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The Wildcat Leadership Institute (WLI) is committed to the development, practice, and recognition of leadership opportunities for our Chico State community. Our campus and local community offer several experiences for students, faculty, and staff to advance their leadership skills. Through creation, collaboration, and promotion, the WLI can connect YOU to these opportunities and better equip YOU to lead on campus, in our community, and in the workplace.
Our signature Wildcat Leadership Institute programs include:
Launch Experience for Transfer Success (LET'S) Program
The Launch Experience for Transfer Success is a semester-long program designed specifically for transfer students. Participants network with alumni and employers, connect with campus resources and develop a personalized plan to achieve their career goals. Participants also earn one of the WLI leadership certificates. Click to learn more about LET'S and to apply.
Freshman Leadership Opportunity (FLO)
FLO is a year-long program designed for freshmen who want to get involved in the Chico State campus and community. Students make connections with FLO participants, discover their leadership interests, and engage in leadership opportunities across campus. Participants also earn one of the WLI leadership certificates. Click here to learn more about FLO and to apply.
WLI Certificate Program
The WLI offers multiple semester-long certificate programs. Participants develop leadership skills that employers seek when they recruit at Chico State, and they network with alumni and employers. Students who complete 4 WLI Certificates become members of the 1887 Leadership Society. Click to learn more about which Certificates are offered during Spring 2019 and to apply.
WLI Speaker Series
The WLI Speaker Series features speakers and alumni from all backgrounds and experiences that share their leadership expertise and advice with our Chico State students, faculty, and staff. These events are open to the entire campus community.
LeadCat is a one-day event before the start of the fall semester that exposes first-year and transfer students to ways to get involved across campus and in our Chico community. Participants engage in activities to help them connect with each other and current student leaders. Click to learn more about LeadCat 2019. To apply, please stay tuned and come back later.
"Women Like You" Leadership Symposium
The "Women Like You" Leadership Symposium gathers the campus community with distinguished female leaders to share stories and discuss topics designed to inspire and empower all. With highlights from our own, Chico State faculty and staff will tell their personal stories of success and failure, sharing their journeys of resilience and rise as a woman in today's social climate as we celebrate women in all stages of their careers.


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When Grammy-winning singer Carrie Underwood gets her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, the guest speakers will be two people who have been major participants in her TV career—former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell and Underwood's longtime CMA Awards co-host Brad Paisley. Underwood was the winner of "American Idol" in 2005, and Cowell was a judge on the show from 2002 to 2010.
It's Cowell's second time at a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony this year. He received his own Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Aug. 13. The Walk of Fame ceremony
Underwood and Paisley are co-hosting the CMA Awards again this year, with the ceremony taking place Nov. 14 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. ABC will have the U.S. telecast of the show.
Underwood's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony will take place at 11:30 a.m. PT in front of the Capitol Records building at 1750 N. Vine Street. After spending most of her career at Sony Music, Underwood signed to Universal Music's Capitol Nashville in 2017. Her first Capitol Nashville album, Cry Pretty, is set for release Sept. 14. She recently shared lyric videos for album tracks for "Love Wins" and "End Up With You." The "Love Wins" video premiered on Apple Music. Underwood embarks on a North American tour in 2019 in support of the album. As previously reported, the tour was postponed to begin after she gives birth to her second child.

