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Even if the new Nintendo console does not meet the expectations of the "revolution", most of its games are still worth the detour.
The evolution of the Wii has been nothing if not dramatic and its addictive video games have single-handedly reinvented the dance video game. A few years ago, Nintendo launched the new Wii U console as a worthy successor to its big sister Wii. With the ability to use previous software and hardware from previous Nintendo consoles (backwards compatibility), the new Wii U fulfills all our expectations and gives so much more.
In this article, we will review the popular dance video games on Wii U that you'll spend hours enjoying. From pop to hip-hop, rock, techno, and flamenco, these video games definitely have some of the most eclectic song selections of any karaoke dance game ever. Check them out!
In addition to the Wii U Karaoke Games presented below, there are also Karaoke Games for Nintendo Switch, Wii, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One available.
The short answer: Best Wii U Karaoke Games
- SiNG Party
- We Sing Pop
- The Voice: I want you (Bundle)
- Disney Sing It: Family Hits
- Disney Sing It
- Sing 4: The Hits Edition
#1 SiNG PARTY
With SiNG Party by Nintendo, you can transform your living room to a concert and every member of the clan can join in the action. The video game is rated 60 on metacritic.com and features a Wii U microphone and a variety of music selections from old-timey 60s hits to today's pop hits. This makes it suitable for all players regardless of their ages.
You can also play the instrumentals and with the Wii Remote, the group participation feature such as dancing, interacting and singing with the group's lead singer, are the highlights of this game. Since SiNG PARTY does not limit the number of players that can join in the fun, you can all catch the infectious vibe as soon as you have the game started.
Finally, the game's Party mode allows the lead singer to use the GamePad's controller to have a view of the song lyrics while also receiving cues through it. The GamePad can also be deployed as the playlist creator and audio mixer.
#2 WeSing Pop
WeSing Pop is Wii's new software with a karaoke-style that stands out among others. Featuring as much as 30 pop hits from 60 years of pop songs, you will never run out of choices. You can make friends, sing duets with celebrities, share your songs and become a pop star. The voice effects will also surprise you!
WeSing also features a new tuning mode, popular singers, and the fastest live broadcast! You can even make your own music video with a karaoke slideshow and add effects such as reverb and repetition to your recordings. You can also have fun with your friends by sharing your recordings online
Direct messages allow players to know more about each other and you can exchange private and public messages with other people on WeSing.
Another major feature of WeSing Pop is that players can accompany new and classic songs with music and lyrics. In an endless catalog of videos and themes, you will find songs performed by your favorite artists. Of course, the most successful songs of the moment are also updated quickly. You can easily search for these songs and sing or record them with a high loading speed.
#3 The Voice: I want you (Bundle)
Make your living room the center stage of entertainment with "The Voice", a karaoke dance and music video game inspired by the popular TV show.
The Voice: I want you brings you endless fun with features such as "Blind Auditions" and "Battle Rounds". You can choose from a selection of hit songs spanning across different genres such as rock, pop, country music, and RnB.
You can even watch the coaches compete for a chance to have you on their team. You'll also get the chance to learn about breathing exercises, singing and harmonizing in the "Coach mode". All of this will help you improve your performance while playing with your friends.
You can enjoy this game with at least seven of your close friends and word your fave songs while in the game's Party mode.
Another great thing with this game is that it's one of the cheapest Wii U games. Some reviews can be found on metacritic.com.
#4 Disney Sing It: Family Hits
If you or your kids are fans of Disney movies, then the Family Hits version of "Sing It" video game by Disney would stimulate their interest.
Disney's Sing It: Family Hits includes 30 videos and songs from Disney's all-time popular classic hits such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jungle Book, and Mary Poppins. It also features songs and videos from contemporary films such as Aladin, Princess & The Frog, Lion King and more.
In competitive and collaborative modes, players can go one-to-one as they view songs from their favorite movies.
The karaoke gameplay is easy to adapt to as it has full-screen visuals from Disney hits.
In the family mode, up to eight players can join in the fun while singing along to the songs and passing the Wii U Microphone. Players can also playback and add voice effects to their performances.
#5 Disney Sing It: Nintendo Wii
The cheaper alternative to the Family Hits version, this new karaoke video game features a collection of popular fan favorites as well as the hottest Disney talents.
The Nintendo Wii version of the Disney Sing It includes video songs from Camp Rock, Disney's summer blockbuster. It also includes other favorites from Disney such as Miley Cyrus's Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, and even the High School Musical movie, with Olesya Rulin as the vocal coach.
From the full TV screen, players can sing along to today's tunes while having a blast alongside their favorite Disney characters and friends.
The game features up to 35 songs and videos from Disney stars. Players can also compete against their friends in multiplayer modes such as Team Play, Versus, and Duet. Players can also personalize their game experiences as they can unlock or download new themed skins.
#6 Sing 4: The Hits Edition
Sing 4: Hits Edition by Crave Entertainment includes a microphone and precisive lyrics scoring system that can detect humming or singing. It includes amazing effects such as pitch correction for voice enhancement and features 40 original selections of popular tracks and video songs from your chart-topping stars.
The Sing 4 video game allows up to four players to sing and dance to their favorite tunes simultaneously. Players can also record and play back their performances during game modes such as Solo, Battle, Duet, and Co-op.
The fun voice effects include Reverb, Echo, Wobble, Ogre, and Helium, which allow players to alter their voices and almost completely change the way they sound. Another fun feature is the pitch correction effect which tunes your voice to match the vocals and pitch of the song. Interestingly, this pitch correction can also be used independently or in conjunction with other voice effects.

