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Two months packed with happiness

So. I usually complain about being a lazy ass and not writing posts, but tbh, the last two months went by with me hardly having any freetime so the excuse for not documenting is rl rn xD

Right after my birthday, I went to Ikebukuro on the weekend. Alone. First time on the Tokyo metro alone and I didn't lost. What a skill xD Especially cause I don't think I already had a phone here xD Yeah, I got it on the 10th? And this was on the 8th.
So Ikebukuro. Omg. Dudes, that place is crazy. There were so many people, that was the first time I actually felt culture shocked XD Also it's a freaking hell. Money wise. I was there for like four hours? And I spent so much money, that I ended up not going to the Suncity part which was my destination in the first place. I had to go home cause my conscious was screaming to stop spending money, yes xDDD But damn, did I love it? I went to this huge bookoff and spent there like more than an hour just surfing through their collection, trying to resist not buying everything xD Then animate!!! ANIMATE <3333 The main animate is in Ikebukuro and it was decorated with all kinds of Shingeki no kyojin stuff because Season2 was just about to start at that time. I don't need to say just how much I loved it. I wish there were a little less people, so I could have taken better pics.

So I got my phone on the 10th, I guess. In the end I went for it alone, because that guy's explanation sounded so shady. I went to the bank alone to get an account, then after school I went to the au shop. It took three hours, and the guy to fail to notice that my iPhone does work with Japanese sims but I got a sim card!!! Also a pocket wifi~ And internet that gives me 10gb every THREE DAYS. Can you believe this?? It's expensive through hungarian eyes, but my thai friend says she pays only 1000yen less, and she only have 3gb for a month? Or so. So I'm pretty freaking satisfied with my subscription.

The next weekend was about Kuroko no basket. I wanted to watch Last game in the cinema since I arrived, but as we wanted the coasters with Taiga-Daiki-Ryouta, I waited till this weekend. And I had to go to Chiba to a mall for it, because the seats were reserved to most big cinemas in the city in 5 minutes (The reservetion opens in midnight. Anime fans.) So yeah, I watched it three times x"DDDD Nah, actually only two, cause on Saturday I just went inside then came out with the coaster. That was Taiga. Just like for the first time. I ended up with two Taigas. Baby, I love you too, but I really wanted Daiki and Ryo too. But I ate omuraisu in that mall!! Nyamm, so so so good. I even ate the mushrooms in it xD
On Sunday I went again to Nihonbashi this time, and you know what? Fuck them, cause the coaster event was supposed to go on for a week, and they ran out of them by the second day. What is that even?? So it was such a waste of money, that if the movie wasn't great, I would have threw a tantrum xD
But it's good!! It had some weird moments what doesn't really connect to the series I guess, and fuck that ending!!!! I even cried a little. Taiga <3333333333

Our school has connections with Tokyo Communications and Art, which is a school where you can study about anime, theater, etc, all kinds of really really cool things. And that connection means, we can go there and enjoy everything they offer for free. On the 22nd we had the first occasion. It was advertised as only watching a movie in their theater room, but it ended up so much more!! There was a man who talked about japanese anime, and he worked with Production IG before who actually made Kuroko and he worked with SnK's studio too, I was so amazed. Then we watched Totoro~~~ I never watched Totoro in a cinema before so this was such a nice experience <3 And then they lead us around the school. And I got to know that Kamiyan and Daisukesan was in the recording room, as they recorded a part of Durarara there!!!!!!!! As you can study to be a seiyuu too here. It was so interesting. Also so many posters? There was a beautiful Kamikaru too on the corridor <3
And we got food. It was pasta day, so there was ramen, soumen and tsukemen. We ate ramen with the boys, damn, so good. Also KITKAT IN SUCH AMOUNT OMG!!! We were in awe xD

On the 25th I met with my Greek friend for the first time. We never met before, but she came for work this time, and as we were finally in the same city, couldn't just not go for it.
We met in Akihabara xD You would think there isn't much difference between Ikebukuro and Akiba but there is? The atmosphere is so different oO Like Ikebukuro is really for anime fans, but Akiba is just such a mixture of every otakuism possible. It was a weird experience.
I almost got lost because the station is under construction and I managed to come out on some weird far exist x'D But we found each other in the end.
Then went to Seizariya and ate. And talked ofc xD But also ate. PIZZA~~~ Japanese people doesn't know what cheese is. But it was good. Also the gratin I ate, nyummmmmm. We talked a lot, she made my anxiety a little easier. It shouldn't be a problem that I didn't graduate from a japanese course in uni, she found a great job too even though studied on her own~ Such a role model :D
After eating, we found the animate in Akiba (yes, I love animate XD) and as she needed to buy stuff for her friend we went inside. It was nicely different than the one in Ikebukuro? They sell older stuff, also stuff that already long ran out in the main shop, I came out with a bag worth almost 5000yen x'DDDD It's pretty hard to come out of animate without buying anything, but last week I finally managed to achieve that!!!

And then the next day, the 26th WE WENT TO SKY TREE with Yonchan~~~ Because we just love to climb towers xD
To be honest, it can't even be compared to Tokyo Tower in many aspects. Like it's not pretty at all. Not during the night, not during day, it's just grey and if there are even clouds you hardly can see it. Tokyo tower is just so pretty whenever you see it. Like when you see it from up the outlook in Sky tree!! The prettiest point of the city!!! But Sky tree obvisouly wins as experience. It's so tall, it actually feels like up at 450m meter like you are flying above the city. Up in Tokyo tower you still feel like you are part of the city, there are many skyscrapers just the same size or even taller. But from sky tree? You are like among the clouds - feeling wise.
Also. There is a Shingeki event going on you see x"D The tallest lookout is like stepping into SnK world. Omg, I just loved it. The stamp rally was such a fun way to explore different parts of the tower too. I really wanna go back now that they changed the setting, but can't bring myself to actually do it yet xD

On the 29th we went to eat Okonomiyaki with Yonchan. We found a shop on our way back from Sky tree, and promised to try it out as soon as we can. Omg the obachan who runs the shop x"DD We arrived around 5? Because from 12 I had to go to TCA to their open campus and study about anime character illustration on PC in order to enjoy their free trip to the sea but about that, I'll write later xD
As we entered, two obasans were inside already, drinking alcohol, and as they noticed I'm foreigner they started to cheer? xDDD Then got even louder when we announced we wanna eat okonomiyaki xDDD They were so drunk? I didn't get why they cheered, until it became obvious that the owner obasan doesn't really like foreigners. She was so grumpy xDDDD We didnt know how to do it right??? So she grumbled a lot as made our first one. It was the kind of place where your legs are in that hole under the table? It felt so japanese~~ So we ate three servings and drank beer, and ended up playing 5000yen, which made the obasan a lot happier in the end xD In her defense, she was preparing for the rush later, so I get it was annoying to deal with us. Especially cause at first we ordered manjuu, then okonimyaki and to prepare them you need different ways so she had to do it two times. We were so shy to ask her everytime to come to our table when we wanted something xDDDDD We just kept giggling around with Yonchan. I really enjoyed it~

