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Q: vector output in C++ I have written a program that outputs the maximum and minimum number of days frost was recorded along with the corresponding year and month. I am reading this data from a file and inputting what i need into vectors.
In the file the months are displayed in integers 1-12, My question is that in my program when outputting the month, how can I output "January" when in the the file it's a 1?

A: You can make a std::array of std::string. The index will correspond to the month name. Just make sure you account for 0-based indexing, e.g. "January" == 0, not 1.
std::array<std::string, 12> months = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};

Then
cout << "The highest number of days frost was recorded is: "
     << maxFrost
     << ". The date was: "
     << months[maxMonth - 1]   // adjust to 0-based index
     << ", "
     << maxFyear
     << ".\n"
     <<endl; // maximum frost with month and year

A: If your compiler doesn't support std::array, you can use a fixed array of characters:
static const char * month_names[] =
{
  "Dummy", // to make names line up with month numbers.
  "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
  "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December",
};

int main(void)
{
  for (unsigned int m = 1; m <= 12; ++m)
  {
    cout << m << ") " << month_names[i] << endl;
  }
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Note:  The type char * is used for the array since char * can be stored as fixed data and accessed directly.  Using std::string would involve creating a std::string instance for each month name before accessing them.

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pyHMSA is a pure Python implementation of the MSA / MAS / AMAS HyperDimensional
Data File (HMSA, for short) specifications.
This file format is intended to be a common exchange format for microscopy and
microanalysis data.
More information about the file format and its specifications can be found
`here <http://www.csiro.au/luminescence/HMSA/index.html>`_.

The library is designed to be minimalist, leaving post-processing of the data
to the user's script.
The only dependency of pyHMSA is to `NumPy <http://www.numpy.org>`_, in order
to represent the multi-dimensional data.

pyHMSA is written to support both Python 3.6+.

The library is provided under the MIT license.

More information can be found at the website:

http://pyhmsa.readthedocs.org

The most current development version is always available from our
GitHub repository:

https://github.com/pyhmsa/pyhmsa

Release notes
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0.2
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- Drop Python 2 support

Contributors
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* `@nkipi <https://github.com/nkipi>`_
* `@silrichter <https://github.com/silrichter>`_

License
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The library is provided under the MIT license.

*pyxray* was partially developed as part of the doctorate thesis project of
Philippe T. Pinard at RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) under the
supervision of Dr. Silvia Richter.

Copyright (c) 2015-2016/06 Philippe Pinard and Silvia Richter

Copyright (c) 2016/06-2019 Philippe Pinard

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Vintage clothes? An upright piano?? A 1929 Yearbook???
What an amazing purchase this will be for some lucky history lover!


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Q: django nested serialization of many to many relationship having an intermediate table I have seen a lot of posts on how to deserialize and serialize nested relationships of tables having a many to many relationship, but when an intermediate table is used in a many to many relationship I am not able to achieve deserialization.
This is because an intermediate table requires two foreign keys, one each from the two tables participating in the relation.
I have an Order model and a Service model which are in a many to many relationship via an OrderItem intermediate table.
I need to pass a JSON request like this:
{"service_time":"2015-11-14 10:00:51+0530",
  "address":"xyz",
   "items":[{"order": "1", "service_id":"4"},
               {"order":"1", "service_id":"5"}]
}

The "service_time" and "address" elements get saved in the Order table. Now the problem arises with the "items" JSON array. I pass the "service_id" (foreign key to the Service table) and I need to pass "order" (foreign key to the Order table) too as it is a required field. The problem is that the primary key of the Order table is not known when the request is sent(as the Order is also created as a part of the same request). How can I achieve deserialization in this scenario?
I tried something like this but it didn't work out.
class OrderSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    items = ItemSerializer(many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Order

    def create(self, validated_data):
        items_data = validated_data.pop('items')
        orders = Order.objects.create(**validated_data)
        for item in items_data:
            #order = item['order']
            service = item['service']
            //Passing the Order object just created as the foreign key of OrderItem
            orderItem = OrderItem.objects.create(order=orders, service=service)
            orderItem.save()
        return orders

class ServiceSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    group = serializers.CharField(source="group.group_name")
    category = serializers.IntegerField(source="group.category_id")

    class Meta:
        model = Service
        fields = ['id', 'service_name', 'price', 'special_price', 'service_time', 'group', 'category']

class ItemSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    service_detail = ServiceSerializer(source="service", read_only=True)

    class Meta:
        model = OrderItem

I get an error saying 'Service' object has no attribute 'order'.
I know the Service model does not have an "order" attribute, but I am creating an OrderItem object, not a Service object.
Any suggestions will be helpful!
Edit: Adding the models used
class Order(models.Model):
    STATUSES = [('PENDING', 'Pending'), ('PROCESSING', 'Processing'), ('COMPLETE', 'Complete'), ('CANCELED', 'Canceled')]
    PAYMENT_STATUSES = [('PENDING', 'Pending'), ('PAID', 'Paid'),]
    CANCEL_REASON = [('NO_SERVICE', 'No Service In Area'), ('NO_STYLIST', 'Stylist Not Available'), ('STYLIST_REFUSED', 'Stylist Refused After Accepting',),
            ('CUSTOMER_UNREACHABLE', 'Customer Not Reachable'), ('CUSTOMER_CANCELED', 'Customer Canceled at Fisrt Call'), ('CUSTOMER_REFUSED', 'Customer Refused at Last Moment'),
            ('DUPLICATE_ORDER', 'Duplicate Order'), ('MALE_CLIENT', 'Male Client'), ('CALLCENTER_DELAY', 'Delay/Error at Frontdesk')]
    serial = models.CharField(max_length=10, null=True, blank=True,)
    customer = models.ForeignKey(Customer, verbose_name="customer", related_name="ordersbycustomer")
    stylist = models.ForeignKey(Stylist, null=True, blank=True, verbose_name="stylist", related_name="ordersbystylist")
    # TODO, Use timezone.now
    service_time = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now, blank=True)
    started_moving = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    service_start_at = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    service_end_at = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    reached_safely = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    sub_total = models.FloatField(default=0)
    discounts = models.FloatField(default=0)
    grand_total = models.FloatField(default=0)
    total_time = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    status = models.CharField(max_length=32, choices=STATUSES, default='PENDING')
    payment_status = models.CharField(max_length=32, choices=PAYMENT_STATUSES, default='PENDING')
    items = models.ManyToManyField(Service, through='OrderItem')
    address = models.ForeignKey(Address, null=True,  blank=True, related_name='+',  on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
    amount_received = models.FloatField(default=0)
    send_sms = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    thru_app = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    referral_discount = models.FloatField(default=0)
    cancellation_reason = models.CharField(max_length=64, choices=CANCEL_REASON, null=True, blank=True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.serial

    def _get_service_list(self):
        return ','.join(str(p.description) for p in self.items.all())

    service_list = property(_get_service_list)

class Service(models.Model):
    group = models.ForeignKey(Group, related_name="services")
    service_name = models.CharField(max_length=128)
    price = models.FloatField(default=0)
    special_price = models.FloatField(default=0)
    service_time = models.IntegerField()
    description = models.CharField(max_length=123)
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return '{} ({})'.format(self.service_name, self.group)

class OrderItem(models.Model):
    order = models.ForeignKey(Order)
    service = models.ForeignKey(Service)
    price = models.FloatField(default=0)
    special_price = models.FloatField(default=0)
    qty = models.IntegerField(default=1)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.service.service_name

Edit2: Added the other related serializers.
One important thing I forgot to mention is that, the data gets saved in the DB, but the exception is still raised.


