Finnish Centre Youth – Suomen Keskustanuoret History The Union of Agrarian Youth (Maaseudun Nuorten Liitto, MNL) was founded in 1945. The Union of Agrarian Students had been founded eight years earlier. In 1965 MNL changed its name to the Youth Union of the Centre Party (Nuoren Keskustan Liitto, NKL). In 2005, NKL changed its name to Suomen Keskustanuoret- Finnish Centre Youth. It is the official youth organisation of Finnish Centre Party. Structure FCY has about 400 local associations and 19 district organisations. Nearly every district has an executive director as a paid worker either part time or full time. The central office on Helsinki has five workers. The membership amounts to 12.000. The age limit is 15-30 years. The highest decision making body of the organisation is the Congress which meets every year. Every other year, it elects the President, two Vice Presidents and half of the board. The other half of the board as well as the Secretary General is elected every other year. The board leads the day to day work in FCY. FCY has also several committees as expert bodies. FCY publishes a magazine called Nuori Keskusta. It comes out four times a year. Principles and aims FCY is striving for a centre-liberal society. We want to set free the creative forces of man to be used in self initiative and new entrepreneurship. The new society will guarantee the intellectual freedom. In this way we will remove some difficult problems in the society and prevent new social evils from arising. The centre-liberal society is based on liberty, equality and fraternity. The centre liberals strive for a socially just and ecologically sustainable citizen society. Extending the green environmental point of view to cover all the areas in the society is one of the most important questions in FCY. Environmental problems are global. Environmental questions must be given the priority in the international co-operation. Finland has to recognise its responsibility, too. The society must move towards the use of renewable energy sources, public transport, recycling of wastes and other kind of ecologically sustainable ways in the use of resources. International aspect FCY is a full member of the IFLRY (International Federation of Liberal Youth), LYMEC, NCF (Nordic Centre Youth) and LYBS (Liberal Youth of Baltic Sea) as well as many national internationally-minded organisations (NGOs). FCY together with KOL has published an international bulletin called the Naked Truth.


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Artúr Tölgyessy (1 May 1853, Szeged - 2 February 1920, Budapest) was a Hungarian landscape painter; specializing in scenes from the area around Lake Balaton.

Life and work
His father, Ferenc, was a financial officer. After completing his secondary education in Budapest, he went to work for a coat-of-arms painter in Szeged. Rather than take art lessons, he copied the Old Masters at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and, later, at various museums in Vienna. He did eventually enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts, but his stay there was cut short by a personal dispute with Christian Ruben, the Director. He then moved to Munich and studied with Alexander von Wagner. After that, he settled in Budapest, although he travelled extensively; to Belgium, Italy and Paris.

He also made numerous sketching tours to the Great Hungarian Plain and the region surrounding Lake Balaton. After 1875, he paid regular visits to the , as well as to Siófok, where he had a villa built in the early 1890s. He also began exhibiting in the late 1870s, in Vienna, Paris, Munich, and at the

In 1910, he participated in a large collective exhibition at the Hall of Art. Some of his works may be seen at the Hungarian National Gallery, but most remain in private collections. His "Délibábos puszta" (Fata Morgana) is probably his most familiar work. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon, together with works by Géza Mészöly, Lajos Deák Ébner and Bertalan Karlovszky,  and received good reviews in Le Figaro.

References

Further reading
 Detailed biography and appreciation by Kacziány Ödön @ Művészet

External links

 Biographical notes @ Magyar életrajzi lexikon

1853 births
1920 deaths
Hungarian painters
Landscape painters
People from Szeged

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Prisoners Face New Batch of Untested Lethal Injection Drugs
Posted on October 21, 2020 by SOUTHESSEXARTSANDCULTURE
The rising use of experimental and untested drugs in the execution of U.S. prisoners reached new heights Monday as Oklahoma officials admitted plans to use a new drug combination to execute two men this month.
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In an email sent to state attorneys, the state said it will be using a combination of midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride in the executions, which has never been used before. Similar untested drug combinations have been criticized by human rights campaigners as inhumane and have been documented to cause extreme pain and suffering before death.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the Guardian that the three-drug combination is similar to what has been used in Florida and Ohio in recent executions.
A similar cocktail of drugs used in January to execute Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire left him struggling and gasping for air—an ordeal that lasted 26 minutes before McGuire died.
Ohio and other states have turned to compounding pharmacies to custom mix experimental drugs after major foreign drug companies began withholding lethal injection drugs from U.S. prisons in opposition to the death penalty.
In other cases the experimental drug pentobarbital was found to cause "severe, unnecessary, lingering and ultimately inhumane pain." Michael Lee Wilson, who was on death row in Oklahoma, said he could feel his "whole body burning" just seconds after receiving the lethal injection on January 9th.
Several states have succeeded in keeping the identities of these compounding pharmacies secret. However, as the Guardian reports, "an Oklahoma county district court judge ruled last week that a state law keeping the source of the drugs a secret is unconstitutional and denies the men their right to access the courts to argue against their own executions."
While the use of the death penalty is declining around the world over the long-term, recent reports showed the U.S. was the only country in the Americas to execute prisoners in 2013 and had the fifth highest number of executions in the world—39.
And in a report released last month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee warned that it is "concerned by the high number of persons wrongly sentenced to death," in the U.S..
The report also warned of stark racial disparities in the use of the death penalty in the U.S. that "affects disproportionately African Americans, exacerbated by the rule that discrimination has to be proven case-by-case."

