For fruit fans: marzipan with a delicious cranberry topping coated in crispy bittersweet chocolate – the marzipan cranberry loaf with filling brings all these things together.
Our range includes a loaf to suit any taste: nut nougat, vanilla truffles with pistachio or the crunchy rum and grapes loaf.
Für unsere Frucht-Fans: leckeres Cranberry-Topping auf Marzipan in knackiger Zartbitter-Schokolade vereint im gefüllten Marzipan Brot Cranberry.
In unserem Sortiment fi ndet sich für jeden Geschmack das passende Brot: Nuss-Nougat, Vanille-Trüffel auf Pistazie oder das Knusperbrot Rum-Traube.
Rum, Marzipan and the finest grapes, surrounded with a crispy chocolate and almond pieces.
Rum, Marzipan und beste Trauben umhüllt von knackiger Schokolade und Mandelsplittern.
Two exquiste products combine in the Niederegger Marzipan Loaf 'Vanilla-Truffle'. Premium Marzipan combined with a creamy Vanille-Truffle, surrounded with a semi-sweet chocolate.
Beim Niedergger Marzipan Brot Vanille-Trüffel auf Pistazie treffen herausragendes Marzipan und cremige Vanille-Trüffel aufeinander. Mit knackiger Zartbitter-Schokolade umhüllt.
The Niederegger Marzipan Loaf Nut-Nougat is filled with a soft Nougat and surrounded with fine whole milk chocolate.
Das Niederegger Marzipan Brot Nuss-Nougat ist mit einer zarten Nougatmasse gefüllt und von feiner Vollmilch-Schokolade umhüllt.
A unique marzipan delicacy: creamy toffee combined with succulent marzipan. A gentle hint of vanilla adds the perfect fi nishing touch to this unique fl avour.
Einzigartiger Marzipan-Genuss: Cremiges Toffee verbindet sich mit saftigem Marzipan.
Abgerundet wird dieser besondere Geschmack durch eine sanfte Vanillenote.


