In Harvest Island, players vie to be the most successful crop cultivator on the island of Formosa – as you know, a peculiar island that exists under a subtropical environment especially optimal for growing fruits. The climate is so good that you can grow and harvest fruits in all four seasons.
A deck of cards is created for each of the four seasons, combining fruit cards and weather cards (some cards are removed at random in the game setup). Each is set above the matching season column on the game board. There is a numbered track at the bottom of the board, one marker for each type of fruit is placed on the left of this track – so that the first open space is the "4" space.
The game starts in the Spring season, and two cards are drawn and placed in the supply area to the left of the board. 3 cards are placed in the row underneath this in the Storage area. Then, each player is given a hand of four cards from the Spring deck. All Weather cards are discarded and new cards are dealt until each player has a hand of 4 fruits. All discarded weather cards are reshuffled into the Spring deck. Finally, each player is given a set of three landscape cards (Plains, Hills, Mountains) which are placed on the table in a row.
Play goes clockwise around the table, and on each turn, the active player takes a single action – either CULTIVATING or HARVESTING.
When you cultivate, you play two cards from your hand. There are a number of different possible actions that can be taken with the played cards. You can SOW a seed by tucking a fruit card underneath a landscape care which does not already have a seed. You can PLANT a fruit by placing a fruit card on top of a landscape card which matches the seed underneath. Each landscape card has a card limit (counting both cards above and below the card). You can FERTILIZE a field by placing a fertilizer card on top of any landscape that already has a seed. You can also RELEASE a fruit card by placing it in the storage area to the left of the board.
Once you have played you cards, you must now draw back up to four cards. You can always draw cards from the supply area next to the board. You can also always draw from the current season deck (and if you draw the last card in the current season deck, you simply move onto the next season's deck). If you draw any weather cards, these are immediately placed face up on the board (and then you check for a weather catastrophe – see below) and you keep drawing new cards. IF and only if you played both of your cards into the Storage area (thru the Release action), you can choose to draw ONE of your cards from the Fertilizer stack. Finally, you now look at the Storage area – if there are four or more cards in the Storage row, the current Supply row is discarded and the cards in the Storage area are moved to the Supply row.
Weather Cards and Catastrophes: The weather cards come in 2 varieties: Sun and Rain. Any time you have one of each type, they cancel each other out and are discarded. If you ever get three cards of the same time, then there is a catastrophe. Each player looks at his own fields, and finds the one with the most cards in it; if there is a tie, the player can choose which field is targeted. That field must have half of the cards discarded from that field – and you must remove fruit cards with the highest value first. You cannot discard Seed cards or Fertilizer cards; therefore only planted Fruits can/will be removed.
When you harvest, you choose any number of your fields and take the planted Fruit cards and place them face down in front of you to score as points. Count up the total number of cards in the harvested field (noting that Fertilizer cards are worth 2 cards!). If you total number is greater than the numbers space on which that fruit's marker currently stands, you move the marker to the number matching your count and then you take the Harvester medal for that fruit. Then, any fertilizer cards are placed back in the Fertilizer stack and any cards used as Seeds are discarded.
The game continues until the Winter deck is exhausted. When the last card is drawn, the game continues to the end of the current round so that all players have an equal number of turns. Then players calculate their scores. All facedown harvested cards are worth the number in the top left corner. Each Harvester medal is worth 8 points, and each Fruit card, seed card and fertilizer card remaining on the table is worth 2 points each. The player with the most points wins.
Harvest Island is a simple but challenging hand management game. The mechanics are quite straightforward and simple, yet the player has a number of choices that will ultimately affect his score. There are twelve different fruits in the game, and they show up at different times of the year – the game board gives players a nice reminder of how many cards of which type of fruit could be in the deck for that season.
As you only have three fields to plant in, you have to try to get cards into your hand that you can use. You'll need at least two cards on any particular fruit in order to score points as you'll need one for the seed and then one for planting. You could choose to harvest fruits quickly – you'll not score as many points with each harvest, but you will be less likely to have cards that you can't play in your hand. On the other hand, you could go for larger collections of a fruit – this will lead to a bigger payday as well as the potential for the 8 point Harvester medal bonus… but you'll likely end up spending some turns digging for the right card. You can also invest time to gain Fertilizer cards, and these can definitely be useful to gain the Harvester medals – but you must "waste" a whole turn Releasing cards in order to be able to draw a single Fertilizer card.
Players must also keep an eye on the ever-changing weather card situation. An ill-timed catastrophe can be devastating to your scoring – if it appears that a catastrophe is coming up, sometimes players will take the safe road and harvest a field early just to lock in the points. Other than watching what's on the board (and what's already been seen), there's not a lot else you can do about the weather as they just come up in a random draw.
For me, this is a nice balance of choices, and while each individual decision is easy to make – the long term decisions can be tough. Card counting skills can come in handy to help you assess the chances of drawing a desired card on a later turn, and this will help you determine whether you should harvest a particular field early or not. When you're looking at the main board, remember that the fruits will always be found in the same relative order – but the icons will not all be at the same horizontal level because the overall distribution of fruits changes in each season.
Thus far, I have not yet found an optimal strategy – and I'm not sure that there is one. Your choices on how to plant and harvest the cards will be a constantly mutable thing – dependent on what you can see available to draw in the Supply area, what cards you think are still remaining in the deck, and most of all, dependent on what your opponents have chosen to collect and play themselves. Sometimes, it'll be best to try to harvest rapidly and make sure that you have useful plays each turn. Sometimes, it'll be better to try to go for the big play with a large stack of fruits and maybe a fertilizer or two. I've really enjoyed my initial plays of this, and I look forward to continued exploration of this game.
Jonathan F. – I like this game way more than I expected to. It was eye candy at an impulse purchase price. We got it home and the rules were pretty straight-forward, it it was hard to see how it all fit together. The push-your-luck with the weather was pretty exciting and we figured out quickly why the fields have different sizes. I wanted to steal the mango Harvester medal, but could not because I had planted my mango seed in a field that was too small to pull it off.
Each fruit has two symbols – the one with the animal, which is the center of the card and the Harvester medal and a second one, which is just the fruit and is on the bottom of the card and on the board that shows the distribution of cards. Yes, apparently wax apples are pretty triangular. Removing cards from certain decks for certain player numbers both affects the game length and also eliminates card counting. Really nicely done.
I like it. Dale Y, Jonathan F.


