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Gameful Approaches to Motivation & Engagement: Recap of #WhartonGame Summit
Posted by Karl Kapp on November 8, 2015
The other day I had the opportunity to attend a gamification summit held at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It was titled "Gameful Approaches to Motivation and Engagement" with the hashtag #WhartonGAME and it was attended by many of the most influential thought-leaders in both the academic and practitioner space in the arena of gamification. It was a veritable who's who in the world of gamification. So I was excited to be included on the invite-only list and to rub elbows with many of people who's work I read, track and follow and admire.
Kevin Werbach kicking off the gamification summit.
The meeting started with Kevin Werbach, who was the host kicking off the event. Kevin is the creator of the University of Pennsylvania Gamification MOOC by Coursera which has had over 300,000 students and author of the book For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business
Kevin Werbach setting the stage for a day long discussion of gamification.
We had a great chance to mix and mingle with each other in an attempt to build bridges between academia and practioners and to create research links, joint-projects and work toward mutual goals. My biggest regret of the day is that there wasn't enough time to talk to everyone with whom I wanted to speak. Too many people to visit with all day.
The day started with a couple of questions. The first was give a one word definition of gamification. The group answers are below in the word cloud.
The next question was "What does gamification need the most?" The responses to this question had many reactions. From researching the individual elements, to science, to design elements that make games engaging.
What Gamification Needs Most? Group ideas.
After the group questions, the format of the day consisted of time to mingle and panel discussions. The first panel discussion was filled with academics who provided insights into the current state of gamification. Interesting many of the panelist were looking into various elements of games and what makes them engaging or motivating. However, when asked…"what can we definitively say about gamification…what do we know for sure about gamification?" The academic panel was unanimous that it's too early and that we can't make any definitive statements about the current state of gamification research. This was a general downer in the room but the current body of is just not robust enough to clearly make statements about gamification.
The panel consisted of Moderator Ethan Mollick (Wharton) who described some interesting work he has been doing related to a player's sense of choice. Sebastian Deterding (Northeastern U.) who has done extensive work in gamification and re-positioning the concept as gameful design. Richard Landers (Old Dominion) who has done extensive work in several areas of gamification including work involving looking at virtual leaderboards as methods of goal setting and motivation. Lennart Nacke (U. of Waterloo) who is an Associate Professor and Research Director of the HCI Games Group at the University of Waterloo in Canada and works in the area of human/computer interaction related to games. Jonna Koivisto who is a researcher and a Ph.D. student at the Game Research Lab of the School of Information Sciences at University of Tampere in Finland.
Ethan Mollick (Moderator), Sebastian Deterding, Richard Landers, Lennart Nacke and Jonna Koivisto. (left to right)
The goal of the panel was to see what evidence currently exists related to gamification and what gaps remain about the effectiveness of gamification. The panel also explored what fields are involved in research relevant to gamification (many fields from healthcare, to marketing to education) and what areas of study need more study and what data would academics like to see from industry. Again, the outcome was that more work was needed in gamification research and that more empirical studies need to be conducted. To that end, I am currently conducting a research study with a major gamification vendor in the education space (Axonify) and hope to be able to share some of my empirical research results in the beginning of 2016. But back to the panel:
Jonna Koivista of the University of Tampere (Finland) is doing some great meta-analysis work in the field of gamification and co-authored a study called Does Gamification Work? —A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification. She is currently working on a meta-analysis of 300 gamification studies and hopes that will provide some insights. She said that of the 300 studies she is reviewing about 43% are in the field of education (the most, second was health and exercises then and crowdsourcing). So that may be helpful in the near future specifically in these three areas.
Another researcher on the panel Sebastian Deterding who is an Assistant Professor at the Playable Innovative Technologies Lab at Northeastern University (Boston, MA), as well as a fellow of the RMIT Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (Melbourne, Australia), and affiliated researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research (Hamburg, Germany) indicated that we can "borrow" research from other disciplines to make assertions about what might be happening because of gamification but we don't have definitive answers. Sebastian indicated that one of the problems with gamification research is that we have seen implementation study vs implementation studies on gamification and found that if you give people feedback on their behavior in a structured manner, it can impact people's behavior. But we need more research on the elements of gamification before we can give guidance aggregated around gamification.
Richard Landers said that we know some things related to disciplines outside of gamification such as goal setting with leaderboards but we still need more research in the specific field of gamification. Research he is conducting. His study called "Gamification of task performance with leaderboards: A goal-setting experiment" which is currently in-press may shed some light on the best uses of leaderboards in gamification. He also mentioned that game designers and gamification designers use the same toolkit but they just use the tools differently. He has identified in his research nine classes of game elements that can be used as those tools.
Lennart Nacke, another member of this panel, provided a perspective related to game design, he has conducted research in the area of creatingplayer satisfaction model called BrainHex, which he based on insights from neurobiological findings as well as the results from demographic game design models (DGD1 and DGD2). The model he created presents seven different archetypes of players: Seeker, Survivor, Daredevil, Mastermind, Conqueror, Socialiser, and Achieve
The panel discussed the fact that games are systems and that's why it's messy and hard to generalize because a game is a system and systems change and react to inputs and the inputs can be different at different times. When researching gamification, it's important to remember that context and culture matter. When researching gamification, we have to think about the concept of design research, creating artificial elements, bringing technology together with social elements and processes. The evolution of the social system needs to be built into those systems and needs to be part of gamification research.
The next panel was centered on practitioners and their work in gamification.
Chuck Picklehaupt, Susan Hunt Stevens, William Giammona, Thomas Hsu, Amaya Capellan and Caitlin Holman (left to right).
The panel was moderated by Dan Hunter of Swinburne Law School (he is the founding Dean). Joining him as panel members were Amaya Capellan of PeopleLinx, William Giammona of Appirio, Caitlin Holman of the University of Michigan School of Information, Thomas Hsu of Accenture, Chuck Picklehaput of Fidelity and Susan Hunt Stevens of WeSpire.
This panel discussed several interesting outputs from their practical implementation of gamification:
Gamification has been successful (for the most part) in the panel experience
Gamification is highly cultural dependent. In some instances, the exact same gamification system implemented in one company successfully was unsuccessful when implemented in another organization
It seems best to group "natural" teams together to compete rather than ad hoc groups. Group employees in natural ways they compete. When tested with ad hoc groups, the gamification worked well for first competition but didn't on subsequent competitions. Theory is that it is not the natural way a group works and, therefore, once the novelty wore off, the competition wasn't motivational.
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between Senior Vice Presidents (SVP) and managers trying to make it happen. The SVPs often don't see a need for gamification or think about gamification but the mangers see gamification as helping with engagement and motivation to implement initiatives and make them happen.
The final panel was called "Key Questions for Gamification." I had the good fortune to sit on that panel. The panel was moderated by Kevin Werbach of Wharton and the SEI Center with Lucas Blair of Little Bird Games (and Bloomsburg University MSIT Alum), Amy Jo Kim of Shufflebrain, Karen Levy who is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Law's Information Law Institute and Ross Smith of IBM.
Amy Jo Kim, Lucas Blair, Karl Kapp and Ross Smith (Karen Levy missing from photo) (left to right)
This panel asked questions from the attendees related to gamification. Kevin took notes on the projector as we discussed ensuring that the audience was first identified before developing gamification and that often instructional designers think about content first while game designers think about action and activity first. The idea of having learners or students create their own games was discussed as was the difficulty of breaking games into their "atomic" elements which may prove to be difficult even thought that's a "holy grail" of research.
Lucas Blair and Karl Kapp address gamification questions.
All-in-all, it was a great day in the neophyte field of gamification (although many are hesitant to call it a field). Many key connections were made, concepts and ideas discussed and some paths forward were discussed. Next the group will continue to discuss the key concepts and ideas and work to bring ideas from the practitioners and the researchers together to develop actionable, reliable and effective guidelines for using gamification in a variety of fields.
Lucas Blair talking with Zsolt Olah and Sari Gilbert.
Thomas Hsu, Sebastian Deterding and Howard Blumenthal discuss gamification. (left to right)
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Though we've seen plenty leaks of the Nexus 5, little is known about the next version of Android itself — other than its chocolate bar-related name, of course. Now, Amir Efrati of JessicaLessin.com has detailed a number of key upgrades to KitKat, based on a confidential document Google sent to its OEM partners.
In it, Google outlines key enhancements to low-memory devices such as entry-level handsets from Huawei, Samsung, ZTE and others. OEMs have traditionally been reticent to update older devices because there are performance considerations with newer versions of Android, especially as graphics acceleration becomes more ubiquitous throughout the OS. The other side of the coin is that, however easy Google makes it for OEMs to update, they're still unlikely to spend the time, money and effort to do so, especially in the cheaper market.
KitKat is also purportedly optimized for wearables, which coincides nicely with the rumour that Google is readying a smartwatch for later this year or early 2014. KitKat is expected to support three new hardware sensors, according to Efrati: geomagnetic rotation vector, step detector and step counter. The latter two are important if you consider that many new devices are likely going to emulate the iPhone 5s in keeping track of users' steps and elevation throughout the day.
Android 4.4 is also expected to improve NFC connectivity with certain types of hardware. That, and Bluetooth, are usually serviced by the OEMs themselves, leading to disparate and often incompatible executions of the same idea. This has lead to some wearable technology, like Fitbit's line of health monitors, to have limited compatibility with Android hardware.
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The 'nuts and bolts' of Iran's economic troubles
By TERRANCE J. MINTNER/THE MEDIA LINE
Published: JULY 5, 2018 05:28
Updated: JULY 5, 2018 12:56
Iranian women gather during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to walk out of a 2015 nuclear deal, in Tehran, Iran, May 11, 2018
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Economic dissatisfaction is increasingly being expressed in terms of political dissatisfaction in the past year.
As Iran decides the pathway forward after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal in May, economic pressures are beginning to weigh on the Islamic Republic.
In the last few weeks, Iran's currency has been tanking rapidly against the dollar. Reports said it sank between 79,000 and 90,000 rials to the US dollar on the country's unofficial market, according to the foreign exchange website Bonbast. At the end of last year, it stood at 42,890 to the dollar.
Furthermore, there has been a flare up of protests over economic concerns throughout the country. Vendors in Tehran's central market staged a series of protests last week. They were upset about the rial's collapse, which is havoc for businesses as the price of imports rises.
In the last few days, protests erupted around the southern city of Khorramshahr over a shortage of clean water. The problem has been exacerbated in the summer when temperatures in the southern region can reach up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius). The protests were initially peaceful but became violent when police and protesters clashed, resulting in at least one death.
Trump ally Giuliani says end is near for Iran"s rulers, June 30, 2018 (Reuters)
Last month, protesters in Tehran shouted surprising slogans as they decried the country's economic malaise. Videos posted to social media showed them chanting: "Death to Palestine," "No to Gaza, no to Lebanon," and "Leave Syria and think of us." Others chanted "We don't want the ayatollahs."
The unrest seems to have rattled the leadership. Last week, President Hassan Rouhani called on the nation to "remain calm" and united in the face of the economic pressure. The country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also addressed the Iranian public, urging the government "to confront those who disrupt economic security."
Economists in the country are urging the leadership to take bold action on the sinking rial and rising prices. Beyond these concerns, they have also flagged Iran's record levels of unemployment, a private sector starved of investment, and the country's banking system, which is crippled by loans.
Suzanne Maloney, an expert on Iran and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told The Media Line that what is happening in Iran is a "continuation of the unrest that we've seen over the course of the last several years, but certainly on an intensified basis."
She explained that there is a long history of economic protests and labor strikes in Iran. But in the past year, economic dissatisfaction is increasingly being expressed in terms of political dissatisfaction. "There is a willingness among Iranians to publicly embrace positions that are obviously quite dangerous in a system that relies continuously on repression."
During the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, she explained, there was an economic dimension to the unrest—a period of fast growth, inflation, and crackdowns on speculation. What began as individual economic protests became linked over time, amounting to a rejection of the system itself. "And I think that has to be of particular concern for the Iranian leadership.
"Those protesting in the streets are rejecting all elements of the leadership. They have been as critical of the reformists as are of hardliners."
Maloney concluded by outlining Iran's most pressing economic concerns. "The long-term challenge, which the Iranian government has failed to address, is how to generate sufficient opportunities for the post-revolutionary 'baby boom' which is now reaching maturity."
She added that corruption and the perception that life has gotten harder are also driving the unrest. "Expectations were raised around the 2015 nuclear deal, and it didn't produce the anticipated 'peace dividends.'"
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Tom Wilson, a Research Fellow in the Center for the New Middle East at London's Henry Jackson Society, told The Media Line that "the Iran deal as we knew it from 2015 is dead – and nothing will concentrate European minds more on this than the re-imposition of US secondary sanctions on European companies that continue trading with Iran.
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The suspect in the July 28th robbery of the Jelly Belly store at the Folsom Premium Outlets has been caught.
The suspect was described as a white male, 6 feet tall, around 270 pounds with a "large belly", in his late 40s' to early 50s', with wavy/curly balding dark hair. He was wearing a brown collared shirt and brown pants.
Shortly after media outlets released the suspect's photo on August 18th, a Sacramento County deputy sheriff and a Citrus Heights security officer contacted Folsom investigators. Apparently, Todd Joseph Willis, 45, of Fair Oaks was arrested on August 11th by Citrus Heights Police for a similar crime.
Investigators conducted a photo lineup which included Willis' photograph and the victim was able to quickly identify him as the suspect. On September 2nd Folsom investigators went to Willis' Fair Oaks apartment to interview him. As they attempted to arrest Willis, he became combative with three of the officers and attempted to flee on foot. He was subdued after a brief struggle and transported to an area hospital to be cleared for booking.
None of the officers were injured while apprehending Willis. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on one count of robbery and three counts of resisting arrest. Willis is being held in lieu of $105,000 bail and he is scheduled to appear in Department 61 on 9/3/2010 at 1:35 P.M.
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Even though the idea of a planned community with "town houses" in the middle of nowhere seemed a bit heretical at the time, the antidisestablismentarian types that decided to call the New Town home in the mid-1960s still hankered for that old-time religion.
Here is a nicely artsy picture of Reston's first place of worship, Redeemer Methodist Church -- which is what we think is now the UCC church on North Shore Drive near Lake Anne. Apparently their prayers were strong enough to create a mini-vortex near the right-hand side of the photo which looks remarkably like a hole punch.
Short time reader and first time poster as a recent Restonian. Excellent blog and never stop bagging on the Macaroni Grill. I worked for that place in a former life and they are truly evil. Anyway, my point, according to the former owner of my townhome, it was the first Baptist Church before the current one was finished in the Reston Town Center. I feel a certain affinity knowing that my new home was a former place of worship. Now if I can only get Dwell magazine to worship there once my renovations are complete.
"Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day." And so it is with the young town Reston in the morning of its happening.
Reston is sturdy. Belief in the human potential governs its every innovation. 20th Century man can flourish when the vitality of urban invention combines with the ancient heritage of fertile land. Here, a man looks at a tall tower and a tree against the sky and knows that both mark the place of his home.
Reston is vigorous. Belief in the ferment between people and place is its strength. There is contentment and controversy in a town where each man matters. Here, people in ever-widening variety walk, work, watch a bird. They create their own life style, and by such creation make a valid community of men.
Reston is buoyant. Belief in excellence is its absolute standard. Artistry in surroundings lifts the spirit, sparks the imagination. Planning is its tool. Here, children run free to delight in a bridge, a wooded path. Water glints against brick, music sounds in the village, and men know a sense of joy.
Belief in people, in ferment among them and excellence around them, makes Reston sturdy, vigorous and buoyant. This is its promise. This is its dedication.
Reading the original plan is fascinating. 18 elementary schools, 5 middle schools and 2 high schools?
Everyone will walk to the village centers? Would that include the people who are understandably afraid to walk the paths around Hunters Woods Shopping Center -- much less hang around there for social time?


