advice To fold your mattress without damaging it, we advise you to fold it in four on the width side and then roll it. Keep it away from moisture and extreme temperatures.


I've been waiting to show you this for a while now! And now it's here!
In this 30 minute video, you'll see the musicians around the world who contributed to creating this brand new Celtic Fantasy Metal album, what it was like to create something like this, and how we pulled it off being in separate locations all around the world!It won't be long now!!
The concept for "The Quest" is very simple: we're all on a journey, and sometimes we lose our way. There are adventures, wildernesses, treasures, monsters, looters, people out to send us down the wrong path. Through it all, we must grow in wisdom and experience, find our compass once again and find our way back to the true path in order to reach our full potential: our destiny.
Leah's latest album "Kings & Queens" has been released on January 30th 2015 in Europe and on February 3rd in North America through Inner Wound Recordings. An Impressive new album from Leah featuring Timo Somers [Delain], Sander Zoer [ex. Delain] and Barend Courbois [Blind Guardian, Vengeance].
Our review of "Kings & Queens" can be found here.


Test your knowledge about the consumer camera market!
More info about The Long Tail of Cameras report.
1. What % of the respondents or their partner own at least one "long tail" camera (i.e. a 360 camera, 180 stereoscopic camera, Drone camera, Action cam, no-viewfinder camera, Instant print camera, Pet camera, Glasses camera)?
Wow, you are off to a great start!
2. Which of the following long tail camera types is more often owned by female respondents than male respondents? *This question is required.
Great! It shows you know (other) females - at least in this regard!
Oops, that's not quite right.
3. True or false: More than 50% of the respondents who own a pet camera, glasses camera, no-viewfinder camera, 180 camera, 360 camera or digital cameras use these particular cameras at least once a week. *This question is required.
Excellent! Granted, you had a 50% chance to have this right.
Nope, but you are close.
4. Which answer scored the highest for this question: What could make you use your digital camera more often? [select the most compelling hypothetical scenario] *This question is required.
This might be applicable to other camera types, but didn't score the highest for digital cameras.
5. True or false: Fewer than 25% of the respondents who don't currently own a digital camera are considering purchasing one this year. *This question is required.
You are right; this is wrong! The future for digital cameras is a bit rosier than that.
Answer: False. 49% of respondents who don't currently own a digital camera are considering purchasing one this year.
That's not right; things are a little rosier for digital cameras than you might think.
Answer: False. In reality, 49% of respondents who don't currently own a digital camera are considering purchasing one this year.
6. Which demographic segmentation makes the most difference with respect to how likely our respondents are to think they will buy a long tail camera?
Parenthood: differences between respondents with or without children under 18 living with them.
Answer: Age. Age differences mattered for all 8 long tail cameras that we presented in this study. Gender and parenthood differences only mattered for some of these camera types.
No, sorry, the data tell us differently.


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Q: Add multiple images to video fluent-ffmpeg I manage to add a single image to a video starting at a certain time and ending at a certain time, but I cannot find a way to do this for multiple images. I use fluent-ffmpeg.
This is the code I have:
ffmpeg('../videos/testklein.mp4')
     .input('../src/test.png')
     .input('../src/0.png')
     .input('../src/1.png')
     .addOptions([
        "-strict -2"
     ])

     .complexFilter([
        {
          filter: 'overlay',
          options: {
            x: 200,
            y: 200,
            enable: 'between(t,1,3)',

          }}, {
          filter: 'overlay',
          options: {
            x: 200,
            y: 200,
            enable: 'between(t,3,5)',
          }},
           {
          filter: 'overlay',
          options: {
             x: 200,
            y: 200,
            enable: 'between(t,5,7)',
          }
      },

    ])

I suppose I need to explicitly state what filter should take what file, but I am not sure about the syntax for that.

A: This is the right syntax:
The first one add inputs [0:v][1:v] and outputs ['tmp']
Then add ['tmp'] as inputs for the next one. For 2 images:
I can add as many images as I want.
Pass the 'tmp' as 2nd argument to complexFilter!
(You can ofcourse change tmp to any string)
.complexFilter(
    [
      {
        "filter": "overlay",
        "options": {
          "enable": "between(t,2,4)",
          "x": "810",
          "y": "465"
        },
        "inputs": "[0:v][1:v]",
        "outputs": "tmp"
      },
      {
        "filter": "overlay",
        "options": {
          "enable": "between(t,13,14)",
          "x": "810",
          "y": "465"
        },
        "inputs": "[tmp][2:v]",
        "outputs": "tmp"
      }
    ], 'tmp')

A: i was searching for adding multiple images in a simple complexFilter then i found this code working but after rendering the video the sound was being removed. After making a lot of changes I found a solution for audio.
add an outputOption in your code

.outputOptions(["-map 0:a"])

Sharing this if anyone is having the audio problem.


UPDATE: Fairfield – We're Going Home!!!
Finally! We are going home to Fairfield after nearly 2 years! Friday, 19th February is the big day. The new timetable will be ready to publish on Sunday, 7 February. All members will be advised by email of their new training session times.


