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Lost: Via Domus (: ; в Європі також поширена назва Lost: The Video Game) — це відеогра, екшн-едвенчура, заснована на популярному американському телесеріалі «Загублені» каналу ABC.

Геймплей
Гра починається з моменту краху рейса Oceanic 815 в Тихому океані і охоплює 70 днів перебування героїв телесеріалу на острові. Гра розділена на 7 епізодів, сюжет для кожного з яких придумали виконавчі продюсери шоу, Деймон Лінделоф і Карлтон К'юз.

Сюжет

Епізод I: Форс Мажор (День 1)
На початку з'являється Елліот Маслоу, що сидить у кріслі бізнес-класу. Перед ним швидко в поспіху проходить Чарлі і зауважує дуже знайоме обличчя — Біді Айса, охоронця Зорана Саво, про якого журналіст зняв компромат. Охоронець різко встав з сидіння, але раптово літак затрясло і того вдарило головою в стелю. Герметизуючі маски відкинулись і Елліот надів її на себе. Перед ним відколюється частина кабіни літака і після цього йде завіса.

Через кілька годин після падіння, Елліот відкриває очі і встає на ноги. Він тепер нічого не пам'ятає, проте на шляху до літака, герой бачить вигляд давно знайомої жінки, яку він вважає мертвою. Починаються деякі флешбеки і вигляд тієї жінки різко пропадає. По дорозі він зустрічає Кейт і заводе з нею розмову, як знайти шлях до берега. Кейт мовчить і не говорить, однак коли вона дає йому води, Елліот бачить наручники. Перед Еліотом починає згадувати, що раніше бачив їх на ній. У літаку, ще до вильоту, він фотографує цей момент, і за допомогою цього, Елліот вмовляє Кейт розповісти шлях на пляж. Тут Кейт пояснює Елліоту, що вона — злочинниця, але Елліот дає слово, що нічого не розповість про це, в обмін на те, щоб вона показала йому дорогу на пляж. Кейт погоджується і показує дорогу. Через джунглі, Елліот пробирається на пляж, завдяки собаці-поводирю Вінсенту. Елліот знайшов пляж і палаючі уламки літака разом з уцілілими. Постає картина першої серії: лежачий Джон Локк, який встає, Джек, що розривається навколо Клер, Майкл, який кличе свого сина, і Елліот пропонує свою допомогу всім. Ті в паніці відмовляють йому, і тільки Локк просить його допомоги. Він пояснює, що потік бензин і потрібно закрити трубу за допомогою відновлення подачі струму в ланцюзі кабіни, інакше літак злетить у повітря разом з усіма. Елліот відновлює ланцюг і бензин перестає текти. Потім Джек і Герлі встигають перенести Клер подалі від літака, до того, як крило літака падає.

Уже ввечері, після жахливого випадку, Джек підходить до Елліота, щоб подякувати і дізнатися його ім'я, але той відповідає що не пам'ятає нічого навіть свого імені. Джек говорить йому, що у нього амнезія і радить згадати якісь моменти. Елліот відразу згадує сумку, яка у нього була, і розпитує всіх, хто знає про її місцезнаходження. І тільки Кейт відповідає, що прибрала її до краю табору, де лежить все сміття. Елліот знаходить свою сумку, але раптово його глушить по голові Біді Айс і б'є його. Охоронець просить віддати камеру яка у нього була, але той не пам'ятає жодної камери. Уцілілі кричать, що когось в темряві б'ють. Охоронець залишає його в спокої зі словами: «Я доберуся до цієї камери, а потім і до тебе», потім штовхає Еліота ногою в обличчя. Епізод на цьому закінчується.

Епізод II: Новий день (День 2)
Елліот до сих пір не може згадати про свою камеру і починає розпитувати всіх уцілілих і тільки як завжди Кейт підказує оглянути кабіну літака, яка впала десь в джунглях. Так само вона попереджає, що в джунглях бродить якийсь монстр (епізод якраз починався з біганини Кейт, Чарлі і Джека від чорного диму) і Джек нікому не дозволяє залишати територію пляжу. Як раптом, Елліот бачить привид Лізи, що стоїть біля берега. Він підходить до неї і починається момент спогадів. Елліот і Ліза два роки тому відпочивали в Тайвані. Елліот сфотографував Лізу біля пляжу, і та попросила у місцевого рибалки човен покататися, але насправді збрехала йому. Флешбек закінчується і Елліот з'ясовує з цього, що потрібно змусити обманом відвернути Джека, щоб пройти в джунглі. Елліот підходить до Джека і каже, що у Клер почалися перейми і той кинувся бігти до неї. Елліот швидко тікає в джунглі і зустрічає Джона Локка, сховавшогось за баньяном. Той радить йому ховатися під цими корнями на випадок, якщо чорний дим повернеться. Елліот вибирається з джунглів і приходить до печери, де зустрічає Майкла, що рубає ліс для будівництва плота. Той відповідає, що кабіна літака знаходиться за печерою, але в печері темно, тому Майкл віддає запальничку зі знаком «Дарми». Елліот пробирається до кабіни літака і забирає камеру з ноутбуком, але на зворотному шляху зустрічає Бена з Джульєт. Том вирубає Еліота дубиною по голові і Джульєт бере пробу крові. Епізод на цьому закінчується.

Епізод III: Шлях додому (Дні 17-21)
Елліот приходить до тями і зустрічає Герлі. Той розповідає багато: Скотту переламали всі кістки, Клер хтось вколов голкою. Та й практично всі почали не вірити йому і думають що він один з Інакших. Але Елліоту важливо переглянути ноутбук і він звертається по домпомогу за цим до Саїда. Але перед цим наш головний герой розмовляє з іншими персонажами на пляжі. Саїд пояснює Елліоту, що в ноутбуці здохла батарея і у Джона є запаска. Джон не хоче спочатку давати батарею, але Елліот згадує, що Джон Локк був в інвалідному візку до того, як потрапив на острів. Він ставить йому ультиматум: або тутешній мисливець віддасть йому акумулятор від ноутбука, або всі дізнаються про цю маленьку таємницю. Джон веде Еліота через джунглі, де він бачить великий люк з дивними числами «4 8 15 16 23 42», а потім приводить до печери в яку Елліот має зайти. Обстежуючи печеру герой бачить привид Лізи, після цього Елліот знаходить скелет біля якого лежить компас, на якому надряпаний напис «Via Domus». Джон стверджує, що на латині це означає «Шлях Додому». Одразу Елліот не став давати компас Джону, але після криків димового монстра він кинув компас йому і Джон врятував нашого головного героя. На цьому епізод закінчується.

Епізод IV: Forty-Two (Дні 44-45)
В печері Джон дає Еліоту компас і говорить, щоб той йшов куди він буде вказувати. Потім Еліот бачить як, щось вибухає і стрілка компасу вказує йому йти на північ. Коли Еліот опиняється в джунглях він зустрічає Дезмонда. Але перед цим тікає від бандита, що стріляє по ньому і йде по міткам. Дезмонд розповідає йому про бункер, цифри та Джека. Також Дезмонд говорить, що все що він знає про бункер він записав на стіні. Перед входом в бункер Еліот бачить Саїда. Той розповідає йому, що не впустить його поки він не назве своє ім'я. Він повертається на пляж, де розмовляє з Герлі. Із цієї розмови Еліот починає згадувати як він зробив знімки для друга Ріко. Ріко відплатив йому сказавши, що сьогодні в готелі «Персифона» у Саво буде проходити зустріч. Еліот повертається до Саїда розповівши йому як його звати, останній його впускає в бункер. В бункері усі двері раптово зачиняються і Еліот потрапляє у пастку. Для того, щоб їх відчинити потрібно вводити цифри на комп'ютері і також розібратися з 3 платформами. Після цього Елліот фотографує знак питання, який появляється на двері бункеру. Все закінчується тим, що Саїд та Джек закривають Еліота в збройовій через те, що в нього в рюкзакі знайшли С-4.

