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в Японии, в остальных странах известный как Soul Blade — трёхмерный файтинг, разработанный студией Project Soul и выпущенный Namco для аркадного автомата Namco System 11 и консоли PlayStation. Является первой игрой в серии Soul. Последующие игры будут называться Soulcalibur, в честь священного меча, который играет значительную роль в последующих играх серии.

Soul Edge стала одной из первых игр, при разработке которой использовалась технология захвата движения.

Игровой процесс

Soul Edge является вторым трёхмерных файтингом, в котором персонажи используют различные виды оружия (после Battle Arena Toshinden), однако это не является каким-либо нововведением, так как например Samurai Shodown представляет собой редкий пример двухмерного файтинга с оружием.

В Soul Edge игрок может двигаться по арене в разных направлениях, совершая манёвры. Боевая система основана на трёх приёмах: ударе, быстрой горизонтальной атаке и медленной вертикальной атаке; кроме того, игрок может прыгать и ставить блоки. Каждый персонаж имеет одну или две медленных, но неблокируемых атаки. Введя определённую комбинацию на джойстике или геймпаде, игрок также способен выполнять так называемые критические атаки.

Одним из заметных аспектов игры является «Датчик оружия» (), который расположен под полоской с очками жизни персонажа. Каждый раз, когда игрок блокирует атаку «Датчик» сокращается, и когда он будет полностью опустошён, персонаж будет вынужден продолжить матч безоружным. Ещё одной особенностью, позже убранной в Soulcalibur, является ситуация, когда два персонажа ударив одновременно, блокируют своё оружие. В таком случае преимущество имеет тот, кто первым нажмёт верную кнопку.

Игра использует дополнительный наступательный блокирующий манёвр под названием «Оценка воздействия» (), который позволяет игроку перехватить входящую атаку и направить её на противника, в результате чего появляется мгновенная возможность для свободной контратаки. Противники, однако, также могут воспользоваться наступательным манёвром. Эта функция позже будет расширена и будет появляться в каждой игре серии.

Игрок также может выиграть битву, выкинув противника за пределы ринга.

Сюжет
События Soul Edge происходят в 1583 году. В игре рассказывается история о воинах, которые ищут великий меч «Soul Edge». На протяжении многих лет ему было дано множество имён, таких как «Меч Спаситель», «Меч Героев» и «Совершенный меч» и другие. Многие воины искали его в течение многих лет, но только некоторые из них действительно нашли его. В конце концов, меч таинственным образом оказывается на аукционе, где его приобретает капитан Сервантес, и в дальнейшем о его судьбе ничего не было известно. Игра повествует о девяти воинах со всего света, по разным причинам желающих найти меч. Некоторые разыскивают Soul Edge из-за его силы, другие считая, что это доброжелательный меч, ищут его чтобы стать героем, в то время как третьи, зная его злую природу, желают его уничтожить. О мече практически ничего не известно, за исключением одной вещи: он приносит несчастье тем, кто ищет его.

Версии и выпуски
Soul Edge была впервые выпущена на аркадных автоматах по всему миру в 1996 году. Европейская и североамериканская версии получили название Soul Blade, чтобы избежать возможных осложнений, связанных с торговой маркой «Edge». Через пару месяцев было выпущено обновление игры, в ответ на жалобы игроков. В этой версии у Хвана и у других персонажей была снижена сложность игры, были добавлены новые виды атак, а Сервантес стал играбельным персонажем.

В 1996 и 1997 годах Soul Edge/Blade была портирована на консоль PlayStation. Порт основан на второй версии игры на аркадном автомате и в нём были представлены все её нововведения. Кроме того, в порт были добавлены костюмы и оружия для каждого персонажа, появился новый режим «Edge Master», являющийся своего рода сюжетным режимом, а также был создан начальный видеоролик. Саундтреки «Arrange Soundtrack» и «Khan Super Session» доступны в игре.

Каждая версия игры для PlayStation подверглась цензуре. В североамериканской версии в начальном ролике Софития изображена в одежде, в то время как в оригинале она была обнажена. Из европейской версии были убраны нунчаки, а в японской Сервантес стал смеяться в конце начального ролика.

Саундтрек

Super Battle Sound Attack Soul Edge

Альбом  был выпущен 20 сентября 1996 года лейблом PolyGram. Музыка была написана композиторами Такаюки Аихарой и Такаюки Оцурой. Альбом содержит 26 композиций.

Soul Edge Original Soundtrack — Khan Super Session

 был выпущен 18 декабря 1996 года лейблом BMG Japan. Альбом содержит треки из версии игры на PlayStation. Музыка была написана Масуми Ито, Бентеном Мару, Ёсиюки Ито, Аки Хатой и Таки Ивасаки.

Оценки и мнения

Soul Blade получила очень положительные отзывы, со средней оценкой в 89 баллов из 100 возможных от Metacritic. IGN оценил игру в 8,9 балла из 10, назвав её лучшим файтингом с мечами на PlayStation. GameSpot поставил Soul Blade 8,3 балла, охарактеризовав её «отличным файтингом со своей долей недостатков». GamePro посоветовал всем владельцам PlayStation поиграть «в эту игру этого года». В 1997 году журнал PSM поместил Soul Edge на четвёртое место в топе лучших игр для PlayStation. Открывающая заставка Soul Edge выиграла награду в номинации «Лучший игровой видеоролик 1996 года» на конференции SIGGRAPH, проведённой в 1997 году.

Soul Blade стала бестселлером в Великобритании. Игра была переиздана как «PlayStation Greatest Hits», «PlayStation Platinum Range» и «PlayStation the Best».

В 2011 году сайт PSU.com поставил Soul Blade на шестое место в списке игр, достойных переиздания на PlayStation 3. В том же году Complex поставил Soul Edge на 19 место в списке «50 лучших файтингов всех времён».

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 Soul Edge/Blade на сайте Soulcalibur Wikia