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Weekly Vlog: March 15-21, 2021 – Socialising Outdoors!
March 25, 2021 March 25, 2021 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment
In this week's Vlog; my adventures in Forza Horizon 4 take on a LEGO twist with the LEGO Speed Champions DLC, I give my thoughts on Season 3 of Netflix's F1 docuseries Drive To Survive, I take my Sony Handycam FDR-AX53 with me as I get out into the world to socialise outdoors with a friend for the first time in over a year and there's a reboot of my old drinks review show, Paul Douglas Drinks to Beverages featuring Fentiman's Light Rose Lemonade and Gusto Organic Real Cherry Cola!
Xbox One Debacle Redux
June 20, 2013 August 10, 2013 / TVPaulD / 1 Comment
So, yesterday, Microsoft did a one-eighty on their consumer-hostile disc-based game DRM policies. All through today, some people have been lamenting the loss of the Xbox One Family Sharing plan as a part of that. As it turns out, they shouldn't have been. It turns out, it was going to be awful. One of the architects of the Xbox One has (allegedly) posted the following information on PasteBin. It's got more than its fair share of crazy, and I'm going to respond to it paragraph-by-paragraph.
It's 4am and I'm still up, some hours ago, we at Microsoft had to basically redact on our Always Online infrastructure and dream. Being part of the team that created the entire infrastructure to include the POS (point of sale) mechanisms I must say that I am extremely sad to see it removed. But the consumer knows what is best, I can place the blame on no one but us here at Microsoft. We didn't do a good enough job explaining all the benefits that came with this new model. We spent too much of our time fighting against the negative impressions that many people in the media formed. I feel that if we spent less time on them and more time explaining the great features we had lined up and the ones in the pipes gamers and media alike would have aligned to our vision. That stated, we felt the people we would have loss would have been made up by the people we would have gained. We have 48 million Xbox 360 users connected online nearly 24 hours a day. That is much more than any of our closet competitors and vastly more than Steam. The people that we would have left behind I feel would have eventually come around as they saw what advantages the platform had to offer. But as I previously stated we at Microsoft have no one to blame other than ourselves for failing to convince those hesitant to believe in our new system. Microsoft might be a big company, but we at the Xbox division have always been for the gamer. Everything we've done has always been for them, we have butt heads with the executives many times on what we've wanted to, some times we lost (removing the onboard processor from Kinect 1.0) and other times we've won (keeping Gears of War as an exclusive).
Okay, right off the bat he's off to a bad start, because he just tried to characterise "making Gears of War an Xbox console-exclusive" as being something done for the benefit of gamers. Now, on some level, I'm sure there are Xbox fans who were pleased Gears never went to PlayStation. But, really, nobody but Microsoft benefitted from that.
While publishers have never come right out to us at MS and say "We want you to do something about used gaming" we could hear it in their voices and read it in their numerous public statements. The used gaming industry is slowly killing them and every attempt to slow down the bleeding was met with much resistance from the gaming community. I will admit that online passes were not well received nor were they well implemented, but I felt given time to mature it could have turned into something worth having as a gamer much like DLC (we went from pointless horse armor to amazing season passes like Borderlands 2!). Videogame development is a loss leader by definition and unlike other forms of media videogames only have one revenue stream and that is selling to you the gamer. So when you buy a game used you're hurting developers much more than say a movie studio. Many gamers fail to realize this when they purchase these preowned games. It is impossible to continue to deliver movie like experiences at the current costs without giving up something in return. It's what gamers want and expect, the best selling games are blockbusters, the highest rated are blockbusters, the most loved are blockbusters. How can developers continue to create these experiences if consumers refuse to support them? Many will argue the development system is broken, and I disagree. The development system is near broken, it's used gaming that is broken, but regardless I think more emphasis on this from both us at Microsoft and publishers would have gone a long way in helping educate the gamer, but again it is us who dropped the ball in this regard for that we're sorry.
Here we have a tired re-tread of the false idea that used gaming is killing the gaming industry. It really isn't. If it was, used sales would be killing every entertainment industry that has them. Further, there is absolutely zero reason to believe that eliminating the used option would lead to more sales of new games, and every reason to believe it would just mean less sales overall. But you all know this. Hell, even the third party publishers have had to start begrudgingly admitting this. Used sales allow the new game buyers of the future (kids) to develop interest in franchises they will be loyal customers to later. Used sales contribute to the ecosystem. But again, you all know this. Microsoft was fundamentally out of touch with the real world on this.
Next, he suggests Online Passes might have evolved into something positive for consumers. That's…Certainly dreaming big. I fail to see how that is even conceptually possible myself. Maybe you guys have some idea what the hell he was getting at? I sure don't.
