The fifth collection of poems by the late Desmond O'Grady explores ageing and the power of love and art.
The publication of On My Way in February 2006 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Desmond O'Grady's first collection of poems, Chords and Orchestrations. A celebration of ageing, a reaffirmation of belief in the importance and power of poetry and art, On My Way is both a testament to endurance and a statement of vision from one of the most engaging presences in Irish poetry.


I slept in the bathtub. Yesseree bob, it seems like a year and a half of habitual earplug wearing during sleep has made me ultra sensitive to any kind of noise. So I woke up at 3am to the sound of wind blowing outside my window and finding the bathroom to be a quiet haven comparatively, I lined the bathtub with the extra pillows and slept till 8 or so.
I sat by a guy who wore all black and happened to be a seventeen year performing magician. Of course I didn't know he was when I sat by him so I just disregarded him as a Matrix loner type who like wearing black leather pants with a black vest under a black cloak. On Sunday he actually performed some wicked cool card tricks at lunch which blew us all away. He seemed pretty dexterous with playing cards and could fan them out like nobody's business. Which all goes to show you shouldn't judge a book by his cover.
I met the biggest fan of the Secret of Nimh. His name was Chris and he seemed like a nice guy. He writes for fun and works in a video store and was telling me how the Secret of Nimh changed his life and how he always wanted to meet Don. I was glad that he could meet his hero in person.
I saw this girl that I thought was cute.
Oh yeah I saw Don Bluth.


