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Five Day ForecastLocated just a 15 minute walk from the hotel, Anting Old Street embodies the charm of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The street lies both sides of the Anting River and offers unique shops and scenery. Don't forget to visit the YongAn Pagoda, a nine story tower with spectacular views of the town. The Shanghai Auto Museum showcases almost 70 cars from multiple brands and every important era in the industry's history. Discover one of the best car showrooms in the world—visitors can walk around the hall and gaze longingly at some of the most iconic vehicles in existence. Set over multiple floors, the museum exhibits everything you could ever want to know about cars. Starting with the humble wheel and taking you through a lesson in auto motive history—petrol heads and modern history buffs alike will love it. Don't miss the Shanghai Auto Park located between the museum with spectacular views and attractions.
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Well, truth be told, the employees who are closest to the customers have some of the answers. However, if you never talk to them — never solicit their input — and only tell them what to do, they will disown your vision because they won't feel the vision promise in their gut. Instead of being passionate champions, they operate under the belief, "I'll just do my job and be gone, because leadership doesn't care about me, nor do they truly believe in giving us an ownership stake."
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Born to Be Mild
Nearly a half century after the havoc in Hollister, Harley-Davidsons have passed from the clutches of outlaw motorcycle cults to become the weekend playthings of RUBies--rich urban bikers
By Randy Fishel
FROM THE FOUR CORNERS of the North American continent, from Europe, Australia, South America and even Asia, in a thundering herd of speeding motorcycles, will come the new riders of the apocalypse. Drenched in black leather with new bandannas tied loosely around their necks, they'll grip tightly to the reins of their iron horses with skull-ringed fingers as they race to a date with destiny at the seat of creation, the place of primordial ooze: Hollister, California.
It is conceivable that more than 350,000 motorcyclists could show up in this small town of 19,000 residents on July 4, 1997. They will be there to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a minor disturbance that has grown to mythic proportions. Called a "motorcycle riot" by the local papers in 1947, the event was later glamorized in Stanley Kramer's 1953 classic film, The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando. Bound up for decades between legend and reality, it is still considered the seminal moment in the development of the "motorcycle outlaw" genre.
Hollister, it seems, was born wild. The town was named after pioneer and cattle rancher Joseph Hubbard Hollister, who was responsible for the first thundering herd to arrive there, driven across the plains to California in 1853. Many years later, after the impact of internal-combustion engines and those strange motorized bicycles that became the new "iron horses," the pastoral setting of small-town Hollister became the ideal location for a stop on the "Gypsy Tour."
The Gypsy Tour was a series of motorcycle competitions sponsored by the American Motorcycle Association. Scheduled during the spring and summer months, spectators and competitors would travel locally, regionally and sometimes across the country to participate. It was a venue for socializing as well as racing.
Harley-Davidson moves from outlaw
War of the Worlds
LIKE MANY OTHER pastimes and lifestyles however, it would be put on hold with the outbreak of the second world war. GIs returning from World War II were considerably different from their counterparts of previous wars. For one thing, there was little doubt about what they had been fighting for this time--the American way of life. Many would marry and settle down, buy a house, raise children and work a steady job.
They would live in and help construct an era when, as L.A. artist Robert Williams once put it, "mediocrity and conformity were next to Godliness."
But many would drift away from the pack. Among the brave and valiant survivors forever changed by the war experience, there was a significant number of ex-GIs who refused to go back to their pre-war existence. They wanted more action. One of the ways to find it was on a big motorcycle with a lot of "drag"--acceleration--and a "growler," a loud, un-muffled exhaust, or "straight-pipe."
Feeling expatriated within their own country, these rebellious riders headed out on the highway, looking for adventure. The motorcycles they chose were mainly American, mostly Harley-Davidson, and the rules of the "sport" they participated in were the ones made up as they went along.
It was such a group of loosely organized, nonaligned motorcyclists that rode into a Harley-Davidson/AMA sponsored "lifestyle" event in Hollister in 1947 on the Fourth of July.
Riders in the Sly: A fun-loving couple are ready to continue their journey from Santa Cruz to San Jose as part of a recent Hell's Angels Poker Run.
Media Turns the Wheels of Mythology
JUST ONE SENSATIONALIZED account of what happened appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, which covered the event in its pages for seven days. Reports of "as many as 12,000 persons" in attendance on the first day transmogrified to an "estimated 4,000 motorcyclists." Despite the inaccuracy, there was something strangely visionary about the Chronicle's editorial that cautioned, "It was a performance which clearly proved that the straight-pipe motorcyclist, individually, has been underestimated as a social anarchist."
Here was the germ of identity, the seed of inspiration, that would grow in the fertile American cultural landscape, nourished by the news and entertainment industry. The media chain-reaction that began with the Bay Area press soon went national. Papers across the country covered the story. Life ran a pictorial documentary with a meager 115 words based on reports from the wire services. In 1949, writer Frank Rooney produced a short narrative called "Cyclist Raid" based on his reading of the Life article. Rooney's narrative was picked up by Harper's and serialized in 1951.
Stanley Kramer read the Harper's serial and came up with the idea for a movie. John Paxton, author of the original screenplay of The Wild One, based his script on Kramer's reading of Harper's. This now classic film developed a theme for a generation to both identify and internalize: the outlaw biker--a myth that would become reality.
The big American motorcycle soon became a vehicle of antisocial mobility. Much to the chagrin of both the Harley-Davidson Motor Company and the American Motorcycle Association, the genre emerged around the late '60s and '70s as an identifiable, circumscribed lifestyle. More than a brand name, Harley-Davidson had become a way of life.
Such a Gas: Found on everything from tacky candleholders to the ubiquitous black T-shirt, the Harley-Davidson logo rings cash registers to the tune of almost $300 million a year.
Image and Manipulation
ANY RIDERS WHO might appear in Hollister these days, however, may be vastly different from their early postwar ancestors, those original "straight-pipers." Still, law enforcement, local business and government officials are working hand-in-hand to try to stop an event that is currently in the planning stages. Many uninvited riders are excepted to attend this Thursday for a much-talked-about warm-up, the 49th anniversary celebration. But just who is in this new motorcycle brigade?
Armchair philosophers have all told us about the de-evolution of the biker outlaw genre from pastime to lifestyle to style. Indeed, for some new riders it has now become a ready-made, weekend identity. Expensive black-leather jackets hang in closets alongside Giorgio Armani suits, and RUBies--rich urban bikers--own $20,000 motorcycles that share garages with high-priced BMW and Mercedes-Benz automobiles. They've become The Wild One for brunch bunch.
But to be fair, there are still some old riders around that were in Hollister in 1947. Some of the founders of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club, members of a bomber support squadron during World War II, were there along with early clubs like the Tulare Rebels and the Boozefighters. Recognizing the historical significance of the original event, the Angels have had an annual Fourth of July run to Hollister since the early '50s.