Anyway, he moves on to blaming consumers for the industry being inefficient and not generating enough money, whilst adamantly refusing to accept the idea that if you can't afford to produce something you should probably find a cheaper way to produce it. He's blaming consumers, and then he almost flat out calls consumers stupid, saying that Microsoft needed to 'educate' consumers about how unfair it was of them to want to pay less for games, as if seeking the highest possible value is somehow a behaviour unique to gamers and not something any rational consumer does. Frankly, it arguably becomes more insulting as he continues, because no sooner has he implied we're stupid and Microsoft are a benevolent force seeking to enlighten us, than he tries to walk it back by dropping a quick "but it's our bad" – without, actually, retracting the implication that consumers are wrong and Microsoft alone knows what's best.
Going back to Xbox One's feature set, one of the features I was most proud of was Family Sharing. I've browsed many gaming forums and saw that many people were excited about it as well! That made my day the first time I saw gamers start to think of amazing experiences that could come from game sharing. It showed that my work resonated with the group for which I helped create it for. I will admit that I was not happy with how some of my fellow colleagues handled explaining the systems and many times pulled my hair out as I felt I could have done a better job explaining and selling the ideas to the press and public at large. I'm writing this for that reason, to explain to gamers how many of the features would have worked and how many of them will still work.
I find this kind of incredible. He seems to be implying there was absolutely a clearly-defined, succinct set of principles and ideas. If that's the case, why did employees like himself not simply produce a simple, one-page memo for the likes of Don Mattrick and Phil Harrison to memorise? Anyway, more on this later.
First is family sharing, this feature is near and dear to me and I truly felt it would have helped the industry grow and make both gamers and developers happy. The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn't have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they're placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game. We were toying around with a limit on the number of times members could access the shared game (as to discourage gamers from simply beating the game by doing multiple playthroughs). but we had not settled on an appropriate way of handling it. One thing we knew is that we wanted the experience to be seamless for both the person sharing and the family member benefiting. There weren't many models of this system already in the wild other than Sony's horrendous game sharing implementation, but it was clear their approach (if one could call it that) was not the way to go. Developers complained about the lost sales and gamers complained about overbearing DRM that punished those who didn't share that implemented by publishers to quell gamers from taking advantage of a poorly thought out system. We wanted our family sharing plan to be something that was talked about and genuinely enjoyed by the masses as a way of inciting gamers to try new games.
And this is where it gets ridiculous.
The way Family Sharing was understood, based on Microsoft's vague FAQ, people shared to would have full access to the game. Nothing ever implied otherwise. The questions were all about how many people could use how many games at once, and what the prerequisites for being included in someone's sharing plan were. Now, to be fair, he addressed the latter, and the requirements were indeed at the more positive end of the readings people had of the FAQ.
But here he is, trying to make us believe that Family Sharing was this huge, mind-blowing revolution…And what we find is, it was actually way more limited than the version we were all imagining, which we were still not universally sure was worth the tradeoff. His whole aim in writing this was to convince us the old Xbox One philosophy was better after all, and it turns out it was actually worse than we imagined when we rejected the idea in the first place.
This is stunning. I cannot believe Microsoft actually thought this was going to win people over to their policies. I mean…Look, at PlayStation Meeting 2013 (Sony's two-hour 'The Future of PlayStation' reveal of the PS4), Sony had the CEO of their newly acquired Gaikai service reveal that Sony plans to allow everygame on the PSN Store to be tried before purchase, instantly, by streaming the game. Now, sure, Microsoft was going to let the games run natively and we don't know if Sony's option will allow progress to carry over to the full game (It's unlikely to). But, on the other hand, you don't need to be in a friend who has the game's sharing group. That's one less hoop to jump through. Microsoft's solution is really not that impressive. Frankly, it's kind of pathetic. Fifteen minutes? Are you kidding me? It'd take longer to download & install the game!
The motto around the offices for the family plan was "It's the console gaming equivalent to spotify and pandora" it was a social network within itself! The difference between the family sharing and the typical store demo is that your progress is saved as if it was the full game, and the data that was installed for that shared game doesn't need to be erased when they purchase the full game! It gave incentive to share your games among your peers, it gave games exposure, it allowed old games to still generate revenue for publishers. At the present time we're no longer going forward with it, but it is not completely off the table. It is still possible to implement this with the digital downloaded versions of games, and in fact that's the plan still as far as I'm aware.
No, it's not even remotely like Spotify or Pandora. OnLive Pass is like those things. PSPlus's Instant Game Collection is even arguably like those things. The Xbox One Family Sharing Plan was like BlackBerry Messenger Music. BBM Music was a colossal failure. You know why? Because you couldn't access any music your friends weren't sharing, which meant there wasn't a lot of use to it. Twitter's #Music has the same problem. This kind of "sharing" of content is way too limiting. People prefer discovery where they can passively see what their friends are into and then check it out for themselves. Something like seeing "Sarah Greene earned a Platinum Trophy in Knack" and then going and playing the game. Accessing a gimped version of someone else's library is like (though still inferior to) being at their house and browsing the shelf. It works, sure, but it's a much less passive experience for both parties, and that makes it a bigger hassle.
