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by Uday Sadhwani
Rashtraputra is a Bollywood film directed by Aazaad and features Aazaad, Ruhi, Zakir Hussain and Manish Chaudhary in the major roles. It is a biographical film which is based on the life of Chandrashekhar Azad who was the first commander of the surgical strike. This film is going to reveal many lesser known facts and also the thoughts of this India's greatest revolutionary. The runtime of this film is 2 hours and its release date is 28th September 2018. The Bollywood fans are very much excited for the release of this film which is based on the life of Chandrashekhar Azad. This article is about Rashtraputra movie download in best quality.
This film was announced on the 112th anniversary of our iconic Indian freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad which was on 23rd July. Bombay Talkies which is the renowned film studio in Bombay announced about this film and told that 'Rashtraputra' will be based on Chandrashekhar Azad's life story. The trailer of this film is also being loved by the Bollywood fans and Aazaad looks really awesome in the shows of Chandrashekhar Azad. The trailer of this film has received 1 million views on youtube.
While making the announcement of this film Aazaad earlier told that this film is very close to his heart and that's because, in the time when Britishers ruled the country, Chandra Shekhar was the only young freedom fighter who named himself 'Azad' at that point. Aazaad told to IANS,
"This is a very special film, close to my heart because, in the British-ruled country, Chandra Shekhar was one and only young freedom fighter of that time who named himself 'Azad' which means freedom."
Aazaad talked more about him and said that his dream was to make his country free. He also said that he is very disappointed as many people don't know his full story. Aazaad also feels that this upcoming generation should know more about the contribution of Chandra Shekhar Azad. He said,
"He was free in his mind, his dream was to make his country free. It is unfortunate that not many people know his story in details. I think our upcoming generation should know the contribution of Chandra Shekhar Azad in the freedom movement of India."
Talking more about this biopic, it has been produced by Bombay Talkies which was established in the year 1943 by Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai who have produced many commercially successful films back then like Ziddi, Jeevan Naiya, Kismet and many others. Bombay Talkies has surely been one of the most successful production houses of India and its work is very well recognized. So it's definitely a big news and surprise for the Bollywood fans that after six decades this legendary pillar of the Indian cinema is making a comeback with the film 'Rashtraputra' under the command of Girish Ghanshyam.
This film is going to be released in 26 languages so that it can be reached to a large number of audience across the whole country. The motive of this film is to tell the story of this legendary freedom fighter and remind the sacrifices he made for his country. The film is going to reveal many unheard stories from the life of Chandra Shekhar Azad. So this film is definitely going to be very interesting and we'll surely get to know many facts about our brave freedom fighter.
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Q: Displaying google direction api response on Map I am using google api V3 in my iOS App,
I requested to google api direction service, by http GET method, I got a very large json response, I got many alternate routes from origin to destination, now I want to show the route of each alternative on map, how should I done this ? is there any need to integrate google sdk in iOS, or can i use webView only, please help me, and suggest the simplest way.
Thanks in advance

A: you do not need to include any google SDK to draw the route over map. Look at the following classes.
MKPolyline
MKPolyLineview
The google map api Direction service will give you the legs(coordinates) to draw the route between two specific points.
As you already have the json response from the Direction api now you have to parse the json and get all the legs point from the json to create Coordinate array.
Jsonkit for parsing
These points may be or mostly encripted. How to decode the Google Directions API polylines field into lat long points in objective-C for iPhone?
If you have the coordinates array then first you have to create a  CLLocationCoordinate2D array like following:
CLLocationCoordinate2D *pointArr        =       malloc(sizeof(CLLocationCoordinate2D) * [your_CoordinateArray count]);

for(int i = 0; i < [your_CoordinateArray count]; i++){
  pointArr[i]       =      [your_CoordinateArray objectAtIndex:i];
}

Then you have to add the polyline to your map
 MKPolyline *line                        = [MKPolyline polylineWithCoordinates:pointArr count:[your_CoordinateArray count]];

    if (nil != line)
    {
        [your_Map addOverlay:line];

    }

Then you have to implement the following map delegate:
- (MKOverlayView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForOverlay:(id <MKOverlay>)overlay
{

MKOverlayView* overlayView = nil;

lineView                    =       [[MKPolylineView alloc] initWithPolyline:overlay];// lineView is an ivar, object of MKPolylineView
lineView.fillColor          =       [UIColor greenColor];
lineView.strokeColor        =       [UIColor greenColor];

lineView.lineWidth          =       10.0;
lineView.alpha              =       0.9;
overlayView                 =       lineView;

return overlayView;
}

Now, if you want to show two different routes between two points then you have to create two different array of coordinates and apply the above method for both Arrays
Hope this will help you.

A: There is no need per say to integrate google sdk and you can simply use webView since I believe the webView gives you alternative views, but the user interface is much cleaner in the SDK than online. But at this moment, I don't believe the SDK allows other apps to show the alternative routes from what I've used of the new SDK. The code in maps.google.com is now considerably different from that in
the API and has access to different services. In particular, it has a large external module, mod_suggest.js, that doesn't exist in the API. But you may be able to implement it by
1) Throw the request at maps.google.com, and let it do the suggestions,
i.e. open a new browser window and pass it something like
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Jurong+West,+Singapore&da
ddr=Ang+Mo+Kio,+Singapore&hl=en
2) Just display the normal route and the avoid highways route.
3) Try to guess sensible waypoints to add in the middle of he route that
might lead to reasonable alternatives. That's not easy unless you have a
database of highways or highway intersections, and can look for such an
intersection that's somewhere between your start and end points (for
some approximate value of "between").
There may be problems using lat/lng coordinates for the waypoints,
particularly if there's a dual carriageway involved. If the coordinates
are for a point on the wrong carriageway, GDirections will drive a
considerable distance out of your way so that you visit the wrong side
of the road. But even using street names you may well get strange kinks
near the waypoints, like this:
from: Jurong West, Singapore to: Ayer Rajah Expy singapore to: Ang Mo
Kio, Singapore
Perhaps the only way to really deal with that is to include points on
both sides of a dual carriageway, and well clear of roads that cross
underneath or overhead, and then try to filter out the ones that are
silly.
Consider these examples
from: Jurong West, Singapore to: 1.32558,103.740764 to: Ang Mo Kio,
Singapore
from: Jurong West, Singapore to: 1.32582,103.740764 to: Ang Mo Kio,
Singapore
One of those adds 7 minutes to the trip by a complicated excursion to
visit the wrong side of the road.
Writing code to filter out silly routes isn't easy. As a first
approximation, you could discard routes that have estimated times that
are more than, say, 10% longer than the initial route. And you can also
compare the durations for pairs of points on opposite sides of a dual
carriageway and always discard the slower one.
Writing code to discard duplicate routes isn't easy either. For example,
a point on Bukit Timah Expy or Kranji Expy might create a route that's a
duplicate of Google's Seletar Expy suggestion.
You might want to look at: http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?waypts=yes&addr1=Jurong+West,+Singapore&addr2=Ang+Mo+Kio,+Singapore&waypt=Ayer+Rajah+Expy+singapore&geocode=1&geocode=2
But that may not be a legal implementation since the API does not allow it. Hope this helps.