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Biblio-Globus will invest 46 million Euros in a subsidiary travel company in the UK
The tour operator Biblio-Globus decided to bring its subsidiary Biblio Travel to the UK tourism market and will allocate 46 million Euros for its development. This is stated in a message on the Biblio Travel website.
"The support from the parent company will be £ 41million. The new tour operator Biblio Travel will be launched in the UK in January 2021 and will be led by Managing Director Claire Tobin, former CEO of Olympic Holidays," the statement reports.
"Biblio-Globus is the largest host company in the Cyprus destination and the company will specialize in tours to Cyprus from the UK. This destination is very popular among British tourists. Biblio Globus annually serves about 475 thousand clients in Cyprus, which is about 25% of all tourists on the island", notes Biblio Travel. In general, Biblio-Globus serves more than 3 million tourists a year.
The head office of the company will be located in Cyprus. It is planned that the company's clients will be able to fly from the airports of London, Manchester and Birmingham. At the same time, it is noted that in addition to the coronavirus pandemic the share of British tourists in the Cyprus market has recently decreased due to the bankruptcy of Thomas Cook last year.
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Articles » What Do They Think?
How Did Japanese Fans React to the Greninja Smash Bros. Update?
Posted on April 21, 2014 by Clyde Mandelin ‧ 82 Comments
A while back I posted an article about what Japanese gamers thought about Little Mac in Smash Bros. and it turned out to be pretty interesting! A newer Super Smash Bros. announcement video has since been released (about a week or two ago, I think), and I was quickly inundated with requests to look into how Japanese fans responded to it – especially how Japanese gamers responded to the news that Greninja from Pokémon is going to be a playable character:
Unlike with the Little Mac stuff, though, readers have been asking about many different parts of the Smash Bros. announcement video, like, "What did Japanese gamers think about the Greninja reveal?" and, "What did Japanese gamers think about the release date announcements?" So if you haven't seen the full video yet, you can check it out here:
Overall, it sounds like Japanese fans really liked this update. Based on this poll, here's a rough look at how well-received it was:
"What did you think of today's program?"
Very good: 84.5%
Pretty good: 10.1%
Average: 2.4%
Not that good: 0.7%
Not good at all: 2.3%
As for comments and message board posts, there are so many comments about so many different topics that I can't even scratch the surface, but here are some for your reading pleasure and curiosity. They come from many different places (including Twitter), not just one or two sources, but even so, don't take these as representative of everyone!
Also note that "Greninja" is actually called "Gekkouga" in Japanese – I've translated it as Greninja in these comments for simplicity's sake.
I'm jumping with excitement like I'm a kid again
It looks like they're hoping to please Japanese demand AND overseas demand. I totally like that!
If you're gonna complain, you don't gotta buy it
That Greninja video was so awesome!
I'm so happy!
You gotta play using THAT controller?
If you were a parent, which would you do?
1. Buy only the 3DS version, since your kid already has a 3DS
2. Spend tens of thousands of yen to buy the 3DS game plus the Wii U and the Wii U game
I'm so happy (Thank you, Nintendo!)
Charizard and Greninja, huh? That was an incredible Direct
Fanboys: "60 FPS & full HD or bust"
I don't think he mentioned anything about 1080p
Charizard and Greninja were announced for Smash Bros. When I saw the video, for a second I mistook it for an announcement about Mewtwo. So here's my question: personally, I still have faith since Mewtwo has a mega-evolution and the movie. Do you think Mewtwo's spot in the roster would be announced after the game goes on sale?
Uh oh I can't stop my excitement
So much awesomeness. I'm gonna buy the Wii U and 3DS versions. I'll end up broke for sure, but I'm gonna buy 'em.
Why's there a Nintendo Direct this early on a weekday morning?
They must've wanted a ninja
Overslept, missed it
Wii U version all the way. Are they idiots, selling the crappy 3DS version first?
Greninja is even more ninja-ier than I imagined
Just make a Pokemon Smash Bros. already!
Announcement of Wii U's death
Nintendo Direct's over, back to bed I go
Couldn't they have just announced all this in Famitsu instead?
Pretty good, for Nintendo
The different-generation Rockmen was the biggest surprise!
We can at least have cross-platform saves… right?
It's gonna be way suckier on the 3DS
He said the 3DS version will be 60 FPS with some things at 30 FPS – is the Wii U all-60 FPS though?
Oh, Greninja's super-popular in Japan and among foreigners! I bet everyone's smiling and ultra-happy about this
This current Pokemon character lineup is absolutely perfect
Greninja turned out to be cooler than I thought!
Where's Wario?!
Mewtwo?
Why is Greninja considered a bad guy?
No characters from The Wonderful 101?
This announcement [about Greninja] came completely out of nowhere!
Is it me, or do I sense more love for Rockman in this Direct than from Capcom itself?
I'm curious to see what Greninja's special attack is called
The release date is so far offff
Man, I'm so so happy
They probably wanted to include a ninja since they're taking overseas players so heavily into account.
FF9's movies looked better
Where's Ike?!
Sakurai said Zero Suit Samus is weak, but I always thought she was a pretty powerful character
I just assumed Greninja being in Smash Bros was just a lie, but it turned out to be true!
Are they broadcasting it this early to target schoolkids before they leave for school or something?
Reggie & Foreigners: "Fuck! Who cares about the damn 3DS version?! Release the console version first!"
These graphics don't even begin to compare to the PS4. Shitty graphics confirmed!
The Rockman All-stars was the best part. Hey, Capcom! You paying attention?!
I've played many games in my life, but this is the first time I've felt this excited about one in a long time
Greninja's so cool. That just leaves a grass-type now, I guess
This new Smash Bros kicks ass! Greninja's so cool!
Where's Ike? And Snake? And Falco? And Meta Knight? All my mains are vanishing away…..
I can't wait to play this!
They've only been doing one-game Directs lately…
I didn't realize I was still a kid at heart way deep down
I hope the main character from "Nazo no Murasame-jo" will be in it
Greninja's so cool!
I'm seriously glad I didn't get a Wii U
Rockman's in it too? Man, Capcom is completely on Nintendo's side now, huh?
Bankruptdo's final hope
Yeah, I guess Greninja makes more sense than Delphox, oh well
Sorry PS fanboys the Wii U's sales are about to explode into victory
Is Falco gonna be in it?
Ashley's cute
Greninja, huh? Greninja's a personal favorite of mine, so I'm really happy
Just how many characters are there going to be?!
I never expected Greninja. I'm happy, but I want it now!
ROFL Greninja? Damn, I never even thought of that
Please tell me there are secret characters too. Gimme Jigglypuff and Mewtwo plz
Greninja's so cute!
What are you holding a Nintendo Director at this hour for?!
Doesn't 4 Pokemon seem a little too many? I thought for sure Mewtwo would be back, but it seems unlikely now
Why aren't there any Xenoblade characters yet?
Please just keep Ike!
Greninja IS really popular with foreigners and all
So there you go. Although it's pretty normal for negativity to sound the loudest online, it sounds like this latest announcement had a pretty positive response overall in Japan.
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Moonside April 21, 2014 at 5:07 pm
I salute the brave trooper that mentioned The Wonderful 101.
Audie April 21, 2014 at 5:16 pm
So they think he's popular overseas?
Interesting, because as far as I saw, pretty much no one asked for him.
CrouchingMouse April 21, 2014 at 5:38 pm
Seems like they think he'll be popular because of the western fascination with ninjas…lol
Sassysaido April 21, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Then their thinking is way, way off base. If we wanted a ninja, well, take a wild guess which famous ones most folks would have expected.
Anon May 5, 2014 at 4:42 am
Wasn't Sheik already kind of a ninja?
He was the most popular pick for Gen6 Pokemon representation, although that also has to do with how few Pokemon are important enough to deserve a spot on the roster.
…and these comments are nearly identical to the US reactions.
Melk September 14, 2014 at 12:12 pm
He's the most used Pokémon competitively. So yes, he's pretty damn popular.
(I know, 5 months old comment…)
Japanese fans: "This makes sense. Greninja is popular in the west"
Western fans: "What the hell is this ugly thing and why isn't it Mewtwo?"
Justin April 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Yeah, I personally love Greninja but I don't think he's especially popular in the West, or anywhere.
Medaka444 April 21, 2014 at 6:42 pm
He seems to be the most popular starter-line Pokemon from G6. I've encountered plenty of people excited for his Smash Brothers debut. I mostly hang on TV Tropes, though.
Rad Dudesman April 21, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Greninja is the most popular Generation 6 Pokemon.
TechnoSyndrome April 21, 2014 at 6:10 pm
I like the guy complaining about the time, because this was like the one time a Nintendo Direct was at a good timeslot for those of us in the West Coast. Usually they're like 6 or 7 AM.
Morgil April 21, 2014 at 6:23 pm
"When I saw the video, for a second I mistook it for an announcement about Mewtwo."
Lol, i made the same mistake when i watched the direct. But yeah, i really want Mewtwo to come back, and i'm glad to see Japanese fans feel the same.
Halloween April 21, 2014 at 7:34 pm
Anyone who plays Pokemon X/Y probably likes Greninja and thinks it's a good choice, but in the West there are a ton of gamers who are "first generation only!" and dislike any new pokemon.
RockXLight April 22, 2014 at 7:43 am
Because they're nearly all ugly as sin compared to the first generation of Pokemon.
Benjy April 22, 2014 at 8:48 am
Let's compare Minccino to Weezing and see who's uglier.
There've always been ugly, cute, cool, tough, pretty, annoying, and all kinds of Pokémon. I don't understand all of this generalisation.
OmiOmi April 23, 2014 at 12:03 pm
haters are gonna hate
Ywah, Muk, Exeggcute, Jynx, Mr. Mime, Voltorb, Magneton and pretty much all gen 1 pokémon are beautiful…
Genwunner.
Ian April 23, 2014 at 5:40 am
I'll admit that I'm one of those kinds of people, as my interest in Pokemon only went through the first two generations. So naturally I thought Greninja an odd choice. Yet it's only fair the current Pokemon generation receive some kind of representation, and I honestly can't think of anyone with more universal appeal than the ninja frog
Let April 21, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Yeah no thanks on this announcement, I already decided which two I'm going to be playing as primarily.
Mudkip3DS April 21, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Nice to see someone stick out for W101, as someone already said above.
Ouch, I guess even Japanese gamers there know the struggle. Still hurts, man. 🙁
Hey! Now that's just mean!
Nice to see another update emerge after a long drought, Mato. Hopefully this means you'll update the AVGN section, soon, as well 😛
John April 21, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Aw man I also can't wait for the next AVGN article update. Looking forward to see how Japanese fans responded to the famous Ninja Turtles episode, considering that's arguably what caused AVGN's career to skyrocket.
Clyde Mandelin April 21, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Yep, I really look forward to the TMNT one!
The past month+ was actually super-duper-busier-than-ever with my normal translation work, so pretty much all my hobby stuff like this site had to go onto life support. Updates might still be a little infrequent while I get back in the swing of things (and answer all my e-mails heh) so uh look over there a squirrel
Morgil April 22, 2014 at 9:26 am
Where! Where's the squirrel! Squirrel!!
Opinionated Vector Chimera April 22, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Personally I'm looking forward to the Final Fantasy IV updates. You've done a pretty good job so far of highlighting facts and misconceptions. I thought the initial US release (Final Fantasy II US) was good, definitely still playable.
But no matter what update you're working on, keep it up.
Huh, so the sentiments in regards to Capcom's lack of Megaman/Rockman love can also be found amongst Japanese fans.
Freezair April 21, 2014 at 9:03 pm
All these comments about "being a kid at heart" are bringing a smile to my face. Nothing like a good geek-out to make you feel like a kid again, no matter where you're from! 😀
Ha, and I totally forgot to say something! If ever there was evidence of a cultural divide, that comment about Famitsu would be it. For one thing, the fact that gaming magazines are dying out in the West, or moving towards small and specialty press-style things. Those mags that DO try to keep up with the news usually focus more on in-depth articles and reviews. Second of all, while scans from Famitsu do end up online, it isn't necessarily that quick, meaning the news wouldn't quite make it around the world!
I was pretty happy for this news as well. Though I'm easy to please. I like seeing positivity amongst gamers wherever they are.
BusterTheFox April 21, 2014 at 11:35 pm
Hmm. Well, I know a lot of us here want our Mother characters back, me more than others since Lucas is my main in Brawl… Luckily for me Pikachu is my secondary main, so I know I at least have him. I'm sure many people will be playing Villager at first because of the… special kind of hype he's been receiving. Haha!
Oh, but to say something on topic, I was thinking, "Greninja? Well, that's… weird". It's definitely strange to me. I don't understand the decision to include him at all besides being a newer Pokemon, but I don't necessarily dislike it. I just can't decide whether or not it'll make a difference in the long run. If that makes sense.
John April 21, 2014 at 11:54 pm
Just curious, does Gekkouga translate to anything? It kind of looks like the "Gekkou" part of his name is a katakana-ized spelling for "Gecko." However, that wouldn't seem to make much sense, given him being more of a frog and all.
Yosh April 22, 2014 at 12:24 am
Geko is the onomatopeia for the frog's cry (although they also use "kero" for that)
Bulbapedia says : Gekkouga is a combination of げこっ geko (croak) and 甲賀流 Kōga-ryū http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dga-ry%C5%AB
In Addition,
Greninja in French is 'Amphinobi'
Greninja in German is 'Quajutsu'
All three localised names use a different Japanese Ninja word
English: Ninja, French: Shinobi, German: Ninjutsu.
M May 1, 2014 at 12:38 am
Wait, the name is different in French? But "grenouille" is French for frog, which is part of the reason for the English name GREN-inja. I dunno, I guess nothing says they should be the same, but it just seems odd to me.
Benjy May 2, 2014 at 7:08 pm
Most Pokémon have a different name in French and in German. One example that sticks in my mind is that Jigglypuff is "Pummeluff" in German. This is because the PAL version of Smash Bros Melee has European language options, and with the German setting, Pummeluff's voice is really funny sounding. 😀
In Spanish and Italian, however, all Pokémon are called by their English name.
There are a few Pokémon that are called by the same in every language, a well. Usually these ones are mascot characters such as the electric rodent of the week, and also the legendaries featured on the box. That's why Pachirisu's name sounds so Japanesey… they wanted to make it a mascot of the Diamond and Pearl era, so it has the same name everywhere.
M May 3, 2014 at 3:32 am
I guess it's just odd to me because the portmanteau already based in French. But I suppose it's possible they just wanted to go for something different.
Let April 22, 2014 at 11:32 am
That's strange. I've never heard a frog use "geko" as a sound effect in anime or games. It's always been "gero" as far I've known.
Adamant April 22, 2014 at 3:43 pm
ゲコゲコ is indeed a common way to render the croaking sound a frog makes. It's also found in its pre-evolved form's name, "Gekogashira", while it's initial form's name is Keromatsu, from ケロケロ, a slightly "lighter" way of rendering it.