It's certainly not some major innovation that justifies the DRM policy on disc games. It does nothing that Sony's PS4 isn't doing anyway – and as noted above, Sony's PS4 is arguably doing it better.
Another feature that we didn't speak out about was the fact we were building a natural social network with Xbox One in itself that didn't require gamers to open their laptops/tablets to post to their other friends nor did they need to wrestle with keyboard add-ons. Each Xbox Live account would have a full "home space" in which they could post their highest scores, show off their best Game DVR moments, what they've watched via Xbox TV and leave messages for others to read and respond to. Kinect 2.0 and Xbox One work together and has robust voice to text capabilities. The entire notion of communicating with friends you met online would have been natural and seamless. No reliance on Facebook, or Twitter (though those are optional for those who want them). Everything is perfectly crafted for the Xbox One controller and Kinect 2.0 and given that shine that only Microsoft can provide.
I'm not going to waste too much time on this, because it ties into the same thing about the feature not being all that unique. Both Wii U and PS4 also feature bespoke social networking features which can show off high scores, screenshots and video. Microsoft guy seems to be implying that the integration of Kinect with this stuff makes it much better, and for some gamers maybe it is. But many of them, myself included, think barking orders across the room and waving hands around like a flight-traffic-controller are crummy ways to control a TV experience, so that really isn't all that much of a plus.
We at Microsoft have amazing plans for Xbox One that will make it an amazing experience for both gamers and entertainment consumers alike. I stand by the belief that Playstation 4 is Xbox 360 part 2, while Xbox One is trying to revolutionize entertainment consumption. For people who don't want these amazing additions, like Don said we have a console for that and it's called Xbox 360.
And he closes things up by being a total dick. As if the rest of his article wasn't already enough of a pile of shit.
There's a reason this posting is anonymous. If the name was attached, this guy would be getting the Adam Orth Special. This is the exact same horrendous messaging that Microsoft made the change to get away from. In fact, it's arguably worse, because this guy genuinely seems to think this is an improvement on the message coming form the likes of Don and Phil Harrison. He explicitly said he was frustrated about how much trouble guys like them were having articulating his "vision".
Well I got news pal, I liked it better the way they described it, and I hated that shit. What does that tell you about your revolutionary vision?
E3 2013: Greatness Awaits
June 11, 2013 August 12, 2013 / TVPaulD / 4 Comments
Going into this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, I was as jaded and cynical about the video gaming industry as I have ever been. In years gone by, for every E3 in the past eight years, I have gone in excited to see what was going to be shown. Ready and eager to be wowed by the big three platform holders. Usually, at least one always did manage to excite me. More often than not, it was Nintendo, whose fun-first games design philosophy has always really spoken to me. But many a time, Sony showed a Killzone 2 or Microsoft a Halo: Reach (Halo. But with jetpacks) or what have you, and I was as delighted with their showing as I as when I first saw Nintendo's Wii in action, in 2006.
Last year though, nothing anyone had to say about home consoles enthused me especially. Nintendo's Wii U revelations were neat, and it's undoubtedly a cool bit of hardware, but not in a "huge leap forward" kind of way. And aside from the interest in the exciting newness of Wii U, nothing but 3DS games really caught my eye and made me go "wow, I need to own this!".
The back half of last year, I got Halo 4, Epic Mickey 2 and Borderlands 2. There were some other games I was interested in enough to have played if I had more money, but nor was I sat in my room before E3 2013 thinking "gosh I missed so many good games". I'm going to be playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown from tomorrow, thanks to Sony generously giving me a free month of PSPlus, and I have wanted to check it out. But it was the game's coverage upon its release at Giant Bomb which got me interested in that game, not E3 2012.
Really, I left E3 2012 feeling throughly bored. Very little in the home console space felt new, exciting or fresh. The PS3 and Xbox 360 were still pushing Call of Duty and Fifa and Madden…I'm so done with Call of Duty I can't even describe it. It bores me to tears. And seemingly every other game being touted was an out-and-out clone of it.
Madden and Fifa were given frustrating prominence at Microsoft's #XboxReveal
Microsoft's damp squib #XboxReveal event, where they unveiled the improbably named third Xbox; the Xbox One; compounded my feelings of detachment and boredom with the console gaming mainstream. All I could see were games I'd either had my fill of or never wanted to begin with. Sony's "The Future of PlayStation" PS4 reveal event left me with a slightly more positive impression a while before, but it was too early to say for sure if the games were going to draw me in.
Microsoft's event in particular presented a vision for the future of gaming which, to me, was a total non-response to everything that was wrong. It was as if Microsoft were oblivious to how expensive and unsustainable things were. As if they saw no problem with assembly-line sequels to generic games with little creativity. As if the rise of the increasingly high-quality and inventive indie games on platforms as diverse as iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, Wii U, PlayStation 3 & PSVita was mere rumour and conjecture. Here then was a console which would do what AppleTV and Roku already do at a significantly lower cost (and without the recurring subscription fee Microsoft demands for Live Gold to get at the media streaming services) and also play a load of painfully unexciting games which are virtually indistinguishable from the ones you've been playing for the past seven years. Except for those powered by EA Sports Ignite, which are distinct in that the engine makes character models more detailed but a million times less believable.