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Evrensel Print and Publishing began in 1998 in the Cağaloğlu neighborhood, in a tiny rented space in the Ankara Office Block. Today it carries out its publishing activities from its own building in the Tarlabaşı neighborhood in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul. Because a significant percentage of Turkey's population is made up of young people, an important segment of Turkey's readership is also therefore youth. Similarly, it is well-known that, following the September 12th, 1980 coup, the government undertook efforts to keep youth from reading. In those days, tens of thousands of houses were searched in an effort to find and confiscate banned books. Some of these books were buried in large sacks in the earth while many others were burned. The books that were considered the enemy of the military regime were those books that told people not to bow to their misery, lack of rights, poverty, exploitation or oppression, books that showed them how to accomplish this.
It is no exaggeration to say that Evrensel Print and Publishing was a product of the first movement that emerged after the suffocating years of the 1980s, and the more than 500 books that it has published over the past twenty-eight years are proof of this. When a reader looks at the names and dates on the books on Evrensel's list of publications, they will see that these titles and dates as well as their content were suitable to the particular realities of the world and the country at that time. The publishing house has no 'impartial' position, but rather, these titles show that it followed a specific publishing position relative to what was happening in the world and in Turkey.
In the first half of the 1990s, Turkey was in fact living through another dark period. With the acceleration and impact of the Kurdish National Movement between 1992-1995, those who wanted to rein in this movement and make it capitulate carried out a number of assassinations in order to scare the public. During these years, many journalists working in Kurdistan were killed. Evrensel was an important part and pillar of support for the democratic forces in Turkey. In the context of the Kurdish question, it openly defended the rights of Kurds to speak and use their own language; it called for an end to forced village evacuations, disappearances, and torture; it spoke out against the use of special military units and state-sanctioned murders; and it stood up for the right of the Kurds to mother-tongue education. Naturally, its publications reflected this.
In more recent years, it has continued its engagement with Kurdish culture by publishing books both in Turkish and in Kurdish. Some of these titles include: Dar Üçgende Üç İsyan (Three Insurrections in the Narrow Triangle, Faik Bulut), Orta Anadolu Kürtleri (The Kurds of Middle Anatolia, Rohat Alakom), Kürt Halk Türkülerinden Seçmeler (Selections from Kurdish Folk Songs, Salihê Kevirbirî), Cegerwîn'in Yaşamı ve Şiir Anlayışı (Cegerxwîn's Life and Understanding of Poetry, Ordîxanê Celîl), Ristemê Zal (Rostam, the Son of Zal, Edîb Polat), Arîn/Mem û Zîn (Arîn/Mem and Zîn, Cuma Boynukara), Antolojiya Helbesta Bakûr (An Anthology of Poetry from North Kurdistan, Arjen Arî), Bahol (Suitcase, Çiya Mazî), Siwarê Ewran (The Cloud Rider, Îsmaîl Dîndar). Evrensel has published more than 10 children's books in Kurdish. It published the first Kurdish translation of the children's classic Pinocchio. With more than 50 Kurdish-language novels, stories, poetry collections, and scholarly works, it continues its work in this direction.
Within Evrensel's understanding of publishing, works that document the forward march of humanity through history, that recount the victories of the past, and that transfer these experiences in written form to the democratic struggles of today, carry a particular importance.
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"The Unity of the Church is a Great Good"
http://www.drs.de/index.php?id=105&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=9942&type=98
Statement of Bishop Gebhard Fürst, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
[In a statement the bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Dr. Gebhard Fürst, comments on the current religious controversies.]
In recent days, the events surrounding the lifting of the excommunication of four bishops of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X have caused uncertainty, incomprehension and disappointment for many people inside and outside the Church. Particularly aggravating was the-certainly unintentional-coincidence of this act, which was intended by Pope Benedict XVI as a gesture of reconciliation, with the totally unacceptable statements by Bishop Richard Williamson that deny the crimes of the Nazis against millions of Jewish people and that call the Shoah into question. It burdens me as a bishop and as a pastor that these developments have led to the outward and internal alienation of numerous faithful from the church, to a loss of confidence especially by our Jewish sisters and brothers towards the church, and to a significant disturbance of the Christian-Jewish dialogue. In the eyes of many these events impair the credibility of the Catholic Church.
Theology and the pastoral care of our diocese, for which I as bishop am responsible, are and remain bound without any ifs and buts to the heritage of the Second Vatican Council and to its central concerns, which have also been implemented continuously by the post-conciliar Popes Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II.
The unity of the church is a great good, whose service is an outstanding task of the pope and the bishops. But this unity is not reconcilable with a denial of fundamental statements of the Council. Otherwise it will be bought at the price that many faithful will internally or outwardly turn away, for whom - with the Council - an honest contemporaneity of the Church unites with the people of today, with their "joys and their hopes, their griefs and their anxieties". The unity on the one side must not lead to alienation on the other side.
The lifting of the excommunication of the bishops of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X must cause all of us to realize the importance of the Second Vatican Council and to continue to develop and implement it even more intensely.
This applies to the understanding and the structure of the Church, to the opening of the church to social developments, to civilization and to the culture of the modern world in which human rights and human dignity are constitutive.
This applies to the freedom of religion and especially to a new appreciation of Judaism in its God-given importance for Christianity and to a deepening of the dialogue with Jews as our "older sisters and brothers".
This applies to the clear commitment to ecumenism and to the promotion of Christian unity.
This applies finally and not least to the liturgy of the Church which is a prominent concern the Second Vatican Council.
The genuine desire for unity must be based on mutuality. Whoever professes the church cannot question fundamental concerns of the Council. Otherwise there would only be an illusory unity.

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Daniel Seidemann is not a man who trades in verbal niceties. An attorney by trade, American by birth, Israeli by choice, and director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, the NGO he founded, Seidemann has spent the last 20-odd years understanding, anticipating, and cautioning others about the ever-changing map of this burning city. He is a one-man early-warning system for any changes that will undermine a two-state solution and force a one-state reality. So detailed is his knowledge it seems, at times, Seidemann knows of every shovel, real or proposed, digging into the ground of this contested land, every pile of dirt shifting hands between Israelis and Palestinians.
We're sitting in his car, outside the shell of the Shepherd Hotel, a controversial construction site in East Jerusalem. "I believe that the rapid decline of American credibility on Israel-Palestine began here," he says, arguing that the Americans failed to stop what some see as a provocation: the issuance of building permits in a historic neighborhood for a high-rise that would provide some 20 units to settlers determined to set down Jewish roots in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem.
Soap-box aside, Seidemann is no flag-burning lefty; he is a self-proclaimed patriot, a blue-and-white-flag-waving, vocal, and unapologetic Zionist. And it is in service of the Jewish state, he says, that he has become an eagle-eyed observer of the most fraught map of all—that of Jerusalem, which has been set aside in diplomatic negotiations until "final status" agreements and, theoretically, peace is at hand. He understands better than anyone that Jerusalem is an essential piece of the puzzle that cannot be postponed.
Land for peace has been a mantra—or a curse—for decades now. If nuclear or climate doomsday is measured in minutes to midnight, then for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the two-state-solution doomsday are lines on the map. Seidemann is the one who monitors that map, the one who stays up at night, making sure the lines don't move so far as to undermine the possibility of a true land-for-peace deal, the agreement laid out by President Clinton in 2000 that would reapportion the West Bank and occupied territories, allocating Palestinians a contiguous strip of Palestinian land and Israelis Jewish territory. But while the doomsday clock is a public timepiece, Seidemann's work is largely behind the scenes, monitoring the map and whispering to officials. This is a core piece of Seidemann's spiel: creating PowerPoints and maps, and then taking dignitaries out in his compact car or by bus to point out the bulldozers, the land shifting.
That doesn't translate into universal affection. "I'm allergic to bulls--t," he says, in his typically brusque manner. But that sometimes means angering those on the left who might otherwise be his natural allies. And indeed, many on the left see him as just a bit too faithful to the Israeli government perspective, a bit too accommodating. His devotion to two states—rather than, say, one democratic state, has also not won him friends in protest circles. On the right, his relentless exposure of Israeli government practices have made him suspect among settlers as well. "I go where the evidence takes me and that doesn't make me popular in quarters of true believers of any ilk," he says.


