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Crayon Shin-Chan creator likely committed suicide, but the Japanese media of course does not want to admit this, par for the course, cover up cover up
Crayon Shin-Chan creator Yoshito Usui most likely committed suicide, but the Japanese media of course does not want to admit this, par for the course, cover up cover up...
It will come out later that the creative artist suffered from midlife clinical depression, the kind that blots out your life and turns every day into a deep black pit, and there is no cure for this. Many arists and writers suffer from this, and common people too. It is a disease of midlife. William Styron had it, Art Buchwald had it, many creative geniuses have it, even the great film director of the Noodles movie TAMPOPO, he suffered from clinical depression too. How did I know this? I am a doctor's son. The media cannot fool me with their police denials. I know the truth when I see it. Usually. I am often wrong, too.
Yoshito Usui, cartoonist of the popular ''Crayon Shinchan'' series adapted ... Looks like a suicide. However, unexpected and unannounced appearance at some ...
Although there was no suicide note or any direct evidence to believe the artist wanted to die, some of the themes in his manga had been causing some to wonder about his mental state, for example a story he drew in 2007 in which the fiancee of the teacher Ume Matsuzaka was killed in a terrorist act while overseas, forcing Matsuzaka to contemplate suicide herself.
Someday the truth will come out. Japan does not like to admit unseemly things unless confronted with the evidence. Family face and all that!
Police have ruled out suicide in the death of the creator of the Shin-chan series having reviewed the last photos taken by the creator moments before his death. It appears he was trying to take a precarious photo of the cliff from which he fell. They added there was no sign of a suicide note.
YOU SEE, if it is reported that Usui committed suicide, his wife and his kids will lose face, one, and two, his production company for the cartoons and his book company will have a harder time MAKING MONEY in the future if he is known as the suicide cartoonist. So keep it Japanese and untruthful, tell everyone he slipped at the top of a huge cliff, taking photos, by himself, SURE SURE SURE~!
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 12:12 AM 3 comments:
你的英文名字 可以很台灣
◎Terry Huang & Biko Lang
LETTER TO LIBERTY TIMES newspaper in Taiwan, September 20
很多年前,日本的英文媒體就開始採用西方的習慣,譯寫日本人的英文姓名,也就是名字在前,姓氏在後。典型的政治人物譯寫實例有:Junichiro Koizumi(小泉)、Yukio Hatoyama(鳩山)等等。在媒體帶動之下,更多日本政商界以及演藝圈的人士也相繼依樣印製他們的名片,名字在前,姓氏在後。
我們覺得台灣的國人可以借鏡日本人的姓名譯寫風格,以便與西方社會更緊密地接軌。因此,我們呼籲台灣以及國外的英文媒體,以Ying-jeou Ma, Shui-bian Chen, Teng-hui Lee等等譯寫方式稱呼台灣的現任及卸任總統。何況,它還有一個好處:就是借此與中國做某種程度的區別。眼尖的讀者,或許早已經注意到台灣和中國的姓名譯寫風格已經存在的差異。這個微妙的差異就在小小的連字號(-)。在中華人民共和國,人家是這樣譯寫胡錦濤:Hu Jintao,而不是寫成Hu Jin-tao。看來,中國人似乎已經貫徹沒有連字號的譯寫方式。台灣的國人只要能夠貫徹帶有連字號的譯寫風格,相信可以幫助多數的西方人士,更容易從英文姓名的譯寫風格區別中國人與台灣人的差異了。
(作者Terry Huang黃大河,為資深翻譯官;Biko Lang/Dan Bloom,美籍資深新聞從業人員;中文版全文見http://www.goodweber.com/?terry)
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 9:40 PM 1 comment:
Taiwan Tufts of Hair, or: HOW SOME FOREIGN MEN SEE TAIWAN AT FIRST UNTIL THEY GET TO KNOW THE LAY OF THE LAND
HOW SOME FOREIGN MEN SEE TAIWAN AT FIRST UNTIL THEY GET TO KNOW THE LAY OF THE LAND: "Speaking of my informal cultural studies of Taiwan, I had to ask this man, an uncle of my wife, if I could take a picture of him, because I was enthralled by the tuft of hair he displayed. I've never gotten over how many men here in Taiwan wear a couple of long scraggly hairs a badge of sagacity. I don't mean this in any way as an insult to a very friendly man. I just simply am still not used to seeing this."
LATER, THIS AMERICAN WITH RED HAIR WILL ASK HIS WIFE AND FIND OUT WHY SOME MEN SPORT THESE INTERESTING FACIAL HAIRS HERE AND THERE. ASK, AND YE SHALL KNOW THE ANSWER.
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 12:11 AM No comments:
Yang Ya-ching, French-Taiwanese pianist, kisser, romantic, storyteller
http://www.asianoffbeat.com/search.asp?q=Kiss%20100%20Men%20in%20Paris,Yang%20Ya%20qing,Yang%20Ya%20ching,Taiwanese%20Girl&category=10000
A woman in Taipei logs onto the wretch.cc blog of Yang Ya-ching, to look at photos posted by Yang about her kissing experiences in Paris.
A Taiwanese woman's ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight web sensation in Taiwan -- and worldwide! -- after she provided details of the quest on her much-visited blog.
Mlle. Yang says she hopes to publish a book about her kissing adventures.
her blog is at wretch.cc/blog/angelduck777
http://www.youtube.com/user/angelduck777
A kiss just a kiss. Or is it?
by Dan Bloom
Contributing Reporter
Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a blog she keeps
about going after 100 kisses in Paris. Based on a whim she had three
years ago, and put into action this past summer in Paris, with 54
kisses under her belt so far, Yang is accompanied on her fishing, er,
kissing, expeditions in France by a Parisian friend, Chinese photographer Xiang Zhenhua,
who gets everything
on film and then posts the shots to her blog.
The colorful tabloid
newspaper Apple Daily did a big Chinese-language spread on her in
September, she's been written up -- and pictured -- in newspapers from
Sydney to New York, and she's all over the French internets as well.
The Taipei Times ran a brief story about her from the local office of
the Germany-based Deutsche Press Agentur news agency on September 12.
Recently, the Taipei Times caught up with the kissing classical piano
student and asked her a few questions by email.
When asked what was the initial inspiration for her kissing adventures
in Paris -- perhaps a movie or a book or a song -- Yang said that
there was no specific event or inspiration that set her off on her
seemingly quixotic quest.
"So many people have asked me this question, about what inspired me to
do this, but I really couldn't tell you
the exact answer," Yang said. "The idea flashed in my mind about three
years ago, for no apparent reason, it just came to me, and I didn not
act on it then, but I flashed again in my mind this year for no reason
either. I felt that since the idea would not go away, and that is came
back to me again ths year, maybe it was time to do something about it.
So I did."
When asked how her mother and father in Taiwan were reacting to the
news about their "kissing daughter" -- both in the local newspapers in
Taiwan and in many newspapers around the world as well -- Yang said
she her parents were completey supportive.
"My parents always taught me, and instilled in me, that I should
always be true to myself and follow my own inclinations, independently
of how others look at me, although without going overboard of course,"
she said. "So I felt very positive about this kissing idea, and I knew
it was a good thing for me to do. My parents knew about what I was
doing, and they completely supported me, stood behind me on this, from
the very beginning of the media glare that my blog created. They also
anticipated the pressure that Taiwanese society might put upon them,
but they are bearing it well. In fact, my parents' positive reactions
and support have touched me deeply in the way that they have shown
unconditional love for me on this. They are great people and wonderful
parents. A daughter couldn't ask for better parents."
Yang, who speaks French and English, in addition to Chinese and
Taiwanese, went to National Taichung Second Senior High School and
then studied at Shih Chien University in Taipei where she majored in piano. She
first began to learn French when she was 25 when she went to Paris to get a master's degree
in classical piano, she said.
Yang has been studying in Paris for the past two years, and some of her piano recitals
have been posted on YouTube as well. She said plans
to perform as part of a chamber group when she returns to Taiwan next
"I enjoy playing chamber music with a group, with others on different
instruments in addition to the piano," she said. "I hope to do more of
that when I return to Taiwan."
When asked who her favorite composer is, Yang said: "Oh, that's easy. I absolutely love the music of Maurice Ravel, and in fact that is why I chose to come to France to continue my piano studies. I really love French music, I feel it matches my soul. Of course, I like other composers as well; all classical music is so beautiful."
With the photos and posts on her blog getting worldwide attention, not
to mention more than a million hits from Internet surfers in Taiwan,
Yang has toyed with the idea of putting her project on paper in the
form of a picture book. She said that some publishers in Taiwan have
already contacted her about turning her blog into a book, although she
hasn't decided yet what the title will be.
"The book will most likely be a pictorial edition with an accompanying
text, and we will try to connect the words with the photographs," Yang
said. "I haven't decided who the publisher in Taipei will be yet. I'm
planning to be back in Taiwan soon, in the future, and I have some job
interviews already lined up in the next few months. I've enjoyed my
life and studies in France, but I am definitely going back to Taiwan.
Taiwan is my home. The book will be published there, first. If there
are any foreign editions later, that will be great, too."
Her book might be titled "A Hundred Kisses", or "One Hundred Messages
From a Kiss", Yang said, adding that she would love to hear from
readers of her blog what titles they might suggest, too.
When asked what a kiss meant to her growing up in Taiwan, and what
kisses mean to her now as an adult, Yang grew philosophical.
"The meaning, the message, from a kiss is beyond words, beyond my
imagination," Yang said. "Even just a light brief kiss on the lip has
its meaning, and each person, I believe, has their own unique style of
kissing. For example, there's the tender kisser with his rather soft
and tender kiss, and then there's the naughty kisser with his -- how
shall I say it? -- exiciting and 'fun' kiss. So, in fact, every kiss
is very special and individualistic, in my experience of things."
"In Taiwan, where I grew up, a kiss was something different from what
I have seen here in Paris," Yang added. "Back home, a kiss was
regarded as a kind of promise, to stay together for a long time, maybe
forever, since most people are more conservative about kissing than
here in France. I can now imagine, yes, kissing my Mr. Right someday.
I haven't found him yet."
Kisses, especially kisses in public, did not come easily to Yang at
first, she said.
"My parents didn't kiss in front of me, never, and when I watched
kissing scenes in movies as a child and teenager in Taiwan, I was very
shy about looking at the TV or movie screen," she explained. "It
wasn't until I went to college, when I entered university, that I
became more comfortable watching those kinds of movies."
"And of course, coming to Paris two years to study classical piano,
being in this very romantic city really opened my eyes and my heart to
understand what kissing is really all about," she added. "Now I feel
it is very romantic to watch kissing screnes in a movie, and to me,
now, a kiss seems like an amazing exchange of very interesting