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Home Mobiles Carriers Telstra's mobile network suffers second network outage in as many months
Telstra's mobile network suffers second network outage in as many months
Chris Rowland
A Telstra Engineer, though probably not the cause of tonight's outage. Source: Supplied.
As of 6.30pm this evening, some Telstra customers in Sydney and Melbourne are reportedly unable to make calls or access the internet using Telstra's post-paid service. The issue does not appear to be affecting all customers; indeed, our Telstra post-paid service appears to be working in the Hornsby, New South Wales area, but there are reports of an outage in our area regardless.
Telstra blamed human error for a major national outage last month, when an engineer accidentally switched off a core network node, causing chaos across Telstra's network. Earlier this month, around half a million pre-paid customers also experienced issues, and it wasn't just Telstra, but its MVNO partners as well.
A Telstra spokesperson told the Sydney Morning Herald:
"We are aware of an issue affecting some of our mobile customers who are having difficulty making and receiving calls, and using data. We are looking into the cause of this issue and apologise for the inconvenience this is causing. We are doing everything we can to restore services as soon as possible."
We'll keep an eye on the service status reports and let you know if we hear anything further.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
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Same for me in the Sunshine Coast. I obviously picked the worst time to switch to Telstra, but it's the only thing that works around here (most of the time).
Boops
Yep I've had frequent, fairly short lasting, intermittent dropouts of both internet and mobile signal in Melbourne since about 5pm. Not bothering me too much and I'm sure they'll push a fix through soon.
Haha I went to post this and signals dropped out again lol
Chris Colborne
Yep, another Brisbane user here. I had a data outage and I'm on prepaid. This is getting ridiculous…
Yep got the outage in Brisbane too – very frustrating as I needed translink information to find out which trains/buses to catch to get to a building outside of the city I have never been to….
Managed to call my brother and ask him to send me the information. Luckily he's on Optus and could get it for me, whereas I am on the 'network without equal', maybe because other networks don't have nation-wide outages like Tesltra do. Telstra are unchalleneged in that department.
2x affected post paid services in Adelaide – one personal, one business. Seems okay now though.
Jamie S
It's also affecting me in Hobart intermittently. Just dropped out completely whilst I was typing this. So basically Tassie has no internet, no mobile network and soon will have no hydro power unless it rains. Hmmm, might be time to move.
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Collaborative Arrangements and Referral Refusal
Privately Practicing Midwives (PPMs) are currently required to enter into a collaborative arrangement with a medical professional or health service in order to access Medicare rebates for the care they provide their clients. This mandated requirement came about after the National Maternity Services reform in 2010 and has been problematic from the start.
Homebirth Australia believes that this requirement adds to a PPMs already enormous workload and is a huge barrier in women accessing their preferred model of care, adding unnecessary emotional and financial stress . It unfairly targets PPMs and women who chose homebirth, particularly those in regional and remote areas.
The Australian College of Midwives (ACM) have outlined their concerns with collaborative arrangements in this statement on their website. In our 2022 Homebirth Australia conference panel discussion titled 'Collaborative Care: Working Together for the Best Outcomes', ACM spokesperson Kellie Wilton stated that "when the government legislation mandates collaboration, that it is suggestive of an ongoing priority and support for medical models and not for the expansion of midwives to provide primary healthcare." The recording of this session is available to view for free on our Vimeo channel and is recommended viewing for anyone wanting to know more about this issue. It should be noted that the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) were invited to take part in this panel discussion, but they declined our invitation.
The National Guidance on Collaborative Maternity Care identifies 9 Principals, which focus on providing woman-centred care, enabling women to choose care based on best evidence, enabling women to make informed decisions, as well as establishing professional trust between health professionals. These principals sound great in theory, but in reality, collaborative arrangements undermine a PPMs autonomy and limit a woman's choice to access their preferred model of care.
Referral Refusal
Referral refusal has been an issue in the homebirth community for many years, as outlined in this report by Homebirth NSW in 2018.
In the last few years, reports of GPs refusing to write referrals to women for maternity care with a PPM have increased significantly, with a noticeable shift in reasoning leaning towards fear of liability, although we believe that existing bias for medicalised models and unfounded fears of homebirth safety still play a large role in this.
HBA has received reports of midwives losing existing collaborative arrangements with GPs due to the increased fear of litigation, which has been exacerbated by insurance companies openly advising their clients against referring to PPMs. This is despite the fact that the RACGP guidelines for referral clearly state that "Third parties, such as insurers, should not be actively involved in any decision-making process regarding patient referrals."
HBA have been made aware of posts among private GP groups on Facebook where this information has been shared followed by derogatory comments about PPMs, which has had a knock-on effect and led to more GPs refusing to write referrals to PPMs.
There appears to be a misunderstanding by GPs about what actually constitutes a collaborative arrangement. Based on feedback given to our PPM members by their local GPs, they believe that by writing a referral to a PPM that they are entering into a collaborative arrangement and accepting responsibility for any adverse outcomes or future liability.
A referral to a PPM and entering into a collaborative arrangement with a PPM are two very different things. By writing a referral to a PPM, a GP is not automatically entering into a collaborative arrangement. The referral is purely so that the woman can obtain Medicare rebates for the antenatal and postnatal care provided by their PPM.
In the RACGP referral guidelines it outlines:
'The Medical Board of Australia's code of conduct sets out three principles for good referrals between medical professions. It suggests that you should:
take reasonable steps to ensure the specialist to whom you refer is the appropriate person (i.e. they have the appropriate qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills)
understand that you remain responsible for the overall management of the patient and your decision to delegate
communicate sufficient information to the specialist in order to enable them to assess, diagnose, treat and/or manage the patient.
The code of conduct acknowledges that referrals usually involve the transfer (in part) of responsibility for patient care, generally for a defined time and particular purpose (seeking opinion and advice outside of your scope of practice/expertise).'
When a GP refers a woman on to the care of another specialist, they are still responsible for their care but the referral guidelines clearly state that by referring you are sharing responsibility for patient care which falls outside of your scope of practice. Referrals to PPMs should be treated just like any other referral to a health professional.
Fears about liability imply that they believe homebirth in unsafe, despite the research indicating otherwise. At a recent ACM panel discussion on insurance for PPMs, a spokesperson from MIGA communicated that claims against PPMs are very low in number.
HBA has spoken to GPs who have established professional relationships with PPMs in their area. Many have admitted that initially their views on homebirth were fear-based, but that by working with PPMs and having read research on the safety of homebirth, they have changed their views and are now supportive of homebirth as a safe choice for most Australian women. We fear that the spreading of false information among GPs is only limiting their ability to enter into a conversation with women about homebirth with an open mind.
Women have reported being "lectured'" by their GP about the dangers of homebirth and encouraged to re-think their choice to birth at home. This condescending behaviour is not in the spirit of providing woman centred care and only leads to break-down of the GPs established relationship with their clients, forcing them to seek a referral elsewhere. One of the most frequently asked questions in online homebirth groups is for recommendations for GPs who will write a referral to a PPM.
Feedback we have received from PPMs in relation to collaborative arrangements and referrals from GPs include:
"I recently commenced in private practice, providing antenatal and postnatal care only. To this day I have been unsuccessful in gaining a collaborative agreement."
"This requirement very much feels like it takes away from our autonomy as Midwives. We have worked very hard to become endorsed and we are more than capable of providing care to women without having GP's or OB's as the gatekeepers to our care. We are the only health professionals that are required to collaborate in this way."
"this collaborative requirement does not seem to be in the best interest of the women or the Midwives who are affected by it"
"it is incredibly hard to gain collaboration. I provide antenatal and postnatal care and have been rejected by every single doctor I've approached, except for one who I currently have collaboration with. As far as I know, he is the only doctor in the state willing to form a collaborative agreement with PPMs so we all use him."
"By far the biggest stressor in my practice as a PPM is collaboration and maintaining this into the future"
"Many PPMs in my area have expressed interest gaining collaboration and admitting rights at our tertiary hospitals to give women more options yet this has been declined, stating that 'they do not collaborate with PPMs as they already have a continuity service that meets the needs of their community'. They're referring to MGP which while we are lucky to have, is vastly different to the care we can provide as PPMs"
"I have been in practice as a home birth midwife for two years now and still struggling to get collaboration for each family as well as admitting rights being applied for nearly two years ago at my local hospital with no progress…."
We believe that the false information being given to GPs by their insurers is extremely detrimental and should be addressed immediately. The Department of Health, RACGP and RANZCOG have a responsibility to correct this misconception and provide accurate information.to GPs and we call on them to do so. HBA will continue to engage with the ACM and RACGP on behalf of our members about potential education opportunities for GPs to help provide accurate information about homebirth and the referral process.
Homebirth Australia is taking part in the Department of Health's review into collaborative arrangements, which is being facilitated by a third party. HBA have engaged with PPMs via our newsletter and social media and we've communicated their concerns during the interview process.
We encourage all PPMs who are affected by collaborative arrangements to complete the survey here: https://ipsmc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3atMyAS9KIpyGLs
Page last updated 14th June 2022
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A report by Centre for London urges the new mayor to create partnerships with local authorities and developers which release the untapped potential of London's large brownfield sites.
According to Going Large – Making the Most of London's Big Sites, planning permission was in place for 100,000 homes on large sites across the capital in 2013. However, development of these important sites has been held back by commercial development models which are focused on short term and gradual delivery rather than long-term investment and delivery at scale.
The report argues for revitalised models of partnership and financing to translate long-term potential into the creation of successful new neighbourhoods, and to help local authorities share in the gains of their landholdings.
Develop a clear vision for priority sites, while actively exploring joint-venture arrangements for developing underused land.
"London was once a patchwork of derelict sites ripe for development. But the city is now feeling fuller, and sites that once seemed too expensive, too big and too constraint to build need to be looked at seriously.


