![]() He has offered to pay both the girls’ tuition fees, and Xia’s mother can’t understand why her daughter is unresponsive to the offer. The only glimmer of financial hope comes in the form of a mysterious benefactor, Mr Chen, who we never see, but hear about in the family’s conversations. ![]() The disjunction between the privacy these scenes seemed to demand and the children’s apparent obliviousness to Ji Dan’s lens lends a strangely theatrical quality to When the Bough Breaks, even as the film’s discomforting intimacy sears us with the brutal reality of these kids’ existence. Ji Dan’s camera traces the tribulations of the family with an intensity that is unnerving. Xia’s anger and frustration with her parents’ lassitude is palpable. “Our fate has already been decided,” says the resigned mother, while the disabled father swills baijiu, berates all those around him and regales the family with inaccurate tales from the Chinese Communist Party’s Long March of the 1930s. Xia, the eldest remaining daughter and the focus of Ji Dan’s film, has taken the weight of the family upon her shoulders, pressuring her young brother Gang to enroll in another school while desperately trying to earn the funds to pay for his education. She was working in a brothel and her mother speculates she may have been kidnapped and sold. ![]() Conversations to camera reveal the eldest daughter has been missing for three years. Their two daughters and son appear to live elsewhere, albeit nearby – the exact circumstances of their accommodation remain unclear. The view from below – the family of Jia Dan's When the Bough Breaks scrape out an existence living amongst Beijing's waste on the city's outskirts. The middle distance marking the edge of Beijing’s encroaching urban Rubbish-covered wasteland outside their door and blocks of apartments in Tiny hovel which is due to be demolished, their world framed by the Poor rural migrants around China’s major cities. The family’s world by an opening shot of figures scavenging on a rubbishĭump, a stark picture of the appalling living conditions endured by ![]() The eldest daughter had disappeared and theĬhildren’s unofficial school had been closed down. ![]() Vast numbers of kids have to attend these schools (if they receive any education at all) when their rural parents are drawn into the cities looking for work, due to China’s hukou, or residence permit, system, which prevents children attending official public schools outside their place of birth.īy 2009, when Ji Dan began shooting When the Bough Breaks, theįamily was in crisis. At that time the four children (three daughters and a younger son) were enrolled at one of the unofficial schools for migrant children around Beijing. She recalls that she first met them while making a documentary for the Japanese broadcaster NHK back in 2004. Ji Dan, one of the few female directors working in the male-dominated Chinese documentary world, spent seven years getting to know the family featured in When the Bough Breaks, according to an interview posted recently on the dGenerate Films website. “It’s just like guerrilla warfare,” comments one family member early in the film, although it’s unclear whether he is referring to life inside his family or the general conditions of life for those living in the cracks of Beijing’s fractured social landscape. If you’ve ever found yourself trapped with someone else’s family as they experience a major emotional meltdown, you’ll have some idea what it’s like to view Ji Dan’s documentary When the Bough Breaks (2011). The sisters survey Beijing's frozen winter landscape in Ji Dan's harrowing documentary When the Bough Breaks, screened recently at the "Seeing China" workshop at the University of Technology, Sydney. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After saving potential assassins from being killed by guards, you have two choices for what to do with them: Send them on missions to far flung locales (they come back powered-up after a certain amount of time) or keep them close to use in your own battles. ![]() The last major addition to the game is the ability to recruit new assassins to your cause (this is the titular “Brotherhood,” although a good chunk of my assassins were ladies). The more money you put into the city, the more comes back. That renovation comes back to you as income paid every 20 minutes of game time. ) and then spend the money you earn through the game to repair and rebuild the conquered areas. Don’t want to do the harder objective right now? No problem, play it again later. The primary objective is to break in and save someone from a dungeon the optional secondary objective is to do so without being seen by the guards, which makes you play the game in a totally different way. ![]() For example, one mission has Ezio infiltrating a castle. Since players can replay sections, the developers were able to put in secondary optional objectives that greatly expand and deepen the gameplay. At least part of this has to do with the ability to replay missions, something which doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal, but actually changes the game more than you’d think. In fact, the story missions feel more immersive, elaborate and generally more tightly crafted than before. Although this might be intimidating for a newbie (and not a great way to first experience the series), the game feels a lot more open than the previous entires without sacrificing the focused feeling of the story missions. Those who haven’t already parkoured this path might prefer to try a more recent title in the series, unless they’re a glutton for Italian architectural history.