I got my Arashi fanclub card somewhere here~~~ *__*

From May 3rd it was Golden week, so no school. And I went for a trip to the sea~~~~~~~~~ TCA offered it and again FOR FREE. We went to their school for 12, worked some on our illustrations again - technology man, those pads? I dont even know what they are called but you like actually draw with pens on it in PS? so cool - and then at 3pm it was shuppatsu~~~ Or so we thought xD First we had a task. We got a paper and had to ask 30people about their names and what they love then fill in the boxes, so we could play bingo on the bus. It was so much fun xD They called your name and you had to announce your name and what you love, then if you were on someone's paper, they cricled in and the people who got bingo actually got presents later xD
We went to the middle of nowhere tbh. It's the opposite shore of Chiba, not the one close to Tokyo? So actually by the Pacific. And there were nothing else around but rice fields, not even my pocket wifi could catch signal xDD
We arrived and right away went to a barbecue place and just ATE. A LOT. We even did some marshmallow xD And then firework by the sea~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was super windy that night, but we had so much fun. I was together with my thai friends, and the boys who talk English. I had to admit, I'm super bad at changing from english to japanese and back x"D I speak both so naturally that I dont even notice which comes out of my mouth. As Ruru (Ludovic, the french boy I arrived together to the airport xD) said, I even mix hungarian sometimes xD
We were put into groups of six, with two of that kids from TCA. And our people were two japanese girls~~~~ They were so nice, and actually anime fans so omg I talked so much with them!!! One of them even drew me Levi and Eren during the night. Btw, this was a proper japanese ryokan. That means tatami room with futon, and common bath. Omg. My roommates all said they can't do that bathing together thing, so they showered in the teacher's room that had one xDDD I got over my embarrassement, but geez, I'm really not a fan of this. Also my tattoos make me so awkward................ We talked until like 1am? I was up even after that, I guess.
Then breakfast at 8. Proper japanese breakfast with fried fish, miso soup, raw egg on rice, and other tiny side dishes. SUCH AN EXPERIENCE~~~
After that we had these fun team games till lunch. I noticed I'm a lot better dealing with being in such a crowd than I was when younger. I can actually volunteer to do activity or other games in front of everybody. I would have never done that before. I'm such an adult xD
Lunch - which we all thought we wouldnt get - was curry~~~~~ What else xD
And then the teachers said the ones who wants to go to the sea can now for half an hour~~~ I TOUCHED THE PACIFIC!! MY SECOND OCEAN!!!! I ACTUALLY STEPPED INTO IT~~ Omg we played around so much with Ruru, he got soaked all over, I was okay with just my pants' legs xDDDDD I can't wait to swim in it, will most definitely go to the sea whenever I can during summer.

On friday I just rested in my room. Tbh, I was already fed up with being with people ^^" I didn't have alone, quiet time at all during april. So I recharged, then on Saturday afternoon went for a Jinja hunt~
In Minatoku you can find temples in every 100meters. I only looked up Sengaku-ji which is the temple with the graves of the 47 ronin, but as I was walking around for 3hours, I found at least 15 of them. Some very small and very old, some very big and luxurious. It was so good. Also it was super hot so I even got sunburned x"D I got omikuji in one, and it was so on point, I was a little scared. I used JR line the first time that day!! I was a little scared to change from metro to trains, but it was so unnecessary. I ended up seeing the cool ass SnK posters in Takadanobaba station which I couldnt during my first Ikebukuro trip as they are on the JR station not the metro.
Yes, I went to Ikebukuro in the end, because I just need animate every week x"D

On the 7th it was Tokyo Pride. So many people in Yoyogi park. So many people walked, so many people high touched us from the sidewalk, so many Happy pride, so many smiles. It was a long afternoon with lots of standing around and waiting, but I'm really glad I went. It meant a lot to my conscious.

On May 12 we had Undoukai. Yes, my school IS Japanese xD It was only rope pulling, rope jumping and relay, but we did it in an actual sport arena and all, so good experience again. Also I started to talk with another of my classmate this day, yey~

I guess it was rest day on the 13th and then I went to a new part of town on the 14th. It's on the north, Taito and Adachiku, I guess. The main purpose was to get goods of a stage play for Jessa, but as I noticed that it's near to the place Tatsu and Abekun visited during their Dagashikashi trip, I went there too. The old dagashiyasan was closed though T_T I'm not sure if it's cause it's closed for good or cause it was Sunday but saaaad.
Ofc I ended up in animate again x"DDDDD Nobody is surpised. But now I actually had a purpose!! I had to buy the animage with Levi to myself, Zsófi and Jessa, also Umecchi's mag for Zsófi, so it wasn't just meaningless longing xD
I ate tempura-don after arriving back to Edogawa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On May 17 we watched Senpai's Mugen no Juunin. I will admit, I didn't really understand the story. Especially Soutakun's chara, but it was a good movie. And Kimura Takuya is amazing.
As that day was the release day of Linked Horizon's 2nd album that features songs set in the SnK universe, I wanted to buy it so bad, but we couldn't find a Tsutaya in ginza that was open after 9 so that got pushed to the next day. Wth, so many people in Ginza even after 10, like why dont these people return to their families on a freaking wednesday night instead of drinking outside x"DD

I found it in the not-bookoff the next day anyway, I was afraid they wouldnt have it but damn, best freaking cd I've ever bought.

On the 20th there was again cinema in TCA. And as the first time, it wasn't just cinema. We watched a Crayon Shinchan movie which was surprisingly great, and then Lady Beard appeared. Like non of the people I talked with knew who he was, but I did and I was laughing so hard x"DDDD We even got pictures with him one by one!!!!! Such a famous man xD After that food was makisushi this time, nyammm, got so stuffed again xD Also WE COULD ACTUALLY TAKE HOME THE KITKATS THIS TIME xDDD I cant tell how much we laughed with the boys. We even got a little demonstration of sword fighting after.

I've got my hair cut and dyed on the 24th. My teacher told me that I need to tune down the red if I dont want to freak out the interviewers during job hunting... For 16 days already I'm a boring brunette. T__T My red hair T___T

On the 27th I went to Shibuya again. Ah yeah sometimes during the very first part of April we had a trip here with Ame and Yonchan, but I really hated it xD Way too many riajuu, I so don't feel comfortable here. But I had to come cause Jessa needed a ticket for her fav stage play actor's event, and I'm a nice friend. I went to Tower Records though~~~~~ There was SnK promo even here xDD But the best part was the OLDCODEX section. AS I GOT MY FREAKING EMAIL THAT I HIT FOR THEIR TOUR IN SEPTEMBER IM GOING TO SEE TATSU AND YORKE ON A CONCERT OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMGGGGGG I ended up buying three of their albums xDDDD Also SMAP's Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana which I promised myself to buy here where it surely counts into their sales.
Also visited animate Shibuya, who is surprised xDD It's again a totally different atmosphere shop!!! I might liked this the most so far?? So many things I havent seen at other places.

On the 28th we had a matsuri. Edogawaku holds it every year in the park just in front of our school, so we always have a boots too. This year we made different types of gyoza of the world. But I wasnt in the cooking team. The people who bought gyouza, got a ticket to come to our school and learn different languages! I was in charge of the hungarian class obviously xD But ended up helping out from 9 till 6pm with so many things. First it was serving tea til 2pm, then my class, and I even helped with English. A group of american kids came from a different school to hold english classes but their japanese wasnt good enough so I helped with translating. I loved it!!!!! I love using both english and japanese ;; Also got to end up being friendly with a new girl~

And then on the 30th I got my Arashi concert dvd. All the emails said it would be delivered on the 1st of july. but it wasnt because Arashichan loves me. The next following days were all about Arashichan. And I got so overwhelmed with feels that I ended up buying ticket for Wakuwaku gakkou with a girl I just got to know on twitter because of my dvd rips xDD IM GONNA SEE ARASHICHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4 IN TOKYO DOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND ITS NOT CONCERT BUT ARASHICHAN WITH MY OWN EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll have the best freaking time of my life in July. Unbelievable. You know I'm actually in shock about Arashichan, I still dont really grasp this. I'm so excited about Nanatsu and Yuutan and Tatsu, but this? This is just so huge my brain is refusing to accept it. I'll probably sob through the whole thing xD

On the 4th of June I had to buy pin for Zsófi so I'll be able to post her box, and as I dont like just to go to animate, I ended up in the Imperial garden. It was totally late, already 4pm when I arrived, and it closes at 5 so I havent seen the palace, but aw, I missed green. It was like being in a forest at some points.
I walked over to Akihabara and I felt so overwhelmed by how much I love Tokyo. I love the sky scrapers, I love the tiny green peeking out everywhere, I love the sky, I love the cleanness, I love everything.
As the pin wasn't in the big shop, I ended up in Akihabara girls station, which is a smaller animate, mainly with goods for animes like utapuri? And stageplays. I felt so out of place x"D If at least there were some seiyuu stuff, but nope. I have so no interest in otome games or harem anime omg. But there was some Nyanko sensei pictures on the stairs, I was the most excited about that xD
I left the town with seeing an Arashi Are you happy? poster, and I could say with such confidence, yes, I am happy.

