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Gorsuch, McConnell, Trump and Russia: Creating a Constitutional Crisis
The Neil Gorsuch confirmation hearings opened yesterday with hours of opening statements by senators that, depending on your interpretation, either foretold a week of tough questioning for the candidate or signaled a Democratic Party in disarray without a unified plan of how to deal with him.
I'll tell you how to deal with him, and it's easy:
Go ahead: ask him all of the questions you want. Find out what his agendas are, to the extent that he will tell you, since SCOTUS nominees are notoriously tightlipped about anything remotely significant during their confirmation hearings. Ask him about his independence from Trump. Ask him about women's issues, a topic highlighted this weekend with the notorious letter from one of his former law students. Ask him about his rulings that would overturn years of settled jurisprudence allowing federal agencies to interpret their own rules. Ask him about Citizens United. Ask whatever you want.
And then, if you are a patriotic citizen of this country, filibuster his nomination.
I am not suggesting that Neil Gorsuch is not qualified to be on the Supreme Court; by all accounts he is. However, there are at least two excellent reasons to table this nomination at this time:
First of all, this is a nomination that never should have existed, and we all know that. It is the result of what will in all likelihood be seen by historians as one of the most cynical exercises of partisan politics in American history: the hijacking of a Supreme Court nomination by the Republican Senate under Mitch McConnell from Barack Obama. After President Obama selected a highly qualified, GOP-friendly candidate in Merrick Garland, McConnell orchestrated an unprecedented denial of service: a refusal to hold hearings or even meet with the nominee, with no legitimate reason, eventually acknowledging that what he wanted was to roll the dice and hope Trump won the election and could appoint someone more right wing. An action this brazen should not be rewarded, and if it is, it will taint the Supreme Court forever. It will no longer be the impartial arbiter of the law; it will merely be another partisan branch of the government, subject to the whims of the electorate.
Gorsuch may be a perfectly decent man and an excellent judge, whether I agree with his rulings or not, but there simply should not have been an opening for him at this time. The odds are that this President will have at least one or two more opportunities to nominate him, and that is when he should be considered. Not now.
The second reason is more complex and yet, I suppose, at the same time it is just as fundamental to the Constitution and to who we are as a people and a nation. The Constitution gives the President of the United States the power to nominate Supreme Court justices. Right now, that office is held by Donald J. Trump. But there are legitimate and serious questions about how he got there, and those questions are now under investigations by the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Soon, it seems likely, there will be reason to appoint a Special Prosecutor. And if, as does not appear unlikely, we discover that Donald Trump made his way into the White House by procuring the assistance of a foreign government—not just any foreign government, but our long time enemy, Russia—well, then we have a conundrum: a President whose very election was an act of treason.
Suddenly we are thrown into a Constitutional crisis. We can impeach Trump, yes. But that makes Mike Pence, his Vice President—a man who is only in that office because of Trump's treason—the President. Do we run the entire election over? How exactly do we handle something like that? The Founding Fathers didn't give us guidelines for it; we'd be in wholly new territory. But one way or the other, one thing is absolutely clear: if Donald J. Trump is only President of the United States due to collusion with Russia, he should NOT have the ability to appoint someone to the Supreme Court and thus affect an entire generation of American lives.
Therefore: for either of these reasons or both of these reasons, filibuster this nominee if you love your country, senators. If you do it for the second reason and Trump is found innocent of the charges being levied against him, you can always revisit Gorsuch later. But you can't undo the appointment once you confirm it. Stop it now, in its tracks. It's your patriotic duty.
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you lying there eyes closed
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Annual Foto TR: 1 photo for every park we visited this year!Every park in 2018 starts on page 16!
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Annual Foto TR: 1 photo for every park we visited this year!
This is one photo for each park we visited between 2009 and 2018.
2009 starts here, 2010 starts on page 4, 2011 starts here on page 5, 2012 starts on page 6, 2013 starts on page 7, 2014 starts here, 2015 starts here on page 12, 2016 is on page 14, 2017 is on page 15 and 2018 is on page 16.
Here is one photo from every park visited in 2009, though I didn't include a couple of adventure tree-cable course parks that we hit in Italy and Belgium. I did not do a photo for each visit, just one for each park. And my definition of "park" is pretty loose.
These (2009) were originally posted in chronological order, but somehow they were rearranged into alphabetical order. The chronological order is used for subsequent years.
Of course it's hard to sum up an entire park in one photo, but please enjoy!
Happy Holidays everyone! Here's to a great 2010!
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You're right. Correct photo of Mirabilandia tacked on at the end.
Yes, we liked Gardaland and Mirabilandia. We also visited Acropark in Roana, which was great. We flew in and out of Bologna.
You did a great job picking your one picture per park! I'd like to visit a lot of these places based on that "one picture."
^^^You are too kind!
Unfortunately we were there too early in the season. We saw the construction but it had not yet opened. Actually, I haven't heard too much about that ride since it opened...I guess I'll see in the poll. What do you think of it?
As you said, very hard to sum up a whole park in one photo. But I enjoyed the attempt. Great job!
