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Essay on Passionately In-Love Even After All These Years? It's Possible
Passionately In-Love Even After All These Years? It's Possible
It's easy enough to promise a lifetime commitment with someone. But keeping at it is almost something that is easier said than done. With temptations and issues of indifference lurking around in every corner, it is just utterly impossible to stay head-over-heels in love.
This is in spite of every good reason you fell in love in the first place. It's a bitter truth that every relationship--old and new, must acknowledge. The nightmare of it all is when things gets overly dry either of you just isn't as excited for anything more than just seeing each other.
The secret to a happy relationship is one that starts and stays passionately about each other. Managing a career and raising children on the side can also wear you down big time.
What most couples fail to consider is that they cannot just allow passion to slip away, no matter how hectic or toxic each day gets. Believe it or not, the key to keeping that romantic fire burning in long-term couples lies in these simple and time-tested secrets.
1. Keep the communication lines open.
There is no more effective way to sustain the relationship but to always find time to talk to each other about just anything. You could talk about what when on throughout the day, how each other feel about a pressing national issue, or what plans you wish to pursue together.
If you are encouraged to talk about the simple things, there is no reason why you shouldn't talk about the complicated ones. If you are confronting an issue, it is best to talk about it with someone who understands and who is directly involved in the entire situation.
No other person should be able to make you feel better other than your better half. The power of communicat...
... and stop criticizing your partner for shortcomings that didn't used to show when you were dating for the first time. When you are more engaging and fun, your partner will be drawn to you a hundred times more.
8. Choose to be a loving and partner all the time.
There will be times when you will be forced to be anything but loving. You are human and you can't always be at your best when it comes to being in love with your partner.
But no matter what happens, always choose to be loving and forgiving. Your partner will always remember how you make them feel. Loving gestures can go a long way and it will surely be reciprocated with twice the love you gave.
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Attitudes Towards Sexuality, Erotic Passion, And Love Essay
- Attitudes towards sexuality, erotic passion, and love in Vidyakara's Treasury are both multi-faceted and complex in terms of the subtext and emotions underlying each of these ideas and sensations. This nuanced perception can clearly be seen in poems 568 and 630, each of which takes a unique stance on the relationship between love and sex, and yet do not directly contradict each other. In poem 568, the narrator is a shy, modest woman whose shame in expressing her sexuality is overcome by her erotic desire for her partner.... [tags: Human sexuality, Sexual intercourse]
Iago Is An Artist Of Evil Essay
- Of all of Shakespeare 's villainous characters, Iago is one of the most unforgettable ones. The deception he constantly shows throughout the play, confirms the complexities of Iago's character that he is not simply a man seeking vengeance. Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom argues that Iago is an artist of evil. In the same way that some people enjoy writing songs or filming movies, Iago enjoys ruining people 's lives(Bloom). Iago conducts his evil acts with a sense of artistry in the sense he appreciates the cleverness of every particular step he takes in his scheme for vengeance.... [tags: Othello, Jealousy, Iago, Love]
Romeo and Juliet: A Tragic Couple of Fate Essay
- A long, ancient feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic consequences for the star-crossed lovers; Romeo and Juliet. They passionately fall in love, but unfortunately cannot be publicly united. A secret marriage forces the two to mature rapidly, because Juliet is to be wed to another. Juliet takes a sleeping potion that causes her appear dead for nearly two days, so in this time, Romeo is to be told that she is still alive; however, he was not so he illegally purchased a poison so that he could be with Juliet in death.... [tags: william shakespeare, romeo, love story]
Essay on Are Business Ethics Possible?
- Ethics are a part of our lives. There will be times when we will use it for good and other times we will use it for bad. As people, we have to face our fears and our problems ahead, even if that means hurting someone in the process. Honesty is the goal. One has certain belief and morals to adhere by and they will try anything to stick by it. Sometimes our ethics can be compromised and we get lost in what we believe. It should not be the case, we have a right to speak our minds and tell people what we are things even if we lose some things in the process.... [tags: Is Ethical Capitalism Possible?]
Feminism in Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Essay
- Feminism in Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues In the novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins, Sissy Hankshaw is a young woman who gets introduced to the world via hitchhiking. From the beginning of the novel, Sissy's sexuality is foreshadowed. She goes with her mother to see a psychic, Madame Zoe. When asked if Sissy will ever get married, Madame Zoe replies, "There is most clearly a marriage. A husband, no doubt about it, though he is years away…There are children, too. Five, maybe six.... [tags: Even Cowgirls Get Blues]
Essay about Marriage Is A Dream That Even Young Children
- Marriage is a dream that even young children yearn for. At an early age, many let their minds wander on who they will marry, what their spouse will be like or look like, or when they will get married. As some get older, they will be curious as to what a marriage means and what characteristics they desire in a wife or husband. Numerous young adults will start to feel like the whole "marriage" thing is becoming real. Young peoples will intentionally look for potential spouses that share the same beliefs, values, morals, and mission.... [tags: Marriage, Wife, Husband, Love]
Essay Love And Love
- Throughout one's life, an individual will experience a plethora of different relationships including friendship, family, and even enemies. Of all the relationships, however, the most beautiful and life changing one is the act of in love. Today's culture has bred us to pursue someone to marry, to start a family, and to live happily ever after, which, in theory, sounds wonderful. Yet, in reality, the happily ever after propoganda is fictitious, for it does not exist. This notion causes a constant struggle between the false beliefs on how love works, and wanting to fall in love and stay in love.... [tags: Love, Interpersonal relationship, Emotion]
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Within the Guidelines of Feminist Discourse
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Within the Guidelines of Feminist Discourse Surprisingly, in spite of being a male from the 1970s, Tom Robbins has written a novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, supporting feminism. This is a term that most of us are familiar with; yet, what is feminism. The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism defines "feminist purpose" for us as "an active desire to change women's position in society" (Brown, Meginis, and Bardari, 231). In order to discuss feminism in terms of Robbin's novel, we need to know what feminist theory means when applied to literature.... [tags: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Essays]
Cultural Perspectives in Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Essay
- Cultural Perspectives in Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Literary works are always affected by the times and places in which they are written. Those crafted in Western America often reflect conflicts that occurred between advancing civilization and the free spirited individual. The 1970's was a particularly popular time for authors to introduce new ideas for living in the modern world. There are few authors who captured the essence and feeling of culture quite like Tom Robbins. Robbins comments on the differences and similarities between Western civilization and Eastern philosophies.... [tags: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Essays]
Love Essay example
- Love is what made poetry famous. Everyone from Shakespeare with his sonnets to children with their red roses use poetry to express love. Love is the filling in poetry's pie, the melody in its symphony, and the pregnancy scare in its soap-opera. In Dante's opinion, not only poetry, but everything is composed of love: Not the Creator nor a single creature, as you know, ever existed without love, the soul's love or the love that comes by nature. (Alighieri 185) The human race has difficulty expressing an emotion as complex as love in regular prose or speech; we need to add another dimension of beauty or meaning for it to be worthy of our most treasured emotion.... [tags: Poetry, Arts, Literary Analysis]
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Q: Могу ли я удалять ненужные мне компоненты из пакета gnome? Могу ли я удалять ненужные компоненты из gnome (gnome-remote, например), повлияет ли это на работу системы?
И что нужно сделать помещать ярлыки на рабочий стол (они не помещаются, правой кнопкой мышки только три пункта)
Есть ли какой-то пакет для быстрой "адаптации" gnome? (Быстрая настройка)
Arch x64 (BIOS, Not UEFI)
Gnome 3.30.2

A: По порядку:

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*Да, можете - это не проблема.

*Все зависит от того, какой именно пакет, в первую очередь надо смотреть какие пакеты зависят от того, который вы хотите удалить. Поэтому - да, может сломать, а может вообще ничего не будет.

*Нет, обычно это делается скриптами и какждый раз под себя.

