Spring is very almost here along with Easter, and the anticipation for a long weekend of video games and chocolate is growing. But before that, it's time for the first blog party of 2019 here at Later Levels – there's no better way to set yourself up for the week and meet some new blogging friends.
🎉 Get the conversation going: there are some great video games due this year, so let us know what you're playing right now and which upcoming title you're looking forward to the most in 2019.
🎉 Mingle: grab yourself a drink, put on a party hat and get to know your fellow guests! Check back on the comments throughout the day to discover excellent sites and meet new bloggers.
🎉 Party all day: the comments below will be open for 24-hours until 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, 19 March 2019 so you've got plenty of time to meet and greet. Plus your posts will be shared on the Later Levels' social media channels!
These blog party events are my way of giving something back to the amazing WordPress community and showing my appreciation for all of your support. I've had the opportunity to meet some lovely people and talented writers over the past two years; here's a little thank you and a way of finding some awesome blogs you may not have come across already.
The record number of posts shared in a single event still stands at 29 so can we beat that this time around? Enjoy – and excuse me while I turn the music up!
Looks like I'm the first one here today. Yay!
While I've been trying to play Life Is Strange, I've been mostly playing Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, HyperDimeniton Neptunia Re:Birth 1 and Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition. This week I've also spent a lot of time on the PC edition of Dissida Final Fantasy NT, which is mostly stable online, which is good, as I heard the lag was pretty bad for consoles.
Hopefully I can meet(and re-meet) some great people!
I still haven't been able to play Life is Strange… I started a few times but then had to stop because I knew there would be plenty of emotions coming! I just think it's a case of finding the right time because I think I'd actually love it.
I just played Life Is Strange for the first time last month. Wow! Was not expecting such an epic story.
Oh, am I the first here? Hmm. Introducing myself to an empty room seems like something I would do, so here goes.
Hello, I'm Pete. I used to work as a professional games journalist for sites including GamePro and USgamer, but now I have a boring day job and several creative projects I have complete control over.
Chief among those is MoeGamer, which besides acting as a hub for everything else I do (including the Atari A to Z series of videos on retro video games) is a site about exploring and celebrating the games that don't get as much love, attention or even fair treatment from the more "mainstream" sites out there.
MoeGamer focuses mainly (though not exclusively) on games and visual novels of Japanese origin, or those that have been inspired by the Japanese way of doing things. There are two reasons for this; firstly, these titles are under-represented in the press, typically getting a cursory mention at best, ill-informed misinformation at worst, and I want to shine a spotlight on these fascinating titles that don't get the love and attention they deserve. And secondly, since about 2010 or so, I've felt a particular "kinship" with these games; their gameplay speaks to me, their narrative focus resonates with me, and their characters appeal to me.
It's a really fascinating RPG, and probably Compile Heart's strongest title to date, featuring an interesting blend between isekai and Japanese-style horror in narrative terms, and a combination of traditional visual novel and highly creative JRPG in mechanical terms. The genre-bending, "billiards-style" combat in which there's a strong emphasis on knockbacks and positioning is a particular highlight; I'll be writing more on that later this week.
Morning Pete, lovely to see you here! How are you doing?
I'm OK, could do without it being Monday (or at least having the boring day job to go to) but such is life. There are games to play, and my parents stopped by at the weekend and dropped off some 30-year old Atari ST games I'd been hoping to add to my collection for some time, which was nice!
You 2 are very lucky.
I need to try some Compile Hearts other RPG's. Neptunia is fun, but I'm very interested in a few other things I've seen from them.
Maybe not Death end re:Quest. Not really a horror guy.
Yeah, Death end re;Quest is pretty full-on in places, though it is tamer than something like Corpse Party.
From their more recent output, I can particularly recommend Omega Quintet, which has a really fascinating battle system (and great music!), and Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force, which has some great characters and a cool three-route story.
That's so cool you used to write for GamePro and USgamer! I bet that gave you a lot of game writing experience.
It did! My editor on GamePro in particular worked wonders to improve my writing, so I'm very grateful to him.
Sadly I can't recommend working in the business these days as it's incredibly cliquey and backstabby — and a lot of people involved simply don't seem to care about the actual games any more. I'm no longer working for USgamer simply because I wasn't a member of the right "in-crowd". Unfortunate, but at least now I have complete editorial freedom to do whatever I want.
Was it not fancy dress? Oh well… I look pretty sharp anyway..
Currently I'm at a bit of a gaming lose end and I've been playing lots of Apex Legends. Also been planning my next streaming event which looks like it's going to be Rugrats: Search for Reptar on PS1.
Now… Where are those twiglets?
Rugrats?! Just let me know when and where and I'll be there!
Please tell me you're going to dress up as Chuckie for it…?
😁 Chuckie is the best! … Actually, rewatching now, it's all about what Stu and Deedee say and do.
I'll make some sort of announcement when I've worked out the time!
Awesome! I shall be there with snacks and motivational chat comments. Maybe a squid emoji or two also, depending on how I'm feeling.
Haha! hopefully, but I won;t hold it against you. I know work travel is often pretty frantic – hope the conference goes well!
In a survival situation I might not be the best person to hang out with. Everyone else will be worrying about supplies and monsters, and I'll just be checking that the glazing is in order….
It's very playable and so much more to my liking than the other similar titles. I thought I was improving, but I've had a terrible run the past few days – lots of dropping in and getting wiped immediately.
That was such a fun game! Thank you for watching!
My pleasure! Do you think you'll do GameBlast20 next year?
I'm not sure. I found this year's one far more tiring than last so I may need to find something else to do.
Yeah, it definitely seems to get harder each year. That could just be my old age setting in though ha ha!
I wouldn't say no to being asked closer to the time.
Dude!! Sorry I missed that stream. Congrats though!
Not to worry! It was fun, but the late night was a real slog this year.
I'm Ellen who likes blogging about stuff and talking to humans online. To be honest, my interests are slowly moving away from video games, and I'm focusing more on changing my real life, as hard as that is. My close friends seem to be moving ahead with their lives, and it feels like I'm stuck going nowhere alone. Depression… anxiety… social problems. Pffft! I got this.
If you need anyone to talk, I am definitely here to lend a helping hand. Cheers!
It's hard to move away from games. They've been a large part of my life since I was like 5 years old. Sounds like you get it. Thanks, my friend!
Yep! The blogging and social aspect is a huge reason why I play them a ton. Good luck in the real world. It's hard out there, but you got this!
The legend that is Ellen has arrived!
That Final Fantasy XIII trilogy release needs to happen. Square knows to makes remasters amazing.
Also, you haven't played Anthem yet? Knowing you and Mass Effect, I thought you would enjoy it!
Ha! Thanks for the legendary welcome there, friend 🙂 Square Enix better get on that remake soon.
If Anthem were single player, I'd be all over it. I don't have the patience to deal with certain random people online. It looks so fun too 😦 Maybe I'll give it a try someday.
I am currently playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the PlayStation 4 and I am looking forward to Dragon Quest XI S and Pokemon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch!
I will be the one dancing all night at the party!
Hi everyone! It's springtime out there so get your bathing suits and sunscreen out! SunsOutGunsOut. My name is DJ from OverpoweredAF ( Formerly Galaxy, underwent a major revision earlier this year.) and my blog is dedicated to reviews, opinions, discussions, and plenty more stuff like gaming news.
I'm currently swamped with games. Currently playing Metro: Exodus, The Division 2, Apex Legends, Resident Evil 2 ( I'm about to wrap this one up.), and some other games.
I will be the one dancing all night and getting groovy.
My other-half has been playing The Division 2 all weekend – he's totally hooked. He's now trying to get me to buy a copy so I can join in with him!
