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VDS delivers Streamliner to worldwide media company for TV Everywhere
July 12, 2012
VDS, a developer of broadcast automation software, content design and plug-in products, has announced that it has delivered Streamliner, to a worldwide media company for its TV Everywhere operations.
Streamliner, based on the VDS Promotor platform and introduced at NAB 2012, solves one of the biggest challenges for real-time streaming applications: Automating and synchronizing the triggers that control and replace media segments in real time, allowing only the proper and approved content to make its way to the Internet. In addition to substituting linear broadcast commercial spots with streaming ads, for example, Streamliner provides an automated way to manage content rights issues by substituting different program content when conditions apply.
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George Kennedy Interview: Screen Legend Reflects on His Life in 'Trust Me: A Memoir'
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Authors
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Eighty-six year old actor George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is perhaps best known as portraying the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (for which he won an Academy Award), Joe Patroni in the Airport series of 70s disaster movies, and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.
The New York native has also appeared in numerous television shows including The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bonanza, McHale's Navy, Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, Dallas, Wings, and The Young and the Restless. His film work included Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Flight of the Phoenix, In Harm's Way, The Dirty Dozen, The Boston Strangler, The Eiger Sanction, Death on the Nile, and Earthquake.
"My time in movies and shows is up. The people who I talk to you about right now with great affection are, for the most part, gone. When they talk about somebody coming out in a brand new movie now, I don't even know who they are. It is their turn. My turn is over and that's fine. It was fun. The fact that it was all I could do made it even better. I loved what I did."
Kennedy has recently released his autobiography, Trust Me: A Memoir, which provides a revealing insight into the world of moviemaking, with its anticipation, joys, thrills, ups and downs, and personal dramas. Trust Me traces Kennedy's lonely childhood, as he and his mother struggle to survive the Great Depression, his young adulthood fighting in World War II, and finally breaking into the acting business.
The Eagle, Idaho resident has been married to Joan (McCarthy) for 34 years.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Mr. Kennedy, it is an honor and a pleasure. How is the weather in Idaho?
George Kennedy: Let's see, I'm looking out the office window now, and it's hazy sunshine and cold, but that's the story of Boise's life. You get ten months of winter and two months of barely passable summer. It's an Our Town type of state. There's no road rage here. There are no busybodies here. There's a scallywag here and there, but for the most part it's a quiet place. But, ten months of winter is too much.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Why did you choose to live in the small city of Eagle?
George Kennedy: Eagle is not even really a city. It's like if you went from Dallas to Fort Worth, and you'd pass something in the middle. It wouldn't be either Dallas or Fort Worth, but it would be something. Eagle has a very small population. It's kind of like Thornton Wilder's Our Town except perhaps with a little less naivety here. People kind of mind their own business. Where are you?
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I'm in Birmingham, Alabama.
George Kennedy: Alabama has many small towns. I mean, my God, I spent enough time there! It has, if anything, the small town atmosphere.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Absolutely … and beautiful countryside.
George Kennedy: Yeah. When I was younger and the war was going on, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas were big training grounds. But, when you're a kid from New York City and you travel, some of the things you've heard about the south … or north, east, and west for that matter, are so exaggerated.
I found warmth in the south very comforting to me. Being born in New York, you're used to hustlers all the time. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that there was a lot less of that in the south than there was in the north.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you experience some southern hospitality?
George Kennedy: Yes, but it went beyond that. You didn't walk over anybody. If you made a fool of yourself, they let you know it.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I found your book fascinating. How did you arrive at the title, Trust Me?
George Kennedy: It was really a matter of elimination. You should know something. When I started this, it didn't start out at all to be like this. If you don't mind, I'll tell you just a bit about how it came out this way because I think it may be important to you. I started to write, as best I could, a typical memoir … I was born and then I got older. I started that once and threw it away. I started a second time, got a lot further, and threw that one away. I said, "No. I don't want to write this."
I wanted to write what life is like, what it was like for me and the bad luck parts which sometimes turned out to be okay. I wanted to write about the people I met and why we kid ourselves about so many things. It was very important to me to ask people, "What difference does it make to me if you're a Baptist or a Catholic?" There's only one God up there. Just go with it and do your best. Once I made that decision, it started to be an entirely different book, and that's the book you read.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I saw a two-minute video recently and you asked the question, "Why do we torture ourselves over and over?" I believe you were speaking about 9/11.
George Kennedy: I was because 9/11 was so horrible. I see ours as a bunch of naïve people for the most part. I'm not talking about the sharks and the guys who culled billions, but I'm talking about the Americans who aren't really looking for the next guy to hit them over the head and rob them. That's not a characteristic. If somebody's hurting, I don't care where they're from, they can find four or five people who will help. Right now! That's not necessarily true in other places.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): When you became a teenager, did you ever talk to your mom or anyone about the abuse you endured when you were left alone for hours at a time, and how it affected you as a small child?
George Kennedy: I don't think so. You're the first person who has ever asked me that. I don't think so. Teenagers have so many problems just being teenagers. You're going through physical changes that amount to revolution from inside your body. You go from a little bitty thing in a crib to somewhere around 20 and ready to get married. All of the time you're faced with problems. Your fingernails get longer, and you get acne. It's a terrifying time. We all go through it.
When I was growing up, I didn't feel like talking to other people about my problems because it seemed to me that they had as many problems as I did. I suppose if you get a couple of drinks in you, anybody can spout off. But, I don't remember particularly talking about mine. They were all there when I needed them for this book, but talking about them … no. I would recall happiness and still do, but the more gruesome aspect of it, I would not talk about. I don't think people particularly want to hear that. They've got their own problems.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Perhaps you were afraid of someone judging your mother or the situation.
George Kennedy: It's so hard to be a human and be a judge. I think we all do it. I don't think we're capable of not judging, but humans really should try to put themselves in the other person's shoes. One of the hardest experiences is to comfort a mom or dad who has just lost a kid in the war. I've done it more than I wish I had. But, you're so hurting for them that words don't seem to count. You can't bring them back, so you just try to be empathetic. Being a human being is no easy chore. Not at all.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you maintain a close relationship with your mother?