My skin has been extremely dry and peeling/flaking for months now. I have tried moisture masks and every moisturizer known to man and instead of fixing the problem, I have created a new one on top of it - acne (at age 35)!
Has anyone had this problem? Can you recomend a product? Should I see a dermatologist and if so, any referrals near Plano?
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I have the same problems plus brittle hair, smelly, greasy scalp and skin! It started after soon after I gave birth to my daughter who is now 17mo. and has been getting worse.
My Dr. put me on thyroid meds. It's been 4months now and no change.
I'am also now seeing a dermatologist. He thinks it is sebboric (sp?) dermatitis.
Have you ever tried Arbonne? It is a botanically based skin care that has a nanosphere technology that helps your skin to produce what it needs.
Besides being a mom I am also an esthetician for the past 20 years. How long has it been sence you had any children? If it is not hormonal (from pregnancy) than it may be that you are in need of some professional exfoliation like a peel or microdermabrasion to the remove the build up of dead skin cells if you just try to moisturize on top of the dead skin you will not solve the problem no need to see a Dr just an esthetician... Hope that this it helpfull. A.
I can recommend my all clear line; I sell these FABULOUS products they really work for troubled acne for teens and adults. Even Oprah uses our products....Aestheticians say our products are the same type of chemical that they use.
Try this first, if you see a diffence that's EVEN better!!
I would recommend you try "Cetaphil" moisturizing creme. Make sure its the creme in the tub, not the lotion. The lotion is not as thick. I had very dry flaky skin and my dermatologist recommended I use it. It is non-comedogenic, so it won't clog your pores and won't cause pimples. You can use it on your face and everywhere else. It even works wonders on callouses. It costs about $12 per tub, but it is soo worth it. You can find it at most grocery stores and drug stores. You can also get it at Costco. There are store brands that claim to be the same, but they AREN'T. Good Luck!
You really need to get this taken care of, I know its annoying but dryness can cause premature lines! You need a heavy moisturizer. Any hormonal change can cause a change in a persons skin type! If you come in my office I can take a look and see what I can do. My website www.beautymarkboutique.com Hope to hear from you, L.
Hi there! My cousin is a dermatologist and I can assure you that you would really be wasting your money on any product bought at a department store (i.e. lancome, creme de la mer, etc..) There is a new product line out there that he raves about called Remergent Skin care. I believe the product he raves about is the barrier repair....it's not exactly cheap BUT is a derm. product usually sold through physicians or on the website (remergentskin.com). It is also a great product anyhow for aging skin. Other than that, I would also use a really sensitive skin cleanser like cetaphil as well. Hope this helps!
you need to exfoliate every day. get a face scrub with rough granules in it. if you can afford it, go to the one of the neimans makeup counters and ask to make an appt for a facial. it's free because they want to sell to you. lancome, laura mercier and chanel are cheaper brands. ask questions and they can help you with your specific questions. don't feel forced to buy a bunch of stuff. just buy one thing if they offer something you like. as you're getting older, your face is changing. good luck.


