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Oh, America. I miss you even though we've never really known each other. I miss you because you've always been there, casting spells and shadows over everything I love. I miss you because despite the sheer size and scale of you, it's really the finer details that matter the most to me. The size of the skies. The wild prairies. The great industrial cities. Roads that run alongside rail tracks for miles and miles and miles. I'm yet to find them myself but I know they are there, just waiting.
I know they are there because bands like The River Monks make songs like Beasts – and I can hear it all. In the gorgeous harmonies, the shuffling percussion, that sun-kissed instrumentation that drifts alongside it all like the softest of breezes. It feeds in to everything; giving it a wide-eyed sincerity, a full, beating heart and a sense of optimism that's all-but inescapable.
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Podcast: Making Sense of Childish Gambino's "3.15.20"
April 20, 2020 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
Last month, a surprise new album from Childish Gambino hit the web with little promotion and few details. A month later, we're still trying to figure out 3.15.20. On this episode of the podcast, Kiel Hauck is joined by Richard Clark to discuss the twists and turns of the new album and debate 3.15.20's place in Childish Gambino's discography. They also take a look back at the artistic growth of Donald Glover, one of the most fascinating pop culture figures and artists of our time. Take a listen!
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Most Anticipated of 2019: #1 Childish Gambino Makes His Final(?) Appearance
January 18, 2019 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
A year-and-a-half has passed since Donald Glover announced at the Governors Ball Music Festival his intention on releasing one final Childish Gambino album before riding off into the sunset. Since that time, Glover has released one of most powerful songs of the decade ("This is America"), unexpectedly dropped a new Summer Pack EP, created another wildly successful season of his TV series Atlanta, and starred as Lando in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Glover has never been one to rest on his laurels, and the past several years have been a whirlwind of creative success. If the next Childish Gambino album truly is his last, we can rest assured that whenever it comes, and whatever it is, it will surely be great. His artistic progression from Camp to Because the Internet to Awaken, My Love! has been fascinating to watch, and there's no telling where he might take his sound next.
Whether that rumored final album drops in 2019, or whether we receive something else completely (which seems just as likely), we patiently await whatever comes next from one of the most important and mysterious artistic voices on the planet.
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Review: Childish Gambino – "Awaken, My Love!"
December 5, 2016 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
In 2013, I argued Childish Gambino's merit as one of the most important rappers on the scene. The Grammy-nominated Because the Internet wasn't just a monumental step forward for the artist that created it – it was filled with the kind of potential that might send ripples through the art form itself.
Since that time, Donald Glover has had little interest in pulling at that thread, instead releasing the pop-inspired Kauai EP, going radio silent for nearly a year, and re-emerging with one of 2016's most important new TV series, Atlanta. Given his ever-growing talents and seeming determination to never do the same thing twice, his latest musical installment, "Awaken, My Love!", shouldn't come as a surprise. Even so, it confounds.
You can buy "Awaken, My Love!" on iTunes.
As if to hammer into our skulls that the days of dick jokes and quirky one-liners are as far in the past as possible, "Awaken, My Love!" treads far away from any path you might expect a Childish Gambino record to travel. In all actuality, Glover is far from the first rapper to draw heavy influence from 70's soul and funk – Outkast, Kendrick Lamar and others have all drawn deeply from this well, even recently. However, Glover has tumbled in headfirst in a continuing quest to expand his reflections on relationships, race and existence.
Gambino's gospel-infused plea of, "Let me into your heart" on lead single "Me and Your Mama" proved to be far more than a gimmick to get our attention. That track is merely the most palatable re-introduction to an artist now more inspired by Bootsy Collins or George Clinton than Jay or Ye.
Awaken wanders through a vast sonic forest of psychedelic funk and soul, with each track standing easily alone thanks to Glover's insistence on changing character. His screams from the album opener transition to creepy inflections on "Zombies", a commentary on industry leeches: "All I see is zombies / They can smell your money / And they want your soul". Later, on album highlight "Redbone", his voice takes on a pitch-corrected falsetto as he reflects on the painful gray areas of a relationship that seems to mirror that of Earn and Van's on Atlanta.
At it's best, Awaken capitalizes on Glover's creativity and range, matching distinctive vocal choices with bold music selections to carry the weight of his message. On "Baby Boy", his distorted pleading voice perfectly and painfully encapsulates his fears of losing connection with his newborn son: "I don't wanna leave you / I don't want him to see you / But oh, when mama cries from daddy's lies / Please don't take him away".
These earnest moments make tracks like "California" nearly insufferable. The potential for success is squelched by Glover's painful accent and clumsy lines like, "How you want to loop this shit but looking like a Vine?" If we weren't so far removed from some of the juvenile deliveries of Camp, you could easily write these attempts off as humor, but "Awaken, My Love!" shakes away that notion every turn, making any such reconciliation difficult.
It comes as a deep relief when Glover is able to tie these stray ends together by the album's conclusion. On "Stand Tall", Gambino forgoes vocal effects and accents as he uses his father's words to bring understanding amidst personal and universal confusion: "Keep all your dreams, keep standing tall / If you are strong, you cannot fall". It's such an easily digestible sincerity that you can't help but reach for the repeat button to see if your perception of Awaken might shift upon repeated listens.
Glover has certainly earned the creative license that results in something like "Awaken, My Love!" And, as a project deeply inspired by childhood memories with his father, it makes sense as vehicle to express his evolving perspective on relationships and his own first taste of fatherhood. It's a deeply personal record that feels genuine, sometimes as a direct result of the very flaws it possesses.
Perhaps Awaken is Childish Gambino's 808s & Heartbreak – an intimate and peculiar expression that leads the artist headlong into a masterpiece. Whatever the case, it's an album worth talking about and further proof that Donald Glover is one of the most fascinating and curious artists around.
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: awaken my love, because the internet, Camp, childish gambino, donald glover, funk, Hip-Hop, Music, soul
Childish Gambino Returns with "Me and Your Mama"
November 10, 2016 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
In a week that has been nearly devoid of good news, things just got slightly better. Childish Gambino has returned with a new singled titled "Me and Your Mama" which will be the lead track on his upcoming album, Awaken, My Love! The track is full of emotion and likely not at all what you might have expected. Take a listen below:
Awaken, My Love! is set to release on December 2, nearly three years after Gambino's lauded Because the Internet. It's been a busy year for Donald Glover, whose new show "Atlanta" just finished it's first season on FX. Given Glover's blossoming creative genius, it's a safe bet that Awaken will be well worth the wait.
If you like what you hear, you can preorder Awaken, My Love! now. What are your thoughts on the new song? Share in the replies!
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Most Anticipated of 2016: #5 Childish Gambino Breaks the Internet
Where on earth is Childish Gambino?
It was a pretty quiet year for Donald Glover the musician. After the critical success of his sophomore album, Because the Internet, Childish Gambino was radio silent for most of 2015 – even his Twitter account went blank. Outside of the music world, Glover made appearances in movies like "The Martian" and "The Lazarus Effect", and his comedy series, "Atlanta", was recently picked up by FX.
Glover has always been multi-talented, combining his comedy, acting, writing and music into a whirlwind of cultural force. Even during the days of his coming out party while on the cast of "Community", it was clear that Glover was destined for greatness. As 2016 begins, the line between Glover the rapper and Glover the everything else may be murkier than ever, but we're still holding out hope for a return of Gambino before year's end.
Because the Internet succeeded with its refusal to give into pretense, demolishing preconceived notions of a lack of maturity that spurred from the release of his debut, Camp. Sometimes funny, often heart wrenching, always pointed, that album mined the depths of the millennial psyche in the Internet age, proving Gambino to be far more than a joke rapper. With a voice that distinct and contemplative, we eagerly await whatever comes next, music or otherwise.
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Review: Childish Gambino – Because the Internet
December 10, 2013 by itsalldead 2 Comments
In many ways, Donald Glover is the prototypical figure of our current social media generation. Consider the grassroots push to get Glover cast as the lead in the new Spiderman series, the slew of rapid-fire EP and mixtape releases that put Childish Gambino on the map or the appropriately quirky viral marketing of his new album, Because the Internet. Has anyone else ever released an animated GIF image in announcement of their album cover?
Glover's presence on the web, coupled with his role in a cult TV show allows for just enough groundswell to make him virally relevant without pushing him into the mainstream. Thus, he's still cool enough for the underground crowd without becoming so widespread as to lose his status as a voice for the hipster hip hop heads. All of this culminates in Because the Internet, an album that captures Glover and the spirit of the internet age in a way that is poignant, provocative and near perfect.
While Camp was a worthy debut effort, it also felt a bit too self-indulgent, immature and unfocused. The same cannot be said for Because the Internet. Glover has appeared to grow in every way imaginable on this new record – not only becoming a better songwriter, but delving into much deeper subject matter and purposely displaying it with an array of styles and influences.
Upon first listen, it would be easy to call the album disjointed or unfocused, but with repeated listens, the overarching theme of the album begins to take shape. Childish Gambino barrels through a slew of styles, flowing smooth like Frank Ocean on "Shadows", creating the atmosphere of Kanye's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on "Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information)", and laying down a Young Money-esque track with "Sweatpants".
There's also the indie feel of "The Worst Guys", the accessibility of "3005" and the calming, ambient sound of "Flight of the Navigator". While this could be chalked up to extreme experimentation on Glover's part, it also touches on something much deeper. In the spirit of our rapid-fire media consumption, Because the Internet is a reflection of Glover's psyche, as viewed from the perspective of the listener through the lens of our current web-driven culture.
As the album progresses at the pace our brains have been unintentionally trained to move, it becomes apparent that Because the Internet is much more than Glover's story – it's all of ours. The album transitions from Glover's own insecurities and blemishes to the conclusion that all of us are hampered with social flaws that are a direct result of a craving for connection that is never completely satiated by our online relationships. At the end of "Earth: The Oldest Computer", Glover states the harsh truth many of us have reluctantly accepted, that "to be alone is alive".
Because the Internet is surely a brilliantly crafted snapshot of our culture, yet it is also an extremely worthy work of art in its own right, and the best Childish Gambino release by a fairly large margin. Anyone who was concerned that Glover might take a turn for the predictable with last year's Royalty mixtape can rest assured that he has an arsenal of creative ideas to keep us all on our toes. Because the Internet is a thoughtful and painstakingly constructed commentary on our internet culture that doubles as a portrait of Glover's own struggles and self-awareness. It excels on every level and has solidified Childish Gambino as a creative force in the hip hop community.
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Childish Gambino shares new song and reveals cover art
November 7, 2013 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
Childish Gambino has tweeted out a link to download a new song titled "Melrose". This follows the October 21 release of the first official single from his upcoming album Because the Internet titled "3005". You can download the new single from iTunes.
Because the Internet is set to release on December 10 on Glassnote Records. Cover art can be found below:
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Commissioners of Works and Transportation from the North West on Thursday met to develop common strategies for the implementation of the National Road Safety Strategy.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting, held in Kaduna had in attendance officials responsible for transport from Kaduna, Sokoto, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Jigawa.
Kaduna State Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transportation, Balaraba Aliyu-Inuwa, said the main goal is to develop strategies to halt loss of lives and properties through effective road traffic management.
Aliyu-Inuwa said the objective is in line with the vision of the United Nation's Decade of Action to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities by 35 percent by 2018 and 50 percent by 2020.
He said: "This platform will provide an opportunity for us to get informed and ensure cross fertilization of ideas on the tasks, roles and responsibilities we are expected to play towards reducing accidents on our roads.
"This meeting is therefore aimed at promoting effective coordination and synergy among states in actualizing the goals, objectives and programs outlined in the NRSS.
The commissioner said with the increase in population and urbanization, "safe mobility is essential to the well-being of our society and sustainable growth".
Also, the Corps Marshall, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said the objective of NRSS is to stem road crashes and the consequent loss of lives and properties through systematic nationally coordinated road traffic management.
Oyeyemi represented by Deputy Corps Marshal, Hafis Muhammad, said it was important to have uniformed higher road safety standards, practice and tools, define roles of all stakeholders and strengthen sustainable funding.
He however said that there must be measurable indices and trustworthy platforms to attract funding among others.
Also, the Corps Marshall, Kaduna State Traffic Law Enforcement Authority, Abdulkadir Ahmad, said road safety can only be achieved when there are laid down strategies in line with national standards.
Ahmad said road safety remained key to safe and smooth transport system, adding that there was need to ensure good roads across the country.
He said the enforcement of ban on commercial motorcycle operation on major corridors of the state has brought down the rate of crimes involving kidnapping and snatching of handbags, phone and the like.


