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\section{Introduction}
As a challenging problem in computer vision, person-level action recognition has been applied in many applications, including human behavior analysis, human-computer interaction, and video surveillance.
Recently, significant progress has been made in this area~\cite{slowfast2019ava, aia2020}. However, the person-level action recognition in complex events~\cite{lin2020human} is still relatively new and a challenging problem. In this challenge of person-level action recognition on crowded scenes and complex events, we propose to utilize the scenes information by semantic segmentation model and mine more diversity scenes in data from the internet.

Our overall approach for person-level action recognition in complex events can be divided into two parts, respectively human detection and spatio-temporal action recognition (Figure~\ref{fig:framework}), where the second part is very similar to the methods used by the champion team in the AVA Spatio-temporal Action Localization challenge 2019~\cite{slowfast2019ava}, but we utilize more diversity data and adaptively apply the AVA model to HIE dataset. Firstly, we train a very strong person detector to detect the persons in the video frames. We then build an action detection model using a modified version of the Asynchronous Interaction Aggregation
network~\cite{aia2020}. Finally, we extract the scenes information by semantic segmentation model to boost the performance.

\section{Human Detection}
The first step of spatio-temporal action localization is to detect the bounding boxes of person. As no validation set in HIE dataset~\cite{lin2020human}, we split the original training set as new training set and validation set. Two splitting strategies are tried: splitting by image frames (5k for validation, 27k for training) and splitting by videos. We found that splitting by image will cause over-fitting and far away from the data distribution of testing set. So we adopt the video-splitting strategy and split video 3,7,8 and 17 as the validation set and the rest videos as train data, in which 5.7k image frames for validation and the reset 27k images frames for training. Based on the train and validation set, we can conduct detection experiments on HIE. All the performance of models is tested by two metrics, Averaged Precision (AP) and MMR~\cite{dollar2011pedestrian}. AP reflects both the precision and recall ratios of the detection results; MMR is the log-average Miss Rate on False Positive Per Image (FPPI) in $[0.01,100]$, is commonly used in pedestrian detection. MR is very sensitive to false positives (FPs), especially FPs with high confidences will significantly harm the MMR ratio. Larger AP and smaller MMR indicates better performance.

\begin{figure*} [h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{HIE_track4.pdf}
    \caption{The framework of our person-level action recognition.}
    \label{fig:framework}
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\end{figure*}

\begin{table}[]
\begin{center}
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\caption{Performance comparison (AP and mMR) among different detection backbone and methods on HIE dataset. }
\begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
 \toprule
 Methods or Modules & AP (\%) & MMR (\%) \\
 \midrule
 Baseline (ResNet50 + Faster RCNN) & 61.68 & 74.01 \\
 ResNet152 + Faster RCNN &67.32 & 68.17\\
 ResNet152 + Faster RCNN + FPN &69.77 & 64.83\\
 SENet154 +  Faster RCNN + FPN &65.77 & 68.46\\
 ResNeXt101 + Faster RCNN + FPN &69.53 & 63.91\\
 ResNeXt101 + Cascade RCNN + FPN &71.32 & 61.58\\
 ResNet152 +  Cascade RCNN + FPN &71.06 & 62.55\\
 \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:det_methods}
\end{center}
\vspace{-4mm}
\end{table}

\subsection{Detection Frameworks on HIE}
There are mainly two different types of common detection frameworks: one-stage (unified) frameworks~\cite{redmon2016you, redmon2016yolo9000, liu2016ssd} and two-stage (region-based) framework~\cite{girshick2014rich, girshick2015fast, ren2015faster, he2017mask}. Since RCNN~\cite{girshick2014rich} has been proposed, the two-stage detection methods have been widely adopted or modified~\cite{ren2015faster, lin2017focal, lin2017FPN, cai2018cascade, zhou2018object, wang2019few, wang2019distilling}. Normally, the one-stage frameworks can run in real-time but with the cost of a drop in accuracy compared with two-stage frameworks, so we mainly adopt two-stage frameworks on HIE dataset.

We first investigate the performance of different detection backbone and framework on HIE dataset, including backbone: ResNet152~\cite{he2016deep}, ResNeXt101~\cite{xie2017aggregated} and SeNet154~\cite{hu2018squeeze}, and different framework: Faster-RCNN~\cite{ren2015faster}, Cascade R-CNN~\cite{cai2018cascade}, and Feature-Pyramid Networks (FPN)~\cite{lin2017feature}. The experimental results on different backbone and methods are given in Table~\ref{tab:det_methods}. The baseline model is Faster RCNN with ResNet50, and we search hyper-parameters on the baseline model then apply to the larger backbone. From table~\ref{tab:det_methods}, we can find that the better backbone (ResNet152 and ResNeXt101) and combining advanced methods (Cascade and FPN) can improve the detection performance, but the SENet154 does not get better performance than ResNet152 even it has superior classification performance on ImageNet. So in our final detection solution, we only adopt ResNet152 and ResNeXt101 as the backbone.

\begin{table}[]
\begin{center}
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\caption{The effects of using extra data for human detection on HIE dataset.}
\begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
 \toprule
 Validation set & AP (\%) & MMR (\%) \\
 \midrule
 HIE data & 61.68 & 74.01 \\
 HIE + COCO person &65.83 & 69.75\\
 HIE + CityPerson &63.71 & 67.43\\
 HIE + CrowdHuman &\textbf{78.22} & \textbf{58.33}\\
 HIE + self-collected data &\textbf{69.39} & \textbf{60.82}\\
 HIE + CrowdHuman + COCO + CityPerson &78.53 & 58.63\\
 \textbf{HIE + CrowdHuman + self-collected data}  &\textbf{81.03} & \textbf{55.58}\\
 HIE + all extra data &81.36 & 55.17\\
 \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:det_data}
\end{center}
\vspace{-4mm}
\end{table}

\subsection{Extra Data for HIE}
In the original train data, there are 764k person bounding boxes in 19 videos with 32.9k frames, and the testing set contains 13 videos with 15.1k frames. Considering the limited number of videos and duplicated image frames, the diversity of train data is not enough. And the train data and test data have many different scenes, thus extra data is crucial for training a superior detection model. Here we investigate the effects of different human detection dataset on HIE, including all the person images in COCO (COCO person, 64k images with 262k boxes)~\cite{lin2014microsoft}, CityPerson (2.9k image with 19k boxes)~\cite{zhang2017citypersons}, CrowndHuman (15k images with 339k boxes)~\cite{shao2018crowdhuman} and self-collected data (2k images with 30k boxes). We investigate the effects on different data based on Faster-RCNN with ResNet50 as the backbone. The experimental results are shown in Table~\ref{tab:det_data}. We can find that the CrowdHuman dataset achieves the most improvement compared with other datasets, because the CrowdHuman is the most similar dataset with HIE, and both of the two datasets contain plenty of crowded scenes. COCO person contains two times of images than HIE train data, but merging the COCO person does not bring significant improvement and suffer more than three times train time, thus we only merge HIE with CrowdHuman and self-collected data to take a trade-off between detection performance and train time.

\begin{table}[]
\begin{center}
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\caption{Detection in Crowded Scenes on HIE dataset.}
\begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
 \toprule
 Validation set & AP (\%) & MMR (\%)\\
 \midrule
 ResNet50 + Faster RCNN + extra data & 81.36 & 55.17 \\
 + emd loss  &81.73 & 53.20\\
 + refine module &81.96 & 50.85\\
 + set NMS &82.05 & 49.63\\
 \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:det_crowded}
\end{center}
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\end{table}

\subsection{Detection in Crowded Scenes}

As there are lots of crowded scenes in HIE2020 dataset, the highly-overlapped instances are hard to detect for the current detection framework. We apply a method aiming to predict instances in crowded scenes~\cite{chu2020detection}, named as ``CrowdDet''. The key idea of CrowdDet is to let each proposal predict a set of correlated instances rather than a single one as the previous detection method. The CrowdDet includes three main contributions for crowded-scenes detection: (1) an EMD loss to minimize the set distance between the two sets of proposals~\cite{tang2014detection}; (3). Set NMS, it will skip normal NMS suppression when two bounding boxes come from the same proposal, which has been proved works in crowded detection; (2). A refine module that takes the combination of predictions and the proposal feature as input, then performs a second round of predicting. We conduct experiments to test the three parts on HIE2020 dataset, and the results are shown in Table~\ref{tab:det_crowded}. Based on the results in the Table, we can find that the three parts do improve the performance in crowded detection. Meanwhile, we apply KD regularization~\cite{yuan2019revisit} in the class's logits of the detection model, which can consistently improve the detection results by 0.5\%-1.4\%.

