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Q: unable to unpack request sent from client. It keeps complaining of my packager although i am able to send successful request to their server I have two way implementation where i send and also receive request from a remote server. I am able to successfully send request and always get successful response. However when the client sends request to me, my packager complains. Updating the packager causes sending request to the client to fail. Below is my error and configuration.
<log realm="post-channel/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:7777" at="2020-10-19T18:45:05.561" lifespan="5248ms">
<receive>
<iso-exception>
  org.jpos.iso.IFA_LLCHAR: Problem unpacking field 94 (org.jpos.iso.ISOException: Invalid character found. Expected digit.) unpacking field=94, consumed=324
  org.jpos.iso.ISOException: org.jpos.iso.IFA_LLCHAR: Problem unpacking field 94 (org.jpos.iso.ISOException: Invalid character found. Expected digit.) unpacking field=94, consumed=324
    at org.jpos.iso.ISOBasePackager.unpack(ISOBasePackager.java:340)
    at org.jpos.iso.ISOMsg.unpack(ISOMsg.java:479)
    at org.jpos.iso.BaseChannel.unpack(BaseChannel.java:976)
    at org.jpos.iso.BaseChannel.receive(BaseChannel.java:746)
    at org.jpos.q2.iso.ChannelAdaptor$Receiver.run(ChannelAdaptor.java:332)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
</iso-exception>

10_channel.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<channel-adaptor name="pesalink-channel" logger="Q2">
<channel class="org.jpos.iso.channel.ASCIIChannel" type="client" connect="yes" logger="Q2" realm="post-channel" packager="org.jpos.iso.packager.GenericPackager">
<property name="packager-config" value="cfg/customize.xml" />
<property name="host" value="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" />
<property name="port" value="7777" />
<property name="length-digits" value="6" />
<property name="connection-timeout" value="30000" />
<property name="timeout" value="300000" />
</channel>
<in>pesalink-channel-send</in>
<out>pesalink-channel-receive</out>
<reconnect-delay>10000</reconnect-delay>
<keep-alive>yes</keep-alive>
</channel-adaptor>

20_server.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<server name="server-receiving" class="org.jpos.q2.iso.QServer" logger="Q2">
<attr name="port" type="java.lang.Integer">7777</attr>
<channel name="channel-receive" class="org.jpos.iso.channel.NACChannel" packager="org.jpos.iso.packager.GenericPackager" logger="Q2">
 <property name="packager-config" value="cfg/customize2.xml" />
 </channel>
 <request-listener class="com.test.linkListener" logger="Q2" realm="incoming-request-listener">
 </request-listener>
 <in>NETWORK_IN</in>
 <out>NETWORK_OUT</out>
 </server>

code to receive request
public class linkListener implements ISORequestListener{

    private static final String FTREQUEST = "1200";
    private static final String REVADVICE = "1420";
    private static final String NETWORKREQ = "1804";

    @Autowired
    HttpHandler httpHandler;

    Log log1;

    @Override
    public boolean process(ISOSource source, ISOMsg m) {
        System.out.println("::::: Waiting :::::");
        log.info("::::: Inside  Listener :::::");
        try {
            String mti = m.getMTI();
            System.out.println("mti ::: " + mti);
            log.info("mti ::: " + mti);
            switch (mti) {
                case FTREQUEST:
                    log.info("Inside Financial Transaction Request");
                    String amt = m.getString(4);
                    Double amount1 = Double.parseDouble(amt);
                    Double amount2 = amount1 / 100;
                    String amount = String.format("%.2f", amount2);
                    log.info("amount formated ::: " + amount);

                    String stan = m.getString(11);
                    log.info("stan ::: " + stan);
                    String rrn = m.getString(37);
                    log.info("rrn ::: " + rrn);
                    String senderAccountNo = m.getString(102);
                    log.info("senderAccountNo ::: " + senderAccountNo);
                    String beneficiaryAccountNo = m.getString(103);
                    log.info("senderAccountNo ::: " + beneficiaryAccountNo);

                    m.set(39, "100");

                    m.setMTI("1210");
                    m.set(2, m.getString(2));
                    m.set(3, m.getString(3));
                    m.set(4, m.getString(4));
                    m.set(11, m.getString(11));
                    m.set(12, m.getString(12));
                    source.send(m);

                    break;
                case REVADVICE:
                    log.info("Reversal Advice");
                    break;
                case NETWORKREQ:
                    log.info("Network Management Request");
                    break;
            }

        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
        }
        return true;
    }
}