Apple's diminutive AppleTV already does a lot of streaming video, for a low cost
I had been told to wait for Microsoft's E3 Press Conference. There, it was said, Microsoft would roll out the games that make the Xbox One worth a damn. Well; after confirming ahead of time that yes, they are – unaccountably – messing around with the existing game sales model; Microsoft trotted out first at E3 and showed some relatively interesting games. None that made me sit up and really go "whoa", but some decent ideas that had some nice graphics. Then they said they wanted £429.99 for their console. A price eerily similar to the one Sony charged for the PLAYSTATION 3 (£425), back before they resolved to make amends for their hubris in planning that system's launch. Nothing I saw from Microsoft, game-wise, justified that cost of entry.
So then, it fell to two of the third party juggernauts to have their say. EA and Ubisoft. EA said the magic words for me with "Star Wars Battlefront", but I was (at the time) disappointed that it was coming to platforms I wasn't planning on owning. Nothing else they showed particularly excited me. Their next-gen sports titles continue to look horrible, and their presentations annoyed me with their superfluous buzzword names for minor physics and graphical subroutines. Ubisoft showed a couple of games I was already interested in (South Park, Watch_Dogs, Assassin's Creed 4) but had nothing new that piqued my interest. And to be honest, I would go on to be more enthused by the Assassin's Creed and Watch_Dogs demos in Sony's Press Conference than those in Ubisoft's own.
Ubisoft's inventive "Watch_Dogs"
Then came the wait for Sony, with me in a sort of "Meh" sate of mind. Nothing I'd seen of E3 had yet completely sold me on the continuation of the big-budget high-end video game. However, I had less reasons to run in the opposite direction than previously. If nothing else, at least they had stopped parading Call of Duty in front of me as if it was new, and had instead shown things like Watch_Dogs which are a bit more inventive.
Sony nailed it. They sold me games-wise. Kingdom Hearts 3's mere announcement was a standout, along with the demos of Assassin's Creed 4 & Watch_Dogs (As I mentioned), the trailers for inFamous: Second Son & Killzone: Shadowfall, the procession of great looking indie games like Transistor, Outlast and the Abe's Odyssey remake and…Well, the real jaw dropper was Bungie's Destiny. I was already mostly on board with the game conceptually. But seeing it in action floored me. It combines the appeals of Halo, Borderlands and MMOs into a gorgeous package. For me, it looks very much like Destiny is the next big thing – succeeding, with any luck, the painfully repetitive Call of Duty. And probably obviating the need for more Halo.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, Sony confirmed the PS4 will not lock down games with draconian DRM, won't require online authentication checks and is coming in £80 ($100) cheaper than the Xbox One, at a more than reasonable £350 for the 500GB hard drive equipped machine (And yes, it ships with a headset in the box, undoing a frequent PS3 frustration – unlike the Xbox One incidentally, which instead includes the divisive KinectOne. Also in the box is an HDMI cable, undoing another PS3 foible). Their hardware is significantly more attractive too, evoking the much-beloved PS2.
Indeed, the only bad news from Sony was them putting multiplayer gaming on the PS4 behind the PSPlus paywall. But with online entertainment services like Netflix still available on the free tier (Unlike on Microsoft's platforms), and PSPlus being so compelling a service as it is with Instant Game Collection that I was planning to buy at least a year's worth later his year anyway, I wasn't particularly phased by that.
You can buy a PS4 and a year's PSPlus, and be set for a year. You'd get a new game every month, for an upfront cost less than the price of one new boxed game. It's tremendous value. Which is the key thing here. Xbox One, and the vision of the next generation it follows, and which I was afraid of, is terrible value for money. PS4, in stark contrast, is terrific value for money. I'm on board. Sony, you're PS4 is my number one pick among next generation hardware.
So where does that leave Nintendo? They went earlier today with a slightly more understated event, a Nintendo Direct @ E3 broadcast. They didn't blow me away. But nor was I disappointed. Mario Kart 8, the latest entry in my favourite franchise, looks fantastic. Similarly, Super Mario 3DWorld and the new Super Smash Bros pair look like wonderful new games. And the Wind Waker HD remake sure looks pretty, and having not had a chance to play it the first time around anyway, its lack of out-and-out newness doesn't really bother me. Oh, and on a handheld aside, the new Pokémon games look like must-haves.
Definitely a more attractive slate of exclusives on the Wii U than on the Xbox One, for me at least. I'm still interested in having a Wii U, but now it's behind the PS4 in the queue, so to speak. A PS4 I am willing to buy any time I can from launch day onwards. With the Wii U, I can wait at least until Mario Kart 8. If Nintendo are smart, they'll do a Mario Kart 8 bundle, and I'll probably buy that. It seems likely, given the success they had bundling Mario Kart Wii with the Wii.
So there you have it. E3 2013, when I was successfully brought back into the core gaming fold. Bravo Sony, keep on trucking Nintendo, make Battlefront good EA, for the love of god, just make it good. And Microsoft…Well, there's always the integration of Bing with Apple's Siri to console yourself with.
(Oh yeah, that reminds me, iOS 7 adds gamepad support, so AirPlay games are about to get a lot more awesome. That happened yesterday too. It was a busy day.)

