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Bay Area Fourth of July fireworks, carnivals and more
Chronicle Staff June 14, 2019Updated: July 5, 2019, 10:23 am
Adalyn Hofmann eats a bowl of Nitro Puffs from the Nitro Shack at last summer's Alameda County Fair. Photo: Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to the Chronicle
No matter where you are in the Bay Area, there's sure to be a carnival, pancake breakfast or fireworks show nearby this Fourth of July. If it's not enough to host a backyard barbecue and watch the fireworks on TV, don't worry. In the spirit of Independence Day, The Chronicle has compiled a guide to local events, including parties and festivals, fun runs and parades, and even cruise rides and car shows.
Grab a picnic blanket or lawn chair, bring your family and friends and be prepared to hear some inevitable "U.S.A! U.S.A!" chants during a festive, patriotic celebration of this national holiday.
Alameda Fourth of July Parade
The Mayor's Fourth of July Parade is 3 miles of marching bands, festive floats and vehicles and horses. Hundreds participate in the annual celebration, and thousands more join to watch.
10 a.m. Free. Begins at Lincoln Avenue and Park Street, Alameda.
www.alamedaparade.com
Antioch Fourth of July Celebration and Parade
Antioch's annual festivities kick off with a parade on Second Street at 11 a.m., then transitions into a celebration filled with arts and crafts vendors, music, and a car show at 4 p.m. The day rounds off with a 9:30 p.m. fireworks display.
11 a.m. parade; 4 p.m. celebration; 9:30 p.m. fireworks. Events run 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Free. Second Street parade; Contra Costa County Fairgrounds, 1201 W. 10th St., Antioch.
www.celebrateantioch.org
Benicia Picnic in the Park and Fireworks
There'll be food, crafts and even something for the kids at City Park starting at noon and lasting until 7 p.m. End the night with fireworks at 9 p.m.
Noon-10 p.m. Free. 150 Military W, Benicia. www.beniciamainstreet.org
Berkeley Marina 4th of July
The Berkeley Marina is hosting a family-friendly, alcohol-free event with a beachside Adventure Playground for children and plenty of live music from an Afro-Cuban drumming circle, the Groovy Judy Band and other performers.
Noon-10 p.m. Free. 201 University Ave., Berkeley. www.anotherbullwinkelshow.com
Blue and Gold Fireworks Cruises
Celebrate Independence Day with a view of San Francisco's most iconic landmarks while watching fireworks on the water. There will be drinks on all cruises except the 8:15 p.m. departure. Departures from 8 to 8:40 p.m. from Piers 39 and 41; 8:30 p.m. departure from Tiburon Ferry Terminal.
8-10 p.m. $95. San Francisco and Tiburon ferry terminals, S.F. www.blueandgoldfleet.com
Commodore Fourth of July Cruise Dinner
Dining and dancing aboard a luxury cruise with an up-close view of the San Francisco fireworks show.
6:30 p.m.-11 p.m. $55-$130. Commodore Cruises, 2394 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda. www.commodoreevents.com
Celebrate Concord
The morning starts with a 7:30 a.m. pancake breakfast, fun run and 5k walk, followed by a parade at 10 a.m. Afternoon and evening activities include a 4 p.m. festival and performances by the 562nd Air Force Bank and the Big Jangle. Fireworks at 9 p.m.
7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Mount Diablo High School, 2450 Grant St., Concord.
www.concordjuly4th.com
Central Park Concert
As part of the city of San Mateo's Central Park Concert series, David Martin's House Party will be performing a Fourth of July concert.
Noon-2 p.m. Free. Central Park & Recreation Center, 50 E. Fifth Ave., San Mateo.
www.cityofsanmateo.org
Corte Madera Fourth of July Parade and Festival
The 10:30 a.m. parade features music from the Corte Madera Town Band and the Freedom Band, and starts at Todos Santos Plaza. The festivities include arts and crafts, food, carnival games and more performances at the festival, taking place at Town Park starting at 9 a.m.
9 a.m.-5 p.m. festival. Free. Redwood High School, 395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur.
www.cortemadera.org
Cupertino Fourth of July
The Independence Day festivities start with a 7:30 a.m. pancake breakfast at the Quinlan Community Center, with a children's carnival from 9 to 11:30 a.m., flag raising at 9:30 a.m., a children's parade at 10 a.m. and a concert at 10:30 a.m. Later, at 9:30 p.m., attendees will be able to watch a fireworks show from multiple venues.
7:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Free (except for breakfast, $6-$9). Memorial Park, 10185 N. Stelling Road, Cupertino. www.cupertino.org
City of El Cerrito and WorldOne Festival
Bounce houses, carnival games, face painting, art sales and performances from musicians and bands like Benny Bock, Afrolicious and Moira Smiley. The festival ends at 6 p.m., but the concerts go for another half hour.
10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free. Cerrito Vista Park, 7007 Moesner Lane, El Cerrito.
www.el-cerrito.org
Foster City Fourth of July Family and Dog Parade
If you wish to participate, registration is free and starts at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 10:50 a.m. Dress up your wagons, your dog and yourself in hopes of winning a prize, or just for fun.
11:05 a.m. Free. The Vibe Teen Center, 670 Shell Blvd., Foster City. www.fostercity.org
Member of the Sikh material arts school perform during Fremont's annual Fourth of July parade in 2016. Photo: Michael Noble Jr. / The Chronicle
Fremont Fourth of July Parade
Marching bands, decorated floats and more join together for Fremont's annual Fourth of July parade. This year's theme is, rather fittingly, "This Is America."
10 a.m. Free. Fremont Main Library, 2400 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont. www.fremont4th.org
Golden Gate Park Band
A program of patriotic and American music in one of San Francisco's favorite parks.
1-2:30 p.m. Free. Golden Gate Park Music Concourse, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. www.goldengateparkband.org
Green Music Center Fourth of July Spectacular
Transcendence Theatre Company and the Santa Rosa Symphony will be led by conductor Michael Berkowitz in this Independence Day celebration. The concert itself starts at 7:30 p.m., but carnival games and food begin at 4:30 p.m.
4:30-10 p.m. $25. Green Music Center, Weill Hall, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. www.gmc.sonoma.edu
Half Moon Bay's 49th Ol' Fashioned Fourth of July Parade and Block Party
The parade starts at noon, but if you're looking for food or drinks, there will be an 8 a.m. pancake breakfast, a barbecue at noon and a "libations tent" running from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Main Street, Half Moon Bay. www.miramarevents.com
Dressed for Independence Day, Brenda White prepares to watch fireworks at Oakland's Fourth of July celebration in Jack London Square. Photo: Mike Kepka / The Chroncle
Jack London Square Fourth of July Block Party
There will be live music, beer and cider, and barbecue on this Oakland waterfront. In honor of this year's theme, "Interdependence Day," there will be "multicultural programming across music, dance, art, and food."
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Jack London Square, 472 Water St., Oakland.
Livermore Family Fun Fireworks Celebration
Streets close at 4 p.m. in anticipation of Livermore's annual fireworks display.
9:30 p.m. fireworks. Free. Downtown Livermore, 2400 First St., Livermore.
www.livermoredowntown.com
Marin County Fair themed 'Over the Moon'
Marin County Fair calls itself the "happiest healthiest fair on earth." In addition to classic carnival rides and food vendors, there will also be a film festival, an ABBA tribute concert and fireworks lighting up the sky at 9:30 p.m.
11 a.m.-11 p.m. $15-$20. Marin County Fair, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.
www.marinfair.org
Napa County Fair Star-Spangled Social
The festivities begin with a parade at 11 a.m., featuring dancers and floats, and set to theme of "Celebrate 100 years of tradition!" The carnival then starts at noon, with people generally filling in at 6 p.m. to grab a seat for the nighttime fireworks show.
11 a.m.-11 p.m. $15-$25. Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 N. Oak St., Calistoga.
www.celebratenapavalley.org
Novato Fourth of July Parade
The annual Novato Fourth of July parade will feature more than 100 entries, including floats, bands and vintage military vehicles.
10 a.m. Free. Grant Avenue, Novato. www.novatoparade.com
Orinda Fourth of July Parade
A pancake breakfast at 7:30 a.m., flag raising at 7:55 a.m., fun run at 8 a.m., book sale at 9 a.m. and community activities at 11:30 a.m. The parade begins at 8:45 a.m. at the BART parking lot in Orinda.
7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Free. Orinda Community Park, 28 Orinda Way, Orinda.
www.orindaassociation.org
Pacifica Fourth of July
The Pacifica Parks Beaches & Recreation Department will be hosting its 45th Independence Day picnic with games, crafts and face painting. There will also be live music.
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Frontierland Park, 900 Yosemite Drive, Pacifica.
www.business.pacificachamber.com
Palo Alto Chili Cook Off and Summer Festival
Chili tasting starts at 1:30 p.m., and five dollars will get you five tastings. If you're not interested in chili, there will also be various food trucks and booths, games for the kids, bounce houses, and arts and crafts.
Noon-5 p.m. $5. Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto.
www.paloaltochilicookoff.com
Pardee Historic Home Museum Annual Fourth of July
There will be barbecue, hot dogs and corn on the cob as you play croquet or badminton on the lawn. Live music features patriotic songs sung by Ann Gibson, with Frederick Hodges on the piano.
Noon-3:30 p.m. $5-$15. Pardee Historic Home Museum, 672 11th St., Oakland.
www.pardeehome.org
Queer as Fourth Radical Resistance Fundraiser
In its fifth year, the Queer as Fourth party will be raising money for MyRem, which provides renting assistance amid the San Francisco housing crisis. Jocquese Whitfield will be hosting, and the event will be DJ-ed by Deity, Micahtron and Krissy Marchante. There will be barbecue with vegan and vegetarian options.
3-8 p.m. $10-$15. El Rio, 3158 Mission St., S.F. www.facebook.com
Redwood City Fourth of July Parade
This busy day of Independence Day activities includes a parade and 5k run, live music by the band Blue: Coastside Cool, a car show, festival and more. Fireworks begin around 9:30 p.m.
7:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.
www.redwoodcity.org
Fireworks are launched during a Fourth of July celebration in San Francisco. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle
San Francisco Pier 39 Fourth of July
The soft rock band Mustache Harbor will be playing from 3 to 6 p.m. Fireworks will start at 9:30 p.m.
3 p.m. Free. Pier 39, S.F. www.pier39.com
San Jose Rotary Fireworks
A fireworks show in Discovery Meadow.
10-10:30 p.m. Free. Discovery Meadow, 180 Woz Way, San Jose. www.rotaryfireworks.org
San Ramon Independence Day Celebration
There will be live music from the Jimmy Buffett tribute band, Garratt Wilkin & the Parrotheads, as well as crafts and games, and food from Food Truck Mafia.
5-8 p.m. Free. San Ramon Central Park, 12501 Alcosta Blvd., San Ramon.
www.ci.san-ramon.ca.us
Santa Clara All-City Picnic and Fireworks Extravaganza
Music from the Megatones and the Cheeseballs follows a flag dedication ceremony at 3 p.m. There will be bounce houses and carnival games, and at 9:30 p.m. a fireworks show.
3 p.m. Free. Central Park Santa Clara, 909 Kiely Blvd., Santa Clara. www.santaclaraca.gov
Sausalito Fourth of July
A parade with cars and floats starts off the Fourth of July celebration at 10 a.m., followed by a noon picnic in Dunphy Park, a 6:30 p.m. dinner and fireworks at night.
10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Gabrielson Park, Humboldt Avenue & Anchor Street, Sausalito.
www.oursausalito.com
South Tahoe Fireworks on the Lake
Rated one of the five best fireworks shows in the nation by the American Pyrotechnics Association. There are multiple locations where you can view the fireworks, but Lakeside Park is a popular option.
9:45 p.m. $20. Lakeside Park, 4077 Pine Blvd., South Lake Tahoe.
www.lakesideparkassociation.org
Alameda residents got to show their Fourth of July spirit with events such as a parade through the city and celebrations on the USS Hornet. Photo: Maddie McGarvey / The Chronicle
USS Hornet Independence Day Celebration
Main stage performers include Andre Thierry, The M-Tet, Matt Jaffe and Aki Kumar. Dance lessons with Dane DeSimone start at 6:30 p.m., and fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m.
2-10 p.m. $15-$25. USS Hornet Air and Space Museum, 707 W. Hornet Ave., Alameda. www.uss-hornet.org
USS Potomac Fourth of July Fireworks Cruise
Champagne, dessert and views of the fireworks from the bay on Franklin Roosevelt's "Floating White House."
7:30 p.m. $125. USS Potomac, 540 Water St., Oakland. www.ticketweb.com
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King, developers of Candy Crush, working on a new Call of Duty mobile game
Keshav Bhat
King, developers of the popular Candy Crush mobile game saga, has revealed that they are working on a brand new mobile experience for Call of Duty.
King Digital Entertainment, founded in 2003, was acquired and is now wholely owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc as of February 2016 for $5.9 billion. When Activision announced the acquisition of King, Activision Blizzard CEO stated that they wanted to expand King's reach into new opportunities within the Activision Blizzard family. Today, that first opportunity has been revealed.
King Digital has launched a new recruitment website announcing a new studio in Stockholm, Sweden that will focus on bringing Call of Duty to mobile devices.
We are a new King team, located in Stockholm, Sweden, and we're working on an exciting new project. The team is adapting one of the most iconic game franchises of all-time: Call of Duty®, to become a mobile experience. This is a rare and exciting opportunity. Our challenge as a team is to create a Call of Duty experience on mobile that will strive to transform the best console experience fans know and love, while also breaking new ground for mobile and redefining the genre. Our approach and ambition is to be fresh, social, and highly accessible, while providing a very authentic game experience. The team will prototype extensively, have the freedom to think outside the box, and be encouraged to stretch their expertise in ways to create surprising results.
On the new recruitment website, King confirms that they are working with Activision to create this game. King has been extremely successful in the mobile division, with Candy Crush saga seeing almost $2 billion in revenue since its launch on mobile. King website says they want to create a Call of Duty experience "that fans will want to play for years."
To support this project, King currently has a few job openings at their new studio.
King has not announced an expected release time frame for this new mobile game.
SOURCE: King
Clever Warzone tricks lets you land without a parachute
A few players have discovered a fun little trick in Call of Duty Warzone that allows them to touch down on Verdansk without a parachute.
There is a useful trick that you can use in a Call of Duty: Warzone match to break your fall while in mid-air. This will allow you to land safely in Verdansk without worrying about deploying your parachute.
Call of Duty: Warzone will pit you against a ton of other players in a highly competitive Battle Royale match. The instant you land in Verdansk, you'll have to find ways to get ahead of your enemies through different weapons or gear, scoring killstreaks, and even making use of glitches.
Players have discovered many different maneuvers in the game since its release in March 2020. These grant you an advantage over your opponent, including one that has you take out enemies by firing in mid-air.
This will have you deploy your parachute when you're near the ground, and is a great way to score kills in mid-air. Now a neat new trick has been discovered that removes the need for a parachute altogether.
How to land in Warzone without a parachute
This trick was pointed out by Reddit user Thexer0, who posted a clip of them dropping into Verdansk in the Call of Duty: Warzone subreddit. Here they showed that you are able to land on different surfaces without deploying your parachute.
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Al you need to do is try hitting certain edges and surfaces in mid-air to break the fall before landing on your feet. In the clip, the player used a Satellite dish for this purpose, and slid off the curved edge before taking out their weapon.
While this trick is useful, it's not guaranteed to work unless you're precise with your landing. If you don't hit the right type of surface, then you'll find yourself in a world of hurt. The player pointed this out and mentioned that you should try this "at your own risk."
You can free fall into satellite's and not die. Attempt at your own risk. from CODWarzone
That said, this trick is absolutely worth trying out. Other players also commented on the thread about their own attempts at this neat little exploit, and many of them reported that it worked out successfully for them.
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One Reddit user said "You can do it as well with some of the telephone/electrical towers," and another mentioned "It works on stones and stuff too. You gotta land on the edges, something around 45 degrees."
Parachutes are a vital component in Warzone matches, so you should definitely go for this trick. All it takes to succeed in pulling it off is some practice, along with a ton of patience. You can learn some more helpful tricks in our Warzone tips and tricks guide.
Image Credits: Activision
Treyarch dev Tony Flame's Twitter account hacked
On this Christmas morning, Treyarch's Lead Designer, Tony Flame, has had his Twitter hacked.
A user hacked Tony Flame's Twitter account in the early morning hours of December 25, and has gone on a posting rampage, including posting racial slurs and more across the account. The hacker is @wixyV3.
We're not going to showcase posts here with any racial slurs. The Twitter account has been locked by Twitter for the amount of slurs the hackers have posted, per images sent around in Discord servers.
One of the hacked tweets that has gone viral is about SBMM, asking Activision to remove it from his "game" he "worked hard to make."
The account still remains hacked at this hour, but it does appear that tweets are being blocked from posting at this time. Twitter locked the account due to the content being posted.
Tony Flame's account is not verified on the platform.
Flame has been active in posting since Black Ops Cold War's alpha launched back in September. He's been posting updates and thoughts around what the team is doing in terms of balancing and content updates.
The last tweet from Flame himself was a Merry Christmas post on the night of December 24.
Activision has not stated anything yet on this hack.
Sledgehammer Games adds 150 new people to team in 2020
Sledgehammer Games' expansion continued in 2020 with a massive new hiring spree.
Sledgehammer Games has continued to steadily expand their studio throughout 2020, despite the pandemic.
Back in May, the studio announced a massive recruitment effort to bring on many new developers, in all fields, to their studio.
The studio's Chief Operating Officer announced on Twitter that their effort brought 150 new people to the studio over the last several months.
In a video on Twitter, the studio shared some stories and a look at these new people who the team as the year wraps up.
Incredibly, we've welcomed more than 150 great new people to the studio this year despite the pandemic. One day soon, when this is all over, we will meet in person and have quite the celebration. https://t.co/3hnL3Z0YDC
— Andy Wilson (@andygwilson) December 19, 2020
Beyond already hiring 150 new people this year alone, the studio's website still has over 65 job positions still listed.
In addition to their recruitment effort, Sledgehammer confirmed earlier this year that they are working on 'multiple projects', presumably within the Call of Duty franchise.
We're now a multi-project studio and we're looking for a substantial number of new team members to join us. We're looking across every discipline and various levels of seniority. It's a pretty exciting time for our studio.
What some of those projects are remains unclear. Sledgehammer Games has played a role, as a support studio, in the development of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
The studio was a lead developer on Call of Duty, kicking off the three year development cycle in 2014 with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. In 2017, the studio released their second main project: Call of Duty: WWII. Following WWII's launch, the studio collapsed. Both co-founders and lead, Michael Condrey & Glen Schofield, left. And the studio lost hundreds of developers.
The team was set to work with Raven Software on the 2020 Call of Duty title, but due to the number of employees who left, Treyarch stepped in with Raven to create Black Ops Cold War.
What Sledgehammer Games is working on, in terms of their own projects, has yet to be revealed publicly. Whether they even become a lead developer again is also unclear.
Looking into 2021, there's no clear indication yet as to which development team is leading the Call of Duty 2021 project. The three year development cycle was upended in 2020 with Treyarch stepping in to salvage the 2020 title. 2021 could be Infinity Ward or see the return of Sledgehammer Games.
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ORIHUELA wants Europe to finance 13 projects.
Mayor Emilio Bascuñana (PP) presented his public commitment to "jump on the bandwagon of Europe" as he said he is confident that the European Union would help finance the so-called Urban Development Sustainable Integrated Plan (DUSI) which has 13 projects in its portfolio. Of these, some are the current government's own plans and others have been inherited and are pending execution from under Monica Lorente's time as Mayor.
The plan's have an estimated cost of €30 million and a term of five years for implementation. The City said it would pay half and hopes the EU would pay the rest if approved.
The Mayor said his main concern now is the employment and through any of 13 projects the conditions exist to generate wealth and jobs. | {
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Project acronym 100 Archaic Genomes
Project Genome sequences from extinct hominins
Researcher (PI) Svante PÄÄBO
Host Institution (HI) MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Summary Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Project acronym 2-HIT
Project Genetic interaction networks: From C. elegans to human disease
Researcher (PI) Ben Lehner
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA
Summary Most hereditary diseases in humans are genetically complex, resulting from combinations of mutations in multiple genes. However synthetic interactions between genes are very difficult to identify in population studies because of a lack of statistical power and we fundamentally do not understand how mutations interact to produce phenotypes. C. elegans is a unique animal in which genetic interactions can be rapidly identified in vivo using RNA interference, and we recently used this system to construct the first genetic interaction network for any animal, focused on signal transduction genes. The first objective of this proposal is to extend this work and map a comprehensive genetic interaction network for this model metazoan. This project will provide the first insights into the global properties of animal genetic interaction networks, and a comprehensive view of the functional relationships between genes in an animal. The second objective of the proposal is to use C. elegans to develop and validate experimentally integrated gene networks that connect genes to phenotypes and predict genetic interactions on a genome-wide scale. The methods that we develop and validate in C. elegans will then be applied to predict phenotypes and interactions for human genes. The final objective is to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic interactions, and to understand how these interactions evolve. The combined aim of these three objectives is to generate a framework for understanding and predicting how mutations interact to produce phenotypes, including in human disease.
Most hereditary diseases in humans are genetically complex, resulting from combinations of mutations in multiple genes. However synthetic interactions between genes are very difficult to identify in population studies because of a lack of statistical power and we fundamentally do not understand how mutations interact to produce phenotypes. C. elegans is a unique animal in which genetic interactions can be rapidly identified in vivo using RNA interference, and we recently used this system to construct the first genetic interaction network for any animal, focused on signal transduction genes. The first objective of this proposal is to extend this work and map a comprehensive genetic interaction network for this model metazoan. This project will provide the first insights into the global properties of animal genetic interaction networks, and a comprehensive view of the functional relationships between genes in an animal. The second objective of the proposal is to use C. elegans to develop and validate experimentally integrated gene networks that connect genes to phenotypes and predict genetic interactions on a genome-wide scale. The methods that we develop and validate in C. elegans will then be applied to predict phenotypes and interactions for human genes. The final objective is to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic interactions, and to understand how these interactions evolve. The combined aim of these three objectives is to generate a framework for understanding and predicting how mutations interact to produce phenotypes, including in human disease.
Project acronym 20SComplexity
Project An integrative approach to uncover the multilevel regulation of 20S proteasome degradation
Researcher (PI) Michal Sharon
Host Institution (HI) WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Summary For many years, the ubiquitin-26S proteasome degradation pathway was considered the primary route for proteasomal degradation. However, it is now becoming clear that proteins can also be targeted for degradation by a ubiquitin-independent mechanism mediated by the core 20S proteasome itself. Although initially believed to be limited to rare exceptions, degradation by the 20S proteasome is now understood to have a wide range of substrates, many of which are key regulatory proteins. Despite its importance, little is known about the mechanisms that control 20S proteasomal degradation, unlike the extensive knowledge acquired over the years concerning degradation by the 26S proteasome. Our overall aim is to reveal the multiple regulatory levels that coordinate the 20S proteasome degradation route. To achieve this goal we will carry out a comprehensive research program characterizing three distinct levels of 20S proteasome regulation: Intra-molecular regulation- Revealing the intrinsic molecular switch that activates the latent 20S proteasome. Inter-molecular regulation- Identifying novel proteins that bind the 20S proteasome to regulate its activity and characterizing their mechanism of function. Cellular regulatory networks- Unraveling the cellular cues and multiple pathways that influence 20S proteasome activity using a novel systematic and unbiased screening approach. Our experimental strategy involves the combination of biochemical approaches with native mass spectrometry, cross-linking and fluorescence measurements, complemented by cell biology analyses and high-throughput screening. Such a multidisciplinary approach, integrating in vitro and in vivo findings, will likely provide the much needed knowledge on the 20S proteasome degradation route. When completed, we anticipate that this work will be part of a new paradigm – no longer perceiving the 20S proteasome mediated degradation as a simple and passive event but rather a tightly regulated and coordinated process.
For many years, the ubiquitin-26S proteasome degradation pathway was considered the primary route for proteasomal degradation. However, it is now becoming clear that proteins can also be targeted for degradation by a ubiquitin-independent mechanism mediated by the core 20S proteasome itself. Although initially believed to be limited to rare exceptions, degradation by the 20S proteasome is now understood to have a wide range of substrates, many of which are key regulatory proteins. Despite its importance, little is known about the mechanisms that control 20S proteasomal degradation, unlike the extensive knowledge acquired over the years concerning degradation by the 26S proteasome. Our overall aim is to reveal the multiple regulatory levels that coordinate the 20S proteasome degradation route. To achieve this goal we will carry out a comprehensive research program characterizing three distinct levels of 20S proteasome regulation: Intra-molecular regulation- Revealing the intrinsic molecular switch that activates the latent 20S proteasome. Inter-molecular regulation- Identifying novel proteins that bind the 20S proteasome to regulate its activity and characterizing their mechanism of function. Cellular regulatory networks- Unraveling the cellular cues and multiple pathways that influence 20S proteasome activity using a novel systematic and unbiased screening approach. Our experimental strategy involves the combination of biochemical approaches with native mass spectrometry, cross-linking and fluorescence measurements, complemented by cell biology analyses and high-throughput screening. Such a multidisciplinary approach, integrating in vitro and in vivo findings, will likely provide the much needed knowledge on the 20S proteasome degradation route. When completed, we anticipate that this work will be part of a new paradigm – no longer perceiving the 20S proteasome mediated degradation as a simple and passive event but rather a tightly regulated and coordinated process.
Project acronym 2D-CHEM
Project Two-Dimensional Chemistry towards New Graphene Derivatives
Researcher (PI) Michal Otyepka
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI
Summary The suite of graphene's unique properties and applications can be enormously enhanced by its functionalization. As non-covalently functionalized graphenes do not target all graphene's properties and may suffer from limited stability, covalent functionalization represents a promising way for controlling graphene's properties. To date, only a few well-defined graphene derivatives have been introduced. Among them, fluorographene (FG) stands out as a prominent member because of its easy synthesis and high stability. Being a perfluorinated hydrocarbon, FG was believed to be as unreactive as the two-dimensional counterpart perfluoropolyethylene (Teflon®). However, our recent experiments showed that FG is not chemically inert and can be used as a viable precursor for synthesizing graphene derivatives. This surprising behavior indicates that common textbook grade knowledge cannot blindly be applied to the chemistry of 2D materials. Further, there might be specific rules behind the chemistry of 2D materials, forming a new chemical discipline we tentatively call 2D chemistry. The main aim of the project is to explore, identify and apply the rules of 2D chemistry starting from FG. Using the knowledge gained of 2D chemistry, we will attempt to control the chemistry of various 2D materials aimed at preparing stable graphene derivatives with designed properties, e.g., 1-3 eV band gap, fluorescent properties, sustainable magnetic ordering and dispersability in polar media. The new graphene derivatives will be applied in sensing, imaging, magnetic delivery and catalysis and new emerging applications arising from the synergistic phenomena are expected. We envisage that new applications will be opened up that benefit from the 2D scaffold and tailored properties of the synthesized derivatives. The derivatives will be used for the synthesis of 3D hybrid materials by covalent linking of the 2D sheets joined with other organic and inorganic molecules, nanomaterials or biomacromolecules.
The suite of graphene's unique properties and applications can be enormously enhanced by its functionalization. As non-covalently functionalized graphenes do not target all graphene's properties and may suffer from limited stability, covalent functionalization represents a promising way for controlling graphene's properties. To date, only a few well-defined graphene derivatives have been introduced. Among them, fluorographene (FG) stands out as a prominent member because of its easy synthesis and high stability. Being a perfluorinated hydrocarbon, FG was believed to be as unreactive as the two-dimensional counterpart perfluoropolyethylene (Teflon®). However, our recent experiments showed that FG is not chemically inert and can be used as a viable precursor for synthesizing graphene derivatives. This surprising behavior indicates that common textbook grade knowledge cannot blindly be applied to the chemistry of 2D materials. Further, there might be specific rules behind the chemistry of 2D materials, forming a new chemical discipline we tentatively call 2D chemistry. The main aim of the project is to explore, identify and apply the rules of 2D chemistry starting from FG. Using the knowledge gained of 2D chemistry, we will attempt to control the chemistry of various 2D materials aimed at preparing stable graphene derivatives with designed properties, e.g., 1-3 eV band gap, fluorescent properties, sustainable magnetic ordering and dispersability in polar media. The new graphene derivatives will be applied in sensing, imaging, magnetic delivery and catalysis and new emerging applications arising from the synergistic phenomena are expected. We envisage that new applications will be opened up that benefit from the 2D scaffold and tailored properties of the synthesized derivatives. The derivatives will be used for the synthesis of 3D hybrid materials by covalent linking of the 2D sheets joined with other organic and inorganic molecules, nanomaterials or biomacromolecules.
Project acronym 2D-PnictoChem
Project Chemistry and Interface Control of Novel 2D-Pnictogen Nanomaterials
Researcher (PI) Gonzalo ABELLAN SAEZ
Summary 2D-PnictoChem aims at exploring the Chemistry of a novel class of graphene-like 2D layered elemental materials of group 15, the pnictogens: P, As, Sb, and Bi. In the last few years, these materials have taken the field of Materials Science by storm since they can outperform and/or complement graphene properties. Their strongly layer-dependent unique properties range from semiconducting to metallic, including high carrier mobilities, tunable bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling or transparency. However, the Chemistry of pnictogens is still in its infancy, remaining largely unexplored. This is the niche that 2D-PnictoChem aims to fill. By mastering the interface chemistry, we will develop the assembly of 2Dpnictogens in complex hybrid heterostructures for the first time. Success will rely on a cross-disciplinary approach combining both Inorganic- and Organic Chemistry with Solid-state Physics, including: 1) Synthetizing and exfoliating high quality ultra-thin layer pnictogens, providing reliable access down to the monolayer limit. 2) Achieving their chemical functionalization via both non-covalent and covalent approaches in order to tailor at will their properties, decipher reactivity patterns and enable controlled doping avenues. 3) Developing hybrid architectures through a precise chemical control of the interface, in order to promote unprecedented access to novel heterostructures. 4) Exploring novel applications concepts achieving outstanding performances. These are all priorities in the European Union agenda aimed at securing an affordable, clean energy future by developing more efficient hybrid systems for batteries, electronic devices or applications in catalysis. The opportunity is unique to reduce Europe's dependence on external technology and the PI's background is ideally suited to tackle these objectives, counting as well on a multidisciplinary team of international collaborators.
2D-PnictoChem aims at exploring the Chemistry of a novel class of graphene-like 2D layered elemental materials of group 15, the pnictogens: P, As, Sb, and Bi. In the last few years, these materials have taken the field of Materials Science by storm since they can outperform and/or complement graphene properties. Their strongly layer-dependent unique properties range from semiconducting to metallic, including high carrier mobilities, tunable bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling or transparency. However, the Chemistry of pnictogens is still in its infancy, remaining largely unexplored. This is the niche that 2D-PnictoChem aims to fill. By mastering the interface chemistry, we will develop the assembly of 2Dpnictogens in complex hybrid heterostructures for the first time. Success will rely on a cross-disciplinary approach combining both Inorganic- and Organic Chemistry with Solid-state Physics, including: 1) Synthetizing and exfoliating high quality ultra-thin layer pnictogens, providing reliable access down to the monolayer limit. 2) Achieving their chemical functionalization via both non-covalent and covalent approaches in order to tailor at will their properties, decipher reactivity patterns and enable controlled doping avenues. 3) Developing hybrid architectures through a precise chemical control of the interface, in order to promote unprecedented access to novel heterostructures. 4) Exploring novel applications concepts achieving outstanding performances. These are all priorities in the European Union agenda aimed at securing an affordable, clean energy future by developing more efficient hybrid systems for batteries, electronic devices or applications in catalysis. The opportunity is unique to reduce Europe's dependence on external technology and the PI's background is ideally suited to tackle these objectives, counting as well on a multidisciplinary team of international collaborators.
Project acronym 2DMATER
Project Controlled Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Researcher (PI) Xinliang Feng
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
Summary "Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which possess a high degree of anisotropy with nanoscale thickness and infinite length in other dimensions, hold enormous promise as a novel class of ultrathin 2D nanomaterials with various unique functionalities and properties, and exhibit great potential in energy storage and conversion systems that are substantially different from their respective 3D bulk forms. Here I propose a strategy for the synthesis and processing of various 2D nanosheets across a broad range of inorganic, organic and polymeric materials with molecular-level or thin thickness through both the top-down exfoliation of layered materials and the bottom-up assembly of available molecular building blocks. Further, I aim to develop the synthesis of various 2D-nanosheet based composite materials with thickness of less than 100 nm and the assembly of 2D nanosheets into novel hierarchal superstrucutures (like aerogels, spheres, porous particles, nanotubes, multi-layer films). The structural features of these 2D nanomaterials will be controllably tailored by both the used layered precursors and processing methodologies. The consequence is that I will apply and combine defined functional components as well as assembly protocols to create novel 2D nanomaterials for specific purposes in energy storage and conversion systems. Their unique characters will include the good electrical conductivity, excellent mechanical flexibility, high surface area, high chemical stability, fast electron transport and ion diffusion etc. Applications will be mainly demonstrated for the construction of lithium ion batteries (anode and cathode), supercapacitors (symmetric and asymmetric) and fuel cells. As the key achievements, I expect to establish the delineation of reliable structure-property relationships and improved device performance of 2D nanomaterials."
"Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which possess a high degree of anisotropy with nanoscale thickness and infinite length in other dimensions, hold enormous promise as a novel class of ultrathin 2D nanomaterials with various unique functionalities and properties, and exhibit great potential in energy storage and conversion systems that are substantially different from their respective 3D bulk forms. Here I propose a strategy for the synthesis and processing of various 2D nanosheets across a broad range of inorganic, organic and polymeric materials with molecular-level or thin thickness through both the top-down exfoliation of layered materials and the bottom-up assembly of available molecular building blocks. Further, I aim to develop the synthesis of various 2D-nanosheet based composite materials with thickness of less than 100 nm and the assembly of 2D nanosheets into novel hierarchal superstrucutures (like aerogels, spheres, porous particles, nanotubes, multi-layer films). The structural features of these 2D nanomaterials will be controllably tailored by both the used layered precursors and processing methodologies. The consequence is that I will apply and combine defined functional components as well as assembly protocols to create novel 2D nanomaterials for specific purposes in energy storage and conversion systems. Their unique characters will include the good electrical conductivity, excellent mechanical flexibility, high surface area, high chemical stability, fast electron transport and ion diffusion etc. Applications will be mainly demonstrated for the construction of lithium ion batteries (anode and cathode), supercapacitors (symmetric and asymmetric) and fuel cells. As the key achievements, I expect to establish the delineation of reliable structure-property relationships and improved device performance of 2D nanomaterials."
Project acronym 2O2ACTIVATION
Project Development of Direct Dehydrogenative Couplings mediated by Dioxygen
Researcher (PI) Frederic William Patureau
Host Institution (HI) RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
Summary The field of C-H bond activation has evolved at an exponential pace in the last 15 years. What appeals most in those novel synthetic techniques is clear: they bypass the pre-activation steps usually required in traditional cross-coupling chemistry by directly metalating C-H bonds. Many C-H bond functionalizations today however, rely on poorly atom and step efficient oxidants, leading to significant and costly chemical waste, thereby seriously undermining the overall sustainability of those methods. As restrictions in sustainability regulations will further increase, and the cost of certain chemical commodities will rise, atom efficiency in organic synthesis remains a top priority for research. The aim of 2O2ACTIVATION is to develop novel technologies utilizing O2 as sole terminal oxidant in order to allow useful, extremely sustainable, thermodynamically challenging, dehydrogenative C-N and C-O bond forming coupling reactions. However, the moderate reactivity of O2 towards many catalysts constitutes a major challenge. 2O2ACTIVATION will pioneer the design of new catalysts based on the ultra-simple propene motive, capable of direct activation of O2 for C-H activation based cross-couplings. The project is divided into 3 major lines: O2 activation using propene and its analogues (propenoids), 1) without metal or halide, 2) with hypervalent halide catalysis, 3) with metal catalyzed C-H activation. The philosophy of 2O2ACTIVATION is to focus C-H functionalization method development on the oxidative event. Consequently, 2O2ACTIVATION breakthroughs will dramatically shortcut synthetic routes through the use of inactivated, unprotected, and readily available building blocks; and thus should be easily scalable. This will lead to a strong decrease in the costs related to the production of many essential chemicals, while preserving the environment (water as terminal by-product). The resulting novels coupling methods will thus have a lasting impact on the chemical industry.
The field of C-H bond activation has evolved at an exponential pace in the last 15 years. What appeals most in those novel synthetic techniques is clear: they bypass the pre-activation steps usually required in traditional cross-coupling chemistry by directly metalating C-H bonds. Many C-H bond functionalizations today however, rely on poorly atom and step efficient oxidants, leading to significant and costly chemical waste, thereby seriously undermining the overall sustainability of those methods. As restrictions in sustainability regulations will further increase, and the cost of certain chemical commodities will rise, atom efficiency in organic synthesis remains a top priority for research. The aim of 2O2ACTIVATION is to develop novel technologies utilizing O2 as sole terminal oxidant in order to allow useful, extremely sustainable, thermodynamically challenging, dehydrogenative C-N and C-O bond forming coupling reactions. However, the moderate reactivity of O2 towards many catalysts constitutes a major challenge. 2O2ACTIVATION will pioneer the design of new catalysts based on the ultra-simple propene motive, capable of direct activation of O2 for C-H activation based cross-couplings. The project is divided into 3 major lines: O2 activation using propene and its analogues (propenoids), 1) without metal or halide, 2) with hypervalent halide catalysis, 3) with metal catalyzed C-H activation. The philosophy of 2O2ACTIVATION is to focus C-H functionalization method development on the oxidative event. Consequently, 2O2ACTIVATION breakthroughs will dramatically shortcut synthetic routes through the use of inactivated, unprotected, and readily available building blocks; and thus should be easily scalable. This will lead to a strong decrease in the costs related to the production of many essential chemicals, while preserving the environment (water as terminal by-product). The resulting novels coupling methods will thus have a lasting impact on the chemical industry.
Project acronym 2STEPPARKIN
Project A novel two-step model for neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease
Researcher (PI) Emi Nagoshi
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
Summary Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder primarily caused by the progressive loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN). Despite the advances in gene discovery associated with PD, the knowledge of the PD pathogenesis is largely limited to the involvement of these genes in the generic cell death pathways, and why degeneration is specific to DA neurons and why the degeneration is progressive remain enigmatic. Broad goal of our work is therefore to elucidate the mechanisms underlying specific and progressive DA neuron degeneration in PD. Our new Drosophila model of PD ⎯Fer2 gene loss-of-function mutation⎯ is unusually well suited to address these questions. Fer2 mutants exhibit specific and progressive death of brain DA neurons as well as severe locomotor defects and short life span. Strikingly, the death of DA neuron is initiated in a small cluster of Fer2-expressing DA neurons and subsequently propagates to Fer2-negative DA neurons. We therefore propose a novel two-step model of the neurodegeneration in PD: primary cell death occurs in a specific subset of dopamindegic neurons that are genetically defined, and subsequently the failure of the neuronal connectivity triggers and propagates secondary cell death to remaining DA neurons. In this research, we will test this hypothesis and investigate the underlying molecular mechanisms. This will be the first study to examine circuit-dependency in DA neuron degeneration. Our approach will use a combination of non-biased genomic techniques and candidate-based screening, in addition to the powerful Drosophila genetic toolbox. Furthermore, to test this hypothesis beyond the Drosophila model, we will establish new mouse models of PD that exhibit progressive DA neuron degeneration. Outcome of this research will likely revolutionize the understanding of PD pathogenesis and open an avenue toward the discovery of effective therapy strategies against PD.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder primarily caused by the progressive loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN). Despite the advances in gene discovery associated with PD, the knowledge of the PD pathogenesis is largely limited to the involvement of these genes in the generic cell death pathways, and why degeneration is specific to DA neurons and why the degeneration is progressive remain enigmatic. Broad goal of our work is therefore to elucidate the mechanisms underlying specific and progressive DA neuron degeneration in PD. Our new Drosophila model of PD ⎯Fer2 gene loss-of-function mutation⎯ is unusually well suited to address these questions. Fer2 mutants exhibit specific and progressive death of brain DA neurons as well as severe locomotor defects and short life span. Strikingly, the death of DA neuron is initiated in a small cluster of Fer2-expressing DA neurons and subsequently propagates to Fer2-negative DA neurons. We therefore propose a novel two-step model of the neurodegeneration in PD: primary cell death occurs in a specific subset of dopamindegic neurons that are genetically defined, and subsequently the failure of the neuronal connectivity triggers and propagates secondary cell death to remaining DA neurons. In this research, we will test this hypothesis and investigate the underlying molecular mechanisms. This will be the first study to examine circuit-dependency in DA neuron degeneration. Our approach will use a combination of non-biased genomic techniques and candidate-based screening, in addition to the powerful Drosophila genetic toolbox. Furthermore, to test this hypothesis beyond the Drosophila model, we will establish new mouse models of PD that exhibit progressive DA neuron degeneration. Outcome of this research will likely revolutionize the understanding of PD pathogenesis and open an avenue toward the discovery of effective therapy strategies against PD.
Project acronym 3CBIOTECH
Project Cold Carbon Catabolism of Microbial Communities underprinning a Sustainable Bioenergy and Biorefinery Economy
Researcher (PI) Gavin James Collins
Host Institution (HI) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY
Summary The applicant will collaborate with Irish, European and U.S.-based colleagues to develop a sustainable biorefinery and bioenergy industry in Ireland and Europe. The focus of this ERC Starting Grant will be the application of classical microbiological, physiological and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays, to qualitatively and quantitatively characterize microbial communities underpinning novel and innovative, low-temperature, anaerobic waste (and other biomass) conversion technologies, including municipal wastewater treatment and, demonstration- and full-scale biorefinery applications. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a naturally-occurring process, which is widely applied for the conversion of waste to methane-containing biogas. Low-temperature (<20 degrees C) AD has been applied by the applicant as a cost-effective alternative to mesophilic (c. 35C) AD for the treatment of several waste categories. However, the microbiology of low-temperature AD is poorly understood. The applicant will work with microbial consortia isolated from anaerobic bioreactors, which have been operated for long-term experiments (>3.5 years), and include organic acid-oxidizing, hydrogen-producing syntrophic microbes and hydrogen-consuming methanogens. A major focus of the project will be the ecophysiology of psychrotolerant and psychrophilic methanogens already identified and cultivated by the applicant. The project will also investigate the role(s) of poorly-understood Crenarchaeota populations and homoacetogenic bacteria, in complex consortia. The host organization is a leading player in the microbiology of waste-to-energy applications. The applicant will train a team of scientists in all aspects of the microbiology and bioengineering of biomass conversion systems.