In this episode, Andy Davis talks to Massimo De Marco, V.P of Engineering and Product at Depop. They discuss the transition into management, exciting technology on the horizon and pursuing a career in mobile technologies. They also chat about the need to have both technical and people skills.
Massimo De Marco has worked at several companies including the IG Group, Jagex and Time Out. In his previous roles he's been hired to define and structure all development processes, from business requirements to delivery, and help the company scale up. Massimo has always seen it as his mission to build a positive work culture and processes around his team. He feels this is the key to ensuring businesses are capable of scaling up to the next level.
1.09 How did you first get involved in technology.
3.08 Skilling up, learning in tech & what do you learn?
4.56 What was the level of technology much different when you moved to the UK.
6.11 Getting involved in mobile.
7.42 Pursuing a career in mobile technology.
8.31 Talking about Massimo's role and his transition into management.
10.36 The rewarding elements of running a team.
11.46 Technology employee's as the product and the face of the industry.
14.34 Is it common that you employ people that aren't always a perfect fit for the company?
15.39 Having good people skills, business skills and technology skills.
17.03 Which three things have you found the most challenging and which have you enjoyed the most.
17.36 What is it now within technology or your career that you're striving for next.
19.00 Is it difficult to decide what new technologies to invest your time in.
20.17 Are you still as excited about what you're doing now compared to when you started your career?


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Inom klassbaserad programmering är fabriksmetod (factory method på engelska) ett designmönster som använder fabriksmetoder för att hantera problemet med att skapa objekt utan att ange den exakta klassen för objektet som ska skapas. Detta görs genom att skapa objekt genom att anropa en fabriksmetod—som antingen anges i ett gränssnitt och implementeras av underklasser eller implementeras i en basklass och skrivs över av deriverade klasser—istället för att anropa en konstruktor.

Definition
Fabriksmetoden bör inte blandas ihop med de mer allmänna begreppen fabriker och fabriksmetoder.
Mer grundläggande användningsområden av fabriker är inte exempel på fabriksmetoden, och kan istället hänvisas som fabriksmönstret eller en enkel fabrik.

Fabriksmetoden låter en klass senarelägga instansieringar till underklasser.

Att skapa ett objekt kräver ofta komplexa processer som inte är lämpliga att inkludera i ett objekt som skapas. När objekt skapas kan det leda till att kod dupliceras, vilket kanske kräver information som inte finns tillgänglig för det skapade objektet, som kanske inte ger en tillräcklig abstraktionsnivå, eller kanske annars inte berör det skapade objektet. Fabriksmetoden hanterar dessa problem genom att ange en separat metod för att skapa objekten, som underklasser sedan kan skriva över för att ange deriveringstypen till produkten som ska skapas.

Fabriksmetoden förlitar sig på arv, då underklasser som implementerar fabriksmetoden överlåts till att skapa objekt.

Exempel

Java
Ett labyrintspel kan spelas i två lägen, ett med vanliga rum som endast är anslutna till angränsande rum, och en med magiska rum som låter spelaren förflyttas på måfå (detta exempel i Java liknar det som finns i boken Design Patterns). Det vanliga spelläget skulle kunna använda denna mallmetod:public class MazeGame {
    public MazeGame() {
        Room room1 = makeRoom();
        Room room2 = makeRoom();
        room1.connect(room2);
        this.addRoom(room1);
        this.addRoom(room2);
    }

    protected Room makeRoom() {
        return new OrdinaryRoom();
    }
}I koden ovan är konstruktorn MazeGame en mallmetod. Den hänvisar till fabriksmetoden makeRoom som kapslar in rumskaparen så att andra rum kan användas i en underklass. För att implementera det andra spelläget som har magiska rum behöver metoden makeRoom skrivas över:public class MagicMazeGame extends MazeGame {
    @Override
    protected Room makeRoom() {
        return new MagicRoom();
    }
}

Se även
 Design Patterns, den inflytelserika boken om designmönster
 Abstrakt fabriksmönster, ett mönster som ofta implementeras med fabriksmetoder
 Byggare, ett annat skapandemönster
 Mallmetod, ett designmönster som kan anropa fabriksmetoder

