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Canadian indies on what to read in 2019
Christina Turner
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We asked Canadian independent bookstores to share which books they are most looking forward to reading this year. From a collection of essays on colonialism in contemporary Canada, to short fiction by trans women and calls for imaginative thinking in the face of coming climate crises, here's what you should be reading in 2019.
Rupert McNally of Ben McNally Books in Toronto recommends Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliot's forthcoming book of essays, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Penguin Random House, March 26). "I found Elliott's collection of essays to resonate in a fashion that very few books do," McNally says. "The way she speaks about the burdens of depression is something personally recognizable, but then she uses the analogy of those burdens to describe the persistence of racism and colonialism, and its effects on individuals in this country, in a way that is both profound and heartbreaking. Throughout this book I found Elliott a remarkably clear-sighted commentator, and she uniquely shows that the personal is not just political, but the opposite is true, too."
Andrew Hood from The Bookshelf in Guelph also recommends Elliot's book. "It's been a tumultuous couple of years in CanLit, in Canada, in the world," Hood says. "Elliot, whose passion and perspicacity make her a must-read no matter her subject matter, is a writer well-equipped to both help make sense and make a difference."
Peter Garden, the owner of Turning the Tide Bookstore in Saskatoon, recommends Darrin Qualman's Civilization Critical: Energy, Food, Nature, and the Future (Fernwood Publishing, May). "Darrin is a long-time advocate for small farmers and sustainable agriculture who has been researching and synthesizing information for this book for a number of years," Garden says. "He is an erudite and original thinker who takes a deep, multidisciplinary view of the issues examined in Civilization Critical. He is also an excellent public speaker. If you get a chance to see him speak on the tour for this book, we would highly recommend it."
Jessica Walker of Munro Books in Victoria recommends Normal People by Sally Rooney (Penguin Random House, April 16), which was published in the U.K. last year and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Normal People is a novel about two teenagers from starkly different class backgrounds who come of age at Trinity College, Cambridge. Walker describes it as a "compelling, unusual love story" that is "already a staff favourite . . . it's a novel about the inescapable challenges of friendship, family, and class, and everyone who has read it has been moved by its quiet, profound exploration of love and power."
Walker also recommends Horizon by Barry Lopez (Penguin Random House, March 19). Lopez is an American essayist and author of the nonfiction classics Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men. Horizon "reflects on a lifetime of travel and exploration to some of the most extreme places on earth," Walker says. "Lopez is a masterful writer, able to mix history and science with personal observation in a wonderful way. Of course, with so much of our world in imminent danger, his message about our place in a damaged world is particularly timely."
Laura Ash from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto recommends Death Threat by Vivek Shraya (Arsenal Pulp, April 15), a haunting graphic novel about hate mail illustrated by Ness Lee, as well as Whatever Gets You Through (Greystone, April 16), a collection of essays about surviving sexual assault edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee. Finally, for readers of short stories, Ash suggests Maiden, Mother, Crone (Bedside Press, Spring), a collection of fantastical short fiction by trans women writers edited by Gwen Benaway.
Ian Elliott of A Different Drummer Books in Burlington recommends science journalist Ziya Tong's The Reality Bubble (Penguin Random House, May 14), which explores those aspects of our world that humans can't see. Tong's book "promises to be a confluence of ethical, sociological, technological and environmental insights, rigorously investigated, shared in a scintillating way," Elliott says.
Finally, for young readers, Lisa Doucet from Woozles Books in Halifax recommends She Dreams of Sable Island: A Paper Doll Book, (Nimbus, May 31). Written and illustrated by Nova Scotian artist Briana Corr Scott, She Dreams is a picture book about the eponymous tiny island located 300 km off the coast of Nova Scotia. "Scott magnificently captures a sense of the untamed and fragile beauty of this tiny island," Doucet says. "This is the tale of a girl who dreams of visiting this wild and wonderful place, of exploring its rocky shores and restless sand dunes and of discovering the flora and fauna that make their home there. The story is dreamy and wistful, atmospheric and pensive with illustrations that are equally so."
What are you looking forward to reading this year? Let us know in the comments!
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Touted as a semi-serious projector for Blu-ray players and games consoles that can be used in the day as well as in blackout home cinema conditions, Epson's EH-TW3800 uses 3LCD technology. As such it's rather unusual in the home cinema market; most of its competitors rely on DLP chips, which can offer more cinematic, contrasty pictures, though Epson is hoping its EH-TW3800 is about to change that.
This large, Full HD resolution projector comes with a brace of HDMI inputs and component video for high-def sources, but it's the brightness vs. contrast battle we're most interested in. Its 20,000 ANSI Lumens of brightness is rather high for a home cinema projector, and it's a gamble: the more light is thrown at a screen, the less likely the viewer is to experience deep, lifelike blacks. But with a contrast ratio of 20,000:1 and 10-bit video processing, it should have a fighting chance of cinematic glory.
Used in a room with a few lamps on, the EH-TW3800's Cinema Day or Vivid modes both provide extra-bright images – and a noisy, hot operation (don't sit too close!). Colour holds up pretty well, though black areas of the image are the first to suffer – don't expect Blu-ray movies to look their best in this mode. But this mode isn't meant for cinema-like accuracy: a blast of bright, colourful fare such as Pro Evolution from an Xbox 360 is perfectly playable. It's impressive and a definite advantage over DLP models we've seen of late.
Switch-off the lights and move to one of the projector's other colour presets – such as Natural, HD or Silver Screen – and the EH-TW3800 quietens down dramatically. The less ambient light the better; in a total blackout images from Blu-ray discs contain strong colour and plenty of detail in back areas of the picture. Though it's not as profound as on a DLP mode of similar standing, there are other advantages to 3LCD – namely a much higher brightness for daylight gaming, and a total lack of distracting "rainbow effect". Luckily, there's no sign of the grid-like structure that can be visible from some LCD models; on the EH-TW3800 pictures are smooth and high on detail, with a modicum of picture noise and motion blur never becoming serious issues.
A nice bonus on the white and silver EH-TW3800 is its advanced menus, which are certified by the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF). This is the first time that Epson has embraced the concept, and helps bring the brand into high-end home cinema proper – a market sector it's only flirted with before now with its 3LCD projectors. That ISF certification basically means that a projector's colours can be extensively tweaked for exact gamma levels and hues; the finished product is as close to what the filmmaker intended as possible.
Another novel extra that fits in with the EH-TW3800 ambitions of total versatility is its easy installation credentials. Manual horizontal and vertical lens shift levers make positioning the projector off-centre possible, while the EH-TW3800 can also be mounted on a ceiling. Also fitted with Composite video and a VGA port for hooking-up a PC, the EH-TW3800 is versatility defined from almost all angles.
