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Арка аргентариев (Arcus Septimi Severi (in foro Boario), Arcus Argentariorum или Monumentum Argentariorum) — современные названия арки, возможно, служившей входом на Бычий форум. Арка примыкает к базилике Сан-Джорджио-ин-Велабро.

Арка сооружена в 204 году н. э. на средства цеха аргентариев («серебренников»), мастеров-чеканщиков монет (отсюда название) в честь Септимия Севера, его супруги Юлии Домны и их сыновей Каракаллы и Геты, а также жены Каракаллы Фульвии Плавциллы. Изображения императора и его супруги имеются на внутренней (правой) стороне арки.

Примечательно, что, вопреки названию, сооружение представляет собой не арку, типичную для древнеримской архитектуры, а пропилеи с горизонтальным архитравом по греческому образцу. Высота сооружения составляет 6,15 метра, ширина прохода — 3,30 метра. По углам опор расположены пилястры с коринфскими капителями, а вся внешняя поверхность украшена рельефами.

Надписи на арке трижды обновлялись: после убийства отца Плавтиллы Плавтиана в 205 году, после убийства самой Плавтиллы в 211 году и после убийства Геты в 212 году. Арка имеет высоту в 6,15 м, выполнена полностью из мрамора, основание из травертина; украшена скульптурами и рельефами, изображающими семью императора (изображения Плавтиллы и Геты уничтожены).

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Древнеримские ворота в Риме
Бычий форум
Здания и сооружения, построенные в III веке до н. э.
204 год до н. э.


Airport to our hostel by car is 25 minutes and in Motocar 15 minutes.
From Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport,with car you can take the Calle las flores>Jose Abelardo quinones> Avenida Grau> Aguirre>hullaga' driving for 25 minutes (10 kilometers)..
In Mad Mick`s Bunk House is located At 50 meters the Malecon Tarapaca (Boulevard) and a few meters from the main square,Very accessible to Supermarket, ATM Cashier, Restaurant, etc.
Mad Mick`s Bunk House's Policies & Conditions: Check in from 10:00 to 21:00 Check out before 12:00 Payment upon arrival by cash. Taxes included. Cancellation policy: 72 hours before arrival. Breakfast not included. General: No curfew. Reception available 24 hours.


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Very nice relaxed meal while waiting for my daughter at a concert at the Wembley Arena, Food and service both very good.
A pocket of refined glamour, The Association Restaurant @ Hilton London Wembley teams British fine dining with a seasonal menu. Post-dinner cocktails can be enjoyed in the contemporary Icons Bar, or on the covered terrace which boasts stunning views of Wembley and its famous stadium.
Herb-crusted rump of lamb paired with beautifully arranged fondant potato, fresh green beans, tomato and shallot is one of the many sumptuous dishes on the Association Restaurant menu. Enjoy mouth-watering starters, the chef's signature dishes, a fabulous selection of grilled meats and much more. Follow this with a slice of creamy banana cheesecake dressed with a warm toffee sauce or a wonderful cheese selection accompanied with biscuits and crackers topped with chutney.
Sleek marble tables punctuate the restaurant, and are illuminated by fine mesh globes suspended moodily from the curved ceiling. Sweeping chocolate banquettes are framed by floor-to-ceiling windows, which imbue the dining room with a cosy, intimate ambience whilst capturing the perfect view of Wembley Stadium.
Just metres away from the iconic Wembley Stadium, The Association Restaurant in Greater London is a 9-minute walk to Wembley Stadium Rail Station.
Service was slow and we had some drinks forgotten about. Our plates weren't taken away for ages after we had finished our meals. The food quality was standard. I would say only slightly better than a Wetherspoons. The atmosphere was pleasant and the table was in a nice position by the window. I would definitely not go back unfortunately. All the staff could speak and understand moderate English.
Good customer service although manager pushes the drinks too heavily. Nice food overall. Roast potatoes could be hotter snd crispier. Advertised roast pork but on arrival was gammon and roast beef.
The Dinning Page for The Association Restaurant an A La Carte menu was downloaded. It had 9 separate sections with different choices one of which was entitled 'From the Stove and Grill' with its lists of steaks which sold it for me and my booking was confirmed on the 9th August @ 18:58.
We arrived at the restaurant reception early at 16:50.
We were taken to our table and provided with a menu which looked nothing like the Menu sample on your website, it had no steaks!
I asked about this omission and was told we don't do them.
My wife was not happy at the menu choice, neither of us liked the starters offered, I was content with the Lamp Shank, my wife reluctantly selected the Wild Mushroom Risotto which she was not looking forward to. The drinks menu did not have any selection we wanted, we ordered soft drinks which arrived before the main course and then later ordered a bottle of water.
The first course appeared very quickly and a request for more rolls were accepted and provided.
My wife found the Risotto very tasty and enough for her. I enjoyed the Lamb Shank.
We wanted the same dessert which when it arrived it was rather minimalist, but rather nice to eat, just not enough of it for £9.00.
We asked for the coffee menu, but we were informed that there wasn't one. The waitress listed the four standard coffee's available, but no liquors though which was disappointing.
After a longish delay, when the 2 Latte Coffees arrived, the cups were warm, but the coffee was cold.
We asked for a re-heat, this was done, they were barely acceptable, but the waitress said the coffees would not be charged for.
I paid the account off, but when I checked it at home the following day, only the price of One Coffee was deducted, which is not what we were promised.
Whilst the food was well presented and service staff was attentive courteous, the mismatch between the website A La Carte menu and the menu provided was most disappointing.
HAD A LOVELY VISIT TO THE RESTAURANT IN WEMBLEY, STAFF AMAZING AND VERY GOOD FOOD TOO!.
The Hospitality Buffet for various events at Wembley arena and Wembley Stadium are excellent value. The selection is always first class and the staff very friendly and welcoming.


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Germany · Military
Flugplatz Schönwalde
THE ABANDONED MILITARY SITE IN GERMANY
Flugplatz Schönwalde is an abandoned airfield that was used by the German Luftwaffe en the Soviet Red Army. Today the old structures are almost in ruins and used by paintball enthusiasts.
The history of the Schönwalde airfield, situated only a few kilometers from the Berlin city limits at the Spandauer Forst, begins in 1935. At that time, the Reich Aviation Ministry bought the meadows of the Teufelsbruch in order to build Sportflugplatz Hennigsdorf.
Building military sites was prohibited for Germany, because of the Versailles Treaty. But the real reason behind this airfield was not sport or leisure, in fact an air base for the Luftwaffe was built, with barracks, hangars, and a runway.
Flugzeugführerschulen
Until 1943 it housed the 'Flieger-, Übungs- und Ausbildungsstelle' who trained military pilots. In 1936, it was renamed Flugzeugführerschulen when the flight school moved here from Hennigsdorf. The base had satellite airfields in Kreuzbruch, Friederdorf, Gardelegen and Neustadt-Glewe. The Pilot Schools imparted the theoretical knowledge in science of both the aircraft and engine, fluid dynamics and movement theory, weather, air geography and navigation,
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the Red Army took over the airfield. Further use as a military airfield turned out to be difficult because the complex was located directly in the air corridor from West Berlin to Hamburg, which was controlled by the Western Allies.
The barracks are mainly occupied by ground troops, both an anti-aircraft unit and a rocket launcher unit are housed here. More than 8 thousand soldiers were stationed at the airfield. There was also a helicopter squadron housed in Schönwalde until 1965. Later, the area was used as barracks and military training area until the Soviet troops withdrew in 1994. The large building complex stands empty today and is waiting for an idea of re-use. Some buildings were demolished in both 2003 and 2009. In 2010 the hangars became protected monuments. I visited the site in 2020. Today the site is partly used as a paintball field.
Barracks · DDR · Soviet Army
Löwen-Adler Kaserne
Sportstadion im Militärlager