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There's a cheekiness to titling your film A Ghost Story. It's as if writer-director David Lowery chose to forego coming up with an actual title, and instead left a subtitle to do all the heavy lifting. Then again, it hardly seems unintentional to give a simple generic moniker to the tale of a man who, after a deadly accident, elects not to follow the light and instead haunts the house that he once shared with his wife. The title's bluntness ends up being visually replicated in the film itself, as the ghost of C (played by Casey Affleck) dons a white sheet, complete with two holes for eyes, which he'll wear for much of the film. As it turns out, the film's interest is not only in telling a ghost story, but in questioning just what a ghost story can be.
Reversing the usual framing of a haunted house narrative, Lowery's film follows C as he watches the residents of his former house come and go. Affleck's comparatively imposing build (he is five foot nine) makes his white sheet-attired ghost an incongruous figure that becomes, given both his stillness and the film's penchant for long static shots, practically an architectural element of the house. He skulks in a corner while watching his wife (played by Rooney Mara) swallow her grief by eating an entire chocolate pie; he stands by the piano where he used to compose songs, while in the meantime parties rage on, families move in, and eventually, the house is demolished. The film is a quiet meditation on loss, though it achieves that feeling by making C's permanence even more devastating than his mere death would.
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure — a ghostly couple.
The focus of Woolf's brief story is on the sheer mundanity of residing in a haunted house. Her narrator seems neither perplexed nor concerned by the presence of the ghostly couple; instead, she tracks their movements from garden to drawing room, up the stairs and into the bedroom, all the while trying to make sense of what they're looking for. There is no mysticism, nor a desire to question (or explain away) the evidently supernatural. In fact, the final moments of the story put the ghosts' concerns squarely in the realm of the living. What they are looking for is "the light in the heart" that they've glimpsed in the narrator herself, when she lays next to her husband in bed.
During his interview with critic David Ehrlich at Sundance, Lowery made clear that while he is an atheist who doesn't believe in the afterlife, he does believe in ghosts. This mode, of the secular supernatural, is perhaps why he sees Woolf as a kindred spirit. After all, in novels such as Mrs. Dalloway the author, like her Modernist peers, made the individual the fulcrum of the narrative, a project at once indifferent and antithetical to a theological understanding of the world. The stories these writers were producing made palpable, in sociologist Max Weber's words, "the disenchantment of the world." Man had turned to look within. And when he did look outside himself, he turned not to the magic of religion, but the rational certainty of science.
have their origin within us. They are present whenever the significant overflows our powers of expressing it; whenever the ordinary appears ringed by the strange. The baffling things that are left over, the frightening ones that persist — these are the emotions that he takes, embodies, makes consoling and companionable.
The character of C in A Ghost Story is one such embodiment. The sense of his melancholy, which one gathers from his languid posture (given that Affleck's facial gestures have been withheld), suffuses the film. In general the images have a poetic tone, forcing viewers to see the passing of time. Paint begins to chip. Metal rusts. Furniture decays and is soon destroyed. And yet throughout, C remains. He watches helplessly as the world turns around him, losing track of time himself. By the time the film temporally doubles and folds in on itself — as we watch C witness the prehistory of his house long before his death, until we are rewatching events we have already seen, with another ghost of C joining the one we've been following — the character comes to represent both what is left over and what still persists.
In all these stories — Lowery's, Woolf's, and James's — ghosts are not just symbols or markers of grief. They are grief incarnate. Whenever Affleck walks through the house you can feel the weight of the sheets hanging off him, which only get dirtier as the film goes on. He may be invisible and untouchable to those he haunts, but to the audience watching, he is an embodied and encumbered presence throughout. We might not be able to see his face, nor read his reactions to what he sees as he becomes untethered from time. But the film nonetheless manages to locate, in that personified blankness, the sense of melancholy which pervades his entire being. And it's here that the ambiguity of the film's title ultimately pays off. This isn't just a ghost story, nor a story about a ghost. It's a narrative that is both concrete and ethereal. A story that will linger longer than you'd like.


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By: Chau MuiPhotos By: Evelina Friman December 7, 2021 December 10, 2021
For the entire month of December, we're partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC to get 100 men to sign up to become a male mentor by the 31st! Help us by sharing this article with a friend or sign up here.
There's this stereotype about finance bros.
You know the one, Murray Hill guys rocking Ferragamo ties, corporate card steaks, and 70 hour work weeks.
But, there is one trope that is often overlooked…a gushy, altruistic volunteer. According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC, the demographic with the highest number of male volunteers in NYC is.. white men working in finance.
Exactly how does a finance bro manage to perfectly pair the "lunchtime Wagyu steak" with a "love for volunteering" so effortlessly?
Exactly how does a finance bro manage to perfectly pair the "lunchtime Wagyu steak" with a "love for volunteering" so effortlessly? What is it about the finance industry that makes it the prime ecosphere for male volunteers, especially when globally, men volunteer on average, 30% less than their female counterparts?
According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, "More than 70% of the children waiting for a Big are boys, but only 3 out of every 10 inquiries to volunteer come from men". There are currently over 21,000 boys waiting for a Big Brother, twice the amount of girls waiting for a Big Sister.
A Deep Dive into Male Volunteers in New York City
Here in New York City, we see the lack of young, male volunteers even more drastically. For every 3 boys, there is 1 male mentor.
In order to understand why there's such a wild division in volunteerism, let's first take a look into volunteering in general.
The average American has two different volunteering peaks in our lives.
The first spike takes place in our late teens when students are mandated to perform community service for school. The second, takes place between the ages of 35 – 50+ when adults are more financially secure, and either have older children or none at all.
In the middle, there's a huge gap of men in their 20's + 30's who probably would be best suited to mentor, being able to bridge the gap between real-world "adulting" and navigating pre-teen HS drama, but simply aren't.
Experts blame the lack of male volunteers on "Breadwinner Syndrome" – the societal pressure for men to always be the provider and focus on roles that only support them financially. Other studies show that men claim to not have enough time to volunteer or simply not know where or how to start. Of course, there's also the argument beaming with toxic masculinity that volunteering or "nurturing" is a woman's job.
We took a deep dive into the finance industry, and it seems that being the "Breadwinner" and "Giving Back" are not independent of one another, but instead, live symbiotically.
Finance Bros to the Rescue?
So what is it about the finance bro that supersedes all of the above?
"Giving back is one of our company values", Alex P, VP at a Fortune 500 bank tells me, "there's a whole section in my performance evaluation asking what kind of volunteer work you did outside of the walls, and for promotions, it could set you apart from others".
In fact, the finance sector partners with charitable organizations all year round, offering employees benefits such as paid time off to volunteer, donation matching, charity events/sponsorships, and perhaps most important, easy access and distribution of said organizations.
Volunteering or giving back is as ingrained into the finance culture as chatting by the water cooler (in a pre-pandemic world).
"I try to volunteer at least twice a month because I feel good giving back. I found out about them from the company newsletter. The expectation is that you'll find time to do things after your hours. I've never been in a situation where I was frowned upon for volunteering. If I do my tutoring from 6-8, I'm out at 5", said Alex P.
"There's a whole section in my performance evaluation asking what kind of volunteer work did you do outside of the walls…for promotions, it could set you apart from others"
Alex P, VP at a Fortune 500 Bank
A deeper dive into the finance industry as a whole showed that in 2016, 7 of the top 20 most generous companies in the Fortune 500, were in the financial services industry. The benefit of giving back isn't entirely selfless however, banks see charity as a major tax benefit, but also as a marketing tactic. Banks see higher deposit market share following a natural disaster compared to one that doesn't.
While one could argue that volunteering with ulterior motives removes the "good" in front of "deed", isn't doing some good better than none at all?
Help us get 100 NYC men to become Big Brothers by 12/31st here!
What About Non-Finance Bros?
While 2020 (known colloquially to many as a dumpster fire), the year saw a push for diversity and change that galvanized businesses and media alike. On the heels of the George Floyd protests, we saw major Fortune 500 behemoths like PriceWater Cooper announce new diversity initiatives, and even Hollywood taking some steps in creating more diversity on screen.
The United Nations even stated the Pandemic brought along one of the largest surges of volunteers they'd ever seen.
Despite all of the elements ripe for volunteerism, male volunteers still have not matched their female counterparts in giving back.
Neal Booker, a Senior Manager of Inclusion and Diversity for Tech company, Yext, had this to say, "I think there is a stigma associated with reaching out and asking for help. That may span across gender lines but especially for men…If you had been able to proverbially pull yourself up by the bootstraps, you may not be a mentor because you don't realize the benefits of it. And it perpetuates the stigma".
"Sometimes it's not necessarily understood that a mentorship relationship is reciprocal – I get to learn as a mentor as much as you are learning as a mentee"
Neal Booker, Senior Manger of Inclusion and Diversity, Yext
Booker attributes much of his success to the mentorship and guidance that he'd received as a youth himself.
His work today as a leader in diversity and inclusion operates hand in hand with that experience. Creating seats at the table for BIPOC creators, leaders, and managers, requires more work than a percentage quota. It requires a deep investment into young BIPOC children getting the opportunity to even KNOW that jobs like programmers, creative directors, and editors exist in the first place.
Should Other Industries Support Volunteering?
In industries like tech, advertising, and the creative arts, volunteering isn't necessarily ingrained as part of the career path. Instead, if there is an initiative, it's usually brought up by someone who is passionate about what they are doing, and hopefully, it expands to leadership and companywide.
The opposite is true in the finance sector. It's a top-down approach, with opportunities somewhat enforced by management, with resources allocated to make it as simple as possible for employees to participate.
While newer industries, like tech, are less established than finance and may not have the budget to administer such large endeavors, could there be some resources allocated to employees, even in the form of a volunteer day initiative, newsletter, or having space for a virtual guest to speak?
Whether finance bros are saving America or not, it seems that aligning company culture with volunteering is working, and perhaps other industries could follow suit, in a way that makes sense for them.
If a finance bro working a 70-hour workweek can make a little time, I think we can all as well, right?
For the entire month of December, we're partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC to get 100 men to sign up to become male mentors by the 31st! Help us by sharing this article with a friend or sign up here.
Chau Mui
Chau is the original New York City stoop kid who cut her teeth hanging out in Union Square, ate soup dumplings in Chinatown and explored this great city by train, foot and everything in between.