Finally, based on the above analysis, we train two detection models on HIE by combining extra data with the crowded detection framework: (1). ResNet152 + Cascade RCNN + extra data + emd loss + refine module + set NMS + KD regularization, whose AP is 83.21; (2). ResNeXt101 + Cascade RCNN + extra data + emd loss + refine module + set NMS + KD regularization, whose AP is 83.78;  Then two models are fused with weights 1:1.

\section{Person-level Action Recognition}
The HIE ~\cite{hie2020} training set contains 33559 human action instances from 14 action categories. The actions are annotated for all individuals in every 20 frames, we call the frames which contain action annotations as the \textbf{key frames}. As mentioned in ~\cite{hie2020}, the distribution of all action classes is extremely unbalanced. Some action classes such as running-alone, running-together, sitting-talking, fighting and fall-over each have less than 400 action instances, while there are 11.7k actions labeled as walking-alone. Moreover, the spatial sizes of the persons in HIE only occupy less than 2\% of the area of the whole frame on average. Therefore it is an extremely challenging task to perform spatio-temporal action localization on this dataset. To mitigate the problem of lack of data, we collected some extra data as mentioned previously and annotated around 2.9k action instances on them.

Next, we will describe the methods we used for the person-level action recognition task. For every key frame, We first sample frames temporally-centered around the key frame to form a short trimmed video clip. The trimmed clip is then fed into the backbone video feature extractor model which outputs feature maps representing the video clip. We then apply RoIAlign~\cite{he2017mask} along the spatial dimensions, and global average pooling along the temporal dimension following ~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast} to extract features for each person. The person features of the current clip together with the features in the neighbor clips are then combined for a few interaction modules for the final action prediction.

\subsection{Action detection Model}
We employ the Asynchronous Interaction Aggregation (AIA) network~\cite{aia2020} as the main action detection model for this task. The backbone of the model is SlowFast 8×8 ResNet-101 (SlowFast8x8-R101) ~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast} which is pretrained on the Kinetics-700 dataset~\cite{k700}. The whole AIA model (with dense serial Interaction Aggregation) is then trained on the AVA dataset~\cite{gu2018ava} which is a large-scale spatio-temporal action localization dataset. We take the AVA trained model open-sourced by the authors of AIA~\cite{aia2020} as our base model. As the actions in HIE are all human-centric and have no interactions with other objects, unlike the actions in AVA, we remove the person-object interactions modules in the AIA. Moreover, as the duration for each video in HIE is much shorter than AVA, and the movement of the persons are generally much quicker in HIE, we reduce the number of neighbor clip $L$ to 1 for the temporal interactions in AIA.

\subsection{Dataset split}
We tried splitting the dataset by videos to train and validation set similarly to the detection training. However, several action labels would have very few positive instances in the training and/or validation set, which makes it hard to evaluate performance using this kind of split strategy. Therefore, we performed a few rounds of initial experiments with the above train-validation split to verify the correctness of our implementation. After that, we switch to training with the full training set without validation, and perform testing on the official testing set given.

\subsection{Training Details}
For each trimmed clip around a key frame, we sample 32 frames and 8 frames within the clip for the slow and fast branch in the feature extractor respectively. For the spatial dimensions, during training, we resize the shorter side of the frames to a length randomly sampled from (320, 352, 384, 416, 448), and pad the longer side to 2.5 times of the shorter side. We apply bounding box jittering of 10\% and random horizontal flipping to improve the generalization ability. We use a dropout rate of 0.2 before the classification prediction, and employ the binary cross-entropy loss on sigmoid activated logits as supervision during training. Training is performed with SGD optimizer for a total of 160k iterations with BatchNorm~\cite{ioffe2015batch} statistics being frozen. We train each model on 8 GPUs with 2 clips per GPU, which makes the total batch-size 16. The initial learning rate is 0.01, and is reduced by a factor of 10 after 96k and 128k iterations. We warm-up the learning rate linearly for the first 2k iterations following~\cite{aia2020}.

\subsection{Weighted sampling}
Due the lack of training samples for some classes, we observed that the score distribution for the rare classes is near zero after the training. To mitigate the imbalance problem among the action classes, we perform weighted clip sampling during training where we assign higher weights to clips that contain rare actions (such as sitting, running, etc) and lower weights to clips that contain frequent actions (such as walking and standing). After applying the weighted sampling strategy, the ratio of the number of occurrence of maximum sampled action to the minimum sampled action is reduced from around 120 to around 10 during training.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\end{center}
\subfigure{
\includegraphics[scale=0.0535]{25_rgb.jpg}}
\subfigure{
\includegraphics[scale=0.16]{30_rgb.jpg}}
\caption{Scene parsing visualization for video 25 and 30. }
\label{fig:visualization}
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\end{figure}

\subsection{Inference Details}
For inference, the process is similar to that of training, except that instead of ground-truth person boxes, we used the predicted person boxes to perform RoIAlign after the feature extraction. We performed multi-scale and flip testing with 5 scales at (320, 352, 384, 416, 448), and average the predictions scores as the prediction output by the model. For the final submission, we made we only used one single AIA (SlowFast8x8-R101) model without a multi-model ensemble.

We noticed that certain actions such as walking-up-down-stairs is closely related to staircases in the scene, as they are supposed to be. We can confidently say that the action label of a person is walking-up-down-stairs when the person is above the staircase. Therefore, we use a semantic segmentation model trained on the ADE20K~\cite{zhou2016semantic, zhou2017scene} dataset to perform scene parsing on the videos, so that we can re-weight the scores depending on the location of the person bounding box in the scene. Figure ~\ref{fig:visualization} are the visualizations of scene parsing of hm\_in\_passage (ID:25) and hm\_in\_stair (ID:30) respectively.

Moreover, certain similar actions such as walking-together, running-together and gathering are group actions that require other people to be physically around. Therefore depending on the maximum intersection-over-union (IoU) among the neighbor person boxes to the target person bounding box, we re-weight the score from 'together' actions to the corresponding 'alone' actions if there is no other person around the target person.

\section{Person-level Action Recognition Results}
Our final submission achieved 26.05\% wf-mAP@avg on the official testing set, which ranked 1st in the competition. The detailed results for each video and the overall performance of the top two teams are shown in table \ref{tab:act_result}. As we can see we perform much better on a few videos such as hm\_in\_bus, hm\_in\_subway\_station, hm\_in\_fighting4 and hm\_in\_restaurant. However, there are also several videos that we did not perform as well as the 2nd place submission, such as the hm\_in\_dining\_room2 video. We suspect that this is because our person detection model is able to detect persons even when they are occluded, but it is hard for the downstream action model to classify the actions correctly, hence hurting the overall performance.

\begin{table} [t]
\fontsize{8pt}{12pt}\selectfont
\begin{center}
\caption{The top-2 results of HIE2020 testing set. The evaluation metric is wf-mAP@avg(\%).}
\label{tab:act_result}
\begin{tabular}{l|r|r}
\toprule
Video Name & 1st Place (Ours) & 2nd Place (VM) \\
\midrule
hm\_in\_waiting\_hall    & 27.57  & 23.90 \\
hm\_in\_bus              & 49.30  & 4.73  \\
hm\_in\_dining\_room2    & 12.23  & 16.71 \\
hm\_in\_lab2             & 36.27  & 37.87 \\
hm\_in\_subway\_station  & 28.89  & 10.07 \\
hm\_in\_passage          & 29.77  & 22.20 \\
hm\_in\_fighting4        & 44.10  & 22.08 \\
hm\_in\_shopping\_mall3  & 31.36  & 41.08 \\
hm\_in\_restaurant       & 20.61  & 10.18 \\
hm\_in\_accident         & 32.78  & 27.99 \\
hm\_in\_stair3           & 29.87  & 30.03 \\
hm\_in\_crossroad        & 57.92  & 49.08 \\
hm\_in\_robbery          & 17.36  & 11.79 \\
\midrule
Overall & \textbf{26.05} & 25.48 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\vspace{-5mm}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, we describe the approach we used in the Person-level Action Recognition in Complex Events track in the HIE2020 Challenge, which achieved 1st place on the testing set. The overall framework is similar to other state-of-the-art spatio-temporal action localization methods where we first detect the persons in some key frames, and then perform action classification using with the help of 3D RoIAlign on the features extracted on a trimmed video clip. We perform extensive experiments and tuning for our person detector which helps to reduce the number of possible false negatives due to missing to localize a person. Then we employ a state-of-the-art action detection model and trained with extra self-collected data in addition to the whole training set. Furthermore, we add some post-processing operations according to human understanding of the actions.