The Division 2 is awesome. I've been hooked ever since I got the special edition last week, it's soo good. For the first time since Ghost Recon: Wildlands , I feel like I'm in a Clancy book with how everything is so tactical.
I was in front of the TV all weekend, lol ( only taking slight breaks.) , reminded me of my time in High School playing videogames literally all week after homework and staying up until the sun rose on Saturday.
Aw I miss those days. Now, even when I set aside a day to do nothing but play video games, there's always some adult responsibility that seems to get in the way. I've got a long weekend coming up in April though so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that.
I've been wrapping up my college stuff ( Graduation is so close now! I can feel it in my bones!) and now with Spring Break coming up, I can sit back and play vidoeogames all day.
Congrats on the blog revision! Those take a TON of work.
I'm still working on a new logo ( been working on it since the revision back in January. Been trying to settle on a design.) , I still need to change some things like the Patreon and the ABOUT ME page but yeah, it took a long time to find a new name. Galaxy doesn't necessarily come off as a Videogame blog does it now?
I liked Galaxy but it's important to go with whatever makes the most sense to you, eh.
I suppose so. I liked it too but at least for me, it didn't signify videogames I guess?
Can't wait to really dive into Div2 right now! I got to play a few hours of my early access before I took the family on a little weekend vacation. So, now we're back, kids are asleep and I'm ready to clean up those streets!
Metro games are awesome too! Exodus looks amazing.
Currently playing KH3 and Chrono Trigger (the iOS release, which has made it much easier for me to get through this awesome game for not quite the first time, but I remember almost nothing from my first playthrough many years ago). Plus my other half and I are replaying Overcooked! and Overcooked! 2 for, like, the third time. Those games are so fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice looks like once that's out, although I'm unlikely to be able to pick it up at least for a little while.
or… not fixed. Made that claim prematurely assuming that editing a comment would be easy, but that's a no. So here's the link!
I'm have the Steam version of Chrono Trigger in progress now. It's my first time through the game. It's cool but my attention span is short.
We'll have to do some sort of co-authored 'first-ish impressions of a decades-old game' thing!
Hellooooooo everyone! I'm Fitzy and I write on my blog Game Time. My posts don't really have a rhyme or reason but you'll find reviews, and a variety of thoughts, praises and complaints about games. Basically a place where I can condense all my gaming shower thoughts and off tangent gaming ideas.
I had a great time writing that and it's fun to come up with theories about individual details in games when you reassess it with the world presented. I intend to do more Inventory Time's in the future as there is so much potential, especially with 90's games and before realism in gaming became a bigger thing.
As for games I'm playing: Apex Legends has firmly got its hooks into me. I never thought I'd play a Battle Royale game but this one plays well and I don't need a builders permit to win. Kim and Lightning Ellen recently brought to light loving your backlog and so that's what I've been trying to do. Dragon Age Inquisition has received a round 2 and Darkest Dungeon is once again driving me insane. Well my characters anyway. I've also just started playing Slime Rancher and finding that to be a nice, addicting de-stress game. And I'm looking forward to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice coming out soon. I'm a huge fan of the Souls series but didn't care enough for the samurai tone of Nioh. Hoping From Software can create another winner.
And that's basically me. Now unless my eyes deceive me, I spy a bowl of Doritos in the corner. You'll know where to find me :).
Slime Rancher! I've had this in my library for ages and played an hour or two to try it out during early access, but haven't yet had a chance to give it a proper run. How are you finding it? Is there any sense of 'direction' in terms of objectives now?
*Through mouthful of Doritos* Honestly I've played about 2 hours of it only. My wife struggles with 1st person games and so I showed her Slime Rancher as it seemed ideal for a beginner FPS. Mission accomplished because since then I've barely had chance to play it or even use the laptop 🙂 . From what she's shown me, you need currency to open new areas and you also need to upgrade your character with a Jetpack and other gear to reach certain spots. There is also giant slimes that block areas that you can only pass by feeding them tons of food. You get emails too and customer item requests and as you progress you unlock new machinery and farming equipment to buy. So it doesn't seem like a main goal but there's a lot of things to keep it fresh and for you to set your own goals to. Kind of The Sims type situation. Which I like. It's nice to have a game just to go at your own pace to.
Yeah I know what you mean. I couldn't play early Minecraft for that exact reason. 'Build anything!' Sure, what should I build and why? 'Whatever your heart desires, use your imagination!'OK……I'll build a house.
But then Slime Rancher also seems more of a Stardew Valley thing which I've put over 100 hours into so I can see Slime Rancher potentially scratching that same itch. I do hope there's an end goal though like Stardew kind of had. A casual stream sounds like a good call though.
You need to get on that! Clear your calender for the next few months if you do though. One of the most addicting games but one of my favourite indie games.
You should be scared ha. At least if it hooks you like it did me. I've bought it on 3 systems and would buy it again if I had other systems. It just has the most perfect cycle of endorphin release, at least in games that I've played. Dark Souls gives you a huge feel good rush when you beat a hard boss but Stardew just trickles it gently, like an IV drip. It's very comforting. But it is a time abyss too. Say goodbye to real life routine and hello to sunrise at 4am!
Without giving too much away, are you able to share what the game's end goal is? If that sounds interesting, it'll probably be enough to draw me into giving it a go.
Would you believe that with all 3 systems and over 100 hours that I still haven't got to Stardews end goal? Because I play 3 different systems, 3 different farms I spread myself too thin. That and I keep starting over so I can make a better farm from scratch. Nasty habit.
Basically you inherit your farm from your grandpa and you find a note that says that he'll return (as a ghost? maybe) to evaluate your progress at the start of your 3rd year. That and also there is a dilapidated community centre that you are tasked with fixing up. You do this by giving little cute creatures crops, fish, meat, made goods etc that they require. They have a bulliten board of requests and when you complete certain clusters you'll progress the town around you. Allowing you to do more stuff. There's also a mine with monsters that you are asked to reach the end of. There's a lot more to do but I think they are the end goals.
Argh, the starting-over sounds exactly like something I would do! There's something about fresh starts and new beginnings which appeals to the perfectionist in me.
And now I want to play Dragon Age Inquisition again, haha.
I'm open to tips or advice if you have them. That way you're playing it again with me as a conduit haha.
Thank you so much for saying that! I have issue with leaving areas early with side quests to do but so far I've been wandering around that area for ages doing odd jobs and fetch quests. Ahhhh sweet release, I've been excused from the Hinterlands. I'm glad to hear a recommendation to leave that zone. Saying that though I'm playing on hard so I need to be careful and be the right level or even overpowered like your guys. I'll venture away from the Hinterlands for now though. New sights to see and World Dragons to find!
I'm the same way. Happy to have provided you with a Hinterlands pardon, haha. Definitely let me know how your journey goes!
Hey, Alex here. I feel bad for spiking the punch last time so I only brought a bag of gummy bears, totally not laced in any hallucinogenic drugs. And if they were, it would be for scientific research purposes only. Have some!
Incidentally, Pokemon Sword and Shield are the games I'm looking forward to to play. I need a Switch first, but that was on my to-buy list this year anyway.
Not too long ago I was playing Dishonored 2, but somehow I started missing Horizon Zero Dawn and had to go where my heart called me to. Now I'm trying to beat the New Game Plus mode on Ultra Hard. We'll see how well that goes.
Alright, let's boogie. Do cool kids say that nowadays? Am I retro?
I need to get back to Horizon Zero Dawn. I was really enjoying the game and got the complete edition but I'm terrible with open world games. I try and do all side quests and end up either burning myself out or I play a new release and find getting back into an open world game difficult. But Horizon is one I keep thinking about over other open world games I quit mid-through.
