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Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) announced that two key contracts to supply composites to Airbus Group have been amended. Hexcel expects these contracts to generate total sales of $15 billion for the duration of the contract.

The existing contract relating to Hexcel products supplied for commercial aircraft, helicopters, space and military programs has been amended. Specific commercial programs covered include the A350XWB secondary structures, A380, the A320 and A330 family, and ATR commercial aircraft. The NH90, Tiger and EC135 helicopter programs are also included, as are the A400M military transporter and Ariane launch vehicle. Hexcel supplies a wide range of composite materials for these programs including fabrics, resins, prepregs and adhesives.

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Creating a Collaborative Research Report in Theology: The Process

The writing of collaborative research reports on specific theological issues will include the following steps:

    1. WICR staff seeks out and invites academic to be members of the expert panel (henceforth PMs), on the basis of their recognized expertise on the topic at hand.
    2. WICR staff invites volunteers from among the PMs to constitute a smaller Core Committee (henceforth CC) of no more than 10 academics. The CC will include no more than two researchers from WICR to coordinate it.
    3. PMs (including those volunteering for the CC):

a. identify the key questions to be addressed;
b. provide what they believe are the correct answers and add, whenever possible, key relevant publications to support those conclusions. If possible, the bibliography should be annotated, i.e. each entry should provide a concise summary or abstract of the relevant arguments to be found in that publication;

  1. On the basis of that initial material, the CC prepares a short draft summary of the main differing positions on those key questions, to be used as a basis for developing the report.
  2. The draft is open to editing by the wider academic community of the relevant discipline(s). Academics are invited personally or via the academic associations they are members of.
  3. Academics continue the process initiated by PMs, and have a set time for doing so – e.g. 2 months.
  4. After that period, the CC revises and edits the contributions of academic participants. PMs are also welcome to participate in that process to the extent that they have the time and inclination to do so. The process will stop when CC members deem that consensus has been achieved.
    1. Should the CC disagree with one or the other of the arguments put forward by a substantial number of academic contributors, they should either consult academics who are experts on that specific problem or, if the issue at stake is not terribly technical, invite a vote by the academics who have been contributing so far to see what the majority of them thinks, and how big that majority is.
  5. The CC develops the text of the final report from the material gathered so far.
    1. Should the academic consensus be split fairly evenly between two or more different conclusions, the report can highlight the lack of unanimity and, if need be, make it clear where the weight of evidence tends to be.
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MINATO ICHIYA Izakaya in Yokohama

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MINATO ICHIYA serves fresh fish and delicious sake.

MINATO ICHIYA is an Izakaya style restaurant. Izakayas are Japanese taverns – drinking houses with a menu of small dishes for snacking while drinking. They specialized in fish and sake which are an essential part of the Izakaya restaurant.
Tomato, Tofu and Okura Salad

They have healthy and tasty tomato, tofu and okura salad for 648 yen.

Fish Collar

Some people say that a collar is the best part of fish. Fish Kama (collar) for 842 yen.

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BISTROYA is a modern Izakaya restaurant which serves mix of Japanese and European food.

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The relationship between the education of journalists and their perception of autonomy. Preliminary results of the Worlds of Journalism Project (WJS) in Latin America

AUTHORS (alphabetic order)

Adriana Amado, National University of Matanza (Argentina)

Claudia Mellado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile)

Jesús Arroyave, Universidad del Norte (Colombia)

José Luis Benítez, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, UCA (El Salvador)

Martín Oller, Universidad de las Américas (Ecuador)

Mireya Márquez, Universidad Iberoamericana (México)

Sallie Hughes, University of Miami (México)

Sonia Virginia Moreira, Rio de Janeiro State University (Brazil)

Little comparative research has been undertaken in Latin America about the relationship between the training of journalists and their perceptions of autonomy. Furthermore, these studies do not take into account the context and its influences. This decontextualized perspective has been, and is being, much criticized for its reductionism, partiality, and homogeneity. Hence, as Mellado (2009: 10) states, “the research topics have been more oriented towards the receiver, the media or the message, not to the journalist as subject influenced and conditioned by a contextual and professional reality”.

Up until now journalism education in Latin America is based on the standards and normative values from the model of journalism taken from Western countries. There are hardly any educational concepts adapted to regional problems and characteristics. Additionally, a process of professionalization of journalism has begun in this region only a few years ago, forcing journalists to improve their competences by subjecting themselves to professional training at universities or colleges. This having direct consequences on the level of autonomy of journalists, as professionalization of journalism is being directly linked this concept. Hallin and Mancini (2004) confirmed, although formal training is not essential to the practice of journalism, there is a strong correlation between professional autonomy and formal training.

This paper analyses the journalistic culture of Latin America based on the relationship between the training in journalism and the perception of autonomy of journalists. We have selected seven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia (South America) and El Salvador and Mexico (Central and North America); all of which can be defined as Intermediate Journalistic Cultures (Oller y Barredo, 2013)[1].

The research questions are: Which issues are currently debated in these countries about the importance of journalistic training? What relationship exists between journalism training and the perception of autonomy of journalists? How do the contextual factors influence in these perceptions? And, what differences and similarities can be found between countries in this region?

The preliminary results of the Worlds of Journalism Studies (WJS) project show that the media systems in this region tend towards either economic concentration in right wing countries (Chile, Colombia and Mexico) or interventionism of governments in left wing countries (Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and El Salvador). These are the main reasons that explain the type of journalisms exercise in these countries, as they influence not only the level of education of journalists, but also the degree of autonomy.

Interestingly, in both groups a tendency can be detected to create a professional group of journalists who graduated from university: Today more than 60% of journalists in every country have a university degree, which signifies a drastic change in recent years. Additionally journalists with an academic degree (bachelor, master or doctorate) perceive a higher level of autonomy in the selection of stories and the participation in editorial coordination.

[1] We speak about the concept of intermediate journalistic cultures (Oller and Barredo, 2013) in Latin America, where “global media standards are reinterpreted based on the local political structure and cultures are combined with ‘indigenous’ practices” (Hallin and Mancini, 2012: 285). As Oller and Barredo (2013: 20) claim, in order to understand the intermediate journalistic cultures in Latin America it is necessary: 1) “to define journalists as symbolic producers, able to conceptualize, build and transmit meanings of cultural forms; but also to articulate and disseminate the ideologies that identify a nation” and 2) to emphasize the importance of these symbolic managers because in these countries (postcolonial, developing or under undemocratic regimes) they are the major producers of strategic meanings ordering reality (Mahon, 2000).


