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The design abandons almost all of the micromanagement elements of the genre in favor of a purified tactical race. The result has its flaws, but not without proving that there is a unique kind of elegance in its simplicity.
Genres: Multimedia, Simulation
Multimedia: Halo Wars
Platforms: XBox 360
Number of players: 1-6 players
Developer: Ensemble Studios
US release date: 2009-03
It's common for video game enthusiasts to deride things that have been simplified or "dumbed down." The response is understandable; the hours spent developing a certain skill are suddenly cast aside, making it so people who have devoted less time to a game design are now able to perform on the same level as the veteran. Preserving the need for a skill and appealing to a player by having a game where they will use it is often the reason there is such a lack of variation in video games. Ensemble Studios final game, Halo Wars, is a simplified RTS. They have abandoned almost all of the micromanagement elements of the genre in favor of a purified tactical race. The result has its flaws but not without proving that there is a unique kind of elegance in its simplicity.
The game design removes resource collection and uses a very conservative base management system. You have a central base with surrounding compartments that can house buildings. The number of compartments increases when you upgrade the central base. One building acts as a supply port, funneling in resources at a steady pace that can be increased with an upgrade. Gone are the numerous weapon and unit upgrades, replaced with only a few basic changes to a unit's ability such as adding a special attack or adding an additional turret. Access to these upgrades is limited by an energy requirement, which is a permanent level up or structure that must be built depending on which side you're playing. The end result is an RTS that is essentially a giant race composed of four to five tactical decisions out of several dozen possible ones that may be made before the shooting starts. Put another way, it's Starcraft hooked up to a fire hose.
The goal of this design is to accommodate the Xbox 360's controller and its inability to function with the same precision as a mouse. The game is constantly looking for ways to make it possible not to need to pinpoint units or buildings with the controller in order to select things. The right and left bumpers select all units on the screen or all units under your command. The A button lets you select units individually or create a bubble that you can group units with. The left trigger will cycle through the units selected and lets you command them individually. What's missing is that the game does not allow you to hot key units. Although its abandonment of the micromanagement tropes of the genre is largely successful, in this other area, it is not.
It's even more irritating because the D-pad could provide a perfectly good method of doing this. In the game, it automatically moves you to your base, the current battle, an extra menu, or your hero unit. The problem is that you never really get a grip on which directional button does what since you never rely on them very often. After two weeks of playing the game, I still mash the wrong direction when I need to see something quickly. This is even more frustrating because the right trigger on the controller goes to complete waste, it speeds up the cameras movement across the map when it easily could have been the equivalent of a shift key for the D-pad. To the designers' credit, the units are adapted to this problem so that the actual gameplay doesn't suffer. Unlike the ground unit versus air unit approach of Starcraft, the average unit is capable of hitting both (almost everyone is using a gun) and there is no splash damage. However, when you're trying to organize a squad of air units or keep siege weapons in the back the whole problem becomes painful. It's in controlling the units that the designers cut back too much. At the very least, the game should have allowed for greater customization of the control scheme. Instead, the tactical arrangement that often comes into play in an RTS is abandoned in favor of just depending on the might of a giant mob.
The campaign itself is delivered in the classic tradition of presenting cutscenes followed by a mission. The story is essentially a rehash of what is becoming the Halo formula. Fight on a planet with the Covenant, discover Forerunner artifact, go to fancy Forerunner Halo/Dyson Sphere thing, encounter Flood, etc. The main character is a talkative Master Chief and the blue A.I. is a bitchier Cortana. The gruff captain, a plucky but smart female love interest and several Spartan soldiers are also thrown into the mix. Missions are structured to be played quickly and require you to often move against a clock. Since the game design does not ever require tactical resource collection, this is a necessary design because a traditional build & attack mission would just involve sitting at your base until you have a giant army. That said, the result is that most of the missions feel like they would be better off in an FPS, right down to sometimes having puzzles thrown at the player.
The Covenant does not have its own campaign, which is inexcusable and the game suffers for it. The campaign missions are the means by which the player learns the tricks of the trade of a race in an RTS. Since the Covenant has a totally different approach to both upgrading and how their units work, this omission is even worse. If the two sides were basic equivalents like in Warcraft II, it would not be as much of a problem, but, without that equivalency, there is no proper way to learn how to play as this side except in Skirmish Mode.
Making up for all of these problems is the fact that the multiplayer is quite good. It isn't possible for me to fully appreciate all of the tactics or what the game will look like in another month once players start to master the system, but what I've tried out was impressive. Much like the power requirement for upgrades, multiplayer maps typically stagger your development by requiring you to defeat neutral enemy units and capture extra bases. I'm not sure it would even be possible to Zerg rush someone since there are no resource gatherers to kill, so most matches really are genuine battles. Hero units, super weapons, and outrageously powerful upgrades dominate most of the game and make for a good time. The Covenant are typically stronger at the outset and can produce better units until about the mid-game when the Humans begin to take the advantage. The game features a Skirmish Mode against the A.I., co-op, 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3.
In the end, the game is good except for the missing content and that a few tweaks to be worked out with the control scheme. The remnants of Ensemble Studio are apparently working on DLC, which will hopefully be a campaign for the Covenant, and the controls could be easily remedied in the same manner. Halo Wars is exactly what you would want out of an RTS built for the console: simple but elegant.
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Next Generation Samsung Galaxy S III Coming on May 3
There is no doubt that Samsung's most popular line of smartphone products is Galaxy. Samsung Galaxy S II has already won the best smartphone award 2011. Now the Korean based company is planning to add a new smartphone in Galaxy series.
