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"I was in bed with my brother's wife when they came to tell me he was dead."
Gerhard Herold, a young East German has lived in his brother's shadow for years. Wolfgang Herold had been stationed in London, a senior export executive for East Germany's toy manufacturing industry. The news that he is to be his dead brother's replacement in London makes little sense to Gerhard, but at least the new job will give him the opportunity to escape the deadly routine of his life, and to find out what happened to Wolfgang . . . perhaps.
Working in London, living in the flat previously occupied by his brother, under the careful eye of the East German secret services, Gerhard starts to suspect that his brother was not the random victim of an unknown assassin, but was murdered because he had stumbled across sensitive, explosive information that powerful men wanted to keep secret. As he begins to dig deeper, he joins forces with a young American, Elizabeth Allanton. At first they share only a common desire to find the truth, but soon they become lovers. Their search for the facts behind Wolfgang's mysterious death leads them into the treacherous clutches of both the East German and British intelligence services. As they struggle to escape the security net tightening around them, a sordid tale of greed and corruption - with Wolfgang at its very heart - begins to emerge . . .
Published just before the Berlin Wall came down the novel provides a bleak picture of the West from a Eastern European perspective in the closing phase of the Cold War. And the picture isn't flattering.
"Intriguing thriller...buttonholing mix of commerce and killing...narrator's nationality provides an unusual perspective." - The Guardian.
". . . makes London feel as nasty as Greene's Vienna." - The Times.
Andrew Taylor's 30-plus novels include the bestseller, The American Boy, chosen by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade; the Roth Trilogy (filmed for TV as Fallen Angel); the Lydmouth Series; Bleeding Heart Square; The Anatomy of Ghosts, shortlisted for Theakston's best crime novel of the year; and The Scent of Death (February 2013).
His most recent awards are the CWA Diamond Dagger and Sweden's Martin Beck Award. He is The Spectator's crime fiction reviewer. Further information: www.andrew-taylor.co.uk and on twitter @andrewjrtaylor.
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L'appartamento ha un incredibile soggiorno con tappeti alle pareti, molto comodi divani, poltrone, TV, uno studio / zona lettura con una splendida scrivania e prenota scaffali antichi e accesso al patio attraverso due grandi porte finestre. C'è un ufficio luminoso separata con una scrivania, una sedia e poltrone.
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La cucina è completamente attrezzata con tutte le cose che hai bisogno per preparare i pasti (lavastoviglie, lavatrice, forno a microonde, frigorifero, macchina per il caffè, tostapane, ecc), rendendo il vostro soggiorno più facile e perfetta e l'appartamento ha due bagni di cui uno con un vasca e l'altro con una passeggiata in doccia.
La ciliegina sulla torta: un patio arredato dove potrete godere di prendere i vostri pasti all'esterno, vi è anche un barbecue e qui si avrà la possibilità di ascoltare gli uccelli nel centro della città.
Situato in un grande quartiere tradizionale di Lisbona, molto noto per la vista del Tejo, questo appartamento perfetto per la vostra avventura Lisbona.
Considerato come uno dei più bei quartieri di Lisbona, Lapa è una fantastica vista sul fiume Tejo. Zona molto tranquilla e ben curato, a 10 minuti da Chiado, qualsiasi prestito del Museu de Arte Antiga, l'Assemblea Nazionale e la Basilica da Estrela.
Chiudere da tutto, si sarà in grado di camminare e scoprire una grande parte del centro della città o per andare con il tram 28, al castello di San Jorge o di Alfama a sentire fado.
Sarete innamorato di quella città piena di fascino, colori e deliziosi profumi di fiori esotici. Vi aspettiamo per condividere il nostro amore per quella città e un po 'del nostro know how di vita e di segreti e il fascino del Portogallo.
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Nice appartement in the center of the city. Welcoming and helpfull host. We had a wonderful stay in Lisbon.
Oh, this is difficult…the house is both a wonder and a nightmare. Let's start with the wonders.
The house is truly unique; rebuild with an artistic sense for decorating and an almost surrealistic remodelling (rebuilding) of an old house; the floors are mounted into one big open room; basically build with a rock as one part of the construction. The decoration is very original, artistic and with a lot of taste (although maybe not for everybody) - the funitures are elegant - old but chosen with taste. On top of the house there is a terrace and a (very) small pool.
So what's not to like?
Unfortunately quite a lot…
The construction of the house against the rock (being a former wine cellar I believe) creates a _very_ humid and damp environment. True, my son and I are asthmatics (though not very much and usually quite under control), but even the two non-asthmatics in our family complained about breathing difficulties immediately upon arrival; our noses were stuffed and our eyes were irritated as well. The bed linings (and beds) were damp and one room was just plain unusable.
The toilet was broken; the handle fell of every time we used it, and the water ran like Niagara Falls…non stop. The bathroom is situated in the middle of the house, so the most logical passageway is through the bathroom. The door to the toilet doesn't close completely even when locked (leaving a gap of 2-4 cm).