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There is usually an application fee that you pay at the time you send in your information. The amount will vary depending upon the state you are living in, but it is low, usually $25 or less. You will have to post a bond. This is often called an employee dishonesty bond. It is to protect the public from errors and omissions that could lead to financial loss. The amount of the bond will depend upon state law, but it is usually from $5000 to $10,000. These numbers are typical, but keep in mind that you will only need to pay a fraction of this money. It is a form of insurance. You will also need supplies for your new business. Most of these supplies can be found at your local office supplies store. You will need a notary stamp and a record book. These can be purchased online.
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The choice is not between health and economics but about optimizing the public health response to save lives while minimizing economic harm. Economic harm isn't just about profits: It's about workers being able to afford essential goods, lifesaving products staying on the market and safeguarding everyone's well-being. Social restrictions have effects beyond economic and social harms, such as harming patients who go without treatment for conditions unrelated to coronavirus.
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In terms of "how" to reopen, the faucet of everyday activities needs to be turned on slowly. We cannot open the floodgates. Even before the pandemic emerged, we were not a healthy society. More than 100 million U.S. adults have two or more chronic health conditions. Medically vulnerable people will need to shelter in place for longer. If there is a large spike in cases, the faucet must be tightened again before cases overwhelm health-care facilities and contacts can't be tracked.
"When" it will be safe to go out again is the flip side of the question of when social distancing should start. When there are multiple cases for which the source case cannot be identified, indicating that infection is spreading widely, people need to shelter in place. Otherwise, there will be explosive spread as occurred in Wuhan, China, and in Italy, and as is occurring in New York.
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Sheltering in place has two benefits. The first is to reduce transmission. It's wishful thinking to presume that everyone can sequester for two weeks and transmission will end. Spread in health-care facilities, homes and elsewhere will keep embers burning. The other crucial and under-recognized value of sheltering is to buy time to strengthen health-care and public health systems.
Our health-care system needs to be ready to treat large numbers of mildly ill patients, provide safe and effective intensive care for those who would die without it, and maintain care for the millions who need to continue treatment for chronic conditions. And all that needs to be done while protecting our front-line health-care workers. Our public health system needs to scale up the ability to do widespread testing, rapid and effective contact tracing, isolation of patients and quarantine of contacts.
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The White House has emphasized high-volume testing, but faster testing turnaround times are much more important. Important advances are rapid-turnaround-time tests, including those provided by hospitals that develop tests locally now that the Food and Drug Administration has allowed them to do so; tests done locally with systems from private diagnostic companies; and, potentially, point-of-care tests that can be used at bedsides.
Note that China is months into the outbreak, responded much more robustly than the United States -- but is only now reopening much of its economy. When it will be safe to come out again depends on how well the country uses this time to prepare health-care and public health systems for a possible surge in cases when activity resumes. The Trump administration squandered the lead time provided by Chinese disease control efforts and its own travel ban. We can't afford to make that mistake again.
"What" gets restarted first should depend on what would have the biggest benefit for society. We urgently need to understand whether children spread this infection. If they don't commonly do so, schools may be able to reopen, carefully. This would require enabling staff and students who are medically vulnerable to participate by distance. Day-care facilities are essential so parents can work. Infrastructure projects are a likely priority. Businesses that should go first are those that can open with distancing measures (mandatory hand sanitizer and temperature checks at entry, social distancing, staggered hours, etc.), those that can open with partial staffing to increase productivity of distance work, or those particularly important to a community.
Among the most concerning flaws of this administration's response has been the virtual absence of our lead public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from the decision table and the podium. This is dangerous. For example, the CDC issued practical and nuanced guidance about school closings. Without any scientific justification or explanation, the White House overruled that guidance 72 hours later. As a result, many school districts closed that probably didn't need to, causing avoidable social, economic and educational dislocation.
CDC experts have experience unequaled nationally and globally. We will be safer when the CDC is in a position to provide the kind of expert advice it has dispensed in every other infectious disease emergency since its creation in 1946.
How the virus spreads and how prepared health-care and public-health systems are to fight it will vary by state and community. When to loosen the faucet ofsocial distancing will depend on these three factors. The only reliable approach to decide what, when and how to safely reopen is to base decisions on data and evidence-driven principles as they apply to each community and state. More than the economy will be hurt if we get this wrong. Reopening the floodgates could overwhelm health-care facilities, killing doctors, nurses, patients and others -- and prolonging the need to shutter our economy.
Thomas Frieden is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He is president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit health initiative that is part of the global public health organization Vital Strategies. He wrote this for The Washington Post.
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Author Lily Velez are unveiling the cover to THE CONNELLY BOYS, the first book in her young adult urban fantasy series, Celtic Witches, releasing September 13, 2018. See below for the cover, information on the book, a link to add it to your Goodreads TBR, and details on her giveaway.
Lily Velez has been writing stories since she was six years old. Not much has changed since then. She still prefers the written word and her overactive imagination over the 'real world' (though to be fair, her stories no longer feature talking dinosaurs). A graduate of Rollins College and a Florida native, when she's not reading or writing, she spends most of her days wrangling up her pit bulls Noah and Luna, planning exciting travel adventures, and nursing her addiction to cheese. All this when she isn't participating in the extreme sport known as napping.