Also so so excited about the upcoming months.
I'm going to Yumecast even on the 18th. I'll see Yuukichan, Natsukichan and Ryouheikun~~~

Then on the 21st I'm going to the Philippines to meet Jessa. These last 13 days are gonna be freaking horrible, I just cant wait anymore. Also. Sea. And swimming. And dolphins I WANNA GO ALREADY.

July 8 is Wakuwaku
July 16 is Nanatsu
Jessa will come on July 20
I might hit for the OCD CD release event on the 29
Jessa will come on the first part of August again
And August 27 is Aoex event, so I'll see Yuutan again.
If I survive all this, OCD concert on the 13th of September...............
I cant believe this tbh, and who knows what else i still end up buying ticket for, I'm horrible x'D

But you know, I actually spend my time seriously too xD I study everyday for long hours outside of school, and I ended up writing an 80% above JLPT practice test last week. I started to study for this exam in April, and now I'm actually clearing it. Yes, I fucking studied a hella lot. I'm also the best in my class. I do all my test above 90%, and I'm mostly the one who answers the questions when nobody else wants to/can. I feel so confident geez.
I always went for a job fair of hotels on the 30th of May. And I gave my CV to a hotel company and they invited me to interview on the 2nd of June. It was so sudden and so unexpected. But I did it? And I was really nervous before the interview but after just 5 minutes I actually felt alright? I could answer their questions pretty well, even if what I said wasn't lies to make myself look better. I need to learn how to lie in order to make myself look better ^^" I was way too honest, so I doubt I'd get a positive response, but my japanese was a lot better than the othe boy's on my right, and I think even more natural than the one on my left even though he has a japanese wife and kids. I'm sure there were many people a lot better than me, as they had interviews all day long, but I don't feel like I did a bad job. And I learned from it a lot so I can do better the next time. I had my eyes on one more hotel company during the job fair, and I already found one on the net that seems nice. I really wish I could work in a hotel. I just wanna use my english T_T

About friends~
We are changing classes in July T_T I'm not happy about that. I think I'm not gonna be in the same class as the boy I talk to the most. He sits in front of me now, and we talk a lot lot. He is so nice to be around. I also like the boy who sits next to me but we only talk when it comes to school stuff. And then there is the boy I started to talk with during the undoukai. He is a music maniac so we keep recommending each other new music, and he also talked to me a lot about korea as he came from there. He is such a kind soul~ We went to a famous tsukemen restuarant together with him and the first boy. We actually waited in line for more than two hours after school to eat a food that I didnt even like x'D They totally tricked me into this anyway. Saku said he wants to practice talking in English with me so I thought we'll just stay in school and study, but we ended up going to this place with three of his other friends and Junsu and it took 40mins on bus to get there!!! and then the waiting in line........ Geez, it was a tiring day xD But we talked a LOT with Junsu about all kinds of things so oh well.
And then there are the Arashi fan girls in my class :D Shibun and Choukun. Shibun's friend hit for Wakuwaku so she is coming too!! And Choukun is so cool? We talked one afternoon, and she loves baseball, she went to an actual match already, and she loves traveling, so it seems she is going to Kyoto and Nara alone during our break when I go to the Philippines. I hope we can do some fun stuff together in the future. We talked about batting center, I really wanna go to batting center xDD
And then there is Shinei, who I'm together with in Job hunting class too. We are like comrades XD Surviving that class was the only hardships of this semester. Our teacher smiles a lot but she is superduper hardcore strict too x'D
Also the obachan who wanted to punish me for being late on the first day? Turned out the cutest xDD She is so laid back and cute. But I love Tomonaga sensei the most, she is probably younger than me and huge Shinee fan, and she is so much fun and just so lively everytime. I hope I'll have class with her the next semester too.
I spend the most time with Ame, though, as we are the ones who have classes in the afternoon, so we go to school together and go shopping after a lot. But we are going to Kamakura on saturday with Yonchan as last trip together. She is going home on the 21 T_T I wish we could have spent more time together but she became friends with a korean girl in her class, and they are always together...

Hm~ I guess this is it. It was a very short and packed two months. I loved every second of it. I love being here, and I really hope I can stay even after the school is done...
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Going full throttle on the green transition with steps towards climate neutrality

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The Danish parliament has agreed on a landmark climate agreement that marks the next big step in Denmark’s green transition towards climate neutrality. The agreement is a testament to the broad support in all Danish walks of life towards the green transition and the important support from Danish industries.

On the move towards sustainable agriculture and food production

Denmark has already worked tirelessly for several decades to reduce its environmental impact from agricultural production and from 1990 to today decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 16% while production volume has increased 35%. The Danish food cluster is home to one of the most sustainable and least polluting agriculture and food productions in the world. In a study published by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in May 2020, Denmark is ranked in top as a global sustainability leader in meat and dairy productions and in June 2020, Denmark ranks as number 1 in World Economic Forum’s 2020 Environmental Performance Index.

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The route to further develop the Danish position within sustainable agriculture and food production is through innovative projects done in collaboration between the public and private sector. Examples show promising results such as the Danish biogas company Nature Energy is working together with researchers from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) to turn organic waste into the aviation fuel of tomorrow and the Danish grass seed company DLF is working with University of Copenhagen on finding alternatives to soy protein by using grass as feed in animal production.

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  • Approachability: Consider if your customers would be interested in learning more about your company after hearing its name. Part of this includes considering if it’s easy to spell and say out loud. This is important for word-of-mouth business and ensuring that people who want to look you up online can find you.
  • Future oriented: You want your company to grow, so be sure that your name can grow with you. It should remain relevant and adaptable to your future plans. If you’re not sure what direction your company is going in, it’s okay to keep it vague.
  • Visually appealing: While a name is critical to branding, it’s also important that the name can be easily communicated in designs like logos and icons. If it’s hard to make a design that is appealing to your target audience, that’s a serious red flag and you may want to discard the name idea.

After considering the above, the final question you should ask is: “Will this resonate with my customers?” This questions draws the absolute bottom line when it comes to name picking, because without customers, you don’t have a business- or at least a successful business.

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How to Find the Perfect Name

Now that you know the makers of a great brand name, it’s time to apply your new knowledge. Here’s a step by step guide to your new brand name:

Identify Your Core Identity

You can’t name yourself without a solid understanding of who you are as a company and what your core values and goals are. This might be a big ask, so you may find it helpful to break this step down by identifying your vision, mission, and values – aka, why your company exists, what your company does, and how you do what you do. Overall, you’re looking to identify your purpose and how you fulfill it.

Great brand names are often the products of great minds. It can be super useful to gather as many relevant minds as possible in one space. In the meeting, be sure to articulate the company’s core identity to them before beginning the session. You may want to consider a structured approach to brainstorming, as without any parameters it’s easy to get off track pretty quickly.

Here are some potential activities to use with your teams:

  • Have everyone write down as many adjectives as you can think of that describe your identity and product or service
  • Describe what you hope your customers feel during or after using your product or service
  • Freely associate words that describe your product or service
  • Use a thesaurus to comb through words associated with your product, service, or industry

If you’re interested in taking things a little further, consider narrowing down your brainstorming to a specific category of brand name. You could also try to come up with a word for every category to determine what type of name suits your company best, and then doing another brainstorming session exclusive to that category. Allow us to elaborate – here are the different categories of brand names:

  • Founder: A name based on a person (real or fictional), e.g.: Betty Crocker
  • Descriptive: A name that describes your product or service, e.g.: General Motors
  • Fabricated: A word or name that is completely made-up, e.g.: Xerox
  • Metaphor: A name that is foreign, imagery-oriented, or mythical in its description of a noun, e.g.: Nike
  • Acronym: A name that’s an abbreviation, e.g.: DKNY
  • Magic spell: A name that combines two words together or a word spelled differently than it should be, e.g.: FaceBook

At the end of this stage, you will (ideally) have a list of 15-20 names that can proceed to the next stage.

Make Sure Your Name is Available

This is usually the most disheartening part of choosing a brand name because many good ideas are shot down fairly quickly. However, if you enter this stage bearing this in mind it can soften the blow. Welcome to the part where you have to systematically eliminate names because some other company beat you to them. Grrrr.

