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Resident Evil 2 – Preview – The Fear Plays Along
by Mickey Bucks December 23, 2018, 10:45 am 44 Views
Four hours with Resident Evil 2: Capcom provides deep insights into the remake of his survival horror classic. This is how "Resident Evil 2" plays!
Nostalgia is something wonderful. You remember back to past video game times and moments that really excited or touched you. However, if you try out the classics of yesteryear, you will quickly become disillusioned. Often years later, the pearls of the past are no longer as supple as thought.
And that's why the trend continues with the reissues of popular gaming hits in 2019: Capcom is currently working feverishly on the completion of the remake to Resident Evil 2. The team builds the now twenty-year-old survival game based on the RE engine from scratch.
The result can already be seen before the release on January 25, 2019: Resident Evil 2 presents itself in the four-hour round of appeals as an exciting scary experience in which old-school gameplay meets modern technology and comfort features.
REFRESHED PRESENTATION
Resident Evil 2 was released in 1998 on two CDs: One dedicated to Leon Kennedy, a Claire Redfield. Of course, the new edition comes without such a disk jumble, but also offers two stories. The game takes us to Raccoon City. The city is in ruins after the outbreak of the G virus.
First, we take over the policeman Leon Kennedy. Together with the mysterious Ada Wong, they explore the streets of the city. What immediately stands out: Resident Evil 2 looks first-class.
Capcom removes the fixed camera angles of the original and instead relies on a modern pursuers perspective. As a result, the overview is usually guaranteed even indoors.
In the fights and cutscenes, Capcom shows his character models up close. If Ada is attacked by a zombie, then we experience that (almost) in our own body. The interspersed action scenes, in turn, are reminiscent of The Last of Us or Red Dead Redemption.
They look serious and far less trashy. Again and again, the game shows its figures in close-up and thus emphasizes the first-class facial expressions. Characters such as Robert Kendo, the owner of the local arms shop, appear authentically desperate and those emotions are transported Resident Evil 2 awards.
PUZZLES BETWEEN ZOMBIES
With Leon still waiting for us comparatively straightforward action gameplay, the tempo changes from as soon as we take over Ada Wong. In her arsenal is only a weapon with a few bullets. But she carries an EMF visualizer around with her. With device we make – almost as in "Batman: Arkham Asylum" – power lines visible through walls and manipulate control boxes.
Sounds simple, but thanks to the shuffling zombies, it is sometimes quite tricky. In a boiler room, we are met by three undead. Since hacking the relay stations takes time, we have to somehow slow down the walkers. So we shoot them with a few targeted shots away from the lower leg.
On the ground, the fashion bags are far less dangerous and we can make a lift from the dust. The zombies in "Resident Evil 2" are not cannon fodder. They can take three to four heads. Unless her skull bursts, they keep getting up and hunting us.
Very handy: If you go too often in one place, the game offers you the Assisted Mode. This weakens the opponents easily and also strengthens your own character. Such comfort features make the new edition playable even for beginners. Capcom invests a lot of time in the careful modernization of the original.
For example, help icons now show the often too small objects. The map and inventory also look tidier and less bulky than before. For example, icons on the map now show the location of forgotten items. In addition, Capcom loosens the storage system: Autosave points do not exist, but we do not need ribbons to store them on the typewriters.
LOTS TO DO IN RACCOON CITY
Overall, Resident Evil 2 is like a modern action adventure. However, the survival horror and especially the tricky puzzle design remain an integral part of the game. We'll find out by the time we cross Claire Redfield through the Raccoon City Police Station. We have to find the exit but quickly realize that the building is a damned labyrinth.
As usual for Resident Evil, the new edition scares us from one side of the system to the other, allowing us to collect various keys and aids. Frequently, information letters help us and reveal the location of certain objects.
Other items – such as a box – we must first examine and open before we discover the hoped treasure. Besides the objects that are relevant to the main mission, there are of course sidequests: with a bent key, for example, we open a trunk and get a new pistol.
So, how much you research about the building is up to you and your nerves. Because, of course, lurks behind every door a new meanness.
GRENADES, TYRANTS AND OTHER PROBLEMS
And with meanness, of course, we mean much worse threats than zombies. In the police station, we meet about Licker. Although these lizard-like creatures can not climb stairs, they attack at lightning speed from a distance.
With normal pistol shots is them to get along, so we use again and again the grenade launcher. We equip this with either explosives or acid bullets and thus cause appropriate damage. For new ammunition, of course, we also mix various (shooting) pills together in the course.
Combat knives and stun grenades proved to be very practical. If we get a zombie or a licker, we can use these weapons with a simple push of a button and take less damage. With continuous playing time, we spend more and more time in the inventory.
Claire owns twelve inventory slots during this phase. However, we also quickly collect many objects. So at some point, we have to decide which items to take with us and put away unnecessary items in the supply box.
However, sheer panic comes on the first appearance of the tyrant. This colossus is indestructible and follows Claire throughout the building. His loud steps announce his arrival and put pressure on us to solve riddles.
If the Tyrant comes too close, he hits hard and throws Claire in the air. Luckily it's slow enough that we can escape its clutches again and again. Shortly before the end of the session, Capcom allows a quick look into a brand new section: This is dedicated to Sherry and the orphanage. More will not be revealed at this point.
The four hours with Resident Evil 2 make you want more. Capcom skillfully brings its survival horror classic to the year 2019 and trumps with contemporary technology, but also with great attention to detail.
The new comfort features such as the relaxed storage system blend in seamlessly and do not destroy the retro charm of the adventure. At the same time, "Resident Evil 2" feels different due to its puzzles and level architecture – and in a good way.
Friends of the groomed horror may, therefore, look forward to a cheap trip to Raccoon City at the beginning of the year. This remake will (hopefully) do justice to the reputation of the original.
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Back to school starts off pretty well at our house...for about the first week or so. My daughter is always excited in the beginning and gets up even before we do and is ready to go by the time we're up. My 1 1/2 year old and 4 year old seem to cooperate too the first week, and for the most part we have smooth mornings with my daughter getting out to school in plenty of time.
But soon, really soon, our 'honeymoon' period is over and hectic mornings set in with my daughter not getting up without me calling her about three times with some threats of various sorts thrown in. Alarm clocks mysteriously stop working, my little ones no longer decide to cooperate, homework goes missing, as do shoes, and the last thing we can think about is breakfast.
But knowing how important breakfast is for everyone, but especially kids heading off to school, I am always on the lookout for easy quick nutritional breakfasts my daughter can eat, even if it's in the car on the way to school. So here are a couple of things that I try and keep around for those mornings that are especially hectic.
Keep baggies filled with nuts, dried fruits, whole grain cereal, and raisins. On even the worst mornings, these are easy to grab and take in the car and at least get a few bites of nutrition before school starts. It is also a good idea to fill a water bottle every night before bed that can be easily grabbed as well as you all head out the door!
Another yummy but quick breakfast idea is to keep sliced bananas, strawberries and blueberries in a sealed plastic bag in the freezer. Grab the bag and let defrost slightly while everyone is getting dressed, looking for homework, shoes, hairbrushes, etc. (you know the drill,lol), and then toss the fruit into the blender, add about 1/2 cup milk, and blend. This will be thick so you may want to serve with a spoon.


