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Onvif wifi 720P 1.0 MegaPixel HD Wireless IP Outdoor Camera with IR Cut high

Place of Origin : China
Brand Name : Anworld
Model Number : AW-P2P17100
Certification : Rohs, CE, FCC
Delivery Time : 3~7 days
Payment Terms : TT, West Union
MOQ : 5pcs (1pcs for sample is acceptable)
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Onvif wifi 720P 1.0 MegaPixel HD Wireless IP Outdoor Camera with IR Cut high quality night verision security camera

  • Encode format:H.264
  • 1/3inch 1.0MegaPixel Progressive Scan CMOS
  • Support P2P technology, plug and play
  • DDNS:Free DDNS
  • Recording: Motion detection, alarm record, timing record, manual record.
  • Mobile Monitor: IPhone,Android,iPad
  • DC 5V/2A
  • 1 Channel output/send pictures by email/upload pictures to FTP serve
  • 36 IR LEDs,IR distance 15m/3.6mm lens

System Security

Supports there-level account, password, user authority management

No need to preset camera, Offer free factory P2P(JWEV-000xxx-xxxxx), Plug&play, Support QR code scanning to view

Multi-device Function

View 9 cameras at the same time by IE browser.

PC client

Install program to computer,view 16 cameras in LAN or from internet,recording,snapshot available,Multi-language.

Cellphone View

Support iPhone,iPad and Andriod smart view via QR code scanning.

Image Compression

Signal System

Image Frame Rate

Flip Mirror Images

Vertical / Horizontal

Image adjustment

Brightness,contrast adjustable:auto white balance,backlight compensation

Video Parameters

Brightness, Contrast

Lens Type

Glass Lens Standard : 3.6 mm

Night Vision

Night Visibility

36Φ5 IR LEDs, Night visibility up to 15 meters

One 10/100Mbps RJ-45

Supported Protocol

IP Mode

Dynamic IP address, static IP address

Online Visitor

Support 4 visitors at the same time

Wireless Standard

IEEE 802.11b/g/n

Wireless Security

WEP, WPA, WPA2 Encryption

Product Type

Metal Gun type / Waterproof outdoor use

DC12V 1A

Working Temperature

-10~50 °C

Working Humidity

95% RH

Item size: 145mmx100mmx75mm (LxWxH)

Packaging size:200x120x179mm (LxWxH)

N.W.: 412g G.W.: 650g (Note:Actual Weight Final)

Adaptor, CD(including manual), Bracket,Screw

Alarm Detection

Motion detection ,Motion Detect Sensibility can be adjusted

Alarm Action

Support Email photo, FTP photo etc.

Supported OS

Microsoft Win98 SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 32Bit

IE6.0, IE7.0, IE9.0, FireFox, Google or other standard browser

Limited 1-Year Warranty

What is P2P?

P2P IP camera allows users to access the Internet via a PC for remote monitoring at each site.
P2P technology has changed the traditional C / S model, a scalable and fault-tolerant mechanisms do not need to get information to large routing table, you can find each node in the network.
The entire monitoring system will work better if P2P IP camera do the multi-screen monitoring.
NOTE: If you have trouble with the installation, please contact our customer service for help.
NOTE: For multi-layer network environment, please make sure that your IP camera, wireless router and PC to the same network layer (the same router or the same subnet) are connected, otherwise IP camera will not be recognized

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1.We will send the goods within 3-7 working days after received your payment. Please choose DHL/EMS/UPS etc. If you need it emergency.

2.Please confirmed the shipping address contact details are correct before ready shipping.

3.If you need OEM/ODM service or other special requirements,the shipping will delay 5

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then we will solve this problem.

5. Please check your goods on the shipping company face when you receive the goods.

1. All our CCTV products we sell are in good quality and under strict examination before they are shipped. We will try our best to avoid any quality problem.

2. We promise warranty for quality in one year for our video recorder,and 2 years warranty for our cctv cameras. we will repairit for free. But the returning shipping should be paid by customer.

3. All return items must be in good condition. They must be under resalable condition. Men made defects are not guarantee, such as broken, scratched and so on

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He has been interested in photography since he was a young lad.
A self-taught silk-screen printer.

In 1983, he created his own serigraphy workshop, and since then he has worked
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In 1999, Jordi Vilella creates the APART EDICIONS editorial. Till today he is the responsible, editor and author of more than 200 editions.

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From 2006 on, Jordi elaborates serigraphs throughout digital and contemporary illustration techniques, as well as a language in between pop-art and photomontage.

Currently, his artistic production focuses in the urban photography; using visual strategies which tend to the abstract, and sensibilities closer to the paint.


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Namaqualand - A Land of Spectacular Spring Wildflower Phenomenon

Namaqualand is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over 600 miles. This huge region covers a total area of 440,000 square kilometers. Namaqualand is home to the spectacular spring wild flower phenomenon. In spring, millions upon millions of beautiful flowers emerge in a  phenomenal explosion of color which transforms the landscape into a wonderland of beauty.

Namaqualand area appears to be a typical South African region with a semi-desert environment. It is remains dry and arid throughout most part of the year. However in the spring a miracle occurs as soon as the rains soak into the thirsty earth. The area is transformed into one that is filled with masses of lush plantation, with bright orange and sparkling white daisies shoot up from the once arid ground.

Namaqualand is quite popular with both local and international tourists during early springtime. During this short period of time this normally arid area becomes covered with a kaleidoscope of color. This is known throughout South Africa as the Namaqualand daisy season, when orange and white daisies, as well as hundreds of other flowering species, spring up from a previously barren landscape.

The Namaqualand spring flowers are world famous. These flowers paint an unforgettable picture throughout the whole region of Namaqualand literally overnight. The dusty valleys become filled with Namaqualand daisies and other spring flowers and transform the arid land into a wonderland, carpeted with wild flowers.

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Tsui Hang/Special Tea: The finest in Vancouver for a late night Chinese food pig out. Who in god's name eats here two nights in a row? I do. Fuck. Where did it all go wrong? I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders. Well not really, but I act like I once was, or at least should have been.  And now as the rain begins its worst, I find myself  roaming the dark streets like a vagabond, frequenting this late night establishment with great consistency. The obscene amount of MSG that is clearly in each dish adds to the hang over like no other. Yet I proceed, time and time again. On most occasions I have no recollection of ever dinning here. It's not until I see multiple visa charges  days later that I realize what I have done.  The worst part is, I don't even go for the after hours beverages anymore.  I go for the food. Dear god, why have you forsaken me?

Note: You won't eat Tsui Hang in broad daylight...You won't.

Also of note: What the fuck is this song about?

Tsui Hang Village. Vancouver, BC Sussudio. [audio:Sussudio.mp3]

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Police kidnappings

Police Fire Muzzle Blast at Protesters

National Post photographers violently arrested

26 June: Police raid house without warrants

Illegal searches near park

The passing of secret laws that were purposefully misinterpreted and abused:

29 June: Police admit lying
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29 June: Alleged police provacateurs, including clear evidence of one "anarchist" being allowed behind police lines

25 June: Do you know who Che Guevara is?

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I Sold Gold Reissue on Vinyl

Excited to announce, I SOLD GOLD is now available for preorder on Vinyl! Remastered and reissued under AQUEDUCT MUSIC, this release has been a long time coming. Lots of head-scratching Aqueduct fan’s have been asking me for years…”where can I find I SOLD GOLD on vinyl?

Today I’m happy to answer that question, and for a limited time, fans can preorder the LP on Kickstarter and take advantage of fun limited edition items; T-Shirts, Vol. 2 of Aqueduct rarities, I SOLD GOLD test pressings, art proofs, etc.

For those up in the Pacific Northwest, Aqueduct will be celebrating this release live at the Sunset Tavern on Dec. 10th with special guests The Echolarks & Timbre Barons. We’ll be playing lots of classic Aqueduct & LP’s will be available for sale. Come get one! Hope to see you there!

Mini Tour

I’ve been laid-up & lame for the past 6 months and am stoked to be dusting off the Aquevan for a round of shows in the Pacific Northwest. We’re joining Hillary Susz for a string of shows in Portland, Seattle & Bellingham in support of her new release “The Heart Will Jump”.

7/28 - Portland, Or - Analog Cafe

7/29 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern

7/30 - Bellingham, WA - The Swillery

Goodbye 2015…What a year it was! Excited to announce the first show of 2016 in Seattle at the Sunset Tavern. We’ll be playing with Wall Of Ears and Andy Fitts. Fans of Aqueduct will know Andy Fitts from his stint playing bass in Aqueduct during the Or Give Me Death era. He also played bass on a good portion of last year’s Wild Knights release. Here’s hoping we can get him up onstage for a cameo…pressure’s on!

Legend of Kage

Many thanks to Glide Magazine for premiering the new Aqueduct video for the hot track "Legend Of Kage". Super-mega thanks to the talented Jimmie Buchanan & Amy McCullough for masterminding this rad video...Check it out!!!

Halloween 2015

This Halloween night, Aqueduct will be joining Of Montreal, Diane Coffee & Holy Komodo in Seattle at the Neptune Theater. Dress-up as your favorite Aqueduct member, we’ll do the same! JK! We're going to bring it...full force!