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Sergeant Major of the Army Jack Tilley is the advisor to the Army Chief of Staff on all enlisted-related matters.
Visiting with soldiers at Fort Bragg Wednesday, Tilley says he can report back that morale there is high.
"I think the morale of soldiers is very motivated. They understand what the responsibilities are and they understand what they have to do. We've always been focused, but because of what happened on Sept. 11, I think we're a lot more focused right now," he says.
Tilley works at the Pentagon, and on Sept. 11, saw a different kind of war unfolding.
"I turned around and followed the fire trucks, went back into the building to make sure soldiers I worked with were gone, then went out back to help like everybody else," he says.
As Tilley watched soldiers train and heard their concerns, he says what he heard most is that soldiers are ready.
"Most people are proud to be in the military right now. It's an exciting time for a lot of us who have never experienced anything like this before," says Sergeant Laurie Miller.
"Whatever our country decides they want us to do, that's what I'm here for," says 1st Sergeant Alvin Jackson.
For now, Fort Bragg soldiers train and wait. Tilley says the soldiers are staying calm and are even more focused than they were before the attack.
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Ranking the Best Restrictor-Plate Drivers in NASCAR's Sprint Cup SeriesMay 3, 2013
Ranking the Best Restrictor-Plate Drivers in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series
When it comes to the tricky, dangerous business of restrictor-plate racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, there are few secrets.
The key to success at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway – the circuit's only venues where restrictor plates are required to keep speeds down – is mere survival. That equates to part luck and much patience. Many drivers opt to stay out of the fray up front until the final 20 laps or so, staying back with the idea of avoiding the big wrecks that are sure to come as the cars race three-wide at more than 200 miles per hour down the front and back stretches.
These tracks aren't like others where good finishes are virtually guaranteed once a driver gets a feel for the places. Even the best restrictor-plate racers occasionally are going to get caught up in The Big One and be forced to settle for a poor finish.
The best ones know how to make sure they're around at the end when it gets really crazy. Only then can they hope to withstand what is sure to be a white-knuckle finish and grab the checkered flag at NASCAR's fastest tracks.
Here are the best of the best at restrictor-plate racing.
10. Clint Bowyer
The man who slid across the finish line at the 2007 Daytona 500 on the hood of his race car learned the hard way that it's best to keep all four wheels on the ground.
Bowyer also has learned that you don't have to try to stay up front, where it's more risky, all day long in these races. That approach has enabled him to win twice at Talladega despite leading the total for just 96 laps there in his first 14 career starts.
Bowyer also is in the minority in that his average finishes at both Daytona and Talladega are better than his average starts (19.0 average start to 15.5 average finish at Daytona; 18.7 average start to 16.1 average finish at 'Dega).
That means even when he's not winning, he's usually at least finishing – even if it's on his roof with sparks and fire flying everywhere. And merely completing these races under any circumstances is no small accomplishment.
9. Jamie McMurray
There is perhaps no other driver who stands as a better example of the craziness that can – and usually does – envelope the restrictor-plate races.
Entering the spring Talladega race, McMurray had in his career led at total of just 18 of 3,375 laps in 24 starts at Daytona – and won there twice (the 2010 Daytona 500 and the Pepsi 400 in 2007).
He also had one win at Talladega, where he had led a total of 221 of 3,650 laps per racingreference.com
McMurray's downfall is that his results seem to be feast or famine at the two tracks – great on some days, when his strategy and timing to get to the front are perfect; and unable to avoid disaster on too many others. His average career finishes reflect this (24.5 at Daytona and 20.0 at Talladega). He finished in the top 10 in just 10 of his first 42 starts combined.
8. Kevin Harvick
Harvick has an edge over many other drivers, because the type of mentality that often seems to work best in the restrictor-plate races already is ingrained in his overall mental approach toward all races. He likes to lay back, stay out of trouble, and make his move to the front towards the end.
In his first 24 career starts at Talladega, he claimed one win, six top-five and 10 top-10 finishes while leading a total of just 155 of 4,446 laps completed.
In his first 24 career starts at Daytona, he claimed two victories (one Daytona 500 and one Coke Zero 400 in July), five top-five and 10 top-10 finishes while leading 178 of 3,815 laps per racingreference.com.
Those numbers suggest a guy who knows how to keep his car mostly out of trouble to get to the end. It's particularly worth noting that he has been able to finish in the top 10 in nearly half of his career starts in restrictor-plate events. Again, no small feat.
7. Matt Kenseth
Kenseth is another proven practitioner of patience when others around him seem to panic and chaos breaks out. That mentality serves him well at Daytona and Talladega.
Kenseth also has a solid reputation of giving other drivers plenty of room when he's attempting to pass them. Most other veteran drivers then afford him the same respect whenever they can. That usually helps him keep his car in one piece and around for the finish.
He's won two Daytona 500s in addition to scoring one victory at Talladega (even though his first 500 win was rain-shortened). He's also led more than 600 laps at the two places in his career, indicating he can play both sides of the strategy game equally well.
6. Michael Waltrip
If he were running more than three Sprint Cup races this season (the July race at Daytona and both Talladega events), he probably would be ranked higher. But as good as he is at the restrictor-plate races, one has to wonder if there might be a little rust hampering him these days – especially with so little seat time in NASCAR's new Generation-6 race car.
Waltrip recently turned 50 and now is more into being owner of Michael Waltrip Racing than he is into actually getting behind the wheel. Nevertheless, he can't seem to resist running at his two favorite race tracks, where he has scored all four of his Cup wins in a career that has spanned 29 years.
No one is more experienced at finding the right drafting partner and knowing when to push or when to ask to be pushed, nor how to do it in every type of Cup car the governing body has put on the track over those nearly three decades.
Considering he entered the 2013 season having run a total of nearly 17,000 Cup laps at Daytona and Talladega combined, that should rate as no surprise.
5. Jimmie Johnson
The five-time champion doesn't shrink from the challenge of running in packs at high speeds at the restrictor-plate races. And sometimes he pays a high price for that by getting caught up in wrecks that relegate him to poor finishes. Other times, his high-risk, high-reward gambits pay off.
Johnson believes in qualifying well and usually tries to stay near the front, unlike some other drivers who don't worry much about where they're going to start at 2.5-mile DIS or the 2.66-mile 'Dega track. It's paid off with a total of three poles – but his average finish is nearly eight spots lower than his average start at Talladega and the overall numbers are even worse at Daytona (9.6 average start, 18.2 average finish per racingreference.com).
Despite all that, Johnson always has great Hendrick Motorsports teammates that he can draft with and he might be the smartest driver in NASCAR in terms of knowing when to lay back and bide his time and when to risk going for it. That's why he's been able to win two Daytona 500s, plus pull off a pair of wins at Talladega.
4. Brad Keselowski
The sample size for Keselowski isn't as large for most of the other top drivers, as the defending Sprint Cup champion hasn't been around nearly as long in NASCAR's top national touring series. But who can forget his dramatic win in the 2009 Aaron's 499 at Talladega, when he pushed Carl Edwards from fifth to the front over the final two laps and then passed Edwards coming out of Turn 4 on the final lap?
Edwards' ill-timed attempt to block Keselowski nearly sent Edwards and his race car into the grandstands that day, and threatened to overshadow the fact that the then-relatively unknown Keselowski had pulled off one of the sport's great upsets while driving for underfunded owner James Finch.
Keselowski backed that up with another victory at Talladega in 2012 en route to his Cup title, giving him a pair of victories in just his first eight career restrictor-plate races. He obviously has a knack for making the right moves at precisely the right time on the restrictor-plate tracks and is a threat at any time to score his first win at Daytona.
3. Tony Stewart
Stewart seems to love running up front at Daytona and Talladega, which is the opposite strategy of many other drivers who lay back and wait to make their moves to the front toward the end of the restrictor-plate races.
You want evidence? He had led nearly 1,000 laps at the two tracks in his career heading into this spring's Talladega race. He's still chasing that first Daytona 500 victory, but he owns four wins in the July race at DIS and beat out upstart Regan Smith for a controversial win – the only one of his career – at Talladega in 2008.
He's led a remarkable total of 665 laps at Daytona. It seems only a matter of time until he finally wins there in February, too, and then his restrictor-plate resume will be complete.
2. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Rise up, Junior Nation! If there is one place besides Michigan where he's a threat to get back to Victory Lane every time, it's Talladega. To a lesser extent, that holds true at Daytona as well.
Earnhardt ranks second amongst active drivers in laps led at Talladega, where he brought the crowd to its feet a total of 737 times while scoring five victories in his first 26 career starts (per racingreference.com). Earlier in his career, he drafted frequently with then-DEI teammate Michael Waltrip at both 'Dega and Daytona with great success. He owns two wins at Daytona, including the 2004 Daytona 500.
There is an art to drafting and Earnhardt understands it better in the new Gen-6 car than he did in the old COT. Besides, what other driver is going to refuse his request to draft or screw Earnhardt by bailing on him at the end and survive the wrath of the vast Junior Nation fan base?
1. Jeff Gordon
Sure, it's been a while since Gordon has won at either place (2007 at Talladega and 2005 at Daytona). But he won the pole last spring at Talladega and finished second behind race winner Matt Kenseth there in the fall. And the career numbers scream that he's still the best of the current lot of active drivers.
It's not only about the wins. He has six each, by the way, at Daytona and Talladega. But he also had registered 27 top-five and 38 top-10 finishes at the two tracks heading into the spring race at 'Dega. He had led the staggering totals of 839 laps at Talladega and 621 at Daytona over his career, with also included three poles at each venue (per racingreference.com).
Gordon has excellent Hendrick Motorsports teammates with which to draft – but unlike Earnhardt, who could be content with pushing a teammate or even another driver to the win and settling for second, Gordon hides a ruthless streak behind his boyish good looks and will do just about anything to get back to Victory Lane.
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The advising relationship is an important place for conversations that connect the dots between learning that happens inside and outside the classroom. Advising Circles provide a weekly opportunity for small groups of first-year students to come together with their Academic Advisors to talk about curricular and co-curricular opportunities and what it means to be a member of the Denison community. Participating in a Circle allows a student to explore how the Denison community is shaped by a diversity of perspectives and to begin planning for four years of meaningful, educational experiences.
Students who have participated in Advising Circles have been overwhelmingly positive about their experience — "I got to know my advisor so well, I wish our group continued meeting throughout the spring." 90% of students who have taken an Advising Circle would strongly recommend it to entering students. Faculty are equally enthusiastic about their experience — "This is, by far, the best I have gotten to know my advisees. It was a very rich and rewarding experience." Advising Circles meet weekly in the fall and monthly in the spring.


