![]() ![]() Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united, O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives! We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing, Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,Īll the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,Īll for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind, Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing, We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way, Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,Īll the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,Īll the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,Īll the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,Īll the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying, Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.įalling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat, Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,Īre there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come? With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd, Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,īy those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,Īges back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging, Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,) O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all, O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all! We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,įrom the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,įrom the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,Ĭentral inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein'd,Īll the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,įresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,ĭown the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,Ĭonquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways, We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,ĭo they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? The Poem Come my tan-faced children,įollow well in order, get your weapons ready, ![]() The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west. It was first published in Leaves of Grass in 1865. ![]() " Pioneers! O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer ![]()
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![]() Interface translation (known as locale in previous versions) translates the built-in user interface. Or define a custom language if you didn’t find the target language in the existing options. You can select any language from a wide range of languages out of the box. To be able to translate any of your content to a specific language, you need to enable the selected language from the languages section in the configuration page. ![]()
![]() Action resumed in the 2022–23 academic year, with UCU securing a mandate for industrial action at all UK branches and Unison and Unite gaining mandates at some individual branches, with strikes 24–25 and 30 November. The National Union of Students ran a "student strike for education" on 2 March. Action in 2020 was curtailed by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic effects of which in turn worsened the short-term outlook of the USS pension fund.įollowing an academic year dominated by online teaching, industrial action resumed, with some branches of UCU and two other campus unions- Unison and Unite-achieving a series of mandates for industrial action and striking, particularly 1–3 December 2021, February 14 to 2 March 2022, 21–1 April for others, and a marking and assessment boycott towards the end of the 2021–22 academic year. The second round of strikes ran from 25 November to 4 December 2019, and on fourteen days between 20 February and 13 March 2020. The strikes succeeded in preventing the abolition of defined-benefit pensions in the USS scheme. Students also occupied campus buildings in support of striking staff at more than a dozen universities. As of 28 March 2018, more than a million students were estimated to have been affected, with 126,000 students signing petitions calling for fee refunds. By 28 March, over 700 external examiners had also recorded their resignations in a UCU document. An estimated 42,000 staff went on strike with 575,000 teaching hours being lost. The Office for National Statistics found that in 2018, 66% of all working days lost to strike action were accounted for by the education sector, "due mainly to disputes involving employees of universities". This was the longest ever strike in UK higher-education history. This strike escalated over fourteen strike days between 22 February and 20 March, and took place at sixty-four universities across the UK. In the latter dispute, employers were represented by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). ![]() In 2019–20, strike action on USS continued, and action on a parallel dispute over pay equality, workload, casualisation, and pay levels (dubbed the "Four Fights") was added. In 2018, the dispute concerned proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), and employers were represented by Universities UK (UUK). ![]() ![]() The action has been characterised as "something of a milestone" for "impending service sector strikes of the 21st century." The University and College Union (UCU), a trade union representing 110,000 staff at UK universities, ran a major series of connected strikes in 2018–23. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The more players earn points, the last players can upload credits to your friends and even the world's Samurai II: Vengeance players. The more enemies you kill, the more batches your enemies get. In point competition mode, the game will brush out the specified batch of enemies, the player will be a batch of battles with the enemy, until he died. Survival mode players will face the overwhelming enemy, to be successfully stocked under the brave enemy offensive and try to kill the enemy as much as possible. In addition to the story mode in addition to the game also added survival mode and points race mode, familiar with the plot mode in the operation and battle, the player's will be able to continue your battle in these two modes. Dynamic effects make the entire game scene lively and real, with the game on the ancient warrior music, so that players seem to have immersive feeling. The details of the game screen to do a good job, buckets, plants around the preparation, the leaves floating in the picture, cherry, water a little bit on the waves. Archaic buildings with the ground from time to time with the imprint of the various colors plus wooden colored organs make people feel a strong sense of the times. Game screen to comic style to performance, ink style with the Japanese-style ancient architecture of the 3D modeling so that the scene looks very delicate screen, the picture is very strong, light and dark level. Cold duel and endless killings, even if you will eventually fall! Draw a knife, waving, chopping off, returning to sheath, a series of simple action description, intuitive to experience what is "cut." * Original soundtrack – in classic samurai movie style, soft music builds with the heat of battle.Samurai II: Vengeance is a more classic fighting game. *Support iCloud to transfer save between various devices * Apple Game Center support, including Leaderboards and Achievements. Goal Oriented Action Planning architecture is used in many PC and console games. * Advanced AI system on par with console games. * New survival mode pits the samurai against waves of enemies, giving hardcore players a score-attack mode to hone their skills. * Between levels, gorgeous anime-style comic panels tell the samurai’s tale with original hand-drawn artwork. * RPG elements reward skilled players – upgrade the Samurai’s health, buy new attack combos and upgrade them to devastating levels. The fight is on - not to worry, the combat never takes a back seat to platforming or fetch-quests. Solve environmental puzzles, avoid dangerous traps, and discover useful items. ![]() * Improved gameplay includes new features. Stay nimble and plan your attacks – roll out of harm’s way and eliminate ranged enemies like the Samurai Archer before they can strike. Battle hordes of on-screen enemies wielding new weapons and sporting unique abilities. * Tense, quick and gory battle sequences! * Dynamic camera finds the best perspective for each encounter, adding variety while keeping focused on the action. * Intuitive virtual joystick ensures you’re slicing up baddies, not swiping the screen. From a seafaring village to a flying fortress to the legendary Isle of the Dead, the samurai will stop at nothing to hunt down his arch-enemy Orochi. Samurai II sends Daisuke on a quest for revenge across the war-scorched countryside. With a new virtual d-pad, dynamic camera, environmental puzzles, traps, and vicious new enemies, Samurai II is brand new experience for hack ‘n’ slash gamers on the go. Screenshots don’t do Samurai II justice – the fluid action has to be seen running at 60 frames per second on the Retina display or popping off the iPad screen.īut looks alone won’t carry a game – the developers listened to fan feedback and improved gameplay throughout. Overall production values and vicious action put Samurai II on par with console 3D brawlers. Samurai: Way of the Warrior was featured in Best Games of 2009 by Apple – Samurai II is a true successor, aided by over a year of focused development. The long-awaited sequel to Samurai: Way of the Warrior! While the original got rave reviews for its stylized manga graphics and quick, bloody gameplay, Samurai II delivers even more action and an intuitive new control scheme. = "Samurai II is a very entertaining title with solid gameplay and stunning graphics." =. = Featured in the Gorgeous Games by Apple !!! =. ![]() ![]() ![]() Features the gameplay of the original game with new visuals, characters and worlds for the video game subscription service Apple Arcade.Īngry Birds: Bird Island (also known as Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator and Angry Birds: Destruction Simulator) The game takes place aboard the Piggy Gadget Lab that the main characters use to get to Eagle Island for the film's climactic confrontation. The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure The 18th game of the series and the virtual reality and augmented reality versions of the original game, using the visuals and art style of the Angry Birds Movie. The 17th game of the series, itself a spin-off of Blast! Players clear groups of balls of the same color to complete objectives. The 16th game of the series, which is a match-3 game involving the Hatchlings and characters from Angry Birds Blues. The 15th game of the series, which is a turn-based RPG battle game. This is the 14th game of the series that features match-3 gameplay that has the player popping balloons to free the Angry Birds. ![]() This is the 13th game of the series and the first to feature the birds in their movie designs. The direct sequel to Angry Birds and the 12th game of the series, involving multistage levels. The 11th game of the series, which is a player versus player match-3 game. The tenth game of the series, which ties-in with the Transformers franchise and is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game. The ninth game of the series that features turn-based RPG combat and an equipment system. The eighth game of the series, taking the form of a racing game. It is the first game compatible with Hasbro's Telepods, that allows the player to summon a specific character in the game. It also ties with the television show Star Wars Rebels. The seventh game of the series that ties in with the Star Wars prequel trilogy: The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). The sixth game that ties in with the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983). The fifth game in the series that features planets, different gravity, and the angry birds with improved abilities. It was originally a Facebook exclusive, but it was later ported to mobile. The third game in the series, tying in with the films Rio and Rio 2. ![]() It was originally released as Angry Birds Halloween. The