Now, you’ll want to check for patents, trademarks, and available URLs. If it’s important to you to have a “.com” URL ending, this is going to really limit your options, so be prepared for that. Be sure to check this step twice before going any further to spare yourself any legal trouble. It might be a good idea to have a lawyer check this for you.

Once you’ve completed this stage, you likely only have a handful of names left. To proceed to the next step, the perfect amount is about 3-5 names.

Test Your Brand Name

Welcome to the fun part of choosing a brand name! Now you get to really let your creative side loose by brainstorming potential logos, product packaging, websites, and more. If you’re feeling kind of over it at this point, you can also outsource these items to an expert to take it off your hands.

If you’re looking for a more systematic approach to testing, here’s an approach many start-ups like to use:

  1. Build a landing page for each name – but make the copy identical for each one. Only the logo and name are different between them
  2. Use targeted ads to your customers for a set period of time (keep it short-term, like a week)
  3. At the end of the period, choose the name that got the highest amount of conversions.

If none of the names you tested did well in terms of conversions, consider going back to the drawing board entirely. Not what you want to hear, I know, but it’s worth it for the longevity and success of your company.

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Build a Strong Brand

Congratulations! By now you’ve picked a great brand name. After the flood of relief washes over you, you might consider: what’s next for your company? The hard work doesn’t stop now- continue to develop your brand by getting to work on your brand strategy, refining your brand identity, and solidifying your brand style.

After all, you’ve got a brand new (ha!) name to embody. It’s time to get out there and let the world know your name!

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Cultural Checkup: Entourage – Season Eight

Cultural Checkup: Season Eight

August 8th, 2011

[This week, I’m going to be checking in on a number of shows that I’ve been watching but not writing about this summer. Tomorrow, I’ll be looking back at an uneven season of USA’s White Collar.]

I didn’t hate the seventh season of Entourage.

After six years of wishing the show would stop trying to be a bawdy comedy and start embracing its dramatic potential, the show finally listened to me at the point where it had run out of goodwill. The show had driven itself into the ground, to the point where there was no hope of it truly evolving into a more interesting series, and yet it was finally telling the kind of stories it should have been telling from the beginning. It took Vince down a self-destructive path, it explored his relationship with Eric (to the point of almost ending it), and it seemed to find a more comfortable balance between Vince’s career and his entourage’s own lives.

Now, the show stopped being funny along the way, but I never found it all that funny to begin with, so to see the show trying something new excited me. And so I’m equally excited to see that the show isn’t screwing around in its eighth season, taking some “risks” based on its own precedent and exploring the challenges of new beginnings instead of exploring the thrills of excess.

It’s still not funny, but I’m surprisingly invested in where they intend to take the show in its final season.

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HBO at TCA: Story, Genre and Scheduling

HBO at TCA: Story, Genre and Scheduling

August 8th, 2010

I’ve been following along with the news out of the Television Critics Association Press Tour through Twitter, but to be honest there hasn’t really been anything that’s caught my attention: while I’m incredibly wary of the changes being made to Human Target, I’ll save any judgment until I actually see them in action, and since I haven’t seen the fall pilots I can’t really offer any opinion on how the panels seems to have changed my view on each series.

However, on the final day the HBO executive session ended up being a really interesting one: not only did HBO programming guru Michael Lombardo confirm that Entourage’s next season will be its last, but he also offered up some intriguing quotes about their planned Spring launch of Game of Thrones as well as a curious statement regarding the network’s approach to scheduling. With the networks, there’s this sense that they’re there to sell the critics on their already announced lineups, but with HBO there’s a laid-back confidence which could be read as cockiness, and it makes for a more interesting environment in terms of the kinds of discussion it creates.

So, let’s take a gander at what an Entourage movie and a question of genre vs. storytelling tell us about the channel’s approach as compared with its pay cable counterparts.

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Season Premiere: Entourage – “Stunted”

June 27th, 2010

There is a half-finished draft of a post wherein I vowed to give up on Entourage this season sitting on WordPress’ server, written late last week as I wrestled with this decision. I thought that this was going to be the season when I would finally break down and stop watching a show that I’ve unfairly subjected to indepth critical analysis despite the series’ complete lack of interest in any of the qualities which would warrant such indepth critical analysis. There’s a point where I would have to accept that the show I want Entourage to be is never going to exist, and that for better (or, far more likely, for worse), the show will remain as airy as it has ever been without any sense of consequence or real dramatic stakes.

And yet I think the necessary intervention is less about the twenty-two minutes a week I spend watching something so trifling and more about the half hour I sometimes spent analyzing it. While I would never defend the series’ quality, and certainly feel that it has devolved considerably since its initial potential, the show’s seventh season has started off without any pretensions as it relates to what kind of show this is. The show’s problem in the past is that it has contained elements which could be a more interesting series if they were only allowed to play out until their logical (and complicated) conclusions, but “Stunted” has no such elements: it’s quick, it’s simple, and its entire plot can fit comfortably into a cable listings logline.

And so, both because I won’t be alone and because Autumn Reeser personally told me I should continue watching on Twitter, I’m going to keep watching, albeit without taking out my critical frustrations on a show completely disinterested in changing.

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Entourage – “Runnin’ on E”

“Runnin’ on E”

August 2nd, 2009

When I sat down to watch the latest episode of Entourage, I took some notes. Half of them were less than four words long. The other half were about Autumn Reeser. Such is Season Six of Entourage.

To be honest with you, I think it’s a welcome change of pace: the fifth season had me wanting to rant about the show every week, but right now the show is so consistent in its absolute mediocrity that I really don’t have much to add. Any chance of the show really breaking from formula has been put on hold, with Vince’s movie delayed, Eric’s independence floundering, Turtle’s trip to college pretty tame and Drama’s career in the exact same place you’d normally expect it to be.

And I’m happy with all of it, really – sure, I’m still convinced the show is capable of being more than it is, but in its current mode I find it breezy and light, an ideal summer show instead of a frustrating summer disappointment.

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Season Premiere: Entourage – “Drive”

July 12th, 2009

This review is going to be hugely hypocritical for anyone who’s followed my…less than friendly relationship with Entourage.

See, I’ve always been of the mind that the show is at its best when it engages with its dramatic elements, and taps into something beyond “four bros hanging out.” It’s not a particularly popular opinion, as nearly everyone seems to disagree with me and lists their main reason for watching the show as “four bros hanging out,” but it’s the way the show works for me. And last season, I just kept getting more and more frustrated: the show had numerous opportunities to really engage with some real disruptions to Vince and E’s relationship, and to shake things up a little bit, and yet they refused to take them, leaving the dynamic intact as Vince’s career skyrockets.

So, on that criteria, I should have been really happy with “Drive,” which returns to the narrative with Vince riding a wave of Gatsby-related success but drifting apart from E, who is becoming successful in his own right and beginning to see the benefit of being more independent. The result is actually a really subtle statement about maturity, coupled with a couple of periphery storylines and a distinct lack of highly manufactured drama. Really, the episode should have been everything I should like in a half hour of Entourage: a little sex, a little drama, and more pathos than 99% of the show’s normal viewers like to see.

But, for a variety of reasons, I found this episode to be shockingly pedestrian in a way that baffles me. There was no zing to the one-liners, no bite to Ari Gold, and a distinct lack of any sort of dynamic between the signature foursome. While I’m actually kind of intrigued to see where they go from here, this half hour is the exact opposite of any of my past experiences: while before I found the plot lacking but enjoyed the show’s broad comedy for what it was, here I found absolutely nothing funny or clever to the point where even a storyline I should have liked did nothing for me.

Call me a hypocrite all you want, but this “Drive” never got out of first gear.

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Season Finale: Entourage – “Return to Queens Boulevard”

“Return to Queens Boulevard”

November 24th, 2008

In the interest of full disclosure, I despised the fourth season of Entourage. It was, to my mind, a show with the absolute worst sense of direction: nowhere. They finished the movie, an admittedly really intriguing little exercise for the show, and then just sat around while it slowly (and mostly in the background in the hands of the incompetent Billy Walsh) imploded to the point of them getting booed out of Cannes. While one could argue the season had a plot, it certainly never properly developed it into character development.