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There is something I want. Something I have wanted for several years now, but I don't yet have it. Can anyone relate?
Every so often, I find myself bargaining with God.
Me: God, if you let me have this one thing…just think of how much extra time I will have to devote to you…I could attend a Bible study, maybe even teach one…I could join the choir…I could…and on and on it goes.
Now I know that this is not the proper attitude to have. But, I'm just telling you, sometimes this is the road my heart leads me down.
Every day around 5:30 p.m. my world is a little crazy. I have just walked in the door from work and I'm trying to get supper ready and throw a load of laundry in and give the appropriate amount of attention to two children who have not seen their mommy all day. I know I'm not telling you moms out there anything new, but…it's a stressful time. Emily wants a drink. Ella wants to be held. Emily wants a snack. Ella wants to be held. Emily wants to play play-doh. Ella wants to be held.
Boy, am I thankful that God never says that. Never does He say: "Okay, Stacy, you've reached your limit. Do not ask me for anything else." I mean, God wants us to come to him with our needs and desires. How awesome is that? That there is no limit to how many times we can come to God.
Yet, I believe, it would bless God's heart to know that if He never gave me another thing…I would love Him anyway. Because, after all, nothing He could give to me now could compare to what He already gave when He watched His Son die upon the cross.
So…I am going to continue to place my requests at the foot of the throne because God loves me and wants good things for me. But I also know that, if He never gave me another thing other than what He already has…I would love Him anyway.
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Rent-to-own schemes are back in Dubai's property market
As more new homes get ready, developers offer low down payments and monthly installments
Rent to buy a home in Dubai… More units are being delivered and developers are pivoting to these schemes to interest potential buyers.
Dubai: 'Buy a new home in Dubai for AED 2,500 a month…' – these marketing messages or versions of it are once again appearing in messages and emails of residents and investors.
And there's one common link to all such reach outs – go for rent-to-own schemes. Developers in Dubai, and there are more of them thinking on these lines, with projects near completion are going all out to push these options to prospective buyers.
"Anything that's nearing completion between now and March next year is fair game for rent-to-own," said an estate agent. "The strategy is straight-forward – keep the monthly installment as low as possible and that's the key."
But it's not just that – for the project being offered at Dh2,500 a month, the offer is for a buyer to pay 15 per cent upfront and the rest over seven years. The target completion date for the project, located at Al Barsha South, is set for December. Prices start at Dh485,000.
Why push now?
Local developers were banking on a demand surge in the second-half of the year, timed to coincide with the original schedule of the Dubai Expo 2020 (which will now be held next year). A lot of the upcoming completions were set with the mega-event opening this year. But the pandemic changed all that, and developers are now making alterations in their selling ways.
This is where rent-to-own can come in handy. The belief is that more residents would consider switching to property ownership if they feel paying landlords don't make financial sense any longer.
So, the best alternative would be to convince these potential buyers with rent-to-own.
Tried before
This was the same playbook a few developers used in 2010-11, when the property market was still feeling the effects of the 2009 downturn. But these schemes didn't catch on as expected and was placed in storage… until now.
This time, the sentiments are that such schemes are here to stay.
"They are becoming increasingly popular for residents wanting to convert their rent installments (or some portion of it) towards a purchase," said Sameer Lakhani, Managing Director at Global Capital Partners. "This augments cashflows for developers as well as allows tenants to have greater flexibility without having the need to put in significant down payment.
"But the devil is always in the details – individuals will have to read the contents of the contract clearly as there is some latitude [on how developers interpret it]. They should seek guidance that is readily available from RERA to avoid any disputes that may arise down the line."
Market primed for ready
Around 6,000 new homes were delivered in the first six months, and most industry sources suggest another 6,000-8,000 units would be ready in the second-half, with November and December likely to see a rush of completions.
So, rent-to-own schemes will be around for a while. And those developers that aren't offering one are still having plans that drastically reduce the upfront payments expected of the buyer.
There are now ready homes being advertised with 10- or 15 per cent down payment and with the rest of it to be paid off in eight or 10 years. (Discounts on Land Department fees and other mandatory payments are also part of the package.)
A WIN-WIN?* During the rental period, the buyer can save money to pay the balance of the purchase price or to arrange a mortgage. He does not have to pay the seller an initial large upfront deposit, as is the case in most deferred sales arrangements/post-handover payment plans.
* The buyer will also have the benefit of the protections afforded to tenants under law just as in a normal tenancy agreement, according to an Afridi & Angell update.
Those wanting to go the rent-to-own way do have ample safeguards offered to them by the Dubai Land Department. These transactions have to be registered with the government agency, according to a recent update from Afridi & Angell, the law firm.
"The Land Department maintains the registration system for such rent-to-own arrangements, and it requires fees to be paid by the seller and the purchaser before registration will be accepted," the report notes.
For the buyer
On a rent-to-own deal, the buyer will need to pay:
* 2 per cent of the sale value and 0.25 per cent of the rental value;
* Dh250 title deed issuance fee;
* Dh100 fee for issuance of land map (Dh250 if it is a villa or apartment);
* Dh40 knowledge fee at the rate of Dh10 per fee;
* Dh40 innovation fee at the rate of Dh10 per fee.
For the seller
The seller in such transactions will have to shell out (unless the sale deed suggests otherwise):
* 2 per cent of the sale value;
* Dh10 knowledge fees; and
* Dh10 innovation fees.
Government fees
For the registration, these fees will need to be paid:
If the sale value exceeds or is equal to Dh500,000, then Dh4,000 is payable; and
* If the sale value is less than Dh500,000, then Dh2,000 is payable.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in continued uncertainty in the real estate market," the Afridi & Angell report states. "As a result, we expect that developers will continue to offer rent-to-own schemes in order to provide an affordable alternative to purchasing."OPTING OUT OF A RENT-TO-OWN SCHEME* The buyer is permitted to occupy the property under a tenancy agreement with an option to purchase at the end of the term. If the purchaser chooses not to purchase the property, then the contract terminates at the end of the term just as a normal tenancy agreement would, according to the Afridi & Angell update.
* But this is subject to the buyer forfeiting a prescribed amount (known as the option fee) and the rent paid. Given the risk of forfeiture, the purchaser should ensure that it carefully negotiates these amounts in the tenancy agreement.
Source: Manoj Nair, Business Editor, Gulfnews, https://gulfnews.com/business/property/rent-to-own-schemes-are-back-in-dubais-property-market-1.1597375073519
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This Artist's Oil Paintings of Women Are Considered the Most Realistic in the World
By Jessica Stewart on July 2, 2019
Creating portraits that are startlingly lifelike, Chinese artist Leng Jun is a master of hyperrealism. The accomplished painter is particularly known for his detailed oil paintings of women, where every wisp of hair and fiber of clothing is rendered to perfection. Born in 1963, Leng came of age during a time of great economic reform known as the Opening of China. This great cultural change, and the Western influences it introduced, greatly influenced his art.
Interested in painting from a young age, he first experimented with oil paint while in middle school. Though no oil paints were readily available in China at the time, a friend gave him a few colors to experiment with. These early experiments stayed with him and so he continued his studies with a steady flow of information from the West helping to shape and mold him as a painter.
"For people like me who were born around the 1960s, we were teenagers at the time when we formed our worldview. That was a great opportunity. Looking back, reform and opening-up really saved the soul of our generation," said Leng. "At the time, information coming from the West greatly contributed to the enlightenment of our people. It also laid a very solid foundation for my later creations."
Though he was well respected as an artist prior, it was after his 2004 oil painting titled Mona Lisa that his work went viral. This photorealistic portrait of a woman was based on the principles of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting but depicts a modern woman. This work was followed by a series of photorealistic portraits of women, each more detailed than the next. By examining the details, one can appreciate the precise brushstrokes that pull out each aspect of the sitter.
While there is some criticism that these works look too much like photographs, Leng maintains that anyone seeing the paintings in person won't be deceived. It's not his intent to compete with or imitate a photograph, but rather he'd like to push his art to its limits. By balancing technical skill with the ability to bring emotion to his paintings, he's been able to touch people around the world.
"I want to push my painting skills to a higher level. What is the most difficult thing? To paint people," Leng told CGNT. "For example, still life or rusted metals, they're not something we see every day. People deal with people the most and people are most familiar with people. To portray people and make others believe is the hardest thing."
Chinese painter Leng Jun is known for his hyperrealistic portraits of women.
Every detail of the model, from wisps of hair to fibers of clothing, is rendered with precise detail.
Leng's first foray into photorealism was his 2004 oil painting, Mona Lisa.
He has continued his hyperrealistic work across a series of paintings that have been highly successful.
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The lovely folks at the Arndale Centre in Manchester have kindly invited Toni and I to go along and take part in the Flash Mob Fashion Event taking place this weekend.
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Otto Riedel (* 8. Jänner 1906 in Klosterneuburg; † 18. August 1991 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Maler und Zeichner. Sein künstlerisches Schaffen war geprägt von vielen verschiedenen Techniken, von der Skizze über die Tuschzeichnung, Aquarelle, Öl- und Acrylbilder bis hin zu Holz- und Metalldrucken.