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* LONDON, JACK. Moon-Face and Other Stories. New York, 1906. First edition.
Moon-face and other stories. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition.
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NOAA predicts California storm could cost $1B
A NOAA climatologist said that is a conservative estimate.
Author: Morgan Rynor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A climatologist with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting that the ongoing storms in California will likely be the first billion-dollar storm of 2023 in the United States.
"The size of California, so many assets that are vulnerable near the coast, large populations, large economic sectors be impacted," Adam Smith explained.
Smith is an applied climatologist at NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information. He's the lead researcher for the annual "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster's" report.
"It takes into account many different impacts such as damage to homes, businesses, government assets like schools, all the contents of those structures," Smith said. "Your time element losses, like business interruption or loss of living quarters, of course, damage to vehicle boats, piers, levees, electrical systems, even military bases, and even agricultural damage, which of course, California has a lot of that with crops, livestock, commercial timber, and the wildfire fighting suppression costs as well."
Who's paying?
"The state government, the federal government and the private sector with insurance are the three primary payment entities," Smith said, "But it does come down to the local level of your home, your business, yourself, your family."
For example, if all of your food in your fridge goes bad due to power loss, that's not included.
"So you could actually say that this is a conservative baseline estimate, that captures kind of the core of the costs," Smith said.
That's something Terri Pullen, a Lemon Hill resident, is dealing with now.
"The refrigerator, everything in the fridge is gone," Pullen said. "Bad. Gotta clean that out, and it's completely dark."
Smith said the larger the event, the longer it takes to finish analyzing. They're still not done analyzing the Buffalo blizzard over Christmas. He expects we'll know for sure if this was a billion dollar storm by the end of January - into February.
The last time California has had a billion dollar storm was just last year with the severe drought and heat wave that impacted the west and central states.
Last years storms was the third most costly year in terms of climate disasters in 43 years.
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Students must guard identity from theft
April 17, 2006 12:00 am by Lynette Brown
College-aged students, those 18-24, are more likely to be victims of identity theft, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Federal Trade Commission defines identity theft as the unauthorized use of one's personal information to commit fraud or other crimes. Identity thieves obtain personal information from discarded credit card receipts, driver's licenses, social security numbers or any other personal identification numbers.
Although there are many local and national resources that give consumers tips on how to avoid being victims of identity theft, the advice is not always heeded.
Alsy Chin, an international business student at Florida International University in Miami, said she knew about identity theft prevention initiatives, but never thought she would be a victim. "I was shocked when I learned that someone stole my identity," Chin said.
Chin, 21, said she was informed about the theft when a credit card company contacted her about suspicious transactions.
"Visa called me to ask if I was traveling because someone had just purchased airline tickets and ski gear." Chin said she was happy to receive the call from Visa, but was shocked when she contacted a credit bureau. "I got a copy of my credit report and saw that someone opened a Victoria's Secret and Sears account in my name," she said.
Despite having learned about the fraudulent accounts in 2004, Chin said trying to repair her credit continues to be a nightmare.
"I'm thankful that I was alerted about this, but my credit score went down a lot," she said. "I'm still trying to get it back where it used to be."
Getting a credit score back to its optimal level is just one effect of being a victim of identity theft; there are several other consequences.
Michelle Ferguson, a 22-year-old senior nursing student at Florida State University, said she was affected emotionally: "I felt exposed and vulnerable."
Ferguson said she found out about someone using her identity when she attempted to open a new line of credit.
She said she had only one credit card, which was paid for monthly.
"When I was at the store, the cashier called in my information and told me that I was denied for the card," Ferguson said.
Ferguson said she felt lucky that the cashier advised her to call her credit card company to check on her credit status.
"I still don't know how or where my information was stolen," Ferguson said. "It's scary because anyone could have taken it."
According to the Department of Justice, 25 percent of Americans who are victims of identity theft are alerted by their credit bureaus and informed of fraudulent account activity. But others are told in more unconventional ways.
Ebonee Rudolph, a local advertising coordinator, said her identity had been stolen on two different occasions.
She said she found out about the initial incident while she interned at a theme park in Kentucky.
"I went to open an account and the teller told me I couldn't because of delinquent accounts in California," Rudolph said.
Rudolph, 24, said she still does not know how her information was obtained, but cautions others about the importance of being aware of their account activity.
"Read and analyze your bills," she said. "These days, anybody can crack a code and get your information."
The Federal Trade Commission offers three tips to victims of identity theft: close accounts which seemed to be tampered, file a report with the local police department or the department in the community where the crime took place and file a complaint with the FTC.
Contact Lynette Brown at famuannews@hotmail.com


I was just wondering if anyone has ever pitched their manuscript at a writers conference to an agent. And if so, was it successful and how did you get time with an agent to pitch. Thanks in advance to any replies.
I went to a large conference 2 years ago. The registration fee included one 15-min. appt with an agent and one with an editor. You had to register early, tthough, because once the slots were filled, that was it.
Both requested a partial, and both eventually passed. But the networking I did there was absolutely worth the price and time.
Here's the thing: this is almost certain to get a request for a partial. That's how the conversation ends, with her saying, "Okay, please send me the first fifty pages."
So... you know that one sentence pitch you created on your ms? Now make it a 30 second (max) verbal pitch. Yippee, two or three sentences. Still, you'll be ready w/ follow-up...non-fic, why you're the person to write this; fic, appealing to readers of Kallos and Brooks. Whatever.
To answer your actual q, ya, I did the pitch thing once.
Yup, I pitched to a Tor editor at Writercon, a con for - GASP - fanficcers. They filled slots in advance, first come first served. All of us were starry-eyed noobs to the publishing process, and our pitches were, shall I say, reflective of this. She asked for fulls on many of the pitches, including mine. We were all thrilled beyond the telling, at least until she mentioned on her blog later that she'd never, ever, never accepted a ms obtained through a pitch session. And then she quit her job anyway, so it was all painfully moot.
I pitched a couple of weekends ago at a conference. I requested a slot when I registered and shortly before the conference they gave me the name of the agent I would sit down with for ten minutes. However, prior to that appointment there were two cocktail parties where we were encouraged to pitch to agents. It was very educational. Of the six agents I pitched to, four asked for partials. The other two were very nice and gave advice even though they weren't interested in my manuscript.
If you are going to do this, you need to really work on your pitch. You should go armed with three of the five versions of your story: log line (one or two sentences), pitch (one or two paragraphs), and short synopsis (one or two pages). You start with your log line. If they seem interested, you move on to your pitch, then the conversation starts. You probably won't use the short synopsis but it's good to have on hand to refresh your memory.
**Very important note** If you can't tell your story in about a dozen sentences, you will make the agent's eyes glaze over. This is a bad, bad thing. I saw it happen repeatedly. Practice on your friends. When their eyes start to wander, you've gone on too long.
P.S. The other two versions of your story are the long synopsis (seven to ten pages) and your manuscript.
Hahaha! Tell him there's another one happening next year and HE'S INVITED!!!! I don't even want to tell you the things I saw that weekend, but suffice it to say my friend and I sat there holding hands in vanilla terror and watching like this: O_O O_O.
PS We also learned about writing. Heh.


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Q: PowerShell - Select only the value (true/false) instead of the complete object itself I am currently developing and consolidating my PowerShell skills and needed help for my script.
I want to retrieve only the result / value "true / false" of the object rather than the description followed by the result of value "true / false".
It will be clearer with my code :
$moreadlock = get-aduser -identity fferman -properties * | select lastbadpasswordattempt, lastlogondate, lockedout, passwordexpired, passwordlastset | format-list

    $sAMAccountName = Read-Host "Username"
        if ( $null -ne ([ADSISearcher] "(sAMAccountName=$sAMAccountName)").FindOne() -eq $true ) {
Write-Host "Exist."
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Additional information about the selected user : "
$moreadlock

AND at this level, I would like to implement a condition :
If the value of "lockedout" is true, propose an unblocking of the account in the AD
        if ( $lockedout -eq $true ) {
Write-Host "Account locked."

With, after asking the user something like that :
$qunlock = Read-Host "Unlock account ?"
    if ( $qunlock -eq $true ) {
    Unlock-AdAccount }

The problem being that using the command:
$test=get-aduser -identity user -properties * | Select-Object -Property lockedout
$test

This returns me:
lockedout
---------
    False

And not the result of the value itself, "false".

A: I have tested in my environment.
Please use the below command to get the value of the LockedOut of an AD user :
Get-ADUser -Identity "labadmin" -properties * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty lockedout

A: Here is the solution that I have chosen to implement.
Write-Host "Is the account blocked : " -ForegroundColor gray -NoNewline
(get-aduser -identity $ADuser -properties *).lockedout

*(get me all the properties of $ADuser account).select the value of this property
Is the account blocked - example

