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The World's Largest Windmill: Boone's Mod-1 Wind Turbine, 1979
by Kelly Agan, N.C. Government & Heritage Library, 2016
On July 11, 1979, the town of Boone celebrated the dedication of what was then hailed as the world's largest windmill. The windmill, perched atop Howard's Knob, had been installed as part of a program by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop wind power as a renewable energy source in response to the country's dependence on petroleum during the 1970s OPEC oil embargo and resulting gasoline shortages.
The project was an experiment in megawatt power wind turbine design. And the Boone test site was selected, among more than 60 sites, for the promise of steady winds at around 25 miles per hour to generate upwards of 2000 kilowatts of electricity, reportedly enough to power 500 homes. The mammoth steel structure, with its propellers supplied by Boeing and generator by General Electric, stood at 140 feet tall with an open tower, spanned 200 feet wide across the blades and weighed in at around 350 tons. Costing approximately $6 million, the project was administered by NASA under the recently created Federal Wind Energy Program and operated locally by BREMCO (the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation) to return the power to the energy grid. The Boone windmill was part of NASA's Mod-1 series, built during the 1970s.
July 11 was celebrated as "Windmill Day," with a downtown street festival that included craft vendors, music and performers. According to news accounts, tourists jammed the downtown streets and, unfortunately, winds were only at about 6 miles per hour that day, requiring manual rotation of the propeller blades.
The lack of wind on the dedication day was a harbinger of the fate of the project. The structure was plagued with significant structural issues within the first two years of operation and winds were inconsistent for optimal energy generation. At times winds never consistently reached or maintained optimal speeds, and at other times they were too strong for the structure.
And although the site atop the 4,396 foot Howard's Knob would become a Watauga County public park built around the tower, the windmill was plagued by negative public perception. This came from complaints from nearby residents about the wooshing and thumping sounds it made to complaints of disrupted television reception. NASA responded to the complaints by removing the original engine and replacing it with a 1.5 megawatt generator. Administrators also suspended activity during primetime television viewing.
In January 1981, numerous bolts in the engine's drive train failed, beginning the project's rapid descent into closure. With costly repairs reportedly beyond NASA's reach and federal dollars for wind energy research drying up during the Reagan Administration, the federal government auctioned the windmill in 1983. It was purchased by McBess Industries in Lincoln County for $51,600. The company used the generator for a power plant and reportedly donated the tower to Georgia Tech. McBess donated the propeller blades to the Forsyth County Nature Science Center (later renamed SciWorks). They were displayed outside the entrance for several years until they were damaged and reportedly sold for scrap.
The windmill also came to be somewhat affectionately called for the sound it produced, also became the centerpiece of a tongue-in-cheek cult at Appalachian State University. One story reports that students hearing of the presence of a TV crew dressed up in sheets, calling themselves "Wooshies" who worshipped the god "Nay-zuh" (i.e. NASA). Another story recounts students who created a "mockumentary" video for a class with a fictitious group called the Pangalactic Unification Church and Restaurant – the "Cult of the Wooshies."
Although the project was regarded by many as a failure and waste of public dollars, scientists learned valuable lessons about design for wind power. Today industrial windmills can be found along the Appalachian Mountains from New York into the South.
NASA Mod-1 wind turbine in Boone, NC. Photograph. December 31, 1978. Wikimedia Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_wind_turbines#/media/File:NASA_Mod_1_... (accessed June 10, 2016).
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This is the first time that the newlywed has shown off her legs since getting married to Prince Harry.
The 37-year-old attended the hit musical Hamilton with her husband and wore a gorgeous black tuxedo style dress.
"Listen, I love me some Meghan Markle. But has anyone seen the TMZ photo of her and Prince Harry at Hamilton; her legs look scarily thin. I'd imagine her father and his chit chat doesn't help the stress," another fan tweeted, commenting on how much Meghan's father has been in the news.
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Tennis is a band comprised of husband and wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. The couple met while studying philosophy in college and sailed together for 7 months down the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard.
Tennis got their name from Alaina Moore's tendency to tease her husband. Patrick Riley played the sport in college so Moore like to poke fun at him for taking part in an "elitist rich man's sport."
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While on sailing trip, the husband and wife duo Tennis decided that they wanted to make sunny pop music. They listened to a lot of Paul Simon and The Shirelles for 7 months which singer Alaina Moore says matched "the aesthetic of the trip."
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New Delhi: India has joined the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub as a new member. This was announced today by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology in New Delhi. This expands the global partnership working to address challenges and improve coordination and collaboration in global AMR R&D to 16 countries, the European Commission, two philanthropic foundations and four international organisations (as observers).
Congratulating India on its induction as a new member, the acting Chair of the Global AMR R&D Hub Board of Members and Director General of the Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada, Ms.BersabelEphrem, said,"I am very pleased to welcome India as an important addition to our global partnership. Addressing AMR requires global action with active participation from all world regions and One Health sectors. Expanding the membership of the Hub works towards ensuring that different countries needs are incorporated when considering AMR R&D activities and actions".
The Global AMR R&D Hub was launched in May 2018 in the margins of the 71st session of the World Health Assembly, following a call from G20 Leaders in 2017. The Global AMR R&D Hub supports global priority setting and evidence-based decision-making on the allocation of resources for AMR R&D through the identification of gaps, overlaps and potential for cross-sectoral collaboration and leveraging in AMR R&D. The operation of the Global AMR R&D Hub is supported through a Secretariat, established in Berlin and currently financed through grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).
From this year onward, India will be the member of Board of members of Global AMR R&D Hub. By partnering with the Global AMR R&D Hub, India looks forward to working with all partners to leverage their existing capabilities, resources and collectively focus on new R&D intervention to address drug resistant infections. AMR is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe. Today, the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance continues unabated around the world. Given the important and interdependent human, animal, and environmental dimensions of antimicrobial resistance, India considers it reasonable to explore issues of antimicrobial resistance through the lens of One Health approach which should be supported by long-term commitments from all stakeholders.
In a major boost to combat one of the gravest risks to global health a dedicated special vehicle in terms of Global AMR R&D Hub may allow partners to devote expertise in order to accelerate global action against antimicrobial resistance.
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General Micro Systems Taps IT Leader to Extend Its Military Pedigree Low-Power, Small Form Factor Servers to Enterprise and Non-Defense Indu
Defense Spin-off Tech: IT Industry Veteran Kevin Kryzda to Lead Business Development Efforts to Bring High RAS Rugged, Dense, Efficient and Reliable Servers to Data Centers, Oil and Gas, Mining,...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA – June 5, 2017 – General Micro Systems, Inc. (GMS) today announced that it is extending its technology-leading MIL-SPEC server into non-defense markets where ruggedness and reliability, highest performance and lowest energy consumption in the smallest footprint are critical. Focusing on RAS—Reliability, Availability and Serviceability—the new GMS business initiative will bring the company's proven military-grade 2U short-rack server system to demanding industry applications, including data centers, oil and gas, mining, healthcare and aviation. Kevin Kryzda, GMS chief information officer and enterprise business development director, will lead the new business, leveraging his extensive background in senior IT positions within government information systems organizations.
"With this new initiative, GMS is offering non-defense markets the advantages of server technologies from a company that has a long and proven track record for the highest reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)," Kryzda said. "General Micro Systems' server products were developed to meet the needs of the most demanding customers in the most demanding environmental conditions. Now, non-military customers can take advantage of these technologies to reduce costs, improve capabilities and grow their market share."
Enterprise Servers Based on MIL-SPEC Rugged S2U "King Cobra" Server Technology
New server products for enterprise markets will be based on the S2U "King Cobra" server, which replaces up to 15U of equivalent rackmount components in a 2U short rack (17-inch deep) configuration. The design optimizes each sub-system for maximum performance, lowest power, highest efficiency thermal profile and modular replacement, making each subsystem scalable and upgradable with lower total cost of ownership. These technologies have been awarded or have pending 12 patents, which allows GMS to offer enterprise servers with unprecedented capabilities.
For demanding commercial markets, these one-of-a-kind technologies enable:
• Reduced space required for computing resources, or increased density of computing resources that can be provisioned in a facility.
• Lower energy consumption per unit of compute capability, which can also reduce total facility power, thereby improving the power usage effectiveness (PUE).
• Deployment where existing computing solutions would be at risk of failure from exposure to vibration, dust, hazardous materials, heat or cold. Examples include:
o Commercial aviation satellite connectivity and on-board infotainment
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Kevin Kryzda to Lead New Initiative
Kevin Kryzda, who brings deep expertise in large government information services and networking projects in Martin County, Florida, will lead GMS's push into enterprise, non-defense markets.
"Kevin's management of Martin County's high-bandwidth fiber build-out was instrumental to GMS's successful expansion in South Florida," said Ben Sharfi, CEO, GMS. "His vision and expertise in managing network growth will directly benefit customers who are looking for rugged server and enterprise equipment in our expanded target markets. He knows what the customer needs—he has 'lived' it."
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Homecoming game may have lost its place in the hearts of many students
October 21, 2005 12:00 am by James Harden
One definition of homecoming is an annual event at schools, colleges and universities for visiting graduates.
Another definition for the word is the return of a group of people to a place formerly regarded as home or a celebration of such a return.
Among today's college students those definitions may be a little off in comparison to their idea of homecoming.
Many students know nothing about homecoming aside from which clubs to go to, what to wear and where not to park.
Are they attending the game to cheer on our mighty Rattlers and show school spirit, or are people going to the game in an attempt to add new numbers to their phonebooks? It could be that they do not even go to the game and just wait until it's over and find a good spot in the parking lot to "post up."
FAMU sure does have a great marching band, it could be the case that people go just to see the halftime show.
On the other hand, you have your die-hard Rattler maniacs, who can be found in the stands screaming at the top of their lungs and sporting the brightest orange and green you've ever seen.
These guys cheer whether there's a touchdown or just a gain of seven. It is fair to say that these orange and green-blooded fans are mostly alumni.
Alumni are usually the fans seen carrying all sorts of FAMU flags, hats and t-shirts; does that mean that they are there for the real reason? Who's to say, but no one can argue that the game, for many people, is not the main attraction. Alumni feel that the game and the other traditional events such as the parade and the coronation should be focused on more.
Dr. Roscoe Hightower Jr., a Marketing professor in the School of Business describes the game and the other traditional activities as, "an electrifying atmosphere," and " a chance to see old friends and reminisce." He also added that the homecoming game is always filled with love and tradition , something that's hard to find in most non-HBCU's.
When the week of October 22 arrives, with such an array of campus activities, it is hard to say which activity will students anticipate the most. Hopefully, it's the game on Saturday against the Spartans of Norfolk State (1-5). Of course it is, but wait a minute, there's the kick-off bash on Monday, the fashion show on Tuesday, the step show on Wednesday, the comedy show on Thursday and the Battle of the Bands on Friday. With all of these other events and activities taking place the actual game can easily be overshadowed, possibly taking attention away from the game.
"The game still is the main attraction, because more people from out of town come to Tallahassee for the game than any other event," said Venus White a senior business administration major from Chicago, Ill. She actually isn't a big pigskin fan but still attends the game for the experience and the halftime show. She also goes to showcase her school spirit because students show much more than at the other games and she feels it is important.
The players are most likely so focused on the task at hand, protecting their home turf, that they don't even pay attention to what the fans are doing while at the game.
"We're here to play, our true fans will stay and help support us," said Rashard Pompey, a political science major and the starting running back, regarding why or why not the fans in attendance are an issue.
Homecoming is an exciting, unforgettable, fun-filled time of the year. During homecoming new friendships emerge, old friendships rekindle and FAMU gets a chance to demonstrate why it's one of the most renown HBCU'S in the nation.
The football game is where all of these things can be found in one place.
Contact James Harden at thefamuansports@hotmail.com