'energy' for both the people kissing each other. That's what I've
learned."
"A kiss is a way of passing on an intriguing kind of energy with
another person, and it's very
different from verbal communication," Yang said. "A kiss is very
subtle, very delicate, there is a lot to learn from all this."
When asked if she considers herself a shy or extroverted woman, Yang
said: "You kno,w sometimes I am shy, and sometimes I am very
out-going. People often tell me I appear to be a very calm and logical
person."
Last question: how old was she when she got her first kiss?
"Nineteen. My first boyfriend, in Taiwan."
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 11:28 PM 2 comments:
他山之石 – 英文名在前姓在後
By Biko Lang & Terry Huang
很多年前,日本的英文媒體就開始採用西方的習慣,譯寫日本人的英文姓名,也就是名字在前,姓氏在後。典型的政治人物譯寫實例有:Junichiro Koizumi(小泉)、Yukio Hatoyama(鳩山)等等。在媒體帶動之下,更多日本政商界以及演藝圈的人士也相繼依樣印製他們的名片,名字在前,姓氏在後。
我們覺得台灣的國人可以借鏡日本人的姓名譯寫風格,以便與西方社會更緊密地接軌。因此,我們呼籲台灣以及國外的英文媒體,以Ying-jeou Ma, Shui-bian Chen, Teng-hui Lee 等等譯寫方式稱呼台灣的現任及卸任總統。何況,它還有一個好處:就是借此與中國做某種程度的區別。眼尖的讀者,或許早已經注意到台灣和中國的姓名譯寫風格已經存在的差異。這個微妙的差異就在小小的連字號(–)。在中華人民共和國,人家是這樣譯寫胡錦濤:Hu Jintao,而不是寫成 Hu Jin-tao。看來,中國人似乎已經貫徹沒有連字號的譯寫方式。台灣的國人只要能夠貫徹帶有連字號的譯寫風格,相信可以幫助多數的西方人士,更容易從英文姓名的譯寫風格區別中國人與台灣人的差異了。
(英文版作者本名Dan Bloom,為美籍資深新聞從業人員;
中文版撰寫人Terry Huang本名黃大河,為資深翻譯官
英文版全文見 Taipei Times-Letters 2009/9/14
中文版全文見www.goodweber.com/?terry )
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 11:12 PM No comments:
Instead of writing President "Ma Ying-jeou" (馬英九) in the English-language newspapers here, let's start writing his name as "Ying-jeou Ma"
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2009/09/14/2003453524
THE TAIPEI TIMES
re: "The name game"
English-language newspapers in Japan have for many years been writing the names of Japanese people following the Western style: given name, surname. In addition, many Japanese businessmen and politicians have English name cards that follow the same Western style. I feel that it is time for Taiwan for start following this trend.
Instead of writing President "Ma Ying-jeou" (馬英九) in the English-language newspapers here in and in New York and London, let's start writing his name as "Ying-jeou Ma." As for former presidents, let's refer to them as "Teng-hui Lee" (李登輝) and "Shui-bian Chen" (陳水扁). After all, the English-language newspapers in Taiwan call Japanese politicians by their first and then last names —"Junichiro Koizumi" and "Yukio Hatoyama" — for example, and those names are well-known in the West.
There's another reason I suggest writing Taiwanese names in English news stories in the Western style: This style will help differentiate Taiwan from China, and readers in the West will come to understand that "Ying-jeou Ma" must be from Taiwan, since he uses the new system of naming, while Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) must be from China, since he uses the old system.
There is already a small difference between the way names are written in English in China and Taiwan: Notice that it's "Ma Ying-jeou" with a hyphen between "Ying" and "jeou," while Chinese do not usually include hyphens when Romanizing their names.
This way, foreigners understand that Hu Jintao is from China, while Ma Ying-jeou (or in the new system "Ying-jeou Ma") is from Taiwan.
Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 10:01 PM 1 comment:
Internet Manifesto...How journalism works today. 17 declarations
Internet Manifesto
How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
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1. The Internet is different.
It produces different public spheres, different terms of trade and different cultural skills. The media must adapt their work methods to today's technological reality instead of ignoring or challenging it. It is their duty to develop the best possible form of journalism based on the available technology. This includes new journalistic products and methods.
2. The Internet is a pocket-sized media empire.
The web rearranges existing media structures by transcending their former boundaries and oligopolies. The publication and dissemination of media contents are no longer tied to heavy investments. Journalism's self-conception is—fortunately—being cured of its gatekeeping function. All that remains is the journalistic quality through which journalism distinguishes itself from mere publication.
3. The Internet is our society is the Internet.
Web-based platforms like social networks, Wikipedia or YouTube have become a part of everyday life for the majority of people in the western world. They are as accessible as the telephone or television. If media companies want to continue to exist, they must understand the lifeworld of today's users and embrace their forms of communication. This includes basic forms of social communication: listening and responding, also known as dialog.
4. The freedom of the Internet is inviolable.
The Internet's open architecture constitutes the basic IT law of a society which communicates digitally and, consequently, of journalism. It may not be modified for the sake of protecting the special commercial or political interests often hidden behind the pretense of public interest. Regardless of how it is done, blocking access to the Internet endangers the free flow of information and corrupts our fundamental right to a self-determined level of information.
5. The Internet is the victory of information.
Due to inadequate technology, media companies, research centers, public institutions and other organizations compiled and classified the world's information up to now. Today every citizen can set up her own personal news filter while search engines tap into wealths of information of a magnitude never before known. Individuals can now inform themselves better than ever.
6. The Internet changes improves journalism.
Through the Internet, journalism can fulfill its social-educational role in a new way. This includes presenting information as an ever-changing, continual process; the forfeiture of print media's inalterability is a benefit. Those who want to survive in this new world of information need a new idealism, new journalistic ideas and a sense of pleasure in exploiting this new potential.
7. The net requires networking.
Links are connections. We know each other through links. Those who do not use them exclude themselves from social discourse. This also holds for the websites of traditional media companies.
8. Links reward, citations adorn.
Search engines and aggregators facilitate quality journalism: they boost the findability of outstanding content over a long-term basis and are thus an integral part of the new, networked public sphere. References through links and citations—especially including those made without any consent or even remuneration of the originator—make the very culture of networked social discourse possible in the first place. They are by all means worthy of protection.
9. The Internet is the new venue for political discourse.
Democracy thrives on participation and freedom of information. Transferring the political discussion from traditional media to the Internet and expanding on this discussion by involving the active participation of the public is one of journalism's new tasks.
10. Today's freedom of the press means freedom of opinion.
Article 5 of the German Constitution does not comprise protective rights for professions or technically traditional business models. The Internet overrides the technological boundaries between the amateur and professional. This is why the privilege of freedom of the press must hold for anyone who can contribute to the fulfillment of journalistic duties. Qualitatively speaking, no differentiation should be made between paid and unpaid journalism, but rather, between good and poor journalism.
11. More is more – there is no such thing as too much information.
Once upon a time, institutions such as the church prioritized power over personal awareness and warned of an unsifted flood of information when the letterpress was invented. On the other hand were the pamphleteers, encyclopaedists and journalists who proved that more information leads to more freedom, both for the individual as well as society as a whole. To this day, nothing has changed in this respect.
12. Tradition is not a business model.
Money can be made on the Internet with journalistic content. There are many examples of this today already. Yet because the Internet is fiercely competitive, business models have to be adapted to the structure of the net. No one should try to abscond from this essential adaptation through policy-making geared to preserving the status quo. Journalism needs open competition for the best refinancing solutions on the net, along with the courage to invest in the multifaceted implementation of these solutions.
13. Copyright becomes a civic duty on the Internet.
Copyright is a cornerstone of information organization on the Internet. Originators' rights to decide on the type and scope of dissemination of their contents are also valid on the net. At the same time, copyright may not be abused as a lever to safeguard obsolete supply mechanisms and shut out new distribution models or license schemes. Ownership entails obligations.
14. The Internet has many currencies.
Journalistic online services financed through adverts offer content in exchange for a pull effect. A reader's, viewer's or listener's time is valuable. In the industry of journalism, this correlation has always been one of the fundamental tenets of financing. Other forms of refinancing which are journalistically justifiable need to be forged and tested.
15. What's on the net stays on the net.
The Internet is lifting journalism to a new qualitative level. Online, text, sound and images no longer have to be transient. They remain retrievable, thus building an archive of contemporary history. Journalism must take the development of information, its interpretation and errors into account, i.e., it must admit its mistakes and correct them in a transparent manner.
16. Quality remains the most important quality.
The Internet debunks homogenous bulk goods. Only those who are outstanding, credible and exceptional will gain a steady following in the long run. Users' demands have increased. Journalism must fulfill them and abide by its own frequently formulated principles.
17. All for all.
The web constitutes an infrastructure for social exchange superior to that of 20th century mass media: When in doubt, the "generation Wikipedia" is capable of appraising the credibility of a source, tracking news back to its original source, researching it, checking it and assessing it—alone or as part of a group effort. Journalists who snub this and are unwilling to respect these skills are not taken seriously by these Internet users. Rightly so. The Internet makes it possible to communicate directly with those once known as recipients—readers, listeners and viewers—and to take advantage of their knowledge. Not the journalists who know it all are in demand, but those who communicate and investigate.
Internet, 07.09.2009
Markus Beckedahl
Julius Endert
Johnny Haeusler
Thomas Knüwer
Robin Meyer-Lucht
Wolfgang Michal
Kathrin Passig
Janko Röttgers
Peter Schink
Mario Sixtus
Peter Stawowy
Fiete Stegers
Translated from the German by Jenna L. Brinning
