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If you are a true traveller, you must keep China travel destinations in your world tour list. It is such a big country that you cannot finish travelling even in a year. The tourist attractions are abundant with natural, cultural and modern beauties. Now, come to see the list of travel destinations:
1. The Great Wall
This is the number one tourist attraction in China. It has always been recognised as one of the seven wonders of this world. It crosses over ten provinces and cities. These are Beijing, Tianjin, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei.
2. China Danxia
It is in fact one kind of land-form formed from red sandstone and characterised by steep cliffs. This unique type of landscape is beautiful and attractive. China Danxia is available in different cities and provinces such as Chishui (Guizhou), Taining (Fujian), Langshan (Jiangsu), Danxiashan (Guangdong), Longushan (Jiangxi), Jianglangshan (Zhejiang)
3. Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
There are some tombs and burial complexes which are very much famous as tourist attractions in China. These are the imperial tombs of the Qing and Ming dynasties indeed. You can visit Hubei, Hebei, Beijing, Jiangsu or Liaoning provinces to view these tombs.
4. Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
If you want to see these tourist attractions, then you have to go to Jilin province and Liaoning province of China. This site is enriched with archaeological remains of three old cities, 26 noble families and 14 tombs. The cities are Wandu Mountain City, Guonei City and Wunu Mountain City.
5. South China Karst
It is famous for distinctive and beautiful landscape with rich biodiversity. It is enriched with gorges, cave systems and natural bridges. To enjoy South China Karst, you have to visit Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou or Guangxi province.
6. Tusi Sites
To govern ethnic minority regions of China, the ancient imperial government appointed Tusi officials. Laosicheng in Hunan province, Hailongtun fortress in Guizhou province and Tangya in Hubei province are included in Tusi sites.
Above mentioned tourist attractions are located in several places. You can visit any place to enjoy the tourist spot. Now, I am going to present the bucket list of China travel destinations according to the provinces, municipalities or autonomous regions.
Sichuan Province
7. Mount Emei
8. Mount Qingcheng
9. Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
10. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
11. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
12. The Forbidden City
13. Peking Man Site at ZhouKoudian
14. Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
15. Temple of Heaven
Yunnan Province
16. Old Town of Lijiang
17.Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hane Rice Terraces
18. Chengjiang Fossil Site
19. Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
Shanxi Province
20. Ancient City of Ping Yao
21. Mount Wutai
22. Yungang Grottoes
Henan Province
23. Yin Xu
24. Longmen Grottoes
25. Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in "The Centre of Heaven and Earth"
Hubei Province
26. Ancient Building Complex in the Wudan Mountains
27. Hubei Shennongjia
Fujian Province
28. Mount Wuyi
29. Fujian Tulou
Shandong Province
30. Mount Tai
31. Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
Anhui Province
32. Mount Huangshan
33. Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui
Jiangxi Province
34. Mount Sanqing
35. Lushan National Park
Zhejiang Province
36. The Grand Canal
37. West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
>>>Now, I am mentioning the regions which have at least 1 attraction from 50 bucket list China travel destinations.
Guangdong Province
38. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages
39. Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace of Lhasa
Hebei Province
40. Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
41. Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
Liaoning Province
42. Shenyang Imperial Palace
Shaanxi Province
43. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Gansu Province
44. Mogao Caves
Hunan Province
45. Wulinggyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Jiangsu Province
46. Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Inner Mongolia
47. Site of Xanadu
48. Xianjiang Tianshan
49. Historic Centre of Macao
50. Dazu Rock Carvings
I hope that you have liked above 50 bucket list China travel destinations. To make this list, I have considered especially the world heritage sites located in China. Keep this list in your mind whenever you visit this country.


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'Ravenswood' Recap: 'Home Is Where the Heart Is — Seriously Check the Floorboards'
When we last left 'Ravenswood,' Caleb and the gang were dealing with the aftermath of Remy's sleepwalking, which allowed her to witness the signing of the original pact. When Luke and Olivia arrive home (remember, Luke has just dealt with some seriously messed up stuff with Remy's dream-like state and Olivia has just slept with her secretly-evil boyfriend Dylan for the first time), they find Collins in their house, talking to their mother. Seriously, does this guy ever go home?
The next morning, a neighbor is digging next to the Matheson's garden when he finds a knife with a three-sided blade, just like the one that was used to kill Luke and Olivia's father (and just like the one handed off after the original pact was signed). The police quickly arrive at the Matheson house, where Mrs. Matheson is quickly carted off by the cops. Luke immediately starts getting aggressive with one of the officers, who then takes him downtown and puts him in a holding cell until he can calm down.
Meanwhile, Caleb's father unexpectedly shows up at the Collins' home, informing him that Henry Rivers died and he and Caleb as his next of kin. Of course, Henry has also left them a house, which means they are pretty much never leaving Ravenswood ever, though Caleb's dad tries to make his son go back to Rosewood to be with Hanna, which Caleb refutes.
That same morning, Remy wakes up to drawings littering her entire house -- sketches that she did in her sleep of devilish figures and Latin words, clearly figures and images she imagined while asleep. As she goes to walk downstairs, several different papers spell out the phrase, "YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE SEEN." Super creepy. When she arrives at the Matheson's during the whole cop debacle, she reveals that the same knife they found in Luke and Olivia's backyard is the same knife she saw in her dream.
While Luke is in jail, he meets a drunken old man who slurs his words while asking him for the time. Soon after, however, his voice transforms and he speaks to Luke, clear as day. "You should not have seen," he utters in a threatening voice. Coincidence? We think not.
Later that morning, with her mom and brother in jail, Olivia is at home when Collins arrives at the door, informing her that her mother has asked him to check in on her. Olivia, of course, is immediately defensive, calling Collins out on disliking her father. When he replies that her dad was a good man and a good father, Olivia shoots back, "And a good husband!" Collins' silence speaks volumes, and we have to wonder if this was a slight hint that Collins could possibly be the twins' real father. (If this gets revealed in a later episode, we sooo called it first.)
After storming out of her house, Olivia is at the coffee shop when she runs into her frenemy, Tess. After the girls decide to be friends again, Tess reveals that she broke up with Springer (the guy who supposedly dumped red paint on Liv in the first episode), and Olivia spills that she and Dylan slept together for the first time. Also at the coffee shop: a man with bleeding, blacked out eyes. Oh wait, no, that was just Olivia's imagination. When Tess leaves, she is confronted by Springer, who tells her that being friends with Liv isn't going to save her. Oh, snap.
Meanwhile, Miranda is trying to get to the bottom of the orange mist that Mrs. Grunwald seems to have control over. As she peers in on Mrs. Grunwald while sleeping, Miranda notices the mist appear and then turn into a ghostly figure of a woman. Miranda and Remy later look up the woman and discover that the woman is Mrs. Grunwald's sister -- or so they think.
Miranda later confronts the woman, Beatrice, in the Collins' house, realizing that Mrs. Grunwald wasn't Beatrice's sister -- but her daughter. What?! Beatrice, pregnant as a teenager, was forced to pretend that Carla was her sister. When Bea died at the age of 17 (as one of five teenagers killed by the pact), she was grateful for her status in limbo, which meant that she could always communicate with her daughter. However, Miranda wants nothing more than to break the pact so her friends don't have to die, and struggles to get Bea to see that one day, Mrs. Grunwald will die, but she will still be trapped there as a ghost, completely unable to connect with her daughter. (Spoiler alert: It doesn't really work.)
Mrs. Grunwald, meanwhile, discusses the topic of Springer with Collins, who says he is on the verge of doing something stupid. Colllins also reveals to Carla that the twins hate him, and only see him as a man trying to move in on their widowed mother. (Possible baby daddy foreshadowing again? The hints are getting bigger…)
That night, Remy sleepwalks and in her dream-like state, grabs a knife and heads for Luke, who is asleep. "If thine eye offends me, pluck it out!" she screams, and goes to stab her boyfriend. Fortunately, her father intervenes and pulls her away, waking her up, but not before she accidentally cuts her dad's arm in the process. Terrifying. Clearly, there is some connection with eyeball-plucking and the pact, considering Olivia's bleeding-eye hallucination in the coffee shop and Remy's own plucked-out-eye dream from last week's episode.
As Caleb agrees to settle into the house with his dad, a raven climbs through the window, startling the two men. Caleb's dad informs him that a raven in the house means there has been a death in the family, implying that Henry is gone, to which Caleb replies that he only hopes so.
Across the neighborhood, Olivia is walking down the street when Springer appears behind her in shadow and confronts her about Dylan, saying that if her dad did right by his dad, "none of this would have happened." Olivia refuses to listen and runs away as Springer chases her, only to be hit by a car. Who was behind the wheel, you wonder? Why, Tess, of course, who maintains her innocence to the cops.
As the episode draws to a close, Miranda is once again threatened by Bea, who tells her to leave her and the other spirits-in-limbo alone.
With an episode title as promising as this one, we expected a little more from tonight's all-new 'Ravenswood.' While more mysteries and plot lines were revealed, it seemed almost like the show was trying to throw in too many twists and turns at once, which made it slightly confusing to the audience. Next week promises to be a creepy one, though, as Remy's sleep analysis may very well make her the second victim of the pact. Stay tuned...