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Write a humorous listing for eBay or Craig's List. Talk about the history of the items, why they must go.
Seattle/Eastide Tales
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Goodbye Yellow and Green...So Long You Quack of a Duck...
Write a humorous listing for eBay or Craig's List. Talk about the history of the items, why they must go.
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Burst of Freedom...
Saturday, February 19, 2011
One Saturday...
I sit in the car, sipping on a white mocha and listening to classical music and I feel like this is the best thing ever. My shoulders are relaxed and I'm feeling good. I need to remember to give The Husband a hug when I get home for agreeing to let me have this time.
This is officially my writing time - I have set up a weekly schedule and I am beginning to put it into practice. Though, today, I ran behind for couple of reasons - late start, hubby needed to take a shower, a grocery errand run. It becomes very obvious to me that I need to plan better: have the breakfast groceries set the night before; get up earlier and leave the house earlier…
So this week the alloted 2 hours for writing will become 45 minutes. But I live and learn.
What this time alone is causing me to realize too is how important "me" time is. Just the difference an hour to myself makes - I'm a more alert and better Mama. I'll need to talk to the husband about this. Set up a schedule. I believe he needs some "me" time to. It would make him a happier man and he deserves it. He does an amazing job taking care of his family.
Almost twelve hours and one classmate's birthday party later, the highlights being that my 5 year old became excited over Skee-Ball. It reminded him of bowling and he couldn't help but play it over and over, and the 3 year old burying his head in my husband's jacket because he feared Chuck E. Cheese, the Mouse. He was looking over his shoulder the entire time we were at Chuck E Cheese, keeping an eye out for the giant mouse.
Now I sit here listening to the baby cry. It's painful, moreso because I know he's not feeling well. He's congested, has a fever and most likely is finding it hard to sleep because it's hard to breathe. Usually we let him cry it out but I'm not sure if I will hold to that tonight, as much as I want him to sleep on his own.
He just quieted down somewhat.
The hubby is on his iPad. We're watching the history channel to his delight. I'm a little preoccupied with my birthday gift that my amazing mother bought me. I just opened the box she sent today. The Nook. What gets me giddy is all the discounted books I can download and have at my fingertips. The bookworm within me shouts for joy. Though, of course, the Nook will never take the place of an actual book in my mind and heart, I do love the convenience of being able to get a book almost instantly.
It was a good day. The older boys are sleeping soundly, exhausted. Here's wishing the same for my sick little one. I think I'm going to go check on him now.
This is a day I had about two weeks ago. It is recorded in my 365 blog journal - a daily journal that I have been keeping to record those daily moments, thoughts and happenings. Feel free to visit.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Found - A Handkerchief
Monday, February 14, 2011
"Just Because I Love You" Day
Friday, February 11, 2011
I Could Never Have Imagined...
"My father loves you, you know," Cameron says. Cameron is the thirteen year old son of my current boyfriend, Alex. We are driving home from a movie. It was good bonding time for Cameron and me. At Cameron's words, I grip the steering wheel as my heart does a little flip. I focus on the road in front of me.
"He loved Amber, too," I say. Amber was Alex's ex-girlfriend of 5 years.
"Your father loves easily."
"Is that so bad?"
I shrug. "I guess not, if you look at it in a certain light." It is what makes Alex such a natural romantic - I think.
"Love is good," Cameron says.
"It is. You're lucky to have a Dad who adores you."
"I know. Though he can get a little crazy sometimes. All nervous and sensitive over nothing, you know?"
"Well, you know those actor types," I joke. Alex is an actor.
Cameron laughs. We often joke about his Dad's profession.
"Or should I say those Dad types," I added.
Cameron chuckles and I smile. Suddenly the image of my father - tall, brown-skinned in his long, black wool coat appears before me. Sadness pools in my chest. Suddenly I am seeing my mother with her long, straight hair with the golden brown highlights standing next to him. They are dressed in their Sunday finest. Tears threaten to spill from my eyes. Funny, how clearly I remember them, fifteen years after they died.
They had loved me just as much as Cameron's dad loved him - with that fierce, fierce love. And I loved them back just as fiercely. I was their only child.
Suddenly, I realize in the moment that I love Alex just that strongly and that I am truly beginning to love Cameron in that way, too. I haven't felt a love like that for anyone since my parents. I smile at my Mom's gentle face as she smiles back at me. I could hear a voice.
"Kayla! Kayla!" It is Cameron.
"Kayla, watch out! That guy's driving right towards us!"
The vision of my parents clears and I see a white Ferrari speeding towards us in our lane. He is going the wrong way.
What? I turn the steering wheel, causing the car to swerve to the right, off the road and onto hard dirt. The car jumps a little, then hits something hard. I feel a vibration through the steering wheel and the car begins to flip over. I think of Alex.
Then the whole world shifted.
Constructive criticism welcomed.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Feels A Little Like High School...An Update
Sorry this not coming to you sooner. Real life got in the way - a sick baby, a sick preschooler, a sick hubby, school projects, etc. I'm sure you can all relate. Life gets in the way. You know it's funny what happens when you get what you wish for. I just wanted to be read by fellow bloggers and to get comments when they do and here I received about 75+ of your gorgeous comments in one day! Now comes finding the time to respond through all the other things that pop up in one's day. There in lies the reality. But it's a cool reality (though a bit stressful in moments) and I can't wait to pop by and visit with you soon.
I have to say a wonderful "thank you" to The Empress...for her gentle heart and her desire to encourage this newbie. She is definitely "cool" people. Also, thanks to all of you who responded for all your lovely comments and advice and for wrapping your virtual arms around me. The advice - So helpful. I'm feeling a bit more equipped now. Have a little game plan going...will be picking your brains for more advice as I continue to navigate through these blog waters...
More importantly, thanks for all your honesty and vulnerability when it came to sharing. I have to say more than ever, I really do feel like I'm part of new-found community. To be able to share like this, and have what I've expressed be understood and not shot down. It's encouraging to know that I am not the only one who can feel this way at times. The empathy means so much - more so than even the advice - which I am taking and will gladly take, by the way. :-))
Like in high school - in rare moments - when I found that group of friends, I had the sense that I belonged - that it was a good fit. Thanks to your comments, I'm feeling this way again - having found a group of new blog friends. I feel we're just clicking which leaves me excited because I get to visit you on your blogs and build on our blog friendship.
Thanks again for stopping by and putting in your 2 cents. This girl appreciates it. And look for me, because I definitely will be popping by to visit with you soon, because as I mentioned two days ago, reading new blogs and making new blog friends just makes me giddy.
I can't wait to come knocking at your "door".
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Feels A Little Like High School...
Has anyone felt like this when it comes to blogging? Is there a blog "in-crowd"? How do you cope with the insecurities? Definitely share, this new blogger would love to know...
Friday, February 4, 2011
What Kind Of Plane Does A Rabbit Fly?
Dana smiles wearily as she watches him. He couldn't wait to tell her. It was obvious. She looks over at 3 year old, Reese, sitting across from Nate, rolling his tanker truck around in a circle. The very opposite of his brother, Reese is quietly engrossed in his own game.
Dana sighs and shifts ten-month old, Ian, from her left hip to her right. She dips her head out of the way of her baby's chubby, wet-from-drool fingers as he tries to reach for her long braid.
"What?" she asks as she reaches up into the kitchen cabinet and pulls out the blue box of pasta off the shelf.
"A hare plane!" Nate shouts, cracking himself up. His laughter echoes throughout the room as he spins in a circle. "A hare plane!" He then starts jumping up and down.
"Ahhh…" Dana says, sighs again and turns back to the stove.
Of course - she thinks. She smiles as she moves the pot of water she filled five minutes ago onto the stove. She then turns around again and faces her excited son.
"Very funny joke," she says, trying to be encouraging as she dips her head, yet again away from her baby's fingers. If only she could put him down for a few minutes without him fussing – she thinks.
She watches as Nate continues jumping up and down all over the family room like a deranged monkey. He begins traveling the length of the small family room. He stops abruptly and screams "Whoa!" as he steps on a small red fire truck toy. The truck pops up from under his foot, sails across the space and hits Reese in the forehead, bouncing off and finally landing on the floor next to him.
Reese freezes, then grabs his forehead with both hands. His eyes scrunch close as his mouth goes wide.
Dana sighs inwardly. No.
"Aaaah…." Reese begins to wail. "Aaah!"
"Ugh," Dana groans.
She walks away from the stove and out of the kitchen as Ian yanks her braid.
"Ow!" she shouts.
"Get it, Mommy, get it? A hare plane." Nate starts spinning around in a circle again.
Dana places the baby in his playpen, delicately untangling his fingers from her hair.
She walks over to the wailing Reese and pulls him into her arms. She starts rocking him gently.
"It's okay, sweetie. It's okay." She gently moves his hands away and rubs the injured spot. She then leans forward and kisses it.
"Mommy? A hare plane! Isn't that funny?" Nate asks. "Isn't it?"
"Yes!" Dana says, impatiently. "I get it. I get it. Nate, you just hit Reese in the forehead with the fire truck. Can you say 'sorry'?"
"Sorry, Reese! A hare plane, Mommy. A hare plane!" He cracks up again, his laughter filling the room as Reese's wails grow louder, competing with the laughter as if in a dueling sound war.
The wall of sound surrounding her, Dana sighs again and shakes her head, as she continues to rock the wailing Reese. She looks towards the clock on the microwave oven.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Just A Little Personal...
So a warning: I may do just that - from time to time, share some of those personal journal entries here, on my main blog.
Day 1 February 1, 2011: 3 Degrees Below Zero
We're below zero here today. It's so cold that school districts around Colorado have closed their schools. Ours - the Boulder Valley School District - has followed suit so both my 5 year old and my 3 year old are home from school. It's kind of like a snow day but moe because it's a cold day.
Of course while I was in the midst of writing this, my 3 year old who is supposed to be napping, runs out of his room and to the table where my 5 year old is playing games on the computer. I'm in my bedroom wondering why he is out of his. He can only leave it if it's for one reason: he needs to go potty. I leave my bedroom to ask him what is going on and no sooner do I say the word 'potty' he pees on himself. That familiar frustration sweeps through me and I can't help but be annoyed. I really don't want to be annoyed. The fact that he didn't go straight to the bathroom is the primary source of my annoyance.
"You know better!" are the words that come out of my mouth. I know better too not to get too upset but then I do. Of course there were tears on his end and guilt mixed in with a little frustration on my end. My frustration aimed partly at myself for getting so upset at my child - especially this child who is the most happy-go-lucky child 95% of the time. I don't want to do anything to ruin that joyful disposition of his.
He's back in his room now - most likely sleeping. All is quiet on that side of the house as my 10 month old sleeps in his room (thank goodness!). My 5 year old is asleep in my bed across from me. All is quiet on this side of the house as well. A rarity. Thank you, God for these unexpected quiet moments. I'm tempted to unhook the phone. These quiet moments are too special to ruin.


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I was born at the end of a rainbow.
Okay, not exactly. As far as I know, there were no leprechauns or pots of gold present for my birth. But Palau is called – in affectionate marketing terms – The Rainbow's End. Google one image and you'll see why.
I have my free spirit chef parents to thank for my unconventional childhood, growing up in tropical places most people had never heard of – Palau and Yap for my first 13 years – and experiencing an alternative to the "normal" our extended Canadian family lived, the "normal" many might say I missed out on.
My "normal" has been a series of contrasts and odd juxtapositions by virtue of the countries in which I grew up. I didn't see snow till I was 17, but I'd already lived through a couple of typhoons. I didn't know how to use a subway token when I left home for college, but I'd already traveled on an airplane alone. I grew up without cable TV, McDonald's, or shopping malls, and instead had books, homecooked meals, and Amazon orders. I could barely say my name in French – I know, what a bad Canadian – but could understand my classmates speaking Palauan and would sing along to their country's national anthem. Toys didn't last long in my "normal" – the metal ones always rusted in the humidity and the plastic ones always went brittle in the heat; the film inside VHS tapes always went mouldy eventually. On rare vacations back to the motherland – my mother's land – I would marvel at my aunt and uncle's crawlspace in British Columbia, because basements didn't exist in my world, and I longed to have an attic bedroom, because what could be cooler than that? I never liked fresh milk 'cause I grew up with UHT, and I could never quite process how people in Canada could leave candy on a cupboard shelf, instead of in the fridge, and somehow it would never melt or be swarmed by ants.
And shoes. I didn't grow up wearing a lot of shoes. Barefoot was my default, and flip-flops my go-to shoe, when shoes were required; real shoes were an inconvenience. And socks? Forget it. They just meant an instant, sweltering heat that made your skin crawl with itchy tightness. No, socks and closed-toe shoes were reserved for the dreaded days when the school said they were a must, or the not-at-all-dreaded days when travel was going to happen, because airports + airplanes = socks and shoes.
Now, flip-flops, flip-flops were where it was at! You had your everyday flip-flops, usually a solid colour like red or green, for school, and a fancier pair, maybe with rafia or beads that Mum probably ordered from Newport News, for going out, and then as a backup, a stiff pair in a garish neon or stripe that you never liked but Mum kept around just in case the rubber strap on your everyday pair busted.
To this day, my feet don't like shoes. They fight to fit into them and are almost never comfortable when they do. They scream for air to breathe and beg for room to stretch. They stick out their little toes to protest being confined, and when they really want to battle, they have a brigade of sweat, odour, calluses, and blisters standing ready at the front lines. On particularly angry days, they'll bring out the big guns – ingrown toenails.
My feet never let me forget this cold country isn't where they were born, but my soul overrides their desire to run back to the sand. So we compromise on the shoes and wear them only when necessary, stripping off all traces as soon as we can. I've journeyed from sand to snow and back again, and now I'm doing it once more. Snow is going to be my home, but there will always be sand between my toes.