Little Big Show 2015

Excited to announce we’ll be joining the bill with Neon Indian at the Neptune Theater for the Seattle concert series Little Big Show. Proceeds for this 13th installment of Little Big Show will go to benefit the Northwest Tap Connection. This show will also be the first time Aqueduct has played at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. Hope to see you there!

Aqueduct Wild Knights

John Cougar Mellencamp said it best…or maybe it was Van Morrison ;) THE WILD KNIGHT IS CALLING!!!! Answer the call and get AQUEDUCT WILD KNIGHTS HERE!

I am unbelievably excited to be releasing my new album today July 14th 2015, on what will be remembered as a truly historic day. Just as Wild Knights has been 8 long years in the making, the irony of the passage of time is not lost on me this day…

  • Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchmen released today 55 years after after her first and only novel was published.
  • US & the World reach a landmark nuclear proliferation agreement with Iran, a deal taking over 15 years to reach.
  • NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft passes Pluto, the last planet in our known solar System, on a 10 year, 4+ billion mile journey.
  • Aqueduct Wild Knights is released to the world, first new album since 2007

Okay, Okay, maybe that’s throwing myself in with some pretty big company, but for me, Wild Knights is an enormous accomplishment that I am honored to be releasing to very wonderful and patient fans! The new album is available on Vinyl, CD or Digital and can be purchased directly from me on the Aqueduct Bandcamp site or from other digital outlets.

Seattle get ready for the big album release show this Saturday night 7/18 at the Tractor with Bardot & The Echolarks! I can’t wait to play some of these new Wild Knights songs live. It’s going to be a hot one for sure. Get your tickets now...before they get you!

I am astounded to announce that City Arts Magazine in Seattle has made Wild Knights July’s album of the month! On the heels of the Ballad Of Barbarella track premiere in late June, Jonathan Zwickel gives a beautiful and honest review of the band, the new album, and himself really…I’m humbled to have this piece be the first big feature for the new record. Read all about it here.

Thanks tons to the AV CLUB for premiering the track "Paranoid Much" off the new Aqueduct album Wild Knights. The Onion & AV Club have been big fans of Aqueduct in the past and I truly appreciate their continued show of support!

Aqueduct Wild Knights

New album pre-order is live today! Get Wild Knights on Vinyl, CD or Digital. I’ve set this preorder up as a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of fundraising for the AQUEDUCT VINYL PROJECT. Get involved, get the new album, and help fund the release of all the past Aqueduct albums to soon be reissued on wax! All the details here + a sweet teaser video previewing a handful of tracks from the record.

Wild Knights is out officially in mid-July and I’m pleased to announce the Aqueduct record release show on Saturday, July 18th at the Tractor in Seattle. Super-friends Bardot and The Echolarks will be joining the bill. Come celebrate with us this summer in July, this show’s going to be a hot one!

Aqueduct on Pop Matters

Huge THANKS to PopMatters for being the first to premiere a track from the upcoming new Aqueduct album Wild Knights. Stay tuned for all the upcoming release news! The wait is almost over…exciting times ahead!

Denny Park Summer Cover

LOVE IS IN THE AIR - 2/13/15

It’s that time of the year! Taking you into the Valentine’s Day weekend with an Aque-fied cover of Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Call To Say Love You”. Check it out on the Aqueduct Soundcloud!

Seattle, lookout for a live show Friday, April 3rd at the Tractor Tavern. We’re playing with our Oklahoma friends BRONCHO, who are on an eternal national tour supporting their awesome new record. This will be a fantastic not-to-be missed rock show. Wyatt Blair and The Morons are opening…see you there!

New Album Update: I have a mastering session booked for next week and am so excited to be putting the finishing touch on my new music. For those of you unfamiliar with nerdy technical music speak, when records get mastered…records are about to come out!! Stay tuned for all the upcoming info, release date, preorder, shows, etc…

Denny Park Summer Cover

Stream it, download it, own it, collect-em-all & share it with your friends! Aqueduct "Denny Park Summer" is available now on ...for FREE

It's been a hot minute since I've released new music, so this one's on me. Get it now, while the gettin's good!

Aqueduct is proud to present “Denny Park Summer”, a new solo piano album recorded live on a beautiful 2014 August day in Seattle. Now available for free on Bandcamp, this release features a new song “Legend of Kage”, a couple cover songs, as well as some fresh takes on some Aqueduct classics.

Stay tuned for all the info on upcoming releases, expected in early 2015!

Denny Park Summer

NEW, NEW, NEWS - 11/7/14

There’s a lot happening in the Aqueduct realm and I’m excited to share all the news…

In two weeks I’ll be releasing “Denny Park Summer”, a new album of solo piano material. Recorded live at Denny Park in Seattle last August, the album will feature a new song, a few classics, and a couple of covers. It’s been a while since I’ve released any music and I’m excited to remedy the situation by making this album a free release on the web.

More new music to follow in early 2015. I’ve been hard at work mixing new material that is shaping up to be an EP & LP’s worth. Stay tuned for more info. Aqueduct has joined Soundcloud, creating a place to preview new songs/samples & post sounds that float my boat! Check it out, I’ve uploaded one song from “Denny Park Summer” to preview the upcoming release.

...and, If you’re in the Seattle area I’ll be singing Police songs with the Seattle Rock Orchestra at The Moore Theater tomorrow night 11/8.

Get your tickets here.

Aqueduct Piano

This summer, for the first time, Seattle presents Piano in the Parks. The Parks Dept. have teamed up with various partners to place 20 pianos outside at 20 local parks. To highlight this ingenious idea, KEXP has asked musicians around town to donate a performance at one of the Pianos. KEXP will film the performance to preserve online in their archives. After checking out the rad Piano Art and visiting a few parks, it was just too hard to choose. I've decided to do two short Aqueduct solo sets at two different parks.

Wednesday, August 13th
PIER 62/63
8:00pm - Sunset Performance

Sunday, Aug 17th
Denny Park
4:00pm - Afternoon Show

Please join me for these special performances of Aqueduct songs (and maybe a cover?) to celebrate this truly awesome and unique community art project.

MIXING IT UP - 5/6/14

Barsuk Records

Ole~! ...It's back to Texas again, and I'm excited to be entering the final mix phase on the new Aqueduct album. I certainly have taken my sweet-ass time, but the record is taking a beautiful shape. I know in my heart that this is the best music I have ever recorded, thanks in no small part to Matt Pence down in the Echo Lab. I can't wait for everyone to hear!!!

For you Pacific Northwesterners, lookout for a live show! My dear friends from the Seattle band the Catch (OG Lineup) have planned a fun show at the Crocodile and have asked Aqueduct and Tennis Pro to join in. Really looking forward to this sure-to-be-unstoppable rock show on Wed. June 25th + it'll be just like old times! Stay tuned for more info in the show between now and then.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Aqueduct & Ra Ra Riot will be capping the Barsuk 15th Anniversary Festivities, Sunday November 10th at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle. We're honored & excited to be a part of what is sure to be a rowdy show!

More info here »

IT'S ABOUT TIME - 8/9/13

Aqueduct is headed to the heartland for a Texas Style Recording Adventure. We'll be working with superstar engineer/drummer/collaborator Matt Pence (Centro-matic) at the Echo Lab in Denton, TX. It's been a long time since Aqueduct has recorded there…hell, it's been a while since we've released a record. We plan to do in 2 weeks what has been building for far... too... long...

When we're close to home Aqueduct is going to play a few pop-in shows 'round OK & TX. We love us some hometown crowd, so come and get it!

Attention Pacific-NorthWesterners!! Our good friends from the band BOAT have coaxed us out of the garage and onto the stage, for two shows in March, in celebration of the release of their new album "Pretend To Be Brave".

Aqueduct will join BOAT & The Quiet Ones at Barboza in Seattle on Saturday, March 2nd. Two weeks later, on Saturday March 16th, BOAT & Aqueduct will take Portland by storm at Mississippi Studios with help from Shelly Short.

We're excited to debut some new tunes we've been working on as well as "rock the classics". We might just play our cover of the title track off the new BOAT record...

...oh yeah…We recently covered a BOAT song (in the style of Aqueduct), that will be featured on cassette, with the first 100 pre-orders of "Pretend To Be Brave". Other contributors to the companion release, Fishboy, Throw Me The Statue, Sea Navy, Math & Physics Club, John Roderick and many more, round out a re-imagining of the entire new BOAT album.

Aqueduct will join bands The Lonely Forest, Yuni In Taxco & Telekinesis (solo), on Friday, Nov. 2nd for a FREE SHOW at Neumos in Seattle. Our efforts will be to help get out the vote for a couple of state politicos, Inslee for Governor & Cantwell for US Senate. Come show your support, hear some great music & have a good time!

It's been a hot minute since a news update, but Aqueduct is indeed alive and well and coming to a Portland, Oregon near you! After many months holed up in the studio working on fresh material, Aqueduct will surface to play our first show in what feels like forever. We're excited to be supporting our friends at the Normise Organization along with several great local Portland bands on Friday, Aug 24th, to play a benefit concert for Haiti Youth Arts and Education. Go to NORMISE.ORG for more information or to donate to this fine organization.

Aqueduct Normise

Stay tuned for more Aqueduct news updates in the coming months as work on the new album wraps up! We'll be playing new songs at the Portland show, but if you can't make it, lookout for a sneak preview of new material on the website soon :)

Welcome to the new site!!! Big thanks to our friends at Culture Pilot for the new design. We're also on Facebook and Twitter now, so go check it out!!!