Referenser

Fotnoter

Skrivna referenser

Designmönster

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Art-C: Mahishasura........an artwork that exemplifies India!!!
Mahishasura........an artwork that exemplifies India!!!
According to Hindu mythology, Mahishasura was a demon who was granted the power of invincibility by God Brahma but then became so powerful that he had to be killed by the Goddess Durga.
Tyeb Mehta, a contemporary of Artist M.F.Hussain depicted this in his own way & this is not surprising, considering that he comes from a generation of artists, who were influenced by European masters but sought to forge their own path & use Indian themes to interpret their work.
The Mahishasura, done in 1996 is considered to be his most famous work done in karmic origami & depicts Goddess Durga slaying the demon Mahishasura. In this painting, the artist depicts Mahishasura as a sympathetic figure embracing the Goddess, thus showing the Goddess' mercy & the demon's transformation once he's united with the divine.
The technique used was very different from the artist's general style & involved a thick oblique line running through the painting often over the figures themselves. This line allowed a single figure to be expressed in different forms on each side, thus giving rise to an agnostic view of a subject. In the painting, the man & the bull were depicted as 2 halves of a single whole thus though the theme is violent, we also find underlined the dichotomies manifested in man's existence, the good & the bad, the divine & mortal, the man & the beast. In Mehta's view this disparity existed side by side & both the figures involved are fully aware that one of them will be vanquished.
The painting when done, did generate its share of controversy but given the artists penchant for mythological themes, it was widely accepted & appreciated. It was evantually sold at a Christie's auction in New York, 2005 for a price of $1.5 million, the first time that a contemporary Indian artwork had fetched that kind of amount! Though this fact alone might divert from its brilliance, the artist has managed to portray the work as a brilliant metaphor showing the spiritual transformation that takes place as a result of union between a mortal & the divine!!


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Q: Comparing multiple files and printing larger values along with filenames I have about 2000 files in the following format:
FILEA: WHWH-19975612.txt
0.1   70  30
0.01  70  32
0.9   72  32
...

FILEB: WHWH-20004526.txt
0.2   70 30
0.001 70 32
1.0   72 32
...

Desired output
0.2  70 30  WHWH-20004526
0.01 70 32  WHWH-19975612
1.0  72 32  WHWH-20004526
...

Doing this will keep track of files where larger values are present, which I can call for further processing.

A: As long as the number of files fits into one call to awk, you can do:
awk '{ if ($1 > maxvalues[$2" "$3]) {
         maxvalues[$2" "$3]=$1;
         maxfiles[$2" "$3]=FILENAME;
       }
     }
     END {
       for (i in maxvalues) printf "%-4s %5s %s\n", maxvalues[i], i, maxfiles[i]
    }' \
    *

I created a test set of files with your sample data, and then by running:
for((i=20004527;i<20006526;i++))
do
  cp WHWH-20004526.txt WHWH-${i}.txt
done

... to create ~2000 data files to work with.

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Safety not guaranteed, admits Keegan
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Kevin Keegan has reportedly told Mike Ashley, Newcastle United's owner, that he cannot guarantee the club will avoid relegation from the Premier League this season.
Saturday's home defeat to Blackburn Rovers has left the team only three points above the relegation zone, and resulted in the Newcastle manager being summoned to an extraordinary meeting with Ashley on Saturday evening.
Quizzed about Newcastle's chances of survival, the recently-appointed manager is believed to have told the club's owner that nothing could be taken for granted. Keegan attributed his pessimistic outlook to Ashley's failure to strengthen Newcastle's squad during the January transfer window, the low morale of the players he inherited, and the team's tricky fixture list until the end of the season.
Although Keegan's position is deemed safe, Ashley is deeply concerned about the decline of a team that last won a league game on December 15, at Fulham.
Despite failing to secure a win since he returned to the club in January, Keegan received the backing of Chris Mort, Newcastle's chairman yesterday.
Interviewed on BBC Radio 5's Sportsweek programme, Mort said: "Kevin has got the players playing very well and I'm sure results will follow.
"Mike is fully supportive of Kevin."
Ancelotti upbeat despite Seedorf loss
Robben out for six weeks