One of our family's favorite spots to eat is Palani Drive in the near west end (Libbie and Grove). Palani is easy, healthy, fun, inexpensive and super family friendly. We've been hitting this small gem up since before we even imagined we'd have a tiny human, or even getting hitched for that matter! It's the kind of place where the bartender (adult beverages!) and the owner know you by name and always welcome you with a smile. I'd even go as far to say that the first meal I had post birth at St. Mary's hospital, was a to-go Tuscan Chicken Quesadilla in my hospital bed (thanks, hubby).
Jeff, the owner, an avid bike racer, named the cozy spot after a road in Hawaii where the Ironman Triathlon takes place. Inspired by the spirit of Hawaii and racing, Palani supports various races and teams. They are committed to supporting the community and charitable events.
With an inviting front patio, shaded by a white and red striped awning, you can either bask in the cooler fall weather, or head inside to grab a seat. The menu is filled with healthy, freshly made dishes ranging from an impressive list of smoothies, pasta of the day, famous hummus wrap or seasonally prepared white chicken chili. Our favorites include the hummus tabbouleh wrap, quesadillas (Tuscan of course) and my all-time hero — the Shenandoah Wrap (grilled chicken, sweet potatoes, grilled apples, smoked gouda, spinach, sherry walnut dressing, flour tortilla) — yes please.
Check it out, let me know if you love it as much as we do, and tell Jeff and Kat, Maggie says hello!