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Posted by DANIELBLOOM at 8:05 AM No comments:
IDEA: Write names of Taiwanese people in English newspapers and name cards in Western style, First Name then Last Name, so ''Ying-Jeou Ma''...
For me, I always use the
Western style when I need to express my name.
After reading your email, I linked to Taipei Times and also BBC news.
Oh, they really use ``family name first'' style for Taiwanese, while
Western style is used for Japanese.
Yes, I support your opinion. Actually, I think Taiwan should learn
more things from Japan, especially how they've been ``westernized,''
to make our own a moderner nation. Also, if Taiwanese want to be more
internationalized, it's reasonable to follow the Western way to let
people who know English have no problem to identify our names.
I have no idea how many Taiwanese will support this idea, but I think
it's a nice one.
Hiankun
Actually a lot of people here in Taiwan already write their names on
their business cards with the surname last, in Western style,.....
Many years ago, when Ma Ying-jeou was between government posts and
doing university teaching, I tried to contact him for an interview,
couldn't reach him, and left a message. The next day he called back
and said "This is Ying-jeou Ma." It took me a few seconds to figure
out who was on the line -- rather embarrassing.
XXXXX, an american businessman in Taipei, longtime expat
Distant Echoes under the Plum Tree..... by New York Times reporter Roger Cohen, writing from Cherence, France
Was the New York Times fibbing here or telling the whole truth?
by Danny Bloom
Did you know that a part of the deceased body of Master Li Tien-lu, the great puppetmaster of Taiwan, is buried in France under a plum tree outside the home of Daniel Rousel and Claire Illouz, who are friends and neighbors of New York Times storyteller (and respected veteran reporter) Roger Cohen?
Yes, and not just a part of Master Li's body; apparently a bone from the finger from Master Li's late son is also buried in Claire's garden. Shipped from Taiwan to France. Usually, Buddhists don't go in for this kind of thing after death. Or do they? Seems to me the New York Times told a fib here. Read on:
You see, Claire, a French artist, once studied with Master Li in Taiwan and loved him like a father or grandfather or deeply respected teacher and when he died, she apparently arranged for the Taiwanese undertakers to exhume his body and take a bone from one of his fingers and airfreight it over to France so she could bury it in her garden and tell all of her friends this wonderful story. Roger Cohen fell for it, too, and even wrote up the story in the pages of the New York Times. Which, of course, never tells a lie. Fibs, maybe. Roger won't own up to this. I asked him. He basically told me to "get lost".
So, according to the New York Times, the finger bones of the two Li bodies are buried in Claire's backyard in France, unbeknownst to anyone in Taiwan, because of course maybe this never really happened, but the New York Times likes to tell fanciful stories sometimes, especially when there is no editor looking over the reporter's shoulder, as likely happened in this case. Roger Cohen is a very good man and a very good reporter. But in this case, he dropped the ball I believe.
Li pere and Li fils. As you know, the old man -- one of Taiwan's national treasures! -- died in 1998 and his finger bone was buried under Claire's tree, and when his son died in 2009, his finger bone was buried there, too. Ask Roger Cohen. Read his article in the New York Times. Ask Claire in France. She has an email address and she loves hearing from readers in Taiwan, since she loves Taiwan, too, even though she only spent a few months here in 1975 or so.
You can read all about this amazing trans-Atlantic/Pacific global village burial story in one of Roger's recent Times columns. September 8, 2009 was the publication date and it appeared in Taiwan in the United Daily News supplement for the New York Times weekly English edition.
Roger's story is pretty amazing stuff. It's one of the those "East meets West" pieces, where a finger bone fragment of the master puppeteer of China -- er, make that Taiwan, but Roger really thinks Taiwan is in China -- is buried beneath a plum tree in a remote village an hour away from Paris.
Roger knows, because he was at the burial ceremony. Drinking wine. Lots of wine, maybe. too much wine, perhaps? Claire knows, too. She studied in China, er, Taiwan, with Master Li long ago. He visited her home in Cherence, France many times over the years, about 50 times in all. Well, maybe twice. Claire and Roger like to make things up. Roger likes to tell stories. He's good at it. He's a pro.
"We met under the plum tree," Cohen the storyteller says at the end of his story. "Or rather India and China met, and France too. As the bells chimed from the 12th century steeple of technologoy. Marrying East and West, past and future, life and death, the global village lives."
When I asked Mr Cohen by email if he really thought that Master Li's bone fragments were really buried in France (contrary to Taiwan law and Buddhist tradition) and if he really thought that Taiwan was in China, he wrote back: "Sorry, Danny, you're wrong about the remains. As for the rest, people can reasonably disagree."
Cohen explained in his original Times story -- and it might be true, and it might be a nice story and not true at all! -- that Claire, a painter, has a small shrine to Master Li in her French backyard.
"Back in 1975, Claire studied puppetry in Taiwan with one of the great glove pupppeteers, Li Tein-lu. They became friends and, in later years, Li often visited. Such was his attachment to Cherence, France and such peace he found in this French village, that when Li died in 1998, he requested that part of his anatomy find its final resting place here. At a ceremony in 1999, a piece of bone -- believed to be a fragment of the great man's finger -- [Ed. Note: from Mater Li's left hand? right hand? index finger? ring finger? Timesman Cohen did not specify, and when I asked him he refused to say...] -- was buried under the plum tree in France....This year, Li's son died. Naturally, he wanted to be close to his father. So arrangements were made ...as father and son, or tather tiny fragments of each, were united beneath the plum tree."
UPDATE: When I asked the editor of the New York Times Weekly Edition, which appears in English in the United Daily News in Taiwan, and where Cohen's column first appeared on September 8, 2009, if the claims that Cohen made about Master Li's finger bone fragments really being shipped from Taiwan to France and buried there, Tom Brady replied from his office in New York: "I've talked to Roger Cohen and the Standards Editor here at the New York Times, and all I can say at this point is that we stand by the column."
NOTE: If you'd like to conduct your own research into this "story", Roger Cohen can be emailed at rocohen@nytimes.com. He will tell you that he believes Taiwan is in China and that he stands by his "story". Claire might write to you too, if you email her in France. I did, but she refused to reply. Maybe because this "story" is not true at all, just a nice story. And hey, nothing wrong with stories. I like stories. But for the New York Times to report this as a "news story" -- which means it should be based on facts and that the facts should be fact-checked by independent editors -- is something that I wanted to look in to. I did. I am sure now that Roger Cohen made this story up out of whole cloth, based on a nice wine-soaked afternoon with his friend Claire in France. He should admit the truth now. But he won't.
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Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Attorney-Client Privilege
Sheila A. Bentzen & Hayley J. Kaiser
Rembolt Ludtke LLP
Our business litigation practice group has been closely watching a U.S. Supreme Court case on the scope of the attorney-client privilege. The U.S. Supreme Court examined the scope of the privilege earlier this week. Debate on the issue stems from an attempt to balance the need to encourage open and honest communication between attorneys and their clients while also preventing standard business communications from being protected under the privilege.
In In re Grand Jury, Case No. 21-1397, the Supreme Court will decide whether a communication providing both legal and non-legal advice is protected by the attorney-client privilege where obtaining legal advice is a significant purpose of the communication, but not its primary purpose. The Court's decision will have significant consequences for in-house counsel and attorneys who advise their clients on complex issues involving both legal and practical or business considerations.
In In re Grand Jury, a grand jury sought communications between a Bitcoin promoter who expatriated from the United States and the law firm that provided him tax advice and helped prepare his tax returns. The firm refused to produce documents relating to its advice, citing attorney-client privilege. The government moved to compel production of the communications, andthe firm was ultimately held in contempt for failure to produce the documents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's decision, holding that the firm must produce all documents that contained both legal advice and ordinary tax advice unless the legal advice was the document's "primary purpose."
In its appeal to the Supreme Court, counsel for the law firm argued that courts should apply the attorney-client privilege to a dual-purpose communication if one of its significant purposes relates to legal advice. Counsel noted that legal and practical considerations are inextricably intertwined in today's society, making it increasingly difficult to separate legal and business advice. Conversely, the government asserted that the attorney-client privilege should not shield a multipurpose communication whose primary purpose is non-legal.
At oral arguments on Monday, liberal justices seemed to favor the primary purpose standard. Justice Kagan noted that a majority of states follow the primary purpose standard, stating, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Conservative justices were divided, with some preferring the significant purpose test while others remained undecided. Chief Justice Roberts warned that the primary purpose test may be difficult for lower courts to apply and may increase litigation on the matter.
If the primary purpose standard is adopted by the Supreme Court, it will have significant ramifications for in-house counsel. Counsel will be required to disclose and produce communications containing both legal and practical considerations in discovery if a lower court determines the documents have a primary non-legal purpose.
Once the Supreme Court issues its decision in In re Grand Jury, Rembolt Ludtke attorneys will provide you with additional information. Please reach out if you would like guidance on how to ensure your communications are protected under the attorney-client privilege.
More information can be found at www.remboltlawfirm.com. This article is provided for general information purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. Those requiring legal advice are encouraged to consult with their attorney.