Otto Riedel war viel auf Reisen. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde er von den Dörfern Russlands und Frankreichs zum Zeichnen inspiriert. Seine intensive Schaffenszeit begann in den 1950er Jahren, die mit vielen Reisen nach Italien, Griechenland, Jugoslawien, Türkei, aber auch in den Norden verbunden war.

Zahlreiche Ausstellungen in Österreich und Deutschland machten sein Werk bekannt. Persönliche Auszeichnungen erfuhr er durch die langjährige Präsidentschaft des Klosterneuburger Künstlerbundes (KKB), die Verleihung des österreichischen Professorentitels und zahlreicher anderer Ehrungen wie der medaille d'argent bei der Europa-Ausstellung in Brüssel, des Kulturpreises der Stadt Klosterneuburg und der Rudolf-von-Alt-Ehrung des Künstlerhauses, zu dessen Ehrenmitglied er 1981 ernannt wurde.

1991 verstarb er und wurde am Oberen Stadtfriedhof in Klosterneuburg beigesetzt.

Riedel hat eine unverwechselbare Art der Architekturzeichnungen sowie des Holz-, Linol- und Metalldruckes entwickelt und hinterließ ein umfangreiches Werk an Zeichnungen, Drucken, Aquarellen und Ölbildern.

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 Otto Riedel, akademischer Maler Artikel mit Bildbeispielen auf der Website der Klosterneuburger Kultur-Gesellschaft  (eingesehen 9. April 2012)

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Maputo, Mozambique, 22 Nov – The Mozambican National Energy Fund (Funae) has launched a public tender to hire a company to build fuel supply stations in rural areas, Macauhub has learned from a spokesperson.
The project is expected to take six months to build once the tender has been awarded.
The fuel stations will be built in 17 rural districts in the south, centre and north of the country.
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'The issue is almost exclusively Palestine': Palestine and British By-Elections
British Democracy	Empire	Middle East	Palestine	by Paul Simpson	on June 28, 2021 add comment	1486 views
Keir Starmer's tenure as Labour leader looks increasingly insecure. After losing last month's by-election in Hartlepool, defeat in the upcoming Batley and Spen by-election would be a significant blow and might well trigger a leadership challenge.
Rather unexpectedly, Palestine has become the most prominent issue in an election campaign in the heart of the so-called 'Red Wall'. Former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway has placed Palestine at the centre of his campaign as Workers' Party candidate, and his criticisms of the Labour leadership's response to the recently proposed forced evictions in East Jerusalem and the subsequent Israeli airstrikes on Gaza appear to be resonating with some voters. The Times journalist Patrick Maguire quoted a local Labour source as saying 'The issue is almost exclusively Palestine… On Friday evening, Galloway had been around 45 minutes before us in one of our stomping grounds. Nobody wanted to speak to us.'
This development has prompted a response from Labour locally and nationally. The party's candidate Kim Leadbeater has distributed a leaflet which appears to criticise her own party leadership, stating that '[t]he British government must do more. I will ensure Labour is more vocal on this. I will be your strong national voice on Palestine in parliament, to government and within the Labour Party.' Some have even argued that Starmer's recent question in the House of Commons on Palestinian statehood was intended to bolster Labour's support in the by-election where one in five voters in the town of Batley are British Muslims.
This is not the first time that Palestine has become a topic for Labour at a recent by-election: Galloway himself has highlighted his pro-Palestinian record in his shock victory in Bradford West in 2012, but anger at Labour's support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were then arguably more salient factors. While it is unlikely that Galloway can repeat such a feat, he may well secure the votes of a sufficient number of traditionally Labour-supporting electors to ensure a Conservative victory.
Delving further into the past, we can see that British policy in Palestine has been a central issue in various electoral contests, albeit for very different reasons. In November–December 1930, a by-election campaign was waged in Whitechapel and St George's, an area where one in three voters were Jews.[1] Just four days before the by-election was called due to the death of the sitting Labour MP, the Labour government had issued its White Paper on Palestine–then a British Mandate–which proposed restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine. The policy was met with ferocious opposition from the Zionist movement, from British opposition parties, and from some elements within the Labour movement itself. The White Paper, authored by Colonial Secretary Sidney Webb, was issued after official inquiries by the Shaw Commission and the Hope-Simpson Enquiry into the causes of prolonged inter-communal violence between Jews and Arabs that had broken out in August 1929.
A group photograph of the members of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929, commonly known as the Shaw Commission, that was established to investigate the 1929 Palestine Riots which caused the deaths of 243 Jews and Arabs. Source: Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons
The main threat to Labour in the by-election came from the Liberal Party. Barnett Janner, a leading activist in the English Zionist Federation, was chosen as the Liberal candidate. His election address emphasized his longstanding commitment to Zionism and claimed that his party was 'at the forefront of the fight' against the White Paper, which he regarded as reneging on the British pledge made in the 1917 Balfour Declaration to create a Jewish National Home in Palestine.[2] When Liberal leader Lloyd-George strongly criticised the government's proposals in the House of Commons, one Labour MP accused him of having 'one eye on the Mount of Olives and the other on a [Jewish] part of the East End of London where a by-election is about to take place.'[3]
In response to Janner, the Labour candidate James Hall issued a special leaflet which insisted that the Labour government was still committed to creating a Jewish National Home.[4] He also informed the party's Labour-Zionist affiliate Poale Zion that if elected he would vote against his own government if it sought to implement the White Paper.[5] Satisfied by these reassurances, Poale Zion backed Hall's campaign, a decision that was so controversial that when Poale Zion leaders addressed a meeting in support of Labour, police protection was required to ensure the rally could go ahead.[6]
Labour also faced a challenge from the far left. The Communist Party of Great Britain was resolutely anti-Zionist and viewed the events of August 1929 as a legitimate anti-colonial revolt. Harry Pollitt stood as the Communist candidate and his election address strongly criticised the Balfour Declaration, and when asked whether he believed in Palestine for the Jews, Pollitt replied that he believed in 'the world for the workers'.[7]
In the end, Labour held the seat but had its majority significantly reduced, with Janner finishing a strong second. Pollitt's respectable performance indicated some Jewish voters were prepared to support an explicitly anti-Zionist party; a reminder that minority communities are not monolithic. In February 1931, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald essentially annulled the White Paper, although as Paul Kelemen points out, the Whitechapel and St Georges by-election was not the main factor in this decision.[8]
Nevertheless, this case does demonstrate how for almost a century, Palestine has at times had significant implications in a British electoral context. The way the issue has featured, however, has dramatically changed, in conjunction with the make-up of the British electorate. For the duration of the Mandate years (1920-1948), British voters were by and large not sympathetic to the Arab Palestinian nationalist cause. But with the large-scale migration of South Asians, particularly Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Kashmiris, (along with broader shifts in public opinion) the Palestinians now have a supportive voting bloc in some parts of the UK. Indeed, the parliamentary constituency which now represents the area of Whitechapel has shifted from having a sizable Jewish population to becoming one of the largest British Muslim electorates.
Still, in these differing examples from different moments in history, we do see common threads: intra-party disputes; political leaders intervening in foreign policy driven primarily by domestic concerns; candidates challenging their own party leadership in order to secure elections; and the sudden electoral significance of otherwise disregarded minority communities—Jews in 1930 and Muslims today. More importantly, these instances serve as case studies that demonstrate how Britain's past as a colonial power and its present status as an active player in the Middle East means that our understanding of the interplay between British political history and contemporary politics in Britain can never solely be confined to the local or national arena.
Dr Paul T. Simpson is an Academic Tutor in Modern History at the University of Sunderland. His PhD examined the Independent Labour Party and Palestine, c. 1917-1939.
Cover image: Jews flee the Old City of Jerusalem during the 1929 Palestine Riots. Source: Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons
[1] Geoffrey Alderman, Modern British Jewry (Oxford, 1988), p. 268.
[2] Jewish Chronicle, 28 November 1930.
[3] Hansard, House of Commons debates, 17 November 1930, vol. 245, col. 164.
[5] Elaine R. Smith, 'East End Jews in Politics 1918-1939: A Study in Class and Ethnicity', PhD Thesis, (University of Leicester, 1999), p. 192.
[6] Joseph Green, A Social History of the Jewish East End in London, 1914-1939 (London, 1991), p. 435.
[7] Elaine R. Smith, 'East End Jews in Politics 1918-1939', pp. 195-196.
[8] Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism (Manchester, 2012), p. 23.
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Q: Troubleshooting MySQL to MSSQL PHP Query Translation and Speed Firstly, if this is not the place for this type of question then please let me know and I will delete it.
OK, so I have a MySQL PHP query translation class that translates to MSSQL among other databases. The following test file produces the following results (Debugging enabled)
Test_File.php
include 'session_handler.php';
include 'database_connection.php';
$result = $db->query("SELECT * FROM industries LIMIT 5");