Компьютерные игры 1996 года
Soul
Игры для аркадных автоматов
Компьютерные игры в жанре фэнтези
Игры для PlayStation
Компьютерные игры, разработанные в Японии
Компьютерные игры с альтернативными концовками
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Sarah Vaughan is one of the most renowned jazz vocalists of all time. Beloved by millions around the globe, her recordings were the foundation of what constitutes being a jazz vocalist today. In 1989 she was awarded one of the National Endowment for the Arts highest honors when they elevated her to the status of "NEA Jazz Master".
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Sources told WAFA staff from the Israeli building and planning committee, backed by Israeli forces, stormed the spring water area and notified the village's association they will be destroying the work recently done around the spring, in the next few hours, citing unpermitted construction as a pretext.
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10 Best Songs of the Week: Jay Som, The Divine Comedy, Whitney, Temples, and More
Plus Blanck Mass, Bon Iver, Japanese Breakfast, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Temples
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were several notable albums announced this week, which meant some strong opening singles to choose from, as well as a few album tracks.
Elsewhere on the website this week we posted an interview with Cass McCombs, as well as a My Firsts with Yeasayer's Chris Keating and a Self-Portrait feature with Hayden Thorpe (formerly of Wild Beasts).
In the last week we also reviewed a bunch of albums, including the latest by Craig Finn, Beast Coast, Broken Social Scene, Foxygen, and Cave In. Plus we posted reviews of various DVDs, Blu-rays, films, concerts, and TV shows.
The Divine Comedy's Office Politics was this week's Album of the Week.
Don't forget about our current print issue. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover.
To help you sort through the multitude of fresh songs released in the last week, we have picked the 10 best the last seven days had to offer, along with highlighting other notable new tracks shared in the last week. Check out the full list below.
1. Jay Som: "Superbike"
This week Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) announced a new album, Anak Ko, and shared its first single, "Superbike," via a video for the track. She has also announced some tour dates. Anak Ko is due out August 23 via Polyvinyl. Check out the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as the tour dates, here.
For "Superbike," Duterte's aim was to merge Cocteau Twins and Alanis Morissette for a song that in a press release she says lets "loose over swirling shoegaze. I came up with the vocal melody while chopping onions during a rare snowstorm in Joshua Tree, definitely one of my favorite memories from making the album."
Anak Ko is the follow-up to 2017's acclaimed Everybody Works, also on Polyvinyl (which was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017). Duterte was based in the Bay Area, but relocated to Los Angeles prior to recording the new album. She recorded Anak Ko at home as the sole producer, engineer, and mixer. A press release points out that "in some songs, you can hear the washer/dryer near her bedroom." Although it wasn't a completely solitary affair, the album also features plenty of guests, including Vagabon's Laetitia Tamko, Chastity Belt's Annie Truscott, Justus Proffit, and Boy Scouts' Taylor Vick, as well as her touring bandmates Zachary Elasser, Oliver Pinnell, and Dylan Allard.
The album's title is pronounced "Ah-nuh Koh," which means "my child" in Filipino. It was inspired by a text message from Duterte's mother, who often addresses her as "anak ko." "It's an endearing thing to say, it feels comfortable," Duterte says in a press release.
In the press release Duterte says the album is about the importance of patience and kindness and that those concepts have helped her growth as an artist. "In order to change, you've got to make so many mistakes," she says. "What's helped me is forcing myself to be even more peaceful and kind with myself and others. You can get so caught up in attention, and the monetary value of being a musician, that you can forget to be humble. You can learn more from humility than the flashy stuff. I want kindness in my life. Kindness is the most important thing for this job, and empathy."
The album is due out in North America on Polyvinyl, in Australia/New Zealand/Asia via Pod/Inertia Music, and in the rest of the world via Lucky Number.
Back in February Jay Som shared a brand new song, "Simple," that was released as part of the Adult Swim Singles series. That song is not featured on the new album. Last year Jay Som teamed up with Justus Proffit for a collaborative EP, Nothing's Changed.
Read our 2017 Pleased to Meet You interview with Jay Som.
2. The Divine Comedy: "Philip and Steve's Furniture Removal Company"
The Divine Comedy, the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon, has released a new album, Office Politics, today (stream it here). It was our Album of the Week and a real return to form for Hannon. Only two singles were shared prior to the album's release and they are not even the most interesting songs on Office Politics, which left plenty for us to choose from for this week's Songs of the Week. It was very hard to pick a favorite, but we've settled on "Philip and Steve's Furniture Removal Company." The song imagines a theme for a sitcom about a young Philip Glass and Steve Reich in New York City in the early 1960s, with the iconic minimalist composers running a furniture moving business. It starts with an intro seemingly recorded on Hannon's phone when he was out and about somewhere, before building to a section that could be considered a musical homage to the composers and then culminating with a male choir.
Previously Hannon shared Office Politics' first single, "Queuejumper." Then this week he shared a video for "Norman and Norma," the album's second single (the audio for which was shared last month). The song is about the challenges of keeping the marriage spark alive as you get older and the black & white video illustrated the lyrics while also featuring images of Hannon performing the song on the piano.
Office Politics is the twelfth Divine Comedy album and the follow-up to 2016's Foreverland. It's billed as a double album. The deluxe edition includes Hannon's original piano demos from the stage adaptation of Swallows and Amazons.
Read our 2017 The End interview with The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon.
3. Whitney: "Giving Up"
This week Whitney (Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek) announced a new album, Forever Turned Around, and shared a new song from it, the simply gorgeous "Giving Up." Forever Turned Around is due out August 30 via Secretly Canadian. Check out the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as the band's upcoming tour dates, here.
Forever Turned Around is Whitney's second album, the follow-up to 2016's debut album, Light Upon the Lake. Last month they announced some new fall U.S. tour dates on top of their previously announced dates and earlier this week they shared a teaser video entitled "FTA," which we now know stands for Forever Turned Around (the phrase "forever turned around" was repeated towards the end of the video).
Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Hand Habits) and Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) co-produced the album, which was recorded in various sessions and includes material written on tour. At one point they reunited with original rhythm guitarist Ziyad Asrar in his basement studio in Chicago, which is where much of Light Upon the Lake came together. Chicago musicians Lia Kohland and OHMME's Macie Stewart contribute strings to the album.
Whitney's live band also features keyboardist Malcolm Brow, guitarist Print Chouteau, bassist Josiah Marshall, and trumpeter Will Miller, with Asrar also returning to the live band.
A press release describes Forever Turned Around this way: "On the follow up to their much-beloved debut, 2016's Light Upon the Lake, Ehrlich and Kakacek grapple with the anxiety and acceptance that time is limited and navigate questions of mortality, doubt, love, and friendship. It's an album about partnership - romantic, familial, and communal, but most importantly a love in friendship: the bonds between two best friends and creative partners and the joy and stress that comes with it."
"Giving Up" is described in the press release as "a heart-rending and relatable song about the ups and downs of long-term relationships."
Read our 2016 interview with Whitney about Light Upon the Lake. Plus read our review of Light Upon the Lake.
4. Temples: "Hot Motion"
This week British psychedelic pop trio Temples announced a new album, Hot Motion, and shared a video for its title track (also its opening track). Hot Motion is the band's third album and is due out September 27 via ATO (their first for the label). Check out the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as the band's tour dates, here.
Hot Motion follows 2014's debut album, Sun Structures, and 2017's sophomore album, Volcano. The band now consists of James Bagshaw (lead vocals/guitar), Thomas Walmsley (bass/vocals), and Adam Smith (keyboards/guitar/vocals). The album was recorded in a studio set up in an outbuilding of Bagshaw's house in the midlands of England.
"We've gone from bedroom to living room to a dedicated space. We could all set up in the same room and allow things to play out a lot more like a band. That played a huge part in the sound of the record," said Walmsley in a press release.
In terms of Hot Motion's sound, Walmsley had this to say: "It felt like there was a darker edge to what we were coming up with and we wanted to make sure that carried through the whole record. It's not a 10 track, relentless rock record from start to finish, it's got a lot of light and shade and more tender moments, but that heavier, darker sound is something we wanted to explore further."
Of the lyrics, Bagshaw had this to say: "I'm really proud of 'You're Either On Something' lyrically. On that track, I can hear influences of stuff that I listened to when I was growing up. There's almost a nostalgia to that track, even though it's very forward-looking. Equally, while the words on [album closer] 'Monuments' are a little cryptic, it's very much about the time we live in. I wouldn't say it's a political song but you can't help but write about the things that are happening."
Read our 2013 interview with Temples and our 2014 interview with the band. Also read our 2017 interview with Temples on Volcano.
5. Blanck Mass: "House vs. House"
This week Blanck Mass (the solo project of Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power) announced a new album, Animated Violence Mild, and shared its first single, "House vs. House." Animated Violence Mild is due out August 16 via Sacred Bones. Check out the album's tracklist and cover art here.
Power had this to say about the album in a press release: "I believe that many of us have willfully allowed our survival instinct to become engulfed by the snake we birthed. Animated - brought to life by humankind. Violent - insurmountable and wild beyond our control. Mild - delicious."
Animated Violence Mild is the follow-up to 2015's Dumb Flesh and 2017's World Eater. British five-piece Editors also recently released The Blanck Mass Sessions, which was a new version of their 2018 album Violence, a more electronic, version of the album featuring the original production work on the songs done by Blanck Mass.
6. Bon Iver: "U (Man Like)"
This week Bon Iver (the project of Justin Vernon) shared two new songs, "Hey, Ma" and "U (Man Like)," via lyric videos for each track. They also announced some new tour dates and launched a new website (www.icommai.com). The songs feature a slew of special guests, including Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes, Moses Sumney, and Bruce Hornsby. We were torn between the two, but settled on "U (Man Like)" as our favorite of the two, with "Hey, Ma" an honorable mention below.
Check out the tour dates and cover art for each single here.
Vernon had this to say in a press release: "This project began with a single person, but throughout the last 11 years, the identity of Bon Iver has bloomed and can only be defined by the faces in the ever growing family we are."
The official musician credits on "Hey, Ma" are: Ben Lester - CP-70 Electric Piano. Psymun - Sampling. Justin Vernon - Matrix 6, Guitar. Brian Moen - Drums. Jenn Wasner - Voice, Guitar. Jake Luppen - Guitar. Buddy Ross - Synth. Rob Moose - Violin, Viola, String Arrangement, Worm Crew Arrangement, Conductor. Brad Cook - Basses. Worm Crew - Horns.
The official musician credits on "U (Man Like)" are: "Justin Vernon - Bass + Voice. Bruce Hornsby - Piano, Voice. Phil Cook - Piano and B3, Voice. Elsa Jensen - Voice. Moses Sumney - Voice. Jenn Wasner - Voice. Rob Moose - Violin, Viola, Octave Viola, String Arrangement, Worm Crew Arrangement. Worm Crew - Horns. Brooklyn Youth Chorus + Bryce Dessner - Choral."
Bon Iver's last album was 2016's 22, A Million. Perhaps a new one is on the way in the not too distant future.
7. Japanese Breakfast: "Head Over Heels" (Tears For Fears Cover)
This week Japanese Breakfast (Michelle Zauner) shared a cover of the Tears For Fears classic "Head Over Heels" (from 1985). It was recorded for W Records, which is an imprint of W Hotels, and all proceeds are going to the ACLU, and follows "Essentially," a brand new song Japanese Breakfast released via W Records back in April (it was one of our Songs of the Week). Curt Smith, co-founder of Tears For Fears, had this to say about the cover in a press release: "Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'"
Like "Essentially," the cover was recorded at the W Sound Suite at the W Hotel in Bali.
Zauner had this to say about recording there in a previous press release: "I was originally going to record a different song but decided to write something on the fly once I arrived in Bali. I like the challenge of writing and arranging quickly and intuitively sometimes, and I had just bought a native instruments machine and wanted to explore a lot of the sample libraries it came with and work on the synths that were at the studio. It was a very idyllic place to work. I usually record in cold studios, so Bali was a pretty glamorous change. I felt so lucky the day I arrived just walking around the hotel."
Anthony Ingham, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels Worldwide, had this to say: "Working with Japanese Breakfast on this track has been an incredible experience - collaborating with a passionate musician to support an important organization has really been rewarding. W Records has always been about inspiring musicians to get creative and it's been amazing to see Japanese Breakfast's journey and exploration with us at W. We are excited for the world to hear her rendition of 'Head Over Heels' and help support the work of the ACLU."
Japanese Breakfast released her sophomore album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, in July 2017 via Dead Oceans (it was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017). In February she announced that she has signed a book deal with the publishing company Knopf and is writing a memoir entitled Crying in H Mart. A press release described the book as such: "Crying in H Mart is Zauner's story about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother too young, searching for identity in a hybrid culture, and finding a passion for her ancestry and Korean cooking as a way to heal and return to her roots in the wake of loss."
Zauner's writing has also previously appeared in Glamour and The New Yorker. There's no word on when Crying in H Mart will be published. She's also an accomplished music video director.
Read our 2017 interview with Japanese Breakfast on Soft Sounds From Another Planet.
8. (Sandy) Alex G: "Gretel"
This week (Sandy) Alex G (aka Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Alex Giannascoli) announced a new album, House of Sugar, and shared a video for its first single, "Gretel." House of Sugar is due out September 13 via Domino. Check out the album's tracklist and cover art here.
House of Sugar is Giannascoli's ninth album overall and his third for Domino. It's the follow-up to 2017's Rocket. Jacob Portrait, who mixed both Rocket and 2015's Beach Music, also worked on House of Sugar. Zev Magasis directed the "Gretel" video.
9. Ty Segall: "Taste"
The ever-prolific Ty Segall has announced yet another new album this week, First Taste, and shared a video for its first single, "Taste." First Taste is due out August 2 via Drag City. Check out the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as Segall's upcoming tour dates, here.
A press release says First Taste features instrumentation previously unexplored by Segall, including "koto, recorder, bouzouki, harmonizer, mandolin, saxophones and brass, voices, and a sprinkling of keys." Also, when the drums are heard on the left speaker it's Segall playing, but when they are heard on the right speaker it's Charles Moothart playing the kit.
Segall's most recent albums before this one were the covers album, Fudge Sandwich, and the live album, Deforming Lobes.
10. The Soft Cavalry: "Bulletproof"
The Soft Cavalry are a new duo featuring Rachel Goswell of legendary '90s shoegazers Slowdive alongside her husband Steve Clarke. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on July 5 via Bella Union. This week they shared another song from the album, "Bulletproof," via a video for the track. The striking black & white video features the band performing the song via sign language.
Goswell had this to say about the video in a press release: "For a long time now I have wanted to do a video that incorporates BSL (British Sign Language) due to my son being Profoundly Deaf with no hearing. He also has additional needs with CHARGE Syndrome that brings many added complications. I live within two worlds both Hearing and Deaf; and have learned a lot in the last nine years about the many barriers Deaf people can face in our society. One of the main points I was taught very quickly is how music is accessible to Deaf people. Of course music can be felt through vibration but visually I feel so much more could be done to enhance the experience. We made this video with the support of Sign Up BSL to translate 'Bulletproof' so that the song flows properly in BSL. Sometimes with signing videos - they can be a literal translation of the words (Sign Supported English) which will make little sense to the Deaf viewer. Our hope is that we have achieved this and also that one day as my son gets older and develops his language skills he will be able to understand this song."
Previously they shared its first single, "Dive," which was one of our Songs of the Week. Then they have shared a video for "Dive." Hand Held Cine Club directed the video, which fittingly featured a man contemplating taking a high dive into a public swimming pool.
Slowdive released a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, in 2017 via Dead Oceans. It was our Album of the Week and one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017.
Clarke has been a musician since the late '90s, playing bass and singing backup vocals with various bands live and in the studio. But The Soft Cavalry is the first album he's been in creative control of. He's also been a tour manager, which is how he met Goswell, managing one of Slowdive's reunion tours in 2014. He had been divorced since 2011 when he met her.
In a press release Clarke sets the scene for when he first met Goswell: "I was hung-over in the back of my van trying to work out how I was going to fit all the band's gear into this confined space whilst I still had all of mine from the show that I'd played in London the night before. The second of two sold-out shows at Hammersmith Apollo with David Brent!"
A year later, Clarke and Goswell were living together. They got married in 2018. In the press release Clarke says that Goswell inspired him to focus more on his own music.
"I'd always had ideas but never felt that anything I had to say was worthy of anyone's attention, let alone my own," he says. "I wish that I could have done this 15 years ago but, in reality, I simply couldn't have. But I'm not one to overly wallow. I'd rather plough the various levels of confusion into songs."
Of the theme of the album, Clarke says: "It's recovery versus new doubt. I'm there, in the middle. The word that kept coming back to me was 'resilience.' With the right mentality and people around you, especially family, we get through, and find a level of hope."
Clarke's brother Michael Clarke produced the album, which also features keyboardist Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake), guitarist Tom Livermore, and drummer Stuart Wilkinson.
Read our 2017 interview with Goswell about the making of Slowdive.
If you're an Under the Radar Patreon supporter then revisit our 2003 interview with Slowdive.
Goswell was also in the supergroup Minor Victories with Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, Editors' Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club's James Lockey. The band's self-titled debut album came out in 2016 via Fat Possum in the U.S. (and [PIAS] in the rest of the world).
Read our 2016 interview with Goswell and Braithwaite about Minor Victories.
These nine songs almost made the Top 10.
Bleached: "Kiss You Goodbye"
Bon Iver: "Hey, Ma"
Channel Tres: "Sexy Black Timberlake"
The Divine Comedy: "Office Politics" and "When the Working Day is Done"
Dude York: "Box"
Liam Gallagher: "Shockwave"
Girl Band: "Shoulderblades"
Pixies: "On Graveyard Hill"
Other notable new tracks in the last week include:
Erykah Badu & James Poyser: "Tempted" (Squeeze Cover)
Bedouine: "One More Time"
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BTS & Charli XCX: "Dream Glow"
Bill Callahan: "Confederate Jasmine," "Call Me Anything," "Son of the Sea," "Camels," and "Circles"
Daphni: "Sizzling"
Katie Dey: "Stuck"
Jai Paul: "Do You Love Her Now" and "He"
Shannon Lay: "Nowhere"
Lost Under Heaven: "Teen Violence"
Madonna: "Dark Ballet"
Priests: "Mother" (Danzig Cover)
Sir Babygirl: "Praying" (Kesha Cover)
Spirits Having Fun: "Gift Shopping"
Chris Stapleton: "The Ballad Of The Lonesome Cowboy"
Tei Shi: "A Kiss Goodbye"
Devon Welsh: "Faces"
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Q: Multiple file upload in codeigniter: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare my_escapeshellarg() (previously declared in ...\system\libraries\Upload.php:1038) I tried to upload 2 types of files, image and pdf in different location. But i am getting the following error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare my_escapeshellarg() (previously declared in ...\system\libraries\Upload.php:1038).

