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Acer predator helios 300 rtx 3060 review5/17/2023 I felt a warm pang in my chest like she could be the one. The Turbo button at the top of the deck dared me to press it and engage warp factor ten gaming. If it has to be a similarly high performance, you might also take a look at the MSI Vector, which consumes slightly less power at an almost similarly high performance.When I opened the Predator’s lid, I found a beautifully laid out chiclet-style keyboard welcoming me with bright backlit keys and chrome accents on the front of the keyboard deck and around the touchpad. Although it doesn't offer the same amount of brute performance, it also remains relatively quiet and cool. Even though this is achieved with the usual disadvantages, those modes are optional.Īmong the competitors, the Razer Blade 17 recommends itself. The Acer Predator Helios 300 PH317 offers a good display and even two overclocking modes with correspondingly powerful performance. Then the Helios 300 won't be any louder than the competitors. On the other hand, overclocking is optional, and those who like it quieter and can live with a few less frames per second can also switch to the significantly more moderate Standard mode. It is also able to prevail against the panel in Blade 17.Īn overclocked gaming laptop - or its user - also has to struggle with the usual disadvantages we mentioned above. However, the good performance isn't all, and the fairly good display also surprises us with 97% coverage of the DisplayP3 color space. The Predator is large, heavy, and loud, but also offers plenty of performance according to gamers.
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Farm mania 2 hidden sheep5/17/2023 “Life Is Everywhere” holds out the hope that the novel might be a home to which everything belongs. Lucy Ives, in her dizzying novel, attempts the impossible task of building a set in which every emotional and physical detail is noted and accounted for. Looping back and forth in the progression of Brian’s illness, the book is a work of remembering that is an intimate account both of a life shared with a man who was, for Bloom, “the sunrise and the sunset and all of the light in between,” and of putting back together the jagged pieces of one’s self in the wake of shattering loss. As clouds of disagreement linger longer between Bloom and her husband, she writes with unswerving honesty about the feeling of becoming newly estranged from him. The signs of Brian’s memory loss accrete gradually, then suddenly: he slowly loses interest in his many hobbies a boss reprimands him for being “too slow” at work he misplaces his car keys at a Stop & Shop. “It took Brian less than a week to decide that the ‘long goodbye’ of Alzheimer’s was not for him and less than a week for me to find Dignitas, at the end of several long Google paths,” recounts Amy Bloom in her lyrical, recursive memoir about her husband’s decision to end his life, at the Swiss nonprofit that offers assisted-or what it calls “accompanied”-suicide. But cancer knows nothing of propriety, and neither does grief, and so Delaney-never terribly interested in propriety to begin with-doesn’t want to know, either. It’s not hard to imagine some readers being repelled by the marriage of Delaney’s comic style with talk of grief. The pain comes less from horrifying details than from the way he lures us into contact with the very aspects of our lives that are easiest to ignore: our fragilities, our constant proximity to calamity, our powerlessness to control what life brings, or when. Alongside the recounting of panicked hospital visits, scary infections, and breathing-tube struggles, there are comic riffs and asides that wouldn’t be out of place in a Delaney standup set, or on his Twitter feed. “A Heart That Works” tells the story of Henry’s life and Delaney’s grief. He spent much of his life in hospitals, and died before he turned three. Shortly after Delaney’s son Henry turned one, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life.
