Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway-a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Whitney Spotts, Schuler Books & Music, Lansing, MI I adored diving into Morgenstern's mesmerizing world and mourned when I reached the end.” The real conflict arises when the two realize how the competition is meant to end and they set about trying to change their predestined fate. What is meant to be a battle of magical skills evolves into something much deeper as apprentices Celia and Marco enchant not only the circus around them, but also each other. When two competing magicians lay a wager as to which can mold the more powerful protege, they opt to use a fantastical traveling wonderland - The Night Circus - as the venue for the competition. “This elegant debut is a striking example of a nostalgic yet modern fairy tale. Nancy Simpson-Brice, The Book Vault, Oskaloosa, IA September 2011 Indie Next List This is the type of book that should be debated over cups of coffee-grown-cold, long, long into the night! Highly recommended.” Share the amazement! You will become consumed by this story until the very last word. However one describes it, it is definitely an exercise in imagination of the finest type. “The Night Circus can be described in so many ways It's a love story, a mystery, a fairy tale.
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So I’ll try to break it down into bullet points to ensure that this doesn’t get too long-winded and confusing. And I’ve chosen it as the subject of this month’s “nostalgia review”, even though to my ears this thing is still very new.Įxplaining the concept behind Lord Huron is likely to be met with a hefty dose of “Wait, so let me get this straight…” type responses. Their debut album, Lonesome Dreams, pretty much instantly rocketed its way into the upper tiers of my best-of-the-decade list when I made a point of listening to it in full. Really all it took was a single song on a personally curated playlist (and later another for good measure) and I was pretty much instantly hooked. Turns out I had heard them before, but never heard of them. Very late in 2019, in the middle of a gargantuan attempt to catch up with as much great music as possible that I had missed out on earlier in the decade, my wife managed to blindside me with the discovery of a band that I had honestly never heard of before. The band has evolved a bit in the years since, but nothing they’ve done since then has hit me nearly as hard. Lord Huron’s unique habit of weaving together pieces of a story in anachronic order, told from the perspective of a not-so-reliable narrator, as well as their occasional use of electronic and worldbeat elements, helps to set their songwriting style apart from influences like Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket that they quite obviously wore on their sleeves at this point. In Brief: An astounding debut that immediately transports me back to the days when the indie folk revival was still going strong. Among other planned changes would be to reduce the number of gaming in-jokes it uses within the client, improving the user onboarding experience, and increasing server capacity and reliability. Starting in June 2020, Discord announced it was shifting focus away from video gaming specifically to a more all-purpose communication and chat client for all functions, revealing its new slogan "Your place to talk", along with a revised website. In April 2020, Discord's Twitter username was changed from to Later in May 2020, Discord changed its primary domain from to. This was part of their response to an increase in users as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Discord changed its motto from "Chat for Gamers" to "Chat for Communities and Friends", and introduced server templates. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners. In December 2018, the company announced it raised $150 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. Microsoft announced in April 2018 that it will provide Discord support for Xbox Live users, allowing them to link their Discord and Xbox Live accounts so that they can connect with their Xbox Live friends list through Discord. In 2019, WarnerMedia Investment Group was shut down and acquired by AT&T, selling its equity. In January 2016, Discord raised an additional $20 million in funding, including an investment from WarnerMedia (then TimeWarner). The company benefited from relationships with Twitch streamers and subreddit communities for Diablo and World of Warcraft. Discord became widely used by esports and LAN tournament gamers. According to Citron, they made no specific moves to target any specific audience, but some gaming-related subreddits quickly began to replace their IRC links with Discord links. ĭiscord was publicly released in May 2015 under the domain name. To develop Discord, Hammer & Chisel gained additional funding from YouWeb's 9+ incubator, which had also funded the startup of Hammer & Chisel, and from Benchmark capital and Tencent. In addition, "Discord in the gaming community" was the problem they wished to solve. The name Discord was chosen because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking", was easy to say, spell, remember, and was available for trademark and website. This led to the development of a chat service with a focus on user friendliness with minimal impact to performance. Īccording to Citron, during the development process, he noticed how difficult it was for his team to work out tactics in games like Final Fantasy XIV and League of Legends using available voice over IP (VoIP) software. Their first product was Fates Forever, released in 2014, which Citron anticipated to be the first MOBA game on mobile platforms, but it did not become commercially successful. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012. The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. As of 2021, the service has over 350 million registered users and over 150 million monthly active users. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers". VoIP communications, instant messaging, videoconferences, content delivery, and social mediaĭiscord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. English (UK/US), Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese Step 2) Create a new instance of HelloWorld. Change the code in your BlueJ class to look like the following. You get an instant graphical view of your application's class structure scope highlighting helps you understand the layout of your code you can dynamically create objects, inspect them (check the right-click menu) and invoke their methods, even enter Java code and have it execute right away, no compilation required.įixed: Closing code editor kills created objects and clears the the object benchįixed: After switching to another language, Preferences disappear from the Mac app menu and some keyboard shortcuts will not workįixed: Debugger is not stopping on some Breakpointsįixed: Backspace doesn't work in Terminal on Macįixed: Add «stereotype» markers again («/») in class diagramįixed: Lack of scrolling with lots of methods either in unit test, Class popup or Object popup menusįixed (MacOS X): Projects can't be opened with double click on "package.bluej" when BlueJ is open Verdict:īlueJ is an excellent development environment for learning Java, but its uncluttered interface and portability mean it may also appeal to the more experienced. Step 1) Let's explore how we can create a more flexible constructor. Architecture Design for Java Project Java Multithreading Projects Java Networking Projects Java Android Projects Netbeans Java Projects Artificial. We really do mean "small", but there's enough for you to understand the BlueJ basics. If you've some development experience and want to jump right in, then there are some small example projects in the BlueJ folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\BlueJ\examples by default). If you are totally new to Java then you should probably begin with the BlueJ readme file (see C:\Program Files (x86)\BlueJ\README.TXT by default), which points you to a useful tutorial and offers other advice on getting started. It's developed by a University, so there's no adware, no registration, no unnecessary visits to their website or other marketing annoyances. To provide a self-help example to people as to how a math magic trick can be implemented into a simple Java program. If you already have the JDK, though, smaller BlueJ-only downloads are available on the program's site. It also provides me with practice working with version control. BlueJ Project: LogEntry class Programming Exercise: Reading Log Files. GitHub provides a usefull place to store these examples as I work from home and at university. Reading Log Files Video: LogEntry Class with toString. The BlueJ download we're linking here contains its own code and Oracle's Java Development Kit, which is everything you need to get started. Note: I am uploading these file examples for study purposes only. It's designed to help novices learn Java and object-oriented programming, although the more experienced can also use it to develop simple applications. BlueJ is a free integrated development environment for Java. Although it shares the realm of Terrinoth and the top-level identity as a dungeon-crawling board game indicated by the Descent title, we see Legends of the Dark as a new addition to our catalog, rather than a third edition of Journeys in the Dark.Īlthough Journeys in the Dark featured the Road to Legend companion app, that game was always designed as a competitive experience, pitting one to four hero players against a single overlord player. Is this the third edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark?ĭescent: Legends of the Dark is not the third edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark. With 46 pieces of 3D terrain and 40 stunning hero and monster miniatures to draw you into the game, your greatest adventure is yet before you! Throughout your campaign, you’ll face undead lurking in the mists, demonic barbarians stalking the wilds, and even more terrifying threats. Together with your unlikely companions, you’ll begin an unexpected adventure-an adventure told across the sixteen quests of the Blood and Flame campaign. And in the northern barony of Forthyn, the stage is set for the next great confrontation between Terrinoth and the forces of darkness.