Епізод V: Готель «Персифона» (День 46)
Еліот приходить до тями і запалюючи попільницю бачить Лізу, яка говорить йому, що Кейт йому допоможе. Після він починає говорити з Кейт через двері і згадує свої події в готелі «Персифона». Там він зустрічає Лізу, яка пропонує йому зробити знімки Саво і його партнера. Дівчина підходить до охоронців, щоб відволікти їх та дати можливість Еліоту пробратись вгору. Коли спогади закінчуються Еліот розповідає Кейт, що він був журналістом і вона його випускає. Покинувши бункер Еліот відправляється до «Чорної Скелі». По дорозі на нього чекає сюрприз у вигляді чорного диму. Після цього на кораблі наш головний герой бере з собою динаміт і тепер йому потрібно не поспішаючи пройтись назад до бункера через джунглі. Компас вказує йому шлях до станції ДАРМИ, яку Елліот знаходить під водоспадом. Потім він з допомогою комп'ютера нейтралізовує реактор станції. В кінці на комп'ютері з'являється напис: «Ми знаємо, що ти накоїв Еліот Маслоу і ми знайдем тебе».

Епізод VI: Whatever It Takes (День 46)
Покинувши станцію Еліота починає переслідувати димовий мностр. Наздогнавши його біля бар'єра, він залишає його в живих та летить геть. Біля бар'єру Еліот зустрічає Джульєт. Вона розповідає йому, що коли він полетів, то в Сіднейському аеропорті знайшли труп його колеги Лізи. Еліот згадує як він підставив Лізу сказавши охоронцю, що вона журналістка, а сам відправився на ліфті. Джульєт відключає бар'єр і дає Еліоту пройти вперед. Подорожуючі далі через тунелі він знаходить станцію «Полум'я». Там він знаходить Михайла Бакуніна та Біді Айса, якого через 1 секунду вбиває пострілом з пістолету. Михайло говорить йому, що він вбив останню людину, яка знала його темне минуле, після цього в Елліота летить дротик зі снодійним. Все закінчується тим, що Еліот бачить «Інакших», Джульєт та Михайла і відключається.

Епізод VII: Worth a Thousand Words (День 67)
Еліот приходить до тями в акваріумі. Потім він бачить Тома і починає з ним діалог. Еліот згадує той момент, коли він підібрався до Саво і побачив, що Лізу зловили. Він розповідає, що він зрадив Лізу і Том відпускає його. Потім він знаходить Бена та Джульєт. Бен розповідає, що поверне йому його речі і, що цей компас саме він для нього залишив. Він говорить йому, що цей компас відвиде його додому та спочатку він має привести до «Чорної Скелі» Джека. Після Том зустріне їх там і Еліот зможе відплисти на яхті з острова. Еліот погоджується і заманює туди Джека. Там вже чекав Том з своїм напарником, які схопили Кейт. Еліот згадує як через нього застрелили Лізу. Потім він забирає компас підірвує Тома і його напарника та втрачає свідомість через те, що уламок динаміта зачепив і його. Прийшовши до тями він бачить Джульєт, яка говорить йому, що за ним слідують Том та інші і, щоб він коли добереться до яхти обрав напрямок 325. Вона віддає йому камеру і говорить, що Бен приказав знищити яхту і в нього залишилось менше 2 хвилин, щоб до неї добратись. Коли він добирається до яхти то бачить, що людина Бена хоче її підірвати. Та тут якраз опинився і Джон, який цьому завадив вистріливши в нього. Після розмови з Джоном Еліот пливе по напрямку 325. Все закінчується тим, що відпливаючи Еліот бачить як зазнає краху літа Oceanic 815. Отямившись знову на пляжі Еліот бачить Лізу, яка говорить йому, що це неймовірно адже вони двоє вижили. Кінцівка полягає в тому, що летівши рейсом Oceanic 815 Еліот взяв із собою труну Лізи і коли він розбився на острові і пройшовши багато перешкод на шляху до яхти обрав напрям 325, він перемістився у просторі тим самим врятував Лізу. Отже виходить, що острів повернув її до життя.

Персонажі
 Елліотт Маслоу () — головний герой гри, фотожурналіст, що страждає на амнезію. Він нічого не пам'ятає про своє минуле і намагається знайти спосіб порятунку з острова. Прототип персонажа — Кріс Пайн.
 Ліза Геллхорн () — репортерка, що мала короткий роман з Елліотом, поки працювала з ним над репортажем. Вона загинула до подій гри, коли її застрелив в голову Зоран Саво.
 Зоран Саво () — президент Дослідницького Інституту Ченші (). За свої заслуги був названий послом доброї волі. По службовій дипломатичній місії виявився в Сіднеї в ході роботи над статутом організації, який повинні були підписати 50 країн.
 Біді Айс () — один з відданих охоронців Саво, що працює на чоловіка вже багато років. До цього був залучений до незаконної торгівлі зброєю. Став правою рукою Саво, захищаючи свого боса від будь-якої загрози.

Крім того, в грі з'являються основні персонажі серіалу: Джек Шепард, Кейт Остін, Г'юго Реєс, Джеймс «Соєр» Форд, Джон Локк, Дезмонд Г'юм, Бенджамін Лайнус, Джульєт Берк, Саїд Джарра, Чарлі Пейс, Сун Квон, Джин Квон, Майкл Доусон і Том Френдлі.

Майкл Емерсон, Юнджин Кім, Генрі Йен Кьюсік, Емілі Де Рейвін, М. С. Гейні і Ендрю Дівофф озвучили своїх персонажів, в той час як інших героїв озвучили спеціально підібрані актори.

Розробка
22 травня 2006 року компанія Ubisoft повідомила про те, що вона придбала права на розробку ігрового проекту за мотивами серіалу у  Touchstone Television  «Загублені», реліз якого призначений на кінець лютого 2008 року

Хоча явних проблем з проектом не було, нова інформація про гру не з'являлась з травня 2006 року. 16 квітня 2007 року Деймон Лінделоф і Карлтон К'юз на офіційному подкастингу серіалу оголосили про те, що робота над грою триває.

Прем'єра трейлера гри  відбулася на сайті GameTrailers 27 липня 2007 року, де був показаний острів, а також представлені деякі персонажі гри. У більш пізньому трейлері для Xbox Live на 1:08 (відсилання до одного з фатальних чисел — 108) вставлений кадр, в якому з'являється напис «Знайди нас, і ми покажемо тобі шлях» (). Також в трейлері на 1:20 миготить червона схема приміщень станції.