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Hash Grub has been scoring high these last few months. Fanny May set the bar very high and everyone is nervous. Captain Crab commanded his wife Juliet into action and as a team they had pre-run nibbles waiting for hungry Hashers. Flasher had set a long run to built up the appetites as only a dozen or so were braving the extreme temperatures and the piles of food Crab was preparing was not going to go to waste. Even the walkers were given a good 5k+ stretch - see RunKeeper's map (link may not work if you are not on Dini's StreetTeam) for Dini, Dyke and GA's walk.
On return we were greeted with foamy alcoholic drinks inspired by the recent Highland Fling. The best BBQ for donkeys, complete with onions, fresh wholemeal bread, and the works followed the cold foam. Coffee and Lamingtons for desert, Port, ice-cream,... In the mean time the mercury plummeted towards zero, Dini had to find more firewood in her car, and Otto's Grotto may well have been an igloo. Flasher was going rampant on the raffle, not stopping till everyone except the biggest losers had a prize.
Winter Solstice is June 21, which is the day after our next run at one of Dyke's domiciles (TBA). So expect even cooler temps as the days are still getting shorter. Bring skates and scarves and watch this space for geographic details.
Full Moon will be celebrated at Hare Puss in Boots' new home in Foot Street, Hadspen next Thursday 16 June 2011AD.
NB. Not only was the meat not burned, it truly was Crab's lucky day as he won the only other remaining copy of the garden book that he had already won earlier (and subsequently lost) in a wrigged raffle in summer.


Cell Tissue Res. 2006 Nov;326(2):541-51. Epub 2006 Aug 1.
Adrenoceptors and signal transduction in neurons.
The adrenergic system is an essential regulator of neuronal, endocrine, cardiovascular, vegetative, and metabolic functions. The endogenous catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine activate G-protein-coupled receptors to transmit their signal across the plasma membrane. These adrenoceptors can be divided into three different groups: the alpha(1)-receptors (alpha(1A), alpha(1B), alpha(1D)), alpha(2)-receptors (alpha(2A), alpha(2B), alpha(2C)), and beta-receptors (beta(1), beta(2), beta(3)). This review summarizes recent findings in the field of adrenoceptor signaling in neurons and includes a discussion of receptor-associated proteins, receptor dimerization, subcellular trafficking, and fluorescence optical methods for studying the kinetics of adrenergic signaling. Spatio-temporal imaging may become an important future tool for identifying the physiological significance of these complex signaling mechanisms in vivo. Gene-targeted mouse models carrying deletions in alpha(2)-adrenoceptor have provided detailed insights into specific neuronal functions of the three alpha(2)-receptor subtypes.


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Q: Any alternatives to principal component analysis I was wondering if there are any alternatives to PCA (Principal Components Analysis) for the purpose of feature reduction.
Specifically, I am thinking of a feature reduction algorithm other than PCA for image recognition applications. Any Idea?

A: If you go for neural network then I  can suggest deep Auto Encoder because it's non-linear function.  Rather than auto encoder you con try t-SNE, Genetic Algorithm or LDA. Regarding LDA some author says it's a classifier and someone says it can be used as feature reduction.
PCA
Auto Encoder
Genetic Algorithm
Ensembler
t-SNE(Stochastic Neighbour Embedding)
LDA*

