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Game of Thrones 605 The Door

“Liz, by the end of this episode, you will be bawling your eyes out…for Hodor.”

“Do not be ridiculous, Hodor is an undeveloped, one-note character who’s there, sadly, for cheap laughs, and to be The Big Dumb One. It is not a character trope that delights me. And this is not a particualrly interesting interpretation of that trope. So, what? He dies? Meh.”

AARGH. OH THE WRONGNESS OF ME TEN MINUTES BEFORE THIS EPISODE ENDED. I mean, WHAT?! What is this?! Heartbreaking predestination paradox time travel fantasy, that makes the most moving character death Game of Thrones has had so far. Bloody hell. Hodor.

Hodor. Hodor, who’s only ever been able to say one word since he was a kid, and it’s all Bran’s fault. A TIME LOOP. In a fantasy story with ice zombies! It’s horrifying, what Bran does, how he damages Hodor, traumatising him to such an extent that he can only say one word. And, my God, did Hodor *know* what was going to happen? Did he know during his initial fit, or realise at the end as he held the door? HE COULD STILL BE ALIVE. It’s never death until there’s a body, dammit.

But yeah, that was one hell of a gut punch. And a gut punch on top of scenes that were already very nearly the most awesome of the episode. Creepy ice zombie dreams where the zombies can see you! Then hunt you down in real life! Marvellous. Everything about the attack on the tree was just so cool, and creepy, and awesome. And just when you thought it was safe to take another breath….that Hodor thing happened.

Just  a little bit south, more rather awesome things were happening at Castle Black as Littlefinger arrived and Sansa went to meet him and everything about their conversation was just perfect. OH SANSA. You are the best of them, please be queen. Her coldness to him, her calm, her refusal to be manipulated or intimidated, the way she used her humiliation to humiliate him…the only worrying thing was the dig about Jon her *half*-brother – especially when it was coupled with Brienne being all worried about leaving her undefended. DON’T BETRAY SANSA, JON. He wouldn’t though, would he? Would he? *frets* (Did Littlefinger lie about Riverrun? Argh.)

And the first shot we got of Sansa was her sewing, which made me flail a bit, and then it turned out she’d sewn herself a new Stark dress, and Jon a new Stark cloak. OH. ❤ I’ve never been on the Stark side as much as I have this season, and it’s all Sansa’s fault.

Arya meanwhile, is still getting hit with sticks, OH GOOD. But there was also a play, with lots of filth and stupid jokes, so it wasn’t all meh; if you must have filler, make it entertaining filler. And it sounded like her plot got nudged along, but I expect next time we see her, someone will again be hitting her with a bloody stick.

The Iron Islands kingsmoot! I quite liked that, actually – I was expecting to hate it. The fact it took  a few minutes rather than a few hundred pages was a big help, and I loved how Yara, Theon, and Euron were all working their rheotoric to try to swing the crowd their way. They way they used who they were, what they’d done, and what they *weren’t* as tools. And the exquisitely delicate care Yara had to take to not let her claim be shoved aside on the basis of “but you’re a woman”. It’s a tightrope walk made by many medieval women in power (I say, as though society isn’t still quite rotten about women with power: look at the crap thown at Clinton today) – the Empress Matilda came particularly to mind here (she, too, had a brother (well, half-brother) as the main supporter of her cause) – when she took London, and started to act as a monarch needed to, her nascient rule was undermined with the simple accusation that she wasn’t behaving as a woman should.

What else? Ah, Meereen. That was…there. Stuff…happened. I sort of like how the whole Lord of Light thing looks a lot more appealing when one has a god’s eye view of the world and can see there’s a bit of a problem with murderous ice zombies on the horizon. A problem I am UTTERLY CERTAIN Sansa will solve. Yes.

Game of Thrones 604 Book of the Stranger

In my concerted effort to Finish A Thing this week, I managed to forget to write lovely words about last week’s Game of Thrones. It’s Doctor Who all over again! (I will finish writing about last season, I WILL.) Anyway, here we are now. And IIRC correctly – it’s only been a week so I bloody well hope I do – Book of the Stranger was pretty darn nifty. Mostly because of Sansa. OH SANSA. Two whole scenes and it’s entirely possible I was sobbing a bit at both. When the gates of Castle Black opened and – goshdarnit, I’m welling up again, this is silly, stop it, eyes! – she and Jon saw each other and there was hugging and teasing and apologies and reminices, oh, ALL I EVER WANTED AND HOPED FOR. And another person who actually properly cares about her; collect them all, Sansa! And then make a big army and fight for stuff! Which is, marvellously, exactly what she wanted to do. “I’ll do it myself if I have to.” *LOVE*

I’m only *slightly* worried about Petyr sending knights to Castle Black. I like to assume they will turn up, decide Sansa is great, and maybe shove Petyr over the top of the wall. I know that seems terribly optimistic, but so far the Sansa storyline this season is just perfect, and they surely wouldn’t want to ruin that with complications or bad stuff happening, would they?

Speaking of bad stuff, Tonks aka Osha cops it almost exactly as I dreaded, alas. Still, at least she had the knife in her hand and was totally going to kill him. More yayful was Yara and another reunion, less full of hugs, but still. Could have been worse – no-one got stabbed. And when Theon said Yara should rule and he wanted her to take the throne of the Iron Islands (not the Iron Throne, which is in King’s Landing..heh, I see this show could be confusing to new people!) I may have cheered a bit. Obv Yara should be queen. And Sansa can be Queen in the North. And Dany can have the rest of it. EVERYONE’S HAPPY. Well, not everyone. I’d be happy.

But what of Margaery, the current actual queen of something? She’s been stuck in a cell under the care of the High Sparrow all season, but this ep it was less boring and more a little heartbreaking when she got to see her brother, locked up under similar conditions, and turns out he’s not coping at all well. Seeing her hold her brother as though she were trying to impart some of her strength to endure just through the power of touch, gah! Sod my political sympathies, I am REALLY LOOKING FORWARD to some Tyrell and Lannister burning of stuff soon.

Meanwhile, Dany did burn things down, yay! Flames! I do like Dany, and I do quite want her to have the Iron Throne, but the storyline still has the major problem that you really can’t get away from the White Saviour stuff, and heh, now she’s killed all their leaders and everyone in that world is literally bowing down before her! SOME WINCING THERE. While, yeah, I appreciate the character growth we’ve seen over the past six years and her reaction to this situation and there were lots of pretty flames, it’s still very awkward.

What else? Oh, Tyrion. That. Yes. I really very much hope this is being set up as him being too clever for his own good or something like that because otherwise it seems like well dodgy. He’s basically taken Dany’s place in Meereen and thinks he knows and understands the situation better than Missandei and Grey Worm. MARVELLOUS. Maybe it will be fine. So long as he doesn’t get Missandei killed, that would be unforgivable. (It doesn’t seem like anything like that will happen, but of the characters  love, I worry for Missandei the most as she’s very much a supporting character, and extra vulnerable to a sudden, unexpected death.)

