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Princ Amadeus Savojský, vévoda z Aosty (; 27. září 1943, Florencie, Itálie – 1. června 2021, Arezzo) byl italský šlechtic a podnikatel, hlava italského rodu Savojských.

Život

Narodil se jako jediný syn Amona III., čtvrtého vévody z Aosty, a princezny Ireny Řecké. Byl pokřtěn jako Amadeus Hubert Konstantin Jiří Pavel Elena Florent Zvonimír Savojský z Aosty (Amedeo Umberto Costantino Giorgio Paolo Elena Maria Fiorenzo Zvonimiro di Savoia Aosta).

V letech 1941–1943 byl také následníkem trůnu krátce trvajícího Chorvatského království jako Zvonimír II. Italskými monarchisty je uznáván jako hlava dynastie Savojských. Dle historického práva mu náleží tituly 5. vévoda z Aosty, kníže cisternský a belriguardský, markýz z Voghery, hrabě z Ponderana.

Osobní život
Vévoda Amadeus se 22. července 1967 oženil s Klaudií Orleánskou (* 1943). Narodily se jim tři děti:
 Bianca Irena Olga Helena Isabella (* 1966)
 Aimon Hubert (* 13. října 1967), vévoda apulský, ⚭ 2008 Olga Řecká (* 17. listopadu 1971)
 Mafalda Giovanna (* 1969)

Manželství bylo později rozvedeno a církevně anulováno. Roku 1987 se Amadeus oženil podruhé se Silvií Paternò Ventimigliovou ze Spedalotta (* 1954).

Hlava rodu
Konzulta senátorů království, kolegiální orgán založený v roce 1955 italským králem Hubertem II., který měl na starosti dohled nad dynastickou důstojností Savojských, 7. července 2006 vydal oznámení, že "princ Amadeus Savojský, někdejší vévoda z Aosty, je legitimním vévodou Savojským a hlavou Savojské dynastie".

Princ Amadeus Savojský byl vyznamenán italským Řádem zvěstování a jako hlava rodu je jeho velmistrem.

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Úmrtí v Arezzu
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Vévodové z Aosty
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Rytíři velkokříže Řádu sv. Mauricia a sv. Lazara
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Damaris and Renee Coulter, the talented pair behind K' Rd's Coco's Cantina, recently opened their daytime offering right next door to the bistro. Damaris told me they hadn't initially wanted to open a cafe, but when the shop beside Coco's came up for lease, the idea of another liquor store moving into K'Rd was too much to stomach. Open just over a week, Mister Morning looks set to be the new social hub on that famous road, consistently packed with happy faces and lively natter.
Damaris says she and Renee were tired of the typical Auckland cafe set-up, involving a menu and wait staff and all that restauranty jazz they already do next door, so Mister Morning is a true coffee bar, so to speak, with stools lining the counter, basic but excellent sandwiches with classic fillings, a couple of salads and a few sweet things. Supreme is the coffee, served in takeaway cups branded with Mister's fine 'mo; spoon in your choice of organic or Rapadura sugar. Special mention goes to the traditional signwriting on the window – preeeeettty! Thanks, gals, your eating places are both choice and make K'Rd a much happier place to bunk down for a bit.


Chiropractic care can boost your immunity. A healthy immune system should be able to fight off most of the bacteria and viruses that it comes into contact with, with only minimal assistance from antibiotics or other drugs. Because the nervous system controls the functions of cells, organs and tissues of the body, a misalignment can reduce the ability of the immune system. Chiropractic care can realign the spine, freeing up the immune system to fight off intruders. Studies show that people who practice chiropractic maintenance have fewer colds than others.
As you can see, there are many other reasons to visit a chiropractor besides relief from neck and back pain. Chiropractic care is a safe, natural way to help the body learn how to heal itself. Chiropractic treatment isn't so much a way of fixing physical problems as it is a way of allowing your body to perform the healing it already knows how to do if it's given the care and respect it needs.


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First Indian Buddhist Artists' Retreat
On Mon, 30 January, 2012 - 10:38
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Samuel Rawlings, Subhuti's secretary, writes from India with news of an exciting new Triratna venture: the first-ever Indian Buddhist Artists' Retreat. He says -
"The event was the first of its kind to take place in India, with artists coming from all corners of the sub-continent to explore the relationship between Art and the Buddha-Dhamma. Most of the participants were from a Dalit background, and it was very moving to hear how deeply they had all struggled to produce their work - largely due to the crippling economic conditions and ideological abuse they had endured, often simply because they had chosen to be artists rather than follow more traditional (ie, prescribed) occupations. Modern Indian artists clearly have to struggle under the heavy mantle of the rigorous orthodox aesthetic of traditional Brahmin culture - a syndrome which reminded me of a Karl Marx's comment; 'tradition from all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living'. Being creative on canvas here is an immediate social provocation and bound to solicit abuse in the media and in the 'establishment' at large. .
The initiative was skilfully orchestrated by Dharmachari Maitriveer-Nagarjuna, an Indian Order Member and led by Dharmachari Subhuti. The contribution of the internationally acclaimed artist Savi Savarkar was particularly special and worthy of note. His experience and advice was inspirational to many of the younger novice artists attending the retreat, some of whom he subsequently invited to come and share his studio space in Delhi; this being an example of the spontaneous phosphorescence of Kalyana Mitrata which really illuminated the 4 special days shared we all together. The opportunity to share struggles and successes with like-minded Buddhist practitioners was clearly invaluable. Friendships were developed and sparked off anew, and there are eager plans to repeat and develop the event in years to come.
Hopefully the short video, made by myself, gives you a more vivid idea of the flavour of our time together. If it's not visible in the embedded player you can find it at vimeo.com/34848417. For more information and links to some of recorded talks, you can also check Subhuti's website".
India, Art, Subhuti