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A: You've got the following line in there twice:
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This is then trying to load the library twice, and causing the issue you are having.  If you need to change the config for the uploads, then you should use:
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CRESSON, Pa. - The Penn State Behrend men's basketball team fell to Mt. Aloysius, 67-64 on Sunday afternoon in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) action.
Mount Aloysius connected on 13 threes in the game which proved to be the difference.
Adam Palcic (Greensburg, PA/Greensburg Central Catholic) got the Lions (5-8, 4-3 AMCC) off to a quick start, hitting a three just 13 seconds into the contest. The back and forth battled continued for most of the first half with neither team gaining much of an edge.
At the 10:32 mark, Demetrius Davis hit a three to give the Mounties a lead which they would hold onto for the rest of the half. Nick DeLisio (Aliquippa, PA/Central Valley) hit a three of his own to cut the deficit to five at the break with Mount Aloysius leading 38-33.
With the second half underway, Behrend jumped out to a 12-0 run in the first four minutes. Russ Conley (Transfer, PA/Reynolds) and DeLisio contributed all 12 points to give the Lions the momentum.
The Mounties had an answer of their own with Davis cashing in two from the charity stripe. Shane Skelly (Westlake, OH/Westlake) came back with seven straight points to keep the Lions ahead though.
Over the final eight minutes though, scoring was hard to come by for both teams. Davis hit a triple to put the Mt. Aloysius up by six only to have Evan Eaton (Mt. Lebanon, PA/Mt. Lebanon) and Nick Thorsen (Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park) hit back to back shots to get back within one.
With 10 seconds to play, Howard Fergusson hit two clutch free throws to make it a three-point game. One final attempt by the Lions to tie the game and force overtime fell just short, giving the Mounties their second AMCC victory.
Skelly led Behrend with 18 points and 10 boards. Eaton and DeLisio also scored in double figures, contributing 13 and 10 respectively.
The Lions will return home to host Pitt-Bradford on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.