*LDA => Linear Classifier / Dimension reduction technology

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2016-01-14 (Thursday)
Posted on January 14, 2016 by What did you learn in School today ?
There is something new in the world of chemistry, and although I am not very fond of chemistry, this is really thrilling. IUPAC (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), announced that four new elements of the periodic table (elements 113, 115, 117, and 118) have been discovered and approved. These elements complete the 7th row of the periodic table of the elements, and the discoverers from Japan, Russia, and the USA will now be invited to suggest permanent names and symbols.
The current Periodic Table of the Elements, Copyright © 2016 IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Also, in the same podcast, The Naked Scientists, where these new elements were discussed, they talked about how the physicists Max von Laue and James Franck, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1914 and 1925, respectively, were able to save their golden medals from falling into Nazi hands during World War II. Their colleague George de Hevesy hid their medals in a bottle in a lab at the Niels Bohr Institute and dissolved them in aqua regia, a concentrated nitrogen hydrochloric acid ('kungsvatten' in Swedish). After the war, the gold solution was still there, and then it was transformed back into solid gold and recast to medals by the Nobel authorities in Stockholm. Finally, the scientists received their Nobel medals back.
… That's what I learned in school!
1: 04:33 – Four new elements discovered
2: Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118
3: Aqua regia
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It's easy to hate advertising. It's mostly unsolicited and it's everywhere we go. So it's no surprise that people really hate ads in social media and on mobile devices.
This week, eMarketer reported on a survey commissioned by AdAge and conducted by Ipsos Observer, and findings did not bode well for digital advertisers. Overall, users dislike website ads almost as much as they dislike ads on social networks, and they really dislike.
So why is it that some ads are more acceptable than others? Why are we more okay with ads in print and on television than in digital form. Well, the answer is probably part nature, part nurture, and part context.
Our aversion to advertising has to do with free will. Essentially, unsolicited sales messages vie for a piece of our mind share. They intrude on our thought processes and try to govern what we think about, and to that extent, try to subvert our free will.
It's the difference between sales clerk and a door-to-door peddler. I'm more likely to find an in-store salesman helpful than offensive because I chose to walk into the store, so I'm probably interested in making a purchase, and the sales clerk's knowledge about in-stock products can help me make a better purchasing decision. The door-to-door salesman, however, is unwelcome because s/he was uninvited — they are intruding on my space and interrupting my day to peddle something I'm not actively interested in.
This, of course, begs the question: why were survey respondents so much more likely to tolerate print, television, and outdoor advertising than they were radio or various forms digital forms. Well, this is where nurture and context come into play.
For starters, in some cases, we grew up with advertising being bundled with the media. Most people cannot remember a time before print and television advertising. Advertising is an inherent part of each of these media experiences.
With digital channels, however, we can actually remember a time before ads. Not only do some of us remember a mostly ad-free net, but most of us remember when our favorite services were free of advertising — such as Facebook a few years ago and Twitter until recently. As a result, the expectations we have about of our web, email, and social media experiences are relatively altruistic compared to other media.
More importantly, each media has particular peculiarities that make it more or less compatible with advertising. And the less compatible it is, the more that ads disrupt the end user's media experience.
Mobile: The problem with mobile advertising is the very reason why marketers get so excited about it: mobile phones are a very personal thing that we take with us everywhere we go and interact with us constantly. As much as mobile allows us to geo-target users with nearby offers every time they search or check-in somewhere, they go beyond mind share and intrude on users' actual physical space. This means mobile ads are worse than an unsolicited door-to-door sales call. They're like having that salesmen follow you around all day.
Social Media: As much social graph info is valuable for profiling a user and targeting them only with offers they might be interested in, social advertisers often overlook one critical aspect: we log onto social networks to socialize, not to buy. With social media, anything that disrupts the socializing experience only creates friction. For instance, Facebook ads perform only half as well as regular banner ads.
Email: Here we have a very personal, private space. Our inboxes are things that we guard very carefully. They're where we have personal, one-on-one interactions with other people, and they are places where we store valuable secrets — like usernames and passwords to other online services. Of course, we don't want to feel like there's a salesman lurking in our inbox.
Websites: There are two space limitations to a web page. First, like print, there is the overall real estate on the page — i.e. what's taken up by content, sidebars, navigation menus, and ads. Then, unlike print, there are the limitations imposed by our screen. We can only see so much of that limited real estate at a time, so ads intrude on our field of vision in a much more salient way. As much as we might be banner blind and not notice what the ad is for, we do notice that an ad was there, getting in the way of our content consumption.
Radio: What's interesting about radio is that it's a medium that, like print and TV, grew up with advertising, but we still find radio ads more unbearable than tolerable. This is because radio is a one-dimensional medium. There are no pictures or colors. There is only sound. So most radio advertising is a lot like some stranger on the street leaning in to your ear to tell you why you should buy something from them. Beside, most listeners tune in for music, and the ads are probably the biggest annoyance.
Print: There are two aspects of print advertising that make it more tolerable: First, it doesn't disrupt the consumption of actual print content; you can always skip over ads, turn to the next page, or ignore them altogether. Second, in many lifestyle publications, they actually complement the content — e.g. I have friends who read fashion magazines more for the ads than anything else.
Television: Here we have a medium that's been completely packaged around advertising, so the viewer's overall experience is barely disrupted. First, original programming is written and edited around commercial breaks. Story lines tend to arc in a way so that we stay tuned to see what happens after the commercial break. This makes the commercials part and parcel of the excitement we experience through a show's plot. Besides, even if we leave the room during the breaks, commercials are sufficiently louder than the programming that they might still manage to capture some of our mind share.
Out of Home: Outdoor advertising is bearable very much in the same way that print advertising there. It's there, in our face, polluting the landscape, but it's easy to ignore.
Let's face it, if every user/viewer/listener/reader had a choice, we'd live in an ad-free world. But ads exist because publishers and broadcasters need to pay their bills.
Besides, many of the media where ads are less than welcome are still their nascent stages. We can still remember when these channels were ad-free, but it won't be long before those days are going to seem like a lifetime ago.
Mobile and social are still the media that they are, and ads are never really going to deliver the return that marketers need to justify their investment. Rather, mobile and social marketing are going to be driven by other tactics, such as content and opt-in notifications. Indeed, it's the targeting options available through mobile and social that make these other marketing channels so promising.
I'm curious to see how the mobile device as opt-in sales tool can be enough of a revenue generator to make pushing messages less of an issue. Being able to say "tell me everything on special within a 5 minute walk from me" would ideally be enough.
Speaking of mobile, the fact that I'm getting ads on a tiny screen bothers me in principle.
That being said, I am skeptical because their experience was solely with B2B stuff in general, and marketing product specifically. I doubt they could get anywhere near the same response rate with a B2C message.
And I'm with you on TV ads. If I'm into a show, I'm much likely to wait until the season is done so I can download the entire season or buy the boxset.
Insight after insight. Great work, CT. Practical, useful.


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bChamp: Beat Boxing App, Steve Wozniak Gives it a Try
Thursday June 11, 2009 5:34 PM PDT by Arnold Kim
One of the new iPhone apps that was demoed at the iPhoneLaunchParty last night was bChamp by Monodomo. bChamp is a beat-boxing application that allows you to use your iPhone as a beat-boxing device. It's hard to describe so we'll start with this developer video that shows you the basics:
The pitch of the sounds can also be changed by moving your finger on the screen. Steve Wozniak was at the iPhone Launch Party and tried his hand at bChamp:
bChamp is available in the App Store. Another video shows the actual demo at the party.
App Store Link: bChamp, $0.99
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Apple's next device with an Apple silicon chip may not be a Mac or an iPad, but rather an advanced external display, according to recent reports. The display, which is rumored to arrive this year, is expected to sit somewhere between the $1,599 Studio Display and the $4,999 Pro Display XDR – but more exact information about the device's positioning and price point is as yet unknown. While ...
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The PCM or Power Train Control Module performs many vital functions in a modern vehicle, such as management of the Fuel System, Ignition System, Transmission, Anti-Lock Brake and Traction Control systems. The PCM regularly runs a self-diagnosis function where it performs normal mathmatical calculations, and if the results of these calculations are not as expected, the P0606 code will be set.
When the code P0606 is set in the Powertrain Computer, it means that the Powertrain Computer or PCM is failing its own self-check and has found problems with the CPU (central processing unit ). So, in most cases, the processor itself is defective and the PCM needs to replaced and re-programmed. But, before you replace the PCM, be sure to check for any shorted output devices that may have caused the CPU to fail.
When diagnosing a P0606 code, it is important to record any other codes and the P0606 freeze frame data. Then one should duplicate the code setting conditions with a test drive. Pay close attention to the engine load, throttle position, RPM, and road speed because a P0606 can be difficult to detect.