George Kennedy: My mother was a saint. Without my mother, I simply didn't exist. There was nobody … there was my mother and me, and there were the streets of New York. Without my mother, I wouldn't have made it through the first six weeks of birth. I think if you compared mothers and fathers, most people would say that the mother is far more important than the father. I'm not making a joke and saying, "Yeah, the father is at the bowling alley." I'm not saying that at all. But, the mother is the life giver. The mother is the life sustainer.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You lost your best friend in the war. Did you stay in contact with others from your unit after the war ended?
George Kennedy: Most of them are dead now. To some degree I did. About 20 years after the war, I got a letter from my former commanding officer. I got a card when they had a little get together. I was very grateful to hear that some were alive at that time. There are many dead people in wars. I'm not a fan of wars at all. But, I didn't keep in touch with them.
Consider what the army is – you've got a guy coming from New Jersey, another from Mississippi, three from Rhode Island, and some from Saskatchewan, Canada who crossed the border to join. You get people from all over and put them in a company of soldiers and they are a unit. They share the sense of fighting, but they are not a unit. They're individual guys from here, there and everywhere.
As soon as that makeshift orderliness is done and the war is over, the things you were interested in (like soldiering) is over with; therefore, you really don't seek each other out unless you were very close friends. I'm an old man now. I have found that most merchant marine soldiers did not seek out people who they had known in the army for any length of time. You just don't do it.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You chose the Army Air Corps.
George Kennedy: I served in the Army Air Corps, but I'm 6'4", and even in those days I weighed 210 pounds. I was interested in airplanes then, and I'm interested in airplanes now. The best explanation came from a master sergeant in the Air Force. He said, "George, there's nothing wrong with you. But, we can either put you in an airplane or we can put a 200-pound bomb in an airplane. We'd rather put the bomb in the airplane."
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Then you went into the Army.
George Kennedy: Yes. When the war came up, the Army Air Corps, Navy, Marines, Merchant Marines … they were all out there for you to choose. The minute you got out of high school you were going in one of them. My preference was the Air Corps, but the Air Corps at that time was part of the Army. It wasn't like the Air Force is today, so you weren't joining a separate part of the service. You were joining the Air Corps. When they found they couldn't use me for various reasons, mostly my size, the Army was ready to put a rifle in my hand so that I could shoot at people.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): During your time in the Army, you became involved with the opening of the first Army Information Office which provided technical assistance to films and TV shows. Is that when your interest in acting began?
George Kennedy: No, that's a little too neat. That's just too neat. In the early part of the book, I mention how lonesome it was to be a little boy when my mother was out trying to keep us alive. I spent days, months, and years alone, and I would play all the parts of a radio show. There was nobody else there. From dawn to dusk I didn't see anybody.
I saw myself … I saw my mother very seldom, and yet she was the only person in my life … the only one. There was nobody else. So, why did I do it? Did I do it out of any great thought process? No! I was lonesome. I talked to myself. I talked to anything. I talked to lamps. There was nobody.
The times that my mother would come home and she wasn't totally spent, I would be right by her side whether she talked to me or not. It was very awkward. People have told me over the years that I live in my head. I'm sure they're correct. But, it's something I've done all my life. Make any sense to you?
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Yes it does. You were a very lonely boy who was left alone many hours at a time. What did acting come to mean to you over the years?
George Kennedy: Acting is beautiful. If I'm prejudiced toward doing it, it is because of the joy that I derive from it. Add that to the fact that I didn't have any other choices. I either talked to myself, or I didn't talk to anybody. There was nobody there. Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and all the great actors took pride and comfort in acting. Did I like what I did? Oh my God, yes!
If I weren't 86 now, I'd still be out there trying to do something because it's my greatest love outside of my home. But, it doesn't make it anything more. I wonder if the situation had been different, would I have been an actor under those circumstances? Perhaps not, but I would've had the instincts I have for it, which were always pleasurable.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): And you earned an Oscar also.
George Kennedy: When I got that role (Dragline in Cool Hand Luke), I was known as a good character actor. You don't give just any character actor half the picture with a superstar. Paul Newman was a superstar at that time and 40 years later he was still a superstar. I'm very proud of that role and that film.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): That was the year (1968) that Katherine Hepburn won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Did you ever work with her?
George Kennedy: No, I never worked with or met Katherine Hepburn. There were certain stars in my life that I wished I could have met and Hepburn was one of them. She was an icon, a true icon. When you said, "Katherine Hepburn," to anyone, there was no "fiddly faddling" as to whom you were talking about. You were talking about the Hepburn. Whether you liked her or not, she was dominant and dominant at a time when women were not. She was wonderful.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): In the Heat of the Night won Best Picture that year. That film and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner concerned race relations and prejudices. What was that atmosphere like in Hollywood back in the 60s?
George Kennedy: It existed in a roundabout sort of way, but I've never met a more cosmopolitan or a more generous and giving bunch. It was like, "I get along with you and you can get along with me." Things have grown so much in the last 50 years in that area though.
When I was a little boy, interracial marriage was unheard of. It didn't exist. In movies, if the picture called for an interracial marriage, it existed. If the picture called for white troops and black troops charging up the hill together, you did it. There wasn't time for that kind of prejudice. There just wasn't time. So, there was less of it in Hollywood than anyplace else. Of course, circumstances have seen to it that there's less of it in America now than there used to be.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Thank goodness for that. You've had quite a career in television also, from Perry Mason to Dr. Kildare to The Love Boat to Dallas. Were you friends with Raymond Burr?
George Kennedy: Yes. Raymond Burr was bigger than Mt. Vesuvius. I've got to tell you a story I've never told anybody. Raymond and I were big men. We're talking 6'4", and both of us weighed more than a ton and a half each. For that reason, as well as others, we liked each other. If you can picture this, we'd talk about being big guys and we would giggle.
