Updated the OpenSceneGraph support to version 3.6.3.
Added Preview Animation to the View menu. This lets the user preview the behavior of the animation sequence of a group node.
Added ability to double and half the grid size.
Macros are now sorted alphabetically in the menu and macro editor.
Selection visualization is now hidden while previewing DOFs.
Fixed issue with drag and drop not working without current model.
Fixed issue with bright viewport due to latest nVidia drivers.
Fixed issue with slow import of Wavefront OBJ files.
Improved the Modify UV tool with scale and rotate, mirror, freeze, snap, add and remove to selection and fit model viewport.
Updated the OpenSceneGraph support to version 3.5.9.
Removed console when setting the REMO3D_LOG environment variable.
Removed the old OpenGL Performer and Designer Workshop support.
The Remo 3D license server version is now written to the log file.
Normalized vertex normals after Eliminate Transformation Matrices.
Fixed issue with copy/paste and duplicate node names.
Fixed crash at Ctrl+C with the Script Editor open.
Fixed issue with discrepancy between selection mode and corresponding button.
Fixed issue with updating the tree view after setting attributes.
Fixed issue with polygons disappearing after split.
Fixed issue with invisible icons via Windows remote desktop.
Optimized saving of models with many polygons under the header node.
Optimized opening of models with many polygons under one group node.
Avoided sporadic application freeze at opening, saving, importing, exporting or reverting models from script.
Fixed sporadic crash at undo in the Split tool.
Improved slicing near vertices in the Slice tool.
Fixed issue with error reporting and terminating macros.
Fixed issue with copying text from the script output window.
Fixed issue with large coordinates when storing and recalling view.
Fixed program crash at focusing of fields in Rotate and Revolve.
Fixed issue causing backface polygons after Split/Triangulate.
Fixed issue with undo/redo in the Modify UV tool.
Fixed issue causing duplicate node names.
Avoided infrequent program crash by emptying command list before activating macros that will switch the current model.
The remo.executeMacro script function now always returns a boolean.
Changed tab distance in the Script Editor.
Added functionality for storing and recalling the view.
Fixed issues with the Selection and Viewport menus.
Remo 3D now officially supports Windows 10.
Added import and export support for the Autodesk® FBX® file format.
Added new preset viewpoints toward the current grid, from above and below. Corresponding shortcuts are 'j' and 'J'.
Added Plant function to the Move tool, to place the selected geometry exactly at the position clicked on other geometry.
The pivot point is now saved at copying to clipboard and restored when pasting. This can be useful for pasting and planting multiple objects.
Added support for applying move, scale and rotate as transformation matrices.
Implemented new convenient script methods for controlling of switch nodes.
Keep node names if possible at copy-paste, adding suffix if needed.
Polygon light mode and absolute texture paths are now better handled when importing models.
Coordinate fields and Report Statistics fields are now selectable, so that they can be copied.
Improved contrast for the tree view scrollbar.
Fixed issue with mouse cursor on Linux.
Various bug fixes and robustness improvements.
Added possibility for multiple paths separated by semi-colon in the REMO3D_FILE_PATH environment variable.
Improved the folder dialog in Windows.
Support environment (sphere) mapped models.
Fixed issue with cutting concave polygons along grid lines.
Fixed issue with thin textures in the Map Texture tool.
Fixed issue with canceling Close All Models.
Update tree view properly after reversing polygons.
Avoid unintentional top view when pressing Ctrl+z for undo.
Fixed issue with normal visualization always being gray.
Fixed issue with relative texture and external reference paths.
Fixed issue with non-existing texture mapping palette in imported models.
Import shaded polygons correctly even if they have no color.
Robustly warn about invalid texture files.
Implemented a new Modify UV tool, allowing for intuitive modification of a texture mapping in the texture UV space.
Added file and folder parameter types to the macro support.
Added Shift Far Left and Shift Far Right to move a node to the first/last position among its siblings.
Added Select Parents and Select Children to select the parents or children of the currently selected primitives.
Added Select Previous to select the previously selected primitive.
Added Select Polygons By Number Of Vertices to the Selection menu.
Remo 3D now supports export of AC3D files.
Added a REMO3D_FILE_PATH environment variable that can be used to find textures, external references and shaders.
Added a REMO3D_NO_LINE_FEED environment variable preventing line-feed for each log print output.
Added a REMO3D_LOG environment variable to specify a script output log file instead of the console.
Let selectByName and createPolygon script functions accept a table parameter.
Split Tool now selects split and non-split polygons after the operation.
Added shortcuts for toggling multi-texture layers.
Updated the OpenSceneGraph support to version 3.2.1.
Updated the Lua support to version 5.2.3.
User interface presentation of macro parameter names is improved.
Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 is now officially supported.
Dropped support for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Dropped import support for the Carbon Graphics GEO file format.
Fixed issue with setting local coordinate system for a matrix-transformed DOF node.
Fixed issue with importing models with quad geometries.
Implemented new tools for moving, rotating and scaling texture maps.
Implemented support for the Light Point System node type.
Added a list of External References with possibility to enable and disable separate externals or disable loading of them to start with.
Implemented a new tool for eliminating transformation matrices and modifying the coordinates beneath them accordingly.
Added a REMO3D_IMPORT_EXPORT_OPTIONS environment variable to control OpenSceneGraph import and export options.
Fixed issue with dongle licensing on Windows 64-bit systems.
Fixed issue with relative texture paths becoming absolute at export.
Fixed issue with Move To Point in the Move tool for transformed geometry.
Fixed issue with vertices and edges in the Mirror tool with a transformed grid.
Fixed issue with the different Next IDs in the header attributes for large models.
Fixed issue with smearing of lines in the Map Texture tool and the texture mapping palette.
Fixed issues with matrix-transformed geometry in the Subdivide and Simplify tools.
Fixed issue with the Collada exporter crashing for empty polygons.
Fixed issue with the remo.getSelectionNames script function and indexed light points.
Fixed issue with picking rotation edge in transformed geometry.
Fixed memory leaks related to external references.
Fixed infrequent problem with negative window position after version upgrade.
Inactive switch masks can now be edited in the Switch Attributes and the active mask is more distinctly visualized.
The Purchase dialog is now available during an evaluation period.
Implemented import of attributes from ESRI Shape files, stored as comments.
Improved the functionality of Select Sliver Polygons.
Added selectByNumberOfVertices and selectVerticesByLocation script functions.
Added setTolerance and getTolerance script functions.
The reportStatistics script function will now return zeroes instead of nil if there are no results.
OpenSceneGraph's new native OSGB, OSGT and OSGX file formats are now supported for import and export.
Added integration with VBS2 from Bohemia Interactive Simulations by supporting import and export of the P3D file format.
Implemented 64-bit support in both Windows and Linux.
Added automatic near/far calculation, improving the support for large terrain models.
Improved support for using the node-locked license with inactive network adapters.
Changed mouse cursor depending on current model view control.
Added functionality for selecting sliver polygons.
Two new sample models from EdgedSign have been bundled with the Remo 3D installation.
Added free scripts and macros as samples.
The rendering performance of the model view has been substantially improved.
The model view control has been improved to resemble other familiar trackball implementations.
Added a new non-modal Sensitivity dialog, reachable from the View menu or with Ctrl+T, allowing for immediate feedback in the model view when changing the translation, zoom and rotation sensitivity.
Added a new Multi-texture sub-menu in the View menu, allowing for enabling and disabling of which multi-texture layers that are to be visible.
Microsoft Windows 7 is now officially supported.
A time-limited fully functional evaluation license is now supported.
