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Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 03:29PM
I'm in the minority when it comes to the first "Avengers" movie. Though functional, it lacked soul. While others argued that the previous individual heroes' movies did the heavy lifting of getting them to a certain point, thus allowing it to be a mindless action extravaganza, I saw an empty film, one where the characters ended up exactly where they began. The story was inconsequential, the character progression nonexistent and the tone all over the place. With so many characters and stories to converge into one, such a misfire was not entirely unexpected. But if "The Avengers" was a akin to a juggler calmly juggling three balls—competent, but unimpressive—"The Avengers: Age of Ultron" is like a pro juggling flaming swords while hopping on one foot. In nearly every single way, "Age of Ultron" eclipses its predecessor.
In this installment, the Avengers have intercepted Hydra and taken back a scepter that was once wielded by Loki. In the scepter is a powerful gem that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) believes could change the world for the better. With its power, he believes he can create a global defense program called Ultron (James Spader), which will work to keep outside invaders at bay. However, that program eventually gets a mind of its own and decides that the only way to help the world is to destroy it. But first he must take out the Avengers with the help of Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).
There was an early moment in "The Avengers" when Captain America (Chris Evans) found himself struggling with the fact that he was frozen solid for 70+ years and everyone he knew and loved, everyone he fought alongside with in the war, was now dead. He was unfamiliar with the modern world and was trying to cope with a situation he didn't fully understand. The movie then transitioned to Stark in his playboy pad cracking quips. It was an uncomfortable transition, just the first of many that pervaded the entire movie. "Age of Ultron," on the other hand, does a much better job of mixing drama with comedy, even as the characters joke it up in the midst of a potential apocalyptic event. Whereas only the comedy worked in the last one, the drama here is just as potent as it earns its one big dramatic moment near the end of the film instead of forcing it in like the mishandled Agent Coulson "death" in the original.
Perhaps more importantly, "Age of Ultron" delves into each of these characters more so than (arguably depending on which film we're talking about), the heroes' individual stories themselves. You see, Scarlet Witch has the ability to manipulate a person's psyche, which both serves as an interesting ability in and of itself and as a way to explore the characters' motivations and fears. The darkest, and perhaps even most thoughtful, moments of the film come during these moments as we see a bit of what fuels the Avengers, particularly Tony Stark as they expand further on the hesitance and anxiety that was explored so wonderfully in the underappreciated "Iron Man 3." While the film could have and should have explored these angles more, the fact that they're there at all is nothing short of astounding when you factor in the sheer number of characters writer/director Joss Whedon had to juggle. Each one, even the seemingly less significant characters, receives just enough screen time to help explain who they are and why they're doing what they're doing. These explorations may not be as complex as these characters deserve, but they're rich with possibilities and if future individual installments continue with the seeds that are planted here, we're in for a more mature, darker and thematically interesting Marvel universe than we have yet seen.
Yet there are nevertheless some flaws in "Age of Ultron." Almost all are minor, like Olsen's inability to keep a consistent accent, though one exception is the half-baked burgeoning romance between Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). While the seeds are planted early (and potentially for a future standalone Hulk movie), it's never developed to a point of relevance. At one point, another character asks about their romance, but one can't help but wonder how that person even knows, as the flirtatious chemistry isn't there and she had just met the group for the first time.
But you won't leave the theater thinking of those things. You'll leave thinking of the high-flying action, hilarious humor and terrific new villain. Spader is perfectly cast as Ultron, serving up his usual drawn out line readings as he brings a cold, calculated and ultimately frightening layer to what could have otherwise been an emotionless antagonist. As he mocks the human race for their blind faith and frivolous existences, a level of menace that no prior Marvel movie had yet reached is achieved. It's both a testament to Spader's talent and Whedon's writing.
There's a lot to love about "The Avengers: Age of Ultron." Many have said the story is too convoluted for its own good, but my only thought is that they must be comparing it to the original. Of course the story is too convoluted in comparison because even the simplest stories are more convoluted than no story at all. And that is the film's greatest strength. Rather than rely on the previous films to carry its story and characters like the last film, "Age of Ultron" crafts its own and brings the characters all to interesting points that show great promise for future Marvel films. I'll admit to feeling superhero fatigue over the last couple years, but "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" has renewed my enthusiasm and if it accurately represents the foundation for future installments, I simply can't wait to see what comes next.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron receives 4/5
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tagged Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, age of ultron, avengers, chris hemsworth, elizabeth olsen, james spader, joss whedon, movie review
Friday, November 8, 2013 at 12:00AM
If you ask me, out of all the Marvel movies leading up to and extending past last year's summer megahit "The Avengers," 2011's "Thor" is by far the weakest. While certainly a summer spectacle worthy of the Marvel name, the main character was, quite simply, kind of dull. Thor simply didn't have the personality of someone like Iron Man or the altruistic morals of Captain America or even the unpredictable nature of The Hulk. When compared to some of our greatest superheroes like Batman or Spiderman, Thor didn't stack up. While those characters had demons to wrestle, events from their lives that dramatically changed them forever, Thor was a "just because" fighter. His motivation never really extended past the knowledge that it was simply what he was supposed to do. Such thinness is boring and it made "Thor" the only Marvel movie in this "Avengers" canon that wasn't recommendable. Its sequel, "Thor: The Dark World" fares slightly better than its predecessor, but many of the same problems pervade it. It's safe to say that if you enjoyed "Thor," you'll enjoy this, but Thor nevertheless remains the most uninteresting character in Marvel's current movie bag.
Thousands of years ago, Bor, the father or Odin (Anthony Hopkins), defeated a monstrous race of beings known as the Dark Elves. Led by Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), their goal was to reverse the state of the nine realms to a period before creation using a relic known as the Aether. Despite their defeat, Malekith escaped, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike once again. The relic was then buried deep, in a place where hopefully nobody would ever find it. In present day, the alignment of the nine realms, known as the Convergence, is upon us. This alignment is causing vortexes to appear in the realms, one of which astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) stumbles upon. This leads her to the Aether, which manifests itself inside of her. Now Malekith is out to get it, but Thor, along with his untrustworthy brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), is going to attempt to stop him and save Jane.
One change in Thor's character that is immediately recognizable in this film is that his childish wanting-to-fight attitude from the previous movie has been replaced with a more mature willing-to-fight attitude. Rather than taking pleasure in it, he sees battle as his duty, to protect the nine realms. A late scene speech confirms this. Furthermore, due to a couple of scenes that shall not spoiled, he's facing some true emotional pain. Thus, there is more character development here than there ever was before. This is a welcome inclusion and helps make him more likable, more like someone we would want to cheer for rather than someone we're supposed to. This by no means makes Thor someone worth watching, but it's a step in the right direction and if the excellent foreboding final shot is any indication, there are some truly exciting things on the horizon for the muscular god.
But hope for future greatness is not relevant to this current product. There is still a lot of bombastic action, as is common in all superhero movies, but little reason to care, mainly due to a somewhat confusing central story, some grating comic relief side characters and a bland enemy. Kat Dennings, in particular, tries far too hard here, cracking jokes at every turn to the point of obnoxiousness, while the enemies are faceless drones with masks akin to the emotionless one Michael Myers wears in the "Halloween" films. Despite an interesting dual hero/villain role for Loki (that is, unfortunately, far too short to have much impact), there's little to keep one's interest here.
Where "Thor: The Dark World" really finds its inspiration is in its action heavy finale. It's so exciting, you'll find yourself caring about what's happening, even if you don't really care about why. Other superhero movies, including this year's "Iron Man 3" and "Man of Steel," went far too over-the-top with their endings. The action came so fast and heavy that it was difficult to not become numb to it. Due to the film's set-up, the characters see themselves flying through multiple vortexes, constantly transporting from place to place and narrowly escaping disaster. This allows for a variety other similar films can't afford and it keeps you on your toes because what happens next is likely to be different and unexpected.
"Thor: The Dark World" isn't without other merits either. It has some mildly amusing humor and one absolutely terrific off-kilter cameo from another popular Marvel character, but the film as a whole is decidedly lackluster, and that's even if you don't take into account how the 3D glasses further dim an already visually dark movie. In the end, it really is a shame all of the film's inspiration comes from its action rather than its story because the latter trumps the former every time. "Thor: The Dark World" is kind of like a Stairmaster work out machine. You're technically taking steps up, but you're not really going anywhere.
Thor: The Dark World receives 2.5/5
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tagged Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, captain america, chris hemsworth, christopher eccleston, dark world, marvel, movie review, thor, thor 2, tom hiddleston
Ron Howard is a director that most think rather highly of, but the truth of the matter is that he's somewhat inconsistent. Sure, we all love "Apollo 13" and "Frost/Nixon," but there's also his lousy adaptations of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons." He's even dabbled in comedy a bit over his many years, most recently with 2011's "The Dilemma." Anyone remember that train wreck? Probably not, because our perceptions of his skills as a director are skewed towards his greater works. His latest, "Rush," is closer to the latter films than the former, unfortunately, but that doesn't automatically make it bad. It's a good movie and its problems stem more from a slightly unfocused script and poor characterizations than any specific directorial decision, but as far as dramatic, based-on-true-stories go, it's not particularly memorable.
The movie takes place in the 70s and stars Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt, a reckless Formula One racecar driver with dreams of becoming world champion. He's one of the absolute best in the sport, matched only by Niki Lauda, played by Daniel Bruhl. The movie follows their rivalry and creates an interesting dynamic between the two. Despite their dislike for each other, there's a mutual respect. Without the other, they would be unstoppable, which isn't as interesting to them. It's the competition, the thrill of victory after a hard fought battle, that compels them to do what they do. Because the two hardly spend any time together, their complicated relationship must have been tough to convey, but "Rush" rises to this challenge. Aside from the intellectually insulting closing narration that unnecessarily spells out their feelings, the complexity of their bond is handled with aplomb.