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And here we have something official. Samsung has finally announced the date of the event. The company is sending out invitations to journalists, analysts and the tech bloggers for this purpose. The invitation clearly says that the event is being organized to unveil the next generation Samsung Galaxy model on May 3 in London.
According to the dutch site, the new smart phone will be Galaxy S III having a 4.7″ inch display and running on Android 4.0. It will be having a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. There are also rumors that it is a Super Amoled HD Pro screen in it.
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Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich
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12 MP rear camera, HD front camera
Only 7 millimeters thick
Ceramic casing
Though the most pundits of tech industry are expecting an android based Galaxy in this event but there are also some reports that this phone will be a Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) device.
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Can God do better than Destiny 2…?
September 29, 2017 By Dan Jones
I have spent a fairly stunning amount of time playing video games.
If you're not into games, this might go a little over your head. If you are, perhaps you'll see where I'm coming from. I have sunk extensive hours into gaming, across console and pc. Some have hooked me with a good story – others the story is filler to engaging gameplay. Still others have grabbed me with strong multiplayer, either fighting against other people, or working together either online or split screen on the same sofa.
I'm now 30, with a wife and two children, and while I still dip into games now and then, I simply don't have the time to sink the hours and hours into them that I used to. And to some extent I feel… like I'm missing out?
Now understand me here – because I don't think that I personally ought to spending more of my time playing games – but I do want to try and tease out what makes them so attractive to me, and whether I can't find those same pulls doing something of a little more eternal value.
Case in point, Destiny 2 has just come out, and it is so very appealing to me. It's a first person shooter in a science fiction setting, and although satisfying to play on your own, what's most engaging is the multiplayer aspect – teaming up with other people to complete missions together, explore, and muck about. Over time you get stronger, gain new abilities and weapons, and work together to make your way through challenging and complicated battles. The reward for doing so is both the satisfaction of a hard won fight, and the loot that drops from the bosses along the way – stronger guns, better armour and unique items.
If you're not into gaming, you might struggle to see the appeal – but essentially it's combining the camaraderie of team sports, the aesthetic appeal and adventure of exploring imagined worlds and exotic locations, and the mercenary hook of accumulating treasure – both for your own satisfaction and for bragging rights with fellow collectors.
I look at all that and it tugs at something in me. I want to explore these environments, see these events, amass that electric loot and laugh about our shared adventures with my friends afterwards. But at the same time, the game is designed for you to pour hundreds and hundreds of hours into it as you make your way through its missions and various game modes – often repeating parts many times in search of rare items and valuable drops. There is no way I can justify the amount of time I would gladly spend playing a game like this – but I'm left with a longing for the kind of experience it offers.
So what's to be done?
If there's something in a game that leads to some yearning in me, it's worth wondering whether there isn't something in life that it's simulating. Why do I have those desires, and how did God intend for them to be met? I'd like to consider a couple of those attractive qualities Destiny 2 and games like it carry and see where it leads.
Fighting and winning together
It's a huge draw to be part of something bigger than yourself. Winning through tough fights together – whether in the board room, the basketball court or the battlefield – creates lasting memories, strengthens bonds of friendship and gives you something you can collectively talk about, laugh about, console one another in afterwards.
As much as I could happily spend hours with friends blasting through missions online, the Bible tells us that the church is engaged in something much more profound, much more worthwhile, and much more spectacular. In Matthew 28, Jesus gives us a commission to share the gospel. It's a mission that will require discipline, sacrifice, suffering and cost – alongside great joy – to see through. Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we're in a fight – not one against people, but against spiritual powers. It's a fight that we're in together, brothers and sister in arms with the body of Christ around the world, and most tangibly with those in our local church.
The Christian life is warfare – and the better we see that, the less we will crave adventure digitally or anywhere else. There is more than enough excitement to be had in pursuing Jesus – seeing the sick cared for and healed, the lonely brought into community, the unloved introduced to a church that carries the Father's love, and in turn to the Father himself. The battles aren't typically flashy and colourful – and unlike in the games, they're rarely over in a couple of hours. But the instant gratification of winning a mission online pales in comparison to the joy of fighting alongside Christian brothers and sisters and seeing the victories Christ leads us to.
Even if you don't fancy visiting another planet, the appeal of travel and exploration is something most of us can relate to. As with films, games can grant us access to places we might never be able to go otherwise. Whether it's visiting remote parts of the world, or transporting us to entirely fictional locations. Many films and games have created believable, interesting worlds, some beautiful and some appalling – I think of Avatar, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Star Wars and Halo as only a tiny handful. Games like Destiny allow us to explore remote, exotic, fantastic settings from the comfort of our homes and a very modest price.
I'm not quite sure what the comparison is here – we can certainly still travel and play games to some extent and enjoy that sense of exploration while honouring God. Perhaps it's just that as a Christian I'm a pilgrim in this life. Like Abraham, I'm looking forward to the city with eternal foundations, the kingdom built by God which defies human power to describe (Hebrews 11:10). I'm waiting for the day when Jesus returns, when all Heaven and Earth is made new. I see the wonderful places people have dreamt up in creative works, but however enticing they seem, I keep coming back to the picture John paints in Revelation 21. The New Jerusalem, the place where God dwells with humanity. Where no sin blots his creation, where nothing is spoiled by war, injustice, murder and poverty.
All the most intricately imagined locations in this life fade into insignificance in comparison with the splendour of that destination. Our explorations leading up to it will seem washed out by comparison with its vibrance. I can happily go without the time spent exploring a thousand splendid game worlds, if by doing so I might find myself one day in that promised kingdom.