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Nothing kicks off the holidays in Wisconsin better than opening weekend of rifle season! It doesn't get any more authentic than the orange speckled woods and excitement in the crisp air. To all the hunters, good luck, stay safe, and stay warm!
Celebrate World Toilet Day
Next Wednesday November 19th is World Toilet Day! This is a great day that brings awareness to the 2.5 billion people who lack sanitation facilities. As we work every single day with wastewater treatment plants and the advanced equipment that we use to run them here, it's easy to take for granted and forget how advanced it is. In other parts of the world, 1000 children died per day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation in 2013, and 1 billion (15 % of the world population) still practice open defecation. Check out the World Toilet Organization for more information.
We've got a whole great week of tweets lined up to celebrate and to help bring awareness, and you should get in the fun too. Watch this very excellent, very funny 3-minute video to get in the spirit. Seriously, it's great. Watch it.
1. Run in The 'Urgent Run'
Participate in The Urgent Run or host your own event for this year's UN World Toilet Day. The Urgent Run (www.urgentrun.com) is a global mobilisation event to draw attention to the urgent calls for action to end the sanitation crisis. Sixteen events have been registered in 12 countries including Singapore, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ghana, Italy, Senegal, and Mozambique. If you can't wait to see health, dignity and wellbeing for all through sustainable sanitation, join The Urgent Run, or hold an event.
2. Do a 'Big Squat'
Hold a big squat and raise awareness of the more than 1 billion people who face the indignity of open defecation, which spreads diseases including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and diarrhoea. Stop, drop, squat and share! Get friends, colleagues, classmates or family together, invite people in the local community and squat in a public place. Take photos or video, and share them on YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Instagram, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. Use the hashtags #bigsquat, #worldtoiletday and #opendefecation.
Access to sanitation would make life safer and healthier for 1.25 billion women. Join the global movement for toilets and sanitation for all, and raise awareness by posting on Facebook, Instagram, Google+, posting a Vine or Tweeting this World Toilet Day. Show that you give a crap about toilets and sanitation, and raise your voice to call for action. Use the hashtags #wecantwait #worldtoiletday #opendefecation #sanitation and #igiveashit.
4. Become a toilet advocate
Clean and safe toilets are fundamental for health, dignity, privacy, equality and education. Contact your local representative, community leader or member of parliament and let them know you care about public toilets in your area. Does your town need new public toilets? Are the toilets safe and accessible, clean and well-maintained? Is there an appropriate ratio of toilets for men and women, or 'potty parity'? Talk toilets with your local representative today.
5. Watch
Watch a World Toilet Day playlist and share videos on Facebook or Twitter to join the call for toilets and sanitation for all. Here's one to start with – meet Mr Toilet. Jack Sim is a man on a mission to end the sanitation crisis, and he started by tackling the toilet taboo. Meet the man behind the World Toilet Organization who is proud to be called 'Mr. Toilet'.
6. Talk crap!
1,000 children died per day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation in 2013. These deaths are preventable, but what we don't discuss, we can't improve. Help break the 'toilet taboo' by talking crap with friends and family, colleagues, classmates or neighbours: have a conversation, send an email, send a text, post to Facebook, and raise awareness of the importance of action on sanitation.
7. Toilet Selfie
Did you know that more people own a mobile phone than have access to a toilet? Next time you go to the bathroom, think about how lucky you are, and snap a #toiletselfie and post it to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter for World Toilet Day – and keep it clean! Let your friends know they're lucky if they have access to a toilet and encourage them to join the sanitation movement.
8. Invest in toilets and sanitation for all
One third of the world's population still lacks access to adequate sanitation. Donate to support the work of the World Toilet Organization at worldtoilet.org and your donation will go towards advocacy and awareness, and to support capacity building and social enterprise sanitation projects in Cambodia, India, and Mozambique.
9. Learn
Did you know that toilets and sanitation are considered a human right? In 2010, the UN General Assembly recognised sanitation and water as a human right, essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights. Visit World Toilet Organization's website worldtoilet.org and the UN World Toilet Day website unwater.org/worldtoiletday to learn about the sanitation crisis and how you can get involved.
10. Tell us what you're doing
How will you commemorate UN World Toilet Day on 19 November? Join the call for action to end the sanitation crisis on UN World Toilet Day, and share what you're doing. Reply to @worldtoilet and @UN_Water on Twitter or email online@worldtoilet.org. Some of the best activities will be featured on the World Toilet Day website and in World Toilet Organization's social media.
Want to do more? The World Toilet Organization came up with ten things you can do for World Toilet Day.


