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Last week I downloaded and installed the latest release of the insider preview of Windows 10, possibly the last release on the "slow ring" before the final release on 29th July 2015. As you would expect it corrected the couple of problems I experienced on the last "unstable" release. A small problem I had shutting down (an app had to be force closed) has gone away. To test its ability to run on lower spec machines I reverted the machine back to 2GB of ram, and it all worked fine, so an upgrade of a standard Windows 7 box is looking good again. There were a couple of little enhancements, Windows Edge is now the official name of the browser, and it gets a nice blue "e" icon, nearly but not quite the same as the icon for Internet explorer that it replaces. All in all, the product is looking very good, and I am looking forward to upgrading some of my computers on the 29th.
There has been some scaremongering locally about Windows 10, regarding the risks of being among the first to use it. As usual it is from a position of last century thinking and ignorance, basically saying "Don't sign up for this because I don't know how its going to work". Well all the information you need is on the Microsoft website, there is no excuse for ignorance about this product. Everybody should make up their own mind whether to install it or not. If you are not sure, leave it a while, talk to someone who has installed it, then decide if you really want to do away with Windows 8.1, or move on from Windows 7 at last. If you are happy the way you are, don't fix what ain't broke, but if a free upgrade sounds like just what you need, why not be the first on your block with the latest and greatest!
In my first Windows 10 post, I implied that there is no Windows 8 type start screen, that the Windows 7 type desktop is all you get. I should correct this for the Windows tablet users out there. There is a "tablet" option which switches the operating mode to suit tablet use, which includes reverting to a start screen with large tiles just like in Windows 8.1. I haven't explored it much, it is more suitable for a touch screen than a mouse, but when I upgrade the touch screen computer in the office, I will give it a better test to see how it works. Stay tuned.
Incidentally, if you want to get rid of the Windows 10 update reminder icon permanently the following will probably work.
Head to Control Panel > Windows Update.
On the left, choose Installed updates. If you don't see this option, click View installed updates, and a link to Installed updates should appear at the top of the window.
Remove the update with the label with the label Update for Microsoft Windows KB3035583. It's easiest to sort by name to find it.
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TAYLOR, MI – The Michigan State Police (MSP) is confirming that Tpr. Chad H. Wolf has passed away, as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic crash earlier this morning.
"It is with very heavy hearts that we confirm the death of one of our own, Tpr. Chad Wolf," stated Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, director of the MSP. "Our troopers know the dangers they face each time they put on their uniform, but the calling they feel to serve the public is stronger than any fear. Trooper Wolf will forever be remembered as a loving husband, dedicated father and outstanding public servant."
This morning, at approximately 6:30 a.m., Wolf was on patrol with his department-issued motorcycle driving on northbound Dixie Highway crossing over southbound I-75 when a passenger vehicle towing a trailer collided with Wolf's motorcycle.
Preliminary investigation indicates Wolf was dragged by the trailer on I-75 for several miles until the driver pulled over at the Holly Road rest area. The driver, a 72-year-old male from Waterford, is cooperating with the investigation.
The investigation is ongoing and investigators are asking anyone who may have witnessed the events this morning to contact the MSP at 1-855-MICH-TIP.
Wolf, 38 years of age, enlisted with the MSP in 2008, graduating as a member of the 121st Trooper Recruit School. He has served at the Jackson, Flint and Metro posts. He has been a member of the Motor Unit since September 2013. Wolf is survived by his wife and four children.
The MSP wishes to acknowledge our many law enforcement partners who assisted at the scene and who continue to provide support to our department during this difficult time. We also wish to thank the staff and medical professionals at Genesys Regional Medical Center for the outstanding care given to Wolf.

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Every once in a while, I like posting a look using something from my vintage Etsy shop, Stranger Than Vintage (self promo, sorry!)! I love all of the vintage pieces I pick up, obviously since I chose them, so I like trying them on and showing them off. I have to tell you though, sometimes that just makes me want to keep the dress or shirt or whatever. I'm seriously debating about this one.I try on every item that I pick up to get a sense of the size, because sizing has changed over the years and it can be hard to gauge the sizes of vintage clothes even if they have the labels still attached. I just found that it's easier to actually put the thing on (even just over the clothes I'm already wearing) and figure it out from there. However, this does mean that sometimes I just end up keeping items that were meant for sale. It's a dangerous hobby, selling vintage.
This dress is up for sale though! I haven't decided to keep it...yet. It is a super fun and comfy house dress though. Just sayin'.
I really wanted to make it a more up to date look, because I think that vintage pieces work best in your wardrobe when they are incorporated with more modern pieces. BUT I always get stuck in the past. In an effort to make the look more modern, I made that a fur vest. Good choice? I dunno. Maybe with a different hairstyle? All suggestions welcome!


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Melbourne based A Dead Forest Index are brothers Adam & Sam Sherry, forming a minimalist two piece. Drawing on elements centred around rhythmic pulls and washes of vocals, the guitar & percussion clatters in and around measured structures, that can end abruptly, or drift off into tapping decrescendos where the harmony does find a resolution.
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Composting | Vital for our future
The prevention of waste generation and its reuse has become one of the priorities in the hierarchy of principles promulgated by the European Union in order to build a "recycling society" and thus contribute to the fight against climate change. The objectives set by the European Union are, among others, to reach household waste recovery rates of 50% by 2020 and to recycle 65% of urban waste by 2035.
With this principle, and within its commitment to sustainable development, the Consorci de Residus i Energia de Menorca works on several lines of action for the reduction of waste, ranging from the reform project of the Milà Plant and the optimization of waste treatment, to the management of its selective collection and the implementation of public awareness campaigns. Within this framework, and for the second consecutive year, the Consorci launches the campaign "Fer compost és la pera. De la cuina al camp" (Making compost is vital for our future. From the kitchen to the soil), an initiative that aims to promote home composting from organic waste generated at home and that this year has the support of the Menorca Preservation Fund. Within that campaign, the MEPF invites you to a free workshop next 9th April (19.00h Albert Camus Hall, Sant Lluis) which attendees can acquire the basic knowledge to turn the remains of food and plants into compost, a high quality fertilizer. As we want to get involved also those residents that live only a few months every year on the Island but really want to commit to making compost as to reduce the amount of rubbish they generate, English speaker are most welcomed to this last workshop of the campaign.
The campaign also seeks to continue stressing the importance of separating food waste and vegetable waste such as leaves, grass or branches well, and the advantages of recycling them. Those attending the workshops will also be able to acquire by lot a composting machine in which to start transforming organic waste.
According to the Consorci, the waste that a home generates on a daily basis contains 40% organic matter that can be recycled and returned to the soil in the form of humus for plants and crops. Through a simple composting device that can be installed in the backyard, this organic matter can be composted naturally, and transformed into fertilizer for the plants, orchard or garden. This contributes to the reduction of waste and reduces the consumption of chemical fertilisers. It has been calculated that with a composting device each inhabitant would stop throwing 90 kilograms of rubbish into the container, which means significant economic savings in waste management.
The importance of composting
Disposing substance or object by throwing it into a garbage not necessarily mean that it disappears. After being considered waste, a complicated and costly process of waste management begins until its final destination, recycling or its treatment in waste plants for later storage. This is why, according to the Consorci, it is so important to make citizens, institutions and companies aware of the importance of proper waste management that involves society as a whole. This involves considering waste as a resource that can redound to the common benefit, be it environmental, economic or social. What are these benefits?