The applicant will collaborate with Irish, European and U.S.-based colleagues to develop a sustainable biorefinery and bioenergy industry in Ireland and Europe. The focus of this ERC Starting Grant will be the application of classical microbiological, physiological and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays, to qualitatively and quantitatively characterize microbial communities underpinning novel and innovative, low-temperature, anaerobic waste (and other biomass) conversion technologies, including municipal wastewater treatment and, demonstration- and full-scale biorefinery applications. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a naturally-occurring process, which is widely applied for the conversion of waste to methane-containing biogas. Low-temperature (<20 degrees C) AD has been applied by the applicant as a cost-effective alternative to mesophilic (c. 35C) AD for the treatment of several waste categories. However, the microbiology of low-temperature AD is poorly understood. The applicant will work with microbial consortia isolated from anaerobic bioreactors, which have been operated for long-term experiments (>3.5 years), and include organic acid-oxidizing, hydrogen-producing syntrophic microbes and hydrogen-consuming methanogens. A major focus of the project will be the ecophysiology of psychrotolerant and psychrophilic methanogens already identified and cultivated by the applicant. The project will also investigate the role(s) of poorly-understood Crenarchaeota populations and homoacetogenic bacteria, in complex consortia. The host organization is a leading player in the microbiology of waste-to-energy applications. The applicant will train a team of scientists in all aspects of the microbiology and bioengineering of biomass conversion systems.
Project acronym 3D-FNPWriting
Project Unprecedented spatial control of porosity and functionality in nanoporous membranes through 3D printing and microscopy for polymer writing
Researcher (PI) Annette ANDRIEU-BRUNSEN
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
Summary Membranes are key materials in our life. Nature offers high performance membranes relying on a parallel local regulation of nanopore structure, functional placement, membrane composition and architecture. Existing technological membranes are key materials in separation, recycling, sensing, energy conversion, being essential components for a sustainable future. But their performance is far away from their natural counterparts. One reason for this performance gap is the lack of 3D nanolocal control in membrane design. This applies to each individual nanopore but as well to the membrane architecture. This proposal aims to implement 3D printing (additive manufacturing, top down) and complex near-field and total internal reflection (TIR) high resolution microscopy induced polymer writing (bottom up) to nanolocally control in hierarchical nanoporous membranes spatially and independent of each other: porosity, pore functionalization, membrane architecture, composition. This disruptive technology platform will make accessible to date unachieved, highly accurate asymmetric nanopores and multifunctional, hierarchical membrane architecture/ composition and thus highly selective, directed, transport with tuneable rates. 3D-FNPWriting will demonstrate this for the increasing class of metal nanoparticle/ salt pollutants aiming for tuneable, selective, directed transport based monitoring and recycling instead of size-based filtration, accumulation into sewerage and distribution into nature. Specifically, the potential of this disruptive technology with respect to transport design will be demonstrated for a) a 3D-printed in-situ functionalized nanoporous fiber architecture and b) a printed, nanolocally near-field and TIR-microscopy polymer functionalized membrane representing a thin separation layer. This will open systematic understanding of nanolocal functional control on transport and new perspectives in water/ energy management for future smart industry/ homes.
Membranes are key materials in our life. Nature offers high performance membranes relying on a parallel local regulation of nanopore structure, functional placement, membrane composition and architecture. Existing technological membranes are key materials in separation, recycling, sensing, energy conversion, being essential components for a sustainable future. But their performance is far away from their natural counterparts. One reason for this performance gap is the lack of 3D nanolocal control in membrane design. This applies to each individual nanopore but as well to the membrane architecture. This proposal aims to implement 3D printing (additive manufacturing, top down) and complex near-field and total internal reflection (TIR) high resolution microscopy induced polymer writing (bottom up) to nanolocally control in hierarchical nanoporous membranes spatially and independent of each other: porosity, pore functionalization, membrane architecture, composition. This disruptive technology platform will make accessible to date unachieved, highly accurate asymmetric nanopores and multifunctional, hierarchical membrane architecture/ composition and thus highly selective, directed, transport with tuneable rates. 3D-FNPWriting will demonstrate this for the increasing class of metal nanoparticle/ salt pollutants aiming for tuneable, selective, directed transport based monitoring and recycling instead of size-based filtration, accumulation into sewerage and distribution into nature. Specifically, the potential of this disruptive technology with respect to transport design will be demonstrated for a) a 3D-printed in-situ functionalized nanoporous fiber architecture and b) a printed, nanolocally near-field and TIR-microscopy polymer functionalized membrane representing a thin separation layer. This will open systematic understanding of nanolocal functional control on transport and new perspectives in water/ energy management for future smart industry/ homes. | {
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Home -Events -Industry News -Galileo system will stop working and it will take 10 years to re network. GPS or Beidou will be introduced into Europe
Galileo system will stop working and it will take 10 years to re network. GPS or Beidou will be introduced into Europe
According to the latest news of the European times on November 28, since the 22 satellites of the European Galileo navigation system were paralyzed, the Galileo navigation system began to have major failures one after another. At the same time, European people often fail to update and collapse when using the navigation system.
According to the investigation of the European Space Agency, the main reason for the paralysis of the Galileo satellite navigation system is that France and the Czech Republic shirked their responsibilities and finally missed the best time to repair the Galileo system. According to the preliminary budget of the European Space Agency, it will take at least 10 years to complete the networking if the Galileo navigation system wants to be completely repaired, And it will cost about 2 billion euros.
In fact, before the breakdown of Galileo navigation system, the Italian ground operation station reported to ESA that there were major problems with the navigation satellite and needed to be repaired in time, but ESA did not take this matter seriously, which made Galileo navigation system miss a repair opportunity. However, after the sudden collapse of Galileo navigation system, ESA immediately asked all ground operation stations in Europe to carry out comprehensive detection and maintenance. However, France and the Czech Republic failed to repair the controlled navigation satellites in time on the pretext that they were not within the repair scope, which finally prompted Galileo navigation satellites to gradually stop working.
At present, due to the stop of Galileo navigation system, it is unable to provide accurate positioning for European maritime shipping, which also causes great difficulties for maritime shipping. Facing the situation that no navigation system is available, ESA has put forward suggestions to European countries, hoping to temporarily introduce Beidou system or GPS system of the United States from China, so as to solve the major problems encountered in Europe. It is worth noting that after ESA put forward this proposal, European countries began to argue about this matter. After all, choosing a navigation system has both advantages and disadvantages for Europe. The advantage is that it can stabilize Europe's accurate positioning, and the disadvantage is that choosing other navigation systems will cause a large number of users to lose in Europe.
At the same time, the choice of navigation system will also be mixed with a certain military color. Previously, when the United States attacked Syria, it openly closed the GPS navigation satellites in the Middle East, making Syrian missiles unable to effectively accurately guide, and finally all Syrian missiles became blind. Although Europe did not discuss this approach of the United States, it also began to have a grudge against the United States, so it is unlikely that Europe will introduce GPS system temporarily. The only option left is the Beidou system. Unfortunately, Europe's attitude towards China is ambiguous, so the chance of Beidou system being introduced is very slim.
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Altoona is a flourishing town sitting between Etowah and Blount counties in Alabama. Most car owners face many challenges when transporting their vehicles, especially with a small town involved. A-1 Auto Transport has the right answers every time a challenge on shipping cars to or from Altoona town comes around.
Many transport companies concentrate their services in major towns and cities across the country. You might end up with a high shipping bill or a frustrating experience. A-1 Auto Transport is among the safest and most reliable transport companies in the country. We transport to all addresses in the town. We also cover all the counties in Alabama, including shipping services to all the 50 states in the US.
The idea of driving your car from the South Coast to the East or West Coast sounds like an exciting and irresistible one. It is a great experience if you have all the energy and the time to get on with it. Few people can afford to spend their time in such a way. That is the reason why you should have a reliable auto transport company in your address book.
Over the years, we managed to earn great trust from classic and high-end car owners. We will give your car the highest level of professional care and attention to guarantee safe delivery.
Enclosed transportation will help to protect it from sunburn, road debris, dust and other external risks.
We have a timely and reliable door-to-door service for safe delivery to your home.
With enclosed transportation we can offer guaranteed shipping dates, so you won't have to stress about when to expect your car to arrive.
If you are wondering why a guaranteed shipping and delivery date is available with enclosed transport when it may not be so easy with open air transport, it's all because of the number of enclosed carriers on the roads. Enclosed carriers are far more expensive to purchase than open air trailers and trucks, and most trucking professionals want to move as many vehicles as possible at one time. The more they can haul, the more money they will make.
With an enclosed transport carrier, a driver can possibly hold up to four or even six cars inside the carrier depending on whether it is a single level or double level carrier. Some enclosed carriers only hold one car.
When we schedule a car for enclosed transport, we can get an accurate date for pickup and delivery because the driver with the enclosed transport carrier will have a detailed schedule mapped out showing where the truck will be and how long it will take to get where we need it.
When we schedule enclosed transport services, we can offer a date for pickup and delivery. If for some reason your delivery will be late, we will notify you ahead of time, so you can prepare. While we strive to deliver right on time, there are times when obstacles arise including foul weather (snow or icy roads), accidents, road closures and even other customers arriving late for pickup or delivery and these acts can cause delivery to be delayed.
If you are going to use enclosed transport to ship your car, you can also ship along your personal property at the same time. An added benefit of enclosed transportation is the fact that a container, or sealed trailer can be used for cargo other than the vehicle itself which can be a great help for those who are moving or must relocate other belongings at the same time.
We can handle transportation for 1-12 cars at once. The double decker open trailers have enough room to hold up to a dozen vehicles. You will get the lowest rates on shipping cars to or from Altoona town using the open-air option.
For open-air transport options, you must clear all personal items from inside the car. A spare tire and tire changing tools can be left in the trunk.
The reasons for this are straightforward.
Transport carriers are only responsible for the vehicles they haul, and if personal property is lost or damaged, the insurance coverage will not cover it.
Transport is based partially on the weight of the vehicle and personal property will increase the weight and the customer will be charged more.
Loose items inside a vehicle can be dangerous if dislodged if the carrier must stop suddenly or if there is an accident.
Loose items can cause damage to the vehicle interior and can also break windows and fly into other vehicles or people.
A-1 Auto Transport has affordable and reliable international automobile shipping solutions. The roll-on/roll-off standard has the lowest cost that you can find. We can place your car inside a shipping container when you have a high-profile car that you cannot risk exposing to external hazards.
You can save on moving costs by shipping all your household items together with the car in an exclusive container.
We also have shared containers that will help to lower your cost since you will share this with 4-6 other car owners.
We have a lift-on/lift-off option for non-op and salvage vehicles.
The terminal shipping option will not only save you money, but is also quick and convenient if you live anywhere near the appointed terminals in Alabama.
We cover transportation for all kinds of automobiles, from as small as a motorcycle to as big as a bus or a yacht. We also offer freight shipping for farm and industrial equipment.
Leaving somebody else in charge of your vehicle can leave you feeling anxious throughout the process. The following checklist will help to keep you at ease as you prepare your car for shipping.
Cleaning: Give the car a thorough wash just before the shipping date. Make sure that you inspect it for any chips, dents or scratches. You can take dated photographs of the existing damage and keep it for your records.
Personal items: As a rule, most transport companies put limits on the number of personal items that you can carry inside the car. They include your CDs and DVD player if it is not factory installed.
License plates: Apply for your new license plates at the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Insurance: Before you leave your car with the transporter, make sure that they have transit insurance for shipping cars to or from Altoona town. Ask for their insurance policy document to find out how much protection the car will get.
Gasoline: It is good to fill up the car on gas when you are driving over a long distance, but not when you are shipping it. Too much gas will make the vehicle heavier and increases risks associated with spilling. Just keep about 1/4 of gas in the tank.
We have a highly skilled team of vehicle handlers to ensure that your car receives the best care. Our shipping experience goes beyond 20 years, with an unmatched success record with all our previous customers. We have shipping services to match the needs of institutional and private customers.
Get a free and non-obligatory quote from A-1 Auto Transport by clicking here or calling 1-800-452-2880.
Vehicle tags and titles can be obtained at the same address as the driver's license office. You can also contact the tag office by calling: 205-625-4114. | {
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Sam Hawke has wanted to write books since realising as a child that they didn't just breed between themselves in libraries. Having contemplated careers as varied as engineer, tax accountant and zookeeper Sam eventually settled on the law. After marrying her jujitsu training partner and travelling to as many countries as possible, Sam now resides in Canberra, Australia raising two small ninjas and two idiot dogs. City of Lies is her debut novel.
- Echoes of Understorey, by Thoraiya Dyer, which I hear is even better than the first Titan's Forest book. Her worldbuilding and prose are always top notch!
- Witchsign by Den Patrick, the Traitor God by Cameron Johnston, and From Unseen Fire by Cass Morris are all getting great reviews and are by cool people, so would like to get on top of those, too.
Probably Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett is the one I'm looking forward to the most. He wrote one of my favourite fantasy trilogies of recent years (the Divine Cities) and Foundryside has the thieves and heists in city state, Locke Lamora kind of vibe that I dig. Special mention to The Monster Baru Cormorant (because the Traitor was amaaaaazing) though I am scared of how much it is going to hurt me.
I don't know when I could possibly justify re-reading with my TBR pile but I have a very strong temptation to go back and do the entirety of the Realm of the Elderlings now that it's complete. Robin Hobb did such an incredible job of bringing together threads from all the previous novels into the final book that I am really looking forward to rereading to pick up on all the subtleties I inevitably missed.
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My debut, City of Lies just came out. It's about a brother and sister whose family is responsible for protecting the ruling Chancellor, chiefly by poison testing, and who are forced to take on their roles earlier than expected when their uncle and the Chancellor are murdered with an unknown poison. The city is besieged and the siblings have to work together with their odd skillsets to find the traitor targeting the new Chancellor – their best childhood friend – and stop the city falling to aggrieved rebels. You might think it's awesome if you like mystery/thriller/escalating tension in your fantasy, complicated family relationships, mysterious lore, non-patriarchal societies, and decent people trying to do the right thing in trying circumstances. | {
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Les Jeux Asiatiques se déroulent tous les quatre ans, entre deux olympiades. Les trois disciplines équestres olympiques (saut d'obstacles, dressage et concours complet d'équitation), auxquelles s'ajoute l'endurance, s'y disputent avec des épreuves individuelles et par équipes depuis 1951.
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Jeux Asiatiques
Équitation aux Jeux asiatiques de 2006 | {
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Friday, July 14, was Decade Day. The 'Bone Rattler' Pedal Tractor Pull was enjoyed by young and old alike. The Erickson & District Hospital 50th Anniversary Tea, the Legion Open House, and a traditional pow-wow kept every one busy during the day. Rolling River First Nation sponsored a native feast. The evening featured a Decade Concert, sharing music and dancing from the decades of the 20th century.
Saturday, July 15, Homecoming Day, was celebrated with a buffet supper and Homecoming dance.
Sunday, July 16, was farewell Day. The celebration climax was the Inter-Faith Church Service. All the churches in the area took part in this moving service. Past Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Donald Sjoberg, one of the boys from home, was the guest preacher.
During the ten days there were school reunions held at the 'once-upon-a-time' school sites. The Decade display at the collegiate, sponsored by the Erickson Women's Institute, brought hearts back to the' good old days'! The church displays at the collegiate also brought back many fond memories.
The Millennium Minstrels, the community singers, added fun and music to the Homecoming celebration.
commended for all the work put into making Homecoming 2000 a great success. It was ten days of not having to cook at home; and ten days when smiles, handshakes and hugs were plentiful. It was all worthwhile having folks come 'home' to share in this event.
Profit from the Homecoming celebration has been given to community projects and one thousand dollars has been set aside for the next celebration.
Town of Erickson float at the Homecoming 2000 Parade. Mayor Wally Yanchycki is seen fiddling away, accompanied by his electronic drum. This same entry was awarded first prize at the Travellers Day Parade in Brandon during the Summer Fair 2000. | {
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While many of us would like to own a vacation home, the cost and year-round upkeep prevent us from turning that dream into a reality. If you're set on the idea of having a home away from home, owning a timeshare might be the best option. However, you need to do your homework. First, you'll need to understand how timeshares work.
When you buy a timeshare, you are purchasing the right to use a specific unit at a resort for a designated time period every year — usually one calendar week, though it can be longer. You own that right for the rest of your life, or a contracted number of years. You can sell it at any time. The timeshare is purchased upfront for a lump sum. Pricing will vary based on the property itself, as well as what the week you want is "worth." Unsurprisingly, summertime and Christmas are going to cost more than less popular times. | {
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Chelsea are about to add further misery to Arsenal's summer by launching a bid for Theo Walcott. With the unsettled Samir Nasri looking like he's heading to Manchester City along with Gael Clichy, and Cesc Fabregas looking certain to join Barcelona, the loss of a fourth key player would be a body blow at the Emirates. The winger has an uneasy relationship with Wenger mainly because he feels he has not been given the first-team opportunities this year and paid the price in the final sprint. But the bad news has not stopped manager Arsene Wenger committing his future to the club, as he insisted he was trying hard to bring in new players. But Wenger has been linked to Paris St-Germain, who have been bought by Qatari Sports Investment, and has made no secret of his desire to return one day to his home town of Strasbourg and help the ailing club. The Frenchman, who came in for criticism last week as the prospect of losing midfielders Fabregas and Nasri and defender Clichy grew more likely, urged Gunners fans to be patient over the club's transfer strategy. 'I'm very happy at Arsenal,' said Wenger. 'One sign of intelligence in life is to not always to want what you don't have. Appreciate what you have.'
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HomeEnergySolarSolar Panels are Becoming Harder to Recycle
Solar Panels are Becoming Harder to Recycle
As manufacturers omit using silver in solar panels, aging panels are more likely to end up in a landfill.
Waste360 Staff | Sep 05, 2018
According to Forbes, new innovations in technology are making solar panels more difficult to recycle. As demand increases for solar panels, there is an even greater need for recycling panels that end up damaged or fall short of their warrantied performance.
In an effort to save costs, manufacturers have cut down on using silver to build solar panels, which could end up impacting their recycling rate. And though silver makes up a small portion of the mass of a solar panel, it comprises 47 percent of its value. Scientists believe that the omission of silver in solar panels could drive more and more aging panels to end up in landfills.
Forbes has more details:
Solar panels are becoming less and less recyclable as the need for recycling them looms more and more.
The United States installs 7 million pounds per day of solar panels, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a pace that secures only fourth place among countries for installed capacity. Those panels are built to last 30 years, which foretells a huge demand for recycling decades ahead and an increasing demand sooner, as some panels succumb to damage or fall short of their warrantied performance.
Two months ago you read in this column that innovation is making lithium-ion batteries harder to recycle. Just as lithium-ion manufacturers have learned to cut down on expensive cobalt, solar-panel manufacturers have gotten very good at omitting their most expensive ingredient: silver.
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of the death of Mr. Charles Darwin.
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Q: How will you roll out Windows 7 to your network's PCs when it is released? Seeing as Vista didn't have a really high uptake rate amongst businesses, are you planning to roll Windows 7 out to your Windows XP network and if so, how do you plan on doing it?
This question is mostly due to the fact that there isn't an upgrade path from XP to 7, so it would seem that the nuke & pave approach is all that's available & this seems like it's going to be a pain for larger (or even smaller) networks. Is Microsoft releasing a way to install Windows 7 without wiping out the whole Windows XP install?
A: Typically the way we do new OS rollouts is as new machines are put on the floor or as existing machines need to be regenned. It's strict policy to not have anything stored on C: drives which makes it pretty easy to just do a wipe and load. Our PC's are all leased as well so when machines come off lease the new ones go out with the new OS.
A: As always with our company, the IT department will get first stab at the new OS. I'm already running Windows 7 (and have been since the beta, through a few of the subsequent builds, and now the RC). Luckily our department workstations are reaching their set EOL, so when we upgrade the physical machines, we'll up grade the OS as well.
Probably the biggest challenge facing deployment is training. There were a ton of aesthetic changes from XP to Vista, and there are quite a few changes between Vista and Windows 7 (making the adjustment from XP to Windows 7 quite an ordeal).
We're planning on using my past 6 month's experience, in conjunction with the various Win7 Features webpages and instructional videos to help ease the transition.
A: We purchase an OEM license for the OS with each PC, and don't generally upgrade it unless there is an obvious reason. Recently we have purchased Vista with the XP downgrade and installed XP. We are hoping to skip Vista, although a couple of us are testing it. I am not sure how Windows 7 will be introduced .. it will most likely be OEM and so will depend on when we start buying again!
In any case, if you decide to upgrade a PC from XP to W7, I suggest a clean install rather than doing an in-place upgrade.
A: We will likely use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (aka MDT) when it comes out of beta. The current MDT 2008 version supports Vista migrations nicely including migrating user state with the User State Migration Tool (USMT) 3.0.
With MDT, you are basically creating a custom image of your target OS. Part of the process includes creating a WinPE image that the target system boots into in order run the USMT and other prerequisites before formatting the drive and shoving down your new OS image. Once the OS has been replaced, USMT takes care of putting the user settings back.
To be honest, I'm still new to the product. So I might be slightly off in a few places, but that's basically the gist of it.
A: Due to weak centralized configuration controls (it's a political thing) our upgrade method is generally in sync with the hardware replacement cycle. In other words, we upgrade OS when we replace the hardware. The one exception will be the general computing labs which are all imaged. But our hardware there is just old enough that Win7 may not run well.
A: Windows 7 is a nice os which I would probably use at home but not at work - there's nothing revolutional. It's not a cost related questions - as we are msdn subscribers, we don't care. It's just because XP/XPx64 is very stable and still supported. Maybe when Office15 will be out and strictly require IE9 available only for Vista/W7, we'll think about upgrading.
A: Note that if you want to retain profiles from xp you will need to go through some pain converting them to Vista or Windows 7 because of the new file structure. I just went from XP to Vista and experienced this.
Microsoft has a good white paper on this conversion and the tools needed to pull it off. Most Microsoft programs convert over well but it's hit and miss on many other programs.
This link should help:
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748927(WS.10).aspx
If you plan on retaining profiles you will need to read the docs.
A: One of my clients has decided to do 100% of all upgrades via attrition.
They submit their disk build to Dell and all future orders will come with their chosen baseline.
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Are you smarter than the average bear? Residents of Caledonia may well be tired of hearing that question, right up there "do you say pic-a-nic basket?" Because Caledonia, Wisconsin happens to be the location of Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp Resort. Of course, it isn't the actual Jellystone Park where Yogi Bear lives…because he's not real. However, it does tend to be the thing that comes to mind.
Caledonia is actually a village in Racine County, Wisconsin, with a 2014 population of 24,708 and a total area of 48.72 square miles. As recently as 2005, Caledonia was designated as a town, and it was only by special exemption that it was permitted to become a village in January 2006.
In case you are wondering what the big deal is with whether it is a town or village, you should know a little bit about Wisconsin law. Designation as a town or village has nothing to do with total area or population, although a village has to have at least 150 residents if it is a rural area, and 2,500 if it is in an urban area. Under Wisconsin law, villages tend to have more autonomy and power than towns. They have their own president, tax laws, and other administrative freedoms, subject to state laws, of course. Towns have more limited authority, and little or no home rule. In other words, villages are like little kingdoms, and towns are not.
Caledonia residents appear to be doing well for themselves, too. As of 2013, the median household income is $70,642, quite a bit more than that of Wisconsin as a whole, which is $51,467. Home values are also higher in Caledonia at $187,886 (Wisconsin is at $163,000), and the cost of living index is average at 97.7. The population is mostly white (84.9%), married (63.^%) with children under 18 living with parents (31.1%) as of the 2010 census.
Caledonia is a rural village that offers a small-town lifestyle to its residents with plenty of opportunity for outdoor activities, and it is near enough to Racine and other counties for dining, shopping, and other needs.
In Caledonia itself, however, there's not really much to do unless you count camping out at Jellystone Park. Even the Caledonia Wildlife Area is not actually in Caledonia, but in nearby Franksville. Other parks that are almost in Caledonia include Cliffside Park, Johnson Park, Nicholson Wildlife Refuge, Root River Parkway, and Gorney Park.
Golf is also possible when in Caledonia if you don't mind hopping over to Racine (Johnson Park Golf Course) or Franksville (South Hills Country Club). You could say that Caledonia is a great place to live, but you have to go out to have some fun.
The client owns a beautiful 2,200 square foot Cape Cod style home with three bedrooms and 2.5 baths built in 2010. The home had been professionally designed, with high vaulted ceilings, and a cozy kitchen done in hickory. However, he wasn't happy with the second bathroom, which was done in pale-colored ceramic tiles and a wood-topped vanity. He wanted it remodeled in a starker style.
We came to do a consultation on possible designs for the second bathroom. The client wanted all the ceramic tiles removed and a stone vanity installed. Since the toilet and sink were white, and the cabinet was already black, neither of which would be replaced, we suggested a black-and-white design, which immediately caught his attention. We showed him the various combinations of wall and floor stone tiles, mosaic accents, and vanity tops using our site's bathroom visualizer. After a few false starts, he finally chose Montauk Black Slate for the floor and wall tiles, a Glacier White Quartz vanity, and a honed Arabescato Carrara marble in a Herringbone Pattern for the accent tiles.
With his selections in mind, we made initial measurements to give him a rough estimate of the remodel cost. We advised him that the final estimate can go either way pending the final measurements by our estimator, but not by much. He consented to give half of the initial estimate to reserve the stones he had chosen, and we promised to send the estimator the next day.
The remodel was extensive, and would take some two weeks to complete. The estimator provided the final measurements and we emailed the project cost to the client. He sent back a signed copy and we scheduled work to begin the following Monday.
The contractors came in as scheduled to remove the ceramic tiles and reinforce the support structure for the new stone vanity. The demolition took two days, and the tiling took five days. Finally, the fabricator was able to make a template for the vanity, and the installer came the next day to fit it to the prepared vanity. The installer applied sealer to the slate and the mosaic tiles, but not on the vanity top as quartz is non-porous and would not need it. The workers had previously cleared all the debris and hauled it away before turning the bathroom over to the installer.
The combination of slate and marble was clever, because the contrast was more than in the color. The texture of slate is inherently rougher than the smooth finish of marble, which makes it non-slippery, ideal for bathroom flooring. The quartz vanity was also a good choice because it requires no maintenance and could be handled with impunity.
The client was amazed at how classy the bathroom looked after the remodel. He especially liked the effect of the mosaic marble tile accent on the slate, making it look like it had more depth. He closely inspected the grouting for the tiles, and pronounced himself highly satisfied.
A black-and-white theme will work in almost any room, because it is a classic combination. With this project, however, the play of contrasts involved the textures of the materials used as well as the color. The bathroom visualizer was an important tool for helping the client make the right decisions, and we are happy to have been instrumental in making that available to him.
Badger Granite focuses on delivering top quality products and skilled and knowledgeable service to all our clients. The fabrication and installation of stone products is a delicate and difficult business, and should only be handled by those with proven experience. The right combination of all these elements ensures complete customer and job satisfaction.
We are a full-service stone fabrication and installation company. Whatever your needs are for kitchen and bathroom countertops, we are in a position to fill them. | {
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Expectations can make all the difference when you walk into a movie theater. For instance, when I went to see Damien Chazelle's new Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" last month, my expectations were fully informed by the director's previous movie, "La La Land." I'm not really a fan of musicals but I was stunned into belief by that one, and it quickly became one of my all-time favorites. I'll defend it from all haters.
Unfortunately, my fondness led to precipitously lofty expectations for whatever Chazelle's follow-up would be. I regret to report that "First Man" falls short. On the one hand it's a marvel of careful observations and precise, studious execution. But like its subject, it's forbiddingly remote—maybe necessarily so. In order to render his portrait of Armstrong's extreme reticence, Chazelle built an emotionally stifling framework around his subject and the movie never breaks out of that. It's a vision of space travel so authentic you've never seen it before, but it also never enraptures the audience with the wild unknown of space. I liked it, but I'm pretty sure I didn't enjoy it.
On the other hand, I walked into "Bad Times at the El Royale," a thriller from screenwriter and director Drew Goddard, with very few expectations, good or bad. If you've seen the trailer you'd probably expect a suspenseful, violent and perhaps quirky B-movie, likely derivative of the early work of Quentin Tarantino. That's pretty much what it is, but it's also really well done and immensely fun. I liked it and I enjoyed it.
Here are all eighteen of the movies I watched in October.
"The Tale of Zatoichi" Irresistibly corny.
"The Tale of Zatoichi Continues" It does!
If you're interested, here is what I watched in September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February and January. You can also see my complete list of everything I watched in 2017 and follow along with my film diary over at letterboxd.com. | {
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Central Europe (Europe centrale en français) est un roman de William T. Vollmann paru en 2005 aux États-Unis lauréat du National Book Award (plus haute distinction littéraire américaine) la même année. Il est traduit en français par l'écrivain Christophe Claro et parait chez Actes Sud en 2007.
Ce roman est composé de nombreux récits de longueurs variables mettant en scène divers personnages, célèbres ou non, ayant pour point commun d'avoir vécu en Union soviétique ou en Allemagne nazie et s'étale sur la période 1914-1975. Ils sont classés dans un ordre chronologique non strict et vont quelquefois par paire souvent lorsqu'un parallélisme est établi entre deux personnages. Si les personnages sont multiples, on peut toutefois dégager un personnage central : le compositeur russe Dmitri Chostakovitch.
Aspects généraux
Structure
Ce roman est en ensemble de nombreux récits divisés en deux sections. La première, , ne comprend qu'un court récit et tous les autres sont regroupés dans la deuxième section . Ces récits débutent tous par un épigraphe de natures diverses : citations de personnages célèbres présents dans le roman, citations de textes fondateurs comme le Nibelungen, autres citations, proverbes… Même si les récits sont ordonnés de manière non linéaire (quoique l'on assiste à une progression notamment lorsqu'il s'agit d'histoires mettant en scène des personnages récurrents comme Dmitri Chostakovitch) la chronologie est précise puisqu'une date en année ou en intervalle d'années est donnée pour chaque récit dans la table des matières ainsi qu'une indication de lieu (Allemagne et, ou Union soviétique).
Sources
Ce roman est issu d'un long travail documentaire mené par Vollmann lui-même avec le soutien précieux d'amis et de connaissances, ainsi il a résidé à l'Académie américaine de Berlin où aidé par des traducteurs il a pu lire des documents écrits en langue allemande. Ces études sont exposées directement au lecteur. En effet, à la fin du livre, est présente une liste de source par page. Cette liste est assez rigoureuse puisqu'on y trouve les références de tous les épigraphes, œuvres citées, faits… Ainsi lorsqu'un proverbe est cité on y trouve comment l'auteur en a pris connaissance. Par exemple il est écrit qu'un proverbe russe, qui est l'épigraphe d'un récit, a été appris à l'auteur par une prostituée.
Fiction ?
Même si ce roman est extrêmement documenté, il reste quand même une fiction, les pensées des personnages ont été inventées par l'auteur d'après les personnalités qu'il leur attribue (qui sont cela dit les fruits d'analyses de l'auteur fondées sur ses études documentaires). Certains éléments de l'action sont aussi du ressort de l'auteur, ainsi il raconte que Chostakovitch aurait été inclus dans un triangle amoureux avec le réalisateur Roman Karmen et Elena Konstantinovskaïa inventant que celle-ci avait les cheveux noirs (faux : elle était blonde) et qu'elle était bisexuelle (peu probable) et ce en connaissance de cause. Il ne faut donc pas prendre tout ce qui est dit dans le roman comme des faits historiques mais plutôt comme une analyse personnelle de l'auteur sur l'histoire et sur ses personnages.
Personnages
Importance
Ce roman n'est pas une narration des faits de l'histoire de l'Europe et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale mais plutôt une observation de ces faits à travers les destins de personnages ayant fait et subi cette histoire. Une place importante est donc donnée à l'introspection dans les pensées de ces personnages et dans leur vie privée en dehors des grands événements historiques. Par exemple, la bataille de Stalingrad n'est pas racontée directement mais par l'intermédiaire d'un récit sur Paulus faisant une grande place à ses rapports avec sa femme et ses enfants dont l'action se termine quelques années après la bataille.
Liste non exhaustive
Russie
Dmitri Chostakovitch : Compositeur russe. Il est indiscutablement le personnage principal du roman. Tout au long de l'œuvre l'auteur décrit la genèse de ses compositions, sa passion pour Elena Konstantinovskaïa ainsi que ses difficultés avec le pouvoir soviétique.
Elena Konstantinoskaïa : Maîtresse de Chostakovitch et femme de Roman Karmen.
Roman Karmen : Réalisateur russe et rival de Chostakovitch.
Nina Varzar : Première femme de Chostakovitch.
Andreï Vlassov : général soviétique s'étant rallié à Adolf Hitler et fondateur de l'armée Vlassov.
Allemagne
Le somnambule Adolf Hitler.
Friedrich Paulus : Général allemand ayant commandé la Sixième armée allemande à Stalingrad, nommé maréchal par Hitler la veille de la défaite.
Käthe Kollwitz : Sculptrice, graveuse et dessinatrice.
Réception francophone
Liens externes
Références
Roman américain paru en 2005
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Q: DataFrame object is not callable in sql i'm trying to normalize my data in sql
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-
databases/glass/glass.data',
header=None)
print(data.shape)
class Normalizer():
[...]
X, _ = df(return_X_y=True)
for norm in ['l1', 'l2', 'max']:
sc1 = Normalizer(norm=norm).fit(X)
sc2 = skNormalizer(norm=norm).fit(X)
Xt1 = sc1.transform(X)
Xt2 = sc2.transform(X)
print(np.allclose(Xt1, Xt2))'
but I'm getting this error
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1 X, _ = df(return_X_y=True)
2 for norm in ['l1', 'l2', 'max']:
3 sc1 = Normalizer(norm=norm).fit(X)
4 sc2 = skNormalizer(norm=norm).fit(X)
5 Xt1 = sc1.transform(X)
TypeError: 'DataFrame' object is not callable
A: You can find the answer in this post here
You either need a DataFrame.var or numpy.var and the link has some samples that will help you.
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Home Regions Asia-Pacific China and Xinjiang: The Fate of BRI
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China and Xinjiang: The Fate of BRI
Subhranil Ghosh & Sreemoyee Majumder
Investments have either built or doomed empires. For the former to be materialized, investments are to be made considering factors beyond the purely economic ones. In contemporary times the greatest spectacle of investment is the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), inducing development and investment in almost 152 countries across the globe. The BRI is a Xi Jinping initiative, ostensibly aimed at creating a 21st century Maritime Silk route to enhance the culture of the peaceful and cooperative cross-border trades, inherent in the process of globalization. This claim is, however, the most debated issue of 21st-century global politics. This trillion dollars Chinese project has been criticized as a Chinese weapon to consolidate its dominance in global trade, a claim most prominently made by India.
Simultaneously questions have been raised about its ultimate success. In this light, the Soviet economic slowdown of the 1970s following its gigantic investments in Siberia and the far east has often been brought into parallel with China and its East-west trade project's possible fate. Analyzing that, especially in the context of China's huge investment strategy in its underdeveloped and politically disturbed north-western region of Xinjiang province will be our focal point of discussion. But before that, a brief look at the history of Siberian curse on the Soviet economy is imperative.
Siberia, a humongous area to the east of Russia has always been strategically significant for the state. The credit for incorporating the lucrative region of Siberia as a crucial part of Russian economic geography goes to the Soviets. Since 1960's low-productivity of the mines and oilfields necessitated significant changes in Soviet investment policy. With a stable growing economy since the 1950s, it decided to shift industrial production to its far east and exploit the natural abundance there in order to further strengthen the economy. This economic improvement led economists like Paul Samuelson to speculate that the Soviet Gross National Product (GNP) would surpass the American GNP.
Up until the 1970s huge capital was invested to that end but gradually the graph started declining with a widening input-output ratio. For instance, in-between 1975-1985, while the capital stock percentage in ferrous metals increased by 55, the output had only a 10% increase. Similarly, in the oil industry, while the capital stock got almost doubled, the production capacity shrank by 21%. Although there were sectors of stable input-output ratio like that of electricity generation, the total productive factor (TPF) of Soviet industrial economy witnessed a sharp drop having a significant spill-over effect on the other sectors-thus retarding the economy, as a whole. Several factors were instrumental in this context.
Firstly, the policy of reconstruction investment. The Soviet Union instead of investing in new high-productive technologies, it attempted to modernize the already existing ones, which was far more capital intensive with insignificant returns. For instance, 60% of investment in ferrous metal went for its re-equipment. The second problem was Siberia itself. The uncritical obsession with economic power, especially in the context of Cold War politics, over-shadowed the Soviet policy-makers' prudence. They ignored the natural hurdles inherent in Siberia- its remote location and cold weather, these two factors combined- made exploitation, production and survival there, an expensive affair. For instance, the shift in coal exploitation from Ukraine to Krasnoyarsk province of Siberia resulted in the heightened capital stock of 62% and in contrary a 24% slash in TFP. The short-term strategy adopted by the Soviet leaders was to allow subsidy which in the long-run deprived other dynamic sectors from a stable economic growth.
Moreover, the cities that were built there were hardly conducive to the living conditions of the workers, which adversely impacted productivity. Alongside this shrinking production, owing to arms race, a huge portion of the Soviet economy was getting exhausted in the military industry, depriving the civilian necessities. Thus, while the Soviet Union's desire to become self-sufficient was not very imprudent per se, its investment in Siberia and the pattern it had adopted, certainly was. As Allen said, "Resource development swallowed up a large fraction of the investment budget for little increase in GDP." Additionally, three other problems plague the Soviet economy. Firstly, the micromanagement of the economy attempted by the Party officials proved unsustainable in the long run. Due to the government-enforced pricing, the total factor productivity of agriculture and other industries declined rapidly. The workforce, no matter how skilled, simply was not incentivized enough to produce more or innovate. The economy meandered along until the collapse of the USSR in 1990. In this light, we would reflect the Chinese context- whether history would repeat itself or not.
The Chinese economy takes off
The question naturally arises as to how did the Chinese economy outpace that of the only other country, with which it shared institutional similarities, the erstwhile Soviet Union? Both these economies were centrally planned and both placed overwhelming emphasis upon heavy industry, collectivized agriculture and stymied the inculcation of a solid consumer base. Incidentally, the two countries only embraced market reforms in order to render the economy more efficient and thereby consolidate the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party. In spite of obstacles, China has been able to maintain a near-double-digit growth rate, a single-digit inflation rate, a huge build-up of foreign exchange reserves, a sharp decline in poverty and wide participation of different sections of society in the benefits of economic growth over the course of two decades.
The Chinese Political Brass had quietly started acknowledging the shortcomings of command economic system. Owing to the devastation wrought by the Great Leap Forward, the Leadership of Deng Xiaoping was sober enough to realize that reforms were crucial in revitalizing the economy. The first priority was to liberalize agriculture. To that end a de-collectivization drive was undertaken, allowing production to be sold in free markets at market-determined prices. This freeing up of markets was first allowed in secondary crops and household products and finally in grains. The commune land was divided into small plots and was allocated to individual households. They were allowed to keep all income from that land after paying stipulated taxes, immediately providing incentives to increase production and income. The labor released from collective farms could be re-skilled for non-agricultural employment. The second important reform instituted by the PRC was opening up the economy to FDI, which readily flowed in due to the cheap labor costs. Ultimately, over the course of 20 years, China emerged as the largest exporter in the world and as the producer of half the world's steel. And herein precisely lay the paradox. China's excess capacity in steel and concrete means that the market has reached a point of saturation. Additionally, the law of disproportionality is in full effect as the less productive sectors of the Chinese economy are pulling back Chinese growth from 6.9% to a 28 year low of 6.3%. The only solution to this problem is to find new markets where China sells its products. This is where the trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative is key, in connecting China to emerging markets. PRC hopes that emerging economies will welcome High-end goods and services and infrastructural development. The downside is that China's pursuit of a no-strings approach to investment means governments are burdening their countries with unpayable debts, not to mention the enormous debt the PRC owes the AIIB. More recently, countries like Malaysia has axed two BRI related projects. Even close allies like Pakistan are opting out of BRI projects. Chinese investors are naturally risk averse and the BRI could just turn into a white elephant for the Chinese. By far, however, the biggest problem with the BRI is its access point, Xinjiang.
Xinjiang – the anomaly in the Chinese equation
Xinjiang located at the north-western part of the Chinese mainland has a religio-cultural homogeneity with the bordering Central Asian states rather than that with China. While this geographic position along with its abundant natural wealth, on one hand, has made Xinjiang the most significant possession of China's economic geography, on the other hand, it is the root cause of the major ethnic crisis that the People's Republic of China is yet to cope up with. Naturally, the Muslim domination of the ethnic-demographic composition of Xinjiang, mainly comprised of the Uighur ethnicity, stands in sharp contrast with the mainstream national patriotic values proselytized by Communist China. Although realizing its geo-strategic significance, the Chinese state has for long adopted developmental process in the region, only to aggravate the ethnic tension.
In face of the long-standing struggle for Xinjiang's independence, the PRC along with pouring money, aimed at diverting the larger demand of political autonomy has encouraged a huge influx of Han Chinese to dilute the concentrated Uighur population of Xinjiang. However, with almost 800-840 seats being reserved for the Han Chinese in all the administrative sectors, the economic opportunities rendered by the developmental policy hardly gets appropriated by the Uighurs. To worsen the situation, the strategy adopted by the Chinese state to counter the ethnic crisis by setting up of forceful re-education camps proliferating a process of 'Sinicization', rigid security surveillance in everyday life of the Uighurs with police stations set up at every 100 meters and the Strike Hard campaign initiated in the 1990s further heated up the already boiling grievances.
What more, post 9/11 China in order to gain international legitimacy has connected the issue with global terrorism, alienating the Uighurs even more. In adopting this coercive and superficial integration process since the 1950s with the developmental policy hardly benefitting the underdeveloped, unskilled and poor Uighurs, the Chinese Communist State has severely lacked on a prudent foresight. Today Xinjiang features as the fulcrum of China's ambitious BRI initiative. Due to its geographic position, it is the state's main gateway to the Central and West Asia, as well as the European markets, through the land. It is the largest logistic center among the countries under the BRI initiative. For instance, the Southern Xinjiang Railway in Kashgar connects to Pakistan's rail network under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – one of China's principal projects under BRI.
