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Q: How to download PDF files from a list of URLs in Python? I have a big list of links to PDF files that I need to download (500+) and I was trying to make a program to download them all because I don't want to manually do them.
This is what I have and when I try to run it, the console just opens up and closes.
import wget

def main():
    f = open("list.txt", "r")

    f1 = f.readlines()
    for x in f1:
        wget.download(x, 'C:/Users/ALEXJ/OneDrive/Desktop/Books')
        print("Downloaded" + x)

A: Make sure you add the function call at the end of your script, is good practice to use the if __name__ == '__main__': before the code of code you want to execute (although is not mandatory it will help so if you import this file into another your code will not get executed without your knowledge)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A: The problem is that you are defining the function main() but you are not calling it anywhere else.
Here is a complete example to achieve what you want:
import wget

def main():
    books_folder = 'C:/Users/ALEXJ/OneDrive/Desktop/Books'
    books_list = 'list.txt'

    with open(books_list) as books:
        for book in books:
            wget.download(book.strip(), books_folder)
            print('Downloaded', book)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Grief stricken Janet seeks comfort from Jack.
Janet learns of Rocco's death and Liberty's diagnosis.
Emma checks Meg out of the hospital.
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Upset to learn that her father has died, Janet seeks comfort from Jack. Dusty tries his best to explain what happened but she won't hear any of it. Carly goes to the police station where she sees Jack and Janet embracing, and she leaves upset. Parker consoles his upset mother, but Carly tells him that he should be with Liberty. Surrounded by her friends, Liberty receives news that her cancer is in remission. Gabriel suggests that Liberty takes his new sports car for a celebratory spin. Later, Parker breaks the news to Liberty that Roccoo has died. Together, they go to Metro so Liberty can be with her mother and aunt. Dusty again apologizes, and Janet admits that she may have overreacted. That being said, however, she cannot bring herself to forgive Dusty. Heartbroken, Dusty asks Craig if he can spend some time with Johnny. Craig lays it out on the line telling Dusty that he'll never be with Janet. Carly appears just in time to stop the men from fighting. She accuses Craig of provoking Dusty so Janet will never take him back. Craig doesn't deny his actions and admits that he will be there for her when she doesn't get what she needs from Jack. Later, Carly and Dusty look on as Jack escorts Janet to her father's funeral.
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In prosecutions for alleged driving while intoxicated (DWI), the state often relies on a defendant's blood alcohol content (BAC), as indicated by a breath or blood test. New Jersey's implied consent statute imposes penalties on drivers who refuse to submit a breath sample to an Alcotest device. By driving on the roads of New Jersey, a motorist has given implied consent to breath testing. The implied consent law, however, does not include blood testing. There is no penalty for refusing to submit to a blood test in New Jersey.
The law regarding warrantless blood draws in DWI cases has changed recently, thanks to a 2013 decision from the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), and New Jersey courts are still working out some of the details. A June 2015 Appellate Division decision, State v. Majao, reviews former and current state law, as well as the evidence required to establish the admissibility of BAC results obtained through a blood test.
The trooper asked a phlebotomist at the hospital to draw blood samples from the defendant. He testified about the phlebotomist's procedure in collecting the blood samples, and he stated that he took the samples directly to the station and logged them into evidence. Lab tests indicated a BAC of approximately 0.119%.
The defendant appealed from the municipal court, and the Law Division convicted him of DWI. He argued that (1) the BAC evidence was inadmissible because the state did not prove his blood was "drawn in a medically-acceptable manner," (2) the BAC was inadmissible because the blood draw was performed without a warrant, and (3) the evidence was insufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The appellate court dismissed the first point of appeal outright, holding that the trooper's testimony about the blood draw was enough to establish its medical acceptability. The court similarly dismissed the third point.
Until recently, New Jersey law enforcement was permitted to collect blood samples from a DWI suspect without a warrant under the 1966 SCOTUS ruling in Schmerber v. California and the 1984 New Jersey Supreme Court (NJSC) ruling in State v. Dyal. The officer must have probable cause to suspect intoxication, and the blood draw must be performed in a medically acceptable manner at a health-care facility. A 2001 NJSC ruling, State v. Ravotto, barred the use of "excessive force" in warrantless blood draws.
A 2013 SCOTUS ruling, Missouri v. McNeely, overturned significant parts of Schmerber and Dyal. It held that the dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream, by itself, is insufficient to justify a warrantless blood draw. The NJSC adopted McNeely in 2015 in State v. Adkins, applying it retroactively. The Majao court found that the facts of the present case were very similar to the facts in Schmerber, in which emergency treatment at the hospital after an automobile accident delayed the collection of a blood sample. The court held that the trooper reasonably concluded that an emergency situation was present that justified a warrantless blood draw.