Compost production clearly contributes to the recovery and preservation of the environment. Reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfill reduces emissions of untreated organic matter such as methane, which has a high greenhouse effect. In addition, returning organic matter as compost to the soil means its enrichment and preservation, combating possible processes of soil impoverishment such as desertification or reducing the generation of polluting chemical fertilizers. Regarding possible economic and social benefits, in addition to the economic savings that greater efficiency in waste management can mean for the administrations, recycling and the availability of new raw materials in safe conditions can open new business opportunities and job creation. Advancing towards the recycling society is thus a further step towards sustainability in order to make human activity compatible with the preservation of our environment.
For all these reasons, the MEPF, the Consorci de Residus y Energía, that includes all the island's town councils and the Consell Insular de Menorca, invites you to attend the auto composting workshops since, as they explain, the best waste is the one that is not produced.
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2017 Hourglass 'HGIII' Proprietary Red Napa Valley
HG III is a wine Hourglass created in 2012 as a young-vine, early-drinking, restaurant-friendly red. In this vintage, winemaker Tony Biagi took fantastic young vine Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from Hourglass' estate vineyard, and blended it with 20% Petite Sirah to yield a fresh, vibrant, drinkable red with notes of black cherries and blueberries, not to mention cola and cocoa powder. A great introduction to the Hourglass style.
In 1976, Ned Smith purchased a small, four-acre parcel atop a knoll two miles north of St. Helena between Highway 29 and the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley (not far from Grace Family Vineyard) and planted Zinfandel, hoping to trade his grapes for wine from local vintners. Little did he know that his hobby vineyard was in a sweet spot for Cabernet Sauvignon, something his son Jeff discovered after his father passed away in 1990. Hourglass takes its name from its position at the "pinch" of Napa Valley's unique hourglass shape. It draws cooling breezes from the south and west, allowing perfect ripeness from year to year. Hourglass' critical acclaim keeps snowballing – and we were lucky enough to have gotten in on the ground floor. They also own "Blueline" vineyard, a spectacular site not far from Duckhorn's 3 Palms Vineyard near Calistoga.
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Moving to the barrel samples, the 2017 HG3 is a fruity, forward, total charmer that gives up medium to full-bodied notes of blue and black fruits and leafy herbs. It's well-made and already hard to resist, yet I suspect it will keep for more than a decade


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In the latest in a new series giving voice to the photographer behind the lens, Damien Hewetson records the emptiness of the capital's streets in lockdown
Producing the AJ involves a continuous schedule of commissioning photographers to go and shoot buildings, make short films, compile material boards and – in summary – furnish our art editor with great imagery to bring architects' drawings and models and the text of the building studies vividly to life.
Coronavirus has put a freeze on the regular rhythm of things, but we are still keen to feature and promote the work of photographers – and rather than bring you their silent imagery, we have asked a handful of regulars and those previously unfeatured to explore what life as an architectural photographer is like in lockdown.
Damien Hewetson is a London-based photographer who has always had a particular fascination with abandoned places. During lockdown he has taken hundreds of pictures while on the move in his day job as a street safety inspector (sometimes walking up to 10km a day) – pictures mostly of architecture 'because you never see it without people in the way'. He hopes to re-take the same shots once the city is populated again and put on an exhibition showing the comparison.
When was the last time you took a picture?
Yesterday afternoon on my way home from work. I've been taking some every day while the lockdown has been in place because I'm in a key worker inspecting the streets for safety reasons.
Photos during this time could become historically significant in the future
How has coronavirus lockdown affected your work?
As a street safety inspector it makes things easier to spot when there are no people around. At lunchtime I would normally go somewhere for a nice lunch but there is hardly anywhere open so I'm having to eat snacks on the move. Instead I'm using my lunch break to take photos.
Does the potential for deserted streets appeal to you as a photographer of architecture and the built environment? If so, what is your dream location/building? If not, why not?
I usually photograph abandoned buildings so seeing the whole of London practically abandoned has been like a dream for me as a photographer. My dream building to photograph would be the Old War Office building on Whitehall as it is very much off limits and has some stunning architecture inside.
How has the way you think about photography more generally changed?
I've realised my photos during this time could become historically significant in the future. This is why I'm trying to document as much as I can while I have the opportunity.
Check out Damien's Deserted London series and follow him on facebook, Instagram and twitter.
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These photos are such an important record of our extraordinary time.
I wrote a blog piece for the Architecture Club website "Touching the Void : Art and Architecture in the Time of Pandemic" in which I wrote
"Cities do not function on emptiness. Yet this de Chiricoesque void in our cities allows us to appreciate them differently. Though symptomatic of the suspension of normal life, the present has an important transitory aesthetic state which I hope can somehow be recorded visually as part of a social and architectural historical record of now."
A book or an exhibition in due course surely!
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This will be an extraordinary record, on a par with Bedford Lemere's lifetime work in the late C19/early C20. Can Damien Hewitson's work join BL's glass plates preserved in the National Monuments Record, and now available to view online? Without people and vehicles, the whole of a building's facade can be seen. Given the rate of rebuilding in London, this will be a valuable record and archive.
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Squash Fritters and Fried Sage
Richard Betts became an expert at frying squash and sage leaves when he lived in Tuscany 20 years ago, using a batter with just two ingredients: flour and club soda.
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- In a saucepan, heat 1 inch of oil to 360 degrees F. In a bowl, whisk the flour and 1 1/4 cups of the seltzer until smooth and the consistency of sour cream; add more seltzer if the batter is too thick. Season with salt.
- Working in 3 or 4 batches, dip the squash and some of the sage in the batter; let excess batter drip off. Carefully add the battered squash and sage, and some uncoated sage leaves, to the hot oil. Fry over moderately high heat, turning, until lightly golden and crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the fried squash and sage to paper towels to drain. Season with sea salt and serve right away with lemon wedges.
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On September 24, the Legacy Museum received a Congressional Certificate in recognition of its current exhibit, Much in Demand: 200 Years of Central Virginia African Americans in the Military. The Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust presented the award during its 2009 fall convention. Among the honorees was Lynchburg native Sam Mosley, who earned a Purple Heart and Silver Star for his service during the Korean War. He is the husband of former Board of Directors member Phyllistine Mosley.
Much in Demand features photos, oral histories, military uniforms, service ribbons, and other memorabilia that tell the stories of Central Virginia African Americans who fought for liberty and democratic principles in distant lands even when their own freedom and rights were denied at home. From the war for American independence to the current military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, the services of Americans of African descent have been "much in demand." The exhibit will remain on display at the Museum, 403 Monroe St., through June 4, 2010.
Legacy's tenth anniversary exhibit, Celebrating Community: The Legacy Museum's First Ten Years, will open to the public on June 27, 2010, and will close on June 3, 2011. The exhibit will illuminate the work of Legacy collectors since the opening of the Museum in 2000. If funding permits, the exhibit will feature listening stations that will allow visitors to hear excerpts from oral history interviews about "evocative objects," that is, artifacts related to past exhibits that have been chosen by collectors as especially resonant and personally meaningful. Guest curator is Lauranett Lee, curator of African American History at the Virginia Historical Society.