And there’s a whole new ep out in the Americas already, I believe! Ours arrives tomorrow, or today actually as it’s technically Monday. (That’s right, I’m up at 1am writing about Game of Thrones. SHUSHT. Great life choice.)

Game of Thrones 603 Oathbreaker

Wheeee! So after a spiffy episode last week where there were amusing deaths and I felt seriously pandered to, this week feels a slight drop off. This is isn’t to say it’s a bad episode or sod all happened, but it wasn’t terribly interested in moving along the story of most of my favourites, so I cared less.

However, Season Six has done a magical thing and Made Bran Scenes Interesting! Strange weird feelings of yay are being experienced as soon as I realise it’s Bran time cause I’m loving these flashbacks to young Ned and his family. It’s doing wonderful things in fleshing out and reminding viewers of events that were perhaps only briefly mentioned in the series, and happened long before it started, and it’s making where we are now (though it may have been a long, very slow route) feel rather more meaningful as we’re connecting it to the past. Also, there’s Max Von Sydow in a tree! Marvellous.

Arya can see again! Presumably something interesting will now happen because watching Arya get hit with sticks is really not. And I do like Arya, but having her alone in another city away from all the other main characters. MEH. The payoff had better be shiny. As had whatever they’ve planned for Dany because this getting captured by Dothraki and having all her power stripped away (though she now has pride and confidence, dragons, and, one hopes, A PLAN) has been done already and it’s boring. AND I LOVE DANY. Don’t make her scenes boring show, this is v distressing!

Not boring was Cersei and Jaime being smacked down by their Uncle, Ser Kevan. That was pretty awesome. I LOVE the contrast we saw here between Kevan and Tywin – Tywin would never have left the room (though it seems doubtful Cersei would ever have challenged him like that) but Kevan still effectively retained control and authority, and made his contempt and sheer unimpressedness at Cersei’s antics quite clear, in a way that would be pretty alien to Tywin. Great Lannister character work all round. Also, UNEXPECTED DIANA RIGG. Win.

Less good was Tyrion doing sod all in Meereen. Yay for Missandei, but omg, give them something to DO. Slightly better was the Varys scene, but still. You let the dragons go last week, folks? What’s happening with that? Tell us a dragon story or something, yes?

Ah, the Jon Snow stuff. That was great. I’ve switched back and forth a lot on Jon Snow – I like him in the books, found him emo boy on the telly, but sort of got won over when he started having more interesting people to talk to? Like, it’s really hard for a character to be in a scene with Liam Cunningham and not look better (oh, Ser Davos, so good this week “It’s all fucking mad”). The reveal of Jon Snow being alive and the stupid joke with the wildling whathisname and then him doing his duty and hanging the people who killed him. OH. That was good. Love Thorne was unrepentant, and believed till the end he wasn’t betraying the Night’s Watch, he was doing his duty. And, yeah, he was, in any year that didn’t have a fucking huge army of ice zombies keen to destroy mankind.

Jon walking off at the end and saying his Watch was done? Kind of perfect. He swore to serve till he died, and he did. And I do believe I *almost* said “fuck yeah, Jon Snow!” Almost.

What else was happening? Sam and Gilly. I DON’T CARE. I cared even less when Sam started throwing up. Oh, Tommen had a chat with the High Sparrow, and I flailed slightly cause Tommen said about half a second after I did “That’s what Tywin said!” And, oh, the Church wants to put Cersei on trial after putting her through an ordeal to purify her? WILL THEY NEVER BE SATISFIED. (Actually, give how much I agree with the High Sparrow, it’s nice to be judgey at them because all the characters I love are very much not on their side.)

And Rickon came back, or got dragged back, to Winterfell. I assume we didn’t see him for however many years it’s been because his hiding was even duller than Bran’s. Mostly I shall be a bit distressed if Tonks is back only to be killed horribly next week, and Rickon’s awesome plan isn’t to stab Ramsay Bolton in the face.

Till next week!

Game of Thrones 6.02 Home

One of the most frustrating things about Game of Thrones – books and telly – is as the story goes on, the plotlines multiply to such an extent that a full book/season goes by and you feel like sod all happens. It’s nudge, nudge, nudge, EXPLOSION, nudge – the sort of pacing which, oh, I feel a little dreadful complaining about because have you seen some old Doctor Who stories? And yet…well, yes, I expect a modern telly series to be a smidgen faster than beloved sixties telly.

So this week’s Game of Thrones was MOST CHEERING. It’s just the second episode but STUFF HAS HAPPENED! More deaths! Deaths I can cheer at! And, most excitingly, a death that surprised me! I mean, I assumed that, at some point, Roose Bolton would get it; he’s too minor a character who’s betrayed too many people not to, but that exact moment? Nope! When he gave the mad dog speech, I shook my head sadly, assuming that Lady Bolton and the kid had had it, but like Roose Bolton, I forgot that you probably shouldn’t tell the mad dog you think he’s a mad dog. Just cause you’re mad doesn’t mean you’re stupid, and Ramsay immediately moving to protect his position when he suspected his father was going to off him was a bit great. I mean, it was horrible, but sort of wonderful that you could see Roose plotting away, and Ramsay is like “sod this, I’m getting rid of you RIGHT THIS SECOND.” Well played, show, well played.

The death of Lady Bolton and the wee baby was, thankfully, not as grueseome as it could have been. I expected worse, and having it restricted to snarls and screams was rather nice, even if the images they inspired were not.

Next to be unceremoniously offed was the tedious Lord Greyjoy. Who, actually, was quite all right on the telly. Or, at least, he was seriously less meh as a character because most of his scenes were shared with Yara, who is on my way too long list of People I Want to Be Queen (Regnant) By The End of the Series. I admit, I did actually laugh as he plummeted to his doom, but come on! He wanders out onto a rickety old rope bridge and is stopped by a Mysterious Hooded Stranger who turns out to be his estranged brother and said brother then does a lot of OH DEAR GOD KILL ME speechifying before topplying Lord Greyjoy into the rocks below. That is lolarity.

Add these deaths to Alexander Siddig and his heir last episode, and soon there’ll be few enough characters for the plot to chug into second gear, hurrah!

Sadly, the lolarious death in the Iron Islands was somewhat ruined by the fact that it sounds Quite A  Lot like they’re going to do the whole moot thing to choose their new lord. Which in the books was a very long, very tedious read that left me…dissatisfied with how they ended it, especially with regards to Asha/Yara. Maybe telly will be better, maybe Yara will just kill them all.