Its huge size might put some off, but if you're looking for a projector that can be permanently installed and used across a number of high-def sources, the jack-of-all-trades EH-TW3800 makes for a good value option.


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Hello Dr. Irwin I LOVE your site! With that said, I've taken the time to go through quite a bit of your blog to get my question answered and still cant quite pin down what I'm looking for. So here is a bit about me and my question will follow. I just turned 40. The left side of my face is significantly more lax in skin texture (very visible) than my right. The other problem is I have significantly more pronounced crows feet/lines under the left side of my eye opposed to the right as well. I'm hoping to get the left side to match the age on my right...at least the best I can. I HAVE started botox for all my problem areas. Great stuff. I've read great things about your thermage treatments and the tightening effects on the skin. I've also read great things on your DOT laser experience and results as well. My question is which one would you suggest to get the skin tightening results I so desperately want and also treat the pronounced crows feet? Thank you!
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Schindler heads toward life post-Mitnick - Part3
By Lisa M. Bowman | October 4, 1999 -- 08:11 GMT (01:11 PDT) | Topic: Security
But in other ways, he's very different from the hackers he pursues.
Schindler is not particularly technical -- purposefully so, in case he has to explain complicated matters to judges or juries. And while hackers thrive in a world of bluster and bravado -- often bragging about and even exaggerating their latest exploits -- the lanky, curly-haired Schindler doesn't actively seek the spotlight. When confronted with it, he raises his thick black eyebrows and shrugs.
His demeanor is defined by a subtle, unflappable confidence. He also can endure irritations, such as arduous investigations and scorching Arizona summers, that would drive most people over the edge.
During the Symington case, he hopped a plane to Phoenix every Tuesday morning and returned every Thursday night.
Worse, Isaacs said, the pair flew Southwest Airlines. That meant a weekly ritual of clutching brightly coloured plastic boarding passes and joining the cattle call of people vying for choice seats on the plane. "No matter how bad it got, Dave never complained," Isaacs said. Friends say Schindler's not a stereotypical prosecutor, the tunnel-visioned lawyer who'll doggedly pursue even those cases that have little merit. "He's guided by the principle of doing the right thing," said Karen Lash, associate dean of the USC Law School, and a friend of Schindler's since the first grade. "He's a zealous prosecutor when he believes that's appropriate. If he's got a weak case, he'll let go of it."
Schindler himself said his politics are as well-suited to being a public defender as a prosecutor, but it's unlikely he'll be representing accused hackers anytime soon. First, he doesn't think they'd want him -- though Poulsen disagrees. Second, even if they did want him, hackers probably couldn't afford him in his new role.
Schindler, who holds an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a law degree from UCLA, wouldn't comment on his new salary, but friends estimated he'll at least double, if not triple, his $115,000 prosecutor's pay. According to a 1999 survey by American Lawyer magazine, Latham & Watkins ranked fourth out of the top 100 law firms in total revenue in its 1999 survey.
Schindler said he's going to miss the prosecutors' office, especially working with other agents and lawyers, and representing the U.S. for a living.
But he's also looking forward to the intellectual challenge of representing cutting-edge clients such as America Online and Apple, and the chance to work for a posh firm with an extensive library and support staff -- a firm that just might let him fly first class.
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I'm happy to be back on the Council!
I've posted Meeting Notes of items that were approved at the Governor and Council on March 27, 2019 that might be of interest to you.
The Council is having a Public Hearing on the Governor's nominee to become Commissioner of the Department of Safety. It is scheduled for April 10 at 2 p.m. in the Governor's Council Chamber, on the second floor of the State House.
The nominee is Robert Quinn, currently the Deputy Commissioner. You are welcome to attend and testify or just observe. Although not required by law, I have always felt that Public Hearings on nominees to lead our important State Agencies are necessary. I began having them when I was on the Council in 2005 and they have continued during the time I was retired from 2014 to 2018. They provide the public a chance to tell us if they think the nominee is qualified or not and why. It also lets the nominee know that, although nominated by the Governor, he or she works for us, the citizens of the New Hampshire.
On that same day, the Council will also hold a Pardon Hearing for an individual requesting a Pardon. Pardons are one of the Council's lesser known responsibilities. This Pardon Hearing is also open to the Public. It is at 12 noon on April 10 and will be held in the Council Chamber as well.
The next Governor and Council Meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in the Executive Council Chamber at the State House in Concord, NH. Our meetings are always open to the public. Please let me know if you would like to attend so that I may greet you personally.
As always, please feel free to contact me with your thoughts, questions, and suggestions. We need everyone's active civic engagement to make our democracy run well.


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CLOSURE OF NORTH ENERGY ASSOCIATES LTD
North Energy Associates Ltd was formally incorporated in October 1991 with offices at Morpeth, Northumberland. As a commercial consultancy company, its original aim was to assist energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy developments in the North East of England. Since that time, the work of the company and its dedicated staff increased dramatically to encompass sustainable energy development, in general, and global climate change mitigation, in particular.
An expanding range of clients included private companies, local authorities, government departments, national agencies and international organisations. Additionally, the geographical scope of the company's activities widened to embrace all parts of the United Kingdom and many Member States of the European Union as well as countries as diverse as Algeria, Brazil, China, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Syria and Turkey. Professional expertise was provided in numerous areas, especially identification of energy saving opportunities, implementation of biomass heating schemes, planning for wind power developments and life cycle assessment as a means of measuring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The increase in activity and the staff team was matched by, first, a move to new offices in Stocksfield, Northumberland, and, then, the opening of an office in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
After operating successfully for more than a quarter of a century, the company undertook voluntary and solvent liquidation in 2019, due to staff retirement and changes in career paths. The Directors would like to thank all members of staff who worked so enthusiastically and conscientiously over the years, all our partners, many of whom have become close colleagues, and all our clients, many of whom have had long-term productive relationships with the company. The enduring contribution and reputation of the company is a lasting testimony to the commitments and goodwill of every one of those involved in this worthwhile and stimulating enterprise.
Commercial activities of the company ceased at the end of October 2019. This website will be maintained for some time to provide contact details for Nigel Mortimer. Anyone wishing to access public-domain past reports and material from both North Energy Associates Ltd and the Resources Research Unit of Sheffield Hallam University (which had academic and personal links with the company) should search for the report name or Nigel D Mortimer's publications on researchgate.net in the first instance. If you do not have access to researchgate, or cannot find what you're looking for, please feel free to contact Nigel Mortimer directly at n.d.mortimer@btinternet.com.
Copyright ©1992-2019 North Energy Associates Ltd. All Rights Reserved.