The bath is open in the bathroom and water flows into the next room every time someone is taking a shower.
Within a few hours we realized that we could not possibly stay in the house and took our leave after sleeping there one night (as we had arrived late and had nowhere to go – otherwise we had left immediately). The next morning we sneezing and coughing, returned the keys to the next door bar, and made for Lisbon where we booked a traditional hotel.
We promptly contacted both the owner (who, it should be said, seems like a very nice person) and of course Wimdu and explained our experience.
No refund was made - not even in part.
I guess that is he name of the game when using services like Wimdu, but it most definitely ensured that we are going for traditional hotels and the like in the future.
I cannot imagine any of my colleagues or friends who would accept a house like this for their holidays. And I am truly really sorry to say so, for I have a lot of sympathy for both the hose and the owner.
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I celebrated my 26 bday at Richards property and it really was amazing.
The flat is extreeemly welcoming and incredibly cozy we like it very much and the terrace its perfect:)y it realy made me feel like home.
The position is very privileged because its situated in a very bohemic location called Old Village.
You can easily get to Vilamoura or the beach it takes arround 20 min by foot.
The 3 swimmingpools help you relax and enjoy the sun as well the restaurants and everything in old village makes your stay be wonderful.
I really hope i have the opportunity to rent this gorgeous flat again.
Thank you very much Richard it was great!!
The apartment in Lisbon is situated in the old center, yet it is a quiet street without a lot of traffic. It is a practical, cosy and clean home. You can see the history of the building combined with a modern bathroom and careful maintenance.
Although the mattress was quite thin, the next time we stay in Lisbon we will surely try to stay in this house again.
Richard is a nice guy who tries to make you feel at home.
Hello everyone, this is a great location to take advantage of the great city of Lisbonne. The appartment is brand new and enjoys a small sea view. The air is fantastic and Richard was there at the right time even if I had booked just a few hours before. Heartly recommended!
- The apartment: offers everything you need for a comfortable stay in Lisbon. Hot water in the bathroom. Everything functioned, except for one window that was hard to close. Good wifi. The bed was a little squeeky, but comfortable enough. Fresh sheets and towels were at our disposal, but no garbage bags and only one roll of toilet paper.
- Location: centrally located, close to the metrostation and many Lisbon 'attractions'. Lots of (very touristy though) restaurants in the neighboorhood.
- Contact person: kept us well informed but we haven't met him. The texts I sent to the phone number provided by Wimdu did not seem to reach him, which was annoying because we could not warn him that we were going to be late. Luckily, he called us to say that we could pick up the keys from a neighbour. Unfortunately, this was from a private number so I couldn't call him back.
- Overall, would recommend this apartment for citytrippers on a budget that do not want to stay in a hostel.
very friendly and exerted host. apartement was very nice and comfortable. could be a little bit more clean, but it was ok. had a really great time in lisbon. think we'll come back!
The flat was the same as the photos, perfect location just a few minutes walk from Rossio square with great transport links and really close to Bairro Alto which is full of restaurants and bars. Highly recommend for anyone wanting to explore Lisbon. Richard was also great - very friendly and helpful for our trip. Thanks!
The apartment was just as described and Richard a wonderful host. The location is ideal - a quiet back street right in the centre of Bairro Alto with restaurants, bars, shops, parks and culture less than 5 minutes away.
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First a little background. Summum Bonum Amen Ra (aka. Claude Rex Nowell; Corky Ra) gave the talk below on May 24, 1997 in a pyramid in Salt Lake City, UT. Corky had extra-dimensional beings visit him several times who convinced him to start Summum. Before that he was high ranking Mormon priesthood. Before and after starting Summum he was special forces black-ops running drugs into the USA and assassinating people. He was part of the spec ops team on the Cobra Ball that was involved with passenger flight KAL007 that got shot down in Russian airspace circa 1983. Summum was started in 1975. Corky passed on in 2008.
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Let me show you how this new heaven and earth are going to come. It said there is going to be a fire upon the earth and that fire is going to cleanse it. There was a great sign that just passed [Hale-Bopp] and 4500 years ago they said when that sign passed again, then that was the time. The comet passed. Up on the west wall in the pyramid we have the pizza pie comet in the sky as revelations says. It will come from the northeast and if you wanted to compare it in size, it would be as big as this room compared to a basket ball and when everyone sees the pizza pie in the sky coming, they are going to get down on their knees and say "Oh my God, it is coming," and it will scare the living shit right out of them. And they are going to try to find themselves on their knees and repent for all they have done wrong in the last second.
Keep your attention in heaven when the pizza pie hits, because it is coming. It may come tomorrow or in a thousand years for some of you. No man knows the date or time, only God. Now I would guess that a smart disciple would say, "Let me get my pie together before the pizza hits. Let me look upon every man, woman, animal, and everything within creation as having a living spirit created by God. I get on my knees and I forsake all those things that I have had my attention on. All of those meaningless things I will forsake, that have taken me out of harmony with creation itself." But it seems it only comes when the pressure comes close. When you take the top off the pressure cooker and all the steam goes away and it just simmers away, you are right back where you were cooking and you get up off your knees and go right back to what you were doing when the pizza was not coming. All the religions say the pizza is coming.