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'Bill and Ted 3' Casts 'Kevin Can Wait' Alum Erinn Hayes in Major Role
By Michael Hein - June 29, 2019 02:10 pm EDT
Bill and Ted 3 has added Kevin Can Wait's Erinn Hayes, along with a host of other new cast members.
The long-awaited threequel in the Bill and Ted franchise is underway, and the cast is slowly growing. According to a report by Deadline, Hayes joins the cast as Princess Elizabeth, wife of Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves). She is accompanied by Glee star Jayma Mays, who will play Princess Joanna, wife of Bill S. Preston (Alex Winter).
The addition of life partners for the beloved stars of Bill and Ted makes sense, given what we know so far about the movie's plot. Bill and Ted Face the Music is expected to pick up years after the last movie, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which came out in 1991.
Here, the two affable time-travelling heroes have grown into middle-aged dads, reminiscing on their dreams of becoming rockstars. Their new adventure will begin with them trying their best to create a hit song while caring for their families.
The movie may feature a passing of the torch in some ways, as Bill and Ted each now have a daughter. Bill's daughter, Thea, is played by Samara Weaving, and Ted's daughter, Billie, is played by Brigette Lundy-Paine.
All in all, expectations are high for the movie. Bill and Ted Face the Music was written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the same minds behind the first two movies. It will be directed by Dean Parisot, and will feature some returning characters ,including William Sadler as Death.
Other confirmed cast members include Scott Mescudi — better known as rapper Kid Cudi — and Anthony Carrigan, who plays NoHo Hank on HBO's Barry.
A third installment of the Bill and Ted franchise has been awaited since the sequel came out in 1991. The movie first went into development in 2010, but it took years to hammer out the ideas behind the revival. In the meantime, Reeves saw a huge revival as an action star through the John Wick franchise, and the timing became perfect.
Bill and Ted 3 was formally greenlit last May, and production officially began in March of 2018. About a year later, Reeves and Winter posted a video online, revealing the new title and thanking fans for their patience.
Many fans now believe that filming is underway on Bill and Ted Face the Music, as Winter recently shared a sneak peek at a storyboard, promising that "kickoff" was "moments away."
Bill and Ted Face the Music is due in theaters on Aug. 21, 2020.
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What Happened Between xQc and Adept? xQc Explains Adept Break-Up After Split Rumors
September 22, 2022 September 17, 2022 by Dwomoh Darlingberg
Twitch star Felix 'xQc' Lengyel has revealed that he and Adept have broken up again, explaining that he had to choose between the relationship and family.
While some viewers want to know the ins and outs of their favorite streamers' lives, some broadcasters do their best to keep things private and offline – especially regarding relationships.
In the case of xQc and Adept, it was a long-standing joke that the pair were 'roommates' and nothing more, but there were plenty of slip-ups along the way. The pair, ultimately, went public after long and dropped the 'roommates' moniker.
They have, though, broken up from time to time, only to reconcile and get back together. Though, on September 15, some fans noticed that they'd unfollowed each other on social media, leading to rumors of another break-up.
xQc
xQc confirms he and Adept broke up again
During his stream on September 15, the former Overwatch pro confirmed that he and Adept had, once again, broken up. (Watch the video here)
"I love my brother, I love my family, but he and his girlfriend, and me and Sammy we just couldn't be all at once in one place, we couldn't, it's just not possible," xQc said. "There was friction when I was at my brother's house and there was friction when we all got here, it was just very odd."
The Twitch star explained that there was further drama when his brother moved in with him before he returned to Canada, and while attempts were made to reconcile things, it didn't work. "I felt like I had to make a choice. I was cornered into choosing between family and Sammy, and unfortunately what happened is that I kind of just chose family… it was my fault, that's just what happened," he said.
While parts of xQc's community were happy to get an answer and have things cleared up, others were, naturally, disappointed that the two have gone their separate ways again.
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This annoys me. Every time I switch the car on, I get "bing bong" - Passenger Airbag on.
Is there any way to turn off this notification?
I could understand it warning me if it was off and the passenger seat was sensing somebody in it.
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Q: after formating Windows partition it is still showing up in dual boot with Ubuntu I installed ubuntu a long time ago along side with windows 10, on an 240gb ssd, I have another 1TB HDD that I split into 2 partitions. One for ubuntu and one for windows.
Today I wanted to delete windows permanently so I formatted the partition that has windows on it .
I restarted the laptop but then noticed the it's still there on the dual boot menu .
So I formatted the 1TB incase there are some boot files there , but nothing changed.
I formatted all the partitions and reinstalled Ubuntu, and I still have the same problem.
Any suggestions or solutions?

A: If the "dual boot" menu is grub and you formatted the 1TB after you reinstalled Ubuntu, then you need to update grub by running the following command:
sudo update-grub

A: Thank you all for your efforts, I managed to solve this problem by entering the BIOS and changing the settings to default then changed the boot to legacy. and saved it.
then everything worked fine.

A: Use grub-customizer to delete, change boot menu
https://itsfoss.com/grub-customizer-ubuntu/


