#salomon & wu

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 41, 2024

Exploration, exploitation, and development: Developmental shifts in decision‐making. Blanco, N. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2024). Child Development, 95(4), 1287–1298.

A drift diffusion model analysis of age-related impact on multisensory decision-making processes. Bolam, J., Diaz, J. A., Andrews, M., Coats, R. O., Philiastides, M. G., Astill, S. L., & Delis, I. (2024). Scientific Reports, 14, 14895.

Hippocampus and striatum show distinct contributions to longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood. Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2024). eLife, 12, e89483.3.

Acquisition of non-olfactory encoding improves odour discrimination in olfactory cortex. Federman, N., Romano, S. A., Amigo-Duran, M., Salomon, L., & Marin-Burgin, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5572.

Neurofeedback training can modulate task-relevant memory replay rate in rats. Gillespie, A. K., Astudillo Maya, D., Denovellis, E. L., Desse, S., & Frank, L. M. (2024). eLife, 12, e90944.3.

GABAergic synaptic scaling is triggered by changes in spiking activity rather than AMPA receptor activation. Gonzalez-Islas, C., Sabra, Z., Fong, M., Yilmam, P., Au Yong, N., Engisch, K., & Wenner, P. (2024). eLife, 12, e87753.3.

Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex in mice during decision making. Hajnal, M. A., Tran, D., Szabó, Z., Albert, A., Safaryan, K., Einstein, M., … Orbán, G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5559.

A computational account of transsaccadic attentional allocation based on visual gain fields. Harrison, W. J., Stead, I., Wallis, T. S. A., Bex, P. J., & Mattingley, J. B. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(27), e2316608121.

Perirhinal cortex learns a predictive map of the task environment. Lee, D. G., McLachlan, C. A., Nogueira, R., Kwon, O., Carey, A. E., House, G., … Chen, J. L. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5544.

The neuron as a direct data-driven controller. Moore, J. J., Genkin, A., Tournoy, M., Pughe-Sanford, J. L., de Ruyter van Steveninck, R. R., & Chklovskii, D. B. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(27), e2311893121.

Bats integrate multiple echolocation and flight tactics to track prey. Nishiumi, N., Fujioka, E., & Hiryu, S. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2948-2956.e6.

Limb-related sensory prediction errors and task-related performance errors facilitate human sensorimotor learning through separate mechanisms. Oza, A., Kumar, A., Sharma, A., & Mutha, P. K. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(7), e3002703.

Systemic pharmacological suppression of neural activity reverses learning impairment in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome. Shakhawat, A. M., Foltz, J. G., Nance, A. B., Bhateja, J., & Raymond, J. L. (2024). eLife, 12, e92543.3.

Prefrontal cortical ripples mediate top-down suppression of hippocampal reactivation during sleep memory consolidation. Shin, J. D., & Jadhav, S. P. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2801-2811.e9.

Preferences reveal dissociable encoding across prefrontal-limbic circuits. Stoll, F. M., & Rudebeck, P. H. (2024). Neuron, 112(13), 2241-2256.e8.

Atypical local and global biological motion perception in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Tian, J., Yang, F., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, N., Jiang, Y., & Yang, L. (2024). eLife, 12, e90313.5.

Temporal information in the anterior cingulate cortex relates to accumulated experiences. Wirt, R. A., Soluoku, T. K., Ricci, R. M., Seamans, J. K., & Hyman, J. M. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2921-2931.e3.

Complexity Matters: Normalization to Prototypical Viewpoint Induces Memory Distortion along the Vertical Axis of Scenes. Wu 吴奕忱, Y., & Li 李晟, S. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(27), e1175232024.

Co-existence of synaptic plasticity and metastable dynamics in a spiking model of cortical circuits. Yang, X., & La Camera, G. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(7), e1012220.

Perceptual error based on Bayesian cue combination drives implicit motor adaptation. Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Zhang, T., Nie, Z., & Wei, K. (2024). eLife, 13, e94608.3.

[minkuparks]

my shift yesterday exceeded my emotional capacity... first off i was expecting to have a non verbal bar shift but instead i got put in charge of a function of 30 old men who were all over the world and all kinda sassy with me but also like "why u so beautiful" "what is thank u in latvian" which was sweet n all but i was so sleepy and they just started teling me their order without any organisation, then they gave me a plan sheet of the tables so i know where all the food goes but i had already started and i mixed it all up and my manager told me to double check bc they come every 3 months and cant mess it up. so i double checked 2 when the main man dings his glass and starts to do a SPEECH... i wus like ok i am givin up and i went to my manager to savee me, i told him im nervous and he said dont be they are all teddy bears. then he goes WHOS MY BIG GIRL omg i said NOT ME!!!!!

he is a unhinged french flirting monster he does it. w everyone but still i am easily embarrassed and blush and lose my ability to speak its probably very obvious he needs. to be stopped.

anyway he went and triple checked the order for me and we still managed to make a mistake and their food took soo long to make bc i took like 20 min to get the order right. like we made one too many grilliata fruti di mare and another guy took the wrong dish and they ran out of prawns to make another 1. so i just put the one they made for the other guy in front of him and said here u go and left!!! cuz his was already being eaten.

then they all wanted coffees and to ask me if we speak russian and they were all jokin and being funny and telling me im doin a good job and my manager said im doing a good job so it turned out fine

then i had 1 hour break and had a evening bar shift but my new salomons hurt my injured feet that have grown used to my old fallen apart shoes which i took with me in case my feet hurt and i ended up having to put them on cuz my feet r really fucked like something has been broken and grown back together in the wrong way or something. but my sister scored 2 free pizzas and we went home together and had half each. she was like im havin the gambaretti!! and i was like why dont we just have half each and her mind was blown by the idea hahaha

ok thats all!!

[maslue90]

YOUNG FATHERS 'Mr Martyr' from Salomon Ligthelm on Vimeo.

Silver at Cannes Young Directors Award 2017

CREW Producer: Jean Villiers Line Producer: Francois Jaunet Unit Location Manager: Benoit Demoucron Assistant Unit Manager: Remi Brachet Assistant Unit Manager: Anthony Cazet Assistant Unit Manager: Stanislas Delardmelle Director: Salomon Ligthelm 1st AD: Christophe Szegedi 2nd AD: Daniel Cox DP: Zack Spiger 1st AC: Melodie Preel 2nd AC: Josephine Drouin Gaffer: Baptiste Brousse Gaffer Assistant: Emile Freeman Art Director: Valerie Valero Dresser: Corentin Harle Dresser Assistant: Simon Pinelli Make Up: Micka Arasco Boom Operator: Toby Lewis Thomas Editor: Nate Gross at Exile Edit

CAST Sebastian: Yannick Mabille James: James Dean Fischer The Kid: Arthur Lemonier Girlfriend: Gaia Orgaes Gun Dealer: Giovanni Zam Gang Member 1: STYLECEE Gang Member 2: Ascrime Gang Member 3: Luca Sellier Gang Member 4: Bollecker David Gang Member 5: Bryan Mudiaki Gang Member 6: Badd Malo The Kid's girlfriend: Louise Le Pape Female bookie: Eva Muñoz Sebastian's mistress: Estelle Clément The Gun dealer's bodyguard: Oob Sad Bastard

SPECIAL THANKS Flat: Veronique Boisel Boxing Room: Gymnase de la Plaine - Paris 15 Squat: Association Jarry've Revient Photos: Eytan jan/Camille Wu/Niels 'Morph' Thon Jarry: Rachel Mitchell/Ginot Marka/ Adonis Sawadogo Decor: Valerie Fontaine Appart: Gael Seguillon

SUPPLIERS: Camera: Vantage Light: TSF - Cine Lumiere Vehicles: Logifilm Grip: Cinestyl Lab - Hiventy - Group Digimage Weapon: Maratier Film: Kodak

Inspired by the music of Young Fathers ('Bones' used in Teaser + 'Mr Martyr' used in Film) Shot on Super 16mm

[fatelotusorder]

Masters

Ming Zheng

Bruno Buccellati

Kotori Kosuke

Important Individuals

B.B( Benjamin Baxter is a False Name , Hes Real name is Sasuke Matou ,He Replaced Roman After He..You know )

Indigo

Protea

Kazudrop

Waver(Lotus Order Version ,Still psudeoservant of Zhuge Liang ,Usually refer to as Velvet)

Servants- Feel free to Suggest other Servants You'd like Ming to Summon (or Have as psudeoservants )

Saber

Oda Nobukatsu

Mushu(psuedo Servant, Musashi)

Rama

Astolfo(Spirit origin Change)

Ibaraki kun

Zhang Fei( B)

Jiang Cheng

Lancer

Draven (psuedo Servant Scathach)

Rapunzel

Bryn Nilsson(Psuedoservant Brynhildr)