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Opponents hope to rein in Chavez after election
A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, holds up a poster of him as she is leaviing after learn the results of congressional elections, outside of Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday. President Hugo Chavez held on to a congressional majority in elections Sunday, but his opponents made gains that could help them challenge his grip on power.Ariana Cubillos / AP
Sept. 27, 2010, 9:57 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER
Opponents of Hugo Chavez have won new clout to try to rein in a socialist leader who has ruled virtually unopposed, making gains in congressional elections that weaken the president ahead of his next re-election bid and could force him to deal with rivals.
Both sides claimed the results released Monday as a victory, but Chavez lost the two-thirds majority that has allowed his allies to ignore opponents in rewriting fundamental laws, appointing key officials such as Supreme Court justices and letting Chavez pass laws by decree.
Opposition leaders said they intend to start imposing some checks on Chavez, and hope the president is receptive to dialogue.
Potentially just as significant in the long run were opposition claims they actually got more votes than Chavez-backed candidates did and were deprived of a majority in congress only because the system of districts is rigged in Chavez's favor.
That could pose a challenge for the president's hopes of winning re-election in 2012 — a contest based on the popular vote rather than electoral districts.
Suspicions that the popular vote ran against the president were fed by the fact that a day after the election, electoral officials still had not released total counts.
While his opponents celebrated the results, Chavez dismissed their claims of victory.
"Keep beating me like that," Chavez said with a laugh at a news conference. "The revolutionary forces obtained a very important victory."
With the vast majority of votes from Sunday's election counted, results showed that Chavez's socialist party won at least 96 of the 165 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition coalition won at least 62 seats.
Chavez's party had dominated the outgoing legislature because rivals boycotted the past election. The only opposition came from about a dozen congressmen who broke away from the Chavez bloc.
The remaining seats in Sunday's voting went either to a small splinter party or had not yet been determined.
Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, leader of the opposition coalition, said its own tally showed anti-Chavez candidates garnered about 52 percent of the total popular vote.
Opposition parties complain that recent electoral changes drawn up by the Chavista-controlled National Assembly gave heavier representation to rural areas where the president is most popular.
The opposition also expressed suspicion about the fact initial results were delayed seven hours even though Venezuela has an automated ballot system. Electoral officials cited close races as having caused the delays in declaring winners.
While the opposition fell short of its hopes of a congressional majority, newly elected lawmakers promised to bring a plurality of voices to the legislature to examine Chavez's policies as he campaigns to transform Venezuela into a socialist state.
Maria Corina Machado, a victorious anti-Chavez candidate, told The Associated Press it is important to exercise "control on the president so that he becomes the president of all Venezuelans." Machado, who used to lead the vote monitoring group Sumate, said priorities will include insisting on the separation of powers for independent branches of government, decentralizing power and fighting corruption.
Opposition leaders celebrated at the coalition's headquarters in Caracas, where they hugged and kissed.
Meanwhile, early street celebrations by Chavez supporters grew muted when the results were announced at about 2 a.m. Monday. Some backers showed disappointment by holding their heads in their hands while others thrust their fists in the air, declaring a triumph.
Some analysts expressed doubt, however, that Chavez or his allies would actually cross the deep political divide to consult with rivals after five years of ignoring and vilifying them as stooges of the U.S. government.
"It remains to be seen if President Chavez will respect that result in terms of not changing the rules of the game," said Moises Naim, former Venezuelan trade minister, told the AP in Singapore, where he was making a speech during a visit.
"We don't know if these elections will force Chavez to start behaving in a more democratic way and respecting checks and balances, or if he will interpret this as a need to clamp down on any remaining checks and balances and concentrate power even more," he said.
Naim noted that Chavez in the past changed laws to take away power from opponents who won elections.
After an opposition candidate won the mayoral election in Caracas in 2008, the Chavez-controlled National Assembly stripped the elected mayor, Antonio Ledezma, of most of his budget and subordinated him to another official in a newly created position appointed by Chavez. Opposition governors say Chavez has used similar tactics against them.
Naim suggested Chavez might look for ways to bypass the National Assembly. "He has never treated the opposition as a political rival but rather a mortal enemy," Naim said.
Miguel Tinker Salas, a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California, said the outcome could prompt Chavez to concentrate on resolving domestic problems.
"It might force him to be more pragmatic and increasingly more focused on internal matters, especially now that he's got his eye looking toward 2012," when he faces re-election, Tinker Salas said.
Still, the opposition lacks a strong presence in many rural states where Chavez remains most popular, making it more difficult for government foes to win strong backing for a presidential candidate within two years, Tinker Salas said.
Polls suggest Chavez remains the most popular politician in Venezuela, even if his popularity has slipped due to disenchantment over crime and an economy that has Latin America's slowest growth and highest inflation.
The opposition, a coalition of multiple parties, smoothed over past divisions and fielded a unified slate of candidates for the elections. It remains unclear which opposition leader, or leaders, could emerge as top presidential contenders in the 2012 vote.
Governments from Spain to Colombia offered congratulations for the largely peaceful vote and a high turnout of 66 percent.
While some leaders expressed hope the result would facilitate greater dialogue, Chavez's close ally and mentor Fidel Castro wrote in a column that it was a "victory for the Bolivarian Revolution."
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet said, "All Venezuelans can now deepen their dialogue and demonstrate their respect for the diversity of views that is essential in a democracy."
Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez in Caracas and Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.
CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER


Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is ready for a massive spending spree this summer.
Florentino recognises his Real squad is in desperate need for rejuvenation and is preparing for a record transfer spend at the end of this season.
Sportmediaset says the president is willing to spend a staggering €400m to rebuild their squad.
PSG stars Neymar and Kylian Mbappé are both on Florentino's shopping list along with Chelsea ace Eden Hazard.
And as alternatives, also on his shopping list are Harry Kane (Tottenham), Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax Amsterdam) and Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Those close to Florentino say he expects it will cost the club €400m to enact his summer rebuild plans.


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St Mary's is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don't even make it to lunchtime. The action races from 17th century London to Ancient Egypt and from Pompeii to 14th century Southwark as they're pursued up and down the timeline, playing a perilous game of hide and seek until they're finally forced to take refuge at St Mary's - where new dangers await them. As usual, there are plenty of moments of humour, but the final, desperate, Battle of St Mary's is in grim earnest. Overwhelmed and outnumbered and with the building crashing down around them, how can St Mary's possibly survive? So, make sure the tea's good and strong..


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 Головатов, Александр Васильевич (род. 1952) — политический деятель.
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For my learning project, I will be learning Spanish for the next six weeks. As of three days ago, I did not know any Spanish words except for hola, adios, and gracias. I get off of work early in the afternoon, so I am able to spend one hour a day on this project. Although this will be my goal, I have already found myself spending more time than this on this project as it is so enjoyable. I will also be recording myself each week to display my progress. These videos may include myself speaking (or attempting to) Spanish, or practicing my skills on the Duolingo website. So far, I have learnt SO much in my first three days of practicing Spanish. I believe that this is a valuable skill to have and will be a great travel tool in the future! Below is a video of my first week learning Spanish through Duolingo. As I have no prior experience in Spanish, this week's video is just an explanation of my online learning resource and how it works. Enjoy!
Your self guided tour (video) of Duolingo's features and lessons was fantastic! I even referenced it and this post in my recent learning project blog post, as I have also chosen Spanish. We will have to connect via the Duolingo App!
Awe that is so great to hear! Thanks for the encouragement Katie, yes we should definitely do that, good luck!