The Stanford Triangle Format (.ply) is now supported for import.
The 3D Studio MAX (.3ds), DOT (.dot) and StereoLithography Binary (.stl) formats are now supported for export.
New sample models from Simthetiq Inc. and cantaloupe|3d have been bundled with the Remo 3D installation.
Textures not found at import of models are now added to the palette anyway.
The animation sequence attributes of group nodes are now fully supported.
The previous expression is now kept in the Select By Attributes dialog. A Clear button has also been added. Drop-down menu values are presented as strings and not numbers.
Added a REMO3D_SCRIPT_CONFIRMATION environment variable for avoiding command-line script confirmations.
All types of palettes are now merged correctly when copying nodes between models.
Indexed light points are now converted to inline light points when saving to an OpenFlight format before 15.8.
Texture memory consumption has been reduced.
Fixed issue with pressing and releasing Ctrl/Shift while controlling the model view.
Eliminated risk for collision with different OpenSceneGraph version.
Normals are now created by default in the Create Light Point tool, which will allow for just rotating them when setting light points to be uni-/bi-directional.
Improved the accuracy of the visualization of vertex selections.
Improved finding of external references with Windows/Linux paths and relative to the parent file path.
Increased the ambient light default from 0.0 to 0.2 to achieve brighter default visualization.
Improved window resizing with multiple screens.
Align To Grid is now default in the Create Disk tool.
Zoom Viewpoint To Model is now off by default in the preferences.
Improved support for importing of screen coordinate limited levels of detail.
Fixed issue with all externally referenced nodes from the same external model being hidden even if they are beneath different parents or levels of detail.
Fixed issue with fitting the view to light point vertices.
Fixed issue with invisible node stems in the tree view.
Fixed issue with certain imbedded textures not being imported correctly.
Fixed issue with tree view scroll moving forward at each focus change.
Fixed issue with erroneous light point attributes.
Fixed issue with Soft Selection for matrix-transformed geometry.
Fixed issue with files having no vertex palettes.
Fixed issue with displaying alpha textures in texture palette.
Fixed issue with applying color, material, texture, texture mapping and shader to sub-faces (polygons beneath polygons).
Fixed issue with creating General Matrix transformation matrices.
Fixed issue with simultaneous splash screen and progress bar.
Fixed issue with fitting view to selection of matrix-transformed polygons.
Fixed various stability and memory consumption issues.
Added freeze parameters to the remo.move script command.
Fixed performance issue when changing focus between the tree view and the model view.
Fixed issue with triangulating complex polygons with the Split tool.
Fixed issue with editing of texture coordinates in vertex attributes.
Fixed issue with editing of u,v values in the Map Texture tool.
Fixed issue with visualizing selection of light points transformed with multiple transformation matrices.
Added /INSTDIR switch to the installation file, allowing for command-line automatic installation.
Added installation description to the user's guide and help.
Fixed issue with lingering wait cursor after attempt to isolate edges.
Fixed issue with selecting by the Billboard/Alpha attribute.
Fixed issue with fitting a model in the view; this now produces the same view as fitting to the header selection.
Added script support for all available functionality.
Added support for recording all operations to a script.
Added macro support which lets you put a script with parameters in the Remo 3D menu, effectively extending Remo 3D with your own tools. Simple macro samples are included.
Improved the appearance and functionality of the graphical user interface.
All tools, selection modes, shifting of nodes and other miscellaneous operations can now be reached from the menu as well.
Added a new Subdivide tool which lets you increase the detail level of a geometry.
Added gizmos to Move, Rotate, Scale and Extrude tools. Gizmos provide user-friendly handles that will make geometry transformation easier.
Added soft selection mode to the Move, Rotate and Scale tools. This allows for creating soft shapes when transforming geometry.
Added snapping to Move Rotate and Scale tools.
All palette operations now respond to undo/redo.
Added Report Differences that compares selected geometry with geometry in the clipboard or in a separate OpenFlight file.
New explicit tools for applying, reading and removing texture mappings and shaders.
Added possibility to move all selected primitives to the same coordinate (Move To Point in the Move tool).
Completely new built-in help system.
Improved the user's guide to be more comprehensive.
Added small feature culling for improved performance.
Added support for the 3D Connexion Space Navigator.
Added a Clear button to the Switch Attributes.
The text boxes in Grid Spacing and Grid Offset will now be focused by default, with the current value selected. Return or Enter will work as shortcuts for the Apply button. This simple change will make the process of changing the grid offset or spacing much easier.
The grid will now keep its general alignment when indicating two new points with Align To Vertices, making it easy to create e.g. a vertical grid through two points by starting with a XZ or YZ grid.
Remo 3D now fully supports Microsoft Windows Vista.
Added support for importing OSG proxy nodes as external references.
Added support for OpenFlight continuation records.
Select By Name now supports searching for vertices and edges.
New file dialog in Windows.
Added crease angle in Shade tool.
Added possibility to change the names of shaders.
Added possibility to remove shader program paths.
Shader program files can now be found in the same path as where the model file resides.
Made vertex numbers consistent and readable.
Remove Texture will now remove multi-textures as well.
Fixed issue with Remove Unused in the Texture Palette removing used multi-textures.
Fixed issue with combined hiding and shrinking of geometry.
Fixed issue with wait mouse cursors at tool execution.
Fixed issues with attribute names in Select By Attributes.
Fixed issue with undo/redo for changing attributes on multiple nodes.
Fixed issue with attributes on switch nodes with long names.
Fixed issue with texture layer not being reset between viewing polygon attributes and vertex attributes.
Fixed various issues with stability, performance and memory consumption.
Added support for floating licenses.
Fixed problem with importing models including transformations.
Fixed problem with zooming to matrix-transformed light points.
Fixed issue with reverting nested external references.
Fixed problem with overriding palettes in external references.
Fixed problem with relative texture paths in Windows.
Fixed issue causing vertex colors to be reset in the Shade tool.
Improved performance for applying color, texture and material.
Implemented visualization of DDS images in the texture palette as well as in the Face Attributes and the Map Texture tool.
Added possibility for vertical flipping of DDS and PNM textures.
Alpha sorting for transparent DDS textures with the face attribute Billboard/Alpha set to Fixed/Alpha will now work as expected.
Added possibility to import 3D models from the remo3d command line and via drag and drop. This was previously only supported for OpenFlight files.
Imported and exported files will now be added to the Open Recent list available from the File menu. This was previously only supported for OpenFlight files.
The header nodes of imported 3D models will now be named according to the original file name.
Fixed various issues related to external references, e.g. program crash when exporting external references, comments not working on external reference nodes and switch nodes in newly created external references not working properly.
Fixed issue preventing right-shift of multiple sibling nodes.
Added Change Parent to the Edit menu (also reachable with Ctrl+R) for moving selected nodes to the current parent.
Added Set Parent to the Edit menu as well, previously only reachable from the parent button.
Improved performance and memory consumption when using external references.
Fixed issue with updating the visibility of nodes created beneath and moved in and out from switch nodes and sequence group nodes.
Improved performance when deleting nodes.
Added a new Capture Screen function that saves the current viewport to an image file (JPG, PNG, SGI, TIF or XPM).
Normals can now be visualized for directional light points with the Show Normals functionality.
The performance for tree view operations has been improved.
Light point back color is now visualized.
Added a new preference that controls whether the Save command writes a model with the latest supported OpenFlight version (16.2) or with the version that the model has on disk.
USB dongles are now supported in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Fixed problem with reversed order of transformations created by the Apply Transformation Matrix tool. Models having this erroneous matrix order are automatically fixed when opened in Remo 3D v1.4.4.