Fionn(Though that Might Change as Fionn is Noticing His Hair looking lighter than Normal)

Diarmuid

Lin Chong

Lu Zhishen

Archer

Euryale

Paris

Tristan

Oda Nobunaga

Sei Shonagon( B)

Lui Bei( B)

Lan Zhan

Jin Ling

Rider

Tamamo Hime

Ozymandias

Francis Drake

Ushiwakamaru

Yasagoro (Aka Orochimaru)

Martha

Georgios

Cao Cao

Kamen Rider Double( Philip and Shotaro)

Caster

Baba yaga( She basically Da Vinci here )

Draven(Skadi)

Nightingale( Caster )

Hans

Paracelus von Hohenheim

Nico Robin( B)

Cheng Gong( Techinally hes Fengxians)

Circe( K)

Medea

Murasaki Shikibu( B)

Wei Wuxian

Assassin

Fuuma Kotaro

Sanji Vinsmoke

Goemon

Serenity

Yan Qing

Jing Ke

Arsene Lupin

Wu Zetain

Berserker

Red Riding hood

Asterios

Daji Su

Fengxian(Lu Bu ,Psuedo Servant)

Shuten Kun( K)

Extra

Elizabeth Tudor(Ruler)

Melt and Lip( psudeoservants Alter Ego)

Junko(psudeservant Mooncancer , Ganesha)

DIO(Avenger)( K)

Servant He and the others Will Have in the Future

D'Artagnan( Archer )

Chuuya Nakahara(Foreigner)

?????( that Jojo charater who josuke knows ,Caster)

Ranpo Edogawa (Caster,Though He dosen't Fight kinda like Augustus )

Akiko Yosano (Berserker)

Red Baron(Rider)

Jack Frost(poessesing a Jojo Character)( B)

John Dee(Foreignerpossessing)

Reiju Vinsmoke ( Caster)

the Germa 66(Yonji,Ichiji ,Niji) (Rider)

Qin Liangyu

Lanlin Wang

Shi huang Di( due to fact that Shi whats to Watch Ming)

Galahad Alter (Matthias Kryelight)

MHX(Mysterious Alien X or M.A.X)

Kato Danzo (K.A.I.T.O)

Summoning Order

Grand order

During F:Melt,Paris,Goemon,Jing Ke

After F:Yan Qing,Fuuma Kotaro,Hans

After Versailles: Astolfo,Martha ,Georgios

After Pax Romana-Ushiwakamaru,Paracelus von Hohenheim

After Guda guda 1 - Oda Nobunaga

After Outlaws of the Waters edge- Lin chong,Lu Zhishen

After Okeanos-Euryale,Asterios, Lip

After Guda Guda 2 -Oda Nobukatsu

After London*takes place in the Tudor Era*- Francis Drake,Elizabeth Tudor

After E Pluribus Um *takes place in the 1920's*- Nightingale(Caster) ,True Class For Lip and Melt Unlocked , Fionn ,Diarmuid

After Camelot - Tristian,Ozymandias,Medea

After Babylon - None

After Salomon - None

Remnants of Tales -

After Gallant Jiraya - Yasagoro

After Shakespeare - None

After the Raiding party- No new Servants but Bruno joined

After Sabaody - Nico Robin(Summon by Bruno) , Sanji Vinsmoke ,Tamamo Hime

After Grimm - Red riding Hood , Rapunzel ,Draven

After RWBY - Rama, Arsene Lupin , Mushu

After Anderson - Kotori Joins with her Servants ,Hans Christan Anderson ,Wu Zetian , Shuten kun(Kotori) , Circe(Kotori) ,Dio(Kotori) Daji Su

After Three Kingdoms - Cao Cao (:3) , Fengxian(Lu Bu), Chen Gong

After The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Lan Zhan,Wei Wuxian Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling

Planned

After Yokohama (Yokohama is Ming's Last Psuedo Singularity but its also a Chaldea Crossover event ) - Kato Danzo (Unknown but its a Male) ,Chuuya Nakahara, ?????( that Jojo character who Josuke knows),Ranpo Edogawa,Akiko Yosano

After Dressrosa part 1 - Jack Frost , Maybe I'll Include Monet or another Character (I'm thinking Brook or Law )

After Dressrosa part 2 - Red Baron ,(I plan to Introduce the Night Witches as Servants on Doflamingo's Side),

After Whole Cake - Reiju , Germa 66

After SIN- Shi Huang Di , Qin Liangyu , Lanling Wang

[claudehenrion]

Alléluia... J'ai vu la lumière !

  J'ai une immense nouvelle à partager avec vous, amis-lecteurs : figurez-vous que dimanche dernier, pendant la messe, j'ai brutalement été frappé par la grâce ! ''Convertis-toi...'', me murmurait une voix profonde... Autour de moi, tout s'illuminait. Je ne voyais plus ''des gens'', mais des masques, de beaux masques en papier, en kevlar, en tissu à carreaux, certains FFP2, d'autres chirurgicaux. Et chacun semblait me dire ''Alléluia ! Je suis là pour toi, pour te sauver (et aussi pour t'économiser 135 €). Mets des gestes-barrière entre toi et les autres. Convertis toi''.

  Et, dans un éclair, invisible au (très) commun des mortels (qui n'a que ce qu'il mérite !), je me suis rendu compte que j'étais en train de vivre le jour le plus important de ma vie : je me suis converti ! Comme Charles de Foucault, comme Claudel, comme Gabriel Marcel, Henri Bergson ou Simone Weil (la vraie, pas celle qui est au Panthéon), ou comme Clovis en d'autres temps... Mais à la différence de tous ces ''ouvreurs de porte'', moi, j'ai eu la chance de ''taper juste'' : arrivant au bon moment dans l'histoire de l'humanité, je me suis converti à la seule vraie religion, celle qui sauvera le monde de lui-même, celle des gens qui savent : le covidisme.

  Mes amis, je suis covidiste, comme certains d'entre vous, et comme beaucoup de gens le sont, du bout de leurs lèvres cachées...  Les jours suivants m'ont permis de mesurer la profondeur infinie de la nuit respiratoire dans laquelle j'avais vécu jusque là ! J'ai aussi découvert le monde parallèle idéal qui a surgi du néant en 6, 4, 2 ! Ce monde a son église, ses rites, ses frontières (on dit : ''barrières'', comme pour les gestes éponymes), ses hiérarques, son Pontifex maximus, notre Pape Sa Sainteté Jean Caste X, son Sacré Collège (les ''ex-pères'' du Comité Chiantifique de l'Elysée) et ses symboles (le rameau d’Olivier ‘’vert Han’’, comme on dit à Wu...Han !). Il y a aussi un Concile, près des Champs-Elysées, ce siège des Enfers depuis l’antiquité (Au début, ça m’a donné une petite gêne, vite dissipée) : l'Elysée était, pour les grecs et les romains, la partie des Enfers où séjournaient les âmes vertueuses, dans un printemps éternel. Les vents n'y soufflaient que pour répandre le parfum des fleurs, dans un ciel jamais pollué au CO². Des bocages embaumés de rosiers et de myrtes abritaient de leur fraîcheur toutes les ombres co-vidées de leur substance. Le rossignol et Salomon avaient seuls le droit d'y chanter, parfois interrompus par les voix étouffées car masquées de poètes et de musiciens célèbres. Le Léthé y coulait, et le doux murmure de ses ondes magiques faisait oublier les maux de la vie. La terre, féconde, produisait à foison fleurs, fruits, tiges pour tests et masques FFP2. Là, il ne peut y avoir ni douleurs ni vieillesse : on conserve l'âge que l’on avait préféré avoir, dans la vie... ou (encore mieux)  celui de Macron... (NDLR -''Vaste programme'', aurait ironisé finement De Gaulle !).

  La perspective de connaître un jour une telle félicité a éclipsé dans la seconde tout ce qu'on m'avait raconté sur les Paradis que promettaient les anciens cultes, y compris le 72 houris éternellement vierges promises par le Coran, qui sont fort heureusement remplacées par cette nouvelle religion -la dernière, donc la plus accomplie, la plus ''au point'', la plus moderne... bien qu'elle soit contraignante, même si elle avance masquée, puisque le nouveau ''Credo'' est clair  : ''Participer activement à la limitation de la circulation du Démon –pardon : du coronavirus--, à la fermeture des 1340 ''Closes terres'' recensés à ce jour, à la libération massive du nombre de lits doublement vides (on dit : ''co-vides'') dans nos hôpitaux et, last but not least, à la déconfiture définitive de Didier Raoult et de tous les complotistes qui osent mettre en doute les ''5 piliers'' de la nouvelle Foi, tous les Perrone, Toussaint (au nom si mal trouvé), Alexandra Henrion-Caude, et leurs millions de followers et admirateurs'' qui leur envoient des like dans des quantités jamais vues jusque là...