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USA Network has launched "Sights Unseen: Auggie Undercover," a prequel web series to "Covert Affairs," the cable network's one-hour spy drama starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham.
The six-episode web series focuses on Gorham's character, Auggie, a blind CIA special ops officer who on the TV show assists Perabo's character when she goes on missions. The web series tells the story of a torrid affair Auggie had with a Russian hacker named Natasha (played by Liane Balaban) before he lost his sight. The Natasha character was featured in the first season of "Covert Affairs."
The web series is tied to a larger social marketing campaign from USA for the new season of "Covert Affairs." Fans can complete a series of assignments to access additional content and earn rewards points for the Covert Operatives fan-club. Or they can just watch the episodes, which will be released over the course of six weeks.
"Sights Unseen: Auggie Undercover" is sponsored by Jaguar. The car brand's new two-seat convertible F-TYPE is featured in two of the episodes.
USA worked alongside "Covert Affairs" creators and executive producers Matt Corman and Chris Ord, as well as ad agency Ralph, to develop the web series and the social campaign around it. Gorham served as interactive producer.
In addition to Gorham and Balaban, "Sights Unseen: Auggie Undercover" stars series regulars Kari Matchett as Joan Campbell and Hill Harper as Calder Michaels.
"Sights Unseen: Auggie Undercover" is the second prequel web series USA has produced for "Covert Affairs," following the original "Sights Unseen," which followed Gorham's character on an operation in Spain. It's also the second companion web series from USA in the past week, following last week's debut of "Evan's Campaign Chronicles" for the network's medical comedy "Royal Pains."


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Hi from France! I love the new pattern you are working on, and the choice of indigo and cheddar is gorgeous . Thanks for the pictures of old quilts too.ReplyDelete
Your cheddar looks just great. And red and white are my favs to see. You know there is a book out about the red and white collection that was collected over decades and finally displayed. Country Living magazine mentioned.ReplyDelete
The quilt you're working on, the one with divided circles, is one of the most pleasant I've seen in a while. I love the creams/yellows/cheddars combined with the blues and greys on the light backgrounds. And your corner blocks in the sashing: the perfect touch. All together, the quilt looks restful. You could like this post to Quilty Inspiration link-up at http://joyforgrace.blogspot.com/2015/09/quilty-inspiration-1.html.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing photos of the other quilts. Modern quilts are fun but I find great pleasure in looking at older quilts.


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Most monster movies are cautionary tales about the dangers of playing God, but so are war movies.
Like most people born in the 1980s, I grew up watching monster movies. From the classic Universal monsters all the way through the slasher era, there wasn't many sub-genres I didn't enjoy. One of my not so guilty pleasures would be Kaiju films. The general spectacle of seeing building sized monsters fight to the death, never fails to bring out the kid in me. Of course the special effects are terrible and they're all pretty much the same movie over and over, but for me it's part of the charm. Needless to say, I was extremely hyped with the announcement of the King Kong reboot, Kong: Skull Island.
Kong: Skull Island gives fans every single thing they've asked for in terms of monster carnage.
It's not everyday you get exactly what you want in a film and remain satisfied. Sometimes fan-service can ruin a movie (*ahem* Rogue One). There was one thing I got from the film that I wasn't expecting. Comfort. The movie had all the carnage I love, but it also had an amazing soundtrack. Without giving away plot details, Kong: Skull Island takes place in the early 1970s during the turbulent Vietnam war. If you've seen any Hollywood movie set during that particular time, it's a given the filmmakers will remind the viewer with music at any and every chance. Kong: Skull Island is no different.
The usage of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" or CCR's "Run Through The Jungle" in a war movie has become hilariously cliche. Yet instead of rolling our eyes, we find ourselves bobbing our heads to the beat. Those songs are fantastic but I think there's something a bit more going on here, at least on a subconscious level. We're inadvertently finding comfort in the predictable. We've heard these songs a million times, but there's something about hearing them coming from a cinema's sound system. It makes them seem larger than life, not much different from the Kaiju beasts on the screen.
Can we really have a film set during the Vietnam War, without hearing "Time Has Come Today"?
After hearing "Long Cool Woman (In Black Dress)" back to back with The Stooges' "Down On The Street", I began questioning just what source of nostalgia was making me enjoy the movie more. Is it the child-like wonder of battling monsters or the archaic comfort of hearing the classic rock songs I grew up with? This question was answered during a pivotal action sequence early on in the film where Kong takes down a fleet of military choppers with Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" as it's backdrop. The glorious spectacle of a 200 foot tall gorilla monster smashing helicopters just fits perfectly!
Right then and there, I realized both sources of nostalgia are one of the same. During the turbulent times of the Vietnam War, music acted as the universal voice for the people against the war as well as the soldiers fighting it. Of course I wasn't around back in those days, but the themes of frustration, hope, and honesty still ring true today. To me, the classic rock songs found in Skull Island represent an era when despite losing their innocence and facing uncertainty, people still believed they were capable of stepping up to the plate to do the right thing.
It seems weird to see a King Kong film using classic rock songs in such a way but it enhances the overall experience.
It makes me wonder, is this the same reason people still enjoy monster movies and Vietnam War era music? Am I alone in this fleeting sense of nostalgia? Action movies are meant to tickle the senses, and that particular era of rock music was nothing short of amazing, but is there more? There has to be. That war is long finished, but humanity can't come out of it without eternal change. The universal themes in those songs remain just as potent as they were back then. People look can look back and forward with the same empowerment. It's just like the comfort of feeling like a young again when you watch something you enjoyed as a kid, now as an adult.
At it's core, Kong: Skull Island is a bombastic action movie and there's nothing more enjoyable than seeing absolute destruction.
On a less superficial level, maybe our love of survival says more about our character than we realize? Whether it's fighting fictional monsters or a very real war, I'll take the empowerment in any way I can get it. Monster movies will always get my money and Vietnam War era music will always get my ear. Just as the vets will always get my respect and Kong will always be king.
I'll always enjoy any scenario with Bowie, Iggy, or Sabbath… with or without carnage and explosions.
For more information on Kong: Skull Island, please visit KongSkullIslandMovie.com
Aaron (or Coop) is a freelance writer, multi-instrumentalist and overall lover of all things music. As an advocate for indie record labels and artists, he is passionate about local scenes and do-it-yourself artistry. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, he's not afraid to explain why.