The best games know how to hook their audiences – and in the case of games like Destiny 2 it's particularly with a drip feed of progressively better stuff. There's always someone with better gear than you, always another rare thing you wish you had, and might find with another few hours play. Often it's of no actual function or value – a new icon to go next to your name, a different colour for your cloak or a nicer looking helmet. All the same, it keeps us invested in a deeply addictive way.
It's much like the desire to accumulate newer and better stuff in general – the difference being that in life, the high end things are often simply unattainable, however hard you might work. In games, anyone can get to the top stuff, as long as you're willing to put the hours in. The rub is, that stuff has a shelf life. Destiny 2 comes out, and nobody cares about Destiny 1 anymore. There are player characters sitting there with thousands of hours invested in them – the rarest gear and most sought after equipment – and they now lie consigned to a digital museum, perhaps never to be played with again.
Jesus was all about the pursuit of newer and better stuff – shinier trinkets, exotic treasures, enviable gear – but with one key difference. In Matthew 6:19-21 he warns us not to store up treasure on Earth, where the moth and rust have their way with it, or even online, where newer and better editions will render your treasures obsolete. Instead he would have us store up treasures in Heaven.
We're built to work for reward – but the rewards that count are those which persist into eternity. Don't pour precious hours of your life working for rewards that will delight you for a mere twinkling – pour those hours into the service of the master, and win rewards that, though not yet visible, will outshine your digital trinkets like the midday sun outshines the glare of your warlock voidwalker's nova bomb, and which will go on gleaming long after the sun sets on your last digital campaign.
Lord, help me to use the time you've given me well. At times for rest, and play, and enjoying what creative works you have inspired. Let me know when enough is enough, when it's time to return to work – whether looking after my children, cherishing my wife, earning a living, fulfilling the great commission in any way. Let me not be distracted, but see this life with pilgrim eyes, investing in the kingdom to come.
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United States v. Morales-Isabarras
JUAN MORALES-ISABARRAS, AKA Juan Isabanas, AKA Juan Morales, AKA Juan I. Morales, AKA Juan Isaras Morales, AKA Juan Isares Morales, AKA Juan Morales-Isabanas, AKA Manuel Moreles, Defendant-Appellant
Argued and Submitted October 9, 2013, San Francisco, California
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. D.C. No. 4:03-cr-40232-CW-1. Claudia Wilken, Chief District Judge, Presiding.
Angela M. Hansen (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Steven G. Kalar, Federal Public Defender, Oakland, California, for Defendant-Appellant.
Susan B. Gray (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Melinda Haag, United States Attorney; Barbara J. Valliere, Chief, Appellate Division, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Ikuta.
IKUTA, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, Juan Morales-Isabarras challenges the district court's jurisdiction
to revoke a term of supervised release after the term had expired, claiming that the delay in adjudicating the charges was not " reasonably necessary," see 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i). We disagree, and affirm the district court.
Morales, a resident of Mexico, had a lengthy history of illegal entries into the United States and deportations back to Mexico. Before the illegal reentry at issue, he was deported from the United States on December 15, 1999, February 24, 2001, September 4, 2001, September 26, 2001, October 2, 2001, and May 18, 2003.
On November 6, 2003, Morales again reentered the United States illegally, and was indicted in the Northern District of California on November 20, 2003, on one count of illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Morales pleaded guilty, and the district court sentenced him to 21 months imprisonment as well as three years of supervised release. The conditions of supervised release prohibited Morales from committing any further federal, state, or local crimes, or reentering the United States " without the express consent of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security." The conditions also required that " [u]pon reentry into the United States, whether legally or illegally, during the period of court ordered supervision, the defendant shall report to the nearest U.S. Probation Office within 72 hours." On May 18, 2005, Morales was released from federal custody and deported to Mexico.
After his deportation, Morales again reentered the United States. He was arrested for illegal reentry on August 3, 2006 and indicted in the Southern District of California. The 2006 illegal reentry not only violated § 1326, but also violated the conditions of supervised release imposed in connection with the 2003 conviction (to avoid confusion, we refer to this violation as the " 2003 supervised release violation" ). Upon petition by a probation officer, a district court in the Northern District of California issued an arrest warrant for Morales's 2003 supervised release violation. Although ...


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The term "Public Review" is a legacy of earlier versions of the JCP in which it named the first point at which specifications were made available for public comment; nowadays that happens with the Early Draft. It's even more of a misnomer for Java SE 6, which has been developed in a much more public fashion than past releases, starting with the posting of build 12 way back in November 2004.
Recall that JSR 270 is an "Umbrella" JSR, so it doesn't define specific features itself—instead it lists features defined in other JSRs, or in the concurrent maintenance reviews of the Java SE platform specification.
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June 26, 2016 | Opinion, TV
Rogers throws desperate hail-Mary with OMNI mandatory distribution request
Rogers calls it a "win-win solution". But it would be just as accurate to describe it as a request for a government-imposed bailout of a private broadcaster whose business model has failed.
In an application that is being considered as part of Rogers's TV licence renewals, the company has asked the CRTC to impose mandatory distribution of ethnic TV network OMNI across Canada, and to impose a fee of $0.12 per subscriber per month (which is the same as Canadians currently pay for CPAC).
This will give OMNI $14 million a year from subscribers, and in exchange Rogers has made several commitments related to programming:
4 daily, national, 30 minute newscasts 7 days per week, in each of Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese (produced in Toronto with contributions from Vancouver and reporters in Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton and Victoria) and Punjabi languages (produced in Vancouver with contributions from Toronto and reporters in Victoria, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal);
6 daily, local 30 minute current affairs shows 5 days per week, in each of Mandarin, Punjabi and Cantonese language (produced in Toronto and Vancouver);
The creation of national cultural affairs series produced in Alberta that are designed to showcase important cultural and social contributions from Canada's ethnocultural communities;
Original Canadian Scripted ethnic and/or third-language dramas and documentaries through a PNI commitment of 2.5%;
10 hours of local independent production in Vancouver, Toronto and Alberta (Edmonton and Calgary combined) each week, measured on a monthly basis.