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Flatbush Parish Hosts National Haitian Youth Rally
By Melissa Enaje
Praise dancers from the Archdiocese of Boston performed during the Cultural Show portion of the Youth Rally held at Our Lady of Refuge in Flatbush, Feb. 23. The theme for the event was "Lead and Be Fruitful." (Photos: Melissa Enaje)
More than 100 energetic youth from across the Eastern seaboard – representing Washington D.C.; Philadelphia, Pa., and even Boston, Mass. – gathered at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Flatbush Feb. 23.
The event called for lively music, cultural dances and enlightening conversations that would empower and inspire young Catholic Haitians to live out their role as leaders in their communities.
The annual Youth Rally was sponsored by Radio-Tele Solidarite, the National Center of the Haitian Apostolate and the Brooklyn Haitian Ministry. The 2019 theme was "Lead and Be Fruitful."
"If they develop their faith, their leadership will develop," said retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy Sansaricq, director of the diocesan Haitian Apostolate.
"This is a small percentage of our youth that we try our best to pray so that they can preserve the legacy of their parents, legacy of faith and of the Church. Because I think we don't reach out to the majority of them. Therefore they need to be strong leaders."
Developing the youth's leadership skills through the eyes of faith meant a day filled with prayer, guest speakers, performances as well as a youth talk show and small group discussions.
When it came to what the youth shared with their peers, topics ranged from their shared experiences being a young Haitian Catholic to the sacrifices made by their immigrant parents as well as the teens' personal journeys navigating the waters of independence as they grow older.
Representing his group from Brockton, Mass., Jezson Laurent, a sophomore in college, confidently approached the microphone in front of the crowd and shared the insight he gained from the small groups.
"Walking away from this event, I find myself taking a lot of lessons with me, but the one that I'll definitely be most entrenched with is the idea that yes, my parents birthed me; yes, they did do something in my life; yes, they did make their efforts, but now it's my time as my own man to make my own efforts," said the parishioner from Christ the King, Archdiocese of Boston. "This is going to work in conjunction with them and not disserving their efforts or their worth."
A parishioner from St. Jerome's in Flatbush, Stephanie Sica, said she wanted to leave a positive influence on her younger family members. That's what inspired her to become involved with her parish.
She said the youth rally was a positive event for the youth in her community.
"It's very important because as a Haitian-American, my family are immigrants of Haiti and to see youth get to know more about their families' culture and meet kids from other states and to see if we are alike. It's great to see us come together and share our culture," said Sica.
She was one of the panelists during the Youth Talk show who shared her wisdom and insight about growing up in a society filled with social media influences.
"I use my experiences to help youth understand that I understand what you're going through and put myself in their shoes. We learn from each other."
Being able to learn from their elders and their experiences was also a facet to the day-long event.
That's why guest speaker Nadege Dady said her goal was to ensure that the youth would feel comfortable with her topic so that they could open up and share their experiences in their small groups.
The Dean of Students at the Medical School of Touro College, Manhattan, spoke about perspective in order to help the youth understand that they can view their current challenges through different perspectives.
"I wanted to set up the talk to let them know that nothing that they're seeing is new," said Dady. "In fact, there were times when it was more difficult and more challenging, especially for their parents and for those before them. There's nothing to fear although it seems overwhelming and I can tell by the response that I got in the audience that it hit home."
According to Dady, when she talked about bullying and abuse, she said as she observed the audience that "a good number of them raised their hands to say that either they went through something or they knew someone who went through something."
When it came to the struggles that youth and young students are dealing with in the age of instant accessibility and unfiltered social media trends, the dean said it's a pattern.
"It's what we're seeing in education – the struggles with mental health, the struggles with anxiety and depression. It's at an all-time high and part of it is because of what they're seeing in the immediacy."
Even though the day was filled with hard-hitting topics from guest speakers and insightful commentary from teens across the states, the youth rally was not void of fun or excitement in pure teen spirit.
That was in huge part thanks to the emcee's energy. Myrlande Cleozier made sure every time a member from a participating diocese would speak in front of a crowd or perform, that the entire group would support their peer through spirited cheers or shouts.
Sense of Belonging
The energy that resonated that day was one of belonging – whether it was a feeling of connectedness to their individual parishes or their dioceses, all intertwined by the cultural background that unites them – young, Haitian and believers in Jesus Christ.
Fabrice Gray, one of the high schoolers from Our Lady of Sorrows, in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. said he was glad his mom told him to come even though his schedule was hectic.
"It strengthens my faith because it shows me that there are people exactly like me who believe in a great something that makes their life better," said Gray.
"I come from a predominantly affluent area. It's very white, so I never get to experience this culture as much as I want to, especially when it thinking about God. I live in a very blue area where God isn't apparent and really present.
"So seeing this and being a part of this is really big and it's something that I think I'll remember for a very long time."
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Bill Boushka: Manning and Snowden: actually, anyone could "leak"
Manning and Snowden: actually, anyone could "leak"
The news of Bradley Manning's acquittal on "aiding the enemy" charges in his courts-martial hit the Twitter-verse first, before the convictions on all the "theft" charges were known.
I heard comments on CNN that most classified information is over-classified and probably is classified for political rather than genuine security reasons. Certainly the "Collateral Murder" video released by Manning (of the "friendly fire" casualties in Iraq did not seem to have any real national security value and had been kept secret to protect the negligent.
But it is true that a great deal of information from informants on the ground is important for national security, and certainly for bringing some stability in many areas of the world, like Afghanistan and now Syria. When real secrets can be leaked, sources are compromised and informants in "enemy territory" are put in jeopardy, and will be less willing to share information in the future.
There is something important, in my mind, to what Assange, Manning and Snowden all say.
One of the issues that I wonder about is indeed the responsibilities of the ordinary computer user or novice blogger. For one thing, a home user who does not follow property security might indeed be construed as "aiding an enemy", although apparently not in the sense that Manning was prosecuted. This sort of talk was common after 9/11. Another issue is whether a home user who ("accidentally") receives classified information from a leak when he or she is not cleared and republishes it is committing a crime. The laws say that she is, although prosecutions of people not actually employed in handling the classified information almost never happen. Technically, I am probably violating the law by presenting an embed (legally "distributing") Manning's 40-minute YouTube video on my "Films on major threats to freedom" or "cf" blog on April 7. 2010, even though common sense says that my doing so does not harm the country. I don't think any jury would convict or even indict me just for this. The embed still works. I do "worry" about some other embeds or postings for various reasons (like people's privacy, copyright, reputation, even provocation) but somehow this video now seems completely innocuous Tens of millions have seen copies of it.
I have several times received information which I have not published but passed on to authorities. At least one of these communications had to do with the previous background (in the 1980's) of Osama bin Laden, sent to me in 2005. I did spend some time on the phone discussing this with the FBI (I'm surprised that they talked about this on the phone, although they almost bought me a train ticket to come to an office in Philadelphia). Most of the other communications occurred within the first eighteen months after 9/11, and one of them may have been a warning of a possible overseas attack in SE Asia that was later prevented. Ordinary citizens who are active in writing about controversy do sometimes attract tips, and this can become a significant issue.
I do take quite seriously that there are some domestic attacks that could happen and could be quite devastating to domestic society (and the value of my remaining years on this planet) if they did. I think that one of the answers is proper investment in infrastructure, particularly the hardware of the power grid as well as security of cyberspace. Open discussion and "connecting the dots" in the policy issues is quite appropriate. However publication of information about some particular vulnerability or specific threat may not be. I do believe, to some extent, in the maxim, "See something, say something." But don't always broadcast it.
Manning, as we all know, was gay; and it's fortunate that his anomaly did not forestall ending "don't ask don't tell". I like to find more convincing gay or "rainbow" role models.


