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      Appearances and Disappearances: In Memory of Jonathan Schwartz

      Taking as their subjects childhood, the transience of seasons, and our shared mortality, the 16mm films of Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018) devote themselves to the ephemerality of external worlds and a gestural responsiveness to internal states. This program of seven poetic films made over 15 years—combining cutout collage, lyrical camerawork, and elliptical editing—merge wonder and disquiet, elation and sorrow, moving from intimacies of fatherhood and love to contemplations of nature and culture.

      Curated by Irina Leimbacher. Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts.

      For Them Ending (2005, 16mm, 3 minutes )
      swallowed up in the sky, the sound sustained by echo, always fading.the nature of a season, moving forward with growth or death or growth. or I was wondering how to make New England fall colors linger so if you couldn't visit soon the yellow oranges and reds would still be waiting for you

      Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums (2013, 16mm, 8 minutes ) (second picture above)
      That fall it was not intentional to have a Galway Kinnell book on the table near where the caterpillar in the doorway, feeding on our offerings, became the butterfly, feeding on honey water, staying in our house until we let it go. Or it was not known about the deer in Putney or that the baby birds in the raspberry bushes would cry to us in summer. A beloved, old friend once visited Vermont to do some work for Galway Kinn ell and she described a stone table in the field where they ate meals in the afternoon—it sounded like a song and so I looked at the book and from “Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” here is that line: “The still undanced cadence of vanishing.”

      If the War Continues (2012, 16mm, 5 minutes ) (first picture above)
      “and before I could be noticed again and taken to task, I spoke to the tiny blessed star within me, shut off my heartbeat, made my body disappear into the shadow of a bush, and continued my previous voyage without thinking about returning home ever again.” – Hermann Hesse

      Den of Tigers (2002, 16mm, 19 minutes )
      an invitation to walk look listen. West Bengal, India. collected, or pretend to.

      Winter Beyond Winter (2016, 16mm, 11 minutes )
      apologies towards the inevitable.

      The Crack-Up (2017, 16mm to digital, 18 minutes)
      "The ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." (F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up, 1936)

      A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater (2018, 16mm to digital, 17 minutes)
      “The last film Jonathan Schwartz completed before his death in October at the age of 45, A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater is, like so many of Jonathan’s films, about potentially seeing entire worlds in the smallest of objects and gestures, asking us to be attentive to the seemingly inconsequential margins of life where, if we simply look, great beauty resides.” (Michael Sicinski, MUBI)

      New Year Sun (2010, 16mm, 3 minutes )
      “ which Schwartz approaches light traveling through water in all its forms. His macro lens strives to get closer to the essence, to the transparency of things, and yet, the tenebrous and doomed cry of a church's bell, and the ascending, unstoppable pitch that accompany the images end up close to the sound of a derailed train—and the unfocused, unclear vision that comes with it.” (Monica Saviron)

      Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts.

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Diverted from the Slope

I swear, I wasn’t trying to test my husband.  I honestly was reconsidering our TOTALLY JOINT MONEY arrangement for Kyle’s sake.  My personality as drifted further toward “saver” since I became financially independent from my parents and I’ve imposed those tendencies on Kyle to a great extent since we got married.  Kyle is a saver as well but he enjoyed buying electronics and making some small impulse purchases before we were married and those purchases have slowed considerably.

In the last few months I’ve wondered if I’ve kept too tight a rein on our budget.  We still have a monthly autowithdrawal into our Electronics savings account but it’s fairly minor and we’ve all but eliminated fast food and last-minute-dining from our life.  I’ve worried that Kyle is lying dormant now, under pressure, but will soon erupt in a frustrated spending spree.

Kyle trained all summer for a part-time position at our church, and this month he finally got his first paycheck.  This past weekend I put together a proposal for what I would like to do with the money: after meeting all of our percentage obligations, we can open up a new savings account just for Kyle and put the remainder of the money there so that he can spend whatever accumulates there however he wants..

Up until now it has been easy to have totally joint money (all joint accounts, no separate allowances even) as our stipends are nearly identical and we have very similar money personalities.  Cash birthday presents have presented us with challenges to our joint money mindset but nothing like this additional straight-up-time-for-money paycheck.  Kyle has worked really hard to qualify for this job and has to get up super early on the weekends to perform it – shouldn’t he get to spend the non-obligated money however he wants?  I don’t feel the need to have my own individual money but perhaps Kyle does.

Thankfully, Kyle pulled me back from the brink of the slippery slope of separate money.  An individual savings account for him would have led to his and hers clothing and toys and food separate money and who knows how to stop that train.  Kyle told me “No separate money!  Let’s just put it in Electronics.”

A man after my own heart.  🙂

Have you ever been tempted to separate part of your money from your spouse?  Does a salary feel different from sidle hustle money?  If you have any separate money, how do you decide what is joint and what is separate?  Has your spouse saved you from making any terrible decisions recently?

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32 Responses to "Diverted from the Slope"

  1. I do have a sepearte checking account. It’s primarily for my debt payments as their variable due dates always frustrated her. $100 from my paychecks, plus all of my other income streams ($200-300/month) go in there. Mostly I’m letting the extra pile up for a baloon payment at the end of the year. The original plan was to pay off my last credit card with that payment, but I didn’t make anywhere near as much this year as I had planned. But the understanding is that if I want to spend more than my budget for “me” money, I have to do it out of my own pocket.

    Incidently, the rest of my paycheck goes into a joint savings account that is used for short/medium-term savings goals, such as our down payment or a new tv. My wife’s paychecks go into our checking account and cover all of our regular expenses, plus a little extra.
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    1. Emily says:

      Variable due dates would frustrate me, too! Once you have your debt paid off what’s the joint/separate plan?

      1. To be honest, I haven’t thought that far ahead. Unless I get a lot better at bringing in side-income, that’s about 7 years away yet. At that point, I’ll probably close my checking account and let the money pile up in our joint savings while we try to figure out how to spend all that money.
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  2. Emily too says:

    Money is complicated! We moved to joint + allowances to make things easier so we wouldn’t always be asking “is this purchase joint or individual,” but it still happens sometimes.

    For instance, it turns out I’m a bigger spender than my husband, in that my allowance isn’t enough to pay for my once or twice yearly haircuts, or a new pair of shoes, without saving up and skipping out on happy hours and entertainment for a long time (which is the purpose of the allowance for both of us). But those have been part of “personal spending” in part because they do cost me more – husband buzz-cuts his own hair over the bathroom sink for free, and can get away with wearing sneakers to work daily, which doesn’t seem appropriate in my field. Also, since women have to meet different expectations of appearance than men, it’s hard to draw the line between “wants” and “needs” sometimes. I am pretty sure that if I were to say “hey, can I spend joint money on a haircut” the answer would be “yeah, no problem,” but I haven’t yet.

    I’m not sure this is something that totally joint money would fix, though – it would just turn into guilt over spending “our” money frivolously for “my” purposes, whereas at least allowances release us from worrying about if a purchase is useful to the other person! Sounds like ugly feelings but they come out of a place of wanting to protect the other person’s interests and not take advantage of them. How do you and Kyle avoid this problem if, say, he DOES want to buy some electronics that you wouldn’t use?

    My working out of state, and keeping separate grant and side hustle money to pick up a lot of those costs, has been another headache, but a necessary one. We’re hoping we can get a subletter for the spring to help with that, although our apartment isn’t really a 2-bedroom so we couldn’t ask market price.

    Whew! Long comment. I guess the gist of it is…how do you manage complex and asymmetrical needs, with OR without totally joint money?