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a civil wrong not arising from a breach of contract; a breach of a legal duty that proximately causes harm or injury to another.
Business Tort
Wrongful interference with another's buisness rights.
The amount of money awarded by a court in a civil action to compensate a plaintiff for injury or loss.
Compensatory Damages
Amount of money equivenlent to the actual value of injuries or damages sustained by the aggrieved party.
Punitive Damages
Monetary damages that may be awarded to a plaintiff to punish the defendent and deter future similar conduct.
Cyber Tort
A tort commited in cyberspace.
Intentional Tort
A wrongful act knowingly committed.
One who commits a tort.
Any word or action intended to make another person fearful of immediate physical harm; a reasonably believable threat.
The unpriveleged, intentional touching of another.
A reason offered and alleged by a defendent in an action or a suit as to why the plaintiff should not recover or establish what he or she seeks
Capable of serving as the basis of a lawsuit. An actionable claim can be pursued in a lawsuit or other court action.
Anything published or publicly spoken that causes injury to another's god name, reputation or character.
Defemation in writting or other form having the quality of permanence (such as digital recording).
Defamation in oral form.
A legal right, exemption, or immunity granted to a person or a class of persons. In the context of defemation, an absolute privilege immunizes the person making the statements from a lawsuit, regardless of whether the statements were malicious.
Actual Malice
The deliberate intent to cause harm, which exists when a person makes a statement either knowing that it is false or showing a reckless regard for whether it is true. In a defamation suit, a statement made about a public fiqure normally must be made with actual malice for the plaintiff to recover damages.
In tort law, the use by one person of another person's name, likeness, or other identifying characteristics without permission and for the benefit of the user.
Fraudulent Misrepresentation
any misrepresentation, either by misstatement or by omission of a material fact, knowingly made with the intention of deceiving another and on which a reasonable person would and does rely to his or her detriment.
A salesperson's often exaggerated claims concerning the quality of property offered for sale. Such claims involve opinions rather than facts and are not considered to be legally binding promises or warranties.
Predatory Behavior
Business behavior that is undertaken with the intention of unlawfully driving competitors out of the market.
Trespass To Land
The entry onto, above, or below the surface of land owned by another without the owner's permission or legal authorization.
Trespass to Personal Property
The unlawful taking or harming of another's personal property; interference with another's right to the exclusive possession of his or her personal property.
Wrongfully taking or retaining possession of an individual's personal property and placing it in the service of another.
Disparagement of Property
An economically injurious falsehood made about another's product or property; a general term for torts that are more specifically referred to as slander of quality or slander of title.
Slander of Quality (Trade Libel)
The publication of , The publication of false information about another's product, alleging that it is not what its seller claims.
Slander of Title
The publication of a statement that denies or casts doubt on another's legal ownership of any property, causing financial loss to that property's owner.
The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in simillar circumstances.
Duty of Care
The duty of all persons, as established by tort law, to exercise a reasonable amount of care in their dealings with others. Failure to exercise due care, which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard, constitutes the tort of negligence.
Reasonable Person Standard
The standard of behavior expected of a hypothetical "reasonable person"; the standard against which negligence is measured and that must be observed to avoid liability for negligence.
Business Invitee
A person, such as a customer or a client, who is invited onto business premises by the owner of those premises for business purposes.
Professional misconduct or the lack of the requisite degree of skill as a professional. Negligence - the failure to exercise due care - on the part of a professional, such as a physician, is commonly reffered to as malpractice.
Causation in Fact
An act or omission without which an event would not have occurred.
Proximate Cause
Legal cause; exists when the connection between an act and an injury is strong enough to justify imposing liability.
Assumption of Risk
doctrine under which a person cannot recover for injuries received from a dangerous activity to which he or she voluntarily exposed themselves.
Contributory Negligence
A rule in tort law that completely bars the plaintiff from recovering any damages if the damage suffered is partly the plaintiff's own fault; used in a minority of states.
Comparative Negligence
A rule in tort law that reduces the plaintiff's recovery in proportion to the plaintiff's degree of fault, rather than barring recovery completely; used in the majority of states.
A doctrine under which negligence may be inferred simply because an event occurred, if it is the type of event that would not occur in the absencse of negligence. Literally, the term means "the facts speak for themselves."
An action or failure to act in violation of a statutory requirement.
Good Samaritan Statute
A state statute stipulating that persons who provide emergency services to, or rescue, someone in peril cannot be sued for negligence, unless they act recklessly, thereby causing further harm.
Dram Shop Act
A state statute that imposes liability on the owners of bars and taverns, as well as those who serve alcoholic drinks to the public, for injuries resulting from accidents caused by intoxicated persons when the sellers or servers of alcoholic drinks contributed to the intoxication.
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In today’s material and media driven society, it has become important to have a fit and shapely body if one is to enjoy a healthy self image. Hence, currently the goal of my life is to reduce weight and to achieve a desired shape with the help of exercise and healthy diet. However, it is not as easy as it seems. After referring to different studies in the field of psychology, ayurveda and spirituality, I realized that being overweight is not just a physical problem. The tendency of overeating and accumulating fats lies in the psychological and emotional make up of a person. This means that if one has to achieve a perfect weight and a shapely body, then one has to change not only the eating habits but also the psychological aspects of the personality. Hence, to become a happier person in life, what is more important than reducing weight is to gain a healthy self image, emotional clarity and peaceful relationship with ‘self’, because one can achieve happiness only when one is at peace with the ‘self.’ The Root Of Problem Happiness is the most important aspect of a fulfilling life. People feel worthy and content only when they are happy with themselves. Sadly, instead of attaching happiness with the internal feelings and personality, it is related to appreciation, social success and social acceptance. ...
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Dean, Ertel, Kelly, Mather, and Smit

An expanded version of the interview in Chapters 9 and 10 of Astrology in the Year Zero.
Phillipson G (Ed). Flare, London, September 2000. ISBN 0-9530261-9-1