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This document outlines current prospects for a Benefit Sharing mechanism that could be used with the Massim people in Central Suau REDD+ Project Area in Milne Bay Province / Papua New Guinea. It provides a couple of unique features as recommendations for how benefits may be shared most effectively and most amicably in the Suau District. The recommendation is that the Benefit Sharing System does not include cash benefits of any kind to landowners, but focus on community-wide projects that might be identified by women in each ward and shared amongst all community members.
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The purpose of this manual is to provide an overall review of the components that will be part of a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system for a REDD+ voluntary market forest carbon project. This MRV manual serve as the Monitoring Plan in the "Project Design Document Development for Forest Carbon Project (Logged – Protected Forest) in Central Suau" prepared under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) in compliance with the VCS VM0011 methodology.
Prepared by: Österreichische Bundesforste, on behalf of SPC/GIZ Regional Project "Climate Protection through Forest Conservation in Pacific Island Countries".
The present report provides an overview on the methodology, results and discussion of the forest carbon inventory in Central Suau in Milne Bay province, Papua New Guinea.
The results of the land cover analysis show eleven land cover strata including three assessed to hold commercial sawlog stocks. These three land cover strata cover 43,374ha or 72.6% of Central Suau PPA area of 59,758ha.
The report will be used as an input into the preparation of the Project Description under VCS.
Prepared by Österreichische Bundesforste AG on behalf of SPC/GIZ Regional Project 'Climate Protection through Forest Conservation in Pacific Island Countries'.
The report gives an overview on drivers of historical deforestation and forest degradation in Central Suau, Milne Bay Province, PNG.
The results on historical land cover and use pronounce the dominance of agricultural areas for subsistence food and crop production with scattered coconut plantation along the sea shore.
The complex of identified agents, drivers and underlying causes are described: population growth is a major underlying cause and poses in conjunction with agricultural land use as livelihood activity and scarce land resources along the coast the high threat of deforestation on accessible primary forests.
The report provides a legal context to the various issues relating to REDD+ in Papua New Guinea. These include the required institutional arrangements, land tenure issues, regulatory instruments, leasing structures, identification of carbon rights, addressing competing land use interests and implementation of safeguards.
Included in the report are direct links to all important documents regarding REDD in Papua New Guinea.


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Untested Amphetamine Found In Weight Loss Supplements
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Trending News: The Untested Drug Hiding In Your Supplements
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Because most of us have at least considered trying herbal supplements.
A group of researchers has found that as many as 11 brands claiming to be manufactured from a plant called Acacia rigidula contained an amphetamine not tested or approved by the FDA for human consumption.
The herbal supplement industry has gone from fringe, homeopathic nonsense to a bonafide power player in the health and wellness space, raking in billions of dollars per year. Though they claim to relieve any number of maladies, many supplements are aimed at those looking to lose weight. The danger of such supplements is that you can never really know what's in them, which makes it all the more alarming that a group of researchers discovered something similar to a banned amphetamine in 11 major weight loss supplements.
The authors purchased 21 supplement brands claiming to be derived from Acacia rigidula, a plant native to the U.S. southwest. Of those, 11 were found to contain ß-methylphenylethylamine (BMPEA), an untested stimulant similar to one already banned by the FDA. The study was commissioned to see if the substance was still present in the substances after the FDA discovered it in 2013. It still is, obviously.
The supplement companies claim that the amphetamine is a naturally occurring byproduct of Acacia rigidula processing, but Dr. Russell Saunders, writing at The Daily Beast, says that's just not true. "Turns out that ß-methylphenylethylamine (BMPEA), the chemical the researchers identified, only comes from a lab, not from a plant growing in the desert Southwest," he said.
The situation falls into something of a grey area, from a legal standpoint. Supplements are not classified as food or drugs, and therefore don't need FDA approval. However, the FDA and law enforcement do have the authority to reprimand manufacturers who mislead or outright lie to customers with their ingredient labels. An "all natural" weight loss supplement containing a synthetic stimulant would certainly qualify as misleading, especially since the ingredient in question has not been tested by the FDA.
BMPEA has not yet been identified as a safety risk, unlike its chemical cousin DMAA, which was linked to more than 100 illnesses and six deaths. Ingredient fudging is a big problem with the supplement industry, which is why 14 U.S. Attorneys General have asked Congress to give the FDA greater oversight of the industry.
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~ Largest easement ever recorded in the Commonwealth will help protect high conservation value land and waters, will be held by the Virginia Department of Forestry ~
RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF), and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permanently protect 22,856 acres of forest land in Russell County in southwest Virginia through the largest open space easement ever recorded in the Commonwealth.
"I am excited to announce this unique partnership that will allow for sustainable forestry, improve access to outdoor recreation, and increase protection of wildlife habitat and water quality," said Governor Northam. "This historic open space easement represents exactly what we are aiming for through our administration's ConserveVirginiainitiative to protect the highest conservation value lands in the Commonwealth. And in addition to the benefits to our environment and natural resources, sustainably managed forests will make important contributions to our rural economies and support local jobs in Southwest Virginia."