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Sect(shrine)-wars - clearing out the greyzones.
Gjarrus Member, Beta Testers Posts: 705 ✭✭✭✭
I've had a lot here and a couple edits, but it boiled down to this:
What I'd Do:
4-room shrine distance minimum for same sect. Increase bonuses and costs.
Relic balance pass with new limitations to AoE relics in mind.
Limit opposed shrines to one per sect.
Increase sanc lockout timer to 8 hours.
Increase Bulwark duration to 2 hours.
Create a 1-game-year shrine rubble at a destroyed shrine, preventing the construction of one there.
Elrith Member Posts: 47 ✭✭
@Kalynthari
You still discuss all of this from the perspective of this very current sect war, no? I ask you again, you like this current system?
Please tell me how anyone lost and when and how then? Do you seriously say that flame lost and then tried to continue the conflict because the players who are in flame are bad losers?
Do you say that there is massive RP around Hunger attacking Flame? What kind of RP did this current sect war bring to the table? You should consider your own words to me when we discussed these things and you know that I am fully aware of people emotions towards some players and this has basically 0 to do with sect wars, it is way more personal.
And on your comments on war.... So basically what you are saying is that war works like this. You start one and then yield because you couldn't kill the enemy quick enough and then just give up and say "ok sorry was only kidding". Then you do it again and they just forgive you again saying "no worries, we know that you only tried". ????
I hardly play this game only to PK, but I accept that PK is a major thing in this game and I wouldn't dream of starting sect wars and all kinds of things and then blame others to be awful for killing Elrith. Nor would I start to PK random people in a org just because I am mad of what someone else did months irl before.
@Kabaal Interesting points. I am also leaning towards Naruj's ideas about limiting shrines in areas because currently there is simply so many in a area that it's hard to maintain management on a decent level. You'd want to keep the window as conflict center though? I like the idea of new shrine on that location for a IG year most I think, it would prevent the constant build up / take down aspect somewhat.
Naruj Member, Beta Testers Posts: 189 ✭✭✭
Gjarrus said:
This is an interesting idea. I would definitely consider this one.
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream.. or a fever
Swale Member Posts: 319 ✭✭✭
Elrith said:
I think daily drain should stay very, very high (even with less shrines, which I would like). This is so that sects can die a natural death. I wish all orgs worked that way, actually (can realistically die, and news ones be created).
EDIT: On what Elrith alludes to about this war being personal. I suspected that the last war had a strong personal aspect... Any major shrine war actually tends to be pretty personal. Because the stakes are just about as high as you can go. I do not doubt this time. This war is DEEPLY personal (I think in particular towards the sect leader), and those are always the absolute nastiest.
Agreed @Swale on sects. Sect who have 0 members active enough to maintain faith should of course decay and die. Imo daily drain should remain equal so if you cut down numbers of shrines / X then multiply the daily upkeep with equal number.
For other orgs, nah, I don't agree with that. You cannot really know when an org is having their prime and not, sometimes org X is strongest sometimes org Z. There is simply too much work with it to be destroyed if you ask me.
Oh yeah, we're not really set up for it. We're the opposite of set up for a system like that. To be honest though, just look at the amount of work that went into Conquest... Conquest was a true empire. So, I don't know.
Kalynthari Member Posts: 295 ✭✭✭
Not really; the same conversation's been rehashed basically every time a sect has had a war. War systems in general are flawed, not because of the system but because of people's ego making them unwilling to accept a loss. Or unwillingness to back down when they relent. See: below comments.
Yes. I don't need to say it, though, they prove it often enough. I'll concede that it's not just flame, but they stick out like a sore thumb.
Anytime you play the game, it's RP. This is an RP game. Maybe you should try interacting with them and see why they're doing it, instead of coming to the forums to find out why. Again, this is an RP game. Go out and RP.
Nope. It's a game, though. You should maybe try and treat it more like one. Nobody said you can't do it back to them; you need to learn when enough's enough, though. Again, this is a game, that you play with other people. Please stop trying to twist my words to fit your own agenda.
Interestingly don't see you do much more than PK. You tried talking to me IG once and it was immediately OOC after one sentence. Doesn't help your cause very much.
Jalaras Member Posts: 73 ✭
I get the impression that this pointed towards something I raised in an issue that I found to be, yes, a grey area of pk when I was frantically searching through the terrible helpfiles regarding anything of pk around sect wars. To which there were none and HELP PK doesn't give me specific and full details I require, because again, no two people read or understand information the EXACT same way as the next nor is it interpreted the same way, nor even as obvious to others as not to some. I do however agree with the proposals and comments surrounding this to make it a fun mechanic to experience for someone like myself who is not familiar with how Imperian works. I don't agree with the fact that due to responsibilities by sect leaders involving their sect in a war that is extremely draining and slow, in that being pk'd long after defile/sanc CD's are in play and/or desecrations have stopped should be "ok". Not all wish or have the desire to be fine with it while doing other things such as pve for personal reasons like dailycredits goals, sect faith building etc.. There do need to be stricter limitations around that. I also don't agree with allowing one's "rp" be the sole reason for it to be ok to murder anyone(for any reason). That's allowing others who actually wants to do that, put themselves in the same griefing style of rp as the person with that kind of rp, and with that logic as a strong possibility it makes playing that much more undesirable and chance for members being targeted who wants nothing to do with it or only during times when pk during the defile/sanct/desecration that much more loathing and interested in doing ANYTHING in Imperian.
Have to admit, the mechanic is rather terrible but on a side note, avoid griefing people who have nothing to do with the sect wars with stupid firewalls on the way to their home, it only just makes the case much more valid as to how terrible the system is and how people use their rp to abuse it. That's just my take on things, some of us want to have fun with it, but keep it tasteful at least with it. By the by, people like Septus are not going to be interested in this-its pure garbage, and I clearly can see as to why they wouldn't bother with something like this again.
Jalaras said:
in that being pk'd long after defile/sanc CD's are in play and/or desecrations have stopped should be "ok".
How long should people have after a defile to come after you? What if you start to help regularly? Does that make a difference to you? I am curious what some people are thinking on this. I have a feeling that you are possibly as unfamiliar to the rougher side of IRE conflict systems as I once was, and make no mistake, sects/orders are designed to be about as rough as it gets (but not necessarily a wild west).
Kalynthari said:
I am newly returned to the game, and curious what you consider a clear victory.
A lot of times in these games, one organization declares war on another organization with the intent to do as much damage as possible. They gain ground initially, because the other side isn't organized. They'll raid a few times, or destroy shrines - even clear an entire area before declaring victory and having a parade.
But without a clearly stated objective or intent, the war isn't over until both sides stop fighting. When the other side organizes and starts to actually fight back, the first org will commonly cry foul like this about being a poor loser 'because it's over and we already won'.
Swale said:
Personally speaking (I dunno about others) who it is, or how often they help, is irrelevant to me. If it wasn't done within a reasonable timeframe, they get left alone until I can catch them doing ****. If I know for sure who was defiling, I bounty them, simple as that. Using bounties for their intended purpose eliminates the whole "unreasonable timeframe" hogwash people throw around.
Naruj said:
This is entirely dependent on the people in play. Not really something that can be flat out answered, generally speaking a victory is when the other side admits defeat. Or have nothing left to take, if they wanna be stubborn and refuse to admit it despite being reduced to having nothing. Alternatively, make a public post or something about it. It's part of what the newsboard is there for. Antagonistic RP is fun when it's done right, and not done purely to be a dickbag.
eta for clarification: The losing side doesn't necessarily have to be the ones that admit defeat. If they wanna be stubborn then announce their defeat for them. It's not exactly an uncommon thing. If they're constantly losing, have zero shrines or what have you, then you've won. Announce your victory. It's really not that hard.
Personally I'd consider the 'war' to be a new one at this point, if it was already declared to be over. Not the same one. But yes it's been a recurring problem due to the aforementioned ego/stubbornness. Not just in Imperian. It's why war systems just don't work here, no matter how they're setup. People have a hard time admitting they've lost despite it being painfully obvious.
For me, team fights every 5h on top of everything else is just too much, especially when you consider it's potentially staggered over multiple shrines and attackers then the potential of desecration (which is an eh mechanic but I don't have good suggestions for it right now). Cutting the frequency down and increasing the opt-out window helps mitigate that.
There are a few reasons I want to add a minimum distance. First, it cuts down the nonsense stacking of AoE shrines. Second, it should come with a tweak to the immunity formula, so only deep shrines end up getting it. Third, it opens up more space, making it easier for new/smaller sects to get prime real estate. Fourth, fewer shrines means you can cut the number of opposed shrines, further narrowing the window.
RoE for shrine stuff has always been simple to me. After it's over, you can bounty anyone who defiled your shrine or anyone who opposed a defile that isn't a member of that sect.
My thinking perhaps is maybe 15-30 minutes after its said is done is fine and it matters not if anyone helps regularly. Point being is regardless of what is going on at that time of conflict, when its over or people give up actively defiling/sancting at that shrine in the area its in, 15-30 minutes after the defense/offense should be ok to still pk someone for actively taking part in the defile/sanct windows. Let it go and go about doing something else. Bounty on you would/should override that 15-30 minutes.
I'll start by saying that you usually won't be hunted after a window for defending your own shrines, in an established network. That said, Flame learned that... our guys actually can be hunted for that. Currently at least, that's an exception (but it is 'legal'). I see a more legitimate "we're not going to treat this like defense" when two sects are building competitively in an area, and neither sect had a strong presence in the area to start with. I think at that point, "defending" vs. "on the offensive" become mostly irrelevant.
I was afraid there was this sort of misconception. To be fair, the reason for this is partly... lack of any real written guidance. But in no IRE is a shrine war "I was an active participant in a shrine battle just a bit ago, but you didn't manage to grab me before I went and idled in my city a bit, so, I am going to go hunt now, and you'd best not bother me. LOL, see you at next window"! That is how some systems work, but not all.
As for bounties, for starters, bounties get abused quite a bit, and Kalynthari knows that very well.
You CAN bounty in a shrine war, but unlike with say, "raided our fair city", or "attacked our obelisk", you're not necessarily strictly bound to the bounty system (even there, you can often kill them and re-bounty if there are multiple offenses). Being pretty strictly bound to the bounty system for raids and obelisks serves two purposes. Raids and obelisks (for example) are both very inclusive systems, and so it's nice to have exceedingly clear consequences, that are hopefully acceptable to many players.
A bounty system makes that nice and neat. And, yes, it also theoretically gives you quite a lot of time to hunt the person. This can be sort of necessary with a bounty. Because when you bounty someone... they know "I am bountied". That said, bounties tend to clear at things like shard falls (or the next shrine window). You also can only have a single bounty on someone at a time. They are pretty meaningless, for the most part, and that is actually intentional. Bounties exist to make negative consequences very, very minimal, and very, very clear.
Shrine wars really are a different animal than those systems, in every way. More generally, the very, very safe, conservative estimate I was always given for how long you'd normally have to hunt someone per single 'offense' anywhere outside the bounty system, has always been "two RL days". More than that is certainly pushing an envelope.
But from what I can tell, some of the people playing right now don't know what to expect, and to be fair, there is a big lack of published information like that, and while it's true that it's hard to make hard and fast -rules-, the lack of guidelines is very frustrating and confusing for anyone not totally immersed. The result, I think is that we have people right now who think that they shouldn't be bothered even an hour or so later, which blows my mind a little bit, but is... actually kind of understandable. They can slowly get educated through the issue system (maybe) but it would be nice if they could just read up a bit, and have realistic ideas about what to expect before getting involved.
Rokas Member Posts: 180 ✭✭✭
Shrines don't strike me as a fun mechanic as they are, and I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to force sects into PK mode as sects seem to be an attempt at a roleplay mechanic. Not everyone is going to have the fighters to properly engage in a war, especially since there aren't any built in limitations to what a war looks like or when it starts and ends.
I personally would like to see shrines changed to work more like Lusternia where there is one shrine built up and then its influence is spread throughout an area with a limit of like 15 rooms that must be connected.
The direction of changes that I'd make:
- Limit shrines per area (probably 1, maybe 2)
- A shrine has a max influence of 15 rooms
- No room can be fully defiled if doing so would disconnect another influenced room from the shrine
- Each room takes x amount of essence to fully sanctify or defile
- The benefits of a shrine are shared area-wide, but at a percentage relative to how fully sanctified the shrine is.
- A shrine with 15 fully influenced rooms would give 100% power.
- A shrine with only 10 influenced rooms could, at best, give 66% power assuming each room is fully sanctified.
- A shrine with no influenced rooms gives no area-wide benefit.
- No influenced room can be adjacent to another influenced room of another sect, aka there must be a one-room barrier.
Obviously, above isn't a fully fleshed out idea as it doesn't take into account relics or shrine commodities, and that is where I'm struggling. At the moment, I would say the following:
- Relics are no longer dropped from corpses
- Shrine commodities are used to create relics
- A shrine can be invested with up to 10 relics with a cooldown per relic invested (12 hours? 8 hours?).
- A fully defiled shrine crumbles, enabling non-sect members to steal 1 relic per time period (12 hours? 8 hours?).
- A crumbled shrine decays after a time period when there are no relics.
- A sect member can remove relics from a shrine for some cost (faith? shrine comms?)
Some relics would be useless under this system, and I'm okay with that. Some could be integrated as powers that need activated, but for the ones that are intended to affect a small amount of rooms around a shrine, I think revisiting the concept of an idol would be worthwhile. An idol could function similarly to how a shrine does today and only have a few rooms of influence. I think they should require being sanctified to be active, but again with no cooldown so that they can easily be raised or destroyed. Maybe double the cost of an idol raised outside of a shrine's influence? I don't think an idol should be fully protected by a shrine, but the idea of weakening an influenced room as far as it can go without breaking it before being allowed to defile an idol seems like it could work.
The goal of my idea is to reduce the grind that is shrines. Raising a shrine should be easy just as defiling one should be, while the grindy bits shouldn't be as heavily punished. Defending a shrine is made easier because of the fully-broken rule: a defender can walk in, sanctify an adjacent room once to prevent the current room that's being defiled from being fully destroyed, but at the same time, said room is only one defile away from being broken. Even if a shrine is fully defiled, if it's not ignored, the loss is only 1 relic and perhaps having another shrine's influence take over the rooms that were used previously.
Above doesn't really solve the question of what is and isn't a war, but I think a mechanic that's a tug of war between sanctifying and defiling would be good. Arbitrary example with arbitrary numbers: the first sect to reach +100 points wins, and points are earned by +2 for defiling and +1 for sanctifying with a 24hr-cap of +25 points earned to prevent one-day winners. Winners get something for winning (enjoy a percentage of the area bonuses of the conquered sect?). There would be a cooldown period between wars, and there should be a non-PK, medium-effort means for a losing sect to "recover" from their loss that nullifies the advantage the winning sect earned.
Well, I've personally stated my pov about it, and its not going to change that its a terrible mech and give too much free reign. So I'll just have to be one of those people who will not be bothered with it after the defile/sanct windows close if that's how it will be upheld honestly. Imperian is just a pass time while doing rl stuff, nothing more to me.
That is totally fine, and is how many players view MUDs. Some eventually get more invested/serious - and sect conflict is probably the deep end of that (too deep for the moment, even for the hard core enthusiasts - though not because of the PK aspect, per se).
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Okay, so the rest of this was stuff I don't care about but this, this is important for me to comment on.
There is SO much roleplay in this war that, very much like the last time, zero percent of anyone has bothered to explore - let me drop it down here for you to peruse, because I know Flame will never bother to explore it ICly (Except for @Pellerin, he always chats with me ICly about the war. If he asked Anarys to stop, she'd have to sincerely think about what to do, because she thinks he's a swell, if misled, fellow) -
1. War timeline: Hellfire relics for lulz > bad blood between Flame/Hollow causes bad decisions by Galt > Galt defiles > Alvetta calls us bullies > Anarys is informed > Anarys hates Flame from the last war, where she thinks they were tiresome, whiny idiots > Anarys talks to Myrcella, Caitryn and Mereis, whereupon they all learn that... they really, really don't like Flame, or Kinsarmar, for that matter.
If Galt hadn't defiled, there would be no war. If Alvetta had said to Anarys, "Hey, maybe you should take those relics out, they're annoying and dumb", there would be no war. But! Here we are. Choices were made alongside beds and here we are. So, there was roleplay! Lots of it. Ask @Myrcella, @Caitryn and @Mereis.
2. Personal? For Anarys, -absolutely-. Anarys hates Flame. I legitimately quote:
Hyperionus tilts his head to one side.
Hyperionus asks, "Why continue it, then?"
You have emoted: Her mouth widens, lips parting in a sharp, fierce smile as Anarys glances left, then right. Leaning towards Hyperionus as though to confide a great secret, she murmurs to his ear.
You whisper to Hyperionus, "Because it's fun. Because I enjoy Galt's suffering. Because it pleases me when men beg. Because I detest Flame after the way they behaved last time. Because I hate losing. Because what they have should be mine."
-- Personal for me? Absolutely not, I hate PK and I hate staying up until weird hours even more. But I do love RP and the RP generated by this, if not Flame because they just... don't try for whatever reason, then I enjoy what its generated for Hollow/Unspeakable/Leechwood/Etc. I enjoy the camaraderie, win or lose. I enjoy playing this game and logging in to do -something- other than AFK and chat on OOC ring.
So, please, leave RP out of it: it is this time, like it was last time, Flame's decision to not try to RP over it. Let's be real - I am a HUGE sucker for RP, everyone has known it since Kira. If Flame tried ANYTHING - to talk solutions with Anarys, to talk game with Anarys, to bloody kidnap Anarys and extort Keyrix, -anything-, I would be game. I am always game for RP. But they don't, because RP just isn't a driving solution for them in this, I guess. So, we settle for working with what we have.
Mereis Member Posts: 229 ✭✭✭
Yeah, I don't get the "There is NO RP" argument. There was plenty of RP to be had with this war.
In case you didn't know (probably not; for some reason, I get the impression that there's a faint barrier of separation between Kinsarmar and the rest of the player orgs), just a few weeks before the Flame-Coalition war, there was a smaller war between Hunger and Leechwood over shrines in Erorag.
It was pretty engaging. It prompted a handful of movement between Ithaqua and Antioch. It reinvigorated relations between Unspeakable and Leechwood. It opened up opportunities for both sides to set goals, and finally it allowed for negotiations including interactions with Keyrix directly.
Overall, it pretty much allowed for diplomatic relations to open between the AM and Demonic sects, and this eventually led to the consensus that Flame was the bigger enemy to focus on (which, in turn, led to the coalition for this current war).
If Flame is feeling left out of the RP side of things, they should reach out. It doesn't even need to be a peaceful reaching out. Set reasonable goals. Anything beyond the current"lol u sux at combats" from both sides is better.
It'll also open up avenues for future negotiations, as is what happened between Leechwood and Hunger.
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Ohm Member Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
Oh, there is RP - even as a very non-RP oriented person, I had a chance to RP with @Anarys on getting her to make Ohm's armor in return for defiling. It is a neat case of 'enemy of my enemy is a friend'
And despite Khandava presenting a united front, we still have some vehement anti-anti-magickers! @Sroath I see u
Galt Member, Beta Testers Posts: 305 ✭✭✭
Out of curiosity, how is it that people claim Flame lost last time?
Last I checked, most of the then-hollow players got so mad they retired or quit, causing hollow to drop down to being a cult, with no shrines at all. Flame, on the other hand, gained plenty of shrines. Despite repeated attempts to claim flame was somehow toxic and awful, I've yet to see a single concrete example of such - Evidently, to certain people, not rolling over and embracing defeat when they ask is toxic.
Further, people like to point at flame and say "Soandso quit because of you", which is ridiculous - Anyone who retired chose to, of their own accord. No one was harassed, no one was griefed, no one was even really bothered much outside of the sect conflict, so if they opted to then retire or quit, that's entirely on them.
EDIT: also, mega lol at Anarys calling flame tiresome, whiny idiots. We aren't the ones who ragequit the game over a shrine conflict. You were.
Post edited by Galt on November 2018
Galt said:
Losing:
I am of the vast opinion that Flame did not lose last time - I am of the vast option that either Flame won, or everyone lost because we all got so tired of the crying on the forums and the generic lack of anything on Flame's side (RP, especially).
Anarys namecalling:
I feel like you're confusing me with my character. I think you're all weird people who don't know how to resolve a situation. Anarys thinks you're boring children. See the difference there? I left last time because as most people on AM know, I tried to kill myself and was overwhelmed with the bad choices I was making in life and had to be hospitalized for suicidal tendencies and ideation. For the record, Anarys -still- thinks Flame is a bunch of tiresome, whniy idiots - except for @Pellerin, whom she thinks is misled by @Galt.
Thanks for assuming, though!
Valren Member Posts: 5 ✭
It's good fun, and there wouldn't be anything else to do if we weren't fighting over shrines.
I don't know about good fun. Not many people like shrine wars overall. Almost zero people who have really fought one, it seems like. There can be fun parts.
Wow, I am sorry to hear that Anarys. Doesn't get much more serious than that.
Kalynthari was beating Elrith over the head with a y u no rp stick, and so Elrith just pointed out that we didn't see a lot of RP, if that is so important to the other side. The obvious example people often start with is the trusty public news post, I guess.
That said in a conflict like this I think the war pretty much is the RP, if you want to call it that (and eventually, usually some negotiation). That conflict is usually driven by "let's really stir this pot" or "I really don't like some of the players in this org, I think we can do some real damage to them".
It's awfully hard for me to buy that shrine wars that take place in probably the most sensitive area in the game (DP) are even capable of being this "yeah, we RP that we're trying to totally destroy each other and we get up at weird hours to fight over some of the biggest player investments in IRE, but we don't really mean it as players". It might be possible to have a shrine war like that in some areas? I have doubts. Anyway, I don't bash much, so I don't care about DP, but then again I do, in the sense that I recognize its significance, and attacking an area like that is a sort of message itself.
I'm not sure what RP (in the way that I think people mean that) during a war like this would look like. For example, unless you are a sect that really doesn't fight, you'd likely not ask "y u defile shrinez?! In the same way that if you get jumped as a player it's pretty frowned upon to ask "What did I do"?
Anarys' kidnapping example gets at the heart of the point I am trying to make. Something like that would outright require a pretty friendly ooc friendship/all players involved having a very strong rapport, because for starters, it's a totally non-mechanical thing. You can't actually kidnap a character. On the kidnapper end, you're going out of your way to sort provide a "starring role" to the person who is kidnapped. Also, those players would all be stuck with each other. For hours. Days? Heh.
Anecdote: I recently mis-telled to someone who... I have just really not sent tells to, and I usually don't do that period, and it turned I was pre-snubbed, and I have to admit, I am still giggling every time I think about it.
Ok as a starter of this thread I will assume the role of moderator in terms of trying to bring it back into what I intended before it side-tracked.
So far I've gathered the following:
Shrines are not a fun mechanism to do conflict about. This is because of either
To many shrines, there is simply no easy / fun time managing them. And they are not important enough to care about. Limit them down to X per area? Make a mastershrine? Something that doesn't resolve around spending tons of comms + time guarding each of them.
People go back and forth every 5 hours (depending on relics) and then there is nothing.
PK is still in a greyzone. People gave the following points.
Greyzone on when and for how long you should be considered PK in a war.
Open OK or not. Some people think its OK some people think its a bad idea.
Winning / Losing conditions.
I haven't heard about this so far. I somewhat gather that people want it? Yet I hear people thinking it should be a good conflict that can as well go for several days to really play out strategy and everything else.
Nobody who are active in this current war or even the last does think it works smoothly and is fun on each side. I couldn't care less about this and that and IC / OOC reasons to why you think so, but the fact remains that the system is not something the majority likes. We do have some different approaches on where we can go though.
Lartus Member Posts: 487 ✭✭✭
What about making shrines easy to rebuild and destroy? Instead of the current commodities, use corpses from bashing to Build/defile shrines. I find the defiling and sanctifying windows to be kind of weird, but this is Imperian's system so I guess that's just the way things are. Though, as someone who did participate in a shrine war back then, I remember how fun it can be. The current system is tedious.
You missed the /s tag somewhere in your post.
The Demon's Pass Flame shrines are the main focus of the war right now because they're the sole remaining Flame shrines that can be defiled. It's not just because " hur hur hur we pretend this RP reason because we want that bashing spot". If Flame bothered to care, they should have noticed that the Leechwood, for its part, first took down shrines in Khous, Yhumara, and some in the Necropolis. This is not just about DP.
The only other accessible shrines that Flame has, last I checked, were immune ones in Nagmara and the Necropolis. Immune because of geography and shrine mechanics, which cannot realistically be removed anyway.
As for win/lose conditions: this is a great opportunity for Flame, because it is technically facing three different sects, two of which are relatively small. They can send in peace proposals to each sect of the coalition separately. Could probably lessen the enemies.
PS I am amoozed that there are graffiti implying that Leechwood is the grand saviour of the coalition/Hunger. It is by far the smallest of the three sects, in terms of number of participants