  Avec la foi des néo-convertis, et l'addiction au prosélytisme hydro-alcoolique qui va avec, je me suis donc vautré corps et âme dans le port permanent du Hijab, dans l'interdiction des débits d'alcool et des bars à chicha, dans l'évitement de mes semblables, dans le refus de contact et de la vieille ''bise'' avec toutes les femmes (qui, voilées en bleu, sont infiniment moins inspirantes... ce qui me permet, à moi, d'inspirer et d'expirer à loisir sous mon bout de PQ bleu ciel à oreillettes élastiques), dans une interdiction de tout ce qui est musique et concerts, expositions et autres rassemblements festifs. Je me lave les mains 5 fois par jour (ou plus), et j'ai établi des frontières-barrières avec (ou contre) mes semblables (qui ne le sont plus...). 

  Bref, je me plie dans la joie à toutes les injonctions de l'islamisme le plus déchaîné, le tout avec la bénédiction émue du Chef de l'Etat, celui-là même qui annonce qu'il va poursuivre les islamistes...  au nom de ses ''5 piliers'', copie fidèle du principe quinquénaire qui est la référence unique de ces mêmes islamistes. (Là, une certaine confusion devient possible, d'autant que eux refusent de reconnaître la Déité du Sacro-saint Masque et notre Panthéon des Gestes-barrière, qui, pourtant, nous font faire tout ce qu'ils voudraient qu'on fasse. Vous comprenez ça, vous ?).

  Si vous saviez comme c'est jouissif d'ouvrir les portes avec ses coudes et de les refermer avec ses pieds ! Lorsqu'on ne pratique pas ce genre de rituel, on ne peut pas savoir les joies que cela procure à chaque fois qu'on arrive à en ouvrir une, ou qu'on ne se casse pas la gueule en la fermant... Le choc esthétique que j'en ai ressenti a été d'autant plus violent que je ne m'étais jamais donné le mal d'essayer d'éternuer dans mon coude ! Ce geste contre nature fait désormais partie de mon arsenal pour lutter contre le Mal (les Experts affirment que les virus se marrent tellement en voyant les contorsions auxquelles se livrent les convertis, qu'il en meurt un certain nombre à chaque fois). Je maîtrise complètement cette gymnastique, et je me suis donc lancé dans la phase suivante : éternuer dans mon genou... ou au creux de mes reins, pour protéger mes semblables : je suis ''res-pon-sable''. Comme Didi dans Le Lotus bleu, la brebis égarée a ''trouvé la voie''.

  Le prêtre auquel je confessais mes fautes, hier (avec sa matraque au Saint Huron et son masque de traviole, il était dans un bon jour : je m'en suis tiré avec une pénitence de 135 € seulement. Même pas de garde à vue à la Sacristie !) s'est contenté de me faire un sermon sur l'exemple que je devais donner en interdisant à ma narine droite de prendre des risques en s'aérant à contre-temps, et sur l'attention que je devais porter aux ''plus vulnérables d'entre nous'' (l'énoncé de mes 86 balais ne lui a fait frémir ni l'une, ni l'autre, et j'en ai été mortifié, un peu). Il faut, m'a-t-il componctueusement expliqué, que j'apprenne à vivre avec ce virus, qui fait désormais partie du patrimoine de l'Humanité. Son Eminence Jean-François Delfraissy, vêtu de pourpre cardinalice (il est plutôt rougeaud, en fait), responsable-coupable de la Propagation de la Nouvelle Foi, et membre du Praedisium suprème, a même émis une ''Bulle'' sur ce sujet (d'où vient, je suppose, l'expression rituelle des covidistes : ''au concile, y a bulle''. Un autre rite, désopilant celui-là, consiste à écouter chaque soir la Litanie de l'appel des morts du jour par le RP Salomon, de la Santé, avec sa traditionnelle çonnerie ''aux morts''... On passe de bons moments !

  Le covidisme, disent les ''ceux qui savent'', invite à une réflexion sur ''le monde d'après'' (nos adversaires prétendent que c'est parce que nous avons rendu ce monde-ci invivable et insupportable. C'est encore un cas de complotisme sur lequel légiférer). Il convient aussi de rejeter dans la géhenne tous ceux qui doutent de l'efficacité des ''mesures-barrière'' que nous, convertis, aimons tant que nous mettons un ''s'' après barrière : la langue française ne va tout de même pas ralentir les Covidistes en marche vers la redécouverte des médecines du bas moyen-âge !) Nier ça, c'est comme nier que le covid (que certain féminisent, tant il serait dangereux) est la pandémie la plus terrifiante qu'ait jamais connue l'humanité, d'où le nombre et la variété quotidiennement changeante des mesures de lutte contre lui ou elle... SE le Cardinal Yazdan Yazdanapah, (un saint homme comme yanapah !), qui est le grand mamamouchi de l'infectiologie correcte à la Curie de l'Elysée, expliquait il y a peu que yazdan le mode de pensée de toute personne qui s'oppose à la doxa un infect au logis. alors que ailleurs, yanapah. S'il le dit, ça doit être vrai !

  Mon souhait le plus cher est de vous voir très bientôt rejoindre la horde docile des croyants-pratiquants En Marche du covidisme. Plus on sera de fous, plus on va ne pas rire, pour ne pas postillonner... De toutes manières, on ne sera jamais plus de 6 à ne pas nous effleurer l'un l'autre, à nous dire ''bonjour'' à grands coups de coudes dans les... coudes, et à avoir notre masque bien pincé autour du nez pour qu’on puisse être certain, un peu plus tard, de ne mourir que d'avoir trop respiré nos propres miasmes... pas si propres que ça ! Mais ça, c'est une autre histoire...

H-Cl.

[moodboardmix]

“Cracked”, Solomon and Wu. Elenite and Metal.

[everyoneneedsaface]

Mixed twins(with black and white) Asian twins, Hispanic twins and female and Male 16-18 and a Male 19 (black)

Mixed twins: Raven Lyn, Samantha Ellsworth, Danielle Ellsworth, Alicia Herbeth, Natalia Love

Asian twins: Gemma Chan, Jessica Lu, Constance Wu, Fan Bingbing, Arden Cho, Godfrey Gao, Dennis Oh, Chris Pang

Hispanic twins: Cindy Kimberly, Manu Rios, Froy Gutierrez, Xavier Serrano, Eva de Dominici, Sofia Carson

Female/male 16-18: Lizzy Greene, Harvey Petito, Ashton Arbab, Bella Shepard, Makenzie Rooney, Isabel May, Mitch Tummel, Noah Urrea

Male 19: Salomon Diaz, Noah Riley, Ethan Herrise

[fgodestinyawakenings]

EOR Agartha Singularity Chapter 14~END

With the power of insanity, regret, suffering and MORE SUFFERING... This entire singularity is just going to speed run, trying to complete without needing CS. Because of paranoia that the coming Christmas event requires LB3, especially the amount of new Servant and SOME in particular screams out LB3 requirement

DW seriously wants everyone to catch up to the latest story, which hence implying... Not all event are going to be Salomon-locked anymore

Before I start... The following chapters at this point, DO NOT GRIND FOR BOND POINTS. All the major bosses have finally showed up and that's where you need your sanity and strong team composition to beat them

Chapter 14

Both arrows in this chapter, you're fighting both Megalos and Christopher Columbus. Megalos has 2 HP layer while Christopher has only 1

In the first arrow, you're only required to either survive for 4 turns or break ONLY Megalos's first HP bar.

Second however, you're required to defeat both of them. 

For Megalos 

on his HP break, buffs himself with Critical Damage Up for 3 turns but debuffs himself with Quick Resistance Down for 3 turns (demerit).

Second HP Break, buffs himself Critical Rate Up for 3 turns but debuffs himself with Arts Resistance Down for 3 turns (demerit).

Columbus

on his HP break, buffs the enemy team with Pierce Invincibility for 3 turns.

Personally, kill Megalos first because as usual for Berserker class reason and you really don't want him to receive the invincibility pierce if you break Columbus's HP bar by accident

Chapter 15

A visual story mode, so nothing much to see here except googling up for the summary ^^;

Chapter 16

The final and longest fight for this Singularity, which I repeat, DO NOT GRIND FOR BOND POINTS UNLESS YOU'RE PREPARED!

First arrow... It's actually where Confucious doing confusion fu on you and your team. Not really confusing since you've got Scheherazade and 8 mob bosses of different classes with her

Her only gimmick at each HP break is giving taunt on those mobs for 10 turns, and, she reduced damage from Servants with King trait (*stares at AUO* Yeah people like AUO or Arthur, especially Ozzy). So, you're more or less required to bring either borrowed AOE Alter Ego/Berserker preferably without the King trait to kill them.