By comparison, the fifth season started with Vince lounging in a secluded beach in Mexico, struggling with Medellin’s failure and not looking to get back in the game. What we saw over the season was a slow build, allowing us to see Eric’s career begin to expand (to the writers of Vince’s movie and to young comic Charlie) while Vince bounces into a picture that was doomed to failure from the beginning. Where we found them in the finale was on a different kind of holiday: no longer simply an escape from a depressive reality, Queens was the equivalent of giving up and going home to regroup. This was not, in other words, a vacation.

So, why did it end like one? One of the most frustration things about Entourage is how much Vince’s life feels inconsequential, that it seems as if this is one enormous vacation where everything will work out in the end based on wish fulfillment and purely illogical events, and that was never more clear than here. We entered the episode with one crisis, Vince’s lack of a job and his tainted name in Hollywood, and midway through there was even (in a stark comparison with the fourth season) a personal, character driven event. And yet, by the end, we’re wholly crisis free.

And that’s the last place Entourage needs to be.

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Entourage – “Play’n with Fire”

“Play’n with Fire”

November 16th, 2008

It has been a good many episodes since I last discussed Entourage, a period explained by a variety of reasons. Perhaps first and foremost, I don’t quite have time: while Mad Men left a gap in my Sunday nights, other commitments have meant that The Amazing Race is all the time I’ve got (I’m two weeks behind on Dexter and barely catching up with Brothers & Sisters as it is).

But if Entourage had been anything but a mixed bag over these past few weeks, I may have been more likely to discuss it in earnest. Whether it had been horrible (like much of the fourth season) or fantastic (like the early days of the series), I would have found time to make note of the various developments; instead, the season just took its initial setup (Vince is in tough shape career wise, needs a new opportunity) and played that chord over and over again.

It was a good chord, in the begnning, and I’d tend to argue that it’s a good chord in the end; the entire on-set experience of “Smoke Jumpers” has been a return to the show’s proper perspective, and the explosion that takes place within this episode is a far more natural and logical wrinkle in the development process than anything we saw from the caricature of Billy Walsh. “Play’n with Fire” features a lot of things which feel natural: by abandoning the member of the group who has most resembled a walking punchline (Drama, that’d be you) for the one who is perhaps the most emotionally interesting and undefined (Turtle), and by frontlining Vince as someone facing a crisis of his own, the show just feels likes it’s on a more logical path heading into next week’s finale.

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Entourage – “Tree Trippers”

“Tree Trippers”

October 5th, 2008

No show knows how to waste time like Entourage.

“Tree Trippers” is straight out of the Entourage playbook: our group faces an important decision, which leads them on a quest of sorts that really just stretches out one sentence into an entire episode for the sake of being filled with antics, tongue-in-cheek celebrity cameos, and likely some sort of drug-based hallucinations.

Now, admittedly, I like my Entourage episodes to have a bit more plot, and this episode kind of struggled in that regard, but the season remains charming: whereas last year felt like nothing but episodes like this one strung along in a row, this feels like a worthwhile detour in order to recollect on the current situation.

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Entourage – “Fire Sale”

“Fire Sale”

September 28th, 2008

Let’s go through the laundry list of usual complaints labeled at Entourage: episodes are too short, not enough happens in the span of an episode, the show is dangerously cyclical in nature, and its major plot developments can be seen from about a mile away.

Now, as someone who was highly negative about the show’s fourth season for at least some of these reasons, forgive me for not being nearly as negative about the fifth season exhibiting some of the same traits. The difference between “Fire Sale” and some of the episodes I had trouble with last season is that the repetition and cycles were, then, about pointless antics of glorified children prancing around with their petty little lives. Here, meanwhile, the plot is circling around characters without glory, where the feeling of running in place is not just writers’ laziness but an actual reflection of the characters themselves.

Yes, not much happens in the span of the show’s twenty minute run time, but what does happen feels like the show continuing to tread carefully to the series’ grounding in an actor searching for his place in Hollywood. While I might be tiring, as many are, with the writers’ inability to find Drama something interesting to do, watching as E and Vince chart the group’s next path can circle around as long as it wants as long as it keeps Entourage this focused.

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Entourage – “The All Out Fall Out”

“The All Out Fall Out”

September 21st, 2008

From those who had seen screeners of the start of Entourage’s fifth season, it was this episode that in Alan Sepinwall’s words, that “gave [them] some faint hope that “Entourage” might be at least decent again.” A blisteringly paced half hour, it gave us two interesting, funny, and well-balanced storylines that interweaved in numerous recurring characters along with introducing yet more tension into our already complicated situation.

What it represents first and foremost, though, is that Entourage is a show still capable of being complicated without being bogged down by it – seeing as Eric loses sight of the script he’s selling for his new clients, or as Vince plummets further into bankruptcy, doesn’t feel tonally inconsistent with the sheer absurdity of Ari Gold’s feud with Adam Davies which involves human feces and male strippers. The show is at its worst when either of these two elements overpowers the other, but through some shrewd guest casting and some smart touches, “The All Out Fall Out” is, indeed, a harbinger of hope for Entourage.

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Bad Samaritan (2018) REVIEW – A Good Popcorn Thriller

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I’m not really a fan of horror thrillers, as they tend to follow the same formula these days – a supernatural, first-person piece of camerawork replete with jumpscares, loud noises, and an incoherent plot. Thankfully, Dean Devlin’s Bad Samaritan proves that a good horror thriller can still be made, so long as a little thought and care go into it.

The film is set in dreary Portland, Oregon in the present day. Our hero is an aspiring photographer named Sean Falco, played by Robert Sheehan, who makes a living as both a valet and a burglar. Aided by his friend Derek Sandoval, played by Carlito Olivero, he uses his valet job to burglarize homes of wealthy patrons of an upscale Italian restaurant.

During one particular break-in, he comes across a dungeon-like office, where he finds a young woman, played by Kerry Condon, strapped to a chair in a sado-masochistic fashion. His discovery sparks a crisis of conscience, as he leaves the young woman behind to her fate. After much thought, he decides to return to the home to rescue this woman, but in doing so, he finds himself in the sights of Cale Erendreich, played by David Tennant, a serial killer armed with high-tech knowledge. Sean’s journey becomes a cat-and-mouse hunt between he and Cale, who uses both his knowledge of technology and his connections within the upper-echelons of society to destroy Sean’s life, and those of his loved ones.

Normally, I’m on the prowl for flaws and jump-scare points in films like this, but for once, it was nice to stop taking notes and just have a good time.

The acting is particularly brilliant and never dull. We have great performances by Robert Sheehan and Carlito Olivero, along with Kerry Condon as the young woman and Jackie Byers as Falco’s girlfriend, but all hats are off to David Tennant, who had the honor of playing Cale Erendreich. You might say that Erendreich is a cross between Patrick Bateman and Leatherface, as both a millionaire and traumatized psychopath who takes sadistic pleasure in torturing young captives with various tools. Horror nuts might take notice of this. Otherwise, his performance is stellar and never over-the-top in his portrayal of sheer madness.

This is not to say that the film doesn’t come without flaws. A few tropes hold it back from being a perfect thriller. As before, the film does not come with many jump-scares, but they’re still there – and still ineffective as any other. The film could have also provided a more rounded portrayal of Cale Erendreich. As with Sean Falco, we see a young man who makes all the wrong choices and suffers the consequences from them. For Cale Erendreich, however, we are given the old Nasty McFartypants treatment. He’s a bad guy from beginning to end. More could have been done with his character, but thankfully, the great Tennant delivers enough of a performance that we can easily overlook this little flaw in the story.

Other than those few hiccups, Bad Samaritan makes for a pretty damn good popcorn thriller. No one gives a dull performance and the story is compelling enough to keep you hooked from beginning to end.

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Brax - CS:GO Pros Flock to VALORANT: Pt. 1

Thu, May 14, 2020

Braxton “Brax” Pierce, formerly known as Swag, was one of the first pros to announce he would be retiring from CS to play VALORANT.