MySQL Results:
Query time was 0.00622892379761 seconds for:
SELECT * FROM industries LIMIT 5
Query time was 0.000350952148438 seconds for:
SELECT "session_id" FROM "sessions" WHERE "session_id" = '58'
Query time was 0.000293016433716 seconds for:
UPDATE "sessions" SET "value" = 'x', "expiration" = '0' WHERE "session_id" = '58'
Total query time: 0.00848698616028 seconds

MSSQL Results
    Query time was 0.21740579605103 seconds for:
SELECT
                c.table_schema AS "schema",
                c.table_name   AS "table",
                c.column_name  AS "column",
                c.data_type    AS "type"
        FROM
                INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS c
        WHERE
                (c.data_type = 'nvarchar' OR
                 c.data_type = 'ntext' OR
                 c.data_type = 'nchar') AND
                c.table_catalog = DB_NAME()
        ORDER BY
                lower(c.table_name) ASC,
                lower(c.column_name) ASC
Query time was 0.21066212654114 seconds for:
SELECT TOP 5 *, CAST("industries"."industry" AS VARBINARY(MAX)) AS fmssqln__industry FROM industries
Query time was 0.21116590499878 seconds for:
SELECT "session_id" FROM "sessions" WHERE "session_id" = '58'
Query time was 0.21582698822021 seconds for:
UPDATE "sessions" SET "value" = x, "expiration" = '0' WHERE "session_id" = '58'
Total query time: 1.7053256034851 seconds

As you can see the MySQL query is extremely quick, whilst the converted query (converted by the class) take almost 2 seconds.
I don't know anything about the syntax of MSSQL so I am not sure if the converted query is as optimised as it could be?
So my questions are - is the converted MSSQL query a correct translation from the MySQL query, and where should I start to troubleshoot the speed issue?
Additional Information:
The MSSQL and MySQL database and tables are identical, content and schema wise.
Thanks

A: could be the driver that PHP is using? Maybe SQL Server is just slower.  Are you using Express? It has limitations on the resources it can use.  Try the queries in SSMS and stick this at the top to get the query timings:
SET STATISTICS TIME ON

Limitations of Express are listed here.  So CPU is 1 socket, or 4 cores (which ever is less) and RAM is limited to 1GB.

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Many credit card companies, which had offered no-annual-fee accounts, are now slipping in charges. In many cases, the card companies are trying to "test" how much you love your credit card, and how much money you're willing to fork over to keep it, according to Marketwatch.
In July 2009, median advertised interest rates on cards from the 12 largest credit unions were between 9.90 and 13.75 percent annually, depending on a consumer's credit profile approximately 20 percent lower than comparable bank rates. Meanwhile, credit union penalties were generally less severe than those of banks.
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As you probably know, I pay my balances every month, and am not foolish enough to get cash advances from this account. That should suggest to you that I manage my finances relatively conservatively. I wish you had.
As I understand it, your industry is not raising your fees to confiscatory levels because of new credit laws. That's just a coincidence. Your industry says you're trying to recoup massive losses from your customers.
Whatever the reason, during these difficult economic times, I'm sure you understand that I cannot enter into any business agreement with financial institutions that are so clearly in peril. For that reason, I am rejecting the changes per the terms of this account, which we agreed to when you were a more solvent institution.
You are certainly free to close the account, although I can't say I understand why you'd want to. Customers who use your card, allow you to skim the purchase price from merchants. Customers who pay their bills on time do not seem to be the people responsible for bringing you to the apparent precipice of bankruptcy.
No doubt, when that occurs, you'll be seeking a bailout from me – the taxpayer. So this letter is to inform you that when that time comes, you will immediately be charged 25.9% for the cash advance, and 22.9% for any outstanding balance each month. Trust me, you don't want to know the late payment fee. On the other hand, I will offer you the same reward your credit card statement offered me this month: A discount on Beano tablets. Enjoy!
Please be sure I'm taken off the mailing list for your daily solicitations for me to become an account holder again. You had your chance.
Your pen cuts deep, sir.
You mean – there's gonna be some sort of risk involved with offering unlimited credit to people? That must be one of the definitions of Communism or something!
Seriously – excellent work, hope it gets noticed!
I myself am happy with my credit union membership. After years of being jerked around by Bank of America, Washington Mutual and TCF, discovering my credit union felt like a true safe haven. No more confusing and exorbitant fees! I also got rid of all my conventional credit cards in favor of my credit union card. Reading about all the arbitrary rate increases has made me happy I bailed out years ago.
Bravo! I have venting of spleenness envy!
I hope you don't mind if I borrow this idea?
Wow, I wish I'd written this letter–a masterpiece! I'm happy with my credit union too.
A gem of a letter, Bob! I've been quietly stewing about this for the past couple months so I may do as Joanna did and borrow your idea!