Franco-belgian pianist Antoine Préat was born in August 1997 in Paris. Often described as a promising, strong-tempered young artist, Antoine is in demand both as a chamber musician and a soloist.
Antoine began his studies at the age of nine at the Junior Paris Conservatoire (CRR de Paris). One year later, he made his public debut at the Salle Gaveau. In 2011, he was invited to continue his studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot, from which he graduated with a distinction at the age of 17. During his time at the Ecole Normale, Antoine had the chance to be taught by Guigla Katsarava (taught himself by Lev Naumov) and Ludmila Berlinskaia (protégée of Sviatoslav Richter).
Deeply affected by this Russian teaching, Antoine decided to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under the tutelage of Tatiana Sarkissova, where he was awarded a scholarship.
During his studies, Antoine also completed courses of musical analysis, history of music, chamber music, accompaniment and harmony.
Looking to enrich his understanding of the instrument and of the repertoire, Antoine began to study fortepiano and period instruments with Carole Cerasi, and has been fortunate to receive counsel from Andreas Staier, Tobias Koch and Yves Henry. He has also had the opportunity to perform on period instruments in England, France and Poland.
Antoine is an avid chamber musician, and dedicates himself to his trio, Trio Cordiera, formed at the Academy in 2016, coached by Amandine Savary from Trio Dali. They have also received teaching from various chamber musicians, such as Bengt Forsberg, Michael Dussek, Jack Liebeck and will perform at the Wigmore Hall during the 2017-2018 season, as well as throughout England and Europe. In 2016, Antoine was the youngest artist to be invited to join the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris, (directed by Jerome Pernoo) with whom he gave twelve concerts at the Salle Cortot in Paris.
Antoine has also received prizes for his piano/cello duo and welcomes new opportunities to make music.
He has been a finalist/prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions such as the Ettlingen competition for young pianists, the Concours International de la Ville de Gagny, the Concours international d'Ile de France, recieved an honor prize at the New York Début Piano Competition, and more.
Antoine made his orchestral debut at 17, playing Rachmaninov's second concerto under the baton of Mihnea Ignat.
Throughout his education, Antoine has regularly received guidance from Philippe Cassard and Alberta Alexandrescu as well as followed masterclasses with Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal, Bruno Rigutto, Stephen Hough, Muza Rubackyte, Pavel Gililov et Pascal Dévoyon, amongst others.


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Jordana Brewster's Favorite Part About 'Fast and the Furious' Franchise Was Bond With Paul Walker: 'He Was the Best Guy'
By Sierra Marquina
Paul Walker was more than just Jordana Brewster's on-screen husband. The Fast and the Furious actress reflected on her special bond with the late actor during an appearance on ABC News on Thursday, March 30.
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Walker, who died in a tragic car accident in November 2013, last appeared in Furious 7, which ended with Walker's character, Brian, and Jordana's character, Mia, leaving the group with their baby boy to live peacefully on an island.
Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster attend Fast and Furious photocall at the Santo Mauro Hotel on March 25, 2009 in Madrid, Spain. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story actress, 36, has parted ways with the franchise, but she couldn't be happier with how her character's story played out.
"[We're still friends.] I love Vin, I love Michelle … but my friendship with Paul was definitely the highlight because he was the best guy," she told ABC News. "So, the bond I had with him was definitely the best part."
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"[She's] with Brian, so I can't think of a better place for her to be," Brewster added of her character's fate. "In the seventh one, Mia was pregnant with a girl. So, I imagine they're on some island, on some idyllic island, just living the life. I think it was like Fiji they were talking about and it was always the island life they wanted."
The Fate of the Furious hits theaters April 14.