The Mormons say the millennium is coming. God did come to those who were ready because they lived it. They were disciples of it. It was not just three hours on Sunday for them. They walked it for 3000 miles and more than a third of them died on the way. The Jews did the same thing when they left Egypt. It is not a new story. It is an old story. You are not going anywhere. You are where you are at and you are going to wake up where you are at. But you better get there now. Do not put it off. Does anyone know the exact hour or the exact seconds of the right time?
We have been getting visitors, though you had better hope the visitors don't come, because if they do come, you are going to be required to have it together. Donna said they were trying to land in the parking lot of Summum. Have you seen any UFO movies lately? Watch the Learning Channel. All the documents are being released because of the Freedom of Information Act. All the government documents have come out with the stories that for years we have been "being observed." And they are here. It is here and it is on the Learning Channel, watch it. It is happening. A lot of airplane pilots are telling the stories of what they have seen and what is happening because of what is going on. What form could they come in? A low flying plane about 100 ft. or less off the ground flew over the pyramid. Do not be asleep, get in touch.
Do not miss it. Watch the Discovery and the Learning Channels. They have landed, but mankind cannot hear the frequency because their attention is in mammon with the gold, within the world, within the mansions. They cannot listen, they refuse to hear, and they would not waste their time with it. They only come for those who are ready to listen. No one ever dies, they just transform. Everyone continues where they left off. The Messiah's usually go out by getting killed, and quick. There is no problem with that because when "It" comes, "It" is a big fireball and the earth is just a little basketball. The earth passes through this fireball, as a new Big Bang, and as it passes through it turns into a crystal. A celestial heaven, clear as glass, vaporized and there is no water left. Not a star in the sky because all there is, is pure light. Just pure energy. Now if you are ready, you are ready. And if you are not, you are not.
There have been some bizarre things happening in the pyramid. It comes from nowhere and lands on you. Just like that and feels just like that. It is called the unexplainable. It is here; it is talking to you. Make sure you have got your attention on heaven. Every day of your life, it is here right now! It rings, it vibrates inside of you. It wells up in your heart; it feels like a lump in your chest. Do not miss it. Catch the first wave on the way out. It is easiest that way. You will not be able to see it when it comes because it comes so fast. It is faster than light, as a thief in the dark I shall come. Just feel it. Do not miss the opportunity to become a disciple of it because you have never felt so good, as you feel right now.
You will hear it in your heart, and feel it in your soul before you see it coming. It will sound just like what you have just heard in your meditation. You will hear it before you see it, but you will not hear it within your ears. You will hear it ringing in your soul, for it will come as a calming rain. It will come as fire. There are no accidents!!
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I like developing games as a hobby. I'm posting this now since I just finished this one game for a Jam (a three-days game development contest) in a team with three other people and I'm taking a chance to spread it:
On GameJolt I also have some of my past games... I am mostly a programmer and can do some art on my own. Is anyone else here involved in making games, or interested in the topic?
|2015-07-20, 22:08
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I am a game developer creating games on the UE4 engine^^.
Game Jams are really fun, except when the engine you are using eats and destroys your data and you can't finish up .
BTW: I don't see programmers very often. Am I blind or is your breed rare?^^.
Most of the time I see people requesting programmers on several platforms, but rarely positions are being taken :/.
FYI I am right now working on a game called MY!MY!MY!. Did you ever see the video ME!ME!ME! ? Well... I turned that into a game. It is just pre alpha xD.
|2015-07-21, 08:47
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I actually am a programmer as a job, and making games is my respite from less fun forms of coding. Mostly I do scientific programming, so I'm very good at complicated mechanics (which I usually bring into my games as well). But yeah, most people will go "OK GUYS I HAVE THIS AWESOME IDEA ABOUT A GAME I ONLY NEED A PROGRAMMER TO TURN THIS INTO REALITY" - as if it was a small job .
Personally I would like to be able to do everything myself, even. I enjoy the variety involved in making games - drawing as well as coding and so on. I use engines usually (Unity or Game Maker, have never tried Unreal) just because they make it easier and more fun to code. If after work or in the weekends I had to write C code with SDL for handling graphics I would probably hang myself.
|2015-07-21, 09:31
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Haha, yeah I know these guys. I have X ideas and other people have to turn it into a game. Well, if I think about it, I am doing this with my patreon in some way, haha xD.
Here is the original video of ME!ME!ME!: https://vimeo.com/114099080
(Can't find it on youtube anymore )
Scientific programming... Well, then you are smarter than me in math . Funny thing is that I didn't like mathematics at all. It is just so ironic that game development involves a lot of numbers and mathematics .
Right now I am proficient in any game development area, so I can work alone. To learn all that stuff was so difficult and I won't advice people to go my way, because is is a massive time waster and you need to have a lot of stamina.