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CDC revises school reopening guidance, warns that Covid variants could cause issues
Published Fri, Feb 12 202110:02 AM EST Updated Fri, Feb 12 20213:10 PM EST
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The CDC on Friday unveiled sweeping new guidance on how schools can safely reopen for in-person learning despite the spread of the coronavirus and highly contagious new variants.
President Joe Biden pledged in December to reopen the majority of the country's schools in his first 100 days after taking office.
Data from Burbio, a service that tracks school opening plans, recently reported that almost 65% of K-12 students are already learning in person to some degree.
Schoolchildren swab and test themselves for COVID-19 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the classroom at South Boston Catholic Academy in Boston, Massachusetts, January 28, 2021.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday unveiled sweeping new guidance on how schools can safely reopen for in-person learning despite the spread of the coronavirus and highly contagious new variants.
The guidance advises schools to phase in their reopening plans in accordance with the severity of the outbreak in their areas. It recommends schools adopt "essential elements" in resuming in-person learning, including wearing masks, physical distancing and monitoring the level of spread in the surrounding community.
The Department of Education simultaneously released volume 1 of its guidance for in-person learning to supplement the CDC's guidance.
"I want to be clear. With the release of this operational strategy, CDC is not mandating that schools reopen." CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on a conference call with reporters. "These recommendations simply provide schools a long-needed road map for how to do so safely under different levels of disease in the community."
As "additional layers" of Covid-19 prevention, the CDC says schools should also implement a testing program to identify and isolate infectious people and vaccinate teachers and staff "as soon as supply allows." Walensky urged states to give teachers and educational staff priority access to the vaccines.
"Data suggest that it is possible for communities to bring down cases of COVID-19 while keeping schools open to in-person instruction," the guidance says. "Furthermore, models of consistent implementation of mitigation measures in schools have shown success in limiting outbreaks and infections in schools."
However, the agency noted that the guidance might need to be updated as new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus spread across the U.S.
"If we get to a point where we are beyond the red zone here, really high levels of community spread related to the variants or related to just more transmission, we may need to revisit this again," Walensky said.
The CDC said the first step in considering whether to reopen schools should be to assess the level of spread in the community. The agency recommended schools monitor the total number of new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days in the community as well as the percent of positive tests over the past seven days, also known as the positivity rate.
All schools, the CDC says, can safely reopen for full in-person learning if they follow appropriate protocols and are located in communities that report fewer than 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days and have a positivity rate lower than 8%. It is possible for schools in communities with higher levels of spread to reopen for in-person learning on some days or with limited attendance and stricter infection prevention measures, the CDC said.
Walensky noted that more than 90% of the K-12 schools in the country are currently in areas of high transmission. In communities where there's very low levels of spread, schools can even relax infection-prevention protocol like physical distancing, she added.
"When communities implement and strictly adhere to mitigation strategies, the level of community transmission is slowed," the new guidance says. "This will in turn enable schools that are open for in-person learning to stay open and help schools that have not yet reopened to return to in-person instruction."
The CDC noted that younger children may be less susceptible to Covid-19 than older, middle and high school-aged children. It said that schools should prioritize bringing back elementary school students who are least likely to become severely sick from Covid-19 and who appear to spread the virus less than teens.
And the CDC urged school administrators and local officials "to promote fair access to healthy educational environments for students and staff" for all students. White House Covid-19 response officials have said equity will be the "North Star" to the federal response to the pandemic.
"The absence of in-person educational options may disadvantage children from all backgrounds, particularly children in low-resourced communities who may be at an educational disadvantage," the new guidance says. "On the other hand, certain racial and ethnic groups have borne a disproportionate burden of illness and serious outcomes from COVID-19."
The agency said school districts should conduct active outreach to underserved families, "including parents/guardians of students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, students with disabilities, English learners, students experiencing homelessness, and students in foster care."
Walensky and Donna Harris-Aikens, senior advisor for policy and planning at the Department of Education, announced the new guidance on a conference call with reporters.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten hailed the new guidance, saying that it should have been released 10 months ago. She also urged Congress to pass funding for school districts to help alleviate the costs of complying with the new guidance.
"Today, the CDC met fear of the pandemic with facts and evidence," she said. "For the first time since the start of this pandemic, we have a rigorous road map, based on science, that our members can use to fight for a safe reopening."
The new guidance comes after Walensky said last week that schools can safely reopen even if teachers aren't yet vaccinated. The White House quickly distanced itself from the comment. Press secretary Jen Psaki said it was not "official guidance" from the CDC.
President Joe Biden has made reopening the nation's schools for in-person instruction one of his top priorities. He pledged in December to resume in-person instruction at a majority of the nation's schools in his first 100 days after taking office, but Biden did not define what it meant for a school to "reopen."
In January, he specified that the goal applied only to schools that teach students up to eighth grade. And earlier this week, the White House further clarified that schools will be considered open so long as they teach in person at least one day a week. Psaki said Wednesday the goal is part of the White House's "bold ambitious agenda," adding that it's a floor the administration hopes to exceed.
"His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50%, open by day 100 of his presidency," she said. "And that means some teaching in classrooms. So, at least one day a week. Hopefully, it's more."
In-person schooling came to an abrupt halt across the country in March as schools shifted to remote learning to protect students, teachers and parents from the coronavirus. But education experts and public health groups, including the World Health Organization, have warned of the lasting consequences of keeping students out of the classroom. Economists, too, have cautioned of the impact on working parents, especially mothers, who have become unemployed in record numbers during the pandemic.
Former President Donald Trump urged governors and local officials to reopen schools for in-person learning, saying in July that keeping schools closed will probably cause "more death." But under his administration, the CDC offered little guidance on how and when to reopen safely, saying instead that the decision should be made by local and state officials.
The issue has become contentious in the U.S., with some saying the risk of the coronavirus to children is smaller than the consequences of missing school. While children and young adults are generally less likely to become severely sick and die from Covid-19, risk is heightened if the person has an underlying condition that compromises their immune system. More than 120 people younger than 20 have died of Covid-19 in the U.S. as of September, according to the CDC.
In lieu of clear federal direction thus far, state, local and school officials have all charted their own course on how and when to reopen schools. Data from Burbio, a service that tracks school opening plans, recently reported that almost 65% of K-12 students are already learning in person to some degree.
— CNBC's Hannah Miao contributed to this report.
In her own words: COVID-19 school closures spotlight education inequities

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package com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.ui.main;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.R;
import com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.data.model.Author;
import com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.ui.base.BaseActivity;
import com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.util.DialogFactory;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import butterknife.BindView;
import butterknife.ButterKnife;

public class MainActivity extends BaseActivity implements MainMvpView {

    private static final String EXTRA_TRIGGER_SYNC_FLAG =
            "com.jenyakirmiza.boilerplate.ui.main.MainActivity.EXTRA_TRIGGER_SYNC_FLAG";

    @Inject MainPresenter mMainPresenter;
    @Inject RibotsAdapter mRibotsAdapter;

    @BindView(R.id.recycler_view) RecyclerView mRecyclerView;

    /**
     * Return an Intent to start this Activity.
     * triggerDataSyncOnCreate allows disabling the background sync service onCreate. Should
     * only be set to false during testing.
     */
    public static Intent getStartIntent(Context context, boolean triggerDataSyncOnCreate) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra(EXTRA_TRIGGER_SYNC_FLAG, triggerDataSyncOnCreate);
        return intent;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        activityComponent().inject(this);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        ButterKnife.bind(this);

        mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mRibotsAdapter);
        mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
        mMainPresenter.attachView(this);

       /* if(!mMainPresenter.isInitialized()){
            startService(SyncService.getStartIntent(this));
        }*/

        mMainPresenter.loadRibots();

    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();

        mMainPresenter.detachView();
    }

    /***** MVP View methods implementation *****/

    @Override
    public void showRibots(List<Author> ribots) {
        mRibotsAdapter.setRibots(ribots);
        mRibotsAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public void showError() {
        DialogFactory.createGenericErrorDialog(this, getString(R.string.error_loading_ribots))
                .show();
    }

    @Override
    public void showRibotsEmpty() {
        mRibotsAdapter.setRibots(Collections.<Author>emptyList());
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On 3 August 2013, the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan was attacked by three suicide bombers. Afghan security forces spotted the attackers as they approached the consulate in a car leading to one of the attackers detonating his explosives. The blast killed nine people, six of them children, and wounded 24 others.