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IPOs worth half a billion dollars shelved amid Italy fallout
Market volatility blamed as three European companies decide to halt initial public offerings
Three European initial public offerings totaling more than $560m have either been cancelled or postponed this week, as Italy's political woes send shockwaves through global stock markets.
Volatility has returned to the world's financial markets in 2018 and a fresh bout this week has prompted three firms to pull their planned IPOs.
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For Queens youngsters, the road to the Olympics could begin in Bayside when the USA Luge tryouts slide into Crocheron Park.
The USA Luge Slider Search, an initiative from the national team to foster the sport and identify young talents, will be making a stop in the park on Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 to host free recruitment clinics for kids from ages 9 to 13.
Children will get the chance to experience the sport and some may qualify for the Junior Development Team, which is the first step to becoming a member of the senior national and Olympic luge teams.
"Luge is a very facility drive sport. We only have two in the country," said Fred Zimny, recruitment manager for USA Luge. "Instead of waiting for kids to come to us, we reach out to the country."
The clinics will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. each day. There is a limit of about 100 participants in total and each child will receive a free USA Luge t-shirt.
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Pupillid land snails (Family Pupillidae) are small (<6mm) snails with a broad geographic distribution and often found in very high density in their habitat. The sequencing of the mitochondrial genome (mt genome) of three pupillid taxa has been undertaken to understand their genome evolution more fully. The Gastrocopta cristata mitochondrial genome is 14,060 bp in length and contains 13 protein coding genes, 2 rRNA genes and 22 tRNA genes. The Pupilla muscorum, and Vertigo pusilla genomes contain all of the same genes but are of differing total sizes, 14,149 bp and 14,078 bp respectively. The AT content of the three genomes is similar at ~71% A+T which is comparable to their closest sequenced relatives. There are no major gene rearrangements among the mt genomes of the three pupillids, but the positions of many tRNA genes differ from those of Albinaria caerulea. There is a genomic sequence region of high concentration of thymine on the leading strand of the mt genome that is shared among all three genomes as well as their relatives.
Pupillidae, mitochondrial genome, Gastrocopta cristata, Pupilla muscorum, Vertigo pusilla, sequencing, Stylommatophora, mitochondria
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Bergthorsson, Ulfar
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Nekola, Jeffery C.
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Adema, Coenraad M.
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Marquardt, Jason D.. "Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Pupillid Land Snails." (2013). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/75


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Bungie released another weekly blog post, talking about the imminent monumental changes Destiny 2 will undergo. Players will be able to transfer their accounts from 20 August 2019 and the game will be released on Steam on 1 October 2019.
Destiny 2 migration to Steam will be completed on 1 October 2019 but players will have over a month to transfer their accounts from Battle.net. Following the migration, Destiny 2 will not be available on Blizzard.net so the move will be mandatory for the existing players.
The good news is that everything, including guardians, gear and triumphs will be carried over and players will essentially just drop one launcher for another that happens to have more features and seems to be more stable. All the existing players will be invited to start the account linking process on 20 August 2019 and they can complete it before the Steam release in order to make the as smooth as possible.
Cross saving will come one day later, on 21 August 2019. It is a great feature that will allow players to copy their progress from one platform to any other supported system but it has some drawbacks.
For example, nothing that players purchased will transfer to the other platform. This includes expansions and Silver balances but Bungie didn't specify if purchased cosmetics will carry over.
The reason for the inability of carrying purchases over is more likely that the different platforms don't allow using items paid for in another store rather than Bungie not wanting to carry them over.
It does benefit the developers indirectly since players will have to purchase them all over again if they want their shiny cosmetics from consoles to be displayed on PC but it is really hard to imagine Sony letting microtransactions from Xbox One carry over to PlayStation 4 and vice versa.
In case that you are looking for more information on cross saving, you can check the or perhaps even contact Bungie support for information not included in the list.
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I was emailed by them. What my email says that this article doesn't, is that the 327 million customers did have their credit card info taken, and they can't discern if they took the data too for unencrypting.
Unauthorized access for 4 years. Good grief. I'm glad I have credit freezes on all 4 #credit check places.
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Which area has the most vacant land vanishing to development in the United States? Would you guess A.) Los Angeles, CA B.) New York City C.) San Diego, CA or D.) Orange County, CA? If your answer was A, B, C, or D, you would be wrong. The answer is the Inland Empire, which consists of San Bernardino County and Riverside County in Southern California. Vacant land in Southern California's Inland Empire is vanishing the fastest in San Bernardino County, CA to residential, industrial, and commercial developments. According to a report by scientists at Conservation Science Partners, San Bernardino County, CA lost approximately 60,013 acres of vacant land to development within a 10 year period.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.– Voltaire
Motivation to perform to perfection is a strong force in western society. The attitude that we have to be better than anyone else at something, to achieve perfection in our activities, has been a strong force throughout modern history, from the world's nations down to the individuals which form their bases. And it's seen every day in projects of all scopes and sizes.
But Voltaire left a message that should be listened to, by everyone on every project – one that is unfortunately ignored by many, to their detriment.
It's a somewhat heretical thought: What if we don't have to be perfect? What if we just do good enough to pass? What will that offer us instead of striving to be the best? Well, what it offers is the ability to work more efficiently and still do a proper job of it.
What is good enough?
It's actually pretty simple. Being good enough is about meeting the needs of the project, rather than the ideals. Some might think it means lacking quality, but it's really more about balancing quality against the work that actually needs to be accomplished.
For an example of something good enough, one need only recall the 1980s and early 90s, to VHS. In the late 70s and early 80s, it competed against the Betamax standard for home video. However, it won the competition in the end because it was good enough for the average consumer. It was cheap, had acceptable video and audio quality, and was readily available. In contrast, Sony's Betamax standard, while better quality than VHS, was more expensive and harder to get a hold of. The focus of having a perfect format paradoxically resulted in a product that couldn't cut it against VHS.
What's wrong with being perfect?
First of all, perfectionism is procrastination. Say it out loud: perfectionism is procrastination. When you try to be perfect, you get little, if anything, actually accomplished. Planning for perfection leads to a project terminal state known as analysis paralysis – you get so bogged down in the details of what could happen, what could be needed, etc. that you never actually get started at all. And for a project that is in development, perfectionism can lead to endless wanking on a few particular pet tasks of the developers, as they keep trying to make those parts they're working on better and better. At first it may look like progress, but at some point, those constant attempts at improvement return no value at all.
On the other hand, aiming for Good Enough just gets the job done. In planning, you focus on what the requirements are, no more, no less, and how to meet them simply and efficiently. No worrying about edge cases or making things bulletproof or endlessly customizable – meet the core needs and be done with it. As for development, it should be simple enough to test against the plan to see if a task is met. Once it is, you move on to the next one, and stop worrying about the one you just finished. The work goes by faster, and you accomplish more.
Another issue with perfection is that not everyone agrees on what perfect means, in the context of the project. It's very easy to end up with a camel, when what you want is a horse, because everyone thinks that the perfect quadruped needs this or that or the other thing. It's a very subjective concept, as opposed to achieving good enough. Not to say that good enough isn't subjective itself, but it's a much easier target to hit and reach consensus on, and if you plan well, it can be objectively determined whether or not something is Good Enough based on project goals, client needs, and metrics collected during the planning and development stages of a project.
Determining what is good enough
There are three simple questions you can ask:
Is it simple? That is to say, is the design simple and can be picked up by the developers without much work? If the design and implementation is simple, it's easier to make any needed changes later, while still fulfilling the current requirements now.
Does it work acceptably well? If it's easy for the end user to figure out, and does the job without raising problems the user can't handle, it's good.
Does it cover all the bases? It should meet the project requirements, with a minimum of additional features tacked on. Wherever additional things are added, it should either be because of (legitimately) changing requirements, or because those features are required by the features which do meet project requirements.
There are some clear advantages to aiming for good enough rather than for perfection. You'll be more efficient while still providing a proper job well done. It's not necessary to provide all the bells and whistles so long as you meet the goals of your project, so don't try for it! Success comes from getting the job done right, not done perfect. And good enough is doing it right.
The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.– Karl von Clausewitz
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Is Zynga a Potential 10-Bagger?
The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which analyst John Reeves and advisor David Meier discuss topics relating to their 10-Bagger portfolio.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus gave a fascinating interview recently with GamesIndustry International. He said he wants to build a platform for the next generation of gaming: social and mobile. That's intriguing. When he talks about platforms, it reminds John and David of Amazon.com and eBay, two retailing platforms that attract lots of people and activity. Zynga got its start by hooking into the Facebook platform, so there's a great deal of knowledge and experience that it can use to grow. Users continue to flock to Zynga's games in much the way people continue to use Pandora's platform to listen to their favorite music. What Pincus is saying really resonates with what John and David are looking for in their portfolio. He's looking to build a transformational technology and is certainly very passionate about what he wants to do. The key, however, is whether Zynga can find ways to grab some of the value that it's creating for gamers and deliver it to shareholders.
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Gold Medal for Emit M20
This year's Golden Ear Award in the category of Best Compact Speaker up to 1,000 Euro goes to our Emit M20.
Another homerun for our leading compact speaker with 26% of the votes by Audio magazine's readers.
We'll gratefully add this one to its trophy cabinet.