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Albion Online soon to be come, and the beta is from the lab beta, in game, the blow test of the features in PvE on a game PvP. Nevertheless, a players said: when I got out of town, nobody in any of the 4 adjoining areas, while during the "hype" period there were 2/3 guilds + pk groups that were spinning the game did not at all, but of all the same with and without world.
For the feature that adds the detection of the players approach, it is a plus for the farmeur light, an evil for the pk solo small group, but it changes nothing for the big cove / farmeurs or the Big bus pk, and the system of conquest by 5 vs 5 is rotten for this type of game.
You have 20% return on crafts in town and 25% in town of players in black zone, super 5% more and the risk of making you fart convoys. Also having plenty of GvG clusters is fun but it's used for that slab. Normally, when albion online is launched, many of players are wondering how to buy cheap albion online silver.


Hawes and Will kill time this week as they wait for the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Robbo calls in with a behind the scenes peak of the making of an episode of Blue Harvest Adventures.
Adam Sandler gets into the Star Wars cosplay game.
Robbery on the set of The Mandalorian.
Our thoughts on the second and third episodes of Star Wars Resistance.
Sam has a question about the Knights of Ren.
Ty has a theory about the identity of The Mandalorian.
Bill writes in about Stoned Cobra.
Dougy wants to know if we'll see a lightsaber in The Mandalorian.
Dave writes a beautifl ode to Episode IX.
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EarthCorps brings together passionate and hardworking young adults from the US and countries around the world, for a yearlong leadership training program in Seattle, Washington. These young leaders leave EarthCorps with the tools and skills to tackle the pressing issues of our time – including climate change, pollution, and ecological degradation – to create a better world for all of us.
The logo consists of bold letters set inside a circle. The bold type represents the hard work and stability the program provides to the community and the environment. The circle represents the planet and the idea that we are all connected. The color palette represents the sky (blue), the sea (navy) and the land (green).


LipoNutra is sold as a "revolutionary" and "industry leading" fat burning product and appetite suppressor. It claims that its' potent fat reducing ingredients will help its' users lose weight fast and keep it off.
LipoNutra's website has no information about the company though, and only a telephone order number and online form are provided for contacting them. The manufacturer's address is not listed, nor are any extra details about their company history or founders.
A search on Google only throws up affiliate websites promoting the product. If the product was such a ground-breaking development in the weight-loss industry (as the makers claim), then you would expect this to be mentioned on Wikipedia – however, this is not the case.
African Mango Extract: African Mango comes from the extracts from the Irvingia Gabonensis seed. African Mango may be relatively new to the UK, but is starting to make a real impact. Has enjoyed incredible success as a standalone diet pill. One of the top 10 most effective superfruits.
Acai Berry: Said to contain powerful antioxidant properties that will keep you feeling full throughout the day, re-generate your muscles and improve your general health. Acai berry is another top 10 superfruit and can be used as a standalone supplement.
Resveratrol: A naturally occurring food compound said to lower cholesterol and promote anti-aging which relates to our fat burning capabilities.
Green Tea: Green tea has exceptional fat burning potential and can be taken in tandem with other slimming products. It can also aid the detox process.
The product is also over-priced for what you get at £40.00/$62.00 for 60 capsules which lasts you just 30 days. Although the formula appears to contain the current 'hot' supplements – there is no detail of the quantity of each of ingredient and enough detail as to their validity.
There are only two customer testimonials featured on the LipoNutra website and, as the product is marketed as an industry leader, it seems rather strange that they do not display more customer feed-back. One of the testimonials appears highly dubious.
Appears to be exclusive to the official website, there is not a UK outlet or stockists. Boots, Superdrug, Holland and Barrett or Tesco are not on the list of authorised suppliers nor any independent UK chemist, pharmacy or health store.


Working gas in storage was 3,437 Bcf as of Friday, September 2, 2016, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 36 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 196 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 306 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,131 Bcf. At 3,437 Bcf, total working gas is above the five-year historical range.