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Q: Ubuntu 17.10 system issues after resuming from suspend This is my laptop's data sheet: http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c05342156.pdf
Hello, I am having an issue in Ubuntu 17.10. If I suspend the laptop (whether it be through the menus or by closing the lid), GNOME glitches out after I resume the laptop. What I mean by that is, when I resume, every time I press an icon on the Dock, it opens a new window instead of showing the currently opened window and every new link or tab is opened in a separate window in Firefox (both regular and Nightly).
Can someone explain what is going on and how to fix this?
Also, in case this is somehow useful, I'm using logical volumes instead of separate partitions and hibernation leaves the laptop powered on.
Thank you kindly in advance!
Edit: After some testing, I have concluded that my suspicions were accurate, that is that the issue is GNOME-related and not related to the window manager behind the currently-running desktop environment (or, in other words, it's not a question of Wayland or Xorg, but GNOME and Unity, and it's working just fine in Unity), so this might be a GNOME3 bug. All that's missing now is a working fix for the Realtek ALC295 issue I'm having.
Edit: After some experimenting with KDE Plasma, I have found that this is an issue that goes beyond GNOME (yet is somehow avoided by Unity).

A: my problem with resume from suspend is the computer reboots instead of waking. I still cant get an answer either. I thought maybe it was wayland, but i went back to xorg session and the problem persists.

A: So, with the upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, a few updates later, the issue has been resolved. I believe it was an issue with the version of GNOME supplied with Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark (3.26, if I remember correctly, and in Bionic it's 3.28).

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Helvetia issues hybrid bond and successfully completes financing of Caser acquisition
Helvetia has successfully placed a subordinated hybrid bond for EUR 600 million on the euro capital market. The hybrid bond is mainly intended to finance the acquisition of the Spanish insurer Caser.
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Helvetia Europe, a Luxembourg subsidiary of Helvetia Swiss Insurance Company Ltd in St.Gallen, has issued a subordinated hybrid bond amounting to EUR 600 million with a first optional call date 2031. The bond has a fixed coupon until its first optional call date of 2.75%.
The hybrid bond serves to complete the financing of the majority holding in the Spanish insurance company Caser (Caja de Seguros Reunidos, Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros S.A.) after Helvetia already successfully issued new shares as part of a capital increase on 19 June 2020.
"Despite a challenging market environment, Helvetia has made use of the current positive market dynamics to implement its announced financing strategy for the acquisition of Caser", explains Paul Norton, Chief Financial Officer of the Helvetia Group. The proceeds from the hybrid bond will largely be used to finance the acquisition of Caser and for general corporate purposes.
Helvetia expects to be able to complete the acquisition of Caser by the end of June. The acquisition will further strengthen the European business as a second pillar, significantly expand the attractive non-life business and increase the company's sales reach in Spain.
Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Natixis and Morgan Stanley have acted as joint lead managers for the transaction.
This media release is also available on our website www.helvetia.com/media.
Susanne Tengler
investor.relations@helvetia.ch
Jonas Grossniklaus
Senior Manager Corporate Communications & PR
media.relations@helvetia.ch
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About the Helvetia Group
In over 160 years, the Helvetia Group has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. With its Specialty Markets market area, Helvetia is also present in France and in selected regions worldwide. Some of its investment and financing activities are managed through subsidiaries and fund companies in Luxembourg. The Group is headquartered in St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Helvetia is active in the life and non-life business, and also offers customised specialty lines and reinsurance cover. Its business activities focus on retail customers as well as small and medium-sized companies and larger corporates. With some 6,800 employees, the company provides services to more than 5 million customers. With a business volume of CHF 9.45 billion, Helvetia generated an IFRS result after tax of CHF 538.1 million in financial year 2019. The registered shares of Helvetia Holding are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol HELN.
This document does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or invest in securities of Helvetia or one of its Group companies. The hybrid bond offer in Switzerland is exempt from the obligation to publish a prospectus pursuant to the Federal Act on Financial Services (FinSA) as such offer is solely intended for professional clients as defined by FinSA, the hybrid bond has a minimum denomination of CHF 100,000 (or foreign currency equivalent) or more, and it is not admitted for trading on any trading platform (stock exchange or multilateral trading system) in Switzerland. This document does not constitute a prospectus as defined by FinSA and no such prospectus has been or will be compiled for or in connection with the hybrid bond offer.
This press release is for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute or form a part of any offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Japan, or any other jurisdiction. The securities mentioned herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act"), or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States of America, and may not be offered or sold within the United States of America except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state or local securities laws. This press release does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person or in the United States of America or in any other jurisdiction.
The Bonds are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area ("EEA") or the United Kingdom ("UK"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended or replaced from time to time) ("MiFID II"), (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (the "IDD"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II, or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the Bonds or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA or in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA or in the UK may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
The offer of the Bonds will be made pursuant to exemptions under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to produce a prospectus in connection with offers of securities.
MiFID II product governance / Retail investors, professional investors and ECPs target market – Solely for the purposes of the product approval process of any entity which is a manufacturer in relation to the Bonds (pursuant to MIFID II product governance rules), the target market assessment in respect of the Bonds has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the Bonds is eligible counterparties and professional clients, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) all channels for distribution of the Bonds to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate, subject to the distributor's suitability and appropriateness obligations under MiFID II, as applicable. The target market and distribution channel(s) may vary in relation to sales outside the EEA or the UK in light of local regulatory regimes in force in the relevant jurisdiction. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the Bonds (a "Distributor") should take into consideration the manufacturers' target market assessment; however, a Distributor subject to MiFID II is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the Bonds (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers' target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.
For readers in the United Kingdom, this announcement is only being distributed to and is only directed at Qualified Investors who are (i) outside the United Kingdom or (ii) investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) ("Investment professionals") of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order") or (iii) certain high value persons and entities who fall within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) ("High net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.") of the Order; or (iv) any other person to whom it may lawfully be communicated (all such persons in (i) to (iv) together being referred to as "relevant persons"). The Bonds are expected to only be available to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire such Bonds will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this announcement or any of its contents.
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This document was prepared by Helvetia Group and may not be copied, altered, offered, sold or otherwise distributed to any other person by any recipient without the consent of Helvetia Group. The German version of this document is decisive and binding. Versions of the document in other languages are made available purely for information purposes. Although all reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the facts stated herein are correct and the opinions contained herein are fair and reasonable, where any information and statistics are quoted from any external source such information or statistics should not be interpreted as having been adopted or endorsed as accurate by Helvetia Group. Neither Helvetia Group nor any of its directors, officers, employees and advisors nor any other person shall have any liability whatsoever for loss howsoever arising, directly or indirectly, from any use of this information. The facts and information contained in this document are as up to date as is reasonably possible but may be subject to revision in the future. Neither Helvetia Group nor any of its directors, officers, employees or advisors nor any other person makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this document.
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A collaboration between non-denomination charity Jewish house and leading opinion site, The Big Smoke, will see a call-out to Sydney's CBD to better understand real-time data around Sydney's rough sleepers, and to work together to give them a more comfortable 2016 Festive Season.
The initiative will see Sydney-siders filling out an online form on The Big Smoke when they see a rough sleeper, which will help to understand where and when Sydney's homeless are positioning themselves around the city, while capturing real-time data.
The appeal aims to compel the community to actively participate in helping to identify and support the homeless in our community through a campaign which captures and collates the data.
The Big Smoke will then go out on Christmas Eve and hand packs to Sydney's homeless, including a comfortable blow up lounge which is then foldable and easily carried around. The lounges will also promote the homeless helpline number, with a call to action to help get people off the streets and into homes.
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Тевель Меерович (Маркович) Шапиро (1898—1983) — советский архитектор.