    1. Emily says:

      I have had all the same thoughts as you over this issue at least for our joint money, and considering what we would do differently if we had separate money (answer: too much).

      We haven’t said this explicitly to each other in the context of joint money, but here are three principles we use:
      1) Our marriage comes before our individual preferences.
      2) Fair does not necessarily mean equal.
      3) Give grace if you want to receive grace (i.e. the golden rule).

      Basically, we trust each other to delineate between our own wants and needs (and needs-that-we-want-to-upgrade). If one of us needs something – yes, haircuts, clothes, electronics – we buy it. Our joint budget provides room for all needs and upgraded needs. As for wants, we talk it over and look at our account balances and often the person bringing the want to the table will withdraw it if there are higher priorities. Kyle isn’t really qualified to judge what clothes I need and how much I need to spend, for instance, because of the differences between expectations of men and women like you mentioned. He trusts me to self-regulate. Likewise, Kyle just likes fancy gadgets a lot more than I do and I don’t want to make him live in agony or whatever because he doesn’t have something that in his world is pretty much a need. He also self-regulates very well – he has been without a smartphone for almost two months now and is still researching his options! He knows where the money will come from and so can judge if what he wants is the best use given our whole financial picture. He wouldn’t force me into a big purchase if I wasn’t comfortable with, but we’re both working off the same information, you know?

      I definitely understand there might be some tension over things that are the exclusive use of one person or the other, but I wouldn’t feel guilty over using our money for something just for me. My well-being contributes to our marital well-being, after all.

      I think this approach is easy for us because we have such similar money personalities (though different preferred spending areas), we have big joint priorities (travel), and we keep a tight budget to begin with.

      1. Emily too says:

        Yeah, that all makes sense. This is way more an issue of my not trusting myself to tell “wants” apart from “needs” than him not trusting me, because we both definitely presume each other’s good faith. I suspect some things simply get easier with cash flow as well, no matter your money management system; when your budget is a bit less tight, getting a haircut does not feel like it “costs” so much in tradeoffs.

        1. Emily says:

          I imagine having more cash flow will make these discussions more difficult, actually… I don’t feel guilty about spending what I need to but we might have more yours-vs.-mine tension when we are able to meet more wants.

  3. SWR says:

    We have a joint budget/spending plan and joint goals for our money, but all of our accounts are still individual. I think we’ll keep it this way forever- but maybe we’ll combine if/when we have kids or one of us becomes a stay-at-home parent.

    Eventually when we’re both working we’ll establish a joint account for our joint payments- housing, auto, insurance, etc., and then contribute relative to our individual incomes (so, if I’m making 75% of our total, I’ll put in 75% of the contribution to the account).

    There are no secrets-we do our banking side-by-side, so I really don’t see the difficulty with keeping it separate.
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    1. Emily says:

      I don’t think keeping separate finances is technically difficult either (or requires any more or less trust than joint).

  4. Michelle says:

    Everything of ours is joint. It works for us because I can help keep him in check even though he is a CRAZY spendy spender.
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    1. Emily says:

      How do you keep him in check? Is it enough to notice his spending?

      1. Michelle says:

        We have finance “meetings” and talk about our money a decent amount. He knows that he needs it because he isn’t good with money.
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        1. eemusings says:

          That’s pretty much how we work it too Michelle!
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  5. AverageJoe says:

    Wow! You almost went over the cliff! I liked your story. It shows why you’re such a great couple 😉
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    1. Emily says:

      Aw, thanks Joe.

  6. My bf and I cohabitate, so we aren’t married, but I have a hard time imagining myself sharing ALL of the money once we are married. It might just be our personalities, but we never fight about money. We split our fixed expenses and then have separate accounts for our flex spending. When we go on vacation he puts it on his credit card and I just pay him for half of it. It’s not the best or most involved method, but it works for us 🙂
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    1. Emily says:

      Sounds like pretty standard partial pooling.

  7. We don’t have any seperate accounts and it works well for us. The only exception is that if one of us gets money or a gift card for birthdays/Christmas then we spend it how we want. Other than that, we make all financial decisions together. It works well!
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    1. Emily says:

      Usually how I want to “spend” cash gifts is to just put it into short-term savings (whatever needs the most help at the moment) but Kyle spends it on himself… so there was a bit of tension last time it came up. I’m being a bit unrealistic, though!

  8. We have our own separate fun accounts (aka allowance, blow money, etc) and then what we call our “mutual fun” account. The individual accounts take care of things like going out for lunch at work, buying tools and electronics (me), expensive haircuts (her), or anything else that we want to spend on ourselves. The mutual fun account is for vacations, eating out together, date nights, etc.

    So far it has worked out well for us. We may decide to increase or decrease specific accounts based on how they’re working over the long run, but for now it seems to be working well.

    I like your point that fair doesn’t always mean equal, for example my wife has to fulfill a certain numbers of continuing education credits (she’s in the medical field) that aren’t covered by her job (basically a forced pay cut) so rather than arguing about it each time it comes up we created another account for continuing ed. It’s certainly not equal, but it wouldn’t be fair to her to ask her to pay for it.

    Aside from the individual fun accounts, we agree that anything else should be together. Haircuts may eventually fall under the together category, although I’m like “Emily too”s husband, I cut my hair with a clipper in the bathroom.

    Great post.
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    1. Emily says:

      I like the specificity of your system. I just think if we tried to separate anything we wouldn’t know where to stop… And I don’t mind checking in with Kyle when I need to spend some money. We share a car anyway so it would be pretty difficult for one of us to make a purchase without the other knowing!

      Hair is one expense that I can see going to either gender for typical greater spending – I get really cheap haircuts so if they’re infrequent enough Kyle would outspend me in that area. Except now I cut his hair, which is a fund bonding experience (except when I screw up!).

  9. I’m not sure you were in any danger of sliding down a slope into splitting a plate of french fries based on who ate more! But I like his response — electronics are his thing, anyway, right?
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    1. Emily says:

      Well, our next two purchases from that account are going to be a smartphone for each of us, so… not exclusively. 🙂 And any other device he might buy I would use at least part of the time.

      Oh and believe me, Kyle eats ALL the French fries!

  10. We deal with these issues by DH having an allowance.
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    1. Emily says:

      I guess the conclusion was that I was creating an issue out of nothing since Kyle is much more able to handle the tight budget than I gave him credit for.

      How did you decide to do a unilateral allowance? We’ve talked a lot about “fairness” in this post so how do you think that relates to the allowance?

        1. Emily says:

          He wants to keep it all together! And actually we recently came up with another idea for his side hustle money that both of us will use.

  11. […] INCOME: Same as last month from grad school, plus Kyle got a small paycheck for his side hustle. […]

  12. […] we agreed he should be the one to decide how to use this portion of the income (of course toward shared spending).  He chose for the gravy gravy to go into our Travel account at the present.  I think this is a […]

  13. SarahN says:

    One day my BF and I will share this stuff, but at the moment, we just pay in turns for meals out etc. Interestingly, we talk about other people’s money and spending habits a bit – cause ours are so similar. We both feel annoyed if we spend a lot, and devalue some items over others (and then spend money where others wouldn’t ‘waste’ it – like coffees!) I can’t wait til we get to the point where we share savings goals – but how is a big hurdle to get over first, so everyone comments are really interesting
    SarahN recently posted..Ways I ‘spend’ money

    1. Emily says:

      No reason to rush sharing finances! It’s a super-important decision and step. Kyle and I were transparent in our finances before we got married and joined them, but it took several years to get to that point.