DaVince April 22, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Kero, gero, geko, all are used. It's like having "croak" and "ribbit". Nothing all that surprising.
Actually, speaking of use in games, Wario Ware DIY uses "geko".
Let April 22, 2014 at 11:52 pm
"Kero" I can agree on, since k and g are not distinct in Japanese and sound the same, but I have honestly never heard "geko" be used before.
Midna April 26, 2014 at 4:27 am
I think it may also be why that one frog miniboss in Majora's Mask is called a "Gekko".
Bohepans April 22, 2014 at 2:12 am
I'd have also preferred to see Mewtwo make a comeback (I don't care how bad people thought he was in Melee, I still had fun playing as him
…dah, I'm sorry about that, I don't HOW I accidentally posted that before I was finished. As I was trying to say, I'm glad at least someone over in Japan remembers Mewtwo and wants him to come back. He was fun for me to play as in Melee, even if other people may have found him bad or useless. But, I'm fine with Greninja making it in. He was my first starter choice, so. (Granted, I have a tradition to always start with the Water starter my first time through a game or at least Gen of Pokémon, since my favorite starter of all time is Blastoise, but just to say. Greninja's cool in my book.)
Jistuce May 1, 2014 at 1:18 am
Bulbasaur is the one true starter. Though I might have a different opinion if there was a ninja frog in any Pokemon game I'd played.
stoppableforce April 22, 2014 at 6:20 am
I'm glad the West isn't the only one wishing Capcom would pull their heads out of their …well, you know.
Still, between Gunvolt and MN9, I guess that's what we have Inafune for.
Magicbarrier April 22, 2014 at 7:51 am
Mato, why do you always refer to the series as just "Smash Bros.?" I know this sounds nitpicky, but it drives me nuts for some reason.
Clyde Mandelin April 22, 2014 at 7:53 am
I dunno, I always have. I didn't realize it was a me-only thing.
Same with Zelda, I always call it Zelda III rather than Link to the Past, although I've been changing it slowly 'cause nobody else calls it that it seems.
Do you also call A Link Between Worlds "Zelda 17?" 😀
Bohepans April 22, 2014 at 2:35 pm
Hey, I sometimes call it Zelda 3. Not always, but it is a shortening I accept!
I finally found someone who also prefers to call it Zelda 3!
Clyde Mandelin April 22, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Hooray! We should get married or start a club or something!
Adamant April 22, 2014 at 10:39 pm
I also call Link's Awakening Zelda IV.
Yeah! Fight the power!
I also call Ocarina of Time "Zelda 64."
After that… eh, who cares?
And I've argued with some younger gamers about whether anyone EVER called the older games Zelda 3, Zelda 4, and Zelda 64 instead of by their subtitles.
Kids these days… kids which are actually adults now, which makes me feel even older.
I've heard "Smash Bros." everywhere and also say it myself, but you're the first one I've heard of saying "Zelda III". But now more "Zelda III"ers seem to be creeping out of the woodwork in the above comments! Is that just what you naturally called it or did you pick it up somewhere? It doesn't seem weird to me or anything, but I'd never have even thought to call it that. Which I guess is kinda strange since I don't call Zelda II "The Adventure of Link".
Maybe we're just the crazies and mainstream America really DID read off the whole dadgum box every time.
I'd always assumed it was just a "back in the day" thing. We were calling it Zelda 3 before we had a box to read a subtitle off. I mean, that's what the previews in GamePro and EGM were calling it*!
We didn't truck with this prequel/gaiden/spinoff/reboot/non-canon alternate universe nonsense. If you made a game with the same name as an older game, we were gonna stick a number on it if you didn't, and the gosh-darn whipersnappers should just be glad we didn't decide it was "Super Zelda."
I'm actually surprised no one DID call it Super Zelda.
Zelda 2 is legit any way you slice it, though. The box and title screen and manual all say "Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link", and it's explicitly a direct sequel to the first game. It's not even "Legend of Zelda 2", it's just "Zelda 2".
*Tangentially, I'm pretty sure calling "Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo" by the random mashup title "Castlevania: Dracula X" instead of a sane translation like "Castlevania X: Rondo of Blood" came straight outta GamePro.
And it's finally dying out, too. People look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them the SNES remake of Rondo of Blood was titled "Castlevania: Dracula X" in the US because that's what America ACTUALLY THOUGHT Rondo of Blood was called.
Clyde Mandelin May 1, 2014 at 6:54 am
Yeah, it's mostly a "back then" thing – before the game had a finalized title everyone just referred to it as Zelda 3/III (I think even Nintendo Power) – after all, the second one was called Zelda II (or was it 2), and the Super Mario Bros. games just went with numbers too, as did the Mega Man games, etc.. It wasn't until maybe the early to mid-90s that I think fans started using the subtitles to refer to games, probably because after a certain point it feels silly/confusing to keep track of numbers. Although the Mega Man games beg to differ 😛
And then you have to explain why Megaman X isn't Megaman Ten, and you're on the OTHER side of the conversation suddenly.
BB Gang Zombie April 22, 2014 at 8:12 am
I dunno I always have just said "Smash Bros." too. Got me on Zelda though, there's too many numbers to do that now, hah.
AConcernedGamer April 24, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Mato is not the only person to refer to the series as "Smash Bros.". Almost all fans use "Smash Bros." to talk about the series.
I'm sure the majority of Smash fans already know, but in Japanese, the Super Smash Bros. series is known as 「大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ」("Dairantou Smash Brothers"), which means "Great Fray Smash Bros.". Notice that the title does not have "Super" in it. I don't know for sure if this is the true reason why people call it "Smash Bros.", but this is the best reason I can think of for why it is not instead "Super Smash".
The Super Smash Bros. series does not have a game titled simply "Smash Bros." without "Super" or 「大乱闘」, unlike the Mario series where "Mario Bros." is a single-screen arcade* game and "Super Mario Bros." is an NES* game spanning multiple screens.
"Super Mario Bros." is not abbreviated to "Mario Bros." because it would conflict with a game that already has that title. Instead, it is usually abbreviated to "Super Mario". "Super Smash Bros." is abbreviated to "Smash Bros." because that results in a shared abbreviation with its country of origin, or so I think. This is not taking into account further abbreviations into initials and/or the Japanese style which takes the first 2 syllables of the first 2 terms in the title (「スーマリ」"SuMari" and 「スマブラ」"SmaBro" respectively, romanizations are approximate).
*I am aware that both Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. have NES and arcade versions respectively (Super Mario Bros. is ported directly to the PlayChoice-10 and modified for the VS. System), but that is beside the point, and I only use the original medium for description.
Aww, c'mon. We abbreviate it to Smash Brothers because it's easier to say/type, not because we respect the proper japanese branding. We're just lazy.
It's the same reason people shorten Final Fantasy, Fatal Fury, AND Final Fight to FF. Althena forbid we ever see a demographic overlap between the three.
And people TOTALLY abbreviate Super Mario Brothers to Mario Brothers. Which is why I always have to spell the one game as "Mario Brothers. No, not Super Mario Brothers. The one BEFORE they were super."
Yeah, I definitely call it Smash Brothers out of ease. I actually had no idea what it was called in Japanese. As far as the FFs go, I usually wait until I know for certain what we're talking about before I use them just to avoid the confusion you described.
As far as Mario goes, I usually… Just say Mario and whatever else. "Let's play Mario 3!" I think I only use "Super" when referring to Super Mario World, and that's probably just because it was on the Super Nintendo.
hand April 22, 2014 at 8:10 am
I'm really glad that at least a few of them mentioned Ike. I've been really worried about him since before the game was even announced, even though, logically, he will return. It's just all these naysayers and their naysaying.
GH April 23, 2014 at 10:13 am
They could choose to promote Chrom from their latest Fire Emblem game. I'm really excited for Sugita in a Brawl game (hope they won't remove the Japanese dub)… but at the same time I don't want Ike to go.
Earlier it was Ike from FE9, before it was Roy from FE6… Unless they get rid of Marth: even though he's the original protagonist, I don't see a problem with him leaving (though I may be biased since I didn't grew up with the Famicom original but rather played the DS remake).
edgethelucas April 22, 2014 at 9:07 am
For me, Greninja came out of nowhere. I didn't expect him in at all unless he was part of a Pokemon Starter trio, like how Charizard was. Like, if he was gonna be in, then I though it would've been with Braixen and Chespin, a middle and beginning starter stage Pokemon respectively, like how Charizard got in Brawl alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur.
Nonetheless, this direct made me happy because both Greninja and Charizard were my starter Pokemon in X and Y, which I'm sure was anticipated by GameFreak considering a ton of other people are saying the same thing around Smashboards.
europe April 22, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Yeah, I don't know. Greninja isn't popular but he isn't unpopular either. He's pretty cool as far as recent Pokémon go.
I see the completely imaginary talk about "east" and "west" is present amongst the Japanese too, in the comment about the 3DS version… but then again I personally am not a good representation of the average European gamer these days.
I'll be honest, my reaction to this was "meh". I don't really care too much about Pokemon anymore, but at least Charizard is more recognizable than frog-ninja.
I do remember playing SSBB one time though, and my sis asked me "Who's Ness? Who's Lucas?" So it may not be too huge of a loss. Only time will tell.
Smash Bros metagame: serious business.
MrMister April 22, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Heh, I'm sort of glad the Japanese are interested in this newcomer. That Direct deflated my hype for SSB4 just about instantly when it became clear Metroid was snubbed yet again in potential newcomers.
As a Western gamer, I'm actually more interested in the 3DS version than the Wii U version. Even if there are only two songs per stage (blearrgh), it still has the advantage of being portable.
Yosh April 23, 2014 at 5:34 am
I personally like this comment : "I hope the main character from "Nazo no Murasame-jo" will be in it"
I never played this game, all I know is that it was a japanese only game for the Famicom Disk System, and there was an attraction inspired by this game in Nintendo Land, but it sounds like exactly the kind of unpopular and forgotten character that could appear in Smash Bros., such as Ice Climbers, ROB, G&W, Little Mac…
You forgot StarTropics.
Murasame's Mysterious Castle was, let's say, an arcade-style Zelda reject and a medieval Japanese theme. On top of that it was delayed seven months only for the Zelda game we know and love to release before and steal the spotlight.
I don't know, it's like asking for the MC from a light-gun game to make it in SSB. At best, it would be a sticker. Wasn't it included that way already in Brawl?
If there's a Japanese-only thing that compares remotely to Big Mac, my guess is that it would be something like Ziria/Manjimaru from the Tengai Makyou series (not Nintendo-made, but pretty popular), or the main characters from Marvelous Another Treasure Island or Giftpia.
Adamant April 24, 2014 at 10:55 am
Lip from Panel de Pon is pretty high on Japanese lists of characters they want in, and is completely unknown outside Japan. That'd be your Mac equivalent.
I think Lip was/is ironically more requested and/or anticipated in the West than the East, although considering the obscurity of her home series over here, that's barely saying anything. She's got some Japanese advocates, but mostly from what I've seen Lip didn't get a whole lot of votes from her home base this time around… they mostly went for characters like Shulk (plausible if not outright likely) and Hatsune Miku (keep dreaming).
GH April 28, 2014 at 2:20 am
Honestly, shoehorning that Hatsune Miku in anything and everything has got ridiculous and tiresome. So many forced "cameos"… Even retooling huge chunks of some of the series' staple side content in 7th Dragon 2020 just to include her in an awkward contrived way.
Lilfut April 25, 2014 at 6:40 am
Say, I just realized that in the little icons you use on this and the Little Mac article, they both seem to use the same kanji! That's odd, since in English they all have different messages (Little Man Punches In, Greninja Makes A Splash)! What are those kanji, anyway?
It's 参戦, which basically means to join/enter a battle: http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/je2/29958/m0u/%E5%8F%82%E6%88%A6/
If you do a search for 参戦 or 参戦 スマブラ in Google Images, you get a bunch of fake SSB4 character screens made by fans. Some of them can get ridiculous.
Phoenix Wright, sexy WiiFit Trainer, Dio(!), hentai WiiFit Trainer(…).
I… is that Space Battleship Yamato?
So I was wondering: Does anyone have any ideas on a Gen 5 Pokemon rep? So far, it's the only Gen without a rep (since PT is based off of FR/LG Red), and I honestly can't think of any good ones that would work in Smash. Zoroark was hyped around B/W's release, but it doesn't seem as popular as, say, Lucario.
Benjy April 25, 2014 at 1:50 pm
I never thought that Pokémon Trainer was a Gen 3 rep. Interesting way to think about it.
The only Gen 5 reps I can think of are… uh.
– Serperior, to complete the Grass/Fire/Water trio that Charizard and Greninja have
– Emolga, as a sort of flying-type twist to Melee's Pichu.
– Darmanitan, 'cause it was important to N's story in Black and White. Plus something interesting could be done with Zen Mode.
– Something totally random and unexpected, like… uhh, like Sawk.
I doubt Zoroark would get in honestly. Gamefreak were trying to make him 'the next Lucario', but I don't actually see him gaining anywhere close to as popular as Lucario is.
Lilfut April 30, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Garbodor or riot
Midna April 25, 2014 at 11:51 pm
Ah yes, this Direct. I came in expecting to be blown away and I was not disappointed.
However, I do recall sticking through to the very end and getting so effing pumped because of the triple whammy of Charizard, Greninja, and no Lip deconfirmation… then like an hour later the webmaster of I think it was Serebii? leaked a massive series of press kit screenshots…
…one of which shows Samus thwacking Olimar with Lip's Stick.
Yeah, that was "fun".
(I still believe in that one leak which also predicted the Master Ball though. Call me delusional if you want. >>)
El Diabeetus April 26, 2014 at 7:21 am
I like the addition. I'm kinda burnt out with Kanto. So if Mewtwo or Jigglypuff don't make it back. Couldn't care less. If they add a Grass type counterpart for Charizard/Lizardon and Greninja/Gekkouga, I want it to be Sceptile/Jukain. It could adapt quite well to the gameplay style like the ones listed above. I may be the only one who feels that way. Started out with Kanto back when I was a kid. Have played all games in the series (started playing them in Japanese with Diamond, bought Japanese Emerald at the same time. Got SoulSilver then the English later. Same with White. Got Black 2 in Japanese and then White 2 in English. Bought X and Y, X has been one English file. Y, I'm on my 3rd file. First was Japanese, second German, 3rd Japanese again. Also bought Crystal in Japanese recently and bought the games prior to Crystal like a year or 2 ago in Japanese ($30 for 6 games is a steal). That's my probably unnecssarily long explaination on my Pokémon history. But I'm okay with Kanto having less spotlight for the time being.
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You know how when couch potatoes watch sports, some get angry and yell at players as if they were genuine super-experts who could do better? That same thing happens with translators all the time, so my hope is that the Legends of Localization series will help explain what it's like to actually be in the translation trenches.