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Shopping a look – Permanent Style
Crowley Vintage is a vintage shop in Brooklyn, New York with a more particular angle than most.
We've talked in the past about different types of vintage – those that focus on older or newer, on rarity or thrift – but there are few that focus on a specific style, pretty much to the exclusion of other factors.
Sean Crowley is an ex-Ralph Lauren designer (we covered his history at Ralph here) who, after a brief sojourn at another brand, set up a vintage business stocking pretty much only Ralph Lauren and the kinds of clothes that inspire Ralph Lauren.
Actually, it's narrower that that, because there is very little western clothing at Crowley's, no RRL or performance-based Purple Lapel. Instead it's smarter and more British: dressing gowns and Fair Isle sweaters, country tweeds and Savile Row, plus varsity knits and some military.
Importantly, it covers all periods, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first.
At one point during my visit, looking for an old pair of chinos, I came across two pairs that seemed like decent candidates. Both were mid- to high-rise, both fairly wide leg. One looked more frayed and worn than the other.
It was only when I tried them on that I realised the less-worn pair were original American WW2 chinos, and the more worn pair were Ralph Lauren 'Rugby', from the early 2000s. The holes and fraying were artificial.
For a fan of this style of clothing, both will have their own appeal. But when I think of a Permanent Style reader going to shop at Crowley, this breadth of stock is one thing I feel they need to aware of.
The style is clear from Sean's curation – the piles of striped scarves, the madras and seersucker. It's even organised into different themes: tailoring, college, military, summer. But the range from old to (relatively) new won't be as obvious.
Crowley is also not cheap – it's towards the rarer, the more curated end of the vintage spectrum. Those that visit are doing so partly for Sean's eye.
A couple of interesting tailoring pieces were the coachman's coat above, and the rather ornate suit by New York tailor Roland Meledandri, below.
The coat was phenomenally heavy, designed for someone that would be in the elements all day, without exception. It had a few details that suggested formality, but weren't actually functional, such as large flap pockets that were nothing more than flaps.
Sean and I also marvelled at how someone had managed to hand sew the buttonholes.
The suit, in a cream jacquard cloth, would probably be of most interest to those in New York's tailoring history (I knew Meledandri only from his connection to Ralph Lauren), but I guess there might be a more flamboyant dresser who would wear it too.
"I have to say it's all much clearer now we're in this bigger space," he says. "We've only been here two years, and it's only in the past few months that some of this display has come together."
When Sean started selling vintage in 2017, he only did so on Instagram. Then there was a shop, but it was smaller and less accessible. Today the store might be in a unit on the third floor (which requires various twists and turns to track down) but you can see the full range and it's easy to get to from Manhattan.
"There's still one area at the back that I need to clear up, but it's curtained off so no one really realises that," says Sean. "Otherwise it's all nicely put together now."
Something else that's at the back of the shop is an ironing board and a sewing box – Sean frequently repairs new clothes himself.
"I guess that's one thing that makes it clear I'm still very much a retail destination," he says. "I sew, I darn, I reinforce buttons. I want the clothing to be as perfect as it can be when it's sold." (It's also evident from the extremely useful labelling – describing the size, waist and leg length.)
Compare that to somewhere like Stock Vintage, where most nips and rips are left in and the focus is more purely selling to designers.
"There's a good network of repair places in New York too – for repairing knits, for invisible repairs on wovens," says Sean. All are apparently open to the general public, so I'll get the details and do a separate article at some point.
I only walked away from Crowley Vintage with a couple of small pieces – an old Ralph hat and a belt – but then I'm never doing more than half shopping, with the other half of my brain asking interview questions.
The belt, too, was a good example of a lovely style Ralph used to do, but no longer. Cotton canvas with leather-covered ends, it is slim, good quality, and much nicer than the elasticated ones you find more commonly.
Sean has about 30 of them, all in different colours. I was feeling contrary and chose a pink one.
I'd recommend Crowley to anyone that likes the style – that's crucial – and who's shopping vintage to find things that are unusual, rather than cheap.
If you want more normal vintage – as in, a much broader range of styles and indeed of prices – you'd be better off over in Williamsburg at someone like 10ft Single by Stella Dallas, which is huge and varied. The cloth shop next door, the original Stella Dallas, is also worth a visit.
Crowley Vintage is open Saturday 10-6, and Tuesday to Friday by appointment. Address: 147 Front St, suite 303, Dumbo, Brooklyn
Photography: Christopher Fenimore
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A subforum for dumps might be nice. As it is anything new that gets out there is sorta scattered around the forum, not all going into that one new dumps thread. And just one thread becomes cluttered and harder to sift through the find each individual new dump.
Well, just did Taizou's suggestion and the MSX forum went bye bye.
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[Movie Club] Star Wars Episode I: The Binks Awakens
October 30, 2015 October 30, 2015 by Kenye West
Hey, you like Star Wars, right? You probably do, as you are reading this shitty Star Wars essay also are more than likely a human. But as much as you love Star Wars, there are probably some things about it that you don't like. For many people, they don't like the prequel trilogy, in particular Episode I, in even more particular Jar Jar Binks. Jar Jar was a bumbling buffoon, arguably a racist caricature, and created for the sole purpose of appealing to young children. But, like it or not, Jar Jar Binks is the most important character in the entirety of the Star Wars canon.
No. Jar Jar is just the guy who talks funny and accidentally hurts himself for the amusement of 5 year olds. He is an extraterrestrial clown. Clown or no, there is nothing from the half hour mark of Phantom Menace to the last second of Return of the Jedi that could've happened without Jar Jar. Take the main storyline of the Phantom Menace; Obi Wan and Qui Gon are sent to strike a deal with the Trade Federation to end the Nabooian blockade. They try, and fail, to negotiate a deal and flee to the surface of Naboo where they meet Jar Jar Binks. What happens after they meet Jar Jar? He takes them to the Gungan capital, they travel to Theed to meet Queen Amidala, and end up on Tatooine. This is where Obi Wan and Anakin meet, putting into motion Anakin's rise to a proud Jedi knight, fall to the dark side, and ultimate redemption over the course of the next 5 films. This is also where Anakin and Padme meet which, over the course of several years and likely a textbook case of Stockholm syndrome, eventually leads to the two falling in love and siring two children. No Jar Jar? No Luke, Leia, or Darth Vader. Obi Wan and Qui-Gon would've wandered around on Naboo until someone came to save them and then they would've gone back to Coruscant. Anakin would've forever lived and died a slave on Tatooine. Padme would've… uh… done Queen shit and wore silly clothes.
Even then, let's assume that the Force would've eventually brought, Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan together, that their meeting was destined no matter if a swamp alien with a speech impediment brought them together. Fair enough, we can chalk Jar Jar's involvement there to "unfathomable cosmic power destined those things to happen." How can there possibly be anything else of important that Jar Jar caused? He was barely in the other two prequels, he couldn't have accomplished too much. Well, creating the Republic's clone army, for one. While standing in for Padme in the Galactic Senate in the weeks before the start of the Clone Wars, Jar Jar urged his dellow felagates to give Chancellor Palpatine full power to muster an army in order to deal with the Separatists' mounting droid armies. While he may not have made these decisions on his own accord, as his gullible nature made him very easily manipulated by other politicians, there would otherwise not have been a strong voice to push the senate toward organizing their army and going to war with the CIS. Without the Republic army there would be no Clone War, without the Clone War there would be no Jedi Purge, without the Jedi Purge there would be no Galactic Empire, and without a Galactic Empire there would be no original trilogy.
The most common suggestion to improve The Phantom Menace seems to be to remove Jar Jar entirely. Nearly every fan edit of the prequel trilogy removes every non-plot crucial scene involving Jar Jar to make the film more palatable for the average viewer. But you know what I think? I think Jar Jar needs his time in the spotlight. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have those other great stories that we love and cherish so deeply as a vital cornerstone of our cultural canon also Attack of the Clones. Jar Jar is the backbone, the very foundation on which the Star Wars series is built. This is why I propose, instead of a Jar Jar-less edit, that we watch a Jar Jar filled edit. Mr. Binks is clearly the most influential and interesting character in the Star Wars saga, but I hate that I have to slog through 9 and a half hours with no Jar Jar every time I watch the series. We all know that GL has the Jar Jar edit hidden away somewhere in the vast network of underground caverns that compose his secret lair, it is only a matter of time before he releases it.
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Just putting down a few thoughts and impressions garnered on Virginia Woolf.
Only very recently did it dawn upon me, that I must have had the late great Virginia Woolf on my mind for many years.
It all began years ago, during my attempt to read and make some sense of, Edward Albee's famous play 'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf'. I really can't say how I'd gotten hold of it. The only memories I have of that futile venture, are the numerous attempts I'd made, over the weeks and months, trying to get at the essence of it. Well, the long and the short of it was : I never did succeed.It struck me as being very strange and abstruse play to say the very least. Very likely, a proper understanding and appreciation of it, called for far higher levels of maturity and a far greater depth of experience than I possessed at the time, as a lad barely past 16, whose only exposure to literature had, thus far, been limited to comics and schoolboy adventure stories. Regrettably, the entire episode seemed to have instilled in me a deep seated, vague and irrational fear of Virginia Woolf – whom I began to perceive as a formidable, thoroughly daunting persona.
There the matter lay for years, simmering at the back of my consciousness, till a chance event, totally unrelated on the face of it – brought it once again to the fore.
While rummaging through some papers in a disused cupboard at home, I came across a book of memoirs written by my mother's old school Headmistress, an English lady of noble birth, a great niece of an earlier Lord Abinger. This lady, a Ms.Hester Smith, had spent most of her life in South India as a missionary. In writing about her earliest days in India, she gives a rather vivid portrayal of the lady who had initially taken her under her wing. This lady mentor of hers, a Ms. Dorothy Stephenson, had already been in Madras for several years, working as a missionary. Ms. Smith describes Ms. Stephenson as being a very formidable, no nonsense individual – and a far cry from the rather retreating personality of her younger first cousin, Virginia Woolf. It was only then that I began to see Ms. Woolf in a very different light : much more gentle and soft – certainly far removed from my earlier,long- harboured perception of her, as a stern, truly formidable individual.
A week or so back, while browsing through some books on a shelf, I came upon a title that seemed familiar : Virginia Woolf?s classic experimental novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Picking it off the shelves I settled down to read it, certain that it would prove a delightful read and an immensely pleasurable experience and one that would linger on in memory. My hopes in this regard certainly weren't belied – though for entirely different reasons. The whole thing, interior monologues and all – went clean over my head. (I am certain I would find Andrew Wiles recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as incomprehensible. In no way of course, could any of this detract,even a whit, from the monumental quality of either work.)I found myself gritting my teeth and straining every fibre of my being, in order to plod my way through this book. I do realize that what I am saying may well sound outrageously heretical – but the book, quite simply, left me cold. Right through, comparisons with another work from the same period kept running through my mind : Vita Sackville West's 'All Passion Spent' – which had struck a deep chord within me , at the time I'd read it .
Shortly thereafter, as my luck would have it, I chanced upon a little essay Virginia Woolf had written shortly before her death : 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid'. Rarely have I come across a more exquisite piece of writing . I can't even begin to describe the effect it had on me – how it tugged at my heartstrings.
I now have before me a copy of Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando'. The blurbs proclaim that this particular work of hers is a fictional incarnation based on the life of her great friend Vita Sackville-West, and is truly 'fantastic and evocative'. I now look forward to settling down to read it – with heightened pleasure and anticipation – and have no doubt that, to my mind at least, this may well turn out to be her magnum opus.