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Green Lantern #1 Review: Life Sucks for Sinestro and Hal

The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.

Despite Geoff Johns’ writing of a charisma-free Green Lantern two weeks ago in Justice League #1, he delivers a solid start this week for Green Lantern #1. While Green Lantern #1 won’t blow readers away or totally shake up the Green Lantern world, it’s a worthy addition to the DC reboot and contains some exciting twists.

Here’s a quick summary of Issue #1:

The issue opens with Sinestro being sworn into the Green Lantern Corps once again. Despite his past betrayal, he has been chosen by a Green Lantern ring, and the Watchers respect the wisdom of the ring. After Sinestro leaves, one Watcher speaks out against these actions, but he is quickly and violently silenced by the rest of the council.

Meanwhile, Hal Jordan is no longer a Green Lantern or employed and is drowning in a mountain of overdue bills. Feeling completely lost, he ends up begging Carol Ferris for a pilot position. Unfortunately, Hal has such a bad accident record that Ferris wouldn’t be able to insure her jets, so she ends up offering a disgruntled Hal a non-pilot job.

In space sector 1417, Sinestro watches as the Sinestro Corps, his former army, enslaves his home planet of Korugar. A Sinestro Corps member attacks Sinestro, thinking he’s a Green Lantern. When the warrior realizes who he’s fighting, he stops and inquires why Sinestro is wearing a Green Lantern suit. Enraged over the mistreatment of his home world, Sinestro kills the solider and destroys his ring before it can choose another Sinestro Corps member.

Back on Earth, Hal Jordan suffers an epic fail on a dinner date with Carol, when she mistakenly thinks he’s about to propose and, instead, he asks her to cosign on the lease of a car. Returning home to find an eviction notice, Hal hears a familiar voice behind him. There stands Sinestro, telling Hal that if he wants his ring back, he’ll do everything Sinestro says.

The Good

The focus on Sinestro. Sinestro has always been an interesting character both in story and visual appeal, and Johns made a smart choice by featuring him heavily in the first issue of Green Lantern and making him the focus of the cover. He’s one of those villains that readers just can’t get enough of and whose presence commands all attention when he shows up in a scene. Sinestro is in a unique place now as a resistant member of the Green Lantern Corps and possessor of Hal Jordan’s old ring. Sinestro is a character who has a rabid desire to control his own destiny, so the obstacles Johns has placed in front of him are sure to pay off as the series unfolds.

A number of uncomfortable situations = one great set up. As the title of this review suggest, Johns seems determined to make sure both Jordan and Sinestro hate their @#$%ing lives. Jordan is powerless, unemployed, and drowning in debt, and, by the end of the issue, he’s also isolated his girlfriend and been evicted. Sinestro is forced back into the Green Lantern Corps, watches his home planet become enslaved by his former army, and is forced to such a low point that he decided to team up with his worst enemy. While this is all bad for the characters, it’s damn good for the readers, as these low points will surely unravel a good chunk of drama in the coming issues. Also, it seems like Johns is trying to mirror some of Morrison’s choices for Action Comics’ Superman by having him struggle with relatable problems that readers may be experiencing. Surely, DC plans to include the presence of these sort of issues in a number of the New 52 issues, and it’s nice to see it congruently present here.

Doug Manhnke, Christian Alamy, and David Baron. Green Lantern has always been a comic ripe with visual possibilities, and the visual team of Manhnke, Alamy, and Baron succeeds in this aspect with flying colors. Manhnke’s pencils and Alamy’s inks are sharp and precise, with well-crafted scenery and facial expressions that add real mood and emotion to the comic. Colors are just as important in a story with such cosmic visual history, and Baron delivers! The contrast between Sinestro’s reddish skin and glowing Green Lantern suit is vivid and exciting from the very first page. The parade of thrilling imagery continues with the alien blue hue of the Watchers and the striking colors present in Sinestro’s battle with the Sinestro Corps member over the planet Korugar. Imaginative visuals like these make me feel like a kid again!

The Bad

Johns’ scripts seem to be fairly “hookless.” Ok, sure, there’s the end page where Sinestro demands Hal Jordan does everything he says in order to get his ring back, but, honestly, how long is that going to play out? Do any readers really think it’ll take long for Hal to get his ring back? I mean the book is called Green Lantern, right? It’s safe to assume Hal Jordan will be Green Lantern at some point, correct? (P.S. - I will give mad props to Johns if he proves me completely wrong and keeps the ring on Sinestro!) Anyway, the bigger issue for me was how I felt similarly underwhelmed about the ending of Justice League #1. Again, Johns has delivered a solid Green Lantern story, but that’s to be expected. If the goal is to reinvigorate old readers and cement new ones, then each one of these comics should be top level with captivating story hooks as endings that make you desperate for the next issue. Adequate just isn’t going to cut it.

The Ugly

The buzz on Green Lantern #1 seems to be fairly positive. Of the reviews that have been posted, most former readers seem happy that the story they were following previously picks up here, yet they mentioned that it still seemed to serve as a good lead-in for new readers. Still, it did prompt one reviewer to state that this book should just be called Green Lantern #68.

All in all, Green Lantern #1 is a decent book, but with 52 different new DC first issues to choose from and a constantly dwindling amount of comic buying funds, I feel this may be one series I will hold off on for now and pick up in trade paperback when Comic-Con rolls around.

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The cool American store that will soon be opening a shop over here.

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Until very recently, it was not possible to buy J. Crew clothes in Britain. And although you can now purchase its clothes online, it hasn't quite (yet) opened a shop here. This has been key in making J. Crew what Banana Republic and, before it, Gap, once were: the American retailer to which clothes-loving Brit tourists invariably pay a visit whilst across the pond.

After all, there are fewer fashion fixes more satisfying than picking up a lovely, good-quality garment when it is shot through with the bonus glow of being exotically foreign and unobtainable at home.

J. Crew started life as a catalogue company in the early Eighties and initially rode that decade's preppie wave and prospered. Then, for several years, the brand's fortunes slumped - until it recruited Millard Drexler, a retail executive credited with masterminding the rise of Gap.

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Under Drexler, J. Crew has bounced back. Its womenswear is ferociously successful. And its menswear is now overseen by a bearded Dutchman named Frank Muytjens, who has shown a remarkable talent for subtly repackaging Americana for Americans. For several years now, I have been an irregular haunter of J. Crew when working in New York, picking up a wonderful cadet jacket, an attractive pair of Sperry Topsider sailing-style chukka boots (which unfortunately smelt seriously whoofy with repeated wear), one or two nice shirts and a fetching pair of cords. So this week, knowing that J. Crew has plans to open a shop in London soon and has already started selling much of its stock on the British website, I nipped into a J. Crew to profile its wares for this column - and to hunt down a new shirt.

Muytjens and his team have a jackdaw's knack for incorporating other brands' finest items into their own stores. Red Wing boots and Alden, two of America's best men's shoe manufacturers, make some brilliant Crew-stamped models, and there is a small but excellent selection of Barbours - quite trendy here. Its knitwear is also good, particularly a current range of cable-knit cashmere that comes in a vibrantly flecked kaleidoscope of colours.

Checked shirt, £75,

Yet this time round, J. Crew seemed to have lost a little of its lustre. I couldn't find anything in-store - apart from the collaborative shoes - that was made in America. The shirts I tried on either seemed overlight and ill-constructed, or lumpily cut. And the prices suddenly didn't appear the steal they used to be. Those cable-knit sweaters were $298, and a Chinese-made jacket - albeit in Harris Tweed - in the store's in-house "Ludlow" slim-fit cut was $548.