Abstract -- Garry Phillipson grills a team of five prominent researchers (Geoffrey Dean, Suitbert Ertel, Ivan Kelly, Arthur Mather, Rudolf Smit) with more than 150 questions covering the main issues of scientific research into astrology, to which they reply collectively. It took an entire year to establish the questions (and the questions raised by questions) and to ensure that the answers are concise, readable and complete. Issues normally evaded by astrologers are tackled head on. The five researchers have been investigating astrology for at least twenty years. Two have been full-time practising astrologers, two are university professors, and all have had numerous articles published in the astrological and scientific literature, their collective total in astrology being over 200 articles and several books. Part 1 (background) covers research methods, tests, what researchers investigate, whether astrology needs to be true, reasoning errors and their disastrous effects, intuition, unconscious processes, ESP. Part 2 (research results) covers Gauquelin, sun signs, the whole chart, isolated vs multiple factors, time twins, open-mindedness, influence of world views, reactions of astrologers to research outcomes, white crows, prestige, whether the dismal outcomes to date might improve, resources, parallels between astrology and poetry, credibility problems, education, critical thinking skills, whether modern science supports astrology, our inability to cope with complexity, how reasoning errors make mind/reality/etc issues premature, sources of research information, prospects for the researcher, questions to ask oneself. To help retrieval there is a list of topics and an index with over 700 entries. Figures have been updated to December 2005. Conclusion The researchers conclude that astrology is neither science nor magic, and is more likely to be a delusion arising from pervasive artifacts. The interview is nontechnical, easy to understand, and cross referenced. Much of the information is not readily available, especially in astrology books. For new readers it is the best available overview of research into astrology on this website. Don't get involved in astrology without reading this interview first.

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Testing. If we are to accept the claim that astrology provides reliable knowledge and accurate diagnoses, it has to do this under conditions where errors in our reasoning cannot intrude. Yes, the chart may fit the person, but does it fit better than other charts? Yes, clients may identify with their reading, but can they pick their own reading out of several? Yes, the prediction was a hit, but how many were misses, and is the hit rate better than that achieved by informed guessing?

Outcome. Many such tests have been made, some by scientists, some by astrologers, and some by scientists and astrologers working together. Many have been made by ourselves since the 1970s when we first started our researches. But over the whole range of approaches the answer has been generally negative. The occasional promising result has not been confirmed, which illustrates the importance of not depending on just one study. Half a century of research into astrology, using techniques incomparably more powerful than those available to the Babylonians and Greeks, has failed to reveal effects (or at least effects commensurate with astrological claims) beyond those due to ordinary causes such as errors in reasoning. Which of course is very disappointing to those of us who have been astrologers. On the other hand it does not deny that future tests may be more positive, or that astrology may be fruitful in zsubjective ways.

Below. How large sample sizes home in on the truth.

Hit rates for astrology (54 studies) and graphology (109 studies)

Left. Hit rates for 54 studies of astrologers matching birth charts to their owners, grouped by sample size (number of birth charts or pairs of birth charts per study). [When this interview was completed the number of studies was 47.] As the sample size increases from left to right, the hit rates show a general decrease in scatter as shown by the trend in bar lengths, and a closer approach to the truth. The length of each bar is q2 standard deviations, which is the range within which just over 95% of the results from a large number of repeat studies are expected to fall. In each case the chance level of 50% falls well inside each range, which suggests that these astrologers were generally unable to match charts usefully better than tossing a coin, a point confirmed below.

Right. Decreasing scatter and increasing accuracy is a general consequence of increasing sample size. Thus the same trend is shown by 109 studies of graphologists matching handwritings to their owners, but this time the trend is more uniform due to the larger number of studies. Mean hit rate for the 109 studies (55.8% sd 5.6%) is higher than for the 54 astrology studies (51.7% sd 5.8%) due to personal information inadvertently present in some handwriting samples, which the graphologists took into account even though they are supposed to ignore content. But neither mean differs significantly from 50% (p = 0.30 for graphology and 0.77 for astrology). Tossing a coin would be easier, quicker, and generally just as accurate.

Conclusions. Four points can be made. First, astrology is no longer the mystery it used to be. Most of the important questions that can be asked now have answers that are generally consistent. Second, the claim that astrology works implies that all non-astrological influences leading to the same result have been ruled out. Don't accept the first unless you can be sure of the second. Third, ask yourself if your kind of astrology needs to be true. If no, you are safe. If yes, you are on shaky ground, and you should ask yourself which alternative is the more likely: (1) That pervasive astrological influences exist which contradict known science even though astrologers spectacularly disagree on the nature of those influences, or (2) that the many known errors in human reasoning of which most astrologers are spectacularly unaware explain astrological beliefs. Fourth, whatever our views of astrology, they cannot deny its historical importance, nor should they deny our open-mindedness to possible future discoveries in astrology and in extraterrestrial influences.

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Last year, Vietnam was elected to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the term of 2014-2016. On February 25, 2013, Mr. Pham Binh Minh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, delivered a statement that was very impressive to the listeners who do not know about the human rights violations in Vietnam.

Mr. Pham Binh Minh said that "Viet Nam was a party to most human rights international treaties". It is true that Vietnam signed most of the human rights international treaties, even more than the United States, but Vietnamese government does not even allow the people in Vietnam to enjoy the fundamental freedom, such as: Freedom of Press or Freedom of Association.

Vietnam has more than 700 media organizations (newspaper, Television, Radio…), but those media organizations are established by the government. None of them is the private own media. The freedom that Vietnam allows for its people is to listen to what the government tells them to do. Even the freedom of press that the People in Vietnam do not have, then what kind of freedom does the government of Vietnam try to promote? The world has heard about how Vietnam has imprisoned the Bloggers in Vietnam because they just spoke up to demand for the basic freedom for people in Vietnam.