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Always remember to release your dog!
I see this happen so many times to so many dogs. A person will ask a dog to sit, give the dog a treat, and then walk away or start chatting with someone. Then the dog sits there looking as though he is thinking "Now what am I supposed to do?". The dog sits for a while, and then gets up looking confused.
One of the most important keys to successful training is being consistent. I believe if you teach your dog behaviors that have a duration like sit, down, and stand, you should always release the dog afterward. In other words, give the dog a signal that he can get up after it is complete. This is because it can be very confusing to a dog if SOMETIMES "Sit" means stay sitting until released and other times the handler wanders away and the dog can get up whenever he feels like it.
I personally don't use the cue "Stay" for any maintained behaviors because I believe you can train a dog that "Sit" means stay sitting until a release cue is given. You can release your dog from a maintained behavior by saying a cue to get up like "Free", telling the dog that you are ready to move forward on a walk by saying a cue like "Let's go", or by telling the dog to do another behavior like "Down" or "Come". I do believe dogs can learn a complex cue like "Stay", meaning continue doing the behavior you are doing, but it is a much more complex idea for a dog to learn than simply teaching a dog from the start that "Sit" means keep sitting until the release cue is given.
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Homage 2 Fromage
If there's one food I associate the most with Christmas, it's cheese. Sure, you can buy cheese all year round, but as soon as November comes knocking, supermarket fridges are suddenly stacked high with wax-sealed truckles and special varieties not otherwise available during the remainder of the year. (Unless your town is blessed with an independent cheesemonger, in which case I am truly envious.)
It therefore seemed fitting that I were recently invited to the London launch of Homage 2 Fromage, an all-you-can-eat cheese party perfect for the heartiest of turophiles. The premise is simple: eight tasty wheels of cheese following a monthly theme, albeit none are labelled, allowing guests to experience each cheese on senses alone. Later in the evening, the names and origins of the cheeses are then revealed to a satiated crowd.
The event was founded in Leeds in 2011, and has since become a popular club for cheese enthusiasts across the North of England. The launch night at The Bull in Westfield Shopping Centre was co-founders Nick Copland and Vickie Rogerson's first offering to a southern audience, who were just as eager to tuck into the mouthwatering selection of fine British cheeses, laid out like a banquet with accompanying breads, wines and chutneys.
Although I'm largely dairy intolerant and making efforts elsewhere to cut down on animal products, cheese is without question my kryptonite, and as such I returned to the table on several occasions to fill my plate with my favourites of the eight cheeses, including a black charcoal cheddar, a Brie-style Baron Bigod, and a Hebridean Blue which claims to be the bluest cheese in all of Great Britain.
Run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, Homage 2 Fromage lives up to its title. The atmosphere is friendly, informal and without pretension, in which the objective is to introduce guests to lesser-known cheeses they are almost guaranteed to enjoy. The monthly club nights commence properly in the new year, exploring all manner of European cheeses (Alpine, Irish, Portuguese and Scandinavian to name a few), culminating with the ultimate Christmas cheeseboard this time next year. If you love your cheese as much as I do, this event is certain to put a smile on your face - say cheese!
Tickets for upcoming Homage 2 Fromage events in London, Leeds, Manchester, Harrogate, Sheffield and York are available online, priced £14-£16 per person.
Disclaimer: Myself and a guest were generously invited to the launch night of Homage 2 Fromage by its organisers, however all opinions and love for cheese are entirely my own.
Labels: Features, Food & Drink, Lifestyle, London
Shaban 15 January, 2020
This looks like such a fun event to partake in, and also learn about cheese while there.
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Reggie Confirms 3DS is Coming Next Year
Barely audible over a million hearts breaking
by James Newton Sat 26th Jun 2010
The wait for Kid Icarus: Uprising looms over us all
The discussion of whether Nintendo's 3DS will reach one of the Western territories before Christmas has been a back-and-forth affair. Will it, won't it, will it, won't it? Well, it won't.
On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as showing the world his incredible skill at Donkey Kong Country Returns, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime announced the console would be launching next year before whipping out a unit to impress Mr Fallon.
Here's a short video of Reggie's appearance, showing a little more about the upcoming DK adventure as well as Reggie's casual talk-show look. Nice.
Are you disappointed to hear that the console will not be available in the next six months, or are you pleased it's getting the polished required to make it fulfil its clear potential?
irken004
This good actually. Save your Christmas money for it!
NintenFreak
i hope itis early next year, or in february
maybe they are working out a way to link dsiware purchases to the 3ds.. i hope...
Reggie knows nothing
let me collect the shards of my heart that fell to the ground
Disappointed, but it gives me time to save up cash. I'm sure it'll cost a pretty penny.
Natie31
Im happy cause i till have my DSi XL to used up! March is my B-Day so thats good for me.
All to make this release more awesome I guess
Turbo_Genesis_64
Donkey Kong 64 was still like Donkey Kong Country!
Jimmy: "Last time I played this was on Nintendo 64."
Reggie: "Actually, we released three different versions for Super Nintendo."
Jimmy: "How do you jump?"
Reggie: "You press on the A button."
Jimmy: "I can jump on your back, right?" (Jumps on Reggie's actual back, realizes that no one is watching, plays the game again.
(later)
Reggie: "So, jump on my back..." (Jimmy tries the same joke again, Reggie politely laughs, acknowledging and thus validating Jimmy.)
I dislike Jimmy Fallon.
rjgetgjj-BAAAAH! >:[
MetalMario
No rush, I like that its next year.
Angaran
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! :0
Fairly expected considering all of the first-party Wii and DS titles Nintendo has coming out this holiday season. We'll have plenty to play to keep us busy until early next year when the 3DS hits. Can't wait!
Caliko
Delays are good.
Gives Nintendo more time to develop, is less stressful, will counter a christmas 3DS drought(meaning more handhelds for everyone).
and best of all gives us more launch titles.
fishman100
i hope it wont be in march or april next year...
P.S. Jimmy Fallons LOVING THIS!!!
That's good, it gives me more time to save up a bundle of money. Plus it's a good thing to make sure they do it right.
After that video I've decided that Jimmy Fallon is a moron and I never want to watch his show again.
I can't believe Reggie actually annoys me more than Jimmy.
MasterGraveheart
I'll take polish. Make sure excellence is excellent.
SSBbrawler08
Well, I guess that's not bad, like Irken said, save up! Donkey Kong Country Returns looks pretty good too!
As I said on this very site many times when the DSi hit the market (and quite a few naysayers were convinced a true DS-2 would follow immediately after), the next-gen DS was never going to arrive until the DSi enjoyed 2 full years as the flagship handheld. That mark will be hit at the end of March, which is the soonest we can expect the 3DS (any sooner after the holidays would certainly be a mistake).
ToastyYogurt
Hopefully Ninty will use the time to move that analogue pad/D-Pad, create a system to transfer DSiWare, and add an extra camera to the front for 3D video chat.
Sylverstone
This is okay. I'll save the Christmas cash.
King_Boo
I hope it means a lot of games at launch, and that those games are great.
SuperMarioFan96
I said it in the forums, I'll say it again: All of the demos of 3DS games at E3 were incredibly minimal, most weren't even playable, so I don't see why people thought it would be ready for this year.
Plus, we have a lot of big Wii games releasing this holiday season, and, more importantly, a decent number of DS games releasing this holiday season (Golden Sun, Scribblenauts, Okamiden, etc).
I'm actually happy for this. It gives me more time to finish all of the DS games I haven't beaten, as well as anything else I never finished.
Hyperstar96
At least this gives me time to save up money.
V8_Ninja
While I am disappointed, I expected this from the beginning. The only reason I speculated for it to come out this year was because Nintendo didn't say when it was coming out during E3.
suburban_sensei
I am with a lot of people on this one, and the wait kinda stinks but it is a good thing. Any holiday/birthday money I get I will save up for it. If this thing launches with some strong titles I will be spending...ALOT.
mecoy
late next year i hope
Woots
seriously, what does nintendo have for ds this year anyway? what, like 4 games?! pathetic! reggie's pulling the same trick that that other guy at E3 pulled, saying something isn't gonna happen and then it does!
Bassman_Q
Well, considering that the DSi came out just over a year ago and the DSi XL came out a few months ago, I was expecting the 3DS to come out sometime next year. It wouldn't make much sense to release two different handheld systems in the same year.
Omenapoika
I'm turbo excited about the 3ds, so I'm kind of disappointed to have to wait for it.
The clip of the show was a bit bizarre, the audience was going nuts over the 3ds and the host just stood there for a minute saying "oh my... oh... wow...".
but seriously, the only thing worth getting on DS this year is Professor Layton 3, and possibly Golden Sun. Dragon Quest is almost already out, and they've absolutely killed Mario vs. DK, so the new one is really stupid looking, and I don't think anyone really cares about Pokemon Ranger 3. 5 games throughout the rest of the year? I don't think so. If they don't give us the 3DS, this'll officially be Nintendo's dumbest move ever.
raises hand
My guess for the price of the 3DS is $229.99. not 200 or 250 because no DS was ever a solid number like that.
Belgicario
@zkaplan
Exactly what I thought.
@zkaplan: I agree.
This is good news though. I think it was a smart idea to subtly announce it while playing a Wii game due for release this Christmas.
After DSi XL people were complaining that 3DS is coming too fast. Now people complain about it's "delay". Oh well
Stuffgamer1
@Arcanum: The original DS's release price was $150. It had a single price drop to $130 where it carried over to DS Lite and has never changed since.
I'm in the group that's kinda pleased about it not coming until next year. I'm quite certain it will diminish the probable shortage problem at leasta little, and it does of course give them more time to finalize the design and actually manufacture the darned thing.
Im good! Got enough to play as it is for the next 6 months at least.
if my 3DS has a dead pixel out of box, Reggie's getting domed with a can of soup at distance. I've watched Crocodile Dundee enough times--I can make it work.
I hope it comes out before I go to college...
camarosquid
This news aint new at all.
It gives them time to perfect the design and gives us more time to save up for the system and more games for it. I'm ok with it.
Guybrush_Threepwood
I didn't expect a 3DS release this year anyway. Let's hope we'll get it first quarter 2011.
I'm more disappointed about the Donkey Kong Country Returns gameplay footage. The graphics don't look impressive at all in this version. I really hope they can make a worthy sequel to the SNES-masterpieces. Optional Classic Controller support would be great for playing a 2D platformer, too.
armoredghor
This is all good as long as it doesn't get pushed back again!
Nintendaholic
I wonder if Reggie always carries around a 3ds in his pocket.
SilverBaretta
"Oh my gosh, you did it!"
Also, I'm a little two-faced on this situation, on one hand, I REALLY want to play 3DS, but on another hand, the extra time will let them perfect it. So this is really a double-sided situation. Oh well, I got plenty of games to play until the release, though, to I guess I can wait to play the 3DS.
Sacore
well at least i will have money to use on the games that will come out.
Raised hand*
y2josh
They did it! Of course Nintendo would do it!
LordJumpMad
Jimmy: "This is sick, can I keep this!"
Reggie "Umm, NO."
Reggie: Thoses Glasses >
aaronsullivan
It really, really isn't.
The launch should have a ton of big franchise games by that time. It will be hard to resist.
You can't expect Nintendo to steal their own thunder!
These games that they have lined up are total million-sellers!
3DS will distract these folks.
If the 3DS is ready for this Winter, it would be really stupid not to release it for the holiday season. But if it's not done yet, I hope they spend the extra time well.
Acidfoxdyi831
doesnt matter im just glade its getting released
TKOWL
It needs a little more time before it's perfect.
spacepony
We're all just comforting ourselves with these comments. D:
GmRmXx
I wonder how many people at nintendo keep a 3ds in their coat pocket...
Macaronius
Ouch, my faith!
ReZon
Just in time for tax season - that'll work for me.
That's great! Now I can focuss on finishing all the games I have AND buy the new releases (Other M, DKC Returns, Kirby, etc.) between now and the end of the year before I have to start saving for the system.
What people don't realize is that the longer we have to wait for the system the more the final price of the 3DS goes down and this ups the chance of us getting the portable for less than $200.
They should release in Japan in February 2011, then Europe in July and in October in the Americas to bring down the price and get enough units manufactured. Plus they would get another E3 to show the final launch lineup.
SpentAllMyTokens
No problems for me. Hopefully they can use the extra time to show me a reason I need to buy the 3DS at launch. Then I will be happy to not fight the xmas shopping crowds.
GamerZack87
@EdEN: Those release dates are all well and good, except that Nintendo themselves said that the 3DS was to launch worldwide by the end of March 2011. Seriously, straight from Epona's mouth! Speaking of which, if Ocarina of Time 3D is a launch title, it's definitely on my 3DS wishlist!
I'd be absolutely surprised if Australia and New Zealand got the 3DS before anybody else - including Japan - but anything's possible!
Well, maybe not that specifically...
RoyalBlur
I'm so very diappointed.
However, at lest I can save up money, master math and get in college.
I sure hope they'll release it in January but I fear it will be February.
TheLonelyGamer
Darn, oh well. I'll try and make sure to save my Xmas money to get it.
Expected. Understandable. Real release date please. (March?)
BowtieShyGuy
This has nothing to say. They said they'll release this fiscal year. But they never said it will happen outside of Japan. Either they go for a worldwide release like with the Wii, or they do the same as they did with the DSi, Japan gets it in March, we around July ord September next year.
However, I think they don't even know when it will be released
Golgo
The later the better for me (within reason). Gives me time to clear some gaming backlog so I can devote all my attention to the 3DS.
Means they can sell more copies of Donkey Kong, and the other games coming this holiday. I don't mind waiting though, and I'm sure it won't effect it's success.
He really should have brought out the tethered booth-girls for the audience, instead of just having Fallon go on about something no one could see.
Cool! I will be getting one on launch day.
@Bensai: They announced it for the fiscal year in an event in America. When that happens, the news applies to America. Also, with DSi, Japan got it in the Fall and we got it in Spring. Assuming 3DS didn't have a worldwide launch (though it probably will), they'd probably follow that pattern again.
dings
Hopefully this will give them and game developers time to have a decent launch library. I remember it was about a year into the DS's life until it had 3-5 good games to choose from!
Lotice-Paladin
I'd take it as a pinch of salt as he has been wrong before about stuff.
PATUX3T
Great news! I'm not ready to stop playing my DSi just yet...I'll wait another year.
Besides, it'll give me more time to save up for this
Chunky_Droid
abgar's avatar matches the faces of many a Nintendo fan
However I probably wouldn't be able to afford it at launch anyway so it gives me more time to save
akantares
This year, Christmas Money is not going into my college fund!!
BJWanlund
Well, this is actually a good thing IMO. That way, Nintendo can sell their historically under-selling franchises, or the games that might not be bought for the holidays, and then with the Christmas money that we all get, we can buy it early next year.
Although, if Reggie is playing a mean game of Chicken with Nintendo fans, I'll be uber-surprised.
And I had NO idea that Jimmy Fallon was a Nintendo fan! None whatsoever.
Peznaze
Means little, given the context. It's still "by the end of Nintendo's fiscal year". While the odds of it coming in 2010 are remote, it could happen. Of course, supplies will be so limited for the first few... years... of the 3DS' production run, most of us will likely not see a 3DS on store shelves until 2012.
I'll put the new DKC game on my Christmas list, please! it makes a good-nice present doesn't it?
Mon 28th Jun 2010
@Peznaze: On the plus side, it appears that Nintendo is fully aware of how excited gamers are for the 3DS. That alone should help the stock relative to the Wii shortages, since they were caught off guard with its runaway success. But it IS normal for hot new hardware to be scarce...just not two years worth. I would say those who can't find one at launch will probably be able to get their hands on one within the first year without TOO much difficulty. Hopefully.
GammaGames
haha i like his question "can i keep this?' Reggie: 'Uh, no.' ahahaha
G-MaxiMillion
They should make this on the 3DS instead of the Wii, nobody wants such classic Nintendo games on the big screen lately, I mean look at New Super Mario Bros Wii. It was a complete rip-off.
I'd prefer it now, but it gives me more time to enjoy games such as DKC:R, GoldenEye, NBA Jam, and Shantae. (Hopefully it'll come out by then >_>) As long as it doesn't interfere with Pokemon Black and White I could careless as i'll be in college and with my work study, more money for me to save =)
3230ru
I believe that N has still a lot to do for 3DS. Games, online services, VC(maybe), 3DSWare - DSiWare compatibility question, announced multi-player feature etc. Though I am not sure that finally there wont be any Christmas surprise from Nintendo.
Marioman64
why are you all dissapointed? with a system this advanced and awesome i'll be surprised if it comes out before pokemon black and white
nintendonerd147
I so gonna get it but what is the big deal with 3d the 1st ever ds had 3d games whats the difference.
I'll buy3ds with Mario Kart 3ds(why hasnt there been a trailer yet) Paper Mario, Starfox 64 3d(only if it saves) Zelda Ocariner of Time. Does it play ds games that would be awesome. Im only actually gonna get one because of the new Mario Kart.
mushroomer
I think it has more to do with game availability as well as giving the DSi a chance at cashing in on software. I dont think its about polishing the hardware because they already showed it off at E3 in pretty much final form. If they add stronger video or larger memory, that effects the developers so, im guessing that the hardware is 99% done. Releasing it next year is a strategic move on N to try and focus their energy on software titles for their current console.
FinalFantisiac
So frustrating!!!!!
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Broncos waive WR David Porter, claim OT Matt Hall
Denver Broncos wide receiver David Porter looks on during drills at mini camp on June 11, 2015, at Dove Valley in Englewood. The Broncos waived Porter on Monday and picked up Matt Hall from Indianapolis.
PUBLISHED: August 10, 2015 at 12:14 p.m. | UPDATED: April 22, 2016 at 12:07 a.m.
The Broncos on Monday waived wide receiver David Porter and were awarded offensive tackle Matt Hall off waivers from the Indianapolis Colts.
Hall, 6-foot-9, 326-pounds, signed with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent from Belhaven University in May 2014. He signed with the Colts two months later, but landed on their injured reserve with a triceps tear after going unclaimed.
Porter, a 5-foot-11, 205-pound receiver from Texas Christian University, signed with the Broncos as a college free agent in May. In his four seasons with the Horned Frogs, he made 74 receptions for 954 yards and 10 touchdowns.


