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Scientists Plan to Make 3-D Map of the Milky Way
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(1)Today on the program, we tell about developments in space exploration. We tell about an American decision to extend the life of the International Space Station. We also tell about the American space agency's Mars rover Opportunity and new findings from the red planet. We have a report about what appear to be high energy particles from outside our solar system. But first, we report on plans for an unusual map.
(2) A man-made satellite called Gaia started a long trip late last year. The satellite was designed to travel more than a million kilometers from Earth. Scientists are hoping that Gaia will take pictures of our galaxy, the Milky Way. They plan to use the pictures to create the first three-dimensional — or 3-D — map of the Milky Way. It will show the height, depth and width of stars and other large, recognizable objects.
(3) The satellite weighs two tons. It was launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket last December from the European Space Agency's center in French Guiana. Gaia rose quickly and soon began orbiting the Earth. It then deployed a 10-meter-large circular sunshield. The device is keeping instruments on the satellite — including two telescopes – cool on the long trip.
(4) The scientists hope to use the telescope to study distant stars. Gaia was designed to be mechanically stable. That is why the satellite has so few moving parts. In addition, its temperature must not change very much.
(5) Mark McCaughrean is the chief scientist for the Gaia mission. He says the information Gaia gathers will help scientists understand how our galaxy developed, how it looks today, and how it may change.
(6) "It will measure the positions of a billion stars but also their speeds, their motions. And with that we can run a movie of the Milky Way. We can run it forwards, into the future, how the Milky Way will develop by looking at all the stars and how they move. But we can run it backwards as well, and we can see how the Milky Way actually formed in the first place."
(7) Gerard F. Gilmore is with the Institute of Astronomy at England's Cambridge University. He says the 3-D images will one day show half of the Milky Way. He says the map will provide new knowledge about what keeps the galaxy together.
(8) "And the particular interest that I have in here, locally, is in the nature of dark matter. What is dark matter made of? Dark matter is most of the weight in the Milky Way. It is dark matter that holds the Milky Way together. If there weren't all this dark material, our sun would fly off away from the galaxy. The whole galaxy would fall apart."
(9) Scientists expect the satellite to operate for five years in an area about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. It will take about 70 pictures of each of the one billion stars in the Milky Way. The mission is expected to cost about $1.3 billion.
(11) The United States' space agency has announced plans to keep the International Space Station operating until 2024. The $100 billion space station has already been in service for 15 years. It was supposed to halt operations in 2020.
(12) The space agency and the Obama administration say extending the life of the space station will help the US and its international partners meet several goals. These include scientific research and giving private businesses time to fully take responsibility for transporting shipments and crew to low-Earth orbit.
(13) One of the private companies is Orbital Sciences Corporation. It sent a supply flight to the space station in early January. The space agency retired the last of its space shuttles in 2011. Since then, it has been using Orbital Sciences and another company — SpaceX — to transport supplies to the space station. It has also been getting support from Russia. Flight crews are brought to the space station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
(14) More Opportunities for Scientific Study on Mars
(15) The US space agency says its Mars rover vehicle "Opportunity" is still working more than 10 years after arriving on the red planet. Opportunity landed on Mars on January 24, 2004 — several weeks after another rover vehicle, called "Spirit."
(16) NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, says one of Opportunity's six wheels and two instruments stopped working long ago. But those are minor problems when you think about how long the project was supposed to last: just three months. Spirit stopped sending signals in 2010 after getting stuck in sand.
(17) Opportunity has travelled about 39 kilometers on the planet's surface. NASA scientists say the rover continues making new discoveries. It recently overturned a rock, so that its bottom was exposed to the Martian atmosphere for the first time in perhaps billions of years.
(18) Early discoveries by the two rovers showed the planet may have at one time been much warmer and wet. And recently, Opportunity found geologic evidence of water in an area called the Endeavour Crater. Scientists believe the discovery could help them find places other than the Earth where simple life forms could have survived.
(19) New research shows mineral-eating organisms could have lived on Mars. Scientists say this is the best evidence yet that the planet could once have supported life forms.
(20) Last year, scientists reported evidence of water on Mars. In the latest research, the Mars rover vehicle "Curiosity" found two minerals — iron and sulfur — in different chemical states at the bottom of a former lake. The finding is important because the different states suggest that electrons could move around in that environment. Scott McLennan is a professor of geoscience at Stony Brook University in New York.
(21) "If you can move electrons around you have basically got food."
(22) Professor McLennan is part of the Mars rover team that made the discovery.
(23) "In principle, you would have microbes that could eat the rocks and eat the minerals. And that is very common on Earth. They are primitive life forms but they are very, very well-known and very well-characterized."
(24) Such life forms are found in dark caves and deep-sea thermal vents on Earth. These areas do not get the sunlight that is the root of all life on our planet's surface.
(25) Hap McSween is a planetary science professor at the University of Tennessee. He says recent research papers claimed there could be life on Mars. But he says this was the first time he has been persuaded of it.
(26) Professor McSween was not involved in the recent study. He says it is not the first time researchers have found water or important minerals on Mars.
(27) "But never the whole package. And this place really does seem to have the whole package."
(28) The materials were found near the place where Curiosity landed. The area appears to have been a lake about four billion years ago. Professor McSween notes that was around the time life was appearing on Earth.
(29) "It could be that the two planets had emerging but very, very simplified life at the same time. But we are a long way from figuring out that this interesting lake deposit actually has any evidence for life."
(30) Sensing equipment buried deep in the Antarctic ice has found evidence of high energy particles from outside our solar system.
(31) IceCube is the name of a device operating in Antarctica. It has more than 5,000 light sensors buried as deep as two kilometers below the surface. IceCube has been called, the world's largest particle detector searching for "neutrinos".