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With the recent Comprehensive Spending Review protecting universal benefits for older people for example the Winter Fuel Payment, there has been lots of debate about whether better-off older people really need these payments. Opinion is divided on the issue – including among older people. Peter Preston in the Guardian argued that those older people who could afford it should donate their Winter Fuel Payments to charities – one such scheme has now opened in Somerset.
After reading this type of story you could be forgiven for thinking that those 'greedy geezers' – wealthy boomers and pensioners – are awash with money, unfairly wringing out of Government ever more concessions at the expense of those more deserving. It's just not a accurate picture of what later life is like in the UK.
There are approximately 1.8 million older people living in poverty in the UK – which means managing on less than £119 a week. Many more people live on low incomes, often just above this poverty line struggling to make ends meet, and make daily choices about whether to eat or heat their homes.
So, some richer pensioners might not need the Winter Fuel Payments they receive to stay warm this winter. Millions more do. As my colleague Mary wrote recently, the new excess winter deaths figures show the alarming consequences of not being able to heat your home.
Here at Age UK, we understand that the universal benefit system isn't perfect. However, the alternative of means-testing would be expensive to administer, would segregate older people into 'haves' and 'have-nots' and could miss out some of those in need. As the numbers who don't need this benefit are relatively small, introducing means-testing could well leave us with little in the way of real savings in public expenditure.
Just like other charities, we rely on public donations to provide a range of support to people in later life. We're delighted that some people are willing to donate to us to help our work for poorer and more vulnerable older people. But the Winter Fuel Payment is an entitlement – people shouldn't feel guilty about using it if they need it this winter.


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The town of Penwortham is situated on high land on the south bank of the Ribble Estuary, at the most westerly crossing point of the River with major road and rail links. Archaeological evidence reveals an ancient ford and the existence of a small Norman motte and bailey castle, reflecting this important and strategic position. The castle mound can still be seen behind St Mary's Church.
The belt of marshland between Penwortham and the river was brought into agricultural use by the middle of the 16th century. More significant landscape changes occurred in the 19th century with the construction of the Albert Edward dock. This land is now crisscrossed by drainage ditches and protected by outer flood and river embankments.
Along one of these embankments runs the Ribble Way, a long distance footpath linking the Ribble estuary with its source in North Yorkshire. This section of the footpath follows the south shore of the river as far as the old Penwortham Bridge at Middleforth where it turns left and follows the north bank of the river out of the city.
The Penwortham cycle way also crosses the bridge contributing to the network of cycle routes north and south of the river.
Penwortham's proximity to the riverside, and other informal parks such as Hurst Grange make it an attractive place to live and work, and both Upper Penwortham and Lower Penwortham or Middleforth are now well established as thriving communities to the south of Preston.


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Overview of the main changes since the first report. The first report was last published in March 2016:
Asylum reform: The adoption of the new Asylum Act, initially foreseen for 2016, has been postponed. The draft of the new Asylum Act has been shared with civil society representatives for comments, and was also received positively by the European Commission. The new law will introduce both accelerated and border procedures. Bearing in mind that the Asylum Office is understaffed even in light of the single existing procedure, it is reasonable to assume that additional personnel will be required to implement the additional proceedings. It is otherwise difficult to envision adequate implementation of the new law in reality.
Asylum procedure
Access to the territory: In July 2016, the Serbian Government adopted a decision to form mixed patrols of the army and police to strengthen the border with FYROM and Bulgaria. The Ministry of Defence reported in December 2016 that more than 18,000 migrants had been prevented from illegally crossing the border from Bulgaria. Between September and December 2016, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights received 13 complaints concerning collective expulsions or push-backs to FYROM that involved approximately 750 persons. Those removed included people who had predominantly been residing in the reception centre in Preševo, as well as persons who had been intercepted by patrols of the police or army at the border, or mixed patrols deeper within the territory of Serbia.
Reception conditions
Accommodation: By the end of 2016, more than 7,000 people were residing in Serbia, the vast majority of whom (around 82%) were accommodated in camps along the border where they were waiting for their turn to be admitted into Hungary. The remainder stayed in the streets of Belgrade and border areas with Hungary.
The Ministry of Interior opened additional temporary reception centres to respond to the increase in refugees and migrants.
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Integration assistance: In December 2016, a Decree on the Manner of Involving Persons Recognized as Refugees in Social, Cultural and Economic Life ("Integration Decree") was enacted and entered into force in January 2017. The Decree foresees assistance various areas crucial to integration such as access to the labour market and education, including assistance in recognition of qualification and language courses. The Decree only refers to recognised refugees and does not explicitly cover subsidiary protection beneficiaries. However, due to its entry into force in January 2017, it remains to be seen how it will be implemented in practice.


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"Code Camp" was on last weekend and there was a number of cool things shown off. Two classes I picked up on and everyone should check out are ObservableCollection of T and TransactionalCollection of T… No doubt checking out/using those will take you on a little tour of some cool bits and pieces out there in .Net 2.0 🙂
Going completely on another tangent this is also something that people might want to check out especially if you are into FPGA's – I noticed it was just posted up a day or so ago: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/evbppc/
As for other things I have been working on, I now have sound in my code generator! I installed Quake 3 again for a Lan we had the other day and after realizing that a pk3 file is a zip file (for Quake anyway) I was able to extract some of the sound files. It's definitelly cool to generate with this bad boy now 🙂 The generator uses MyGeneration which is based on .Net 1.1 so I had to use the following to get to play the sound files:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices; …..
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PlaySound(@"F:\Program Files\MyGeneration\Templates\NHibernate\regeneration.wav",0,0);
(Note the file name! Yeah – thats the buisness!) 😉
Other stuff I'm working on is setting up Lighty + RoR and expermenting with a few different things in relation to hosting. I have Lighty working through scgi with RoR on top of a Postgres database at the moment… Maybe I should post up some details on that?
My most favourite thing lately must be vmware – if you havent got this – seriously – get the free copy – its excellent to work with 🙂 The only thing to watch out for is if it says it can't find a bootable cd: 1) Check the vm's bios (F2 when you start the vm – move the cd rom drive to the top – the boot order is on one of the last tabs), 2) Check that the virtual machines cd rom is looking at your cd rom – sometimes the auto detect doesnt pick up the right one so just set it to look at your normal physical drive – once you have that sorted it should be smooth sailing.
The only issues I've had so far are to do with installing Fedora (very slow, booting etc, even when there lots of Ram allocated). As for windows/ubuntu – I would say once you install the vmware tools they are just as good as a physical machine…
Oh, and if your into starting working with device drivers on Linux then check out this article: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux With a good book to follow up with afterwards you should be away 🙂


