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Despite what some of the world's leading philosophers, scientists, and entrepreneurs would have you think, odds are good that our universe doesn't exist within a simulation. Maybe some other ones do, though, depending on whether or not you count video game worlds as their own universes. Countless simulation games (or "sims" for short) turn real-world activities into digital pastimes. There are social sims, vehicle sims, construction sims, management sims... if there's something you can do on planet Earth, there's a better than even chance someone has made a game about it.
The Tom's Hardware community voted to find the 25 best sims in PC gaming; that list is what follows. As always, remember that you can meet other members of the Tom's Hardware gaming community by joining our Steam group, and discover the hottest new games via our Curator feed.
25. 'Steel Beasts'
Steel Beasts is a suite of games and professional simulators devoted to "armored fighting vehicles." That's right: it's a game about piloting, firing, and waging war with various tanks. The game is developed by eSim Games, which offers a Steel Beasts Pro version that provides an "elevated level of fidelity is modeled in direct fire exterior and terminal ballistics, fire control systems, and related crew procedures as well as the relationship between complementary elements of combatants in the tactical spectrum." This isn't a light-hearted game; it's a full-blown combat simulator.
24. 'Mad TV'
Mad TV is a business sim that puts its players in charge of a TV station. You have to fill seven hours of programming each day, and each hour must be given its own advertising block, the success of which determines whether or not your business will thrive. The game forces you to bid on the programming, decide if you want to run classics or take a risk on something new, and eventually win the love of Betty, a reporter who works in the same building. Rainbow Arts released Mad TV in 1991, and an in-browser remake is still being updated as of May 2018.
23. 'PC Building Simulator'
Here's something a little more fresh and relatable for Tom's Hardware readers: PC Building Simulator. The game does exactly what you'd expect--it lets you order parts and build a system without having to break the bank. There's also a business sim aspect wherein you have to bring home the bacon by removing viruses from customers' systems, diagnose and fix hardware problems, and otherwise run a computer repair shop. We didn't want to play PC Building Simulator for extended periods, and its use as an instructive tool is questionable, but damned if it isn't satisfying.
22. 'DCS World'
Digital Combat Simulator World, or DCS World to its friends, is a free-to-play combat flight sim. The game is billed as a "deep, authentic, and realistic simulation designed also to offer a more relaxed gameplay to suit the user and his particular level of experience and training." You'll pilot iconic aircraft through simulations that cover multiple regions (Caucasus, the Black Sea, and others) and time periods (World War II, the Gulf War, and more) where you can engage in combat or simply hover above the action as your heart deems fit. You start with limited vehicles, regions, and time periods, all of which are purchased separately. The free-to-play portion of DCS World might still be enough for you to decide if you want to commit to the flight sim lifestyle, though, which can get expensive pretty quick as you buy more and more detailed peripherals.
21. 'IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover'
Another combat flight sim, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover, is much narrower in its focus than DCS World. The latter prides itself on the sheer variety of vehicles, regions, and time periods available to its players; the latter is devoted entirely to putting you in the cockpit of a Royal Air Force member during World War II. That isn't to say IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover slumps in terms of options--you can fly more than 25 aircrafts through England, France, and other countries, and numerous multiplayer modes let you fight it out with up to 128 other people at a time.
20. 'Euro Truck Simulator 2'
Trucking isn't easy. Drivers have to work long hours, finesse large vehicles through tight spaces, and stay away from home for long periods of time. Euro Truck Simulator 2 cuts out all of those drawbacks and lets you focus on efficiently driving big rigs along lushly rendered highways to your destination. The game spans 16 countries, lets you customize your vehicle as you see fit, and features a management sim aspect that puts you in charge of your own shipping company. Mods and expansions also help make sure driving the open roads never gets stale.
19. 'Theme Hospital'
Speaking of difficult things: Theme Hospital tasks you with building and managing a hospital where everything seems hell-bent on going wrong. You have to design the facility, keep the Grim Reaper at bay, and do your level best to stop the doctors and nurses from making your hospital seem even more tawdry than the Grey-Sloan Memorial hospital found in "Grey's Anatomy." The 1997 game might not be as visually stunning as some of the previous entries on this list, but its unique premise and sense of humor should be enough to keep you interested all the same.
18. 'SimTower'
Just in case managing a hospital didn't prove to be enough of a challenge, SimTower asks you to build a skyscraper in any way you see fit, as long as it ends up being awarded a five-star rating by a demanding VIP who comes around to visit. You start with a single star and then build your way up the rankings, and as you earn more stars, a greater variety of spaces becomes available to build. Do you want to build more apartments? Offices? How about stores, restaurants, and gaming areas? You'll have to decide which is the most likely to keep your tenants--and the VIP--happy.
17. 'War Thunder'
War Thunder wants to convince you of one thing, which is that when it comes to military sims, more is always better. Other entries on this list focused on specific types of vehicles; War Thunder lets you control warships, aircraft, tanks, and others. Others focused on dozens of vehicles; War Thunder has more than 1,000. You'll commandeer these war machines through player-versus-player and player-versus-environment missions that take place across 80 maps, and player-created mods will expand your options even further. If you're looking for spectacle, War Thunder has it.
16. 'Assetto Corsa'
Assetto Corsa is a racing simulator that lets you compete in real-world circuits in officially licensed vehicles from Porsche, Lamborghini, and other automakers. The game's developers promise to offer an immersive experience that includes features "never seen on any other racing simulator," from tire flat spots to aerodynamics parts controlled in real-time via telemetry input channels, among other things. Naturally, the game offers a career mode, various single-player and multiplayer game types, and multi-part races that make you feel like a real world-class driver.
15. 'Transport Tycoon'
Now we're kicking it old school. Transport Tycoon was released in 1994, and it tasked players with guiding a transportation company from 1950 to 2050 by shipping countless items via increasingly complex air, land, and sea networks. Transport Tycoon Deluxe came out a year later with new landscapes, weather conditions, and vehicles, along with a shift to the 1950-2050 time period. After that creator Chris Sawyer moved on to the popular Rollercoaster Tycoon series, making Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe the beginning of an era. The game was remade for Android and iOS devices at the tail-end of 2013 to celebrate its not-quite-20th anniversary.
14. 'Plague Inc: Evolved'
Theme Hospital saw you try to profitably treat diseases; Plague Inc: Evolved is all about helping a deadly pathogen spread throughout the world. Plague Inc. was originally made for mobile devices, but in February 2016, it was ported to PC with brand new features as Plague Inc: Evolved. Both games ask you to "bring about the end of human history" by taking a pathogen from Patient Zero to, well, everyone else using various diseases in numerous scenarios. The PC version includes competitive multiplayer and co-op play as well as support for user-generated content.
13. 'Jane's F-15'