I think it balanced it sidequests and collectives pretty well, I wasn't too overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to do, so much so that this was my very first platinum trophy.
But I get what you mean. This is why I jumped off Dishonored. Even though it's not as open as other games, there's an overwhelming amount of choices and options to the point where I don't know what to do next and then don't play at all.
Good day party people! This place is looking pretty lively! I'm Pix and I write over at Shoot the Rookie about all things games and anime. I'm also addicted to salt and vinegar pringles so I hope you don't mind but I brought a whole case of them.
My most recent game completion was Torna the Golden Country (I call it that so I can pretend it isn't a Xenoblade game as I know everyone is sick of me talking about it!) and I'm now working my way through Persona 5 whilst watching my other half play The Evil Within 2 (not simultaneously I hasten to add!). I'm super super excited to play DMC 5 but that probably won't be happening anytime soon as after Persona I have two 'Tales of' games and Life is Strange waiting for me on the shelf.
You're so organised in terms of what you're playing! Do you normally have a schedule like that planned, and if so does it help?
Haha! No, not at all! I don't have a schedule as such, but at the moment I have a few games that I've received as gifts and I want to play them before buying anything else! Life is Strange is one of those, I don't think I would have bought it myself but am really looking forward to it since a friend bought it for me.
I've tried to play it twice so far and each time I haven't been able to get further than the end of the first episode. I know that there's plenty of emotions coming and I keep running away from them!
Wow, sounds like it'll be a long while before you play DMCV. Persona 5 is a big time sink and I've never played a Tales of game but I imagine those are too.
Also, Akagi 👍. Always happy to see that or Kaiji on a best of list.
Ooh! I've not heard of Kaiji! What kind of thing is it?
Basically a sequel with a new character. Same art style and writer I believe. Whereas Akagi was Mahjong and he was an expert, Kaiji is about a loser gambler who inherits an owed debt to some shady people. It's about his struggle and him being forced to gamble his life to continue being a free man or suffer a poor fate. If you liked Akagi then I highly recommend Kaiji.
Also I should add. The gambling in Kaiji is similar to the twisted Mahjong you saw in later Akagi. It isn't horse race betting or poker. Some intense stuff.
Well said 🙂 It is so important to allow yourself a bit of freedom!
Hello I'm dropping by quickly to say hi and I'll be back to properly mingle later. Have some chocolates whilst I'm here.
I'm The Gaming Diaries and blog about gaming stuff and some other things when I manage to finish a post.
I bring a gift of backlog love because Kim and Ellen were awesome enough to come up with this.
I have really enjoyed watching the streams. I kind of want to play it now, even though I have seen what you went through haha. I just want to see it again to see if I missed something that explained it more.
Even though LIMBO was good, I must admit that I'm enjoying Eastshade far more – much more my cup of tea. I need to do a bit of research to find out how I can make canvases quicker so I can get more paintings done!
Eastshade is so relaxing to watch. I love seeing the canvases that you are doing as well. It's a much more calm game than Limbo, and Eastshade is beautiful. I hope you can find a way to make the canvases quicker.
There'll likely be another Eastshade stream this week! I think I'm becoming addicted to the game.
I will be keeping my eye out for this! Always nice to watch and it's great that you are enjoying the game so much.
Hey again! The backlog hard, especially when you just want to play games you love.
I know there are probably games on my backlog that I will love… when I get round to them. But I will always have games to play!
It's always a popular choice!
Hey everyone, Matt from Normal Happenings here! I believe I know literally everyone in this room right now, making me a bit of a social butterfly! If you didn't know — and really, why would you — I've mastered time travel since the last blog party! Pretty cool, right? So, I'm presenting you a gift from three days in THE FUTURE.
Then, be sure to follow, because Thursday is going to be a very special day for us all.
Now, regarding games. I just 100 percented World of Light on Smash Ultimate, so now I wish to take on an even greater challenge: actually win a match using King Dedede. Come play Smash with me so I can lose over and over and over again with a giant penguin. Oh, and help yourself to the gluten free garlic chicken primavera I brought. You, umm, might need some gum or a breath mint afterwards… be warned.
Hello! Been trying to do a daily inking for a while. Any advice?
I love early Radiohead…and then they got weird and lost me. Kid A and OK Computer are masterpieces in my opinion.
On another note, we didn't get to check out the BBQ place in STL you mentioned, but the Arch, Jewel Box, Science Center, and Zoo were all hits with the fam.
Oh, and Fritz'. The cream soda was amazing. I love me a good cream soda.
Across the last three months I enjoyed doing my Shoutouts 2018 post. I Shouted out a lot of people in this post. Check it out if you haven't yet.
Games I've played this year. Tetris 99 has been real fun. I finished Far Cry: New Dawn which I have a review planned for very soon. Apex Legends has been fun and I plan on getting MLB The Show '19 at the end of week. Too Many Games out there to name. And that's not even the retro stuff I've been playing.
This party is jammin' and it never disappoints.
I *still* haven't played Tetris 99. I think it's likely the be the only battle royale game I'd enjoy so I'd love to give it a try.
I haven't yet entered the switch online space, so Tetris 99 will have to wait. Maybe if I end up being able to split my Xbox Live sub there, I'll give it a try! Apex is great fun though, and a new season starts tomorrow!
Hi, I'm Thero and you can normally find me at A Reluctant Hero! I normally write about video games, books and anything that catches my geeky eye. I have to admit that I'm just getting back into the swing of blogging, after a bit of an unplanned hiatus, so I don't have many posts to share. I have a post that I've posted today, all about Assassin's Creed 2, if that interests anyone.
I hope everyone enjoys the party and I'll try and pop back later!
I'm good, thanks and you? I would recommend giving AC2 a try, especially if you weren't sold on the first game.
I just found the first a bit… repetitive. I got bored halfway through and never bothered going back to it! But the storyline intrigues me and some of the later games do look really interesting.
Assassin's Creed 2 was where I started the series on my PS3. I absolutely loved it and (practically) platinumed it. I then jumped to AC3 which I conversely, didn't get on with at all. I've recently completed AC4: Black Flag which I thought was amazing.
Ubisoft's anxiety-inducing release schedule for these games is crazy though. I get stressed wondering how much 'story' miss by jumping straight to Odyssey without playing Origins first!
Having played all the main games in the series, I can say that AC3 was the one I enjoyed the least but Black Flag definitely restored my faith in the series.
Origins and Odyssey are connected through the modern day storyline. So, while you can skip the older Assassin Creed games, I would advise playing Origins before Odyssey.
I'm a little late to the party but hello I'm Krista aka LeeksEverywhere. I've taken a little step back from my blog to focus on my health a bit over the last few weeks but I've spent some of that time planning and scribbling away in my notebook. I can usually be found over on https://leekseverywhere.wordpress.com/ where I write about video games and technology. My last few posts have had a bit of a Nintendo theme to them which came about by accident.
Recently I've been playing World of Final Fantasy on Nintendo Switch as well as Life is Strange 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
If anyone needs me I'll be over there in the corner dancing!
Hey Krista! WOFF seems really cool. Might try it out.
I've loved Shadow Of the Tomb Raider so far! I was about 50% through and then got hit by the open-world syndrome and moved on to something else…The Division 2.
We'll see how that grind goes and if I get back to finishing off another open world explorer!
Thanks for reminding me there is a Life Is Strange 2!
I couldn't get into the first one, I felt like a failed gamer because so many people love it so much. I just didn't feel taken by it, maybe it gets more interesting and I just stopped too soon?
Oh not that far at all. Was playing on mobile, but I think I own it on Steam. I love a good story, I just didn't find the whole high school thing appealing, I guess. Wouldn't be the first time I've written something off and been completely wrong cough Fallout cough.
