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A selection of our vast portfolio so far…
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Supply of Android tablets, development of interface design, and interactive programming for custom application installed within Duty Free area located in Stockholm Airport.
Travellers were invited to enter a competition as part of the promotion of the Limited Edition Absolut Vodka Crystal Pinstripe Bottle.
The app enabled data captured from travellers to be transmitted directly to the client.
* In association with Valley CPI
Screen Media were commissioned to carry out the installation of Android tablets running Deezer, the music jukebox app, in Ibis and Novotel hotels around the UK.
The system enhances customer entertainment in the bar as customers use the tablet to select tracks which are added to the playlist.
Deezer has proved enormously popular and is having a great impact on the ambiance in the bar and takings are up.
Screen Media has also been upgrading the hotel audio systems to ensure a WOW-factor when Jukebox Deezer goes live.
* In association with CPI Global
Working closely within brand guidelines, interface design and animated clips were produced for the touch screen product guide which showcases Adidas' latest footwear.
The units were installed in Sports Direct Oxford St, London and other stores.
* In association with 100% Group and Valley
Specification and supply of 24" multi-touch screens and 65" portrait LCD screens, and liaison with client agency in Germany re content and specialist configuration enabling linking between the two devices.
The result is an effective shop-in-shop experience with the practical benefit of assisting users to select their own choice of flooring from this premium brand.
* In association with Valley
Creation of snow falling content for a sensational Christmas shop window display for Asprey Jewellers in New Bond Street.
We also provided a dozen LCD screens on rental including a portrait 2 x 2 video wall showing a vintage video of a period Christmas party.
* In association with Millington Associates
We believe this to be the first UK Nationwide rollout of an Augmented Reality application!
Interactive kiosk providing a stunning visualisation of the A1 unit before the car was delivered to the showrooms.
Kiosk and all hardware, system build, configuration & test, installation in all 126 Audi showrooms from Inverness to Jersey by Screen Media.
Subsequent content update for launch of A7 model.
* In association with 100% Group and Energy
Motion graphics production, user interface and programming, including a link to the Audi National Used Car Database.
The Used Car Locator was designed for local use within a defined area e.g. 40 miles radius.
Launched at Audi's promotional display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
* In association with 100% Group and Energy
Supply, installation and servicing of digital screens and projection equipment with content preparation in various languages for international airports including Amsterdam, Tel Aviv & Zurich.
* In partnership with 100% Group and Concourse
High brightness street-facing screens supplied and installed for the launch in Covent Garden of fast beauty-to-go salon chain Blow.
System also includes internal screens for entertainment of clients during hairdressing and make-overs.
* In association with Valley
System specification and supply for in-store Carrefour screen network in Greece.
Project Management, Training and interim 2nd line support provided.
* In association with iContact
Specification, installation and content management of the Coast feature screen consisting of an 85" portrait screen and online media player.
The system was installed in the flagship Coast store on Oxford Street, London.
A stunning multi-screen display with an 'industrial' feel across to two main windows in Selfridges, Oxford Street.
One window was installed with a four screen videowall behind a Harley Davidson whilst the other was made up of a whole variety of screen sizes fixed to the back wall at random distances from the wall amongst the mannequins.
* In association with Millington Associates
Supply and installation of a projection system for Dyson using 5 Canon projectors networked on a LAN.
Content repurposing, Project Management & Training provided also.
* In association with Valley CPI
Specification and supply of LCD screens and media players housed onto a moving track to launch a new range of outdoor shoes for Gore-tex Weatherproofing.
Designed and produced animated content featuring different weather backgrounds for the display screens in this highly effective promotional window display.
* In association with Valley
Supply, installation and on-going services for menu board screens in Warner Bros' leading UK leisure park, Harry Potter Experience.
Online media players allow for remote downloading of new content and menus in the main cafe.
* In association with Magic I
Supply and installation of projection system for a captivating interactive wall experience for Hermes.
Featuring the art of Miguel Chevalier, the display was exclusive in the UK to Selfridges flagship store on Oxford St, London.
* In association with Millington Associates
Design, supply and specification of screen technology for the experiential interactive zone within Honda dealerships.
Ultra-Short Throw Projectors recessed into the ceiling above the Reception Desk provide key information for residents such as room tariff, exchange rates, duty manager, etc.
* In association with CPI Global, Paris
Created animated touchscreen content from agency brief, produced final application including interface design, specification and supply of screens to fit within custom shelf edge display.
This practical, interactive product selector was installed along with promotional shelf screens for a trial of Hair Colouring products within the flagship Superdrug store at Marble Arch.
* In association with Valley and The Shopper Agency
Supply and installation of Lacoste Polo video walls at two Lacoste stores situated inside Gatwick Airport.
The 1×4 video walls are a stunning visual header to the Lacoste Polo Wall displays, featuring beautiful close-ups of the merchandise alongside content outlining the history of the brand.
Ongoing Content Management and Maintenance services also provided.
Supply and installation of 3 Video Walls for the stunning flagship Knightsbridge Lacoste store in London.
Two 3×3 video walls using 46in screens have facility for use with a laptop for company presentations. 5 x 40" provide a digital header for the Polo Wall display.
Ongoing Content Management and Maintenance services also provided.
Design, content production and programming of an Interactive TV buyers guide.
Installation and maintenance services provided for these popular units used by customers and by store staff for product training.
* In association with 100% Group and Valley
Total system design, specification and supply of an MTV-style customised in-store music channel for Lifestyle Sports stores in Ireland.
Project Management provided for rollout to stores throughout Ireland.
Ongoing Content Management includes live sports news feed and weekly deployments of new music videos, in-store offers and adverts from key suppliers.
Ongoing Telephone Helpdesk and on-site Maintenance services also provided.
Creation of a special Christmas back drop in the flagship Oxford St store across two main windows using short-throw projection.
The limited space available was put to best advantage by creating large snowfall scenes using projectors in sequence.
Provision and creation of two types of animated content added to the overall theme.
* In association with Millington Associates
System design and build of an interactive unit installed in retailers around the UK including John Lewis and Dixons.
The unit allowed users to select tracks and listen to product demos of Naim's new music system, the Muso.
* In association with Valley CPI
Supply and pre-configuration of 32in and 55in LCD screens, touchscreen panels and semi-outdoor enclosures for Network Rail at Birmingham New St as part of the station refurbishment.
The popular touchscreens allow people to quickly identify the departure time and platform for their next train.
* In association with Forth DC and Netpractise
Design, content production and programming of an interactive product selector.
Users respond to 4 questions leading to a product recommendation. Provided for use in DW Sports stores around the UK.
* In association with 100% Group
Installation of a 3×3 portrait video wall at the entrance of the stunning brand new Next Hedge End store.
The video wall acts as a multiuse tool, used to greet customers with look book images, current offers and store information & layout.
Temporary installation of stunning 7m LED Video Wall in the entrance to Niketown, Oxford Circus, London.
Dynamic custom interactive app was created to shadow people walking through the store entrance for the launch of the Nike Fuelband wristband.
Bright red vertical strips change to green when you approach, then pass through orange back to red as you walk away.
Full support services provided for the rental.
* In association with Millington Associates
Installation of 15 screen video wall facing out onto Oxford St at Niketown, London.
New Scala PC provided with Client's own LCD screens.
Ongoing Content Management for non-standard sized image.
Telephone Helpdesk and Onsite Maintenance also provided.
* In association with Millington Associates
Installation of 14m LED curtain suspended in a circle in the centre of the ground floor at Niketown, London.
Curtain then moved to the Nike Stratford store entrance for the duration of the 2012 Olympics.
