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A memorial event in Sichuan, China, on May 12, 2018, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the province's 2008 earthquake. (Reuters/Stringer)
Hong Kong journalist beaten covering 10-year anniversary of Sichuan earthquake
Taipei, May 15, 2018–Chinese authorities must investigate and bring to justice those responsible for an attack on i-Cable TV reporter Chan Ho-fai in Sichuan Province, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Unknown assailants on May 12 attacked Chan, a reporter for the Hong Kong broadcaster i-Cable TV, while he was covering a memorial event at the Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan City, according to news reports and a video posted on i-Cable TV China desk's Facebook page. More than 200 students and teachers died at the school in the devastating earthquake that took place in May 2008.
In the Facebook video, Chan said he was recording a crowd surrounding a business reporter's car when two men pulled him away and started kicking his stomach and head. Chan said they also twisted his arms. He suffered visible injuries to his head, arms, and hands.
"Authorities in Sichuan need to take swift action to prosecute those responsible for attacking Chan Ho-fai," said Steven Butler, CPJ Asia program coordinator, in Washington, D.C. "Attacking a journalist for reporting the news is never acceptable."
The Juyuan Middle School collapsed in the earthquake. I-Cable TV news reported in a video posted on Facebook that parents gathered around the school on May 12 to commemorate the victims and demand a formal investigation into the construction, despite facing government suppression of the parents' protest.
Hong Kong Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Secretary Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said the bureau is very concerned about the incident and had contacted Sichuan authorities, according to the South China Morning Post.
I-Cable TV's news department released a statement on air calling the incident unacceptable and requesting a formal investigation and protection of press freedom and journalists' security. The broadcaster also called the government information office of Sichuan province and the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office to lodge complaints and demand a thorough investigation, according to Mingpao, a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong.
Dujiangyan's propaganda office that handles non-mainland journalists' affairs apologized for the incident and reported it to police, according to the South China Morning Post and a video posted by i-Cable TV on Facebook. The office later arranged a media appearance at which two men claiming to be the attackers apologized to Chan. When the reporter asked who they were, they said they were "ordinary people" who had lost family members during the earthquake. When pressed by the journalist to specify which family members had died, the men changed their story and said it was their neighbors who had died.
I-Cable TV did not immediately respond to CPJ's email requesting comment.
The earthquake and its aftermath are politically sensitive in China. Huang Qi, founder of the human rights news website 64 Tianwang, helped Sichuan earthquake victims' families expose and report on the many poorly constructed school buildings that contributed to the high death toll. Huang was arrested on November 28, 2016, for "leaking state secrets to foreign entities" and remains in jail.
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Plaintiff Kevin E. Loader (Loader) brought this action to obtain judicial review of the final decision of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (Commissioner), denying his applications for disability benefits, disability insurance benefits, and supplemental security income benefits under Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 401-433, 1381 et seq.
The Court has jurisdiction over this action under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). Venue is proper given that Loader resides in Powell County, Montana. 29 U.S.C. § 1391(e)(1); L.R. 1.2(c)(3). The parties have consented to have the undersigned conduct all proceedings in this matter and enter judgment. (Doc. 10).
Loader is 53 years old. (Doc. 6 at 1050). Loader has a high school education. (Doc. 6 at 1149). Loader has [*2] also completed one year of college courses. Id. Loader is a military veteran. (Doc. 6 at 1151). Loader served 9 1/2 years in the Navy and 5 years in the army. Id. Loader received a medical discharge from the military in 2010. (Doc. 6 at 1151-1152). Loader has past work experience as a correctional officer, a retail store sales associate, and a residential painter. (Doc. 6 at 1150, 1152-1155). Loader last worked in September 2011. (Doc. 6 at 1155).
The Veterans Administration (VA) assigned Loader a 30% disability rating in 2017. (Doc. 6 at 929-930). This 30% rating consisted of a 20% rating for back problems and a 10% rating for tinnitus. (Doc. 6 at 1532, 1892).
Loader filed his applications for Social Security disability benefits and supplemental security income benefits on April 29, 2013. (Doc. 6 at 396, 1043). Loader alleged that he became disabled on December 19, 2012. Id. Loader alleged that he became disabled due to compression fractures in his thoracic spine, depression and degenerative arthritis. (See Cause CV 15-38-H-JTJ, Doc. 11 at 202, 213; Doc. 6 at 427).
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by Christine Johnstone
The 2023 Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG) Festival will be held at the Lisle Hyatt in Lisle, Illinois, USA from July 19th to 22nd, 2023. ATG President Mary Ann Covone welcomes accordion enthusiasts from around the world.
Event concerts will be held at the Armerding Center for Performing Arts on the campus of Wheaton College and feature guests Grayson Masefield (New Zealand), the Polyphonia Orchestra (Reunion Island), Das Duo Kollektiv (flute & accordion duo from Austria), Stas Venglevski (USA) with Dr. Brett Jones on marimba and the (UMKC) Community Accordion Chamber Ensemble directed by Joan Cochran Sommers.
Further details at: Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG)
Video: Sharon Shannon and Friends performing "Blackbird" on The Late Late Show - RTÉ One.
Tickets for the Sharon Shannon Trio concert tour of the UK are selling fast with some venues sold out already. The tour will begin on February 3rd, 2023 in London and continue through to February 19th in Exeter.
Sharon Shannon is known for her arrangements of traditional Irish tunes and Irish-influenced compositions and is renowned for her collaborations, not just in Irish traditional music, but through all musical genres, Hip-Hop, Cajun, Country, Reggae, Classical and Rap.
by Harley Jones
From the 1st January 2023, Frank Busso Jr. has been elected President of the American Accordionists' Association (AAA) for the 2023-2025 years.
Frank Busso Jr. has served on the AAA board of directors since 2007 and as the organization's 2nd Vice President since 2021. He is the director of the Ernest Deffner Affiliates, whose brands include Titano, Pancordion, Pigini, Excelsior, Roland, and Hohner. Frank is the accordionist for The United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC and runs the Busso Music School in Alexandria, VA.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Boston University, later serving as an instructor and arranger with the Boston University Athletic Bands.
Frank studied accordion with Frank Busso Sr. at the Staten Island Music School in New York, eventually becoming an instructor there, where his students earned many regional and national titles in competition.