Released by Electronic Arts in 1998, Jane's F-15 was one of the first games to put you in a realistic plane with a cockpit modeled after its real-world counterpart. You command this plane through various combat scenarios that are set during the Gulf War and during a fictional conflict against Iran taking place in 2001. Before combat flight sims were able to offer dozens (or hundreds) of vehicles rendered with realistic graphics, Jane's F-15 offered the relatively simple pleasure of piloting a then-stunning replica of the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle.
12. 'Subnautica'
We're expanding the already broad sim genre with Subnautica, an adventure game in which you explore an alien ocean that (you guessed it) is "full of wonder and peril." The game would most loosely fit into the survival sim genre--you have to find potable water and food to survive while you collect resources to craft diving gear, knives, and other supplies. There's also a building aspect through which you choose the layout and components of bases where you can park vehicles, stash resources, and refill your oxygen tank so you can go back to exploring the aquatic depths.
11. 'Tropico'
Tropicois a series of construction and management sims in which you assume the role of El Presidente for a fictional Caribbean island. Your job is to either keep the locals happy or rule them with in an iron fist so they wouldn't dare try to remove you from power. Either way, it's up to you to manage the country's development, make political and economic decisions, and command your military however you see fit. If that sounds appealing to you, Tropico, the Tropico: Paradise Island expansion, and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove were all bundled as Tropico Reloaded in 2009.
10. 'Dirt 2'
Dirt 2 is all about racing in the dirt instead of on the fancy circuits featured in other racing sims. Races will take place in stadiums, mind, but they feature a variety of surface types rather than the carefully managed surfaces found in other tracks. The game offers five different racing disciplines, all of which can be modified by three special modes that introduce new mechanics and goals. Like other racing games, Dirt 2 features a career mode that gives you a reason to do all this racing beyond it being fun and looking cool. (As if anyone needed more reasons to race.)
9. 'Flight Simulator X'
It turns out that many gamers, much like Sugar Ray, just want to fly. Adding to the number of flight sims on this list is Flight Simulator X, the most recent entry in Microsoft's Flight Simulator franchise. This version was released in 2006 and then brought to Steam--along with several expansions--in 2014. As you might expect from its name, Flight Simulator X is all about making you feel like you're piloting an aircraft. The most recent version offered better graphics, new aircraft, and expanded multiplayer gameplay, all of which made this game the most feature-packed entry in its series.
8. 'Railroad Tycoon 2'
A quick disclaimer: the Railroad Tycoon series was created by Sid Meier, not Chris Sawyer, who started the Transportation Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon franchises. Not that many of you needed to be told that--Meier is a legend among PC game developers for this series, the Civilization series, and Sid Meier's Pirates! Railroad Tycoon 2 tasks you with building a successful railroad network by building tracks, stations, and trains; carefully weighing supply and demand for a given area; and contending with random hindrances such as meddling rivals and train robbers.
7. 'Project Cars 2'
Project Cars 2 attempts to stand out from other racing sims through sheer technical prowess. The game offers full 12K and VR support, uses modern systems' performance capabilities to enable dynamic surface and weather physics, and of course tries to make all of its vehicles look as pretty as possible. Wrapped up in all that shiny goodness is a game that offers a various motorsports, boasts a career mode, and has support for online championships and other "esports capabilities." Just try not to spend too long finally driving that Ferrari in VR, alright?
6. 'Elite Dangerous'
We've established that many gamers play sims because they want to fly. So far every title has been limited to terrestrial aircraft, however, and Elite Dangerous wants you to soar a bit higher. That's right--you're going to space. Elite Dangerous is a multiplayer space flight sim that claims to have "the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions." (And here we thought some of the flight sims were thinking big when they added support for entire countries.) You'll have to manage your ship, explore new areas, and of course engage in some spaceship battles.
5. 'Kerbal Space Program'
Elite Dangerous puts you in charge of a spaceship; Kerbal Space Program puts you in charge of the alien equivalent to NASA. You have to design your own vehicles, oversee the construction of space stations, and manage your employees in this game, wherein you have to help the alien Kerbals explore space. The game offers three games modes that cater to people who want to discover new technologies, those who want to manage the entire program, and anyone who simply wants to build a spacecraft without having to worry about the finer details of its construction.
4. 'Cities Skylines'
We'll come crashing back to Earth with Cities Skylines. This city management sim puts you in charge of a fictional city, and it's up to you to expand and improve it while also keeping its citizens happy. Cities Skylines offers full local traffic simulation, divides the city into districts with their own politics, and includes a day-and-night cycle that changes how the city's fictional denizens live their simulated lives. You'll have to master a barrage of systems to ensure your city's success, so if you want all the stress of being a local politician with none of the real-world reward, this is for you.
3. 'The Sims 3'
Who'd have thought it would take so long for a series literally named The Sims to show up on a list of the best sim games of all time? Well, anyone familiar with the series will know that it was bound to appear at the top of this list. Where other games focus on the macro--managing entire businesses, cities, and galaxy-wide space programs--The Sims 3 is about the micro. You create your Sim, design their house, and then help lead them through life in pretty much any way you see fit. Think of it as another shot at life, but without any of the real-world consequences.
2. 'RollerCoaster Tycoon 2'
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (along with the rest of its series) is what you get when someone as interested in simulations as Transportation Tycoon developer Chris Sawyer is allowed to get a little whimsical. The game focuses on building increasingly complex and terrifying rollercoasters to attract more and more people to your theme park. You can work to keep your guests happy, or you can build a theme park that many enter and few leave. This is a sim--you can do pretty much anything you like. Just let us know if any of your designs are ever commissioned, OK?
1. 'SimCity 2000'
SimCity 2000 will conclude our list. Unlike its counterparts in the broader Sims franchise, SimCity 2000 lets you manage a city from top to bottom. You'll have to manage transportation networks, construct important buildings like schools and prisons, figure out how your city will be powered, and handle all the other details that keep a city functioning. Oh, and you'll have to do all that while you also contend with natural disasters. Keep things running long enough, though, and eventually some of your citizens will leave Earth to establish civilizations on other worlds.
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LORD_ORION
The fact that Gunship 2000 and Falcon 4.0 are not on here shows how bad this list is.
purposelycryptic
But the fact that they made a Sugar Ray reference means all is forgiven.
jstein6870
And PUBG is the best running simulator.
thrakazog
The Steam FSX is a separate entity owned by Dovetail Games, that has a rather closed off DLC market, much like their other sim games. The original FSX still eclipse's it in the market, and has a huge community that supports it with both paid and free mods. However, ever since Prepar3d went 64-bit, it is now quickly taking over as the top flight sim (both in terms of users and 3rd party support).
JoeMomma
I am amazed that you included DiRT2.
I am a long time fan of racing games.