Now, here was 600 pounds of guys sitting between shots in a couple of chairs and almost breaking them because we're giggling at jokes. Over all of Raymond's movies and TV shows, I remember him as a guy who'd giggle with me and didn't care. I thought he was a wonderful actor.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Cute story (laughs). You have played your share of villains and died many times in films. Do you have a memorable death scene?
George Kennedy: They asked something of me in Charade. The movie starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Stanley Donen, the genius who directed Singin' in the Rain, directed Charade. Well, I had a metal arm with a hook. In my death scene, they said, "You're going to lay down in this tub of water. Your eyes are going to be open. As we roll the camera, you're going to lie back in the water until all the bubbles and all the waves stop. Then we're going to shoot you as dead, looking up with your eyes open through the water." I swear to you, I've done very few things in my life that were more difficult.
As you're lying back, there are bubbles that come from the back of your head that keep going up. In one take, Stanley pulled me up and said, "Stop breathing!" I said, "Stanley, I'm under a foot of water. I'm not breathing! I promise you!" We did it over and over and over. I'd strongly suggest you don't try this at home. But, if you ever do lie there in a tub of water, and wait for the bubbles to go away with your eyes open, you can feel how scary it is!
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you also perform your own stunts in Cool Hand Luke, particularly the boxing scenes?
George Kennedy: Yes, almost all of them. I've done most of my own stunts in almost every movie. The only things I wouldn't do were the things that I couldn't do. The movie business has, as part of its armory, great stuntmen. In the beginning I did stunts like falling off a moving wagon or popping out of a windowsill. They'd say, "Oh George, will you do this horse fall for us?" I used to do them to the point where I'd end up in the hospital or in the chiropractor's office.
The stuntmen themselves came to me and said, "Don't do those stunts. We are paid to do the stunts and if you do them, we don't get paid." So, I stopped doing them unless it was one they couldn't shoot with a stuntman. Dying face up under a tub of water … how are you going to get around that? The camera was right on my face. It couldn't be a stuntman. It had to be me.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I wanted to mention the Naked Gun series of films: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Smell of Fear, and The Final Insult. Do you prefer comedy or drama?
George Kennedy: I love comedy perhaps more than anything else. Leslie Nielsen was the backbone of those films. The difficulty with comedy is repetition. When you see any of the Naked Gun movies on the screen, they were funny. It was a wonderful series. But, when you see them, you are seeing one take.
The Zucker Brothers, producers and writers, did not believe in anything less than 40 takes. Well, if I tell you a short joke and you laugh, you are laughing at the joke as we see it in the movies. You see it once. But, believe me, if you tell a joke 40 times in front of a camera, it isn't necessarily even funny anymore. It is painful. You are saying the punchline and trying to remember how you said it an hour before. So, that was the difficult part of it. Working with Priscilla (Presley), Leslie, and Ricardo Montalban was a pleasure and I loved every single film.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Will you be making more appearances on The Young and the Restless portraying Victor Newman's father?
George Kennedy: They asked me a couple of times. I did it once out of my friendship for Eric Braeden. But, that's a whole different thing. Those kids are all a fifth my age. They're just out of high school or college and I felt like an Egyptian mummy sitting there.
My time in movies and shows is up. The people who I talk to you about right now with great affection are, for the most part, gone. When they talk about somebody coming out in a brand new movie now, I don't even know who they are. It is their turn. My turn is over and that's fine. It was fun. The fact that it was all I could do made it even better. I loved what I did.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Isn't there a recent film called Another Happy Day where you play Ellen Barkin's character's father?
George Kennedy: I don't know if it's coming out. I know they had some difficulty with it, but I haven't heard a word about it.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Mr. Kennedy, looking back on your career, is there a role that you missed and wished you could have done?
George Kennedy: Yes. I can answer you very directly and very honestly, and I mean it with all my heart. Some years ago, I was in Spain doing a western with Henry Fonda who was a friend of mine. I loved him dearly and thought he was one of the best actors who ever existed. Well, he came by my hotel one night and said, "I've got an idea and would like for you to think about it. They've asked me to do Of Mice and Men." This was a big theater group that Olivier was also involved with. He continued, "I would start in Florida and come all the way up the east coast and finish in New England. I wonder if you'd be interested in doing the play with me?"
I didn't answer him immediately because I was overwhelmed by the generosity of his offer. Can you imagine going on stage with Henry Fonda every night and be one of the two people that gets to capture the audience? We didn't do it because the guy who ran the thing dropped dead right before rehearsals. But, I think it would have been the highlight of my life.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Were any of your children interested in show business?
George Kennedy: No, they're not. We have one daughter, Shaunna, who's the light of my life. She'd say, "Any part in this new picture, Pop?" I'd say, "No, only for a dog." She'd say, "Woof!" She was a remarkable child. She had lots of kids and has been married three times. She's the bright spot in our lives. But, the rest of them … they couldn't care less.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): How many children do you have?
George Kennedy: Well, it's an odd number. When I was married to another lady in excess of 40 years ago, we adopted two children. Joan and I have been married for 34 years now, and she had two children, and they had children. Some of them came and went and two of them passed on. So, there have been some 6 to 10 kids around the house all the time, including the two who still live with us now. Is it easy? No. But, life is better because of kids.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Do you and Joan have a secret to marriage longevity?
George Kennedy: I don't know. It's very difficult. When I have a viewpoint and she has another, it's not always easy to compromise or to be the good guy. I think that's the hardest thing. Fifty percent won't work. You each have to give fifty-five.
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From September 1945 to January 1947 Ingeborg Kalnoky was the hostess of a guest house established by the Allies to quarter witnesses for the trials. The witnesses were mostly Germans who had played a part in the war or their family members, but they also included victims such as survivors of concentration camps. In her position as hostess Kalnoky had unique access to the individuals who stayed at the guest house. Evidence of this experience may be seen in the Ingeborg Kalnoky collection of Nuremberg Guest House papers, a small manuscript collection donated to the Library by Kalnoky's daughter, Eleonora.