Yikes! This is our first post since Halloween. (Thanks to our number one fan, Ian, for noticing!) It seems we missed the month of November entirely — possibly an act of subconscious wish fulfillment, as I would like nothing more than to see November 2016, along with all of its attendant horrors, entirely erased from the annals of human history. I could say that the lack of blog posts has to do with the fact that we've been unusually busy with stuff both sailing-related and otherwise, but, to be honest, the devastating outcome of the election drained me of any desire to write about boats or future plans or anything else, really.
Supposedly, life goes on — and so does the little saga of Pas de Deux.
At the beginning of November, Benn and I completed a sailing course in Ft. Lauderdale so that we could learn, you know, how to operate the boat that is supposed to be our home and primary mode of transportation during the next several years.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write anything else at the moment because, as chaotic as November was, December promises to be even more hectic (although slightly less threatening to global stability or the furtherance of human rights in the United States and elsewhere), and we're right in the middle of packing up and preparing for the chaos.
In a little less than a week, we'll be going back to Ipswich — and plenty of excitement awaits. Not only will I get to meet Pas de Deux for the first time, but we are also planning on taking her out for her maiden voyage (since we've been her owners, obviously — at almost 39 years of age, she's not really a maiden any longer, sorry to say). While the chill air whipping across the Orwell estuary in mid-December won't be quite as pleasant as the gentle winds of south Florida, we do both have very warm coats. And, we won't be going far or doing much — we may not even put up the sails — but our course left us so impatient to test out everything we learned that we don't want to wait until spring. Hopefully all will go well. In only a few short weeks, you can read all about it here (or not, depending on how great the calamity).
Sorry, little guy. Hope you enjoyed being a fish while it lasted.
Last night, Benn and I both had dreams in which we were sailing Pas de Deux. In both of our dreams, we were confronted with a tangle of colored ropes and had to figure out which rope led to which sail and how everything was supposed to work. The difference was that my boat sunk and Benn's stayed afloat. I'm not sure that either of us really has the gift of prophecy, but, if one of us does, let's just hope that it's Benn.
So many ropes. What do they all mean?