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Sid Meier's Civilization V Review
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Dev: Firaxis Games 1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid 4.0 - 4.4 = Great
Pub: 2K Games 2.0 - 2.4 = Poor 4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
Release: Sept. 21, 2010 2.5 - 2.9 = Average 5.0 = The Best
Players: 1 (2+ Online) 3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ 3.5 - 3.9 = Good
Refined Civilization
by Robert VerBruggen
If you have a job, a spouse, a school to attend, chores to do, or really any responsibilities whatsoever, take note: Civilization V comes out Tuesday, and it's hard to play this game for less than five hours in a sitting. You're always on the cusp of a major technological breakthrough, in the midst of an epic battle, or consumed by the day-to-day task of managing an empire. The real world needs to step aside for a bit, because Civilization is back, and it's as addictive as ever.
To put it simply, there's something for everyone here. Newcomers to the series will be delighted to know that some of the tweaks, especially the simplified menus and the excellent play-as-you-learn tutorial mode, make Civilization significantly more accessible. Longtime fans will relish the chance to pick apart a new system, figuring out which strategies, technologies, and tricks are superior to the others.
Longtime fans will also enjoy the fact that Civilization V still feels like Civilization. Starting in 4000 B.C. with a small city in the middle of a big world, you build a nation. You expand its borders, manage its wars, and direct its technological and cultural pursuits. To win, you can rule the world (diplomatically or militarily), be the first nation to assemble a space ship, have the highest score when the game ends in 2050, or (new to Civ 5) develop your nation's culture to the point that you establish a utopia. All of these paths require you to navigate countless risk-reward scenarios, and on the higher difficulty settings, there's precious little room for error. Because you can adjust the speed of time, the size and type of your map, and even the number of foes you'll battle, a single game need not take long, but the whole point of Civilization is to win in different ways and on ever-higher difficulty settings.
All that should sound familiar because the series has been nailing those elements from the get-go. But in Civ V, just under the hood lies a completely overhauled system.
Let's start with the combat. Whereas older versions of Civ allowed players to place multiple military units in a single square and move them around as a group (creating what fans called a "stack of doom"), Civ V allows only one military unit per tile, forcing players to pay close attention to how they position and move their fighters. Also, the developers turned the series' trademark square tiles into hexagons, so that every tile can be attacked from six directions (instead of eight), and the layout of the terrain looks more natural. Another difference is military units take longer to produce but are also more resilient to attack, and yet another is cities can attack invaders even if there's no unit garrisoned in them. Put all this together and you have a combat system that's focused more on strategy and less on brute force. When taking a city, your raw firepower is still probably the single most important factor, but sometimes it's possible to overcome losing odds with smart strategy.
The AI got a significant adjustment as well. Enemy leaders have distinct personalities, presenting you with a variety of challenges as you try to navigate a world full of foreign cultures, and they're much savvier traders than they used to be. Apparently, the developers accomplished all this by having four different types of AI control each leader (one controls individual units, another manages war strategy, another handles the empire's basic development, and the last one plans for the long term).
There are scores of smaller changes as well, and almost all are for the better and here are just a few. In addition to the major empires, there are a variety of AI-controlled "city-states" on each map; these entities can't win the game (and don't expand beyond a single city), but by currying their favor, you can get them to provide you useful resources (or, of course, you can just conquer them.). To win by military domination, you just have to be the only player in possession of his original capital, rather than exterminating all the other armies. Strategic resources are now finite; you can use an iron resource to build some Swordsman units, for example, but when it runs out, you have to find a new source. Government, civics, and religion trees are combined into the new Social Policy menu. Each nation has its own special features (only America can build a Minuteman, for example). Military units can cross water without being loaded onto transport units. There's a "strategic view" that displays the world as a grid with all the various gameplay elements clearly noted.
All of this, of course, only scratches the surface of the gameplay. The series' trademark simultaneous-turn multiplayer returns, of course. The developers have promised PitBoss, play-by-mail, hot-seat, modding, and matchmaking modes will be added in the near future. DLC packs will contain extra nations and maps. As the developers continue to support the game and fans explore the new setup, we expect Civ V's community will grow to be just as big and dedicated as Civ IV's was.