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Use this checklist to help your business maintain and improve the health and welfare of your herd. It has been developed in conjunction with the BCVA and CHeCS to improve purchase decisions.
The CHeCS Johne's programme has changed to a graded system which is designed to enable herds to maintain or move towards clear herd tests.
The farmer's guide to tackling the disease.


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Patient Assistance Program provides dental services, dental health education and emergency care to children and adults who otherwise could not afford them. United Way also supports the sliding fee scale. The Farmington dental center is located next to Franklin Memorial Hospital.
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Chris Gaffney's Temples of the Earthbound Gods led the FSF fall lineup, introducing a geographer's perspective to our group.
His book establishes the stadium as a unique analytical tool for understanding football, the city, and society. Temples is ambitious in its temporal and thematic scope, incorporating analysis on race, masculinity, and class in a comparative perspective.
Gaffney treated us to anecdotes from his experiences in Brazil and Argentina, including attending a particularly violent Sacachispas match in the Argentine fourth division. (See FSF Forum member David Keyes's review of a documentary made on Sacachispas FC here) Questions touched on the structure of the book, using Chris's stadium method elsewhere, and Argentine masculinity. Participants: David Keyes, David Roberts, Alex Galarza, Peter Alegi
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I have a cutie who decided to run track and field this year. She loves to run, but has never done it competitively. Yesterday was the day to get her feet wet. Yesterday was the first track meet of the season. This just happens to be the day of our excursion to see Nicolas Sparks at the nearest university. So she is listed to run the 200m. This particular race is on the docket as the second to the last race.
So Mom is out at the track, hoping her little girl runs soon so we can boogy away quickly to the one thing she really would like to see.
The meet moves along very well. Before I know it they are announcing the 200m heat and I see her saunter over to the start. I have the settings on my camera ready and waiting.
I can't believe it. There she is running with all her heart.
To me she looks so awesome. Running like a regular track star. Here she comes.
Love the intensity on her face. She is determined.
Then there is the friend at the end of the race. She and a teammate walk back to the coach. They seem so calm and collected.
You would never know she was an absolute nervous wreck before she ran. I never see her nervous. She met two young ladies from another team and they set her ease. Sports is great for making new friends.
I am so proud of her. We made our date with Nicolas Sparks with minutes to spare as well.
Sports participation is a little piece of my heaven.


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Great Dark North: An Interview with Tomb Mold
As the home of Cryptopsy, Beyond Creation, and Kataklysm, it's clear that Canada has a lot of death metal to offer the world. Tomb Mold...
Canada's metal scene is as vibrant as it is underappreciated. Not just the home of Kataklysm, Voivod and Strapping Young Lad, it also has a thriving underground. That is what inspired Indy Metal Vault to debut Great Dark North, your resource for all things Canadian and metal.
Welcome to the first Northern Rundown, where we run through the best material to come out of the Great White North this week! Well, we say this week, but as this is the first edition of Northern Rundown, we're going to have to be playing a bit of catch-up. Here's some of the best Canadian metal to grace our ears in the last while!


text: Due to the cheap and flexible framework that the underlying IP-technology of the internet provides, IP-networks are becoming popular in more and more contexts. For instance, telecommunication operators have started to replace the fixed legacy telephony networks with IP-networks. To support a smooth transition towards IP-networks, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was standardized. SCTP is used to carry telephony signaling traffic, and solves a number of problems that would have followed from using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in this context. However, the design of SCTP is still heavily influenced by TCP. In fact, many protocol mechansisms in SCTP are directly inherited from TCP. Unfortunately, many of these mechanisms are not adapted to the kind of traffic that SCTP is intended to transport: time critical message-based traffic, e.g. telephony signaling.In this thesis we examine, and adapt some of SCTPs mechanisms to more efficiently transport time critical message-based traffic. More specifically, we adapt SCTPs loss recovery and message bundling for timely message transfers. First, we propose and experimentally evaluate two loss recovery mechanisms: a packet-based Early Retransmit algorithm, and a modified retransmission timeout management algorithm. We show that these enhancements can reduce loss recovery times with at least 30 50%, in some scenarios. In addition, we adapt the message bundling of SCTP to better support timely message delivery. The proposed bundling algorithm can in some situations reduce the transfer time of a message with up to 70%.In addition to these proposals we also indentify and report mistakes in some of the most popular SCTP implementations. Furthermore, we have continuously developed the network emulation software KauNet to support our experimental evaluations


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Mike Peterson & The Gang
Mike Peterson, George Evans, Dan Lundy, and crew get some at Monument Skatepark in Jacksonville.
Ben Eubank "Idiosyncratic" Throwaway
Ben Eubank's "throwaway" footy from Idiosyncratic, a full-length in the works from Troy Vetri.
Raw Timmy Knuth Clips
Terry LaRue has a sick little edit of some raw Timmy Knuth clips for your viewing pleasure.
Filmed and Edited by Terry LaRue
Lo-Fi | Brendan Carroll – Bonus
Brendan Carroll "Bonus" footage from the Lo-Fi Video. Buy yourself a copy.
Brad Cromer lo-fi Bonus
Brad Cromer has one of the smoothest styles out. His "Bonus" footage from his recent video project lo-fi is ridiculous. Almost 8 minutes worth of it…I've already watched it three times. Seriously, you don't want to miss this. Buy a copy of the full-length video at www.lofiskateboarding.com for $10. Enjoy. – Nicks
Citified Skateboards brings you CITIFIED FUN #2 out of West Palm.
SLAP Magazine | GX 1000 #5
The Floridians are killing it out west in GX 1000 #5 from SLAP Magazine.
Filmed and Edited by Ryan Garshell.
Midtown Skatepark | Clip of the Week #9 – Tre Greenlee
Midtown Skatepark's Clip of the Week #9 features local ripper Tre Greenlee.
Filmed and Edited by Kevin Perez
Citified in Tally
The Citified Skateboards crew spent the weekend in Tallahassee and came away with a sick little montage of throwaway footy.


