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As has become annual tradition, join me and Kirk for a long trip through the video games of 2016 on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen. UPDATE (1/12): Now with parts one AND two!
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You can also find us on iTunes or Google Play. Reach us at [email protected] with any and all questions, 2017 guest requests, and fan art.
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The IPTV and Mobile Zones at IBC2008 were busy and offered lots of technology to consider for those interested in advancing Internet Protocol television, Web TV and video to mobile devices like cell phones and in-car receivers.
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Broadcast Engineering produced video reports from around the entire convention, and IPTV Update had a chance to host a short video tour of the IPTV Zone. During the tour, Mark Lambe from Shenick discussed his company’s efforts to make IPTV monitoring effective; Alex Hayward from Digital Fountain talked about how the company’s proprietary forward error correction technology is enhancing the viewer’s experience; and Mikael Samuelsson from Edgeware discussed his company’s solution for serving up content for Web TV content over the public Internet.
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This edition’s Sound Off is presented in video form.
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The president of a leading telecommunications integrator says his company’s turnkey IPTV offer will make it easy for Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos to begin offering television IP and stay competitive with cable.
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers’ inaugural event as part of its new Professional Development Academy will focus on the technology of IPTV.
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IPTV Update concludes its conversation with Danny Wilson, president and CEO of Pixelmetrix, about the challenges facing IPTV operators.
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The organizer of the new Telecom@NAB2007 predicts IPTV service will one day rock the world of cable and satellite TV service.
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A deacon at a Lakeland church faces two counts of lewd molestation after police said he inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl. Melvin Risher, 59, a deacon at the Harmony Missionary Baptist Church, was being held at the Polk County jail. The girl and her mother contacted police March 17 and said Risher inappropriately touched the girl, investigators said. Police said Risher met the girl and her family at the church.
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Risher was interviewed by police March 28, and following an investigation, a warrant was issued for his arrest. Risher was taken into custody without incident on Monday, police said.
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Banksy is best known as a masked graffiti artist whose work usually veers wildly between powerful political statements and vague/confusing political statements, but he’s started expanding his repertoire in recent years to include more concrete installations. He set up the “Dismaland” theme park in 2015, and now he’s setting up his own hotel in Bethlehem on the West Bank. Called the “Walled Off Hotel,” the place is decidedly in the “vague/confusing political statements” camp, since it kind of seems like a Banksy-based tourist attraction more than anything.
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Whatever the basic message is, Banksy is treating guests at the Walled Off Hotel to a series of pre-recorded concerts from musicians like Flea, Hans Zimmer, and—though it surely doesn’t mean anything—Robert “3D” Del Naja from Massive Attack. Plus, according to Stereogum, these concerts will include a collection of new music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with them “performing” nightly at the hotel’s player piano for the next few weeks. You can hear one of the tracks below.
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Also, if you are interested in figure out what the Walled Off Hotel is all about, you can find more information here and here.
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Craig sustained an apparent left arm injury in the final minute of Tuesday's 133-107 win over the Timberwolves, the Associated Press reports. He finished the night with six points (2-4 FG, 2-3 3Pt), three assists and one block.
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The wing picked up the injury while attempting to swat a shot attempt away with 14 seconds remaining and appeared to be in a good deal of pain. More information regarding the nature and extent of Craig's issue will be revealed when the Nuggets release their initial injury report ahead of Thursday's matchup with the Mavericks.
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Online movie service Vudu is giving away copies of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" for free for today only.
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Ten years ago Al Gore transformed himself from failed presidential candidate to ecological warrior with the release of his influential film "An Inconvenient Truth."
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As a way to mark the anniversary, Vudu is giving away copies free to own for today (May 24) only.
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While climate change is now a hot topic, it took films like "An Inconvenient Truth" to popularize the (controversial) idea that humans are having a hugely detrimental effect on the planet we live on.
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Whether you believe in climate change or not, with a rating of 93 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes "An Inconvenient Truth" is worth checking out.