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Quik Pick Expands Clean Fleet Again
October 23, 2014
Quik Pick Express, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of new EPA compliant International day cab quad axle tractors to expand our clean truck fleet. These tractors are custom made to allow for the legal transport of heavy haul containers using additional truck axles.
The Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland all require the use of EPA compliant tractors. Quik Pick only uses clean trucks in its operations in LA, Long Beach and now the Port of Oakland. The new tractors were deployed in our Southern California operations.
George Boyle, President/CEO, announced the purchase which was coordinated by Russ Knight, Manager of Fleet & Safety at Quik Pick. This purchase will significantly increase our drayage capacity as we look to continue our growth throughout the state.
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The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa is hurting some of the world's fastest growing economies by grinding key sectors including informal businesses, tourism and transport to a halt. The Ebola virus is quickly eating into staler growth projections in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria by making it expensive to do business in these countries and keeping customers and tourists away.
Sierra Leone, for example, was forecast to grow its GDP by up to 11.3 percent this year. But the Ebola outbreak could cut these numbers to as low as 7 percent.
"The Economy was projected to grow by 11.3 percent in 2014. That is very difficult now to achieve. The best we could do is between maybe 7-8 percent or at most 9 percent," Alimamy Bangura, Sierra Leone Economic Policy Unit Director, told CCTV Africa.
"Tourism is a fast growing sector in Sierra Leone but because of the Ebola out outbreak tourists are now scared away. Most of the hotel occupancy are very low now. Most of the restaurants are not doing good business."
Several airlines have also suspended flights to these countries, making it even harder to transact international business.
The World Health Organization is encouraged by one patient in Nigeria making a full recovery and no new cases have been diagnosed there in the past few days. But it warns this global health emergency is still not under control.


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By Bianca Garcia
SAN ANTONIO—The staff at Our Lady of the Lake University came together in an effort to recognize student workers during National Student Employment Week (NSEW).
According to the National Student Employee Association (NSEA), National Student Employment Week is April 9 through April 15 and supports and advocates the advancement of student employment professionals through training, professional development, and research opportunities for the purpose of skill building and career development of student employees.
OLLU celebrated NSEW by providing it's student body with treats that ranged from sausage wraps to mangonadas, celebrating the student employees for a job well done.
Melissa Franco, a student worker in the Academic Affairs office says that working at OLLU is fun and works around her class schedule.
"Besides the free food after the meetings, working at OLLU is fun and it's all in one spot—our classes and work," Franco said. "There is no need to drive everywhere."
According to Mayra Martinez, Assistant Director-FA/Student Employment, NSEW is to recognize current student workers with the hopes to recruit future student workers.
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How to Keep Your Electronic Devices Safe and also Secure in Dubai
Dubai is residence to a big population and high-density structures. This makes it an ideal place to store things that are not required typically, like furnishings or boxes. There are lots of means to keep products in Dubai, and some of the very best methods consist of box storage, furniture storage, as well as moving company dubai. When packing for a short journey to Dubai, it is very important to think of what storage services will function best for your requirements. Box storage can be a terrific option for small things, however know that larger items might not fit in the box. Furthermore, relocating business in Dubai offer different Storage Solutions which can assist you relocate large furniture and also items promptly and effectively. If you are moving or storage your belongings in Dubai, there are a few tips to comply with to make sure that your step goes efficiently as well as with no disorder. Box storage is a terrific choice forDubai storage as it can supply lots of area to kee


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DJMag Top 100 DJs 2011 is back, this year voting will be different compared to previous years as you will be voting using Facebook app! All you need to do is click 'like' on the DJmag page, choose your 5 DJs and vote. So who is going to be the next Top DJs? Will Armin Van Buuren stay on the top list or any chances for other DJs to take over #1 this year? The voting started on July 27, 2011. Well let's start voting! Read more for information and link.
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It's the last week for open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplace as the window closes Dec. 15. Health insurance experts say it's business as usual, despite a number of changes that have caused some confusion this year.
A shortened enrollment period is the most obvious difference for people signing up on the Marketplace this year. Reduced promotion and federal fighting over repeal of the law has added to uncertainty says Care Source Indiana's Steve Smitherman.
"I can tell you, our interactions with members across the state," says Smitherman. "They were under the impression that it's gone or going away so they couldn't enroll anymore."
READ MORE: Shop Around: Subsidies May Offset Your 2018 Health Insurance Price Hike
When enrollment opened last month there was an influx of people says Smitherman.
"For us here in Indiana we're about 200 percent above where we were last year at this time," he says.
Covering Kids and Families Policy Director Mark Fairchild says state-supported organizations like his can help Hoosiers navigate the changes.
"The changes are big enough now they should probably go in and see," says Fairchild. "There is probably an even better plan for them now."
That's due to the tax breaks a majority of Hoosiers are eligible for.


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1st Birthdays
We get asked frequently "what is good for a first birthday party?", so we thought that we would dedicate a whole web page to these pieces of equipment.
they can be combined with other inflatables if there were older children also attending, and don't forget our "Add ons" section!


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Truth versus Heresy
Though both the above are often spoken of as separate, they are really one and the same. They claim that Jesus offers the Gospel to everyone. John Gill, one of the best Protestant theologians, dismissed the idea, as do a number of modern evangelical groups.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 31 ("What is Effectual Calling?"), speaks of being persuaded to "embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel". This is not how we today interpret the idea of an 'offer'. In the Catechism it means that God's elect are drawn by God's calling. Today, the idea of an 'offer' is rarely properly defined, and is mostly not in accord with the Catechism, but in accord with the false notion that the Gospel is an offer we may, or may not accept, rather like something we may buy in a shop. In other words, an Arminian theology.
The Canons of Dort put it this way:
"Moreover, it is the promise of the gospel that whoever believes in Christ crucified shall not perish but have eternal life. This promise, together with the command to repent and believe, ought to be announced and declared without differentiation or discrimination to all nations and people, to whom God in his good pleasure sends the gospel" (II.5).
Many are called – but few are chosen (Matthew 22:14). This opposes a statement by John Murray ("The Free Offer of the Gospel" [the majority report submitted to the General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1948] by John Murray with a foreword by R. Scott Clark), that says "the free offer of the Gospel is a grace bestowed upon all".
Like some Calvinists (though I am not a Calvinist) I cannot accept Murray's definition, for it flies in the face of biblical declaration. God is not a servant, or a merchandiser who offers a product, and waits for someone to buy it! Rather, He elected all who will be saved in eternity, before He made what we now refer to as 'creation'. Preachers do not know who these elect are, and so they are to preach to all men (except those we may not preach to, depending on the will of the Holy Spirit), but only the elect, if present, will respond and be saved. Thus, there is no 'offer'; there is only a declaration by God and a salvation based on God's election: a statement of fact, of an act already executed. An 'offer' (in the modern sense) would drag the Gospel downwards into a mire of human choices, making God a mere salesman desperate for a sale, and human beings mulling-over what they will do!
The Majority Report of the general Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (1948) says the problem centres on "whether it can properly be said that God desires the salvation of all men." Though I believe in what scripture says – that God CANNOT desire the salvation of all men when it was He Who chose the elect in the first place. Apparently, though I do not consider myself to be a Calvinist, this is enough to brand me an Hyper-Calvinist! I would rather say I believe my Bible.
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"Ours is a denial that arises out of the Reformed faith itself, that is in perfect harmony with all aspects of the Reformed faith (including the serious, external call to all who come under the preaching!), and that is made for the sake of the maintenance of the Reformed faith. It is not a rejection of the church's duty to preach the gospel to all men indiscriminately. We believe that the many must be called." ("Is Denial of the Well-Meant Offer Hyper Calvinism?")
Is there a general call? I think the term needs a far deeper analysis and definition, though we can say that preachers must preach to all. But, I do not see this as a 'call to salvation'. Rather, it is a call by God for all men to repent and obey Him, whether or not they become saved. It would be better to not use the word 'call', and to replace it with something like 'demand'. It is also true, as Jesus shows us in His words to the disciples, that we may not preach to those who reject the Gospel. It is also true that we are sometimes constrained by the Holy Spirit against preaching to certain people.
Is there evidence for an 'offer' in scripture? No, there is not. This is just plain fact, with no theological choice or denominational fancy. Stating this makes me a Bible believer, not an 'hyper-Calvinist'! And believing in an offer (by this is meant a person who hears the Gospel can choose the offer or reject it) is Arminian heresy, not genuine biblical truth.
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Today is Glioblastoma Awareness Day. For children battling this rare brain tumor, treatment options are limited and after relapse, the disease tends to spread quickly.
In 2016, we shared the story of Chloe Cox, a then 12 year old from Texarkana, Texas who had been diagnosed with glioblastoma. Chloe's family utilized the ALSF Travel For Care program to help cover the costs of hotel rooms 300 miles... Read More