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A man walks into a bar for his usual pint of bitters. Fortunately this man does not make it a regular, daily habit because this would be disingenuous to his health. For a man who is dealing with a lot pressure these days, what is one pint every other day. Nothing wrong with a couple hours' relaxation every other evening after yet another hectic day at the office. The barman knows him well enough and always has a kind word or two to add in. There's one nasty habit that both of them seem to enjoy. They both like to smoke, the one more than the other. But only doing his job, the barman forgets. Clearing the table, he proceeds to wipe away the man's crushed empty cigarette box.
No, leave that please, that's my stress ball. Oh, alright. He could leave that and the habit if he just half tried. He seems to like art. He likes observing colors. Not quite a stress ball but a colorful pocket square ought to do the trick. As the name suggests, he could slip it into his pocket and carry it around wherever he goes. He could even use it at his desk while his trying to figure out yet another 'colorful' marketing puzzle. Marketing and advertising work is one of the most stressed out jobs that anyone could ask for. It cannot be healthy for the sensitive heart. You need nerves of steel to survive in this world.
And sometimes you even need balls of steel too. A pocket square seems to be a healthy way to relieve some stress or tension. It's a lot better than heading downstairs all the time to steal another smoke. So much timewasting, so much added stress.


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Financial Distress and Equity Returns: A Leverage-Augmented Three-Factor Model
Research in International Business and Finance 46 (2018) 1-15.
29 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2017 Last revised: 4 Oct 2018
Date Written: September 9, 2016
Our study examines whether financial distress risk is systematic risk using twelve portfolios sorted by size, book-to-market, and leverage and a portfolio of distressed firms covering an 18-year period. It also tests the explanatory power of the risk factors that best capture default risk. The empirical findings show that: (i) equity portfolio investment requires systematically both size and value premiums and that SMB and HML capture additional risk missed by the market portfolio; (ii) the leverage risk premium is positive for highly leveraged firms; and (iii) the risk premium for the relative distress factor is significant only for the distressed firm portfolio. Overall, our results have practical implications for portfolio managers since they advocate a leverage-augmented three-factor model to accurately price assets and to implement efficient portfolio strategies.
Keywords: Financial Distress; Equity Returns; Fama-French Three-Factor Model
JEL Classification: G12; G33
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Erekdale (n.) [location] | AIR-eck-dale | fm. Old Norse erek, meaning eternal ruler, and Old English dæl, meaning valley; 1. Valley of the Eternal Ruler
Long ago, Erekdale was a lush and uncivilized valley, protected from the outside world by a draconic thunderphoenix. This majestic creature used his abilities to protect the quaint valley of Erekdale from anyone who entered. Kings and emperors sent armies to defeat the thunderphoenix and conquer the fair land of Erekdale for gain and glory, but none survived the thunderphoenix's wrath. When challenger after challenger had been met and defeated, no one else dared to enter the hidden land.
No one, that is, until Morrea Firebird. A seeker of beauty even where so much blood had been shed before, she slipped over the high mountains that surrounded Erekdale and entered the forbidden valley, catching the thunderphoenix off guard. Enraged at this humiliation, the thunderphoenix threw all his strength against Morrea, but to no avail. His flames could not harm one who sought to unify, heal, and rejoice in beauty. His rage grew to such a heat that he was consumed by his own power. Morrea grieved at this and buried his ashes in the heart of the valley.
But a thunderphoenix always resurrects. And when this one did so, the love that Morrea had sown with his ashes so transformed him that he was nothing like his former self. Rather than a forbidden valley, Erekdale became known as a haven for all kinds of firebirds, dragons, and other seekers of beauty who journeyed to see the secrets of that wondrous place.
But few who wander into that valley ever discover its true secret.
We unify. It's in our name and in our hearts. Through our writing, we attempt to bring together the depths of earth and the heights of heaven. With both eyes fixed on our Eternal Ruler and both hands planted in the valley's soil, we write stories that bring the heights and the depths together in a way that transmits the Ruler's light to others. We do not shy away from darkness, but instead strive to impart hope to those who dwell in it.
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We are a band of writers who help each other through the mountains and the dark depths of the valleys—the highs and lows of our writing and our faith. In our day-to-day life as a guild, Ereki comes together to learn how to more effectively shine the Ruler's light into the valleys of this life. We do this through lengthy topic discussions, writing exercises, critiques, regular support and involvement, and collaborative projects.
Guild Master: Martin Detwiler
Martin Detwiler is a paradoxical fellow, full of odd contradictions and quirks. From his earliest years, Martin has loved stories. At first, reading appeased the artist's itch, but the transition to writing didn't take long. He's never gone back since.
Martin's greatest inspirations are J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, both of whom stirred up a passion for stories that combine the aesthetic and the true to give readers an experiential glimpse of God's reality. Martin lives in Akron, Ohio with all his hopes and dreams, most of which are still intact.


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Not going to say too much. Combo notation is in the script. Right stick has your usual combos all updated for S3. The new stuff is all done with L1+face buttons, but will take a bit of practice. L1 will do 2,f+1 MAX 2,f+1, dp1+2 S! and STOP. AFTER Geese lands, keep HOLDING L1 and press any of the face buttons to continue the combo. The timing is EXTREMELY lenient but you can't just mash it out, so practice a bit. Don't press a face button while Geese is still in the middle of the EX Moonslicer, wait until he lands AND FULLY RECOVERS then press a face button.
Thanks once again goes to justframe for his base template and usual movement options. Includes doubletap back to KBD.
You Must Be Registered and Logged On With at Least 1 Post To View GPC Scripts...(If you are a new user wait 30 minutes for the system to update your account)
Swap sides with left or right on Touchpad. If you want the other options they're commented out in the script. Just comment out the touchpad section and uncomment the one you want. Note that L3 and R3 have combos assigned to them so if you want to swap sides with L3/R3 you'll have to remove these combos.
Script made on PC, may or may not work on PS4 YMMV.


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The American Red Cross is reissuing its emergency call for blood and platelet donors to give now after multiple snow storms, frigid temperatures and the government shutdown have further reduced lifesaving donations.
In January, more than 4,600 Red Cross blood and platelet donations went uncollected as blood drives were forced to cancel due to severe winter weather blanketing parts of the U.S., and additional cancellations are expected this week.
Weather travel advisories may cause even more donors to delay their planned donations. Donors in areas affected by winter weather are asked to make an appointment now to give once it is safe to travel.
The federal government shutdown also affected donations as more than 4 percent of Red Cross blood collections come from drives sponsored by military and local, state and federal government agencies.
"Disruptions to blood and platelet donations jeopardize the availability of blood for patients who depend on transfusions for survival," said Cliff Numark, senior vice president, Red Cross Biomedical Services. "We're grateful for all those who have come out to give since we issued our emergency call earlier this month and now urge others to come out and give to prevent delays in essential medical care."
Red Cross blood donations are being distributed to hospitals faster than they are coming in, and there is less than a three-day supply of most blood types on hand, officials said. The Red Cross strives to maintain a five-day supply of blood to meet the needs of patients and to be prepared for emergencies that require significant volumes of donated blood products.
All eligible donors, especially platelet donors and blood donors with type O blood, are urgently needed to help restock the shelves for hospital patients. Donation appointments can be easily scheduled by using the free Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
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Germane Mission
An unanswered question a day keeps the doctor away or something on those terms. The apple, if you will, of art seems to be the never-ending meditations on its existence, value, and purpose in the form of the unanswered question: What is art? Curator René Block hits us up with this query once again with The Unanswered Question. İskele2, a cooperative exhibition between TANAS and n.b.k. in Berlin. The exhibition serves as a farewell gesture to TANAS, a non-commercial project space, as it closes its doors after its five years featuring art from Turkey.
"Turkish art has arrived even outside of Turkey," states Block, the art space's former director, in the exhibition catalogue as he contemplates a mission accomplished. As TANAS was established as a platform "for continuing discourse and regular interaction between Turkish artists and curators and the German and international audience," the current cooperation between TANAS and n.b.k seems to underscore this fact. The space derives from a time when Turkish artists started to break away from the traditional art scene of their country in the 1990s, bringing an influx of new exhibition venues and a heightened significance to the Istanbul Biennale while paralleling the discussions of EU expansions. Berlin came to be the ideal place in view of its "local cultural landscape as well as the social and political implications."
The questions, then, form themselves: Why quit now, what mission has been accomplished, and by what means have Turkish artists "arrived"? Recently Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış opined that Turkey will probably never become a member of the European Union because of stiff oppositions and "prejudiced" attitudes from current members. With the largest Turkish settlement outside of Turkey, Berlin displayed its solidarity with the ongoing uprising in Turkey with the concurrent protest held at Kottbuser Tor on September 14th. What can be settled within such a turbulent landscape? Even from the Berlin art scene's perspective, fighting is necessary to increase the life expectancy of independent project spaces. As the Independent Art Coalition demands a new, more indie friendly cultural policy in Berlin, hosting ProtestFest on September 28th, it seems TANAS could well have strengthened that coalition.
Block, on the other hand, views that after five years of TANAS it is time to move on. The test is over. The reason: "I need changes, must discover things new to me." The idea behind TANAS was never to be an institution, to become "academic and boring." Block proudly proclaims that TANAS has never received or paid any invoices, seemingly following a fashionable turn hosting one project after another in the age of the pop-up, without considering the possible communal side effects of an institution growing and providing roots.
The exhibition centers on Block's vision as he performs what could be termed a curatorial retrospective. The exhibition mainly features artists with whom Block has previously worked. These include artists from the first İskele exhibition (held more than twenty years ago in at the ifa-Galerien in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Bonn, which "presented for the first time in Germany, a young Turkish art scene"), the Block-curated fourth Istanbul Biennale, and others who have not yet exhibited in Istanbul. The end result is forty-eight artists from all over: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, USA, Vietnam. The exhibition's point of departure is the Turkish art scene, while also considering regions that "were once peripheral but that in the past twenty years have experienced an intense phase of modernization and internationalization." Peripheral in what respect? To the EU, to Germany, to Block's periphery vision? Comprising the exhibition, a program of performances, and discussion series, Iskele2 will portray "an exemplary global citizenship that has become reality in the cultural field." Functioning like the International Art English EXPO, each art work is accompanied by a text aimed at highlighting its relevance and "exemplary" position within the international art scene. The global, the local, the space, the site-specific, the urban, socio-political, gentrification and institutional critique etc., all in one, finally integrated, far away from the periphery.
Dan Perjovschi, Lawrence Weiner, Exhibition view TANAS; photo: Jens Ziehe, 2013.
The exhibition is better perceived without the drenched context the curator is so eager to display. Art works that manage to linger with subtle forms of human existence are allowed the most breathing space within this context. Take Asta Gröting's A spark of passion (2008), an open end of a cable placed in a hole in the wall, two centimeters in diameter, with an exchange of sparks occurring every few seconds; Candice Breitz's Factum Tremblay (2010) where the artist interviews identical twins and raises questions "not only about twin ship per se, but also about the struggle that each individual must negotiate in defining himself or herself as distinct, while facing constant reminders of the relative role of others in the process of self-definition"; and Johanna Adebäck & Merve Ertufan's Compliment (2012), a video work where the artists exchange compliments revealing the oppressive and defining element of labeling and "giving" someone a compliment.
What is art indeed. The five-year test is over, one institution invites another to put up an exhibition in a cooperative spirit. Mission is presented in the form of an unanswered question which keeps the doctor away within the atonement of the International Art English bubble. The opening of the gates, the expansion of the international art scene, the engulfing of the peripheral present the risk of being unable to hold on to differences and social and communal relevance.
(Image on top: Rasa Todosijevic, Bloody Bath, 2013, Exhibition view Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; © photo: Jens Ziehe.)
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College baseball team makes its return to the Landmark Conference Tournament on Friday, May 11 when the fourth seeded Greyhounds take on top seed The Catholic University of America in the opening game of the double-elimination tournament being hosted by The University of Scranton at Charles J. Volpe Family Field.
First pitch of the game is slated for 3:30 p.m. The second seed Elizabethtown College and third seed Royals will play the second game on Friday at 7:00 p.m. The tournament will run through Sunday, May 13 with the winner receiving the conference's automatic berth to the 2018 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for seniors while children under 10 and all Landmark Conference students, faculty and staff with ID are free. Follow the tournament at http://www.landmarkconference.org/sports/bsb/2017-18/championships
The Greyhounds, under the direction of 12th-year head coach Paul Engelhardt who has a career mark of 271-214, have posted an 18-20 overall record this spring. Moravian recorded a 9-9 slate in the Landmark regular season, and Engelhardt has the program in the postseason for the ninth time. The Hounds enter the tournament hitting .297 with 388 hits, 62 doubles, 11 triples, 14 home runs and 42 stolen bases.
Senior third baseman Evan Kulig leads the Blue and Grey at the plate with 55 hits, a .387 average, 26 runs, 13 doubles, a triple and 39 RBIs while sophomore right fielder Carmine Palummo has added a .365 average, 42 hits, 32 runs, two doubles, 12 RBIs and 14 stolen bases. Sophomore second baseman Ian Csencsits has a .342 average, 39 hits, 33 runs, seven doubles, two triples, two homers, 25 walks and 18 RBIs while junior center fielder Austin Markowski has contributed a .326 average, 44 hits, 32 runs, 12 doubles, a triple, seven homers, 26 walks and 36 RBIs.
Junior left fielder Mike Mittl has 40 hits, 14 runs, seven doubles and 25 RBIs while senior first baseman/designated hitter Joey Maker has 21 hits, 14 runs, two doubles, a triple and six RBIs. Junior shortstop Matt Stalter has 21 hits, 14 runs, three doubles and six RBIs while freshman shortstop Michael Miceli has also contributed 21 hits to go with 10 runs, a triple and five RBIs and senior first baseman Logan Welles has 21 hits, 10 runs, two doubles, a triple, three homers and 16 RBIs.
Junior catcher Chase Rogers has 19 hits with 13 runs, six doubles, a triple, two homers and 16 RBIs while senior third baseman David Wodzisz has added 16 hits, nine runs, a double, a triple and nine RBIs. Sophomore second baseman Tim Heard has 10 hits, eight runs, two doubles, two triples and four RBIs while freshman outfielder Thomas Philipps has nine hits and a run. Junior catcher Andrew Koenig has nine hits, five runs and four RBIs while junior catcher Steve Lazicki has added five hits, a run and an RBI.
Junior infielder Joey Ferolie and senior catcher Ezra Rawdon each have four hits and two runs with Rawdon adding three RBIS and Ferolie driving in one run. Senior first baseman Clay Weidemoyer has contributed three hits, two runs, two doubles and two RBIs while senior outfielder La'Ron Smith has two hits, three runs, a double and an RBI. Sophomore infielder Kole Rodrigues has two hits and two runs for the Greyhounds while sophomore catcher Ian Luberti has one hit on the year.
On the mound, junior Rhett Jacoby is 5-2 with two saves, a 2.34 ERA, 51 strikeouts, six walks, two complete games and a shutout in 65.1 innings. Senior Nicholas Mazzella has a 5-4 record with 36 strikeouts and two complete games in 51 innings while senior Dan Morrin has 57 strikeouts and a 3-3 mark in 40 innings. Kulig has a 2-2 mark and 28 strikeouts in 34.2 innings on the mound while junior Brendon Caraway has a 1-2 mark with a save and 25 strikeouts in 36.1 innings.
Junior Tyler Caraway has added a 1-2 record and 18 strikeouts in 18.1 innings while sophomore Connor Morro has tossed 20.1 innings with 17 strikeouts and a 1-1 mark. Freshman Kyle Serman has pitched 12.2 innings with five strikeouts while junior Billy Roethke has tossed 15 innings with a pair of strikeouts and a 2.40 ERA. Freshman Rodney Berger has pitched nine innings with four strikeouts while junior Kevin Shields seven strikeouts in nine innings. Senior Adam Howard has tossed 3.2 innings with five strikeouts while freshman Johnny Apgar has pitched 1.2 inning and freshman Cade Stoneback has tossed an inning with a strikeout.


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Our client was charged with DUI after she was involved in an accident in which she allegedly rant through a red light. Prior to the accident, our client had been followed by another driver who claimed that she was swerving continuously. Our admitted drinking previously and submitted to a preliminary breath test test which was positive for the presence of alcohol. Our client refused field sobriety tests and the state-administered breath test. The Jury found our client Not Guilty of DUI and Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device.
Our client showed remarkable faith in seeing this case through a trial. Within the last 10 years, she had been convicted a DUI. In Gwinnett County, a defendant can face considerable jail time on a 2nd DUI conviction, particularly after a jury trial.
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How to Install Mods in Call of Duty 4by William NagelUpdated September 22, 2017
"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" is a popular first-person shooter that allows you to create multiplayer mods that change the game experience by adding new maps, missions, and weapons to the game. "Call of Duty 4" mods are available for free online and must be downloaded and extracted to the proper location before they can be used in-game. You will need to use a file decompression program, such as WinZip, 7-Zip, or WinRAR to extract a downloaded mod package.
Extract the mod files from the downloaded mod package with a file decompression program. Click the "Extract" button to open the "Extract to" dialog.
Double-click on "Program Files" in the "Extract To" window. Double-click on the "Activision" folder. Double-click on the "Call of Duty 4" folder.
Open the "Mods" folder by double-clicking on it in the "Extract To" window. Press the "Extract" button to extract the contents of the mod package to the "Mods" folder. Close your file decompression program when the extraction completes.
Run "Call of Duty 4." Select "Multiplayer" from the main menu. Click on "Mods" to view a list of all installed mods; you can now use your new mod in "Call of Duty 4" games.
- "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare User Guide"; Activision; 2007
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South Asia, 2013
Research Interests
Modern South Asian history, British empire, legal and constitutional history, postcolonial histories/subaltern studies, Indian princely states, history of Travancore/Kerala, international history, interwar political thought, decolonization, international law, history of federation, and studies on nationalism and sovereignty
Decolonizing the Empire by Treaties: Travancore and the Federalist Alternative to the Nation-State in Late Colonial India
Sarath Pillai is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago. His dissertation examines the currency of federalist ideas among the princely states in colonial South Asia in the 1920s through the 1940s. His research is in conversation with the existing studies on a range of fields: modern South Asian history, British imperial history, legal history of colonial India/British empire, decolonization, and theories of federation and sovereignty. His exam fields were Subaltern and Postcolonial Histories of South Asia, British Empire, and International History with a focus on decolonization, international law, and self-determination. He has served as an intern/teaching assistant in a few core sequences in the College of the University of Chicago: for a year in "Self, Culture, Society" (social science core focused on social theory) and for a quarter each in "Colonizations-II" and "Introduction to South Asian Civilizations-II." He has also taught modern South Asian history and European history at Hindu College and Indraprastha College for Women, both under the University of Delhi. He holds a master of studies in law from Yale Law School and a master of arts in history from the University of Delhi.
"Fragmenting the Nation: Divisible Sovereignty and Travancore's Quest for Federal Independence." Law and History Review 34, no. 3 (Aug. 2016): 743–82.
"Book Review: Harshan Kumarasingham, A Political Legacy of the British Empire: Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-colonial India and Sri Lanka." South Asia Research 35, no. 2 (July 2015): 272–76.
"Book Review: Caroline Keen, Princely India and the British: Political Development and the Operation of Empire." South Asia Research 34, no. 2 (July 2014): 183–86.
Book Review." Princely Modernity: A Mysorean Perspective," Economic and Political Weekly 48, no. 12 (Mar. 23, 2013): 33–36.
"Old Archival Laws, New Archives." Economic and Political Weekly 48, no.3 (Jan. 19, 2013): 20–22.
"Archives and Archival Consciousness: A Postcolonial Predicament." Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 22 (June 2, 2012): 32–34.


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MONEYVAL issues a revised public statement on Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Council of Europe's anti-money laundering body MONEYVAL today adopted, at its 45th plenary meeting (15-19 September), a public statement in the light of continued lack of progress on legislation to address MONEYVAL's concerns.
The Committee noted that Bosnia and Herzegovina has amended the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Law, which came into force on 25 June 2014. However, the required amendments to the Criminal Code have still not been adopted.
MONEYVAL urges Bosnia and Herzegovina to immediately and meaningfully address its deficiencies on its anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing legislation, in particular by adopting necessary amendments to its Criminal Code.


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Four years after, survivors narrate experience when insurgents attacked Buni Yadi secondary school
Come February 24, it will be exactly four years after Boko Haram fighters attacked the Federal Government College (FGC), Buni Yadi, Yobe State, killing 29 students and setting the whole school ablaze.
In a special report by TheCable, survivors of the attack narrated harrowing and chilling near-death experiences at the hands of the insurgents.
According to a teacher who spoke to the reporter, the school was on holidays as at the time of the attack, but students in Senior Secondary 2 were asked to stay back in preparation for their forthcoming Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).
The insurgents gained entrance into the school premises through the female hostel of the school and 'mercifully' marched the girls to the mosque where they were told to forget everything about western education and get ready to be married off.
They then went to "Niger hostel", one of the hostels where the male students were housed, marched out 29 of the boys, killed them in cold blood at the spot, and lined their bodies up in front of the hostel.
The number of casualties would have been higher had one of the attackers not shot at the hostel lock in a bid to force it open. The shot sent warning signals to the other students and staff members who immediately started looking for ways to escape.
Usman Ali-Grema, the Administrative Officer of FGC Buni Yadi, narrated the events thus:
"The insurgents stormed the school through the girls' hostel. One of our matrons, Aisha Ahmad, saw them. She wanted to scream but they shut her up, held her hostage at gun point and requested for the keys to the door of the female hostel, but the matron gave them a fake key. Thereafter they made several attempts to open the door but they couldn't.
"One of the insurgents became angry and shot at the padlock; accidentally the bullet bounced back and hit him. That shot alerted people and students in the school of the impending danger.
"All the girls were ordered out by them and taken to the mosque where they were instructed to forget about western education and go and get married.
"As the girls immediately left the school, the onslaught began on the male hostel. Niger house hostel was the first to be attacked. The insurgents picked 29 male students and killed them on the spot, lining up their dead bodies in front of the hostel."
Samson Gali, a survivor of the attack, narrated how he escaped by jumping through the hostel window with his friend, Daniel Audu. Both were hit by bullets as they ran, but while Gali was able to make it to some safety, Audu was not that lucky.
"I remember I was alerted by the sound of the gunshot. At first, I thought it was the military…little did I know that it was Boko Haram," Gali, now 23, said.
"I was almost asleep after the light-out in Niger House hostel when I heard the chanting of 'Allahu Akbar' (Allah is great) followed by sporadic shooting. At that time, I realised it was death knocking on our door. So I quickly jumped through the window and started running.
"They killed a lot of my classmates: Halima, Suleiman, Abiodun and Baburo Sule and many others, who could not make it. My friend Daniel Audu ran with me in the same direction but got hit by the bullet and fell. There was nothing I could do to save him. I managed to escape and hide in an uncompleted building.
"I was also hit by stray bullet on my left hand and my stomach. I was hearing my colleagues crying for help but there was no one to help. I later lost consciousness and was taken to the general hospital in Damaturu where I was admitted for some time. That day was the most tragic moment in my life because I never thought I would survive."
Isa Mohammed, an 80-year security guard who narrowly survived the attack, described how he carried a co-staff who was ill to safety before he was caught by the insurgents on his way back.
According to him, many of the teachers had ran out of the staff quarters, some of them had little or no clothes on them, before the insurgents could get there.
"I saw David, one of our staff, battling to escape. I realised he could not walk because he was sick. So I carried him on my shoulder and took him to the nearest safe building and left him there," Mohammed said.
"One of the insurgents argued that working in the school where western education is taught is an act of infidelity. But the insurgents' commander insisted that I should be spared."
You can read the complete report titled: Buni Yadi Massacre: Four years of sorrow and tears.
Four years after the Buni Yadi massacre and the subsequent abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, Boko Haram continue to attack secondary schools in North East Nigeria.
The recent attack took place at the Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe State, on Monday night, where over 90 students were declared missing after insurgents attacked the school.
A student who survived the attack told journalists that she will not return to the school for fear of further attacks.
More than 40 of them were found later on Wednesday as they came out of their hiding places, while some were returned to the school by some good Nigerians who had offered them shelter.
Late on Wednesday, the office of the Yobe State Governor issued a statement saying that some of the students had been rescued by soldiers.
Some residents of Gaidam, where a military base is located, described hearing sounds of army vehicles and horns, as the soldiers celebrated the rescue of the schoolgirls.
"When we went out to check what was happening, we saw soldiers jubilating as they moved into the town in several vehicles, some of which were carrying the Dapchi schoolgirls. Though we were not allowed to go near the military base but from afar, the number of females were plenty," Halima Umar, a resident of Gaidam, told journalists.


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Recently, I had a need to do image classification on the Edge using Azure IoT Edge.
To start, there are 2 challenges:
- No image detection module
- No image classification module
No problem, Azure IoT Edge support many languages, including Python, and with OpenCV we can connect to RTSP cameras and classify images.
This blog walks you through the process of setting up the image / video ingestion module. Here is the image classification Machine Learning module . It assumes you have Azure IoT Edge running. New to IoT Edge? Start here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/tutorial-python-module
Our Architecture will look something like this:
Note how openCV is a module used for image (or video stream) ingestion. We later score or interact with the images. Also note how the openCV module allows the Machine Learning module to fetch the image for scoring and processing. This interaction allows for images or streams of any size to be scored and overcomes any message limitations.
To get started, open a new folder in Visual Studio Code and select View –> Command Palette
Select Edge: New IoT Edge Solution
Name your solution
Select Python Module Language
Name your Module
Select your Container Registry
Open the file main.py and replace the contents from: https://github.com/ksaye/IoTDemonstrations/blob/master/IoTEdgeOpenCV/main.py. It is worth looking through the code to really understand what is happening. Close and save this file.
Open the Dockerfile and replace the contents from: https://github.com/ksaye/IoTDemonstrations/blob/master/IoTEdgeOpenCV/Dockerfile note this file actually downloads opencv and builds the binaries. Close and save this file.
Right click on module.json and click Build and Push IoT Edge Module Image
Select amd64 as your platform. As of this writing, the Python module is only supported on 64 bit Linux.
Assuming you have login credentials to your container registry, it should upload and you can view the image via the Azure Portal
Next we will configure an IoT deployment, with settings needed. Note, you can add other modules and routes later, which are not the focus of this blog.
In the Azure Portal, goto an existing IoT Edge device. Select Set Modules
Select Add IoT Edge Module
At the module dialog, name the module, type your URI and (optionally) include the container create options that allow remote viewing of the images and include the desired properties of a valid RTSP URL as shown below. You can copy and past the following JSON to make it simpler.
You can copy and past the following JSON to make it simpler.
{ "ExposedPorts": { "8080/tcp": {} }, "HostConfig": { "PortBindings": { "8080/tcp": [ { "HostPort": "8080" } ] } } } { "properties.desired": { "imageProcessingInterval": 15, "camaraArray" : { "MyCamera": "rtsp://myUser:firstname.lastname@example.com:88/videoMain" } } }
Note, the JSON above assumes you are using a remote camera. If you are using a local camera on the Linux host, you need to use the following JSON as the create options to give access to the /dev/video0 device:
{ "ExposedPorts": { "8080/tcp": {} }, "HostConfig": { "Privileged": true, "Binds": [ "/dev/video0:/dev/video0" ], "PortBindings": { "8080/tcp": [ { "HostPort": "8080" } ] } } }
Click Save and Next for the default route.
Finally click submit for to submit the task.
Assuming no typos, you should be able to type "docker ps" to see the image running and that it is visible from port 8080.
Viewing the docker logs (docker logs opencv) you will see the following logs in the opencv module:
You can also web browse to the docker container to see the image:
Lastly, you can see the message from Device Explorer:
Note we see the image size, name, URL, and changes from the prior image. To understand the change methods, look to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/189943/how-can-i-quantify-difference-between-two-images
Putting it all together and using Azure Stream Analytics + Power BI, we can see real-time the changes happening:
Also, looking at it from a hardware perspective, without any GPU's it can consume CPU and, as shown below:
This is running on a 4 core "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60GHz" machine.


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Leading Midland's landlord whg is launching free courses in January to help families start the new year by getting their finances in order.
The Cash Smart Credit Savvy course, run in partnership with Just Finance Black Country, aims to help people take control of their money.
The course is run over three sessions looking at how to save money on shopping and bills, credit, loans and debt and how to make a budget and stick to it. People can choose which sessions they wish to attend.
The workshops will be run from whg's Hatherton Street office, Queens Lea in Willenhall and Catshill Road in Brownhills. Each session lasts two hours.