Screen Media provided an app to enable store staff to deploy messages of congratulation to successful athletes using an iPad.
Full system support services for content and engineering provided at both locations.
* In association with Millington Associates
Specification and installation of two blended Barco projectors in the entrance of Niketown, Oxford Circus, London.
Vioso blending software used for two units with very different throw distances and a projected image over 5m wide.
Content Management service provided along with full Telephone Helpdesk and on-site Maintenance support under an onerous SLA.
* In association with Millington Associates
Working in association with CPI Global in Paris, Screen Media provides Surveys, Installations, Telephone Helpdesk and On-site Maintenance services for a screen network in Novotel hotels throughout the UK.
The systems include screens at Reception, in Lobbies and outside Meeting Rooms.
Ultra short throw projectors installed across leading sites for the fashion retailer.
Large images are projected side-by-side on the internal walls and the projection units themselves are made to fit unobtrusively with the rest of the store fittings.
The textured wall covering adds to the overall effectiveness of the images in promoting the store's brand image.
Custom-made android app developed for in-store promotion of the Panasonic Lumix camera.
App includes a lock down feature for the tablet to prevent users from navigating elsewhere.
* In association with Valley
Specification and supply of PALLAS transparent bezel video wall screens, housed within giant free standing iPad housings.
Supply, set up and locking down of multiple 24" touchscreen PCs providing direct access to newly launched Fashion ID website.
Technical support including installation and dismantling on a rolling basis, as Pop Up shops within Peek & Cloppenburg stores across Germany.
* In association with Valley
New brand launch in Booth's retail outlets using the Shelf Video Display directly at Point-Of-Sale.
Strategic input into Digital Campus project that aims to reinforce Plymouth University as a forward thinking, innovative institution for students, staff and the local community.
Supply and installation of large format, high quality 77 square metre LED screen on the new University Performing Arts building in the city centre.
The screen is showing eye-catching and dynamic content created by University's own design team.
Production of an interactive window display installed in participating jewellery stores, with traditional watch display back panels replaced by 32" LCD screens.
Content creation and re-purposing, interactive programming onto custom touchpad fitted onto rear of glass, specification and supply of all components, resulting in a unique experience within a traditional marketplace.
* In association with Valley and The Shopper Agency
Interactive display featuring in-house custom made motion graphics.
Attract loop is mute and a built-in trigger mechanism activates a specific video with audio when a trainer is picked up – simple but very effective!
Screen Media designed and commissioned the custom-made kiosk as well as the providing and installing the technology elements.
Mains power and battery options were developed and installed in JJB stores.
* In association with Valley
Specification and supply of barcode scanner unit, content creation and re-purposing of videos.
Product information videos were triggered by scanning the barcode on the product's box.
The unit has been installed for a trial period in Sweden.
When ITG took over Content Management for Sainsbury's existing network of advertising screens and TVs they decided to migrate to a new software platform, Scala.
Working in liaison with SCS, Screen Media removed, refurbished, loaded, tested and re-installed 400 PCs in 300 stores throughout the UK.
Working to a compressed timescale, the project was planned and executed avoiding downtime and was completed on schedule to the day.
* In association with SCS
Surveys, Project Management, Installation, Telephone Helpdesk and On-site Maintenance services for a screen network with audio in c.240 Sainsbury's stores nationwide.
Scala software allows very precise targeting of national advertising, interspersed between mainstream pop videos.
Weather & news feeds also provided.
Provision of dedicated TV channel complete with match-by-match animation production for both the large LED game screen and smaller in-stadium channels.
Specification, development and build of custom audio board and associated switching built into modular in-store displays.
The attractive display "cubes" enabled interactive product demonstration for the launch of Sennheiser's new Momentum headphones and were finished with materials matched to the product range.
* In association with Valley
Working closely with the Australian display designers, system incorporates touchscreens and specialist technology to measure height and weight, enabling correctly fitted sports underwear to be selected for purchase instore.
Production of high-energy, visually stunning animated content for sets of stretch screens as headers for 4m wall displays and island gondolas.
Jaw-dropping interactive store-in-store experience for airports around the world!
* In association with Saatchi & Saatchi X
Installation and service work for a Digital Signage network in University Student Unions throughout the UK.
The systems incorporate Plasma and LCD screens, providing alternating entertainment and advertising channels and can be controlled using a touchscreen.
Creation of custom content designed to showcase the Happy Eggs brand.
Content included animated chickens and 'happy facts' about animal welfare.
The dynamic content was specially created to fit the Shelf Video Strip, an innovative shelf edge screen.
Screen Media were commissioned to carry out digital upgrades to The North Face's brand new Regent Street Flagship Store.
The digital elements included screens installed at dynamic angles to introduce an element of wonder in-store. Ceiling mounted video walls, cash desk screens and a video wall in the window all contributed to the new modern feel in the store.
Supply of a 9-screen Shelf Video Strip with player for Unilever's demo shop.
Existing content was re-purposed and additional content was story-boarded and animated by Screen Media.
On-going content management and maintenance provided.
Installation & servicing for screen network in Vans stores throughout the UK.
System provided by Digital Signage specialist Notice from The Netherlands.


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Infinity Connect Ltd. owe us (Yutele Technology Limited) 1228 USD since Aug, 2016.
We keep sending payment e-mails to them, but they didn't give us any response.
Their CEO Ali said their bank has issue, so ask us to send traffic to offset the due, but untill now they have not open any route for us.
Here we would like to look for partners help to netoff the dues if any of you work with this company.
Kindly share the information. Many thanks!
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Wondering how a college with Lutheran roots can be great place for people of diverse beliefs to cooperate in the learning enterprise? This year's Founder's Day theme, "Brother Martin Goes to School: Luther and the Modern University," will be sure to enlighten.
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
"Theology of the Cross and Higher Education"
Thursday, November 10, 10:00 a.m.
"Martin Luther and Interfaith Connections on Campus"
Note: Thursday is not a "convocation schedule" day; the second lecture takes place during second hour classes.
Our speaker is Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College. He helped found the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding (Muhlenberg, PA) and is a recognized expert in inter-faith connection, conversation, and cooperation on college campuses.
The Augsburg College Founders Day Reformation Lectures are sponsored by the Office of the President. According to Paul Pribbenow, "The Founders Day Reformation Lecture, now in its sixth year, connects Augsburg's history and heritage to the founding of the Lutheran Church and helps us link Luther's theology to issues we face in living our mission and vision as a college. As we move closer to the 500th anniversary celebration of the Reformation in 2017, these lectures help us build a strong Augsburg tradition around the 95 Theses and the issues of the Reformation that inform our vocational education today."


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Red Wing Merchant 8063 Black Spitfire
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The historical work boot most similar to the Merchant is style 245 from 1920, which was made without a toe-box, but instead featured a plain toe and raw cut at the quarter edge. The Merchant is built on the 8 last, which is also used for the Blacksmith. But because of the missing toe-box, the Merchant has a slimmer look and a lower toe profile than the Blacksmith.
In 1905, when Charles Beckman couldn't find boots to wear in Red Wing's muddy streets that matched his merchant status, he decided to start his own shoe company. Named after Beckman himself, the Beckman Collection features classic, sturdy shoes with timeless character.
Leather: Black Spitfire Leather
Outsole: Nitrile Cork
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OASIS® was established in 1982. The collection was designed for casual men style with comfortable and wearable basis. The mutual 80's lifestyle had truly inspired colours and styles of the shirts in the period. The main concept was dedicated to making the perfect polo shirts.
With more than 20 years experience, in 2005, an authentic OASIS® was recreated by a group of people who love playing with great style and smart clothing. Today we work with more than 300 professionals who take immense pride and care over every detail of the design, production and sales. We pay meticulous attention from raw material until the smallest detail of each item and undoubtedly with the identical main concept "Making the perfect polo shirt".