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The whooshing sound and eagle cry that accompanies leaping from high towers into haystacks always brings a nostalgic feeling of joy to me, and will for many others who loved the games the first time around. OK, perhaps that last one was the result of my fever dream staying up until 3am wrestling with Ezio's occasionally questionable climbing skills, but you get the idea.įor all their creaky joints and historical sins, Assassin's Creed: the Ezio Collection is still a disc comprised of three very good games, if you have the patience to wind your internal gaming clock back a few years and enjoy them - like Ezio’s Italy - as a lovingly-created museum piece. These include fake gold coins, smoke bombs, incense and a signed 7" of the latest single by Italian garage rockers Go!Zilla. Looting the pockets of the first four unfortunates that I dispatch by hammering the square button repeatedly yields approximately seventy-two different inventory items. By 2011’s Revelations, the finalé of the Ezio trilogy, fatigue sets in. It’s quite interesting seeing the feature-bloat happen in real time as you progress through the three games here.
![]() ![]() WHY the Ingalls family felt the need to abandon their community and settle in what was in fact disputed Indian Territory other than out of a lust for adventure is insufficiently explained. That book, however, is NOT the famous one after which a television series was made. ![]() While much of the story focuses on a family's self-reliance on the Kansas prairie, the book preceding it - Little House in the Big Woods - does the same with the exception that the Ingalls family was integrated into a functioning Wisconsin community of relatives and neighbors. But it's for that very reason that the value of the book needs to be questioned. ![]() I read it for the first time in third grade because the pioneer-go-forth-and-push-westward philosophy is a central feature in the proud American mindset and heritage. While much of the story focuses on a family's self-reliance on the Kansas prairie, the book preceding it - Little House in the Big Woods - does the same with the exception that the Ingalls family was Okay, it's a great American classic, I realize that. ![]() Okay, it's a great American classic, I realize that. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat. Such an amazing audio to listen to - highly recommended. Read by Cherry Jones and accompanied by Paul Woodiel on the fiddle. There's just something so timeless and beautiful about Laura's books. Rereading it now, I still get the same joy as I did from the first time. One hand there is the blatant racism purported by her parents and herself.but on the other hand, Wilder didn't sugar coat the views and opinions she grew up with.ĭespite the racism of the times, Laura's elegant, yet simple words bring such a profound sense of wonder and adventure to life in a one room cabin. “Pa, get me that little Indian baby … Oh, I want it! I want it! … Please, Pa, please!” This is a smallish part of the book but it definitely gave me a start. For example, she becomes obsessed with seeing a little papoose (an Indian baby) and when she finally sees one - she quickly realizes that seeing one was not enough. Some of Laura's realizations and desires seem so out-of-wack for a children's book. They settle in Indian Country and we get a not-quite-politically-correct six-year-old's point of view. The Ingalls struggle to carve out a life for themselves while still celebrating the small accomplishments and triumphs of prairie life. Laura and her family left behind their little cabin in Wisconsin and set off for new lands and new adventures. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. One of my favorite aspects about this series is that Wilder writes these novels in such a way that I feel like I lived through them. I get hugely nostalgic for every time I read the Little House books. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a “There's no great loss without some small gain.” If only we lived and loved in Laura's time. “There's no great loss without some small gain.” If only we lived and loved in Laura's time. ![]() ![]() ![]() During these sessions we will apply what has been learnt in the previous lessons, with examples, trading ideas and forecasts for the following days and weeks on FX, commodities and stock indices.