Then there are the neotraditionalists, those young motorcycle enthusiasts who won't ride any Harley made after 1965. They will be there, too. So will the wide range of riders who participate because they are victims of style, myth consumers, advocates or adventurer wannabes. And you also can expect to see scores of new women riders who are now part of the genre.
At this stage, arguments about authenticity are difficult if not impossible. After all, it's the '90s and riding a bike is as authentic today as it ever was, just as long as the name on the motorcycle says Harley-Davidson. And if it does, there will probably be a whole lot of them in Hollister come this July. You just can't argue with tradition.
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Road Hog: In one of the earliest examples of product placement, Triumph garners a spot under Brando's still-slim butt for "The Wild Ones," although most outlaws laid claim to Harley-Davidson.
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On Thursday (11am), a slew of motorcyclists from all over California will participate in "Johnny Returns: The Legend Ride #1," a commemorative ride from Seaside to Hollister that recalls the weekend immortalized in The Wild One. The event benefits the Polly Klaas Foundation and the Police Youth Activity Fund of Hollister. Those interested should gather at Bill's Monterey Custom Motorcycles, 2033 Del Monte Blvd., Seaside (899-1416).
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SANTA CLARA -- During Jim Harbaugh's press conference on Monday, he was asked about the lack of contributions from the 49ers' top two draft picks, receiver A.J. Jenkins and running back LaMichael James.Here's is that portion of the Q&A:Jim, you talked in July about how A.J. Jenkins is going to be outstanding. Yet, there's an injury (to Kyle Williams) and he doesn't get on the field. And Mario (Manningham) got injured yesterday and A.J. still doesn't get on the field. Why hasn't he been playing?
"Well, there's, we talk about Michael (Crabtree), Randy (Moss), Mario have all been playing at a high level. We're working toward it. He was active and he dressed for the game. And he's being integrated now into the plan."Right now, Ted Ginn was in on the three-wide receiver sets, which obviously means Ted Ginn is ahead of him on the depth chart, too?
"He has been, yes."Do you see that changing?
"Anything's possible there. That's the way it has been."The second-round pick, LaMichael, who seems to be more out of the Kendall Hunter mold than Brandon Jacobs, is there a role for LaMichael James with Kaepernick in those read options?
"Yeah, there's a possibility of that."Why wasn't that the case yesterday?
"It wasn't part of the plan yesterday. But that doesn't mean that it won't be going forward." --Harbaugh said had no update on Manningham, who left the game in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury.--Demarcus Dobbs, a core special-teams player, is expected to be back with the team for Sunday's game against the Miami, Harbaugh said.Dobbs did not travel with the 49ers to St. Louis after he was arrested early Friday morning, on his 25th birthday, for marijuana possession and suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Harbaugh said the team would keep any further discipline internal. Here is the amount of play time from each 49ers player on offense, defense and special teams (Jenkins and Alex Smith were the only players on the 46-man active list who did not play):
Offensive play time
Includes plays nullified by penalty
76 (100 percent) -- LT Joe Staley, RG Alex Boone, RT Anthony Davis, LG Mike Iupati, C Jonathan Goodwin, TE Vernon Davis, QB Colin Kaepernick
66 (87) -- RB Frank Gore
47 (62) -- WR Michael Crabtree
46 (61) -- FB Bruce Miller
39 (51) -- TE Delanie Walker
31 (41) -- WR Randy Moss
27 (36) -- WR Mario Manningham
14 (18) -- WR Ted Ginn
10 (13) -- FB Will Tukuafu
8 (11) -- RB Brandon Jacobs
7 (9) -- OL Daniel Kilgore
6 (8) -- OL Leonard Davis
3 (4) -- TE Garrett CelekDefensive play time
Includes plays nullified by penalty
73 (100) -- S Dashon Goldson, CB Tarell Brown, OLB Aldon Smith, CB Carlos Rogers, S Donte Whitner
71 (97) -- LB NaVorro Bowman
70 (96) -- LB Patrick Willis
69 (95) -- OLB Ahmad Brooks, DT Ray McDonald, DT Justin Smith
46 (63) -- CB Chris Culliver
23 (32) -- NT Isaac Sopoaga
10 (14) -- DT Ricky Jean Francois
8 (11) -- CB Perrish Cox
2 (3) -- DT Will Tukuafu
1 (1) -- OLB Clark HaggansSpecial teams
22 (73) -- Tramaine Brock
20 (67) -- Will Tukuafu, Darcel McBath
19 (63) -- Bruce Miller, Tavares Gooden, Anthony Dixon, C.J. Spillman, Michael Wilhoite
17 (57) -- Larry Grant
11 (37) -- Ted Ginn, Andy Lee
10 (63) -- Brian Jennings
9 (30) -- Dashon Goldson, Chris Culliver, David Akers
7 (23) -- Tarell Brown, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, Ahmad Brooks, Ray McDonald, Isaac Sopoaga, Ricky Jean Francois
6 (20) -- Daniel Kilgore, Garrett Celek, NaVorro Bowman
4 (13) -- Jonathan Goodwin, Joe Staley, Alex Boone, Anthony Davis, Mike Iupati, Leonard Davis, Perrish Cox
2 (7) -- Brandon Jacobs
Still no play time for 49ers' top rookies
Still no play time for 49ers' top rookies
December 3, 2012, 9:12 pm


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#9164 closed defect (fixed)
Error on Windows
Reported by: | pdoup | Owned by: | jun66j5 |
Priority: | normal | Component: | ExcelDownloadPlugin |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.12 |
An error is thrown by Trac when using this plugin on Windows. The following error is thrown in these cases:
WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'c:\\windows\\temp\\tmp4ftjyw'
These errors are ultimately caused by the os.unlink() calls that delete the temporary files. Apparently the files are still in use by the web server or something and Windows won't let them be deleted.
I commented out the unlink lines in the code and was able to get the excel file downloaded. After I downloaded the files, the temporary files could be deleted, so my assumption is that they cannot be deleted until the download is complete.
I also assume you wrote this on *nix so if you need any help testing on windows, please let me know.
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Thanks for your reporting!
Sorry, I haven't tested on Windows. The issue is fixed in r10647 and I tested the latest on Windows.
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I have confirmed the plugin works on Windows.


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All Things Considered host Robert Siegel takes a look at the week ahead in tech with NPR's technology correspondent Steve Henn. This week, Google will release its third-quarter earnings, and they look to be in a position to challenge Microsoft's as the second largest tech company in terms of market capitalization.
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. And it's time now for All Tech Considered.
SIEGEL: First, a look ahead with NPR's technology correspondent Steve Henn. And today...
STEVE HENN, BYLINE: We're going to talk about earnings.
SIEGEL: Specifically, Google's earnings. Later this week, the company will release its third-quarter report. Lately, Google has been on the rise. It's been challenging Microsoft's position as the second largest tech company in terms of market capitalization. Apple is number one. But it seems that all that Googles is not gold. Here's a clue from Steve.
