![]() ![]() Elgar repaid the compliment by dedicating his Introduction and Allegro to Sanford later that year. Elgar accepted, and Sanford made certain he was the star of the proceedings, engaging the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the College Choir, the Glee Club, the music faculty members, and New York musicians to perform two parts from Elgar's oratorio The Light of Life and, as the graduates and officials marched out, "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. It was first played at such a ceremony on 28 June 1905, at Yale University, where the Professor of Music Samuel Sanford had invited his friend Elgar to attend commencement and receive an honorary doctorate of music. 1 is often known simply as "Pomp and Circumstance" or as "The Graduation March" and is played as the processional tune at virtually all high school and most college graduation ceremonies. In Canada, the Philippines and the United States, the Trio section "Land of Hope and Glory" of March No. The words were further modified to fit the original tune, and the result has since become a fixture at the Last Night of the Proms, and an English sporting anthem and general patriotic song. In 1902 the tune was re-used, in modified form, for the "Land of hope and glory" section of his Coronation Ode for King Edward VII. The Trio contains the tune known as " Land of Hope and Glory". the one and only time in the history of the Promenade concerts that an orchestral item was accorded a double encore." Wood remembered that the audience ".rose and yelled. Both marches were played two days later at a London Promenade Concert (which the Elgars unintentionally missed) in the Queen's Hall London, conducted by Henry Wood, with March No. Elgar and his wife attended, and it was a "frantic" success. 2, in Liverpool on 19 October 1901, with Alfred Rodewald conducting the Liverpool Orchestral Society. 1 In D had its premiere, along with March No. The best known of the six marches, Pomp And Circumstance March No. lib.) and tambourine (ad lib.)), two harps, organ, and strings. The instrumentation is: two piccolos (2nd ad lib.), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, two cornets in A, three trombones, tuba, three timpani, percussion ( bass drum, cymbals, triangle, side drum, jingles, glockenspiel (ad. ![]() Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society". 1, was composed in 1901 and dedicated "to my friend Alfred E. as Elgar's Op. 39, and each of the marches is dedicated to a particular musical friend of Elgar's.Įach march takes about five minutes to play. The first five were all published by Boosey & Co. 6 in G minor (written as sketches, elaborated by Anthony Payne in 2005–06) The first four marches were all written before the events of World War I shattered that belief, and the styles in which wars were written about spurned the false romance of the battle-song. Proclaiming the "shows of things" (Maine's quotation marks): the naïve assumption that the splendid show of military pageantry-"Pomp"-has no connection with the drabness and terror-"Circumstance"-of actual warfare. With worship and with conquest, and the voice of myriads. The banners of my faith most gaily swing Madly upon the spears in martial ecstasy,Ī measure that sets heaven in all their veins Like a proud music that draws men on to die
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![]() The outcome of the geopolitical competition will hinge to a large degree on the relative economic recovery of the United States and China from Covid-19 and the ability of other states, especially in Europe and Asia, to recover and coalesce around shared values and interests. All of these factors are exacerbated by the competitive, zero-sum dynamics unleashed in this pandemic. It is possible that the United States can recover its diminished position in the region, but the failure to negotiate basing agreements with the Republic of Korea and Japan and the extortionist approach taken by the current administration in these negotiations will be difficult to overcome. alliances, and with them the United States’ global leadership position, will likely weaken in this time frame as Europeans seek less dependence on the United States and hedge against unpredictable U.S. While some in the United States might wish to play less of a global leadership role and pull back, other actors, such as Iran, Russia, China, and the Islamic State, also get a “vote.” Rebecca Hersman withdrawal from global affairs is complicated by existing, entangling relationships, including in institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While there are increasing domestic pressures for a foreign policy of restraint today, the United States will likely be cautious in actually implementing a more restrained foreign policy. ![]() administrations, whether Republican or Democrat, are likely to favor a stronger alliance framework. The second assumption is that the United States could experience a change in political leadership. allies to band together to advance shared views and push back on regimes attempting to revise the international order. As global competition increases, there are structural and institutional incentives for democratic U.S. Several rising poles in the new global order are authoritarian, with skeptical views of democracy, free press, and open markets. First, multipolarity increases incentives to cleave to parties with shared interests. Regarding the United States, its alliance