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Play the game to win great prizes! It can be in the form virtual scratch card, a winning wheel, choice of three doors – you choose! The game is accompanied by music, sound fx and animation for an exciting and fun user experience.
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The wallet feature allows users to store prizes they've won into a wallet and redeem them at another time. You can set a limit on the redemption time, forcing users to redeem the prize within 'X' days or hours before it expires.
The rewards system gives users an incentive to check-in to a physical store every day. The more a user checks-in, the better chance they have at winning a grand prize!
You can choose the winning odds of the game, making it easier or harder for users to win a prize.
This section includes any additional information you want in the app. Things such as:
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Send surveys to all users to get feedback and valuable information from your userbase. Incentivize responses with an in-app prize. .
Users can login to the app via Facebook and share "Wins" with all their friends. Free word of mouth!
Keep users engaged in the app by sending a custom push notification if they haven't logged into the app in "30" days.
Give users the ability to share game plays with each other, or people who don't have the app yet. Users can be incentivized to share game plays through in-app prizes. A great hands-off way to build your user-base.
Send users messages within the app. Unlike Push Notifications, these messages can be in the form of video or imagery. You can also choose for them to stay in the app forever or delete them once all your users have had the chance to read it.
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Kiss Air fans begged us to recreate their favourite tipple as a must have Gin and Tonic candle and of course, we did it! With bubbly notes of club soda and warm citrus (you can really smell the tonic in this!) encased in fresh rosemary and juniper berries (that'll be the Gin for you!) it really can be Gin O'Clock any time of the day with this Gin and Tonic candle.
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Thanks to all of you who took part in round 3, new and returning competitors alike! This round proved to be a bit rougher than usual, both on your end and ours. To start, there were no perfect scorers in either division. Although the first three problems of both divisions had many wonderful full and partial solutions, the last problems seemed to have perplexed everybody. Indeed, getting 100% on either of them them required a fair bit of tricky preprocessing. On the other hand, we also did run into some issues with the problem statements and test data. The issues have all been addressed in comments to the corresponding problems on the judge. Although we strongly believe that these issues had a negligible effect on the overall results, we nonetheless promise to be more careful in the future.
The senior division prizewinners for this round are:
- Timothy Li of Don Mills Collegiate Institute ($200)
- Jeffrey Xiao of University of Toronto Schools ($100)
- Jason Yuen of Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ($50)
- Bill Zheng of Richmond Green Secondary School ($50)
- Weiwei Zhong of Glenforest Secondary School ($50)
The junior division prizewinners for this round are:
- Jonathan Chang of Don Mills Collegiate Institute ($50)
- Allan Xu of Woburn Collegiate Institute ($25)
- Christopher DeGuzman of Glenforest Secondary School ($25)
Congratulations to all of you! These prizes will be distributed as Visa gift cards, and we will be contacting your teachers shortly about sending them out. If you haven't won a prize, keep on practicing! We have many more prize opportunities for you throughout the year.


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Bags ship in late January
If you're looking for a New Year's mystery treat, AmiAmi might just have you covered. They've got boys and girls grab bags up for pre-order right now.
For 2,000 yen, you can get a mystery grab bag full of items like keychains, straps, fans, coasters, mini towels, etc. They value the bags at over 10,000 yen. The guys' grab bag has items featuring girls from anime popular with guys, while the girls' grab bag has items featuring male characters from shows popular with girls.
2,000 yen is about $19. The bags will get release in late January, so there's not much waiting time. Do you guys like to gamble on your merch with blind bags? Sound off in the comments!
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Wales receive George North fitness boost
PA Sport
August 11, 2015
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George North has offered Wales strong encouragement that he will be fit for their World Cup campaign.
The Northampton wing played a full part in a contact session as Wales trained in public in Colwyn Bay on Tuesday as part of their preparations for the tournament.
Uncertainty has surrounded the 23-year-old's availability after he suffered three concussions in the space of five months and consequently missed the final 10 weeks of last season.
He was not risked in Saturday's warm-up defeat by Ireland in Cardiff and is being continually assessed, but the Wales backroom team are pleased with his progress.
Warren Gatland laments poor first half against Ireland in Cardiff
Forwards coach Robin McBryde said: "We haven't risked the boys who we didn't need to risk, but George was out there playing.
"Someone of George's ability is going to be an addition to any squad in world rugby. To have him back fit, that has given everybody a boost."
Captain Sam Warburton was also pleased to see North playing such an active part.
Warburton said: "He has been training really well from day one. Physically he is a freak and I never thought he was going to miss the World Cup.
"He is one of our players with X-factor and, in my opinion, one of the best players in the world. Athletically he is in fantastic shape now and I am sure we will see the best of George over the next few months."
A crowd of around 4,000 attended the session at Parc Eirias, which was part of a three-day training camp being held by the national side in north Wales. They were able to watch regular training drills and a practice match of reasonable intensity.
With the 46-man squad set to be reduced by up to 10 later this week, the game provided a last big chance for a number of fringe players to state their case for the World Cup.
Wales, who play further warm-up games against Ireland and Italy before their tournament opener against Uruguay on September 20, have to name a final 31-man squad by August 31.
McBryde said: "The (first) team was much the same as the weekend. We tried to recreate that intensity and the crowd played their part.
"It was a great opportunity to give everyone another chance before we cut down the squad.
"It has been good to come away to a different environment. There was 100 per cent support for both teams and the welcome has been fantastic. The turnout shows how important it is we remember north Wales."
McBryde also delivered a positive update on two players not with the party due to injury in back Liam Williams and prop Samson Lee. Williams has been troubled by a foot injury while Lee underwent Achilles surgery four months ago.
He said: "They are both on schedule. Samson has been taking part in scrummaging sessions, not full, but front-row wise. Liam is back on track. He has done some running on the machine and some weights."
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What really sets the D 3020 apart from many of the other integrated amps on the market is built-in Bluetooth, including support for the better-sounding aptX codec. It's a nice perk for instant-gratification listening, letting you wirelessly stream audio from nearly any mobile device. While it's easy to add wireless functionality to other integrated amps using an Apple TV ($100) or Bluetooth receiver ($20), it's certainly nice to have that capability without an add-on.