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California Public Utilities Officials Investigated – Is Michigan Next?
by David Sheldon
(REVISED 2/19/15)
In photo above California State Senator Jerry Hill, flanked by Assemblyman Kevin Mullen and San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane call September 15th, 2014 for an investigation of communications between CPUC and PG&E.
A story reported first by Mercury News on January 29th, 2015 and again by Contra Costa Times on January 30th, reveals that search warrants were served by state police on the home of Michael Peevy, former Chairman of California Public Service Commission (CPUC), and on the home of Brian Cherry, former CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). These warrants were served in the wake of a steadily increasing drumbeat of news outlets calling for a criminal investigation of these two. For example, columnist Thomas Elias of the Santa Monica Mirror had urged in his January 25th column that a federal grand jury be convened. Other media have been calling for a state level investigation in the wake of mounting evidence of highly improper communications between the utility and its regulators from 65,000 emails released by PG&E in response to public pressure.
These emails came to public attention following a demand by CPUC staff last September that Peevy resign over a scandal involving administrative judge shopping.
The emails revealed a cozy relationship between Chairman Peevey of the CPUC and Brian Cherry CEO of one of the largest utilities that CPUC was supposed to be regulating. Some of the emails revealed that Cherry had enlisted Peevey's help in ensuring that the right administrative judge would preside over a billion dollar rate case. Peevey in turn had made it clear to Cherry that substantial donations of funds were expected in return for such a favor.
"A search warrant in this type of case is a very serious step," said Peter Henning, a law professor with Detroit-based Wayne University. "You have to convince a judge that there is probable cause that a crime was committed at the locations that were searched. It indicates a fear that evidence might disappear. The prosecutors are driving this."
(The following paragraph has been revised based on new information to insure Sandi Mauer receives credit for the smart meter investigation of Peevey emails)
While smart meter issues have not been front and center in these investigations as yet, an examination of the 65,000 emails is ongoing with the work being conducted mostly by Sandi Maurer of the EMF Safety Network with support from Stop Smart Meters. Josh del Sol, producer of the film "Take Back Your Power" recently reported some of the interesting facts unearthed by Sandi's investigation. She found clear evidence that Peevy and Cherry knew of the harm to health that could be caused by smart meters as far back as 2010, yet did their best to keep this information from the public. In the email below, for example, Peevy makes a suggestion to Cherry as to how PG&E could best minimize this problem by quietly letting some customers opt-out if they could produce a doctor's letter.
There is also evidence in the email below, from Cherry, that there was an understanding the CPUC would delay any decision on smart meters until after all these new meters were installed:
There are so many parallels to the Michigan situation one scarcely knows where to begin. Too cozy a relationship between our PUC officials and the industry they are regulating? Putting industry interests above the interests of the utility customers? Judge shopping?
Those of us involved in the smart meter resistance have seen, time and again, that our own Public Service Commission clearly favors the interests of Michigan's two largest utilities over the public interest they are supposed to be protecting.
Michigan has a system of administrative judges who are supposed to be independent of the agencies whose cases they hear. These judges are employed by a separate state agency known as Michigan Administrative Hearing System (MAHS). Yet we see, in case after case, that cases involving PSC business are steered to the same judges. In the decisions of these judges we find the same pro industry biases that we find in the Commission itself.
The Commission and its appointed judges have shown, in a series of cases, to be deaf to the cries of those who are being harmed by this pernicious smart meter technology, while practically genuflecting to the big utility companies. They have refused to hold any evidentiary hearings on health issues related to the new meters. They have refused to adopt a meaningful opt-out program that would actually protect electro-sensitive customers, preferring instead to institute a sham opt-out policy that plays right into the hands of the utilities they are supposed to be regulating. They have refused to institute real privacy protections for utility customers, preferring instead to allow the utilities to gather up private information and store it permanently in huge databases. While we may not have unearthed a financial quid pro quo as yet, all the other indicators of collusion are plain for all to see.
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5 thoughts on "California Public Utilities Officials Investigated – Is Michigan Next?"
Josette Vettel on February 17, 2015 at 12:00 pm said:
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2009 had 37 treatments of radiation due to cancer. they installed a smart meter on the back of my wall of my bedroom and I woke up with active radiation burns on my body I called to complain to the SCE and they said they would report it . never got a response if any of you go to DARK SIDE OF SMART METER AND SEE WHAT THIS KILLER IS DOING ALL OVER THE STATE OF CA
I AM NOW LIVING IN GULFPORT FLA. AND I DON'T REALLY THINK THEY ARE AWEAR OF THIS KILLING MACHINE. Find out that every six to eight minutes radiation purges into our homes to slow down the radiation to prevent the speed of the purge we tale five layers of thick of aluminum f foil and tape it up in front of the wall where the meter is. If we want to have our old meter returned it cost us a 75.00 one time fee of $10.00 added onto our monthly bill.
what these men sow they will reap thank you God for bringing them down.
Richard Leschen on February 16, 2015 at 9:05 pm said:
This latest Michigan Stop Smart Meters report reveals absolutely shocking goings on with Mr Michael Peevey of CPUC. With any luck, no matter what cunning lawyers he hires he should I hope be soundly beaten.
He has seemingly never shown any Lawful care or consideration for peoples' health or welfare. You may think that what I say here is a terrible indictment on Mr Michael Peevey, but he has brought it upon his own head..
We here in Victoria Australia are going through a similar HELL. Fortunately I have my Electric Meter Box still padlocked with a very stiff padlock to keep my Passive Analog Meter safe and my " STOP do not install an Electric Smart Meter" signs on my Electricity Meter Box.
Richard Meltzer on February 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm said:
Right On, Dave! Good one!
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:26:09 +0000 To: richard_meltzer@hotmail.com
Warren Woodward on February 15, 2015 at 11:43 am said:
I suspect corruption in Arizona as well and have asked the FBI to investigate. Read about it here: http://www.sedona.biz/editorial-and-opinion/letter-to-the-editor/letter-to-the-editor-corruption-at-the-acc/
KIP HILBERT on February 15, 2015 at 7:30 am said:
I hope so! Dee