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You know the country needs to reduce its dependence on oil, and you want to do your part. But with all the people and stuff you need to haul, your lifestyle just won't cram into a little hybrid, so you're stuck in your thirsty SUV, right? Wrong. Automakers have begun producing hybrid SUVs and crossovers in large numbers. While they can't quite match the mileage of hybrid cars, these sport-utilities can help put some breathing room back in your gas budget.
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If it's luxury you want, the Lexus RX 400h will deliver. Its performance is comparable to its gas-only Lexus RX 350 sibling and its interior lives up to the Lexus reputation for quiet luxury. The only downside is the RX 400h's price -- it is far and away the steepest in the class. On the other hand, it's also the only luxury hybrid SUV on the market.
Toyota Highlander Hybrid
The Toyota Highlander Hybrid has plenty of room for anyone (or anything) you might need to carry. Its third-row seat is actually useful and its ride is composed and quiet. Families will love its utility, but their accountants probably won't love the price -- this is another expensive one.
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The Ford Escape Hybrid earns its spot in the top three by combining the practicality and usability of the gas-only Escape with a fuel-sipping hybrid powertrain. Reviewers like its muscular exterior and comfortable seats, but complain about bloated handling and the lack of stability control.
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My goal, especially while being pregnant, is to eat healthy and clean during the week, and have a little more fun on the weekend. So today, my breakfast was granola and skim milk. I used to never be a breakfast person, but now I always eat something at home before going to the gym. I like to make my own granola, because I can make sure it's not too fattening.
Lunch was a kale salad with a sparkling water. I grow my own lettuces and kale and things like that! My daughter is four and a half, but she's a good eater. And because we grow our vegetables, she's a great veggie eater.
For dinner, I went to Katsuya with my husband and daughter. She was requesting to eat at "the chopsticks place." I had shishito peppers, sautéed green beans, creamy rock shrimp, and a baked-crab roll with no rice. The baked-crab hand roll is my most favorite, and I can eat 20 of them if I allow myself.
I headed down to Miami for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, where I did a cooking demo. Breakfast and lunch were both on the airplane. Not one of my favorite dining experiences. It was a frittata type of thing, but it almost tasted like a potato. It was awful! But I did eat all the fruit.
For dinner, I went to Yardbird and had fried chicken with cheddar biscuits. I had some research and read all about the restaurant, and my assistant and I were lucky enough to get a reservation. It was divine! We also had key-lime doughnuts for dessert, which came with a key-lime coconut pudding on the side.
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At my demo, I made an awesome flat-bread pizza, but I didn't get to eat any of it. By the time I got to lunch — at BLT Steak — I was starving. I ordered the lobster salad and scarfed it down, because I was so hungry. The restaurant is known for its popovers, which I'd never had before, so I indulged in one of those. It was cute — they give you a card with the popover recipe on it.
Airplane food, once again, for dinner. I think it was a turkey sandwich — very dried out, not-so-appealing turkey sandwich. I should have packed up my food from my demo!
I arrived in New York late, and went straight to bed. The next morning, I had breakfast at the hotel's cafe: oatmeal and bananas, and grapefruit juice.
Every time I'm in town, I go to Quality Meats, and I always gets the roast chicken. I actually couldn't finish it all, so I brought some back to the hotel to enjoy as a morning snack throughout my stay.
Dinner was at ABC Kitchen, which is another favorite restaurant of mine in New York. My girlfriends and I shared a lot of food — I didn't eat it all by my lonesome, I swear! We had a pizza with prosciutto, dates, Fontina, Parmesan, and ricotta; the roasted carrot salad with avocado; beets with fresh yogurt; and spaghetti with black truffles. I was very lucky that the girls let me have two pieces of pizza because I'm pregnant. A perk!
I'm a big wino, but I can't drink, of course, because I'm pregnant. I love a Sancerre. My eating habits are pretty much the same, except I have to limit some things. Compared to the other pregnancy, my cravings are different, though. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I craved sweets, but now that I'm having a boy, I'm craving saltier, more savory foods. It's funny.
For dessert, they brought out a cookie plate, and we ordered the special sea-salt caramel sundae with popcorn and hot fudge. And we shared the carrot cake. It was one of the best carrot cakes I've had in a long, long time.
Another early breakfast at the hotel café: granola with yogurt and blueberries, and a glass of orange juice.
For lunch, I went to Luke's Lobster and ordered a lobster roll. It was lovely. I also had a sparkling water, which is my go-to drink these days. It makes me feel fancy!
Dinner was at Dirty French with my foodie friends. It was my first time eating there, and it was really fun. We started with their amazing grilled oysters. I was so happy to be able to eat oysters, because they weren't raw. They were beautifully presented! I absolutely loved them. And then we had the chicken, which is kind of like a Peking duck. They're served with crepes, and you fold them like a fajita with sauces and fresh mint. I could eat probably four bowls of their crispy kale salad. And dessert, they brought us beignets with caramel sauce.


Since graduation I have worked my way into owning the family business that my dad started. I purchased the shop from him in 1994.
I have two daughters, Deseray who is 23, who made a grandpa out of me in 2009. Mollie is 22 and just graduated from WTAMU with a Bachelors in Business Management. Mollie and I are involved in racing, I work on the car and she drives at Route 66.


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This entry was posted in Cameras on April 17, 2018 by Savannah Dixon.