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Correlation of intraoperative cytological and final histological diagnoses: A retrospective 10-year study of neurosurgical cases from Ibadan, Nigeria.
OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative cytology is a cost-effective, rapid, and easy technique, and studies have shown good correlation between intraoperative cytology and histology. We undertook this study to compare the intraoperative cytology diagnoses of brain lesions made in our unit over a 10-year period with the definitive histological diagnoses. The aim was to determine the degree of accuracy of this procedure.
STUDY DESIGN: This is a retrospective study of intraoperative neuropathology consultation cytology smears or imprints and histology of 69 cases obtained over a 10-year period. Cytology smears were stained using both Papanicolaou and Giemsa. Histology sections were prepared from routine formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue and stained using H and E method. Each of the smears and histology samples were assessed by at least two pathologists. Cytological diagnosis was correlated with final histological diagnosis. The sensitivity and specificity of cytological diagnosis was evaluated using final histological diagnosis as gold standard.
RESULTS: Correlation was strongest with inflammatory lesions followed by low-grade neoplasms. High-grade neoplasms also showed good concordance, but the degree of correlation was lower than in the other categories. Misdiagnosis was commonest with benign tumors.
CONCLUSION: Intraoperative cytology is a relatively simple, reliable, and accurate diagnostic technique and should be more commonly used, particularly in low-resource settings. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Q: PowerShell - searching for existing files generates empty output I wish to search for specific files listed in searchFiles and pipe their locations to TestFileLocation.CSV. However, my current script only generates an empty CSV. What am I missing?
My TestFindFile.csv is of the form:
Name
123.pdf
321.pdf
aaa.pdf