Our tour with The Posies and Brendan Benson starts tomorrow and we're happy to announce the release of a digital two song FREE Tour Single available for the next five weeks right here at One song is a preview from the upcoming Aqueduct album and the other is a cover of one of my favorite Bob Wills songs. Very near and dear to my heart... download it now!

Our tour with The Posies and Brendan Benson starts this week. We shove off for Milwaukee in a few days for what will surely be a snowy adventure.  A few more dates have been added to the tour…here's the complete list!!!

Nov. 5 – Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee WI
Nov. 6 – Bottom Lounge, Chicago IL
Nov. 7 – Southgate House, Newport KY
Nov. 9 – The Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI
Nov. 10 – Outland Live, Columbus OH
Nov. 11 – Mr. Small’s Theatre, Millvale PA
Nov. 12 – Water Street Music Hall, Rochester NY
Nov. 13 – The HighLine Ballroom, NYC
Nov. 14 – The Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia PA
Nov. 16 – Royale, Boston MA
Nov. 17 – 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Nov. 18 – Cat’s Cradle, Carborro NC
Nov. 19 – Exit/In, Nashville TN
Nov. 20 – The Loft, Atlanta GA
Nov. 21 – Minglewood Hall, Memphis TN
Nov. 23 – One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans LA (no Brendan Benson)
Nov. 24 – Granada Theatre, Dallas TX (no Brendan Benson)
Nov. 26 – La Zona Rosa, Austin TX
Nov. 27 – The Ground Hall, Houston TX
Dec. 1 – Gothic Theatre, Englewood CO — Tickets
Dec. 3 – Club Nokia @ LA Live, Los Angeles CA
Dec. 4 – McNear’s Mystic Theatre, Petaluma CA
Dec. 5 – The Independent, San Francisco CA
Dec. 7 – Wow Hall, Eugene OR
Dec. 8 – Aladdin Theatre, Portland OR
Dec 10 – The Venue, Vancouver CANADA
Dec. 11 – The Showbox @ The Market, Seattle WA

Super exciting news!!! This November, Aqueduct will join The Posies and Brendan Benson for a full U.S. tour in support of the new Posies album Blood/Candy. This is going to be a killer don't miss it.

If you're in Seattle and don't want to wait that long, Aqueduct is playing a set at MAKE IT RAIN this Thursday, at Havana. Our dear friend Carly, is leaving us for NYC, so this will be the last Make it Rain EVER!!!!!

Aug. 26 - Make it Rain @ Havana, Seattle, WA
w/ The Posies & Brendan Benson

Nov. 5 - Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee WI
Nov. 6 - Bottom Lounge, Chicago IL
Nov. 7 - Southgate House, Newport KY
Nov. 9 - The Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI
Nov. 10 - Outland Live, Columbus OH
Nov. 11 - Mr. Small's Theatre, Millvale PA
Nov. 12 - Water Street Music Hall, Rochester NY
Nov. 13 - The HighLine Ballroom, NYC
Nov. 14 - The Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia PA
Nov. 16 - Royale, Boston MA
Nov. 17 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Nov. 18 - Cat's Cradle, Carborro NC
Nov. 19 - Exit/In, Nashville TN
Nov. 20 - The Loft, Atlanta GA
Nov. 21 - Minglewood Hall, Memphis TN
Nov. 24 - Granada Theatre, Dallas TX - no Brendan Benson on this date
Nov. 26 - La Zona Rosa, Austin TX
Nov. 27 - The Argentum, Houston TX
Dec. 1 - Gothic Theatre, Englewood CO
Dec. 3 - Club Nokia @ LA Live, Los Angeles CA
Dec. 5 - The Independent, San Francisco CA
Dec. 8 - Aladdin Theatre, Portland OR
Dec. 11 - Showbox at the Market, Seattle WA

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24 hours after being posted for sale, google has switched the 16 gig nexus 7 tablets to being unavailable…

Apparently pre-order stock has sold out and I guess it’s just a matter of time til the 8 gigs are also sold out.

Update my contact at google just informed me that it’s not in fact sold out but a bug in their Canadian shopping system and will be back for pre-order within the hour..


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Summer 2018 – Archives Meetings

Archon Day – June 29, 2018

Held at Denison University in Granville, OH, the Archon Users Collaborative met to discuss the future of using Archon, an open-source archival content management system developed at the University of IL.  The Viatorian Community Archives has been utilizing this system about 10 years now. Just last year, we contracted LibraryHost to support and host our site.

The 2019 meeting will be a video conference which will allow more Archon users to participate – date to be announced.

Envisioning the Future of Catholic Religious Archives July 11 – July 13, 2018

This 3-day working conference was held at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA to discuss this complex topic due to diminishing membership of religious orders, merging sites or coming to completion.  Nearly 170 attendees included archivists, historians and leadership of both men and women religious communities, mainly from the U.S. and a few from Canada, Ireland and Scotland.

Preservation and access of these rich, historical records and artifacts was at the forefront of discussion along with sensitivity to privacy and confidentiality.  Links to videos of the presentations with be forthcoming along with a white paper. The energy and passion of the attendees at this conference will move the discussion forward into positive action in the near future.

Watch for an upcoming article titled “Grace at Work: There’s an untold American history in Catholic religious communities’ archives” in the August 2018 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine it’s about the conference!

Read another summary of the conference here on the Chicago Area Religious Archivists blog.


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D-backs wrap 2017 MLB Draft with 30 picks on Day 3

Mike Hazen was introduced Monday as the Arizona Diamondbacks new executive vice president and general manager. (Photo by Alexis Ramanjulu/Cronkite News)

Two days after landing three accomplished college batters highlighted by No. 7 overall pick Pavin Smith, the Diamondbacks wrapped the 2017 MLB Draft with their 30 final picks.

Here is a list of the team’s picks from Wednesday, which began with the 11th round and ended with the 40th.

11th round, 322 (overall) — Tra’Mayne Holmes, Faulkner University, CF

12th, 352 — Matt Brill, Appalachian State, RHP

13th, 382 — Riley Cabral, Chipola College, RHP

14th, 412 — Keshawn Lynch, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, 2B

15th, 442 — Clayton Keyes Bishop Carroll HS, OF

16th, 472 — Jeff Bain, Cal Poly Pomona, RHP

17th, 502 — Trent Autry, Florence-Darlington Tech, RHP

18th, 532 — Kevin Watson, Beaverton HS, CF

19th, 562 — Ernie De La Trinidad, UNLV, OF

20th, 592 — Dominic Miroglio, San Francisco, C

21st, 622 — Jack Maynard, UNC Greensboro, RHP

22nd, 652 — Cole Stapler, Nicholls State, RHP

23rd, 682 — Matthew Peacock, South Alabama, RHP

24th, 712 — Jancarlos Cintron, Nova Southeastern, 2B

25th, 742 — Cole Bartlett, Missouri Columbia, RHP

26th, 772 — Abraham Almonte, Philadelphia University, LHP

27th, 802 — Andrew Eyster, Forest HS, OF

28th, 832 —  James Johnson, Lamar, RHP

29th, 862 — Tarik Skubal, Seattle, LHP

30th, 892 — Ryan Dobson, Fresno State, IF

31st, 922 — Cole Percival, Riverside Poly HS, RHP

32nd, 952 — William Gorman, Rochester Institute of Technology, OF

33rd, 982 — Renae Martinez, Oklahoma, C

34th, 1012 — Dan Swain, Siena College, CF

35th, 1042 — Zachery Almond, Catawba College, C

36th, 1072 — Boyd Vander Kooi, Skyline HS, RHP

37th, 1102 — David Vazquez, Stoneman Douglas HS, SS

38th, 1132 — Emerson Hancock, Cairo HS, RHP

39th, 1162 — Nathan Reynolds, Louisiana Monroe, SS

40th, 1192 — Terence Connelly, UNC Wilmington, 3B

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“Is it cliché to love fried chicken? Probably, but that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because fried chicken is a good thing, a good-with-a-capital-G Good thing, and the world needs more Good things. There’s something so perfect about a lump of bone-in meat, skin still crackling on a plate, all rough and jagged, looking like the surface of Mars.”

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Try This— Sweet Potato Hummus

this sweet potato hummus recipe is the perfect Paleo addition to your summer menu!

Since Winter basically refused to end this year and all the farmers’ markets and farm shares are either opening late or decidedly scant because of it, I thought I’d try my hand at hacking my favorite summertime dip. Hummus is a staple in my house. We smear raw veggies with this creamy delicacy all summer long as a healthy snack and sometimes it even winds up replacing a meal all together because we just can’t stop eating it. This recipe comes from the appetizer menu of Miss Ada, a cute little Mediterranean restaurant on Dekalb Ave. a few blocks from where I went to High School (Brooklyn Technical High School). Chef Tomer Blechman brilliantly uses sweet potatoes as a base instead of chickpeas in this recipe, so it’s perfect for anyone on a Paleo diet, or anyone that wants to use their chickpeas for something more productive like these beauty recipes. Best part is that by using sweet potatoes, your adding a healthy dose of complex carbs and fiber, oh and it makes your finished hummus totally Instagrammable. Drop everything… You must try this!!!