Fixed problem with Rotate About Edge transformations. Models having erroneous Rotate About Edge transformations are automatically fixed when opened in Remo 3D v1.4.4.
Fixed issue causing program crash when reverting multiple external references to the same model.
Fixed problems with sporadic crashes in Search By Attributes and in the Slice tool.
Fixed problem with saving when attributes are shown.
Fixed memory consumption issue when closing models.
Fixed problem with retrieving USB dongle devices.
Added a new tool called Simplify. This tool will let you reduce the number of polygons in a geometry. This can e.g. be useful for creating realtime models out of CAD models, or for creating levels of detail.
Added support for exporting to the Alias Wavefront OBJ file format.
The Map Texture tool now supports 4-point texture mapping.
Added support for a texture mapping palette containing 3-point, 4-point, cylindrical and spherical texture mappings. This allows for reusing the same texture mapping on different polygons, e.g. in different levels of detail.
Added support for a shader palette containing shader programs for OpenGL Shading Language or Cg. These shaders can be connected to separate polygons.
Added support for a light point palette containing light point appearances and animations. Indexed light points referring this palette can be created with the Create Light Point tool.
Added Revert Textures to the File menu, as well as Refresh to the texture palette View menu.
Added preferences for automatic reloading of textures, external references and shaders.
The OSG/IVE import now supports PagedLOD nodes.
Corrected bug causing all levels of detail to be visible in newly created or externally referenced LOD nodes.
Added support for the MIRROR texture wrapping mode as well as the ADD texture environment mode.
Improved support for multi-texture in Search By Attributes.
A polygon's material is now directly visualized when modifying the attributes of a polygon with the Apply Attributes tool.
Corrected transparent material visualization in the material palette.
Improved drag and drop functionality for OpenFlight files into Remo 3D in Linux and in the Windows demo version.
Added support for use of USB dongle under SuSE 10.2.
Added support for opening and saving OpenFlight versions from 15.7 up to and including 16.2. Models can be converted between the different versions. This doesn't mean that visualization and modification of all features in these versions is supported, but when loading or saving an existing OpenFlight file containing these features, they will not be removed or modified. They will also be visible as undefined nodes in the tree view.
Added possibility to select primitives by their attributes through the new Select By Attributes from the Selection menu.
Added support for showing DOF coordinate systems and defining them by clicking in the model view.
Added support for replication of group, polygon and light point nodes. This implies full support of light point strings, commonly used as airport lighting.
Added possibility to control the scale and color of normals in the viewport preferences. Normals can also be visualized only for the current selection.
External references are now cached so that the same externally referenced model is loaded only once per model.
Textures are now automatically updated if they are changed on disk.
Suppression of multiple identical warning messages are now per session instead of per model.
Added possibility in the preferences to control whether setting the viewpoint to top, bottom, left, right, front or back should zoom to the model's extent or not.
By holding shift, scrolling with the mouse wheel in the model view can now be performed in finer steps.
When selecting the nearest polygon by clicking in the model view, a polygon facing the viewer is now selected before polygons at the same distance facing away.
Changed the visualization of texture clamping (as opposed to repeating) to the expected behavior (clamp-to-edge).
Fixed issues with LOD visualization in newly created external references.
Fixed issues with the Preview DOF functionality.
Fixed issues with the hiding and unhiding of nodes.
Fixed issues with extruding concave polygons.
Fixed issues with importing multiple MD2 files.
Fixed various memory leaks and stability issues.
DDS textures can now be loaded into the texture palette. They will be visible in the model view but since they're compressed the texture palette will show a generic "DDS" image.
When importing IVE models with compressed textures, the textures will now be written to disk as DDS images.
Fixed USB dongle compatibility issues in Linux.
The rendering performance has been substantially improved.
Note: For the Performer import file format to work, OpenGL Performer must be installed on the computer running Remo 3D.
Export capability has been added for the COLLADA file format.
Adjacent polygons having the same attributes can now be combined with the new Merge Tool.
By default, only the first child beneath a sequence group node is now visible.
Visibility for children beneath sequence group nodes and switch nodes can now be manually changed by hiding, isolating and unhiding them. They won't be reset to their actual visibility status until the next apply of attributes for the parent node. Changing to another LOD level will e.g. not change their visibility status.
Multi-texture coordinates can now be edited in the Apply Attributes tool.
Drag-and-drop functionality is now supported for file names including spaces.
Multi-textured geometry is now fully supported by the Split, Slice, Revolve and Extrude tools.
USB dongles are now supported with a special license available for purchasing. This makes it possible to use the same license on more than one computer.
The UV texture coordinates for the three points used in the Map Texture tool can now be edited graphically by moving the three points in texture space.
Vertex numbers can now be visualized next to the vertices.
Drag-and-drop of OpenFlight files into Remo 3D is now supported in Windows XP/2000 and Linux.
Several OpenFlight models can now be opened simultaneously (via the open dialog or the command line).
Added convenient buttons for aligning the grid to the XY/XZ/YZ planes instead of having to go through the viewport menu.
Grid Spacing and Grid Offset can now be controlled from non-modal dialogs which can stay open while working with the model.
Concave polygons can now be triangulated with the Split tool.
Node names are now shown in the status bar when the mouse cursor is located over a node in the tree view.
The grid on/off status is now visualized by a small grid symbol in the top left corner of the viewport.
The contents of the tree view can now be moved by clicking and dragging Ctrl + Right mouse button and zoomed by clicking and dragging Shift + Right mouse button, in the same manner as in the viewport.
For the node-locked license, the user can now choose which network adapter the hardware fingerprint should be based on.
The frustum calculation for the orthographic view has been improved, e.g. making it react to the field-of-view setting.
The relative texture path functionality has been improved.
The performance in various parts of the program, e.g. when applying some of the tools, has been improved.
Fixed various stability issues, avoiding possible crashes.
The command list is now constantly centered on the latest command and visualized more clearly.
Added possibility to control the number of undoable commands remembered, in order to avoid using up memory.
The "Save As" dialog will now start in the folder where the currently open model resides.
Fixed missing textures and geometry in OSG/IVE export.
Fixed problems with double node names when copying and pasting geometry from other models.
Implemented possibility to suppress further OpenFlight version messages for a model - useful e.g. for models with many external references.
Implemented threaded progress bar for Revert Externals.
Corrected loading of textures with relative paths.
Implemented mouse wheel zooming in the viewport.
Corrected handling of long node names, sometimes causing crashes.
Improved mouse wheel scroll in the tree view, allowing for wheel scroll with the mouse cursor located on a node.
Corrected shortcut behavior in the tree view, preventing the sporadic need for pressing e.g. Delete or 'v' twice.
Added a tutorial including a PDF document as well as a number of textures and models in the new tutorial folder.
Changed behavior of the different creation tools with temporary graphics showing the appearance of the geometry and actual creation when the Done button is clicked (or ENTER key is pressed).
Made Preview DOF dialog non-modal.
Allow a node name to be reused after cut or delete.
Added functionality for expanding to vertices in the tree view by pressing 'v'.
Improved performance of paste operations.
Adjusted the behavior in several tools and selection functionality to fit matrix- or DOF-transformed geometry.
Stabilized functionality for finding the Application Data folder in Windows in order to read and write the Remo 3D settings file.
Improved selection by intersection (rather than box selection) so that a node of the current selection type is selected even if it is located beneath other geometry.
Added P or O letter in the top right viewport corner to indicate perspective or orthographic mode.
Added support for multi-texturing in Map Texture and polygon attributes.