As the old song that the Vietnamese representatives always sing at the United Nations meetings, "Viet Nam was still a developing country striving to build a State ruled by law." Is Vietnam now not ruled by Law? Recently, Vietnam uses another trick to show to the world that Vietnamese government invites the people in Vietnam to provide suggestions to change its constitution. The deadline of receiving the suggestion is the end of March 2013. When the intellectual people in Vietnam provided a suggestion to change the constitution to reflect the desire of the people to live in a democracy society and have a right to vote for party they want, not just the Vietnamese Communist Party, then the leaders of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, Chairman of the Communist Party, Mr. Nguyen Sinh Hung, President of the Congress, accused those suggestions as the intention to overthrow the Vietnamese Communist Party. Living in the communist regime, with that accusation from the Communist leaders, hopefully, those intellectual people are not arrested soon. One Vietnamese reporter, Mr. Nguyen Dac Kien, was fired from his workplace because of making comments regarding to the accusation of Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong. Now, the Vietnamese government announced that the suggestions to change the constitution must be ended by March 7. This shows that the Vietnamese government has no intention to rule the country by Law. The Law that the Vietnamese government has is to protect its own party and the benefits of its party members. Thus, if there is a change in the constitution in Vietnam this time, it will not reflect what the people in Vietnam want.

It is ironic to hear that Vietnam "implemented the agreed recommendations received during the first cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. Bilateral dialogues regarding human rights had also been extended with many countries." During the UPR reviewed in 2009, Vietnam rejected 46 recommendations, mostly from the United States, Canada, France, Australia, etc… As of today, Vietnam does not even allow the people in Vietnam to freely practice their religion by organizing its own religious organization without interference by the government. The UPR committee will review Vietnam again in January, 2014. It will be interesting to see how Vietnam would response to the countries that have provided millions of dollars for Vietnam to improve the standing living and human rights for the people in Vietnam. Vietnam is very good at using excuses about the country is just getting out of war even it is more than 37 years already. The Vietnamese leaders are now living in fancy houses and sending their children to study abroad whereas the normal Vietnamese people, especially the Indigenous Khmer-Krom Peoples in Vietnam, are losing their farmlands, living in poverty and fear. The Khmer-Krom youths dropped out of school leaving their villages to look for work in the big cities.

If Vietnam honestly wants to promote and protect human rights for the people around the world, Vietnam must start in its own country first. Even Vietnam always violates its own constitution, but at least this time, the Vietnamese government must listen to the suggestion of the people in Vietnam to have a Constitution that all the people in Vietnam, especially the Indigenous Peoples, have the fundamental freedom to living in Peace, not in FEAR as they are facing now.

Reference Sources:
Statement of Vietnam Foreign Affairs: http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13043&L...

Vietnam UPR Review: http://www.upr-info.org/-Viet-Nam-.html

Vietnam Charter Reform: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/petition-01232013184513.html

Vietnamese Reporter Fired: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/fired-02262013175113.html


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Assassin Prince 360 Controller Mod

Assassin Prince 360 Controller Mod

2014 - 7 - 10 5:06 AM

This is beautiful

2014 - 7 - 16 7:46 AM

Yuletzimar Gotze

I'm addicted to this game since I started playing it with my xbox one controller

2014 - 8 - 1 3:12 PM

Can you explain the rationale behind your controller choice for TowerFall?

I like the *feel* of the 360 d-pad best, but I'm sometimes a bit inaccurate with it. The way it can "slide" between diagonals and U/D/L/R sometimes causes me to miss. I don't have this issue with the DS4, but it is obviously slightly more difficult to input diagonals on a "true" d-pad.

I'm also curious about your button input mechanics for dash cancels. Are you tapping once with each index finger? Double tapping with one finger? I tend to stagger-tap with my middle finger, then index finger on my right hand. I don't think this is an ideal input mechanic, but I'm used to it at present...

2014 - 8 - 4 12:08 PM

The biggest thing to me is the clicking of the shoulder buttons on the 360 controller. The PS4 shoulder buttons feel "squishy" to me by comparison, meaning it's harder for me to get tactile feedback that I've completed a dodge input.

The 360 d-pad is far from being the best, but I find it way better to use for TowerFall than the PS4 d-pad. At the EVO TowerFall tournament we were using PS4 and I ended up using the left analog stick on the PS4 because it's in the same position as the 360's d-pad, and I cannot do diagonal shots *at all* on the PS4's d-pad. Trying to snap to, or sustain a diagonal shot on the PS4's d-pad feels incredibly awkward for my thumb.

Using the 360's d-pad feels like all I have to do is shift the weight of my thumb slightly to adjust my aim, which makes twitch shots very easy to pull off. Like doing a quick hyper jump to the left and snapping to the right to fire a shot off and then snapping back to the left to continue the momentum is really easy for me on the 360 d-pad, but almost impossible on PS4's d-pad.

My input for dodge canceling moves changes through out a session depending on how I'm feeling. Most of the time I'm rolling my index fingers across both RB and LB. Sometimes I start with RB, and other times I start with LB. If for some reason I'm having trouble, I'll switch to using RB and RT for a little while. I don't know which one is better but I usually default to rolling across LB and RB, but sometimes RB and RT can pull off some insanely fast movements if I just try to push both at the same time... since RT has to descend some distance before triggering the input, trying to push them both at the same time can result in almost a frame perfect cancel.

Uhh, yeah, that was a long response haha.

2014 - 8 - 11 3:14 PM

Thanks for the reply Kyle. I'm actually thankful for the long response - I guess it is inherently a sorta dorky conversation to discuss optimal input mechanics, but I admire/aspire to your level of TowerFall play so I was curious about the mechanical side of it.

I'll try the two techniques you mentioned for dodge cancels as both differ from my current input method. Totally agree that diagonals on the PS4 D-Pad are tough.

My ultimate conclusion from reading everything you said is that frame perfect cancels on hyperjumps may be less important to success than coordinating "frame decent" cancels with other inputs like the fade-away shot you described. (That said, I think frame perfect cancels matter a lot more when used for things *other than* hyperjumps, i.e. http://assassinprince.tumblr.com/post/91592377136 )

Either way, thanks again for the discussion on this, man! I look forward to you resuming tumblr activity!

2014 - 8 - 11 3:30 PM

Thanks! :D Hopefully I can gather up enough replays over the next few months to go back to posting. Haven't had enough TowerFall sessions since EVO!

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Tuesday, 28 February 2017

The Heart and Science of it

Two handsome men were standing near the huge window on the 10th floor of a building looking down on the stream of people and vehicles passing on the streets.