"Forests matter to everyone because they are essential to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities," said Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Bettina Ring. "The Clinch Highlands working forestry easement is unique not only because it is the largest in the Commonwealth's history, but more importantly because of the many ways it supports the resiliency of the surrounding communities."
"This project is a model for sustainable economic development," said Secretary of Natural Resources Matthew J. Strickler. "Conserving this land as a carefully managed working forest while also protecting a key part of the Clinch River watershed is a huge achievement."
The announcement of this partnership comes on the heels of TNC's Cumberland Forest Project, which recently acquired a quarter-million acres in the Central Appalachian coalfields of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
"The Virginia Department of Forestry is honored to be a part of this unprecedented conservation project and to hold Virginia's largest open space easement ever recorded,"said Virginia State Forester Rob Farrell. "The Virginia Department of Forestry is known as an organization that emphasizes leading by example, and so we are pleased to have the opportunity to do so through this innovative project that will protect the environment while supporting local communities."
The 22,856 acres now protected in perpetuity through the Clinch Highlands easement were identified early on as a critical piece of the Cumberland Forest Project's footprint. This particular section of the property's vast forests also provides water-quality benefits to the Clinch River, one of the most biodiverse river systems in North America.
"When we announced the Cumberland Forest Project one month ago, we made it clear that one of our goals is to permanently protect as much of this high conservation value land as possible," said Locke Ogens, State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. "This easement and partnership with the Commonwealth of Virginia marks the first example of how The Nature Conservancy aims to work with partners to protect critical pieces of the property for the long term."
The Clinch River is one of the last free-flowing tributaries of the Tennessee River system and harbors one of the nation's highest concentrations of globally rare and imperiled freshwater animals. It has tremendous potential as an educational and recreational resource that can support a growing outdoor recreation economy in southwest Virginia.
The Clinch Highlands easement has further synergy with the new Clinch River State Park, which will have several anchor sites along the river that offer visitor amenities such as campgrounds, trails, and canoe and kayak launch points. The Clinch Highlands easement will conserve open space in the viewshed of the new state park and will ensure sustainable forestry and the protection of headwater streams that feed into the Clinch River and contribute to its water quality.
A key part of the financing of the Cumberland Forest Project is a loan from the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund (VCWRLF), which is administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and DEQ. The fund provides low-interest loans for wastewater treatment, water collection systems, and protection of natural resources.
"We are pleased to provide funding of more than $20 million for the Cumberland Forest Project through the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund," said DEQ Director David K. Paylor. "Forest conservation is one of the most effective investments when it comes to protecting water quality. Forests serve as natural sponges, filter rainfall, prevent erosion of sediment into the water, moderate soil and water temperatures, and help recharge ground water."
With this project, VDOF's easement program has grown to include more than 60,000 acres in just ten years. The easements protect tens of thousands of acres of working forests and hundreds of miles of streams and rivers, as well as significant habitats, scenic views, and historic features. The Clinch Highlands easement is the VDOF's first in Russell County, and increases the agency's portfolio by nearly 50 percent in a single transaction.
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Editor's Note	Neuroscience
Lab tests aren't the answer for every science question
By Elizabeth Quill
In the second half of the 17th century, the chemist and polymath Robert Boyle and philosopher Thomas Hobbes engaged in a divisive debate centered on a temperamental, mechanical contraption known as an air pump. In a series of famous experiments, Boyle used the air pump, which has been called "the cyclotron of its age," to test basic scientific principles such as the relationship between a gas's pressure and its volume. But the debate was about more than the scientific results; it was about the very nature of science. As Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin recount in their 1985 history of the controversy: "Robert Boyle maintained that proper natural philosophical knowledge should be generated through experiment and that the foundations of such knowledge were to be constituted by experimentally produced matters of fact. Thomas Hobbes disagreed."
To question the value of experimentation in science would be heretical among most modern scientists. So much of today's effort to understand nature depends on properly designed experiments that control for unwanted variables and are detailed enough to be reproducible. In any high school physics class, students drop objects from the same height and clock how fast they fall to understand gravity, or pull various objects across a table to calculate coefficients of friction. Controlled experiments are even popular in studying the messiness of animal behavior: The chimpanzee tests described by writer Bruce Bower examine how social status affects the spread of a food-snagging strategy.
But controlled experiments still have plenty of limitations. Researchers must have a deep knowledge of their systems and the potential variables at work — a near-impossible task for many areas of inquiry. Assumptions have to be made, about whether a setup really mimics the real world and whether subjects will respond naturally in a lab environment. In "Smartphones may be changing the way we think," freelance writer Laura Sanders describes some of the troubles in trying to understand how smartphones are changing people's brains. "This is a lot like drawing conclusions about the effects of baseball on players' brains after observing three swings in the batting cage," says experimental psychologist Andrew Przybylski.
In some cases, experimental tests can't be done because they are unethical. Other times, tests don't turn out as expected: Two crafty chimps in the food-snagging study found a way to game the system that probably delighted the scientists but also added fuzziness to the results.