Added Preview DOF to View menu. This lets you preview the behavior of a DOF node.
Added DOF origin, point on X axis and point in XY plane to DOF attributes.
Added ENTER shortcut for the Done button in Create Polygon, Create Disk, Create Sphere and Create Light Point.
Added a sample OpenFlight model in the new samples folder.
Added tooltips to tree view nodes.
Added 'd' shortcut for Grid Offset.
Added Show All LODs to the View menu. This option shows all LODs simultaneously.
Turned command list upside-down to present the latest command at the top of the list.
Added Convert To N/A to preferences. This lets you convert N/A values to zero in DOF origin, point on X axis and point in XY plane as well as in the from-point of a translating matrix transformation.
Increased buffer size for Application Data folder registry entry to avoid failure when reading setting file.
Improved performance of texture palette modifications.
Avoid window being placed outside the screen in Windows.
Added OpenFlight version checks to avoid crashes with older versions.


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Scott Walker Is Dropping Out of the 2016 Race
The Wisconsin governor is the second Republican candidate to pull the plug on his campaign.
Nora KellyLauren FoxTim AlbertaBrian ResnickNational Journal
Bloomberg AFP/Getty
And another one bites the dust.
In a press conference Monday night, Scott Walker dropped out of the 2016 presidential race, the second candidate in two weeks to do so. The New York Times first reported the decision. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out on Sept. 11.
"Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race," Walker said at a press conference Monday evening, "so that a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately."
During the four-minute-long press conference, Walker said the Republican race for president had "drifted into personal attacks," and the race wasn't consistent with the example set by conservative forebearer Ronald Reagan.
"Ronald Reagan was good for America because he was an optimist," Walker said. "Sadly, the debate taking place in the Republican Party today is not focused on that optimistic view of America."
He called on other, unnamed Republican contenders to consider dropping out to help clear the field.
"I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so that voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current front-runner," Walker said.
One source, an adviser to Walker's campaign, suggested the decision reflected Walker's lack of campaign cash. "No amount of Super PAC $ can suffice for hard dollars," the adviser emailed.
In recent weeks, Walker's star has fallen: His poll numbers have plummeted and donors had become skittish. In the race for just over two months, he's been unable to gain visibility in a field distracted by the bluster of Donald Trump and other outsiders like Dr. Ben Carson. Though he presented himself at times as an "unintimidated," union-busting, big-time governor, he also took pride in an "aggressively normal" persona.
During the second Republican debate last week, Walker appeared stymied by talking points and unable to break through. In a debate he needed to dominate, he barely registered with voters.
In Wisconsin, Walker had built a reputation for disrupting the power of union bosses, but that message failed to translate on a national scale. A CNN/ORC poll over the weekend revealed Walker had 0 percent support. But until just a few hours ago, the governor was still active on social media, touting his policy positions. And in an interview on Sunday in Iowa, Walker suggested he could be considered one of the "outsiders" in the 2016 field.
"If people were asking to hire someone, ... I wouldn't be your person … to build condos in New York City, I wouldn't be the person you'd hire to be a neurosurgeon, I wouldn't be the person you'd hire to run HP, because I don't have experience in those areas," Walker said, identifying Trump, Carson, and Carly Fiorina by occupation. "But I do have experience taking on the Washington-based special interests, and if people want an outsider—someone who's taken on Washington before and been successful—then I think in the end that's what voters are going to look for and we're in the best position to make that case."
Once a steady leader among Republicans in Iowa, Walker's decline has been rapid. In recent months, he has stumbled to define clear positions on everything from birthright citizenship to his overall immigration platform. He caught heat for suggesting in August that a Canadian border wall with the U.S. might be a "legitimate" idea.
Walker was also losing in the donation battle to establishment favorite Jeb Bush. National Journal reported in July that around half of the $20 million raised in Walker's super PAC drive came from two donors. Former Florida Gov. Bush's super PAC had raised more than $100 million at that point in time. The Times report cites a Walker supporter who blamed lack of funds as the reason for Walker's dropping out: "He's made a decision not to limp into Iowa."
At a Monday event hosted by National Review editor Rich Lowry, campaign managers for competing Republican 2016 candidates reacted to reports that Walker would drop out.
Danny Diaz, Jeb Bush's campaign manager, said he was surprised by the news. "I think these campaigns are tough; I think Mr. Walker, Scott Walker is a good guy. … He's a good man."
Marco Rubio campaign manager Terry Sullivan was more blunt. "People don't stop running for president because they run out of ideas, or run out of a desire to give speeches; they stop running because they run out of money."
Sullivan said that the Rubio campaign had "just nailed down [Walker's] New Hampshire state cochair to endorse Marco," adding: "We're working hard. … We're prepared as people move on from the race to kind of capitalize on it and pick up their supporters."
Liz Mair, a veteran Republican strategist and former Walker aide, took to Twitter to offer a postmortem of the campaign. Mair accused Walker of a series of missteps, ranging from "misunderstanding the GOP base, its priorities and stances," to "becoming so invested in winning, no matter what it took, that he lost sight of his real identity as a political leader."
Walker returns to his day job as the governor of Wisconsin, where he's serving a second term after surviving a recall election. Although there are no term limits for the governorship in the state, the numbers for another Walker victory at home, if he chooses to go that route, aren't great. In a late-August Marquette University Law School poll, his approval rating sat at 39 percent, with 57 percent of voters disapproving of the job he's doing. Sixty-three percent of Wisconsinites in the poll said they disapproved of his run for president. The full poll had a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
Nora Kelly is a senior editor on The Atlantic's politics team.
Lauren Fox is a congressional reporter at U.S. News. Her work has appeared in Salon, MSNBC, and Columbia Journalism Review.
Tim Alberta is editor of Hotline Last Call!, the afternoon newsletter of National Journal Hotline.
Brian Resnick is a former staff correspondent at National Journal and a former producer of The Atlantic's National channel.
News and updates from the editors of National Journal magazine.

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When looking at the society from a parent's point of view, the safety of our children seems something very fragile so there's no wonder that many parents are looking for the facts about child abuse 2012.
With so many changes both political and economical, the society has become a much crueler place so the kids are far from being safe from abuse.
The child abuse facts from 2012 state that over 60% of reported cases over the world were the result of parental neglect. In US the statistics reached 72% in 2012 so there is no wonder that media is eager to put forward any sign of child neglecting inside a family.
More and more parents are losing interest in parental responsibility due to harsh social circumstances so the number of the children suffering this type of abuse rises every day.
A very disturbing fact about the abuse of children discovered in 2012 that over 16% of the inmates from the US state prisons suffered some kind of abuse as kids. The studies have also shown that the people who were abused as children are more likely to be implicated in juvenile delinquency.
Studies have proved that gender is a decisive factor when it comes to abuse. As disturbing as it may seem, a 2012 child abuse fact is the one stating that the 12% of the girls that were abused as children are prone to become teenage mothers.
Another one of the facts about children abuse 2012 is that over 60% of the teenagers and young adults addicted to drugs or dead from an overdose are runaways who suffered during childhood from one form or another of abuse.
A very sad statistic from 2012 proved that around 100 babies are born monthly in the world from mothers who are addicted to drugs. Also, it was demonstrated that the children coming from a family where drug use is something common are suffering from psychological abuse.
As child abuse facts have shown in 2012, the largest number of reported abuse cases recognized as abusers members of the child's family. The number of abuse cases that identified nannies or teachers as abusers has also increased in 2012.
The child mortality is something the current society is facing at an increasing rate. As part of the facts about children abuse 2012, there has been an increase in the number of children who died from injuries caused by physical abuse.