They were silent . One of them was brooding and the other one felt a bit awkward.  The silence was "insanely" reverberating between them.

Suddenly , the brooding man said softly  Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

Yes, you guessed it correctly.

This is what Steve Jobs said to Pepsi executive John Sculley when he wanted Sculley to join Apple inc.

Steve Jobs knew that this would hit Sculley where he wanted .

His heart.

Jobs had got  it absolutely right.  If you have to win over anyone, target his heart.

Leadership - a science or an art ? This has been a topic of debate for at least the last 6 - 7 decades.  I ,for one ,strongly believe that it is an art.

Leaders  lead.

They have followers.

They set a goal, motivate people and take them towards the vision. The mission of the leader becomes the team's mission. This can be achieved only if there is emotional bonding between the leader and her followers. And the emotional bonding happens not through any technology but through the heart.  Well , mind too perhaps. But the mind gets dominated by the heart.

Take the example of the hit Sci-fi movie "ET".  It was a technological wonder when it was released. The concept, the animation, the technological bar was raised by Spielberg.

But think about it. What was the film about ? It was about the emotions of the extra terrestrial who got left behind on the earth. It was about the bond which he forges with the kids. It was about the sorrow as well as the joy which we felt when finally the ET finally went back to his land.

Similarly the animation movies "The Little Mermaid", the "Lion King" ... all my favourite , maybe yours too. When we saw the movies, yes, we appreciated the wonderful animations, the voice-overs , the music, but what we remember about them was the story, the joy which had made us laugh  with "Hakuna Matata" and the sorrow of Ariel when she loses her voice ...

It is our heart.

In this hour of uncertainty in the economy, I know of leaders who have had to take tough decisions. A leader who is an artist with his words and actions and has integrity, knows how to handle even these unpleasant encounters and still be trusted , respected  and coveted.

Try this out.

Name your favourite manager or leader whom you adored , respected and trust and tell me why you think s/he was the greatest.  Most of the things which you will list will be, in all possibility be something which had actually touched your heart and soul in some way or the other.

Go ahead, share the names and the reasons in the comments below.

Cheers !

Monday, 13 February 2017

Mind Games

Answer the following in 3 seconds .

What do you think of  Prashant and Jack from the following statements ?

Prashant : Intelligent, smart, industrious, critical, stubborn , envious
Jack        : Envious, stubborn, critical, industrious, smart, intelligent

If you are true to yourself , then like most of us, you have viewed Prashant more favourably than Jack.  But if you have taken more than 3 seconds to answer this, then you would have noticed that the adjectives are exactly the same ! But still 90% of us have concluded that Prashant is a better candidate !

Dear readers, our mind is a very very complex thing.

Here , many things have come into play in the 3 seconds. One is called the "Halo Effect" and the other is called the "Recency effect" . The sequencing of the adjectives have proved to be vital.

Our mind has believed and visualized the personality of the person after reading the first three adjective.  The "recency" of the words have cast a shadow on our mind and the Prashant got away with the "halo" created around him.

This is a very subtle thing and in the office environment, this can make or break a person.

As leaders , we should be aware of this and when we are judging any employee, we should ask ourselves, am I being directed by the mind to believe what I am hearing ? Am I hearing the correct thing ? Am I being fair ?

A professor realized that when she is correcting the examination papers,  she tends to give marks which are homogenous. That is, if the first answer is very well written and the student got high marks, even if the second answer was not so great, the professor's mind said "How can he make such a mistake ? I am sure he was distracted ...".  So, the marks got influenced.

Then she changed her method. She corrected the first answers of all the students and then the second answer of all the students and so on ... Though the correction took more time, she was satisfied that she had judged the students fairly without any bias.

I will end this post with another question.

Please answer this in 2 seconds .

A bat and ball costs Rs 1.10
The bat costs one Rupee more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost ?

What number came to your mind ? I know, the number is 10 paisa.

Sorry, it is the wrong answer.

It is simple maths. If the bat costs one Rupee more than the ball and the ball costs 10 paisa, then the total cost will be Rs 1.20 !

The correct answer is 5 paisa !

The point I want to make is that, the number 10 came intuitively to us and it was wrong !

Leaders, let us be humble. Sometimes what comes instinctively to our mind is not correct. We have to take our minds in control and think rather than jumping to conclusions.  These are the situations where we should try not to be guided too much by our intuition , rather we should try to be more rational.

Now that the performance appraisal season is soon approaching, can we look at these little things which matter, take our minds and intuition in control , try to be rational before judging anyone ?

Remember,  for you it might be a small mistake (if you realize it later), but for the person on the other side of the table, it means a lot.

It is his future, his self pride, his self confidence.

Take care .

Be Fair !

Sunday, 5 February 2017

The Three Dolls

I am a great fan of the wit of Tenaliraman's  stories (See Wiki :TENALIRAMA).

Apart from the humour and the wit, I gather a lot of  corporate lessons from these.  From this story we can gather two lessons. But this will be later in the post. First read the story. Here goes ...

The great king Krishna Deva Raya had a lot of wise ministers in his court. The wisest of them was Tenali Rama. One day, a merchant came to the king’s court.  He saluted the king and said, “Your Majesty, I have heard from many people that you have very wise ministers in your court. But with your permission, I would like to test the wisdom of your ministers.”

"Go ahead " said the King.

The merchant gave the king three dolls that looked identical

Tenali Rama was sick and he was not available in the court.   At the end of three days, none of the ministers could figure out the difference

The king got worried and went to visit Tenali Rama .

He said to him, “Tenali it is a matter of our honour now. Since no one has been able to find the solution, it is up to you now. You have to find the difference between these dolls.”

The problem proved difficult for Tenali too, but at last, he was able to figure out the difference.

"So , can anyone tell me which Doll is which ? " Tenali said

There was a minister in the court who was very jealous of Tenali Rama.

He laughed derisively.

"That's easy" he said .

The king, the merchant and all the courtiers were very impressed with this wise answer. He jealous minister beamed.

The King smiled. The merchant smiled.

I gathered two insights from this story .

We  see that there are always two sides of any analogy. The personality  of the person reflects through his thoughts. If you are crooked, your thoughts will be crooked and if you are straight and fair, your thoughts will be likewise.