(32) Francis Halzen is the lead investigator on the project and a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin. He says IceCube is looking in the ice for high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system.
(33) "What we want to see is a handful of events sent to us by the universe. We've finally discovered those."
(34) When the neutrinos mix with atoms inside the deep ice instrumentss, they sometimes give off small amounts of light. In 2010, scientists discovered two high-energy neutrinos. Two years later, they found 26 more — including the most-energetic neutrinos ever observed.
(35) Nathan Whitehorn is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin. He also is working on the IceCube project. He says the discovery of the 26 neutrinos after finding the first two was very important.
(36) "It was almost impossible, without more data and data at lower energies, to be sure that these two neutrinos that we found were part of a larger pattern indicating an extraterrestrial population, instead of some statistical fluke."
(37) Neutrinos have almost no mass or weight, and no electric charge. That is why the Earth's magnetic fields have no effect on them. Neutrinos move quickly and in a straight line through the solar system. That movement is very different from electrically-charged cosmic rays. Professor Whitehorn says the lack of an electric charge in neutrinos means they can help scientists find where cosmic rays came from.
(38) "We expect that anything that is making high-energy cosmic rays — the most energetic phenomenon in the universe — whatever they are, will make neutrinos at the same time and if we are able to identify the origin of these high-energy neutrinos, they will provide some very powerful clues about the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays."
(39) Scientists have been attempting to solve this mystery for more than a century. They hope these extraterrestrial messengers will help them do that.
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Fire Emblem Fates has Naughty Dialogue, Stripping, and Touching Gameplay
by Brandon Orselli on June 26, 2015 at 10:11 PM, EDT
With the recent launch of the game in Japan, we've learned (via Nintendo News) that Fire Emblem Fates has some naughty bits of gameplay.
While the Japanese version is reminiscent of the previous games, Twitch user Hamayama managed to stream a good amount of the game, which revealed that you could undress your characters down to their underwear, touch and grope them, and even engage in suggestive dialogue.
When you're in the Accessory Shop, you can strip down your party members to just their undies. From here, you can move the camera around into a strategic position, and even get a glimpse of some underboob.
Fire Emblem Fates is coming with a feature much like the petting in the Pokémon Amie mini-game, although this is applied to your party members, and things can quickly become sexual in nature. You do this by using your stylus to stroke, rub, and pet characters of your choosing.
It's worth mentioning that you can only experience the sexual dialogue if you have an S-rank level relationship with said character. We've gotten a hold of some translations of said naughty banter, via some users on Reddit. You can find some examples below:
Camilla: "The way you're using your hand feels so good. Very skillful."
Lazwald: "I also want to touch you, will you come closer?"
Takumi: "You can touch me wherever I like, but don't say I didn't warn you…"
Joker: "We can't… it'll have to wait for tonight."
Camilla: "When you do it this much, it's embarrassing…"
Finally, considering that you can have actual family members (siblings) in your party, this applies to them as well. Yes, this means you can experience your brother or sister uttering naughty things, like Takumi (the protagonist's brother) saying "If mother saw this, what would she think?"
Recently, we also learned of the game featuring both online multiplayer (for it's My Castle feature presumably), as well as same-sex marriage.
Fire Emblem Fates is launching in the west some time next year.
fire emblem fates, Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
inb4 its censored in the west
JCTXS
I'd be amazed if any of this survives its transition to the west.
na most of the porters and translators are part of the triggered and offended crowd
Etherblaze
I like it! You can do it to guys and gals. That's great. Hopefully no censorship.
o there will be. The triggered crowd will swoop down on it soon.
Psichaos
Rumor has it Nintendo is doing the localization in-house as opposed to outsourcing it, but I have my doubts any of this will make it in. I'm sure NoA wants to have a T-rated game to sell.
Taedirk
Just put a curtain over the entire top screen. It worked for FE:A.
WB1c_Marathon
I haven't been paying attention but is the 3DS still region locked? If any of the lewd goodness is censored here I'd rather just import and be done with it. Western sensibilities and over sensitivity is starting to fuel my desire to learn moon and just cut the bullshit.
Ibi Salmon
Uhhh…
Oh my god this is gonna get so censored during localization.
singsingdav
Chance of this not being censored for US:
Why? Because us prude Americans can't have a titty show up on our screens now can we. Gotta keep the kids safe guys.
Eldhin Hellknight
and, for sure, all of this will be censored for us
Fishpaste
You can blow on them using the mic once you get married
Narmy
If it doesn't then I won't buy it, simple as that.
So this is what becomes of Fire Emblem. Just full on pandering.
Well, this is where I get off the ride. Been a fan ever since I picked up FE7 for the GBA, and even played the earlier games. I honestly had been excited for this even after the massive disappointment that was Awakening, but recent news has made me aware that this just isn't a game made for Fire Emblem fans, but rather people that just like soulless fanservice.
There's nothing wrong with gratuitous fanservice, but Fire Emblem has always been better than that. Awakening got a little close to that line with Tharja, but this is just ridiculous.
I'm clearly in the minority here, since everyone in the comments is worried about it being censored. I don't care. Fire Emblem is ruined. Complete censorship would be an improvement in my eyes. But I'll bite my fucking tongue, as the last thing I want to be is a hypocrite. I want to say that the developers are idiots and they're making a mockery of their franchise, but nope, it's their vision. They have the right to ruin a franchise as much as they wish, if that is their artistic vision.
>but Awakening saved Fire Emblem
I said after I played Awakening that I rather would have FE die a noble death than Awakening save it if it was going to go down the road that it started on, and now that sentiment is even stronger.
if you like it remember to let nintendo know: no sale if the game gets censored
MaidKillua
At least its optional but even still, I cant say im not a little disappointed at a serious franchise like Fire Emblem going this far down the otaku bait road. The waifu sim stuff sure but this may as well be Fire Emblem: Estival Versus or some shit
Ill still buy it and just ignore it I suppose
djluke_1993
This will also have a chance of being banned in Australia. Since everybody knows its in Aussie's interest that we don't like cleavage or underwear.