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The Battle of Paris continues, with the French security forces attacking and killing people claimed to be part of the "sophisticated conspiracy" resulting in the Friday the 13th attacks.
Paul Roberts raises some MOST interesting questions, but the key one is (assuming the "suicide attackers" really blew themselves up) WHY they would do so? Because they are true believers.
As I've pointed out before, it doesn't matter if the Caliphate is a tool of the West or the Illuminati or some Vegas Mafia don: they are willing to kill and be killed. Their religion is false, but they clearly believe it: they are willing to die with the promise of paradise and whatever they are to get. THEY think that they are serving the cause of Allah, no matter whether the people that tell them that believe what they are preaching or not. We can see the same thing in the Crusades: the popes and cardinals and abbots who preached salvation for those that rode and sailed east to liberate the Holy Land may not have believed what they preached, but those who rode and sailed for the most part DID (or were there to prey on the true believers and avoided nasty things like sieges and frontal assaults as much as they could).
Paul Roberts also asks another very interesting question. WHERE are all the videos? Where are all the still photographs? I have spent some time searching various search engines searching for "Paris Attack" and "ISIL Attacks" and "Paris Suicide Bombers" and the like, and I've found LOTS of pictures of "soldiers" (usually in black with masks – see yesterday's commentary), lots of flowers and candles (so many still practicing Roman Catholics in Paris? Who knew?), lots of scenes of traffic and mobs, and a few of carefully covered bodies: the white shrouds always pristine. But these were venues filled with people – modern people always taking selfies and sending Tweets and updating Facebook and videoing everything. So why not even pictures of blood-soaked seating and aisles? Why no pictures of gunmen hosing down their vicinity? Why no pictures of dead and wounded bodies thrown back by automatic weapons fire? Why so VERY few photos of bandaged victims on gurneys and in wheel chairs?
We've seen these in Boston, seen them where the Caliphate has executed and massacred and beheaded thousands. We've even seen the gory remains of airliner crew and passengers scattered over the ground. We see dozens of photos of dead "Palestinian" victims of Israel, especially of children, but of adults as well on operating tables and in the remains of bombed-out buildings and protest sites. We can find hundreds of images of Beslan victims, dead, dying, and wounded. But I can't even find a single picture of a victim of Friday the 13th with a flesh wound or blood on their face. What is going on? Are the French police so efficient that they have scooped up every cell phone, every camera? Are the media so effective at censorship that every image is blocked? And no one has complained? One of these venues was a ball game; another was a rock concert: both places where the flashes can blind you if you are looking the wrong way. They were filled with thousands of people – but NO pictures?
I don't think we are going to get any answers to these questions, at least not here on Earth. But even a FEW answers might cause massive upheavals in world affairs as we know them. And help in the fight for liberty.
Mama's Note: Very interesting indeed. This was the only account I could find today, though I saw a great many pictures of the dead and injured on Friday and over the weekend. The whole story seems to have vanished, with only the politicians arguing about what to do.
I did find one picture that was posted at a blog on the weekend. WARNING: Graphic photo of the dead, and I think I can see one person standing at the side who appears to be pointing a rifle.
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Meet the Executive Committee: Alex Schott
The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council is excited to announce that we have elected multiple accomplished and influential people onto our Executive Board. We think it would be great for the community to get to know the leaders of our Board and how each of them are using their own unique abilities to promote the arts in our area! This week, we had the pleasure to interview our newly elected Administrative Vice Chair, Alex Schott.
Q: Tell me about your background; where are you from, what was your childhood like, what is your family like?
A: I'm originally from New Orleans, which is where my father is from. Our family business, Schott & Company Meats, was firmly established in New Orleans for over a century, beginning in 1879. My mother's family is from Nicaragua, which they fled during political unrest in the late 1960s and came to New Orleans, and where she would eventually meet my dad. I'm your typical child of the late 1970s and 1980s- not too different from the upbringing displayed by Netflix's "Stranger Things" kids. My days were spent riding bikes, playing Atari, watching MTV and visiting our local record store on a weekly basis to get the latest new release… and that I would proudly play on my double tape deck boom box.
Q: What is your current job, and what else are you involved with in the area?
A: For my day job, I'm CenturyLink's director of internal communications, which involves serving as the front lines of communications for nearly 50,000 employees. My other job is dad and husband. My wife and I have two rambunctious boys, aged 10 and 12, so the majority of my free time in the area is spent doing activities with them, which includes baseball, soccer, boy scouts, bike riding, foosball, and hanging out on the bayou when we can.
Q: What made you decide to pursue a career in communications?
A: It certainly wasn't planned. I was initially going the law school route while an undergrad at LSU, but after working at a few law firms, I felt a different career path should be explored. Long story, short… I wound up graduating in political science and moving to California to get a Masters degree in film and media studies. Having always enjoyed experimenting with new technology, it was during this time that I was self-taught in web design and coding and became involved in digital communications in the early days of the internet. I parlayed that into a career that has seen me serve in a series of roles from media relations, public relations, business development, public policy, digital media, employee communications and executive communications.
Q: I know you have only been living in Ouachita Parish for a couple years; how is your life different compared to living in New Orleans?
A: It's obviously a lot smaller that any city we had ever live and, though my wife and I lived in California for a few years, it was first time we've moved with kids. We also knew no one. However, within the first three days, we made great friends who helped ensure that we acclimated to the area quickly. This is a very family-oriented area, and my kids love it. It has been a great experience.
Q: So far, what is your favorite thing about Northeast Louisiana?
A: The people here are awesome. Small town life suits us well! When it comes to raising two children, I have to say that there is a unique sense of family and safety that allows them to grow up in a way that isn't an option in most larger cities. We love the neighborhood we are in, and it's great not to have to deal with traffic every morning. It's really the small things you don't realize you're missing out on until you leave a big city.
Q: What special asset do you believe you bring to the table on the Board of Directors?
A: With a PR/communications and digital-focused background, I think I can help provide guidance on creating greater awareness around the Arts Council and as it builds a larger digital presence in the new media landscape. The board is really committed to growing the Council's membership and the ideas that are being shared are very exciting for the area. I believe having a communications background will help us bring those ideas and projects to life.
Q: What are some things most people do not know you are passionate about?
A: Outside of my family and work, my biggest passion is music. I've always loved music, but it wasn't until 5 years ago that I actually decided to play music and picked up a guitar. It was a game-changer for me as it helps me relax and is so therapeutic. While it's a great creative outlet and it keeps my mind sharp, it's not something anyone would pay to hear so I won't be quitting my day job anytime soon. By the time my kids go to college, I figure I will be good enough to play in a band so I can embarrass them covering "Free Bird" in the bars around their school. Kidding, of course.
Q: What are you most looking forward as the Arts Council's new Administrative Vice Chair?
A: I see a tremendous opportunity for the Arts Council and the board is really engaged in making a positive difference for Northeast region. I am looking forward to keeping the momentum going. I have seen the Council do so much in the past couple years and I want to make sure that creative and energy only increases.
Q: Is there anything else you would like to mention that I did not cover?
A: I do this when I interview people… How about 5 quick favorites?
Favorite Book – Catcher in the Rye (I named my son Holden)
Favorite Movie – If you ask me today, "There Will Be Blood"… if you ask me tomorrow, "Dr. Strangelove"
Favorite Band – Pink Floyd
Favorite TV Show – Seinfeld
Favorite Team – New Orleans Saints
We as the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council are so excited to have Alex on our Executive Board. We admire his energy and humor and also is experience and intellect. We know he will be a great leader not only for the Arts Council but also for our arts community as a whole.
-Joanna Calhoun
Arts Council of Northeast Louisiana
Activities of the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council are supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
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Q: MYSQL: Is there a way to replace several parts of a column value based on a value in another table (in a single query)? Here is the thing:
I got a column as such:
table1
ID  Name  Playlist
1   Hi     Category1|Category2|Category3
2   Ho     Category2|Category4|Category6
etc...