In short, experimentation is not always the answer — and certainly not the only answer. In this modern era, with more complicated instruments and more clever testing regimes, we should remind ourselves of the value of observational work. Some of this issue's most surprising stories rely on data straight from the natural world. Researchers have found, for example, Canadian fossils that might represent the oldest known life. Other scientists uncovered evidence that the Amazon isn't quite as wild as we might think. By placing monitoring devices on the trunks of just a couple of elephants in Africa, a team discovered that some pachyderms sleep just two hours a day. Try studying that in the lab.
A version of this article appears in the April 1, 2017 issue of Science News.
About Elizabeth Quill
Elizabeth Quill is the special projects editor. She has overseen collections on topics ranging from consciousness to general relativity, and recently took a deep dive into the periodic table of the elements.
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There are many girls bedroom decorating ideas of your choice that may seem endless. If not, you might need to reach a kind of compromise about your teenage bedroom furniture. Let your teen express themselves through more compact furniture parts in their room. Painting is not only about giving a fresh appearance to the wall. Shades of pink will be very attractive and suitable for girl room decorations.
While considering style, wall painting will also add to your room. Also make sure the cost of the painting matches your budget. When you choose things that will be the center of attraction for a particular room, you can choose the color of the wall. Color has their own personality.


The land of Shima is in environmental crisis because of all things blood lotus. The Shōgun of Shima wants to be a Stormdancer for which he needs a thunder tiger. To everyone's shock, his Master Hunter, Masaru, finds the arashitora but is separated from it and his daughter, Yukiko, when the sky-ship is too damaged to fly and catches on fire. Yukiko and Buruu find themselves in the forest of the Iishi mountains where they encounter oni, partner with Kin the Artificer, and come across Kagé. Daichi, an ex-samurai who killed her mother on the Shōgun's command, asks Yukiko to kill him. Yukiko spares his life and agrees. Her plan is working well back on Shima when Yoritomo cuts of Buruu's wings and Yukiko asks Kin to make mechanical ones. However, Hiro, working under the order of the Shōgun, betrays her. On bicentennial, Yoritomo kills Aisha and Kasumi dies at the hand of tthe bushimen. Michi and Akihito get away. Yukiko manages to kill Yoritomo with the help her father who's actually the one with the kami spirits but dies as a result.
In a forest somewhere Yukiko wished that she had listened to her father as she fights a losing battle with a pair of oni when a beast saves the day as well as Yukiko's life.
Two weeks before that incident, Shōgun Yoritomo wakes up in his palace after dreaming of riding a griffin and now wants one.
Yukiko arrives at the gambling den in time to stop the fight among Masaru, her father, Akihito and the dealer and his men. She has received word that the Shōgun has summoned his master hunter, Masaru, to hunt for a thunder tiger (a creature that no one believes actually exists).
Travelling on foot through the Kigen City to Docktown, Yukiko, Akihito and a passed out Masaru encounter a girl being led by the Purifiers to be executed on the Burning Stones for being impure which means she possesses the kami spirits.
The trio arrives in Doctown where Kasumi informs them that they are to wait for the arrival of Shōgun before leaving on their hunt for an arashitora.
Yukiko gives Kasumi the cold shoulder because her father and Kasumi are in looove.
The procession carrying the Shōgun of Shima and his sister, Lady Tora Aisha, arrives in Docktown where a really awkward (and dangerous) thing happens involving a puppy, a samurai with the sea-green eyes and the Shōgun himself.
Dangerous because Yukiko almost exposed herself.
In a flashback to Yukiko's childhood, she and her twin are unusually attached to their scenthound, Buruu, because the kami spirits of the Iishi mountains gave them the ability to feel what the animals feel and read their thoughts.
Yukiko used to have a twin brother, Satoru and her mother apparently left.
Yukiko meets Kin on the deck in the middle of the night. I like him.
Her relationship with her father worsens when she find him smoking weed with a couple of guildsmen.
Then he tells a tale about Boukyaku, the Dragon of Forgetting and his slayer, Kitsune no Akira who was one of the great Stormdancers to ever exist. (Hey, I want to slay a sea dragon).
Kasumi tries to talk some sense into Yukiko by reminding her that her father loves her but it's no use. And oh, they also spar and Yukiko wins. My home girl.
Fun fact, no one on the Thunder Child wants to risk their life by hunting for a mythical creature and even more so during a toxic thunderstorm but it's futile either way.
In another flashback, a hungry wolf bites Buruu, the combined rage of Yukiko and Satoru kills the wolf while blood flowed from their noses and they say a reluctant goodbye to Buruu.
The Thunder Child slowly makes it way to the Iishi Mountains where someone finally spots the oh-so-magnificent arashitora who breaks off a part of the hull when Masaru tries capturing it by putting it to sleep via blacksleep. Fire ignites, lives are lost but the four doses of blacksleep does nothing to stop the griffin.
Yukiko reaches out to the griffin and they're just introducing themselves when the blacksleep kicks in.