The XXV edition of the Val Tidone International Music Competition and Festival will be held from July 13th to 16th, 2023 in Val Tidone, Italy.
Competitions include:
• Egidio Carella Composition Competition for classical and contemporary music with sections for solo instrument and chamber music.
• Silvio Bengalli Piano Prize
• Val Tidone Young Talent Competition which includes age categories for sections: piano, strings and chamber music.
Composition competition jury members include Livio Bollani (Artistic Director – picture left), Andrea Portera and Barbara Rettagliati.
Applications open on February 1st, 2023. The deadline for entries is May 31st, 2023. See poster for details.
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The Chester Folk Festival will hold their 2023 February Folk Day at the All Saints Church in Chester, Cheshire, England on February 25th from 12 noon.
The event will include afternoon & evening concerts, ceilidh, sessions and dance displays. Performers include "The Time Bandits" folk band, with Ian Jones on melodeon (pictured below).
For details email: info@chesterfolk.org.uk
Werner Weibert, President of the Harmonikaverband Osterreichs (HVÖ) has announced that registrations are now open for the Day of the Harmonica 2023 competition which will take place from May 18th to 21st, 2023 in Stainz, Southern Styria, Austria.
The event will include the Austrian competition for accordion soloists, duos, ensembles, chamber music and world music.
In addition, registrations are also now open for the 4th Erich Moser International Memorial Competition for Styrian Harmonica.
The documents are available in Slovenian and English at: https://harmonikaverband.at/tag-der-harmonika-2023/
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Applications are now open for the 16th Premio Andrea Parodi World Music Competition in Italy.
Premio Andrea Parodi was created in honour of the distinguished Sardinian artist Andrea Parodi, who passed away in 2006.
The Artistic Commission established by the Foundation will select ten finalists among the applicants in an anonymous way. The finalists will perform in Cagliari at the "Premio Andrea Parodi" Festival 2023, in front of a jury composed of authoritative industry professionals (singers,, musicians, writers and songwriters, poets, managers, producers, press offices, journalists), from international countries.
These finals will be held in autumn in Cagliari, Sardinia.
The prize for the Winner includes concerts and performances in some of the partner music festivals in their 2024 editions, such as European Jazz Expo (Sardinia), Folkest (Friuli), as well as the Premio Andrea Parodi 2024.
In addition, winners will be entitled to a €2,500 scholarship. The winner of the Critics' Awards will have a professional videoclip of their competition piece produced, offered by the Andrea Parodi Foundation. Some of the finalists can also be invited to some other partner festivals, such as Mare e Miniere, Premio Bianca d'Aponte, Premio Città di Loano per la musica tradizionale italiana, Mo'l'estate Spirit Festival, Musiconnect-Italy.
Registration is free and the deadline for applications is May 31st, 2023
For details look online or email: fondazione.andreaparodi@gmail.com
by Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor USA Accordion News
Stas Venglevski has just released his 30th CD entitled "Compilation".
Stas is an accordionist, musician, arranger, entertainer and teacher. His repertoire includes his original compositions, and a broad range of classical, contemporary and ethnic music. He has toured extensively as a soloist throughout the former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe, and the United States.
For CD details email: stasvenglevski@wi.rr.com
Video: Skerryvore performing their new video: Everything You Need (Official Music Video), which is from their upcoming new album 'Tempus' due to be released on 28th April 2023.
Skerryvore includes brothers Daniel on accordion and Martin Gillespie on pipes, whistles and accordion.
Video: Gypsy Song "The Sun" (Solnishko) by Maria & Sergei Teleshev Duo Two Accordions.
Marie Andrée Joerger will give an accordion recital at the Auditorium du Conservatoire in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on January 21st, 2023 at 8.30pm.
Her program will include works by Bach, Mozart, Abbott, Zorn, Galliano, Balbastre and Angelis.
See poster for details.
Concertina player, Steve Turner (UK - picture left) began a tour of Australia on January 15th, 2023.
His final concerts will take place at the Tamar Valley Folk Festival in George Town, Tasmania, Australia from January 27th to 29th, 2023.
The festival will include "three days of music, concerts, workshops, poetry and fun for children."
For details email: info@tamarvalleyfolkfestival.com
The Duo Guinguette Jean-Luc will entertain at a variety of venues in January and February 2023.
The duo includes Jean-Luc Prié (accordionist & vocals) and Christelle Prié (vocals and rhythm guitar).
The Royal Academy of Music will hold an Accordion Chamber Music Concert at the David Josefowitz Recital Hall in London, England on January 27th, 2023 at 6.30pm.
This free concert will feature solo and chamber music with classical accordion students of Professor Owen Murray.
For details phone: +44 (0) 20 7873 7373
Accordionist and composer, Professor Claudio Jacomucci will hold an accordion masterclass at the Chamber Music Hall of the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen-Werden, Germany from January 28th to 30th, 2023.
The artistic director of the event is Mie Miki (Folkwang Professor for Accordion and Vice President for Artistic Excellence) with the kind support of Dr. Josef and Brigitte Pauli Foundation.
The interested public is welcome with free entry.
by Rob Howard
The Stockport Accordion Club will hold their first 2023 meeting at the Woodley Methodist Church in Woodley, Stockport, England on February 1st, 2023 at 7.30pm.
Guest performers will be the Julie Best & Jean Corrighan Accordion Duo (picture above), who will perform a "varied and uplifting" program.
For details email: robaccord5@hotmail.com
Klaus Paier (accordion) and Asja Valcic (cello) will present their concert entitled "Vision for Two – Ten Years" at the Teatro Sociale di Stradella in Stradella, Italy on February 11th, 2023 at 9pm.
The duo, who have been performing together for ten years, will present a program from their album "Vision for Two - Ten years", which was recorded in 2019. They planned a concert tour to present the album back then, but it was suspended due to the pandemic and resumed again this year.
Their music converges French musette, Argentine tango, Balkan dance, rock and jazz.
The Hoger Streven Accordion Association will hold a concert at the CC Kadans Theatre in Wuustwezel, Belgium on February 12th, 2023 at 2pm.
Tickets are selling fast for this event. See poster for details.
The following workshops will be held at Q-Factory Amsterdam in the Netherlands organised by Trekharmonica's Amsterdam (THA).
• March 12th, 2023 from 1pm: Workshop Waltzing in irregular time signatures by Gilbert Hoek van Dijke
Register by 12th February, 2023
• March 22nd, 2023 from 1pm: Beginners accordion course with Jos Lambregts (picture right).
Instrument: C/F
For details email: info@trekharmonica-adam.nl
An Accordion Extravaganza will be held at the James Hall, Powell River Academy of Music in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada on March 5th, 2023 at 2pm.
The event is held as a preview to the Accordion Fest 2023, due to be held in May 2023.
For details email: info@powellriveracademy.org