OASIS® has now expanded into new areas from its beginning. By using our expertise and creativity to make wider ranges of products, this has brought us beyond making the polo shirt to constructing the exclusive wears. Nevertheless, one of the most important aspects of the collection is that every style and colour is created to match perfectly with one another.
With the objective of creating urban dressing, we are proud to design collections for people with such great intellect, style and humor. We, OASIS® commit to make it better best.


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There is no cartoon teenager more lovesick than Doug Funny. The guy's life revolves around Patti Mayonnaise and his hidden love for her. So of course "Trap Queen" is the perfect song to mashup with clips from the Nickelodeon show. I mean, duh, it's obvious Doug longs to "be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby."
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"Cut Me Some Slack" is one of the hottest music tracks in the news today after being a big winner for Best Rock Song at the 56th Grammy Awards. Web Pro News shares this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, that not only were "Cut Me Some Slack" singers Dave Grohl, Sir Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear one of the highlights of the show, but the group was proud to accept the prize, despite some tough competition this year. The award marks Grohl's second win at the major musical event: both Best Rock Song and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
After "Cut Me Some Slack" was called out as the winner for the genre at last night's Grammy Awards, the 45-year-old Foo Fighters' singer accepted the honor alongside his fellow band members, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, as well as the legendary Sir Paul McCartney. The hit song was able to beat out both "Panic Station" by Matthew Bellamy from Muse and "God is Dead?" by Black Sabbath for top prize.
"We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Paul and for Ringo," Dave Grohl said from the stage. "This song was two hours in my studio. I called up Paul and said, 'Hey, man, do you want to come jam with some friends of mine?' He came over, we knocked this out in a couple of hours, and to me, that's what rock'n'roll is all about."
Sir Paul McCartney had his own words to add in the brief acceptance speech for the Best Rock Song music award.
"He said, 'Do you want to come over and do a jam on 'Long Tall Sally?' I said, 'No, we've been there, done that. We should make something up, and that's what this is."
"Cut Me Some Slack" was a song that served as an integral piece of the documentary film titled "Sound City," which was both produced and directed by Grohl. He said that he felt a spark to create the film after buying a number of meaningful items from Sound City Studios (the venue closed back in 2011).
"Along with McCartney, other notable musicians also appeared in the film and on the soundtrack including Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, and Trent Reznor, forming a supergroup called The Sound City Players."


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Thomas Campbell's practice is concentrated in the areas of regulatory and administrative law, particularly energy, telecommunications, water and utility regulation.
Thomas represents energy companies in regulatory and contractual matters, including siting and building power plants and transmission lines, resource planning, renewable energy development, EPC contracts, transmission contracts, financings, rate applications and the purchase and sale of energy facilities. For instance, he represented an energy company in a multi-faceted transaction in which the company purchased the assets of another energy company and received regulatory approval for rate increases and loans to finance the transaction. He has also represented solar and wind energy companies in regulatory contract matters.
He represents water and sewer companies in their transactional and regulatory matters, including expansion of service areas, rate cases, financing applications and negotiation of line extension and service agreements. He also represents purchasers and sellers of utility infrastructure.
He represents telecommunications and technology clients including long distance carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless carriers, resellers and internet service providers. Thomas handles telecommunications and technology contract negotiations including interconnection contracts, specialty contracts involving collocation, 911 service, right of way, database and database access service issues; customer contracts involving sale of equipment and provision of service; and assignment of intellectual property rights associated with telecommunications and technology systems.
He also has represented large industrial and commercial users of gas, electric, water, telecommunications and technology services in regulatory proceedings and contract negotiations. For example, he represented the purchaser of the video, internet and telecommunications technology serving a large master planned community and a residential community and golf course developer in arranging for water infrastructure for a planned development.
Thomas regularly represents parties in siting, rate, CC&N, merger, acquisition and financing applications, tariff filings, interconnection arbitrations, complaint and other proceedings before the Arizona Corporation Commission. He has also handled utility industry matters before the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the Arizona Attorney General's office, the Department of Water Resources and the Arizona State Land Department.


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Prophetic Message #815 from our very precious Lord Jesus Christ. Praises to our very precious Lord Jesus Christ and praises to our Holy Triune God. Hallelujah! Praises to our God.
Yes, Our God's beloved child, YOUR heavenly Father God does love you, love ALL your family and ALL your other loved ones, and YOUR heavenly Father God does protect and does provide for you and them at ALL times.
Yes, YOUR Holy Triune God is a GOOD God ALL the time, and your Holy Triune God does love to shower down ALL good gifts on Our God's obedient mankind, WHEN they are ABLE to receive these good gifts from their God without being harmed by these good gifts.
Yes, as your eternal soul grows more in God, you are able to TRUST Our God more, and ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE MORE of Our God's good gifts to you.
Yes, learn to love Our God's Holy Triune God first above all else, do know Our God's holy promises to you as given in Our God's Holy Bible, and do learn to live by them, putting Our God and Our God's ways first in your daily and nightly life, and you will ALWAYS be rewarded for this by YOUR heavenly Father God.
Yes, all the good gifts and all the good events that you now enjoy in your life are good gifts from YOUR heavenly Father God given to you through YOUR Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 4:19)
Yes, Jesus Christ is the only one person Who has ever lived, Who is able to connect you with your holy Creator God, YOUR heavenly Father God. (John 14:6)
Yes, Jesus came to Earth as the ONLY God/man to give all of mankind life, abundant life on Earth, and eternal life in heaven in your only one life after your only one death on Earth.
Yes, the holy shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cruel cross of Calvary does enable you to have FREE salvation in Jesus, abundant life on Earth, and eternal life in heaven, all FREE for you just by your ASKING Jesus to save you, by receiving this free gift, and by your coming out of all sinful lifestyle, and by your living for God, while you are alive on Earth.
Yes, sin will never enter heaven.
You MUST come OUT of ALL sinful lifestyle and live for God, with Jesus as your Lord and Savior, if you want to enter heaven in your life, after your one life on Earth.
Yes, doesn't Jesus Christ tell the woman caught in adultery in the Bible to go and sin no more? (John 8:11)
Yes, Jesus is holy, the only person Who ever lived a lifetime on Earth Who never sinned.
If you say you have never sinned, you are a liar, as each of mankind has sinned, with the exception of the perfect God/man of Jesus Christ. (Romans 3:23)
You cannot save yourself by trying to do good works and lead a clean and wholesome life, because of your own sin and the sin of Adam that each person was born into.
You need the only Savior that is available to mankind, Who has paid the supreme sacrifice of Jesus' shed blood to pay the penalty for your sin, the only Savior powerful enough to save you, to enable you to go to heaven, to keep your eternal soul from going to hell, the ONLY true Savior of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Yes, Buddha cannot save you.
Allah cannot save you.
Mohammad cannot save you.
No other person can save you.
You cannot save yourself.
You cannot save anyone else.
ONLY Jesus the Christ can save a person.
Only Jesus Christ has paid the penalty for your sins, and ONLY Jesus Christ has the POWER to save anyone.
A person must come to Jesus Christ with a repentant heart, and they must ASK Jesus to save them, and they must come out of ALL sinful lifestyle and live for God, in order to RECEIVE this free gift of salvation from Jesus.
Do not be deceived, Our God is not mocked, for whatever a person sows, that will they reap. (Galatians 6:7)
Yes, if you sow sin, if you LIVE in a sinful lifestyle, you are sowing corruption in your life.
Sin will NEVER enter heaven.
