The Youth Career Initiative (YCI), a six-month education programme that provides disadvantaged young people with life and work skills in leading hotels, launches its first training workshop in Mexico this week for hotel staff working with participants who have survived human trafficking.
Course attendees include General Managers, HR and training managers, representatives of YCI's local coordinating partners, and staff of local shelters.
The half-day training programme is also aimed at representatives from other partner organisations in the target locations for this project. This workshop is conducted with partial support from the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP).
The training has two main aims: to raise awareness about the complex issue of human trafficking, particularly within the context of the hotel industry; and to enable hotel staff coordinating the YCI programme to better support participants who have survived human trafficking. Facilitated by a team comprised of human trafficking experts, as well as hotel staff, the training workshop offers a general overview of the issue before delving into particular challenges within the hospitality industry. It also provides an insight into the victims' experience including the rescue and recovery process, while encouraging discussions about how to support the re-integration of survivors.
"The training course was developed with input from a range of local shelters, anti-trafficking organisations, governmental organisations and hotel companies."
Leading hotel companies participating in this Mexico pilot include InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott International Inc., and NH Hoteles.
As a new adaptation of the YCI model, this pilot project aiding the re-integration of survivors of human trafficking will initially run in three pilot countries (Mexico, Brazil and Vietnam). The first pilot is currently running in Mexico City with 45 young people, 15 of whom are survivors of human trafficking. The eventual aim is to scale up the project to involve all 11 participating YCI countries.
- Funding for this training workshop was made possible in part by an award from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons [S-SGTIP-10-GR-0078]. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of State nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
- The Youth Career Initiative (YCI) www.youthcareerinitiative.org is a six-month education programme delivered in partnership with the international hotel industry that provides disadvantaged young people with life and work skills. YCI aims to empower young participants to make informed career choices and realise the options available to them, enabling them to improve their employability and enhance their long-term social and economic opportunities. The initiative has been in operation since 1995 and provides a practical platform for governments, companies, and non-profit organisations to work collaboratively towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – in particular poverty alleviation.
- The International Tourism Partnership (ITP), founded in 1992 and part of the International Business Leaders Forum, brings together the world's leading international hotel companies to provide a voice for environmental and social responsibility in the industry. It works to demonstrate in a very practical way that environmental and social responsibility makes good business sense. ITP does this by highlighting best practice, offering a range of practical products and programmes and tackling emerging sustainability issues through its collaborative working groups. ITP's programmes and products include, among others, the Youth Career Initiative, the Green Hotelier online magazine, the Environmental Management for Hotels handbook, and Sustainable Hotel Siting, Design and Construction. The combined reach of the membership extends to over 22,000 properties, over 3.2 million rooms and over 1.5 million employees in over 100 countries worldwide.


In order to discourage smoking, the minimum price for a pack should be at least Rs 50 with an annual increase, Turi said, adding that the strict policy formulation is needed to discourage use of illicit cigarettes in the market.
The bank said that it would soon begin charging large corporate clients and asset managers fees on certain accounts to discourage large deposits.
o lawmaker, who is also a lawyer and certified public accountant (CPA), the measure hits two birds with one stone - it discourages people from smoking and, at the same time, will bring more money to the national coffers and thus increase our health care funds.
He said the base price for a 3G licence is already very high in the first place, which will certainly discourage collusion.
Dr Al Sharif, who is a former Deputy Spokesman of the Sharjah Consultative Council, said the decision will discourage Emiratis from joining the private sector.
Such decisions might discourage employers from employing UAE nationals and encourage Emiratis not to give their best," he said.
3 : to try to persuade not to do something <Don't let them discourage you from trying out.
Again, I propose that in order to discourage people from having anything to do with Caroline Street we charge them a flat pounds 10 annual fee for a licence, entailing an ID card with photographic evidence, that entitles them to use this cancer that threatens the very fabric of society.
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At the same time, import duties on wood-processing equipment are being reduced to promote the domestic industry while tariffs will discourage imports of value-added timber products.
He added: 'Since we advise that children should be discouraged from using mobile phones, we should also discourage children from placing their laptop on their lap when they are using wi-fi.
The extra fees are likely to discourage developers or make the for-sale units more expensive for buyers, said Chris Christensen, president of condoconversion.
Indoor relief, reformers believed, would discourage all but the truly destitute from seeking public relief and thus discourage pauperization, or as we would say, chronic dependency.
The defender on the opposing Trigger (X4) plays him aggressively with his hands up to discourage quick long throws, while still harassing all in-bounds passes.
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GAO concluded that the notice "discouraged, and may have been intended to discourage, responses.
For example, in the 1980s, the "coyness hypothesis" proposed that birds that consummated their pairing only after the arduous job of learning to duet would have a stronger bond that would discourage extra-pair adventuring.