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I've been into dark liquor lately and was intrigued when I came across this cocktail recipe in Andrea Reusing's wonderful book Cooking in the Moment. She's got a plethora of seasonal, farm-to-table recipes and lovely stories about life in North Carolina.
This is basically a Manhattan, composed of rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. But Reusing replaces the typical Maraschino cherries with homemade pickled sour cherries. The deep maroon of the juice and the garnish make this drink particularly appealing.
The Homeward Angel
For Pickled Sour Cherries
makes 1 quart
1 1/4 cups rice vinegar
a few small slices of fresh ginger
15 black peppercorns
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp kosher salt
4 cups pitted fresh sour cherries (about 1 lb)
For the Cocktails
makes 2
4 oz rye whiskey
1 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz orange bitters
2 splashes of cherry pickling liquid
4 Pickled Sour Cherries
1. Make the cherries the day before: In a small nonreactive saucepan, combine the vinegar, ginger, peppercorns, sugar, salt, and 1 cup water, and bring to a boil. Put the cherries in a large heatproof jar and pour the hot vinegar mixture over them, covering them completely. When they are cooled, cover and refrigerate. Let sit for at least a day.
2. Make the drinks: Pour the rye, vermouth, bitters and pickling liquid over ice in a cocktail mixer. Shake well to chill. Either strain into a chilled martini glass, or pour over ice. Garnish with 2 sour cherries.


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Theoretical insight into chlorine adsorption on the Fe(100) surface
Altarawneh, M.ORCID: 0000-0002-2832-3886 and Saraireh, S.A. (2014) Theoretical insight into chlorine adsorption on the Fe(100) surface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16 (18). pp. 8575-8581.
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Although I don't consider myself a militant grammarian, as a writer and as a teacher of writing, I have a number of grammar pet peeves. High on my list of annoyances sits pronoun reference errors. When a writer uses a pronoun without a logical antecedent—or when the antecedent is vague—the grammarian in me awakens, and I can barely stop myself from picking up a pen and scribbling "vague/unclear pronoun antecedent!"
Recently, I delighted in reading "They Get to Me: A young psycholinguist confesses her strong attraction to pronouns" in The American Scholar. The author, Jessica Love, discusses a number of fascinating aspects of pronoun use and history. She notes that pronouns, by definition:
Love also discusses dummy pronouns, "which don't mean anything at all." She explains:
only contain vague information, like first-person or plural. In order for something this vague to effectively retrieve a word's meaning, there has to be a whole lot of context. Imagine all the words contained in your mind as a vast pool of fish. Look carefully and you'll see that each fish is different from all the others. If you had a hook selective enough, you'd be able to control which fish you catch. But pronouns are not selective hooks. Pronouns are sweeping nets. You have to cast your net shallowly in the hopes that you catch the one noun the pronoun refers to. That's what context does: it pushes what's relevant to the surface of the mind.Helping students understand the contextual nature of pronouns can be challenging. Young writers often struggle to see how anyone (especially their teacher!) could not "see" the context so clear in their minds. As students develop both the facility to use more complex language structures and the recognition that their readers' minds may lack contextual information, students become more skilled at detecting and correcting pronoun reference errors.
Love also discusses dummy pronouns, "which don't mean anything at all." She explains:
They're those pronouns that exist only because the English language demands that each sentence contain a subject: the it in "It's raining" or the there in "There is a shed in my back yard." (Note: the there only works as an example of a dummy pronoun if I am not pointing to a shed, and am nowhere near my back yard.) (Note: most linguistic examples have caveats like this, making the linguist's life frustrating...)After reading Love's piece, pronouns may get to you, too.


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David Yudis, President of Potential Selves, Featured on NBC
President of Potential Selves, David Yudis, was recently seen on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox network affiliates around the country as a guest on Hollywood Live.
Los Angeles, CA – December 16, 2019 – Dr. David Yudis, President of Potential Selves was recently a featured guest on Hollywood Live. The show, which filmed in Hollywood, CA by an Emmy Award winning crew, was hosted by Jack Canfield, Best-Selling Author® and co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul. The show included guests from around the country who shared their expertise and stories of their success. Dr. Yudis discussed his journey as a business psychologist. Dr. Yudis discussed the importance of his experiences working with leaders to decrease the distance between them and their business success.
Hollywood Live is produced by The Dicks and Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency®. The episode featuring Dr. Yudis recently aired on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates across the country.
About David Yudis:
Dr. David Yudis is an expert in delivering business growth through the development of people. As a business psychologist, he has led global teams, assessed, advised and coached senior executives in some of the world's most competitive organizations. Today he is the President of Potential Selves, a leadership consulting corporation based in Los Angeles. David's work combines science and art. He invests in his clients and believes anyone can get to what they seek if they realize their possibilities. His commitment is to provide creative business solutions that maximize human performance.
To learn more about Potential Selves, visit www.potentialselves.com
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Well, I've been doing a bit more NS Basic App Studio work lately, and I like my newest program – it's a very simple to-do list that I can use for grocery shopping or that sort of thing.
There are lots of grocery store apps in the app store, but that's the problem; there's too many to really look through, and most of them seem to be way too complicated, with built-in lists of possibly groceries or what have you. I didn't even need all the bells and whistles of the Palm to-do program when I used that for groceries. All I really wanted was this:
- Let me type new items into the list.
- Let me see what's currently in the list, scrolling up and down as necessary.
- Let me delete something from the list easily, but not so easily that I'll do it by accident.
- And remember the list for me while I'm doing something else.
It wasn't too hard to put all of this together with NS Basic app studio, though there were a few tricky gotchas – like how you have to tell it to redraw the list every time you add something new, just so it can work out the scrolling logic for the new list length.
The most interesting part of it was probably the save and restore logic, to make sure that the list would always be there when I switched away from the app. It seems that Safari doesn't give a good way of event trapping when you hit the home button on the iphone, so the best way is to resave with every change. Here's some of the code that handles that.


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Representation And EntitlementTarek Raimo
"Those who simply voted a ballot as prescribed by CFC leadership […] were never really voting for 'me' in the first place, but I will continue to represent you as best I can." – Xander PhoenaWhen the Phoebe developer proposals caused emotional outbursts among players, some turned toward the CSM representatives to express their dissatisfaction and maybe even find someone to blame. In particular, there are people who feel that their representative should have done more to spare them nerfs or maybe influence an outcome that would be more beneficial to them. Being a writer for Crossing Zebras puts me in close contact with CSM member Xander Phoena, of course, so I heard a thing or two from him on how that can play out. The question that I ended up asking myself is whether a CSM representative can even have such a major influence and, if so, whether they should use it to benefit what could arguably be called their constituency.


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Hello friends, and welcome back for another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! We are so excited to be sharing boxes and bows with you today - twenty stops around the world for perfect packaging! You're currently in Calgary, Canada with me, Shannon, and you'll be off to see Steffi in Germany next - please don't hesitate to use your "Translate" button on your browser to ensure you're keeping up with all of us!
I decided to use the Boxes and Bows theme to create a suite of packaging perfect for a little boy's baby shower - and my first step was a gift box!
The Gift Box Punch Board makes creating boxes SUPER easy, and I wanted to modify mine a little bit to make it easier for clumsy hands - like mine! - that don't enjoy the criss-cross-closure. I much prefer a classic-top tab-and-tuck closure, so that's exactly what I decided to make!
Want to know how to create a tab-and-tuck closure? I whipped up a video tutorial for you at the last minute - so pardon my rushing, my shaky hands, and my bad Anglo accent as I pronounce fellow-Artisan Rachel's name!
Because I'm sharing a boy-themed suite, I wanted to add some boy-bows; they don't have to be girly! The Bow-Builder Punch makes perfect little bowties, too, and there's nothing cuter than stringing them together in a garland. These were punched with DSP (from Schoolhouse and Bohemian collections) in Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, and Tangerine Tango. So cute!
Since so many hosts like to do favours for their guests, a few tiny boxes would do just fine! The small gift box would make a perfect little building block, wouldn't it? Fortunately, the Little Letters and Little Numbers Framelits are perfect for whipping them up!
Adding an A-B-C and 1-2-3 completes the look; they're just darling and they come together so quickly. It would be a breeze to make these for a crowd!
And last but not least, no gift is complete without a card! I was itching to create a vintage-striped onesie- my son had one just like this in brown, orange, and yellow, and I wanted to make a tiny paper version. I love how it turned out!