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Archive for the 'Evolution' Category
A Stunning Archaeological Find Has Shattered 'Out Of Africa' Myth
October 7, 2010: Dr. Sam Davis / Council Of Conservative Citizens – October 6, 2010
The "Out of Africa" myth is a theory put forth not by actual scientists but by left-wing liberal arts professors. The theory is not based on any scientific evidence, but on social and political dogma. Often, the science departments at liberal Universities are bullied into accepting such hogwash by leftist University heads.
Already the human genome project as well as the Neanderthal genome project have shattered the political motivated "Out of Africa" myth. The projects have discovered incredible differences between the genetic makeup of modern man along racial lines. Modern homo sapien races did not evolve from a single ancestor. In the case of Caucasians, genes originating with the Neanderthals are present. Neanderthal genes are also found, but to a lesser extent in Asians, but are completely absent in the Negro race. This is quite significant as experts widely recognize the Neanderthal as the most advanced pre-homo sapiens.
An archaeological find in China shows strong evidence of parallel human evolution with multiple, different ancestors. An anatomically modern human jawbone was found deep in the earth and comes from a time period in which such humans were only supposed to have existed in Africa.
CCTV 9: Not All Modern Humans Originate From Africa
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: This puts a kink in eugenicist Darwin's "theory" of evolution… – SJH
http://cofcc.org/2010/10/chinese-archaeological-find-shatters-out-of-africa-myth/
Posted in Africa, Asia, China, Education, Evolution, History, Nature, Planet Earth, Science / Technology, U.S. News, Video, World News
Homo Erectus And The Kiss Of Rothschild – Missing Link To Truth
August 29, 2010: By Les Visible / The Intel Hub.com – August 25, 2010
Someone wrote me this morning to tell me that there are two types of human beings; Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. Apparently, the former turned into the latter but they have never found the missing link. He argued that maybe there was no missing link because they weren't linked; being two different creatures, and those of us that couldn't see much of anything were in one, and those of us who could see what was going on were in the other.
I saw a listing yesterday that had a selection of events that had taken place recently. As I studied them, I realized that the full impact of these events had not hit me in any real way, even though I knew such things were coming. Details about many of them were not presented to be as dramatic as they actually were. For instance, the Central European flooding was the worst in over 800 years. The heat wave and fires in Russia were the worst in over 1,000 years. The U.N. determined that the flooding in Pakistan was a greater disaster than the 2004 tsunami. Ten million people in Africa are in immediate danger of starving to death because of drought. Temperatures are so low in the Western United States that many fruits and vegetables are being destroyed. The southern and eastern portions of the United States are suffering from a terrible heat wave, which shows no signs of coming to an end. In Japan, 21,000 have been hospitalized for heat stroke. 6 million fish, thousands of cattle and hundreds of people have been killed in South America. Thousands are dead in China from flooding. There's a great deal that I haven't mentioned but which you are familiar with.
I heard about some of these things but I had no idea of the scale and scope of them. I hear the word HAARP all the time lately. Someone tells me it's just a radar machine. That would make it a 'sensor'. Someone else tells me that pointing it upwards affects the jet stream and that the jet stream has a profound effect on global weather patterns. You can read about everything I mentioned in the last paragraph and a lot of other things in this article.
There is an ominous warning moving around in the areas where food production and distribution are monitored. It seems that there may be serious food shortages come this fall and winter. It looks certain to me that the stock market is going to crash pretty soon. Currency is going to start acting like a fish that jumped out of the Gulf of Mexico to avoid what I call The Kiss of Rothschild. Very shortly after that fish hits the beach, it will be symbolic of various currencies and especially the American dollar which is intricately tied to all sorts of important things on an international basis.
The bankers, stockbrokers, traders, hedge fund managers and all types similar have speculated and gambled like madmen, without restraint, concern or conscience and laid the effects of their irrational behavior, upon the backs of the public, in countries around the world. They deliberately engineered a number of whacked out scenarios that failed in spectacular fashion and which also wound up on the backs of the public. These agents of global chaos are the funding sources for elected politicians and so they were able to demand and get enormous bailouts with the excuse that they were "too big to fail". The commercial real estate bubble hasn't burst yet but it will.
Now countries are saddled with debt that was created by predatory elite that couldn't keep it in their pants because they were trying to stuff it all in their pockets and these same elite, in order to generate maximum profit, destroyed manufacturing, jobs, benefits and pensions in order to push the margins. Their ally in all of this is the Homo erectus. This has been their greatest ally and victim. It's two for one night at Little Caesars'.
What I am noticing is that many of the things I have seen coming for some time are happening all around but I am not seeing them with any intensity of awareness. There's some kind of disconnect going on. The various types of response to the conditions of present time keep surfacing in front of me and offering options away from consideration of them. There are options of self-introspection and possibilities of getting high or going the other way on the ladder. There are freaky compulsions that come out of nowhere and demand attention. I'm crossing the lake in a small dingy and these things are leaping out of the water and trying to land in the boat.
They say that during the London blitz, people used to have wild and frenetic sex with total strangers in doorways or practically anywhere. It would seem that some sort of biological imperative was at work, tied to a sense of desperation and fatal despair. People's lives crumble from drink and drugs, when these things take precedence over the usual concerns of life in terms of importance. Unusual fantasies come up into the surface mind when it can't process what is taking place around it. The mind seems to want to defend itself against what it can't explain by creating circumstances of compulsion and obsession that captivate and divert their attention.
Personally, I'm in the dingy rowing across the lake but I see other dinghies and I see the creatures jumping out of the water. I know if you bend over the edge of the boat you will see the faces of men and women, whose arms appear to be outstretched for your embrace. It is by this means that I am able to intuit or observe the conditions and forces I am discussing.
It makes sense to me that when the unpredictable replaces the predictable in terms of the power of manifestation that the same thing has to be going on inside the mind as well. I get the sensation that pornography is really humming at the moment. I get the sensation that any distraction that can be focused on, so that it will defend against consideration of the weirdness happening on all sides, is being engaged in by large groups of people.
Underneath all of this is the power of what any person believes, in respect of the power of everything that challenges it. This makes it a sort of living allegory or individual myth, where each person has to traverse their own personal underworld, as their belief system is tested against the forces that seek to destroy it. I know what I feel but don't act on. I know what I see and walk away from. This leads me to believe it is pretty widespread since the general tenor of the common mind always intrudes upon the mind of the individual, whether they are already taken over by it or not. In one case it reinforces and in the other case it seeks to compel.
I know that some people see all of this in religious terms and some people see it as a random exercise, working itself out according to chaos theory. Some people see it as the natural progression of basic instincts in humanity and I suppose I could come up with other ways that people might see it or attribute meaning to these times but my sense is that each of us are in a specific relationship, in accordance with how we have conducted ourselves and what we value. Whatever we place the highest value on has had the greatest influence over the direction in which we walked and the occupations and amusements in which we indulged. This could be why some people can't see and others can. It could be that we are now resident within the parameters of whatever world our values circumscribe. We are all living in the reality of what we believed was real and most important and are being challenged to save it and ourselves but… that will be determined by how our values measure up against archetypal values.