Chef Tomer Blechman in the outdoor eating area of Miss Ada 184 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Sweet Potato Hummus

serves 6 people

  • 5 medium sweet potatoes
  • 5 garlic cloves,
  • 1 cup tahini
  • 1 cup smoked paprika
  • 1 cup + 2 Tbsp canola oil
  • 2 Tbsp creme fraiche
  • 1 red onion, small diced
  • 1 cup sliced almonds
  • Baharat spice mix (1 Tbsp each of cinnamon, cardamom, and English pepper)
  • 1 tsp Aleppo pepper

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a medium pot, boil sweet potatoes until tender.
  • Allow to cool. Add to a food processor and blend with garlic and tahini until smooth.
  • Make the paprika oil: In a medium saucepan over low heat, simmer paprika and canola oil for five minutes. Allow to stand for 20 minutes; strain into a squeeze bottle.
  • In a small bowl, combine creme fraiche and onion. Set aside.
  • On a baking sheet, spread almonds in an even layer. Toss with remaining canola oil and baharat spice mix. Bake for five minutes.
  • Scoop sweet potato mixture onto a plate. Create a nest and place creme fraiche in the middle. Add the almonds, paprika oil, and Aleppo pepper. Garnish with thinly sliced onion and parsley sprigs.
  • Serve with pita or sliced vegetables.

Try This— Classic Homemade Cacio e Pepe

I’m heading out on another European adventure this Summer. First stop: Rome. This will be my first time visiting the Eternal City  and while I imagine the Sistine Chapel is really impressive, I’m mostly looking forward to dining out on really real Italian food. Everybody I know is telling me that I have to try cacio e pepe while I’m there. Cacio e pepe, literally translating to ‘cheese and pepper’, is standard Roman fare, and if the name is any indication, it sounds like it’s as close to perfection as food can get because, well, cheese and pepper.

Anyway, I scoured the internet for a recipe that I could prepare at home so that I when I try it in Rome, I can slowly lean back at the table, loosen my jeans button, and arrogantly say, “the cacio e pepe I make at home is waaaayyyyy better.” #petty. So, I found this amazing recipe from the fine folks at Food52, and I’m pretty confident that this dish will hold up against any cacio e pepe I order in Rome. For real, this recipe is real life weeknight dinner goals. You must try this!

Classic Homemade Cacio e Pepe

  • 2 tablespoons whole black peppercorns crushed in a mortar and pestle or 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons sea salt
  • 1 (16 oz) package spaghetti
  • 3/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano
  • 3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
  • About 3/4 to 1 cup of cooking water

  • In a pot over low heat, heat the crushed peppercorn with the olive oil.
  • In a pot large enough to cook the spaghetti, bring water to a boil.
  • Turn the heat off under the olive oil and add about 1/2 cup of the hot cooking water from the pot into the pan, then set aside.
  • When the pasta water comes to a rolling boil, add the salt, stir, then add the spaghetti. Cook the spaghetti until 2 minutes under the lowest time recommended on the package. Using tongs (you don’t want to get the rid of the water), add the pasta to the pot with the pepper. Turn the heat onto very low and turn the pasta continuously until most of the water is absorbed. At this point, remove from the heat and transfer to a warm bowl.
  • Still tossing, begin adding the two grated cheeses, a couple handfuls at a time. If it starts to get dry, add 2 to 3 tablespoons of pasta water. Keep turning and turning, adding cheese and pasta water, a little at a time, until all the cheese has been incorporated and you have a lovely creamy sauce coating each strand of pasta. Eat immediately.

Try This— The Easiest Homemade Vegetarian Ramen Recipe

I pretty much lived on ramen when I was in college. Back then my four basic food groups were salt, junk, cheap, and easy. Such is the gut fortitude of a nineteen year old. Times have certainly changed, and though my taste and my junk food cravings haven’t, at least now I’m old enough to try and make healthier choices. I want to keep my ramen classy, y’all. No more undergrad ramen for me! I mix up my own seasoning and keep it on the shelf, ready for those nights when I’m feeling just as sleepy as I did when I was in college. You can’t get much easier than a basic ramen bowl, and with some simple add-ins, you’ll be well on your way to total ramen sophistication. You must try this!!!

Homemade Ramen Seasoning

  • 2 tbsp poultry seasoning
  • 2 tbsp garlic powder
  • 2 tbsp onion powder
  • 2 vegetable bullion cubes
  • 1 tbsp black pepper

  • crush bullion cubes into a powder
  • mix all ingredients, including bullion, together
  • store in an airtight container

Basic Ramen bowl

  • 2 oz vermicelli rice noodles (If you use this kind that’s about one quarter of the box)
  • 1 c of boiling water
  • 1 tbsp homemade ramen seasoning (you might want to start with less and add more to taste)

  • place rice noodles in a small bowl
  • sprinkle with homemade ramen seasoning
  • add boiling water and allow the rice noodles to sit for 3-5 minutes stirring occasionally to separate the noodles
  • Enjoy!

optional add-ins

  • chili oil or (homemade) sriracha, to taste
  • a splash of lemon or lime juice
  • a boiled egg or two
  • lightly fried tofu
  • kimchi
  • quick cooking vegetables: spinach, thinly slice cabbage, romaine lettuce, mushrooms, bean sprouts, or green onions are all good choices
  • frozen vegetables: corn and peas are my favorite! Just be sure to thaw them a bit in warm water before adding them to your ramen bowl

This recipe makes the perfect mason jar lunch. just like these healthy mason jar snack ideas, mason jar ramen is ready in minutes. The dry ingredients have a long shelf life, so you can assemble a few dry noodles/seasoning mason jars well ahead of time. When you’re ready to eat them, just lift one from the pantry and add boiling water. Lunch in 3-5 minutes with no effort! Think of it as a savory alternative to your favorite mason jar oatmeal recipe.

Recipe adapted from: Connoisseurusveg and Minimalist Baker

Try This— Vegetarian ‘Chicken’ Shawarma

I’m not really in the business of trying to fool any meat eaters with my vegetarian recipes. I stay away from mock meat for the most part and I just bask in the glory that is a well prepared plant based meal. But this Beyond Meat stuff is really testing my resolve as a dyed in the wool vegetarian, and it’s also making it possible for me to slip more plant based meals under the radar to my unassuming, carnivorous family members. Case in point: this vegetarian chicken shawarma I just made over the weekend. There are no words, let’s just say these are amazing. You can’t get a meatier meal than shawarma, and up until now there was absolutely no viable vegetarian substitute. This recipe from Gimme Delicious has the slow roasted taste of your classic shawarma with none of the meat.  You must try this!!!

Vegetarian ‘Chicken’ Shawarma

  • 1 pack Beyond Meat© Chicken strips
  • ½ cup sliced onion
  • 2 cloves garlic, diced
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil ( 2 for the pan and 2 in the paste)
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • ½ teaspoon all spice
  • ½ teaspoon paprika
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 4 pitas
  • optional toppings sliced onion, tomatoes, lettuce
  • Creamy Yogurt White Sauce

  • Combine the spices, garlic, and 2 tablespoons oil in a large bowl. The mixture will form a thick paste. Next, add the chicken strips and onions. Combine the chicken with the paste.
  • Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large heavy-duty pan or skillet. After the pan is very hot toss in the chicken and onion mixture. Sautee for 2-3 minutes or until he chicken is lightly charred and the onions are soft.
  • to make a shawarma sandwich, lay a pita flat on a plate with a sheet of foil under it. Top with chicken, veggies and sauce.

***If you’re vegan, leave out the sauce!

Try This—No-Knead Turkish Bread With Middle Eastern Zhoug, A Spicy Cilantro Pesto

So I was listening to The Clash’s Combat Rock over the weekend and I suddenly had a craving for Turkish bread. Hear me out, Joe Strummer, the singer of The Clash, was born in Turkey and I started thinking about how punk rock it would be for me to bake bread on a Saturday night. Whatever. It made sense at the time. I’m glad my stream of consciousness leads me down these roads, because yum. This no knead bread recipe is gonna be your favorite, and if you have an extra few minutes you can make some zhoug for dipping. You must try this!

No-Knead Turkish Bread

This bread recipe from Lazy Cat Kitchen is super easy to make and so, so, so delicious! It’s perfect for dipping, but don’t stop there. I’ve even made myself a loaded Mediterranean veggie sandwich using this bread.

Middle Eastern Zhoug

Zhoug is quickly becoming my go-to condiment. From sandwich topper, to dip, to marinade, to omelets, zhoug just makes everything better. This recipe from Feasting at Home is my favorite. You guys, this stuff is spicy, but you can totally adjust it to suit your taste.

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Reindeer Sheds

A lovely lady Massofhair recently offered to send me some die cuts of little boxes. At first I thought about making them into houses with chimneys... and a chocolate Santa going down the chimney.. but then a newsletter appeared in my email with these Gingerbread Reindeer Barns..  go see her blog, she has awesome recipes..

Anyway, that decided it for me, I would make the boxes into Reindeer Sheds..

These dies cuts make up into a 2inch box. To make the roof we need an extra bit, so 2 full die cuts and 1/3 of another one.

The extra bit is glued on the end of one piece, and the other piece has the 2 end sections cut in half.

Now glue them together just like you would to make a box, but instead of a flat lid you have a roof.