Sound quality: Big sound from a little box
Sound quality evaluations of amplifiers are controversial. Some say all properly designed AV receivers sound the same, others disagree, and we're not likely to settle that argument anytime soon.
What we can say is that amplifier sound quality has much, much less effect on overall sound quality than speakers or room acoustics, so it's typically not worth sweating the sonic differences between amps when you can focus your attention on the factors that make a much larger difference.
We started listening to the D 3020 with PSB Image T6 tower speakers, paired with an Oppo BDP-93 Blu-ray player. The little D 3020 had no trouble driving the big speakers; their awesome low-end bass power was on full display, stereo imaging was spacious, deep and broad, and overall transparency was excellent. (Not terribly surprising, given that this is an update of the classic NAD 3020.) The volume ramps up and down very quickly from the remote, maybe even a little too quickly for our tastes, as we frequently overshot when making adjustments.
To put the D 3020's sound in perspective, we compared it with the Teac A-H01 integrated amplifier and listened to a number of movies and music selections. We started with soul and Gospel singer Mavis Staples' new high-resolution download album "One True Vine" from HDtracks. (Disclosure: contributor Steve Guttenberg, who co-authored this review, occasionally works for HDtracks). We put the 96kHz/24-bit files on a thumb drive, and played them on the Oppo, but used the digital converters in the A-H01 and D 3020 amplifiers.
Both amps sounded wonderful, but the D 3020 was more natural, with Staples' vocals sounding more present, like she was in the room with us. The guitars, bass, and drums' clarity really shone over the D 3020, with bass definition also firmed up. The Teac also flattened soundstage depth relative to the D 3020 and overall the D 3020 seemed to make the T6s sound like better speakers, which is impressive as the A-H01 is a good-sounding amp in its own right.
Using the two amps in a stereo home theater context, the train derailment scene in "Super 8" maxed out the dynamic jolts better on the D 3020, while the A-H01 was less intense, less exciting. Back on the D 3020, dialogue was focused between the two T6 speakers, so the lack of a center channel wasn't a concern for listeners seated in line with the TV. Dialogue clarity was fine for listeners over to the right or left side of the CNET room, although listeners will tend to hear the dialogue coming from the speaker they are closest to. That's always the case with stereo home theater systems, so we can't blame the D 3020.
We finished up our listening tests with some of our better pairs of headphones, like the HiFiMan HE-400 and V-Moda M100, and the sound quality was above par. In a scene from "Stoker," an unsettling psychological thriller, one character drives his motorcycle off into the distance, and the sound appeared to come from farther and farther away. That sort of out-of-head imaging made it easier to forget we were wearing headphones and concentrate on the story.
What are the alternatives?
For home theater use, Sony's STR-DN840 ($400) has a lot going for it. Sure, it's much bigger and bulkier, but you get a lot more features. It's a 7.2-channel receiver, so you can run a full surround-sound setup, including dual subwoofers if you'd like. There are also six HDMI inputs, so it's a better choice if you have a lot of living-room devices. And it had even more wireless functionality, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and AirPlay, making it perfect for instant-gratification listening. If you've got the space and don't mind the "big black box" aesthetics, it's hard to argue against the STR-DN840 from a value perspective.
If you're convinced a simple integrated amp is the way to go, the D 3020 is our favorite overall pick, although some of the alternatives are compelling. The NuForce Dia ($200 street) is unbelievably tiny and can suffice in smaller rooms, although it's not of the same caliber as the D 3020. There's also aforementioned Peachtree Audio Decco65, which is significantly more expensive, but has jaw-dropping good looks if you're looking for a piece of equipment to show off.
Conclusion: A cut above the other integrated amps
When you compare the available integrated amps on the market feature for feature, the NAD D 3020 undeniably stands out: it's the only model with built-in Bluetooth and it packs a lot of other niceties like a dedicated subwoofer output, a USB input, and plenty of other inputs. Pair that up with a sleek design and excellent sound, and you've got a winning combination. If you've got the money and don't want a traditional AV receiver, the NAD D 3020 is an excellent choice for powering your living-room speakers.


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Madison, Wisconsin, 8-7-13
Traditionally a symbol of religious expression, late nineteenth century American architects transformed the dome and its interior into one of civic celebration. The soaring rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol is designed to induce its citizenry to be, as individuals, among the "resources of Wisconsin." Whereas some statehouses are maintained apart from the urban fabric, the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim. — National Historic Landmark Application, Wisconsin Capitol
Art and creativity have been both an outcome and a necessary mechanism of resistance, as we've seen it in Wisconsin the last 2-½ years. In the case of the Solidarity Sing Along (SSA), the art is part of the protest, but protest is, itself, performance art, partly rehearsed, partly improvisational in nature. The ability of the event to respond to new circumstances infuses life into it, and Governor Scott Walker's Capitol Police, acting on orders this summer to arrest singers — including ministers, retired veterans, older women of the "Raging Grannies," teenagers as young as 14, an alderman, a firefighter in uniform, the journalist Matt Rothschild of The Progressive there to cover the story, a young African American man violently tackled while taking video — gave the Sing Along the fresh material it needed to stay lively "One Day Longer," as singers say, than Walker's reign.
The SSA began in response to the passage of Wisconsin's austere and union-busting "Budget Repair Bill" (3/9/2011), growing out of the previous month's massive, round-the-clock protests against that bill. Events in Wisconsin don't tend to make, or remain in, national "news." You may not know details about the Wisconsin Protests of February-March, 2011 (which the progressive movement here believes inspired the Occupy movement elsewhere), but for those of us who participated, the outpouring of creativity that attended the protests was remarkable, thrilling, and community-building. It's one of the things that certainly drew more than 100,000 on multiple occasions to a month of outdoor protests in bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures and to indoor protests that involved sleeping on bone-chilling marble. Every day was an improvisational carnival that took inspiration from an early delivery of Valentines to Governor Walker from university students and from the theatrical flight of fourteen Democratic senators to Illinois to prevent quorum; a series of what nows, new dramas, new actors: What leaders and celebrities would suddenly appear in front of your eyes downtown? How many people would come on a given day? Would we be able to stop or slow down different legislative votes? What creative costumes and clever signs would people make overnight to bring to the next protest? What new themes and conflicts would emerge? What new buttons and cartoons?