Someones probably gonna get pretty defensive at you over this. Lol
I agree for the most part but the gameplay of the series still works fine so im not ready to jump ship personally. Ill just pretend this shit isnt there. And only buy one version to spare encouraging them
ShinMegamiSensei
Holy shit best game ever!!1!
Jack Ripper
Awakening felt like it had the right amount of spice and sugar. Now I feel like the new one is just OD'ing with the fanservice.
Have to admit as well, as someone who's played all the previous games, I'm not liking the new direction it's heading in. Awakening felt somewhat new and fresh and I forgave it for going out of its niche box, but this new game just seems like it's just pandering. Never liked the idea of the separate games as it felt more like milking than anything else, but now I just lost complete interest.
Domhnall
There are unofficial ways around it but, yes, the 3DS is still officially region locked.
If they censor it, raise the Jolly Roger, so I say.
Dewey Defeats Truman
Can't wait to see this get butchered and/or cut out entirely in the NA localization.
Dr. Evil's Brother's Evil Twin
This game is gonna get butchered more than Awakening.
Eh, I mean, yeah it's fanservice, but if it doesn't get hacked to pieces, you still won't buy it? I mean that seems like a very optional thing you can do. And I'm sure the rest of the game will be just fine. I for one am glad this series is doing well again.
I hope it doesn't get censored, just out of principal. At the same time, though… I dunno. I can see where this is coming from with Awakening, but this feels like, to me anyways if I were to pick up a Mario title and there was a mini game to rub Luigi. That's just not what I'm there for.
If this weren't a Fire Emblem game I might be fine with it. Same way I'd be fine with Federation Force if it weren't a Metroid game. You make sequels because people like the series and want more content, you don't make the series into something it isn't.
don't like it, don't touch it
it's an optional feature
it does not affect the rest of the experience
if you have issues with the gameplay that's another thing and I agree, Awakening was worse but that's a different unrelated matter and should be treated as such
Thanatos2k
Why is this in a Fire Emblem game….?
I don't even understand why this is in the game. The series has never been about stuff like this. And it's baffling Nintendo would allow it.
wererat42
Going to try not to spoil anything, but from what I understand, the story in Fates gets really REALLY dark, and what goes on in My Castle really doesn't mesh with it.
So you will get your grimdark Fire Emblem AND waifus. Enjoy.
Audie Bakerson
Not rumor. One of their in-house people mentioned he was working on it.
This at least means it won't be in 8-4's censoring happy hands.
InfectedAI
Yes unless you hack your system.
LostGryphon
Well that made me perk up.
Also, it caught my attention…but, yeah, just to echo others here, I'd be god damned amaaaazed if this made it to the west. Amazed and more inclined toward pre-ordering…
Chris Gregoria
I…really don't know how I feel about this. I'm all for fanservice and everything – don't get me wrong. And I love the ability to pair off your units and everything of that nature in Fire Emblem, but this…this is just going a bit too far, I think. It seems SO out of place for the series.
Tyrannikos
I think it's odd that this series is taking such a drastic turn so suddenly. Why is stuff like this being thrown in so heavily? I'm not really against it, just confused. It feels out of place.
Tubsiwub
This is totally unnecessary for a Fire Emblem game. Seriously, what the actual fuck.
fan translation of the JP version using the EN text for hacked devices when
ayylmao
"Ruining the franchise" yeah, no, get your head out of your ass.
All the previous games still exists. Just because Awakening and Fates are taken in a different direction, it doesn't mean all the others in the series suddenly having taken a hit by being associated with the new ones. That is the most selfish shit I've heard all week. Go shitpost on /v/ about it together with the rest of your spiteful hugbox buddies. I swear, Fire Emblem fans make up one of the worst of vidya fanbases, second only to the Shin Megami Tensei fans, which feel themselves equally as entitled to being cattered to. Good riddance.
GeneralSalt
Jewtendo is going to butcher the fuck out of this game
That's what happens when the weeaboo fanbase got a hold of it. The real Fire Emblem died with Awakening
You should get checked for hypertension.
That's good to hear. I honestly want to know why the change, though. 8-4 has developed a reputation for being quite censor happy and liberal with localization as of late, so I wonder if Nintendo cut them out because of that? From what I hear, this FE is rather dark, so maybe they didn't want to take a risk with them for plot reasons? I can't imagine NoA letting their own IP go above a T-rating regardless, and this feature will most definitely going to bump it up to M. Although Nintendo releasing an M-rated game is just as odd as Nintendo making an online multiplayer focused shooter, so I could be (and hope I am) wrong about them trying to keep the game at a T-rating.
Nintendo released at least 2 already in US (Giest, Eternal Darkness).
Maybe it will follow Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and be the first recepiant of a new ESRB rating between t and m?
Zanard Bell
I… I have no words.
Completely understandable. This was how I got the taste of anime off my mouth, sadly, because it became full-on pandering with harem animes and rom-coms.
Another Milewide
I get where you're coming from, 'cos I feel mostly the same way. But take a look at one of your statements.
"There's nothing wrong with gratuitous fanservice, but Fire Emblem has always been better than that."
FE wouldn't have to be 'better than' something that 'there's nothing wrong with'. So clearly, there IS something wrong with fanservice. Of course it is. It's pandering nonsense that forgoes good writing in favor of communicating directly to your balls. And yet, there's nothing wrong with it. Just keep it away from my favourite franchise, 'cos it degrades anything that it touches.