Finally the final boss, Demon God Pillar Phenex!

Because you're going to fight that fucking tentacle pillar 3 TIMES in different arrow in two separate classes.

In Arrow 2, you're first fighting it in their Caster class. It take reduced damage from Servants with King trait and, will Charm & inflict HP reduction every turn to a random party member.

Arrow 4, your first round to survive against it after it uses its permanent guts buff 2 times!

Demon God Phenex itself:

Single target Instant-Death combined with a Death Rate Down debuff.

Single Target Charm combined with a 1 turn delayed HP reduction debuff (the affected servant will have its HP reduced once the player's turn ends).

Self cleanse, one-turn incoming debuff negation, NP gauge single tick charge.

Demon God Phenex's NP:

It will first attempt to remove any buffs [CE buffs such as Volumen Hydrargyrum's one won't be affected].

Party wide AOE multiple hit damage.

All the party members will be inflicted with a 1,000 damage per turn Burn debuff.

Arrow 5, this in particular you’re to survive 10 turns when young Fergus from plot reason reduced its MAX HP to 1 and its guts buff completely gone to kill it.

Its skills and NP is the same as before... But it has now an insta-death skill to kill your Servant, so do beware of that.

Now that this first shit is done for main quest... I’ll start immediately for SIN Lostbelt tomorrow/later tonight right after I’m back from my trip to AFA :D

Because writing this with less than 6 hrs of sleep for 2 days is just me wanting to finish this ASAP

Observation:

Apparently this Singularity has a decent habit in throwing different classes together so that you can’t use a single class to deal with them. Yeah, not even Berserker unless you got a good setup to keep them alive

Dahut mini boss:

Or aka Drake Alter, where if she had Wild Golden Hunt with her for her NP... This entire boss fight with her is practically screaming chaos if she decided to buff it with pierce invincibility

Ideally Carmilla and Jack are best against her for Assasin class

But if you’re starting this way later like now, Okada Izou is subsitute to bring in for his anti-humanoid skill

Alternatively any assassin will do to kill her

But when dealing against her with Hydra, do bring a Lancer for main DPS with a good composition of a team to deal with them both

She isn’t that difficult so I considered her more of a mini Boss to deal with before the biggest fish

Wu Zetian:

If you have Scheherazade before starting this Singularity, she’s the ideal Caster against her. Wu Zetian possess the king trait with her so Scheherazade can deal more damage to her

She herself isn’t that much of a problem from her skillset wise other than her own healing and removable defense down debuff

Only problem you’ll need to be aware is her 3 tick NP gauge AND her increase of crit damage after using her NP

Her NP also has a removable poison debuff so Medea Lily can be brought along if needed

Otherwise general Caster should work, and preferably ST NP Caster to deal with her more efficiently

Penthesilea:

Basically where DW decided to kill anyone who brings Heracles-chan as a last resort due to her third skill targets to Greek Mythology Male Servant

Or actually specifically in lore wise, it’s more towards Achilles if you have him on your team

As her Berserker class, she definitely hits like a fucking truck with damage and crit

Her second skill is something to take note as not only with debuff immunity but also giving a charge in NP by 1 tick for sudden killing of your Servant

For her female trait, bring Carmilla or Jack ideally to with her

If you’re starting like now for this Singularity, Foreigner Servants and Izou are very recommended in dealing with her

The SSR Main Servant Scherherazade too as well for her NP and skill against King-trait Servants

Karna, Arjuna, Scathach, Enkidu, Oda Nobunaga & Ruler Martha, and AUO respectively for their NP/skills against Divine and Weak to Enuma Elish trait

Telsa & Raikou for her Earth & Sky trait

Siegfried-George combo is also recommended if you want Siegfried’s NP to deal higher damage against her

If you don’t have any of the above, bring more taunters and healers in both CE and Servant to keep the damage away from your main DPS Servant

Support like Jeanne and the Great 4 Casters are welcomed in supporting your main DPS

Overall until Chapter 13, majority of the fight requires you to survive until you break her first HP layer

Megalos & Christopher Columbus

In general of Megalos, his own taunt debuff to your Servant is stackable. Taunters like Leonidas and George are perfect to take in that debuff from your main dps

On my first post on Megalos, I’m completely wrong, he doesn’t have his Nine Lives NP for this NPC boss fight. His NP is a very high damage AOE NP that can be blocked by evasion or invincibility

But, he’s still same as Heracles with the same weakness as before

Euryale for usual being most recommended against him as a budget 3* due to her NP

Others such as:

Greek Mythology Males: Penthesila Her first gacha appearance practically screamed to raise her ASAP just to deal with him with further damage. Her own skill debuff immunity prevents her from being debuff with taunt. But, her weakness is also her own class as a Berserker that will kill her ASAP

Humanoid: Nightingale & Izou (Only available after 2018/2020(estimated if no changes in schedule))  Nightingale’s own skill does harder damage against him with humanoid trait. Also, her NP provides good healing when needed. But once again her downside as a Berserker class will kill her faster

Male: Orion, Tamamo Lancer, Stheno and Medb

For Stheno, you can pair her with Euryale for a charm-locked combo

Orion, Tamamo Lancer and Medb with their own ST NP will definitely kicks his butt big time!

CEs to pair with them generally is still Kiyohime CE for damage boost

Divine: Karna, Arjuna, Napoleon (only available after release of LB2), Oda Nobunaga, Ruler Martha, Scathach and Enkidu

Scathach and Enkidu for stalling if needed since their NP will stun him against his Divine Trait

Karna and Napoleon for higher damage against him

Oda Nobunaga both version are great in dealing with him for another alternative. But Oda Nobunaga Archer more recommended if you’re not able to get her Berserker version, as her Archer is a free welfare Servant

CE to bring:  Fondant au Chocolat or Versus for higher damage against Divine Servants 

Large: Arthur Pendragon

Once again after his limited appearance in Chaldea’s Boy Collection, his own third skill will give him great boost in damage against him for his large trait

AUO for Enuma Elish, Telsa and Raikou for Earth & Sky trait

Other CEs: Holy Shroud of Magdalene More for your taunters to keep them alive longer if needed when dealing with him

Christopher with Megalos

His own skillset and NP, except for a guts buff that charges his NP unexpectedly, isn’t really a problem

But because of his dangerous pierce invincibility that buffs his whole team when HP break is a big threat

Heck, his NP can actually be blocked with evasion!

Against him, I personally go for a stalling/total defense with Mash, borrowed Jeanne and MHXX + Kiritsugu for DPS

Or actually go for a setup that generates NP fast if you want Jeanne to be able to use invincibility against both of their NP at the same time

RNG plays a part which I’m thankful that by the time after Megalos is gone and Christopher’s HP break was at a good timing that he can’t do it with his NP

Otherwise, if he’s alone, he’s generally not a threat until you got a Berserker with him

Scheherazade & her mobs

Ozzy somehow becomes a not-really recommended Rider to bring because of his king-trait against her

Or actually any Servant with a King Trait isn’t recommended to bring against her

Male Servant will have a problem when dealing against her 2nd charm skill as it’s an AOE skill against all Male Servants

Has an AOE NP that deals extra damage to king/queen trait Servants

As this is after Fate/CC collab, borrow Alter Ego Kiara for AOE NP to deal with her and her mobs. Some of her mobs are under the weakness of Alter Ego

But you’ll need taunters here without a doubt because the neutral damage from the mobs will still hurt like a bitch

If you don’t have Kiara in your friend list or Servant Roster, find/borrow an AOE Berserker to kill them quickly

Phenex

General

Own skillset:

Voice of Allurement / Coming out from My Mouth: Inflict "Charm" Status and "HP Drain after 1 turn" on a target. (1 turn)

Droopy Eye: Inflict "Insta-Kill Resist Down" status to one target. (3 turns)

The Time For Rebirth is Here: Remove all debuffs from self and grants self debuff immunity. (1 turn) Charges own NP Gauge by 1 tick.

Own NP:

It will first attempt to remove any buffs [CE buffs such as Volumen Hydrargyrum's one won't be affected].