Can I retire at age 47 with 10,000?
How long will my money last in retirement? Person retiring at age 47 starting with $10,000, adding $4,546 every year, while hoping to spend $32,520 every year in retirement. These numbers increase with inflation.


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What is WannaCry Ransomware & How Do I Protect Myself?
What is WannaCry Ransomware?
Most have heard of the cyberattack released on Friday, May 12, 2017, known as the WannaCry designed to target Windows operating systems.
This is a new strain of the Ransom.CryptXXX (WannaCry) strain of ransomware and it began spreading widely impacting many organizations mostly in Europe and Asia. Those affected include health care systems, banks, colleges, railways, police and more.
WannaCry will take over a machine, encrypting all files. Ransoms are demanded (via Bitcoin) in the amounts of $300 to $600 or the files will not be recovered. The conditions of the ransom are set so that if the ransom is not paid by May 15th, all files on the affected machine will be deleted. Should the deadline be missed, a higher ransom will be due by May 19th.
How to protect against WannaCry
The most important action to take is ensuring you have installed all Windows security updates. Microsoft pushed out a security update in April 2017 designed to protect the latest versions of Windows from these attacks.
But what about older versions of Windows? Microsoft has taken the rare step of issuing security patches for older versions of Window's they have retired such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It is very uncommon for Microsoft to do this for operating systems that are pass end of life. This says a lot about how seriously the IT industry is taking this ransomware.
The Microsoft fix is MS17-010 and it's recommended that everyone update their operating systems.
If your computer(s) do not currently have antivirus protection, it is imperative that your machines are protected immediately.
Halski recommends antivirus applications such as Windows Defender, Bitdefender and Trend. All have been updated to include known variants and component detections into their latest definition updates.
Be Cautious
Users should be suspicious of all e-mails received, particularly those that ask the recipient to open attached documents or click on links. You should also be cautious when it comes to the websites you visit and be sure to turn on pop-up blockers.
If you have seen any nonstandard activity and believe your data may have been exposed, please contact the Halski Team.
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Beech House Infant School welcomed local artist David Shuttleworth of Big Bang Creations for a special art workshop.
Working with Year 2 pupils, he and the children recycled domestic waste items – cardboard boxes, empty bottles, used packaging, old CDs and more – to create a fantastic set of sculptures. The theme for the artwork was robots and by the end of the session the pupils had created a whole family!
The children really enjoyed creating something new and inspiring out of things they would normally throw away. As well as stretching the children's creative skills, the session also helped them to appreciate the importance of reusing and recycling waste items.