HENN: What I am going to be looking at when it releases its numbers is how Motorola Mobility is doing.
SIEGEL: That's the cell phone company that Google acquired recently.
HENN: Google has already spent more than $300 million on restructuring at Motorola. It's laid off thousands of people. These are the first layoffs at Google ever. And there's some expectation that there might be more layoffs coming. Clearly, you know, this isn't easy for any company. And in some ways, it's harder for a company that in many ways is so successful.
SIEGEL: We'll find out more on Wednesday when Google releases its numbers. And that is our quick look ahead to the week in tech news with NPR's Steve Henn. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Everything You Need To Know About the Blue Screen of Death
The blue screen of death — or BSOD — is always an unwelcome sight. BSODs appear when Microsoft Windows encounters a critical error it can't recover from, requiring a reboot and possibly resulting in lost work.
A blue screen of death is the worst type of error a computer can experience, unlike an application crash, which doesn't bring down the whole system. A BSOD is the result of low-level software crashing — or faulty hardware.
What Causes Blue Screens of Death
Blue screens are generally caused by problems with your computer's hardware or issues with its hardware driver software. Standard software shouldn't be able to cause blue screens — if an application crashes, it will do so without taking the operating system out with it. Blue screens are caused by hardware problems and issues with low-level software running in the Windows kernel.
A blue screen occurs when Windows encounters a "STOP Error." This critical failure causes Windows to crash and stop working. The only thing Windows can do is stop the computer and restart it. This can lead to data loss, as programs don't have a chance to save their open data — ideally, programs should continuously save their data so a blue screen of death or other type of error won't result in data loss.
When a blue screen occurs, Windows automatically creates a "minidump" file that contains information about the crash and saves it to your disk. You can view information about these minidumps to help identify the cause of the blue screen.
Windows Restarts When a BSOD Appears
By default, Windows automatically restarts the computer whenever it encounters a blue screen of death. If your computer is restarting for no apparent reason, it's probably blue-screening.
If you would like to see more detailed error message whenever a blue screen appears, you can disable automatic reboots on BSODs from the Windows Control Panel.
Viewing BSOD Information
NirSoft's free BlueScreenView application offers an easy way to view blue-screen information. It will scan all minidump files created during BSODs and display crash information.
This information is also available in the Windows Event Viewer, where blue screen messages are scattered among application crashes and other system log messages.
If you're a developer looking to debug the memory dumps, try Microsoft's powerful WinDbg debugger.
Troubleshooting BSODs
On Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows, blue-screen information is also displayed in the Action Center. If you experience a blue screen, you can open the Action Center and check for solutions. Windows will analyze the BSODs and other types of errors your computer has experienced before giving you any information it has about fixing the problem.
You can often get more information about a blue screen error by searching for the specific error message — like "Driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal", for example. Windows 8′s new blue-screen message encourages you to perform a web search for the error message to learn more.
Useful Tips for Dealing With BSODs
BSODs have a variety of root causes, but these tips will help you deal with many blue screens:
- Use System Restore: If your system recently started blue-screening, use System Restore to roll its system software back to a previous state. If this works, you'll know that it's likely a software problem.
- Scan for Malware: Malware that digs deep into Windows and gets its hooks into the Windows kernel at a low level can cause system instability. Scan your computer for malware to ensure buggy malicious software isn't causing it to crash.
- Install Updated Drivers: An incorrectly installed or buggy driver can lead to crashes. Download the latest drivers for your computer's hardware from your computer manufacturer's website and install them — this may fix BSODs caused by driver problems.
- Boot Into Safe Mode: If your computer is blue-screening every time you turn it on, try booting into safe mode. In safe mode, Windows loads only the essential drivers. If a driver you've installed is causing Windows to blue screen, it shouldn't do so in safe mode. You can work on fixing the problem from safe mode.
- Check for Hardware Problems: Blue screens can be caused by faulty hardware in your computer. Try testing your computer's memory for errors and checking its temperature to ensure that it isn't overheating.
- Reinstall Windows: Reinstalling Windows is the nuclear option. It will blow away your existing system software, replacing it with a fresh Windows system. If your computer continues to blue screen after this, you likely have a hardware problem.
A computer in proper working state shouldn't blue-screen at all, but no software or hardware is perfect. Even a properly functioning computer may blue screen on rare occasions for no apparent reason — possibly as the result of rare driver bugs or hardware issues.
If your computer is regularly blue-screening, you have a problem. If you encounter a blue screen once every two years, don't worry about it.
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Nothing goes better with a turkey sandwich than a full day of college football. The season is winding down. There's a lot at stake as teams look ahead to bowl games and to the national title. Thanksgiving weekend brings about some of the great rivalries in college football. And here to give us a preview of the weekend is Chris Dufresne, who covers college football for the L.A. Times.
Chris, welcome.
CHRIS DUFRESNE: Well, thanks for having me.
WERTHEIMER: Let's start with the big story for the weekend, which I think would be undefeated Notre Dame, number one for the first time in nearly two decades. They're facing USC in Los Angeles. The stakes are very high.
DUFRESNE: Well, they're very high for Notre Dame. They're not as high for USC. In fact, the scenario here was actually supposed to be flipped, and USC was the number one team in the country in the preseason, and Notre Dame was lightly regarded in terms of being in the national title chase, because they haven't really been in it in 20 years.
But, you know, the script has flipped. USC has had a disappointing season, and Notre Dame has really had a season out of nowhere. They are the only undefeated team left in the national title hunt. Now, if they lose on Saturday, then we're going to have a real mess. 'Cause then we're going to have six, seven, eight teams, possibly, at the end of the year all with one loss. And now you start digging into the hardware about who they played, when they played, and that will get very interesting.
WERTHEIMER: Well, it'll give us something to do now that we can no longer discuss the Electoral College.
DUFRESNE: Well, it's funny you say that, because, you know, Nate Silver, the nerd mastermind of the FiveThirtyEight blog, he's now delving into college football, now he's done with the political scene. So maybe he'll get into the BCS mess here if Notre Dame loses to USC.
WERTHEIMER: Do you, as a completely rational man of sport, pay any attention to the Sports Illustrated jinx? Notre Dame's on the cover.
DUFRESNE: I do pay attention to it, because Kansas State was on the cover last week.
WERTHEIMER: And look what happened.
DUFRESNE: And look what happened. It is unbelievable. And the thing about sports is that there are so many of these things you just can't put your finger on. And, of course, it's silliness. But, you know, maybe in a psychological way, it gets into a team's or player's head, just by fact that they are on the cover, that they're thinking about it.
These are not professional athletes. These are 18, 19, 20-year-old kids. I have never seen a sport where the psychology of the sport is so fundamental to the outcome.
WERTHEIMER: So who is going to be playing for the national title in January? What do you think?