Now the inside needs 'wallpapering' with patterned paper. I find it easier to leave the roof and one side open while you do the papering. i papered half, then stuck down the last 2 flaps and then fiddled with the rest of the papering, this ensures all the joining flaps are covered.

Add some texture paste to the bottom half of the outside, and score lines into it. Once dry, this is painted with various browns, and then dry brushed with an off white.

Now add some corrugated card pieces to the roof. I also punched out a small border and painted that to match the inside paper.

I added a small square of hessian fabric to the 'floor' inside and glued the whole thing to a square of sturdy card leaving approx an inch all around.

Next I wanted to add some puffy paint.. but I didn't have any, so I found a recipe online..

1 tablespoon self raising flour
1 tablespoon salt
a little water and a little white paint ( for colour, otherwise the flour/salt mix is a bit grey))

I mixed this up and dabbed it on the roof and the 'ground' then I popped the whole thing into the microwave for 25seconds.. ( I did try a heat gun on it but it didn't puff up)

it puffs up like magic in the microwave...

I then brushed on some glitter glue, all over the snowy areas. Don't use Stickles , you will go through a whole bottle, just use cheap kids glitter glue.

Next I added some small embellies, nameplates to the front of the sheds, a little stamped and cut out tree, ( from Ink and Dog Noel 4) and some snowflakes... yes I know they are flowers, but I couldn't find my snowflake punch lol

I bought some Lindt chocolate balls, attached 2 together with double sided tape, added a scarf and some stickle eyes.nose,buttons. Then i made a hat just from 2 circles of card and a strip of card. painted that black and then added some of the puff paint ... The hats must go in the microwave before being attached to the snowman... otherwise your snowman will be no more..

The final step is to add the Lindt chocolate reindeer inside.

I am so pleased with them, we are having a family meal for Christmas, so I made a whole village of reindeer sheds, one for each place at the table.

what kind of decorations have you made for your Christmas table?

Darcy x

  1. Fantastic box houses love them :) Anita

  2. Lovely Darcy - fab puffy snow stuff too! I'm going to MILs for my Xmas dinner so no table decs to make for me! Claire x

  3. Oh these are so cute. Love your puff paint and the tips about the snowman's hat. Go on, admit it, did you micro-death a snowman?? What a lovely idea for place cards. Yummy as well. Hugz

  4. They look awesome Darcy! Thanks for the tutorial, the recipe and the tips. Your dinner table is going to look fabulous, hope we get a picture so can see them in situ:-) xxx

  5. Brilliant Darcy! Love how you found a recipe for the puffy paint! I'm afraid I'm rather boring and just stick to crackers and festive napkins, but who knows I may be tempted to do reindeer stables! Sue C x

  6. They're brilliant, you clever lady!
    Merry Christmas xxx

  7. Saw these on Twitter, they are so adorable! Did they go down well on Christmas day?

    Lucy x


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Mareorama Resurrected [Audiovisual Performance]

Saturday October 22, Kresge Theatre (CFA) @ 8:15p - 9:15p

The perfect finish to a long day. Experience a century-old immersive virtual reality — a moving panorama, the new media performance of its time — in this highly unusual “illustrated lecture” by Erkki Huhtamo.

Maréorama Resurrected: An Illustrated Lecture by Erkki Huhtamo from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

Performed throughout the 1800s, moving panoramas were among the most popular entertainment of the 19th century. In this poetic lecture-demonstration, scholar and media archeologist Erkki Huhtamo draws on his research into moving panoramas and dioramas to discuss various historical apparata that laid the groundwork for 20th and 21st century immersive applications—including those created now by game designers and media artists. The particular focus of this presentation will be on the Maréorama, a huge multi-sensory spectacle created by Hugo d’Alesi and his team for the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris. Drawing from high-resolution scans and the original piano music composed for the Maréorama by Henri Kowalski, Huhtamo reconstructs several sequences from this simulated sea voyage on the Mediterranean. The performance features live piano accompaniment by Stephen L. I. Murphy.

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Co-Director, the Scrapyard Challenge Workshop. – Jonah’s projects and blog

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and Media, Culture, Communication at NYU. Jonah recently received his Ph.D. from the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. Previously, he worked as an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC from 2006/7. From 2001-4 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received his Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural,, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06,09), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art’s ArtPort (03), London Science Museum, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Ubicomp, Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA – NYC)(2008), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008).

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My work revolves around the saturated visual culture of ‘shock and awe’ that emerged
after 9\11, and was made ubiquitous by the electronic and print media networks. I
experience these visuals of horric violence associated with terrorism through the
media as an “image event” and they become part of my memory and consciousness.
This culture aects my visual vocabulary and dictates me to lter those images from my
point of view. As Susan Sontag said;

“The image consumes the event, in the sense that it absorbs it and
oers it for consumption. Admittedly, it gives it unprecedented
impact, but impact as an image event”

This process has given birth to another set of visuals, which you can see in my work. I
made these sculptural pieces as a metaphor for the heroic trophies we lay claim to in
defeating terrorism. The diluted, abstract forms and drawings are suggestive of my
understanding of terror and violence in Pakistan.
Through my work I want to both comment on this phenomenon and oer the viewer an
opportunity to rethink and question the very existence of these visuals in our culture.
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Web site offers crash course in very expensive sports cars

Net Works

March 07, 2004|By LOS ANGELES TIMES

Any swell can buy a 500-horsepower Lamborghini, Ferrari or Porsche, but not everyone can drive it competently. At the point where rich guys' funding exceeds their driving talent, one can often find a salad of shredded carbon fiber, crumpled aluminum and highly engineered junk - aka an exotic-car wreck.

Now, thanks to the Web's worldwide weirdness - and the good offices of an anonymous 27-year-old San Francisco Bay-area executive with a wicked case of schadenfreude - you can savor pictures of these mechanical pratfalls at www.wreckedexotics .com.

Among the offerings: a $600,000 Ferrari Enzo owned by a Tampa, Fla., RV dealer whose son gave it a $400,000 rhinoplasty; an extremely rare Pagani Zonda whose owner took it curb surfing in Hong Kong; and a Ferrari 355 reduced to about 177 1/2 after an unfortunate encounter at a railroad crossing.

Submitted by car enthusiasts, ambulance chasers and frequently the drivers themselves, the pictures have a delicious, how-the-mighty-have-fallen quality about them. (No gory pictures are allowed.) They also illustrate the bizarre ways kinetic energy dissipates in car crashes. The pictures of sports cars knotted like pretzels are pure dada.

The 2-year-old Web site, which gets 350,000 hits a month, is the work of "Gregg Carlson" (not his real last name), who started it because he was "disappointed with the lack of car crash pictures on the Internet," he said in an e-mail response to a reporter's query.

Why? Gregg is only too happy to psychoanalyze himself: "A few reasons may be that I take pleasure in other people's misfortune [as long as they're not injured]. But let's be honest: Who doesn't take pleasure in others' misfortunes? Isn't that what the tabloids are all about?"

Car enthusiasts will find it hard to turn away from pictures of a smashed-up Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing (punted off-course during a recent Mille Miglia event in Italy); a Lamborghini Diablo made ever so much more rakish by having its roof flattened; as well as a Jaguar XJ220, a Bugatti EB110 and a Vector, cars as rare as high-energy isotopes.

"Although I like any type of car crash, I get really excited when it involves an exotic," Gregg writes. "The more beautiful it is, the more pleasure I get from seeing it destroyed."

He is concerned that people will think he has some sort of fetish, a la the J.G. Ballard novel Crash and the 1996 David Cronenberg movie version.

"Don't mistake this `pleasure' for anything sexual," Gregg writes. "It's just a giddy feeling I get when I see these photos."

As strange as it may seem, there is a public service component to Gregg's Web site. Like the blood-on-the-highway movies shown in driver's education classes, the site's Bad Crashes category - filled with the mutilated Asian imports of dead teen-age drivers - is a sorrowful reminder that horsepower and hormones make a deadly cocktail.

"It's only natural that at one point or another, you're going to push your limits," Gregg says. "Hopefully, Wrecked Exotics will make them stop and think."

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Baseball Class 3A state final

La Plata, Boyden overwhelm Patapsco, 8-2

La Plata 8 Patapsco 2

May 25, 2008|By Pat O'Malley | Pat O'Malley,Sun reporter

There was a lot of red in the stands at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen last night to watch Patapsco in its first appearance in a state baseball final, but the Patriots' fans were left to watch a bitter loss.

Senior right-hander Mike Boyden struck out 14 and allowed just four hits as La Plata of Charles County won the Class 3A state championship, 8-2, over Patapsco.

Facing Boyden's excellent pitching, Patapsco did not help itself by committing six errors.

Down 5-0, Patapsco got to Boyden in the bottom of the sixth for two runs on Vinnie Tiburzi's fielder's choice and a single by Rob Wilson, but Boyden weathered the situation by recording his 10th and 11th strikeouts to end the inning.

The Warriors tacked on three more runs in the seventh on two Patriots errors to put the game out of reach.

"We knew coming in we had to play defense because they can hit," said Boyden, who is bound for George Washington University. "Every game we come out with pitching and defense, and tonight we hit the ball pretty well. It was one of my best games of the year."

No Baltimore-area team has won a state public school championship since 1982.

It was the first state championship for the Warriors (20-2). La Plata lost in the 2002 final. Patapsco (19-3) was playing in its second final four.