Back in King’s Landing, I’m flailing at having my real world sympathies be twisted around. OF COURSE I love that the sept is uniting common people as a force against the corruption of their political leaders, and the way ordinary people are exploited, and slaughtered in a horrifying war not of their making. OF COURSE. And yet…well, I find myself sort of wanting to see Cersei and Jaimie torch the sept (after Tommen’s rescued Margaery obv). Which I do feel a bit guilty about, even though it’s completely fine because it’s fictional (and while some things cannot be excused merely because they’re fictional, I’m reasonably sure wanting to see stuff blown up is not one of them.)

I was wondering how Tommen would fall. Because he’s clearly too dull to be king at the end of all this, and lo, he wants to be a stronger ruler by getting advice from his mother. Miiiiiiiisssstake. Oh, Tommen, have you not been paying attention? Cersei is *terrible* at politics! It’s part of the reason I love her – ineptness at something she thinks she’s quite good at – and slightly ironic because if only Margaery had been free and he’d turned to her instead, it would probably have meant shiny victory parades forever.

What else happened? A Bran scene! And I wasn’t horribly bored, that was awesome. And I think the actor got better too. And there was Max von Sydow, yay! Actually, I found the flashback rather moving – Bran seeing his father, uncle, and aunt as young people, and them all being so happy, untouched by disaster; unaware how cruel the future would be to all of them.

Two high points of the ep – first, Sansa and Brienne. Oh my. I will never get bored of them. And they talked about Arya, and Sansa knowing her sister was most probably still alive and her smiling in genuine happiness, and NOTHING HORRID WILL HAPPEN TO THEM EVER AGAIN. Good. Yes. Second, and my favourite scene, was the once I was waiting for after last week: Ser Davos and Melisandre, and lo, it was perfect. We know Jon Snow’s not dead forever, so that whole him coming back, yes, excellent, glad they didn’t string it out any longer. The important bit was how they got there. I’ve enjoyed Carice van Houten’s performance since she first arrived, but I really loved her here, the way the remains of her faith and pride still clung to her. The way the weight of believing she’d been wrong diminished her without turning her into a pathetic figure. And I loved Davos’s reaction, his pragmatic compassion and straightforwardness. After all he’s seen her do, when he sees her at her lowest, there’s no cruelty in him, nor is there pity, but there’s a great deal of good sense.

And I can’t have been the only one almost sort of wishing the dragon would eat Tyrion? I mean I love Peter Dinklage and he’s obviously tremendous in the role, and I delight in watching him, but wouldn’t it have been the best thing if the dragon had just glomped him down? And by best, I mean, would not the Interwebs have been entertaining?? No? Just me? Alas.

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A Serious Man

The Coen brothers’ darkly comic A Serious Man uses the uncertainty of quantum mechanics — and especially the unresolvable uncertainty of Schrödinger’s paradox — as a metaphor for the unpredictability of life, and the pains we nonetheless take in futile attempts to impose predictability on the inherently uncertain future.

Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is suddenly a man beleaguered — by fate, by coincidence, by a vengeful God? Who knows?

His marriage is in trouble, his job is in danger, his brother is ill, both mentally and physically (and sleeping, and seeping, on Larry’s couch), his children are sullen and misbehaved. Buffeted by uncertainty, Larry turns to his community, to his rabbis. He’s looking not for advice, but for something more concrete: for answers. [SPOILERS ahead.] Larry assures these studied, somber men that he can grapple with the greatness of God — that he too is a serious man capable of understanding, if only they will tell him why these hardships are befalling him.

If you believe in an omniscient, all-powerful god, surely it’s plain hubris for a layperson to think that he can, through a mere few days of application and inquiry, grasp the unknowable purpose of that deity’s actions. Job finally wailed his way into an audience with God and still didn’t get an answer, but Larry Gopnik thinks he can wrest one out of a few conversations with rabbis. The impossibility, the futility, of his task is emphasized by the very name the rabbis use to refer to the God whom Larry find so approachable: not Adonai, not Yahweh, not any of the names that can be spoken in worship, but HaShem, literally “the name.” Larry Gopnik cannot grasp the ineffable plans of the almighty; he must not even speak His name.

Larry’s field of study has perhaps emboldened him to such audacity. Physicists are able to fathom some of the great secrets of the universe and even represent them through equations, but Larry of all people should know that the ineffable doesn’t yield to cold hard logic and that not everything is knowable: his specialty is quantum mechanics, and the only physics we ever see Larry teach revolve around uncertainty.

In a dream, Larry presents his class with a breathlessly rapid and precise presentation of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, concluding as he writes, “It proves we can’t ever really know what’s going on.” The bell rings; class dismissed. As the students bustle out, Prof. Gopnik yells out “But even though you can’t figure anything out, you will be responsible for it on the mid-term!”

[Larry’s dream; audio NSFW]

Compare this with Larry’s comically inept real-life lectures: he tap-taps at the blackboard with his chalk, writing a complex formula and narrating his progress with vague, uninstructive mutters: “You following this?… okay?.. so… this part is exciting…. so, okay. So. So if that’s that, then we can do this, right? Is that right? Isn’t that right? And that’s Schrödinger’s paradox, right? Is the cat dead or is the cat not dead? Okay!”

A failing student comes to Larry’s office to complain about his grade, and especially to complain that Prof. Gopnik’s standards are unjust. He can’t do the mathematics, the student explains, but “I understand the physics. I understand the dead cat.” Larry gently but firmly informs him, “But you can’t really understand the physics without understanding the math. The math tells how it really works. That’s the real thing. The stories I give you in class are just illustrative. They’re like… fables, say, to help give you the picture. I mean… even I don’t understand the dead cat.”

And it’s true, he doesn’t understand the dead cat or the fables. And neither do we. The Coens have already reminded us of this in the opening scene: a period piece, a haunting little story about a dybbuk (or is it?) performed in Yiddish. The first 7 minutes of the film are spent with characters we never see again, speaking a language most of the audience doesn’t understand, grappling with a mystery that will never be solved.

Larry Gopnik is in search of a certainty that doesn’t exist. He wants some tangible proof, a measure by which to decipher the future. He’s a serious man who expects his intelligence and diligence to render the confusing, unpredictable world into something logical, legible, verifiable. Larry is not so different from his poor lost brother, the unstable wanderer with a dog-eared notebook scrawled through with an elaborate “probability map of the universe.” Though the larger secrets of the universe can be revealed by study and science, the smaller mysteries — the ones that matter most to us, our lives and our loves — are not susceptible to our tiny writings and equations, however hard we try. Our futures cannot be predicted with mathematical accuracy, and often they cannot even be understood as they unfold.

So, if the meaningful, fateful events of our little lives cannot be predicted or controlled or even fully understood, how are we to extract any meaning from this existence? I think A Serious Man answers that question in its 20th-century opening: from the 19th century shtetl, the camera hurtles us down a dark passage outlined in blushing light and thrumming with intense music… which turns out to be the ear canal of Danny, Larry’s adolescent son, who sits in class with a transistor earpiece illicitly jammed into his ear so he can listen to Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love” instead of his Hebrew lesson.