More mentions of Life is Strange… I really must finally get it finished!
I go by Red Metal, and I run a game/film review site called Extra Life (though I mainly focus on the former).
I was unimpressed with the how gaming journalists functioned, relying more on egotistical posturing rather than on actual interesting discourse, so I decided to start my own site. Since I started in 2014, I've reviewed over 160 games. They weren't very long at first; I would be lucky to surpass 2,000 words. Within the past year, on the other hand, I've written four reviews that exceeded 10,000 words.
There's also a lack of self-awareness; they are super-hostile to their audience only to wonder why they're not taken seriously. And thanks!
Glad you enjoyed that one! I really liked how it came out.
160 reviews… that's seriously impressive. Your dedication to your blog and posts is inspiring! How long does it take to write an article on average?
It depends on the review. I can write a 2,000-3,500 review in two days because that usually means there isn't much to talk about. Then again, it also depends on how much research I need to do for the game. If I don't have to do a lot (because there isn't much written about it), that makes it easier to review. I try to aim for getting at least 1,000 words written in a day, but again, how fast I write them really depends on what I'm reviewing.
Unlike last years blog party which saw me bring some infectious dance songs (and by infectious I mean like the kind of infection you want to get rid of!) No raining tacos or anything of that sort!
I'll share a little ditty this time around that was inspired by one of our party goers – Matt and Normal Happenings! A Daily Inkling response that didn't go where anyone (including me) thought it would go!
Enjoy the party one and all!
They're a lot of fun, I would highly recommend them!
So, arriving fashionably late is I… Rendermonkee! I apologise for my tardiness (my latest post will explain, but let's not dwell on that)!
Firstly, this is an awesome idea, and I'm glad I've not missed it!
Hello Games were given a hard time at launch, as we all remember. I remember describing it at the time as a great piece of 'tech' with absolutely no 'game' attached. However, the devs have gone above and beyond (umm… literally, going by the name of the recently announced update), and I believe the game is now somewhat of a masterpiece.
Give it a try (or at the very least, give the soundtrack a youtube listen).
Ahh No Man's Sky. Loved your post, nice work! I still have the game installed with the intention of diving in again properly some day!
Thanks Dan! Don't forget, the devs have just announced ANOTHER three-part update introducing many more multiplayer features!
Personally, I think Hello Games settled the score about 2 updates ago but they're continuing to build on the game. Much respect!
I have heard that No Man's Sky really turned around. It was the reason I bought a PS4 and then haven't played it hardly at all since launch. Maybe, if there's ever a break in the game time, I'll go back.
I loved the idea! I just got really bored of the Randomness being not so very random. The flora and fauna were all very similar to me and, like you said, the narrative was virtually as void as space itself.
Same here, then they announced a PC version and I stared at my PS4 like "Now what to do with you?" and I've almost bought the game again on PS4 a few times… Then comes an Xbox version and I still just don't play it at all!
So hello to you all!
Hmm can you comment on your own top level comment while it awaits moderation? I guess we'll see, sorry if this breaks WordPress haha.
I forgot to say I'm currently playing Fallout 4 again, but on the Xbox One X this time. I've become completely comfortable with controller FPS after being a PC gamer for a couple decades. Loving the freedom to game on anything with any input now, I learn the controls for pad and mouse/keyboard for damn near everything I play these days.
Once I can put that down, I'm doing Halo: The Master Chief Collection with a three month Xbox Game Pass subscription.
All this talk about Horizon Zero Dawn reminds me I've got that DLC ready to go, I need to get back on it, what a cracking game that was!
Hello, I'm Brandon Green from That Green Dude. Apologies for being very late to the party but it has been a busy day. I write about video games and sometimes other things. I've been in rut somewhat with writing this year, I want to write but the vibes just weren't there. I'm feeling better now, it's just finding time to write amongst the other things that I'm doing in life.
Last month I wrote about how it was time to for Capcom to bring back Dino Crisis.
The three games I was most excited for (Resident Evil 2 remake, Kingdom Hearts 3 and Devil May Cry 5) have all come out and all were fantastic. 2019 is looking to be a great year for games. The next game I'm looking forward to the most is Mortal Kombat 11.
I'm really looking forward to MK11! I'm terrible at fighting games online, but can't resist NetherRealm. I've been an MK fan since I was pumping quarters into the arcades and watching how everyone did those fatalities!
I good at Tekken online, Mortal Kombat however is a different story. I'm good at MK but I'm no pro.
Thankfully though. NetherRealm has us covered as there will be plenty of offline content in MK11.
It really is a hard balance. Then when you think you've just got that perfect balance something comes along and messes it up.
Super late to the party as I just got back from a weekend vacation up near Matt – Normal Happenings neck of the woods. St. Louis! Fun little weekend getaway.
Didn't quite go where anybody expected with that one I think. I'm looking forward to reading some more from the great community here!
Had a great time and well hosted once again Kim! Looking forward to June 17th.
The best way to arrive at a party is fashionably late… Right?
I'm Megan from Dragon's Tea Party!
I've been crazy busy over the past few months trying to get my life sorted, lots of qualifications and training going on, so I've not been able to post as much as I would like but I've been trying!
I thought I'd share my most recent post because it was really fun to write, it's about how I would picture my life as a video game, what the world would be like, what I'd be like, the antagonist, etc. I got very into it.
I've been trying to finish Breath of the Wild recently (I know, I'm just a little bit behind…) and dipping in and out of Spyro: Ripto's Rage.
So there we go! If anyone needs me I'll be strategically between the snacks and the dancefloor.


Black bird singing in the dead of night… I hear the lyrics in my head merging with the sounds of the guitar I am strumming in the warm and homey lounge of the Nutapukaushipe lodge. I am surrounded by wood carved furniture and musical instruments. After travelling through Japan for five weeks and not playing a single chord, I just couldn't resist the temptation of grabbing one of them, kindly invited by the owner of the place.
Strong and serene, this man has been building his ryokan for decades, from the solid outside structure to the smaller beams decorating the inside. In our spacious traditional Japanese room, a hollowed trunk serves as a lamp above the tatami mats showing a great attention to details conveying a very cosy feeling. Located at the foot of the active Asahi-dake volcano, the waters of the natural hot spring fill a hand-made onsen and rotenburo over-looking the river. Not being able to withstand the temperature of the main bath, I am seated on volcanic stones in the slightly colder lower basin surrounded by a dense variety of plants and flowers. The wilderness of Hokkaido impersonates itself as a two-meter long green snake which decides to enjoy the warmth of the stones. I respectfully retreat and dress in the provided yukata, feeling completely clean and relaxed, and ready for a delicious meal.
The onsen in the ryokan.
The rotenburos by the ryokan.
The owner's wife is busy in the kitchen putting the finishing touches to their home-made dinner, while he is carefully arranging six different dishes in various ceramic bowls at my table. When the small bowl of miso soup is served, it is time to start.
Geared up with instant ramens for the 5-day Daisetsuzan Grand Traverse, I thoroughly enjoy the fresh vegetables just lightly seasoned. Particularly tasteful, most of them are home-grown or hand-picked in the mountains by the owner. The meal is a feast for the eyes and the palate, finishing on fresh fruits that are a luxury in Japan.
Delicious eggplant slightly seasoned and topped with katsuobushi (shredded fish).
Detail of the tempura cuttlefish with ice plant.
Delicious home-made breakfast with fermented soy beans, pickled vegetables, miso soup, fish and cherries.
Delicious home-made dinner with corn on the cob, eggplants, edamame beans, tuna and potatoe salad, miso soup, tempura cuttle fish and honeydew melon.