Second lesson is from Tenali Rama's explanation.  In our organizations, we look for the third kind of persons to be leaders

Leaders  who spread knowledge , grows himself and help others grow !

Cheers to Tenali Rama !


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Programming Team

Our Programming Team is responsible for turning concepts into working game features and ensuring those features work as intended. If you are reading this thread, you have likely decided to dedicate your talents as a programmer to the programming team for the ambitious project that is Thrive! If so, then welcome aboard! This thread is designed to best ease you and other new programmers into the process of developing the game, and providing you with all the relevant information you need.

Team lead(s): moopli, jjonj/crovea

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Types of work: Scripting, engine programming, interface programming, etc.

Programmers are the most valuable team members, since without them the game wouldn't exist. The Programming Team is responsible for scripting and engine work, as well as aiding other teams (particularly the Graphics Team) when adding assets to the game. Thrive is coded in C++ and Lua.

Our code base can be found on GitHub. Anyone is free to fork the repository and make changes to their own versions, but all contributions to the master must be done with permission from a veteran programmer. Minor changes can be made on the master branch, but larger features or fixes should take place on separate branches, which can be merged with the master via a pull request. Assets are stored on a SVN server (see below). Other programmers will be on hand to help you get to grips with the code, but reading some of the links below first will help.

Current Tasks

The programming team is always a hub of activity, and here are some of the big tasks on the plate for the team at the moment. Take your pick of what interests you.

Bacteria will be a big part of the Microbe Stage. Some of a cell's organelles will come from assimilation of free-roaming bacteria. These are small AI entities with only simple processes and no evolution mechanics. Sub-tasks within this feature include creating bacteria models, programming their AI, programming their processes and programming their interactions with other species. All these aspects will need to be designed by theorists beforehand.

Options menu

Creating a basic options menu within the game for adjusting video settings, audio settings and others. Currently does not need to involve things like difficulty options or use a polished GUI, since the entire GUI will be rewritten at a later point.

Overhauling the reproduction and health systems

At the moment, cells start with a predefined amount of health, and each organelle they add adds a certain amount of health on top of that. Cells reproduce by producing a fictional compound called reproductase. Although it may not appear like it, these two systems are intrinsically linked in their design, and will be dramatically overhauled to create a realistic system where cells reproduce by growing and reproducing their organelles, and using the compounds they consume to repair damage they take to themselves.

Agent system (Link needed)

Currently, agents are discrete particles that are produced and ejected by cells. Agents should be created differently to how they are now, with several varieties and randomization with some player intervention. First the mechanics need to be ironed out and made intuitive for the player (while taking the CPA simulation into consideration), then the system should be programmed into the game with some sort of basic GUI to accompany it.

Refactoring the engine to remove lag (Link needed)

Cells experience quite a lot of stuttering while swimming through the environment. Making changes to the engine code and moving some code from Lua to C++ should help alleviate this problem and create smooth gameplay.

New UI

The current user interface was a big step up from what was there before, but still has some problems with clunkiness, irregular shapes, taking up too much space, and lacking certain buttons for current or upcoming features.

Improved AI (Link needed)

We will need some general improvements to the AI, potentially incorporating genetic algorithms.

Dynamic membrane

The current membrane is static, but gives the impression of fluidity by having some predefined set of rippling. However, we ultimately want a fully dynamic membrane; one that responds to the pressures of the surrounding environment, and can also stretch and warp in response to the cell's movements and to engulf other cells.

This list isn't fixed. If you can think of a feature you'd like to start working on that we didn't mention just let us know. There are also innumerable ideas you could try to prototype if you wanted.

Online Resources

As explained above, this is the primary resource for Thrive's programmers. It hosts our official releases alongside the two resources listed below. Our main programmers will gladly help you set up a development environment to work with it effectively.

The most important information for script authors, C++ programmers and asset creators. Read this before starting any programming work.

GitHub Style Guide

Covers the programming guidelines for code within our repository. Should also be read thoroughly before contributing.

SVN Repository

Stores all the game's assets. Here is a guide to installing Tortoise SVN (steps six and seven). Once you've created an SVN folder on your machine, you can right click to update (giving you changes made by everyone else since you last updated) and commit (adding your changes to the master SVN for others to receive).

Prototypes on GitHub

GUI Tutorial

For interface programmers, this tutorial will outline the basics of Lua scripting within the CEGUI framework.

How do I join the Programming Team?

See Application Process.


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Effect of temperature on cell membranes using beetroot

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In the egg osmosis experiment we used a chicken egg as a model of an animal cell to demonstrate the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane. We have learned about the different components of the plasma membrane, including the phospholipid bilayer, integral and peripheral proteins, glycoproteins and glycolipids. We know that it is sometimes referred to as a “fluid mosaic” referring to it’s flexible structure of different parts.

Today we are going to test the effect of temperature and solvents on the cell membrane, using cores of raw beetroot. Beetroot is brightly coloured due to the presence of betalain and this coloured pigment can assist us to determine the effect of different temperatures and concentrations of solvents on the cell membrane. When the cell membrane is damaged, the pigment leaks out, so the more damage that occurs, the darker the colour of the medium into which the pigment leaks.

Your task is to design and complete an experiment with an aim, hypothesis, list of materials and equipment, method, results, discussion and conclusion. Your variable can be temperature OR concentration of a solvent (ethanol, for example) or detergent.

Effect of Temperature on Plasma Membranes

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Test Tube D (added later than others), Test tube C, test tube B and test tube A

The prac was aimed to show us the effect of different environmental temperatures on a plant plasma membranes.

Test tube A contains a beetroot core placed in 70 degree celcius water,

Test tube B contains a beetroot core placed in a 50 degree celcius water,

Test tube C contains a beetroot core placed in  room temperature water,

and test tube D contains a beetroot core, frozen overnight and then placed in water.

We found that treatments to Test tube A and D had the most  effect on the beetroot core. This is because the temperatures ruptured membranes allowing the red pigments inside the beetroot core to escape! The hotter or colder the temperatures were, the more membranes burst and more colour was released. The colour is contianed in plastids within the cell membranes of the beetroot.