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Reps. James P. McGovern and Christopher H. Smith, Co-Chiars of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of 92 lawmakers urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to support a repaid transfer of power to a civilin-led transitional government in Sudan.
Members of Congress to Pompeo: It's Time to Implement Tibet Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Reps. James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) released a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, signed by 32 Members of Congress, urging the Trump Administration to promptly implement key legislation passed by Congress to guide United States policy on Tibet.
Co-Chairs Welcome Ouster of al-Bashir and Call for Civilian Government in Sudan
Apr 11, 2019 Press Release
Washington, D.C. -- Co-Chairs Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) issued a statement welcoming, with guarded optimism, the news that Sudanese President and longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir has been ousted and call for calm to prevail, and calling the formation of an inclusive interim, civilian government, and a transition to democracy.
Co-Chairs Urge Strong Measures to Counter Rights Abuses in Xinjiang, China
Apr 3, 2019 Press Release
Washington, D.C. - Today Reps. James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, with U.S.
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Think of the Boston Bruins.
Think of the standard-bearers for that organization in recent years. The hulking presence of Zdeno Chara springs to mind, as does the machine-like dominance of Patrice Bergeron. There's Brad Marchand, with his antics and his goal scoring. There's Tuukka Rask, who's either maligned or beloved, depending on the month. There's the next wave of Bruins stars like David Pastrnak, their brilliant young winger, and Charlie McAvoy, their 21-year-old defenseman.
David Krejci's name isn't always evoked when discussing what makes the Bruins a consistent contender in the NHL. Perhaps it's because he's a center playing in Bergeron's shadow, or because we don't heap praise on middle men who have hit 70 points only once in their careers and make $7.25 million against the cap, making Krejci the team's highest-paid forward.
Yet Krejci has had a regular gig with the Bruins for 13 seasons. At 839 games played, he's just 21 appearances away from cracking the top 10 for the Bruins in that category. This season's been exceptional for him, with a 0.86 points-per-game average thanks in part to 41 assists. That he's been this effective as a playmaker with the parade of different wingers on his line -- Krejci's seen more Bruins this season than an admissions officer at UCLA -- is equally exceptional.
We caught up with Krejci recently to discuss the team's success this season, his countrymen and the recent birth of his son.
ESPN: Congratulations to you and your wife, Naomi, on the birth of your son back in January. I know it's your second child after already having a daughter, so are things a little easier this time?
David Krejci: It's fun having two, one of each, but at this stage he doesn't really do much. Our daughter is going to be 4 in the summer.
ESPN: Was it tougher this time having the delivery during the season, rather than the offseason?
Krejci: It was a little bit different. But also really harder on my wife. Obviously, at the end of the season, you have a lot of open time. This time around, she has a newborn and a 3½-year-old at home. It's definitely challenging ... I don't know how the women do it. I try to help out, try to be there for her on the road. But she's sacrificed so much ... it's crazy. She deserves so much credit. I love coming home to see them when I'm on the road. Can't wait to get back home.
ESPN: There are such expectations for the Bruins this season, but it appears you guys are locked into a matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs. That's arguably the second and third best teams in the conference meeting in the first round. Does that format bother you?
Krejci: Maybe when they first started this format a few years back, it did. But now we've accepted it. If you want to win the Cup, you have to beat the best teams. So at the end of the day, the format doesn't really matter. Maybe down the road they can change the format again. We'll see. Right now, we have to focus on this, secure home-ice advantage. It looks like Toronto, but who knows? We have a few games left here.
ESPN: As far as your season goes, you've managed to put up some of the best offensive numbers of your career while playing with an ever-changing cast of linemates, from Jake DeBrusk to Brad Marchand to Charlie Coyle. How do you handle that lack of consistency on your line?
Krejci: For me, nothing really changes much. Obviously with different players, the chemistry's not always there, so you have to simplify your game, which I've had to do recently. But I just have to get ready, play my A-game and try to help my teammates out. When I play well, I make my linemates better.
Krejci: He's a great friend of mine, and a great player. Obviously, speaking the same language always helps. There's always someone you can talk to when something's on your mind. But he also gets along with everyone else on the team. His English was good after playing two years in Sweden. Just a great kid.
ESPN: You called him a "kid." What's the dynamic between you two? Friends? Big brother, little brother?
Krejci: I think we're just buddies. Maybe when he first came here and he was 18, I was a big brother as I showed him the ropes. But he's one of the leaders of this team now, though he's 23 years old. Right now, I wouldn't say it's not father and son or anything like that. We're just buddies, enjoying each other's company on and off the ice.
ESPN: He's a bit of a goofball.
Krejci: He's different. Definitely lots of energy in him, which is fun to be around. He brings the kid out in you.
ESPN: Speaking of goofy stuff, what was it like last year when your former teammate Johnny Boychuk, now with the Islanders, returned a tooth you had lost on the ice to the Bruins' bench?
Krejci: [Laughs] I didn't know about it until after the game. Those teeth were already fake. I couldn't put them back in. So I had to go to the dentist for a few hours, which wasn't fun. Johnny's a good friend of mine, so I appreciated the gesture. But I still had to get new teeth. And then a couple of weeks later in San Jose, I got them knocked out again on what was an innocent play. I found them on the ice, the ref gave them to me and I put them right back in.
ESPN: Finally, I wanted to ask you about another countryman: 47-year-old Jaromir Jagr. Can you believe he's still playing professionally?
Krejci: No, I cannot. It's pretty impressive. I know he hasn't played much this year because of injury, but he's playing with Kladno in the second division and trying to get them back in the first, into the top tiers. They have to win one more playoff game, and then they have a shot at moving up again. I played for them one year before heading to junior in Canada. Obviously, I wish them the best. The city's nice.
ESPN: What did it mean for you to play with Jagr in Boston?
Krejci: Obviously, it was great, and going all the way to the Cup Final was pretty special. We were so close: one game away from a Game 7. If we had won, to celebrate with a player like [Jagr] would have been incredible. Maybe we could have shared our day with the Cup. That was definitely something I was thinking about when we were in the Final, but unfortunately it didn't happen. Growing up, all you saw and heard was Jagr. All the highlights was just him. So it was awesome to be able to skate alongside him.


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Duke of Bridgewater, 63 & 65 Graham street, St Luke N1
Until at least 1869, the address of this pub was given as Macclesfield Road. Probably rebuilt in the 1930s and formerly known as the Dove Regent, this has been converted to residential use, probably in the 2000s. ***
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1839/Richard Stephen Griffiths/../../../Pigot's Directory **
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1847/Thomas Browning / Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era, Sunday 9 May 1847 **
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1869/Henry Basten/../../../Post Office Directory
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January 1869/Sarah Emily Basten, widow of Henry Basten/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1871/William Woods/Licensed Victualler/23/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1871/Emma R Woods/Wife/17/Lambeth, Surrey/Census
1871/Hannah Woods/Mother, Housekeeper, Widow/57/Woodham, Essex/Census
1871/George Praeter/Barman/24/Bethnal Green, Middlesex/Census
1871/William Harley/Potman/23/Surbey, Bedfordshire/Census
1871/Mary A Moss/Lodger, Machinist/27/Doctors Common, Middlesex/Census
1881/Thom P Neal/Manager Of Public House/27/St Pancras, Middlesex/Census
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1881/Blanche M Williams/Sister In Law/19/Dublin, Ireland/Census
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1881/Eliz Chilsan/Domestic Servant/24/St Lukes, Middlesex/Census
1881/David Thomas/Barman & Potman/23/Wimbledon, Surrey/Census
1882/H G Reeve/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/Hastungs J Reeve/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Rowland Hirst & Co/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/Rowland Hirst & Co./../../../Post Office Directory *
1899/Harry James Carter/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/Harry Charles Carter/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/Emma Carter of the Duke of Bridgwater 65 Graham Street City Road Middlesex widow died 29 December 1917 Administration London 15 February to Harry Charles Truelove Carter licensed victualler. Effects £78./Probate
1915/Harry Charles Carter/../../../Post Office Directory *
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1938/Pioneer Catering Co Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
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Veedevadu movie starring sachin joshi and Eesha gupta in lead roles is produced by sachin Joshi himself. Thus movie is being made on a huge budget of 21 cr.
Sachin joshi and Eesha took 1 cr each as remunerations, ss thaman took 1 cr, other actors and technicians took 3 cr.
The makers spent a huge 10 cr on the production and those values are clearly visible in the trailer. They also spent 5 cr for the marketing as the film is releasing in hindi and Telugu simultaneously.
So, the total budget of the movie is 21 cr.


Cole Snyder, a Project Engineer from Apollo's Portland office has been promoted to Project Manager. He has been with Apollo for 2 and a half years, and is originally from Richland, WA.
Prior to coming to work for Apollo, Cole worked for a design firm in Richland, but wanted to try something new. Cole says "I'm glad I made the change. The projects I currently work on are for a confidential client in Hillsboro, OR. Considering i have an engineering background, my favorite part of this role is the design assist we provide. We have the opportunity to provide a better product for our customer, which definately is rewarding. Also, our team is full of great people."
Cole is currently engaged to be married in June, and enjoys fishing, hunting and golfing.


This reminds me that I should visit a Baskin Robbins again soon. There is one here, but not as close to where I live.
Where is your favorite place to grab on the go dessert?
Share with me and enter below to win!
I like Peanut butter and chocolate.
My favorite is their s'mores ice cream. It's not always on the menu, unfortunately.
I do love most of them though. Don't think I Have ever had one I didn't like!