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The use of the palletized storage and transportation is one of the vital considerations in the modernday logistics and warehousing activities.
Shipping thoroughfares have played a central role in transporting raw materials in one direction and finished components in the other through container ships.
Triton International About this market The growth in the global demand for refrigerated transportation is driving growth in the market.
On the basis of its application, the market is segmented into consumer goods transport, food transport and industrial transport.
Uncertainty about a new supplier' s performance represents one such risk.
The cost of transporting wooden pallets to customer sites is high compared with transporting plastic and corrugated pallets.


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Official Trailer Sets The Stage For The Final Season Of 'Bates Motel'
by David Dreher
Don't know about you but I'm looking forward to this month's debut of the final chapter in the Bates Motel saga at A&E and this new short but awesome trailer that lays the groundwork. Have a view!
Did you catch that quick look at Rihanna doing her thing as Marion Crane? Damn, this is going to be so good! Things get rolling on Feb. 20th so we don't have long to wait. Along with the trailer – A&E also sent along a very detailed press release so read on and get up to speed and if for some reason you're not up to speed with this amazing series – you can binge watch all the other seasons on Netflix and be all ready to go by Feb. 20th.
The haunting fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed drama "Bates Motel," from writers and executive producers Kerry Ehrin ("Friday Night Lights," "Parenthood") and Carlton Cuse ("Lost, "The Strain"), will premiere on Monday, February 20, at 10PM ET/PT on A&E. Fan favorite and Emmy-nominated actress Vera Farmiga returns for double duty as executive producer while also reprising her role as "Mother," who is very much alive and well, but only in the twisted, complicated mind of "Norman Bates," played by Freddie Highmore. In addition, eight-time Grammy Award winner and series super fan Rihanna checks in to play the role of "Marion Crane," putting a newly reimagined and contemporary spin on the iconic character.
This contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film Psycho has provided fans with an intimate look into the unraveling of Norman Bates' psyche throughout his teenage years. Fans watched as Norman's dangerous transformation came full circle when he methodically murdered his beloved mother, Norma, in the final gut-wrenching episodes of Season Four.
Season Five of "Bates Motel" picks up almost two years later and finds Norman (Freddie Highmore), a grown man now, living a double life. Publicly he's a happy and well-adjusted member of the White Pine Bay community, but at home Norman struggles; his violent blackouts continue to increase as Mother (Vera Farmiga) threatens to take over his mind completely. Meanwhile, Dylan Massett (Max Thierot) and Emma Decody (Olivia Cooke), since leaving White Pine Bay, have been living their lives blissfully unaware of Norma's death and Norman's full on descent into psychosis. Unfortunately for them, they will soon find themselves drawn back into Norman's insanity, while a vengeful Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell), who is currently incarcerated for perjury, hungers for a chance to destroy his stepson and avenge the murder of his one true love, Norma Bates.
New faces find their way to the Bates Motel this season to further complicate Norman's life and threaten to unearth his dark secrets. Viewers will finally meet the iconic Marion Crane, played by Rihanna. In addition, a new couple in town, Madeleine Loomis, played by Isabelle McNally ("House of Cards"), and her husband, Sam Loomis, played by Austin Nichols ("The Walking Dead," "Ray Donovan"), as well as Sheriff Dana Greene, played by Brooke Smith ("Grey's Anatomy," "Ray Donovan"), become entangled in Norman's life, causing a chain of events that could blow the lid off his secret life. Lastly, fans will be greeted by familiar faces when Caleb Calhoun (Kenny Johnson) and Chick Hogan (Ryan Hurst) return with agendas of their own.
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What's the difference between 2D or 3D coins? When should you order a 2D coin versus a 3D coin? The topic isn't exactly common knowledge, we know and that's why this week's Challenge Coins 101 will explain the differences and get you up to speed on the best designs for each.
The big difference between 2D and 3D coins comes down to the number of raised and recessed levels on a coin's surface. A 2D coin only has two levels, one raised level over a lower recessed level, which means most coin designs will look like flat images. Meanwhile, 3D coins have infinite levels of raised and recessed detail, allowing for sculpted images and rounded edges with more realistic depth on a coin's metallic surface. If that sounds confusing, there are a few simple ways to quickly differentiate between the two. Rounded surfaces on a design or slopping shapes on the coin? A 3D coin? Sits flat when stacked? A 2D coin.
When is it best to order a coin in 2D?
Adding Color to Challenge Coins: One of the biggest features of 2D coins is the ability to easily add color to a design. While it's not impossible to add color to a 3D coin, the results are often very subtle and require much more precise planning that doesn't always create the best result. Meanwhile, the recessed areas on 2D coins are perfect for filling in color with enamel paint for designs like flags or designs by organizations with iconic colors like red for firefighters or blue for police officers.
Smaller Coin Sizes: Visual elements and details remain distinct on a 2D coin even when going for lighter and smaller coin sizes. On 3D coin designs with tons of complicated details, we've noticed smaller details become lost or hard to distinguish when attempted on a smaller design.
High Polish Plating: High-polish coin plating is very popular with our customers and it looks best on simple 2D coins where reflected light won't hide details or busy up the design. On a 3D design, the sloping and curved angles can cause light to gleam over details.
What type of designs looks best with 2D coins?
Simple Illustrated Art or Mascots: Illustrations, whether they're penciled, inked or painted, look best when they're 2D coin designs to keep the clear line detail and stylized nature of illustrations. Things like cartoon mascots, drawn characters or other illustrated concepts tend to have most of their details and depth already as 2D concepts.
Colored Flags and Emblems: As mentioned, adding color is one of 2D's biggest advantages and if you want your organization or group's emblems in full-color, then 2D is the way to go.
Text-heavy designs: Written words, slogans or phrases are 2D by nature and lack clear depth or detail that will good advantage of a 3D mold.
Simple Color Logos: Here's a good rule to follow, the simpler the logo, the better it'll look on a 2D design. Memorable logos like McDonalds "M" or the shape of Mickey Mouse's head, use bright colors or definite shapes to draw attention and they look great as 2D designs since they're inherently simple and instantly recognizable.
When is it best to order a coin in 3D?
Cut-to-shape Challenge Coins: Cut-to-shape coins are challenge coins in any shape or size a client might want whether that be a square, a symbol, or any other design. While both 2D and 3D coins can be cut-to-shape, 3D coins can take advantage of the new shape ton mold new details on a coin.
Antique Coin Plating: Because 3D coins have so much sculpted depth and sculpted edges, antique plating looks especially good as a way to bring out highlighted details and create visual depth in the recesses of a design.
Larger Coin Sizes: Big coins give more room to highlight finer details and take the best visual advantage of a 3D design's sculpted elements and rounded parts.
What type of designs looks best with 3D coins?
A good rule of thumb to follow with 3D coin designs is to always start with a photograph. Any design based on a photo of an actual object, vehicle, building, person, animal or view automatically has loads of physical elements and visuals best reproduced in 3D for a realistic effect.
Buildings and Structures: If you want a coin based on a real-life building or vehicle, then 3D coins are your best shot for capturing the textured details. Stone or brickwork especially have a lot of carved or textured elements that look best in 3D.
Photorealistic or Highly-Detailed Art: Art designs leaning towards photorealism or fine detail with lots of shading can take advantage of the extra depth and visual composition.
Realistic Objects: Objects in real life have natural curves and physical irregularities like rounded edges or curved recesses you can only recreate with a 3D mold. For example, elements like ruffled fur, rounded columns or curved metal plates can only have their unique visual textures showcased in 3D.
Complex Logos or Emblems: Highly-detailed or complex symbols or organizational icons look good on 2D coins but they look great on sculpted 3D coins. With 3D, you can bring out the natural detail work and visuals of a complex emblem or coat-of-arms, especially if it involves an animal or mascot shape with carved or sculpted elements.
When to order 2D vs 3D challenge coins?
Choosing between a 2D or 3D coin isn't as cut and dry as saying one type is inherently better than the other. Like many options, it often depends on your intended design and the other unique customizations you might want on a coin but a good rule of thumb to follow is that the more detailed or realistic a design, then the better it will likely look in 3D. Whereas, simpler designs with defined shapes or colorful details will want to look to be represented on a 2D coin.
However, the choice isn't black and white. One happy compromise many clients chose is getting both 2d and 3D on a single coin design with 2D on one side and 3D on the other. This allows you to keep any essential colors or organizational text while also taking advantage of the additional detail and texture of a 3D coin. Depending on your design, you could even split a coin into 2D and 3D sections to get the best of both worlds on a single design.
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Q: popup control with a button bound to combobox I have a popup control that has a button in it. The popup should be shown when a combobox is opened and should disappear when it closes.
My code looks like this:
<Popup Name="myPopup" IsOpen="{Binding Path=IsDropDownOpen, ElementName=combo}"
       Placement="Right" PlacementTarget="{Binding ElementName=combo}"
       StaysOpen="False" Focusable="False"
               AllowsTransparency="True" PopupAnimation="Fade" >
     <Button Click="Popup_Click">
        <Image Source="..\Images\edit.png" Height="30"/>
     </Button>
 </Popup>