DUFRESNE: There's only one team out there that could still be undefeated and play for the national title, and that's Notre Dame. There's going to be six or seven teams with one loss that will make a case for why they should be number two. The easiest one to say is the SEC champion, Alabama or Georgia. They're headed for a collision course next week in Atlanta. And the SEC has won six straight BCS titles. And so the champion of the SEC really controls its own fate.
Now, if Notre Dame loses - and I'd say there's a better than 50/50 chance that Notre Dame will lose to USC - then I think you're back to Alabama versus Oregon in the title game.
WERTHEIMER: What is the one game that you really want to watch?
DUFRESNE: The game I'm going to is the game I'm looking forward to most: Notre Dame at USC. And there's nothing better than one of the teams having a chance to go to the national title and the other team having a chance to deny that team.
WERTHEIMER: That's Chris Dufresne at the Los Angeles Times. Chris, thank you so much for talking to us.
DUFRESNE: OK. Thanks for having me.
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Happy Chinese New Year from ReignDesign!
We had a busy year of the horse! 2014 was the first year for our new Chile office. We explored iBeacons, helped people swipe through their support tickets, attended cool events like Barcamp, CocoaHeads and GMIC, got kicking for the World Cup, helped a local entrepreneur, made some Shanghai street signs, figured out a more agile way to price apps, discovered two ways to build a pyramid, got ready for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, made some awesome educational games, celebrated Christmas, and welcomed our newest team member Anukriti.
Who knows what the year of the sheep will bring? We're hoping it'll be a baaaaaaa-d ass year!
The Barcelona office welcomed the year of the Sheep with beer...and popcorn.
Singing...yelling, it's all the same at KTV
Tuo wows Jason with his melodious voice
Nobody cares what the fox says!
Educational Games: Not Just Child's Play
I recently presented at the Game Developers Conference China on the topic of Educational Kids' Apps. Here's a summary of my talk.
We all know that kids really love tablets: the immediacy of interacting on them, the games they can play, and the creative opportunities. But what do their parents think?
A lot of parents' concern is that if their kid uses an iPad too much, they'll end up looking like this:
A lot of research has already been done into how kids use phones and tablets and how their parents react to this usage. In the United States, PBS ran a study on how kids use mobile devices and mobile apps from pre-kindergarten to grade 3.
Parents restrict the time their kids spend on phones and tablets.
"A very popular control tactic for parents was to limit the time a child could spend on the device."
A common tactic is to limit screen time. But there's an important caveat:
"As long as their child was playing with what they deemed to be an educational app, he or she could stay on their device for longer periods."
If you are creating an educational app, you have an exciting opportunity because parents are willing to let their kids play with your app for much longer than they would otherwise.
Let's explore that opportunity in thinking about what makes a great kids app: what is it that really distinguishes the educational apps that reach the top of the App Store from the rest?
I narrowed it down to five things: the CUBED model of educational app success.
Creativity, Understanding, Branding, Emotion ...and one more, which I'll come to later.
C is for Creativity
A friend who lives in Shanghai was recently looking for a coloring book for his child. He went to one of the local bookstores and tried to find a coloring book. Here's a photo of one of the books he found:
This is a typical Chinese coloring book. On the right, the child is supposed to color in the bird. However, on the left the book tells you exactly which colors to use and where. Looking through all the books in the bookstore, they were all like this:
There's even a notice on the page:
"When coloring, be sure to use different colors for the different parts of the dragonfly's body."
Now, what if your child wants to do this:
What if your child wants to color over the edges of the lines? What if your child wants to make a dog that is bright pink? Or a sky that is yellow?
When thinking about your app, you must be really careful not to limit the amazing imaginations that children have. Kids won't do what you expect them to do. They won't carefully drag a character across the screen. Maybe they'll smash both hands on the screen at once. Can your app cope with that?
In designing an educational app, there's a continuum in terms of how much freedom we allow the player to have.
On the left hand side, we have a storybook. If you have an existing, printed book it's relatively easy to make an iPad app version by layering interactivity on to your existing graphics. Now, a character will speak when tapped on, or you can trigger an animation when the child taps on an item. I've seen a lot of really great storybook apps, but they don't really make the most of the opportunities the medium allows.
On the right hand side, you have sandbox games. We know kids love real-life sandboxes! And there are plenty of non-digital examples of "sandbox" toys, like Lego. Give children building blocks and you have the potential to unlock a huge amount of creativity. Minecraft is a very popular game amongst kids, as well as being a powerful tool. But launching a new sandbox game is hard. It requires a lot of pre-planning in terms of what building blocks you are going to create, how you're going to encourage people to create amazing things, and how you can demonstrate the educational value of your app to parents.
In the middle is guided play, as you see in a Piiig Labs app. When you're doing an experiment in Piiig Labs, you aren't told exactly what to do. But we guide the child in the right direction though positive reinforcement. If you're trying to get the child to do something quite complicated, like building a volcano, designing a circuit, or making a radio, you need to gently guide them in the right direction.
U is for understanding
There are two critical things that you need to get right for making an education game for kids:
- 1. Understanding your audience
- 2. Your audience understanding your game
Educational games have two audiences. There is the parent, who typically is the person who buys the app, the person who leaves reviews, and the person who sets time constraints on the child's use of the app. And there is the child themselves, who wants to be entertained and delighted.
So, being an educational game designer, you have to act like a psychologist, getting into the minds of these two distinct audiences.
How can we make kids understand your game? One powerful tool you can use is repetition. One powerful tool you can use is repetition. One powerful tool you can use is repetition. Keep repeating something and kids notice.
But isn't repetition boring? When I was a child, I really enjoyed a television program called Postman Pat.
It's about a postman who goes around a village and delivers letters. Every week, I would sit and watch this program, and I really enjoyed it. A few years ago, I was reading Wikipedia and I discovered that only 13 episodes of this program were made. I'd been watching the same 13 episodes again and again and again as a child! And yet, I never remember finding it repetitive or boring.
And it doesn't need to be exact repetition. So for example in Piiig Labs, we use a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is used to bring in the different pieces that are required to solve the particular experiment that you're currently working on. For each experiment, different sets of items are brought in. By repeating that mechanism of bringing them in on the conveyor belt, that helps children understand how each new kit works.
B is for branding
I was inspired by this quote from James Huggins who runs an educational game company called Made In Me.
"Always think about more than one app with every single idea that you're doing."
Why do you need more than one app? Well, educational games are special. While the rest of the industry is heavily dominated by freemium, you can still charge premium prices in kids' categories, but upfront pricing means a lack of ongoing revenue. If you only have one app, you constantly have to find new customers. If you have a portfolio of apps, you can sell more than one app to your loyal customers.
Who does this well? TocaBoca is one of the most popular and enduring kids apps brands. Here's a selection of apps that they've made.
Why is TocaBoca so successful in branding? It's because, as a parent, if I buy a TocaBoca app, I know what to expect. I know the kind of game play, I know the style, I know it will be educational, I know my child won't be pushed any in app purchases, I know the value I can expect my child to derive from this game.