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Meet The Witty American Writer Michael Frissore
Kristen Interviews, Writers
Michael Frissore is not your average writer, he's more of a comedian/writer/philosopher with a witty outlook on life. He's published two poetry chapbooks colorfully titled Poetry is Dead and Long Blue Boomerang, and an e-book called The Thief. His latest work, the short story collection Puppet Shows, shows Michael's dark off-kilter world. The weird interactions in these stories make you wish you could actually live out the scene in real life. He's currently working on a novel about professional wrestling, and living in Arizona with his wife and two children.
Zouch: You have a very dark comedic spin; where did that come from?
Michael Frissore: I don't know. There's something about the combination of laughter and appalled holy-shitness, from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" back in the 18th century; to when I was eleven, just days after the Challenger blew up, and kids were saying, "What does NASA stand for? Needs Another Seven Astronauts." I think it's healthy to laugh at those things. Not maniacally, but with a cathartic chuckle. And I will, here and there, sprinkle my writing with this sort of humor. For example, I've long wanted to publish a fiction chapbook called "Message in a Bottle: The Fatty Arbuckle Story," but it probably won't happen.
Also, my parents hiring John Wayne Gacy for my fourth birthday party might have a little to do with it.
Z: How much of your fiction work is rooted in non-fiction, if at all?
MF: My personal favorites are based on no reality whatsoever. They're cartoonish stories about sock puppets or a barbershop inside a whiskey bottle. I haven't based too much of my fiction on real life unless it's something that's absurd about my life itself. I think that when you write fiction, people tend to read too much reality into it. Maybe that's why so much of my fiction focuses on the insane.
Puppet Shows, my wonderful short story collection from Writers AMuse Me Publishing, contains two stories based on non-fiction, and even those are exaggerated versions of real life. There's "Monster in the Closet," which is self-explanatory, and "The Lookist," which is based on my inept social skills. Those also happen to be the two stories in the book that I wrote most recently. As I get older, and I think this happens with a lot of writers, more of my work will tend to be based on non-fiction. Then, when friends and family members say, "Is this character me?" I'll finally say screw it, "Yes. That's you," and they'll never talk to me again. It'll thin the herd. Maybe that's what writers are doing when they write from real life, just getting rid of people.
I'm kidding, of course. And, by the way, my parents did not have Gacy perform at my birthday party. We were in Boston; he was in Chicago. The travel expenses would have been ridiculous.
Z: You became an accidental poet, correct? How did this come to pass?
MF: Poetry has been something of a contagion for me. I don't read much of it, but when I do, I want to write it. It's like a virus. The closest thing I can compare it to is syphilis.
I was part of an online writing community years ago called The WRIToracle. The poetry that people posted was really good, and it inspired me to write it myself. Up until then, I had been writing these 200-word fiction pieces. Poetry has since bled through here and there. A couple of years ago I went through a haiku phase. Where the hell did that come from? I don't know. Recently I was into writing parodies of poems I read on this one online journal. It comes and goes, but I never thought I would publish two poetry collections. I mean, who am I? Jewel?
Alas, I have officially retired from poetry. It's "official" because I contacted all of the poet laureates, including "Leaping" Lanny Poffo, and let them know I will no longer be a poet.
Z: Do you prefer poetry or prose?
MF: Prose.
You probably want more than that. I don't normally read poetry unless it's a dirty limerick or lyrics to a Christopher Cross song. Ron Bennington, a very funny comedian and radio host, said that there are probably more people writing poetry today than reading it. That's likely true, and that was part of the inspiration for the title of my first collection, Poetry is Dead. There are, however, some online journals that publish really good, unboring poetry. And all of them, coincidentally, have published something of mine.
Ultimately, I love short stories, particularly humorous ones, like the work of George Saunders, or going back to Woody Allen and Donald Barthelme. I started collecting old humor books published in the 40s with things by O Henry, Twain, Lardner, Thurber, Bret Harte (not the wrestler Bret "the Hitman" Hart, who is also a great writer), Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman. There will always be something great to me about short, funny prose, or a collection of it.
However, when you publish a collection of stories (Puppet Shows, available at writersamuseme.com and on Amazon), you learn that not everyone enjoys short prose. They want novels. If a story ends after 10 to 20 pages, readers start to panic and wonder where the characters went. So novels are in my future, if I know what's good for me.
Z: You've written a few books, can you tell us more about them?
MF: I had two poetry chapbooks published: one Poetry is Dead from Coatlism Press in 2009, the second Long Blue Boomerang, from Heavy Hands Ink Press in 2011. The latter is available on Amazon and lulu.com; the former is a collector's item. You can still get it somewhere maybe. Heck, I'll send digital copies of both books to anyone who wants to review them somewhere. These chapbooks are poetry for people who hear that word and roll their eyes or want to punch a cat.
Two years ago the good people at Untreed Reads published an ebook of mine called The Thief, which is available on Amazon and dozens of other places for a measly 99 cents.
Then last November Writers AMuse Me published my darling short story collection, Puppet Shows.
Z: What was your favorite book so far and why?
MF: As much as I love Long Blue Boomerang and The Thief, both available on Amazon.com, Puppet Shows is special to me. All I've ever really wanted as a writer is to publish a collection of my stories. Whatever else happens later on will be the cherry on top of the delicious sundae that is Puppet Shows. The reviews, thus far, have been great. "A magical ride," "Completely entertaining," and "a deliciously twisted collection," are just a few of the quotes that stick in my mind. There was another reviewer who said, "Buy it. Read it. Laugh a lot." So go do that now. Zouch won't mind.
And WAMM, my publisher, has been fantastic. A lot of the reason I've had as many reviews as I have is from the support system they've built there and the relationship between publisher and author. It's a wonderful little family and a very talented group of writers.
Z: What was your favorite piece and why?
MF: They're all my babies, the stories in Puppet Shows. That's like asking the old lady who lived in a shoe who her favorite shoe child is. There are six or seven stories that I love especially and always wanted to be in this collection. I love "Dinner at Wither Port" because it was the first story I ever wrote. I love "Heckle" simply for the nasty talking monkey. "The Adventures of Root Beer Float Man" and "Treasure of the Urinal Cake, both for the titles and the stories themselves. "The Seven Stages of Sorrow," is another one; although, I sometimes wish I'd stuck with one of its original titles, my favorite being "The Girl in the Ultimate Warrior Jacket." Years ago I saw a woman in a supermarket wearing an Ultimate Warrior jacket, and I just had to write about her. She's also in a poem I wrote called "Man Wearing Zubaz," which is in Long Blue Boomerang. She'll never know how inspirational she was. Anyway, the story "Game Shows," which isn't even one of the seven, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, which I thought would never happen with the goofy shit I write.
I've published a couple of other stories since Puppet Shows came out that I also love. "Flipper Hands McCreary" is at an online journal called Unlikely Stories. I'm hoping that N.C.I.S. will make that one into an episode, but we'll see. Then "Trevor Talks" is in an anthology called "Wake the Witch." That piece was my second talking penis story. The first one being "Nigel," which was part of a trio of shorts called "Dicks, Nipples and Sylvia Plath." That one's also a favorite (See how hard it is to pick favorites?) because it was in the dirty humor issue of Monkeybicycle a few years ago alongside huge comedians, including Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt. David Cross wrote the introduction to the issue. It's still bizarre to me that I was in that. I even acknowledged Eric Spitznagel in Puppet Shows. He was the guest editor of that issue, and I'm eternally grateful to him for including me.
Z: Where do you find inspiration?
MF: I find my inspiration, of course, in the loving eyes of my wife and children. And I never sit down to write without first singing to them the Chicago classic "You're the Inspiration," because Peter Cetera wrote it much better than I ever could.
I love writing. That's the inspiration. I love writing humor, trying to make people laugh just from words on a page or screen, whether it actually works or it's a glorious disaster. Whatever I'm writing, I like seeing how amusing I can be, even if I'm just amusing myself.
And Thomas Edison said that genius is only one percent inspiration, anyway. I'm far from a genius, but that's one lousy percent. The rest, he said, is perspiration. My wife will tell you, I perspire like nobody's business. I'm like Albert Brooks in Broadcast News. So who needs inspiration when you've got buckets and buckets of sweat?
Z: Have you always had a subversive sense of humor?
MF: Yes, since my teens anyway. I grew up on the stand up of Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, Carlin and Dice; watching Monty Python and The Young Ones on MTV. I was into rap music mainly for the subversiveness and the comedy of some of it – N.W.A., Public Enemy, Ice T, Slick Rick, 2 Live Crew. The books I read for pleasure were things like A Clockwork Orange, Portnoy's Complaint and American Psycho.
I went through a period when I would only watch hilariously subversive movies, and if I could recommend one, if you take nothing else from this interview, go get The Sinful Dwarf on DVD, starring the late, great and incomparable Torben Bille as Olaf. It is The Godfather of despicable little people films, and I still want to make a musical out of it some day.
Z: What are you working on now?
MF: I'm writing my first novel. It's more serious than the stories in Puppet Shows, but there's some humor in it. It's about professional wrestling, which in itself, to many people, I know is quite humorous. I chose wrestling as a subject because, for me, along with comedians, pro wrestlers are the ultimate entertainers. I became a fan of both stand-up and wrestling at a very young age, and have always sat in awe of even an open-miker or a young kid wrestling in a high school gymnasium or Elks lodge for a few bucks. It takes courage and talent far greater than with anything else as far as I'm concerned.
I wrote a series of articles for Flak Magazine about pro wrestling a few years ago. Those are actually my favorite non-humor ones, though they're no longer online. Weldon T. Johnson, who co-wrote Chokehold with the late wrestler Big Jim Wilson, emailed me after the piece was published to congratulate me on the "thoroughly researched and well-crafted series of articles." That meant a lot to me because I loved Chokehold and I had quoted it in the piece.
I also had a couple of people, including the editor of Flak, suggest I make the series into a book. I entertained that idea for a couple of weeks and found it impossible for a non-fiction book, at least for me. Others have written tremendous non-fiction books on the subject. I later came up with this idea for a novel. It's been slow going, but I've enjoyed writing it, and hopefully, this novel will serve as a lovely homage to wrestlers everywhere.
Z: Who have been your biggest influences – they don't have to be writers (don't feel pigeonholed.)
MF: Woody Allen. The Complete Prose of Woody Allen might be my favorite book ever, and "The Kugelmass Episode" my favorite short story. As old and unliterary as it makes me sound, the comedy of the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Python, and Rik Mayall influenced my fiction, or at least the stories in Puppet Shows, more than any "literary" writers have, just as something like The Opie and Anthony Show did my non-fiction in lieu of a Lewis Gizzard or Erma Bombeck.
O&A have had a fairly large influence on my writing, much to the dismay of family and friends who have read my work. I've been listening to them at my regular jobs, often for four hours a day, for years and it just seeps in, whether I want it to or not. When I was writing for The Buzz Media, Slurve Magazine, Flak, or just what I write on my blog or the things I tweet, a lot of it is influenced by that show.
This is not to say that I'm not influenced by literary fiction writers. Chuck Palahniuk's novels and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces are big ones for me. I think their influence shows a little in the novel I'm writing now. I'm also finding that, maybe because I've set this novel in Boston, I'm hearing the voices of some of my favorite Boston comedians in the dialogue – Robert Kelly, Bill Burr, Nick DiPaolo. So stand up continues to influence me just as O&A do.
By the way, another of my favorite short stories was written by a comedian: Jim Norton's "Pumpkin: A Love Story," which was in his book Happy Endings.
Z: What is your writing process?
MF: I suppose it would behoove me to have a process. I've long tried to be disciplined enough to have a "process," but things get in the way: parenthood, work, Twitter. That damn Twitter. I should be writing, but instead I'm tweeting a few more #DepressingSitcoms like "My Three Miscarriages" and "Head of the Journalist."
Every May I go to this weekend writers' workshop in Tucson, and I always leave inspired and ready to wake up every morning at 4:30 and write for an hour or two before work. It rarely ends up happening. That might be why my writing is so bat shit insane. There's no process. There's no structure. It's just madness.
Z: When is the moment that you are most excited about writing? Is it a fresh page on a notebook, a rumbling in your belly? What is it? What does it feel like?
MF: The page isn't fresh. It's empty and blank. And the rumbling is always hunger, and I eat until I'm too tired to write anything. I guess the most exciting thing is when I get an idea, but then it's like, shit. This idea won't just appear on the page. I have to write it now.
And now, with writing a novel, it's never-ending, like that NAMBLA movie with the flying dog. Instead of a 50-word poem, or a 3,000-word story, I have to keep going. How do people do this? But it's fun. All of it is fun. What does it feel like? I'm no good at describing feelings. That's why I write humor.
Z: If you were to impart advice to other writers and poets, what would you…
MF: Well, have a process, for one. And read. Read a lot. Read books like they're going out of style. And write. Write your crap and then edit it a lot to make it less crappy. And if you're one of those writers who writes and is afraid to show anyone or submit what you've written because of the inevitable rejection, stop it. Find places to submit to. Most of them will reject you, but most places accept less than five percent of what they read. And don't send back angry emails when you get rejected, because that makes you look like an asshole, and editors talk to each other.
Rejection is inevitable, and not a bad thing. I got a rejection letter seven years ago that I still remember because it simply said, "Pulling things from people's asses is not our forte. We'll pass." I loved that, and I replied to them, "Best rejection ever!" This journal no longer exists, and maybe if they yanked things from keysters every now and then they'd still be in business. That story was called "Treasure of the Urinal Cake," and it was later accepted by a U.K. journal called Kerouac's Dog Magazine. That was after me cutting the word count of the story in half, leaving the ass tugging bit in, of course. That's another thing: editing. Edit like a son of a bitch. They say in writing you have to be willing to kill your baby, and they don't mean in a Casey Anthony/Susan Smith/Andrea Yates kind of way. I took out half that story, which I worked just as hard on as the rest of it, and it will never see the light of day.
I had another rejection in which the editor read three of my stories and sent me his comments within the text, and somewhere amid the third story, he had typed "ANOTHER AIDS JOKE!?!?" I guess I had written an AIDS joke in each of the three stories I submitted. There's that dark comic spin we started with. But all three of those stories were later accepted elsewhere, AIDS jokes intact. And three of the four stories I've mentioned are in Puppet Shows.
Here's one more rejection story. When I was submitting my short piece "The Thief," I received a rejection from some online journal. The editor said he absolutely did not like the ending. It was forced and whatever else he said. I sent it to Untreed Reads and they were blown away by the ending. They loved it. So this short story ended up an ebook, now in italics as The Thief, sold on Amazon. I've only made a few bucks from it so far, but it's a few dollars more than if that other editor had taken it.
The moral is you never know how people are going to react to what you write. Some will like it, others won't. The more published I get the more writers I meet who are afraid to have anyone see their work, and I used to be like that. It was my wife Amy who convinced me eight or so years ago to start submitting my stories. Now I have a short story collection out there being reviewed. Puppet Shows has received a couple of not-so-good reviews, but to each his own. I don't begrudge reviewers not getting my humor. I'm just happy they reviewed it.
Z: What is Michael Frissore's quote?
MF: I at one time was using something. It's not so much a quote as it is an epitaph. "A writer akin to Whitman. Charles Whitman."