Other tools and frameworks for configuration management.
More from Agile Testing's Grig Gheorghiu on setting up Opscode Chef, creating your own cookbook, modifying an existing cookbook, creating a role and adding a client machine to that role.
Kokki is a configuration management framework inspired by Chef.
Moonshine is an opensource configuration management and deployment system that follows the Rails way, simplifying server configuration, dependency management, and Rails application deployment, using Ruby and Puppet.
Agile Testing's Grig Gheorghiu provides a simple, step-by-step tutorial for installing Opscode Chef and getting a Chef client to talk to a Chef server.
slaughter is a simple tool which will allow policies to be downloaded, via HTTP, from a central server and executed upon a local machine. The intention is that these local policies may be written in a portable fashion and used to automate the administration of a large number of Linux machines.
Sprinkle is based on capistrano and uses the same push model without any additional infrastructure.


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Demand for modern guided weapon systems needs new approach
Hyderabad, Feb 20 (PTI) The demand for modern guided weapon systems requires new approach to guidance and control, Research Centre Imarat (RCI) Director BHVS Narayana Murthy said here today.
Murthy said the last decade had seen a quantum jump in the scale and complexity of engineering systems.
"Complexity arises from non-linearity as well as uncertainties introduced into the systems," an RCI release quoted Murthy as saying.
Murthy inaugurated a two-day workshop on "System Engineering and Technology" here.
"Todays demand for modern guided weapon systems requires new approach to guidance and control. The requirement of low cost, enhanced performance in extreme environments, pin point accuracy and capability of tracking targets at very high rate for any modern day weapon can be achieved by bringing in change in the control guidance approach," Murthy said.
Research Centre Imarat is a premiere DRDO laboratory located in Hyderabad. The lab is responsible for research and development of missile systems, guided weapons and advanced avionics for Indian Armed Forces.
"Development of new modelling, control and optimisation techniques for complex engineering systems has attracted increasing interest in the scientific and industrial community thereby bringing in multi-disciplinary facets such as modern control theory, intelligent optimisation techniques, real time parallel computing together," he said.
Murthy also emphasised the need to revolutionise the design and development of control algorithms and guidance schemes.
RCI former Director SK Chaudhuri said the system theory has taken shape as an independent discipline after 60 years of second world war principally in the aerospace area, where striking results have been obtained in the fields of control and instrumentation, signal processing and communication.
The workshop will cover the design and system engineering approach using state of the art technology for closed loop electronic systems with embedded applications, the release added. PTI VVK NSK