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$searchFiles = Import-CSV 'C:\Data\SCRIPTS\PS1\TestFindFile.csv' -Header ("Name")
$source = 'C:\Data'

ForEach($File in $searchFiles)
{
    Get-ChildItem $source -Filter $File -rec | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | select-object FullName | export-csv -notypeinformation -delimiter '|' -path c:\data\scripts\ps1\TestFileLocation.csv
}

A: You were overwriting the CSV for each iteration of the loop.
$searchFiles = Import-CSV 'C:\Data\SCRIPTS\PS1\TestFindFile.csv' -Header ("Name")
$source = 'C:\Data'
$outputPath = 'c:\data\scripts\ps1\TestFileLocation.csv'

$searchFiles |  ForEach-Object {
    # Silently continue to try to ignore error like
    # not being able to read path's which are too long
    Get-ChildItem $source -Filter $_ -rec -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | select-object FullName
} | export-csv -notypeinformation -delimiter '|' -path $outputPath

Example using AlphaFS
A comment asked for an example using AlphaFS because it claims to overcome the long path issue.  I'm not going into all the details, but here is how I got it to work.
# download and unzip to c:\alpahfs
# dir C:\AlphaFS\* -Recurse -File | Unblock-File
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('C:\AlphaFS\lib\net451\AlphaFS.dll')
$searchFiles = Import-CSV 'C:\Data\SCRIPTS\PS1\TestFindFile.csv' -Header ("Name")
$source = 'C:\Data'
$outputPath = 'c:\data\scripts\ps1\TestFileLocation.csv'

    $searchFiles |  ForEach-Object {
        $files = [Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem.Directory]::EnumerateFiles($source,'*',[System.IO.SearchOption]::AllDirectories)
        $files | ForEach-Object { [PSCustomObject] @{FileName = $_} }
    } | export-csv -notypeinformation -delimiter '|' -path $outputPath
# type $outputPath

A: If your .csv file contains the header "Name", there is no need to again declare it when running Import-Csv.
The reason the output is empty is that you are searching for an Object which contains the property Name (imported from the TestFindFile.csv). Search for $File.Name. Also pull commands outside the loop that don't need to be there:
$searchFiles | Select -ExpandProperty Name | % {
   Get-ChildItem $source -Filter $_ -Recurse | where {!$_.PSIsContainer}
} | select-object FullName | export-csv -notypeinformation -delimiter '|' -path c:\data\scripts\ps1\TestFileLocation.csv