I programmed things in several languages (python, unityscript, C#), but right now I am using the blueprint scripting system from the Unreal 4 engine. It is a lot of fun and you don't need to touch one line of code. People assume that blueprint scripting is easy (it is like a brick system with nodes, which contains code bits), but it isn't. You still need to have a good programming habit and make things run efficiently. It is more like visual programming.
One assumption that I see a lot is that blueprint scripting is inferior to C++ (which can be used to make Unreal 4 games too), but these are basicly just containers for native code based on C++. So it runs as fast as C++ code, because it IS C++ code . You know probably best that programming habits and efficient programming is the key to success, not the way, how you do it^^.
|2015-07-22, 04:00
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I wrote scientific software in Fortran, but just yesterday I finished a Python script that does the same thing as a Fortran program I wrote earlier, using Numpy (C++ bindings for numerical operations) and carefully optimizing the code and lo, behold, it almost runs faster. And some time ago I made a benchmark and found I could get friggin' Javascript to run only twice as slow as the C++ equivalent. I actually managed to write a quantum mechanics simulation software in Javascript, just for kicks. It works. Optimization can be a scary thing, and right now, even for interpreted languages, the underlying interpreters are often so good at Just In Time compilation and similar tricks they lift a lot of burden off the shoulders of the programmer. I've never had a case of a game slowing down for too much complexity (but then again, efficient programming practices are so ingrained into me by now I probably already write pretty optimized code without even thinking about it ).
By the way, seeing that video made me wonder - what is your ME!ME!ME! game like exactly? An endless runner with a psychedelic twist?
|2015-07-22, 07:04
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Yes, yes. Technology got much more advanced and more powerful. This makes me happy, because we can do much more stuff today^^. I agree that you are stuck with an algorithm, which was made by another person and you don't have control over it. However, Unreal is just so nice to the user that you have the ability to write your own functions and algorithms in C++. You can even combine blueprint scripting and C++. This makes Unreal to a flexible engine. The contrary can be said about the Cryengine, because it feels much more than a workaround and modding, than actual game developing. Heck I don't have anything against modding (I was one in over 10 years^^), but when you have to create a game, you can't be limited like in modding. The only thing you can do flawlessly with the Cryengine are FPS shooters and "walking simulators ). If you want to do something different, well, you have to rewrite a lot of the engine itself.
Oh man, I loved python. The only thing, which bothered me, were the python 3d game engines. Panda 3d was just a mess (atleast for me), because it didn't felt organized and mostly didn't really work. You needed to setup a lot of things to make it run properly. Don't know if it is still the case today. If python would have had a capable and straightforward 3d rendering engine, I would have stayed .
My game will be something between a third person flying shooter/dodger and a FPS. There will be some scenarios, where you need to dodge bullets/projectiles coming at you, where you need to get to a specific location (there will be some defense mechanisms too, but you have not the ability to spam them.)
When you reach the location, you will get down to the ground and enter the FPS mode, where you need to shoot these girls, because they want to consume you.
ME!ME!ME! is about an otaku, which can't escape the endless cycle of being an otaku. His social contacts deteriorated because of his otaku life style and his addiction to anime and anime related stuff has overcome him. He need to break free to live a normal life again. In the video itself, he is being defeated by his addiction. But in my game, you will get the chance to escape your addiction (and I plan on making it pretty difficult^^).
Right now, you can already fly around, enter FPS mode with the LShift key and shoot at the girls, which explode on hit (with green goo of course^^). The AI is responding to your movements and shooting mechanics + visual stuff are already done. I probably will post a little video in the next few days showing some things in a humorous video .
|2015-07-22, 07:52
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Python is an excellent language for everything... except for making games. Seriously, it's bafflingly bad. There's PyGame (which produces fugly results) and the PySDL bindings of course, but the moment where shit really hits the fan is when the time comes to release whatever it is that you've done. People don't usually keep a Python interpreter with all the relative libraries installed on their computer, and making a standalone executable with stuff like py2exe is a honest to God NIGHTMARE. I gave up on that a long time ago. If someone will ever develop a decent game engine in Python, with a decent build system attached, I will throw all of my money at them.
Javascript, on the other hand, has Phaser.js, which is spectacularly good. If I have to make a game for the Web that's my go-to solution, Unity's WebGL export function is so slow and bugged it isn't even funny.
|2015-07-22, 08:48
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Yes, I didn't come across a half decent engine for python either. It is such a shame, because I like the module like approach.
I used unity and a lot of other engines. Unity is in some respect better than UE4, because it is more intuitive to use. Most of the time however, I end up using UE4, despite the fact that certain things are sometimes obstructed by making it more complicated than it should be. Gimbal lock is one of these problems. They could implement a simple node, which would calculate in quats and 2 or 3 nodes, which take in quats to set the objects rotation. I would do it myself, but I don't want to update my custom made node everytime UE4 updates it's engine (they do it a lot and I like it^^).
Unity Webgl....... Oh no... That is crap indeed .