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Black Belt Eagle Scout - Soft Stud
Black Belt Eagle Scout is the soul project of Portland based, radical indigenous queer feminist, Katherine Paul. "Soft Stud" is the opening track off of her record, Mother Of My Children. The opening guitar is grungy and raw and identifies with the revolutionary woman not looking to back down. When Paul begins to sing there is a contrast that cuts like glass. Her voice is pure and emotive. The lyrics are simple but they ring out almost like a chant. It is impossible to not feel moved.
— Sophia Theofanos on August 16, 2018
Bad Bad Hats - Write It On Your Heart
"Write It On Your Heart" is the first single released off of Bad Bad Hats latest record, Lightning Round. The indie rock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota is fueled by the break-ups, relationships, and longing love letters written by the effortlessly powerful front woman, Kerry Alexander. "Spare me your love / I don't deserve anything / That's how you made me feel / Traded me for a stranger, baby" the lyrics are sincere and hit straight at what it means to be young, in love and abandoned. The instrumentation is hyperbolically upbeat and welcoming with nods to 90s pop rock. Catch Bad Bad Hats in a city near you this fall!
Taylor Janzen - Colourblind
Taylor Janzen is as honest as it gets. "Interpersonal" her debut EP out today, depicts a sojourner on a journey of self-exploration that diverges from the way life was approached during her religious childhood. In "Colourblind," Janzen sings of what it's like to live through the darkness of questioning God's intentions and even mental illness surrounded by people who don't seem to get it. Still with heart and unbridled power she sings, "I am bitter but just know this / I will not feel ashamed to exist." This noteworthy declaration reminds us that even if at the moment being alive in equivalent to being stuck, confused or mentally ill, no someone should be robbed of their human dignity. With artists like Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers paving the way, Janzen proves that this era of honest-to-God, women singer-songwriters is just getting started. Taylor Janzen's voices shines with quiet might and is not only to be heard but listened to.
— Dara Bankole on August 10, 2018
Adler Hall - Teresa
There must be something in the water in Brooklyn making our music scene better than ever. Adler Hall, this five-piece from varying musical backgrounds, is no exception to this phenomenon. The band has restructured following their 2016 album Tourist, which plays around the edges of synth and experimentation while centered around the folk-like focus of storytelling. Coming together to write and record their unique take on modern chamber-folk Adler Hall is back with their newest single "Teresa."
"Teresa," the lead single off their upcoming LP, Beware the Water, keeps much of the band's narrative foundation alive with lyrics like, "Tired of the fortunes you seem never to appear in / you smile at me, your teeth stained gray with the wine that I poured for you / though it's nice you ask, it won't change anything I see." "Teresa" is clearly an important figure as these lyrics help portray a long and complex love story, one that has swung up and down and though the singer has run away from their love, she always seems to comes back. Wedding love ballad it might not be, but nonetheless, it is lyrically a beautiful song. Composer, Henry Hoagland builds upon the typical guitar-led folk song with a more strategic approach, incorporating electronic elements as well as fully utilizing the keyboard which they had only touched upon in their previous release. Beware the Water is expected to release this upcoming October and we're excited to see this continued development from the amalgam that is Adler Hall.
— Nick Arcos on August 9, 2018
Summer Like The Season - Wakey
Most of us in NYC have been experiencing the woozy side effects of this scorching early-August weather, but for a moment let's attempt to conjure the pleasant aspects of summertime (outside the city…). An ice-cold cherry red popsicle melting on your lips as you dip your toes in a perfectly chilled swimming pool while listening to Summer Like the Season's latest track, "Wakey." No other song by the electro-art rock quartet so fully personifies their name and general essence. The lead singer, Summer Krinsky has turned a tired name joke into a fresh sound, a dreamy sonic collage of floating synths, quivering bass, and warm, willowy vocals. The chorus' lyrics, "It's time to sleep / I'm wide awake in a daze," remind us that we're all living within the spinning wheel of our memories, and each day that passes is just another entry in our rotary index of diary entries. Like all of us, the Detroit-based group is trying to figure out how to get by and make some sense of the world in the best way they can. Their aural patchwork of haunting melodies and nuanced harmonic textures is a testament to the creative capacity of sound. Sweater weather is still not in sight, so might as well embrace the heat and listen to Summer Like The Season's "Wakey".
— Andrea de Varona on August 8, 2018
Mass Gothic - How I Love You
Husband and wife duo Noel Heroux and Jessica Zambri of Mass Gothic are back again with their whimsy track "How I Love You" from their upcoming album I've Tortured You Long Enough. Sung by Zambri, the track is a pure love song featuring spare and simplistic guitar chords and endearing lyrics. In a dreamy and deeply personal tone, Zambri sings of how much she loves her partner and the pain she feels in her heart as she watches him leave for the day. Zambri's lush vocals serenade the listener when singing, "You wave goodbye just to be safe / I count the ways that I love you / I watched you go out my window / and count the ways that I love you." Midway through the song, as distorted drums and synth are added, the feelings of deep love and pain amplify, keeping listeners in an emotional and dream state, like Zambri's as her lover recedes into the fade out. This stunning and fantastical goth-pop ballad will hit listeners hard and makes for a perfect addition into any out-of-the-box love song playlist.
— Alessandra Rincon on August 8, 2018
Jocelyn Mackenzie - Love Begets Love
After the passing of her dear friend, Pam, Jocelyn Mackenzie sought out to write a song to Pam's grieving husband. "Love Begets Love" is the beautiful product of Mackenzie's efforts, a song about the consistent readiness and availability of love. As if an echo of Pam's heart, Mackenzie spreads a personal and universal message about how love can grow and foster in the midst of hardships. Mackenzie's voice has healing elements in and of itself, but it reaches to new levels when accompanied by the colorful background vocals which in a way sound like a united band of caring friends reaching out to a loved one in a time of need. While the pain of loss will never be truly erased, this song is a reminder that there truly is consolation and hope in love. "Love Begets Love" is featured on a compilation album dedicated to Pam's memory called Songs for Pam which can be found on Burst and Bloom Records's bandcamp. New Yorkers, be sure to see Jocelyn Mackenzie during her residency at C'mon Everybody in Brooklyn on August 11, September 16, and October 13!
— Dara Bankole on August 6, 2018
Wild Pink - Lake Erie
Wild Pink's "Lake Erie" is full of all sorts of meaningfully mundane details one has no choice but to notice while growing up in a small town. "Your body looks impossibly small when you hang your head and cry / Meanwhile people on Tumblr unpack neuroses," singer John Ross observes. He is unable to shake the tiny details once so familiar to him — a particular intersection or the smell on a rainy day. It is as much a song about leaving as it is a song about home. "You thought you'd never get out," Ross reminisces in the chorus before finally flipping to the first person to marvel at his own growth. The song has an Americana sound tied more to the road than to any particular place. A wistful pedal steel guitar pines over the old days on top of a rhythm section as unrelentingly steady as the passage of time, declaring that there is no going back.
— Daniel Shanker on August 6, 2018
Spooky Cool - Old Hair Mine
Although Lucy Dacus believes Richmond band Spooky Cool should be renamed "Stupid Good," the band currently has the perfect name to describe their haunting indie pop vibe. The newest single "Old Hair Mine" off their upcoming debut EP "Every Thing Ever" is full of nostalgic lyrics and vocal harmonies mixed with the instrumentations dis-harmonization and a constantly changing rhythmic backdrop. The product is an entertaining, intricate piece that feels timeless and futuristic. At the end of the song, the vocalists question over and over again "is anything real?" Not sure about that, but we'll keep wondering as we listen to this song.
— Kathryn Brooks on August 2, 2018
Odetta Hartman - You You
With a highly anticipated new record on the way, Odetta Hartman releases her last single off of the album. "You You" is the epitome of short and sweet, showcasing Hartman in all her old school charm but with a feel-good twist. While an Odetta Hartman track is usually embedded with experimental and genre-bending sounds, "You You" finds its strength in its sweet simplicity. Opening up with a hard-hitting electric guitar, Hartman's voice is a contrast of sorts with it's quiet strength and colorful timbre which remains the centerpiece of the song. "You You" is the kind of love song that doesn't feel crowded with frivolous emotions but rather heart and soul. "I want to run / to edge of the earth with you / it's perfect with you," Hartman repeats in the chorus, giving us a glimpse of her desire for an adventurous romance thats more about togetherness and less about the frills. Catch Old Rockhounds Never Die out on August 10!
88rising (ft. Joji and NIKI) - La Cienega
"La Cienega", referring both to a famous street in LA that stretches out from Sunset Blvd and the Spanish term for desert marsh is a clever play on words that explores the pitfalls of the "glamorous" lifestyle many of us daydream about. The vocalists, two established Asian artists, Joji and NIKI, imply that waking up hungover after a rough night of heavy drinking and shenanigans might perhaps get old after a few weeks, months? As per NIKI's experience, it'll have you singing, "Party's over / Thank the lord". "La Cienega" is one of the many bangers off of the international collective and record label, 88rising's newest, collaborative album, Head in the Clouds.
The song was produced and written by Joji and NIKI, who each supply their own distinctive sound and interpretations of the Hollywood lifestyle, and how to potentially escape it. Joji and NIKI's syrupy vocals are carried by the electro-dance inspired production filled with slightly gritty synths and a subby kick/ trap bass . As the track progresses, it bursts with glitchy samples ranging from buffering computer and telephone noises to what sound like bicycle bells. "La Cienega" paints a sloppy romance, glitter-puke picture that perfectly captures what it might feel like to wake up on a shallow, dry slow-moving body of water or an arid LA sidewalk…
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POST MILLENNIUM ROCK: MUSIC UNCHAINED!
The earliest memory that my recent and deceased past life afforded me was being 2 years of age and being told off for running around our strict Christian abode singing 'Blues' songs. And to the vernacular of the fundamentalist formula at the time, the 'blues' were anything that wasn't gospel music, regardless of who happened to be singing it, or what color they were assigned by providence. One of the reasons for my embrace of all music's was that in my cloistered and conservative culture, all music that wasn't church music was lumped together in condemnation anyway. In the long run, this suited me fine. As well as added a healthy dose of the forbidden to my constant discoveries as I got a little older and able to absorb things outside of my immediate living environment. If these practitioners were bad because they were making the 'devil's' music, as I were constantly informed it was by tribal elders, then I WANTED TO BE A BAD BOY TOO. Not to do bad things but to do good things. After all, I always considered that the music gave birth to me, as the music gave birth to God and the universe. What little whippings I can recall at the time included having been chastised for singing The Beatles' 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'She Loves You'. They are my earliest past life recollections. I was also quite in love with The Coasters' 'Poison Ivy'. One of THE coolest things about being in a band is the opportunity to play songs with other assholes like yourself who were brought into music by love. A love of bands, artists, artwork, titles, credits, costumes, hair do's, and the right shoes. A love for the thrill of being able to strum along and feel CONNECTED to a community, to a continuum, a past, a present and a future, as well as a bridge to parallel worlds. Great songs have brought friends together. Songs have brought families together and sat them in congress with their mutual bonds (as opposed to savings bonds or 'Gary U.S. Bonds').
Music takes outsiders and brings them the warmth of inside. As marrow is to the bone, so is music to my soul.
I, Sananda, along with Nick 'The Sticks' Taccori, and the ever loose and suave 'Count' Enea Bardi, present to you now a song that I have been head over heels in adoration with since first hearing it as an exhaustingly young person. This was our virgin performance of the tune. We were lucky to have a chance to play it before the patrons in one of the world's most knowledgeable music towns, GENOA, ITALY. If you can get to the Genovese, you have done well. If you can't, you might want to make sure that a back emergency exit stays clear for a quick getaway before you become a different sort of entertainment than you imagined when signing up for the gig. Welcome back to our RETURN TO ZOOATHALON exercise. And please enjoy our rendition of THE BEATLES' 'NO REPLY'.
Lovingly dedicated to masters John Lennon and George Harrison, Brian Jones and Smokey Robinson. Having heroes like these makes it all a bit easier to bear. I am blessed in having had many immaculate heroes who walked the walk. And dedicated to my great friend, mentor and grandmaster, the ever exquisite 'Saint' Muhammad Ali! And as always, dedicated to those of you for whom music is a part of life's compact with our divine spirits. Be well!