Acharya Allyn Lyon is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. Allyn has traveled and taught extensively in Europe, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as at Naropa University. She currently serves as resident Acharya at Shambhala Mountain Center and in Los Angeles, California. Allyn is known for the clarity and directness of her teaching and for her irreverent sense of humor.


The standard PPS letterhead allows for the addition of your practice name, address, and contact information which can automatically be populated into letters and invoices produced from PPS.
a. To configure your letterhead navigate to Tools > System Set Up > Set Up Letterhead.
b. Here you have five lines in which you can enter text to be included in your letterhead. You can see what your letterhead will look like in the preview at the bottom of the screen.
c. Untick the "Include these details" box to disable the letterhead at any time. You can also use this option if you are using letterheaded paper and would rather the top section of your letters etc. remain blank. Please note, if you untick this box then the letterhead details will still be present when printing Clinical Notes.
d. If you want to incorporate logos or images in your headers then you will need to add these via the PPS Layout Designers accessible from the Tools menu.


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Q: ios - Is it possible to record audio and play video from network stream at the same time? I'm doing research for a iPhone video chat app project.
I've tried this to capture image,
use AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer to display camera view
and put a MPMoviePlayerController to play network stream video at the back.
They all work until I add an audio input to the AVCaptureSession.
The MPMoviePlayerController stop the AVCaptureSession if there is audio input.
I think of using AVAudioSession for both playing and recording audio and some other way to play video,
but the documentation of AVAudioPlayer said

"Apple recommends that you use this class for audio playback unless you are playing audio captured from a network stream or require very low I/O latency."

I found the Multimedia Programming Guide saying that

"To provide lowest latency audio, especially when doing simultaneous input and output (such as for a VoIP application), use the I/O unit or the Voice Processing I/O unit."

Is it the correct direction to implement video chat in iphone?


Kreston Iberaudit, Kreston's member network with over 400 professionals in offices across Spain, Portugal and Andorra held its 2017 national conference in Granada recently. Over 70 Partners and professionals were in attendance.
The conference was opened by host Pedro Maza, Managing Partner from Kreston Iberaudit's Granada office and then Mercè Martí, Chairwoman and CEO at Kreston Iberaudit, presented on the company's performance this year. Mercè also reinforced Kreston Iberaudit's expansion strategy for the coming months.
The meeting was also attended by Jon Lisby, Kreston CEO who, in his report this year, emphasised brand and the importance of members to "Be more Kreston".
Key note was Andrés Navarro Galera, University Professor and Director of the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Granada, who analysed current trends in the Public Sector. José Antonio Rodríguez Salas, Mayor of Jun, presented on the importance of social media and Alberto Garau, a member of the Technical Committee of Kreston Iberaudit explained audit independence. Tax Committee member Jorge Borrajo hosted a technical tax session. The conference was closed by Juan Luis Gomeza, Executive Vice President of Kreston Iberaudit.
During the Conference, the Partners of Kreston Iberaudit reappointed Mercè Martí, Partner in Barcelona, as Chairwoman and CEO. Arturo Diaz, Partner of Gijón, retains his position as Executive Vice President.


In this second-to-last video of our series, we're going to look at balancing your 3rd-eye chakra with this f-word – feminine wisdom.
Okay, officially, it's not an f-word, but an f-phrase. Still, it's so perfect, I couldn't resist using it.
Your sixth chakra is often referred to as the third eye. It's located above and between your brows, and it's the highest of your feminine chakras (2, 4, 6). This means it's the home of your feminine wisdom and your most balanced and benevolent perspective.
The sixth chakra is where we receive insight into things without resorting to masculine reason or logic. You've heard of the phrase "feminine intuition." When our third eye is strong and activated, we know what to do from a pure, feminine feeling sense.
But don't think I'm saying that intuition is only available to women. Men who tap into their sixth chakra can definitely access "feminine wisdom," as well as their more sensitive side.
All of us – men and women alike – have times when we have a strong intuitive feeling about something. And I'm sure you can recall times when you didn't listen to your intuition and then paid a price for it.
So, the biggest lesson here is listen to your intuition and act on it.
The sixth chakra is also where we tap into psychic abilities – particularly clairvoyance (inner sight). Of course, psychic impressions can come to you in many different ways – sounds, images, bodily sensations, hunches and more.
To open yourself to psychic impressions, all you need to do is open yourself to the idea of answers coming to you from within – and to let go of any addictions you might have to logic and reason. They have their place, of course, but they are only half the picture – the masculine side. There is a whole world of information that can come to you in a feminine way, from within, if you allow it.
Your sixth chakra is also the place where you can really tap into your vision of what you'd like to create in your life, as well as the perspective needed to deal with people and situations with equanimity.
If you find that you're somewhat stuck in one particular, negative perspective which is making you feel upset or angry about something, you're probably operating out of your third chakra which is deeply invested in your ego's perspective.
Close your eyes and imagine there is a mini glass elevator in your solar plexus. Picture a mini you in that elevator and see it going up through your heart chakra and throat chakra until it reaches your third eye. Now, imagine "looking out" at the situation from this higher, lighter perspective.
For me, any situation looks very different when I move out of the ego trappings of my solar plexus chakra and look at things from the calmer, more vast vantage point of my sixth chakra.
I hope it does the same for you! Try it and let me know what you notice.
Please keep me up to date. I really do need to learn more.