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Madame White Snake (白夫人の妖恋, Shiro Toyoda, 1956)
January 27, 2020 by Hayley Scanlon
A studio director at Toho, Shiro Toyoda was most closely associated with adaptations of well respected works of literature, often with an earthy, humanist touch. He might then be an odd fit for a tale of high romance co-produced with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers and inspired by a classic Chinese legend. Madame White Snake (白夫人の妖恋, Byaku Fujin no Yoren) effectively drops some of Toho's top talent, including "pan-Asian" star Shirley (Yoshiko) Yamaguchi (AKA Li Xianglan / Ri Koran), into a contemporary Hong Kong ghost movie with Toyoda doing his best to mimic the house style.
As in the classic legend, fate is set in motion when herbalist Xu-xian (Ryo Ikebe) allows "noblewoman" Bai-niang (Shirley Yamaguchi) and her maid Xiao-qing (Kaoru Yachigusa) to board a boat he is riding to escape a storm. The pair bond because they are both orphans out in the rain to pay their filial respects to their late parents on tomb sweeping day. Disembarking, Xu-xian lends the ladies his umbrella, vowing to visit their house the next day after his rounds to reclaim it. When he arrives, Xu-xian is greeted by a near hysterical and extremely romantic Bai-niang who has apparently fallen deeply in love with him because of his pure heart. She proposes marriage, but Xu-xian is wary. He is after all just a poor boy, a herbalist living with his older sister and her husband. He has no money to get married and Bai-niang is a noble woman from a good family, society simply wouldn't allow it. Xu-xian tries to escape, but his gentle words of refusal only wound Bia-niang's heart.
Hoping to smooth the situation, Xiao-qing decides to give Xu-xian a small fortune in silver taels so the money issue will be solved. Strangely, the plan appears to work. Xu-xian quickly gets over his reluctance to accept money from a wealthy woman who wants to marry him and returns to being in love and excited, selling his newfound hope for the future to his sister by showing her the taels. It is, however, not quite that simple. The silver turns out to be stolen as evidenced by a mark of fire on its surface. Xu-xian falls under suspicion as a thief and comes to resent Bai-niang for placing him in such a difficult and embarrassing position.
Nevertheless, despite all the strange goings on such as the suddenly "abandoned" house, the green smoke, and vanishing women, Xu-xian does not seem to suspect that Bai-niang is not fully human, and is only angry with her for misusing him. In a motif which will be repeated, however, he is eventually won over. After taking a job in his sleazy uncle's inn, he re-encounters Bai-niang and realises she really is the one for him. But as they begin to build their life together, launched with an unwise loan from the sleazy uncle who can't seem to keep his eyes (and occasionally hands) off Bai-niang, doubt begins to creep in. Those small cracks are deepened when Xu-xian is accosted by a man who announces himself as a Taoist from Mount Ji and tells him that he has an evil aura over his head, encouraging him to believe that an evil spirit is slowly capturing his heart which why he's a little bit afraid to go home. The priest gives him some useful talismans, which are of course quite bad news for Bai-niang who now knows that her husband secretly doubts her.
Meanwhile, prepared to do "anything" to make the man she loves happy, Bai-niang has come to the strange conclusion that Xu-xian's moodiness is down to the fact that their medicine shop isn't doing so well. Unfortunately, her big idea is poisoning the local well to make everyone think there's a plague so they'll have to buy more of her potions. It's a fairly nefarious plan, but apparently all for love. As in the original tale, however, the real crisis once again comes with the randy uncle who uses the pretext of a local festival to try and get Bai-niang drunk on special wine that is known to unmask spirits. Realising that his wife is a little bit otherworldly sends Xu-xian into a coma, while Bai-niang goes to ask the gods for help, only to be undercut by the annoying Taoist priest who wakes Xu-xian up by convincing him his wife's "evil".
If you don't want people to think you're "evil", trying to drown the entire town might not be the best move. Bai-niang's refusal to give up on Xu-xian even when he constantly tries to reject her places her at odds with loyal servant Xiao-qing who is equal parts enraged on her behalf and exasperated that she can't see sense. Bai-niang tells the gods that the only witchcraft she used was the witchcraft of love even if that love caused her to try and poison the entire town, but now regards herself as nothing more than Xu-xian's wife and is willing to renounce her powers in order to save him. Once again, Xu-xian has a sudden change of heart, avowing that there are human women with the heart of a snake, and Bai-niang is a woman to him even if she's a snake spirit which is, apparently, the only thing that matters. Still, theirs is a love this world doesn't understand, and so only in a better one can they ever be together.
Tagged 1950s, 1956, Akira Tani, Bokuzen Hidari, Eijiro Tono, Haruo Nakajima, Haruo Tanaka, Hideo Unagami, Hisaya Morishige, Ikio Sawamura, Ikuma Dan, Japan, Japanese, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kichijiro Ueda, Mitsuo Miura, Musei Tokugawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Ryo Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Shiro Toyoda, Sumiko Koizumi, Tateo Kawasaki, Toshio Yasumi, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Yoshiko Miyata, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi
The Hotelman's Holiday (駅前旅館, Shiro Toyoda, 1958)
September 9, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon
The post-war world was one rife with trouble. By 1958, however, the horizon was perhaps beginning to brighten which means it was no longer too soon have a good laugh about how awful life could be. Nothing particularly awful happens in Shiro Toyoda's cheerful comedy The Hotelman's Holiday (駅前旅館, Ekimae Ryokan), the first in a series of "Ekimae" or "station front" movies produced by Toho, but it does amusingly rip a leaf out of Toei's book in having its community of feckless hoteliers band together to stand up to greedy yakuza stand-in barkers who are actively destabilising the local economy with their underhanded ways.
Our hero, "born in a maid's room" Jihei (Hisaya Morishige), is the manager of the Kukimoto inn near Tokyo's Ueno station. Kukimoto seems to get most of its business from large tour groups, particularly school children on trips to the city and religious organisations, seemingly unperturbed by the area's then scrappy working class earthiness. The problem is that there are rather a lot of inns in this small area (it is after all near a major rail station) and they're all competing for the same walk-in guests which means they're increasingly at the mercy of the local "barkers" who target travellers at points of transit and take them to certain inns in return for commissions. Even so, Jihei himself can often be found outside enticing passersby into the hotel to prove his managerial prowess.
The barkers know their worth and are beginning to get too big for their boots in shifting into the human trafficking business. Not to go into the finer details, the inns have a lot of ladies living on their premises on whom some of their trade relies. The barkers have been tempting the girls from the inns away from their homes and into potentially more lucrative though almost certainly less friendly occupations.
The central drama kicks off when the barkers try to abduct Kukimoto's maid Okyo (Mina Mitsui) who is saved at the last minute by intellectual student Mannen (Frankie Sakai). Mannen is studying law and working illicitly for several tourist information companies in order to pay his way through college. As such he's just another of the scrappy young guys trying to forge ahead in the precarious post-war environment. Jihei is, in a sense, pretty much the same. Born in a maid's room, as he says, he's very much part of the inn business and is proud to be a manager but also resents his subordinate position to the owner and the way they often treat him like a servant rather than the dependable employee he really is. His position leaves him feeling as if he's already reached his peak and there is no real future for him other than the status quo. That feeling of futility might be why he, Mannen, and some of the other hotel managers eventually decide that they need to "cleanse" the Ueno Station area of the barker threat.
Their resistance has a pleasantly pithy quality in that it relies on a perfectly peaceful method of putting up banners to encourage customers not to trust the barkers and to approach inns directly. As might be assumed, the barkers aren't very happy about their business being undermined and immediately begin threatening the Kukimoto inn, whom they assume to be the instigators, with destruction if they do not immediately cease and desist. Jihei thinks he has a solid plan and it does indeed defuse the situation but cannot ultimately rectify it. What it does do is give the inn's owners the excuse they've been looking for to part with him, and Jihei the impetus he perhaps needed to rethink his life.
As Mannen puts it, "our reality is preposterous and absurd", but we have to go on resisting because "happiness exists even in this world". The inn managers stand up against the barker oppression in the same way communities stand up against yakuza in Toei's modern gangster dramas, but like many of anti-gangster narratives, the corruption is so deeply ingrained that it cannot be entirely eliminated, only managed. Thus Jihei, also involved in a series of romantic subplots involving an intense former geisha (Keiko Awaji) and a diffident bar owner (Chikage Awashima), eventually realises that if he cannot change his environment he might be better to leave it, escaping to the sort of place where they still grow barley and travel by cart. Mannen too, their revolution failed, eventually takes off with Okyo to go into business in Osaka, giving up on his imagined future for a more solid present. Meanwhile, chaos rules in Ueno as crowds of travellers pour out of the station towards an uncertain future with only the barkers to guide them.
Tagged 1950s, 1958, Akira Tani, Arihiro Fujimura, Bokuzen Hidari, Chikage Awashima, Ekimae Series, Frankie Sakai, Hisaya Morishige, Ikuma Dan, Japan, Japanese, Jun Yasumoto, Junzaburo Ban, Keiko Awaji, Keiko Tsushima, Masuji Ibuse, Mina Mitsui, Mitsuko Kusabue, Senkichi Omura, Shin Morikawa, Shiro Toyoda, Toho, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd, Toshio Yasumi, Yaeko Wakamizu, Yayoko Kitano, Yu Fujiki
Twilight Story (濹東綺譚, Shiro Toyoda, 1960)
August 24, 2019 August 24, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon
Director Shiro Toyoda, closely associated with high minded literary adaptations, nevertheless had a talent for melancholy comedy and for capturing the everyday reality of ordinary people. A fierce condemnation of the patriarchal society at a moment of intense masculinity, Twilight Story (濹東綺譚, Bokuto Kitan), an adaptation of the novel by Kafu Nagai, follows an ambivalent author as he covertly observes the life and love of a former geisha daring to dream of romantic salvation while fully aware of the world's cruelty.
Set in 1936, the film opens with an author on a research trip who guides us into the world of the Tamanoi pleasure quarter which he seems to disdain but is drawn to all the same. Whilst there he runs into a nervous middle-aged man, Junpei (Hiroshi Akutagawa), who is later accosted by sex worker Oyuki (Fujiko Yamamoto) for use of his umbrella during a violent storm. A mild-mannered sort, Junpei is unused to the ways of the red light district and quickly makes his escape after being invited into Oyuki's home. After a swift drink, however, he returns and the pair begin an awkward semi-romantic relationship.
Despite his affirmation that he is single, Junpei is in fact already married if (for the moment) unhappily. Though he knew his future wife Mitsuko (Michiyo Aratama) had given birth to an illegitimate child fathered by her employer, Junpei chose to marry her anyway because he was in love. The pair married, they say, for "genuine" reasons but the father of Mitsuko's son continues to send maintenance money for the boy's education and his constant presence has begun to play on Junpei's mind especially as his teacher's salary is dwindling in this age of militarism in which educational hours are decreasing in favour of compulsory military drills. Meanwhile, Mitsuko also seems to have got religion and spends most of her time reciting sutras with the implication that she has begun to neglect her husband, emotionally, spiritually, and most particularly physically. In order to escape his depressing home life, Junpei hangs out in the Tamanoi where men's hearts are lighter and people talk frankly about love.
This is, of course, not quite the case, but the fantasy the pleasure quarters sell of themselves. Our jaded author is perfectly aware of that and broadly sympathetic towards the women caught in its web. Oyuki, a former geisha, has "debased" herself in order to earn extra money to send home to her family and pay the medical fees for her sickly mother. Her uncles constantly pressure her for more and she wonders if they are not merely exploiting her, using her money for their own benefit and refusing to chip in for her mother's care. Nevertheless, she is trapped. On meeting Junpei with whom she seems to develop a genuine emotional connection, she dares to dream that one day they might marry, that she could leave this life behind and build a stable family home of her own.
Of course, it's not to be. Like all men in the Tamanoi, Junpei is misrepresenting himself for his own ends. He is only using Oyuki as an idealised point of refuge from the unhappy marriage he shows no other signs of leaving. As the author points out, the men think they're using women but the women are also using them though they do so without calculation. Denied power or agency of their own, the women of the Tamanoi have no other option than to manipulate that of men, though the author sympathises with them so strongly that to expose the hidden "vulgarity" seems to him an act of intense cruelty.
Junpei falls in love with the world of the Tamanoi because he thinks it's more emotionally honest, but the truth is quite the reverse. Wandering through the narrow streets at night, the author pities the women in the windows, knowing that men come here to escape their isolation but there is no escape for these women who are forced to delude themselves that a better future is waiting in order to go on living. Meanwhile Junpei's colleague, looking back over his shoulder towards the young men in uniform, declares that he too has lost all hope for a promising future. With militarism on the rise, hyper-masculinity has led to a further decline in the already woeful status of women with even the girls' sympathetic pimp lamenting that the army, who have been rounding up sex workers for forced service in Manchuria, regard them as little more than products to be poked and prodded and giggled over as they are cruelly bought and sold.
Reuniting with his wife, Junpei is forced to face his emotional cowardice, that he was just playing with Oyuki's feelings in indulging the fantasy of an idealised romantic union. Oyuki, meanwhile, faces the destruction of all her dreams when she realises her uncle has betrayed her, her mother is dead, and all her sacrifices have been for nothing. On some level she may have known Junpei had another woman, but needed to believe in the fantasy of his love for her in order to make her life bearable. Even so, she now sees no other future for herself than a return to work shorn of all her hope. Toyoda's condemnation of the red light district is bleak and total, even as the jaded author himself becomes an ambivalent part of it, but the Tamanoi is only a symptom of longstanding social oppression exacerbated by militarist fervour as the lights go out all over town.
Tagged 1960, 1960s, Akiko Nomura, Akiko Togawa, Akira Nagoya, Akira Sera, book to film, Chisako Hara, Chuzaburo Wakamiya, Eijiro Tono, Fujiko Yamamoto, Gen Tanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Hiroya Morita, Ichiro Minagawa, Ikuma Dan, Japan, Japanese, Juhachi Kato, Kafu Nagai, Keiko Awaji, Keiko Chigusa, Kurumi Minegishi, Kurumi Shiozawa, Kyoko Kishida, Makiko Hojo, Masao Oda, Masao Tamai, Michiko Hayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Nario Nakahara, Natsuko Kahara, Nobue Mizuki, Nobuko Otowa, Nobuo Nakamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Shikaku Nakamura, Shiko Tanaka, Shintaro Oda, Shiro Toyoda, Sue Mitobe, Sumiko Hidaka, Tatsuhiko Kuroiwa, Tatsuo Matsumura, Teruko Nagaoka, Toho, Tomoko Ko, Toshio Yasumi, Yasuo Sunaga, Yoshiko Aoyagi
Marital Relations (夫婦善哉, AKA Meoto Zenzai, Shiro Toyoda, 1955)
March 17, 2017 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
Marriage is not always simple, but when you aren't actually married (and one of you is technically still married to someone else) the difficulties can be all the more pronounced. Often neglected in comparison with some of his contemporaries, Shiro Toyoda is best remembered for his often humorous literary adaptations. Marital Relations (夫婦善哉 Meoto Zenzai), based on a 1940 novel by Sakunosuke Oda and runner up to Naruse's Floating Clouds in Kinema Junpo's top ten for 1955, is a prime example of his style as it examines the unconventional relationship between a spoilt younger son of a wealthy family and a feisty geisha who nevertheless remains devoted to him despite his often insensitive treatment.
In the early 1930s, the oldest son of a wealthy family has scandalised his conservative father by continuing to consort with a local geisha. Irritated, Ryukichi (Hisaya Morishige) elopes with Choko (Chikage Awashima) assuming that he will eventually get his own way only to find his father is just as stubborn as he is. Ryukichi is already married though living apart from his wife who has a serious illness and has returned to her family with their only child, Mitsuko. Nevertheless, Choko and Ryukichi manage to live together as man and wife even without the official paperwork, installing themselves at her parents' tempura shop. Though the couple are happy enough, Ryukichi is unused to living without his family money and Choko soon has to go back to work.
Even in early Showa things were changing. Ryukichi, spoilt and made useless by access to his family fortune and previously secure path to succession, pouts and whines about his arranged marriage and the wife he's abandoned, emphatically demanding a free choice of mate even if she happens to have been a geisha. Choko, a working class daughter of shopkeepers, seems to have been sold to the geisha house to fund her parents' store – in fact, Choko's abrupt decision to leave the geisha house will also have financial consequences which Ryukichi claims he will take up with his father. Even if Choko were not a geisha, she would likely not have been accepted by the traditional upper middle class family and her constant battle is always for recognition as Ryukichi's significant other (or perhaps primary carer). Geisha she was though, and will be again thanks to Ryukichi's recklessness and mistaken assumption that he will regain his former status simply by being his father's son.
Not having had the luxury of a wealthy upbringing, Choko is (financially, at least) a realist and prepared to work hard for what she wants. Heading back into the geisha world as a hostess and entertainer, Choko is the sole breadwinner of their technically illegitimate union though Ryukichi cannot entirely break with his former habits, casually burning Choko's carefully balanced housekeeping accounts book, and eventually spending all her savings on a night of debauchery. Nevertheless, it's Choko who eventually takes the initiative and goes into business with a friend opening a successful night spot which cleverly caters to her internationalist clientele with a "traditionally Japanese" theme. Like many of Toyoda's women, Choko is a hardworking, practical lady determined to make a success of everything she does even if she's had the misfortune to find herself shackled to the inconvenient man child that is Ryukichi.
Eventually it all gets too much and Choko takes a drastic decision after receiving a cruel and thoughtless slight from Ryukichi's brother-in-law who has been adopted as the heir to the family. This shocking incident aside, the tone is largely one of comic knowingness as Ryukichi continues with his various schemes to wheedle his way back into his elite social circle while Choko spends her time working hard to create something new. Ryukichi is the worst of the old world – lazy, entitled, often selfish and thoughtless (if well meaning and resolutely devoted to Choko), whereas Choko is the best of the new – resilient, hardworking, honest and kind. Towards the end, having settled some of their differences, Choko and Ryukichi appear to have cemented their coupledom for good but are suddenly confronted with another ugly aspect of class legacy when a former servant (and sort of friend) of Ryukichi's passes them in the street now obviously raised in status, and blanks them even as they call out to him.
Ryukichi's sister comments at one point that her brother's personality has been warped by his strict upbringing and the pressure to conform to social conventions has meant that he doesn't quite know himself, though at heart he is good and kind. She may indeed have a point, honest in his love, at least, both for his daughter and for Choko, Ryukichi finds he lacks the moral compass which comes with needing to live in an interconnected society rather than the deference associated with being "the young master". Subtle political commentary aside, Marital Relations is a wry, humorous look at an unconventional family life as its put upon heroine does her best to rescue her consistently disappointing (if often amusing) unofficial spouse.
Tagged 1950s, 1955, Akira Tani, Benkei Shiganoya, book to film, Chikage Awashima, Eiko Miyoshi, Fukami Harue, Haruo Tanaka, Hideo Shibuya, Hisaya Morishige, Ikio Sawamura, Ikuma Dan, Isao Yamagata, Japan, Japanese, Katsumi Tezuka, Kichijiro Ueda, Kyu Sazanka, Mitsuo Miura, Noriko Honma, Rikie Sanjo, Sakunosuke Oda, Senkichi Omura, Shiro Toyoda, Shoichi Hirose, Sonosuke Sawamura, Toshio Yasumi, Yoko Tsukasa, Yoshiko Morikawa