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Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
Daytrotter Session - May 2, 2010
Suddenly, we're swept into a party where the cake's already been packed away - devoured, and all of the liquor is consumed, thrown back with abandon. The streamers are halfway still on the walls and halfway torn from the thresholds. The noisemakers are in all of the mouths - kazoos and such - making the evening a whistler. We're now inside a place that's starting to heat up, even as we lose people here and there, one-by-one to the hours getting longer and the morning's beckoning. Most everyone we can see is here for the night though. The dancing's getting more sensuous and strangers are beginning to explore the boundaries of other strangers who seem to be crushing a bit, who seem to be happily glassy, but still in control of some decision-making skills. These people will be sleeping on the floor, underneath the pool table - throwing up in the wastebasket if that's what they find first - and participating in slipperier behaviors. The clothing is starting to get more optional and the sexiness of everyone within eyeshot is improving exponentially. It's going to become that kind of party that we ask ourselves the following morning whether or not it had really happened the way we partially remembered it to have happened. It doesn't have to be a lost evening, but it's the kind of scenario that the sonic wildness and diversity of Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground tend to promote for the betterment of more than just one. The music on the Seattle band's self-titled debut album isn't out-of-control, but we hear it being played loudly in the latter parts of weekend nights when everyone's in the mood to just cut loose and do something they haven't done in a long time. They're trying to shake the rough stuff and Kay Kay lead singer Kirk Huffman casts out a versatile vocal that's ambitious in its range and we easily fall for its ability to sound ballad-like all the time, while still sounding like John Oates singing "Maneater." He sings about the tough times needing to be vanquished and of taking every opportunity to let in the rays, even if it's not at all lasting. The compositions that the ever-changing-sized band constructs are meant for headphone listening and for physical experience, with the many levels of musicality only adding to the whole. Every song feels like it's coming alive in the way that a flash mob does, adding to the scene and expanding the sensation until it feels like the slow-grinding party has a chance of never stopping.
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Incumbent Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Clement and private attorney Megan Cavanagh are the top vote-getters with 52 percent of precincts reporting.
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Clement and private attorney Megan Cavanagh appeared headed for election Wednesday for two spots on the state's high court.
Clement had 30 percent of the vote, followed by Democrat Cavanagh at 25 percent and Republican-nominated Justice Kurtis Wilder at 24 percent with 96 percent of precincts reporting. Wilder said he conceded Wednesday afternoon, the Associated Press reported.
The Associated Press still hadn't called the race.
Clement had 30 percent to 25.2 for Cavanagh. Wilder followed closely at 24.3 and Samuel Bagenstos was fourth at 11.4 percent with 94 percent of precincts reporting.
Natural Law Party nominee Doug Dern and Libertarian nominee Kerry Lee Morgan were also trailing.
Clement, 41, and Wilder, 59, are seeking election after being appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to fill vacancies.
Republican-nominated justices hold a 5-2 majority on the Supreme Court.
Sitting justices traditionally have an advantage in these elections because they are designated as incumbents on the ballot. Justices serve eight-year terms and are paid $164,610 annually.
The court handles about 2,000 cases a year.
Justices should not "legislate from the bench," said Clement, who was appointed 11 months ago by Snyder.
Clement has been the strongest fundraiser among Republicans. She had pulled in $555,490 in contributions as of July 21 and had roughly $101,000 in cash reserves.
Wilder got a boost when he was endorsed by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, a Democrat. While the county prosecutor did not agree with his votes on some cases, she sees Wilder as a fair judge who protects crime victims' rights, Worthy said.
Wilder, an African-American, is the only racial minority in the race. He was a Michigan Court of Appeals judge for 18 years before being appointed by Snyder in 2017.
Sam Bagenstos, a Democrat and University of Michigan law professor, is considered a strong contender for one of the seats.
Bagenstos was one of the top fundraisers, having received more than $791,000 contributions for the latest cycle, and had more than $500,000 in cash reserves heading into the final weeks of the election.
Cavanagh, an appellate attorney, had raised roughly $406,000.
The Democratic-nominated candidates in this nonpartisan race have tried to take advantage and have raised competitive amounts of money.
Bagenstos has argued that the Republican majority on the high court has protected certain interest groups at the expense of everyday citizens, and that the court has become an institution that protects the interests of big corporations over those of citizens.
Cavanagh, a member of the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, said there is a need to reform the state criminal justice system, particularly the juvenile justice system, she said. The high court should lead the way in those reforms, said Cavanagh, who is a shareholder at the Detroit law firm of Garan Lucow Miller P.C.
Her father, Michael Cavanagh, was a state Supreme Court justice for 32 years.
Morgan, a private practice attorney in Wyandotte, said he wants to bring more respect for the written law and Constitution to the bench.
April 8, 2019, 7:17 p.m.


Hebden Bridge, 53°45'9" N 2°1'11" W Taken in approx. September 2017 by Bruce Cutts . For more information please see the Dublin Core set and the map below.
Bruce Cutts, "Townfield - AAP15641," The After Alice Project, accessed April 25, 2019, http://theafteraliceproject.org/items/show/12140.


At DR. PHYSIO Clinic, the purpose of Pilates and Yoga practices based on consciousness and health is to integrate and balance all aspects of our lives so that our body, mind, emotions and soul flow in harmony. As we expand our consciousness through practice, we become more able to perceive all the beautiful abundance that life has to offer.
Eventually these tendencies (Pilates and Yoga) become something we live, and not just something we practice. The inevitable pressures of life are having a greater or lesser impact on us; and thanks to the practices of Pilates and Yoga we are able to respond in a calmer and more conscious way. As we become more balanced, interactions with people and situations become consequently calmer and more relaxed.
We bring unity and harmony to every encounter; and when our inner world begins to change, our outer world will change to reflect our new perspective.


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Q: Getting external variable into metapost in ConTeXt I'm new to ConTeXt and am trying to make a small theme for my presentations to get to know it better.
My slides have a title and a subtitle positioned in the header. I want to have random lines between the title and subtitle. The lines should join and become horizontal when passing directly between the title and subtitle.
I removed the irrelevant parts of my document. There is currently one line and it becomes flat near the centre for a length w. I'm trying to get the value of w from outside the MPpage.
To clarify a bit, here is what I currently get with the fixed value
(sorry, those are screenshots) :

Honestly, I don't even know where to begin to solve that. Any pointers are welcome. Below is a WE/MWE:
\setuppapersize[S6]

\setuplayout[headerdistance=1cm]

\definemarking[subtitle]
\starttexdefinition slidetitle
  \marking [subtitle] {\structureuservariable{subtitle}}
\stoptexdefinition

% Defining the slides
\definehead[slide] [subject][
    page=yes,
    placehead=empty,
    insidesection=\slidetitle,
]
%Putting the slide title and subtile in a table (to get 2 bloody lines) inside the header
\setupheadertexts [{%
    \bTABLE[frame=no,align=middle,offset=0.05cm]
        \bTR \bTD {\getmarking [slide]} \eTD \eTR
        \bTR \bTD {\tfx\getmarking [subtitle]} \eTD \eTR
    \eTABLE
}]
\setupheader[text][style=\sc\ss\tfb]

\startuseMPgraphic {background}
StartPage;
    %Drawing the top lines. The variable w should be the max of the widths of the title and subtitle. So basically the width of the natural table containing them
    numeric w; path line;
    w=6cm;
    line:=((0,0) -- for i=1cm step 1cm until PaperWidth/2-w/2-1cm : (i,-uniformdeviate(0.7cm)) -- endfor (PaperWidth/2-w/2,-0.5cm) -- (PaperWidth/2+w/2,-0.5cm) -- for i=PaperWidth/2+w/2+1cm step 1cm until PaperWidth-1cm : (i,-uniformdeviate(0.7cm)) -- endfor (PaperWidth,0)) shifted (0,PaperHeight-1.8cm);
    drawpath line withpen pencircle scaled 1mm;
StopPage;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\defineoverlay [background][\reuseMPgraphic{background}]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=background]

\starttext

\startslide[title={Hello}]
\input knuth
\stopslide

\startslide[title={Font examples}] [subtitle=a subtitle]
\input ward
\stopslide

\startslide[title={A very very long and detailed title}]
    [subtitle={As well as an inexcusably long and annoying subtitle}]
some text
\stopslide

\stoptext

Apologies if post doesn't respect some rule, not used to posting here.

A: Answered by sztruks:

I think you could use positional graphics, as defined in Metafun manual chapter 5.