The song recurs as a chorus throughout the film. When Larry is at his most distraught — after his fruitless meetings with rabbis and lawyers, as he is crushed under the weight of accumulating troubles, when he despairs of ever finding the answer he sought — the song blasts out as the soundtrack to an erotic dream. And again, after Danny’s bar mitzvah (where he becomes, like his father, “a serious man”), the elusive Rabbi Marshak finally appears, intoning these heavily-accented words of wisdom to the stuporously stoned boy-become-man: “When the truth turns out to be lies and all the joy within you dies. Then what?”

As trite as it may sound, Jefferson Airplane delivers the answer: “You better find somebody to love.” This is the last message of A Serious Man: in the film’s very last moments, as the literal whirlwind (echoing the whirlwind from which God spoke to Job) bears down on a crowd of children milling around a parking lot, we hear it again through Danny’s earpiece: “You better find somebody to love.” And if that person leaves you or betrays you or dies or vanishes, you must find another, and another, and another: a spouse, a parent, a sibling, a child, a neighbor, a student, a rival, a friend. No matter what befalls you in this unpredictable, sometimes cruel world, you better find somebody to love, because love — giving love, creating kindness and passion and selflessness where there was nothing — is a powerful act of affirmation against uncertainty, an act of creation in a void. Maybe even a divine act: to find somebody to love.

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  1. There is so much more to unpack in A Serious Man: the many examples of boxes (mostly metaphorical, but some literal) full of uncertainty; the similarities between student Clive Park’s appeal to Larry, Danny’s visit to the principal and then the rabbi, and Larry’s sessions with the three rabbis and his lawyers; and perhaps most resonantly, Larry’s repeated remarks of “I haven’t done anything” and his righteous insistence to Clive that “Actions have consequences!”

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Happiness Is Everywhere

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth that men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Decision Making Help

A few years ago, a friend told me these very useful questions that help when trying to make a decision:

What will happen if you do X?

What won’t happen if you do X?

What will happen if you don’t do X?

What won’t happen if you don’t do X?

Thinking about these questions lets me clarify my thinking and sort out the consequences of chosing one option over another; and helps me move out of the ‘Arrghh, do I really have to make a decision, can’t someone else do it, why do I have to be a grown-up’ cycle, that can immobilize an otherwise rational and competent adult.  (This does happen to other people – it’s not just me, right?)

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, “Memory”, 1996

A Healthy Mindmap

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I think this was produced for use in schools.  I like the layout, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who could do with the occasional reminder of how and why to be healthy.

From the Rev. Sydney Smith to Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 February 1820

Dear Lady Georgiana,

…Nobody has suffered more from low spirits than I have done – so I feel for you.

1st – Live as well as you dare.

2nd – Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75° or 80°.

3rd – Amusing books.

4th – Short views of human life not further than dinner or tea.

5th – Be as busy as you can.

6th – See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.

7th – And of those acquaintances who amuse you.

8th – Make no secret of low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely – they are always worse for dignified concealment.

9th – Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you.

10th – Compare your lot with that of other people.

11th – Don’t expect too much from human life – a sorry business at the best.

12th – Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion not ending in active benevolence.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I’d think, no, actually I’m a giraffe.

Richard Gere

Some excerpts from a very interesting article in the NY Times:

Most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.  On the contrary. People who do things badly are usually supremely confident of their abilities — more confident, in fact, than people who do things well.

One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.

This deficiency in “self-monitoring skills” helps explain the tendency of the humor-impaired to persist in telling jokes that are not funny, of day traders to repeatedly jump into the market — and repeatedly lose out — and of the politically clueless to continue holding forth at dinner parties on the fine points of campaign strategy.

The most able subjects in the study were likely to underestimate their own competence. The researchers attributed this to the fact that, in the absence of information about how others were doing, highly competent subjects assumed that others were performing as well as they were.

When high scoring subjects were asked to “grade” the grammar tests of their peers, however, they quickly revised their evaluations of their own performance. In contrast, the self-assessments of those who scored badly themselves were unaffected by the experience of grading others; some subjects even further inflated their estimates of their own abilities.

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Five Rules For Life

Five Rules For Life is a blog where:

People from all walks share what they believe are the most important rules to follow for a happy, successful, and fulfilling life.

Here are five rules that I really liked:

This too shall pass.
When I was younger, the intensity of my emotions colored my perception of everything, and it seemed as if my experience of the moment was a permanent state. Now I realize that every mood, every situation – everything – comes and goes, ebbs and flows. So, I try to ride the waves of life, and enjoy still waters when things settle.

– Ruth Powers

Use good manners.
Kindness goes a long way in both work and social life. In most cases good manners will get you want you want while making others feel that they’re being respected.

– Leigh Anne Bartlett

Walk away.
It is not easy to give up something. But there are just things in life that we need to let go of. It it makes you feel bad, if it hurts, if it’s unfair, if it’s against your principles, if you hate it, if it’s wrong – find the courage to walk away from it. It will be hard but you have to at least try. Remember that you always have a choice on what stays and goes in your life.

– Tere Arigo

Take time for quiet and space, every day.
Take time to process what is going on in your life, in your mind, in your heart, and in your soul. Use the quiet to feel peace and to receive inspiration and thought. Use the space to center yourself again and to discover that you can be alone and still “enjoy the company that you keep”. If you can enjoy being alone with yourself, others will enjoy being with you too!

– Cindy Dugan Walker

Don’t hang around with negative people.
It is hard enough controlling what we think without constant exposure to outside, negative influences. If you are hanging around with people who do nothing but complain about how bad everything is – their marriage, their job, their life – you will eventually think the same things regardless of how positive you are.
Negativity begets negativity. Surround yourself with positive people instead.

– David Blank


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What Do You Use for Bookmarks? [COMIC]

Ever been so captivated by a book that the world outside of its pages slips away? But suddenly the doorbell rings. Or the lasagna in the oven begins to burn. Or you realize you haven’t gone to the bathroom in seven hours… You need a bookmark! And a toilet! What do you do? Why, you grab the first thing you can find.

Illustrator Grant Snider of Incidental Comics created a whimsical comic “Some Potential Bookmarks” that portrays what us avid book-readers do when in desperate need of a bookmark. Sometimes you can find something convenient like a grocery list or post-it note, while other times you have to get creative.

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Andy Roberts: What he said, really meant and definitely did not

The typical bowling action of a fast bowler.

What he said:

“The knowledge is with me. But I can’t be going around asking for work.”

Andy Roberts, legendary West Indian fast bowler, is indignant at the treatment meted out to him by the West Indian Cricket Board (WICB). He feels that “the top brass needs a kick in the back side”—the WICB had 18 directors at one time.

What he really meant:

“I don’t get the respect I deserve.”