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Q: Django Admin register ManyToMany intermediate model I create the following models:
class Child(models.Model):
    some_var = models.CharField()

class Parent(models.Model):
    m2m = models.ManyToManyField(Child)

Django automatically creates an intermediary model in the background called ParentChild. Now, I would like to register that intermediary model in the Django Admin. Is that possible? If so, how? Or does it only work with through="ThroughModel"?

A: You have to use through Model for this.
Basically Django create only intermediate table in db, not model. So you need to define Model class to register it in the Admin.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/admin/#working-with-many-to-many-intermediary-models

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[Analysis] Senkaku / Diaoyu dispute as an ugly twin of Fukushima problem
When I was registering the company, the translator asked me, "Are you a Fukushima expert, right?" I had to say "Unfortunately yes." This doesn't mean I know everything about
[Express] Military commentator"TV staff asked me to comment JP and China will have military confrontation"
Introducing important tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates. The ministry of defense is criticizing China for aiming the radar at their escorting ship though it's only based on their
JP "From our analysis, Chinese frigate shot radar to target firing on our ship, could cause a critical situation"
Minister of Defense, Onodera had a press conference and stated they analyzed a Chinese frigate shot radar to target firing on Japanese escort ship at 10:00 of 1/30/2013. The location
[Senkaku / Diaoyu] China to build the monster ship to compete with Japan
According to a Chinese media, Global times, Chinese government is planning to build a huge fishery patrol boat. It's 156m, 18 knots, which is bigger than the largest patrol boat
Chinese media "Military confrontation may happen soon between China and Japan"
Record China reported Japan and China may have a military confrontation soon over the disputed island, Senkaku / Diaoyu. Japanese and Chinese fighter aircrafts are highly likely to discharge a
[Mainichi] 72% of new lawmakers want to amend war-renouncing Article 9 of Constitution
On 12/19/2012, Fukushima Diary wrote this column, "[Column] 3 misunderstandings of foreign media about this election" [Link] <Quote> [Mainichi] About 72 percent of 473 newly elected House of Representative lawmakers
The national institute for defense studies "China is highly likely to send military to disputed sea areas."
Japanese government is finding more and more external threats. On 12/19/2012, the national institute for defense studies announced that there is a high possibility that Chinese government sends military to
Column Cover-ups Plant hazard Spent Fuel Pools
[Column] 3 misunderstandings of foreign media about this election
Because Japan changed too fast, foreign media misunderstood the points of this election. Correcting the misunderstandings is very important to see what is going to happen. Here I'm going to
JP New prime minister steps forward to ease constitutional amendment rule
On 12/16/2012, Japanese new prime minister Abe commented he considers changing the constitutional amendent rule. (Currently they need more than 2/3 of votes from the House of Representatives and the
[Column] 3 reasons why we must stop loving Japan
There were some reasons why I left Japan. One of the biggest reasons was the spreading radiation, but another reason was the rising fascism. I did not talk about that


Business in the Community Ireland yesterday launched its latest Business Impact Map, showing the major contribution that its member companies had on the community in 2017. The map revealed that BT employees across the island of Ireland have contributed over 10,000 hours in volunteering (2,000 more than 2016) and raised €676,159 (versus €220,000 in 2016) for 497 local charities and organisations over the last year.
BT completed the top five list of companies for employee fundraising, with Bank of Ireland leading and grocery chains Tesco, Lidl and Musgrave all featuring in the top five. As well as that, the companies that recorded the highest number of volunteering hours in Ireland were BT, Intel, IBM, KPMG and Bank of Ireland.
The figures on the map were calculated from all our partnerships in 2017 including BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, BT Shop for Change, Give As You Earn (GAYE), Christmas appeals and initiatives like IT training we provide for employment programmes.
The money raised and hours put in to help others is a testament to the incredibly generous and caring staff we have in BT. Our volunteering and fundraising is growing from strength to strength. Since January 2017, we have donated nearly €80,000 to a number charities through our GAYE scheme, nearly double the amount donated by the company last year. Another significant highlight was BT Shop for Change, which raised an astounding €220,688 for Irish Cancer Society and Marie Curie.
To view the full BITC Business Impact Map and see all the BT data click here.