Brilliantly written by Year 11 VCE biology students,

Chloe Wood the fantastic and Emily Huglin the awesome!

Beetroot and cell membranes

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What’s beetroot got to do with cell biology? Well, today we did a practical experiment to investigate the effect of temperature on the plasma membrane of beetroot tissue. Why beetroot? Because it is relatively easy to identify the amount of damage to cell membranes by observing the pigment leakage from the tissue. We used four 5mm x 15mm cylinders of beetroot and four different treatments – room temperature (control), freezing overnight, 50 degrees Celcius and 70 degrees Celcius for 2 minutes each. Then each sample was placed in a test tube with 5 ml of water. What did our results show?

One of the questions in this practical asks why some people put hessian bags over their garden plants in winter and how some plants can survive freezing temperatures. Hessian bags can help to insulate plants against the effects of freezing – some wineries use large fans to keep air circulating over their crops for the same reason. Some plants are genetically more tolerant of frost. This article, from the CSIRO, describes how some plants can empty water out of the cell into the extracellular spaces, where the water can form ice without damaging the cell membrane. Another method is increasing solute concentration, for example by storing monosacharides in place of disacharides, which effectively lowers the freezing point of the cell contents. This is a bit like using anti-freeze in the car radiator during winter.

Revision questions (with answers!) for cell membranes at Biology-Questions-and-Answers.


Jade Mystic Knot with Eight Flowers Hanging

Jade Mystic Knot with Eight Flowers Hanging
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Weight : 40.00g ( 0.09 lbs)
Dim: 1.375x0.875x0.125 in, Lgth 8 in (3.5x2.2x0.5 cm, 20 cm)
Material: Crystal

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A very auspicious jade charm featuring a bunch of 8 flower buds and accented with a mystic knot. This feng shui charm represents unending good luck and can be used to enhance the #8 Prosperity Earth Star! You can dangle this on your handbag, on the car's rearview mirror or anywhere desired.

Jade is the most beloved gemstone of the Chinese. It's also known as the 'stone of heaven' or 'noble stone' and was held higher in value than gold in olden times. Considered to be the ultimate Feng Shui crystal, jade charms are said to bring harmony, attract good luck and friendship and promotes self-sufficiency. It also increases nurturing and love that can be used to harmonize dysfunctional relationships. Mentally, jade helps discard negative thoughts and soothes the mind as well as stimulates ideas.

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Book Review

This is the fifth installment in J.K. Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series. At nearly 900 pages (and containing more words than the New Testament) Rowling's latest endeavor remains true to her imaginative, unpredictable, Roald Dahlish style, but as Harry matures, so does the nature of the story.

Though more protracted and perhaps less charming than the earliest books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is nevertheless well-written and engaging. Less blatantly "spiritual" and more character-driven than the recent Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire, Phoenix is still dark from the outset, and families must still navigate all of the spells, sorcery and intense conflict inherent to the series. Written more for teens than tweens, Phoenix finds Harry increasingly sullen and angst-ridden as he faces trials of adolescence at Hogwarts. Parents who allow teens to read this book should be prepared to invest in it themselves. Spiritual snags will make it problematic for many Christian families.

Picking up only four weeks after Harry's bitter-sweet triumph over Voldemort in The Goblet of Fire, the story deviates from the excitement generally surrounding the start of a Hogwarts term. Harry is deeply angry at having been almost completely cut off from the magical world and stuck once more on Privet Drive. Reduced to hiding in the flower bed outside a window to hear any Muggle news which may reveal Voldemort's actions or whereabouts, Harry's anxiety is clear: Ongoing nightmares about his own torture and a schoolmate's murder by Vodemort plague him, as do feelings of betrayal by his wizarding friends who have kept him in the dark throughout the summer.

The oppressiveness of the blood sacrifice and murder in the last installment resurfaces here in an early Dementor attack on Harry and Dudley in which Harry is forced to use magic to save his cousin's life. It's a no-no to use spells outside of Hogwarts, so Harry gets called before the Ministry of Magic and risks being expelled and having his wand snapped. Along the way Harry becomes aware that he is not as forgotten as he thought, and has been the focus of protective efforts by The Order of the Phoenix.

Harry is eventually reunited with the Weasley family, Hermione, and Sirius. And the youngsters begin to piece together the purpose of The Order of the Phoenix. Readers, meanwhile, begin to see how much Harry has changed through his experiences. No longer the unsure, humble boy of The Sorcerer's Stone, this 15-year-old struggles with pride when he senses that the members of the Order don't feel he's ready to fight along with them. His anger and resentment of Dumbledore grows throughout the book as the Headmaster distances himself from Harry under confusing circumstances.

Furthering the angst, both Ron and Hermione have become school prefects, somewhat breaking up the heroic threesome. And Harry realizes that he is once again the focus of much gossip, and that even some of his close friends do not believe his account of what happened with Voldemort and Cedric Diggory at the end of Goblet. The sociopolitical climate of the wizarding world has changed over the summer, and Dumbledore has come under great persecution for saying that Voldemort has returned, a fact that Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic, adamantly denies.

In between magical missions and battles, Harry spends his school days learning to relate to a girlfriend, handling his own pride when Ron begins to gain special honors, and finding out who he is apart from Quidditch, his parents and the professors who have guided him all his wizarding life. The story ends with a stunning, full revelation of a heretofore half-expressed prophecy. And Harry returns to Privet Drive with assurances that The Order of the Phoenix will be watching over him during holiday. …

Redemptive Elements

Rowling continues to develop themes such as loyalty, friendship, bravery and humility. When Harry discovers the possibility of pride in himself and in James, he is repulsed and realizes that a humble attitude is a good thing.

Most adults (who are not overtly despicable) are treated with respect and their judgment is trusted by the students. (However, Harry rarely turns to these adults when pressed.)

In his growing awareness of human nature, Harry begins to value and respect the "odd unfortunates."

Power hunger and absolute power are seen as corrupting. Some parents who chose to allow their teens to read Phoenix may use the story to explore such concepts as Nazism (Death Eaters believe in allowing only pure-blood wizards to live) and Democracy (the breakdown in balance of power is what allows Cornelius Fudge and Delores Umbridge to make a mess of things).