Incineration Ceremony : Phenex (NP) Deals damage to all targets and inflict "Burn" status to all targets. (5 turns)

For my fight with it in BOTH Caster and Ruler class, it’ll always use the skill on third bullet point before it uses his NP the following turn. That habit is one where if you do face, you’ll have a lot of problem to stall him if you don’t have buff remover in your team

I’ve been lucky for insta-kill for both fights since none of them got it from Phenex

The first bullet point of its skill can be RNG dependable. If it hits your Servant that about to use their NP, it’ll stun them for 1 turn before draining

Caster version

Your budget Riders who got King-trait like Boudica and Alexander are preferably not recommended to bring for this fight. It has a permanent buff to take lesser damage from those with king trait

Rider except the 2 and welfare like Santa Artoria are viable to bring, especially those with ST NP

Origin Bullet if you have to deal more damage against it

Vessel of the Saint if needed to have your main DPS not be debuff by charm

Ruler version

For its first round in arrow 4, you’re required to survive until you cleared 2 of its guts buff

All Guts buff revived it at 100% HP

Second round in arrow 5, you’re to survive at least for 10 turns until Young Fergus debuff activated + his own guts buff removed to kill it

Like first round, its Guts buff revived it at 100% HP per activation.

But Young Fergus’s own debuff against it will lowered its Max HP every time it triggers

Borrow/Use an ST NP Avenger like Jeanne Alter and Lobo to kill it as your main DPS

Or if you’re starting way later especially now, you can use budget Salieri to work with borrowed avenger to kill it more quickly

Taunters and healers are welcomed especially taunters to steer the charm debuff away from them

Healer like Hans or Merlin to keep them alive to deal and survive for those specific requirements

For Hans that I brought him, I had him with Demonic Bodhisattva CE so that his NP heals more for both Salieri and Jeanne

Apparently, Mash’s invincibility skill on your Servant isn’t removed when it’s about to use its NP

But his burn debuff can sting like heck if it does outdo your healing per turn on your Servant

Otherwise for both Ruler version, do setup a team to help surviving against the demon god

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Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport mixed use development

Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Mixed-Use Development China, New Chinese Buildings, Architecture Images

Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Mixed Use Development News

11 August 2021

Design: 10 Design

Location: Nanjing, China

10 Design’s Scheme for a Transport Oriented Retail Destination in the Old Nanjing Military Airbase Secures Planning Approval

Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Mixed-Use Development Design

International architecture practice, 10 Design, has released new plans for one of the largest transport-oriented retail destinations and most complex developments in Nanjing.  In 2020, 10 Design won an international design competition to transform developer China Fortune’s 243,768sqm site into a contemporary mixed-use project. In June 2021, the Nanjing Planning Bureau granted planning consent for the project, which is part of the wider redevelopment of the historic Nanjing Dajiaochang military airbase in China. The scheme is an evolution in design of transport-oriented developments to create a high-quality retail environment that fully integrates with the rail network and the extensive public realm.

Jointly led by two Design Partners, Chin Yong Ng and Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, the scheme envisions the integration of retail while preserving the 2.6km airport runway which has been kept in its original form as a historic feature. The runway will be reimagined as a multifunctional cultural boulevard that doubles as a green pedestrian axis. The development involves three interconnecting buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, retail, cultural and office spaces along with a boutique hotel. Adjacent to the Nanjing Cultural Palace, this mixed-use project will run parallel to the remaining runway.

With two underground railway stations embedded into the site, connectivity is one of the key design drivers. The design includes a central glass box corridor with key entrances positioned directly on top of one of the railway tracks, providing a feature passageway for commuters to navigate through different levels of the scheme. All three buildings are connected via an underground retail spine and street-level pedestrian walkways: the pedestrian bridges provide further connectivity between the two shopping malls.

The coherent building façades echo the local culture through their metallic brick-shaped features that reference the adjacent Nanjing Cultural Palace and traditional ceramic façades. The façade pattern reflects the ancient city wall of Nanjing built in the early Ming Dynasty, further enhancing the historic and cultural connection to the city.

One of the challenges of the restrictive site was to maximise the pedestrian flow from two underground railway lines to the retail areas. It was resolved by creating a large underground ‘retail spine’ that connects and sits beneath the three main buildings on the site. A series of sunken plazas extend out to the street level, punctuating the ground level and bringing natural light into the subterranean areas. The basement retail area is an impressive double height space of up to 9m – a unique underground space with natural light that would normally only be achieved at ground level.

The redevelopment of the airbase has been designed to echo the past whilst reflecting the future of Nanjing. This important new destination will provide the city with a cosmopolitan landmark, which in parallel responds to the cultural richness of its location.

Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Mixed Use Development, China – Building Information

Name: Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Mixed Use Development

Location: Nanjing, China

Client: China Fortune

Scope by 10 Design: Architecture, Masterplanning, CGI

Type: Retail, Office, Culture & Civic, TOD

Site Area: 81,256sqm

GFA: 243,768sqm

10 Design Team

Design Partners – Chin Yong Ng, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk

Project Leaders – Ren Wen

Architectural Team: Jin Chen, Tem Wu, Almudena Lacruz, Xue Ai, Anthony Kan, Mujung Kang, Stephanie Mendoza, Luke O’Callaghan, Fisher Yu, Leo Liu, Jan Tang, Julius Zhu, Mary Ma, Melody Lam

Landscape Team (Concept Design): Ewa Koter

CGI Team: Peter Alsterholm, Yasser Salomon, Henry Han, Adisak Yavilas, Lulu Guo

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ECADI – Local Architect

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ARUP – Structural Engineer

ALT – Façade Consultant

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About 10 Design

10 Design is an international architecture and masterplanning practice with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Edinburgh, Dubai, Miami, London, Shenzhen, and Singapore. Founded in 2010, the architectural practice has designed and delivered work in 60 cities across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Americas. 10 Design has won over 80 international awards and major design competitions.

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LAW # 23 : CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES

JUDGEMENT

Conserve your forces and energies by keeping them concentrated at their strongest point. You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another—intensity defeats extensity every time. When looking for sources of power to elevate you, find the one key patron, the fat cow who will give you milk for a long time to come.

TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW

In China in the early sixth century B.C., the kingdom of Wu began a war with the neighboring northern provinces of the Middle Kingdom. Wu was a growing power, but it lacked the great history and civilization of the Middle Kingdom, for centuries the center of Chinese culture. By defeating the Middle Kingdom, the king of Wu would instantly raise his status.

The war began with great fanfare and several victories, but it soon bogged down. A victory on one front would leave the Wu armies vulnerable on another. The king’s chief minister and adviser, Wu Tzu-hsiu, warned him that the barbarous state of Yueh, to the south, was beginning to notice the kingdom of Wu’s problems and had designs to invade. The king only laughed at such worries—one more big victory and the great Middle Kingdom would be his.

THE GOOSE AND THE HOUSE

A goose who was plucking grass upon a common thought herself affronted by a horse who fed near her; and, in hissing accents, thus addressed him: “I am certainly a more noble and perfect animal than you, for the whole range and extent of your faculties is confined to one element. I can walk upon the ground as well as you; I have, besides, wings, with which I can raise myself in the air; and when I please, I can sport on ponds and lakes, and refresh myself in the cool waters. I enjoy the different powers of a bird, a fish, and a quadruped.”

The horse, snorting somewhat disdainfully, replied: “It is true you inhabit three elements, but you make no very distinguished figure in any one of them. You fly, indeed; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface of the waters, but you cannot live in them as fishes do; you cannot find your food in that element, nor glide smoothly along the bottom of the waves. And when you walk, or rather waddle, upon the ground, with your broad feet and your long neck stretched out, hissing at everyone who passes by, you bring upon yourself the derision of all beholders. I confess that I am only formed to move upon the ground; but how graceful is my make! How well turned my limbs! How highly finished my whole body! How great my strength! How astonishing my speed! I had much rather be confined to one element, and be admired in that, than be a goose in all!”

FABLES FROM BOCCAACCIO AND CHAUCER. DR. JOHN AIKIN, 1747-1822

In the year 490, Wu Tzu-hsiu sent his son away to safety in the kingdom of Ch’i. In doing so he sent the king a signal that he disapproved of the war, and that he believed the king’s selfish ambition was leading Wu to ruin. The king, sensing betrayal, lashed out at his minister, accusing him of a lack of loyalty and, in a fit of anger, ordered him to kill himself. Wu Tzu-hsiu obeyed his king, but before he plunged the knife into his chest, he cried, “Tear out my eyes, oh King, and fix them on the gate of Wu, so that I may see the triumphant entry of Yueh.”

As Wu Tzu-hsiu had predicted, within a few years a Yueh army passed beneath the gate of Wu. As the barbarians surrounded the palace, the king remembered his minister’s last words—and felt the dead man’s disembodied eyes watching his disgrace. Unable to bear his shame, the king killed himself, “covering his face so that he would not have to meet the reproachful gaze of his minister in the next world.”

Interpretation

The story of Wu is a paradigm of all the empires that have come to ruin by overreaching. Drunk with success and sick with ambition, such empires expand to grotesque proportions and meet a ruin that is total. This is what happened to ancient Athens, which lusted for the faraway island of Sicily and ended up losing its empire. The Romans stretched the boundaries of their empire to encompass vast territories; in doing so they increased their vulnerability, and the chances of invasion from yet another barbarian tribe. Their useless expansion led their empire into oblivion.