Since 2016, following the official announcement of BRI, China has poured even more investments in the Xinjiang region, encouraging its rapid development. For example, the development of the Korla region with a grant of $ 50 billion. Unfortunately, all these heavy investments are not paying off enough. In spite, of the fact that Xinjiang has actually developed significantly, the development is concentrated only in the urban region, benefits of which are again majorly seized by the skilled and consciously constructed elite Han Chinese section.
Ironically, the Uighurs, apparently at whom all these developments were aimed at, are still majorly concentrated in the rural agriculture-based Kashgar and Khotan region of Southern Xinjiang. As a result, the Han-Uighur ethnic tension has hardly ceased, making the situation not so conducive for business, thus investment falling flat to a larger extent. For instance, India's spice manufacturer Synthite, largest of its kind had set up a manufacturing plant in Korla to multiply its capacity and quickly ship out spices over rail route, had to hold back expansion due to labor problems, ethnic tension, strict security procedures making access to export facility difficult. Thus, in order to materialize the success of BRI as envisaged by China, with Xinjiang featuring as a crucial juncture in it, it has to go beyond mere geographical integration of the area through heavy investments and coercive political control and integrate the marginalized people instead.
Therefore, we can conclude that for China to become not only the largest economy but also the superpower, instead of searching for new markets to dump its products, it should embrace a decentralized planning system, address the problem of over-capacity and resolve the ethnic tension of its Xinjiang province.
Image Credit: Lommes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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struct PP_Point;
class SkBitmap;
class TransportDIB;
namespace WebKit {
class WebInputEvent;
class WebMouseEvent;
class WebPluginContainer;
struct WebCompositionUnderline;
struct WebCursorInfo;
struct WebPrintParams;
}
namespace ppapi {
struct InputEventData;
struct PPP_Instance_Combined;
class Resource;
}
namespace ui {
class Range;
}
namespace webkit {
namespace ppapi {
class FullscreenContainer;
class MessageChannel;
class PluginDelegate;
class PluginModule;
class PluginObject;
class PPB_Graphics2D_Impl;
class PPB_Graphics3D_Impl;
class PPB_ImageData_Impl;
class PPB_URLLoader_Impl;
class PPB_URLRequestInfo_Impl;
// Represents one time a plugin appears on one web page.
//
// Note: to get from a PP_Instance to a PluginInstance*, use the
// ResourceTracker.
class WEBKIT_PLUGINS_EXPORT PluginInstance :
public base::RefCounted<PluginInstance>,
public base::SupportsWeakPtr<PluginInstance>,
public ::ppapi::PPB_Instance_Shared {
public:
// Create and return a PluginInstance object which supports the most recent
// version of PPP_Instance possible by querying the given get_plugin_interface
// function. If the plugin does not support any valid PPP_Instance interface,
// returns NULL.
static PluginInstance* Create(PluginDelegate* delegate, PluginModule* module);
// Delete should be called by the WebPlugin before this destructor.
virtual ~PluginInstance();
PluginDelegate* delegate() const { return delegate_; }
PluginModule* module() const { return module_.get(); }
MessageChannel& message_channel() { return *message_channel_; }
WebKit::WebPluginContainer* container() const { return container_; }
void set_always_on_top(bool on_top) { always_on_top_ = on_top; }
// Returns the PP_Instance uniquely identifying this instance. Guaranteed
// nonzero.
PP_Instance pp_instance() const { return pp_instance_; }
::ppapi::thunk::ResourceCreationAPI& resource_creation() {
return *resource_creation_.get();
}
// Does some pre-destructor cleanup on the instance. This is necessary
// because some cleanup depends on the plugin instance still existing (like
// calling the plugin's DidDestroy function). This function is called from
// the WebPlugin implementation when WebKit is about to remove the plugin.
void Delete();
// Paints the current backing store to the web page.
void Paint(WebKit::WebCanvas* canvas,
const gfx::Rect& plugin_rect,
const gfx::Rect& paint_rect);
// Schedules a paint of the page for the given region. The coordinates are
// relative to the top-left of the plugin. This does nothing if the plugin
// has not yet been positioned. You can supply an empty gfx::Rect() to
// invalidate the entire plugin.
void InvalidateRect(const gfx::Rect& rect);
// Schedules a scroll of the plugin. This uses optimized scrolling only for
// full-frame plugins, as otherwise there could be other elements on top. The
// slow path can also be triggered if there is an overlapping frame.
void ScrollRect(int dx, int dy, const gfx::Rect& rect);
// If the plugin instance is backed by a texture, return its texture ID in the
// compositor's namespace. Otherwise return 0. Returns 0 by default.
unsigned GetBackingTextureId();
// Commit the backing texture to the screen once the side effects some
// rendering up to an offscreen SwapBuffers are visible.
void CommitBackingTexture();
// Called when the out-of-process plugin implementing this instance crashed.
void InstanceCrashed();
// PPB_Instance and PPB_Instance_Private implementation.
const GURL& plugin_url() const { return plugin_url_; }
bool full_frame() const { return full_frame_; }
const ::ppapi::ViewData& view_data() const { return view_data_; }
// PPP_Instance and PPP_Instance_Private pass-through.
bool Initialize(WebKit::WebPluginContainer* container,
const std::vector<std::string>& arg_names,
const std::vector<std::string>& arg_values,
const GURL& plugin_url,
bool full_frame);
bool HandleDocumentLoad(PPB_URLLoader_Impl* loader);
bool HandleInputEvent(const WebKit::WebInputEvent& event,
WebKit::WebCursorInfo* cursor_info);
PP_Var GetInstanceObject();
void ViewChanged(const gfx::Rect& position, const gfx::Rect& clip);
// Handlers for composition events.
bool HandleCompositionStart(const string16& text);
bool HandleCompositionUpdate(
const string16& text,
const std::vector<WebKit::WebCompositionUnderline>& underlines,
int selection_start,
int selection_end);
bool HandleCompositionEnd(const string16& text);
bool HandleTextInput(const string16& text);
// Gets the current text input status.
ui::TextInputType text_input_type() const { return text_input_type_; }
gfx::Rect GetCaretBounds() const;
bool IsPluginAcceptingCompositionEvents() const;
void GetSurroundingText(string16* text, ui::Range* range) const;
// Notifications about focus changes, see has_webkit_focus_ below.
void SetWebKitFocus(bool has_focus);
void SetContentAreaFocus(bool has_focus);
// Notification about page visibility. The default is "visible".
void PageVisibilityChanged(bool is_visible);
// Notifications that the view is about to paint, has started painting, and
// has flushed the painted content to the screen. These messages are used to
// send Flush callbacks to the plugin for DeviceContext2D/3D.
void ViewWillInitiatePaint();
void ViewInitiatedPaint();
void ViewFlushedPaint();
// If this plugin can be painted merely by copying the backing store to the
// screen, and the plugin bounds encloses the given paint bounds, returns
// true. In this case, the location, clipping, and ID of the backing store
// will be filled into the given output parameters.
bool GetBitmapForOptimizedPluginPaint(
const gfx::Rect& paint_bounds,
TransportDIB** dib,
gfx::Rect* dib_bounds,
gfx::Rect* clip);
// Tracks all live PluginObjects.
void AddPluginObject(PluginObject* plugin_object);
void RemovePluginObject(PluginObject* plugin_object);
string16 GetSelectedText(bool html);
string16 GetLinkAtPosition(const gfx::Point& point);
void RequestSurroundingText(size_t desired_number_of_characters);
void Zoom(double factor, bool text_only);
bool StartFind(const string16& search_text,
bool case_sensitive,
int identifier);
void SelectFindResult(bool forward);
void StopFind();
bool SupportsPrintInterface();
bool IsPrintScalingDisabled();
int PrintBegin(const WebKit::WebPrintParams& print_params);
bool PrintPage(int page_number, WebKit::WebCanvas* canvas);
void PrintEnd();
bool CanRotateView();
void RotateView(WebKit::WebPlugin::RotationType type);
void Graphics3DContextLost();
// There are 2 implementations of the fullscreen interface
// PPB_FlashFullscreen is used by Pepper Flash.
// PPB_Fullscreen is intended for other applications including NaCl.
// The two interface are mutually exclusive.
// Implementation of PPB_FlashFullscreen.
// Because going to fullscreen is asynchronous (but going out is not), there
// are 3 states:
// - normal : fullscreen_container_ == NULL
// flash_fullscreen_ == false
// - fullscreen pending: fullscreen_container_ != NULL
// flash_fullscreen_ == false
// - fullscreen : fullscreen_container_ != NULL
// flash_fullscreen_ == true
//
// In normal state, events come from webkit and painting goes back to it.
// In fullscreen state, events come from the fullscreen container, and
// painting goes back to it.
// In pending state, events from webkit are ignored, and as soon as we
// receive events from the fullscreen container, we go to the fullscreen
// state.
bool FlashIsFullscreenOrPending();
// Switches between fullscreen and normal mode. If |delay_report| is set to
// false, it may report the new state through DidChangeView immediately. If
// true, it will delay it. When called from the plugin, delay_report should
// be true to avoid re-entrancy.
void FlashSetFullscreen(bool fullscreen, bool delay_report);
// Updates |flash_fullscreen_| and sends focus change notification if
// necessary.
void UpdateFlashFullscreenState(bool flash_fullscreen);
FullscreenContainer* fullscreen_container() const {
return fullscreen_container_;
}
// Implementation of PPB_Fullscreen.
// Because going to/from fullscreen is asynchronous, there are 4 states:
// - normal : desired_fullscreen_state_ == false
// view_data_.is_fullscreen == false
// - fullscreen pending: desired_fullscreen_state_ == true
// view_data_.is_fullscreen == false
// - fullscreen : desired_fullscreen_state_ == true
// view_data_.is_fullscreen == true
// - normal pending : desired_fullscreen_state_ = false
// view_data_.is_fullscreen = true
bool IsFullscreenOrPending();
bool flash_fullscreen() const { return flash_fullscreen_; }
// Switches between fullscreen and normal mode. The transition is
// asynchronous. WebKit will trigger corresponding VewChanged calls.
// Returns true on success, false on failure (e.g. trying to enter fullscreen
// when not processing a user gesture or trying to set fullscreen when
// already in fullscreen mode).
bool SetFullscreen(bool fullscreen);
// Implementation of PPB_Flash.
int32_t Navigate(PPB_URLRequestInfo_Impl* request,
const char* target,
bool from_user_action);
bool IsRectTopmost(const gfx::Rect& rect);
// Implementation of PPB_Gamepad.
void SampleGamepads(PP_Instance instance, PP_GamepadsSampleData* data)
OVERRIDE;
// Implementation of PPP_Messaging.
void HandleMessage(PP_Var message);
PluginDelegate::PlatformContext3D* CreateContext3D();
// Returns true iff the plugin is a full-page plugin (i.e. not in an iframe
// or embedded in a page).
bool IsFullPagePlugin() const;
// Returns true if the plugin is processing a user gesture.
bool IsProcessingUserGesture();
// A mouse lock request was pending and this reports success or failure.
void OnLockMouseACK(bool succeeded);
// A mouse lock was in place, but has been lost.
void OnMouseLockLost();
// A mouse lock is enabled and mouse events are being delievered.
void HandleMouseLockedInputEvent(const WebKit::WebMouseEvent& event);
// Simulates an input event to the plugin by passing it down to WebKit,
// which sends it back up to the plugin as if it came from the user.
void SimulateInputEvent(const ::ppapi::InputEventData& input_event);
// Simulates an IME event at the level of RenderView which sends it back up to
// the plugin as if it came from the user.
bool SimulateIMEEvent(const ::ppapi::InputEventData& input_event);
void SimulateImeSetCompositionEvent(
const ::ppapi::InputEventData& input_event);
// PPB_Instance_API implementation.
virtual PP_Bool BindGraphics(PP_Instance instance,
PP_Resource device) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool IsFullFrame(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual const ::ppapi::ViewData* GetViewData(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetWindowObject(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetOwnerElementObject(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var ExecuteScript(PP_Instance instance,
PP_Var script,
PP_Var* exception) OVERRIDE;
virtual uint32_t GetAudioHardwareOutputSampleRate(PP_Instance instance)
OVERRIDE;
virtual uint32_t GetAudioHardwareOutputBufferSize(PP_Instance instance)
OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetDefaultCharSet(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetFontFamilies(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual void NumberOfFindResultsChanged(PP_Instance instance,
int32_t total,
PP_Bool final_result) OVERRIDE;
virtual void SelectedFindResultChanged(PP_Instance instance,
int32_t index) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool SetFullscreen(PP_Instance instance,
PP_Bool fullscreen) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool GetScreenSize(PP_Instance instance, PP_Size* size)
OVERRIDE;
virtual ::ppapi::thunk::PPB_Flash_API* GetFlashAPI() OVERRIDE;
virtual int32_t RequestInputEvents(PP_Instance instance,
uint32_t event_classes) OVERRIDE;
virtual int32_t RequestFilteringInputEvents(PP_Instance instance,
uint32_t event_classes) OVERRIDE;
virtual void ClearInputEventRequest(PP_Instance instance,
uint32_t event_classes) OVERRIDE;
virtual void ClosePendingUserGesture(PP_Instance instance,
PP_TimeTicks timestamp);
virtual void ZoomChanged(PP_Instance instance, double factor) OVERRIDE;
virtual void ZoomLimitsChanged(PP_Instance instance,
double minimum_factor,
double maximium_factor) OVERRIDE;
virtual void PostMessage(PP_Instance instance, PP_Var message) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool SetCursor(PP_Instance instance,
PP_MouseCursor_Type type,
PP_Resource image,
const PP_Point* hot_spot) OVERRIDE;
virtual int32_t LockMouse(
PP_Instance instance,
scoped_refptr< ::ppapi::TrackedCallback> callback) OVERRIDE;
virtual void UnlockMouse(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool GetDefaultPrintSettings(
PP_Instance instance,
PP_PrintSettings_Dev* print_settings) OVERRIDE;
virtual void SetTextInputType(PP_Instance instance,
PP_TextInput_Type type) OVERRIDE;
virtual void UpdateCaretPosition(PP_Instance instance,
const PP_Rect& caret,
const PP_Rect& bounding_box) OVERRIDE;
virtual void CancelCompositionText(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual void SelectionChanged(PP_Instance instance) OVERRIDE;
virtual void UpdateSurroundingText(PP_Instance instance,
const char* text,
uint32_t caret,
uint32_t anchor) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var ResolveRelativeToDocument(
PP_Instance instance,
PP_Var relative,
PP_URLComponents_Dev* components) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool DocumentCanRequest(PP_Instance instance, PP_Var url) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Bool DocumentCanAccessDocument(PP_Instance instance,
PP_Instance target) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetDocumentURL(PP_Instance instance,
PP_URLComponents_Dev* components) OVERRIDE;
virtual PP_Var GetPluginInstanceURL(
PP_Instance instance,
PP_URLComponents_Dev* components) OVERRIDE;
// Reset this instance as proxied. Resets cached interfaces to point to the
// proxy and re-sends DidCreate, DidChangeView, and HandleDocumentLoad (if
// necessary).
// This is for use with the NaCl proxy.
bool ResetAsProxied();
private:
// See the static Create functions above for creating PluginInstance objects.
// This constructor is private so that we can hide the PPP_Instance_Combined
// details while still having 1 constructor to maintain for member
// initialization.
PluginInstance(PluginDelegate* delegate,
PluginModule* module,
::ppapi::PPP_Instance_Combined* instance_interface);
bool LoadFindInterface();
bool LoadInputEventInterface();
bool LoadMessagingInterface();
bool LoadMouseLockInterface();
bool LoadPdfInterface();
bool LoadPrintInterface();
bool LoadPrivateInterface();
bool LoadSelectionInterface();
bool LoadTextInputInterface();
bool LoadZoomInterface();
// Determines if we think the plugin has focus, both content area and webkit
// (see has_webkit_focus_ below).
bool PluginHasFocus() const;
void SendFocusChangeNotification();
// Returns true if the plugin has registered to accept touch events.
bool IsAcceptingTouchEvents() const;
void ScheduleAsyncDidChangeView(const ::ppapi::ViewData& previous_view);
void SendAsyncDidChangeView(const ::ppapi::ViewData& previous_view);
void SendDidChangeView(const ::ppapi::ViewData& previous_view);
// Reports the current plugin geometry to the plugin by calling
// DidChangeView.
void ReportGeometry();
// Queries the plugin for supported print formats and sets |format| to the
// best format to use. Returns false if the plugin does not support any
// print format that we can handle (we can handle only PDF).
bool GetPreferredPrintOutputFormat(PP_PrintOutputFormat_Dev* format);
bool PrintPDFOutput(PP_Resource print_output, WebKit::WebCanvas* canvas);
// Get the bound graphics context as a concrete 2D graphics context or returns
// null if the context is not 2D.
PPB_Graphics2D_Impl* GetBoundGraphics2D() const;
// Get the bound 3D graphics context.
// Returns NULL if bound graphics is not a 3D context.
PPB_Graphics3D_Impl* GetBoundGraphics3D() const;
// Sets the id of the texture that the plugin draws to. The id is in the
// compositor space so it can use it to composite with rest of the page.
// A value of zero indicates the plugin is not backed by a texture.
// is_opaque is true if the plugin contents are always opaque.
void setBackingTextureId(unsigned int id, bool is_opaque);
// Internal helper function for PrintPage().
bool PrintPageHelper(PP_PrintPageNumberRange_Dev* page_ranges,
int num_ranges,
WebKit::WebCanvas* canvas);
void DoSetCursor(WebKit::WebCursorInfo* cursor);
// Internal helper functions for HandleCompositionXXX().
bool SendCompositionEventToPlugin(
PP_InputEvent_Type type,
const string16& text);
bool SendCompositionEventWithUnderlineInformationToPlugin(
PP_InputEvent_Type type,
const string16& text,
const std::vector<WebKit::WebCompositionUnderline>& underlines,
int selection_start,
int selection_end);
// Checks if the security origin of the document containing this instance can
// assess the security origin of the main frame document.
bool CanAccessMainFrame() const;
// Returns true if the WebView the plugin is in renders via the accelerated
// compositing path.
bool IsViewAccelerated();
// Track, set and reset size attributes to control the size of the plugin
// in and out of fullscreen mode.
void KeepSizeAttributesBeforeFullscreen();
void SetSizeAttributesForFullscreen();
void ResetSizeAttributesAfterFullscreen();
PluginDelegate* delegate_;
scoped_refptr<PluginModule> module_;
scoped_ptr< ::ppapi::PPP_Instance_Combined> instance_interface_;
PP_Instance pp_instance_;
// NULL until we have been initialized.
WebKit::WebPluginContainer* container_;
// Plugin URL.
GURL plugin_url_;
// Indicates whether this is a full frame instance, which means it represents
// an entire document rather than an embed tag.
bool full_frame_;
// Stores the current state of the plugin view.
::ppapi::ViewData view_data_;
// Indicates if we've ever sent a didChangeView to the plugin. This ensure we
// always send an initial notification, even if the position and clip are the
// same as the default values.
bool sent_initial_did_change_view_;
// We use a weak ptr factory for scheduling DidChangeView events so that we
// can tell whether updates are pending and consolidate them. When there's
// already a weak ptr pending (HasWeakPtrs is true), code should update the
// view_data_ but not send updates. This also allows us to cancel scheduled
// view change events.
base::WeakPtrFactory<PluginInstance> view_change_weak_ptr_factory_;
// The current device context for painting in 2D or 3D.
scoped_refptr< ::ppapi::Resource> bound_graphics_;
// We track two types of focus, one from WebKit, which is the focus among
// all elements of the page, one one from the browser, which is whether the
// tab/window has focus. We tell the plugin it has focus only when both of
// these values are set to true.
bool has_webkit_focus_;
bool has_content_area_focus_;
// The id of the current find operation, or -1 if none is in process.
int find_identifier_;
// Helper object that creates resources.
scoped_ptr< ::ppapi::thunk::ResourceCreationAPI> resource_creation_;
// The plugin-provided interfaces.
const PPP_Find_Dev* plugin_find_interface_;
const PPP_InputEvent* plugin_input_event_interface_;
const PPP_Messaging* plugin_messaging_interface_;
const PPP_MouseLock* plugin_mouse_lock_interface_;
const PPP_Pdf* plugin_pdf_interface_;
const PPP_Instance_Private* plugin_private_interface_;
const PPP_Selection_Dev* plugin_selection_interface_;
const PPP_TextInput_Dev* plugin_textinput_interface_;
const PPP_Zoom_Dev* plugin_zoom_interface_;
// Flags indicating whether we have asked this plugin instance for the
// corresponding interfaces, so that we can ask only once.
bool checked_for_plugin_input_event_interface_;
bool checked_for_plugin_messaging_interface_;
// This is only valid between a successful PrintBegin call and a PrintEnd
// call.
PP_PrintSettings_Dev current_print_settings_;
#if defined(OS_MACOSX)
// On the Mac, when we draw the bitmap to the PDFContext, it seems necessary
// to keep the pixels valid until CGContextEndPage is called. We use this
// variable to hold on to the pixels.
scoped_refptr<PPB_ImageData_Impl> last_printed_page_;
#endif // defined(OS_MACOSX)
#if defined(USE_SKIA)
// Always when printing to PDF on Linux and when printing for preview on Mac
// and Win, the entire document goes into one metafile. However, when users
// print only a subset of all the pages, it is impossible to know if a call
// to PrintPage() is the last call. Thus in PrintPage(), just store the page
// number in |ranges_|. The hack is in PrintEnd(), where a valid |canvas_|
// is preserved in PrintWebViewHelper::PrintPages. This makes it possible
// to generate the entire PDF given the variables below:
//
// The most recently used WebCanvas, guaranteed to be valid.
SkRefPtr<WebKit::WebCanvas> canvas_;
// An array of page ranges.
std::vector<PP_PrintPageNumberRange_Dev> ranges_;
#endif // OS_LINUX || OS_WIN
// The plugin print interface.
const PPP_Printing_Dev* plugin_print_interface_;
// The plugin 3D interface.
const PPP_Graphics3D* plugin_graphics_3d_interface_;
// Contains the cursor if it's set by the plugin.
scoped_ptr<WebKit::WebCursorInfo> cursor_;
// Set to true if this plugin thinks it will always be on top. This allows us
// to use a more optimized painting path in some cases.
bool always_on_top_;
// Implementation of PPB_FlashFullscreen.
// Plugin container for fullscreen mode. NULL if not in fullscreen mode. Note:
// there is a transition state where fullscreen_container_ is non-NULL but
// flash_fullscreen_ is false (see above).
FullscreenContainer* fullscreen_container_;
// True if we are in "flash" fullscreen mode. False if we are in normal mode
// or in transition to fullscreen. Normal fullscreen mode is indicated in
// the ViewData.
bool flash_fullscreen_;
// Implementation of PPB_Fullscreen.
// Since entering fullscreen mode is an asynchronous operation, we set this
// variable to the desired state at the time we issue the fullscreen change
// request. The plugin will receive a DidChangeView event when it goes
// fullscreen.
bool desired_fullscreen_state_;
// WebKit does not resize the plugin when going into fullscreen mode, so we do
// this here by modifying the various plugin attributes and then restoring
// them on exit.
WebKit::WebString width_before_fullscreen_;
WebKit::WebString height_before_fullscreen_;
WebKit::WebString border_before_fullscreen_;
WebKit::WebString style_before_fullscreen_;
gfx::Size screen_size_for_fullscreen_;
// The MessageChannel used to implement bidirectional postMessage for the
// instance.
scoped_ptr<MessageChannel> message_channel_;
// Bitmap for crashed plugin. Lazily initialized, non-owning pointer.
SkBitmap* sad_plugin_;
typedef std::set<PluginObject*> PluginObjectSet;
PluginObjectSet live_plugin_objects_;
// Classes of events that the plugin has registered for, both for filtering
// and not. The bits are PP_INPUTEVENT_CLASS_*.
uint32_t input_event_mask_;
uint32_t filtered_input_event_mask_;
// Text composition status.
ui::TextInputType text_input_type_;
gfx::Rect text_input_caret_;
gfx::Rect text_input_caret_bounds_;
bool text_input_caret_set_;
// Text selection status.
std::string surrounding_text_;
size_t selection_caret_;
size_t selection_anchor_;
scoped_refptr< ::ppapi::TrackedCallback> lock_mouse_callback_;
// Track pending user gestures so out-of-process plugins can respond to
// a user gesture after it has been processed.
PP_TimeTicks pending_user_gesture_;
// The Flash proxy is associated with the instance.
PPB_Flash_Impl flash_impl_;
// We store the arguments so we can re-send them if we are reset to talk to
// NaCl via the IPC NaCl proxy.
std::vector<std::string> argn_;
std::vector<std::string> argv_;
// This is NULL unless HandleDocumentLoad has called. In that case, we store
// the pointer so we can re-send it later if we are reset to talk to NaCl.
scoped_refptr<PPB_URLLoader_Impl> document_loader_;
DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(PluginInstance);
};
} // namespace ppapi
} // namespace webkit
#endif // WEBKIT_PLUGINS_PPAPI_PPAPI_PLUGIN_INSTANCE_H_
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Tiur ProducerMember, Administrator, Immortal Posts: 794 admin
May 2017 in Aetolia Development
Vampires are a tagline for Aetolia. Some of our ads literally say "A Vampire themed MUD". You and I know that isn't very accurate but reputation is a difficult thing. As I see it, we cannot have that main tag be confusing or stagnant. Due to different views on bloodlines, generations, and houses, there is little to no comparable unity between how a vampire is played. And to state a fact, the vampire newbie experience needs to be standardized with the others. No newbie needs to quit this MUD because they could not find what they were looking for. And on the other hand, no player should be forced to go and sire a newbie so they can have the vampire experience.
We are looking at new bloodline and generational systems which limit a sire to a set number of childer, but allows vampires to fluidly swap out those to whom their loyalties lie—both as to their sire and their childer—as roleplay or other considerations dictate. It's meant to encourage a far more meritocratic system than the current stagnancy. Instead of a vampire being locked into a generation upon being embraced, any vampire may rise (or fall) in bloodrank by convincing a higher-level sire to re-embrace them and any sire may release their childer if expectations are not met. The idea is to encourage consistent roleplay much in the same way that cities, guilds, and houses not only assign council-like positions to those who are most willing to work for it but also remove responsibility if another is better suited.
Roleplay wise, it allows sires the ability to request assistance from their childer implicitly backed with the threat of potential release if their directives are not followed. It gives childer a reason to listen to their sires because their link to bloodrank and peerage is directly tied to appeasing the one above them.
However, this also provides a level of choice for childer that they have never had before. If a sire becomes too demanding, the childe may simply find another willing to sire them. Also, if a childe shows that they are useful, able to roleplay, or are a valuable asset, they can simply leapfrog their current sire if a higher-ranking sire has an opening and sees the vampire as valuable.
Combined, this creates a system where there should be a more intimate connection between sires and childer lest the bond be broken. It also creates a system where intrigue, drama, and roleplay are a method through which a character can gain power within the system—ultimately, this leads to mechanical rewards for roleplay.
The goal is to combine the Consanguine into a more populous group through the Dominion (and lessen the influence of the houses). The Consanguine cease being a subdivided group of a subset of a subset and become a unified entity, while still retaining the backstabbing and intrigue we know and love.
This was the starting place for the design of a new vampire system; a rationale for changing and direction of change. I feel like keeping up the transparency and seeing how you all feel about it. Please note I didn't actually include any mechanics here! We're not debating the how, just the why and what. And I have chatted with a number of players, which led to a few modifications of the above (example, we're retaining a way to keep track of who your original embracer was).
This also explicitly does not mention Abhorash. I wouldn't mind your opinions on that topic, I'm just not going to get into mechanics and ranks yet. So tell me if you love the Admin micromanagement, or hate that we admin never have the time to run him.
I'm actually in the middle of making this a reality. I won't give an ETA because, and I'll be honest here, this level of project is at the edge of my ability in Rapture. I'm pressed to meet our internal deadline, and by opening this up to comments, I'm risking that deadline. Completing this will enable me to judge my own familiarity/skill and actually add timelines to things in the future.
Rhyot BloodlochMember Posts: 412 ✭✭✭✭
So, here's the thing about Vampirism and being a Consanguine as a whole. It's all about respect. Respect to your Sire, respect to your House, respect to the city, respect to the Blood.
Now, because Siring is mostly done within the House, this brings up a very restricting point. Most Houses only have 1-3 active people who are authorized sires. So by implementing a change of being allowed to jump ship on a Sire is going to start affecting the overlooking view of the Consanguine society. If someone can just jump ship from a sire all because they want a blood rank, that will spread through out the vampire community, and most definitely within the House the newly embraced is in, and they will find themselves barred from any sort of future changes because that is a huge disrespect to the original Sire. That's an equivalent to your son/daughter saying, "Thanks for the past 18 years parent, but I'm going to leave you now because you've used up your usefulness to me." I'm fairly certain if your son/daughter verbally/non-verbally said that to you, you'd feel pretty angry/upset and likely wouldn't want to help them with anything for quite some time, nor anyone else to help them for that matter.
Very few people even care about blood rank anymore. Yes, peerage is used, but only by very few. Most see peerage as a form of chest beating or a meaningless title. You don't get anything special by being an Emperor, a Prince, or a Grand Duke. It's a title, one people really don't care to pay attention to unless you tell them that they -WILL- adhere to peerage.
Also, most Siring is only done within the House. There is no cross-house Siring. Typically, if its found out that someone has gone outside the House to obtain a sire, one of two things will happen. Either a) the newly embraced must break ties with their Sire and obtain a new one within the same House or b) the newly embraced must leave the House. The latter is more restricting because now you're a Rogue and while being a Rogue is fun, you are no longer seen as necessary to the Dominion.
As for Abhorash, I love the lore and history behind him. I wish that he'd get played a little more often as I love the demanding and dictator-esque vibe I get when I communicate with him.
But commenting on some points you made, Siring already is a fluid thing. Any Childe can go to any Sire and get re-sired, but it goes back to the whole respect thing I mentioned earlier. The Dominion will be hard pressed to become a staple point of Consanguine necessity, and Houses are still going to have laws in place keeping their siring within the House.
That said, I feel this change won't do much for the roleplay of a Consanguine or the vampire community. As it stands, a majority of people coming to Bloodloch don't even want to BE a vampire and of those who start as a Nightstalker quite often don't remain as a Nightstalker, but instead quit the game, leave the city, or just become undead. There are many issues regarding this trend, but the primary reasons are because the very few amount of available Sires within the Houses, the near minimal options of available Sires outside the Houses, Siring as a whole, and the overarching cost of the Praenomen class in general (but we won't get into that argument here).
Kalak Member Posts: 274 ✭✭✭
Rhyot said:
Most see them as such because most people play the game with a modern mindset. That is generally detrimental to the health of the game. Normally if someone disrespects an Emperor one would think that household troops would make short work of the said person, for his/her arrogance. But c'est la vie.
@Tiur I would like to offer a counteridea to the sire-jumping mechanic. Perhaps my judgement might be colored by Vampire: the Masquerade but you could introduce something like blood potency which allows vampires to have additional powers (whether over other vampires or generally, disregarding Sire mechanics to a degree) to reflect their generation level. Now initial potency value is derived from the potency of your sire and amount of time you have played the game (you will get slightly better potency as a veteran player then a novice but still far lesser then your original sire) As time goes by you will gain potency due to your mastery upon your blood and if you kill other vampires by sucking them (not in Sect or ylem combat, but hardcore sucking them dry outside) you will gain potency as well to further your generation. Also getting Blood Offers from vampires with higher potency can elevate your blood potency in exchange for their hold upon you (not Sire jumping but a kind of blood-bonding) Also acquiring Blood Ranks will give a modicum of potency because you are being exposed to the secrets of a vampiric House and learn new ways to utilize your blood. (But losing rank, getting sucked dry, dying under sun, due to lack of blood will weaken the blood)
Now I am not entering into a debate about balancing benefits etc but to emphasize on the concept....when there is enough blood potency/blood rank difference:
- Might allow control over other undead.
- You can summon any weak blood to your side (compared to your potency)
- You can dismiss any weak blood away (compared to your potency)
- If the gap is way too high, you can instantly boil their blood and paint the walls with their entrails (your blood potency probably equal to an Elder or Ancient vampire)
- The powerful vampires will require less sustenance then weaker bloods
- Their Consanguine abilities will require less blood due to their potency
- Additional techniques/abilities depending on Blood Rank and House would definitely make those ranks desirable aside from Blood Rank potency bonus.
On Abhorash, I will not say anything much but probably I would prefer a player dictator rather then an admin dictator. But again we return to the modern mindset and in a game where leaders are elected, player dictators have limited options. Though blood potency could deal with this issue as well because you know...the Ancient Vampire will snap your insides out.
Rhoynn HartfordMember Posts: 65 ✭✭✭
So, I wanted to wait till I had a chance to sit down and formulate a response. My gut instinct said that this idea really appealed to me, and would have also made very recent events more weighted, and also easier, for something I was trying to do.
I'll try and approach this through the lens of what I am- a relatively newer player, playing an even newer vampire.
First off, I want to say that both Kalak and Rhyot make good points. Rhyot is accurate that, for the most part, a lot of Consanguine RP is based around trying to -escape- the formalities of blood rank, and that, for the most part, one's worth in the Dominion, or even in their house, is fairly meritocratic- whether formally stated or informally. Peerage as a sign of respect and accomplishment, as a sign of hierarchy, is more an antiquated relic. But I will ALSO agree with Karak that the reason for this is because we're modern people with modern mindsets playing a very ancient, very feudal type of roleplay. It's fairly natural that we'd buck against "Oh this person got X to Sire them, and even though I'm 35 levels higher and Ascended and HR8 and they're only HR3, they're better than me and I should respect that."
That's hard to do, in a game like ours, where guilds and cities (And even Houses most times) reward people based on their work- be it roleplay, written, events, PK, hunting, donations, whatever. Not on 'what' or 'who' they are. To use another point of comparison, I've never really felt that 'Ascended' people (Idreth, Azudim, Yeleni) were treated as 'better' than non-ascended people. If you had someone who was level 92 but cranked it out at the Orrery and super helped Novices, you'd be more likely to vote for them as a city council member, or choose them as a mentor, over someone more lazy or self-focused who was an Azudim, even though both things are a balance of choice, and earned.
Now, all of that being said, I personally love the core idea behind this. I recently (succeeded) in getting resired, but it was a lengthy, confusing process that, after a while, started to hamper the RP behind what was truly going on. It felt like a slog and a chore, and ultimately, in the end, my character still ended up with the same Blood rank as before.
-This- is what makes me support this idea. I'm someone who is very, very RP intensive. Rewards for roleplay, in-game, are often few and far between, and end up linked as part of one task among many that I don't like to do. Vampire RP, the theory behind it at least, was something that really drew me to go make my first Bloodlochian, and even when it's dull, I can never really leave because I hold out hope that it'll kind of right itself. I think there's a lot of merit to the idea, as a whole. I've some minor suggestions that, while perhaps a bit controversial, might help make this a bit more...exciting, and fluid and hectic and stimulate roleplay and broader interaction.
1. Abhorash should be played a bit more, if for NO other reason than to Sire the heads of Houses in the Dominion. If someone is the head of a House in the Dominion, I really feel like they need to be the highest blood rank around. Yes, will it mean almost everyone will gun for their HL? Certainly, but if you limit Childer, you allow there to be a bit more of a structured hierarchy between HL, the people at hire Blood ranks, and then their Childer, and so on. Who HL choose to sire will, of course, be up to them, but I can see some reasonably valid Abhorash RP being him gathering the current HLs, Siring those who are not his Childer (Even against their will, maybe? He is the head honcho after all), and then telling them that the Blood needs to be 'purified' and 'cleaned' or something, and that they need to get their houses in order.
2. Blood rank should be more intimately tied to HR. Not super rigidly, of course, and there still needs to remain an intimate bond between Sire and Childer, but if someone shows great promise and rises up to HR6 or 7 and has a dull, inactive, or low-ranked Sire, then this rise should be rewarded by a Resiring by someone higher in blood rank and house rank. This would go a long way towards giving Peerage some weight. This could look like:
The following members of Ve'kahi are in the realm:
Member Rank Status Blood Class
Erzsebet Padishah Earthmelded Empress Praenomen
Siaern a Disciple of Freedom Arch Duke Indorani
Merla an Initiate of Power Princess Nightstalker
4. I know this may be difficult to code in, but one's bloodrank should be displayed in the Dominion and in the House. I think that could be a really cool little feature to keep it in the forefront of RP. It would also, I think, promote inter-house RP. It would political beneficial, for example, for a Prince of Bahir'an to marry an Arch Duchess of Nebre'seir. So maybe the two HLs get together in private and create an arranged marriage (Or something, it would certainly be appropriate to the feudal-type RP Vampire is supposed to be) and then it further facilitates RP between said Prince and Duchess. For example (Totally hypothetical, IDK anyone's rank, but)
he following members of the Imperial Dominion are in the realm:
Name Position Status House
Erzsebet Council Member Empress Ve'kahi
Aeteyr Prince Bahir'an
Siaern Arch Duke Ve'kahi
Coribhell Princess Bahir'an
Ilyon Baron Bahir'an
Iriden Duchess Bahir'an
That way, I can look at DWHO and go, "Oh, hey. I'm wanna join Bahir'an. I'd like to be a high blood rank, so I should search out that Coribhell person, since she's a Princess, and is likely a high ranking official", or alternatively "Oh, I'm in Ve'kahi, that Siaern guy is an Arch Duke and he's been a good Sire, but I feel I'm surpassing him. I should speak to Erzsebet about getting Resired"
That way, it can spur a bit of competition, as well. Now Siaern has a motivation to hold onto his Childer (If he wants) and Erzsebet has motivation (If she wants) to take it away from him, or lord over him that she can at any point.
4. I like the RITUALS in Sanguis. Perhaps going along with @Kalak's idea of rewards for higher blood rank, maybe someone goes in, fixes those rituals, adds some more, and makes it so that you can only access certain rituals if you're a certain Blood rank? Like, for example, you can't do the ritual of Union unless you're a Grand Duke or higher. Hypothetical, of course, and easily bypassed by the ability to marry in orders and cities, but still, it affords Blood rank SOME mechanical superiority without making it unnecessarily OP as it relates to Praenomen class.
Rijetta Nowhere ImportantMember Posts: 100 ✭✭✭
Hi! I don't really know if I have the ability to talk about this stuff, as new as I am, but I'll give it a shot and describe my experience as a very recent newbie, despite meteoric acclimation.
I like what vampire RP seems like it used to be -- where peerage kinda mattered and it was a rigid society. But I also like it now, where blood rank is less important, although I think it's still a very fun aspect of RP and shouldn't be done away with. As of now, Vampire society, at least in House D'baen, seems to have largely become a meritocracy -- those who put in effort receive reward, and I don't think that kind of thing should be discouraged, so that you don't get people who just rest on their laurels because they're a Prince. Or, at least, you discourage that kind of behavior.
Right now, however, there's the issue that folks with high blood ranks can stop playing (for many reasons, and this is not an attack or jab at any of them -- this is a game, after all!) which has the unfortunate side effect of weakening the blood; with no Empresses, there are no Princesses. I think there needs to be a continual resurgence in blood rank amongst the Houses, so that you don't get the blood weakening too badly, although without mechanical incentive, it's all RP (which is important!!)
I think, perhaps, there's a way to reconcile all the problems at once, and I'll attempt to approach that reconciliation: tying blood rank into the meritocracy might give us the best of both worlds. If the House leader is given a high blood rank, Prince or Emperor or what have you, then another way for them to favor a hard worker in the house is to elevate that hard worker's blood rank through resiring. This ensures that there's always a strong blood rank at the head of the House, and with limited Childer for the Emperor in question, it means there can only be so many Princes, and those Princes will then create even more Grand Dukes, and so on and so forth, creating a pyramidic structure.
You can go on and perhaps get a little metaphysical and think of the House, then, as an entity -- its head, its core structure, and certainly its public face is the House leader, the Emperor, but without its subsidiary souls in the form of the Princes, the Grand Dukes, the Dukes, the Counts, and so on, it is a rather empty entity.
This also means that as you enter the House, you're likely to be Sired by one of the lower blood ranks, a Duke or Duchess who are the gofers and the workers of the House, handling much of the day to day bustle and no doubt assigned to oversee Novices. Then, as you prove yourself, you are elevated as you move up the chain of Sires within the House. Of course, your Sire is likely also looking for opportunities to rise in rank, which gives us the intrigue and politics -- everyone is vying against one another for the honor of being a Prince or Princess, or perhaps even an Emperor or Empress. This also means that typically, if you see someone with that high rank of nobility, you'll know they put in work in their House.
I think this idea eliminates some of Rhyot's valid concerns, that of "sire-jumping", by ensuring that blood rank is tied a little bit to House rank, so you'll want to be loyal and hard working if you ever want to wear that Princess title. (I'll get it someday!)
I haven't been in a Guild, but I think this structure is somewhat similar to them -- cool titles come from hard work and high Guild Rank.
Obviously, this idea will need a lot of refining and a lot of input, and I welcome criticism, constructive or otherwise. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.
A low, sultry voice resounds within the depths of your mind, "I look forward to seeing your descent."
Zaila Pacific TimeMember Posts: 504 ✭✭✭✭
Over the years, I've tried to make Vampire alts several times, but they invariably fail because of lack of RP to get a sire. Perhaps I had terrible luck with timing, and I've only done it 4 times, but I couldn't ever find a remotely compatible sire to the characters I had drawn up. I was even going to settle for "Doesn't care about the RP, just willing to sire you".
Am I completely missing where this problem is being solved with the changes? Was this problem already solved and I just didn't know? Because I didn't see anywhere up there where it will be easier for new characters to find a sire/actually become a vampire. Will there be an NPC vampire handing out Siring that will throw you into the lowest-possible Bloodrank or something and let you work your way up from there until you can find someone you impress enough to really give you the full sire-experience? That seems like a decent-enough solution if you're going forward with a really easy-to-resire concept and somehow get the community to care about Bloodrank again.
I vastly disagree with the notion that blood rank should be tied to House rank, for the pure simple fact that not all vampires are members of a House. If you run things like that, you're completely eliminating Rogue vampires chance to have RP as well because not all vampires want to join a House. There's a lot of politics, red tape, etc that goes in to being part of a House and some people just don't prefer it.
Additionally, just because you are part of a House doesn't mean your rank is crap. There are many cases of a vampire who started in a previous House, left and rejoined a different House.