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Chapter 3 (Part 6): Private Collector Museum Conclusions
"If you look at history, too many great collections ended up in storage and not being shown."[i] – Eli Broad
Eli Broad, like Alice Walton, the Fishers and George Lucas, has a long history with the city in which he practices his "venture philanthropy." Broad was not born in Los Angeles, but like the Fishers in San Francisco, he has a long involved history with existing arts and cultural institutions. He has sat and currently sits on the boards of many art museums. Like the Fishers, Lucas and Walton, his decision to build a museum to house his art collection is motivated (partially) by his commitment to his city. But Broad is also doing something in addition to what the Fishers, Lucas and Walton did with their museums; he is utilizing his museum project as leverage for further economic growth. Sure Walton sees Crystal Bridges as having a positive economic effect on Bentonville, but there is nothing in Bentonville: Crystal Bridges is the local economy. Broad is building his museum, not in a rural city, but in the second-most highly populated city in America. Los Angeles already has the strongest brand of any city in the world, and an existing diversified economy. Sure, part of Los Angeles' economy depend on arts and culture, but it arguably has plenty of existing organizations and venues. If Eli Broad had attempted to build his museum in a place like San Francisco, he might have come up against more public opposition as did the Fishers and Lucas.
Chapter 2 (Part 3): Venture Philanthropy & Other Styles of Giving
"Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.'"[i] – Eli Broad
Eli Broad's power is tolerated because it remains remarkably unchallenged. This seemingly monopoly of philanthropic power led Christopher Knight to compare Broad to another infamous, Los Angeles art patron:
[Norton] Simon's flirtations with giving [his] collection away (at least seven institutions); distrust of traditional museum management; engineering of a bailout of an artistically adventuresome but financially faltering institution (the old Pasadena Museum for Simon, MOCA for Broad); later deciding to open his own museum, and more…[ii]
Another similarity to Broad: Before Norton Simon's takeover of the Pasadena Art Museum, Simon had intended to establish his collection as a lending organization. Taking control of the Pasadena Art Museum proved irresistible to Simon, and today the Norton Simon Museum rarely loans works. I seriously doubt unfounded rumors that Broad has some kind of evil master plan to takeover or somehow combine his collections with MOCA.
Broad can also be measured to his contemporaries. Los Angeles is not actually a one-philanthropist town. "Pomegranate Queen" Lynda Resnick is an easy comparison. Like Broad, Resnick is a long-time donor and trustee of LACMA. Like Broad, she and her husband provided funds ($54 million) for a Renzo-Piano-designed building at LACMA. The Lynda and Stuart Resnick Pavilion was part of Phase 2 of LACMA's Transformation and sits directly north of BCAM. When the pavilion opened in October of 2010, one of three inaugural shows was gleaned from the Resnick's private collection.
Chapter 2 (Part 2): The Race for The Broad – A Tale of Three Cities
"I think what Santa Monica has to offer is an incredible audience, a prime location and willingness to work with the Broads."[i] – Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica City Councilman
Within just a few months of BCAM's opening at LACMA, rumors began to circulate Eli Broad had been less than forthcoming about his true intentions. Contrary to his initial denial of it, at the end of 2008 local newspapers began reporting Broad intended to build a new museum for his collections in Beverly Hills.[ii] The City of Beverly Hills quickly identified a prominent parcel of land at the intersections of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards for the project. An architectural competition was announced, a short list determined (Thom Mayne, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Rafl Viñoly and Christian Portzamparc), and schematic renderings of the site plan were even published. [iii] If this speedy development seemed too good to be true, it's because it was.
By the end of 2009, Broad announced there were actually multi cities vying for his collections and a new museum building to house them. Beverly Hills, previously unchallenged was suddenly competing with the City of Santa Monica, and Broad's foundation announced there was also a third, unnamed city in the running.[iv] This of course turned out to be the City of Los Angeles. Broad said he wasn't, "trying to play the two [three] municipalities against each other […] he hope[d] that by talking to several different cities he c[ould] accelerate the process of building."[v] But play them against each other he did, for six months, trying to secure the best deal.
Chapter 1 (Part 2): LACMA's BCAM – A Museum Within a Museum
"Even though Eli is not involved with the museum any longer, his name is still on that building. We should have never called it a museum. How can LACMA have a museum? LACMA is the museum."
– Lynda Resnick, LACMA Trustee[i]
In February 2008, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The Renzo Piano-designed BCAM is not an autonomous museum; it is one of several buildings on LACMA's museum campus (the largest American art museum west of Chicago).
LACMA was founded in 1961, when it seceded from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art in Exposition Park. The new art museum opened in 1965 with three buildings designed by William Pereira: the Bing, Ahmanson and Hammer buildings. In 1986, the Art of the Americas Building (then the Anderson Building) opened, and was followed in 1988, with the Pavilion for Japanese Art. The museum continued to grow when LACMA purchased the neighboring May Company department store building in 1994. (LACMA is currently collaborating with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to bring a museum to the vacant building.[ii]) In 2001, plans for a tabula rasa campus designed by Rem Koolhaas were scrapped due to its ambitious scale (all existing buildings would have been raised) and lack of public support (a proposed bill would have provided public funds for the project, but was not passed by voters[iii]). Then in 2004, the board approved a multi-year capital campaign called Transformation.[iv]
Michael Govan, Wallis Annenberg Director and CEO of LACMA, inherited Transformation when he took LACMA's helm in 2006 (little more than a year before BCAM's inauguration). Exciting, high profile, high-cost building projects are Govan's specialty. Before coming to LACMA, Govan had been the director of the Dia Art Foundation where he oversaw the renovation of an old Nabisco factory in the Hudson River Valley, into Dia Beacon—a gargantuan facility capable of housing many large-scale, contemporary art installations. Before Dia, Govan worked under Richard Armstrong at the Guggenheim Foundation and aided in the realization of the Guggenheim Bilbao. Govan had the resume required to lead LACMA during Transformation. Eli Broad was on the search committee that lured Govan to LACMA.[v]
Chapter 1 (Part 1): One Eli Broad Too Many, Or Not Enough?