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How to Force Quit VLC on Debian 10
How do you force quit an unresponsive VLC application on a Debian 10 operating system?
You kill the application by first finding what PID (Process Identifier) it's currently running on with the
ps aux | grep vlc command. And then you can use the
sudo kill -9 PID command to kill the application.
The first step is to open a new terminal window (
Then, we need to get the process id VLC is currently running on. You can get that information with this command:
$ ps aux | grep vlc
This will output info on any of the processes currently running VLC on your machine. The output will look similar to this:
username 20296 0.2 0.3 1243700 63276 ? Sl 19:51 0:00 /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file
The first number (
20296 in the example output above) is the PID that we need for our next command to kill the process.
Here is the command to kill the VLC application using the PID (replace the yellow text with your PID):
sudo kill -9 PID
That will completely kill your VLC application on that process.
You now know how to kill a VLC application on a Debian 10 machine.
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Category Archives: RNC
Over 800 arrested during the RNC in St Paul this week.
This total also includes numerous media personnel like Amy Goodman, Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films and Democracy Now! producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous who was also arrested earlier in the week while covering one of the numerous protests and rally's.
Not all protesters arrested were violent or anarchists, don't let the mutha fuckas in the St Paul law enforcement community fool you. From a St. Paul media outlet regarding the final night of the convention:
Among those arrested were two Associated Press reporters covering the event. They were issued a citation and detained, along with a KARE-11 TV photographer and more than a dozen other members of the media. All were released later in the evening.
Amy Goodman and her producer and assistant are still being 'processed' as protesters, even though they have press credentials. They have been released from jail.
Funny how that works for the progressive press ain't it?
Vetting? We don't need no stinking vetting!!!
At least according to OpenLeft. They link to a NYT writeup that headlines the following: Palin Disclosures Raise Questions on Vetting. From OpenLeft:
A new NY Times story reveals that a GOP vetting team only arrived in Alaska the day before Palin's nomination was announced–and the same day that McCain offered her the position. Thus, there was no vetting of her before she was selected, contrary to what the GOP has been saying since questions started being raised about her.
Hmmmm. The GOP lying about its secretive VP candidate. Who'da thunk it?
Who'da thunk it? Why isn't it a signature of the Republican party? As OpenLeft states, this is a question of judgment..McCain's and his advisor's. From the NYT writeup:
Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin's background. A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice. The campaign was still calling Republican operatives as late as Sunday night asking them to go to Alaska to deal with the unexpected candidacy of Ms. Palin.
Although the McCain campaign said that Mr. McCain had known about Bristol Palin's pregnancy before he asked her mother to join him on the ticket and that he did not consider it disqualifying, top aides were vague on Monday about how and when he had learned of the pregnancy, and from whom.
While there was no sign that her formal nomination this week was in jeopardy, the questions swirling around Ms. Palin on the first day of the Republican National Convention, already disrupted by Hurricane Gustav, brought anxiety to Republicans who worried that Democrats would use the selection of Ms. Palin to question Mr. McCain's judgment and his ability to make crucial decisions.
At the least, Republicans close to the campaign said it was increasingly apparent that Ms. Palin had been selected as Mr. McCain's running mate with more haste than McCain advisers initially described.
Its as apparent as the nose on anyone's face folks…and they can continue to lie about it but more and more folks just ain't buying it.
Click the graphic for larger image..its a hoot! 😉
Gestapo tactics-Amy Goodman, journalist, arrested at RNC.
Watch it…amazing..simply fucking amazing. Facism anyone?
From the email from DN and off their site:
Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfully detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman's crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. They are currently being held at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul.
Democracy Now! is calling on all journalists and concerned citizens to call the office of Mayor Chris Coleman and the Ramsey County Jail and demand the immediate release of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar. These calls can be directed to: Chris Rider from Mayor Coleman's office at 651-266-8535 and the Ramsey County Jail at 651-266-9350 (press extension 0).
Democracy Now! stands by Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar and condemns this action by Twin Cities law enforcement as a clear violation of the freedom of the press and the First Amendment rights of these journalists.
During the demonstration in which they were arrested law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force. Several dozen others were also arrested during this action.
Amy Goodman is one of the most well-known and well-respected journalists in the United States. She has received journalism's top honors for her reporting and has a distinguished reputation of bravery and courage. The arrest of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar is a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists from the nation's leading independent news outlet.
Democracy Now! is a nationally syndicated public TV and radio program that airs on over 700 radio and TV stations across the US and the globe.
Outrageous! Criminal even..
Tags: Amy Goodman, Amy Goodman arrested at RNC, Freedom of the Press
The RNC ready to claim Executive Privilege
From Jason Leopold and TruthOut come this story:
The Republican National Committee said it will not abide by a subpoena and turn over documents to a Congressional committee investigating the firings of at least eight US attorneys last year because the RNC is waiting to see if the White House will assert executive privilege over RNC documents at the center of the controversy, according to an outside law firm retained by the RNC.
The White House has asserted executive privilege to block senior administration officials from testifying before Congress about their involvement in the decision to fire the federal prosecutors. Moreover, the White House has cited executive privilege in declining to turn over specific documents to Congress that may shed further light on the circumstances behind the attorney firings. The US attorneys believe they were fired for partisan political reasons. In some instances, the US attorneys said they were pressured by Republican lawmakers and RNC operatives to file criminal charges against Democrats at the center of public corruption probes prior to last year's midterm election as well as individual cases of voter fraud, which the attorneys said was based on weak evidence, in order to cast a dark cloud over Democratic incumbents and swing election results toward Republican challengers
Hell, isn't everything Executive Privilege by now under King George? We need Congress to move their ass..but wait..they are on vacation..never mind.


