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REVIEW: 'Hawkeye' Episode 5 – "Ronin"
12/15/2021 - by Aaron Phillips
Hawkeye Episode 5 has just introduced a new Marvel character that is sure to have the internet abuzz, and I'm dying to talk more about it! This is a no-spoiler review though, so it'll have to wait until next week. However, this is your warning to watch the episode before it gets spoiled for you because there are so many implications for what comes next.
The series is directed by Rhys Thomas, Bert, and Bertie, stars Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, Vera Farmiga as Eleanor Bishop, Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne, and Alaqua Cox as Maya "Echo" Lopez.
In the previous episode, "Partners, Am I Right?" Kate and Clint had an explosive run with Echo and a mystery character revealed to be none other than Yelena Belova's Black Widow, played by Florence Pugh.
With someone placing a hit on Clint by sending a Widow after him, he realizes the situation has progressed into extremely dangerous territory and he has to send Kate away. Usually, this would be the end of the situation, but Yelena has other plans and has a tet-a-tet with the young archer.
Meanwhile, Clint decides to confront Echo to send her a message and give her some information that sets up her character arc for her spin-off series. Finally that massive ending, and I mean WOW. I say it all the time, but damn, this series is tackling so much and is laying the groundwork for spin-offs, second seasons, and potential plot points for future films.
The episode started out with such a chilling bang, as we tag along with Yelena post Black Widow as she attempts to free the other Widows from their mind control. What was most shocking was Yelena experiencing the blip from her perspective. It was so unexpected, and it captured that same spine-chilling reaction that I had while watching WandaVision Episode 4, when Monica Rambeau wakes up post-snap.
The episode continued to shine from here on out as Kate and Yelena sit down to talk in Kate's apartment. Pugh has such an enigmatic presence on screen and she so effortlessly portrays a deadly assassin, while being so enjoyably fun and disarming to the people around her. The dialogue very cleverly has Yelena flip these aspects of her personality on a dime, highlighting that you do not want to mess around with this woman.
The conversation had so much weight as the two characters discuss at length the morality of Clint Barton, both as Hawkeye and Ronin. It was a fascinating scene as the series continues to explore the murderous past of Clint during the blip rather than shy away from it.
From one dangerous woman to the next, we also learn there's more to Echo's past and Clint confronts her one-on-one. The revelation that there was more about that night Ronin killed her father sets Echo down a path that is sure to be explored in her own series. Cox has been such a welcomed addition to the MCU. The actress is able to convey so much emotion into her ASL and her facial reactions, and her fight choreography is phenomenal to watch.
Additionally, one quick mention that we need more Grills. He was a hit in the comics that inspired the show, and now Clayton English's interpretation is getting much of the same love. Marvel, please give us a second season with more Grills.
Hawkeye Episode 5 "Ronin" was the best one to date. While previous expectations for the series may have been low when compared with other Marvel shows, it's currently performing as one of the best. With the street-level seasonal comedy landing so well and incredibly entertaining characters, it's no wonder why. That ending, however, is packed with such potential for the MCU, just wow.
Hawkeye Episode 5 "Ronin" is available now exclusively on Disney+.
Hawkeye Episode 5
Rating - 9.5/10
Hawkeye Episode 5 "Ronin" was the best one to date. While previous expectations for the series may have been low when compared with other Marvel shows, it's currently performing as one of the best. With the street level seasonal comedy landing so well, and incredibly entertaining characters it's no wonder why. That ending however, is packed with such potential for the MCU, just wow.
Aaron Phillips( Contributing Writer - Comics )
Aaron is the co-host and social media manager of the Nerds Social Club podcast. Hailing originally from England, and after some lengthy questing, he's currently set up shop in Pennsylvania.
He spends his days reading comics, podcasting, and being attacked by his small offspring.


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London folk-popsters The Wave Pictures have been laying down their latest record in a solar powered studio in an effort to produce the "greenest EP yet".
The as-yet-unnamed Moshi Moshi records release will also eschew promo CDs and paper press releases in favour of downloadable online tracks and email plugs.
Moshi Moshi co-founder Michael McClatchey said: "When I mentioned the idea to The Wave Pictures they asked if they could be the ones to do it, and suggested they could walk to the studio from their house.
"The initial aim was to make it carbon-neutral, but it soon became apparent this would be impossible given the power needed to run the servers for delivering the tracks in to iTunes.
The Wave Pictures' second EP is due for release on October 6, while a film of the recording process caught on solar powered camera will also be available from the band's MySpace.
The release follows this year's debut album Instant Coffee Baby and six track Just Like A Drummer EP, while their second album is penned in for the new year.


Serafina, New York's favourite Italian Eatery, is back after a short renovation hiatus with a brand new look and a new chef's Menu. It has already blown away the Foodies of Kolkata with its new delectable dishes and unique inviting appearance.
From the initial day of its relaunch, it was one of the most discussed topics of the city whether Serafina will relaunch its BIG APPLE SUNDAY BRUNCH or not! Well, finally the wait is over. Our favourite Sunday brunch is back again with a bang! To satiate the leisurely long-drawn affairs of Sunday Brunch, Serafina has composed a menu starting with choice of Breads & Eggs and ending with wide variety of sinful desserts, but surprisingly this time they have come up with cyclical menus for their brunch, which means your visit to this Italian Eatery for a purpose of having brunch would not be anymore monotonous! You will be delighted with a new menu every week. The lip-smacking options will include Bread, Choice of Eggs, Soup, Salad, Fresh Fruits, Cold Cuts, Antipasti, Pizza, Pasta and the Main course in both Veg & Non-Veg options along with mouth-watering desserts. Nothing could be a better option to foster the Saturday night leaving with a heavy and delicious Sunday Brunch. This BIG APPLE SUNDAY BRUNCH of Serafina exactly reflecting the Brunch Style of New York is just the best way of rendering yourself on a lazy Sunday Afternoon. So, enliven your mid-week blues with the perfect plan for an Italian Date!
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The Helvault was a huge rough, angular monolith made of silver rock that existed on Innistrad. It was created by Sorin Markov and functioned as a prison for supernatural creatures. Stories say it and Avacyn first appeared on the same night, and it remains the most holy object on Innistrad after Avacyn herself.
A piece of Innistrad's silver moon, the Helvault stood at the precipice inside the courtyard of the Thraben Cathedral, overlooking the lake beyond. Its surface was rough and unrefined, and thin veins of dark mortar branched across its surface. The Lithomancer Nahiri while able to control stone, was not able to influence the Helvault.
Edgar Markov created vampirism on Innistrad thanks in part to the prodding of a demon called Shilgengar. Edgar inflicted his curse of vampirism on his grandson Sorin, awakening Sorin's latent planeswalker's spark.
Now a planeswalker, Sorin lived and traveled and fed his vampiric thirst for many centuries. But when he returned to Innistrad and saw the threat to life on Innistrad that vampires and other supernatural monsters represented, and realising that vampires couldn't exist without humans, Sorin took action. He created the archangel Avacyn to safeguard humanity, providing both vampires and humans a way to subsist in the world.
The archangel Avacyn and her host of angels took up the sword against those who would harm humanity. They slew vampires with holy fervor, thrashed the werewolf howlpacks that threatened to overwhelm those towns bordering the wilds. They banished malevolent geists and they incinerated unholy ghouls with piercing light. Humanity was able to flourish again and the power balance on the plane tipped in humanity's favor.
Avacyn was only half of the protective measures Sorin created to protect Innistrad. The other half was the Helvault. It came from the plane's silver moon, and it had taken great effort for Sorin to bring it down.
The retreat of the supernatural fiends of the plane opened a space, an opportunity for infernal forces to manifest. Demons and their hosts of impish devils began to make their presence known in far greater numbers.
Avacyn engaged each demon in single combat, defeating them one by one. She found that new demons would appear a short time later and decreed: "What cannot be destroyed must be bound." She then forged a collar of silver to bind demonkind, so they could be hauled away and imprisoned. The Silver Collar became Avacyn's symbol and the holy symbol carried by Avacynian priests and cathars.
With the proper incantations and rituals, Avacyn and her angelic host could cause wicked creatures to be drawn into the Helvault. She trapped so many demons within the Helvault that only a handful remained. To the relief of all but the demon-worshipping Skirsdag cult, demons and devils were largely out of human life. Incidently, a certain planeswalker who threathened Sorin was imprisoned in the Helvault as well.
It was only a short time ago that the demon Griselbrand, the most powerful of his kind and one who had never become imprisoned, committed an act of unprecedented boldness and heresy: he landed on the Helvault itself, under a full moon, and challenged Avacyn to combat.
Avacyn and Griselbrand battled for days, out of view of all but Avacyn's host; the Lunarch Mikaeus and his most trusted bishops. Finally, in an act of desperate effort, Avacyn used all of her remaining strength to drive Griselbrand into the Helvault. As his final act, Griselbrand threw his spear and impaled the archangel's heart. The binding spell backlashed as she was impaled, and Avacyn was drawn into the Helvault herself.
Innistrad's most powerful demon was now encased in a great silver mass, as was the archangel Avacyn herself, keystone of the Church and protector of humankind. The words of her own spell imprisoned her: "What cannot be destroyed must be bound."
Avacyn was gone. Mikaeus reeled. Church officials struggled with what to tell the general populace, and whether to keep Avacyn's imprisonment a secret. As the days and weeks went by, practitioners of the faith felt the effects. Rumors abounded that Avacyn had abandoned the world, leading to a crisis of faith across all four provinces. With humanity's safeguard trapped within her own silver vessel, the people of Innistrad are now again left exposed to the creatures of the night.
The planeswalker Liliana Vess, who had made a demonic pact with Griselbrand, sought to destroy him, and thus was the cause of the Helvault's destruction. She proposed a threat to Thalia, the Helvault's guardian; either she'd destroy the rock, or have her men slaughtered. With the Helvault destroyed, both Avacyn and the demons were unleashed back into the world. The fragments of the Helvault were collected, and the raw silver ore was distributed among the most distinguished lunar smiths. A family of swords were forged from that metal.
↑ Monty Ashley (January 31, 2012). "Glimpsing the Helvault". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Doug Beyer (January 17, 2012). "The Prison of Silver". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ a b Ari Levitch (April 13, 2016). "Promises Old and New". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Mark Rosewater (April 02, 2012). "You Had Me At Helvault". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.


Would you like to see Ann Widdecombe in the jungle?
She fell for Michael's joke.
Ann holds all the unwanted Strictly records.
Ann Widdecombe said the #MeToo movement is harming men.
The ex Tory MP says women have never had it so good.
The things one does for TV.
Courtney and Ann couldn't have been more different.
Ann also explained why she thinks Meghan is trouble.
The 70-year-old former Tory MP made her views on the matter very clear indeed.
Ann Widdecombe and Courtney Act are at opposite ends of the scale.
Shane and Ann clashed over their different views.
Ann Widdecombe has defended her views.
There's a simple explanation for it though.
Ann admitted she was 'surprised' to get to the final.
The Spice Girls reunion is HERE.
She had a heart-to-heart with Ashley.


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package org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.webservices;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;  import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.yeastrc.auth.dao.AuthUserDAO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dao.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDAO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dao.ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_Base_DAO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dto.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDTO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dto.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingRunDTO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dto.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDTO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dto.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingStatusValLkupDTO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.enum_classes.ProxlXMLFileImportFileType;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.base.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.enum_classes.ProxlXMLFileImportStatus;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.constants.WebServiceErrorMessageConstants;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.exceptions.ProxlWebappDataException;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.exceptions.ProxlWebappInternalErrorException;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.access_control.result_objects.WebSessionAuthAccessLevel;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.dao.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingStatusValuesLookupDAO;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.display_objects.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDisplay;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.searchers.ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingRun_LatestForParent_Searcher;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.searchers.ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_All_Searcher;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.searchers.ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_PendingCount_Searcher;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.searchers.ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_PendingTrackingIdsAllProjects_Searcher;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.file_import_proxl_xml_scans.utils.IsProxlXMLFileImportFullyConfigured;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.user_mgmt_webapp_access.UserMgmtCentralWebappWebserviceAccess;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.user_mgmt_webapp_access.UserMgmtGetUserDataRequest;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.user_mgmt_webapp_access.UserMgmtGetUserDataResponse;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.access_control.access_control_main.GetWebSessionAuthAccessLevelForProjectIds_And_NO_ProjectId.GetWebSessionAuthAccessLevelForProjectIds_And_NO_ProjectId_Result;
import org.yeastrc.xlink.www.access_control.access_control_main.GetWebSessionAuthAccessLevelForProjectIds_And_NO_ProjectId;

@Path("/file_import_proxl_xml_scans")
public class ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDataService {

	private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDataService.class);

	@GET
	@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
	@Path("/trackingDataList")
	public ListImportsAndGetPendingCountResponse listImportsAndGetPendingCount(
			@QueryParam( "project_id" ) Integer projectId,
			@Context HttpServletRequest request ) throws Exception {
		try {
			if ( projectId == null ) {
				String msg = "missing project_id ";
				log.error( msg );
			    throw new WebApplicationException(
			    	      Response.status(javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST)  //  return 400 error
			    	        .entity( msg )
			    	        .build()
			    	        );
			}
			if ( projectId == 0 ) {
				String msg = "Provided project_id is zero, is = " + projectId;
				log.error( msg );
			    throw new WebApplicationException(
			    	      Response.status(javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST)  //  return 400 error
			    	        .entity( msg )
			    	        .build()
			    	        );
			}
			//   Get the project id for this search
			GetWebSessionAuthAccessLevelForProjectIds_And_NO_ProjectId_Result accessAndSetupWebSessionResult =
					GetWebSessionAuthAccessLevelForProjectIds_And_NO_ProjectId.getSinglesonInstance().getAccessAndSetupWebSessionWithProjectId( projectId, request );
//			UserSession userSession = accessAndSetupWebSessionResult.getUserSession();
			if ( accessAndSetupWebSessionResult.isNoSession() ) {
				//  No User session
				throw new WebApplicationException(
						Response.status( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.NO_SESSION_STATUS_CODE )  //  Send HTTP code
						.entity( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.NO_SESSION_TEXT ) // This string will be passed to the client
						.build()
						);
			}
			//  Test access to the project id
			WebSessionAuthAccessLevel authAccessLevel = accessAndSetupWebSessionResult.getWebSessionAuthAccessLevel();
			if ( ! authAccessLevel.isProjectOwnerAllowed() ) {
				//  No Access Allowed for this project id
				throw new WebApplicationException(
						Response.status( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.NOT_AUTHORIZED_STATUS_CODE )  //  Send HTTP code
						.entity( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.NOT_AUTHORIZED_TEXT ) // This string will be passed to the client
						.build()
						);
			}
			//  If NOT Proxl XML File Import is Fully Configured,
			if ( ! IsProxlXMLFileImportFullyConfigured.getInstance().isProxlXMLFileImportFullyConfigured() ) {
				String msg = "Proxl XML File Import is NOT Fully Configured ";
				log.error( msg );
			    throw new WebApplicationException(
			    	      Response.status(javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST)  //  return 400 error
			    	        .entity( msg )
			    	        .build()
			    	        );
			}
			ListImportsAndGetPendingCountResponse listImportsAndGetPendingCountResponse =
					getProxlXMLFileImportingDataForPage( projectId );
			return listImportsAndGetPendingCountResponse;
		} catch ( WebApplicationException e ) {
			throw e;
		} catch ( ProxlWebappDataException e ) {
			String msg = "Exception processing request data, msg: " + e.toString();
			log.error( msg, e );
		    throw new WebApplicationException(
		    	      Response.status(javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST)  //  return 400 error
		    	        .entity( msg )
		    	        .build()
		    	        );
		} catch ( Exception e ) {
			String msg = "Exception caught: " + e.toString();
			log.error( msg, e );
			throw new WebApplicationException(
					Response.status( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR_STATUS_CODE )  //  Send HTTP code
					.entity( WebServiceErrorMessageConstants.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR_TEXT ) // This string will be passed to the client
					.build()
					);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * If user is Researcher or better and Proxl XML File Import is Fully Configured,
	 * get submitted Proxl XML files
	 *
	 * @param request
	 * @param projectId
	 * @throws Exception
	 * @throws ProxlWebappInternalErrorException
	 */
	private ListImportsAndGetPendingCountResponse getProxlXMLFileImportingDataForPage(int projectId)
			throws Exception, ProxlWebappInternalErrorException {
		List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDisplay> pendingItemsList = new ArrayList<>();
		List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDisplay> historyItemsList = new ArrayList<>();
		List<Integer> completeSuccessTrackingIdList = new ArrayList<>();
		ArrayList<Integer> pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList = null;
		List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDTO> proxlXMLFileImportTrackingList =
				ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_All_Searcher.getInstance().getAllForWebDisplayForProject( projectId );
		if ( ! proxlXMLFileImportTrackingList.isEmpty() ) {
			DateFormat dateTimeFormat = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG );
			NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getInstance();
			List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingStatusValLkupDTO>  statusTextList =
					ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingStatusValuesLookupDAO.getInstance().getAll();
			//  Put statuses in a Map
			Map<Integer, String> statusTextKeyedOnId = new HashMap<>();
			for ( ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingStatusValLkupDTO  statusTextItem : statusTextList ) {
				statusTextKeyedOnId.put( statusTextItem.getId(), statusTextItem.getStatusDisplayText() );
			}
			/////////////
			//   Copy Tracking Records to internal holder to match up with other data
			List<InternalHolder> internalHolderList = new ArrayList<>( proxlXMLFileImportTrackingList.size() );
			//  At the same time, check for tracking records have status QUEUED or RE_QUEUED
			//     get all tracking id for status QUEUED or RE_QUEUED
			//     so can put queue position on the display objects
			// check for any tracking records have status QUEUED or RE_QUEUED
			boolean foundQueuedOrReQueued = false;
			for ( ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDTO trackingItem : proxlXMLFileImportTrackingList ) {
				InternalHolder internalHolder = new InternalHolder();
				internalHolderList.add( internalHolder );
				internalHolder.trackingItem = trackingItem;
				if ( trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.QUEUED
						|| trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.RE_QUEUED ) {
					foundQueuedOrReQueued = true;
				}
				if ( trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.FAILED ) {
					ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingRunDTO latestRunForTrackingItem =
							ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingRun_LatestForParent_Searcher.getInstance()
							.getLatestRunForProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDTO( trackingItem.getId() );
					if ( latestRunForTrackingItem == null ) {
						String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: Failed to get latest run for Tracking Item status FAILED. "
								+ "Tracking Item Id: " + trackingItem.getId();
						log.error( msg );
						throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
					}
					if ( latestRunForTrackingItem.getRunStatus() != ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.FAILED ) {
						String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: Latest run status is not FAILED for Tracking Item status FAILED. "
								+ "Tracking Item Id: " + trackingItem.getId();
						log.error( msg );
						throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
					}
					internalHolder.latestRunForTrackingItem = latestRunForTrackingItem;
				}
			}
			if ( foundQueuedOrReQueued ) {
				//  Found status QUEUED or RE_QUEUED so get tracking ids for all
				pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList =
						ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_PendingTrackingIdsAllProjects_Searcher.getInstance()
						.getPendingTrackingIdsAllProjects();
			}
			////////
			//   Main processing of tracking records
			for ( InternalHolder internalHolder : internalHolderList ) {
				ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDTO trackingItem = internalHolder.trackingItem;
				ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDisplay displayItem = new ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingDisplay();
				//  Set Pending queue position
				if ( trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.QUEUED
						|| trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.RE_QUEUED ) {
					if ( pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList == null || pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList.isEmpty() ) {
						String msg = "pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList is null or empty when tracking status is QUEUED or RE_QUEUED."
								+ "  trackingItem id: " + trackingItem.getId();
						log.error( msg );
						throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException(msg);
					}
					int queueIndex = pendingTrackingIdsAllProjectsList.indexOf( trackingItem.getId() );
					if ( queueIndex < 0 )  {
						//  Was not found in all pending.  Must no longer be pending. Get from DB again
						trackingItem = ProxlXMLFileImportTracking_Base_DAO.getInstance().getItem( trackingItem.getId() );
						if ( trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.QUEUED
								|| trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.RE_QUEUED ) {
							String msg = "Tracking item is not in all pending for tracking status QUEUED or RE_QUEUED"
									+ " after re-get from DB."
									+ "  trackingItem id: " + trackingItem.getId();
							log.error( msg );
							throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException(msg);
						}
					} else {
						int queuePosition = queueIndex + 1; // add 1 since queueIndex is zero based
						displayItem.setQueuePosition( queuePosition );
						displayItem.setQueuePositionFmt( numberFormat.format( queuePosition ) );
					}
				}
				displayItem.setTrackingId( trackingItem.getId() );
				displayItem.setStatusEnum( trackingItem.getStatus() );
				String statusText = statusTextKeyedOnId.get( trackingItem.getStatus().value() );
				if ( statusText == null ) {
					String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: Failed to get status text for status id: "
							+ trackingItem.getStatus().value();
					log.error( msg );
					throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
				}
				displayItem.setStatus( statusText );
				if ( trackingItem.getStatus() == ProxlXMLFileImportStatus.FAILED ) {
					displayItem.setStatusFailedMsg( internalHolder.latestRunForTrackingItem.getDataErrorText() );
				}
				List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDTO> fileDataList =
						ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDAO.getInstance()
						.getForTrackingId( trackingItem.getId() );
				if ( fileDataList.isEmpty() ) {
					String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: no files found for tracking id: "
							+ trackingItem.getId();
					log.error( msg );
					throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
				}
				ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDTO proxlXMLFileEntry = null;
				List<ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDTO> scanFileEntryList = new ArrayList<>();
				for ( ProxlXMLFileImportTrackingSingleFileDTO fileDataEntry : fileDataList ) {
					if ( fileDataEntry.getFileType() == ProxlXMLFileImportFileType.PROXL_XML_FILE ) {
						proxlXMLFileEntry = fileDataEntry;
					} else if ( fileDataEntry.getFileType() == ProxlXMLFileImportFileType.SCAN_FILE ) {
						scanFileEntryList.add( fileDataEntry );
					} else {
						String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: Unknown file type for single file id: "
								+ fileDataEntry.getId();
						log.error( msg );
						throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
					}
				}
				if ( proxlXMLFileEntry == null ) {
					String msg = "Proxl XML Import Tracking Processing: proxlXMLFileEntry not found for tracking id: "
							+ trackingItem.getId();
					log.error( msg );
					throw new ProxlWebappInternalErrorException( msg );
				}
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				if ( trackingItem.getRecordInsertDateTime() != null ) {
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				} else {
					pendingItemsList.add( displayItem );
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Anna Wing Bo TSO
Associate professor of English, School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong, 30 Good Shepherd Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Home > Vol 10, No 3 (2019) > Wing Bo TSO
Losing Sight, Gaining Insight: Blindness and the Romantic Vision in Grimm's "Rapunzel"
In Brothers' Grimm's fairy tales, the motif of blindness occurs quite frequently, each time with a different symbolic meaning. In "Hansel and Gretel", blindness is represented as a body deformity, an abject feature of the red-eyed, half-blind cannibalistic witch who lives in the candy house in the middle of the forest, while in "Cinderella", blindness becomes more: a brutal punishment for wrongdoings, such as when: the wickedly unkind stepsisters' eyes are pecked out by pigeons as they are on the way to the wedding of the Cinderella and her handsome prince. Yet, in "Rapunzel", blindness is not meant to be an abject feature nor a direct punishment. Rather, it opens the door to the Romantic vision and spirit. Through studying the earlier versions of the Rapunzel story and the Grimm's later version, this paper explores how blindness represents the limitations of logic and reason and, through embracing the beautiful power of the female sensibility, welcomes the rebirth of insight, faith and Romantic sentiments.
Anti-Enlightenment, Anti-Rationalism, Blindness, Brothers Grimm, Female Spirit, German Romanticism, Grimm's Rapunzel
Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Trans. Benedetto Croce. New York: Dutton, 1932, Day 2, Tale 1.
Caprio, Betsy. The Woman Sealed in the Tower: Being a View of Feminine Spirituality as Revealed by the Legend of Saint Barbara. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.
De Vos, Gail, & Altmann, Anna E. New Tales for Old: Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, California: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Eisfeld, Conny. How Fairy Tales Live Happily Ever After: The Art of Adapting Fairy Tales. Hamburg: Anchor Academic Publishing, 2015.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. "Rapunzel." Grimm's Fairy Tales. Trans. Dan L. Ashliman. Folktexts: A Library of Folktales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology. 7 Apr. 2015.
Hoffman, E. T. A. The Golden Pot and Other Tales. Trans. Ritchie Robertson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Jernigan, Kenneth. "Blindness: Is Literature Against Us?" National Federation of the Blind. Address at the Banquet of the Annual Convention. Chicago. 3 July 1974.
Keller, Helen. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life. New York: Watermill, 1980.
Kidner, Frank L., Maria Bucur, Ralph Mathisen, Sally McKee, and Theodore R. Weeks. Making Europe: The Story of the West, Since 1300. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014.
Le Franc, Martin. The Trial of Womankind: A Rhyming Translation of Book IV of the Fifteenth-Century Le Champion des Dames. Ed. and Trans. Steven Millen Taylor. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005.
Lieberman, Marcia R. "'Some day my prince will come': Female acculturation through the fairy tale." Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. Ed. Jack Zipes. New York: Methuen, 1986. 383-395.
Manlove, Colin. "MacDonald and Kingsley: A Victorian Contrast." The Gold Thread: Essays on George MacDonald. Ed. William Raeper. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. 140–162.
MacDonald, George. Orts. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Novalis. Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose of Novalis. Trans. Arthur Versluis. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1989.
Robertson, Ritchie. "Introduction." The Golden Pot and Other Tales. Trans. Ritchie Robertson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. vii-xxxii.
Sullivan, Kylee. "A Grimm Evolution." Hohonu 14(2016): 67-69.
Stahl, Ernest Ludwig and William Edward Yuill. German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: The Cresset Press Ltd, 1970.
Tso, Wing Bo. Female Sexuality in Grimm's Fairy Tales and Their English Translations. 2002. The University of Hong Kong, MA dissertation. HKU Scholars Hub, http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/39104.
------. "Transgression in the gender representation in MacDonald's Princess books." The International Journal of Early Childhood 39.2(2007): 11-21.
Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spells: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. London: Heinemann, 1979.
------. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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A Tourist in the Yucatan
A Tourist in the Yucatan by James McNay Brumfield
Tres Picos Press: Watsonville, CA
This conspiracy thriller caught my attention for a couple of reasons—neither of which was the intended plot per se. In brief, we read of the unfolding of a diabolical plot hatched at the highest levels of U.S. governmental circles to enable a wealthy Mexican industrialist to corner the market on drug smuggling into the United States. Twists and turns in the story leave us wondering—at least for awhile—who is conspiring against whom and ultimately, can one burned-out soon-to-be-retired federal agent bring the conspirators to justice before he joins the growing list of dead men who failed to unravel the plot before it was too late for them.
An odd plot-line for a review of supposedly archaeology-based novels, you say? Yes, but only on the surface for A Tourist in the Yucatan weaves within its drug-smuggling conspiracy plot two interesting sub-texts. The first involves an exciting treatment of the Vacation in Paradise that turns into the Vacation in Hell. A young American couple, Jack and Jo Phillips, are vacationing in the Yucatan Peninsula, hoping to revive the marriage that has grown tepid and strained. From the beaches of Isla Mujeres to the splendor of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, Jack and Jo seem to be succeeding in their quest to revive their romance. They meet up with another charming American tourist named Steve Potter, whose knowledge of Mexican archaeology makes their travels even more enjoyable—at least until Steve turns up brutally murdered and Jo is kidnapped! Steve, it turns out, was wanted by Mexican law enforcement for drug-smuggling and multiple killings—but he also seems to have been hunted by U.S. officials as a deeply undercover DEA agent who had perhaps gone over to the dark side. And it seems as if he may have been targeted by a Mexican drug cartel for being an undercover narcotics agent who had not turned!
As Jack desperately hunts for his missing wife, he finds himself the target of a manhunt staged by Mexican Federales who seem to be in the pocket of the Cartel. Simultaneously seeking his wife's whereabouts and hiding from the police, Jack seeks shelter at an archaeological excavation at Coba, a major Mayan site, and becomes an accidental participant in an earth-shaking discovery that would rival the unearthing of Pacal's sarcophagus at Palenque. Brumfield very cleverly works this sub-plot—which, by the way, includes some very accurate descriptions of the archaeological process—back into his main plot of drug cartels and corrupt politics on both sides of the Rio Grande.
This is an entertaining thriller—not exactly John Le Carre, but fun nonetheless—that includes some interesting archaeology and some very vivid descriptions of cities and sites of the Yucatan. However, if you are planning to vacation in Mexico anytime soon, you may want to put off reading this little gem until you return home safely!
It's not great writing (an editor could help here!) and not a particularly innovative plot, but still a guilty pleasure to read. Three trowels because of the archaeology!
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Q: RangeError: too many arguments provided for a function call createUnityInstance Not sure what I've done wrong with a WebGl build in Unity or if I need to add more.
Have a path setup in the wwwroot of the our webapp to put the WebGL build in. When I run it locally it the page will load and the Unity logo appears and progress bar gets to 90% and that's it.
When running in Firefox the page loads and it produces a RangeError popup
How do I vew the arguments passed through?
Initially I had a parse error appear but managed to resolve that issue.

Unable to parse /MyApp/Build/Builds.framework.js.gz! This can happen
if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content
was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header
"Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools
Network tab to debug.

Adding the following code has resolved the parsing error.
    public static IApplicationBuilder UseStaticFilesExtendedTypes(this IApplicationBuilder app)
    {
        var provider = new FileExtensionContentTypeProvider();
        provider.Mappings[".glb"] = "model/gltf-binary";
        provider.Mappings[".env"] = "application/octet-stream";

        // app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions { ContentTypeProvider = provider });

        app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
        {
            ContentTypeProvider = provider,
            OnPrepareResponse = content =>
            {
                if (content.File.Name.EndsWith(".js.gz"))
                {
                    content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/javascript";
                    content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Encoding"] = "gzip";
                }
                if (content.File.Name.EndsWith(".wasm.gz"))
                {
                    content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Type"] = "application/wasm";
                    content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Encoding"] = "gzip";
                }
            }
        });

        return app;
    }

This is what appears on the web page on localhost.

RangeError: too many arguments provided for a function call
createUnityInstance/l/</<@https://localhost:5001/MyApp/Build/Builds.loader.js:1:5770

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preRun@https://localhost:5001/MyApp/Build/Builds.framework.js.gz:3:14671
run@https://localhost:5001/MyApp/Build/Builds.framework.js.gz:3:359513
runCaller@https://localhost:5001/MyApp/Build/Builds.framework.js.gz:3:358850

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Build settings:

A: I have managed to resolve this issue.
How I asked the question wasn't clear but at the time I was desperate.
It was a caching issue.
In Firefox, hit F12 to open the console and select Storage tab. Expand Indexed DB,
inside localhost delete the UnityCache and refresh the page.

I had made multiple builds and replaced the new build and tried to run again which seems to cause caused the error.
Builds.loader.js which Unity generates when building for WebGl seems to have issues with caching/old caches.
Hopefully this will helps!

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Published: Jan 14 at 8:36 a.m.
Updated: Jan 14 at 8:50 a.m.
YARMOUTH - It was last year's birthday party for Shirley the elephant that gave Lisette Gaudet, archivist at Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, the idea for an online genealogy workshop series.
During the birthday celebrations at the Tennessee sanctuary, guests at the museum participated online with keepers answering their questions. The 70-year-old pachyderm was a survivor of the 1963 circus ship fire in Yarmouth.
Gaudet explored the possibility of holding a webinar series connected with the growing popularity of genealogy and prepared the five-part workshops.
"Nobody wants to go out in the wintertime but you're looking for stuff to do," said Gaudet.
The museum purchased several months of service for the platform that supports the webinar feature. Those who register for the workshop will be sent a link and password to participate.
"All you need is a computer with speakers, email address and Internet connection," said Gaudet.
"It's not necessary to download or install a program. If a participant misses a session, all of them are being recorded for convenient review.
The series begins Jan. 23 and will be held Wednesday evenings at 6:30.
The first workshop will be on the cursive writing used decades ago.
"It's starting to be something that people are losing, especially the younger generation – they're not teaching it in the schools," said Gaudet.
This video explains some aspects of genealogy.
He will also discuss DNA testing and kits.
Gaudet says people can type out their questions during each session and interact with instructors online.
The third workshop will deal with finding early records that date back to the 14th or 15th centuries and may involve European descent.
The fourth session will provide information on how to research cultural groups, including the Mi'kmaq and Acadians.
"Sometimes it can be difficult. For example, with the Mi'kmaq we don't have a lot of documents or vital statistics. We're going to delve into where you can find that information," said Gaudet.
The final workshop – Research 101 – supplies tips on how to do research, including how to best use your time while researching.
"I'm sure every genealogist has fallen down the hole of just trying to get all the research done, but all of a sudden you're six hours in and you haven't found anything.
"This session shows you how to be efficient on finding information and how to index it so you get as much bang for your buck for research time," said Gaudet.
The cost for each session is $15 or all five for $60. Payment is due by Jan. 22.


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There are only a handful of iconic buildings in most cities, and 100 Federal Street fits that bill in Boston. Clad in a distinctive reddish purple stone, this tower stands out from its neighbors in color alone, yet its most distinguishing feature is the change in plan dimensions – a protrusion for 8 stories, beginning just above street level projects on all 4 sides. The building is comparatively slender both above and below the bulge, which sets this structure in a class of its own.


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Interview: Mike Shinoda on 'Dropped Frames Vol. 1'
July 23, 2020M. Stoneman0 Comments
Mike Shinoda in his home studio.
Following the release of the highly acclaimed Post Traumatic, Mike Shinoda swiftly returns with the more light-hearted release, Dropped Frames, Vol 1 – an album created over the course of lockdown with the fans, for the fans.
Heavily inspired by fan suggestions throughout an ongoing series of Twitch streams, Dropped Frames, Vol 1 sees the veteran musician completely at ease with experimentation, with each and every track playfully toying with genre influences in such a manner that both entertains, yet still delivers an excellent listening experience.
Taking a break from a seemingly endless source of inspiration, Mike was kind enough to take some time to answer a few questions about the release, among a few other things!
AltWire [Mark Stoneman]: Hi, Mike! First off, congratulations on the release of your newest album 'Dropped Frames, Vol 1'! I suppose we do not need to ask how you have been coping with being shut indoors all day. What was the inspiration behind beginning to stream the creative process with your music, and at what point would you say the idea of actually releasing a 'Twitch album' first occurred to you?
Mike Shinoda: I don't know if I even consider Dropped Frames an "album" series. The live stream this music comes from is really the nucleus. I make new things every weekday from 10am to 1pm PST; at that pace, I could make an album every three weeks. So, releasing the music is an inevitable by-product.
AW: Before touching on the more experimental side of things, 'Open Door' immediately stands out as an extremely optimistic anthem about overcoming adversity and achieving your goals. Would you say that the track is something of an encouraging love letter to aspiring fans?
MS: Sure, that's definitely one of the reads. Like most of us, I wrote it from the perspective of waiting for something to happen, for something to reveal itself and say, "this is the path that you should take next."
AW: Welcoming fans aboard to contribute to 'Open Door' was a wonderfully rare opportunity for newer musicians; with any future 'Dropped Frames' volumes that might be on the horizon, do you plan on holding more competitions for fan involvement?
MS: Sure, if the moment seems right.
AW: A few of your recent releases aside from 'Dropped Frames' have been collaborations. Are there any upcoming collabs you're excited for, or would like to plug?
MS: Not at this moment!
AW: 'Super Galaxtica' sounds like something scooped up from a classic arcade title. From having previously worked on film soundtracks and 8-Bit Rebellion and LP Recharge, have there been a few potential video game soundtrack ideas/offers in the past that intrigued you? Are there any series you wish you could do the score for?
MS: I haven't been offered anything interesting, but I'm open to the idea. I play Overwatch, Fortnite, and a little bit of Minecraft; I'm also a big fan of Zelda, Halo, Metroid, and Mario. Most of those haven't historically gone to mainstream musicians for music or done collaborations. But anything is possible.
AW: Branching off that previous question, it is no secret that you are a little bit of a gamer. We've seen a few sessions of Animal Crossing on your stream as of late. What are some of your all-time favorite video games, and else are you playing at the moment?
MS: My top games would probably be Metroid, Zelda Breath Of The Wild, Mario 3, Mega Man (for the art, not the game itself), and Halo. Honorable mention to the Medal Of Honor and Call Of Duty franchises.
AW: With so much of the album rooted in experimentation and pushing you out of your comfort zones, have you discovered any new favorite instruments/synthesisers that you could potentially see fitting in with future material?
MS: I'm getting my Teenage Engineering OP-Z fixed, so I'm excited about getting that back. And while I don't use my MPC60 on the stream, because it's too slow, I love that machine.
AW: Whilst reviewing previous career material during a stream, when selecting your preferred tracks the term 'no-brainer' comes up a lot – are there a couple of 'no-brainer' favorites from 'Dropped Frames, Vol. 1' that immediately come to mind, and if so, why?
MS: Super Galaxtica, Duckbot, Osiris, and El Rey Demonio are probably my favorites. Lots of little sonic gems and happy accidents in there.
AW: It's clear from the very first glance that 'Dropped Frames, Vol. 1' was a fun creative process – are there any moments on the album that you perhaps were a little less thrilled about?
MS: I was really happy with all these tracks, actually. I think you can tell from the names of the tracks. I wasn't sure if some of the tracks would work when I sat down to make them—some of the fan requests were so random! But I think these all came out pretty good.
AW: Have you been tempted at all to include a few 'Dropped Frames, Vol. 1' tracks to future live setlists? ('Duckbot' seems perfect for a bass-heavy/electronic loving crowd, but 'Booty Down'… we're looking at you.)
MS: Maybe I'll just play Booty Down 10-30 times, and go home?
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This week in Marvel Comics news celebrates the new Captain Marvel series, has some variant covers to advertise a new card game app, and introduces a "weird" storyline for the Champions! CHANGE THE WORLD!? Even [...]
Summer of Heroes, Ghost Town Alive, & Space Mountain – Disneyland & Knott's Update
By Murray the Bellhop|2017-05-28T10:26:18-07:00May 29th, 2017|Categories: DAPS VLOG, Disneyland Resort, Knott's Berry Farm, Media, Parks|Tags: Anniversary, Annual Passholder, Avengers, calico, card, Disney California Adventure, Disneyland, Food, ghost town alive, Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!, Knott's Berry Farm, map, Marvel, mayfield, shirt, Space Mountain, summer of heroes|
Memorial Day Weekend was packed full of things to do at the Disneyland Resort and Knott's Berry Farm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3KW7LxcLI Space Mountain Anniversary On Saturday, Disneyland celebrated the 40th anniversary of Space Mountain with a special [...]
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By Murray the Bellhop|2017-03-18T18:16:56-07:00March 18th, 2017|Categories: Disneyland Resort, Parks|Tags: 50th Anniversary, Annual Passholder, beignet, breakfast burrito, button, card, Churro, Disneyana, Disneyland, Entertainment, Exclusive, Food, free, Jack Sparrow, Jolly Roger Punch, New Orleans Square, Photo, pin, pirate speak, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ride-Through, shirt, thru, Video|
On its 50th anniversary, Pirates of the Caribbean is still sailing strong. And, if the 50th anniversaries are the golden ones, then this is one of the best suited for Disneyland's famous attraction about ransacking pirates. [...]
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The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh By: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS
MR. M. A. TITMARSH
by William Makepeace Thackeray
CHRISTMAS STORIES.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
Our Street
Dr. Birch and his Young Friends
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo
MRS. PERKINS'S BALL.
THE MULLIGAN (OF BALLYMULLIGAN), AND HOW WE WENT TO MRS. PERKINS'S BALL.
I do not know where Ballymulligan is, and never knew anybody who did. Once I asked the Mulligan the question, when that chieftain assumed a look of dignity so ferocious, and spoke of "Saxon curiawsitee" in a tone of such evident displeasure, that, as after all it can matter very little to me whereabouts lies the Celtic principality in question, I have never pressed the inquiry any farther.
I don't know even the Mulligan's town residence. One night, as he bade us adieu in Oxford Street, "I live THERE," says he, pointing down towards Oxbridge, with the big stick he carries so his abode is in that direction at any rate. He has his letters addressed to several of his friends' houses, and his parcels, &c. are left for him at various taverns which he frequents. That pair of checked trousers, in which you see him attired, he did me the favor of ordering from my own tailor, who is quite as anxious as anybody to know the address of the wearer. In like manner my hatter asked me, "Oo was the Hirish gent as 'ad ordered four 'ats and a sable boar to be sent to my lodgings?" As I did not know (however I might guess) the articles have never been sent, and the Mulligan has withdrawn his custom from the "infernal four and nine penny scoundthrel," as he calls him. The hatter has not shut up shop in consequence.
I became acquainted with the Mulligan through a distinguished countryman of his, who, strange to say, did not know the chieftain himself. But dining with my friend Fred Clancy, of the Irish bar, at Greenwich, the Mulligan came up, "inthrojuiced" himself to Clancy as he said, claimed relationship with him on the side of Brian Boroo, and drawing his chair to our table, quickly became intimate with us. He took a great liking to me, was good enough to find out my address and pay me a visit: since which period often and often on coming to breakfast in the morning I have found him in my sitting room on the sofa engaged with the rolls and morning papers: and many a time, on returning home at night for an evening's quiet reading, I have discovered this honest fellow in the arm chair before the fire, perfuming the apartment with my cigars and trying the quality of such liquors as might be found on the sideboard. The way in which he pokes fun at Betsy, the maid of the lodgings, is prodigious. She begins to laugh whenever he comes; if he calls her a duck, a divvle, a darlin', it is all one. He is just as much a master of the premises as the individual who rents them at fifteen shillings a week; and as for handkerchiefs, shirt collars, and the like articles of fugitive haberdashery, the loss since I have known him is unaccountable. I suspect he is like the cat in some houses: for, suppose the whiskey, the cigars, the sugar, the tea caddy, the pickles, and other groceries disappear, all is laid upon that edax rerum of a Mulligan.
The greatest offence that can be offered to him is to call him MR. Mulligan. "Would you deprive me, sir," says he, "of the title which was bawrun be me princelee ancestors in a hundred thousand battles? In our own green valleys and fawrests, in the American savannahs, in the sierras of Speen and the flats of Flandthers, the Saxon has quailed before me war cry of MULLIGAN ABOO! MR. Mulligan! I'll pitch anybody out of the window who calls me MR. Mulligan." He said this, and uttered the slogan of the Mulligans with a shriek so terrific, that my uncle (the Rev. W. Gruels, of the Independent Congregation, Bungay), who had happened to address him in the above obnoxious manner, while sitting at my apartments drinking tea after the May meetings, instantly quitted the room, and has never taken the least notice of me since, except to state to the rest of the family that I am doomed irrevocably to perdition... Continue reading book >>
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Best known for You're Next, The Guest and Blair Witch, Wingard just closed the deal to direct what will become the fourth film in the franchise that began with 2014's Godzilla and continued with this March's hit, Kong: Skull Island. We should see Godzilla: King of the Monsters (directed by Michael Dougherty, starring Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga) in March of 2019, followed a year and some change later by this ultimate match-up.
"In March, Legendary set a writers room to work on the script for Godzilla vs. Kong, with Terry Rossio, the veteran scribe best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, as its head. Other writers scribbling included the team of Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne (Star Trek Beyond), Lindsey Beer, Cat Vasko, Maze Runner movies writer T.S. Nowlin, Jack Paglen (Transcendence) and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski."
So yeah, there's a lot of talent lined up to bring these two giants together, as stars of their monstrous magnitude most definitely deserve. And of course, fans will have high expectations, as this is is one of cinema's classic contests (see below), and one that's already been teased in Kong: Skull Island.
What do you think, is Wingard being too hard on himself?


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SwapClear achieves record volumes in 2016
25% increase in clearing volumes
Over $665 trillion notional cleared, through 3.8 million interest rate derivative trades
Over $384 trillion notional compressed
97 members and a record 510 clients are using compression services at LCH
LCH, a leading global clearing house, announced today that its SwapClear service cleared record volumes of interest rate derivatives in 2016, processing over $665 trillion in notional over the course of the year, representing an annual increase of 25%. Both members and their clients increased their flows through LCH, with the buy side clearing a record $139 trillion in notional at SwapClear. These volumes were driven by customers clearing new products, such as inflation swaps, as well the continuing effects of regulatory change.
Amidst this increased clearing activity, SwapClear compressed a record $384 trillion in notional in 2016, with more members and clients using compression services than ever before. Increased use of LCH's compression services was encouraged by recent expansions to SwapClear's offering, including the compression of inflation swaps and the introduction of multilateral compression for clients.
Compression enables clearing members and their clients to "tear up" offsetting trades to reduce the notional outstanding and number of items in their portfolios. LCH offers proprietary compression services and those offered in conjunction with TriOptima. In May 2016, SwapClear announced that it had compressed over $1 quadrillion ($1,000,000,000,000,000) of cleared notional since the service launched in 2008.
Cameron Goh, Global Head of Product Management, Rates and FX Derivatives, LCH, said: "Capital and balance sheet management continues to be a top priority for banks impacted by the Basel III capital requirements. Central clearing and the use of compression remains an extremely effective method of driving down notional outstanding and line items in a portfolio, with the goal of maximising capital and operational efficiency.
Thanks to the significant enhancements we've made this year, we are delighted to have achieved record volumes across our services. There are now even more ways for members and their clients to clear and compress their books in order to achieve both capital and operational savings. Going forward, we will continue to work with our members to further expand the services available to them to bring more efficiencies to the market."
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As the markets' partner, LCH operates an open access model, offering a choice of execution venues, delivering unprecedented choice and efficiencies to the marketplace.
LCH operates clearing houses around the world, with clearing houses incorporated in the UK, France and the United States with additional offices in the Asia Pacific region. It offers clearing services across asset classes including OTC and listed rates; CDS and FX; fixed income; commodities; cash equities and equity derivatives.
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Everything you need to know ahead of the 2022 World...
Everything you need to know ahead of the 2022 World Cup final
After a month of thrills and spills in the Middle East, when the football was finally left to do the talking following all the mass controversy surrounding the host nation in the build-up to the tournament, the stage is finally set for the greatest show on earth — the FIFA World Cup final.
Billions of people from all four corners of the globe — around half the population of the world, in fact, if the figures from 2018 are anything to go by — will be zoning in on Qatar and watching with bated breath as the 90 minutes (plus the potential of extra-time and penalties) of exhilarating action unfolds in front of our eyes in Doha.
So, as the excitement begins to build for the World Cup final, we have put together this quick guide of everything you need to know before everyone grinds to a halt.
When is the World Cup final?
The World Cup final will take place on Sunday, 18 December — kicking off at 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). That means it will be an 18:00 start in Qatar, allowing the soaring temperatures in the Middle East at this time of the year to drop a bit.
Where is the World Cup final taking place?
Around 20km north of central Doha, the World Cup final will take place at the Lusail Stadium (pictured above).
It will be the 10th match the grand 80,000-seater venue, which was designed to display characteristics of the Arab world, will hold at this year's tournament — others include games that upset the World Cup bets markets, like Argentina losing to Saudi Arabia, Cameroon beating Brazil as well as Portugal's 6-1 thrashing over European counterparts Switzerland in the round of 16.
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According to FIFA, the Lusail Stadium could be turned into 'affordable housing units, shops, food outlets, health clinics and even a school' upon the conclusion of the World Cup.
Who is participating in the World Cup final?
The one you've all been waiting for; the World Cup final will be played out between Argentina and France — with Les Bleus the favorite if you're keen for a bet on Argentina v France.
How did each team make it to the World Cup final?
Lionel Scaloni's men were shortened to the second favorites behind Brazil pre-tournament after going on a 36-game unbeaten streak. However, many questioned if they were the real deal after being beaten by Saudi Arabia in one of the World Cup's greatest upsets.
La Albiceleste bounced back, however, beating both Mexico and Poland by two goals to nil to secure their place in the knockout rounds. Argentina couldn't have asked for a better round-of-16 opponent than Australia, but they still didn't look their best against the Socceroos — holding on for a 2-1 win in the end.
Against the Netherlands in the quarters, La Albiceleste squandered a two-goal lead late on, and the momentum looked to be in the Dutch's favor. But Argentina ultimately won on penalties in what was nothing short of a bitter affair.
Hoping for back-to-back World Cup final appearances after they were beaten by France four years ago (4-2), Argentina ended Croatia's hopes of going one better this year with a commanding 3-0 win thanks to goals from Messi and Alvarez (x2) at the Lusail on December 13.
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France is on the hunt for the chance to become the first nation to win successive World Cups since Brazil in 1958 and 1962, respectively. Many wrote off Les Bleus due to their extensive injury list, but they have proven everyone wrong thus far — beating Australia (4-1) and Denmark (2-1) to top their group with a game to spare, which ended in defeat to Tunisia as Deschamps rotated his squad.
Poland was next for the French, and Kylian Mbappe inspired his teammates to a 3-1 win over Robert Lewandowski and company — scoring two fantastic goals late on to put the game out of Poland's reach before the aforementioned Lewandowski scored a late consolation penalty.
Against England in the quarter-finals, the Three Lions were arguably the better team on the night. But that matters for very little now as Les Bleus were able to dig deeper and grind out a 2-1 win thanks to the heroics of Aurelien Tchouameni and Olivier Giroud.
Having already knocked out Spain and Portugal in the round of 16 and quarters, underdogs Morocco were looking for their biggest upset yet in the semi-finals. However, France proved too good for the Atlas Lions at Al Bayt Stadium — winning 2-0.
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Q: Handling division by zero exception in average calculation for empty lists I am trying to implement a function in Kotlin that returns the average of a list of numbers. The function should take a list of integers as an argument and return the average of all the elements in the list.
Here's what I have so far (with an example):
fun getAverage(nums: List<Int>): Double{
    return (nums.sum().toDouble() / nums.size)
}

val numbers = listOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
val newList = getAverage(numbers)

This code works fine for lists with a non-zero number of elements, but it throws a division by zero exception for empty lists. How can I modify the function to handle empty lists gracefully and return a default value, such as 0, in that case?

Keep in mind, I do not want a predefined function, I want to implement my own, so in the future I will be able to customize it as I please

A: Just use an if (In Kotlin, you can use ifs as expressions yielding the last value):
fun getAverage(nums: List<Int>): Double{
    return
        if (nums.isEmpty())
            0.0
        else
            (nums.sum().toDouble() / nums.size)
}

This can be written in a more compact way using
fun getAverage(nums: List<Int>) = if (nums.isEmpty()) 0.0 else (nums.sum().toDouble() / nums.size)

In that case, getAverage(listOf()) will return 0.0.
Alternatively, you could also make the result nullable and return null in that case:
fun getAverage(nums: List<Int>): Double?{
    return
        if (nums.isEmpty())
            null
        else
            (nums.sum().toDouble() / nums.size)
}


It's a long time since I had one of these. I can go on blaming uni assessments and work, but it gets boring.
I assume it's not intentional, but this Guardian article A world of screens and plastic has fed a cultish craving for relics of the past is hilarious, and beautifully quotable. As Linda Spurdle tweeted: 'I missed this training day! "Museum staff are trained to behave as acolytes to their objects.." prob stuck on H & S day'.
On the BBC/BM 'A History of the World': "Since this is radio, we are not allowed to see the objects, thus enhancing the status of their custodian as interceding priest. … Authenticity is essential and there must be no copies or representations – in MacGregor's case not so much as a picture." Well, you could look online.
And if is to be true "[i]t does not matter if no one ever sees the shard. Most museum objects are seen only by their guardians, albeit financed by tithes from taxpayers", we'd probably better hide the 230,000 Science Museum, National Railway Museum and National Media Museum objects online. On the other hand, I do like a good 'museum as church' argument, cos if it was true the office wouldn't have bundles of excited kids on the other side of the door and it might be be quieter.
On a more serious note, whenever I come across articles like this it reminds me how far we have to go in helping people realise exactly how accessible, enjoyable, potentially challenging and just plain interesting our (your, their) museums are.


Meta… Meta-data.. meta-info… Towards understanding the context and looking at the bigger picture.
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More information pertaining the الإضافة structure and new types of usage.
Prepositions..small words that carry big meanings.
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This week's Reston Pet of the Week is Stormy, who enjoys her life in North Reston.
Stormageddon the Dark Lord of All (Stormy for short) is our 4.5-year-old Ragdoll cat. My husband and I named after an obscure Doctor Who reference, but to less nerdy parties we say it was because the summer got her was the stormiest one we've seen. As the runt of her litter, she weighs in at a lean and mean 9 pounds with a personality that busts at the seams.
Her meow is worse than her bite. Literally. Two years ago, Stormy had to have every single last tooth removed, otherwise a degenerative gum disease was going to take her life. This small setback hasn't stopped her from being the alpha in the house. She still bites (gums) at toys and wants no special treatment as she still eats dry food and treats.
Stormy demands belly rubs whenever she sees you, but her preference is to run away to the stair landing, flop over and receive the pets there. She is finicky and fastidious and friendly to a fault.
She spends her day perfecting the cat "trill" we all love, lounging just out of arm's reach, and bossing around her cat brother Sokka, who is one year younger, 4 pounds bigger, but knows his place.
You can see it in her face — Stormy suffers no fools.


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Let the sharp-edged musical 'Hedwig' be our litmus test
By Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune |
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," starring Euan Morton and Hannah Corneau, opens at the Oriental Theatre on Tuesday. (Joan Marcus photo)
Hedwig Robinson, a transgender German singer, made her first appearance in 1994 at a drag-punk New York club known as Squeezebox. The famous Soho venue — mostly a gay club, but open to all — was known for its performers who favored rock covers. It was the kind of place you might find a Boy George and a Debbie Harry, and those who loved them both.
You could also find a Hedwig, and her "angry inch." (If you gotta ask, you've never seen the show).
Squeezebox was where actor-writer John Cameron Mitchell and composer Stephen Trask first brought to life their weird musical story of a character whom they'd based on a real-life German-born babysitter (and part-time prostitute) known by Mitchell, an Army brat with an eye for rich experience.
"We had wanted to keep what we were doing street," Mitchell said in an interview this week, cheerfully rolling back over the 23-year history of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," in honor of his creation's latest national tour (as interpreted by the British "Taboo" star Euan Morton, she returns to Chicago on Tuesday at the Oriental Theatre). "We had our eye on an off-Broadway production, but we didn't want the edges to get sanded off."
Unless you think of Neil Patrick Harris (who opened as Hedwig in the 2014 Broadway production that spawned this tour) as a walking-talking sander, those edges have always remained.
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Except "Hedwig" has played bigger and bigger joints. In New York and Chicago.
In 2001, she made her first local appearance at the old Lakeshore Theatre (now the Laugh Factory) in a production (a version of the original off-Broadway staging) that starred Canadian actor Nick Garrison and that lives on in the memory. In 2009, at the urging of the late director PJ Paparelli, Garrison returned to Chicago and American Theater Company so that Hedwig could live again in one of her favorite towns. You could catch her up-close that time. She still was looking good. Even though she was born in a difficult time.
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"It was the last few years of AIDS being a gigantic crisis in the USA," Mitchell said. "But it also was a moment when there was a feeling of change. It suddenly was cool to be queer for the first time ever. There was a punk revival on the charts: Nirvana, Sonic Youth. Courtney Love and Green Day would come to the Squeezebox and hang out with the drag queens. But Broadway back then did not seem to address my life in any way. 'Angels in America' had yet to happen."
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"We never wanted to do anything but make something beautiful for ourselves and our friends," Mitchell said. "We thought, if people come along for the ride, then great, but we were determined that the ride was going to be a lot rougher than 'Cabaret.' We were performing in a flophouse where junkies were being carried out on stretchers."
"Hedwig" rougher than "Cabaret"? One supposes. Although Trask's score — in all its glam-rock glory — comes replete with the same sweetness than you can detect in the leading character herself.
And now things have changed for the much better, although Hedwig abides.
"We weren't very popular back then but we were hip," Mitchell said. "When 'Hedwig' finally arrived on Broadway, gender fluidity was no longer horrifying to people. I think it had become a litmus test of our ability to understand humanity. For once you investigate gender, then you have to investigate society and power. I think that when the content was not as frightening to people, and people did not avoid 'Hedwig' because of what they thought was on its surface, our message actually was able to come through more strongly. I was trying to write someone who was more than a woman and more than a man. Someone of use to the world. Someone who might teach that it is our flaws and regrets that unite us."
Now "Hedwig" is touring and playing some big barns.
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"There certainly are some audiences who are like, 'what am I buying with my subscription?'" Mitchell said. "But it is also kind of perfect. Hedwig is a hermit crab — she can adapt to any circumstance. She can fill any space at all with her insignificant gloriousness."
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More info on List of songs about recovering or former alcoholics
List of songs about recovering or former alcoholics: Wikis
This is a list of songs about recovering or former alcoholics. In the songs listed here, the lyrics explicitly state that the singer or a subject of the song is a recovering or former heavy drinker. The author of the song may also have said so to a verifiable source.
"Alcohol Diary" - Keepsake, Bright Eyes
"Coffee & TV" - Blur
"End of the Night" - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
"Forgotten Hopes" - Anathema
"The Glass Prison" - Dream Theater
"Little Rock" - Collin Raye
"Not My God" - Keith Urban
"Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" - Against Me!
"Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
"Repentance" - Dream Theater
"The Root Of All Evil" - Dream Theater
"Sad But True" - Metallica
"Some People Change" - Montgomery Gentry
"That's Why I'm Here" - Kenny Chesney
"The Shattered Fortress" - Dream Theater
"This Dying Soul" - Dream Theater
"Toby's got a drinking problem" - Street Dogs
"Save Me" - Unwritten Law
"Wasted" - Carrie Underwood
"The Wild Rover" - Traditional song
"You Ain't Much Fun" - Toby Keith
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Duty means doing something good for others' benefit. There are three types of duties as implied by our constitution. They are moral duties, legal duties and civil duties. This note contains description on Duties of Nepalese Citizens.
Duty means doing something good for others' benefit. It is a responsibility that a person assumes to other individuals and the society he/she lives in. Rights, on the one hand, are facilities. benefits or opportunities obtained by a person from others. They are never absolute. They correspond to respective duties. For example, to get the education is your right but to obey rules of your school is your duty connected with your right to education. Similarly, someone's right is another duty. It's your parent's duty to make necessary arrangement for your education. One cannot claim right without the commitment to do his/her duties. So rights and duties emerge and go together. They can be considered to be the two sides of a single coin or the wheel of a single cart.It is the duty of every person to uphold the provisions of the constitution of Nepal.
There are three types of duties as implied by our constitution. They are explained below:
Moral Duties
To lead a simple and honest life with the sense of respect and honours shown to others in the family, teachers, guest and strangers are a moral duty. Failure to discharge a moral duty may not bring legal actions but the bad impression from the society.
Legal Duties
Legal duty means a duty done lawfully or as the laws require us to do. Stealing, burgling, swindling, teasing and injuring are prohibited under law. We should not indulge in all those things to fulfill a legal duty. Anyone failing to fulfill legal duties invites legal action against him/her.
Civil Duties
Civil Duties can be divided into following four types:
Service to nation
The happiness and prosperity of the citizens come with the peace and development achieved by the country. So, it is the duty of all citizens to contribute in this or the manner to the peace and prosperity of their country. In democratic countries, we find the legislative, executive and judiciary working under a constitution for their progress and prosperity. The fruit of the country's peace and development is to be enjoyed by its citizens ultimately. So every citizen ought to try to serve the nation by the words or deeds. During emergency and crisis, they may even be forced by the state to serve the nation.
Adherence to laws and rules
It is the prime duty of citizens to obey the rules and laws of their country, as formulated by its legislative and regulated by its execution and judiciary. The rules and laws are made to ensure the general welfare of every citizen of the country. The laws give equal rights and protections to all.
Paying tax
The government needs money to meet various expenses of administration and development. So it collects money from taxes and charges which are paid by the people of the country. Taxes are an important source of the government treasury. So, it becomes obligatory duty of citizens to pay taxes regularly in time.
Casting of votes
All legitimate citizens have to cast votes in an election for choosing their representatives to the parliament and the local bodies. In Nepal citizens over 18 years of age can enjoy this right. But it is also their duty. By casting voted for honest and efficient candidates without getting tempted to by any undue interests, a citizen should fulfill his/her duty as a citizen. Misuse of voting rights may result in the rise of dishonest, inefficient and corrupt persons who ruin the nation.
Raising voice in favour of truth and justice
It is everyone's duty to raise voice against the violation of one's fundamental rights, encroachment of territory at border, injustice made to oneself and others etc. Thus, it is the duty of citizens to contribute to the process of social reformation and promotion of public welfare.
To lead a simple and honest life with sense of respect and honours shown to others in the family, teachers, guest and strangers is a moral duty.
Legal duty means a duty done lawfully or as the laws require us to do.
Civil Duties are the duties of the citizen towards their countries.Civil Duties can be divided into four types:Service to nation, Adherence to laws and rules, Paying tax, Casting of votes andRaising voice in favour of truth and justice.
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What is a duty? Give your own definition.
Duty is a task or action that one is required to perform as a job.
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The difference between rights and duties are given below:
Rights Duties
Right is the legal, social or ethical principles country provides a citizen. Duty is a responsibility one does for the country.
Rights benefits citizens. Duties benefit others.
Rights include Human rights, Child rights, Justice etc. Duties include paying taxes, moral duties, casting votes etc.
How are moral duties and legal duties different from one another?
Moral duties are different from legal duties as following:
Moral duties Legal duties
Moral duty is a duty to lead a simple and honest life with sense of respect and honor. Legal duty is a duty done lawfully or as law requires us to do.
Failure to moral duties may not bring legal actions but bad impression from the society. Failure to legal duties invites legal actions and may also lead to degradation to their status .
Moral duties are: Allegiance, obedience, payment of taxes, etc. Legal duties are: not to be negligent, to keep safe, public watchfulness, etc.
Make a list of your duties as a student. Why should you do these duties?
The duties of student include:
Participating in learning opportunities
Accept increasing responsibility
Complete homework
Attend school regularly
Be part of a safe and positive learning environment
Respect the rights of others
Obey all policies
Students should follow these duties as students are the future of the country and if they are trained to fulfill their duties from now then in the future, they will be able to fulfill their responsibility and develop the country. Students should follow these duties also because, if not followed, not only their studies get hampered but also other students.
How can right to vote be misused? Why is it very essential to make sure that right to vote is not misused?
The right to vote can be misused by voting for the wrong candidate. In an election, every vote counts and if people don't attend the election then the majority may go towards the wrong candidate and the country goes in the wrong hands. Therefore it is very essential to make sure that the right vote is not misused.
What is meant by duty?
A duty is an obligation on the part of an individual to do something. It is something which we are obliged to do for others in our society.
What do moral duties comprises of?
Moral duties comprises of moral principles prevalent in a society.
Why should we vote honestly?
We should vote responsible so that the government may consist of capable representatives of people who would work for the general interests of the people.


Microsoft's challenge to Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora takes major step forward.
Xbox Music is coming to all the screens.
The Xbox Music team at Microsoft last night released apps for iOS and Android and introduced free streaming in its Web application.
Xbox Music already had a 30 million song library, about 50 percent more than the 20 million boasted each by Spotify and Rdio. But it's now a more viable competitor to those services, with apps that extend it across the most popular mobile platforms.
The Web player at music.xbox.com and the app for Windows 8 were also upgraded with free streaming today. The free streaming for Web and Windows 8 will be unlimited for six months; it will then be limited to an unspecified number of hours. A paid subscription providing unlimited streaming will be available across all platforms, of course. Windows 8.1 users will also get a new feature that automatically creates playlists from the content of a webpage, as well as integration with Bing Smart Search to make music discovery easier.
Described in an announcement by Xbox Music GM Jerry Johnson, the iOS and Android apps provide access to streaming, but they don't have all the features Spotify and Rdio users enjoy. Microsoft says it will change that in the coming months, with an offline listening mode for iOS and Android and artist-based radio stations for iOS, Android, and the Web.
The iOS app is optimized for iPhone, but like any iPhone app, it can be run on an iPad in a scaled-up, not-so-great-looking version.
Xbox Music costs $9.99 for one month and $99.90 for 12 months, with a 30-day free trial available. An account is required to use the iOS and Android apps.