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U.S. Sen. Steve Daines was asked if he has a time machine — because he might need one this weekend.
The Republican lawmaker plans to give his daughter away at her wedding in Montana on Saturday. That's the same day that the U.S. Senate will likely be holding a vote, across the country in Washington, D.C., to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.
Daines expressed confidence that he will be able to do both.
"I've got a wedding on Saturday. My goal this weekend is to walk my daughter down the aisle and to see a new United States Supreme Court justice put on our court," he said Thursday night to Fox News.
Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can spare only one defection if Democrats vote unanimously against Kavanaugh.
Daines said he personally called Kavanaugh earlier Thursday and told him: "I'm going to be there to vote for you as needed."
But his family plans definitely will make that difficult.
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The Senate held a key procedural vote Friday, starting the clock for a confirmation vote for Saturday afternoon. But Daines said Republican leaders will hold the vote open overnight so that he will have enough time to make it back to Capitol Hill after his daughter's wedding.
"Votes are helped open all the time on the floor of the U.S. Senate once a vote is called," Daines told Fox News.
On Friday morning, he expressed confidence to other reporters that "this is all going to work out" and would fly back to Washington on Saturday night after the wedding if necessary.
Katie Schoettler, the press secretary for Daines, tweeted a statement from the senator revealing that a fellow Montana lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, also a Republican, has offered the use of his private plane to fly Daines back to Washington on Saturday evening.
Schoettler emphasized in another tweet that any flight back to Capitol Hill "will NOT be at the taxpayers' expense."
The delay provides another twist in an unusually drawn out confirmation process for Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct while he was in high school and college. The allegations have jeopardized the votes of three moderate Republican senators and prompted an abbreviated FBI investigation into the claims.


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One of the best mid-priced Polish restaurants in the city, Introligatornia is highly recommended for value, service, and presentation of food.
With excellent value and service to match, Introligatornia Smaku is one of the best mid-priced Polish restaurants in the city. The beef cheek, cod, herring, and goose dumplings are nicely presented, without fuss. Try the fried apples in cinnamon for dessert. Highly recommended, especially if you happen to be in Kazimierz.
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Fashion Friday: Leo-Love with Roberto Cavalli.
von Marie-Charlotte am October 24th 2014 Tags: autumn, Fashion Friday, Herbst, Leo print, Leo-Muster, Paisley, Roberto Cavalli, Trendwatch, Winter
It´s Friday and so it´s time for a new "Fashion Friday" post on our blog which means that we have to choose one out of our many beautiful current Kids-and-couture-collections to present it more detailed. A little hint: Today it´s all about leopard pattern and paisley. Do you already have a clue?
He ist the (uncrowned) king of extravagant prints: Roberto Cavalli. Every fashion season the Italian manages to blow our minds with his fantastic designs, that are – at the same time – soooo Cavalli, that they are recognized at once!
This autumn and winter Cavalli seems to be in love with paisley and leopard patterns. We think he did everything right, because there is now better way to experience this season ♥♥♥


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Linde licenses gasification technology to Finnish company
Germany-based Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH has signed an agreement to license its Carbo-V biomass gasification technology to Forest BtL Oy, a Finnish biofuel developer. According to information released by Linde, the Carbo-V technology will be implemented at a new biomass-to-liquid facility in Kemi, Finland.
The transaction represents the first licensing agreement for the technology, which Linde acquired from Choren Industries GmbH in Feb. 2012. The process is a multi-stage biomass gasification process. Information published by Linde notes that during the first phase, a low-temperature gasifier converts biomass into biocoke and carbonization gas. The second stage involves partial oxidation of the gas in a high-temperature gasifier. During the next stage, biocoke is blown into the hot gas stream of the high-temperature gasifier. The synthesis gas is then preconditioned before being processed into biobased liquid fuels.
"Compared to other technologies, Carbo-V has a very high carbon conversion to synthesis gas as well as an outstanding syngas quality," said Mikko Kara, CEO of Forest BtL Oy.
The facility under development by Forest BtL Oy will have a gasification capacity of 480 MW. It will take in approximately 1.5 million tons of woody biomass per year, generating about 130,000 metric tons of renewable diesel and naphtha. The plant is currently expected to be operational by the end of 2016.