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Posted on 11/04/2018 by Natalie Neumann
For as much as some people love criticizing them, it cannot be argued that despite faltering in numerous other areas, Nintendo is absolutely excellent at garnering excitement, hype, and fervor from its fanbase. Whenever a new Nintendo Direct happens, the excitement is often contagious, and while this does have the adverse effect of causing certain unscrupulous individuals to channel their excitement in ways destructive to themselves and others, one can argue that individuals such as them are simply inclined towards such hateful tendencies. Anyways, another Smash Bros. Nintendo Direct happened, so let's start with that.
Firstly, prior to this announcement there was a supposed leak that people have dubbed the "Grinch leak" wherein the characters Ken (Street Fighter), Shadow (Sonic), Isaac (Golden Sun), Chorus Kids (Rhythm Heaven), Banjo Kazooie, Geno (Super Mario RPG), and freaking Mach Rider from Mach Rider. The ride through this rumor was a turbulent one, but was almost instantly disproven with the reveal of the prior two characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Ken from Street Fighter, serving as an Echo Fighter of Ryu, along with Incineroar from Pokemon Sun and Moon. Both of whom shared a positively delightful trailer that involved the themes of death that have littered this game being further accentuated with Little Mac being slammed against a giant electrical scoreboard, where the glass inevitably shattered and filled his body, the electricity left him with burns, and the impact broke some of his bones.
Following the full cast of 74 fighters being revealed, the elusive Spirits mode was detailed as being the one thing that Smash Brothers as an intellectual property has been missing. Gacha mechanics! In lieu of featuring any trophies in this installment, Ultimate is instead refreshing the Sticker idea from Brawl by having official art from those games serve to represent characters, known as Spirits. These Spirits each have their own level, attributes, and type, all of which can be equipped by fighters to enhance them. With Spirits primarily being earned by partaking in rotating time-sensitive missions where the player must overcome a gimmick match of sorts meant to represent the Spirit in question. In addition to all this, Spirits can be sacrificed, sent home, and used to conduct various time related waiting driven tasks, again much like one would expect from a Gacha game.
In addition to various online alterations and, as far as I am aware, improvements, the game will feature a season pass with a total of five characters to be released throughout 2019, but beyond those, there is a sixth DLC character that was revealed, and it is one of the oddest yet interesting picks I could have imagined. As a potted Piranha Plant is now a character in Smash Bros. With its lengthy neck, small form, and unique movability, they are certainly the most unique character to come from this Direct, being such a goofy outlandish concept that does have a lot of potential as a unique fighter. And hey, they're free to early purchasers of the game, so that's pretty nifty.
So far, this is all impressive, pleasing, and neat, with my biggest gripe being the inability to rearrange the character select screen to represent character per franchise… at least when everybody is unlocked, which should thankfully take quite a while. But I was still on the fence about the game, as I am a friendless person who drifts from game to game with regularity. But then, just as things were nearing their end, the new adventure mode World of Light was revealed. An expansive adventure that tasks the player to explore the world after a destructive force murdered every character in Smash Brothers aside from Kirby, and it is up to him, the hero of Popstar, to venture through this expansive reformed world to free the other characters from the clutches of weaker spirits in order to bring peace and tranquility to all of Smash World! And there are also skill trees!
Or in other words, it is basically the closest thing to Subspace Emissary that I could have asked for, and even features some returning bosses. Honestly, it is really quite hard to make me lose my cool during a game trailer, but this one did it. It did it so well that I might just feel compelled to check this game out when it launches this December.
Shifting over to a piece of news I feel more obligated to mention than anything else is the unsurprising success of Red Dead Redemption 2's launch. With it being the biggest entertainment launch of the year, biggest release in Playstation Network history, biggest opening weekend in entertainment history, and only superseded as the biggest launch in entertainment history by Rockstar's previous title, Grand Theft Auto V. I cannot say that I am particularly surprised by this, but I also cannot say that I get why this title is warranting such adoration other than the fact that it is Rockstar, and Rockstar games tend to do well, barring some of their more experimental endeavours from generations of yore.
From what I have heard about the game, it is a slow, meticulous, and plotting affair set in an uncaring world that is positively bogged down with realistic attributes with the intention of creating something more palpable and immersive as opposed to something with regular gratification distribution. Yet despite just about all of those attributes registering as negatives to me, the game is still one of the biggest successes of this generation, and has been met with nothing but critical acclaim. It really does not make a whole lot of sense to me, but then again the prior Rockstar titles I attempted to play and enjoy, L.A. Noire and the original Red Dead Redemption, both struck me as dull affairs set in bleak worlds with stories that would have been better served if delivered through a different medium. Oh, and bad movement. But the public has spoken, so I guess I am just an out of touch and bitter old crone, and have been since I was a teen. Ho-hum.
It has been about a year since Sony announced their intentions to remaster PS1 classic fantasy action game Medievil for PS4, and as to be expected, it is a group up remake of the title with detail rife visuals and and updated presentation that have been applied to the same level design and game mechanics from the original entry, likely with some minor alterations to attempt to modernize things. As to be expected, it looks quite nice with its detailed and moody environments, and I can easily see it having a similar, if less successful, reaction as the one given to the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. That is to say, much adoration and fondness in addition to quite a few vocal criticisms of its gameplay being a bit dated, and how certain imperfections should have been smoothed out. Which is really one of the two things people want out of revisions of classic titles, yet have weirdly started to accept the absence of.
Speaking of 90s relics being brought back for the modern era, there's another Bubsy game on the way. Yes, after the first two games were released on Steam under dubious means, and partnering up with Black Forest games to create an overpriced mediocre platformer that assuredly had a small budget, the current owners of the immensely valuable Bubsy the Bobcat intellectual property have contracted Bit.Trip and Runner3 developer Choice Provisions to create another entry. This title, Bubsy: Paws on Fire, is set to be a side scrolling runner game with four unique characters, over 100 stages, and a supposed plethora of hockey and likely repetitive one-liners, while still looking like a fairly cheap and blasé platforming romp, despite coming from talented developers. This new product shall launch prior to the end of the 2019 fiscal year with a release on PS4, Switch, and PC, under the assumption that the brand recognition of the central character will allow them to offset development costs and come away with a modest profit.
Shifting back to news that actually interests me, next week a Kickstarter will be launching for Umineko When They Cry Gold Edition. A new version of the cult classic visual novel, and successor franchise to the much beloved Higurashi series, that seeks to add in a full English dub and an updated presentation using assets from the PS3 version of the game, which will be made freely available to all owners of the Steam version of Umineko. While the graphics update is not a major deal, as the 07th Mod already implements those assets, albeit in their own way, a full dub for a massive visual novel series like this is more than a little enticing, and based on the preview video shown for the dub, they certainly chose some very talented voice actors for the job. Also, just to clarify, this trailer shows excerpts from a dramatized audiobook that will be freely released via iTunes if this project is successfully funded. Now I'm almost glad I waited on the Umineko train… though I still would like to finish Higurashi sometime before the end of the decade *coughs*.
Oh, yeah, and not only is Warcraft III getting a remaster, but Diablo is getting a mobile game that people are all upset about. I would say more, except I am apathetic towards Blizzard as a developer, and my mother just fell and hurt her arm, so now I'm going to need to help her all weekend. And due to scheduling difficulties, there either will be no review on 11/7 or 11/14. Cheers.
(Header image was drawn by Triple-Q)
Edit: I forgot to mention that Toby Fox released a demo for a successor to Undertale. Kinda surprised I managed to forget about that one considering how, well, I started playing it last week. The game is called Deltarune, and is pretty neat. Check it out or wait for the full thing in a couple years.
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Q: Critical Sections and Memory Fences / Barriers on a multi-processor system I have a Windows DLL (in C) that uses Critical Sections. A specific routine, which is called numerous times, needs to perform some initialization code the first time it is called, so I am using a Critical Section. However, since it is called so many times I am trying to avoid the overhead of entering the section each time it is called. It seems to be working, but I am wondering if there is a flaw considering memory barriers / fences when running on a multi-processor (Intel) system with an x64 OS? Here is the stripped down code:
int _isInitialized = FALSE;
CRITICAL_SECTION _InitLock = {0};

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HANDLE hModule, DWORD ul_reason_for_call, LPVOID lpReserved )
{
    ARM_SECTION_BEGIN(ul_reason_for_call)

    switch (ul_reason_for_call)
    {
    case (DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH):
        InitializeCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
        break;
    case (DLL_THREAD_ATTACH):
        break;
    case (DLL_THREAD_DETACH):
        break;
    case (DLL_PROCESS_DETACH):
        DeleteCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
        break;
    }
    return (TRUE);
}

int myproc(parameters...)
{
    if (!_isInitialized)        // check first time
    {
        EnterCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
        if (_isInitialized)        // check it again
        {
            LeaveCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
            goto initialized;
        }
        ... do stuff ...
        _isInitialized = TRUE;
        LeaveCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
    }
initialized:
    ... do more stuff ...
    return(something)
}

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... if there is a flaw considering memory barriers / fences ... ?