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"Using Centerprise has been transformative for our data migration processes"
The software is very powerful, intuitive to use, and support has been responsive. One of the best features is the ability to preview the input or output of any step in the data flow.
Primary complaint would be I haven't seen much by way of events or community outreach. It would be great to have access to other users, or training/networking events.
Most of my dislikes are tactical and more of a wish-list. For example, refreshing the project tree view causes the tree to collapse, so you lose your place in the tree. As another example, sometimes we write UPDATE statements into SQL Query Source objects - it would be nice to be able to control whether these were executed when previewing the results of a data flow.
Try it out using some real-world data. Find a way to get training or advice - the available documentation is moderately extensive but also only moderately useful.
The main benefits are time saved and quality increased.
We are conducting data migrations as part of new software implementations. Most of the work is around migrating a client's data from their existing system's data model into ours. Using Centerprise, we've been able to build out a "baseline" migration process that incorporates our business logic and a lot of logging and error-catching. Having this reusable baseline has saved us time as well as increased the quality and capability of our migrations.
Our migrations encounter plenty of client-specific issues, of course, and we also deal with smaller one-off migrations outside of our baseline. We're able to use Centerprise, and in some cases portions of our baseline process to flexibly deal with these quickly and in a high-quality way.
We need to pull data from a wide variety of sources, including text, reports, log files, PDF, Excel, and various databases. There are a number of products on the market which can do this, but we went with Astera because it's interface is very user friendly. You can drag and drop components to pull data from any source and then manipulate either all of the data or individual fields the same way. This flexibility was obtained without any programming, and since the interface is similar to Microsoft products, there was not much of a learning curve. I love that I don't have to have someone fully trained in SQL code and SSIS in order to develop high quality solutions.
We had some issues getting it setup initially in time for the training course and were unable to run it from our Citrix Desktop at first. Both the trainer and support team were excellent at adapting to the situation and they eventually got us the help we needed to get it moving. As with any product that integrates into SQL, we are skeptical of how it will perform and whether or not is will optimize the code in a way that we are comfortable with. So far this has not been an issue.
If you have a lot of semi-structured or unstructured data, this tool may be your best bet on the market. Additionally it can replace much of your SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as well.
We use Data Integrator for two main tasks in our environment. Creating ETL loads to our Data Warehouse and moving data from electronic forms via Citrix SecureForms into our Electronic Health Record system. The benefit that Astera gives us in both of these areas, are quick turnaround time and the low barrier of entry to get these projects started. In the future we plan to also use this to mine unstructured or semi-structured data for analytic purposes.
"Data Integrator - Amazing product, easy to use, flexible and fantastic support."
Solution stand-up time is very fast. Our company's extremely rapid development needs were easily met using The product. Out of the box to a working solution took only days, where some of the other products that were sampled would have taken far longer.
I can't really find anything I dislike, but there was an issue handling very large XML files. The fix took a bit longer than I would have like. However, the issue did not prevent our company from meeting the aggressive deadlines we faced.
The problem we faced was using SSIS to translate the complex XML schemas, which proved to be disastrous. Data Integrator allowed us to easily, and very quickly, stand up a solution at a VERY reasonable cost.
I unexpectedly inherited an ETL process that was integrated with Centerprise with very little transition time. It is user friendly enough that I am able to maintain the system with minimal experience. For most data flows I am able to make adjustments as needed. The prior admin set up alerts when there are errors which is helpful for me. Centerprise has been very reliable.
My score of 10 is based on my limited experience of inheriting and maintaining a fully implemented process -- I've never used or evaluated any competitors.
Certain data flows sources have many fields and exceptions. When the files are so complex the visual map is hard to follow.
My understanding is the decision to go with Centerprise was in part to ensure users with non technical backgrounds would be able to maintain Centerprise. I believe the product has lived up to those expectations.
Financial market information. Taking disparate data sources; standardizing, adding information and loading into internal internal SQL-based platform.
"Astera Centerprise is a very good product"
Ease of use, clever transformations and in general Centerprise has a library of transformations that even heavy duty tools like Informatica doesn't offer, such as SCD.
You can literally be up and running in a few seconds, with a very low learning curve.
When you have to move millions of records, the tool doesn't perform too well. In fact we discovered that the more transformations you have, the slower it becomes. Because o this we replaced many of our transformations with source SQL. Either you do this, or you use their Push down optimization (PDO) capabilities, but this only works within the same database type.
I also don't like their licensing model. They seem fixated on charging per customer, instead of having some sort of server-based license with unlimited users, like Informatica, Yes, they will give you bigger discounts if you buy more, but this is an ETL tool, not a reporting tool.
This tool is incredibly easy to deploy, learn and use, but be prepared to fine tune the heck out of it to get decent performance if you have huge data volumes, Use PDO when possible.
Our nightly ETL warehouse load now relies on Centerprise. We also use it to generate and distribute files easily.
"I have been using Centerprise for 5 years"
I am responsible for ETL process of Vanderbilt Office of Investments. On daily basis I have to process files with portfolio data and load pricing data from different financial databases. It is all very easy to do with Centerprise.
Over all this is a good application for data integration.
Multiple bugs in the software make it so that you need to work more imaginative to get the desired results at times.
Make sure to update to the latest version and know that there are still some bugs but over all it does a good job.
It is easy to use and fairly intuitive. Making connections between disparate systems is easy.
There are many really good methods available that aren't necessarily documented, so documentation could be more complete. Also, exporting from results grids has vary limited options.
There are many different ways to achieve the same goal, but one is usually far more efficient than the rest, so don't be afraid to use trial and error to find the best solution.
Moving bulk data from one database structure to a highly disparate database structure.
The ability to use drag and drop functionality with connector-based rules. Provides an easy-to-use platform for non-SQL proficient users to successfully map/move data which turns into huge cost savings.
Reusing workflows for slightly different data conditions (data values are slightly different) but is essentially the same fundamental source can be difficult since in-workflow documentation and/or customized-indicators are not available thus forcing out-of-band documentation.
Efficiency of transforming data from external sources. Realized huge gains in cost savings and time through ease of use and re-usability.
"Meets the needs short term. Need Improvement."
its abstract or difficult to apply high level sql functions for a dataflow. Must create multi step and indepth thought when trying to apply row number functionality. If Centerprise added these as draggable items it would make life easier.
Solving problems like moving legacy systems to our current software platform. The benefit is that we can create a workflow that is reusable when converting new client from the same legacy software.
I like that the tool is intuitive, in most cases.
We can't add comment on the main pane. Although, the comment text box in some objects exists, it would be nice to have to be able to insert text/comment on the main pane where you can see the flow.
Centerprise is a very good data integration tool, but you should understand your team's expertise and understand what tools they may want to use.
This application is very easy to install and upgrade. The user interface is good.
Sometimes trying to find the way to do things is confusing.
This company has an awesome Customer Support Team. They could do better with tutorials and online help.
We are building a Data Warehouse and this tool has been what we're using.
"Helpful tool but contains bugs"
Wide variety of options in toolbox. Allows regional users flexibility on data sources and option to write own SQL code to populate source.
Transferring data from regional offices to main database. For simple jobs at regional offices, tool is simple to setup and start data transfers.
Easy to use. Training was well put together.
A manual with examples would be helpful. I would have liked to do more real uses that we will use it for.
We are useing the tool to migrate to a new system.
Support is really quality support and very informative.
i have been disappointed with the new release parts not working properly i think the new features are really good.
Centralized data before is is obsolete.
Transfer data into relational database and scheduler within Centerpoint to process.