Биография
Окончил Высшие художественно-технические мастерские (ВХУТЕМАС) в Москве. Работал в «Окнах сатиры РОСТА», занимался скульптурой и живописью у С. Т. Конёнкова и К. С. Малевича. В предвоенные годы — автор оригинальных конкурсных проектов деревообрабатывающих заводов на северо-западе страны. В годы войны — инженер-фортификатор. Автор многих типовых проектов, различных зданий в Великих Луках, Кургане, Сталинграде, ряда памятников в разных городах. С 1949 по 1968 г. работал в Ленпроекте, по его проектам построены гаражи на Благодатной улице.

Избранные проекты и постройки в Ленинграде
 Участвовал в работе над памятником III Интернационалу в Петрограде (автор В. Е. Татлин, 1919—1921)
 Студенческий городок и театр в Петрозаводске
 Дом-коммуна в Архангельске
 Медицинские здания в Ленинграде (роддом на Большом проспекте Васильевского острова, роддом в Московском парке Победы, больницы и поликлиники)
 Бани (в Озерках, Пушкине; реконструкция старых бань)
Главное здание Всероссийского НИИ Гидротехники им. Б.Е.Веденеева (1934) и Гидрокорпус Политехнического института (1932-1935) в стиле конструктивизма в Ленинграде (лабораторный и учебный корпуса существовавшего в 1930-1934 гг. Ленинградского Гидроучебного комбината "Энергоцентра" ).

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Литература
 В. Г. Исаченко. Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга. XX век. Санкт-Петербург, Лениздат, 2000. ISBN 5-289-01928-6. Стр. 701.

Архитекторы Санкт-Петербурга
Архитекторы СССР
Архитекторы Петрозаводска
Архитекторы Архангельска
Родившиеся в Смолянах
Архитекторы русского авангарда
Художники русского авангарда
Выпускники ВХУТЕМАСа

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As some of you know, we've been busy adding more features to our VPS and dedicated server software.
I thought it was time to let you know what we've been working on.
Currently our software works amazingly well at detecting the instant any files are changed or added to a VPS or dedicated server. If infected, it quarantines the original file and cleans it. If the infected file is a backdoor, it automatically removes it.
However, that is where our software stops – until now.
According to the log files, a successful login was recorded from: 123.456.789.000 (show country of origin). This indicates that a stolen password was used.
So, not only will our software be able to clean the site, but it can also determine how it happened so we know, as your website security department, what to do to protect it.
Currently, for VPS and dedicated servers that are using cPanel, we can also determine if the infection came in through a form on the infected website, if it was FTP and many other methods.
As part of our next development, we are working on tying into cPanel so we can change passwords on the fly as well. Imagine that your site was infected due to stolen FTP passwords. Wouldn't it be nice to have our software, change the password for you, record it and save it? That would be like self-healing.
This would prevent a reoccurrence of that infection. We get notified, you get notified. It's a beautiful thing.
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The hosting providers have been very quick to take care of the situation which just removes one more infected system from the Internet.
Another development in this latest update is that all file changes are sent to us. That way we can further analyze them to determine if a new type of infection has been released. With over 500 installations of our software installed on clients VPS's and dedicated servers, we're growing our database of infectious code, which helps us – help you.
If you have any other needs or wants, please send them to me and I'll research the idea and it could be included in one of our upcoming releases.
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Q: "i" variable is undefined in console I'm just working on the dashboard for my discord.js bot. I have created a variable to select the array from my JSON but the console tells me that the variable is undefined.
$(function() {
  $.getJSON( "./data/gameactivity.json", function(data) {
    $('#clickable').click(function() {
      /*if ($('#clickable').val() === "1") {
        console.log("yoyoyo");
      }*/
      if ($('#clickable').val() === data.value) {
        console.log(data);
      }
    })
    var i = data[0];
    console.log(i.value);
  })
});

Example of gameactivity.json:
{
    "gameactivity": [
        {"text": "ExampleBot is online", "value": "1"},
        {"text": "ExampleBot - !help", "value": "2"},
        {"text": "https://example.de", "value": "3"}
    ]
}

A: You should get value from data.gameactivity[0]