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Lapels Dry Cleaning CEO Kevin Dubois named New England Franchise Association (NEFA) Franchise Executive of the Year.
April 11, 2013 // by admin
: Lapels Dry Cleaning CEO Kevin Dubois, right, receives New England Franchise Association's "Franchise Executive of the Year" award from NEFA President Murray Vetstein. Lapels is an innovative, environmentally friendly dry cleaning company with corporate headquarters in Hanover, Massachusetts.
HANOVER, MA AND NORWOOD, MA…
Kevin Dubois, CEO of Lapels Dry Cleaning, an innovative, environmentally friendly dry cleaning company headquartered in Hanover, Massachusetts, recently received the "Franchise Executive of the Year" award from the New England Franchise Association (NEFA). Dubois earned this honor based on his key role in the franchise's growth, commitment to the environment through its greener dry cleaning processes, its outreach to recruit veterans and it's efforts in the community.
"Under Kevin's leadership, Lapels has raised the bar when it comes to its business practices and how much the company and its franchisees give back to the communities they serve," said Murray Vetstein, president of the New England Franchise Association. "Kevin is a most worthy recipient of Franchisor of the Year."
Dubois accepted the award at NEFA's Franchise Relations Summit, held on April 9 at the Hampton Inn in Norwood, Mass.
"Considering the high caliber of franchise executives in NEFA and the area which the association covers—the six New England states—this truly is an honor," said Dubois.
Lapels has pioneered its eco-friendly dry cleaning experience for the past 10 years. Using the latest technology in equipment and cleaning solution, Lapels is one of the few dry cleaners in New England able to boast that there is no hazardous waste in their process. Their environmentally-friendly cleaning process has no odor and is gentler on clothes, thus lengthening the life of clothes. At Lapels you can see, feel and smell the difference.
Lapels customers are greeted to a warm and inviting reception area, with friendly customer service representatives, and a full service on-site tailor.
Lapels offers it's customers Automatic Rewards earning them credit towards free dry cleaning for every dollar they spend, Loyalty Programs, a VIP Program which eliminates the need to wait in line and the use of a 24 Hour Drop Off Service. Same day service is also available with pick-up after 5 pm.
For complete information on the Lapels Dry Cleaning, please visit www.mylapels.com.
Lapels Dry Cleaning – Environmentally Friendly Cleaners
Each Lapels Dry Cleaning store offers a full slate of services, including: same-day dry cleaning; shirt service; tailoring; shoe repair; wedding gown preservation; suede and leather processing; box storage and fur storage. Lapels Dry Cleaning has stores in Arizona (Gilbert, Phoenix, Chandler), California (Poway), Colorado (Littleton), Connecticut (Cromwell), Louisiana (Monroe, West Monroe), Massachusetts (Abington, Bedford, Boston, Brighton, Cambridge, Dedham, Easton, Framingham, Hanover, Marshfield, Newtonville, Norton, Walpole, Westford, Westwood and Wilmington), Missouri (Wildwood), New Jersey (Brick, Freehold and Verona), Ohio (Liberty Township), Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg), Rhode Island (Lincoln); South Carolina (Myrtle Beach, Pawleys Island, Forest Village); Texas (Arlington). Additional locations coming soon to Franklin, MA, Quincy, MA, Oklahoma City, OK and Brownsville, TX.
Lapels Dry Cleaning has been ranked in Entrepreneur's 26th Annual "Franchise 500" as well as Entrepreneur's "Top 50 New Franchises," identifying Lapels Dry Cleaning as one of today's top franchise opportunities. Entrepreneur's "Franchise 500" is the best and most comprehensive rating of franchises in the world and is based on objective, quantifiable measures of a franchise operation.
Lapels Dry Cleaning corporate offices are located at 962 Washington Street, Hanover, MA 02339.
To learn more about franchise opportunities with Lapels Dry Cleaning, call toll free (866) 695-2735 or email sales@lapelsdrycleaning.com. Additional information and up-to-date company news can also be found on the company's Web site, www.lapelsdrycleaning.com.
About NEFA
New England Franchise Association (NEFA) is the trade organization for franchisors and franchisees in the region, with over 150 members. The mission of NEFA is to bring franchise executives, franchisees and vendors together to share ideas for success.
Franchising more than ever before, has an unprecedented opportunity to make a major positive impact on the future New England economy. In a 2001-05 study conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the International Franchise Association (IFA) found that in New England over 875,000 jobs are a result of franchising, the total output is over 100 Billion dollars a year, and there are over 35,000 franchise establishments in the six New England States.
For more information, please visit the New England Franchise Association via the organization's website http://www.NEFranchise.org or email to info@NEFranchise.org.
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In July, 1862, Lieutenant Palmer of the Royal Engineers explored a route from Bentinck Arm to Fort Alexandria to Williams Creek. He prepared a report (published for the public the following year) which showed that the Fraser Canyon was the better route in comparison. In 1863, Royal Engineers surveyed the route from Yale to Boston Bar. The route they settled on had a continuous average grade of 182 feet per mile for fifteen miles, a great part of which was on loose rock and precipitous mountain slopes.
After it was completed, this stretch of the Cariboo Wagon Road was busy with gold miners, stagecoaches and freight wagons bringing supplies and provisions north to gold rush towns such as Barkerville and Quesnel Forks.
As the years passed, there was talk of a railway being built through the Fraser Canyon and as a result, the government chose not to maintain this section of the road. The Alexandra Suspension Bridge, considered at one time to be an engineering marvel, was left to disrepair.
The road at Nicaragua Bluff, for a distance of 75 feet, is gone. It is a most dangerous place— something like a perpendicular fall of 100 feet into the [Fraser] River.There are several [freight] teams that will not be able to get beyond that place for some days. It is a serious matter where feed is scarce for horses and mules, and there is no grass for oxen near the break. This is the very time—dry weather—when the road should be good. The teamsters have sent another long dispatch to Beaven [Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works]. It may be treated like their dispatch of the 9th instant ("My information is different from yours!")…There is intense feeling here on account of the cavalier treatment of the dispatch of the merchants and teamsters of Yale.
Please inform [Robert] Beaven that the wagon road from Yale to Boston Bar is impassible. There is a big break near Nicaragua Bluff that will take one week to fix with the present force. Miles of road are unsafe. Your knowledge of the road induces us to ask you to advise Beaven of the Lands and Works what steps he ought to take.
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GOEDE RECOVERS OFF LATE RESTART TO WIN 60TH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SNOWMOBILE DERBY
Matt Goede of Mayer, Minn., is the winner of the 60th running of the World Championship Snowmobile Derby in Eagle River. —STAFF PHOTO
By Doug Etten, Sports Editor
A fast sled, a late-race change of his front right carbide and a little bit of luck helped push Matt Goede of Mayer, Minn., and his No. 28 Formula III Ski-Doo to victory as the heralded ice oval driver was crowned champion of the 60th World Championship Snowmobile Derby in Eagle River Sunday afternoon.
A relatively uneventful race through the first 15 laps saw Goede take the early lead from the start as racers spaced themselves out across the half-mile ice oval. The track prior to the race was the hot topic as what had started the weekend as a smooth and fast oval of blue ice had turned to dirt in a number of areas after a weekend of hard race competition took its toll.
Goede said however it wasn't the track, but instead his inability to see due to a light mist which caused him to pull back off the throttle with under 10 to go, opening the door for four-time world champion Blaine Stephenson to take the lead with just over seven laps left in the race.
"There was a freezing rain or fog that I could wipe away at the beginning of the race, but then it started to freeze on my goggles," said Goede. "I didn't feel safe driving and it got worse when you'd get into lap traffic."
From there it seemed as if Stephenson was on the way to his fifth title when his teammate Tom Olson got tangled in turn four with Calvin Cook, spinning Olson to the track and bringing out the race's first and only red flag with two laps to go.
During the race break as track personnel attended to Olson's sled, some teams and drivers took the opportunity to add a carbide to their ski helping regain what they thought would be some front end handling for the final two laps.
Off that restart Goede though said he didn't need it as he shot to the first corner with the lead and never looked back, winning over Troy Dewald of Au Gres, Mich., while Stephenson settled for third.
"I'm thinking my track just held up better than the rest of the guys," said Goede about getting the late hole shot. "I try hard not to spin my track hard until Blaine passed me. I am assuming he didn't have any studs left."
As far as the carbide change, Goede said the plan from the start was no matter when the red came out he was changing his front right carbide on the machine.
"We had a carbide for that reason and I was putting it on no matter what," he said. "Evidently though the left carbide is just as important because even after changing the front right I had no steering. A lot of it too was the track. There just wasn't ice to dig anymore."
Celebrating after the race Goede said he appreciated being able to win what he said was the biggest race of his career so far.
"I would say this is the biggest race I've ever won," he said. "We've had success on just about everything we've been on and now we can say we're a world champion. It feels so good to say that."
With the change to Formula III two years ago, this was the first year Goede decided to give it a go on the bigger machine and he thoroughly enjoyed it.
"I actually really enjoy driving the F-III, and actually I almost prefer it over the Champ," he said after the race. "Especially after the way we ran Friday night. And maybe that just gives me a bad taste in my mouth because I didn't do well. It's just really fun to drive. It wasn't at first, but now it seems we've got it handling pretty good. I like having more power. And after driving a Champ and then hopping onto these it feels good to have the extra power there."
Goede thanked his team and had a special thanks to his family who he said this year more than ever helped him through getting ready for Eagle River.
"This year my older brother did a lot with this sled, especially to get it to handle as good as it does now," he said. "Everyone came in saying Ski-Doo wasn't going to be any good. But we showed them wrong. I think if this track would have held together we still had the fastest sled out there."
Dewald said after the race that he was elated to have even made the field for Sunday, so to finish with a podium finish in the runner-up spot was outstanding.
"We partied pretty hard last night just happy with the fact we made the big show," said Dewald. "We're just stoked. To be up on the box with a silver means we're really going to party tonight."
Coming into the race out of the enduro circuit, Dewald was excited that after last year he got the opportunity to make the switch.
"We sort've decided last summer that we were going to put a little more time into it, build and F-III and go for it," he said. "And we're pretty happy with how it turned out."
Stephenson, who ended the day in third, was frustrated following the race.
"The studs were just gone at the end there, we had no traction," he said. "It took everything I could do to just keep the sled straight off the restart. There just wasn't anything."
Stephenson was on his way to victory, having passed Goede and put almost half a straight away between himself and Goede when his teammate Tom Olson was bumped by Calvin Cook and spun out in turn four to bring out the caution.
"I was able to find it where we weren't too rough getting into one, but then (turn) three was the hardest one," said Stephenson. "There was a patch that everyone was running low but it was through the dirt. The problem with riding it high is you take that risk of turning it up into the bales like I did twice this weekend already. But I got to where I could sort've put it on rails and it really helped me put a dent into Matt's lead there."
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPFINAL
1 1 28 Matt Goede Mayer, MN -
2 9 57 Zach Dewald Au Gres, MI 7
3 2 102 Blaine Stephenson Hutchinson, MN -1
4 12 312 Zach Herfindahl Eagle River, WI 8
5 10 53 Colt Dellandrea Sundridge, ON 5
6 6 22 Andy Shoemaker Howell, MI -
7 7 297 Jay Mittelstaedt Reedsburg, WI -
8 11 999 Mike Van Dolder Ennismore, ON 3
9 4 75 Calvin Cook Dayton, MN -5
10 5 39 Thomas Olson Lodi, WI -5
11 8 220 Gunnar Sterne West Chicago, IL -3
12 DNF 3 04 Luke Olson Ishpeming, MI -9
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Nike last month may have paid upward of $100 million for a four-year deal to become the official jersey and footwear partner for Tencent's League of Legends Pro League's 16 teams, according to Newzoo.
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I'm thankful for the incredible team at the NFL and the Philadelphia CVB for making this happen.
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Q: Calculating factorials in Java and printing the steps The following Java code calculates the factorial of a given number and also prints the intermediate steps.
public class Factorial {
   public static int getFactorial(int number) {
     int n = number;
     int factorial = 1;