Use volatile
Code certainly appears to risk using a stale value for _isInitialized in the 2nd test.
if (!_isInitialized) {
  EnterCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
  if (_isInitialized)                 // Risk

To insure a re-read of _isInitialized, use volatile.  @JimmyB
// int _isInitialized = FALSE;
volatile int _isInitialized = FALSE;

Other Shared Data
Other data than _isInitialized assigned in the ... do stuff ... and used in the later ... do more stuff ... code risks the same problem due to an optimization may read other_data before the  the first if (!_isInitialized).
Code could use volatile other_data.  Unfortunately that may incur an unacceptable performance drag.  Alternatives depend on what is inside stuff.
Style
I'd make _isInitialized local to the function, drop the _ and avoid the goto.
int myproc(parameters...) {
  static volatile int isInitialized = FALSE;

  if (!isInitialized) {
    EnterCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
    if (!isInitialized) {
      // ... do stuff ...
      isInitialized = TRUE;
    }
    LeaveCriticalSection(&_InitLock);
  }

  // ... do more stuff ...
  return(something)
}


When Jake was born, Aiden was 2 years old. I worried throughout that pregnancy about how Aiden would react to a new little brother. Would he be jealous? Would I be able to balance being mommy to both of them? Everything was going to change, and in some strange way I felt guilty.
We've talked to Jake about how things will change, and how much the baby will need mommy's attention. He says he understands and is ok with that. So far he has not expressed any jealousy or apprehension about the upcoming birth of his new sibling. He's excited — after all, he's been begging for a baby sibling since he was 2 years old. He talks about how he will help, and he looks forward to singing songs to the baby. He talks to my belly and says, "Hi baby! What are you doin' in there?" In my heart I know he will be fine. But I still worry. This is an extremely joyous time and we couldn't be happier or more excited, but there's still that faint feeling of worry and guilt and fear of change.
I want to make sure that the boys are fully situated and their needs are taken care of before I move full force into nursery mode. I still worry about Jake adjusting to the baby, but I'm not worried about Aiden. He's got this big brother thing down. He's a wonderful big brother to Jake, and I know he will be to the baby too. I just hope that Jake can follow his lead and love being a big brother as much as he loves being a little brother. I know everything will be just fine, I guess I'm just having some normal mommy anxiety.
Do you have a "middle child"? How did they adjust to the transition from "baby" to "middle"? I'd love tips or advice!
I have a 5 year gap between my second and third children and I was a little nervous how my second would do with the new baby, but he was great! At first he was kind of indifferent because the baby didn't do much and he got plenty of attention from extended family, but as the baby started to do more and develop a personality, my middle just loves him more and more! My baby just turned one and he makes his big brother laugh and giggle like you wouldn't believe! Of course it helped that the baby got big brother a new lego set that he had been eyeing, but I was really nervous for no reason. There is a big enough age difference that there's really no competition between them. Good luck and feel free to let me know if you want to chat more!
He's old enough that you can really involve him in some of the baby's care which will help with the transition a lot. You can tell him to help you get a diaper for changing time or go get a toy for the baby. Also, I've heard having the baby get them a gift can help. But really, he is so sweet he will love the baby and be a great big brother!
Thanks, Stefanie! I think/hope he will do fine, just getting a little anxious about it I guess. He loves being a big cousin so hopefully that means he will love being a big brother too! You get to go through the middle child transition before us so you'll have to let us know how it goes, (although I know there is a different age gap we are dealing with). I do hope now that Jake is older that it will help if we involve him in the baby's care like you mentioned.
I think for us, the first few months were the most difficult. I had one child who had just begun kindergarten when #3 was born, 1 in preschool, and working full time and baby on breast. The hardest thing for #2 was seeing me snuggling with #3 so often for feedings; he got to the point for a while where he would snuggle up to my other side and lay his head on my lap next to his brother, just to get close.
Our boys are their own best friends and worst enemies, which is as it should be. They squabble and wrestle and bicker, but if anyone else messes with one of them, that kid has messed with all of them. They are each other's best support system, next to mom and dad, and it's awesome to watch (even when they make me want to yank my hair and rock in a corner!).
Thanks for your comment Julie! I'm sure our situation will be similar. Jake will need lots of snuggles and reassurance that he's still my baby too, but it will be a balancing act for sure to make sure no one is feeling neglected! My boys are best friends and enemies too. They go from loving each other to bickering and fighting 5 minutes later, but normally are best buddies and play together for hours. They are a blessing for sure! Glad to hear that you are surviving having 3. 🙂 Hopefully I will too!
Erin- you and I are both going through emotional times for different reasons with our kids…it's neverending with being a Mom, huh? Our Mom hearts just want to make sure everyone is prepared for what's ahead. New seasons are fun & exciting, but also tinged with sadness and bittersweet feelings. I know just how you're feeling about your son who has been the baby. I also remember how I worried about my firstborn when my second son was born. Honestly, I can recall feeling guilty, too! My middle son is probably the most well-adjusted of ALL my boys! Crazy, huh? Our youngest and him are only 19 months apart, so they are like twins practically. All the boys have their own special things about them, and making sure they saw us all as a " family unit " was key. You're already preparing Jake, so he's going to feel like your special helper. When the baby is napping, you will still have alot of lovin' time with him! It will be great and beautiful…stressful many days, but still beautiful 🙂 Hugs!
Thanks for your sweet comment, Melanie! Yes, it's definitely an emotional time for both of us! I'm happy to hear that your middle son is so well-adjusted! Hopefully mine will be too. 🙂 I may be hitting you up for mommy advice since you have already been through the trenches with this age group. Good luck sending your oldest off to college! I know it will be bittersweet.