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A Baseball Mystery: The Home Run Is Back, And No One Knows Why
Mar. 30, 2016 , at 12:29 PM
By Rob Arthur and Ben Lindbergh
Filed under Baseball
Hard to say.
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On his first day in office, in January 2015, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced his interest in "inject[ing] additional offense into the game." Over the previous several seasons, scoring in baseball had dropped to levels not seen since the mid-1970s, as an expanded strike zone, an increase in average pitch velocity, the rise of defensive shifts, and detailed data on batter tendencies had combined to keep runs scarce. Manfred mentioned banning the shift as a possible solution to the scoring decline, and he considered shrinking the strike zone and adding the designated hitter to the National League. But he decided to see whether the trend persisted before taking action.
After the 2015 season, Manfred congratulated himself on his earlier restraint. "What I said at the beginning of the year was that, before we made a judgment and started to talk about changes, that we needed at least another year of data," Manfred said. "Every once in awhile, even I get to be right."
He was right: Just as it began to seem certain that only a deus ex Manfred could rescue the sport from soccer-esque scores, baseball's offense came back from the brink. The only problem is that no one knows why, or whether it will last. To unravel the mystery, we examined the most likely suspects — warmer weather, better rookie bats and bouncier baseballs — completing our investigation by shipping a bushel of balls to a laboratory for testing.
A sudden increase in offense
Manfred's tune changed because of what he called "a really interesting uptick in offense late in the year … a statistically significant increase in scoring." Below is a graph of runs scored per nine innings in each regular-season month from 2000 to 2015. It shows a steep climb last August and September/October, and although it doesn't display postseason scoring — which is typically lower than the regular-season rate — teams averaged 4.36 runs per game during the 2015 postseason, more than they had scored in any month from April through July of that year.
Thanks to that late-season surge, league-wide regular-season scoring rose from 4.07 runs per game in 2014 to 4.25 runs per game in 2015, the largest single-season spike since 2005 to 2006 and only the second year-to-year increase of any size in that span. Not only did the extended decline in baseball's scoring stop, but offense bounced back to where it had been four years before. And over the final third of the regular season, teams produced runs at a rate higher than they had in any full season since 2009, the year before the strike zone started expanding and scoring dipped so suddenly that some observers dubbed 2010 "the year of the pitcher."
We can't credit last year's increase in offense to a reversal in strike-zone size: The zone actually grew again in 2015, albeit very slightly. Similarly, strikeout and walk rates barely budged. But home runs rebounded by enough to produce most of the extra scoring. The graph below shows monthly home-run rates as a percentage of contact (HR/Contact), where "contact" is defined as at-bats minus strikeouts. Once again, playoff rates aren't pictured, but in 72 games last postseason, HR/Contact leaped to 5.1 percent, which would literally be off the chart.
The HR/Contact rate last August was higher than it had been in any month since August 2009, and the rate last September/October was higher than it had been in any month since August 2004. On the whole, the percentage increase in second-half HR/Contact, relative to first-half HR/Contact, was higher for the 2015 regular season than for any previous season since at least 1950.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the speed of the ball off the bat, as measured by MLB Advanced Media's tracking system Statcast, also increased late last season. Average exit velocity in September/October was about a mile per hour higher than it had been at its low point in June.
Although this increase in exit velocity helps explain the home runs, it's still just a symptom of the root reason for the offensive uptick; we've substituted one enigma for another. HITf/x data provided by former Mariners special assistant Tony Blengino reveals that no such late-season trend toward higher exit velocities existed in 2013 or 2014, so the 2015 pattern is puzzling.1
The clubhouse theories
After the World Series, we surveyed members of almost every front office to find out how baseball executives accounted for the offensive renaissance in the second half of last season. Three theories predominated: unusually warm weather, which decreases air density and helps batted balls carry; an unprecedented influx of powerful rookie hitters; and a decline in pitching quality stemming from good pitchers being shut down as pennant races resolved themselves early.
Although existing baseball data makes it difficult to analyze the effects of wind and humidity, temperature alone isn't a satisfactory answer. In-game temperatures were higher during the last two months of the regular season than they were earlier in the season, but Hardball Times writer Jon Roegele found that those extra degrees explained only a small percentage of the rise in scoring. According to physics of baseball researcher Alan Nathan, a 1-degree climb in average temperature would increase home-run rate by only 0.6 percent, so dog-days heat likely had only a modest effect.
The other theories are more persuasive. Last season was an outlier in terms of rookie production, featuring the most productive rookie position players of any year on record. Although many top prospects made productive debuts early in the year, rookie hitters upped their games even further in the second half, when studs such as Miguel Sano, Corey Seager, Francisco Lindor and Carlos Correa did damage immediately. Rookie hitters totaled 155 home runs in August, an all-time record for rookie homers in a single month. And, anecdotally, a number of teams that were out of contention did phone it in on the mound after trades, injuries or innings limits thinned their rotations. The Reds, for one, set a record for consecutive starts by rookie pitchers, with uneven results.
We tried to account for fluctuating talent in two ways. First, we built a model to estimate the exit velocity of each batted ball based on the batter, the pitcher, the temperature, the count, the pitch velocity and the pitch's called-strike probability. The model assigns a coefficient to each player, derived from actual results; for instance, Zack Greinke reduces estimated exit velocity by 1.5 mph, on average, while Kris Bryant increases it by 3 mph.
Although the model does predict higher exit velocities late in the season, the predicted differences are small, on the order of 0.2 to 0.3 mph. The actual exit velocities exceeded the model's predictions by 0.13 mph in August, 0.46 mph in September and 0.86 mph in October. And those differences persist even if we limit our sample to full-season hitters and pitchers, which excludes prospects promoted late in the year and replacement-level pitchers who got garbage-time innings for eliminated teams.
As a second check, we compared actual strikeout, walk and home-run rates (per plate appearance) in the second half to the strikeout, walk and home-run rates we would have expected at the All-Star break had we known exactly which batter-pitcher matchups we would see over the rest of the season. To do that, we obtained rest-of-season Steamer projections for every player, generated at the All-Star break, and applied them to the second-half matchups that actually took place (using the odds ratio method). The table below displays the differences between the predicted and actual results.
K% 22.06% 20.43% -7.40%
BB% 7.13 7.72 +8.30
HR% 2.17 2.84 +30.90
2015 second-half home runs exceeded expectations
Source: FanGraphs
In the second-half matchups, we saw roughly 8 percent more walks and 7 percent fewer strikeouts than Steamer would have expected — modest deviations, perhaps attributable to a league-wide increase in aggressiveness early in the count. Here too, though, the home-run rate stands out: There were 31 percent more home runs hit after the All-Star break than Steamer would have projected, even if it had predicted playing time perfectly. That's an enormous number, with an astronomically small probability of occurring at random. Even if Steamer had been systematically underrating rookie hitters, it wouldn't explain these results: In "Return of the Run," an essay in the latest "Hardball Times Baseball Annual," Jeff Sullivan calculated that rookies produced only a third of 2015's increase in home runs, with the rest coming from carryover players.
So: What about the ball?
There's one factor that we haven't discussed that a few of the front-office respondents brought up: the baseball. According to an anonymously sourced report by Ken Rosenthal, the league listed "wrapping the ball tighter to make it fly farther" as part of a package of offense-inflating ideas it sent to the MLB Players Association last winter. Although changes in baseball construction have often been advanced as a possible cause of scoring changes over the past few decades, the smoking ball has proved elusive: MLB testing prompted by a rise in home-run rate in the first half of 2000 found negligible differences from 1999 and 1998 balls, and Nathan found no difference in average liveliness between balls from 2004 and the mid-1970s. However, a change in the ball would neatly account for the outcome we've observed: a significant increase in exit velocity and home runs, independent of talent and temperature, without a dramatic change in control of the strike zone. According to Nathan, exit speed is most sensitive to ball construction on hard contact, which jibes with our finding that the greatest increase in exit velocity came on line drives. Even more suggestively, the observed exit velocity began to exceed expectations right after the All-Star break:
Some teams order enough balls at the beginning of the year to get them through the first half and then replenish their supplies at the break. If the ball had changed between opening day and midseason, we would expect to see results resembling the line in the chart. The history of clandestine big league baseball-adjusting goes back more than a century, and there is recent precedent for an unannounced ball change in a high-profile league: Japan's baseball commissioner resigned in 2013 after news broke that NPB had secretly started using a livelier ball. Of course, there could be an innocent explanation for a change in the ball, since even a minor alteration in materials or manufacturing could produce a significant difference in the ball's bounciness, or coefficient of restitution (COR).
Major League Baseball's vice president of communications, Michael Teevan, told us that MLB's testing has uncovered no evidence of a meaningful change in the baseball. "As a quality control effort, we routinely do testing of baseballs in conjunction with our consultants at UMass-Lowell to ensure that they meet our specifications," Teevan said. "To this point, we have not uncovered anything suggesting that the balls are related to the increased amount of home runs in the second half." MLB's analysis also failed to find a conclusive link between weather and last season's increase in scoring.
FiveThirtyEight attempted to replicate MLB's reported results by conducting its own testing using another facility. We purchased a dozen official 2015 postseason baseballs directly from Rawlings and a dozen unopened major league balls manufactured in 2014 from eBay. We sent both sets to the Sports Science Laboratory at Washington State University, where they were stored in an environmental chamber for two weeks to ensure consistent conditions, and then fired from a cannon to strike a fixed cylinder at 95 mph so that their impacts could be measured. The COR of the 2015 balls was only 0.003 higher, on average, which Nathan dismissed as "barely at the accuracy limit of the measurements." After studying the results, Nathan concluded: "My very definite takeaway from the measurements is that there is no compelling evidence that the balls perform differently." It's possible that the newer baseballs have lower seams, which would help them fly farther; the NCAA successfully counteracted a power outage of its own by lowering its regulation ball's seam height last season. It's also possible that the balls we tested were in some way not representative of the ones that were used in actual games.2 However, based on both our testing and (according to Teevan) MLB's, there's no obvious sign of a disconnect between balls that say "Rob Manfred" and balls that said "Bud Selig."
The takeaway: Balls were hit harder and cleared fences more often than expected in the second half of last season, even after our best attempts to account for talent and temperature. Because we can't pinpoint a cause, we can't say for certain whether 2015's late-season offense was a misleading blip or a preview of 2016 scoring. This month's spring-training scores3 suggest we should lean toward the latter: Both home-run rates and overall scoring have returned to their highest spring levels since 2013. Unfortunately, the only way to resolve the uncertainty is to study a larger sample, which means waiting for regular-season baseball to come back — as if we needed another reason to anticipate next week's opening day.
Thanks to David Appelman and Alan Nathan, who contributed research.
Ben Lindbergh joins the Hot Takedown podcast to preview the 2016 MLB season.
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HITf/x, a camera-based system, reports lower exit velocities, on average, than Statcast, which tracks batted balls via Doppler radar.
In addition, there is about a 1 in 10 chance that even if there had been a change in COR large enough to explain the increase in exit velocity, a particular batch of a dozen baseballs would show only a 0.003 increase.
Which are strongly correlated with regular-season scores.
Rob Arthur is a former baseball columnist for FiveThirtyEight. He also wrote about crime. @No_Little_Plans
Ben Lindbergh is a former staff writer at FiveThirtyEight. @benlindbergh
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Here, the intrenched line held by Gen. J. E. Johnston´s forces [Confederate] during the fighting on the Dallas-New Hope Ch. front, crossed the road; line erected & occupied May 26 & abandoned June 4, 1864.
Three of the 10 miles of this line were on the summit of Ellsberry Mountain, NE.
In the 10 days of constant fighting between Confederate and Federal forces, no advantage was gained - a stalemate that was broken by Shreman´s [Federal] flanking movement around the Confederate right at Old Allatoona Church 11 miles NE in Cobb County.