     while(n > 1) {
       factorial *= n;
       n--;

       System.out.println(factorial + " * " + n + " = " + factorial);
     }

    return factorial;
   }
}

When the method is called:
Factorial.getFactorial(4);

Should print to the console something like the following:
4 * 3 = 12
12 * 2 = 24
24 * 1 = 24

But instead it prints something like the following:
4 * 3 = 4
12 * 2 = 12
24 * 1 = 24

What am I doing wrong?

A: That is happening because you're printing the factorial variable only. Replace:
System.out.println(factorial + " * " + n + " = " + factorial);

with:
System.out.println(factorial + " * " + n + " = " + factorial * n);


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package com.manning.androidhacks.hack023.net;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException;
import org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

import android.util.Log;

import com.manning.androidhacks.hack023.exception.AndroidHacksException;

public class HttpHelper {

  private static final String ACCEPT = "Accept";
  private static final String TAG = HttpHelper.class.getCanonicalName();
  private static final int CONN_TIMEOUT = 20000;
  private static final String POST_METHOD = "POST";
  private static final String GET_METHOD = "GET";
  private static final String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
  private static DefaultHttpClient mHttpClient;

  public static void maybeCreateHttpClient() {
    if (mHttpClient == null) {
      mHttpClient = setupHttpClient();
    }
  }

  public static String getHttpResponseAsStringUsingPOST(String url,
      String requestBodyString) throws AndroidHacksException {
    return getHttpResponseAsString(url, requestBodyString, true);
  }

  private static String getHttpResponseAsString(String url,
      String requestBodyString, boolean usePost)
      throws AndroidHacksException {

    maybeCreateHttpClient();

    String method = usePost ? POST_METHOD : GET_METHOD;
    return getHttpResponseAsString(url, method, DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE,
        requestBodyString);
  }

  public static String getHttpResponseAsString(String url,
      String requestbodyString) throws AndroidHacksException {
    return getHttpResponseAsString(url, GET_METHOD,
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  }

  public static String getHttpResponseAsString(String url,
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      throws AndroidHacksException {
    maybeCreateHttpClient();

    String responseString = null;
    try {
      responseString = handleRequest(url, method, contentType,
          requestBodyString, new BasicResponseHandler());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      handleException(e);
    }

    return responseString;
  }

  private static void handleException(Exception exception)
      throws AndroidHacksException {
    if (exception instanceof HttpResponseException) {
      throw new AndroidHacksException("Response from server: "
          + ((HttpResponseException) exception).getStatusCode() + ""
          + exception.getMessage());
    } else {
      throw new AndroidHacksException(exception.getMessage());
    }
  }

  private static String handleRequest(String url, String method,
      String contentType, String requestBodyString,
      ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler)
      throws UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException,
      ClientProtocolException, URISyntaxException {
    String responseString;

    // url encoding enhancement
    url = new URI(null, url, null).toASCIIString();

    if (POST_METHOD.equals(method)) {
      responseString = doPost(url, contentType, requestBodyString,
          responseHandler);
    } else {
      responseString = doGet(url, contentType, requestBodyString,
          responseHandler);
    }

    return responseString;
  }

  private static String doGet(String url, String contentType,
      String requestBodyString, ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler)
      throws IOException, ClientProtocolException {
    if (requestBodyString != null) {
      url += "?" + requestBodyString;
    }

    Log.d(TAG, "URL: " + url);
    HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet(url);
    getRequest.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType);
    getRequest.setHeader(ACCEPT, contentType);
    return mHttpClient.execute(getRequest, responseHandler);
  }

  private static String doPost(String url, String contentType,
      String requestBodyString, ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler)
      throws UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException,
      ClientProtocolException {
    HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);
    postRequest.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType);
    postRequest.setHeader(ACCEPT, contentType);
    postRequest.setHeader("POSTDATA", requestBodyString);

    Log.d(TAG, "URL: " + url + " with params " + requestBodyString);

    return mHttpClient.execute(postRequest, responseHandler);
  }

  private static DefaultHttpClient setupHttpClient() {
    HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
    setConnectionParams(httpParams);
    SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = registerFactories();
    ClientConnectionManager clientConnectionManager = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(
        httpParams, schemeRegistry);

    DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(
        clientConnectionManager, httpParams);
    client.setRedirectHandler(new FollowPostRedirectHandler());

    return client;
  }

  private static SchemeRegistry registerFactories() {
    SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
    schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory
        .getSocketFactory(), 80));
    schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https",
        new SimpleSSLSocketFactory(), 443));
    return schemeRegistry;
  }

  private static void setConnectionParams(HttpParams httpParams) {
    HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(httpParams, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
    HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(httpParams, HTTP.UTF_8);
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, CONN_TIMEOUT);
    HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, CONN_TIMEOUT);
  }
}

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Mayor Gordon Stone says the steps Pike Road has taken to accommodate economic growth resulting from the new connector are paying off.
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Governor Robert Bentley prepares to cut a ribbon during a ribbon cutting ceremony for Route 108 interstate exchange at Interstate 85 on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in Pike Road, Ala. (Photo: Albert Cesare / Advertiser)
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Vorinism is a hodge podge of a lot of different things. Part of is the Jewish Kabbalah--
The mysticism of Jewish--
Yeah, the Jewish mysticism. Part of it is Jewish mysticism, part of is [Islam], but there are a lot of things that are just drawing from philosophies rather than theologies. I'm trying to remember what specifically we were doing... But the main concept was the idea of a church that had been subsumed by a monarchy to the point that the [the church] would be very servile. And that concept led me to a lot of the Vorinism discussions.
#influences #vorinism
[The Stormlight Archive] Books 6-10, do you know the Order of the flashbacks?
I've not decided the order. I know whose they are but I haven't decide the order.
Lift?
Lift is one.
[...] Taln?
Yes, Taln is one of them. The person who calls himself Taln.
Footnote: Brandon occasionally changes his mind about the flashback characters in the "back five" Stormlight books. As of the release of Oathbringer, he plans for them to be Lift, Renarin, Jasnah, Shalash, and Taln.
The line about "three of sixteen [ruled] and now the Broken One reigns" - did Odium follow three other Shards to Roshar or is he the third Shard?
Odium is the third Shard on Roshar.
Footnote: The questioner is referring to the epigraph of Chapter 11 of The Way of Kings: "Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns."
#odium
In book one [of The Stormlight Archive] Dalinar catches a chasmfiend claw, in book two he catches a Shardblade. Is he gonna keep catching things?
Yeah, he's pretty good at catching things. I don't know, RAFO?
West Jordan signing ( Dec. 15, 2011 )
#7357 Dec. 15, 2011 Share Copy
Questioner (paraphrased)
Can you give me a hint about Odium?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
Odium is not native to Roshar
Footnote: All of the original Vessels are Native to Yolen.
Sources: 17th Shard - Zas678's Report
How do you pronounce the Mistborn Planet? [Scadrial]
Sca (as in Scab) dri (as in drink) al (sounds like ul).
Audience Member (paraphrased)
Okay. I always said Sca (as in Skate) dri (as in drink) al (as in Albert)
That's perfectly fine. This can launch me into my little thing on pronunciation. As readers, you get the say, you're the director. I wrote the script. The director can always change things. If you want a character to look differently in your head, that's okay. If you want to pronounce things however you want, that's okay too. Because a book does not exist until it has a reader. It really doesn't live. It exists, but it doesn't live until you read it and give it life. So however you feel like doing it, go ahead. And remember, I've said this numerous times before, I don't pronounce all the names right. I'm American, so I pronounce things with an American accent. The best example I give is Kelsier, because I do say Kel (as in bell) si (as in see) er (as in air), but they say Kel (as in bell) si (as in see) er (as in hey) in-world (it sounds very French). I say E (as in the letter e) lan (as in lawn) tris (as in hiss), they say E (as in the letter e) Lan (as in lane) tris (as in hiss) in-world. So there are linguistic fundamentals of these because I do have some linguistic background, but I don't always say them right. I like saying Sa (like suh) rene (like Reen), instead of Sa (like suh) rene (like meany), which is how they say it. Which Suh-reany sounds kind of dumb in English. And in their language, it's a beautiful woman's name, but here you wouldn't call someone Suh-reany, you'd call them Suh-rean.
The Knights each have two Surges, they spill over each. I am wondering, is the crossover [shared] Surge for each Knight [Order] the same? Like gravity for Windrunners and--
Windrunners are always the same thing.
No no no, the way the [Gravitation] Surge is for Skybreakers and--
The way they act? Yes. To an extent, yes. Each of the combinations make a little bit of a tweak to how things act but when you see Skybreakers affect gravity it'll be more or less the same as the Windrunners.
#knights radiant #surgebinding
Are you gonna make any of your primary characters into worldhoppers?
Some of them already are. [...] Yes, there are primary characters who are worldhoppers, you just haven't actually [seen them], I know what you're asking, we just haven't had books about them yet.
#worldhoppers
Is the fundamental force of gravity [gravitational constant] the same [throughout the Cosmere]?
Oh, is the constant the same? Yes, the constant would be the same. The big difference is, what I am tweaking to the fundamental forces is, I imagine on Roshar that there are more fundamental forces. Which is totally breaking the laws of physics, right? But [in] magic there are more than four. I've broken them up into, at least, what their scientists have decided. So. But yes.
Footnote: Question slightly paraphrased for clarity.
What is a Mistcloak made of in real life? Like what is the closest material you've seen one be made of? Because I'm having the hardest time figuring out what material to use.
The Mistcloak is mainly made of cool stuff in my head that moves in ways that's very hard to make. *laughter* But I would say the key component to the mistcloak is how it falls. And a lot of people have tried to use the stuff that has the wires at the sides of it, and I don't actually think that works right. I would say that the key to the Mistcloak is getting it to fall kind of straight , but the tassles not being too stiff. So I would look for a medium weight material. So, I don't even know what, but felt isn't right. I've seen some people do felt, and it doesn't look right. Felt's too heavy.
I've seen good Mistcloaks, but I don't know fabrics enough to say for sure. I'd have to have it before me and say "Yes" to this, or "No" to this.
Congratulations. Now he's going to make up a new magic system. *laughter*
One thing I really liked on your books is that you've reinvented a lot of fantasy tropes in a lot of good ways. But you also are inspired by some literary works, you've mentioned Les Miserables, which is a fantastic novel. So I was just wondering if what advice would you have for people in terms of speculative fiction and literary works?
Well, advice for drawing. We did a writing excuses podcast on this, so you can go look up those, "How to be influenced consciously." But boy. Read good stuff, and start to think about why it's good. It's going to help you. I don't know if I can specifically tell you anything other than that, but read it, decide what 's working for you, and try to use that, try to feel. But remember to feel what they did, not what they did. Meaning, here's a good example. You read Tolkein. You say "Wow". What Tolkein did wasn't creating Elves and Dwarves. What Tolkein did was create an interesting mythology that was well interconnected. And a lot of people will say well, I want to learn from Tolkein, so I will use what he did, and they don't dig that level deeper. They say "Well, I'm going to use the elves and dwarves." They don't say "What is it that he did the level down that really made this work?" And that's what you should be emulating. So when you read the classics, say "What's making it work?" Try to dig the level deeper if that makes sense.
We all love you as an author; are there any authors that you've been able to read that you would recommend?