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El paquete update -- Cuba's largest private employer?
For several years, I've been tracking Cuba's "paquete semanal," a weekly distribution of entertainment, software, games, news, etc. on portable hard disks and flash drives.
I've noted that the compilation and distribution of the material is well organized and complete, leading to speculation that it is run by the Cuban government -- it generates revenue, provides jobs and acts as an "opiate of the masses" -- who needs the Internet when you have el paquete? (There is precedent -- there used to be a government storefront in Havana where one could bring floppy disks and get copies of the latest software releases).
Even if the government does not run el paquete, they turn a blind eye to its very visible advertising and distribution. In return, the package (like the illegal local area networks) does not include any politically sensitive material.
ABC News reports that el paquete is Cuba's number one private employer, bringing in $4 million a month:
They do not cite their sources, but it is not an outlandish claim. I don't know how many people are employed in the private sector, but, considering the goofy list of jobs that are eligible for self-employment, it is believable that this popular, ubiquitous service could be the leading private employer.
And $4 million a month does not sound like a lot of revenue for such a widespread operation. According to the ABC report, terabyte hard drives with the week's material are delivered to customer's homes for 5 CUC (about $6.50). The subscriber copies as much as he or she wants and the drive is picked up the next day. That subscriber may, in turn, distribute material to others on flash drives or their own portable hard disks.
Elio Hector Lopez, who claims to be the head of el paquete, described a different price structure in a Forbes interview:
Most customers get the drive at home, where they exchange it for last week's drive and the equivalent of $1.10 to $2.20. (Distributors selling to other distributors charge ten times as much.)
Regardless, $4 million seems plausible. Lopez went on to say that the original founding group had broken up, but evaded the interviewer's questions about operational details.
The following video gives a view of the distribution of el paquete:
It includes an interview of "Dany Paquete" (shown above), a 26-year old "who looks more like a lazy college sophomore than a kingpin of a national blackmarket of pirated media." He is one of two competing national distributors in Havana.
The documentary does not disclose details on the gathering of information, but suggests that editors in Miami and Havana select movies, music, etc. each week.
Dany sounds more like an MBA business man than a drug dealer and is unafraid to appear on camera. The Cuban government clearly tolerates el paquete. Even if officials are not being paid off, it satisfies many consumers, making them less likely to press for open Internet access. Had he been writing today, Karl Marx would have said "el paquete is the opium of the masses."
I recently had an opportunity to ask a senior State Department spokesman whether el paquete copyright violation had come up during discussions with the Cubans and he said "no," but the agenda of Bilateral Commission includes discussion of claims for damages. The focus will no doubt be on Cuban claims for damages resulting from the embargo and US claims for nationalized property -- might that be stretched to include "Orange is the New Black?"
A recent news report sheds light on the economics of el paquete distribution. It features the video shown below -- an interview of an anonymous distributor of el paquete to end users. He pays $2 a week for the paquete and the price he charges his customers is a function of the amount of data they copy. For example, eight Gbytes costs 10 Cuban pesos, about 50 cents. To become a distributor, he had to invest in a computer -- an old tower PC -- and portable external hard drives.
Distributing el paquete is a side job. He earns about $32 a month, which he uses to buy extra food -- and he sees the latest episode of his favorite TV shows.
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Q: How do I remove the roots from this term? $|\sqrt{(x-c)^2+y^2}-\sqrt{(x+c)^2+y^2}|=2\frac{c}{e}$
Is there a way to remove the roots from the first term, so that there are no roots at all in the equation? But without substituting anything.

A: You can square both sides, which removes the absolute value sign.  That will leave you with the cross term, which is $-2 \sqrt {[(x-c)^2+y^2][(x+c)^2+y^2]}$. Put everything else on the other side and square again.  The square roots will be gone.  Whether this is the easiest way to get where you are going is for you to judge, but the roots are gone.

A: you can make the analogous to hyperbola,
$\frac{x^2}{a^2}-\frac{y^2}{b^2}=0$
then substitute $a=\frac{c}{e}$ and $b=\sqrt{(\frac{c}{e})^2(e^2-1)}$

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but this story must be recorded before I forget the horror of it all.
if you weren't so exhausted, sick, stressed, and about to cry.
of the passing of my paternal grandfather.
where we would spend Christmas with Jeff's family.
he was 87, and in a lot of pain. It was time for him to go home to Jesus.
his funeral was scheduled for the following Thursday.
and started the 16 hour journey to Albuquerque...at 6pm mind you.
Thankfully my husband agreed to splitting it over the course of 2 days.
with her frequent flyer miles so Jia and I could attend the funeral.
then we realized we had no documentation for her.
We thought we had to have her birth certificate to prove she was mine.
Nope, we just needed a document with her birthday to prove she was under 2.
Don't worry! The airlines aren't looking out for our children!
They're looking out for themselves. Shocking, I know.
and came up with NOTHING with this little girl's birth date.
So we decided to wing it at the airline check in.
And I was prepared to use fake tears if it came to that.
It did not, but it was close.
they begrudgingly gave me a boarding pass for her.
Next hurdle (and panic attack), security.
We made it through no problem.
instead of my infant daughter. Who is CLEARLY not 2.
Anyway, all crises were avoided.
Jia was amazing on the first flight.
She talked, flirted, played, and fought her nap.
I glance down at Jia sitting in her stroller and she is gagging.
And puking. All. Over. Herself.
but I thought Jia and I had managed to escape the bug.
Not so much. It was just waiting to reveal itself at the most amazing time possible.
So. I practically RUN to the bathroom.
Have I mentioned its the day after Christmas?
And one of the busiest days of the year to fly?
Yeah, throw that in there too.
as I rushed past them with my daughter covered in puke.
I stripped her down and tried to clean her up as much as possible.
and stuck an extra outfit in my bag - something I really never do.
with public bathroom paper towels and a sick baby in my arms.
and was begging God to please let her be done.
which I caught with her blanket. Awesome.
and passed out in my arms. And slept the rest of the flight.
and wondering what the hell she was going to do if she did.
SO. Are ya still with me??
in search of the car that had been left there for me.
dreaming of a bath for my daughter and hot shower for myself.
only to find out that I WAS AT THE WRONG HOTEL.
So I drive further down the road to a tiny motel.
Get to the room I'm sharing with my sister and almost lose it for real this time.
but all I can think about is getting my poor sick baby clean and in bed.
and so that I can attend my grandpa's funeral in the morning.
The next thing I knew it was morning and I was puke free.
I was weak, achy and had a headache but I'll take that any day over puking.
as we wait for our boys to get home.
There is no moral to this story. In case you were wondering.
Just a typical day in the life of a mom.
missing my 3 year old's birthday.


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Norman Joseph Davis (4 August 1904 – 26 August 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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1966 deaths
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Amy Kolman
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We are excited to announce that Amy Kolman will join VES as Dean of Students. Amy is coming to us from the Leysin American School in Switzerland, where she has been the Associate Dean of Students since 2016. Prior to Leysin, she worked for eight years as the Assistant Head of Middle School at the Hun School, a private boarding and day school in Princeton, New Jersey. She also has many years of experience as an English teacher, debate coach, advisor, teacher on duty in girls' dorms and providing support in faculty training and development. She attended the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, majoring in English and swimming for their Division I team. She earned her M.Ed. in Secondary School English from Saint Joseph's University. Amy met her husband, Mark, at Tennessee where he also was a D1 swimmer. Mark has 17 years in education, and has worked at Leysin for the past five, where he is Dean of the Savoy Campus (grades 7 – 10) and Director of the Summer in Switzerland program. Amy and Mark have two daughters, one at Clemson and the other is a graduate of Duke University.
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James "Trae" Watkins, VES class of 2008 and a Lynchburg, Virginia native, is excited to serve as Assistant Dean of Students/Coordinator of Equity and Inclusion. He also will teach one section of psychology, live on Randolph dormitory and serve as an assistant coach for football. Trae graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Psychology from Virginia Military Institute. You might already know Trae because he often comes to campus to speak with us about diversity issues and to work with our minority students twice a month to provide support, empowerment and awareness on a variety of topics involving race. For the last few years, Trae has worked as a Qualified Mental Health Professional in Richmond, assisting at-risk youth in achieving a healthy home and community environment through reducing adverse behaviors. He employs short-term treatment strategies to strengthen child, parent and teacher relations. Trae will live on campus with his fiancé (soon-to-be wife), Kanikia, and 7-year-old son, Christian.
Janet Grattan
jgrattan@ves.org
Director of Student Activities & International Student Coordinator/Advisor, Student Council
ejohnson@ves.org
See How We Roll
Fall Bonfire
Advisory Dinner
Sharp Top Hike
Camaraderie
Paintball Wars
VA 10 Miler
Back to School Dance
Everyday Student Life
Student life at VES is happening everywhere you turn...before school starts in the morning, during class breaks, in chapel and Fine Arts Fridays, and when the class day ends. Faculty and students spend time together participating in sports, the arts or a myriad of other offerings that allow them to pursue a particular interest or passion.
On the weekends, students want to stay at VES! They take advantage of regularly planned trips to the nearby mountains for hiking or skiing, play paintball on our extensive campus, and take the VES buses to Starbucks, the mall and movie theaters. School dances are routine, as well as game nights, talent shows, baking cookies, and enjoying downtime with each other. Our school's small size makes impromptu activities possible too. A teacher might make a late-night run to the local diner for Cheezy Westerns. A group of faculty wants to share their interest in film and hosts movie nights followed by discussion in our theatre. Art shows downtown attract students and faculty for dinner and gallery hopping.
On dorm, boarding students participate in a robust Residential Life curriculum delivered to students by student leaders. Topics range from school culture to healthy decision-making, conflict management to appreciating diversity and different perspectives, and—yes, moms!—even how to do laundry.
PORTRAIT OF A VES GRADUATE
A College Preparatory, Independent Boarding and Day School for Students in Grades 9-12
400 VES Road, Lynchburg, VA 24503 • 434.385.3600


The purpose of passwords is a simple yet powerful one -- preventing unauthorized access to your computer. Setting login passwords is easy on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) -- simply follow the step-by-step instructions below to get up and running.
Click the Apple icon in the upper left portion of the screen and choose System Preferences.
Under the System section, choose Accounts.
Using the drop-down, change Automatic login to Disabled then select how you want the prompt to appear -- as a list of users or a prompt for both name and password.
Now click the Guest Account and uncheck the boxes that read Allow guests to log in to this computer and Allow guests to connect to shared folders.
To save these changes, just close the Accounts window.
Now that you've set your password, you need to configure the general security settings to take full advantage of your system password.
You also want to be sure to turn on and properly configure the Mac OS X firewall.
And if you're new to Macs or looking for general Mac info, be sure to check out this guide to setting up your new Mac computer.