Then another table:
table2
ID Name
1 Category1
2 Category2
3 Category3
....

On table one, the value string is really "Category1|Category2|Category3".
I would like a single query to replace all strings in the playlist column of table1 with their respective IDs from table2, so that after the query, table1 should look like this:
table1
ID  Name  Playlist
1   Hi     1|2|3
2   Ho     2|4|6
etc...

I can do this by programming a loop or something of the sort, but I would like to have it in a single query, however, I have no idea how specifically replace part of the value of the column with different values.
If it was just:
table1
    ID  Name  Playlist
    1   Hi     Category1
    2   Ho     Category2
    etc...

I would then use the query like:
UPDATE table1 a, table b SET a.playlist = b.Name WHERE a.`Playlists` = b.`Name`;

Although i really want the requested query for this, I still would like to hear suggestions for a better way to do this.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
The number of categories in a playlist are unknown. It can also be empty.


Clams are some of the most fascinating members of the coral reef community, and they are especially welcomed in our home aquaria. Today we have access to more varieties of Tridacna than ever, and ORA is piling on one more new clam to the list with their recent release of Maxima clam hybrids.
This fresh batch of unusual maxima clams, Tridcana maxima, come from ORA's clam breeding operation in the Marshall Islands but they are not the result of intentional hybridization. ORA is not 100% sure that these clams are hybrids, but they sure do share the mantle pattern & color and the shell morphology of both Tridacna maxima and T. squamosa.
The most notable indicator to the unusual genetics of these potential hybrid clams is the peculiar color and pattern of the mantles of these bivalves. The ORA Hybrid maxima clams show the large spot pattern of squamosa, but the margin of the mantles doesn't have the regular row of eyes on the edge of the mantle that is typical of T. maxima.
Interestingly, some of the unusual maxima clam hybrids pictured by ORA closely resemble the blue Squamosa clams that we've seen cultured in Australia. We know that the broodstock for those clams was obtained on the great barrier reef, and we don't believe that the Darwin farm is creating intentional hybrids, but perhaps they are line breeding a naturally occurring hybrid of Tridacna maxima and T. squamosa.
ORA's clam farm has succeeded in intentionally crossing squamosa and maxima clams with viable offspring resulting from the cross of maxima eggs and squamosa sperm, but not the other way around. Regardless of their pedigree, the ORA hybrid maxima clams have stupendous mantles which promise to grow into truly spectacular giant clams.