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Global Dub and the Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend
Westword Staff | May 13, 2016 | 6:33am
Thievery Corporation headlines Red Rocks tonight, and the venue will host the Global Dub Festival (featuring Datsik, Bro Safari, Slander, Ghastly and more) on Saturday, as well as Bad Company and Joe Walsh on Sunday. The Denver Uke Fest runs through Saturday at Swallow Hill, and Lucius is at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday. See the full list of our picks below.
$42.50-$45/VIP $100., 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre
$28-$43, 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre
$10-$12, 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall
Jedi Mind Tricks & Immortal Technique (also May 14)
$22-$30, 9p.m. Gothic Theatre
$10-$13, 8 p.m., Bluebird Theater
Denver Uke Fest (also May 14)
$27-$130, 7 p.m. Swallow Hill
Possessed By Paul James
$12.50/$15, 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge
$39.50/VIP $75, 5 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre
$40.75-$49.75, 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre
$17/$20, 9 p.m, Gothic Theatre
Blaqk Audio
$20, 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater
$20/$25, 9 p.m. Cervantes' Other Side
Sun Drenched Music Fest
$35-$65, 12 p.m. Denver Beer Co. Canworks
Bad Company & Joe Walsh
$45.50-$126, 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Memphis May Fire and We Came as Romans
$22/$25, 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall
Rocky Mountain Bass Slam 2016
$10, 1;30 p.m. Oriental Theater
5th Annual Bringing Back the Arts Musical Competition
free, 5 p.m. Bluebird Theater
Orgy and Filter
$17, 7:30 p.m. Herman's Hideaway
Mac Lethal
$14-$16, 7 p.m. Marquis Theater
Youth on Record Day
free, 12 p.m. Youth on Record
Nine People to Watch in Denver's Culture Scene in 2021
The Best Concerts of the Weekend
Many Mountains Canceled a Tour; Going Home Was a Strange Trip


Deadpool Bi-Annual #1 (2014) – Comics Etc.
When Deadpool is hired by WaterWorld to protect their theme park from activists, he has no idea he's going to wind up face to snout with Brute Force-protectors of the environment! Look 'em up! That's right-they're real! Written by star of The League and NTSF:SD:SUV Paul Scheer and Nick Giovannetti, this is one issue sure to make a splash*! *This joke was not written by them.


Watch this video to learn how to make the most delicious (paleo, grain, gluten and dairy free) biscuits and gravy at your next Sunday brunch or breakfast.
Poke holes in the sweet potato using a fork.
Place in oven and bake for 45-50 minutes, until soft.
Reduce heat to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Once sweet potato is soft, remove the skin and add to a bowl.
Mash with a fork until smooth.
Add eggs and coconut oil to the mashed sweet potatoes and mix well.
Then add rosemary and thyme and fold in.
Lastly, mix in coconut flour, baking powder, and a bit of salt and pepper.
Using a large ice cream scoop, scoop out a full scoop of the biscuit mixture and place on baking sheet. Make 8 biscuits with the mixture. Bake for 25 minutes.
While biscuits are baking, place a large pan over medium heat.
Add Italian sausage to the pan and break up into pieces.
Once sausage has fully cooked, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of coconut flour to soak up some of the excess oil.
Add the can of coconut milk to the pan and mix well into the sausage.
Then add the dried sage and garlic powder and whisk into coconut milk mixture.
To thicken the sausage, add the arrowroot flour, tablespoon by tablespoon, whisking until the coconut milk thickens a bit.
Make sure to taste it for preference.
Top cooked biscuits with the gravy.


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The first book in the captivating, #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series! Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, glittering gowns, fierce intrigue, and a dystopian world that will captivate readers who loved Veronica Roth's Divergent, Ally Condie's Matched, and Lauren Oliver's Delirium.
I was looking for a quick, easy, light-hearted read... and I found it. The description originally intrigued me and I thought this might be something kind of fun. Unfortunately, this book was lacking in substance with a tired plot that's been overdone so many times that it almost felt like I could predict the next line in the story. The only difference is that some of these overused plots have been merged together... and not very well.
The setting is supposedly somewhat Dystopian, but unlike what we'd seen in Hunger Games or Divergent (books that have loosely been compared to The Selection), there is actually very little description other than rating people a number (1-8). Other than that, the world-building is seriously lacking. There's more of a focus on the actual dresses and the food that's served at the palace, while 35 teenage girls catfight over the prince's attentions. It was reminiscent of a bad reality television show in book form.
I had hope that there might be some redeeming qualities about the book. The heroine of our book came from a lower caste and was able to bring some of her experiences to the palace. Granted, these weren't exactly first-hand experiences... but she "knew people" who were lower caste. The relationship between the prince and America (yes, that's our heroine's name), was slow to build. She had left a previous love interest back home and was having a difficult time reconciling her break up with him. All in all, I thought that growing relationship between America and the prince was well done and very sweet.
But when a love triangle is the simple result of a girl not being able to make a decision and stick to it... or even worse, misleading, betraying or cheating on the person she's leading on... I'm done. Not only am I done, but I'm downright pissed off. I stopped reading the second book at 30% and have labeled it as DNF (Did Not Finish). It irks me that these types of books are being marketed toward young women as though these are desirable traits. In what world is it ever okay to engage in that sort of behavior and disregard concepts such as honesty and integrity? Stringing two men along because you can't make up your freaking mind is not romance people! Sneaking out to meet up with them behind the other's back is not romance! It's wrong!
As such, I do not recommend this series.


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Would I be right in assuming no methods are available for programming textframe properties in Writer? To test I set the macro recorder in action and made a text frame with custom size, frame thickness and colour. When I played it back it produced the text frame but without the custom frame style and colour. If Basic can do these Things would someone show me how? Thanks.
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It is wrong to equate the capabilities of the macro recorder and the capabilities of macros in general. If you want to do serious macro programming, you have to learn the API (Application Programming Interface) . Andrew Pitonyak's macro book and macro document (http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php) are good places to start.
Here is how to manipulate some properties of a text frame.
Many thanks for this help. You're right of course about the need to learn the API and indeed I am in the process. I have tried Pitonyak and got a lot of help there, but it's pretty turgid stuff at times, and assumes some familiarity with more advanced programming routine which I don't have. Otherwise the help available online seems pretty scanty and demands a lot of time and perseverance to find and adapt.
This works great except that it doesn't quite work for me because the result is a 'No such element exception' error message but this is only because in my language Open Office automatically calls its first frame not "Frame1" but "Ramme1" so if I change that then there's no problem. But it seems curious to me that you have to be able to predict what the name of the element is going to be - or perhaps it's possible in some way to determine that yourself?
The other curious thing that strikes me is that you must define parameters for each border individually and apparently can't just have a general borders.color=red borders.thickness = 50 or whatever. Or you can do as you have and define parameters for one of the borders and then just adapt the same to the other borders. Not that it matters that much of course it just seems it would be more economical to envelope the Whole in one line.
To hell with counterproductive "localisation"!
However, you don't need the automatically applied name to get access to a newly inserted TextFrame. If you don't create and insert the frame in one go with the help of the DispatchHelper, but explicitly create it first and then insert it using a myText.InsertTextContent method, you have a grip on the object anyway, can edit its properties, and also can ask it for its name.
(To be clear: I never used such a macro "in production". I'm not fond of much "document automation".
AND: The frames already inserted into the attached document partly got different properties -anchoring e.g!- due to changes I made in-betwen to hard coded attributes in the Sub. Generally the passing of parameters is a problem aggravating a reasonable use of macros.
AND: No "recorded" content there!
AND: The demo is 2 days old, and I forgot the details since, of course.
set me on the right track. I don't stop to consider whether I'm "fond of" automating documents or not, I'm just interested in cutting out boring repetitive work wherever possible. For a secretary for example such a macro might easily reproduce an identical letter to a hundred recipients from a data base, with individual address labels. Not that I'm not aware that there probably are a hundred other ways of doing something like that, which might also be better, but that is just an example. It's satisfying just to know you can do it yourself if needs be, without any fancy expensive tools. I think with your help I now have full control over TextFrames! And this is much faster than waiting for Open Office to go through it's wakeup routine with splash screen and all, and THEN having to find the blinking code buried in the macro library by first opening a dialog, then selecting the correct library then searching through the modules and finally clicking the Sub you want executed. Don't take my word for it - try it!


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Western Architecture and Idealism
Posted on May 22, 2014 by Richard J Williams
NOTE: Extracts from a much longer talk given at Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, on 20 May 2014. The audience was art historians and the event accompanied the exhibition ART AND IDEALISM at the university's museum.
'Talking to architects in Europe or North America these days can be pretty depressing. They might have plenty of work in Dubai, or China, but in their home patch, whether it is the United States, Germany or the UK, work can be hard to find – still, six years on from the financial crash of 2008. But worse, in some ways, is the pervading sense that architecture no longer has much meaning. It's a complex, difficult, labour-intensive and extremely low-margin way of making a living – but seemingly little else. Architects in western countries experience high levels of unemployment, and in work, depressingly low levels of pay, among the worst of the professions. And architectural criticism seems to be practically dead. At least, nobody makes any money from it any more.
'So the profession is in a mess. It's probably always been in a mess, of course. What has always saved it has been a sense of mission. (…) In the 20th century this was modernism. Modernism promised a broadly similar future in which mankind would live a better, healthier, more light-filled, and more rational life; the modernist future was a better place, and architecture was one of the key reasons why.
'I want to fast-forward now to a time – now – when any such consensus, and more importantly, any such idealism seems extremely remote. The world faces the same problems as before, but what is lacking now is any belief in the ability of architecture to do anything about them. Architecture has, more or less entirely lost its idealism. Where I live now is as good an example as any. Scotland, a small country with perhaps a fifth of the population of Seoul, was once a place that produced architectural ideas with global reach. Its early nineteenth century New Town is one of the most complete and convincing examples of Enlightenment town planning in the world. And in the period immediately following the Second World War, it embraced architectural modernism for social housing with an enthusiasm that exceeded even that of the USSR. Yet in recent years, the Scottish architectural profession has struggled to know what to do.
In Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, the authorities have since 2010 had the policy of demolishing all high-rise housing in the city. It has its own weird logic: locally the high rise has come to represent the 'failure' of the idealism of the modernist project. Glasgow's enthusiasm for towers now seems to the political elite to be an aberration, the memory of which must be erased. So the city has decided to remove all physical evidence of its modernization in the 1950s and 1960s and wishes to present this to the outside world as evidence of its renewal.
'The demolition of Glasgow's towers represents in an unusually clear form the loss of idealism in western architecture. For these towers – the tallest buildings in Scotland, and for many years the tallest residential buildings in Europe – will not be replaced with anything similar, but instead a patchwork of neo-vernacular buildings based on centuries-old forms. The retreat from idealism is almost complete here, and with it the retreat from architecture. So simple, low-tech and traditional are the replacements that architects are barely needed at all.
'So what has happened to what might be termed the 'idealism function' in architecture? Idealism still, I think, exists but now it is the look of idealism. Consider the work of Zaha Hadid. Or more generally, the architecture of the museum, an area in which the west is still – just – pre-eminent.
Here is a good example, also from the UK. This is the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum in London, built to a design by Norman Foster and Partners and opened in 2002. It is said to be the largest covered public space in Europe; it is certainly one of London's more extraordinary sights, as well as one of the most visited. It is in essence a refurbishment of the old circular Reading Room of the British Library, a building that used to lie at the heart of the Museum. The project cleared away the book stacks surrounding the Reading Room, faced all the surfaces in marble, rebuilt the neoclassical South Portico, and covered the entire court – which is on the scale of an eighteenth century London square – with an undulation glass roof comprised of x panels, each one different. Experientially it is a remarkable, singular place: light-filled, and gently echoing, it accommodates thousands of visitors on a daily basis, with relatively little fuss. Functionally it has improved the Museum a great deal, providing a space for circulation, orientation, as well as simply pausing in what is otherwise an exhausting and crowded experience.
'The architects' design contains an important element of idealism in the design of public space. In western modernism architects invariably imagined the modernist city is as a park, a free space open to all punctuated with buildings. Such a space was, in theory, open to all, and to all possibilities. Something of that idealism remains here at the British Museum. It's in part a utopian space of circulation, a moment in a much longer pedestrian route stretching 3 km from the mainline rail station at Kings Cross to the Thames. The architects wanted it open 24 hours.
'But what kind of idealism is this? One of Foster and Partners' specialities was, and is, the design of airports, and at the same time as designing the Great Court it was completing Chek Lap Kok international airport in Hong Kong (1998). Chek Lap Kok's outward form is nothing like the British Museum, but it does share with it a number of important principles: both are buildings concerned with managing very large pedestrian flows; both organize flow by providing a single, easily legible space; both seek to extract value from flow. This last point is significant. 'Flow' is the critical impulse that drives the design, but the flow in each case is of a certain speed and density that it can support, and generate, other value-producing activities.
And by 'value-producing activities', I mean, of course, shopping. The Great Court is, in essence, a specialized shopping mall, a fact confirmed by comparing it with any number of actually existing malls on the world. It contains shops, cafes and restaurants, and processes museum visitors into docile consumers. I have to say it does this extremely well. But the idealism is no more than that a residue. Where the open spaces of architectural modernism declare 'here you can do anything', the open space of the museum says, 'here you can do anything – as long as it is shopping'. Modernism reached out to something like the beach, a utopian space of leisure. The Great Court reaches out to the mall (…)
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Nahdia on May 22, 2014 at 10:00 am said:
What is idealism? I mean what different where the eras postmodernism dominance to those construction in capital and urban. . I though there are important to known beneficial meta idealism of construction when you search the truth in the object, as like as detective to investigating by metadata and sketch, How we includes their own perspective concerning the idealism of building? The functionalism is vital in order to imagine, it would be almost impossible for out from `micro of cosmos ` to `macro of cosmos` looking us the meta determination forms. They are from ordinary knowledge to scientific knowledge and then myth -archetypal –knowledge I think. We are need understand to deeply by genealogy methods of those construction.This unforgettable experience convinced me that I had made the different is not sophisticated, Mythology of idealism images were used as allegories for basic conflict in human nature, such as the bttle between reason and passion. Such allegories could also be seen as symbols of a struggle between empirisist and idealist. However Renaissance those Mythologist were be found relief sculptures portrayed hall or tower side by side. that teachings belong to ancient Greeks, concerning stories implicitly representational arts, vasepaintings, votive gifts or origins building… so In view of this facts, landscape of art different to landscape capital city oriented. I measure economic needs on the basic of landscape are presence of a variety of art consumption item or investor by tourist etc. Nevertheless I seem desire of sex and management to construction the landscapes should be come after desire reacts from many investor coming although willing to acquire the landscape on the history, were afraid to do, and lest they should be ruined investment later, if they have choose a something different in the landscape felt culture and heritages as near artifact. They have not leave among presence as home stay, kitchen symbols (traditional market likes cave, sea food, fast food, Mac Donald, Pizza Hut, Spagetty etc.) and wide lawn or apartment with higher than the landscape as hotel or market by public garage were built more the door infront of the landscape, they will not convert to choose them.


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J.C Penny, Sears, Macy's and Kmart Store Closures
Written by APRO Deputy Executive Director Richard May
J.C. Penny, Sears, Macy's and Kmart closing stores due to "market corrections". Penny's announces the closure of 130 to 140 stores plus offering buyouts to 6000 workers. Macy's is planning on 100 store closings. Sears will close 150 stores and Kmart looks to close 108 stores. These department store closings are reflective of a trend of closures over the past decade. On the flip side, Amazon's growth has grown to $120 billion since their beginning in 1997 and their growth doesn't seem to be slowing. "Traditional department stores are having trouble with millennials," says Paul Whaba, writer for Fortune Magazine. Experts say millennials are more interested in an in-store shopping experience or a no-shopping experience through a couple of clicks on the Internet and a next-day delivery. The shift of on-line sales to brick and mortar sales has repercussions all around. "It became apparent to us that our footprint was too large," Penney CEO Marvin Ellison said. The closures will "allow us to raise the overall brand standard of J.C. Penney" and invest in remaining stores. Analysts also speculate that remaining department stores may reduce the size of the stores and look for different brands to distinguish themselves rather than compete with the on-line outlets and their prices of the same goods. "This is just a market correction,'' Farla Efros, president of HRC Retail Advisory, said in an interview. "There were too many stores, and too many retailers and too much noise in the market.'' Paul Whaba attributes the 'market correction' to department stores not keeping up with the new age. "The same old, same old is the road to ruin," remarks Wahba. The lack of innovation by department stores and retail outlets have been a topic of criticism these outlets have struggled with in the past decade. Whaba says to draw people back into stores "products need to be visually appealing, interactive" with the sales people leading the conversation rather than directing a sales pitch.


In 1644, Edward Winslow is chosen governor of Plymouth. The original Plymouth settlement has become small and bare, since most of the population has moved to surrounding towns. A group of church leaders agrees to move the new Plymouth church to a nearby place called Nauset, some fifty miles away. Realizing that nobody will come to such a remote church, the leaders change their decision. However, the new church is already under construction by this time. When it's finally completed, almost nobody attends it.
The Pilgrims again face logistical challenges: the community is becoming more and more spread out, and therefore less culturally and economically unified. But although the pilgrims become more spread out geographically, they're still united in their opposition to Native Americans—as Bradford will show later in the following chapter.
The same year, a conflict breaks out with the Narragansett Indians. The Narragansett urge the Massachusetts Governor to support a retaliatory war against Uncas. The Governor forbids such a conflict, and threatens to start a war if the Narragansett harm Uncas. However, the Narragansett kill many of Uncas's men. Uncas asks for support from the United Council, and the Council agrees, but makes it known that they'll enforce peace between tribes. The Narragansett seem to accept peace, and promise to send their men to the United Council for punishment if they should attempt to attack Uncas's Monhig tribe.
The United Council bills itself as a peacekeeping force, whose sole purpose is to protect its own citizens. Indeed, the Council was partly designed to promote peaceful trade, to the collective advantage of the English settlers in New England. The Council had an incentive to intervene in the conflict between the Native Americans, then, because the conflict interfered with trading.
Arn, Jackson. "Of Plymouth Plantation Book 2, Chapter 24." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 21 Jun 2017. Web. 20 Apr 2019.
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Hurriyat (G) protests at Hyderpora against rights violations
Srinagar: November 30: Hurriyat Conference (G) on Friday organized a protest march at Hyderpora Srinagar against what they termed as gross human rights violation committed by the forces in length and breadth of the state.
According to a statement issued to KNO, the protestors displayed the placards and banners to highlight their demands to safeguard their political and civil rights with reference to the movement for right to self-determination. Senior members of Majlis Shoora and other representatives who participated in the protest march include.
Devender Singh Beha, Mohammad Yousuf Naqash, Syed Saleem Zargar, Mohammad Rafiq Uwasi, Molvi Bashir Irfani, Mohammad Yaseen Aataie, Khawaja Firdious, Syed Imtiyaz Haider, Rameez Raja, Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Maqbool Maghami, Mubashir Iqbal, Arshad Aziz, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Arshad Hussain, Riyaz Ahmad and Abdul Rashid in addition to hundreds of youth and other activists. Addressing the gathering at Hyderpora, Hurriyat (G) leader said that "the Indian policy of suppression and repression in Jammu and Kashmir has failed to yield any positive results for India."
"Through the elongated period of ordeal and barbarism since 1947, India is currently facing a powerful people's political movement for right to self-determination in every nook and corner of the state of Jammu and Kashmir," he said. Meanwhile, amalgam chairman, Syed Ali Geelani condoled the demise of mother-in-law of Dr. Mohammad Shafi Khan (Sharyati), who is facing life imprisonment.
Geelani in a statement said families of prisoners particularly those with life imprisonment have a very tough and painful life and if some dear one departs in between, the pain and agony gets multifold for such families. "We share the grief with Dr. Shafi sahab and the bereaved family and pray for eternal peace of deceased and courage for the family to bear this painful loss," he said.(KNO)
Sever Lolab boycotts Panchayat polls against forces 'highhandedness'
Army chief made childish statement, tantamount to accepting humiliating defeat: JRL


The Same Same but Different offer is coming together quick!
The Same Same but Different offer is coming together quick! The first batch of shipping labels are being printed today and that's about half of the orders. We are expecting to get the second half out Saturday or Monday but we've also got some big changes coming.
Change is hard for me and I've been teetering on the edge of using a carting system on the website since it was created a few years ago. It's ready and I'm not sure I'll ever be truly ready so with lots of support from the Lullaby Links team I'm going to go ahead and go for it.
It seems fitting to start out with the pieces offered from the Same Same but Different offer and that's what we are going to do. There is a limited quantity of centerpieces and chains available for purchase in the cart, right now! Pieces purchased there will still be being made to order and the turn around time will still be about 3-6 weeks. Shipping will be added and tax for orders shipping within California.
In the meantime I'll be getting the current orders shipped out, working on an itty bitty collection for the next offer and may put up another call for smiles this or next Sunday.