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Horror title Outlast recently came to the Nintendo Switch eShop and according to the developers it was a fairly easy process. It apparently only took a fewweeks for the team to port the Unreal Engine 3 title to Nintendo's latest system. Impressive stuff.
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If they can port this game with almost no sacrifices at all in just WEEKS, many third parties should take notes from these guys on how effort and time is done. It's like some questionable ports haven't taken much seriousness on their work. Doom could've looked better for portable mode and Rime couldn't have been screwed at launch.
Exactly. Now I'm curious of how much time Toby Fox needs to bring Undertale on the Switch and also I want to see all the FNAF game on the Switch
Yeah me too
I know it cannot be difficult to port it and that the Switch can run it. Look at Doom who many thought wasn't possible to port over.
I think Jeff and his team wants to do a good port of OW with 60 fps. The resolution to me is irrelevant but they can do a option of more resolution and less FPS or more FPS and less resolution like in FEW
They can do what Panic is gonna do for Rocket League: Offer Performance and Quality modes. In fact, I think Nintendo Switch should natively support that feature in the console itself.
Although I must ask out of curiosity. If the Switch had 6GB RAM instead of 4GB but have 5.1-5.2GB total to use for the games like the other consoles, do you think the games would look/run better?
The games will run faster if Switch have 6 GB of ram
So, 60FPS almost universally?
I don't think so. For have 60 fps it not only depends on how much RAM the console, there are also
– Level of Details of the objects
– Lights, how a console threat a light.
– Textures
– How the camera render everything.
-The hardware in the console how can control or simulate the physics and so on.
There are so many things to check and control for have a good 60 fps.
What if it has Tegra X2 with 6GB RAM?
The hardware can probably have 60 fps but you are pointing on the hardware side. You have also to think how a software handle these resources for have 60 fps but a Tegra X2 can handle more complex graphic elements
Well hopefully the updated model in a few years has those or maybe X3 when it's ready before then.
I prefer to see an update version of the Switch in 2020 or 2021
Most likely 2020.
Who knows. Only Nintendo will answer us but for now we need to see FE, MP4, Yoshi, Bayo 3 ans Smash 5
Don't forget GTA5.
The amount of RAM will generally have absolutely zero effect on frame rate unless a games frame rate is low from constantly ready from the cartridge or hard drive.
What matters more is memory speed and the speed of the shader ALUs. The TX1 is bandwidth limited, that's why many games that run at 720p in handheld mode (at 307.2Mhz) can't run at that same frame rate at 1080p despite having enough of a clock increase. If Switch had 4GB of 3733MT/s or 4266MT/s memory than it would more frequently hit high frame rates or high resolutions.
The TX2 is only has about 30-50% faster shader performance than the TX1 so any 30fps or sub-30fps games on Switch that are shader limited wouldn't run at 60fps. The TX2's biggest strength is that it has a 128-bit wide memory controller. That's partly what allows it to support more memory but it also allows it to have over twice as much memory. Keep in mind though that taking advantage of that would require using more memory chips which uses more power.
Still, none of this means that a dev has to run there games at 1080p at 60fps. Developers could opt to instead increase the amount of effects. In the case of WWE 2k18, it entrances frequently run at 13-20fps with gameplay in multi-man matches topping out at 20fps with 8-man matches being removed entirely. It also has a dynamic resolution that can sit at 540p most of the time and this is all just in docked mode. It needs the kinds of boosts the TX2 can offer just to hit 720p30 more frequently. If it did hit that performance goal easily, they would sooner add ambient occlusion than pursue higher frame rates or resolutions.
If a game is CPU limited on Switch than I don't have much to day on that front. If they used the A57 cores in the TX2 then it would probably get a small boost just because its manufactured on a 16nm process but I can't speak for the Denver cores, I just know they weren't received well in the past.
Really part of the issue is that, by choosing Nvidia, Nintendo chose a company whose chips have never really been impressive in the mobile space. TX1 was a 20nm chip coming out at a time when 16nm chips were already coming out which is why it was kicked from its top spot only 3 months after release. The TX2 was a 16nm chip coming out when 10nm chips were being released. Now NVidias next Tegra chip is targeting power envelopes twice as high as the TX2 and will still be 16nm when others will be targeting 17nm. Going with an off the shelf Nvidia part was just a dumb move.
Its not that it's dumb but what choice/resources do they have? X2 didn't exist yet and X1 debuted just less than 3 years ago so technically they didn't cheap out on weaker hardware. That was THE only hardware they can get on an affordable level, consumer wise.
That's not true at all though. They always had the option to go semi-custom with their chip like they did with the 3DS. They could have licensed the same or better ARM CPU cores, licensed a DSP from CEVA, and licensed a GPU design from ARM or Imagination Technologies. Past the initial cost of development, the chip would have been cheaper to produce overall because they wouldn't have to include any of the extra stuff included in the TX1 that the Switch doesn't use and they would have the option to use a 16nm process either boost performance, increase battery life, or both.
It would also have the added advantage of allowing Nintendo to continue iterating on the same design in future systems and allow them to upgrade what they need and in the way they need it. I've mentioned before that the TX1 has support things like dual 4K displays and like 4 cameras. These are obviously unnecessary to the Switch and unnecessary to any future successors to the Switch, yet part of the list of improvements in the TX2 include adding even more camera interfaces. The TX1 even has HDMI 2.0 built-in but the Switch doesn't use that either and instead converts a DisplayPort signal to an HDMI 1.4 signal using external chips. There's really so much waste in using off the shelf general purpose SoCs for a game console.
The other issue is that Nvidia uses an immediate mode renderer which is extremely uncommon in mobile GPUs for good reason. It means they're always reading and writing back out to RAM which uses more power and means that it's more reliant on the speed of external memory. ARM, Imagination, and Qualcomm all used tile-based renderers with Imagination using a tile-based deferred renderer. These types of renderers split the frame up into tiles which allows them to potential render the entire G-buffer in a really small amount of fast on-chip memory. This means the memory controller is invoked far less often which saves power and external memory is only really needed for initially reading the tile buffer and assets at the beginning of the frame. This would have had an additional benefit on the Switch running games at higher resolution increases texture and geometry bandwidth minimally but frame buffer bandwidth goes up linearly with the resolution. On a tile-based GPU, increasing clock speed would increase frame buffer bandwidth by the exact same amount. If you clock it 2.5x higher (as is the case with the Switch in docked mode) then the on-chip memory becomes 2.5x faster. The amount of bandwidth available to the Switch in docked mode is only 20% higher than in handheld mode.
Well Nvidia chips can handle both. I'm not sure if the Switch has VRAM although it'll help.
Hat in Time? Developed on Unreal 3, which is a legacy engine not supported by the Switch. You try building a game on one engine and then switching it over to a new one. Many of the bigger indie games (the ones with the resources to do it) have sourced their games out to another studio that specializes in porting. Rocket League for example.
Yeah but also Outlast is made in UE3 and Hat in Time developers could ask for someone to do the job.
I'm not interested in that game but since people started to ask the game on the Switch, the developer answered with no
Yeah and it's crazy that they were able to port it so easy, but it has to do with the way things are done from the get go. One set of code may have been done in such a way that it could upgrade engines easily and another could be impossible without a ton of work. I know a lot had trouble porting from UE3 to UE4.
Same as someone upgrade the Unity version in the last phase of the videogame
Most Devs are lazy …they must be! With the size and and all of this game and it is visually quite demanding for Switch, it took no time at all… Well done to em
It is a given fact. We've seen it so many times.
It basically runs the same as the PS4 and XBox One version, and you'd think the visuals were sacrificed on the Switch version… NOPE! The Switch port still looks amazing and there is very little, if at all, graphical differences between the Switch port and the PS4 port.
It's by far the best port so far.
You guys are using Outlast 2 as a game being representative of the needs of most other games when most of the time you can't see 15 feet in front of you do to lack of light or heavy fog. That's not a knock on the game because it was clearly an artistic choice of the developer but it's one that definitely comes with advantages in that much of the environment can be obscured.
First, it's the first Outlast. Second, just stop being a buzzkill.
It's not more powerful, just capable of being matched to PS4.
Why PS4 and not Xbox One?
….who even talks about XB1 specs? It's a joke compare to PS4 thus explaining the X version existence. XP
Well, it is as a gaming console overall worse than PS4, yeh. And I do agree PS4 Pro and Xbox One X is there because those other two systems are beginning to get real old. But you know Xbox One has a better CPU than the PS4? :P Not that it saves it or anything.
Not that it's getting old but they never uphold their original promises for 1080p. 800-850p for Xbox One and 900p for PS4? And yet Switch is the weakest console? lol Fuck that, even the Wii U manage to achieve native 1080p/60FPS a couple of times which is very funny.
Yeah, a pal and myself were jokingly saying "if you want a 1080p 60fps console experience — you need a Wii U" xP
I would try to explain why the Wii U was capable of 1080p/60fps for some of it's games but I'm not very good with tech talk. The best I can say is Nintendo's games just aren't as graphically demanding. That & there are all kinds of tricks to reach 1080p/60fps but that doesn't mean the system is some highly capable machine. I don't know what those tricks are but I wouldn't be surprised if a truly skilled programmer knew some.
It just down to what kind of graphics they've implement. Wii U has a lot more stronger GPU than CPU (not that they was particularly strong for 2013 anyhow). Wii U couldn't handle heavy CPU use like tons of NPC or streaming a lot of data/use a lot of bandwidth. So Nintendo could use the GPU to handle res and fps.
Sonic Lost World was a 60FPS game and had simple stage designs and little action on the screen. They've just focused on a colourful environment to make it stand out.
Dont' know why my post didn't show up but part of the reason that Smash hit 1080p60 is because it used a simple forward renderer which isn't as bandwidth intensive. The locked perspective also allowed them to get away with using cut outs for the background most of the time and in instances where they did use geometry in the background, they could manually cull back facing triangles so that the CPU wouldn't have to do that. Sakurai also stated that assists and other background objects animated at only 30 fps to assist performance.
That's right. I knew from the beginning, but those 30FPS assist trophies bother me a lot xP
You can notice of you pause during a match and circle around your character, it starts to drop frames a lot (at least on those stages I've played on).
Hold up, Xbox One has faster CPU? Then why does the original model load like shit? I mean "PSN Store" level of shit loading times.
Well, downloads from Xbox/Windows Store at launch had more to do with slow servers I believe, even though MS said it was "because it downloads and installs at the same time" … Yeah…
Reason why it's slow? Maybe PS4s have faster HDD(doubt it) or just another decompression tool. Can be anything really.
You can see in games like Hitman with unlocked framecaps, that areas with plenty of NPCs (which is CPU heavy) runs better on Xbox One rather than PS4, while PS4 runs a little better in areas without the heavy CPU-demand.
I mean UI wise but Xbox has another problem: Social Medium/Chat surges going off at once, choking up performance overall.
I was playing Ryse Son of Rome at Launch. Then I've played Halo when that got out (didn't touch it in between) and I didn't knew how to navigate anymore since they changed it up big time. Then we got Windows 10 there and I was trying to play A Lucky's Tale, and a friend of mine there invited me to Party Chat and I felt like a 90-year old dude trying to figure out how to send SMS on a Nokia. They mess things up all the freaking time.
And Xbox One X? 6Tflops GPU for freaking nothing. Monster Hunter World have like 2 more FPS over PS4 Pro in general om X, and why is that? STILL THE SAME SLOW CPU!!11oneonexboxone
Wow. lol Goes to show these updated consoles ain't shit.
They're using ooooold AMD architecture on those consoles. They still beat Switch's CPU, but they're stationary consoles, so it's a lot more embarrasing for them.
Problem is that those consoles are supposed to push "4K" , and that need more GPU than CPU. But when games need CPU, those GPU horsepower isn't worth a damn at times.
Like I said, it ain't true 4K so it's a bullshit ad slapping in every confused console graphic whore's face.
That's why I said "4K" and not 4K :P It's just a marketing buzzword. That's all.
I even heard XB1X can only do up to1440p natively. That's not even close to 2K. lol
I think Lucky's Tale is native 4k 60fps. But the game isn't that pretty so it should run great. Halo 5 have at least 4K native menu xP lol
Running Lucky's Tale at 4K on XB1X as simple as running Undertale on Windows 98. lol
Heh, true.
MHW has checkerboard 2160p in resolution mode. I don't know why they even bother with res that high when the game is having a hard time keeping 40fps.
Not only that, the game doesn't even warrant for such resolution to be that high. It's a freaking hide and go kill monsters type of game. Even this would have a great chance making it on the 3DS.
Higher resolution is always nice… too some degree. Most people can't tell the difference from 1080p and 2160p from a sofa just some few meters away I think I read somewhere.
I have a 1440p tablet, and I have perfectly fine eyesight, and there so much on screen it takes longer time for my eyes to find something on it that it would do on my 720p tablet lol. And yeah, I don't need to see water drops on leaves when my head is getting shewed of by a monster lol. Keep the framerate up instead so gameplay gets more precise!!
Like how people think 720p on Switch tablet itself is a joke when it actually emulates 1080p due to screen crunch size.
You're right that they CPUs in all current systems are kind of weak though. That's one area the Switch could have match them if Nintendo had used a custom SoC with A72s clocked at like 1.5Ghz. In cases where a task is single threaded the A72s would probably kick the shit out of the others.
Yeah, A72 could make up the difference. Hope Ninty upgrades the Switch in someway sometime soon.
Nintendo stated that they would make accessories that used the USB-C slot. They've might come with batteryshells that might allow X1 too maintain docked performance on the go? Don't know how much the battery need to output for something like that, but 3.1A should be enough, no? Still kind of stupid though…
Not sure. Never saw power usage measurements for it in docked mode with the display still on so it could go above 3.1 amp. Maybe 3.5a at max brightness? Thats potentially a third mode though as I'm sure any dev that targets 1080p or 900p when docked would want to know when the device is being limited to 720p so they can add more effects or use mobile oriented LOD biases and draw distances or so they can opt for a slightly revised clock mode. Any attachment would also make the whole docking process more of a pain.
Idk, it would be awkward.
Those speeds I listed for the PS4's HDD were actually my own benchmarks. My mom's laptop happened to have the same exact drive found in the PS4 and XBO so they're definitely faster than Switch cartridges as long as data isn't overly fragmented.
Yeah, HDD has a lot more writing and reading speed compared to SD-memory. But games reading from discs might be slower. Don't thing they can pass 25MB/s when loading from Blu Ray (don't quote me on that".
If data is read sequentially from the Blu-ray which they tend to try to do, they can absolutely reach 27MB/s and the compression mixed with the hardware decompressor can would essentially multiply that speed by the compression ratio.
Before the Switch was announced, I had hoped that Nintendo would include some kind of hardware LZMA2 decompression both to try to counteract the issue of limited cartridge space and so that they can get better read speeds with slower cartridges. Once I found out that they were using an off the shelf TX1 though, I knew there was gonna be issues.
BotW would have particularly been able to take advantage of something like that because it was made to only use 1GB of RAM so it could have been placed on to the cartridge as a compressed file system with a 1.5GB dictionary and the whole game would have been small enough to fit on an 8 GB card.
And you need to study up what "STFU" means, dropout. Also, shouldn't your BS opinion apply to..IDK, EVERYBODY here or you just wanna ask for an ass kicking because you think you're funny or welcomed here with that crap?
You're acting like a tough guy but whenever I ask you to prove that you know even a little bit about what you're talking about you always run away like a chicken shit. Trust me, PBJ, you're the last guy who should be talking like that.
Oh believe me. You really don't wanna fuck with me with my patience being completely GONE, even right now.
And absolutely nobody cares or considers you a threat so save your energy. Who cares if your patience is gone when it takes so little to set you off anyway. Imagine my patience dealing with you and others who have strong opinions about things you clearly don't know anything about or in some cases are willingly ignorant to.
And let me clarify, I don't think I'm hot shit who knows everything. There are thousands of game developers who can school me on these things and I have some game developer friends who can school me various aspects of game development. I myself have a very, very, very super limited experience in game development, but I have written game code, I have made textures, and I have made 3D models. The degree to which you don't know what you're talking about is glaring though.
You've considered factual information about the Switch to be anti-Switch propaganda before even when people who have developed for the Switch are saying its true. In some cases you've even said this about shit that it's in Nvidia's own white papers about the TX1.
Take a breather, and before you go off an another rant about how lazy game developers are, spend some time actually learning about what goes into making a game first. Learn about the hardware, learn about software, learn about methodologies. Just put in some effort to learn about something before you speak about it.
All I said was that it was a good port with very little in the way of sacrifices. So why am I getting attacked?
Also, Skeleton420, you might wanna get a better hobby if your only comeback is "Get a better hobby"… kind of makes you look like a dumbass.
this agin proves there is zero excuse and the turd partys are piss takin with this dri drip shit with games
switch is dx12 Vulcan level 2016 level chipset..with a arm cpu and far newer tech thanps4 can we SORRY the sony fans stop with the it carnrt run it BULLSHIT
It "again proves" that only because you ignored anything that's shown the contrary. Also the Switche's chip came out in 2015 and thus isnt 2016 tech and both the PS4 and XBO are Vulkan (not Vulcan) and DX12 supported hardware. In fact, I'm pretty sure both the PS4 and XBO S have had there chips upgraded to a newer manufacturing process than the Switch.
I would expect someone with the name Vic Twenty would know just a little bit more about tech.
I love my Switch. Nintendo is the only console I ever bother with, since I've always had a gaming PC. But I promise you, the insides of a Switch are not as powerful as a Playstation, and it has nothing to do with the year that it was made.
Snake Pass all over again: people using an indie game to prove (to only themselves) that the Switch is this powerhouse & that the devs of other games MUST be lazy.
The only thing the Switch is a powerhouse over is the Wii U, every system that came before Wii U, & the handhelds Vita & 3DS. It ain't got shit on PS4 & Xbox One (at their base models) when it comes to power. It's a shame (for Nintendo & their Nintendo only gamers) but that's the reality. Just another gimmick console held back by the gimmick. The name might have changed but the Switch is still just like the Wii & Wii U. Only difference is the 3rd party support is actually great.
Nintendo putting out an underpowered console may be more of a blessing than you think. So Nintendo lives and dies by its first party games right? Fans demand tons of first party games from them. If we're not seeing one a month, we start talking droughts. And the reality is that as gaming tech has improved, game development time and cost have been skyrocketing. A model that used to take an art guy just a few days work now take a whole team two weeks That's done a lot of unhealthy things to the market, like causing most smaller devs/publishers to get eaten up by the few giant publishers, safe sequels and boring game design, microtransactions in premium priced games, DLC schemes, etc. And it's why we see comparably fewer first party titles come out from Sony and Microsoft, even when Nintendo is underperforming in a generation. Now, Sony has just come out and said that they're restructuring to focus more on first party releases, and I think that's largely a counter to the threat that Nintendo has brought: they can't just rest on being the most powerful, they need to match Nintendo's first party big guns.
Nintendo needs to keep cost and development time down to meet the steady cadence of first party releases that fans demand. So rather than battle for the top spot in tech, you fill a niche and sell great first party games (the Switch's gimmick is why I play it more than my PC by the way). If you want lots of Nintendo games, you need less powerful hardware, especially since most people expect first parties to be the front runners in how to max out their own tech. Crank up the specs and each project is going to demand more internal resources, increase your financial risk which means less innovation, new IP, etc, and honestly, it's just not worth it.
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"Gimmick Console held back by a Gimmick" Portability is a gimmick now? Mm…
you would've had a point with the Wii, Motion Controls was it's focus, that was very gimmicky
Wii U again you would've had a point, the whole gamepad thing was pretty gimmicky and useless
but the Switch? this is the least gimmicky console since the GameCube, it's very focused on great games that can be taken on the go, I wouldn't call that a gimmick
yes, it's less powerful than the Xbox One and PS4 but that's to be expected, this system is the size of a tablet and despite that it's very impressive what it's able to do even if it's not up to the standards of the Xbox One and PS4, which is why I don't think it's fair to compare it to those, it doubles as both a home console and handheld console
and well, if you consider it a gimmick well it's a VERY good gimmick and is the reason the system is so popular and in demand, people want this "Gimmick", being able to play home console quality games on the go is amazing, even third party stuff, sure it may not be as pretty as the other consoles BUT the portability makes those sacrifices worth it, as long as the games run well and look good gamers are happy and I think that's what matters the most
this is why a ton of games that come to the system sell well and sometimes even outsell their PS4/Xbox One/PC Counterparts, the added benefit of portability matters :)
I don't use the word gimmick as a negative since plenty of stuff that is standard today were considered gimmicks when first being used. So I use the general meaning of gimmick. So yes. The portability is a good gimmick but it's still a gimmick holding it back from being truly powerful regardless. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the Switch is doing well but it's just not as big of a deal to me as to others.