įor years, your journeys have taken you across the fantasy realm of Terrinoth, venturing into dark forests, shadowy cities, ancient crypts, and misty swamps… but your true legend is about to begin.įantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Descent: Legends of the Dark, the definitive cooperative dungeon-crawling board game for one to four players!įorge your own legend together with your friends as you adventure across the vibrant fantasy realm of Terrinoth! Powered by its fully integrated free companion app, Descent: Legends of the Dark puts you in the role of a budding hero with their own playstyle and abilities. The leaders of Terrinoth are divided and fractious, unable to unite against these common threats. The demon-tainted Uthuk Y’llan barbarians stalk the realm and the undead servants of Waiqar the Undying venture beyond their borders for the first time in memory. Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant - ENG.Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization - ENG.The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth - EN.Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Games - ENG.Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the cursed Island - ENG.Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North - ENG.Great Western Trail (second Edition) - ENG. Put your files in the Project panel, put your clips and edit them on a Timeline, and see the result on a Program monitor. So now we’ve got a minimal, simple, clear workspace with three main blocks. Now you have a text layer overlaying your video. In the Essential Graphics Panel, go to Edit > New Layer and then choose Text from the dropdown options. In case you need something from these panels in the future, you’ll just go to the Window menu and immediately see all the panels that are opened and closed. How do you close undock Redock panels Figure 1-7. Here’s the step-by-step process of editing text in Premiere Pro: Open the Essential Graphics Workspace. So we’ll close them and open when necessary. Libraries, Info, History, Markers are useful, but not for now. Why here? Because you don’t need to see those two panels - Program monitor and Media browser - simultaneously. The Media browser is also very important, and it goes in the top right. Put the Effects panel near the Effects control panel. When prompted for your license key, click. Drag the Project panel to the left because it’s an important one. To enable the Connector panel, select File > Window > Extensions > PhotoShelter CC Connector - Video. To do so, let’s clear some space from the left of our timeline.ĭrag the Project panel and the Effects panel up. So we should give it as much space as we can. Timeline is the most important panel in Premiere Pro. (You can always find it here: Window → Workspaces.) Do the Right-click → Close panel. Now we’re going to delete this 'Workspaces' panel to free up so much valuable space on the top of your screen. And when you’re done, don’t forget to go to Window → Workspaces again and choose “Save changes to this workspace.” Before you start, go to Window → Workspaces → Save as New Workspace. We’ll just throw away everything we don’t need now in order to focus on important things and keep the most useful features handy and easy to access. Here is the way to rearrange it a little bit and customize it to make the work easy. Premiere Pro default interface was made to satisfy different requests of a wide audience - beginners as well as professionals - and it kind of misses the target. The principle is easy - we’re going to get rid of everything we don’t need (as a beginner user of Premiere Pro) in order to concentrate on things that really matter. Make them fullscreen. Then as they play, keep your eyes only on the program window and see how hard or easy it is to keep an eye on your levels (the yellow arrows indicate where –12 dB is located).Here are a couple of tips on how to quickly adjust all the panels in Premiere Pro so you can work fast and efficiently. Now fit these horizontal meters into your layout. When it is more wide than tall the meters will also change orientation. Then grab the left or right edge of the meters and drag it out horizontally. To change your meters to a horizontal position, right-click the top handle (as marked by the arrow) and select “undock”. I didn’t even have to hunt for it on the meters like I did with my vertical ones. You can drag panels to new locations, move panels into or out of a group, place panels alongside each other, and undock a panel so it floats in a new window. Even better: –12 dB, which is the average volume I would mix my levels to, was almost in the middle of my program window. Second, and this was the big one: I would keep my eyes on my program monitor and still have a good idea where my audio levels where at since the meters ran right under the window. I tried it out in my daily workflow and was surprised to find a number of big advantages to this layout:įirst, since the meters had more room to stretch out, I could see more of the dB level markers for a finer gradation. I didn’t even know you could to that (I was new to Premiere at the time). Using horizontal audio meters in Premiere Pro can let you watch your video and monitor audio levels at the same time, without having to look all over the screen!