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Transcript of Kristen's Interview
What were your first impressions of Korea?
Kristen: I found Korea to be immediately hospitable and warm. The weather, the people. There was an openness and spirit that was instilled in the whole experience. When we walked around a bit I wanted to check out the street style and what kids were into. It was funny - there was a preppyness, but toned-up and clean, but intentioned and cool. It's like.. in Tokyo, every era and trend has been cycled through perennially and everyone is really trying to always do something new.. These guys are discovering stuff and being influenced in a new way by styles and sort of tonal approaches to clothes from the '50s and '80s, and it feels awesome and rebellious in this sort of fresh-faced, liberated way. There was an innocence, a playfulness.
What did you think of the Chanel show and its venue? Any favourite moments?
Kristen: The show was like walking into a film or board game of your childhood mixed in with a sort of futuristic Studio 50 Seoul, Korea vibe. If you can call that a vibe. It's thrilling to see designs and mainstays of Chanel in such a sort of neon light. The crops. The colours. It was sweet but fun and with a snarl. I loved it. Definitely a collection that's fun to play with.
What were some of the highlights of your trip?
Kristen: Watching Isabelle Huppert and Tilda Swinton tearing up a dance floor in a trippy Seoul drag bar after the show. I'm so envious of people who dance. I didn't. I was like, "Get your ass up. Dance." But I could only stand and watch. And marvel.
Did you take any physical souvenirs back with you?
Kristen: I brought home a pair of Chanel sneakers. And some hot sauce. Reeeally hot.
Do you have any funny anecdotes from your trip?
Kristen: One funny and coveted memory is coming back from a pretty run with my whole team. We ventured into this beautiful park in Chanel running shoes and crewnecks like it was the most natural thing in the world.. emerging out of breath and enlightened.. On the corner of the street across from the hotel was a little stand that sold crunchy insects to eat. When someone took a picture we were reprimanded and put in our place. It was amazing.
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(or, "How an iPod Changed My Perspective on Technology")
A topic I've been meaning to espouse on for some time is exactly how I've managed to go from being such a die hard geek to being somebody who enjoys using Apple's technology (not that the two are mutually exclusive).
A close friend of mine has taken great joy in telling people how my views on technology took a dramatic shift shortly after I got an iPod, and of course while that may sound overly simplistic, it's essentially true.
Firstly, I am what most would call an übergeek. My fascination with computers and all things technical goes back to my early childhood, when I used to hang out at the local Radio Shack and fiddle with the TRS-80's and Tandy Colour Computers. I built my own Z-80 based machine when I was about 12, installed my first Novell NetWare network when I was about 14, and have been on the Internet since before most people even knew there was an Internet (no, kids, the World Wide Web is not the Internet).
In that time, I have always been a fairly die-hard PC user. I was never overly fond of Windows, having eschewed it in favour of OS/2 until such time as I really had no other option than to become assimilated by the great Microsoft collective (although to be fair, Windows 95 did start to look a bit promising compared to what else was out there at the time). Although I had once owned an Apple IIe, I never considered the Macintosh computers that succeeded it to be much more than toys. Sure they were great for desktop publishing and other work like that, but nothing that a real hardcore geek would ever use. An operating system without a command prompt??? What was that all about?!?
Further, in the professional world in which I worked, nobody was really out there using Macs. Windows pretty much carried the day at that time, and on the few occasions I encountered Macs in my job, they were pretty much isolated from the rest of the world — relegated to special-purpose tasks such as graphics publishing and so forth, and seldom even connected to the networks on which I tended to hang out. Mac support was seldom (if ever) required, so they could be safely ignored as those other computers that no serious computer user would ever use.
My Foray into the world of Digital Music
When the MP3 phenomenon hit in the late 90's, I was fairly quick to jump on that bandwagon, and by Christmas 1999, I had a Creative Labs Nomad MP3 player (note that I'm not talking about the Nomad II, or Jukebox, or any of those which came later — this was the original Nomad: 32Mb of RAM and a parallel port interface to transfer your music). However, as a concept, this was very cool, and the idea of being able to carry even a few songs around on a portable player like this was something I had been wanting to do for a while.
Of course, the nature of the technology was such that I tended to replace the songs very seldom, and the Nomad gradually fell into disuse. I needed something with more capacity, and began looking at the Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox that came out a year later with a serious case of techno-lust. Of course, the price range was not particularly reasonable for me at the time, and I therefore took a "wait-and-see" approach, deciding instead on upgrading to an Iomega "HipZip" player; the 40Mb inexpensive replaceable media (Clik Discs) seemed a brilliant idea at the time — a time when 40Mb of Compact Flash memory would have set one back close to $500. Again, I used this for quite a well, but it, too, gradually fell into obscurity. I just didn't feel like listening to the same music all the time, and changing the music just wasn't all that convenient.
Throughout this time, I was somewhat aware of this thing called an "iPod", but of course it was an Apple thing, for Macs only, so it never gathered much interest for me.
By early 2003 I had pretty much decided that the only way to go was with a hard-drive based player. I needed to be able to carry ALL my music around with me, all the time. Well, at that time, the only two games in town were Creative and Apple. Again, the iPod just looked a little "goofy" to me, seemed too simple, and was too much of an "Apple thing." On the other hand, Creative had just released their 20GB Jukebox ZEN, which had portability, capacity, AND USB 2.0 transfer speeds going for it. I had always been quite happy with Creative's stuff (even my original Nomad, not to mention a multitude of PC sound cards and other accessories), so I took the plunge and picked one up.
At that time, my entire music library fit nicely into 20MB, with quite a bit of storage space left over. The Jukebox ZEN itself worked quite well, with a reasonably decent menu system, albeit a small screen, and pretty reasonable sound quality. The software on the other hand, was much less intuitive. Creative bundled their own software application, and for a time I wrestled with it until eventually picking up a replacement in Red Chair's Notmad Explorer. Notmad seemed like a simple enough concept — manage the content on your Jukebox as you would any other file system, replacing a tag-based index for a file and folder structure. Bi-directional drag-and-drop was supported, and even something of a "sync" feature that would do it's best to synchronize with a hard-drive based music library, although success with that was often limited, and the number of options available for file naming and syncing just proved that sometimes you can have too many choices.
While the Jukebox itself worked well, the hassles with getting music on and off of it, and the fact that the interface wasn't quite intuitive (small screen, too many menu layers, etc), meant that it too didn't get used as much as I would have liked. Of course, the fact that it wasn't the smallest of devices didn't really help either.
It really wasn't that I didn't know how to manage my music, as I am a very technically literate person; the reality was that I just really couldn't be bothered — there were things that I would much rather be doing with my time than organizing, transferring, and cataloguing my songs, or messing with software applications that didn't quite work as well as they should.
During this time, I also experimented with a number of home digital media systems — devices designed to take music from a computer's hard drive and stream it over a wireless network link to a home stereo system or other remote speakers. My use of the Creative Nomad prompted me to pick up the Creative Wireless Music System, since again this seemed like a good solution at the time. However, that experience proved to me that Creative Labs, while they may know digital sound equipment, most definitely did not excel in the area of wireless networking. My second device was the Linksys Wireless Media Adapter, which seemed to have the reverse problem (Linksys, of course, knew how to build a networking device, but the PC-based software and on-screen menu firmware was limited almost to the point of being frustrating).
In looking for a better solution in that area, I eventually came across the SlimDevices Squeezebox. I ordered one of these, and within a few days had ordered a second one, replacing both my Creative and Linksys devices without hesitation. The Squeezebox had the advantage of on-device displays and menus, as well as a very good server-based software to catalog music and control the devices.
It was this foray into SlimDevices that I think first made me take a look at iTunes. One weekend, as I was exploring the various options and plugins for the SlimServer, I came across some neat features related to iTunes integration. Having long ago developed a disdain for most of the other options for music management on a Windows PC, I decided to download iTunes and take a look.
The next morning I went out and bought an iPod.
The Thin Edge of the Wedge
The fact is that the simplicity and intuitiveness of iTunes demonstrated the problem that I had been having all along — I was spending more time managing my music than actually listening to it. I had always known that Apple prided themselves on making simple and user-friendly apps, but I had always associated "user-friendly" in that context with "unsophisticated." While iTunes didn't necessarily have every feature that one could think of, the necessary stuff was all there, and it was there in a very easy-to-use fashion. Where most Windows-based music library software had you worrying about file names and directories and the underlying file system, iTunes took the logical step of insulating the user from that, concentrating instead on organizing music by indexed tag information. Certainly, the files still had to go somewhere, but as the end-user managing the music through iTunes, those were details I didn't need to know or care about beyond giving it a common library location.
Of course, being a technical user, I explored all of the facets of iTunes, and spent some time going under the hood and looking at the database files and seeing what I could do with it. However, those were things I did because I wanted to, not because I had to.