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I'm Ethan Fleischer, lead designer of Commander (2014 Edition). I am so excited about C14! I have a lot of great stories to tell about how it was designed, and not much space because I'll be sharing this article with Ian Duke, who was the lead developer on the product. Say hello, Ian.
Hi everyone! I'm a core developer in Magic R&D, which means I focus on game balance and making sure awesome designs are also fun to play. I led the development of Vintage Masters for Magic Online, but Commander (2014 Edition) is the first physical card set I developed. Having played Magic for more than 18 years, I was incredibly excited to do my part in bringing new cards to all of you.
Ethan: Commander (2014 Edition) is the latest release in our annual Commander series. If you're interested in playing Commander, you can buy one of these five decks and start playing right out of the box. For experienced Commander players, we've included new cards, new commanders, exciting reprints, and other goodies. In this article, Ian and I will talk about how this year's product was designed and developed.
Nostalgia for Nostalgia's Sake
Ethan: I have a confession to make: I love Time Spiral. It was a set that was all about nostalgia for Magic's past, and it included a plethora of references to old Magic cards. I've played Magic since Alpha, so I was absolutely the target audience of Time Spiral. One of my favorite things about the set was the legendary creatures. They were all characters referenced in flavor text on older cards, but who had never appeared as legendary creatures before, such as Jaya Ballard, Task Mage; Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder; and Norin the Wary.
A supplementary product like Commander seemed like the perfect place to indulge in such rampant nostalgia again, so before design even began I decided to make a cycle of legendary creatures that were Time Spiral-style throwback characters.
Ian: In that sense, Ethan and I were the perfect pair to work on the design and development of this set. Among the developers, I'm probably the one who is most fond of early Magic story and characters. The epic fantasy feel of early sets like Antiquities, Ice Age, and Mirage are what drew me into the game, so I fell in love with the prospect of bringing some of those characters to life on new cards.
Ethan: The first Commander release had included three-color "wedge" decks, with commanders that were a color and its two enemies. Commander (2013 Edition) had five three-color "arc" or "shard" decks, with commanders that were a color and its two allies. I had recently read an article by Devon Rule, "1,000 Commander Decks," where my fellow Great Designer Search 2 finalist and current Commander rules committee member broke down 1,000 decklists submitted by members of the mtgcommander.net community. Hmmm...monocolored decks were surprisingly popular! I had several monocolored Commander decks myself and had a pretty good handle on what the pitfalls were for such decks. Maybe I could make some monocolored commanders that enabled new types of decks, and provide monocolored decks with a few new tools to help them work a bit more smoothly.
I wasn't sure, though. Monocolored decks would be facing an uphill battle. Multicolored cards are inherently exciting to players, and multicolored legendary creatures are ESPECIALLY exciting to Commander players. Was there some design space that could blow this product into super-land?
Two Super-Teams
Ethan: I couldn't go on alone. I needed help to make this thing happen. Fortunately, it was time to start designing, and I was leading a great team:
Dan Emmons—Dan recently quit working for Wizards of the Coast so he could become a famous online media star, but when we worked on Commander (2014 Edition) he was one of the core Magic designers. Dan is a prolific designer, and we had a good rapport going as we had just finished working together on Journey into Nyx. Dan was in charge of the blue deck.
Aaron Forsythe—Aaron is the director of Magic R&D. He's generally responsible for making the tough calls and steering the ship, philosophically speaking. I'd never had a chance to work with Aaron on a design team prior to C14, and I was in for a treat. Aaron was bursting with exciting and innovative card ideas. Some of them, such as Bat Box, were too weird to print, but we made plenty of them work. Aaron was in charge of the green deck.
James Hata—James is a designer for Duel Masters, our other trading card game. Most of the members of Duel Masters R&D play Commander, and I knew I wanted to get one of them onto my team. I basically requested each of them by name, and James was the one with time in his schedule. James proved to be absolutely dependable; he nailed everything on the first try. James was in charge of the black deck.
Charles Rapkin—Charles works in our organized play department and is an avid Commander player. Charles has a great understanding of what makes the format fun and really sunk his teeth into the project. He was in charge of the white deck. He loves Cat tribal.
Ethan Fleischer—I'm a full-time Magic designer. I took a week vacation after I finished leading Journey into Nyx design and then immediately launched into Commander (2014 Edition) design. I felt pretty confident and really enjoyed the process; leading a Commander set is a lot easier than leading an expansion release, so I could stop to smell the roses along the way.
Ian: While design is responsible for creating the overall vision of the set, the second half of the R&D process (development) focuses on realizing those goals by balancing the cards and the decks and making the set really fun to play. Here's the team that developed the set:
Mark Globus—Mark is a principal game designer in Magic R&D. One of his many roles is to think about the entire suite of Magic products we make—from Intro Packs to the Magic Online Cube—and make sure they're serving the Magic audience as well as possible. He led the development of the original Commander release, and his experience and expertise were invaluable to the team.
Peter Lee—Peter is a game designer who has been with Wizards for many years and worked on a variety of games, including Dungeons & Dragons. Among Peter's many strengths is the emphasis he places on simple and elegant design. He was instrumental in keeping us on track when complexity was getting in the way of fun.
Max McCall—Max has since moved on from Wizards, but his role at the time was as a liaison between Magic R&D and our digital offerings, like Magic Online and Duels of the Planeswalkers. Max is an avid competitive Commander player. He did a great job tuning the decks and getting their various themes to work. He also helped us design and develop cards to be powerful, but healthy, for both casual and competitive Commander play.
Dan Emmons—Dan was also on the development team. We typically have one person carry over from design to development in order to make sure that development stays on course with design's vision for the set. Dan was great at helping us design new cards to replace ones that weren't working during the development process.
Planeswalk the Walk
Ethan: The previous Commander product had explored the design space of how commanders interact with the command zone. I was interested in seeing what other space was available to us that was unique to the Commander format. I did some brainstorming with the design team, writing various ideas onto the whiteboard. I thought of the line of rules text, "CARDNAME can be your commander." What if there was a living spell, a sorcery that could be your commander? Or what about other card types? Someone in the room behind me said, "Planeswalker." ZING! THAT WAS IT!!!
Creatively speaking, Planeswalkers are basically the same as legendary creatures, except they can, y'know, planeswalk. Plenty of players had experimented with using Planeswalkers as commanders already; some people wanted to do it and were already doing it. I organized a playtest where we replaced the commanders of some decks with Planeswalkers to sanity-check the idea. It was sane! Completely sane!
We just had to design these Planeswalkers to be a little different from regular Planeswalkers; some effects would be un-fun in Commander, and some of the numbers might need to be different. We started with mechanically inspired designs, not trying to match the flavor of any particular characters. Once we had some designs we were happy with, we judged that some of them were close enough to the mechanical identities we'd established for Ajani, Liliana, and Nissa that we could nudge them a bit to fit those characters. The blue and red Planeswalkers would have to be new characters.
Little did we anticipate the massive upheaval that was in store for our Planeswalkers during development...
Ian: We knew that getting the Planeswalkers right would be one of the most important parts of the development process. In Commander (2014 Edition), as in many Magic sets, the final Planeswalker designs were created during that development process. That's because Planeswalkers have so many knobs. "Knobs" are how development refers to parts of a card that we can change to adjust its overall power level. A typical Planeswalker's knobs include its mana cost, its starting loyalty, what each of its three abilities cost, and what each of those abilities do. Within that, each individual ability may have one or more knobs on it! Planeswalkers typically get at least partial redesigns several times during the development process.
Early in development we invited the Magic creative team into the conversation to discuss just who our Planeswalker characters should be. Design had turned over versions of Ajani, Liliana, and Nissa, along with designs for red and blue Planeswalkers that didn't fit existing characters. Ultimately, we determined that reusing characters would impede our ability to tell coherent stories about where those characters are and what they're doing in the current Magic storyline (Commander (2014 Edition) itself is sort of "out of place in time," in that it combines snapshots of characters from various times throughout Magic's history).
Once we knew we'd be avoiding characters who are already busy elsewhere in the Magic storyline, Ethan and I saw an opportunity to play into the set's theme of nostalgia and create Planeswalker cards for characters who have never had them before. The creative team loved the idea. We settled in on five Planeswalker characters that played well with the deck themes design had already handed off. Three are characters you'll recognize from Magic's past, one is a character you know but maybe not by name, and one is a brand-new character but from a plane you've seen before.
Legends of Antiquity
Ethan: While creating the Planeswalker commanders was a strange evolutionary process, making the Time Spiral-esque legendary creatures was more straightforward. I met up with Ari Levitch from the creative team. He made a list of characters. I made a list of characters. Of course, if I was being ENTIRELY self-indulgent, all of the characters would be from Alpha through Alliances. But nostalgia means different things to different players, and I knew I would need to have characters representing different periods of Magic's history.
There were a million black characters to choose from. Members of the creative department were really gung-ho to do Stitcher Geralf and Ghoulcaller Gisa, those feuding necromancer twins from Innistrad. The public had really latched onto those characters and was disappointed when Avacyn Restored rolled around and we still hadn't made legendary creature cards of them. Dan and James designed them to be opposites. One stitched multiple corpses together to make giant zombies, while the other would gladly chop a zombie in half to get two zombies!
White was a bit tough, but there were a decent number of good green candidates. One of the red characters on Ari's list really jumped out at me: Feldon, he of Feldon's Cane.
"Feldon's red? How do you know that?"
"I read it on the internet," Ari replied.
Now I am a serious geek culture scholar squirrel. At various points during my life, I've owned more than 100 Star Wars books, wrote a bibliography of pulp science fiction author E. E. "Doc" Smith, and compiled an exhaustive timeline chronicling the history of the Ultramarines Space Marines chapter from Warhammer 40,000. While I never got bit by the Magic fiction bug to that extent, I knew how to hit the books.
My initial research indicated that there were three main sources of information on Feldon: The Brothers War novel and "Loran's Smile," a short story in the Colors of Magic anthology, both by Jeff Grubb, and the flavor text for Feldon's Cane. I was already well-acquainted with Antiquities-era flavor text, so I mosied over to the creative department, where there is a bookshelf with many Magic: The Gathering books on it.
The Brothers War is a sprawling epic that was written in conjunction with Urza's Saga block. It was a sort of retelling of the events from Antiquities. It mostly chronicles a decades-long war between the forces of Urza and Mishra, two artificer brothers. There is a third faction, a Third Path, of scientists delving into the powers of mana. Feldon is a glaciologist who can tap into the red mana of the mountains of Ronom. He has access to the fiery powers typical of red mages, but his part in the story was pretty small. Hmmm...I wasn't finding a hook to hang a card design off of yet.
Fortunately, I found what I was looking for in "Loran's Smile," a story you should definitely read to "get" Feldon. It was a pretty touching story and inspired our first preview card of this article. Meet Feldon of the Third Path:
I admit that I babied the heck out of this card. I clucked over it like a protective mother at every stage of the set's production. I handed copies of The Colors of Magic out to various members of the development and creative teams. While the card was changed several times during development, I gave my opinion about whether I thought that this change or that change helped or hindered the story we were trying to tell with it. Some questioned the wisdom of making fan service cards for readers of fifteen-year-old short stories, but I did not let doubt cloud my mind. I poured out my hopes and dreams for the card's illustration to Ari, who was in charge of concepting the card. Once the art description was written, I couldn't resist one last little detail: "I believe," I wrote in an email to Ari, "that Feldon's Cane is supposed to be silver, not purple." When the finished art came in, I was blown away. All the details were captured there, and more! Chase Stone was now on my radar as an Artist to Watch Out For.
The Horizontal Lieutenant Cycle
Ethan: By this, the third Commander release, it was clear that we should continue the tradition of making a Commander-relevant mechanic for the set. I was really hung up on the idea of sidekicks for your commander. We started with creatures that started the game in the command zone along with your commander, but we quickly realized that unless the cards were extremely weak or narrow in application they would practically become mandatory inclusions in any deck that ran their color. We tried creatures that improved your commander, but those didn't work with our new Planeswalker commanders. Finally, we hit upon the idea of creatures that improved if your commander was on the battlefield. Great! Nice and simple. We designed some cards, and they weren't working very well. But it was too late! Time to hand the set off to development! Good luck, suckers! Hah hah hah hah hah! We ran away like thieves with our pants on fire.
Ian: As I mentioned earlier, a huge portion of our development effort went toward the Planeswalkers. We knew that many Commander players had already experimented with "house rules" that allow Planeswalkers as commanders, and that those experiments didn't always go well. The trouble is that many existing Planeswalker designs don't lend themselves well to being commanders. However, we had confidence that if we designed Planeswalkers to be commanders from the ground up, we could make them play a lot better in Commander duels and multiplayer games.
Existing Planeswalker abilities have been balanced around one-on-one duels starting at 20 life. In multiplayer Commander, harming a single opponent is a lot less valuable when you may have three or more opponents at the table. Even in a Commander duel, the fact that your opponent starts at a higher life total changes what these Planeswalkers want to look like. We focused our Planeswalker abilities on doing things that are beneficial for you or help defend you (and them!) from multiple opponents. We also looked for abilities that are particularly powerful in the context of a Commander game, like increasing your mana production and card flow, and abilities that scale with multiple opponents.
Previous Planeswalkers have had relatively low loyalty compared to Commander life totals and creature sizes. We knew if we didn't address this, players would behave overly defensive in order to protect their vulnerable Planeswalker commanders. On the other hand, if we gave these Planeswalkers huge starting loyalty totals, every time a player recast one from the command zone, it would effectively increase the "collective life total" of the table, causing games to run very long. We determined through playtesting that moderate starting loyalties but more generous "plus" abilities struck the right balance. We also put in plenty of ways to defend your Planeswalkers, so you don't need to worry about them being constantly killed.
Lastly, we structured the starting loyalty and "minus" abilities to make it difficult to spend the last bit of loyalty then recast your Planeswalker from the command zone, resetting its loyalty and getting two uses in one turn. We found that play pattern frustrating to play against, and it was stopping us from making our Planeswalkers as exciting and powerful as they should be when used conventionally.
As Ethan mentioned, the other new mechanic in the set is the lieutenant ability word. Sometimes, highly competitive Commander players choose their commanders mostly for color identity, without the intent of building their decks around them. Lieutenant is meant as a reward for players who actually intend to cast their commanders and try to keep them on the battlefield.
A creature with lieutenant gets (or grants) a bonus as long as you control your commander. It let us create creatures with combat stats that are more generous than we would normally allow for a typical one-on-one duel, because their abilities will only be turned on in a context where players have a higher starting life totals. Moreover, unleashing your lieutenant's full power involves keeping your commander on the battlefield, which isn't always a given. We wanted to make sure we were giving you a creature that's worth that extra effort.
Earlier, I talked about how there are a lot of pressures against traditional creature combat in multiplayer games. My preview card for today, Angelic Field Marshal, helps those of you who like to beat down get back in the red zone. Let's take a look:
Beyond our two new mechanics, development made sure to include a tremendous number of exciting individual cards. Specifically, we wanted to mix in some cards with lower mana costs. Often, when players (and even R&D) think of "commander cards," we think of giant creatures or high-cost spells with powerful, splashy effects. While the set has plenty of those, you'll also see some small creatures and utility spells that are particularly effective in multiplayer environments and still hold their value in longer games. We wanted to work against the notion that Commander is only about huge haymakers.
A Token Inclusion
Ethan: Last, and in some ways least, I should mention the things in the box that AREN'T Magic cards. Aaron Forsythe was pretty unhappy that the previous Commander products had not included tokens. I believe that he has a secret agenda: to make printed tokens for every token-making Magic card, like, ever. I'm pretty sure that Skeletal Vampire was in Modern Masters so we could print Bat tokens. For my part, I have binders full of tokens that I bring to my Commander games, so I sympathized with Aaron's dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. Some of the decks in Commander (2014 Edition) have a lot of token-producers, and because many of them were reprints, some of them made tokens that were similar, but functionally distinct, from one another. Game states were more difficult to read than we would have liked. I pitched the idea of replacing the two oversized commanders that no one could see from the outside of the packaging with some token cards.
The question was raised, "What should the tokens have on the back?" In regular booster packs, tokens have ads or rules information on the back. In Duel Decks, tokens have a Magic card back. We didn't have to share the tokens in Commander (2014 Edition) with the brand team, and the production constraints that mandated Magic backs on the Duel Decks' tokens didn't apply here. We could do whatever we wanted! What's the best thing to put on the backs of tokens? MORE TOKENS!!! Need a Soldier? Here's one! Would you prefer a Spirit? Look on the other side! I might have to start a third token binder soon.
We'll be showing off some of the tokens this week (tomorrow!), and the rest next week after the full set is revealed.
Sincerely Yours...
Ethan: So there you have it, the story of how we wrote a love letter to Vorthos. I hope you all have as much fun playing with these decks as we had making 'em!
Ian: Enjoy the rest of preview week, everyone. We hope you enjoy the cards and characters, old and new, and have as much fun playing with them as we did creating them.