 <ComboBox Name="combo"  SelectedValuePath="Key" DisplayMemberPath="Value"
           Loaded="ComboBox_Loaded" SelectedValue="{Binding FamilyStatus}">
 </ComboBox>

And the functions:
 private void ComboBox_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
 {
    combo.ItemsSource = GetComboValues();
 }

In this code I have a problem:
The popup is shown when the combobox is opened and get closed when the combo is closed but the click button (from inside the popup) isn't fired! I guess it is because that while the mouse moves to the button the "IsOpen" of the popup sets to be false so the click isn't fired anymore.
I tries a different approach setting the IsOpen="False" and opening the popup with the combobox event:
DropDownOpened="ComboBox_Loaded_DropDownOpened" and the StaysOpen="False"
private void ComboBox_Loaded_DropDownOpened(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   myPopup.IsOpen = true;
   myPopup.StaysOpen = false;
}

But then the popup stays open even if I select a different textbox on the window and the click event of the button is raised only after two clicks. (If I add a DropDownClosed="ComboBox_Loaded_DropDownClosed" event to close the popup, again the popup disappears before I can press the button).
Could anybody help with a solution?

A: You should retemplate your combobox, so the property IsDropDownOpen will not affect it anymore and then you can force the combo to stay open even if he lost focus. I used the property Tag to replace IsDropDownOpen and also set StaysOpen = true on both popups (also in comboBox template)
here is the code :
ComboBox Template:
<Style x:Key="ComboBoxStyle1" TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
                    <Grid x:Name="MainGrid" SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
                        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                            <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                            <ColumnDefinition MinWidth="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemParameters.VerticalScrollBarWidthKey}}" Width="0"/>
                        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        <Popup x:Name="PART_Popup" StaysOpen="True" AllowsTransparency="true" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" IsOpen="{Binding Tag, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" Margin="1" PopupAnimation="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemParameters.ComboBoxPopupAnimationKey}}" Placement="Bottom">
                            <Microsoft_Windows_Themes:SystemDropShadowChrome x:Name="Shdw" Color="Transparent" MaxHeight="{TemplateBinding MaxDropDownHeight}" MinWidth="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=MainGrid}">
                                <Border x:Name="DropDownBorder" BorderBrush="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.WindowFrameBrushKey}}" BorderThickness="1" Background="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.WindowBrushKey}}">
                                    <ScrollViewer x:Name="DropDownScrollViewer">
                                        <Grid RenderOptions.ClearTypeHint="Enabled">
                                            <Canvas HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="0">
                                                <Rectangle x:Name="OpaqueRect" Fill="{Binding Background, ElementName=DropDownBorder}" Height="{Binding ActualHeight, ElementName=DropDownBorder}" Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=DropDownBorder}"/>
                                            </Canvas>
                                            <ItemsPresenter x:Name="ItemsPresenter" KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Contained" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
                                        </Grid>
                                    </ScrollViewer>
                                </Border>
                            </Microsoft_Windows_Themes:SystemDropShadowChrome>
                        </Popup>
                        <ToggleButton BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" IsChecked="{Binding Tag, Mode=TwoWay, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}">
                            <ToggleButton.Style>
                                <Style TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                    <Setter Property="OverridesDefaultStyle" Value="true"/>
                                    <Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="false"/>
                                    <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="false"/>
                                    <Setter Property="ClickMode" Value="Press"/>
                                    <Setter Property="Template">
                                        <Setter.Value>
                                            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                                                <Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome x:Name="Chrome" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" RenderMouseOver="{TemplateBinding IsMouseOver}" RenderPressed="{TemplateBinding IsPressed}" SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
                                                    <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemParameters.VerticalScrollBarWidthKey}}">
                                                        <Path x:Name="Arrow" Data="M 0 0 L 3.5 4 L 7 0 Z" Fill="Black" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="3,1,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
                                                    </Grid>
                                                </Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome>
                                                <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                                                    <Trigger Property="IsChecked" Value="true">
                                                        <Setter Property="RenderPressed" TargetName="Chrome" Value="true"/>
                                                    </Trigger>
                                                    <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false">
                                                        <Setter Property="Fill" TargetName="Arrow" Value="#AFAFAF"/>
                                                    </Trigger>
                                                </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                                            </ControlTemplate>
                                        </Setter.Value>
                                    </Setter>
                                </Style>
                            </ToggleButton.Style>
                        </ToggleButton>
                        <ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding SelectionBoxItemTemplate}" ContentTemplateSelector="{TemplateBinding ItemTemplateSelector}" Content="{TemplateBinding SelectionBoxItem}" ContentStringFormat="{TemplateBinding SelectionBoxItemStringFormat}" HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" IsHitTestVisible="false" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/>
                    </Grid>
                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                        <Trigger Property="HasDropShadow" SourceName="PART_Popup" Value="true">
                            <Setter Property="Margin" TargetName="Shdw" Value="0,0,5,5"/>
                            <Setter Property="Color" TargetName="Shdw" Value="#71000000"/>
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="HasItems" Value="false">
                            <Setter Property="Height" TargetName="DropDownBorder" Value="95"/>
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false">
                            <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.GrayTextBrushKey}}"/>
                            <Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFF4F4F4"/>
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="IsGrouping" Value="true">
                            <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll" Value="false"/>
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll" SourceName="DropDownScrollViewer" Value="false">
                            <Setter Property="Canvas.Top" TargetName="OpaqueRect" Value="{Binding VerticalOffset, ElementName=DropDownScrollViewer}"/>
                            <Setter Property="Canvas.Left" TargetName="OpaqueRect" Value="{Binding HorizontalOffset, ElementName=DropDownScrollViewer}"/>
                        </Trigger>
                    </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>