EDIT:
What I get using positional graphics is not exactly right.
I assign an \hpos to the title-subtitle bundle and get its width. Unfortunately, as far as I understand, \startMPpositiongraphic is only calculated after the whole document has been typeset, at which point the \hpos only refers to the title-subtitle of the very last page. As a result, the lines are not drawn on all but the last page. There however they are drawn with the right dimensions.
EDIT2: Solved by simply putting value of counter in hpos (specifically \userpagenumber) as well as putting the \start/stoppositionoverlay code inside some function executed at each slide (so that the counter gets updated, otherwise only the first page gets a drawing).
Not posting new pictures since the one below already describes what I get.
Marking the question as answered.
Here is what I now have:
\setuppapersize[S6]

\setuplayout[headerdistance=1cm]

\definemarking[subtitle]
\starttexdefinition slidetitle
    \marking [subtitle] {\structureuservariable{subtitle}}
    \startpositionoverlay{posover:background}
        \setMPpositiongraphic{titles-\userpagenumber}{background}{self=titles-\userpagenumber}
    \stoppositionoverlay
\stoptexdefinition

% Defining the slides
\definehead[slide] [subject][
    page=yes,
    placehead=empty,
    insidesection=\slidetitle,
]
%Putting the slide title and subtile in a table (to get 2 bloody lines) inside the header
\setupheadertexts [\hpos{titles-\userpagenumber}{%
    \bTABLE[frame=no,align=middle,offset=0.05cm]
        \bTR \bTD {\getmarking [slide]} \eTD \eTR
        \bTR \bTD {\tfx\getmarking [subtitle]} \eTD \eTR
    \eTABLE
}]
\setupheader[text][style=\sc\ss\tfb]

\startMPpositiongraphic {background}
StartPage;
    %Drawing the top lines. The variable w should be the max of the widths of the title and subtitle. So basically the width of the natural table containing them
    numeric w; path line;
    w=\MPw{\MPvar{self}} ;
    line:=((0,0) -- for i=1cm step 1cm until PaperWidth/2-w/2-1cm : (i,-uniformdeviate(0.7cm)) -- endfor (PaperWidth/2-w/2,-0.5cm) -- (PaperWidth/2+w/2,-0.5cm) -- for i=PaperWidth/2+w/2+1cm step 1cm until PaperWidth-1cm : (i,-uniformdeviate(0.7cm)) -- endfor (PaperWidth,0)) shifted (0,PaperHeight-1.8cm);
    drawpath line withpen pencircle scaled 1mm;
StopPage;
\stopMPpositiongraphic

\defineoverlay [over:background][\positionoverlay{posover:background}]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=over:background]

\starttext

\startslide[title={Hello}]
\input knuth
\stopslide

\startslide[title={Font examples}] [subtitle=a subtitle]
\input ward
\stopslide

\startslide[title={A very very long and detailed title}]
    [subtitle={As well as an inexcusably long and annoying subtitle}]
some text
\stopslide

\stoptext

The result is this for the last page:

You can notice the lines and titles are not exactly vertically aligned. It's not the case in the complete example. Too tired to figure out why.

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package org.koenighotze.jee7hotel.framework.frontend;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebFilter;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * @author dschmitz
 */
@WebFilter(filterName = "CorsFilter",
        urlPatterns = {"/*"})
public class CorsFilter implements Filter {
    @Override
    public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
    }

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); // obviously not a good idea
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, PUT, OPTIONS, DELETE");
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Max-Age", "3600");
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
        chain.doFilter(request, res);
    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {
    }
}

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Liberal Party candidate Fares Moussa on why he is a Eurosceptic liberal
By Steven Salter
Election interview
BALLOT: Fares Moussa, Liberal Party
This week the County Gazette and Bridgwater Mercury interviewed each of the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency General Election candidates. Fares Moussa is the Liberal Party candidate hoping for your vote on December 12.
County Gazette: For people who maybe don't know a lot about the Liberal Party, what are the main things the party stands for and what is the message you want to get across?
FM: I think the Liberal Party stands for a real and true Liberal position, which a lot of the other parties, especially the Liberal Democrats have moved away from. It is all about localism, decentralisation, representation and it is about really giving everybody a fair chance to achieve what they want to in their lives.
From that principle we believe the government and the state should be enabling people as much as possible to achieve those things.
We strongly believe in free education for all, that is where we divert very strongly from the Liberal Democrats and their support of tuition fees. We are strong supporters of vocational training.
We think education should be depoliticised and there should be a separate commission that is not run by the government, that is not a political football, which regulates and sets curriculums.
We believe in progressive policies like preventative health care. If you invest more in this it will make savings in the long term and everyone is healthier. So it is sensible, liberal policies. We're not to keen on income tax and don't believe it is very fair as it means people at the lower end of income are the people who pay proportionately the most.
We are keen to reduce income tax, especially for lower income earners. We would increase things like inheritance tax and introduce things like a land value tax which is quite radical and very different from what anybody else offers.
CG: What experience do you have that would make you a good MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset?
FM: I used to be a very active member of the Liberal Democrats. I joined in 1999, I stood in local elections and was a councillor for five years, I was a prospective parliamentary candidate and European parliamentary candidate, and I co-wrote policy for the party, so I was very involved and I have a lot of experience from that. I have experience of being a councillor. In my personal experiences I have run businesses, I've run charities, I am the director of an arts organisation, and I lot of these roles have been community facing.
CG: What made you want to leave the Liberal Democrats?
FM: If you look at where the Liberal Democrats were under Charles Kennedy, and where it is now. The Liberal Democrats used to be proactive European reformists, not the current no-questions-asked Europhiles. There was a sceptical edge, but not any more. They don't support free education. They are more centrist, they are more interventionist and not, in my opinion, promoting liberal values, so I felt I could no longer support them.
CG: What do you consider to be the key issues facing the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency?
FM: Brexit is a challenge for everybody, but it also real opportunity to move away from that straitjacket which the EU and the Common Agricultural Policy is, in terms of how farmers behave and what they do to receive the subsidies.
There is an opportunity for reshaping what farming is, how sustainable it is, how environmentally friendly it is, how high quality the products are.
All of those things can be invested in here in Somerset. I'm a strong supporter of the Exmoor Ambition, those sorts of models for how we can move forward in this region really need to be promoted.
I also don't think we are very good at shouting about ourselves in this part of the world, we have coastline, two areas of outstanding natural beauty, urban centres with large historic interest but far less tourism than Cornwall and Devon.
We need to promote tourism here and we need to do more to keep young people here.
CG: So voters are clear what is your stance on Brexit? How did you vote in 2016 and where do you stand now?
FM: I've always been sceptical about the European project but felt it may be a good thing if we could reform it radically.
That hasn't happened and it isn't about to happen. So given that, we need to get out so we can set our own agenda.
Actually at the time of the referendum I voted to remain, if the referendum were to happen again I would firmly vote to exit the EU.
I'm a supporter of Brexit for various economic and political reasons, but also as a point of principle. The referendum happened, there was an outcome, we need to respect that.
CG: Do you think economic growth and tackling the climate emergency can go hand-in-hand?
FM: I don't know if there needs to be change in economic growth but maybe changes in what those economies are. We need investment in sustainable forms of energy, research and development into algae biofuel is a huge thing is something we should be talking about a lot more and being more excited about. We do need to grasp the nettle which is our own lifestyle, our habits, how do we as individuals impact the environment and I think there needs to be more education about that. In rural areas it is difficult to get around without owning a car, so we need decent train lines, better bus services.
Get to know your candidate:
CG: Do you have any pets?
FM: Yes, I have a cat called Lightning Trevor!
What hobbies do you enjoy in your spare time?
FM: I work a lot but when I do get some down time I like to read and write, I play the guitar. I love food and wine too.
CG: Do you have a favourite film?
FM: The first one that came to my head is a film called Archipelago by a female writer called Joanna Hogg who I think is amazing.
It was one of Tom Hiddleston's first screen performances and is about a family on holiday on the Scilly Isles.
CG: If you could have three dinner party guests, from the past or present, who would you invite?
FM: I think while there are a lot of people that fascinate me I'm not sure I want to meet them! It probably sounds cheesy but I would rather have dinner with people I know and love.
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When the club was based at its temporary home in 2008/9, we experienced regular attendances of between 6 and 15 racers at our Saturday afternoon sessions. A few who attended also raced for the Club at weekends on plastic slopes in a wide range of competitions.
With the move to our home base of the Snow Centre, comes a return to the old system whereby the slope runs advanced sessions for the Snowstars and the Junior Acadamy (occasionally utilising one of the Race Club's coaches).
These sessions are being held on Saturday and Sunday morning from 0800 until 1000 and on Monday afternoons between 1800 and 1900 alongside our early Junior session (Speak to the centre for current prices). All bookings and queries should be addressed to the Snow Centre; please call the Hemel Snow Centre on 0845 258 9000. It is important to note that you should pre-book for theses sessions, checking as you do so that they will go ahead each week.
This will act, as before, as the feeder into the Club's regular Monday evening training sessions. This progression is limited by age (minimum of 7 years) and by ability / maturity. Progression is by invitation only, based on an assessment of the training team.
Currently we have no facility to cater for children under the age of 7.