I read a lot of Terry Pratchett. First of all because I think he's a genius, but secondly because he's a very different type of writer than I am. If he were writing books that were very similar to mine, I couldn't read him as frequently, because I would worry about influence. It's okay to read, and I love to read, and it's okay to be influenced, but if I were to read as much of someone else as I did of Pratchett,my style would shift to theirs. It's not going to happen with Pratchett, because he's so distinctly different. So that's a good reason for me to read Pratchett. Other than that, I do really like a lot of what people are doing. This year I spent half of my year reading Wheel of Time, and the other half reading the Hugo award nominees, because I wanted to vote in the Hugo awards, so I read a lot of those books. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was very good, and it was one of those.
I do like Pat Rothfuss quite a bit, I mean he is really really good, in ways I wished I could be. I mean he is just great. There are things that I think I do better, but there are areas that he does way better than I do.
I mean we do have different talent areas. I mean Rothfuss is able to write in a way that is just beautiful, it feels like prose, it feels like poetry. It feels like every line is poetry, but it doesn't distract you. A lot of people will try to do that, and I'll be like "You're trying too hard," or "You don't have a good story." But for him, I read it, and it's beautiful, and it doesn't burden the story. And I know of very few people who are able to do what he does in that way. He also, and this is one thing that makes him a genius, he's able to write a main character that I really don't like, and yet I love reading about him. The character is very deeply flawed, and yet it's fascinating, and that is something that I haven't seen someone do in that same way—I mean George Martin can kind of do it, but for him it's more like I loathe them as individuals and I just watch the train wreck, but with Rothfuss, it's "You are not a really great guy, and you don't think you're a great guy, and you're kind of a jerk, but you're also really interesting to read, and I like you while I dislike you at the same time." And that's a really interesting talent he has.
Shicaca
Is there anything to, I was looking at the map of Roshar, and it kind of looked like a spiral galaxy to me, like it was flipping in a certain direction--
Yes, that is intentional. You are onto something that no one has figured out yet.
Tell us, tell us!
I was thinking if it's connected to manipulating gravity... *inaudible*
You are onto something and it's not exactly what you think you are onto but you're getting close to something that they've all wanted to know for a while.
Footnote: The 17th Shard forum thread Hidden Things in Map of Roshar? covers the community effort in answering this question, along with - ultimately - the answer.
#roshar
In regards to the Infinity Blade book, how did you pick that up out of all the licensed products?
Oh, why Infinity Blade. You know, It's because they worked so darn hard to get me. They just kept going through every channel they could to get a hold of me. They called up my publicist, they called up Tor, they were trying everybody who possibly had a contact with me, and finally got through Isaac. It was they worked so hard, and also, they offered me a really good deal, meaning the idea that I could do this. And it was less about me looking for a licensed product or something like that, and more of me wanting to test how the digital market worked for something like this, and also, I want to have more to do with video games. And Epic, you know that gives you Unreal Edge, and Gears of War, they are a pretty big deal of a company. And if I ever wanted to do my own video game, straight out of an IP, which I have one I want to do, having contacts there would be really helpful. And so they came to me, they pitched this, they gave me a lot of creative freedom, they gave me a really good deal, monetarily, to make it worth my time, and I got to test the waters digitally and see how it is selling a story in game, and I also got to make some contacts in video games and gain a little more street cred.
I want to build a Skyrim killer one day, is what I really want to do. I have a story, a world that I have built with magic and things that I want to do, that may be a Skyrim killer someday, an Elder Scroll type game. I really like those games. I have problems with some of the things they do, but I really like those games. So I really want to do that someday. That means I have to find some game studio who's willing to give me 30 million dollars to play with, so I've got to have a lot of good street cred in video games before they let me do that. Yeah "30 million, that's nothing!" That's one of the big reasons that I'm doing it also. I mean I'm going to pitch this to the guys after a follow up Infinity Blade eventually, and we'll see what they say.
Why did Infinity Blade try so hard to get you specifically?
Because they are from Salt Lake, and they really liked my books, and they kind of based Inifinity Blade sort of off of my books. Not based, but they were inspired a little bit by my books, and so they really wanted to work with me. So that's why. They liked the books. And you know, they make really good games. I was really impressed. I am a gamer, I hadn't played their games. And that's another reason—I played the games and they were fun. So that's why they tried so hard. They just liked the books. It is interesting that there is a lot of talk in video games of "Are video games going to grow up storywise?" Like they've really come to their own as an entertainment medium in the last ten years, and yet story tends to be a weak point still in a lot of these. Even the games that have great story lines are great story lines for a video game. There's been a lot of editorials written and a lot of articles written saying "Guys, we need to start hiring top talent to write our stories rather than farming it out to Dave who does our Particle Effects, and moonlights as a writer." There's lots of discussion about this. So I think these guys are interested in doing something like this. Do you have something Isaac?
Isaac Stewart (paraphrased)
I just wanted to add why they tried so hard to get you. If you want a little anecdote, I was at a Barnes and Nobles on my lunch break, and I look up and there's this guy that I went to college with. So I said "What are you doing lately?" "Well I own my own video game studio." He said "What have you been doing?" "Oh, I made some maps for some guys books. It's right here. " He decided to buy it and read it, and he became a huge fan. He really loved it.
Is Hoid the one that comes out of the lake that Rock is talking about? *photo pause* Or you can't tell me?
I am going to give you a RAFO card.
#hoid #rafo
What Order of Knights Radiant would you want to be in?
I would probably place myself in the Bondsmiths, would be my guess. But Bondsmiths are very hard to get into. There's a limited number of people who can be Bondsmiths, so yeah.
#brandon
I sold Legion, which is a novella I wrote, to Lionsgate, for a television pilot. We will see if they will actually do it or not. That's a modern day thriller I wrote. It's a novella. I'll release it next summer or something. It's short, but it was meant for a pitch for a television show. So that's coming out, and we'll hope that they actually film that. We did sign deals on that, and since there's Lionsgate, which is a big studio, behind that, there's a production house attached to it, and it will go much faster.
Other than that, there's the Wheel of Time, which keeps slowly moving forward. It is moving forward, but really slowly. And Alcatraz is basically dead in the water right now. The option lapsed in June, and no one else has snatched it up, so it's now been six months, and that one's pretty much dead in the water. Which is sad. We got really close on that one.
Will you still write the fifth book?
Yes, I will write the fifth book. Just the movie is dead in the water.
Kaladin is a lot younger than his knowledge and training levels are... *inaudible*
It just depends, he's led-- you have to keep two things in mind, he's led a very hard life, which aged him experience-wise differently, and also Roshar years are longer than ours, so when they say in this book [that] he's 19, he's not actually 19, he's more like-- I can't remember the exact equation, but he's actually 23, or something like that. So do keep that in mind.
#kaladin
The video game is coming along very nicely. In fact, earlier just this week I built the whole plot sequence for that. It's going to have some really good twists and turns and theoretically, if it works well, I will be writing all the dialogue and all the story.