second game in the series, featuring levels themed around holidays, such as the first day of school, Halloween, and Easter. This game is re-released under the title Rovio Classics: Angry Birds in March 31, 2022. It primarily involves shooting the angry birds into pigs' fortresses. A recreated version of the original Angry Birds game known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds came to mobile platforms on March 31, 2022. However in June 2021, by popular demand of the fans, Rovio announced that the classic games will be available on the stores again sometime in the future. ![]() Rovio has declined to explain their reasoning behind the decision apart from a brief tweet and support response, both giving different answers. In early 2019, all remaining Angry Birds games released before October 2014 (with the exception of Friends) were discontinued and removed from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. At the time, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the Angry Birds. The first game in the series was initially released on 11 December 2009 for iOS. The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on 30 July 2015. The original Angry Birds has been called "One of the most mainstream games out right now", "One of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far". īy July 2015, the series' games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. By January 2014, there had been over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions. Its popularity led to many spin-offs versions of Angry Birds created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, Angry Birds Toons, a televised animated series, and two films The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2. Inspired by the game Crush the Castle, the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. † Game has been discontinued and is no longer available.Īngry Birds is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() The eyes were glaring up at him, redly, venomously, and the forest of feeding arms was at his feet and legs, tearing the cotton fabric away and flailing back. Now the head of the squid had broken the surface and the sea was being thrashed into foam by the great heaving mantle round it. He tore it out, got it between his two hands and wrenched the doubled wire almost straight.īond had not time to worry about them. He caught a glimpse of the tip of his spear lancing into the centre of a black eyeball and then the whole sea erupted up at him in a fountain of blackness and he fell and hung upside down by the knees, his head an inch from the surface of the water.īond thrust his knife between his teeth and his hand dived for the crook of the wire spear. Should he chance it? He must Get movingīelow, on the jetty, to the left and to leeward of the drifting smoke of the guano dust, stood the tall, watchful figure of Doctor No. It was black, impenetrable, as deep as the rest. ![]() He gazed vaguely at the softly heaving sheen of water. Slowly he let himself down to the bottom rung of wire. From out of the mouth of the sock, in a solid downward jet, the scrambled-egg-coloured guano dust was pouring into the hold of the tanker at a rate of tons a minute.īond got to the-rock face. The purpose of the crane was to lift the wireframed mouth of the sock so that it hung directly over the hold of the tanker and to move it to right or left to give even distribution. Its mouth ended in a huge canvas sock, perhaps six feet in diameter. It was carried on high stanchions above the jetty and stopped just short of the hold of the tanker. From just to the right of the crane, an overhead conveyor-belt in a corrugated-iron housing ran out from the cliff-face. The rest of the crew would be below, battened away from the guano dust. There was no sign of life On board except one figure lolling at the wheel in the enclosed bridge. The tanker was called Blanche, and the Ant of Antwerp showed at her stern. It stood well out of the water, its deck perhaps twelve feet above the quay. An aged tanker of around ten thousand tons deadweight was secured alongside the top of the T. In front of him the jetty ran twenty yards out into the sea and ended in a T. It was the Chinese Negro boss, the driver of the marsh buggy. ![]() Round the corner, not more than ten yards away, was the crane. A voice called out, startlingly close, "Okay to go?" There was a distant answer: "Okay." The crane engine accelerated. Bond crept softly forward, watching his footholds for loose stones. Round the bead, the track filtered through a maze of giant, tumbled boulders. On the bridge, the watch was lighting a cigarette.īond, leaving drops of blood behind him, picked his way carefully down the track and along the bottom of the shadowed cliff. Twenty yards away, Doctor No, also with his back to Bond, stood sentry over the thick rich cataract of whity-yellow dust. The neck above the open khaki shirt was naked, offered, waiting. His guess at the distances had been right. Apart from aiming the canvas mouth of the conveyor, there was nothing else for anyone to do.īond stepped up to the rock and inched an eye round. On the other side of the mountain men would be working, feeding the guano to the conveyor-belt that rumbled away through the bowels of the rock, but on this side no one was allowed and no one was necessary. There was no other sound, no other movement, no other life apart from the watch at the ship's wheel, the trusty working at the crane, and Doctor No, seeing that all went well. The morning breeze feathered the deep-water anchorage, still half in shadow beneath the towering cliffs, the' conveyor-belt thudded quietly on its rollers, the crane's engine chuffed rhythmically. All he needed was an ounce of hope, an ounce of reassurance that it was still worth while trying to stay alive. Only, with Bond, the two halves were not yet dead. Bond was like a cut worm, the two halves of which continue to jerk forward although life has gone and been replaced by the mock life of nervous impulses. It moved alongside his body, or floated above it, keeping enough contact to pull the