On the 25th and 26th of January 2019, our team was privileged to travel to the Land below the Wind – the beautiful city of Kota Kinabalu and conducted the first ever FairStival in East Malaysia.
It was a really good time of equipping youth and youth leaders in Kota Kinabalu with talkshows and workshops as different partners travelled alongside with us to share their skills and experiences in the youth ministries and outreaches.
Video VLOG: Happy 6th Anniversary Acts Bekasi!


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BIOFLOW V: 'Ultrathin-Strut' Stent Beats Out Xience at 12 Months
At a meeting that has more or less lost its thirst for metallic-stent comparison trials, one presenter says a new device warrants watching.
BARCELONA, Spain—Among all the big trials airing results at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2017, one tiny stent—and its performance—could have slipped through the cracks. Earlier this week, 12-month results from the BIOFLOW V trial showed that the Orsiro "ultrathin-strut" coronary stent (Biotronik) had bested the market-leading Xience stent for both 12-month target lesion failure and MI.
The findings "advance a new standard," according to lead investigator David Kandzari, MD (Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA), who presented the findings here. BIOFLOW V was published simultaneously online in the Lancet.
It's at least a decade since metallic drug-eluting stents were the headliners at the ESC Congress, but as Kandzari pointed out, the 60-µm stent, which incorporates a bioresorbable polymer that elutes sirolimus, has accomplished something that other market-approved devices have not.
"This is the first head-to-head, randomized comparison trial to show superiority over the Xience stent, which has been the benchmark for comparisons not only of novel drug-eluting stents, but also bioresorbable stents as well," Kandzari told TCTMD. Other devices, he noted, have received approval on the basis of demonstrating noninferiority—and indeed, BIOFLOW V was designed as a noninferiority trial. But in post-hoc analyses, Orsiro was shown to also have met the cutoff for superiority.
BIOFLOW V is the US pivotal trial required to bring the device to the American market, where three manufacturers—Abbott, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic—are the only players in the field.
The trial randomized 1,334 patients 2:1 to Orsiro or Xience. Follow-up in both arms was approximately 97% at 12 months, at which time the primary endpoint, target-lesion failure, had occurred in 6.2% of the Orsiro-treated patients and in 9.6% of the Xience-treated patients (P =0.04).
Cardiac death and clinically driven TLR, both part of the primary composite, were no different between groups, but target-vessel MI was a key driver of the difference, occurring in 4.7% of the Orsiro patients and 8.3% of the Xience patients (P = 0.016). In a Bayesian pooled analysis that included patient-level data from both the BIOFLOW II and IV trials, yielding 1,466 Orsiro patients and 742 Xience-treated patients, the rate of target-lesion failure was 6.3% and 8.9%, respectively, a difference deemed significant in both noninferiority and superiority analyses.
Device Components
According to Kandzari, key differences between the Orsiro and the Xience are the drug (sirolimus versus everolimus), the polymer (bioresorbable versus permanent) and the strut thickness (60 µm, for the 2.25- to 3.0-mm diameter sizes, versus 81 µm).
The various components of the stent could be expected to be important at different time points, he observed. Thinness matters early for MI, drug efficacy contributes to low target-lesion restenosis later on, and polymer biocompatibility and dissolution could be expected to contribute to long-term safety.
"For the present findings, at least, of those three components, the most influential is perhaps the thinness of the stent strut," Kandzari told TCTMD. On the Orsiro device, the bioresorbable polymer—an innovation intended to help with vessel-wall healing, leaving behind a clinically "inert" metallic stent—takes 24 months to fully degrade.
Commenting on BIOFLOW V for TCTMD, John P. Reilly, MD (Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA), agreed that interest in next-generation metallic stent news has flagged in recent years, particularly as hopes soared, then sunk, for the first-generation fully resorbable scaffolds.
The BIOFLOW V news, however, "deserves our attention," he said. "This would be a new player to the US market, which we haven't had in years."
Reilly noted that the BioNIR RES (Medinol, Tel Aviv, Israel) is also poised to join the fray, following the positive BIONICS trial last year. "I think this is valuable from the point of view that we haven't had a new vendor in the US in the drug-eluting stent space in a long time, and [Osiro] has better outcomes than we've seen before. So far, drug-eluting stents have been a commodity with very subtle differences between one and the other."
The fact that BIOFLOW V showed noninferiority, but with a signal of better clinical outcomes and, in particular less MI, "will get the attention of interventional cardiologists," Reilly predicted.
Where the "rubber hits the road," however, will be when operators actually get the chance to try out the device. "That's when people get to see whether they can actually see it or not when they're implanting it, because it's a thinner stent," Reilly said. "Will it be deliverable? How much easier will it be to use? All of that we don't know from this study."
Kandzari DE, Mauri L, Koolen JJ, et al. Ultrathin, bioresorbable polymer sirolimus-eluting stents versus thin, durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents in patients undergoing coronary revascularisation (BIOFLOW V): a randomized trial. Lancet. 2017;Epub ahead of print.
Kandzari reports institutional research or grant support from Abbott, St Jude, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medinol, Medtronic, and OrbusNeich.
Reilly reports serving on advisory boards for Abbott and Cordis within the last 2 years.
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Presenter: David E Kandzari
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Your authentic life organically unfolds when you begin thinking, working and living outside the box.
The work cubicle box, various boxes of limited perception, the boxes of family and social expectations ~ what boxes are you climbing out of?
World paradigms are changing at the speed of thought. How we think and feel about our world helps frame these changes. With open minds and expanded perceptions we can begin living outside the many boxes of limited thinking and scarcity consciousness and enter a world of pure potential and unlimited possibility.
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The Queen of Hearts Ball and Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Ideal for an evenings entertainment, whether it be parlor games, interactive character comedy or a masquerade! The Queen of Hearts invites you to join her for an evening of frivolity.
This package provides a variety of options. A complete package would currently comprise of the following. Variations, alterations (to set up, entertainment, performers, character, costume and similar are available to suit your needs):
Our Queen of Hearts theme currently features three performers with specific duties to entertain your guests.
The White Rabbit, having arrived at the ball to take on his royal duties in the capacity of doorman or DJ - now less rushed is of a more sullen and deadpan demeanor.
The Mad Hatter and his tea party provide parlor games in an energetic and entertaining manner perfect for party guests and team building exercises. Variants may include a truly mad tea party of creating one's own cocktails with a selection of whimsical and peculiar ingredients (alcohol must be arranged separately with the venue/host!). The Hatter is also a capable DJ, should only the tea party be required.
The evening's proceedings are overseen by The Queen of Hearts herself, insisting people partake in her game of shrunken croquet across the venue you select, making up the rules as she goes - and likewise stopping into "win" The Mad Hatter's games whenever she so demands.
All this is set to a backdrop of themed decor including balloons, cards, cloths and The Hatter's Tea party spread.
Altogether the Queen's team provides an energetic and highly entertaining evening, bouncing off one another, with a rich mix of character and activities ensuring upbeat, fun for all.
The examples provided here are set at The Masonic Hall's ballroom and lounge.
Our team will fit the venue you wish to work with and work in a manner best suited to whatever your needs may be.
For more information or to book, please contact Haberdash.Events@gmail.com quoting "The Queen of Hearts" as reference as well as any dates. If a venue is required, please also note this.
Her majesty looks forwards to hearing from you!