After the inevitable mark-up that comes with an American retail debut in Britain, those prices will creep up even more. Frustrated, but determined to bag this trip's J. Crew trophy, I eventually plumped for a "sun-faded" $69.50 pale yellow button-down shirt (Chinese made, again) and wandered down the road.

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Across it was a branch of Old Navy, a discount-level clothes store that is part of the Gap group and was, once, under Drexler's control, too. Inside, it took me two minutes to find a fantastic Vietnamese-made fatigue jacket for $59.95 and, even better, a white, Indian-made version of the classic shirt I'd just bought in J. Crew - but for $19 dollars. The Old Navy shirt is cut much more cleanly - although the J. Crew has better-quality buttons. But $50 is too much to pay for superior buttons.

So when J. Crew does open in Britain, or if you go for a browse on Mr Porter (very efficient at returns) shop with care.

Or even better, save up the price of a J. Crew tweed jacket and a J. Crew cashmere jumper, fly to New York, and check out Old Navy.

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Manish Malhotra to open Delhi Couture Week

Manish Malhotra to open Delhi Couture Week

Manish Malhotra to open Delhi Couture WeekVeteran designer Manish Malhotra will open Delhi Couture Week. The five-day fashion extravaganza starts Aug 8.

“I am so happy doing the opening show at theDelhi Couture Week Aug 8,” Malhotra tweeted.

The designer, who has styled some of the popular faces in Bollywood including KajolKareena Kapoor, Rani MukherjiAishwarya RaiSonam KapoorPreity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor, is known for his collection that boasts of a perfect fusion of traditional and contemporary designs.

At the forthcoming event, Malhotra will showcase couture and bridal line. Before unveiling his creation, he will present a short film showing preparation behind bridal collection.

“Going to be making a short film on my couture collection. 2:5 to 3 minutes film will be shown before my show at the Delhi Couture Week,” he tweeted.

“Film will be all about the concept and story of the bridal collection for the Delhi couture fashion week,” he further added.

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SARAJEVO, March 28 (FENA) - Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH PA), Dragan Čovicć, congratulated the President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, on his country's official accession into NATO.

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Platforms Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Genre Shooting bullets, transcended
Score 9  Clock score of 9
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As the release date for Borderlands 2 grew closer, I was surprised at how excited I was for the game. I loved the first Borderlands, its challenge, skill progression, and charm had obviously stuck with me, so the sequel was an obvious buy. But I decided to push purchasing it to the first major Steam sale, that couldn’t be too far off, right? Well, thanks to 2K Games coming through and sending me a review copy, I was back in Pandora much sooner than I thought.

Borderlands 2 was released last month on Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. I played the original Borderlands on my Xbox 360, but since then I’ve built a gaming computer and my Xbox Live has expired, it was an easy decision to switch over to the PC. I’ve honestly enjoyed the experience even more on my PC, essentially no loading times certainly help, and the superior graphics don’t hurt either.

I wish I could have gotten this review done sooner, but I just finished the game for the first time and Steam reports I played for 50 hours! I completed every side quest I could find and helped a friend level up a few times, but this is a big game that is worth exploring. 50 hours of one game in a month though for me is pretty crazy. Here’s my review of Borderlands 2.

Alright, I’m back after spending two hours making my first Mechromancer character and bringing her up to level 9. I swore I wouldn’t go back to the game until I at least finished this review, but that didn’t take long at all, Borderlands 2 is fun and addicting in ways many games can just dream about. From chasing loot to leveling up to finishing more quests, there’s an endless stream of hooks, lines, and sinkers to be drawn in by.

Borderlands 2 is at heart a fast-paced first person shooter. There are no predefined guns in the game, they’re all generated and randomized to create a unique arsenal for everyone, and range from a pistol that shoots out fire bullets to an assault rifle that launches exploding shells that bounce along the ground. You gain experience by killing enemies and finishing quests, and while leveling up you can put points into three different talent trees that unlock abilities or boost your stats. It’s Diablo mixed with Doom mixed with Final Fantasy and topped off with some beautiful cel-shading giving it an industry unique look.

Borderlands 2 Siren First Person Cave Caverns Magic

Borderlands 1 was a huge (and surprise) success that caught gamers off guard with its big world, multiple classes, humorous characters, and a story that could be replayed at least twice for even greater challenges. I’ll be honest and say that not a lot has changed, and that isn’t a bad thing. Gearbox found great success last time and they didn’t mess with the formula more than it needed. Let’s talk a bit about what has changed.

The character classes have evolved nicely since the first game, with the berzerker being upgraded to a gunzerker (his talent goes from madly punching people to dual-wielding and madly shooting people, makes so much more sense in the context of the game) and the hunter was converted into an assassin (who specializes in melee attacks, doesn’t make as much sense in the context of the game, but sounds fun). The soldier still has his turret and the siren’s talent has changed to freezing enemies mid-air. And at least from the characters I’ve played, the talent trees seem much more refined than last time around.

Borderlands’ storyline was its biggest problem, there was little urgency and the characters felt like nothing more than quest-givers. Borderlands 2 manages to fix these issues enough in my eyes by integrating you a bit more tightly into the story and fleshing out the heroes from our last go around. If you felt like the main characters were cardboard cutouts with guns last time, at least in Borderlands 2 they’re back but they’re colorful cardboard cutouts with guns. Like I said, it’s enough of a change to satisfy me. Well, except that it’s sort of hard for me to accept that a bunch of vault hunters would give up wanting to loot treasure and instead help a ragtag group of resistance fighters in their rebellion. At least in the first game the entire main goal from start to finish was to reach the Vault before anyone else. You know, treasure hunting.

Borderlands 2 Siren Zero Classes Fire

The guns, all 87 bazillion of them, feature much more variety in Borderlands 2. Depending on the manufacturer, some are tossed upon reloading and explode like a grenade, while others can be shot as fast as you can click. There’s a new elemental power called slag which makes your enemies more vulnerable to damage, and the legendary weapons can completely change a game upon dropping. The reloading animations are excellent, too, with a huge variety of base animations that the game randomly builds off of.

But I’m even more impressed with the changes to grenades and shields. Grenades can now implode and suck bad guys into their center or home in on an enemy across the battlefield. The child grenades feel much more explosive this round too, and speaking of explosive, some shields will even explode upon extinguishing, causing a ton more pain for anyone in the vicinity. One shield I used a long time also exploded upon me losing all my health, which often meant a quick resurrection from the game’s Second Wind feature.

It’s hard for me to tell how much the graphics were updated between the two games, as I jumped from the Xbox 360 to an overpowered PC, but I had everything maxed and was constantly blown away by not only the fluidity of the game during heavy firefights, but the dynamic range of art styles. There are more types of bad guys with many variations, and the levels feel much more distinct. And maybe it was just me, but the levels feel a bit smaller, but in a good way. There’s already enough running around in Borderlands 2 that any more may have been too much. And while there are certainly some large areas, you can usually hop in a car to get around.

Borderlands 2 Gunzerker River Threshers

Along with the game’s unique art style and cel-shaded look, Borderlands 2’s music and sound design is also top notch. At times the soundtrack seems to sound like Bastion and then during big battles there’s a dubstep touch to it. There’s a constant chatter from bad guys, and even some guns talk back to you: “there you go, wasting precious ammo again!” The guns feel like they pack a punch because the sound effects from shooting them sounds so real, and there’s a lot more direct communication from the game’s wide array of characters.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the new main baddie: Handsome Jack. While I wasn’t enamored with him as some fans and reviewers were, I can still appreciate the writing effort that went into his character. He’s there in the background from the start to finish, mocking you, calling you out, and cursing your name. This is a huge improvement over Borderlands 1 which simply featured an endless conveyor belt of named but faceless enemies standing in your way, including one that was killed off by the final boss in a cutscene. So yes, Handsome Jack is a much finer effort.