When a game is full of fanservice, it doesn't see you as an adult consumer, but rather as a little boy with direct access to your parents' bank account.
JackDandy
Awakening saved the series IIRC, so in response they dialed that element to 11 in the sequel.
Juan Manuel M. Suárez
I wonder if that will make it to the West if Tharja's ass got covered. Ok.. only in America but still. I also wonder how will reviewers react. PSV games got punished quite badly for fanservice in the past~.
Wait,. are there ways to get past the region lock~?
This'll never make it to the localization.
And now that I've seen this, I will not buy it without this content.
"Waaaaaaaaaah."
Sylveria Shini
/facepalm
NaughtyOttsel
So Fire Emblem has become nothing more than a waifu simulator?
PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE cut this from the localization.
buddyluv324
"Complete censorship would be an improvement in my eyes" You say? If that's the case then I will say that you'll be more happier staying away from games that has these sorts of themes. You may find those more like minded over in NeoGAF.
As for FE:A, I have noticed it being more towards the mainstream direction and in some ways its not a good thing. My grip with the recent game is that it seems to be trying to reach to a wider audience with its gameplay and it shows. I feel with this one its going even further with its two versions each having different levels of difficulty ( cant seem to figure why is that a thing now) and adding in certain elements that i feel are just tossed into the mix with little to no thought behind it.
Ryuzaki57
Nintendo going after Vita audience full force.
Can we do that with Elise?
they'll probably add large curtains
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139514-Hackers-Crack-3DSs-Region-Lock-Doesnt-Require-Flashcard
This WAS back in January, so I guess I should say that I don't know whether or not it currently works.
Choppinfoot
This feature is dumb, but cutting it out from a different region's game would be even worse…
Chino Gambino
Its a tactics game with pretty anime characters dude, why would you want to play as yet another dutiful asexual?
You can probably skip all that shit if you don't care, the game is still there.
magicalfollower
Haha, so much for the "family friendly console"!
NinEnix AtArt
Now the game's rating is M :D
If this doesn't make it into the west version, it's a no-buy for me
It's just Nintendo hunting down them whales in full force, as they've been doing for a while now. This Fire Emblem seems to go for the most possible now:
-Standard waifu- and husbandofags
-Fujoshi and gays finally getting their pandering
-Upping the ante with the rubbing to get the lewder customers
-Two seperate SDKs for the collectors
-DLC campaigns aplently
-Amiibo integration so they can have even more poor saps hunt down overpriced and impossible to find figures toys
The Nintendo that seemed to care about the integrity of selling a complete and untainted gameplay experience seems to be long gone nowadays. But that much would already be evident by seeing Amiibo locking away features in current or upcoming game.
Hurrah for micro macrotransactions for everyone?
vileBrenman
Please don't remove this nintendo USA!
Oh God i just remembered that! Nooo i think that act alone pretty much confirms Nintendo usa will censor this game
I dunno man. Pretty sure this fanservice touching mode is optional and has no impact on anything . So if you want you don't have to do it. Also Why do you hate Awakening?
WARNING for all people entering this comment section this is now a BATTLE ZONE for Anti-casuals and Waifu Defenders!
Brandon Orselli
I wanted to remind everyone that we try to present the facts as is.
We are against censorship, however, we do not like to censor discussion.
So long as you're not lobbing legitimate attacks/threats (i.e. I'll kill you, go die, you're a fucking POS, etc) or hatespeech, continue discussing. We're not in the business of policing everyone – as we aim to be an outlet that embraces free speech as much as possible (within legal boundaries, like piracy, CP, etc.).
I promise we'll have a thorough commenting guideline soon, with all of the stipulations that we'll go by. For now, enjoy, discuss things, and please continue being passionate.
undub lover
This better not get censored.
Mr. Greis
Not necessarily. A lot of people mocked them for making it look even MORE lewd. We'll have to see if they listened to that.
I'm willing to bet that this feature will be removed entirely by the localization team, or at the very least HEAVILY toned down.
This makes me not want to purchase the game. Fire Emblem is better than this.
Raziel Barkrai
It was pretty much a given anyway.
DariusQ
Looks like FE is going for the 'kitchen sink' approach this time around. Trying to please everyone BUT the old school fans.
Vampok
Cool. I didn't know this was out in Japan already. I just went and ordered it (the White version to start with).
Christopher C
Either it skirts the T rating (or is actually M? Who knows?) …or Nintendo decides to just rip it all out for the west. I wouldn't be surprised if they did knowing how they think.
Man, Western journos (and some select forums) gonna be furious. I'm down with this, though.
Siveon
Pandering doesn't have to be requested, it could simply be indulging in a particular topic more thoroughly. Which is what seems like Fates was doing. Awakening had dating sim elements, and Fates takes it further with this "feature".
He does play it a bit with the hyperbole but I'm pretty sure he meant the future of Fire Emblem, rather than the series as a whole.
That whole, different direction you were referring to.
Sangaz
If they censor it, I wont be buying it. Even if I didn't like pervy bits in games (I love them!), I still wouldn't buy out of principle.
Evropi
Not sure what to make of this.
But I gotta say, Nintendo are the LAST company I expected to implement fanservicey things like this. Seeing the headline I thought it would be something like "by Nintendo standards", but wow.
So what is the point of this? What do you gain? Monster Monpiece you did that to upgrade the cards so it had a purpose. What is the purpose of stroking your army?
I should have remembered ED was rated M. Geist on the other hand I completely forgot existed. Was it any good?
Firion Hope
Uuuugh so annoying that this probably will get cut! I want this but it's really killing my hype :/
/middlefinger
yes, shes s rankable
It was OK. Feels like the kind of game that was good but flawed and would have been perfection in a sequel if it ever got one.
gusroar
Didn't Australia also ban all pornography that features adult women with an a-cup or smaller because they claimed it was too similar to cp.