Permanent Health insurance is designed to pay you a replacement income if you are unable to work which can be inflation protected, until retirement. Industry rules dictate you may not insure all of your income, but may insure most of it (two-thirds to three-quarters is typical).
If you are employed and have group permanent health insurance (income protection insurance) arrangements available to you, then in most cases that will be the choice to follow. Group schemes carry valuable premium discounts through economies of scale, and are often non-contributory for the employee.
The permanent health insurance (income protection insurance) policy will normally pay out some time after the date at which you stopped working (normally known as the deferred period). The shorter this period, the greater the premium. Options are generally for three months, six months or twelve months. Clearly if your employer will pay for six months you will not need the policy to pay out before this, in addition the permanent health insurance company may not pay out the full amount until earnings have reduced. The premiums depend on age, occupation, and will normally exclude pre-existing conditions.
Be careful over your selection of definition of disability. "Own occupation" means that the permanent health insurance company will not expect you to restart when fit enough in an occupation you were not already in. "Any occupation" allows the permanent health insurance company to insist that when you are sufficiently recovered, that you take up any occupation, this may be in a different arena to that which you were in before your absence. Skilled or highly trained people should consider carefully the definition that they are applying for, this especially applies if you are in a potentially risky job where a small problem can affect your ability to work. "Own Occupation" may not be available for all occupations and may be declined following medical underwriting.
Be aware that many policies are reviewable. This means that if the overall claims experience of a permanent health insurance company over their bank of policyholders, are greater than expected they can increase the premiums across the board to all policyholders. This means that permanent health insurance companies can try to buy business with low premiums, only to increase them in later years. Because of this hazard the cheapest reviewable quote may not prove to be such good value as a guaranteed quote.
Although this could change in the future, as a general rule, benefits paid on privately-funded permanent health insurance policies are paid free of income and other taxes. This is important when estimating the extent of cover required.
* If your PHI (permanent health insurance) is arranged by your employer under a group scheme then benefits ARE taxable. However you can be covered for up to 75% of income.


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Important Kernel Updates Patch 7 Vulnerabilities in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
Canonical announced a few hours ago the availability of new kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, patching a total of seven security issues across all of them.
In the new Ubuntu Security Notices, the company notes the fact that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) distributions, as well as all of their officially supported derivatives, such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, Edubuntu, or Mythbuntu, are affected by the following issue.
Affecting only the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS releases, there's a security flaw documented as CVE-2016-9555 and discovered by Andrey Konovalov in Linux kernel's SCTP implementation, which made it to improperly handle validation of incoming data, allowing a remote attacker to crash the affected system via a denial of service.
Additionally, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is affected by multiple memory leaks (CVE-2016-9685) in the XFS file system support, which could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service. Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible to linux-image-3.2.0-121.164 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or linux-image-3.13.0-108.155~precise1 for Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS, as well as linux-image-3.13.0-108.155 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or linux-image-4.4.0-62.83~14.04.1 for Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.
Two security issues affect Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and five Ubuntu 16.10
Two other kernel vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-10147 and CVE-2016-8399) are affecting both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 releases. The first one was discovered by Mikulas Patocka in Linux kernel's asynchronous multibuffer cryptographic daemon (mcryptd), which made it to incorrectly handle incompatible algorithms, allowing a local attacker to crash the system via a denial of service.
The second security flaw was discovered by Qidan He in Linux kernel's Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) implementation, causing it to incorrectly check the size of an ICMP header. As such, it would appear that a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges could exploit the kernel vulnerability to expose sensitive information.
Three other security issues (CVE-2016-10150, CVE-2016-8632, and CVE-2016-9777) are affecting only Ubuntu 16.10, and the first one is an use-after-free discovered in Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) susbsystem when creating devices, which could have allowed a local attacker to crash the affected system via a denial of service.
The second one is a heap-based buffer overflow discovered by Qian Zhang in Linux kernel's tipc_msg_build() function, which could allow a local attacker to either execute arbitrary code as root (system administrator) or crash the system via a denial of service. The last one was discovered by Dmitry Vyukov in Linux kernel's KVM implementation, and it could allow an attacker in a guest virtual machine to crash the system or gain administrative privileges in the host operating system.
Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible to linux-image-4.4.0-62.83 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and linux-image-4.8.0.37.46 on Ubuntu 16.10. To update, run the Synaptic Package Manager or Ubuntu Software and install all the available updates. Please reboot your computer after installing the new kernel versions.
Source:https://news.softpedia.com
Tagged: Ubuntu Linux


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Skagerak Arena
Falkum
Former names
Skien, Norway
12,000[1]
The Skagerak Arena is a football stadium located in Skien, Norway. It was formerly called Odd Stadion, and was built in 1923 as the home ground of Eliteserien club Odd. The stadium is often referred to as Falkum, being situated in that area of Skien.
The stadium has been undergoing an extensive redevelopment process, begun in November 2006, which produced a modern all-seater venue by April 2008. Part of the finance Odd needed for the project was obtained through the lease of the stadium's naming rights to the club's main sponsor since 1995, the Norwegian power company Skagerak Energi. The stadium will therefore be known as Skagerak Arena until at least 2017.
The pitch has been rotated 90 degrees in order to free up space. As is increasingly common in Norway, the new surface is artificial. The old main stand is now an end stand, incorporated into the new structure as the only surviving feature of the old stadium.
Three new two-tiered stands was completed between 2007 and 2008. The east and west stands has a capacity of 4,300 while the south end seats around 3,000. Construction of the west stand had progressed far enough by April 2007 to allow spectators on the lower tier for the first home match of the season, on 15 April. Total capacity was at first 6,000 And increased gradually throughout 2007. The old stadium had a capacity of about 8,600, of which 5,600 were seated.
The venue has hosted Norway national under-21 football team matches three times, playing 0-0 against Portugal on 9 May 1979, 2-1 against Romania on 18 August 1998 and 3-1 against Scotland on 19 August 2003.[2] In a 2012 survey carried out by the Norwegian Players' Association among away-team captains, Skagerak Arena was ranked tenth amongst league stadiums, with a score of 3.07 on a scale from one to five.[3]
^ http://www.nifs.no/stadionprofil.php?stadion_id=10181
^ "Norge Menn U21" (in Norwegian). Football Association of Norway. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 2011.
^ "Lerkendal nest beste fotballbane" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. 28 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 2012.
Skagerak Arena video and photos - Nordic Stadiums
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Coordinates: 59°12?40?N 009°35?23?E / 59.21111°N 9.58972°E / 59.21111; 9.58972
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Ehh, not sure I'm a fan of this. At all.
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates. I was discharged home again today. This time hopefully for good. Have follow ups Thursday of this week as well as more shortly after but fingers crossed I'm finally on to recovery. PS: This type of surgery hurts something awful. The soreness and general lack of energy or strength I have in my entire upper body is remarkable.
Greatest comeback story in the history of sport, and I don't think it's even close. I was seriously starting to doubt if we'd ever see this happen again. So awesome to watch!
Bill Murray as a Norse Fan would be phenomenal.
Luke Murray? Chris Shumate? David Padgett?
Bearcats got themselves one heck of a coach. Incredibly sad to see him leave the Norse, but knew it was only a matter of time. Hopefully in another 4-5 years NKU is in this same position. Mid-Major programs losing coaches speaks volumes to the success of their program. Job well done Coach. Good luck on the other side of the river.
Pending a good result on a blood test being done overnight tonight, I should be discharged tomorrow!!! Can't wait to be home, but most importantly, can't wait to see my little guys!
If Brannen would get the UC job, it will make it very hard for me to continue to dislike them. Also, wonder who NKU would target? Chris Shumate? Luke Murray? Would they go after a guy like Joel Justus? Or how about David Padgett?
That's my fear as an NKU fan.
More in depth update....Friday was the most terrifying day of my life. The initial surgery went well and I was alert and in the CICU when I started getting nauseous, dizzy and everything going black. Turns out I was having massive internal bleeding, so they had to rush me into emergency surgery early Saturday morning to get that under control, which they were luckily able to do.
Hey all, quick update...I finally got moved out of the cardiac ICU this afternoon and am on the step down floor.
So today was my last day of work before surgery. Get to spend all day tomorrow at the hospital doing pre-op tests and prep, then back there early Friday morning for the surgery. Much calmer and more at ease than I figured I'd be at this point. Will probably be good until it comes time to leave and say bye to my boys Friday morning. Not sure I'll be able to keep it together at that point.
Love LaRosas creamy garlic, but when it comes to typical dressings I'm a Ranch or Italian guy. Hot Bacon dressing is phenomenal as well, but unfortunately most places don't serve it.
Sheesh. Alford couldn't last at UCLA with Sweet Sixteens, how long would Cronin's annual first weekend exits buy him?
I'd argue that if any KY fans are unhappy with Cal and the job he's done, they aren't actually Kentucky fans.
Herro is a sure fire, no doubt first rounder. NBA scouts love his game. I won't be at all surprised if he goes lottery. PJ, Keldon and Herro will go. Everyone else will return, and they'll add another couple guys too.
Correct. He's acting like neither they or Wofford were any good. Houston was the #9 overall team in the tournament. Shocking they would play a tight game against the #7 team.
Because Wofford and Houston are both very good basketball teams that play an "ugly" style. Kentucky is a really good defensive team. You mix those factors together and you end up with ugly low scoring games more often than not.
Of course they're playing really well. But no one they've played in that span is anywhere close to the defensive team Kentucky is. Defense matters.
I can tell you with 100% certainty they do. My company is headquartered just outside Charlottesville and I had to listen to them talk about how they were rooting for UNC last year since the UVA was done.
Down their best player. Will make a huge impact.
Defensively they are as good as anyone in the country.
They've beaten Auburn twice. It hasn't taken 85 either time.
Prayers out to you UKMustangFan.
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Kitsch Cupcakes, the region's first cupcakes concept, announced today that it has rebranded its outlets to 'Kitsch Counter' and introduced a new wholesome menu. The menu is a combination of a scrumptious mix of sweet and savory items prepared fresh daily using the highest quality ingredients and organic ingredients, where possible.
The award-winning cupcakes are still offered at all Kitsch Counter branches across the U.A.E. "Our cupcakes are going nowhere!" Dalia reassures us.
Kitsch Counter is also offering organic coffee, cold pressed juices, nut milks and coconut water. Customers will also be able to enjoy unlimited Wi-Fi in a cozy and chilled environment.
The Kitsch story began in 2006 when childhood friends Dalia Dogmoch Soubra and Racil Chalhoub decided to start a unique business concept in Beirut. It was a combination of the best in fashion and food under one roof; a place where one could shop, enjoy a healthy salad, freshly baked cakes and unwind. After realizing the enormous demand for the cupcakes in Beirut, they decided to expand and introduced a specialized cupcakes concept in Dubai.
When Kitsch Cupcakes opened its doors on the Jumeriah Beach Road in Dubai back in 2008, it was the first specialized cupcakes concept to open in the region. In 2010, Kitsch Cupcakes opened their second branch in the Capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, before opening a third branch at the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Over the years, the brand received several accolades and recognition for the quality of their cakes including one from three Michelin stars British Celebrity Chef Marco-Pierre White. The brand has also supported several community initiatives and projects to raise awareness of different causes as well as help raise funds for non-profit organizations.


