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I was lucky enough to take a trip to the Great Wall at Badaling (I've been also to the Simatai access point, which is much less traveled). This section is the most traveled, and is heavily renovated. It was the first section opened to tourism, and even had the honorable Dick Nixon visited once.
There are numerous public transport methods to get to Badaling since it's so popular, so if you don't have access to a car or a tour company, it should be easier than Simatai.
The trip starts with a cable car to the wall or you can also just hike up, but this takes 2 - 3 hours. We took the cable car, which makes it a very quick trip.
The wall is absolutely beautiful in this spot.
Waiting in line for the cable car:
Here's what the cable cars look like.
Near the top!
The great wall is absolutely stunning.
There are tons of people on the great wall at Badaling. At Simatai, there are less people.
It gets packed at the towers because Chinese don't like being in the sun.
Plus everyone has to take some snaps in the windows.
You must admit they are pretty!
This is a famous rock with Mao's inscription: "You are not brave / tough guy unless you can climb all 8 towers." People lined up to take photos with it.
Class "A" tourist sites in China have too many people.
Damn Koreans!
Now for some of the Ming Tombs. There are a total of 13 different tombs inside a valley on the outskirts of Beijing. There are only 3 tombs that are open to visit, the most important two being the Changling and Dingling tombs. It's a very spread out valley, so you have to drive between each tomb to visit. You can also visit what's called the sacred way, a path used to walk to the different tombs.
Here's a plaque discussing the Changling tomb:
Here is the large "Blessings and Grace Palace," where Ming Dynasty people would make offerings to Emperor Zhu Di.
Here is inside Changling Tomb's building, the "Blessing and Grace Palace."
There are some nice hats inside.
And silverware.
A copper statue of Emperor Zhu Di.
There is a small tunnel in the Changling tomb, but it hasn't been excavated so you can't go inside.
Don't use your cell phone - this valley has a lot of Qi!
The valley was chosen using Feng Shui (wind-water), a type of geomancy.
The Dingling (ling means tomb) is the only excavated tomb, which was done as a sort of practice before they would do the Changling tomb, which is of the more famous emperor, Zhu Di. Zhu Di had originally moved the capital to Beijing and established the site for the Ming Tombs. The Ding tomb was for emperor Zhu Yijun, also known as the Wanli emperor, which means "Thousand Calendars." He ruled for the longest period during the Ming Dynasty, 48 years, and witnessed much of its decline.
You come up to the tomb, which is square in the front and round in the back, symbolizing the Chinese belief that the earth was square and heaven was round.
Here you can see the building.
Not really sure what this is...
This describes the stele that were torn down by the Manchus of the Qing dynasty when they overthrew the Ming.
A customary Feng-Shui gate breaks up the flow of qi.
Ding Tomb is the only tomb you can enter.
You walk through a series of small rooms.
Chinese sort of worship grave sites, so they through a few kuai there to honor the dead.
This is where his coffin was.
Here is his throne.
Some coffins.
One of my favorite photos - a door knocker.
Some elephant benches and tables.
The customary dragon decoration on the stairs.
Chinese fashion says you can always add cat ears.
Cat ears!
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Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events (2011)
Since the release of their last album, a lot has happened in the world of Dream Theater. A world tour, including shows with the legendary Iron Maiden, another Progressive Nation run, sharing the stage with bands like Bigelf and Scale The Summit. I feel like I am forgetting something. After a long and busy two years, a new album has been signed, sealed a delivered. It is time to experience "A Dramatic Turn Of Events." Wonder where they got the name from. Guess we'll never know.
Clean guitars open "On The Backs Of Angels," which is, by all intents and purposes, a gauge with which to measure your interest in the rest of the album. The entrance of drums reassures you that despite a notable departure, there is still percussion in this band. The guitar hook leading into the verse is standard Petrucci, and the darting keyboards that follow are still Rudess. James Labrie sings well, benefiting from some crystal clear studio work. The song follows the formula that Dream Theater have written time and again. Understated verse section, a catchy hook, and a flurry of instrumental solo sessions. The constant has always been John Myung, whose rock steady bass work keeps things in time and moving in the right direction.
An electronic beat builds to a resounding rumble in "Build Me Up, Break Me Down," the first heavy burst of the album. Rudess supplies a healthy dose of symphonic keyboards, providing direct support to an energetic guitar riff. The overwhelming surprise to this point has to be James Labrie, who seems to have found his long lost voice amidst the turmoil. The track moves quickly, until a tad overblown outro that consists of a minute or more of repeated keyboard tones. The first epic of the album, "Lost Not Forgotten" sees a delicate piano intro take hold of your heart strings. This is a rock opera intro, complete with thundering tympani. As a barrage of instrumentation flies forth, you have to be wondering when the song will take shape. One guitar stomp later, you have arrived. Rudess and Petrucci have a fun exchange of dueling notes in the breakdown section, as if to remind you that this is still a Dream Theater album. They then exchange solos, shake hands, and rejoin the rhythm section to bring things to a close.
The first ballad offering on the album, the lighter igniting "This Is The Life," may begin as a ripping guitar track, but quickly turns into a piano led crooner. The light tapping of cymbals and orchestrated strings only bury Myung's bass work. The lyrics take a sugar coated turn, choosing to live life gracefully. But in typical fashion, the ballad becomes a monster with the buildup of drums and guitars. A quick run up the neck of the guitar, and the beast has awoken, albeit for a brief run of layered instrumentation. A tribal tinged moan is an odd welcome, but "Bridges In The Sky" evolves into a heavy bit of progressive metal mastery. Tracks like this are the strength of the band, with a cohesive delivery winning out over individual musicianship. Labrie seems to fall short on his end, however, holding things back in the verse. He returns to his normal self in the chorus, bringing that melodic edge back. Once again, the alternating solo sections take over and Rudess and Petrucci flex their respective muscles. And a tribal moan of satisfaction ties this one up.
Parts of "Outcry" could fit in perfectly to the "Systematic Chaos" sessions, yet somehow stand apart from the rest of this offering. It seems to be the song that best and worst represents Dream Theater, with some of the more generic rock riffs dominating the verse, and some of the more intricate musicianship highlighting the breakdown and chorus sections. Rather than a happy medium, they jump back and forth across that fine line. The shared stage of solos occupies several minutes, before the smooth jazz portion takes over, with Rudess dropping in some piano tones. This tickling of the ivories continue into the shortest song on the album, the four minute "Far From Heaven." A light violin joins with the keys to form a fragile plate which Labrie serves up his breathy vocals. This one is beautiful, if not a little puzzling in the flow of the album.
The jaunty opening to "Breaking All Illusions" will wake you up, allowing Petrucci to put forth some lighter guitar riffs. However, that brisk tempo dissipates as the Weather Channel jazz returns for round two. It is all well delivered, but sorely lacking any sort of continuity.The bulk of the song is traditional Dream Theater, winding keyboards tangling with the signature guitar style and a surgically precise bass. But the flow and momentum feels lopsided, and after twelve minutes, it needs to come to an end. It isn't often that you can describe anything Dream Theater does as having a minimalist approach, but "Beneath The Surface" is exactly that. This is a ballad, in every sense of the word. Light orchestrated strings, soft acoustic guitars and James Labrie. Labrie holds his own, with some sharp production giving his voice a soul that many fans sorely missed. A short keyboard melody leaves as quickly as it enters. Sappy, yes. But a fitting end to this journey.
It is hard to evaluate a Dream Theater album as a stand alone entity. Like their individual songs, each album seems to be connected to the one before it. And yes, "A Dramatic Turn Of Events" seems like the logical next step after "Black Clouds & Silver Linings." The band have leaned more towards the emotionally delicate songs, and away from the harder edge metal that they do so well. And as with all change, you just need time to adjust. I am prepared to accept this new, emotionally fragile Dream Theater. Are you?
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People have been playing in casinos since ancient times; this has become an indispensable part of the entertainment of many people. But not everyone knows some tricks that can be used to their advantage. Therefore, the gambling expert will tell you about them in detail in this article.
1.Casinos can be very expensive from the inside. A casino might seem like a very fun and carefree place with so many people laughing and cheering. Bright colors everywhere and lively shows and music blasting at every square inch - but the truth is that when you take a step back casinos come with a massive cost. Many have argued to make these establishments illegal but somehow they always seem to lose casinos just make too much money for the state government to get rid of them. They try to calm people's nerves in other ways. For example, there is a law in New Hampshire that requires all casinos to give a cut of their revenue to charity regardless there will always be many social, emotional and physical issues that stem from the existence of casinos.
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Regina & Dorothea Grindlinger
Registration form of the Grindlinger family
Judengasse 17
Grindlinger, Dorothea Grindlinger, Regina
Regina (Rivka) GRINDLINGER, neé Bonus, was born in Horodenka Galicia (then in Austria-Hungary, now in Poland) in 1884 and she married a fellow Galician Jew named Josef GRINDLINGER1 early in the 20th century. Josef was a Galician shopkeeper who fled the war zone during the First World War along with tens of thousands of other Galicians [given the virulent Antisemitic policies of the Russian army, Galician Jews were especially prone to flee if they could]. Josef, Regina, and their three Galician born children ended up in Salzburg and lived in the district of Morzg after 1918. It was there that their fourth child, Henriette was born on June 13, 1918.
After Josef's early death in 1923 the widow Regina supported herself and her four children (Stella, Otto, Dorothea, and Henriette) as a trades-woman. They moved into the city of Salzburg and as was often the case among the poor, they changed their address frequently. The children learned trades and began to work as soon as they could. Otto became a shop clerk and Stella an office clerk. Dorothea (called Dora, and named after her grandmother Dina) had been born in Horodenka Galicia on January 7, 1915. She became a seamstress and worked in the S.L. Schwarz department store on the Alten Markt. Henriette was still an apprentice when the family registered at their last Salzburg apartment on the third floor of 17 Judengasse in November 1935.
All of the family members who had to work to support the family lost their jobs after the Nazis took over Salzburg and shortly after the »Reichskristallnacht« pogrom of November 1938 they were expelled from Salzburg to Vienna. Regina's son Otto was rounded up with the other Jewish men of Salzburg on the night of the pogrom and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp until November 28, 1938. In Vienna the family was counted as Stateless persons from Poland because the Galician birthplaces of Regina, Josef, and three of their children had became part of Poland in 1918 - even though they had all left for Salzburg while Galicia was still part of Austria. They tried to get visas to emigrate to the US or Great Britain, but that turned out to be impossible for the 55 year old widow. In April 1939 Otto, Stella, and Henriette left for England. Dorothea stayed behind with her mother rather than leave her alone in Nazi Vienna. They lived in the Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna - first in apartment 21 at 31 Grosse Sperlgasse, then in apartment 14 at 1 Komoediengasse, and finally in apartment 16 at 22 Grosse Mohrengasse.
On September 14, 1942 the two women were deported on Transport Nr. 41/524 to the Maly Trostinec extermination center near Minsk in the occupied Soviet Union (now Belarus), where they were murdered on September 18, 1942. Stella Grindlinger REICH wrote the memorial pages at Yad Vashem for her mother and sister before she died in San Francisco in 1983. Otto emigrated to the US in 1940 and served in the US army during WWII. He died in Oakland California in 1976. Henriette Grindlinger KRUH stayed in England and died in London in 2008. Their descendants live in California and England.
1 Josef (Isaak) Grindlinger was born in Stanislau Galicia on July 19, 1880 and he died in Salzburg on December 23, 1923 and his grave is in the Salzburg-Aigen Jewish Cemetery). 2 Morzg was originally an area just south-west of the city of Salzburg, but it was annexed to the city between 1935 and 1939. A bit further south there was a large camp for Galician refugees in Grodig during the war and the Grindlingers probably lived in that camp before moving to Morzg.
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Brodgasse 3 68m Gorup, Johann
Goldgasse 12 89m Leitner, Georg
Brodgasse 1 100m Gruber, Rudolf
Alter Markt 12 129m Schwarz, Walter
Laid 2009-06-22 at Judengasse 17, Salzburg