"Eli is not the problem. The problem is that we don't have enough Elis in Los Angeles to balance out his generosity and the power of his influence."[i] – Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum
Photographs of Los Angeles from fifty years ago capture an unfamiliar city. In the 1960s, downtown's Bunker Hill was still occupied by a row of quiet Victorian houses. Since then, the Victorians have been cleared away and the city has experienced a population boom often illustrated as a mushroom cloud-shaped diagram, and now boasts a population of 9.86 million.[ii] While established in many ways, Los Angeles's philanthropic culture is still in its infancy. Despite ranking the second most populous city in America, the quantity of powerful philanthropists is insignificant at best. Those who are active give to educational, environmental, health, and political causes.
Richard Serra, "Sequence"
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This week, SFMOMA released additional renderings of its eminent expansion including new views of the interior. Snohetta (the chic, Norwegian architects) and SFMOMA haven't been apologetic or really skirted the issue about plans to basically gut the entire existing building, keeping only Mario Botta's postmodern façade. Climbing SFMOMA's imposing stairs is literally my first memory of being in a museum. As a kid, I tried to recreate the alternating bands of polished and flame-finished black granite of these stairs with a set of sleek dominoes on my living room floor. A friend and I lamented the demise of Botta's staircase the last time we visited SFMOMA and we brainstormed potential artist projects that might utilize the soon-to-be-dismantled stairs. (The SFMOMA expansion is going to be LEED Certified so maybe some of the black stone will be reclaimed.)
Alas, the released images show all of this will be eliminated in the expansion, sacrificed for the sake of greater street presence and improved openness to pedestrian traffic flow. (The $555 million expansion will also double the current amount of gallery space, so there is that.) New public space includes a multi-storied, glass-fronted gallery open to Howard Street. In the renderings, this gallery space is filled with a massive Richard Serra corten-steel sculpture. This isn't just a filler "scalie" artwork; Serra's Sequence (2006) will be installed in the new space when the Snohetta expansion opens in 2016. Sequence is part of the Fisher collection, the donors who generous donated many buckets of ducats for the expansion, and who are kinda-sorta donating their incomparable trove of contemporary art to the museum.
What is 70 feet long, suspended by a 160-foot-tall crane, and will cost an estimated $25 million dollars?—Jeff Koons's Train, of course. The massive sculpture is now several years along in planning; its realization prolonged by several factors. The most retarding factor: the economy. When and if realized (a big "if"), Train will consist of a replica 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive hung on its end by a Liebherr LR 1750 lattice-boom crane. Twice a day the train's engine will hum to life, pistons will churn, wheels will spin, and finally jets of steam will explode from the train's stack , while its whistle screams. Considering its authorship and this suggestive action, it is easy to read Train as a giant orgasmic metaphor.
This sexy piece is commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It will hang over the museum courtyard, behind the BP Pavilion, next to the Broad Contemporary Art (BCAM) and Resnick Pavilion buildings. All of the buildings are recent additions to museum's campus—part of LACMA's multi-year, capital campaign called "Transformation." This western portion of LACMA's campus is the product of the creative leadership and powerful fundraising accumen of Michael Govan, Wallis Annenberg Director and CEO of LACMA. Read the rest of this entry »


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|People hoped for years that Nintendo would deign to release Fire Emblem 6: Fuuin No Tsurugi (FE6) on shores outside of Japan. They didn't. Since a conveniently long amount of time had passed, it was up to us to take matters into our own hands.
— The "DTN Translation Division"
A fan translation is, in the context of video games, an unofficially translated version of a video game, usually created by a fan or fans of the game in question. Fan translations of console games are almost universally accomplished by modifying a ROM image of the game in question by way of hacking, then creating a patch for a clean ROM image which applies the fan translation. The end result is then played on an emulator program, like a normal ROM image, or for those with the ability to do so, can be transferred into a game copier cartridge to be used on the game's native hardware.
In the Fire Emblem series, fan translations are particularly important, as only eight of the fifteen games have so far been given official international releases; combined with the sheer age of the games in question, using ROM images is often the only option. While there are generally numerous patches of various ages available for each game, they vary drastically in quality, and as such there is one translation for each game which is widely considered to be "the" translation to use. As of March 2017, all eight Japan-only games have functional fan translation patches which provide a near-complete translation of the game's script; in some patches, there remain elements (mainly graphical text) which have yet to be translated.
It should be noted that the illicit acquisition of ROM images of video games is illegal. While prosecution over ROM piracy is highly unlikely and has never happened before, you do so at your own risk. For this reason, Fire Emblem Wiki will neither host ROM images, nor point in the direction of them; as it stands, they are easy enough to find without assistance. Fire Emblem Wiki encourages readers to support the official releases of these games, should they ever occur in the future.
- 1 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
- 2 Fire Emblem Gaiden
- 3 Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
- 4 Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
- 5 BS Fire Emblem: Archanea War Chronicles
- 6 Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
- 7 Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
- 8 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
- 9 Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
- 10 Fire Emblem Fates
- 11 Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- 12 References
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Ironically, the original NES Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light was the last of the pre-Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade games to be given a serious attempt at a fan translation; this was largely because of the existence of Mystery of the Emblem and later Shadow Dragon rendering the game obsolete and unnecessary in the eyes of many. For a long time, all that existed were a number of scattered and rudimentary efforts, with none approaching a complete product and plagued with errors. As such, it was not until 2010 that a translation attempt was announced by Quirino.[1] The patch was completed comparatively soon after, in February 2011.