The collection includes letters to Kalnoky from witnesses, U.S. Army documents related to her employment, several photographs, photocopies of the original guest book and other ephemera. Most of the letters to Kalnoky are in German. The most prolific correspondent in this collection is Carl Severing, a German Social Democrat during the Weimar era who served as the Interior Minister of Prussia from 1920 – 1926 and again from 1930 – 1932.
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The holidays are especially exciting for our family this year. My daughter is going to be 4 months old in just over a week. It's exciting to celebrate a holiday season of baby's firsts, but it's also chaotic. In this post I'm going to share how you can quickly get your dining room or kitchen table holiday ready in a matter of minutes with these easy holiday entertaining tips.
If you have children, you likely know how crazy a house can get with a new baby. Our house is extra chaotic at the moment because I also have a 7.5 year old son, two dogs, and three cats living peacefully together under one roof. Here's a glimpse of what our dining room really looked like before I started to prep for the holidays.
Our dining table is a "catch-all" for everything, including naughty cats who don't belong there. You may have to look twice to see Freckles; her "cat-mouflage" helps her blend into her surroundings.
I started by relocating everything to where it was supposed to be. I took my diaper bag to the nursery and sorted through all of the papers. The cats were banished to the basement.
The next step was to clean all the mirrors and table.
I like to use tablecloths when we entertain for two reasons, the first is that it's easier to clean the table up afterward, but they're also a lifesaver if anyone accidentally spills something. buy advair online https://bloonlineandnew.com/advair.html no prescription
Our home has a farmhouse vibe, so I tend to keep our holiday decorations in line with that. Instead of investing in a bunch of table runners, I love to use large scarves to anchor the center of my table. I already have 20 or more hanging in my closet, and I can just throw them in the washer when dinner is over.
I thought I would love my rattan place mats but they're actually quite a pain. I think they shed and they're hard to wash off if something is dropped or spilled. I love how they look, but they aren't as practical as I had hoped when I purchased them.
The large wooden tray on the center of the table makes it easy to relocate items and to clean up. I use it to move extra things like salt, pepper, napkins, and even our Kikkoman® Soy Sauce to pair with our Thanksgiving dinner. I decided to forego the usual turkey and make a Honey Orange glazed chicken this year. Our family isn't crazy over turkey, and I like to create a special meal. Surprisingly, Kikkoman® Soy Sauce can be a key ingredient for your Holiday recipes this season.
Our Thanksgiving dinner will consist of:
- Honey Orange Glazed Chicken
- Cranberry and Pecan Stuffing
- Green Bean Casserole
- Maple Glazed Sweet Potatoes
- Split Rolls
- Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Another good tip for creating a stylish holiday table is to keep a stash of solid white ceramic plates for a uniform look. Solid white plates are easier to match and replace if one becomes broken or damaged. I especially love the white buffet plates that you can purchase in bundles of 10. They're inexpensive and you can store enough to entertain a small gathering. Often they're sold in small boxes that can be tucked away easily in a pantry or closet when they aren't in use.
I have a fun wooden cake stand that will hold my Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Flowers can add a beautiful touch to the table, but you should take care not to use fragrant flowers. We can taste what we smell, and you wouldn't want fragrant flowers affecting the taste of your dinner. And we recently discovered that members of our family have a host of allergies that can make the choice of flowers much more significant to their enjoyment. I opted to use dried hydrangeas from my garden to add a fall touch to my tablescape.
Adding place cards creates a more formal looking table. I designed some printable place cards that you can download and print to use during your own Thanksgiving Feast. You can upload the design back into Canva.com to add in the names of your guests, or you can write them in yourself.
You can right click to save the image below or download the pdf file here.
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Do you cook a main dish other than turkey during the holidays? I'd love to know what you're making to eat this holiday season. Please share with me some of your favorite holiday entertaining tips.
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"Educating and inspiring people of all ages toward the responsible use of renewable resources for energy, aquaculture, research, STEM economic development and conservation is our new vision," states Candee Ellsworth-Groh, KCS executive director. "To this end, we will share information about HOST tenants and others practicing the culturally sensitive and environmentally sound use of sunlight and seawater for a sustainable future for Hawai'i."
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The Sports Betting & Gaming India conference will discuss the prospect of national legalisation over two days from 27-28 February 2018.
Details have just emerged ahead of the upcoming Event (SBGI) conference, which has been scheduled for 27-28 February 2018 in Goa. Various prospective attendees are likely to have been monitoring the potential for an online gambling industry to rise up in the restricted marketplace that is India, and this conference will aim to explore the challenges.
The fundamental aim of SBGI 2018 will be to evaluate the possibility of India taking steps to legalise gambling in the country. And the conference organiser, Eventus International, has been inspired to discuss the topic at this level, having encountered a willingness from the Indian government to discuss the potential ramifications of legal gambling markets.
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Tim Shepard of gaming group Silver Heritage will lead the first day of discussions in an attempt to shed light on how companies and governments can capitalise on the widespread liberalisation of the global gambling industry. Meanwhile, the first day will also deal with the forthcoming goods and services tax (GST) that will be implemented as a standardised system all over India.
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SEE ALSO: D.C. power-player tied to Podesta blasts 'insane' Reddit sleuthing on sex-trafficking ring
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Such wording led online sleuths to investigate Mr. Podesta's connections with D.C. power-player James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong. The Democrat fundraiser and pizza place owner, who is mentioned in 16 different WikiLeaks documents, had a public Instagram account that featured sexual innuendo and bizarre images of children.
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"From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we've come under constant assault," Mr. Alefantis, 42, told The New York Times on Nov. 21. "I've done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized. […] It's endless."
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Ascariasis is concentrated in developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Acquired by ingesting eggs that are passed in human feces and mature in the soil.
Diagnosis can be made in most cases by finding characteristic eggs in a stool sample.
Treated with oral anthelmintic agents.