Ah, btw: If you need some art/3d/ game related, I would give you a hand (of course for free^^). You seem like a person, which I would gladly help if you need any .
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|2015-07-22, 12:16
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I've made a lot of jam games myself, mostly in C# with XNA.
My most well-received game is probably Conquering Oneself
which is an RPG/Puzzle hybrid in which you fight against yourself in a JRPG battle system.
My most popular game is a toss-up between Hikikomori Manager 2012
which is a game in which you're a hikikomori trying to survive or recover, which to this day keeps getting short tiny bursts of local popularity due to its unique subject, and World of Minimalism
which is a persistent world drawing game in which you simply walk around and draw the world on a central server; it received a short burst of significant popularity (being posted on freeindiegam.es and Rock Paper Shotgun) but has been dead ever since.
The game I made that I like most is MusicRunner, a still-unreleased game I worked 5 months full-time on back in 2012 but which ran into issues for publishing and couldn't be released until a couple months ago; to publish it now I'd have to contact the other developer that worked on the project, make it release-ready and somehow let people know it exists so it doesn't result in less than 10 downloads total.
I think the game wasn't bad, but it wasn't really fun enough to replay. I like the combo system that reduces your multiplier over time rather than harshly erasing it entirely when you're not comboing, though I feel that my main issue with unlimited combo systems, the fact that your early scoring is meaningless and the score practically only depends on how high you get the combo counter (aka how long you survive in a single life), is very much present in this game. Perhaps you could set an upper limit for the combo counter, or reset it periodically (like at the start of every new wave) to resolve this? I also felt that the difficulty ramps up too slowly, discouraging repeat plays as the early game becomes too boring.
While I don't disagree with the prioritization of convenience above performance, this issue cascades further and further until it reaches ridiculous levels. You should try coding Assembly for the NES, and you'll be surprised just how fast 1 MHz is. With that knowledge, it's utterly bizarre that something as 'simple' as Spelunky would lag on a machine with 4x 2000 MHz. But it happens because of countless cut corners in the dozens of underlying implementations it makes use of.
|2015-07-22, 16:06
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I understand where you come from. My main reason for using Unity is that I'm a programmer as a job already, and I write low-to-mid-level code all day most days. So when I spend time on my hobby I want to kick back, relax, and see results quick and dirty. Unity strikes me as a good balance because it still relies a lot on C# code and is optimized for 3D games so can handle most 2D stuff with ease (though I am sure it adds a lot of overhead due to its ugly approach of making a 2D game as a 3D game without perspective and with sprites painted as textures on quads, which makes my OCD programmer's soul cringe a bit when I think about it). On my job I hate with a passion all the block code/high level crap people uses for clearly low level tasks (there's a lot of that in the scientific environment, academics are hardly more competent at coding than game developers).
It's funny you mention Javascript as a paragon of high-level language because as I said I can assure you, as someone who works with Javascript a lot - it is HELLA FAST. It beats pure Python by one order of magnitude at basic tasks. Throw WebGL in for rendering and you've got something you can make almost anything with. And I mentioned that framework, Phaser.js - from what you said about XNA, I think you would enjoy it a lot. Give it a try.
(though of course Javascript, syntax-wise, is also FUCKING UGLY, but that's not here nor there)
And I didn't know that about Spelunky but it doesn't surprise me. The thing was made in Game Maker. There's even worse examples. Some time ago I bought Magicmaker on GOG.com. It's a 2D platformer game about creating your own spells to progress through the levels by combining effects you gather. It looks like this:
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and it manages to lag on a freakin' quad core laptop with a Geforce GT nVidia graphic card. I was screaming at the thought of how fucking incompetent a programmer has to be to let that happen. I think the problem is an indiscriminate and irresponsible use of particle systems, but who knows. Either way, it's just dumb. And yeah, it's made with Game Maker too, I believe.
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|2015-07-22, 18:58
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Wow. The thread is getting image heavy .
Well... I focus on engines, which I can work with, without watching a slideshow. On the other hand I want an engine, which is efficient. I can't do anything with an engine, which is barebones and efficient as hell, but on the other hand is unintuitive and complicated to use. Because I tried a variety of game engines, I noticed several speed changes in my workflow. This was most of the time due to the accessibility of tools and the interface itself. An engine can also be easy as hell, but run like crap and cripple computers running the "finished" game/output. The best I've come across is in fact UE4. And Gan HOPE326 found Unity to be the best for his purposes.
To be more precise: It is to 90% the users fault, when something runs bad. Even in the past the programmers had to cheat to achieve certain effects and it is the same nowadays. Developing good programming habits is the best way to avoid problems. Even with the blueprint scripting I have to think outside the box the whole time. Heck, I even alienated the decal system of UE4 to do something it is not supposed to do and it runs well .
I agree that there are speed differences in any language, but knowing these limitations can actually make a big difference, because you know the enemy you are fighting. Probably the best example is minecraft. An open world sandbox game, with destructible environment, AI and such on java? No way!