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Anne Hillerman sings in 'Song of the Lion' (Prose and Cons)
by Scott Graham | April 20, 2017 5:53 am
By rights, it shouldn't work. But it does.
Beloved mystery author Tony Hillerman's bestselling series, which featured Navajo Nation cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, ended with Hillerman's death in 2008.
Or so his devoted readers thought. There were plenty of groans from Hillerman fans when word came in 2013 that Tony's daughter Anne, a first-time novelist, was resurrecting her father's series. But there were plenty of cheers, too. Turns out the cheering fans were right.
The first two installments in Anne Hillerman's resumption of the series, 2013's Spider Woman's Daughter and 2015's Rock with Wings, deftly picked up where the Leaphorn-Chee series left off. Anne's third installment, the justreleased Song of the Lion, is her best yet.
Anne has made the Leaphorn-Chee series her own by giving a star turn to detective Bernadette Manuelito, Chee's wife and a minor character in Tony's mysteries. In addition (spoiler alert if you haven't read Spider Woman's Daughter), Anne has sent the legendary Leaphorn, Tony's alter ego, into retirement. In Anne's mysteries, Leaphorn plays an emeritus role as he continues his recovery from a devastating gunshot wound suffered in Daughter. He fits well in the role of senior advisor in Song of the Lion, while Manuelito and Chee get all the action.
Like a number of Tony's plots, Anne's story line is based on a real-life event roiling the Navajo Reservation. The proposed Grand Canyon Escalade would carry up to 10,000 tourists a day, by tram, from a canyonrim hotel on Navajo land just outside Grand Canyon National Park to the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers, a place considered sacred to Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni tribespeople.
Song of the Lion begins with a literal bang — a car bomb explodes, with deadly results, in the Shiprock (N.M.) High School parking lot. It appears the bomb's intended victim was Aza Palmer, a professional mediator in the dispute over the proposed, Escalade-like development at the center of the plot.
The story moves into Arizona, where Manuelito and Chee learn Palmer's personal background may have had as much to do with the car-bombing as his role in the development dispute. With the help of Chee, assigned the unenviable task of guarding Palmer, and Leaphorn, whose memories of a long-ago case prove integral to solving the present-day bombing, Manuelito must call upon all her skills — intellectual, physical, and psychological — to stop a heartless killer intent on killing again.
Like her father before her, Anne Hillerman transports readers to beautiful, remote parts of the reservation, offering glimpses inside Navajo homes and insight into tribal mainstays like sheepherding and rug weaving. In
Song of the Lion, she mixes tribal lore and spirituality into a thick stew of a story that is sure to please old Leaphorn-Chee readers and newcomers to the Leaphorn- Chee-Manuelito series alike.
Scott Graham is the National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of the National Park Mystery Series for Torrey House Press. The third book in the series, Yellowstone Standoff, was released in June. Visit Graham at scottfranklingraham.com.
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Emma Mulqueeny: 97ers generation are employing themselves
Festival of Code brings young hackers together for Young Rewired State event to learn entrepreneurial skills
Published: 04 Aug 2014 11:34
With hundreds of self-taught young coders from across the UK hacking away, Emma Mulqueeny had her work cut out at the Festival of Code last week.
The festival, organised by Young Rewired State (YRS), ran from 28 July to 3 August, with the aim of helping under-19s to create websites, prototypes and inventive applications.
During the weekend event, young participants from across the UK were able to present their designs to a panel of judges and meet their fellow coders.
Emma Mulqueeny, founder and CEO of Young Rewired State, told Computer Weekly: "I have written a lot about the 97ers – kids who were born in 1997 or after. These are the kids that are using YRS. They are social media and digital natives. They have online friends in other countries, they know about social responsibility – this is all they've ever known.
"The 97ers are finding that the best and safest route is to leave school and employ yourself and each other. They are far more aware of the challenges out there. Any barriers that were there before have now gone. Instead of thinking, 'I'll go and work at a corporate', they are thinking, 'I'll just do it myself'. They have been exposed to much more of the world than the digital natives."
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Mulqueeny came from a background of learning maths and programming for fun, with a father who was a computer scientist. By 2009, she had been working as an adviser to the UK government for nearly 10 years and found that conversations always led to open data and transparency.
So she decided to organise National Hack the Government Day, when websites, apps and gadgets were built using as much government data as possible. At the end of the day, fears surrounding open data had disappeared and a month later, data.gov.uk was born.
After that, the government asked Mulqueeny to run hack days for it, but she noticed the lack of people aged under 25 attending. So, in August 2009, she ran a weekend event called Young Rewired State – and the rest is history.
Members of YRS are now looking for more than just learning about code, said Mulqueeny. "At YRS, the kids are more interested in the business side of things now, not just learning to code, but where to take it afterwards."
This year's Festival of Code was supported by Google, American Express, the University of Plymouth, TalkTalk, Plymouth council and the Met Office, among others.
Student Harry Rickards, who has been part of the YRS community for several years, said: "My first year was 2010, when the festival was a lot smaller, but it was just so amazing that I kept coming back every year. The thing I got the most out of was the community – you can work on programming on your own with open-source projects, but with YRS you're able to connect to other people, their experience and what they're doing."
Rickards is about to head to Boston to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and added: "I'm going to be studying maths or electrical eng, but I'm not sure yet.
"YRS helped direct me, through learning alongside the amazing people that were there. Being able to interact with other people and see what they're doing let me see them as role models as well. Just try to make the most of it all. The festival is only a week and when it's over, you'll be wishing it had gone on longer."
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After A Long Wait, Peru Has A New President-Elect
By Ailsa Chang, Christopher Intagliata & Miguel Macias • Jul 21, 2021
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Originally published on July 22, 2021 1:40 pm
After a tense 43 days since its runoff election, Peru has a new president-elect. Pedro Castillo has been declared the winner by a tiny margin of just 44,000 votes out of a total of 17 1/2 million cast. Castillo is the son of poor farmers, and he's promised to overhaul Peru's political and economic system to address inequality. His opponent, Keiko Fujimori, is the daughter of a former president and represents the country's right-wing elite. Journalist Gustavo Gorriti has been following all of this and joins us now from Lima, Peru.
GUSTAVO GORRITI: My pleasure.
CHANG: Pleasure to have you with us. So why did it take more than a month to declare a winner for this election?
GORRITI: In part, from what you said, the margin was very tiny. And after that, there were a lot of contentions on the part of the Fujimori camp, and they demanded essentially a recount of voting. They said that there had been a fraud. And some of Donald Trump's voice was reverberating in the kind of arguments that were put forth here.
CHANG: In your reporting and in the reporting of other journalists, when it comes to these claims of election fraud, has anyone found any basis for those claims by Fujimori?
GORRITI: Well, the pro-Fujimori camp held to that point, but all the rest, including international observers, all coincided that the elections have been fair, that they had represented faithfully the popular will.
CHANG: So tell us more about Castillo's background, because he was not a conventional presidential candidate for Peru, right?
GORRITI: No. In this very unconventional election, he's probably the most unconventional factor. He is a provincial primary schoolteacher. He has also been a leader of the National Teachers Union, of the more radical one. He's a man that has not experienced at all in government, but he brings to the task a high working capacity. He tries to learn. And Castillo at least provided the kind of authenticity that was totally devoid in the case of Fujimori.
CHANG: And what now for Keiko Fujimori and her family? I know that you have been following them for decades as a journalist. What is next for Fujimori and her family's political reign in Peru?
GORRITI: Well, as you probably know, Fujimori, just before she went as a candidate, have been subjected to a prosecution accusation of massive money laundering. And the prosecutor has asked for 20 years jail for her. So for her, the prospects at this point are not very bright at all.
CHANG: And as Castillo begins to try to set up a new government - I mean, he has made very big promises to voters, such as changing the Constitution to give the state more control over the economy. Tell me, is there enough political will in Lima for him to actually accomplish a promise like that, you think?
GORRITI: He doesn't have any choice but to compromise. He needs to forge coalitions. And of course, if he decides to embark on a nationwide campaign to fight the pandemic, to try to curtail the pandemic as soon as possible, while beginning with economic recovery, that could give a very strong beginning to his regime.
CHANG: That is journalist Gustavo Gorriti. He is director of IDL-Reporters (ph), an investigative journalism publication in Lima, Peru.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
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COHERENT consciousness creates order in the world, and subtle interactions link us with each other and the Earth.
It is a faculty common to all persons, though in the majority but slightly developed.
pass before the inner vision and are reflected into the physical eye from within. They then appear objectively to the seer.
It was that "flashing gaze" of "countless generations" of initiated seers and prophets, H. P. Blavatsky declared in The Secret Doctrine (1:272), that penetrated "into the very kernel of matter, and recorded the soul of things there." Those facts, established using the same method claimed by modern science ['scientific method'], would become the perennial teachings furthered by modern Theosophy.
who have developed and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual organizations to the utmost possible degree.
This checking, testing, verifying and confirming is the ideal method claimed to be followed by our modern scientists, seeking the truth wherever it might be found. Too often, though, materialism creeps in, preventing them from following the evidence wherever it leads.