At ReignDesign, we have published many games, and a few years ago we decided to put these under a single brand called Reign Games. But there was a critical problem that limited the success of this as a branding exercise: all of these five apps were really quite different genres:
- Spot the Difference, a photo hunt puzzle game
- Pig Rush, an infinite runner action game
- Zombies and Mummies, a real-time strategy game
- Flockwork, a quick-thinking puzzle game.
- Monster Chorus, a kids' music app.
Without the consistency between our apps, there was no guarantee that a player who had downloaded and enjoyed Pig Rush would also enjoy, say, Spot the Difference.
But build a brand that parents trust and you've got a really powerful tool for cross promotion, and for generating a recurring stream of revenue for you to develop your next concept.
E is for emotion
The best kids' apps are apps that allow kids to experience varied emotions. There's a tendency with many games to really focus on fun, which is understandable - after all, it's a game. But look outside of games for a moment: if you read some children's books or look at children's television, you'll see that the characters are not always happy. There are moments in these media where characters are lonely, scared, sad, or frustrated.
To create an experience, which is more than an endless "sugar rush", we need those same emotions to come through in our games.
So any character you put into your app needs to be capable of expressing multiple emotions, even something as simple as the light bulb in Piiig Labs. We didn't want the lightbulb to feel like an inanimate object: we wanted him to have some personality. Sure, sometimes he's happy, but sometimes he's sleepy; sometimes he's cheeky.
So that brings me on to my final letter, D. We have discussed Creativity, Understanding, Branding, and Emotion. But there's one more factor that separates the really successful games from the really unsuccessful games. And that's Dumb Luck.
D is for Dumb Luck.
I've been attending the GDC conference in Shanghai every year for the last six years, and this is the first time I have given a talk. For many years, I sat in the audience trying to understand: what really is it that separates me from the people who are standing on the stage? Why is it that all their games are successful, and mine are not? They must have some sort of top-secret formula for understanding what makes a perfect game.
Imagine you throw lots of darts at a dartboard. This is the app market.
Look! The yellow one in the middle hit the bull's-eye. What was special about that yellow dart? Actually - nothing, it's the same plastic dart as all the other darts.
When you only consider the winners, the successful people, the successful games, that's called Survivorship bias.
In World War II, there were many soldiers who flew fighter planes like this one.
And it was a very, very dangerous profession.
Many of the people who set out in the planes would be shot down by enemy gunfire and never make it home. And so the General asked some scientists to have a look at the planes and try to find ways to protect the planes to make them safer. And so the scientists looked at the planes that returned back to the base, and they saw that a lot of gunfire (there were a lot of holes), a lot of damage on the wings of the plane, and so they were saying, well, it looks like it's the wings that are taking a lot of damage. What we need to do is add some extra armor, some extra protection on those wings. But that would have been a mistake. Because then someone pointed out that the planes we're looking at, the planes with the holes in the wings, these are the ones that survived; these are the planes that made it back home. The planes that were hit with gunfire in a really critical place, crashed. They never made it back home. So if you look at the battle scars, that's telling you where not to put the protection.
And people go on stage and say things that are completely wrong. I attended GDC five years ago, and I remember there was an executive from Zynga who was talking about social and mobile games.
So while you're at GDC, listen to the inspiring stories that people up here on stage are telling you. But don't think that there's anything that special about the people. They're just regular developers like you and I, who did all the right things and then hit it lucky and had a great hit.
Be inspired by the people on stage, but don't feel like you have to copy everything they do. And if you can create a game that kids love and parents love, and that really teaches kids amazing things then you have to be much less worried about this happening: and more about this….putting amazing ideas into the brains of children.
Thank you very much.
Preparing for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screen sizes
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll be aware that Apple announced two new iPhone models yesterday, as well as a nice piece of jewellery.
For iOS app developers and designers, one of the most significant changes is to the screen sizes of the new iPhones, which differ significantly from what came before.
The first iPhones, up to the 3GS, had a 320×480 screen. When the iPhone 4 was launched, it came with a Retina display, doubling the number of physical pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions, while keeping the screen and UI elements the same size. Developers rushed to add @2x assets to their apps for the 320×480@2x screen.
The iPhone 5 was the first iPhone which changed the aspect ratio, and increased the usable screen area to 320×568@2x. Since only the height changed, it was relatively easy for developers to add additional height to certain elements, and fit the new screen.
Now we have two new screen sizes to contend with. The iPhone 6 is an effective 375×667@2x, both wider and taller than the iPhone 5 family.
The iPhone 6 Plus's screen is a weird beast. Assets will need to be provided @3x for a 414×736@3x screen, meaning for example a full screen image would be 1242× 2208. However the physical iPhone 6 Plus's display panel is only 1080× 1920, therefore software downsampling will be used to scale down the assets to the physical display panel.
Note the aspect ratio of the two new screen sizes is identical to the iPhone 5/5C/5S. iOS8 will take advantage of this, running apps which have not yet been updated to be optimized for iPhone 6 in a special scaled mode, avoiding the black "letterbox" we saw with the iPhone 4 to 5 transition.
Here's a handy reference to summarize the new screen sizes side-by-side:
What does this mean for developers and designers:
- 1. If you don't update your apps immediately, you can benefit from the auto-scaling to get a reasonable temporary solution for the two new devices
- 2. When you update your app to properly support the new resolution, you'll need to deal with more available width and height
- 3. Designs will need to be more flexible, using features like the new Adaptive Layout introduced by Apple. Instead of being at fixed pixel positions and sizes, buttons and UI elements will have to stretch and scale to fit various screen sizes - not unlike designing an Android app!
- 4. Icons and UI elements will need to be provided in @1x, @2x and @3x versions
- 5. It's unclear how some elements will render on the iPhone 6 Plus, for example 1px hairline lines may become antialiased due to the software downsampling.
- 6. Additionally, Apple showed off the iPhone 6 Plus running in landscape mode, which used a two-pane UI similar to the iPad. The iPhone 6 Plus even has a landscape version of the home screen, so we can expect more pressure to get your apps working in landscape mode.
There are Two Ways to Build a Pyramid
There's an old story about two pharaohs. Both wanted a magnificent pyramid to house their tombs, so each hired a pyramid builder. The first builder started constructing his pyramid from the base and working upwards.
However, one day, the pharaoh suddenly died, and the pyramid was left incomplete. The pharaoh was sad (and dead).
The second pyramid builder started by building a very small pyramid.
Then he built a new layer, making a larger pyramid.
He knew that whenever the pharaoh might die, he would still have a completed pyramid shape.
How can we apply this tale to software development?
Work on the Core first
The second pyramid builder started with what would become the core of the pyramid. Similarly, you should start with the core of your app. If you're making a photo-filtering app, start with the photo filtering functionality. If you're making a news app, start with the article page.