Still it was possible to do. I think knowing your environment, the limitations of the engine and practicing a good programming habit is the key to create performance friendly games, without sacrificing gameplay elements and visual fidelity .
@Gan: I can model a lot. But I can also create anime models and such. Mostly I am working without rotoscope or an artwork sheet. I had to create the integra hellsing character, but finding reference images of integra is impossible. So I don't need concept art, but I have made models based on concept art too^^. If you want to see pics, just write it in your next reply, because I will need to make a lot of them and because you are the creator of the thread, I will ask for permission^^. Naturally I will tag them with [images], so people can skip it, if they don't want to see them .
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One pastor recently said, "I would rather ride a bucking bronco of a church than try to prop up a dead mule." It's helpful to know if you're going to get either of those beasts before you mount up.
Just as the search committee is going to be thorough, the candidate needs to be thorough, as well. Asking is critical. Here is a list of strategic questions to help you discern any potential problems when you're seeking that "perfect" church.
1. How would you describe your church?
Does the committee tend to define itself by its past, or is it excited about dreams for the future? Do the core values look inward or outward? Rick Ezell, pastor of Naperville (Illinois) Baptist Church, believes it's similar to describing an individual: "I can say, 'I'm tall, but I'd like to be taller. I'm growing, but I'm not growing like I should.' I'm listing a lot of negative inflections." That may point to some past conflict or a negative spirit.
2. Why was the church started?
Was the church born out of a split? "Even if it's 100 years old," says Leroy Armstrong, pastor of Greater Good Hope Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, "there's a good possibility that through the generations since the split, that spirit of fighting might still be in the church."
3. What is this church's purpose?
Have they defined its mission? Does it have a well-thought-out strategy?
4. What is your unique role in this community?
What sets this church apart from other churches in terms of character, culture, staff? What specific people groups does it reach out to, or what specific ministries does it operate that no other church in this community does?
5. How would a neighbor around the church portray this congregation?
"When I asked this of one search committee, a couple of guys looked at me like, 'Why would you want to know that?'" said John Beukema of the Village Church in Western Springs, Illinois. "That told me a bundle about them. They were not thinking about outreach."
6. What is this church's theology?
Does the church have a commitment to follow Jesus Christ as head?
7. How would you describe the atmosphere of
- worship
- small group Bible studies
- board meetings
- business meetings
- special events.
Do members of the committee agree or do they give opposite answers?
8. What are the three areas you feel must be changed in this church? What three areas definitely should not be changed?
The answers should tell you how the church perceives its greatest needs and greatest strengths.
9. How many strong ministries does your church have?
The number of ministries will indicate how involved the membership is.
10. What new ministry initiatives has the church launched in the last five years?
If none, you may encounter the we've-never-done-it-that-way-before syndrome.
11. If you knew you couldn't fail, what would your dreams be for this church?
Leroy Armstrong recognizes that "invariably the pulpit search committee is made up of influential, respected people. If they don't have any dreams, it's not likely that many in the congregation will have any."
12a. What are the statistics on church membership for the last five years?
With these you can get clues to past conflicts or splits, or if the general momentum is up or down. If membership is declining, the key question is:
12b. Why do you think there has been a membership decline?
Churches that are declining or in a plateau may still be healthy. Perhaps the general population in that area is receding.
13. Do you have a plan for growth?
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The Maldivian islands are as typical as one sees them in travel editorials: pristine beaches surrounded by crystal clear waters set against azure skies. The dives were nice but not particularly exciting as the underwater sightings were relatively common for seasoned divers. However, marine life was not the intended highlight of this trip anyway: being on board the luxurious Princess Lara (dreammaldives.mv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=11) for a dive safari was. She is indeed one of very few brand new luxury liveaboards circling the atolls of the Maldivian paradise.
Have absentmindedly left out a clip of convoy of eagle rays at Rasdhoo Madivaru (but they were a tad too far out anyway). Also omitted are the countless sharks in the one dive at Bathala Kon Thila (camera batteries out of juice). Otherwise, manta rays aplenty in here. Enjoy.
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When I am trying to load data from rails db with emberjs + ember data I am getting this error
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VMware starts VMware Hosted Beta Program
Duncan Epping posted today in his personal blog that VMware opened a new Hosted Beta Program, based on the same technologies used for the Hands-On Labs (HOL) at VMworld, that allows registered users to try VMware's products in pre-build online Lab environments supported with guided workflows.
As Duncan says:
.. without the need to build-out infrastructure onsite ..
.. is a great opportunity to test-drive products and provide VMware with your feedback on the features still under development. On top of that this will allow you to spend 1-2 hour blocks to get acquainted with new technology, without the need to be on-site. You can do this at the office, or at home with just a connection to the internet.
If you are interested and want to learn more about the VMware Beta Program you can go here:http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta
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Current management thinking largely assumes that a well functioning organisation is akin to a well oiled machine.1 This leads to the notion that performance is optimised when work is specified in detail and shared out to distinct operational units.2 Clinicians often object to these detailed specifications, while managers bemoan a lack of cooperation.3
The first article in this series introduced an alternative to the machine metaphor; that of a complex adaptive system (CAS).4 In this article we describe applications of complexity thinking in the organisation and management of health care.