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Below is my column at Fox.com on the most recent discovery of classified documents at one of the homes of President Joe Biden. Despite the latest discovery, allies like Sen. Chris Coons were on Sunday shows repeating his assurance that "there is no there there." The insistence that the record clearly shows innocent "inadvertence" now borders on willful blindness as inadvertent possession occurs over and over again with documents from both Biden's time as a senator and as vice president. A decade of inadvertence.
President Biden seems to attract classified documents the way some people think motor homes attract tornadoes. They just inexplicably happen.
After Biden publicly declared that he has "no regrets" in the discovery of unlawfully stored classified material in various locations, he assured citizens that the special counsel investigation would soon peter out when they find that "there is no there there."
Well, there turns out to be more there and the "there" is yet another find in a private residence of Joe Biden.
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Yet, the president and White House still maintain that all of these documents are merely the result of "inadvertent mishandling" and that the Biden has no knowledge of their storage over the prior roughly six years. There is a point when "inadvertence" becomes so incredible as to be miraculous.
At the start of this scandal, I questioned the inadvertence claim in light of one simple fact. These classified documents were presumably removed in 2017 and yet they were divided and distributed to different locations. Those locations have now increased to at least four: the closet, garage, library, and the new location at the Wilmington residence. That suggests that they were transferred more than once and sent to different locations for a purpose.
The most obvious purpose is that Biden was working on a book that discussed some of the underlying subject matters like China and Ukraine. However, Biden insists that he never had knowledge or interaction with the documents.
In other words, these documents just miraculously seem to appear in every spot where Biden worked or lived over the last 10 years. He possessed them with no knowledge or intent. It is the immaculate possession . . . over and over again.
The use of FBI agents for this latest search stands in sharp contrast to prior searches and magnifies earlier questions of why the FBI reportedly declined an invitation to conduct the searches.
There is still no confirmation of where the documents were found in the residence or their level of classification.
The latest batch of documents easily establishes "gross mishandling" of classified material, the standard being investigated by the special counsel. The only question is who is responsible and President Biden portrays himself as a mere pedestrian "surprised" over and over again by the discovery of classified documents in his home. He is fast becoming the Claude Rains of presidents in feigning shock that there is handling of classified material in this establishment.
Biden's worst critic, however, may be Biden.
In 1977, as senator from Delaware, Biden torpedoed President Jimmy Carter's nominee for CIA director over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. As with the current scandal, Ted Sorensen was accused of having the documents for work on a book. The motive did not matter. Sen. Biden expressed his signature revulsion at the very thought of the possession.
President Jimmy Carter at the White House, April 7, 1980. (Library of Congress/Marion S. Trikosko/Handout via Reuters)
There was no evidence of ill intent, but Biden insisted that was not the issue. Biden argued that Sorensen could still be prosecuted under the Espionage Act and insisted the "real issue" during Sorensen's confirmation hearing was "whether Mr. Sorensen intentionally took advantage of ambiguities in the law, or carelessly ignored the law."
After all, Biden continued, "If he did so, can he now bring the activities of the intelligence community within the strict limits of the law? We will expect that in the future of intelligence agencies. If that is to be the case, then we must hold the director – DCI – accountable as well."
Notably, some of the recently discovered classified documents may have been from Biden's time aas a senator — over ten years ago..
I have previously noted that Biden "has always been better at expressing revulsion than responsibility." When it came to Sorensen, Biden could not imagine a rationalization for a nominee to excuse such mishandling of classified material, but as a president, "there is no there there."
Biden has continued to make the case against himself with remarkable determination. His defense that some documents were housed in his "locked garage with my Corvette" may go down as one of the most imbecilic statements in modern political history. He then followed up with his "no regrets" comments (and his assurance of "no there there") just before more classified documents were found "there."
While special counsel do not mind defendants making fools of themselves, they do not want to join them in such public spectacles. In this investigation, the Biden defense is looking increasingly implausible in his claim of no knowledge or responsibility.
Indeed, if any witness or forensic evidence shows that Biden came into contact with any of these documents over the last 10 years, this dubious defense will take on a far more sinister appearance. It would establish not just intent and knowledge, but an effort to deceive the public and prosecutors.
Yet, even after the latest batch was found, Biden and allies like Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., are continuing to maintain that "there is no there there." These continuing denials now border on willful blindness and the public reaction is likely to echo the president's favorite tagline: "Come on, man."