This simple and delicious recipe turns one of the most praised superfoods into an all-time favourite treat, the healthy way. There is a lot of talk about the never-ending benefits of sweet potato, so why not give it a try?
To begin, bake one sweet potato in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit (220 degrees Celsius), being sure to puncture it with a fork.
When the sweet potato is soft, remove from the oven and turn it down to 350 degrees (180 degrees Celsius), then peel off the skin and mash it all up in a bowl.
Next add all wet ingredients: 3 eggs (whisked), ¼ cup of melted coconut oil, 1/3 cup of raw honey and 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract to the bowl and mix them all together.
Finally, mix in all the dry ingredients: 3 tbsp coconut flour, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, ¼ tsp of baking powder, ¼ tsp of cinnamon and ½ a cup of chocolate chips.
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Q: Parameter passed to pthread changes i don't know why parameters passed to pthread changes automatically.
i'll show you my code
the debug  result is this  :
begin of while while() =begin= 0 ===
params: a84a5310
->socket: a84a4e70
->connection: a84a52d0(4)
->webserver: a84a4ea0(0)
===== begin of while while() =end====

===== end of while() =begin= 1709692672 ===
params: a84a5310
->socket: a84a4e70
->connection: a84a52d0(4)
->webserver: a84a4ea0(0)
===== end of while() =end====
Accepting...