You must LIVE FOR GOD with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior in order to enter heaven.
Yes, know the truth of Jesus Christ, and the truth will set you free. (John 8:32)
Yes, Jesus Christ is truth.
Know Jesus Christ and know the truth.
Yes, Jesus Christ IS the ONLY way to heaven. (John 10:7-9)
Jesus Christ IS your ONLY way to YOUR heavenly Father God. (John 14:6)
Yes, Jesus Christ is NOW able to meet ALL your needs and ALL your holy desires now and in your future life on Earth AND in heaven.
Yes, it is appointed unto each of mankind now alive on Earth to die once, and after that is Our God's white throne judgment. (Hebrews 9:27)
Yes, reincarnation, as you do know reincarnation to be, is a complete lie from Satan, who is the father of all lies.
Yes, Satan is the chief liar, and all who habitually lie are followers of Satan.
Yes, all habitual liars will spend eternity in hell with Satan. (Revelation 21:8)
Yes, read and study Our God's Holy Bible, and it will teach you about heaven and hell, and who will be going there for eternity.
Yes, your heavenly Father God has MADE a way for each person now alive on Earth to enter heaven for eternity by each person accepting Our God's only begotten Son as their Lord and Savior and by their coming out of a sinful lifestyle and living for God while alive on Earth. (John 3:16)
Yes, your Holy Triune God wants you to enter heaven forever, and your only pathway to heaven is now FREE to you through YOUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Come to Jesus now.
Accept Jesus now as your Lord and Savior, and you will NEVER regret it, never regret it in this your life now on Earth, and never regret it in your afterlife in heaven.
If you do reject Jesus as your Lord and Savior from your sins, and if you do die in your sins and lift up your eyes in hell, you could and will regret it throughout eternity.
Yes, there is no hope of ever escaping from hell.
Choose Jesus now, have abundant life now on Earth, and have eternal life in heaven with YOUR Holy Triune God.
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The Muskegon ChannelCats are proud to announce the rosters for our 2015 travel baseball teams.
13U Grimm
Nolan Convertini
Nick Dennison
Daniel Emmons
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Grant Hylland
Christian Johnson
Nolan Kasher
Jacob Liebrandt
Brenden McNarland
Ethan Sutton
Jared West
Head Coach: Thom Grimm, Assistant Coach: Ben Hylland
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The Muskegon ChannelCats manage select travel baseball teams from Muskegon, Michigan and along the Lakeshore. The ChannelCats give players ages 9-14 the opportunity to build a solid foundation of fundamental skills, learn the value of teamwork and most importantly have fun playing the game of baseball.
2014 ChannelCats Sponsorships Provide More Bang for the Buck
The Muskegon ChannelCats are a non-profit organization run solely on the financial contributions of private individuals and businesses. Player fees and operating costs for the team are among the lowest in the area for travel baseball. Player's families cover the fees for uniforms, equipment, tournaments and player insurance.
The sponsorships have been revamped for the 2014 season to offer even more benefit for team supporters.
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ChannelCats Second 9U Roster Set
The Muskegon ChannelCats are pleased to announce the roster for our second 9U team for the 2014 season.
2014 9U Muskegon ChannelCats
Gavan Bignall, Ryan Cribbins, Jamison Dejonge, Austin Grimm, Mason Hallett, Derrick Paggeot, Lance Poole, Korbin Ten Brink, Jayden Thomas, Kyle Weaver, Landyn Wilson
The team will be coached by Derek Ten Brink.
ChannelCats Announce 9U Roster
The Muskegon ChannelCats are pleased to the roster for our 9U team for the upcoming season.
2014 9U Muskegon ChannelCats
James Ackley, Luke Emmons, Isaac Habetler, Kolin Jackson, Ashton Leffring, Nathan McNarland, Luke Opfermann, Nathan Opfermann, Brooks Robinson, Owen Schrader, Jake Southland, Parker Swartz
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Last Thursday, the Hebron Chamber of Commerce celebrated the openings of two businesses: The Tin Roof, located on Lincoln Avenue, and Roehr's Machinery, located north of Hebron off of Highway 81.
Above: Lynne Wiedel, owner of The Tin Roof, Karin Dominy, Chamber president, Hannah Wiedel, Jeanelle Brinegar and Steve Anderson, Chamber member. Below: Dean Roehr, David Roehr, Travis Roehr, Eric Bathel, Matt Beals and Lyle Ritterling of Roehr's Machinery host a ribbon cutting ceremony, along with other staff members.
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We study different aspects of opioid peptide functioning in the nervous system. Endogenous opioids are released during stress to regulate nociception (pain), emotional state (euphoria, dysphoria, depression), and craving for addictive drugs (cocaine, opiates). We are asking how these complex behavioral effects are encoded by molecular, cellular and systems level events. At the molecular level, we study signal transduction events following opioid receptor activation using protein phosphorylation assays, specific antagonists and agonists, and transgenic mice having specific gene deletions and over-expressions. At the cellular level, we use confocal microscopy and electrophysiological assays to define the mechanisms of opioid effects on excitability. At the systems level, we use immunohistochemical analysis of changes in regional morphology, gene expression and protein phosphorylation to define the responsive neural circuits. At the behavioral level, we measure changes caused by opioid peptide release that mediate the stress response and potentiate the addictive properties of cocaine and opiates.
An example of the kind of results recently obtained include studies showing that chronic stress (repeated forced swim, repeated social defeat, chronic neuropathic pain, acute footshock) induces the release of endogenous dynorphin opioids that activate kappa opioid receptors and MAPK pathways which potentiate rewarding effects of cocaine and that induce relapse of drug seeking behavior. We are defining the sites in the brain where these effects occur, the intracellular signaling mechanisms responsible, and the electrophysiological effects in the local neuronal circuit underlying the behavioral responses. Our simple hypothesis is that dynorphin encodes the dysphoric effects of stressful experience that increase the motivation for euphoric/addictive drugs. Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of these actions has therapeutic implications for the treatment of addiction.


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Tim Breukers
°1985, Breda (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Most sculptures of Tim Breukers are made in clay. His work presents consumer culture without being about it. Breukers models for instance the plastic Hartman chair or the big bags used in construction to transport sand, clay and other materials. His sculptures are the result of very straightforward actions and he enjoys the changes his work undergo during the ceramic process, like changes in scale during the first firing, changing the colour and reducing the work's size even further during the application of glaze. Moreover, Breukers also reveals how his work is made, how it is structured. Supports in the shape of wooden slats are added. Parts of the oven's floor, mislaid tools, trash and grit; everything seems to be assigned a role in the sculptures. Playing with the 'making process' itself disavows the aesthetics of an autonomous sculpture. The end product emphasises that it was made.
Tim Breukers studied at the European Ceramic Work Center (Den Bosch) and at the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam). In 2016 Breukers has a MMCA residency in Seoul and a duo show with Andreas Arndt in De Pont (Tilburg).