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Friday, April 18, at the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall
by Michael J. West April 18th, 2008 August 29th, 2020
There's a reason that Sonny Rollins is the most acclaimed jazz musician alive: The legendary saxophonist has made some of the most seminal albums of his era but regards even those recordings as throwaways for luring audiences to his real work on the bandstand. True to his word, Rollins' concerts are notorious for featuring things that either don't work or can't be appreciated on record: 90 minutes of dazzling variations on a single riff, serenades to fellow musicians, or the sheer spectacle of a 78-year-old sax man throwing his body into every note. (And that's at the performances after which the perfectionist Rollins kicks himself for having an off night.) Fans who expect an evening of music that sounds like the Rollins they loved on Saxophone Colossus and The Bridge are inevitably stunned by the contrasting version that they see and hear onstage—but never disappointed. Rollins performs at 8 p.m. Friday, April 18, at the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. $35-$75. (202) 467-4600.


Duet Display for iPhone and iPad has just been updated with some sweet new features! If you're a fan of Duet Display, you know it's already earned a place on your iOS home screen. In addition to Duet Display's host of previous goodies, new features abound. Today's update includes Touch Bar support. So if you've been pining away for the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, pine no more. Duet Display now brings the awesome feature to your iPad to use in conjunction with any newer MacBook Pro. The great thing is that this is not a clone but ties into the MacBook Pro's code to bring Apple's Touch Bar functionality to the iPad screen. Just another reason to grab this awesome app. You can always find more Cool New Apps here or simply subscribe to our Newsletters to get notified via email.
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Tornados has been played on NTS in shows including Los Hitters, featured first on 15 June 2021. Songs played include Just Can't Please You.
The Tornados (Not to be confused with the seminal surf band The Tornadoes) were an English instrumental group of the 1960s which acted as in-house backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions.
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Q: SQL Join issue with query columns I'm new to SQL and I'm attempting to build a tool. Basically I've used a JOIN to put two different database tables into one based on matching criteria.
My issue now is once I've done this how do i tell the query to look for particular columns in each table. I only need a few from both tables but my query currently returns all due to the wildcard. Such as column STAR from FDE_XML_VIEW and localColAlt from WKS_LOG_VIEW:
select *
from EXCDS1.dbo.FDE_XML_VIEW join
     EXCDS.dbo.WKS_LOG_VIEW
     on WKS_LOG_VIEW.AID = FDE_XML_VIEW.ACID
where LastUpdateMachine = 'R02' and
      LastUpdateTime > '2021-03-10 08:30:00.000' and
      LastUpdateTime < '2021-03-10 09:00:00.000';