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The American Accordionists' Association (AAA) will hold their 85th Anniversary Festival 2023 at the Marriott Philadelphia West Hotel in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA from July 12th to 16th, 2023.
Planned events include concerts, workshops, competitions, exhibits, special activities and more and Frank Busso Sr. will receive the AAA Lifetime Achievement Award at the AAA Festival 2023.
For more information visit AAA
CNIMA directed by Nathalie Boucheix will hold an accordion workshop tutored by Olivier Douyez from February 20th to 24th, 2023.
Olivier Douyez is an accordion professor at the Royal Mons Conservatory in Belgium. The workshop is for all levels and ages with a special focus on young talents (14 to 18 year olds) who wish to enter the Bachelor program at the Royal Mons Conservatory.
For further details email: cnima@orange.fr
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by Norman Seaton, President National Accordion Association (NAA)
The National Accordion Association (NAA) Convention will be held from March 15th to 19th, 2023 at the Hilton Hotel, Richardson, Texas, USA
The convention will feature 2023 versions of American Music that is marketable as today's music. The music is a combination of contemporary American music originated by USA immigrants who brought their musical values and traditions as they joined the great American melting pot. The music is a blend of musical styles that include, but are not limited to, popular tunes, folk music, country and western (C&W), ballads that tell a story, rock and roll, polkas and waltzes, European music, Gospel, and jazz.
In addition the 2023 event will include Higher Learning Opportunities such as creative thinking and applying to music, ear-training, articulation and bellows control, practice techniques, sight reading, musical theory, performing techniques, and performance opportunities.
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Tag Archives: Xbox One
#455 When is it OK to remake of a game?
It seems that a new recent trend with many Gaming companies is to release a fresh batch of remakes of old games to celebrate the start of the new console gaming generation.
So far we have Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS, Wind Waker HD, Majora Mask 3DS, on Nintendo's devices. The Master Chief Collection and Last of Us are the major exclusive releases for Microsoft's and Sony's console respectively.
Last week I celebrated the release of Binding of Isaac Rebirth on PC and it's debut on PS4 but that is not the only contender on this gaming trend. Lately we also have the official re-release of Grand Theft Auto 5, Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs for the new consoles.
Everyone has some stance when it comes to buying video games, there are those on the internet who are excited for these games to come out for their new devices, and other have gone to the forums proclaiming that these and most remakes are just a cheap trick pulled by these gaming companies to get a quick buck as filler content before they can announce their proper next current generation game.
I land somewhere in the middle, so for today I am going to provide my personal checklist to answer the question, "When is it ok to buy a remake of a game?"
I have been meaning to talk about this issue for ages, with the rumor of GTA V for the Xbox 1 and PlayStation 4 but I felt like I needed more games in this category before I could talk about it.
**The first thing on my list is when the old game is ported to a new engine.**
We see this with Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire being ported to the X/Y 3DS engine, with Binding of Isaac moving away from being coded on flash and I can not speak for the Halo development team but I assume their Xbox One games as well.
I suspect that it took quite a bit of time remaking the entire region from the old pixelated world
Being ported to a new engine means that the developers actually put effort into recreating the old world with the new technological tools they had since the game first came out, proving it is not just an upgraded port of the old game. As Edmund McMillen said in his F.A.Q, moving away from flash was able to have the freedom to add more content and have the game better reflect what the type of game he wanted from the beginning.
**New content added….beyond the bundled DLC**
I can only talk about Pokemon ORAS and Binding of Isaac with confidence but both games have added more content to their base game. Just like porting the game to a new engine added content is there as a sign that the game developers put some serious thought and effort into remaking the game to provide more content and reason to justify the decision for the consumer to rebuy the game again.
With Pokemon we have the game play advances we have all come to know and love since the old Gameboy Advance games like the inclusion of fairy types and mega evolution but on top of that we get the recently advertised feature the new Hidden Move, Soar, giving the players the ability to roam around the Hoenn region as the next logical step for HM02, Fly.
With Binding of Isaac, we have all content from the basic game and the Wrath of Lamb DLC already in the game, but even with all of that the game was just about half the content, the people behind Binding added more items, trinkets, enemies, bosses and levels. With all the returning the old and new items the game has been balanced and tinkered with to provide better synergize with different types of tear shots from all the possible item combinations.
So much added content that within the week of being the only non-stream PC game I played in the last week I have not even begun to scratch the surface of the added content,.
The last and most important criteria for buying a remade game, in my opinion, is:
**A remanded game that could still be needed even with backwards compatibility**
Backwards compatibility has been a big issue with me with this gaming generation, as well as others, when there was the announcement that newest consoles, aside from Nintendo, could not and would not play any of their games from previous generation's library. This category focuses on all the games I have not mentioned yet like The Last of Us, Halo 3 & 4, and all the other third-party games remakes.
This leads me to a major question I have with these recent AAA remakes, as a PC gamer is "Why"? Why would anyone play and even pay full price for the same game again with just a graphical upgrade? To side with people I mentioned earlier, It does seem a bit lazy just porting an old game to the PS4 and Xbox One and it only happens that because of the technical ability of the platforms these game developers chose to work with. I do not recall much from the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 launch library but I do not remember just after the last gen was revealed a major influx of remastered old PS2 and Xbox games for everyone to buy again.
You can give Nintendo flack for rehashing established Intellectual Properties and reselling their old games on every new platform but at least it is new to the device, like we see with the NES/SNES ports on the 3DS or old games that dates back two generations, like we see with Zelda Wind Waker, and where credit is due, half of the Halo collection.
I remember my brothers and I playing this game on the Wii almost more than any other wii game besides Mario Kart and Smash
But that is just my opinion, I want to know what you think, what are the criteria for buying remade/remastered games? Feel free to leave a comment below.
Be MOP focuses on the world of videogames with my own reflections about the current news and developments that happens throughout the gaming industry. Updates Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