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Q: Client authentication in microservices using JWT and OpenID Connect I've some questions regarding authentication in a microservices architecture. I've right now a monolithic application and my goal is to split the application in small microservices.
My bigest problem is for authentication (for now). After reading a LOT a documentation, It seems that the best solution is to use OpenID Connect to authenticate an user to retrieve a JWT that can by passed with the request to the microservices.
Also, to avoid having multiple endpoints, you can deploy and API Gateway to have only one endpoint for the end user. Ok, so now I've two questions with this architecture.
The standard flow for authentication will be :
An user contact my identity server in OpenID Connect with the implicit flow and get the id_token (JWT) and also the access_token. The user can now contact my API with this access_token. The API Gateway will valide the access_token with the identity server and also retrieve the JWT to add it to the sub request to the microservice API.
1/ How the API Gateway can get the JWT from the access_token? From what I red from the documentation (http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html), It can contact the "/userinfo" endpoint but It will get just the JSON format not the JWT...
2/ I want to allow authenticated calls between my microservices. So each microservice needs to be able to generate a JWT to contact other microservices directly. My first thought was to contact the identity server. But with the OAuth2 Client Credentials flow, I don't retrieve a id_token or a JWT. Just a classic OAuth2 access token without JWT. My second thought was that the microservice can directly sign its own JWT with a certificate issued by the same PKI as the one used by the identity server. That mean that a JWT can be sign by several certificats but from the same private PKI. When a microservice receives a JWT, It needs to be able to identify witch certificat was used to sign the JWT. I don't find anything on the RFC regarding this problem. I can add my own private claim in the token to have the certificate but after several days of browsing the web without seeing this kind of solution, I'm wondering if I'm not on the wrong path... To sum up, how can i perfom "User to service" authentication AND alors "service to service" authentication in JWT?
Thank you very much!