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dailyindustry May 29, 2021
Staff Correspondent: Banking sector's profitability in Bangladesh would remain under pressure due to high provisioning requirements and a bleak forecast for the credit growth. This will happen due to prolonged economic stagnation, according to Fitch Solutions in a recent research report. Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating firm.
Weak capital buffers and high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs), would be a continuing problem in the banking sector, particularly for state-owned commercial banks (SOCB), says the Fitch Ratings Inc.
The profitability of Bangladesh's banking system, notably SOCBs, decreased in the quarters running up to December 2020, according to the report. And, since NPLs continue to increase despite a bad economic environment and inadequate lending procedures, prior to the pandemic, continued large loan-loss provisions are likely in the future quarters, it noted.
In their research on banking and financial services in Bangladesh, Fitch Solutions stated, "We expect the profitability effect from loan loss provisioning on SOCBs to be more severe than private commercial banks (PCBs)."
Banks have to keep 0.50 per cent to 5 per cent in provisioning against general category loans, 20 per cent against classified loans of substandard category, and 50 per cent against classified loans of doubtful category. They have to set aside 100 per cent against the classified loans of bad or loss category.
"Outlook for Bangladesh banking system remains poor," it said.
Fitch Solutions said based on Bangladesh Bank data, private commercial banks (PCBs) were running a Tk 4,600 crore provisioning surplus as of December 2020, up from Tk 2,370 crore in September 2020.
This provides them with an even greater buffer to draw from, should loan delinquencies exceed their projections, it said.
In contrast, the Fitch Solutions said state commercial banks managed to reduce their provision to Tk 4,920 from Tk 5,520 over the same period.
But the shortfall nevertheless implies continued high levels of provisioning over subsequent quarters and this will weigh on profitability, it added.
The gross non-performing loans (NPL) ratio of the banking sector stood at 8.1 per cent in December 2020, and the ratios of the SOCBs and PCBs stood at 21 per cent and 4.8 per cent respectively.
The report said December data of the NPLs showed a decline relative to September 2020 because of the loan moratorium facility in effect during the period, loan rescheduling, and a high level of loan write-offs. Yet, aggregate NPLs in the sector was high.
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facility having ended December 2020, NPLs should show a rise in subsequent readings. SOCBs account for almost half of total sector NPLs despite only having a quarter of total sector assets," said Fitch Solutions.
The report said there might be some recovery in credit growth but surge unlikely.
Fitch Solutions said any profitability recovery would be capped by a weak rebound in loans. It forecast that growth of advances to slow down to 10.5 per cent in 2021 from 12 per cent previously, representing only a slight recovery from 9 per cent in 2020. "To be sure, our forecast continues to reflect some strengthening of credit growth from 8.9 per cent year on year in January," said Fitch Solutions, attributing the growth to export demand from two of the major markets Europe and the United States.
It, however, said delays to domestic vaccination would likely hinder a sharp rebound in business sentiment in Bangladesh for businesses reliant on the domestic market and cap gains to loan growth.
Fitch Solutions said capitalisation would come under further stress due to the NPL in 2021 following the expiry of a loan moratorium at the end of December 2020, with capital shortfall at state banks posing further downside risks to the view on credit growth.
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Canada's Emily Batty, 30, is aiming for gold this weekend at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., the lone Canadian stop on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup tour. (Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Canada's Batty racing for elusive mountain bike World Cup gold medal
TORONTO — Emily Batty has climbed the World Cup top-five podium 14 times in her career, including three times in the last few weeks. But she's never stood on the top step.
The 30-year-old from Brooklin, Ont., will take aim at gold again this weekend at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., the lone Canadian stop on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup tour.
If gold is in her future, it will take a long and gruelling climb to get there.
"It's taken the most hardship and unique aproach to getting to realize that I can be there," Batty said.
Batty broke her collarbone in an untimely training crash a couple of days before she raced at the 2010 London Olympics, finishing a heartbreaking 24th. Four years later in Rio, she crossed the line just two seconds out of a medal. Both disappointments sent her spiralling into a deep depression.
"I've learned so much, I'm an athlete but I'm more human than I think people realize, going through a severe depression actually, quite dark for awhile," she said. "I almost get emotional talking about it. I am still healing."
The broken collarbone was a shock for an athlete who was born and raised on a cattle farm and was "anything but a fragile girl."
"That is now six years later and I'm still pretty emotionally wrapped up in that one because it was so traumatizing for me," she said.
The Rio Games came a year after Batty had led Canadian veteran Catharine Pendrel in a 1-2 finish at the Pan American Games in Toronto. In Rio, Pendrel crossed third, just ahead of Batty. To come so close was devastating.
"You turn it up so much for an Olympics year, for me it's a form of isolation, I have to go to a training camp, I have to not see anyone, not do anything, I'm not even a normal person, I just eat, sleep, train, repeat," she said. "So for me I devoted so much into it and then coming up two seconds short, the average person would still say 'You were fourth!' but what it took to be there and to get that fourth and to come up short of a medal, it definitely sent me into a downward spiral for I'd say seven, eight months."
Batty has worked with sports psychologist Kristin Keim since Rio.
"I knew I was deep enough that I needed some professional help and guidance just to kind of bring the spark back and start over," Batty said. "Do I want to say I'm still depressed? No, I've definitely overcome all of that. But the fact is that motivation is an emotion, you do have to ride the wave of being an athlete, it's not gloriously glamourous like people perceive all the time, that's for sure."
Batty, who's coached by husband Adam Morka, heads to Mont-Sainte-Anne on a competitive high after three consecutive World Cup podium finishes — a silver in Italy, fourth-place finish in the Czech Republic and bronze in Andorra.
She's a fan of the Mont-Sainte-Anne course. The oldest course on the World Cup tour is famous for its natural technical elements like root and rock gardens. It's also the site for the 2019 world championships.
Olympic gold in Tokyo in two years is also at the top of Batty's list of goals, but in a sport that sees women peak in well into their 30s, Japan won't be Batty's final shot at the top of the Games podium. Pendrel is 37, while Norway's Gunn-Rita Dahle, the winner last month at Andorra, is 45.
"I just turned 30 a month ago, so I can be in this sport for as long as I want it seems, that's how this sport is, it's not driven by age," said Batty, who races Sunday. "Tokyo is just around the corner, and will I be ready to retire in two years? Hell no.
"I've proved to myself that I know I have what it takes, I'm not going just for a medal, I'm going for a gold medal. And it's taken that injury 46 hours before the (2012) Games, and it's taken coming two seconds short of a medal (in 2016). So yeah, absolutely Tokyo is on the list. But that's not the end, that's for sure."
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SAN ANTONIO — Working to shore up historically red Texas, Republican President Donald Trump's reelection campaign launched a bus tour of the state here Thursday where Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and other surrogates went to pains to argue they are not sweating the state this November.
"Welcome to the Trump bus tour in Texas," Patrick said in his first remarks to reporters off the bus, before quickly volunteering: "We are absolutely 100% confident that President Donald Trump will carry Texas," and "solidly" so.
Patrick, the chairman of Trump's 2020 campaign in Texas, was followed by Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson, who insisted the president would "carry the state and carry it well." Then came another senior adviser, Brad Parscale, who claimed Trump is "in a very good position for Texas" and said he laughs when people approach him with concerns about the state, noting the attention that the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, is paying to it.
"That's all just a little bit of smoke and mirrors," said Parscale, who was Trump's campaign manager earlier this election cycle. "The president's in a clear position to win this state."
The unsolicited confidence belied a race in Texas that has looked close for months, with poll after poll falling within the margin of error. Trump carried the state by 9 percentage points four years ago, which even then was the smallest margin of victory that a GOP nominee got in Texas since 1996.
Now, in addition to the polls, Biden's campaign has identified Texas as a battleground state and made fall TV ad reservations here. And while it remains to be seen how much the campaign will eventually invest in the resource-intensive state, the initial overtures are nonetheless fueling Texas Democrats' hopes that the state is on track to flip for the first time since 1976.
Patrick recently reiterated his prediction from months ago that Trump would win Texas this November by a larger margin than he did in 2016 — double digits. Speaking to the crowd here Thursday, donning a new cowboy hat after stopping at Paris Hatters in downtown San Antonio, Patrick declared that Texas "is not a swing state." Pierson told the crowd that Trump "would blow it out in the state of Texas."
Still, the existence of a bus tour — two months out from the election, no less — seemed to speak for itself. The bus was set to make a second stop Thursday in San Antonio before heading to Granger in Central Texas and ending Friday at Bedford in North Texas. Both Granger and Bedford are in firmly competitive political territory — the former in Williamson County, which covers the suburbs north of Austin, and the latter in the sprawling suburban expanse between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Trump himself has not held a campaign rally in Texas since October, though he visited the Permian Basin in July for an ostensibly official trip that was imbued with politics as he attacked Democrats as bad for the state's energy industry.
Asked if he would advise Trump to campaign in Texas before the election, Parscale suggested that if the president did, it would not be out of political necessity. "It's gonna be because these are his people," Parscale told reporters. "Texas is Trump country."
The state's Democrats say it strains credulity that Trump is not worried about Texas at this point, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. In polls, more Texas voters have disapproved of Trump's pandemic response than have approved.
"As the Trump campaign conducts its last-ditch bus tour of Texas, it has never been clearer that they are on the verge of breaking," state Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa said in a statement. "Texans are demanding change. Texas will go to Joe Biden on November 3."
The bus tour stop here drew several dozen Trump supporters to the sweltering parking lot in front of the local Latinos for Trump office. Parscale, who was working in web design in San Antonio before Trump plucked him from obscurity to work on his 2016 campaign, said he had forgotten how hot the city could get. Pierson also has Texas roots — she is a former Tea Party activist from Garland. And Tommy Hicks, the Dallas investor who co-chairs the Republican National Committee, was also set to participate in the bus tour, though he was not seen at the first San Antonio stop.
After the stop, one Trump-supporting couple from San Antonio said they felt good about the president's chances in Texas, though the wife, Ann Sawyer, expressed some concern about the influx of new voters coming to Texas from blue states. Sawyer, a substitute teacher, suggested it would not hurt for Trump to drop in on the state at least once before Election Day.
"It would be nice to see him," said Sawyer, who was decked out with a pro-Trump shirt, hat and flag. "It's nice to the lieutenant governor and part of [Trump's campaign] staff, but yeah, it'd be nice for him to come back again."
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Q: spark-sql: How to get the progress bar (with stages and tasks)? How can I get a progressbar on spark-sql? spark-shell get a nice progress bar like this:
[Stage7:===========>                              (14174 + 5) / 62500]
This progressbar tells what is the total number of executors allocated, how many are running and how many completed. while the length of the progress bar indicates the % completion of the job.
Absent this we have to rely only on the Resource Manager UI and keep refreshing the same.

A: spark-sql -S will show the condensed progress!