Recently, however, the High Court of the state ruled that women should not be barred from ascending the peak. The reason for this decision is due to the claim that "restrictions cannot be imposed on the basis of gender of a participant while granting permission to visitors to trek the peak." As a result, a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry from Thiruvananthapuram, at the age of 38, was allowed to begin her journey to the top of the mountain. The woman's name is Dhanya Sanal, and she was the only woman out of the 100 climbers planning to reach the peak on the first day available to women.
Members of the Kani tribe are upset with this situation, due to the fact that they believe the mountain range represents their deity. The mountain contains a statue of a Hindu sage, Agastya Muni, that stands for celibacy. The tribe believes that women approaching the sacred land will interfere with their worship traditions, and therefore expressed outrage at the High Court's decision. While Sanal was met with protestors as she began the trek on January 14th, she was allowed safe passage.
This is a huge success for the women rights group Pennuroma, which has been attempting to garner permission for women to have the ability to climb the mountain for years. They had filed the petition to the High Court in January of 2018, jump-starting this outcome. However, because of the fact that the court announced their ruling on the same day that the year's booking began, no women were able to register for the year of 2018 as all of the spots had already been filled. Due to this, women had to wait until 2019 to scale the peak.


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1945. Berlin is in ruins. Immediately after the end of World War II, 33-year-old Günther Scholz founded the Scholz Transporte haulage company. Back then, sand, rubble and building materials were transported by horse-drawn carriage from the Berlin Lichterfelde West site for the Reconstruction West and school meals were taken care of, too.
With the purchase of the first lorries in the 1950s, the company entered the moving and relocation business. At that time, the Steglitzer Anzeiger newspaper reported on a catastrophic move performed by the competition. Over a beer after work, Günther Scholz discusses the article with a good friend and comments that such a dilemma would be unimaginable at Scholz. Because "Things move with Scholz". The two men immediately agree: that's a powerful slogan. So, from a jolly mood, the slogan is born that to this day exemplifies our services.
Economic growth and wealth create new transport opportunities. In the 1960s, with an eye on market demand, Scholz starts to offer the delivery of new furniture and also storage and warehousing in the 1970s.
A new generation. In 1977, Günther Scholz hands the flourishing moving and relocation company over to his son. Ever since, Rainer Scholz has continued the expansion and constant modernisation in the best family tradition.
When the Wall came down, this presented a special opportunity. Because, while business was restricted to West Berlin for the most part before the reunification of Germany, given that moves and relocations over the transit connection rarely happened, now the opportunity arises to expand business across the whole country and on an international level.
At the same time, the Germany-wide competition required us to be positioned better than the competitors.
Something new in the East. In 1993 the West Berlin company acquires the 12,000 m2 sized space of a former state-owned firm (former GDR) and expands the former production hall to a 4000 m2 sized state-of-the-art consignment warehouse.
Quality takes the lead. Today, with a fleet of 20 vehicles, the 65-strong Scholz team carries out personal and business moves and relocations of any size, both domestically and internationally. Warehousing as well as the new furniture logistics area, incl. delivery and installation, round out the full service offer.
And since stagnation is not an option for the moving, relocation and furniture logistics experts, several changes are already planned that – as always – cater to market and customer demands.


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Q: Where can I find Xcode Terms and Definitions? At the moment I am learning how to use Xcode and objective C to make iOS apps - and all is going well.
I come across a lot of terms which I think are language specific and I was wondering is there a website that explains these are?
Terms like setter, class, subclass etc. I am starting to understand what they are, but it would be good, to find a sort of dictionary for these.
So I am familiar with the reading of the terms, but I want to learn what they all mean, so I can make more sense of the code, beyond basic manipulation:-)
Is there a website for this??
EDIT:
Take for example this code:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSString *urlAddress = @"http://google.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:requestObj];
}

I know what it does, but I am unsure of how to write this from scratch - even though it's simple - I guess if I knew what part is called what then I could say that I could remember it in a logical sense.
I could say I need an NSString with the name urladdress - but is this a Class with an object? that kinda stuff:-)
-Jeff

A: The examples you mentioned are not Xcode or even Objective-C specific.
But a good start is Apples Objective-C document, http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf

A: "Setter", "class" and "subclass" are all object-oriented programming concepts.  They aren't specific to Xcode or Objective-C.  Apple provide a high-level overview in Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C.