The interactions within a complex adaptive system are often more important than the discrete actions of the individual parts. As the examples below illustrate, a productive or generative relationship occurs when interactions among parts of a complex system produce valuable, new, and unpredictable capabilities that are not inherent in any of the parts acting alone.5
Although health care depends largely on productive interaction, the organisation and management of its delivery surprisingly does not always reflect this insight. In the United Kingdom, for example, having separate budgets and performance targets for primary care, secondary care, and social services promotes an internal focus on the operation of each of these parts, but not necessarily the good functioning of the system as a whole.
Consider the administration of thrombolytic drugs, which greatly increase survival when given to patients within 60 minutes of the onset of myocardial infarction.6 Following classic performance management thinking, the current national service framework for coronary heart disease in the NHS has established an immediate priority target for acute care trusts to ensure by April 2002 that 75% of eligible patients receive thrombolytic drugs within 30 minutes of arrival at the hospital, while health authorities and primary care trusts are asked to aim for patients to receive them within 60 minutes of calling for professional help.7 Each of these targets, along with others for ambulance response times, segments the timeline into intervals deemed controllable by the separate parts of the system. What if the patient delays for an hour or more hoping that the pain will go away before calling for help, and the ambulance journey requires an additional 25 minutes?8 The acute care, primary care, and ambulance service trusts could indeed be meeting their individual targets, but the patient may not be getting the full benefit intended and receiving treatment within 60 minutes of the onset of infarction.
Complexity based organisational thinking suggests that goals and resources are established with a view towards the whole system, rather than artificially allocating them to parts of the system. We might therefore set a single, whole system, target for thrombolysis within 60 minutes of the onset of myocardial infarction and establish a pooled budget that provides funds for changes intended to meet this target. The pooled budget would include funds from acute care, primary care, ambulance, community, education, and health promotion budgets.
Whole system targets and pooled budgets encourage generative relationships among the various stakeholders that may provoke more creative ideas. For example, thinking together might lead to ideas about symptom awareness campaigns or paramedic support. In widening the focus to the whole system, we might further work to assure that the patient receives aspirin on discharge from hospital and continues it when home. In the current situation, suggested enhancements typically focus only on changes within individual parts of the system and approaches that cross boundaries emerge less frequently. Attention to the overall aim—better patient care—can get lost.
Complexity thinking suggests that current organisational leaders in both policy and operations should begin looking more across the parts and at the system as a whole. The National Health Service might be better thought of as the National Health System.9
Creative progress towards a difficult goal can emerge from a few, flexible, simple rules, or so called minimum specifications.10 However, current organisational thinking is built largely on the assumptions that plans for progress must provide the "best" way, completely specified in great detail, and consistently implemented in that same level of detail across the board. This thinking, often reflected in the NHS in such things as national service frameworks or detailed guidelines with newly specified standards, fails to take advantage of the natural creativity embedded in the organisation, and fails to allow for the inevitable unpredictability of events.
Minimum specifications typically provide four things that create an environment in which innovative, complex behaviours can emerge: direction pointing; boundaries; resources; permissions. In the case of the administration of thrombolytic drugs, leaders from the system (primary care, acute care trusts, etc) would create a forum for the various stakeholders to engage in a dialogue that yields the set of minimum specifications for moving forward shown in box boxB1.B1.
These minimum specifications provide wide space for innovation and encourage shared action. They are both a product of and a facilitator for future generative relationships. Minimum specifications build on whole system targets and pooled budgets and help those involved to translate these into concrete actions. Because these specifications are the product of organisational dialogue, they are not perfect and will evolve over time. They might include items that are idiosyncrasies of the stakeholders involved—for example, specifying that no new acute care beds are to be called for and the endorsement of at least three stakeholders will be required. These idiosyncrasies may be dropped over time but for now the members of the system may need them in order to deal with the anxiety naturally associated with taking a bold approach. Paradox, tension, and anxiety are natural byproducts of complex systems; in human systems, as the system evolves, we can use minimum specifications to help us cope with this anxiety.
The concept of minimum specifications is already being applied to redesign health care. A multiregional group in the United Kingdom concerned with care for elderly people produced the minimum specifications (box (boxB2)B2) for the better design of these systems. These rules emerged from a dialogue following a day of presentations by the various groups describing their recent innovations. Reflecting on innovations in the system offers pointers toward previously unexpressed minimum specifications that take us beyond the current norm. A committee of the Institute of Medicine in the United States charged with articulating a design for the healthcare system of the 21st century used a similar process to identify transitions from a current set of simple rules to a new set (box (boxB3B3).11 Combining these with an understanding of intrinsic motivation—"attractors," as described in the next section—might enable hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals to engage in the enormous task of transforming the US healthcare system.12
Best practices are often frustratingly slow to spread in health systems. Current thinking attributes this largely to the phenomenon of "resistance to change." If the organisation were running like a well oiled machine, then indeed we should be able to install a best practice in an organisation, just as we might install a higher performance carburettor on a car—if the new part fails to fit smoothly, we just need to give it a good whack to get it in. In this view of organisations, strong leaders are needed to overcome resistance and install best practices from elsewhere.