Our truth is going to come up against 'the truth'. Our actions are going to come up against the cosmic range of permissible action. Our words are going to come up against whatever measuring tool defines the integrity of whatever we had to say and its impact on anyone who heard us.
You can see this in religious terms or you can see it in numbers and symbols and the pure math that lives at the top of the mountain, where our highest possibilities reside and which melt like the snow and run down into the valleys where they turn into all the colors of our natural and unnatural worlds. You can see it or not see it depending on whether you tried to see it enough to convince whatever determines your possession of sight to make it possible. This is how it looks to me today and, no doubt, this will account for something in terms of my tomorrow. I suspect we are all reaping similar rewards depending on what we found rewarding. I'll say in conclusion that it is never too late until it is too late. It's a pity that some people closed out their options by making themselves blind, so that they could see something that wasn't real.
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: There is no missing link, folks. However, whatever you believe, there are certainly two different bloodlines in this world… – SJH
http://theintelhub.com/2010/08/25/homo-erectus-and-the-kiss-of-rothschild/
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10,000 Year Old Bones Of Boy Found In Underwater Mexican Cave
August 26, 2010: Daily Mail Reporter / Mail Online – August 25, 2010
The remains of a prehistoric child that were found in an underwater cave in Mexico four years ago have now been removed by a team of divers.
The skeletal remains of the boy, dubbed the Young Hol Chan, are more than 10,000 years old and are among the oldest human bones found in the Americas. Scientists hope that the well-preserved corpse will offer clues to ancient human migration.
The corpse was discovered in 2006 by a pair of German cave divers who were exploring unique flooded sandstone sinkholes, known as cenotes, common to the eastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
He appears to have been a young boy and was found with his legs bent to his left side and his arms extended to either side of his body. No other ancient skeleton has ever been found in this position.
Scientists spent three years studying the remains where they lay before deciding it was safe to bring the skeleton to the surface for further study.
Anthropologists from the National Automonous University of Mexico think that the body was placed in the cave in a funeral ceremony performed late in the Pleistocene epoch when the sea level was around 488 feet lower than it is today.
Experts recovered 60 percent of the skeleton, including bones from both arms and legs, vertebrae, ribs, the skull and several teeth – all fantastically preserved.
Divers have also found the partial skeletons of three other people, known as the Woman of Naharon, the Woman of Las Palmas and the Temple Man, all of which were discovered inside other flooded caves.
Scientists believe that the latest discovery 'strengthens the hypothesis that the American continent was populated starting with several migrations coming from Asia.'
In an announcement the university said that the burial sites 'reveal migrations coming from southeastern Asia before those known up to now as Clovis groups, which are said to have crossed from northern Asia, also via the Bering Strait, at the end of the Ice Age.'
Some scientists believe that the Clovis people crossed into America from Asia around 14,000 years ago and gradually made their way down, over many generations, to settle in northern Mexico.
Others believe that the first people in America actually crossed from the Pacific on boats, possibly even earlier than the Clovis.
The finds at the caves in Quintana Roo appear to predate earlier Clovis finds from similar areas in Mexico…
The institute is co-ordinating a study of early human migration to eastern Mexico that aims to deepen the understanding of the movement of people across the Bering Strait at the end of the last Ice Age.
The Young Hol Chan, named after the cenote where he was discovered, was found in a darkened cave 27 feet beneath the surface.
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: For all of you so-called Christians who still believe the earth was created 6,000 years ago, not only does this and many other much older discoveries around the world completely disprove your theory, but shows that you are not reading the Bible with the Holy Spirit. Adam was not the first man created (Genesis 1:27), he was the first man "formed" who became a "living soul" (Genesis 2:7) a little over 6,000 years ago. God created man, the Lord God (spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ before He was manifest in the flesh) formed Adam much later. Follow the genealogy in Genesis 5, then do the math using the Great Flood as a time reference. Both evolution and Creationism occurred, but at different times in earth's history that overlap in the narrative that has been distorted throughout time by nefarious factions. And yes, folks, I am a Christian, and an ordained pastor who seeks the truth… – SJH
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1305929/Ancient-skeleton-prehistoric-child-removed-Mexican-underwater-cave.html
Posted in Bible, Education, Evolution, History, Mexico, Nature, Planet Earth, Religion, Science / Technology, Spirituality, World News
New Eugenics And The Rise Of The 'Global Scientific Dictatorship'
July 6, 2010: Andrew Gavin Marshall / Global Research – July 5, 2010
Introduction: We are in the midst of the most explosive development in all of human history. Humanity is experiencing a simultaneously opposing and conflicting geopolitical transition, the likes of which has never before been anticipated or experienced.
Historically, the story of humanity has been the struggle between the free-thinking individual and structures of power controlled by elites that seek to dominate land, resources and people. The greatest threat to elites at any time – historically and presently – is an awakened, critically thinking and politically stimulated populace. This threat has manifested itself throughout history, in different places and at different times. Ideas of freedom, democracy, civil and human rights, liberty and equality have emerged in reaction and opposition to power structures and elite systems of control.
The greatest triumphs of the human mind – whether in art, science or thought – have arisen out of and challenged great systems of power and control. The greatest of human misery and tragedy has arisen out of the power structures and systems that elites always seek to construct and manage. War, genocide, persecution and human degradation are directly the result of decisions made by those who control the apparatus of power, whether the power manifests itself as intellectual, ecclesiastical, spiritual, militaristic, or scientific. The most malevolent and ruthless power is that over the free human mind: if one controls how one thinks, they control the individual itself. The greatest human achievements are where individuals have broken free of the shackles that bind the mind and let loose the inherent and undeniable power that lies in each and every individual on this small little planet.
Currently, our world is at the greatest crossroads our species has ever experienced. We are in the midst of the first truly global political awakening, in which for the first time in all of human history, all of mankind is politically awakened and stirring; in which whether inadvertently or intentionally, people are thinking and acting in political terms. This awakening is most evident in the developing world, having been made through personal experience to be acutely aware of the great disparities, disrespect, and domination inherent in global power structures. The awakening is spreading increasingly to the west itself, as the majority of the people living in the western developed nations are thrown into poverty and degradation. The awakening will be forced upon all people all over the world. Nothing, no development, ever in human history, has posed such a monumental threat to elite power structures.
This awakening is largely driven by the Technological Revolution, which through technology and electronics, in particular mass media and the internet, have made it so that people across the world are able to become aware of global issues and gain access to information from around the world. The Technological Revolution, thus, has fostered an Information Revolution which has, in turn, fed the global political awakening.