With this added I would be interested to play but I don't have a 3DS :( But with Senran 2 coming out soon, maybe I should just pick one up.
Zizal
Dragon Age and Mass Effect full of sex scenes and no one care. Fire Emblem with skimpy outfits and everyone is triggered.
Yep you are right about that one. Unless you actually have breasts that actually have cleave then you're not allowed to do any kind of thing related to the porn industry even if you're over the legal age. To make things worse though with the new Internet filter that was put in to "stop" piracy shit getting even worse now. But in truth we really need people that aren't a bunch of old nutters running the ACB.
Fenrir7
Hope this doesn't get censored in the west…
Why is there fanservice in a Fire Emblem game? Answer me that. Would you expect this nonsense in a Final Fantasy Tactics game? How about Valkyria Chronicles?
Even Disgaea wouldn't go this far, and that series IS about fanservice.
On the Hoshido side, you're still adopted (confirmed by players/fans).
So no real incest here. Hoping NoA doesn't censor that part. OR, they could at least announce that there's no incest.
Gotta do whatever to rake in the cash.
Why not beyond people whining? More people like it than don't if Awakening is anything to go by.
And I wouldn't mind if it was in any of those series, especially if it's optional.
OlimacFTW
No need. Nintendo has four times the Vita userbase only with 3DS.
This is not whining. This is developers putting something in a game that shouldn't be there. I have nothing against games with this content and have enjoyed many of them, but it is MASSIVELY out of place here, and anyone who says it is not has not played the Fire Emblem series.
This will not rake in the cash though. In fact, it's likely to do the opposite.
A completely optional feature. Let's remember that because people will still bitch about it.
Fenrir007
Another thing we'll never see on a western release. I do have to say its kinda weird to see it on a FE game, but I don't really mind. It's optional, after all. Get touchy-feely only if you want.
tccboss
Yeah no way this content or dialog will make it out west
the userbase maybe, but not the users
Right, the users. Here you have:
3DS= 18M against Vita= 4M users
When I said users, I meant audience as marketing target. Vita is now the main system for niche games consumers
Funny. That raised the ideas of some persons.
I really hope that. After all, bad corrections do the worst.
It doesn't even need to be censored, after all if the history is so dark as they say, it would naturally raise the age of the game. After all, what's the problem.
I couldn't agree more. I have thought this way since the first time i heard someone criticize the FE series.
If we want avoid the censoring, we can sign this petition, we cab try n.n
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-do-not-censor-fire-emblem-fates-for-it-s-worldwide-release?recruiter=334658299&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Isis Nether
Because anime isn't allowed to have that kind of genre??
It's funny, cos I see more skin on prime time than I do in these games.
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Looks like you won't have to be amazed… :(

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WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MASH-UP THE WORDS INSPIRE AND CONSPIRE? You get CoSpire, the act of being inspired and creating together. September 16 and 17 the Old Stone Church hosts CoSpire! The Community Creation Weekend at the Old Stone Church with special guests Kim McLean and John McClure.
Kim McLean is an award winning, hit songwriter for artists such as Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack and Tim McGraw. Her songs have been featured on CBS's As the World Turns, ABC's Hope and Faith and NBC's West Wing. She's also had a number of successes as a performer, including her Inspirational Country hit, Angels and Eagles, a duet with Dolly Parton. Kim is an ordained Nazarene pastor.
John McClure is a musician, sound engineer, and author of numerous books on the subjects of preaching and worship including, Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention. John is an ordained Presbyterian (USA) pastor and professor of preaching and worship at Vanderbilt University School of Divinity.
Kim and John will host a moderated town-hall style meeting, as well as independent workshops on what goes into crafting great songs, poetry, worship and sermons. Saturday evening, Old Stone will host a dinner followed by an "In the Round" concert with Kim McLean, John McClure and special guest, singer-songwriter, Mark Giuliano. On Sunday morning, Dr. McClure will preach and Kim McLean will offer special music.
What do soul diva Betty Lavette, country legends Trisha Yearwood and Lee Ann Womack, and NBC's West Wing all have in common? They all have great songs written by Nashville songwriter and Nazarene pastor, Kim McLean. Along with Vanderbilt senior professor of worship and preaching, and Nashville studio session player, the Reverend Dr. John McClure, Kim will be at the Old Stone Church on September 16 and 17 as part of the Old Stone Church 2017 Visiting Scholars weekend.
Kim McLean has written award-winning songs for many of today's top performers. Her song, All We Ever Find, was recorded by country music superstar, Tim McGraw, and sold over 6 million units. Her song, What Judas Didn't Know, has been covered and recorded by more than 100 bands and won a Dove award for best gospel song of the year.
With over 400 songs recorded, Kim McLean has also garnered ASCAP and NSAI awards, Grammy and Juno nominations, and as an indie artist, won song of the year honors for best Americana/Folk song for the Just Plain Folk organization out of 800,000 entries.
Kim has been a staff writer for major recording companies such as EMI Records and Sony Music Publishing, who now holds a catalog of her songs and lists her as a Legacy Writer. In addition to her West Wing credits, Kim has other film and TV credits on hit shows such as CBS's As the World Turns and ABC's Hope and Faith including a cameo with Kim singing.
As a performer, Kim has played to live audiences around the world and even had a number one Inspirational Country hit (ICMA) with her song Angels and Eagles, a duet with Dolly Parton. Kim also sang back up on These Storms Might Pass Away, a post Hurricane Katrina song written and performed by Mark Giuliano, which garnered a Golden Viking for Americana song of the year on internet radio in 2006.
Kim holds a master's degree in biblical theology from Trevecca Nazarene University and was ordained as an evangelist in the Church of the Nazarene in 2009. She leads conferences around the country on songwriting and faith, spirituality, and the arts.