I think DiRT is the best at nailing 1/2 way between being a challenging sim while still being a fun game. Most of the others in the DiRT Series have been either too hard or too arcade. I have never uninstalled it since 2009.
sos_nz
No Grand Prix Legends?
phantom_e
Note: It should read "fewer details" not "less details". I wouldn't bring it up, but it's becoming so widespread in professional communications - tv ads, printed ads, HERE, etc. that I just had to say something somewhere.
TheStig47
War Thunder is my favorite online game. Vehicles are all actual wartime machines modeled as closely as possible to the real ones. Not mentioned in the description is that War Thunder has three modes of play - Arcade (my mode for fun); Real; and Simulator. Arcade uses relaxed physics but Real is much closer to how they really handled and Simulator is even more exact. For example, in Simulator with aircraft one must use a joystick (Arcade and Real can use either - mouse is best in Arcade) and fly in cockpit mode, and have all the physical aspects that real aircraft have - yaw, pitch, trim, etc.
Too, War Thunder gets continually updated and I've been playing as a pilot now for over 4 years, daily (I'm retired).
hixbot
#21 there are two latters and no former.
icelava
I liked Jane's F-15, but yea, no Jane's AH-64D Longbow (or 2), no Falcon 4.0 (or even Falcon 3.0 back in the day), no SU-27, etc. So many fabulous simulators back then; a pity the younger generations have few options to play those classics.
spdragoo
56611 said:
Wow, now there's a reference that takes me back. That was fun to play but I also remember it being complex at the same time.
There were 2 others they should have considered as well. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat was a fun one. Early VGA graphics, of course, but you not only had the varied campaign options (being able to play both WW2, Korea & Vietnam missions) but you could really have fun with the free-flight options. It was surprisingly fun to take an F-4 & see how many waves of B-29s could be shot down before running out of ammo.
And another complex & realistic one was Birds of Prey. You picked your side (NATO or Soviet), could fly anything from fighters (F-15, F-16, etc.) to bombers (i.e. B-52). You could customize your loadout, but the weapons were limited to the ones they could carry in real life (i.e. only bombs & large ground-attack missiles for the B-52), you had the (by now standard) separate control to start your engine(s) before engaging the throttle, full flap controls, choice of carrier or land bases, etc. And sure, for the time period (released in 1992) the graphics today would look very bad...but it fit on a single floppy disk.
g-unit1111
I have to say I'm really intrigued by the concept of that PC Building Simulator. I wish I thought of it.
theyeti87
Are any of the Civilization games not up to snuff to be on this list?
I think Sierra's Caesar III deserves a mention as well.
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The first family we are proposing for you to help this month of February consists of Mouna and her husband Ghassan Atallah who were born in 1972 and 1966 and their three children: Hanna, born in 2005, Atallah, born in 2007 and Wajed, born in 2009. Up until the end of the conflict in 2011, the whole family lived at Daara in the Naamer region to the south of Syria, not far from the Jordanian border.
Mouna and her husband were both engineers. In this profession, Ghassan worked in Damascus in the water resources field, while Mouna was active in the teaching profession. Each day they travelled between Daara and Damascus to go to work and return to look after their children. At the beginning of 2012, in seeing the situation deteriorate in Daara, they moved to Jaramina where they rented a home and where the children attended a private school run by the church.
In 2014, while travelling to Bab Touma, the father Ghassan Atallah was mortally wounded in an explosion. Although the family has lost everything, their home in Daara having been destroyed, Mouna is continuing to work in the teaching profession. Aid from Coup de Pouce will be very welcome in order to meet the expenses of rent, food and the schooling of the three children.
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The second family Coup de Pouce is proposing that you help consists of Abir and his wife Yaser, born in 1972 and 1971, and their three children: the oldest Faadi, who is 16, Mira, aged 14, and Basil who is 11. The family lived in Daara where the father did charity work of an ecumenical nature.
When the conflict hit this region in 2013, Yaser the father was killed following an explosion which occurred at his place of work. During the period which followed, Abir, the mother, continued to work from 2013 to 2015. Consequently, Abir and her children moved to Jaramina where she found work with the local council. She is renting an apartment in this region and her three children are being educated in a private school in Bab Touma.
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The federal government will provide $268 million to continue support for Australians battling alcohol and drug issues.
Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the funding over three years from 2019-20 to 2021-22 will be provided to regionally-based Primary Health Networks.
He said the Northern Queensland PHN would receive $1.284m per year over the next three years as part of the package.
"Drugs do not discriminate. Their effects are felt deeply and can continue for years," Mr Entsch said.
"Alcohol and drug misuse doesn't just affect the person. It affects families, friends and the surrounding community.
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Who Is Ruby Rucker? The 'Love Thy Sister' Star Excels At Pretty Much Everything
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Seems like every network is jumping on the reality family game after the incredible success of that little Kardashian clan. You've heard of them, right? WeTV just premiered Love Thy Sister on Jan. 8, a show that follows the funny, smart, and beautiful Rucker sisters from South Carolina. We've already gotten a little background on the family and measured them up against the Kardashians, and although each come from a big family and are filming a reality show, there are a lot of differences. Because the Kardashians have made alliterations the name of their game, I decided to look a little bit into the only alliterative sister. So, who is Ruby Rucker and what does she do?
When Keeping Up With The Kardashians premiered, I think the general public gave up on trying to find a reason WHY this random family had a show. They essentially ushered in an era of reality stars being famous because they were just... reality stars. Unlike the Kardashians who began as a young family of a top celebrity lawyer, the Ruckers have been known in their community for their education and philanthropy and as a matter of fact, Ruby Rucker is already a successful lawyer, mother, and now burgeoning reality star.
Ruby Rucker is the fifth of the eight Rucker children, and is the oldest of the sisters that appear on the show. The girls' father was a prominent dentist and their mother, a first grade teacher who then became a full-time homemaker. According to the Ruckers' official website, Ruby was intrigued by the lawyers in her family, an uncle who had his own practice in Philadelphia and her aunt Patricia King, who was the first African American female attorney in Charlotte, N.C. How's that for inspiration?
After graduating with a B.S. from Spelman College and working at a strategic marketing company, Ruby decided to follow her lifelong dream and continued on to law school. Being the ambitious lady she is, Ruby didn't just graduate from law school in 1996, but she went on to get a juris doctorate degree from The University of South Carolina School of Law. In addition to jumping into the strange world of reality television, she recently opened her own law firm with a classmate, Nesmith Rucker LLP.
OK girl, is there anything you don't do? Actually, not really. The sisters have also launched their line of natural hair products, Rucker Roots, and based on her Instagram, Ruby is an active member and supporter of local non-profits in their community. I'll say one thing, although the ladies are just like normal sisters and involved in your typical familial spats, it's nice to see a loving family that is also concerned with honoring their name and inspiring a new wave of reality stars who are not afraid to use their smarts to do it all.