The griffin is caught in a net and hauled into a cage on the sky-ship and Yukiko is filled with sorrow at the sight of men celebrating their victory.
The Child is in a pretty bad shape. Then the arashitora starts to beat its wings producing the sound of the Raijin song which shakes the airship so badly that Masaru decides to tame it by clipping its wings.
Yukiko tries to stop him but it's of no use. They're arguing when the Child catches fire.
Everything is in utter chaos.
Masaru and Yukiko manage to get on the life raft just in time but when Yukiko sees and feel the anguish of the thunder tiger, she jumps out of the life raft to rescue it.
Yukiko gets on his shoulders and they manage to get away before the sky-ship blows into pieces but the thunder tiger wants her to get off of him. She gets thrown off the griffin when she's hit by a thick branch.
Separated from the beast, she encounters a pair of oni in the forest and has lost the fight when the thunder tiger comes to save her to pay his debt to her (y'know the scene where the book started).
In a yet another flashback, Shōgun Kaneda has died and the new Shōgun made Masaru the Master Hunter and commanded that he moves to Kigen, a command which repulsed Naomi to no end. In the following days, a serpent strikes Satoru and he dies in her arms as Yukiko reaches into his mind to comfort him.
In the forest, Yukiko wakes up to find the thunder tiger leaving and convinces him that they should stay together as she'd give him tribute and he the protection she needs. She decides to call him Buruu.
They have another encounter with a trio of oni and Buruu slays them with ease and magnificence.
Yukiko and Buruu come across an Artificer and finds out that he's actually Kin.
Kin is forbidden to touch anything that has remote traces of blood lotus, his atmos-suit feeds him nutrition intravenously and he basically thinks of it as his skin than his actual skin. Weird, right?
Buruu is jealous of Kin because he wants Yukiko to talk to him and not Kin. It's ridiculously adorable.
As days pass, Kin becomes suspicious of what Yukiko is. Uh oh.
Kin falls in a deep hole which is basically a human-made trap and his atmos-suit almost burns him alive when it malfunctions.
Kin tells Yukiko that the beacon in his atmos-suit would've informed the guildsmen of its destruction and they'd come looking for him. Yukiko hides his atmos-suit near the trap.
Yukiko and Buruu decide to hunt the trap setters and come across two humans, Isao and Kaiji, who look like they're warriors. Yukiko informs them of their situation and they offer them shelter in their village nearby. Yukiko is hesitant but agrees because endless rain and an injured Kin.
In the village that stretches out through the boughs, they meet Kaori who's so beautiful that Yukiko gasps at her beauty despite the diagonal scar running from her forehead to chin. She takes him to her father Daichi who Yukiko thinks she knows.
Daichi is a ronin because Shōgun Yoritomo wanted Kaori and Daichi refused which is why he was demoted and her daughter's face scarred for life.
The next day, Eiko comes to visit Yukiko and tells her about the unfairness that breeds in the land of Shima, how her family was forced out of their lands by clan Daimyo.
Isao and Atsushi peek on Yukiko taking a bath when they see her tattoo of the imperial sun. Trouble alert.
In the palace of Shima, Masaru and Yamagata arrive and inform the Shōgun of the news of their sky-ship crash and the subsequent death of Yukiko and the arashitora. The Shōgun first kills the Child's captain and orders Masaru to be imprisoned. 'Tis a bad day to be Master Hunter.
Masaru had told Akhito and Kasumi to flee before coming to the palace with the dreaded news.
Isao confronts Yukiko along with Kaori and other men dragging a very confused Kin with them. Kaori is sure they're the Shōgun spies and a threat to Kagé.
Kagé are the source of disturbance in Shima, setting fields and refineries on fire all around in an attempt to bring an end to the destruction brought upon them by the blood lotus.
Daichi arrives and believes Yukiko but he thinks Kin should not be forgiven as he is a guildsman. However, they're interrupted with the news that the oni have arrived to avenge the death of their brethren and so a battle begins.
The arashitora asks Yukiko to get on his shoulders and together they slay the red warlord and the rest of the oni flee.
Yukiko is the Stormdancer, yōkai-kin.
Daichi asks Yukiko to promise to kill Yoritomo who commanded Daichi to kill her pregnant mother as a warning to Masaru.
Yukiko is at the throat of Daichi when she realizes that Yoritomo is the hand behind it and killing Daichi won't yield anything. She promises to kill the Shōgun.
Yukiko is rescued by the Guildsmen, who arrived looking for the Artificer, along with Buruu and Kin after setting up herself in a way that suggested they were lost in the forest.
Yoritomo greets Yukiko and is overjoyed at the sight of the arashitora. He intends to take Buruu to the arena and agrees to take Yukiko with him at her request.
In the arena, Buruu is chained to the earth and Yoritomo tells Yukiko he knows that she's yōkai-kin and intends to use her as a messenger between the beast's mind and his.
Yukiko asks to see her father and the iron samurai, Lord Tora Hiro, is given the order to accompany her at all times during her stay in the palace.