Nothing currently that I dislike, but the scheduler to process the data should have better log files explaining problem more when error occurs.
Transfer old data in relational database so the data could be used with other applications.
The customer service when there's an issue is awesome!
Sometimes the solution to what you need isn't readily discernible.
For smaller applications this software is exceptional.
Integrating data from 4 different sources to create a Data Warehouse.
"Not as fast as SSIS but it is easer for a new person to pick up."
The learning curve on Astera is a lot quicker than SSIS.
The actual conversion time running thru Astera is slower than SSIS.
It is great for quick on the fly one off ETL processes..
"It's greatly simplified sharing and synchronizing our data."
Easy to use interface, and automated process just runs.
Occasionally quirky, best to not update versions unless you need to.
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The once-Orthodox and now sacrilegious stand-up tells #THRpodcasts why "everybody's got some dark shit. Comics just tap into it."
Comedian Ari Shaffir wasn't always the irreverent skeptic audiences know him as from his stand-up specials, podcast and now new late-night series This is Not Happening on Comedy Central. Raised an Orthodox Jew, it wasn't until studying at Yeshiva University that Shaffir realized that religious conviction didn't really jive with the rest of his world views.
"There's nothing else in my life that I will even entertain a conversation about when there's zero proof for it," he says. It was a sharp 180 from there when Shaffir transferred to the University of Maryland and went from god-fearing to pot-smoking.
"My father said that I was lower than a dog, because even a dog believes in God," he recalls. "I wanted to check his math."
After graduation he moved to L.A. to pursue stand-up, which, spiritual upheaval aside, he insists does not come from some deep, dark place in his soul (as it is assumed with many in that profession.)
"I think everybody's got some dark shit. Comics just tap into it," he explains. "Everybody tries to paint us as these fucking depressed characters. We're at the same level everybody else is but we just don't hide from it."
After fourteen years trying to hustle in the L.A. comedy scene Shaffir moved to New York two years ago where he's settled in to a nice career that includes creating two stand-up specials for Comedy Central, hosting a topical podcast called Skeptic Tank and now This is Not Happening, which features stand-ups telling true-life stories in places like the L.A. strib club Cheetah's. ("I hate strip clubs," he swears. "It's such casual nudity.") He tells us that despite the recent success with his television projects he wouldn't be doing any of it if it wasn't all for the purpose of supporting his stand-up, which he refuses to take notes on from the network.
"As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!" he says. "Then you're doing your art. That's all it's supposed to be about."
Listen to Shaffir's full interview in this episode of Off the Cuff, and be sure to subscribe to #THRpodcasts on iTunes for all the latest episodes.
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This weekend, Britain sets to face up with flooding resulting from torrential rain. Meanwhile, heavy showers across northern Europe but fine to the south with sunny spells.
According to Express, flood alerts are in place this weekend as rain is set to hit much of the UK during Saturday afternoon. The wet weather comes as high and low-pressure systems clash over the British Isles, forcing cold and wet winds down from the north, Met Office maps show. At the time of writing, there are 11 flood alerts across the UK, issued by the Government's flood warning information service.
In addition, temperatures are set to sit just above freezing across Britain in the early hours of this morning as autumn sets in. Despite the flooding alerts, Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said Britons could expect "a drier weekend compared to last weekend".
However, he added the country should not "expect much warmth" as that northerly wind brings a "real chill". He added: "Some rural spots certainly close to freezing. So a chilly old start to the weekend."
"It will cloud over a little bit across parts of the south but at the same time the cloud will break up in a few places so it'll be a mixture of bright or sunny intervals and showers come the afternoon, with a few heavy ones possibly across parts of eastern England."
A weather map showing scattered rain on Saturday afternoon (Image: WX Charts)
"There's that brisk breeze still blowing which means the showers will move through so you're never too far from a brighter spell – but also that brisk breeze bringing a chill."
Temperatures across the UK on Saturday afternoon will range between 10 and 14 degrees – 10 in the north of Scotland with 13 and 14 more common in the south of England, according to Met Office maps.
The showers are set to push south-eastwards across England and Wales today, meaning they should ease from the west and northwest later in the day. Showers in northern Scotland will persist throughout, while elsewhere it may be drier but cloudy.
Coastal areas should expect "blustery" through the evening, according to the BBC, which added Saturday "will bring a bright and dry start for most, with cloud thickening later. Any lingering showers will clear by the afternoon.
"Rain will begin to edge into north-western areas in the evening."
Maps show a cold start to Sunday morning (Image: WX Charts)
Mr Deakin added the cold wind could ease by Sunday, when showers will also begin to lighten. Temperatures across the UK on Sunday afternoon are set to be largely similar to this afternoon. However, it may feel slightly warmer due to less wind and rain.
Outlook for the next Monday
For Monday and the start of next week, the BBC's Darren Bett said: "Instead of those northerly winds, we look to the Atlantic; we've got some weather fronts coming in from the west."
"So, much more cloud around on Monday. We've got outbreaks of rain steadily pushing eastwards. After a dull and damp day and a cold start across eastern areas of the UK, temperatures may struggle to get into double figures."
The Met Office's pollen forecast has now stopped due to Britain being out of pollen season. Forecasting is due to resume in March 2021.
Looking ahead to the weekend, weather-wise in Europe the northwest will stay unsettled with rain and showers, according to BBC meteorologist Chris Fawkes. However, the presenter noted that an area of cloud pushing its way eastwards has been spotted as a weather front. He warned that this is going to be bringing some rain to many areas.
Mr Fawkes told viewers: "We'll get about 10 to 20mm from this weather system. So the rain won't be massively heavy but there'll be a few heavy bursts from now and then."
UK snow forecast: An Atlantic chill will push over the UK (Image: WXCHARTS)
"To the northwest, we'll see those showers really roll in. Some of them will be really quite heavy across parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, northern Germany and Denmark."
He continued: "There'll be a risk of some thunderstorms mixed in with those showers."
"For southeast Europe, it's dry and settled with plenty of sunshine around. It will still be warm, although not quite as hot as it has been for the likes of Turkey and Cyrpus."
"Further northwards, we'll see cooler air working its way in with plenty of showers."
The weather presenter added: "There'll be showers there in the forecast for Copenhagen with highs of 11. Stockholm will experience similar temperatures, maybe with some lengthier outbreaks of rain for a time here."
"On into Sunday, our area of low pressure will move a little bit further eastwards."
Mr Fawkes said: "This will push the rain into Finland and western most areas of Russia as well. But Moscow will stay dry and mild with temperatures around 16 degrees."
BBC Weather: Hail showers set to hit north of the country (Image: BBC)
"Heavier rain will work into parts of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well. Over the next few days, in Paris it stays relatively cool, there will be some showers around from time to time."
"In Kyiv, bright skies with some sunshine with temperatures into the high teens and low 20s, which is quite mild."
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Historic moment as SESAME begins storage ring installation
by CERN
In a historic moment for science in the Middle East on 10 February 2016 the first cell of SESAME's storage ring was installed in the Centre's experimental hall in Allan, Jordan. Credit: SESAME
The first of the 16 cells of SESAME (link is external)'s storage ring was installed recently in the shielding tunnel in the Center's experimental hall in Allan, Jordan.
SESAME will be the Middle East's first synchrotron light source.
The installation was led by SESAME's Technical Director, Erhard Huttel, with help from members of CERN forming part of the CESSAMag (CERN-EC Support for SESAME Magnets) team as well as scientists and technicians from the SESAME region.
Each cell consists of magnets (dipole, quadrupoles and sextupoles) and the vacuum chamber, supported by a girder.