It's that time of year again and the island is going crazy. It is no secret that Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria just a few months ago and left the island in terrible conditions, some of which are yet to be resolved. And now there is word of another storm coming, quite literally. Once called category 1Hurricane Beryl, now a tropical storm, has a promising prognostic of reducing intensity; nevertheless, the island remains on high alert. With what I can best describe as 'seasonal PTSD,' no one in the island is willing to risk being unprepared after what they went through less than a year ago. What truly worries me, however, is the people that cannot prepare this time, since they have nothing.
Hurricane Maria destroyed 87,094 homes and left 385,703 others with major damage. Though Tropical Storm Beryl would not be nearly as destructive as Hurricane Maria, the people that have little to nothing left stand to lose everything in potential damages. On the other hand, citizens are practically rushing to supermarkets buying just about any supply in hopes of being prepared if push comes to shove. It doesn't help that fuel prices rose significantly after Hurricane Maria, but having a few gallons is essential to be prepared.
The storm is supposed to touch ground in Puerto Rico Sunday night. We're hoping for simple winds and light rain, but we know that's wishful thinking. Keep the islands in your thoughts.


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'Spurious' is the word we want
Ian Gilmour, 28 November 1996
Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher
by George Urban.
Tauris, 206 pp., £19.95, September 1996, 1 86064 084 2Show More
"... wealth sovereignty' – how she could have seen it as anything else he does not explain. Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, who was Urban's patron at the Court of Queen Margaret, disagreed with this regal dissent and invited Urban to listen to a debate in the House of Lords on Grenada, in which he was going to speak. In this debate, 'Wayland Young (Lord ..."
Peter Campbell, 5 January 1989
The Letter of Marque
by Patrick O'Brian.
Collins, 284 pp., £10.95, August 1988, 9780241125434Show More
by Hugh Thomas.
Hamish Hamilton, 347 pp., £12.95, October 1988, 0 241 12527 8Show More
From Rockaway
by Jill Eisenstadt.
Penguin, 214 pp., £3.99, September 1988, 0 14 010347 3Show More
The High Road
by Edna O'Brien.
Weidenfeld, 180 pp., £10.95, October 1988, 0 297 79493 0Show More
Loving and Giving
by Molly Keane.
Deutsch, 226 pp., £10.95, September 1988, 0 223 98346 2Show More
by Louise Erdrich.
Hamish Hamilton, 226 pp., £11.95, October 1988, 9780241125434Show More
"... place she grew up in. Patrick O'Brian's stories of Napoleonic sea war have a vivacity which Hugh Thomas's more fitfully imaginative book lacks, but both have virtues which come directly from the fact that the substantial historical scaffolds which they have erected give their players room to move. The Letter of Marque opens with Jack Aubrey ..."
Protocols of Sèvres
Keith Kyle, 21 January 1988
The Failure of the Eden Government
by Richard Lamb.
Sidgwick, 340 pp., £16.95, October 1987, 0 283 99534 3Show More
"... answer is that while it has not greatly changed the outlines of the story as told by Paul Johnson, Hugh Thomas and a succession of memoirists, it begins to make possible a different type of account. It is only a beginning because the parallel French, Israeli, Egyptian and even, with very considerable exceptions, American papers are either not yet ..."
Off-Screen Drama
Richard Mayne, 5 March 1981
European Elections and British Politics
by David Butler.
Longman, 208 pp., £9.95, February 1981, 0 582 29528 9Show More
Political Change in Europe: The Left and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance
edited by Douglas Eden.
Blackwell, 163 pp., £8.95, January 1981, 0 631 12525 6Show More
"... a Social Democrat. In the Labour Party, he may be thought a hostile witness. So, undoubtedly, will Hugh Thomas, who contributes a rather slapdash opening chapter, and Paul Johnson, who writes far more cogently on 'The British Left, Trade Unions and Democracy'. But their findings, like those of Butler and Marquand, have been overtaken and confirmed by ..."
A Funny Feeling
David Runciman: Larkin and My Father, 4 February 2021
"... foreboding. In November 1982 he wrote to Motion about a dinner held for Thatcher by the historian Hugh Thomas and attended by writers he thought she might admire (Larkin, Isaiah Berlin, V.S. Pritchett, Mario Vargas Llosa and Anthony Powell, among others), which Larkin had found tough going. 'The Thatcher dinner was pretty grisly. Even now I shudder and ..."
"... homes, became the main alternative to demolition. Salvation came from the Labour Chancellor, Hugh Dalton, in 1946. A great walker, Dalton was more interested in open spaces than country houses. But by creating the National Land Fund for the acquisition of houses in lieu of death duties, he set in motion the transfer of many stately homes to public ..."
John Sutherland, 6 December 1984
by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Antonia Bovis.
Macmillan, 296 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 333 37559 9Show More
The Burn
by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Michael Glenny.
Hutchinson, 528 pp., £10.95, October 1984, 0 09 155580 9Show More
Fellow Travellers
by T.C. Worsley.
Gay Men's Press, 249 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 907040 51 9Show More
by Thomas Savage.
Chatto, 276 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 0 7011 3939 0Show More
The Fourth Protocol
by Frederick Forsyth.
Hutchinson, 448 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 09 158630 5Show More
by Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Alan Sheridan.
Bodley Head, 397 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 370 30583 3Show More
"... Younger' in Spender's autobiography, 'Harry Watson' by Worsley and 'a secretary' by Hugh Thomas in his history of the Spanish Civil War). The relationship went sour, Spender married, and Tony-Jimmy-Harry, fired by the doctrines he had picked up from his intellectual friends, enlisted in the International Brigade. In Spain, he was ..."
History and the Left
Jonathan Haslam, 4 April 1985
The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War
by E.H. Carr, edited by Tamara Deutscher.
Macmillan, 111 pp., £17.50, December 1984, 0 333 36952 1Show More
The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis
by Harvey Kaye.
Polity, 316 pp., £22.50, November 1984, 0 7456 0015 8Show More
Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour
by Eric Hobsbawm.
The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill. Vol. I: Writing and Revolution in 17th-Century England
Harvester, 340 pp., £28.50, February 1985, 0 7108 0565 9Show More
"... Spanish Civil War, published in the mid-Fifties. The massive volumes on the Civil War produced by Hugh Thomas and Burnett Bolloten in the Sixties left most Soviet sources untapped because neither could read Russian. Since that time a good deal of secondary literature based on Soviet archival material has appeared in the Soviet Union, filling in gaps and ..."
British Worthies
David Cannadine, 3 December 1981
The Directory of National Biography, 1961-1970
edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 1178 pp., £40, October 1981, 0 19 865207 0Show More
"... do get José Harris on Beveridge, James Lees-Milne on Harold Nicolson, O.S. Nock on Stanier, and Hugh Thomas on John Strachey. In such circumstances, where the great have already received the supreme accolade, there is little new to add. Much more interesting are the accounts of the otherwise unbiographied men and women of second rank, such as ..."
Horrors and Cream
Hugh Tulloch, 21 August 1980
On the Edge of Paradise
by David Newsome.
Murray, 405 pp., £17.50, June 1980, 0 7195 3690 1Show More
"... who set reason against feeling and convention against homosexual impulse, but unlike the youthful Hugh Walpole (one of the earliest kittens to fluster Benson with his friskiness) or Eton masters like William Johnson Cory and Oscar Browning, his fear of sex was so great that he could keep his footing in the 'precarious trade' of schoolmastering and avoid ..."
Dignity and Impudence
Oliver Whitley, 6 October 1983
A Variety of Lives: A Biography of Sir Hugh Greene
by Michael Tracey.
Bodley Head, 344 pp., £15, September 1983, 0 370 30026 2Show More
"... Described as a biography, this is also a detective story. Repeatedly Hugh Greene's BBC colleagues are quoted, anonymously, as being unsure as to what were or are his values, his principles, his philosophy. Occasionally someone doubts if there were or are any. Once, we are told, in an oblique attempt to find a clue to the elusive pattern of his motives, he was asked to say with whom in the English Civil War he could identify himself ..."
Tom Shippey, 24 February 1994
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory
by P.J.C. Field.
Boydell and Brewer, 218 pp., £29.50, September 1993, 0 85991 385 6Show More
"... unto his oth. Hit is pyté that he lyvyth!' This indignant outburst by Sir Lancelot in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur has long been an embarrassment to admirers of the work and of its author. Ever since G.L. Kittredge, a hundred years ago, identified the author of Morte Darthur with Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold ..."
Thus were the British defeated
Colin Munro: 'Tipu's Tiger', 4 January 2018
"... in 1808, may have been equally keen to share it: in Travels in India a Hundred Years Ago (1893) Thomas Twining told of meeting in about 1800 a 'Captain O'Donald' who claimed to be one of those present at Munro's death. Having just broken his thigh in a hunting accident, he began to tell the story while awaiting rescue. Munro's first name is rarely ..."
Lethal Specks
Hugh Pennington: Polonium, 14 December 2006
"... not changed in their fundamentals. In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer assigned its production to Charles Thomas, central research director of the Monsanto chemical company. He set up a laboratory in the indoor tennis court of his mother-in-law's large and remote estate in Dayton, Ohio. The polonium was made by irradiating slugs of bismuth metal in one of the new ..."
Betting big, winning small
David Runciman: Blair's Gambles, 20 May 2004
"... it had been at Fettes on 5 November 1956, at the very height of the crisis, that an effigy of Hugh Gaitskell (a Wykehamist, and leader of the Labour Party in its opposition to war) was burned, in order to remind the boys what treachery still meant. This event would have been part of the folk memory of the school when the young Anthony Blair, then still a ..."


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Katherine Odland has always had a passion for the arts. She enjoys performing covers and plays the guitar, ukulele and piano. In addition to music, Katherine has played a vital role in the success of the Lethbridge Swing Bridge Dance Club. She is a choreographer, painter and circus arts performer with a specialty in aerial acrobatics on the corde lisse. Katherine is currently studying nursing at the University of Lethbridge and is nearing the completion of her degree.


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Central New York journalist, author Dick Long dies
Published: Dec. 06, 2011, 4:55 p.m.
syracuse.com | The Post-Standard
Frank Ordonez/The Post-StandardDick Long created the award-winning cable acces series "Skaneatles Scrapbook."
Editor's note: Contributing writer Liz Sauchelli wrote this story.
Former Syracuse Newspapers reporter Richard F. "Dick" Long died Monday at the age of 85.
Long was born in Syracuse on New Year's day, 1926.
In his late teens, he served as an Army rifleman during World War II, as part of the 88th Infantry Division., according to biographical information he prepared before he died.
Following his military service, Long attended LeMoyne College and was a member of its first graduating class in 1951.
Long joined the Herald-Journal, Syracuse's former afternoon newspaper, where he covered the police, county government and politics beats, among others. In 1962, he left the Herald-Journal to spend a year in Uganda as an administrative assistant to a Catholic bishop. During his time in Uganda, Long wrote 90 feature stories for the Associated Press, his self-prepared obituary says.
He was commissioned to write a book by the Medical Mission Sisters, who work as doctors in hospitals across the world. His research took him to countries such as Pakistan and India. Long's book, "Nowhere a Stranger" was published in 1968.
When he returned to the United States in 1965, Long rejoined the Herald-Journal and became a Washington correspondent for Syracuse Newspapers. He moved on to become a public affairs officer in different government agencies, including the Office of Education.
In the 1970s, Long wrote plays that were performed in Washington, DC. In the 1980s he became a television producer and the U.S. Army's Material Command director, where he completed upwards of 25 documentaries about the army.
Long created the cable acces series "Skaneatles Scrapbook.".
Long was always a journalist, writing freelance work on a variety of topics for The Post-Standard in recent years and, in his last months, passing on story ideas he was too weak to pursue.
Throughout his time in Syracuse, and later, Auburn, Long was very involved in community activities.
"He was just a wonderful guy," said his sister, Margaret Long,of Syracuse. "He was into many things in the community."


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He was a French sculptor, born in 1921 of Italian parents from Tuscany in the working-class neighbourhood of la Belle-de-Mai in Marseilles. His father was a cooper and bar owner. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles (1935-9) he went on to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1943-8). He began making sculptures by welding together pieces of scrap metal in 1952 and first made his reputation with solid welded sculptures of insects, various kinds of animals and nudes.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, 1954.
His early work used soldered and welded metal as well as junk materials, and by 1960 César was considered one of France's leading sculptors. In that year, on a visit to a scrap merchant in search of metal, he saw a hydraulic crushing machine in operation, and decided to experiment with it in his sculpture. He astonished his followers by showing three crushed cars at a Paris exhibition. It was for these 'Compressions' that César became renowned. César selected particular cars for crushing, mixing elements from differently coloured vehicles. In this way he could control the surface pattern and colour scheme of the piece.
Later the same year he joined the Nouveaux Réalistes (New Realists) - Arman, Klein, Raysse, Tinguely, Pierre Restany and others who found their inspiration in urban life.
In 1965, he started to work with plastics, first with plastic moulds of human imprints, then from 1966 by pouring expanded polyurethane, which was allowed to expand and solidify. He gave up making welded-metal sculpture in 1966 and organised a series of Happenings from 1967 to 1970, in which he produced expansions in the presence of an audience. His later works also included sculptures made out of molten crystal.
In 1995, he was asked to paint a McLaren F1 GTR that participated in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car Chassis GTR5 is still in the livery created by César, and represents the only 'Art Car" based on the iconic Mclaren.
He is the creator of the César du cinéma trophy, which is awarded to the best in French cinema.
He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur on 22 January 1978[1] and promoted Officier (Officer) in 1993.[1]
He married Rosine and had one daughter Anna.
He died in Paris in December 1998. Following his death there was an extended dispute over his will between his widow and daughter on the one hand and Stéphanie Busuttil, his companion at the time of his death, on the other.
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Q: Init Ledger Journal Trans offset account I am trying to create (and post) ledger journals from data received via AIF inbound service. The data is written in a custom staging table with all necessary fields.
Now, I need to create journals and journal trans records from this staging table. I am able to create LedgerJournalTable record with multiple LedgerJournalTrans records.
Here is a code snippet for creating LedgerJournalTrans:
 ledgerJournalTrans = this.initJournalTransFromStaging(ledgerJournalStaging);
 ledgerJournalTrans.initValue();
 ledgerJournalTrans.JournalNum   = ledgerJournalTable.JournalNum;
 ledgerJournalTrans.Voucher      = numberSeq.voucher();

 if (ledgerJournalTrans.validateWrite())
 {
     ledgerJournalTrans.insert();
 }
 // After that comes voucher validation using JedgerJournalCheckPost, which issues error that the voucher does not balance

Where this.initJournalTransFromStaging initializes some standard fields like AccountNum, AmountCurDebit and so on.
My problem is that OffsetAccount is not populated from default settings (in my particular case, it should be defaulted from Ledger Journal Name, but it can also be taken from main account settings), that leads to error when validating voucher (does not balance).
It would be great make use of some standard functionality to correctly initialize offset account.
Thanks!

A: I have found a solution:
ledgerJournalEngine = LedgerJournalEngine::construct(ledgerJournalTable.JournalType);
ledgerJournalEngine.newJournalActive(ledgerJournalTable);

ledgerJournalEngine.accountModified(ledgerJournalTrans);

This made the trick! It inits offset account from LedgerTable or LedgerJournalName, with LedgerTable having higher priority.