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The game dev letters: A series on The Beginner's Guide
Sentris developer Samantha Kalman and Insomniac Games designer Liz England exchange fascinating insights on The Beginner's Guide, and what it means to be a creator who happens to makes games.
by Liz England, Samantha Kalman
Sentris developer Samantha Kalman and Insomniac Games designer Liz England exchange fascinating insights on Davey Wreden and Everything Unlimited's thought-provoking game The Beginner's Guide, and what it means to be a creator who happens to makes games.
To: Samantha Kalman
From: Liz England
Subject: The Beginner's Guide
Hey Samantha,
I'm dying to talk about The Beginner's Guide but honestly I have no clue where to even start. I have nothing to compare it to.
Like, I'm tempted to compare it (obviously) to The Stanley Parable but it has none of that humorous wink-wink nudge-nudge affectation. I've been scraping my brain but I can't think of a game that breaks the fourth wall so consistently without also being dredged in humor. The Beginner's Guide doesn't play it as a gag. It's so sincere. Even as a work of fiction I feel like the message is terribly honest.
I think the reason I have trouble figuring out how to even start discussing The Beginner's Guide is that the game is just a bottomless well of stuff to talk about. You can approach it as a series of art games, as a master class in level design, as a metaphor for the creative process, as a work blurring the line between fiction and reality, as a discussion of the relationship between a creator and its audience and who really owns creative work once you released it in the wild - all wrapped up into one short, two hour game. I could easily spend ten times that length just talking about it.
"It's weird to watch creative control over a work get lost once it's in the player's hands."
And even though I want to talk about it, I had to think pretty hard about whether I wanted to actually write about the game, you know? The game kind of resists interpretation - by digging for meaning, we're perilously close to committing its cardinal sin. I don't want to be a "Davey" (the character, not developer) confusing familiarity with a creative work with intimacy and friendship with its creator, a "Coda". I've seen that kind of troubled one-sided relationship in celebrity fandom, but (luckily) never experienced it myself. I definitely know what it's like to have my work in the hands of players and critics as they assume all kinds of intent behind even the most innocuous choices. It's weird to watch creative control over a work get lost once it's in the player's hands. I think this is the first time I've seen the topic actually addressed in a game - though obviously it's not the only topic in there.
Anyway, I totally intended on just talking about some of my initial thoughts but it's so hard to keep to a surface level discussion of the game. I spent a good amount of time after I finished it reading what other people had to say about it - mostly gamers, critics, and journalists, but pretty much nothing from developers. I'm super curious what a fellow dev has to say about it (and not just because there's some awesome craftsmanship going on behind the scenes).
To: Liz England
From: Samantha Kalman
Hi Liz! I'm also so glad to for this chance to dig into Beginner's Guide with another developer. It's a work that contains many layers to sift through, and I kind of want to remark on all of them. You bring up some great points to start with~~
There are certainly similarities between BG and Stanley. Its mechanics, narrator, the weight of its detailed static environments all seem deliberately evocative of Stanley. It brings to mind the chapter where Coda was making many similar prison games in succession. That seems like a funny parallel to me. Like the game is in some incredibly recursive way, commenting on itself. Or, maybe I'm reading too much into it and that relationship wasn't intentional. Have you ever experienced any kind of pressure to follow up a project with something very similar?
"Is it difficult or delightful when you see players misinterpret your games?"
I suspect even by drawing this parallel I've already committed the game's cardinal sin; how could I possibly draw any real conclusions about what the creator intended? I can only interpret the work through the lens of my own experiences. "Davey" does this over and over again while talking about Coda's work. He appears as the voice of authority, forcing his own opinion about each piece onto the player. It's almost rude how he, in the game, doesn't allow the player to interpret Coda's pieces without biasing us with his own perspectives. He's influencing the way we experience the games before we can see each in their entirety. I wonder if this is commentary on the tendency for players to seek out authorial intent rather than find satisfaction with their own interpretations? I'd like to think it is, but that's because I'm actively committing this sin right now.
Liz, what's your opinion on the importance of authorial intent? Is it difficult or delightful when you see players misinterpret your games?
The other question on my mind at this point in the conversation relates to an early narration in the game. Davey said Coda never intended to release these games anywhere...that perhaps the act of making them was more important than the act of playing them. This sits tumultuously on my mind. What's the value of making a game that isn't intended to be played by anyone? What purpose does that serve? I'd offer my own opinion but I'm still not quite sure yet.
Hey Samantha-
I haven't played anything else by Davey Wreden except for Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide so it's hard for me to judge how much is one imitating the other, and how much it is just his style. I tend to side with style, to be honest. I hadn't actually put together the idea that Stanley Parable is a big prison for the player. I feel a little sheepish admitting that now. It's so obvious in retrospect.
I loved that you asked about authorial intent. Once upon a time I was a literature student and all the authors I studied were long since dead, so no one was around to really care about "intent." I learned to study works for what they had to say about themselves, regardless of what the author might have intended. I still think that's totally fine, that a book - or a game - can be evaluated on its own merits and doesn't need a creator to tell you how to interpret it. But… once I became a developer myself I started to realize where the line stood, and how so many people would mix up "what the work means" and "what the creator means." I wouldn't say it's difficult so much as frustrating to read, especially since it's everywhere once you start to notice it. A lot of times it's players ascribing deep meaning to something that was, I don't know, a band-aid used to hide asset streaming. At that point the things players say about why a developer did 'X' just sound completely absurd, you know?
"I've tried my own hand at making 'unplayable' games but my inner game designer just won't let me go there."
So there's one question I have for you that I wanted to bring up: Who is Davey and who is Coda? (The characters I mean). Maybe it's just me, but when I first played it I immediately assumed Davey and Coda were the same person and it was completely metaphorical. I mean, we have the developer inserting himself into his own game, and then telling you the game just HAPPENS to be made by some fictional character who can't talk to you. This really primed me to think of the game as about a relationship between an artist's outward side and their inner side, a kind of tug-of-war between the ego and the id. I latched onto the idea that Coda was the muse that could only ever speak through art, and Davey was the logical part of the brain trying to make sense of it, explain it to the press, and edit it to be more commercial (accessible, usable, player-friendly, etc.). My first time through I totally missed the more literal interpretation that this was about a relationship between a player and a developer. What about you? Same/different? I have a tendency to miss the forest for the trees sometimes...
I totally want to grapple with your last point though - whether games can have value without being played. Maybe in a follow-up email, since I've written a ton already. Have you read Robert Yang's commentary to this?
"It's more important to witness a game than to play it." I really liked his approach to this, with the idea that games can be experienced without being played (whether we like it or not) and those experiences might be totally different than the real thing (and we should learn to be okay with that). I'd be curious what your thoughts are on it - it's a complex subject, for sure.
I've tried my own hand at making 'unplayable' games but my inner game designer just won't let me go there. I can't not put lamp posts in my levels.
Hi Liz!
I never really thought about Stanley as a prison, either. Maybe it's a strange hybrid of a prison and a funhouse. It's the only other game of Davey's I played too, but I feel okay about picking up the similarities and calling it "Davey's style." Part of me hopes he rebels and breaks his style in future work. Another part finds comfort in the idea that he continues to strengthen his established style without deviating much from it.
I love what you're bringing up about how players ascribe meaning where none may have been intended. To me, this is the Yin to the Yang of the game's cardinal sin. Though we may never know the truth about what a work was intended to say, finding places to project (inject?) meaning makes the connection between us and the work more personal. I think about how many people feel ownership of the media they love -- music, television, films, games -- and how upset they get when a work does something different than those who love it and feel like they own it would have wanted it to be. Analytics-based game design practices operate under the pretense that giving the players what they want is the way to make the best games. Is that more important than carving out our creative path in the direction we feel drawn to? What does "best" even mean in this case?