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The Parasites' Union
I'm noticing a lot more about productive/parasite relationships recently. I noticed a new phenomenon, which I'm calling "The Parasites' Union". It is:
Whenever there's a dispute between a productive worker and a parasite, and you ask a parasite to arbitrate, the parasite arbiter always rules in favor of the parasite, no matter what the actual circumstances.
There's another important point.
Nearly all productive workers are subject to mind control by parasites. By default, they also usually support the parasites. However, they sometimes deviate from their brainwashing and give a correct analysis.
The Parasites' Union can also be really bad news, if you're unfairly the victim of State violence. Presumably, most judges have the parasitic personality type, although I haven't checked recently. Therefore, they will rule in favor of the parasitic State prosecutors.
I was on the subway, and saw the Parasites' Union in action. A woman had the productive personality type. She was with two friends, a man and a woman, each of which had the parasite personality type. The woman must have been very intelligent, because the two people around her were severe parasites. She must have been an idiot, because she didn't notice that her friends were also parasites.
The productive woman was complaining "My sister is a real *****! She's very abusive towards me!" She gave the details, and she seemed to be telling the truth. Based on the description, her sister seemed to have the parasite personality type.
However, she was not aware that she was telling the story to two other parasites! The two parasites naturally sided with her sister! They said "You should consider your sister's point of view. You are being unreasonable."
My reaction was "Duh! Of course the parasites will support each other!" I'd never noticed that so explicitly before! If a productive worker is having a problem with a parasite, then they will complain to someone else. However, they almost always complain *TO ANOTHER PARASITE*! Then, via the Parasites' Union, the productive worker is brainwashed to believe that they are the one who is misbehaving.
Normally, I observe silently. This time, I decided to voice my opinion in support of the productive worker. Just before I got off the subway, I approached her and said "I thought your story was interesting!" The two parasites had very strong body language that said "Stay away ***hole!" I'd never noticed that before. The abused productive woman picked up on the body language of the parasites and ignored me. It was weird that the parasites had the power to force the abused productive woman to ignore me. My enlightenment was more important than helping the woman, so I didn't press the issue and walked away.
The abused productive woman didn't tell me to go away. Her parasites were doing her emotional thinking for her. Her parasites subconsciously knew "FSK is on to the scam! FSK is evil!" They could tell just from my body language. I was contradicting the parasites' version of reality, and therefore I was evil.
My attitude is "Once I learn something from a situation, I leave." This way, I don't risk my personal safety. There will be plenty of more opportunities to confront the Matrix.
The abused productive workers internalize the manipulations of the parasites. They'll behave "correctly", even when the controlling parasite isn't around. If anything unusual happens, then they'll be asking a parasite for advice later.
The Parasites' Union is a key component of the Matrix. It prevents people with the "abused productive" personality type from comparing notes and discovering the scam.
As another example, I was fraudulently accused of sexual harassment at my most recent job. The woman making the false accusation had the parasitic personality type. My ex-therapist also had the parasitic personality type. When I told the story to my abusive ex-therapist, she said "The sexual harassment charge was valid. FSK is a loser who doesn't know his proper place.." rather than "It was a false accusation." My parasitic ex-therapist assumed that, by default, I was wrong. My parasitic ex-therapist was trying to re-brainwashed me so that I play the "abused productive worker" role.
The "abused productive" vs. "parasite" conflict seems more important than the economic aspects of the State. An evil like government persists because most people have been brainwashed to ignore the truth.
The parasites are used to emotionally controlling other people. They have no reason to change their behavior. They have no reason to teach the "abused productive" workers to be able to stand up for themselves. They see the "abused productive" workers as emotionally crippled idiots who are dependent on the parasites.
The productive workers have the logical thinking skills. However, they have no emotional self-confidence. They always rely on the advice of a parasite to make emotional decisions.
The productive workers develop the skills to build and invent things. However, most of the profits are paid to the parasites. A productive worker doesn't just pay taxes to government. A productive worker pays taxes to the parasites around him.
People can flip-flop roles from time to time. For example, someone can play the "abused productive" role when relating to one person, and then play the "parasite" role with someone else. This helps cover up the scam.
For example, Hillary Clinton has the "parasitic" personality type and Bill Clinton has the "productive" personality type. When he received a blowjob from Monica Lewinsky, he switched roles. When relating to Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton played the parasite role and Monica Lewinsky played the "abused productive" role. I wonder if that's the reason the scandal received more attention that it otherwise should have? Bill Clinton's real crime is that he switched from the "abused productive" to "parasitic" role.