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Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World
Excerpts & Samples
By Graham Phillips
Publisher : Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
ABOUT Graham Phillips
Graham Phillips is the author of The End of Eden, The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant, Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt, The Chalice of Magdalene, and The Moses Legacy. He lives in the Midlands of England.
The first book to present the true identity of the mythic figure Merlin
• Uncovers historical evidence that the legend of Merlin was based on the life of a real man
• Reveals that Avalon, Merlin's final resting place, was an island in the United States
The legendary figure Merlin is known throughout the world as the wizard of Camelot who was counselor to King Arthur and helped that monarch create the Round Table. Through the course of a 20-year investigation Graham Phillips has uncovered evidence that this famous story was based on the life of an actual historical figure: the son of a Roman consul who became the last of the Romans to rule Britain in the fifth century A.D. Furthermore, the evidence reveals that he died and was buried in what is now the United States.
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Ganz Schon Clever (2018) – Accessibility Teardown
by Michael Heron on 08/09/2018 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility
Version Reviewed
Visual Accessibility
Cognitive Accessibility
Emotional Accessibility
Socioeconomic Accessibility
Intersectional Accessibility
Name That's Pretty Clever (2018)
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Complexity Medium Light [1.92]
BGG Rank 144 [7.65]
Player Count 1-4
Designer(s) Wolfgang Warsch
Artist(s) Leon Schiffer
Ganz Schon Clever (Ganz to its friends) is an amazing game right up until the point you realise the fundamental flaws in its systems. Then it kind of dissipates with an unsatisfactory puff of disappointed potential. It's basically like someone took my professional career and made a game out of it. No matter, even with that taken into account we were still willing to give it three and a half stars in our review. Provided you can stay ahead of the spoilers there's no reason to believe you won't spend many happy hours exploring its complicated internal interactions.
Having done everything in our power to spoil the fun of those playing, let's see if we can't make amends by identifying those people that won't be able to have their fun spoiled. Roll the dice, it's teardown time.
Predictably, colour blindness is a problem. The dice are likely to be an issue for all the standard categories of colour blindness, although as usual the extent to which this is true will depend on the severity of the condition.
Similarly, with the player sheets– the different sections are going to be an issue, but every part of it least a learnable location They don't move around or change values like the dice will.
A subtler problem though is that the different hues on the dice and the sheets mean that you can't even rely on mapping the colour of the dice to the colour of the section in circumstances where some degree of colour differentiation is possible. Consider for example players with Protanopia – the dice shown on this image are next to the right sections but you can see they don't actually share a colour. It's close, but not an exact match and arguably some of those dice look like they belong elsewhere.
Tritanopes are going to have a similar problem when dealing with the blue and the green:
Now, at most there are six dice to be worrying about and there's no real-time or covert activity. It's possible to ask of the table, but this is also a game where carefully mentally curating your options is incredibly important. When you roll dice, you lose the ones with a lower value and some of those decisions are going to be based on the colour. You won't really risk anything by asking people what colours of dice are at risk, but at the same time it's hard to say that wouldn't have a noticeable impact on the ease of play.
We suspect Ganz is likely to be playable by people with colour blindness, but– it's a 2018 game and there's no excuse for this kind of thing. We were willing to be somewhat forgiving of Sagrada given that its theme was specifically and inextricably linked to the idea of translucent dice, but we have no such excuse here. We'll very tentatively recommend it but 'must do better'.
This is also a troublesome category because the sheets you use in Ganz are very information dense and the dice you work with are often linked in intricate ways that are difficult to verbalise. You can easily describe any section of Ganz Schon Clever but that doesn't necessarily mean you can impart any sense of the subtlety. 'Yes, you can place a blue two' is useful guidance but what does that mean in practice? What synergies is it opening up? It's not even enough to say 'And that means if you get a ten you'll get a bonus green' because the value of getting that bonus is going to be linked to a whole pile of other things. Ideally you want that bonus when the next space to be filled is a five (because that's the hardest one) or when it gives you a suitable chain bonus. Suitable though is dependent on every other part of the sheet. No point getting a free yellow if you've already filled that section, as an example. Close inspection of sheets is certainly going to be possible, but that analysis is a bit like a numerical word jumble – you're looking not just at individual cells but how they relate to other cells and occasionally how those relationships intersect with other sections.
For all that information density though, good contrast is employed (mostly) throughout. The exception is in the multipliers for the orange dice, but there is a pattern that can help with that and there's nothing to say that it couldn't be emphasised with ornamentation. After all, this is a roll and write. No reason at all you can't doodle with the aim of increasing accessibility.
The dice are standard d6s and while they'd be possible to replace with accessible variants they have colour information that needs to be retained. You'd also need six separate dice which is quite a lot to expect. The issue discussed above too is important here if using the set provided. Sighted players can tell others what they have available but what does that actually mean? A point I made in the review is that this is the roll and write equivalent of the Three Body Problem – where every oscillation of the game state throws everything in a new and unpredictable direction. Some of those directions are going to come from non-obvious influences and not being able to relate dice to sheet is going to result in them being missed. There's no guarantee they'd be noticed under the best circumstances, but here you're pretty much guaranteed they won't be and that's a problem.