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Arkansas Department of Transportation asking holiday travelers to "know before you go"
by: Chris Counts
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) reminds drivers to "know before you go" and visit IDriveArkansas.com before traveling during the holiday season.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend you stay home as much as possible during the Coronavirus pandemic, but if you choose to travel there are several things to consider before you go. Visit the CDC's webpage on Travel in the US for their official guidance.
Drivers should exercise caution when approaching and traveling through all highway work zones. Additional travel information can be found at IDriveArkansas.com or ARDOT.gov.
Razorbacks Display Talent In Winning Arkansas Invitational
Solid Performances Pace Razorbacks In Team Victory
Saturday Evening Forecast Update
More State News Stories
by Kevin McPherson / Jan 16, 2021
De ja LSU? Apparently so, because for the second consecutive game Arkansas was noticably inept and overmatched against an SEC opponent as the Alabama Crimson Tide ended nearly 7 years of futility against the Razorbacks with a dominant 90-59 win Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Hogs (10-4, 2-4 SEC, NCAA NET No. 28 entering Saturday) have now lost two consecutive games by a combined margin of 47 points, which includes Wednesday's 16-point defeat at LSU in a game Arkansas trailed by 31 points in the first half. The Hogs, who trailed by as many as 36 points against the Tide, have also lost 4 of their last 5 outings with three of those defeats by double digits and an average losing margin of 20.0 points.
A lawsuit alleges Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge misuses her office to promote her political aspirations and illegally used taxpayer money.
The lawsuit filed Friday in Little Rock cites Rutledge's support of failed lawsuits seeking to overturn presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and advertisements in which she discusses her office's services.


Years before all of America fell in love with Making It's romantic, sensitive, and highly skilled quiet man Khiem Nguyen, the master craftsman who captivated judges and fans alike on Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman's new TV competition for creatives on NBC, I was lucky enough to get to know Khiem and his now-wife Amanda McKeever as fellow DIYers, dog parents, and Boston to Austin expats.
Last month, they invited me and my husband to watch the premiere with them and a few dozen other friends. The energy in the room was palpable, and it was pretty clear to all who were watching—even though we'd only seen the first 20 minutes of the first episode—Khiem was headed all the way to the finals and was destined to pick up a few million new fans along the way.
Apartment Therapy: How does it feel to have won a reality TV competition?
Khiem Nguyen: It feels crazy. I never thought I would even be on TV in the first place, let alone a reality competition show!
AT: How did you end up on Making It?
KN: I received an email through A&K Woodworking and Design and was asked to come to an open casting call in Austin. Since A&K is just me and Amanda, we didn't know if they were asking the both of us or not so we just decided to apply as a team. A few weeks after meeting some of the casting producers, we got a call back and were both accepted to move on to the next round! However, at this point they told us that we would not be able to apply as a team and so Amanda decided to not continue with the process. I somehow eventually made it through all the rounds and got accepted to be a contestant!
AT: When did filming start/end?
KN: Filming took about all of September 2017.
AT: Where was The Barn actually located?
KN: It was set up just outside of LA.
AT: Did you all stay together during filming? On the property?
KN: Yes we all stayed at the same hotel during filming. There was an extended stay hotel nearby.
AT: Was the camaraderie, collaboration, and positivity on the show as genuine as it seemed?
KN: Absolutely. It was incredibly easy for all of us to become friends right off the bat. I can't imagine how casting could have predicted our relationships but I'm sure it couldn't have gone any better! We all still talk regularly and most of us have met up with each other multiple times since filming!
AT: What was it like working with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman?
KN: It was amazing. They're both so hilarious, cool, and easy to talk to. It really felt like we were all just hanging out and there just happened to be a bunch of cameras around.
AT: Why do you think that the judges felt your work was "dark" at the outset?
KN: I have no idea, I guess it was just Simon's first thought when he looked at my terrarium project and rolled with it.
AT: Did you feel like your vision and aesthetic were more understood by the end?
KN: Yes, by the end I felt much better about how Simon and Dayna viewed my work. They definitely started to understand my concepts more clearly as the projects went on.
AT: Tell us more about doing projects with your dad, and how that influenced your career choice.
KN: My dad is a super handy guy. I don't know if there is anything he can't do. He was always working on the house or fixing things at the apartment my parents rented out. Growing up, he always wanted me to come along with him to help him with all sorts of projects and at the time I didn't really appreciate it nearly as much as I do now. He was also the one that gave me his 35mm camera, which is what ultimately lead me to decide to go to MassArt for photography. Art school then introduced me to woodworking.
AT: Did your time on the show change you as a maker? How?
KN: Making those projects on the show really reminded me of what I loved most about art school, which was creating pieces around other creative people. Since we started A&K, I've been mainly focused on trying to create for our brand. Because I'm always working on A&K now, I don't have as much free time to play and experiment with more fun personal projects. Moving forward I want to try to spend some more time being creative with good old-fashioned art projects.
AT: How long did you really get for each "faster craft" and "master craft" challenge?
KN: The timing on them varied slightly but typically it wasn't any more than 3 hours for each faster craft, and 12 hours for each master craft.
AT: What was your favorite challenge?
KN: My favorite challenge was the shed hack. I was super excited about the concept, and out of all the projects I worked on it was by far the riskiest. Before starting it, I felt like it should work but I honestly had no idea if it actually would. Thankfully it all came together and all the parts worked even better than I expected!
KN: I think all of the contestants will agree with me on this one but I was the least excited about the snack stadium challenge. None of us really have any "food crafting" experience. I cut myself twice cutting those rice krispies! We definitely all had fun with it, though.
AT: What's your most cherished patch?
KN: My most cherished patch would have to be the first one I got, for the Backyard Bonanza project. It was a turning point for me while on the show because that's when I felt like the judges started to understand my projects more.
KN: Yes, I think the lathe is my favorite tool from my time on the show! It was a total surprise to see it, because it wasn't there from the beginning. It's a lot of fun working on a lathe and anyone that has used one totally understands what I meant by "inspired by the tools", haha.
AT: Did you get to keep any of the projects that you made?
KN: No, we didn't get to keep any of the projects we made. Production talked about donating some of the projects like the kids fort and shed hack.
AT: Which of your new friends are you most likely to collaborate with in the future?
KN: I'm probably most likely to collaborate with Nicole [Sweeney] in the future, since we're both woodworkers. I'd love to collaborate with any of them though, it would be nice to work with all of them again.
AT: Which of your fellow contestant's projects do you most wish you had made?
KN: I wish I made the taco truck, that project was genius! Billy [Kheel] did such a perfect job showcasing his style plus the make-your-own felt tacos couldn't have been better. I also love tacos.
AT: Which one wowed you the most?
KN: Robert [Mahar's] Easter holiday display project. It was so polished and clean on camera but even more perfect in person! I don't know what else he could have added to it to make it any better.
AT: Which of their maker skills do you most admire/wish you possessed?
KN: Amber [Kemp-Gerstal's] crafting ability is on point! All of her projects were so amazingly well executed. Her kids fort project was especially impressive. I doubt there was a single loose thread on that circus tent.
AT: What would viewers be most surprised to learn about the show?
KN: Viewers might be surprised by how much Jimmy Diresta actually helped out on the show. He was the master helper and definitely played his part. He has so many good tips and tricks for all kinds of crafting.
AT: After meeting in college at MassArt in Boston, how did you and Amanda end up starting a business together in Austin?
KN: Throughout our time at MassArt, Amanda and I were always bouncing ideas off each other and helping each other out. When we moved to Austin, we only had a car full of our necessities. So when we got our first apartment in Austin, we decided to make our own furniture and then started photographing it. Then we decided to give ourselves a name, A&K Woodworking and Design, and it took off from there!
AT: Tell us more about A&K Woodworking and Design.
KN: A&K Woodworking and Design is our small woodworking business, and it's really just me and Amanda! We make a mix of our own designed furniture as well as custom furniture and small home goods and kitchenwares. We're looking to set up a showroom space in the near future, so stay tuned to find out more about it and when we get it up and running!
AT: Have your orders already skyrocketed after the show?
AT: What are people buying the most?
KN: Our most popular pieces are our mini-lanterns. There are currently four different designs to choose from and they make easy gifts.
AT: What does the future hold for you and Amanda (and Rowdy Sue!) and the business after your big wooden check?
KN: We're looking forward to finally taking our honeymoon to Hawaii and Japan! We also have another little pup, sweet little Lucy (a long hair chihuahua mix), and are excited to do more road trips with them! We're also super excited about setting up a showroom space for people to see more of our work in person.
Khiem: Haha, oh man, if that's what Rowdy said then consider it done!
AT: What else do you want people to know about you as a crafter/maker, your time on the show, or your business?
KN: I never could have predicted that crafting/making would get me on a TV show. It was such an amazing positive experience being on the show and I can't express how happy I am that Amy and Nick decided to host "Making It" and that I got to meet them on it! Being creative and making things with your own hands is inherently self-rewarding and healing. Everyone needs to go out and make something!