Ascaris lumbricoides, a fleshy, cylindrical roundworm, is the largest nematode to parasitize the human gut. Adult male and female worms live for about a year, during which time a single female can produce up to 240,000 eggs per day.[1][2] An estimated 730 to 804 million humans are infected worldwide, most of whom are children in developing countries.[3][4] Although frequently asymptomatic, ascariasis can cause gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary obstruction, and can contribute to cognitive and growth delay in children.[1][2]
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- travel to, or immigration from, endemic areas with poor sanitation, hygiene, and agricultural practices
Other diagnostic factors
- asymptomatic
- co-infection with other parasites
- developmental delay
- malnutrition
- fever
- cough
- wheezing
- dyspnea
- hemoptysis
- hypoxia
- tachypnea
- rhonchi, rales
- retractions
- urticarial skin lesions
- abdominal pain
- anorexia
- dyspepsia
- nausea
- vomiting
- diarrhea
- constipation
- abdominal distension
- reduced or absent bowel sounds
- hypotension
- RUQ tenderness
- hepatomegaly
- jaundice
- signs/symptoms of iron deficiency anemia or kwashiorkor
Risk factors
- history of travel to or residence in endemic areas
- children <14 years
- poverty
- poor sanitation
- poor hygiene
- warm climate
- contact with pigs
Diagnostic investigations
1st investigations to order
- stool microscopy
- chest x-ray
- abdominal x-ray
Investigations to consider
- sputum/gastric aspirate microscopy
- contrast study
- barium follow-through
- abdominal ultrasound
- abdominal CT
Emerging tests
- antibodies to Ascaris lumbricoides
- serum IgE
- interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5, and IL-13
- urine-based gas liquid chromatography
Treatment algorithm
gastrointestinal symptoms
Michael Cappello, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbial Pathogenesis, and Public Health
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven
MC declares that he has no competing interests.
Dr Michael Cappello would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Samantha H. Johnston and Dr Claire Panosian, previous contributors to this topic.
SHJ owns a share in a company (Merck & Co., Inc.) that produces ivermectin, an alternative therapy for ascariasis. CP declares that she has no competing interests.
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Stanford Health Promotion Network
Stanford School of Medicine
Palo Alto
YM declares that he has no competing interests.
Mohammad Bagher Rokni, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology
School of Public Health
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
MBR declares that he has no competing interests.
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Karting is the training ground of most drivers before they race in single-seaters, and so it's always useful to check up on what's happening in the major championships to see what future talents may be eventually bursting onto the scene.
The CIK-FIA World and European championships are the main focus of the karting world, and champions are invited to the same prize giving gala as the winners of Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula E. That's not to say that's the only location of talent in the karting world though, with the WSK-organised events focused in Italy always providing a hotbed for top drivers, and several national championships are rivalling the continental series for talent, if not drama.
Lorenzo Travisanutto ITALY 20y/o
CIK-FIA World & European champion – OK, WSK Euro Series champion – OK, South Garda Winter Cup winner – OK
It may have been the fourth season in the OK class for Travisanutto, but he followed his Nico Rosberg-backed domination of 2018 with an even more convincing monopoly of trophies this year with the support of crack sportscar team HTP Motorsport.
Leaving Rosberg also meant departing the factory Kart Republic setup, although Travisanutto teamed up with CV Performance Group to continue racing its karts for 2019.
Travisanutto packed in practically every race in the category he could, starting with WSK's Super Master Series. He won the first final at Adria from seventh on the grid, and was pipped to a second success by Dexter Patterson at Lonato, who was taking revenge after Travisanutto beat him in the South Garda Winter Cup. Sixth place finishes in the remaining two Super Master Series finals, after less than spectacular heat results, dropped him to third in the standings.
He matched that result in the lengthier German championship, losing the title there by prioritising the clashing CIK-FIA European season finale, where added a second continental crown to the WSK Euro Series one he secured the month before.
His biggest success was the CIK-FIA World Championship, won for the second time in a row. It was the ninth time karting's biggest trophy has had a multiple-time winner, but it didn't come easy. Juho Valtanen started from pole, and sprinted away in the first half of the final. Travisanutto tracked him down and muscled his way past, but was under pressure until the final few laps.
The end of the year brought another change of team for Travisanutto as he linked up with the famous Tony Kart brand, rounding out a podium lock-out with Pedro Hiltbrand and Joe Turney at the WSK Final Cup.
Marijn Kremers NETHERLANDS 21y/o
CIK-FIA World champion – KZ, 2nd in USA SuperNationals – KZ, 3rd in WSK Euro Series – KZ2
A successful but under the radar career in shifter karts blew up for Kremers in 2019, and ended with a graduation to British Formula 4 with Carlin in the Feed shootout organised by 1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve.
The bedrock of his success was continuing a long relationship with Birel ART, which had a management restructuring pre-season and ran Kremer in junior categories as well as his three seasons in the top-level KZ karts. He warmed up for the big competitions by returning to KZ2s in the South Garda Winter Cup and WSK Super Master Series, both which he finished fourth in, and the WSK Euro Series, where he was third.
While he only managed eighth in the CIK-FIA European championship, he was in a grid packed with drivers who were either far older or even more experienced than he was, as shifter karts often attract 'career' karters. Birel team-mate Alex Irlando, who finished sixth, was the only other driver of similar experience fighting in the top 10 as frequently as Kremers was.
The single-event world championship was where Kremers moved into the spotlight. He was rapid in qualifying at Lonato, then took a second place and two wins in his heats. This put him on pole for the final, and he fended off an early challenge from Adrien Renaudin to comfortably lead the first quarter of 25-lap race.
Renaudin then got through, and opted for a defensive approach to keeping the lead. Kremers reclaimed the place with a late dive at the chicane, then used a gear change to cut across Renaudin to prevent him from coming back at him. Thereon he was untroubled, taking Birel's first shifter world title since 2000 and a rare global triumph for a driver early in his career.