A free Universal Credit Savvy session is also delivered regularly, which gives advise on Universal Credit, how to prepare for it and where to receive support.
The Just Finance Foundation, through partnerships that include one with whg, has helped over 3,500 people across the UK to secure a better financial future since it launched in 2014. The organisation works locally and nationally through churches and other community groups, to increase the supply of fair and affordable finance and to empower people by building their financial capability.
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Saturday was one of the best days. Not just of my days here in India, but ever.
We got to go to the beach! I'm not sure who was more excited- me or the kids. It's only about 20 minutes from the orphanage, but the kids only get to go once every few months. Imagine 75 kids all going to the beach at once, it was total chaos and so much fun! We played all day- in the water, made stuff out of sand, ate lunch, played songs, looked for seashells. A few of the boys went fishing and caught their dinner.
Some days are better spent observing the world with your own eyes, rather than through the lens of a camera. So after taking just a few photos, I ditched my camera in my backpack to go play. Everyone was so exhausted at the end of the day but I wish we could go back again.
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This week, the weekly photography challenge – low perspectives!
That's right! Get down low and take photos from a low, interesting perspective. They can be of absolutely anything – they just have to be taken from an angle that is close to the ground.
It could be architecture, interiors, still life, landscapes, street photography, or people. It can be color, black and white, moody, bright or whatever you like!
I can't wait to see your shots!
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The following articles are helpful for the challenge:
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Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they'll be embedded for us all to see. Or if you'd prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week's challenge!
You can also share your images in the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.
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Workshop 3D Modeling & BIM. New Frontiers
The 3D Modeling & BIM Workshop has come to its fourth edition; this year, it is dedicated to the theme of 'New Frontiers'. As on previous occasions, the event was hosted by the Sapienza Università di Roma at the Valle Giulia headquarters on the 18th and 19th of April 2018 [1]. 'New Frontiers' is the subtitle of the fourth edition of this event (fig. 1). The organizers record with satisfaction the constant growth of the event both in terms of quantity –starting from the number of contributions and members– and quality. Although the first aspect is important, the second aspect is more interesting to dwell on; looking through the type and quality of contributions, one gets the impression of entering a largely unexplored territory that is potentially rich in innovative ideas. However, it also has its pitfalls [Bianchini 2018, p. 12]. This is Carlo Bianchini's viewpoint. He is Director of the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture at the Sapienza Università di Roma. He is also the host of the event
Bianchini, C. (2018). Presentazione. In Empler, Quici, Valenti 2018, pp. 12-13.
Bianchini, C., Nicastro S. (2018). The definition of the Level of Reliability: a contribution to the transparency of Historical-BIM processes. In Dn. Building Information Modeling, Data & Semanti-cs, No. 2, pp. 46-59: <http://www.dienne.org/> (accessed 2018, June 22).
Di Luggo, A. (2018). Teaching and research: H-BIM systems for documenting architectu-ral heritage. In Empler, Quici, Valenti 2018, pp. 34-44.
Empler, T., Quici, F., Valenti, G.M. (a cura di). (2018). 3D Modeling & BIM. Nuove Frontiere. Proceedings of the 4th workshop 3D Modeling & BIM. Rome, 2018, April 18-19. Roma: DEI Tipografia del Genio Civile.
Valenti, G.M. (2018). Osservando la ricerca sul 3D Mo-deling & BIM. In Empler, Quici, Valenti 2018, pp. 42-47.
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Billy Mitchell has been banned from Twin Galaxies, and all of his scores have been removed!
Originally I planned to go over the rumored PS5 2018 release date, but I will just mention that, thankfully, it was debunked and now is looking more like a 2020 release, which is good because if it did come out in 2018 then it would have been a huge slap in the face to those who purchased a PS4 Pro which is not even a year and a half old. I'd say the same thing if Microsoft released an Xbox successor not one year after the release of the Xbox One X. But with that out of the way, let's continue.
Oh Billy Mitchell. How the mighty hath fallen.
I remember about 10 years ago watching a movie called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. It was a tale about an up-and-coming Donkey Kong player named Steve Wiebe beating a world record held by one Billy Mitchell going all the way back to 1982. Wiebe beats the record, but is called out by Twin Galaxies referees over the matter of a board that was given to Wiebe by Roy Shildt, a rival of Mitchell's who has called him out several times over his Missile Command score. Shildt also defends Wiebe about his score being legit.
The film shows Wiebe competing at events including Funspot and Guinness while Mitchell does not even play him at all. In fact, in one scene when Billy Mitchell does show up, we hear him saying "there's certain people I don't want to spend too much time with."
Now I know movies, even documentaries, are fabricated to tell a story, but I said when that happened, if I was Steve Wiebe, record be damned, I would have probably got up and punched him for saying that. But in the end, needless to say, Mitchell was not pleased about how the movie turned out. In an interview with MTV, I recall him saying how the movie "tried to paint me off as a son of a gun."
Time moved on, and other Donkey Kong world record holders took over.
But there was one element on that movie that turned into a Pandora's Box. As another competitive gamer, Doris Self, was about to set a world record on Q*Bert, before leaving the airport, Billy Mitchell gives her a videotape, stating how important it is and how "you can lose your luggage, but don't lose this tape."
The tape was a recording of a 1,047,200 Donkey Kong score. However, there were video glitches that even former Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day questioned, yet the score was still accepted for submission, beating out Wiebe's score and making him the first million point Donkey Kong score.
Over the years I come across many instances of where Twin Galaxies may have falsified or altered scores, and those I know that have spoken out about them have been ostracized as a result.
But then we get hit with two exposures. The first being another former Twin Galaxies record holder, Todd Rogers, also known as "Mr. Activision," was accused of falsifying his scores, and even placing them on the record books himself. The worst case for him was a 5.51 time in Dragster. After an investigation found that the fastest Dragster time technically possible was 5.54 seconds, Rogers had his scores removed from the Twin Galaxies scoreboard and he was banned from taking part in any future TG events.
Now we move onto Donkey Kong and Billy Mitchell. Starting in February of this year, Apollo Legend, the same person who discovered that Rogers' scores were faked, does an investigation on Billy Mitchell's 1,047,200 Donkey Kong score. (For the interest of brevity, we'll just call it 1047 from now on.) What Legend found out is that 1047 was not done with actual arcade hardware, but rather by using an emulator. In this case, MAME. The most damning piece of evidence occurs during the barrel board and the way it is rendered before each screen starts, with traces of what is referred to as a "girder tail" or "girder finger" that are not duplicated in actual arcade hardware.
Of course, the old guard at Twin Galaxies could not stand by him being accused of cheating, which led to slanderous columns on Twin Galaxies, threats of a lawsuit against Legend for illegally recording an event he attended, even though they knew he was being recorded, and even with Mitchell himself calling out detractors, or as he called them, the LLC (Lonely Losers Club.) Some of my friends who I talked with over this matter were linked to this LLC on an internet podcast. But go figure that the host of said podcast is on a network owned by someone whose fans attacked me almost 15 years ago, but we won't go through that again. But yeah, even with damning evidence showing that Billy Mitchell (who claims he NEVER used MAME before,) did use MAME, it was up to Twin Galaxies to make a decision.
And, this morning in fact, they did make their decision, which comes right from their website:
Based on the complete body of evidence presented in this official dispute thread, Twin Galaxies administrative staff has unanimously decided to remove all of Billy Mitchell's scores as well as ban him from participating in our competitive leaderboards.