Your code :
   <Popup x:Name="myPopup" IsOpen="{Binding Tag, ElementName=combo}"
   Placement="Right" PlacementTarget="{Binding ElementName=combo}"
   StaysOpen="True" Focusable="False"
           AllowsTransparency="True" PopupAnimation="Fade" >
            <Button Click="Popup_Click">
                <Image Source="..\Images\edit.png" Height="30"/>
            </Button>
        </Popup>

        <ComboBox Name="combo"  SelectedValuePath="Key" DisplayMemberPath="Value"
       Loaded="ComboBox_Loaded" SelectedValue="{Binding FamilyStatus}" Style="{StaticResource ComboBoxStyle1}">
        </ComboBox>


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Suho, Lee Sang-yi talk about traveling together in 'Besties in Wonderland'
Actor Lee Sang-yi, left, and EXO's Suho star in the new traveling reality show, "Besties in Wonderland." Courtesy of SBS
By Lee Gyu-lee
K-pop boy group EXO's Suho and actor Lee Sang-yi gave a glimpse of their new reality show, "Besties in Wonderland," saying that viewers will be able to see a new side of them through the program.
SBS' traveling show, which kicks off at 9 p.m. Thursday, follows a group of celebrity best friends ― actors Lee Sang-yi, Lee Kyoo-hyung, Suho, Cha Seo-won, Lee You-young and Lim Ji-yeon ― going on a trip to Queensland, Australia. As they travel around different spots in the country, they experience various activities, from skydiving to scuba diving.
The show is led by producer Lee Ji-won, who previously led the popular reality show, "Law of the Jungle."
"I have been wanting to travel somewhere with my friends, instead of for work. Although it was for the show, (when offered to join) I said I wanted to go right away without even checking my schedule because it was a trip with my friends from college, the Korea National University of Arts," Suho said in a written interview released by the network.
Lee Sang-yi also said that he was drawn to the show's concept of traveling with good friends. "I don't have much experience traveling abroad so I've been wanting to do so when I get a chance. And I loved the cast members and the destination," he said.
"Going to Australia, filled with nature and the ocean, which I love, with my friends, was just more than enough (for me to join)," he said.
Lee added that they got to know each other better through the trip. "I came to know deeper about their charm. Kyoo-hyung actually is a good cook and is very intellectual. And I've also found out that Suho is a wine enthusiast. Throughout the trip, we were roommates and we had a lot of conversations. I've learned about his mindset in life and his enthusiasm toward his dream," Lee said.
When asked what this trip means to him, Suho answered that it was a chance to show a natural side of him.
"I think (the program) will show a relaxed side of me that I haven't shown to my fans yet. So it might surprise them," he said, adding it was different to be with friends from college rather than with the members of EXO.
"Traveling shows that I did with the members of the group were fun, but traveling with friends whom I've spent my college years together with felt different," Suho said.
"Besties in Wonderland" airs on SBS every Thursday at 9 p.m.
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This article is the third in a series on WRI's latest report, Thirsting for Justice: Transparency and Poor People's Struggle for Clean Water in Indonesia, Mongolia, and Thailand. This post focuses on Indonesia, where industrial runoff is degrading the water fishermen depend on.
After years of trying to engage the mills and the Indonesian government through protests, meetings and even the courts, people in Serang are still fighting to restore the Ciujung and protect their livelihoods. Yet even after a 2013 government audit of the main waste contributor found multiple problems with its practices and violations of water pollution laws, the community is still struggling. They want answers about the pollutants contaminating their river and whether the companies are releasing more pollution than allowed under wastewater discharge permits.
Adi is not alone. Many communities throughout Indonesia and Asia are struggling to get the information they need to address the impacts from rising industrial pollution and weak enforcement of pollution control laws. As documented in WRI's new publication, Thirsting for Justice: Transparency and Poor People's Struggle for Clean Water in Indonesia, Mongolia and Thailand, these Asian governments have strong transparency laws that clearly require the disclosure of environmental information. But inadequate implementation and ineffective disclosure mechanisms are preventing poor, often marginalized community members from getting the local, facility-specific public health information they need.
Indonesia is trying, despite limited budgets and resources. It passed a Right to Know law in 2008 so citizens could request information from the government, implemented a public ratings program showing how industries comply with pollution control laws, and mandated the release of government environmental impact assessments, which set forth standards for private companies and monitoring requirements. It's developing a public, online environmental database. Despite these efforts, information on local water quality is still not reaching communities like Tengkurak.
Governments in Asia and across the world have recognized access to information as an essential prerequisite for participation and accountability. It can help build public trust in government decisions; ensure proper compliance and enforcement of laws; tailor solutions to local socio-cultural and environmental conditions, and increase a sense of ownership over the process and outcomes. Sharing information clearly with communities can inspire citizen activism and help the government as it works to identify and correct environmental problems.
But without meaningful access to information, local communities are handicapped. For Adi and other communities throughout Indonesia, Mongolia and Thailand, this lack of access is hurting their ability to protect their livelihoods and earn a living. Without the power of knowledge, they can't hold local government and companies accountable for the impacts of contaminated water, or participate in government decisions about pollution control and enforcement that could help clean up the river.
The report cites numerous examples. In a village in Mongolia, herders fear that mining companies are polluting the Tuul River and making their livestock sick. In Thailand, independent researchers have confirmed that wells in the industrial community of Map Ta Phut are contaminated with mercury and arsenic. But without documentation of water contamination or information about the companies causing the pollution, residents don't have the facts they need to stop them from violating their permits.
Governments, civil society and international donors have many options to improve responsiveness on water issues. They can release local water pollution information in non-technical formats, like radio broadcasts, pictures and signs that citizens can understand without translation or internet access. They can organize local environmental data and publicly provide accurate, up-to-date information about water use, health risks, and types and amounts of pollutants entering waterways, as well as company-specific data. Civil society organizations and international donors can advocate and invest in initiatives that promote better access to water pollution information.
For now, Adi watches his catches dwindle and his pond degrade. For citizens like him throughout Asia, implementing these recommendations will help ensure he gets the local, facility-specific and public health information he wants. It will ensure he has the power to fight for water justice.