A: I am implementing a similar solution. Not sure if it will address to your question completely, but, I hope it helps:

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*You can implement a new authentication micro-service to convert your oAuth2 access token to JWT token. This microservice will also sign this JWT token.

*Your API gateway will route all client requests to authentication service, which will validate this token from IDM and will convert it to a signed JWT token.

*API gateway will pass this JWT token to other microservices which will validate the signature from Authentication Service's public key. If the signature validates, roles can be extracted out of it for authorization.

*Each microservice can have its own IDM credentials configured and when it wants to call any other microservice, it can generate an access token and call Authentication Service to get JWT which can be passed in call to other microservices.

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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert has declined to provide details on the circumstance of Warmbier's release or comment on his health condition.
Three weeks later, North Korea announced it was holding him for a "hostile act" against the state.
He said in Beijing his aim is to try to "bring sports to North Korea".
Police apprehended the student, identified only as 25-year-old Kim, Tuesday night for sending a homemade bomb to his professor's office at the engineering faculty building of the university in western Seoul earlier in the day.
Before his trial, Warmbier had said he tried to steal a propaganda banner as a trophy for an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church.
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"In no uncertain terms North Korea must explain the causes of his coma", Bill Richardson, a veteran former diplomat and politician who has played a role in past negotiations with North Korea, said in a statement after speaking to Warmbier's parents. USA officials in touch with Yun and medical personnel declined to say whether Warmbier remains in a coma or to make any comment on his current medical condition.
North Korean representatives at the United Nations did not respond to repeated requests for comment. He said that over the past 18 months, Warmbier's family has "had to endure more than any family should have to bear".
The university said in a statement that Kim, also known by the Chinese version of his name Jin Xue Song, was apprehended after concluding a trip to carry out "agricultural development work" at the school's "experimental farm".
Fred Warmbier said he does not know exactly what happened to his son during his detention.
"We are so incredibly joyful that he is finally coming home". Rodman, in an interview with CNN before landing in North Korea, said he was "trying to accomplish something we both need", referring to himself and the Trump administration. A former Virginia resident and naturalized American citizen, Kim Dong-chul, was arrested shortly after Warmbier on accusations of espionage, and was sentenced to 10 years.
His mom took it a step further insisting she's staying put in Miami, 'You go back, I'm not going with you'. All these kids and all these people that need inspiration and need a way to get out.


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The day of birth of Robert Middleton is not on record. He was an American Actor, known for The Law and Jake Wade (1958), The Big Combo (1955), Cattle King (1963), Robert Middleton's first movie on record is from 1955. Robert Middleton died on .7, 1977. His last motion picture on file dates from 1973.
Robert Middleton Filmography [Auszug]
1973: [/ /1] Columbo: Double Exposure (Cast: Victor Norris), Directed by Richard Quine, with Robert Culp, Peter Falk, Louise Latham,
1972: [/ /1] E arrivò la notte San Valentino (Cast: Angelo), Directed by Enzo Barboni, with Giuliano Gemma, Riccardo Pizzuti,
1972: [/ /1] E arrivo la notte di San Valentino (Cast: Angelo), with Giuliano Gemma, Riccardo Pizzuti,
1963: [/ /1] Cattle King (Guns of Wyoming) (Cast: Matthews), Directed by Tay Garnett, with Malcolm Atterbury, Ray Teal, Robert Taylor,
1959: [10.08] Career (Cast: Robert Kensington), Directed by Joseph Anthony, with Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa, Shirley MacLaine,
1958: [/ /1] The Law and Jake Wade (Cast: Ortero), Directed by John Sturges, with Richard H. Cutting, Burt Douglas, Eddie Firestone,
1957: [01.11] The tarnished angels (Pylon (Working title)) (Cast: Matt Ord ), Directed by Douglas Sirk, with Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone,
1957: [/ /1] The Lonely Man (Cast: Ben Ryerson), Directed by Henry Levin, with , Denver Pyle, Anthony Perkins,
1956: [11.01] Friendly persuasion (Cast: Tom), Directed by William Wyler, with Anthony Perkins, Phyllis Love, Walter Catlett,
1956: [////1] The proud ones (Cast), Directed by Robert D. Webb, with Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter,
1956: [/ /1] Love me Tender (Cast), Directed by Robert D. Webb, with Neville Brank, Richard Egan,
1955: [12.17] The Silver Chalice (Cast: Idbash), Directed by Victor Saville, with Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance,
1955: [/ /1] The Big Combo (Cast), Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, with Jay Adler, Richard Conte, Ted de Corsia,
1955: [/ /1] Trial (Cast), Directed by Mark Robson, with Dorothy Green, Katy Jurado, John Hoyt,
1955: [03.00] Red Sundown (Cast: Rufus Henshaw), Directed by Jack Arnold, with Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger,
1955: [/ /1] The Court Jester (Cast: Sir Griswold), Directed by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, with Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker,
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Гипоксическая тренировка кожи — кратковременное повторяющееся воздействие на кожу снижением доставки кислорода. Гипоксия запускает комплекс приспособительных реакций, направленных на улучшение кровоснабжения ткани и выживаемости её клеток.

В реконструктивной хирургии метод применяют для повышения жизнеспособности будущего трансплантата, к тренировке которого приступают примерно за неделю до пересадки, специальным инструментом (например, мягким кишечным жомом) ежедневно отжимая соответствующую кожную складку или кожный стебель.

Механизм действия
Адаптация к гипоксии реализуется через транскрипционную программу, опосредованную белками HIFs (Hypoxia-Inducible Factors, гипоксией индуцированные факторы — O2-зависимые белки семейства bHLH/PAS).

HIFs, активированные низкой концентрацией кислорода, управляют генами, задействованными в развитии кровеносных сосудов, регуляции сосудистого тонуса, местного гормонального фона и т. д.

Под контролем HIF-1alpha находятся гены факторов роста эндотелия сосудов (Vascular endothelial growth factors, VEGF), факторов роста фибробластов (Fibroblast growth factors, FGF), инсулиноподобный фактор роста (Insulin-like growth factor, IGF), эстроген-синтетезы (ароматазы) и т. д.