Simultaneously, the Technological Revolution has led to another unique and unprecedented development in human history, and one that is diametrically opposed, yet directly related to the global political awakening. For the first time in human history, free humanity is faced with the dominating threat of a truly global elite, who have at their hands the technology to impose a truly global system of control: a global scientific dictatorship. The great danger is that through the exponential growth in scientific techniques, elites will use these great new powers to control and dominate all of humanity in such a way that has never before been experienced.
Through all of human history, tyrants have used coercive force and terror to control populations. With the Technological Revolution, elites increasingly have the ability to control the very biology and psychology of the individual to a point where it may not be necessary to impose a system of terror, but rather where the control is implemented on a much deeper, psychological, subliminal and individual biological manner. While terror can prevent people from opposing power for a while, the scientific dictatorship can create a personal psycho-social condition in which the individual comes to love his or her own slavery; in which, like a mentally inferior pet, they are made to love their leaders and accept their servitude.
So we are presented with a situation in which humanity is faced with both the greatest threat and the greatest hope that we have ever collectively experienced in our short human history. This essay, the third part in the series, "The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom," examines the ideas behind the global scientific dictatorship, and how it may manifest itself presently and in the future, with a particular focus on the emergence of 'new eugenics' as a system of mass control.
Free humanity faces the most monumental decision we have ever been presented with: do we feed and fuel the global political awakening into a true human psycho-social revolution of the mind, creating a new global political economy which empowers and liberates all of humanity; or… do we fall silently into a 'brave new world' of a global scientific oppression, the likes of which have never before been experienced, and whose dominance would never be more difficult to challenge and overcome?
We can either find a true freedom, or descend into a deep despotism. We are not powerless before this great ideational beast. We have, at our very fingertips the ability to use technology to our benefit and to re-shape the world so that it benefits the people of the world and not simply the powerful. It must be freedom for all or freedom for none. [Read more at link below] This is the third and final part of the series…
"The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom."
Part 1: The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order
Part 2: Revolution and Repression in America
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: This isn't science fiction, this isn't a conspiracy theory. This is the reality of the world we live in today. Continue reading Part 3 below… – SJH
Link to the entire Part 3 of this essay below…
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Why The Neanderthals Were Always An Endangered Species
Ewen Callaway / New Scientist – July 18, 2009
For much of their 400,000 year history, Neanderthals were few and far between, a new analysis of genetic material from several of the extinct, ancient humans now suggests.
It's difficult to put a number on the population of a species based on DNA alone, but less than a few hundred thousand of the archaic humans roamed Europe and Asia at any one time, says Adrian Briggs, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. "There never were million and millions of Neanderthals," he told New Scientist.
That conclusion isn't exactly Earth-shattering. Archaeological digs suggest that Neanderthals hardly lived in megacities, and the mitochondrial genome sequence from one individual found in Croatia also hints at low population sizes. But the new findings represent the most detailed look at Neanderthal genetic diversity yet published.
Low Diversity
What is most obvious is how little genetic heterogeneity they possessed. The mitochondrial genomes of six Neanderthals recovered in Spain, Croatia, Germany and Russia differ at only 55 locations out of more than 16,000 letters. This represents three times less mitochondrial diversity than modern humans possess.
Because of this low diversity, Briggs' team infers that Neanderthal populations must have been relatively small. "Populations with much larger sizes carry more genetic diversity, you have more individuals and more mutations," he says.
The researchers analysed bone samples that, by and large, came during the twilight of the Neanderthal's reign around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals probably went extinct somewhere between 24,000 and 28,000 years ago.
It's possible that Briggs' team has taken a genetic snapshot of a species on the verge of extinction, however other genetic clues indicate that Neanderthal populations stayed low for much of their history, he says.
Neanderthal mitochondria were far more likely than humans or chimpanzees to contain potentially harmful mutations in mitochondrial genes that changed the shape of proteins, Brigg's team found. Since these mutations incur an evolutionary cost, they will eventually be weeded out. But this process occurs very slowly in small populations, Briggs says. Hence, Neanderthals numbers probably stayed low for a long time.
Chris Stringer, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees that Neanderthal populations were probably small. "They must have been on the edge of extinction by this time to have so few people scattered in Europe," he says.
However during warm spells, their numbers and range probably swelled, only to contract in leaner times, Stringer says. "I think the numbers would have fluctuated. They would have had good times and bad times, and this data reflect that in the last 100,000 years they were having bad times."
It's tempting to think that the arrival of modern humans to Europe about 45,000 years ago pushed Neanderthal numbers even lower by competing for increasingly scarce resources. But the invading Homo sapiens would have been relatively rare too, Stringer says. "You've got to consider the possibility that they might not have met each other that often."
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: Besides the fact that I love history, the reason I posted this goes much deeper than just that. Albeit I'm a Christian, I agree with certain principles of evolution in nature. However, I don't believe as many Christians do that the earth is only 6,000 years old. There is far too much archaelogical evidence to prove otherwise.
With that said, Adam was not the first man "created" (Genesis 1:27), he was the first man "formed" with a "living soul" (Genesis 2:7)… – Tonka
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Conclusion of a Global Exclusive Distribution Agreement in the Non-Ferrous Metals Field with an Israeli Startup: Security Matters-Contribute to building a sustainable society through making supply chains transparent-
Sumitomo Corporation has concluded a global exclusive distribution agreement in the non-ferrous metals field with Security Matters (hereinafter, "SMX"), an Israeli start-up company with proprietary technology that can put specific markers on materials at the molecular level. Through sales and marketing of the company's products, which can track raw materials and products along the supply chain, Sumitomo Corporation will contribute to supply chain transparency and the realization of a recycling-oriented society.
Companies Increasingly Move Toward Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chain Transparency
In recent years, the world has become increasingly aware of the need for "sustainable procurement of raw materials. Companies need to procure raw materials to make their products, and this process can create not only quality shortages but also various environmental and social challenges, such as resource depletion, child labor, and land overexploitation. The failure to address those challenges in the supply chain also poses the risk of damaging corporate value.
Under these circumstances, there is a growing trend around the world to emphasize product traceability (tracking of production history) and to make supply chains more visible and transparent. This visualization of production history enables us to prove that procured products are environmentally and socially conscious, to provide safe and secure products to customers, and to disclose more accurate information to stakeholders.
SMX's Proprietary Technology Deals with the Supply Chain of Metal Resources
SMX is a startup founded in Israel in 2015 with a revolutionary technology that enables centralized management of information throughout the supply chain by assigning individual IDs to substances and managing them on a blockchain. Because of their unique patents that allow them to assign a marker to a substance at the molecular level, they can handle all substances, regardless of their state (gas, liquid, or solid). In addition, there is no falsification of information by third parties with the use of blockchain.