Curriculum Vitae
- 2018
- Space without time, W139, Amsterdam
- 2017
- Things only I know about Wieteke / Things only I know about Tim, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona
- Natura, Skulptur Bredelar, Bredelar
- 15/LOVE, De School, Amsterdam
- CARF Residency, Calcutta Art Research Foundation, Kolkata
- Beelden 2017, Landgoed Anningahof, Bredelar
- Artist First Ceramic Plus, Francis Boeske Projects
- De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, 'Archive Fever', with a.i. Folkert de Jong
- 2016
- MMCA Residency Changdong Galleries Final Exhibition, MMCA Residency Changdong Galleries & Artist Studios, Changdong
- Tim Breukers & Andreas Arndt - De Eerste Steen, De Pont, Tilburg
- De Vooruitdenker, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp (solo)
- 2015
- Rapture and Pain, Fundament, Tilburg
- Park, Tilburg
- Mirko Mayer, Köln
- Waar de hand zingt, Diepenheim
- Ton de Boer op locatie, Jagtlust, 's-Graveland
- 2014
- RijksOPEN, Amsterdam
- European Ceramic Context, Bornholm
- WONDER boven WONDER, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp (duo)
- 2013
- RijksOPEN, Amsterdam
- Attracted by another level, Coup de Ville , WARP, Sint-Niklaas
- Museum Le Secret, University Pécs
- 2012
- Walden, The Hague
- 2011
- Nieuwe Aankopen, Stedelijk Museum s' Hertogenbosch
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Security technologist Bruce Schneier interconnects concepts from biological and social sciences to describe how society engenders trust and security. Schneier shows how society suffers in the absence of trust, whether examining the microcosm of social settings between two people or the world at large.
The increase scale of society exerts social pressures in a number of ways, including the pressure of more people, increased complexity in the interaction among those people, increased technological intensity and increased inertia resistance to change.
This excerpt, "Technological Advances," was reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and comes from Chapter 16 of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive," authored by Bruce Schneier, 2012.
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I read the piece, copied below the fold, in todays WSJ and it got the wheels turning. I am not sure I agree with Elizabeth Wurtzel's argument in whole. I do understand the exportation of American Pop culture and its effects around the world and how it has helped America "conquer the world", but I am not sure that decreased profitability for music and movies translates into a loss of American Popculture.The argument that music producers are honing in on one-hit-wonders because people buy music or steal music a-la-carte via the Internet does not resonate with me. I have no doubts that album and music sales are less profitable today then say 10 or 20 years ago. However to translate that idea into the argument that producers are focusing on one-hit-wonders does not make sense to me. Have you ever heard of a concert comprised of just 1 song?For what album sales lack in profits producers and artists can make up for in ticket sales. Use music as a marketing tool to sellout concerts, in compilation with memorabilia etc.Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead understand the "new world order" and are currently trying to figure out what works, not by fighting the tide by but utilizing the tides momentum to catapult theirs brands and art into another dimension.This brief rebuttal to Wurtzel's agrument is aimed to generate thoughts from YOU.Do you think the internet is destroying American Made Entertainment? Blast some knowledge in the comments, or in a blog post of your own. Continue reading
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I'm trying to think of an analogy for my guy friends to understand what it feels like to be harassed by a male in a bar. Okay, so imagine there's this guy, he's at least twice your size. As soon as you walk in to the bar, he looks you up and down, he's sizing you up. He's got this look in his eyes, this look that says, "You and me, we'll be taking this outside later." For some reason this guy has it out for you specifically. You wonder if it was something you wore. Is your t-shirt offensive? But you're out with your buddies to have a good time,so you shrug it off.
You are standing at the bar waiting to order your drink, the big guy comes up behind you and stands uncomfortably close, orders a drink over your head then bumps into you with his body. You don't turn to look at him because you know this will just invite more interaction and you just want to get your drink and sit down at the booth.
You are trying to enjoy the conversation with your friends, but this guy keeps shooting you looks. You have to take a piss, but you are pretty sure he will follow you to the bathroom and try to start something. So you sit in the booth uncomfortable, trying to ignore him and your bladder.
The guy starts walking towards your table. You get this sinking feeling in your gut. He makes jokes with your friends, they seem to like him and now you feel like you have less support. Then he leans into you and jabs you in the side, laughing. He messes with your hair, tries to give you a bear hug. Basically he is proving to you that he can do whatever he wants to you. The whole time you are pushing against him, but you are worried if you really take a stand it will get violent and then you'd be in some serious trouble. This guy could break you. So you take it and try to make light of it, humiliating as it is. Then when he finally has to take a piss you excuse yourself, pay your tab as quickly as possible and get the hell out of there.
Now add to this fear of physical pain, the knowledge that this man wants to shove his dick up your ass to pleasure himself. Welcome to the world of the average woman being harassed at the bar. So please, if you see a man disrespecting a woman's boundaries, instead of avoiding interfering out of fear of it becoming a nasty situation, realize it is already a nasty situation for her. Step-up and you guys who are watching a guy step up for a woman who is being harassed, you step up too. Because this isn't between two men fighting over a woman, this is about behaviour towards women that we should not accept in our society.


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SEC Quarterback Power Rankings: Day 13
Editor's note: The 2013 season was an incredible year for quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference. There was a Heisman winner (Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel), the conference's all-time leader in passing yards and touchdowns (Georgia's Aaron Murray) and a two-time national champion (Alabama's AJ McCarron). Then there was Auburn's Nick Marshall, LSU's Zach Mettenberger and Missouri's James Franklin. Nearly all of those aforementioned sign al-callers have departed, however. Still, someone will rise to the occasion to fill those spots, and that's why we're here to take stock of them as we head into the summer, counting them down from 14 to 1. Note that proven performers, even if they were not the unquestioned starter last season, figure heavily into these rankings. We continue with Day 13 of the countdown.
2. Mississippi State
Like Auburn's Nick Marshall, Dak Prescott is a quarterback that doesn't seem to have scratched the surface of his potential. In 11 games last season, Prescott threw for 1,940 yards and 10 touchdowns. He was every bit as dangerous with his feet, running for 829 yards and 13 scores on 134 carries. The Bulldogs lost their premier running back in LaDarius Perkins, but that just means Prescott will have to take on a larger role in the running game. Even better for Mississippi State's aerial attack, they bring back six of their top seven receivers from 2013.
And you don't have to go far to find praise for Prescott.
In the latest Heisman Trophy odds provided by Bovada Sportsbook, Prescott is one of just six players included from the Southeastern Conference. Among those six, he's considered the least-likely to win, with his 33/1 odds trailing four running backs — Georgia's Todd Gurley (12/1), Alabama's TJ Yeldon (14/1) and Derrick Henry (20/1) and South Carolina's Mike Davis — and another signal-caller in Marshall (20/1). With that being said ... it's still a mighty impressive accomplish for Prescott to receive this kind of attention in the first place. When's the last time you heard of a Mississippi State player getting "preseason buzz" for the Heisman? (Don't answer that; it's rhetorical.)
Tony Barnhart wrote a glowing piece on Prescott for the SEC's official website, which served as the "football spring preview" for the team. (Even if, for some reason, the spring had already ended when the article was written. Shouldn't that make it a "spring recap" instead? But I digress.)
Prescott doesn't appear to be letting all the attention go to his head. In fact, he seems to be even more motivated now, as ESPN.com's Edward Aschoff wrote about after speaking with the Louisiana native last month.
Are all of these expectations just setting Prescott up to fail? Possibly. From the looks of it, though, he seems to be on the right track.
And the scary thing is, he'll have another season after this fall to get even better — if he chooses to exhaust his eligibility, that is. He'll only be a junior this year, after all.


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I used to be able to describe the United States this way, but not today unfortunately. Where in the world can you find a strong, vibrant economy where optimism and opportunity dominate the scene-- not chaos and negativity.
There are a lot of places around the world that fit this mold-- their economies are healthy and people are legitimately confident about the future. From Estonia to Hong Kong to Andorra to Singapore, there are common elements in these countries that have greatly contributed to their success:
1) They're small.
2) They have governments that generally stay out of the way.
An obscure 20th century economist named Leopold Kohr wrote extensively about these factors; and his 1957 book The Breakdown of Nations has proven quite prophetic.