The "Ash Wednesday Ambush" on March 9th was followed by the much more work-a-day petition drive that forced recall elections and by a massive, unsuccessful volunteer effort to flip the senate majority and unseat the governor mid-term. Though the protest movement lost visibility and stopped attracting crowds in the Spring of 2011 for a variety of reasons, specific creative protest efforts that began during that early period, including the Overpass Light Brigade and the Solidarity Sing Along, have continued, along with a wider culture of imaginative protest arts.
Over 200 people were arrested during the weekday, noon-hour SSA in late July and August. NPR reported on September 12 that more than 300 arrests have been made since July 24th.
That number includes multiple arrests and citations for many people. The "First Amendment Protection Fund" has been established to help pay the legal costs of fighting these arrests and continuing to sing. There's quite a bit of speculation about why now with these arrests, since the singing has occurred for over two years, but the Department of Administration (DOA) doesn't say. Maybe it's part of Walker's Presidential run: either he doesn't want to be embarrassed by this quirky collection of Madison characters singing the same 52 songs in the rotunda every lunch hour in order to assert their, everyone's, right to assemble and to speak up, or he just wants to claim that he's tough on liberals, or upholding law and order, as he crosses the country raising capital to get him out of the Capitol. Ironically (or not, depending on motives), the arrests have resulted in more audience, more local support, and more media coverage. But maybe that's what his campaign does intend?
There's a resemblance, especially on the police side, to theater that is scripted, rehearsed, planned, produced, inflexible. The Sing Along, in contrast, has been reclaiming some of that feeling of expectation and surprise that marked the original Uprising of 2011: Who will show up? What signs will they carry? What will they wear? What creative ideas will they display and embody? What will happen next? Are observers of the Sing Along participants and also subject to arrest? Can you participate in the balcony of observers? Can you observe downstairs in the crowd of singers? What constitutes participation? Singing? Sign carrying? T-shirt slogans? Clapping? Foot tapping? Dancing? Costumes? Aren't the Capitol Police themselves participants? Should they be dispersing and arresting themselves?
I get a bit of a start when I pass our family's campsite from the one night we spent here in February, 2011, during the weeks when people occupied the Capitol around the clock, as well as at the balconies where I know I stood that month. A worker in the Assembly Sergeant at Arms office stops to check me out, as I scribble in my notebook. He warns me that the noise levels will elevate in a half-hour and asks if I've been inside for the singing. I try not to rest my spiral notebook on the marble. I know they're sensitive to it being sullied — a point of contention and downright lies during the protests, as the DOA claimed that the occupation had resulted in millions of dollars of damage from all the signs and decorations hung with painter' blue tape. In the end, the cost of clean-up (mostly reseeding the grass around the building and wiping down all this marble) totaled $100,000.
We discuss the building. He's worked here six years but hasn't ever gone on a tour. I recommend it. He marvels — we marvel together — at the beauty and grandeur. He says something I've often heard older people say in other contexts: They couldn't do it today. Not they wouldn't want to, but they couldn't. There are two-hundred light bulbs to change daily in the Capitol. There is duct work for a defunct central vacuum system. The third such building on this site, constructed 1906-1917 for 7.5 million dollars, it contains 43 types of stone from 14 different countries and states. It has the largest granite dome in the world. And at the very top of the dome is a gold-leafed statue of a young woman, "Wisconsin," and on her head is a hat, and on that gold-decked hat, 284 feet, 5 inches from the ground floor of the building, sits a badger.
Just think about that a minute. This fancy Beaux-Arts Capitol is topped by a gold-leafed woman wearing badger headgear. Or, as the National Historic Landmark application puts it: Her headdress incorporates iconography symbolic of the attributes of the State.
That statue's design was awarded originally to Helen Farnsworth Mears, an artist from Oshkosh who bears some resemblance to Wisconsin-born Georgia O'Keeffe. She had already begun the work when Daniel Chester French, who originally turned down the commission changed his mind. Mears and French were in contact at the time, and the Capitol's architect George B. Post dumped Mears when French, who made the famous statue of Lincoln in D.C., decided he was available after all.
As far as I can find, none of the art on display in the Capitol's chambers or in the rotunda has been created by artists from Wisconsin. And none of it was made by women, indigenous people, African Americans, Latinos, children, the living. Should a democracy exclude either past or present from its public spaces? What if the past misrepresents the present and constituencies of the present, such as women and people of color, or doesn't represent them at all?
It's 11:53. There's a couple with a baby in a very elaborate back pack with a weather/sun hood. It's starting to get a little noisier. I count 30-some people on the second floor balcony. Spontaneous gatherings are not illegal without a permit, per the building's official rules, available since 2011 as a 24-page pdf called the Wisconsin State Facilities Access Policy, though "planned events" of more than 4 now require them. A judge has already ruled that the number 4 is too low and says 20. A court hearing next year will rule on the legality of the permit requirement. The prior building-use code was a single page.
Two people wear orange vests that say Tourist. Do Not Arrest. The URL for state tourism, travelwisconsin.com, is also on the vest. I don't know if they're serious, ironic, or both. They take each others' picture next to Wisconsin's copy of the Liberty Bell, one of several memorials in the Rotunda area. They wear khaki shorts and identical Teva sandals. I decide they probably are tourists who probably are serious. Unless they are really, really excellent performance artists. But they look a little old for that.
At 11:59 the singing starts as always with "We Shall Overcome." About a dozen people are in the area where I stand on the third floor. I say hello to those I pass and move to the second floor. Maybe 50 or 60 are downstairs in the rotunda. Lots of people with video equipment and cameras. A guy wearing handcuffs as jewelry. About 50 watch from the second floor balcony. The Capitol Police sign board below says that if they determine the event has more than 20 people, they will declare it unlawful and participants will be subject to arrest. Then it says with very little thought devoted to line breaks:
We Are Declaring
This An Unlawful Event
Please Move Your
Group Outside Or Disperse
If You Do Not,
Each Participant Is
Subject To Arrest
I talk to the orange-vested woman about the costumes, realizing that I could just ask about their meaning rather than speculate about it endlessly in my head. She says they're from New York and that their son lives in Madison. He is worried about them visiting the Capitol, and the vests are a sincere effort to avoid arrest.