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Qatar: "preview" service launch for the Lusail tram
Part of the Lusail tram network was officially opened to the public on Saturday 1 January 2022 by the Qatar's Minister of Transport and the Chairman of Qatar Rail, Qatar's national public transport operator. This first "preview" service is running on the Orange Line, stopping at six underground stations: Marina, Marina Promenade, Yacht Club, Esplanade, Energy City South and Legtaifiya, providing connections with the Doha Metro.
Keolis strengthens its mid-sized city footprint with the renewal of the public transport contract in Auch
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        objDataAdapter.SelectCommand.CommandType = CommandType.Text
        '//mention the second data
        objdataadapter1.SelectCommand = New SqlCommand()
        objDataAdapter1.SelectCommand.Connection = sql.SqlConn
        objDataAdapter1.SelectCommand.CommandText = "select * from tblModel"
        objDataAdapter1.SelectCommand.CommandType = CommandType.Text

        ' Open the database connection...
        sql.SqlConn.Open()
        ' Fill the DataSet object with data...
        objDataAdapter.Fill(objDataSet, "tblBrand")
        objDataAdapter1.Fill(objDataSet1, "tblModel")
        ' Close the database connection...
        sql.SqlConn.Close()

        With (cboxBrandName)
            .DataSource = objDataSet
            .ValueMember = "tblBrand.BandID"
            .DisplayMember = "tblBrand.BrandName"
        End With
        With (cboxModel)
            .DataSource = objDataSet1
            .ValueMember = "tblModel.ModelID"
            .DisplayMember = "tblModel.ModelName"
        End With

    Catch ex As Exception
    End Try
End Sub

after run the program nothing showing into the combo box. i dont understand why, and there is no error too.
i am calling this function in form load.
thanks....

A: Here is what I think happens after studying it a bit more:
You are getting an error. Most likely "Connection is already open." Then this error is swallowed by you try catch statement. Thus never reaching the adding of the datasource to the combobox. Try this instead:
Public Function SelectRows( _
    ByVal dataSet As DataSet, ByVal connectionString As String, _
    ByVal queryString As String) As DataSet

    Using connection As New SqlConnection(connectionString)
        Dim adapter As New SqlDataAdapter()
        adapter.SelectCommand = New SqlCommand( _
            queryString, connection)
        adapter.Fill(dataSet)
        Return dataSet
    End Using
End Function

Call it with this:
objDataSet = SelectRows(objDataSet, "ConnectionString","select * from tblBrand")
With (cboxBrandName)
    .DataSource = objDataSet
    .ValueMember = "tblBrand.BandID"
    .DisplayMember = "tblBrand.BrandName"
End With

I do believe this will work.