The intense flash of light and booming crack of thunder that follows a lightning strike can be exhilarating, but it's best to observe both whilke safely inside your home. As Norway's Daniel Modøl discovered while filming a storm from his deck, those unpredictable lightning bolts can strike anywhere, even 16-feet from where you're standing.
Modøl, who will probably never venture out into a storm wearing flip-flops again, wasn't fast enough to capture the near-instantaneous strike that hit his backyard, but he did manage to record the aftermath, which looks like a scorched, smoking crater in his backyard.


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Ep 32: Return of the Podcast / 2016 GotY Discussion
Ep 31: Mario on iPhone, PS4 Pro, and Nintendo 3DS
September 24, 2016 / Joe DeClara
September 24, 2016 / Joe DeClara/
Ep 30: No Man's Lie, Journey, and NX Dev Kits
Ep 29: No Man's Sky, Hearthstone, and a very old MMO
August 13, 2016 / Joe DeClara
No Man's Sky Multiplayer?
http://gamingtrend.com/2016/08/09/no-mans-sky-players-unable-to-find-each-other-on-the-same-planet/
Mario, Pokemon and Zelda within NX's first six months
http://gamingtrend.com/2016/08/04/report-mario-and-pokemon-coming-to-nx-within-first-six-months/
Priest still sucks in Hearthstone
http://kotaku.com/blizzard-pulls-terrible-hearthstone-card-from-arena-aft-1785104332
http://store.steampowered.com/app/477160/
Someone finally opened Door 999 in Tibia
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/08/tibia-door/
August 13, 2016 / Joe DeClara/
Ep 28: PokeVision, Triple A VR games, and Overwatch's watchability
Niantic statement on Pokevision
http://heavy.com/games/2016/08/pokemon-go-niantic-explain-explains-why-pokevision-was-shut-down-john-hanke-letter-response-complaints-glitches-bugs-nearby-tracker/
OverWatchability
http://www.screenwatchers.net/blog/2016/8/8/the-watchability-of-overwatch
ScreenWatchers.net
facebook.com/ScreenWatchers
twitch.tv/screenwatchersgames
screenwatchersgamescast@gmail.com
@joeydagobonuts
@kernernator
Ep 27: Handheld Nintendo NX, GTA Online, and Overwatch
July 31, 2016 / Joe DeClara
Eurogamer Report: NX is a portable console with detachable controllers
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-26-nx-is-a-portable-console-with-detachable-controllers
Eurogamer Report: NX is powered by Nvidia Tegra technology
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nintendo-nx-mobile-games-machine-powered-by-nvidia-tegra
Overwatch Patch Notes
http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747615932
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/35545/20160729/latest-overwatch-patch-gives-ana-a-buff-while-tweaks-mccree-again.htm
July 31, 2016 / Joe DeClara/
Ep 26: PokeGo, New Overwatch Character, and 10 Second Ninja X
Google reportedly scrapped their Oculus competitor to focus on Mobile VR
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/15/12201032/google-virtual-reality-oculus-headset
Niantic holding Pokemon Go launch in Japan due to server issues
http://kotaku.com/heres-why-pokemon-go-isnt-out-in-japan-1783839173
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRB5i7oez5U
Oculus Rift gains Multi-Sensor support (story from last week)
http://uploadvr.com/oculus-rift-now-supports-multiple-cameras/
Job Sim devs announce Rick & Morty VR game
http://uploadvr.com/job-simulator-developer-announces-rick-morty-virtual-rick-ality/
A '96 DOOM mod made to advertise cereal is getting a remake
http://www.zam.com/article/790/chex-quest-a-1996-doom-mod-created-to-advertise-cereal-is-getting-an-hd-remake
Episode 25: Pokemon GO, Game of the Year contenders, and an INSIDE Spoilercast
SPOILER WARNINGS
INSIDE Spoilercast
Final Topic
Nintendo Thought It Would Sell 100 Million Wii U Units