"Though we may never know the truth about what a work was intended to say, finding places to project (inject?) meaning makes the connection between us and the work more personal."
Are any of Coda's games "good"? Is the answer even important in the context of the game? Why does Davey feel so compelled to spread Coda's games around, when he was supposedly content operating in isolation? It's super interesting to me that you interpreted Davey and Coda to be the same person! I took that relationship at face-value: Coda is just a guy making strange games as he likes, and Davey is another point of observation that perceives worth in the work and wants to share it on Coda's behalf, even without his permission. If Davey and Coda are the same person, then The Beginner's Guide becomes more about cowardice. The shameful feeling of wanting to create something for selfish reasons but being too embarrassed to do so. Davey had to create an alter-ego; a straw man to bear the brunt of the praise and the abuse alike. If they're different people, then the game becomes more about violation of trust. Coda asked Davey to not do a thing, Davey did that thing, and Coda had to cut all ties. I'm curious about Coda's compulsion to remain invisible. How many Codas are out in the world in 2015, coding away on personal experiments with zero desire to be seen? It's an overwhelming thought, especially right now with the number of games being made that have a strong desire to be seen.
This train of thought leads me to Schrödinger's work and quantum theory -- an atom transforms simply as a result of being observed. Maybe the game is a simple story about a person who changes as a result of his work being observed. The interesting part is how it's told -- by demonstrating the changing person through their work, filtered through the perspective of the person doing the observing. It makes my brain hurt. After reading Robert's piece that you shared, I have to think even more about the role of observation, broadly, creatively.
Speaking of the work, I'd like to ask what you think about the game's one recurring puzzle -- the dark space between two doors. I've been thinking about it so much but I want to hear your thoughts before I share my own interpretation.
Until the next lamp post,
> Are any of Coda's games "good"?
Okay, look, I know this was a rhetorical question but I just want to say (again, I think, but you can never say it too much) that I adored every single one of those little vignettes attributed to Coda. Each one was an excellent art game in its own right and I am just really humbled by Wreden's skill that he's able to bring together not only an amazing game in The Beginner's Guide but that each part of that greater whole is so, so good.
Anyway, you asked about the dark space between the two doors. I may be completely wrong but I think it's meaningless. I think it's a deliberate red herring.
"Somehow I just spent two paragraphs talking about how something in the game has no meaning. This is one of the things I love-hate about The Beginner's Guide."
I think that so-called space between doors is an example of Davey reading far too much into everything. I feel like this puzzle returns each time to remind us that this is a game, and that games often have these weird incongruous gameplay elements built into them for arbitrary reasons. I don't think -- at least from the fictional Coda's point of view -- that there's any reason for it.
But it's so interesting how Davey latches onto it and tell us how important it is. The door puzzle is easily the least meaningful thing in anything Coda makes and yet Davey is thrilled by it. Why? Do you remember the game where you clean house? It's likewise meaningless busywork -- fun because, I guess, it's interactive in a way that most of Coda's work is a very passive experience for the player. It's a repetitive grind that is oddly satisfying. Davey adores it but it's completely meaningless. It lacks all the subtle (and not-so-subtle) art that Coda puts into the rest of his work. I don't think it's a coincidence that the clean house game occurs entirely in the space between those two doors.
I'd love to know if you have a different impression. There's a lot of emphasis on that space in the game, but my takeaway was that it was a lie, a fake-out, a trap for us to fall into when we try to look for meaning when there is none (and that obviously manifests as a literal trap for Davey within the game).
Somehow I just spent two paragraphs talking about how something in the game has no meaning. This is one of the things I love-hate about The Beginner's Guide. Like I said in my first email -- the game preemptively judges you for trying to interpret it and yet it dangles all this juicy metaphorical detail in front of you daring to figure it out. I feel like we've barely touched on the game, to be honest. When I initially finished it, I felt wonderfully satisfied by the experience but the longer I think about it (and the more I talk about it with you) the more unsatisfied I am by it, the more I want to dig into it and find out what all the different parts mean. I wonder if Wreden knew that would happen when he made the game... but I suspect I'll never know.
Liz,
This has been an incredible exchange that's been very thought-provoking for me. Thank you for the conversation. One of the beats I take away from The Beginner's Guide is the unstable nature of friendships between highly creative people. This is a case where two people who literally didn't know each other before are having a deep conversation that's manifested a connection which didn't exist before. Whether or not we become friends and stay in touch after this is over is yet to be seen. Like Davey in the game, I've had unexpected conflicts drive a wedge between me and people I admire. I think that aspect of relationships is revealed in the game in an incredibly honest way, even if it's a little heavy handed. Making friends with like-minded people is super important to me as someone who works (mostly) alone. When we began this exchange I looked up your games and played many of them. I almost want to ask you about your decisions and intentions with the games to find out if my assumptions were intentional decisions. But I believe at this point it would be a terrible idea to ask. So I'll just say I admire your work and I'm looking forward to your future projects. I'm glad we both did this letter series so I had a chance to learn about your perspectives.
In service of revealing truths, I'll admit that I know Davey (the person, not the character) and I was privileged to play an unfinished version of Beginner's Guide earlier this year. In the game's credits my name is in the Special Thanks section. I can't say for sure if playing that unfinished version influenced the final product, or skews my perceptions about how the game turned out in the end. I can say it strikes me as an incredibly honest story about creativity, people, vulnerability, self-worth, and self-protection. These days so many vocal people are negative, sarcastic, cynical, dismissive, and outright cruel to others who do intensely difficult and creative work. It's important to me to balance that voice with a positive outlook. I believe that all human expression is valuable, and our nature to step on each other, and claim ownership of something we like that somebody else made needs to be surfaced. It's important for us to speak with honesty about these issues, so that we may understand ourselves and others a little better. Steve Jobs never wrote a line of code that powers the iPhone, but culturally he's considered the inventor. What's up with that?
"One of the beats I take away from The Beginner's Guide is the unstable nature of friendships between highly creative people."
To finish, I want to talk about the space between the two doors. From a literal perspective, the two doors are a recurring puzzle with the same solution: pull the lever to open the front door, close in and step inside before it shuts. On the other side of the closed door is another lever which opens the other door. It's a puzzle about permanently closing a gate separating you from the place you came from; from the past. It's a metaphor for time, for being unable to look back, restricting yourself to only moving forward. And it lets you take your time to sit in the dark space as long as you want to. It's hidden, like a place shut off from the world; from people, from observation, from sensory stimulus. A place to rest, peacefully until you are ready to do the only thing you can do -- move forward.
I love how the beautiful house that is filled with mundane chores and another housekeeper is situated in the dark space between the doors. It's almost like the space between everything we strive to do is a space of necessity. A single friend to talk to and a lot of simple but tedious life tasks to perform. And it's one of the most graphically rich sequences in the game. I don't know about you, but I get so lost in my thoughts while writing code -- "does this work?" ~ "what would make this better?" ~ "how do I communicate this to players" ~ "will people find this fun?" -- it can be all-consuming of my consciousness and I forget about my chores, my cat, the time of day, how long it's been since I've eaten. The idea of just tending to my home in a simple way with a friend to talk to sounds like a kind of paradise. And I'm glad Davey took joy in knowing that Coda thought it was his finest work.
The first title of the credits is "For R." Who is R?