I joined Lunare originally and became the childe of Princess Satomi. Which immediately made me a Grand Duke, I was HR2. Lunare merged with Ve'kahi and I rose up to HR4 through hard work (still a Grand Duke). I left Ve'kahi for a handful of reasons, became a Rogue vampire, and eventually joined Bahir'an. Since then, I have only done enough to claim HR3 and haven't done anything more (Still a Grand Duke). If I got a demotion just because I am only HR3, despite being the childe of a Princess, I'm going to be pretty upset/irritated (especially since I try to very much so play to the medieval age of peerage/respect).
If you suddenly got a demotion of rank based upon the rank of your House, it would cause a lot of animosity towards the House system and it would make people not want to play or even join Houses in the first place.
I also did not like the idea of Emperors/Empresses being chosen simply because you're an HL. If you're an Emperor/Empress, you should be someone of note that people fear and/or respect and should also be someone who is spoke of widely for your various accomplishments. An Emperor/Empress is the epitomy of the Blood ranks, what everyone -should- aspire to become, as you become the direct descendant of the Primus. This isn't a title that should just be handed out because you won a popularity contest within your House. Maybe have a specific amount of people become Emperors/Empresses (6 seems like a good number), and Abhorash only creates more every 5-10 IG years. This time frame would be ample time for the previous Emperors/Empresses to quit the game, thus stopping a flood of high ranked Blooded members.
I did like the idea of Blood potency though. That did seem relatively awesome.
Ah, I'm sorry -- it seems like I wasn't clear enough with my idea. I didn't mean to imply that blood rank is inherently tied to house rank, in that they are one and the same -- rather, the purpose of what I was going for was "mobility within the blood ranks, without completely throwing away House stuff". I think that if you have a certain blood rank, the only way that should go down is if people force it upon you through combat, capture, and ritual. If you're a Prince of Bahir'an and you decide to go rogue, you shouldn't suddenly not be a Prince anymore -- rather, the dominion will very much WANT to find you and reduce your blood rank as you might be seen as an embarassment or a liability to them, but it isn't and shouldn't be an automatic thing.
Rather, I wanted to use House achievement as a convenient way to gauge when upward mobility should happen within blood rank. I can totally see your point regarding the HLs -- I suppose I assumed that HLs are typically the most worthy folks of being Emperors and Empresses, but I can see why that wouldn't be true. I think I was also semi-responding to the question of whether or not Abhorash is a good thing, though I don't have a concrete answer of my own towards that just yet. In any case, the ideas I had in mind were designed to work either with him or without him -- if he made more Emperors than there were HLs, then that's certainly his prerogative.
As for rogues, I'm not sure rogues being able to get sired easily is intended -- becoming rogue seems to be a very serious choice that means you actively give up the benefits of a House, that is, (relatively) easy Siring and structure and Consanguine society, as dead (ha) as it is.
Another major issue with my idea, though, is the sire/childer bond, which I don't think any of us want to be lessened or cheapened. If you can just get re-sired to improve your rank, it throws a wrench in that bond and makes it seem much less important and meaningful. But if you surpass your sire in blood rank, other weird things happen.
Maybe mobility within the blood ranks isn't the way to go after all; this definitely requires more thought on my part.
Blood Potency sounds cool, since I'm a big fan of VtM as well, and I certainly think Sire-type stuff could be expanded, but perhaps limit blood potency such that it's generational, i.e. an Empress might have Sire-level control over whomever is Sired by her Princes and Princesses, and so on. Eventually, a high blood rank vampire will be at the top of a pyramid, but they can't, say, reach into another House and start messing with vampires they didn't Sire. That seems to be the purview solely of the Primus.
And finally, to respond to something that Rhyot also mentioned in his first post, I agree with him that there are more systemic issues with vampires and vampire RP than just the Sire/Childer/Blood Rank/Primus issues. It comes down to a matter of gameplay, too.
@Rhyot Hopefully, this helps clear some things up and dialogue can continue.
Karhast EnorianMember Posts: 107 ✭✭✭
So, after discussion on Discord and thinking in general, I've come up with more than a bit, but.. I also don't want to be that guy who's played a 'lochian alt for a week and thinks he knows better than everyone else. Add to that the fact my opinion seems very different from what I've read here, and I'm really torn between commenting properly or not doing so at all.
Tiur Producer Member, Administrator, Immortal Posts: 794 admin
Unfortunately, I have to be that guy that's been producer for a month who thinks he knows better x_x. I don't get to avoid it, Vamps are next on the dev cycle. Hopefully I don't make any of you too mad.
So, I'm going to share a bit of the mechanics I'm working out, because y'all are being a huge help and having nice discussions.
Embrace: I'd be pulling "Embracer" out of the system and making it a separate thing. Zenobia embraced you, and is forever your sire in that fashion. Your score will always remind you of this. But you can go move elsewhere for bloodline.
Generation: If, say, everyone could have 3 childer, you progress by threes (this is not what I'm doing, I just need an example. I am well aware that there are 5 main bloodlines). 1, 3, 9, 27, etc. You get really big, really fast. By generation 13 we have more spots than we have players over 15 years.
NPC Sires: An NPC bringing everyone in at gen 12 would be our baseline. There's room to fall, if you find a way, and there's tons of room for growth. I would like to balance a normal, everyday vampire at Gen 12. That means someone can come join and enjoy the class without making their way up the generations, but there's room to kick them down if they suck.
RP abilities: So, I'd really not like to tie PvP or PvE effectiveness to generation, as that would make Keroc mad, and he can be scary. So mostly, imagine at Gen 12 you have no real usage of Sanguis sire abilities. Up around Gen 2/Gen 1, you have far reaching sire powers and can do many flavor things.
Essentially we would be building a pyramid below each Emperor/Empress, and their powers would stretch down. The more people in the pyramid, the larger the depth of their power (think like, I increase blood pool for players with large families down the chain).
Now, here's the real rub: I know I'm really kicking sire/childe RP in the pants.... but what we have now isn't working. There's this massive difference in experience based on what sire you find.
And I really, really want to de-emphasize Houses. The Consanguine cannot support 5 guilds (I count Bouchard). It's a flat out fact, sadly. So I'm pretty set on reducing the scope of House to just an organization that owns property and has a news board.
Serrice the Black Fox Member Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
DIABLERIE.
It seems like it used to work a lot better when we were at our vampire hayday. (I remember someoneadmin posting numbers and like 50%~ of new chars that came out were vampires or something, to the point where it was problematic.) I think the problem with any sort of permanent eminence based system on emperors/etc is just placing too much weight on the shoulders of someone who frankly just isn't going to be around forever/can't necessarily be trusted to stay at any level of activity and interaction for more than a short period. Might work better if you could CONTEST it somehow or there was some system in place to replace inactive or under-performing top dogs so there was a bit of a struggle to it. It's demoralizing even to new players to get the impression there's no clear path to the heights of leadership beyond having been a favored older player.
@Aishia - RPishly/mechanically speaking, are you imagining some sort of blood-line mutiny ceremony of enough underlings unhappy with their master lineage to "purge the bloodline" or something that can kick someone high off the pole (or at least down a notch or three) and shift everyone up a notch?
Tiur said:
Thanks, @Tiur ! That was a really insightful look at what you have planned, and I think several people in here have struck on that "pyramid" idea. I'm not sure I much like the sound of an NPC siring you in, but I suppose that fits in line with how the game tends to work. I like that PVP and PVE effectiveness won't be tied to generation, even if it's a shame to lose really close childe/sire RP.
Some questions, if you don't mind answering any or none:
1) Under which Emperor or Empress are the people who are sired in by an NPC? Or none, until you bump up at least one level?
2) With regards to the House issue, would that mean that the Dominion would effectively be a 4th Guild, with Houses as different paths within that Guild, to use an easy-to-understand analogy? I realize they likely won't and can't be 1:1.
3) How would this affect the Nightstalker/Praenomen divide? Would they simply be Nightstalkers until graduation from Novicehood?
4) Would you be opposed to allowing Houses to kind of semi-dictate one's growth in the greater Guild, which I'll still be calling the Dominion for these purposes? In a sense, the tasks Houses already assign for raising in Houserank might be of use in the new system.
5) Perhaps the most forefront question in my mind, for somewhat obvious reasons, how do you foresee the implementation of this system affecting existing vampires? Or, in other words, do you have any plans you'd be willing to share on this on how this will affect the current Consanguine?
Sorry if this is a deluge of questions, but transparency among developers is a really great thing, something I think many devs could learn from.
Hmm.. I can answer some of those.
1. I plan to let the Houses all design their own NPC for it. I might even add in a few tasks to let them at least slightly weed.
2. That's how I am thinking about it.
3. Yeah, Nightstalker would just be a Novice Prae.
4. I'm actually considering multiple methods of House design. I don't want them to have actual ranks outside of what they get via Dominion, because that gets confusing. But I'll likely be trying to find a solid way for each House to handle its own House leader, and with that, their own sires/childer.
5. Here's the plan tentatively: I have a command that will take everyone's Sire, declare that person their Embracer, and then disconnect every vampire. This was built presuming the changes to bloodline is some huge traumatic event. Embracers would be able to re-sire with a much easier method than the rituals. But I am open to suggestion.
It has been proposed I put a time limit and not be so immediate, for instance.
@Aishia I really dislike when people take a massive important role, then go dormant. I will likely implement a thing that clears dormant vampires from the list every few months RL. That means bloodlines would reshuffle when an Emperor goes dormant.
Actually I do understand the reservation towards not dealing with the PvP and PvE capabilities, but that also runs the risk of not taking a very top-of-the-ladder vampire seriously. From the outlook, I would expect that an Ancient/High-Gen Vampire to be more troublesome then a Fledgling/Low-Gen Vampire. Now I would not say let us tip the balance of Consanguine class, but those who work to the top should actually have some punch besides their hold over lesser vampires. And at the end of the day, small PvE/PvP bonuses would provide incentive for people moving up rather then becoming a serious balance concern. The class will be still effective as it is, just that who is at the top of the ladder has a bit of difference and power. And...if you are so jealous of that, go ahead and take that power for yourself!
I will revert towards a bit criticism, but I believe there is a huge avoidance around from making players feel like they are achieving, gaining power or turning out to be something special. Because that MIGHT tip the balance. I found this is stronger in case of Consanguine and Mage classes. Consanguine has the whole bells-and-whistles RPwise but their hierarchy has no mechanical impact. Mage classes on the other hand are heavily copy/paste and they do not have anything mechanically differentiating them. See the problem is that when you work towards something and get told it has not much impact or easily acquirable by everyone, they lose their desire in our eyes. If there is no carrot, there will be no desire to stick there. I do not want to trans Enchantments, because it has no uniqueness. I do not want to care about Blood Ranks or moving to the top of generation, because there will be no uniqueness besides some flavor-sire abilities. My blood generation is not a sign of power.
Bells-and-whistles without WOW!-factor generally is prone to fall flat on its face in the LONG RUN. You would want to have presence of an Ancient/High-Gen vampire disturbing and even taxing on your willpower and sanity. That is a prime-strength predator who sucked his way to the top and can splat you into pieces without batting an eye. But then it has the same powers with a new-vampire who threw some credits to class. I believe you should try to capture the theme of "Blood is a serious matter" instead of "Blood is a serious flavor" It works also as a carrot for achievers and a stick for those who tries to break ties easily. This was a strong pillar of the potency idea. Working through organizations and interactions provide you better potency while breaking off ties will leave you with gaining potency over time only.
Xavin Member Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
The problem with giving higher blood rank people bonuses in pvp or pve should be obvious though. It can and will make balancing vampires a nightmare. Heck, there was a time long, long ago when blood rank did seriously impact the strength of vampire abilities. It was possible to do a great amount of bashing without health/moss and rely on mend alone, and frenzy hit much harder depending on how high up the chain you were. It's not a matter of balance maybe having been skewed, it outright -was-.
Ultimately, it's going to be hard to make blood rank matter in a meaningful way without, well...skewing balance in some way. Better to do what @Tiur is suggesting and base it all on rp/utility/flavor abilities. No one reasonable wants to go back to how blood rank used to work.
Xavin said:
That is a case of "once burnt twice shy" because that one bad example should prevent people from doing such things?
Anything which is flavor and fluff, feeling unoriginal or copy/paste will not make people move towards it. Without anything to aspire for, you are basically back to square one.
As you can see from his words, he wishes to consolidate Houses rather then enriching their uniqueness. Just an organization that owns property and has a newsboard. So, then I can see an Emperor as "just a title-jumping Consanguine" who is not more powerful then a Count in practical. Without a modicum of mechanical backing you cannot make blood matter other then "organizational ladder climbing"
The better way to go would be emphasizing upon blood and different approaches of Houses to it via mechanical differences (on top of RP differences) But if the aim is to go towards consolidating people under one roof, then plan of @Tiur will save the day. But will it make vampire attractive or cool in the long run? I have serious doubts about that. Regardless these are my assessments based on my vision of how a vampiric society would work.
@Kalak I hear what you're saying and I see where you're coming from, but I don't think that the system @Tiur is positing would cause a high-rank vampire to be seen as "just a title-jumping Consanguine", since they WOULD be more powerful... in the Blood. He mentioned them having a higher Blood pool, which, if it's as powerful as I think it could be, that would actually remove or vastly increase the difficulty of one way of fighting against a strong Vampire, which is to stall them out and let them waste their blood. Moreover, they'll have vast power over their bloodline, generationally, and that means if you insult a Prince or an Empress, you run the risk of having a blood hunt called down on you, with all their outraged Childer joining in. They'll wield immense political power more than straight up "My frenzy does more damage", and I think discounting that RP power is unfair.
@Rijetta I am definitely not discounting the RP devices or power. Without those mechanics you can still call the bloodhunt. And like people can defy you right now, they can defy you in such a case as well. When you consider a vampire, you do not only think them in their society but also in the whole world. So they -appear- to be powerful in the Blood but "yet another Consanguine" out of the Blood. They will not be different then your average popular leader who can move masses upon you at your slight. And what I said was not "My frenzy does more damage" kind of shallow suggestion. Regardless the goal of this is to consolidate Consanguine and I already said plan of @Tiur will save the day. I just offered my long term projection for vampires and their attraction factor.
@Tiur So would you fold House Ranks -into- the Dominion? Or make one's blood rank ALSO their rank in the Dominion, and remove House Ranks entirely?
EDIT: I think I've got a pretty clear idea of what you're hoping to do, but I just need a bit of clarification. What would Ranks, DWHO, one's Score, etc, look like after this change? Also, would everyone suddenly be ripped from their Sire and all Siring have to be done again? That's what I read as "disconnect every vampire".
Edit 2: OH! And also, would all bloodlines then need to descend from the House Leader? Basically, after this change, would Bahir'an have Sarita as an Empress, and then -everyone- in Bahir'an would have to descend from Sarita? Like she'd have three childer, and said childer would have three of their own, etc etc. How does this address the problem of multiple and/or imbalanced bloodlines in a single House, such as Ve'kahi, where the originator sired multiple childer, and the current HL is a lower Blood rank than a different member, who is...an Arch Duke, I think? Something like that.
As a second, quick idea, after having re-read both of @Tiur's posts on the mechanics, am I correct or incorrect in assuming a bit of the following?
- A Prince in this post-change landscape, with, say, 10 Blood descendents would have a higher blood pool than, say, an Empress with 5
- If the person who Sired my character, way way back, was Zenobia, then my SCORE will say "Your sire is Zenobia" but if I join the D'baen bloodline and am re-sired/embraced/whatever by Zisra, then I'll also have a line saying something like "Your Embracer is Empress Zisra"
- THere will be no more house ranks but there'll be a Dominion Rank, and I'll have a section in my score saying something like
- Dominion: "Prince, D'baen (DR 9)"
- If I am sire my three Childer, and they sire three childer, I will be able to use some of Sanguis skills on my 'grand-childer', let's call them
- Will DWHO look something like:
Name Position Rank House
Coribhell Princess D'baen
Iriden Librarian Duchess Bahir'an
- The Dominion will become more like a Guild of all Praenomen. A secondary guild, if you will, maybe more like a Religious Order, with positions other than just Councilors?
Jensen Corruption's Butcher Member Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
I think I'd rather see vampire clans like in VTM that behave mechanically like shapeshifter packs. Then make the 'alpha' of those groups report to Abhorash wether they want to or not. You don't have to listen or follow what he says, but he'll treat you accordingly. Dominion would be made up of pack leaders and discuss alliances, conflict, and group actions.
This -might- require that vampire novice clan (from years ago) to be an actual joinable org with representation from packs to teach and help nightstalkers decide where to join.
Initially you'd see a spike in vampire packs, but that would stabilize in time, but it would allow veteran and novice players alike to join more meaningful groups that suit their rp/interests (or hop to one that does).
@Jensen I think a lot of us really like VtM and are taking inspiration from it, but I feel like clans (in the VtM sense) would just be further subdividing the vampires, which is something @Tiur seems to want to avoid with regards to their RP. Rather, I think the Houses already fulfill the role you're positing, within the "new" Dominion/Imperium, in that they are merely paths that vampires take within the greater, overarching organization. Letting anyone make their own "clan"/House, I think, is what caused the recent schism regarding removing bloodlines and making only four Houses (which I was not here for, but as I understand it, it's still a tender subject for many).
In other words, I think the Houses already fulfill what you're looking for, but in a more structured way! Please let me know if I've misunderstood you.
Kelliara Member Posts: 575 ✭✭✭✭
Jensen said:
I wouldn't be relying on the pack-style system.
The one Shapeshifter's have currently isn't that great, and to be quite honest, the ability for every dog and his man to make a pack at the drop of a hat is a bad thing. IMO the Pack system is going to need a hard looking at, and I really don't think a similar one is going to do vampires any favours.
Now with 253% more Madness.
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
Pack system is just a thing. Doesn't really serve a purpose.
No lie, it was floated that we make Houses into Vampire packs.
I'm using the term clan loosely as a flavor for the word pack. I don't mean going back to clan houses. Vampire packs have the luxury of being fluid, small, and manageable; this in turn should get more people whom hold class but dont participate in rp/lore of Dominion houses to find a niche they'd enjoy. They should also dissolve during long inactivity.
In all honesty I think you're going to need to untether Abhorash from bloodloch so his rp and stance can be specific to vampires.
You could make higher rank vampires only have PvP bonuses against lower rank ones.
Without derailing the point of this thread, my comment was mostly to indicate that I think vampires NEED and DESERVE something better than anything too similar what Shapeshifters currently have.
Jaymi Member Posts: 78 ✭✭✭
Couple of thoughts from me on this all?
First, if higher ranked vampires got some extra flavor/utility skills that had no use in combat, I'd switch there in a heartbeat. I loooove utility skills way more than I like combat skills. Just... hands down, one of my favorite parts of Aetolia.
Second, what Serrice said about higher blood getting combat bonuses against lower blood would be really cool. Like, if it was big enough, it'd be a good way to have say an emperor keep a prince or whatever in line because even if the prince is uber-skilled at PVP, the ability for an emperor to be all 'pfft, newp' -could- be a fun RP thing without really messing with general combat balance since ideally most vampires wouldn't be fighting each other.
Third, another benefit of higher rank could maybe be the ability to have more childer? So if you want to sire people, the higher you get, the more people you can get. Sort of a way to make sure the power 'stays' at top by the masses not just being able to field as many people as they can and thus starting some vamp rebellion? Plus, it'd be a fun incentive to move up because then you can have more people to be your slaves friends you've never had underlings.
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Gotta say @Tiur, I love the idea! I like the way the houses currently are, I think packs is not the way to go with it. However, I think perhaps re-structuring the Dominion so that blood rank actually means something is what needs to be done. Allowing people to roleplay/fight or whatever you need to do to earn your rank would actually mean something.
This could be tied in to the current house roles, so that a high rank in Nebre'seir would mean they are a skilled fighter, a high rank in D'baen means they are a good politician/diplomat and so on.
Lastly, I think it would be nice to have Abhorash dissociate from Bloodloch and focus on vampires, Maybe have him watch over the Dominion and choose an active Emperor/Empress for each house. Where the Emperor/Empress goes inactive/stops playing or doesn't follow Abhorash's lead, he can unsire that person, and sire someone else.
That way blood rank should not simply be, someone bit me and I'm a Prince or a Duke and I will stay there even if I do nothing at all. I think it should reflect what someone is doing, with the potential for rising or falling depending on merit.
That said, I don't think that high ranked vampires should get PvP benefits on lower ranked vampires. Simply because things like these do matter in combat, and sect arena is one of the areas where you will see vampires fighting each other.
I kind of like the Tiur's idea that you can dispose of a sire and seek another, and should be "in my humble opinion" something encouraged. Helps everyone progress and improve, especially since it pushes the sire to make sure they are working hard to be where other vampires want to be their childer, and with the limitations on the sire it pushes the childer to also make sure they live up to their sire's expectations.
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6 I The Lovell Chronicle i May 27, 2010 www.LovellChronicle.com terans take honor flight BY BRAD DEVEREAUX About 60 years following the start of World War II, local veterans who fought in the United States Armed Forces were giv- en a chance to visit the memorial that was built in their honor. World War II veterans Bob Baird, Bob Doerr, Pete Harvey and Frank Wilker- son participated in the Honor Flight last week, a service that takes WWII veterans to Washington, D.C., free of charge, to view the newly completed WWII memorial. "It was kind of unbelievable," said Bob Baird, who was in training as an infantry- man just before the atomic bomb fell on Ja- pan to end the war. He later was deployed to Korea. "When I went into service, everywhere we went there were people with food to give and handing out stuff to soldiers," he said. "That has been a thing of the past, but it astounded me how many people were there (during the honor flight). There were so many people lining up in two lines to shake our hands as we got on and off the plane and made our way to the memorial." The group, along with more than 100 other Wyoming veterans and guardian Ter- ry Wilkerson boarded the plane in Chey- enne Tuesday, May 18, landing at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., for a social hour and dinner. Frank Wilkerson, who served in the Navy beginning at age 17, was asked to give an invocation to the room before the meal. Wilkerson said he must have done a good job because everyone was shaking his hand following the meal. The veterans were bussed with a police B Av DEv trx Guardian Terry Wilkerson (left) poses with World War II veterans Frank Wilkerson, Bob Baird, Pete Harvey and Bob Doerr at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. escort to the memorial the next morning. The normally 1.5-hour trip took them only about a half hour to make because of the police escort, Doerr said. The veterans met Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and Rep. Cynthia Lum- mis before visiting other nearby memori- als built for conflicts in Korea and Viet- nam, as well as other landmarks at the capitol. "It was very well organized," Doerr said. "You couldn't turn around without someone trying to help you do something." With one guardian to every three vet- erans, there was plenty of help for any- one who wanted to go on the flight. There were veterans in wheelchairs and others who needed oxygen, and a team of medi- cal professionals accompanied the honor flight. The oldest veteran on the trip was 95, Wilkerson said. Harvey said he was reluctant to go on the Honor Flight at first until Doerr con- vinced him to sign up. Harvey said it was his first time on a commercial jet, which was also a fun experience. He said he was impressed with how helpful everyone was, noting that he only spent $1.20 on a pack of gum the entire trip. Each veteran said they would highly recommend the trip to any veterans who haven't taken advantage of it yet. "I just didn't think I'd ever get to see it," Wilkerson said about the memorial. "It's the greatest thing they're doing to take us out to see it." "Any veterans who want to go, they can go in just about any condition," Wilk- erson said. "It was a really great experi- ence, and a quick trip. Now that it's over, it seems kind of like a dream." "It was pretty nice," Harvey said. If any veteran gets a chance to go, I wouldn't turn it down." The World War II Memorial was opened to the public in 2004. It honors the 16 million who served in the U.S. armed forces, more than 400,000 who died, and everyone who supported the war from home. RocketsX BRAD DEWREAUX Cole Simmons grabs his rocket as it falls from the sky during the Rocky Mountain Elementary School rocket launch Friday morning. School construction Summer building projects under way BY BRAD DEVEREAUX As the 2009-10 school year draws to a close, lo- cal school districts are get- ting ready to begin summer projects to prepare for the next year of classes. The largest project in Big Horn County School District No. 1 is the comple- tion of the $22-million Rocky Mountain 6-12 facility in Cowley. Superintendent of Schools Shon Hocker said a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new building is sched- uled for July 23. Included in the project is a six-lane track, which is scheduled for completion before school begins, but could possibly go later, Hocker said. The School Facilities Commission will pay for the majority .of the project, Hocker said, but the district has to pay about $900,000 for an auxiliary gym that is outside the SFC's fund- ing model, as well as add- ed costs for bleachers and a few other enhancements. The Big Horn Academy is currently being converted into district offices in an on- going project that will con- tinue through the summer, Hocker said. The project cost is about $1.5 million, which will be paid for with SFC major maintenance funds. A significant remodel is beginning this week at the Burlington shop, Hocker said. The facility was being vacated earlier this week to make way for the approxi- mately $300,000 project be- ing paid for out of SFC ma- jor maintenance funds. A six-lane track at Bur- lington is ready to be built, Hocker said, and the dis- trict is waiting for funds to be released July 1 for con- struction to begin July 2. $250,000 in funding for the track was secured through state legislation that cre- ated the SFC's budget this year, and the district will have to pitch in about $100,000, Hocker said. Hocker said the new tracks would be a "huge benefit" to the track teams at Rocky Mountain and Burlington, which have done excellent despite hav- ing to travel to neighboring schools with tracks for prac- tice and using other make- shift methods. The district will also prepare Rocky Mountain Middle School for win- ter storage and is current- ly working to turn Rocky Mountain High School over to the Town of Byron. LOVELL SCHOOLS There are several con- struction projects going on this summer at Big Horn County School District No. 2 in addition to the routine projects like landscaping and maintenance, accord- ing to Superintendent of Schools Dan Coe. Lovell Middle School will get a new roof and a set of bleachers, Coe said, total- ing $420,000 in SFC major maintenance funds. Repairs will be made to the parking lot at the Lovell High School gymnasium for a cost of $367,000 in capital construction funding from the SFC, Coe said. Another $1.5 million in capital construction will be spent on a $1.5 million proj- ect at LHS to replace boil- ers, HVAC, windows and perform asbestos abate- ment in the boiler room. The summer project is con- sidered phase one of the LHS remodel, Coe said, with the other phases of the project expected to begin in the next four to six years. Other phases will include a commons area, kitchen, multi-purpose performance space and redesigned class- rooms. Coe said the board de- cided to move toward a re- model of LHS opposed to new construction because with a remodel, the district won't lose any square foot- age and the existing build- ing is in good shape, but needs some upgrade ;: Coe said. A new high school would be built smaller to adhere to SFC guidelines. A remodel would also happen quicker, Coe said, estimat- ing new construction could take more than 10 years to begin. Summer school will be held at Lovell Elementary School because of the proj- ects at LMS and LHS, Coe said. A small project will be done to install concrete trenches at LES to make water from the new park- ing lot flow away from the building, Coe said. These Lovell banks will be closed Monday, May 31, 2010 ._ Federal / G ybul], PoweH, Thermopo[is, Cody, Worland, Lovell 00irst National Bank00Trust 548-2751 � 284 E. Hain � Lovell !ii: Let us never forget the patriotism and courage of those who sacrificed everything for the sake of the country they so dearly loved. It is an honor to recognize the heroism and service of these great American heroes. They have forever earned a place in the heart of our grateful nation. 548-2213 � t79 E. 3rd � Lovell IC | {
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Westward Ho: Is California Raiding NYC for Its Dance Professors?
Wendy Perron
Lar Lubovitch, PC Stas Levshin
Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems like the California universities are stealing our East Cost treasures.
Okay, maybe I'm overreacting—it's only a stampede of three. Lar Lubovitch, a 2016 Dance Magazine Awardee, has been offered a spot on the faculty of UC Irvine. Besides being an internationally award-winning choreographer, Lubovitch has had a profound effect on dance educators.
Kyle Abraham
, our April 2014 cover star who is soon to perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music, will be at UCLA
And Douglas Nielsen, a wise modern dance teacher whose dancing days hark back to Gus Solomons' company, has been grabbed by CalArts.
Last year, Patrick Corbin and Desmond Richardson got swept up by University of Southern California.
I'm all for cross-country exchanges and I'm happy to see dance artists get steady jobs. But I'm going to miss those guys. They've all enriched the New York dance scene.
Of course, this is nothing new. College faculties in California and around the country are populated with dance artists who have made their mark in New York. So come to think of it, I'm proud of New York for still furnishing the country with legendary dance artists who find the time to give back.
Dance Magazine. | {
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NORHAYATI UMOR
SHAH ALAM, March 11: Two Mad Velocifero 1600 electric scooters were donated to the Shah Alam State Mosque and Al-Ikhlas Mosque, Section 13 to facilitate the mosque's regulatory affairs. Chief Executive Officer Cervello Tres, Azrul Helmy Hafiz, said the contribution was worth RM13,000 and the maintenance would be carried out by the company.
"We are initially intending to give the mosque a place for management and Alhamdulillah today we can implement it. "In terms of maintenance, the mosque needs only a phone if there is a problem with the product. "We will continue to establish relations with other mosques if interested, but willing to benefit for the common good," he told SelangorKini. Cervello Tres owned by the three young people is a new company based in the country, though the welcome is very encouraging. Azrul, who is also a native of Selangor, expects 10,000 units to be sold in Malaysia until the end of this year. "We are responsible for expanding this electric scooter market not only in Malaysia but Singapore and Brunei.
"So far the response has been very encouraging, we have already received 2,500 units of orders," he said. Meanwhile, Imam Besar of the State Mosque, Muhammad Farhan Wijaya hopes the grant will facilitate mosque staff to regulate the surrounding area. "Thanks to the contributing company. "Hopefully this contribution will facilitate the administration of the mosque from the regulatory and other places. God willing we will use it better, "he said. | {
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Apple's COVID-19 App Gains Features for Accessing State Guidelines and Self Care Tips
Thursday April 9, 2020 2:05 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today introduced new features for its COVID-19 screening app, which is designed to help people stay informed and take the proper steps to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.The 2.0 version of the app adds a feature for selecting a state of residence to see specific guidance information from that state's health department, and it provides tips for keeping physically and mentally healthy.
Apple has also updated its accompanying COVID-19 website to provide the same information to users.
With the new state feature, users can choose their state to be directed to coronavirus guidelines offered by the state health department, and available information and guidelines will vary by location. In California, for example, Apple directs users to covid19.ca.gov, a website that provides dos and don'ts, symptoms to watch out for, emotional health resources, information about financial help, and more.
The update adds many self-care tips to both the app and website, such as staying hydrated, exercising for 30 minutes a day, getting adequate sleep, taking breaks for fun and relaxing activities, stimulating the brain through books, puzzles, or painting, talking to people, and journaling.
It provides shopping tips like purchasing two weeks of groceries at a time, stocking up on long-lasting foods, buying extra household items, and taking precautions such as wearing gloves and wiping down shopping carts.
Apple's site and app also offer tips on working from home, creating a household emergency plan, and what to do if you get sick.
Apple designed its COVID-19 app and website in partnership with the CDC, White House Coronavirus Task Force, and FEMA. Along with the features introduced today, the tools provided by Apple let users answer a series of questions on risk factors, recent exposure, and symptoms to receive CDC recommendations on the next steps that they need to take.
The screening tool is available to anyone who is 18 years or older in the United States. Data provided in the COVID-19 app and on the website is not shared with Apple, the CDC, or other government agencies.
Tag: COVID-19 Coronavirus Guide
trusso
Data provided in the COVID-19 app and on the website is not shared with Apple, the CDC, or other government agencies.
If only we knew this to be 100% true. :oops:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
roland.g
Apple would not do this because ...
they're not an authorized government outlet/outfit to show information of health directly related to COVID-19; this could be a legal issue for them that they'd NOT win.
Also notice how their stating the link to the government source and abilty to change your current state?!
This is also why no direct readings for health via WatchOS can be done. This app is more an advisory - just like anything on Android OS as well.
Here in Canada our provincial governments (at least in Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec) have launched an app directly themselves.
It's a great idea you have to have this integrated into Health app but Apple, most likely by law, cannot and will not do this.
I also believe Apple should put a few 'tabs' down at the bottom of the Wallet app and move ALL commerce related apps to that app, so that becomes the "folder" for accessing everything from restaurants/food/Amazon/etc. That would clean up 30% of the apps on my phone.
DeepIn2U
Apple, you needed a separate app??! You couldn't integrate all of this into the already existing Health app. Wow you really don't get it.
the specific state wouldn't be needed if we *alll* followed the same rules to begin with. No wonder why there is confusion..
Bette safe, than sorry.
weup togo
and it doesn't even work right on the iPad, what a hollow shell of a once-great company | {
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What Are Cosemelan Treatments Best For?
Like An Illumination Spell Or Something.
Self Discovery Sure Is Fun.
Maybe Its Time To Meet Your New Friend… Radiance.
Crepes Delicious. Crepey Skin Not So Much.
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Freedom issues addressed in online newsletter
Susan Bartels
It's one of those ironic situations where an idea is discussed and then… voila! It comes together just when the subject matter becomes the talk of a nation.
"The Freedom Chronicle," a quarterly online newsletter published by the Institute for Freedom Studies, made its debut a month and a half after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 when questions regarding civil liberties and freedom were on the mind of every American citizen.
The idea for the newsletter was tossed around for a year by IFS and became a reality in November.
"The whole idea about the newsletter is to provide a forum where people could talk generally about the idea of freedom," said Prince Brown, director of IFS. "Whatever ideas are applicable and whatever ideas make sense in the context of the theme of freedom."
The inaugural issue addressed the anti-terrorist bill recently signed by President Bush. Editorials were written by Jerald W. Richards, chair of the department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at NKU, and Romona Brockett, professor of political science and African American studies and editor of the publication.
"People are just really excited to read it," said Brockett. "We've had responses from the NAACP in Washington D.C. and lawyers in California and New York."
Brockett, along with Mona Hall, project manager and associate editor, and J. Michael Thompson, professor of political science, were responsible for getting the site and publication started.
The second issue, due to be published on Feb. 1, will cover issues of religion in the context of freedom.
Brockett said Mary Northington of the Northern Kentucky African American Heritage Task Force will be submitting an article along with two to three other people yet to be named.
Brockett said the theme of religion and freedom is apropos in light of the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Issues of non-violence and promotion of peace, that's what he was about as a minister," said Brockett. "I think that was the mission of freedom at that time."
Although responses to the articles cannot yet be made on the Web site, Brown said people can respond by email to the IFS at freestudies.nku.edu
To access the newsletter site, go to www.nku.edu/~freedomchronicle/. | {
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Lochan Tom Mhic Iain, seen from the west.
This picture was taken on Christmas Day from the summit of Meall an Tarmachain, ptarmigan hill, looking almost due east. The lochan is Lochan Tom Mhic Iain, and the small, lumpy hill to its immediate left is Tom Mhic Iain, MacIain's Knoll. The hill rising to their left is Beinn an Leathaid, which I take to mean the sloping hill.
I don't know why this small hill is named after the clan which held Ardnamurchan for so long, but it's obviously a very special place.
As can be seen, the colours in the hills at this time of year are stunning – if the sun is shining, which it certainly did on Christmas Day. | {
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If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they haven't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. And so just as I say we aren't going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around.
Free Speech vs Tolerance is a pseudo-battle, fake, based upon a false dichotomy. Tolerance and equality require free speech: it is the foundation upon which they are built.
There are those in America today who would betray his legacy by perpetuating a myth and vilifying the very free speech that gave MLK a voice to change the world. No thanks… I'm sticking with the King. | {
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Велика Попданаилова () е българска общественичка, дарителка от първата половина на XX век.
Биография
Велика е родена в 1847 година в царевоселското село Истевник, което тогава е в Османската империя, в заможно и родолюбиво семейство. Омъжва се за Деспот Попиванов Царево село, който по-късно става свещеник под името Данаил. След 1878 година и създаването на Княжество България, се установяват в Кюстендил. След смъртта на поп Данаил и на единствения им син Гавраил, Велика Попданаилова развива широка благотворителна дейност, като дарява църкви, читалища, сиропиталища, трапезарии и други.
През 1928 година Велика Попданаилова дарява 50 000 лева на читалище "Братство" в Кюстендил. Читалището провъзгласява покойния дружествен член Гавраил Попданаилов, както и неговите родители, за благодетелни членове и учредява фонд "Свещеник Данаил, Велика и Гавраил поп Данаилови", който издържа един ученик в Кюстендилската смесена гимназия от I до VIII клас. На 1 октомври 1933 година Велика Попданаилова пише до Министерството на народното просвещение с желание дарената сума заедно с лихвите да се прехвърли към Министерството.
Велика Попданаилова умира в Кюстенил в 1935 година. Фондът е основан със заповед на министерството на 5 юни 1936 г. с капитал от 77 369 лева, прехвърлени от "Братство" в Българската земеделска и кооперативна банка. Фондът предоставя годишно по 2000 лева на читалище "Братство" в Кюстендил за закупуване на книги и списания за библиотеката му, а останалата сума от лихвите се разделя поравно между първите по успех и добро поведение бедни ученик и ученичка в Кюстендилската смесена гимназия при завършване на последния клас на гимназията.
Към 1 януари 1939 г. капиталът на фонда е 142 586 лева, към 1 януари 1944 г. – 148 537 лева, към 1 януари 1947 г. – 182 000 лева. Фондът е закрит през 1948 г. с вливането на фонд "Завещатели и дарители" при министерството в държавния бюджет.
Неин внук е българският духовник Тихон Тивериополски.
Бележки
Български общественици от Македония
Хора от община Царево село
Български благодетели
Починали в Кюстендил
Български имигранти от Македония в Кюстендил | {
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(Female) Writers No One Reads
Nick Moran July 15, 2013
Brittany Oliver listed the "6 Most Influential Women Writers You've Never Heard Of" for PolicyMic, and she's right. I've only heard of two of them.
Nick Moran works on special projects for The Millions. He lives in Baltimore and he frequents dive bars. His interests can be followed on his Tumblr, Nick Recommends and Twitter, @nemoran3.
Make Fascism Great Again
Kirstin Butler December 1, 2016
"There's still time to look something else up." Merriam-Webster pleads with word lovers to prevent "fascism" from becoming its word of the year, The Guardian reports. See also: this Lithub piece about the social media genius behind M-W's Twitter feed.
Kirstin Butler
The Hellman's Virgin
Thomas Beckwith May 13, 2015
Recommended Reading: Ottessa Moshfegh on eating mayonnaise for the first time.
Thomas Beckwith
From Page to Screen
Bruna Dantas Lobato March 2, 2016
Some of the most revered literary novels that have appeared in recent years will be adapted for television. Jonathon Sturgeon writes for Flavorwire, "What do we call this new relationship between prestige and streaming TV and the literary novel? The two now shape each other in peculiar, formal ways—like lovers who share an apartment, they've started speaking and looking alike." Pair with this Millions piece on literary magazines in film and TV.
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Rewarding Attention
Cara DuBois August 21, 2015
Mass-Market Edition is Dead
Bruna Dantas Lobato March 15, 2016 | 1
Harper Lee's estate will no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, which was popular with schools. Over at The New Republic, Alex Shephard writes that "Without a mass-market option, schools will likely be forced to pay higher prices for bulk orders of the trade paperback edition—and given the perilous state of many school budgets, that could very easily lead to it being assigned in fewer schools." For more about the author's legacy, read Robert Rea's Millions essay on his travels to her home.
Bruna Dantas Lobato | 1
Ireland's Debt; Debt to Ireland
Nick Moran February 11, 2012
John Jeremiah Sullivan writes about heritage, history, literature, and the Emerald Isle in this piece for The New York Times Magazine, "My Debt to Ireland." In the essay, Sullivan talks about the Aran Islands, and in particular Dún Aonghasa. On our Tumblr, I've shared some photos I took at the place.
Nick Moran
Poet-In-Decadence
Nick Moran June 8, 2014
"The more poems you write, the more beer you get."
James Franco + n+1
C. Max Magee February 2, 2012
It's time for another literary James Franco sighting. This time he's popping up in the table of contents for the next issue of n+1. | {
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Juice in our house growing up meant one thing…Orange or Lemon SQUASH!! I guess having 6 hungry mouths to feed on a low income meant that fresh juice was a bit of a luxury and something which we enjoyed only on rare occasions like Christmas, or in hotels on holiday. Wow I sound like I grew up in Dickens time or something, I didn't but still Juice was a bit of a novelty.
So once I was earning my own money I would often buy cartons of juice just because I could, and guzzle it down all in one go, I guess this was in my early teens and around the start of the 5 a day campaign. As fat as I was concerned Juice equalled one of your 5 a day, so as a poor student juice seemed like a pretty good way of packing them all in…add a couple of vodkas and voila, two birds/one stone!!
It is no wonder that this juice guzzling time coincided with the start of my weight gain, but I can't blame it all on the wet stuff…drunken kebab eating, late night biscuit munching and an aversion to any form of exercise added to it too, but juice certainly played its part.
A few years into my weightloss journey I finally realised how many calories were in a small glass of juice, and promptly cut it out of my diet all together, and even now when I am trying to live a more balance "Eat what I like but within reason" way of life…I still find myself avoiding the juice sitting in my fridge.
I went through a stage of making my own juices, carrot and ginger being my favourite thinking at least I know whats in it but it is all a bit of a faf, and I still ended up drinking gallons of the stuff one week and then none the next. It seems that juice is all the rage again so I was hardly surprised when I found myself on the guest list of a new drinks product launch this Tuesday.
The Simply Great Drinks Company have a simple mission, "To Serve Simply Great Drinks In Taste, Quality & Health" a pretty big claim hey? But as I entered the plush ME hotel on the Strand in Central London and listened to the CEO explaining why healthy no junk juices only sweetened by nature are so important to him, I started to wonder whether I had been missing a trick by almost eliminating juice from my diet.
As I cradled a glass of ice-cold mango juice, eyed up the passing breakfast canopies and looked out across a sun drenched London I asked myself why it was that I was depriving myself of a morning juice which in fact is somewhat of an awesome little luxury in life, and in that very moment I realised I needed to get a grip.
My initial "calorie counting demon" way of thinking of "what an absolute waste to consume 250 calories in the morning before even a mere morsel of food has passed my lips" has been going on for far too long, and seems a bit silly really especially when I see nothing (that) wrong with making my way through half a pack of fruit shortcakes come 3pm most days.
I just need to restore some kind of balance and perspective in my diet…its as simple as that.