IT Services is currently working to improve this service.
Members of staff who encounter problems using SFTP are recommended to use Windows Remote instead.
To connect to Sussex services, make sure you are using SFTP to connect (Secure File Transfer Protocol) and enter your normal Sussex username and password for the User and Password fields.
You can transfer files with a physical device such as a USB memory stick or DVD (see Saving and backing up your work), but an alternative approach is to use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) to move the files across the Internet. This has the advantage that you do not have to be on campus to use it.
Our simple web pages give you quick access to your personal files (N drive) and staff group files (G drive). You can browse your folders, download, upload, delete and rename files and even edit text files directly.
You can use SFTP to transfer files if the computers are connected to the same network at the same time. For example, on campus you can copy files to another computer on the Campus Network, or a computer off-campus if it is on the internet.
We recommend that you install WinSCP but you can use any file transfer program which supports SFTP including Filezilla and Webdrive.
Students and staff can install Fetch on their own Macs with the Sussex licence code or use a free alternatives such as Cyberduck or Filezilla.
When you have established a connection, you should see a window like the one shown below. The window on the left shows the files on your computer. On the right, you can see the files in the service you are connecting to. So if, for example, you are connecting to your N: drive, the files in your home directory will be shown. You can transfer files between the two locations by dragging and dropping between the two windows.
The use of FTP described above allows you to copy and create files on two systems. For obvious reasons, you normally have to give a username and password to authenticate who you are on both systems.
There are occasions when a person wants to allow anyone to access a file. For example, if you have written a paper that you wish others to download (rather than having to email them a copy). This facility is available and is called Anonymous FTP. To use it a special directory has to be created. Contact ftp-request@sussex.ac.uk for further information.
An alternative approach is to make the file available on a website. The advantage of using FTP is that it is more reliable (as it does error checking when transferring the file).
If you do access an Anonymous FTP server, the convention is to specify your email address as username when you login.


Making reading fun! These lively and interactive sessions are designed to facilitate greater engagement between parents, the school, and their children's reading.
Begins with formal message to parents emphasising the importance of reading for pleasure, then children join them for informal parent-child reading time.
Begins with formal message to parents emphasising the importance of reading for pleasure & how they can help their child who is now reading more independently, then children join them for informal parent-child reading time.
"I think this is really useful for all parents. It helps parents in which way they can help their child reading. And thank you for organizing a session like this."


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Q: Cost for DynamoDB read and write for 8 million records per hour and Copy to Redshift Can some please help me in this calculation. Is this the way we calculate for pricing ?
We have a stream which creates an average of 8 million records/ hour (2500 records/second) and we want to insert into DynamoDB using aws Lambda.
Each records have max of 450 Bytes in size.
What I understand is for less than 1 KB , Dynamodb takes 1 Write capacity unit. So for 2500 records / second we need 2500 Write capacity unit.
Data get inserted to DynamoDB in real time.
For analysis purpose , we need the same data to be in Redshift as well. So every 15 minutes we need to sync Dynamodb table to Redshift table. Business want to do Analytics on top Redshift cluster only.
To do a copy data from DynamoDB to redshift using redshift COPY command in 15 minutes I need approximate 10000 Read capacity unit.
For doing this it will cost approx USD 2400/month

More info
Existing architecutre
S3 => Lambda => Redshift : This works fine till lambda , when it comes to redshift , jobs are getting into Queue, and other Jobs are getting delayed. So we checked with Amazon Tech support : They clearly mention , for real time or near real time Injection , Redshift is not a good choose. Instead of Lambda we use EMR clusster , created manifest file ( adding multiple files)  and did a redshift copy - Still the result was satisfied. Business dint want to increase the cluster right now.
Proposed architecture
S3 => Lambda => DynamoDB (as soon as file Landed )=> Every 15 miutes => Query data from Dynamo DB and Save to S3 => Redshift
The ask from business is how much cost is
Every 15 minutes we are querying Dynamodb data with record count of 4 million .
Save it to S3
Do a Redshfit Copy with that S3.
If I give a read unit as 10,000 - can the read from Dynamodb(4.5 million) completes in 7 minutes
10000 * 60(seconds) = 6,00,000 records
6,00,000 * 7 minutes = 4.2 million
My calculation is
7 minutes to read from Dynamo DB
3 minutes to write to S3
3 minutes to do redshift COPY
In short Business needs the data to be in Dynamodb as soon as file landed in S3.
They can wait 15 minutes to reflect in Redshift.
Any other suggestion on this

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*Load data from Amazon S3 into DynamoDB

*Load data from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift

S3 to DynamoDB
It appears that you have this working fine, using Amazon S3 to trigger an AWS Lambda function that then loads the data into Amazon S3.
S3 to Redshift
There is no reason to copy data from DynamoDB to Redshift if it is exactly the same data that was originally loaded from S3. Simply use the same files to load the data into Redshift, but do it as a batch at regular intervals.
The best way to load data into Amazon Redshift is in bulk via the COPY command. Therefore, I would recommend:

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*Use a Lambda function (potentially the same one as used for DynamoDB) to collate a list of all incoming files into Amazon S3. You could store this in a DynamoDB table (or somewhere else of your own choosing).