For the Chinese, the fate of the kingdom of Wu serves as an elemental lesson on what happens when you dissipate your forces on several fronts, losing sight of distant dangers for the sake of present gain. “If you are not in danger,” says Sun-tzu, “do not fight.” It is almost a physical law: What is bloated beyond its proportions inevitably collapses. The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power. What is dissipated, divided, and distended rots and falls to the ground. The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

OBSERVANCE OF THE LAW

The Rothschild banking family had humble beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, Germany. The city’s harsh laws made it impossible for Jews to mingle outside the ghetto, but the Jews had turned this into a virtue—it made them self-reliant, and zealous to preserve their culture at all costs. Mayer Amschel, the first of the Rothschilds to accumulate wealth by lending money, in the late eighteenth century, well understood the power that comes from this kind of concentration and cohesion.

First, Mayer Amschel allied himself with one family, the powerful princes of Thurn und Taxis. Instead of spreading his services out, he made himself these princes’ primary banker. Second, he entrusted none of his business to outsiders, using only his children and close relatives. The more unified and tight-knit the family, the more powerful it would become. Soon Mayer Amschel’s five sons were running the business. And when Mayer Amschel lay dying, in 1812, he refused to name a principal heir, instead setting up all of his sons to continue the family tradition, so that they would stay united and would resist the dangers of diffusion and of infiltration by outsiders.

Beware of dissipating your powers: strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

JOHANN VON GOETHE, 1749-1832

Once Mayer Amschel’s sons controlled the family business, they decided that the key to wealth on a larger scale was to secure a foothold in the finances of Europe as a whole, rather than being tied to any one country or prince. Of the five brothers, Nathan had already opened up shop in London. In 1813 James moved to Paris. Amschel remained in Frankfurt, Salomon established himself in Vienna, and Karl, the youngest son, went to Naples. With each sphere of influence covered, they could tighten their hold on Europe’s financial markets.

This widespread network, of course, opened the Rothschilds to the very danger of which their father had warned them: diffusion, division, dissension. They avoided this danger, and established themselves as the most powerful force in European finance and politics, by once again resorting to the strategy of the ghetto—excluding outsiders, concentrating their forces. The Rothschilds established the fastest courier system in Europe, allowing them to get news of events before all their competitors. They held a virtual monopoly on information. And their internal communications and correspondence were written in Frankfurt Yiddish, and in a code that only the brothers could decipher. There was no point in stealing this information—no one could understand it. “Even the shrewdest bankers cannot find their way through the Rothschild maze,” admitted a financier who had tried to infiltrate the clan.

In 1824 James Rothschild decided it was time to get married. This presented a problem for the Rothschilds, since it meant incorporating an outsider into the Rothschild clan, an outsider who could betray its secrets. James therefore decided to marry within the family, and chose the daughter of his brother Salomon. The brothers were ecstatic—this was the perfect solution to their marriage problems. James’s choice now became the family policy: Two years later, Nathan married off his daughter to Salomon’s son. In the years to come, the five brothers arranged eighteen matches among their children, sixteen of these being contracted between first cousins.

“We are like the mechanism of a watch: Each part is essential,” said brother Salomon. As in a watch, every part of the business moved in concert with every other, and the inner workings were invisible to the world, which only saw the movement of the hands. While other rich and powerful families suffered irrecoverable downturns during the tumultous first half of the nineteenth century, the tight-knit Rothschilds managed not only to preserve but to expand their unprecedented wealth.

Interpretation

The Rothschilds were born in strange times. They came from a place that had not changed in centuries, but lived in an age that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, and an endless series of upheavals. The Rothchilds kept the past alive, resisted the patterns of dispersion of their era and for this are emblematic of the law of concentration.

No one represents this better than James Rothschild, the son who established himself in Paris. In his lifetime James witnessed the defeat of Napoleon, the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, the bourgeois monarchy of Orleans, the return to a republic, and finally the enthronement of Napoleon III. French styles and fashions changed at a relentless pace during all this turmoil. Without appearing to be a relic of the past, James steered his family as if the ghetto lived on within them. He kept alive his clan’s inner cohesion and strength. Only through such an anchoring in the past was the family able to thrive amidst such chaos. Concentration was the foundation of the Rothschilds’ power, wealth, and stability.

The best strategy is always to be very strony first in general, then at the decisive point.... There is no higher and simpler law of strategy than that of keeping one’s forces concentrated.... In short the first principle is: act with the utmost concentration.

On War, Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831

KEYS TO POWER

The world is plagued by greater and greater division—within countries, political groups, families, even individuals. We are all in a state of total distraction and diffusion, hardly able to keep our minds in one direction before we are pulled in a thousand others. The modern world’s level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives.

The solution is a form of retreat inside ourselves, to the past, to more concentrated forms of thought and action. As Schopenhauer wrote, “Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.” Napoleon knew the value of concentrating your forces at the enemy’s weakest spot— it was the secret of his success on the battlefield. But his willpower and his mind were equally modeled on this notion. Single-mindedness of purpose, total concentration on the goal, and the use of these qualities against people less focused, people in a state of distraction—such an arrow will find its mark every time and overwhelm the enemy.

Casanova attributed his success in life to his ability to concentrate on a single goal and push at it until it yielded. It was his ability to give himself over completely to the women he desired that made him so intensely seductive. For the weeks or months that one of these women lived in his orbit, he thought of no one else. When he was imprisoned in the treacherous “leads” of the doge’s palace in Venice, a prison from which no one had ever escaped, he concentrated his mind on the single goal of escape, day after day. A change of cells, which meant that months of digging had all been for naught, did not discourage him; he persisted and eventually escaped. “I have always believed,” he later wrote, “that when a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.”

Concentrate on a single goal, a single task, and beat it into submission. In the world of power you will constantly need help from other people, usually those more powerful than you. The fool flits from one person to another, believing that he will survive by spreading himself out. It is a corollary of the law of concentration, however, that much energy is saved, and more power is attained, by affixing yourself to a single, appropriate source of power. The scientist Nikola Tesla ruined himself by believing that he somehow maintained his independence by not having to serve a single master. He even turned down J. P. Morgan, who offered him a rich contract. In the end, Tesla’s “independence” meant that he could depend on no single patron, but was always having to toady up to a dozen of them. Later in his life he realized his mistake.

All the great Renaissance painters and writers wrestled with this problem, none more so than the sixteenth-century writer Pietro Aretino. Throughout his life Aretino suffered the indignities of having to please this prince and that. At last, he had had enough, and decided to woo Charles V, promising the emperor the services of his powerful pen. He finally discovered the freedom that came from attachment to a single source of power. Michelangelo found this freedom with Pope Julius II, Galileo with the Medicis. In the end, the single patron appreciates your loyalty and becomes dependent on your services; in the long run the master serves the slave.

Finally, power itself always exists in concentrated forms. In any organization it is inevitable for a small group to hold the strings. And often it is not those with the titles. In the game of power, only the fool flails about without fixing his target. You must find out who controls the operations, who is the real director behind the scenes. As Richelieu discovered at the beginning of his rise to the top of the French political scene during the early seventeenth century, it was not King Louis XIII who decided things, it was the king’s mother. And so he attached himself to her, and catapulted through the ranks of the courtiers, all the way to the top.

It is enough to strike oil once—your wealth and power are assured for a lifetime.

Image: The Arrow. You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss the enemy’s heart. Mind and arrow must become one. Only with such concentration of mental and physical power can your arrow hit the target and pierce the heart.

Authority: Prize intensity more than extensity. Perfection resides in quality, not quantity. Extent alone never rises above mediocrity, and it is the misfortune of men with wide general interests that while they would like to have their finger in every pie, they have one in none. Intensity gives eminence, and rises to the heroic in matters sublime. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

REVERSAL

There are dangers in concentration, and moments when dispersion is the proper tactical move. Fighting the Nationalists for control of China, Mao Tse-tung and the Communists fought a protracted war on several fronts, using sabotage and ambush as their main weapons. Dispersal is often suitable for the weaker side; it is, in fact, a crucial principle of guerrilla warfare. When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target—better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with the elusiveness of your presence.

Tying yourself to a single source of power has one preeminent danger: If that person dies, leaves, or falls from grace, you suffer. This is what happened to Cesare Borgia, who derived his power from his father, Pope Alexander VI. It was the pope who gave Cesare armies to fight with and wars to wage in his name. When he suddenly died (perhaps from poison), Cesare was as good as dead. He had made far too many enemies over the years, and was now without his father’s protection. In cases when you may need protection, then, it is often wise to entwine yourself around several sources of power. Such a move would be especially prudent in periods of great tumult and violent change, or when your enemies are numerous. The more patrons and masters you serve the less risk you run if one of them falls from power. Such dispersion will even allow you to play one off against the other. Even if you concentrate on the single source of power, you still must practice caution, and prepare for the day when your master or patron is no longer there to help you.