A talented Rifler and AWPer in CS:GO, Brax was well known from his stint playing with NA teams  compLexity Gaming and iBUYPOWER from 2013 to 2015. After a match fixing incident in 2015 he was permanently banned from Valve events. Brax later played with a number of NA teams, and was a major part of team Swole Patrol in 2017, 2019, and 2020.

On February 27th, Brax announced he was retiring from CS to play Project A (the working title for VALORANT).

This move surprised many, as Brax was playing with a known NA team. And he was moving to a game that’s name was not known nor had been released in closed beta.

On March 9th, just 7 days after the official announcement of VALORANT, esports organization T1 made waves being the first top tier org to sign a player to a VALORANT team. T1, known for their dominance in the Korean professional League of Legends scene and being the home of LoL superstar Faker, jumped in early to scoop up talent.

Maining Agents Cypher, Omen, Phoenix, and Raze fits Brax’s aggressive playstyle. He frequently tops the leaderboard in-game with an impressive KDA.

Taking the nascent VALORANT esports scene by storm, Brax has been a part of teams winning early competitions including the: 100 Thieves Invitational, T1 Invitational, and Code Green Invitational (by Boom TV). He also racked up 2nd place finishes in the ESPN Esports Invitational and the recent T1 x NSG Invitational.

Brax’s redemption arc has been remarkable. His ability to rise above obstacles and perform exceptionally well in the early days of VALORANT, shows a bright path ahead.

Check out our ongoing series about CS pros making the move to VALORANT »

CS:GO Pros Flock to VALORANT: Introduction

Thu, May 14, 2020

Over the past 2 months, a number of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pros have announced their departure to VALORANT. The pace of announcements has rapidly accelerated over the past 3 weeks.

Particularly affected are CS:GO players from North American teams. Struggling to find sponsors or an org to sign them, many NA players feel now is the best time to transition to a new game. Talk of esports orgs offering big contracts and Riot Games’ reputation with League of Legends are factors contributing to player decisions.

We’ll tell the stories of those making the move in a multi-part series.

All parts of the series will be linked to from this introduction. Bookmark this page to follow along, as we get to know these players better.

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Who will be next to make the switch? Time will tell. As the game nears its release this summer, more are sure to follow.

Read our in-depth analysis of what draws esports pros and streamers from many different games to VALORANT »

Why Are Players & Streamers Switching to VALORANT?

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From Jay ‘sinatraa’ Won to Jaryd ‘Summit1g’ Lazar. Why are players and streamers going pro or thinking of going pro in Valorant?

There are a plethora of reasons why Valorant is gaining so much attention right now from the creative direction of Riot to the lack of a true FPS team shooter.  Yes, there is Overwatch, COD, and Rainbow 6 but none of those games provide the true team based game-play that CS:GO provides.

Overwatch does fit the bill but the ever changing metas and the now 2-2-2 composition requirements forces even the most skilled players to play something they may not be used to playing. Imagine playing CS, Quake, Unreal, Halo, and then playing Overwatch. The game is fantastic on many levels but if you are a pro that is forced into a Tank/Healer role, you may not be completely fulfilled. Reinhardt, a main tank in Overwatch, is a prime example of a "boring" role.  For 60 percent of matches, your main goal is to hold up a shield to protect your team.  Every so often you will throw out a fire strike or dash in and try to smash the opponent with your war hammer.  But for the majority of the match, you are a walking shield.  There is a tremendous amount of skill involved even though it may not seem like it but imaging being a pro and practicing this 6 days a week and 10 hours a day.

Valorant does have agents with special abilities that play various roles. However, even the healer agent Sage can have the same weapon as your front-line agent.  So even if you are a support or control role, you can let your tactical skills shine. Valorant is a pure shooter at heart like CS:GO but with a bit of Overwatch abilities sprinkled in.

CS:GO did, and still does, fulfill that need/niche, but it has become stagnant and harder to compete in. Many CS:GO players typically turn to streaming instead of playing competitive for a bit more flexibility. Once Valve develops the Source 2 engine, CS might be born again.

The majority of the shooter style games that have come out in the last 5 years have been Battle Royale games.  Battle Royal games don't have a very extensive, organized esports community and the community is slightly toxic and disorganized.  All games will have some level of player toxicity, but it seems games like Fortnite and PUBG have a bit more than usual.

Riot is a well known and established company that is built for esports and their games are known to have a huge following and be extremely competitive.

Keep in mind that we are still in a closed beta and we have professional teams forming and various players already switching over to Valorant. Every disgruntled professional gamer or bored professional streamer may want to jump at the opportunity to get in early and establish themselves in a game that is going to be big.

Big games with many players equals many viewers on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer etc etc.  So even if you play Valorant and aren't very good, with the right amount of grinding and luck, you might be able to create a following for yourself if you have the right personality. It might not be going pro, but it might provide you some side cash or a modest living.

Think of Valorant as a new stock. Good chance of success since the team behind the stock is solid. Always best to get in early. It is a form of gaming arbitrage.

Sinatraa is an extreme example. I would imagine if you were one of the best players in your game, you would stick around since you were getting paid a six figure salary + endorsements.  It is rare for a top of the line player to suddenly leave to pick up another game but it seems that Overwatch just didn't bring enough joy for him to stick around.

Many lower tier pro players are switching over to Valorant, as well.  That is expected.  Other games including Overwatch and Rainbow 6 just don't have the stream numbers and lower tier players make little to no money so it is best to try something new.

Will someone like Summit1g actually go pro again in Valorant after being a pro streamer for so long? He mentioned that Valorant got his "competitive" juices going but it is highly doubtful.  The top line streamers like Shroud and Summit1g make so much more streaming that the effort to go pro probably isn't worth it for them.

We expect Valorant to be enormous. Free to play, low system requirements, and tons of hype all fuel its popularity. Until Valve releases Source 2 and polishes a new version of Counter-Strike, Valorant will be the game to beat in terms of popularity and esports competitiveness.

Apex Legends Pros Win ESPN Invitational

Fri, Apr 24, 2020

Esports pros, former pros and streamers from nearly every FPS scene battled in the ESPN Esports VALORANT Invitational.

CS:GO, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, Fortnite, PUBG, Apex Legends and even League of Legends were represented, as well as a team of highly skilled VALORANT devs (some former CS:GO pros and map designers themselves).

Rosters included:

Group A

Team Mirage (CS:GO): Skadoodle, AZK, Brax, N0thing & Hiko

Team Heroes (Overwatch): Emongg, Boostio, Gale, Kephrii & Carter

Team Six (Rainbow Six Siege): rampy, Thinkingnade, Canadian, NVK, Necrox

Team Rift (League of Legends): DoubleLift, Xmithie, Shiphtur, Imaqtpie, Dyrus & Rivington (who subbed in for DoubleLift)

Group B

Team Canyon (Apex Legends): Kellar, SYncDez, aceu, dizzy & Mendo

Team Llama (Fortnite): Joseph, Thwifo, Psalm, HighSky, XXIF

Team Battlegrounds (PUBG): Vegas, Venerated, Valliate, Yaboidre, Sharky & Coach: 7Teen

Team Dev (VALORANT Developers): Ntt, Penguin, Nick "Nickwu" Wu, Bobby "excal" Prochnow, Sal "Volcano" Garozzo

Going into the 3-day event, Team Mirage (made up of CS:GO pros) and Team Dev (VALORANT Developers) were heavy favorites two win it all. Team Mirage had won a few other Invitationals since the launch of the Closed Beta.

The entire tournament was a highlight reel of high tier gameplay. The most fascinating matches of the tournament were the Semifinal between Team Mirage and Team Dev and the Final between Team Mirage and Team Canyon.

Team Canyon pulled out the upset of the tournament taking out Team Mirage in the final. Keller, Mendo, and aceu soared in the 3 map final to secure the championship.

Watch the VOD of the Finals here.

Esports Orgs Build Early Rosters

Sun, Apr 12, 2020

Having all the trappings of a potentially huge esport title, VALORANT has spurred major esport orgs into a flurry of player signings. Pros that have proved themselves in adjacent FPS games like: CS:GO, Overwatch, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Rainbow Six Siege are at the top of the list.