But back to this product launch….The Simply Great Drinks company seem to be putting their money where their mouth is and providing a wrap around package of support to compliment their drinks range. So at the event on Tuesday morning you had none other than Olympian Victoria Pendleton, Dr Christian Jesson off the TV, Psychologist Jo Hemmings, Personal Trainer Charlene Hutsebaut and Nutritionist Charlotte Strirling-Reed all backing this brand, and not only backing it but actively supporting the Be Simply Great 8 Week Challenge.
I was a little sceptical at first…you know bring in the celebs to launch a new product and all of that, but when I came home and looked at the resources you can find online it just all made so much sense. Everyone involved in this new drinks range was singing from the same sheet, "It's all about balance" I had a lovely talk with psychologist Jo Hemmings who was really interested in what we are doing over here at The Fat Girls Guide to Running in terms of challenging perceptions and dealing with the psychological barriers we impose upon ourselves.
I had a lovely morning at the launch, drinking more juice in 2 hours than I probably have in the last 2 months…but I have treated myself to a small glass of juice each morning since and felt very happy about it all.
Remember folks, we are not talking sugar laden crap…we are talking the good stuff, a bit like my argument with chocolate. If you are going to have it, enjoy it…just go for the good stuff and don't go mad!!
Thanks for the invite Simply Great Drinks Company…and if you fancy giving me a years supply to keep me going with my new-found love affair with juice then you know where I am!!
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'Glee' Star Jane Lynch On Her 'Wreck-It Ralph' Character Sergeant Calhoun: 'She's Like Me, With A Kick-Ass Body'
Sue Sylvester has brought her tracksuit and neurosis into our hearts as the megaphone-touting cheerleader coach in the world of 'Glee', but the actress behind this extraordinary character is no less distinctive.
Lynch as we're familiar with her, giving it her all in 'Glee'
Jane Lynch's latest project, that of voicing Sergeant Calhoun for the Disney adventure 'Wreck-It Ralph', finds her operating at the top of her vocal powers - no megaphone needed. Calhoun is the voice of authority in this arcade-hopping adventure, which finds John C. Reilly as Ralph, the arcade villain fed up with being the bad guy, who decides to take matters into his own hands.
Lynch tells HuffPostUK about the surreal nature of this kind of adventure...
"It's mind blowing. Imagine it for yourself... Your voice coming out of the mouth of a gorgeous, hot woman. I love it. She's just like me 20 years ago with a kickass body."
"Plus, it's a Disney movie and the reality of that is slowly dawning on me. This will be on the same shelf as 'The Aristocats', 'Jungle Book' and 'Cinderella'. That's pretty amazing."
How much input did you have into your character?
[Wreck-It Ralph director] Rich Moore is the nicest man in the world and he encouraged us to improvise all the time. He would say, "If this line doesn't feel right in your mouth, pick another way to say it." They were really open for it to be our own voice - but the writing, especially as the script progressed, became more and more our voices. The characters also started to look more and more like us because they videotaped us while we recorded our lines. They are geniuses over there at Disney. They really allowed themselves to be moved by and shaped by whatever they saw on the videotapes of our sessions. It was pretty amazing.
What surprised you the most about the animation process?
I guess I was surprised at how much my character ended up looking like me. Not that my body looks like that! Sergeant Calhoun moves her mouth in a certain way, which is exactly how I talk.
Jane Lynch in action as Sergeant Calhoun in 'Wreck-It Ralph'
What did your character look like when you first signed up for the project?
She looked a little generic back then; she didn't look like me. I think she was always a blonde, but she wasn't that curvaceous. That haircut is new, too. What a cute little bob!
Did anything else surprise you about the movie?
I knew the movie would be visually gorgeous, but the story really moved me. I think the message is so good and so powerful. However, I did not expect to be shedding tears at the end of the movie, but I was. I was really touched. I loved the relationship between Ralph and Vanellope, and how my character finally opens her heart.
Calhoun is funny, sensitive and tough. Was that fun for you?
It was great. They gave me a great backstory where Calhoun doesn't see vulnerability as strength, but she learns on her journey that having her heart open is not a sign of weakness. She felt so guilty about allowing the Cy-Bugs to kill the love of her life, so she committed herself to the destruction of the CyBugs to make it right. Then along comes this little, sweet, open-eyed guy who she can't allow herself to love - but of course she ultimately does.
What would Ms Sylvester have to say?
Jane Lynch voices Sergeant Calhoun in Wreck-it Ralph out on Blu-ray and DVD on 3 June
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Working for HELM as a Regional Sales Manager in the Crop Protection business has given Tim Martel unique opportunities to experience a wide variety of assignments and responsibilities.
Every day in my job at HELM is a little different and that is what keeps things exciting and interesting. A typical day in my job can include in person sales calls to our multiple distribution partners or conference calls to discuss the latest pricing trends in China. I am invited to be involved and have input on a wide variety of decisions that impact our business. Whether giving input on product pricing and production volumes or working with HELM colleagues and University researchers identifying products to launch in our local markets.
I am allowed to be engaged in diverse assignments. These assignments sharpen my expertise and knowledge of specialized agriculture in a way that generates positive outcomes for our customers, our industry and our company. Through the diversity of assignments that HELM fosters I am able to possess a more thorough understanding of the markets where we operate and add value to our product offering.
Working at HELM gives me multiple opportunities to advance my skills and use them in an environment that rewards personal responsibility, initiative and teamwork. | {
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Which game is just too damn long?
Sometimes we just want to get to the end.
Life is too short to get stuck in a boring game. The phrase "100-hour RPG" sounds wonderful, doesn't it? But when you're 80 hours in, you've mastered all of the systems, and you know there's still a solid Earth day of time left before the credits, it ain't so great. While we love big games that give you a lot of entertainment for your buck, it has to be said that some games really overdo it.
That brings us to this week's PCG Q&A. Which game is just too damn long? Let us know your answers in the comments.
Wes Fenlon: Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls feels like a fine sculpture that began as a massive slab and was carved into a work of art, most of the stone ground away until only the shape within remained. Dark Souls 2 is more like, eh, why waste all that stone? Let's just make an obelisk! It's still a great RPG, but sets out to be bigger than its predecessor, and that means area after area with limited connections between each other, and a game that keeps going and going and going. You get a hell of a lot of game for your money, but the trade-off is a loss of thematic consistency and a few areas that feel like they probably could've ended up on the cutting room floor in a tighter game.
Did we really need Black Gulch, a long, dark corridor you walk down while statues spit gobs of poison at you? Nah. Could Harvest Valley, a bland sequence of muddy pits, have been more compact and more interesting? Definitely. And that bit about going inside the Giants' memories? Cool, I guess, but I was really ready to be done by that point. I found Dark Souls 2 exhausting, which is probably why it's the only game in the series I have no interest in replaying.
Jody Macgregor: King's Bounty: The Legend
I like the Heroes of Might & Magic games, but the campaigns do make you feel like someone's pressing the reset button. Constantly facing a new map, building another army from scratch, conquering and upgrading cities again—eventually it's a bit much. King's Bounty: The Legend (a sort of remake of the game that inspired Heroes of Might & Magic) seems like a perfect fix. It's got similar of fantasy turn-based combat, all hex grids and dragons, but it's the one map the whole time and you're always leveling up the same hero. It feels more like progress.
Plus, it's got a goofier tone. For a long time my army had snakes and werewolf elves alongside the knights, and after meeting several romanceable characters I eventually married a frog princess. (This is a game where you can famously wife a zombie.) But after 20 hours, King's Bounty: The Legend wore out its welcome. The more of the map you explore, the more of a chore it is to march back and replenish troops, and later areas are thin and lacking sidequests. The idea of playing for at least another 20 hours to get to the end had no appeal. The thing is, if it was all neatly wrapped up at a sensible point instead I probably would have gone back by now to try out a new hero class, and maybe find out what happens if you marry a zombie. But because my final memory is of boredom and abandonment, I know I'll probably never go back.
Chris Livingston: MLB 2K12 (or any baseball game)
In a way I'm glad there isn't a great, licensed Major League Baseball game for PC. Because most years I fall into this trap: I'll decide to buy a baseball game and play a full season mirroring a real season: basically one game a day, 162 games in six months, plus the post-season if I make it. And a couple weeks in I'll be like ohhhhh why did I do this, this is so boring. Baseball seasons are so very long, and so is simulating them.
Part of the problem is I just don't want to play a bunch of teams I don't think about often with players I don't know. Like, do I really want to spend three consecutive days playing the Cincinnati Reds or the Colorado Rockies? Do I ever want to pull my fifth starting pitcher and put in my only rested reliever to throw against some batter on the Brewers I've never heard of? Do I want to sit through a late-season, utterly meaningless nine-inning game against the fucking Royals? I've never been someone who loves baseball so much that I can just watch any game, I kinda need to have a stake in it, with star players in the lineup or on the mound, something to keep my interest. Playing every game in a season, maybe once a week you have a good match-up. Six months is a long time to play something that only holds your interest every so often.
Andy Chalk: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia scared the bejeezus out of me. I hated playing it, and I hated myself because I couldn't stop playing it. It just got worse and worse and worse, relentlessly grinding me down with tension and jump scares and creeping horror, until something in my head finally broke. Somewhere near the end of the game (but not as near to it as I'd thought), I snapped—or, closer to the truth, I ran out of patience with being constantly horrified. And somehow, the effect just stopped.
The rest of the game was a fairly frightless stroll to Daniel's final fate, and as oddly relieving as it was to have crossed the threshold into the relative safety of "numb to the horrors of this existence," it was a letdown, too. I don't have issues with the ending itself, because it was bound to be ambiguous and weird. But I've always felt that it was diminished by its lateness. Instead of a knife-in-the-eye exclamation point at the end of a journey through the best worst game ever, it's just a routine wrap-up: Job done, go home. Not exactly the gut-punch finisher that a great game like Amnesia deserves.
Tom Senior: Pillars of Eternity
This applies to the Baldur's Gate games too. I only ever manage to get about halfway through before I get distracted and wander off into a different game. It's in the nature of a good cRPG to have very dense towns packed with NPCs that have lots to say. It's a great strength of the genre because it means you can stumble into big quests by accident, but wow does it take time to get through these games.
Dungeons can take many hours, as well, especially if you like to pause time a lot and sit there stroking your chin thinking about critical hit odds and party positioning. When I return to the surface and emerge into the sunlight, only to be confronted with another massive, beautifully drawn town, I think 'oh boy.' I have to force myself to walk through the gates and chat to a few characters, just to give me a thread to hold onto the next time I start the game. Otherwise when I'm sat at my PC thinking about playing something I'll remember that I have a whole town to crack. Then I'll realise there are going to be so many more towns and dungeons to go before the end, and somehow it just feels easier to give up and play something else.
Joe Donnelly: Metal Gear Solid
Don't get me wrong: I love Metal Gear Solid. I adore its world, its gadgets and its characters—and in a series brimming with epic boss battles, Sniper Wolf, Psycho Mantis, and Cyborg Ninja/Gray Fox are to this day among my favourites. But what about all that faffing about with the PAL Key towards the end?
I suppose my grievance with Metal Gear Solid isn't that it's too long, then, but that everything between the second Vulcan Raven fight and climbing Metal Gear REX makes it feel that way. Lose the PAL Key, search the drainage gulley, find the PAL Key, track back to the furnace, heat the PAL Key, travel back to the warehouse, freeze the PAL Key—what the hell is that all about? The previous sniper rifle jaunt that requires you travel from one corner of the map to the opposite irritated me to no end during my first playthrough, but this almost made me quit entirely. And, to rub Foxdie in the wound, at the end of it all you discover Liquid's sewn you up and you've armed the warhead anyway. Sneaky bastard.
Admittedly, the latter battles with REX and Liquid are dynamite, and just about make up for all that prior arsing around.
Austin Wood: Dead Space 2
The original Dead Space is still one of my favorite and most-played games of all time, but I like its sequel a lot less because it runs out of ideas well before it ends. Yes, the whole eye stabbing thing provides a brief defibrillation, but new scares and environmental challenges slow to a drip around the halfway point. There are a few areas in Dead Space that make you think "Oh no, another air vent with a Necromorph inside," and that's basically the entire second half of Dead Space 2.
It doesn't help that the story never really goes anywhere. You spend the first game unraveling the Ishimura's true mission, deciphering the mystery of the Marker and gauging the motivations of your crewmates. It's a slow boil, and by the time you realize the water's gotten hot enough to kill you, it's too late. Which is suspenseful and unnerving and even some other spooky adjectives, but it also means you start Dead Space 2 knowing all the twists. The rabbit won't go back in the hat, so the sequel begins exactly as it ends: with Isaac struggling to escape a bunch of loonies and monstrosities and trying to figure out who's worse. Everything in between feels like a sightseeing tour, and the scenery really starts to repeat itself after a few hours.
Samuel Roberts: Prey
I enjoyed Prey's sense of place. The fact you could access the entire ship from the exterior while floating in space made Talos I feel pretty real, but the game itself feels several hours too long. In completing the game's various sidequests, I felt like I'd seen the same places a few too many times, and that I was waiting for the story to be over.
At the same time, a lot of the game's later encounters are with the operator robot enemies that are best dealt with using guns. Unfortunately, scraping together ammo at that late stage in the game felt like a struggle to me. I feel like if Prey was 25% shorter, it would've left a slightly better lasting impression, and may even have crept into my GOTY shortlist for last year.
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Kevin-Prince Boateng, born in Berlin, Wedding (Berlin) (32 years old) (pronounced [ˈkɛvɪn pʁɪns bo.aˈtɛŋ] born 6 March 1987) is a professional football defensive midfielder and box-to-box midfielder who plays for German club Schalke 04 and the Ghana national team. He is a versatile player and has been played in many positions.Boateng signed for Hertha BSC in the Bundesliga in July 1994. In 2006 he was nominated as one of the best youth players in Germany.
When is Kevin-Prince Boateng's birthday?
Kevin-Prince Boateng was born on the 06th of March 1987 , which was a Friday. Kevin-Prince Boateng will be turning 33 in only 317 days from today.
How old is Kevin-Prince Boateng?
Kevin-Prince Boateng is 32 years old. To be more precise, the current age as of right now is 11737 days, 15 hours, 1 minutes and 49 seconds.
How tall is Kevin-Prince Boateng?
Kevin-Prince Boateng is 1.86 m tall, which is equivalent to 6′1″.
What is Kevin-Prince Boateng's zodiac sign?
Kevin-Prince Boateng's zodiac sign is Pisces.
Where was Kevin-Prince Boateng born?
Kevin-Prince Boateng was born in Berlin, Wedding (Berlin).
Is Kevin-Prince Boateng still alive?
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Home//Radio//On Point
Supreme Court To Hear Trump Travel Ban Case07:49
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People stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in Washington in 2016. (Jon Elswick/AP)
With Meghna Chakrabarti
Oral arguments in the Trump travel ban case begin Wednesday. We'll talk about what to expect.
Josh Blackman, Associate Professor at South Texas College of Law, and contributor to Lawfare. (@JoshMBlackman)
From The Reading List:
Washington Examiner: Supreme Court takes on Trump's travel ban -- "While Trump's remarks on the campaign trail could be a major flashpoint in arguments Wednesday, Josh Blackman, an associate professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, said he doesn't believe the justices will give weight to those statements. 'I'm OK with courts looking at statements made by the president after the inauguration. I think the campaign trail has to be off limits,' he said during a call with reporters Friday. 'There's certain chilling repercussions if courts start quoting candidates.'"
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Good comment, bad comment
Having spent five years heavily involved in teaching the 2nd semester programming course at Brandeis, I've found myself repeating the same maxim over and over again:
Code is an essay written for two audiences: the computer, and your fellow programmers.
Thinking about the dual-audience nature of code immediately highlights several important aspects of "good code":
When "read" by the computer, good code leads to a correct, effective, and efficient behavior. The desired outcome is achieved (correct) in a reasonable amount of time (effective) without consuming an unreasonable amount of resources (efficient).
When read by your fellow programmers, good code reads like an essay that intuitively, succinctly, and precisely describes the semantics of the problem and how it is solved. In other words, the code is not overly long and verbose (succinct), the code conveys the exact details of what is happening to the reader (precise), and the code does so in a way that makes sense to the reader quickly (intuitive).
In my experience reading thousands (really!) of different solutions to the same problem, I find that the best code follows all six of these principles. In this post, I want to go through each principle, showing both good and bad examples. Each example will be a "real" piece of code written by a student (anonymized, of course), including myself (I have to get the bad examples from somewhere).
For the computer
For your fellow programmers
Succinct
All in all, contemporary computer science departments do a pretty good job of teaching students to write correct, effective, and efficient code. In fact, new programmers tend to optimize for their robotic audiences over their fellow humans -- "if it works, who cares?" If a computer wasn't part of our audience, we might not choose to write code at all.
However, new programmers are often very frustrated by a computer "not doing what I meant." Understanding how to translate our thoughts into code is a fundamental skill that looks a whole lot like the writing process. The next three sections explain what I believe to be the three properties of good code from the point of view of the computer audience.
When thinking about the computer as the audience for our code, we want our code to cause the computer to compute the correct result. Correctness may seem like the most obvious principle we would want good code to embody -- but correctness is often subtle, underspecified, or misunderstood. For example, consider the following prompt and solution:
Write a method randItem(int[] arr) that returns an item selected uniformally at random from the passed array.
public static int randItem(int[] arr) {
return arr[(int) (Math.random() * arr.length)];
At first glance, you might think this code is just fine -- Math.random() returns a uniform value from 0 to 1, multiplying that by the array length and truncating to an int should give a uniformally distributed array index. You might raise a complaint that the programming didn't use Java's Random class, but that's not a correctness issue, right?
It turns out the above code is very subtly incorrect. To understand why, let's simplify the problem a little bit. Imagine that our input array arr is of size 5, and that Math.random() returned a 4-bit random number between 0 and 1. Let's look at the possible values of our array index:
Array Index
0000 0.0000 0
Spot the problem? In this case, four values of Math.random() map to index 0, but only three values map to all the other elements! That means this method will return the first element of the array with probabilty , while the other elements will each be returned with a probability of ! That's not uniform at all.
Now, Math.random() returns a double, which has a lot more than 4 bits, and only a subset of all possible double values are within the range (0, 1). But, saying there are exactly possible return values for Math.random() and elements in our array arr, this method only potentially works if divides , i.e. n % k == 0.
A more correct way to write this code would be:
private static final Random r = new Random();
return arr[r.nextInt(arr.length)];
Since the nextInt method ensures that we are drawing from a uniform distribution,1 this code produces a result more in-line with the prompt. The point here is that correctness can be subtle, and that a computer will happily do whatever you tell it -- and sometimes the wrong thing can look a whole lot like the right thing at first glance.
In addition to being correct, we also want our code to cause our computer audiences to compute results effectively. We all know we want code that runs fast, and we learn tools like big-O analysis to help us make good decisions along the way. But sometimes, something seemingly-mundane, or that you think should be fast, can end up taking a very long time. There's even a Tumblr about this phenomenon in very real code. Here's an example of this in code written by myself a long time ago, and by numerous other students ever since:
Write a method combine(String[] args) that returns a String containing each element of args connected with spaces, in order. If args is empty, return the empty string.
public static String combine(String[] args) {
if (args.length == 0) return "";
String collector = "";
for (String el : args) {
collector += el + " ";
// Cut off the last space.
return collector.substring(0, collector.length() - 1);
Seems straight-forward enough, right? Cutting off that last space was a little tricky. New developers might not even think to analyze the runtime of this method, or if they did, they might declare it to be linear in the size of args. More seasoned (read: cynical) developers might begin to smell trouble, though.
The way Java represents strings is different from many other languages. In Java, strings are immutable. Once they are created, they can't be modified. So if they can't be modified, what happens when the program executes collector += el + " "? Well, unfortunately, Java will create a brand new string, copying the contents of collector, el, and " " into it. Java will perform this create and copy operation at every loop iteration, which means that our runtime is actually quadratic in the size of args!
Since the good folks working on Java know that developers sometimes need to concatenate strings, Java has a handy StringBuilder class for this exact situation!
StringBuilder collector = new StringBuilder();
collector.append(el);
collector.append(" ");
Now our code is much more effective.2 The point here is to show that performance bugs can often be hard to notice, and can creep into code in subtle ways that might elude someone who isn't looking closely for them.
When I was a new programmer, I didn't really think about the resource usage of my application. It either ran, or it didn't. Most of the programs I was writing were "short-lived", i.e. I started them and waited for them to finish, normally a few moments later. Even if one of my programs used a ton of memory or temporary disk space, I wouldn't notice, because my operating system would liberate all these resources from my greedy program after my program terminated.
However, as I gained more experience and started writing longer-living programs, like servers (or "services", as the kids call 'em nowadays), I started to feel the pain of all my inefficient code. This pain came mostly in the form of memory leaks: bugs in my programs that caused more and more memory to be used up until there was none left.
Many programmers who swear by languages like Java or Python believe that their language's garbage collector -- the part of the language responsible for reclaiming objects we aren't using anymore -- makes them immune to memory leaks. While it is true that these garbage collectors prevent the majority of memory leaks, I was a poor enough Java programmer to create several! Here's an example of one written for a class (not by me, but making the same mistake I did):
Write a class BoundedStack<T> with methods push and pop that behaves like a stack with a bound on the number of items it can contain. Take the bound as a parameter in the constructor.
public class BoundedStack<T> {
private Object[] storage;
private int topIdx = 0;
public BoundedStack(int bound) {
storage = new Object[bound];
public void push(T arg) {
if (topIdx >= storage.length)
throw new IllegalStateException();
storage[topIdx++] = arg;
public T pop() {
if (topIdx <= 0)
return (T) storage[--topIdx];
Overall, looks fine, right? But this implementation of a bounded stack actually has a memory leak. Consider the following client code:
BoundedStack<ReallyBigType> s = new BoundedStack<>(5);
s.push(new ReallyBigType(1));
s.pop(); s.pop(); s.pop();
performTask();
Imagine that ReallyBigType is a class that uses a whole bunch of memory. When performTask is called, the programmer might be expecting that all the ReallyBigType instances created beforehand will be freed up, so that performTask can use as much memory as it needs. However, this isn't really the case -- all three instances of ReallyBigType are guaranteed to still be around when performTask is called!
The reason all three instances of ReallyBigType are still around is that our BoundedStack, s, is still holding a reference to them. Even though we decremented the topIdx variable whenever pop() was called, the values in storage (in positions 0, 1, and 2) still point to our instances of ReallyBigType! That's a memory leak. If this were a large, long-running application, small errors like that could build up, resulting in a system that needs to be frequently rebooted.
Luckily, this memory leak is easy enough to fix:
T tmp = (T) storage[topIdx];
storage[topIdx] = null;
topIdx--;
By setting the now-unused cells of the storage array to null, we avoid holding a reference, allowing the Java garbage collector to do its work. The point here is that just writing fast, correct code isn't enough: good code behaves well even in long running, resource-scarce environments.
Despite all the difficulties of writing to your computer audience, writing to your human audience is often much harder. After all, writing and composition3 have entire classes of their own! Good code shares a lot of properties with good writing. Specifically, I've found that most good (technical) writing and good code I've read follows three principles. First, I'll give an overview of each of these principles, and the proceeding subsections will expand on them.
Intuitive: It is well-structured and easy to understand. For human readers, packages, classes, methods, and code chunks serve a similar purpose to chapters, sections, subsections, and paragraphs. Breaking down complex ideas into small, composable pieces is a fundamental skill in both programming and writing. This is how we turn complex ideas into intuitive concepts.
Succinct: It is just long enough. The phrase "if I had more time, I would write a shorter letter" comes to mind here. In high school, you may have learned to "pad out" your essays with unnecessary verbiage. Unfortunately, you'll need to unlearn that, both for writing code and papers. Nobody wants to spend three hours reading your multi-page comment. The goal should be to get the idea across in the fewest words possible (so perhaps this blog post isn't the best example).
Precise: It isn't too "hand-wavy." The code should communicate to the human reader exactly what is going on, and not attempt to "gloss over" or cover up the details.4
Now, luckily for us, we have a bit of a "cheat code" when communicating with human audiences through our code. Specifically, we have comments, which are invisible to our robot audiences, and variable names, which are meaningless to our robot audiences. We can take code the computer is already happy with (correct, effective, efficient), and we can use these two tools to annotate that code to make our human audience happy as well.
As a warning, this part is going to be a lot more subjective than the previous part. I'll do my best to give examples that I think most of the professional software engineers I've worked with would agree on. It's important to realize that a lot of what makes code readable (and what makes writing good or bad) depends on your audience. So if your audience has certain norms -- like indention style, variable naming style, etc. -- following them is in your best interest. Otherwise, you'll be written off from the get-go.
Take a quick look at the two papers below.
You don't have to be able to see the words to know which paper "looks" better. We have established conventions for writing, and when they aren't followed, it is immediately jarring. And while eschewing these structures can sometimes be considered "art", you generally want to match the expectations of your audience. Software engineers are no different -- if your code doesn't "look" right (perhaps it isn't indented properly, or your variable names are unconventional), the actual code you wrote probably won't matter... the engineer will just dismiss it out of hand.
Part of becoming a good programmer is learning and practicing those norms. You can take advantage of them to convey information quickly and succinctly, or you can fight an uphill battle against them. Unless you've got a really good reason, don't try to make your readers learn a new convention and your complex idea at the same time! Instead, try to use the conventions as rails for your code.
These next sections will continue with a mix of Java and Python, but I'll do my best to include only the norms that are common among most languages. Any specific language you use likely has its own norms (for example, JavaDoc), and you should learn them -- but we'll keep it general here.
Most (scientific / technical) writing has the goal of conveying intuition. The writer has an idea in their head that they've thought about deeply. They've analyzed it, broken it down, tried a million different things, and, at long last, they have a really good understanding of it. The writer's goal is to create a paper that, when read by other scientists, "fast-forwards" them through that potentially multi-year process, transferring the intuition in their head to paper. In this way, reading a paper can be a lot like time travel: it lets you learn what took years to discover in just a few short hours. This is what Newton meant when he said "if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Good code works the same way.
This is also an extremely difficult task, and the people who are the best at it often become professors at research institutions. It's a high bar for writing, and it's an even higher bar for code, but the same idea applies. Developers who write code that can convey intuition to other developers drastically boost the productivity of their teams, and ensure the longevity of their projects. The people who are best at it become the director of AI for Google or senior technical fellows at Microsoft.
Consider the following prompt and solution:
Write a method isUnique which, when given a Map<String, String>, returns true if no two keys map to the same value, and false otherwise. Return true if the map is empty.
public static boolean isUnique(Map<String, String> arg) {
return (new HashSet<>(arg.values())).size() == arg.size();
Now, this code is correct, and is reasonably efficient and effective. It is, however, still very bad code. The reason why it is bad code is because it isn't intuitive -- there's no connection from the line as written to the prompt. Here's a way to improve it:
// By placing all the map's values into a set, we
// collapse any duplicates. Then, if the number
// of uniqueValues is equal to the total number
// of values, all values must be unique.
Set<String> uniqueValues = new HashSet<>(args.values());
return uniqueValues.size() == arg.size();
In my opinion, this comment and the new, named intermediate variable greatly clarify the code. Of course, it still needs a "top level" comment above the method signature to describe what it does, but that will look a lot like the prompt. Here's another way to improve the original code:
// Test if bijection using incl/excl.
Set<String> AuB = new HashSet<>(args.values());
return AuB.size() == arg.size();
Now, is this "good code"? Maybe if you were writing a mathematics library and all of your potential readers were extremely well-acquainted with the inclusion-exclusion principle, but in most situations this might be even worse than where we started. The majority of software engineers would scoff at this, likely assuming it was pretentious.
Another way to make code more intuitive is to connect each variable, method, etc. to a semantic concept in the real world. Remember, most code is trying to model or represent some real-world thing or idea. For example, consider the following code:
def compute_point(a, b, c):
a %= 12
a /= 12
a += (b / 60) + (c / 60*60)
a *= math.pi * 2
return (math.cos(a), math.sin(a))
Now, what does this code do? Well, I know. Because I wrote it. Or I should say, I know today, and maybe next week, but I might not know in a year. However, by just changing the variable names, we can convey a whole lot more intuition:
def compute_hour_hand_position(hrs, mins, secs):
theta = hrs % 12
theta /= 12
theta += (mins / 60) + (secs / 60*60)
theta *= math.pi * 2
return (math.cos(theta), math.sin(theta))
Now, the resulting code isn't perfect, but its way better. I can now definitely tell, for example, that this has something to do with time. It probably has something to do with an analog clock. If I have some more context from the file, I might know immediately that this code is computing the (x, y) coordinates for an hour hand on clock. With just a few comments, we can make this obvious:
theta *= math.pi * 2 # convert to radians
# Compute x and y coordinates from the angle.
By connecting the code to the real world, I now understand why the first line includes a hrs % 12 (the clock wraps around), and I understand why mins is divided by 60, and why secs is divided by 60*60. Vastly improved over the initial version.
While none of the examples shown here are large or overly-complex, conveying the intuition behind your code only becomes more and more important as you "scale up," i.e. get bigger and more complex. Practicing these techniques on small projects or assignments is critical to slowly developing the skills you need to write more complex code in an intuitive way.
Making code intuitive is easily the hardest task facing any software engineer. It's so extremely difficult that some developers5 have disavowed it entirely, claiming that their code "just makes sense to smarter people." There's a ton of this fake-flex, over-confident compensation in computer science. Try to assure yourself that they're deluding themselves, and then try to avoid them as best you can.
One of the biggest mistakes I see new programmers make is being overly verbose with comments. Here's a real(!) example of a simple program that prompts the user for their name and then greets them:
// the main entry method for the program, which
// the java command line program will execute.
// prompt the user for their name using System.out, which
// is a PrintStream class. The PrintStream class has a
// method called println, which will output the text
// passed to the console (so that the user can see it)
// and then print a newline.
System.out.println("Welcome to my program! What is your name? ");
// this makes a new scanner, which can read from
// STDIN, located at System.in. The scanner lets us look
// for tokens, aka stuff the user has entered.
// this will create a new string variable called "name"
// and set the value to whatever the user types next
String name = sc.nextLine();
// finally we use println again, and string
// concatenation, with the + operator, to
// output or (sic) message!!
System.out.println("Hello " + name + " ! ");
Now, clearly this was written by a new programmer who has paid attention in class, and was told to explain things in comments. To a new developer, all these language features (like the main method) are new, and seem worth... well, commenting on. No points against the new programmer. Part of the learning process.
However, this is a great example of over-commenting. Any software engineer reading this will be quite annoyed wading through the long, verbose comments that are explaining Java language features. As a general rule, you should never use comments to describe a language feature: just assume your reader knows the language as well (perhaps an exception could be made if you use a really weird feature or something). Try to use comments to talk about the why, rather than the what. For example, we could rewrite this program like so:
// Prompt the user for their name and greet them.
We use a single comment to say "the why" of what we are doing, i.e. we are describing the semantics of the code as opposed to the syntax of the code. Then we use some line breaks ("paragraphing") to separate out the input and output sections. Much easier to read.
Verbosity can come from more than just comments. Often, the code itself can be repetitive or overly verbose. Consider the following program:
Write a method checkNames that takes in a List<String> of names and returns the valid names. A name is valid if it begins with a alphabetical character and has a length of at least 3.
public static List<String> checkNames(List<String> names) {
// creating a new arraylist
List<String> goodNames = new ArrayList<String>();
//looping over the input
for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
String currentName = names.get(0);
if (currentName.length() > 2) {
if (currentName.charAt(0) >= 'a') {
if (currentName.charAt(0) <= 'Z') {
goodNames.add(currentName);
return goodNames;
There's a lot going on here, so we'll try to break it down. The first thing almost any programmer will notice is that the code is very "crowded" -- there's no "paragraphing" or blank lines to indicate the logical chunks of the code. The second .length() > 2 check is also completely redundant. The only two comments are also entirely useless. So let's fix those things first:
Already, the code is starting to look a little bit more like code. The next thing we notice is that all of those else blocks are useless -- the loop continues without the explicit continue statement anyway. So we can remove them.
Much shorter, but we can go a bit further. The index variable of the for loop, and the currentName variable, can be replaced with the "for each" pattern.
for (String currentName : names) {
Now we're getting somewhere. The next refactor is a bit of a matter of opinion, with older software developers generally siding "against" and younger software developers generally siding "for." One heuristic you can use to try to tell if your code is too verbose is to count the number of levels of indentation. If you're over three, something has probably gone wrong. We can fix it like this:
if (currentName.length() <= 2) continue;
if (currentName.charAt(0) < 'a') continue;
if (currentName.charAt(0) > 'Z') continue;
Every level of indentation adds another level of "context" that the developer has to remember, e.g. "ok, I'm inside this for loop, and this if statement, and this if statement..." By inverting each condition, each if statement now reads more like "ignore names that fail this test." Putting three of them in a row using the exact same formatting takes advantage of parallel structure, just like in writing. By the time you've read through the three if statements, its clear you're left with a name that meets the conditions.
Finally, we can use a little Java API knowledge to make it slightly better, and add some semantic comments, to finish it off:
// Find the names that: (1) have three or more characters
// and (2) start with a letter.
if (!Character.isLetter(currentName.charAt(0))) continue;
If we want to get a little advanced, we could've written the whole thing in an even more succinct way using Java streams:
return names.stream()
.filter(name -> name.length() > 2)
.filter(name -> Character.isLetter(name.charAt(0)))
.collect(Collectors.toList());
The point of writing succinct code isn't to show off. In fact, sometimes shorter code can be much more complex and harder to read. For example, consider swapping two variables in Java:
int b = 9;
int tmp = a;
b = tmp;
Every developer will recognize this as "swap code." It's a common pattern we see everywhere. However, an overly-clever developer might write:
a = a ^ b;
b = b ^ a;
"It's shorter by a whole four characters!", proudly declares a young developer who is about to get a talking-to. This is known as the XOR swap algorithm, and it is a neat trick, but its very opaque. Nobody knows what it is doing the first time they see it, and even after they know the trick, they might not be sure everything is in exactly the right order.6 This makes the code very unintuitive. Making code less succinct doesn't conflict with making code intuitive as often as you'd think. Normally, making things shorter, while staying inside the conventions and norms of your language and community, makes things better. Normally. Experience will teach you when something falls into the "XOR swap" category or not.
Overall, making things short and succinct makes your code more readable. Other developer's eyes won't instantly glaze over as soon as they see your code. Since anything but a superhuman-level software developer can only keep so many lines of code in their head a time, making code shorter can often decrease the cognitive load required to read and understand your code. It's tempting to measure the progress of a project by the number of lines of code you've written, but I promise, senior devs will respect a "small codebase that can do a lot" much more than a large codebase that only does a little.
The last principle for our human audience is precision. Writing comments that tell the user vaguely what is happening is relatively easy -- but writing a comment the succinctly conveys exactly what a program is doing is much, much harder. Luckily, code has to be precise, so at a minimum, an unlucky developer can simply wade through every line to try and figure out what is going on. But we should have loftier goals.
Write a method that, given a height from which a ball was dropped in meters, computes the velocity of the ball when it hits the ground.
public static double velocity(double height) {
// compute the v with the energy formula
return Math.sqrt(2.0 * 9.8 * height)
That's short and sweet, and it might even be good enough if your audience has a physics background. But for us non-physics folks... a little more explanation might be nice. Note that the comment "compute the v with the energy formula" is entirely correct. It describes what the code does, semantically, but it is a little hand-wavy. What energy formula? There's a few. What's 9.8? How exactly did you reach this solution?
A better version might be:
private static final double GRAVITY = 9.8;
// Compute v using the conservation of energy formula:
// mass * gravity * height = (1/2) mass * velocity^2
// Mass cancels. Solve for velocity:
// sqrt(2 * gravity * height) = velocity
return Math.sqrt(2.0 * GRAVITY * height)
Now the code is a bit longer, but it is also a lot more precise -- a reader without a ton of physics background can at least step through the algebra to convince themselves that the code is correct. Extracting 9.8 to a variable also makes the code more precisely match the formula. Again, if your target audience is a bunch of physicists, the commentary is probably not required. Context is king.
There's another, very easy way to add precision to code's explanation, although it is only applicable in a few cases. Check out this chunk of code:
double[][] E = new double[k][n];
int[][] J = new int[k][n];
E[0][j] = err(0, j);
J[0][j] = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < k; i++) {
E[i][i] = 0;
J[i][i] = i - 1;
for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) {
E[i][j] = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
for (int x = j - 1; x > i-1; x--) {
double e = err(x, j);
double se = E[i-1][x] + e;
if (se < E[i][j]) {
E[i][j] = se;
J[i][j] = x;
if (E[i][j] < e) break;
Understand what's going? If so, I'm extremely impressed (and perhaps you need to see the last paragraph of the "Intuitive" section). To me, this is just about as bad as it gets. Short, one letter variable names. Absolutely no commenting. Random, complex manipulation of 2D arrays.
... but what if I told you that this one weird comment would transform this code from terrible to completely acceptable? Ready? Here it is...
// Algorithm for optimal piecewise approximation.
// Transcribed exactly from:
// Mahlknecht, Dignös, and Gamper, "A Scalable Dynamic
// Programming Scheme for the Computation of Optimal
// k-Segments for Ordered Data."
// https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2016.08.002
This is a (in my opinion) complex dynamic programming algorithm for approximating a function of one variable with k line segments. There's absolutely no reason to re-explain an entire scientific paper in the comments of your code, unless you feel like you can do it way better than the original authors. In terms of describing an algorithm, citing the paper (or textbook, with page number) from which it was transcribed is just about as precise (and succinct!) as you can get. Of course, this situation doesn't come up too often, but when it does, it will be one of the most useful-per-character comments you'll ever write.
My experience is limited, and I'm far from the best software developer in the world, but I have worked at quite a few places, programmed for a reasonably long time, and read a lot of programming assignments! So perhaps you don't want to treat these as steadfast rules, but I do think they are good general principles. Here's the cheat-sheet:
Code is an essay written for two audiences: the computer, and your fellow programmers. It should strive to obey these principles.
Correct: the code should produce the correct output.
Effective: the code should run quickly.
Efficient: the code should minimize resource usage.
Intuitive: the code should convey the intuition behind it.
Succinct: the code should be short.
Precise: the code should allow humans to understand exactly what it is doing.
Of course, it is worth noting that you don't always have to write good code. In fact, most of the time, you won't. If you go over to my GitHub, you'll see most of the code I've written is... bad. Real bad. Like, super bad. These are things to strive for, and things to practice. You won't always be able to write code that is especially pristine. But hopefully, bit by bit, year by year, we can get better and better.
You might be wondering how nextInt manages to draw from a uniform distribution -- one approach is to use rejection sampling. First, pick the largest number m less than Integer.MAX_VALUE that the size of your array, n, still divides. Then, sample a random integer from the range (0, Integer.MAX_VALUE). If the sampled integer is less than m, return m % n. Otherwise, try again. ↩
We could also use Java's streams, and the joining collector, to make the code much shorter and more obvious to a human, but we're only discussing effectiveness here. ↩
There's a reason it's called "composition." Writing code and writing papers both require careful compositions of abstractions. In computer science, these abstractions are linked lists, stacks, queues, etc. In "traditional" writing, these are paragraphs, citations, ideas, etc. Computer scientists who dismiss literature and other humanities will find themselves at a huge disadvantage. ↩
This does not mean you cannot create your own abstractions, or use others. It also does not mean you have to explain how an ArrayList works every time you use one. But someone looking at your code should be able to find those details somewhere (perhaps in your code, perhaps in the Java documentation), if they look for them. ↩
In my experience, they're almost always white dudes. I've been guilty of this in the past, and I hold no grudge against those who avoid me to this day because of it. ↩
It turns out the XOR swap is also a tad slower than the "normal" swapping code -- mostly due to compiler optimizations. ↩
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Many people are unsure about a thank you for interview letter. A thank you letter needs to be sent to the specific interviewer. It should reiterate briefly the common ground discussed, and your interest in perusing the position further.
Send the interview thank you letter within 2-3 days of the interview. Make sure of the spelling of the person's name, and your spelling and grammar in the letter. The letter may be sent by regular mail or email, and should be typed not handwritten. A thank you for interview letter gives the interviewer a more positive opinion of you, and is a good political move.
Now that we have discussed interview thank you letters, you need to be aware of important resources that can make your job search easier and more thorough.
If you have any questions about a thank you for interview letter, please contact us. For additional interview thank you letters, please write to us. | {
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Congratulations! ROBSENSE has developed the I-800 drone platform on bridge-inspection - RobSense Technology - RobSense Technology Co.Ltd.
ROBSENSE and its partner, HIPSR1(Hefei Institute of Public Safety Research, Tsinghua University), had successfully completed a bridge-inspection case on 27th and 28th, April, which belongs to a city project called Urban Safety Lifeline(USL) in Hefei, China. The case has made the Beijing Global Safety Technology Co.,Ltd 2 (hereinafter referred to as GSAFETY) — the leading enterprise and China's first listed company in the public safety and emergency management industry, the only research spin-off of the Institute of Public Safety Research (IPSR), Tsinghua University — satisfied on high efficiency, security and reliability for bridge inspection tasks by I-800 drone platform, instead of the ineffective telescope and human climbing. HIPSR is responsible for detection, data collection and analysis, whereas ROBSENSE makes contributes on industrial drone platform and interfaces support.
The on-road Urban Safety Lifeline construction aims to establish an operation monitoring system, which government can realize the status from network of bridges, gas and water supply pipes. And then, technical methods from HIPSR are easy to monitor and analysis status data to achieve early warnings.
As the construction cost of a bridge is very high, and a health inspection determines the safety of transportation and the safety of people's lives and property, the inspection plays an extreme significant role in ensuring the safe operation of bridges and prolonging its service life, that means, government can realize bridge diseases as early as possible through analyzing the collected data, so that timely repairs and reinforcements can be carried out in advance to save the maintenance cost and improve the comprehensive economy benefit.
In addition to the need for a high level of detection technology (infrared thermal imager detection technology, optical fiber sensor detection technology, acoustic detection technology, etc.), bridge-inspection processes must ensure the safety of workers. Today, the main method for these tasks is utilizing bridge inspection vehicles to inspect a long bridge section by section.
Although the traditional inspection method meets the requirements of the above two requirements, two critical shortcomings are concluded obviously that its efficiency is very low, and takes a long time. The most important disadvantage is that this method cannot inspect the connection between the side and the top of bridges such as suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges. If human climbing is used to tackle the problem, there are much great security risks during the processes and lower efficiency than before. Recent common methods are high-power telescope observation on the side of the bridge, and the top is not well inspected. However, the emergence and application of drones provide new ideas for bridge inspections.