Boyden (5-1) struck out 11, walked three and did not allow a hit through 3 2/3 innings. His teammates gave him an early 2-0 lead, and Seth Donnelly's two-run homer in the fourth off Patriots starter and loser Ron Bolyard (7-2) made it 4-0. The Warriors added a run in the sixth on a two-out triple by Jordan McGraner that scored Russ Hunsberger.

Neither team scored in the first, but the Warriors broke the ice in the second with two runs on one hit. Cleanup batter John Pellecchia led off with a walk, and Boyden followed with a double to deep left to score Pellecchia. Three Patriots errors led to the second run and a 2-0 La Plata lead.

The inning seemed to give Boyden and the Warriors momentum. Boyden struck out the first two batters in the bottom of the inning, walked a batter and struck out the next. Tiburzi broke up Boyden's no-hit bid with a single.

La Plata added two more runs in the fourth on a booming two-run homer to left by Donnelly. The No. 8 hitter in the batting order, Donnelly hit the ball about 350 feet over the fence.

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BART trains stalled by computer glitch, stranding Bay Area commuters

November 22, 2013|By Jason Wells | This post has been updated. See the note below for details.
  • Traffic crawls past idle BART tracks in Lafayette during the previous strike. Service was stalled Friday morning by a computer glitch.
Traffic crawls past idle BART tracks in Lafayette during the previous strike.… (Kristopher Skinner )

Bay Area rail commuters were left without service Friday morning because of what operators called "major computer issues" that left hundreds of riders stranded in stalled trains.

As of 6 a.m., rail commuters were being told to find alternate forms of transportation as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system worked to repair the computer glitch.

BART spokesman Jim Allison told KGO-TV that the system-wide delays began shortly after midnight and resulted in between 500 and 1,000 passengers waiting onboard 19 nonmoving trains early Friday morning.

All passengers on the final Thursday night trains reached their destinations Friday morning, Allison said.

The issue was related to computer systems in central control not communicating properly with track switches.

In the lead up to the busy rush hours Friday, the union that represents train operators and other workers tweeted, "Computers still down, please find other means of transportation until further notice."

The systemwide delay was expected to cause major headaches for morning commuters who likely missed the public alerts. BART said on its website that there would be no service until further notice.

The service interruption comes as BART's two largest employee unions spar with management over a lingering contract dispute.

A new labor agreement between BART and its workers recently hit a snag after the Bay Area transit agency acknowledged it mistakenly left what it called a costly provision in the tentative contract, throwing the accord into doubt.

The San Francisco Bay Area was paralyzed twice this year by the strikes. The 104-mile rail system carries 400,000 passengers every weekday.

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Geriatric Patients With Cancer and the Problem of Polypharmacy

A Conversation With Andrew M. Whitman, PharmD

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Older patients with cancer generally have multiple comorbidities, with each often requiring separate medications. Studies have shown that polypharmacy and inappropriate drug use are prevalent among older cancer patients, leading to an enormous amount of preventable adverse events, many requiring hospitalization. Although polypharmacy is noted as a serious problem in the oncology community, it remains understudied. To shed light on this important clinical issue, The ASCO Post recently spoke with Andrew M. Whitman, PharmD, an oncology resident in the Department of Pharmacy Services at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, who recently published an article on the topic of polypharmacy and medication screening tools for older patients with cancer.

Interest in Pharmacy and Geriatrics

Please tell the readers a bit about your background.

I went to pharmacy school at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and while I was getting my doctor of pharmacy degree, I had a unique opportunity to do a combined-degree program, which is a PharmD and a Certificate in Aging Studies. It gave me the chance to delve into complex geriatric principles and how they relate to pharmacy, which became a large focus of my work.

How did you become interested in studying the issue of polypharmacy?

Upon starting my residency at the University of Virginia, it set the stage for working with older patients. During my second year of residency in oncology, I had the opportunity to work with Erika Ramsdale, MD, who already had a well-established geriatric oncology clinic, and spent 1 day a week there. When I started in the clinic, I wanted to find the best way to use my pharmacy degree, and it was decided to look at the issue of polypharmacy. We began a literature search to see what tools were being used for screening and assessment and found it lacking.

Defining Polypharmacy

First, please define polypharmacy and speak a bit about its prevalence in the geriatric oncology setting.

There are many definitions of polypharmacy that vary slightly, and currently there isn’t one consensus-driven definition, yet it is commonly described as using five or more medications. Polypharmacy should consider appropriateness in addition to quantity; therefore, polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications should be considered along a spectrum. For example, if you have an 82-year-old woman with cancer and she’s only on one medication, diphenhydramine, for sleep, I’d consider that polypharmacy due to the inappropriateness of the medication. In terms of prevalence, according to the literature,1 it ranges from about 20% in the general population and up to 70% to 100% in patients with cancer. When we screened our older patients with cancer for inappropriate medication use coming into the clinic, we found 100% polypharmacy.

De-prescribing Often Overlooked

You’ve identified a problem called “prescribing cascades” and a solution called “de-prescribing.” Please describe these two terms.

Older oncology patients tend to have multiple comorbidities that often necessitate numerous chronic medications. Of course, many patients also require medications to deal with the side effects of their treatments. For example, an elderly patient comes to the clinic for chemotherapy and develops nausea, which may be addressed with ondansetron, but unfortunately, it has its own side effects. Then there are headaches, constipation, and so on, which are often handled with medications that all have side effects. So, it’s a complicated balancing act.

If you have an 82-year-old woman with cancer and she’s only on one medication, diphenhydramine, for sleep, I’d consider that polypharmacy due to the inappropriateness of the medication.
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This is where de-prescribing—a stepping-down process that is often overlooked—comes in. One of the most important things driving de-prescribing is simply to look at the indication and the reason the medication was prescribed. Also, it’s important to know the overall goals of the medications being used for a particular patient. This is very important, especially in older patients with cancer, who, because of the intensity of their treatments, are at greater risk for adverse drug events. The purpose of de-prescribing is to hone down the number of inappropriate medications a patient is taking, and there is a surprising amount of overuse.

Screening Tools

Please identify and speak about current tools that busy community doctors can use to screen and address issues of polypharmacy.

Although there are a number of screening tools, the first thing a community oncologist can do is assess medication quantity. If a patient is using five or more medications, it’s a pretty good indicator of potential polypharmacy. At that point, the physician can reach for a screening tool.

Probably the best known of these tools is the Beers Criteria, which was developed in 1991 and has been revised four times, most recently in 2015. Its criteria are based on expert consensus and extensive literature review. It screens for potentially inappropriate medications and has been found to detect the highest prevalence of polypharmacy.2 Naturally, no one tool is perfect, and there are others to choose from. The Medication Appropriateness Index measures appropriateness of medications based on a 3-point scale of a 10-item checklist. For each item, the medication can be deemed appropriate, marginally appropriate, or inappropriate on the basis of such criteria as indication, effectiveness, dosage, directions, and cost.

Another tool that is quite interesting is called START/STOPP [Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to Right Treatment/ Screening Tool of Older Patients’ Prescriptions]. START is a comprehensive tool used to determine the appropriateness of the initial prescribing of medications, whereas STOPP evaluates existing medication regimens. Both tools use evidence-based rules to avoid commonly encountered instances of potentially inappropriate medications and prescribing omissions. START consists of 22 criteria organized by a physiologic system, and STOPP incorporates 65 criteria that are also organized by a physiologic system, with additional focus on analgesics, duplicate drug classes, and drugs that increase the risk of falls.

These tools are a good start, and I use them to perform an initial medication assessment. Of course, incorporating a pharmacist into the clinic setting as part of a multidisciplinary team is the ideal approach. A combination of screening tools may also be incorporated into a clinical support tool in the electronic health record to save time and initiate conversations about de-prescribing.

Closing Thoughts

Would you like to share some last thoughts on this issue?

Polypharmacy and inappropriate use of medications are significant issues that go underreported. To enhance the quality of care, screening patients for polypharmacy should be integrated into a multidisciplinary assessment. And as our population ages, we will see a natural growth in older patients with cancer, making the use of screening tools even more vital. Moreover, studies have shown that screening for polypharmacy and inappropriate use of medications drive down health-care costs by decreasing the number of hospital emergency room visits due to drug-related adverse events.1 There should be more exposure of this topic in the oncology community and approached with significantly more urgency. Polypharmacy is a quality-of-life issue. ■

Disclosure: Dr. Whitman reported no potential conflicts of interest.

1. Nightingale G, Hajjar E, Swartz K, et al: Evaluation of a pharmacist-led medication assessment used to identify prevalence of and associations with polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use among ambulatory senior adults with cancer. J Clin Oncol 33:1453-1459, 2015.

2. Price SD, Holman CD, Sanfilippo FM, et al: Association between potentially inappropriate medications from the Beers criteria and the risk of unplanned hospitalization in elderly patients. Ann Pharmacother 48:6-16, 2014.


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Alocrom 1200

What is ALOCROM 1200?

ALOCROM 1200 is a rapid non-electrolytic dip process which forms a protective iridescent golden coloured chromate coating on aluminium and its alloys.

It gives excellent corrosion resistance to painted and unpainted aluminium surfaces.

The coating is flexible, and will withstand bending and denting of surfaces.  Also, it gives an excellent foundation for paint and other organic finishes.