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Opera Atelier: Acteon & Pygmalion
Director: Marshall Pynkoski
Choreographer: Jeanette Lajeunesse Zingg
Dance Artists of Atelier Ballet
Elgin Theatre, Toronto
Oct. 25-Nov. 3, 2018
Reviewed by Ted Fox
Choreographer Jeannette Lajeunesse Zngg celebrates 33 years as choreographer/dancer with Opera Atelier, a company founded by her and her partner in life, director Marshall Pynkoski. This latest production features a double bill of short operas, Charpentier's Acteon and Rameau's Pygmalion.
I have seen practically all of the shows staged by Opera Atelier. And Zngg consistently choreographed movements faithful to the originals, while evoking her personal variations. Her dancers come from a variety of backgrounds, including contemporary, modern and classical dance. Zngg always integrates them into colourful tapestries of fluid seamless movements. A joy to watch.
Charpentier's Acteon is a a pastoral work centred around Acteon and his hunter friends, setting out on what promises be the best hunt ever. It certainly turns out to be a memorable one.
Acteon spies Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, and her nymphs, bathing in a woodland pool. Diana is so enraged she turns him into a stag. His friends wonder where he is, only to discover that the stag they just arrowed to death was their friend-- now, horror of horror, dismembered by the dogs. Very appropriate for Hallowe'en.
This a relatively quiet and humorous piece before this sudden event. There is always, though, an undercurrent of dread.
The second half begins with a brief excerpt from Inception, a work in progress featuring co-creators dancer Tyler Gledhill as Eros and violinist Edwin Huizinga. A sort of prequel to Pygmalion, Inception is shown here as the world comes to life from nothingness. Composer/violinist Edwin Huizinga is joined by choreographer/dancer Tyler with red slatted wings sprouting from his shoulders. Gledhill dances in and out around the musician. A beautiful imagistic and haunting excerpt of a work that once completed will be Opera Atelier's first commissioned work. A perfect segue to Eros' creation of Pygmalion.
Tenor Colin Ainsworth's richly textured voice eloquently incarnates Pygmalion. He falls in love with the sculpture he has just created. He conjures up Venus to breathe life into it. Soprano Meghan Lindsay as the statue Galatee manages to stay frozen with not a quiver of movement for probably about ten minutes before she is brought to life. Really convincing as a statue.
This piece pulsates with life, taking on a colouful celebration featuring ten segments of superb dance throughout, seamlessly blending dance from different time periods, including 18th century and contemporary. Strikingly rich colour in the costumes with confetti falling vaudevillian style onto the perfomers.
In Acteon, set and costume designer Gerard Gauci employs subdued coloured backdrops with scrims and a trompe d'oeil effect, creating an illusion of reality particularly in the bathing nymphs scene. For Pygmalion he creates a phantasmagorical dream-like space, a chiaroscuro of light and shade. A Magritte-like look of a world suspended in clouds.
These two works make for a sparkling charming, visually rich and highly entertaining evening.


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