Her workshops are open to anyone and everyone.
There are many different titles to describe John McClure: Nashville studio session man; Presbyterian pastor; Vanderbilt professor of preaching and worship; author and pop-cultural theologian. This September, Old Stone Church Visiting Scholar can be added to the list! Dr. McClure, along with hit song writer and performer, Kim McLean, will be at the Old Stone Church on September 16 and 17 as part of the Old Stone Church 2017 Visiting Scholars weekend.
John McClure has spent the majority of his career exploring the relationships between philosophy, theology, ethics, popular culture and preaching and worship. He's a prolific writer whose publications include The Four Codes of Preaching: Rhetorical Strategies, The Roundtable Pulpit: Where Preaching and Leadership Meet, Telling the Truth: Preaching About Sexual and Domestic Violence (co-edited with Nancy Ramsay), Best Advice for Preaching, Other-wise Preaching: A Postmodern Ethic for Homiletics, Claiming Theology in the Pulpit (co-authored with Burton Z Cooper), Preaching Words: 144 Key Terms in Homiletics and his most recent book Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention.
John is a past president (2003) of the Academy of Homiletics, and along with the late Dale Andrews (Old Stone Church Visiting Scholar 2016), is co-editor of the Academy's journal Homiletic. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), he served as the pastor of Ensley Highland Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and taught preaching for 17 years at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary before arriving at Vanderbilt in 2003.
John will be leading workshops open to anyone and everyone who is interested in the intersections between music and worship, popular culture and faith.
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The construction of a gas processing plant in Russia has started.
The Amur facility will have a capacity to process up to 49 billion cubic meters of gas a day, according to developer Gazprom.
It will also include a helium production block, with the annual output of up to 60 million cubic meters, the company added.
Gas will be delivered to the plant via the Power of Siberia pipeline from the Yakutia and Irkutsk production centres.
Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee said: "This is a milestone event for the Russian gas processing industry and for the emerging gas industry in Eastern Russia. The Amur GPP means high technologies, significant investments and thousands of new jobs.


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Al Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least nine of his followers, a police officer said."The militants killed 10 people including the cleric, teenagers...
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In 1885, Baltimore City set out to build the most beautiful Courthouse in the country. Fifteen years, and $2.2 million later ($56 million adjusted for inflation), that goal was realized. On January 6, 1900, the Baltimore Sun reported that the City of Baltimore had built a "temple of justice, second to no other in the world." The building, which is a magnificent exemplification of Renaissance Revival architecture, continues to stand as a monument to the progress of the great city of Baltimore, and to the importance of the rule of law. Today, this main building in the Baltimore City Circuit Court complex is referred to as the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse in honor of the local lawyer and nationally respected civil rights leader. Most of the original splendor of this massive building can still be enjoyed, including the granite foundation, marble facades, huge brass doors, mosaic tiled floors, mahogany paneling, two of the world's most beautiful courtrooms, domed art skylights, gigantic marble columns, and beautifully painted murals. In addition, the Courthouse is home to one of the oldest private law libraries in the country, and to the Museum of Baltimore Legal History. The exterior foundation of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse was built from granite quarried in Howard County, while the exterior walls are crafted from white marble quarried in Baltimore County. The Calvert Street exterior façade is especially outstanding, as it displays eight of the largest monolithic columns in the world, each weighing over 35 tons and measuring over 35 feet in height. The interior of the building is even more impressive. Among the many historic spaces, the Supreme Bench Courtroom is one of the finest. The circular courtroom is like no other in the world. It is surmounted by a coffered dome resting upon sixteen columns of Sienna marble from the Vatican Quarry in Rome. Inscribed upon the frieze around the base of the dome are the names of Maryland's early legal legends. Other fascinating rooms include the Old Orphans Courtroom (which houses the Museum of Baltimore Legal History); the Ceremonial Courtroom, and the Bar Library (described as one of the most elegant interior spaces in Baltimore, with its paneled English oak walls and barrel-vault ceiling punctuated by forty art glass skylights). Also noteworthy for its artistic beauty are the two domed stained-glass skylights above the stairs in Kaplan Court which depict the goddesses of Justice, Mercy, Religion, Truth, Courage, Literature, Logic and Peace. In addition, the courthouse has six original murals from world renowned artists depicting various civic and religious scenes. Those murals include: Calvert's Treaty with the Indians; The Burning of the Peggy Stewart; Washington Surrenders His Commission; Religious Toleration; The Ancient Lawgivers; and The British Surrender at Yorktown.
Baltimore Court House ~ Source: Library of Congress ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Company ~ Date: 1903
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Postcard, Baltimore Court House ~ Source: New York Public Library ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Company ~ Date: c. 1902-1903
Old Court House ~ Source: Johns Hopkins University ~ Creator: John H.B. Latrobe ~ Date: 1832
100 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
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William Dunn, "Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse," Explore Baltimore Heritage, accessed January 21, 2021, https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/215.
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Stop the presses – pop superstar Justin Timberlake is heading to Nashville to perform on the CMA stage with none other than rootsy phenom Chris Stapleton, according to Good Morning America's Twitter feed.
Someone get me my smelling salts, because I am about to faint while typing.
Though he obviously does, I can't actually confirm that myself. But I can tell you that he loves Chris Stapleton.
The tweet received over 2,000 "favorites" and more than 1,000 retweets.
The 49th annual CMA Awards air live Wednesday night (November 4) at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.


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Illenin O. Kondo is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis within the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute.
Kondo is a macroeconomist with interests in international macroeconomics, international trade, and the economics of heterogeneity across firms, workers, and locations. He works on quantitative macroeconomic models of sovereign debt crises, trade-induced labor reallocation, and the optimal design of infrastructure networks.