Hiro is the samurai with the sea green eyes.
They talk, he remembers her (!) and doesn't think that the Guildsmen are priests.
Buruu doesn't understand the coupling of humans, it's hilarious.
In Kigen's Chapterhouse, Kin again dreams of the vision he saw. Shateigashira is to punish him and he firsts ask him to tell everything Kin knows about Yukiko.
In the prison, Yukiko meets his father who tells him how calmly Yoritomo took her mother's life and threatened to take everything else if Masaru dared defy him ever again. Yukiko promises to get him out.
Shateigashira arrives in Yoritomo's court to inform him about the impure Kitsune girl. Yoritomo demands proof which has never been needed before.
Yukiko has tea with Lady Aisha who informs her that she's working with Kaori (by only showing her a wisteria bloom, mind you) to bring down the Shōgunate and that Yoritomo laughed in the face of the Guild's emissary who came to have Yukiko's execution commissioned.
Hiro is green with heartsickness or so Michii, Lady Aisha's maidservant, thinks.
In another tea session with Lady Aisha, she informs Yukiko that Akihito is safe in Docktown while she Kasumi smuggled inside the palace.
Yukiko meets Kasumi. There are actual tears.
Yukiko demands that his father be freed and on his way to Yama with Akihito and Kasumi before Yukiko risks her life for Lady Aisha. It is pretty impressive. She's my homegirl, after all.
Seiji the Keeper of Tigers comes to know that the arashitora has begun moulting. This is bad.
Hiro carries Yukiko to her suite and they kiss.
In the morning, Yukiko looks at the mechanical arashitora Kin had made for her and an idea forms in her mind.
Kin is not-so-hard at work on Yoritomo's saddle on alternate shifts when he spots Yukiko's note about wanting to talk.
Someone visits Masaru in his prison with a package and tells him to be ready for freedom.
Lady Aisha visits a very sullen Yoritomo and makes him promise to give the Yukiko to her and wait for the surprise that will cripple the Guild.
Kin visits the arashitora in the arena and finds Yukiko there. Clearly in love with Yukiko, he tells her that he can do make the arashitora's wings in a week and that he'll be leaving with her.
Hiro had been taken off Yukiko's guard duty and as she spends the days planning her escape with Michi close to the bicentennial.
Hiro comes to visit Yukiko. She sees that he's absolutely loyal to Yoritomo-no-miya and knows that he cannot be included in her plan.
Hideo, Yoritomo's minister, is Hiro's uncle and asks him to hear his lament to which the Shōgun begrudgingly agrees. And oh, Hideo is suspicious of the increased activity around the arashitora but Yoritomo tells him not to worry about it.
Kin tells Yukiko that everything will be ready in two days time on the eve of the bicentennial. She asks why he's doing it, trying to will his answer to not be what she knows it to be. Kin tells her that they will talk all they want once they are in the air and leaves.
Yukiko feels like a fraud knowing Kin loves her.
Hiro comes looking for her and she sees that it was a mistake to be with him and silences him with a kiss when he's about to proclaim his love.
Kin sees it all and feels like an utter fool.
Michi, Akihito, and Kasumi make their way to the prison to free Masaru while, in the arena Yukiko injects the bushimen with blacksleep and prays that Kin arrives soon as the storm grows close. As the trio moves along corridors, Kin arrives in the arena with the gear. Yukiko comes to know that he knows about Hiro. Hiro who was only working under Yoritomo's order to spy on Yukiko. Yoritomo arrives in the arena having just killed Aisha and when he sees the thunder tiger and the Stormdancer as one, slaying Hiro, he runs. Buruu is yet to be fully free of the chains so Yukiko runs after Yoritomo but is too far away to actually kill him when her father helps her. Masaru is actually the one with the kami spirits. He Kenned the rats in the prison, telling them to eat the bushimen and Hideo alive when he saw Kasumi being killed. Kin arrives on Buruu and Yukiko flees Kigen city with Masaru who speaks his last words to Yukiko through Buruu's mind and breathes his last.
As the truth about inochi is revealed, unrest ignites in Shima but everything is put on hold for the mourning. After the forty-nine days of mourning are over, Yukiko arrives on the shoulders of Buruu to demand from the people of Shima to decide where they stand. To rebel.
Arashitora – A thunder tiger also known as a griffin.
Artificers – Engineers and technicians of the Guild.
Blacklung – A type of lung cancer due to inhalation of chi exhaust.
Blacksleep – A potent toxin derived from the roots of blood lotus.
Brass Atmos Suit – A suit for protection from pollution.
Chi – A primary fuel extracted from the seed of the blood lotus. It's also the base for the environmental destruction in the land of Shima.
Cloudwalkers – Men who fly airships.
Code of Bushido – A code of conduct followed by samurai nobility and common-born warriors throughout their lives.
Daimyo – Leader of the clans and powerful military Lords.