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Fantasizing History: Sleepy Hollow, White Redemption, and Literally Empowering Brown Folk
Ichy getting chummy with his "Mohawk friends"
Date: October 10, 2013Author: Geek Outsider 4 Comments
In a recent editorial in The New York Times, A.O. Scott took a few race-centric blockbusters, like The Help and Django Unchained to task, or rather to uncomfortable truths. But not for the reasons one might think.
What Scott pointed out was that these films offer a sense of redemption for white consumers, who attend them out of a sense of duty to acknowledge the very real horrors of slavery and the civil rights era. And in the theater, when the helpful white good guy throws caution to the wind to help their fellow suffering blacks, they can mourn that distant past, identify themselves with this mythic hero, and shame and hate the carcicature-d evil racists, leaving the theater with a relief that such horrors are a thing of a dark and incomprehensible past and that they themselves are morally well-adjusted in an era where race is no longer such a pressing issue.
This pop culture distancing, he argues, is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the conversation about race we're (not) having in this country.
And he's right. There are examples everywhere. One recent and hit-you-over-the-head example can be found in the (fun and awesome) TV show Sleepy Hollow. Created by a bunch of white guys, the show has achieved strides in television history simply in the casting of the show, which features not just a Black female lead (basically unheard of in a supernatural TV series), but a whole host of frequently appearing black and brown faces, and all while actively shutting down racial stereotypes. It's dope, and it makes one really really like this particular bunch of white guys.
But funny enough the one stereotype that remains is actually smeared all over the show's side-kick white guy (Seriously. Love. It.) Ichabod Crane, who is basically a progressive white apologist and history revisionist.
Of course, the entire show is a fantastical re-imagining of history as one big shit-show fight-to-the-death with…well, Death and his demon friends. But the particulars of what gets revised is telling.
Ichy getting chummy with his "Mohawk friends" during the war.
Like when Crane gets all "no way!" about the genocide of Native Americans: "What?! The Native Americans were decimated? But they were my friends! We fought alongside them against the evil Brits." This is true to an extent. Many Native peoples fought alongside the Patriot soldiers, but just as many were siding with the Brits in hopes that a British victory would choke the steady stream of colonists stealing Native lands…
At first, one is inclined to scoff at Crane's role as adorable white guilt assuager. But actually, in a fantasy television series, alongside historical revisions that place the headless horseman in the Revolutionary War, is the only place such shenanigans belong.
Black Americans have been using fantasy and science fiction to rewrite history and write new Conde's novel takes Tituba out of obscurity and writes her prominently into history, from her youth in Barbados to meeting Hester Prynne, to her escape from being burned as a witch. Not only that, but she removes the yoke of victim-hood that stalks Black history and endows Tituba with supernatural powers as well.futures quite some time. One great example is Maryse Conde's historical fiction novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, which draws on the true story of a Black woman who was the first to be accused of being a witch before the Salem Witch Trials got all epic and bloody. But beyond the fact that she was accused and managed to escape with her flesh intact, we know little else about her.
But what's the point of such fantasizing? Well Conde's novel is certainly a metaphorical reclamation of history and it spreads awareness of the fact that Black people were there too. It's also a feel-good book (despite all of it's sadness) for Black readers, because it puts brown faces in histories that we've learned had little to do with us. We root for the hero hard between the tears. Many non-fictional scholarly books do this for other eras and events.
(At this point, can't help but give a shout-out to this dope Tumblr Medieval POC that aims to debunk the myth that Black people weren't around in Medieval Europe).
But it's in the fantastical revisionings that Kindred's Dana Franklin gets to kill the white guy who owned her ancestors, or where Harriet Tubman gets to be a pants-wearing steampunk spy, psychic, and freedom fighter.
This gets at the very definition of fantasy for fans — it's where we can go to utterly escape reality, that includes white guilt. There Black people can turn to fantasy to empower their history literally by imagining superpowers into the hands of their ancestors or just knock-around the mastuh. And white folk can turn to fantasy to pretend it was evil vampires who were the slave owners or make friendlies between the colonists and Native American communities.
cover of Balogun Ojetade's "Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman"
Now, revisions that cleanse whites of historical wrongs are problematic in movies like The Help, where they masquerade as possible truths, because they further obscure the real historical truths that are already obfuscated by incomplete or non-existent records, the dehumanization of whole groups of people, essentially by the white power structures that write history. And they deny the role of the marginalized peoples of the world in history as anything other than victims.
However, when such revisions appear in the context of ridiculous story lines like those of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Sleepy Hollow it's basically an admission that notions of the white power structure forged by our messed up history can be warm-fuzzied away are just as ridiculous as an acrobatic axe-wielding Abe Lincoln Matrix-style dodging a horse thrown at him by an angry racist vampire.
So, I roll my eyes a little at the adorable need for such white guilt cuddlies, but I ain't mad. It's happening in exactly the right place, right before some other absurd ridiculosity goes down.
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great post. i've blogged a bit about Ichabod Crane's "exceptional white man" of the 18th century in this show–enlightened abolitionist and now friends to indigenous peoples. meanwhile, George Washington and the American Revolution aren't just made more noble–they are also part of a divine force against a British and German Satanic cabal. over-patriotism much? what of those tens of thousands of slaves who ran to the British lines after Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? who hunkered with the British in New York, causing Washington to post guards to make sure that none of the "property" escaped? or the black slaves who ended up being recruited by Hessian mercenaries? certainly the British were no saints (at the time leading the slave trade, and they were less than forthcoming, disastrously so, in keeping their promises to slave refugees); but in their tactical aims to disrupt the rebelling colonists, they provided an outlet for slaves seeking freedom, and gave us figures like Colonel Tye and groups like the Queen's Ethiopian Regiment, who had "Liberty to Slaves" sewn onto their coats. in Sleepy Hollow however, Washington and the colonists are practically Saints, and Ichabod Crane is the most "exceptional" of exceptional white men from the 18th century. Abbey Mill's ancestors might just beg to differ…
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Thanks! Seriously, the show and especially Crane are pretty dramatic examples of the white guilt absolution fantasy. It's particularly ironic to see such a dramatic example next to the long overdue step of a strongly minority leading cast in a sci-fi/supernatural show. Honestly, watching it feels like nausea-mixed warm fuzzies– yay! black female hero! Oh wait, here comes another absurd (and yes insulting) absolutionist revision of history… sigh. I'm certainly not blind to the insult of such revision and would of course prefer it not be there at all, but there is some part of me that is enormously entertained by the desperation for absolution that makes white creators/audiences willing to put their fantastical hopes for redemption in the same boat as ludicrous revisions like British headless horsemen and evil vampire racists. Thanks for reading and for the interesting info! Adore your work.
fair point! perhaps all this need to assuage white guilt through the fantastic/absurd is in part from PoC and marginilized groups forcing the issue(s). and i suppose that is a victory, of sorts. tho' while some of us aren't so blind to these revisions, I'm often concerned with how many (of all backgrounds) are not, and wonder if this hyper-patriotic and whitewashing (literally) of the American Revolution doesn't simply reinforce false conclusions of our national past. as we saw with Abraham Lincoln, this can be done with or *without* vampires. interesting in your article that you note all the writers for the show are white; i wonder how PoC writers might have approached this entire affair, and dealt with the thorny issues of difference, slavery, hypocrises of liberty, etc. in America's founding. but i suppose until they diversify behind the scenes as much as they do in front of the camera, that's why the rest of us have blogs! lol keep up the good work.
So many great points! I imagine/hope that the other side of the screen will get a lot browner as active/open geek circles get browner. If so NYCC this year makes it look a lot more promising, so many geeks of color! And two panels specifically about bring POC & geek. Thanks for the awesome dialogue on this!
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OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — ZIWI Peak, a company most known for its New Zealand-inspired air-dried pet foods, launched a new product line, Provenance, at Global Pet Expo Feb. 26-28, featuring complementary wet canned and air-dried dog and cat diets. Each of the three formulas in the Provenance line include several animal proteins sourced from various areas of New Zealand.
The East Cape products are formulated with free-range and grass-fed mutton and goat, as well as several species of fish local to the East Cape and Cape Regina areas of New Zealand's northern island, such as kahawai, white trevally and mackerel.
The Otago Valley diets include beef, venison and lamb from the Otago region of New Zealand's southern island, as well as southern blue whiting and hoki sourced from the island's sub Antarctic waters, according to the company.
ZIWI's Hauraki Plains pet foods contain chicken, duck, turkey, fresh eggs and kahawai fish, all sourced from the Maori-Hauraki area in New Zealand's northern island.
"The ZIWI brand has always been an expression of our home in New Zealand, however our newest recipes truly celebrate our rich culture and beautiful landscape. Life is special here in New Zealand ─ this is a small way to share a bit about us to the world," said Richard Lawrence, managing director at ZIWI.
All animal ingredients incorporated in the Provenance line are ethically and sustainably sourced, according to ZIWI.
Each of the new formulas includes muscle meat, organs and bone, as well as a superfood blend containing cold-washed green tripe or poultry heart, green mussels and organic kelp, as well as vitamins, minerals and Omega 3 fatty acids, the company said. These superfoods make up a minimum of 10% of each Provenance diet.
The wet diets incorporate lamb plasma, eggs and animal-based broths as natural binders. All diets in the Provenance line are free from potato, starches, legumes and artificial binders.
These air-dried and wet formulas are appropriate for all life stages and can be fed as meal toppers or complete-and-balanced meals.
ZIWI's Provenance line is an extension of its PeakPrey diets, which are designed to provide whole-prey nutrition. The new products will be launched in the North American market in April 2020.
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Released 23rd June, 2014
The Back To Front concert was filmed across two nights at London's O2 in October 2013, using the latest Ultra High Definition 4K technology. The film captures Peter playing live on the tour that celebrated the 25th anniversary of his landmark album So. For these live shows Peter reunited the original So touring band from 1986/87; Tony Levin, David Rhodes, Manu Katché and David Sancious with additional backing from Jennie Abrahamson and Linnea Olsson.
All photos by York Tillyer
"I think that 'So' was certainly the most visible and successful record that I've ever done and it was a special band too. I've enjoyed very much playing with them on the tour. Manu particularly is quite unique in the way he plays. I'm glad I did it. I've enjoyed it more than I thought I might, initially…
Given that it was supposed to be partly this creative journey, it seemed right that we should start with something that was unfinished and end up with this album that was very finished.
I just thought 'if we're going to do this, let's try to think of some angle on it to make it a little different'. The idea of starting how we might first throw ideas together in the rehearsal room and then going into the electronic bit and then 'So', it seemed like quite a natural progression.
It was my idea to keep the house lights on at the beginning and I inflicted it upon everyone else. But our band are quite used to it. I had quite a lot of impassioned discussions about it and how long we could get away with it for. But Rob Sinclair, who does the lighting and a lot of the initial production with me, is a very smart guy and good at judging these things too.
People really didn't like having the house lights on in some places… they were saying 'turn the bloody lights off! I've paid my money, I want a proper concert!' But then when you do hit it [the full production] in the middle of 'Family Snapshot', it means a lot more. It's often what you don't do that is as important as what you do.
Working in 4K actually shrinks the creative opportunities because we're taking on this technology before it's properly ready and the disadvantage is that the equipment doesn't work properly. It wasn't syncing picture and music, for example. The effects don't exist yet in 4K, so there's some things you can't do, and the whole thing takes a whole lot longer. It did have to be matched up in a very old fashioned way, picture to sound. So there were certain technical problems with the medium, but you always get that when you're trying to be first in with a new technology. But it's a great technology. I was a big fan of HD when it first arrived and this is definitely a gear or two up on that."