In the book, Kohr extols the virtues of 'smallness' and indicates that most of the political challenges in the world-- military over-extension, debt, poverty, bureaucratic stodginess, etc.-- are caused by the unsustainable expansion of nations.
For Kohr, it is simply a matter of scale. Once a country becomes too large, any system of government will become oppressive.
Small countries, conversely, don't have the resources to wage wars or build huge bureaucracies. They're forced by circumstance to allow the market to work and the private sector to flourish.
Singapore and Hong Kong are great examples. They're not waging wars, dropping bombs, or establishing far flung military bases. Both countries are devoid of any natural resources, and their only means of survival and success have been to step out of the way and let the market take over.
In a matter of decades, they have become two of the most prosperous nations on the planet, and remain among the healthiest today.
Conversely, the 'big' countries of today have assembled massive states which have spawned massive governments that require massive resources to administer... and quite oppressively I might add.
Democracy may look great on paper, but in modern practice of today's 'big countries', it is a terrible perversion of the principles of liberty. Like Rome and the Ottoman Empire before, the individual now exists to support the state, not the other way around.
This is exactly what Kohr warned would become the 'crisis of bigness'. Faced with economic challenges and a debilitating cost structure, big governments and bloated bureaucracies will only beget more bigness, more bloat... until the only possible outcome is collapse.
It reads like a playbook of exactly what's happening today in the west. Already suffocating from too much debt, governments are going deeper and deeper into debt, and hiring more and more workers to administer 'stimulus programs' and an ever-expanding tax code.
To politicians, the solution is to expand the state and expand their authority. This is the exact opposite of what they should be doing... and as has happened numerous times throughout history, it may very well lead to an entire system reset.


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June 4, 2008 - 11:27PM
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has flagged an ambitious plan to lead debate on the creation of a broad Asia Pacific Community by 2020.
And he has appointed former foreign affairs secretary and one-time ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott as Australia's envoy to sell the idea.
Mr Rudd put forward the concept during a speech to the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre on Wednesday night, just days before he heads off a week-long visit to Japan and Indonesia.
"I believe it is time that we started to think about where we want to be with our regional architecture in 2020," he said.
"We believe that we need to anticipate the historic changes in our region and seek to shape them, rather than simply reacting to them."
Mr Rudd wants any new regional creation to span the entire Asia Pacific, including the United States, Japan, China, India and Indonesia.
And he believes it must engage in broad dialogue, cooperation and action on economic and political matters, as well as future challenges related to security.
"The purpose is to encourage the development of a genuine and comprehensive sense of community whose habitual operating principle is cooperation," Mr Rudd said.
"The danger in not acting is that we run the risk of succumbing to the perception that future conflict within our region may somehow be inevitable."
Excuse me, Mr. Rudd, but I do not recall this plan being put to the electorate in November 2007, and enunciated as a significant foreign policy initiative. I'm sure I would've remembered any proposal to thrust Australia into some kind of EU-style 'Asia-Pacific' union, thereby eroding our national sovereignty and dissolving our borders.
The truth, Mr. Rudd, is that you do not have a mandate to surrender Australia's national sovereignty, especially not to a supranational body dominated by countries with which Australia has little in common. Australia is neither geographically nor culturally a part of Asia, and it would be a grave and irreversible mistake to erase the sovereignty and identity of our nation in some futile attempt to "fit in" to the region.
As incomprehensible as it may seem to you, the majority of Australians remain wedded to the idea of a sovereign Australian nation-state with control over its political, economic, cultural and demographic destiny. Unlike yourself, they're not prepared to relegate the Australian nation-state to a tired piece of history.


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This custom dining piece was produced from 3 slabs of Maple burl with a natural edge left around the outside of the table top.
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To boldly go where no one has gone before. Anyone familiar with that phrase? I think that the Star Trek series perfectly captures our spirit of exploration, of seeking out new knowledge, new experiences, new places, new people. I doubt that all of you have that wandering spirit all the time, but I think that we all have it on occasion.
There was an episode of the Next Generation series that I found quite fascinating. The episode is from the Third season of the Next Generation, "Booby Trap." The Enterprise was puttering around the Universe as usual and they ran into an ancient wreck in the midst of an asteroid belt. They poked around a little bit, downloads a few fragmentary files, and then tried to warp out of there, but to their surprise they couldn't. Almost every ounce of energy they expended in one direction was being opposed by an equal force. As they investigated more and more they found themselves stuck in the midst of an ancient minefield: all their systems were being fed back to them and if they fired their weapons or made one wrong move they would set off every charge in the asteroid belt, which would destroy them. If they stayed put, then eventually their resources and their power would drain and they would be stranded without hope of rescue.
They put their heads together and put the computer into overdrive to come up with a solution, and in the end there were two solutions. The first was the program the computer to take them out with no human input at all. The computer didn't give it much of a chance, but it was better than nothing. The second solution was to give the engines enough of a jolt to get them moving, and then drift out completely under manual control, applying just a little bit of thruster here and there to keep them on course. In the end, they chose the second option and Captain Picard himself took the helm to steer them out. In the end, they were willing to have faith that one person could lead them out.
The story of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is pretty straightforward. They say what they're expected to say in the culture of their day and both are pretty much stating the obvious. The Pharisee is able to go beyond the minimum required for ritual purity: some Pharisees of that time made it a point to undertake a stricter regimen of piety such as this one. This one is fasting more than required (he's only required to fast on Yom Kippur, which is once a year) and he tithes on everything he has rather than everything he's earned. It is curious that the tax collector made it to Jerusalem in the first place: he would have had to undergo some purification rituals in order to be able to make the trip. The Pharisee makes a fairly common prayer for Jews of his day: thank God you've made me who I am and not like the heathens. The thing that's missing from this prayer is God's role in all this. The Pharisee isn't asking God for anything; he thinks that things are the best they possibly can be, and other than placement, God doesn't have to do anything else.
The tax collector knows he's on thin ice. He's an outcast among his own people, and this is probably the only time he's going to be able to come up to Jerusalem. The nature of his job renders him ritually impure, and there may be a little shame on his part that he's where he is. His people consider him a cheat and a traitor, and he has a lot of money, his money doesn't really buy him much. He could have stayed home and not gone to Jerusalem at all, but he had enough faith to make the huge effort just to get there He knows that God is going to have to bring him out of his state, and he puts himself in God's hands. And this is what makes him worthy, this is what justifies him.
I don't think that many of us actually give thanks that we're not like other people, at least I hope that we aren't making that prayer. I don't know about you all, but I know that God has to do a lot of work on me yet. We come here knowing that we're sinners, that we're not perfect, and we're called to put ourselves in God's hands and take up the task of being the presence of Christ in the world. It can be like putting yourself in the middle of a minefield.
How do we get out of the minefield of our sinfulness, our fear, our inadequacy? We put the controls in the hands of the great Captain. We come forward to say "Amen" to the Body and Blood of Christ so that our Savior's sure hand can be guiding us in our lives. We can't just sit back and let it happen or stay still: we have to little push now and then to keep moving. We are also called to have faith that although we may be navigating a frightening set of circumstances, although we may think that one false turn will blow us up, if we recognize who we are and what we are, put ourselves in the hands of the one who loves us and cleanses us, and we give those little pushes to keep moving, we too can come out of the galactic minefield into the clear.


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Pokémon Go arrives at a time of social turmoil, steamrolling a gridlocked national discourse on race, police brutality, and politics with a timing that conspirators' dreams are made of. It's […]
Pokémon Go arrives at a time of social turmoil, steamrolling a gridlocked national discourse on race, police brutality, and politics with a timing that conspirators' dreams are made of. It's […]
Pokémon Go arrives at a time of social turmoil, steamrolling a gridlocked national discourse on race, police brutality, and politics with a timing that conspirators' dreams are made of. It's become the worst best game of the year, a buggy and nostalgia powered app with unparalleled behavioral and social impact.