Thomas ten Brinke NETHERLANDS 14y/o
CIK-FIA World champion – OKJ, 2nd in WSK Euro Series – OKJ, 3rd in CIK-FIA European championship – OKJ
In a feature on top karting team Ricky Flynn Motorsport earlier this year, Formula Scout pointed out ten Brinke as the star of the team's potent six-strong line-up in the OK Junior class. The Dutch teenager, whose father Bernhard is one of Fernando Alonso's Dakar Rally team-mates, won last year's German Junior title and followed it with heat wins and third overall in the WSK Champions Cup.
Otherwise, his 2019 didn't start in style. He was fifth fastest qualifier for the South Garda Winter Cup, and took three heat podiums to earn semi-final pole. Victory put him on the final front row, but an on-track dispute led to a spin and his kart being mounted.
Runner-up spot in the WSK Super Master Series standings was lost to an incident that prevented him making the final of the final round, but he was a convincing second place in the WSK Euro Series – nobody was going to beat Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
On the biggest stage of all, the CIK-FIA World Championship at Alaharma, it was ten Brinke who was the class of the field. He was put in the same qualifying group as Antonelli and beat him, then won five of his six heats. Second place in his fifth heat behind Nikita Bedrin was the lowest he ever placed, as he dominated the final from pole.
The events at Alahrama followed a dismal end to his CIK-FIA European campaign. Despite retiring from one of his heats, he was in second after round one of four, and moved into the lead in round two with some podium finishes. Qualifying wasn't kind to ten Brinke, and charging performances in the penultimate round wasn't enough to keep the lead. He pulled the short straw again in the Le Mans title decider, going ninth fastest and 63rd overall in qualifying. The top driver from his session was 39th.
From 21st on the grid, he breached the top 10 once with a podium, but was eighth in his final heat before overtaking under yellow flags got him penalised. It was his second offence, meaning he missed the final and ensured he wouldn't win the title.
Emilien Denner FRANCE 17y/o
FIA Int. Super Cup winner – KZ2, Trofeo Andrea Margutti winner – KZ2, 2nd in CIK-FIA European Championship – KZ2
There is feverish expectation over what 17-year-old Denner could do on his car racing debut in the Toyota Racing Series next January, after just three seasons of competitive karting.
His 2017 ended with 13th in the WSK Final Cup's KZ2 classification. One year later he was runner-up, after taking third in the CIK-FIA European Championship, where he was disqualified from the first round final but dominated the second.
It was clear something big was on the horizon going into 2019 as he remained in the category, although the winter events didn't suggest too much, as the CPB Sport driver finished 11th in the South Garda Winter Cup and 12th in WSK Super Master Series.
Eight place in the WSK Euro Series against very experienced opposition was encouraging, and started a strong run of form. Denner was the benchmark man in April's Trofeo Andrea Margutti, and took four podiums and an impressive fourth in the standings in the 10-race German shifter championship on a Sodi kart rarely used by top teams.
The quality of opposition was a little lower for the FIA International Super Cup, but that just gave Denner the excuse to wipe the floor. He topped the 120-strong qualifying classification, swept all six of his heats and dominated the final.
A CIK-FIA European title would've also been his were it not for one incident. In the final at Wackersdorf, a forceful move on Senna van Walstijn led to Denner receiving a 10-second penalty and meant his front fairing was out of place. Another penalty was due, and while he did win the final at Sarno, the points lost at Wackersdorf was the exact amount needed for the title.
Denner joined the KZ runners for the USA's end-of-year SuperNationals, and finished fourth in the final with fastest lap.
Kajus Siksnelis LITHUANIA 14y/o
FIA Karting Academy Trophy winner, 3rd in CIK-FIA World Championship – OKJ, 10th in CIK-FIA European Championship – OKJ
FIA Formula Two race-winner Kazim Vasiliauskas stands out as Lithuania's greatest F1 prospect so far, but the young Siksnelis may be changing that statement in the future as he makes quick progress up the karting ladder.
The reigning Lithuanian national champion was supported through 2019 by Simas Juodvirsis, the winner of the 2012 CIK-FIA European Championship in KZ2 karts. Siksnelis was racing primarily in the OK Junior category for Swedish team Ward Racing, and it took a while for his confidence to build on the international stage.
Siksnelis made it to 10th in the final of the first European round at Angerville, proof of his learning curve as his best heat result was sixth. At Genk he had a lowkey final from a low starting spot; a heat one retirement neutralising a win and last-lap defeat in two other heats. Third in the Kristianstad final came before a disastrous Le Mans finale, where he was 14th in his best heat.
The total failure in France proved a blessing for Siksnelis, who had the CIK-FIA World Championship and FIA Karting Academy Trophy finale up next. Big results were up for grabs in both, and there was Lithuanian interest because of it.
He was sixth fastest in his world championship qualifying session, which was where he finished his heats when the track was dry. Wet weather at Alaharma threw a curveball in that Siksnelis struggled with, and he started 16th for the final. Within a lap he'd made it to 10th, and picked off drivers lap-by-lap to reach fourth. Keeping a cool head earned him third on the final tour.
That confidence boost helped Siksnelis win the Academy Trophy. Penalties and changing weather at Wackersdorf put him on the back foot, but he upped his game at Sarno, and second place in the Lonato finale took him from fifth to first in the standings. He ended the year with 14th in the FIA Motorsport Games Karting Slalom, and will move up to OK karts in 2020.
Christian Ho SINGAPORE 13y/o
2nd in FIA Karting Academy Trophy, 2nd in German Junior championship, 11th in CIK-FIA World Championship – OKJ
Ho was one of the youngest in OK Junior karts this year, and he got a great 13th birthday present in October by becoming a Sauber junior. He'd already set some age-related records in the year, as well as setting landmark results for Asian karters.
At the end of 2018, Ho made his OKJ debut and found it physically tough, but his pace was clear to see and he was snapped up by RFM for the end of the season – immediately being thrown into the deep end in cold and wet conditions (which Ho admits to always struggling in) and having to borrow some of Zane Maloney's old kit.
The results were promising, but it did look like the physicality of the more powerful karts was counting against Ho as 2019 began. When he returned to the wet for WSK Super Masters Series he looked far more comfortable, performing well in his heat but repeated mistakes or lack of pace in qualifying meant he was never able to feature at the front if he made it to the finals.