system may remain robust by 2025-2030 based on two assumptions. But at the macro level, these poles may align around regime type, with the democratic United States and Europe aligned against Russia and China. Senior Adviser, International Security Programīy 2025-2030, there will be multipolarity between different parties, with the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union representing different poles. Neither country has distinguished itself or aided the international community significantly in responding. Moreover, the United States and China will likely emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic having taken significant damage to their prestige and soft power. This is why alliances and economic partnerships are so important in a world of increasing multipolarity. France, Germany, India, and Japan are powers in their own right, for example. Military and economic rivalry among the United States, China, and Russia is important to geopolitics, but so is the degree to which other “great powers,” some with nuclear weapons, seek alternative paths, potentially together. debates over “great power competition” obscure the true state of international affairs that is evolving. alliances hold in this world, though allies more selectively choose where to align with the United States versus choosing their own paths.Ĭurrent U.S. ![]()
![]() The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was the third in a series of Russian-American agreements to reduce both nations' gargantuan late Cold War-time nuclear arsenals and bolster mutual trust. And it will likely continue using this lack of nuclear transparency for rendering pressure upon the West, including on things like Western support of Ukraine in the war. or even claim nuclear buildup, increasing the risk of a new nuclear arms race. and the international community still have ways to get estimated data on the state of the Russian stockpile.īut behind this opaqueness, the Kremlin can go on imitating parity with the U.S. But admitting this decline is impossible for the Kremlin, which puts nuclear weapons at the center of its intimidation efforts and war propaganda, both domestic and international.ĭue to the lack of on-site inspections, there’s little certainty regarding how much of the nuclear power that Russia claims as deployed is actually operational. And today's production of new missiles, strategic bombers, or nuclear-carrying submarine systems is not strong enough to compensate for the reduction.Īccording to experts, the decommissioning of Russian nuclear weapons started and will continue until at least the 2030s. Older delivery systems and warheads produced decades ago are naturally running out of their operational lifetime. The Russian nuclear stockpile has been gradually dwindling for years. ![]() And the reason behind that is likely not Moscow's eagerness to bolster nuclear power but rather the opposite – hiding the scale of its nuclear arsenal’s reduction. In the last three years, Russia has been seeking to keep American inspectors away. The suspension of the deal has effectively given the Kremlin just one thing: a quasi-legitimate reason to terminate mutual inspections of nuclear stockpiles, an essential part of the New START signed in 2010. The announcement once again allowed the Kremlin to promote the notion that the West’s support of Ukraine is pushing the world towards a nuclear holocaust.īut despite all the noise, this threat from Russia has had little to no effect on the global nuclear posture. That’s what the Kremlin did two months ago, when Vladimir Putin announced Russia would "suspend" its participation in the New START, the only remaining U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia. ![]() The main rule of Russia's power diplomacy says: If something goes wrong with their war effort in Ukraine, reach for the nuclear intimidation card. ![]() Having spent a couple hours with the final release of Roller Champions, it’s definitely a future sports game that’s got some juice to it. Fortunately, the core experience is enjoyable enough that it could feasibly pick up some momentum and score some goals down the road. Add to that a limited availability of game modes at launch and Roller Champions gets off to a rough start at the track. Unfortunately, it's tough to center a game's progression around cosmetics when the skater that's being customized looks so bland. Roller Champions provides a solid gameplay base, but only time will tell to see how dev support will keep players coming back. If it can capture enough of an audience from kick-off, there's no reason that Roller Champions can't become a sporting title that has you and your friends rolling in laughter for years to come. With its free-to-play status, Ubisoft has everything they need to make Roller Champions a resounding success, from beautiful design, an exhilarating concept, and the unique ability to have this stored on your hard drive for months and not fear of it becoming outdated. While this one is going to rely on patches to fix stability post-launch, there is something there to love. If you had to pay for Roller Champions, I wouldn’t say “grab two friends and start a match” but it is free and man that makes the difference. OpenCritic -1 average -1% recommended - 6 reviews Critic Reviews /r/GamePhysics - Clips of game physics shining and glitchingĭesign based on /r/FlatBlue created by /u/creesch./r/gaming4gamers - middle ground between purely-for-fun and more serious subreddits./r/GamingLeaksAndRumours - Leaks and Rumors.Posting unmarked spoilers will result in removal and warning, and posting spoilers with malicious intent will result in a ban. Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers. If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad. For more information, see the self-promotion on reddit FAQ. 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Subreddit Calendar Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers.įor examples of quality discussion posts we'd like to see in our subreddit, please review this page.įor an in-depth explanation of our rules, please review our rules page. The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. If you're looking for "lighter" gaming-related entertainment, try /r/gaming! Please look over our rules and FAQ before posting. It also delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to the fiscal year 2023./r/Games is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. ![]() Ubisoft recently announced a number of cancellations as part of its latest financial report, including Ghost Recon: Frontline, Splinter Cell VR, and two unannounced projects. We strongly believe, however, that before we release new content, we've got to do right by our players, hence why we are taking the time needed before we do." In its statement, Ubisoft announced a patch correcting issues and added: "As far as content is concerned, we can tell you that we've got exciting stuff planned for the next seasons. Roller Champions initially launched back in May on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and was followed by a Switch release in June. The rumour of the cancellation came from Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, who said on an Xbox Era podcast that "Roller Champions is going to be cancelled after Season 3," reading a message he had received the previous day from an anonymous source. ![]() ![]() In a statement shared on Twitter, the company was very clear: "Roller Champions isn't getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it." Ubisoft has debunked a rumour that it was going to cancel its free-to-play multiplayer title Roller Champions. ![]() Discover a series of add-ons with special maps and rules No game is ever the same, you can play over and over again Moon’s best-selling boardgame, Ticket to Ride, which sold over 8 million copies. This is the official adaptation of Alan R. Play in single-player mode, online multi-player against the whole world, or local multi-player with your friends A tutorial teaches you the rules of the game so you can head off quickly on your adventure Travel the world from Europe to India, passing through the legendary China, facing new challenges by purchasing additional cards with their own special rules (available in expansion packs). With so many different strategies to try, each new game is a unique experience. In this strategy game for all ages, try out different tactics, block your competitors’ lines and take over routes before the others do. In this railway adventure, you’ll need to be the quickest to link up your cities and reach your destinations. Select tickets that link up with current tickets.Ĭoncentrate your routes on the main cities that appear in a lot of routes.Set off with your friends and family to re(discover) Ticket to Ride, the classic boardgame. Select tickets that already exist within other partially completed tickets. Select tickets that already exist within other completed tickets. Place trains on the less optional routes first and save Locomotive cards until you absolutely need to play them.įocus on completing connections that require a certain color rather than gray (any color) connections. You don't want that your opponents know what you are doing because else they will block you. The scoring for 6 one-train routes or 3 two-train routes is worth much less than a single 5-train or 6-train route.Ĭontrol the choke points and grab them early or your will be forced to go around.ĭraw from the top of the deck unless you need trains for a specific route. Play trains on longer routes to the same destination if possible. Hopefully, you pull a ticket that you already completed. ![]() If you are far behind points, then draw 3 tickets. On 1vs1 player games, you can save up cards in your hand longer and build your track at once. Pick up face-up locomotives when you can instead of lucky drawing 2 face down cards. When you have a long route trough the center of the board and you are waiting on cards of a certain color to finish a short route, it's better to give up on it and draw new routes. With fewer trains remaining, the better play is to go for long links of opportunity.Ī 6-train link is 15 points even if it doesn't connect any city.ĭon't be afraid to draw destination cards early in the game (especially the first few turns). Once your route is complete, consider to start on a new one. Spending your turn to block someone don't gain much points, but else your opponent scores much more points if he can complete his route.įollow the eyes of your opponent to see which route he is planning. ![]() If you need a one-train leg, get it as soon as you have the card.īlock other players if you can. Remember also that big routes are much harder to complete in a 4-5 player game.Īvoid telegraphing where your routes are going because others can block you easily.