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Karen Hanmer, a book artist from Illinois, has a selection of her original books on her website, many published in editions and available for sale.
Susan Hensel, a book artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has her own website and on-line gallery.
Leyla Lau-Lamb, a conservator at the University of Michigan, has several PowerPoint presentations online covering the topics of papyrus conservation and parchment making.
Joanne Kluba, Missouri Midwest Chapter Guild member, has an easy to navigate webpage showing many of the different styles of bindings she creates.
Emily Martin and the Naughty Dog Press has a very nice web page featuring a gallery, a list of workshops, and a turtorial on how to make the Secret Belgium binding.
These non-profit and for-profit organizations and galleries offer classes, workshops, or exhibits on book arts. Some also sell supplies. A listing here does not imply an endorsement; they are listed here for members' benefit.
To add a link, contact Eric Alstrom. When considering a link to add, please keep in mind this site is Midwest oriented. Most of the national links can be reached through the GBW Links section.


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Fredericksburg Beard CoalitionMANARCVeteransVeterans MANARC-Borne the Battle
The Fredericksburg Beard Coalition Hosts the 2nd Annual Beard and Mustache Competition to Benefit MANARC on June 13th
(FREDERICKSBURG, VA) The Fredericksburg Beard Coalition (FXBC) is holding its Second Annual Beard and Mustache Competition on June 13th at 6 p.m. at Hard Times Cafe Four-Mile Fork located at 5099 Jefferson Davis Hwy. All proceeds from the event will go to benefit MANARC.
MANARC, Borne the Battle, a 501( C ) 3 is a non-profit organization and thrift store, established to support veterans in the Greater Fredericksburg region. MANARC will donate 80% of all funds raised to the Semper Fi Fund and 20% would be used to fund MANARC operating expenses.
The Semper Fi Fund, and its program America's Fund, provide immediate financial assistance and lifetime support to post 9/11 wounded, critically ill and injured members of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and their families. The fund aims to ensure that these veterans have the resources they need during their recovery and transition back to their communities. For more information, visit https://semperfifund.org.
"We hope that we have a successful partnership with MANARC for our upcoming competition, and are able to raise a good amount of cash for the Semper Fi Fund," said Joe Reichard, President of FXBC.
Deborah Franks, CEO and Founder of MANARC and is honored that MANARC was asked to partner with FXBC for their annual beard and mustache competition. "We are looking forward to presenting a check to the Semper Fi Fund to help support our local area veterans," said Franks.
The beard and mustache competition consist of 8 separate categories, which include full beard-under six inches, full beard-six inches and over, partial beard and goatee, mustache-natural, mustache-styled, freestyle, whhiskerina and military. There will be an award for the winner of each category, as well as a 50/50 raffle and a prize raffle. The cost to participate in the competition is $20 per person. For more information on the competition and to register, visit http://fxbc.fikket.com/event/2015-fxbc-beard-mustache-competition
FXBC is open to men, women, and children who share a love of facial hair, whether it's beards, mustaches or chops. FXBC's aim is to bring together like minded people to inspire creativity, share in our fondness for facial hair, and work together in helping to better the community. For information on FXBC, visit http://www.fredericksburgbeard.com or https://www.facebook.com/FXBCVA
DJ Bill Carroll will be the emcee for the competition. Local Fredericksburg rock band, Phoenix 90 will be performing at 9 p.m. following the FXBC competition, visit, www.Facebook.com/phoenix90rock
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ABOUT MANARC-BORNE THE BATTLE
MANARC, Borne the Battle has been established as a non-profit organization operating on donations from the community with the express purpose of providing support to local established Veterans organizations to improve the level of support to Veterans. MANARC-"Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force, Reserve and Coast Guard"—opened its doors in September of 2014 with a mission to support Veterans. MANARC's thrift store is located at 107 William Street. Store hours are Sunday through Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Donations are accepted during all hours of operation. For more information on MANARC, please visit http://www.manarcgives.org and follow their Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/manarcthriftstore
MANARC CONTACT:
Deborah Franks
MANARC-Borne The Battle
manarc2014@gmail.com
FXBC CONTACT:
Joe Reichard
fredericksburgbeard@gmail.com
Randallpr@hotmail.com
Fredericksburg, VA, USA
May 13, 2015 Peterson Randall Public Relations
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Sonnedix Achieves Financial Close for 5.5 MW of Operational Capacity in the Shimane Prefecture
August 4, 2020 by Aleina	in Finance
PVTIME – On 17 July 2020, Sonnedix Japan, on behalf of the Sonnedix Group of companies (Sonnedix Group), completed a JPY 2.4bn (EUR 20 million) project financing led by Iyo Bank.
The financing covers two operational solar PV plants acquired earlier this year in the Shimane prefecture totalling 5.5 MW. Both are ground-mounted plants and have been in operation since 2018.
"We are very pleased to have reached this latest financial close in Japan, as we continue to grow our presence in this market. During the first half of 2020, our team at Sonnedix Japan has managed to drive business forward despite the challenges we are facing, and I am incredibly proud of seeing Sonnedix expand its platform in Japan, through acquisition and development, as part of our wider growth strategy." said Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix.
Sonnedix Japan KK ("Sonnedix Japan") currently manages on behalf of Sonnedix 133 MW of solar PV capacity in operation, with a further 205 MW in various stages of construction.
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Florida State Football to Face LSU in 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando
By Space Coast Daily // February 11, 2020
Florida State will face LSU at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on September 4, 2022
Camping World Stadium will host a college football game between Florida State and LSU on September 3, 2023
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Florida State has agreed to face Louisiana State on September 3, 2023, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando in the back end of a two-game series with the Tigers that begins in 2022, the school said in a release on Tuesday.
The Seminoles last visited Orlando on September 5, 2016, when FSU came from behind to defeat Ole Miss 45-34.
FSU will travel to Louisiana to face the Tigers on September 4, 2022, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
LSU recently won the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at the Superdome, defeating Clemson 42-25.
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They say any good parent would wish their child/children achieve more than they have in their life. That is exactly the case with Imran Ally, a cane harvester attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation's (GuySuCo) Enmore estate.
A resident of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, Imran has always dreamt of his son, Joel Ally, becoming 'someone of worth and good standing in society', and of course better his father's achievements. Judging from the recently announced results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), young Joel is heading in the right direction, and no one could be more satisfied and excited than his parents.
The 11-year- old, who has not yet decided on a career he would like to pursue, emerged as the top students of the Enterprise Primary, East Coast Demerara, notching up 532 marks, and a place at the prestigious Bishop's High School, one of the top academic institutions in Guyana.
"I studied hard for the exams, and I'm happy with my performance," Joel said. The young top student expressed gratitude to his parents, whom he said are very supportive of his ambitions to succeed at school.
Joel was among of group of students who did exceedingly well at the examinations, securing spots at some of the country's top secondary schools. Ronald Moonielall, with 520 marks, earned a spot at St Roses High, while Talia Andrews (513 marks), Wazim Abdool (512 marks) and Reshma Mohabir (508 marks) will all be turning out to St Joseph's High at the start of the new term in September.
Another student with over 500 marks was Ezekiel Siland (503), who will start out at President's College in the new school term.
The achievements of these students were duly recognised by the school and the Enterprise Support Group of New York when the graduation exercise was held recently. Additionally, for the first time, the New York group also made a significant contribution towards the Enterprise Nursery School graduation.
All told, the Support Group injected approximately G$400,000 in cash and trophies for the two graduations. The outstanding students were given cash and trophy, while each of the students from the Nursery School took home a trophy.
Over 175 youngsters from the two schools were recognised for their performance.
President of the Enterprise Support Group of New York, Anil Gopaul, addressing the graduates, told them to continue to put in the hard work and success will be theirs. He also commended the parents for playing a major role in the success of the students. Gopaul said the Support Group will continue to assist in whatever way possible to develop the community, especially the youth population.
Lall added the Enterprise Support Group of New York would continue to partner with the schools, as the aim is to encourage and motivate the next generation of Enterprise residents to aim for great things in life.
Representatives of both schools were grateful for the support given by the Group, and wished its members well in their future endeavours.