A: You can init the offset account and offset dimension from a LedgerJournalName record.  Is there a reason you are not doing this or are you asking if there exists a more proper way to do this out of the box?
See my answer here about a very similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27853468/1179573

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CHARLESTON – Robin Jean Davis, a 22-year member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, is now the second justice to resign from the troubled court.
Davis, who was first elected to the court in 1996, announced her resignation to a packed supreme court chamber Tuesday morning.
Davis' resignation paves the way for a temporary appointment by Gov. Jim Justice. It also comes in under an Aug. 14 deadline or any supreme court resignation to trigger a special election on the November ballot.
"Now, the citizens — and let me repeat that — the citizens of West Virginia, will be afforded their constitutional right to elect my successor in November," Davis said.
The West Virginia House of Delegates adopted 11 articles of impeachment Monday after nine days of investigations by the House Judiciary Committee. Every sitting justice was impeached, including justices Allen Loughry, Margaret Workman, and Beth Walker. In her statement, Davis piled on criticism of the House of Delegates and their impeachment process.
Davis was named in three articles for overpayment of senior status judges in violation of state law, spending $500,000 on renovations and furnishings for her office, and for adopting no policies and procedures regarding purchasing, travel or spending.
Davis is the second judge to resign in less than 20 days. Former Justice Menis Ketchum resigned July 27. Shortly afterward the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia announced that Ketchum had agreed to plead guilty in an information to one count of felony wire fraud. Ketchum is accused of using state vehicles and fuel cards for out-of-state personal golf outings. Ketchum's plea hearing is Aug. 23, and he is cooperating with investigators as they look further at the supreme court.
Justice Allen Loughry is also sidelined, having been suspended without pay pending the outcome of a federal court case. Loughry was charged in a 23-count federal indictment, including charges of witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal investigators.
Last week, Workman appointed Cabell County Circuit Judge Paul Farrell to fill in for Loughry. Davis' resignation will require another temporary justice to be appointed. Gov. Justice will also have an opportunity to pick a replacement to sit until the November special election.
Whoever wins to fill her seat will serve until 2026, when her term ends. A proclamation from the governor calling the special election was expected Tuesday. Candidates wishing to run for her seat have until Aug. 21 to file with the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office.


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#include <nan.h>

#include "vtkDataSetAlgorithmWrap.h"
#include "vtkMatrixMathFilterWrap.h"
#include "vtkObjectBaseWrap.h"
#include "../../plus/plus.h"

using namespace v8;

extern Nan::Persistent<v8::Object> vtkNodeJsNoWrap;
Nan::Persistent<v8::FunctionTemplate> VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::ptpl;

VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap()
{ }

VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap(vtkSmartPointer<vtkMatrixMathFilter> _native)
{ native = _native; }

VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::~VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap()
{ }

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::Init(v8::Local<v8::Object> exports)
{
	Nan::SetAccessor(exports, Nan::New("vtkMatrixMathFilter").ToLocalChecked(), ConstructorGetter);
	Nan::SetAccessor(exports, Nan::New("MatrixMathFilter").ToLocalChecked(), ConstructorGetter);
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::ConstructorGetter(
	v8::Local<v8::String> property,
	const Nan::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	InitPtpl();
	info.GetReturnValue().Set(Nan::New(ptpl)->GetFunction());
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::InitPtpl()
{
	if (!ptpl.IsEmpty()) return;
	v8::Local<v8::FunctionTemplate> tpl = Nan::New<v8::FunctionTemplate>(New);
	VtkDataSetAlgorithmWrap::InitPtpl( );
	tpl->Inherit(Nan::New<FunctionTemplate>(VtkDataSetAlgorithmWrap::ptpl));
	tpl->SetClassName(Nan::New("VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap").ToLocalChecked());
	tpl->InstanceTemplate()->SetInternalFieldCount(1);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "GetOperation", GetOperation);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "getOperation", GetOperation);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "NewInstance", NewInstance);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "newInstance", NewInstance);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SafeDownCast", SafeDownCast);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "safeDownCast", SafeDownCast);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SetOperation", SetOperation);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "setOperation", SetOperation);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SetOperationToDeterminant", SetOperationToDeterminant);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "setOperationToDeterminant", SetOperationToDeterminant);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SetOperationToEigenvalue", SetOperationToEigenvalue);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "setOperationToEigenvalue", SetOperationToEigenvalue);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SetOperationToEigenvector", SetOperationToEigenvector);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "setOperationToEigenvector", SetOperationToEigenvector);

	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "SetOperationToInverse", SetOperationToInverse);
	Nan::SetPrototypeMethod(tpl, "setOperationToInverse", SetOperationToInverse);

#ifdef VTK_NODE_PLUS_VTKMATRIXMATHFILTERWRAP_INITPTPL
	VTK_NODE_PLUS_VTKMATRIXMATHFILTERWRAP_INITPTPL
#endif
	ptpl.Reset( tpl );
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::New(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	if(!info.IsConstructCall())
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Constructor not called in a construct call.");
		return;
	}

	if(info.Length() == 0)
	{
		vtkSmartPointer<vtkMatrixMathFilter> native = vtkSmartPointer<vtkMatrixMathFilter>::New();
		VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap* obj = new VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap(native);
		obj->Wrap(info.This());
	}
	else
	{
		if(info[0]->ToObject() != vtkNodeJsNoWrap )
		{
			Nan::ThrowError("Parameter Error");
			return;
		}
	}

	info.GetReturnValue().Set(info.This());
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::GetOperation(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
	int r;
	if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	r = native->GetOperation();
	info.GetReturnValue().Set(Nan::New(r));
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::NewInstance(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
	vtkMatrixMathFilter * r;
	if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	r = native->NewInstance();
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::InitPtpl();
	v8::Local<v8::Value> argv[1] =
		{ Nan::New(vtkNodeJsNoWrap) };
	v8::Local<v8::Function> cons =
		Nan::New<v8::FunctionTemplate>(VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::ptpl)->GetFunction();
	v8::Local<v8::Object> wo = cons->NewInstance(1, argv);
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *w = new VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap();
	w->native = r;
	w->Wrap(wo);
	info.GetReturnValue().Set(wo);
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SafeDownCast(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
	if(info.Length() > 0 && info[0]->IsObject() && (Nan::New(VtkObjectBaseWrap::ptpl))->HasInstance(info[0]))
	{
		VtkObjectBaseWrap *a0 = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkObjectBaseWrap>(info[0]->ToObject());
		vtkMatrixMathFilter * r;
		if(info.Length() != 1)
		{
			Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
			return;
		}
		r = native->SafeDownCast(
			(vtkObjectBase *) a0->native.GetPointer()
		);
		VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::InitPtpl();
		v8::Local<v8::Value> argv[1] =
			{ Nan::New(vtkNodeJsNoWrap) };
		v8::Local<v8::Function> cons =
			Nan::New<v8::FunctionTemplate>(VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::ptpl)->GetFunction();
		v8::Local<v8::Object> wo = cons->NewInstance(1, argv);
		VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *w = new VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap();
		w->native = r;
		w->Wrap(wo);
		info.GetReturnValue().Set(wo);
		return;
	}
	Nan::ThrowError("Parameter mismatch");
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SetOperation(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
	if(info.Length() > 0 && info[0]->IsInt32())
	{
				if(info.Length() != 1)
		{
			Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
			return;
		}
		native->SetOperation(
			info[0]->Int32Value()
		);
		return;
	}
	Nan::ThrowError("Parameter mismatch");
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SetOperationToDeterminant(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
		if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	native->SetOperationToDeterminant();
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SetOperationToEigenvalue(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
		if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	native->SetOperationToEigenvalue();
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SetOperationToEigenvector(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
		if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	native->SetOperationToEigenvector();
}

void VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap::SetOperationToInverse(const Nan::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info)
{
	VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap *wrapper = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<VtkMatrixMathFilterWrap>(info.Holder());
	vtkMatrixMathFilter *native = (vtkMatrixMathFilter *)wrapper->native.GetPointer();
		if(info.Length() != 0)
	{
		Nan::ThrowError("Too many parameters.");
		return;
	}
	native->SetOperationToInverse();
}

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Q: How to import wasm in web workers with webpack? is it possible with webpack to import wasm in workers? In my normal js code i can import wasm like this:
import('../wasm/hello_world.wasm').then(module => {
    console.log(module.add_one(9))
})

the same code does not work inside a worker. It returns the following error message:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property './src/wasm/hello_world.wasm' of undefined

My webpack config is a combination of the webpack worker and wasm examples.

*

*https://github.com/webpack/webpack/tree/master/examples/web-worker

*https://github.com/webpack/webpack/tree/master/examples/wasm-simple

A: Based on the original question and the comment it looks like there is interest in solving this for both C / Emscripten and Rust compiled WASM.
I found the following article that explains very nicely how to achieve the results for Emscripten generated wasm here:
https://medium.com/@c.gerard.gallant/webassembly-web-workers-f2ba637c3e4a
As for Rust, I was going to come up with my own solution to this and provide a github repo to accompany my answer but during the course of my research I discovered that this developer had already solved the problem quite nicely already and kindly provided us with a ready to use template.
Thank you Victor Gavrish!
https://github.com/VictorGavrish/rust-wasm-worker-template
The steps in the README.md are a little out of date.  I was able to build and run the project by doing the following:
clone the repo locally and execute:
cd rust-wasm-worker-template/www
npm install
npm run build
npm run start

Once webpack is finished bundling everything the dev site will be available from the URL provided on the console.
The important things to remember, in general, are the limitations of webworkers.  There is no  direct access to the dom or console, you have to handle passing messages from the worker to the main thread and then output to console.  I mention this specifically because the OP used an example that called console.log...