Ĭlaim the critical routes first. ![]() I have used scripts to generate my fontsįor a long time. Matter that I long ago quit using the Generate dialog for anything but Generating fonts with serious options is such a complicated I know, but this is a sort of thing for which extension languagesĮxist. Well, suppose you have a Type 1 or other font with more than oneĮncoding. Leave out its substitution rules as well, to save yet more space? Otherwise would be left out, but that glyph might take the place ofĪnother after substitution, do I include it, or do I leave it out, and If I have a glyph, either unencoded or with an encoding value that I would take the time to get accustomed with the writing of such There will be different scripts for different purposes. It is going to be too much for any one script to handle allĬases. These are all factors that a script has to take into account, and A glyph name mayĬorrespond to the encoding according to some convention, or it may ![]() May happen to correspond to Unicode codepoints. The encoding or encodings are stored in the font. In FF the concept of an encoding means a well-known platformĮncoding, which is kind of obsolete today because of Unicode. Values and their ascii names and are easily user definable whereas Means is really handled by 'NameLists,' which have both unicode I'm not 100% clear on how FF handled encodings I believe what Vern I think what Vern wants is widgets in the Generate dialog. These are all decisions to be made by the person tailoring her own script. Right, which won't be part of any pre-defined encoding, but can be part of a namelist. I thought a font in FF can only have one encoding, but FF can re-encode easily.Īre there some glyphs you want to include ‘just because’, such as a foundry logo? If there is more than one encoding in the font, which one do you use? Plenty of characters may have no encoding at allĭo you include a glyph or not, if it might take the place of an encoded I think this ought to better surfaced to users and namelists ought to be stored in /usr/local/share/fontforge/namelists/ and then ~/.FontForge/namelists/ I'm not 100% clear on how FF handled encodings I believe what Vern means is really handled by 'NameLists,' which have both unicode values and their ascii names and are easily user definable whereas in FF the concept of an encoding means a well-known platform encoding, which is kind of obsolete today because of Unicode. Made by the person tailoring her own script.įor instance, how should the subset be determined, since encoding is not a fundamental characteristic of a glyph? ‘just because’, such as a foundry logo? These are all decisions to be Glyph after substitution? If there is more than one encoding in theįont, which one do you use? Are there some glyphs you want to include You include a glyph or not, if it might take the place of an encoded Have no encoding at all, or they may have more than one encoding. Not a fundamental characteristic of a glyph? Plenty of characters may Scripting is far better for this than building in a feature.įor instance, how should the subset be determined, since encoding is So, for example, a font that contains characters from ISO 8859-1 Latin, ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic, and ISO-8859-2 Latin, should be able to generate 3 subset fonts named for example 'Latin', 'Latin-2', and 'Cyrillic'. This could be set up enabled at 'Generate Fonts.' and / or from the 'Font Info' tables. it would be a helpful feature to be able to generate the font in subsets, based on fontforge's unicode encoding sets. Feature request - When generating a font from File->Generate Fonts. 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![]() To verify that Testdisk is installed and display more information by running the following dpkg command. To start off, update the system packages and install TestDisk as shown. The package TestDisk is available to install from the default system repositories in most Linux distribution using the default package manager as shown. In this article, we will show you how to install the TestDisk data recovery utility to recover an unbootable partition on Linux. TestDisk can also repair corrupt FAT32 tables as well as the MFT by riding with the help of the MFT mirror.TestDisk can recover and rebuild the NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 boot sectors from their backups.It can copy files from deleted or corrupt Windows filesystems such as NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT and Linux partitions (ext2, ext3, and ext4).It restores files from Windows filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT and ext2 Linux filesystem.It can seamlessly recover a deleted disk partition.TestDisk is able to repair a corrupt or damaged partition table.TestDisk is a powerful, and lightweight software tool that comes with a myriad of data recovery applications as outlined below: TestDisk is a cross-platform tool and runs on almost any desktop operating system: Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and even NetBSD. The command-line software was written in C programming languages by Christophe Granier and licensed under the GNU/GPLv2 license. ![]() Further, you can use it to revive non-bootable partitions which can be caused by factors such as accidental deletion of partition tables, and malware attacks to mention a few. TestDisk is a free and opensource, command-line data recovery tool that is used to recover data from deleted or lost partitions. ![]() With the Germans pushing into Russia, the Soviet forces are in full