*Use an Amazon CloudWatch Events schedule to trigger an AWS Lambda function at regular intervals (every 15 minutes) which will:

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*Create a manifest file of all files received since the last load

*Run a COPY command in Redshift, pointing to the manifest file

*Mark those files in DynamoDB as having been processed (so that they will not be included in future executions)

Benefits of this method:

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*Separation of the two processes, which makes them easier to maintain

*No need to read data from DynamoDB, which will reduce the Read Capacity Unit cost

*You can vary the frequency of the load into Redshift as desired


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    protected $AccountInfo;

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    {
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		$this->setElementValue('StatusCode', 0);
		$this->setElementValue('StatusDetail', 'checked');

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		foreach($accountinfo as $parameter=>$value)
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The world famous International Food and Wine Festival at Epcot is officially underway at Walt Disney World! One of the best ways to keep track of your budget while enjoying everything the festival has to offer has always been by using Disney dining plan snack credits or Disney gift cards. You can load exactly how much you want to spend (any amount $15 or over). They even come with a wristlet attached so they can be out and ready to swipe when cruising through all of the food and drink offerings!
Take a look at the incredibly cute designs available this year!
They come in three colors and designs so you can choose which one suits your personality. There are pink, blue and yellow cards and they all feature everyone's favorite chef, Remy, doing what he does best!
Be sure to stay tuned this weekend as we get to see (and taste) everything at Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival!


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Home Read Indiegogo's New Video Game Category is a Mess
Indiegogo's New Video Game Category is a Mess
Within the last few months, Indiegogo performed some housekeeping. It's hard to put an exact date on when since they made these changes with such little fanfare. We've chronicled Indiegogo's failings in the past, especially with games, but perhaps they're turning a new leaf.
One of the most frustrating aspects of Indiegogo has that it's always been hard to browse. Unlike Kickstarter, they don't employ sub-categories, tossing video games haphazardly in with board games, card games, and other novelty toys. That's finally changed though, and video games finally have their own dedicated section under "Creative Works."
These new categories make Indiegogo easier to browse, but it does have one nasty side effect. With a single click, you can easily see how much of a disaster the video game campaigns on Indiegogo are. Browsing through the newest campaigns reveals one lazy crash grab after one scam, after one downright bad game after another. Let's just take a look at the four newest campaigns, at least at the time of writing.
Looks fun.
"Hello there, my name is Andrew and NO I do not want 11 million $, I wanted just to capture your attention, for many year I have been passionate about gaming and game industry," reads the opening paragraph for The Lost Brother. If you're wondering, no, of course this developer didn't set their funding goal to $11 million. They set to $11.1 million, obviously.
You should stop reading this article right now and check out this masterpiece of a pitch. The highlights include Mr. Andrew saying he only has a low end laptop, that he doesn't have any software to develop games, and that he does indeed have software because he used Unity and Blender.
"So what is this 1'st basic game about?" you may be asking if you wrote the page. "It's about finding our bigger brother but as u can see he is not on this island but that does not mean that we will never find him. :)." Suffice to say we cannot see. There's also a download link on the page to a demo, but I strongly suggest you not clicking it.
The Lost Brother
At first glance, The Run seems to be a better campaign – at first glance. After you stop to focus for more than two seconds you notice the myriad of problems. A majority of the page is dedicates itself to talking about the three developers, with only a single paragraph explaining the game.
It's an endless runner game with online and offline play, and that's about all we know. We do know that the team only needs $500, an astonishingly low goal for a developer who apparently needs to hire employees, buy "softwares" and "hardwares," and buy a bunch of assets. Yes, this game is an asset flip – a game in which some, most, or even all of its assets are pre-bought. It's not illegal, but it's not something you want to donate money to when anybody can cobble together some pre-made assets, code, and music and call it a game.
It's always worrying when a game developer says their biggest risk is time. It communicates that they don't understand the massive amount of skill and money needed to make a video game. That's the trouble with Nadie Alvarez Garcia's Snowball Wars. You're not being asked to fund a game, you're being asked to fund software licenses and Garcia's programming classes.
It's a common thing on Indiegogo. You'll have a mishmash of developers asking for cash for any assortment of things from pre-made assets, software, or for some classes. Whatever you're looking for, it's on Indiegogo. There are students asking for $60 to put a game on Greenlight, a scam artist pretending to be from another company, and a dude named Phil asking you to buy them an Xbox One. These joke campaigns have always been a common occurrence. In the past they hid behind the board games and card games, which seem to be immune from this sort of thing. These new categories, however, bring these campaigns to the light.
Exiled Mage seems to be some kind of first person RPG, but it's hard to say. The creator, Ümit Yılmaz, didn't fill out any of the Indiegogo page. Instead, he seems to be opting for a daring strategy of using the default, placeholder text. The same can be said of Kids Mayan Adventure.
These are just some of the most recent campaigns. You'll find some shoddy campaigns when looking at new Kickstarter video game campaigns, for sure. The difference in quality, though, is like comparing night and the surface of the sun. On Earth As It Is In Heaven is a pleasant looking visual novel that's already funded. Kynseed, an open world RPG from former Lionhead developers, looks stunning. Even something like Ball Bot FPS Multiplayer Shooters has a ton of information, screenshots, and video to show for itself.
What does Mega Dork: Dissonance's campaign offer? A generic picture of a PS4 controller, a description saying they're a high school student who needs money for their step-mom's medical bills, and more placeholder text. Retrorummage's page has only a single picture and a grammatical minefield of a paragraph. The same can be said for Osella FA30 mod for Assetto Corsa and Historical quiz 'Was America Great?', both of which some of the newer campaigns. Oh, and there's another guy asking you to buy their friend a graphics card.
Kynseed
You may look at campaigns like this and roll your eyes. Some of you will doubtlessly think it doesn't matter, the same way Steam's equally lax quality control standards don't matter. The person behind the graphics card campaign even says it "likely won't get any donations." But this is a big deal.
When you oversaturate a market with low quality products, it lowers the overall value of entire market. Imagine if Wal-Mart started selling bags of broken glass and used toilet paper. They still have food and video games and whatever else, but you have to walk past aisles and aisles full of dead animals and even men slashing at you with knives to get to them. There's no way you'd ever go to that store again, let alone risk spending any money there.
It's the same principle on Indiegogo. There's a tidal wave of low quality campaigns, scams, and goofballs asking you to buy them stuff. When you see that, what would make you ever go back there again? Developers see this too, and the good ones don't want anything to do with this mess. Instead, they go to Kickstarter or Fig if they can manage it. In even rarer instances they're starting their own crowdfunding campaigns on their own websites. That's what Gaijin Entertanment is doing with Enlisted, and what Introversoin Software did for Prison Architect. But that means there's less parody in the crowdfunding scene, and Kickstarter's monopoly grows ever larger.
Ghost of a Tale
Indiegogo had a great chance to impart meaningful change with their policies when they re-arranged their categories. Instead, they did the bare minimum, and made things look worse than ever.
None of that is to say there aren't great games and campaigns on Indiegogo. Indivisible had a professionally run campaign and is currently the highest funded game on the site by leaps and bounds. Long Gone Days is like a diamond in the rough, a unique role playing game that takes a look at the lives of young soldiers. Ghost of a Tale is another hidden gem, a role playing game where you play a cute mouse who accidentally wandered into a Dark Souls game.
I'll end with a quote from myself from our The Decline of Indiegogo article. "One day Indiegogo will fall into irrelevancy, either because of its low quality standards or a new crowdfunding site will rise to offer a real competitor to Kickstarter." That day is upon us, and the whole crowdfunding scene is worse off because of it.
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Vintage after vintage, this Tempranillo amazes us with incredibly vivid and deep color early in the fermentation process, and the enticing hues and juicy dark fruit carries through in the finished wines. Our 2014 greets you with that characteristic violet-black color, and deep-noted, dark fruit character with a hint of fennel. The distinctive Heringer Vineyard clean earthiness is redolent of vineyard loam on a hot summer afternoon. The flavors are dark and pleasantly ripe, tending toward dusty blackberry. This is a satisfying and enjoyable red that would be equally at home whether served with homemade burgers, or classic paella.
This is an excellent wine with a lighter dish like pasta, with cream sauce. Dark fruit with a clean finish.