The first meeting with representatives of International Media Support (IMS), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), and Miriam College at the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) has been encouraging.
International Media Support (IMS) is a non-profit organization based in Denmark. They primarily work on strengthening the media's ability to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. The organization does this by enhancing local media skills through a variety of seminars, activities, training and advocating media rights.
Jola Diones-Mamangun, Lynda Garcia and Ronalyn Olea, the executive members of IAWRT - Philippines, attended along with UNESCO Communication and Information Advisor, Dr. Ming-Kuok Lim, from the Jakarta office, Therese San Diego-Torres as a representative of Miriam College and AIJC and Henriette Borg Reinholdt, the Assistant Programme Manager of IMS.
The representatives of the four organizations discussed the importance of training journalists regarding their safety. One of the eight focuses of IMS is Safety in Journalism and IAWRT also has that focus, conducting safety training for members and launching the first edition of its Safety Handbook for Women Journalists in Quezon City last year. IMS has conducted training on how journalists can protect themselves and report professionally under different circumstances. Ms. Borg Reinholdt mentioned that IMS particularly wanted to train rural journalists who are exposed to dangers when reporting in difficult situations and under pressure. Many of their stories were told at the 2017 IAWRT biennial in the Philippines.
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The jury of BAMB's Reversible design competition
Below follows short biographies of the Jury members for BAMB's Reversible design competition.
Luís Bragança
Luís Bragança is PhD, MSc and Licentiate in Civil Engineering and is Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering of University of Minho, Portugal. He is the coordinator of the international post-graduation programs (PhD and MSc) in Sustainable Built Environment and the director of the Building Physics and Construction Technology Laboratory. His main areas of interest are Sustainable Construction Development (sustainability assessment tools, life-cycle analysis, sustainable building technologies and sustainable rehabilitation of buildings), Building Physics, Building Acoustics and the Rational Use of Energy in Buildings. He participates actively in the national and international standardizing work concerning Sustainable Construction, Building Thermal Performance and Building Acoustics.
Throughout his career he participated in 33 R&D projects (10 as leader or co-leader) and in more than 200 consultancy works for industry and private clients. The coordination of the European Project "Sustainability of Constructions – Integrated Approach to Life-time Engineering" is worth to be highlighted and the most recent R&D projects he coordinates are the Ibero-American Projects "URBENERE – Energy Efficient Urban Communities" and "CIRES – Sustainable, Eco-efficient, Resilient and Inclusive Cities". He is author or co-author of 3 registered patents and more than 400 publications, including books, chapters of book, keynote lectures, papers and articles in international and national conferences and journals, 134 of which have been published in prestigious international journals with high impact factor (63 papers indexed in ISI/WoS; 67 papers indexed in Scopus; Scopus h-index = 9).
Professor Luís Bragança is the President of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) since 2011.
Elma Durmesevic
Elma Durmesevic, is a founder and leader of Centre for Green Transformable Buildings in the Netherlands, founder of Sarajevo Green Design Foundation, head of the 4D Architects office in Amsterdam and executive board member of Dutch Building Innovation Platform Boosting. Dr.Elma Durmišević holds a PhD at the Delft University of Technology on Transformable Building Structures, and Design for Disassembly as a way to introduce green engineering into building design and construction.
Durmisevic Initiated a consortium for the development and construction of a Green Transformable Building Laboratory in The Netherlands, is a Chair of workgroup of Innovation Platform Twente, cluster construction, Member of the Board of Innovation platform for architecture and construction in the Netherlands SLimBouwen, member of number of juries and scientific comities, reviewer of scientific books and journals, was a project leader of number of innovation projects at the Technical University of Delft, has developed number of innovative building systems and measurement tools for sustainable architecture and construction which were published in international books, scientific journals, conference papers, was a key note speaker at major international events on green design and architecture and lecturer at the world leading institutions and conferences. Durmisevic developed a curriculum the new master program for green engineering at the University of Twente. Durmisevic indicates that dynamic changes in use of buildings coupled with growing environmental issues will require fundamentally different way of building design in the future.
Her design portfolio includes urban planning projects, multifunctional buildings and sports facilities, offices, villas and flexible and energy saving building systems. Here workshops with students evolved into ongoing International Design Studios for development of multifunctional and transformable buildings with University of Delft and later on with Universities Twente, Sarajevo and Yldiz. Durmisevic is a main architect and manager of number of big and medium scale green architectural works which were published in international books and journals.
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Lars Luscuere, Msc. is Scientific Project manager at EPEA Nederland B.V. He is project manager and co-developer of the Horizon 2020 Buildings as Material Banks (BAMB) project. In this project he leads the development of Materials Passports as a tool to move towards a Circular Economy.
Lars has a background in Human Technology and Industrial Ecology, studying the application of Circularity to sociotechnical systems. He graduated Human Technology on an innovative method for measuring sustainability related ambitions at the CEO-level, and Industrial Ecology with a sociotechnical perspective analysis on the resiliency of the Dutch electricity grid with regards to climate change and its effects.
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Teodora r. Capelle, as a participant to the H2020 Research project "Building as Material Banks", Teodora CAPELLE is actively following the development and the results of the pilot projects teams in charge with testing circular building design during different construction phases from prototyping to the building phase. Working together with partners and stakeholders in a co-creational process she gathers insights about the necessary actions and interactions within the value chain, the market and business opportunities to achieve effective circular results, such as waste reduction, and natural resources preservation.
High Honors MBA graduate from Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management and ENPC Paris Teodora studied urban planning and architecture at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Master of Architecture in Human Settlements 2005) and "University of Architecture and Urbanism, Ion Mincu", Bucharest, 2003. Since 2003, her experience has spanned both expertise and coordination of sustainable architecture and urban development projects and policies, in varied contexts. Her great efforts to develop environmental projects were awarded by the Brussels Ministry of Environment as the Laureate of Exemplary Building. As a project leader for the urban and spatial planning office BUUR (Bureau voor Urbanism, Belgium) she is currently working on circular urban planning and design projects. She is leading strategic regional development projects such as "PAD Caserne", the first circular economy ambitious regional 40000sqm project to be developed in the coming years.
Anne Paduart
Anne Paduart is postdoctoral researcher at the TRANSFORM research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). In her PhD thesis 'Re-Design for Change' (2012) she showed how transformable building design principles can lead to sustainable material and waste management in buildings, environmental and financial life cycle benefits and support a transition to a circular building economy. For this work she obtained the 4-yearly attributed Gustave Magnel prize of SECO of €10.000 for her PhD as a Prize for Sustainability.
She is currently bringing her expertise in practice by developing, prototyping and assessing innovative adaptable and reusable building solutions within, for example, the H2020 pilot 'Buildings As Material Banks'. In the 'Circular Retrofit Lab', 1 of the 6 pilot projects of BAMB, she demonstrates innovative adaptable and reusable solutions in the first circular renovation project of Belgium in collaboration with pioneers and industrial stakeholders. Also, she is currently consulting architecture offices, policy makers, engineering offices, producers and entrepreneurs on how to implement transformable building principles in architectural projects. She is also working on participative co-creation projects in which vacant buildings are occupied by the neighborhood with inclusion of circular economy activities.
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This is my third pregnancy, and it feels different. I'm doing it different. I learned the consequences of not taking care of myself while pregnant with Zander. It's not that I chose to be on the go 24/7, but rather at that time I had little respite and no night time care for Braxton. So many of my pregnant nights I was up during the night, sometimes most of the night, taking care of seizing or puking Braxton. Even if he was sleeping peacefully, I still had to be up to run his night feeds and administer meds. One of the more clear memories I have is the relief when his nurse came in the morning and I could finally go to bed and actually sleep, at 8am.
I was crazy exhausted, I fell down stairs at night numerous times, collapsed in the bathroom falling painfully against the tub, had panic attacks, none of which was healthy for baby I was carrying. I had tremendous guilt and fear. At that time Braxton wasn't doing well. He wasn't predicted to live til 2 years old and he would be 2 just a month after Zander was born. He was seizing all night, on crazy meds, the palliative team came to the house to discuss end of life plans. That stress was also not healthy for mom or baby.
When Zander decided to make his entrance into the world, Braxton was sick. We were actually in middle of packing up to take him to children's hospital when labour started and we had to change plans. On my way to hospital to deliver at 1am I was on the phone trying to arrange care for Braxton, and thankfully both Brock's mom and my mom, along with my homecare nurse, were able to keep him stable at home until I was able to get discharged as soon as possible after giving birth.
The first few months were a blur. If I thought I was exhausted before, I was barely surviving new baby sleepless nights plus Braxton's needs. Thankfully Brock took over most of Braxton's night care and we were given a night nurse 3 nights a week. Still there were hospital stays, trips to emergency, appointments and therapy. I genuinely can barely remember Zander as a newborn.
The body and brain can only take so many months of physical and mental stress, anxiety, panic attacks, sleepless nights, then it goes into a protective state, kind of a mindless blur, not really awake or asleep, not really motivated by pleasure or food or friends. It was chalked up as depression, but in my mind I just needed some decent sleep.
I really had to advocate for myself, which is hard when you are barely getting through the day. I remember many days thinking "okay I have about an half an hour of me time, I can eat, I can shower and get dressed, or I can sleep….or I can make the needed phone calls to get supports in place so tomorrow might be better." (Sleep almost always won.) But I was able to fight for respite care through FSCD and had a wonderful lady come into our lives who still works with Braxton and truly cares for my kids like her own. I also fought to keep our night nurse time through AHS and as Braxton's needs increased over the next couple years with pneumonias and bi-pap we were eventually able to get night care 7 nights a week. Finally we are not sleeping with an ear open to hear seizures over the baby monitor and getting up to do night feeds and change soiled sheets. Zander finally slept through the night after I weaned him at 21 months old. Finally I found myself, my sleep, and my happiness, again.
Now I'm pregnant with baby three. Currently I'm 14 weeks along. The first trimester really sucked. I was far more nauseous this round than with the previous kids and found I had more food adversions. Gluten left me in a ton of stomach pain, tea just wouldn't stay down. Even though I was sleeping through the nights I was far more tired than before being pregnant.
So, I take naps. As often as I can. Many days we are out all day at therapy or appointments or getting groceries. Some days the boys don't want to nap or only one does but the other needs mommy. But, on those glorious days that we are home and I have help, straight to bed for me. There is guilt that comes with this self-care. Someone else is looking after my kid while I sleep? The laundry or dishes are sitting undone, the phone calls to return are piling up, supper isn't being made! Oh well. I have learned that those things can wait, but my body cannot. I am hoping by taking it easy on myself though the pregnancy I won't burn out as fast and hard once baby three arrives. Our lives are unpredictable. I'll never know if tonight is the last night with Braxton in this world, if we will have to be in emergency tomorrow, or if a snow storm will keep us home from scheduled appointments. So the best I can do is control what I have control over, which is myself.
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A picturesque historic hill town in southern Tuscany. There are wonderful views of the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside from the walls and fortifications that surround the town.
Stone buildings, narrow streets, historical sights, restaurants and wonderful quaint shops make Montepulciano a delight to visit. The famous Renaissance church of San Bagio is nearby.
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Enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding countryside from this apartment on the top floor of an historic palazzo in the beautiful hill top town of Montepulciano.
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Several structures are available to a foreign investor who invests directly in China. One commonly-used legal entity is the WFOE, which is a limited liability company that is wholly owned by its foreign investor(s); a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. However, setting up a limited liability company does not mean that it can engage in every business activity, as the scope of business needs to be determined upon establishment. In case the limited liability company wants to expand to other kinds of business activities at a later date, it is subject to the approval of the government authorities. For this reason, it is extremely important to properly define the business scope of the company.
For those businesses that want to import and export, purchase and sell (including wholesale and retail) in China without a Chinese partner, a trading WFOE (sometimes called a Foreign-Invested Commercial Enterprise or FICE) should be established. A trading WFOE allows for a more direct relationship with Chinese suppliers and customers, and also opens to the possibility of warehousing in China. Moreover, it provides the opportunity to buy Chinese goods and sell them directly to Chinese customers, even under a foreign brand name. The WFOE is also allowed to engage in franchise activities and to take part in transactions on the basis of commissions.
Although the trading WFOE has some clear advantages, including the ability to sell to local Chinese customers and purchasing from Chinese suppliers in Chinese Yuan and to issue fapiaos, there are also some disadvantages as one needs to invest capital in order to establish the trading WFOE and the establishment procedure is complex and can take around half a year. Also one needs permission of several government authorities.
The minimum capital requirement for a (trading) WFOE is RMB 30,000 for a company with a single shareholder and RMB 100,000 for multiple shareholders. One can easily see that this amount of registered capital is rarely enough in practice to cover the start up costs. As the Chinese government has notable discretion when approving the establishment of a company, it usually demands higher amounts (usually RMB 500,000 to 1,000,000). In order to determine this amount, the government often takes into account the business scope of the company.
The trading WFOE – just like most companies in China – will be subject to corporate income tax, at a rate of 25 per cent. The basic principle for this tax is that income derived from China should be taxed in China. Besides corporate income tax, trading WFOEs are subject to value-added tax (VAT). All companies and individuals that engage in the sale, processing, distribution and/or importation of goods need to pay this tax. Companies with a revenue of more than RMB 5 million per year will be required to register as general VAT taxpayers; these companies are able to deduct input VAT and usually pay a tax rate of 6 percent, 11 percent or 17 percent, depending on the type of products. Smaller companies (revenue of less than RMB 5 million per year) can use a reduced VAT rate of 3 per cent. For trading WFOEs it is usually important to register as a general VAT taxpayer as it enables these companies to deduct input VAT from output VAT, thus reducing their tax burden.
Besides wholesale, trading WFOEs with the correct business scope can also open retail outlets to sell products to individual customers.
Online selling (or 'e-tail') has grown explosively with the development of the Internet in China. According to data of the EU SME Centre and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the number of internet users has tripled between 2006 and 2010, and China is expected to have 800 million Internet users by 2015. According to a report by McKinsey&Company of March 2013, China has become the world's second-largest online selling market "almost overnight" with revenue estimates of USD 210 billion for 2012. They state that e-tailing is not merely a substitute for offline consumption, but also complements it, thereby enlarging Chinese consumption even further.
Although these online selling developments sound promising and the law has been developed with the booming of this sector, these issues remain unclear with respect to the regulatory framework, as it still can be inconsistent and uncertain. The main authorities related to e-tail business are the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the MIIT.
Foreign companies that want to set up an online business need to consider the structure of this business. They can for example use a trading WFOE or can choose for a contractual relationship with a Chinese company to set up a website in China. For foreign companies that already have established a trading WFOE in retail it is more logical to use this WFOE. After the establishment of the trading WFOE, the foreign company must create a website through which the same range of products will be sold. An Internet Content Provider (ICP) license filing will be required, though a WFOE is not allowed to engage in delivery and online payment activities. For the delivery of the products a separate WFOE could be established which has a transportation license. As this is a complicated procedure, most online shops outsource the delivery (for example to TNT, China Post etc.). With respect to the payment, online payment platforms such as AliPay and PayPal are already widely accepted.
One can also consider engaging in online selling via a third party platform in China, like Taobao Tmall; as Chinese consumers are already familiar with these websites, it can be a good alternative. These websites usually require the payment of an annual fee.
Another option is to start up an e-tail business via a website outside China which is translated into Chinese or via a third party platform outside China. Companies that have no operations in China yet can consider this option, but due to the distance consumers might have to bear high delivery costs and the delivery speed may be low. But more importantly, the Chinese firewall causes problems for Chinese customers to visit websites outside China, which makes online shopping via these websites difficult. Moreover, the products will be treated as imports, and so imports may trigger duties and result in more complicated procedures.