![]() When a data transfer fails, the USB driver stack reports the error to the client driver through failed USBD status codes. For data transfers, the client must take appropriate steps to recover from the error condition. If the transfer fails, the associated pipe cannot process requests until the error condition is cleared.įor control transfers, the USB driver stack clears the error conditions automatically. At times, those transfers can fail due to various reasons, such as a stall condition in the endpoint. The mechanisms described in this topic cover abort, reset, and cycle port operations on bulk, interrupt, and isochronous pipes.Ī USB client driver communicates with its device by sending control transfers to the default endpoint data transfers to bulk, interrupt, and isochronous endpoints of the device. This topic provides information about steps you can try when a data transfer to a USB pipe fails. If you're experiencing difficulty with a USB device, please see Troubleshoot common USB problems Part 2: How to Recover Unsaved or Lost Data Due to code 10 Error?įixing the errors is the way out, but saving essential data and files has higher stakes too.This article is for device driver developers. It is suggested to check with either the Microsoft tech support team or even contact the manufacturer of your computer. If the installation of windows also failed, then it is a sign to seek professional help. Method 13: Ask a Professional Expert for Help Avail of this method only if all rest steps didn't yield positive results. A word of caution from our side - do not try to install a new operating system or reinstall the existing one before addressing hardware issues in your PC. Otherwise, you can make note of the next method/s to fix error. Step 6: This enables Windows to do a search and all you have to do is follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process. Step 5: Click on "Search automatically for updated driver software" from the pop-up list. Step 4: Right-click on it and select "Update driver software" from the pop-up menu. Step 3: Locate "Universal Serial Bus controllers" and expand the tab. Step 1: Press the "Windows" key and the "X" key jointly to open the "WinX" menu page. You have to now depend on another step, like updating device drivers to resolve this device cannot start. If the Roll Back button is greyed or disabled, it means there are no previously available options available to run this step. Method 4: Update the drivers for this device Click on "Roll Back Driver" to continue.Scan through to locate "Roll Back Drivers" buttons and read the description against this tab: If the device fails after updating the driver, roll back to the previously installed driver.Select the "Driver" tab on the "Properties" pop-up window.Right-click on the chosen device driver and select "Properties" from the menu.Click the "Arrow" button on the left-hand side to expand the hardware components.Locate the device you want to roll back the driver.Right, click on the windows and select "Device Manager".Step 2: To roll back a device driver, follow the sub-steps: Step 1: Remove all the external devices from the PC. If Windows still throws the error, then consider undoing the recent changes you have made on the Device Driver. Select the ones you want to fix and click on "Next".Īnother way to run the troubleshooter is to simply open the Command prompt, and type the following, and hit the "Enter" key: msdt.exe -id DeviceDiagnostic Method 3: Undo the Recent Changes on the Device Driver ![]() Step 3: The troubleshooter will scan and pulls up a report. Step 2: Once Hardware Troubleshooter opens, click on Next to run the troubleshooter. Step 1: On your PC, click on "Settings" > "Update and Security" > "Troubleshoot" and click on "Hardware and Devices". Let's understand how to use the troubleshooter as it identifies and then resolves the issue it has located. ![]() The hardware and Devices troubleshooter feature is inbuilt in Windows. Method 2: Run the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter Rebooting your computer can fix the trouble. Sounds simple, yet one of the most effective steps to fix many errors in your PC! Sometimes a temporary issue in Device Manager may cause the problem. 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The rolodexes from FileMaker 1.0, FileMaker Plus, FileMaker Pro 1.0, FileMaker Pro 5.5, FileMaker Pro 7.0 and FileMaker Pro 15. Recent history is written from my knowledge of the industry. Glenn is a FileMaker developer and generalist who lives and works in Arlington, Massachusetts. Information regarding the early history of FileMaker is adapted from an interview with Spec Bowers by Glenn C. Other nicknames include Hoss, n2 and Wiz. Over the years, it's evolved to the current Jaymo but you can call me anything as long as you are friendly. Jaymo David Knight (aka Speedy) started calling me JoMo years ago, because of my initials, and it kinda stuck. The Philosophy of FileMaker recommends PCI! However, if you hold down the ALT key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh), you can drag a part over a field or other object. Parts over Objects When you have placed fields and other objects on a layout, it can be difficult to rearrange the parts - because a part cannot move above an object. Email John Mark Osborne or call John Mark at (909) 393-4664 to find out more about this service. ![]() Over programming hurdles via GoToMeeting. Meta-consulting is a service Database Pros offers to help other developers Support this site by clicking on a sponsor below or becoming a patron!