Overall: 9

Borderlands 1 was a great game, Borderlands 2 is a greater game. Gearbox fixed many of the irks and pains of the first game and managed to put out the best first person shooter I’ve played in years. There’s still room for improvement but this is still one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played all of 2012. Give it few hours, or days, of your life, you won’t regret it.

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Danish Pelagic and Demersal Individual Transferable Quota Programs

Danish Pelagic and Demersal ITQ Programs

With more than 400 islands and close proximity to productive fishing grounds, Danish fisheries have historically been one of the top producers within European Union member states. During the two decades preceding ITQ management, Denmark attempted to reduce capacity and curb overfishing by decommissioning vessels and enacting policies limiting vessel entry and investments in vessels. While a reduction in gross tonnage was achieved, efficiency did not increase and biological goals were not met. From 1994 to 2002, overall catch and catch rates steadily declined, showing no evidence that the fleet reduction program led to increased catch opportunities, which had been a key goal.

In 2003, the Danish government introduced an ITQ program for the Danish herring fishery and in 2007, extended the system to cover additional pelagic species including mackerel, horse mackerel, sprat, pout, sandeel and blue whiting. At the same time, managers introduced an ITQ program for the Danish demersal fisheries. Under ITQ programs, the capacity in Danish fisheries has dropped 25% without the use of public funds for decommissioning. Profits have increased from 9% to 20%, and fishermen have doubled new investments in value-added efforts. The program includes a number of design features to support the coastal fishery, which is comprised of smaller, nearshore vessels. Since the ITQ program began, the coastal fishery has increased its shares, providing these fishermen with greater access and bringing success to coastal communities.


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AT&S and Chongqing University Collaborate on Research and Education

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AT&S (Chongqing) Co., Ltd and the Chongqing University have signed a framework agreement of strategic cooperation on September 26. According to the agreement, both parties will collaborate on a range of academic and educational programs including internship programs targeting different majors, designed curriculums for the IC substrates industry, talents recruitment, joint R&D projects, continuing education cooperations and joint student exchange programs between Universities in Chongqing and in Austria. It represents a milestone for AT&S as a first high-end IC substrates manufacturer in China partnering with one of the universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China in research and education excellence.

Chen-Jiang Phua, CEO of AT&S Business Unit Mobile Devices and Substrates, commented: “The agreement represents a win-win partnership. AT&S will be able to leverage Chongqing University’s talented students and outstanding faculty for expertise in cutting-edge technologies. Chongqing University will benefit from AT&S’s long-standing R&D capabilities and its market and commercialization expertise as of one of the world’s leading HDI PCBs and IC substrates manufactures.”

According to Phua, AT&S (Chongqing) offers training ground on site for students from Chongqing University. In September, around 80 undergraduates with the major in Engineering & Applied Chemistry spent one week with AT&S and got practical exposure from experts of the company whom enriched their knowledge in the semiconductors related manufacturing industry. It is one of the ways for AT&S to help students to begin their careers as a professional and solve the talent shortage for this fast growing key industry.

“Chongqing University combines socio-economic vision, technological capabilities, and commitment to talent development in a very creative and rather unique way, and the cooperation is a reflection of our commitment to the intellectual and human potential of this distinguished institution. We are proud to be partnering with Chongqing University to pursue scientific leadership and research excellence. Our collaboration agreement lends strong support to the notion that Chongqing will become an international logistics hub and an engine of modern industrialization”, commented Andreas Gerstenmayer, CEO of AT&S.

Chongqing is an important production bases for AT&S worldwide. In this city, AT&S has established two state-of-the-art plants for fast growing semiconductor industry and advanced HDI since 2011. In July 2019, AT&S annouced to invest a further €1 billion Euros in Chongqing over the next five years on a new manufacturing facility for high-end IC substrates.

Chongqing University was founded in 1929. It is a key national university located in Chongqing. Among its various departments, Chongqing University is especially highly ranked in the Built Environment, Engineering, Technology and Business disciplines.

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400th year anniversary triggers Dutch Royal Visit to Australia

Background to this trip

The Dutch sailor and explorer Dirk Hartog was the second European to land in Australia on 25 October 1616.  On the way to Indonesia from the bottom of South Africa, the strong westerly winds appear to have taken him off course and instead he made landfall at an island off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia.  A large local festival is underway at Denham this week and over the last 3 years there has been an ongoing program of events in Western Australia.  The arrival of the Dutch King and Queen on 31 October will allow their participation as well.

Since the since the early explorer arrival, Dutch visits to Australia are common and between 1947 and 1971 around 160,000 Dutch people emigrated to Australia.  This state visit to Australia will focus on confirming and expanding the historic and broad bilateral ties the Netherlands has with Australia.

The business link between the Netherlands and Australia has also grown over the years, with the Netherlands consistently among the five largest investors in Australia.  And for Australia, the Netherlands is the second most important market in Europe.  Accompanying the Royal Couple is a wide ranging trade delegation who will undertake many engagements during the trip.

The program

The five day visit from Monday 31 October to Friday 4 November takes the King Willem-Alexander and the Queen Maxima across the country with some highlights for each location below:

  • Welcome aboriginal smoking ceremony to Australia
  • Dirk Hartog tin plate unveiled at Western Australian Maritime Museum
  • Visit the “Square Kilometer Array” telescope at Curtin University
  • Attend Melbourne Cup celebrations at Ascot Racecourse

  • Meet with the Prime Minister and Governor General
  • Visits to War Memorial and MH-17 memorial

  • Concert at Sydney Opera House
  • Launch of New Holland Scholarships
  • Royal address at the Farm2Fork Summit

  • Visit to a Water Summit on Resilient Urban Deltas & Floodplains at QUT
  • City-cat trip on Brisbane River and visit to modern Australian and Aboriginal art.

On conclusion of the visit in Brisbane, the Royal couple then head to New Zealand.

Insight on the King

In preparation for his forthcoming trip to Australia a group of Australian journalists visited the Netherlands.  In an interview with the King, SMH journalist Nick Miller provides an informative perspective on how King Willem Alexander approaches his role, along with an interesting comment on his changing role in water activism.


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Seven Steps to Quality Code – Step 5

Code Analysis – Further Rules

This is step 5 in a series of articles, starting with Seven Steps To Quality Code – Introduction.

This step is simply a case of turning the ratchet a little more and locking in further quality gains.

Previously, my suggestion for existing projects has been to set the Code Analysis rule set to “Minimum recommended rules” (or in Visual Studio versions after 2010, “Managed Recommended Rules”) in order to keep the number of rule violations to a minimum.  Now I am going to suggest that the rules are tightened by using a rule set or combination of rule sets that check for further violations.

Ultimately, our goal is to have the “All Rules” rule set enabled on all code, but in practice this may not be achievable for legacy code.  What we can do, is work towards this so that we can catch the more important issues in our code.  For example, the effort of implementing the globalisation rules in legacy code is not going to give you much bang for buck (unless of course globalisation has become a required feature!).