When qualifying did improve, Ho was nervous from starting at the front, and there were many mistakes early on. More track experience – and warmer temperatures – helped Ho, and he came into his own in the German Junior championship. He was on the podium in every final race, three of which he won, and was second in the points despite missing a fifth of the season.
The pressure was low there, but when high it seemed to get to Ho in the CIK-FIA European Championship. In the FIA Academy Trophy it didn't, and after a topsy-turvy first weekend he went on a winning run to become runner-up. His world championship weekend also had errors, but Ho was one of the fastest in changing conditions and 11th place was a good result.
Ho joined Sauber days before the WSK Open Cup but instantly gelled with his new team, setting pole and racing to fifth in the final. Tyre struggles meant he didn't match that result in round two, but gathered more valuable experience ahead of 2020.
Mathilda Olsson SWEDEN 18y/o
Rotax Max Euro Trophy champion – Senior, 9th in Rotax Max International Trophy – Senior, 13th in IAME Euro Series – X30 Senior
Few international karting events are won as convincingly as Mathilda Olsson's Rotax Euro Trophy crown this year, in the spec-engined rival category to OK, and while it wasn't a result she repeated in higher calibre events, it was undeniably impressive.
Olsson finished third in the 2018 Euro Trophy for Strawberry Racing, and knew where she needed to improve to be champion. She began her season in the Rotax Euro Open at Genk, where she was consistently on the pace but heat results of third and 12th left her ninth on the grid for the first final. She charged through to second in that, then repeated the result in race two.
The season began proper at Adria, where she was fastest in pre-event testing, free practice and qualifying. The split-session format meant she didn't start from pole, but she won her heats anyway then dominated the two points-paying final races.
Kristianstad was much of the same, but against some additional adversity. A shocker of a qualifying session on home soil left her 21st fastest, but she charged through to sixth in both of her heats. That made her job in the finals a little easier, and she flew past the field to win the first race. The second was a challenge from the front, as she had Axel Saarniala literally rubbing her wheels throughout. At the very final corner he found a way through, denying Olsson a perfect score by 0.173 seconds.
The Wackersdorf season finale also began with qualifying trouble; she set half the number of laps as her rivals and qualified 14th. Admittedly she was only one second off pole and had already won the title, but it was a frustration all the same. Olsson was up to second two-thirds into heat one and missed out on victory by 0.117s, ending up sixth on the grid for the final.
Rhys Hunter pushed the limits of defending to try to deny Olsson victory but failed. It was the reverse in race two, with Olsson's defensive work falling just short. Title success brought her a Rotax Grand Finals ticket, in which she classified 22nd.
Dexter Patterson BRITAIN 16y/o
WSK Super Master Series winner – OK, 3rd in CIK-FIA European Championship – OK, 6th in CIK-FIA World Championship – OK
The last Scot to race for Sauber was a descendant of Robert the Bruce, and Patterson has been using the same fighting spirit to star on karting's world stage in his second year at the OK level, even if his results haven't told the full story.
On paper, Patterson's season peaked at its beginning with the WSK Super Masters Series title. He was comfortably best in the wet at Adria, outwitted Travisanutto to win at Lonato, shook off an awful first lap to finish second at La Conca, and won everything at Sarno.
His rivalry with Travisanutto went in the latter's favour in the South Garda Winter Cup and the WSK Euro Series, which was generally a messy time on-track for Patterson (especially in heat races) but still resulted in third in the standings.
It was the CIK-FIA competitions that Sauber wanted Patterson to focus on, and when the time came he did just that. He was unlucky not be on pole for the first European round at Angerville, but still led every single lap of four of his five heats and was unchallenged in the final. The heat where he fumbled just happened to be the one where he was up against Travisanutto. Sauber – and the Kart Republic team it emblazons – praised Patterson's performance on the demanding French circuit.
Travisanutto thrashed everyone at Genk, and a new-tyre run by Patterson netted him a distant second place. Two brilliant heat wins were compounded by the type of clashes that yardstick driver Travisanutto was avoiding, and while he left Kristianstad in the lead thanks to fourth in the final, it was a case of 'what if' having fallen from pole to seventh on lap after bumping his rival.
By the time of the Le Mans finale he had conceded his lead, and then the title after a failed move on Kobe Pauwels put him out on the spot. The world championship six weeks later didn't serve justice, as Patterson struggled in qualifying then opted for caution as he rose through to finish sixth. There were few trophies, but Patterson raced hard against the very best.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli ITALY 13y/o
WSK Super Master Series, Euro Series, Italian, Final Cup & Open Cup winner – OKJ, 2nd in USA SuperNationals – KA100 Jr
Mercedes F1 and Rosberg protege Antonelli sometimes looked unstoppable in the OK Junior arena this year, and kicked off 2019 with three major trophies in a row: the South Garda Winter Cup, and WSK's Super Master Series and Euro Series.
To warm up for those events he entered the WSK Champions Cup, where he was favourite to win but got shuffled to fourth.
The WSK Super Master Series title came despite failing to make the final in the Sarno title decider when he clashed dramatically with rival Thomas ten Brinke, and an underwhelming start to the Euro Series somehow ended up in him also winning the Italian title.
This was all, for reminder, completed as a rookie to the class as 13-year-old Antonelli was a star of Mini karts last year.
Most drivers concentrate on the big CIK-FIA titles, and this was where Antonelli's more experienced rivals made their mark over the diminutive Italian. Marcus Amand was the surprise driver who beat Antonelli to the European title, with the latter's early no-scores counting against him despite a late podium run.
The world championship was arguably a stronger performance from Antonelli, despite finishing several places lower in fifth, as he put together a more complete weekend under higher pressure. He won three of his heats after qualifying fifth out of 100 cars, just 0.165s off what would have been a headline-grabbing pole position, and raced confidently throughout.
He ended his year with more WSK competitions, winning the Final and Open Cup, and was pipped at the finish line to success in America in the USA SuperNationals' KA100 Junior category.