Use Scaffolding instead of Permanent Structures
We're still not quite sure how the Egyptians built the pyramids, but travel to any building site and you'll see plenty of scaffolding. Scaffolding is not intended to be a permanent fixture, and when you're starting a project much of your code and data will also be temporary. Perhaps your photo filtering app will have a fancy login flow - but when the project starts, just hardcode in a username as temporary scaffolding.
In the next stage, perhaps you will replace this with a textbox for the username and password.
In the next stage, you might implement the fully designed screen.
Don't break the build
A common mantra among programmers, particularly when working with continuous integration is, "don't break the build". You should ensure that your code is always in a state that it can be built without errors, or quickly shown to a colleague or client as a demo.
Deliver value quickly
I was discussing our agile retainer model with a client recently and he remarked "this sounds interesting, but how long will it be before I have an app that's useful? Two months? Six months?" I replied "we deliver beta versions every two weeks, so our aim is that you'd have something useful and functional after two weeks. And something even more useful and functional after four weeks. And something even more useful and functional after six weeks, and so on."
As a software developer, that should be your goal, to deliver value throughout the development process. Start small and build iteratively, and you won't believe what wonders you will be able to build.
A better way to ask "how much would it cost to develop this app?"
As an app developer, a question you are very used to hearing is "how much does it cost to make an app". It's also a question you quickly learn to dread. Why? Because providing an accurate fixed price for designing and developing a mobile app is next-to-impossible. Worse, comparing fixed-price quotes from different companies is misleading. In this article I'll explain some of the reasons why, and some better ways of pricing and organizing app development that we've found.
There are too many unknowns
How much an app costs depends on a large number of factors, many of which are unknown at the start of the project. We can try to minimize these unknown factors. We will always clarify which platforms and OSes it makes sense to support, what screen sizes, what features are essential and what are "nice-to-have". It's much harder to figure out how many iterations it will take to make a game fun, or to make a logic screen intuitive to use, or how long a vague feature like "add sharing" will take. Developers have to add in extra "padding" to cope with unexpected additions that occur as a normal part of development.
Changing your mind should be expected
When making an app, changing your mind is good. Iterating on an idea as it undergoes design and development leads to a far better outcome. But if the scope has already been precisely defined in the contract, this may not be possible. As of 2014, the app industry is rapidly changing. A business model which worked six months ago may not fit user's needs or market trends any more. To keep ahead of the game, you need to be willing to change things, and to pivot on your original vision.
All developers are not alike.
A popular metaphor is to compare asking how much it costs to make an app with how much it costs to make a car. A car could be very cheap, if it is simple, mass-produced and uses low-quality components. Or it could be complex, hand-crafted, unique and incredibly expensive.
If you give the same request to multiple developers and get very different pricing, what does that really mean? Why is this developer so much cheaper? Are they low-quality? Why is this developer so expensive? Did they misunderstand the scope of the project? As a client, how can you be expected to tell?
Apps are never "done"
The car metaphor has another problem. Because if you're building a car, you generally reach a point where the car is "finished". With apps, it's not so simple. It's important to get real users using your app as early as possible. So you typically want to do a "minimal viable product" release as soon as you can, and development work should not stop when you reach your v1 release.
As soon as people get their hands on your app, you'll get user feedback you want to incorporate into your app. There's always new features to add that didn't make it into the first version. You might even need to "pivot" how the app works, or change the business model from paid to freemium.
Even if it's not visible to the end-user, you may need to add analytics, email reports or dashboards to keep track of how people are using the app. The app needs to be marketed, perhaps ported to another platform. If you burnt all your budget developing v1, you are in trouble!
Fixed price projects: riskier than they appear
So, to summarize, the disadvantages with fixed-price contracts include:
- • It's hard to know in advance how much work an app will take
- • Developers often "pad" their quotations to account for unknown issues
- • Different developers will have different standards, so comparing quotes is hard
- • It's difficult to add in extra functionality, reorder or change functionality once the contract is signed
- • It suggests that there is a cut-off date where the project is "done", which is not realistic or recommended for most apps
Going agile
At ReignDesign, we've recently started taking a more "agile" approach to estimating projects. Agile Development started in the software world, where it describes a way of planning software development projects which embraces the frequent changes that occur, rather than fighting them.
A backlog of features
The "user stories" to be performed are arranged in a backlog, which the product owner or client helps to reorder into a priority list. When new stories (things you want the app to do) are added, they are simply slotted into the backlog in the appropriate place. The developers then work down the list in order, in a series of typically 2-week long "sprints" they commit to completing the items on the backlog.
Applying agile to project planning
It turns out what works well for development can also work well for pricing of a project. Once we move away from a fixed-price model, the question is not "how much would it cost to develop this app", but "how much can I commit to developing this app, per month". When we move to a "agile retainer" style model of project pricing, the typical issues of project planning are turned on their head.
First we recommend a monthly budget to the client, based on their needs, the complexity of the project, and approximate dates for releases. We ensure the budget is sustainable, to make sure the client can afford to keep working on the app for at least several months after launch.
We then calculate how much work the developers and designers will do each month for that budget. This will allow us to estimate delivery dates for different stories, but these are advisory only. If it turns out we complete tasks faster than expected (in agile-speak, our "velocity" increases), we may be able to deliver features earlier. If the client requests certain extra features be added urgently, other items will get pushed down the backlog and delivered later.
Overall, an agile approach allows the client and the app developer to work in a way where their goals are aligned, and much better reflects the actual effort involved in creating and sustaining an amazing product on the App Store.
But, does it work in practice?
That's the theory: but does it actually work in practice? I asked two of our recent clients their thoughts on the agile retainer method.
We've been working with KindyNow for the last six months. KindyNow is a mobile app for childcare centres in Australia.
Parents who use the app can notify their daycare centre of last minute cancellations, immediately triggering an opening for other parents wishing to book the same space. We built the first version of the app on a fixed-price model but then switched to a retainer, which has allowed us to develop features in a faster and more flexible manner.
Here's Sean Collins, CEO of KindyNow: "Technology developments evolve at a greater rate than you will anticipate. Having a fixed fee each month allows us to prioritize and manage the work flow coming in. We can focus our attention on the right projects each month without being hit with constant quotes for specific jobs. The fact is by the time the first version is built you'll have so many new ideas that your fee structure needs to allow for this constant evolution."
We've also been working with Peter Stoyles of Tasklinks, building a new version of their productivity tool from the ground up.
We discussed several methods of collaboration with Tasklinks, and decided that an agile retainer was the most effective way of building this app.
Peter: "Initially we were focused on getting a set price for the scope of work required, as the customer you feel safer that costs won't spiral and you have some budget security. The agile retainer model flies in the face of this conventional thinking but there are clear benefits. The first benefit is the retainer gives you a clear project outline, you can see the work in progress and are constantly in contact with the development it is no longer a remote process. The second benefit is as the app develops you can change the build feature priorities. This gives you more control over the development and can allow you to adapt quickly to market changes and user feedback.