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Less carbon, more racingFriday also saw a press conference with IMSA boss John Doonan and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy Daniel Simmons, who gave us some more info about IMSA's efforts to reduce the series' carbon impact. I asked Doonan where he thought the lowest-hanging fruit was in terms of making a dent in the problem.
"We have a program through all our logistics with SmartWay, looking at the transporters that are bringing all the equipment here and finding ways through aerodynamic devices [to make them more efficient]. Obviously, we're trying to find alternative fuels as well to make that aspect of going from city to city—you know, we have 12 different events throughout the year for the WeatherTech championship—to make sure that we're doing our part in between events. Once the race cars are on track, we've got partners like Michelin and VP, which continue to work with us on being one step ahead of those protocols. For me, it's a whole wheel and bunch of different spokes of it, from fuel to tires to logistics, and I would suggest SmartWay is an example of that," Doonan told me.
It sounds like reducing the number of tires used on track during a race weekend is also in the cards. "We're making sure that we work with Michelin on tire allotments to try to bring those down, which is also a cost factor as well as a green factor," Doonan said.
The teams get into the spirit, too. "I love the fact that racing for us between IMSA and IndyCar in over 30 events a year, we can keep track of our carbon footprint—not just the cars, but all the people traveling, the transporters, and so on. So we truly have an ecosystem analysis of our footprint as HPD," said Ted Klaus, president of Honda Performance Development.
"Yes, it's small, but if we can pilot or incubate ideas here at these events, why wouldn't we? And I think it's an untapped potential for all racing series. I'm really pleased with IMSA's leadership, and quite frankly we've been right there with them for decades. And it relates to our 2030 vision—we have a hard 50 percent reduction in our carbon footprint by then. I'm not sitting here today to say we can go carbon negative, but you know we can reduce our carbon footprint by 50 percent or more and plan to do so," Klaus told me.
Balance of Performance—three words (almost) everyone loves to hate
Balance of Performance—everyone just says BoP—is a pretty hot topic right now. Instead of simply writing a technical rulebook teams use to build their cars, IMSA (and other series) use BoP to prevent one team or make of car from running away with an enormous advantage. It upsets the purists, but there's no denying that it helps keep the racing close. It also upsets all the teams, at least the ones who feel they're being penalized for being good at what they do. In the days before the Rolex 24, there were plenty of BoP adjustments handed out in the DPi class, as well as in the two production-based categories, GTLM and GTD.
Over at Racer, Marshall Pruett dug into the specifics. In DPi, the Acura ARX-05 was hardest hit, with a reduction in turbo boost above 6,000rpm, and the Cadillacs gained the most via a 22lb (10kg) weight break. In GTLM, the new Corvette C8.R got a bigger air restrictor (increasing engine power), the Porsche 911 RSRs got an extra 22lbs (10kg) of ballast, and the Petit Le Mans-winning Ferrari 488 GTE was hit particularly hard, with a boost reduction from 2,000rpm to the red line, plus a change to its rear wing angle of attack that increased downforce—not what you want on a track with so many high-speed sections. In GTD, there were similar boost reductions for the Ferrari 488 GT3 and the BMW M6 GT3, as well as the Acura NSX GT3s, which also gained a hefty 55lbs (25kg) of extra weight.
Talking to teams and drivers in the paddock, this ruined a fair few people's races before they turned a wheel.
Did you actually watch any racing?
As most sports car fans know, being at the track is often the worst place to be if you actually want to follow what's going on. You can instead soak up the atmosphere, bask in the sunshine, and get pretty hungry once all the infield campers break out their grills, which is probably fair compensation for looking clueless when someone asks you who's in the lead.The field was far smaller than in years gone past, with just 38 cars taking the green flag on Saturday. The #77 Mazda DPi was fastest in qualifying and pulled a gap on the rest of the field for the first few laps, but most of the DPi class managed to stay on the same lap for the first few hours. The #7 Team Penske Acura got sidelined early on after coming together with the #55 Mazda, crushing one of its radiators and some engine plumbing that took 35 minutes to fix. That effectively took both cars out of contention for a win, as the Mazda was penalized with a drive-through penalty for causing a collision.
The race at the front came to the Cadillacs, with the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing car leading at hour six and the #5 Mustang Sampling Racing/JDC-Miller Motorsports car leading at hour 12. Good weather and a smaller grid of cars probably contributed to the long stretches of green flag racing—when a full course caution was enacted around 8am on Sunday morning, it ended the longest continuous green flag stretch in Rolex 24 history—274 laps, or 7 hours and 37 minutes. That was pretty amazing, but not as amazing as that morning's sunrise, which really was magnificent, as this time-lapse (shot by Chris Naughton) proves:
With 18 hours run, the #10 Cadillac was back in front, with only the #5 Cadillac and #77 Mazda on the same lap. The next six hours weren't quite plain sailing, but the team overcame a 60-second stop-and-hold penalty for running a red light at the end of the pit lane during hour 19 to end the race in first position, having completed 833 laps in 24 hours and 33.494 seconds. Mazda took second overall with the #77 car, and Cadillac also scored third with the #5, both of which also finished 833 laps. The fastest Acura was the #6, which ended the race five laps down.
In the pro-am LMP2 category it was the #81 DragonSpeed team that took the win, finishing just behind the damaged #7 Team Penske Acura. In GTLM, it was a second win in two years for BMW Team RLL and the M8 GTE, which probably makes up for all those "big M8" memes and jokes. Porsche took second and third in class with its new 911 RSR-19, and Corvette Racing scored a respectable fourth place with the debut of the mid-engined C8.R. In GTD, the win went to the #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini.
The winners got shiny new Rolex Daytona and a trophy. Everyone else got the knowledge that there's another chance for glory in a few short weeks, a couple of hours down the road in Sebring.