Nevertheless, the film loses its focus all too quickly. Just as we're getting to know one of these men, a transition is made to the other, or even worse, the focus leaves them altogether. Too much of the early moments in the movie focus on the economics of racing—like the battle to find a sponsor—rather than the emotional struggle and pressure they must have felt in those early days. Too often, important moments in the lives of these men are glossed over. These moments could have helped us gain perspective on who they were and what drove them to race so vigorously, but the movie doesn't seem interested in that. A good example comes in the form of Hunt's short-lived wife, Suzy Miller, played by Olivia Wilde. When she randomly and awkwardly appears, the film immediately cuts to their marriage, only for the next scene to play out their break-up. She then disappears for nearly the entirety of the rest of the movie, reappearing only for a brief lunch scene with Hunt. It's implied that Hunt's love of racing interfered with his love for Suzy, but the entire arc is rushed through so quickly, it hardly makes an impact.
I suppose such a decision was a conscious one. The film is trying to condense many years worth of time into a couple hours—seen most noticeably when it starts bypassing important races and instead lets us know what happened through onscreen text, not exactly the most exciting tactic one can use in a movie about racing—so Suzy's lack of prominence isn't surprising. If this speedy approach does one thing well, it filters out some of the narrative pollution and allows the natural tension of such a dangerous sport to take center stage. These drivers live on the edge, well aware that every time they hop on that track, it could be their last. As Hunt puts it early on, "The closer to death you are, the more alive you feel. It's a wonderful way to live, as if each day is your last." This theme is an interesting one that will allow those who have never really done anything daring to live vicariously through the characters. Even if you don't care at all about Formula One racing, it will be hard to deny that you weren't on the edge of your seat during the nail-biting finale.
Yet the fact remains that the film, from a storytelling and scriptural point of view, is lacking. Frankly, if you're looking for a great movie with a similar story, you're better off with 2010's wonderful "Senna." Although a documentary, its drama is more potent, its action is more intense and the devastating ending touches on feelings "Rush" doesn't come close to. With some great performances and exciting sequences accompanied by a sometimes frustrating lack of focus, "Rush" relegates itself to a minor diversion and nothing more.
Rush receives 3/5
tagged Olivia Wilde, Ron Howard, The Dilemma, apollo 13, chris hemsworth, da vinci code, daniel bruhl, formula one, frost/nixon, movie review, rush, senna
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 12:00AM
It may only be a minor consolation, but it's worth noting that Snow White and the Huntsman has very little to do with the Twilight series beyond its lead star. Pre-release comparisons purporting their similarities are nothing more than cynical assumptions. Those people who scoffed at its existence will most likely find themselves pleasantly surprised after viewing. Coming hot on the heels of March's Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman once again tells the oft told story of Snow White as she conquers the evil witch and claims her rightful place as queen, but the story is tonally more aligned with the original Brothers Grimm story than the cutesy versions we show our children. The movie is dark, violent, sinister and frightening. Other movies glossed over the evil underpinnings of the story, including the eventual murder of the title character, but not this one. This is a mature telling that is worthy of admiration.
Snow White (Kristen Stewart) used to be a happy girl. Her father and mother, the countryside's king and queen, loved her and each other dearly. Unfortunately, her mother quickly fell ill and passed away. Her father was overcome with grief until he met a beautiful woman named Ravenna (Charlize Theron), who he immediately married. However, right as they were about to consummate their marriage, Ravenna murdered him and began a takeover of his city, locking Snow White in a tower. Years later, right as Ravenna is about to take Snow White's life, she escapes. Ravenna, determined to get her back, employs a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to track her down, but he soon learns of Ravenna's wicked ways and instead helps Snow White in her quest to bring justice to her land.
Snow White and the Huntsman does for the classic story what Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did for that popular series—it progresses it with true passion, meaning and thematic growth. It's not just an attempt to cash in on the Snow White name or the star power of Kristen Stewart. It is instead a visionary approach to the story, full of beautiful imagery and wondrous imagination. Throughout the movie, the characters travel to different places, all with their own distinct feelings and visual styles. Some are bright and lovely like an animated movie come to life, a place you'd love to spend time in. Others are morbid and unsettling, like the Dark Forest Snow White escapes to, which gains its strength through its visitors' weaknesses. It's the place nightmares are made of. Other landscapes include beautiful snow covered gardens, war torn battlefields and more.
If nothing else, Show White and the Huntsman is visually arresting, a surprisingly gorgeous bit of eye candy coming from first time director, Rupert Sanders. He puts a deft touch to the tiniest of details, almost as if he had been doing this for many years, and he makes his vision come to grandiose life. Still, being a first time director poses many challenges and he is unable to overcome all of them. Action clichés abound, including an excessive use of slow motion, and though he pulls some decent performances from Hemsworth and Stewart (the former who finally gets to play someone other than the bland and emotionless Thor and the latter who gets to do something other than bite her lip), he fails to contain Charlize Theron. She goes all out in the movie, chewing the scenery like it's bubble gum. She is so over-the-top, her supposed menace turns to amusement. She's not bad per se, but she doesn't fit in what is otherwise a tonally balanced movie.
The film occasionally suffers from cinematic ADD, like when a gruesome troll shows up for a fight and then walks away before anything actually happens, but its biggest detractor is its fluctuation in believability. Kristen Stewart, though more impressive in this role than many others, is not a convincing warrior, making her late movie transformation tough to swallow. Even more difficult to believe is her ability to outrun, outmaneuver and outwit a team of guards (thanks partially to a randomly placed horse resting on a nearby beach) once she escapes from the confined tower she's been locked in for so many years. Yet the movie still pulls you in, your suspension of disbelief never wavering for too long. Snow White and the Huntsman doesn't eclipse every adaptation of the story that has come before it, but among the more adult oriented versions, including 1997's acclaimed Snow White: A Tale of Terror starring Sigourney Weaver as the witch, it stands alone.
Snow White and the Huntsman receives 4/5
tagged Fantasy, Kristen Stewart, charlize theron, chris hemsworth, movie review, rupert sanders, snow white and the huntsman
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 01:19PM
It's been building to this for years now, ever since Tony Stark first suited up to be Iron Man. Since then, we've had a sequel to that film, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America, each working as a set up to this moment, when all of them are brought together to form The Avengers. Expectations are high and if early reviews are to be believed, they'll be met, but I have a sneaking suspicion that in retrospect, opinions of it won't be nearly as good. The Avengers is no different than any other superhero movie, except there are six of them, which turns out to be too much for one film. Eye candy notwithstanding, The Avengers is tonally inconsistent and character growth is all but missing, making it one of the most disappointing and shallow experiences of the year.
The main villain of the film is Thor's Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Using an artifact called the Tesseract, he has opened a portal through space and has arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base where Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and his team of scientists are working. After causing a bit of destruction and forcing agent Clint Barton, better known as Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), to take his side, he sets off to start a war. Fearful of what could come, Fury forms a team of Earth's greatest heroes to fend Loki off, which includes Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner/the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Loki's brother, Thor (Chris Hemsworth).
The Avengers has a number of problems, but its biggest is that too much of the film's enjoyment is supposed to come from the novelty of seeing all these heroes fight side by side against evil and even that proves to be too difficult a task to pull off. Although the finale is unquestionably fun to watch (particularly thanks to the Hulk), the film misses a clear opportunity to make this team a single unit. Aside from one instance where Iron Man bounces a projectile of Captain America's shield, the powers of the heroes are never incorporated together. Instead, Iron Man is flying through the sky, the Hulk is jumping here and there off buildings, Thor is fighting his brother and Captain America is on the ground doing his own thing. They're isolated so much it begins to feel more like little snippets of each hero's movies have been cut together and less like the cohesive team experience we were promised.
When they are all together, they're not fighting (unless it's with each other), but these characters have been established differently in their own films and they don't particularly mesh well. Iron Man, for instance, is the funny one, the one who always has a quip ready to spout out when confronted by someone else. In his own films, where the tone could be established as a singular trait, that's totally fine, but when opposite the seriousness of Thor or Captain America, he doesn't work, and vice versa. In one particular instance, Captain America is struggling with the idea that the he was frozen solid for 70+ years and everyone he knew, everyone he fought alongside with in the war, is now dead. He's unfamiliar with the modern world and is finding his predicament difficult to handle. The movie then directly transitions to Stark in his playboy pad bouncing jokes off left and right. There's an uncomfortable flow in The Avengers—it doesn't know whether it wants to be a serious, tense action film or a silly, self aware comic book movie—and it pervades the entire thing.
There's also a distinct lack of character progression in The Avengers. While it could be argued that the other films addressed that issue by building them up to this point, it doesn't excuse the thin writing here, which is surprising given how gifted writer/director Joss Whedon is with writing characters. They all end up pretty much where they were before (despite some poorly implemented middle ground where the characters struggle over the death of a character with whom they hardly had any interaction), which is precisely the problem. The story moves forward, so the characters must as well, but they don't. Any minor progression is forced in arbitrarily and usually through quick lines of dialogue. Thor says at one point he used to court war, but now shuns it, as if that's all you need for character growth.
Now, is The Avengers still worth seeing? Sure it is, but only for the most basic, visceral reasons. It'll get your adrenaline pumping, but emotionally and narratively, there isn't much going on. Never mind the useless, ugly and sometimes imperceptible 3D that dims the picture; when it gets to that final stretch of film, you'll be won over, just as I was. Without it, the movie fails. That, of course, makes it a clear case of style over substance, which is what the public is calling for, so I guess in that regard it succeeds, but consider this. Both stylistically and narratively, The Avengers is most comparable to the recent Transformers films in that they both neglect the story and characters, hoping the slam bang finish will make the audience overlook its obvious deficiencies. That's not a good thing. Once the excitement dies down and moviegoers have had repeat viewings, the veil will be lifted. The Avengers is nothing special.
The Avengers receives 2.5/5
tagged Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, captain america, chris hemsworth, incredible hulk, iron man, joss whedon, samuel l. jackson, the avengers, thor
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package com.dasa.communication.controller;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import com.dasa.communication.dao.NoticeDAO;
import com.dasa.communication.vo.NoticeVo;
import com.vertexid.utill.AttachManager;
import com.vertexid.utill.CommonUtil;
import com.vertexid.utill.Constant;
import com.vertexid.utill.Encoder;
import com.vertexid.utill.JSONView;
import com.vertexid.utill.Navi;
import com.vertexid.utill.StringCheck;
import com.vertexid.vo.AttachVo;
import com.vertexid.vo.KeyValueVo;
import com.vertexid.vo.MobileNaviVo;
import com.vertexid.vo.NaviVo;
import com.vertexid.vo.OrganizationVo;