With the successful experience on USL project, ROBSENSE has completely done a benchmark case in the field of bridge-inspection applications, and verified its feasibility and reliability of I-800 solution. The in-service I-800 drone platform is independently developed by ROBSENSE and deeply customized for bridge inspection. It supports dual 30-time cameras on the top and bottom simultaneously, and inspects bridges in all directions. The RTK device is equipped to obtain the precise position within 5cm difference and customers can easily operate the drone to collect real-time images and videos by a handle tablet. In other cases, ROBSENSE also provides multiple payloads such as infrared camera and dual-vision camera.
The first inpection site is choosed at Nanfeihe Bridge in Hefei and there are two difficulties for bridge inspection. Usually, the strengh of GPS signal under the bridges is not strong enough to support a drone flying when GPS stars are less than nine. If the drone is forced to work in this situation, accidents would occur because of the weaken GPS. But, the I-800 has been equipped with a enhanced GPS module, so that GPS stars are more than 12 during the inspection task.
Magnetic shield is another big problem. ROBSENSE has made efforts to improve algorithms and developed protection mechanisms by the software in fight controller.
At last, team from ROBSENSE trained the operators detailedly.
*1 HIPSR: Institute of Public Safety Research, Tsinghua University is committed to the development of public safety science and technology. Facing major national public safety needs, aiming at the frontier of world public safety science and technology, attracting, aggregating, and cultivating world-class talents with new management mechanisms, and studying key technologies such as scientific theories, methodologies, prevention, and emergency management, and integrated integration of public disaster prevention and control; To build a comprehensive open research platform for public safety, and to establish a public safety scientific theory system, technological innovation system and discipline system, and to form a continuous innovation capability of public safety technology.
*2 Beijing Global Safety Technology Co.,Ltd:Beijing Global Safety Technology Co.,Ltd. (known as GSAFETY) is a high-tech enterprise originating from Tsinghua University dedicated to industrialization and commercialization of public safety and emergency technology research undertaken by Tsinghua University Institute of Public Safety Research (the Institute). Building on the technical advantages of Tsinghua University and the Institute, the company develops new products and services for public safety and emergency response to meet the requirements of domestic and international markets. | {
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Q: Github pages: How to extend base layout? In my github pages directory, I have a folder called _layout in which I have a template file called base.html.
It contains nothing more than:
<p>Test 1</p>
{{ content }}
<p>Test 2</p>
In each of my markdown pages (test.md), at the top of the file I have the following:
---
title: TEST PAGE
layout: base
---
<p>Test Page Content</p>
However, when I go to serve this website and I go to test.html, all that appears is the contents of the test page - it does not place itself in the layout defined by base.html.. what am I doing wrong? Thanks!
A: The folder should be called _layouts, with an s.
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describe MarkdownFilter do
it "should filter markdown" do
MarkdownFilter.new.call("# Foo").must_equal (<<-eos
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
\"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd\">
<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xmlns:svg=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" xml:lang=\"en\">
<head><meta http-equiv=\"Content-type\" content=\"application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8\" /><title>Foo</title></head>
<body>
<h1 id="foo">Foo</h1>
</body></html>
eos
).chomp
end
it "should filter markdown partial" do
MarkdownFilter.new.call("# Foo", :partial => true).must_equal (<<-eos
<h1 id="foo">Foo</h1>
eos
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end
end
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start = state.pos,
marker = state.src.charCodeAt(start);
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if (marker !== 0x7E/* ~ */) { return false; }
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len = scanned.length;
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Marina Vela is a brand new luxury port aiming to become one of the most exclusive port destinations in the Mediterranean. It will be developed adjacent to the port of Barceloneta close to the W hotel in Barcelona, and will encompass some of the finest coastal facilities in the area.
The brand needed to convey a fun, sporty feel while remaining very sophisticated and high-end.
The symbol is a combination of the letters 'M' and 'V' emulating the shape of waves and sails. The typical marina color palette and graphic element of blue and white stripes has been accented with a bright yellow to create a contemporary visual language that is carried throughout all printed, digital and interior applications. | {
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You are here: HomenextPeoplenextMemories of a Tilbury Family
David Scott and his brothers
My name is David Scott. I went to St. Chads school when I lived in the old Kipling Ave after the war. We then moved to Tennyson Walk. I got married in 1951. We lived in lodgeing in Manor Road with a Mr Lawrence.
We were allocated a council house in Stifford Clays. My wife passed away in 1995. I had a triple heart by pass and a carotiod artery by pass on Friday the 13th March 1998. After I recoverd from that I moved over to St. Peters, Broadstairs Kent.
I am now in my 85th year. I promised my family that I would try to make it till I am 100 hundred years old as I would like to get a telegram from the Queen. I bought myself a computer and started tracing my family tree.
I was born at number 11 Brooke Road Plaistow. My parents moved dow to Tilbury when I was one year old.
I am the last surviveing member of my family. I had three other brothers now all passed away. Robert (Bob) the eldest killed in 1943 R.A.F. Les, Sidney have passed away. Cannot remember the exact years. My brother Bob's name is on the clock tower in Civic Square.
Regards , David Scott
By David Scott
This is my dad he is still living in Broadstairs Kent
By anthony scott (03/11/2016)
Hi are you a relative of a Lillian Scott who would be 55.
By Susan mccrory (11/08/2015)
Thank you for sharing this with the site David and let's hope you make it to 100 years old!
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Forums > bit-tech.net > Article Discussion >
Blogs Why We Need Origin
Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by arcticstoat, 6 Oct 2011.
arcticstoat New Member
Since its announcement and subsequent inclusion as a pre-requisite to play Battlefield 3, EA's re-branded online store, Origin, has been causing plenty of discussion. Opponents argue that Steam already serves as an online digital distribution service, as well as a match-making system, day-one DRM system and game browser; with Steam already providing these services, why must EA force Origin on us?
http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/gaming/2011/10/06/why-we-need-origin/
arcticstoat, 6 Oct 2011
Jqim New Member
When you have 8gb of ram you can have alot of junk open and still play games just fine
Jqim, 6 Oct 2011
feedayeen New Member
"The result is a service that, unchecked, is speeding towards a monopoly of the PC gaming digital distribution market, and it's one that needs competition."
The big problem is that compilation only cuts prices where they're competing with the same goods. If EA and Valve are both selling the same games, then great, I'll buy whoever has it cheaper and so will 90% of the population. But if there is no overlap, say if EA games are not on Steam and non-EA games are not on Origin, there's no competition.
feedayeen, 6 Oct 2011
Stickeh Help me , Help you.
I play on 4GB of ram, with steam open ( to run the overlay) running origin in the background ( a requirement of bf3) while having the memory sink hole that is chrome (to run the BF3 battlog / server browser) and i manage just fine.
I agree origin can coexist with steam - but they need to have a restructure of their pricing before they see any major increase in digital sales through their service.
Why would I pay more for a digital copy, when I can get the disc delivered to my door for £10 less?
Digital stores should be matching online physical copies and then they will see the benifits of increased sales and adpotion!
Valve /Steam know what they are doing, take some lessons and pointers from Portal 2 for example; £30 game - pre order and save 10%, few months later run an offer for £20, then release some FREE DLC and charge £10. You encompass all types of customers, the pre-orderer's, the early adopters, the 'waiting for the first sale' and the £10 budget bin.
Not to mention how cheap they will go afterwards, taking onboard those that maybe even pirated the game (not a lost sale) when they reduce it to <£5.
Stickeh, 6 Oct 2011
Jaffo New Member
I wouldn't mind Origin if it worked anything like as well as Steam. Unfortunately, it doesn't and given how long it's been available (as EADM) there's no indication that it ever will. Awful platform.
Jaffo, 6 Oct 2011
Omnituens New Member
Fair play for EA for trying - still not interested. As soon as I heard that BF3 required it, I cancelled my pre-order. EA's only product I wanted was the BF series, so I am not missing much by skipping origin.
Omnituens, 6 Oct 2011
countstex New Member
People are taught to fear a monopoly. As if such things are inherently corrupt. But if anything a monopoly will give you the best possible solution, provided it is handled well. Steam has shown no signs of turning it's power against the gaming community, in fact with all the sales and special offers they are doing more to help us than ever. Trying to compete with Steam head on is somewhat foolish given their headstart. You need to come from another angle, offering the same end result to the consumer which providing it in a strategically different way. Thus i would argue something like OnLive is more likely to eat into Steams market share. Not in it's current format perhaps, but as the technology improves certainly. If fact i wrote about such things on my blog: http://playtogetherstaytogether.co.uk/?p=488
countstex, 6 Oct 2011
Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd
Origin isn't that bad, however the problem is that Origin doesn't offer any compelling or reasonable imrovement over steam.
Elton, 6 Oct 2011
Marvin-HHGTTG CTRL + SHIFT + ESC
I agree with the article wholeheartedly - everyone regards Valve as a god who can do no wrong, when they themselves lock Valve games to be Steam only - plenty of people don't actually like Steam, but they're stuck with it. How is EA somehow evil because they've done the same thing?
As for the subject of pricing, Steam's sales are good, but even then you'll often find the games cheaper elsewhere (IE: physical copy). Normal pricing is poor as well though - basically charging RRP, much like EA. It remains to be seen what EA will do with Origin to try and gain a huge following like Steam, probably in sales, but they've had good offers in the past, discount vouchers and so on (I bought Shift 2 from Origin/EA Store for £19.99 when it was only a couple of quid cheaper elsewhere, but I had a £10 voucher (had to spend over a certain amount), so I essentially got Bad Company 2: Vietnam for free. Those games on Steam at the time equated to £15 more total. (IE, I spent £20 on Origin, would be looking at £35 on Steam).
EA have done well with the servers (Steam sale downloads anyone? "Nooo, you can't download that foolish mortal, there are too many people downloading"), and I reach a higher download speed (and consistently) on them than on Steam (Steam's not exactly slow, but it's rare that it fully saturates my 50Mb connection, especially for any period of time).
Marvin-HHGTTG, 6 Oct 2011
Hovis New Member
I grabbed Origin for FIFA 12 and it's okay. I can't be arsed with the social side of it, I think Steam completely stole the march there, but can't really blame EA for trying.
Much as I use steam and actually like it I've always resented the prices, which are ridiculously high, coupled with the sales tactics (massive discounts on games for a short duration that ought really to have a budget price point by default). More competition can't hurt too much.
Hovis, 6 Oct 2011
Dwarfer New Member
Omnituens said:
WOW that's so sad!
Dwarfer, 6 Oct 2011
loftie Well-Known Member
I don't dislike Origin, but at the same time, I don't think the way they've intergrated BF3 into it is that good. Even if you ignore Battlelog, why do we have two sets of friends, one for Origin and one for BF3? This could be excused if it was a 3rd party game - e.g. Company of Heroes on my steam does this - but it's not. It's the game that's supposed to push Origin.
It's not really competitive either. Games being more expensive than retail counterparts is just silly, especially when they need to gain some market share. Yes steam does this too, but steam is established, and works 90% of the time, it's not trying to break into the market and has a friends system that actually updates when people are Online/Offline/In-game, and
Last but not least, the controversy over EA considering banning people over joining the hacked servers for BF3 is worrying. Fair enough, you don't want 3rd party servers. i don't agree but fair enough. What isn't fair is that fact you are considering banning people who join these servers when they are available in Battlelog and can be joined with the Quickmatch Button.
loftie, 6 Oct 2011
Kiytan Shiny
to be honest, as an application, origin is fine. Works OK and has a good layout, however at the moment, it does still suffer from EA pricing.
Kiytan, 6 Oct 2011
MajorTom New Member
I like competition. it always benefits the consumer. But as post #2 says, this doesn't looks like competition as this is the only platform on which you will be able to play EA PC games. Perhaps you will be able to pay for them elsewhere but it won't drive the development of the plat form forward and Development is what the platform desperately needs.
When you compare the Steam distribution model to the Origin model, Origin is woefully lacking. A couple of bugbears that I have with Origin are that patches are downloaded and then installed in a rather noisy fashion that requires user interaction, unlike Steam which will silently keep my games up to date in the background. Also, no option to start minimized means that I don't launch Origin on Windows start up.
I'm sure the latter can be changed but will they ever have a smooth patching process? That's a big piece of development and I'm, thinking they probably won't ever bother.
If Origin embraces titles from other publishers, then we'll have worthwhile competition. I hope the service improves and does well for all our sakes.
MajorTom, 6 Oct 2011
Deadpunkdave ...why you need a 20-sided die
as the Battlefield 3 beta is proving, its social and friend systems are fairly solid too
I had no problem with the requirement to have origin. I had no problem with Origin's own social aspects. But the BF3 beta friends system is the single worst implemented social networking client I have ever encountered. That is not hyperbole, it is worse than every iteration of facebook chat. It is worse than myspace. It is worse than GFWL. It is hideous on a level that makes me genuinely angry.
Deadpunkdave, 6 Oct 2011
But Dicebook chat has VOIP! Not that we care......
TheLegendJoe Syntax error
I was very opposed to it, but it seems to work, as much as I like steam it does need competition, but this is certainly not near to competing fully...
Only if steam could sell games @£25/29 new like on Amazon etc!
TheLegendJoe, 6 Oct 2011
DbD Member
Origin is owned by EA, I wouldn't trust EA with anything - they will screw you over the first chance they get. We are just a source of income and hence a way of getting their share price up. EA traditionally have been viewed as a nasty company, the only reason we forget that is Activision is even worse.
Steam is owned by Valve who have over the years proved much more interested in gamers (see endless TF2 updates). They are privately owned so don't even have any shareholders to placate.
DbD, 6 Oct 2011
the-beast New Member
I think its great that Steam is getting some more heavy weight competition but am disappointed that EA have gone the full steam DRM integration route instead of the more customer fair GOG.COM route of no DRM.
What we really need is for these services to be optional so if people want to play single player or in a lan then an external client is not required.
the-beast, 6 Oct 2011
paith New Member
I agree with the point that competition is always good for digital distribution, but it feels like Origin is much more intrusive compared to Steam. If you read Origin Terms of Service, you'll find that the agreement you have to sign is a bit vague:
You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you.
EA reserves the right to monitor communications on the Application and disclose any information EA deems necessary to (i) ensure your compliance with this License; (ii) satisfy any applicable law, regulation or legal process; (iii) protect the rights, property and interests of EA, its employees or the public. EA also reserves the right to edit, refuse to transfer and/or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in EA's sole discretion.
It seems to me that EA is more interested in gathering information for marketing purposes, plus the bit about editing information is a cause for concern. Why should I agree with letting EA alter my files without asking for my permission first?
I'm not sure, but I think that EA intentionally left its TOS slightly vague so that it can get away with gathering as much information as possible.
Moreover, Valve is a private company with years of reputation as a reliable and caring organisation. Meanwhile, EA has been criticised over the years with its shoddy management practices, poor treatment of employees, and restrictive DRM. Since EA is a public company, it's much more 'corporate' and constantly under pressure by the shareholders to create maximum potential profits. Not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but that means some of their plans may not be in our best interest.
paith, 6 Oct 2011
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Figure 5-1.--Portion of military mapContinued.
Figure 5-5.--Grid square, close-up.
Figure 5-4.--Grid system.
Figure 5-3.--Position location.
measurements. Military grids consist of two sets of
equally spaced parallel, straight lines intersecting at
right angles and forming a series of squares. Each grid
east-west rings running parallel to the equator. (See figs.
line is an even interval of the selected measurement unit,
5-2 and 5-3.) Parallels are used to measure
such as yards or meters. A portion of a military grid, or
LATITUDEthe distance of a point north or south of the
map, is shown in figure 5-1. The dimensions and
equator. Using meridians and parallels, you can locate
orientation of different types of grids vary, but all
any point on the surface of the earth.
military grids have three things in common:
Geographic coordinates are expressed in angular
1. They are all true rectangular grids.
measurement. The earth is divided into 360 degrees;
2. They are superimposed; that is, drawn on top of
each degree into 60 minutes; and each minute into 60
the geographic projection.
seconds. The degree is symbolized by °; the minute by´;
and the second by´´.
3. They permit linear and angular measurements.
Starting with 0° at the equator, the parallels of
The regularly spaced lines that make up the grids on
latitude are numbered to 90° both north and south. The
any large-scale map are divisions of the 100 000-meters
extremities are the North Pole at 90° north latitude and
square; the lines are spaced at 10 000- or 1000-meter
the South Pole at 90° south latitude. Latitude can have
intervals. Each of these lines is labeled at both ends with
the same numerical value north or south of the equator,
a number showing its relation to the origin of the zone.
so the direction N or S must always be given.
For the 1000-meter grid, except for the numbers labeling
the first grid line in each direction from the southwest
Starting with 0° at the prime meridian, longitude is
corner of the sheet, the last three digits (000) of the
measured both east and west around the world. Lines
east of the prime meridian are numbered from 0° to 180°
number are omitted. (See fig. 5-1.) Two digits of the
and are identified as east longitude. Lines west of the
numbers are printed in large type, and the same two
prime meridian are numbered 0° to 180° and are
digits appear at intervals along the grid line on the face
identified as west longitude. The direction E or W must
of the map. They are called the PRINCIPAL DIGITS
always be given to longitude. The line directly opposite
and represent the 10,000 and 1,000 digits of the grid
the prime meridian, 180°, may be referred to as either
number; they are of major importance to the map reader
east or west longitude.
because they are numbers he uses most often for
referencing points. The smaller digits complete the
COORDINATES of the grid lines, but they are rarely
used for point designation. On sheets with grid line
Military maps are divided into grids to provide a
spacing at 10000 meters, only one principal digit is
uniform system for referencing and making
shown, representing the 10,000 digit of the grid number. | {
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RCW 71.34.375: Parent-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.
Parent-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.
(1) If a parent or guardian, for the purpose of mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, or evaluation, brings his or her minor child to an evaluation and treatment facility, a hospital emergency room, an inpatient facility licensed under chapter 72.23 RCW, an inpatient facility licensed under chapter 70.41 or 71.12 RCW operating inpatient psychiatric beds for minors, a secure detoxification facility, or an approved substance use disorder treatment program, the facility is required to promptly provide written and verbal notice of all statutorily available treatment options contained in this chapter. The notice need not be given more than once if written and verbal notice has already been provided and documented by the facility.
(b) The procedures to be followed to utilize the treatment options described in this chapter.
(3) The department of health shall produce, and make available, the written notification that must include, at a minimum, the information contained in subsection (2) of this section. The department of health must revise the written notification as necessary to reflect changes in the law. | {
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Tin miners cottage in AONB, St Ives with its cobbled streets and Tate Gallery is close by, and Lands End, Penzance and St Michael's Mount a short drive.
Ground floor: Living room. Dining room/kitchen. Utility room. Bathroom with shower over bath and toilet. First floor: 2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin. Most rooms with wooden floors.
Open fire in living room (no fuel provided). Gas central heating and electricity included (£20per week October-March). Bed linen and towels included. DVD and small library. Electric cooker. Washing machine. Lawned garden with furniture. No smoking.
This charming terraced 18th century tin miner's cottage is set in the Cornish village of Pendeen which sits on the edge of an AONB. You can explore the coastal path with its breathtaking views over the rugged Cornish coastline. Why not surf and just laze on the beach, or visit the popular fishing town of St Ives with its array of small shops, cobbled streets and beautiful beaches, and pay a visit to the Tate Gallery. Lands End is a short drive away with its stunning views and visitors centre, or you can visit the busy town of Penzance and take a trip to the Isles of Scilly or walk over to St Michael's Mount at low tide. Shop 200 yards, pub with food 500 yards.
Disappointing. Pendeen is lovely, cottage in a quiet setting off the main road, local people very friendly. What spoilt it was the condition of the cottage. It was grubby, very grubby. Given that our stay was at the very beginning of the new season, (week before Easter hols) it was a big surprise to find the cottage hadn't benefitted from a winter spruce up. Clearly hasn't been decorated for some time, I don't mind shabby chic, generally my preferred décor choice, but other people's dirt - an absolute no no. The kitchen cupboards were filthy, walls and cupboards alike covered in grease. No idea when the sitting room floor was last cleaned, judging by the black, dirty tide mark around the rug, quite some time ago. REALLY needs a bloody good clean. It has the potential to be lovely but desperately needs time and money spent on it.
We really enjoyed our stay at Atlantic Cottage. Great location with good local amenities. Would definitely recommend. | {
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Q: Android QRCode Scanner Library What do we have out there available to us (if anything) that we can call for QR data discovery and extraction on an image?
While there have been plenty of posts thus far referencing the ZXing library for QRCode scanning, I haven't found that to be a solution that works for me. Several others have been asking for QRCode scanning alternatives and I have not seen useful feedback. I thought I might ask the community once more what the other options might be for a QR code library that does not launch an activity and call outside our own applications. It should scan images from the Camera2 API in a very simplistic manner. It shouldn't be a complicated library. I hadn't seen examples or individuals speaking of it in this manner.
It actually puzzles me as to why there hasn't been native implementations of the QRCode functionality added into perhaps the Camera library or similar place within the Google SDK natively within the operating system.
Calling and requiring another application (or even requesting a download) is not an elegant solution and no users should be succumbed to doing such thing. As developers we should have access to a library capable of extracting a QRCode from an image or frame that we can then remove encoded data from.
A: Android QRCode Scanner Library
This may help you, this library doesn't require any download or use of any external application. We can directly integrate this into your app and use it for scanning a QR code.
https://github.com/dm77/barcodescanner
This wiki will help you to integrate with your app,
https://github.com/dm77/barcodescanner/blob/master/README.md
A: You can also check MobileVisionBarcodeScanner (note I'm the author of this package). It is powered by Google's mobile vision API. Also see the overview
here .
A: I used this library in my app. It also works with xing but you don't need any third party applications. Additional it's really easy to use.
https://github.com/journeyapps/zxing-android-embedded
Maybe you searched something like this.
A: You've already found the library you're looking for, I think. See the core/ module:
https://github.com/zxing/zxing/tree/master/core
You're just looking at the Intent-based integration, but, in fact the core scanning is its own stand-alone library that you can embed into your own app.
I think Intent-based integration is best in most cases, simply because it is so simple, and, most people don't have the time to reimplement their own scanning UI and such on top of the core. Most devices have Barcode Scanner installed already, so it doesn't usually need a download.
Still, take your pick. That's why there are at least two ways to use it.
A: While Sean Owen and others that have worked on the original Zxing library had provided an approach to work with the barcode libraries for the past several years, Google has finally put out an official release with Google Play Services for handling qr and barcodes.
The barcode detection library is described here. The inclusion of these libraries will make for a smooth integration. I'll repost with some sample code for achieving these results from a captured image. At the moment, I wanted to update my answer for this official release. If this indeed does provide a nice way to get at this information (without jumping through hoops and complications), then I'll update with the source and check this off as an accepted answer.
The detection library that Google has provided within the past year has been a much easier library to work with. It allows for quick integration with the camera APIs and extracts the information with simplicity. This would be the component that I would suggest going forward with recognition. A quick snippet is demonstrated below for handling a Qr-code. A handful of pseudocode is left in there as well.
public final void analyzeFrameForQrCode(byte[] qrCodePictureF, int imageFormatF, XriteSize previewWindowSizeF)
{
if(!qrCodeDetectionPossible() || qrCodePictureF == null || mIsAnalyzingQrCodeFrame)
{
return;
}
... //Bitmap conversion code
Frame frame = new Frame.Builder().setBitmap(pictureTaken).build();
SparseArray<Barcode> barcodes = mBarcodeDetector.detect(frame);
if(barcodes != null && barcodes.size() != 0)
{
Barcode qrCode = barcodes.valueAt(0);//barcodes.get(Barcode.QR_CODE);
if(qrCode != null)
{
if(extractInformationFromQrCode(qrCode.rawValue)) {
mIsRequestingBarcodeDetection = false;
vibrateForQrCodeDiscovery();
((Activity)mContext).runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run()
{
hideBarcodeDetection(true);
}
});
}
}
}
... //Cleanup and code beyond Qr related material
}
}
There are of course other calls available that can be taken advantage of. But there are really only a couple lines in there. The service for analyzing the frames with the library are not there by default on devices however. So, you should check whether or not the library is available (such as when internet is not available) before calculating as well. This is a slight nuisance of it. I had assumed it would be available as updates for devices going forward as part of the support library or Google Services going out to all devices. But it needs the communication first with an external service to use these library calls. Once it does this one time then that device is good from that moment on.
In my small example, I pop a toast up after a check and then back out of the activity and let the user check their connection. This can be done with a small amount of sample code as well.
if(!mBarcodeDetector.isOperational())
{
updateUserInstructions("The barcode library cannot be downloaded");
return false;
}
Edit (Update):
A considerable amount of time has passed since working with the latest Google Play Services Vision libraries available for barcode detection. While the limitation for needing to download the library over the wifi is indeed a limitation, it is a one time process. And lets be honest...
...our devices will have a connection. The library itself is downloaded in the background so you don't even notice it happening unless there is trouble downloading it and then you would have to report an appropriate corrective measure such as enabling a connection to the internet for it.
One additional tidbit is that it is a little tricky sometimes with how you integrate the library into your application. Using it as a library project worked on some devices and then failed on others. Adding the jar to the build path worked across a broader number of devices (it could be all, but it solved a problem). So as such, I would do it using the secondary method when including it in your projects for now.
A: Rather than QRCODE ZXing library integration You are able to open camera and scan QRCode from anywhere:
The code i found below will may be helps to you for scanning QRCode :
try {
Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN");
intent.putExtra("SCAN_MODE", "QR_CODE_MODE"); // "PRODUCT_MODE for bar codes
startActivityForResult(intent, 0);
} catch (Exception e) {
Uri marketUri = Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android");
Intent marketIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,marketUri);
startActivity(marketIntent);
}
Please remember that You must have a barcode scanner application by "Zxing" in Mobile Phone else it will firstly redirect to Google play store link for download it.
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Be Your Writer
The Top 5 Applications for Automatic Writing (Updated 2020)
1. A Soft Murmur
3. Calmly
5. Scrivener
How to Use Voice Apps for Automatic Writing
1. Google Docs
2. Windows Dictation
3. Apple or Siri Dictation
4. Speechnotes
5. Dictation
6. Speech Texter
7. Voice Finger
8. E-Speaking
8. Braina
10. Dragon
Simple Step by Step guide to Do Automatic Writing
Writing is a creative way of expressing one's emotion, explaining a concept, and telling a story. Writing is an art form, and like other art forms, it has a lot of rules and regulations that pertain to how it is performed and executed. These rules and regulations include grammar, word choice, structured flow, and cohesion.
Some people are not capable or that good when it comes to performing this skill because they fall victim to the rules and regulations that are associated with it. Thankfully, through the wide array of technological advancements, there are various apps that one can download, most especially if grammar or vocabulary isn't their strong suit.
Regardless of whether you're doing it to be innovative or in light of the fact that it's the job, writing with the usage of the wrong tools resembles wearing some pants to work out. It's said to be constricting, and without enough support you get the job done.
You need to write something on point, there's no such thing as avoiding it even in the world of auto-correct good grammar and spell checker, cause it still matters to employers. This is particularly obvious adrift, in a safety-critical industry, it's significantly more imperative to be 100% accurate when writing. A missed comma here or full stop there can thoroughly change the entire meaning of a sentence. Be that as it may, who has the opportunity to get familiar with the difference between adjuncts and adverbials? Time is valuable adrift and significantly more so aground.
There are heaps of writing applications and tools – so numerous that when you discover the applications you want, you likely won't be in the mood to write any longer. Keep away from exhaustion by scrolling down and looking at our rundown of helpful writer's tools and word processing applications.
This is a list of 5 good apps that were made for automatic writing as follows:
This app does not revolve around writing alone, but it helps the aspiring author to be in the most literal 'author mood' wherein all the words will come, and everything flows smoothly. As a downloaded application, it helps a lot, most especially if the author is either at home with their respective family or outside being too noisy by nature, wherein they need calming sounds that set an atmosphere of serenity and tranquility.
The situational ambiance of a writing area means a lot, in order to make every writing opportunity productive and successful in entirety. Research shows that a moderate level of situational ambient noise is ideal for creative cognition, and creativity is always necessary for executing an art.
This app is free and it features a white-noise machine combined with a soundboard, and it allows the aspiring author to select their very own soundscape freely, simply by combining any of the 10 themed settings presented in the app.
The second app is called "Freedom". This app by feature does not help the author on how to write, but it helps the author write in the means of setting the mood.
In this modern society, the apps of social media have become mainstream, to the point where a person can spend a whole day on their social media without doing anything else. A sudden question arises on the mind of the author who uses the application which is on: "How can he or she structure a strong and appealing narrative, given the immense impact of social media at the backdrop of the app?" The direct response would be, the author needs to adapt and characterize an in-depth intake amount of willpower which is sometimes a case-to-case basis.
Well definitely, any author without an incredible intake amount of willpower will truly experience an unprecedented reality of difficulty during the writing process. If he or she does not have that kind of power, then he or she should go to their respective browser on the Internet and enter: Freedom. It is both an app, and a website-blocker that gives them the ultimate gift of focus.
Any author of concern has the grand opportunity of blocking unnecessary websites, applications, and the entirety of the Internet, with the equivalent long duration that they would want to, respectively. The author should start the process by establishing a barrier that would impede any environmental distraction that surrounds the author. Also, it is best for the author to greatly consider the creation of a blocking schedule, which will be beneficial whenever he or she performs the blocking process in automaticity, most especially when he or she begins the writing process.
The third app is called "Calmly". In a refined feature, it is an app that enhances the author's writing as a whole. In the description, the application features a writing tool that is both non-destructive and simple.
Also, the application's interface is easy-to-use wherein it has a built-in ability to block in entirety, all of the whistles and bells that are found on a commonly used word processing interface and in relativity, the author can freely zero in on the word choice that he or she uses.
The application has a built-in array of keyboard shortcuts, markdown formatting and also, a special "focus mode" which is when the author chooses to highlight a section so that the author, in the most literal sense, can focus on that particular section. If the author doesn't know what to focus on in particular, because to them it is more important to focus on the core of the writing process, he or she should highlight the current paragraph that either he or she is writing at the moment, so that as an author, he or she won't get lost or in the longer run, drown in a sea of words.
Also, this app can also be used for many things, if the concerned individual is not a full-fledged author as a background, but on the contrary, is an editor that is meant to revise written works. This app is also designed for every thriving author to make it a fruitful note-taking and editing tool, alongside with the goal of effective and efficient writing.
The fourth app is called "Grammarly". This application is very popular, for it is typically targeted and worldly used by anyone around the world, who centers their life on the premise of writing with confidence and ease.
The app is widely used in deep dependence and reliability from the perspective of students to employees, and by everyone whose main concern is to promote the congruent flow of his or her write-up, narrative, essay, and article. This app is intended for people who would want to be confident with their ability to weave a compelling story, but they have to deal with it, sometimes in terms of being shaky with the subject-verb agreement or being in a dilemma of dangling modifiers.
This free writing app scans all of the text for grammatical mistakes and it doesn't only prompt the author to correct them, but it also explains why it is grammatically wrong, so the author in return can learn from it, and adapt such learning for future purposes.
The app's interface is unique and minimalistic if the individual concerned were to start typing something on an email, document, or even in a text, respectively. In relation to such premises, when the person makes a mistake during his or her writing process, the grammatical mistake will be underlined with the use of a red line, and when the mouse cursor hovers over on the specific and particular error, it will correct that error in a paced speedy manner.
As an example, if the writer commits a mistake in terms of spelling, an auto-corrected spelling will be provided by the application itself. Another interesting feature of the app is that it can detect the tone in the author's message.
For example, if the author's essay is about starving artists who are left behind and that they demand change in society, then the tone would be angry. In entirety, the user can even customize the tones with emojis, alongside with his or her writing process.
The fifth and final app is called "Scrivener". This is also a popular app because any list of every single good writing app will not be complete without the infamous Scrivener.
This tool can be depicted in the description as a digital binder with three rings, and it is meant to gather all of the author's notes, the author's research, and the author's writing in only one easily manageable place so that the author can move between their manuscripts and their reference materials with much ease, comfort, pace, and confidence.
The Scrivener's text editor is a lot similar to a word processor but it is even better. The text editor has a lot of elements with its formatting which is quite simple to use, the annotation, the interesting style, and straightforward footnote settings save a lot of time and a lot of stress on the part and perspective of the author.
Also, the author can even set the writing targets for himself or herself, and at the same time, he or she can track all of his or her writing progress with the use of this deliberately accessible writing app. In addition, when the author is ready to share his or her excellent writing project, he or she can print it using the formatting feature that is automatically tailored to all of the submission guidelines, or as an alternative option, he or she can export it to a wide variety of file formats such as the PDF format as an example.
These 5 top of the line writing applications are the modernized standards of writing nowadays, which is both a blend and a mixture of technological advancements, dipped into the tenet that Writing is more convenient if paired alongside with the birth of current technological innovations that are widely available for usage and adaptation in the entire duration of the writing process.
Some individuals may be on the search for apps wherein its primary focus is to take down dictation or to transcribe interviews. At times, it may be tedious to type; press play, and press pause now and then momentarily while trying to take down an interview.
Such moments during the working progress and writing process may tend to stop one's flow of ideas as one might not type as fast as they think because of such obstruction. Relatively and thankfully, there is a wide variety of available apps that can be found in the global market nowadays.
It is a benefit for the individual to grasp these available applications and software for these have the built-in capabilities of helping the individual achieve the goal of silencing the internal editor concerned found in the application and software, which in return can help him or her attain and obtain focus and concentration on writing at the present moment, and then afterward, editing on the later part.
To continue with, speech to text software is also ideal for those individuals who have difficulty using their hands such as people with Parkinson's disease, dyslexia, and other relative medical conditions and special needs as a part and parcel of their individuality.
This part of the article will be a list of several speech to text tools that can aid in speeding up the individual's writing process. The enlisted apps are dominantly high inaccuracy, which in totality can reach maximally up to 90% in rate or even at a higher benchmark.
With regards to the prices, the range would vary because some of these apps are free yet some may cost up to a maximal amount of a couple of hundred dollars. But the best part of it is that the choices are a ton and a handful, thus the selected option and choice of the individual should and must be a perfectly even match to his or her need and budget, respectively. The apps are listed in a variation from free apps to paid apps, so to speak.
The first voice app is called "Google Docs" voice typing function. This is a free and available app that can be found on both desktop and on android. This is quick and simple to set up as an additive feature of the app.
To install this app, the individual must sign up using his or her Gmail account and after which, he or she will have instant access to everything in a matter of minutes. One must simply activate the voice typing function found in the 'Tools' section and upon selecting that, the dictation process will start immediately.
A multifaceted array of editing and formatting options is offered by the application, in terms of its voice typing function. In addition, issues may be encountered by the individual who speaks and converses with other people as well as with the app, with the usage of an accent. To continue with, the application has a problem in terms of the provision of punctuations, as it may tend to take down either a "period" or a "full stop". Yet, despite this problem, the individual is assured in a maximal optimum level that the application is both user-friendly and accurate for usage.
In conclusion, the application offers the individual a surety of a high standard performance which is an innate trademark found in every downloadable application package created by Google, respectively.
The second voice app is called: "Windows Dictation". The beauty of this voice app is that it is both a built-in feature package in Windows 10 and that it is free of charge. The downloading process includes initialization, opening the downloaded app after the initialization process and then finally, the selection of the microphone icon, to have a full blast use of the voice app.
To continue with, after the setup process is finished, the voice app will immediately type in accordance with the heard voice from the individual, in terms of the location of the cursor. The voice app can work well in a variety of documents, emails, social media, and a whole lot more, depending on the preference of the individual using the app.
For example, the individual can place the cursor on the address bar and say the following: "Google dot com, enter" and in just an instant, it will immediately go to the Google web browser, respectively. It is proven evidence that this voice app can perform a variety of commands. As an example, in particular, the help file section features a benchmarked list of commands and instructions that are useful for the individual, as he or she will be typing letters, symbols, numbers, and punctuation during the writing process.
However, the disadvantageous side of it is that it is only available in English, so to speak.
The third voice app is called "Apple or Siri Dictation" which is both a free and a built-in voice application in Mac gadgets. Upon turning on and enabling the voice application will allow it to work smoothly in the individual's gadget upon using the application for writing purposes.
For example, Siri can do these functions, wherein one just has to say the following: "Siri, turn on Dictation". The beauty of this voice app is that it comes in a variety of several languages and corresponding dialects which is very multicultural on the part of the individual who uses the voice app regardless of the race and culture that he or she is a part of. In addition, the voice app features an enhanced mode. This mode allows the individual to use the voice app anytime and anywhere with the benefit of not being connected to the Internet.
On the other hand, the help file option has specifically innate instructions that are necessary for punctuation, characters, and formatting purposes during the writing process of the individual concerned.
In relation to the said feature, the voice app has the innate ability of typing wherever the individual has placed the cursor, which is remarkably great for word processors. Relatively, it also adapts to various accents which is truly a great deal in considering the use of a voice application.
The fourth voice app is called: "Speechnotes". In the description, this voice application is a free online notepad by feature and can take dictation completely and congruently. As a voice app, it has the innate ability to back read what has been written already by the individual as well as the dynamic features of formatting, punctuation, and auto-saving the individual's work while dictating, so to speak.
However, the disadvantageous part of this voice app is that it only works directly with the use of the Google Chrome Web Browser.
With what has been said about this voice application, in terms of its dynamism is that it has the innate dual ability of storage and safekeeping in terms of the individual's file folders, downloadable and emails that are either way saved as a Word Document, a text file or as an uploaded file in a Google Drive, which in any way can be successfully copied to the individual's clipboard during the writing process.
The beauty of the Speechnotes voice application is that it has the diverse and versatile ability to work with 10 different languages, as well as with the inclusion of a premium extension intended for the Google Chrome Web Browser.
This premium extension provides direct access as an additive to a couple of simple features like word count and a quick access button to the Chrome Bar as a whole.
The fifth voice app is called: "Dictation". This voice application can be downloaded free online and is intended to operate smoothly and effectively through the Google Chrome Web Browser. The voice application has the innate capability of storing the text that can be found in the browser which prohibits such text to be uploaded anywhere else.
To continue with, the voice application can record what is written inside the text editor respectively as it has the inclusion of some additive formatting options wherein it provides comfort and ease, in the perspective of the individual, as it is well-versed and adaptive in terms of working with a wide array of languages, worldwide.
With this on hand, the individual can copy, save, publish, tweet, play as speech, email and print what he or she has written in an achievable manner through the wide use of this voice application.
The inclusive commands for quotes, special characters, emojis, punctuation marks, and brackets as well as a list of phrases to perform several other commands are unique features of this voice application which makes it more beneficial for the writer as he or she ventures in his or her writing job as a process.
The sixth voice app is called: "Speech Texter". Speech Texter is another free online voice app that works well with the use of the Google Chrome web browser. It includes several formatting options wherein the individual writer can choose from.
It has a customized dictionary that includes short commands to enter data like punctuation, phone numbers, names, addresses, and other pertinent data. An individual can also add his or her commands in accordance with his or her preference.
The voice application provides individuals a wide range of lexical support, as it can cater to over 60 languages worldwide. It is definitely accurate at a 90% rate for most of the worldly known languages, including the English Language at a 95% accuracy rate, respectively.
In conclusion, an individual can have an option of downloading the file either as a text or a Word document, or on the later part, he or she can also directly print it.
The seventh voice app is called: " Voice Finger" which costs $10 to be exact, upon the purchase of an individual.
This voice application permits the individual to control his or her Windows PC through a means of vocal dictation as its feature. The activation process for the voice application involves the following steps which are first, opening the document in any editor software, and second, turning on the dictation features will follow, and from then on, third, the individual can start speaking after performing the first two steps.
It is an option for every individual to disable by default, the usage of the mouse and keyboard while using this application. But on the contrary, it is a highly considerable option to turn on the two disabled usages with the use of voice commands.
The beauty of this voice application is that the individual will have control over the settings, and can tune it over to his or her voice, in accordance to the individual's preference.
The eight-voice application is called: "E-Speaking". This voice application costs $14 to be exact and is known as a Windows application that allows any individual to control his or her PC with the usage of a 100 built-in voice commands.
Another additional feature of this voice application is its so-called: "Speech to Text Feature". This feature allows an individual to write in any available text editor with a vast array of 26 enlisted commands as a prime resource for formatting, editing, dictating, navigating, editing, and adding punctuation, symbols, and numbers are among the encapsulated built-ins of this voice app's speech to text feature.
The ninth voice app is called: "Braina". Braina is a voice app that is intended to promote personal and office productivity as a downloadable application in the perspective of the individual who will use it.
There are two options for the individual who is willing to purchase it. It has an edition that is free to be downloaded and on the contrary, there is also an available pro-edition that costs around $49 to be exact.
In relation to the pro- edition, the respective edition has a speech to text feature and other multi-dimensional features that control the computer with the individual's voice either in the different parts of his or her house or through the wide use of a WI-FI network. As an added feature to this voice app, its package includes over 100 languages as its scope and core, as to which individual will access the application.
It has the innate ability as well to exemplify the conversion of the individual's voice into text with any website or application concerned like for example, MS Word or Notepad that includes the accessibility of dictation commands through the use of Windows as an example.
The tenth voice app is called: "Dragon". This voice application is worth a couple of hundred dollars to be exact. Dragon is renowned as the most popular name in terms of speech to text software.
The infamous Dragon Professional Individual is highly intended for business and professional writing. Its synchronization is highly doable and achievable with the mobile app called: "Dragon Anywhere."
In addition, the voice application is a perfect matched suggestion for dictation and transcription. It is profoundly equipped with Deep Learning wherein through the latter application, the adaptation to the individual's voice and the environment is highly attuned.
The beauty of this voice application is that it is highly customizable and alongside it, its inclusion of voice commands and editing features makes it very versatile with a lot of applications. Its compatibility with various gadget brands is a great takeaway for any individual who purchases this voice application such as with Windows 7 up to 10 and for Mac is definitely a grand prime to the individual's budget.
In conclusion, a home version of the voice application is also available in the global market in a half the price benchmark.
These tremendous voice applications are definitely useful in terms of making writing an easier and comfortable process, job, and skill. It is the intent of each of these voice applications that writing will be more enjoyable and worthwhile on the part of the individual.
1. Choose a medium. Would you like to utilize a computer for your automatic writing session or would you like to utilize pen/pencil and paper? This is entirely based on your own personal preference. Some would contend that pen and paper is the only good way to utilize automatic writing, however, in the event that you can type quicker than you can write (and you're more OK with it), it could be more useful to utilize a PC.