A commitment to devote 80% of OMNI Regional's schedule to the exhibition of ethnic programming, while maintaining the requirement to devote 50% of the schedule to third-language programming;
A commitment to devote a minimum of 40% of OMNI Regional's annual revenues to the production of Canadian programming;
A commitment to re-establish in-house production in all of the markets served by OMNI's OTA stations;
The elimination of all U.S. "strip" programming that is not relevant to ethnic or third-language communities and a commitment to limit the amount of U.S. programming exhibited on OMNI Regional to a maximum of 10% of the schedule each month
A lot of this sounds good, but it also sounds a lot like just bringing back the services (like daily third-language newscasts) that OMNI cut recently as part of budget cutbacks, moves that its unions argued broke the spirit of its CRTC licence obligations.
The proposal is a bit complex. Rather than one national OMNI feed, the initial proposal called for three regional feeds, based on what OMNI stations broadcast in Vancouver, Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton have identical programming) and Toronto (which has two OMNI stations). Those living in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto would still be able to watch OMNI for free over the air, but would also be required to pay 12 cents per month through their cable or satellite company.
To complicate it even further, Rogers amended the application earlier this month to include a fourth feed for Quebec, which would carry OMNI's newscasts but also local programming from ICI, the independent ethnic station based in Montreal. The additional commitments for this channel include:
3 hours of original local ethnic programming in French each week;
1.5 hours of original French-language programming and a half-hour original English-language programming each week; and
14 hours of original local independently produced programming each week.
My initial reaction to this application was there's no way it's going to be approved. The commission set a high bar the last time it reviewed mandatory channels in 2013.
Under its policy, it will only invoke article 9(1)h of the Broadcasting Act, allowing it to force TV distributors to require all subscribers add a particular channel, when that channel meets the following criteria:
It makes an exceptional contribution to Canadian expression and reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity;
It contributes, in an exceptional manner, to the overall objectives for the digital basic service and specifically contributes to one or more objectives of the Act, such as Canadian identity and cultural sovereignty; ethno-cultural diversity, including the special place of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian society; service to and the reflection and portrayal of persons with disabilities; or linguistic duality, including improved service to official language minority communities; and
It makes exceptional commitments to original, first-run Canadian programming in terms of exhibition and expenditures.
The commission has highlighted the word "exceptional" here, and has used lack of exceptionality to deny several applications for mandatory distribution.
Plus, there's another complication. Asking TV distributors (and by extension their customers) to pay over-the-air TV stations (called "fee for carriage" or "value for signal" depending on what spin you want to put on it) has been discussed before. And in 2012 the Supreme Court weighed in on the matter, finding that the CRTC did not have the jurisdiction to impose this.
Does the fact that OMNI is ethnic somehow change the nature of this ruling? Or the fact that Rogers would be seeking mandatory carriage instead of negotiating deals with cable providers?
But just saying "no" wouldn't solve the problem. OMNI is bleeding money, badly. CRTC data, which I can only get indirectly, suggest OMNI stations lost $33 million in 2014-15 on revenue of $24 million. When you're spending more than twice the amount of money you're bringing in, that's a recipe for disaster.
Rogers states in its application that the OMNI business model has crumbled recently because their strategy of strip reruns of U.S. shows like Two and a Half Men and The Simpsons is no longer tenable in an era in which these programs are available on on-demand platforms like Netflix, both because viewers have a more convenient option for watching them and because their price has gone up as a result.
The application ends: "We believe this is the last opportunity for OMNI to adjust its business model so that its operations can become sustainable."
The evidence points to that being true. Though Rogers did not state this explicitly, it seems very likely that without approval for this change, OMNI's future could be in jeopardy. (Rogers did include separate licence amendment requests if the mandatory distribution request is denied, suggesting they'd at least be willing to try keeping it going.) "If this application for mandatory carriage as part of the basic service is denied, OMNI's future viability is in question as we see no other long term solution other than our proposed national service and a new distribution model," it writes.
If we assume that OMNI can't survive without a de facto government bailout, the CRTC must decide whether ethnic over-the-air television in Canada is worth saving in its current form, or whether it should allow OMNI to die in the hope that someone else might take up the challenge. (Requests for new over-the-air television stations are virtually non-existent, but ICI presents a possible alternative — a family-run station that brokers programming using independent producers, running as more of a producers' cooperative than a for-profit station.)
OMNI cutting its newscasts and replacing them with less expensive current affairs programming has made the case for bailing it out harder (even though a lot of those newscasts were mainly repurposing City News reports). But for many communities, particularly in Toronto, it remains a rare outlet for them to connect with their members.
The commission's stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Say yes to OMNI's demand, and you undercut the pick-and-pay policy you just started implementing, forcing people to pay for something they already get for free, and propping up a service that is already failing to meet people's expectations. Say no, and OMNI risks going out of business, and you'll be the one they blame for it. Ethnic communities across the country, but particularly in four of its largest cities, will lose access to programming that speaks specifically to them, and there's no guarantee that someone else will come in and bring it back.
In the end, the debate could come down to a single, fundamental question: Is OMNI worth saving?
Comments on the OMNI application (which can be downloaded here), and licence renewals for OMNI and other Rogers television services, are being accepted until 8pm ET on Aug. 2 (it's been extended to Aug. 15). Comments can be filed here (select application 2016-0377-0 for the OMNI mandatory distribution request). Note that all information submitted, including contact information, becomes part of the public record.