Further, the integration with the SlimServer devices was brilliant. I came home one day after creating an On-The-Go playlist on my iPod, dropped by iPod into the dock, and by the time I got to the living room, the playlist was available on my Squeezebox.
To me, this was the first foray into a realm where things "just worked" It identified something I had been striving for in my use of technology for many years: The idea that technology should simplify our lives, not complicate them. While it's okay, even beneficial to understand technology, it shouldn't be a prerequisite, any more than driving a car should require knowledge of auto mechanics.
The simplicity of the iPod solution became even more apparent when I handed my iPod to my wife, who is most certainly not a technology person, and she was able to navigate it and figure out how to access all of the basic functions in under 30 seconds.
Around this same time, I also transitioned from a Palm Tungsten T3 to a Blackberry device for much the same reasons. While Palm OS could do a whole lot of really neat and cool things, getting it to manage the important details of my life was often more of a struggle than it was worth. Like my music, I was spending more time managing my calendar than actually following it. The Blackberry, on the other hand (with an Exchange server on the back-end) was another example of technology that "just worked."
Contemplating a Switch
At that point, the rather nebulous concept of making the transition for Windows to Mac OS X started to become a bit more firm in my mind. I had played with Powerbooks at a couple of local Apple resellers while shopping for iPod accessories (there were no "Apple Stores" in Toronto in those days), and I really liked what I saw. In fact, on one occasion I even went over to the online Apple Store and configured a Powerbook for my needs so I could get an idea of what I'd be looking to spend.
In addition, the fact that OS X was in reality a derivative of BSD Unix "under the hood" was in and of itself very appealing. I had been playing with Linux for about seven years at that point, and I really liked some of the things that I could do with it. Unfortunately, despite numerous attempts by the Linux community to produce a decent GUI, driver support, and business productivity applications, Linux itself still fell short as a desktop OS. I ended up keeping a dual-boot configuration around so I could boot up Windows to do my day-to-day work, and Linux when I wanted to do more "low-level" networking and programming stuff.
Ultimately, though, the problem was that as sexy and powerful as Mac OS X looked, the question I still had to answer was whether somebody in my particular line of work could actually take the plunge without losing too much of the functionality I had come to know and love from my Windows world…
The Next Step…
Despite the Powerbook having a great appeal, the combination of potentially losing functionality and the price point itself prevented me from ever really exploring it until almost nine months later.
During the summer of 2005, I purchased a pair of new laptops for my wife and I, and by that time I had mostly abandoned the concept of making the switch to OS X. I was embroiled in the use of a number of Windows applications, from Microsoft Office to Project to Visio, not to mention a number of networking related tools, all of which just made a transition to OS X seem impractical at best.
However, later that summer, it occurred to me that I should get a dedicated "music server" for my Squeezebox devices, since I was now relying more and more on a laptop, my desktop computer (which had traditionally done the job), would not always be on, and would be performing other tasks. For this purpose, a Mac Mini seemed an ideal solution — SlimServer would run on OS X, iTunes of course lives on OS X, and I doubted that I would find a Windows or Linux-based machine with as small of a footprint as a Mac Mini at even twice the price. I also figured this would be a good chance to play with OS X a bit more, but that was really a secondary consideration.
So in late August, the Mac Mini came in, and I set it up with all of the necessary software to support my digital music collection, both for streaming to the Squeezeboxes and syncing my iPods. The idea was that this would be a box that would sit rather unobtrusively in the corner, and not be used for much else.
However, something happened in the process of setting this box up. I began to explore Mac OS X more fully, and I began to explore the Unix capabilities of the box (after all, SlimServer was heavily based in the Apache and Perl space, and required a little bit of Unix-geeking to get running properly). The combination of power and simplicity once again impressed me.
In addition, Apple had quite cleverly bundled a trial edition of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. I had always had vague ideas of Office being available for the Mac, but hadn't really explored it until now. I fired up Word and Excel, opened a few of my documents (across the network from my Windows PC, which was also surprisingly simple, considering I hadn't actually configured any networking client of any kind on the Mini), and they came across without a character out of place.
Word and Excel compatibility aside, however (since I really expected that would be fine), the burning question in my mind was still the e-mail issue — or more specifically the groupware issue. In most corporate and professional environments, there is more to business services than just e-mail; calendars, shared folders, address books, etc., all have to be accounted for. My world in that area ran on an Exchange server, and the ability of the Mac to handle this was probably my biggest concern…. Sure I can do e-mail via IMAP, but what about my calendar? I knew from reading the back of an Office 2004 box that it came with this thing called "Entourage", but wasn't entirely certain of it's compatibility with something like an Exchange server.
Well, fortunately for me, Microsoft had made great strides in the few months before this in improving Entourage's compatibility with Exchange. I fired up the Entourage client on my Mac Mini, plugged in a few basic configuration values, and suddenly my whole Exchange mailbox was just "there"…. Including my calendar and my address book.
The discovery of Entourage was the last major hurdle to my acceptance of Mac OS X as a viable alternative to my years on Windows. The existence of Virtual PC was the other one, and I had been aware of that particular option for some time, but while that would be fine for less frequently used apps like Visio and Project I was not about to buy a Mac just to leave a Virtual PC session running all the time for my e-mail client.
After about two more weeks of playing with the Mac Mini, I had made my decision to go shopping for a Powerbook.
The Switch
The fact that I had only two months prior bought a new Windows laptop caused some consternation — mostly with my wife, who really didn't see the point in going out and spending more money, but the economics of the situation eventually won out — The Windows laptop was new enough to go on eBay and still be able to recover a significant portion of the purchase price. Ditto for the Mac Mini, which I decided would not be required in my new configuration either. These would fund the Powerbook purchase, so off I went to the Apple Store (we had one by that time) in late September.
Along with the Powerbook was a purchase of Microsoft Office 2004, Virtual PC, and a multitude of other accessories. Office 2004 would form my staple set of applications, and I decided that Virtual PC would supply compatibility with any Windows applications that would otherwise be left behind (the two most notable being Visio and Project from a business productivity point of view).
In the process, however, the lure of bundled software again proved useful. The Powerbook came with a version of OmniGraffle pre-installed, and for my purposes this simply blew Visio out of the water for ease of use. So, another software package went onto the back shelf. In addition, my needs for project planning were usually far simpler than to require Microsoft Project, so the bundled OmniOutliner would also meet those basic needs (although both OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner were quickly upgraded to the Pro versions).
Suddenly, I found that Virtual PC wasn't as necessary as I had thought. I still needed it for testing certain applications, and dealing with certain specific networking tools (working with administrative tools on Novell NetWare and Windows networks, for instance), but I would really have no need to load it up or live in it on any kind of regular basis.
In the process as well, I also fell in love with Keynote. While Word and Excel were required for compatibility with my Windows-laden colleagues, I generally didn't do much collaborative work on presentations, so putting them together in Keynote would be just fine. If somebody wanted a copy of the presentation for reference, I could export to Powerpoint, or simply save as a PDF. I found Keynote to be far easier to use than Powerpoint, and the graphics were a lot smoother and cleaner, particularly where animations and transition effects were involved.
In addition, over the next few months I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Entourage, particularly in relation to the built-in iApps (Mail/iCal/etc), but that's a story for another day.
The bottom line is that I very quickly became hooked, and as I discovered more and more OS X native applications that would do what I needed and wanted, my satisfaction with OS X only increased. Ultimately, I had a machine that would be the best of three different worlds: The very user-friendly, intuitive and aesthetically pleasing OS X GUI, the raw, unbridled power of Unix under the hood, and the ability to fall back to Windows for those things that still required that world.
My OS X experience has not been perfect. There are still some idiosyncrasies and stability problems sometimes, but these are far more rare than experienced in Windows. In addition, Apple's design of OS X has done some clever things to decrease user frustration, whether intentionally or not; for example, when an application is busy or has stopped responding, the graphic rendering of the application continues to work beautifully. The window itself may not update (as the application is busy or frozen), but it can still be moved around, minimized, and resized, and does not interfere with the rest of the user's experience. It's a little thing, but seeing half-drawn windows of hung applications on Windows was always something that I found extremely frustrating — it gave a feel of something being broken or "not quite right" when this happened, and it was often impossible to drag another window out of the way to see what the hung app was doing last.
At the end of the day, it may not be all wine and roses, but the fact is that I find the OS X solution to be more powerful, easier to use, and overall a far more pleasant experience than struggling with Windows. Again, technology that simplifies my life, rather than complicating it further; OS X lets me go under the hood when I want to, but doesn't force me to on a daily basis, with the result being that I can generally get more productive work done, and have fun at the same time.