At 12:05 the police announce with their speakers: "This is State Capitol Police Chief David Erwin. I have determined that your group is holding an unlawful event. Please lead your group outside." They read some ordinances but they're too garbled to understand.
I see lots of familiar faces, especially from photos and video of the last week, during which daily arrests of about 20 people have been made. They're singing, "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?" as two people are handcuffed and led away. Three police surround an older man. One puts out her arm to indicate the distance the cameras should keep, and he is led away after a short discussion. They move on to a younger man, whom they also cuff and lead off. Then a young woman who resists. She wants her arms cuffed in front of her, but they insist on putting them behind her back. She points at her shoulder and shakes her head, but it does no good, and she is led away. The next person to go wears a shirt with the message Whose House. He has a camera. Don't give them the camera, a woman says. They'll erase all your video! They lead both of them away, but people do hand off their bags, cameras, whatever they are holding to others in the crowd, and the police let them.
Lots of folks are in the balcony documenting, writing, talking, taking photographs. We're not singing or clapping. We're watching and witnessing. Senator Jon Erpenbach is nearby, and people gather around him. A policeman startles me from behind as I write, telling me and the person next to me that this is an unlawful gathering. If we watch, we're subject to arrest. So I ask if we can watch from upstairs. He says, If you're in the viewing area, you're subject to arrest. I ask if we can sit down on a bench out of the viewing area and he repeats that if we stay in the viewing area, we're acting unlawfully, that we should go away. I guess he expects us to comply, but I nod and go back to writing in my notebook and he leaves. I don't know if he will come back, but it all seems like part of the performance.
Later today the DOA will decide it is not so keen on arresting spectators after all, though it will continue arresting singers who are part of this "unpermitted event."
The police come and go. By "Which Side Are You On," they seem to have lost enthusiasm for their parts. I count five children and one baby at this point. Three police below. One is upstairs telling a group of kids and a mom what's what. He smiles at them as he insists that they have to leave the viewing area. There are still about 50 of us up here and about 100 downstairs.
A reporter wants to know what I'm observing. The kinds of stuff poets observe.
I ask if he has ever tried out the sing along. No, he says, I'm an impartial observer.
And I nod. I guess that's the difference between poets and journalists.
Have you? And he sounds a little wistful.
Yes. A few times.
The final song is always "Solidarity Forever," accompanied by a march around the middle of the Rotunda. Many "observers" join in. Fists go up. The Union makes us strong. And it's true, Unions are important, like governments and non-profits and other institutions that exist to make people's lives better, but I believe that union (small u) makes us stronger, and that union, at least conversation, needs to occur among individuals across difference: of gender, race, language, age, occupation, class, political and religious beliefs. For union and dialog to occur, we must lift and listen to each others' voices.
An enthusiastic singer erases "not" from the whiteboard, resulting in We declare this is a lawful gathering … Foolery at its finest. Applause for the end of the Sing Along, and at 1:00 there's a chant of We're still here, as the police come through to collect their altered whiteboard and Exit Stage North. I don't think they're enjoying their parts. I wouldn't if I were them, and I wonder whether they couldn't use a little performance-poetry training instead of donuts and flowers: Theater of the Oppressed and spoken word workshops. A chance to express their creativity. The costumes definitely do not provide that opportunity and neither does the whiteboard or the script they use day after day.
A group of school kids arrives. Some of the singers stand in the middle of the Rotunda talking. The police are still visible, but they stop arresting and warning people precisely at 1 p.m. People walk off with their signs. The folks with cameras leave. The writers finish their notes and pack. The next tour isn't till 2 p.m. Reporter Guy goes off to file his story. Bloggers put up video and commentary.
It's something of a tribute to what I think of as the "Wisconsin Protest Arts Movement" that I'd even entertain the idea that these witnesses and these officers and these activists might be performers. But here they could have been, in a context that includes crafts, visual art, visual poetry, music, performance, poetry, film, zines, and hip hop: Artistic responses to events by ordinary people — individuals as well as (dis)organizations — creating a broad array of political, word and image-based artifacts: witty protest buttons and signs, "uprising quilts," one-of-a-kind and limited-edition T-shirts, cartoons, songs, plays, citizen-performance artists wearing costumes and wielding chalk, projects such as Madison's SSA, the marvelous Milwaukee-based Overpass Light Brigade, Verse Wisconsin's "Poems About the Protests," The Exquisite Uterus Project: Art of Resistance, poetry and photography-focused chapbooks by individual authors, as well as anthologies.
Are these sorts of things happening in your state, too? Perhaps they are, and we don't hear about them where I live. But I believe these local actions give all of us new ideas, inspiration, courage, and resolve to act and keep acting against reactionary political forces, including Scott Walker, the governor without a college education who decommissioned Wisconsin's Poet Laureateship (a $2000 annual budget item originally created by a Republican Governor) even before disempowering state workers, a man determined to be the next president of the U.S.
Such improvisational projects bring together communities of like-minded people to be visible, producing protest art out of nothing in the spirit of fun, friendship, and the power of creative thinking. In solidarity. They change according to the situation and the needs of those served. They assess quickly and non-bureaucratically what those needs are. Performance, in this context, like creativity, is more than surface: it's the means through which community makes itself, over and over, becoming visible both to members and non-members and allowing any number of individual creative actors to perform under the same tent. Essential to this visibility is a predictable, regularly staged, site-specific performance, in this case, the Sing Along in the Capitol Rotunda, which functions, as the DOA itself said in its application some years ago to be a National Historic Landmark, literally and symbolically, as a city center.
When Reporter Guy asks about cultural significance, I say something about participation, about singing and poetry and art. But it's more. It's about participatory government, this building, Helen Farnsworth Mears, the glorification of marble, representations of Native Americans and Asians and African Americans and women in the art who have not been included in producing the art. Badgers. Fossils. Breath. The direct relation of poetry, performance, democracy. The importance of word-wise and engaged citizens. The presence of Veterans for Peace and children. The importance of enjoying governance. The Solidarity Sing Along comes together as a peaceful, creative community to witness to elected officials that there are viewpoints and people who are not represented in this government; they welcome anyone who would like to take part; they make some, though not all, of what is invisible visible; they enjoy doing it; they play, and play is a seriously necessary ingredient of functional societies. They fulfill the rotunda's purpose as city center … fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim. All. Not some.