T1 (known for their top tier League of Legends team in the Korean pro league, LCK, and home of LoL esports star Faker) were one of the first to make a move. In early March, T1 snagged NA CS:GO pro Braxton "Brax" Paulson (formerly known as ‘swag’), shortly after he announced his retirement from the professional Counter Strike scene.

On April 7th, T1 revealed it had signed former CS:GO pro Keven "AZK" Larivière to it’s VALORANT roster. Brax and AZK were former teammates, so T1 is counting on their synergy to translate to the new game.

AZK and Brax join former T1 Apex Legends Pro Kurtis ‘Kurt’ Gallo on T1’s quickly forming roster.

Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) wasted no time in re-signing their former Paladins roster to their new VALORANT team.

NiP’s April 8th Twitter announcement was accompanied by a video celebrating the team’s accomplishment as last year’s Paladins World Champions.

Their roster consists of: Malkolm “bonkar” Rench, Dylan "DiGeDoG" Chainski, Leander “isbittenner” Aspestrand, and Aleks "Alex" Suchev. Erik “Bird” Sjösten is joining the team as a head coach, meaning the team is still seeking a 5th player for its roster.

The team’s competitive success instantly makes them one to watch.

See the full NiP press release here:

Cloud9’s April 12th announcement heralded their entry to VALORANT with Tyson ‘TenZ’ Ngo transferring from their CS:GO team.

It’s certain to be an exciting time as teams continue adding FPS players to their rosters in the build up to the seemingly inevitable beginning of VALORANT esports events.

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It’s October, and that means it’s time to watch spooky and scary Halloween movies.

While horror isn’t my preferred genre, I am a bit of a sucker for a solid scary film. One of the most criminally underrated Halloween movies ever made is the 2007 film “Trick ‘r Treat.” (REVIEW: ‘Westworld’ Season 3 Ends With The Possible Deaths Of Multiple Characters)

The movie follows several different storylines on Halloween, and nothing is what it appears to be. I remember being in high school when I saw “Trick r Treat” for the first time, and I immediately loved it.

Nothing gets me going like some great smoke and mirrors.

It’s hard to say whether the ending of “Trick ‘r Treat” is truly a twist ending or if it’s just an unexpected tying of everything together.

What I will say is that I’ve ever once met someone who watched “Trick ‘r Treat” and didn’t enjoy it. It seems to appeal to everyone, and is the perfect kind of movie to get you into the Halloween mood.

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The holiday season can be expensive. On the other hand, the season is proving to be the best times for sales, at least when it comes to Canadian phone providers.

Earlier this week, Rogers and Fido both announced a 10 GB plan for $60 per month. Both offers are available to new customers activating a no-term contract, and end on December 18. Unfortunately, these offers are only available in Alberta and BC.

Enter Koodo Mobile.

Koodo is offering the same plan and cost, and is applicable to both Alberta, BC, as well as Ontario.

Koodo’s offer ends a day after Roger and Fido, on December 19.

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The National Defense Authorization Act would make the military budget 114 times larger than the EPA’s.

Congress will work on a bill with the largest impact on U.S. taxpayers after its Fourth of July break. The bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, will authorize funding of the Pentagon for fiscal 2018. It won’t get the screaming headlines or 24/7 cable news coverage devoted to issues of much lesser weight. The Pentagon’s budget proposal of $639.1 billion is 56 percent of all discretionary spending and is $40 billion more than the fiscal 2017 Pentagon budget. By comparison, in fiscal 2017, the Pentagon budget was 74 times larger than that of the Environmental Protection Agency. The fiscal 2018 proposals would result in a military budget 114 times larger than EPA’s.

Pentagon spending is clearly the elephant in the room. In spite of the elephant metaphor, Pentagon spending is neither a Republican nor a Democratic issue. Neither political party has raised any substantive objection to military spending for years. And in spite of Republican dissing of “entitlements,” neither party has done anything to stem the flow of taxpayer money to the “entitled” military-industrial complex.

The Trump administration and both political parties expect nothing more than marginal objections to the military-spending bill. However, it is good to be reminded by Thomas Jefferson “that an informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.” The bill is not a fait accompli. Become informed, look at your pocketbooks and at the dismal prospect of perpetual war, and tell your employees in Congress, ”enough.”

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This spring, UC Santa Barbara students will be able to vote on whether or not to add two international student senator seats to the Associated Students Senate, after the Senate unanimously approved the ballot initiative during its Wednesday meeting on Jan. 22.

A number of students and other supporters showed up to support the bill during public forum. Sicheng Wang / Daily Nexus

Off-Campus Senator Tyler Ferguson and On-Campus Senator Emma Swanson first presented the bill to add international student representation to the Senate at the Jan. 22 Senate meeting. The bill will require a two-thirds vote from the student body during the upcoming spring elections to be implemented; if it passes, the seats will be added to the 72nd Senate for the 2021-2022 school year, not the incoming 71st Senate.

Originally, the bill was written with the intention of replacing one off-campus senator seat with one international student seat to ensure Associated Students (A.S.) Senate remained at an odd number. Keeping the Senate at even numbers would give the internal vice president a significant amount of power if a tie-breaking vote was held, a concern that both Ferguson and Swanson expressed.

However, the bill was amended during the Senate’s Jan. 22 meeting to increase the number of international student senator seats from one to two, instead of removing an off-campus senator seat.

“Based off of the statistics I was hearing, I didn’t understand why we were only adding one senator and decreasing representation for other students,” Kimia Hadidi, the off-campus senator who proposed amending the bill, said during the meeting.

The bill was amended and passed after a lengthy discussion in which some senators, such as On-Campus Senator Austin Foreman, expressed concern over the potential decrease in off-campus senators. He further discussed how the bill could possibly open the doors to other groups on campus asking for Senate seats designated specifically for them.

In an interview with the Nexus after the meeting, Foreman expressed worry that “the Flying A Room can only fit so many people,” and that if more seats were to be added, the Senate should find a way to restructure itself as to ensure that it can still logistically function with a larger governing body.

Currently, the Senate is composed of: five on-campus senator seats, 12 off-campus senator seats, six representatives at large, one university-owned housing representative and a transfer student senator.

A significant amount of support for the bill came from international student groups, such as the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA). According to the UCSB 2018-19 campus profile, 12% of all UCSB undergraduates are international students, and 73% of international students at UCSB are from China.

All UCSB undergraduates, including international students, pay student fees which go toward funding for entities such as A.S. For the 2018-19 school year, UCSB undergraduates each paid $1,854 in these student fees, according to the UCSB Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships; in the same school year, the A.S. Senate received just under $12.5 million in student fees.

“Creating an international student senator [seat] can definitely allow us to have a say in how the money is distributed and make sure that our money is used well and fairly,” Hanrui Feng, vice president of the CSSA, said during the meeting.

An international student has never sat on the A.S. Senate at UCSB, but the bill notes that other UCs, such as UC Los Angeles and UC San Diego, have “equivalent” roles for international students.

“My hope is that this will contribute to expanding crucial opportunities for international students in A.S.,” said Charles Neumann, the internal chair of the A.S. Global Gaucho Commission and one of the bill’s 20 student sponsors.

Neumann added that he considers an international student senator crucial to “breaking down social barriers between international students and domestics, and a path forward in addressing these previously overlooked crucial interests.”


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Beck’s: Colors 2018 North American Tour Expanded

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Beck has teamed up with innovative electronic duo Oliver for the latest remix of “ Up All Night”—now available to stream or download for your listening pleasure:

Having spent 7 weeks at #1 on the U.S. alternative radio chart and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video with “Up All Night,” the “Up All Night (Oliver remix)” sees Beck’s “crowd-pleasing party anthem” ( VARIETY) infused with an epic coat of twisted yacht rock smoothness, sure to keep the good vibes rolling.

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Additionally, Beck has just confirmed a handful of North American dates for this summer including his first-ever headline appearance at New York’s historic Madison Square Garden. The newly expanded Colors Tour has also expanded to include stops in Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, Beck’s long-awaited return to Red Rocks, and more!