===== in thread() =begin= 1709692672 ===
params: aacf4240//wrong expected a84a5310
->socket: a84a5310 //wrong expected a84a4e70
->connection: a84a4ea0(0)//wrong expected a84a52d0(4)
->webserver: 65e7d700(0) //wrong expected a84a4ea0(0)
===== in thread() =end====

this is struct that i pass to the thread :
typedef struct  InfoServer{
   ServerTCP* server;
   WebServer* webserver;
   ConnServer* serverConn;
}ServerInfo;

this is debug function :
void* show_params(ServerInfo* params, char* where, int n) {

   printf("===== %s =begin= %d ===\n",where, n);

   printf("params: %x\n",
           params);
   printf("->socket: %x\n",
           params->server);
   printf("->connection: %x(%d)\n",
           params->serverConn, params->serverConn->getConn());
   printf("->webserver: %x(%d)\n",
           params->webserver);
   printf("===== %s =end====\n",where);

   fflush(stdout);

}

this is main function :
void *manageConnection(void *serverConn);
void fineRichiesta(ServerInfo * serverinformation);

int main (int argc , char* argv[]){
   if(argc!=2){
       printf("USAGE: %S , PORT  \n",argv[0]);
   fflush(stdout);
       exit(1);
   }

   int port = atoi(argv[1]);

   ServerTCP* tserver= new ServerTCP(port);
   WebServer* webserv= new WebServer();

   bool exit = false;
   while( true ){

       pthread_t manageConnection_thread;
       ConnServer* serverC=  tserver->acceptConn();
       ServerInfo* serverinfo = (ServerInfo*) malloc(sizeof(ServerInfo));
       serverinfo->server = tserver;
       serverinfo->webserver = webserv;
       serverinfo->serverConn =serverC;

       show_params(serverinfo,"starting in while()",0);

       if(pthread_create(&manageConnection_thread,
               NULL,
               manageConnection,
               (void*) &serverinfo)) {
                           error("Error Creating server");
           }
       show_params(serverinfo,"end of while()", manageConnection_thread);

   }
   delete( tserver);
   delete( webserv);
   return 0;
}

here is thread code :
void *manageConnection(void * serverinformation){
       ServerInfo *serverinfo = (ServerInfo*)serverinformation;
   show_params(serverinfo,"in thread()", pthread_self());

       ConnServer * srvConn = serverinfo->serverConn;
       char* answ;
       if(srvConn){
            answ = (char*)srvConn->riceviServer();
       }

       else    {
       printf("im in else\n");
       fflush(stdout);
       }

       if(!answ){
       printf("finerichiesta\n");
       fflush(stdout);

       fineRichiesta(serverinfo);
       }
       printf("answ: %s\n", answ);
   fflush(stdout);
       char* file = serverinfo->webserver->getFile(answ);
       srvConn->inviaServer(file);
       fineRichiesta( serverinfo);
       free(answ);
   return NULL;
}

function :
void fineRichiesta(ServerInfo * serverinformation){
   printf("im in fine richiesta\n");
       fflush(stdout);
   serverinformation->server->disconnect(serverinformation->serverConn);
   free(serverinformation);
   pthread_exit(NULL);
}

Any help would be amazing , im getting crazy -
i dont know if my question is best formulated -
thanks in advance ...

A: Your pthread_create call is passing the wrong void * value to the thread start routine manageConnection.
It is passing the address of the serverInfo variable:
pthread_create(&manageConnection_thread,
               NULL,
               manageConnection,
               (void*) &serverinfo)

It should be passing value of the serverInfo variable, which points to a filled in ServerInfo:
pthread_create(&manageConnection_thread,
               NULL,
               manageConnection,
               (void*) serverinfo)  // <-- note: ampersand removed here

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Inovonics and Mercury Security Partner to Deliver Industry's First PSIA-Based Integrated Access Control and EN6080 Area Control Gateway System for Mobile Duress at ISC West 2014.
LOUISVILLE, Colo., March 10, 2014 – Inovonics, a leading provider of enterprise life safety and specialized commercial wireless systems, and Mercury Security, a global leader in the supply of OEM access control hardware, have announced a technology partnership that allows Mercury's OEM partners to incorporate Inovonics' mobile duress wireless network within its access control platform. In compliance with the Area Control open specification from the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), Mercury will integrate Inovonics' EN6080 Area Control Gateway (ACG) with the Authentic Mercury branded hardware to offer the industry's first integrated access control platform with Enterprise Mobile Duress (EMD) capabilities.
The new solution is the latest addition in the ever-expanding library of wireless technology available in every Mercury controller. This combined offering allows end users to leverage their existing security investments by adding an extra layer of protection with Inovonics' panic buttons and demonstrates the industry's need for solutions that focus on people protection in addition to physical building security. Using standards-based integrations, best-of-breed solutions can be configured and deployed quickly with minimal incremental investment.
The new integrated Mercury access control platform with Inovonics' Area Control Gateway (ACG) and duress pendant system allows partners and resellers to leverage their customers' existing security infrastructures while adding the tremendous value of EMD at a minimal incremental cost. Using panic buttons as a "credential," security personnel can track the identity and location of the person assigned to each pendant as they enter and move throughout buildings and secure areas. Combining access control together with Inovonics' EN6080 ACG location capabilities in this way ensures greater response time when safety issues arise.
The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) is a global consortium of more than 65 physical security manufacturers and systems integrators focused on promoting interoperability of IP-enabled security devices and systems across the security ecosystem and beyond. The PSIA Area Control specification, which is used in the integrated Mercury Security and Inovonics' access control/EMD solution, facilitates synchronization and secure data sharing among access control, wireless intrusion and video analytics, resulting in more cost-effective, comprehensive and integrated commercial security systems.
A complete demo of the solution showcasing integrated access control with Enterprise Mobile Duress will be on display at ISC West. To learn more, visit Inovonics' booth at ISC West (#16109), or visit Mercury Security or PSIA.


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I've got plenty of snarky things to say about rosé these days, but then along comes this gem - available probably everywhere - and it makes me happy. Rosé is a lot cheaper (and faster) to make than the red wine the grapes would otherwise be vinted into. And thanks to its popularity, particularly with a less-discerning demographic (it is trending heavily with hipsters and bros), wineries the world over are cranking it out in such a hurry that quality appears to be an afterthought voiced in a giggle.
The marketplace is so saturated in medicrre rosé, you have to be willing to suffer through a lot of duds before landing a delight. Here's one of those:
2018 Chateau Ste Michelle Rosé Columbia Valley $10
The label says that it's crisp, dry, and elegant. I agree, though it's probably more crowd-pleasing than elegant. Nevertheless, it's also lip-smacking delish and has - wait for it - character. All this for $10? And I grabbed it at the grocery store?! It's a find, alright. This is just the second vintage for CSM making this wine, which is made mostly from syrah with around a quarter merlot. Wow.


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Q: SQLBulkCopy - WriteToServer method not working I'm trying to export some data from an Excel file to a MDF database. To do that, I'm using Excel Data Reader and SQL Bulk Copy :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using Excel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace BulkTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            FileStream fs = File.Open(@"C:\Users\maarab\Desktop\List_Personnel 2013.xlsx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
            IExcelDataReader excelReader = ExcelReaderFactory.CreateOpenXmlReader(fs);

            DataTable dt = CreateDataTable();

            string cx = @"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\DataTest.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True";
            SqlBulkCopy bcp = new SqlBulkCopy(cx, SqlBulkCopyOptions.KeepIdentity);

            bool first = true;

            while (excelReader.Read())
            {
                if (first)
                {
                    first = false;
                }

                else
                {
                    if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(excelReader.GetString(0)))
                        break;

                    else
                    {
                        string numNat = excelReader.GetString(2);
                        DateTime birthDate = excelReader.GetDateTime(9);
                        DateTime startDate = excelReader.GetDateTime(1);

                        if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(numNat))
                        {
                            if (numNat.Length == 12)
                            {
                                numNat = numNat.Remove(6, 1);
                            }
                        }

                        if (birthDate.Year < 1753)
                            birthDate = DateTime.Now;

                        if (startDate.Year < 1753)
                            startDate = DateTime.Now;

                        dt.Rows.Add(excelReader.GetString(0), excelReader.GetString(0), numNat, startDate, birthDate);

                    }
                }
            }

            bcp.DestinationTableName = "person";
            bcp.BatchSize = 100;

            bcp.ColumnMappings.Add(0, 1);
            bcp.ColumnMappings.Add(1, 2);
            bcp.ColumnMappings.Add(2, 3);
            bcp.ColumnMappings.Add(3, 4);
            bcp.ColumnMappings.Add(4, 5);

            try
            {
                bcp.WriteToServer(dt, DataRowState.Unchanged);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

        public static DataTable CreateDataTable()
        {
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();

            dt.Columns.Add("FirstName", typeof(string));
            dt.Columns.Add("LastName", typeof(string));
            dt.Columns.Add("NumNat", typeof(string));
            dt.Columns.Add("Birthdate", typeof(DateTime));
            dt.Columns.Add("StartDate", typeof(DateTime));

            return dt;
        }
    }
}

I'm filling a datatable with my Excel file and all goes good. The program is running without problem but unfortunatelly there's no insert into my table. Any idea to solve that?