īeginner, Intermediate and Advanced Video Training The Philosophy of FileMaker - FileMaker History ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s absolutely nothing sexy about this scene: again it is. Natalie Dormer does a phenomenal job showing her diplomacy, kindness, warmth, intellect and powerhunger, often at the same time, and Tommen reveals himself to just be a sweet young boy who has been asked to pretend he’s a man far too early. We needed to know that Margaery and Tommen’s relationship went this far, but the show also does it in the best possible way: Margaery’s clear discomfort with the entire situation exists in an uncomfortable marriage (lol) with her desire to actually get to know her new husband, figure out if he’s a psychopath or not and strike a healthy dialogue between them in case she needs to call upon him at any point. In watching this scene again, I actually have a lot of time for Game of Thrones including what is – arguably – a weird moment for a show to feature: a grown woman hopping off an adolescent boy’s penis. Absolutely nothing about this scene, in retrospect, feels worth it – even for Kit Harington’s lovely heinie (which we had, it’s worth saying, seen plenty of by this point). ![]() It also, let’s be honest, was only there as a blunt strike to the head to make us understand exactly what Bran and Sam were saying about Jon’s parentage: an exclamation mark when a full stop would have sufficed. This is all to say: the boat sex between aunt Daenerys and her nephew wasn’t sexy, was deeply weird and didn’t give us any sense that this couple mattered. well, it was inevitable, but it wasn’t much else. “You love each other,” characters kept telling us, without much evidence to back it up. But Daenerys and Jon’s relationship was actually very flaccid in the series and we really only got to see the big, dramatic bits rather than anything that gave us a sense these two people had any real affection for each other. This is the worst sex scene in the show’s history.Īt the end of series seven, Daenerys and Jon’s boat sex felt like the biggest moment, something we’d all been waiting for, and the cementing of a couple that would change the show. Rape as emergency character development is dubious anyway, but rape that only exists to advance the men’s stories is deeply misogynist. It’s further motivation for his arc the rest of the season, while actually giving us very little space to think about how Sansa reacts (compare, for example, with the rape of Joan on Mad Men: a scene that gave all of the focus to her, which is how it should be). This scene’s biggest problem – and the reason it earned wild backlash at the time – is that Sansa’s rape exists entirely as character development for Theon, who is the final POV we get of the scene. Yes, we’re all here to remember the times hot men and women took off their doublets and made each other happy, but we shouldn’t forget how wrong some of the show’s coitus was. It feels weird to put scenes of rape on a sex round-up and yet if you didn’t include them on a Game Of Thrones list you a) would have two scenes to work with and b) would ignore one of the show’s biggest problems. notable? Beyond the proliferation of it, did it serve any purpose? Did it get anybody a little roused? Was it just to make a boring scene more interesting? We’ve taken a dive into a few of the show’s most iconic sex scenes to ask. accurate.įrom its early days of using sex to hide long screeds of world building, to its dubious use of rape as a plot device for men’s development, to the boat sex and fan service of later years, Game Of Thrones often gave us our fair share of breasts (and dicks!) to go alongside the spells and swords.īut here’s the question: was the sex particularly. Apathetic former cast member Ian McShane called it “tits and dragons” and Maisie Williams once sang a version of the intro, featuring only the words “death and boobies”, which. The alumni of Game Of Thrones have often made reference to the show’s long history of nudity. We ranked some of the show's biggest: from incest in a tower to incest on a boat The HBO adaptation of George RR Martin's novel was full of some of the most sensual, and most disgusting, sexual encounters ever committed to film. ![]() ![]() Vec2 vertex = vec2((gl_VertexID & 1) = 0.0 & lambda.x < lambda.y & lambda. Private static final String QUAD_PROGRAM_VS_SOURCE = """ NVIDIA continues to support OpenGL as well. Private static final int WINDOW_HEIGHT = 800 NVIDIA supports OpenGL and a complete set of OpenGL extensions, designed to give you maximum performance on our GPUs. 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