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The internet is filled with How To advice. Which proves how important it is in building the life you want. But it has a simple flaw we ought remember:
How to advice is disposable.
How to's are a set of tactics which need to change as the world around us changes. This means we need to constantly re-assess what we know, and ask if it is still relevant. With the pace of technological change today, this is a question we need at the top of our list.
This is why philosophy is always greater than tactics. Philosophy is enduring, and tactics and temporary. If we have a guiding philosophy on what we are doing and why, finding the best tactic for the day becomes infinitely easier.


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A Brief Overview of Miraculous by Kevin Belmonte. The author walks through history--from the beginning--tracing and relaying evidence of miracles affecting many significant characters and events leading our world to modern times.
Miraculous is an informative, but sometimes difficult read. Miraculous is extremely well written--but, reads more as a history/theology textbook than "everyday" reading. I found my short attention span facing difficulties staying focused through long citations, quotes and passages. The book covers a lot of material and certainly does offer significant support for the presence of miracles and wonders during significant historical events. I learned a lot of information--and Miraculous put a number of points into a different light for me--but, it was a difficult book to digest.
Would I recommend Miraculous? Yes and No. I rarely read a book that I dislike--because I take so much care in choosing the books that I devote time to reading. I learned a lot from Miraculous--and it certainly made me consider a number of ideas and discover new authors and resources--but, I cannot say I enjoyed the book. I found much of the book extremely dry--but, enjoyed passages in which the author allowed personality to dot the pages. If you are looking for a well written, in-depth text detailing history's wonders--then Miraculous may be the book for you. The author includes pages of noted references and does a wonderful job supporting the book's ideals with references. I do think this would be an excellent book to dissect and discuss as part of a club or group--it just wasn't the inspirational book that I had envisioned.
If you would like to learn more about the author and book featured here: Visit the Miraculous Product Page at Thomas Nelson. You can also purchase the Miraculous on Amazon.com in print.


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Our Alexite family has two manufactured products under its umbrella. Autumn Alexite is Tourmaline Green in fluorescent light and Tourmaline Orange in natural light.
Lavender Alexite changes from an eye catching Amethyst under natural light to a brilliant Tanzanite blue color when viewed under a fluorescent light.This charming combination presents an enticing proposition to the buyer.


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Guidance and counselling is a vital element of any school community. In Davis College we are very fortunate to have the services of two full time Guidance Counselors. Counselors make an enormous contribution to the lives of students. They have roles in
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Hey Ace of Spades community.
I first found out about this game when my friend told me about it. I checked it out and I love it.
I play this game in school for we have a French class with no teacher, and and I end up playing this with my friends for 2 hours straight! I guess it's time I join the forum community.


text: Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (NYSE: OEC), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance Carbon Black, today announced that effective September 1, 2017 or as contracts allow, Orion is increasing prices by five cents (5¢) per pound on all Rubber Carbon Blacks sold in the U.S. "We are increasing prices in order to continue the substantial investments in our North American rubber black production network essential to sustain safety of supply," said Chris Erickson, Orion's Vice President, Rubber Carbon Black Business Line, Americas. "This increase in pricing and the investments in production are necessary to ensure our long term supply capability." In addition, Orion announced the idling of one Rubber Carbon Black production line at its Orange, Texas facility, effective at year end 2017. Orion is taking this action because current price levels of Rubber Carbon Blacks in North America do not adequately address the costs of maintaining this production capacity. The company is assisting affected customers through the appropriate transition plans. About Orion Engineered Carbons Orion is a worldwide supplier of Carbon Black. We produce a broad range of Carbon Blacks that include high-performance Specialty Gas Blacks, Furnace Blacks, Lamp Blacks, Thermal Blacks and other Carbon Blacks that tint, colorize and enhance the performance of polymers, plastics, paints and coatings, inks and toners, textile fibers, adhesives and sealants, tires, and mechanical rubber goods such as automotive belts and hoses. Orion runs 14 global production sites and four Applied Technology Centers. The group has approximately 1,440 employees worldwide. For more information please visit our website www.orioncarbons.com. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170727006463/en/


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These notes form a part of x-med-k. Media Ecologies workshop
'PERMACULTURE' was originally coined in the mid seventies by two Australians, David Holmgren and Bill Mollison, to describe the design system pioneered as a response to what they, and many others globally, saw as serious challenges to the survival of all of us. Originally derived from the words 'PERMAnent agriCULTURE', permaculture has gone beyond it's roots in looking at strategies to create sustainable food growing methods to become a worldwide movement encompassing all aspects of how we as human beings can live harmoniously in relation to our Earth and it's finite resources and create a PERManent CULTURE. Permaculture, today has multiple definitions, but one that is particularly useful might be- "To create sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns".
A research on this topic is currently underway at FoAM. A brief presentation and discussion of the theme was shared at the x-med-k- Media Ecologies workshop in St. Erme, France. In the first half a film by Bill Mollison on permaculture in the tropics was shown. The film discussed case studies from Australia, Africa and India. This was followed by a presentation bringing out the main issues in Permaculture. Some of the questions raised during the discussion were:
Complete details of the research can be found at the following link. http://libarynth.org/research_report_sanjeev-shankar