UPDATE (June 28): OMNI has launched a website to drum up public support for its application.
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mike007 June 26, 2016 at 8:16 pm
What the cable industry is ignoring is that younger generation from ethnic minority know how to watch tv channel from overseas on the internet. To maintain a channel only for old people is a bad business decision unless they are siphoning money to other companies for "different services".
What I see is that all this ethnic shows are run by amateurs and quality is low.
Fagstein Post author June 27, 2016 at 3:00 am
What the cable industry is ignoring is that younger generation from ethnic minority know how to watch tv channel from overseas on the internet.
The cable companies are obviously well aware of this, and most offer dozens of foreign third-language channels. OMNI doesn't pretend to be the only source for ethnic programming, but one of the few sources of local or Canadian programming for these groups.
To maintain a channel only for old people is a bad business decision unless they are siphoning money to other companies for "different services".
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. If anything, Rogers is "siphoning" money from its profitable operations to subsidize the continued operation of OMNI.
S S June 28, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Omni may be a source of local ethnic programming but realistically ethnic groups have do many choices with IPTV and signal over Internet from their homelands that they barely want to tune into an hour of programming each week or so. It's not just omni other channels that carry ethnic programs (such as Joy TV and Vision or Chex) are finding hard to hold on to their independent producers.
This is the unfortunate truth, times have changed and it's hard to compete with the content from other countries.
Hyacinth June 28, 2016 at 9:32 pm
"maintain a channel only for old people" Over their 25 or so years of production, Omni's demographics aged, and they did not start programming for younger immigrants – with Mandarin news being an exception.
jimduff June 26, 2016 at 8:52 pm
another reason why cable will die. And dinosaurs like Rogers, one hopes.
what! June 27, 2016 at 12:39 am
What we are talking about are 4 OTA stations O&O by Rogers for OMNI? Toronto (2 stations), Calgary (1 station), Vancouver (1 station). Plus a hand full of re-transmitters in Ottawa, London, Edmonton!
I would suggest that Rogers shut all those OTA stations down since their business model is no longer working for them. Turn Omni into a single National feed, but function as a digital sub-channel, that other OTA stations can add it as a service. Much in the same way all those various sub-channels in the US operate (Movies!, MeTV, ThisTV, Comet TV, Bounce, WeatherNation, etc.)
That way, 3rd language programming can be made available through OTA, but Rogers doesn't have to operate full local OTA stations, nor re-transmitters. And in most cases, they can add it to their own CITY, O&O stations as a sub-channel as well. Just leave the local channels some ad time for local ads. That way, they can have some sort of incentive to carry it by having another revenue stream.
Just offer Omni as either a 480p, or a 720p stream, and let local stations add it as a sub-channel. Voila, business model changed.
Turn Omni into a single National feed, but function as a digital sub-channel, that other OTA stations can add it as a service.
I suppose that's a possibility, but it doesn't provide OMNI with a new income stream, which is what it needs right now. If what you're proposing would result in elimination of original programming, then I'm not sure how much better that would be than killing the network outright.
kv June 27, 2016 at 3:44 am
omni was and always will be a lousy channel. after all it's canadian. why not make it mandatory to have at least 2 good channels on canadian cable, like metv channel 67 buffalo and cozi channel 56 buffalo. and stop picking on people who want to put up an antenna for good tv.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule


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Bella Unión verfügt über zwei weiterführende Schulen (Liceo). Dies sind das 1944 gegründete, im Barrio Centro gelegene Liceo Nº 1 de Bella Unión und das Liceo Nº 2 de Bella Unión (Gründungsjahr 2000) im Stadtteil Tres Fronteras.

Wirtschaft
Wichtigste in der Umgebung von Bella Unión hergestellte Produkte sind Zuckerrohr, Gemüse und Reis. Zudem wird Weinanbau betrieben.

Stadtverwaltung
Bürgermeister (Alcalde) von Bella Unión ist William Cresseri.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 Nicolás Arbiza (* 1992), Fußballspieler
 Jesús Moraes (* 1955), Schriftsteller
 Yefferson Moreira (* 1991), Fußballspieler
 Yeferson Quintana (* 1996), Fußballspieler

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Worldwide Independent Network Endorses Apple Music
The development comes just hours after Billboard exclusively revealed Apple Music had struck licensing deals with independents rights agency Merlin and Martin Mills' Beggars Group.
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Apple Music is on a roll. The tech giant's recently announced streaming music service, Apple Music, has now been endorsed by the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), an organization that represents the interests of the global independent music community.
The development comes just hours after Billboard exclusively revealed Apple Music had struck licensing deals with Merlin, the independents' rights agency, and Martin Mills' Beggars Group.
For Apple Music, three key deals in a matter of hours means that the PR disaster that was unfolding last week now seems like a distant memory. A slew of artists, labels and independent lobby groups had openly rejected Apple's licensing conditions due to the hardware titan's controversial decision to not pay royalties during a three-month free trial offered to Apple Music users.
Apple Music Signs Beggars Group, Merlin: Sources
Taylor Swift crystallized the indie sector's concerns in an open letter in which she asked Apple to back-down on its policy. Which it did. Now it would appear the licensing floodgates have burst open.
"I am pleased to say that Apple has made a decision to pay for all usage of Apple Music under the free trials on a per-play basis, as well as to modify a number of other terms that members had been communicating directly with Apple about," comments Alison Wenham, CEO of WIN, in a statement issued early June 24. "With these changes," she notes, "we are happy to support and endorse the deal. Apple has a long-standing, deep-rooted relationship with the music community and has always helped ensure artists get paid for their work."