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Top 10 Games for Samsung Galaxy S3
Home Android Top 10 Games for Samsung Galaxy S3
Today we will cover Most popular Games for Samsung Galaxy S3. Samsung Galaxy S3 has been recognized as a design meant for humans that offers not only great features and specifications as a phone but also a great gaming experience. These features can be felt, especially the graphics, while playing fast paced games that require high graphics for a smooth experience. The following list of the top ten Games for Samsung Galaxy S3 that take the gaming experience to another level.
Games for Samsung Galaxy S3
1. Shadow Gun
The user is put in the role of the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunter, John slade. The game is based on a mission that involves hunting down a maniacal genius and the leader of a mutant army, Dr. Edgar Simon. The user is given the provision of using state of the art weaponry, ships and the assistance of a personal android assistant (S.A.R.A.). The game is based on intense combat with great third person action.
2. Samurai Vengeance II
The game is based on a samurai named Daisuke who set on a quest for revenge across the war scorched countryside to hunt down his enemy Orochi. The game features a virtual joystick and dynamic camera angles that give a great perspective throughout the game.
3. FIFA 12 by EA SPORTS
Experience the action of your favorite sport like never before! Watch matches come to life with vibrant graphics and ultra-realistic animations. Featuring over 22 officially licensed leagues, 500+ licensed teams and more than 15,000 players. Take to the pitch with superstars like Kaka, Wayne Rooney, Gerard Piqué, Karim Benzema and more. This is one of my favorite Games for Samsung Galaxy S3.
4. Sonic 4 Episode II
The game is based on the duo partnership of Metal Sonic with Dr. Eggman thus giving rise to a new evil. Sonic along with his friend tails try to help bring an end to this new evil. The game allows a great multiplayer option and provides good effects during this battle.
5. Defender 2
This game is based on protecting the tower against waves of monsters which provides two modes. First, The Local mode which involves fighting against monsters and second, The Battle mode which involves competing against multiple players.
6. Amazing Alex
This newly launched game involves a whiz kid named alex that uses household toys to create chains of work in order to complete a particular task. It provides challenging levels and creative designs that provide complete entertainment.
7. Killer bean unleashed
The game involves a bean who used to be a part of an elite agency of assassins and is now on a revenge spree to kill the assassins who tried to kill him. It provides challenging levels and provides three modes of play Story mode, Mega Levels and Survival Mode. It's a good mixture of both, challenge and entertainment.
8. Virtua Tennis Challenge
Virtua Tennis, one of the World's leading tennis game franchises, is available for the first time on smartphones with the new Virtua Tennis Challenge. Slice, lob and hit your best top spin as you take on the world's best and compete against 50 players in 18 stadiums around the globe.
9. Frontline Commando
The game is based on a one man army show who is the only surviving commando and uses all his skill to face the enemy and avenge his fallen soldier. It comprises of interesting missions and great graphics which makes the user feel the action.
10. Devil Ninja 2
It's a fast paced fighting game that involves the task of fighting the monsters and killing the king of monsters. It offers great combat devices and provides good graphics in order to make the user feel the game.
That's it, here my list gets over, but do you know more Games for Samsung Galaxy S3 which you think can top the list ? Share with us via comments below.
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Faculty of Business and Globalization
Department for E-Governance and Administration
University / Faculties / Faculty of Business and Globalization / Departments / Department for E-Governance and Administration / Research / Visiting Fellowships / Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellows at the Department for E-Governance and Administration
Prof. Edimara Mezzomo Luciano
(Sept - Oct 2019)
Professor on Management Information Systems (MIS) in the Business Administration Graduation Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil, and Head of Governance and Digital Society Research Group.
IT Governance and Architecture Minitrack Co-Chair at Americas Conference on Information Systems.
Program Co-Chair at a Brazilian Conference of Graduation Programs in Business Administration.
Consultant for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Governance Steering Committee of Rio Grande do Sul State and Co-Leader of the Digital Transformation Work Group at the National Council of Management States Secretaries.
Masters and PhD. in Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Visiting Researcher in the Information Systems and Innovation Research Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Published over a hundred academic articles on MIS and the use of ICT to improve private and public organizations' governance and management. Research interests include digital governance, smart cities, open government and ICT and e-governance mechanisms to reduce the levels of corruption.
Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Edimara Mezzomo Luciano
Fellowship sponsored by PUCRS PRINT (http://www.pucrs.br/print/)


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"Most would compare Solstice to 50 Shades of Grey but I think it is much better. While the romantic entanglement is extremely steamy, the backstory of the mob and Solana Trent is wonderfully told in detail. It kept me interested until the very end and I could not put it down. I will anxiously await the second in the series!"
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We are having our Kindergarten Information Night for incoming kindergarteners on Wednesday, March 7th at 6pm. Pass the information along to any families that may be interested in sending their children to our school. They will have an opportunity to ask questions, visit the classroom and enter a drawing for a chance to win free registration.
We are in the Spring Program April 18th. I'll send more information in the next couple of weeks.


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#pragma once
#include <aws/location/LocationService_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSVector.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
  class JsonView;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace LocationService
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
A summary of the reverse geocoding request sent using
   * SearchPlaceIndexForPosition.

See Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_LOCATIONSERVICE_API SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary
  {
  public:
    SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary();
    SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const;

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetDataSource() const{ return m_dataSource; }

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline bool DataSourceHasBeenSet() const { return m_dataSourceHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline void SetDataSource(const Aws::String& value) { m_dataSourceHasBeenSet = true; m_dataSource = value; }

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline void SetDataSource(Aws::String&& value) { m_dataSourceHasBeenSet = true; m_dataSource = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline void SetDataSource(const char* value) { m_dataSourceHasBeenSet = true; m_dataSource.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithDataSource(const Aws::String& value) { SetDataSource(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithDataSource(Aws::String&& value) { SetDataSource(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The data provider of geospatial data. Indicates one of the available
     * providers:

Esri

HERE

For
     * additional details on data providers, see the Amazon
     * Location Service data providers page.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithDataSource(const char* value) { SetDataSource(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An optional parameter. The maximum number of results returned per request.
     *

Default value: 50

     */
    inline int GetMaxResults() const{ return m_maxResults; }

    /**
     *
An optional parameter. The maximum number of results returned per request.
     *

Default value: 50

     */
    inline bool MaxResultsHasBeenSet() const { return m_maxResultsHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
An optional parameter. The maximum number of results returned per request.
     *

Default value: 50

     */
    inline void SetMaxResults(int value) { m_maxResultsHasBeenSet = true; m_maxResults = value; }

    /**
     *
An optional parameter. The maximum number of results returned per request.
     *

Default value: 50

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithMaxResults(int value) { SetMaxResults(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline const Aws::Vector<double>& GetPosition() const{ return m_position; }

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline bool PositionHasBeenSet() const { return m_positionHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline void SetPosition(const Aws::Vector<double>& value) { m_positionHasBeenSet = true; m_position = value; }

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline void SetPosition(Aws::Vector<double>&& value) { m_positionHasBeenSet = true; m_position = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithPosition(const Aws::Vector<double>& value) { SetPosition(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& WithPosition(Aws::Vector<double>&& value) { SetPosition(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The position given in the reverse geocoding request.