Inochi – A fertilizer applied to the blood lotus fields to delay soil degradation made from the liquefaction of the gaijin prisoners of war.
Kenning – The act of reaching into another living thing's mind to know their thoughts and feelings especially animals.
Lady Izanami – Dark Mother, wife of Lord Izanagi, who birthed the Shima Isles and the oni of Yomi.
Lord Izanagi – Maker god.
Lotus Guild – Controller of all the production of blood lotus in Shima as well as in eliminating the kami spirits.
Oni – Demon spawn of the Yomi underworld.
Purifiers – Guildsmen who light the pyres under those childrens' feet who possess the elemental kami spirits.
Ronin – An ex-samurai. A noble-born warrior without a Lord.
Shōgun – A hereditary governor.
Thunder Child – Airship on which the quartet hunted for the thunder tiger.
Yomi – Deepest level of hell where Lady Izanami and her oni reside.


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Theme Park Simulator – (Nintendo Switch Review) – A Game or an Art Project?
Neon Ninja April 17, 2020 1 Comment	142 views
Theme Park Simulator is exactly what it says on the tin. Developed by Best Ride Simulators and released by Indie game publishing company Badland Publishing. This game began its ascendancy to popularity as a mobile phone game, later extending it's ventures onto PC, and now finally fixing it's gaze onto a stubborn Switch audience.
The game is laid out almost like 11 seperate mini-games. You don't venture around the theme park. but instead you go from ride to ride via the main menu, a level select as it were.
"So what rides exactly does this 'prestigious' theme park include!", I hear you cry. Well, allow me to breakdown each individual ride before coming to my conclusion on what I think.
The first ride I'll venture onto is the Ferris Wheel. When I think of a Ferris Wheel. I think of bearing the slow journey up to the top, to be rewarded with extraordinary views of the surrounding areas. Unfortunately for this game. anything outside the direct area of the rides vicinity, Is nothing more than a blurred render of thick woodland.
My initial thoughts on glancing through the poorly done surrounding areas, although a small gripe, Is that of laziness. It feels to me like It has been ripped directly from the Android version of the game and spewed back out onto another format. But then I disembark the ride and remember the main focus of what the game is trying to deliver. The stunning design and model rendering of the rides themselves. And they truely are stunning. From the passenger cars to the mechanisms within that make the ride run. They are all done to a remarkable standard.
The bumper cars for me reignites my complaint about the game feeling too much like a direct Mobile game rip. The game here could utilise the features that the switch offers that a mobile phone could not. But instead you are left using your Switch like a Tablet and driving using the on screen buttons.
This ride for me was the first ride that I truly found myself enjoying. The sway controls that this ride included was really fun to use. You have to rock the Inverter one way, then when it couldn't go up any further, you'd have to counteract it by pushing it back the other way. And you'd repeat this motion until you had the passengers hurtling around the full 360 degrees.
This ride is sold by the creators as being "Dizzying as hell". The concept of the ride is it rotates at speeds decided by the player, before the hydraulics lift up areas of the ride. Again for me, the beauty of this ride is more to be admired off the ride looking on, than on the ride looking off. With the models attention to detail being truely remarkable. Though for someone overlooking such beauty, the ride itself is fairly underwhealming.
Amor Express
This Amor Express ride for me was the least enjoyable out of all of the rides, your journey on the passenger view is up and down and around in circles. The only thing that seperates this ride from the other rides is that you can put an opaque hood over the cars.(big whoop…)
Wild Mouse
What is a fair ground without a Wild Mouse ride? Well this one is no different! This is one of two roller coasters this game presents. Again there isn't really much you can do with this ride. Turn lights on/off, load cars up and send them on their way. But bonus points for nostalgia!
The twister doesn't really offer much to do other than raise the angle and speed of the ride. The Techno Jump ride is quite similar but offers so much more entertainment value.
Tokaido is the second roller coaster this game offers, and it's rather disappointing. It's less of a roller coaster you'd find at a theme park and more of a ride you'd find at a local fair pitched up in a local field.
'Viking Ship' for me is a tamer version of 'Inverter'. it has the same momentum mechanics, but the height at which the ship can reach is limited in each direction. Again this ride is aesthetically gorgeous. But the ride lacks any real excitement.
Techno Jump
This is probably the only ride I preferred looking at from the perspective of a thrillseeker on the ride than I did panning around it from the outside. The ride controls for this one are very entertaining. Not only can you change the speed and lift the cars, but there are a huge variety of patterns in which you can have the cars raised.
Last but most certainly not least is the Kamikaze, one cabin goes clockwise whilst the adjacent one goes counter-clockwise. Although the only thing you can adjust on this ride is the speed, you can change the velocity in order to make the passengers hang upside down as well as just admire the beautiful ride design throughout.
My initial thoughts on this game were directed solely at the gameplay, and I must admit It all felt a bit underwhealming. You let people on the ride, you send it on its way, you let people off. Rinse and repeat. Having a quick runthrough of all the rides I was left thinking. "Is that it?"