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A Judge Fines Trump And His Lawyer For Suing Clinton In A "Frivolous" Case
Leave a Comment / News / By Sam Houston / January 21, 2023 January 21, 2023
A judge in Florida issued sanctions against former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys, ordering them to pay almost one million dollars for filing what the judge deemed to be a frivolous lawsuit against Trump's rival for the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, and other individuals.
U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks accused President Trump of engaging in a "pattern of abuse of the courts" in a blistering filing that was submitted on Thursday "for initiating baseless legal proceedings for the purpose of advancing political agendas, a practice that, in his words, "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice."
"In this case, we are faced with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose, " "Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was "he had written.
He labeled Trump as "a prolific and sophisticated litigation" who uses the courts "to seek revenge on political rivals." He based this assessment on Trump's recent legal action against the Pulitzer Prize board, New York's attorney general, large tech corporations, and CNN.
According to what was written, "he is the genius of strategic misuse of the court process." According to the verdict, both Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, were obliged to pay the plaintiffs in the case about $938,000 in damages. Late Thursday night, requests for comment were sent to a spokeswoman for Trump and Habba, but they did not immediately answer.
In September, Middlebrooks dismissed the suit that Trump had filed against Clinton, former top FBI officials, and the Democratic Party. He did so by rejecting the former president's claims that they and other people conspired to sink Trump's successful presidential campaign by alleging ties to Russia. Trump had filed the suit against Clinton, former top FBI officials, and the Democratic Party.
In the lawsuit, Clinton and some of her top advisers were named as defendants, along with former FBI Director James Comey and other FBI officials involved in the investigation into whether or not Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 coordinated with Russia to influence the outcome of the election. The lawsuit also named Comey.
When asked about it at the time, he stated that the lawsuit had "glaring structural problems" and that many of the "characterizations of events are impossible." As a direct result of the fines, President Trump abandoned his lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James of the state of New York on Friday. Middlebrooks was previously involved in the lawsuit that was being heard in the federal court in Florida.
In November, Trump filed a lawsuit against James as a response to her complaint, in which she alleged that he and his organization had misled banks and other parties over the worth of assets, a process which she referred to as "The art of the steal."
Additionally, Trump, a Republican, attempted to thwart James, a Democrat, from exercising any kind of supervisory authority over the family trust that manages his business. It irritated Middlebrooks, who wrote in a December decision that "this litigation has all the telltale marks of being both vexatious and frivolous." His 35-page complaint rehashed certain claims from his previously rejected lawsuit against James in federal court in New York.
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What Are the Medical Benefits of Psychedelics?
I sat down with Professor David Nutt to find out.
by John-David Ritz
Photo by Benjamin Shapiro
This article originally appeared on VICE Sweden
After LSD became illegal in many countries in the late 1960s, scientific research into its potential benefits to mental health largely stalled. It's only recently that this topic has become subject to larger scale studies again. That is partly thanks to Professor David Nutt, who has devoted his career to researching the medical benefits of psychedelic drugs. He's published over 400 original research papers, 27 books and eight government reports on the subject, and is also working on a synthetic booze that aims to reduce hangovers.
He performs his research with the Beckley Foundation, a British NGO founded in 1998 by Amanda Fielding. The focus of his study is how LSD and psilocybin (i.e. magic mushrooms) could function as treatment for issues like depression and addiction. Unsurprisingly, Nutt has repeatedly found himself in media shit-storms because of his work. In 2009 he was sacked as the British government's chief drug adviser after publicly stating that ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol. A few years later, Nutt suggested the cause of the financial crisis had been the coke habit of bankers.
Last month, Professor Nutt was invited by the Swedish Network for Psychedelic Science to host a lecture titled "The New Psychedelic Revolution in Psychiatric Medicine" at Karolinska Institutet in Solna. The following morning I sat down with him to discuss the future of psychedelics as medical treatments.
Professor David Nutt in Stockholm. Photo by the author
VICE: Can psychedelics trigger the creative part of the brain?
Professor David Nutt: Psychedelics change all kinds of different dimensions of your brain – the aspects that influence you visually, spiritually, and what helps you make sense of your life. I don't think that psychedelics can turn us all into Picassos, but they can make you see that there are different ways of thinking and might help you solve some issues.
What about chronic pain?
I'm trying to encourage pain researchers to study the effect of psychedelics. I think LSD could be the next revolution in pain therapy. The brain processes of chronic pain are very similar to the process of depression, so I think LSD should to be studied for its effect on chronic pain.
If we started treating people for addiction or depression with psychedelics, how do you think that would work, practically?
I imagine that you'd come to a clinic to get your treatment – a single dose therapy that would give you a profound change lasting for months. And if addicted people relapse, they might need to take it again. With depression, people can see how long they can go without feeling anxious and when the depression starts to creep up again, they would come back in, too.
You can use psychedelics repeatedly, but the effect wears off. You build tolerance for it, even if you increase the dosage. We're not sure why, but it's one of the reasons it's not addictive. It's not something people start craving, like cocaine.
READ: This Scientist Has Invented a Synthetic Booze That Will End Hangovers and Alcohol-Related Deaths
These drugs have been banned for so long, how difficult will it be to convince the world that they work as a medical treatment?
We're not talking about about magic here, or a bunch of hippies having some fun. We have the science behind how psychedelics work. The only reason people don't want them as a medical treatment is because they don't want to be proven wrong. People say that psychedelics fuck with your brain. I say, "No, they switch off these parts of the brain that are overactive in depression." That should be enough. What is there not to believe?
Before the ban in the 1960s, LSD was viewed and tested as a promising medical substance. Why wasn't that research continued in some form after it was banned?
That was difficult for several reasons. First of all, there's no money in it. Even if you could fund it, you need the right permissions and pass several regulations, which takes years. And the drug itself became crazy expensive. We get the LSD for our research from Germany. The Germans need a license to produce and export, we need a license to import and someone else needs a license to transport. So we end up paying £1,500 per dose of LSD. It's absurd.
On top of that, there's this perpetuated stigma from politicians and the media. The result is that there hasn't been one single study on LSD in America since the ban. There was one Swiss end-of-life study – and hopefully more to come.
What have been the biggest obstacles over the years?
The big challenges have been the regulations. It took us nearly three years to get through the regulations to even start our studies. If I was studying heroin, it would only take six months. It's crazy that psilocybin is treated as more dangerous than heroin. It makes no sense at all.
The reason the government gives for not funding this kind of research is rather clever. They say, "These drugs aren't addictive, we fund research on addiction." Or they claim that studying recreational drugs might encourage use. So it's almost impossible to fund – all of our funding comes from charities and crowdfunding.
How do you see the future?
I hope the laws and regulations change so I can work with psychedelics without it being so damn expensive. It would be great to get Scandinavia on board, since you guys have a good track record in brain research. There is no research in Sweden at the moment but that's why I'm here – to encourage people.
Do you think that your work will be more accepted in ten years?
Oh yes, in much less than ten years. I think in five years, psilocybin will be used to treat people in the United States. But I think LSD is too politically sensitive for that to happen soon.
The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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Time to face the music, Mr. Polanski
By Chicago Tribune |
September 30, 2009 at 11:56 p.m.
Poor Roman Polanski. The fugitive film director thought he was going to Zurich to pick up a lifetime achievement award and ended up in a detention cell, fighting over whether he should be returned to Los Angeles on a 1977 conviction for having sex with a child.
Of all the dirty tricks.
Never mind that Polanski pleaded guilty to the crime, which involved champagne, half a Quaalude, a hot tub and a 13-year-old girl.
He spent 42 days in a state prison undergoing psychiatric evaluation, believing he'd cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid further time. But then he got word that the judge might not go along with it. So instead of going to prison, he went to France.
It was a natural choice. France has no extradition treaty with the United States and apparently no problem with middle-age guys preying on barely teenage girls. For three decades, Polanski made films, raised a family and traveled all over Europe, celebrated by his new countrymen and unmolested by his old ones. French authorities were aghast when American prosecutors finally came after him.
France's foreign minister described the arrest as "a little sinister." Its minister of culture said the director was "thrown to the lions for an old story." Hollywood stars complained that this case is three decades old. Other defenders of Polanski described his arrest as shocking, vindictive, disgraceful.
Nobody in Hollywood used the word that comes first to our mind: overdue. This is a three-decade-old case because he fled.Why didn't Los Angeles County prosecutors pick him up sooner? Their story is that they've been trying all along. They succeeded, finally, because they had plenty of notice that he'd be in a place where he could easily be cuffed.
The fact that it took 31 years suggests some measure of ineptitude or indifference. A 2008 documentary suggests worse: "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," released at last year's Sundance Film Festival, alleges misconduct on the part of prosecutors and the judge, who is now dead. Basing their case partly on the film, Polanski's lawyers asked a judge in December to throw out the case.Imagine the embarrassment for prosecutors, trying to fight that appeal while Polanski flits all over Europe, hiding in plain sight as he has for three decades. Is that why they finally popped him? It doesn't matter.
Polanski's apologists seem to think he deserves a pass because (pick one) he's 76, he had a tragic childhood, the crime happened long ago, he's a genius, his victim has publicly forgiven him, he's made some memorable movies _ and, by the way, there's another one in the works, only now it's on hold.
None of that changes the fact that he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old and never faced the music. Let him come back to Los Angeles and explain to a judge, and to all of us, why that's OK.
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Grado has improved their bass definition, brought out their midrange and smoothened the treble and all while keeping their classic Grado house sound that just well….rocks! The White Headphone feels slightly deep, but with a natural sense of warmth. The bass is deep, yet subtle nuances are easier to hear. The drivers chosen by Grado for these headphones have been tuned to take account of the acoustic properties of the compressed hemp fibers and it took some in depth experimentation to realize the fitting pairing. Restrained bass response. They're made of a compressed foam material and don't feel as soft or pliable as the usual Grado earpads I'm used to. The retro "80s headphones" design is the central theme around the Prestige Series which the Grado SR80e falls … BUY GRADO … CMoy audiophile headphone amplifier-2 stages,bass & gain enhanced,grado clone KCLI3663. Like all Grado headphones… There's also plenty of detail on display here – unhampered by any bleed or lack of control when it comes to bass. Two models, the GW100 open-back wireless headphones and the GT220 true wireless buds are worthy of the Grado name. Build your own Grado style headphones with this helpful guide, along with a review of the Symphones V8 drivers. The word "sleek" doesn't necessarily apply here — but "classic" does. If you put these on any current Grado/Alessandro models, you will experience something similar to the button Bass Boost on old school hifi amplifier. Cons: Pricey. Unlike mass produced counterparts, each Grado headphone is hand-assembled and closely … An Introduction to one of the world's best open headphone brands. Bass extension isn't as deep as that of higher-end headphones, but it's good for sub-$100 headphones. Not only did the bass … From shop KCLI3663 $ 49.00. As there's no fat to the sound, nothing to clog up the separation between parts of an arrangement, the SR80es can jump between genres without any obviou… Grado headphones are the antithesis of mass production, as each Grado headphone is hand-assembled and closely scrutinized to meet full performance specifications in the U.S.A. Technical refinements for Grado drivers include improved diaphragm and voice coil design for increased bass … And this articulate bass easily compliments the organic … They were designed for the vintage Grado such as the HP1000, SR100/200/300 and early RS1. It's also pretty darn simple — there's a simple leather band that runs over your head, and the headphones extend to different sizes through a basic metal rod. The open-backed design helps make these headphones sound fast and nimble.
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