Seventy-Thirty Creatives and Mabry-Hazen House are excited to present one of Shakespeare's most beloved tragedies, Romeo and Juliet. With Mabry-Hazen House as the stage, we will recount the tale of two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. Built in 1858 and seated atop Mabry's hill, the historic house will act as a unique backdrop to this antebellum-era production.
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Loxosceles chapadensis est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Sicariidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique de Bahia au Brésil. Elle se rencontre dans le parc national de la Chapada Diamantina.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle .

Étymologie
Son nom d'espèce, composé de chapadensis et du suffixe latin , « qui vit dans, qui habite », lui a été donné en référence au lieu de sa découverte, le parc national de la Chapada Diamantina.

Publication originale
 Bertani, Fukushima & Nagahama, 2010 : Loxosceles chapadensis (Araneae: Sicariidae): a new recluse spider species of the gaucho group from Brazil. Journal of Arachnology, , ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Sicariidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique de Bahia

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Piano Pals is a definite favorite among toddlers. There are five different scenes (as shown in the image above), the first of which is free and the others are in-app purchases. As tots touch each key, they will come to expect what they will see and hear each time, whether it is animal sounds, musical notes, colors, or numbers. Each mode not only teaches these concepts but also reinforces the concept of cause and effect as tots see the same results every time they hit their favorite keys.
Montessori Crosswords is a powerful app for spelling practice and word study, covering three to five letter words. There are several options for customization, including the option to focus on one sound. While Level 1 focuses on simple three letter words, Levels 2 and 3 present more of a challenge with four and five letter words that can be presented individually or in a crossword format.
The screenshots below show the various settings available.
One of the most attractive features in this app is the movable alphabet that allows users to spell out words with the help of audio and/or visual clues, depending on the settings chosen. The alphabet can be set to appear in alphabetical order or shown with vowels and consonants separated. The third option is the Qwerty mode for students who are already familiar with the letter order on a standard keyboard.
This app was made for young children beginning with 4 and 5 year olds who are becoming familiar with letter/sound relationships. Levels 2 and 3 target older elementary aged children who are learning to recognize and spell sight words. No matter the level, Montessori Crosswords is definitely worth the purchase ($2.99).
For families that always make time for stories before naptime and bedtime, K12 Read Aloud Classics might quickly become a favorite app. With more than 30 well-known stories, nursery rhymes and poem, colorful illustrations and pleasant-sounding narration, young readers will be hooked.
This app features a "Read to Me mode" with automatic page turning. This mode can be turned off if readers prefer to actively turn each page with a swipe and choose when the narration on each page begins. To read these stories without narration, use the iPad's side switch to mute the sound on the iPad. There are no volume controls built into this app.
In either mode, the narration on any page can be paused or repeated if necessary. Another valuable feature of this app is automatic bookmarking. If a story is exited before it is finished, the next time it is opened the reader will have the option to return to the bookmarked page or hear the entire story again.
The Read Along Classics app provides the perfect opportunity for families to enjoy the classic stories that every generation should know.