Prior to joining the Minneapolis Fed, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He also served as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in the Trade and Financial Studies section of the Division of International Finance, and he also taught at Johns Hopkins University.
Kondo is a member of the National Economic Association's (NEA) Committee on Macroeconomic Policy and Race. He is also a member of the steering committee of Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) and served as general co-chair of the inaugural ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '21). He is a board member of the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) and the Minnesota Federal Statistical Research Data Center (MnRDC).
He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Tim Kehoe, Fabrizio Perri, and Cristina Arellano. He also holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees from Georgia Tech and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Supélec (now Centrale-Supélec) in France.
International and Spatial Trade: trade reforms and labor markets
International Macro: globalization, financial crises, and sovereign debt
Growth and Firm Heterogeneity in the U.S. using Census microdata
Development: political institutions and infrastructure networks
Inequality: racial wealth disparities in the U.S.
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Michael Stipe is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, musician, American film producer, music video director, visual artist, and philanthropist. He has been active in the music industry since 1980. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the alternative rock band "R.E.M".
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Born: January 4, 1960 (age 59 years), Decatur, Georgia, United States
Michael Stipe Age: 59 years 8 months
Also Known As: John Michael Stipe, J.M. Stipe, Stipe, Michael
Full Name: Michael Stipe
Horoscope: Capricorn
Birth Place: Georgia, USA
Famous As: Singer-Lyricist
Michael Stipe Net Worth: $ 75 million
Michael Stipe Height: 5 feet 9 inches (1.75m)
Ethnicity: North American
Education: 1978 – Collinsville High School, University of Georgia
Siblings: Lynda Stipe
Michael Stipe Weight: 135 pounds
Religion: Buddhism
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Movies and TV shows: Velvet Goldmine, Being John Malkovich
Music groups: R.E.M. (1980 – 2011), Hindu Love Gods
Partner: Thomas Dozol
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American popular singer Michael Stipe was born in Decatur, Georgia. He was born on 4 January 1960 and named John John Stipe. He was born as a second child of four. Heis's younger sister Linda Step is also a singer for her band "Hetch Hetchy."
He is of North American ethnicity and has American citizenship. His father worked as a US Army soldier and for this reason, they often move from one place to another.
From childhood, he built a great interest in music. Stipe graduated from high school in Collinsville, Illinois, and attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. At the university, he studied photography and painting as a major technician.
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Michael Stipe was an active musician since 1980. In 1980, he became part of the Tanzplagen band. He then met Peter Buck at Wuxtry's recording store with whom he began writing music. Later, they were joined by Bill Perry and Mike Mills and appointed themselves R.E.M. The name was chosen by Stipe randomly from the dictionary.
They all left their schools to focus on the band. They launched the first Radio Free Europe, which became a radio success in college and then signed with I.R.S. Chronic Town EP records after one year. Their first album Murmur was released in 1983 and then the second album Reckoning in 1984.
Stipe got a lot of attention from listeners because of his singing and lyrics.R.E.M first album Murmur got in the Polling Stone Critics album for the year review. In 1985, they traveled to England to record their third album Fables of the Reconstruction. The band also recorded the song Let Me In from Monster's 1994 album in honor of Cobain.
They dissolved their band R.E.M in 2011. Stipe worked with many artists such as Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos, Miguel Bose, Lacoste, and Chris Martin. In addition, Stipe also participated in the Super-8 film entitled Just Like a Movie. On April 10, 2014, American grunge band Nervana was introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On March 15, 2017, he announced that he would make his debut in his individual composition at Moogfest. His success in the career path has led him to a substantial financial profit of $ 75 million.
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Rumors circulated that he secretly tied a knot with his beloved artist Thomas Dozol and was also rumored to have AIDS.
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The International family of Sherbone practitioners extends worldwide from Japan throughout Europe and Scandinavia to Brazil. The purpose of international co-operation is to continue and develop Veronica Sherborne's way of working in movement and to ensure standards in training are maintained throughout the world.
Practitioners in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, the United Kingdom and Japan have the opportunity to join official Associations or Boards in these countries. Those without an official Board may join the International family as "floating members". At present, international co-operation is achieved by regular contact with representatives of the official Boards. For Belgium the rep is Veronique Goethals; for Sweden it is Cia Kilnta, for Norway it is Unni Vagstol, in Holland the rep is Ellen de Gruiter, for the UK it is Elizabeth Marsden and in Japan it is Satoshi Takizawa. The floating members have representation through contact with any of the five people whose details are posted opposite
Each representative is elected by their national Board and no decisions are taken until issues have been thoroughly discussed by the national Boards. Floating members are encouraged to form their own National Association or Board when there are sufficient Sherborne practitioners in their country. New representatives on the International Sherborne Co-Operation (ISCO) group would be celebrated.
If any member has an issue they would like discussed, please contact one of the ISCO reps shown. Finally, to view the notes from the last international meeting, please go to the report section on the members page.
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As a festival in Kinross marks the 450th anniversary of Mary Queen of Scots' abdication and imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle, tourism chiefs hope more people will visit sites associated with the tragic monarch throughout Scotland – including sites in Tayside and Fife. Michael Alexander from The Courier reports.
It has been a site of strategic significance since at least the 13th Century when it saw action during the Wars of Scottish Independence and from the 14th Century its castle served as a state prison.
But it's the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots in Loch Leven Castle during 1567/68 that forms the hook for a national Mary Queen of Scots Festival taking place at nearby Kinross this weekend.
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the end of Mary Queen of Scots' reign in 1567, and the time of her captivity in Loch Leven Castle.


Mo'Nique's Fat Chance is a reality TV miniseries. It features 10 plus-sized women competing in a beauty pageant to become "Miss F.A.T.," which is explained as "Fabulous and Thick." It is hosted by actress Mo'Nique and has aired since 2005 on the Oxygen network.