Which is more on your plate
Which is more on my plate. But that can be fun, because the main character is a really sarcastic kind of a little bit of a jerk. And so I can actually write his dialogue on napkins while I'm sitting, waiting and be like "Alright, here's a good line," and things like that. That's because most of it is gameplay. I have to just come up with lots of good wisecracks and then of course, I have to write the cutscenes. But those really aren't that much in a game like this. It's maybe a week's worth of work to get all of that written.
Zas (paraphrased)
How long before is the game going to be? I remember you saying it was going to be before Final Empire, but I was wondering how long before?
We are shooting for second century after The Lord Ruler's Ascension.
Footnote: The Mistborn video game has since been dropped.
Are there feathered birds on Roshar?
Yes, they are called chickens by everybody and you've seen some of them. [...] If you watch, in Words of Radiance, there are things people are calling a chicken, which are not what you know of as a chicken.
Elhokar with the Herdazians--is that meant to be like Alfred the Great?
No, that is completely coincidental. I didn't even think of that.
#herdazians
Rybal
Can the Heralds Surgebind without their [Honor]Blades, and if not are they under the same restrictions the Radiants are?
[...] I will say that the Heralds without their Blades are incapable of the powers you are familiar with. It doesn't mean there aren't other things they can do, but they are incapable of the powers you are familiar with throughout the book.
#heralds #honorblades
Sources: Rybal's report - 17th Shard
I've heard rumors of a Mistborn movie. Is that true?
The Mistborn movie, is not even up to handshakes now. We do have a Vin chosen, but it's not official yet, so I can't say who it is.
I've heard rumors. Will you confirm or deny this?
What rumor?
Lindsey Lohan?
*Wild laughter*
Yeah, I can deny that one. *Continued Laughter* It's not Paris Hilton's dog either.
Yeah, basically it's where it's been at for a while, which is we're at a good version of the screenplay, we're trying now to get people to look at it in Hollywood.
Could you make a Kandra an Allomancer?
With the right sequence of sorts of things, you could impart those powers to them theoretically. It's not likely to happen, but you could do it. You could build a spike that would let them Push or Pull. But you'd give the powers separately, probably.
Got another one [on behalf of Chaos]. Why do Kandra need two spikes to have a blessing and to become sentient?
It is just the nature of how Hemalurgy works. More spikes are capable of changing form and body more, and I didn't feel that one spike was viable for the alterations that are made to their nature.
Words of Radiance San Francisco signing ( March 6, 2014 )
#7378 March 6, 2014 Share Copy
Are you going to write any chapter from the point of view of a spren?
Will I ever write any chapters from the viewpoint of a spren.
It's likely that I eventually will but it will probably be an interlude. The Stormlight Archive is about ten characters at its essence, and none of them are a spren. You've met all of them I believe and each of them will have a book with a flashback sequence in it, which is another thing I'm doing to make sure each book has an identity.
Epic fantasy I also feel part of the problem is when later books stop having an identity because the story kind of blurs together for the writer. My goal is if I have a good solid flashback sequence for each of these characters to give an arc it'll help me keep each book distinct, which I feel is very important.
If you ask me later I'll tell you who some of those are. In three of the first five I've been very upfront with who they are. I don't talk about the back five very often because I don't want the focus to be on those yet.
#stormlight archive
[Complements artwork in The Way of Kings, asks how working with illustrators has changed the way Brandon sees the world]
One of my initial visions for The Way of Kings was one of these cross-genre books. I wanted to bring illustrations and-- you know there's this sense for whatever reason in contemporary fiction that illustrations are for kids, not for adults. That's not the way it always was. If you go back to the 1800's every book was illustrated, to an extent. And you'd get these beautiful bookplates and things like this that would be in the novels. I wanted to go back to something like that. Though I did want to be aware of the idea that you as a reader are participating, and I wanted to be careful not to define too much what people look like, particularly characters, because I wanted that to be through you.
So I wanted to be doing artwork in the books, but I didn't want to do artwork that was too specific to the characters—other than the cover art. This meant I wanted to do in-world stories, which is how Shallan started to develop as a character. She was based off of Pliny the Elder, as a character and my research about him and some of the people like him; and a little bit about Darwin and his travels and things like this. So I wanted-- I started to build her. She replaced a character in the original Way of Kings, what I call Way of Kings Prime, that I wasn't pleased with.
So I really want to do a lot of artwork for the books, and it's been a lot of fun. One of the first things I did when I went to pitch Way of Kings to Tor was I commissioned artwork of all the characters. Because it was going to be such a visual book, I wanted to have in hand for me reference material on characters, races, things like this. I wanted to have this like world book that you sometimes get in a book afterward, I wanted that in the before. So that I had it all in hand. Because there's a lot of screwy stuff going on in this world.
It really helped me to envision, to visualize how this book was supposed to go. Beyond that it's just awesome. Who here has read Watchmen? Have you guys read Watchmen? If you haven't read Watchmen it's amazing, particularly if you're a comic book geek like me. When I first read Watchmen-- what Watchmen does, it adds all sorts of ephemera. Like one of the characters is creating action figures of all the other characters and trying to market and sell them, and they include his pitch for the action figures and things like that. And it was part of what brought that book to life for me: not just the excellent writing, but it was the idea that this is not just a comic book, this is a comic book plus a world. And I wanted to write books that were not just a book, they were a book plus a world.
It's been a blast. I am in a position where I can hire the artists myself, which allows me to have a lot of control, and so the artwork inside the book is all stuff that I've commissioned. I've gone to the artists and I've talked to them myself, and I've picked my favorite artists and we do this awesome work just as part of it.
Hopefully it's something that people enjoy, it's something that I intend to keep doing and it's been a blast.
#way of kings prime #writing philosophy
If Nightblood was on Roshar—for whatever reason—would it be a Shardblade essentially, like would it func--
Yes. They are exactly the same thing. [...] Nightblood is indeed a Shardblade, basically the exact same thing. Though he is a Shardblade that is twisted and he is a lot more powerful than your standard.
#nightblood #shardblades
If Kelsier's [Cognitive Shadow] or a seon went to the Forests of Hell, would they be shades there?
Yes, that is the same thing. Now, you can see that there-- the people on that planet; their Investiture; the lack of Shard means that their Cognitive Shadows react differently.
In fact, the Cognitive Shadow is also the same thing as the ghost you saw in Mistborn, that was the spirit of Leras is the same thing too.
#cognitive shadows #shades #threnody
Is the Nightwatcher Cultivation or do you not want to say that yet?
I haven't answered-- I've actually given some very strong hints on that, but I think I haven't answered that. The 17th Sharder can answer me: Have I answered that?
Sharder
No, but it's been very very strongly hinted at.
#rafo-plus
For [Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell], did that take place in the cosmere?
It does. It's on a planet called Threnody. There is no Shard on that planet, however. So you can see the magic is very different in that the magic is something you interact with, not something you perform. Because there isn't a Shard there. But yeah, it is in the cosmere.
#investiture #threnody
How does Snapping work now? You said that Sazed changed it.
Uh, RAFO. That is a good question though.