Thanks in advance.

A: You could use variable names(aliases) for your tables and then select your desired columns using these aliases instead of retrieving everything
EXAMPLE
SELECT t1.id, t2.id FROM table1 AS t1
INNER JOIN table2 AS t2 ON t1.id = t2.table1_id
WHERE t1.id = 1;

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We're often asked about winterizing our campers. We have two campers. One is a big camper that sits in an RV park at a lake in the next state over from our base camp (a/k/a our house). The other is a 25′ micro lite that we keep parked in my mom's driveway that we take out whenever and as often as we can. Winterizing, as I'm sure you can imagine, is pretty much the same for both of them.
Clean – It almost seems like it's not enough to say "clean" since it seems obvious. Remember when you're cleaning you don't want to leave pleasant scents behind that attract bugs, mice, squirrels and chipmunks (just to name a few). So stick with using simple soap & water or bleach & water solutions and avoid strong smelling cleaners or pre-moistened, anti-bacterial wipes.
Wipe down all visible surfaces, paying special attention to those surfaces that are contacted often by hands.
Sweep, mop & vacuum all floors, paying special attention to edges and corners where crumbs could collect.
Wipe down all non-visible surfaces. This includes inside cabinets, drawers, the microwave, oven, fridge, freezer, etc. A good rule of thumb is if food or hands touched it, wipe it down. Remember you're not just trying to remove food particles or chemical smells but you also want to remove YOUR smell.
Move Out – This sounds funny, but what I mean is "pack" or whatever you have to do to get certain things out of the camper while you're not occupying it for a long period of time. You will have the most success of keeping bugs and animals out of your camper in your absence if there isn't anything there to entice them to stay.
Remove all food. It seems obvious that you should remove things that will spoil from cabinets or the fridge/freezer, but if you live somewhere where freezing could occur you should remove non-perishable cans and jars as well so they don't expand when freezing and explode.
Remove all linens. Pack up those towels, sheets, blankets, pillows, rugs, etc. Put them in a tote box and take them home. I have seen with my own eyes a mouse get into a sealed tote box and nothing makes for a cozier winter than a tote full of fluffy warm bedding.
Close up tight! Make sure all windows and doors are closed.
Prevent Lines From Freezing – Some folks run anti-freeze through all their lines and some just blow their lines out. We blow our lines out and sometimes pour a tiny bit of anti-freeze into the drains for anything water caught in traps that could freeze and expand. If you have any inline water filters, remember to remove and bypass before starting.
Put Out Deterrents – Now I say debatable because people who use deterrents usually swear by them and people who don't (like me) presume they don't make a difference. I will say I strongly believe that you WILL wind up with some bugs and mice, maybe even another kind of rodent. They come in because they can. They are looking for sustenance. If they find sustenance, they will stay. If they don't, they will move on. If you're looking hard enough you will find a couple droppings making you aware of their presence before they departed. I've never had a problem with rodents or bugs so I can't say these things truly do or don't work. I've never seen a mouse or other rodent in my camper, but have occasionally come across a couple mouse dropping and the occasional gnawed on acorn. I would urge you to just keep in mind that if it won't make them go away, it also won't deter them from coming in in the first place. So if throwing a cotton ball soaked in peppermint oil into a mouses nest doesn't make them go away, it also won't keep them from building that nest in the first place.Below I've listed some of the deterrents I've read about and some I've used. I've provided my experience (and some photos) so you can make your own decisions when it comes to deterrents.
Peppermint oil – This is one I've tried over and over. I've set out cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil and sprayed surfaces down with a peppermint oil/water solution. The reason I've tried this one so much is because I also heard spiders don't like peppermint oil. I can tell you from firsthand "saw it with my own eyes" experience that spiders don't give a crud one way or another about peppermint oil. The spiders we have at the lake will literally walk right over wherever I've sprayed with the oil.
Bounce dryer sheets – This is the first year I haven't laid out dryer sheets in my campers. Every other year I have. While I've never found mice that have stayed and nothing destroyed, etc., I have found the occasional excrement on a dryer sheet. I'm not sure how well they're working if mice walk across them and poop on them, unless they're using them as a puppy pad – potty training mice! HAHA Even though I'm not convinced it works I've been nervous to jinx myself by not using them until this year. I'll update everyone once we open them up in the Spring as to how well it went without dryer sheets.
Moth balls outside – This one I haven't tried before but do know someone who literally flooded the entire outside perimeter of their camper. (You could smell it a half block away. LOL) The bad news is it didn't work. They had a dead mouse in their toilet bowl, mouse droppings all over their countertops and some damaged cushions from their chewing.
Steel Wool – Steel wool RUSTS! I found this out the hard way. I placed steel wool in corners of the slides in hopes rodents couldn't get in passed it. We had a rainy spring causing the air in the camper and outside to be humid and the wool rusted, leaving stains on everything it had come in contact with.
There are a number of reasons for winterizing, but the main reason is to ensure you don't have lines freeze, causing damage to certain functionality in your camper, and also to try to keep pests out so they're not leaving excrement all over and destroying your habitat to create their own. There's a video below if you want to check out our antics while we closed up and winterized our lake camper.
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There are n lots on one side of a street (where n ≤ 500). We would like to erect at most k apartment buildings on these lots. Each building must occupy an interval of at most t consecutive lots. Moreover, each lot i has a height restriction r[i] (where r[i] ≤ 100). A building cannot exceed any of the height restriction of any lot on which it is built (that is, the maximal height of the building that can be erected on lot i to j is H = min{r[i], r[i + 1], ..., r[j]}). Hence, the maximum usable facade space of the building is H * (j - i + 1). We would like to have a program to select at most k non-overlapping intervals to erect the buildings such that the total usable facade space is maximized.
Consider a street of length 10. The height restriction of each lot is as follows.
7, 3, 12, 11, 13, 4, 8, 6, 6, 20
Suppose we would like to erect at most k = 2 buildings and each building occupies at most t = 4 lots. Then, to maximize the total usable facade space, we choose two intervals r[3..5] = (12, 11, 13) and r[7..10] = (8, 6, 6, 20) (see "Example 1" in the figure below). The maximum usable facade space is 3 * min{12, 11, 13} + 4 * min{8, 6, 6, 20} = 57.
Suppose we would like to erect at most k = 3 buildings on the same street with the same height restrictions as in Example 1, and each building occupies at most t = 4 lots. Then, to maximize the total usable facade space, we choose three intervals r[3..5] = (12, 11, 13), r[7..9] = (8, 6, 6) and r[10..10] = (20) (see "Example 2" in the figure above). The maximum usable facade space is 3 * min{12, 11, 13} + 3 * min{8, 6, 6} + 1 * 20 = 71.
The first line contains three integers n, k, and t separated by a space character, where 1 ≤ n ≤ 500, 1 ≤ k ≤ n, and 1 ≤ t ≤ n. The rest of the n lines contain n positive integers representing the height restriction for the n lots. For Example 1, the input file looks like:
The first line contains an integer which is the maximum usable facade space. For the above example, the output file looks like:
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Saint Pierre Vein Cut is a chocolate brown limestone make a striking design statement. Recommended for indoor applications, St. Pierre evolves from one block to another making almost every slab unique.
Saint Pierre Cross Cut features rich chocolate brown creating a warm homogenous surface.