Though the patch is claimed by Quirino to be only 99% complete, the translation is entirely complete and operational. The names used in the translation are the same as those used in the Mystery of the Emblem translation, the most common unofficial names for the characters before the release of Shadow Dragon; Quirino has stated, however, that in the next revision of the patch he releases, the names will be changed to be in line with the official names from Shadow Dragon.[2]
After the project laid dormant for a few years, Serenes Forest user Mega Koopa X began work on a patch to update the names in the patch to official ones used in Shadow Dragon. It also fixes several typos and glitches caused by the original patch, as well as including a new font. The patch is in open beta as of February 2016.[3]
Due to limited space for item names and the original game lacking item icons, item icons were created for this fan translation patch.
|Icons added in the Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light fan translation
Fire Emblem Gaiden
Like the NES Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Gaiden was one of the more neglected games in terms of fan translation for many years. Though several translation patches existed, none were complete and possessed many other problems. With this in mind, a complete patch was released by Artemis251 in 2009, commenced in September and completed within a month.
Due to limited space, some icons were created for this fan translation patch. These are used in the "usable weapons" part of a unit's status screen, and to the right of the names of items (e.g. Silver Sword is called Silver).
|Icons added in the Gaiden fan translation
In June 2016, Serenes Forest user Gaiden Guy began work on an update to the Gaiden patch by Artemis251. The patch updates all names to their official localizations revealed in Awakening. It also fixes some minor glitches and errors such as the "Full inventory" message. As of February 2016, the patch is at version 0.9, with the credits being the only thing unfinished.
Gaiden Guy has expressed interest in completely redoing the patch for Gaiden "to clean up some of the awkward text and make it so that spell names and character names are able to fit without looking squished/having to be cut off".[4]
|Notable names used by the Gaiden fan translation
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
A fan translation for Mystery of the Emblem was completed in 2008, translated by VincentASM with hacking by RPGuy96. The patch is far from perfect—the translation is rough, menu text is not translated in numerous places, and there are numerous glitches (for example, attempting to use the Geosphere will crash the game). Though there are numerous problems with the patch, it cannot be updated—VincentASM has stated on several occasions that since RPGuy96 has all but disappeared, so too have the tools to modify the patch, and there is no chance of him being able to update the patch. VincentASM went on to work on the fan translation for this game's remake, New Mystery of the Emblem.
After gaining permission from VincentASM in 2012, Quirino eventually started work on revising and updating the Mystery of the Emblem patch in 2014, relying entirely on editing the raw code. Revisions will mostly be text based, as the character names are adjusted to match the official PAL Shadow Dragon names (Quirino mentioned a possibility of releasing a separate patch with the North American names after the patch is complete) and the fan names used in the New Mystery of the Emblem translation, but will also include a more aesthetically pleasing narrow font. As of November 2017, the script has been near-completely reformatted to accommodate for the new font, and various previously untranslated elements have been implemented.[5]
|Notable names used by the Mystery of the Emblem fan translation
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Genealogy of the Holy War was the first Fire Emblem game to receive a fan translation. The earliest translation was started in 2000[6] by the group j2e Renegade, with its last release under this group being in 2002;[7] however, it was left vastly incomplete with many issues, described by the creators as "not to be enjoyed".[8] At some point, the group died and their website (http://fe4trans.freeshell.org/) became defunct; after several years of other efforts to try and fix its problems, DarkTwilkitri picked up the patch and updated it to fix some of its problems, calling his patches "Reparation". The last of these releases was "Reparation 0.87d", in December 2006; afterward he admitted to losing interest in further developing the patch.
On April 6, 2012, years after the release of the previous version, Twilkitri released a new version of the patch, "Reparation 0.87e".[9] In addition to fixing a number of bugs and errors, its main purpose was to bring the patch into consistency with official English releases of the series. Two further revisions were since been released, with the final release being "Reparation 0.87g".[10] As Twilkitri is Australian, the translation script uses Australian English spellings, such as "Armour Knight". In May 2013, as Twilkitri has not yet updated the patch to reflect the Awakening international release, a fork revision of the patch was produced by Serenes Forest user Gharnef, taking the "Reparation 0.87g" release and updating it to use the Awakening name changes and to revert other names to the Nintendo of Japan official romanizations.[11]
Independently of this, a new retranslation project arose in 2013 seeking to produce a more polished patch, now known as "Project Naga". The patch was released as a public beta in May 2016, on the 20th anniversary of the original release of Genealogy, becoming the first complete translation patch. The "Project Naga" translation features a total, polished retranslation of the script (including the previously unfinished epilogue) which aims for greater accuracy to the original script, a new, slimmer font (based on the font used by EarthBound[12]) which allows for much more text to fit into the windows, and also fixes numerous glitches from the original game. The game was primarily translated by Serenes Forest user bookofholsety, who spent nearly three years working on the script, while the patch was programmed by DDSTranslation, whose prior fan translation work includes Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei. The patch is still in open beta as of May 2016.
|Notable names used by the Genealogy of the Holy War fan translation
BS Fire Emblem: Archanea War Chronicles
A basic menu translation patch of the first episode of Archanea War Chronicles was released by joesteve1914 in late 2014. The patch reuses English font assets from the Mystery of the Emblem patch, and is compatible only with the SNESGT emulator. He stated at this time that he might have produced patches for the remaining three episodes in the time before work on Thracia 776 properly began.
After almost two years of dormancy, the patch for the first episode received an update that translated all of the dialogue. It contained a few glitches having to do with wrong portraits being displayed and the font being spaced out due to a variable-width font not being implemented yet.