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This new brand of advanced cybersecurity services features Managed Detection and Response, Vulnerability Risk Management and Cyber Threat Intelligence solutions.
Their implementation will enable organizations to control the risk of cyber-attacks while reducing the necessary expenditure and protecting their business.
Madrid Telefónica Tech launches globally a next-generation cybersecurity services brand, called 'NextDefense', to provide large enterprises with a modern, effective, and intelligent detection and response capability against cyber-attacks.
NextDefense unifies and extends the security solutions offered to date to address the sophisticated cyber-attacks of the new post-COVID-19 era. It integrates Vulnerability Risk Management, Cyber Threat Intelligence and Managed Detection and Response into a single solution. Telefónica Tech offers these services in NextDefense with the support of the company's global cybersecurity operations center, which now has 11 locations worldwide and has expanded its talent in recent months with the addition of a new team with expertise in malware analysis, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, forensics and vulnerability analysis.
Faced with the record number of vulnerabilities reached in 2020 for the fourth consecutive year, Telefónica Tech's NextDefense has a Vulnerability Risk Management solution that allows organizations' critical assets to be analyzed by automatic scanning to detect possible threats, to know their level of exposure to them and to be able to prioritize the correction of the most urgent ones.
In cases where technology is not enough, NextDefense has an expert team of vulnerability experts in charge of providing more in-depth analyses, thanks to the new Pentesting and Security Assessment services, and the Red Team Service. The team of analysts discovers critical vulnerabilities and risks in order to prioritize them according to their impact. In addition, the Pentesting and Security Assessment service enables compliance with regulations and industry standards, and keeps executive management informed about the overall risk level of the organization.
The Red Team is a team that provides organizations with the validation of their resilience to real attack scenarios, as well as training their defense, with the advantage of doing so in a controlled and constructive way, through simulations of attacks against people, software, hardware and infrastructure, from the perspective of cybercriminals.
In addition, NextDefense also has highly specialized Threat Intelligence teams to improve protection, detection and response to cyber-attacks. The Threat Intelligence solution included in NextDefense provides insight into the intent, motives and capabilities of cybercriminals and aims to help companies understand their digital risks, providing strategic advantage and situational awareness for better identification and anticipation of them.
Telefónica Tech takes a key step in its cybersecurity proposition by designing a comprehensive product in which Managed Security Services (MSS) evolve to more advanced Managed Detection and Response (MDR) controls. In this sense, Telefónica Tech offers the Managed Detection and Response service, which unites in a single subscription the most advanced endpoint technologies and security operations necessary to detect and respond quickly to any threat. It incorporates the knowledge and experience of Telefónica Tech's intelligence analysts to proactively search for undetected threats and monitor them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and, thanks to the Incident Response and Forensic Analysis service, expert assistance for the management of complex incidents and crises is always available.
NextDefense's services will help organizations significantly reduce the risk of a cyber-attack, control the cost of their security operations and technologies, and increase the maturity of their cybersecurity defenses by providing comprehensive threat detection and anticipation analytics that enable the deployment of rapid and effective responses.
According to Alberto Sempere, Cybersecurity Product Manager at Telefónica Tech, "companies must make a firm commitment to cybersecurity by relying on partners with the best operational and technical capacity. Otherwise the rapid digitization they are all undergoing will inevitably lead into a security breach at some point, with potentially disastrous economic and reputational impact. Our experience and expertise in cybersecurity allows us to deliver NextDefense services on a turnkey basis, but also through customized solutions in the case of organizations that already have greater security maturity."
Telefónica Tech, Telefónica's holding company that integrates the Cybersecurity, Cloud and IoT&Big Data businesses, continued to grow in double digits in 2020 thanks to the increasing demand for these digital services during the pandemic. Specifically, its revenues increased by 13.6% last year, almost tripling market growth.
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Author: Monica Grady
Updated Monday, 22nd January 2018
It was a huge asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, so what damage could smaller asteroids do to life on earth. Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at The Open University, Monica Grady, explores the issue.
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A small asteroid passed relatively close to Earth this month, having been discovered just six days earlier. This might sound scary, but it's unusual that such an object would actually collide with the Earth. Each year about 50,000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material (rocks and dust) hits our planet. This comes as tiny pieces – even if it all came at once, it would be only slightly larger than the "lorry-sized" asteroid that passed us in January. But while scientists can readily spot fairly large asteroids greater than about one kilometre across, what risk do such smaller asteroids that may be more difficult to track pose? Should we worry?
One of the major problems that civilisation has is that while we are becoming incredibly efficient at spotting Near-Earth Objects, we still cannot do anything about one that might be on a collision path with the Earth.
It is widely believed the dinosaurs were wiped out 65m years ago by an asteroid impact. The environmental changes that it caused – a rapid rise in atmospheric temperature and global forest fires, followed by plummeting temperatures and acidified ocean waters – were a consequence of the size of the asteroid, probably about 10 kilometres across.This is almost three orders of magnitude larger in diameter, and about 30m times heavier, than the current combined year's worth of asteroids.
The Earth had a brush with an object estimated to be around 20 metres diameter almost five years ago over Chelyabinsk in Russia. Nobody saw it coming. Spectacular footage of the incoming fireball was recorded by commuters on their way to work, shocked to see the dark February morning lit by something originally thought to be a missile.
The rock exploded in the atmosphere, with many meteorite fragments scattered across the region. The largest piece, of about 600kg, was recovered several months later in an ice-covered lake. Although many people were hurt when the object powered its way through the atmosphere, the injuries mostly came from window glass shattered by the atmospheric shock wave it caused.
The inhabitants of the Chelyabinsk region had a lucky escape – no crater was created by the asteroid because it burst into pieces about 30 kilometres up in the atmosphere. Luckily, this is the most likely situation for an object that size.