A timelapse video showing the installation of SESAME's storage rings. Credit: SESAME
After many years in the making, commissioning of SESAME is scheduled to begin in 2016, serving a growing community of some 300 scientists from the region. The initial research programme will cover topics as diverse as the search for new cancer drugs to the exploration of the regions shared cultural heritage. SESAME is also a pioneer in promoting international cooperation in the region.
The laboratory is expected to become operational with two beamlines in 2017.
SESAME passes an important milestone at CERN
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Published on July 11th, 2012 | by G. Bargas, Managing Editor
Johnny Kung Fu Review
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Developer: UFO Interactive
Review Notes: A game token was provided for review purposes.
Level of difficulty is an essential part to any beat'em up title. Whether it draws you in by the first signs of easiness, or keep you coming back because damn, that level is tough as a bum's toe nails. It's always well worth the score, or the satisfaction of stickin' it to the bad guys these types of games. In the case of Johnny Kung Fu, there are plenty of the above to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
Johnny Kung Fu is a unique title. Though, early screens of the game painted a different picture than the actual product. I was expecting an action adventure title that was built around the Double Dragon, Fatal Fury-esque gameplay. Instead, the game is more along the lines of a beat'em up/reaction based mini-game mash-up. It also pays homage to the Game and Watch era, even bringing in the same physical look of these titles. This may sound a bit odd, but with the game being centered on beating the clock—it works.
The main story to the game takes you on the day old journey to "save the girl." Johnny's girlfriend Paula is whisked away to the tippy-tops to a seemingly never ending skyscraper hideout. Mr. Wang is holding her captive while you defeat the goons on your way to him. Various levels bring you to fight bosses and then face them again but in fearful numbers. This is both fun and tough. New moves are learned after each boss defeat, which does allow you to survive the onslaught of fists and cuffs. Combo's can then be used with more precision, driving your score even higher.
During each mini game, as well as the main story, time is ticking down. With every loss, whether it be mini-game, life or continue, it will deduct time off the total running time. Once you are out, the game is over and you must start your journey to the top again.
There a couple different types of mini-games. The hammer-off duels pit you against one of the goon opponents. The timer counts down from three and you must react to either dodge or strike based on your number. If you receive the higher number you must strike, and the lower, dodge. This might sound easy, but towards the higher difficulties the less power is taken and tension may become an obstacle as you try and beat the clock.
The Change to Color Mode will have you knocking around bad guys with a little bit of zest and color. When the enemy appears you must quickly make your way over and strike them first before they can lay a fist on you. Each strike brings a small amount of color into the level and is noted on a gauge at the bottom of the screen. Every time you are struck by falling shards or an opponent, the gauge drops back down a significant amount. The level is then completed when all the color has returned.
The other mini-game that is thrown into the mix is Pocket Rush. This breaks down the screen into three sections, and continues to break down your nerves. As stated before, the levels grow in difficulty as the game continues. Dodging the bombs on the bottom portion of the screen, or the laser beams on the top, can leave you with sweaty palms and shrill screams based on the outcome. As with the other mini-games dying in these areas will cost you time. If you lose all of your lives and continue, a total of five minutes will be your penalty.
The bomb juggle turns Jonny on his side doing cartwheels to juggle the bombs above his head. The first two are a piece of cake, but when there are three plus in the air, bombs away. This game, like the others, adds more bombs and times you must juggle each before progressing. It is also probably the most stress free to play.
I do like the approach that developer UFO took with Johnny Kung Fu. The game becomes increasingly harder as you progress, which aligns with other titles of the genre. Venturing on into the depths of frustration will however reward you with the pocket games becoming unlocked under the Bonus option at the main screen. Fine tune those kicks and reaction times and become the Kung Fu Champion you have been striving all of your gamer life for. Well, that is until some four year old kid named Danny from the Bronx knocks you off the leaderboard. There are also other unlockables that are opened with these small achievements.
Johnny Kung Fu does prove what it set out to do. Like the Game and Watch titles before it, the game accomplishes the goal of conquering boredom but brings in a new age of challenges. These challenges come in the form of mini-games and scoring.
Although the game was created for the Nintendo 3DS, it doesn't necessarily showcase its 3D prowess. Instead, the depth of the screen is used to bounce to and fro, which can be used often to dodge enemy blows or their mobile attacks.
The game does bring something different to the table, proving the collision of multiple genres together in order to take on the biggest enemy of all, entertainment. In Johnny's case, this does prove to make a fun, yet challenging experience that will give players replay value and something that can provide more than a single playthrough. The US 5.99 price tag is well worth the gold coins and should be an easy grab in that eShop.
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+ Challenging
+ Unlockable Content
-/+ Difficulty level might seem unbalanced at first
– Minimal use of 3D abilities
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Interview by Matthias Aberle with Pierre Arrighi about his new book
36 Lies of Jules Rimet: Review of the influential book The Wonderful History of the World Championship
Jules Rimet was FIFA President from 1921 to 1954. The first part of his book "The Wonderful History of the World Championship" is the basis for FIFA's official history. "It is indeed an uninterrupted series of lies," says Pierre Arrighi, a professor at the University of Amiens, who has just published a critical book on the theme of the first World Cup.
Mr. Arrighi, you are a professor at the University of Picardy in Amiens. In which field do you work there?
I work in the field of graphic arts and visual arts in general. I also collaborate with art historians and through the CRAE (Centre de Recherches en Arts et en Esthétique) I was able to introduce at different times the problem of football which I consider to be an "art of action". This idea, which comes from my Uruguayan culture (I was born in Montevideo, and in Uruguay football is perceived as an art), has led me to develop an international academic activity. In 2011, I founded the GREFU (Grupo de Estudios del Fútbol del Uruguay) at the Facultad de Humanidades and I am currently working with Belgian researchers who, in the field, are developing a very particular sociological and archaeological perspective on football and producing a very successful graphic documentation.
The University of Amiens is called Jules Verne. You don't necessarily think about sport or football. What is your connection to sport and football in particular?
My work as a football historian goes well beyond the university context. At the University I am above all an art professional, and my research work on football is in a way a singular and unexpected extension. I am currently writing a football geography of Montevideo that is linked to a research theme (arts and territories) insofar as football fields of all kinds (gardens, schools, vacant or improvised fields, clubs, etc.) are indeed the workshops and galleries where balloon artists are trained and expressed. That said, I do make the difference between sport and play, between athletics and football. In my opinion, sport is – and this is what the Olympic leaders of Coubertin's time thought – a performance that starts from an "already existing natural" activity (running, jumping, walking, swimming, fighting, lifting weights, throwing weights, arrows, etc.). Pre-existing activity in social reality "before" sport took hold of it. The game is something else: it is a total invention that, on the basis of rules, develops techniques and ways of thinking that do not exist in the "real society". We only play football when we play football.
Your new book bears the spectacular title " The 36 lies of Jules Rimet ". This seems unambiguous. What are you accusing Jules Rimet of?
At the time of his retirement, Rimet wrote a book; "Wonderful Story of the World Cup". The first part describes the process of creating the World Cup and covers the period from the birth of FIFA (1902-1904) to the beginning of the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. This part is a succession of manipulations of facts that allows Rimet to highlight himself, to take over the merits that belong to other leaders, and finally, to present himself as "the absolute inventor of the World Football Championship" whose first achievement would have been that of 1930. He says that the idea of organizing the World Championship in Uruguay appeared to him in 1924; that he started the project in 1925 with the help of his accomplice, the Uruguayan diplomat Enrique Buero; that in Barcelona in 1929, he manoeuvred to make Montevideo's bid triumph; and that later, at the cost of great effort and sacrifice, he obtained the participation of four European teams, including France's. The documents, and in particular the book published by his so-called accomplice in 1932, "Negociaciones internacionales", show that everything Rimet says is invented. Moreover, in 1954, when his book was published, European leaders, who knew the truth, totally ignored it. Rimet's fictions were resurrected long afterward by Brazilian FIFA President Joao Havelange, who, without explicitly mentioning his source, recovered the Frenchman's stories to build a kind of FIFA gospel. The imposture allowed Rimet to become the "father-founder" of an expansive FIFA and his religion, football.