     */
    inline SearchPlaceIndexForPositionSummary& AddPosition(double value) { m_positionHasBeenSet = true; m_position.push_back(value); return *this; }

  private:

    Aws::String m_dataSource;
    bool m_dataSourceHasBeenSet;

    int m_maxResults;
    bool m_maxResultsHasBeenSet;

    Aws::Vector<double> m_position;
    bool m_positionHasBeenSet;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace LocationService
} // namespace Aws

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My Experiences with Stories in Games
Posted byEric Ogg February 5, 2022 October 26, 2022 Posted inStorytelling in GamingTags:creativity, developmental story, editing, fiction, games, gaming, personal experience, stories in games, storytelling
I game in my free time – PlayStation. I haven't upgraded to the "5" series yet because I refuse to pay above retail price out of sheer principal; there's a scalping ecosystem that's taken over the market for the time being, and it's gross (although I think it's lessening as time goes on), but that's not what I'm writing about.
A good story can come in many forms: books, movies, television, and many other mediums. A more active and immersive approach to storytelling through games has become more prolific in recent years. Donkey Kong from 1981 was considered the first game to have a story attached to it. This was communicated to the player via short cutscenes, animations, and on-screen text for dialogue.
Tangentially, looking that up reminded me of the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in which competitive Donkey Kong players duke it out for the world's highest score in the arcade world. I recommend it as it's a really fun watch—the filmmakers turned the documentary into a fascinating story. I am sometimes wary when a documentary has been put together to tell (sell?) a story—as entertaining as they may be—because hundreds or thousands of hours of video footage can be spliced together or edited any which-way to lay out a narrative intended to lead the viewer to draw conclusions that may not necessarily be wholly truthful. Producing a bias, essentially. I digress.
Thinking back, my first remembrance of playing a story-driven game was the old Space Quest series on PC… this was early '90s. My dad had a computer and would play Space Quest 3 (I think subtitled St. Elmo's Ire?). He enjoyed it, but I think he eventually felt a level of guilt over putting time into games as a parent—that's when opportunity struck for me. I took over. Of all the games that could get a kid into gaming for fun, this was the one got me, weirdly enough. A game where most of the comedy went over my head and was very challenging for a kid. Just drawing from memory, you play a character named Roger Wilco who travels from planet to planet attempting to accomplish some mission. I remember a hot-volcano planet where you needed to equip an item called "thermoweave underwear" before you could explore the location. (There was some goofy line that I still remember to this day, and I probably don't remember it completely accurately: "It's 350 degrees but you don't care, you're beatin' the heat with your thermoweave underwear!"). You would have to type in command prompts correctly too, so "put on thermoweave underwear" is what you would input to avoid immediate disintegration into a pile of ash upon exiting your ship. There were so many absurd ways to die in that game, and then a text box would appear informing you that you've died and further chastise you over how stupidly you must have acted to die in such a manner. Unfortunately, it was so long ago, I don't remember it well enough to summarize Space Quest 3's plot. I think it had to do with saving two game developers (they inserted themselves into the story) from some place or person. I could look it up, but I don't wanna. I'll save the nostalgia deep-dive for another time.
All the games I played on old PCs and Macs, Nintendo64, Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 had stories. There had to be a story for every game; to what extent the story mattered relative to the gameplay was always a dynamic interaction. In those early years, I was either too young to care, or the story wasn't shown in a way that left any impression. X-Wing by LucasArts was one of my favorites, but it kinda just rehashed Star Wars tropes in place of story (you're in the Rebel Alliance and the Imperials are doing blah blah blah). But the gameplay was FUN.
Blizzard's StarCraft had a story in the campaign mode, and I remember that one fondly. They showed it through cutscenes, in-game/in-mission, through main character interaction and events. There were some fun sci-fi concepts and three distinct factions the player could control: The Terrans (the humans), the Zerg (nasty critter-like aliens with a hivemind), and the Protoss (advanced aliens with superior technology). It was neat to navigate the campaign and watch this war unfold from each race's unique perspective. StarCraft isn't known for its amazing storytelling (nor should it be); it turned into an extremely competitive Esport. I can't speak to StarCraft 2, as I had moved onto consoles by then.
I fondly recall the first time I played Fallout 3. I was blown away by the open-world concept around a time where exploratory environments were first trending—I vividly recall the feeling I had when the player character exits "the vault" for the first time, and your (character's) eyes adjust to the outside light, and then you see this seemingly limitless, vast world just waiting to be explored. That was next-level shit for me at that time. I was like, holy shit this is what games are like now? Awesome.
Fallout 3's primary storyline wasn't anything to write home about in my opinion, but the setting and world the developers had created (note: I have not played the first two Fallouts) was really cool. The game's backdrop was post-apocalyptic and had the player exploring a post-nuclear war Washington DC (two-hundred years after the bombs dropped), and I count that as part of the setting which contributed to my immersion into the story. That part was done well. The side quests, the random events when I was exploring, the NPCs; they're all telling me more about this world and how it works. I'll find myself imagining/wondering if the in-game world or setting could exist in a vacuum without the player character or protagonist—are the people, places, and creatures developed enough to operate as an ecosystem or universe without me being there. If the answer to that is yes, then I think that really adds to the experience, so props to dev teams who put in enough effort to accomplish that feeling.
What's neat about the gaming medium is interaction. One can participate in the story on different levels, depending on the game. Fallout 3 gave the player options, and you could directly influence the game's story and world. Fallout New Vegas did this even better: the game allowed you to decide which of the several warring post-apocalyptic factions you would ally with. And none of them were clearly the good guys or bad guys (well, one had a slave trade, which is objectively terrible; but you could still ally with the Legion if you so wished). You could play an evil character if wanted to. It was a sandbox; do whatever you like, and your actions influenced the world and setting.
I enjoyed the blank-slate/be-whoever-you-want template for characters, and I still do, but I can really appreciate when a game's story is driven by a well-designed protagonist.
Red Dead Redemption 2 comes to mind for me, and probably many others. Here, the player takes on the role of Arthur Morgan, an outlaw and gang enforcer. You still have a degree of control over Arthur's choices (and face the consequences), but the main story doesn't diverge or deviate heavily from its central narrative based on player choices made as Arthur. There's an "honor" system, which to my knowledge, has been around as a game trend for decades—there was one in Fallout 3, New Vegas, and many others I've played. Red Dead 2 is character-driven, with the player taking on the role of the antihero. Arthur's done bad things throughout his career as an outlaw (story cannon, separate from player decisions), and it's catching up with him and his cohorts. Shit hits the fan when the gang's leader starts losing control. Of everything. I'm not going to explore the whole plot here, but the story and main characters were widely regarded as really F'ing good. The interactive and participatory aspects of RDR2 as a game rather than a movie or TV show create for the player a connection to the characters and setting that couldn't be achieved in any other way. It's a fantastic illustration of how a great story can be beautifully executed in the gaming medium.
I also love the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne, but I'd rather talk about them in a separate post. Entirely different mode of storytelling with blank-slate style characters.
Storytelling in gaming has been written about before, but I just wanted to share some of my personal experience with it. Thanks for reading!
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from the it's-just-a-big-pissing-match dept
Wed, Dec 23rd 2009 4:33pm — Mike Masnick
When Nokia first sued Apple for patent infringement over the iPhone, we noted that it appeared like yet another case of a company getting beat in the market suddenly whipping out some patents to sue over. This seemed to anger the usual bunch of patent system defenders -- along with a group of Nokia defenders -- but it appears that others are noticing as well. The NY Times has an article discussing Nokia's sudden aggressiveness in the patent realm, noting that the company has been facing some business troubles, and it's notable that its patent aggression seems to have shown up at just the same time as its own performance trouble. Funny that.