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A BULAWAYO woman who was described by a magistrate as cruel has been fined $400 for brutally assaulting her sister's six-year-old daughter after she allegedly found her being intimate with her five-year-old son.
The six-year-old, who was admitted at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after she was assaulted by Jennifer Mupasi, 24, of Emganwini suburb, has since been discharged.
At the time the crime was committed sometime between January 1 and January 11 this year, the woman, who is six months pregnant, was staying with the girl as her mother was in South Africa where she works.
The girl's mother has since decided to take her daughter to the neighbouring country.
Provincial Magistrate Abednico Ndebele convicted Mupasi on her plea of guilty on a charge of ill-treating a child.
The magistrate described Mupasi as a cruel woman who deserved to be imprisoned, but decided to fine her after considering that she was pregnant and was a mother to two young children.
"You're a very cruel woman. The injuries sustained by the child were too severe especially on a six-year-old. It's also clear from the medical report that the child was also abused prior to the recent injuries she sustained. Even if the child was wrong, you were wrong to discipline her in such a manner," said Ndebele.
"In passing sentence I've considered that you're a mother to two small children and it will be unfair to deny them their mother by sending you to prison. You'll therefore pay a fine of $400 or spend four months in prison if you default paying."
Mupasi allegedly assaulted the girl with an unknown blunt object sometime between January 1 and January 11.
The prosecutor, Mufaro Mageza, said the girl suffered, among other injuries, multiple bruises on the back and buttocks.
Police arrested Mupasi on January 11 after being tipped about the abuse.
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Prosper to Acquire App Maker BillGuard
A small Internet-focused bank plans to offer Prosper Marketplace's personal loans directly to its own customers through the bank's website. Prosper could use it as a template for deals with other banks.September 15
Prosper Marketplace, one of the leading U.S. consumer marketplace lenders, announced $165 million in equity funding from large banks and other investors Wednesday.April 9
Prosper is already offering loans at doctor's offices while Lending Club is testing a device that would allow it to make loans on the spot at car dealerships and other retailers. The efforts highlight the need for marketplace lenders to keep innovating as competition for customers intensifies.May 8
Prosper Marketplace, one of the nation's largest marketplace lenders, has agreed to purchase the consumer finance app maker BillGuard.
The San Francisco firm will pay $30 million in cash plus an undisclosed amount of stock, according to a source familiar with the deal.
BillGuard's free smartphone apps offer fraud protection for consumers' debit and credit cards, while also allowing users to track their spending by category. The firm sells additional services through its apps for $2.99 to $9.99 per month.
BillGuard, which is based in New York but has most of its staff in Tel Aviv, Israel, has more than 1.3 million registered users, according to a press release Thursday announcing the deal.
Users of the company's iPhone and Android apps typically link at least one debit card or credit card to their accounts, which gives BillGuard a detailed understanding of its users' financial habits.
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Prosper could use that data to market its loans to BillGuard users, according to Prosper Chief Executive Officer Aaron Vermut.
Prosper offers personal loans of $2,000-$35,000, often to consumers who are looking to consolidate existing debt at lower interest rates. Following the sale, Prosper would be able to make targeted loan offers to specific BillGuard users based on their individual financial profiles, Vermut said.
For example, a BillGuard user who has a lot of credit card debt might receive an offer to refinance that balance with Prosper.
Prosper, which does not currently have its own app, also sees the BillGuard acquisition as a way to engage more with its existing customers, and over time to sell more products to them.
"We don't have a product that really drives daily engagement," Vermut said.
The peer-to-peer lender has designs on a broader piece of the consumer finance market, including loans at the retail point of sale. BillGuard's apps, which will be offered to Prosper's existing customers, could give Prosper more opportunities to cross-sell products.
Prosper is also touting the deal as a way to bring aboard new engineering talent. The company plans to keep open BillGuard's offices in Tel Aviv, where 21 of the firm's 25 employees work.
"They represent truly world-class talent and bring a team and technology platform that will immediately accelerate our product development," Vermut said in the press release.
The stock portion of the deal is designed to motivate BillGuard's employees to stay with Prosper, according to the source familiar with the acquisition. BillGuard CEO Yaron Samid said that he and the rest of the app maker's employees will remain with the company.
Samid said that BillGuard will be an autonomous business unit within Prosper, which he will head, and that the deal will allow the app maker to grow more aggressively.
BillGuard, which was founded in 2010, raised $16.5 million in three fundraising rounds between 2010 and 2014, according to Crunchbase.
The deal for BillGuard follows Prosper's $21 million purchase in January of American HealthCare Lending, which provides financing to patients seeking elective medical treatments. That business has since been rebranded as Prosper Healthcare Lending.
Prosper, which is privately held, announced in April that it had raised $165 million in equity funding, which gave the company a valuation of $1.87 billion.