Устройства для гипоксической тренировки кожи
Для гипоксической тренировки кожи применяется барокамера, баллонное (экспандерное) растяжение, отжатие кожи мягким кишечным жомом.

Новый класс устройств — компрессионная одежда с рельефными элементами на внутренней поверхности (компрессионный головной убор — для гипоксической тренировки кожи волосистой части головы (тренажёр волос), компрессионный наколенник и т. д.).

Под рельефными элементами, прижатыми к коже эластичной тканью, замедляется кровоток и возникает кислородное голодание (мозаичное давление позволяет анемизировать кожу достаточно глубоко без риска нарушить ток крови в магистральных сосудах).

Литература
 Kuntscher MV, Schirmbeck EU, Menke H, et al. Ischemic preconditioning by brief extremity ischemia before flap ischemia in a rat model. Plast Reconstr Surg 2002;109:2398e404.
 Zahir KS, Syed SA, Zink JR, et al. Ischemic preconditioning improves the survival of skin and myocutaneous flaps in a rat model. Plast Reconstr Surg 1998;102:140e5066.
 Zahir KS, Syed SA, Zink JR, et al. Comparison of the effects of ischemic preconditioning and surgical delay on pedicled musculocutaneous flap survival in a rat model. Ann Plast Surg 1998;40:422e.

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Q: Dependency 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation:2.5.1' not found How can I solve the issue of "Dependency 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation:2.5.1' not found" ?
My pom.xml file loks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.1</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>JavaDeveloperTask</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>11</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${project.parent.version}</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

I have added
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
    </dependency>

But it still gives me the error. What could be th cause of this?

A: @ekm0d. I had the same problem using the Intellij IDEA. Here what I did and worked for me after inserting this on pom.xml:
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>

*

*Right-click on the project file.

*Click on Maven

*Click on Reload Project

*Wait the poem.xml archive reload

I hope it works for you too :)

A: Works for me.
Central repo have this dependency: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-validation/2.5.1/
So i don't see why it should not work. Maybe there was some kind of network issue.
Try to remove it from local maven repo and download again.
You can find maven repo in your user home dir .m2, delete .m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-validation/2.5.1 folder

A: You should try to close the project and re-open it, the dependency will get downloaded by itself.
Worked in my case.