In the midst of the demand for supply chain transparency, it has been said that it is difficult to accurately grasp and manage the movement of raw materials because the shape of metal resources changes in the process of productization. However, by using SMX technology, which can be applied at the molecular level, it is possible to make the supply chain of metal resources transparent because the markers can function even if the shape of the material changes through processing. Even though the production process of metal resources involves the risk of human rights issues for miners and environmental impacts due to overexploitation, it is possible to identify and prove the source of raw materials and sell safer and more competitive products to customers by using SMX products.
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Sumitomo Corporation has concluded an exclusive agency agreement with SMX in the field of non-ferrous metals and will conduct sales and marketing of the company's products. Specifically, we will develop our business in which the production process in the supply chain is monitored and managed by marking ores and products used as raw materials for non-ferrous metals with SMX products. In addition to being a distributor of SMX products, we will also apply SMX technology to the metal resources we handle, such as traceability of nickel and cobalt used in battery metal for EVs and visualization of scrap ratios in copper, in order to differentiate our products, thereby improving the profitability and competitiveness of our business.
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The Boardwalk is the heart of the action in Atlantic City. The four mile long walkway by the sea was first built in 1870 and is the oldest boardwalk in the United States. The Boardwalk is home to nine of the 12 casinos in the city, as well as many hotels, shops, and attractions.
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One of the best things to do in Atlantic City is stroll along the Boardwalk with its mix of carnival attractions and natural beauty. You never know what you might see and it's the perfect spot for people watching. Best of all, it's free.
A good, cheap hotel on the Boardwalk is Atlantic Club. It's one of the most affordable hotels in this area, but still boats luxury amenities such as a health spa and indoor pool. Look out for its packages which are particularly reasonable.
The Resorts Casino Hotel Atlantic City offers inexpensive hotel rates right on the Boardwalk. Rooms have an art deco theme, and there are plenty of facilities including a casino, two nightclubs, numerous restaurants, a fitness center, and indoor and outdoor pools.
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Many of the hotels in Atlantic City are large hotels with an on-site casino. Prices are often lower than other hotels, as they want to attract visitors to their casinos. Rates at the casino hotels vary greatly, so look out for last-minute deals and special rates mid-week and in the winter off-season.
If you're planning to spend most of your vacation gambling, casino hotels are a convenient option. They offer so many facilities—restaurants, bars, entertainment, swimming pools—that you'll hardly need to leave. Even if you aren't a gambler, it's worth looking into these hotels as they can offer low rates. In particular, the packages at casino hotels can provide excellent value and include perks like show tickets, meals, health club admission, and gift cards. Most of the casinos are on the Boardwalk, including old classics like Resorts Casino Hotel and glitzy modern places like Revel which opened in 2012.
There are three casino hotels in the Marina District, which is a short taxi or bus ride from the Boardwalk, including Harrah's Resort, which offers a variety of affordable accommodations. The highlight of the hotel is the tropical indoor pool with five hot tubs—relax here during the day or dance the night away when it transforms into one of the city's most glamorous nightclubs. There are also 11 restaurants and 175,000 square feet of casino space.
Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino is another option in the Marina District. Rooms have a contemporary design and the casino offers classic games and live performance shows.
Join the casino's players' club if you find yourself staying at a casino. This free card you use when gambling helps you rack up points which can then be cashed in for things like rooms, dining, and other amenities.
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If the casino hotels are out of your price range, then check out the cheap motels that line Pacific Avenue, only a block inland from the Boardwalk. You'll still be close to the action but rates are far lower. Affordable motels include Rodeway Inn Oceanview; Eldorado Motor Inn, which is just across the street from Tropicana Casino; and Howard Johnson Inn Atlantic City, which has a pool.
There aren't many hostels in Atlantic City, but one option is Atlantic City House, which has dorm beds and a shared kitchen, and is 600 meters from the Boardwalk.
Stay Further Away and Save
The cheapest hotels in Atlantic City are a few miles or more from the Boardwalk. If you have a car and are on a tight budget, staying further afield will help you save money.
The Absecon area near Atlantic City airport is a budget area to stay. Superlodge Atlantic City/Absecon has really low rates and basic rooms with fridges, microwaves, and free WiFi. Royal Lodge is another budget-friendly motel; and Empire Inn and Suites is an inexpensive option with a pool.
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Atlantic City's wide beach has soft sand and is free. You can go swimming, surfing, fishing, windsurfing, sailing, or play volleyball. The 3D Light and Sound Show on the Boardwalk features remarkable special effects projected onto Boardwalk Hall. The eight-and-a-half minute show is free and runs each night every half hour from 8:30 p.m.
The Atlantic City Historical Museum on Garden Pier is free and a good place to learn about the city's rich history. You can watch a movie about the city's rise and fall and its more recent resurrection; and if you're a fan of the Boardwalk Empire TV show, get insight into the real-life Nucky (the corrupt political boss Enoch Johnson).
If you venture away from the beach and Boardwalk, the Absecon lighthouse is one of the oldest in the country dating back to 1857. It's free to visit, but it's worth the $7 fee to climb the 228 steps for views of the city's skyline and the Jersey Shore. If you are visiting in the summer, there are free concerts at Gardner's Basin with world-class performers.
The Cheapest Time to Visit Atlantic City
The summer is the most popular time to visit Atlantic City. If you are planning to spend time on the beach, then June through August offers the best weather, but it's also the most crowded and expensive time of year.
There's plenty to do in Atlantic City year round, and if you are looking for really cheap hotel rates in Atlantic City, visit mid-week in the winter off-season. You can still gamble in casinos, go shopping, and enjoy the shows and restaurants.
Getting to Atlantic City
Atlantic City International Airport is located just ten miles from the city and you can take a jitney, taxi, or rent a car to get into town.
Atlantic City is an hour from Philadelphia and can be reached by train or bus. New York City is only two hours away. The cheapest way to get to Atlantic City from Philadelphia and New York is the low-cost casino buses that take you direct to a casino. Many include betting coupons.
Once in Atlantic City, the jitney bus is the best way to get around town and only costs $2.25 a ride. It covers the Boardwalk, Marina District, convention center, and railway station.
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TI-99/4A Development
Classic Computing
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TI Scramble - Scramble clone
By Asmusr, August 27, 2013 in TI-99/4A Development
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Same version here, maybe it's a problem with my MESS install on my Mac. However, double-buffering alone is not enough, if you flip the buffer mid-scan you will still see tearing effects. So if you're not waiting for vsync, there is a real risk that you will see vertical tearing. And of course, this is much more obvious with horizontal scrolling than vertical scrolling.