But then I took a step back and went back through them with a different mindset, Instead of focusing on the mechanics of the rides, I panned myself around the map and admired the attention to detail on every single ride. And it was stunning.
If you go into this game looking for a Roller Coaster Tycoon or Planet coaster you are going to be bitterly dissapointed. There is no ride building, park creation and if you want to actually enjoy the rides I'd say theres better simulators out there to do that with more thrilling rides.
But what you get here is less of a video game, and more of a beautiful art project. I found myself panning the cameras through the rides designs, getting under them and trying to work out how such rides operate. And this game offers the ability to do that, all the way down to the warning sign stuck to the rides fuse box!
Would I recommend buying this game to someone looking for hours of playability, probably not. Would I recommend this game to someone looking for something similar to Roller Coaster Tycoon or Planet Coaster. Again, probably not. Would I recommend this game to someone who is an admirer of fantastic art work and design, absolutely!
Unfortunately the stunning modelling of the rides doesnt add much in terms of playability. You soon find yourself running out of things to do, and with the game offering no new unlocks or form of progression. The sandbox soon turns dull. For that reason I can only give this title a 5/10, and that score is heavily amplified due to the incredible modelling and ride design.
Your Questions Answered –
Is Theme Park Simulator Multiplayer?
No, there is no multiplayer on Theme Park Simulator.
Is Theme park simulator playable on TV?
Theme park simulator does work when hooked up to the TV, but due to the controls being on the touchscreen, the joycon is limited to only being able to pan about the ride. To play the game, It is required to be taken off the dock.
Is Theme Park Simulator Similar to Roller Coaster Tycoon/PlanetCoaster?
Not at all. Theme Park Simulator is 11 premade rides that you get to experience at your own pace, but customisation is limited to changing ride colours.
Does Theme park simulator have any paywalls beyond the games initial price?
At the point of this reviews creation, there is currently no further DLC available or announced.
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Every now and again I find myself getting excited to hack something together. A fun little project that can be a quick win -whether it solves a problem for the masses or for just a few people in an organization.
Recently, I spent a couple of hours at an AT&T Hackathon with Travis Todd to create a cool little app. This app allows people to take a photo of a business card, email it to cards@fullcontact.com, and automagically get a vCard back to add to their address book. It was a lot of fun and a great success in my eyes.
When we acquired our latest iOS Engineer, Duane Schleen, I felt it was time for us to formalize continuous integration and deployment around Objective-C apps. I adore TestFlight for how simple they have made iOS app ad-hoc distribution. So my goal, naturally, was to build a process that included a tie-in to them. I wanted to have a process that would allow Duane to push to a beta branch and have it out to users in a matter of minutes. So I set out to do just that: I bought us a little Mac mini and went off to the races.
With a little bit of effort, I had setup a freestyle project that pulled, compiled, archived, pushed to TestFlight, and notified the team. It was a definite win on our part and took the monotonous process of compiling, archiving, uploading to TestFlight, and selecting testers off of the shoulders of our iOS engineers. Phew…that was fun and not too much effort! Now, back to my day-to-day.
All was good and right in the world of iOS development. Duane was pushing out new builds faster than Travis' 3GS would function, all with such little effort. Until we all realized that something was missing. With all of these builds we are producing, what changed exactly? To someone using the app the only difference between build 204 and 207 is three. It was difficult for our team to know what new cool things had been introduced and what bugs had been resolved. So I set out on my next adventure: to automate release notes to TestFlight. Should be easy enough, right? WRONG!
You see, as good as the TestFlight plugin is, there wasn't an environment variable that I was aware of to get the change log from the last successful revision to the latest revision. So I did what any engineer does in this situation; I searched Google. What I turned up were a bunch of hacks to do each of the things required to complete the desired goal I'd set out to accomplish. One by one, I started trying to piece it all together.
First, I needed to get the last successful build revision so I could use that to compare to the HEAD revision. What is cool is that Jenkins has an API (we love APIs) that you can use to pull this sort of value, plus a lot more. With a quick script, I've got what I need.
Second, I needed to get the log in a variable that I can later use in the release notes field. Luckily I had found a plugin for Jenkins called EnvInject. It allows you to give it a file path that it basically calls the source command on so it's available for that build. I thought to myself, "Wow, this is already feeling really messy", but I pressed on and went to the next step.
I updated the script to essentially echo GIT_CHANGE_LOG=$(git log ....) into a file that I could have EnvInject source. Ran the build and voila! We have the log in the release notes.
Well, one line of them anyway.
I hope by now you understand why I feel so dirty about it. I mean LOOK AT THAT CODE! It's absurd, asinine, just plain awful!
A good engineer never wants their code to look like that, but understands that sometimes you just can't get around it. My advice to you is choose your battles wisely and fight them well. Although this left me feeling a little low and dirty, it works – and works great. And sometimes that's all the win you need.
As of this article, I am happy to let you all know that Travis has since upgraded to an iPhone 5 and is happy as a lark.