Taylor Swift's 'Win' Over Apple Shows How Smart the Tech Giant Really Is
WIN was created in 2006 in response to business, creative and market access issues faced globally by the independent music business.
With WIN's endorsement and support from Merlin and Beggars, the signs are looking good that the service will get over the line before its scheduled launch at month's end.
"We think Apple Music provides artists with a business model that's good for the long-term and we look forward to its launch on June 30," Wenham adds.
Alison Wenham


Thank you to everyone who participated in Phase Two of engagement this spring. The What We Heard Report is now available on the project engagement page.
Over the summer we will be working on refining the updated implementation plan, using public feedback and technical analysis. The feedback you shared about how you would prioritize the buildout of the network is helping us with that work.
We will be presenting the updated network and implementation plans to the Standing Policy Committee on Transportation and Transit in the fall. Shortly afterwards it will be presented to Council for approval.
The Calgary Pathway and Bikeway Implementation Plan was developed in 2000. It is being updated to reflect changes in our city. Many of the pathways and bikeways proposed in the initial plan have been built. Some of the proposed connections are obsolete because of changes to the road network or approved developments. Also, new approved policies impact the current plan.
The updated plan will provide a proposed city-wide network of pathways and bikeways. It will become the framework that developers and City planners use to seamlessly connect Calgarians to the places they want to go. It will also include a digital map that is easy to access and update.
Throughout the process of updating the plan we offered several opportunities for you to share your feedback. Public engagement for the project is now finished. Your input has helped us develop and refine a proposed city-wide network of pathways and bikeways that will seamlessly connect Calgarians to the places they want to go.
For information on the engagement process or to view the What We Heard Reports please visit the engagement page.
As part of the project, we hosted a public event on April 16, 2018. Speakers shared their research and experiences in the field of cycling, walking and placemaking with Calgarians.
Researcher Dr. Kay Teschke presented her academic research on walking and cycling at the event. Some of her research has helped inform the update to the Pathway and Bikeway Plan. A copy of her presentation and research is part of the Cycling in Cities research program.
Take a map on the go! The City of Calgary Pathways and Bikeways iPhone and Android apps are free. They are available to download from the Apple and Google app stores.
Join our online Facebook community for cycling tips, bike maps, info and news by pressing 'Like' on the City of Calgary Bicycle Program page.
The following are common questions pinned on the online map during Phase One of engagement.
When should someone driving yield for a person walking or cycling?
People cycling or driving must stop their vehicle before a crosswalk if someone walking has entered the crosswalk or indicated their intention to cross the street.
According to the Traffic Safety Act, any driver making a right turn must yield to someone cycling in a bike lane or a cycle track.
When walking, yield to people cycling when you are accessing a parked vehicle next to a cycle track.
How do I legally merge into traffic from a pathway or bikeway?
Stop where the pathway or bikeway intersects the roadway. Look both directions for oncoming traffic. Proceed with merging into traffic when it is safe to do so.
Why is bike signal timing separate from pedestrian and vehicle signal timing?
Downtown traffic signals are automatic and run on a timed cycle. New bicycle signals are installed at some intersections to reduce conflicts and keep traffic moving efficiently.
Where should I be when using a twinned section of pathway?
Where a twinned section of pathways exists, use the appropriate path. Signs and pavement markings show where people walking and cycling should travel. Please obey these signs when using the pathway network.
Some flood damaged pathways aren't repaired. Will this happen and when?
Restoring flood damaged pathways is complex work. Some of the pathways damaged during the 2013 flood are waiting for repairs. The river has changed forever, so some sections of pathway will need to be re-built and relocated. In some cases, it will take a considerable amount of time to restore a pathway.
Where it is not possible to immediately restore a pathway, alternative routes are in place. People who walk or bike along the pathway may have to take an alternate route where pathways are currently closed.
Why does a pathway end without connecting to another pathway or sidewalk?
There are many reasons why a pathway might end without connecting to another pathway, a sidewalk or a bike lane. Some reasons could include plans for later expansion, who owns the land and who built the pathway.
What can I do if someone is parked in a bike lane?
To report an illegally parked vehicle please call the Calgary Parking Authority at 403-537-7100, option 2 and speak to a Dispatch Officer.
Visibility on pathways is difficult. Can I request that shrubs or trees be trimmed, or a convex mirror be installed?
If you are concerned about visibility on a pathway due to shrubs or trees that require pruning, or if you would like to request the installation of a convex mirror, please contact 311. Provide them with as much information as possible regarding your concern.
Cycling and walking are increasingly popular, as recreational activities and as environmentally friendly alternative modes of transportation. There are approximately 900 km of pathways and 400 km of on-street bicycle routes within Calgary. The recreational and commuting opportunities are endless.
The Calgary Pathway and Bikeway Plan was adopted by City Council in 2000. It is a comprehensive set of guiding principles relating to the planning, design and management of Calgary's pathway and bikeway network.
It is not intended to supersede approved policy, it is a supplement to it. The plan supplements the Cycling Strategy, the Parks and Pathways Bylaw, Complete Streets Policy and the Calgary Transportation Plan.


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Transcript of Television Interview – Speers on Sunday, SKY News
Subjects: Adani coal mine, Batman by-election, the Greens Political Party, Labor Party, Mark Butler, health insurance, citizenship, Labor Party leadership.
DAVID SPEERS: Anthony Albanese, welcome. Thank you for joining us this morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE: Good to be with you David.
SPEERS: Let's start with the Batman by-election. What is Labor's position on the proposed Adani coal mine?