The metaphor of complex adaptive systems acknowledges the behaviour that we label resistance to change, but suggests that, rather than resisting anything, behaviour follows natural attractor patterns in the system13—for example, a desire to focus attention on underserved patient groups (box (boxB4).B4). This helps to explain how the same person can be sometimes innovative and sometimes resistant to change; their behaviour might be associated with poorly understood attractor patterns. By asking the sorts of questions illustrated in the box, organisational leaders might find more positive ways to encourage change.
Simply understanding system attractors is not always sufficient to bring about change. For systems to change they generally require tension for change.19 Careful sharing of meaningful information that touches natural attractors or creates new ones can lead those within the systems to feel they must change.20
Efforts within the NHS to identify naturally occurring better practices and beacon sites are consistent with the theory of complex adaptive systems. Problems occur, however, when learning is transformed into a recipe and attached to a centrally set target. The problem is compounded when those advocating the change construct the case for it in terms that match their own natural attractors, rather than explaining it in ways that match the attractors of others.
Leadership inspired by complexity theory recognises that change occurs naturally within the system and that individuals engage in this effort for a variety of reasons. Good practice will spread more quickly within the health care system if leaders acknowledge and respect the patterns reflected in the past efforts of others to innovate. The leader's role is to create systems that disseminate rich information about better practices, allowing others to adapt those practices in ways that are most meaningful to them.
Because of our desire to control the organisation as a machine, we are tempted to conclude that variation is undesirable. Certainly when common operation rates vary fourfold without any obvious clinical reason it is hard to dispute this.21 However, variation is natural within any complex system where there is interaction between many different factors. Furthermore, innovation is, by definition, variation outside the norm. A strict call to eliminate all variation is simply an appeal to the machine metaphor, and it will have the byproduct of stifling innovation.
Complexity thinking helps us sort out the paradox of variation as both potentially desirable and undesirable. For issues where there is a high degree of certainty about the outcome from an action, and a high degree of agreement among those who will take the action, it is appropriate to think in machine terms and reduce variation.10 Taking aspirin after myocardial infarction in the absence of contraindications is a clear example. Even where high degrees of certainty and agreement have existed traditionally, occasional variation can still be desirable for the sake of learning. For instance, analysing variation of postoperative infection rates in a group of hospitals clearly showed that some were performing considerably better than the others.16 Rather than chastising those who "fail to make the grade," it would be more advantageous to study how variations in structure and process in the more successful hospitals contribute to variations in outcome.
Leaders at all levels need to develop a more sophisticated view of the role of variation in complex systems. This can be accomplished by exploring with others the degree of certainty and agreement around both the "what" and the "how" of a given issue, along with an understanding that innovation requires occasional variation even when all seems certain and agreed.
The science of complex adaptive systems brings new concepts that can provide fresh understandings of troubling issues in the organisation and management of delivery of health care. We have argued that effective organisation and delivery of health care does not need detailed targets and specifications, nor should it focus primarily on "controlling the process" or "overcoming resistance." Rather, those who seek to change an organisation should harness the natural creativity and organising ability of its staff and stakeholders through such principles as generative relationships, minimum specification, the positive use of attractors for change, and a constructive approach to variation in areas of practice where there is only moderate certainty and agreement.
Perhaps the biggest barrier to these approaches prompted by complexity thinking are the incumbent leaders of health systems who have risen within the hierarchy based on command and control methods. It is encouraging to note that the army, the stereotypical example of command and control leadership, is one of the pioneers in embracing new approaches based on complexity theory.22 We are also encouraged by the fact that health systems around the world, including the NHS, are putting great emphasis on the development of leaders who can work in ways different from what has traditionally been expected.23 If the military can successfully replace the field general with the facilitator, we have high hopes that the NHS can make a similar transition.
This is the third in a series of four articles
Series editors: Trisha Greenhalgh and Paul Plsek
For his Harkness fellowship, during which the ideas presented here were developed, TW was supported by the Commonwealth Fund, a private independent foundation based in New York City. The views presented here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Commonwealth Fund, its directors, officers, or staff. PEP is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Boston, USA).
Competing interests: None declared
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René Acevedo, Julia's twin, is diagnosed with Schizophrenia during his first year of college. This severe and persistent mental illness becomes the backdrop for the changes that rock the lives of each member of the Acevedo family in my first novel Covering the Sun with My Hand. As I was immersed in creating the play
I am visible within the invisible
Scrolling on social media I read that having expectations is like having premeditated resentments. I can relate to that, not so much that I'm resentful but that I'm in a place of questioning my creative and professional lives again. The last time I posted was over a month ago. When I wrote that last one I promised myself