2. Give yourself any topic or questions that you want to expound on. If ever that you are rehearsing automatic writing to improve your creative abilities, or to assist yourself with starting on a writing task, at that point it will be useful to have a brief or the like.
You could, for instance, write about something that has been at the forefront of your thoughts lately, or about a dream, you had been lately hanging out in your mind. Maybe it's a problem you have or something you are amped up for. Possibly, you have something new for a story at the top of the priority list, in which case you can utilize that as your subject or main topic. If ever that you haven't exactly fleshed out in your psyche all the details of the story you'd prefer to write, you can just expound on all the various ideas you do have.
3. Set a timer. 10 minutes should be a good beginning stage. Setting a timer will assist you with abstaining from contemplating whether you've been writing for quite some time.
Keep in mind that 10 minutes is only a suggested beginning stage. On the off chance that you need to write for more, at that point do as such. On the off chance that you set your timer for 10 minutes, yet you sense that you have more to write, you should prop up until you feel that you've gotten it full scale.
4. Start writing. Just write whatever comes into your psyche as it comes into your mind. Ideally, it will be related to your theme, yet on the off chance that it is random, you should in any case write it.
5. Just continue with your writing. In the event that, after utilizing automatic writing you feel that you are prepared to proceed onward to the following step in your writing process, at that point do as such. Then again, on the off chance that you feel that you have pushed ahead, yet haven't gotten what you asked for from the activity, don't hesitate to repeat as often as necessary.
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It's Alive publisher Drew Ford passes away
Ford died from COVID related pneumonia earlier this week.
Drew Ford, who published comics and graphic novels under the It's Alive banner, passed away from COVID-related pneumonia, according to his wife, Aki Uesugi.
Uesugi has started a GoFundMe page to help pay for the funeral and other expenses, where she shares more details on what led to Ford's death. While Ford has been declared brain dead, he is still on life support as his organs will be donated.
Continue reading "It's Alive publisher Drew Ford passes away"
Author JK ParkinPosted on October 1, 2022 October 1, 2022 Categories Comic PublishersTags Drew Ford, It's Alive!, passings3 Comments on It's Alive publisher Drew Ford passes away
Dark Horse will collect Justin Madson's 'Breathers'
The nine-issue series originally published by It's Alive! lives again next year.
Dark Horse Comics will collect Tin Man creator Justin Madson's nine-issue series Breathers into a trade paperback next year. The series is currently published by Drew Ford's It's Alive! Press, which is crowdfunding the seventh issue now.
"Long before the word 'pandemic' became a part of our daily conversation, I started work on Breathers, a story set in a world where the air was deadly to breathe, so everyone had to wear gas masks when they went outside," Madson said. "Wearing these 'breathers' was an accepted part of life since, really, there was no other option. It seemed like a bit of a far-fetched idea at the time, but, as recent years have shown, I was not too far off. I am thrilled to be working with It'S Alive! and Dark Horse to bring my dystopian tale, Breathers, to a wider audience."
Continue reading "Dark Horse will collect Justin Madson's 'Breathers'"
Author JK ParkinPosted on June 18, 2022 June 18, 2022 Categories Comic BooksTags Breathers, comic books, Dark Horse Comics, It's Alive!, Justin MadsonLeave a comment on Dark Horse will collect Justin Madson's 'Breathers'
Three Things | Roachmill, George Pratt, Kevin Conroy
Here are three things in comics to support, to see and to watch today.
1. To support: Roachmill returns from It's Alive!
The 1980s saw a huge explosion in the number of comics coming from independent comics publishers. It was mainly driven by a couple of factors, one being the creation and growth of the direct market, and also by what's known as the black-and-white comics boom (and subsequent bust) that was sparked by the creation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and fueled by a speculator's market of low print run, and often low quality, B&W comics. But there were certainly some gems amongst the garbage.
One of the companies in the mix back then was Blackthorne Publishing, a company born when Pacific Comics closed down, who would go on to be quite successful for a number of years publishing 3-D comics, comic strip reprints, licensed comics and original stuff. One of those originals was Roachmill, by Rich Hedden and Tom McWeeney, which was definitely a gem.
Continue reading "Three Things | Roachmill, George Pratt, Kevin Conroy"
Author JK ParkinPosted on June 9, 2022 June 9, 2022 Categories Three ThingsTags DC Pride, George Pratt, It's Alive!, Kevin Conroy, Rich Hedden, Roachmill, Three Things, Tom McWeeneyLeave a comment on Three Things | Roachmill, George Pratt, Kevin Conroy
Fund Me Sunday: 'Pink Lemonade,' 'Shots Fired' and more
Find out about crowdfunding projects by Nick Cagnetti, Ominous Press, Doug Gray and … The Intergalactic Postal Service?
As crowdfunding continues to be a viable method for creators to fund their creative endeavors and connect directly with fans, comic-related projects flourish on sites like Kickstarter, Patreon and IndieGoGo. Here's a look at a few recent campaigns that caught our eyes.
Pink lemonade #1
Who is involved? Nick Cagnetti and It's Alive! Press
Deadline: July 27
Continue reading "Fund Me Sunday: 'Pink Lemonade,' 'Shots Fired' and more"
Author JK ParkinPosted on July 14, 2019 July 14, 2019 Categories Crowdfund MeTags anthologies, Bart Sears, Brendan Wright, charities, Comicker Press, crowdfunding, Doug Gray, Dread Gods, Eric Peterson, It's Alive!, Joe Aubrey, Kickstarter, Nick Cagnetti, Ominous Press, Pink Lemonade, Ron Marz, Space Bastards, The Eye of Mongombo, Tom RaneyLeave a comment on Fund Me Sunday: 'Pink Lemonade,' 'Shots Fired' and more
So What? Press becomes an imprint of It's Alive!
The former IDW imprint will help distribute 'Tales of the Night Watchman.'
A former IDW imprint now has an imprint of its own. Drew Ford's It's Alive!, which publishes reprints of out-of-print graphic novels, translations of foreign material, classic comics and other projects, will now distribute Tales of the Night Watchman from So What? Press.
This effectively gets the critically acclaimed indie comic into comic shops via Diamond, which is good news for comic fans and creators Dave Kelly and Lara Antal. The partnership kicks off with a new two-issue miniseries called "The Final Kill," which will be followed by a crossover with Dean Haspiel's The Red Hook.
Continue reading "So What? Press becomes an imprint of It's Alive!"
Author JK ParkinPosted on April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 Categories Comic PublishersTags Dave Kelly, Dean Haspiel, Drew Ford, It's Alive!, Lara Antal, publishing, So What? Press, Tales of the Night Watchman, The Red HookLeave a comment on So What? Press becomes an imprint of It's Alive!
Smash Pages Q&A: Keith Lansdale and Jok
The creators of 'Red Range:Pirates of Fireworld' discuss the sequel to a 1999 graphic novel by Joe R. Lansdale and Sam Glanzman.
The miniseries Red Range: Pirates of Fireworld, currently being kickstarted for a summer release, is a sequel to the graphic novel Red Range. Originally published in 1999, the book by Joe R. Lansdale and Sam Glanzman was reprinted with new colors recently. The first volume was a dark western tale, which ended with the hero and the boy he rescued falling into the hollow earth, a place filled with dinosaurs and other creatures.
The final page of the book teased a sequel, but nothing ever came of it – until now. Written by Keith Lansdale and drawn by Jok, who colored the reprinted edition, they're picking up where the original left off in this miniseries. Lansdale has written comics including Crawling Sky, Vampirella: Feary Tales, The X-Files: Case Files and Creepy. Jok has drawn many comics over the years including Strangeways, The Hill, Freud's Covenant, Mixtape and many others.
I reached out to ask the two a few questions about the book.
Continue reading "Smash Pages Q&A: Keith Lansdale and Jok"
Author Alex DuebenPosted on February 5, 2019 February 5, 2019 Categories InterviewsTags interviews, It's Alive!, Joe R. Lansdale, Jok, Keith Lansdale, Kickstarter, Red Range, Sam GlanzmanLeave a comment on Smash Pages Q&A: Keith Lansdale and Jok
Help bring Sam Glanzman's 'Battle for Britain' back into print
It's Alive! launches a new Kickstarter to reprint another World War II story from 'Combat.'
It's Alive! has launched a Kickstarter to bring another of Sam Glanzman's classic World War II tales back into print.
Battle for Britain tells the story of the Royal Air Force defense of the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe — one of the first major campaigns fought by air forces. The original story was published in 1961 in an issue of Combat.
Along with a fully restored main story, this new edition will feature a four-page back-up story titled The Puny, Little Yank, along with black and white photos from WWII, a new essay about Glanzman, an essay about the Doolittle Raiders, vintage ads that were in the original issues, the original cover art by Glanzman, a new standard cover by Glanzman and a new variant cover by John McCrea.
Check out the two new covers below, and visit the Kickstarter page for more information.
Continue reading "Help bring Sam Glanzman's 'Battle for Britain' back into print"
Author JK ParkinPosted on December 4, 2018 December 4, 2018 Categories Crowdfund MeTags Combat, It's Alive!, john mcCrea, Kickstarter, Sam GlanzmanLeave a comment on Help bring Sam Glanzman's 'Battle for Britain' back into print | {
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Spawned 22 April 2016, tails 24 April 2016.
Free swimming 25 April & Dad removed 26 April. He did a great job.
Around 50 fry, all now exploring the tank & eating 3 times a day.
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Words from Our Young Authors at Thornhill Elementary, Grades 4-5 — Take My Word For It!
From: Write a letter to or from one of your characters.
You wanted to know my story so...here it is! This is my story! I am Violet V. 12 years old with short brown hair and blue eyes. I used to have parents and they disappeared during a hurricane. I was left alone with only my strict grandfather to look after me. He lived in a big, shining new house with a backyard and swimming pool in Cuba. He was a rich, greedy and mean old man. He made me be his servant! If I refused he would threaten or punish me.
"So, who am I again?" I asked and then he vanished. Was gone. Disappeared. Left. Was Away. And I was all alone. No idea what had just happened.
"You shall go on a quest to find your memory," said a strange man.
From: Describe a setting and mood with the five senses.
The survivors wouldn't say, so no one knew what had happened. Everyone who survived knew, but vowed to never give up. The treacherous story had brought them here, accidentally, without food, water, or any recognition of what was happening and what already had. After spending what they used to call a week, they knew what people have spent a millenia wondering, still arguing on an answer. What happens after the sun has died? The survivors are the strongest out of the strong. They are the last humans.
From: Rewrite a twist ending for a common fairytale.
In a town, lived a boy shepherd by the name of Claude. He was very tall and was very demanding with his voice. He wasn't watchful as sheep were disappearing. One day he was bored and he cried "Wolf!" The men came running but there was no wolf. He did that every day for a week and the town was getting annoyed. They decided that they wouldn't come anymore. The next morning Claude was missing and so were his sheep. There was blood everywhere. They looked for him for days.
Finally one night they saw something moving. It was a wolf! It was talking to someone and they noticed it was a full moon. The voice was Claudes! The next morning they found bloody paw prints leading to dead sheep's wool. I hope that creature doesn't come to our town again, said one of the men. We spotted Claude! his feet look like claws. Funny coincidence. Claude came back. He said he was sick and he was back. But that night it was a full moon. Suddenly Claude turned into a wolf! Everyone screamed! Claude ran off and as far as I know he never came back. I'm sure everyone's glad about that.
Kila scored the winning goal!! The Shooting Stars had won the game. At the end of the game the Coach gave Kila a ball signed by everyone on her soccer team, but Jessica just gave her an evil glare. Bella was so happy she just started hugging Kila so tight. Since it was a soccer game at Disney World, Kila decided to put her ball down and go play with her friends.
There were buckets of rain leaking through my abandoned truck. Spent the morning underneath the Grove in the park. Listening to the chirping birds as if they were crying my name, "Dustpin, Dustpin." The winter is near, 11th Tale of my Life, leaking one tear of Hope, that you'll be coming. Spent the afternoon seemed to leave a shadow of hunger. Found "the bike" + rode off to Charity Red Fund for supper. Now watching my life go by. | {
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Keep your pupils on track during long projects by setting a schedule. Sit with an individual struggling with time management and plan out a set of goals with assigned dates. There is space for goals and teacher initials. | {
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Federal budget will determine survival of NDP-Liberal agreement, NDP finance critic says
The upcoming 2023 federal budget will be a key measure in determining whether the NDP's confidence and supply agreement with the Liberals has been a success or a failure, according to the party's finance critic.
"I think the budget is going to tell the tale about whether we're making that progress at a good rate," NDP MP Daniel Blaikie told the CBC. "It's going to be a very interesting few months on the Hill here … when the budget is presented."
In March 2022, the New Democrats signed an agreement with the governing Liberals to supply them with the votes needed to pass key legislation if the Liberals agreed to advance a number of NDP priorities. That agreement will be a major topic of discussion as Blaikie and his 24 NDP colleagues attend a caucus retreat beginning Wednesday on Parliament Hill.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh kicks things off in the morning with a keynote address open to the media. It promises to touch on issues like health care and the inflation crisis. The rest of the meeting will be closed to the public.
During the closed-door sessions, Blaikie will be briefing his colleagues on negotiations he's been having with the federal government as a member of a group of politicians and staff from both parties that formed after the agreement was signed to discuss progress on key commitments and priorities.
Pharmacare, dental plan expansion on NDP radar
While many of those priorities don't have stated timelines, some do.
For instance, 2023 was supposed to be the year the Liberals passed the Canada Pharmacare Act and then follow-up with a bulk purchasing plan and a national formulary or list of essential medicines for prescription by the end of the agreement.
In 2022, dental care coverage was expanded to cover children under 12 years old from households earning less than $90,000. Expanding dental coverage for middle-income households to cover 18-year-olds, seniors and people living with disabilities was also supposed to take another step this year as part of the agreement.
"We're expecting to see that at the beginning of 2024," Blaikie said.
NDP finance critic Daniel Blaikie is a member of a group that discusses progress on key commitments and priorities of the supply and confidence agreement between the Liberals and the NDP. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
According to the finance critic, New Democrats will look to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's spring budget to determine whether the Liberals are serious about keeping the rest of the agreement.
Blaikie noted that because much of the work to prepare budgets happens months in advance, the 2022 budget was mostly assembled before the confidence and supply agreement was signed. Consequently, the upcoming budget is the one he says will "tell a lot of the story" of how the NDP-Liberal agreement looks.
"It's going to be an important moment of reflection for our caucus as we think about the next year ahead and whether the government is doing a good enough job."
NDP will defend public health-care system
Outside of advancing various aspects of the agreement, Blaikie said the New Democrats will be pushing the Liberals to fix the health-care system.
He said Canadians "are seeing their health-care system failed them in a time of extraordinary need."
Ontario's Progressive Conservative government on Monday announced its plan to expand the number and range of surgeries offered at for-profit clinics in the province.
After the announcement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled he was open to ideas to "deliver better services to Canadians in health care."
NDP threatens to axe deal to keep Liberals in power over healthcare crisis
The NDP has threatened to withdraw from its confidence-and-supply agreement to keep the Liberals in power until 2025 unless they act on the health-care crisis. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to spend more money on health care and reach an agreement with the premiers.
Meanwhile, both the Ontario and federal New Democrats left no room for doubt about where the party stands on public dollars going to the private system, saying parallel systems will create competition for scarce human resources.
"An NDP government would push back very hard on provinces in respect to private delivery, and it's something that we're monitoring very closely," Blaikie said.
"We are unequivocal in our message to the government that defending public service delivery should be a priority of the federal government."
Blaikie called on the federal government to use the "levers" it has at its disposal to push back on Conservative provincial governments that may be looking to private health-care institutions for solutions.
Health-care staffing strategy needed: labour group
What Canada needs is a national strategy for staffing the health-care system, according to the country's largest labour organization, which has close ties to the NDP.
Bea Bruske, the president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said such a strategy would help governments across Canada recruit, train and retain health-care workers.
"Our public system is in dire straits, and we're calling on all levels of government to work together to make sure Canadians right across this country can rely on strong public healthcare," said Bruske, who will also address the NDP caucus on Wednesday.
Conservatives lead Liberals by 7 points in latest Nanos polling
NDP MPs kick off caucus retreat with speech from Jagmeet Singh
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Little Grass Battle
by Jonathan Farr
Lovecraft Idea #13
House and garden—old—associations. Scene takes on strange aspect.
Before you proceed, dear reader, let it be known that the words and thoughts that follow are not the ramblings of a mad man, but the recollections that should not have to be remembered by the most ignoble of criminals. Crippled survivors of war often are seen scratching at some phantom limb which was amputated or lost in the blast from an enemy's salvo or discharge on the field. Such is the story that follows the scratchings at the ghost of a real world I once knew - before.
I was nearing the end of my studies at the academy when word arrived via post that my old employer and mentor wished me to resume my position under his wing over the Summer. Even to the gentry and noblemen, the calendar by which academic assiduity was followed still harkened back to a more agrarian age, when the ellipses of the moon were followed and hoary and saturnine rites celebrated the planting and harvesting of succulents and grains to carry villages through the pernicious winter months. With the long season behind, late Spring was bringing with it a period of overgrowth and loamy nights, with their skies filled with the stars. One could, if inclined, lay on an earthen bed of crab-grasses, beset with the evening dew, and stare far off into the cosmos to see even newly discovered Betelgeuse, and perhaps the mind would wander back to the ages of our ancestors, hiding and hunting, sparking fire from flint and adapting to the ever changing environs. It was a time where those established garrisons of civilization became threatened by the more primordial forces, as the wild encroached under the mist distorted lunar cycles of the Summer.
I said farewell to the fellows on the Aquatics Team and wished my best to various instructors throughout the academy before taking my luggage down to the great hall to await my ride. As I stood in the entry chamber, replete with banners touting our many victories over competing academies in various trials of athletic sports since the institutions founding in nineteen fifty and three, I walked under the two billowing flags for our victories in American football and peered into the alcove across from the main entranceway which held numerous trophies which we captured in almost near trouncing of other teams and each other in areas of excellence including gymnastics, academic debating, and impeccable attendance for the term of one complete year. As I looked through the intricately locked glass doors to gaze upon the engraved aluminum plated and metallic-coloured extruded vinyl polymers molded into the manifestations of our victories, when I beheld a spider crawling over the base of a goblet for "Meritable Performance In Achievement." The present stirred and I found myself wondering what it was like for our ancestors to carve an existence skulking through the cyclopean architecture of the of the Great Old Ones who ruled this planet long before Man took his first steps out of the primordial sea of life to strike flint to wood to begin an ordeal of hiding and survival to climb and create myriad histories to develop the age of enlightenment and refinement in which we now live. I was hoisted back through the ages when my piston-coach pulled up outside to take me to the estate of my former employer and mentor.
The driver took me through the bucolic countryside, we passed fields filling with various succulents and grains for the livestock used for milking and supplying the local liveries with the choicest cuts and jerkied muscle striations. As we passed one of the more suburban abodes, my nose caught the redolence of newly mown blades of grass. On the breeze was also the trace scent of petrol, procured at one of the local filling stations to fuel the combustion engine installed in one of the new rotary lawn manicure auto-machines. This was more than enough for my thoughts to slip back to nearly one year ago to the date, and working under the watchful eye of my former employer and mentor. His occupation is to see that the wilds of Nature's onslaught are kept to a minimal intrusive effect on the more civilized establishments of Man's refinements, as was his birthright, finding his blood flowing through an horticultural dynasty spanning well over fifty months. It was this philosophy in which I was schooled by my mentor, as he taught me to not only keep the savage encroachment of flora at bay, but he would teach me with much ardor to sculpt the thwarted hedges and fringes of variegated grasses into something more aesthetically acceptable to the refinement of the more genteel installations of the day.
In remembering this, my thoughts turned to Bernice, and how she looked last year after arriving back from her third term in her studies at The Academy For Female Studies And Etiquette. She was no longer bookish and a prude. She combined sex and intellect, the most powerful of weapons. We would spend numerous sun filled days discussing a variety of topics from the stage plays of Molliere to the local sports team and how they were doing well in improving that particular statistic. In candid moments, I could steal glimpses of Bernice traipsing through her secluded yard, or basking in the warmth of Sol as she was attired in a tanked shirt and short-pants hemmed high so that the pocket-points would peek through the leg-openings of the garment. Living in the Cape Cod-styled abode next to my mentor's, she took an interest in my horticultural predilections.
I was talking to her last summer, through a wall of hedges I was manicuring in the style I had seen at the estates of those in the highest of echelons of the gentry class. Bernice made a most scathing quip on how the selection at the couture's has decreased over the years, yet the local Fair never failed to yield an overabundance of polyesthered cotton (and Carolinian cotton at that) dyed with the visages and slogans of the various minstrel troupes of the past generation's-span, for which a mere sleeve of these "rock-a-tees" would break the coffer of even the most corrupt of local politicians. In most circles one would never think the fairer sex to remark in such a way - one would hardly expect it of the fair sex as well - but being in the sanction provided by the shade and the trust between two near intellectual peers, the mixture of wit and observation made for a headier experience than the finest dish of date-fruit and honey from the halls of Suleiman II, himself.
The abrasions of the vulcanized radials of the motorcar against the loose rocks on the shoulder of the road jerked me back to my present reality as the sound ground against the very fabric of subconscious mementos, and I found myself inside the halted autocarriage, and outside the driveway of the abode owned by my former employer and mentor. The Sun had apparently gone into repose during the excursion from the Academy, and the sky was now approaching that point in the day's cycle where the oft discernable curtain between light and shadow, between object and what the artists and scientists alike called negative space, between the reality and the fiction was blurred. A slight mist was rising from the combination of evening dew and warm summer air, further hindering the true sight, yet enhancing the fanciful dancings of what until now I thought of as false images, creatures and monsters as they skulked, swirled and writhed in the evening phlogiston of late June.
While my Mentor had taken up the edged roto-bladed barrel-mower to keep clear the division between the wilds of nature and civilization, he too had respect for his foe as well. My former employer was well-skilled in the varied arts of removing unwanted grasses, thistles and generic weed catalogued in the annals of both the Ortho and Audubon Societies, both of which he was a member, a prestige carried by few in this day and age. As a single dandelion might in time cleave a rock in two, my Mentor knew the same stratagem might be applied to plants, as was evident in the two shallow dirt trenches striping the length from the road to the door of his home, from where his flat-bedded vehicle had worn away the swaths of grass over the years. As I followed this trail of civilization, I could see the beacons of the lightning bugs (as was the colloquialism for these insects) in the distance and it was as if Mab herself had orchestrated a welcoming back to a Summer's tour of the mission I held so dear since that first season working along side my Mentor.
I had reached the end of the time-hewn promenade, and carefully placed my luggage down on the porch before rapping on the knocker of the old wooden door to the house. As I knocked, there was no sound. There was no knocker. I was taken aback by the sensation of a gentle metallic abrasion against my knuckles and a slight wiry elasticity as my hand bounced against what used to be an oaken door with a black cast-iron pineapple placed high in the middle with an ornately tooled clapper to lift and strike to call forth the inhabitants of the abode. Now, before me was a meshed metal screen, and no means to alert my Mentor that I had arrived and wished to speak to him. At last I found a handle on the screen door and depressed the latch and pulled. Perhaps it was uncivilized to barge in, but in the chaos of the foggy night, with all manner of phantasmic manifestations about I found myself driven to breach etiquette for an instant for peace of mind and survival. Other men might have suffered far worse. But the screen door did not give way, I changed my method and pushed instead of pulled, then gently jostled the door handle back and forth working up to an aggravated pitch but to no avail. I stopped the metallic rattling and heard only the sound of crickets.
Then I heard the creaking of a heavy step on slightly warped wood. I turned around to face my monster and saw nothing in the foggy night's air. The lightning bugs had stopped their celebrations and there was nothing in front of me. I was alone and my thoughts turned to what horrible fate might have befallen my Mentor and former employer mere minutes before my arrival. I had no way of reaching him inside and I had no way of alerting him to presence without shouting, which would only call the attentions of whomever - or whatever set upon him earlier. I knelt down to open my garment bag to get out the electric torch I had packed when I caught a pair of maliciously jovial eyes staring up at me. Then another. My ocular nerves darted all over my field of vision to see a clear path of escape from these lilliputian tormentors which now surrounded me. More eyes, both human and bestial, all looking up in bemused contempt. I finally found the switch on my torch and let the bright light fall on these nocturnal denizens so that I might temporarily blind them and discover their true identities simultaneously.
I reeled in the perversion of the psyche that thought up the formation that stood in the ground at the base of the stairs leading up to the abode of my Mentor. Little ceramic people poised among plastic ornitharies twice their size, all looking at the trespasser with dead eyes, some with no eyes at all where the enamel paint had been chipped away by time or circumstance. These abominations smiled and posed, eternally mocking the living, like the uncovered ruins of Pompeii, or some rummage sale Necropolis telling a warped yarn of history which ended at their moment of creation, but whose stares penetrated both space and time.
The eyes burned through me, and had me expecting a paranormal assault from behind me, as the eyes (or rather eye) of the largest of the dwarves, almost approaching my patella in height, and with the side of his hat broken out, revealing the soulless, empty innards - a constant reminder that the most saturnine, flawed, twisted and disfigured creations, warping and breaking the conscious mind lie in waiting for time immemorial - gazed at me, I could see that it was in fact staring behind me. Wheeling around and gripping my electric torch to use as a cudgel, I raised my arm to deliver a stunning blow when what I saw standing was a complete lack of entity. Merely the door and the sound of crickets. Only this time did I notice a small button next to the handle of the meshed screen door. I had heard of such contraptions, that when depressed, would complete a simple electrical circuit ending in a small, but loud bell which would ring and summon the proprietor of a house, or one of his man servants, to greet the traveler at the other side of the door. Thinking that this button looked similar to the model I had seen in my studies, I pressed the button.
A loud, sharp ringing came from within the house, akin to the sounds made by the rotary telephonic machines from the days of my forefathers. I heard the sound of a bolt and chain locking mechanism being removed, and suddenly I saw the figure of my Mentor, in the flesh, standing before me. He seemed pleased to see me, and bade me to enter. He said it had been quite some time, and we could catch up and talk of times past over the evening meal which was nearly fully prepared. As I grabbed my bags and entered, I could not help but think that something was slightly out of place in our meeting after all this time. Certainly it was not in my Mentor's joy at seeing his protege after I had gone away to the academy. No, it was something much more insidious, something of an incoming inexplicable tide with an undercurrent so strong, it threatened to tow anything in its path into the darkened reaches of the psyche's existence, fathomable only to the most alien and evil of minds. There was something out of place, but I was so enraptured at the prospect of once again learning the horticultural arts that I brushed aside such pernicious thoughts as merely a flea whispering in the ear of a very large animal, and followed my employer inside his abode.
Prior to my arrival at the abode of my former employer and mentor, I had caught rumors often left to the darkened recesses of alleyways, or whispered into the emptied pewter tankards at the local public house, never to fall audibly on the ears of proper ladies and gentlemen traveling during the day. One cannot pass the caravans and kiosks into town without hearing these strange stories, engendering the listener to conjure the most phantasmagoric images in one's mind. Of these rumors, which caught my tympanum, were of the strange habits and gastric predilections to which my former employer and mentor had fallen. As he descended along the balustrade to greet me, my olfactory nerves were assaulted by a most distinct odour - one that betrayed symptoms of my host's condition, only confirming the murmurings of the transients we had passed during our travels. Indeed, he offered me a plate of domestic pasta. This in itself did not bother me, so much as when he confided that it was concocted with a sauce of synthesized cultured bovine lactations. At this I had to withdraw my jasmine daubed handkerchief and press it to my nose, as not to be overcome by this offer. I could see in his eyes that he practically relished in such a display of epicurean blasphemy, accompanied by the mustering of all my moral fortification to ward off its effects. I inquired of my host as to whether this was some new culinary alchemy which one of the new servants had taken liberty to produce, when his reply nearly caused me to stagger and succumb to shock. My host informed me that not only did he find preparing the daily comestibles to be a task accomplished with much ease, but that he concocted his meals without aid. I was aghast. To add to my now blanched complexion, my former mentor had mentioned that he found that bombarding these meals with invisible rays of some of the highest frequency quickened the completion of the entrée's preparation, which allowed him to utilize his time more efficiently, and devote his attentions to experimentation and study.
I tried to swallow to fight such moral degradation while my former employer removed his meal, and followed him as he led me down the hall. As we approached his dining room, I heard voices, and thought I was happening upon a gathering of sorts. I imagined myself rounding a corner and finding the circle of socialites to which my host and myself belonged, whereupon they would make much merriment at my falling prey to the amusements which tested the moral fiber of the strongest of men. I too would laugh and join in the musings as we all raised our glasses to toast the honour and humour of our gracious host. We would then open the leaded glass windows and disperse with the gastronomic abomination to the yard below, whereby we would take much pleasure in watching the local peasants and panhandlers fight for their share of the pasta while my host's dogs did the same for their share of the rabble. But all was for naught, as I was to come to know a heightened fear the likes of which no man should know.
As we rounded the corner, I could see the hallway and the dining room lit with a strange blue iridescence. The artificial luminescence, when combined with the voices gave no hint at the silhouettes of visitors in waiting. This was the most prominent sign of the electric nannies, which were becoming prevalent in the more pedantic strata of society. To most dullards, they could fool themselves into scrimping and saving their menial earnings to purchase one of these contraptions to placate the soul and assuage resentment toward the learned classes and transmogrify the harbored ill-will into laughter at comfortable scenarios and predicaments which would leave the more cultured class despondent and yearning for tennis on the grass courts or perhaps a brisk match of charades to send the wits racing.
Recently, discussions have arisen in many of the salons across the lands, pertaining to how these visual and aural transmitters would seek out fissures in the more educated psyche and exploit these weaknesses, and much like a spectral moss growing into the cracks of a steeled fortress, would cause the mind, no matter how educated and regardless of pedigree, to crumble to the wills of the daytime melodramas and late night charlatans. This would cause a self-perpetuating disease, as the passive victims were prone to spend the sleeping hours awake in the foul, spirit-infested airs of the night.
I reproached myself for yawning, for the gesture was forced and duplicitous in nature, and feigning an unnecessary need for slumber was not how I wanted to engender myself to my Mentor after such a long absence. At this, my former employer apologized for not having made the guest chamber available for my rest. He paused slightly and tilted his head to peer at the ceiling, above which resided the chamber where I would have been sleeping during my stay and then looked back at me, with an almost pure aversion to my own eyes as he told me the room had become converted into what he termed a "planning area" for the implementation of his newest tactics in his horticultural mission.
To that, I bedded down on the day sofa in the parlor, forcing my eyes shut and turning my head toward the wall to shield my frontal lobes from the rays emanating from the mass of cathodes, anodes, and vacuum tubes displaying the drivel of the day. Most disturbing were the intermittent gales of laughter from my host as he sat in the parlor watching these projected charlatans through the night. At one point the laughter from my Mentor stopped, but I still heard the prattling of the infernal box in the corner. I turned and opened my eyes to see the parlor bathed in the unearthly glow of the impersonal broadcasted images and sounds. Initially I thought that my former employer had ceased to find this electric contraption amusing and was coming to the senses of the refined mind I knew him to have. I was far from correct as the only companion I had in the room was the televisual machine as it mocked living actions and words by capturing them and parading them as devils march the lost souls around the bolgias of hell for all to see the sins of vanity and greed.
Much worse, it seemed that my former employer had abandoned his state of repose in this room to wander off or retire for the evening through some act fueled by some manifestation of newfound eccentricity. Knowing that the next day started earlier than that to which I had grown accustomed in the course of activities and studies at the Academy, and perhaps in hope that my Mentor might return and turn off the electric nanny, I once again turned over and shut my eyes and suffered this display of what I hoped was absentmindedness, praying that dementia had not set in too deeply.
I awoke to the sound of a static click and the cessations of an electromagnetic field. Turning, I saw my Mentor depressing a button on the electric television set and wander back through the room in the direction of, if my inferences of the previous night's encounter were to be counted as correct, the architectural hybrid of kitchen and refectory.
I followed and saw that my former employer had not lost the sense of how important the morning repast is to even the most rote of tasks, but his choice of comestibles were not unlike those withheld from tooth-rotted whelps whose parents have realized all too late the value of the medical and nutritional practices as prescribed by Dr. Kellogg during America's great age of enlightenment. Before me on the table were pastries and sweetened cereals. Having not eaten since before leaving from the Academy, I was in need to consume some form of food in order to recover the strains of the previous day and to hold me through much of the day ahead, which was sure to be full of a mild retraining session and delving into new areas and methods of fighting this war. I was assured that my former employer and Mentor would have new techniques and theories to share to more effectively ensure that civilization would win out over the primordial forces of savage nature.
I had barely finished sinking my incisors into a saccharine doughnut, when I felt a third presence in the room. I could account for my host and myself, but no other corporeal existences entertaining or participating in the morning meal or conversation, and then I saw him, or rather it. Printed on the box of pressed, sucrose coated corn cereals, was a leonine figure, whose anthropomorphized oculars seemed to follow my every movement, from bringing hand to mouth and then with full recognition as my eyes fixed on its felinthropic gaze- Its saturnine grin goading me to indulge in whatever hollow nutrients and satisfaction the box upon which its visage was poised to promise. I excused myself from the table feeling faint, though the entire time I skulked away I could feel those bi-dimensional eyes staring through me to know how thinly I wore my veil of stalwart brevity which masked my fears and only served to deepen the slope into which my reality was bending and slipping, becoming twisted and flayed to the whims of a consciousness wholly and preternaturally evil. I found myself practically running and dodging each obstacle in my path to gain access to my daily ablutions, perchance to wash off the irrationalities suffered through the taxing excursion and lack of sleep. Perhaps the clear water would do much to rid myself of the clutter of the road which clouds the mind and prevents clarity in the perception of the events of what I knew until not long after that fateful morning to be the real world.
My mentor led me to a derelict shack behind the manor and opened the door, revealing an array of equipment, from the rustic barrel-bladed instruments manually pushed across a lawn to crop the invading grasses, to the more conventional combustion driven engines, thriving on a belly always yearning to be filled with the lesser refined octants of petrolines such as diesel, or in the more desperate hours of our war, kerosene, dressed in a green enameled aerosol paint, where the driver would sit atop the steel beast as commander, steering and maneuvering the herbivorous contraption to mow swaths through the encroaching chlorophyll-saturated hoplites of our necessary enemy. This was the latest weapon of choice to we few in number to whom the Gentry and Aristocracy referred to as Lawn Manicurists, to focus on the aesthetically pleasing results left after our battles, rather than have the mind lingering on the brutality of the process necessary to arrive at our victories.
Seeing that the dew had finally burned off from the rising Sun, I pulled down my safety goggles and prepared to begin my mid-morning assault while my employer excused himself to his research. While back at the Academy, I devised a strategy for battle that was rather unorthodox when compared to most theories on fighting our war. I would take the smaller, self-propelled contraption and edge out most of the details around the corners of the house and the trees, taking care not to topple the stone wall which contained a small garden of perennials near the front steps. If my theories were correct, this would corral Nature's insipid tentacles into two central fairways on both front and rear lawns, which would be cut low with the seated engine. The hand-shears would seek out the remnants of the succulents hugging closely to the abode and lawn fixtures that had escaped the revolutions of the lathe-sharpened blades of Civilization's combustion tanks.
I was not to successfully accomplish even the first leg of my attack. I was familiar with the layout of the lawn of my Mentor, so I depressed the small bar on the semi-manually propelled mower and let the engine take over, so I might walk behind and steer the contraption without having to exert much force in pushing it along in its mission. Rounding the house to begin my assault on the rear yard I came face to face with an abomination of both Man and Nature so horrific, it pierced the mind and soul with images harkening back to the dawn of our species' memory pool. Before me stood a bird, almost an ostrich in shape - but it was wholly not an ornithary at all. Sightless, flightless, I followed the verdant form from its leafy head down to its body, having but the impressions of wings, down to its leg, with talons firmly rooted in terra cotta pottery. In some dark recesses of what should not be considered human society, some of our order had their minds warped. Some have theorized that the most steeled mind, when exposed to the battle for civilization over prolonged periods, have the lines of reality blurred, where Man and Nature are fused in the unconscious only to manifest itself in such eldritch forms to defy and appall the senses of both sides of the war.
There have been times, even at the academy, when Manicurists with an experimental sense of the aesthetic would display for the enjoyment of all what they had labeled "topiaries." Often they reminded one of the foliage represented in architectural concept art, or the childish musings of a land of candy, with lollipop-shaped trees and gumdrop hedges. Harmless in its inception, for how much danger could a confectionpomorphized plant pose? What stood before me, however, was an example of plants and innocence lost to the wills of a time nevercome. Perhaps my mentor left that saturnine figure as a reminder of the paths that we all must tread carefully to avoid, lest we unleash our most preternatural fears upon the earth. I gave the thing a wide berth as I continued my task, and made note to inquire about it from my Mentor after he had returned from his greenhouse.
As I proceeded to cut a swath of victory over my verdant foes, I peered into the neighboring yard in hopes of catching the eyes of the radiant Bernice, whom I had not seen in a year's span. The thought of having the chance to have a thought provoking yet jocund conversation with this most beautiful creature almost made me lose my course and mow over an already defeated line of grass, going with the grain and violating the aesthetic nature of my attack, for I was well drifting into the almost tangible possibilities of hearing her dulcet voice and getting lost in her large irises and pupils - the likes of which were the envy of Southern Belles who used frequent doses of morphine to achieve the natural gift which the angels had bestowed upon my Bernice. I was caught in heaven betwixt the sound of the combustion engine and the musings on my flesh love, when I was jerked back by a most horrible sound - or lack thereof. My lawn tank had consumed all of its ethyl and now stood lifeless, only to be mocked by my foes which until moments ago were paralyzed with fear and full realization of defeat knowing I had but one pass left before the battle was over. The silent pause was soon replaced with an almost deafening roar as I heard each tiny blade extracting nutrients from the earth to regenerate and rejoin their remaining brethren on the field. I quickly ran to the storage building to retrieve the gasoline container with which to fill the contraption's steel bladder, knowing full well that in order to sleep calmly at day's end that I would have to cut over the entire lawn to mete out retribution. This time, I would not allow myself to tarry or to be distracted, no matter how tempting, by the thoughts of human interloping.
I opened the shed door to grab the red metal drum full of gasoline, when I spied bags and containers each marked and dated. I had not noticed these earlier, and probably was unconsciously blind to their presence, accepting that it was the ample storage needed for my Mentor's vast array of gardening implements. Knowing that my Mentor always kept on par with only the latest in devices to help aid our war, my curiosity was piqued and I could no longer restrain my interest and walked to the closest container, ignoring the writing on the label, so eager was I to behold the shiny metal of the new tools. Opening the container, I was confused and shocked as it was full with grass clippings. I quickly shut the container and opened the next. More grass! The third - leaves! Each was labeled as to each particular type of plant and dated as to when it was harvested. I turned to run and resume my work to try and make rational sense of what my own eyes had just seen. I completed the battle before sunset but still the memory of the brief sight was worming its way into my brain.
I walked into my Mentor's dining hall, for the meal was ready and set on the table for us both to sup after a grueling day of fighting. The meal was ready, but my Mentor was nowhere to be found. I was even moved to elevate the volume of my voice as I searched for him. Then I glanced out the leaded glass window, resting my hands on the ecru painted sill, and saw my Mentor and employer closing the door to the supply shed which I had carelessly left ajar in my earlier state of fright. I saw him clamp a large padlock on the now closed door to the shed and then turn sharply toward the window out of which I was now staring, visually piercing me with his eyes. I shrunk away from the pane and stood by my chair at the dining table and awaited my Mentor's return so that we might eat and discuss topics of a more civilized nature.
My Mentor returned and immediately seated himself and began to eat. I had no choice but to join him, if anything to not tip my hand that I might have overstepped the lines laid out in the unspoken etiquette between guest and gracious host. The meal was mostly eaten in pregnant silence, save for the sounds of utensils against plates. I could take it no more, and started to inquire when my host interrupted. Though nervous at first, his explanation elucidated what I had seen. He explained that as the top men in the scientific fields are wont to collect specimens of various animals and microbes in order to examine and further learn how to combat dreaded ailments and understand the mechanics of the natural world, so was he collecting specimens to unravel this most uncivilized rubric to come up with a solution to what many in our line had coined as the "chloroplast problem." As he spoke, everything fell into place and I quietly berated myself for ever being so puerile in doubting the means of a master in his field, no matter how unorthodox those means might appear to a layperson.
My Mentor finished the last morsel on his dish and pushed himself away from the table, excusing himself, for he had much research to do throughout the evening. I inquired as to whether I might be of assistance but I barely finished my query when he curtly stated that I should not. He then took a deep sigh and told me that it would be dangerous for the uninitiated, and that he needed me to watch over his abode for when he was finished with his research in the greenhouse, he had to trek out into the countryside. I asked him if it was to further the fight and he paused, giving me a hesitated affirmation. As he went out the door he told me that for my safety, that I must not enter the outbuildings for they contained many dangers for those unskilled, for only Master Horticulturalists had been fighting the war long enough and had the wisdom to perform these most delicate experiments without being overcome by our chloriferous enemies. With that, he donned his naugahide gloves and left, slamming the door behind him.
I could not help but to feel slightly abandoned, for abandoned I was, as my Mentor and current employer went off to combat civilization's foes without me. I resolved that this was in fact a test. Perhaps I was in store for a promotion of station in this regiment, for all knew it was well overdue and that I was in fact the most able of body and agile of mind, learned in the horticultural arts, having studied and served under such a Mentor of nonpareil, and I could say so without the taint of hubris as yearly many clambered and were turned away from the opportunity to work under my Mentor. Admittedly, a lack of patience was my largest fault next to being unable to differentiate octanes of refined petrol olfactorially in a closed shed without lighting, and perhaps this was to see if I could overcome such a downfall. I began to gather the dishes and head to the kitchen.
It had taken some getting used to, but the lack of domestic or indentured help would not mean that the flatware and dishes would not get cleaned, just as I am sure the clothing would be laundered - and besides, one of the benefits was that one could starch one's clothing to the lever of personal taste, and not skimp on the amount like house-people are wont to do in cutting corners so that they might get back to their gossipry. Having watched the help go through this process before, I opened the cabinet doors under the sink to see if I could locate the proper detergents and perhaps a pair of latexed gloves to prevent the dishwater from unnaturally exfoliating the skin of my hands. Having retrieved the proper reagents and returning to my natural upright stance, I turned the faucet knobs until water flowed out of the spigot to fill the basin of the sink. I looked out of the kitchen window and across the yard to see if I could see any happenings inside of the greenhouse. It was only wishful thinking, for my Mentor had recently replaces the clear glass with translucent panes to better gather thermal energy rays during the day and trap them within the building throughout the night, keeping the specimens within alive so that various experiments could be carried out to their completion to ensure that the advancements in the laboratories would translate to our advancement on the field of battle and, one would almost be given to extrapolating that into advancements and victory in our war.