Last week the Irish FA launched the Mascot for the Women's UEFA Under 19 Championship finals which will take place in Northern Ireland from the 8– 20 August 2017.
Eadie Fallis entered the competition along with her classmates at Jones Memorial Primary School in County Fermanagh back in April 2016.
Her design was selected from over 3,500 entries provided by Primary School boys and girls from across Northern Ireland. The concept was then brought to life by Rainbow Productions, a mascot design company that have delivered sporting mascots for the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, UEFA European Championships and a variety of professional clubs across the UK and Europe.
The Irish FA are now asking supporters to be part of the process of naming this mascot which will be the symbol of the UEFA Women's Under 19 Championship and women's football in Northern Ireland post 2017.
To enter please fill in the form below. A judging panel will handpick the three best names which will then go forward to an online poll. The winner of this competition will receive a £100 JD Sports gift voucher.
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Step inside Diesel's London College of Fashion student store takeover
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London College of Fashion students have collaborated with Diesel to takeover their flagship Covent Garden store with a unique concept spread across three floors.
London College of Fashion students have taken over Diesel Covent Garden until September 12.
Bethan Alexander, MA Fashion Retail Management course leader, managed the collaboration with students from MA Fashion Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MA Fashion Curation, MA Strategic Fashion Marketing and MA Fashion Media Production. The partnership is also part of Diesel's ongoing commitment to foster young creativity.
The flagship takeover began on Thursday 11 August, and will run until 12 September. Diesel worked with several student groups before picking the final design. The winning design celebrates the history of Covent Garden and the flowers girls that made it famous. The winning group was made up of Eshaan Dhingra, Griselda Ibarra, Irene Rodriguez, Laksamee Jong, Maxime Laprade.
The winning design was chosen because it celebrated the history of Covent Garden and its famous flowers girls.
Diesel's Artistic Director, Nicola Formichetti recently commented on the collaboration: "I am really proud to be able to support young creatives from many different horizons through the takeover of Diesel's London Covent Garden flagship store by the students of London College of Fashion. Supporting young talent and fostering creativity is something very dear to me and to Diesel. It is by supporting those new talents that we are helping create the creative minds of tomorrow."
The takeover will see all three floors interpreted around the students winning concept. Broken up into three unique parts, the store will house a flower market on the ground floor, flower crown tutorials on the first, sponsored by renowned florists Grace & Thorn. The lower ground floor will host a male grooming station & jazz band referencing the darker side of Covent Garden in the evening, incorporating themes of a Gentlemen's club.
Students from the winning group included Eshaan Dhingra, Griselda Ibarra, Irene Rodriguez, Laksamee Jong, Maxime Laprade.
LCF News spoke to the students involved in the Diesel takeover to hear their thoughts on the collaboration.
Where did the takeover idea come from, and what did you create?
While researching for this project, we were really surprised to learn that Covent Garden used to be the London center for sex trade. We thought it was the best starting point to create a wow factor and to link the store to the area. We thus created a overall concept for the store interior, exterior and an IMC campaign for communication and launch event, doing our best to interpret the theme through the eye of the brand.
What have you learnt from working with Diesel, and did you enjoy the experience?
We enjoyed the experience very much! We learnt to work together as a team and discovered that variety can be powerful, as none of us came from the same background. One of the most amazing things is seeing our hard work become a reality. It was rewarding to work with an innovative brand that is open to ideas and responsive, which gave us the opportunity to experience an industry environment.
Bethan Alexander, Course Director of MA Fashion Retail Management, added: "Diesel were an amazing collaborative partner- enthusiastic, embracing and immersive with the students and faculty throughout the process. They provided an incredible learning opportunity over the 15 week partnership with the winning group not only flown off to Diesel HQ in Italy but to have their ideas brought to life for the entire month of August in store. It doesn't get much better than that!"
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LTG Nadja Y. West currently serves as the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General, US Army Medical Command.
She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned a Doctorate of Medicine Degree from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.


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package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func responseBody(url string) ([]byte, error) {
	response, err := http.Get(url)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer response.Body.Close()
	contents, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return contents, nil
}

func JenkinsJob(jenkins, jobName *string) (Job, error) {
	noJob := Job{}

	url := "http://" + *jenkins + "/job/" + *jobName + "/api/json?pretty=true"
	fmt.Printf("%s\n", url)
	contents, err := responseBody(url)
	if err != nil {
		return noJob, err
	}
	fmt.Printf("%s\n", string(contents))

	var data Job
	err = json.Unmarshal(contents, &data)
	if err != nil {
		return noJob, err
	}
	return data, nil
}

type Build struct {
	Number int    `json:"number"`
	URL    string `json:"url"`
}

type Job struct {
	Name      string `json:"name"`
	URL       string `json:"url"`
	Color     string `json:"color"`
	InQueue   bool   `json:"inQueue"`
	LastBuild Build  `json:"lastBuild"`
}

func main() {
	jenkins := flag.String("jenkins", "127.0.0.1:8080", "Jenkins hostname")
	jobName := flag.String("jobName", "test", "Jenkins job name")
	flag.Parse()

	job, err := JenkinsJob(jenkins, jobName)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%s", err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}
	fmt.Println("Name:", job.Name)
	fmt.Println("URL:", job.URL)
	fmt.Println("Color:", job.Color)
	fmt.Println("InQueue:", job.InQueue)
	fmt.Println("LastBuild number:", job.LastBuild.Number)
	fmt.Println("LastBuild URL:", job.LastBuild.URL)
}

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Ракета «повітря — повітря» — керована авіаційна ракета, призначена для ураження літальних апаратів противника у повітряному бою. Перші керовані ракети цього класу з'явилися наприкінці Другої світової війни в Німеччині. Перша перемога у повітряному бою за допомогою ракети «повітря — повітря» була здобута 24 вересня 1958 року. Ракети «повітря — повітря» класифікуються за дальністю і типу головки самонаведення. Ракета «повітря — повітря», як правило, має один або декілька ракетних двигунів, як правило, на твердому паливі, але іноді на рідкому паливі.

Див. також
 Ракета «земля — повітря»
 Зенітна артилерія
 Батарея артилерійська
 Реактивна зброя

Література
 Марковский В., Перов К. Советские авиационные ракеты «воздух — воздух». — М.: ЭКСПРИНТ, 2005. — ISBN 5-94038-084-0.
 Нестеров В. А., Пейсах Э. Е., Рейдель А. Л. и др. Основы проектирования ракет класса «воздух — воздух» и авиационных катапультных установок для них. / Под общей редакцией Нестерова В. А. — М.: Издательство МАИ, 1999. — 792 с. — ISBN 5-7035-1949-7.
 Миропольский Ф. П. и др. Авиационные средства поражения. — М.: Военное издательство, 1995. — 255 с.
 Гладков Д. И. и др. Боевая авиационная техника: Авиационное вооружение. — М.: Военное издательство, 1987. — 279 с.
 Jeremy Flack Lenk- und Abwurfwaffen der NATO-Luftwaffen — Motorbuch Verlag, 2005. — 113 p. — ISBN 3-613-02525-6.