I'm only flipping the buffers right after vsync. Is it possible to capture a screen shot of what you see? Perhaps Mizapf can clarify if it's possible for screen tearing effects to appear in MESS? It's been a few days since tried it on a real console, but I will do that tonight just to be sure.
TheMole
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Location:Belgium
I just tried to take a screenshot, but although the line was visible on screen, it didn't appear in the screenshot itself. So I went to try and take a screenshot using osx's built-in tool and started MESS up in windowed mode and the effect was gone. So, I think it's safe to assume its a MESS on Mac issue.
RXB
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Location:Vancouver, Washington, USA
Did you try to use the utility in OS X CopyPaste?
It works even on videos playing. And you can select the size of the window to take a pic of.
You have to run the utility as a normal copy or paste does not analyze the graphics mode before it does the copy.
Tursi
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Yeah, you might be seeing screen tear between MESS and your monitor, rather than between the emulated TI and MESS. MESS should have a VSYNC option, though, at least it does on PC. Can try checking that?
Yup, adding -waitvsync to the command line did the trick, would've expected that to be the default though .
Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase, Rasmus .
Edited September 21, 2013 by TheMole
mäsäxi
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Looks good so far! Being an MSX owner, I must say it looks quite colourless though. This is not an insult towards this TI-Scramble, which would be a good name for this game, but just caused by buying and seeing too many direct ports of monochrome Sinclair Spectrum games decades ago. Fuel tanks have good contrast against monochrome background, but mostly game looks monochrome. As top of the ground has another colour in the arcade version, I was thinking, if it would be possible to alter graphics design a bit, to try to make background more colourful, by carefully designing and placing white tiles here and there. I am not talking about 100% imitation of arcade game now, in some diagonal places those white tiles must be thick (use two tiles), to prevent colour bleeding, and in some places you may have to not use white tiles at all, but it´s possible with careful designing. I am not saying your graphics design is bad, not at all. I am just trying to say some ideas to make this game to look even better.
I was also thinking about those missiles, as being tiles before they are fired, they have to be same colour as background. I got a thought that they are camouflaged and as they sit waiting in their missile silos, they are sitting in shadows, and that´s why they are in same colour as the background. When missile is fired, it comes visible and you can alter it´s sprite colour to same what it is in arcade game, it doesn´t have to have background´s colour anymore, as it is not sitting anymore in the dark missile silo.
My another thought for missiles was if you don´t run out of memory, missiles could have another sprite for fire which is coming from their motor. To prevent fire becoming invisible (as there will be many sprites in the same row), I thought you could use same sprite for every missiles´ fire (cycle them), it doesn´t look too bad, as fire is not a solid object. If you keep your original rocket design, which has missile and fire in same sprite, you can then have two coloured fire, if you add that flickering fire sprite there. And in moments where fire sprite will become invisible (because there are too many sprites in same row), it doesn´t matter too much, as missile already have fire. Fire will just loose it´s second colour when fire sprite becomes invisible when there are more than four sprites in the row. And you can give fire sprite plane the lowest possible priority, so all the other sprites are showed first and flickering fire sprite will show only when there aren´t too many sprites in that same row.
About two button problem, I have played many old games which always used joystick´s only one fire button only, so player´s bullets and missiles were fired at the same time and it worked good. I have also played some games which fired bullets and missiles separately, first bullet, then missile, then bullet, etc... it worked ok, and it increased excitement in those games, but surely there are games where it doesn´t work. So I prefer that bullets and missiles are shot at the same time, using joystick´s fire button only. No keyboard. Pressing fire button and moving joystick down is a good idea, but the drawback is, that if you are flying on a very low altitude, your space ship will dive and hit fuel tank. Sure you can make the ship not moving when launching it´s missile, but it may easily cause too much excitement (and easy dead) as you cannot control your ship while firing a missile. It´s a very short moment without control, but if some U.F.O. or meteor shower is incoming fast, you may think how nice it would be if you could have ship control while firing a missile.
These were just my ideas, please keep up your work, so TI folks can enjoy Skramble some day!
Edited September 30, 2013 by mäsäxi
Thank you for the suggestions and I'm glad you like what you have seen so far.
The colors are important, of course, but what's essential for me is to recreate the smooth scrolling and update speed of the original. I think that's what we need most on the TI.
I would have liked to make the ground more colorful, and tried to make a one character thick border in another color, but soon discovered that it would take up far too many tiles. I only have 112 tiles available and they have to cover all combinations of horizontal transitions on a level of the game, which is about 256 characters wide.
Regarding the sprites they will be monochrome on the old VDP, but if you own a F18A you will get the original 4 color sprites with vibrant colors. It looks really nice.
I have already implemented the solution where shots and bombs are fired at the same time. It works quite well. You can also use the keyboard if you want separate keys.
Is there a decent Scramble clone for the MSX?
'Some day' is not far away!
BTW, does anyone know of a 'testbed' for developing sound effects for the TI? I'm trying to recreate the original sound effects, but it takes a lot of time to get them right when I have to assemble the project each time. I'm looking for something where you can easily play around with a sound list and export the result when you got it right.
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Try the ASLP available here->>>>> http://www.dsapsc.com/new-developments.html
You can compose, listen, edit, save, load and convert to E/A source code. It's music based but does great for SFX as well. Comes with several songs and sounds.
Thank you, that will be very useful.
You are right, Rasmus. Smooth scrolling and original speed are important things, and game will surely be more attractive with smooth scrolling even it will be less colourful. When I suggested another colour for the top layer of the ground, I was afraiding that you would tell me about having too few tiles.
There are still some ways to bring more colour, without being tile consuming. You could make "sand" (everything below the top layer) having other colour than black, and to prevent colour clash, you will need just one more (I think) tile, which has just one colour, all pixels are purple. That way colourful "sand" tile and top layer will not have any colour problems.
I do understand, that when missiles are placed in the open area, they may look a bit strange, if they will get more colour after they are fired to the sky.
I guess all explosions are made with sprite? Otherwise the explosion of the missile which is sitting in it´s silo, will be monochrome. As you are probably using sprites for the explosion, you can get more colourful explosion even just using just one sprite, by changing it´s colour on every frame. If you have any sprite memory left for just one sprite, you can use second sprite to make explosion have two colours, and you can still alter the colours of those two sprites on every frame, to make explosion even more colourful. This second explosion sprite must have low priority, so it will be showed only if there aren´t too many sprites on the same row. I think that colourful explosion is a simple but very effective way to get some extra colour, and having colourful explosion is always very satisfying for the player. Even more, if all the spaceships and missiles and comets/meteors are monochrome, then colourful explosion will look really good!