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But focus on them too closely and you have the marketing equivalent of a one-night stand; you lose customers and sales because your lead gen is geared towards scoring a conversion without any mind paid to building long-term relationships with customers.
At Unbounce's Call to Action Conference, Mike King of digital marketing agency iPullRank told us the truth about lead generation: it isn't about us and our need for more conversions. It's about our audience and their needs for our solution.
Source: Mike King's CTA Conf Presentation.
There are different rates of visitation based on different personas. Also, different personas convert at different rates. Understanding which pockets of those audiences are most valuable to you is going to allow you to do lead gen effectively.
How many of you treat lead-generation like a to-do list, giving every step the same priority? Source: Mike King's CTA Conf Presentation.
You don't want to get to "done." You want to get all your steps as close to "fulfilled" as possible. And no, you shouldn't be putting the same amount of effort into each step. If you spend more time on "nurture," you shouldn't have to spend as much time on "close." Source: Mike King's CTA Conf Presentation.
And he wants you to use data-driven personas to drive that transition. Read all about how King builds personas below (or watch the presentation recording here).
If you're doing lead gen, then you're likely also building a mailing list. But King explained that you can take things a step further with services like FullContact, which allow you to collect more enriched data on contacts, such as age, social profile info and other details.
With that information on hand, it's time to go even deeper.
FullContact connects the names on your mailing list to their Twitter handles, Mike explained, so grab those handles and drop them into a social analytics site like DemographicsPro.
Once you've got mailing list and Twitter data, it's time to collect Facebook data through the site's Audience Insights feature.
The best part about Facebook Audience Insights? You can use it even if you don't have a very big mailing list yet, and even if you don't have a lot of information about your prospective customers. No matter how sophisticated your lead generation strategy is, you can still use Facebook Audience Insights to learn more about what your leads actually want.
Use Facebook Audience Insights to learn more about what your leads actually want.
Acxiom divides users into categories like "Apple Pie Families" and "Savvy Singles." Source: Mike King's CTA Conf Presentation.
Acxiom's Personicx service helps predict your customers' behaviors, which in turn helps you target your marketing.
Google Analytics's demographics include a lot of unknowns, which means it is not necessarily the best tool to capture demographic data — that's why King likes to use a combination of other services to build his personas — but it's still a smart idea to compare what you learn about your customers against the way they behave when they visit your site.
At this point, if you've completed Steps 1-4, you have the information you need to create a data-driven persona. Creating personas is worth an entire article on its own, so let me direct you to Unbounce's guide to creating personas and integrating them into your landing page. Use all of the detail from your data collection to build out your personas and make them as much like a fully fleshed person as possible.
Once you create your data-driven personas, how do you turn that model into an effective lead generation campaign?
The effectiveness of any lead generation campaign comes down to your "hook." Personas help you tailor that hook and measure segmented performance.
In other words, you want your marketing campaign to stick in your customers' minds just like they were listening to a rap hook.
You want your marketing campaign to stick in your customers' minds like a rap hook.
From there, it's a matter of figuring out where to distribute your acquisition budget, based on where your personas are, what their needs are and how you're using your hook to meet those needs.
And that's all there is to it. Sure, you have to do the work of creating and testing your hook, and you also have to nurture your leads once you've qualified them, but you're already so much closer to long-term customer relationships than you were when you were working the standard lead generation model and hoping to collect one-night stands.
So start thinking about data-driven personas, and how to use data-collecting tools to make your lead generation better. It's worth putting in the time to help make sure your new customers are ones that are going to stick around.
Watch Mike King's full talk, How to Generate Those Leads All Day, Everyday, and then let us know: How do you create personas? Are you going to implement any of King's tips to improve your personas and your lead generation?