It's this context that makes Pokémon Go a monster as strange and friendly as Pikachu—media that calls into question our values while generating affinity among people in way that is unheard of in games and entertainment.
Like all matters of human import, the critical conversation about Pokémon Go has devolved into dualism. Ask someone how they feel about Pokémon Go and you'll probably get one of two answers: it's great that people are outside and so much fun or that it's a waste of time, grow up, and it's a bad game.
Try it out for yourself. Depending on where they stand you can decide if you want to stay friends, married, family members, etc.
But it's this largely sociological component that makes reviewing Pokémon Go only as a game a reductive evaluation. You can't review the game itself without taking into account the ideological stakes, the cultural context, because so much outside the game affects the enjoyment of it. So for the purposes of this review, let's look at Pokémon Go from three critical perspectives: the actual game, the cynical reading, and the optimistic assessment.
Not really. Pokémon Go launched with broken gameplay, inscrutable systems, and servers as questionable as those of a certain presidential candidate. This is a 1.0 product in the age of agile programming, so Pokémon Go has and is expected to evolve. A week out and server problems in the U.S. are as rare as a Dragonair siting.
But the gameplay is an anemic version of the handheld Pokémon games. The catch and battle systems have been adapted to the touch and swipe mechanics demanded in the mobile and AR space. There is no trading at launch. What's there works well enough for on-the-go play, but lacks the depth needed to keep players (especially veterans of the franchise) interested months down the line.
The true allure of Pokémon Go lies in the location based gameplay, the human compulsion to collect, and the socialization that binds it all together. The incentive to explore IRL certainly makes Pokémon Go a singular experience, a veritable real world Pokémon MMO. But the question from detractors is worth discussing: is Pokémon Go a good thing or another time-sink in an already media addicted society?
In a world of war, bloodshed, and low voter turnout we have people with an unhealthy obsession over something that does not matter. You know like sports, Netflix, or nearly anything you do that does not fall into the capitalist production, charity, or responsibility buckets. Pokémon Go makes it easy to turn away from dealing with difficult and pressing problems. Or the game's global prominence and public display have made it an easy straw man to lay the blame on.
Then we have the Fox News' Pokémon Go headlines: robberies, car crashes, and two idiots falling off a cliff.
But more than clickbait controversy, Pokémon Go surprisingly provokes some ethical questions concerning having fun during times of exceptional human upheaval. Is it okay to be distracted with the trivial when there are lives at stake? Do we not have a responsibility to care more about each other than a drawing of an electric rat on your phone? And what is Professor Willow doing with all those transferred Pokémon?
Pokémon Go may be a fad or a waste of time, but the game's positive impact, however shallow, is unprecedented.
We've all heard someone exclaim how great it is to see so many young people outside, even if they're still glued to their phones chasing cartoon creatures. But hey, now we can now name the art and landmarks that we've unknowingly walked in front of hundreds of times. Then there are those with social anxiety and depression who are finding themselves outside and talking to strangers for the first time in years.
In one of the more poignant Pokémon Go stories, a father reported that the game made his children willingly spend time with him during errands. While he admitted that they were more interested in "catching them all" than hanging with dad, he prefers it over the alternative. It's easy to imagine that his two kids will look back at this time with nostalgia, recalling how the game accidentally brought them closer to their father.
The use of "unprecedented" and "unparalleled" isn't hype. It really is hard to name a comparable cultural phenomenon with so many moments of tangible good, a point that makes the game more enjoyable to play. Regardless of the qualitative value, criticizing anything that creates positivity seems regressive. But still is this enough to justifying playing Pokémon as a 28 year old man?
During a time of extraordinary and seemingly escalating catastrophe Pokémon Go is an anomaly, a veritable human honey pot that brings people together not in response to national tragedy but in affinity for the perennial act of fun.
On the one hand, you have a country dealing with a string of unjust murders, domestic terrorism, and the fate of a nation. And in the other hand, I have an iPhone—as I try to find that damn Bulbasaur that keeps showing up outside my house every night. The former, or any suffering in its major and minor forms, seems to compel the latter, entertainment. Meaning that the persistence of problems, geopolitical or personal, fuels the compulsion to seek out trifling escapism.
Isn't part of what we're asking from a review is "how well does this entertainment distract us"?
And as entertainment, as a moment's reprieve, Pokémon Go is undoubtedly effective in letting us have fun and forget together.


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Flash on the Beach 2011 - Day 3
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The annual Flash extravaganza is on for the sixth year in a row and as usual, it's a mekka for Flash enthusiasts. The lineup is solid, the wind is solid, Adobe sneaks new features and the discussions go far into the night. Welcome to Brighton!
As in all previous years, Flashmagazine is here to bring you the best of what's announced and reports from the event. Here's our writeups from day 1:
Former suspects such as Mike Chambers, Marc Anders, Richard Galvan and Lee Brimelow from Adobe did this years keynote, but there was also a new addition - Paul Gubbay. Paul walked us through how expressive web technologies is the new wine for Adobe and this talk really pushed the point across. Adobe are no longer religious about Flash, but rather making the tools that enable expressive content. He also showed a new version of Adobe's CSS regions demo. We can certainly see this being useful.
After this, Mark Anders came on stage and did a nice demo of the second preview of Adobe Edge, just released on Adobe Labs. SInce the first version, the tool has now come as far that it's actually useful. It's not yet polished, but you can really see this going places. The new animation model/timeline looks good and there were some really nifty features in there.
Finally it was time to talk about Flash and Lee Brimelow took stage. Lee always comes across as a guy with great humor and a solid dose of sarcasm. He has now moved to the newly created games department of Adobe and get's to sitt all day playing games. He showed great examples such as Circ, TweetHunt and The Machinarium. The latter is a staff favorite here at Flashmagazine, but it's also the number one selling app in the App Store. It's also built entirely in Flash.
Next up from Lee was Native Extensions, a new mechanism that'll make it possible to write custom extensions to the AIR runtime. This could be any kind of file that is then executed as the program installs. You can also call functions on them and Richard Galvan later showed code hinting support for this as well in the new Flash Builder. Lee's demo showed how he can now make apps that use the Android notification system. All in all, very nice features that will open so many new possibilities.
Another cool demo was a brand new (unnamed) Open Source API that enables you to use Sprite-sheets as if they were ordinary DisplayObject. The big difference though is that this new API is fully hardware accelerated using Stage 3D so you can push thousands of 2D sprites to the screen and still run at 60 frames per second. This will change Flash Gaming forever and it really looks like great stuff. He also showed this neat Particle Designer app that would export to the .pex format that Flash then can use at runtime.
Finally, Richard Galvan showed some sneaks from Flash Authoring, showcasing some neat export options that'll allow you to export sprite-sheets directly from Flash Authoring. He also showed how you would pack an AIR native extension with your project by just adding it to the AIR file.
Every (Flash) developer does debugging and logging. From the most basic trace-statement to more advanced loggers that tell where a trace came from and parameters used. DConsole takes this many steps further by integrating a in-file drop-down console that you bring up by pressing Command + Shift + Enter (or any other combination you choose) that is very extendable.
On the most basic level, it's just a solid trace-logger that will output to the standard output in Flash/Flash Builder. By adding the console to the stage, you can bring up this list of trace-statements in the console while the SWF is running in any browser/player. Here you can use filters that will apply color-coding to the text output based on the importance of the log messages and you can also filter on this. The logging is based on SLF4AS and through extensions you can even pipe this output to external servers.