Using critical thinking skills becomes necessary for Harry's survival. Although he's not particularly good at it sometimes, he learns that his own approach to viewing his world is not necessarily the most prudent way of going about life. He is forced to evaluate his motives and actions, an integral part of maturing for any human. (Harry's blindness to Voldemort's plan is obvious to everyone around him, but Harry is unwilling to admit his lack of control until it is too late.)

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As in all of these books, witchcraft is a significant issue. And though Phoenix is more character-driven, readers will still be exposed to such staples of the magical world as frog spawn, blood, potions, demons and divination. Likely to be considered the weakest book in the series, Phoenix does feel less oppressive than the two most previous novels. However, the line between "good" magic and "bad" is hazier. And because magic and morality are intertwined in the story, teens may draw some disconcerting conclusions as they try to sort out their own beliefs about sorcery, good and evil.

Of concern is the pragmatic nature with which morality is treated. Harry frequently lies to avoid trouble or confrontation. Even Dumbledore lies to protect Harry. When the motherly Mrs. Weasley doesn't approve of Mundungus, a member of the Order and self-admitted thief, she tells him, "I don't know where you learned about right and wrong, Mundungus, but you seem to have missed a few crucial lessons." That sounds good, but with the absence of God and absolute truth, where has Mrs. Weasley's concept of right and wrong come from? And how should young readers interpret the moral input from the more respectable adults in the story?

After Firenze, a Centaur, is banished from his herd, he comes to Hogwarts to teach Divination and Astrology. Portrayed as a mystical, wise character, he teaches the students that humans are seriously limited in knowing anything of the future, but that they may have some success learning the ways of the Centaurs (reading the heavens and burning herbs for signs of what's to come). In the end Harry decides that Firenze's priority is "that nothing, not even centaurs' knowledge was foolproof." This episode might be discerned as a reviling of the whole divination concept. However, since the lynchpin of Phoenix is Madame Trelawney's prophecy (which Dumbledore admits is true), readers are exposed to nothing less than a spiritual mishmash.

On a less mystical note, one disturbing point of the story—particularly in light of the current trend of teen "cutting"—is Harry's detention punishment by Umbridge. Forced to use a magical quill to write the words "I must not tell lies" repeatedly, Harry feels the words cut into the back of his hand momentarily, then magically heal, preparing for the next pass. He is subjected to hours of this punishment, and his mastery of the pain becomes, in his mind, a weapon of control against Umbridge.

Violence is intense in places—too much so for young readers. Events after Hagrid's diplomatic journey to the giants lead to his being bludgeoned repeatedly. One giant has his head ripped off. And in Harry's dreams where Voldemort is involved, imagery is both gruesome and graphic.

[Spoiler Warning] Dumbledore tells Voldemort that the dark wizard's weakness is in failing to understand that there are worse things than death. When Sirius comes to Harry's aid against the Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic, he is cursed and killed by his cousin Bellatrix. (He falls behind a curtained arch from which voices whisper and return is impossible.) In the days that follow, Harry learns from Nearly Headless Nick that wizards can leave a pale imprint of themselves to wander the earth in the form of a ghost, but that few do. Instead, most chose to "go on." Meaning that Ghosthood is basically wizard cowardice. Later, Luna Lovegood tells Harry she believes that she will see her dead mother again someday. "You heard them, just behind the veil, didn't you? … In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that's all."

Rowling has stated that she believes in God and that accusations of Harry Potter books leading kids into sorcery are rubbish. (Though evidence suggests a heightened interest in the subject among children.) How sad that such an imaginative, gifted writer lacks the spiritual insight to give Harry, Luna and a legion of Potter fans the simple, illuminating truth about death—and life—found in Scripture. What readers are left with is a saga steeped in witchcraft that, because of skillful storytelling and pro-social morals, has many families ignoring its spiritual counterfeits.

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The Ones Below

It seems that in today’s cinematic landscape, where the thriller is a genre mostly associated with blazing guns and big action set-pieces, the Hitchcockian vibes of a good old-fashioned psychological giallo are a rarity to come by. That’s why a film like The Ones Below is a welcome reminder of how satisfying and fun this kind of suspenseful storytelling can be.

Written and directed by David Farr, making his feature debut here, The Ones Below echoes the cinema of Hitchcock, but also Polanski and Lynch, with a literary influence from Franz Kafka.

A dark, modern fairy tale, the film follows Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a married couple of successful professionals expecting their first child. Despite a seemingly happy life, we promptly get an underlying sense of unease, especially on Kate’s part. She is anxious about the pregnancy and disappointed by her mother’s lack of effort in making contact with her about it.

As she works from home, Kate often indulges staring at a photo of what we infer is her mother with her and her brother when they were children. We won’t delve any further into this but it’s clear that something in Kate’s past has affected the relationship with her mother and has played a role in her reluctance to have children for a while. All of this complex emotional turmoil comes to the surface when Kate and Justin get new neighbours in the downstairs flat and their lives get fatally intertwined.

The Ones Below

Teresa (Laura Birn) and Jon (David Morrissey) are the polar opposite of Kate and Justin, an ostentatious couple who don’t mind PDA and loud bedroom noises, thrilled to be expecting a child as well, having tried for several years. Kate befriends Teresa and they promptly bond but when the couple comes round for a tense dinner, we feel that not everything is perfect behind their pristine appearance. When a fatal accident causes Teresa to lose her baby, the underlying tension eventually blows up.

It’s not too hard to see where things might go from here but David Farr’s writing and directing is rather crafty and the brilliant cast does a marvelous job at enacting his vision and keep you guessing. Poésy (Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire, In Bruges, 127 Hours) is magnetic and soulful at conveying Kate’s inner turmoil, whilst Morrissey (The Walking Dead) keeps us on edge as the wealthy businessman, seemingly calm and controlled, but ready to snap at any moment.

The devil’s in the details and the promising British filmmaker doesn’t spare us any, creating the very essence of suspense by carefully manipulating mood and atmosphere with the cinematic tools at his disposal, from cinematography and set design to editing and sound. At the core though, beneath the various layers of a genre film, Farr reflects on marriage and parenthood and the dense complexity of human relationships hidden behind the polished façade of a white picket fence or, in this case, a red-bricked enclosure.

Words by Francesco Cerniglia