To our surprise and to the credit of ReignDesign the development process has actually been ahead of schedule and we are now in a position to develop and include more features ahead of our target release date. It is very important that you work with good developers such as ReignDesign who have a good understanding of your expectations and can guide you through the development process, with that in mind I would recommend the agile retainer."


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The school announced the move Sunday and promoted offensive coordinator Jason Gesser to interim coach. Gesser, a Saint Louis alumnus who played quarterback at Washington State, has been on the Idaho staff for two seasons.
Akey was 20-50 at Idaho since taking over in 2007. He had one winning season with the Vandals, going 8-5 in 2009 and beating Bowling Green 43-42 in the Humanitarian Bowl.
Idaho lost 70-28 to Louisiana Tech and allowed 839 yards Saturday.
"The president (Duane Nellis) and I believe it is important to make this move now so we can immediately begin the process of hiring a new coach for the 2013 season," athletic director Rob Spear said. "We appreciate Coach Akey's enthusiasm and dedication to the University of Idaho, but this is the right move at this time."Akey's contract runs through the 2014 season.
Idaho is a member of the Western Athletic Conference, which won't have enough members to compete in football beyond this season. The school already has plans to play as an independent starting next season.
Gesser was a two-time all-state quarterback at Saint Louis (1996-97), leading the Crusaders to a Prep Bowl win in 1996 (7-0 over Kahuku). In 1997, Gesser broke his left arm in the season's 11th game and missed the Prep Bowl, another Saint Louis win over Kahuku, 27-0.


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Blame! | |
Killy holding the Gravitational Beam Emitter
ブラム! (Buramu!) |
Genre | Cyberpunk, Technological singularity |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Afternoon |
Original run | 1998 – 2003 |
Volumes | 10 |
Original net animation | |
Directed by | Shintaro Inokawa |
Licensed by | |
Released | May 10, 2005 |
Episodes | 6 |
Manga | |
Net Sphere Engineer | |
Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Morning Extra |
Original run | 2004 – ongoing |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Blame! Academy | |
Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Afternoon |
Original run | September 19, 2008 – ongoing |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Blame!² | |
Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Mandala Vol. 2 |
Published | 2008 |
Volumes | 1 |
Blame! (Japanese: ブラム! Hepburn: Buramu!?), pronounced "blam", is a ten-volume 1998 cyberpunk manga by Tsutomu Nihei published by Kodansha. A six part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release.
Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as "The City". He is searching for Net Terminal Genes, a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans to access the "Netsphere", a sort of computerized control network for The City. The City is an endless vertical space of artificially-constructed walls, stairways and caverns, separated into massive "floors" by nearly-impenetrable barriers known as "Megastructure". The City is inhabited by scattered human and transhuman tribes as well as hostile cyborgs known as Silicon Creatures. The Net Terminal Genes appear to be the key to halting the unhindered, chaotic expansion of the Megastructure, as well as a way of stopping the murderous horde known as the Safeguard from destroying all humanity.
Along the way, Killy meets and joins forces with a resourceful engineer named Cibo and several groups such as a tribe of human warriors called the Electro-Fishers. Cibo and Killy are often pursued by the Safeguard, who view any human without Net Terminal Genes as a threat to be extinguished on sight. Because of the size and nature of The City and the violent lives led by its inhabitants, there are virtually no recurring characters and any alliances made are short-lived.
The City is actually a structure that began on Earth. The mechanical beings known as Builders, which move around reforming and creating new landscapes, appear to have begun building without end, creating an enormous structure with little internal logic or coherence. There exists some kind of major isolation system between the gargantuan floors of The City. Between them, there are entire layers of an unknown, nearly-indestructible material called "the megastructure". Attempts to approach the megastructure result in a massive safeguard response so as to prevent trespassing. Bypassing the safeguard is pointless, as it is nearly impossible to even scratch the megastructure. Only a direct Gravitational Beam Emitter blast is known to have been capable of digging a hole into a megastructure.
The City, and the Builders, were controlled by the Netsphere and the Authority but they have since lost the power to control the expansion of The City due to the chaotic and insecure manner of its growth. Without intervention by a user with Net Terminal Genes they cannot reestablish control over The City nor the Safeguards, whose original job was to eliminate any humans who try to access the Netsphere without Net Terminal Genes. The Safeguard now attempts to destroy all humans without the Net Terminal Gene as the degradation of The City has corrupted their true goals.
In regards to the scale of the structure, NOiSE, the prequel to Blame!, states in its final chapter that "At one point even the Moon, which used to be up in the sky above, was integrated into The City's structure". It has been suggested by Tsutomu Nihei himself in his artbook Blame! and So On that the scale of The City is beyond that of a Dyson sphere, reaching at least Jupiter's planetary orbit (for a radius of around 5.2 AU, or 778,547,200 km); this is also suggested in scenarios such as Blame! vol. 9, where Killy finds himself having to travel through a room roughly the size of Jupiter (roughly 143,000 km.).[1][2]
The original Japanese manga was collected into 10 volumes (tankōbon) by Kodansha's Afternoon KC division. In February 2005, Tokyopop announced that it has licensed Blame! for U.S. distribution, with publication beginning in August 2005. After releasing the final volume in 2007, the series has gone out of print with several volumes becoming increasingly hard to find. In 2006 the Tokyopop distribution was nominated for a Harvey Award in the category 'Best American Edition of Foreign Material'.[3]
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
1 | June 1998 | ISBN 4-06-314182-9 | August 2005 | ISBN 1-59532-834-3 |
2 | August 1999 | ISBN 4-06-314194-2 | November 2005 | ISBN 1-59532-835-1 |
3 | December 1999 | ISBN 4-06-314218-3 | February 2006 | ISBN 1-59532-836-X |
4 | March 2000 | ISBN 4-06-314235-3 | May 2006 | ISBN 1-59532-837-8 |
5 | September 2000 | ISBN 4-06-314251-5 | July 2006 | ISBN 1-59532-838-6 |
6 | March 2001 | ISBN 4-06-314263-9 | November 2006 | ISBN 1-59532-839-4 |
7 | October 2001 | ISBN 4-06-314277-9 | February 2007 | ISBN 1-59532-840-8 |
8 | April 2002 | ISBN 4-06-314289-2 | May 2007 | ISBN 1-59532-841-6 |
9 | December 2002 | ISBN 4-06-314310-4 | August 2007 | ISBN 1-59532-842-4 |
10 | September 2003 | ISBN 4-06-314328-7 | November 2007 | ISBN 1-59532-843-2 |
NSE: Net Sphere Engineer[edit]
NSE: Net Sphere Engineer (ネットスフィアエンジニア Netto Sufia Enjinia?) is a sequel to Blame!. The first chapter debuted in the infrequently published Bessatsu Morning magazine. NSE: Net Sphere Engineer follows a "Dismantler", a Net Sphere Engineer in charge of sub-dividing the nexus towers that incur Safeguard interference upon its detection of humans without the net terminal genes. Although humans are once again able to reside in the Net Sphere, the Safeguard are still a threat. The Dismantler goes on a journey to aid mankind in their survival.