A great feature of Code Analysis is that we can progressively add further rules in order to increase the range of issues that are checked.  The rule sets that are available, however, do not give us a sequential order that we can progressively move through because particular rule sets focus on particular issues.  We can achieve the same effect though by using the option of progressively applying multiple rule sets.  You can do this by selecting the “Choose multiple rule sets” option on the Code Analysis tab of a project’s properties screen, as shown in the screenshot below:

Screenshot showing where to select multiple Code Analysis rule sets
Selecting the Multiple Rule Sets Option

A comprehensive list of the rule sets available can be found on the Microsoft site:

Visual Studio 2010 Code Analysis Rule Sets
Visual Studio 2013 Code Analysis Rule Sets

To avoid getting swamped by too many violations and to allow a “small bite at a time” approach, I suggest considering 1 project (i.e. csproj file) at a time and performing the following procedure:

  1. Run the “All Rules” rule set on the project.  If you consider the number of violations to be manageable, use the “All Rules” rule set.  This is the perfect situation to be in, ignore the further steps in this list and proceed to fix the violations.
  2. If “All Rules” is looking like a step too far, progressively add in the following rule sets one at at time, fixing the violations and checking in as you go:
    Visual Studio 2010Visual Studio 2013
    Microsoft Basic Correctness RulesBasic Correctness Rules rule set for managed code
    Microsoft Basic Design Guideline RulesBasic Design Guideline Rules rule set for managed code
    Microsoft Extended Correctness RulesExtended Correctness Rules rule set for managed code
    Microsoft Extended Design Guideline RulesExtended Design Guidelines Rules rule set for managed code
  3. At this point, you may be in a position to apply the “All Rules” rule set and have a manageable number of violations.  Alternatively, if that still produces too many violations, you may have a particular need for one of the remaining focused rule sets (security or globalization rules) and wish to apply one of those. (Actually, by the time you get to this stage the likelihood is that if you have a lot of violations under “All Rules” they will all be globalization related).

Once this step is followed for a solution, you will be in a great place for continuing development in a high quality environment with automatic guards in place to keep it there.

In step 6 we’ll look at peer reviews – something that everyone knows about but all too often they are the easiest thing to discard in a development process.

Seven Steps to Quality Code – Step 3

Code Analysis – Minimum Rules

This is step 3 in a series of articles, starting with Seven Steps To Quality Code – Introduction.

In this step, things are going to start getting interesting. Up to now, the incremental changes that we have made are fairly non-disruptive – remove some unused variables here, add some XML comments there – not things that are likely to break your existing code (not too much anyway!). This is where we (gently) introduce Code Analysis and start to weed out bugs and refactor the code.

Code Analysis is a feature built in to certain editions of Visual Studio.  It will, as its name suggests, analyse your code to detect bad practices, anti-patterns and outright bugs.  It does this by validating the code against a predetermined set of rules and reporting violations as warnings in the Error window within Visual Studio.

Originally, this tool used to be available as part of the Windows SDKs (Software Development Kits) from Microsoft.  It was called “FxCop” and was a tool that was created to help developers, initially within Microsoft, to build more robust and maintainable code that followed the Microsoft Design Guidelines.  If you aren’t lucky enough to be using one of the Visual Studio versions with Code Analysis built-in, then you can download the program in its original “FxCop” guise from here.  The interaction with the tool is different, but the underlying system is the same.  For the purposes of this article, I’ll be using screenshots and instructions for the built-in Code Analysis.

Now let’s get started.  Firstly, to switch on Code Analysis for a solution got to Analyze on the Visual Studio main menu, and select Configure Code Analysis for Solution.

Visual Studio's Analyze Menu

In the dialog that is then displayed, select “All Configurations” in the Configuration dropdown and ensure that the projects on which we want to run Code Analysis are set to “Microsoft Minimum Recommended Rules”, as shown below.

Property Pages for a Solution

You may see that in the dropdown, there are several “Rulesets” to choose from. These are subsets of the whole set of rules, allowing various levels of compliance to be easily selected. My approach is that we start with the “Microsoft Minimum Recommended Rules” because it contains the most important rules, violations of which are more likely to generate bugs than the rules included in the more complete rulesets.

Next, right click each project in Solution Explorer and Select “Properties” to get the Project Properties screen and then select the Code Analysis tab. Here, you should ensure that “All Configurations” is selected in the Configuration dropdown and check the “Enable Code Analysis on Build” checkbox, as shown below. This will need to be carried out for each project in the solution.

Properties for a Project - Code Analysis tab

The above step isn’t absolutely necessary, but it means that you or your developers don’t have to remember to run the analysis, Visual Studio will do it for them each time the solution is built. We want to make this whole task integrate completely into the development process and checking this option goes a long way to achieving that.

The next thing to do is simply to build your solution and observe the warnings that are produced.

If you are running this on an existing project, the chances are you will get very many warnings. Don’t be alarmed! A lot of them will be easy to fix and each one fixed means that your code is taking a further step towards the robust and maintainable code that you would like to see.

To help you fix each rule violation, there is excellent documentation available on MSDN. This can easily be accessed by right-clicking a particular warning and selecting “Show Error Help”. This is a fntastic training aid, frequently reading the error help will improve developer knowledge dramatically. This is like having a true .Net guru reviewing the code and providing exact details on how issues should be addressed.

If a rule violation should be allowed in your project for some reason, the warning can be suppressed by right-clicking and selecting “Suppress Messages” then “In Source” or “In Project Suppression File”.  This will add an attribute into your code (either at the site of the violation if “In Source” was selected, or in a GlobalSuppressions.cs file if “In Project Suppression File” was selected.

Rules/Guidelines for Using Code Analysis

  • Always have the Visual Studio Error window visible.  You get immediate feedback on violations following a build (as well as build errors and compiler warnings).
  • Fix violations frequently.  Fix them as they occur.  Don’t leave this as a task to be performed just before check in.
  • Always use the error help if the rule isn’t understood
  • Follow the error help code suggestions if a fix is not obvious.  Some of the IDisposable rule violations spring to mind here as particularly tricky.
  • DO NOT SUPPRESS RULES UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.  I cannot stress enough how important this is.  Just because a violation looks difficult to correct is certainly not a reason to suppress.  In fact, it is probably the case that the more difficult ones to address are the more critical.  I recommend that all suppressions are reviewed by a senior member of the team before being authorised.  Suppressions are rarely needed, the only suppressions I have allowed recently have been for reasons of backward compatibility.
  • If you must suppress, then choose “In Source” rather than “In Project Suppression File”.  This means that the suppression is located close to the violation so when the code is modified the violation can be validated.  If the whole method is deleted, the suppression will also be deleted.  When placed in a project suppression file, the suppressions are all too easily ignored and forgotten about.

Once this is embedded into your development processes, you should really start to see a reduction in defects in the code.  The development may initially be slowed as existing code is brought up to the standards required, but once this is achieved, the speed of development should be no slower.  The cost of development, however, should be less, because of the fewer defects.

At a client that I have been working with recently,  a new piece of software had been released to a customer with 2 call centres employing around 2000 users.  Memory leaks in the code meant that the application used more and more memory and resulted in it shutting down twice a day, logging off all the users and restarting.  The problem was that nothing was being disposed.  Correct implementation and use of IDisposable, as recommended by Code Analysis resolved the issues.  If the code had originally been developed with Code Analysis in place, an extremely embarrassing and costly incident would have been avoided.

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A high-level interactive language by John W. Eaton, with help from many others, like MATLAB, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

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Octave is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It requires gnuplot, a C++ compiler and Fortran compiler or f2c translator.