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OSU research uncovers impact of leisure activities on mental health during pandemic
As people have turned to hobbies like reading and outdoor recreation to fill their days during the COVID-19 pandemic, recent research from Oregon State University found that engagement in leisure activities can help lower the risk of depression and improve mental well-being.
"Leisure is so crucial to our mental health. Despite all the disruptions to daily life, physical distancing, movement restrictions and closures of indoor leisure facilities, we found that people continue to use leisure to help them cope with stress and as a way to navigate life during COVID-19," said Xiangyou Shen, lead author on the study and an assistant professor in OSU's College of Forestry.
For the study, researchers surveyed 503 participants from Feb. 3-15, 2021, a time when vaccines were slowly rolling out in the U.S. and before the delta and omicron variants had emerged in full force. They measured participant stress, depressive symptoms, general health and well-being, and asked participants to list their favorite leisure activity and how frequently they were able to engage in it.
They also asked participants how their engagement with that activity had changed since COVID, and how their current level of engagement compared with their ideal level.
The study sample was representative of the overall U.S. population in terms of gender, age, race and vaccination status.
Researchers grouped respondents' activities into 19 categories under three broad domains. Home-based offline activities were most popular, with 43.4% citing a favorite within this domain; then screen-based digital/online activities, with 32.1%; and lastly physical or outdoor activities, with 24.5%.
The study revealed a general increase in at-home activities like reading, writing, and computer or video games, but a decrease in most physical and outdoor activities, with the exception of walking and gardening.
On the mental health side, 24% of respondents reported major depressive symptoms, 13% reported severe or extremely severe stress, and 7% reported poor mental well-being.
The results showed that changes in engagement level compared with pre-COVID engagement, as well as the gap between respondents' current engagement in that activity and their ideal engagement, were significantly associated with mental health, more so than the frequency of their activities.
The results suggest that people lean more heavily into their preferred leisure activity in response to stress.
"We see that people who reported higher stress also reported increased engagement in their leisure activity. But if they were able to increase their engagement or maintain it, they did not report more depressive symptoms," Shen said. "It's OK if you experience higher stress, if you also maintain or adapt what you do in leisure time as a protective buffer. Failing to maintain or make adaptive changes, you are at higher risk for depression."
The key takeaway here is that leisure matters, said Megan MacDonald, co-author and an associate professor in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
"It's a reminder for all of us that it really is important to take time for yourself and make sure that you're engaging in those activities and don't beat yourself up for taking that time," she said. "We need rest and relaxation as well, but leisure and play can be more engaging and redirect in a different way, one that's helping us take a breath away from some of that other stress."
But the results also show that leisure is not equally accessible by all. For example, parents reported significantly lower leisure participation than non-parents. And this study found a much lower rate of engagement in outdoor activities than previous COVID leisure studies, raising questions about how accessible outdoor recreation is in different parts of the country and at different times of the year.
"This pandemic exposes some of the social problems we already have and the disparities in how much time people have for self-care," Shen said. "Parents, especially women, as caregivers who don't have enough child care support and are also working full-time – these people are among the most vulnerable."
Funding for the study came from OSU's Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families.
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Time to finish of my delve into the works of Akira Kurosawa. The final box set I had was the Kurosawa Classic Collection which contains five films on a more Dickensian theme than either samurais or Shakespeare. The following movies are all expertly shot, but do they manage to entertain?
Ikiru (1952, b/w) is a film of two parts. The first part slowly and morosely follows a council bureaucrat as we see the intense mundanity of his day to day life, made even more intense and morose as he discovers he has terminal cancer. The second part is the more interesting aspect to the film as we then watch a sort of courtroom perform the twelve angry men plotline as they attempt to bring justice to our protagonist's final act of courage.
It's two hours and twenty minutes long, which is far too long IMO and I don't think it would have lost anything by shedding an awful lot of the first part of the film. While it's well acted it also commits Kurosawa's biggest sin of over-lingering on so many shots for full emotional impact and, by doing so, cheapens each on in turn and tends to make one want to start rebelling against it rather than get into it. By the time I got to the more interesting part of the film I'd already spent most of my caring reserves.
The final part, about the last 45 minutes, where it's people discussing his life, is mostly a series of flashback to key moments and I can't help wonder why he didn't just make the whole film in this way, start off with the funeral and then provide the whole story in a series of succinct and concise flashbacks because, as it is, for all it's quality production and strong theme, it mostly succeeds in being disjointed and rambling. 3/5
I Live in Fear (1955, b/w) is a very unusual film. I can't say I've ever seen this plotline ever before. A family of a wealthy mining company sue the father and proprietor for, effectively, insanity because he wants to sell up and move everyone to Brazil, because he's clinically petrified of a nuke being dropped. He's then incenced that everyone is being so ungrateful, what with the whole reason the mine exists in the first place is because of him. He is also an incurable philanderer and has extra kids all over the place.
While being a respectable length at just one hour forty minutes, most of that time is spent following the lives and desires of so many different people that the film feels relatively pointless once completed. Sure, there's interest to be had, but mostly it's a big ol' let down of lots and lots of not a lot at all. I liked its themes and I liked to attempt at something different, just not the way it was presented. 2.5/5
The Lower Depths (1957, b/w) is some good old fashioned poverty-porn as we watch a bunch of slum dwellers go about their daily lives of squalor. There's no plot, per-se, it's just the pleasure of watching a whole bunch of character actors chew the scenery for two hours, each trying to win your heart in their own unique way. It mostly achieves this.
It's surprisingly well paced and actually did quite a good job of keeping me interested more the most part. With so many characters and no set protagonists the enjoyment rested entirely on the extent that you could find interest in each individual character, if you liked someone the film picks up, if you can't connect to a character the film slows down. For my part, I honestly had no idea what was 'going on' for pretty much the whole movie, I couldn't ell you much about any of the characters nor what their individual story was, but I still enjoyed this specific example of poverty-porn voyeurism. 3.5/5
Red Beard (1965, b/w) is surprisingly not a pirate movie. Weirdly, it's more poverty-porn encased within a hospital drama. Redbeard is the name of the head doctor. Like Ikiru, the film has two halves, or, rather one section that is two-thirds and one section that's one-third, and the two are very perfectly separated by an intermission. And good god will you be needing an intermission in this three hour film.
Also like the Ikiru, the second part is far superior to the first part by quite a huge margin. Like the second film, there's just too many short stories for it's own good. There are five stories told to the viewer, three of which, while interesting, are mostly superflouous and are mostly contained in the first part. One story fills the entire second part while the 'main' story, that of a spoilt doctor learning to love the charity of a poverty clinic, is mostly at the beginning and end of both parts.
So this is going to be very difficult to rate as I found the first hour and forty five minutes pretty much bog-standard fare of the 3/5 variety while the second part is such a beautiful and well contained little story, and one that shovels on the emotions with layer after layer after layer that I'd rate that part 4.5/5. A median or average of the two would not do justice to the truth of either.
So I'll imagine I've made a two hour fan edit with a lot of the fat taken out and throw forward a 4/5.
Dodes'Ka Den (1970, colour) is the poverty-porn film that literally broke Kurosawa. After being sacked from Tora Tora Tora for being to independent/arrogant/difficult, etc etc, he made this love letter to the slums and put so much into it that when it bombed he attempted suicide. A real dark era in his life. Do I harshly and coldly believe it deserved to bomb? Well, kinda.
Again, there's no actual plot, it's just two and a quarter hours of about eight interwoven short stories about a selection of slum dwellers. You've got your drunks, philanderers, rapists, good Samaritans, fantasists, assholes, crippled, thieves, gossips, the dark personal histories etc etc etc. But much like The Lower Depths, the extent to which the film is enjoyable is the extent to which you like each short story.
For me, I laughed along at quite a few, shared tears at a few, was meh'd by a few and a few bored me to death. It's amazing how one can be thoroughly enjoying one scene only to be literally twitching over the skip button about 5 seconds into a particularly boring scene with a different character. The worst of the lot is a couple who don't talk to each other, the resolution being finding out why they don't talk to each other. Which is nice and all… but… christ, by the final half hour I was volubly screaming "oh God, not these two again!" whenever it shot back to them.
So, like Redbeard, it's a very difficult film to rate, some stories are 4.5/5 while others are more in the line of 1/5, and one can't help feeling that if he'd just cut out a couple of characters and presented something more in the one hour forty mark then it would have been great. But that's the problem with auteurs who get so utterly wrapped up in their creations, they become so desperate to maintain every aspect of their 'vision' that it can wreck their movies as many times as it elevates them. Apparently, the director's cut is four hours long! LMAO. 3/5.
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I'll now do a summary in list format of all the one's I would heartily recommend, for people that prefer brevity to the point of extreme, now that I've finished my three month wallow in one of cinema's most loved historical directors. A sort of top 10, as it were.
Yojimbo - 5/5
High and Low - 5/5
Seven Samarai - 4.5/5
Ran - 4.5/5
Silent Duel - 4.5/5
Rashomon - 4/5
Redbeard - 4/5
The Bad Sleep Well - 4/5
Throne of Blood - 3.5/5
The Lower Depths - 3.5/5
Sanjuro - 3.5/5
The Hidden Fortress - 3.5/5
Stray Dog - 3.5/5
There's still a small handful of his movies that I haven't seen but if I ever do see them and feel I've missed one out I'll make a new list one day.
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Wow! That is dedication. I have probably seen 80% of those and understand your comments. I would still suggest Dersu Uzula as some of the cinematography was, for me, amazing. I might rate Rashomon a touch higher but probably influenced by artist girlfriend at time. (I even watched over 8 hours of Warhol's Empire State Building to please her, the things hormones do.)
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I'll watch Dersu if I ever find a copy for somewhat less than ten bucks , same with the other few I didn't watch. The UK can really suck when it comes to finding specific movies. Did you know, you can't even find reasonably priced copies of modern artists such as Bong Joon Ho here, the only film by him I can even get for under three bucks is The Host, LMAO.
Catching up on Denzel Washington:
Flight (2013) Sees Washington play a pilot who has quite the extravagant lifestyle, one might even describe him as a bit of a Hunter S Thompson. However, after one particular binge of intoxicants he manages to land a passenger plane that would have been crashed by any other pilot. However, while he's being praised as a hero by the masses his toxicology report comes through, putting him in a very curious position of potentially going to prison for the rest of his life.
The first half an hour were blindingly good. At this point I was stunned I'd not heard more about this film. Unfortunately, the middle section manages to be almost the opposite and it sort of trails off into a sort-of-romance movie before finally getting back to the main plot for the last twenty minutes. Which is a real shame as the bookends here are so good, what a shame the meat in the middle is so dry and overcooked.
The final scene of the film is also one of those 'and I'm now going to preach some arbitrary moral at you that was barely a feature of the film but kinda could have been if you wanted it to be', leaving a very disappointing final taste. An ambitious and interesting premise that got ruined by overly-obvious and poorly presented Oscar-bait. 3/5
2 Guns (2013) is quite the opposite. Here, a fairly boring and confusing opening 20 minutes leads into a nearly non-stop action routine before completing itself with a fairly bland and anti-climactic final 20 minutes. It has everything you'd expect of a Washington film both conspiracy and plot-twist-wise, but its all done so formulaic otherwise that it never feels interesting, merely more excuses to shoot guns at people and provide amusing odd-couple buddy dialogue. His co-star for the action being Mark Wahlberg, who I've never really imagined as an action hero but pulls it off quite well here. The late Bill Paxton also shows up for some great Paxtoning.
For all of its sound and fury though, its mostly forgettable schlock that entertains quite adequately while its on but washes out one's memory almost as soon as it's over, offering not much in the way of uniqueness. It doesn't take itself too seriously but isn't funny enough to be a quasi-parody, it just succeeds in making it easier to care less about any of the characters. 3/5
Catching up on Woody Allen:
Café Society (2016) doesn't actually star Allen, he's 82 now, but instead has Jesse Eisenberg play the Allen role in a fairly mundane and uninteresting love-triangle set during the heyday of both Hollywood and the prohibition era of America. As a result, the film looks stunning and sounds stunning as the most beautiful early jazz intermingles with scenes of 1920s high and low American society to perfection. The drawback here are the actors combined with the script.
If you're not overly familiar with Allen's films then Eisenberg might not irritate you, but as someone who's seen a lot of Allen all I could see was Eisenberg doing a poor man's version of Allen, a sort of cheap imitation as it were. I have no idea if he was coached to play it as Allen or if that's the only way the script could be played, but either way it really doesn't work IMO. Likewise, Steve Carrol's character doesn't work and, worst of all, the people playing the classic Jewish Brooklin poor family all seem to have the same problem with being believable in an acting sense, again, it was as if people were trying to do an impersonation rather than them being the things presented.
None of this is helped by the plot itself not really having any meat to it at all. There's no real stakes and its more akin to an afternoon TV movie in the level of drama. Just a very beautiful afternoon movie. You'd probably enjoy this one more the less you've seen any of Allen's other stuff and the more you're into casual soap opera drama, to which the above likely wouldn't affect you so much. I, personally, found it difficult to watch and even though its only 90 minutes long it felt like two hours by the end.
Looks great, but there's something off about it. 3/5
Wonder Wheel (2017) performed a lot worse than Café Society, both critically and at the box office, but I found this to be the superior of the two, by quite a large margin. I'm really struggling to see what people didn't like about it as I can't think of many flaws at all. Kate Winslet is fantastic in the lead role, Timberlake is surprisingly great, as is Belushi and everyone else for that matter. Again, it has a fantastic aesthetic and wonderful music, this time set in 1950s America.
And this one isn't so much as a love triangle as a love hexagon, or even octagon, which makes the plot vastly more interesting and edge of the seat than café society. Even just describing the characters is more interesting: The ex-actress turned waitress, the ex-drunk but still violent husband, the romantic artist, the ex-gangster mole, the arsonist; all combine to present something that I much more a tale of the struggles of human nature that anything Café society even came close to.
And it manages to do all this while walking a perfect tightrope between both darkness and comedy. I personally like films that are almost more like watching stage plays than films and this one is a great example with many of the scenes reminiscent of sitting and watching a play unfold before you. Looking at the IMDB reviews it seems to be one of those films that you either love or hate, however, even reading the negative reviews I can't offer anything in the way of agreed issues, I think its one you either find 'boring' or you don't, and I most certainly didn't. 4.5/5
Really liked Flight; really disliked 2 guns and cafe society (woody allen movies are always hit or miss with me - i like 1/3 to 1/2 quite a bit but really hate the others); never heard of wonder wheel.
DId I mentioned I really enjoyed Flight - very good movie.
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Speaking of Danzel Washington, I highly recommend both recent Equalizer movies.
The character here added their own twist to their lives/ethics/motivation, which is different but equally valid and authentic from the original Woodward TV series (if you are old enough to have watched that!).
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I don't - IMO Equalizers are the only Denzel's movies you may skip and die a happy person.
He made both watchable and proved his talent for the xth time, but that's it.
Every other movie he appeared in is a mustwatch. Well maybe not Heart Condition, but that's not his fault.
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You can safely ignore Joxer's comment as the Equalizer movies are pretty good; the first a lot better than the second.
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I watched that Aquaman film yesterday, a lot of flash but not much substance. At least I got through it, I believe I'm closing to hitting my quota on superhero movies in general at this point.
Yes, I'm looking forward to trying out the Equalizer movies at some point.
Interestingly, at the second hand DVD retailer I get a lot of these old films from, the Blu Ray for Equalizer 1 is actually cheaper than the DVD. Bizarre I know, but you'd be amazed how often I see this in the second hand market. I had the same problem with the first Daredevil series. At the moment the two equalizers are both just out of my price range.
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You mean quota on mainstream superhero movies…
IIRC I did write about two brilliant japanese superhero movies - Hentai Kamen. Grab'em.
After those two, pick Chronicle from 2012. and explain to me why is Hollywood pretending they never made this gem, it's fantastic.
While these three are a world of their own, don't think that all superhero movies not aggressively advertised by rich lobbies are good. Avoid trash that is supposed to be a different refreshment, but is in fact so bad you don't have time for that bullshit (Brightburn, Rendel, Zashchitniki).
Note, I still have Inuyashiki on hold thus can't say if it's worth watching. Yet. I have too many other titles "marked" as priority so this one will have to wait:
Anyway, the point I'm repeating is - avoid mainstream.
There are so many gems out there, each better than another. Life is too short to spend it on shallow or plotholes ridden mediocrity.
Watched Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
I had seen a variety of reviews saying that it was an overall fun film except for excessive plot development spent on family drama. I have to disagree: the entire movie is incredibly dumb! It had me rolling my eyes more often than not… and why do the missiles off Air Force jets seemingly have a range limit of a couple hundred meters anyway?!
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Saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night. Enjoyed it overall, and found it very funny at certain points. Really well written, as always with Tarantino films. But it did have a lot less violence and action throughout, compared to his other films. But the characters were very likeable. Especially Dicaprio's and Pitts main two. Those were great.
And I was shocked how quick time flew by, I was expecting to feel it a lot longer, since some people said it was meandering at times. Which it was, maybe, depending how much you like mood-setting scenes. But the final 30 minutes or so were absolutely glorious. Too bad people were laughing too hard, and I didn't hear some lines. But a second watch on my own will fix that.
It was a nice ride, but much more relaxed than his other films. I'm not sure where I would put it, I'll have to see it again. Also, the girlfriend liked it very much, and a lot more than his other films due to the lower amount of violence.
8/10 for me.
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I'm looking forward to watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I've heard from folks that enjoyed it and others that thought it was a waste of time. I may grab it on dvd but will more likely wait until it releases on HBO.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to join the gang who weren't overly excited by One Upon A Time In Hollywood.
The film is over two and a half hours long. It's setting itself up to be something that's worth that amount of time and, ultimately, I don't think it warranted that amount of time. A case of directorial gluttony and too much love for their art to let the editor wield their scissors and do their job.
Too many characters and too many long lingering scenes that didn't add much to the narrative. I guess it works well as an ambience piece if you like your movies to just amble along in a nice atmosphere, but I'm a fan of keeping things tight and all too often the film would wander into cul-de-sacs that are nice individually but don't connect to anything.
I liked a lot of it, I just felt there was too much time wasting and too little entertainment factor. The screening I went to was full of pensioners, I assume it was some kind of communal day out thing for them, and combined with the premise of the film being an aging actor coming to terms with the twilight of their career, I couldn't help but feel that it's meandering was intentional, a sort of old age pensioner version of Tarrantino. 3/5
A case of directorial gluttony
Yup. I really wanted to like the film, but overall I felt it could have greatly benefitted from LOADS of editing and less indulgence on an aimless trip down Tarantino's memory lane.
Yes, there was something off about it generally, but not rotten off, just in a pacing, structure, relevance sense. It's not something I'd feel ripped off about as it's a definitely quality throughout. I, for example, would completely ignore any videos or 'news' pieces that used titles like "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is the WORST Tarantino film EVER and here's WHY" as disingenuous clickbaiting claptrap, but something more along the lines of "What I didn't get about Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" would certainly interest me.
Can we go into spoilers yet? Oh, ok, I'll use spoiler tabs.
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The main bone of contention for me was that Leonardo's character is clearly the protagonist, or star if you like, of the picture, and yet his character has the least to do with the actual plot of the movie. He's almost entirely superfluous. The only way he's involved plot-wise is:
1. As a justification of why the Brad Pitt character exists and is present in the places he exists in.
2. He uses the flamethrower at the end to make the earlier reference to the flamethrower relevant. Or, as some describe it, so his character can finally be the hero he always acted as.
For the former, we don't need 40 minutes of his career, that can easily be squished into a much more summarisery quantity. For the latter then the whole film needs to be about that to make that final payoff a whole lot more impactful and relevant than it currently is, something so brief and small that I didn't even clock that it was some kind of character developing moment.
And while the Leonardo character is interesting, it would have been more interesting if the whole film was about him. I was more engrossed in Leonardo's journey than I was with the whole Sharon Tate aspect. The Leonardo story is more like a normal non-Tarantino film squished into a Tarantino film about the Sharon Tate murder. With barely any coherence or reason or narrative connection etc.
Looking at it another way, I guess it could make sense that the film is about a hero protagonist (Leonardo) who is actually the fake hero and that the real hero of the piece is his stuntman (Pitt), and how society venerates the fake while the real heroes end up forgotten and poor. But for this narrative to be the main focus you wouldn't have the Pitt wife-death sub-plot, you wouldn't have Leonardo being heroic at the end, or having him redeem his career via real acting, and you wouldn't give so much time to Sharon Tate wandering about.
And the scenes of Sharon Tate wandering about aren't really that helpful to any of the overriding narratives, even the Sharon Tate narrative, as those scenes of her don't really do much to make you feel for her or know much about her, they're just kinda there.
Now, Tarantino films aren't really supposed to 'be about' anything anyway, so let's look at it from the point of view of just 'what's in front of me entertainment'. I mean, Pulp Fiction was just a collection of disparate stories that don't necessarily have a huge impact to the greater meaning of the film.
By viewing it this way, then, again, the Leonardo aspect is too prominent, we're made to care about his character too much and in too detailed a way for it to feel like a traditional Tarantino Pulp-fest of disparate but purely entertaining sub-stories. I don't think in any of his other films has one of his entertaining sub-plots been quite so prominent while also being quite so un-pulpily 'normal'.
Likewise, the Sharon Tate character doesn't really begin and doesn't really pay off in anyway, there's just a middle part of her pulpy sub-plot which doesn't involve much in the way entertainment.
In this regard the only really pulpy sub-plot is the Pitt character's journey, which isn't much of the film and only really get's going during the second half of the film.
So, yeah, it's not that it's unwatchable, because all the scenes are at least nice. I was nowhere near falling asleep and each scene had something interesting about it. It's just that I didn't get any sense that I'd watched a coherent film, it felt like watching bits of movies that had been spliced together, somewhat randomly, and, as a result, left me feeling 'meh'ed' when the credits rolled.
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Agree with pretty everything you said in the spoilers section. But I'm not sure I'd take the complaints as actual complaints, and I'm not saying you're complaining either, maybe more making observations.
For me it was very much an "experience" of the end of the 60s to 70s transition period, which I was not part of. I'm an 80s kid myself. So, I just let loose and enjoyed the ride.
Whenever I feel something isn't the way I feel it should be I like to ask myself why should it even be that way? Why can't it be different.
It is the kind of movie that you need to see in a certain state of mind I guess. I was very much tired when I saw it, and just let it wash over me. And very enjoyed myself. But I can see how other people can find it boring or meandering.
Only annoying thing about that night was that I saw it in a german cinema, but in the original english, and for some reason the germans seemed to find it overly funny. They pretty laughed at everything, even more serious scenes. I found that a bit weird, and sometimes annoying as I couldn't hear the lines.
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If you are buying an older home, it is always a good idea to have a professional home inspection done before you make the purchase. A home inspection will give you a complete understanding of the condition of the home you are buying before you buy it.
What shape are the floors in? If the floors are hardwood, do they need to be sanded and refinished? Refinishing isn't very expensive, but it is easier if done before you move in, while the rooms are still empty.
If you are looking at an older home that has single panes of glass in the windows, you may need to upgrade to a new set of windows before you move in.
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Q: Custom Validation in Angular 8 I want to implement custom validation (Required/Pattern/Disable) through directive in Angular 8:
<input type="text"
      custom-data-annotation
      [(ngModel)]="someValue"
      name="userName" />