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A screenshot of Dr. Levy Barnes and wife Sheri from his Christmas video. Courtesy image
Christmas with Dr. Levy this Saturday set to benefit hundreds of children
By Mary Meaux
Published 12:20 am Thursday, December 10, 2020
"Christmas with Dr. Levy" will be a bit different this year due to the pandemic, but the reason behind the season remains.
This year's event will be a drive-thru toy giveaway at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Port Arthur Pavilion, 500 Procter St.
Children must be present with a guardian in a car receive a gift, and when each family pulls up, everyone is required to have on a mask. The event is first come, first served.
"We want to make sure all of the kids are safe and play it safe for everybody," Dr. Levy Barnes said. "We are canceling the petting zoo and pictures with Santa, [and] decided to keep it simple."
In the past there have been issues with fraudulent people, which is the reason for the requirement of having the guardian and child together at the time of the event. Last year, he said, a woman said she had a handicapped son who was bed-bound and even had paperwork to show this. But when he turned his head she was seen by workers grabbing a hoverboard and leaving.
Barnes and his wife Sheri save money through the year to purchase the toys and have had assistance this year from Farmers Insurance agent Zulema Escobedo, Walmart, Entergy, Mortgage Dynamics, Q. Productions LLC, Hobson and Bradley Law Firm (Tina Bradley), Not Your Ordinary Night and Q. Hair Regrowth Spray.
Barnes said he wouldn't be giving out as many bicycles as in the past but instead will be giving more drones.
"The goal is to always get quality toys," he said, adding some families are struggling financially and may not be able to do so.
He has seen the fruits of his good work. It came in the form of a photo of a smiling child playing with one of the toys given during a previous event.
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the amount of donors this year, so there are some small toys as well.
"We made things work out," he added.
All in all he and his wife have enough toys for at least 500 children and plan to continue purchasing toys, hoping to have enough for 700 children by the end of the week.
Yolanda Avery, front, and Lincoln Middle School Flaming Stars dance group. Courtesy image
Barnes typically has musical entertainment at his holiday giveaways, but this was modified due to COVID restrictions.
He spoke with Yolanda Avery, who works with the Lincoln Middle School Flaming Stars, saying at first he would be unable to have them perform. After hanging up the phone with Avery, he realized he planned on shooting a music video for his rendition of Winter Wonderland and called her back.
If you didn't already know, Barnes is an entrepreneur, preacher, author, inventor, educator and recording artist.
The plan was to make the video with the students at Port Arthur City Hall, but there was rain that day so he contacted Central Mall, which allowed them to film indoors.
"When the girls got there, it was a very emotional time because they hadn't seen each other since the shut down and had been rehearsing virtually," he said.
The dance group was able to social distance, wear masks and take necessary precautions during the event. The video of the performance can be seen on YouTube and one Barnes' Facebook page — facebook.com/dr.levyq.
Lincoln Middle School Flaming Stars dance group. Courtesy image
Barnes has long been giving back to the community, and though he's in his seventh year with Christmas with Dr. Levy, he actually started in 1997.
Not one to broadcast the good deeds they do, he and his wife help throughout the year but the one at Christmas is the main effort.
At first they gave toys to 50 children, then to 100, then others started joining in to help.
His prison ministry is ongoing with COVID. They send books to inmates, as they cannot visit.
The reason behind the giving goes back a ways.
"I feel like this is an obligation," he said. "Before COVID through the years, we started our ministry going door-to-door in low-income areas and projects in New Orleans."
Barnes he used to live in New Orleans.
"When you go into homes and see nothing, you can't just leave them with a prayer and nothing else," he said.
He has seen the concerned look on the faces of parents who are on edge, knowing they can't afford presents for their children, so instead they shop at a dollar store.
"We know Christmas isn't about toys, but it gives hope during the Christmas season," Barnes said.
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College at Brockport's Diversity Recruitment and Retention Specialist Resigns
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UPDATED 10:52 PM ET Feb. 11, 2020 PUBLISHED 6:36 PM ET Feb. 11, 2020 PUBLISHED 6:36 PM EST Feb. 11, 2020
Turmoil continues at the College at Brockport as the college's diversity recruitment and retention specialist has resigned.
Dr. Sandra Vazquez submitted her resignation letter weeks after the controversial firing of Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Cephas Archie, as well as a college employee filing a complaint against the college with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging discrimination on the basis of race.
Spectrum News spoke to students on campus that said they are disturbed that all of the people fighting for them are being taken away, and without Dr. Archie and Dr. Vazquez, they're asking the question: "who else is here for us?"
"I don't see as much of a diverse population both student wise and even life staffing of what I believe like America to represent, and we don't get to see that here," said Hailey Stahlnan, a College at Brockport Student.
"Not enough teachers understand what it's like coming from a different community, and then being around all of these people that don't look like me, so it's kind of uncomfortable talking to them about certain situations and how I feel, because I feel like they won't understand me," said Massandje Fofana, another student at the college.
Students protested the firing of Archie. The college released the following statement regarding Vasquez's resignation:
"Our commitment to building a better Brockport is unwavering – and that includes efforts we have taken to diversify our faculty and staff."
"We chose to create this position which Dr. Vasquez filled to add to our Human Resources team in December, as our students deserve to see themselves represented in those who teach and support them."
"That work will continue to move forward and we will engage the entire college community to help accomplish it."
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In the year to February 2015, Tradehold has significantly expanded its property holdings in the UK while establishing a foothold in selected African property markets beyond South Africa. At the same time it has grown its financial services division in both the UK and South Africa.
This enabled the company, which reports its results in pound sterling, to increase revenue for the year by 65% to £20.7m (2014: £12.6m). Operating profit was 39% higher at £11.0m and net profit 22.5% up at £7.8m.
Tradehold chairman Christo Wiese, commenting on the refocusing and revitalisation of the company, said: "We grew total assets during the reporting period by 61% to £207m and raised about £47m in the local market to continue extending our property holdings in the new financial year.
"Although the UK will for the foreseeable future remain the dominant component of our business, we are now also focussing on countries in Southern Africa where we are gaining a solid foothold. We have acquired the bulk of the properties owned by Collins Group of KwaZulu-Natal in Africa outside South Africa. The acquisition, which also includes several assets in the UK, mainly involves properties in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia, and will provide us with a solid base from which to grow into African markets," Wiese said.
Tradehold Africa has been created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tradehold to house and develop the group's property holdings on the continent. Its first "green fields" project has been the creation, in a joint venture, of executive accommodation in Maputo in Mozambique at a cost of £30.5m. All 90 apartments in the complex have been leased to the United States government and a multinational oil company. In Namibia, Tradehold Africa is a partner in a significant pipeline of which £98m will be expended in the next three years.
Wiese said the UK properties which formed part of the Collins acquisition would be integrated with the portfolio managed by Moorgarth, of which Tradehold owns 95%. In the past year this portfolio grew by 50% to £116m in a stable environment and generated a net profit that was 112% higher at £7m.
The company bought six investment properties during the year at a cost of £39m. Of the six, five are in central London.
In addition to its property holdings, Tradehold also owns a financial services division which trades in the UK through two operating units - Reward Capital and Reward Commercial Finance – and in South Africa through Mettle. The division contributed £2.6m to the group's net profit.
Wiese said Tradehold expected the growth of the past financial year to continue in 2015/16. "In the UK the income stream generated by the new properties in London will start making a meaningful contribution to rental income while the established properties from Collins Group will do the same in the case of our Africa operation," Wiese said.


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