Finally, being too single-minded in purpose can make you an intolerable bore, especially in the arts. The Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello was so obsessed with perspective that his paintings look lifeless and contrived. Whereas Leonardo da Vinci interested himself in everything—architecture, painting, warfare, sculpture, mechanics. Diffusion was the source of his power. But such genius is rare, and the rest of us are better off erring on the side of intensity.

[johnnymundano]

The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

Directed by Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini and Richard Stanley

Written by Scarlett Amaris, Douglas Buck, John Esposito, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Emiliano Ranzani and Richard Stanley

Music by Simon Boswell, Susan DiBona and Marquis Howell of Hobo Jazz

Country: United States

Language: English

Running Time: 114 minutes

CAST

Udo Kier as Peg Poett

Virginia Newcomb as Enola Penny

Kaniehtiio Horn as The Writer (segment 'Vision Stains')

Victoria Maurette as Karina (segment 'The Mother Of Toads')

Shane Woodward as Martin (segment 'The Mother Of Toads')

André Hennicke as Axel (segment 'I Love You')

Suzan Anbeh as Mo (segment 'I Love You')

James Gill as Donnie (segment 'Wet Dreams')

Tom Savini as Dr. Maurey (segment 'Wet Dreams')

Debbie Rochon as Carla (segment 'Wet Dreams')

Lena Kleine as The Mother (segment 'The Accident')

Mélodie Simard as The Daughter (segment 'The Accident')

Lindsay Goranson as Estelle (segment 'Sweets')

Guilford Adams as Greg (segment 'Sweets')

Framing Segments

Directed by Jeremy Kasten

Written by Zach Chassler

Cast:

Udo Kier as Peg Poett

Virginia Newcomb as Enola Penny

The Theatre Bizarre is a series of six shorts largely in hock to the grand-guignol tradition of naturalistic horror (i.e. proper ketchup, matey). I know this not because of any keen interest in French theatre but because the framing sequence is called ‘Theatre Guignol’, and it is into this terribly mysterious theatre that Enola Penny (Virginia Newcomb) dreamily wanders one decisive night. Each of the following sections is introduced by the indefatigable Udo Kier playing a big puppet (literally “grand guignol”) who becomes less puppet-like as the movie wears on and (cue wobbly theremin) Enola become less human. Which might be an artistic statement about desensitisation, but is definitely an excuse to watch Udo Kier popping robot-moves, which I think we can all agree is a good thing.

The Mother of Toads

Directed by Richard Stanley

Written by Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris and Emiliano Ranzani

Cast:

Catriona MacColl as Mere Antoinette

Shane Woodward as Martin

Victoria Maurette as Karina

Lisa Belle as The Naked Witch (as Lisa Crawford)

Amelie Salomon as The Monster

The Mother of Toads is apparently based on a Clark Ashton Smith story of the same name which I haven’t read, with a bit of HP Lovecraft chucked in. It features a pair of unpleasant young Americans holidaying in France, and I’m not dissing Americans there, this pair really are unlikable; Karina moans that everything is in French in France (quelle surprise!), while Martin is so anaesthetised by his own acumen he can barely push his smug words past the thicket of his trendy beard. They come unstuck when bargain hunting in a French market where a handsome older lady with a mesmerising accent saucily offers Martin a peek at her Necronomicon. Bundling Karina off to a spa Martin spends the day with the accommodating and increasingly ardent crone, drinking suspicious brews and fingering her dusty leaves. Things end badly. This was an agreeably silly creature feature with plenty of the old ugh! quotient, an endearing lack of logic and a pervading sense of encroaching doom. The humour leavening proceedings is clearly no accident; there’s an excellent joke when Martin attempts to extricate himself from a post-coital bed without waking his sleeping and somewhat slimy partner. Probably rings a few bells in the audience that bit. It’s just enjoyably daft, tongue-in-cheek stuff and a welcome reminder that Richard (Hardware (1990), Dust Devil (1992)) Stanley is still rocking his smart-trash groove.

I Love You

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo

Written by Buddy Giovinazzo

Cast:

André Hennicke as Axel

Suzan Anbeh  as Mo

I Love You is a pretty tough watch and unusually it’s not because of the climactic gore. Axel wakes up in his bathroom disorientated and bloody; turns out he’s an insecure, self-destructive mess who has driven his lady Mo away. Mo returns to sever all ties and leave for good. What follows is an emotionally harrowing battle between two damaged people where words are weapons and the hurt is internal. As blood spattered as the despairing denouement may be the real horror is the extended verbal flensing Mo delivers to Martin, in which she destroys not only his present but also his past. And is she telling the truth? Or is it a desperate attempt to extricate herself from his unquenchable neediness? Like a fox gnawing its paw off to escape the trap? Sometimes uncertainty can be another level of horror. Buddy Giovinazzo delivers a classily acted, tautly suspenseful two-hander which leaves an emotional stain which persists for days.

Wet Dreams

Directed by Tom Savini

Written by John Esposito

Cast:

Debbie Rochon as Carla

Tom Savini as Dr. Maurey

James Gill as Donnie

Jodii Christianson as Maxine

Wet Dreams is directed by Tom Savini, who is legendary in horror for his SFX work and slightly less legendary for his acting, so there’s no excuse for doing an Elvis double take at the fact he’s given himself a role and that his segment is luridly gory. He’s no slouch at directing either, which is nice. The esteemed Mr. Savini plays a psychiatrist, the kind who drinks on the job and talks about raping his mum (i.e. a movie psychiatrist), treating Donnie, a preening jackass who likes smacking his wife, Carla, about and cheating on her. See, Donnie’s having recurring nightmares wherein his sexy dream fun times climax with him being tortured and castrated by his long-suffering wife, in a series of gruesomely humorous and visually explicit ways. Gentlemen viewers may never again think of a fry-up without skittishly crossing their legs. Serves Donnie right you might think, but by the end of the dream-within-a-dream misdirection and its gruesomely pre-code EC Comics twist finale you might think again. Ugh. I mean….ugh. I...Jesus. What could have just been a gratuitous mess of general dismemberment is deftly directed by the savant Savini, resulting in an amoral immorality tale. And need it be said that his skills in the SFX dept remain second to none? No, it need not. So pretend I didn’t say it.

The Accident

Directed by Douglas Buck

Written by Douglas Buck

Cast:

Lena Kleine as Mother

Mélodie Simard as Daughter

Jean-Paul Rivière as Old Biker

Bruno Décary as Young Biker

The Accident provides a brief respite from the onslaught of sensationalistic gore, a pit stop if you will. Even if you won’t, it definitely centres around a cute child asking her blasé mother questions about mortality, said questions raised in the tiny, inquiring mind after the witnessing of an accident earlier in the day involving a deer and a cocky motorcyclist. It’s a very restrained piece, very accomplished, and softer in tone than anything before or after it. There’s a touch of grue when the deer is finished off, but mostly the horror here is the complete horseshit parents come out with to calm their offspring with regards to the ultimately absurd nature of life and death, a subject which everyone spends a lot of time avoiding thinking about on a day to day basis and about which they would rather not be cross-examined about by a child at bedtime. As upsetting as the sight of the deer’s tongue lolling out of its bug eyed head was (very), it wasn’t as upsetting as realising all the lies you have to fill your kid with just so they can function in what we’ve all decided to call reality. Compared to all that, lying about Santa Claus is a minor misdemeanour.

Vision Stains

Directed by Karim Hussain

Written by Karim Hussain

Cast:

Kaniehtiio Horn as The Writer

Cynthia Wu-Maheux as Junkie Girl

Imogen Haworth as Pregnant Woman

Rachelle Glait  as Older Homeless Woman

Alex Ivanovici  as Junkie Man

I have a thing about eye trauma. Not a sexual thing, a “flinch and wave your hands about like you’re warding off invisible birds” thing. It’s a running joke in the Mundano family unit; if there’s some serious eye trauma afoot in the viewing choice, all eyes fall on the father figure as he  tenses for impact. Those similarly (dis)inclined should be warned that there is a seriously impressive amount of eye trauma in Vision Stains. It’s built in as the whole episode rests on the Horror Movie Science concept of people’s past lives flashing before their eyes at the point of death. So if you extract their eye juice as they die and inject it into your own eye you will get to live the edited highlights of another life. Obviously. That sounds about as appealing as it sounds scientifically feasible, but our serial killer heroine is well into it. She basically harvests the lives of the homeless to make up for her personal shortfall in dreams. Judging by the massive pile of notebooks in which she has written the details of all the lives she has nicked, its worked out quite well for her. But people, even dreamless serial killers who prey on the homeless,  are never satisfied, so she decides to take the next step and find out what happens before people have a life to flash in front of their eyes. The results are mixed. Ultimately you can’t help thinking it would have been a lot quicker and far easier on the homeless population if she’d just read Tbomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human race. It’s all very silly but the po-faced approach suggests it is straining for some grandiose meaning; it fails. But it does feature a fantastic amount of eye trauma. Each to their own.