Not even a little hint?
Nah. I don't think so.
#rafo
What was decision that Kaladin made differently in version 1?
He kept the Blade and Plate.
#way of kings prime
I caught that reference. [in reference to tinfoil hats blocking emotional allomancy]
I built aluminum to do all sorts of funky things to all the powers, and I actually hadn't made the connection of tinfoil hats until after I'd built it in, and I was writing it in Alloy of Law, years after I built it in, saying "Wait a minute! I just put tinfoil hats in the book!" (laughter) So I actually built that without thinking that there would be a joke to that.
At the very end of Words of Radiance, Dalinar touches a Shardblade and it screams at him. Shouldn't that particular Blade have been safe?
No it should not have. It's a clue that something has happened.
[This is] a question that the subtle reader should be asking. And there are other clues that something is wrong with what the story you've been told is.
Because Option 2 is that it's unsafe to touch an honorblade, but there's no evidence of that.
There is no evidence of that. In fact there's much stronger evidence that something else is going on.
Questioner 2
Did Hoid switch out the blades?
Hoid did not switch out the blades, but good question.
#good question #taln's honorblade
Also speaking of continutiy...
This is a very very minor spoiler. It's just a statement that was made in Alloy of Law, that Smokers could...
Oh yeah, that was just a typo
Is that going to change things?
Wait, go ahead and say it.
Can Copperclouds shield others' emotions?
Oh okay. Did we put that in Alloy of Law in the Ars Arcanum? Is that where you read it?
I forget. I don't remember where it is.
I believe it's in the Ars Arcanum, which in Alloy of Law was put together by Peter. And that's mostly a mistake, though the thing is the Role Playing Game came to me and said "Is it feasible that this could happen?" And I said "It's perhaps feasible, but only a very rare individual could make this work if they knew exactly what they were doing." And so I said "Yeah, go ahead, but make it a power that someone really has to know what they're doing to make it work." And so they put it in, and so Peter assumed that it was canon, that anyone can do it, but that's not what I intended.
So would it be easier to say that somebody discovered they could do it and now they are training copperclouds to do it?
I would say that it is viable that someone could figure it out, but it would be a very difficult thing to train, and it is not a common Coppercloud—A common Coppercloud isn't going to be able to be doing it, and almost no Mistborn will ever be capable of doing it, they just don't focus on that metal enough to learn it. Of course, there aren't Mistborn around anymore. So it is a possible power, it is plausible, but it is not the standard. Perhaps I will allow it to become the standard eventually, but it's not right now. It would be much easier to wear a tinfoil hat. (laughter) Aluminum, aluminum. Which does work.
Why do they ride horses, and not like fast insects of some sort?
That is an excellent question. That I'm not going to answer.
#good question #rafo #roshar
In The Way of Kings you do this one thing when you went into the point of view of the character Gaz, just for like two pages that turned him from random bad guy to interesting character. Last I hear you said that if we read carefully we could figure out what happened to him but I never could.
So he had his debts. He was owing people debts and they came due and he deserted.
On all the cosmere worlds, it seem as if-- do all the humans have what you call innate Investiture?
Let's see...
I believe that they all do. I don't think that you've seen anyone without innate Investiture yet.
Because when they don't have Breath anymore, they would get Drabs, and those don't have innate Investiture?
They don't have innate Investiture. And on Scadrial they have the pieces of Ruin and Preservation in them. And they do have it on Roshar.
Which Shard is that?
You'll have to read and find out. *gives card*
So yes, I don't think you've seen any worlds where they don't.
#drabs #innate investiture #rafo-plus
If there is only one Shard on [Taldain], are there other Shards in the solar system?
Ahhh. Now that's a clever question. The answer is "no". One for that solar system. And there's also, um-- we'll stop there.
There's also what?
There are other places with only one. It's not uncommon for there to be only one. I've gone to the planets with multiples intentionally because the conflict there is very long. And the ones on the planets without multiples: like for instance in Warbreaker the conflict is not about cosmere-centric things. And you'll see that very commonly on the planets you go to. There's the same sort of things on Elantris. And so when you see me going-- even though there are two there, they're dead. And so, when you see me--
The reason I ask is that there have been intimations that in Stormlight Archive a Shard may be on the moon just from things that people have--
There have been *inaudible* that that may be the case, so I had to ask.
You guys are awesome, thank you so much.
#good question #review transcription #shards #taldain
Spren bonds: there was some intimation somewhere that I read that there might not have been spren bonds before [Aharietiam, the day the Desolations ended]?
I'm not going to answer that one either but we will delve much more into this. The spren were around back then but they were not nearly what they are now: they've changed over the course of the book obviously. I think the cosmere theorists have figured it out. They are much more prevalent following Honor and what happened to him, but there were some spren on the planet before even that happened.
Footnote: It seems that Brandon is referring to the Expulsion and/or the arrival of Honor on Roshar, not Aharietiam
In the [Purelake vision that Dalinar had in WoR] there was a pouch that the Shardbearer grabbed when the spren went into the ground. I was wondering what is this pouch? Is it a fabrial? Was it important? It was just sitting there, sitting there!
You need to get at least one RAFO. I'm not saying that's an important thing--
Hey!?
...it might be, but you need to get at least one RAFO from me, so that's the one I'm gonna RAFO.
#rafo #voidspren
As of [Words of Radiance's writing] have people not from Scadrial [used Hemalurgy]?
#hemalurgy
I was wondering if a Hemalurgic spike would take surges, or if it could take a spren bond? Would it interact at all for that?
Hemalurgy can interact with every one of the magics. I designed it specifically in writing Mistborn for future use. Because some of the magics are so limited by their planet I wanted one that transcended all of them and Hemalurgy is very important to the entire cosmere. Its invention is a thing of great power and great danger to the entire cosmere.
#hemalurgy #surgebinding
Is [Bavadin] the only Shard on White Sand? If so is he the sun or is he the darkside?
He is the only shard on the planet.
But is he the sun?
I'm not gonna answer.
#bavadin #rafo-plus #taldain
What is your favorite original Shardholder?
My favorite original Shardholder?
I don't knoooowwww...
Are they all that bad of people?
No no, they're not bad-- they're not all bad people. Many of them are-- you know the trick is I'm gonna have to really write them, as their personalities. Because right now they're really just concepts, and I haven't written very many of them. And so... I'm very fond of Bavadin, but I can't say.
#dragonsteel series #shards
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faragorn
I dont recall hearing about this anthology until recently. Did Brandon need a break from writing S3 and so [Arcanum Unbounded] was put in the schedule?
Peter Ahlstrom
This was put on the schedule when it was determined that Stormlight 3 wouldn't come out until next year. Brandon has been wanting to do something like this for a while, so we went for it.
The book is not just reprinting stuff you've already read. Aside from the new Lift novella (at 40,000 words it's actually a mini-novel), each story has a new full-page illustration and a postscript by Brandon. Each world section of the book has a planetary system map and an essay about the system written by Khriss, who writes the Ars Arcanum section at the end of the books.
#arcanum unbounded #ars arcanum #khriss
Sources: Reddit
The Ars Arcanum, is there an in-cosmere author of that?
Those are in-cosmere, yes.
It sort of seems like they would be written by someone like Hoid or someone.
It is not. I don't know if I've released who it is. It's probably not who peole are thinking, but it is in-world.
Footnote: It's Khriss
#ars arcanum
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