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Smooth Election Transition vs Possible Autocrat Coup
It's the election that keeps on giving. Apart for destroying democracy that is.
I posit US democracy isn't that fragile.
Looks like you're going to find out.
There was a clip doing the rounds from the Trump YouTube channel where a commentator can be heard swearing about Rudy's hair dye dripping.
Have you seen the shit they are pulling?
Yeah, but I haven't seen any of it work yet.
It's not getting past the courts, but trump inviting legislators to the white house to get them to change their minds... is end run around the courts. In the meantime, Mnuchin is gutting aid programs, and they are sabotaging things for the next administration: information, funds, etc.
Regardless even the court tactic/whatever fails, in a way Trump has still ruined things. It has moved the bar on what is acceptable, made a mockery of our laws, and trumps supporters are going to continue to be a PITA because he encourages chaos.
I'm only slightly exaggerating.
( Last edited by andi*pandi; Nov 23, 2020 at 04:46 PM. )
Biden should have Trump arrested the day he gets in. Tax fraud for starters, then whatever else he can find. Theres bound to be plenty. Make a few things up if needs be.
In the meantime, Mnuchin is gutting aid programs, and they are sabotaging things for the next administration: information, funds, etc.
It does seem like Trump is trying to hurt the country as much as possible before he's out. Makes me wonder about his being a Russian asset.
I figure his campaign did collude with Russia ... their agents were falling over each other to help. And Trump kept shielding Putin throughout the last 4 years, even from those bounties on Allied soldiers. I'd long figured it was financial backing, or dirt Putin has on Trump. But actively hurting America to punish the majority of voters, that's more like a well-placed agent doing his best at the end.
Does the USA do High Treason?
You're not exaggerating at all from where I am standing. In fact, Trump may be setting the world back decades with this, because it is hard to complain about some tinpot dictator refusing to leave office when POTUS is doing the same. The ability of the West to spread democracy over the world may have been permanently crippled.
No please don't, that will start a civil war.
What I think speaks to the Russian interference theory more than anything else is Lindsey Graham. He was so strongly anti-trump, and then he completely switched. He hasn't switched back yet. The only thing that I can use to explain that is that he was blackmailed by someone, and that does suggest Putin.
Which of course makes me wonder what they were blackmailing him with. I've seen enough rumors about his sexuality obviously, but would he really compromise this much to avoid being outed as gay? Seems like there has to be something darker.
Its the only way they'll learn.
It's not getting past the courts, but trump inviting electors to the white house to get them to change their minds... is end run around the courts. In the meantime, Mnuchin is gutting aid programs, and they are sabotaging things for the next administration: information, funds, etc.
I've seen no reports Trump put pressure on the Michigan legislators at that meeting (they weren't electors).
Munchkin is about to have the door slam him in the ass. Everything he's doing now will get flipped the first day of the Biden administration.
What sabotage?
el chupacabra
I originally didn't think it'd ever come to a civil war, but now I think we need one. It's the only way this country's going to get back on track. One side has clearly drawn a line the sand & started a violent war burning businesses, beating & robbing people in the streets in their quest for a forced sharing economy, it's just a matter of the other side accepting now. One thing Europe did right was never unite beyond a simple confederacy. Keeping the region divided into little nations has made things more manageable and allowed people to keep some of their culture & economy. Rather than have just a few regions bully half the continent the way California, New York & Chicago etc do to us. Europe understood that regions just aren't ever going to get along that well. No guarantee a war would make each state its own country like we need, but one way or another one side needs to be hammered out. The old ways continue to prove they'll never be totally obsolete.
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Play this scenario out for me.
Biden complains about some dictator not stepping down and they reply with "remember how big fat baby threw a tantrum"?
Originally Posted by el chupacabra
I originally didn't think it'd ever come to a civil war, but now I think we need one. It's the only way this country's going to get back on track. One side has clearly drawn a line the sand & started a violent war burning businesses, beating & robbing people in the streets in their quest for a forced sharing economy, it's just a matter of the other side accepting now.
Blue cities are burning themselves down. This threatens the reds how?
More or less. The point is that he would have to threaten with something permanent, because whoever he is speaking to might decide to just stall and see if the orange one - or someone in that mold - makes a comeback in 2024.
The damage of the Trump presidency on the international stage will take two or three decades to fix. Dictators pointing out America's hypocrisy is just one aspect. Most of the consequences will seem like small, unimportant events. Such as the largest free trade zone forming with China smack in the middle. The G20 becoming G(19+1). Or other countries not trusting the US to keep its word (evidence: the Iran nuclear deal).
It's the only way this country's going to get back on track. One side has clearly drawn a line the sand & started a violent war burning businesses, beating & robbing people in the streets in their quest for a forced sharing economy, it's just a matter of the other side accepting now.
The dirty secret is of course, that most of the red states have been absolutely dependent on federal aid paid in by mostly blue states. Breaking up the United States would impoverish them over night.
One thing Europe did right was never unite beyond a simple confederacy. Keeping the region divided into little nations has made things more manageable and allowed people to keep some of their culture & economy. Europe understood that regions just aren't ever going to get along that well.
Europe and their cultures are slowly mixing, not least because we have open borders in most of Europe. That isn't through some grand plan conjured up by politicians, but by the people of Europe, more and more families span borders. More and more children have more than one citizenship Countries like Germany or France have roughly the same level of diversity as the US. My sister's boyfriend is French. One cousin is married to a Dutch. I'm married to a Japanese. Another cousin's boyfriend is British. Europeans are getting along just fine.
Not sure the British are a great example of that. Half of us anyway.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...ing-biden.html
I only skimmed, but that all looks like withholding information, which I wouldn't call sabotage.
Withholding information and funds that would otherwise be used to improve the transition. Because of these actions, the initial outcome of the new administration will be worse.
I have a button that opens a door. I see someone walking toward that door, expecting it to open when they approach. If I don't push the button to open the door, have I sabotaged that person's door entry?
Sabotage is a more apt than delayed?
The michigan legislators (thx for cx) who were invited to white house at first insisted they did not talk about election but instead covid relief. However, recently at least one of them has announced that michigan should not certify. Wonder what really was discussed or transferred at that meeting?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/...ing-biden-win/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/...lawmaker-says/
sabotage examples:
Keeping the transition team away from security briefings. (in december it's reported that terrorists are thinking of bombing our embassy in Spain. Jan 22 the embassy is bombed, and the right wing news is all BIDEN DIDN"T STOP THIS!?!?!?!)
Menuchin is siphoning cash so that relief agencies will be strapped and unable to respond to emergencies. Again, biden will be left holding the bag.
Firing all the qualified people left in government, and filling the positions with various hangers on, who at best will be incompetent, at worst will actively try to be disruptive.
This is no playful "removing the w keys" transition.
(moved to new thread to protect the memes)
Trump and multiple intelligence agencies conspire to allow an embassy bombing just to make Biden look bad? This strains my credulity.
I already mentioned Munchkin. Anything he's doing now can get flipped once Biden takes office. Biden also gets to gank anyone he considers incompetent.
The ability of the West to spread democracy over the world may have been permanently crippled.
To be fair I'm not sure that's ever really been an entirely successful affair. In between accidental bouts of "democracy spreading" the west has managed;
Assassinating democratically elected leaders (Congo)
Propping up rabid dictators (Pinochet, Marcos etc)
Stood back while genocide has been committed (Kurds. Marsh Arabs)
Ignored long standing dictators (Mugabe)
Started wars for opaque reasons (Iraq)
Blamed entirely the wrong people for terrorism (Afghanistan)
Pretended other fundamentalists were actually fine (Pakistan)
Ignored flat out murder of democracy advocates (Kashoggi)
and so so so much more.
I suspect vast swathes of the world might be quite grateful for a little less Western "democracy spreading"
While that scenario is a little bit dramatic... BENGHAZI. From all reports they had intelligence about possible attack, asked for $/more security, was refused, the bombing happened, and guess who still gets blamed?
There are billions of other little things the transition team needs to know, from the minutia (housekeeping moved the movie room remote) to the big stuff. While sure they'll find the remote eventually that's time wasted.
How much of an issue the delayed transition will be is going to most depend on, well... how long it's delayed. The longer the delay, the bigger the effect.
Right now, I'd say the effect clocks in at "negligible". I'd say Trump has until the Electoral College meets to be pissy about the transition. Past that there's a clear argument he's pushed it too far.
( Last edited by subego; Nov 23, 2020 at 07:26 PM. )
I didn't see anywhere about a legislator announcing that, but it's moot because Michigan certified Biden as the winner.
I imagine the legislator in question knew that was going to happen, and it figured into whatever they said.
There are plenty of imaginable scenarios where delay is sabotage.
I guess it doesn't matter now since it looks like the officials are going to let Biden's team in. I guess they finished peeing in all the corners and leaving fish to rot in the wall cavities. Biden should have a surveyor check the load bearing walls before he moves in.
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Several generals weighed in that the delay between clinton/gw bush contributed to 9/11.
Curse this modern news cycle because I start on twitter then jump to someone's link and the next, and then it's hard to find again.
Transition-related, Emily Murphy agreed to allow the Biden team access to transition funds, in an oddly worded passive-aggressive letter, where she claimed that she was under no influence from the president at all... then Trump tweeted that he allowed her to open up the funds.
https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/statu...11115149627393
Trump's tweets:
I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good... ...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
The GSA decision and the Trump tweet that clearly wasn't written by Trump (I mean seriously, "steadfast dedication" and "Nevertheless" isn't exactly the reading level he usually tweets at) happened a few hours after this:
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/23/ove...sition-report/
A complete coincidence, I'm sure.
That, and fear of Katie Porter's whiteboard.