import net.sf.json.JSONArray;
import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
import net.sf.json.JSONSerializer;

@Controller
public class NoticeController {

	@Autowired
	private HttpSession session;
	@Autowired
	private NoticeDAO dao;
	@Autowired
	private AttachManager am;

	private ModelAndView mv;
	private JSONObject jo;
	private JSONObject jvo;
	private JSONArray ja;
	private JSONObject jsonObject;
	private JSONArray jsonArray;
	private JSONObject response;

	private NoticeVo noticeVo;
	private List<NoticeVo> noticeVoList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> autoCompList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> noticeOmList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> noticeSmList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> noticeEmList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> noticeTmList;
	private List<KeyValueVo> fixRoundList;
	private List<AttachVo> attachVoList;
	private List<OrganizationVo> organizationList;

	@RequestMapping("/70/70-100")
	public String codePg() throws Exception {
		return "70/70-100";
	}

	@RequestMapping("/70/martList")
	public ModelAndView martAutoComplate(@RequestParam("keyword") String keyword,  @RequestParam("om_code") String om_code ) throws Exception{
		Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		String[] omCodeArray = om_code.split(",");
		List<String> omCodeList = new ArrayList<String>();

		for(int i=0; i<omCodeArray.length; i++){
			omCodeList.add(omCodeArray[i]);
		}

		String auth_flag = (String)session.getAttribute("auth_flag");
		String login_cp_cd = (String)session.getAttribute("login_cp_cd");

		map.put("keyword", keyword);
//		map.put("keyword", Encoder.isoToUtf(keyword));
		map.put("omCodeList", omCodeList);
		map.put("auth_flag", auth_flag);
		map.put("cm_code", login_cp_cd);

		//autoCompList =  dao.martAutoComplate70100(map);
		autoCompList =  dao.teamAutoComplate70100(map);

		jo = new JSONObject();
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(autoCompList);
		jo.put("suggestions", ja);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);
		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/70/martList_cp")
	public ModelAndView martAutoComplate_cp(@RequestParam("keyword") String keyword) throws Exception{
		autoCompList =  dao.martAutoComplate_cp(keyword);
		jo = new JSONObject();
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(autoCompList);
		jo.put("suggestions", ja);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);
		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/list")
	public ModelAndView noticeList(@ModelAttribute("vo") NaviVo naviVo) throws Exception{

		naviVo = dao.noticeListCnt(naviVo);
		String navi = new Navi(naviVo).getPageNavi();
		noticeVoList =  dao.noticeList(naviVo);

		String login_team_cd = (String)session.getAttribute("login_team_cd"); //팀코드

		jo = new JSONObject();
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeVoList);
		jo.put("navi", navi);
		jo.put("noticeVoList", ja);
		jo.put("firstNo", naviVo.getFirstRowNo());

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);
		return mv;
	}

    /**
     * @메소드명: m_noticeList
     * @작성일: 2015.10.01
     * @작성자: 김광욱
     * @설명: /notice/m_noticeList
     */
	@RequestMapping(value = "/notice/m_noticeList", produces = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8")
	public ModelAndView m_noticeList(@ModelAttribute("vo") MobileNaviVo reqMobileNaviVo) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("[" + CommonUtil.getCurrentDateTime() + "]" + "/notice/m_noticeList");
        CommonUtil.setSessionVo(session);

		//Required Parameter
        int auth_flag = reqMobileNaviVo.getAuth_flag();
        String cm_code = reqMobileNaviVo.getCm_code();
        String em_no = reqMobileNaviVo.getEm_no();
		int rowSize = reqMobileNaviVo.getRowSize();
		int currPg = reqMobileNaviVo.getCurrPg();
		//System.out.println("auth_flag=" + auth_flag);
		//System.out.println("cm_code=" + cm_code);
		//System.out.println("em_no=" + em_no);
		//System.out.println("rowSize=" + rowSize);
		//System.out.println("currPg=" + currPg);

		//Check Required Parameter
		if (auth_flag < 0 || StringCheck.isNull(cm_code) || StringCheck.isNull(em_no) || rowSize == 0 || currPg == 0) {
			response = CommonUtil.setFailResponse(Constant.INVALID_PARAM_CD, Constant.INVALID_PARAM_MSG);
			return CommonUtil.setModelAndView(response);
		}

		//Optional Parameter
		String search_date_from = StringCheck.isNull(reqMobileNaviVo.getSearch_date_from(), "");
		String search_date_to = StringCheck.isNull(reqMobileNaviVo.getSearch_date_to(), "");
		String search_value = StringCheck.isNull(reqMobileNaviVo.getSearch_value(), "");
		//System.out.println("search_date_from=" + search_date_from);
		//System.out.println("search_date_to=" + search_date_to);
		//System.out.println("search_value=" + search_value);

		search_date_from = search_date_from.replaceAll("-", "");
		search_date_to = search_date_to.replaceAll("-", "");

		Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
		params.put("auth_flag", String.valueOf(auth_flag));//권한코드
		params.put("cm_code", cm_code);//회사코드
		params.put("em_no", em_no);//사원번호
		params.put("jijumOmCode", "");//지점코드
		params.put("jijumWord", "");//매장명
		params.put("key", "sj");//검색구분
		params.put("word", search_value);
		params.put("search_date_from", search_date_from);
		params.put("search_date_to", search_date_to);
		params.put("team_val", "");
		params.put("teamWord", "");
		reqMobileNaviVo.setParams(params);

		reqMobileNaviVo = (MobileNaviVo) dao.noticeListCnt(reqMobileNaviVo);

		List<NoticeVo> noticeList = dao.noticeList(reqMobileNaviVo);
		//System.out.println("noticeList=" + noticeList);

		if (noticeList != null && noticeList.size() > 0) {
			JSONObject body = new JSONObject();
			JSONArray body_notice = new JSONArray();