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The European market regulatory agency the ESMA has revealed it believes regulating blockchain technology at this time would be premature. The ESMA has been researching distributed ledger technology (DLT) for quite some time in order to craft regulatory framework. Then in November, ESMA executive Patrick Armstrong told attendees at a blockchain conference the technology could be banned. However, the report issued by the ESMA on February 7 is quite different than Armstrong's approach.
"At this stage, ESMA believes that it is premature to fully appreciate the changes that the technology could bring and the regulatory response that may be needed, given that the technology is still evolving and practical applications are limited both in number and scope," explains the ESMA's recent report.
The report states the ESMA believes digital currency solutions and DLT innovation can bring numerous benefits to financial markets. This includes "more efficient post-trade services, enhanced reporting capabilities, and reduced costs. ESMA expects the early applications of DLT to focus on optimizing processes using the current market structure," says the EU's regulatory agency.
The development of a new technology, such as DLT, does not liberate users from complying with the existing regulatory framework, which provides important safeguards to ensure the stability and proper functioning of financial markets.
For now, at this stage, the ESMA is unable to fully assess the regulatory response needed to deal with blockchain technology. It is "premature" to apply regulations to a "technology still evolving, and practical applications are limited both in number and scope," the ESMA adds.
Going forward the ESMA details it will continue to monitor blockchain market development and assess when a regulatory response is needed. The European agency calls for "active engagement" from existing regulators in regards to DLT frameworks.
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Muri-Okunola @ 50: Garlands Of Honour To A Consummate Administrator
Hakeem Muri-Okunola, Lagos State Head of Service (HoS).
By Tunde Opeseitan
On Friday, January 7 is a great day in Lagos State to roll out the drums to celebrate a great man, a brilliant lawyer from the lineage of profoundly outstanding legal minds, a thoroughbred professional, a humanist to the core, a responsible family man, a consummate administrator, and a fervent Muslim who, by the grace of God, is currently serving as the Lagos State Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola.
Today, this brilliant technocrat with an amiable personality and the handsome number one civil servant in Lagos State, who is popularly known as HMO, is 50.
Born on January 7, 1972, to the family of late Justice Muritala Okunola, HMO graduated from the prestigious Lagos State University (LASU) with LLB Bachelor's degree and completed the mandatory Nigerian Law School program in 1995, after which he proceeded to the Westfield College, the Queen Mary University of London where he obtained Master's degree in International Business Law between 1998 and 1999.
He returned to Nigeria and had the opportunity of serving as the Personal Assistant to the then Governor of Lagos State and now National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu where he contributed immensely to the pioneering of modern Lagos which successive administrations have been building on.
He went on to serve as the Executive Secretary to the Governor on Land Use Allocation Committee and later Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Public Service from 2005 to 2018.
As the Permanent Secretary of Lands Bureau in the Governor's Office, HMO played critical roles in reforming the state's lands administration, especially improving the state's ranking in the World Bank's ease of doing business index through electronic certificate of occupancy (E-C of O), the electronic data management system (EDMS) and the 30-day processing of consent application, as recently attested to by Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State.
He also served as the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Social Development where he equally played critical roles in ramping up initiatives geared towards supporting the youth.
When news filtered in that HMO was next in line based on service tradition of appointing the most senior Permanent Secretary as the Head of Service, many had doubted Muri-Okunola's capacity to lead the service. The reservation was anchored on the fact that he is the youngest to emerge as Head of Service at the age of 47, and that he may be unable to effectively take charge.
On his swearing-in on December 31, 2018, HMO had said and I quote: "Under my leadership, the Lagos State Public Service will improve on all well-known traditions for speedy, efficient, and effective implementation of government policies and initiatives."
He had also pledged to scale up the welfare of civil servants in the state to motivate them to give their best.
True to his words, today, HMO has proven all cynics and critics wrong. He has brought his knowledge, exposure, experience, and youthful energy to bear and injected fresh ideas, vibrancy, and new energy that have taken the Lagos State Public Service to new heights and contributed to making Lagos a globally recognized city-state through his commitment to efficiency, effectiveness, innovation, and creativity in service delivery.
HMO has not only sustained the enviable position of Lagos State Public Service as the number one public service in Nigeria, but he has also built on it and pioneered great initiatives that have proven beyond all reasonable doubts his commitment to staff welfare and public good of the citizenry in terms of enhancing service delivery by civil servants.
In terms of the THEMES Agenda of the present administration designed to ensure a greater Lagos of our dreams, HMO continues to give his best and the results are there for all to see.
For instance, upon the inception of this administration, HMO facilitated the increase of the Centralized Staff Bus to the Civil Servants in the State so much so that on a single day, 35 brand new buses were injected into the service to replace the old ones.
He soon followed it up with the donation of another ten new buses to the six Educational Districts, Judiciary Staff, Health Service Commission, and the Lagos State House of Assembly Service Commission.
In terms of reforms, HMO has pioneered many firsts. Today, in Lagos State, circulars have become E-Copy so much so that every staff is reached easily with vital service information.
Courtesy of the reforms initiated by HMO, Lagos State Teaching Service Commission now has a standing approval for automatic replacement when any teacher retires. It is now an automatic replacement as it is already being practiced in the Health Service Commission so that the workload is not made to be unbearable for the teachers.
Another outstanding achievement is the standard approval gotten by HMO for an automatic increase in the fleet of staff housing. Before now, civil servants were made to contend for the staff housing built several years ago, however, that is now history as a certain percentage of all the housing schemes in the state is automatically reserved for civil servants.
HMO has also ensured that the number of Permanent Secretaries is increased, while he has improved on the annual HOS Games, by adding more indoor games.
In terms of the Public Service Week which is an annual celebration devoted to appreciating public servants in the state for their diligence, hard work, and selfless service to the people of the state, HMO has sustained this laudable initiative and improved on it through car gifts to outstanding civil servants to motivate staff.
As this erudite lawyer, technocrat, and consummate administrator marks his golden jubilee today, I wish him sound health, greater grace, and wisdom from above to continue to give his best to Lagos State and humanity.
Happy birthday, Sir!
-Opeseitan is a Lagos-based Journalist
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Professor in Residence of Art, Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus
wodiczko@gsd.harvard.edu
40 Kirkland 3H
Design & Social Equity
Public Art & Exhibition Design
Krzysztof Wodiczko is Professor in Residence of Art, Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
He is renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 90 of such public projections and installations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, Turkey, Germany, Holland, Northern Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Since the late 1980s, his projections have involved the active participation of marginalized and estranged city residents. Simultaneously, and also internationally (England, Finland, France, Poland, Holland, Japan, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sweden and the US) he has been designing and implementing a series of nomadic instruments and vehicles with homeless, immigrant, and war veteran operators for their survival and communication.
Wodiczko's work has been exhibited in Documenta (twice), Paris Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Lyon Biennale, The Venice Art Biennale (Canadian and Polish Pavilions) in Magiciens de la Terre exhibition, Paris, Venice Biennale of Architecture, The Whitney Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, International Center for Photography Triennale, New York, The Montreal Biennale ( 2014), The Liverpool Biennale ( 2016) and other international art festivals and international exhibitions. In 2009, he represented Poland in the Venice Biennale. In 2017, Wodiczko has held a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.
Since 1985, he held many major retrospectives at such institutions as the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford CT; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw; the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, DOX Contemporary Art Center, Prague, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland ( 2015) and in FACT Foundation for Art Culture and Technology in Liverpool (2016).
He is a recipient of the Hiroshima Art Prize in 1998 "for his contribution as an international artist to world peace".
Wodiczko's books include Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews published by MIT Press (1999), a large monograph of his works titled Krzysztof Wodiczko (2012), September 11: City of Refuge (2009), The Abolition of War(2013) by Black Dog Publishing, London, followed by expanded Polish edition under the title Obalenie Wojenby MOCAK ( 2014 ). Guests by Charta (2009), and a comprehensive collection of his writings titled Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings (2016) by Black Dog Publishing, London.
Krzysztof Wodiczko's work has been presented as a part of PBS television series Art 21, Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season III.
Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Toni L. Griffin, Daniel D'Oca, Sara Zewde, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Malkit Shoshan, George Thomas, Susan Snyder, Alex Krieger and Silvia Benedito
Art, Design, and the Public Domain Publication Features Class of 2019
Architecture, Design, Action: Krzysztof Wodiczko on Dismantling Systemic Racism in Pedagogy and Practice
Becoming the projector: an ETUDE for class PUBLIC PROJECTION
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Instructor
Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes
Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Dan Borelli, Curator
OCT 21, 2021 – APR 8, 2022
Interrogative Design Closing Reception
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Contributor
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NC State Entrepreneurship Selects Five New Alumni for the 2021 Miller Fellowship
June 4, 2021 Jaclyn McVey
At the end of each spring semester, NC State Entrepreneurship selects a new cohort of Miller Fellows – young entrepreneurs that have launched startups as students. The Miller Fellowship program supports newly graduated entrepreneurs who wish to pursue their venture full-time after graduation with resources and a monthly stipend.
The creativity and passion of our Miller Fellows impresses and inspires me.
The five graduates selected for this year's cohort represent five university colleges and 4 unique startups. For these students, the next six months will be a challenging and rewarding journey as they continue to develop and add critical entrepreneurial skills to their toolkits. Jennifer Capps, Interim Assistant Vice Provost and NC State Entrepreneurship faculty says, "each year, the creativity and passion of our Miller Fellows impresses and inspires me. But this year, amidst the trials and tribulations of a global pandemic, these entrepreneurs have set a new standard for resiliency. We are excited to support them as they take the next stamps in their entrepreneurial journey."
About the Miller Fellowship
Dr. Thomas Kenan Miller III
In 2014, Dr. Tom Miller, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Outreach and Entrepreneurship, recognized a need to provide "rent and ramen" funds to NC State graduates who wanted to pursue their entrepreneurial ventures full-time after graduation. Dr. Miller created the Entrepreneurship Initiative Fellows program to meet that need. A few years later, in 2017, a group of former students came together to endow the program, renaming it the Dr. Thomas Kenan Miller II Fellows Program in honor of Dr. Miller.
Today, benefits of the program include access to mentors and industry professionals, continued access to the Entrepreneurship Garage and a monthly stipend of $750 to cover basic needs. Fellows also benefit from access to workshops and networking events through monthly meet-ups. The Miller Fellows program runs from June through November. Applications for the 2022 cohort will open in March 2022.
Meet the 2021 Miller Fellows
Billy Dickson, '21
Billy Dickinson | Home Office Solutions | College of Engineering Alumnus
Billy Dickinson graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering. He founded Home Office Solutions, a North Carolina family-owned and operated company that supplies the perfect office space for everyone's work-from-home situation. Their vision is to construct residential offices with excellence in every step of the process. These dwellings are designed, engineered and built all in-house and the finished result is a turn-key product, ready to use when it arrives at your residence.
Anna Petrova, '21
Anna Petrova | Wolfe Cravings | College of Design Alumna
Anna (Anya) Petrova graduated with a master's of industrial design. During her time at NC State, she served as a Social Innovation Fellow and partook in the Silicon Valley trip touring companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Bolt. Pre-COVID, she traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with the ASB team to work with local entrepreneurs to build socially responsible tourism. She is the founder of Wolfe Cravings, which makes gluten-free Tiramisu. Her mission is to bring crave-worthy food to grocery stores making it easier for families and people with celiac disease to enjoy the pleasures of food.
Josh Guter, '21
Josh Guter | Never Far Away | College of Education Alumnus
Josh Guter graduated with a bachelor's degree in technology engineering and design education with a focus on graphic communication, from the College of Education. During his time at NC State, Josh was a Goodnight Scholar and was involved in entrepreneurship through the Entrepreneurship Ambassador program. As an ambassador, Josh attended and helped plan several events and served as the president of the group in its inaugural year. Josh is the founder of, Never Far Away, a company that enables access to low-cost, easy-to-use wearable devices that allow any user to communicate distress, and location, in remote areas, without relying on cellular, satellite, or other outside communication methods.
Lindsay Wrege, '21
Lindsay Wrege | 321 Coffee | Poole College of Management Alumna
Lindsay Wrege graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a concentration in entrepreneurship from the Poole College of Management. During her time at NC State, Lindsay was a Park Scholar and was highly involved with entrepreneurship at NC State by participating in various pitch competitions, being part of the Andrews Launch Accelerator and partook in mentoring and networking groups. She is the co-founder and CEO of 321 Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster that employs individuals with disabilities. Lindsay and her team are working on scaling the retail presence as well as B2B partners and she will be pursuing 321 Coffee full-time as CEO.
Michael Evans, '21
Michael Evans | 321 Coffee | College of Sciences Alumnus
Michael Evans holds a bachelor's degree in statistics from the College of Science and will be graduating with a Master of Statistics over the summer. Michael co-founded 321 Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster employing individuals with disabilities, during his freshman year. During his time at NC State, Michael was a Park Scholar and was heavily involved with entrepreneurship at NC State. He participated in the Andrews Launch Accelerator and pitched 321 Coffee at entrepreneurship competitions such as the eGames and WolfDen. As a Miller Fellow, Michael hopes to make progress on a brick-and-mortar location, an in-office location, and a roasting facility for 321 Coffee. Outside of work and school, Michael enjoys watching Philadelphia sports, reading, and spending time exploring new food in Raleigh with friends and family.