A: If you look at your table using Server Explorer you should check carefully the connection used in this window. It happens very often that you have your database file listed in the project files and the connection used by Server Explorer points to this file in the project folder.
Of course, when your program runs, the connection used is the one specified in your app.config.
In this scenario you have no error (because no error exists) but you look with the Server Explorer to the wrong database where no action occured and you can't see the updates.
The solution is easy, you need to reconfigure the connection used by the Server Explorer to point to the effective value of the |DataDirectory| substitution string (Usually BIN\DEBUG or BIN depending on project type)


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Q: Texmaker and MacTex are unable to compile Index, Nomenclature and Biber On Mac (Maverick) with MacTex (up-to-date), I can compile the following (A) MWE using the Engine (B) for Texshop, however not using the (C) custom command for Texmaker. I searched for two days and found no solution:
(A) MWE.tex for my setup of Biber, Index and Nomenclature (using Makeindex)
\listfiles

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[authordate,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{robustindex}
\makeindex
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\printnomenclature

\nomenclature{Alpha}{alpha test}%

Here is \index{some} text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography

\printindex

\end{document}

(B) Functioning Engine for Texshop:
#!/bin/bash
pdflatex -synctex=1 "$1"
for file in *.idx ; do
makeindex -s *.ist $file
done
for file in *.bcf ; do
biber $file
done
pdflatex -synctex=1 "$1"
for file in *.nlo ; do
bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls
done
pdflatex -synctex=1 "$1"

(C) Not working command for Texmaker (note: my_index_style.ist in working directory with mwe.tex)
"/usr/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode|"/usr/texbin/biber" %|"/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.idx -s my_index_style.ist|"/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %.nls|"/usr/texbin/pdflatex"  -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode|"/usr/texbin/pdflatex"  -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode|open %.pdf

results in
Input index file MWE.idx not found. Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]

Process exited with error(s)

(D) Of course I tried to run the commands separately in Texmaker:

*

*"/usr/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex works

a. "/usr/texbin/biber" % seems 99 of 100 times it freezes Texmaker (seeing a circle with two white and two black quarters?!), so I need to killall texmaker.
b. "/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.idx -s index_style_wenger.ist process exited normally (after first running pdflatex)
c. "/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %.nls process exited normally (after first running pdflatex)
Could someone please help? I want to use Texmaker for its better functions for handling large multi file projects.
Update: As suggested in the comment below I tried:
"/usr/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode && "/usr/texbin/biber" % && "/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.idx -s index_style_wenger.ist && "/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %.nls && "/usr/texbin/pdflatex"  -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode| && "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode && open %.pdf

which resulted in
Process started

This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2013] (kpathsea + Thai support). Scanning style file ./index_style_wenger.ist.....

.....done (10 attributes redefined, 2 ignored). Scanning input file MWE.idx....done (1 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entries...done (0 comparisons). Generating output file MWE.ind....done (6 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in MWE.ind. Transcript written in MWE.ilg.

Process exited normally

but, in the end the bibliography and the index are ok, but no nomenclature is shown.

A: Not a direct answer, but a method that's equivalent to yours and much easier to manage.
Add a Texmaker user command that does
arara -v %.tex

and prefix your document with
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: makeindex: { style: index_style_wenger.ist }
% arara: nomencl
% arara: biber
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: yes }

\documentclass{article}

Running arara instead of pdflatex will do the same exact sequence of commands that you're trying to pass to a single tool.
You have the advantage that, in order not to run all those commands, you just disable one or more, which is obtained by adding a ! after the leading %.
This requires Java, if you don't have it installed you'll be prompted to.


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The HWA also run the Bram Stoker Awards, and I was proud to be on the preliminary ballot for the award earlier this year.
One of HWA's missions is to encourage interest in and appreciation of quality horror, and I'm glad to be involved in the same enterprise.


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Q: Code Reviewing a Pull Request With Master Merges Our team has adopted the common PR strategy of having each feature branch code reviewed before being merged to the main branch. We also have adopted the strategy of frequently merging in the main branch to avoid huge conflicts once the branch is done.
This has worked well, but we're facing issues with branches that take longer to build. I'm looking at code reviewing a branch that took a couple weeks to build. There are well over 100 commits of over 100 files in the PR. Now, the actual feature is probably only about 15% of those, the rest are just merges with the main branch.
Is there any way I can shrink this down and only focus on the new code in this branch, as opposed to having to sift through 100's of lines of code that's actually already been code reviewed and merged to the main branch?

A: My suggestion for this case is to rebase. You'll often see this asked for in open source repositories where your feature branch may have become out of date with the master branch.
It would mean that you rewind your branch history, set it to the tip of the current branch you rebase onto, then re-apply your unique changes again, so everything is up to date.
Caveat: fixing merge conflicts can be confusing for long running branches while rebasing because you need to fix conflicts at various stages through your feature branch's maturity - often you forget what you did!
You can also merge the main branch into your feature branch which will apply the changes on top of your changes. I don't like this approach, because it sort of buries your changes under irrelevant code to your feature, but it's easier to fix conflicts this way because your code is in a "finished" state when you do it.

A: You compare not with featurebranch base, but with mergebase of future merge, which is last master commit which was merged. This way you see only what was done in the feature branch.
You can do it without looking for the commit, by calling git diff master...feature (note 3 dots there)
see man git-diff


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M. Aytekin and M. Rucci (2012), Motion Parallax from Microscopic Head Movements during Visual Fixation, Vision Research 70: 7--17.
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M. Aytekin, C.F. Moss and J. Z. Simon (2008), A sensorimotor Approach to Sound Localization, Neural Computation, Vol. 20(3): 603--635.
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M. Aytekin and M. Rucci "Motion parallax during visual fixation under natural conditions", 15th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, 2011.
M. Aytekin and M. Rucci "Estimating motion parallax during fixational head movements" 11th Vision Sciences Society annual Meeting, FL, 2011.
B. Falk, M. Aytekin and C.F. Moss "Texture discrimination by echolocation in the big brown bat" 159th ASA Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
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EOW: Sep 14, 2021
On September 14, Los Angeles Airport Police Officer III Michael "Razz" Rasmussen was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident on his way home from work. He was a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Airport Police and a United States Air Force veteran. Officer Rasmussen began his career with the City of Los Angeles in 1997 after serving with the United States Air Force. His training as a crash rescue firefighter in the USAF prepared him for the job as an Airport Safety Officer (ASO) assigned to Ontario International Airport (ONT). The job of an ASO is the best of both public safety worlds, being trained as both a police officer and firefighter. When the City of Ontario took over patrolling ONT Airport, Razz continued his law enforcement career assigned to LAX Airport as an Airport Police Officer and was assigned to the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) in 2019, where he served until his passing. Mike was a great athlete and loved playing softball, participating in several U.S. Police and Fire Olympics and Police and Fire World Games. He leaves behind his two beloved daughters, Averi and Reilly; his sister, Laura; his mother, Jeannine; his loving wife, Cindie; her three sons, Austin, Evan and Jared; and grandson Adam.