			//Response Body
			for (int i = 0; i < noticeList.size(); i++) {
				NoticeVo noticeVo = noticeList.get(i);
				JSONObject bodyVo = new JSONObject();
				bodyVo.put("bm_innb", noticeVo.getBm_innb());
				bodyVo.put("bm_sj", noticeVo.getBm_sj());
				bodyVo.put("regist_man", noticeVo.getRegist_man());
				bodyVo.put("regist_de", noticeVo.getRegist_de());
				body_notice.add(bodyVo);
			}
			body.put("rowSize", rowSize);
			body.put("currPg", currPg);
			body.put("totRow", reqMobileNaviVo.getTotRow());
			body.put("notice", body_notice);

			response = CommonUtil.setSuccessResponse(body);
		} else {
			response = CommonUtil.setFailResponse(Constant.NO_RESULT_CD, Constant.NO_RESULT_MSG);
		}

		return CommonUtil.setModelAndView(response);
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/view")
	public ModelAndView noticeView(@RequestParam("bmInnb") String bmInnb, @RequestParam("authCode") String authCode) throws Exception{

		noticeVo     = dao.noticeView(bmInnb);
		noticeOmList = dao.noticeOmList(bmInnb);
		noticeSmList = dao.noticeSmList(bmInnb);
		noticeEmList = dao.noticeEmList(bmInnb);
		noticeTmList = dao.noticeTmList(bmInnb);
		fixRoundList = dao.fixRoundList(bmInnb);

		attachVoList = am.attachList(noticeVo.getAm_no());

		jo = new JSONObject();

		jvo = JSONObject.fromObject(JSONSerializer.toJSON(noticeVo));
		jo.put("noticeVo", jvo);
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeOmList);
		jo.put("noticeOmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeSmList);
		jo.put("noticeSmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeTmList);
		jo.put("noticeTmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeEmList);
		jo.put("noticeEmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(fixRoundList);
		jo.put("fixRoundList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(attachVoList);
		jo.put("attachVoList", ja);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);
		return mv;
	}

    /**
     * @메소드명: m_noticeView
     * @작성일: 2015.10.01
     * @작성자: 김광욱
     * @설명: /notice/m_noticeView
     */
	@RequestMapping(value = "/notice/m_noticeView", produces = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8")
	public ModelAndView m_noticeView(@ModelAttribute("vo") NoticeVo reqNoticeVo) throws Exception{
		System.out.println("[" + CommonUtil.getCurrentDateTime() + "]" + "/notice/m_noticeView");
		CommonUtil.setSessionVo(session);

		//Required Parameter
		String bm_innb = reqNoticeVo.getBm_innb();
//		System.out.println("bm_innb=" + bm_innb);

		//Check Required Parameter
		if (StringCheck.isNull(bm_innb)) {
			response = CommonUtil.setFailResponse(Constant.INVALID_PARAM_CD, Constant.INVALID_PARAM_MSG);
			return CommonUtil.setModelAndView(response);
		}

		NoticeVo resNoticeVo = dao.noticeView(bm_innb);
		//System.out.println("resNoticeVo=" + resNoticeVo);

		if (resNoticeVo != null) {
			JSONObject body = new JSONObject();
			JSONArray body_notice = new JSONArray();

			//Response Body
			JSONObject bodyVo = new JSONObject();
			bodyVo.put("bm_innb", resNoticeVo.getBm_innb());
			bodyVo.put("bm_sj", resNoticeVo.getBm_sj());
			bodyVo.put("bm_cn", resNoticeVo.getBm_cn());
			bodyVo.put("regist_man", resNoticeVo.getRegist_man());
			bodyVo.put("regist_de", resNoticeVo.getRegist_de());
			bodyVo.put("am_no", resNoticeVo.getAm_no());
			body_notice.add(bodyVo);
			body.put("notice", body_notice);

			response = CommonUtil.setSuccessResponse(body);
		} else {
			response = CommonUtil.setFailResponse(Constant.NO_RESULT_CD, Constant.NO_RESULT_MSG);
		}

		return CommonUtil.setModelAndView(response);
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/modify")
	public ModelAndView noticeModify(@RequestParam("bmInnb") String bmInnb, @RequestParam("authCode") String authCode) throws Exception{
		int auth_flag = Integer.parseInt((String)session.getAttribute("auth_flag")); //권한코드
		int auth_Code = 0;

		if(authCode.equals("0000000009")) {
			auth_Code = 1;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000008")) {
			auth_Code = 2;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000007")) {
			auth_Code = 4;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000006")) {
			auth_Code = 3;
		}

		//0000000009 관리자, 0000000008 팀장, 0000000007 순회, 0000000006 고정
//		System.out.println("auth_flag : " + auth_flag + "// auth_Code :" + auth_Code);
		if(auth_flag > auth_Code) {
			return null;
		}

		noticeVo     = dao.noticeView(bmInnb);
		noticeOmList = dao.noticeOmList(bmInnb);
		noticeSmList = dao.noticeSmList(bmInnb);
		noticeEmList = dao.noticeEmList(bmInnb);
		noticeTmList = dao.noticeTmList(bmInnb);

		attachVoList = am.attachList(noticeVo.getAm_no());

		jo = new JSONObject();

		jvo = JSONObject.fromObject(JSONSerializer.toJSON(noticeVo));
		jo.put("noticeVo", jvo);
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeOmList);
		jo.put("noticeOmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeSmList);
		jo.put("noticeSmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeEmList);
		jo.put("noticeEmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(noticeTmList);
		jo.put("noticeTmList", ja);

		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(attachVoList);
		jo.put("attachVoList", ja);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);
		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/popupDelete")
	public ModelAndView noticePopupDelete(@RequestParam("bmInnb") String bmInnb, @RequestParam("authCode") String authCode) throws Exception {
		int auth_flag = Integer.parseInt((String)session.getAttribute("auth_flag")); //권한코드
		int auth_Code = 0;

		if(authCode.equals("0000000009")) {
			auth_Code = 1;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000008")) {
			auth_Code = 2;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000007")) {
			auth_Code = 4;
		}else if(authCode.equals("0000000006")) {
			auth_Code = 3;
		}

		//0000000009 관리자, 0000000008 팀장, 0000000007 순회, 0000000006 고정
//		System.out.println("auth_flag : " + auth_flag + "// auth_Code :" + auth_Code);
		if(auth_flag > auth_Code) {
			return null;
		}

		String login_no = (String) session.getAttribute("login_no");

		HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		map.put("bmInnb", bmInnb);
		map.put("delete_at", 'Y');
		map.put("updt_man", login_no);

		int resultCnt =  dao.noticePopupDelete(map);

		jo = new JSONObject();
		ja = JSONArray.fromObject(resultCnt);

		jo.put("resultCnt", ja);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jo);

		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/save")
	public ModelAndView noticeSave(@ModelAttribute("vo") NoticeVo noticeVo) throws Exception{

		String login_no = (String)session.getAttribute("login_no");
		String cm_code = (String) session.getAttribute("login_cp_cd");

		noticeVo.setRegist_man(login_no);
		noticeVo.setCm_code(cm_code);

		String bm_innb =  dao.noticeSave(noticeVo);
		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", bm_innb);
		return mv;
	}
	@RequestMapping("/noticefile/save")
	public ModelAndView noticeFileSave(@RequestParam("files") MultipartFile files[] ,@RequestParam("bmInnb") String bmInnb,@RequestParam("amNo") String amNo) throws Exception{
//		System.out.println("파일등록!!!"+files.length+"\nbmInnb : " + bmInnb);
//		System.out.println("amNo" + amNo + "입니다.");
		int seq = am.updateFile(files,StringCheck.nullToZero(amNo));
//		System.out.println("amNo2 : " + amNo);
//		System.out.println("seq : " + seq);
//		System.out.println("bmInnb : " + bmInnb);

		seq = dao.noticeFileSave(bmInnb ,seq);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", seq);
		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/noticefile/list")
	public ModelAndView organizationListByCp(@RequestParam("cm_code") String cm_code) throws Exception {
		organizationList = dao.selectListByCp(cm_code);
		jsonObject = new JSONObject();
		jsonArray = JSONArray.fromObject(organizationList);

		jsonObject.put("result", jsonArray);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jsonObject);

		return mv;
	}

	@RequestMapping("/notice/auth")
	public ModelAndView depthdList(@RequestParam("om_code") String param_om_code,@RequestParam("om_orgnzt_se") String om_orgnzt_se) throws Exception {
		String login_no = (String) session.getAttribute("login_no"); //
		String cm_code = (String)session.getAttribute("login_cp_cd"); //회사코드
		String om_code = (String)session.getAttribute("login_bhf_cd"); //지점코드
		String login_team_cd = (String)session.getAttribute("login_team_cd"); //팀코드
		int auth_flag = Integer.parseInt((String)session.getAttribute("auth_flag")); //권한코드

		HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		map.put("auth_flag", auth_flag);
		map.put("tm_code", login_team_cd);
		map.put("cm_code", cm_code);
		map.put("om_code", om_code);
		map.put("param_om_code", param_om_code);
		map.put("om_orgnzt_se", om_orgnzt_se);

		organizationList = dao.selectAuthDepthList(map);

		jsonObject = new JSONObject();
		jsonArray = JSONArray.fromObject(organizationList);

		jsonObject.put("result", jsonArray);
		jsonObject.put("auth_flag", auth_flag);
		jsonObject.put("cm_code", cm_code);
		jsonObject.put("om_code", om_code);
		jsonObject.put("em_code", login_no);
		jsonObject.put("tm_code", login_team_cd);

		mv = new ModelAndView(new JSONView());
		mv.addObject("ajax", jsonObject);
		return mv;
	}
}

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Faites vos jeux, mesdames est un film franco-espagnol  réalisé par Marcel Ophüls, sorti en 1965.