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Vudu users are able to download the film onto compatible devices or stream it in up to 1080p (HDX) quality.
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Update, 3:30 p.m. ET: The movie is also available for free on the iTunes store today only .
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In this episode of Central Florida Explorer, Patrick climbs to the moon at Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse.
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When considering ways to get physically closer to the moon, your options are fairly limited. If you have a high-level connection at NASA or personally know Elon Musk, maybe you could get close. Or you could climb to the top of the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse.
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Located about an hour northeast of Orlando, the inlet is quiet and peaceful. Its main attraction, the lighthouse, towers 188 feet above the sandy beaches nearby.
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While we couldn’t get as close to the moon as one can by rocket ship, we could get almost 200 feet closer at the top of Florida’s tallest lighthouse.
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The lighthouse offers a “climb to the moon” tour once every lunar month during the full moon. The experience is capped at 25 guests, so it is frequently sold out.
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Currently, the next availability isn’t until January 2019. If you’re patient and plan ahead, the tour is well worth it.
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The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse.
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Steven Oshinski, a docent who dressed as a lighthouse keeper for the tour, gave our group some history before we started our ascent.
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The lighthouse was finished in 1887 and the glow of the kerosene lamp could be seen from 20 miles out at sea. Before automation of the light, keepers and families would have lived at the lighthouse. One can only imagine how lonely it could have been at times.
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After our chat and some light refreshments, it was time to climb 203 steps to the top.
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The sun sets at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse.
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I let a few others take the lead, then followed behind with the additional weight of a camera and backpack. Neither of those helped in my climbing.
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I stopped briefly to gaze out at the sunset, but there was no time to waste. I persevered and continued onward. It was fun to look down at the others coming up as we all huffed and puffed our way to the top.
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Steven Oshinski, a docent at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, talks about the lantern room.
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After at least five minutes of just climbing stairs, it was a big relief to finally reach the top. The wind was blowing strong, but it felt nice after our exercise and the views were spectacular.
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I could see all of Ponce de Leon Inlet and up the coast to Daytona Beach. On a clear night, you might even be able to see the outskirts of Orlando.
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While waiting for the moon to show up, Steven showed us around the lantern room, talking about the lenses and the lamp. Currently, at the heart of the lighthouse is a 1,000-watt halogen bulb, which pumps out 20,000 lumens.
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Beams of light shine outward on a cloudy evening at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse.
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Unfortunately, the man in the moon did not come out to greet us that night. The clouds were simply too thick.
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There are some things that nobody can control, including the weather. I waited an additional half hour near the lighthouse but to no avail.
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Eventually, the moon finally showed, glowing bright for my drive back to Orlando. I took a few moments to admire it when I got home.
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Even though the weather inhibited our view, the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse tour provided a lovely evening of views, history and companionship. And maybe a little bit of exercise too.
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The full moon as seen from Orlando on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018.
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The “climb to the moon” tour at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse (4931 S Peninsula Dr, Ponce Inlet, 32127) happens once a lunar month during the full moon. Tickets are $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Tickets and more information can be found ponceinlet.org/climb-to-the-moon-tour.
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On this episode of Central Florida Explorer, our Florida newcomer takes an airboat ride on Lake Tohopekaliga with Captain Jim and the Duus family from Norway.
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In this episode of Central Florida Explorer, Patrick explores some Winter Park scenery and history while paddling the Winter Park Chain of Lakes with Peace of Mind Kayak Tours.
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In the latest wanderings of the Central Florida Explorer, Patrick finds his way around Clermont while on a bicycle scavenger hunt.
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In this episode of Central Florida Explorer, Patrick explores many of the offerings at the Westgate River Ranch Resort.
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In the latest wanderings of the Central Florida Explorer, Patrick tries to find out what sets the Central Florida Fair apart from the rest.
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Do you have suggestions for my next destination or just want to get in touch? You can find me on Twitter (@PConnPie), Instagram (@pconnpie) or send me an email: [email protected].