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There's only one true classic in Sony's library as far as I'm concerned. So, Blasto obviously.
Either Syphon Filter (bring back the taser!!) or one of the Legacy of Kain titles.
Give me Legend of Dragoon on a modern console. I miss that game so much.
Syphon Filter would be a great remake. Maybe the original trilogy plus the two PSP games?
I'd rather just have a new IP versus a remake of anything, but then again I'm old and have played every type of game imaginable. I would love to see something not done before and just be shocked by its awesomeness.
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Root Double: Before Crime After Days (Switch)
Written by Tracey Robertson on 26 Nov 2020
Distributor Sekai Games • Price £35.99
Root Double: Before Crime* After Days is a visual novel game originally released on the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in 2012, with Playstation 3 & Vita ports in 2013, and now the Nintendo Switch gets it own version in 2020.
In game, the year is 2030, and children are being born with 'BC' (Beyond Communication), basically telepathy and empathy. Rokumei City in Japan, home to Rokumei Academy, an elite school for children with BC, is a research city with over 300 research facilities. Tragedy strikes as LABO, the 6th Laboratory of Atomic and Biological Organisation, suffers a nuclear reactor meltdown. Is this an accident, or an attack from anti-BC terrorists? From this point Root Double has two plots, Route A and Route B.
LABO Research facility
In Route A you are Watase Kasasagi, Captain of the Sirius rescue unit. During a call-out to a possible nuclear reactor meltdown in the LABO research facility you are attacked by a 'mysterious monster' and are knocked unconscious. Upon awakening, you have no memory of who you are and why you are in the research facility. Upon meeting up with some more members of the rescue team (Kazami and Jun), you learn that the security measures have malfunctioned, the sprinkler systems have failed, the air vents are damaged and the security blockheads have trapped you and a handful of survivors in the lab for nine hours, with only a handful of anti-radiation medications that need to be reapplied every hour... and the radiation is steadily rising. As you travel through the facility looking for medication and a safe way out, you find bodies. These have not died from the explosions or the fires, but from gunshot wounds. That means there could be a murder on the loose, it could be one of your group, and as you don't have your memories, it could even be you.
Left to right: Yuuri and Mashiro
In Route B you are Natsuhiko Tenkawa a high school student who has BC. You arrive at LABO with two of your classmates; your childhood friend Mashiro Toba and new French transfer student Louise Yui Sannomiya (or 'Salyu'). Why you are there is a mystery to the player, when you see your other childhood friend and agoraphobic roommate Yuuri Kotono, you're surprised and quickly knocked out by an explosion - from this point on you go back and forward between the present and six days prior to the current situation.
Enneragram Sense Sympathy System
The gameplay is much trickier than a normal choice-based visual novel, as instead of answering questions and making choices through your answers, you have to use the Sense Sympathy System or 'SSS'. The player has to adjust their impressions or senses using sliders, and you do this when the 'Enneagram' appears in the top left corner of the screen. The Enneagram is based on the Enneagram of personality, which is a model of the human psyche using nine personality types; Reformer, Helper, Achiever, Individualist, Investigator, Loyalist, Enthusiast, Challenger and Peacemaker. Each character in the game is a representation of one of these personalities and if that sounds confusing, that's because it is.
For example at one point in the game you're given the choice to slide up or down for yourself, Kazami or Jun. Up to this point you have been fairly reckless, so I slid up for Kazami and Jun, and down on myself. I thought that conveyed 'Listen to Jun and Kazami', but instead I blew up, because I wasn't 'paying attention to my surroundings! So instead of making myself less reckless I somehow made myself moreso.
The Enneagram also glows different colours to tell you how important your decision is; blue means that this isn't dangerous but can impact how people perceive you, orange effects actions in the game which can have dangerous consequences and red means this situation is very dangerous and there's a high chance you're going to die. You have the choice to ignore the Enneagram as well - this can do nothing or cause your rather explosive death.
Left to right: Jun and Kazami
The characters are very important to the gameplay as they represent the different personality types that you can lean towards in making your choices. In Route A we meet Kazami Tachibana, the Loyalist and lieutenant of the Sirius. Kazami is cool headed and rational, while her co-worker, Jun Moribe (the Challanger), who is a rookie rescue worker, a lively hot-headed girl compared to her superior. Taken together they form the team for your character's rescue mission.
Civilians include; Kenji Ukita (the Reformer), working at LABO, Ena Tsubakiyama (the Achiever), a teacher from Rokumei Academy who was called to LABO for mysterious reasons, and lastly a relative of the research workers, Yuuri Kotono (the Peacemaker).
Left to right: Mashiro and Salyu
In Route B, the main characters include; Mashiro Toba (the Helper), Natsuhiko's best friend, classmate and tomboy. Louise 'Salyu' Yui Sannomiya (the Individualist), is a new transfer student from France and child prodigy. Yuuri again, this time as Natuhiko's roommate and whisperer of creepy things after dark(!), and the player character Natsuhiko Tenkawa (the Enthusiast), who used to be charismatic and outgoing but has had somewhat of a personality shift since 'The Incident'. The characters crossover between the routes and have important impacts on each other's plots.
The character designs are fine, with the usual "only in anime" style hair colours mixed into the more natural shades, animation on the characters when they are talking works well, with the mouths actually moving rather than static expressions found in some games. Some of the more dramatic moments are beautifully illustrated, working well, though there were a few sillier moments; one of Louise's still images bounces across the screen through a fire, and while it should have been a dramatic moment, I found myself giggling at how funny it looked.
A lot of the issues I take are with graphics, Watase's exploding memories from Route A just look very clunky and outdated even allowing for the fact the original game is from 2012. Route B has Natsuhiko's flashback, where they'd obviously coloured the scene as normal, put a sepia filter over the top and turned the opacity down, which doesn't make it feel nostalgic, instead making everyone and everything look like they're covered in in mud, I don't understand why it was coloured this way, it probably would have been easier to just colour it all in a restricted pallet either with browns or in black and white rather than lazily throw a filter over it.
On a more positive note, there are some great musical tracks sprinkled throughout the game, creating a terrific sense of atmosphere, especially during the creepier moments that require an element of dread. I also enjoyed the theme song, though I find it irritating that text and images from this piece give a massive hint at one of the story's main twists.
While we're talking about irritation, I suffered from a fairly serious glitch that happened just after I died for the second time. After I died I went back to the quick load menu and chose where my last Enneagram choice was and loaded, I played the game through two chapters, all the time being told that the quick save was saving at regular intervals. However, after turning the game off for a lunch break, I returned to find that it hadn't actually saved any progress from my initial death and wouldn't quick-save again until I manually saved the game and restarted it. This seemed to fixed the problem; I blew myself up on purpose at the next red Enneagram choice just to make sure, and the quick save was working again. So save regularly and don't trust the system!
Apart from this there were some minor spelling errors ('Sirus' instead of 'Sirius') but nothing serious.
A feature I appreciated a lot was the ability to dim the black box behind the text. As someone with dyslexia, I cannot read white text with a black background, and the settings allow you to dim the box or turn it off completely, which made my game experience much more enjoyable.
Overall, I enjoyed both plots, though I found Route A more interesting than Route B. This route has a more intense feel to it, the characters reacted in the way that you expect people to react in a life and death situation, with some scared and others trying to be level-headed and pragmatic. I also liked the characters better in Route A - this may have been because the main characters in Route A are all adults (like me) making it easier to empathise with them rather than Route B's teenager cast.
With Route A, the player was in the action from the moment the game started, while Route B had a much slower slow burn. This gives the game some variety of pacing as well as character, which is good as it gives the player different kinds of stories to enjoy, and if you don't take to one you might enjoy the other. You do, however, need to complete both to have the full story.
The Game mechanics can be confusing to get used to, but persevere and you'll find an enjoyable game here. After all, part of the fun is collecting all those bad endings!
Good plots, but some confusing game mechanics.