Meteor Crater located in Arizona is thought to have been created approximately 50,000 years ago
It is not until an asteroid is about 50 metres diameter that a crater is produced on impact. Even when it is two or three kilometres diameter – the size of Meteor Crater in Arizona – it is not near large enough to cause destruction on the global scale of the dinosaur extinction event. But, it would certainly cause local problems if the impact was in an inhabited area. Imagine the asteroid that created the Meteor Crater – literally and figuratively – hitting central London, Washington or Mumbai.
Monitoring threats
There are several international observing programmes using automated telescopes specifically dedicated to mapping all "Near-Earth Objects". These are asteroids with a closest approach to the sun of less than 1.3 Astronomical Units – one such unit is the distance between the Earth and the sun. A special watch is kept for "potentially hazardous objects", which are Near Earth Objects over 150 metres in diameter with orbits that cross that of the Earth.
Fortunately, practically all of these objects are in stable orbits and are not designated hazardous. Asteroids with sizes down to about five metres across can now be observed. Although, as the Chelyabinsk event illustrated, there are still objects that evade the watchers. Part of the reason that the Chelyabinsk object went undetected, was because it came into the atmosphere at a very low angle from the direction of the sun. But the main reason was the sheer number of such objects and the relatively short time (about a decade) that we have been actively tracking them.
The 50,000 tonnes of space material that hits Earth each year falls mainly as dust grains less than half a millimetre across.
It is salutary to look at the number of detections of Near-Earth Objects. The Minor Planet Center maintains a database of observations, keeping a running total which, by the end of December 2017, stood at over 17,500. A further 28 have already been spotted this month. You can get an idea here where all these objects are relative to the Earth and the sun – I guarantee that you will be more than a little perturbed when you see how surrounded we are by these missiles.
One of the major problems that civilisation has is that while we are becoming incredibly efficient at spotting Near-Earth Objects, we still cannot do anything about one that might be on a collision path with the Earth. NASA currently has a project, DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), to redirect a threatening asteroid at the preliminary design phase. A spacecraft, about 1.5 metres across, will be aimed to crash into an asteroid (Didymos B) about 140 metres across. Didymos B orbits a primary body, Didymos A. The aim of the project is to change the orbit of Didymos B around its binary partner, while not altering the orbit of Didymos A around the sun.
An asteroid in orbit around Earth
DART is scheduled for launch in December 2020, intercepting Didymos in October 2022. So we have fewer than five years to wait before we find out whether we can protect our planet from its unruly neighbours.
For now, while small asteroids certainly can pose some danger, the threat is more regional than that posed by larger asteroids. So there is no need (yet) to start stockpiling baked beans and bottled water against our imminent demise by asteroid attack. The 50,000 tonnes of space material that hits Earth each year falls mainly as dust grains less than half a millimetre across. And given that we are all still here (at the time of writing…), it poses no threat to humanity.
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One of the region's largest and longest standing law firms has won the only tender awarded in North Wales to provide Prison law advice and representation.
GHP Legal, which has offices in Wrexham, Oswestry, Llangollen and Chirk, will provide the service from1st April 2017.
Widely regarded as one of the leading law firms in the area for Criminal Defence, GHP Legal represents clients across the full spectrum of criminal law, from motoring matters to more serious and complex criminal offences.
The firm's dedicated prison law team will now specialise, amongst other things, in appeals, parole board reviews, adjudication proceedings and recalls.
Stephen Edwards, a Partner of GHP Legal and Head of the firm's Crime Department said: "We have a specialist team of highly skilled solicitors, all of whom are committed to looking after the rights of our clients.
"We are particularly delighted to have been awarded a Prison Law contract because it means that the care and guidance our clients receive throughout their criminal proceedings will now not end at the conclusion of the case if they are sent to custody. Instead we will be able to provide a continuous service and support and advise them throughout their sentence.
"Being imprisoned can be a daunting and frightening experience, not just for the person who has been sentenced but also for their friends and family. The feeling of isolation in particular can be very overwhelming. Knowing that we can and will continue to safeguard their best interests will bring hope to clients who previously would in many cases have struggled to see a light at the end of the tunnel."
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now lives in Englewood, New Jersey. He began his career when he was 21 years old and was a an American musician and avid jazz guitarist. He is also known to the public as a Pop and R&B singer. He is famous for such hits as Give me The Night, Lady Love Me, Turn Your Love Around, In Your Eyes, and This Masquerade, as well as others. He played with Jack McDuff's group for several years and at the age of 21, he recorded his first album with his own group, The new Boss Guitar, and Jack McDuff played the organ. His next recording was, It's Uptown With the George Benson Quartet. Ronnie Cuber played baritone sax and Lonnie Smith played the organ. He followed this up with their, The George Benson Cookbook. In the mid 1960's, Miles Davis employed George and he played guitar on Paraphenalia. Miles was a trumpeter and the song appeared on the 1967 release, Miles In the Sky. He later was signed up with the CTI label and he recorded many albums with other jazz musicians on the 1969 album, Abbey Road.
In the seventy's George was recording under the Warner Bros. Label. In 1976 he released, Breezin'. He put vocals on tracks and his, This Masquerade, made it to number 1 on the Billboard Pop, Jazz, & R&B Charts. This Masquerade also won a Grammy Award the same year for Record of the Year. He also won a Grammy Award for his, On Broadway, which was recorded about a year later. While on the Warner Bros. label he accumulated 3 other platinum LP's and 2 gold albums. George recorded the original version of, Greatest Love of All, for the 1997 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest. It was later released as a cover by Whitney Houston and it was very successful.
Since the mid 1980's, George has spent his time touring and recording music. In 1985, George Benson and Chet Atkins collaborated and came up with, Sunrise, which was one of two songs they recorded on Chet's disc, Stay Tuned. It was reported that the two men recorded an entire album's worth of music but it wasn't all released because of disputes among lawyers and record companies. George was on Jack McDuff's album, Colour Me Blue, in 1992. George co-headlined with Al Jarreau on an international tour to promote their 2006 album, Givin' It up. They will appear in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand in the summer of 2007. George has been considered one of the best jazz guitarists of his time.