Light to medium coatings have minimum effect on surface electrical resistance.

ALOCROM is a cost-effective coating.

ALOCROM 1200 is ideal for coating all types of aluminium and aluminium alloys including high silicon pressure die-castings.

It should be used on aluminium wherever maximum corrosion resistance is required, and is suitable for articles which are to be painted or left unpainted.  It has approval for repairing damaged anodic coatings used in aircraft.  Other uses include general industrial work, electrical components, domestic appliances, car body parts and aircraft components.  It is unaffected by steel, brass or copper inserts in the articles being processed.

ALOCROM 1200 should not be used for food containers.

ALOCROM 1200 is not suitable for producing decorative effect on unpainted alloys which are subject to exterior weathering as some change in colour may occur in this use.

Outside the UK, Alocrom range of products are marketed under the Alodine trade name.

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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Color Club Swatch-a-thon

I'm feeling a lot better today (a big 'thank you' to the ladies who were wishing me well last night). I also finished the entire slab of chocolate and don't feel in the least bit guilty.

Here are the pics for the gorgeous Untamed Luxury - Covered in Diamonds collection:

 De-Luxe-Cious - three coats of holographic glitter in a blue/grey base.

 Ms. Hautie - two coats of grey with pink shimmer particles.

 Snakeskin - three coats of grey and gold/green shimmer.

Resort to Red - two coats.

Red Velvet - two coats of red glitter suspended in a black base.  This is my favourite.

I forgot to swatch 'Untamed Luxury' *slaps forehead*. That one will have to be done another day because I have a feeling it will be a 'stainer' like Zoya Charla.

  1. Omggg, loving this collection!
    My favs are De-Luxe-Cious and Red Velvet, they look so gorgeous *-*
    Esp, Red Velvet, it screams "BUY" at me D:

  2. Wow, Red Velvet looks fantastic! :)

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Jennifer deWinter on Nintendo and the Japanese video game industry

Jennifer deWinter is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and director of the Interactive Media and Game Development program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  She writes about the global circulation of Japanese popular culture, video game development, and game production. She is the co-editor with Carly A. Kocurek of the Bloomsbury book series Influential Game Designers for which she wrote the book Shigeru Miyamoto. On October 24, 2016, she spoke with Yujia Yao CMC '19.

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Japanese video game industry has suffered from general decline in world market shares since 2002. Many attribute the decline to the failure in producing culturally inclusive games that would succeed in western markets, would you agree with this view?

It is actually way more complicated than just producing culturally inclusive games. When speaking of cultural inclusiveness, we often speak from a viewpoint of western culture and specifically North American and U.S. cultures. Oftentimes, U.S. Caucasian culture is easily distributed to worldwide markets so that there is nothing that smacks of another group’s culture — that is normalized culture. I think to say that Japanese game developers are not doing culturally inclusive games is a misnomer; the U.S. doesn’t do culturally inclusive games. However, we in the U.S. are very used to controlling international media and exporting our cultural goods without having to worry about it.

I read often that there is concern that the Japanese game market is in decline. Even Japanese people talk about it. Keiji Inafune, designer of the successful game Mega Man in the late 1980s, infamously declared that the whole industry was dead in 2009. Now we have to start thinking seriously about that industry. We have in Japan a game industry that is a hardware provider. Japan continues to dominate hardware market. The Nintendo DS is the most successful global platform ever; it is followed by Sony Play Station 2, and Play Station 4 is out-selling X-box 1 at almost two to one. As a hardware provider, and that is the gateway of all games, Japanese companies still dominate the field. If you start looking at the games themselves, it becomes kind of fuzzy who owns the intellectual property rights and where those things exist. I read a report recently that the Japanese game market has just dropped by 13 percent in the last few years. But they were only looking at console games, not the hardware, not the mobile games, but specifically the console games. Worldwide, console games are dropping because mobile games are on the rise. Mobile games are doing very well in Japan and in global markets. I am not just referring to the 2012 heyday of mobile games; they are still solidly growing not only in their home market but also in the global market. I would push back against the general feelings that the Japanese games industry is in decline. I think Japanese game developers are concerned about the shifting media and shifting cultural landscapes.

In terms of the recent games development in Japan, I would say the developers are both trying to absorb influence from western culture and maintain their unique Japanese features, as every country does. There is a recent article from Hiroaki Yura who successfully kick-started a game for project Phoenix—he comes out of a AAA development in which he was involved with the Diablo III and Soulcaliber IV; he also worked in the U.S. for Halo. He talked about the need for paying attention to global market. Inafune and him are good friends, according to Yura. He has a particular interest in work for the global market. However, if you look at the Japanese market, you will find it is dominated by Japanese developers. If you look at the mobile market, for example, 90 percent of the games that Japanese people play is developed by Japanese game developers. It’s the same with console games. Japanese people statistically support their home grown-developers and console providers at a way higher rate. That is a huge market even with an aging population; the sheer number of people living in Japan allows this to happen. Also in the mobile market, the high number of players who are willing to spend money — monetized customers — is way higher in Japan than in the U.S. Not only are they willing to spend money, they also spend at a higher ratio than players in other countries do. With this type of market size and practices in mind, Japanese game developers can always serve their home market, but they always have the desire to succeed in the global market as well.

What do you think of the development philosophy of Shigeru Miyamoto, and Nintendo in general? They insist that no focus group is used, and instead the game developer would only focus on his own experience with the game?

Miyamoto is interesting. He comes to Nintendo as an industrial designer and artist. In Nintendo, he helped by doing other designs and painting arcade cabinets. When they had a failed Radar Scope, he sought an opportunity to redesign that cabinet into a new game. This is how we got the Donkey Kong. The interesting thing about Miyamoto is that his design philosophy has changed over the years. Miyamoto is functionally apprenticed or mentored by Gunpei Yokoi who is famous for developing Game and Watch. They had a complicated relationship. Mentored by Gunpei Yokoi, Miyamoto understood that it is unnecessary to develop the newest system or hardware; instead, game developers should focus on the core experiences. On top of that, Miyamoto wanted to be a manga artist. He wanted to draw comic books for a living, and you can see that in Donkey Kong. Japan focuses on derivative culture, so Donkey Kong started in Miyamoto’s brain as an adaptation of a Popeye narrative. They can’t get the intellectual property rights for Popeye, so he created Donkey Kong. Forward from the success of his Donkey Kong, we can look at his Mario franchise and his Zelda franchise and begin to see his experience design becoming articulated on some level. Both of the franchises are exploration games. Part of Miyamoto’s allure is that he is very carefree and young at heart; whenever people talk about his early days, they talk about how he had long hair and how he played banjo. In fact, in early documents, he said that he sees these two exploration games that he developed as functionally the same game; except that one of them is for the joy of playground—Mario Brothers—and the other is about his love of exploring the forest and caves in his childhood in Sonobe, Japan — and that is Zelda.

Even though he said that he didn’t use focus groups, he designs for broad audiences. Because he started as an arcade designer, he knows you are not only designing for the people who are playing, you are also designing for people who stand around and watch the game. It has to be fun for everyone, with a controller in hand or not. He mentioned how that idea influences his game development in talks that he gave at Game Developers Conferences and other professional events. At such events, he often takes pictures of people who are play-testing his games. Almost always, people are play-testing in pairs or in groups, hovering over single screen to watch it. In Miyamoto’s first GDC talk, he talked about wanting people to smile, and that is his goal. So while he is not bringing the focus group early on, he is bringing in people to test and to see if he is achieving his goal. If not, he is changing the game really quickly.

The reason that I really appreciate Miyamoto as a designer is that he has such a strong foundation in experience design. As he becomes older and develops interests commiserate with people of his age group, such as music, gardening, and concern with healthcare, he always tries to take what brings him joy from his hobbies and translate it into the core experience of new games. For example, he had a dog and he enjoyed having the dog. Things that bring him joy are playing with his dog and talking to other people with dogs. Things that doesn’t bring him joy are cleaning up after the dog and having all these high-stake responsibilities. So you get Nintendogs, and it is all about these cute things that you get to do for the dog, and when it comes to cleaning up and walking the dog, if you don’t do that, it is not high-stake. Similarly, Pikmin is everything Miyamoto loved about gardening. Wii Music, which is considered one of his failures, is a failure not because of the software he developed but because of the structure of music that requires a lot of time to practice. Again it is about what brings you joy. Improvisation and messing around is what he is trying to translate into a game. That is why Miyamoto has staying power across the age spectrum — he is always looking at that core experience and how he is going to translate it.

The phenomenal worldwide success of Pokémon Go boosted the share price of Nintendo for just a short while before it fell back to what it was trading before. How would you explain the nature of the game’s immense attraction and its marginal impact on the company’s market value?

I think this is rather predicable. Pokémon started its trans-media empire in the mid 90s. Everything that launches does so in close successions to one another. So you get a flow of planned trans-media experience, including the games, the manga, the anime, and the card game. The Pokémon company is the only subsidiary company of Nintendo, which is shocking considering the huge I.P. Nintendo owns. It is now 20 years since Pokémon has been launched, a perfect time for nostalgia and reinvigoration. People who were children and loved Pokémon in the 90s are now parents of children who are at the age appropriate to love it now. That explains the massive nostalgia reinvigoration of this brand. Not that it needed reinvigoration; it has always been strong. However, it is useful to keep in mind that Pokémon Go is not a Nintendo-developed game. Nintendo owns its I.P. Pokémon Go is, in fact, developed by Niantic, who developed Google’s Ingress game. They had a successful launch of an augmented reality game and took a lot of what they learnt to develop Pokémon Go. It does well in putting the Pokémon into the real world in an augmented way.