Morella is a place where we argue for the integration into the territory of history and life, past and future. Professionals say this town's architecture is an example of coexistence, harmony, between heritage and modernity . A sort of theme park of medieval, Gothic and modern. There is a kind and wise combination all artistic and historical styles in town. The love of the town that people feel for Morella has achieved over the whole history not to break the visual and aesthetic armony. The beauty is rooted in urban life itself. And today several examples of this way of looking at the future of an ancient town may be enjoyed.
The School-Home in the Alameda , located in this huge park surrounding the town, is a building created by the prestigious architect Carme Pinós. A project that won the 1995 National Architecture Award . Pinós, who at that time shared a studio with the architect Enric Miralles, managed to integrate landscapes in designing a functional school fused to the relief of the mountains and numerous glass walls that let in light, sun and the impressive landscape of Els Ports.
Alongside this primary and boarding school is the new Secondary School, a project designed by the renowned architect Helio Piñón and was nominated for FAD Awards, awarded by Foment of Decorative Arts. The IES of Morella, located in La Alameda, follows the guidelines of the school by Carme Pinos, highlighting further the integration of the building into the natural landscape. Both buildings are simple constructions, minimalist beauty of an attractive in straight lines, the use of architectural elements and the transparency of glass.
In addition, Morella in the eighties revolutionized the concept ofintegrated architecture in heritage to build inside the Church of St. Michael the Health Centre of the population . The project, designed by architect Francisco Merino, is shocking to keep all the internal structure of the church, restoring, including the fresco dome and some chapels, paintings by the local artist Cruella. The Health Center is a set of independent glass modules in which the architect incorporated in the various chapels of the church.There is a huge and unique iron gate in the facade of this temple.
The restoration of the Gothic Town Hall building is another example. Project designed by architect Miguel del Rey which won a Prix Europa Nostra, the recognition of a perfect integration of modern and historic. La Casa de la Vila preserved, after recovery, all the splendor and beauty of the Gothic, incorporating modern elements that seem to float within the thick stone walls.


The Arapawa Ram was introduced by Captain Cook, a great British explorer, one of the first to discover New Zealand. Through extensive hunting, New Zealand is now one of the only countries left in the world where you will find, and can hunt the Arapawa Ram.
The Ram makes an attractive trophy and is a perfect way to end a big game hunt. Many of our hunters spot the animals while out stalking their stag, and decide to take them in the last days of their hunt. A full grown mature ram will have a full thick brown wool and a full curling horn making it a magnificent animal to harvest.


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  'use strict';

  // modules
  var CupcakeSnakeScreen = require( 'CUPCAKE_SNAKE/CupcakeSnakeScreen' );
  var platform = require( 'PHET_CORE/platform' );
  var BackgroundMusic = require( 'CUPCAKE_SNAKE/BackgroundMusic' );
  var App = require( 'CUPCAKE_SNAKE/App' );
  var SimLauncher = require( 'JOIST/SimLauncher' );
  var titleString = require( 'string!CUPCAKE_SNAKE/cupcake-snake.title' );

  // strings
  var simOptions = {
    credits: {}
  };

  var level = 0;
  if ( phet.chipper.getQueryParameter( 'level' ) ) {
    level = parseInt( phet.chipper.getQueryParameter( 'level' ), 10 );
  }
  var app = null;

  SimLauncher.launch( function() {

    // After the user pressed restart level or go to homescreen, this function is called
    // level = 0 is homescreen
    var restart = function( level ) {
      app.destroy();
      app = new App( titleString, [ new CupcakeSnakeScreen( level, restart ) ], simOptions );
      app.start();
    };

    app = new App( titleString, [ new CupcakeSnakeScreen( level, restart ) ], simOptions );
    app.start();

    if ( !platform.ie ) {
      BackgroundMusic.start();
    }

    // <audio autoplay="autoplay" preload="preload" loop="loop">
    //   <source src="audio/jewel-crusher.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
    //   <source src="audio/jewel-crusher.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
    // </audio>
  } );
} );

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import EmberObject, { set, get } from '@ember/object';
import { computed } from '@ember/object';
import { setProperties } from '@ember/object';
import { keyBy, groupBy } from 'lodash-es';

/**
 * INode interface. It represents a node in a graph, you can
 * specify the type of the payload (default is undefined) for that node
 */
export interface INode<T> {
  // unique id for a node
  id: number;
  // level of the tree that this node belongs
  level: number;
  // if node is selected or not
  selected?: boolean;
  // if node has loaded its data
  loaded?: boolean;
  // Custom data for the node
  payload?: T;
}

/**
 * IEdge interface. Represents the relation between to nodes, also,
 * it has direction, that is why it has from and to.
 */
export interface IEdge<T> {
  // edge starting node
  from: INode<T>['id'];
  // edge finish node
  to: INode<T>['id'];
}

/**
 * GraphDb helps us to create and query a graph with one peculiarity, it is divided into
 * two section (which suits the dataset lineage usecase): Upstream and Downstream, which
 * is represented as level -1 (upstream) or 1 (downstream). A downstream subtree will be
 * generated by adding children to nodes. A upstream subtree will be constructed add parents
 * to nodes.
 *
 * Also note that this graph is made to represent treelike structures with ability of a node to have
 * multiple parents but still having levels
 */
export default class GraphDb<T> extends EmberObject {
  // list of nodes in the graph
  nodes: Array<INode<T>> = [];
  // edges in the graph
  edges: Array<IEdge<T>> = [];
  // unique keys that helps to identity a node when only its payload is provided
  uniqueKeys: Array<string> = [];
  // internal id generator
  idGenerator = 1;

  /**
   * Index to access edges by from
   */
  @computed('edges')
  get edgesByFrom(): Record<string, Array<IEdge<T>>> {
    return groupBy(this.edges, 'from');
  }

  /**
   * Index to access edges by to
   */
  @computed('edges')
  get edgesByTo(): Record<string, Array<IEdge<T>>> {
    return groupBy(this.edges, 'to');
  }

  /**
   * Index to access nodes by id
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get nodesById(): Record<string, INode<T>> {
    return keyBy(this.nodes, 'id');
  }

  /**
   * Index to access the parents of a node
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get parentsByNodeId(): Record<string, Array<INode<T>>> {
    return this.nodes.reduce((parentIdsByNodeId, node): Record<string, Array<INode<T>>> => {
      const parentIds: Array<INode<T>> = (this.edgesByFrom[node.id] || []).map(
        (edge): INode<T> => this.nodesById[edge.to]
      );
      return { ...parentIdsByNodeId, [node.id]: parentIds };
    }, {});
  }

  /**
   * Index to access the children of a node
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get childrenByNodeId(): Record<string, Array<INode<T>>> {
    return this.nodes.reduce((childIdsByNodeId, node): Record<string, Array<INode<T>>> => {
      const childIds: Array<INode<T>> = (this.edgesByTo[node.id] || []).map(
        (edge): INode<T> => this.nodesById[edge.from]
      );
      return { ...childIdsByNodeId, [node.id]: childIds };
    }, {});
  }

  /**
   * Filter downstream nodes only
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get downstreamNodes(): Array<INode<T>> {
    return this.nodes.filter((node): boolean => node.level > 0);
  }

  /**
   * Filter upstream nodes only
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get upstreamNodes(): Array<INode<T>> {
    return this.nodes.filter((node): boolean => node.level < 0);
  }