In the winter of 2012/13 a re-survey of Parys Mountain was undertaken in order to enhance the HER database, based on an original survey by GAT in 1998, undertaken by D.Gwyn (GAT project G1469, Report 292). It is hoped that this will form the first part of a revised Conservation Management Plan of the mountain.
The requirements were for a new field survey to be undertaken, and for revised updated text descriptions, updated grid references using gps, and new photographs. This would result in a revised database for inclusion within the HER.
The original survey data was transferred into an HER compatible database and field names updated and amended where necessary. Later surveys and reports were also consulted and additional sites added to the database. All sites were revisited and photographed (where they could be located) and new sites were added to the database. Sites were located using a Trimble GPS where a signal could be received, or a combination of handheld GPS and aerial photographs where no signal could be received on the Trimble. The database was updated and a photographic database completed. Indexes and detailed reports were printed to PDF for the site and photographic databases.


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I have actually written things down this month as I thought about them, so I have a pretty decent list of things to talk about instead of just scrambling to remember like I typically do. I do usually remember the big things I've been loving but sometimes I just forget about things when I sit down to write these things. Anywaaaay, let's talk about some things I have loved in August.
I want to start by talking about my most recent tv obsession and that is My Hero Academia, I started watching this because I feel like so many people have talked about it and I kept watching it because I was hooked. I finished the first two seasons so far and now I really need to catch up on the third, I'm sure I'll get to that shortly here.
I have rediscovered my love for my Tablet, mostly because I have been reading a bunch of comics and manga as of recently, which is most of the reason why I caught up on my reading challenge, it still counts though. Anyway, the tablet has been really fun for reading, playing games and watching videos.
Candles are another big favorite of mine, I love them all year round but recently have been really enjoying burning them and now that I know the weather is going to start cooling down here shortly, I will be enjoying it even more I am sure.
My next favorite is really random and something that is a favorite because of a shop that recently opened and that is popcorn. Yes, popcorn, I have a love for it deeply this month, especially this buffalo ranch popcorn from this place because it is hands down the best.
This next one seems to be a long term love that I am experiencing and that is Hint Watermelon Water. Which honestly doesn't taste like a whole lot but yet I still find myself drinking it frequently, it's very faint but very refreshing and I really enjoy it.
I think this is a forever favorite and I'm really glad I started using this instead of planners, that is Google Calendar, I use no paper and it's always available at my fingertips so I love it. Is it weird to be really enjoying such a simple thing?
And the last thing is this sweater that I love far too much, I seriously wore this every night when I got home for at least a week, which may be a bit gross but this sweater is just too comfy. I will say, this is not the most flattering of sweaters, I think it looks fine but it is a bit boxy. I don't care though because it is comfy. Also, the Target sleepwear section is hands down my favorite place for basic long sleeved things for the winter, super cozy and affordable.
This months playlist is a lot like last months, I know it is but I am still really into a lot of the same music that I was into last month, so I guess that's why it's still a lot of the same. I just like to keep this honest and to what I have been enjoying the most for the month.
And that is everything that I have been really enjoying this past month, a pretty random mix of things but it typically is and that's kind of the point of these, sharing all the random bits and bobs that I have been loving. Especially popcorn and that darn sweater.
What are some things that you have been loving this month?


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Plage, Bustos, Hunt shine at U.S. junior nationals
Published 12:00 am EDT, Monday, August 12, 2019
Glastonbury's James Plage won the 800 and 1,500 meter freestyle races, was second in the 400 freestyle while Orange's Arsenio Bustos had a pair of fifth-place finishes at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals at Stanford University.
Plage won the 1,500 freestyle on Tuesday with a time of 15:16.97, nearly 10 seconds better than his seed time and more than 16 seconds faster than any other swimmer in the field.
Plage dropped more than four seconds off his seed time to win the 800 in 8:03.64. He also surpassed his seed time in placing second in the 400 freestyle to go with a 13th-place finish in 400 individual medley and was 16th in the 200 freestyle.
Plage has qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in the 400, 800 and 1,500 freestyle events.
Bustos finished fifth in the 100 butterfly in a time of 54.53 on Thursday and on Saturday took fifth in the 200 individual medley in 2:04.55. His qualifying time of 2:03.99 qualified him for the Olympic trials. He also finished 10th in the 100 freestyle, 21st in the 100 breaststroke and 27th in the 200 breaststroke.
Connor Hunt of Ridgefield took fifth in the 800 freestyle in an Olympic trials qualifying time of 8:11.52, was 15th in the 1500 freestyle (15:48.08), 18th in the 400 IM (4:28.93) and was 21st in the 400 freestyle in 3:59.65.
Amity All Area swimmer Arsenio Bustos earned a pair of fifth-place finishes at USA Swimming Junior Nationals
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ABBRUZZESSE, SPINKA COMPETE IN WORLD JUNIOR ROWING FINALS
A pair of Fairfield County athletes were part of crews in the championship finals at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Tokyo.
Ridgefield's Julia Abbruzzese was a member of the sixth-place boat in the women's four final as they finished in a time of 7:24.3. China won the race in 7:01.42.
Southport's Erik Spinka was part of the U.S. boat that finished in sixth place with a time of 6:32.3. Germany won in 6:18.250.
Heidi Jacobson of Greenwich was part of the U.S. team that finished third in the women's pair B final to place ninth overall.
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