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(CNN) -- Suspected Maoists killed 35 people in a land mine attack against a bus in central India, a local police chief told CNN.
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At least 14 policemen and 13 civilians were among the dead, according to CNN-IBN, CNN's sister network in India.
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The civilian bus was blown 20 feet into the air after hitting an explosive device Monday afternoon on a road roughly 280 miles (450 km) south of the state capital of Raipur, CNN-IBN reported.
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"Today we have seen the wanton disregard for life," Indian Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said, according to CNN-IBN. "This is a new dimension. I can only say that the targeting of civilians shows the Maoists are desperate."
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The strike occurred one day before the Maoists were set to launch a 48-hour protest in five states in response to a new government crackdown against them, CNN-IBN noted.
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Suspected Maoist rebels killed at least seven officials when they blew up an armored security vehicle in eastern India earlier this month, authorities told CNN. Suspected guerillas killed more than 70 federal police in a deadly ambush in April.
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This is a new dimension. I can only say that the targeting of civilians shows the Maoists are desperate.
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India regards the left-wing insurgents as its most serious internal security threat. The Maoists have claimed to be fighting for the dispossessed since the 1960s.
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Nonprofit groups and intellectuals found helping the banned insurgents spread their ideology would be prosecuted under the country's laws, India's Home Ministry said earlier this month.
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But Human Rights Watch decried the warning as an attempt to silence political speech.
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"The Indian government should think twice before trying to silence political discussion and demanding endorsement of its views on Maoist groups," said Brad Adams, Asia director for the U.S.-based rights group.
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CNN's Sumnima Udas contributed to this report.
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Cricket - Booth v Sowerby.'Luke Bridges bats for Sowerby.
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Barkisland are through to the semi-finals of the Huddersfield League’s Sykes Cup.
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Darren Robinson’s side were four wickets winners of a delayed tie at Shelley yesterday.
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They restricted their hosts to 182 with the skipper taking four for 30.
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In-form pair Luke Bridges (65) and Alex Scholefield (54 no) starred with the bat as Barkisland beat their better-fancied rivals.
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Fellow Calderdale side Rastrick lost at Moorlands, making 203 in reply to the Mirfield side’s 272.
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The last four is completed by Scholes, nine wicket winners at Meltham, and Kirkburton, who had a five-wicket victory at Golcar.
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A different Castro is in charge. Church-state relations are warmer.Talk of economic reforms is now acceptable. Dissidents are morecombative. But the economy is still in deep trouble. And a Castro isstill in power.
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Back in 1998, Cuba was “a living memory of the Soviet model ofsociety,” yet the island’s Catholic Church had managed to endure and“give witness and provide hope against hope,” said Orlando Marquez,spokesman for the archdiocese of Havana.
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Cuba was officially atheist from 1962 to 1992, Christmas was restoredas an official holiday only in 1997. And the next year Cardinal JaimeOrtega became the first church leader to speak on state-ownedtelevision since the early 1960s.
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After Ortega met with Castro in 2009, the cardinal announced thegovernment would free more than 100 political prisoners andpro-government mobs in Havana halted their harassments of thedissident Ladies in White.
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The church also has been permitted to build a new seminary, launch abusiness school in conjunction with a Catholic University in Spain andrun a string of independent charity and educational programs that fillgaps in the government’s eroding social security net.
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Yet critics say that the improved church-state relations came at theprice of silence on government human rights abuses. All but 12 of thejailed dissidents were taken directly from prison to airplanes thatflew them to exile in Spain, they noted.
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“The church is now the only independent actor recognized by thegovernment as an ally. Today, there is a quasi-concordat [an officialagreement] that was not there before,” said Haroldo Dilla, one of theCenter for the Study of the Americas academics attacked by Raúl Castroin 1996.
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When the Polish-born John Paul visited Cuba Jan. 21-25 of 1998, he wasa fierce opponent of communism and a healthy Fidel Castro had justaddressed a Cuban Communist Party congress from a stage under largeportraits of Marx and Lenin.