After a good night sleep, the traditional morning breakfast is composed of a miso soup, white rice, fresh fruits, pieces of pickled vegetables and a main dish of fish.
This delicious and healthy food provides me with the energy I need to start my next adventure: the Daisetsuzan Grand Traverse, although I am a bit sad to leave such a beautiful and serene place.
Ryokan: Lodge Nutapukaushipe, Asahi-dake, Hokkaido (no website, +81 (0)167 972 150 (enough English is spoken to book a room)). Wireless.
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The International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP) is a student peer-mentor program in which new international students are matched with continuing uLethbridge students who can provide advice and information about life at the university and Lethbridge.
Peer mentors will provide social support, assistance and guidance through one-on-one meetings and social activities (coffee meetings, Pronghorns games, study sessions, etc.) throughout the new international student's first semester. They will share their personal experiences which will ease the transition to university in Canada for new international students.
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LONDON -- Before U.S. Marine Sgt. Jamel Herring stepped into the Olympic boxing ring for the first time, he saluted his cheering teammates. Then he thought about his late daughter and said a quick prayer, giving thanks for the strength to reach the ring after a decade of struggle.
And although his opening-round loss hurt, Herring has survived rougher times.
Daniyar Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan ended Herring's Olympic aspirations with a 19-9 victory Tuesday in their light welterweight bout.
Herring couldn't keep up with Yeleussinov, whose aggression and quick hands repeatedly got Herring in trouble during the first two rounds. Yeleussinov mostly spent the third round avoiding exchanges, but Herring couldn't score enough points for a comeback.
Even in defeat, his voice nearly cracking at times, Herring remained clear-eyed and strong.
"It's a great honor to be here," Herring said afterward, sweat still beaded on his shoulders. "Everyone, especially back at home, knows what I've been through."
Just getting into the ring was another triumph for Herring, who served two tours of duty in Iraq as a field electrician, dodging roadside bombs and hoping to return home to his growing family, which now includes two sons.
The Long Island native enlisted in a patriotic fervor about a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, but he also found escape in boxing, his intermittent pastime throughout his life.
With the demands of family and a military career, he considered giving up the sport multiple times, particularly after the death of his infant daughter, Ariyanah, due to sudden infant death syndrome in 2009 -- three years to the day before the opening ceremony in London.
Coaches and teammates persuaded him to stick with it, and he became a respected captain of the U.S. team when he led six boxers -- including himself -- to Olympic qualification in a tournament in Brazil earlier this summer.
"I thought about Ariyanah from the first moment that I stepped in the ring until the very last moment I got out of the ring," Herring said. "I was thinking about her, my country, my team, the Marine Corps. A lot was going through my head -- not a lot to where I was getting sidetracked. I was just going out there to fight for everyone in my heart."
After Herring left the ring, his first hug was for Jesse Ravelo, the U.S. assistant coach who runs the Marines' boxing program. Ravelo was instrumental in refocusing Herring's attention on boxing after his daughter's death and again after a disappointing loss at the world championships last year that left him facing a steep road for Olympic qualification.
Herring then gave a slow salute toward the rest of his 12-member U.S. team, which has gathered in the London arena to cheer on every American fighter -- not always the case with previous American teams.
"You've got to keep them uplifted," Herring said. "I don't want anyone to feel down."
The U.S. boxers won their first four fights in London before Marcus Browne's loss Monday. Three more Americans will be in the ring Wednesday, and Herring intends to be in the U.S. team's usual spot above the exit tunnel at ExCeL arena, cheering and encouraging.
"Not really too happy, but I'll keep my head up as team captain," Herring said. "If I'm down, then my team is down. It hurts, but I'm glad I was able to come here, put on a USA uniform and represent my country. I believe I did to the best of my ability. He was just the better man today. It's not the end of the world."
After the Olympics, Herring will return to his home near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, but hasn't decided whether he'll re-enlist with the Marines in a few months. He is considering a pro career, although the financial rewards for a 26-year-old light welterweight might not be stellar, even with an Olympic pedigree.
And even with the sting of his Olympic loss still fresh, Herring immediately raised the prospect he might stay in the amateur ranks for four more years of fighting for his country.
"I know in my heart that I did the best I could," he said. "The people at home told me, no matter the result, I am still a hero, I am still a champion, and I'm going to take that confidence and uplift myself. It's not the end of the world. People bounce back. A lot of great champions took losses and they came back, so why can't I?"


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Pulmonology > Sleep Disorders
Sleep Apnea? Lose Weight, ACP Urges
-The first line of defense against obstructive sleep apnea should be weight loss, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians.
by Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today September 23, 2013
The first line of defense against obstructive sleep apnea should be weight loss, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians.
If more treatment is needed, the first choice should be continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), but so-called mandibular advancement devices can be used as an alternative therapy, the guidelines suggest.
On the other hand, there is insufficient evidence to say surgery has any benefit and, given its risks, it "should not be used as initial treatment," according to the guidelines published in the Oct. 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
Obstructive sleep apnea is an increasing issue, "probably because of escalating obesity rates," the guidelines noted, so that more and more people are likely to seek treatment.
Note that the guidelines recommend CPAP treatment as initial therapy for patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, and mandibular advancement devices as an alternative therapy for patients who prefer mandibular advancement devices or for those with adverse effects associated with CPAP.
To assess the evidence, researchers led by Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, of the ACP in Philadelphia, used a systematic review of available English-language literature from 1966 to September 2010, conducted by Tufts researcher Ethan Balk, MD. He also reviewed information turned up in a supplemental search for studies published through October 2012.
The first recommendation of the guideline committee was that all overweight and obese patients who have obstructive sleep apnea should be encouraged to lose weight.
The investigators concluded that the evidence showed that "some intensive weight-loss programs may effectively reduce signs and symptoms of (obstructive sleep apnea) in obese patients with or without diabetes."
Those signs and symptoms can include the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), daytime sleepiness, and oxygen saturation.
But in cases where patients are not overweight or where weight-loss interventions fail, the next line of defense should be CPAP, which is the most intensely studied therapy, the committee argued.
The evidence shows that CPAP reduces daytime sleepiness, cuts the AHI and arousal index scores, and increases quality of life, although it has not been shown to improve the latter, they reported.
There was insufficient evidence to say anything about the effect of CPAP on cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes, the guidelines committee found.
In patients who are unable or unwilling to use CPAP, mandibular advancement devices can be an alternative to CPAP, they said.
The devices move the lower jaw forward slightly during sleep to tighten the soft tissues of the airway and prevent apnea. The committee noted that evidence shows the devices are better than no treatment in improving AHI scores, arousal index scores, and minimum oxygen saturation.
But the evidence also shows that CPAP does a better job, they found.
Drug therapy has been tried, using a range of medications including such mirtazapine (Remeron), xylometazoline, and fluticasone (Flonase), but evidence was insufficient to conclude that any of them worked.
Seven studies evaluated surgical interventions but each assessed a different approach and outcomes were inconsistent, "making it difficult to ascertain the benefit of surgery," the committee reported.
Support for the development of this guideline came from the operating budget of the American College of Physicians. The systematic evidence review was sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Qaseem and co-authors reported no conflicts of interest.
Source Reference: Qaseem A, et a. "Management of obstructive sleep apnea in adults: A clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians" Ann Intern Med 2013; 159: 471-483.
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Well, I guess I have to draw another name since Imelda's email address isn't valid. Let's go with June, I've sent you an email. Get back to me…..


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Atlanta reopening plan moving to Phase 2: What it means for you, and how we get to Phase 3
Here's what you need to know about the mayor's latest announcement.