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The HSYP ( Hellenic Student and Young Professionals) Congress is the meeting of all IEEE Student Branches of Greece and Cyprus and one of the most important initiatives of the IEEE Greece Section. During the Congress, which took place in Athens on 3, 4 and 5th November 2017, all the Greek Student Branches present their activities. The presentation about IEEE Student Branch of our University, included information about the activities of IAS DUTh Student Branch Chapter so the participants could be informed about our society in general, what kind of actions do we organize and the perspectives it offers to its active members. As our Chapter is the only one in Greece, it is important to spread the advantages of IAS in order to inspire students to get involved with it and open local Chapters in their regions. Also, we had the opportunity to have a conversation with Mr. Marios Antoniou, IEEE Region 8 Action for Industry Chair and arrange future actions relative to industry and internships for students.
Moreover, we had the opportunity to participate in some interesting workshops. The first one was about cloud technologies and the lecturer provide as instructions to build a remote server. The second one was about iBeacon technology, which allows Mobile Apps to understand their position on a micro-local scale, and deliver hyper-contextual content to users based on location. The underlying communication technology is Bluetooth Low Energy. The lecturer explained how we can program such devices and gave us a taste its applications inside the industry.
During the congress, the participants met each other, shared innovative ideas and gathered experience and memories. It is true that such congresses have an important impact on the Student Branches' further development.
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We just don't care.
Fuck. We're here again. We really don't learn anything from history, do we? I'm referencing Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas in 1991, of course. I've been relatively quiet about this issue, only discussing it amongst a couple friends....read more
Remembering you always
Four years ago I put down my best friend, Logan. He was the first dog I ever owned. Sure, it's been four years, but I think the first puppy love one never forgets. I adopted him when he was approximately two-three years old from a local animal shelter in upstate New...read more
His final day.
Let's Talk Business
I swear I will compose more positive posts following my team coming in first, in our first CrossFit competition, but I'm tallying my expenses from my Chicago tour/Exxxotica trip this morning and I can't help but be disappointed. The only reason why I decided to go to...read more
Sylvia Plath Excerpt from letter November 22, 1955
"Words revolve in flame and keep the coliseum heart afire, reflecting orange sunken suns in the secret petals of ruined arches. yes, the glowing asbestos thorns and whistling flame flowers reflect the cells of the scarlet heart and the coliseum burns on, without a...read more
Stupidity always wins, well, at least in my industry.
This was too much to type in Twitter, but I thought this was an amusing exchange and again, proves my point, as always, that stupidity always wins. A performer I had not seen in a while asked me what I've been up to. I replied, "Well, I'm trying to take Organic...read more
Drunken Meet & Greet and Bill Maher
When I saw on the TER board that the NYC Meet & Greet would be November 9th, I decided I would definitely plan to tour the city after the expo. I had never been to on and figured it might be worthwhile to network. A previous client and I decided to see each other...read more
Exxxotica and back in NYC
The only reason I decided to go to Exxxotica in the first place was because I was supposed to shoot with an independent producer, whom I've worked with before in DC. He booked my flight out and was going to book my flight back from New York, and he was possibly going...read more
Tuesday happenings
I picked up my vehicle from the auto body shop today. I needed my driver side back door buffed out because I scraped it on one of the columns in the parking garage of the Cosmopolitan. I was in a hurry to get to call and I didn't want my booker to be irritated that I...read more
Mirror by Sylvia Plath
"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful–" Mirror by Sylvia Plathread more
My envy will be your destruction
I am envious of the women who do not have to work out, those who are naturally lean and eat pizza and French fries without hesitation. When I still worked with an agency, we had to meet once a week to do our drop, and one of the ladies, showed up with McDonald's...read more
Sunday thoughts
I dreamt last night that I had several tanks of various species of fish and even a couple turtles, but then a crack appeared in one tank and I was asking my father to help me fix it before my mom found out so she wouldn't scream at me. Probably has something to do...read more
Shit happens. Preparation for an Appointment
I notify clients that I need at least three hours to get ready for an appointment, if they are booking the same day. Hence, why I and many providers prefer that you pre-book. And many do not even take same day appointments and request 24-hours notice. You may wonder...read more
I was listening to NPR on my way to LA and a man was talking about how he discovered Nirvana during the LA riots and how that changed his life. NPR was playing some of their songs in the background, so I decided to listen to "Nevermind" after I finished NPR's 'All...read more
One word you cannot use in an Eros ad: Climax. This sentence was not allowed: "The experience should be sensual, effortless and grow to a magnificent climax in such a way that everything else is forgotten and you melt within the experience."read more


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The launch of OXYDO SS 2017 collection marks the first offering from the partnership between Materialise NV, leader in Additive Manufacturing solutions and software, and Safilo Group, the Italian powerhouse behind numerous iconic eyewear brands worldwide. The new OXYDO Capsule Collection is an expression of intent, demonstrating not only what Additive Manufacturing is capable of but also where it could lead the eyewear industry in future.
OXYDO Capsule Collection 2017 offers a disruptive, contemporary and sophisticated interpretation of the Italian fashion aesthetic, combining the classic shapes of round and cat-eye styles with ultra-modern silhouettes achievable only through 3D Printing. The 3D-printed structures that surround each of the frames are produced at Materialise's Certified Additive Manufacturing facility, which houses machines dedicated to eyewear production. After manufacturing in Polyamide 12, the wearable sculptures are given the multi-step Materialise Luxura post-production treatment to enhance their performance and aesthetic.


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Sandy Shell - Bluebelle
Finally, a top that feels like a t-shirt, but more dressed up. Loose fitting, wide feminine neck line, exposed seams and thoughtful handstitching at shoulder and side seam. A subtle tassel with pop pink wrapping at the shoulder is the finishing L+t touch of this summer staple.
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A page view is a visit to a page on your website. If the visitor reloads a page, this counts as an additional page view. If the user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, this will count as another page view. A visit is defined as a sequence of consecutive page views without a 30-minute break. A visit always contains one or more page views.


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Indianapolis at Arizona ..... Prime Time!
The Colts make their first appearance in Phoenix in 19 years. The Indy defence is banged up with starters Bob Sanders (S) Gary Brackett (MLB) and Kelvin Heydon (CB) all missing the game.
That should give Kurt Warner the opportunity he needs to keep the Cardinals in it. But then again, Peyton Manning might play defence tonight.
Why not? He does everything else.
Indy holds a 7-6 lead all time in head to head regular season matchups.


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DEARBORN (WWJ) – A man is hospitalized in critical condition after an accident at Ford's Dearborn Diversified Manufacturing Plant.
Kelli Felker, Manufacturing & Labor Communications Manager for Ford, said a contractor was working on a crane, at around 9 a.m. Wednesday, when he fell off.
Other employees at the plant told WWJ Newsradio 950 that the man was not wearing a safety strap when he tumbled from a height of about 50 feet.
Felker did not immediately confirmed those details, but said they're looking what happened.
"The safety and security of everyone in our plants is our highest priority," she added, in a statement. "We are launching a full investigation."
Dearborn's fire chief said the man suffered significant and traumatic injuries.
Ford and Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have launched an investigation that could take weeks to months to complete.
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NEGLECTED NEIGHBORS: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green pictorial cloth with cover design in white, black, blue, and rose; xi, 342 pp., 96 illustrations, mostly from photographs. A beautiful copy, quite clean and unworn. Fine. Item #21126
An exposé of entrenched poverty plaguing the nation's capital. With an introduction by President Roosevelt.
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