Synopsis
Le fils d'un diplomate ouest-allemand a été enlevé. Les découvertes en physique de ce jeune prodige de 17 ans seraient susceptibles de donner un avantage décisif dans la guerre froide au camp adverse. La CIA américaine soupçonne les services soviétiques et fait intervenir l'agent Mike Warner (Eddie Constantine). Il constate rapidement que des agents russes sont eux aussi à la recherche des ravisseurs et du jeune homme, et ne sont donc pas les auteurs de l'enlèvement ...

Fiche technique
 Titre : Faites vos jeux, mesdames
 Réalisateur : Marcel Ophüls
 Scénario : Jacques Robert et Marcel Ophüls
 Photographie : Jean Tournier
 Son : Antoine Petitjean
 Musique : Ward Swingle
 Montage : Louisette Hautecoeur
 Coordinateur des combats et des cascades : Claude Carliez et son équipe
 Sociétés de production : Spéva Films - Ciné Alliance - Hesperia Films
 Pays :  -
 Durée : 86 minutes
 Date de sortie :
 France :

Distribution
Eddie Constantine : Mike Warner
Nelly Benedetti : la princesse Soledad
Daniel Ceccaldi : Stéphane
Laura Valenzuela : Nina
Luis Dávila : Boris Gourdine
Dieter Kollesch : Carl Friedrich Bibisch
Alfredo Mayo : boss de Mike
Georges Rigaud : directeur Bibisch
José María Prada : Nicholas Van Damme
Enriqueta Carballeira : Isabel
Milo Quesada : Manuel
María Luisa San José

Liens externes

Film réalisé par Marcel Ophüls
Film français sorti en 1965
Film espagnol sorti en 1965
Film français en noir et blanc
Film espagnol en noir et blanc

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Los Angeles • Miami • Bay Area
'We Shouldn't Own These Things': 5 Takeaways From a Landmark Conference on Collecting Land Art
By BRIAN BOUCHER | Artnet
In the 1970s, Land artists like Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, and Robert Smithson had a vision: not only to create artworks at monumental public scales, but also to break free from the gallery-collector business model and what they deemed to be an overactive art market. They wanted to make artworks no one person could truly own.
And yet, throughout the history of Land art, there were financiers and supporters who funded their expensive and elaborate projects, including dealers like Virginia Dwan and collectors like Robert Scull.
So how, exactly, did those relationships work? That was the topic of discussion at a one-day symposium organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection in New York last week.
Participants at the conference, titled "Collecting the 'Uncollectible': Earth and Site-Specific Sculpture," included Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, artist Michelle Stuart, National Gallery of Art curator James Meyer, mega-collector and ex-Dia chairman Leonard Riggio, and his fellow collector and ex-NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, who offered the event's choicest quote: "We shouldn't own these things."
Here are 5 takeaways from the event.
What Is Now Coveted Was Once Unwanted
In his lively presentation, James Meyer (who curated the National Gallery of Art exhibition "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971") framed dealer and patron Virginia Dwan as a devoted supporter of avant-garde art—up to a point.
The 3M heiress had the first bi-coastal gallery (in Los Angeles from 1959–67 and in New York from 1965–71), and showed tons of now-blue-chip artists: Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.
But nothing sold, as Meyer pointed out, and the wealthy Dwan's business became so unsustainable that she was forced to close the gallery in 1971.
Land Art Penetrated the Cultural Consciousness Even When It Was New
New Yorker cartoonist Warren Miller was hip to Land art and its patrons when it was still an avant-garde form, art historian Suzaan Boettger pointed out in her talk.
In 1972, Miller published a cartoon of a businessman in a suit, seated in a booth with a wary-looking woman, delivering a punch line that updated a familiar trope: "How's about you and me flying out to Utah and taking a gander at some of the earthworks I've financed?"
In another cartoon, from 1979, Miller acknowledges the fraught state of collecting Land art, as an irate office worker points to a heap of soil piled up against a colleague's wall and says, "You call this a mere bagatelle?"
By Nature, Land Art Is Vulnerable
Art vandalism goes back centuries—just visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur to see some ancient names scrawled by heedless visitors. But Land art, away from the watchful eyes of museum guards, is especially open to abuse, conservator Rosa Lowinger stressed.
Roy Lichtenstein's public sculpture Mermaid, on the lawn of the Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami, includes a pool of water in which homeless people are known to bathe. Meanwhile, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Dropped Bowl With Scattered Slices and Peels (also in Miami) is sometimes used as a skateboarding ramp.
And while you can fix some things, there are others you just have to live with.
People fire guns into Nancy Holt's masterwork Sun Tunnels in the Utah desert, Lowinger said, pointing out that the traces cannot be removed because they are literally molten metal.
Men Often Got Patronage From Collectors, but Women Had to Scramble for Grants
Then, even more so than now, women fought an uphill battle to get support to create anything near the scale of Smithson's or Heizer's projects, said Kelly Kivland, an associate curator at Dia.
Michelle Stuart noted that even when she got Guggenheim, NEA, and state arts grants to support her work, the amounts were often measly. In the 1970s, she received just $2,000 from the Portland Center for the Visual Arts to create Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979) in East Columbia Gorge, Oregon.
But when Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, needed support for Michael Heizer's mammoth Levitated Mass, he went back to Jarl Mohn so many times, Mohn said, that when he finally wrote a check, it was on the condition that Govan not call him again for two years.
And sometimes, such requests created friction between collectors and artists.
Dia curator Alexis Lowry noted that collector Robert Scull underwrote projects by Heizer with the promise that the artist would give him a leather-bound book about his massive Nine Nevada Depressions. Scull gave the artist $17,000, but in the end, the artist found the book project so contrary to the spirit of his work that he took it back and destroyed it.
Jarl Mohn Has One Final Project on His Mind
Asked whether he had a dream project that he would support if money were no object, Mohn said he would install Marcia Hafif's 1973 work An Extended Gray Scale (which consists of 106 22-inch-wide paintings) in a single row, not in a grid, as it has often been displayed.
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Coleophora ptarmicia is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy (including Sicily), Latvia, Lithuania, southern Russia, and the eastern Palearctic realm. It is also found in China.

The larvae feed on Achillea collina, Achillea millefolium, Achillea ptarmica and Achillea setacea. They create a lobe case of about 7 mm long, covered with large, yellow, leaf fragments widely standing out. The mouth angle is about 40°. Full-grown larvae can be found at the end of May.

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After fostering MANY dogs through the Virginia German Shepherd Rescue League, due to totally stupid things in the new contract, we will no longer foster for them.
Instead, we will join a group that trains service dogs for Veterans.
Our plans are to take in puppies and keep them until they are at trainable age.