Though work had begun on episode two, with almost all menus translated, the patch went seven more months without any updates. joesteve1914 officially cancelled the project in February 2017. He revealed that he had planned to implement a restoration of the games introduction sequence and soundtrack, but this was made impossible due to the ROMs not running in any SNES debugger. Citing that the game is better experienced in its FE12 remake if it is missing these key features, joesteve1914 said he is interested in returning to the project if they are made compatible with a debugger.[13]
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
There are multiple current patches of note for Thracia 776, each with a different focus. The first and the least-known one is a menu patch by Luxifer Angel, last updated in 2003, which translates only the menu text and leaves the dialogue untouched.[14] The other, more known patch was the work of Shaya, which translates most of the game's script, but some of the menus are left untranslated and in a questionable state. It was last updated in 2008, with Shaya claiming no intent to do so again because of the interference of life. The Shaya translation has been criticized for its lackluster and sometimes erroneous script, occasional out-of-place jokes or references, the poor quality of its menu translations (such as some of the options being displayed as garbled text), and having bugs.
There are tentative plans for the Project Naga team to eventually create a new patch after completing their work on Genealogy; so far, this project has progressed no further than preliminary hacking experiments by DDSTranslation. [15] [16]
In June 2017, ChimeraHardline posted a new menu translation patch on the Fire Emblem subreddit.[17] This patch is similar to the Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War patch by Project Naga in that it has a VWF for all menu items. ChimeraHardline has announced that he intends to insert a translated script in his patch at some point in the future.
In September 2018, Cirosan announced a new fan translation project, called Project Exile. This project aims to fully translate both Thracia's menus and story. Unlike other story patches, Cirosan has decided to use a new translation of the script made by himself. The project also uses Zane's and Kirb's patches as a base. The patch was released on May 31st, 2019, and translates the game in its entirety. It is still receiving minor updates and support as of June 2019.[18]
|Notable names used by the Thracia 776 fan translation
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
At the time, coming off the heels of the attention garnered by Roy's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee and the international release of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, it was assumed and hoped by some that an official translation of The Binding Blade would soon follow. When such a release failed to eventuate, a fan translation project began, developed by DarkTwilkitri's "DTN Translation Division". The patch was first released in 2005 under the title Sword of Seals, with development continuing until 2007 and the last stable release being distributed in 2006; progress ended in 2007 when the members of the team found less and less time to work on the project.
The translation was largely complete in its last release, albeit in a relatively primitive state. This led to a revision project in 2013 by gringe of the Serenes Forest forums, an experienced manga translator. The project, now calling the game by its modern name The Binding Blade, retranslated and rewrote the script, cleaned up the graphics and other facets of the patch's presentation, and implemented official name changes from Fire Emblem Awakening, intending to result in a more polished patch. The patch is complete for all practical purposes and features a bevy of newly-translated features, including the game's class roll and the opening narration; remaining bugs and presentation issues were fixed in a final 1.0 release.[19]
|Notable names used by the The Binding Blade fan translation
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
A basic menu translation was released for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon prior to its official North American and European release.
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
New Mystery of the Emblem is the first game since international releases of the series began to not be released internationally. While it was initially expected that it would be, this expectation was not met, and so one year following the Japanese release, prominent Fire Emblem hacker Blazer convened a team of translators, editors and hackers to do a fan translation, calling themselves the "Heroes of Shadow"; the team was later led by VincentASM as Blazer had to leave to contend with real-life issues. The team's goal with the patch was to create a complete and highly polished translation and localization on par with the official Shadow Dragon release. A preliminary menu patch was released on July 15th, 2011, near-completely translating menus and names, while leaving dialogue untouched, and no further releases were issued until the translation was 100% complete, bug-tested and polished,[21] with the first "complete" release occurring on November 21st, 2012.[22]
From even before it became evident that a fan translation would be necessary, the patch's development progress was profiled on the Heroes of Shadow blog. For a time, in addition to the blog, the patch's progress was also maintained in a thread on Serenes Forest, allowing for ease of discussion on the matter; however, eventually the thread was closed as it was dominated by an endless argument about name changes, mainly "Belf" to "Vergil" and "Malliesia" to "Malicia".[23] The controversy surrounding the "Vergil" name has been extensively mocked and parodied by members of the Serenes Forest community, and the act of satirically suggesting changing a name to "Vergil" in fan translation has evolved memetically and regularly appears in the efforts to clean up the Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776 and The Binding Blade translations.
Even though some names in the patch have been officially localized in Awakening (for example, Roro->Legion), the Heroes of Shadow have said that they have no plans currently to release an updated patch due to other commitments.
In February 2017, joesteve1914, after cancelling his translation project of BS Fire Emblem: Archanean War Chronicles, began work on an update to the New Mystery of the Emblem patch. The patch will update all names in the game to their officially localized versions as seen in Awakening and the smartphone game, Fire Emblem Heroes. It will also fix a myriad of typos and inconsistencies in the original patch, as well as include newly rewritten dialogue (mostly Legion's, to match his dialogue from Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Heroes and was initially planned for release in March 2017. It was then moved to a planned release in May 2017 in anticipation of any changes the localization of Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia may make that affect this game.[24] The patch eventually did not meet the May 2017 deadline for it's initial release, but a Beta version was implemented in order to fulfill the deadline in some form. This eventually turned out to be for the best, as the release of the Echoes of Mystery banner and paralogue occurred soon after the deadline passed. This lead to many more names being localized officially for the first time in English, including Reese, whose name and how to render it to match Clarisse was debated among patch contributors heavily prior to her localization as Reese. A new title screen matching Shadow Dragon's style was eventually contributed by Kenthos, after it was observed that the Japanese logos for Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem were effectively the same logo recolored.
|Notable names used by the New Mystery of the Emblem fan translation
Fire Emblem Fates
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A fan translation project for Fire Emblem Fates was started in 2015. Calling themselves "Team If"[25], the group started working on the patch due to the several months between the release of Fire Emblem Fates in Japan and the rest of the world. Upon Nintendo's revealing that some features would be cut from the game in the localized release (such as the infamous skinship minigame), Team If reaffirmed its commitment to releasing a complete English patch for Fire Emblem Fates.