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This Sherwood Forest Outer Walk is a clockwise loop of the perimeter trails. Crossing the normal visitor path, it offers glimpses of the rolling fields that contain Sherwood Forest and then draws us back in via the Major Oak.
In the second half of 2018 the management of Sherwood Forest NNR (National Nature Reserve) was taken over by the RSPB. A number of significant changes have taken pace. The old crumbling visitors centre is now closed together with the adjacent car park. The new Sherwood Forest visitor centre is now open and can be found overlooking the Edwinstowe cricket ground. Car parking is now situated directly opposite, across the main road.
If parking in the new car park, this hike starts by crossing the road and following the path up to the right, towards the old visitor centre. Picking up the start of the GPX route we take a sharp left and head out on a wooded trail that drops down towards the heart of Sherwood Forest.
After crossing the main visitor trails the path narrows as rolling farm land opens to the left and denser varied forest flanks our right. There's good natural variety for a couple of miles before the trail turns right, in-towards a gentle ascent.
Mile 3 to 4 is my favourite. The woodland has lots of variety; from pine plantation to storm damaged ancient oaks, this is a brilliant place to break out your favourite tree reference guide. Plenty of spots for a wild picnic too!
Mile 4 to 5 undulates a little before crossing the main visitor route and turning into the central Sherwood Forest parkland. There's various areas of natural interest on the return leg. I'd strongly advise a little exploration here, not too far off the beaten path you can gain a wonderful appreciation for the ancient nature of this treasured forest.
Horses, ranger vehicles, cyclists and logging activity can feature along this route. Please give way to all traffic and follow any signs and warnings regarding log stacks, dangers and active forestry works too.
When you return, there's a variety of refreshments and service in and around the visitors centre. If closed the quaint little village of Edwinstowe opens up just around the corner. There a choice of pubs, general stores and food stops are peppered all along the high street. It's well worth a wander if you still have the legs!
This is a beautiful perimeter route of Sherwood Forest NNR. The outward path takes you along the boundary before climbing gently into the forest. The return leg curves through the nature reserve passing by the legendary Major Oak, and onward to the old visitor centre and beyond.
This route perhaps best suits folk familiar with the popular visitor trails, interested in exploring a little further afield. There's gentle terrain variety, gradual gradients and beautiful flora and fauna to watch out for.
At 6 miles long, this route does require an effort so sensible footwear, fluids and a little food are wise luggage. There's good mobile and GPS service with Edwinstowe village the nearest stop for services and refreshments.
Robin Hood wasn't home when I passed, but there are signs of activity & rumours he's been seen in the area!
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Naughty Dog Studios and Dark Horse proudly present the essential companion to The Last of Us, a richly detailed and compelling game set in a postpandemic world where humans have become an endangered species. Featuring concept art, character designs, and astonishing settings and landscapes, The Art of The Last of Us provides a unique look at one of the gaming world's most eagerly anticipated titles.
* A must-have companion to the game.
* The latest project from Naughty Dog Studios.
* The Last of Us swept the top Game Critics awards at 2012's E3 conference.
5.0 out of 5 starsFirst class!!!
The Art of The Last of Us by Dark Horse Books is a must for any Last of Us fan. The book is 176 pages and they load the pages with art so there's little wasted space. With this book you will get many variations of the characters and environments. Although with the characters I found that almost every single one is a frontal pose of a character with variations in clothing, the face, or something like that. This is not bad since their are a lot of them and they cover a lot of characters but I wish there were more angles and such, but none the less its still amazing.
The Book is divided into 7 chapters.
1. The Introduction is 2 pages and just talks about the creators making the game and stuff.
2. Joel and Ellie is 16 pages and has lots of different poses and variations of the two. There is commentary by the artists about what went through their minds when making the sketches and such which really lets you understand what they were thinking when they made the characters. Also they have pictures of how they were going to have Ellie look but switched to how she actually does look so that was cool to see how they first wanted her to look.
3.The Journey is 93 pages and has sketches and pictures of a bunch of characters and scenes that you encounter throughout the game. There's soldiers, thugs, some of the other main characters, and plenty of abandoned house and buildings. Their is lots of content here and the pages are jam packed. The concept art of the environments are really detailed and have excellent lighting.
4. The Infected is 29 pages and has lots of the different infected monsters. The pictures put you up close and personal to the infected and lets you see all the grossest features. From the bumps, blood, scars, and everything else they made sure to show just how ugly/scary the infected are. This chapter was really cool to look at and highly detailed.
5. The World is 6 pages and has really nothing to it except some signs and weapons which were not really all that great or detailed. There's bows, garden tools, guns, and pieces of metal for the weapons shown.
6. Marketing is 14 pages and has the art they used to promote the game and its basically just some concept art like what they have on the cover of the game and such.
7. The American Dream is 5 pages and is art from the comic book so if you like comic books you might enjoy this section since its just simple drawings comic book style.
Overall this book is a must for any fan of the game. It has lots of character variations and artist comments which really help you know just what went through their minds when making the characters and such. The environmental art is awesome and highly detailed with excellent lighting and color. The scenes show everything from old farms, run down cities, or even the quarantine zone. The infected look gruesome and lifelike and its really gross the amount of detail they put in some of the pictures, but that is what makes this book so good. Finally if your looking for some good character art this book has loads of it and although its mostly all frontal view it still is quite nice to look at and has many variations and characters. I highly recommend this art book and found it to be one of the better game art books.
The Art of Last of Us is a wonderful art book to Naughty Dog's latest game. I also have the Uncharted 2 art book and I love that book. I love this one too.
This book is packed with character designs and environment art. The concept art is top notch.
All the characters and infected are drawn out in detail and colour. There are various designs for each character. Lots to see. The infected, if you have not played the game, are not traditional zombies. They have been infected by some deadly fungus that grows and consumes the human body. You get to see some interesting and scary designs that you would not get from typical zombies.
The environment art are painted with astonishing amount of detail that makes everything seem so real. There are the devastated towns, rundown buildings, deserted streets and ransacked rooms. Most scenes depicted will make you wonder what the hell happened there. The level of realism you see here is unmatched even by big budget movie sets.
Spoilers appear in the book either as text or pictures. So definitely play the game first before going through the book. Other than that, there's not much text except the occasional comments on the art and game.
This is a fantastic video game art book. Highly recommended.
Oh, play the game first if you can.
5.0 out of 5 starsThe best conceptual artwork assemble in a long time, but where are the credits?!
This is certainly a big and beautiful assemble of the greatest conceptual artworks I ever saw together, I must say Naughty Dog have some of the most talented artists in the industry nowadays, the artworks are really beautiful and it's nice to see some earlier versions of characters and environments of the game in those pages, it really added more dept in the understanding of the game goal and artistic vision.
Why not give credits for the artists?
As I said, Naughty Dog have some the most talented artists in the industry nowadays, like Maciej Kuciara, James Paick, Aaron Limonick, John Sweeney, Eytan Zana, Shaddy Safadi, Marek Okon, Nick Gindraux, Hyoung Nam, and Alexandria Neonakis, people that worked hard to make this game beautiful but in the end, this compilation or celebration of great artworks end up not having a single artist name on it. It's a shame that they didn't gave the artists some recognition for their big hit as well. I just couldn't find credits for the artists anywhere in the book, just the directors are credited. I think it is a bit unfair and very close minded for a company with such a big creativity in making games.
I know that from a company point of view give to much credit for a employee can be a path to lose them to another company, but in a internet generation of easy to find information, they should know that there are other and nicer ways to keep a employee happy enough to not leave the company. Anyway, just unfair.
This is a GREAT BOOK! One of the best game art-books on the last 2 years.