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Ejabberd 25/17/2023 #Plain Text's pt1 = 'Happy Birthday' pt2 = 'Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though theyre here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly Im not half the man I used to be Theres a shadow hanging over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly Why she had to go I dont know, she wouldnt say I said something wrong Now I long for yesterday Yesterday Love was. But maybe my story will help you solving your issue if you experience SSL certs issues in the last few days, especially now that the R3 cert has already expired and the X3 cert following in a few hours.CoCalc Share Server. I don’t know if this is a bug in Ejabberd or if this procedure will help you in your case nor if this is the proper solution. Otherwise the update will bring in the expired cert again.Ĭurrently I see at least two other XMPP domains in my server logs having certicate issues and in some MUCs there are reports of other domains as well.ĭisclaimer: Again: this helped me in my case. UPDATE: be sure to use dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates to uncheck the DST Root X3 cert (and others if necessary) before renewing the certs or running update-ca-certificates. What helped (for me at least) was to delete all expired SSL certs from my directory, downloading the current CA file pems from LetsEncrypt (see their blog post from September 2020), run update-ca-certificates and ejabberdctl restart (instead of just ejabberdctl reload-config). Ejabberd then reads all of the SSL certs and compare them to the list of configured domains to see which it will need and which not. Ejabberd has a really nice feature where you can just configure a SSL cert directory (or a path containing wildcars. When checking out with some online tools like SSLlabs or the result was strange, because SSLlabs reported everything was ok while was showing the chain with X3 and D3 certs as having a short term validity of a few days:Īfter some days of fiddling around with the issue, trying to find a solution, it appears that there is a problem in Ejabberd when there are some old SSL certifcates being found by Ejabberd that are using the old CA chain. It looks like this: Invalid certificate in /etc/letsencrypt.sh/certs//fullchain.pem: at line 37: certificate is no longer valid as its expiration date has passedĪnd… Failed to establish outbound s2s connection -> : Stream closed by peer: Your server's certificate is invalid, expired, or not trusted by (not-authorized) bouncing for 237 seconds I was having some strange issues on my ejabberd XMPP server the other day: some users complained that they couldn’t connect anymore to the MUC rooms on my server and in the logfiles I discovered some weird warnings about LetsEncrypt certificates being expired – although they were just new and valid until end of December. Honestly, I think the solution needs to be provided by LetsEncrypt… The same is valid for the SSL check on, which seems to be very outdated and beyond repair. So even when you think that your system is now ok, the remote server might refuse to accept your SSL cert. Additionally older OpenSSL version (1.0.x) seems to have problems. It’s not as simple as described below, I’m afraid… It appears that it’s not that easy to obtain new/correct certs from LetsEncrypt that are not cross-signed by DST Root X3 CA.
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Nightowl insomniac5/16/2023 However, most night owls simply choose not to sleep so early, but do not have problems falling asleep or sustaining sleep when they are tired.” “Insomniacs may become night owls as they cannot sleep. “An insomniac is a person who has difficulties with sleep and this may present as problems falling asleep, intermittent awakenings, or early morning awakenings,” said Dr Lim Boon Leng, a psychologist at Gleneagles Hospital, who specialises in insomnia. One thing that many people seem to confuse night owls with are insomniacs. But that’s not necessarily the case. People in urban and rural areas in the same country also have different sleep cycles. The same study highlighted other important external factors: Noise, crowds and lighting can affect one’s preference for morning or evenings while it also cited other studies that Germans are more likely to prefer the night to, say, Indians or Slovakians. While 90 per cent of two-year-olds are “morning” people, this goes down to 58 per cent by the age of six By the time one hits puberty, it continues to shift towards the evening, which continues until one is in his or her early 50s – by which time, it goes back to a preference for mornings. A recent research published in Cell has identified that a mutation of the CRY1 gene might be causing this delay in the onset of sleep.Īs for the age factor, another study – this time at the Northumbria University in the UK – found that one’s sleep cycle changes as you age. The condition, which reportedly affects 15 per cent of people in the United States, means having a delayed circadian rhythm, when one’s body clock isn’t in sync with the rest in a particular environment. Sleep experts often diagnose those who stay up late as having delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD). The factors for being one ranges from a genetic mutation to one’s age and environment. READ: Can’t sleep at night, dozing off in the day – it could point to bigger health issues Famous night owls include Barack Obama, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, and a host of other creative types such as writers, who commune with their muse at the dead of night. So, what exactly does this mean? Simply put, it’s someone who has a tendency to be up late at night. While Singaporeans’ horrible sleeping habits have been in the news lately, your “problem” isn’t that you can’t go to sleep or have a hard time sleeping – it’s that you’re not feeling sleepy at the moment.
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The foreigner5/16/2023 (he then did it again in 2006 with Casino Royale) Brosnan goes full-on Irish politician with some skeletons in his closet, which allow for some diversified reactions rather than just the same old hum drum responses one would expect. It's a reunion of some sorts considering it was Campbell who reinvigorated the Bond franchise with GoldenEye back in the late 90's. Insert Pierce Brosnan, who Campbell lays at the feet most of the important 'acting'. We forget about Chan's range because the first thing to pop in our heads when we hear his name are the stunts he does himself and the incredible kung fu he knows. While his English still isn't anywhere near as accomplished as his training in martial arts is (he's 65 and has lived in the US for how long now?), this role offers him an opportunity to dive into a character where dialogue isn't needed as his top attribute. Some audience members may have walked in expecting just another run-of-the-mill kinetic movie from Chan but instead were treated to something perhaps a bit more invigorating. It's a great counter-character spot for Chan, who's been heavily involved with mixed martial arts films, comedies (involving the former), and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants action films with big budgets. The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan (not to be confused with a movie of the same name starring Steven Segal from the early 2000's) delivers a moderate to above-average action thriller, which leans a bit more toward a drama than anything Chan has done in his career. Another rewrite this could've been a favorite for me, so it's disappointing, but as is I still found a lot to like. That performance and the grim tone elevate the movie enough over it's narrative stumbles. It's extremely out of character, but he goes full force into the performance and absolutely nails it. This is not a typical performance from him, he plays a broken man and even his fight sequences have an unexpected amount of grit to them. And the stuff with Jackie is all absolutely flawless. That said, when the story does what it's supposed to, it works, and I loved it's nihilistic approach and conclusion. We need to be rooting for Jackie Chan's character in a film like this, and for a while I was more just confused because I wasn't even clear that he was going after the right guy. There's a lot of talk about terrorists and new IRA and past dealings and who's really the bad guy it becomes a distraction and it's all told very clumsily. But Walk had a very straightforward plot you could get behind, The Foreigner unfortunately doesn't and that's where it falters. It reminded me a lot A Walk Among The Tombstones, which was one of my favorite movies of that year. This type of story of unassuming man pushed too far, goes to lengths of brutality out of a sense of honor but only wants to return to his humble life, and all done with a lens of extreme grimness. I was actually pretty close to loving this movie, it has a lot of the ingredients of something I would love. Rating: R (Some Sexual Material|Language|Violence) His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers. Words like immigrant, refugee, and tourist more specifically indicate a person’s status.Įxample: The secluded island nation was known for being distrustful of foreigners and rarely allowed visitors from other countries.Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love - his teenage daughter - dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. Although foreigner can be used in a neutral way, it can also be used in a way that’s very offensive. It implies that the person or people being discussed are not acceptable in some way-that they don’t belong where they are. Sometimes, foreigner is used negatively to harshly judge or discriminate against a person’s culture, customs, language, or country. However, foreigner implies that a person has different customs and culture or speaks a different language. The word foreigner is similar to words like stranger and outsider, referring to a person who is from outside a community. A foreigner is a person from a different country than the one being referred to, as in The country was welcoming to foreigners from neighboring countries.įoreigner is a noun form of the adjective foreign, which is used to describe someone or something that is from another place, particularly another country, as in foreign country and foreign language.įoreigner can be used more generally to mean a person from outside someone’s community or group.
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At Tanglewood, Aimard’s playing was dazzling-glistening and elegant despite the ferocious complexity of the amplified piano part. But when Stroppa decided to put the three sections together, he also expanded each section. This was originally three separate pieces, the third section, “Contrasti” (“Contrasts”), being the longest. Aimard is a particular advocate of Stroppa, and his recording of the complete Traietorria (1989) is spectacular. It’s hard to imagine that these works could receive better performances. “Interesting is boring,” Lachenmann is quoted as saying, and that was what I was too often feeling about his music. For all their sonic and structural experimentation, they seemed rather square rhythmically. They just went on too long, and their “avant-garde” inventiveness had an all too familiar ring. Enjoyable and “interesting” as the timbres of Stroppa’s electronic expansions may be or the scraping, scratching, clacking, and clicking of Lachenmann’s sound world, I found that most of these pieces overstayed their welcome. How much one enjoyed the whole festival probably depended most on how captivated or surprised one may have been by Stroppa and Lachenmann, which also means how much one likes or is willing to absorb music that is most compelling for its sound qualities. The grand finale of the long weekend was the American premiere, in concert, of an important new opera by George Benjamin. There were also significant works by György Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, and Steve Reich a world premiere commission by the young British composer Christian Mason (a student of former FCM guest director George Benjamin) and a brief unscheduled memorial to another composer dear to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Henri Dutilleux, who was composer in residence at Tanglewood in both 19, and who died this past May at the age of 97. Another major strand of the festival was a running tribute to the late Elliott Carter, who died last November just before his 104th birthday and who had been a major presence at Tanglewood (in 2008, the entire FCM was devoted to celebrating his centennial). He wanted us to know the work of two living European composers important to him: the 53-year-old Italian Marco Stroppa and the 77-year-old German Helmut Lachenmann, figures little known in this country, although Stroppa was a student at MIT in the 1980s and in 2008 Lachenmann was a visiting professor of music at Harvard.ĭisregarding political correctness, Aimard chose music exclusively by white males. He had something to convey to his audience, too. This year’s Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood had a distinguished guest director-curator, the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is as admired for his performances of Elliott Carter as for his refined and powerful Debussy and Bach. György Ligeti – Three Pieces: Monument–Self portrait–MovementĬonlon Nancarrow – player piano transcriptions Henri Dutilleux – from 3 Strophes pour le nom de SacherĬonlon Nancarrow – Study No. Marco Stroppa – Ossia: Seven Strophes for a Literary DroneĮlliott Carter – 90+, Retrouvailles, Tri-Tribute Marco Stroppa – electronics/sound projection Helmut Lachenmann – …zwei Gefühle… Musik mit Leonardo Marco Stroppa – Let Me Sing Into Your Ear Sarah Silver and Matthew Leslie Santana- violin George Benjamin conducting his Opera, Written on Skin, with the TMC Orchestra in Seiji Ozawa Hall.
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Beach boys pet sounds5/16/2023 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the seminal album’s release, here are some little known facts about Pet Sounds‘ creation. In doing so, he gave popular music one of its finest touchstones. In another feature with Rolling Stone, Cooper explained how the Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds heavily inspired The Beatles. “We were trying to capture spiritual love that couldn’t be found anywhere else in the world,” Wilson has said. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Pet Sounds (Stereo / Remastered) The Beach Boys Pet Sounds A Capitol Records Release 1996 Capitol Records, LLC Released on. Pet Sounds has become shorthand for a fully realized artistic vision that owes little to trends and everything to the soul. Half a century later, it’s questionable whether anyone has. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by Clayton Counts, posted on his blog. The result was an album that had leading musical figures struggling to match his technical innovation, lyrical depth and melodic genius. Petsounds Lonely Hearts Club Band is a track-for-track mash-up of The Beach Boys ’ Pet Sounds with The Beatles ’ Sgt. If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering. 'All I Wanna Do' is one of them, as producer Carl Wilson adds layered delay effects to an. In 1966, 23-year-old Brian Wilson hijacked the Beach Boys, a multi-million-dollar industry consisting of his two brothers, cousin and childhood friend, to give voice to the sounds he heard in his head and the emotions he felt in his heart. Some of the best post- Pet Sounds Beach Boys Songs sound nothing like, you know, the Beach Boys. The story of Pet Sounds is the story of art versus commerce, youthful optimism versus adult cynicism and the independent spirit versus the mundane status quo.
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Sunblaze switch5/16/2023 There is some minimal cartoon violence against robots. The game does register a few minor moral issues. The sound is also quite well done, with all the various explosions and smashing and jumps adding their bass to the soundtrack. There’s a lively bounce to everything that moves, and it jives well with the dad-humour that keeps popping up. Standing by a ledge will see Josie balancing on her toes precariously. There’s clearly a lot of attention to detail in the pixel graphics. The elite 1% that makes up speedrunners may not care for these functions for normal play, but it’s certainly fun to mess around with it once you’re done. The accessibility features amount to in-game cheats such as infinite dashing, infinite jumping, and invulnerability. If you’re able to collect the datacubes in Normal mode, you unlock Hard mode, and the levels here are only for the most masochistic players. All story cutscenes are included in here, but it just feels like a letdown compared to Normal mode. Zen Mode is a shorter collection of much easier levels that can be finished in about 30 minutes. Sunblaze also comes with a Zen Mode and accessibility features for players who can never get the timing right. It’s that light puzzle element that inspired in me a few “flash of genius” moments akin to when the comic hero figures out the villain’s weakness. Only three levels out of some 200 left me scratching my head for more than a few minutes. Every level fits into a single screen, making them reasonably easy to parse. Heavy use of crumbling platforms closed off the area behind me and forced further action, and usually the most obvious way forward was the correct one. Trying the most obvious path forward without bothering to scan the level was rarely a problem for me. Whereas a game like Super Meat Boy has only one obvious path, Sunblaze’s moving parts obscure that one path, but this isn’t a big deal. Most levels are also hard to puzzle out fully at a glance, but there’s usually only one or two obvious paths forward to brute force. I never felt overwhelmed by the rate at which the difficulty was increased in each section, even as movement sequences became longer and more intricate. Moral Warnings: Cartoon violence blood sprays on death minor swear words skin-tight superhero costumeĮach chapter begins with a snippet of story before introducing its main mechanic. Weak Points: Levels can be difficult to parse at a glance dad jokes Strong Points: Excellent gateway into precision platforming It’s a slight pity that each of these chapter mechanics is contained within its own chapter and that they don’t get used together, but during their time in the sun they do shine quite brightly. The exceedingly long final chapter introduces dash blocks which respond to being rammed with dashes, and play a similar role as the Thwomps of the second chapter, but with far more flexibility. The fifth chapter sees you flying through aquatic environments as a fireball. The fourth chapter is set in an old mine, where volatile TNT crates and radioactive barrels explode shortly after being disturbed. The third chapter’s laboratory introduces lasers and asks you to use unstable falling blocks to block them. The second chapter’s most significant contribution is the "Thwomp," a platforming staple which comes barreling towards you when you cross its line of sight. Fail the superhero training, and you’ll find yourself scratching off another one of several thousand deaths over the six-odd hours it takes you to finish the game.Įach of the game’s six chapters is themed around a new environment, and comes with its own set of new hazards and mechanics. Reaching the floating microchip advances to the next level, but the sequences to reach it will become increasingly involved. Unstable blocks will fall after you land on them, pushing you towards the next safe spot to land. Drones are quickly introduced, and they must be jumped on or dashed through to destroy them, which also resets our double jump and dash. Everything is smooth and it just flows like a hot knife through butter. Ledge grabs and overhanging rails are also included. Your basic controls are simply to run, double-jump, or dash your way through literally hundreds of levels. Sunblaze doesn’t complicate the controls too much. This is the basic setup for precision platformer Sunblaze as you guide heroine-in-training Josie through an ever-escalating series of training exercises to escape the matrix and rescue her dad. One thing SciFi stories have taught us is that all forms of virtual reality will go haywire somehow, and the safeties will be disabled. Thanks to Bonus Stage Publishing for sending us a review copy!
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