Tagged as Be MOP, gaming, Grand theft Auto, GTA, Microsoft, Nintendo, Noahdeer, ORAS, PC gaming, Playstation 4, Pokemon, Pokemon ORAS, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, The binding of Isaac, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, tombraider Tomb Raider, Valve, Video games, videogames, Xbox One, Zelda
#420 A Response to "Are We Becoming Too Critical Of Video Games?"
For today's post it is another response to one of Gamemoir's Question of the Day posts from earlier this week. The post (found right HERE) talks about the abnormal amount of cynical criticism videogame players have with recently released AAA games when it comes to user reviews on meta-critic, using the Watch_Dogs backlash as the example.
I should get a frequent flyer card for how many responses I made because of them
Well you know where this one post is going, I am not going to be dedicating an entire blog post to echo someone else's opinions, when it comes to the recent game releases we as consumers should never demand less our the amount of critical comments from ourselves, in fact I think we need all the critical observations we have right now and more so to ensure that only the best gets recognized.
Many – if not all – of complaints of Watch_Dogs spawned from Ubisoft's over-promising features on their next big new IP game and under-delivering. From the launch of Watch_dogs we saw Ubisoft made the executive decision to hack off Week One DLC, create console specific and exclusive DLC, gimp the graphics on the PC version of the game and shoehorning in an unstable DRM service…ALL while advertising Watch_Dogs as a next great next gen game.
a next gen system that was released on the previous console as well…..hmmmmm
On the flip side there is hardly any criticisms towards games that simply told you exactly what it was going do and delivered it in spades.Just compare what promises given from Nintendo when they announced their most recent Mario Wii U game to the promises and designs from Ubisoft's Watch_Dog reveal.
That is not the say that every game ever released by anyone should be held up the gaming standard of the cream of the crop, just like movies titles can be released two different -although VERY simplified- categories;
The first one is the fun to watch but stays in the comfort zone of slight immaturity, like what we see from Kirby titles and the over the top silliness of the Deadpool game. Or continuing with the movie parallel, the Die Hard series or any major summer action blockbuster movies It is there just to satisfy that itch in our brains of seeing stuff explode and have mindless fun.
The other category is the more appealing release for both consumers and gaming developers desires, the academy award winning titles that pushes the envelope of what it means to be a part of that media, the Spec Ops: the Line, the Walking Dead seasons, or the effects caused within the gaming world with the release of coveted, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
The reason Zelda OoT was so big was because it was the first time there was such a big paradigm shift a series. Going from a top down 2d to a full 3d third person open world game.
The problem with a perceived too much criticisms of games is when a company advertise a new release claiming it to win awards and show the true powers of what it means to be a game in the advertisements and lead up and gives us a run of the mill open world game with nothing new to offer. It is like going in to see Gravity in 3D IMAX and end up watching it in one of the smallest non-3D screens, it is still the same movie but the expected experience is completely different from the what we got.
There will always be people who constantly act as the nitpickers in movies, comics, music, and games but it is important not to let their complaints of not entering every house in an open world game drown out the legit critical claims of the game and the industry.
As patrons of this of a field of arts that is still just developing, we also need to be hyper critical of executive policies that would hurt the medium on the whole, like say rehashing franchises, excessive sequels, shoehorned in product placements, and practices that are only in place to line the higher up's wallets instead of furthering the advancement of the media as a whole.
But I want to know what you think, after reading the question from Gamemoir and my response here, where do you side with the about of criticisms in the gaming world?
Tagged as 3DS, Assassin's Creed, Be MOP, E3, E3 2014, Elder Scrolls, Far Cry, Gamemoir, gaming, Mario, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo games, Noahdeer, PC gaming, Playstation, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Skyrim, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, Twitch, Ubisoft, Uncharted, Valve, Video game, Video games, videogame industry, videogames, Watch Dogs, Watch_dogs, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One
#396 Buying Games vs Buying Game Time
Two things happened in the fast world of videogames that caught my eye that I want to discuss. Recently both EA and Sony announced and started rolling out their plans to sell American/Western players game time subscriptions to their recent AAA games
Sony is beta testing renting out games while EA is just trying to test out the idea of everyone on Origin can play TitanFall for 48hrs
This is nothing new, in the Asian gaming market this method is a popular way of paying for their MMO subscription Blizzard has already have this option available for the Eastern World of Warcraft Players.
The question is now, "Can this new payment option of paying for hours instead of the right for a game work in the west?"
For the sake of keeping this blog post related to videogames and steering away from an American Studies term paper, I am going to not talk too much about the mentality and/or philosophy of American purchasing habit but I will say that the American dream is owning a white picket fenced house.
For today I just want to talk about the viability for the game time pass can comfortably work in the PC and Consoles on this side of the world.
Could this work on PCs?
This is very tough to say, just like the Asian Market I could say that it could be more efficient (money wise) to paid subscription MMOs I would say that if we are not already in the mists of the F2P + microtransaction MMOg trend it could stand a better chance.
Not mentioned: Dota 2, League of Legends, and every other ARTS/Moba game
But as we saw with EA advertisement, there are plans to sell game time for AAA multiplayer game titles, like Titanfall. At this point this could be successful if we did not have the likes of Steam Sales. While we do not legally own the games titles on Steam we do have unlimited game time forever, that we all got for pennies on the dollar.
I very much doubt that Steam will adopt this renting games per hour payment method for their non-MMO multiplayer games, unless huge lobbyists from the Activision, Ubisoft, and other game companies. Until then I think game time passes are going to only expand on the EA/Origin exclusives, which might benefit them in the long run by giving the company a different edge over steam in the free online market.
It *could* work but it needs to be done properly.
But PC is not the only platform for gaming, so lets take a look at consoles.
Can this work on Consoles?
This is a strong possibility for a new payment option for the consoles. I, and everyone else, have said it before but this console generation is built around a constant internet connection and with that the game time passes could be implemented with ease. Especially with the (unwanted) push to an always online connection, with that connection there would be an easy way for companies accurately keep track on how much time you bought for a game and a up to the minute statues on how much time you have left.