I could see that the lights were on, but I was unable to espy as to what was taking place within the greenhouse walls. It was easy to see how this was a good alternative, as it blocked Civilization's enemies from glimpsing our secret plans. The structure was also physically and psychologically daunting to any of the uninitiated. Large and looming, it disallowed any eyes to pierce the walls to see how knowledge was extracted from within the compound. The tympanic nerves were assaulted unrelentingly by the screams of silence as grasses and shrubs were subjected to what a more civilized era could devise to finally bring a swift cessation to the war waged against us by the most insipid of foul Nature's armies. The analogician's psyche would be pierced with images of the great cyclopean temples hewn of the earth to house the horrors known only to our ancestors as they were subjugated to our ancient masters in a time before humanity beheld the Sun rise to celebrate the freedom of existence. But that was a different age when we were fighting to live, whereas now we were fighting to maintain what we had survived epochs to achieve.
So many images raced through my mind that I missed a sequence in my own reality. Apparently my Mentor was in the process of leaving the greenhouse to run the errands about which I had been informed when the dinner meal ended. I heard the shrill cry of what was unmistakably feminine horror at undoubtedly a most phantasmagoric sight, and looked up to see the crimson tail-lanterns of my Mentor's auto-car speed off, like the eyes of some beast retreating into the night to bait its would-be captors into a pernicious trap, or the luminescent growths on the deep aquatic beings who live where the underwater pressure would crush a man's skull like an egg, regardless of how strong the resisting air-pressure within the deep-diving suit - creatures that wait deep below the waters of the world with the sleeping city of Great R'lyeh where waited the gods of our ancient masters who once enslaved us aeons ago.
I continued my charade of washing the dinner plates until I was certain that my Mentor was off of the premises. I quickly stopped what I was doing and hurriedly put on my evening coat and hat, my after-dinner gloves, tied on my ascot to further ward off the foul humours of the night's air and grabbed my cane. Making sure I still had my pocket watch, for I did not want to be out when my Mentor returned, I opened the door and gingerly stepped outside and headed toward the green house.
I tried to run to the outbuilding, but before me the yard seemed to buckle and stretch for miles between my destination and myself. I could feel Nature's regiments regrouping and growing under my boots with each step, eager now that my Mentor had left me to solely guard this bastion. Certainly I was outnumbered, and no soldier in his right mind would obstruct the much-needed sleep to battle the encroaching forces in a war the scope of which they could not possibly hope to understand. Besides, Nature had been enlisting the ever so subtle elements of dust along with insidious though miniscule arachnids to form cobwebs which became a horrid hindrance in feeling around the shed for the exact instrument to complete a task which would be much more efficiently performed under a lit sky.
As I neared the green house, I could see that the door was still slightly ajar, and I could hear the humming of the iridescent longbulbs that illuminated the interior of the verdant laboratory, where prior to my arrival the screams came. I pulled the door outward until I heard the metallic click of the latch, notifying me that it was securely shut. Still teeming with adrenaline, I spun around, fully courageous and confident to make five yard trek back to the house.
As I started to open the door to the house, my curiosity was piqued. What if there was someone truly in distress inside the green house. What if that person was still alive and being held captive - or worse-- by the tortured inmates of my Mentor's laboratory? What if that person was??
My pace quickened as my mind raced with thoughts of the lovely Bernice - that fragile figure whom I'd not seen since my arrival this Summer. Could the reason of her absence have been that she was being held captive all this time? The thought was utterly absurd, for if Bernice had wandered in and had come under any trouble, surely my Mentor would have vanquished the foes and set her free. This was his domain. He knew how to handle any problem, and the only experiments that took place here were those done to discover the limits of plant life, and how we might use that knowledge in our war. Unless? The darkest recesses of forbidden world rarely glimpsed upon by men were coming to the forefront of reality. The nonsensical and horrific were threatening to invade my brain. I had to shake these thoughts and clutch reality once more.
I slowly depressed the latch on the green house door and pushed it inward just wide enough for my body's frame to fit through the opening, and was almost blinded by the harsh illumination provided by the electrically charged noble gases in the bulbs affixed to the ceiling. Through squinted eyes I saw shallow plastic and terra cotta flowerbeds filled with myriad varieties of grasses and shrubs, from the most vibrant vermilion to the pale yellow of desiccated crabgrass. It was when I centered my vision that I found relief in her form. Bernice was here after all. She was facing away from my entrance, but her shape was unmistakable and undeniable.
I called thrice to her, but she did not respond. She just stood there motionless in her nightgown. It now all made perfect sense, and I had no recourse but to laugh to myself for my prior anxiety just moments ago. The situation could not have presented itself more apparently. For years, Bernice had lived next to my Mentor, and last Summer became quite intrigued in what it was that we, the initiated did. I had tried to put things into a perspective suitable for such an astute intellect such as hers. With the increasing rate of experimentation coming from her neighbor's yard well into the night, and my return to the battlefield so close to her home, a powerful combination of assiduity and curiosity must have come over the fair creature, and she could not help creep into the green house after my Mentor left to see what was occurring behind the lines. Upon seeing the specifics of the methods justified by our cause, Bernice must have become paralyzed with fright. After all, it was a well-known adage that the general populous should never know how their grass - or snuff-was cut, for those unused to our craft, the senses might well be over-saturated causing a shock to the nervous system upon exposure to the specimens of Civilization's bane, the various abominations of succulents, and the wide array of stainless steel instruments, still stained with the cellulose and chlorophyll of the most recent experiments.
Left alone in this room, there was no hope for Bernice. I did not know when my Mentor would return, so she would not be shielded from a quick strike made by the captives within the green house. I thought perhaps the touch of a human hand, full of warmth and that of a close friend, might stir her from her current state. I walked up behind her and reached outward to softly place my hand on her delicate shoulder, and doing so said the name, which sounded and danced as light of the tongue. Bernice. But as my palm came to light on its destination, the most dulcet name turned into a gasp, as my nerve endings received not the sensation of alabaster skin beneath an evening gown, but a harsh rustling.
My mind was having great difficulty in comprehending what was transpiring. I instinctively withdrew my hand as some cat stepping in a shallow puddle, or a casualty of the Great War who had unwittingly stumbled into a field of landmines. Shaking off the initial sensation, I steeled myself to face Bernice to see for myself what the problem was. I stepped in front of her and raised my gaze to poignantly meet hers to let her know that she was safe in my presence, but what I next saw was something that as I tell you this tale, I still cannot, nor should any man have to, comprehend.
Before me stood Bernice, though not at all Bernice. She was a composite of grasses, leaves, and shrubs. Like the hell-warped ibis, or whatever plantimal I encountered while engaged in battle the day after my arrival, so stood this visage before me of a person I once knew to be soft flesh, sanguine with the life-stuff that made her most human, now transfigured. Before me were lifeless eyes, two hollows with stems and thin branches intertwining where the ocular orbs should be, staring at me, through me. Where her cheekbones once stood high and delicately, were now replaced by mocking oak leaves, covered in blights, which formed welts on the pallid-green skin to give a warted look. Her mouth was now as bark and juniper, tent spiders clinging to the edges.
I looked at the figure I once knew to be Bernice. It was as if her thoughts became leaves; and her leaves became thoughts. All was as some Dunsanian horror made real, and the utter resolve it took to not scream, thereby alerting the inhabitants and their newest victim to my presence, and sealing my own death, would have seemed a Herculean task for men with the strongest fortitude alive. In my mind I steeled my heart for what I knew had to be done, for my Mentor had relinquished his oath, his morality, his place in civilization, and in conducting his experiments had allowed the seeds of madness to be sewn in his already fractured psyche.
I took a container of ethylene and knocked it over and let it flow over the floor of the green house and around the vermilion death that stood before me. Taking match in hand and striking its crimson head against the flint-coated strip on the back of the matchbook, I produced a flame. I stared for a while, taking in the gravity of how much our regiments were able to accomplish due to the advancements made here in this laboratory, of the dual irony of how my Mentor fought so ardently against the very thing which he was to become, and how refined petrol, the very thing which breathed life into the combustion engines which served not only my Mentor and myself, but all of those who fought the encroaching forced of Nature, was about to bring a maelstrom of destruction on the very place that was the shining bastion in Civilization's war.
I stared perhaps too long, for the match had burned down to my fingertips and I dropped the tiny flame to the floor. A blossom from the garden of Prometheus himself erupted around me, engulfing this horticultural lyceum and the monster I once knew as the gentle Bernice in scorching brilliance. Almost paralyzed myself, I knew that my Mentor would return, and that his state would be unfathomable, for who could truly say how far over he had gone?
I ran to the house and gathered my traveling bag, coat, and fix something to eat while on the road in my hurried trek away from this horrid place. As I ran through the pitch of the night air, filled with the noisome scent of burning greenery, and my back lit by the orange of the inferno behind me, I swear to this day I heard the voice of Bernice in the distance yelling that there was a fire, pleading for someone to help and to call the department of fire control. I could not turn around. I had to keep moving forward - for myself, for humanity.
I tell you this dear reader, if you have braved the words preceding these, as a warning. There are things that one was not meant to behold and should not. It is as Icarus cast down by the gods themselves, so we might too, if the psyche is not distanced from the struggles which our race must overcome, as we did from the Elder Gods, and now against Nature herself. As in the beginning, our sanity was lost and regained out of fire.
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For those looking for a different culinary cultural experience in Buffalo, there are a number of options – from Japanese to Mexican to Southern soul food.
The irony attached to many local restaurants serving these cuisines is they were mostly founded on working class dishes and perfected by people who probably can't afford the $20 entrées and $10 cocktails common to restaurants serving upscale versions of rustic classics. One could easily argue fried chicken isn't meant to cost more than it does at Popeye's.
With the newest version of their Japanese restaurant SATO, opening today in the University Heights neighborhood, Josh and Satomi Smith are looking to keep a humble dish as the casual fare it's meant to be by presenting ramen as the working class food it typically is in Japan.
Smith noted that his original SATO location is in fact a little bit more upscale then he had wanted, but the opportunity to move into that refined space on Elmwood was one he couldn't pass up. Instead of being a simple noodle bar, the SATO on Elmwood is more of an izakaya, or Japanese bistro.
"The previous owner (on Elmwood) decked it out pretty nicely, so we went with that," he said.
Smith told me that feedback he's gotten at the Elmwood location indicates people want a more informal, lively ramen experience.
The new SATO Ramen on Main Street is slated to feature a small menu with few different kinds of ramen and rice bowls. The small menu, Smith said, is to allow for the food to come out quicker than it does at the Elmwood location. The modest décor at the SATO Ramen plays into the new location's lively-but-utilitarian vibe.
As for the food itself, the restaurant's SATO ramen features mostly pork and some chicken bones that are cooked all day to produce a rich, marrow-infused nectar. The noodle bar will also feature a vegetarian ramen—as well as an all-chicken ramen, which Smith referred to as a newer style of ramen. Both the traditional noodles and soba noodles for the soup will be made in-house. Smith said he also plans to feature a regular 'special' noodle infused with anything from spinach to sriracha sauce.
Beverage options at the new location will include fountain drinks, sake, wine, Japanese beer and local beer. Smith has already partnered with Community Beer Works to produce an exclusive yuzu IPA, a beer with added citrus notes.
Like their neighbors Shango, SATO Ramen will not be allowed to serve liquor due to its proximity to a nearby church and school – an aspect of New York State liquor laws. Smith said the pastor at the church has thrown his support behind allowing the restaurants to serve liquor, but the state authorities are leery about setting a precedent for other restaurants looking to ignore the law. Ultimately, this means that fans of Japanese whiskeys will have to head over to SATO on Elmwood.
With true dive bars and modestly-priced food quickly disappearing from Buffalo's primary entertainment districts, it's refreshing to see a restaurateur catering to a clientele that doesn't have deep pockets, yet still craves a cultural experience.
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As a kid I always dreamt of a house in the hills.
The house in the hills we used to paint in class 1.
With hills and a river meandering from between the hills and cotton clouds and a semi-circled sun with perfectly perpendicular rays and a solitary house in the centre of the frame.
Two decades later, I still do.
A wooden one with a rocky pebbled path leading to it with dainty flowers mushrooming out of nowhere and orchards with fruits aplenty.
And when I walked in Batseri, I finally found that idyllic home nestled in postcard worthy scenery.
Batseri is a small village in Sangla, in the apple district of Himachal Pradesh, Kinnaur. After checking in at Kinner Camps, we were out to explore this fairy tale Himalayan village, straight out of a story book.
The first thing that greets any visitor in Batseri is the stark cleanliness. No litter, no garbage strewn. Only rocky paths giving the village a rustic feel.
As I walk through the near perfect streets, apple laden trees welcome me with open arms( branches). It is the apple season and ripe, crimson apples dangle from the branches, tempting every passerby.
Pebbled walls stand stoutly guarding quaint houses built with stones and wood.
Some of these had brightly painted windows while some others had exquisite locks. Most had fodder for the cattle, hanging from windows to dry before winter sets in.
I am now torn between the longing to snoop into one just to see how it looked from inside and the task of keeping up with the group and not drift away.
Our first stop is the Badrinarayan temple: an architectural marvel carved out of wood.
The temple is mostly closed and only opens for festivals. One of the most prominent festivals is the Ukhayang flower festival. The Kinnauris celebrate this in September by offering the elusive and rare Brahmakamal flowers to the deity.
The temple has a courtyard and the main door is intricately carved depicting various scenes of Indian mythology: Vasudev carrying baby Krishna, Shravan Kumar with his parents, Krishna killing Kansa and so on.
I find the presence of deities of different religions on the doors of the temple, giving it a wonderful, secular feel.
The village wasn't crowded and the only movement on the streets were of people ferrying heavy apple cartons to and fro on their backs. Watching a 6 year old do it was a heart wrenching sight and watching him flash a smile beneath the load was a heart warming one. I meet confident Kinnauri women who flash the most confident smiles and bowl me over with their poise.
A shy Kinnauri girl peeping to say hello!
I pass by more doors and many more orchards and in the background loom the picturesque Dhauladhar range of hills.
We have been walking since more than an hour now and now just have mountain goats for company.
Realisation dawns: We have lost our way. My heart does a happy dance because whenever we lose our way something beautiful is discovered.
Like today: we have accidentally bumped into the gorgeous glacier point of river Baspa which is gurgling away in delight.
Fifteen minutes and many photographs later, it is time to turn back and find our way through the rocky boulders and complimenting greens.
Fields of harvested buckwheat are a delight to watch with the bright red colour stalks standing out and adding vibrance to the village scene.
As we walk back into the forest to get to the bridge that takes us to Kinner Camps, the river joins us again for company.
It is almost dusk and trudging along the roaring river is a therapy of sorts.
To top it are jagged mountains, snow capped peaks and green delicious apples that Mr. Dileep Negi ( owner of Kinner Camps) has plucked fresh off the orchards for us.
Fragrant deodhars and pine trees watch the group walk by, whispering to one another as the sun finally drowns into Baspa river.
As the picturesque village of Batseri leaves it's imprint on my mind, I realise how mountains give us the best lessons on humanity. Of hard work, tough lives yet simplicity, happiness and contentment.
On one hand there are rugged landscapes, sturdy mountains and on the other there is delicacy of flowers appearing in the most unexpected places.
And then there are sturdy people: breaking stones, building roads, leading precarious lives with the softest hearts and genuine smiles.
Just like the big grin on Tulsi bhaiya's face, the cook at Kinner camps who welcomes us, with bowls of piping hot tomato soup ( truly for the weary traveler's soul)!
Batseri is 214 kms from Shimla and 7 kms from the main town of Sangla.
Best season to visit is September-October to see the apple laden trees.
Absolutely love it! I want to be there. NOW!
😊😊 hold on to the portkey. Kaboom! You're there!
Damn these small places, sometimes they take your breath away! I have experienced a few in the US too.
Btw, didn't you pluck those apples (stealthily)?
Apple season! Perfect time to visit..
Such a picture perfect place!
Those doors and those apples….Your post is making me wanderlust.
Hehe 🙂 mountains are calling!
Thanks for introducing such a beautiful place near Shimla. It's a true hidden gem! The village looks so surreal and sophisticated.
Your words and pictures put me on a different plain all together Divya. Now I have done this walk 4 times and yet not seen the kind of openings you have shown in your blog. So wonderful to have you on my tours doing such wonderful travelogues. I particularly liked your statement 'how mountains give us the best lessons on humanity. Of hard work, tough lives yet simplicity, happiness and contentment.
Doreen, traveling with you is a learning of a different kind. My travelogues are just a very small part of that absolutely enriching experience I have, when I see a place through your eyes:) thank you so so much!
hI ! Divya. I almost heard the water gurgling, and the apples swaying on the branches, and your descriptions of the picturesque Batseri was a delight.
Keep going and speak your heart's promptings. Thanks Divya.
Thank you so much RonBa:) your encouragement means a lot!
Such a dreamy village and your dreamy descriptions complemented by those amazing pics just transported me there! This post also brought back so many visuals of villages near Pahalgam in Kashmir. Lovely write up!
Thanks so much vish 🙂 I haven't been to Kashmir. But yours and Anin's posts have made me really want to visit it.
Thank you. Glad you did.
A great place to visit..looks like it has everything a nature lover could ask for!
Was too picturesque 🙂 Can win any city dweller's heart!
Wow!!! beautiful place. Loved the pics.
You know I find so many of the pics so picture postcard perfect. And I must say I really love the pics you take of the locals. Their smiles and their expressions say so much. Beautifully done as always :D.
Thank you so so much Aseem 🙂 glad you liked the pics!
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Q: Non-Alpha Sort of ASP.NET DataGrid I need to perform a customized sort of a .NET DataGrid. The UserRole column returns a set of three string values from SQL via a stored procedure: No Access, View, and Update.
<asp:DataGrid ID="UserList" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" AllowSorting="True" OnDataBinding="UserList_DataBinding">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name"></asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="LastName" HeaderText="Last Name" SortExpression="LastName ASC, LastName"></asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="EmailAddress" HeaderText="Email Address"></asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="UserRole" HeaderText="User Role" SortExpression="UserRole DESC, UserRole"></asp:BoundColumn>
</Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>
I need to be able to sort to display the "Update" value in the UserRole column at the top of the table. As it current sorts in descending order via the SortExpression property, "View" comes before "Update".
Where the above code is legacy code I'm not in a position to be able to full rewrite the code but is there another way to achieve this kind of custom non-alpha sorting?
A: You should sort your data before binding it to the grid. Depending on how you access the underlying data you could use some sort of OrderBy clause and order DESC. If you simply want "Update" to be first, that will be a little harder.
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Our Troops "They Died For Ariel Sharon" (english)
by rp 18 Mar 2003
"Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel Sharon."
U.S.A. TODAY, 03/17/03
War is not in U.S. interest
By Justin Raimondo
President Bush hasn't done a good job of selling this war because he has tried to sell us a pig in a poke. But when the truth comes out, as it will, Americans are going to start asking the following questions:
Where does it end? Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has laid out the road map, with Iran, Libya and Syria next on the list: "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction," he told visiting U.S. congressmen, "and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."
Undersecretary of State John Bolton agrees. Last month, he said in meetings with Israeli officials that "it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterward."
Sharon told the congressmen that "the American action is of vital importance" � which begs the question, vital to whom?
How does this war serve America's vital interests? The president says Iraq "threatens its neighbors," but only one of those neighbors wants war. As Patrick Buchanan succinctly put it: "For whose benefit are these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America save oil, which the Arabs must sell us to survive? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud."
Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel Sharon.
When does it end? President Bush has said that American troops will stay in Iraq "as long as necessary and not a day longer" � a statement that obfuscates but doesn't elucidate. The American public thinks we are going to go in, get Saddam and come marching triumphantly home. The truth is that, as Army chief of staff Gen. Eric Shinseki has testified, we are entering into an open-ended commitment that will involve stationing "several hundred thousand" troops in Iraq indefinitely.
What are the costs? After White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey gave an estimate of up to $200 billion, he was fired. Initial costs are estimated by Pentagon officials at $60 billion to $95 billion, but that's just a warm-up. The Congressional Budget Office says the first month of combat will cost $10 billion, and $8 billion for each month thereafter. Having alienated our longtime allies, the U.S. is going bear these costs alone. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disdains estimates as "not a useful exercise." He's right, because it is likely that war will spread throughout the Middle East.
Justin Raimondo is editorial director of Antiwar.com and author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.
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State of New York v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
In State of New York v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the District Court for the Southern District of New York is considering whether a Trump Administration rule withdrawing certain nondiscrimination protections in health care from LGBTQ people and imposing a sweeping religious exemption is unlawful.
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination in health care based on certain characteristics, including an individual's sex. In 2016, the Obama Administration finalized a rule interpreting that provision to prohibit most instances of discrimination in health care and insurance against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The Trump Administration, however, has reversed course, issuing a new rule that would eliminate protections for LGBTQ people. Further, the rule incorporates a broad religious exemption from Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 into the health care context, allowing health care providers to choose not to provide care if they maintain that doing so would violate their religious beliefs. Plaintiffs, the State of New York and other States, challenged the new rule in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
CAC and the House General Counsel's Office filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of Plaintiffs. The brief argues that the Trump Administration's rule violates the text of the Affordable Care Act and undermines Congress's plan in passing it. First, the brief explains that the Affordable Care Act was a response to critical failures in the American healthcare system that consistently left vulnerable Americans without access to quality, affordable insurance and care. The Act's many benefits and protections have been remarkably successful in expanding access to health care and eliminating such discrimination.
Second, the brief explains that the Trump Administration's decision to remove certain nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals violates the text of the Affordable Care Act and undermines Congress's plan in passing it. Specifically, Section 1557 of the Act prohibits discrimination in health care on the basis of sex, and the Supreme Court's recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County makes clear that a prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex encompasses discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Moreover, the Administration's elimination of protections for LGBTQ individuals undermines Congress's plan in passing the Act. Protecting LGBTQ people from health care discrimination is a critical part of expanding affordable, quality health care in the United States, and the Trump Administration's attempt to undo those protections flies in the face of Congress's plan to eliminate discrimination in health care.
Third, the brief explains that the Administration's creation of a broad religious exemption in the health care context also violates the text of the Act and Congress's plan in passing it. The exemption—which the Administration imported from Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education—would allow health care providers to discriminate against patients and refuse to provide care if they maintain that doing so is required by their religious beliefs. However, as the House's brief explains, Title IX's religious exemption applies by its plain terms only to "educational institutions," and Congress nowhere suggested that it wished to import that exemption into the health care context.
Indeed, Congress had good reasons for not doing so: while individuals can choose not to attend religious schools, they often have little choice about where they receive health care, especially in rural locations and in emergency situations. And an increasing number of hospitals in the United States are religiously affiliated. In short, if Congress had intended to create such a massive loophole in Section 1557's protections, it would have done so explicitly. It did not.
CAC and House General Counsel's Office file amicus curiae brief on behalf of US House of Representatives in the District Court for the Southern District of New York
S.D.N.Y. Amicus Br.
Douglas N. Letter
Todd B. Tatelman
Megan Barbero
Josephine Morse
William E. Havemann
Awaiting Filing from Parties
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Yaml file:
users:
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and the code is
var input = new StringReader(Document);
var yaml = new YamlStream();
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(YamlMappingNode)yaml.Documents[0].RootNode;
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and the expected output is
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phone:
But the comments are not preserved in the actual output. I have looked at this thread about comment preservation, but it talks about emitting the comments with data member attributes. But in my scenario, I am not using any class to deserialize/serialize the yaml. I just want to maintain the existing comments in an yaml when reading and writing it back. Is it possible to do this using YamlDotNet?
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Medical Students' Aid Project (MSAP) is a student-run charitable group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). We connect and empower a movement of students and community members towards healthcare equality through educational events, fundraisers, and several projects operating locally and internationally.
This year, MSAP will be developing four main projects, check out what we achieved in 2017!
MSAP holds a wide range of events for students of all UNSW faculties throughout the year. Check out some of MSAP's upcoming events below.
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A job search is a public relations campaign. The idea is to get others to think highly of you so they will hire you directly or refer you to their associate(s). The sooner you build good relationships, the sooner you'll be hired. The words "thank you" create goodwill. In general, typed letters are recommended; however, you may use handwritten notes if you are only writing a few short sentences. Make sure your handwriting is easy to read. Long, rambling, hard-to read thank-you notes create more frustration than goodwill. Nowadays, it is acceptable to send a "Thank You" by e-mail, especially if the employer is on a time constraint. Use a professional e-mail address and send an e-mail to each person with whom you interviewed. It is preferred that you write a personal note that may refer to what the person said or a mutual commonality.
Send thank-you letters as soon as possible (within 48 hours) after your interview. In fact, some employers think less of those interviewees who fail to follow up promptly. Remember to proofread: check spelling, grammar, typos, etc. If in doubt about the correct names, spelling or titles of your interviewers, call the office or human resources department.
thoroughly, or as well as you would have liked.
Note : Even if you do not want the job, write a thank-you note respectfully withdrawing your application. You never know what the future holds.
View a sample of a thank you letter. | {
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The Peterloo Massacre, August 1819
May 25, 2021 August 22, 2019 by Gale Review Team
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Two hundred years ago, on 16th August 1819, at least seventeen people died at St Peter's Field, Manchester, during a peaceful protest calling for the reform of parliamentary representation.
This year, the two hundred-year anniversary, has been marked in the UK by a wealth of newspaper articles covering 'a tragic event of minor historical significance that happens to accord with a Marxist version of Britain's past' 1 (The Times) or 'the bloodiest event on English soil in the nineteenth century' 2 (The Daily Mail). The BBC, from its new headquarters in Manchester, produced ten radio programmes and performances to mark the anniversary. You can buy a Peterloo mug or a Peterloo tea towel, and around Manchester live music, poetry readings, open-air karaoke and other family-friendly events took place over the weekend.
I dug through the Gale archives to see how the event was represented at the time, and at its centennial in 1919.
Contemporary News Reports
An article in The Times on 17th August 1819 (the day after the massacre) questioned the point of mass protest at that time:
"Our accounts from Manchester are full of the agitation excited amongst the timid and industrious; and naturally." Times, 17 Aug. 1819, p. 2. The Times Digital Archive, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/BYStx4
Two days later on 19th August The Times provided more extensive coverage of the event, and we find the tone somewhat altered, as more information filtered through from Manchester.
"London, Thursday, August 19, 1819." Times, 19 Aug. 1819, p. 2. The Times Digital Archive, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/BYSy50
The Times had sent a correspondent, a Mr Tyas, to Manchester to report on the meeting; the presence of figures such as the radical Henry Hunt drew public attention and large crowds were anticipated. The paper was therefore able to publish a first-hand account of the event, as the journalist found himself not only in the middle of the action but subsequently arrested with many of the leading reformers.
"Express From Manchester." Times, 19 Aug. 1819, p. 2. The Times Digital Archive, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/BYT3C0
The Manchester Observer of the same date was equally vivid in its description of the event:
The Manchester Observer, 21 August 1819. HO 42, Boxes 173-193, 1818-August 1819 Box 192. The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom). Nineteenth Century Collections Online, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/APILEW448802737/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=ba1cf016
At that time, the paper reported the death toll at five or six, and the wounded at three hundred.
The massacre was reported in a similar vein throughout the country, and papers from Hampshire, York, Leeds and London among many others can be found commenting on not only the use of military force against unarmed protestors, but on the calls for reform and the state of British society, which at the end of the Napoleonic wars was facing economic distress, famine and widespread poverty.
The Government Response to the Tragedy
Elsewhere, the Home Office files give an indication of government attitudes to the tragedy. Letters informing on meetings, pamphlets and on likely and actual unrest, were sent to Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary, from many counties, while the arrests of publishers, journalists and leading reformers that followed the massacre did little to calm the indignation of the public.
J. Norris to Lord Sidmouth, Manchester, 28 Aug. 1819. Home Office Papers and Records: Part Eight: HO 42, Boxes 173-193, 1818-August 1819 Box 193. The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom). Nineteenth Century Collections Online, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/AQUUAR927047429/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=7a588b0c
Uprisings and riots elsewhere in the country, chiefly those in Huddersfield and Burley, and the aborted Cato Street conspiracy to blow up the Cabinet at dinner, followed Peterloo. The notorious Six Acts legislated against public weapons training, "seditious meetings", and "blasphemous and seditious libels," whilst granting extra powers to magistrates for the search and seizure of arms, reducing bail opportunities and, finally, extending newspaper and stamp tax in an effort to prevent the publication of seditious opinion, all aimed at repressing the movements of radical reformers.
The Chester Chronicle from January 1820 perhaps demonstrates the mood of reformers in this chaotic time:
"Seditious Libel." Chester Chronicle, 21 Jan. 1820, p. 1. British Library Newspapers, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/JE3233319745/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=624630b1
The Centenary of the Massacre, 1919
One hundred years later, in 1919, in the aftermath of another great war, the Peterloo Massacre was not forgotten, although it only merited a half-inch mention in many regional newspapers. Where it received more coverage, it was usually in terms of its socialist or anti-establishment associations. One example can be found in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, where the centenary was mentioned in the following terms:
"Socialists." Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 18 Aug. 1919, p. 1. British Library Newspapers, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3226878778/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=92f4ec54
The Telegraph offered a brief summary of the celebrations in Manchester:
"Peterloo Centenary." Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug. 1919, p. 7. The Telegraph Historical Archive, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IO0704537748/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=502a70ee
In 1919 people were still recovering from another great war, and nationalism and social reform were agitating for space in the new century. Letters such as this, from The British Citizen and Empire Worker, the mouthpiece of the anti-socialist and imperialist British Workers League highlight this troubled context:
Food, A. "Peterloo Camouflage." British Citizen and Empire Worker, 23 Aug. 1919, p. 36. Nineteenth Century Collections Online, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/DXMPZF583347962/GDCS?u=webdemo&sid=GDCS&xid=9d21c013
This year, there has been more focus on the people killed, the individuals present, and the act of violence, than on the political setting. The representation and meaning of events are never fixed; after two centuries, protest, violence and reform are still as relevant and as present in the twenty-first century as they were in the nineteenth, and, as we continue to discuss and remember, the interpretation of such events continues to evolve.
Clem joined Gale in 2016 as a Publishing Assistant and subsequently became an Associate Acquisitions Editor for digital archives. With a diverse background in international and transnational history, she's particularly interested in social narratives and cultural trends of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In her spare time, she likes stand-up comedy, Agatha Christie and Tetris.
"The Times view on the BBC's commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre: Horrible Histories", The Times, 3 August 2019
Nick Rennison, "Cowardly massacre of the innocent at Peterloo: Robert Poole's scholarly new book delves into the bloodiest event on English soil in the nineteenth century", The Daily Mail Online, 15 August 2019.
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An Augusta County resident, he mustered as 4th Sergeant, Company F, 52nd Virginia Infantry on 1 May 1862 in Valley Mills, VA.
He was wounded in the face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
He was wounded again, in the face, on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. He returned to his Company by the end of December 1864, but deserted to the enemy in West Virginia in March 1865 and took the oath of allegiance there.
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Byleth - Il demone dell' Incesto
Director: Leopoldo Savona
Stars: Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi, Franco Jamonte, Tony Denton, Fernando Cerulli, Silvana Pompili, Caterina Chiani
Genre: Horror, Drama, Sex, Weirdo
Review: Unheralded even by ardent fans of Italian gothic horror, the obscure but intriguing Byleth is set in one of those typically nebulous European locales somewhere near the mid-Nineteenth century. Duke Lionello Shandwell (Mark Damon) rides home to his ancestral castle at the same time as a prostitute is found stabbed to death with a three-point blade in the nearby village. Having long harboured incestuous feelings for his sister, Barbara (Claudia Gravy), Lionello is dismayed to discover she has married a man named Giordano (Aldo Bufi Landi). Tormented by visions of a mysterious man in black riding a white horse, Lionello is further enraged when he spies the sexy housemaid (Caterina Chiani) making love with the stable boy. This same girl is also murdered by the mystery maniac. Suspicion falls on Lionello, especially after Giordano's visiting cousin, Floriana (Silvana Pompili), is found dead in similar circumstances. Discussing the case with the local priest, the town judge learns of the legend of Byleth, a demon capable of driving men to incestuous acts or else murder.
The horror genre, as manifest in the western world, originated within the gothic literary tradition wherein a seemingly supernatural ambience routinely reflected the psychological torment of its leading protagonists. When horror reached the cinema, this tradition largely took a back seat to more tangible monsters sired by the likes of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker (both influenced by the gothic tradition, but not necessarily part of it), periodically re-emerging to general critical acclaim with films like The Innocents (1961). By the early Seventies, period horror films were more or less on their way out in Italian exploitation, leading stalwarts like Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda to bring their stylistic flourishes to the giallo trend. Viewed in that context, Byleth - Il demone dell'Incesto seems like a last ditch attempt to try something different and twist the gothic tradition into the realms of psychological terror, much like Hammer Films tried to do with the underrated Demons of the Mind (1972).
While not especially successful, the film remains interesting as another warped variation on the oft-repeated Italian horror theme that sexual frustration will invariably drive men to murder. The film draws, inevitably, on Edgar Allan Poe but equally Luchino Visconti in its portrayal of a cloistered aristocracy wracked by pschological torment and sexual deviancy. As some contemporary theologians suggest, demons can be read as the personification of psychological ills, conjured by the Catholic church for the benefit of a largely illiterate peasantry. Although the whole demonic angle rather muddles an otherwise psychologically solid allegory, with Byleth memorably described as having "the face of an angel and the dark eyes of unholy dancers" (?), the film opts wisely for ambiguity.
This was the sole horror film made by Leopoldo Savono, a director supposedly more comfortable with historical adventures, war films and spaghetti westerns such as Killer Kid (1967) and A Man Called Apocalypse Joe (1970) with Anthony Steffen, and Thunder from the West (1969) with Gianni Garko, which despite its title was actually a spy movie set during the Second World War. Regardless, Savono conjures a suitable air of morbid romance with an array of stylish visuals, even though the murder scenes aren't up to scratch. Striking chiaroscuro photography by Giovanni Crisci layers the candlelit interiors, while Vasil Kojukaroff contributes the score with some fuzz guitar riffs that belong in a spaghetti western and organ flourishes in the style of a silent melodrama. The sumptuous castle and its opulent gardens add a touch of class and atmosphere, but this remains a gloomy melodrama with a mad killer subplot and some surprisingly explicit nudity. Among the array of undraped beauties, Caterina Chiani a.k.a. Marzia Damon went on to regularly feature in saucy medieval romps like More Sexy Canterbury Tales (1972) by that titan of trash, Joe D'Amato.
Star Mark Damon had already secured his place in horror immortality, having appeared in the trend-setting The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) for Roger Corman and the "Wurdulak" episode of Black Sabbath (1964). He was among the many imported American stars who turned down the lead in A Fistful of Dollars (1964), but remained in Italy and continued to make westerns, swashbucklers and the occasional horror film like Naked You Die (1968) and The Devil's Wedding Night (1973). Beginning with The Arena (1974), co-produced by Roger Corman and where Damon met his wife, B-movie goddess Margaret Markov, he segued into producing prestigious movies like Das Boot (1981) and Monster (2003) the Aileen Wournos biopic that won Charlize Theron the Academy Award, as well as less prestigious stinkers like 9 1/2 Weeks (1986) and Wild Orchid (1989). Well, nobody's perfect. Here in Byleth, Damon broods impressively through his ambiguous role while the Italian supporting cast approach their roles with welcome sincerity.
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Math art
Birthday Dominoes
(This post is dedicated to the most important Pisces birthday I know: EK.)
Dominoes is a well-known game that no one actually knows how to play. A much more accessible game is tiling dominoes: I give you a grid, and you tell me if you can cover the whole thing with dominoes.
For example, look at this 2x2 grid:
Easy! What about this 4x4 grid?
Also easy! What about a 3x3 grid?
It can't be done! Any grid you can cover with dominoes has to have an even number of squares, but a 3x3 grid has 9. We lose, through no fault of our own.
This pretty much solves grids. You can tile them with dominoes if and only if they have an even number of squares. But this gives us two natural questions to ask:
What if we used something other than dominoes?
What if we used something other than grids?
Something other than dominoes
Dominoes are pieces with two blocks "snapped" together. What if we used more than two blocks? This these exist, of course, and we call them triominoes, quadominoes, pentominoes, and in general, polyominoes.
There is only "one" domino—two blocks stuck at their ends—but there are three triominoes!
That pesky 3x3 grid that we couldn't tile with dominoes is a cinch with triominoes:
The most famous polyomino is the pentomino, which has five blocks stuck together. These are commonly used for fun in brain teasers, if you're into that sort of thing.
Something other than grids
The shape of the board is just as important as the number of spaces. For example, look at this "T" with four spaces:
Even though there are an even number of spaces, we can't tile this with dominoes! Here's a grid with 9 spaces that we cannot tile with triominoes:
In general, a board with $n$ spaces is only guaranteed to have a tiling of monomioes (pieces with 1 block) and an $n$-omio (a piece with $n$ blocks), both of which are kind of cheating. Board layout plays a big role.
I propose that we think about tiling the heart board, something I invented for just this occasion. Here are the first four heart boards:
It's a bit hard to make out the "grid" in these pictures, so here are the first two drawn by hand (kinda):
The number of blocks in the first four hearts is 10, 43, 96, and 169, respectively. The hearts follow a pattern that generalizes to arbitrary sizes. The $n$th heart board is the set of all $(x, y)$ such that
$0 \leq x < 2n$
$0 \leq y < 4n$
$x \leq y$
$y \leq 5n - x$
$y \leq x + 3n$,
and also the reflection of these points about the $y$-axis.
The $n$th heart board has exactly
\[10 n^2 + 3n - 3\]
spaces in it.
There are lots of questions to ask about this board, but let's settle for just one: When can the heart board be tiled by dominoes?
The first heart board cannot be tiled with dominoes. That's easy enough to see by hand because it only has 10 blocks:
The second heart board is much bigger at 43 blocks, but this is an odd size so no tiling by dominoes could exist. In fact, the general size $10 n^2 + 3n - 3$ is odd when $n$ is even, so only the "odd" heart boards could hope to be tiled by dominoes anyway.
So what about the third heart block, the one in the bottom left of the computer-generated image above? Can it be tiled using dominoes? It turns out that no, it cannot be. How do I know this? My computer told me. In fact, using the polyomino library, my computer told me more:
Heart board number
Domino tiling?
It seems like no heart boards can be tiled by dominoes. Is this true? Amazingly, yes! Not a single heart board can be tiled by dominoes.
The proof of this fact relies on a very simple observation: If you color the squares of an odd heart board in an alternating fashion, then then there are exactly two more squares of one color than the other. For example, look at the first heart board:
Every domino you put down must cover exactly one of each color. In the above picture, every domino covers one red and one blue tile. Once you place four dominoes, there are no blue tiles left, but two red tiles. We can't cover those pieces with dominoes! (This is what happened in our attempted tiling above.)
This pattern persists for every odd heart board. Here is a plot of the first four hearts again, now colored in this alternating way:
The first and third heart boards above (left column) have exactly two more red squares than blue squares. The second and fourth (right column) actually have a bigger difference in the number of squares, but we already knew that they couldn't be colored with dominoes.
This pattern is somewhat tricky to prove, but once you know the idea it's just calculations. See my math.SE question for details.
We've left lots of questions on the table that would be easy to answer. For example, what's the proportion of squares that are red versus blue in the even heart boards? A harder project: Let $L_n$ be a set of lines which intersect the square $[-n, n] \times [0, n]$ and each other. When is the region "inside" $L_n$ tileable with dominoes?
I don't know the answer to any of these offhand, but they sound fun. I hope that this delivery on my promise of math art taught everyone something new. Here's to much more in the future!
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The Glass Slipper
Revision as of 10:22, 30 August 2017 by Miriamt (talk | contribs)
The Glass Slipper is a children's musical by Harry and Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) [1].
1 The original text
2 Translations and adaptations
3 Performance history in South Africa
5 Return to
The original text
Based on Cinderella, the text was written by Eleanor Farejon, to music by her brother Harry Farjeon, and produced and published as The Glass Slipper in 1944.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1948: Presented by the University of Cape Town's Speech and Drama Department at the Little Theatre in March, directed by Matine Harman.
1959-60: Produced jointly by National Theatre Organisation, the Johannesburg Reps and the Children's Theatre, starring Yvonne Theron and John Hayter.
Inskip, 1972. p. 13.
Lantern, March 1961. 284.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
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Home » List of issues » Writing differently? » Writing history in pictures. Historians and the comic book temptation
Writing history in pictures. Historians and the comic book temptation
Literary incursions
By Sylvain Lesage
No 269-270, 2019/4, pages 47 to 65
Four decades after the publishing success of "Histoire de France en bandes dessinées" ("History of France in Comics"), historians have now seized upon the idea of narrating history visually through comics. These initiatives fit into a longer-term trend of portraying history in pictures, from the didactic Épinal prints to visual Catechism materials and documentary sections of youth press publications. The revival of visual portrayals of history also fits into a trend of a changing scope for comic books and shifting boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. This paper explores new ways of historical writing made possible by visual narration, as well as the mediation processes that reach new audiences. | {
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that are very expensive and temperature dependence thus will cause many problems for the output signal.
taining a good candidate glass with high Verdet constant and good temperature resistance to replace crystals.
the ideal candidate for MOCT applications.
comparing to borosilicate, phosphate and silicate glasses.
UV-Visible-IR spectrophotometer (Varian Cary 500).
3. Bulk glass; 4. DC supplier; 5. Solenoide; 6. Power meter.
the V can be calculated.
The magnetic field B was induced by the DC supplier.
tion profile of the B in different position of the solenoids.
lenoids is homogenous and uniform.
Figure 2. Distribution profile of the B in different position of the solenoids.
Figure 3. Magnetic field B vs current I.
proved that the optical bench is ok for use.
more stable of the glass.
a shift to longer wavelength.
Figure 4. UV-visible absorption spectra of the PBB glasses.
Figure 5. FT-IR transmittance spectra of the PBB glasses.
the lowest intensity of the same peaks.
slight change for the peak E was also observed.
can induce the Zeeman splitting on the ion energy levels.
the currently used crystal for MOCT.
as network modifiers that weaken the bridged O-B bonds.
Figure 7. The Raman spectra of PPB MO glasses.
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