strings that made the puppet work. The thinking, feeling apparatus of Bond was no longer part of his body. The stinking, bleeding, black scarecrow moved its arms and legs quite automatically. ![]() ![]() ![]() Base.TestFixtur eSetUp( ) in D:\git\ TestAutomationF ramework_ V2013\Projects\ Infrastructure\ UnitTests\ TestDriver\ Base. ![]() TestFixture failed: SetUp : System.Exception : Exception in TestFixtureSetUp BaseĪt Avl.TestAutomat ionFramework. TestDerived' failed: TestFixtureSetUp failed in Derived then running TestDerived gives the following output: Throw new Exception( "Exception in TestFixtureSetUp Base") Version 2.1.4 FIXED BUGS The search field works again. Version 2.1.5 FIXED BUGS The Format as WBFS and Eject device commands work again. Fixed an error that happened when creating directories with / during renaming. However, if I remove the Exception from SetUp Base again and instead add one to TestFixtureSetUp Base. When starting a drag from Witgui to the Finder, the drag image disappears and the system remains responsive. Since the behaviour of TearDown and TestFixtureTearDown in case of an exception in the corresponding SetUp function is described the same way, word by word, I would expect that if there was an Exception in TestFixtureSetUp Base, then also both TestFixtureTearDown Derived and TestFixtureTearDown Base will be called. TestDerived' failed: SetUp : System.Exception : Exception in SetUp Baseīase.cs(18,0): at Avl.TestAutomat ionFramework. Throw new Exception( "Exception in SetUp Base") Įxecuting TestDerived now gives this output: Now I introduce an Exception in SetUp of Base: WriteLine( "Running TestFixtureTearDown Derived") WriteLine( "Running TearDown Derived") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running Test Derived") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running SetUp Derived") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running TestFixtureSetUp Derived") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running TestFixtureTearDown Base") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running TearDown Base") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running SetUp Base") Ĭonsole. WriteLine( "Running TestFixtureSetUp Base") Ĭonsole. I have the following two very simple classes:Ĭonsole. It will not run if a TestFixtureSetUp method fails or throws an exception. So long as any TestFixtureSetUp method runs without error, the TestFixtureTearDown method is guaranteed to run. It will not run if a SetUp method fails or throws an exception. So long as any SetUp method runs without error, the TearDown method is guaranteed to run. The behaviour of TearDown and TestFixtureTearDown in case of an Exception in the corresponding SetUp is described in the same way, but behaves differently. ![]() ![]() ![]() Be sure to read Tarn’s development journal for more insight into the new features. Not only that, but you can create your own worlds using an in-game editor.īoy, the mind reels at the idea of a fantasy world whose in-game history is enriched by the depth of these “real-life” adventures. the ever-evolving and iconic ASCII art simulation game Dwarf Fortress uses a. It also allows for tilepacks which make DF look much better. I use the shaderless version of Cooz 16x16 square ASCII tileset, combined with the. Thousands of yarns spun before the game even starts! While ASCII is limited to 128 characters, Unicode has a much wider array of. Using images instead of ASCII allows for GPU acceleration for the drawing, which offloads work from the CPU to the GPU, freeing more cycles from the CPU which allows it to process things in the game faster. A file archive for the game Dwarf Fortress with mods, utilities, pregenerated worlds, and more. Actually Orkel, how do you make your ASCII uncluttered and big lookin. Heroes will duel with heroes, civilizations will wage bloody wars against one another, and megabeasts like titans and dragons will roam the earth, hunting and being hunted… all in savage detail that is readily available to you in Legends mode (see the screenshot above). The biggest changes to the game are in World Generation. Actually, two releases – the second version (39b) patches up a lot of bugs that were found by players in 39a, including a nasty (and kind of hilarious) bug that caused dwarfs to sleep indefinitely. But the 14-year-old visuals made entirely from ASCII art remain one of the biggest factors in. The game has long been one of the most complex and in-depth simulators on the market. Dwarf Fortress v0.28.181.39b By: Derek Yu On: July 15th, 2008 Bay 12 Games has given fans the first look at what the dwarves will look like in Dwarf Fortress when the game ditches its ASCII graphics for proper sprites and tiles. ![]() ![]() In most parts of the world, national television networks will have bulletins featuring national and international news. Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news program(me)s, differ in content, tone, and presentation style depending on the format of the channel/station on which they appear, and their timeslot. Local programming covers the many examples of smaller stations with a regional focus. ESPNews, Fox Sports, and Eurosport News cover sports journalism topics CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Fox Business Network are examples that cover business news. In addition to general news outlets, there are many specialized news outlets. Įxample providers of generalist broadcast news shows focusing on national and international matters include BBC News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News Channel, CNA, and Al Jazeera. Programs can vary their focus some newscasts discuss largely international or national matters, while others will focus on regional and local news events. A "news bulletin" or a "newscast" are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on events. Television news programs inform and discuss current events via the medium of television. Structure, content, and style Television ![]() ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. ![]() |
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