Move over, Touch ID. Apple's(s appl) new fingerprint sensing technology in the iPhone 5s may soon be joined by an alternative method for recognizing your touch – no fingerprint sensor required. New Scientist has a report on SilentSense, an algorithm that uses your smartphone's built-in sensors to quickly learn your taps and swipes to determine whether it's you that's using your phone.
SilentSense is currently being developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It uses your phone's accelerometer and gyroscope to measure how much the screen moves when you touch it. It also records the pressure and duration of your touch, as well as the size of your fingertips, to identify you as a unique user. The most obvious application for this is security – you'd be able to set your phone to lock out anyone other than yourself from using it.
According to an initial study of 100 users, SilentSense was able to correctly identify a phone's owner in 10 taps or less with 99 percent accuracy. But even at with just an average of 2.3 taps the software was 98 percent accurate.
There are still plenty of questions to answer before SilentSense is ready for the real world. If it is always running, what kind of effect will that have on battery life? Right now the software is programmed to stop checking user identity while games are being played. But for most people that probably only accounts for a short period of phone use. And this doesn't do away with the need for pattern or code to unlock your phone, or drop the need for traditional passwords like Apple's Touch ID does.
Still, this is an interesting way to bring increased security to mobile devices that lack a fingerprint sensor. It'll be interesting to see if all of the questions get answered and this technology can make it to the market.
Fingerprint and Touch ID are getting a lot of traction in the news these days as Apple is set to roll out the new iphone 5S with this biometric add-on on September 20th. Touch ID will all but eliminate the need for passwords and pins when using your iphone 5s. But, what happens if you don't have the new phone? What options do users who have an Android, Blackberry or Microsoft device or a iphone 4s, 5 or even new 5c have available to them? EyeVerify!
for mobile devices. Eyeprint Verification delivers a password-free mobile experience and secure authentication at a glance. This patented solution uses existing cameras on smartphones to image and pattern match the blood vessels in the whites of the eyes. Best of all, you can get this technology right now for your existing device as long as your device has a 1 mega pixel camera.
Apple's TouchID and the Eyeprint accomplish the same ultimate end goal. It is an accurate, secure & simple way to answer the question "Who is holding the phone?" Eyeprint Verification just happens to be more accessible to more of the population trying to solve the password problem.
Really? The two technologies don't solve the same problem – you admit as much in your article – so why would you lead with a sentence like that? Weird, just weird….
No no, you're missing the whole point here.
How am I gonna easily and quickly unlock my phone?
Okay, here's the scenario; I locked my iPhone with this "SilentSensor".. Do I have to hold my phone and touch on the lockscreen a bit to unlock my phone? Or it opens a phony home screen for me to manipulate for a while and then it unlocks?
Come on, I'd just tap on the home button an thats it!