I have created the following directive:
@Directive({selector: '[custom-data-annotation]'})
export class CustomDataAnnotationDirective implements OnInit  {

  constructor(public el: ElementRef, private _renderer: Renderer2) {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this._renderer.setAttribute(this.el.nativeElement, 'required', 'true');
  }
}

When I run the application and inspect element I can see the required attribute on input field, but when I submit my page without putting any value in that field it always returns false for "myForm.form.invalid"

A: To build a validator that works in a template-driven form control, putting a required attribute on the form control is not enough, because angular build its validators at compile time. At runtime, to add a validator dynamically, you'll need to tell angular that your directive is a validation one. Additionally, you must check for the control's validity by yourself. You can do these 2 things by implementing the Validator interface and provide it with NG_VALIDATORS token (see the docs):
@Directive({
  selector: '[custom-data-annotation]',
  // You must provide the class with `NG_VALIDATORS` token
  providers: [
    {
      provide: NG_VALIDATORS,
      useExisting: CustomDataAnnotationDirective,
      multi: true
    }
  ]
})
export class CustomDataAnnotationDirective implements OnInit, Validator {
  constructor(private _el: ElementRef, private _renderer: Renderer2) {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this._renderer.setAttribute(this._el.nativeElement, 'required', 'true');
  }

  // This method is demanded by the the Validator interface
  validate(control: AbstractControl): { [key: string]: any } | null {
    return !control.value ? { required: true } : null;
  }
}

Stackblitz demo
And... if it's up to you to decide it, consider switching to ReactiveFormsModule, as recommended by @angular docs, for complex forms.