What he definitely didn’t:

“Make me the 19th director of the West Indian Cricket Board.”

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Diego Maradona: What he said, really meant and definitely did not

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Diego Maradona Is Wary of Argentine Museums

What he said:

"Football there is like a museum – the youngest person is 95 years old. Stay at home with your grandchildren and allow young people to manage Argentinean football."

Argentine soccer legend, Diego Maradona, is critical about the state of affairs in the Argentina Football Association (AFA). Maradona was sacked as national coach following the 0-4 loss to Germany in the World Cup quarters.

What he really meant:

“The Argentina Football Association is a museum and I’m not careful  around them (museums). I’m like a bull in a chinaware shop.”

What he definitely didn’t:

“Nobody told me how to coach the Argentinean side. That’s why we lost.”

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A Supreme Do-Over on Kennedy v. Louisiana?

Yesterday, the Washington Post called for the Supreme Court to reexamine its ban on the death penalty for child rape. This is badly needed and extremely unlikely.

But what if the Supreme Court not only blows a key fact but also bases its ruling, in part, on that error? There was quite a goof in the court’s 5 to 4 decision on June 25 banning the death penalty for those who rape children. The majority determined that capital punishment for child rape was unconstitutional, in part because a national consensus had formed against it. As evidence, the court noted that “37 jurisdictions — 36 States plus the Federal Government — have the death penalty. [But] only six of those jurisdictions authorize the death penalty for rape of a child.” Actually, only two years ago, Congress enacted a death penalty for soldiers who commit child rape, as part of an update to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Irony of ironies: The court has cast doubt on the constitutionality of an act of Congress based on the erroneous claim that the statute did not exist.

The Kennedy case is embarrassing not only for factual errors, but for revealing just how unimpressive the justices get when they decide to apply constitutional criteria so meaningless as “evolving standards of decency” and “the Court’s own judgment.” These criteria could be used to either justify or ban almost any law based on nothing more than the whim of a majority of justices. As I wrote the day the decision was handed down, “The whole point of having a Constitution and precedential judgments is so that individuals and legislatures can predict with some success whether their actions will run afoul of the laws or Constitution. But when it comes to the Court’s holdings on the Eighth Amendment, that goes right out the window.” Even if I agreed that “evolving standards of decency” inform whether a punishment is cruel and unusual, “the Court’s own judgment” is bound to change as often as its members.

Given such freedom within which to work, one would have expected the justices in the majority to at least pull together something believable to justify their conclusion. It is not too much to ask that they actually apply the loose standards which they adopted. Unfortunately, Justice Kennedy’s opinion is simply a mess. As I wrote the day of the opinion, he latches onto any recent laws which limit the death penalty (as in the case of the mentally disabled) and uses it to claim a “national consensus” against the death penalty in general, despite the trend toward executing child rapists. So Justice Kennedy fudged the first criterion.

Last week it turned out that the parties, the justices, and the DoJ overlooked a recent federal law providing for the death penalty for soldiers who rape children. Kennedy’s discussion of “evolving standards of decency,” already weak given the trend and national feelings about capital punishment was substantially undermined. Now, everyone is talking about it. The D.C. gun ban case may have been the most anticipated decision of the term, but Kennedy has taken over the center ring.

That attention may accomplish more than the usual complaining after a contentious case. Typically, the justices can close the term, even if there is bad press and hard feelings, and pat themselves on the back for at least doing the best that they could. Nobody can say that when it comes to this case. Kennedy’s name is on the opinion, which would now be a national joke if it wasn’t so important. And the credibility of the Court itself is in question.

So what can they do? If Louisiana chooses, it can petition the Court to rehear the case. It would be, essentially, a do-over. Even if the justices were to come to the same conclusion (as I would expect, given “the Court’s own judgment” criterion), they could write new opinions. Unfortunately, it takes five votes to rehear a case. Assuming the dissenting justices would want to, they would still need to convince at least one of the majority to join them in granting the petition. Justice Kennedy is the most obvious vote because his name is on the embarrassing opinion. But isn’t it more likely that he will choose to let this slide, believing that the clamor will fade eventually?

~ by Gabriel Malor on July 6, 2008.

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Beelzebub 113

cat fight.

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page 1

title) Cat fight.
left of panel) Because they acknowledge each other, they don't want to give in.

page 2

b1) The master will be coming with me,
b2) so back off Kunieda.
b3) Excuse me?
right of panel) The two wills... will clash!
b4) Can't you see he doesn't want to be with you?
b5) I'll bring him back, so you can return to class now.
b6) What was that?
b7) dah.

page 3

b1) Well aren't you a riot?
b2) Okay, how about we have a little competition to see who he'll return with?

page 4

b1) MASTER!!
b2) MMMchu Mmmchu!!
b3) PAH!
b4) Give me a kiss!
b5) Come this way and I'll give you a big wet one!
b6) ah
b7) That's right, this way.
b8) I-if that's the case, then I'll...

page 5

b1) Belze!
b2) I-it's time to start the
b3) Pudding pudding dance!!
b4) pudding(x4)
b5) Pu-pudding.
b6) Dos-koi!
b7) Dabuhn
b8) Now I feel like flying!
b9,0) aih

page 6

b1) Pudding(x4)
b2) Now I feel like sleeping.
b3) aih aih
panel1) I can't believe my eyes!!
panel2) How do you like that? Any child would know this little jingle. // Thanks to Kouta, I've been made to do this dance to the point that I remember up to the 3rd part.
b4) I think that was a little sneaky of me.
b5) boo-kuh boo kuh
b6) Aih
b7) D-damn you.
b8) Master!!

page 7

b1) I'll dance for you too!!
b2) Hey! Why are you taking your clothes off?
b3) Pudding(x4)
b4) Dos-koi!
b5) WHOA!!
b6) Hey, that's NOT a dance!!
b7) I feel like kicking now.
b8) Ow! That's not even part of the song!

page 8

b1) Pudding(x4)
b2) Now I feel like throwing!
b5) Did that put you back in your place?
b6) What it all comes down to, is the master will choose someone that's powerful.
b7) And that's because he's the demon lord.
b8) In both body and heart.
b9) Hey, hey, you two. // I think you're forgetting the original problem here.
panel) What a nice scene that was.
b0) We're trying to get Beel and me back to normal, right?
b1) So why are you two fighting it out?

page 9

b1) hmph
b2) If that's the way you're going to do things, then I // won't hold back either.
b3) Fine.
b4) Let us women fight...

page 10

b1) In our best situation.
b2) This is more like it.

page 12

b2) Kunieda is actually able to keep up with Hilda's movements!?
b3) Those other 3 wet nurses were no match for her at all!!
b4) ...I see.
b5) Your attacks are much sharper than they were before.
b6) I guess it's true that you were out training.
b7) ah
b8) And in my case, // I'm feeling relieved.
b9) It looks like the wounds you received before have healed completely.

page 13

b1) hmph
b2) However,
b3) it's from here on that I'll show you...
b4) the results of my training.

page 14

b1) ah
panel) Isn't this...?

page 15

panel1) I smell demonic power!
paenl2) That's right, this was the start of this.
panel3) The master ran out of the classroom after he smelled this scent.
b1) Dah BUHN!!

page 16

b1) ha-han.
b2) With this it looks like I...
b3) w-w-w-win this little duel.
b4) hya.

p[age 17

b1) I'm sorry Belze, I can't handle this!!

page 19

b1) ah...
b2) I'm ba-guah
b3) Super Milk time's side effect?
b4) After some time passed, you returned, right?
b5) Tehl mi suhn-agh
panel) Time heals all.