ALBANESE: Well, of course Adani is a proposition that was approved by the former Government – by the Coalition – and approved by the former Coalition Government in Queensland. It went through its EPBC Act approvals under Federal legislation. Indeed, then, by consent, it was agreed by all the parties that that be set aside so there could be another examination through the EPBC Act, the Federal environmental legislation, giving consideration to the impact on the Great Barrier Reef and it again was given approval.
The fact is though that there are ongoing concerns about this mine and I've never thought that it was automatically going to go ahead because it hasn't been able to get its finances in order. This is a project that has set deadlines for itself and been unable to achieve them and they still don't have finances and that is because the economics of it don't stack up.
If you look at what is happening to the global thermal coal market, what is happening is that it is in decline and India itself, for example, is saying that they want to stop imports of thermal coal. So it is hard to see how the economics of this project stack up, let alone ongoing concerns over water and over other issues.
SPEERS: All right. But the financials, whether it stacks up, is really a matter for the private company Adani, not a matter for the Government. As you have listed there, all the approvals have been given, haven't they? There's not much a government, be it Labor or Coalition, can do at this point.
ALBANESE: Well the approvals have been given and that happened some time ago and of course those approvals have also been subject to legal argument. The question is whether there is new information that allows for another consideration of these matters and that is something that no doubt the conservation groups are continuing to look at. It is something that we have looked at as well and will continue to examine. But the finances of this project are pretty fundamental David because it hasn't ….
SPEERS: They are, they are. I'm just talking about what government can do. There is a report as you've seen no doubt the other day from The Guardian that Adani may have falsified something that it put to a judgement. It denies that, but barring that any new information as you say that comes along that could unwind the environmental approvals, what is Bill Shorten talking about when he says Labor is becoming increasingly skeptical? Is there a prospect Labor actually might reverse any of these approvals?
ALBANESE: Well we are skeptical about the project. We have been skeptical from the beginning. I for a long time have had this as an issue, you won't be surprised David, that's been raised with me in my electorate. I have said very clearly, you won't find statements from me supporting the project, saying it is going to go ahead because I have never seen the economics of this as going ahead.
We've got to put this in context David. Last year the Government was arguing that it was going to use public finances to build a new coal-fired power station in Queensland. That seems to have dropped off the agenda, that rather odd proposal. What is happening throughout the world …
SPEERS: We'll it is still under consideration apparently. But is Labor talking here about actually reversing an approval that has been given even without seeing some damning new evidence come to light? Would Labor do that, or does that create a sovereign risk issue?
ALBANESE: Well you've got to look at the law as it is. You've got to look at whether there is any new information comes to light. We will continue to do that David, but we will do it in a considered way, bearing in mind we need always to have a look at what the consequences are for any intervention. It's got to be consistent. We do have environmental law in this county. That is pretty important that it be maintained in a consistent way. The issue of the impact on the Artesian Basin, on water, is something that is causing a great deal of concern to the agricultural sector. Those environmental issues we need to continue to keep our eye on.
But it is the economics of this project that is the big problem for this company, because it simply has been unable to finance the project. That's why it went to the Government and said that we want you – the taxpayer – to help finance the rail line and the infrastructure and Labor's position on that has been very clear, which is no, we would not do that. The company itself said that the project would fall over unless that occurred. We'll that isn't occurring because the Queensland Government have said they won't co-operate and their co-operation is necessary for that Federal loan to occur to a private company.
At a time where we have a lack of investment in public infrastructure, it is beyond belief that the current Government wants to give a loan to a private company for a for-profit operation.
SPEERS: I think it would be accessible by others as well, but predominantly Adani, I take your point. This will be a key issue in the Batman by-election. Labor has held that seat for nearly 50 years. In the previous 50 it lost the seat only twice. But the demographics are changing. It is becoming increasingly Green. What's your view? Should Labor be able to hold this seat? Or is it becoming harder now?
ALBANESE: Well we should win the seat David. It is only Labor that can make a difference in government. The Greens of course are able to protest once decisions are made.
Labor must always put the case that we aspire to make decisions in government to improve peoples' lives – to protect the environment, to lift living standards, to look after health and education, to fix the National Broadband Network, to make a difference.
SPEERS: OK. You've said Labor should hold the seat. Would you expect a swing against Labor?
ALBANESE: Well we will wait and see what occurs. At the moment, the margin of course is pretty tight. But I think David Feeney himself would recognise that he didn't have the best campaign of any candidate I have seen in the last Federal election. It was a very controversial campaign. David also, I think in terms of his politics and where he comes from and his priorities; I think Ged Kearney is a very good fit for that seat.
SPEERS: So in that case Anthony Albanese, without David Feeney and without the problems he had in the last election campaign, Labor should, on that logic, increase its margin.
ALBANESE: Well I think Labor can do well in this by-election. We need to put our case to the people of Batman that the election of a Labor candidate will be an important step in Labor forming government either later this year or early next year. In Ged Kearney we are putting forward a candidate who is progressive on economic, social and environmental issues, who has an outstanding record of standing up for people, who came through the Nurses' Federation and understands health issues. No-one understands Australians better than our nurses. That's her background, of where she is coming from. She is an outstanding candidate.
SPEERS: I note, I'm not criticising here Ged Kearney herself, but she was actually held up by Bill Shorten on Friday as the candidate before nominations for preselection had closed as I understand it. I don't think anyone else was going to take her on. But this actually gets to something you are pretty passionate about. How should Labor pre-select its candidates?
ALBANESE: Well Labor should, these are circumstances of a by-election where you don't have a choice of a long lead-in. But I am firmly of the view that we need to have democracy in our party strengthened and extended. That it is one of the strengths of the movement, is the fact that we will hold our national conference in July; there will be delegates for the first time elected directly from the rank-and-file membership across the country representing different electorates.