Especially with the multiple multiplayer games that comes out yearly for the console library with the Xbox One and PS4, This could act as a nice sample for players to get a legit hands on feel for the games they might be hesitant buying. In the old days, what I just described was called a 'demo'.
Imagine the giveaways, every Origin/PS4 player gets 5 free hours of titanfall 2 (whenever that drops) or when a classic PlayStation game comes back to the PS4 shop.
With the early introduction of this payment plans I am hesitant about it simply because it is new in the West and we already have a certain mindset and we have another popular MMO payment option, by supporting F2P PC games through microtransactions.
As I said, it could provide a nice legit sample of the gameplay of the newest AAA console games but there might be a need to keep an eye on the price of renting vs the price of going out and buying a secondhand copy of the game somewhere else.
I will say that it is always nice to have a variety of ways to consume videogames to lower the barrier to entry for everyone, whether it be playing on PC, consoles, smart phones, or how you play those games or different payment plans. The problem with companies becoming early adopters for new plans is that it is far too soon to know if this plan will fail or usher in a new trend of gaming.
Tagged as Be MOP, Ea, Final Fantasy, gaming, Lego, Microsoft, Nintendo, Noahdeer, Origin, PC gaming, Playstation, Playstation Now, Playstation now Beta, PS4, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, Titan fall, Valve, Video games, videogames, Xbox One
#395 The Bipartisan Lego Company
Monday's Steam Summer Daily Sales had it's scheduled update and with that The Lego series went on sale for the amazing price cut of 75% off. With that I was able to pick up two items that have been on my wishlist for quite a while.
I saw a kid playing Batman 2 and when he flew around the city as the Man of Steel, the classic Christopher Reeves theme song started playing Insta-buy just on that fact alone.
As I was hitting the 'purchase for myself' button I came to the realization that I was just about to buy both a Marvel and DC comics licensed game that was created and produced by the same third party game developer team. Which blew my mind.
It seems that in today's gaming industry world, that third party companies are forced to side with one game company over the other. In the past of years we have seen the company pairings of Sony's PlayStation for Taco Bell, we have seen multiple promotions for Mountain Dew and Microsoft's Xbox 360 and One and we have even seen Nintendo making Mario Spaghettios with Campbells.
it's funny to see that Pepsi-Mtn Dew or just Pepsi never tried to double dip with both consoles market/fan bases considering that Pepsi and Taco Bell are both owned by the Yum! Brands, Inc.
Even with Third Party game developers have seen the exclusive deals with one of the big three console companies, the most obvious is the deals Sony has with gaming companies (Ubisoft) providing special and unique downloadable content for the PlayStation version of the game.
An hour more content just a fragmented part of gaming/Assassin's Creed community because they decided to play on a PS3, instead of an Xbox or PC
And During my years at PAX East over the multiple and multiple game developers panels everyone there constantly talk about how gaming retail companies like Best Buy, GameStop, and even Walmart goes up to these developers demanding/begging to be given an exclusive DLC, special editions of the game, or physical giveaway with the game's launch.
With the exclusive nature of promotional gaming world, it feels a bit like some the most diverse version of national politics. Creating a atmosphere where people who subscribes to one party or belief are expected to constantly and exclusively side with that one side for the rest of their careers.
With all of of the exclusiveness deals and contracts going on it is surprising and refreshing to see a company work across the aisle to get the two major competing media companies to licence almost all of their creative universe and images to create a 3rd party game.
Something that is a bit more awe inspiring than that is how the Lego games have been able to grab other big name film licensees like, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Harry Potter saga and LucasArts's Indiana Jones and Star Wars series.
When Lego approached DC and then Marvel it didn't hurt that they had an established track record of amazing games
Tagged as Batman, Be MOP, Democrats, gaming, Lego, Lego Batman, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Legos, Microsoft, Nintendo, Noahdeer, PC gaming, Politics, PS4, Republicans, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, US politics, Valve, Video games, videogames, Wii U, wiiU, Xbox One
#389 Is there a true need for Exclusives?
E3 is wrapping up and while I am still trying to up on the various streams and press releases that I missed because of work for the next few day. While I am still surfing through Twitch and the YouTube highlights, one of the biggest E3 related news that I want to talk about is the announcement that Dead Rising 3 (a Xbox One launch title) and Grand Theft Auto 5 will be coming to the PC. With those two games going multi-platform and moving to the PC I do have to ask, is there a need for third-party console exclusives any more?
I am not naive enough to claim that Super Mario 3D World should be ported to the PlayStation 4, because I know the importance of keeping Mario, Master Chief and Kratos as the respective console mascots. Between Capcom's Dead Rising 3 and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto and the old news of Kingdom Hearts 3 moving to the Xbox One and during the time where game developers have the first hands on experience with the new consoles, I think we need to ask the question again.
As of right now the current generation of Microsoft and Sony console's specs are so similar that there is no real reason why one game should be able to run on either One or the other (4). I understand that back in the day Sega's Sonic games were created to advertise the Sega Genesis's processing power compared to Nintendo's NES and Super Nintendo. And during that time of the early 90's there was a bunch of different consoles that had different controllers that provided different input controls that game developers needed to properly code. Right now there only advertised different in the two newest consoles, when it comes to gameplay and game performance, is the 720p vs 1080p resolution.
I do not need to say how good of a business model for 3 third-party videogame developers to constantly and only go multi-platform in the future and not even bother with the promotional exclusives with the console companies. Just going exclusively multi-platform means that these companies do not end up isolating their fan base or potential customers, which I know they do not want to do because these videogame companies are still porting their new AAA games to the last generation consoles (Be MOP #383)
But I want to bounce this question back to you guys reading at home, what do you think about the consoles exclusives (both first and third-party exclusives) with a gaming generation being so similar and standardized specs and controls? And where is the PC copy of Kingdom Hearts?
I think the only possible exception to my little rant to console exclusives should/may be titles that could not survive without divine intervention like what we saw with Platinum Games and Nintendo.