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E3 2014: Horrible Trends and Great Games

E3 is a curiosity in the age of omnipresent information. We’ve grown accustomed to having an army of video game bloggers churning out content and around-the-clock development updates about projects we’ve backed on Kickstarter. Crunching hundreds of “big reveals” into the span of a few press conferences has the curious effect of answering few questions about individual games while simultaneously feeling way too long.

Which press conference is this, again?

Press conferences at E3 worship spectacle. Deafening explosions, stage lasers, gargantuan screens that pour smoke — these are base components of an E3 presentation. Fortunately, both press conferences and Nintendo’s digital presentation centered the efforts of their bombast on the most important thing in this industry: the games themselves. With the empty one-upmanship of hardware announcements from prior years out of the way, we were fed an undiluted stream of games.

These games covered a wide range of tastes and genres, but there were two big groups I was troubled to see represented so heavily.

Halo 2

Looks like we’re gonna have to jump…

Game companies are certainly no strangers to re-releasing old games on new platforms, but at E3 this year nostalgia seemed to have a stronger influence over development schedules than ever before. Wait — can you even consider it “nostalgia” when the object of adoration is less than a year old? The following games are getting the “remastered” treatment:

  • Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • The Last of Us
  • Ratchet & Clank
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Grim Fandango
  • Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire

The release of several of these titles is particularly galling, as they would not exist if the PS4 and XBOne were backwards compatible. Game companies are devoting big resources to create new art assets, animation, network integration, and meaty chunks of code for games that have already been released. Why not put these folks to work on new games?

The answer is evident after you spend a few minutes on any online gaming community: gamers clamor for re-releases. We encourage this strange prioritization every time we re-buy a game we’ve already played. There are plenty of great original games released every month, so it’s not a tremendous problem, but it strikes me as a strange place for consumers to send their money.

Grim Fandango is notable because it’s been dormant for a long time, but I’d still rather play Double Fine’s upcoming original titles like Broken Age part 2 or Massive Chalice.

The other trend that struck me is also far from being new, but it’s become disturbingly prevalent.

With each advancing year, “AAA” game developers expend increasingly absurd effort to mimic the conventions of summer blockbuster cinema. We’re progressively seeing games with more cut scenes, more actors, and less gameplay. The player’s control in these games takes a distant back seat to forced camera perspectives and canned motion capture. This is what we’re told the “next generation” is all about: being cinematic.

This attitude has led to a long series of action games that wish they were movies. These games oftentimes launch to critical and commercial acclaim, despite the fact that they repeatedly rely on sloppy mechanics. They devote painstaking effort to storytelling but have little to no character. E3 2014 had more of these on tap than ever before.

Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

The latest entry in the best-selling “walking through set pieces” simulator. This one stars Kevin Spacey, for God’s sake.

Assassin's Creed Unity

Assassin’s Creed Unity

Unlike its more gun-centric contemporaries,  the Assassin’s Creed series’ primary gameplay mechanic is punishing the player for stepping outside of a pre-determined path. The latest entry will allow multiple players to step through its elaborate canned vignettes.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider

I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed the gameplay of the most recent Tomb Raider reboot. The bow-and-arrow combat combined with the wondrous return of a dedicated “jump” button made for a legitimately fun adventure game. Unfortunately, it looks like the regrettable story elements of that game may be taking a bigger role in the sequel.

The Witcher 3

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The sheer amount of “stuff” in the Witcher series has always been impressive; this has made its gameplay failures all the more disappointing. The control in past entries can be described as “slushy” at best: it feels like every button press is initiating a “swing sword slowly” movie. By all appearances, the third entry allows detailed-but-choppy animation and decadent environments get in the way of an enjoyable experience once again.

Tom Clancy’s The Division

Tom Clancy’s The Division

New York City in ruins! Shooting homicidal survivors from behind cover! Wow, there’s some really cool augmented reality technology in the horrible, horrible future.

The Order 1886

The Order 1886

I think I’d enjoy this game better if it came out on VCD: then I could at least jump around to different chapters at will, providing some manner of interactivity.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Admittedly, this is a series I have yet to play. The myriad glowing recommendations I’ve received for it, however, haven’t mentioned a word about gameplay. It looks like another “wooden polygon people mo-capping their way through canned action set pieces” affair, but I’ll give it a shot eventually.

Despite my existential bellyaching about the game industry, there were a number of new games that looked great!

Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive

A colorful take on crowd control offering over-the-top combat and lovingly goofy embellishments, exemplified by its stylized onomatopoeia. Lots of rail grinding for no physically justifiable reason. Not afraid to embrace video game-iness.

From the creators of Limbo. It uses interesting camera angles to present side scrolling environments as part of a wider, haunting world. Will this be one of those rare games that tells a story through gameplay itself?

Swim through a side-scrolling aquatic world while avoiding strange undersea creatures. Beautiful art, pairing 3D modeling with a clean 2D vector-art sensibility.

No Man's Sky

No Man’s Sky

A game that appears to focus on exploring procedurally generated alien worlds complete with unique flora and fauna. You can hop into a spaceship, fly up through the atmosphere, dodge a space armada, and land on an entirely different planet. The flying segments reminded me of 3DO’s Starfighter, which is a game I haven’t thought about in a very long time.

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros.

The more I hear about this game, the more I want to play it. If they pull off a technical return to form after the disappointing gameplay in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it will be wonderful.

Yoshi's Woolly World

Yoshi’s Woolly World

Yoshi’s Island was an incredible game, but it’s sequels ( Yoshi’s Story, Yoshi’s Island DS ) were decidedly not. This game appears to be taking its own path, and that’s exciting. Building upon the aesthetic from Kirby’s Epic Yarn is icing on the cake.

The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda

Nintendo has stated that their goal is to make this game about exploring a vast environment at your own discretion, re-capturing the feel of the original Legend of Zelda. The glimpse they’ve showed us looks tantalizingly close to realizing this vision.

A remarkably unique take on the multiplayer shooter genre. Your objective is to spray as much of your team’s color ink as possible across a map, while an opposing team is trying to do the same with a different color. Players can turn into squids to swim through like-colored ink to traverse quickly; oppositely colored ink will halt your movement. If executed well, this could be tons of fun.