Don’t miss your chance to witness the Beck live experience that’s been blowing minds around the world and has critics uniformly raving:

“A joyous, bewilderingly diverse set…like a one-man festival….among modern pop stars perhaps only Prince had more range” – TIMES OF LONDON (UK)

“A showcase in musicianship…left you feeling like you’d witnessed something truly special” – THE AU REVIEW (Australia)

“We’re in the presence of a legend”—303 MAGAZINE

“Energetic and crowd-pleasing… Beck’s capacity for inventive and infectious music has not diminished…demonstrated not only how seamlessly he has merged various styles into a unique aesthetic, but how deeply that aesthetic has suffused a generation of pop music.”—SF WEEKLY

“Imaginatively created, impeccably executed, incredibly catchy and as alive as music can be… a show that was worth the wait and will be long remembered. “—MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

“With the hundreds of shows I go to every year, very few leave me feeling the magic that got me sucked into this world of live music. I felt the magic last night and my cheeks still hurt from smiling so much.”—TWIN CITIES MEDIA

Presale for these newly announced shows begins March 20th at 9am local time, with general onsale beginning March 23rd at 10am local time EXCEPT for the Red Rocks date, which goes on sale March 16th at 10am MT. See below for the most current list of shows and for more info.


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Consultant explains why women in menopause have cold feet, insomnia

Dr Nike Bello, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, says 75 per cent of women in menopause will have cold feet, insomnia and night sweat.

Bello told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Ibadan that these were three common symptoms of menopausal transition which women and their spouses needed to understand.

She hinged the cold feet on the poor circulation of blood, adding that a number of factors could contribute to this.

Bello said lowered hormone levels in menopause could result in slower circulation which could cause a tingling sensation in the feet.

The consultant, who defined insomnia as inability to sleep through out the night, said women could wake up in the early hours of the morning during pre-menopause in particular.

“ It is often the case that after waking up, women will experience night sweats, ‘’ Bello said.

She said night sweats were known in medical parlance as “sleep hyperhydrosis” and were episodes of excessive nocturnal perspiration with the symptoms ranging from mild to severe.

“The symptoms can often wake a woman from her sleep and as such prove a real irritant to many sufferers.

“In some cases, they impact upon a woman’s daily activities if she is tired and lacking energy from a poor night’s sleep,” Bello said.

The consultant said hormonal imbalance was thought to be the main reason for the occurrence.

“During menopausal transition, the body produces less estrogen and this can trick the hypothalamus (the part of the brain that regulates body temperature) into thinking that the body is too hot.

“In response, it sets off a variety of physiological reactions that result in the symptoms of night sweats,” she said.

Bello recommended some treatment options to tackle the disorders which included getting up and taking a walk round the bed room.

She said this was in order to restore circulation and tire victims out so that they would readily fall back to sleep.

Others included eating balanced diet with lots of fruits and vegetables to improve circulation, keeping the bedroom cool and engaging in exercise some three hours leading to sleep.

Bello also recommended establishing a good sleep pattern by going to bed at regular times, wearing light pyjamas or sleeping naked and not eating two hours before going to bed. (NAN)


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      Traveling can be harsh. Not so much when getting into our Prius to drive 600 miles a day to cross the country, it’s a comfy car and we have each other, but it does take stamina. On the other hand, grabbing a last-minute ticket and flying from San Francisco to Scranton, PA with a change in Charlotte (Chicago on the way back) was a symphony of Harsh. It was OK because every minute of the trip was warmed and colored by its purpose. I went to visit Camilla Schade.

       Camilla is quicksilver and color, a luminous presence on stage, someone who can take a character onto a roller-coaster and bring every audience member along for the ride. Beautiful and funny, the embodiment of warmth. I flew to Scranton, drove to upstate New York, parked by their little woodland house, and went in to sit on a couch with my friend for five hours. The last embrace was the hardest, because it will have been the last one.

       We met in 1975, when she was to be our newborn Johanna’s babysitter as we created a show called Knock Knock with a student cast at the University of Delaware. She wound up in the cast and we found another sitter. When we moved our theatre’s base to Lancaster PA, we asked Camilla to join us, and she did. We worked together for years, everything from Macbeth to cabaret comedy, and the stories are endless.

       Five rich and beautiful hours. Some of it in silent presence, some of it giggling like schoolgirls, some of it soggy with kleenex, some of it telling funny old war stories to sister Carolyn and husband Bruce.

       Warmth, color and closeness in a place of quiet beauty. The rituals of greeting and farewell, the essentials of human closeness, softness, vulnerability.

       And then the grotesque circus of O’Hare airport, miles of noisy halls and beeping trollies and four-dollar water bottles. Rattle and clang under fluorescent lights, hurry up and wait, staring at the smart-phone, trying to ignore Fox on the screens. What wildly different stage sets we humans create to enclose the multiple stories of our lives. For five hours I was in a place of beauty.

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Meet the DANAMIC team at MOX’s First Year Anniversary

MOX, a co-working space and community for creatives, will be celebrating its first year anniversary this Saturday (27 Oct). As a part of the MOX community, join us there as we open our doors to the public for the very first time to commemorate their anniversary!

MOX: Collaboration

Over the past year, MOX has bred the spirit of creative entrepreneurship by allowing like-minded creative professionals to collaborate and be inspired by each other within the same workspace community.

MOX: Creatives

Its first year anniversary aims to advocate the works that its creative practitioners and community leaders have been working on within its spaces for the past year. This includes people who do creative work for a living and leaders of artistic endeavours, such as creative thought leaders, photographers, crafters, designers, and artists.

MOX: Programme Highlights

From 12pm to 6pm, registered attendees can expect lots of freebies, showcases, exhibitions, mingling, and an exciting range of creative programmes ranging from workshops, to talks and even film screenings. Attendees can also pre-register for specially curated crafting workshops for not more than $15 per pax, such as learning the basics of fabric weaving with Craft Atelier, and customising your own silk screen pouch with coconeese.

MOX: Spray painting

For the cinephiles, MOX’s community of film people and Singapore Film Society will convert two rooms into mini-theatres, featuring short films by local film-makers and producers.

Over at DANAMIC’s office located at level 3, expect a semantic experience as we transform our spaces into an experiental photo gallery. We will be featuring photos of our past works and other creative visuals that we have conceptualised for our clients at DNMC.

You can also have a chat with any of us from the DANAMIC team to find out more about what we do at DANAMIC.ORG and DNMC. A mini photo booth studio will also be set up by our creative directors, so get yourself camera-ready and bring a photo print back home to remember this special occasion by.

See you there!

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Be the first 250 to pre-register and receive a BRAVE goodie bag. For more information, check out the official MOX event website at: http://themox.co/brave.

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Leaders of Economic Community of West African States have demanded the reinstatement of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as Malis president.

Keita was forced to resign in the early hours of Wednesday by soldiers who toppled his government on Tuesday.

The ECOWAS leaders made the demand after an emergency summit called to review the situation in Mali.

They also announced plans to visit Bamako, the Malian capital, amid growing concerns about regional stability.

The leaders also called for continued engagement with all parties to the crisis. They mandated former President Goodluck Jonathan, the Special Envoy on the crisis, and ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, to convey the decisions of the West African leaders to the parties.

The 15-nation bloc convened the virtual Extra-ordinary Session on the socio-political situation in Mali after it suspended it, shut off borders and halted financial flows in response to the overthrow of Keita.

President Muhmmadu Buhari advocated stiffer sanctions on the military regime to force a speedy return to democratic rule.

The President lamented that the situation in Mali is a setback for regional diplomacy, which, according to him, poses a threat to the peace and security of the sub-region.

Buhari, who condemned the Malian military for breaching the very letter and spirit of the ECOWAS protocol on good governance and democracy, urged leaders of the sub-region to ensure that the breach of protocol in Mali does not survive.

Buhari hailed the African Union, the United Nations and other international bodies for condemning the military coup and urged them to work with ECOWAS to restore peace and order in the country by insisting on the supremacy of constitutional provisions.

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