The Noisetrash - Trio consisting of Friedrich Kettlitz, Alexander Schubert and Olliver Schwerdt has been playing ultra dynamical sets. The Show was a mixture of energetic techno, guitartrash and psychodelic overscrews that lasted for two nights. On March the 24th they played an unplugged concert in the Kuhturm. Things from every - day - life became musical instruments and created complexe sound collages for about four hours. The next night followed an even more intense electrical set that ended up in an half our self running sound system sequence. A short Exhibition of specially choosen works by Schubert and Schwerdt framed this musical event for these two days.
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What are the benefits of implementing Bulk SMS Services into your Marketing Campaign?
Requiring a very little investment helps bulk SMS to become the best marketing tool even for raw entrepreneurs who are not well confident to venture money into the marketing domain. It is easy for you to integrate SMS into your marketing campaign through either service providers or software and reap the multiple benefits.
You need not be a tech savvy when it comes to using bulk SMS tool. You only need to input the mobile number of the customers along with the message, which you need to put across your customers, and then just hit the "send" button.
As you are off the hook from carrying out the process end to end, the service providers are responsible for doing so. This way, you can save a substantial amount of time, which you can utilize in operating and marketing your business.
You must follow the system since it delivers enhanced response rate than the rest of the marketing strategies for example TV and banner ads.
Because SMS technology is very fast, the messages are delivered to the customers almost in a wink. With said that it also drives enormous traffic and improves your business output.
In your attempts to get in touch with your potential customers via short messaging service turns out well in building solid customer support with them who are everything to your business.
As bulk SMS marketing is known to generate mammoth sales shortly, you need not wait for a long time to evaluate the development of your promotion crusade. In a short term, you will be able to see that your marketing campaign is a sheer success.
The initiative of sending a host of messages at one time all over the world and instantly has made SMS marketing a rage among the businesspersons who implement and make the most of it.
With an escalating number of mobile users all over the world faster with each passing, this type of marketing is sure to be in the trend in the near future and maybe far future.


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The DePaulia • May 9, 2021 • https://depauliaonline.com/53775/news/vaccine-requirement-more-complicated-for-international-students/
Vaccine requirement more complicated for international students
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, pharmacy technician Sochi Evans fills a syringe with a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Texas Southern University in Houston. Coronavirus cases are continuing to decline in the U.S. after a winter surge. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases in the country dropped below 100,000 on Friday, Feb. 12 for the first time since November 4. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Josephine Stratman, Staff Writer
After overcoming complicated visa statuses, dramatic time differences and WiFi issues, international students may be facing one more hurdle — vaccination status.
On April 21, President A. Gabriel Esteban announced via email that DePaul will require all undergraduate, graduate and professional students coming back in the fall to be vaccinated. While the university has yet to release more detailed information, it is likely that in order to attend in-person classes, live on campus or participate in student organizations, students will have to be vaccinated.
For students living in the U.S., the vaccination process is relatively easy. Anyone aged 16 and over is eligible to get vaccinated at any city-run site. According to the City of Chicago, "the COVID-19 vaccine is free to everyone, regardless of insurance or immigration status." DePaul also hosted a vaccine clinic to bring vaccine availability right on campus.
However, not all DePaul students have the same access to vaccines; for international students, getting the vaccine is potentially much more complicated.
International students make up close to 10 percent of DePaul's enrollment, comprising 4.7 percent of undergraduates and 17.6 percent of graduate students. In total, 2,316 students from 126 countries were enrolled in the 2019-2020 school year, according to the Office of Global Engagement at DePaul.
Across those 126 countries, vaccine availability varies greatly. Unlike students in Chicago or the U.S., international students face vastly different vaccine availability.
In Pakistan, free vaccines are currently only available for adults over the age of 40. If college students want to get vaccinated, they have to pay for a private one, said DePaul sophomore Sharjeel Sajjad, who is originally from Karachi, Pakistan and is a Global Ambassador for DePaul.
Right now, none of the three vaccines approved for use in the U.S. are available in Pakistan, adding a dose of uncertainty for Pakistani students at DePaul planning to return in the fall. Although it's a little uncertain, he felt confident that things would work out by the fall.
Sajjad said he was still very supportive of the requirement, and that "it is necessary to get everyone vaccinated." He received the vaccine in the U.S. upon his recent return.
"As international students, we already have 8-10 vaccine requirements," Sajjad said. "The Covid vaccine just adds to them."
Juliana Zanubi, a DePaul sophomore from Colombia, said she doesn't think she'll be able to get vaccinated in Colombia, where she's spent this academic year.
"I wish DePaul had vaccine clinics over the summer, because I'm sure not going to get it here," she said.
Zanubi said her mother was scheduled to receive the second dose of the vaccine last Monday, but due to the protests and political upheaval in Colombia, all the roads were blocked and she couldn't leave the house.
In Colombia, just 3.5 percent of the population has received the full vaccine sequence, according to the New York Times vaccine tracker.
China, India, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and South Korea — the top five countries of citizenship for DePaul's international student population — all have significantly lower vaccination rates than the U.S.
Even if students can get a vaccine, it's still not confirmed if DePaul will count them towards the requirement to return this fall. The school has not yet decided on how to proceed with vaccines that have been approved abroad, but not in the U.S.
"DePaul is assessing how to handle COVID-19 vaccines not yet approved for use in the United States but taken by some of our students abroad," the university said on an FAQ page for international students. "We will communicate with [students] as soon as possible after we receive further guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Chicago Department of Public Health."
The Oxford-AstraZeneca, Gamaleya (Sputnik V), Sinopharm-Beijing, Sinovac, CanSino, Sinopharm-Wuhan and Bharat Biotech (Covaxin) vaccines are just some that are being offered in DePaul students' home countries but have not been approved for use in the U.S.
Although DePaul is holding off, other schools have made decisions. Columbia College will not require international students already vaccinated in another country with a vaccine not approved in the U.S. to be re-vaccinated. Boston University, a school with a large international student population, recently announced that any vaccine approved worldwide will count.


The students that take part in our programmes apply through local organisations, representing InterStudies through partner agreements.
We have a wide range of programmes, ranging from short-term cultural immersion, to 2-year Leaving Certificate programmes. Follow the link below to explore our programmes, or write to us if you have any questions!
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