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My man and I decided that we would have a semi-formal event for Christmas this year, instead of giving gifts to everyone. You have to understand that we both have REALLY big families, all of which live within an hours drive. Gift giving can be a little frustrating for me. I never know what to get the guys and it's hard to buy for members of his family when I haven't known them for a full year yet. So, we decided to gather our closest family and friend couples and go to a dinner theater.
There will be a 3-course candle lit dinner, followed by a Christmas comedy on stage. I am so excited and recommend dinner theaters to everyone, even if you don't go near the holidays. Support the Arts. I have already picked out my black dress and jewelry. I am stickler for shoes. It took me all day to find a pair that I liked. I went with a candy apple red stiletto. I just had to have a little color pop in there. I am also wearing a red lipstick. I wanted to look elegant but not like I was attending a funeral.
Sticking to the red, I thought I needed a little more color in between my feet and my face. Not too much but just enough to have a soft theme going on. Also, my dress has short sleeves. It is December and in Tennessee, it can get quite chilly. I had some yarn lying around (don't we all lol), in variegated reds. It's also a slightly fluffy type yarn. Sensations Rainbow Boucle. The yarn matched my reds and would make a beautiful warm accessory.
I searched for something that wasn't going to be too gaudy and overtake my dress. I found the perfect pattern for an Infinity Scarf. Tamara Kelly had posted the pattern at Mooglyblog.com.
Artfully Simple Infinity Scarf
I sat and finished my scarf on Thanksgiving weekend. I had a blast making this. The pattern was so simple and easy to understand. She even provided pictures of different ways to wear the scarf. The end product is beautiful.
As you can see, the pattern is like a web. The scarf is in a large round, which allows you to twist it various ways. I love my new scarf and suggest making one of your own. It's a great easy pattern and makes a wonderful winter accessory for your wardrobe.
So my questions to you are:
- Have you made a fashion item before?
- What other advice for this would you share with others?
Connect with Danielle on her blog CrochettoDani and on Facebook Crochetto.
Leave me your comments below on any other tips you may have? Also, if you have another topic you wish for me to investigate, leave me a comment sharing your ideas too!


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The third annual Viveport Developer Awards is an open contest for VR developers who have been, or will be, published on Viveport Subscription. The Viveport Developer Awards showcase, celebrate and reward VR developers and their VR experiences. There are two sets of categories for the two types of VR titles distributed on Viveport: PC and Mobile.
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In the Viveport Developer Awards, there are four categories for PC titles and three categories for Mobile titles. For each title submitted, developers must select one category for their title to be judged in. The categories are:
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Entertainment: Captivates the player in an engaging world and story. Features interactivity that is satisfying and rewarding. Leaves a lasting impression. Encourages the player to revisit the title again and again. Games and narrative-driven experiences.
Education: Offers immersive and interactive learning experiences for the classroom or outside of it. Sparks curiosity, imagination and passion for intriguing subject matter.
Arts & Culture: Enables, preserves, and democratizes creation in the arts. Addresses a diverse, global audience and contributes to the knowledge and enjoyment of cultural heritage.
PC only
Arcade: Delights customers new to virtual reality. Designed for location-based entertainment considering ease of learning and playtime. A great choice for venues and businesses offering virtual reality experiences.
How are titles entered for consideration in the Viveport Developer Awards?
Developers can submit their titles in the Viveport Developer Console. For PC, titles can enter if they are selected for the "Home/Arcade" business model and target the "PC" platform. For Mobile, titles can enter if they are selected for the "Home/Arcade" business model and target the "Mobile" platform. Under the "Submission" section, you will find the Viveport Developer Awards opt-in under "Program Opt-ins". Check the appropriate box and category and finish the rest of your content submission. In order to enter the Viveport Developer Awards, the title must be opted-in for the Viveport Subscription program. If the title is entering the Arcade category, the title must also be opted-in for the Viveport Arcade program. To officially submit your title, select "Create production release" under the "Submit" tab.
When does the Viveport Developer Awards start and end?
The contest runs from 12:00:00 AM Pacific Time on November 27, 2018. The submission window for content closes on February 1, 2019 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time. The Viveport Developer Awards officially ends on March 18, 2018 with the announcement of the winners.
Am I eligible to enter the Viveport Developer Awards? What countries can participate?
Viveport developers must be registered on the Viveport Developer Console to participate. Developers living in these countries are eligible to enter: United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burma, Cambodia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Slovenia, Uruguay, Vietnam, Mexico, China and Japan. For additional eligibility rules, please see Page 2 of the Terms & Conditions.
Is my title eligible to enter the Viveport Developer Awards?
Most likely, yes. Existing titles on the Viveport store can enter as well as new titles. Titles need to be uploaded and submitted on the Viveport Developer Console by the deadline with the Viveport Developer Awards program opt-in selected. In order to enter the Viveport Developer Awards, the title must be opted-in for the Viveport Subscription program. If the title is entering the Arcade category, the title must also be opted-in for the Viveport Arcade program.
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What are the Terms & Conditions?
The Terms & Conditions for the third annual Viveport Developer Awards can be found here.
Is China included in the Viveport Developer Awards?
Yes. There are no separate Viveport Developer Awards for China for the third annual Viveport Developer Awards and all developers in the eligible countries, including China, can participate.
Will my title be published to the Viveport store?
Yes. If your title passes our review and submission process, the title will be published to Viveport. In order to enter your title for the Viveport Developer Awards, you must submit your title for publishing to the Viveport store.
Does it matter if my title is an app or a game?
No. Apps or games can be submitted for the Viveport Developer Awards. We expect most games to submit to the Entertainment or Arcade categories while apps will appear in all four categories.
Can I enter more than one title in the Viveport Developer Awards?
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How do I receive my prize?
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When wil the finalists be announced? When will they receive the two tickets to the Game Developers Conference? Thanks! @Zztarg
Hi @LJF. We plan to announce the nominees around Feb. 25. Just after, we will allocate the 2 GDC passes. We're still working out the logistics (if we provide a code which can be used at time of registration or if we'll handle registration on the nominee's behalf). Thanks!
In what dev stage does the application need to be? Will Alpha be enough, or needs it to be at least in the Beta or release state to be eligable for entering VDA?
@Marald ,
We'll consider all builds that are publicly published to our storefront by the deadline including alphas and betas. It must be published to the storefront to qualify for consideration. Just bear in mind that you'd be competing against production builds.
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How have you found the response to your first single Caught so far?
Yeah it's been really great! I didn't know what to expect so I'm really grateful for the response. Some great blogs have posted the track which has given it some good attention and especially people who knew about me from my previous EPs have said that they really like this track because it's a little different from the rest of my music. I was a little hesitant putting out a track that was slightly faster than my other stuff but everybody seems to like it.
It is quite a marked difference to your previous music isn't it? Would you say this is indicative of a new sound for the upcoming album?
Ah yes and no. I definitely wanted to try different styles and also mix it up with slower and faster songs on this new album. There's still some tracks that follow the same ethereal, dreamy sound of my previous EP and then there's faster, more kind of indie-pop tracks as well. It's about 50/50. So there is more of a mix this time I guess.
It strikes me that people have quite different interpretations of what this single's about. Some think it's about being "caught" in a destructive relationship and others seem to see it as being "caught" up in another person's presence in a positive way. Can you clear this up for us?
Yeah, I actually just thought it was an interesting concept where I feel like when people say oh you know "I'm caught or I'm trapped" that kind of has a lot of negative connotations. But for me it was actually about being in a relationship where I was feeling caught and I was feeling trapped in the relationship but I was actually really happy about feeling like that for the first time. It was like a celebration you know?
Are your lyrics often based around personal experience? Or is it more a case of telling short stories through them in a way?
I never know cause they just come out! I love to read over them again or listen to a track when it's finished and then you realise – ah actually that probably was about that moment in time or that was me looking back at a particular situation. But at the time that I write it, I don't really think about whether it's about a story as such. I think I definitely write from more of a subconscious level.
You've done a lot of travel through your music in the last couple of years. What parts of the globe has it taken you to and where was the most memorable?
Last year I got an Arts Access Australia Cultivate grant to go overseas. So they paid for me to go and study at Berklee which is a school of music over in Boston. A lot of great singers that I admire have been there so I really wanted to go there. I did a summer school semester there and then I also traveled over to Europe and did some shows over in New York as well.
I think the most memorable experiences were the one's that were not planned. One really surreal experience that stands out in my mind was performing in Central Park in New York. There was this piano set up out in the park and people gathered around and it was just really amazing! I actually sold a lot copies of my EP that day!
Hayden Calnin produces on your new album and you've been working with him a lot. How did this partnership come about?
Ah I discovered Hayden on Unearthed a couple of years ago and just fell in love with the sound he creates through his own music. Then I tracked him down and got him to support one of my shows. I guess it's just a mutual respect for each other. We just seemed to like a lot of the same music. So I asked him whether he'd be interested in doing a track together so we did a track called Ghost where we co-wrote the song and that's kind of fueled, I guess, the future for us because then I asked him to produce my EP and now my album.
I love working with Hayden. It's just a really easy relationship and sometimes we just don't even need to talk because we know that we're on the same path and that we're thinking the same things. It just always seems that we never have any disagreements in the studio as to the sound because we're definitely on the same wavelength.
I understand you've been collaborating with many other artists including Ainslie Wills and Texture Like Sun. Does the new album feature any of these guys?
Um yeah so I did some co-writing with Ainslie Wills. She's an amazing singer-songwriter and there was also a guy called Tim Gordine from the UK and he's actually a co-writer with Matt Corby. Then there's Mark Pearl from Texture Like Sun and he's the only artist that featured on one of the tracks on the album which is a bit of a duet. I'm actually thinking about putting that out as the next song… it's my favourite on the album.
Is songwriting a solitary process for you or do you write with others?
I think a bit of both. Individual writing is probably still my favourite. There's just no other feeling. You know where you're completely on your own and you're writing… it's kind of like my favourite thing about singing when you're singing on your own… it's quite personal and it's what I really enjoy about music. But I also love writing with other people. I think it's just a different feel you know. There's slightly more pressure in the air because you've only got a certain amount of time to write but then sometimes that can spark a lot of inspiration and it's good to bounce ideas off each other and be inspired by each other.
Is there a particular musician you'd really love to work with?
I'd love to work with Sia. That would be a dream come true. I love that she's not afraid to state that, you know, she just wants to put out music without performing. I think that takes a lot of guts to actually admit that it is an anxious process to get on stage. I love that about her as well as her voice and her music as well.
How would you describe your music to someone who'd never heard it before?
I have no idea! To like, an older person like my mum I might say it's sort of soulful pop. But for a younger person I guess ethereal, dreamy with pop, electronic and acoustic elements. Yeah it's hard to sum up!
Who is on stage with you during a live performance?
We're a four-piece band. It's always the same musicians. I'm really lucky to have a backup singer and keyboardist. Her name's Nat Lewis and she performs with Ainslie Wills as well. And then I have Jeremy Hopkins who's a great Melbourne drummer then Dylan Hill who is another artist in his own right and he does a little bit of electronics. He actually makes the live set a little bit different to the CD I guess because he adds his own flavour. So it's really great having him on stage with me.
You're doing a single launch at the Toff in Town in Melbourne this Saturday. What can fans expect from that?
Yeah I can't wait! All brand new songs and I'm going to have some special guests up on stage with me. We've got supports from Lanks and Texture Like Sun so I think it's gonna be a great night!
So your debut album, The Bones Of Us, is due for release in 2015. What's next for you after this?
I guess more shows. Definitely a tour with the album and then I'd like to head overseas eventually again and do some more shows over in Europe and the US and then I guess back into the studio writing again. Keep going!
And finally, just for fun, If you could be a musician in any other era, which time period would you choose?
Ooh definitely the Woodstock days! Like Janis Joplin! I just love her so much. I think it's be really fun to be part of that scene!