  /**
   * Creates dynamically indexes for the payload to quickly identify nodes
   * when only payload is provided
   */
  @computed('nodes', 'uniqueKeys')
  get uniqueIndexes(): Record<string, Record<string, INode<T>>> {
    return this.uniqueKeys.reduce((indexes, propertyName): Record<string, Record<string, INode<T>>> => {
      return {
        ...indexes,
        [propertyName]: keyBy(
          this.nodes,
          (node): INode<T>[keyof INode<T>] => get(node, `payload.${propertyName}` as keyof INode<T>) as number
        )
      };
    }, {});
  }

  /**
   * Returns the min level of the graph
   */
  @computed('nodes')
  get minLevel(): number {
    return this.nodes.reduce((min, node): number => (node.level < min ? node.level : min), 0);
  }

  /**
   * Using the payload and the uniqueKeys index (which needs to be specified), it will find
   * the node that contains that payload
   * @param nodePayload the payload of a node
   */
  findNode(nodePayload: T): INode<T> | undefined {
    const node = this.uniqueKeys.reduce((object: INode<T> | undefined, uniqueKey): INode<T> => {
      if (object) {
        return object;
      }

      const index = this.uniqueIndexes[uniqueKey];
      const propertyValue = `${get(nodePayload, uniqueKey as keyof T)}`;

      return index[propertyValue];
    }, undefined);
    return node;
  }

  /**
   * Return is a node is a downstream node or upstream
   * @param node
   */
  getIsUpstream(node: INode<T>): boolean {
    return node.level < 0;
  }

  /**
   * Get all ancestor or descendants in a flat array
   * @param node
   * @param up
   * @param stopAtLevel you can stop at a certain level by the default the boundary of upstream/downstream
   */
  getHierarchyNodes(node: INode<T>, up = true, stopAtLevel = 0): Array<INode<T>> {
    let exploredNodes: Array<INode<T>> = [node];
    let currentNodes: Array<INode<T>> = [node];
    while (currentNodes.length !== 0) {
      currentNodes = currentNodes.reduce((newNodes, node): Array<INode<T>> => {
        if (node.level !== stopAtLevel) {
          const graphDbQuery = up ? this.parentsByNodeId : this.childrenByNodeId;
          return [...newNodes, ...graphDbQuery[node.id]];
        }
        return newNodes;
      }, []);
      exploredNodes = [...exploredNodes, ...currentNodes];
    }
    return exploredNodes;
  }

  /**
   * Add a node to the graph.
   * For the first node in the graph, parentNode or upstream is not required.
   * After the first one, parentNode is required.
   * @param node
   * @param parentNode
   * @param upstream will increase or decrease the parent's node level this the new node.
   */
  addNode(node: T, parentNode?: INode<T>, upstream?: boolean): INode<T> {
    let newNode = this.findNode(node);

    if (!newNode) {
      const level = parentNode ? (upstream ? parentNode.level - 1 : parentNode.level + 1) : 0;

      newNode = {
        id: this.idGenerator,
        level: level,
        payload: node
      };

      setProperties(this, {
        nodes: [...this.nodes, newNode],
        idGenerator: this.idGenerator + 1
      });
    }

    if (parentNode) {
      const edgeParent = upstream ? parentNode : newNode;
      const edgeChild = upstream ? newNode : parentNode;
      this.addEdge(edgeChild, edgeParent);
    }

    return newNode;
  }

  /**
   * Will add a edge to the graph making sure there is not already one
   * @param parent
   * @param child
   */
  addEdge(parent: INode<T>, child: INode<T>): void {
    const edge = {
      from: child.id,
      to: parent.id
    };
    const fromIndex = this.edgesByFrom[edge.from] || [];
    const alreadyExists = fromIndex.find((otherEdge): boolean => otherEdge.to === edge.to);

    if (!alreadyExists) {
      set(this, 'edges', [...this.edges, edge]);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Change node attributes in a Redux style (not mutating the object)
   * @param id
   * @param attrs
   */
  setNodeAttrs(id: number, attrs: Partial<INode<T>>): void {
    set(
      this,
      'nodes',
      this.nodes.map(
        (node): INode<T> => {
          if (node.id === id) {
            return {
              ...node,
              ...attrs
            };
          }
          return node;
        }
      )
    );
  }

  /**
   * Will toggle the node.
   * If the node is unselected, will unselect all children.
   * If the node is selected, will select the current ancestors path, and unselect all other nodes
   * @param id
   */
  toggle(id: number): void {
    const node = this.nodesById[id];
    const { selected } = this.nodesById[id];
    const upstream = this.getIsUpstream(node);
    let toUnselect: Array<INode<T>> = [];
    let toSelect: Array<INode<T>> = [];

    if (selected) {
      if (node.level === 0) {
        // unselect all
        toUnselect = this.nodes;
      } else {
        // unselect descendants from this node
        toUnselect = this.getHierarchyNodes(node, upstream);
      }
    } else {
      // select operation: Will unselect everything and select the right nodes
      if (upstream) {
        toUnselect = this.upstreamNodes;
      } else {
        toUnselect = this.downstreamNodes;
      }

      // Then select the right node chain
      toSelect = this.getHierarchyNodes(node, !upstream);
    }

    toUnselect.forEach((node): void => {
      this.setNodeAttrs(node.id, {
        selected: false
      });
    });
    toSelect.forEach((node): void => {
      this.setNodeAttrs(node.id, {
        selected: true
      });
    });

    this.setNodeAttrs(node.id, {
      selected: !selected
    });
  }
}


Made his debut with Primorje Herceg Novi, 1B (Montenegro) during the 2003-04 season.
Signed for te 2008-09 season by KK Mogren Buvda.
Moved to Serbia on January'09, signed by Zdravlje Leskovac.
On March'09 back to Montenegro, signed by Primorje Herceg Novi.
.moved to Bosnia-Herzegovina for the 2009-10 season, signed by BC Igokea Aleksandrovac.
Signed for the 2010-11 season by KK Mladost Mrkonijc Grad.
Signed for the 2011-12 season by BC Igokea Aleksandrovac.
Won the 2014 Montenegrin National Cup with BC Buducnost Podgorica.


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Language and immigration
The most recent round of talk about immigration reform has again brought language and immigration to the fore, and Chris Hayes has posted an important point, here (and graphic from there, from the Migration Policy Institute and you can click to embiggen):
Most proposals would require some level of English proficiency in order to qualify for naturalization. But as the Migration Policy Institute found in a 2011 report, even seemingly small differences in the level of English proficiency required for naturalization could determine whether millions of people qualify or are left out.
At the end of 2012, Miranda Wilkerson & Joseph Salmons (the latter a member of Team Verb) published "Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English" in the Journal of Transnational American Studies 4.2 (available here). They show that into the 20th century, German monolinguals in Wisconsin weren't marginal in some of the obvious ways people today expect or assume. Lots of evidence shows that the people in these communities considered themselves and were American, and they conclude that "an ability to speak English has never characterized an American identity".
They're building on earlier work where they showed that up to a quarter of some communities were monolingual in 1910, a third of those people born here. And the word on the street is that there's a diss coming that shows considerably higher numbers for at least one community in eastern Wisconsin.
Sure would be nice if people making policy got a little historical perspective on some of these issues.
Labels: immigration and language, Language and politics