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Super Mario 64 DS is a 2004 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It was a launch game for the DS. Super Mario 64 DS is a remake of the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64, with new graphics, characters, collectibles, a multiplayer mode, and several extra minigames. As with the original, the plot centers on rescuing Princess Peach from Bowser. Unlike the original, Yoshi is the first playable character, with Mario, Luigi, and Wario being unlockable characters in early phases of the game.

Nintendo revealed Super Mario 64 DS as a multiplayer demonstration at E3 2004, and released it in November 2004. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its single-player mode, graphics and the changes made from the original game. However, it was criticized for its multiplayer mode and lack of analog controls. The game is the tenth best-selling Nintendo DS game, with over 11.06 million copies sold by 2018. Super Mario 64 DS was re-released on the Wii U's Virtual Console service across 2015 and 2016.

Plot
The game begins with Mario receiving a letter from Princess Peach inviting him to come to her castle for a cake she has baked for him. Mario arrives at Peach's castle, along with Luigi and Wario. The trio disappear as they enter the castle, and Lakitu, the game's camera operator, informs Yoshi of their disappearance. Yoshi explores Peach's castle to find Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Peach.

Scattered throughout the castle are paintings and secret walls, which act as portals to other worlds where Bowser and his minions guard the Power Stars. After recovering some of the power stars and defeating Bowser's minions, Yoshi unlocks doors that access other areas of the castle, where he finds Mario and his friends imprisoned in various rooms.

Yoshi defeats Goomboss and frees Mario as they continue searching the castle to find more Power Stars. Mario defeats King Boo and frees Luigi with the key he got from the boss, who then defeats Chief Chilly, and then frees Wario using the key he got. Mario and his friends tackle two obstacle courses, with each ensuing a battle with Bowser. After defeating him each time, they receive a key that opens more levels of the castle. Mario and his friends eventually reach the highest area of the castle and come across the endless stairs, which constantly loops when trying to climb it.

After collecting 80 Power Stars, the endless stairs' magic stops and Mario confronts Bowser alone (as he is the only one allowed to gain access to the top). After Bowser's defeat, Mario and his friends return to Peach's castle, where they free Peach from a stained-glass window above the entrance. As a reward for saving Peach, she kisses Mario on the nose and goes to bake the cake she had promised. The game ends when Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, and Wario wave goodbye to the player as Lakitu films and flies away. A photo with Peach's cake appears.

Gameplay

Super Mario 64 DS is a 3D platformer in which the player switches between four different characters – Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario – and controls them through numerous levels to collect 150 Power Stars, 30 more than the original game. Each character is essential to fully complete the game. Each level is an enclosed world (usually contained within and entered through a painting) in which the player is free to wander in all directions and discover the environment without time limits. The worlds are inhabited with enemies that attack the characters, as well as friendly creatures that provide assistance, offer information, or ask for help. The player gathers stars in each course; some stars only appear after completing certain tasks, often hinted at by the name of the star in the star select menu. These challenges include defeating bosses, solving puzzles, racing an opponent, and gathering coins. As the player collects stars, more areas of the castle become accessible.