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Q: What's Rose putting down her top in New Earth? In the first episode of Doctor Who's second season, New Earth, there's this scene where Rose (or Cassandra in Rose's body) is suddenly missing the blue jacket she was wearing up until then (what's that about?). She says something along the lines of:

"Never trust a cat..."

after which a lingering medium close-up shows her hiding something down her top.
Is this the "perfume" she uses to knock the Doctor out later on? She seems to enjoy placing it down there for some reason... I thought the previous scene had established she'd found Rose's mobile phone in her back pocket, so why not just put it there?

A: The line is

"Never trust a nun, never trust a nurse [pause] and never trust a cat.

She then turns to her minion and says

"Perfume".

He hands her the bottle of 'perfume' that she later uses to spray the Doctor into unconsciousness.


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Linux PPA and AUR
os:linux
jomey April 2, 2021, 1:38am #1
Any estimate on when the two package archives will receive the update to 1.5.14?
Not super urgent and would be nice to get the update via that over the AppImage.
overheadhunter April 2, 2021, 12:30pm #2
Due to an error a broken source archive was uploaded to the PPA. Sadly due to policies, it is impossible to reupload the sources using the same version number. In other words: This will cause some delays at least or maybe we need to skip 1.5.14 on the PPA entirely.
This doesn't affect the AUR. We're not owning the AUR repo, but usually it gets updated within a couple of days.
jomey April 2, 2021, 12:45pm #3
Is there an option to cut a new tag at 1.5.14.1 and add a release note that this is for Linux packaging only?
From an end-user perspective, it would be more friendly not to have to switch between ways of installation between different versions.
overheadhunter April 2, 2021, 1:01pm #4
Yup that should work, I'll give it a try.
It is now published.
jomey April 3, 2021, 2:27pm #6
Just updated for Groovy.
Thank you again for the quick turnaround on this!
SailReal April 4, 2021, 11:16am #7
AUR is now updated too.


You're photographing the same things with the same results and everything just starts looking the same. Blah. But don't give up on photography just because you're a little bit bored! There are actually many ways to get motivated to take what could be the best photos of your life.
Travel and street photographer Pierre T. Lambert has five helpful photography tips for "bored" photographers. For him, one of the best ways to start visualizing new photos is to actually limit your shoots in several ways.


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 * The ETypeInfoEntry container stores the ETYPE-INFO-ENTRY decoded by the Asn1Decoder.
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It's no secret that every mum likes to be wined, dined and pampered, and Mother's Day is no exception. With this special day just around the corner, why not pre-plan and make sure you have something spectacular to offer not only mum, but every member of the family?
Destiny Foods has a wide range of sweet treats to make everyone smile. From our extensive Teatime collection, we have delicious slices of Chocolate Fudge Cake, Lemon Drizzle, Red Velvet and Victoria Sponge. These classic favourites are the perfect accompaniment to a Sunday afternoon cup of coffee.
For something slightly different, why not try one of our delicious French Desserts? Classic Tarte Tartin, Chocolate Fondant and Praline Paris Breste sit alongside our light Chocolat Blanc De Framboise Delice. This creamy white chocolate and raspberry mousse, layered with sponge and topped with delicate fondant, is neither too heavy nor rich and makes for an ideal dessert following a light lunch.
Savoury goods such as Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Frittata are great with a side salad, whilst those looking for a hot option can enjoy one of Tom's Pies. Our flavoursome terrines are also fantastic, served with salad and a slice of artisan bread.
Offering thanks on Mother's Day shouldn't be a chore for customers, and it doesn't have to be. Instead, let fine food do the talking.