Pokémon Go is certainly bringing Nintendo a lot of money. I think it is on track to get Nintendo a billion dollar by the end of this year, not even its first full year. There is debate about whether or not they are mismanaging the game, and that it could be making more money. The truth is they are already monetizing this tremendous success, but monetizing for whom has been the real question. Nintendo stock saw a quick upsurge and then settled back down. This has really complicated reasons. One is that Nintendo doesn’t have a permanent relationship with the Niantic. Nintendo has a permanent relationship with another online mobile game publisher in Japan, DeNA. With DeNA they are developing games like Super Mario Run, a Fire Emblem-related game and an Animal-Crossing-related game that going into Nintendo’s I.P. But they are really slow on developing mobile technology. Pokémon Go is an anomaly. I was really surprised about what happened because Nintendo has always historically made its money from being a console provider and then getting proprietary gains from that console. The games are not cross-platform. For example, you can only play Mario and Zelda on a Nintendo console. Being a console provider means that everyone who makes games for that console pays Nintendo a set amount for every game sold on that console. This enables console providers to sell consoles at a price way below its cost. Niantic and Nintendo has a very iffy relationship. Now Nintendo just announced the launch of Nintendo Switch, which seems to be trying to compete with the same mobile market that it is also trying to break into.

Could you elaborate on the launch of Nintendo Switch? How will it affect the mobile market?
I am not sure how much new technologies will be applied to Nintendo Switch because we are all trying to speculating on Nintendo Switch right now. The entire Nintendo philosophy is lateral thinking with withered technology — the Yokoi philosophy. The idea is to take technology that is not cutting edge and think about how to make that cheaper technology support the type of experiences that you want to achieve. According to the videos and press releases of the Nintendo Switch, it looks like a Nintendo Wii pad integrated differently. There is a recent report of a number of patents that are related to Nintendo Switch that might help us guess the new features of the product, such as gyroscope, GPS, touchscreen, and image recognition. To me, the Nintendo Switch appears to be a much more sophisticated game pad from Nintendo Wii that will become both a console and a mobile device. What is innovative about it is that the mobile device will have a detachable controller. It solves one of the complaints about mobile devices that they are not comfortable to hold. It will allow for person-versus-person in play, which Nintendo DS already does, so it looks like it is adapting some of the strength of the DS. It also looks like the Switch is borrowing from the strength of tablet technology at a much larger screen level.

People are excited about it. It is the first time Nintendo has launched something in a while. I don’t know how it will integrate into mobile market, and my inclination is that it won’t. Nintendo tends to choke input. I think what Nintendo is trying to do is creating a platform by which the users can access mobile games through this particular app. But the app is underdeveloped so far, and users can’t access the library of all possible apps.

How does Japan’s aging population affect the video game industry?

In terms of statistics, a quarter of Japanese population is over 65 years old, which is a shockingly high number accompanied with low birth rate; this is considered national crisis. It affects the game design industry in small ways instead of big ways. There have been a number of games that were released, including some famous ones such as Brain Age, which aims at practicing computational skills, quick thinking, and reflective skills to keep brains young. The entire idea is about tracking how plastic and useful one’s brain is so that one can train one’s brain down. In many ways, if not designed for an elderly group, firmly it will be for their use. There are also companies specifically targeting the elderly market, especially with recent research about video games and brain plasticity, and video games and exercise. Wii and Wii Fit are not hardcore games that require mastery of controlling systems to achieve high scores; instead, they are casual games that are meant to scaffold you in taking control of your own body and your own brain. I think that is the biggest influence. Another influence is that certain arcades in Japan, not all of them, host days or nights specifically for people over 50 or 60 to bring them in.

Japanese video game industry has also been criticized for slow development of new generations of games. What would you consider as the reasons behind its slow development?

It depends on how do we define slow development. I’ve seen similar development in Japan to the U.S. and the boom of indie gaming. It is the same case in Japan. Whether or not the Nintendo Switch is going to speed up development depends on the ways in which they have changed the Switch from the previous generations of Nintendo Wii. One of the difficulties that hardware and software development collaboration tends to run into is that hardware is developed anachronistically to paraphrase Ruggill and McAllister. It is built with current technologies to anticipate games that will be developed 7 to 10 years from now on. It is built with functionalities that people have not yet learnt to master. When the PS4 was launched, software developers were complaining constantly that developing on that platform was extremely difficult. The CEO of PlayStation of Sony explained that as hardware developers they had to develop a platform for future innovations. Again, not knowing what the Switch is going to be like and also not knowing how much old technology is incorporated in this new mold, I can’t predict how much it is going to speed up game development. My inclination is to say according to Nintendo’s previous development, they tend to be conservative on massive changes to hardware. Therefore, people who have developed on Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS may not have as steep a learning curve for developing with this new hardware, and it may speed the development up.

But again, the entire world is developing for the Nintendo platform, not only the Japanese companies.

Many Japanese video game producers are investing in Virtual Reality technology. Is V.R. an opportunity for them to reclaim global market as they did when mobile games were introduced to the world? If so, how should they catch this opportunity and adapt to today’s global market?
The entire world seems to be moving into Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies. Part of the reason is that V.R. technology has become cheaper and affordable in the consumer market. I think whether V.R. is going to reinvigorate Japan is not the right way to think about this. The Japanese game industry always compares its current performance with their heyday in the 1980s. The fact is there is just no way to recapture that. In the 1980s, America saw the arcade crash of 1983, and all the main console developers were Japanese, like Sega, Nintendo and eventually PlayStation. They got sole control of the market in this way. Their I.P. industry was much more developed at that time as well, and it was integrated with anime and manga industries. Historically, this is why I would say V.R. is not the way for Japan to recapture its global dominance. But that being said, Japan is much more advance in robotic technology and in other interactive media technology of which V.R. is of many forms.

Their choice of developing V.R. is a good call, but I still don’t think it’s going to have a massive impact on the video game industry until V.R. comes down in price quite a bit. Even then, I don’t think it is going to reshape the industry radically. I am being conservative because we have seen a decrease in users of consoles and an increase of users in mobile devices; casual games are on the rise. Also if we look at the experiment with full motion input such as the Wii, there is some development, but people just prefer to sit with a controller in their hands. Those games didn’t do very well with one or two exceptions. That was meant to be a big revolution, and it didn’t work out as the developers expected. Now we think changing the way that we see the world is going to be the big revolution. Again, what will be the value added of seeing a Sony Vive mask versus just seeing it on the television. Until they overcome that value proposition, I don’t think there will be a massive revolution.

Which companies in East Asia pose the greatest competitive threat to Japan’s video-game companies in general, and to Nintendo in particular?

China is already a massive player in the mobile market because of platforms such as Wechat and Weibo that allow for dissemination of games. It is already a strong market, but I don’t think it is going to be as big as the Japanese market at a global scale. Japan has a long history of integrated transmedia approach to games. Not only do they develop games, they also develop comic books and anime that narratively develop the games, centralizing and strengthening the I.P. of certain games. At other times, the comic books and anime can make a game. In addition to that, light novels are on the rise in translation abroad. All of these are centralized under Japanese government’s policy Cool Japan aiming to bring global investors into different aspects of the Japanese game industry and other Japanese cultural industries. I think this explains why Japan has had a strong foothold in the global market.

The other thing to note is that the games are functionally two dimensional media. It is not about real human beings that look Asian. We are looking at characters that are without ethnic origin, which means that they look white. As a result, Japanese video games can be exported very easily as a “normalized culture”. If you compare Japanese video games with K-Pop, which includes Korean dramas and Korean music videos, you can find that despite equal popularity in East Asia, K-Pop has more difficulties in being exported unless the directors find foreign actors to join their production. But that is not overlapping into Korean video games or their animation industry. It is the same case with China. Where Korea and China are putting effort into their media and social texts is not as easy to export as the two-dimensional forms. China is celebrating their film industry, especially its fifth generation directors.

Therefore, I don’t think I see this type of global competitor anytime soon, although home competition in Japan is strong and Asian competition is strong.

How does the video games influence Japanese culture?

This kind of cultural influence is hard to definitively trace. It is definitely highly culturally significant. We know that video games have tremendous economic impact on Japan. Economically they are often collapsed in with our understanding of manga and anime. If you read reports from Japan External Trade Organization, oftentimes, you can see that all three industries of video games, comics, and anime will be discussed together as integrated industries. Aesthetically, they look very similar; narrative-wise and they often borrow from one another, but metaphorically, I find it very interesting when a comic book or an anime starts using the branching narrative that is the structure of visual story games as jokes. Japan has a great number of mobile technology users, and it is no surprise that Nintendo DS is the most successful console ever. Especially in Japan, people are on the train all the time, so they are playing games on mobile platforms all the time. It is hard to tease out how any media is affecting culture and how culture is shaping the media, for we know media is always an expression of culture and culture always cycles back and redefine culture in particular ways.

Yujia Yao CMC '19Student Journalist
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