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Retailers to display NFDA's EV Approved badge on Auto Trader
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As part of the continuous efforts to drive consumer demand for electric vehicles, NFDA has partnered with Auto Trader to enable all 'Electric Vehicle Approved' (EVA) retailers to display their EVA badge of approval on their adverts on Auto Trader's marketplace.
Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) is an accreditation scheme developed by the NFDA to recognise excellence in the electric vehicle (EV) retail and aftersales sectors. The scheme, officially launched in May 2019, was endorsed and funded by the Government's Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) during a three-month pilot and its first year.
Dealerships are independently audited by Energy Saving Trust (EST) to ensure they meet the scheme's standards and therefore receive the accreditation. The standards cover key areas of EV retail and aftersales, including customer communication, staff training and knowledge, and availability of charge points on site.
Automotive retailers have fully embraced the initiative, firstly, taking part in the three-month pilot phase that started in November 2018 and then rapidly filling up the one hundred slots available to them when the scheme formally launched in May 2019.
Consumers who intend buying, or already own, an electric car need to consider a number of aspects they may not be familiar with. These include the battery range of the car, the availability of charge points in their area where they live and or work, and how long a vehicle will need to be plugged in to reach a full charge.
Retailers play a key role in informing customers about the benefits of owning an EV. The dealerships that have already obtained their EVA accreditation have started to communicate their expertise to customers through visible EVA branded point-of-sale and marketing material displayed in showrooms, and now they will be seen on the UK's largest automotive marketplace too.
Sue Robinson, Director of the NFDA, commented: "The EVA accreditation gives motorists the confidence that EV Approved retailers can provide the best possible customer experience in the EV sector. Following an extremely successful first year, when retailers responded enthusiastically to the launch of the scheme, it is crucial that more customers understand the value of the EV accreditation going forward.
"It is positive that thousands of consumers will now be able to recognise EV accredited retailers on Auto Trader".
Tim Anderson, Head of Transport at Energy Saving Trust, said: "We are delighted that the dealers who have achieved the EVA standard will now be easy more easily identified on Auto Trader. All of them have the trained staff, facilities on site and a team motivated to provide a great customer experience when buying or having their electric vehicle serviced. As well as helping customers find a knowledgeable supplier, this partnership also recognises the hard work EVA dealers have invested in the scheme to qualify for the badge of approval".
Karolina Edwards-Smajda, Auto Trader's Director for Commercial Products, said: "We're committed to making the consumer buying experience more transparent and as stress free as possible, and in by doing so, helping our retailer partners build more confidence in their brands. The introduction of the EVA badge, along with a complete redesign of how retailers' information is presented on their Auto Trader adverts, is a big part of that commitment.
"All of our data highlights the huge growth in consumer demand for low emission vehicles, so the EVA accreditation is an excellent way for retailers to stand out from their competitors and take advantage of this bright spot in the market. We're pleased to be able to support such a beneficial initiative."
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Your superannuation is not a set and forget financial vehicle. Once you have your super in place, it's important to keep track of it over the years to make sure it's going to meet the needs of your retirement.
At least yearly, you should be reviewing your portfolio and also meeting with a certified financial planner to get advice on your super. Let's take a look at a few other ways that you can keep an eye on your super investment.
Ask yourself questions regularly about your super. Throughout the years, your retirement goals may change so you need to make sure that your super changes with them. One of the most important questions to ask yourself is what your investment time frame is?
Simply put, you need to figure out how much longer you plan on working and you also need to have an estimate on how long you're going to live for. While the ladder is not set in stone, Aussies are living longer than ever before these days, so it's important to take your longevity into account.
Other questions that are important to ask is how much risk you're willing to take with your investments, and how much and often you're going to contribute?
Life happens, and when events in life do occur, it may change your investment strategy and your retirement goals. For example, divorce, losing your job, having children, getting married, selling an asset like your home, all play a part in your investment strategy. As events happen in your life, it's important to review your super to ensure it's still meeting your needs.
There are things that you can't plan for or can't change once they happen. Legislative changes and tax laws can have a direct effect on your super. The amount of taxes you have to pay, when you can withdraw it, how much you can withdraw tax-free, etc. These regulations can often change, and when they do, it's important to know how exactly they affect your super.
Working with a certified financial planner is always the first and best step to keeping an eye on your super. At least yearly it should be reviewed. And again when you go through major life changes. Remember it's not set and forget. If you don't keep your eye on it, it's your retirement that could suffer.
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Q: @Autowire Not Setting DAO I have the following Spring Java configuration set up:
@Configuration
public class FooConfig {
    @Autowired
    private IReferenceDataDAO referenceDataDAO;

    @Bean
    public IReferenceDataService getReferenceDataService() {
        return new ReferenceDataServiceImpl(referenceDataDAO);
    }
}

I am trying to reference the ReferenceDataService bean in another configuration class using the @Autowire property:
@Configuration
public class BarConfig {

    @Autowired
    private IRuleService ruleService;

    @Autowired
    private IReferenceDataService referenceDataService;
}

Here is the config that defines the IReferenceDataDAO:
@Configuration
public class FooBarConfig {

@Bean
public IReferenceDataDAO getReferenceDataDAO() {
    return new ReferenceDataDAOImpl(getStaticData(), getMapper());
    }
}

Here is the ReferenceDataServiceImpl:
public class ReferenceDataServiceImpl implements IReferenceDataService {

   private IReferenceDataDAO dao;

public ReferenceDataServiceImpl(IReferenceDataDAO dao) {
    this.dao = dao;
}

The above configs are imported in a master config class:
@Configuration
@Import({
    FoosAppConfig.class,
BarAppConfig.class,
FooBarAppConfig.class,
})

I am noticing that this configuration leads to the referenceDAO in the ReferenceDataServiceImpl being set to null.  What am I doing wrong?  Shouldn't that @Autowire annotation ensure that my bean is fully configured before setting it?

A: BarConfig needs to import FooConfig
@Import({ FooConfig.class })

A: Try this:
@Configuration
@Import({ FooConfig.class })
public class BarConfig {

    @Autowired
    private IRuleService ruleService;

    @Autowired
    private IReferenceDataService referenceDataService;
}

This allows BarConfig to get access to the IReferenceDataService bean.

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That's why ADURO designs Human Performance wellness programs with the "whole person"in mind. It allows employees to decide which area they'd like to work on, making them more invested in the outcome. And when employees reach their full potential, companies do, too. Read on to learn more about our Human Performance programs.
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With the holiday season finally here Team Elite wanted to help spread the holiday spirit. Both Elite Plastic Products and Elite Mold & Engineering encouraged employees to help spread the holiday cheer by donating too Toys For Tots. Altogether Elite was able to donate eleven boxes of toys! Stuffed animals, hula hoops, and toy spaceships are just some of the many different kinds of toys Elite donated to families this year. Elite plans on making the Toys For Tots donation a yearly tradition, so this will be the first of many donations.


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Home NEWS + INTELNews Emirates' 100th A380 Celebrates Centennial
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Emirates celebrates the milestone delivery of its 100th Airbus A380 aircraft. The special ceremony unveiled a bespoke livery honouring the centennial of the birth of the late HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The livery carries one of the most memorable images of the UAE founding father and marks the airline's first initiative for the 2018 'Year of Zayed'.
Decal commemorates centennial
Powered by Rolls-Royce engines, Emirates' 100th A380 is configured in three cabin classes. Passengers can enjoy 14 private suites in First class, 76 seats in Business and 426 seats in Economy. It also features the airline's newly revamped and hugely popular Onboard Lounge.
… at Emirates we've utilised the onboard real estate to redefine the thinking around inflight products and experience. Our flight crew love to fly it and our customers love to fly in it.
—His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Emirates' Chairman and Chief Executive
Winner of the "Best Airline in the World" by 2017 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice®, Emirates is also the world's largest operator of the A380 aircraft.
By end-2019, Emirates ecoTHREAD™ blankets would have rescued 88 million plastic bottles from landfills (Credit/Emirates)
Sustainable transport initiatives
The Emirates Group recycling programmes began in 2009 and have been a huge success in diverting a wide range of materials from landfill. In 2010, the company initiated a programme to recover and recycle materials related to new interiors.
Along with the Dubai Government, Emirates established the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR) to protect critical desert habitat and a variety of endangered species. And in 2009, the airline company opened one of Australia's first luxury conservation resorts—the 1,600-hectare One&Only Wolgan Valley.
In 2016, Emirates re-launched the 'A Greener Tomorrow' campaign. Three not-for-profit organisations working in wildlife protection and environmental conservation in Africa were selected as recipients of a funding award.
Congratulations Emirates, on your 100th Airbus A380 aircraft and efforts to make luxury travel sustainable!
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Energize vocabulary instruction in your Language Arts curriculum with Synonyms Galore! This book is an excellent resource for enriching and developing students' oral/written language expression by teaching the synonyms of numerous adjectives, verbs, and nouns.
Synonyms Galore! presents 28 lessons for teaching synonyms in context and reinforces their usage with tons of practice exercises. Each lesson begins with a focus vocabulary list of words with their synonyms, example sentences, and illustrations. Increase oral/written language as the lessons continue with four activities using the synonyms to complete fill-in-the-blank words and sentences, multiple choice exercises, true/false statements, and answering questions in complete sentences. The final activity in each lesson provides an extension for capable students ready to use more complex synonyms. Students using these activities gain a wealth of synonyms to replace commonly overused words like big, little, happy, etc.
Synonyms Galore! works well with small group, whole class, or one-on-one instruction. Note that teacher modeling and discussion of synonyms and the varying degrees of their usage is important to the lesson instruction. This book is 158 pages, Softcover.
28 lessons of adjectives, verbs, and nouns and their synonyms.
Illustrations to introduce vocabulary words and their synonyms.
Practice exercises galore and awards!
Questions in each lesson to use as writing responses and/or to promote discussion.