retreat, meaning many missions aren't won so much as vacated. The burden of history weighs particularly heavily on the early quarter of the campaign. There's historical poignancy in there but it staggers under clumsy delivery methods. The gunner pauses for a moment before turning awkwardly on the spot, grinning like he's been told a joke, and shooting all his mates. Isakovich watches in Stalingrad as a commissar gives a machine gunner the order to shoot retreating troops. They're not rendered in the game's engine and they're not fancy CG, looking more like some terrible Xbox shooter, animated as if their actors were having their emotions signed to them off-stage a minute too late. It's a worthy and true tale – one of traitors and egotists killing their own people – but it's almost entirely undone by cutscenes that look like they were made in 1945. Cutscenes tell the tale of Isakovich, a soldier turned journalist who documents the heroism of average men and women sent to their deaths. It suffers most as a game when it's trying to tell its weighty story. "Company of Heroes 2's worst missions feel like they're backwards."Ĭompany of Heroes 2's worst missions feel like they're backwards: instead of playing the plucky, clever underdogs, you're upgraded to the role of military colossus, infinite resources hurled at the brick wall until sheer erosion cracks a hole. My tactic may have been historically accurate, but trying to drown your opponent in your own soldiers' blood isn't a particularly satisfying strategy to play out in a real-time strategy game. ![]() Any lost conscripts could be replaced in seconds, and any lost soldiers could be too: conscripts have the ability to join up with a depleted squad to take them back up to their maximum complement. To avoid coming out of the campaign with actual PTSD, I found it easier to simply roll my forces into a ball – toughest units clustered at the middle, fleshy conscripts on the outside – and smash through enemy positions. This second type of soldier gives Company of Heroes its Soviet tinge, and can sometimes make it unsatisfying to play. In most missions, squads can be trained at your home base or brought into battle as conscripts. That quirk of population translates to game mechanics: as Soviet general-in-the-sky, I had a near-endless stream of people I could click on to send to their doom. ![]() The Soviet war effort hinged on the country's ability to spit out prodigious amounts of young men and women to fight and die for their motherland. ![]() Learning about this is harrowing playing it is too. "It's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism." The Eastern Front saw the brunt of the war: Germany lost 80% of its Wehrmacht casualties east of Berlin the Soviets themselves lost some 26 million souls overall, 8.6 million of whom were in the military. It's set on World War II's frigid Eastern Front, and is more concerned with rifle-butting home the horror of that bloodiest sector of the conflict. It's called Company of Heroes 2, but it's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism. ![]() The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not prevent authors from uploading arbitrary files to the site, which may allow them to upload PHP shells on affected sites. The identifier VDB-218185 was assigned to this vulnerability. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.ĬLTPHP = V2.0 = V2.0 = V2.0 = V2.0 leads to unrestricted upload. Other files containing the `` tag, regardless of their type are also denied b/c they are a path to XSS attacks. Kiwi TCMS v12.2 comes with functionality that allows administrators to configure additional upload validator functions which give them more control over what file types are accepted for upload. Thus, a malicious actor may upload an `.exe` file or a file containing embedded JavaScript and trick others into clicking on these files, causing vulnerable browsers to execute malicious code on another computer. In versions of Kiwi TCMS prior to 12.2, there is no control over what kinds of files can be uploaded. Kiwi TCMS, an open source test management system, allows users to upload attachments to test plans, test cases, etc. However, Django's "Uploading multiple files" documentation suggested otherwise. This multiple upload has never been supported by forms.FileField or forms.ImageField (only the last uploaded file was validated). In Django 3.2 before 3.2.19, 4.x before 4.1.9, and 4.2 before 4.2.1, it was possible to bypass validation when using one form field to upload multiple files. ![]() The resulting link can be sent to an administrator user. ![]() When users upload temporary files, some specific file endings are not allowed, but it is possible to upload. After successful exploitation, an attacker can cause limited impact on confidentiality and integrity of the application.Īn XSS issue was discovered in Serenity Serene (and StartSharp) before 6.7.0. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation - versions 740, 750, allows an authorized attacker to upload a malicious file, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. The vulnerability path is /classes/Users.php?f=save.Īn arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Serendipity 2.4-beta1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML or Javascript file. Sourcecodester Online Computer and Laptop Store 1.0 allows unrestricted file upload and can lead to remote code execution. |
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