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US immigrants – Key findings by Pew Research Center
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Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants.
Key findings about
The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S. immigrants.
Pew Research Center regularly publishes statistical portraits of the nation's foreign-born population, which include historical trends since 1960. Based on these portraits, here are answers to some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population.
How many people in the U.S. are immigrants?
The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 44.8 million in 2018. Since 1965, when U.S. immigration laws replaced a national quota system, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. has more than quadrupled. Immigrants today account for 13.7% of the U.S. population, nearly triple the share (4.8%) in 1970. However, today's immigrant share remains below the record 14.8% share in 1890, when 9.2 million immigrants lived in the U.S.
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Tensorflow 1.0 vs. Tensorflow 2.0: What's the...
Tensorflow 1.0 vs. Tensorflow 2.0: What's the Difference?
Sakshi Gupta | 6 minute read | October 27, 2021
Tensorflow 1.0 vs Tensorflow 2.0: Understanding the Difference
TensorFlow 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0: What is the difference?
TensorFlow 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 has been the point of focus for data learning enthusiasts across the world ever since Google released TensorFlow 2.0. Google Brain launched TensorFlow 1.0 in 2017, whereas the updated version i.e TensorFlow 2.0's release date was September 30, 2019. TensorFlow quickly became the most popular open-source ML library. And now with the release of TensorFlow 2.0, even beginners can execute deep learning tasks.
Here are some TensorFlow facts:
TensorFlow is transforming all genres of industries including pharma, healthcare, banking, or agriculture.
It has played a huge role in enabling companies to leverage artificial intelligence and thereby make their products/services smarter than ever before.
All the industry giants ranging from CocaCola, Airbnb, Airbus, Dropbox, LinkedIn, PayPal, Twitter, and Uber vouch for this software library.
Image recognition, speech recognition, sentiment analysis, object detection, and video detection are some of its most popular use cases.
Such is the utility of TensorFlow! Having worked thoroughly on the drawbacks of TensorFlow 1.0, the team released a better, smarter, and an easier version i.e TensorFlow 2.0. And hence this article will deal with TensorFlow 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 – and will answer all your related questions.
Let's begin with the basics by understanding each individually.
What is TensorFlow?
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open-source machine learning platform that contains comprehensive tools, libraries and community resources. It is meant for developers, data scientists and researchers to build and deploy applications powered by machine learning. TensorFlow was essentially built to scale, developed by Google Brain team, TensorFlow accelerates ML and deep neural network research. It can run on multiple CPUs or GPUs and mobile operating systems. Also, it has several wrappers in languages like Python, C++, or Java.
What is TensorFlow 2.0?
TensorFlow 2.0 is an updated version of TensorFlow that has been designed with a focus on simple execution, ease of use, and developer's productivity. TensorFlow 2.0 makes the development of data science and machine learning applications even easier. With updated features like tight integration of Keras, default Eager execution, and Pythonic function execution, there have been considerable and successful efforts to make the experience of developing applications more familiar for Python developers.
The TensorFlow team has also invested heavily in low-level API this time. All the ops that are used internally are now exported and inheritable interfaces for concepts such as variables and checkpoints are provided. So, as you build onto the internals of TensorFlow, you won't have to rebuild TensorFlow.
TensorFlow 2.0 Tutorial: Stepwise Installation Guide
Google Colab:
Open Google Colab on the link. https://colab.research.google.com/.
Create a 'New Python 3 Notebook'.
Connect to GPU/CPU.
Check if you're using 2.0 version. If not, uninstall using !pip uninstall TensorFlow and then install it using !pip install TensorFlow
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(As per the TensorFlow team) It is important to understand that there is no battle of TensorFlow 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 as TensorFlow 2.0 is the updated version and hence clearly better and smarter. It was built keeping in mind the drawbacks of TensorFlow 1.0 which was particularly hard to use and understand.
Beginners and experts used to be disheartened seeing the exhausting TensorFlow code. Why? Because its logic of coding was vastly different from that of other libraries. This led to the popularisation of higher-level packages such as Pytorch and Keras. Both Keras and TensorFlow are open-source and in 2017, Keras was integrated into TensorFlow. However, even after this integration, TensorFlow was still losing popularity. This was until 2019 when TensorFlow 2.0 came into the picture. Through TensorFlow 2.0, the team aimed to catch up with the higher-level programming demand. But instead of creating their high-level syntax, the developers went on to borrow that of Keras. So, now the TensorFlow 2.0 has the versatility of Tensorflow 1.0 and the simplicity of Keras.
Major Changes in the two Libraries
Keras as the high-level API: As mentioned earlier, Google has incorporated Keras as a high-level API in TensorFlow 2.0 to build and train ML models. This will make it easy for users to get started with TensorFlow.
Compatible TensorFlow ecosystem: In TensorFlow 2.0, as soon as the training for a model is completed, it can be deployed in production on other platforms. TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow.js, and TensorFlow Extended are the deployment libraries available for users.
TensorFlow.js – JavaScript library to train and deploy models in the browser and on Node.js.
TensorFlow Lite – Lightweight library to deploy models on mobile and embedded devices.
TensorFlow Extended – An end-to-end platform to prepare data, train, validate, and deploy models in large production environments.
Also, there is a conversion tool provided to simplify migration from TensorFlow 1.0 to TensorFlow 2.0. This tool will be used to update the Python code to use compatible APIs where possible. It will also highlight the areas where your code cannot be automatically converted.
API Cleanup: In TensorFlow 2.0, APIs have either gone or moved. Some of them have also been replaced with their 2.0 equivalents that are tf.summary, tf.keras.metrics, and tf.keras.optimizers. To automatically apply these renames, you need to use the v2 upgrade script.
Default Eager execution: In TensorFlow 1.0, the operation is performed inside a session. A session is an environment wherein the objects are executed. So, if you had to add two constants, TensorFlow 1.0 wouldn't give you the results until you performed it inside a session. But with TensorFlow 2.0, you can do it directly. That's Eager Execution.
TensorFlow 1.0 code
a = tf.constant(5)
b = tf.constant(4)
c = a + b
with tf.Session() as sess:
print(sess.run(c))
Simplified TensorFlow 2.0 code because of Eager Execution:
print(c)
No more globals: TensorFlow relied on implicitly global namespaces. So, what happened is – if you called tf.variable(), it would be put into the default graph. And even if you lose the Python variable pointing to it, it would remain there nonetheless. You could only recover that tf.variable if you knew the name it was created with. Now, since the user doesn't control the creation of the variable, it was extremely difficult to recover it. In TensorFlow 2.0, developers have taken care of this issue. If you lose track of tf.variable in TensorFlow 2.0, it will be garbage collected.
Functions, not sessions: A session.run() call is very similar to a function call: Users state the inputs and the function to be called and get the outputs. In TensorFlow 2.0, however, users can decorate a Python function by using tf.function(). This will mark it for JIT compilation and TensorFlow will run it as a single graph. Through this, TensorFlow 2.0 can leverage the performance and portability of the graph mode completely as the function can be optimised (node pruning, kernel fusion, etc.) and exported/reimported.
Ease for researchers: TensorFlow 2.0 is for all – beginners and researchers. It is however great for advanced-level users. The extensions such as Ragged Tensors, TensorFlow Probability, and Tensor2Tensor will be especially useful. TensorFlow 2.0 comes with default Eager execution which will deliver clear messages and aid researchers to debug any issue. Also, researchers will be able to jump to the source of the error in the original code.
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Three hundred Colombians with temporary farm work
Colombian seasonal workers come to Majorca each year. | Archive
The Unió de Pagesos farmers union will this year arrange temporary employment for some 300 Colombian workers. These are the largest group of foreign workers that the union organises.
The most workers - 306 - came in 2006, but the union says that there well be more in 2019. Last year there were 270.
The arrangement started in 2001. The union in Majorca teamed up with counterparts in Catalonia and Valencia and started the recruitment of workers, especially from Colombia. Most of them come each year, and they have work for between six and nine months. Once the season finishes, they return to Colombia.
They are needed for all types of crop, with particular demand for vegetables and vineyards. Decent accommodation is provided and one half of the return fare for flights is paid for.
Colombian workers
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The Modern Institute is delighted to present Gravity Blues an exhibition of new work by Gregor Wright. The exhibition which includes paintings, drawings and sculpture continues Wright's enquiry into the activity of producing art, which he does by working intuitively with ideas and materials. Wright is interested in how the components of every day experience function, the mechanics of how ideas are communicated and how meaning is formed.
His paintings create a sense of impossible space, built using a canon of motifs and references, they have been described as combining a "strange synthesis [of] oppositions and sophisticated improvisations whose naivety is beautifully academic." Equally Wrights' drawings seem to hover between representation and abstraction, fusing drawn elements that are diagrammatic and almost familiar, to build a sense of space and depth within the picture plane. Works seem to record a moment of near destruction. Chaotic and fractured planes appear to be at odds with each other, the work gives a sense of functioning close to the point of it's own collapse.
In the work Shapeshifter, Wright has transformed the attitude of his drawings into this sculpture. Using commonplace materials including polystyrene insulation, tiles, and linoleum and wood, he has cut, painted and placed these familiar elements together to create an object that is a balanced tension; but like the drawings vulnerable to collapse.