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What Pawlenty Said
By Michael Crowley @CrowleyTIMEMay 23, 2011
The Democratic National Committee has been having fun with my recent profile of Tim Pawlenty–specifically by bashing him, as this video does, for allegedly responding "I don't know, I wish I had a good answer for you" when I asked him why he's running for President.
But that's a distortion of our exchange. Although our conversation touched on Pawlenty's rationale for running, my questions were after something different. I was curious to know when Pawlenty, whose strength and weakness is his regular-guy persona, came to think of himself as presidential material. In the hope of clearing things up, I'm posting the transcript of our exchange on this question, which occurred at a radio station in Des Moines earlier this month, and which I have edited very lightly to clean up grammar and elide irrelevant asides:
TIME: Was there a time when you remember starting to think about the possibility of running for President?
PAWLENTY: Well, I was really — I know in terms of seriously considering, it was probably in fall of — fall of '10…. No, I'm sorry, it would've been in the fall of '09. So I was thinking that, you know, this was a possibility. I wasn't sure whether I was gonna do it or not, but I wanted to at least do some things to explore the idea and preserve the option. And as it turns out, a number of other things happened that kind of did that on a parallel track anyhow. So I became the vice chair of the [Republican Governor's Association], which wasn't directly related to running for President, but allowed me to help other candidates around the country and raise money for them and get acquainted with a broader political network. And then, two, we started a PAC in the fall of '09, the Freedom First PAC, and that became kind of the platform and vehicle for travel and speeches and political activity. And that was geared – it genuinely was used to influence the 2010 elections. But it was during that time where I started to think, 'Well, I at least should explore this, or at least think about it.' And in terms of a final decision and seriously thinking about it, it was kind of this last holiday season, kind of Christmas season.
TIME: I guess I mean it almost in a more existential way – you know, you think about the way Haley Barbour phrased it–
PAWLENTY: Oh–
TIME: …when he said he didn't want to run. I think he phrased it well: You have to be ready for a 10 year commitment to this onslaught. And you are going to go into the history books, and you will be sending people to their deaths. And all that gravity, it must start stirring up, I don't know, in the middle of the night. I mean, in other words, surely before the fall of 2009 you started to think to yourself, 'Can I do this? Am I one of these chosen few in history?' And where did that germinate from?
PAWLENTY: You know, I don't know. I wish I had a good answer for you for that. I didn't seriously consider it until recently, and I could have gone either way with the decision in the sense that over this last holiday season, Mary and I talked about this at length, and many times, and it was a close call. I mean, it could have easily gone the other way [laughs] for all the reasons youre suggesting. [laughs] You know, I turned 50 last year, and I'm realizing I'm — if I'm not in the fourth quarter, I'm in the third quarter of the chronological clock. I was governor for eight years and majority leader for four and have done a lot, and so you start to think about, 'Well, maybe I'll just go make some money and play golf and play hockey and drink some beer, and life will be good. But then you start thinking, 'Well, how cynical is that? You know, to take the easy path, take the path that is just comfortable but is not as meaningful. And then you get inspired to make a difference. But it was a close call, I'll be very candid with you. It could have gone either way, and I struggled with the decision in the sense that – not that I don't think I can do the job, or couldn't win. But was it really right for me and my family? But in terms of any other notions early on, or, you know, 20 years ago or 15 years ago or something, I never really thought about it in concrete terms until kind of late in my governorship….
TIME: Do ever regret – you studied dentistry, right? – do you ever imagine yourself with a nice practice, you go home at six o'clock… [laughs]
PAWLENTY: I do. I like other things, too. I like sports. I enjoy creative talent and work. I love my family and friends. I enjoy my church. I enjoy reading, I enjoy outdoor activities–I like to fish, I like to hunt. I like to learn. And I like to get involved in charity and community events. I like to walk my dog, I like to watch football. I can be very happy not being in politics. In fact I'm often very happy not — doing nonpolitical things. So I look at all that and I think, 'I really don't need this.' But I also take to heart this notion that I don't think we were put here just to take the easy path. I think we were put here to try to make a difference and take what we've been given and try to do some good with it. And for me– it's not for everybody–that has led to the ability to endure politics and do pretty well at it. And there's an opportunity, I think, to do even more.


Being baptized is a ritual that shifts boundaries. It symbolizes dying to self and living a new life in Christ Jesus. It is not an isolated event. People are always incorporated into the community of believers by being baptized That is why families were baptized together in the New Testament. But being baptized alone doesn't save you. But it is a part of your salvation experience in that it is obedience to the Lord's command.
Age matters. We measure people against their years. God doesn't. He says little children aren't too young to work for Him, and that the elderly is not too old because they may have retired. We are permanently in service of God. Our value and purpose don't decrease as we grow older. We are precious, no matter our age.
Because all have sinned, only the grace of God keeps us from being included in Romans 1.
The weapon against sin in Romans 1 is the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Only God can change a heart. Only God through Jesus Christ can transform anyone. He has the power to change anyone.
The unnatural sins of men.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NIV) " Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offender nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
Paul speaks of unnatural consequences which flow from unnatural acts. While we do not know exactly what Paul meant, we do know that "whatever a man sows, that he also will reap." (Gal.6:7-8).


Celebrating a birthday, rolling up the sleeves for a community volunteer project and taking that extra day of vacation are probably not the first activities that come to mind concerning workplace wellness. However, less traditional benefits are quickly taking the stage as top wellness initiatives, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans' recent survey Workplace Wellness Trends.
More traditional wellness initiatives like health risk assessments and flu shots remain popular among workplaces, but the International Foundation noticed a growing emphasis on more non-traditional initiatives like mental health coverage, vacation time and tuition reimbursement.
• on-site events/celebrations (50 percent).
Some of the more unusual offerings emerging are discounted or free wearable tracking devices, themed dress-up days, game leagues, financial education and workplace design changes like collaborative work spaces, standing/treadmill desks and walking loops.
• wellness competitions/fitness challenges (42 percent).
Organizations are offering wellness initiatives for different reasons — 59 percent offer wellness primarily to invest in/increase worker health and engagement, while 41 percent primarily aim to control/reduce health-related costs. As organizations embrace both traditional and nontraditional wellness initiatives, it is clear that their efforts are creating results.
Of the responding organizations with wellness initiatives, about one in four (26 percent) is analyzing the return on investment of their wellness program. Proof of wellness results is in uniquely high demand – just four percent of organizations that calculate wellness ROI also analyze the ROI of other initiatives/benefits.
Among organizations analyzing and aware of their wellness ROI, 93 percent are achieving positive ROI –the average ROI per $1 spent is $3. Among organizations tracking more specific wellness efforts, 54% said wellness efforts have improved engagement, 45% said wellness efforts reduced absenteeism, and 38% said wellness efforts have positively affected their organization's overall bottom line.


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