225798_10100385267188269_1135187_nChris Maguire, Philadelphia – I’m an entrepreneur/web developer; I co-founded Postling and Etsy. I’m also a cartoonist, gamer, musician, and ice cream enthusiast.

3 responses to E3 2014: Horrible Trends and Great Games

  1. Blaaarrrgh! Chris, the Uncharted games are LEGITIMATELY AWESOME. I really haven’t ever mentioned anything about gameplay? Here: “Gameplay.”

  2. revolvingdork – Author

    Your endorsement of Uncharted’s gameplay has been noted. I will buy the entire series for a total of $7.56 at Gamestop and see what’s up.

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GUADEC, WebKit and bikes

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I'm going to GUADECIt seems this year GUADEC is going to be pretty close to my place and so I will surely attend, but this time I won’t go by plane but by bike, which since some months ago has become my main vehicle for moving around the beautiful city where I live in: A Coruña.

Also, besides hanging around the venue and trying to help as much as possible as the local I am, I’ll be talking about WebKitGTK+ in the afternoon on Thursday 26th, so feel free to come round the room if you feel curious about the current status of the whole thing and the current plans for the short and medium term, which are mostly focused around WebKit2 and the roadmap we’re already following.

You probably already read some news related to this coming from my mates in the Igalia WebKit team, (like the improvements in Accelerated Compositing or the migration of our handsome browser Epiphany to using WebKit2), yet I will try to deliver an interesting talk to y’all. I just hope I’ll be able to do it (but please forgive me if I don’t).

So that’s it. As usual, just feel free to talk me if you see me around if you want. I’ll basically be around the venue most of the time during GUADEC, and will attend a11y and WebKitGTK+ BoFs on the 30th and 31st, so I’d say it will be pretty easy to find me.


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  • The report contains detailed information about Huafang Limited Company that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
  • Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Huafang Limited Company. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
  • The Huafang Limited Company financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
  • In the part that describes Huafang Limited Company competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
  • Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Huafang Limited Company business.

About Huafang Limited Company

Huafang Co., Ltd engages in the manufacture and sale fabrics, printed fabrics, textile fabrics, bedding, and dresses primarily in China. It provides home textiles, fabrics, cotton prints, bedding, clothes, and new fiber series. The company also offers cotton active printing, pigment printing, wide-format ornamental printing fabrics, imitation wax, and camouflage series products; and polyester-cotton anti-wrinkle fabrics, cotton khaki series products, poplin class dyeing series products, enzyme sand wash cloth series products, stretch fabric series products, polyamide/cotton interwoven series products, shengmao series products, DOW XLA fiber elastic fabric, and Tencel and bamboo fiber series products. In addition, it manufactures special fiber products and blending series products, biological products, series of sand washing, soybean protein fiber fabrics, cotton broche printed stretch fabrics, seaweeds, coating fabrics, crepes, antibacterial series, and flame retardants series. Further, the company produces embroidered depicting cloths; and Tencle fabrics, cotton, polyester, polyester fabric dyeing cloths, and bleaching products, as well as Hemp series products and embroidery products. It also operates in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia, southeast Asia, Latin America, the European Union, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Africa. The company is based in Binzhou City, China.

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1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4.1. Financial Statements
  4.1.1. Income Statement
  4.1.2. Balance Sheet
  4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
  4.2.1. Profitability
  4.2.2. Margin Analysis
  4.2.3. Asset Turnover
  4.2.4. Credit Ratios
  4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
  4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
  4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5.1. Huafang Limited Company Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Huafang Limited Company and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Huafang Limited Company and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Huafang Limited Company Industry Analysis
  5.4.1. Clothing, Textiles and Accessories Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Huafang Limited Company Industry Position Analysis

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7.1. Experts Opinion
7.2. Experts Estimates

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

Huafang Limited Company Key Facts
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Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Huafang Limited Company Key Executives
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Huafang Limited Company Major Shareholders
Huafang Limited Company History
Huafang Limited Company Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Huafang Limited Company Offices and Representations
Huafang Limited Company SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Huafang Limited Company Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Huafang Limited Company Capital Market Snapshot
Huafang Limited Company Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Clothing, Textiles and Accessories Industry Statistics
Huafang Limited Company Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Huafang Limited Company Consensus Recommendations1
Analyst Recommendation Summary1
Price Target Summary1
Experts Recommendation Trends1
Revenue Estimates Analysis1
Earnings Estimates Analysis1
Historical Surprises1
Revenue Estimates Trend1
Earnings Estimates Trend1
Revenue Revisions1

Huafang Limited Company Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Huafang Limited Company 1-year Stock Charts
Huafang Limited Company 5-year Stock Charts
Huafang Limited Company vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Huafang Limited Company vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Huafang Limited Company Article Density Chart

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

  • How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

  • Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
  • Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
  • Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
  • Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
  • Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
  • Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

  1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
  2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
  3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
  4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
  5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

  • Tangible resources
    • Financial
    • Physical
    • Technological
    • Organizational
  • Intangible resources
    • Human
    • Innovation and Creativity
    • Reputation
  • Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

  • Valuable?
  • Rare?
  • Costly to imitate?
  • Organized properly?
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Date A Live Final Episode

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Well, that pretty much went the way anyone would expect it to go. So this show’s the first show that’s ending this season for me? Who would have thought? Anyway, it’s far from over anyway. The ending has no resolution and there are still plenty of loose ends. And that will have to wait for the second season, which has been confirmed (not that I have to worry about it).

Looks like there isn’t a shortage of stuff for a second season. I imagine whoever gave Kotori Spirit powers is a potential enemy. There are probably more spirits to fight. We still don’t know why Shido is different the way he is. And Kurumi is still floating about.

Date A Live Episode 11: Race against the clock

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Wait…is Shido doing a repeat of his three dates at once experience? This guy is nuts. Anyway, time is running out for Kotori…but naturally, Shido knows something about her powers that no one else does. If only he could just remember it. Convenient amnesia can be pretty inconvenient sometimes, right? Random side note: that suit is supposed to be a single unit with the power of an entire AST squad, right? Isn’t an entire AST square pretty weak?

So everything comes down to the last episode next week. Kurumi seems to have basically been forgotten…Kotori still needs to be resolved. Origami still has to fight her and it looks from the preview like Tohka and Yoshino will be helping. And it will probably end with Shido stopping Kotori’s rampage at the last second. Are we done yet?

Date A Live Episode 10: And suddenly switch to another girl

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Wait wait wait…they didn’t finish with Kurumi yet…they’re already going to Kotori? There’s the vendetta with Origami and the time limit thrown in for Kotori, so it’s almost like Kurumi has just been pushed aside. Does that mean she’s dead? Don’t get me wrong…I’m fine with that. You just gotta tell me.