Author: Jonathan Raymond (11Alive)
Published: 1:20 PM EDT May 27, 2020
Updated: 1:20 PM EDT May 27, 2020
ATLANTA — On Wednesday morning, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the city was ready to move to Phase 2 of her five-phase reopening plan, easing some of the recommended restrictions the mayor is asking city residents and businesses to follow.
The second phase of the plan takes modest steps to restore normal activity in the city, such as allowing small, private gatherings of fewer than 10 people and curbside pickup service at restaurants and retail stores.
The mayor's plan is not strictly legally enforceable, where it goes beyond Gov. Brian Kemp's orders - which have removed restrictions on leaving the home for most individuals and allowed restaurants to open for in-person dining, for instance.
But the mayor has said she would use her platform as mayor to encourage stricter observance of COVID-19 precautions, and her phased reopening plan is the most clear expression of that.
Here's what's new with Phase 2, how we get to Phase 3, and what it will mean when we get there:
Atlanta's coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and positive test percentages are all declining: These were the mayor's criteria for moving from Phase 1 to Phase 2. According to data released by the city, hospitalizations are on a 25-day downward trend, positive percentages are down for 21 straight days, and this week new COVID-19 cases (based on the daily 7-day rolling average) reached 15 straight days of trending downward, triggering the step to Phase 2. Additionally, hospital and critical care bed availability have both remained solidly above the 50% threshold required by the mayor, hovering around 75%.
What's different between Phase 1 and Phase 2: There's really only two new significant recommendations in taking the next step - 1) small, private gatherings of no more than 10 people (with social distancing) are permitted, where they weren't before; and 2) it now allows curbside pickup at restaurants and retail stores.
How to get to Phase 3: The mayor sets a strong standard for testing and tracing in order to move to the third phase from here. Bottoms lays out guidelines for the city that include reaching capacity to conduct 90 diagnostic tests for every 1,000 residents per month and having at least 15 contact tracers for every 100,000 residents. The city says it will begin publishing progress reports on those data points on the ATLstrong.org website.
What we can look forward to in Phase 3: At that point, the mayor's guidelines see it acceptable to have "limited trips outside" (excepting for vulnerable populations that should continue to stay home) and "limited occupancy in food and retail establishments" (to the extent they can while maintaining social distance. This phase also allows for some people to return to office work and for small public gatherings. Perhaps the most significant element of it, though, would be the city beginning to accept some special event applications again.
See the mayor's full five-phase plan here
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Le YF-73 est le premier moteur-fusée chinois à ergols liquides utilisant le mélange cryogénique hydrogène liquide/oxygène liquide. Développé au début des années 1970, ce moteur de  de poussée (environ ) est utilisé par le dernier étage de la famille de lanceurs Longue Marche 3, chargé de placer les satellites de télécommunications en orbite géostationnaire. Le premier vol de ce moteur a lieu en 1984. À compter de 1994, il est progressivement remplacé par lYF-75, une version plus puissante et plus fiable.

Historique

Début 1961, la Chine commence ses recherches sur les propulseurs à ergols liquides utilisant le mélange cryogénique hydrogène liquide/oxygène liquide, à l'initiative de l'académicien Qian Xuesen. En , une première chambre de combustion produisant une poussée de  est testée avec succès. En 1970, le système d'allumage et la chambre de combustion d'un moteur de  de poussée sont développés. Les travaux sur un prototype de  de poussée débutent en . Le moteur, qui utilise un cycle à générateur de gaz, est mis à feu pour la première fois le . Le gouvernement chinois décide en  de passer au stade industriel (), afin de fournir un moteur performant à l'étage supérieur du lanceur Longue Marche 3. Le premier vol, qui a lieu le , lance Dong Fang Hong 2, le premier satellite de télécommunications chinois en orbite géostationnaire. Le moteur est utilisé à treize reprises (dont trois échecs) avant d'être retiré du service en 2000 au profit de lYF-75, à la fois plus puissant et plus fiable.

Caractéristiques techniques

Le YF-73 brûle un mélange cryogénique hydrogène liquide/oxygène liquide avec un ratio oxygène/hydrogène de 5. Il propulse le troisième étage de la première version du lanceurs Longue Marche 3. Le YF-73 est constitué de quatre moteurs accouplés, disposant chacun de leurs propres générateurs de gaz et turbopompes. La pression dans la chambre de combustion est de  et le rapport d'expansion de la tuyère est de 40. Son impulsion spécifique est de  dans le vide. La poussée est de . L'orientation de la poussée du moteur peut être modifiée grâce à deux vérins et il peut être rallumé une fois. Il est haut de  avec un encombrement maximal de  en largeur et pèse .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Longue Marche 3
 Programme spatial chinois
 Propulsion à ergols liquides

Moteur-fusée de la Chine
Longue Marche (fusée)
Moteur-fusée utilisant le cycle générateur de gaz
Moteur-fusée à propergol LOX–LH2

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Q: Invalid Signature when Uploading photo to flickr with Java With the Flickr API - http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
When I try to upload a photo, it gives me Error 96: Invalid Signature.
This is my code:
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I have no clue why, someone can help me here?

A: The md5 signature needs to be done for your whole argument list, not only key and token.
So, in short: make a complete and SORTED argument-list (without '=' characters), and do the md5 hash over this. this should work.
See http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html chapter (8) for details.

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Anyone any ideas what an HP Series R Controller is, or does, please?
Just bought one in a sale. Had a 9836 GPIB interface in it but actually uses a 16MHz 68030. Powered it up and goes through self test, then hangs. Has a Syquest removable disc drive, looks like the Bernoulli type, presumably had the operating software on it.
It is a pig's ear to get into. The RAM is on two daughter boards, 256K x4 making 1MB each.
Ah yes, that is it, thanks.
Looks like a bin job though, some sort of specialised equipment.
I wouldn't junk it if it works. You can run HP-UX or standalone HP BASIC on them and they are interesting machines. I wouldn't mind having one. I have a 9000/382 desktop box. You could probably find someone in the UK that would happy to have one.
Some people with older HP test equipment still keep 9000/300 series systems around to run test equipment calibration and control software written in HP BASIC that would be a lot of work to port to newer environments.
I'd just love one of those.
I have one for sale, contact me for details!


IpeDeckingSource is dedicated in ensuring that our mills adhere to the strict guidelines for responsible forestry management set forth by the Brazilian Government and IBAMA. Because we contract from a few select mills, instead of purchasing in the open market, we're able to maintain tighter control on where logs are being sourced and the activity surrounding sustainable forestry practices.
Ipe decking and other tropical wood species originating from Brasil are harvested under strict guidelines from IBAMA. IBAMA is the Federal governing body over agriculture and forestry in the country of Brasil. One of their responsibilities is to enforce the management and environmental impact of logging. Timber companies must submit project plans and approved projects will receive permits to log certain species only in specific regions. These projects include information on what specie, tree size, and total volume in targeted logging areas for harvest. Once a permit is issued, the timber company is authorized to take only what is approved by IBAMA relative to the permit. In this scenario, a paper trail is created from forest to finished product to export per timber company.
This aerial photo depicts a selective cutting project where a concentration of logs were taken in a specifice area.
forest in the background remains.
Aerial photo taken to illustrate selective cutting areas.


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Biometric speech signal processing in a system with digital signal processor
Marciniak T. ,	Weychan R. ,	Stankiewicz A. ,	Dąbrowski A.