16/05/2013 · When you open the Contacts app the first time after creating the CardDAV account it will take a few seconds to import all your contacts from the Gmail or Google account. Category Howto & …... Way 3: Transfer Contacts from Android to iPhone XR with Google Account. Alternatively, if you normally use Google's services, then you can sync contacts from Android to iPhone XR by implementing your Google account.
16/05/2013 · When you open the Contacts app the first time after creating the CardDAV account it will take a few seconds to import all your contacts from the Gmail or Google account. Category Howto & …... If your contacts are stored in the Android storage and not on Google service online, you can still transfer these contacts onto your new iPhone XS device by using Apple's free utility app called Move to iOS . It's designed to transfer your contact details and other data from Android to iPhone XS, XS Max, or XR.
Since Android is Google's mobile operating system, you're supposed to transfer iPhone contacts to a Google account. Likewise, if you currently own a Google Home, you should be excited for the upcoming Google Home Hands-free calling feature.


Our trial of electric road legal buggies (b-bugs) in the Brecon Beacons National Park has come to an end, the results are all analysed and the trial report published. Given its success, we are now busy exploring ways in which b-bugs could become a reality for visitors to the Brecon Beacons. .
But, we've currently hit a bit of a wall. We are struggling to find a company who will insure the b-bugs for self-drive hire. The b-bugs are type approved by the DVLA and straightforward to insure for private use. The trouble is the buggy insurance companies don't do rental insurance. Conversely, vehicle rental insurance companies don't cover non-standard vehicles like buggies.
The frustration of finding a solution is made worse by endless calls to insurance companies who are intent on asking their prescribed set of questions ('are you married?' 'what date do you want to start the insurance?') in order to find you the cheapest quote. I have yet to find how to engage them in a dialogue which doesn't revolve around such questions!
So, we are going to have to think creatively and the good news is that recent psychology research suggests that that is exactly what the brain is good at when confronted with a constraint or barrier. Because of its rich connectivity, the brain normally puts a lot of energy into ignoring 'spurious' information and links – otherwise we'd never get anything decided or done.
Insurance doesn't feel like an obvious candidate for stimulating creative thinking but I'm writing this hoping that, in the meantime, some part of my cortex is digging out some totally spurious unconscious connections. And, once I'm done, I shall go and lie down flat because that too is meant to help.
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For the past eight years Consecration have been casting their eldritch spells, weaving words of forgotten wisdom and incantations of black imaginings through riffs of rot and decay, entwining oppressive atmosphere with beguiling melodies, encasing songs of sorrow in caskets of terror and bleak horror. From the malicious spite of their debut EP, Gut The Priest to the overwhelming sonic landscape of fear and shadows that is summoned up by their full length album Ephemerality, released through UKEM in the heart of winter 2014, this unique band have been building a formidable canon of work, a horde of gold and gems that has lain glittering in the caverns of the underground, treasured by the intrepid souls that have braved the descent into darkness to discover it.
An alliance formed with Imperative PR, Consecration have decided to open the black covers of their grimoire, to invite one and all to taste the darkness of not only Gut The Priest and Ephemerality, but an array of secrets that have lain too long in the deep places. Here, under the title of Remembrance, you will find the first eight years of Consecration in their entirety, a digital compendium of their cursed litanies and lore - all fully remastered and restored to breathe a new life into the darkness.
''Remembrance'' is a compilation album of Consecration's previous releases. Track 1 to 8 originally appeared on ''Ephemerality'' which was released in 2014, tracks 13 to 18 are from their EP ''Gut The Priest'' in 2010. Tracks 9 to 12 are actually unreleased demo recordings out of 2011. All the tracks were restored and remastered for this compilation. First off, the difference in recording quality is very noticable between these four years. It starts of pretty good, but ends in a total mess. Despite that, I really like their doom metal approach, it's something I haven't seen in a while. Some say that death doom metal is supposed to sound like it was recorded in a shoebox, but I disagree on that.
I had a great time listening to '"Remembrance''. I didn't know Consecration before this release, but I will check them out a bit more from now on. The album is overflowing with melancholy and pain, it's written with a lot of emotion and I really appreciate that. It's not just random songs on an album, on the contrary: ''Remembrance'' is a very cohesive compilation.