The protesters aren't just campaigning for change locally. Their protest is for sweeping dictatorial policy across the entire federation, even on the reds. Because theyre violent they are likely to get their way since violence gets results.
Reds are also being attacked because business people in the city are more likely to be reds since reds are usually the former blues who gained wisdom when they started a business & discovered how economics, sociology & the world really works.
The riots would be less intense, or non existent altogether, if there was no giant federation to coerce into sweeping policy to begin with. If California for example, wants the violence enforced sharing of socialism, disguised as empathy for POCs, then it should be socialist on its own & leave the rest out of it.
violence gets results
Hence the meme "**** around and find out".
Thats how I used to look at it back when I was in college & just looked at this stuff surfacewise. The idea that red states are more aid dependent is mostly a gimmick of resource flow & where taxes are paid from more than anything else. Corporate headquarters are centrally located in urban areas, regardless of where they actually conduct business... regardless of where profits were made. For example Big agro & big oil suck billions of dollars out of rural areas & into my urban area. Money came from resources extracted a thousand miles away from rural places. Any subsidies that big business took advantage of or received directly flowed straight to the blue city central headquarters where the taxes were paid from, artificially making it look at though blue culture is responsible for bank-rolling rural America. It doesnt, it's just where the taxes were paid from.
It wouldnt impoverish red states to cut subsidies or infrastructure spending as long as you didnt do it too suddenly. Those costs would just eventually be passed on to end buyers causing price increases on any resources originating from rural america. It would raise prices on democrats too making them poorer than they already believe they are. It might also cut some international trade, which would again, raise prices on our imports for both blues & reds. If liberal argument was that we should cut government subsidies, welfare, & infrastructure spending on red areas, then they have no argument from me. Government needs to stop manipulating markets. But that's not liberal's argument, they just use this scenario to justify even more big government interference which will inevitability lead to a growing bird nest of overcomplicated corrupt bureaucracy.
Farming is the oldest profession. It's not the profession of poverty & suffering like governments & their worshipers have professed for ages. Governments have spread this propaganda worldwide over the generations when they need an excuse to seize land from farming communities who considered themselves largely independent & unneeding of most government's services. When government gives subsidies it's for market manipulation & other corrupt reasons not to be aspired for.
Europe and their cultures are slowly mixing, not least because we have open borders in most of Europe. That isn't through some grand plan conjured up by politicians, but by the people of Europe, more and more families span borders.
My argument isnt that Europeans arent coming together at all. The US is mistakenly believed to be the most behind in this regard, when in fact the US is ahead of Europe in all things regarding diversity, racism & cultural melting pot in general. Im not sure cultural melting pot is a good thing... but liberals claim it's awesome. The current violence in the US suggests there's possible limits to how much melting-pot a large society can handle.
More and more children have more than one citizenship Countries like Germany or France have roughly the same level of diversity as the US. My sister's boyfriend is French. One cousin is married to a Dutch. I'm married to a Japanese. Another cousin's boyfriend is British. Europeans are getting along just fine.
One white European marrying another white European a state away, doesnt compare to the diversity in the US. Do you see how this comes from your frame of reference of believing a French person to be so different from a German that you consider that diversity? In the US if I married someone from 500 miles away that would be like marrying someone from Louisiana... We wouldnt call that diversity because we arent a confederacy like that. Our unique statehood cultures have mostly been washed away over the ages, something EU rulers have been trying to do between European nations but failing. One of my ex's is black & she spent most of her childhood growing up in Germany. She said blacks were extremely far & few between - to the extent that many Germans idolized her for all the wrong reasons, like believing most American blacks are fun hip wealthy media stars. In my city (the 4th largest urban center in the US) 1 out of 4 people is white. Most people young & old in the Vietnamese & Chinese sector dont speak English. Most older Hispanics dont speak English either, and there's little need to. A quick wiki shows that theres only ~5% of blacks & Asians combined in Berlin, other cities it's likely less. 71% arent just white, but ethnic German. To the extent Europeans get along better it's because you're a confederacy. But to the EU's frustrations, ya'll cant get along well enough to unite your states like the US has.
business people in the city are more likely to be reds since reds are usually the former blues who gained wisdom when they started a business & discovered how economics, sociology & the world really works.
The conservative delusion in a nutshell.
business people in the city are more likely to be reds since reds are usually the former blues who gained wisdom wealth when they started a business & discovered how economics, sociology & the world really works. then got greedy and decided they didn't like paying taxes.
Translated for you.
I think that's a whole lot of wishful thinking. Wealth is concentrating in urban areas with which companies that settle in urban areas can buy more e. g. land or mining rights in rural communities. If the US split up, then red states stand much more to lose. In the worst case, companies with significant investment in red states would be considered "foreign" investors. So what? International corporations do not pay taxes where they make their business. Apple doesn't pay 25 % of its tax burden in Europe just because it 25 % of its revenue is generated there (I made up the numbers, but you get my point). What makes you think a Red State Union would fare any differently?
It wouldnt impoverish red states to cut subsidies or infrastructure spending as long as you didnt do it too suddenly. Those costs would just eventually be passed on to end buyers causing price increases on any resources originating from rural america.
Well, if rural America only makes low-grade products at the very beginning of the value chain, then they don't profit very much from that. If Kellog's buys corn from the Red State Union and they make corn flakes out of it, where does the added value accrue? Corn farmers won't see any of the added value. Or think of Tesla, how much of the added value do the communities see where Musk wants to mine lithium and other precious metals?
Sure, and in the ancient times where 90+ % of the population was involved in farming, this was a good profession. Nowadays farming is done by a small share of the population, and family farms are disappearing because the farm business is consolidating — like most other industries. I don't see how the trend will fundamentally reverse.
The US is mistakenly believed to be the most behind in this regard, when in fact the US is ahead of Europe in all things regarding diversity, racism & cultural melting pot in general. Im not sure cultural melting pot is a good thing... but liberals claim it's awesome. The current violence in the US suggests there's possible limits to how much melting-pot a large society can handle.
I think the opposite: I think the US thinks it is ahead even though it is on par with many European countries when it comes to the share of (recent) immigrants. What is true is that the US sees itself as a country of immigrants, even if it hasn't adhered to that ideal equally. And I think this gives it an edge when it comes to welcoming immigrants. This has only been changing slowly in Europe, but facts on the ground mean that this trend is accelerating. Germany now officially sees itself as a country of immigration, too. That doesn't change attitudes over night, but admitting the truth helps further acceptance of immigrants.
One white European marrying another white European a state away, doesnt compare to the diversity in the US.
But that's more of a preconception of yours. A lot of immigrants in Germany have roots in Turkey or former Yugoslavia. Perhaps these people pass as white to you, but they often face the same kind of discrimination that blacks and latinos in the US do. Is a Bosnian muslim white, for example? It's not like I care about skin color, but my point is diversity goes way deeper than this. Moreover, you should not assume that when I tell you that e. g. my cousin has a British boyfriend, that he is white (he's not).
A French colleague of mine (like so many) has Algerian roots, so she is African. But she is not black.
Do you see how this comes from your frame of reference of believing a French person to be so different from a German that you consider that diversity? In the US if I married someone from 500 miles away that would be like marrying someone from Louisiana... We wouldnt call that diversity because we arent a confederacy like that.
Yes, the culture is very, very different.
And I have lived in the US (rural + urban), and the diversity amongst states in the US is much, much smaller than the cultural diversity within Europe. Just imagine if in each of the 50 states there'd be another official language. Just to name one aspect, literature: most European countries have their own language, so the books that are considered great literary pieces have for a long time remained known only to people in that country. Who is the Slovenian Goethe? I have no idea.
One of my ex's is black & she spent most of her childhood growing up in Germany. She said blacks were extremely far & few between - to the extent that many Germans idolized her for all the wrong reasons, like believing most American blacks are fun hip wealthy media stars.
And the reason for that is obvious: Germany hasn't had a history of African slaves being imported into the country, and only a very short history of colonialism. Limiting your gaze to people who look different to you (apparently blacks and Asians) gives you only a very inaccurate picture of immigration. Eastern Germany has had some limited numbers of immigrants from Vietnam who came as part of the East German guest worker program. For example, to me Latinos are white, because this category doesn't exist in Europe. But nevertheless, I do understand perfectly well that latinos are treated differently in the US.
In my city (the 4th largest urban center in the US) 1 out of 4 people is white.
In Munich, the city I lived for quite a while about 30 % of the population is not German. If you include German citizens with a background of migration (meaning either they, their parents or their grandparents have immigrated to Germany), it is about 45 %. Berlin is on the lower end of the spectrum, in Frankfurt it is close to 50 %, in Cologne 33 %. For reference, the German average is 12.4 % + 14.6 % = 26.0 % (which includes non-Germans and Germans with non-German ancestry within the last two generations). For comparison, the share of immigrants amongst the US population is 14.4 %. The share in some European countries such as Switzerland is even higher in relative terms.
Most people young & old in the Vietnamese & Chinese sector dont speak English. Most older Hispanics dont speak English either, and there's little need to.
You see this phenomenon with first-gen immigrants from e. g. Turkey at times, too, especially since Germany did not do a good job integrating them. The newer generation is fluent, though.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion ? "I have done this before..." Why do those words always move one so profoundly? That was the question I asked myself as I sat in the train watching the flat Essex landscape outside.