Blame! Academy[edit]
Blame! Academy (ブラム学園! Buramu Gakuen!?) is a spin-off series of Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei. Set in the same "City" as Blame!, it is a parody and comedy about various characters in the main Blame! story in a traditional Japanese school setting. Various elements in the main Blame! story are being parodied, including the relationship between Killy and Cibo, and Dhomochevsky and Iko. It is irregularly published in Afternoon. A compilation volume was published by Kodansha on September 19, 2008.[4]
Blame!² (ブラム!² Buramu! Tsu?), subtitled Chronicle of the Escape from the Megastructure by the Eighth Incarnation of Pcell (第八系子体プセルの都市構造体脱出記 Dai-hachi Keikotai Puseru no Toshikōzōtai Dasshutsu Ki?), is a full-color, 16-page one-shot. Like NSE: Net Sphere Engineer, Blame!² is a sequel to the original Blame!, taking place at a point in the distant future. It was published March 21, 2008 in the second volume of Kodansha's Weekly Morning Special Edition magazine, Mandala.
Plans for a full-length CGI render movie were announced in 2007.[5]However, this proposed CG film project was not released before Micott and Basara (the studio hired) filed for bankruptcy in 2011.[6]
Blame!: The Ancient Terminal City[edit]
A trailer revealing a special Blame! short, to be shown in the 8th episode of Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine, was released in November 2014. The short is contextualized as a TV program that the people of Sidonia tune in for.[7]
Jarred Pine from Mania.com commented "is not an easy task" to talk about the story in the first volume as "it leaves quite a gamut of questions open for the reader, nothing on the surface to give the reader a sense of direction or purpose."[8][9]
Pine said Blame! doesn't have a mass appeal and "there will be quite a strong line dividing those who love and hate Nihei's unique and convoluted cyberpunk journey."[9]
Chris Beveridge from Mania.com stated if it is a "some sort of experimental thing" since "here wasn't much really experimental about the animation and the show could have been done much better as a true stand alone OVA" but praised the "visually interesting piece".[8] Anime News Network's Carlo Santos also noted the "nonlinear patchwork of scenes and images" but he said "like so many things in anime, it's pretty, but it makes little sense." He felt the animation is "sacrificed".[10]
Beveridge said the "plot is pretty simple" and Santos felt Blame! lacks story and coherence saying suggest "Blame! [anime] has a storyline is like suggesting that Pokémon has deep philosophical implications", and Beveridge said "it didn't tell its story well within the show".[8][10]
Beveridge commented the "concepts and designs here are certainly intriguing but I think they failed badly at execution."[8] Santos criticized some aspects but praised the art. He also stated the character designs "aren't as varied as they could be, but they have a stylized gracefulness that sets them apart from citizens of the future in other series." For Santos the setting "isn't so hard to understand" describing it as "the usual post-apocalyptic science fiction fare."[10] Pine refers it as a "dystopian world".[9]
Santos qualified Blame! as an unusual work saying "Blame! is one of those strange cases where you're not sure whether to rate it highly for terrific art or knock it down because of its opaque story."[10]
- ^ "Translation from the Blame! artbook". Archived from the original on 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Blame!, Chapter 58
- ^ "The Harvey Awards 2006 nominees and winners". harveyawards.org. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ ブラム学園! アンドソーオン 弐瓶勉作品集 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "BLAME!, Cyberpunk CG Animated film Announced". twitchfilm.net. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ "Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! Anime Previewed With English Subtitles". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ "Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! Anime Previewed With English Subtitles". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ a b c d Beveridge, Chris (May 3, 2005). "Blame! (also w/T-shirt)". Mania. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- ^ a b c Pine, Jarred (September 1, 2005). "Blame! Vol. #01". Mania. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Santos, Carlo (July 29, 2005). "Blame! DVD - Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Blame! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Pine, Jarred (November 14, 2005). "Blame! Vol. #02". Mania. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- Pine, Jarred (March 13, 2006). "Blame! Vol. #03". Mania. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- Pine, Jarred (May 17, 2006). "Blame! Vol. #04". Mania. Retrieved February 17, 2013.


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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 9, CMC – Summarised close scores on the opening day of the first round of matches in the Regional Four-Day Championship on Saturday:
GROS ISLET, ST LUCIA - The Combined Campuses and Colleges surrendered, rather gave away, a great opportunity to build a sizeable first innings lead against the Windward Islands today at the Beausejour Cricket Ground on Day 1 of their opening Regional 4 Day match.
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GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA - The Regional 4 Day Tournament is set to bowl off on Saturday morning with three matches being played around the Caribbean.


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It rained quite heavily overnight. If I had known, I would have saved myself a garden watering on Friday. But not to complain…..the rain timed itself to not interfere with my visit to DD.
The rain did wreak havoc with my taller growing plants…..mystery-probabably-another-knapweed in Center Perennial Garden, Monkshood in Vernal Pond Stump Garden, Foxglove in Kidney Garden, filependula 'rubra' in Grotto Garden. Monkshood and esp. foxglove just don't look as good when they have to be staked. No more swaying in a breeze. But it had to be done.
The rain is humbling to one's weeding efforts. Friday's hand weeding is a thing of the past with new growing-close-to-the-plants weeds appearing. But, it's still a good year for me.
I cut back blooms that are turning to seed: bistort, peony (bloom period is so fleeting), bearded iris, centurea 'montana'.
I trimmed the two ninebark and the french lilac.
Chopped and composted all organic material collected in my 'clean-up'.
Took a stab as filling in 'blank' areas that would be remedied with one growing plant. Used calendula and zinnia. They might produce, they might not. This is something I deal with each year. Not so distracting this year. I'm taking it in stride.
I don't have confidence my snow peas are going to produce this year or my sweet peas, for that matter. It won't 'mar' the gardens per se but I will miss having them to cut.
Sempervivum arachnoideum (x2) is blooming. The Sempervivum is a real surprise but I guess it's still got it's greenhouse 'high'. Next year will be the real test to see if it blooms after a year in my garden.
Stella d'Oro is blooming
I've already posted trollius bloom but it is doing the best EVER! I think it's a slow grower/producer.
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Nice blooms. I have tried and tried to grow trollius (it was one of my mother's favourite plants) with no success. One of these days I will find the perfect spot in my garden and will hopefully look like yours.
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Mine gets a good deal of shade and is a tad moist soil. And….it doesn't like to be moved. Try it!
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Pretty Sempervivum flower.
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Thanks, seeingreen. I think so too, seeing green. Living in maine….it's always a surprise to me when I get an outdoor succulent to bloom. Like I said above, no credit to me, this season.
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Mr. Ralph S. O'Connor served as Director of PanEnergy Corp. since 1991. Mr. O'Connor served For more than five years, principally engaged in investments as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ralph S. O'Connor & Associates, Houston, Texas.
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