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namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\Admin;

use App\Models\Image;
use App\Repo\Upload;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

class ImageController extends Controller
{
    public function store(Request $request)
    {

        $path = $request->file('img')->store('img');

        return $path;
    }

    public function showImg($id)
    {

        $data = Image::select()->where('item_id', $id)->first();
        $img = [
            'name' => $data['name'],
            'url' => env("APP_URL")."/upload/" . $data['url']
        ];

        return response()->json($img);
    }

}


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Q: Pagination of buttons on screen - Android I am trying to implement scrollable list of buttons.

As shown in screenshot above, there is 3 buttons shown on the screen. I am trying create a list of buttons, that user can scroll them 3 at a time.
I tried 2 ways:
1- View Pager: I created 1 fragment for each 3 buttons.
The scroll works perfectly as I wanted, but when i need to add new button, it is a real overhead work.
2- RecyclerView: Which is works well but doesnt scroll 3 at a time.
So i want to show on screen only 3 items. When user scroll, it will scroll to the next 3 items.
Is it possible to do this with RecyclerView (which is easier to add to it)?

A: One solution could be using an adapter which shows 3 elements per item, then use the PageSnapHelper to get the paging effect:
The Adapter:
  public class ButtonsRecyclerAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ButtonsRecyclerAdapter.ButtonsViewHolder> {

    private List<Button> mButtons = new ArrayList<>();

    @Override
    public ButtonsViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View layoutView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_item_buttons, null);
        return new ButtonsViewHolder(layoutView);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ButtonsViewHolder holder, int position) {
        int startPosition = getItemCount() * position;
        int endPosition = startPosition + 3;

        for (int i = startPosition; i < endPosition || i < mButtons.size(); i++) {
            Button neededButton = holder.getButton(i - position);
            neededButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            //Do whant you want to do with it
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return null != mButtons ? ((int) Math.ceil((double) mButtons.size() / 3)) : 0;
    }

    public class ButtonsViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

        Button mButtonFirst;
        Button mButtonSecond;
        Button mButtonThird;

        public ButtonsViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            mButtonFirst = (Button) itemView.findViewById(R.id.button_first);
            mButtonSecond = (Button) itemView.findViewById(R.id.button_second);
            mButtonThird = (Button) itemView.findViewById(R.id.button_third);
        }

        Button getButton(int index) {
            switch (index) {
                case 0:
                    return mButtonFirst;
                case 1:
                    return mButtonSecond;
                case 2:
                    return mButtonThird;
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}

The list item layout
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:gravity="center"
              android:orientation="horizontal">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_first"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:visibility="invisible"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_second"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:visibility="invisible"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_third"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:visibility="invisible"/>
</LinearLayout>