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The two-day Ludhiana Sahodaya School Complex Inter-School Basketball Tournament was organised at Doraha Public School on December 8 and 9. In U-19 girls' category, Doraha Public School defeated Satguru Partap Singh Academy, Sri Bhani Sahib. In U-19 boys' section Doraha Public School outplayed Gobindgarh Public School, Mandi Gobindgarh. Ridhima Saini of Doraha Public School and Mohit from Gobindgarh Public School were declared as the best players.


Happy Holidays from Patterson-Schwartz Real Estate! As you enjoy the holiday season with family and friends, take a moment to review our current market summary to learn about local housing trends. We've also included some timely home and lifestyle-related articles and videos to keep you informed on the latest in everything from interior decorating trends to personal finance advice.


Enjoy coconut water iced tea blends made from a base of organic matcha or organic green rooibos any time of the year. Using freeze-dried coconut water crystals, our premium iced teas are refreshing with every sip. Flavors including healthy matcha, as well as pineapple and mango for a sweet tropical iced tea experience. Each flavor comes with eight large, unbleached tea pouches to make a perfect quart of premium iced tea at home.


The pointy feet means this is a space-type Gundam, right? I always felt the Vidar was incomplete and expected to see them complete it with a final variant of the Kimaris. This actually looks cool, but I think as with all other IBO kits, a Master Grade release would be so nice. I know it will take some time though. I think we will get a Premium Bandai release of this as a Full Mechanics release soon.
I actually like this design rather than the old kimaris design. Its speed plus its raw brutality along with the pseudo Alaya-Vijnana type-E makes him much more dangerous.
Love the design although how the shields connected into the sub-arms seems a bit wrong for me. It should be connected in the middle rather than on its upper-half so it can absorb an impact properly. Nice color separation though.
As much as I love the design, the dainsleif lance and the lower half colors are tacky and horrible. I can't paint either. Oh well. There's always kitbash.
Is that a drill coming out of its knee in the second to last pic??


This new science toolkit is designed to educate young children about environmental science, and will be distributed to 300 classrooms throughout Ireland.
The free educational toolkit was launched during the 2018 Science Week at Scoil Iosef Naofa, Oranmore, Co Galway.
It uses a hedgehog as the principal character, while taking first and second class pupils on an explorative journey to learn about key topics in environmental science. Storytelling, hands-on activities and games are all used to promote active learning, based on observation and experimentation.
The content of the toolkit and the activities involved were all reviewed and piloted in Galway by first and second class teachers: Ronan Dunne from Galway Educate Together, Vivienne Kelly from Knocknacara Educate Together, Anna McGuire from Mercy Primary School, and Niamh Cormican from Scoil Iosef Naofa, Oranmore.
The exploration box contains a 'Kamishibai', this is a form of visual and participatory storytelling that combines the use of hand drawn visuals with the engaging narration of a live presenter.
This storytelling theatre means that teachers can take their class through the story of Spikey and help them to understand the key characteristics of living things, the food web and how it functions, habitats and hibernation and the vital role we all play in protecting the living environment.
The toolkit has been produced in three languages, and is being supplied to teachers across four European countries as a result of an Erasmus+ European project linking researchers and education practitioners from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Austria and Poland.
From January 2019, the toolkit will be distributed nationally to requesting teachers through the Galway Education Centre, as well as education centres located in Donegal, Dublin West, Wexford, Monaghan, Navan, Tralee and Clare.


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Imagine Dragons: I Bet My Life (2014 Video)
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Rodrigo_Amaro17 November 2015
Impressive and proving that clips still aren't a dying art
From the series "happiest accidents on the net". I was looking for something else, can't remember what it was, and the search bar had a Dane DeHaan still with this clip. I went ahead and wasn't disappointed. "Imagine Dragons: I Bet My Life" presents DeHaan going through extraordinary adventures after fighting with some guy downriver.
The clip is visually stunning with the performer of Harry Osborn and Lucien Carr (just to mention a few of his great stellar career) going from a drowning that doesn't kill him, with the river taking him to a house under water then changing it to a boat, and when the danger seems to come his way, there's the boat flying with grace. He eventually goes back to where it all started but with some change.
Imagination and creativity is the name of the game in this clip, and writer/editor/director Jonathan Desbiens has a full hand with those artifacts. The real imagery is powerful and again stunning, but the metaphor he uses bringing topics of faith, hope and courage amidst ordeals and difficult changes is the one that resonates with more impact, it's a solid ground. You go with the flow, whatever it takes you. The song lyrics reflect a little about it despite its more romantic tone. Though not much my style, gotta admit that it stays with you for a while due to its catchy chorus (the bridge sounds a lot better, IMHO).
I'm not much into going to extremes but you can definitely bet your life in this short film. The coolest thing ever these days. 9/10
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Horst_In_Translation15 January 2017
Okay intentions, forgettable product
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"Imagine Dragons: I Bet My Life" is a 3.5-minute music video from 2014 written and directed by Jonathan Desbiens. It scored nominations at Camerimage, the music video Oscars and this may also have to do with Dane DeHaan, a successful actor, playing the main part here. And the music is of course by the famous band in the title. While there is a catchy moment here and there, overall it's not a great watch or listen. The house in the sea is somewhat nice to look at, but that's really it. In terms of the song's or video's message, it comes incredibly short despite trying so hard to make an impact, which makes it all look relatively desperate. I may be a bit biased as I am not a great DeHaan fan, but it was still underwhelming and honestly he was the least of the problems. And right when I thought may it's not that bad after all, they come up with this ridiculous final plot twist. But that's what it is, a watch that is mostly pretentious and rarely creative and the song is very mediocre. Don't check it out.


Fallout 76 just had its first beta and will be getting its next fairly soon, and then the full release is just days after that. The game is a dramatic step in Bethesda's journey to lighten the tone of their nuclear apocalypse series, so with that comes marketing that enjoys the contrast between those horrors and the mirth and merriment of exploring the wasteland.
In this case, that comes in the form of a live-action trailer for the upcoming game.
The trailer tells you how you'll be spending your time in the West Virginia wasteland with friends. No one says your impending doom has to be done alone, especially when the next best option is a robot, so might as well make the best of it.
Fallout 76 releases November 14 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.


What tools exist for creating quantum circuit diagrams and exporting them as images? Preferably one which runs in Windows, or even better one which runs in the web browser.
Q-circuit by Bryan Eastin and Steve Flammia.
These are tools to make circuit diagrams in TeX for papers and the like, but you can always make your TeX file just the circuit you want and save it as a pdf. Making complex and incredibly long circuits might be a bit of a hassle and would be better done in an automated tool like the one posted by Davide_sd.
Hopefully, somebody will be able to list other tools.
Master of Science degree project developed by Joanna Patrzyk and Bartłomiej Patrzyk at AGH UST in Cracow.
It can simulate designed circuits by generating simulator code in C#. Runs under Windows. Available under GPLv3.
IBM Quantum Experience. Its interface runs in web browser.
It can run on "real" quantum computer. Available for research purposes only.
[...] quantum circuit diagrams [...] even better one which runs in the web browser.
Quirk (algassert.com/quirk) runs in browsers and can be used to create simple circuit diagrams. I use it for this purpose all of the time, though it's main purpose is to simulate circuits.
Just drag the gates you want into the circuit, perhaps use the simulation results to check that everything is behaving correctly, and then take a screenshot with e.g. Windows' Snipping Tool. Most browsers also have an option to turn a canvas into an image (e.g. in firefox if you right-click on the circuit you can select 'view image' that you can then download and crop). You can bookmark the circuit to come back to it later, in case you make a small mistake.
The main downside of this approach is a) it requires manual work every time, b) it produces bitmap images instead of vector images, and c) it is somewhat inflexible (e.g. you can't put operations with different controls into the same column).
Here you can just input all the useful gates directly and also completely manipulate the Circuits in a complete GUI interface.
Moreover, you can also perform all the desired operations over qubits.
How to re-create the following circuit image?