Ī few years back I was interviewing for a video position and noticed something pretty cool on one of the editor’s screens: they had their audio meters in Premiere laid out horizontally across the middle of the layout, instead of the typical vertical alignment on the bottom right go the screen. I think you need to look at firstly adding a warning to the website and HOME, secondly there may be a legal position of altering personal content and information It does not mention that it will delete favourites and alter content (TomTom GO, GO x00, GO x10, ONE 1st Edition, ONE 2nd Edition) "For a list of changes made in this application please see So, 6141 tells me: I agree with that, and checked the warnings.: The list of updates on HOME do not make any mention of the feature/characteristic/bug which basically deletes content, all it says on HOME is "We recommend you update so you have the latest features and the best performance on your TomTom" While I could restore from my previous backup, you suggested that it may be possible to recover the "lost" favourites post backup. In our conversation we discussed that I had not backed up my device in around 6 months, and that installing 7.900 to my One v2 had wiped favourites. When you call us, please quote the Reference Number of this email communication:. Please state the phone number that I can call you on, and also state the best times to contact you between the hours of Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm. I would like to talk to you about this situation. We would like to thank you for your correspondance with TomTom Customer Support. Please also look at the following webpage in how to do this:-ĭepending on which TomTom device you have and which maps you have installed, a backup can take anything up to 1 hour to complete. Paste all the files into the backup folder. Go to your backup Folder that you have created and double click into it. Select and copy all of the contents of the TomTom device. On a Mac, you will see the TomTom device on the Desktop, double click into it. Go to your Backup folder on your desktop that you have created, double left click into it and click on 'Edit -> Paste' Click on Edit -> Select All, then click on 'Edit -> Copy' On a PC, Open 'My Computer', you will see the TomTom as a removable storage device, e.g. STEP 2 Copy the contents of your TomTom to your Backup Folder On a Mac, create a folder on the desktop and call it 'Backup'. On a PC, create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'Backup' Connect your TomTom to your computer and switch it on Just in case you want to update your device again when it prompts you I suggest you back up your device manually (just to protect the information you have stored). We certainly don't want you to lose confidence in our product as we are constantly trying to make improvements with our updates to make the our TomToms work more efficiently. As I stated on the phone this does not happen often and when it does it only seems to have done it with the 7.9 application. Just to reiterate I apologise if I misled you in this situation. Thank you for contacting TomTom Customer Support with regards to your Here's the outcome of my incident, I've edited out some details TomTom HOME may offer more than one application update.Raise a support call to let them know if you're unhappy about the wipe, but dont expect a fix if you've not backed everything up In TomTom HOME to see if another (newer) TomTom Application is offered. If your navigation device does not restart automatically, click on the eject button in the bottom right of TomTom HOME and then disconnect your navigation device from your computer.Ĭonnect your navigation device to your computer and, if your device asks if you want to connect to your computer, tap When your device asks if you want to connect to your computer, tapĪnd disconnect the navigation device from your computer. The navigation device will restart automatically. Then, when the application update process has finished, click , select the TomTom Application, if available, click Switch on your navigation device and, if your device asks if you want to connect to your computer, tap Do not use a USB hub or a USB port on the keyboard. : Use the USB port at the back of your computer, if available. You can download TomTom HOME here:Ĭonnect your navigation device to your computer. Make sure that you have TomTom HOME installed on your computer. Restore the software on your navigation device using TomTom HOME Project Viewer 365 displays critical path info and all standard project reports, filters, time scale and other like MS Project sophisticated features. Project Viewer 365 provides support for all MS Project standard views like Gantt Chart, Task Sheet, Network Diagram, Project Calendar, Task Usage, Resource Usage, Team Planner, etc. Project Viewer 365 looks and feels exactly like MS Project! 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