One more idea would be to use one flickering sprite to make flickering colourful windows for U.F.O., cycling the very same sprite for every U.F.O.. U.F.O.´s windows usually tend to be flashing in strange colours. Same idea could be used for meteor swarm, I think it would suit well for meteors, if you use that sprite for making fumes behind the actual meteors.
As far as I know, there is no decent Scramble clone for MSX. The best one is Super Cobra, and that´s not very much said. I do remember, that it looked allright in mid-eighties thought. There is one clone called Skramble from Aackosoft, but it´s totally monochrome and badly made, cannot be compared to what you are making right now. There was also one "clone" with funny idea, called "Scrambled Eggs". Game was like meteor shower stage, eggs coming at you fast, and when shot little chicks hatched and flew away. It was fun for few tries, but that´s all, there weren´t any ground targets and I think there were nothing more to see in that game, please correct me if somebody knows better. I am not sure if there was any more Scramble clones for MSX, but if there were, they weren´t any good ones. I have always wished to have decent very colourful original style Scramble clone for MSX.
My Scramble clone, named TI Scramble, is now in a state where I dare releasing it for beta testing. There are both an E/A 3 version (TISC) and a E/A 5 version (TISCRAMBLE) on the disk, and I have also included an XB loader (thanks to Tursi). Most features of the original game are implemented, except the high score table which I don't consider that useful without saving the high scores (I want to keep the possibility of making a cartridge open).
The 32K expansion is required, but apart from that it doesn't require any special hardware, perhaps it would even load from tape?
You move the ship using SDEX, fire to shoot and Fctn to drop bombs. If you use a joystick the fire button is shooting and dropping bombs at the same time (which makes the game easier). In two player mode (press 2), player 2 is using joystick 2, but the keyboard keys are shared.
If you have an F18A board installed the original 4 color (ECM) sprites will be used, otherwise it falls back to monochrome sprites that also look perfectly fine. Anything else including the scrolling is using features of the 9918A only.
If you want to see the monochrome sprites on your F18A enhanced console you can hold down F when the game starts (this key is *not* available as a toggle when the game runs). Disabling the ECM sprites will also maintain your jumper setting for more than 4 sprites on a scanline. With ECM enabled this setting will be overridden to allow 16 sprites on a line.
Regarding the sprites, the game is using a flicker routine to cycle the order of the sprites. To facilitate the implementation I'm maintaining a sprite attribute table in CPU RAM that is copied each frame to the VDP. Early in the development I decided to limit the number of sprites to 16, which made it possible to keep both the attributes and the copying routine in scratch pad RAM. Even if you can't afford this luxury and need to keep the attributes in 8 bit RAM I can recommend the general idea because it makes it so much easier to update the sprites, and it may also improve performance (this depends on many factors).
Because of the high frame rate the game looks far better on a real console than in emulators, but it works OK in Classic99 (without the ECM sprites). In MESS there is a problem with the sound and with the keyboard control of player 2. It doesn't get past the opening screen in Win994a. I have tested it on my EU console with the 9929A, but not on a 9918A.
One last note: Each time the level/map changes there is a short delay while the next level is unpacked. I discovered I could use the speech synthesizer to mask this delay by saying a phrase from the resident vocabulary ('ready to start'). Perhaps it could be changed to say something more relevant, e.g. UFOs approaching, but I don't know if this would require an interrupt driven speech routine (which is not an option)?
Finally, a big thank you to PacManPlus, CyranoJ and SpiceWare for providing the original graphics.
I hope you enjoy the game, and please let me know if you find any problems.
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Awesome stuff, well done.
Superbly done, I have never played the original, but it looks very arcade-like. Plays great.
I've only tried it in MESS, so I can't say, but does it include music during gameplay or only sound effects?
A short intro music, then only sound effects. How does it sound on your MESS?
That is really good Rasmus. "Like I ought to be putting a quarter in" kind of good.
Plays a bit fast on an NTSC console (at least that's the way it appears to me and I am assuming your framing a 50 fps since you are in Europe ?) A slow down may be in order for us NTSC bound people. If you are not using the coincidence bit in the VDP then investigate using the 9901 timer feature. That will make your games NTSC/PAL proof.
Only thing that struck me as odd was the pause and speech between levels. I'd suggest finding another way to accomplish your zone un packing either without the delay or something that disguises it better.
Without a doubt the best port I have seen for the TI...
Good job....
It's supposed to run at 60 FPS, so it's the 50 FPS on European consoles that's wrong, but unavoidable. There are probably not that many of them is use without the F18A anyway.
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Very nice. For first try, response and speed seem about right to me. I'll try it on my Geneve when things settle down around here and see if it works with the joystick (Geneve keyboard routine is different)
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That scramble clone is TRULY IMPRESSIVE!
I must be turning into an old fart though, I could not get it to fire down at an angle, only straight ahead.
Very, very, very nice!
A new version with some suggestion from Marc:
- Shots can pass through explosions (this makes it easier to make it through the tunnels)
- You are immune for 16 frames after a new life
- Bombs make a sound when they hit the ground
Thanks, you can't fire at an angle, but perhaps it looks like that when you fire and move the ship?
Perhaps I'm too slow ....
My frame of reference (no pun intended) was the C64 version and I'm probably just used to it. At any rate..... Really top notch stuff.
Thanks, perhaps an incentive for emulating ECM sprites in Classic99?
Actually it was pretty easy to implement the multi-color sprites, even without emulation. All you need to do is to upload the different patterns if the F18A is detected, set up the palettes, and the rest of the code can be used on both VDPs. I have made a small Java program to turn PNG files into data statements for ECM color planes. It's not in a state to release as a general tool, but if anyone needs it you're welcome to the code.
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This game is impressive! I just played it on the bare metal (F18A enhanced).
You can't believe how good this game looks!!
*Warning*
The pictures don't do the game justice. They were shot with my mobile phone, that's why they look unsharp.
Perhaps someone can take better pictures....
Have now been playing TI-Scramble for a while, it's fun
Here's what I would change:
* Get rid of the speech.
It doesn't add any value to the game. I read it was used for entermaintent while the map is unpacking, but perhaps there's a better way to handle that.
* Add text to title screen for informing that the FCTN key is used for dropping bombs (took me a while to figure that out)
* Change (or remove) the tile on the upper right side (below the fuel bar). Don't know what it is for. Is it used to indicate the level?
* Pressing the 'P'-key holds the game, but it continues as soon as the button is released. Perhaps a key debounce issue?
* [EDIT] Add a demo mode. Pretty much just start the game, but do not read game keys. The ship should crash after being hit by the 6th rocket.
I think the arcade game behaved like that as well.
Either way. That's a mighty impressive work you did there. Very well done!!!
Plays very nice on the TI-99/4A using my "The Arcade" joystick.
Edited October 6, 2013 by retroclouds


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