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After we left, part 4

I woke up in a strange place today. Strange in that I don’t remember getting to where we currently are. The forest is nowhere on any horizon. Gnoman and Shojin seemed pleased that I was finally awake. I came to find out that Shojin had woken up a day prior. The last week is mostly a blurred blank. I can remember bits and pieces of what happened but I had to rely on Shojin and Gnoman to fill in the blanks. So a lot of this is going to be based on what they told me and for some of it I just have to hope they weren’t screwing with me.

The day after my last entry we began towards the forest as we had for the days prior, but as we got closer a few things became clear, the land under and around the forest was barren of any greenery which would make sense if there was no light hitting the ground I guess. At our closest point to the tree a couple things became clear.

There was some kind of weird fruit on the ground that looked safe enough but when I tried to eat one Gnoman moved faster than should have been possible to smack it out of my hand. He didn’t know why we shouldn’t eat it, only that something inside him said it wasn’t safe. I’ve traveled with one Gnoman or another for a while now so I had no reason not to trust him. It looked pretty yum though. I slipped a few into my pack for… further study.

Beyond all that though something was wrong. Wrong with the forest. Wrong with the ground. And soon enough, wrong with me.

The forest wasn’t a forest as much as it first appeared, but was apparently just a single tree, gnarled and so much bigger than simply massive would even begin to describe. It made no sense how a single tree could get this big, but there is so much in this world that I do not understand I just accepted it for what it was.

The ground around the tree looked dry at first glance but it was something more. It was almost blighted in how it looked. Almost as if poisoned by something. It was also so littered with white sticks that it was hard to even see the ground around the base of the canopy. But it was clear that there were no sticks underneath it. As we continued closer it became clear that it wasn’t sticks but rather bones of varying sizes. The most prominent among them looked like some kind of humanoid with a skull that looked very much like a bull, only they were my size. And that was all we saw in both directions around the tree as far as we could see.

At this point we stopped moving closer to the tree. I guess as we’d been advancing Shojin was concerned about my behavior because I just started carrying on full conversations with both my birds and the Raven Queen.

As we started to make our way around the tree now, and I am only guessing at this point, our proximity to whatever malevolence is housed within it and I collapsed as we were making our way towards the seashore to circle around this monolithic tree.

I vaguely remember seeing a boat on the horizon I think. Small and swift as it glided across the waves.

After I was out I guess they initially tried to wake me and when that didn’t work they took turns carrying me. Gnoman seemed to know what needed to happen for us to survive and it appeared that the longer he was near the tree his strength was almost bolstered. That plan worked for a solid day before Shojin started getting weird. He spent most of the day talking to his mom and someone named Michael. It made me sad to hear about that because I wasn’t there for him when he could have used me. He’d never talked about a Michael before. Must have been from his time before we met.

Gnoman seems to be no stranger to loss, though it’s losses he doesn’t talk about, or can’t maybe, but it’s made him kind of wise. He was at least able to keep Shojin going in the right direction and he carried me. As they were making camp on the fourth day is when everything went sideways. Shojin was becoming more and more agitated as the evening wore on and as they were eating he threw his food down and charged toward the tree screaming some incomprehensible gibberish. Gnoman had to tackle him knock him out and tied him up to not have to go through that again. He had some pretty nasty rope burns on his wrists.

Gnoman could have just left us at this point. We were both useless for anything but taking up space at that point. But he didn’t, and I’m grateful for his compassion and tenacity here. He was able to fashion a stretcher of sorts and for a quiet day he drug us behind him.

After being out for all of the fifth day, Shojin started to come back to consciousness but was still out of it a bit at first. With the tree finally somewhat behind them and distance increasing his senses slowly returned throughout the sixth day. And so tree at their back and the southern desert Gnoman ahead of them they pressed on, again taking turns carrying me.

On the sixth night, they heard howls carrying on the cold desert wind but nothing came of it, at least not that night.

They continued travelling south as scrubby grassland gave way to sand. So much sand. And still they travelled on, which was honestly stupid. I was the only one who had any idea where we were heading and I was not conscious at that point. I guess they were just hoping that I’d wake up.

As they worked their way south they came across something in the sand. The sand had a crust of what they believed to be blood in the shape of a tusk. It was easily eight or nine feet long. Having no idea what it was or meant, they just kept moving.

As dusk started to roll in I started to rouse and that brings us back to the present. I don’t remember any of what was happening in the world around me while I was out but I did have a crazy dream. It was probably just a fever dream, but it marks the third time I have dreamt of dinosaurs. But this time the great lizard had a rider. A newborn baby with light projecting from his eyes. I don’t tell the boys about any of this.

And the man. Always the man. Why wouldn’t he just move.

As we took shelter from the night winds behind a large hill we saw something shimmer in the darkness. It looked like gold. After a little digging we found that it was a giant door. It took us several hours to clear enough sand to be able to get either of what were massive doors open. They were so worn by time and windswept sand that it was impossible to see what was carved on their doors but it was probably quite beautiful in its time. I can’t shake the notion that I have seen this place before, but I know I’ve never been here before.

There are howls on the wind which the boys say are the same as the past last night. Prevailing theory is that something is stalking us. We decided to take refuge in whatever this place until at least morning. But I mean hey, if we’re here already, might as well look around.


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Hello can u fix  this system and matchmaking  u cant  put it tank who penatrate like 120 mm  vs tanks who  have 200 or higher armor   next   matchmaking fo japanese heavy tanks every sing map are open i never  get  some hide map city or  other to i can use my armor like normal tank i get open map  with 4 5 arty i mean very bad system and matchmaking   beacause i lose  good feels about game  every sing day getting worse i hope u fix  that system  thx

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Nishi_Kinuyo #2 Posted 07 August 2018 - 06:48 PM

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Whines about Jap Heavies.

Plays Jap Heavies.

Or at least, I think he's whining about them...

The general lack of punctuation and such are making it rather hard to be certain.

Jigabachi #3 Posted 07 August 2018 - 08:18 PM

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Hint: If you want to make a suggestion that people would actually bother to read, you should really go to school and learn to write properly. Kids learn that at the age of seven these days, so you might still have a chance.

When you put zero effort into it and just puke some random words into a thread, do you really think that people will put effort into answering with a proper answer?

I'll never understand why people like to make themselves look like uneducated and lazy fools...

P.S.: It's spelled "death".

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The alternative version.

Who will buy my wonderful comma's,

who will buy a full stop or two?

Who will buy, this gift I bring for us,

punctuation, it's all free to you.

Who will buy this wonderful language?
I'm so high, with my paragraphs.
Me, oh my! I don't want to savage,

I'm only posting, just for the laughs.

Read aloud, it's not all one sentence.

Take a breath, before you expire.

No harm is done, we rarely take offense,

It's just that your English really is dire.

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While watching VCD...

Last night, well, actually it's in the wee hours of this morning, all three of us were still in the living room watching this JDrama series when in the midst of watching, things happened:

Right at the corner of my eyes, where I can see both Xiu and Bao who were siting diagonally across my right, I saw the two of them raising their arms. Both raised their arms together spontaneously! Just as I thought it was strange of them to raise one of their arms for no reason, I had a glimpse of something in their hands... its one slipper in each hand!!

I turned my head to look at them clearly, true enough, they were indeed holding their arms up with a slipper in each of their hands, in a stance like that of one who is aiming to hit something. ITS SO FUNNY!! I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING!!

Hahaha, well, its all because of the little bug that flew past them (which I missed noticing) and its just their reflexes against such flying bugs!! But its so funny!! What's even better was the bug-hitting-show that was put-up when the bug flew down towards one of them and all hell break loose.. Armed with a slipper in their hands, they sprang from the floor and were swatting at the bug and at one point, the bug went 'blurred' and headed for Xiu's slipper, and then goes a 'thud-thud', down goes the bug after being hit Xiu and then bounced off the wall before landing on the floor.