Anyway, looks like a pretty hard focus on Kotori next week. So what’s the plan? Save her next week, then wrap up things with Kurumi? But don’t they need time for Origami and Kotori to have their epic fight? That’s gotta be half an episode at least. Or maybe someone is lying to me about how many episodes are left.

Date A Live Episode 9: Get time on your side

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So Kurumi uses time to manipulate time. It’s a reasonable cost for her power, but it makes me wonder. Do Tohka and Yoshino’s powers have a similar cost? Do they sacrifice something as well in order to use their powers? It doesn’t make sense that Kurumi is the only one with a cost just because she has a strong ability.

And suddenly Kotori in Spirit form. Quite a crazed look she had there on the preview. Is she going to do something drastic? And why is there no image of Kurumi in the preview? Don’t tell me they just suddenly change gears or something…

Date A Live Episode 8: Triple date?!?

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Wow Shido…trying to do three dates at once? That’s some serious bravery you got there. Especially when one of them is nuts like Kurumi (and arguably Origami too). Well, the date seemed to go by without much incident. I guess they were just trying to get the Kurumi thing.

So is Kurumi supposed to join the cast or what? She seems so insane…like excessively so. It’s kinda creepy. Can we finally find out how her powers work already? Surely next week, we will. I know it has something to do with time manipulation, but that doesn’t exactly explain the guns and the weird vector hands she uses. Just kill her again, Mana, and explain everything.

Date A Live Episode 7: Another sister?

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So we got some new characters, it seems, that are linked somehow. Could it be that the Spirit that Mana claims to have killed is actually Kurumi? Well, if we look on the evil side, Mana could have some partnership with Kurumi or something. But based on what is seen so far, the more likely explanation is simply that Mana is hunting Kurumi, who keeps reviving through time magic.

Well, it’s the first Spirit we’ve had who isn’t just scared, but actually has some malicious intent. We’ll see how Shido handles this…if Mana’s really his blood relative, that should mean she has similar abilities, right? When will she get to use those?

Date A Live Episode 6: I’ve seen enough anime to know where this is going

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So yeah…as I said last week, nothing happened this week. They went to a hot spring…stuff like that. Explosions were a nice touch, though. Every hot spring trip needs a little excitement, right? Anyway…that’s about all I got for this episode.

Looks like we’re taking a break from Spirits for a while…next week will be the introduction of a new character in the AST. I guess it’ll be a clash between her and Origami…she seems to have some relation to Shido too. Maybe she’ll get Origami to leave the AST or something.

Date A Live Episode 5: Origami the Opportunist

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Second Spirit get. That was pretty easy. This guy’s seriously building a harem…this can’t be good. Too bad the hint we got about his powers isn’t much of a hint…of course it has to have something to do with a Spirit if it affects Spirits in that way. Is he a Spirit or what? Yeesh…

Next week looks like more Yoshino stuff? Or just everyone in general? Kinda looks like everyone going out on a trip or something together. I don’t foresee anything substantial happening next week based on what I’ve seen in the preview. Don’t you agree?

Date A Live Episode 4: Date 2 Start

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A silent puppeteer type, huh? Kinda like Yukie from Majikoi, right? Shouldn’t the hundred waifus have been able to recognize that? Can we replace that guy with Keima or something? Anyway, other than introducing the next spirit to be captured, we have Tohka’s state to consider.

Seems her powers will return when she gets emotional…not something you want in a woman. I said it before…Keima had convenient memory loss…how is Shido going to handle relationships with these spirits all at once? That’s like next-level harem tactics or something. Either way, next week looks to be the capture of the second spirit…or at least he’ll be able to calm her down.

Date A Live Episode 3: Would you like to continue?

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Shido died…oh wait. This guy has extra lives in real life? Keima would be so jealous. Looks like Shido isn’t normal after all…not only did he somehow resurrect himself, but he also was able to diffuse Tohka at the end with a kiss. If he had only done the second thing, I would think that maybe all Spirits would be like that with anyone. But it seems he’s special somehow. Don’t tell me…the whole show’s a game?

So…on to the next Spirit? First one captured? This is a game that gets exponentially harder with each win…sounds fun, right? With each Spirit, he has to balance the previous Spirits, after all. Almost makes Keima’s quests look like a walk in the park.


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From the previous assignment, I justify the recommendations for business objectives, management responsibilities, funding and IT governance issues. The assignment should have addressed more issues as discussed in the following paragraphs.

Current level of architectural maturity

The previously submitted assignment discussed the current level of architecture maturity as business modularity architecture. To add to this, the organization works on allied-unrelated operational model that emphasizes each business containing the fundamental exertion essential to create advantage independently. Matters of common interest are acknowledged and operated among the businesses. It has developed uniform policies that span across many businesses and help synergies across them to be established. Some support is shared across the businesses (Jeanne, Peter & David, 2006).

Technical Economies of Scale

Termed as “Recommendations to address IT capabilities” in the previous assignment is a very important aspect of achieving an economy of scale. To add to the recommended strategy, it is essential to emphasize the need to use modern facilities that automated production at lower costs. A challenge in this strategy is the initial costs. However, I would like to point out that the final productivity will depend on this. The Proctor and Gamble, which is a well-established long-time market player, can work out on this strategy. However, the organization must not be too fast in adopting a technology as this can cause difficulties for employees in all operations. Not all technologies are suitable for implementation in organizations, therefore meeting thorough preparations is necessary before the change can be initiated (Chris, 2008).

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The previous assignment answered the question of who should be made responsible for certain management tasks. An improvement on this will be based on the geographical area of work and the kind of customers. The management activity in the organization should be based on the diverse needs of the customers and the employees. The organization should encourage management activity to be centred on understanding clients’ requirements and needs. It also should train managers on how to handle stress business environments. This decision is very important for the organization to develop and maintain comparative advantage.

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The company should embark on advancing on its risk management and introducing diversity in its products. It should as well pay attention to education and research in order to improve the quality of its product. Spreading the risk is an important approach to using economies of scale and working long-term perspectives.

Commercial Economies of Scale

Another approach to improve on the economy of scale lies on the purchases. The organization can work on their delivery rates to encourage more purchases from them. It can implement systems such as the just-in-time inventory management for this purpose (Jeanne, Peter & David, 2006). Ordering in bulk is another approach to control raw materials purchase. The rationale for these changes is to create a platform for developing a cost effective production and a saving scheme.

Global Interactions

As suggested in the previous assignment, the organization should work on better communication while encouraging digitization of the firm. While considering these factors, the organization should consider the minimum economy of scale. If at some point it has too many employees, the income will be negatively affected. When the products are too many or the locations are too many, the company may lose control and be overtaken by those companies that provide alternative products.

These changes are very important for the organization to achieve and use economies of scale, which is getting primary goods for lower costs and earning high revenues.

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