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Our intrepid team braved the cold weather together with stallholders from the local police force, Age Concern, Carers in Hertfordshire and the Stevenage Male Voice Choir, to name but a few. Tollers were pleased to be on hand to provide useful information, leaflets and free legal advice to the local community.
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The BrahMos missile can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or from land platforms.
India on Tuesday signed a key pact with the Philippines for the sale of "defence material and equipment", which are likely to include BrahMos cruise missiles.
Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who was also present at the pact's signing ceremony in Manila, has reportedly said that his country is buying BrahMos missiles.
Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) said on Facebook on Tuesday that Defence Undersecretary Raymundo Elefante and India's Ambassador to the Philippines Shambu S. Kumaran signed an "implementing arrangement" for "procurement of defence material and equipment".
The Facebook post said Lorenzana was also present at the signing ceremony.
"We are buying the BrahMos missiles," Lorenzana was quoted as saying by The Straits Times.
Defence Undersecretary Raymundo Elefante and India's Ambassador to the Philippines Shambu S. Kumaran signed an "implementing arrangement" for "procurement of defence material and equipment", Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) said on Facebook.
There was no statement from the Indian side.
India and Russia have been planning to export the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to the Philippines and several other countries, Russian Deputy Chief of Mission in India Roman Babushkin had said on November 12 in an online briefing.
The BrahMos missile is produced by an Indo-Russian joint venture and it can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or from land platforms.
On October 18 last year, a naval version of the BrahMos missile was successfully test-fired from an indigenously-built stealth destroyer of the Indian Navy in the Arabian sea.
Days later, the Indian Air Force test-fired an air-launched version of the BrahMos missile from a Sukhoi fighter aircraft in the Bay of Bengal.
A number of countries including in the Gulf region have shown interest in procuring the missile.
India has already deployed a sizeable number of the original BrahMos missiles and other key assets in several strategic locations along the LAC with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.
The IAF is also integrating the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile on over 40 Sukhoi fighter jets to bolster the overall combat capability of the force.
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With a continuous stream of new sports games releasing on the Xbox One every year from some of the industries biggest publishers, there's no shortage of sports titles to take you as close the action as possible from the comfort of your armchair. If you're a fan of NBA Live on consoles, or even the NBA 2K franchise, you'll likely dig the mobile offering. Develop an Online Worldwide Encyclopaedia on the ground of the 2003 World Sports Encyclopedia. It was also a sports game, as it is basically a crude interpretation of tennis.
Building confidence in kids when they play sports from a young age can have a great effect on their future performance and confidence as well. ESPN, Microsoft, and 2K Sports (then part of Sega) used to make their own football video games in addition to EA Sports' Madden.
The very best sports game apps combine advanced graphics with simple, touch-based controls, making it easy for you to pick up your phone or tablet and jump straight into the action. A true PlayStation veteran, Sammy's covered the world of PS gaming for years, with an enormous Trophy count to prove it. He also likes tennis games way more than you.
These skills developed during team sports activities will undoubtedly help these kids in both school and professionally later in life. The 1990s began in the 16 bit era , as a wave of fourth generation video game consoles were created to handle more complex games and graphics.
Best PS4 Sports Games
There are actually a very large number of new releases that fall into the category of sports games for the PlayStation 3 gaming console which have been brough out in time for Christmas 2010, largely down to the developer EA sports, a leading name and brand in this genre, who have recently released number 11 in several of their long running series. Nearly all the top mobile sports game franchises have switched over to a team building system that requires you to unlock (or buy) card packs to upgrade your team. You will be faced with many challenges and missions and your main goal will be to help your players win games by staying healthy, fit and motivated.
The School Games is a programme designed to keep competitive sport at the heart of schools and provide more young people with the opportunity to compete and achieve their personal best. Whether it's team sports activities, sports games for kids, kids exercises , or even just talking about sports (scroll down to see our inspirational sports quotes!), there is something for everyone.
Sports games have traditionally been very popular arcade games The competitive nature of sports lends itself well to the arcades where the main objective is usually to obtain a high score The arcade style of play is generally more unrealistic and focuses on a quicker gameplay experience.
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Kids Sports Games Apps
The 10 top sports games for the Nintendo Wii are chosen for interaction by the participant. In keeping with the theme of the benefits of sports for kids, it is important to understand that teams provide more than just a fun place to hang out with friends and kick or toss a ball around. Participate in football championships, ice hockey and basketball fights.
Most of the main electronic games producers lay stress on building and developing different version of a sports game, not just because it is a viable business venture, but also because it helps in generating and developing younger minds. No baseball game released prior to EWB was anywhere close as beautifully graphically, and the baseball was actually realistic.
Players only have to choose what their favorite type of sports is, and they will soon find there are plenty of mobile games that will match their taste and desire. It's a great game for novices who want to learn more about the complexities of gridiron and hardcore players who want to control every aspect of their team.
Essential Sports Manager Games On IOS And Android
Most people will agree that playing a sport is one of the best ways to keep active and healthy. Perhaps cricket is more of a niche interest than other sports, particularly among European or American gamers, but this is a must-buy if you are fan of hearing leather on willow. The location percentage is determined for each paid fantasy sports game and calculated as a percentage of all entry fees collected from game participants located in Arkansas divided by the total of entry fees from all game participants.
At age 8, the most competitive sport was baseball, with 12.5% of kids playing competitive baseball in youth leagues, with basketball at just 11% and soccer at 10%. Some sports events and other programming subject to blackouts. What is most interesting in terms of the breakdown of most popular kids sports activities is that soccer maintained the most straight line out of all sports, with the least amount of deviations of popularity or lack thereof over the years.
This is a football game where crowd pleasing play is awarded more than a solo rush if you want to win. Both companies released at least one game in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, and racing. If you get that decision right, along with sponsorship deals, stadium development, transfers, contracts and more, you'll be able to turn your little non-league football team into a major force.
Traditional Sports And Games
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Simulation, Games And Challenges
From controlling cities to transportation railways, the PlayStation 4 has a number of great simulation video games to enjoy right now. Even "real" simulations (if that is not an oxymoron) inevitably rely on imperfect models and simplifying assumptions that the media, the public, and even policy makers themselves generally don't understand. The multiplayer mode of free war games is a place for experts.