Of course, this is a major issue. As with so many high tech areas today, there are giant patent thickets. It's effectively impossible to launch a product that doesn't violate dozens, if not hundreds, of patents. And (despite claims to the contrary) it's got absolutely nothing to do with companies "stealing" from each other. It's got plenty to do with companies making the next logical step in the innovative process, and coming up with products that meet what the market wants. But with patent offices around the world being willing to hand out patents on minor changes, it's impossible to actually build a useful product that doesn't violate patents. This has nothing to do with innovation. At this point, patents are just a weapon that can be flung against anyone who does innovate if you can't compete.
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Kazi, 23 Dec 2009 @ 5:19pm
Let's not how the article talks about market advantage with respect to patents. It doesn't talk about how intellectual property is related to innovation.
The Anti-Mike, 23 Dec 2009 @ 6:34pm
The innovation part of the title is interesting, and certainly shows how Mike works to twist things.
Mike, would you care to show us exactly where the NY times says "Nokia's Patent Fights Have Nothing To Do With Innovation"? I can't see it, the word innovation only appears once in the entire article, and it isn't in relation to any of that.
Come one Mike. If you are going to beat people up for phrasing errors, can you at least admit that the NY Times isn't saying anything about innovation? Can you admit you are just adding it in because it's your opinion, not theirs?
Marcus Carab (profile), 24 Dec 2009 @ 7:28am
Personally, I found the headline very clear. "NY Times seems to recognize..." - in other words, based on the fact that the Times has pointed out the curious timing of Nokia's patent aggression, and suggested that it may be a defense mechanism, then it certainly seems like they recognize that it's not really about promoting innovation. And yes, that *IS* an opinion, nobody said it wasn't: Mike is just pointing out that a mainstream news organization seems to be coming around to the same position.
The Anti-Mike, 24 Dec 2009 @ 12:31pm
Re: Re: Re:
The only thing that the article comes around to is that nokia is moving to push it's patents. In fact, the story discusses the idea more of a "line in the sand", and says nothing at all about innovation.
Mike WANTS it to talk about innovation, but it does not.
Anonymous Coward, 23 Dec 2009 @ 5:32pm
Near the end of the article:
"Nokia filed its suit against Apple more than two years after the iPhone went on sale, which, Mr. Ihrfelt said, suggested that the suit was a symbolic line in the sand."
In other words: "We're losing money now, and your phones are fetching a pretty penny, so you can't just use our stuff for free any more. Either innovate, pay up, or steal somebody else's stuff!"
ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 23 Dec 2009 @ 5:54pm
"In other words: "We're losing money now, and your phones are fetching a pretty penny, so you can't just use our stuff for free any more. Either innovate, pay up, or steal somebody else's stuff!""
I know! When the iPhone came out, everyone was saying, "It's such a Nokia ripoff!"
Allen (profile), 23 Dec 2009 @ 7:10pm
I'm more inclined to believe Nokia when they say that they spent the first two years negotiating with Apple and only went down this path when talks broke down.
I don't think you need to look to Machiavellian motives for what Nokia are doing. The patent system allows Nokia to get a cut from the other manufacturers of GSM (and derivative) standard handsets . Why shouldn't Nokia expect to get the same from Apple? This is mature technology from decades old work - its practically money for nothing. Why wouldn't you expect Nokia to exploit the mess of a system we have to get money for nothing?
Whether Nokia are deliberately exploiting the system to hold apple back doesnt really change the underlying problem: The patent system is broken. The outcomes it encourages are clearly counter to the original intent. The system needs to be reformed.
"I'm more inclined to believe Nokia when they say that they spent the first two years negotiating with Apple and only went down this path when talks broke down."
So they had two years to develop an competing phone, and did jack squat. Yeah, that's impressive.
"Whether Nokia are deliberately exploiting the system to hold apple back doesnt really change the underlying problem: The patent system is broken. The outcomes it encourages are clearly counter to the original intent. The system needs to be reformed."
Um, yeah, I'm agreeing with the last part. The first part is the entire problem.
Big Al, 24 Dec 2009 @ 5:09am
"So they had two years to develop an competing phone, and did jack squat."
No, they spent two years trying to get the 'innovative' Apple to actually pay for the technology that Nokia had patented.
Finally, they did what most patent holders do to users of unlicensed technology - sue.
ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 24 Dec 2009 @ 7:47am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
"No, they spent two years trying to get the 'innovative' Apple to actually pay for the technology that Nokia had patented. "
Maybe they should have been working on their crappy phones.
"So they had two years to develop an competing phone, and did jack squat. Yeah, that's impressive."
How exactly does this invalidate my inclination to believe that Nokia tried to negotiate first?
Nokia are playing the game by the rules the same as everyone else - Apple included. The problem isnt Nokia, its the rules.
You've violated my patent on The Patent Flinger (it's a weapon of mass destruction). Please pay up.
Anonymous Coward, 23 Dec 2009 @ 10:58pm
This one time, I'd have to disagree in calling Nokia's ventures against Apple a patent abuse case.
I truthfully believe that since Apple gets away with absolute travesty with DRM and its locked down systems (not to mention eye gouging prices!), it would try and huddle and scuttle out of paying Nokia patent rights.
Also, if Nokia was doing this just for the money in a time of hardship, wouldn't they bombard every other manufacturer that is new the field? Cough.. HTC.
Lets face it, no one knows the facts for sure, and I absolutely don't; however, there is good reason in my mind to to say that this might be one of the few valid cases.
sandeep rakesh, 24 Dec 2009 @ 12:55pm
Nokia seems to be in big trouble. Company managed by CEO Olly-Pekka Kallasvuo has not been able to put out any competitive products to Apple iPhone or Android phones. Nokia seems to be in really, really big troubles. Previous flagship product N97 was a major flop and the current flagship product N900 seems to have major flaws (either software or hardware) - users are reporting constant crashes, dead microphones etc. It looks like N900 was rushed - almost like put out in panic. Things aren't looking that good to Nokia.
I see what everyone is saying.. and to go along with my last post.
Ericsson and Nokia built the current GSM standard along with the hardware and technology.
They both deserve credit where credit is due.
Fuck Apple if they don't want to play by the rules
Sankar Rajagopal, 25 Dec 2009 @ 8:32am
nokia trying to cash
Nokia is trying to cash Apple here. It seems like Nokia is currently in very, very serious problems and the only way to get out of the problems is to sue Apple and hope that would bring in some money. Nokia acquired Navteq in 2007 and that cost about 8 billion dollars, Nokia has been unable to make profit with Navteq. This must be a major issue. I think Nokia is having deeper problems than majority of the people really understand. N97 has been a major flop in India and elsewhere and latest handset N900 is suffering major problems. Nokia can't compete with Apple by playing fair game that's why court is the only chance they got.
staff1, 29 Dec 2009 @ 10:46am
innovate/copy
"At this point, patents are just a weapon that can be flung against anyone who does innovate if you can't compete."
If your "competitor" is using your invention that means they did not innovate -they copied.
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Nord Stream 2 'past point of no return': Russia's Gazprom
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The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline set to supply Europe with Russian gas via the Baltic is "past the point of no return" despite obstacles including the threat of US sanctions, the head of Gazprom said Friday.
"We are working from the idea that Nord Stream 2 will be realised strictly in accordance with the planned timetable," Alexei Miller said at an annual shareholders meeting in Saint Petersburg.
This means the pipeline would be completed by the end of this year and in service from the start of 2020.
The 11-billion-euro ($12-billion) energy link between Russia and Germany is to run under the Baltic Sea doubling Russian gas shipments to the EU's biggest economy.
The final major hurdle to clear in the construction of Nord Stream 2 is obtaining an agreement from Denmark that the pipeline can cross its exclusive economic zone, situated outside its territorial waters.
But Miller said, "Work is going ahead. The project has been past the point of no return for some time already, there are no legal means whatsoever to stop the work."
The building of the pipeline has sparked concerns about Western Europe's increasing dependence on Russian gas.