speaking of I cant wait go get around to buying a Wii U
Tagged as Be MOP, E3, E3 2014, gaming, Microsoft, PC gaming, Playstation, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, Valve, Video game, Video games, videogame industry, videogames, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One
May 28, 2014 · 12:40 pm
#383 When Can We Move Away from the Last Gen?
This past few weeks we have seen some impressive modern game releases in the gaming world. Ubisoft's Watch_Dogs went live and the newest games from the Far Cry and Lego Batman series were just announced. As expected all of these games are for the current Xbox One and PlayStation 4, generation, but these newest games will also receive a port for the last generation consoles as well. Watch_Dogs was suppose to be a system seller for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, how can Ubisoft do that if people can still buy it on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360?
I believe I have said everything I needed to say about Watch_Dogs. The Lego game now there is a series that has the potential for many more blog posts in the future
I understand that gaming companies do this to get the non-converted players too but It would help the industry more of they ignored the old system and perfected the games on the newer, current systems. Right now we are still in that awkward transitioning phrase where the console gaming community, and by extent the gaming industry, are moving from gaming or making games on one set of systems to another system. As a PC gamer I do not want to bring up the mantra that consoles are hold back the gaming industry but it looks like consoles are holding back themselves. Despite what you personally think of the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One's hardware components we can all agree that the hardware are miles a head than the computer parts used to make the consoles that came out almost ten years ago.
How much content had to be cut to make Watch_Dogs fit on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360? or another way to ask the question is, 'how much more of the game could have been added if Ubisoft made the game only for the current generation?' The same question could be asked with the most recent installments of Call of Duty, BattleField or the Lego games. E3 is coming up in less than two weeks and with all events and companies who have waited months to finally announce their latest games, how many of those new titles that will be slated for 2014 and 2015 release date will also be on the last generation? More importantly will the next Skyrim and Fallout, two Bethesda game that are known for their open world exploration, be forced to cut down potential content just so it could be sold to the people who still have not upgraded in the next few years? If this trend continues when will we have our first real wave of next-gen games?
At PAX East I heard how the developers pushed the Xbox 360 and PS3 to the limit to make this huge open-ended game work on the consoles. Could they do that again on the same systems while trying outdo themselves for the next Elder Scrolls game?
You would think that, as a PC gamer it should not bother me that much about what the people on the console side of gaming is doing base on the fact I can upgrade my system when ever I want. But because the console market is so influential in the gaming industry, I am anxious for every company to hop on board with the newest version of technology so we can see the next jump in gaming that we have all been promised for a while.
Tagged as Be MOP, E3, E3 2014, Elder Scrolls, gaming, Microsoft, PC gaming, Playstation, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Skyrim, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, Ubisoft, Valve, Video game, Video games, videogame industry, videogames, Watch Dogs, Watch_dogs, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One
#378 I Spy a growing problem with GameSpy shutting down.
Another news story broke earlier this week with EA officially pulling server support for dozens and dozens of their titles by June 30th 2014, following the announcement that the online matchmaking service, GameSpy, will be closing down at the end of May on top of Nintendo will be moving forward in their plans to phase out Wii and Nintendo DS's Nintendo Wi-Fi connection by May 20th.
A handy chart of all the Pokemon related content and services going away in the next few days
This is not a new issue and with the next-gen consoles becoming this-gen, one of gaming company's current elephants in the meeting room is the question, 'how long can or should these companies supply support to these old online games after creating a gaming generation with an emphasis on online play?"
On the business side, these video game companies -despite what some people think- do have limited amount of money and they cannot expect to run these servers in-house forever, especially when some of these games are pushing ten years old. but I do believe these companies have some sort of duty to continue providing service to the paying consumers who bought a game with such a heavy focus on online play.
We now have games that sell themselves on the focus on online multiplayer. I do not remember anyone buying Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefield, or TitanFall for the single player story they were bought because they were used a portal to a new world of online play. This trend is partly because of the advancement of internet speed and access but also because of the console company's choice to focus more on the online play which is not a bad thing, but it does come with the responsibility to care for the product after the game is no longer topping the charts? This is not just a problem for EA and Activision but for all AAA gaming companies with at least some bit of online support whether it be; online multiplayer, any exclusive DLC content or digital patches will have to face with the upcoming shift from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
More importantly, what will happen in the gaming community when people who bought a game for the excuse to play online can longer have that ability to connect to the servers, like in the eventual phasing out of the Xbox Live and PlayStation network. What will the reaction when the from all the Halo 4 fans, and the Call of Duty Ghost players when no longer log on to their servers because the network that both games use for online play have gone offline? Not to mention the reaction from the players who will no longer have access to and retrieve or redownload all the indie, digital only games and DLC packs that they have already bought through XBL and PSN
Call me a history fanatic for my love of preservation the past and my concern with this the now obsolete games, but this issue will only be brought up again with more and more gaming services going offline and no longer playable. I wish I had an easy solution to fix this problem, the first go to answer would be to have every gaming company go the way of Valve and let the community have the ability to host servers of their favorite map. The problem is then to execute a major content patch for all consoles that changes exactly how these consoles connects to the internet and which 3rd party servers it connects to, a thought that Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony will not seriously entertain for long.
Tagged as Be MOP, gaming, Halo, Mario, Microsoft, Nintendo, PC gaming, Playstation, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, PlayStation Network, PSN, Sony, Spencer Nozell, Steam, Valve, Video game, Video games, videogame industry, videogames, Wii, Wii U, XBL, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox One