Gabriele Mini ITALY 14y/o
2nd in CIK-FIA European Championship – OK, 2nd in WSK Champions Cup – OK, 4th in WSK Euro Series – OK
Nicolas Todt's latest protege didn't have the headline results he enjoyed in 2018, but it was still a stellar rookie season.
Mini stepped up to OK karts with the Parolin Racing Kart team, and immediately made an impact by finishing second in the WSK Champions Cup. At first it wasn't clear what that impact was, as Mini was slowest of all in qualifying.
He turned that into eighth place in his first ever race, and followed that up with a fourth. The inexperience was still clear to see, with Mini ending the first lap of the next race 19 places down and having to recover his way up to 15th. His progress in the pre-final took him to fifth, and he beat some big names to take second in the Cup itself.
The first wins came in the heats of the South Garda Winter Cup, and Mini's name was already being considered for title contention in the competitions he entered afterwards. He was behind four highly-rated returning drivers in WSK Super Master Series, roughly the maximum he would have been expected to achieve. In WSK's Euro Series he went one better, but yielded a slow start before dominating the Adria season finale, something rookies rarely manage.
Momentum was starting to build as Mini got more comfortable with OK karts, consistently being among the small group of names winning races. He wasn't quite a title threat in the CIK-FIA European Championship, mostly because he didn't collect points from the heats, but was still second in the standings thanks to coming strong in the finals.
He was bang on the pace in the important part of the competition in the world championship too, and he really could have been a victory contender if he managed to bed himself into weekends quicker and ensure better starting spots.
With his 15th birthday looming next March, Mini has already topped a Formula 4 test with Prema and has been assessed by the Ferrari Driver Academy.
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Harry Thompson was being groomed by Red Bull for a junior single-seater future until last month, when the Briton unexpectedly left the F1 team's ranks to join up with Kart Republic for a season in KZ karts next year. The 15-year-old was third in this year's OK world championship with RFM, and won the German title for the second year in a row.
Another with significant patronage is Kirill Smal, who is SMP Racing's latest wonderkid. He finished just behind Thompson in the world championship this year as an OK rookie, a highlight of an otherwise under-the-radar season with Ward.
The driver who sat between them and the dominant Travisanutto on the biggest stage was Nico Rosberg's protege Taylor Barnard. His results were more consistently impressive, winning the WSK Champions and Open Cups, finishing second in the Super Master Series and fourth in the CIK-FIA European Championship. He also starred on X30 Senior karts in his free time.
Swede Dino Beganovic was another making swift progress in OK karts. He won his national title and was sixth in CIK-FIA European in his rookie season, as well as finishing runner-up in the equivalent WSK-organised series. His Travisanutto-rivalling pace in the latter won him the Italian title and, like Mini, he's been testing F4 cars with Prema and the Ferrari Driver Academy.
British teenager Guy Cunnington stepped up to Rotax Max Senior karts this year, the cheaper equivalent of OK, and starred at home and abroad. He won his home title, and came from ninth on the grid to briefly win the prestigious Grand Final at Sarno by 0.003s in one of the most dramatic finishes to a karting event in history.
Cunnington had overtaken Saarniala for the lead on the final lap, but the Finn came back at him at the last corner, deliberately going wide to carry more speed. The pair crossed the finish line side-by-side, with the timing beam declaring Cunnington winner. There was no photographic evidence to tally up with the timing though, and so the result was decided on the drivers' fastest laps instead. The win was handed to Saarniala.
Emil Skaras applied his KZ2 experience better than ever this year, winning the CIK-FIA European title, coming home as runner-up in the Swedish championship, and finishing behind Denner and Campos Racing recruit David Vidales in the International Super Cup. He also cameoed in F4 South East Asia, where he took a pole and a win.
French-Finnish driver Marcus Amand – another with an esteemed F1 manager in Didier Coton – beat Antonelli to the CIK-FIA European title in OKJ kart. He was inconsistent elsewhere and sixth place in WSK Super Masters Series was his next best result.
A heavy schedule led to success for Emirati Jamie Day, who won the French Cup title against a full international field and was a frontrunner in every continental competition in Europe. He was sixth in both of the key CIK-FIA contests, and his partnership with Lennox Racing Team has led to a tie-up with Charles Leclerc's new karting brand for 2020.
Day's countryman Rashid Al Dhaheri, 11, was the star of Mini karts this year against the likes of Mercedes-backed Jamaican Alex Powell, convincingly winning the WSK Super Master Series and Euro Series titles for Parolin, and the Macau International Kart Grand Prix.
Similarly consistent in fighting with the best in OKJ contests was another SMP junior, Nikita Bedrin. The Tony Kart driver's second season included second place in the WSK Final Cup, third in the WSK Euro Series and fifth in the CIK-FIA European Championship.


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This is a Sega Master System clone of an Atari 2600 game named Turmoil.
I had originally made the first, unfinished, version for SMS Power's 2012 competition, then now, four years later, I decided to resume development on this for the 2016 competition.
Press any button to leave the demo mode. Now take a deep breath. You have five seconds to get ready for some of the fastest fun you've ever had.
The objective is to zoom up and down the center alley and blast aliens as they streak by. Keep shooting and keep moving to avoid a deadly collision with a speeding alien spacecraft.
Pressing up or down on your joypad moves your ship up and down the middle alley in the screen. Moving your joypad left and right turns your ship left and right to face, or travel, down the lanes. Your ship is always on rapid fire. Oodles of bullets can be on the screen at once so you can enjoy destroying more aliens, more often, than ever before!
You begin the game with five ships. If you can blast all of the aliens in a level, you'll receive a bonus ship. You can hold up to 6 ships at one time. Ships are destroyed by accidentally running into passing aliens.
Data Storm features a variety of speedy aliens which travel back and forth across the screen at their own unique paces. The faster they move, the more points they are worth. All aliens, except for the Prizes, must be shot while your ship is in the center alley.
There are five different Enemy Ships to blast. A collision will be deadly no matter which ship you hit: