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No Choice Left for Banks — They have to Turn to Ripple and XRP
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Cryptocurrencies' fight for survival and relevancy itself bears more fruit with every passing day, and according to some experts, this will likely continue. Not only that, but leaders from institutions such as Mercury FX, Euro Exim Bank, and TransferGo recently gathered in London at the Ripple Regional event, discussing why this is the case.
According to them, more and more institutions will start turning to cryptocurrency in the near future, with even banks slowly losing the option to choose. After they start understanding the potential benefits of going crypto, they will have no other choice but to join the ever-growing group of crypto-friendly banks. And, which cryptocurrency is going to benefit the most, according to them? XRP.
Why banks have to turn to Ripple and XRP
According to Euro Exim Bank's head of Compliance and Operations, Graham Bright, Ripple products may crucial for the banks to remain relevant in the future. Bright spoke of their effectiveness, stating that Euro Exim has set up a goal of making sure that their customers can get reliable, fast, and trusted service, which is also secure. He also pointed out that all of these points can be achieved by simply implementing blockchain technology.
Numerous banks around the world have already adopted Ripple's XRP-fueled xRapid, which helped expand their businesses and improve the quality of their services. Examples of this can be observed in numerous areas of Africa and East Asia. The old technology that banks are still using for moving funds is costly and slow, which makes it obsolete in the rapidly advancing era of blockchain and crypto.
Bright stated that Euro Exim chose to turn to xRapid early in order to move funds "as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible." This is what allowed Euro Exim to increase its own international business.
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Alastair Constance, the CEO of Mercury FX, also spoke at the conference, stating that the xRapid-based payments are a lot faster and a lot cheaper than they would be if they were sent through the old system, SWIFT. However, the advantage of turning to Ripple and its products goes beyond speed and transaction costs — it also allows businesses to reach markets that were previously inaccessible.
Constance also explained how Mercury FX entered blockchain trials unsure of what to expect. The results amazed the company when it realized the potential of using Ripple technology combined with XRP cryptocurrency.
Ripple itself has been claiming that there is huge potential in this tech for a long time now, and the company expects that others will come to the same conclusion as they, Mercury FX, and others, in following years.
The demand for swift cross-border payments is constantly on the rise, with companies and individuals alike searching for ways to send payments quickly and cheaply. What's more, sending payments via xRapid would eliminate the need for third parties, which is significantly lowering payment fees. The only conclusion is that the search and demand for blockchain-based solutions is about to skyrocket, with Ripple and XRP being at the center of the explosion.
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Typography is a very important part of web design. By using different types of typography like big headlines and bold fonts web designers are improving the look and feel of websites. So in this post we have compiled some beautiful typography for your inspiration.
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Good choice of sites. Next time rate them somehow, though.
I have some questions about your site a couple things I'm reading in the post. What a web design typography? Thanks!
Thanks for compelling and inspirational round up of websites with stunning typography. Indeed really cool and memorizable.
Like usual, an awesome post.I like openpublicapp.It's that type of minimalism that is satisfacatory to everyone.Every website presented looks very very good, but that one attracted my eyes in a special way.
Typography isn't just the "new black" in the web design world, it's not a fad but something that is slowly proving to be as important as what we once concerned *crucial* considerations. It really is some of those things that are used to define the feel, the atmosphere, the theme of your website.
Love it! Inspiration a plenty – the hardest part is trying to stick to one style!
Thanks for this inspiration – great post!
Typography is an integral part of design. Think of all the different uses of typography on the web, from large headlines and bold blocks of text to smaller-sized text in body copy, and you'll soon realize that not only is it a crucial part of a web design, but that it's a pure combination of art and science.
Fantastic inspiration. I love the typography in the light-bulb from the Amazee Labs site. The hand drawn lettering ads such a unique feel to it.
Typography is an important element of web design. Good post, but some of the examples aren't user-friendly because their typography are not readable.
DeniseChandler remains one of my favorite examples of typography in web design – still beautiful!
It's easy to resent punctuation. Its purpose is to clarify sentences, so why are the rules governing it so complicated? There are so many exceptions, so many exceptions to exceptions — it's enough to make you want forego punctuation altogether. Well, back when it was alive and kicking, the Latin language did just that — and it didn't stop there. Written Latin also omitted spaces between words or lowercase letters.
Awesome post! You have provided wonderful information About Typography. I love this technique, which is very useful for me.
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If all these test reports are positive then the family of the child is provided, on request, with the needed help to prevent any further ill-treatment and abuse of the child. However, quite often it is observed that the child is ill- treated in its own house, then in such cases, the Child Protection Services make arrangements for the safety of the child outside his/her house. This decision is made through the court decisions or with the family's consent.
The case is taken further with the settling down the of issues and the family members of such children are requested to report at the Child Protection Services bureau for routine follow-up so as to avoid any further harm to the children. Throughout this process of investigation the Child Protection Services focus on the child's safety, steps to reduce the risk of ill-treatment and achieve the goals and tasks while working on the case and steps towards meeting the expectations of the child and the family people of the child affected by the ill-treatment.
The closure of the case is decided after the Child Protection Services are convinced about the child's safety and that the further chances of ill-treatment have reduced or completely abolished. These agencies also take a note of the family's capacity to meet the further development of the child and that if they can take this responsibility.
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The introduction of an ordinance to expand Genoa's boundaries last week is as close as the town has come to growing in years.
Douglas County commissioners voted 5-0 to go to a second reading of an ordinance that would add 11 residents who own 78.46 acres to the historic town's boundaries.
That addition would result in those residents' taxes going up by 62.77 cents per $100 assessed valuation, according to the Clerk-Treasurer's Office.
The largest property owner proposed for the annexation has 54.45 acres of land and pays $3,206 a year in taxes now. Should that parcel be annexed the taxes on it would go up an estimated $909 a year. The other parcels would be a fraction of that amount.
The annexations would raise an additional $6,100 for the town.
The motivation to annex these specific parcels has to do with maintaining roads accessing them, Town Manager JT Chevallier said.
The Town Board withdrew a 2010 effort after receiving a great deal of opposition from residents and learning there wasn't much the town could do for those residents if annexation was successful.
The town collected $27,000 in property taxes. That compares with the estimated $270,000 it collects during Candy Dance from booth and candy sales. An effort to increase the size of the town in 2006 met with a packed house of its neighbors in opposition to the effort.
The fact that Genoa Lakes was in the redevelopment area both times meant its annexation would not result in an increase to the town's revenues.
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Just for the record, when there are few places in the world to put vast amounts of institutional money (hundreds of billions of dollars) where there is also at least a positive return on bond yields, an economy with a strong pulse and a solid bid under the currency, why try to call a market top? Again, it's a bold call and one they hope to generate fame and fortune from. However, it's probably early.
Quite frankly, the strong money flows into U.S. equities are more of an affirmation that the domestic economy is maintaining steady growth in light of slower growth around the globe. Most institutional money managers keep to themselves in edgy markets, preferring to stay nimble and not make vocal directional calls on the market. It's tough going on record to predict the future when there is no historical playbook by which the world's most powerful central banks are operating by.
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Going back to pre-recession 2007, it is remarkable to compare the performance of the S&P 500 against that of the emerging markets, Europe, China and Japan. Since emerging markets are literally at the same level today that they were back in 2007, investors in these markets have made no money. Europe's market is trading 30% below its best 2007 level. Japan's market has gained 27% during these past 12 years, averaging 2.25% per year. Investors long the Chinese market are down a whopping 50% from 2007 levels while investors long the S&P are up roughly 150% and averaging about 8.5% per year.

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Despite remarkable progress in understanding and treating gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) during the past two decades, the pathological characteristics of GISTs have not been made clear yet. Furthermore, concrete diagnostic criteria of malignant GISTs are still uncertain. We collected pathology reports of 1,227 GISTs from 38 hospitals in Korea between 2003 and 2004 and evaluated the efficacy of the NIH and AFIP classification schemes as well as the prognostic factors among pathologic findings. The incidence of GISTs in Korea is about 1.6 to 2.2 patients per 100,000. Extra-gastrointestinal GISTs (10.1%) are more common in Korea than in Western countries. In univariate analysis, gender, age, tumor location, size, mitosis, tumor necrosis, vascular and mucosal invasions, histologic type, CD34 and s-100 protein expression, and classifications by the NIH and AFIP criteria were found to be significantly correlated with patient's survival. However, the primary tumor location, stage and classification of the AFIP criteria were prognostically significant in predicting patient's survival in multivariate analysis. The GIST classification based on original tumor location, size, and mitosis is more efficient than the NIH criteria in predicting patient's survival, but the mechanism still needs to be clarified through future studies. © 2010 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.
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You (Estilizado como YOU - Sendo nomeado no Brasil como Você, em Portugal como Tu) é uma série de televisão americana de suspense psicológico desenvolvida por Greg Berlanti e Sera Gamble. Produzido pela Warner Horizon Television, em associação com Alloy Entertainment e A&E Studios. A série é baseada no romance de 2014 de mesmo nome de Caroline Kepnes.

A primeira temporada segue Joe Goldberg, gerente de uma livraria de Nova York e um criminoso que se apaixona por uma cliente chamada Guinevere Beck e rapidamente desenvolve uma obsessão extrema, tóxica e delirante. A segunda temporada segue Joe enquanto ele se muda para Los Angeles e se apaixona por Love Quinn, chef e sócia de uma rede de produtos naturais. A primeira temporada, que foi lançada em 2018, é estrelada por Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Luca Padovan, Zach Cherry e Shay Mitchell. Para a segunda temporada, Ambyr Childers foi promovida a regular na série, juntando-se aos recém-escalados Victoria Pedretti, James Scully, Jenna Ortega e Carmela Zumbado.

A série estreou na Lifetime em 9 de setembro de 2018 nos Estados Unidos e transmitida internacionalmente pela Netflix em 26 de dezembro de 2018. A série atraiu um público limitado na Lifetime antes de se tornar mais popular e um sucesso crítico para a Netflix, com mais de 43 milhões de espectadores tendo transmitido a primeira temporada após sua estreia no serviço de streaming. A Lifetime anunciou que You foi renovada para uma segunda temporada baseada no romance seguinte de Kepnes, Hidden Bodies, em 26 de julho de 2018, antes da estreia da série. Em dezembro de 2018, foi anunciado que a série mudaria para a Netflix como um título Original Netflix. A segunda temporada foi lançada exclusivamente na Netflix em 26 de dezembro de 2019. Em janeiro de 2020, a série foi renovada para uma terceira temporada pela Netflix, que conta com Badgley e Pedretti reprisando seus papéis. No dia 30 de agosto de 2021, foi confirmado que a terceira temporada irá estrear dia 15 de outubro de 2021. Em outubro de 2021, antes da estreia da terceira temporada, a série foi renovada para uma quarta temporada.

A quarta temporada será dividida em duas partes. O primeiro volume de episódios estreia em 9 de fevereiro de 2023 e o segundo, 9 de março.

Premissa
• Primeira Temporada

A primeira temporada conta a história de Joseph Goldberg (apelidado como "Joe"), gerente de uma livraria em Nova York, que ao conhecer uma de suas clientes, Guinevere Beck (chamada apenas de "Beck"), uma aspirante escritora, se apaixona por ela. Ele alimenta sua obsessão tóxica usando redes sociais e outras tecnologias para rastrear a presença dela e remover quaisquer obstáculos no seu romance.

• Segunda Temporada

Joe Goldberg se muda de Nova York para Los Angeles, afim de escapar de seu passado e começar uma nova vida com uma nova identidade. Quando ele conhece a ávida chef, Love Quinn, Joe começa a cair em seus velhos padrões de obsessão e violência. Enquanto Joe tenta forjar um novo amor na Cidade dos Anjos, ele se esforça para fazer seu relacionamento com Love ter sucesso a todo custo, para evitar o destino de seus empreendimentos românticos anteriores.

• Terceira Temporada

Love Quinn e Joe Goldberg mudam-se para construir uma nova vida juntos na cidade de Madre Linda, na Califórnia. Joe busca ter maior controle sobre si, evitando repetir os mesmos erros de seus relacionamentos anteriores, mas o casal enfrenta dificuldades para se ambientar com a nova vizinhança e com a vida de pais e casados, pesando o passado obscuro e a personalidade obsessiva de ambos.

Elenco

Elenco

Recorrente
 John Stamos como Dr. Nicky
 Nicole Kang como Lynn Lieser
Robin Lord Taylor como Will Bettelheim
 Kathryn Gallagher como Annika Attwater
 Charlie Barnett como Gabe Miranda
 Victoria Cartagena como Claudia
 Michael Maize as Oficial Nico
 Hari Nef como Blythe
 Daniel Cosgrove como Ron
Lou Taylor Pucci como Benjamin 'Benji' J. Ashby III

Episódios

1.ª temporada (2018)

2.ª temporada (2019)
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 Produção
 Escolha de elenco
Penn Badgley foi escolhido para interpretar o personagem principal Joe Goldberg em junho de 2017. No mês seguinte, Elizabeth Lail, Luca Padovan e Zach Cherry foram escalados nos papéis de Guinevere Beck, Paco e Ethan. Shay Mitchell entrou no elenco como Peach Sallinger, amiga rica de Beck, em agosto. Em setembro, Hari Nef e Daniel Cosgrove foram selecionados para interpretar Blythe, uma escritora talentosa e competitiva, e Ron, um guarda de presidiários, respectivamente.

Em 30 de janeiro de 2019, foi anunciado que Victoria Pedretti havia sido escalada para o papel principal de Love Quinn na segunda temporada. Pedretti havia feito o teste originalmente para o papel de Guinevere Beck antes das filmagens da primeira temporada em 2017. Embora o papel mais tarde tenha ido para Lail, Pedretti foi escalado na temporada seguinte depois que os produtores viram a atuação da atriz em The Haunting of Hill House da Netflix e os diretores de elenco gostaram de sua química com Badgley. Em 31 de janeiro de 2019, James Scully foi escalado para o papel principal como Forty Quinn, irmão de Love, e Jenna Ortega também foi escalada para o papel principal como Ellie Alves.

Em 1 de fevereiro de 2019, Deadline Hollywood relatou que Ambyr Childers havia sido promovida a um papel regular na série, antes da estreia da segunda temporada. Em 21 de fevereiro de 2019, Carmela Zumbado foi escalada para o papel regular da série de Delilah Alves, na segunda temporada. Em 24 de junho de 2019, foi confirmado que John Stamos iria repetir seu papel como Dr. Nicky na segunda temporada. Em 17 de outubro de 2019, Elizabeth Lail confirmou em uma entrevista da Build Series que ela repetiria seu papel como Guinevere Beck em uma aparição especial na segunda temporada.

Em outubro de 2020, Travis Van Winkle e Shalita Grant foram escalados como regulares na série, enquanto Scott Speedman foi escalado para um papel recorrente na terceira temporada. Em novembro de 2020, foi anunciado que Saffron Burrows havia sido promovida ao elenco principal após aparecer na segunda temporada como recorrente. Além disso, Tati Gabrielle e Dylan Arnold também foram escalados no elenco principal para a terceira temporada, com Michaela McManus, Shannon Chan-Kent, Ben Mehl, Chris O'Shea, Christopher Sean, Bryan Safi, Mackenzie Astin, Ayelet Zurer e Jack Fisher no elenco recorrente.

 Filmagens
As filmagens da primeira temporada de You aconteceram em Nova Iorque e terminaram em 19 de dezembro de 2017. Para a segunda temporada, a série transferiu sua produção para a Califórnia para aproveitar os incentivos fiscais fornecidos pela California Film Commission sob sua iniciativa "Program 2.0".

 Lançamento
 Transmissão e disponibilidade You estreou na Lifetime, nos Estados Unidos em 9 de setembro de 2018. Em maio de 2018, foi anunciado que a Netflix adquiriu os direitos exclusivos de transmissão internacional da série, disponibilizando-a como uma produção original na plataforma. A primeira temporada ficou disponível para transmissão instantânea na Netflix em todo o mundo em 26 de dezembro de 2018. Em 3 de dezembro de 2018, foi anunciado que a Lifetime havia entregado a série para a Netflix.. A série foi renovada para uma segunda temporada que será lançada dia 26 de dezembro de 2019. A série já tem sua terceira temporada confirmada com previsão de estreia para dezembro de 2020.

 Divulgação
O primeiro trailer da série foi lançado em 10 de abril de 2018.

 Repercussão

 Resposta da crítica
No agregador de críticas Rotten Tomatoes, a série tem uma classificação de 89% certificada com 35 comentários, com uma classificação média de 6,81/10. Metacritic, que usa uma média ponderada, atribuiu uma pontuação de 74 em 100 com base em 16 críticas, indicando "comentários geralmente favoráveis".

 Listas de fim de ano
A tabela a seguir representa a aparição de You'' em listas de melhores séries de cada ano.

Ligações externas

Programas do Lifetime
Programas da Netflix
Séries de televisão de drama dos Estados Unidos
Séries de televisão de drama da década de 2010
Séries de televisão de drama da década de 2020
Programas de televisão dos Estados Unidos que estrearam em 2018
Programas de televisão em língua inglesa
Programas de televisão produzidos pela Warner Bros. Television Studios

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Charities given five years to pass public benefit test
08 October 2009 by Paul Jump
Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the Charity Commission, tells independent schools she expects 'demonstrable commitment' to satisfying the requirement
Charities will have up to five years to improve their public benefit to acceptable levels, according to Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the Charity Commission.
Leather was speaking yesterday at the annual conference of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents the heads of about 250 independent schools across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
She said the commission expected a "demonstrable commitment, year on year" to satisfying the public benefit requirement, but did not "inhabit a parallel universe" and accepted that it could take some schools up to five years to reach a satisfactory level.
"We recognise that developing partnership activities or building up a bursaries fund will take time," she said. "We also recognise that in the current economic climate it is more difficult. We know you can't pull a rabbit out of the hat."
Two out of the five fee-charging schools involved in the commission's public benefit assessment exercise earlier this year were deemed not to be providing sufficient public benefit. They were given three months to respond and a further nine to draw up plans to address their failings.
Leather also denied that the commission was obsessed by bursaries. She argued that, in principle, indirect benefits such as allowing local maintained schools access to facilities could be enough to pass the public benefit test.
She invited schools that provided a lot of indirect benefits to help the commission produce best-practice models.
"Assessments will be rare, so collating examples will be an important way of showing that the sector and the commission values other opportunities to benefit," she said.
Leather said the commission had seen no legal argument to make it change its interpretation of the law on public benefit. But she echoed remarks made by Andrew Hind, chief executive of the commission, at last week's annual public meeting of the commission welcoming the prospect of a legal challenge to the commission's interpretation of the law on public benefit.
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Cover to Cover (1975, Michael Snow)
January 27, 2023 by Brandon·Comments Off on Cover to Cover (1975, Michael Snow)
RIP Michael Snow. I've seen his Wavelength on film and disrespected it, watched a horrendous home video copy of La Region Centrale and loved it… had fun with Presents and *Corpus Callosum, Sshtoorrty and Cityscape. It's not so easy for a mid-country dweller like myself to watch his works, but I assume I'll be watching them (or trying to) for a long time. One thing I can access is his book… which reads very much like a movie, a split-screen tracking shot. It has fade-ups, for god's sake. It's not all continuous motion – there are scene changes using page-turn effects (pages held and rephotographed mid-turn, then printed on new pages). The book contains itself, like a movie about its own making.
Reprint publisher Primary Information:
Never bound by discipline, Snow has remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Snow himself has called the piece "a quasi-movie." … an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity that allows the viewer to enter the work from either end.
Martha Langford has a good write-up, and a whole free PDF book on Snow
Chris Fite-Wassilak in ArtReview on the book's cinematic precedent, which I'll probably never see:
Snow … made Cover to Cover as a book artwork in 1975, shortly after his film Two Sides to Every Story (1974), the product of two cameramen filming each other from opposite sides of a room, was completed. In the resulting two-part projection (each part projected onto opposite sides of the same aluminium sheet) we can choose to watch, from either of the camera's perspectives, a woman walk between them and, at one point, spraypaint a green circle onto a piece of clear Perspex. The technique gives a materiality to the projected image, as if trapping it within the plates of a microscope slide ready for examination … Reading Cover to Cover is much like watching one of Snow's films: visually quite mundane, where what happens isn't as important as how it's being shown to you, with a sustained focus that sits with a relatively simple idea for longer than you might think.
Among everything else, Snow was a jazz guy – a music enthusiast, pianist, recording artist. We see his hi-fi setup in Cover to Cover. I spent the day listening to his works available on UbuWeb…
"Short Wavelength" from 2 Radio Solos is a 1980 live DJ performance, Snow on the shortwave radio dial, tuning between different stations and statics. Snow claims no other sound manipulation, but he's been known to lie on his album descriptions, and many of the sounds here have clearly been sped up (like reeeeal clearly). It tried my patience, then I stopped listening closely and got tied up in work, then it ended and I thought "hunh, it's already over?"
"Conference: Subject: 3 Inches = 77 Milimeters = 3 Min. 30 Sec." from Hearing Aid (2002) is three guys making mouth noises, commenting that three inches makes a difference, with synth coming in at the end, an avant-stand-up comedy-garde performance. This chaos continues in the "Interview" track that follows, interviewer Doina Popescu asking straight questions in German and getting pained groaning sounds in response. The 20-minute "Discussion" track might even be a proper discussion – postponing listening to the rest of that.
"Left Right" from Music For Piano, Whistling, Microphone and Tape Recorder (1975) sounds simply lo-fi at first, but what has he done with the microphone to make the piano sound like this? Excellent minimalist music to work to, then it gets hyper towards the end. Alan Licht calls it "pretty brutal":
Snow alternating notes and chords in the bass and treble registers in a very repetitive stride piano pattern. The sound is intentionally distorted and a metronome and telephone are heard … many of Snow's films are concerned with lateral movement (especially BACK AND FORTH and PRESENTS), which makes the title (and the use of a metronome–get it?) a pun on his own art.
"Falling Starts" also from the 1975 album… Licht again: "a tape of a piano melody first played back at hyperspeed, then slower and slower until it becomes recognisable before transforming into a thunderous, quivering bass boom." This sounded like it would be good work music, and sure enough. I played the first half.
Sinoms (1989) – One voice at a time reads a list of Quebec mayors, like teachers taking roll. Ten minutes in, it starts getting playful, combining different voices speaking the same mayor name at once, then layering in different stereo patterns. The voices are English or French native speakers with some pronunciation hurdles. After a while in headphones it gives the pleasant feeling of working in a busy cafe surrounded by conversation, but without the distraction of following people's conversations or phone calls. Ends abruptly.
Discogs says there's a three-CD collection of piano works out there. Allmusic's discography is incomplete and mixes him up with another Michael Snow, but bringing things back (and forth), they use a page from Cover to Cover as the artist photo.
The Image Book (2018) and Jean-Luc Godard shorts
October 20, 2022 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Image Book (2018) and Jean-Luc Godard shorts
Stereo sound hard-panning left and right, songs cutting in and out, incomplete subtitles, footage warped and effected, recolored, switching to the wrong aspect ratios on purpose, speed-adjusted and frame-by-framed, interlacing, watermarks. He's taking the "I invented the jump-cut" thing a little far, with an entire movie of technical errors.
Vertigo, Salo, L'Atalante, Alphaville, The Flowers of St. Francis, Freaks. Testament of Orpheus matched with Die Nibelungen. The Rules of the Game rabbit hunt. Paintings and late-era Scott Walker.
Doc footage of horrors to people and animals. Obviously there's a point to distorting and mutating the film footage and in flipping between fictional and actual atrocities. "This is the law of destruction of the living. Every being must be sacrificed," says gravel-voiced JLG, or at least that's what the subtitles tell us he's saying.
The nature of art and war are covered, briefly. Focus on Russia, trains, physical film apparatus, the Muslim world. Named/numbered chapters, but I'm not sure they help anything. Politically, he seems to be in a terrible mood.
You do eventually drift into its rhythm, or its lack of rhythm. Towards the end it feels like he might start telling us a coherent story about a would-be conqueror named Sheik Ben Kadem ("but the world wasn't as simple as his dream" sounds like Adam Curtis) illustrated by the jumble of sources he's been establishing… alas, JLG is just reading scraps from a 1980's novel, and the subtitles lose interest in following him.
It's such a homemade UFO, I'd believe you if you told me he made it alone in a weekend, or that it took many years with a team of researchers.
Blake Williams:
These are films that ignite every interpretative impulse in our brains without satisfying our desires to be passive, unproductive viewers; they do not give clarity or any obvious avenues through the deluge of information, even if they make us feel as though, were we smarter, more knowledgable, bilingual cinephiles, we would be able to do just that. It's in this way that Godard's films also invite us to improve ourselves, something I think very few other artists achieve.
Many years ago, Godard attempted to create a style of cinema that could inspire revolutionary change. At this point, he seems to not only regard such a thing as impossible, but also regards cinema as a tool of violence and colonialism. In the film's longest and most lucid section, he argues for the Arab World as a lost paradise hurt by western intervention, and cinema as a tool of oppression (in his narration, he says something along the lines of "all representation is violence"). He doesn't seem to draw a distinction between classical Hollywood cinema, news footage, Blu-Rays, and amateur cell phone video — he suggests they have all basically been flattened into the same thing.
Michael Sicinski:
In his comparison of war footage and fictional violence, Godard posits the old problem: which representation is the original, and what inspired what? The connections are pre-cognitive and deeply intuitive, posed as questions, and (like so much in late Godard) recall Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. How have images — both "cursed" and "blessed," in the current parlance — dipped and ducked into the unconscious across the ages, forming something like a universal art history?
Lawrence Garcia:
If, as Godard intones early on, pledging allegiance to the ideas of Swiss cultural theorist Denis de Rougemont, man's condition is indeed "to think with hands," then what happens when cinema subverts or displaces that tactile state? When a hand becomes, as in Godard's famed aphorism, "not a just image, but just an image"? When real violence becomes conflated with the violence of representation? In a choice that will strike some as crass at best, and exploitative at worst, Godard continually rhymes the two, in one instance placing gruesome footage of ISIS throwing bloodied bodies into the water against the scene in Vertigo (1958) in which Scottie rescues Madeleine from the San Francisco Bay. The ultimate point that Godard arrives at here, though, is fairly direct: which is that cinema—even revolutionary, politically minded cinema—has not clarified, but obscured the reality of the Holocaust and other attendant horrors, and instead contributed to a larger confusion, an effective "flattening" of reality. (That the clenched fist of revolution is here traded in for a raised index finger is instructive.)
Sam C. Mac:
The Image Book ends with another display of madness that would be a more than appropriate sendoff for the French New Wave figurehead's restless career. Taken from Max Ophüls's Le Plaisir, it's a sequence of a man dancing and spinning around furiously until, finally, he falls down. This moment also serves as a canny reminder that, whatever effort it takes to understand the exact nature of the work that Godard is doing here, he's also exerting that effort with us—and he seems to mind not at all if he collapses in the process.
As a memorial screening, I watched one JLG short film per decade…
Une Femme Coquette (1955)
Agnès writes a letter to a friend to confess cheating on her husband, having witnessed a discreet prostitute picking up men from the street and wondering if she'd have the courage to do the same. The woman is portrayed as complicated, and the men (including JLG himself) as impulsive dickbrains. The filmmakers bring Guy de Maupassant's apartment-balcony story outdoors, showing off Geneva parks, bridges and birds. Ten years later, Masculin Féminin was sold as an adaptation of the same story before being completely rewritten.
Montparnasse-Levallois (1965)
From the Paris vu par anthology, which people say is quite good overall but I'll watch the rest some other time. In very mobile long takes, Monica comes to her bf's metalworking studio to tell him about a delicate mixup: she's sent two telegrams to her two men and mixed up the addresses. He doesn't buy it and kicks her out, so she runs to her other metalworker bf's place. Both guys are caught up in their work and don't stop to listen to her. Seems she didn't mix up the addresses after all, and Roger also kicks her out. Some tech issues here, a bad post-dub, but cute.
Schick (1971)
Brief, noisy apartment scene, filmed mostly from behind the actors, to sell aftershave. You can't tell a whole lot from my unsubbed copy but apparently that's Juliet Berto and they're arguing about Palestine, haha. Don't know whether this aired, but it made some quick cash for the Dziga-Vertov Group.
Puissance de la parole (1988)
The Power of Speech is the opposite of Goodbye to Language. Filmmaking apparatus, overlapping hypnotized dialogue, a bitter post-breakup conversation transmitted through 1980's phones and satellites. Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan songs, used less abruptly than in the later features.
Strobing edits (cutting between sky/water/volcano looks cool) and space-age philosophy. I've always liked movies where two people speak abstractly at the shore. A couple of Rivettian ghosts on the beach: Warok and a Gang of Four lead. "No thought can perish, so no act is without infinite result."
L'enfance de l'Art (1993, w/ Mieville)
A woman reads to a boy, a book about revolt and revolution, while violent battles and children's games go on around them. Nice string music, an action scene, a bazooka.
Liberty and Homeland (2002, w/ Miéville)
I did not realize Godard had a 9/11 film, or that he ever used dub music in his work. Male and female narrators go off about France and art, finally settling on a story of a (fictional) painter. Blending sources with different aspect ratios, extremely enhancing the colors – it was all there 20 years ago.
Remerciements de JLG (2015)
Godard totters home muttering in scraps and quotes, falls down, and delivers a speech from the floor about cinema and the lack of it, gets up to his desk and talks politics and poetry – all this in five minutes.
A Silent Voice (2016 Naoko Yamada)
September 18, 2019 by Brandon·Comments Off on A Silent Voice (2016 Naoko Yamada)
A middle-school bully turned high-school pariah tries to humbly make amends, finds it isn't so simple, goes on adventures. Multiple suicide attempts later, our group of misfits manages to find some peace. Nice visual expression of our dude's alienation, his classmates with X's on their faces as he stares at the ground. A high-quality production, earnest and emotional – maybe not my kind of thing under normal circumstances, but the movie had my sympathy since we were watching in memory of the 30-some people at Kyoto Animation who were murdered last month.
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Isao Takahata)
May 9, 2018 by Brandon·Comments Off on My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Isao Takahata)
Based on the style of newspaper comics, the animation has unfinished backgrounds that fade away on the edges, reminding me (in a good way) of Ernest & Celestine. Married couple, older schoolboy, younger daughter and gramma appear in disconnected sketches, stories and fantasies. The most dramatic thing that happens is the daughter gets left behind at the mall and while the family is stuck in traffic trying to retrieve her, she's taken home by a friendly neighbor – it's very lightweight drama with an overall big-hearted feeling (the polar opposite of the previous film I'd watched).
The first animated work to make me consider trying animation because it looks like fun, even though I know plenty of animators so I should know better.
Me IRL:
Maybe it felt more emotional because we watched it in memory of the great Isao Takahata, who increasingly looks like Ghibli's secret weapon, a patient genius who never made the same kind of great film twice.
Monkey Shines (1988, George Romero)
November 26, 2017 by Brandon·Comments Off on Monkey Shines (1988, George Romero)
Part of a Late Horror Masters' Lesser Works double-feature. Opens with a disclaimer about the treatment of the movie's monkeys, but they never appeared to be in any convincing danger, except maybe in the final scene. No mention of the treatment of the movie's parakeets. Monkey tricks are the primary reason to watch this movie, except for George Romero and/or Stanley Tucci completists.
Allan's car accident:
Allan and monkey giving the same steely expression:
Moody Allan (Jason Beghe of One Missed Call Remake) is badly crippled, so his monkey-researcher friend Geoffrey (John Pankow of Talk Radio) donates a brain-eating monkey to service-animal trainer Melanie (Kate McNeil of The House on Sorority Row) to get Allan a furry helper buddy. Brain-eating monkey in a George Romero movie – what could go wrong?
Mad scientist Geoffrey:
Geoffrey's boss Stephen Root:
Moody Allan is a bad influence on the monkey, who starts to murder everyone who she perceives as a threat – first setting fire to Allan's ex (Lincoln NE's Janine Turner of Northern Exposure) who has run off with his doctor (Stanley Tucci), then electrocuting Allan's annoying mom (Joyce Van Patten of Bone), killing Geoffrey via drug injection, and most horribly, murdering the parakeet of Allan's hateful catetaker (Christine Forrest, Romero's wife). After she threatens Melanie in a rage, Allan manages to dispatch the monkey using only his neck and mouth. We also get a monkey-surgery dream sequence and blurry monkey-POV shots. Mostly dullsville compared to the space vampires. My birds reacted to the monkey chatter, but not to the parakeet.
Lifeforce (1985, Tobe Hooper)
November 26, 2017 by Brandon·Comments Off on Lifeforce (1985, Tobe Hooper)
In memory of two recently-departed horror directors, who made some of the best horror films in history, I caught up with two of their worst pictures…
To begin with, a bullshit voiceover lets us know that this spaceship, created with colored lights and 1980's computer graphics, has some inexplicable gravity technology – just trust us, we're on a spaceship but there's gravity. I don't recall Star Trek worrying themselves with explaining the ship's artificial gravity, except when it broke in the sixth movie.
Discovering nude-vampire crystals inside the space anus:
Fallada, looking like an apocalyptic preacher:
"I almost have the feeling I've been here before" as they fly into a giant vaginal-looking tunnel. Astronauts discover nude, crystal-encased space vampires and bring them home via a badly failed first mission plus a second rescue mission. The sole survivor of the first mission is Steve Railsback (later of Scissors and Alligator II: The Mutation), who couldn't help but sexually harass the female alien (Mathilda May, later of some Chabrol and Demy films) and becomes psychically connected to her. Railsback works with Peter Firth (Tess, Equus) and alien-invaded doctor Patrick Stewart to track down the vampire girl, while dapper white-haired Professor Fallada (Frank Finlay, one of Richard Lester's Musketeers) and barely-competent Dr. Bukovsky (Michael Gothard, Oliver Reed's executor in The Devils) try to contain the evil – and fail utterly, as most of London falls to the vampire-zombie plague.
Patrick Stewart Replica:
Return of the Living Dead Zombie Phantom Alien Vampires:
More perverted and apocalyptic than most 1980's horror movies, at least. The movie's pretty okay, but the concept is cool as hell, so it's got my respect. Tobe's follow-up to Poltergeist, produced by Cannon Films, cowritten by Dan O'Bannon, who made Return of the Living Dead the same year, which ties into our next filmmaker…
The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis)
September 26, 2017 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis)
Memorial screening for Jerry Lewis. I'd never seen this, didn't realize it's semi-plotless, casting a mute Jerry as one of many bellboys at a luxury hotel and throwing him into situations. Apparently hastily written and shot in the Miami hotel where he was performing at the time. And it shows… half the jokes are lazy or awful, though it's short and overall pleasant enough.
Also featuring Jerry as himself, Milton Berle as himself, both of them as lookalike bellboys, and Lewis's future cowriter Bill Richmond as a fake Stan Laurel. It's a strange movie. I feel bad having so little to say about it, but maybe you had to have suffered through the studio comedies of the 1940's and 1950's to appreciate its innovations.
The Band's Visit (2007, Eran Kolirin)
May 17, 2016 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Band's Visit (2007, Eran Kolirin)
It's Cannes Month and Kolirin's new movie will be premiering, so per the Festifest 2.0 rules, I wanted to watch his most acclaimed previous movie. Also, the lead actress just died, and I've never seen anything of hers, so this can be a Memorial Screening. That's a lot of stupid justifications, but they got me to watch this wonderful movie, so it all worked out.
After a bus-ticket foul-up, a self-serious Egyptian band ends up in a rural Israeli town instead of the city where they're supposed to play their concert (asking for the Arab Culture Center they're told "No culture – not Israeli culture, not Arab, no culture at all"). The straight-faced humor of their situation, and the visual gag of the neatly-aligned band members with their spiffy blue uniforms in unfamiliar territory immediately brings to mind Kaurismaki (specifically Leningrad Cowboys Go America), which is a good thing. They're stuck in town for the night, put up by a restaurant owner (the late Ronit Elkabetz) and other locals.
The bulk of the movie is interactions between Elkabetz (Dina, the town's fading flower, who resents being stuck there), the humorless band leader Tawfiq (Sasson Gabai of Rambo III) and the youngest, least disciplined band member Khaled (Saleh Bakri of The Time That Remains). Tawfiq and Dina express their life regrets, Tawfiq learns to be less harsh with Khaled. Meanwhile Khaled goes out with some younger guys and teaches one of them how to comfort his unhappy date at a dance club.
Ronit Elkabetz steals the film, and this performance would be enough to convince me that she was a powerful actress, but after Scout Tafoya's great write-up on rogerebert.com I'm determined to see more, especially her Viviane Amsalem trilogy.
Won some prizes at Cannes in 2007 playing in the Un Certain Regard section with You, The Living, Flight of the Red Balloon, Munyurangabo and Mister Lonely.
From an Indiewire interview:
iW: Did that Egyptian band really exist?
Kolirin: Nothing is real in the movie.
iW: I've heard the film is banned in Egypt.
Kolirin: It doesn't apply just to my film. Any Israeli film would be banned in Egypt.
P. Utin in Cinema Scope:
The films of the Cinema of Disengagement are characterized by their tendency to avoid politics in noticeable ways … The Band's Visit highlights one of the cardinal differences between the Cinema of Disengagement and the political cinema of the past. By addressing "everyone," by refraining from preaching or taking a clear political stand, the new Israeli cinema is able to draw audiences at both foreign film festivals and the box office that may have disagreed with certain strong political opinions: it invites universal identification. But after the films have finished, the iceberg effect allows viewers to think about what they have seen, and even to discover that the films are charged with further content.


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Stephen McBrearty, Irish Gaelic footballer and younger brother of Patrick


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The Konstanzer Meisterklasse is an international annual convention of renowned scholars and a group of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows from the cultural studies and social sciences. It provides a supportive and stimulating environment for intensive debate and intellectual exchange.
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Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 | 10:58 a.m.
Originally published by Las Vegas Sun
Read here: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2005/sep/12/bikeway-through-red-rock-canyon-studied/
Local and state officials are asking whether building a dedicated bikeway on State Route 159 would make the highway through Red Rock Canyon safer for bicyclists.
Jacob Snow, Regional Transportation Commission general manager, said the possibility of building a bikeway that would separate cyclists from the growing traffic on SR 159 is the subject of a feasibility study now under way. Another possibility would be to widen the existing bicycle lanes that already run alongside the road.
These are among a few of the options that will be on the table Sept. 14 when the state Transportation Department holds a community meeting to discuss ways to make the highway safer, especially for bicyclists.
Bicyclists and others who frequent Red Rock Canyon have long been concerned about safety issues on the winding road through the heart of the area.
Those concerns peaked after the July 28 death of Metro Police Officer Don Albietz, who was hit while off duty and cycling. A truck driver, who told investigators he was returning from work in Pahrump, was later charged with hit-and-run in the incident.
Snow said the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act, which puts proceeds from sales of federal land in Clark County to conservation purposes, could be used to help build a new bike path. A voter-approved measure to provide $10 million over the next 25 years for bicycle paths and trails could maintain the bikeway, he said.
"We thought this would be a terrific corridor to use those funds in," Snow said.
Snow said he supports another proposal pushed by cyclists and residents of the village of Blue Diamond in the southern end of the canyon: a lower speed limit.
"One of the things that is really warranted is a re-evaluation of the speed limit in the corridor," Snow said. "If you just look at the automobiles, that's one thing, but one of the criteria that you have to look at is the traffic mix."
Among those who use the road are bicyclists, truckers, motorcyclists, car drivers and wild horses and burros.
"It's really appropriate, in my opinion, to lower the speed limit," said Snow, who joins his family for cycling on the road several times a year.
Residents of Blue Diamond agree with Snow. Evan Blythin, a member of the Red Rock Citizens Advisory Council, which advises the Clark County government on land use issues in the area, said several burros were killed just within the last two weeks.
"We're seeing burros pretty regularly on the road, dead on the road," Blythin said.
A lower speed limit would help the situation, and a dedicated bikeway also would help if it accommodated both racing and touring cyclists, he said. Blythin also supports a potentially contentious proposal to bar commercial traffic on SR 159.
"You cannot have a scenic byway and a commuting, commercial freeway in the same path," he said. "It just simply doesn't work."
Blythin said people feel passionately about the issue. He noted that an amateur road engineer went out last week with a can of spray paint and lowered the speed limits on signs through Red Rock Canyon.
Ron Levine, assistant managing director of the Nevada Motor Transport Association, said his group wants to keep the road open for commercial drivers, who as a group have more experience and training than most car drivers.
"We want to see the road nice and safe," he said, "for everyone. I think it needs to stay open for all vehicles."
Levine said truckers would abide by a 45 mph speed limit, although it could raise more safety issues as drivers of all sorts tried to pass slower-moving vehicles.
Building a dedicated bikeway off of the road may be the best solution, he said.
"I agree that it's dangerous, especially for bicyclists," he said. "The bike path can't be adjacent to the road (as it is now). It's just too dangerous."
Mary Martini, district engineer for the state Transportation Department, may have one of the last words on the issue because the road is under NDOT's jurisdiction. Martini said she wants as much input from the various interests in the community as possible, which is why the department is having the Sept. 14 meeting.
One step that is already in place is signs on the highway warning drivers to watch their speeds. Other permanent solutions need to involve as many people as possible to consider all of the potential impacts and costs, she said.
"We need to work with everyone," Martini said.
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Our mission is to preserve and enhance the natural, recreational, educational, scientific and scenic resources of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Save Red Rock is a non-profit 501c3 run purely on the caring generosity of people who love Red Rock. Every bit helps.
The Legacy Behind the Red Rock Legacy Trail:
In 2005, local hero, resident metro officer, Iron Man athlete, father, husband, and little league coach, Don Albietz was killed by a hit and run driver while riding his bike on the 159 Red Rock Scenic Byway. His legacy inspired us to create Save Red Rock as an organization to improve safety and the natural experience in Red Rock and to ensure that this kind of tragedy never happens again. The "legacy" trail is also named after the individual and collective legacies of all Save Red Rock's supporters, including and especially all the people and agencies who are working to make this dream of safety and serenity in the canyon a reality, this legacy a lasting one, for generations to come.
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It was critical to all North Shore stakeholders for the city to identify short-term projects where the city and other agencies could focus efforts to advance the community's 2030 Vision. To that end, the North Shore 2030 Action Agenda highlights the city's new short-term commitments and the on-going work of the agencies in the borough's North Shore neighborhoods.
The North Shore Land Use and Transportation Study was initiated at the request of Mayor Bloomberg's Staten Island Growth Management Task Force as a response to the call for government to coordinate its efforts and comprehensively plan for the future of this five-mile long stretch of working waterfronts and historic communities. This Chapter describes the study area, the North Shore's key assets, challenges, opportunities and the issues prioritized through the public engagement process.
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The North Shore has been defined by its major assets – the Kill Van Kull waterfront, deep-rooted neighborhoods and town centers, historic streets, and the former North Shore railroad right-of-way. North Shore 2030 aims to reconnect those assets and unlock the North Shore's potential through the four strategies described below.
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A full list of recommendations, critical first steps, and agencies involved.
This list includes new short-term commitments and the on-going work of the agencies in neighborhoods throughout the North Shore. This document identifies the lead agencies responsible for advancing progress and the targeted deadlines for completion. It will be used by the Mayor's Staten Island Growth Management Task Force to track the progress of North Shore 2030.
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Q: How to estimate piece-wise smooth fit to a noisy mask? I have a binary mask that originated from a piece-wise smooth curve. Each underlying curve segment is smooth, but connections between segments may or may not be smooth.
The mask is noisy so it might contain several pixels around the underlying curve. Image below shows an example of such input:

I want to estimate a fit to the underlying curve, given this input without any other prior knowledge, that will be able to provide both smooth and non-smooth connections.
I'm working in python so I tried several methods available there, such as numpy's polynomial fit, scipy's spline smoothing and pyqt-fit's non-parameteric regression, but was not able to get to the desired output. Here's a code example:
    from imageio import imread
    import random
    import numpy as np
    from scipy.interpolate import UnivariateSpline
    import pyqt_fit.nonparam_regression as smooth
    from pyqt_fit import npr_methods
    from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

    mask = imread(r'C:\mask.bmp')
    ys, xs = np.where(mask)
    # add tiny noise and sort - silly way to comply to UnivariateSpline's requirement of "x must be strictly increasing"
    xs = np.array([x + random.random() * 1e-4 for x in xs])
    sorter = np.argsort(xs)
    xs = xs[sorter]
    ys = ys[sorter]
    # polynomial fit
    p = np.poly1d(np.polyfit(xs, ys, 5))
    # spline smoothing
    spl = UnivariateSpline(xs, ys, k=3, s=1e9)
    # non-parameteric regression
    k = smooth.NonParamRegression(xs, ys, method=npr_methods.LocalPolynomialKernel(q=3))
    k.fit()

    plt.figure()
    plt.imshow(mask, cmap='gray')
    linexs = np.array(range(mask.shape[1]))
    plt.plot(linexs, k(linexs), 'y', lw=1)
    plt.plot(linexs, spl(linexs), 'g', lw=1)
    plt.plot(linexs, p(linexs), 'b', lw=1)
    plt.show()

For the parameters shown in this example, these fits both fail to capture the non-smooth connection on the left, as well as to provide a good fit for the "tail" on the right:

Expected results should behave like the red curve in the image below, where I expect the curve at location 1 to be non-smooth and at location 2 to be smooth.

I'd be happy to get a reference to a suitable algorithm. If there's also a python implementation, that would be a plus.

A: This could be close to what you want. The trick is to first skeletonize the mask (see https://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/edges/plot_skeleton.html) to extract the points along which the curve to be estimated.
from skimage.morphology import skeletonize
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cv2
import numpy as np
from scipy.interpolate import interp1d

img = cv2.imread("./data/bAiew.png", 0)
img = cv2.medianBlur(img, 11)
img = img//255

# Sparse skeleton
skeleton = skeletonize(img, method='lee')

# Into dense
contours, _ = cv2.findContours(skeleton, 0,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)
arch = contours[0]
x,y = arch[...,0].squeeze(), arch[...,1].squeeze()

# Fitting a curve
xx, yy = x[0::15], y[0::15] #<- sample every 15th element to see that the interpolate really works
f = interp1d(xx, yy)

plt.figure(figsize=(16,9))
plt.subplot(221)
plt.imshow(img)
plt.title('original mask')

plt.subplot(222)
plt.imshow(skeleton)
plt.title('skeleton')

plt.subplot(223)
plt.scatter(xx,yy)
plt.ylim([img.shape[0],0])
plt.xlim([0, img.shape[1]])
plt.title('sampled points')

plt.subplot(224)
plt.plot(xx,f(xx))
plt.ylim([img.shape[0],0])
plt.xlim([0, img.shape[1]])
plt.title('interpolate')
plt.show()

Output:

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Morocco's airline Royal Air Maroc "RAM" has decided to temporarily suspend flights to and from Italy's Venice and Milan cities until further notes amid Coronavirus outbreak.
Morocco's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a hotline number to keep in contact with the Moroccan community residing in Italy, estimated to half-million immigrants.
So far, Morocco tested 57 people for the coronavirus, with two tested positive.
It is worth mentioning that, Italy's government decided on Monday to suspend all sports events in Italy, including all matches in Serie A, until April 3.
In a press conference, the country's prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced the suspension of all sports events in the European state, but the decision will not be implemented on the Italian clubs or national teams participating in international competitions.
The virus spread across Italy with over 7,000 confirmed cases and more than 450 deaths.
Italy had taken many precautionary measures before as it suspended the schools and all crowded events in the country.
It also banned anyone from entering or leaving the European country.
The World Health Organization WHO has warned that world countries should do more and prepare for a possible pandemic because of Coronavirus outbreak.
In an official statement, WHO said that it is too early to announce a pandemic now, but the countries should be in a "phase of preparedness".
"The epidemic will be declared when the infectious disease is easily transmitted from person to person in many parts of the world," the statement read.
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I created 2 notes, then put each of them into a separate adornment on the map. In Outline, I then created another note and moved the 2 original notes to be children of that note.
When I return to map view, I don't see those original 2 notes anywhere. I assumed they would remain in their respective adornments, as I have read that there is no correlation between outline view and map view.
If I go to outline view and move the children out of the parent, they do show up again in the correct adornment.
If I start typing in map view to find one of the notes, which I saw suggested elsewhere in response to someone's comment that they can't find notes on their map, all that happens is a new note gets created.
Have I missed something? Would posting a screencast help?
BTW is there a keyboard shortcut to move among tabs in a window?
Oh never mind, I figured it out. But I could still use a keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs. Thanks.
You might find this PDF a useful reference. It to is a work in progress.
But may I ask why you don't use the Mac standard keystrokes Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab? Any chance of adding those?
I can do so myself with Keyboard Maestro, but if the Mac standard exists, why not implement it? (semi-rhetorical question). One less thing to learn.
Thanks for spotting the typo - now fixed in the PDF. All such reports are useful, so do please call in any such errors in my docs.
As a user, I can't answer your question on the allocation of shortcuts. I suggest dropping an email to Eastgate.
It's not entirely clear whether cmd-opt-[ or ctrl-tab is more standard. I've filed an issue to find out.


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A first group of Armenian judges, prosecutors and investigators has completed a distance-learning course on procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings and victims' rights, organised as part of an EU-funded criminal justice reform project.
The eight-week study programme has been translated and adapted to the Armenian legal context and launched in co-operation with the Armenian Academy of Justice.
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