Wendy Vardaman, has a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University. Co-editor and webmaster of Verse Wisconsin and co-founder/editor and webmaster of Cowfeather Press, her poems, reviews, essays and interviews have appeared online and in a variety of anthologies and journals. She is co-editor of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' 2013 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar and the forthcoming anthology, Echolocations, Poets Map Madison (Cowfeather Press). The author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press, 2009), she has been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net Awards. With Sarah Busse she is Poet Laureate of Madison, a volunteer post overseen by the Madison Arts Commission. Poetry at Common Council Meetings; the anthology of poems set in Madison; and the annual Olbrich Gardens Poetry Marathon are some of their projects. She lives in Madison with her husband, Thomas DuBois, has three children, and has never owned a car. More information and links to her poems and prose are at wendyvardaman.com.


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The British Virgin Islands are pristine for a number of reasons, most of them natural, but my favorite is the territory's restrictions on who can buy property. You have to be a "BVIslander" (the senior status) or a "Belonger," which is complicated but designed to prevent too many outsiders from buying into the islands then rarely visiting. My old Little League coach is a Belonger, which is how he ended up buying the land from which this photo was taken above Cane Garden Bay. Every winter about this time in Colorado, I long to be on his deck, staring out at this scene, wondering which open-air beach bar I'm going to drink boat drinks at that evening.
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Inflammation is a hallmark of injury and infection. In fact, a wide range of stimuli can lead to inflammation including inflammatory mediators (e.g. cytokines, bacterial toxins, activated complement, enzymes), pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), associated PAMPs (Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns such as endotoxin and other bacterial components), physical injury (e.g. trauma, hemorrhage), chemicals (e.g. free oxygen radicals, acid or alkali), DAMPs (Damage Associated Molecular Pattern molecules such as HMGB1, ATP, mitochondrial DNA), thermal injury (burns, frostbite), and radiation (e.g. UV exposure, radiation therapy). All this leads to an uncontrolled immune response.
Inflammation is normally localized to the site of injury or infection but can spread systemically through the production and release of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators in the blood. This Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) can be adaptive, engaging the resources of the entire body to help the body combat the injury or infection and aid in healing. However, this SIRS response can also rapidly turn maladaptive, driven by a cytokine storm and causing widespread cell death, injury to vital organs, ultimately leading to multiple organ failure and death in many cases. Organ failure is the cause of nearly half of all deaths in the ICU today, for which there are no effective therapies.
Sepsis is an excellent example of the damaging effects of cytokine storm and the maladaptive SIRS response. Sepsis is characterized as an overzealous SIRS response to a serious infection. Live pathogens, bacteria killed by antibiotics, and a variety of pathogen-associated ligands or PAMPs (e.g. endotoxin, exotoxins, and nucleic acids) can potently activate immune cells, resulting in vigorous cytokine production and excessive inflammation. Severe sepsis (sepsis with organ dysfunction) and septic shock (severe sepsis with refractory hypotension) can result, leading to a high risk of death. In SIRS without infection (e.g. trauma, burn injury, pancreatitis, complications of surgery, and many others) a variety of DAMPs, cytokines, enzymes, and other factors are primary drivers of inflammation.
The damaging role of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and others in the maladaptive SIRS response has been well-studied. Less well-appreciated is the harmful role of excessive anti-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. IL-4, IL-10, IL1-ra) in these conditions. Often erroneously termed "good cytokines", these anti-inflammatory cytokines mediate the compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS) and can lead to profound immune suppression, called "immune paralysis", leading to a predisposition to nosocomial infections and poor healing.


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Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship.
WELSH PRODUCER: Rebekah Gilbertson
WELSH CAST: Matthew Rhys
LOCATION: Set in Wales, filmed at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, New Quay, Cardigan, Lampeter, Cardigan, Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd, Gwili Railway, Bronwydd Arms, Carmarthenshire.
DATE: June 20, 2008
WRITER: Sharman Macdonald (screenplay), Rebekah Gilbertson (story idea)
CAST: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys
LENGTH: 110 min
LANGUAGE: English
CONTACT: Filmbank
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text: PLATTEKILL -- Incumbent Town Clerk Barbara E. Dawes and Town Justice John Sisti, and highway superintendent candidate Robert E. Wager, all Republicans, face no opposition on the Nov. 3 ballot. Dawes, 56, of 876 South St., who is seeking her eighth two-year term as clerk, also has Independent and Conservative lines on the ballot. Also employed as a martial arts instructor through the town's recreation program, Dawes has lived in the town for 46 years and has two children. She is a 1971 graduate of Wallkill High School and a member of the Plattekill Fire Department Auxiliary. "The biggest issue for me is probably space for the records because I'm the records officer and the registrar besides being tax collector and town clerk," she said. "The town has a very old town hall and we have to have more space for storing, so I'm going have to do some microfilming of older files that I have to keep and get things put on CD so they are more retrievable." Wager, 45, of 2182 state Route 32, Modena, has also secured the Conservative and Democratic ballot lines in his first run for public office. Since 2005, Wager has been a mechanic with the town Highway Department. A lifetime resident of the town, Wager is a 1982 graduate of Wallkill High School and a member of the Modena Fire Department. He and his wife, Dawn, a medical office manager, have two children. "The current highway superintendent has done such a fine job there's nothing I can think of right now," he said. "Everything is in good shape. The equipment is in good shape, the roads (are) in good shape. Basically it's just going to be do it one at a time and maintaining the road to the point where the public is not going to see a change in leadership." "I've been a mechanic all my life," he added. "I've worked for the highway department the last four years. I've been charged not only with the mechanic's position but I've been in charge of purchasing for the highway department, so I'm well versed in purchasing. We've got a good group of guys there -- I can't stress that enough." Sisti, 61, has lived in the town for 13 years and with his wife, Gail, has three grown children. After running unsuccessfully for town justice in 1995, he was appointed to the position in May 1996 to fill an unexpired term. Since then, he has been elected three times. A 1966 graduate of Wallkill High School, he received his bachelor's degree in political science from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1970 and his law degree and from Albany Law School in 1973. He is a member of the Plattekill Fire Department. "We're the fifth busiest court in the county," Sisti said. "There's 1,277 town courts and village courts in the state and we're 234th in terms of activity, and our biggest problem is we have inadequate quarters. We need an update of our physical plant. Our court is too small and not property set up to the volume that we're handling. I need a full-time clerk, for example."