Treść / Zawartość
Pełne teksty:
10.2478/bpasts-2014-0064
This paper presents an analysis of issues related to the fixed-point implementation of a speech signal applied to biometric purposes. For preparing the system for automatic speaker identification and for experimental tests we have used the Matlab computing environment and the development software for Texas Instruments digital signal processors, namely the Code Composer Studio (CCS). The tested speech signals have been processed with the TMS320C5515 processor. The paper examines limitations associated with operation of the realized embedded system, demonstrates advantages and disadvantages of the technique of automatic software conversion from Matlab to the CCS and shows the impact of the fixed-point representation on the speech identification effectiveness.
biometry speech processing digital signal processor Gaussian mixture models vector quantization
Polska Akademia Nauk, Wydział IV Nauk Technicznych
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Technical Sciences
Vol. 62, nr 3
Bibliogr. 20 poz., rys., wykr.
Marciniak T.
Faculty of Computing, Chair of Control and Systems Engineering, Division of Signal Processing and Electronic Systems, Poznan University of Technology, 24 Jana Pawła II St., 60-965 Poznań, Poland, tomasz.marciniak@put.poznan.pl
Weychan R.
Faculty of Computing, Chair of Control and Systems Engineering, Division of Signal Processing and Electronic Systems, Poznan University of Technology, 24 Jana Pawła II St., 60-965 Poznań, Poland
Stankiewicz A.
Dąbrowski A.
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Madison Whig advocate [electronic resource].
Clarksdale press register [electronic resource].
Delta farm press [electronic resource].
Scott County times [electronic resource].
Daily Mississippi clarion [electronic resource].
Flag of the Union [electronic resource].
Weekly flag of the Union [electronic resource].
Holmes County herald [electronic resource].
Winston County journal [electronic resource].
Notes: FILED UNDER: MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICAN AND LITERARY REGISTER.
Notes: FILED UNDER: WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN.
Ocean Springs progress [electronic resource].
Holdings: Dec. 6, 1845-Aug. 5, 1846.
Spirit of the times [microform].
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Starkville daily news [electronic resource].
Northeast Mississippi daily journal [electronic resource].
Stone County enterprise [electronic resource].
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New ISC Report "Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability"
Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability
by International Science Council, 2021. Paris, France. International Science Council. DOI: 10.24948/2021.04.
About this Report: We need to urgently redouble efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Business-as-usual approaches – to science and science funding – are no longer appropriate to this massively complex and urgent challenge. Effective action will require broad and bold engagement, and commitment, from science funders, but also from the decision makers and influencers in governments, in the private sector and in civil society. The international funding community is ready for the challenge and has requested the International Science Council to lead on the development of a process to convene the necessary voices, jointly designing the way forward This report is an input into that process It is intended as a strawman, to disrupt our thinking and to inspire ambitious and achievable outcomes. Let's begin.
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Mozambique: 2009 Party candidate lists for Assembly of the Republic election
Updated November 2009
Background: Proportional representation and constituencies
Proportional representation is used to allocate seats in the Assembly of the Republic and Mozambique uses 13 constituencies to elect the members through party lists for each constituency (Law 7/2007, 128, 158, 159.1.). The 10 provinces and the city of Maputo return a total of 248 MPs; the number of seats allocated to each of these constituencies is determined afresh by the CNE for each election and is based on the proportion of voters registered in each. Expatriates in Europe and Africa return 1 member each.
The CNE's decisions
The National Electoral Commission (CNE) published the lists of candidates that met the requirements of the electoral law piecemeal on 5 and 6 September 2009 and many candidates were disqualified because the legally required supporting documentation had not been supplied (Hanlon 2009a, 1). The CNE is required by law to scrutinise the supporting documentation to ensure that the candidates are legally eligible (nomination requirements and procedures are governed by Law 7/2007, 166-179). Candidates are nominated by parties or coalitions on separate lists for each of the 13 constituency used for the election of the Assembly of the Republic. They are submitted to the NEC along with supporting documentation for each candidate on the list such as a certificate from the police stating that the candidate does not have a criminal record. In many cases the disqualification of candidates led to entire lists being rejected by the CNE since they no longer contained the minimum number of candidates required by law (Hanlon 2009a, 1). The Law specifies that a constituency candidate list should contain as many candidates' names as are eligible to be elected to the Assembly of the Republic from that constituency plus an additional three names.
The Constitutional Council's ruling
The Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM), which had submitted lists for all the 13 constituencies but had had nine lists rejected by the CNE, appealed to the Constitutional Council against the CNE's decision. The Constitutional Council ruled in favour of the CNE and upheld the disqualification of the nine lists (Hanlon 2009b, 1).
The effect of the decisions
Only in the cases of the ruling party the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) and the main opposition party the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO) were the lists for all thirteen constituencies accepted, for they had submitted sufficiently more names than the minimum number requited on each of their lists and thus met the legal requirements even after disqualifications (Hanlon 2009a, 1). The Mozambique Democratic Movement, launched earlier in 2009, found that nine of its 13 lists had been rejected and only four accepted (Hanlon 2009a, 1). EISA Mozambique Country Director Miguel de Brito informed the writer in an e-mail (11 September 2009) that excluded parties were appealing to the Constitutional Council's against the CNE's decision. In November 2008, in ruling on a case, the Constitutional Council strongly rebuked the CNE for failing to adhere strictly to the law governing election candidates saying that the law did not allow the CNE to publish provisional candidate lists and or to amend candidate lists after it had published them (Hanlon 2008, 1, 2).
CONSTITUTION OF MOZAMBIQUE 2004. For Portuguese see: Constituição da República de Moçambique (incluindo as revisões de 1994 e 2004), [www] http://www.mozambique.mz/pdf/constituicao.pdf [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 22 Feb 2010).
HANLON, J 2008, "CNE 'flagrantly' violating law says Constitutional Council", Mozambique Political Process Bulletin, 2008 Local Election Issue 6, 15 November, [www] http://www.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique/pics/d103057.pdf [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 11 Mar 2010).
HANLON, J 2009a, "MDM to stand in only four provinces", Mozambique Political Process Bulletin, 2009 Elections Issue 1, 11 September.
HANLON, J 2009b, " CC rejects MDM appeal; says MDM had too few candidates", Mozambique Political Process Bulletin, 2009 Elections Issue 1, 11 September.
LAW 7/2007 of 26 February (governs election of the President and the National Assembly).
For Portuguese see: Lei no 7/2007, [www] http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/MZ/mocambique-lei-n-7-2007-in-portuguese/at_download/file [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 9 Mar 2010).
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Supersymmetric world from a conservative viewpoint
Hep-th papers on Wednesday
Ioannis Papadimitriou constructs new domain-wall-like solutions that are asymptotic to the near-horizon geometry of M2-branes, namely "AdS4 x S7" (supergravity in four noncompact dimensions). He uses the method of "fake supergravity".
Han-Xin He claims that he or she has calculated the full, exact three-point function of two fermionic fields and one gauge field in QED, just by algebraic manipulations with the Ward-Takahishi identities. An anonymous reader has pointed out that the resulting formula depends on the full non-perturbative fermionic propagator, so it is not quite a "free lunch", but it still seems nontrivial. The result has been checked up to one-loop level but it seems that it is being argued that it is valid up to all orders. This sounded like an extraordinary statement, especially because the formulae didn't seem to have the complexity and transcendentality of the higher-loop contributions, but I am not able to say what's wrong with it. If it's correct, it means that all the complexities of the fermion propagator and the three-point function are isomorphic. Comments will be certainly welcome.
Shinji Tsukikawa studies how the higher-derivative corrections to general relativity arising from string theory may regulate the Big Bang singularity and generate various bouncing, ekpyrotic, and other solutions. Topics of this kind were very popular five years ago. Do you remember papers such as Seiberg's paper on the Big Bounce?