We don't recommend Ganz Schon Clever in this category – while people with visual impairments will likely be able to play, playing well is going to be a much more difficult ask.
There's a lot going on here, and all of it stresses cognitive faculties. For example, there's a lot of numeracy. A lot and the complexity of how it all works is likely to present a significant barrier to many players. For example, the value of a fox depends on your lowest scoring category which means even knowing how many points you have, or even a ballpark figure, is often complex. For a game that is entirely score driven that can be a problem. This situation shown below was SO FRUSTRATING because one different die placement would have got me passed the 300.
Part of the issue here is that the expectations of numeracy are, on the surface, shallow – comparisons of numbers, addition, seriation and so on. The way these numbers all relate though is really intricate and the value of a dice is not at all obvious on the surface. The time to use rerolls and extra dice depends on a shifting sense of worth – a green five when that's what you need is worth its weight in gold unless it means sacrificing the white one that gets you a bonus square. Often you're choosing between multiple dice, each of which you desperately want. You then need to take into account the probability of replicating needed dice on subsequent rolls. On a purely statistical level, is it better to get the white six or the blue one? Probably the white six, because the blue one is at least reasonably likely to be left in the tray by other players as time goes by. However, the simple fact you want it might change that equation, which changes the risk, which changes the value of everything else once more. Every turn of Ganz needs you to do something good with your dice but is less clear about what good even means.
Coupled to this is a need to 'hold back' dice so that you have spaces for bonuses. There are three bonuses that will give you a blue square. Three that will give you a yellow square. Three that give you a green square but one of them is very far down the purple path. Three bonuses that give you a purple, but one is very deep down the orange path and one is almost as deep down the green path. That means that even the availability of bonuses has to be weighed against the value of dice and the probability of getting results you can use at all.
You can lose yourself in this puzzle if you try to approach it as a task of optimisation. The problem is – you have to do that to win. The game does offer a little bit of a get out clause by offering a series of evaluations on score – less than 140 is 'try harder' whereas more than 280 is 'you're so clever'. It adopts a genial, generous tone with that. 240 will get you 'what a genius', as an example. However, in the end this is a game about getting a great score and you need to use those dice well. You need to use them with precision while also giving yourself room to recover from poor rolls.
The scoring conditions for each different section aren't onerous, but they are also non-intuitive and lack any real documentation outside of the rules. Yellow scores in a different way from blue and green, which in turn score differently from orange and purple. Orange and purple have no indicators that would suggest their scoring is summative rather than by number of filled sections. It's not a critical problem but it is a touch obtuse.
Game flow can be intensely complex because of the way chained bonuses work, and those chains might be compound – you might for example trigger two bonuses that then each trigger two further bonuses and more. The consequence of playing a single die might be to fill in a single space or might be to enable a half dozen squares to be completed in short order. Being able to leverage this at the best time is important, as is using the additional die claims that you can pick up over the course of the game. It's always going to be a case that you roll dice three times and pick three (assuming you don't lose all your dice before that happens) but what you do with each die can differ dramatically. That's all bound up in a context of enabling and utilising powerful synergies that create bifurcating courses of action. You play a dice, it gives you two bonuses. You play the first bonus and it gives you two more. It's easy to lose yourself in the evaluation and enacting that this stack of actions creates especially since the order in which you take actions might in itself be significant.
It's also easier than I would like to lose yourself in turn order, because each player has one shot at being the 'active' player and then everyone takes a die at the end as a 'passive' bonus. Games of Ganz are quite short though and it's easy if you're playing a few games back to back to forget who started and who ends a turn because you're all interleaving taking dice. You can make a note of this somewhere it's still some extra state tracking that can get away from people. Turns can blend into each other if people aren't diligent.
The cognitively accessible variant of Ganz Schon Clever would perhaps avoid the competitive aspect and work instead to build a collaborative score – that way it doesn't hugely matter about making ideal use of synergies because the team as a whole can compensate for other players. I think this might even be interesting in and of itself because it lends a new challenge to the passive dice section – normally you pass on a series of awful, terrible dice that you didn't want but if you were looking to maximise a shared score (or perhaps maximise a single score) it would become a different kind of assessment.
We tentatively recommend Ganz Schon Clever in both of our categories of cognitive accessibility on the basis of there being a (semi) cognitively accessible variant that sounds kind of fun. As usual though, that's entirely theoretical.
The largest issue here is that of frustrated ambition – I got drawn in deep here and most of that was in a self-inflicted purgatory of trying to accomplish an arbitrary score I had personally deemed to be important. The randomness in Ganz is significant and it's possible for someone to lose, and lose badly, just because the dice didn't go their way. Score disparity can be very high between players but also very high between Current You and Past You. It creates a weird feeling on occasion that you're getting worse because it's more complicated than 'I rolled low numbers'. Low numbers are occasionally as valuable as large numbers here. It cuts away the obvious link between familiarity and competence.
Those with obsessive tendencies may find that being unable to make progress in sections is an issue, because realistically you are always going to have holes in your pattern. You can't ever compete every section and you're heavily incentivised to partially complete all of them by virtue of the fox icons. If there is a compulsive need for completion for someone at the table that's likely to be aggravating.