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Gambling Policies Review 2016
The Council is currently consulting on the Class 4 (pokie machine) Gambling Policy and the Board (stand-alone TABs) Venues Policy, and we need your feedback by 22 August 2016. The Council is required to review these policies every three years.
Proposed changes to the policies:
Class 4 Gambling Policy
The Council is proposing to reduce the number of gaming machines available in the district from 140 machines to 120. Over the past three years the number of gaming machines has decreased to 118 through natural attrition. The Council also proposes to introduce a relocation policy, which would allow businesses with gaming machines to relocate to a new premise, with a maximum of 9 machines.
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There are no changes proposed for this policy, which is to not allow any new stand-alone venues in the district. The policy has been separated from the Class 4 Gambling Policy, which it was previously part of. Board Venues are premises which the sole purpose is for gambling. South Taranaki does have TAB outlets, which are different from stand-alone venues as they are based in premises which have a liquor licence; and the sole purpose of these venues is for the consumption of alcohol and food.
The Council's Class 4 Gambling Policy and the Board Venues Policy are open for public consultation from 7 July to 22 August 2016. This is your chance to let the Mayor and Councillors know your views, so please take the time to have your say.
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NEW YORK: Self-confidence is not only good for your own self esteem but can also boost your bank account, according to a US study. University of Florida researchers found people with high opinions of themselves as teenagers and young adults drew bigger salaries in middle age than others, earning up to $45,000 more a year. Management professor Timothy Judge who led the study said the gap was widest for those from privileged backgrounds.
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The study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with a sample of 12,686 men and women who were aged between 14 and 22 when first interviewed in 1979. Participants were then interviewed every year until 1994 and then every two years after that. When they were aged between 37 to 45 in 2002 the income findings were collected. The study, which was controlled for race and gender, evaluated mid-life income by examining parents' education and occupational prestige, as well as participants' educational levels and grade averages.
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Here's some good advice on in-class management from an excerpt, online at facultyfocus.com, taken from a white paper published by Magna Publications, "Ten Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class." The tip—to regularly make a "Today We Will" list on the board—is a good one, and not just for the first day of class.
The essence of the idea is to write, at the beginning of every class, a list on the board of what you plan to do in class that day. You write "Today We Will…" at the top, and then, underneath, chart the "road map" for that day's class. It's a sort of informal contract, a promise that gives your students a firm sense of what to expect at all times. Students who arrive late will know what they've missed and what they will be responsible for making up. All students will be able to see, at a glance, where you are in the class period's overall plan.
For the teacher, the list is a handy reminder of what you planned to cover, keeping you on topic and discouraging long tangents that bring you further away from the topics at hand. Of course, there's no need for the list to be rigid; you can feel free to erase items if you decide that you won't have enough time to get to them.
Above all, the habit of a "Today We Will" list contributes to a teacher-student relationship based on clear expectations—a good basis for any pedagogical exchange. -DG
Source: Jennifer Garrett. "Advice for the First Day of Class: Today We Will." Faculty Focus. Magna. 12 August 2013. Web. 20 August 2013. http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-classroom-management/advice-for-the-first-day-of-class-today-we-will/


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Bright lights blinking, party people dancing to the beat, sweaty girls and heavy breathing. Venues from cold museum halls to sunny beaches, these are some of the moments we've had in the last five years. For press photos go to press section.
|Playing a mini corridor live
|Singing "Pick up track" through a megaphone.
Nothing compares to playing a beach festival.
Mc Mowka freestyle.
1st go at singing live.
Ghostly set.
A club that is no more.
Playing on a playground.
A night out with girls.
The bass goes boom.
The backache pose.
A girl climbing the stage.
The Eiffel tower and a bad haircut.
Early noughties, straight from France. Playing a festival on a deserted island.
The stage built into the shack.
Early noughties playing in Viljandi.


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Gardasil (and Cervarix and Silgard) are vaccinations marketed as a way to help prevent cervical cancer. We are told that Gardasil is saving girls all over the world from cervical cancer. We are also now being told that Gardasil will also prevent genital warts in males.
What we are not being told is that all across the globe, young women are having horrific side effects to Gardasil. Just a very few of the reactions include: limb pain, paralysis, chronic fatigue, heart complications, dizziness, anxiety, hair loss, hallucinations, insomnia, cardiac issues, auto-immune diseases, migraines, loss of vision, back aches, sensitivity to light, ceasing of menstruction and even death.
These once young, vibrant, healthy women now suffer silently in pain, as there is no known medical treatment to help them. They are the silent victims which the medical industry rarely acknowledge. In cases where Dr's have admitted the connection, they still have no way to help them.
If you are considering the Gardasil (or other HPV vaccines) for your daughter, son or even yourself, please read the stories of the women on our site. We ask you to please take the time to research, read, learn and then listen to your own heart when making a decision about Gardasil. You can never 'unvaccinate'...
Please, read the personal accounts on this site with an open mind, and an open heart.
Our story began in late May of 2007. I took Nina to the pediatrician for her 12-year-old checkup. During the visit the doctor recommended that I have her receive the first dose of Gardasil. I immediately told him that I was not well informed about this new vaccine. He reassured me that it was fine and better to get it while she was young. I trusted my doctor.