Sweets

Directed by David Gregory

Written by David Gregory

Cast:

Lindsay Goranson as Estelle

Guilford Adams as Greg

Lynn Lowry as Mikela Da Vinci

Jessica Remmers as Antonia

With Sweets, things close on a hilariously disgusting note. A deadpan Estelle and a semi-hysterical Greg talk about their dying relationship in the most banal clichés imaginable as they sit in what was once an apartment, but is now a kind of edible sty plastered with smushed up confectionery.  As trite nonsense falls from her lips Estelle slowly sucks a melting ice cream into her deadpan face. Greg flailing to rescue the dead relationship counters with the expected whiny responses, while spasmodically picking filthy sweets off the floor and ingesting them with all the automotive panache of the true addict. Their stale interactions are punctuated by a series of flashbacks  which parody cinema’s rote scenes of romance, with the pair swilling sweet shit like swilling sweet shit is going out of fashion. Luckily for Greg, Estelle hasn’t quite finished with him, unluckily for Greg he’s about to find out what that means. Sweets is pretty funny in its lip-smacking attack on love and addiction (and love as addiction), and is delightfully cartoonish in style; Estelle is often colour coordinated from hair to shoes with whatever sickly delicacy she is proffering. Of course all the comedy and caricature serve only to distract you while Sweets prepares a delightful gut punch of horror, before the management politely ask you to leave.

 TL;DR: The Theatre Bizarre: it’s worth a watch, but not if you’re squeamish.

[nicovandenberg]

MR MARTYR from Salomon Ligthelm on Vimeo.

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” - Einstien

CREW Producer: Jean Villiers Line Producer: Francois Jaunet Unit Location Manager: Benoit Demoucron Assistant Unit Manager: Remi Brachet Assistant Unit Manager: Anthony Cazet Assistant Unit Manager: Stanislas Delardmelle Director: Salomon Ligthelm 1st AD: Christophe Szegedi 2nd AD: Daniel Cox DP: Zack Spiger 1st AC: Melodie Preel 2nd AC: Josephine Drouin Gaffer: Baptiste Brousse Gaffer Assistant: Emile Freeman Art Director: Valerie Valero Dresser: Corentin Harle Dresser Assistant: Simon Pinelli Make Up: Micka Arasco Boom Operator: Toby Lewis Thomas Editor: Nate Gross at Exile Edit

CAST Sebastian: Yannick Mabille James: James Dean Fischer The Kid: Arthur Lemonier Girlfriend: Gaia Orgaes Gun Dealer: Giovanni Zam Gang Member 1: STYLECEE Gang Member 2: Ascrime Gang Member 3: Luca Sellier Gang Member 4: Bollecker David Gang Member 5: Bryan Mudiaki Gang Member 6: Badd Malo The Kid's girlfriend: Louise Le Pape Female bookie: Eva Muñoz Sebastian's mistress: Estelle Clément The Gun dealer's bodyguard: Oob Sad Bastard

SPECIAL THANKS Flat: Veronique Boisel Boxing Room: Gymnase de la Plaine - Paris 15 Squat: Association Jarry've Revient Photos: Eytan jan/Camille Wu/Niels 'Morph' Thon Jarry: Rachel Mitchell/Ginot Marka/ Adonis Sawadogo Decor: Valerie Fontaine Appart: Gael Seguillon

SUPPLIERS: Camera: Vantage Light: TSF - Cine Lumiere Vehicles: Logifilm Grip: Cinestyl Lab - Hiventy - Group Digimage Weapon: Maratier Film: Kodak

Inspired by the music of Young Fathers ('Bones' used in Teaser + 'Mr Martyr' used in Film) Shot on Super 16mm

[rickygalvez]

YOUNG FATHERS 'Mr Martyr' from Salomon Ligthelm on Vimeo.

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” - Einsten

CREW Producer: Jean Villiers Line Producer: Francois Jaunet Unit Location Manager: Benoit Demoucron Assistant Unit Manager: Remi Brachet Assistant Unit Manager: Anthony Cazet Assistant Unit Manager: Stanislas Delardmelle Director: Salomon Ligthelm 1st AD: Christophe Szegedi 2nd AD: Daniel Cox DP: Zack Spiger 1st AC: Melodie Preel 2nd AC: Josephine Drouin Gaffer: Baptiste Brousse Gaffer Assistant: Emile Freeman Art Director: Valerie Valero Dresser: Corentin Harle Dresser Assistant: Simon Pinelli Make Up: Micka Arasco Boom Operator: Toby Lewis Thomas Editor: Nate Gross at Exile Edit CAST Sebastian: Yannick Mabille James: James Dean Fischer The Kid: Arthur Lemonier Girlfriend: Gaia Orgaes Gun Dealer: Giovanni Zam Gang Member 1: STYLECEE Gang Member 2: Ascrime Gang Member 3: Luca Sellier Gang Member 4: Bollecker David Gang Member 5: Bryan Mudiaki Gang Member 6: Badd Malo The Kid's girlfriend: Louise Le Pape Female bookie: Eva Muñoz Sebastian's mistress: Estelle Clément The Gun dealer's bodyguard: Oob Sad Bastard

SPECIAL THANKS Flat: Veronique Boisel Boxing Room: Gymnase de la Plaine - Paris 15 Squat: Association Jarry've Revient Photos: Eytan jan/Camille Wu/Niels 'Morph' Thon Jarry: Rachel Mitchell/Ginot Marka/ Adonis Sawadogo Decor: Valerie Fontaine Appart: Gael Seguillon

SUPPLIERS: Camera: Vantage Light: TSF - Cine Lumiere Vehicles: Logifilm Grip: Cinestyl Lab - Hiventy - Group Digimage Weapon: Maratier Film: Kodak

Inspired by the music of Young Fathers ('Bones' used in Teaser + 'Mr Martyr' used in Film) Shot on Super 16mm

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Сет #73 пользователя torgashikowa с Yves Salomon

Jason Wu pleated dress, 81.565 RUB / Yves Salomon coat, 170.520 RUB / Christian Louboutin suede pumps / Hand bag, 89.450 RUB / Philippe Ferrandis chain necklace, 80.475 RUB / Fossil jewelry, 2.870 RUB / STELLA McCARTNEY perfume fragrance, 4.295 RUB

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“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” - Einsten CREW Producer: Jean Villiers Line Producer: Francois Jaunet Unit Location Manager: Benoit Demoucron Assistant Unit Manager: Remi Brachet Assistant Unit Manager: Anthony Cazet Assistant Unit Manager: Stanislas Delardmelle Director: Salomon Ligthelm 1st AD: Christophe Szegedi 2nd AD: Daniel Cox DP: Zack Spiger 1st AC: Melodie Preel 2nd AC: Josephine Drouin Gaffer: Baptiste Brousse Gaffer Assistant: Emile Freeman Art Director: Valerie Valero Dresser: Corentin Harle Dresser Assistant: Simon Pinelli Make Up: Micka Arasco Boom Operator: Toby Lewis Thomas Editor: Nate Gross at Exile Edit CAST Sebastian: Yannick Mabille James: James Dean Fischer The Kid: Arthur Lemonier Girlfriend: Gaia Orgaes Gun Dealer: Giovanni Zam Gang Member 1: STYLECEE Gang Member 2: Ascrime Gang Member 3: Luca Sellier Gang Member 4: Bollecker David Gang Member 5: Bryan Mudiaki Gang Member 6: Badd Malo The Kid's girlfriend: Louise Le Pape Female bookie: Eva Muñoz Sebastian's mistress: Estelle Clément The Gun dealer's bodyguard: Oob Sad Bastard SPECIAL THANKS Flat: Veronique Boisel Boxing Room: Gymnase de la Plaine - Paris 15 Squat: Association Jarry've Revient Photos: Eytan jan/Camille Wu/Niels 'Morph' Thon Jarry: Rachel Mitchell/Ginot Marka/ Adonis Sawadogo Decor: Valerie Fontaine Appart: Gael Seguillon SUPPLIERS: Camera: Vantage Light: TSF - Cine Lumiere Vehicles: Logifilm Grip: Cinestyl Lab - Hiventy - Group Digimage Weapon: Maratier Film: Kodak Inspired by the music of Young Fathers ('Bones' used in Teaser + 'Mr Martyr' used in Film) Shot on Super 16mm