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Do Regular-Season Titles Predict March Madness Success?
Inside College Hoops
by Shane Ryan
A couple weeks ago, I gave my philosophical treatise on why I think a regular-season title should be more highly valued. But philosophy is for the sheltered thinkers, and we are the salt of the earth. To become more relevant, and to lose its status as the forgotten title, conference titles in college basketball have to mean something. It's a measure of sustained excellence, yes, but if we could just prove it had an effect on the biggest title of all, we could elevate the damn thing.
So here's the question: What sort of predictive power does a regular-season conference championship have for a team's performance in the Big Dance? Is it more or less important than a conference tournament title? Do either of them really matter?
When I set out to compile the numbers, I was mildly frightened. Sure, consistent brilliance over the regular season should indicate tournament success is forthcoming, but catching fire at the end of the season and winning a conference tournament could matter more. What's better than being hot in March? The memory of Kemba Walker's heroics in last year's Big East tournament are fresh in our minds, and that particular surge didn't end until UConn owned another national title.
To find out the most important title, I looked at Final Four and championship teams in the 12 seasons since 2000. Make your guesses now, amigos, because the numbers are about to fly.
(Note: When I talk about regular-season conference champions, I include the few teams who shared the title along with the teams who won it outright.)
Discoveries:
Of the 48 Final Four teams since 2000, 32 have won regular-season conference titles. That's a nice, even two-thirds, 66.7 percent.
Of the 47 Final Four teams that participated in conference tournaments (the old Pac-10 is the obnoxious fly in the ointment here — in 2001, Arizona made the Final Four in the year before the Pac-10 conference tournament was reborn, so we can't count it), only 21 teams won the conference tournament, for 44.7 percent.
Let's start there. Right away, we see that a regular-season conference championship predicts Final Four appearances at a rate 22 percentage points higher than conference tournament championships.
(Sorry for the odd wording there, but as you'll see below, it's necessary.)
At this exact moment, I'm annoyed that the 90 minutes it took to find these numbers — try to find out who won the 2003 Conference USA title, expert Googlers — has only produced this much text. So please, digest that figure, send it to your friends and family, and tweet it out 300 times over the next hour.
And if anyone says "small sample size," I might snap. Then cry. Then snap again.
The disparity is the most interesting number to take away, but there's a bit more nuance to be explored. As we know, some teams win both titles and some teams win neither, so let's go a bit deeper.
17 of the 48 Final Four teams (35.4 percent) won only their regular-season conference title.
Only six of the 47 Final Four teams (12.8 percent) won only their conference tournament title.
So if a team wins just one title, they're almost three times more likely to reach the Final Four if it came in the regular season.
(Getting bored with numbers? Here's a GIF of Duke center Mason Plumlee missing a dunk and falling over. Hope you enjoyed. Now, more numbers.)
15 of the 47 possible Final Four teams (31.9 percent) won both the regular season and conference tournament titles.
Nine of 47 teams (19.1 percent) won neither the regular season nor tournament titles.
We're talking about minute differences here, but the numbers show that a team is more likely to reach the Final Four if they've only won the regular-season title (35.4 percent), rather than both regular-season and tournament titles (31.9 percent). I'm not the first to suspect that certain coaches (particularly ones who say "daggum") seem to hold the conference tournament in low esteem. These numbers indicate there might be some wisdom to their disdain, though a more in-depth study would be handy here.
On the flip side, the numbers also indicate that it's better to win no titles (19.1 percent) than to win just the conference tournament title (12.8 percent). It's fun to consider that one — a real oddball — but the truth is that five of the nine teams to reach the Final Four without a title came from major conferences where another, better team from the same conference also made the Final Four. So the presence of more than half the no-title teams is essentially an indication that they were unlucky to be pitted against a certain juggernaut. There's nothing inherently valuable about not winning.
HOWEVER, it's fair to say that the numbers are roughly even; winning only a conference tournament is about as valuable as winning nothing.
Interestingly, the only mid-major team to make the Final Four without winning a regular-season or conference tournament title was VCU last season. In fact, when you look at that team's résumé, it's still incredible that it made the tournament at all.
But what about the championship game?
Of the 24 teams to make the title game since 2000, 19 have won their regular-season conference championship. That's a whopping 79.2 percent.
13 of the 23 (again, Arizona mucks up the number) won the conference tournament title — 56.5 percent.
10 of the 23 won both titles, nine won just the regular-season title, and only three won just the conference tournament title. No team has made the championship game in that time span without winning at least one of the two titles.
So we see that the trend continues into the final two. It narrows considerably when we look at national champions, but still holds up. Nine of the last 12 winners have been regular-season champs, and eight have won the conference tournament. Five won both, four won just the conference title, and three won just the tournament title.
So there you have it. Winning the regular season matters, and not just from a philosophical standpoint. Brackets are exciting, but the hype devoted to the major conference tournaments is inconsistent with how much they actually matter. Consistency over the long haul is more important, even in the chaotic rip tides of March.
Filed Under: Inside College Hoops, College Basketball, March Madness, Shane Ryan
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Let's settle this once and for all.
Let me pose to you an age-old question: are you a Mary-Kate or an Ashley?
When I was younger I was such an Ashley. But, as I've grown older, more and more Mary-Kate tendencies have crept in. This is a metric of self-identity on par with my zodiac sign and Myers-Brigg type.
And from my lofty perch of self-declared World's Biggest MK&A Fan, I'm going to do something controversial. I'm going to rank the Olsen twins' filmography.
Not based on any personal bias, mind you. This is a scientific undertaking, designed to cast aside subjective opinions and determine once and for all which Olsen twin film is the best.
But science thrives on rules, and we have to set the scope of our investigation before we begin.
Mary-Kate and Ashley have 53 and 50 acting credits respectively, many of which are series, short films or music videos. We'll be focusing specifically on the Golden Age of Olsen Cinema, ranking their nine feature-length films made between 1999 and 2004.
Why those years, you ask? Let me counter by asking, what makes a Mary-Kate and Ashley film a Mary-Kate and Ashley film?
Put simply: approachably eccentric yet coordinated outfits, love interests straight out of preteen dreams, and a completely bonkers plotline full of mystery, intrigue and people getting arrested.
Now that we've broken down Olsen twin films to their base elements, we have the three main criteria for our study. We'll be looking at films that follow these common threads (outfits, love interests and sheer insanity), putting ourselves in the minds of tweens and weighing up each film's profound emotional and social impact.
Scientifically, of course.
#9: Switching Goals, 1999
Outfits: 3/5
Love interests: 2/5
Sheer insanity: 2/5
Unfortunately, Switching Goals occupies a strange space where it technically meets the study criteria, but not enough to actively climb the ranks. The girls are wearing soccer uniforms for a vast majority of the film, while their love interests are simultaneously too young to fairly rate and not particularly important to the plot – which doesn't get any more whacky than the classic 'secret twin switch' gambit. If my system allowed it, however, I would give Switching Goals an extra mark purely for the fact that it stars an 11-year-old Michael Cera.
Total: 7/15
#8: When in Rome, 2002
When in Rome has an unmemorable taste not often associated with Mary-Kate and Ashley's international adventures. Love interest Paolo gets points for being Italian and having floppy hair, but there's a disappointing lack of iconic *looks* for a film centred around a fashion internship. As far as hijinks go, the plot leans more towards repetitive inconveniences than genuine danger, before redeeming itself at the end with an unexpected arrest.
#7: Getting There, 2002
Sheer insanity: 3.5/5
Consistent bad luck is a running theme in the oeuvre of the ever-so-humble Olsen twins, and Getting There is the poster child. But while a road-trip-gone-wrong births delightful drama, it also seems to birth terrible outfits. The one mark I have graciously bestowed in this category is more to the credit of icon, star and certified country gal Charley than the twins themselves. As for the remaining criteria, Sam is a perfectly adequate lad with perfectly adequate hair, and the idea of unwittingly spending the day with an athlete you're obsessed with borders on romantic genius.
Total: 8.5/15
#6: Passport to Paris, 1999
Love interests: 3.5/5
Sheer insanity: 2
This is just not a very crazy film. Sure, it's unrealistic in terms of things that actually happen to preteen girls — but nobody gets unmasked Scooby Doo-style as an eccentric criminal, as far as I remember. Passport to Paris does, however, feature the twins' most coordinated cinematic looks to date (you better believe I've spent the last 20 years repeatedly emulating their leather jacket, spaghetti strap, funky glasses combo) as well as the most fashion-forward love interests you'll find on this list. That one French boy in the black turtleneck and bucket hat? Game changer.
#5: The Challenge, 2003
Double-crossing intern Marcus and cute jock Adam with his pockets full of banter ensure the rom-com energies of this film are elevated, even if the costume design isn't. Meanwhile, the premise of estranged twins brought together by fate and reality television isn't unbelievable, per se, but still borders on bonkers in the most wonderful way.
Total: 10/15
#4: Holiday in the Sun, 2001
Outfits: 2.5/5
How is a film featuring a villainous Megan Fox not higher on this list, you ask? Blame the fact that outside of some very cute swimsuits, the styling in this movie is completely uninspiring and looking at love interest Jordan's hair makes me inexplicably nauseous. But, don't worry, love interest Griffen is tall and besotted, and the plot – artefact smuggling, boat stealing, parent tricking, cute boy arresting! – goes to a place more insane than Mary-Kate and Ashley have ever been before.
#3: New York Minute, 2004
I've been waiting for it, you've been waiting for it, we've all been waiting for it. The twins' final joint endeavour is iconic for so many reasons. Matching I Love New York shirts, a ratty little dog, an admittedly culturally iffy criminal family, the House of Bling, powerfully delivered Avril Lavigne lyrics, and Eugene Levy, just to name a few. As for romance, bike messenger Jim deserves five stars all to himself. But Jared Padalecki's already subpar performance as Whatever His Name Is feels retroactively tainted by his current Supernatural-fuelled notoriety.
#2: Winning London, 2001
Let me present to you the cream of the crop; the ultimate Mary-Kate and Ashley film boys. Winning London has the best of both worlds. On one hand, you've got your typical spiky-haired American nice boy. On the other, the hot doctor from House M.D. Mischief and insanity are at a pretty standard level, but the outfits are quintessential Olsen. On top of the life-changing printed pants and trench coat looks you'll remember from the film's poster, the twins rock more uber-2000s crop tops than you can count.
#1: Our Lips Are Sealed, 2000
That's right, folks. Here it is. The best Mary-Kate and Ashley film, according to science. Now, I don't consider myself much of a patriot, but I can't help feeling proud. Cast aside any offence you might feel over jokes that rely heavily on exaggerated but well-earned Australian stereotypes, and bask in the totally nutso bonkers premise of this film. You've got it all – crime, secret identities, surfing, boat parties, a couple of nice beachy blonde boys who definitely resemble someone you regret having a crush on in primary school. And the outfits, my lord some of these outfits. I'm not kidding when I say I have a photo of the twins' little '60s looks saved on my Pinterest with the caption, 'Someday'.
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Nothing unlucky about block #13, it's the easiest block in the whole quilt and you'll be making 2 of them!
A four patch is so simple and versatile!
This is the smaller block that you can make with the QUBE set, so it's a 1/2 block sized.
Sew one of each together like this, if you're using directional fabrics, then lay out the pieces like this before sewing together.
Have fabric A at the bottom left (and top right)- but it really doesn't matter.
My 6" and 9" version have fabric A be the darkest fabric, where the 8" and 12" version have A be a light fabric, and these two also use directional fabrics!