As we left the office, a strange feeling come over me. I started to question my decision to allow the doctor to administer a vaccine that was new to the industry. My daughter was 12 years old. What was the rush to protect her against a sexually transmitted disease? Maybe it was mother's intuition, but I suddenly felt sick to my stomach. Read more
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"She could hardly breathe..she had no reflexes and could not stand on her own, much less walk. Shania said her arms and legs 'felt dead.'" - Shania Eliassen - 12 (Mandurah, WA)
"Naomi's health mysteriously began to deteriorate into a myriad of inexplicable symptoms including dizziness, nausea, joint pain, a collapsing knee, loss of balance, chronic fatigue and weakness" - Noami Snell - 25 (Melbourne, VIC)
"She had severe abdominal and joint pain, sore throat, headache, vomiting, was incapacitated, continually bedridden and unable to attend to bathing or eating for 2 weeks. She also suffered from hallucinations, missed a menstrual period and lost 6 kilograms in weight during this illness" - Joelle - 16 (Australia)
"She still has respiratory issues, leg tremors, tachachardia type issues, minor seizures. She remains in hospital, she walks maybe 150 metres a day and that exhausts her and we remain hopeful that over time she will get better" - Chescia Kimberley Tunley - 17 (Sydney, NSW)
"Her symptoms included hair loss, chronic sinus infections, migraines, weight gain, dizziness and brain fog (complaints of dyslexia) and severe PMS symptoms. My previously healthy 19-year old was continuously ill with migraines, sinus infections, and menstrual changes - she was starting menopause at age 19!" - Bridget Boyce - 17 (North Carolina)
"Rachel was a very healthy young girl, aged 14, and full of life. Rachel has had upwards of 150 seizures following her third Gardasil shot. She has several symptoms including numbness and tingling in her fingers and toes, fatigue and has a really hard time falling asleep. She also suffers from UTI's, ovarian cysts, she is moody and has trouble getting out of bed and she has seizures" - Rachel Long - 14 (Wisconsin)
"I see my lovely daughter who was once such an active girl now falling apart – and is not the same lovely, young girl she was prior to being vaccinated. My girl is starting to lose the meaning of life" - Karina Frederiksen - 24 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"I had pain and cramps in my stomach every day...I could not eat anything for a period of 3-4 months. The nausea, headaches and bloating were still with me, and I was starting to feel much worse. I could not sleep. Most nights I fell asleep between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, and I began to feel frightened and very anxious...where it felt like I was paralyzed and could not move" - Helena Overgaard Andersen - 15 (Helsingør, Denmark)
"As time went on more and more strange behavior, very unlike Alexis, started. She was getting in trouble at school and was unable to concentrate or retain anything she learned. I was taking her to every kind of doctor I could think of, but every test came back normal. Things progressively got worse. At this point her personality had changed 100%. She would go through fits of rage and she would scream at me and call me names and tell me how much she hated our family and me." - Alexis Wolf - 14 (New Mexico, US)
"Since then, Savanna's list of symptoms has expanded to include vision problems, twitching, numbness, memory loss, trouble concentrating, confusion, brain fog (can't find the right words), trouble breathing, sleep paralysis (can't move upon first waking), hair loss, etc…" - Savanna Simmons - 12 (Ohio, United States)
"I felt unwell most of the time and I would start to cry every time I joined my class mates at school. Eventually I stayed home for a week to try and feel better. I suddenly got totally constipated and my stomach became so swollen, like that of a pregnant woman, and I felt awful and cried for days because of the unbearable pain" - Mia Hahn Zeerow (Nustrup, Denmark)
"Have ever had to try to wake up your child that is a shadow of their former self, trapped in their own body. They can hear you, but cannot open their eyes, let alone lift their head from the pillow. Have you ever watched your child's lips move in response to you asking them a question but no sound comes out because they do not have the energy to even form a whisper? Have you ever arrived home hours later and have your child repeat back everything that you said to them that morning, proving beyond a doubt that opening their eyes, responding and getting out of bed are a physical impossibility? Have you ever seen a grey pallor take over your child's skin, making them look waxen and worn down? Have you ever looked into your child's eyes and seen nothing there? Eyes that are completely devoid of life? Eyes that appear to be black and dead?" - Deborah Halliday - 13 (Inverness, Scotland)
Facts & Figures
From our victims stories...
* 76% of victims started noticing side effects after their 2nd shot
* 68% of victims, when looking back, realise that side effects actually started after their 1st vaccine, but they attributed it to other illnesses (such as flu, virus etc)
* 77% of victims now live with chronic fatigue and exhaustion
* 52% of victims report living with vertigo and having dizzy spells
* 56% of victims have now neurological disorders
* 58% of victims now live with mental health issues
* 55% of victims reported visual disturbances or loss of vision
* 41% of victims have heart conditions
* 47% of victims suffer from seizures, tremors and/or twitching
* 10% of victims reported loss of hearing and hearing disturbances
* 21% of victims suffered hair loss
* 6% of victims no longer menstruate, which leaves them unable to have children
* 47% of girls have now been diagnosed with a lifelong immunity disorder
* 35% of victims are on long term medication as a result of the vaccine
* 65% of victims now live with migraines and chronic headaches
* 51% of victims have had multiple emergency hospital admissions
* 100% of these victims wish they never had the HPV vaccine
These facts and figures have been calculated from the stories on our site. Not all stories have all side effects listed, so the statistics could be much higher
MyGardasilStory is a website designed to bring to light the devastating injuries and side effects believed to be caused by Gardasil and Cervarix - the HPV vaccinations. Should you have a vaccination injury story, please consider submitting it to us, so we can share it with others who are searching for answers


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We picked Hirschy Vineyard Dijon clone 115 on September 16th at 25.8 degrees Brix and pH 3.28 and the Pommard Pinot Noir on September 18th, 2014 at 24.7 degrees Brix and pH 3.21. Though the fruit had some of the highest sugars and acids of any fruit harvested in 2014, the fruit was clean and had no desiccation or raisoning from the excessive heat. We harvested more than 11.4 tons of fruit from Hirschy in 2014, nearly 5.7 tons coming from each block.
The 2014 Hirschy Vineyard Pinot Noir is a five-barrel blend from three different lots. The blend is 80% Dijon clone 115 and 20% Pommard from vines planted in 2007. The blackberry, black currant and sweet raspberry explode from the glass with hints of butter and toasted English muffins from the oak and notes of pleasant herbaceousness from the stem inclusion. Balanced tannins coat the mouth and finish with refined elegance as the juicy acidity persists. The fruit profile is complex and dark and gives the sense that along with the fine structure, this wine has the ability to age for 10-12 years or more.


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"Now what?" Cece stared at Abe with a bored expression. The misty knight had vanished with Ava, and although the crows still occasionally cawed and fluffed their feathers, they had mostly calmed down. Cece made sure to keep a certain distance between herself and the birds, which made Abe grin. She could pretend to be as cool as she pleased, but he knew better. She was nervous.
"Now we wait," he replied. "It takes one hour." He glanced at his watch. About two minutes had passed.