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Pension Protection Fund issues pre-pack administration guidance
10 Aug 2015 | 2 min read
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) issues new guidance on pre-pack administrations
What is the significance of the PPF's new guidance in practice?
A pension scheme frequently falls as one of several of a company's unsecured creditors when a company becomes insolvent. Often this will mean that the PPF must meet the insolvent company's pension liabilities as there will be no funds in the insolvent company to meet these.
For some time now the PPF has expressed concern where a pre-pack is concluded and the unsecured creditors have not been consulted before this has taken place. In particular when a pre-pack sale has taken place to parties connected to the directors of the insolvent company. With these types of pre-pack sales, there is always the inherent risk of a 'phoenix' situation occurring, with the old debts being deliberately left behind and the directors effectively carrying on as before.
As a result, in future pre-pack situations, where no consultation has taken place, or where it has but the concerns of the pension trustees have not properly been taken into account, the PPF has issued new guidance outlining its intention to routinely propose the appointment of a new Insolvency Practitioner (IP) to supervise the company voluntary arrangement (CVA) or liquidation of the company post pre-pack when it is proposed that the same IP continues from the administration to CVA or liquidation.
It is presumably hoped in this way that there will be some independent scrutiny for the unsecured creditors, and may be a preventative measure for any unscrupulous directors who were looking to a pre-pack as a way of phoenixing their situation.
Full details of the guidance can be found here.
Filed Under: Pensions and insolvency , Pre-pack administrations


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And Im not talking about the cabin plastic noises .
Any solution ? , Shocks may be too hard? , any thing will make it better ?
BTW I did check the front end and seems good .
If cant be fixed I will have to learn how to live with that ... As selling it Isnt a option .
What are you running for tires and what size rims ?
Its the truck, not the breed. Any oem parts been changed out to aftermarket?
I was thinking more about it as I was dosing off at the wheel. It's not the breed, these things ride way too nice. Maybe the shocks are done for, or maybe your just getting old..
Lol yeah what he said!
I will be 49 next month and my 07 H2 Lux (no air suspension...) rides better than my Grand Cherokee! It IS a heavy vehicle with bigger tires and will ride differently. If the ride is THAT bad then I would check for a bad tire, blown shocks, dear caught in the drive shaft, etc... Could it also be that you expected a different ride than what the H2 can deliver? If you find something let us know!


Not always an easy question to answer.
I watched a documentary about a photographer recently, Bill Cunningham New York. Bill Cunningham had a circuitous route to becoming a photographer, even though he wouldn't call himself a photographer.
He started as a fashion designer. His specialty was making hats. Over time, he started writing for a small magazine in New York. This morphed into a career as a photographer. In his urge to capture moments in time, he turned to a camera as a faster means of capturing moments.
Today he has two columns in the New York Times. He writes about fashion with his camera. One column is about society events and the fashionable people who attend these events.
His other column is about everyday people on the street. He documents people he finds fashionable or anti-fashionable. He is great at spotting the most interesting person in a city of millions. From these people, he even finds trends as they are happening.
Bill is a very interesting man with a great moral and ethical code and a minimalist approach to life. His apartment, at the time of the documentary, is very small. It houses only a homemade bed, worthy of the most elite hobo, and more filing cabinets than you can count. In these cabinets he houses images from throughout his career. This house has no closet to speak of, no bathroom (he uses a communal bath down the hall), and no kitchen. His clothes are anything but fashionable but highly utilitarian. He travels the city on a bike.
Most interestingly, he still uses a completely manual film camera. Unlike artistic photographers though, he gets his film developed a a local photo-mat. He brings the uncut negatives to the Times' office where his art director scans the images and lays out his column.
Lastly, he never gives in to a code he lives by. Early in his career he decided to never accept food or drink at any of the events he was working. By all accounts he has stayed true to this. Why doesn't he accept these things? He saw his colleagues being swayed by the people they were there to document, and he never wanted to have this happen.
Many years ago I read The Shining by Stephen King. I was both scared and intrigued by the book.
Not long after reading the book, I rented a video copy (VHS at the time) of the movie. The movie was made in the early 1980's by legendary film maker Stanley Kubrick. As much as I enjoyed the book, I was equally disappointed by the movie.
Fast forward 20-some years later, I became intrigued in seeing a documentary titled Room 237. What first intrigued me was the image used for the movie on Netflix (on the left). The image is very stunning graphically. It is both simple and complex. The image pay homage to the hedge maze in the movie, the fact that the hotel is historic, and needing a key to enter the room.
never once see the interviewer or the person being interviewed. The documentary incorporates a series of film snippets from The Shining as well as other movies. Some are by Kubrick and some aren't. The style is very disorienting much like the movie is at times.
The film never gives a clear direction for what the documentary maker concedes as the underlying premise of the movie. There are several opinions presented. Some of the interviewed people think the movie is somehow tied to the story of Hitler and the atrocities he visited on the Jewish population in Germany and Europe. Another opinion thought the movie was representative of the plight of the Native American and the genocide of many tribes during the early years of the USA. The last, and in my opinion the weakest but most intriguing, was that Kubrick used The Shining to tell his personal and business struggles during and just after the US government hired him to fake the film footage taken during the moon landings.
There were compelling arguments for each case. I am still not sure I which one I buy, if any. They were all entertaining. Particularly entertaining were the paranoid ramblings of the gentleman trying to convince the audience that Kubrick faked the moon landing footage.
If you have Netflix streaming and a free couple of hours, check it out. Worth a look for documentary junkies like me.
Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" was obviously never a drug lord in Mexico.
Images of seized money, property and pets in a drug raid.
Our most recent project we were tasked with picking a famous designer and making a brochure about them and their work. To sweeten the thinking pot, we were also asked to design the brochure in their style. To further complicate things, our professor asked us to consider highlighting a designer who's style we didn't necessarily like.
During my initial research, I discounted the typical designers that I love: Paul Rand, Saul Bass, George Nelson, etc. I also decided that I wanted two other things in my choice: a female and a living designer.
Most of the examples the professor has are males. Why follow that narrow path? I wanted to research a living designer because… that is just how I role. No seriously, a living artist's work seems much more alive and vibrant. Same for designers for me. That is not to say that some of the other great's work can't be seen as viable and even still ground breaking. It can.
After viewing several females and their work, I settled on Paula Scher. I didn't love her work, but I did like some of it. However, none of it is in a style I would typically pursue. Particularly most of her posters for The Public Theater.
Digging a little deeper, I found out that most of her work is based on the idea of using type as illustration. I love that concept! Her most intricate work are her maps. They are huge (according to the photos I have seen). Lots of text all over the maps. Lovely use of text.
I am a slow reader, and for the turn around on this project, I was happy to find several videos online of her lectures and some interviews. My favorite one was a short documentary by the late Hillman Curtis.
After much research, I started to formulate my answer to the problem posed. Usually I have a hard time finding the right colors. This wasn't the case. Seeing Paula speak and getting a feel for her personality, I felt that she has a warm personality and she seems to be a likeable person. I decided that a sunshine yellow would be my primary color and a sunny grey would be my secondary color (this project was limited to two color "spot"). Yes grey can be sunny!
I found a nice portrait of Paula on one website, and luckily a lot of her work can be found in high resolution (but small dimensional size) on her Behance site. These images were perfect for the size that I needed for the brochure.
I wanted to mimic her The Public Theater logo on the front of my brochure. The rest of the side of the brochure that makes up the front, inside flap and back of the brochure came together quickly and easily. I used a photo of one of her maps as a very faint background image. A nice quote under her photo made up the flap.
The inside of the brochure was much harder. I had heard in one of the videos I watched that she came to hate the Helvetica rub-down letters from her college days. Couple that with the fact that sans serif fonts are prominent in her work. I thought that it was fitting to use Helvetica as the main font. Normally, I would pick a complimentary serif font for the headlines, but I decided to stick with sans serif throughout to closely mimic Paula's style. I picked a nice fat, League Gothic, for the headlines.
After seeing her maps, I decided to try and use dots in some way inside to reflect the subway maps on her New York maps. First, I thought I might try to connect her works with lines and dots. That didn't work too well. After a few other iterations, I decided that having some dots but in a more abstract way was more appropriate. I put a row of dots behind the headlines and the area showing several of her pieces.


...Charger problem, USB cable problem charging not done .
...phone is still going strong(only replaced battery last year) amazed me.
...After I used 1.5 years battery is gone and it's going dead slow speed. Frequently restarting problem.