Screenwriter Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) is on the verge of being blacklisted when a car wreck gives him amnesia. Wandering into a small California town, he's mistaken for "Luke," a native son missing since World War II. A family reunion and the reopening of the town's movie theater invigorate the community -- just as "Luke" remembers his true identity. Set in the 1950s, this romantic drama is reminiscent of Frank Capra's classic films.
Parents need to know that this movie has brief strong and vulgar language, mild sexual references, a scary accident, and a sad on-screen death. Many characters are mourning sons killed in the war. One returning soldier is disabled and bitter. Pete responds to bad news by getting drunk and he drives while he is drunk.
Car accident, reference to young men killed in war, sad death.
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The southern and western parts of Transdanubia (Baranya, Somogy and Zala counties) can be proud of their excellent stock, where not only sometimes can be found trophy over 12 kgs in the yearly bag.
Hunting can be done from high stands, while stalking or combined with a horse-drawn carriage. Unforgettable experience when an official hunter invites the selected stag by bugle-call.


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Robert Matthew Snelling (born December 19, 2003) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the San Diego Padres organization.

Amateur career
Snelling attended Robert McQueen High School in Reno, Nevada, where he played on both the baseball team as a pitcher and on the football team as a linebacker and quarterback, the latter of which his father was head coach of. During the summer of 2021, he participated in the High School All-American Game as well as in the All-Star High School Home Run Derby at Coors Field where he hit 21 home runs. He was named Region Player of the Year following his senior football season. As a senior for the baseball team in 2022, he struck out 145 batters while also batting .450. He broke the state record for strikeouts in a game with twenty in a seven-inning game. He also set a new state single-season record for strikeouts. He finished the season 8-0 with a 0.56 ERA and 145 strikeouts alongside batting .362 with six home runs, and was named the Gatorade Nevada Baseball Player of the Year. Following the season's end, he traveled to San Diego where he participated in the Draft Combine.

Snelling originally committed to play college baseball for the Stanford Cardinal at the end of his freshman year of high school, but decommitted during his junior year after he began also getting recruited for football. He then committed to play both baseball and football for the Arizona Wildcats, but decommitted when baseball coach Jay Johnson left to coach the LSU Tigers. Snelling then committed to LSU to play baseball.

Professional career
Snelling was selected by the San Diego Padres with the 39th overall selection of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the team for $3 million.

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Living people
Baseball players from Nevada
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I am a very imperfect person, living an imperfect life, in the company of imperfect people. Am I disappointed? Oh yes. I am very disappointed in many things in life, myself above all! So what should I do with that disappointment? Well, at best I should use it as a motivator to change things for the better. Anybody who has been reading my blogs for awhile, however, is aware of this problem I have with wet cement filling my various body parts. In fact, as I was writing about change, I literally felt that cement start creeping down my spine. I am working on this, really. At the least, I should just be aware of things, which means being aware not only of how things are disappointing, but also of how they are glorious. It's a trite thing to say, but I have so much to be thankful for just by virtue of living in the time and place I do. Not going to list the rest. You get it.
But what is not a helpful reaction to disappointment is anger.
Here is what I can tell you. I can love you, even when you are disappointing. I can love you, even when I know you find me disappointing (which is actually harder). There is so much more to you, and to me, and to life, than what is wrong. There is so much that is right. It is not work for me to focus on those things. It is easy. What is hard is blocking out anger from other people.
Even that, I can do.
Being angry doesn't help anything, as you know. Sulking, storming, yelling, none of it helps. It doesn't perfect the imperfect — quite the opposite.
When in the presence of anger, I can block it out. But it costs my heart dearly, because my heart really needs to learn to open up and not to shut down. My heart has been hurt so much, so badly, so deeply, that its greatest skill has been learning to close in on itself. But in order to heal, in order to get rid of the wet cement and all else that keeps me from moving forward in life, it needs to open. In seeking peace in an angry world, it closes tighter.
Ultimately, it makes me more disappointing.
Life is what it is. Let's embrace it, and each other. Let's keep each other warm in the storms, shelter each other from the heat.When we feel cared for in this way, life will be less disappointing.
When we feel loved unconditionally, our hearts can open, and heal.
And then, who knows, we all just might be less disappointing. Even me.