Victory for the spontaneous bug busters!!

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JavaFX apps using Javascript and Gainda

In my last posts I've worked the with Nashorn Javascript engine to create JavaFX application.

It's great to work with JavaFX and Javascript, however, we can't forget that a boring part of the javascript code is that we have to import Java classes do be used and this can be a tedious things because you just want to script the view... See some examples of imports I had to use in my last projects

var Scene = Java.type('javafx.scene.Scene')
var VBox = Java.type('javafx.scene.layout.VBox')
var Label = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.Label')
var TextField = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.TextField')
var PieChart = Java.type('javafx.scene.chart.PieChart')
var TableView = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.TableView')
var TableColumn = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.TableColumn')
var PropertyValueFactory = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory')
var SearchService = Java.type('org.jugvale.sentiments.service.SearchService')
var TextSentimentService = Java.type('org.jugvale.sentiments.service.TextSentimentService')
var TableView = Java.type('javafx.scene.control.TableView')
var FXCollections = Java.type('javafx.collections.FXCollections')

Well, it can be improved and that's the goal of the Gainda project. Gainda means Nashorn in Hindi (गैंडा) and Nashorn is the name of the new Javascript engine that comes with Java 8.
With Gainda, we have like a DSL for JavaFX based on Javascript. See how a Hello World application looks like with Gainda:

Gainda.run([ 'base', 'graphics', 'controls' ], function (stage) {

    var button = new Button();
    var root = new StackPane();

    stage.title = "Hello World!";
    button.text = "Say 'Hello World'";
    button.onAction = function() print("Hello World!");

    stage.scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);

Awesome! The project was created by Rajmahendra, the leader of the Chennai JUG.

My first application using Gainda

Here's the step-by-step to create an application using this framework:

1) Download the gainda.core.js file from github;
2) load it in your application: load('./gainda.core.js');
3) everything happens on run function, you must call this function and pass the modules you want to load, then you are ready to write JavaFX app using Gainda
4) Run it using jjs that can be found in JDK 8 bin folder, use the following command to run it:

$ jjs -fx myApp.js

My first application is a simple app that blinks a text when we click on it:

Gainda.run([ 'base', 'graphics', 'controls' ], function (stage) {
    var txt = new Text("Hello, Gainda!");
    var blink = new FadeTransition(Duration.millis(200), txt);
    txt.effect = new Reflection();
    txt.font = new Font(50);
    txt.fill = Color.RED
    blink.fromValue = 1;
    blink.toValue = 0;
    blink.autoReverse = true;
    blink.cycleCount = 2;
    txt.onMousePressed = function(e){
    stage.title = "Hello Gainda!";
    stage.scene = new Scene(new StackPane(txt), 350, 150);

Gainda is a new utility for who likes to use another language to create user interface. The project is still starting and if you want to contribute, please contact Rajmahendra.

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Elder abuse and mistreatment is underreported and sometimes goes undetected. A new study has found that using the Detection of Elder Mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) screening tool results in more medic reports of possible elder mistreatment.

The three-year study, published in JAMA, measured the association between the DETECT tool and medic reports made to Adult Protective Services in 246 North Texas cities.

DETECT was designed to assist medics in identifying mistreatment of older adults within elder communities during an emergency response. "The DETECT tool relies entirely on the medics' systematic observations of the older adults' physical and social environment; no direct questioning of the older adult or their caregivers is involved."

When using the DETECT screening tool, medics look for the following:

-Unusual odor (urine, feces)

-Inside of the home is in extreme disarray or there is hoarding

-Living environment poses a health or safety concern (fire hazard, insect or rodent infestation, or urine or feces present)

-If caregiver present, they appear to lack knowledge of the patient or older adult's medical needs

-If a caregiver is present, they appear unengaged and inattentive in caring for the patient or older adult

-If a caregiver is present, they appear frustrated, tired, angry, or burdened by the patient or older adult

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-Does the patient or older adult appear depressed, anxious or emotionally distressed for reasons other than their immediate medical condition?

-Does the patient or older adult have poor personal hygiene (including soiled in urine or feces)?

-Is the patient or older adult inadequately clothed or wearing dirty, torn or soiled clothing?

-Does the patient or older adult have difficulties taking their prescribed medications as directed?

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-Does the patient or older adult have unmet needs for assistance with eating, toileting, transferring, dressing or bathing?

"Use of the DETECT tool was associated with the investigation and intervention of elder mistreatment cases that may have otherwise gone unnoticed and unreported," the study concluded. "The findings suggest that incorporating the DETECT screening tool into the routine practices of medics is associated with substantial increases in the frequency in which medics report potential cases of elder mistreatment to APS."

Which vegetables are lowest in carbs?

Vegetables are important for low-carb diets, however some contain more carbohydrates than you might think. According to Runner's World, there's simple trick to identify veggies with the lowest carbs:

"Vegetables that are grown above ground - tomatoes, spinach, kale, broccoli - tend to contain fewer carbs than those that are grown below ground - potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots."

Many above-ground vegetables are good sources of fiber and antioxidants, and contain fewer than 10 grams of carbohydrates per cup.

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Scabies is a skin infestation caused by a microscopic mite, which spreads via direct, skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies. Common symptoms include intense itching and a pimple-like skin rash. The parasite affects people of all backgrounds worldwide and spreads rapidly in crowded conditions, such as in prisons, nursing homes, extended-care facilities and child-care facilities.

"The most common signs and symptoms of scabies are intense itching (pruritus), especially at night, and a pimple-like (papular) itchy rash," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The itching and rash each may affect much of the body or be limited to common sites such as the wrist, elbow, armpit, webbing between the fingers, nipple, penis, waist, belt-line and buttocks. The rash also can include tiny blisters (vesicles) and scales. Scratching the rash can cause skin sores; sometimes these sores become infected by bacteria.

"Tiny burrows sometimes are seen on the skin; these are caused by the female scabies mite tunneling just beneath the surface of the skin. These burrows appear as tiny raised and crooked (serpiginous) grayish-white or skin-colored lines on the skin surface. Because mites are often few in number (only 10-15 mites per person), these burrows may be difficult to find. They are found most often in the webbing between the fingers, in the skin folds on the wrist, elbow, or knee, and on the penis, breast, or shoulder blades.

"The head, face, neck, palms and soles often are involved in infants and very young children, but usually not adults and older children."

Scabies mites can live on a person for up to 1-2 months, however, they can only survive for 48-72 hours off of a person. They will also die if exposed to temperatures 122 degrees F or higher for 10 minutes.

Treatment products for scabies kill the mites and sometimes their eggs, but are only available with a doctor's prescription

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Links for easy reference: the first group and the second group to which Darvin refers. Also, Hettal (mentioned briefly in Chapter Three) had a supporting role in the short story Fusella Vs. Interplanetary Patrol. As you may recall, Zan was brought in to fill his place when they suddenly realized they needed a complete Survey Contact Team.

I’ve been busy folding flyers and assembling buttons for Penguicon this weekend! I’m really looking forward to getting a chance to meet some of my fellow webcomic creators, such as Kez of The War of Winds and Darc and Matt Sowers of Code Name: Hunter. Plus– and I was so excited when I read this– I found out that fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss will be there! The Name of the Wind was one of my favourite books from the last couple of years, so I expect to go all tongue-tied fangirl when I have a chance to get my copy signed. Based on his blog, I expect he’s a really entertaining person to listen to. Can’t wait!!

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