The initial project was cancelled in March 2016,[26] but the patch received an update by a different team in December 2016 who used the same name.[27][28]
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
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After the Japanese version of the game leaked online, a fan translation patch for Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia was released on April 3, 2017 by SciresM. It translates the menus, character, class, and item names, as well as some descriptions.[29] It has since been rendered obsolete by the official worldwide release of the game.
- ↑ YouTube: Fire Emblem NES Translation Announcement (retrieved 22 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Fire Emblem 1 NES updated translation patch (retrieved 18 February 2017)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Improving the Genealogy Translation Patch (retrieved 23 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Fire Emblem Gaiden Name Update Patch (v0.9) (retrieved 18 February, 2017)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Updated Mystery of the Emblem Fan Translation
- ↑ Romhacking.net: Translations - Fire Emblem: Genealogy of Holy War (retrieved 22 May 2012)
- ↑ Romhacking.net: Translations - Fire Emblem: Genealogy of Holy War (retrieved 22 May 2012)
- ↑ Dark Twilkitri Net: "Fire Emblem 4 Translation Homepage" (retrieved 21 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: "Improving the Genealogy Translation Patch" (retrieved 21 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: "Improving the Genealogy Translation Patch - Page 9" (retrieved 21 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: "Gharnef's Improved FE4 Translation Patch"
- ↑ http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,21199.msg307047.html#msg307047
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Fire Emblem Archanea Chronicles - Fall of the Palace translation patch (retrieved November 6 2014)
- ↑ Luxifer Angel, Translations - Fire Emblem: Thrakia 776, Romhacking.net, Retrieved: May 22, 2012
- ↑ DDSTrans, Puppypizza on Twitter: "Someday... https://t.co/RdAGrVE1nQ", Twitter, Published: 2016-04-23, Retrieved: 2016-06-30
- ↑ DDSTrans, Puppypizza on Twitter: "So far, the game's code seems identical to FE4. It even has the same tileset queuing methods and character codes. https://t.co/KW1mIvVOct", Twitter, Published: 2016-04-23, Retrieved: 2016-06-30
- ↑ ChimeraHardline, Thracia 776 complete menu translation patch, with double-roll RNG, Reddit, Published: May 28, 2017, Retrieved: July 5, 2017
- ↑ Cirosan, FE5 Project Exile - Thracia 776 Script and Menu Translation, Serenesforest, Retrieved: 2019-06-09
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: FE6 Translation Patch Redux v0.99c - Seriously, we did something (retrieved November 30th, 2014)
- ↑ Fire Emblem 12 Translation [HoS]: Readme
- ↑ Fire Emblem 12 Translation [HoS]: FAQ (retrieved May 22nd, 2012)
- ↑ Fire Emblem 12 Translation [HoS]: Complete translation patch released! (retrieved January 29th, 2013)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Fire Emblem 12 ~Heroes~ Translation Project (retrieved 22 May 2012)
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: Updated FE12 translation patch (retrieved 18 February 2017)
- ↑ https://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?/topic/56220-team-if-fire-emblem-if-fanslation-all-chapters-and-paralogues-done/
- ↑ http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/03/fire_emblem_fates_fan_translation_project_shuts_up_shop
- ↑ https://github.com/TeamIf/FireEmblemIf-FanTranslation
- ↑ https://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?/topic/67613-fire-emblem-if-fan-translation-under-new-management/
- ↑ https://github.com/SciresM/FireEmblemSoVTextTranslation/releases


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Given Mantic's recent announcement of Warpath. their forthcoming 28mm Sci-Fi game. I thought that I'd take a look at their current 28mm Fantasy war game, Kings of War. What's it like? How is it different from GW's games? Is it a compelling alternative?
Once upon a time, in the late 80's and early to mid 90's, I used to play Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
I quit the game for good, along with 40K, in 2003 for the same reasons everyone else does. Insane price increases combined with a frustrating play experience. In my case the game was always the same. My Dwarves would shoot up the enemy's big nasty Cav unit as it approached. Then the 5-6 survivors would charge straight into my King and his Elite guard, killing the entire front rank and running me down in a single turn. Talk about frustrating. It always seemed like every enemy army I fought was better at moving, fighting, or shooting than I was. They weren't avoiding my best elites, they just ran up and killed them without worry. No fun at all.
Fifth Edition 40K got me back when I played a game at the north store with my old Guard models and (shockingly) had a lot of fun! Instead of just lining up on either side of the board and shooting, you had to move around and grab objectives. Suddenly 40K had the depth to arouse my interest in playing the game itself, as opposed to simply painting the models. As I re-learned the game, it was obvious that things were more balanced and interesting now than they were when I first played 40K back in '98 during the changeover from 2nd to 3rd edition.
But what did I hear about 7E Fantasy? Same old crap. Nice core rules, but lots of broken army books and invincible magic/cavalry. Want to play Dwarves again? Good luck with that. You get one crappy (and very static) mono-build. Yeah. I'll pass on that.
8th Edition came out last year and I did have some interest in pulling out the old models and trying it. But GW kept me away from the game by releasing a ridiculously overpriced, heavy, and poorly bound rulebook. From what I've heard, they've 'rebalanced' the game by randomizing it even more than it was already. Random movement, extremely random magic, and whatnot.
Increased randomness is hardly what I want to see as a competitive player. GW's games are already random enough. Less Chess or Go than Monopoly or Poker. But making them even more random takes them into the realm of Sorry or Candyland. Sure, it gives weaker players/books more of a chance. But at the expense of sticking it to the players that know what they're doing. "Congrats! You maneuvered perfectly. But I rolled super-well on my random spell and just wiped out half your army! Oh, you didn't make any of your charge rolls. Woohoo!"
Yeah, I'll pass on that too.
So coming from the perspective of someone who's frustrated with the current state of WHFB, what is Mantic's offering like? I'll be testing the system with actual play later this week and/or next. But here are my first impressions after reading through the 12 pages of rules. Which you can download from Mantic's site, along with the army lists for each race, for free.
1) It's Easy To Learn
I spent less than an hour reading the rules and I feel like I'm ready for my first game. That's... Pretty odd when I still can't get 40K's rules 100% right after over a hundred games.
1) It's Pretty Deterministic
This is not a very random game. Movement involves no rolling at all. Each unit has a set movement speed. Standing still lets you pivot any way you like. Moving at your base speed lets you move forward with a single pivot of up to 90°. You can march at double speed without turning. Difficult terrain or moving backward cuts your movement in half.
The only time you'll roll dice is when you're attacking or taking a leadership (Nerve) test.
The feel of the game's rules is much more like Space Hulk or Epic than WHFB or 40K.
2) It's Unit Based, Not Model Based.
To me, this is the oddest thing about Kings of War. In this game, you don't act on individual models at all. The only interactions happen between units. Units attack each other and cause damage, but no models are removed unless the unit is destroyed/runs. While damaged units will always fight at the same strength as fresh ones. What?
That's the dynamic. You attack a unit with ranged weapons or in melee and cause 'damage'. This damage is cumulative and affects the unit's ability to pass a Nerve (Leadership) test at the end of the shooting or assault phases. There's 3 possible results of this test. To easily pass and be 'Steady', to barely pass and be 'Wavering', or to fail and be 'Routed'.
Routed units are simply removed from the table, never to be seen again. While wavering units have their movement options severely limited. Interesting.
3) It's Very Simplified.
There is no special charging or assault move. If you can touch an enemy unit at the end of your normal move, you're in combat. If you're in combat, you'll get to attack in your melee phase. Once you're done with combat, you have to move back an inch.
If your enemy isn't routed or wavering, he can move into you and roll his attacks. If he's wavering, he can try and move back or change his facing. That's it. It puts a premium on being the first one into combat, as you can stun your opponent and force him to try and flank-charge you with other units to extricate himself.
So how do you attack? Well, every unit has an attacks characteristic in it's statline. It tells you how many dice you get to roll when shooting or in melee. You then have to roll over your Melee or Ranged characteristic to hit your opponent. Once you've hit, you have to roll over the target unit's Damage characteristic to cause damage. There are some special rules that give bonuses to the damage roll, but there is no saving throw. You keep track of damage with some dice or whatnot and every unit that's damaged in a shooting or melee phase has to make a Nerve test as discussed above.
War Machines have standard ranges and a set number of attack dice. A Dwarf Cannon, for instance, has 6 dice that hit on fives with a +3 to wound. While the Organ Gun gets 12 dice with a +1 to wound.
Heroes are just one-man units with no facing. You can't join them to other units, they always work alone.
Building a list is similarly simplified. For each unit type in the army lists, there are 3 set sizes you can buy. Dwarf Ironwatch, for instance, are the ranged attack troops of the Dwarves. They can be bought as a unit of 10, 20, or 40 models.
The primary differences between the unit sizes are the number of Attacks (At) and their Nerve (Ne). Small units have a lot of firepower for the cost, but they'll run when spit at. While that Horde of 40 models is going to take a LOT of punishment before running.
Notice the unit options? There's hardly any. You can take a Banner to boost your Nerve, and a Musician to hurt the nerve of your opponent. Most units stop there. These guys can swap their crossbows for the slightly more killy rifles.
Your units come with Champions, but they're only there to help line up units in assault and determine Line of Sight to targets. Heroes can't join units, they just wander about on their own.
4) It's Very Abstract
In a way this is both a boon to the game and a detriment. On the one hand the system is so non-specific that you can use almost any models you want to. As opposed to the strict WYSIWYG that GW's games enforce, in KoW there is no delineation between light and heavy armor or whether you have a shield or not.
The Dwarves, for instance, have troop types that seem to correspond to standard warriors with shields, elites with shields, crossbow/riflemen, elites with double handed weapons, and bezerkers (which are basically slayers). However you have to work all that out from looking at the stats for each unit. Since there is no definition listed for what an "Ironclad" or "Shieldbreaker" should look like. Apart from pulling up Mantic's online catalog and looking at the models they sell for these. Where, funnily enough, you get the short fluffy descriptions that are missing in the army lists themselves.
So, it's not as limiting. But at the same time it's missing the details that give a unit character. Instead of your wizards throwing fireballs or lightning, for instance, they just have a number of attack dice and need 4+ to hit. Instead of laying a flame template over the target and counting the number of men you hit, you (again) get a certain number of dice, a to-hit number, and maybe a bonus to wound/damage.
It's more than a little strange, and I'll have to see it in action to tell whether I like it or not.
5) It Looks Fast
I'll see how it actually goes in testing, but it seems like a couple of veteran players could probably get a 1500 point (6-7 units, some heroes, and 2-3 war machines) game done in under an hour. That's a huge potential benefit for competitive play. As you could do a proper win/loss tourney in a single day.
At least in theory.
Is it too fast? Too streamlined? We'll see.
6) The Battles Do Seem Interesting
Here's a cool battle report that shows how a KoW game unfolds. Much like a game of Warhammer. But presumably faster.
That's my initial impression of the game without having yet played it. As a whole, I don't see it knocking over WHFB anytime soon. It's too dry and just not characterful enough yet. But the foundation and framing of the house is there, so to speak. A lot will depend on how well Mantic/Alessio adds the details and the character (as they say they have planned) to what they've done so far.


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Negative words.
How do they affect you?
When you hear negative talk from someone, how do you respond?
When the conversation is over, do you spread the negativity by telling someone else what was just said to you?
Sometimes, that might be necessary.
Other times, however, it's a good practice to just let the negative words drop right there, going no further.
We have an oak tree in our front yard.
Acorns abound each year in the lawn underneath it.
As long as the acorns stay on the ground under the tree, new seedlings will only develop there.
If a squirrel carries one off and buries it in a field nearby, a new tree may emerge and grow where there was none before.
When I hear negative words, I have a choice to make.
If they need to be repeated, I must do so responsibly.
If they do not need to be repeated, I must let them drop like acorns to the ground and resist the temptation to carry them away to someone else where they could take root and grow more negativity in a new place.
Don't say anything that would hurt another person. Instead, speak only what is good so that you can give help wherever it is needed. That way, what you say will help those who hear you.
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Submissions:2014/Measuring Editor Collaborativeness With Economic Modelling
- Title of the submission
Measuring Editor Collaborativeness With Economic Modelling
- Themes (Proposal Themes - Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education)
Community - presents a way to characterise editors.
- Type of submission (Presentation Types - Panel, Workshop, Presentation, etc)
- Author of the submission
Max Klein
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- Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
Even though Wikipedia is a vanguard of collaboration, Wikipedians unfortunately have access to few tools for performance metrics - most notably "Edit Count". The Wikimedia Foundation's WikiMetrics cohort notion [1] has begun the search for higher-level metrics, but hasn't yet answered "how" users work together.
This presentation will outline new methods for measuring and understanding editor collaborativeness. Borrowing from Economic modelling, new insights on economic competitiveness make the analog of editor collaborativeness possible. A recent stream of research in Macroeconomics has shown simple techniques for predicting GDP with very little information [2] [3], which can be translated into the wiki realm. Using only the data of which countries export which products (not even how much of each product), one can quickly predict GDP rankings. Here we re-purpose the algorithm, so that Editors are countries, articles are products, and GDP is "Total Labour Hours" (an edit count derivative [4]).
By constructing a relation between editors and the articles they have touched, we are able to produce an entirely new perspective on Wikipedia (see the Figure below). The simplicity of this model can help us to quickly and easily determine which categories of articles are more likely to be hostile and power-user dominated, and which are more egalitarian and collaborative.
Incredibly, this borrowed method works even better for Wikis than Economies. Where the maximum achievable correlation in Macroeconomics is about 0.42, we can achieve correlations of up to 0.91. However, the real innovation comes from two factors which are tweaked to optimize the model:
- importance of the high quality articles in an editor's contribution portfolio
- (conversely) the importance of highly-invested editors in an article's contribution history.
These variables can range independently, and characterize our notion of "collaborativeness".
Collaborativeness is determined from the edit patterns of editors. Do they edit many articles? How well developed are the articles they edit? Consider these telling extremes:
- The best editors in Category:Military history of the US—a category known for being very competitive—are characterized by emphasizing investment in touching many articles in the category. Less collaborative.
- On the other end, the editors in Category:Sexual acts—a taboo subject where much editing could be considered perverse—are characterized by not touching many articles in the category. More collaborative.
We hope to receive critique on whether our algorithmic notion of collaborativeness is inline with community opinion. Additionally we hope to receive requests for different datasets to analyze for future research.
- ↑ Wikimetrics. [1]
- ↑ Hidalgo, Hausmann, The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity [2]
- ↑ Caldarelli et al. Firm Grounds. [3]
- ↑ Halfaker, Geiger, Using Edit Sessions [4]
- Length of presentation/talk (see Presentation Types for lengths of different presentation types)
- 75 Minutes
Preferred 30 mins to fit into a thematic session, but could talk longer.
- Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?
Yes, I if receive a travel scholarship as well.
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Interested attendees
If you are interested in attending this session, please sign with your username below. This will help reviewers to decide which sessions are of high interest. Sign with four tildes. (~~~~).
- Rhododendrites (talk) 09:52, 10 April 2014 (EDT)
- Geraldshields11 (talk) 08:52, 27 May 2014 (EDT)
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Google Glass, the tiny spectacles-mounted device capable of shooting photos, filming video and surfing the internet. Regulators say the gadgets could be used to cheat at card games.
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement issued a directive on Monday ordering Atlantic City's 12 casinos to bar casino patrons from using the device. Similar bans are already in place at casinos in Las Vegas and Ohio, among other places.
"If these eyeglasses were worn during a poker game, they could be used to broadcast a patron's hand to a confederate or otherwise be used in a collusive manner," David Rebuck, the division's director wrote in a memo to the casinos. That type of use would constitute a crime in New Jersey. But it would be difficult to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the glasses were actually being used to cheat, Rebuck wrote. For that and other reasons, he decided to ban the glasses on the casino floor and anywhere else gambling is taking place.
"Even if the glasses had not been used for cheating ... their presence at a gaming table would lead to the perception that something untoward could be occurring, thereby undermining public confidence in the integrity of gaming," Rebuck wrote in the directive.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Google said: "We are thinking very carefully about how we design Glass because new technology always raises new issues."
In Las Vegas, Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts have directed security workers to ask patrons to remove the devices before beginning to gamble.
My take: Well, casinos could just watch the behavior of people wearing the Google Glass instead of forcing them to remove them, but I guess just banning them makes it a whole lot easier for them.
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