Power-ups in Super Mario 64 DS take the form of special hats resembling those worn by Mario, Luigi, and Wario (all voiced by Charles Martinet), and are available in some levels. Acquiring one such hat will change the player's character into the corresponding character, allowing the player to use that character's abilities. The hats fall off if the character is hit, but can be reacquired. Yoshi (voiced by Kazumi Totaka) is able to start a level wearing the hat of any of the other available characters. Another power-up item, the "Power Flower", provides each character with a different ability: Mario is able to float, similar to Super Mario Worlds balloon item; Luigi becomes intangible and transparent, similar to the Vanish Cap in the Nintendo 64 version; Wario becomes coated by metal, which makes him temporarily invincible to enemy attacks and poison (which is purple instead of yellow as in the original version), and sink underwater, similar to the Metal Cap in the original version, but with the added ability to walk on lava instead of bouncing without taking damage; and Yoshi is able to breathe fire, which allows him to burn enemies and melt ice. Each ability is necessary to complete specific areas in the game. Other items include the "Mushroom", which is a semi-rare item that greatly increases the character's size and strength for a short period of time, and the Feather, that only Mario can get, and which allows him to fly in the same fashion as the Wing Cap in the original game. However, in multiplayer VS. Mode, other characters can get wings; in Yoshi's case, he grows wings out of his body, like in Super Mario World.

The game uses both of the system's screens to offer new options. The top screen displays the normal gameplay, while the bottom touchscreen can function as an overhead map and touch controls. The overhead map displays the current course the player traverses and displays item locations. The touch controls include virtual buttons, which rotate the top screen's camera angle, and directional character controls, which can operate with either the DS stylus or the player's thumb using the DS wrist strap. In addition to the single-player adventure, the game includes 36 minigames and a multiplayer mode. Minigames are made accessible by catching rabbits in the main game. All the minigames use the touchscreen to play and are based on different themes: racing, card games, puzzles, and so forth. The multiplayer mode uses the wireless DS Download Play where up to four players compete against each other using Green, Red, Blue, and Yellow Yoshi (voiced by Kazumi Totaka)—character hats appear in the stage allowing players to transform into either Mario, Luigi, or Wario. Wario can stun opponents by picking them up, swinging them around, and throwing them.

Development

Super Mario 64 DS was developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is a remake of the Nintendo 64 launch game Super Mario 64, with the game's 3D engine mirroring many visual effects used in the original game. Graphical changes include the lack of texture filtering, and updated versions of the character models which represented their updated, more detailed designs. Coins have been upgraded from 2D animation to 3D models.  All of Koji Kondo's music from the original game was re-used, with Kenta Nagata providing new music for the game. The voice actors from Super Mario 64 returned as well, and Kazumi Totaka joined the cast, playing the role of Yoshi.

Release and promotion
Originally titled "Super Mario 64 ×4", the game was first shown as a multiplayer demonstration at the 2004 E3 before the Nintendo DS was released. A few months later, Nintendo announced an actual game—along with many others—was in development. At the Nintendo DS conference on October 7, 2004, the game was on demonstration again and new information was revealed; the name was changed to Super Mario 64 DS and four different characters (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario) would be used in the main, single-player adventure. The demonstration was a more complete version of the game than the E3 version—the game's development was 90% complete at this time—and highlighted the multiple characters in the single-player mode and included minigames; the multiplayer mode, however, was not present.

Prior to the conference, the appearance of the box art on GameStop's product page caused speculation Super Mario 64 DS would be a launch game. Nintendo confirmed the rumor by announcing at the conference that the game would be a launch game of the Nintendo DS in North America and Japan. As the game's release approached, the release schedule of launch games altered; many games were delayed, while others were announced to be released a few days before the Nintendo DS. Super Mario 64 DS was the only game scheduled to be released with the system.

Super Mario 64 DS was first released in North America for the Nintendo DS on November 21, 2004 as a launch game for the system. On June 5, 2011, the game was repackaged in a red-colored case (along with New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart DS, Mario Party DS, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!) in tandem with a price drop of $99 for the DS. Super Mario 64 DS was later rereleased in Japan for the Wii U as a part of the Virtual Console line of games on January 6, 2016, and was later released in North America in August of that year.

Reception

Sales
Super Mario 64 DS has been commercially successful. Following its release in Japan, the game sold 241,000 copies by December 19, 2004, and was the fifth best-selling game on the weekly sales chart of that week. Sales continued to increase, and Super Mario 64 DS had sold 639,000 units by February 20, 2005. The game frequently appeared on Amazon.com's sales charts. In the first week of June 2006, it was listed as the sixth best-selling Nintendo DS game, and had risen to number three by the last week of the month. The game appeared again near the end of July 2006 as the eighth-bestselling game. At the beginning of 2008, Amazon.com charts listed the game as the seventh best-selling Nintendo DS game in the United States. In the United States, it sold 1.4 million copies and earned $42 million by August 2006. During the period between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 7th highest-selling game launched for the Nintendo DS. By November 2006, the game had sold over one million units in Europe, and by the end of 2007, over two million copies in the United States. By May 31, 2011, the game had sold 4.34 million copies in the United States, and in October 2012 Nintendo reported that the game had surpassed sales of 5 million units. As of March 31, 2018, Super Mario 64 DS has sold 11.06 million copies worldwide.

Critics

The game has won awards and met with overall positive reviews from video game journalists. Upon its release, IGN labeled it as an "Editor's Choice" and awarded it "Game of the Month" for the Nintendo DS, citing the game as a "great achievement" of the system's capability. In 2005, the game won a Golden Joystick Award for best handheld game of year. Prior to the game's release, Craig Harris of IGN reviewed the early demonstration. He commented on the accurate recreation of the original graphics, and stated that the small Nintendo DS screen helps hide any visual flaws. Harris criticized the game's controls calling them a little "sluggish" and "clumsy". Though he praised the graphics and new gameplay additions, Harris expressed disappointment that the Mario launch game for the new system was a remake instead of a full game. IGN's Anoop Gantayat anticipated the game would be a big hit among American video game enthusiasts. In Japan, Famitsu ranked Super Mario 64 DS the 29th most wanted game.

Reviewers praised the game's accurate recreation of the Nintendo 64 game, additional features, and upgrades. Phil Theobald of GameSpy lauded Super Mario 64 DS, calling it "fantastic" and complimenting the new features: minigames, use of a second screen, and extra stars. He also commented that the gameplay of the original game holds up ten years after its original release. Harris said the original feel of Super Mario 64 is retained, while the new challenges and features build upon it in a way that added to the game's longevity. He complimented the graphics and audio, and considered the game a good demonstration of the Nintendo DS's capabilities. Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot also complimented the graphics, specifically the higher polygon count and smooth frame rate. He called Super Mario 64 DS a "great update of a classic game", and felt the changes and additional features offered a new experience to fans of the original. In contrast, 1UP.com's Jeremy Parish felt the game did not offer enough new content to warrant a purchase. He praised the inclusion of extra characters, calling them a "nice twist", but concluded his review by calling the game a "poorly-conceived port" that should be played on the original system.

Other criticism focused on the game's controls and multiplayer mode. Theobald felt the lack of an analog stick made the controls more difficult than the original game and required a short period of adjustment. He further stated that the digital pad and touchscreen's virtual analog control were "tricky" and required practice. Harris echoed similar comments and noted the touchscreen does not provide physical feedback like an analog stick. He added the game was never intended to be played without proper analog controls. Gerstmann referred to the multiplayer mode as "uneventful" and considered it lacking longevity, but commented that it was a good extra that demonstrated the system's wireless multiplayer capabilities. Theobald agreed it was a nice addition, but considered it a "diversion" that players would tire of quickly.

Notes

References

External links
Super Mario 64 DS at Nintendo.com
Super Mario 64 DS at iQue.com

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