"A whole hour?" There was just a hint of whining in her voice, and she still gazed at him. "What will we do for an entire sixty minutes, monsieur?" She was closer to him now, maybe three feet. He hadn't noticed her move in the dark.
"Erm--" He involuntarily stepped backwards. "Just, um, wait, I suppose." She stepped closer again, a smile playing at her lips, her eyes never leaving his. It made him exceedingly uncomfortable. "I suppose I might read something--or--"
"In this darkness?" There was now less than a foot between them. Abe's throat felt tight. He tried to swallow.
"I have a flashlight." She smiled again. He glanced over his shoulder. "We should probably keep an eye out for--" But then her hand was playing with his shirt buttons and he completely lost his voice. "Um, I--what--what're you doing, Celine?"
She laughed. "What do you think, monsieur?" She leaned her face into his--her lips nearly brushed his own--he could feel her breath on his face and was irritated to find she smelled warm and sweet, like roses and saffron...
Then she left. She just walked away. And when Abe finally caught his breath, cursed his idiocy and shook himself back alert--he realized his gun was missing.


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Waveform developer Ryan Vandendyck Answers your Questions
Not too long ago, we ran a contest in the forums about Eden Industries' recently-released indie game Waveform (which, incidentally, we reviewed here). We gathered questions from OMGeeks and sent them over to Eden Industries founder Ryan Vandendyck after agreeing that the best question-answer combo will net the asker a free copy of Waveform. Here's the good news: we've almost finalized our winner! Here's the even better news: we're going to publish the questions and Ryan's replies here in this post.
Wow, there's nothing bad in there at all!
Here are the questions asked, and Ryan's very insightful responses:
ZackleR: What inspired him to create a mix of pong, angry birds and music or etc in one go?
Ryan: Actually the original idea had nothing to do with pong, music, or Angry Birds (which was still years away from being released). I wanted to make a game based on one single gameplay mechanic that was based on a mathematical principle and have a simple, but pleasing, aesthetic. So the original idea was just to make a game where you control the wave. Resemblances to Pong and Angry Birds came organically as I began to discover what kinds of gameplay would work well with the control scheme. And although the music is a strong component to the game, that's really all thanks to the composer Scott McFadyen. He did an amazing job, and without him there probably wouldn't have been much music in the game at all.
Lefans: I think it's great, and will be glad on every device. I want to ask, do you manage to expand gaming platforms? When did you got an idea to make retro-style game?
I love retro games, and I think that in a lot of ways they resonate strongly with what the core of games are all about. Back on the NES, for example, everyone I knew played games. But most stopped after the NES. Re-capturing the retro spirit was a strong desire for me, and in fact is one of the main goals of Eden Industries for all of our games.
WindBallad: did you delibrately take up a course on engineering just to create this game or making it just so to make the engineering students regret not studying hard enough?
I did my university degree in mathematics, which was certainly one of the reasons I was able to make Waveform. And if anyone wants to study harder in math or engineering, I'm sure Waveform will provide a quick crash course in trigonometry.
psycrow117: Have you ever think of making the game produce/enhance its own music by not sucking at the game like in bit.trip?
Actually the game already does this. As you do better, another layer of music is added in to enhance the intensity of the music and the game in general.
Fongomong: What was your favorite game as a kid? (assuming you played games as a kid) Did you draw inspiration from other games?
I played tons of games as a kid! That's pretty much all I did in fact. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past remains as one of my favourite games from that time, although several other games (Ogre Battle, Earthbound, Final Fantasy 6) are also right on the top of my list. For Waveform, the two games that inspired me were Auditorium (for PC) and Art Style: Orbient (for WiiWare). Both had a simple mechanic inspired by math and a simple but compelling aesthetic. Obviously the gameplay of Waveform is very different than those, but I can certainly say that making a game like Waveform was inspired by them.
jedi304: I have read that you are a developer for console games, and Waveform is your first for the PC. I'd like to ask, is it hard learning to develop one platform to another? What are your likes and dislikes about it?
It is hard, yes, but there are advantages and disadvantages to both. PC hardware is the easiest and fastest to develop on, but the vast differences in hardware lead to a lot of problems in terms of compatibility. It's just impossible to make sure it runs correctly on every machine. Working on consoles is harder, but in the end you can guarantee that it'll work for all customers of that console because the hardware is standardized.
And there we go! Many thanks to Ryan Vandendyck for entertaining our questions and providing all these interesting answers. I always find it fascinating to hear directly from a game developer. It's like finding the burning bush for one particular game world that provides that conduit between us, who populate it, and the developers, who created it. Not being blasphemous here guys, but I think it's really cool.
And the winner? The winner shall be announced very soon. We promise.


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So when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness ... Then from his mouth the serpent poured water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth (Rev. 12:13-16).
The Woman of the Apocalypse with a wheel of rays now has two wings and is seen hovering in the sky. She is able to escape the seven-headed dragon because the earth, shown in the form of a small mountain floating beneath her, swallows up the deadly jet of water which the beast spews out of his mouth.
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Nokia Phi and Nokia Arrow rumored to be announced on September 5, WP8 in tow
Nokia's apparently going to unveil two Windows Phone 8 devices during its September 5 joint event with Microsoft. These are codenamed Phi and Arrow. Obviously, when they'll get released they'll both be called Lumia something. The Phi is the high-end offering, which we've already seen get leaked at the beginning of this month.
The Nokia Phi will sport a design that's quite similar to the Lumia 900 and Lumia 800, and it will be launched in the US by AT&T. The carrier will give it a similar status to the one the Lumia 900 has had – more or less a 'hero' device. The Nokia Phi will have a curved glass display, and a polycarbonate body.
The Arrow will be a midrange offering (this one, perhaps?), which will be released by both AT&T and T-Mobile. There will be an almost identical version of this device, codenamed Atlas, on Verizon too. However, just as we told you before, that will come a bit later (though should still be this year).
So the WP8 launch will be similar to what Nokia has done in the US at the beginning of the year, with one important difference: Verizon's involvement. Other than that, there's going to be a flagship device on AT&T, and a midranger on T-Mobile. Just like today with the Lumia 900 and Lumia 710.
Less than two weeks to go until the press conference, folks.
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