On a more advanced level, you can introspect all objects at runtime, show fps, memory usage, mouse and key positions, the display tree and much more. say you have a designer breathing down your neck that says that the logo should be "a little to the left". You could tweak it, compile, send him the file and ask if that was how he wanted it. You could also just grab the designer and at runtime - just bring up a visual inspector for X and Y position and tweak the position live at runtime until our designer is happy. And you can also extend this yourself. You can add your own Commands that map to functions that you can run whenever you need. There's a lot of useful plugins that come with the product, but Andreas showed how quickly you could write your own as well. Just for fun, he's even made an IRC client running in the console...
Another big advantage to using a runtime tool like this for debugging is that it negates the need for using the debug player. The debug player really slow things down, so for anything resource intensive a tool like this is a must. This console is a really powerful and flexible tool. Andreas is usually a very (!) outspoken guy and it was fun to see him almost shy on stage in the beginning of his session.
The Flash community is changing and HTML & Javascript is by now a pretty common part of our job as well these days. So much in fact that more and more people start to say that they're no longer a Flash Developer, but rather Interactive Developers. This is all good and a natural progression that we'll just see more of.
"Just because you can, it does not mean that you have to" was kind of the meme of Elliot's session. He went over a series of typical CSS effects and why he think they should not be used. He said that he had a reputation for moaning about things and yes - that's what he did for 30 minutes in the Brighton Dome. Backgrounds that give an impression of texture, rounded corners, gradient buttons with rounded corners, embossed text, shadows, glossy buttons and most effects that designers use today. For some reason, the clients just love these effects and it's hard to be the designer that says "no, I will not make that button look 3D".
Elliot kept saying that he had also "been guilty" of using these effects but I would think that this session was provocative to the designers that don't like the more classical style that Elliot himself prefers. Coming from a developer background, I wasn't very provoked, but I did find it fascinating to see a designer that "just knew" how things were supposed to be and that most others are wrong. This talk really didn't give me much new and it was probably a good thing that it only lasted 30 minutes.
Now a resident of Brighton, Carlos is probably best known to the Flash community as the founder of Papervision3D. He now runs the high end 3D consultancy HelloEnjoy. This year Carlos showed two projects, one personal and one commercial.
HelloFlower is a beautiful flower sculpting application for iOS. The app is built with Unity3D and written in C#. Carlos describes it as a "relaxed" creative tool where users craft and style the elements of a flower. What makes the app interesting is not just it's minimal styling or the attention to detail, but the emotional response it generates when the hand crafted flowers are shared.
The second project was an interactive music video for Ellie Goulding. The piece was developed over the course of the last two months and is due for release in the next few weeks on the URL lights.Elliegoulding.com It was written in javascript are uses WebGL to render a flying journey over a dynamic terrain of lights. Despite an active dislike of the Javascript language he has produced something rather gorgeous.
The Flash platform has had a long history of MVC frameworks. The trend over those years has been towards smaller and lighter frameworks. As Stray point out, writing code is easy, joining it together is hard. RobotLegs has become a popular choice for this task as it's light, solid and non-prescriptive. What was interesting about this session wasn't so much the sneak peaks of RobotLegs 2 (RL2) but the thinking behind the team's design decisions.
Through a series of short interactive tests Stray demonstrated how our brains actually work and how these insights can be used to develop a better framework. Take for example that our brains can retain around 7 (plus or minus 2) chunks of information at any one time. RL2 therefore makes uses of chunking to reduce cognitive overhead. It turns out that our brains are the worst legacy system for working with code. We're bad at multi-tasking with higher level brain functions. Lizard stuff, no problem.
After a fascinating discussion on the effects of dopamine on our concentration it was time to sneak some details of the new framework. There will it seems be four flavours of RobotLegs, each one tailored toward different complexities of project. We can expect a fluent context builder, "guards and hooks", multiple mediators per view, command flows, soft mappings for modular apps and the quite wonderfully named InspectorGadget. As I understand it they aim to ship towards the end of the year.
With all the buzz around Flash Player 11 and Stage3D (formerly called Molehill), this was a talk that many people wanted to see. So many in fact that at least 50 could not get into the Pavilion. Rob is the development lead for the Away3D engine and he has been presenting all over the world the last years. He has the archetype british humor, dry but funny and he really knows his stuff. He started off showing a hands on demo of deltastrike.org, a game that looks fantastic with it's epic space-battles.
After the demise of Papervision a few years back, Away3D is now the only solid Open Source 3D engine for the Flash Player. The commercial competitors are many however and many attendees were keen to see how far Open Source could take them. The team behind Away3D has been really active the last year and they also got a beta version of the engine out for the Adobe Max conference a year ago. The fourth version of the engine is now soon ready for Beta and Rob shared many of the the highlights for the new engine.
Rob went through a bit of history highlighting how gaming in Flash has changed and how Stage 3D is going to change this. Stage 3D won't be PS3 quality, but it'll look good. The original X-Box is a more fair comparison but this will of course differ from machine to machine and what type of graphics card that sits within these. Away3D version 4 will reap the benefits of this speed increase, but will as usual wrap it in a developer friendly API. There are some differences as compared to former versions, but they've tried to keep as much of the original API as possible.
The purpose is to still have a general purpose engine whereas several of the commercial competitors are now only focused on games. You can still use it for games though, but you'll need to implement a lot of this yourself. Rob explained how an entity-system works and mentioned the PushButton Engine as an example of this approach. However - Rob also presented something brand new - a tag-on physics engine named AwayPhysics. This is a separate Open Source project that is based on the Bullet engine, but it'll plug in nicely with Away3D 4. This was showcased with a cute game prototype called Polar Peril, co-developed by the Away3D Team and Freakish Kid.
Another new addition is the AWD2 format, a compressed binary format that has a lot of benefits over the standard formats in 3D packages. The team is focused on tooling and they already have a C / Python exporter that works with Blender. The goal is to provide this to other vendors so that they can easily implement AWD support. The format itself is also open and will be published as soon as it's finished.
Eugene's work first came to our attention with his FlashSURF library. FlashSURF was an Alchemy powered port of SURF, the popular computer vision (CV) library for performing runtime image analysis. It turns out SURF is patented so his most recent project is ASFEAT, a ground-up rewrite of the library. This version is pure AS3 and makes use of Joa's Apparat library to considerably boost the performance.
CV image analysis is all about performance and Eugene has gone to considerable lengths to achieve this. He has created his own point extractor class (APE), his own BIT descriptor along with code for pose estimation and refinement. All of these elements are open source.
He showed a number of Augmented Reality (AR) demos His demos, each increasing in complexity over the course of the session. From simple 3D model manipulation for Guinness to a car driving sim where the vehicle was steered using an AR marker. To finish he showed AR driven dynamic lighting and real time sounds transformation. Amazing work. He's also bored at work, so someone please hire him!
John Dalziel is a founding member of FlashMagazine and regularly reports from community events in the UK. He has also written for Macromedia, New Riders, Actionscript.com and Ultrashock.com.
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Finland is internationally leading in nanotechnology resarch but invests even more. Now Tekes launches the programme FinNano, expected to further increase the competitiveness of Finnish nanotechnological research.
With 200 nano scientists in 30 laboratories across the Helsinki area, the city makes up an important nanotech area in addition to the environments in Oulu, Tampere, Jyväskylä, Joensuu and Turku. The FinNano programme is expected to create more cooperation between these areas and with environments abroad. The end result is going to be more commercial products resulting from nanotech research. The programme has 70 million euro, which is a co-funding between the authoroties and the industry. This makes Finland one of the leading European countries when it comes to funding of nanotech research per capita.
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