Much like American Truck Simulator, the equipment is authentic, licensed and modeled realistically, and for the first time includes equipment from John Deere, one of the biggest missing pieces to date. Some games allow you to act as a creator and manage a world, like the Sim City series that include virtual city planning and building with varied levels of infrastructure.
You can explore the future in the simulation as you wish and also make choices you might not think about in reality. It therefore engages the player more than a traditional video game, and as such is more like reading a literary novel – making a new literary genre.
For the first time in the series, the game has been officially ported to the Mac OS X operating system by TransGaming 24 In March 2012, FIFA Football was released as a launch title for the PS Vita , which despite the different name was a port of FIFA 12.
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What are the best simulation games available on the Xbox One? Rather, the first-person shooter, roleplaying, and real-time strategy genres that took over. This is one of the few good simulator games with a single price and $6.49 is quite reasonable for what the game has. Teamwork Games: Exploring Factors That Affect Team Performance.
Use these examples to help evaluate whether your training needs call for a simulation or game, or some blend of the two. The rules are simple, you have to develop your transport business on the map and improve your empire to grow it. During the game, you have to put a track on hard terrain, come up with favourable routes, upgrade vehicles, work on your assets.
Flight simulator games are the best thing in hand for most people, since they allow you to have the experience of flying an aircraft. The gameplay is easy to understand as well so if you find yourself not enjoying other similar titles that take the city building aspect into some very fine details in order to fully work then you may want to give this game a try.
Known in short as a SIM date RPG, dating simulation games have become incredibly popular. Games games like Coffee shop, Shopping city, Shopping street, Virtual Bunny, Youda Safari, Barber shop and many others can put the child in the situation to do things a normal person should do, like create relations with other characters, work, make shopping sessions, take care of small babies and many others.
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From Cossacks To Warcraft And Beyond (March 2019)
With the virtual world providing more and more of our news and entertainment, and computers becoming a standard in households, online strategy games have taken off in a big way. Notes: Big Huge Games CEO Brian Reynolds was lead designer of Rise of Nations, and had previously worked on Civilization II and Alpha Centauri in the same role. Native: Every game listed here natively supports MacOS. It features three-on-three online battles that last up to 20 minutes each.
BattleTech is too slow for its own good (though mods and a patch address this), has a unhelpful tutorial and is a little drab to look at, but stick with it past the shonky early hours and it becomes an incredibly satisfying game of interplanetary iron warfare and robo-collection.
Few games take such a broad and detailed approach not just to a war but to the political situation before, during and after that war. A single player, sci-fi survival game, RimWorld has you attempting to keep alive the survivors of an interstellar shipwreck on an alien world.
Ask anyone what they most desperately want from a new Homeworld game and the last things they'd say would be prequel" and no spaceships." Deserts of Kharak scanned at first like clanging idiocy, like making a Spider-Man game in which ol' Petey can only get around town on a pushbike.
War Strategy Games
From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC. A Good Match For: Gamers looking for the best Mac grand strategy games. TW: Warhammer 2 is also an impressive game to behold, featuring massive real-time battles with hundreds of units on huge battlefields. When it comes to game genres, strategy gets tagged on to a lot of games — almost like a prefix.
Three years ago, DeepMind — the London AI startup that was acquired by Google and is now an independent part of Google's parent company Alphabet — made a global splash with AlphaGo, a neural network designed to play the two-person strategy game Go. AlphaGo surpassed all human experts, demonstrating a level of Go strategy that left professional Go players astounded and intrigued.
What else should I be playing: Paradox's grand strategy games are in a league of their own – a Crusader Kings 2 campaign, with a transferable save game for your next attempt at EU IV is recommended, or head back to ancient times with Europa Unversalis: Rome ( soon to have its own successor ), or the grim darkness of the twentieth century with Hearts of Iron IV.
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Since the internet has become more powerful in terms of providing a broad array of options and opportunities for people young and old, it has also become a great platform for games. What else should I be playing: The Command & Conquer series constitutes Dune 2's direct descendants, but Blizzard's Starcraft games go a lot further in terms of asymmetrical sci-fi war. Buy, fix, and sell … Read More..
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RPG PC Games
What is an adventure quest RPG? The earliest computer role-playing games began in 1975 as an offshoot of early university mainframe text-based RPGs on PDP-10 and Unix-based computers, starting with Dungeon and graphical RPGs on the PLATO system, pedit5 and dnd, games inspired by role-playing games.
These MMORPG games such as the already mentioned World Of Warcraft, almost always require that you pay a monthly fee of roughly $5-30 dollars to play the game, although there have been some exceptions, most famously the Guild Wars series of games which has allowed gamers to play online with no monthly fee.
The only reason the game is not getting a 10 rating in this department is the fact that while leveling characters is not a problem in the beginning and middle of the game, once a character reaches the higher levels (above 60) it becomes a very time consuming, tedious process to level up the character sometimes taking hours upon hours to raise a character just one level.
The popularity of multiplayer modes in these games rose sharply during the mid-1990s. Also how encounters work is important specifically with computer role-playing games, an encounter is usually random with no indication of the enemy. To give you an idea of what games would be classified, as an adventure quest RPG here is a list.
Few genres of games have had such a dedicated and enthusiastic audience, as that of Role Playing Games, and all this while never having been the most popular or top-selling genre. Final Fantasy III is one of what many consider to be the classics for RPG genre games. As a matter of fact, with all of the side quests and obtainable items, weapons, armor, and magic, the game could possibly be one of the hardest RPG's created for the SNES to obtain a "perfect" or 100 percent complete game.
Final Fantasy VIII was another wondrous achievement from the magicians at Square, and was just as influential as the games that came before it. The first Final Fantasy to feature realistically-proportioned characters, VIII also had one of the most mature and entertaining stories to be found in an RPG.
The game was not produced in large quantities but RPG fans love this game because it is fun and historic. Elderscrolls truly stretches the imagination in terms of open world RPG exploration and making a game that will take a long time to finish. There's no fluff here, and the rebuild of the decades old RPG formula was all for the better, working for the complete and total betterment of the game and hopefully the series.
The original PlayStation system was one of the best selling consoles of all time but there are many games for the system that are hard to find. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was a return to the Paper Mario fun they coined in the N64 days, this time around with the … Read More..
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