After having played with and against the recent re-balanced cards I'd like to voice my concerns as an IW player.
All but one of the balance changes I saw as good improvements. And while it didn't make every buffed card playable it at least showed an understanding of where certain cards went wrong.
That being said the Marina buff and the subsequent bug are very troubling. Marina was borderline playable before her change so I was surprised to see her get a buff. I felt Marina would be a card that may shine with new sets and a slowed down meta, but I guess that wasn't the plan for her.
The issue I have is that in her previous design she was a value card for control decks, with her new design she's a value card for aggro decks. And with the bug it's super-value. Just my opinion, but aggro gets way too much love as it is, so it really bothers me that another strong tool has been added for that strategy. She currently acts as a un-interactible counterspell for removal which is devastating given how IW's mechanics work. With the bug the Untouchable stays so it can permanently counterspell all single target removal.
If we assume spot removal is a comeback tool vs aggressive commanders then Marina completely shatters this dynamic. The tempo loss, card disadvantage, and lack of board presence as she negates removal is huge. And of all this for 2 resources (reduced from 3 btw).
Added to this was the acknowledgment that she is bugged and not working as intended with the new design. A hot-fix was apparently released to address the problem but had no effect. It's been about a week since then and nothing more has been done. It's even somewhat unfair to evaluate the card if this is not it's true power level, but we'll never know that until the bug is fixed.
Marina hasn't taken over the meta and I'm not saying she will but it shows me that the balance team and the devs dropped the ball on this one. Whether its a lack of seeing potential card interactions, knowing the meta, lack of playtesting or just not paying attention to detail I'm not sure. Mistakes and oversights happen but the mark of being a great game is not making the obvious ones.
Not fixing the bug shouldn't be forgotten in all this. If IW is to be taken seriously as a competitive game then bugs like this, especially on competitive cards, need to be fixed as soon as possible. The competitive spirit and integrity of the game is heavily compromised as long as these bugs persist.
I hope this reaches the eyes and ears of the right people. I still have faith that things will get figured out. Just please keep in mind design issues like Marina before rolling out the next set of balance updates.
Would love to hear what the balance team (who is on the balance team btw?), the devs and other players think about the Marina and the balance changes now that we've gotten to play with them.
I concur that the Marina change is concerning. For a card that was reasonably playable, I was surprised that she was changed at all (compare Liand, who was "fine"). Likewise, she was the only card that received a significant change other than maybe Firestarter, and Firestarter doesn't seem that much better to me.
So Marina, a factionless legendary who didn't really need a buff, got a massive buff. Big deal, right? Well, except for those two descriptors: factionless legendary. Having chase legendaries or epics or whatever in the game is fine, it sells packs, I get it, but having them be factionless and therefore playable in every deck--and a card like Marina is good enough that almost every deck will want to play her, much like Martyr Golem--brings on allegations of "pay to win." Now, IW isn't pay to win, not yet anyway (and hopefully never) but this development is troubling. Recently MtG banned Smuggler's Copter and Emrakul, the Promised End from Standard because they were powerful cards that were colorless and could be played in any deck--such powerful cards that if you weren't playing them, you were inherently disadvantaged. Emrakul was the best top-end card out there, better than anything else, meaning playing other cards was a mistake. Likewise, Smuggler's Copter was an insanely good low-drop. Both were colorless and were warping Standard to such an extent that WotC made its first standard bans since Jace the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic. In much the same way, having top-end cards be factionless threatens to remove diversity from IW, since those cards can go in any deck and crowd out faction-d cards. People have said in the past that Calamity and Martyr Golem are OP and pay to win cards--adding Marina to the list of high-value factionless cards will not help IW in the eyes of its accusers.
And the bugged nature of Marina! Even with her "over-buffed" by the bug that fails to remove untouchable upon her death (which, as I just checked, is still there), I would be more or less fine with the change and would willingly wait to see what happened if the devs would at least disable the card until she got fixed. Yet as you said its been a week, the hotfixes don't appear to be working (if they're there to fix Marina), and she's still bugged and still enabled. The fact that she hasn't been disabled from play is, in my eyes, one of the most disappointing aspects of this whole affair.
There's nothing more i can write to elaborate on this balance change, except to reiterate the idea that Marina was fine beforehand and it seems like her buff was/is unnecessary as she was already quite playable.
oh well... Much love to the Dev and balance teams i mean no disrespect.
Soooo hows about that aberion eh?
...In much the same way, having top-end cards be factionless threatens to remove diversity from IW, since those cards can go in any deck and crowd out faction-d cards. People have said in the past that Calamity and Martyr Golem are OP and pay to win cards--adding Marina to the list of high-value factionless cards will not help IW in the eyes of its accusers.
Thanks for bringing this up. It's a point I didn't touch upon and I absolutely agree with.
I'd prefer a design approach where Factionless cards are not on the same or stronger power level as Faction cards of the same rarity. Over time it incentivizes all decks to include Factionless bombs because of their flexibility. And like Benionin said this will lead to deck/meta homogeneity.
It also affects the ability to "read" your opponent's hand to a negative degree. With Faction cards you have a mental checklist of staple single, double, and triple purity cards to look out for. With Factionless you can never truly read your opponent if they have 2 resources open for Marina or 5 resources open for Martyr Golem. If you play into those cards it usually results in a blow out. Some might say you need to be familiar with the decklist your playing against and know they'll always drop a Martyr Golem on 5. But to me that's poor gameplay. Knowing the limitations of the opponent's card pool and making plays based on what you "know" they'd have available is much more rewarding. One of the subtle beauties of IW's design is the purity theme and having OP Factionless cards kind of takes away from that.
Additionally, these blow out scenarios with OP Factionless cards are exacerbated in draft formats like Rift Run. In draft the ability to "read" and knowledge of the card pool should be your biggest advantage but again OP Factionless makes that more difficult.
I really enjoy the design of cards like Vandalize and Rift to the Old World. Overcosted sideboard/tech that gives tools to Factions that are lacking a specific ability. Agent Coyle, Alpha One is a good but not OP Factionless legendary. Slightly overcosted but threatening and the opponent has the chance to interact with it. This is where I feel the power level of Factionless should be.
I didn't mean to make the topic misleading. While the discussion is largely focused on Marina she's just being used as point of reference for what I feel are design and development concerns.
I'm hoping a larger discussion is to be had about power level, Factionless design, bug fixing and everything else that could improve the game.
I didn't elaborate on the other re-balanced cards because there were no issues with them. Most of the changes were stat buffs and cost reductions which on the whole are very welcomed. The 2 function changes were with Firestarter and Marina. Firestarter's change I really like. It's a flavorful tool that is trying to address a problem Flame Dawn has with support zone camping. The Marina change I really dislike as it seems like an unnecessary OP tool that strengthens an already dominant strategy.
The other reason to focus on Marina is the development concerns. Marina and Firestarter were both reported to be bugged and the response time to fix those bugs has been disappointing. I am a paying customer of this game and for my money this hasn't been good enough.
The balance team did a very good job with 99% of the cards they chose, but it only takes one to spoil the bunch and her name is Marina.
If we ever wanna add purity to marina, make her OoS or DoD they need her the most and are rather underpowered at the moment.
Marina's ability as a Faction card makes sense to me. DoD would be safer than OoS. If the ability were given to OoS as is I'd probably make it at least double-purity and increase the cost a bit.
I am pretty curious what the thought behind the marina change was. Even as someone who used to be on the balance team I can't imagine the discussion that lead to this card.
just stating i am totally fine and Love that factionless cards can have as much power as faction cards. marty calamity, and now marina....i see nothing wrong with them being factionless.
in reverse some tactics FD maybe should be more factionless oriented i think they have too many tools casuing No counter play..
The post already explained the major problem with factionless cards being too powerful and versatile- the fact that they can and will be used everywhere therefore becoming a must have in all decks. This makes it so if you dont have it, you cant compete with those that do making the game more pay 2 win.
Now if it were a powerful factionless card that benefited only certain decktypes then that would be fine.
Giving FD mechanics to all factions just means other factions with stupid mechanics will have even more stupid mechanics. Each faction already has their own mechanics to deal with FD making them unique. Giving them FD mechanics doesnt help one bit.
Could you explain in more detail why you love the current state of Factionless design? I really want to hear if there are points I'm missing or not understanding.
Also your comments about FD could use more explanation as well. I agree FD's toolset needs some looking at it. It's not exactly a varied toolset, just the tools they have are extremely resource and tempo efficient. However, spreading the their tools to other factions is not an ideal solution. Factions should maintain unique identities and tool sets. Part of the fun of IW is figuring out how to leverage your Factions' advantages and limitations against other factions.
I'm taking your comments seriously as I want to have a real discussion. However, without more explanation your stance seems like a troll to me.
How is my thoughts on them being a troll (i actually posted this to only just state my basic thoughts , that perhaps not all players agree (me) in this case with in that they are not terrrible or toxic or P2win..that is all.
"The post already explained the major problem with factionless cards being too powerful and versatile- the fact that they can and will be used everywhere therefore becoming a must have in all decks. This makes it so if you dont have it, you cant compete with those that do making the game more pay 2 win."
I 100 percent disagree with this statement , but i respect it as yours thoughts on the subject. Much as loved your dod post.
the marty calamity debate is a old one...,,we dont mention the coyle which i LOVE its versatile to many decks.,... we nerfed the noble and the game really changed at that time., and marina is getting alot of heat i dont think her controversy warrants nerfing the factionless to oblivion.
Factionless cards and can help create some unique decks and i enjoy that feature, some ideas only work because the factionless aspect. i am having fun expirementing with marina within each faction to make a fun deck.. i really never had a problem about factionless cards. i never raged over it in game or lost a match and realized it was unfair.....the new factionless card that stops initiative is a great card for factionless and a tool for decks that struggle against certain Combos many factions have.....my 2 cents. factionless can be used in any deck thus expanding the creativity and fun of creating decks that may not be the ordinary.
In regards to the power level of FD, I think we both agree that their toolset isn't the problem. And the solution is to bring up to the power level of other Factions (or to bring down FD and GI).
I had a thought today about what makes FD and GI synergy so strong. I believe it's an issue of critical mass. FD has more than enough high damage Charge characters that can flood the board at every turn on the game. There's never really a moment when they miss a beat. The consistency of their draw is excellent. There are FD decks that run Calamity and then drop a load of charge characters on the board to push through the last bit of damage. That kind of shows me they have too much Charge if they can play it up to turn 12 and not run out of gas.
With GI they now have a critical mass of buffs between Lucca Combat Mechanic, Lucca Ascended, and Taiga. After turn four their value game is very strong and can essentially 2 for 1 the opponent on every combat trade.
Perhaps what the other Factions are missing is a critical mass of their key win conditions. CoV is getting close with Death Blast variants, but coupled with FD it's already there. Warpath will be there soon with Beast synergies and the Hermit Deck is a strong showing of a critical mass strategy. OoS is a watered down version of FD's gameplan, they probably have enough flyers but aren't as fast as FD. Sleepers is a very watered version of GI but is way slower and Graveyard dependent. Exiles is a mish-mash of random effects and they're far from having consistent and good discard outlets for their namesake mechanic "Exile". And DoD doesn't really have anything except high health characters and that's not a great strategy for closing out games. Triple DoD does have the Avatars which are powerful but too easy to remove.
Now onto Factionless design. I understand your point about Factionless opening up a few deck archetypes but I think in practice it actually has the opposite effect. Cards like Marina and Martyr Golem take away from creativity in deck building. No matter what aggro deck you build Marina will be an auto-include. Martyr Golem is the same. The value these cards provide is substantial to aggro strategies. Decks not running these cards will be putting themselves at a disadvantage. The only time you won't see them in aggro is when a deck has a degenerate strategy like Sacullas in RoboHammer (but Marina may even sneak her way into that list).
And while I respect fun decks and build them myself, the game is balanced around competitive decks. The more OP Factionless cards get made the more it warps competitive gameplay.