In honor of St. Patrick's Day right around the corner why not Leprechaun Legs!
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I have seen them called this on a menu somewhere before but, really "they" are Fried Green Beans.
You're not gonna get any good luck if you fry up the wee Leprechaun legs now are you! ? !
Frying them until they are golden brown & crispy, that takes about 2 minutes.
For dipping you can use a honey mustard or a wasabi dressing.


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Well, I guess that the trip to Feathermoon was worthwhile, after all, I wanted to get back into the action and see what others were seeing in the world right now. It was foolish of me to even speculate that I would get sent to Panderia, which will be my goal for the future.
Of course, I know that my Sindorei will not be pleased with the fact that I have taken the boys to my parents for a while with the promises that I will be returning to see them every few days. I couldn't just sit in Shattrath, mending socks, cleaning house and just waiting for his return. He had said that he would not get another long leave until Summer – that is a long time away, months away. I love my home and my children and I love my husband more than life itself, however, I'm not good at waiting with nothing to occupy my mind or my body. I needed something more out of life than to just be the good wife and stay home. Of course, I think the thing that is bothering me the most is that my husband and my son are both out there in harm's way while I was just sitting in Shattrath with the two youngest boys.
Of course, the house in Shattrath is locked up, the house in Nagrand is finally finished and I had started moving things over there. That's when it hit me the hardest – I was trying to make it a home when some of the important parts were missing. My mate wasn't there and the house, even though it is beautiful and has everything a Sindorei could ever want to have – mine wasn't there to enjoy it with me.
So, I'm off to do my duty in Mount Hyjal and eventually I will be able to join my Sindorei in Panderia. I am very excited about joining the other Sentinels there. At least it isn't that far away from Darnassus and I can make frequent trips to see my family – my two youngest sons and my parents.
I did write a letter to Fnor to let him know what I was doing and I am sure that there is going to be a loud explosion from a very angry Sindorei in Panderia. He always tells me that he works so hard for things to keep the children safe and to make sure that "we" as a family have everything that we want or need. I know he loves us, however, there is more to life out there than just having things – there is adventure, there is danger and just taking part in the things that are currently going on in the world means something. I have never been one to sit on my hands and do nothing.
Yes, yes, I do run the business out of Stormwind, however, Maggie has done a marvelous job in keeping things running when I have been unable to go there for days. Which I need to stop there today to go through the contracts and see what I have to disburse to the other employees. I should explain that Maggie is Romey's sister – Romey had some other things she wanted to do for a while because she felt like I do – being stuck in a rut is not a good thing if it makes you unhappy.
I hope Fnor isn't too angry with me, he just has to understand that I couldn't just stay home for however long this war is going on. I need to find my way to him in Panderia, I just have too.
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Rhododendron vaseyi is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name pinkshell azalea. It is endemic to the Appalachian highlands of North Carolina in widely scattered locations. While there is a main center of distribution west of Asheville, there is also a large population on Grandfather Mountain, in the northwestern corner of the state.

This deciduous shrub may grow up to 5 meters (almost 17 feet) in height. The large flowers are pink and begin to bloom in April. This species was first collected in 1878 by G. R. Vasey, son of botanist George Vasey and named in honor of both father and son.

In the wild, this species grows in acidic moist and wet substrates near bogs and streams. It may occur alongside other types of Rhododendron, such as Rhododendron maximum. The understory is made up of many ericaceous species such as Vaccinium spp. and Leucothoe editorum. The plant can often be found in areas of the forest that have been recently cleared by logging operations.

Threats to this plant in the wild include destruction of habitat as land is converted to residential use, and poaching.

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Native Azaleas - Rhododendron vaseyi
North Carolina State University, Cooperative Extension