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John Paul died in 2005 and Fidel Castro, now 85 years old, surrenderedpower the following year after emergency surgery. And when brother andsuccessor Raúl Castro addressed another party congress last year,there were no portraits at all on the stage.
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One constant from one papal visit to another has been the crisis inthe Cuban economy, which shrank by about 35 percent in three yearsafter Moscow halted its subsidies to the island, estimated at up to $6billion a year, in 1992.
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Yet the ways in which the more ideological Fidel and the morepragmatic Raúl dealt with the economic problems were vastly different.
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Fidel grudgingly embraced some basic free-market reforms, likeallowing “self-employment” such as family-owned restaurants, partyclowns and manicurists. But as soon as the economy stabilized in 1995,he began retrenching.
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By most accounts, Fidel ordered Raúl to crack down on the Center forthe Study of the Americas’ too-eager reformers in 1996. CommunistParty ideologue Raúl Valdés Vivo branded Cubans who favored capitalismas “piranhas” the following year.
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But today Raúl is pushing a string of far more ambitious economicreforms, including leasing millions of acres of fallow state lands toprivate farmers, allowing more and larger private businesses andoffering government loans to support them.
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“That is not because he wants to open up, but because he has no otheroption” after decades in which the hallmarks of the Cuban economy wereinefficiency, lack of productivity and corruption, Dilla told El NuevoHerald.
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One clear change between the two papal visits is the way that Cubanexiles in South Florida view the trips.
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In late 1997, the archdiocese of Miami was forced to cancel a cruiseship charter that would have taken thousands of pilgrims to Cuba towitness John Paul’s visit, because of stiff and highly vocalopposition from Catholic exiles.
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Today, the archdiocese is plowing ahead with arrangements for aircharters to take pilgrims to Cuba for Benedict’s visit, and exileopposition to the charters has not been as strong or as loud.
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And while 11 bombings shook Cuban tourist spots in 1997, blamed onexile Luis Posada Carriles, today the idea of armed struggle againstthe communist government has been dropped by all but a handful of themost recalcitrant exiles.
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Cuba’s peaceful domestic opposition also has changed and grownsignificantly over the past 14 years, while the government has shiftedthe ways and means it uses to repress dissent.
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In the late 1990s, most of Cuba’s top dissidents were olderintellectuals who had initially backed Fidel Castro. The late GustavoArcos participated in Castro’s 1953 attack on the Moncada armybarracks before he became a dissident. Elizardo Sánchez taught Marxismbefore he became a human-rights activist.
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Fidel Castro had little tolerance for dissidents and put many of themin prison. Arcos served seven years in prison and Sánchez servedeight. And a crackdown in 2003 sentenced 75 dissidents to up to 28years in prison. All were freed by last spring.
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Dissidents today tend to be younger, more working-class and moreaggressive. They stage street protests and ask tough questions atpro-government events. One even filed an unprecedented lawsuit againstthe Justice Ministry, making some headway before losing.
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The Ladies in White now have tacit government approval for theirprotest marches after Sunday Mass at a Havana church — unthinkableunder Fidel — although police and pro-government mobs have crushedtheir efforts to do the same in eastern Santiago de Cuba.
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Scores of Cuban dissidents and othersd now have cell phones and blogs,like Yoani Sánchez’s Generacion Y, that they use regularly to railagainst the communist system and disseminate their complaints in Cubaand abroad.
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Security officials in recent years have largely stopped subjectingdissidents to trials and lengthy sentences, and instead mostlydetained opposition activists for a few hours or days in order tointimidate and harass them or block planned activities.
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Such “express detentions” totaled 85 in one four-month period in 1997,according to one news headline. In 2011, according to ElizardoSanchez’s Cuban Commission for Human Rights and NationalReconciliation, they totaled more than 4,000.
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Fox Sports and Red Bull Media House have inked a three-year deal to broadcast the Red Bull World Series, the companies announced this week, marking the energy drink company's largest U.S. licensing deal yet.
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