It has also raised fears that Moscow will be able to increase pressure on Ukraine as Europe will be less reliant on the country for transiting supplies.
Delaying the opening of the pipeline would create serious difficulties.
Today the vast majority of Russian gas to Europe transits via Ukraine.
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The Crucial Role of Islam in the French Election
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A solid majority of French Muslims, about half of whom identify as secular, continued to support the left this year.
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Muslims and Islam played an outsized role in the French election, both as objects of political discourse and as actors in their own right. It can easily be forgotten that this was the first French election held under a state of emergency, and that basic civil liberties are suspended. Even mainstream politicians have begun darkly speaking of the "problem" of Islam in France. Marine Le Pen of the National Front, who was handily defeated by centrist Emmanuel Macron, advocated halting immigration, much of it from Muslim countries. Meanwhile, Muslim youth in less well-off neighborhoods complain of being routinely overpoliced and of impunity for police brutality.
Although there are something like 5-6 million Muslims in France, they probably account for only about 2 percent of the electorate. Some proportion are not citizens, and many citizens among them are trapped in working-class slums that offer few incentives to electoral participation. Still, while the Muslim vote is not large, in a close election it can make a difference. Some think that when 86 percent of Muslims voted for Socialist François Hollande in 2012, it swung the election to him. Even conservative French Muslims have tended to vote Socialist in the past decade and a half, given that many are working class and given the harsh Islamophobia of many Gaullists and, of course, the National Front.
The Muslim community emerged as an issue in the election in large part because of the string of high-profile terrorist attacks since January of 2015, most of them attributed to the so-called Islamic State group (ISIL), headquartered in Raqqa, Syria. The killing of staff and bystanders at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015; the massacre at a rock concert and a random restaurant, among other targets, in November of the same year; and the truck attack on a crowd on Bastille Day of 2016; along with a host of smaller assaults, have roiled French political life.
French Muslims are substantially more secular than the average American.
These attacks were clearly planned or instigated from abroad, and intended to polarize French society in hopes of radicalizing the French electorate and French Muslims, to make the latter easier for ISIL to recruit. As it stands, about half of self-identified French Muslims describe themselves as secular, and another large proportion are ambivalent about identifying themselves as Muslim at all, having grown up in a mostly secular society without much knowledge of their ancestral religion. The French right wing is appalled that a little over a fourth say that Muslim law is more important than French law or that a majority think girls should be able to wear a headscarf to school. French Muslims, however, are substantially more secular than the average American. In the United States, 46 percent of Americans want the Bible to be a source of legislation and 9 percent want it to be the only source.
Le Pen made attacks on Muslims and immigrants (probably much the same thing in her mind) a centerpiece of her campaign. She spoke of the need to "go into fundamentalist mosques." She attacked the technocrats in Brussels, fundamentalist Islam, and immigrants, saying she was fighting against "the fear of no longer being entirely at home in France." Her message was "France for the French!" The implication was that French Muslims and other citizens of African and Asian heritage are not actually French.
French multiculturalism is in part a legacy of that very French imperialism in which the far right still takes pride.
Yet Le Pen was also full of praise for the French Empire, which was largely composed of Muslim and Buddhist subjects and which maintained that Algeria was "French soil." In 1958, President Charles de Gaulle had even sought to transform the French Empire into a multicultural United States of France, in which Algeria and West Africa would become provinces and their inhabitants French citizens. French multiculturalism is not only a result of globalization or immigration policy but is a legacy of that very French imperialism in which the far right still takes pride, and so the blandishments of Gallic nativism and global empire form an unfaced contradiction at the heart of Le Pen's neofascism.
Many French Muslims were ambivalent about this election. They feel poorly treated by Hollande and the Socialist Party, who they believe reacted to terrorist attacks by a fringe of extremists by cracking down on the whole community. In the first round of the presidential election, the largest group of French Muslim voters went for independent leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while about a quarter supported Macron. The Socialist vote among Muslims, for Benoît Hamon, fell to only 17 percent. Still, despite their divisions, a solid majority of French Muslims continued to support the left in the first round, with the biggest defection being to the neoliberal Macron, who served as finance minister in President Hollande's outgoing Socialist government.
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In Sunday's runoff, neither Macron, a former investment banker who holds no brief for workers, nor the fiercely Islamophobic Le Pen represented an established parliamentary party. Prominent Muslim public intellectual and philosopher Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss national) called for Muslims to practice "active neutrality" and to sit out the election, given that neither candidate promised much to their community and given that after they had helped put Hollande in, he stabbed them in the back.
Nevertheless, many Muslim leaders advocated voting for the lesser of evils. Noureddine Aoussat, a professor of marketing at the Sorbonne and a part-time preacher, weighed in with op-eds critiquing Ramadan's position and calling for French Muslims to vote. Aoussat had made a splash by debating Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls on his use of the phrase "Islamofascist," arguing that it is inappropriate and disrespectful to the religion. (Given that more than a third of French voters just voted for a party founded by former Nazi collaborators, perhaps French politicians should leave "fascism" out of their discourse about Islam.) Even some leaders of the traditionally quietist hard-line Salafi movement were so alarmed by the rise of the National Front that they urged participation in the election (Salafists are often chary of Western democracy).
"We must protect France from the danger of right-wing extremism." —Amar Lasfar, Union of Islamic Organizations of France
In addition, the conservative Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) called on French Muslims to vote in droves to confront the extreme right and the attempt to exclude them from representation in the country's politics. The organization's leader, Amar Lasfar, told his constituency, "We must protect France from the danger of right-wing extremism." Lasfar said he did not launch this appeal against the National Front per se (which has called for his organization to be dissolved because of alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood), but only to confront "the spiritual and institutional threat that is posed by racist ideas that instigate hatred against foreigners." Lasfar noted that François Fillon, the Gaullist candidate who lost in the first round of the presidential election, had also said things such as that France "suffers from a problem connected to Islam," but urged that Muslims continue to reach out to such politicians.
Some French Jews and Protestants joined Muslims last week in issuing a joint appeal for their co-religionists to vote for Macron. Pastor François Clavairoly, Rabbi Haïm Korsia, and Anouar Kbibech of the liberal, government-backed French Council of the Muslim Faith said, "Nothing is better than peace and only the republic's vote for Emmanuel Macron guarantees a France, which has been strong throughout its history, that is confident in its future and its ability to shed its illumination in the whole world." The three faith leaders were aware that religious intervention in politics violates a key principle of French secularism, but said that as "responsible citizens" they had to call for the French public to "give victory, at the ballot box, to a generous and tolerant France that is open to the world." It is not enough, they said, simply to dam up the National Front. "It is indispensable to recall, with a unified voice, the humanistic foundations that animate us and for which we work every day."
For her part, Le Pen attempted to use the UOIF in her debate with Macron last week, accusing him of ties to it and of refusing to distance himself from its support, and warning that it would have him and France for lunch if he were elected. No one thinks that Macron is cozy with fundamentalist Muslims, and Le Pen's style of Islamophobic McCarthyism was among the things that soured the French electorate on her.
Juan ColeTwitterJuan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, is the author, most recently, of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian.
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