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The Best PC Games of 2019 (That Don't Need a Graphics Card)
Dec 25, 2019, 6:40 am EST | 6 min read
PCs have an incredible variety of games available to them, but without a discrete graphics card from NVIDIA or ATI, those options are severely curtailed. But there are still plenty of games worth playing, even if you restrict your selections to those that can be played on low-power laptops or budget machines.
In no particular order, here are our picks for the best of the year that can be played on low-power budget PCs and laptops. If you want even more options, check out our picks for 2018 as well.
SteamWorld Quest
The SteamWorld series is amazingly diverse in terms of genre, and the latest entry takes its simple, focused approach to the world of classic RPGs. SteamWorld Quest mixes turn-based RPG combat with absolutely stunning 2D steampunk art—the kind that will make you glad you upgraded to a 4K screen on your laptop. Mechanized battles incorporate an interesting deck-building element for spells and power-ups, but this isn't a card game, it's just an intuitive way to customize your fighters. It'll likely feel a bit basic to RPG veterans, but SteamWorld Quest is still worth a try for its excellent and tight presentation.
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Wargroove
Wargroove is a strategy game from the land before real-time. Unabashedly lifting grid-based strategy elements from classics like Fire Emblem and Shining Force, the game sets its turn-based action in a pixelated fantasy land that's bright and cheerful. But don't let its sunny exterior fool you: underneath those bouncing sprites and gorgeous 2D animation is a punishingly difficult tactical experience. If you're not in the mood to go through the game's fantasy story campaign, a less structured arcade mode lets you jump right into battle.
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A love letter to 16-bit platforming games, Horace also has a lot to say about classic sci-fi and games and the nature of AI and old TV shows…okay, it's just a lot in terms of story. Underneath the surprisingly deep narrative, it's a collection of sprawling 2D levels in the hyper-difficult vein of Super Meat Boy, and occasional mini-games based on recognizable arcade classics. The juxtaposition of a touching, funny story with the kind of platforming difficulty you'd expect from something that makes nodding references to Dark Souls is rich and interesting. Still, you might want to skip it if you're easily frustrated.
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Untitled Goose Game, in which you are a goose, and your only purpose in life is to make the lives of provincial humans miserable, was inescapable on social media this year. But don't let the meme factor turn you off: this simple little un-title, mixing some very basic puzzle and stealth elements, is worth your time for its charm alone. The pastel-shaded residents of the English village are bursting with personality, and the game's dynamic piano soundtrack gives a farcical quality to your avian antics. There's not a ton of replay value, but figuring out the most effective and entertaining way to mess with the villagers is undeniably entertaining.
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Streets of Rogue
With a name like "Streets of Rogue," you might expect this game to be a randomly-generated beat-em-up. And it is. But it's also a top-down shooter, sandbox game, creation engine, action-RPG, multiplayer brawler, and just generally insane gaming experience. The game's open-ended nature and amazingly reactive world are hidden behind the pixelated presentation—it's got that Minecraft quality of simple visuals covering an insane amount of depth. If you want a game that's still revealing surprising secrets months down the line, this is it. Just be prepared to bookmark the wiki.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts
Evoking the simple, eye-popping elements of old on-rails games like Rez, Sayonara Wild Hearts is best described as a [expletive]ing trip. In slightly more useful terms, it's a bubblegum pop album that you play as well as listen to. The neon-soaked visuals and saccharine soundtrack will engage your senses while simple timing-based gameplay keeps things casual. This is an excellent game to play if you're looking to unwind without having to think too hard because its disjointed and free-flowing visual design almost intentionally discourages it. Older PCs might chug a bit on the simple 3D graphics, but Intel laptops from 2017 or newer are supported.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Disco Elysium is kind of like a classic detective noir adventure game, blended with an incredibly deep RPG and hidden inside a freshman philosophy course. If that sounds incomprehensible, you're on the right track. Ostensibly a whodunnit murder mystery, the approach that this game takes to exploring its characters and story through mile-deep RPG elements is wonderfully innovative. Read a review or two before you buy this one because Disco Elysium is most certainly not for everyone. But those who can stomach its rich narrative and innovative approach to gameplay will dig it. The 3D visuals might be a bit tough on older PCs, but its gameplay doesn't demand precision timing or reflexes, so it's playable on almost anything.
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If Wargroove above seems like the kind of strategy game that's just too casual, then Imperator: Rome is what you crave. This deep dive into the rise of a historically-accurate Roman Empire is insanely detailed and granular, asking the player to manage resources, geography, tactics, and politics as you conquer the ancient world. You can play with hundreds of historical nations and tribes across BC Europe, Asia, and Africa. The huge, accurate map is a particular highlight, though the mouse and keyboard interface and barebones tutorial won't be friendly even for veteran strategy players. Imperator Rome had a rough launch earlier this year but has since seen some big improvements that make it a must-play for hardcore strategy fans.
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Ion Fury
For players who are so over innovative storytelling experiences and deep character progression, there's Ion Fury. That might sound dismissive, but it's not: Ion Fury is a return to the relentless, ridiculous, pulse-pounding first-person shooters of the 90s. It plays like Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem 3D and looks like them too because it's made in a modified version of the classic Build engine. That means that in addition to hyper-fast movement and an array of weapons that would make Doom Guy proud, its low-intensity graphics could probably run on a calculator watch. Despite the older engine, the sci-fi story is fleshed out with rich, cheesy voice acting.
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John Wick Hex
Licensed games are kind of hit-or-miss, and much more often the former than the latter. John Wick Hex, appropriately, bucks the trend. You might expect it to be a relentless first-person shooter, but in fact, it's a top-down, turn-based isometric game. You guide the titular Mister Wick through levels full of bad guys, methodically murdering them with patience and precision, targeting individual body parts with guns and hand-to-hand combat. Playing back the levels in full speed, a la Superhot, makes John look like the unstoppable badass that he is. The combined result is that you feel like the world's most skilled assassin playing a psychotic game of checkers. It's a treat for any fan of the action films, but also a solid strategy-combat game in its own right.
Buy John Wick Hex on Epic Games
Honorable Mention: Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Blizzard's somewhat simplified free-to-play card game isn't new by any means, but this year it launched a new mode loosely inspired by the popular "auto chess" genre. And it's good! Much better than I ever imagined that a turn-based card game shoved into an 8-player free-for-all could be. I love the way that it focuses on building up gigantic, overpowered creatures, but that the right counter can instantly undo even the most muscled-up team. Best of all, it doesn't require years of investment in the somewhat lopsided economy of Hearthstone to be competitive. Give it a try if you're looking for something with an intriguing mix of strategy and randomness.
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The Traditional Chinese holidays have been part of Chinese tradition for thousands of years; they are an essential part of Chinese culture. Many holidays are associated with Chinese mythology and folklore tales, but more realistically, they probably originated from ancient farmer rituals for celebrating harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other Asian countries. All traditional holidays are scheduled according to the Chinese calendar (except the Qing Ming and Winter Solstice days, falling on the respective Jie qi in the Agricultural calendar).
1st day of 1st lunar month Spring Festival Chinese New Year) More fireworks after midnight, visit family members.
3rd day of 3rd lunar month Shangsi Festival (Shang Si Jie) Traditional Chinese Women's Day.
6th day of 6th lunar month Bathing and Basking Festival (Xi Shai Jie) Put books, sheets, cloth under the sun.
7th day of 7th lunar month The Night of Sevens /Magpie Festival/ Qi Xi According to legend, the goddess "Zhi N" (the star Vega) fell in love with the farmer boy "Niu Lang" (the star Altair), but was disapproved by the her mother goddess. As punishment, they were separated by the Milky Way and could only meet once a year on this night.
15th day of 7th lunar month Spirit Festival (Ghost Festival Burn fake paper money and make offerings to ancestors and the dead to appease them, so they will not come and trouble the living.
9th day of 9th lunar month Double Ninth Festival /Dual-Yang Festival/ Chung Yeung Festival Autumn outing and mountain climbing, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects.
15th day of the 10th lunar month Spirit Festival/ Water Lantern Festival Set flower shaped lanterns adrift in a stream or river at sundown, give offerings to deceased whose wandering spirits/ghosts may return at night to visit.
8th day of 12th lunar month Laba Festival/Congee Festival This is the day the Buddha attained enlightenment. People usually eat Laba congee, which is made of mixed grains and fruits.