Why do you think Jules Rimet lied?
There are several reasons. Personal, circumstantial, institutional, historical and football reasons. On a personal level, Rimet claimed to win the Nobel Peace Prize, despite a politically turbulent past in many respects. He therefore had to build a great story against his main "opponent", Coubertin. The founder of the Games could boast of having sought "peace" in the world through sport, and without lying, to present himself as the absolute inventor of the modern Olympic Games. In his book, Rimet was careful to demolish the Baron's work and contrast it with the much more wonderful story of the creation of the Football World Cup. Rimet triggered his own personality cult right after the War. In 1946, the FIFA championship was named the "Jules Rimet Cup". It's not very modest. The institutional reasons for Rimet's lies are linked to a major fact: with the exception of the Guérin years (1903-1905), the international coordination that took the form of FIFA in 1904 had as its priority the development of its own power and apparatus, not the development of football. In 1905, the English and Belgians sabotaged the International Cup project led by the French Guérin to promote the takeover by the Football Association. It was FIFA's DNA. Similar manoeuvres prevented the creation of a European Cup in 1927 and led to the sabotage of the 1930 World Cup by Rimet himself against the vote of Congress. This tradition of football serving the device and not a device serving football has not yet been the subject of self-criticism on the part of the federation. Finally, there are purely football reasons. Uruguay had the "misfortune" to win the first three world tournaments, and the four in which it participated between 1924 and 1950. And on every occasion, his victory was traumatic for losers who did not accept to lose to a "little one". France, Switzerland, Holland, Argentina, Brazil have suffered, sometimes a lot, from the victories of the ugly duckling. The cumulative trauma favoured the establishment of an interested oblivion, and the void thus produced was filled by a review of the facts.
In the original text of Jules Rimet's book "The Wonderful Story of the World Championship", there is a chapter describing the creation of the first World Cup. This chapter is no longer included in a later edition of the book. How can this be explained?
When this reissue was published in 2014, I asked its manager, Renaud Leblond, for an explanation, but I did not receive an answer. Yet it is the strongest, most important and most significant part of the book. This censorship, in my opinion open to criticism and not mentioned in the preface, is a cover-up. I think Renaud Leblond is aware of the fact that the first part of Rimet's book is full of lies and settling scores, that it reveals a special, almost sickly psychology. The French academics who have worked with FIFA also know this. Republishing this text was therefore too exposed. Moreover, in Rimet's memory, it is better to make people believe that his title as inventor of the World Cup was awarded to him by others, not by himself.
What you call lies is part of FIFA's history. FIFA doesn't know the facts?
"FIFA" is not a solid, coherent and intelligent reality. It is not a scientific body. These are diverse people who occupy positions and receive salaries within a company. In 2016, I had the opportunity to interview all the candidates for the FIFA Presidency and witnessed their total ignorance of history and documents. They are not historians and when they come to power, their concern is not to consult the archives but to put in place their policies. FIFA is international for some things, but when it comes to writing football history it is "French" under Blatter, "English" under Infantino, and so on. More or less university lobbies have revolved around FIFA for the past twenty years or so and have ended up imposing a certain narrative that suits their nation, but which must always defend two central ideas: that FIFA has always done the right thing and that the World Championship is a FIFA creation, a FIFA "brand". However, on the one hand, FIFA has often acted against football, and on the other hand, the 1924 and 1930 World Championships are not FIFA's creations but those of the French Federation and the Uruguayan Football Association respectively. FIFA's "official" books are written by a handful of individuals, not by committees of historians representing the different continents. These editors hired by the international federation do not refuse, quite the contrary, they take advantage of this abusive and profitable position. The result on paper is an always partisan vision of the story that pleases the department president. In this sense, Rimet's book has made a name for itself: it presents a history totally enslaved to the image of the apparatus and its leader.
According to FIFA's history, Uruguay has won the World Cup twice: at the first FIFA World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 and in Brazil in 1950. You say that Uruguay have won the World Cup four times. How do the different representations explain themselves?
There is not really a "FIFA history". In 2004, "FIFA" said that the first World Cup took place in 1930, but in 2017, in her recent book, she explained that the 1908 tournament in London was a first World Championship. Both "theories" are absurd and contradict what is reported in the official documents written at the time by the organizers and what the press said. Moreover, FIFA awards Uruguayans, Belgians and the English "other FIFA titles" for their Olympic victories from 1908 to 1928, without being able to say what the exact nature of these titles is, what their name is, and by confusing the English team with Britain's Olympic team. In 1924, the vanguard of football was not FIFA, which had barely been reborn, but the intellectual leaders who revolved around the French Federation in France and the Uruguayan Association in South America. Individuals such as Gabriel Hanot, Gautier-Chaumet, Achille Duchenne, Lucien Gamblin, Héctor Gomez, Rodolfo Bermúdez, José María Delgado. In 1923, the French federation called for a World Championship as part of the 1924 Olympic Games and officially qualified this championship as a "World Football Tournament". Rimet was President of the FFFA, FIFA, the Appeals Tribunal, Vice-President of the French Olympic Committee, etc., and he followed suit. So he instituted the first world championship. But he did so from the FFFA, not from FIFA. In fact, the first world championship was created by the FFFA of Rimet, thanks to Coubertin. It is not the work of FIFA. FIFA was then a rearguard, divided, in poor condition, which in 20 years of existence had not been able to organise a single football match. Moreover, in order not to offend the English, it was necessary to hide the "world" ideal, a World Cup without them was not yet conceivable. In 1928, it was the same thing, and in 1930 too. On March 10, 1930, four months before the start of the World Cup, Rimet wanted to replace the World Cup with a European Cup in Rome! This is why, it can be said that in 1924 the World Championship was that of the French association and in 1930 that of the Uruguayan association.
In 2020, the FIFA World Cup will be 90 years old. There will certainly be many more publications to come. Do you think that FIFA will change its historiography in the light of these "new" facts?
She will not take the path. The recent book by the FIFA Museum marks a step back in many respects and a return to the misleading speeches that the English leaders were already making in 1904 to prevent the birth of the international federation! The founder of FIFA, Robert Guérin, has disappeared altogether! Yet he is the greatest leader of this federation. The prospect of the Centenary of the "World Tournament" of 1924 in 2024 in Paris, and that of the Centenary of 1930, will require us to ask ourselves some questions. Will the 2030 World Cup be held in Britain when the British ignored or even sabotaged the FIFA World Cup between 1924 and 1938? Or finally, to acknowledge that the South Americans saved FIFA from shame in 1930 by organising this competition across the Atlantic at all costs? But I think that FIFA will eventually realise that it is not its role to write the history of football, that it is not capable of doing so, and that its successive attempts have only aggravated inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities. This implies a cultural revolution that requires intellectual sharing, but also another way of conceiving power and sharing the material fruits that come from football.
Professor at the University of Picardy, Member of the CRAE
Founder of GREFU (Faculty of Human Sciences
The interview was conducted in French. Here you find the Spanish version.
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