People with the "abused productive" personality type have good logical thinking skills. However, they normally don't have the self-confidence to accomplish anything without assistance from a parasite. People with the "parasite" personality type have good emotional skills but lousy logical skills. They have the ability to emotionally dominate others, so why should they work on their logical thinking ability?
Neither personality type can see the full Matrix. People intentionally don't notice it, because seeing the Matrix is *REALLY SCARY*. Most people who see a fragment of it wind up involuntarily hospitalized with a mental illness and given drugs that dull their senses. Most people who see bits of the Matrix wind up thinking "OMFG!! THAT IS HORRIBLE!! I WANT TO DIE!!" My reaction was "I've got to understand that!"
I thought that it was symptoms of my "mental illness". I see now that everybody really is insane! Someone with a "mental illness" is developing the skill of seeing the world as it actually is.
People develop intentional stupidity, as a form of self-defense.
One key component of my healing process is that I figured out that the anti-psychotic drugs were bad for me. There's still a lot of work to do. However, seeing the Matrix and the nature of productive/parasite relationships is a big accomplishment. It's very traumatic to notice that nearly everybody around me is badly emotionally and intellectually crippled.
When an anarchist says "The State is evil!", that is itself a fnord. The State isn't just government itself. The State is the state of mind of productive/parasite relationships.
That also explains why I was having trouble meeting women, before I achieved enlightenment. I didn't want to play the parasite role, because I don't want to behave abusively. I didn't want to play the abused productive role, because why would I want to date an abusive person? I didn't have the emotional self-confidence to date another abused productive worker. A parasite always interrupted.
I only gained full awareness recently. It's going to take a few more weeks or months to put my theory into practice. My primary goal is to help a woman crack her pro-State brainwashing. It isn't just about teaching her "Taxation is theft!" It's also about showing her the Matrix and showing her the nature of productive/parasite human relationships.
If a lot of people can crack their pro-State brainwashing, the evil of the State will be eliminated. It isn't just about the evil of government. It's the evil mental state and productive/parasite relationships.
The origins of the State comes from chattel slavery. With the invention of agriculture, it became profitable to keep slaves. A slave can farm more food than he himself can grow. The slave is also an intelligent human. Via passive-aggressive techniques, the slave manages to also enslave the master. Neither master nor slave are free. This continued to the present. There no longer is explicit chattel slavery, but the pro-State brainwashing persists, which has its origins in chattel slavery.
It's possible to have all the nice conveniences of modern life, like computers and telephones and a reliable food supply, without also having to be a brainwashed mindless zombie. People don't need to go back to a wilderness lifestyle. All that's needed is for enough people to crack their pro-State brainwashing. I feel that I've managed to recover the "natural" human mental state, which is similar to that of a human in a hunter-gatherer society. However, 10000+ years of pro-State brainwashing has accelerated the evolution of human intelligence. You have to be very intelligent to keep your contradictory beliefs straight!
I've recently re-recovered my higher emotional awareness, without panicking. I feel more alert and self confident. I'm getting better at managing my parents. I can't make them see the truth, but I can help them behave less abusively towards me.
F. E. Huginn said...
In the land of the sick, being healthy is considered the only sickness.
Someone once said to me, the people who go on as if everything is okay, those who work at their jobs, watch TV and are content, or only aspire to make more money, those who head the corporation who project the image of 'sanity and success' are more crazy than the ones who are discontented with everything 'seen as crazy' by the mainstream, they may experiment and display rebellious attributes, dressing funny, coloring their hair pink or whatever...this is the beginning of real sanity
I agree with your points about the parasite union. However, If I were having a conversation with friends and a stranger approached me, I probably would not want to talk to him regardless of his opinion. This has nothing to do with parasites or your approach, just a personal preference.
And while I'm sure you are telling the truth about not sexually harassing, many would perceive this as a pick-up line or something worth ignoring.
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Q: Is there a ways to override the DevExpress filter choices in GridControl? I am currently programming in Visual Studio 2010 within VB.NET and am using DevExpress v10.2, specifically WinForms. In the DevExpress GridControl at runtime you can click on the right side of the column header and choose which values in the column you want to show.
For example if your table contained:
Name1   Checked
Name2   Unchecked
Name3   Unchecked
Name4   Checked

Then if you click on the right side of the checkbox's header you can choose checked (or unchecked) and it would display only the data that is checked (or unchecked). In this case with checked you would have:
Name1   Checked
Name4   Checked

I was wondering if there was some way to override the names so instead of letting me choose checked or unchecked I could override it with 'owned' and 'rented' or 'active' and 'inactive' based on what the checkbox represents in that specific column.
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Working with DevExpress WinForms

A: You didn't specify which technology you were using; here are a couple options:

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