However, other than this Ganz is a reasonably toothless game. It's highly abstract. There's no way for players to undermine other players except by leaving them poor dice on the platter. Even doing that intentionally is likely to come at a personal cost. Players never get knocked out of the game but if they play poorly, leaving themselves with unplaceable dice for example, they can well be kicked out of contention. Every die here is unspeakably valuable and losing one, or more, will almost certainly result in you losing the game.
That's important too because your mistakes here are permanent – you write them into the sheet with a marker and you can't ever change them. Sometimes that can be to your detriment – for example, if you place a purple five you are making it very difficult, barring the availability of a convenient bonus, to place the next die. On the other hand, playing a small number there can seem like a waste in a category that has a summative score. Essentially you just need to resign yourself to rolling with the dice and living with the consequences. That at least is an issue baked into the nature of a roll and write game and anyone sitting down to play will presumably have some sense of into what they're getting themselves.
There are some problematic things to consider here but they're not emphasised enough in the design to be deal-breakers. We'll recommend Ganz Schon Clever in this category.
The little pens you get in the box are rubbish, but you don't need to use them – any pen will do. For most of the sections all a player needs to do is score out a number, but orange and purple do require the ability to write legibly. That can be done by another player if necessary. Otherwise the physical activities in the game are:
Roll dice
Arrange them in ascending order
Select a die and place it on your sheet to show it's been selected (important later for extra die claims)
All of these can be actioned on behalf of a physically impaired player, and while that seems like it's all of the game it's not really where the fun is. The fun is in working out what to do with the roll fate gave you. All actions a player needs to take there can be unambiguously verbalised.
The only place where there's even a slight complication there is in the yellow section where each die might have two possible places it can go. It's a 4×4 grid though and it's easy to indicate a location with row and column.
We'll recommend Ganz Schon Clever in this category.
Ganz Schon Clever is entirely abstract, and none of the art in the game is human. I have the German edition and the seller was kind enough to print out the English translation of the rules from BGG and send it my way. That translation does default to masculinity but I don't know enough German to know if that's an issue in the actual manual. I guess I'll find out when the English edition is actually published. In the meantime I can't hold an unofficial translation against a game and my lack of education prevents me from making a judgement on the actual rules.
Ganz has an RRP of £13, and honestly until you find the winning strategy you will get hours and hours and hours of fun out of it. It has a rock-solid solo mode that I maybe even prefer to playing with real people. The app version, while as ropey as a big rope, is fantastic value for money. I can't remember the last time a game gave me anything approaching this return on my investment. It only plays up to four players but each game is short enough that you could easily do it pool hall style with winners playing off against everyone else. Or just buy two sets and bang them together.
We strongly recommend Ganz Schon Clever in this category, although we reserve the right to adjust its grade when the English edition is actually released.
I mean, we always reserve the right to adjust grades for any reason at all, up to and including being in a bad mood, but you know – there's a real chance this grade will harden a little.
While Ganz Schon Clever does stress numeracy and familiarity with Arabic numerals it doesn't otherwise require any communication. The version I have is German and once you learn the rules it doesn't make a bit of difference. We strongly recommend it in this category.
Our colour blindness recommendation is already as tentative as it can be within our framework, and if it were to intersect with any cognitive impairments it would invalidate those grades across the board. It's too finely balanced in each of those categories to survive even a mild push. Otherwise there are no real significant intersections I can see.
Games of Ganz Schon Clever are very brisk – about 20 minutes or so barring accessibility considerations. It's reasonably resistant to players dropping out, right down back into solo mode, because the only role other players have in a turn is to take a passive die. Nobody locks up resources. However, the round limit is supposed to change based on player count and a player dropping away is going to have an impact. You can house rule any number of satisfying ways to resolve that. It's short enough to fit around conditions of modulating severity, low-impact enough to be suitable for a wide variety of circumstances, and even has a small enough footprint that it could be played in a wide range of locations. It fits well into the cracks of life.
Ganz Schon Clever comes out of this a little bruised, but not to the point anyone should throw in the towel. A lot of our recommendations though are tentative and as always readers should form their own conclusions based on the text of the teardown.
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Colour Blindness C-
Visual Accessibility D
Fluid Intelligence C
Memory C
Physical Accessibility B+
Emotional Accessibility B-
Socioeconomic Accessibility A
Communication A
It really does frustrate me though that a game released in 2018 still has such scant disregard for colour blindness. While a colour blind sensitive palette doesn't guarantee accessibility it does make things considerably better and there's not even a thematic reason as to why it hasn't been considered here. Come on, publishers. Do better.
We liked Ganz Schon Clever considerably more than our rating might imply – at least, for a while. Unfortunately, we had a strategic epiphany that basically turned it into a loot box generator and that soured us considerably – especially since that strategy is straightforward enough to be frictionless in transference. Until that happened though we were very happy with it and if you can avoid the spoilers you will find this a very worthwhile use of your time presuming its accessibility profile is compatible with your needs.
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