Посилання
 Air-to-air missile non-comparison table
 Ракеты «воздух — воздух»
 Ракета «воздух — воздух» Р-60М
 Ракеты «воздух — воздух»
 Управляемые ракеты класса «воздух-воздух» стран НАТО
 Управляемые ракеты «воздух-воздух» Р-73, Р-27Р, Р-77
 Авиационные управляемые ракеты класса «воздух-воздух»

Авіаційні ракети
Ракетна зброя

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System Component: Sol-Air Moyenne Portée/Terrestre (SAMP/T)
Sol-Air Moyenne Portée/Terrestre (SAMP/T)
Associated Systems:
Multinational Air and Missile Defense
The Sol-Air Moyenne Portée/Terrestre (SAMP/T) is a ground-based, road-mobile tactical ballistic missile defense system developed by Eurosam, which is co-owned by MBDA France and Italy and Thales Group. SAMP/T provides theater missile defense and can also protect important tactical sites, including airports and ports, from cruise missiles, manned and unmanned aircraft, and tactical ballistic missiles. It entered service in Italy and France in 2011.
The SAMP/T's Arabel radar. Photo: Wikimedia
SAMP/T in an exercise. Photo: NATO
Aster missile launch in 2015. Photo: MBDA
SAMP/T Development
France and Italy jointly launched development of the SAMP/T and Aster missile family in 1988.1 The SAMP/T was designed to replace older I-Hawk and Crotale air defenses and satisfy modern ground-based area defense requirements. Eurosam, a joint venture of MBDA and Thales, initiated full-scale development in 1990, production in 1997, and testing in 1999. The first whole system trial took place in July 2005, in which the system successfully acquired, tracked, and intercepted its target.2 The "Aster" missile is named after the Greek word for "Star". It is also known as the "Future Surface-to-Air Family" (FSAF).
SAMP/T has undergone operational testing in France and Italy since May 2008. In October 2010, the SAMP/T successfully intercepted a mock ballistic missile target. The French Air Force conducted a second successful intercept test in November 2011.3 It first entered service in Italy and France in 2011.4
In March 2013, France and Italy successfully tested the SAMP/T operating under NATO air defense architecture.5
In March 2021, France and Italy announced their planned development of an upgraded variant, designated SAMP/T NG.6
The system includes a command and control center, fire control unit, Arabel radar, and up to six transporter erector launcher (TEL) vehicles with eight interceptors and a full set of reloads. The Arabel radar is a 3D phased array radar developed by Thales that rotates to provide 360 degree coverage. The SAMP/T can track up to 100 targets and engage 10 simultaneously.7
The SAMP/T's Aster 15 and 30 can range 30 and 120 km, respectively. Both interceptors are two-stage, solid-fueled rockets. The Aster 30 measures 4.9 m in length, 0.18 m in diameter, and weighs 450 kg at launch. It can fly at up to Mach 4.5 and an altitude of 20 km.8 In 2016, Eurosam began developing an extended range variant designated Aster 30 Block 1 NT Extended Capability.9 The upgraded missile features a new seeker operating in Ka band, instead of the Ku band seekers previously in operation.
The SAMP/T provides interoperability with other NATO partners. It requires only 14 personnel to deploy and operate one battery, and features a very short deployment and withdrawal period.10 It can be transported via NATO tactical transportation aircraft including the Airbus A400M and Lockheed-Martin C-130J Super Hercules.11
The French Air Force, which calls the system MAMBA, operates at least seven batteries and the Italian Army operates at least three.12
In June 2016, an Italian SAMP/T unit was deployed to southern Turkey, replacing German Patriot batteries that had been in the region for three years as part of the NATO support to Turkey against possible Syrian missile threats. The SAMP/T was deployed following a Turkish request to NATO to help reinforce its 900 km long border with Syria.13
In 2017, the Singapore Air Force took delivery of the SAMP/T and 100 Aster 30 missiles.14 The Air Force posted a video showing the air defense system on social media in March 2018.15
The Aster missile has also been exported widely outside of the SAMP/T configuration. At least 11 countries operate the missile.16
MBDA, "France and Italy Join Together to Develop Aster 30 Block 1 NT," Press Release, June 14, 2016, PDF from https://www.mbda-systems.com/product/aster-30-sampt/.
Thales Group, "SAMP-T."
Eurosam, "Eurosam SAMP/T systems with ASTER missiles," YouTube, December 28, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPx0-pl8CdY.
MBDA, "Another first for the SAMP/T system," Press Release, March 7, 2013, PDF from https://www.mbda-systems.com/product/aster-30-sampt/.
Christina Mackenzie, "France, Italy update their joint air-defense weapon for faster missiles," Defense News, March 24, 2021, https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/03/24/france-italy-update-their-joint-air-defense-weapon-for-faster-missiles/.
"Aster 30 SAMP/T," Army Technology, http://www.army-technology.com/projects/aster-30/.
MBDA, "ASTER 30-SAMP/T," visited on July 14, 2021, https://www.mbda-systems.com/product/aster-30-sampt/.
Sebastien Roblin, "Europe Has Its Very Own Missile Defense System," The National Interest, September 21, 2019, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/europe-has-its-very-own-missile-defense-system-82486.
"SAMP/T," Eurosam, achieved November 13, 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20121113072143/http://www.eurosam.com/ground.html; "SAMP/T Aster 30 Mamba Surface-to-air defense missile system," Army Recognition, http://www.armyrecognition.com/france_french_army_vehicle_missile_systems_uk/samp/t_mamba_aster_30_surface-to-air_defense_missile_system_technical_data_sheet_pictures_video.html.
"SAMP-T," Thales Group, https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/defence/samp-t.
Lale Sariibrahimoglu, "Italian SAMP/T unit arrives in Turkey," IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, June 9, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160923042354/http://www.janes.com:80/article/61125/italian-samp-t-unit-arrives-in-turkey.
Mike Yeo, "Singapore confirms delivery of Aster 30 missile with video post," Defense News, March 29, 2018, https://www.defensenews.com/land/2018/03/29/singapore-confirms-delivery-of-aster-30-missile-with-video-post/.
Missile Defense Project, "Sol-Air Moyenne Portée/Terrestre (SAMP/T)," Missile Threat, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 15, 2016, last modified July 15, 2021, https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/samp-t/.
Switzerland to Acquire Patriot Missile Defense
On June 30, Switzerland selected to purchase the Patriot air defense system for its air defense modernization effort. To satisfy its BODLUV 2020 air defense requirement, Switzerland had previously evaluated the United States' Patriot and the Eurosam-built SAMP/T surface-to-air systems. The U.S. State Department approved the potential sale of up to five Patriot batteries to...
Singapore Displays Aster Surface-to-Air Missile System
On July 6, Singapore first publicly displayed its Aster 30 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system at parade rehearsals. The Republic of Singapore Air Force first took delivery of over 100 missiles from MBDA in 2017. The Aster 30 was co-developed by France and Italy in the 1990s and can intercept airborne targets higher than 3 km...
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Startups are risky ventures at the best of times so it makes all the sense in the world to be straight-up honest from the get go. Unfortunately for Australian startup Sociabl, their braggadocios lift-off has landed them in some hot water.
As Mashable reports, a press release sent out last week (January 10, 2016) claimed that a number of A-list stars and celebrities including 5 Seconds of Summer, Richard Branson and Will.I.Am are signed on for the service.
The product is meant to be a fee-based video chat system for musicians, celebrities and people of influence to speak with their fans face-to-face and was founded by Brandon Reynolds and Jarrad Hrotek – both in their early 20s.
To pick on one of the many names given as 'on board', Will.I.Am was described as "ready to go" with the launch of the app despite his management having little to no knowledge of this project's existence. A tenuous connection with the Black Eye Peas' US manager was all Sociabl were basing this relationship on.
While we should appreciate the two lads' innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, there's no excuse for making such false claims or, giving them the benefit of the doubt, exaggerating the truth to make for a flashier PR mail-out.
Reynolds has maintained that Branson and Will.i.am will be fully involved but have signed the ominous contract tying them to Sociabl but added that "the dotted line is a blurry thing".
There's a lesson to be learnt from this if you are a budding startup founder. Be honest from the beginning. It's much better to surprise your users with celebrity involvement than it is to sell your product with the promise of some.