Cisco is buying AI digital assistant startup MindMeld as part of a string of May acquisitions. Cisco will be using the technology to improve its collaboration suite by adding conversational interfaces, beginning with Cisco Spark.
MindMeld is a relatively small company, but it is a recognized player in the conversational interface area. It provides a flexible protocol called "Deep-Domain Conversational AI," which can be used to add knowledge and expertise around any custom content domain. This allows companies to amplify the capabilities of natural language conversational interfaces. MindMeld is currently used by Spotify, and Samsung, among others.
MindMeld brings its 10 patents in its domain, and was founded by Tim Tuttle, a former AI researcher from MIT and Bell Labs, and Moninder Jheeta in 2014.
Capabilities included in the MindMeld offering are broad vocabulary natural language understanding, question answering across any knowledge graph, dialog management and dialog state tracking, and large scale training data generation and management.
The value proposition of MindMeld's offering has always been in enabling conversations within specific knowledge domains–a particular weakness of general purpose assistants, particularly as AI moves to respond to business needs.
I'm excited for the potential represented by the MindMeld team and their technology, coupled with Cisco's market-leading collaboration portfolio, to enable us to create a user experience that is unlike anything that exists in the market today. Together, we will work to create the next generation collaboration experience. The MindMeld team will form the Cognitive Collaboration team and report into the IoT and Applications group under Jens Meggers, senior vice president and general manager.
Of course, acquisition of this company also brings significant AI skill sets which will now be directed toward enhancing Cisco's efforts. It is part of the continuing movement to find a place for digital assonants in business that will match their blossoming in the consumer realm (Digital Assistants Coming of Age with Alexa).
Google is moving a bit further into the VR space with its acquisition of "absurd" VR gaming company Owlchemy Labs. This could accelerate VR innovation, bringing extra attention to the user experience (UX), and a concentration of skills for Google that could provide an edge as VR and AR progress.
This means Owlchemy will continue building high quality VR content for platforms like the HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, and PlayStation VR. This means continuing to focus on hand interactions and high quality user experiences, like with Job Simulator. This means continuing our mission to build VR for everyone, and doing all of this as the same silly Owlchemy Labs you know and love.
Job Simulator was an overnight success with its particular focus on tracked head and hands to enhance the gaming experience. The VR game was launched with HTC Vive, Oculus + Touch, and PlayStation VR and won multiple awards for gameplay and interaction. Recently, the company has pioneered a new way to show VR footage with its "Spectator Mode" and it continues to improve its VR presentation.
Google has been actively pursuing VR for some time now, from before it's almost accidental rollout of the Cardboard VR headset. Unlike many other operators in this space, it has the resources to explore a very broad array of VR issues. The company's Daydream Labs, for example, is focusing upon social aspects of the VR UX experience as well as content. Usability and controls for the VR experience are of particular importance in building new uses for these platforms, and this is an area in which Owlchemy excels.
As with AI, this acquisition also brings more VR experience and skills into Google. Competition includes Microsoft HoloLens and Facebook Oculus, among others. As has always been the case, the next generation of technologies are being actively explored in gaming before being put to practical use. The intersection of AI with VR (On the Intersection of AI and Augmented Reality) will become particularly important as a means of building and enhancing virtual and enhanced realities, and interacting with their components.
The Duke of Wellington is famously attributed with the quotation, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." It is quite possible that the battle of Consumer and Enterprise VR will be won on the gaming headsets of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon).


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The Kickstarter campaign to fund a feature-length story reel for the stalled CGI-animated adaptation of The Goon ended successfully Sunday, exceeding its $400,000 goal by $41,900.
"Frankly, we don't have the words to describe our APPRECIATION, Goon Fans," the message on the Kickstarter page states. "We NEVER could have imagined how much SUPPORT we'd receive from this fan community. It's truly been OVERWHELMING. Through your time, energy, dedication, and donations, you've given us an AMAZING opportunity to help keep The Goon Movie dream alive."
That dream dates back to at least 2008, when it was announced that producer David Fincher and Blur Studio would adapt the acclaimed comic by Eric Powell. Progress soon stalled, however, as financing proved difficult. Test footage, featuring the voices of Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti, was at last revealed last year, giving fans hope the project might eventually see the light of day. With few additional signs of movement, Powell gave in to pressure and revealed at Comic-Con International he would turn to Kickstarter.
The result of the campaign won't be the actual film; that budget is pegged at somewhere around $45 million. Instead the $441,900 will be used to finance a story reel to shop to studios.


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ED raids Raj CM's brother in fertiliser scam case, countrywide searches underway
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's brother on Wednesday as part of countrywide searches in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged fertiliser scam, officials said.
ED sleuths were assisted by personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who were seen standing guard at the farmhouse and residence of the Gehlots' in Mandore area of Jodhpur district.
The searches come at a time when a political slugfest is currently on between CM Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot.
Pilot, a former Union minister, was recently sacked as the deputy CM and PCC chief of the state.
Officials said the raids are being carried out against Ashok Gehlot's elder brother Agrasain Gehlot, who is the promoter of a seeds and fertiliser company identified as Anupam Krishi.
Responding to the raids, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala told reporters in Jaipur, "Prime Minister Modi has created 'raid raj' in the country but we are not going to be scared."
When the Centre's "gimmicks" failed to topple the Congress government in Rajasthan, ED raids started at the premises of Gehlot's elder brother, he said
The agency, officials said, is searching at least six locations in the desert state including at the premises of a former Congress MP, who is alleged to have business ties with Agrasain Gehlot.
They said the raids are being conducted by the central probe agency at 13 places in the country including Rajasthan, West Bengal (2), Gujarat (4) and Delhi (1).
The action came after the agency filed a criminal Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), ED equivalent of a police FIR, in a 2007-09 Customs department case of alleged irregularities in the supply of subsidised Muriate of Potash (MOP) to farmers and investigation in this case was finalised in 2013.
The ED complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been filed after studying the FIR and chargesheet filed by the Customs and its specialised probe arm Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), they said.
The raids are aimed to collect evidence in this scam case which is stated to be worth about Rs 60 crore, officials said.
Officials of the agency are carrying out the searches under the provision of the PMLA.
Sources alleged that Agrasain Gehlot and his company have been slapped with a Customs penalty of about Rs 7 crore in this alleged fertiliser supply scam.
The ED is also probing an alleged forex law violation case against a Jaipur-based businessman Ratan Kant Sharma, who is alleged to have had business ties with Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav in the past.
The Income Tax Department on July 13 had carried out multiple raids at over 40 premises of three Rajasthan-based business groups on tax evasion charges and officials had said it seized about Rs 12 crore cash and vital documents.
The premises linked to two state Congress leaders and a business group stated to be close to the top party leadership of Rajasthan were searched.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes had later said that "several incriminating evidences in the form of loose papers, diaries, digital data were found that indicate bullion trading in cash, investment of cash in properties among others."