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Q: Multi-condition OR in one AND with Zend_Db_Select I use Zend_Db_Select and I want to make multi-condition in an AND, but don't know if it's possible or not... I search in many forums but don't find any answer...
I want to have a query like this :
SELECT
    `t`.*
FROM
    `T_table` AS `t`
WHERE
    (t.id = '123456')
AND (
    (t.param = 'yyy')
    OR (t.param = 'xxx')
    OR (....)
)

Thanks in advance...

A: I had same issue as you in one of my project. Here how it worked for me
$select = $this->_table->select()
                        ->from(array('t' => 'T_table');
$select->where('t.id = ?', '123456');
$select->where('t.param =' . $varY . ' OR t.param = ' . $varX);

Basically, you're explicitly writing the OR inside a select->where().

A: If you are intending to check a single field against multi-values, use IN clause
$select->where('t.id = ?', '123456')
       ->where('t.param IN(?)', array('value1', 'value2', 'value3'));

Hope it helps.

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Q: Resharper and Namespace alias qualifier I've searched around a bit for this and tried a few things and can't get it to work without turning some stuff off that I want on.
Normally I let Resharper have its way with namespace optimizations.  In a Service implementation that's mapping DTO's to Domain Model objects it's a nice visual to create an alias for each.  That way when it's late and you're sleep deprived seeing Dtos.Customer and DomainModel.Customer helps.
using DomainModel = MyProduct.Core.Domain.Model;
using Dtos = MyProduct.ServiceModel.Dtos;

When I run code cleanup it changes those to:
using DomainModel = MyProduct.Core.Domain.Model;
using Customer = MyProduct.Core.Domain.Model.Customer;

Does anyone do this or something similar and keep R# from whacking it?

A: This is something ReSharper will do when you let it: shorten references, on code cleanup.
Even though this behavior might be unwanted for you, it's technically seen correct. Because in your code it'll shorten something. And that's what the algorithm is supposed to do.
This is how the algorithm works that causes this result:

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*Resharper finds a reference that can be made shorter (you've not given me enough code to exactly tell you where, but that doesn't matter).

*After shortening it needs to assure that the object can be resolved, so it adds a new using for it (using Customer = MyProduct.Core.Domain.Model.Customer; in your case).

*Resharper detects that using Dtos = MyProduct.ServiceModel.Dtos; is no longer in use (after all, the other using covers your shortened reference). And removes it.

This is what I suspect is causing this. I cannot be 100% certain without seeing the actual usages in code. But this is most likely the cause of the refactoring.


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The Pomeranian culture, also Pomeranian or Pomerelian Face Urn culture was an Iron Age culture with origins in parts of the area south of the Baltic Sea (which later became Pomerania, part of northern Germany/Poland), from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC, which eventually covered most of today's Poland.