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Today we have sunshine!
After a weekend of endless rain, it is nice to see the sun again!
As I mentioned in my last post, sunflowers are always a spot of brightness for me on grey days.
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Maybush Library
Maybush Library was situated in Wimpson Lane near to the Maybush public house. It was built in 1951 and was opened by the mayor, Mrs M. Cutler, in 1952. It was a pre-fabricated structure and was intended only to be a temporary library until a larger permanent library could be built in the area. It was closed down in 1965 and demolished to make way for extensions to the Ordnance Survey's new headquarters. A children's service was continued in St. Peter's Church Hall off Romsey Road for a time.
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Hi all, Problem: There's no way to specify a separator string in the draft GROUP_CONCAT aggregate. I have a vague memory that we'd discussed this briefly somewhere, F2F2, or on a call maybe, but it's pretty hazy. This was brought up in Rob Vesse's recent comment. Proposal 1: Leave it as it is. Users cannot specify the separator character, it's fixed in the spec. Upside, very simple. Downside, might limit usefulness. Probably should make sure there's an escaping function in SPARQL 1.1 that's compatible with the character. Proposal 2: If the GROUP_CONCAT expression list has more than one element, then the lexically last one is removed and used as the separator before being passed to the Aggregation() algebra function. e.g. GROUP_CONCAT(? x, ?y, "|") Upside, keeps the grammar simple. Downside makes the algebra around GROUP_CONCAT weird, might be surprising as the multi-expression behaviour will be different to other aggregates. e.g. in GROUP_CONCAT(?x, ?y) ?y will be an argument to the underlying function, not an expression. Would probably have to pick a value of ?y to random, a la SAMPLE(), as we don't require that "arguments" to aggregates are scalar. Proposal 3: Use MySQL syntax to specify it, i.e. GROUP_CONCAT(?x, ?y SEPARATOR "|"). Upside, the same as MySQL (where GROUP_CONCAT comes from), avoids weirding algebra. Downside, makes the grammar more complex. Proposal 4: Like 3, but with some other explicit syntax. e.g. GROUP_CONCAT(?x, ?y) [SEPARATOR "|"] Upside, avoids weirding algebra. Downside, we have to think of our own syntax, no familiarity for MySQL users and probably makes the grammar more complex. --- My opinion: I'd take 3, or 1 happily, but I think 4 is a bit arbitrary, and 2 is really nasty. There's also other useful syntax around GROUP_CONCAT, e.g. ORDER BY, so I expect a future SPARQL will end up with something like 3 or 4 anyway. - Steve -- Steve Harris, Garlik Limited 2 Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AE, UK +44 20 8973 2465 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9ADReceived on Friday, 5 March 2010 11:41:16 UTC
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