We have notified Guinness World Records of our decision.
On 02-02-2018 Twin Galaxies member Jeremey Young ( @xelnia ) filed a dispute claim assertion against the validity of Billy Mitchell's historical and current original arcade Donkey Kong score performances of 1,047,200 (the King of Kong "tape"), 1,050,200 (the Mortgage Brokers score), and 1,062,800 (the Boomers score) on the technical basis of a demonstrated impossibility of original unmodified Donkey Kong arcade hardware to produce specific board transition images shown in the videotaped recordings of those adjudicated performances.
Jeremy's assertion concluded that not only can original Donkey Kong arcade hardware not produce the board transition images shown in the recordings, but that these transitions were actually generated through the use of MAME (emulation software.)
The rules for submitting scores for the original arcade Donkey Kong competitive leaderboards requires the use of original arcade hardware only. The use of MAME or any other emulation software for submission to these leaderboards is strictly forbidden.
Jeremy Young provided his dispute case evidence to the dispute thread for both public and Twin Galaxies scrutiny and review.
Twin Galaxies has meticulously tested and investigated the dispute case assertions as well as a number of relevant contingent factors, such as the veracity of the actual video performances that the dispute claim assertions rely upon.
In addition to Twin Galaxies' own investigation into the dispute case assertions, at least two different 3rd parties conducted their own explorations and came to identical conclusions.
Most notable was the 3rd party (Carlos Pineiro) that Billy Mitchell engaged to help examine the dispute case claims on his behalf, utilizing whatever original equipment Billy could provide, whose final finding was consistent with Twin Galaxies investigation and others.
Additionally, during the evidence gathering period of this dispute, numerous experts, hobbyists, and casual observers participated and contributed to this investigation.
Here are our specific findings:
– The taped Donkey Kong score performances of 1,047,200 (the King of Kong "tape"), 1,050,200 (the Mortgage Brokers score) that were historically used by Twin Galaxies to substantiate those scores and place them in the database were not produced by the direct feed output of an original unmodified Donkey Kong Arcade PCB.
– The 1,062,800 (the Boomers score) Donkey Kong performance does not have enough of a body of direct evidence for Twin Galaxies to feel comfortable to make a definitive determination on at this time.
– The 1047 and 1050 score performance videos we have in our possession (and are basing our determinations on) are in fact the performances that were used by previous Twin Galaxies administration as justification for those scores to be entered into the database and for Twin Galaxies to attribute those specific accomplishments to Billy Mitchell. We have several different and unique sources of these performances and access to private historical Twin Galaxies referee e-mail distribution records showing where these sources acquired their copies and what the purpose was.
– Of significant note is that it is very straightforward for anyone to check the authenticity of the 1047 performance source tape by just cross-referencing the digital capture video of the performance that has been posted in this dispute thread with the very public King of Kong movie gameplay footage along with its DVD extras.
– While we know for certain that an unmodified original DK arcade PCB did not output the display seen in the videotaped score performances, we cannot definitively conclude that what is on the tapes is MAME.
– To definitively conclude that MAME was used, Twin Galaxies would need to comprehensively rule out the possibility of all other methods that could produce what is seen on the tapes. This would mean testing all other emulators other than MAME across all other platforms to eliminate the possibility that a different emu was used. It would also mean testing visual effects software and anything else we can think of to be definitively certain. This kind of testing is beyond the scope of the dispute case needs.
From a Twin Galaxies viewpoint, the only important thing to know is whether or not the score performances are from an unmodified original DK arcade PCB as per the competitive rules. We now believe that they are not from an original unmodified DK arcade PCB, and so our investigation of the tape content ends with that conclusion and assertion.
Twin Galaxies has endeavored to provide a fair opportunity and reasonable amount of time for all sides and interests to present their thoughts and evidence as it has evaluated this dispute claim. Twin Galaxies has also investigated this matter as comprehensively as reasonably possible to make sure that its findings are as informed as possible.
Throughout every step of this investigation, Billy Mitchell had the opportunity to answer questions and contribute to the public dispute thread. However, he was under no obligation to participate in this dispute thread and as such he chose not to do so.
Twin Galaxies is only looking at the dispute claim assertions about score performances and either validating or refuting those claims specifically – it is not evaluating people.
Twin Galaxies would like to give a huge thank you to all involved in this dispute from all sides. Our community, the DKF community, @xelnia and @YesAffinity specifically and many many others have contributed tremendously and deserve proper and full recognition.
Hopefully it is becoming more and more obvious that we care very much about our scoreboard integrity and will continue to improve it step-by-step, no matter how painful or public it might occasionally be.
This has been said before, but it is important to repeat that Twin Galaxies is dedicated to absolutely rooting out invalid scores from our historic database wherever we find them.
Twin Galaxies' recent efforts to build a dispute system for the purpose of allowing scores to be questioned in a centralized and documented manner have enabled all of the available evidence regarding Billy Mitchell's score performances to finally, after many years, be concentrated, examined and discussed by non-anonymous members of the gaming community and Twin Galaxies administration. This system has created a permanent body of evidence for examination.
Anyone looking into their own past with honesty and a desire to improve will likely find things potentially messy and uncomfortable. Twin Galaxies has experienced a nice big dose of that again with this dispute. However, Twin Galaxies understands that this is required for it to continue its commitment to accuracy. As we all have learned, this cannot occur overnight and must be a step-by-step process.
Just as in other disputes, we definitely know that many in the gaming community operate with a general urgency and would have preferred to see this matter resolved more swiftly.
However, Twin Galaxies, as part of a comprehensive process and in its position of authority, must ensure due diligence. Our public documentation of our processes and conclusions are intended to satisfy scrutiny for the long term, so in instances where warranted our comprehensiveness must go above and beyond what would normally satisfy.
Our methodic approach has allowed many things to surface, not only related to this specific score, but other scores as well as some previously never-before-discussed video game related history.
We must repeat, the truth is the priority. That is the concern. Whatever it takes.
Twin Galaxies continues to strive to earn and maintain trust over time by making supportable decisions and taking sensible actions.
With this ruling Twin Galaxies can no longer recognize Billy Mitchell as the 1st million point Donkey Kong record holder. According to our findings, Steve Wiebe would be the official 1st million point record holder.
Thanks again to all who contributed time, effort and expertise to this case.
So yeah, after all of this, it turns out in the end that Steve Wiebe truly is worthy of the title of King of Kong, and congrats to him for officially getting the first million-point game. But what does this mean for Billy Mitchell? It looks like his reputation is forever tarnished by this, and no amount of damage control, glad-handing on sycophantic internet radio programs, or calling others liars and "lonely losers" is going to win that back. Even further, though I'm not certain it is linked to the TG banning, even the website for his hot sauce brand has an "Account Suspended" page. It does look like this might be the end for the "Video Game Player of the Century."
To think, Twin Galaxies also has a MAME section, and he could have submitted his Donkey Kong scores there without any problem. That's what I would have done if I did submit scores, but never have. But no, he had to allegedly lie about doing it in an arcade, and now look where it got him!
And to my friends, referred to in the "Lonely Loser's Club," here's to you! Lastly, I hope we get to hear from Roy "Mr. Awesome" Shildt as well. His time has definitely come!
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