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/07/07/nintendo-thought-it-would-sell-100-million-wii-u-units
Pokemon Go rumored to make 1.6 mil per day from iOS users in the US
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/rumor-pokemon-go-makes-1-6-million-per-day-just-on-ios-just-in-usa/
Pokemon Go and the power of social mobile games
http://gamingtrend.com/2016/07/12/meet-me-at-the-pokestop-pokemon-go-and-the-power-of-social-mobile-games/
Armed robbers using Pokemon Go
http://gizmodo.com/armed-robbers-used-pokemon-go-to-find-9-victims-1783416898
WB paid youtubers for positive Shadow of Mordor videos
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/12/ftc-say-warner-bros-paid-youtubers-for-positive-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-videos/
Oculus will not really be room scale for a variety of reasons.
http://www.reddit.com/r/vive/comments/4sohx9/_/d5b05me
Episode 24: CSGO Lotto Scandal, NX Controllers, and Valve
Nintendo Files Patent for Handheld Device
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/07/06/nintendo-files-new-patent-for-handheld-device
Nintendo skipped E3 NX reveal to avoid copycats
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-didnt-show-nx-at-e3-because-it-was-worrie/1100-6441357/
Oped: Argument for NX using cartridges
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/07/04/why-the-nx-should-use-cartridges
Popular YouTubers/Streamers Implicated in Counter-Strike Betting Scandal
http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/4/12093546/csgo-lotto-tmartn-syndicate-youtube-disclosure
ESIC founded in wake of incident
http://www.esportsintegrity.com/
Blizzard taking Overwatch cheat maker to court
http://kotaku.com/blizzard-taking-overwatch-cheat-maker-to-court-1783098926
Red Dead Redemption to Become Backward Compatible on Xbox One This Friday
http://kotaku.com/red-dead-redemption-will-officially-be-backwards-compat-1783133375
All Microsoft-Published Games Will Now Be Xbox Play Anywhere
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/07/04/all-microsoft-published-games-will-now-be-xbox-play-anywhere
Left 4 Dead 3 speculation based on image
http://i.imgur.com/DNEz8Wy.jpg
www.facebook.com/screenwatchers
Twitch: screenwatchersgames
Joey @joeydagobonuts
Mike @mstrothmann
Episode 23: Nintendo VR, INSIDE, and The Vive
Game of Thrones S6E10
1:04:15 - 1:17:30
Tetris movie too big for one movie, needs a trilogy
https://goo.gl/zfmNHW
Nintendo reportedly working on VR
http://goo.gl/K8enhn
Ford uses Firewatch Art
http://goo.gl/4PTwGe
Joey's LIMBO/Mario Analysis
http://goo.gl/bAsNh1
GAMES WE PLAYED
Battle Dome
Kerner @kernernator
Episode 22: Mario NX, INSIDE, and always more OVERWATCH
June 25, 2016 / Joe DeClara
"A new kind of Mario" coming to NX, might be at next year's E3
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/06/16/e3-2016-nintendo-a-new-kind-of-mario-is-coming
Warcraft largest gaming movie of all time
http://www.geeksultd.com/2016/06/warcraft-is-now-the-most-successful-video-game-movie-ever
Mighty No 9
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4oydm5/mighty_no9_review_thread/
More sweet Bf1 info
https://www.battlefield.com/news/article/battlefield-1-operations-mode
Overwatch Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAOaXSVZVTM
Segment:What we missed from e3
INSIDE gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k17aVeY2rI&feature=share
Kickstarted game REROLL cancelled, backers get little in return
http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/20/11977500/ambitious-crowdfunded-game-reroll-abandoned-backers-given-little-in-return
Similar story: ant simulator cancelled earlier this year http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/02/01/ant-simulator-cancelled-after-devs-blow-kickstarter-funds-on-booze-and-strippers/#50974d273e6d
And Mighty No. 9 metascores underwhelming http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/mighty-no-9
June 25, 2016 / Joe DeClara/
Episode 21: E3 2016 Discussion!
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/all-the-news-from-bethesdas-e3-2016-press-conferen/1100-6440248/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/all-the-news-from-ubisofts-e3-2016-press-conferenc/1100-6440225/
No Mass Effect Andromeda
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/all-the-news-from-microsofts-e3-2016-press-confere/1100-6440223/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/all-the-news-from-sonys-e3-2016-press-conference/1100-6440224/
Episode 20: Yooka Laylee, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Pre-E3 predictions
PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn delayed to 2017, PlayStation has no known exclusives during '16 holiday season
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/06/06/horizon-zero-dawn-new-trailer-new-release-date/
Yooka Laylee E3 trailer, delayed to 2017
http://www.pcgamer.com/new-yooka-laylee-trailer-heralds-e3-debut/
Telltale's Batman, TWD: Season 3 Release Windows Revealed
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/06/telltales-batman-game-and-walking-dead-season-3-release-windows-revealed
P.T. Spiritual Successor Allison Road Canceled
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/04/pt-spiritual-successor-allison-road-canceled
FFXII remastered revealed, coming 2017
http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xii-remastered-for-ps4-1780732751
Bethesda E3 rumors
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/07/rumor-skyrim-remaster-prey-2-wolfenstein-2-evil-within-2-to-be-announced-at-e3
Watch Dogs 2 announcement announcement
http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/6/11867972/watch-dogs-2-teaser-reveal-date
Episod 19: No Man's Sky, Xbox Scorpio, and more OVERWATCH!
Sony Confirms No Man's Sky Delay, reporter receives death threats
http://kotaku.com/sources-no-mans-sky-delayed-1778797365
http://kotaku.com/i-got-death-threats-for-reporting-on-a-video-game-delay-1779617741
Xbox One.5 will run faster than PS4 Neo sources report
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/25/11774294/xbox-one-slim-one-two-scorpio
Overwatch Competitive mode delayed then undelayed
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatchs-competitive-mode-is-not-delayed-update/1100-6440369/
PlayStation 4 Hits 40 Million Units Sold
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/26/playstation-4-hits-40-million-units-sold
All Larger GameStop Stores Will Have VR Demos
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/26/vr-demos-coming-to-hundreds-of-gamestop-stores
GTA Online: Biggest Update Yet Revealed
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/27/gta-online-expansion-further-adventures-in-finance-and-felony-announced
Watch Dogs 2 Outed By Promo Item
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/01/watch-dogs-2-outed-by-promo-item
Minecraft "Battle" mode announced
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/26/11782772/all-minecraft-console-editions-get-free-battle-mini-game-next-month
The Last Guardian: demo recounting
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/26/the-last-guardian-the-shocking-truth-about-trico-ign-first
Rocket League Passes $110 Million in Sales
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/01/rocket-league-passes-110-million-in-sales
PlayStation Plus games for June: Gone Home and NBA 2K16
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/31/11819294/playstation-plus-games-june-2016
Raid on abandoned ship saves over 50 classic arcade games
http://kotaku.com/raid-on-abandoned-ship-saves-over-50-classic-arcade-gam-1779035900
Pope Francis has a talk with Game Theorists from YouTube
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/30/11811410/-pope-francis-explains-to-the-game-theorist-youtuber-how-to-deal-with-haters
Episode 18: Nintendo MH, Battlefront Campaign, and Overwatch
May 26, 2016 / Joe DeClara
Game of Thrones S6E5 (00:02:31 - 00:05:30)
Nintendo's next handheld: MH
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/24/11759450/nintendo-mh-nx-controller-handheld-who-the-hell-knows
Nintendo to Let 500 Fans Play Zelda Wii U Early
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/25/nintendo-to-let-500-fans-play-zelda-wii-u-early
Pokemon GO Battle Mechanics, Gym Details Revealed
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/25/pokemon-go-battle-mechanics-gym-details-revealed
Rockstar announcements coming soon (E3?)
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/05/18/rockstar-games-next-projects-will-be-revealed-soon
Battlefront's campaign was cut
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/05/18/star-wars-battlefront-had-its-campaign-cut-to-release-in-time-for-the-force-awakens
Uncharted 4 sells 2.7m first week
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/05/23/uncharted-4-sold-27-million-units-in-its-first-week
Fallout 4 mod in the works bigger than DLC
www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/23/huge-fallout-4-fan-mod-will-be-bigger-than-far-harbor
Super Meat Boy games with gold June
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/05/24/games-with-gold-free-june-games-revealed
Overwatch's tick-rate issue
http://kotaku.com/overwatchs-low-tick-rate-can-be-a-problem-1778708854
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Episode 17: Disney Infinity, Google VR, and Uncharted 4
Google IO- New smartphone VR headset platform with motion controller
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11683230/google-vr-headset-motion-controller-announced-io-2016
Disney Infinity discontinued
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/disney-infinity-discontinued-developer-shuttered-w/1100-6439677/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/17/dishonored-2-a-mad-game-made-by-mad-minds
Blizzard and Twitch to Tackle Livestream Racism
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/18/blizzard-and-twitch-to-tackle-livestream-racism
Original Twitch racism story
http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/5/12/11658440/twitch-abuse-hearthstone
Batman: Return to Arkham Remaster Collection Finally Announced
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/18/batman-return-to-arkham-remaster-collection-finally-announced
IGN acquires GameTrailers
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/17/11692866/gametrailers-ign-acquisition-youtube-archive
Kojima Productions character revealed
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/17/11692240/kojima-productions-logo-character-ludens-hideo-kojima
Unravel sequel in the works
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/17/11691722/unravel-ea-coldwood-interactive-sequel
Pokemon GO field tests begin stateside
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/16/11686428/pokemon-go-field-test-registration-sign-up
Dark Souls Board Game kickstarted
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/16/11686174/dark-souls-board-game-kickstarter-campaign
Ryan- Minecraft on Gear VR, Spelunky, Legend of Grimrock
Joey- Uncharted 4, Spelunky, Mario Maker
Episode 16: Battlefield 1, NX cartridges, and Overwatch
Battlefield 1 vs. CoD Infinite Warfare
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/05/09/battlefield-1-is-the-most-liked-trailer-in-youtube-history-infinite-warfare-the-most-disliked/#78056b3935c2
Nintendo NX may use cartridges
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/05/rumour-nintendo-nx-to-drop-discs-for-cartridges
Lionhead closed because Microsoft wouldn't sell the studio
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/05/11/sources-multiple-buyers-were-lined-up-for-lionhead
Sid Meier's Civilization 6 Announced
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/11/civilization-6-announced
Nintendo's Next Two Mobile Games Are Free-to-Play
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/11/nintendos-next-two-mobile-games-are-free-to-play
VR stage experiences - the best VR today
http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/5/5/11597482/the-void-virtual-reality-magician-tracy-hickman
Minecraft getting a Super Mario Mash-up pack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5l5FA3iac4
Pokemon Sun and Moon starters revealed
http://kotaku.com/these-are-your-pokemon-sun-and-moon-starters-1775713166
Kojima's New Game Is for Fans of AAA Action
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/10/kojimas-new-game-is-for-fans-of-aaa-action
We may see battlefront 2 in 2017
http://kotaku.com/star-wars-battlefront-will-return-in-2017-with-bigger-1775873711
Episode 15: New Star Wars Game, CoD: Infinite Warfare, and Xbox Two at E3
New Star Wars 3rd-Person Game Announced
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/04/titanfall-dev-respawn-working-on-new-3rd-person-star-wars-game
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare official trailer and release date
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/2/11564558/call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-space-trailer
New Xbox Hardware at e3
https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/xbox-one/66802/microsoft-will-announce-new-hardware-e3
Mighty No. 9 Release Date Confirmed

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/02/mighty-no-9-release-date-confirmed
Dishonored 2 out in November
http://kotaku.com/dishonored-2-will-be-out-in-november-1774454058
Oculus launch gets stranger as hardware hits Best Buy and others before pre-orders fulfilled
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/2/11565954/oculus-rift-best-buy-amazon-pre-order
Nintendo Won't Sell NX at a Loss
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/02/nintendo-wont-sell-nx-at-a-loss
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