As I mentioned in my previous post about this quilt, working on putting together a quilt that is set on point sometimes yields some goofy quilt pictures! I am almost at the halfway point where the quilt is a single gigantic triangle.
Since I don't have a design wall, I typically use my carpets as my "design spaces". And since I have been working on this quilt on and off over the last month or so, I have been laying down the finished corner, laying out a row or two, sewing those rows together and then to the quilt top, and then strategically folding everything up.
The row that I've been working on is the middle row of the quilt. It's ready to be added to the quilt (after a good press!).
Happy Friday! I have a giveaway for Island Batik scraps going until Monday and we have a pattern sale in our Etsy shop!
Summer Clean-Out Island Batik Giveaway!
Update: the giveaway is now closed and the winners are noted below!
It's been a little while since I had an Island Batik giveaway and now is the perfect time! We'll be getting our next Ambassador goodie boxes in July or early August, and I've already set aside the fabrics I'll be using for those projects so I have plenty of fabrics to share!
I sorted through my Island Batik bins (I keep my Island Batik fabrics separated out from everything else!) and found a whole pile of fabrics to share.
I think this is enough fabrics for more than one giveaway given the size of envelopes that I have! I will stuff these envelopes full of fabric, and send them off to (at least!) two winners. This giveaway will close on Monday, July 2nd.
1. For everyone: Tell me your favorite scrap busting project! Is it potholders? Crumb quilts? Paper piecing?
As a bit of a preview, our July theme is secondary designs, so I'll be working on a two block quilt baby quilt. August is our blog hop month showing off the new fabrics that will be shipping to shops throughout the fall and I'll be working with the Jungle Cruise collection. I'll be using it in our Summer Patio pattern!
Have a happy Wednesday! Don't forget to check out our $3 and $5 pattern sale on Etsy!
Since I had not one, but two Saturdays last week because I took Friday off work, I was able to get two quilt tops done! One is an upcoming project for Moda Bake Shop that I've been sharing sneak peaks of on Instagram.
But I also finished my Double Delight quilt top! (Pattern from Bonnie Hunter's free pattern tab!) I spent a long time trying to figure out what color to use as the setting triangles. I thought I had a few options in my stash, but I wasn't thrilled with any of them. One navy was too large a print, one burgundy was too red, one burgundy was too purple!
In perusing the Fat Quarter Shop birthday week sales, I found a great chartreuse and cream print that is actually from the North Woods line by Kate Spain. Even though it's *technically* a Christmas print, it is the perfect color for this quilt!
This photo was taken about 2/3rds of the way through sewing the rows together. Working on quilts that are on point always ends up with a big bulk of quilt to wrangle! Even with straight set quilts of the same size, the on point quilts always seem to be more difficult to wrangle.
I think the green setting triangles really makes the rolling star blocks shine in the quilt! All of the different pinks blend together so well -- I was worried that the brighter pinks that I had to use towards the end of the process of making nine-patches would be too bright! I am not exaggerating when I say that I used ALL of my pink scraps!
Now I'll need to decide if this quilt needs any borders. The quilt as is is approximately 64 by 76 so right now it would make a perfect throw, but with a little bit of border it would be a twin. Decisions, decisions!
I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Thank you everyone for the kind words about my 30 Pearls quilt and the lovely birthday wishes!
Sharing with Oh Scrap, Linky Tuesday Let's Bee Social, and Needle and Thread Thursday.
PS. Don't forget to check out my Island Batik giveaway! I cleaned out my IB bins and pulled a gallon sized bag worth of scraps to pass along to some winners!
Happy birthday to me and hip hip hooray for another finish!
My modern-themed quilt for our June Island Batik Ambassador challenge is finished! You can see the first two posts on this quilt here and here.
I finished the binding and trimmed all of the lose threads last night and am going to hang it up in my sewing room later today!
As I explained in my original post, there are 30 "pearls" to celebrate my 30th birthday (today!), pearls are my birthstone, and pearl is a traditional 30th anniversary gift.
I quilted free motion pebbles in each pearl with white Aurifil. In the backgrounds I used five different shades -- hot pink, red, dark coral, orange, and purple -- to quilt the different filler motifs. I used 56 different filler motifs inspired by Leah Day's quilting gallery! It required quite a bit of starting and stopping, which I don't normally like to do when I quilt, but it was 100% worthwhile for this quilt to be exactly as I had envisioned.
The binding and hanging pocket are of a cream Island Batik print that is slightly darker than my pearls. I had originally pulled a purple fabric for the binding but I didn't have quite enough fabric for that. In the below picture, you can really make out some of the quilting with the orange thread!
For the whole quilt, I used white thread in the bobbin so that I didn't have to change both the top thread and the bobbin every time I needed to switch between colors (which was a lot!). The texture on the backing is just so fun! I managed to keep my pieced backing nearly perfectly square with the top, which is a miracle for me!
I will try to post some close up pictures of some of my favorite quilted sections on Instagram over the weekend. Using Leah Day's gallery as my inspiration was a great starting point however I had to think through how to quilt some of the designs in the arcs! Some were easier than others to "bend" into the arched spaces -- like the meandering type motifs and feather type motifs -- than others! There were a few that I decided would only work in the full squares rather than in the arches, which worked out well.
This project is a rarity in that I both designed and made it for me for fun. I enjoy and love just about all of the quilting that I do but I don't often make something "just for me" and it was a nice change of pace to be completely selfish with this project and be finicky about every detail without worrying about writing a pattern to go along with it.
As always, a big yippee hooray thank you to Island Batik for providing these fabrics for me each month to play with and to stretch my creativity! I love our modern challenge month as Amabassadors and this might be my favorite Ambassador project of all of the things I have made in the last 18 months!
I'm now in a place where my fabric yardage and bundles are dwindling, and I have scads and scads of fabric that fall into the scraps-to-large-scraps category. Now that my Top Spin and On Ringo Lake quilts are finished, and my Double Delight and Donuts projects are ready to be put together into finished tops (with the help of a trip to the store!), it's time to embark on a new scrappy project.
Somewhat by serendipity, Melissa of Happy Quilting released her Drift Away pattern and I knew it was perfect for my green, teal, and blue fabrics that didn't get used in my Donuts quilt. Rather than use fat quarters, I used a variety of sizes of scraps, many of which were leftover chunks from backings, to cut the squares needed for this project. I also decided on using black for the background since I had a large chunk of it on hand.
In this picture, the smallest size squares are already sewn into pairs, but I can still pick out lots of recognizable fabrics from older projects! The plaid on the left was the backing for Racing Rails, the teal dot was the backing for Sunset Gathering, the olive and aqua leaf is from my Midnight mystery quilt, and the squiggle is from Beau's Ties.
One of the reasons I decided to go with black instead of a light solid is because the fabrics I used have both whites and off-whites in the prints.
I managed to get a significant part of the first corner together rather quickly! I didn't lay out the entire quilt at once so I just started randomly pulling the medium and large sized focus squares from their piles. I have two different fabrics for the large setting triangles, so I am alternating them.
So far I think my "place-the-squares-as-you-go" plan is going quite well. I only had to take out one or two seams where I sewed units upside down. Only a few rows to go until I'm halfway done with the quilt top! This quilt as designed ends up at 80" square -- I'm strongly considering adding a border on all four sides so that it would end up full/queen sized since I may give this as a gift. But those are things to decide another day!
It's time to share the prizes for the Blocked Rainbow QAL! Thank you again to our sponsors and to the participants!
I'm excited to share my finished quilt top for our June Island Batik Ambassador project!
First and foremost, I love that my original vision worked out so well with these fabrics and was so simple to create! Even though I'm a nervous pinner for sewing curves, the blocks were quick and easy.
The one change from my original design is that I pieced the top and bottom sashing (which makes the quilt square rather than rectangular) instead of it being single pieces. This was out of necessity (since I was working with fat eighths!) and I think it looks great.
And for comparison, here's the original design!
Since I didn't want to buy something as a separate backing for this quilt (since it's going to be a wall hanging), I pulled some of my 5" Island Batik stash builder strips, one of the fat eighths that I didn't use in the quilt top, and a larger piece of green yardage (some of which I had used in my Blocked Rainbow quilt).
The green piece of yardage wasn't quite big enough on its own for the backing, so I needed it to "grow" a little bit. I sewed the 5" strips end to end and then added four slice-and-insert strips to my green yardage, two going in each direction.
I like the added interest on the back, even if I'll be the only one that knows it's there! Now to work in earnest on quilting the top! I'm planning to use white thread in the "pearls" and colored thread in the background. I actually have about a dozen different pink, purple, red, and orange-hued spools of Aurifil that I've been auditioning! I've also been studying Leah Day's quilting gallery for quilting ideas.
Happy Friday and happy sewing! Sharing at Finished or not Friday and Linky Tuesday!
I'll fully admit that there were multiple times where I completely forgot that this quilt top was done and ready to quilt! I finished the top in July 2016 and this quilt was one I designed for a mystery quilt along I hosted. I actually bought the backing fabric for this quilt in July 2017 at the same time I bought the backing fabric for my Meadow quilt and my Green in Bloom quilt.
This design was inspired by combining a traditional Storm at Sea block with pinwheels. I sent the quilt and backing home with my mom the last time she came to visit with the instructions to "do with it as she pleased." The reason this top sat for so long unquilted and unfinished is that I didn't know how to quilt it so it was probably the right decision to make someone else decide how to quilt it!
The finished quilt is lovely!
The quilting is all different sorts of echoing of the block shapes. The backing is an old Moda print from the Farmer's Market line. I love the diagonal vines -- it makes the binding look fantastic!
This will likely become my new "mobile quilt" -- the quilt that I keep in the car for picnics and other activities!
It's my favorite month for us Island Batik Ambassadors -- it's Modern month! I started plotting this project as soon as we got the schedule for this year!
"Modern quilts are primarily functional and inspired by modern design. Modern quilters work in different styles and define modern quilting in different ways, but several characteristics often appear which may help identify a modern quilt. These include, but are not limited to: the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and alternate grid work."
Last year I designed and made my Ombre Everest mini quilt which focused on improvisational piecing but also included alternate grid work.
This year, I decided I wanted to use the pink fabrics from my Sunflower Serenade bundle (below) combined with cream for a very bold mini quilt.
This "30 Pearls" design is inspired by the fact that pearl is the birthstone for June and a traditional 30th anniversary gift, in honor of my upcoming 30th birthday. The simple drunkard's path block "pearls" are scattered throughout the grid semi-randomly with lots of negative space for me to free motion quilt.
I'm done with the cutting for the blocks and have sewn the first two rows of drunkard's path blocks.
Next week I'm hoping to have a finished top to show off! I'm already thinking about the quilting for this one -- I think the white areas should be filled with pebbles (obviously!) and then I'll use a few different fillers for the pink fabrics. What do you think?
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Karen created the Storm at Sea center, Chelsea added the checkerboard corners, and Audrey added the striped corner sections.
I decided that I wanted to add a border around what Audrey added instead of another set of corner sections to turn the quilt top on point. I settled on adding a diamond chain border around the quilt, with the same sized colored squares that Chelsea used in her checkerboard sections. I found a great cream print with white feathers to use as my background at my LQS while my mom was in town visiting.
Getting the side sections together was very quick and I was able to cut each section to about 5.5 inches wide. I used one of the purple fabrics for squares in the corners.
Here's a close up I used as a teaser on Instagram, which shows the low volume feather print quite well!
Now this top is on its way to Stephanie to work on and I'll be receiving Stephanie's quilt for our last round of quilts this year! My quilt (or rather, my rows) will be coming back to me sometime in July!
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Q: Deligne's example of $\deg \pi_{*}\Omega_{X/Y}<0$ While reviewing Lang's book on Arakelov theory, I saw the following comment by Paul Vojta:
"...Deligne has found an example when $\deg \pi_{*}\Omega_{X/Y}$ can be negative, because Green's functions at infinity. This is of course unlike the functional field case, but this is of no consequence for next section..." (page 159)
May I ask is this example ever published? I know people are usually interested in the upper bound, not lower bound for the height functions. But I feel such a result can still be interesting to know.

A: This example should be the elliptic curve with j-invariant 0 and can be found in
Deligne's paper Preuve des conjectures de Tate et de Shafarevitch (p. 29). If you are more interested in small values for elliptic curves, the article On the essential minimum of Faltings' height by Burgos Gil, Menares and Rivera-Letelier may be interesting for you. An example of negative value in genus 2 can be found in Sur le calcul explicitedes "classes de Chern" des surfaces arithmétiques de genre 2 by Bost, Mestre and Moret-Bailly.


Easy, quick and faintably delicious.
Melt the coconut oil and almond butter until smooth. I prefer doing so in a saucepan on the stove. Stir in the remaining ingredients.
I then pour the mixture into a large spouted measuring cup for easy pouring into the molds. The first time I made this, I used my trusty muffin tin with papers - but I find that tiny bite-size molds work better and are fun.
Place in the freezer until hard. Don't worry - you can wait, it doesn't take long, and besides - you got to lick the spoon, saucepan and spouted cup, right?!
I keep mine in the freezer, right in the molds, until I need to pop one for a sweet or energy hit.
If you know your way around a kitchen, stop reading here and go on to make these rich, creamy fat bombs. But if you are like most of my friends, you will start asking "where did you get this or that?"
So for those who want to ask, here is exactly where I got the above ingredients. Hermit that I am - I love Amazon prime for everything from toilet paper to cacao powder.