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Tasha Cobbs Leonard Performs On NPR's Tiny Desk Concert!
Tasha Cobbs Leonard continues to break barriers as she takes over NPR's renowned Tiny Desk Concert today. The GRAMMY winner makes her debut on Tiny Desk with standout performances of her hit songs "Break Every Chain," "You Know My Name," and "River of ...
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Kirk Franklin premiered new live performance of F.A.V.O.R. VEVO Original
June 23rd , Kirk Franklin will debuted his first-ever VEVO live performance for the song "F.A.V.O.R.". He is the first Gospel or Christian music artist to tape a Vevo Original, which are artists' unique, live renditions of their songs. The "F.A.V.O.R." live performance ...
Gospel Standout Gene Moore releases single Won't be Moved
Motown Gospel rising star, Gene Moore releases his newest single, "Won't be Moved" co-written by BJ the Chicago Kid and the official music video directed by famed photographer/director Derek Blanks. Brian Sledge, better known as Billboard-charting singer and songwriter BJ ...
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We interviewed Sanjay Gupta, Sr. General Manager & Group Head – Marketing, Hyundai Motor India Ltd. on their over all social media strategies to find out their online communication objectives & to understand how social media marketing has played a major role in accomplishing their goals. Mr. Gupta also shared details about their latest successful campaign for Hyundai & how with the help of their content strategy they gauge the general pulse of their audience.
What are the communication objectives of Hyundai & how does social media marketing help in achieving these objectives?
As a key player in the country's automobile sector, & with growing competition, our key focus is always to reach out to our market as much as possible & listen to them as much as possible. Social media needless to say is a key tool for this two way communication.
What has the impact of social media marketing for your brand in India been so far? How has the social space evolved since the launch of Hyundai in India?
Social media has been a great way to connect and engage with our fans to build a long term relation with them. They are the first ones to give us feedback on many things including brands, service and communication. We value that and have benefited from them. While we started our presence in the social space through Facebook, we have expanded our presence across all popular social spaces today. Our fan base has grown rapidly. We really work hard to sustain a good association with our fans.
What are the key tenets of your social media policy for the company? Could you please outline it for us?
The key tenets of our social media policy hinge on Communication, Engagement and building long term association with our fans across multiple platforms in innovative ways and manner which is in sync with our brand values.
From the entire marketing budget, in terms of percentage how much is allocated to social media marketing every year?
Our investments in the social media space are based on objectives and tasks of the brands. The budget is never allowed to be a constraint and that as a percentage of the overall marketing budget is a derivative than a starting point.
Does an external agency manage the social media communication for your brand? If yes, how does it tie in with your overall communication strategy?
We choose to call our associates as partners, and not as external agencies. We have been working with Everymedia for over 3 years now. The synergy of our social media initiatives are always in sync with the overall brand communication plans. Innocean, our marketing communications group ensures these synergies by collaborating with all stake holders and integrates plans to be taken forward in the social space in a seamless manner.
How do you plan & execute your content strategy? Give us a day in the life of your social media manager right from conceptualization of a campaign to its execution.
Our content strategy heavily rides on our products & related offerings. We start any campaign working backwards, as in we first set up a clear objective & set of measurable that need to be achieved & then start working on that ground up. Post execution these outcomes are measured & learnings derived.
What are some of the most important social media platforms you think an automobile brand must be present on, to target & engage with its customers?
The social media paradigm is so dynamic today that anything is too little. Buyers today love the idea of interacting with brands at different levels on different platforms. We believe if your audience is showing you signs that you should be on a particular platform then you should be there.
What role does your social presence play in customer relationship management? Since it is easy to put up a tweet about a dissatisfying experience users have had with a product or a service, how fast do you reach out to a customer & respond?
Our social presence works wonders for our CRM. We focus on the 'relationship' part of the CRM. Social provides us with a very vibrant & economical platform to listen to our customers. We have a set of guidelines to respond to complaints & queries on platforms, & follow them religiously. Our basic response time is 1hr.
What tools do you use to analyse the feedback you get about your product & customer service via social media? Do you use any tool to measure the efficacy of your social media campaigns?
We go by the basics & use the inbuilt analytical tools across platforms.
Tell us something about your recent successful social media campaign & how did you track its effectiveness?
We followed it up with prompt content of the cars exclusiveness highlighting features that make the car stand apart.
We also linked offline activities, online thus maintaining the buzz over all.
Our main objective during this process was to garner maximum engagement & on the platforms, being a consumer brand our main aim was to get people talking about the car. We tracked the efficiency on the basis of people communicating about the various activities be it the launch streaming or the TVC launch or contests etc. Our goal was to get people talking & we did it.
Who is your potential customer target group and how do you reach out to them via social media?
With change in the demographics in the country over the past 10 years the average car buyer today's age has dropped drastically. With a plethora of opportunities for youngsters today & the general change in attitude to life & access to finance, the automobile industry has found an entirely new bracket of buyers ranging from the age group of approximately 25 to 32.
This customer space is the most active on Social Media & relies on social media heavily for purchase decisions. We reach out to our buyers & fans through very interactive content. This is broken down into informative content, promotional content & engaging content like contests etc. This helps us gauge the general pulse of our social audience.
We measure the social media ROI at mainly two levels. Firstly we look at the basics in terms of each platform in terms of what it has to offer, for eg. Likes, Followers etc. Once these basics are in place the next level is to use the platform for deep day to day communication with our customer's & Fans who are not customers yet. In terms of ROI we look at the Social Presence to add to the overall brand equity & to Hyundai's brand value in the customer's mind space, hence translating into the overall Hyundai Experience in terms of sale & after sale experience.