Shibaji Roy and Harvendra Singh propose a technique to generate accelerating cosmological solutions from "S-branes" of another kind that has not yet been used. I have not understood how can one decide whether something is an S-brane or not. S-branes seem to be a label for rather general time-dependent solutions, unlike D-branes that are the lowest energy states in a given charge sector. This makes it difficult for me to understand why a solution should become important just because it is connected with the term "S-brane". The only meaningful purely spacelike counterpart of D-branes is a D-instanton or D-brane-instanton which is just a continuation of the usual D-branes to a Euclidean spacetime. S-branes are supposed to be something else but I don't think there is any room for something else.
Giuseppe Bimonte, Enrico Calloni, Giampiero Esposito, and Luigi Rosa include the first-order corrections from a gravitational field to a conventional calculation of the Casimir effect. They must be computing the first subleading correction, I think. Up to the leading order, the Casimir force and the gravitational force are simply added together. They argue that the Casimir force becomes a little bit stronger if you add acceleration (or gravity).
T.Khachidze, A. Khelashvili, T.Nadareishvili only offer a PDF file, and they argue that the Dirac equation does not reduce to the usual non-relativistic equation in the appropriate limit. They say that it has extra solutions - maybe hydrinos? :-) - and some new qualitative features. I am convinced that their paper is based on elementary errors. For example, when they square the Dirac Hamiltonian, they only keep the "V^2" terms but omit the main term proportional to "V" that actually survives in the Schrödinger limit. The "V^2" term is only a relativistic correction, analogous to the "p^4" corrections to the kinetic energy. The authors are recommended to study the derivation of the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation from one of the standard textbooks.
Daniel Litim promotes the idea that the UV fixed point of general relativity exists. An ultraviolet fixed point is the hypothetical scale-invariant theory valid at the sub-Planckian distances whose relevant deformation turns flows to general relativity at long distances. Its existence could make quantized general relativity predictive but it is believed that such a fixed point does not exist. Litim admits that classically, such a scale-invariant theory only exists in the critical dimension "d=2". We know purely field-theoretical gravitational theories in this spacetime dimension; the most useful two-dimensional field-theoretical gravity in "d=2" is called the string worldsheet. However, Litim claims that a fixed point of the renormalization group exists in every dimension. To support this claim, he considers the cosmological constant (Lambda) and the Einstein-Hilbert term (G) only, and studies the evolution of "Lambda,G" under the RG flow. With an appropriately chosen anomalous dimensions of the operators, he can find a fixed point in every dimension. I find this argument unconvincing because in the sub-Planckian distance regime, gravity is strongly coupled and it is not justified to neglect all other terms except for "Lambda,G". Equivalently, we can see that the "Lambda,G" approximation is bad because the anomalous dimensions of the fields are greater than one. It is unsurprising that whenever we include a few couplings only, we will formally find some fixed points, but those that appear in strongly coupled regions of the parameter space can't be quite trusted, unless a more complete argument is found.
Itzhak Bars continues in his provoking research of physics with two time coordinates. Today, he considers the Standard Model derived from a 4+2-dimensional starting point. In the past, Bars has argued that one can obtain very different physical systems - such as the Hydrogen atom and the harmonic oscillator - by different gauge-fixing choices applied to the same double-temporal starting point with an Sp(2,R) gauge symmetry. I don't understand how can one ever get different physics by choosing a gauge-fixing condition. Gauge symmetry and gauge-fixing choices should not affect observable physics, by definition. This is why I can't quite understand either of Bars' two-time papers. Nevertheless, if someone can do better than me, this paper constructs the Standard Model from a 4+2-dimensional starting point. Not only that, it explains the strong CP-problem because the "F /\ F" term cannot arise in this framework.
Martin Land discusses aspects of generalized D-dimensional Dirac magnetic monopole. I feel 85% certain that if you know Maxwell's equations in D dimensions and the simple power law solutions for electric and magnetic point-like sources, you won't find anything new in this paper.
Gottfried Curio and Vera Spillner jump into a seemingly random place of the KKLT landscape. They start with the elliptic Calabi-Yau manifold called P_{11169}[18] - known from "building a better racetrack" - and write down all relevant terms in the superpotential that is usually used in the context of flux compactifications, coming from fluxes and gaugino condensation. They modify the usual wisdoms by an unexpected dependence on the dilaton "tau". They seem to argue that the superpotential "W(tau)" itself is not holomorphic which I misunderstand because superpotentials should be holomophic. But because they seem to be really powerful technologically, I am inclined to believe that the paper makes a perfect sense.
Kazumi Okuyama studies the topological partition sum on the conifold - both in the A-model (the math of melting crystals) as well as B-model (Chern-Simons matrix model). He or she finds a very interesting integral transform that transform one to the other. The integral transform involves an integral over matrices with a Gaussian measure.
U. Gran, J. Gutowski, G. Papadopoulos, D. Roest argue that there are no configurations with exactly 31 supercharges in type IIB supergravity. More precisely, if you give them one with 31 supercharges, they are able to find the 32nd supercharge, proving that the background is maximally supersymmetric. It is analogous to "N=7" theories in "d=4" that are automatically "N=8", too. Their finding, if correct, invalidates the type IIB version of the "preon" speculation. These "preons", in the SUGRA context, were proposed to preserve 31 supercharges. Their central charge was hypothesized to be a "32 x 32" matrix whose rank equals one (instead of more usual values such as 16) which could turn them into basic building blocks of other systems that preserve a smaller number of supercharges. Such a bizarre rank-one central charge would clearly be a combination of central charges associated with branes of all possible dimensions, and this paper shows that this can't work at the level of type IIB supergravity.
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The New Jersey Choral Society presents "Fosse," a Pops Spectacular
Press Release (ePRNews.com) - RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - Feb 23, 2017 - Bergen County – Prepare to be "razzle-dazzled" as the New Jersey Choral Society presents "Fosse: the Theater, the Music, the Legend." The NJCS Pops Spectacular will focus on the musicals of the multi-award-winning choreographer and director Bob Fosse. Performances will be held on Saturday, March 11 at 8:00 pm and on Sunday, March 12 at 3:00 pm at the Immaculate Heart Academy, 500 Van Emburgh Ave., Washington Township.
The rousing program, under the direction of Eric Dale Knapp, features show-stopping songs from such Broadway musicals as "Chicago," "Pippin" and "Sweet Charity." Some of the song highlights include "All That Jazz," "Razzle Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" from "Chicago;" "Magic to Do," "Corner of the Sky," "Morning Glow" and "No Time At All" from "Pippin" and "Big Spender," "The Rhythm of Life," "I'm a Brass Band" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from "Sweet Charity." "Steam Heat" from "Pajama Game" and "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima, based on Benny Goodman's original hit, will also be featured.
Linda Sweetman-Waters will accompany NJCS on the piano along with the Pops Spectacular Band. The NJCS Festival Youth Chorus, directed by Noelle Dachis, will join NJCS as well as special guests, the Pops Spectacular Dance Troupe. Several talented soloists and vocal ensembles from NJCS will also be featured and Broadway veteran actor and his wife David and Britt Cryer will serve as the hosts.
Advance tickets are $25.00 for adults and $22.00 for students and seniors (add $5.00 at the door). A 10% discount for groups of 10 or more is also available. Come one hour prior to performance time for The Inside Line, a complimentary lecture for all ticket holders that provides an intimate and entertaining preview of the music. For reservations or more information, visit www.NJCS.org or call the New Jersey Choral Society at (201) 379-7719.
Established in 1980, the New Jersey Choral Society is one of the state's most prestigious choral groups, well-known for presenting outstanding and unique programs. Under the direction of Eric Dale Knapp, NJCS performs three major concerts annually in Bergen and Essex counties. They have performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House and have toured internationally in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, China, Australia, England, France and next summer in Italy.
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