We will have it played out, for better or worse, in front of the entire Australian public. I'm sure it will be live on Sky News, that policy process, putting in place what the platform that Labor seeks to take into government will be.
Now that contrasts with the Greens who don't allow media anywhere near their conference, who had a leadership ballot a couple of years ago that people found out about almost a year after it had occurred. It's a secret society. So I think the more open we are …
SPEERS: But how should you pre-select your candidates though? I take by-elections have to be done in a hurry, but how should it happen?
ALBANESE: I'm a strong supporter of rank and file pre-selections. It is how I've always been pre-selected. I was pre-selected again for Grayndler last December and that's something I'm very proud of. I think we need to have a direct say in who our senators are, that people in the rank and file of the party should get input to that, rather than it being a delegated structure of being elected by state conferences.
SPEERS: And you mentioned the conference coming up, the national conference. Will you back Mark Butler for a second term as Party President?
ALBANESE: He hasn't determined finally whether he will put himself forward yet, but I think he's an outstanding person. He's the elected National President of the Party. He stands up for the interests of party members. He has stood on a platform and will continue to argue for reform of the party and I think he's done an outstanding job. And certainly, if he seeks to have a second term, he will have my support.
SPEERS: Can I turn to some policy matters? Private health insurance; the Sunday Telegraph reporting today that Shadow Cabinet has decided to cap premium rises at two percent to save families around $340 on average over a couple of years. Is that the party's position? Is that Labor's position? Doesn't this amount to price fixing?
ALBANESE: What we're having is a Productivity Commission review. There hasn't been a review of private health insurance for a considerable period of time and the fact is that what we've seen is an increasing concern out there from families that private health insurance is serving the interests of profits rather than patients. And that's why we'll have this review. We'll consult with the sector. We think that they will have ideas as well about how to drive down costs of healthcare …
SPEERS: So not necessarily cap prices as reported? Cap increases?
ALBANESE: Well while that review is occurring, for the first two years of the first term of the Labor Government, you'd expect that there would be three of those annual price reviews. For the first two there would be a two percent cap put on. We think that is a reasonable position whilst the review is taking place. But what we're seeing is a return on equity …
SPEERS: Just on that, if a Government can do that on private health insurance, why can't it do that on private school fees, why can't it do that on electricity prices, other cost of living problems we're facing?
ALBANESE: Well what we know is that private health insurance is very dependent upon Federal Government subsidies essentially, above $6 billion this year is the cost to the bottom line of the mechanisms that are in place to encourage private health insurance. We support private health insurance. Some 54 percent of Australians have it and it's an important component of the health care system. But the fact is that at the moment we have the major companies having returns on equity of above 25 percent. Now the average Australian company, owned company here, operates at around about eight percent.
So there's significant profits being made. There's significant returns being banked by those big funds at the same time many of the smaller funds are actually having to delve into those ongoing savings in order to provide those services. So it is important to have that examination. It is important to consult with the sector as well and, as I said, we'll be doing that consultation to set the terms of reference for that Productivity Commission inquiry, which we'll do before the next Federal election. So everyone will know exactly what the plan is, what we're looking at with that Productivity Commission inquiry.
SPEERS: A couple of others to finish on citizenship. Parliament is back tomorrow. This debate will resume. Is Susan Lamb a dual citizen?
ALBANESE: Well the fact is that Susan Lamb's circumstances are very different from others. Susan Lamb, there's no question and no one argues that she didn't apply for the renunciation of her citizenship and what she got back from the UK …
SPEERS: But the question is; is she a dual citizen?
ALBANESE: Well what she got back from the UK was a statement saying that they couldn't determine whether she was a citizen or not. That's from the UK. So it's one thing for you and I to discuss in somewhat academic circumstances …
SPEERS: They needed more documents, which she couldn't produce.
ALBANESE: Well that's what they said themselves. The fact is, last year we attempted to put anyone who there was any doubt over including Jason Falinski who I notice there is more concern about his circumstances in the papers today, to say …
SPEERS: Labor thinks he is in more trouble, is that right?
ALBANESE: Well that's absolutely correct. But what we say is that the Australian public are pretty sick of this, David. They want this resolved, that's why we tried to refer everyone for whom there was any doubt to the High Court last year so that this would be resolved. It was the Coalition Government that chose not to support that resolution. It was supported by all the crossbenchers and by Labor.
SPEERS: So you'll stick to that demand for a joint referral. Can I just finish, Anthony Albanese, the next few months are going to be challenging for Labor and for Bill Shorten. We've got the Batman by-election and who knows whether there will be more. Can I ask you directly, what would it take for you to challenge Bill Shorten this year?
ALBANESE: Look, my challenge is doing the right thing by the Australian people as part of Bill Shorten's team. The challenges that I'm interested in are the challenges that working Australians are facing on the cost of living; the challenge of fixing up the National Broadband Network; the challenge of dealing with infrastructure, which is set to decline from 0.4 percent of GDP to 0.2 percent over the next decade – halved under this Government.
SPEERS: But Anthony Albanese, is your duty and loyalty to Bill Shorten or to the best interests of the Labor Party?
ALBANESE: My loyalty is always to the cause of Labor and the people we represent. And that's what I'm interested in and I think that's what Australians are interested in as well. They want a Government, and indeed an Opposition, that's concerned about them, rather than about ourselves. That is what I will be doing this year as I have done, loyally, under a whole range of leaders over a long period of time. I'll be doing my best in the job that I've got, which is substantial as Labor's spokesperson for infrastructure, transport, cities, regional development and tourism. I reckon that will keep me busy David.
SPEERS: Anthony Albanese, appreciate your time this morning, thank you.
ALBANESE: Good to be with you.