About 650 BC, it evolved from the Lusatian culture between the lower Vistula and Parseta rivers, and subsequently expanded southward. Between 200 and 150 BC, it was succeeded by the Oksywie culture in eastern Pomerania and the Przeworsk culture at the upper Vistula and Oder rivers.

Features

The Pomeranian culture developed in Western Pomerania covering the entire range of the Oder (Odra) and Vistula river basins. It has been sometimes associated with the Bastarnae. The original homeland of the Bastarnae remains uncertain. Babeş and Shchukin argue in favour of an origin in eastern Pomerania on the Baltic coast of northwestern Poland, on the grounds of correspondences in archaeological material e.g. a Pomeranian-style fibula found in a Poieneşti site in Moldavia.

The most characteristic feature was the use of burial urns with faces. The urns were often contained in stone cists. The face-urns have lids in the form of hats, often miniature ear-rings of real bronze are added. The faces are sometimes modelled very naturalistically, and no two urns show the same face. Incised drawings on the urns show hunting scenes, chariot races, or riders. Brooches of Certoza-type and necklaces of multiple bronze rings are typical examples of metal work.

The economy was similar to that of the Lusatian culture. Rye was systematically cultivated for the first time, but still formed a minor component of the cereals. There were fewer hill forts than in the area of the Lusatian culture further west. Southern imports were sparse as well.

Related cultures

A related culture of the same age was the House Urn culture in central Germany.

Spread

In the later Iron Age, the Pomeranian culture spread southward, into areas formerly belonging to the Lusatian, Wysoko- and Milograd cultures. In Masovia and Poland, this mixture led to the development of the group with bell-shaped burials.

Gallery

See also
 Bronze- and Iron-Age Poland
 Lusatian culture
 Przeworsk culture
 Nordic Bronze Age

References

External links

Late Bronze and early Iron Age costumes in the Southern Baltic (2017)

Archaeological cultures of Central Europe
Archaeological cultures of Eastern Europe
Iron Age cultures of Europe
Slavic archaeological cultures
Archaeological cultures in Belarus
Archaeological cultures in Poland
Archaeological cultures in Ukraine
Prehistoric Poland
History of Pomerania

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East of the City of L flows the River Mersey. A tug (was said to have) sunk during the blitz though some bits were left visible above the water line. A sailor on the bridge of the tanker Adula, on the way to Stantow, glimpsed protruding parts belonging to two more ships sunk by mines – the Tacoma City, four crew dead, the Ullapool, 15 crew dead. The Mersey empties into the Port of L, the starting point for convoys filled with supplies and cargo crossing to and returning from across the Atlantic. Half the ports docking births were bombed, but the port functioned somehow with the help of barrage balloons and decoy fires set to distract attacking aircraft. Mines that drifted into the river menaced criss-crossing ferry traffic. Nonetheless, the Oxton and Bebington crews attached cranes so as to unload airplanes delivered from America.
Recreational boats were few, but as the war and its souvenirs were blotted away with time, small boats again plied the river. Idlers in them called back and forth to each other. When Buddy Holly of Buddy Holly and the Crickets went down in an airplane, all four boys knew a diamond had fallen from the sky. And was gone. To earn extra money the boy born in February delivered meat for the local butcher on Saturday by bicycle. In grade school the boy born in June became an apple polisher and a Boy Scout. When he was 13 his mother died of breast cancer and he had to learn to sew, cook, wash and iron to help his father keep going. To earn extra money the one born in July worked as a delivery boy. The boy born in October failed every single exam at 16. His middle name was Winston. He hated the nickname "Winnie" – if anyone called him by that name he would fight. Instead of doing homework he drew cartoons of deformed babies. The mother of the boy born in October is buried in Allerton graveyard not far from Cillia Black, a popular singer, who had 11 Top Ten Hits.
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Of these four boys born in L. two have died, on opposite coasts of the US, richer than their wildest dreams, their L. accents always linking them to the Mersey. The other two are still going strong.
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This work presents ACLT, a coordination model aimed to combine and coordinate heterogeneous agents by means of a communication abstraction inspired to the Linda model, but rooted in a logic framework. The twofold interpretation of a logic tuple space both as a message and as a knowledge repository naturally induces a categorisation of agents as logic and non-logic. While non-logic agents adopt the basic Linda kernel, logic agents exploit the full power of the ACLT model, which supports deduction and reasoning over the content of the tuple space. By providing a conceptual framework where logic inference and temporal tuple space evolution coexist, ACLT provides a suitable environment to build heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where hybrid agent architectures can be designed, integrating reasoning capabilities together with reactive behaviours.
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He was not available to shoot his scenes as Sio Bibble in Italy for Star Wars Episode II, so when George Lucas filmed the factory scenes in England, he spent a day with him on Blue Screen filming his shots, and then put them together to make him look like he was there in the Naboo palace with all the other actors.


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Same page links. You have probably seen in some websites. The hyperlinks are put on the top of the pages linking to the content below. They simply scroll the page to the anchor.
Acronym for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". Its basically a text format assigned to all characters (letters, panctuations symbols etc.) from 0 to 127. This allows the content easily transferred among networks.


release port access to prevent Denial of Service attacks.
with blacklistd(8) and returns a pointer to it, or NULL on failure.
The blacklist_close() function frees all memory and resources used.
connected to the client, and an optional message in the msg argument.
pass the peer name in the message.
All functions log errors to syslogd(8).
failure setting errno to an appropriate value.
on success and -1 on failure setting errno to an appropriate value.