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N Scale - Athearn - 6934 - Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, ACF 4600 - Santa Fe - 313863
Image courtesy of baggedbird
Secondary Stock Number ATH6934
Brand Athearn
Manufacturer Athearn
Body Style Athearn Covered Hopper 3-Bay ACF 4600
Prototype Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, ACF 4600
Road or Company Name Santa Fe (Details)
Reporting Marks ATSF
Road or Reporting Number 313863
Paint Color(s) Brown
Coupler Type McHenry Magnetic Knuckle
Wheel Type Chemically Blackened Metal
Model Type Covered Hopper
Model Subtype 3-Bay
Model Variety ACF Centerflow 4600 Cubic Foot
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Chartered in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress. Despite the name, its main line never served Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the terrain was too difficult; the town ultimately was reached by a branch line from Lamy.
The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport, an enterprise that (at one time or another) included a tugboat fleet and an airline (the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway). Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean. The ATSF was the subject of a popular song, Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer's "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written for the film, The Harvey Girls (1946).
The railroad officially ceased operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway.
Athearn's history began in 1938, when its founder-to-be, Irvin Athearn, started an elaborate O scale layout in his mother's house. After placing an ad selling the layout, and receiving much response to it, Irv decided that selling model railroads would be a good living. He sold train products out of his mother's house through most of the 1940s. After becoming a full-time retailer in 1946, Irv opened a separate facility in Hawthorne, California in 1948, and that same year he branched into HO scale models for the first time.
Athearn acquired the Globe Models product line and improved upon it, introducing a comprehensive array of locomotive, passenger and freight car models. Improvements included all-wheel drive and electrical contact. One innovation was the "Hi-Fi" drive mechanism, employing small rubber bands to transfer motion from the motor spindle to the axles. Another was the double-ended ring magnet motor, which permitted easy connection to all-wheel-drive assemblies. Athearn was also able to incorporate flywheels into double-ended drives.
The company produced a model of the Boston & Maine P4 class Pacific steam locomotive which incorporated a cast zinc alloy base and thermoplastic resin superstructure. It had a worm drive and all power pickup was through the bipolar trucks that carried the tender. This item was discontinued after the Wilson motor was no longer available, and was not redesigned for a more technologically advanced motor.
Athearn's car fleet included shorter-than-scale interpretations of passenger cars of Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad prototypes. The company also offered a variety of scale-length freight cars with sprung and equalized trucks. The cars could be obtained in simple kit form, or ready-to-run in windowed display boxes. The comprehensive scope of the product line contributed to the popularity of HO as a model railroad scale, due to the ready availability of items and their low cost.
Irv Athearn died in 1991. New owners took control in 1994, but continued to follow Athearn's commitment to high-quality products at reasonable prices. Athearn was bought in 2004 by Horizon Hobby. Athearn was then moved from its facility in Compton to a new facility in Carson, California. In mid-2009, all remaining US production was moved to China and warehousing moved to parent Horizon Hobby. Sales and product development was relocated to a smaller facility in Long Beach, California.
Read more on Wikipedia and Athearn website.
Item created by: CNW400 on 2020-07-08 08:43:52. Last edited by baggedbird on 2022-08-25 18:32:52


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    {
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Color in the Cortex: Single- and double-opponent cells
Robert Shapley, Michael J. Hawken
Neural Science
This is a review of the research during the past 25. years on cortical processing of color signals. At the beginning of the period the modular view of cortical processing predominated. However, at present an alternative view, that color and form are linked inextricably in visual cortical processing, is more persuasive than it seemed in 1985. Also, the role of the primary visual cortex, V1, in color processing now seems much larger than it did in 1985. The re-evaluation of the important role of V1 in color vision was caused in part by investigations of human V1 responses to color, measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, and in part by the results of numerous studies of single-unit neurophysiology in non-human primates. The neurophysiological results have highlighted the importance of double-opponent cells in V1. Another new concept is population coding of hue, saturation, and brightness in cortical neuronal population activity.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.012
Double-opponent
Population coding
Single-opponent
10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.012
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Color in the Cortex: Single- and double-opponent cells'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Double cortex Medicine & Life Sciences
Color Medicine & Life Sciences
Color Vision Medicine & Life Sciences
Neurophysiology Medicine & Life Sciences
Visual Cortex Medicine & Life Sciences
Primates Medicine & Life Sciences
Shapley, R., & Hawken, M. J. (2011). Color in the Cortex: Single- and double-opponent cells. Vision research, 51(7), 701-717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.012
Color in the Cortex : Single- and double-opponent cells. / Shapley, Robert; Hawken, Michael J.
In: Vision research, Vol. 51, No. 7, 13.04.2011, p. 701-717.
Shapley, R & Hawken, MJ 2011, 'Color in the Cortex: Single- and double-opponent cells', Vision research, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 701-717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.012
Shapley R, Hawken MJ. Color in the Cortex: Single- and double-opponent cells. Vision research. 2011 Apr 13;51(7):701-717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.012
Shapley, Robert ; Hawken, Michael J. / Color in the Cortex : Single- and double-opponent cells. In: Vision research. 2011 ; Vol. 51, No. 7. pp. 701-717.
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Resilience has become central to the development sector in recent years, but conceptually it is still in a state of flux. In this blog post, we explore some of the new challenges associated with measuring the expanding concept of resilience in Oxfam's impact evaluations or 'Effectiveness Reviews'.
Resilience keeps getting bigger. What started off as an ambitious attempt to meld humanitarian and long-term development work, has become a huge cross-cutting entity in its own right. Resilience is no longer just about 'bouncing back'. It now includes a host of risk management strategies, adaptation… and even talk of transforming the systems and structures that create vulnerability. Although moving the conceptual goalposts is not a problem in itself, it presents a challenge to any efforts to measure resilience.
Oxfam defines resilience as 'the ability of women and men to realise their rights and improve their wellbeing, despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty'. For measurement purposes, we don't simply wait for shocks and stresses (such as droughts, floods, and conflict) to occur and then check the progress of wellbeing. Instead, we identify context-specific drivers of resilience: characteristics that we think determine people's ability to thrive despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty in the future. This allows us to evaluate projects shortly after their completion, regardless of whether a shock has occurred or not. Over the years, we've found several ways of identifying contextually relevant indicators of resilience from complex conceptual resilience theories.
Using this approach, the number of possible resilience indicators gets really big, really fast – in a typical evaluation, we might measure 30 variables. For a long time, Oxfam broke resilience down into five bite-sized dimensions to try and make this measurement approach more manageable, but as the organisation's programme learning has evolved (see Oxfam's new resilience programming guidelines), so too has the measurement approach. Now, resilience in programmes is understood in terms of three capacities: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative. The last of these three has proved especially tricky for us bean counters in the evaluation team.
Transformative capacity is defined as the capacity to change the systems that create risk, vulnerability and inequality. This is about more than just stability or flexibility. It is about long-term transformation of political systems, protection of eco-systems, gender dynamics, values, beliefs and epistemologies – the structures that determine who will face shocks and stresses 10, 20, 30 years into the future and beyond. Oxfam is committed to measuring what's important, and transformative capacity is clearly important. So, what's the issue with measuring transformative capacity?
Firstly, quantitative counterfactual evaluations aren't going to be enough on their own anymore. If we really want to know about systems-level change, then the level of the system is exactly where we should collect (and analyse) our data. Oxfam has a long history of applying theory-based evaluation designs (see, for example, our work on 'Process Tracing' ), so these all need to come into play. But, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater! We want these theory-based evaluation approaches to go alongside our existing quantitative methods, not replace them (which is another blog post in itself). Many important aspects of absorptive, adaptive capacity, and even some elements of transformative can be captured by household surveys, and our quasi-experimental methods remain a valid way to try and estimate projects' household- or community-specific effects.
Secondly, the devil will remain very much in the detail, for capturing intra-household issues. This is not only about choosing the right questions and wording them carefully, but also finding ways to robustly sample different members of the household for interview.
If you've struggled with – or better still overcome – similar challenges with measuring resilience as it continues to expand, please let us know or use the comments section below.